fec, let's call the case "citizens united: the sequel."re to talk with me about this is heather gerken, described by "the boston globe" as "one of the most closely watched young stars in the legal academy." that's because of her provocative and innovative thinking about election and constitutional law. she's a board member of the campaign legal center, a non-partisan, non-profit organization founded by someone familiar to viewers of this broadcast, the republican reformer trevor potter. heather gerken clerked with supreme court justice david souter, practiced law, then taught at harvard before joining the faculty of yale. she is the brains behind the "democracy index," a new plan for fair elections. heather gerken, it's good to meet you. >> thank you so much for having me. >> what's at issue in this case? >> as you know when you give in a campaign, you can only give a certain amount of money to a candidate. but there's also a limit that most people never notice because most people don't have nearly enough money to reach it, but there are l

this is a combined swiss citizens are demanding a crucial change in the constitution pushing for the introduction of a guaranteed income for everyone on the scene teamed up with video to follow the story on a voice and burn where supporters of the basic income idea have gathered for a rally. what we're seeing here in switzerland is a completely revolutionary outlook towards the social welfare system what's being proposed by a group of swiss citizens is a guaranteed minimum income now what that would mean is that every citizen whether working in which every job all not at all would receive a set amount of money now in order to try and illustrate their point that switzerland is such a wealthy country and it has a mountain of money that can be shared out around all of its citizens what we're seeing right now happening just over to my right is. fifty tons of gold coins poured out onto the parliament square here that's four hundred thousand swiss francs worth of money that's around three hundred fifty thousand euro now this new revolutionary plan as i say is resulted in this outpouring of

on the front row gold was poured on to the ground a swift citizens are demanding of the whole concept a weapon for money we'll tell you more about this in five minutes time. point being. like the new fashion show. also designed. in the best shop windows. luxury is the school. this is the last. month to live on our cheap. wealthy british style. time to. go to. the. market. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike stronger no holds barred look at the global financial headlines. this is live from moscow welcome back the young team on a mission to rid syria with chemical weapons say that making encouraging progress they're working with the syrian government to secure all sites and spectrums and does a bring on the weapons plan for next week but there remains some analysis of questions over the use of chemical weapons in syria and who can talk about that with the host of our walls a pot shot on a boy who recently reviewed and interviewed the u.n. development chief and should say at every view did you on report on the use of chemical weapons in syria is quite solid a

the supreme court in citizens united changed the standard. so it used to be in fact that what justice kennedy called ingratiation and access, that was corruption. and that was corruption under supreme court precedent. in the early 1990s, in the early 2000s that's exactly the definition because the rest of the supreme court, the majority that once held understands that politics is more complicated than, you give me money, i give you a vote. they understand that corruption can run through a system in a way that's far more pernicious and deeper but subtle. justice kennedy has a much narrower view of what constitutes corruption. and that has been the source of deregulation in citizens united. >> yes, if we saw a baseball player before he bats hand a wad of cash to the umpire, we'd know that that's corruption. but we don't see the donor handing, the politician, the incumbent senator or congressman handing a decision to the donor, we never see that. >> we never see it, but we see it in the aggregate. just take a look at what happened when we had th

to listen to the citizens.to listen to folks who are experts in the area to help make you better educated on the issues you have to deal with. what that taught me when i was doing much too much talking and not enough listening if you want to be a successful leader, talking is a part but the listening and reaching across is the bigger part. >> we actually agree on this. i think a working together, bringing people to the table is the most important thing. consensusbuilding stop i have to say, my biggest regret in politics is probably leaving local office as soon as i did. i learned a lot from serving on the council. i was a police commissioner. we're able to recruit people to have a more diversified police force in terms of race and gender. local government, you are closest to the people and i did not finish out my term. >> we are just about at the time to go to closing statements. i personally want to thank both of you. and of course our sponsors as well. most debates go 60 minutes. this is 90 minutes. you have

assimilate become a citizen of the united states join the team but that's just my opinion. hello all i'm abby martin and this is breaking up the set you're get the feeling that u.s. policy is still running on a cold war mentality or maybe just the cold war grudge case in point tuesday's u.n. general assembly vote to finally bring an end of the fifty year old economic embargo against cuba this is the twenty second year in a row the u.n. voted to condemn this blockade but this time the vote was especially are stored in an unprecedented roll call the u.n. g.a. voted one hundred eighty eight to only two and a favor of and in the decades long embargo that is largely isolated the small caribbean island and guess who were the only two may vote yep none other than the good old us of a are inseparable partner in all things undiplomatic israel and even though the overwhelming majority has already been tallied twenty one times before every time it does the u.s. government knocks it down faster than you can say crippling economic sanctions following the vote cuba's foreign minister spo

we as american citizens everyone at this table is also an american citizen, have agreed that we would take our personal data and put it into a pile, a lock docs that would only be looked at when we had reasonable and articulable suspicion that we had connection to a foreign al qaeda or related terrorist group and look into that locks. in 2012 we had 288 such that we could look into that. that's it. with the billions of records only 288. with that we had tremendous oversight. when you look at the amount of oversight from this committee alone and from others from

plus a citizens in switzerland could soon have the opportunity to choose their vocation without needingo take wages into consideration the nation's government is debating an initiative to pay each citizen an automatic two thousand euros a month the story and more after a short break right here on our team. more news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. giant corporations today. there's a nine story building i noticed that standing on its roof was a man in civilian clothes holding a sniper rifle. to say something that offends so they believe that they do use blank or wooden shells but the building was good for him how much time it took to restore it. rebooted for yeltsin in the referendum the deputies of the supreme soviet didn't appeal to us out all we had to support yeltsin otherwise it would have been civil war. and welcome back to your watching r t russia has rebuffed the netherlands an initiative to launch legal action over the prosecution of greenpeace activists moscow authorities say they repeatedly dema

if you're offended that you are not treated as a citizen of seattle why not assimilate become a citizen the united states join the team but that's just my opinion. i think. we're going to go digital the price is the only industry specifically mentioned in the constitution and. that's because a free and open process is critical to our democracy albus. in fact the single biggest threat facing our nation today is the corporate takeover of our government and across cynical we've been hijacked lying handful of friends national corporations that will profit by destroying what our founding fathers once built up my job market and on this show we reveal the big picture of what's actually going on to the world we go beyond identifying the problem you're trying to fix a rational debate and a real discussion of critical issues facing the book ready to join the movement then walk a little bit taking. place . blame. blame. blame blame blame. clue. she turned his lover into an amazon. that has been my dream for so long. but he couldn't hold on to. there were such a thing as a teacher. now she runs her

and swiss citizen is the modeling an overhaul of the whole concept of working for money more details on that about ten minutes time. barb of the kind of i'm not. an ideology is that is the believe that the united states is really of this world something right to be or an obligation to be about what a body else. wealthy british. markets . find out what's really happening to the global economy for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines. is a report on our. economic down in the final. days. and the rest. will be. ten minutes past one of the afternoon on friday here in moscow. swiss citizens of a bonding a crucial change in the constitution and pushing for the introduction of a guaranteed income for everyone. with a video to follow the story. where supporters of the basic income idea have gathered for. what we're seeing here in switzerland is a completely revolutionary outlook towards the social welfare system what's being proposed by a group of swiss citizens is a guaranteed minimum income now what that would mean is that every citizen whether working in whichever job

over the interest of their own citizens. it becomes harder to ignore widespread and uninhibited surveillance. noted, theseobama leaders are only too aware that their own intelligence agencies are involved in similar activity. frenchry will meet the minister tomorrow. leaders will be gathering in summit in the digital economy and they are suggesting france will be pushing for much tighter protection for data and telecommunications. what is the fallout of all of this, really? he is a diplomatic writer for the associated press. the kateri carey said this is about the security of american citizens. --secretary kerry said this is about the security of american citizens. but how does that square with the security argument? >> they say that we are doing the same thing at home. amounts ofe huge data to look for various patterns and trends. whether one chooses to accept it or not is another question but they will make the argument this is all part of keeping america safe and keeping american allies like the french safe. whether they

and swiss citizen is demanding an over the whole of the whole concept of working for money we'll tell you more about that in just about ten minutes. i just hitting at ten minutes past the hour here in the russian capital the international monetary fund has set the alarms ringing over america's debt crisis putting the world economy under threat i.m.f. chief christine legarde warned things will be fall worse than the current u.s. budget standoff if indeed congress fails to hike the debt ceiling like it usually has to every few yes. the ongoing political uncertainty over the budget over the debt ceiling does not help the government shutdown is bad enough but failure to raise the debt ceiling would be far worse. and could very seriously damage not only the u.s. economy. but also the entire global economy now the u.s. government shutdown is taking its toll on the president's plans with barack obama forced to cancel a trip to asia and missed two summits the federal stoppage is now in its fourth day and with continuing squabbles that's happening in congress there are fears that it will drag

look at the program that we have we as american citizens everyone at this table is also an american citizen, have agreed that we would take our personal data and put it into a pile, a lock docs that would only be looked at when we had reasonable and articulable suspicion that we had connection to a foreign al qaeda or related terrorist group and look into that locks. in 2012 we had 288 such that we could look into that. that's it. with the billions of records only 288. with that we had tremendous oversight. when you look at the amount of oversight from this committee alone and from others from within the dni the department of defense with their own director of compliance with their own general counsel in their own ig and with all of the compliance individuals at every level, everything we do on this program is audited 100% on the record fisa, 100%. the data is kept separate from all the other day that we have and i think it's important to understand that the leaker did not have access to this data, period. the technical safeguards that we have there in sure that no one else gets access to i

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the certain accusation that the national security agency was collecting information on the citizens of their respective nationstates i just want to get on the record again is false. that did not happen. is that correct? >> that is correct. those shots they showed lead people to believe that we nsa or the united states collected that information is false and it's false that it was collected on european citizens. it was neither. >> it certainly has created an

systematic, routine, purposeful monitoring of citizen activity, the mundane acuity of the average citizenwant to really remind everyone that surveillance is not necessarily only digital, it is also physical, which is how it started in tunisia. the development of technology has only refined the art of surveillance. it only shifted things from being a physical kind of surveillance to a digital kind of surveillance. both of those mixed together? you will be living in fear and you will not be expressing yourself. as a result of that you have all types of expression, artistic expression, academic expression, human expression that you cannot express, that you are stifled from expressing. that is a problem. i am not saying we are living in fear because right now we are not afraid. you know what? it might take us 20 years, 50 years, 100 years, but if we do not stop this right now? we will be living in fear. let me tell you, we do not want that. we do not want to be a committed -- community, nation of citizens living in fear. i am really glad that you are all out here today, taking concrete steps

over the interest of their own citizens. it becomes harder to ignore widespread and uninhibited surveillance. noted, theseobama leaders are only too aware that their own intelligence agencies are involved in similar activity. frenchry will meet the minister tomorrow. leaders will be gathering in summit in the digital economy and they are suggesting france will be pushing for much tighter protection for data and telecommunications. what is the fallout of all of this, really? he is a diplomatic writer for the associated press. the kateri carey said this is about the security of american citizens. --secretary kerry said this is about the security of american citizens. but how does that square with the security argument? >> they say that we are doing the same thing at home. amounts ofe huge data to look for various patterns and trends. whether one chooses to accept it or not is another question but they will make the argument this is all part of keeping america safe and keeping american allies like the french safe. whether they

. >>> america got a few newica citizens. we'll tell you how these peoplee were able to take the oath of of citizenship despite the government shutdown. s >>> and heads up, some of of yoy are in for major delays on metrm this weekend. wke >>> is your school open forschoo business yet? >> no. >> it's closed. it's closed. [ laughs ] ou that they could get to thethc beach or jump in a pool becauseu it is mighty hot out there. the we hit 90 degrees today and wend are going to keep it hot througu the weekend. wke i'm thinking about these guys ae playing football tonight andl ta tomorrow it's going to be toughu >> it is it going to be tough.ou go bucks. buc i know your pirates got a win w today.today. washington now a destination dei place to play?e t one nba veteran tells you why. w plus the great ape lives up to p his nickname. nickn we have highlightes from his frm performance last night and playoff baseball new in sports. february, 2013. a landmark transportation bill is up for consideration. even though it's backed by republic

conducive to the development of citizens. our founder thomas jefferson wanted to create a university that would help people become citizens independent republic. it's one of the reasons he brought us the university of virginia and one of the reasons we are here. it seems to me that there is no better preparation for becoming a citizen for the united states of america or citizen of the world than a humanities education. in the humanities we learn to express ourselves with clarity. we learn to write well and speak reasonably well. we learn to defend our positions and to take in the positions of other individuals. we learn to listen to them which is almost as much an art and maybe even more than the art of expressing one's self. we learn to render their arguments fairly, reproduce their arguments judiciously and then respond to them in a constructive and humane way. this is at the heart of citizenship it seems to me, and the education to humanities is conducive to this kind of human development. in order to be an effective citiz

for citizens in switzerland could soon have the opportunity to choose their vocation without needing to take wages into consideration the nation's government is debating an initiative to pay each citizen an automatic two thousand euros a month the story much more after a short break right here on our two. point being the expensive car saloon. like new clueless the new fashion show. also in designing bags and shoes in the best shop windows. but. luxury is a school. this is a lost cause. constantly on our cheap. dramas that can be ignored. stories others refuse to notice. faces change the world lights now. full picture of the day. from around the globe. local. t.v. . and welcome back if you are watching r t russia has a rebuff to the netherlands initiative to launch legal action over the prosecution of greenpeace activists while school authorities say they repeatedly demanded the arctic sunrise a vessel registered in the netherlands to halt its activities charged with piracy the activists were arrested on the ship after an attempt to board a russian oil rig artie's may for an ocean of

is coming to life from moscow as swiss citizens are demanding a crucial change in the constitution and pushing for the introduction of a guaranteed income for everyone. video agency ruptly is following the story therefore so we cross live now it's all over who is in bern where a small group of supporters of a basic income idea have now gathered for a rally peter good to see you is it about free money for everyone in switzerland or can you can you shed some light on it for us please hallo. right well what they're putting forward to a group of folks is that suggesting that there should be a minimum basic income for every citizen now they haven't put an exact figure on what they think that should be but it has been bandied around that it could be around the the two thousand five hundred swiss franc mark it's around two thousand euro per month now the way that they're trying to get this into law is by using switzerland system of direct democracy means is that if they get over one hundred thousand signatures to a petition. to apologize i hear that was a. switch and we just lost the signal w

set to vote on guaranteed monthly handouts worth sounds of dollars in a pilot scheme to provide citizens with the wife time of financial security. this is already coming to you live from moscow i'm marina joshed welcome to the program and leading us tech companies are seeking to undo the damage from the n.s.a. scandal that revealed their part in government spying programs the internet giants are asking the federal court to lead them reveal details about the agency's data requests a move that's been slammed by the justice department are losing often if looks at what could have prompted this fight for transparency. in the wake of the u.s. national security agency scandal much of the tech industry has gone critical of government snooping some companies named as partners in the n.s.a.'s prism program including google and facebook even sued the u.s. in order to set the record straight they're hoping to fight the perception that the n.s.a. has direct access to their servers but transparency might come with financial incentives the snowden leaks prompted dire warnings from internet giants predi

citizen just don't apply to you and me side of the states if you're not been american citizen if you if they think you're outside the united states they have probable cause to surveil you that's the way they're saying it on the question of internet governance and you know what does that work in this question of icann being in a contractual relationship with the depart with the u.s. . state are think that's a little bit of a red herring i think the really important thing here is that internet governance needs to be outside of the control of governments we need to be proud parent and it needs to involve citizen groups what they call the multi-stakeholder model that basically means everybody from companies through to citizen groups through to governments have a say in deciding how the internet works at a technical level but you can't have governments deciding that themselves because guess what they'll get all the sort of the things we've been hearing about from edward snowden they've been quite difficult to implement if governments get to decide how the internet works they'll build all

plus citizens in switzerland could soon have the opportunity to choose their vocation without needing to take wages into consideration the nation's government is debating an initiative to pay each citizen an automatic two thousand euros a month the story and more after a short break. this point being the expensive car saloon. the new fashion show. also in designing bags and shoes in the best shop windows. but. luxury is a school. this is the last call. on our cheap. seats. first. and i think your. orders. and welcome back you're watching r t now russia has a rebuff to the netherlands initiative to launch a legal action over the prosecution of greenpeace activists moscow authorities say they repeatedly demanded that the arctic sunrise that vessel registered in the netherlands to halt its activities charged with piracy activists were arrested on board the ship after they attempted to board a russian oil rig or he's made an ocean or has traveled to the same rig to find out the crew's accounts of the events. that make it national to be china's c p g p c pattillo or they're sending it to a

a flashpoint for disgruntled citizens. unless they begin to behave more responsibly, newspapers could be prevented from publishing damaging leaks. the nsa probe scandal we have been following for you. this is the debate and we are asking if the nsa is out of control, talking about jean arthur coyle, a former cia agent that teaches in indiana university in bloomington. a company that protects companies from cyber attacks, an attorney specializing in intellectual property, information technology, and data protection. from geneva, from the research center on intelligence. before we resume the conversation, let's say hello to james. we have been talking about it. i>> #handygate is one of the trending topics on social media. very much a topic of conversation in germany. across the spectrum, articles are being shared under the #nsa on social media. allegedly, obama was aware of all this going back to 2010. but then we see the nsa allegedly never told obama. it is classified information, so it is very difficult to verify and, of

citizen, retard. i would happily live alone out and out except for errands except i so thoroughly enjoyed taking the dogs out and socializing with other people. it's just so important. it's a comfortable place to speak to strangers. you make friends you pet dog. you feel good when you come home. what i do notice is that it's a lot easier to talk to people about the dogs were about them or about anything else. if the dogs are not on leash you don't know why a dog is on leash. unless it's a puppy. it might have issues. so just wonderful to talk to strangers and thank you for the opportunity. to talk. >> thank you very much. next speaker. >> good afternoon supervised. my name is lindsay keep over. thank you supervisor winner for bringing this resolution to your committee. this issue isn't just about restriction on dog. this about restrictions on the citizens of san francisco and where and when we can recreate on a coastal open spaces. when the gg nra was created i will reread the molding legislation beca

about why washington think it's ok to seize this citizens without telling them what they're up to.

we lost the fight in citizens united, all the way back to the 1970s. until we begin to address the fundamental issue, that money , weing into our pockets lose these fights because money is well organized. that is the simple reality. if you have a great deal of wealth, you have the ability to make it all work well. earlyn the late 1960s, 1970s, civil rights and voting rights were really starting to expand. vote for a system that was little more fair and just. pump the money into lobbying and politics and you begin to knock down the barriers to money and politics. year processa 40 in this country of money moving into politics. from theill dominates presidential level down to the local city council level. we end up in a situation, you talk about an issue like poverty, gets pushed aside. in a situation where washington dc, the capital of the wealthiest nation in the world -- we can go to war in syria, we can bailout iran, but we just don't have enough money to put people on food stamps. that is "dollarocracy." tavis: help me understand, if money controls e

in effect reversing citizens united. and solicitor general don vereli who succeeded her was at the lecturn saying far be from me to go backward which was a nice moment in the courtroom. >> joan, what was the atmosphere like in the courtroom and did you get a sense that any particular justice dominated the questions or really aroused people's interests with this? >> justice elena kagan, flashback to september of 2009, when the court heard citizens united, she was actually at the lecturn. arguing on behalf of the obama administration to reject -- gwen: was very active in these arguments. >> completely active. and up on the bench having been appointed by president obama in 2010. and she was there right out of the box. trying to defend the obama -- the government's regulation here. so she was quite active. the person who i was looking for was chief justice john roberts. as we know he has taken so much criticism for the citizens united ruling. which just a reminder everyone, 5-4 along ideological lines. allowed more corporate

was filled with citizens but before republican politicians in florida go ahead with their new voter suppression plan they'll have to deal with the legal fallout of last year's plan that's because today marked the first day in a multi-party lawsuit brought by the advancement project and other groups against florida's two thousand and twelve voter rolls per for more on this story i'm joined now by catherine cullison gonzalez of the advancement project katherine welcome thank you thanks for joining us think so tell us first of all what is this new iteration of the voter purge that rick scott wants to pull off in florida yeah he's doing a project integrity tour it's more like a project purge tour turgeon is when you do lists maintenance of the voting rolls you using databases and so it takes people off the voting rolls based on information from databases so he wants to use the save database he's got an access to the save database that's federal immigration data it's notoriously inaccurate it's right with errors and he's trying to convince the individual secretaries of elections or super

she's a model citizen we we want though congratulate you and in e package >> (speaking spanish.) >> (rticipated in track and is deeply committed to her studies (clapping) >> (speaking spanish.) >> elizabeth where is elizabeth? elizabeth coming up human resources she's a 7th grader from james middle shopping mall school and she's an intelligent student she's a leader and helps to translate for us. she also demonstrates the pride for her school >> (speaking spanish.) >> (clapping) the next one is jose. where is jose? yeah. let's give him a round of applause. he's from the boys and girls clubs and is a lifelong resident of admission district he's appeared an advocate for healthy relationships and a team leadership and tutoring and community service programs. he's most recent achievement was being selected as a youth ambassador and traveling to south america. jose is >> (speaking spanish.) >> (clapping) so much to celebrate. thank you very much >> (speaking spanish.) >> (clapping). >> thank you district attorney george. we would like to now move forward with our program but first we would

we do have rights in this country and democracies our citizen rights and citizen liberties.he idea that somehow we need to violate those in order to satisfy national security i think is a false argument. that false dichotomy created these conditions that i certainly lived in which the government believes that we need access to all of the data and if that data is individual and of citizens then so be it because the national security takes a prior priori higher priority. >> after going through internal channels to call attention to what you thought was a soft program at the nsa, you decided to contact the baltimore sun on security matters. what precautions did you take to avoid detection as you were talking to her about such sensitive matters? >> i knew it was a faithful choice. i knew given what nsa was capable of doing that any contact with a reporter by any normal means was going to be probably detected and so i made unanimous contact with her in late february of 2006 via highly encrypted means. even that was fraught with peril because even encryption on internet can be det

and switzerland's plan to pay its citizens duty two thousand euros a month whether they've got a job or not we'll tell you why. over a good morning if you just joined us money kevin owen it's just after one am here in moscow this is our our top story than the olympic torch of the twenty fourteen winter games has been handed over to russia after a colorful ceremony in athens earlier now it's set to fly to moscow to kick off its sixty five thousand kilometer to host country. reports next on those festivities in greece and the flames future. while the olympic flame for saatchi twenty fourteen has officially been handed over to the russian olympic committee and it took place here at the historic tennis and i caught stadium during an elaborate ceremony that started with the greek figure skater johnny artist mark courses running into the stadium with the torch that's the same torch that was lit up at an ancient olympia just under a week ago and since then the torch is being doing a chore of greece with that greek leg of the relay did come to an end and you may have seen the torch was then

on american citizens so when whistleblowers work together and compare notes and share information you get a very accurate picture in addition i'd like to mention larry garrison who has been my p.r. guy so when you have people who you're working with it's not so easy to shut the whistleblowers down we just gained in strength we're going from strength to strength do you guys feel like you're being heard is anything changing well that's what i'd like to ask your audience but do you feel like anything's changing in a system by whistleblowing on it. yes i absolutely do i think the number of people that are hearing my message and that are looking into this information and every day they're sending me e-mails and they're going out and they are getting their neighbors to find out what's really going on i don't think this mainstream media is going to have too big of an audience at the rate we're going now there are liberty of movements they're actually picking up now the likes of bitcoin for example can they ever grow into a solid rival to the conventional system using i think they're going to

assimilate become a citizen of the united states join the team but that's just my opinion. welcome to the kaiser report i'm max keiser you know it takes all the running you can do to keep in the same place said the red queen to alice it takes all the printing you could do to keep in the same place said the banks are to bernanke it takes all the working you can do to keep in the same place said the neal futile facts to the chumps who have to work for a living.

citizens.sident obama immediately called the french president to do damage control. the question is as more of edward snowden's revelation tick off our international allies, what will the real impact be on our business dealings overseas? cliff sterns joins us from washington, d.c. he is a senior counselor at a firm specializing in cyber security and trade negotiation. and lawrence korb assistant secretary of defense in the reagan administration, and he is the senior fellow at the center for american progress and a profess at georgetown university. cliff france was not happy, brazil's government did the same thing about other revelations. how serious is this for our international relations? >> i think it's serious, because right now we're talking about a trade investment partnership, and this is going to impact the free trade agreement between the united states and america, plus we have a 1995 safe harbor agreement that allows companies in the united states, over 3,000 to transmit data across th

but the interesting thing here is now the citizens united it struck down the limits on you can't do. it but you can spend unlimited amount of money campaigning on behalf of the candidate with t.v. and radio ads and so forth so what does it matter much at this point if you. go and strike down the individual limits that you can directly hand money to a candidate it absolutely would and this is a question that was debated in the court this morning but justice kagan made a very strong point saying if the court is now thinking that suddenly independent spend a chair is actually can be corrupting then they should recognize that the that the government ought to have power to put in place commonsense rules to protect our politics and our government from being captured by private economic power i mean that's really what we're talking about here and that's what the court has always recognized even when they cut back on our ability to have these particular rules they've understood that regulating in this sphere is important because otherwise what you see is a throwback to the robber baron era o

they are designed to protect law-abiding citizens.nding the doctrine to public spaces as well. it's bad enough for an innocent person to find herself threatened by a criminal but worrying about whether or not she retreat. as a progressive justice wrote in the 1921 case, quote, the reflection cannot be demanded in the presence of an uplifted night. nearly a century later we shouldn't demand more of crime victims. any self-defense rule bears the potential for injustice in a two-person altercation. one may be dead and the other dubiously claim stephen. these cases, like trayvon martin implicate the self-defense justification generally. if george zimmerman is the agreaser he has no defense. if trayvon martin attacked him the only question whether zimmerman reasonably believed he was in danger not whether he could have retreated. it zimmerman provoked the confrontation he lost the protection of stand your ground. hard cases make skewed policy debate. the committee is well after -- antigun lobbyist have used that tragedy and trayvon martin

by the same companies private companies that own the federal reserve system most of the american citizens are clueless about the corruption that's rifling their economy but just to make sure are you saying that everything about obamacare is bad or are there good things about it no of course there are good things about it but the problem is that the people that wanted to get a decent coverage were not given the tools they were not given the equipment they were not given the press coverage the honest press coverage that. society needs to enact just legislation their congresspeople are all bribed by these corrupt forces so as the american citizens have to zero confidence in their congress so at this point you side with the republicans for blocking a medicare i'm not siding with democrats or republicans because both of those parties have been co-opted by this terrible corrupt force that i'm talking about what we have right now is americans being forced to get health. care loveless liberties and freedom of choice. it's not so much a question of being forced you have to look at those parts of t

we have citizens united, and now the possibilities in this mccutchen case. how do you explain this disconnect? >> well, i think they are logically responding to their masters. by they i mean particularly congress, the white house, and who makes the appointments to the supreme court. the supreme court responds to them and to public pressure. we have seen the supreme court turnaround. we saw it in brown versus order of education where the supreme court reversed itself after supporting segregation for decades. the supreme court suddenly began to support integration. i think what we're seeing in the supreme court and in our elected officials is basically a reflection of the power of intensely concentrated economic and political power in the hands of the one percent. which is why we have got to fight this every way possible. i think it is important for people to weigh in with the supreme court, their congressmen and women, and with the president. of that this is unacceptable. we cannot dismantle these protections. in the same way it is unacceptable to be holding