citizens united is super paced. these are institutions that make contributions through their own pacs and individuals and money and then visit a congressman or senator and talk about an issue. from my standpoint lobbyists are often very helpful. they bring information. you have to break the link between the lobbyist and money. and so let them off of their advice make their arguments but then an hour later, don't go down to the back room of the bar and get $10,000 check from 20 of them who are giving. >> drink. >> john: in the book you talk about a possible solution to this being a constitutional amendment to get big money out of politics. how can that happen when the guys in congress who would be voting on this are owned by the big money? >> it has happened before. 19th century, for example. we had corrupt state legislators that elected u.s. senators, the people didn't vote. it was the legislatures. and then the people rose up. when the people rose up, they demanded the right to send their senators to congress and t

[applause] i'm president of citizens united. it has been a big year, as we celebrate our 25th anniversary. it is great to be back here as we come together for our 40th time. citizens united is doing it again this year, where we get a chance to show off some of the groundbreaking conservative films available today. conservatives need to think of new and innovative ways to develop and deliver our message to a broad our audience. one of those ways is through film. fellow conservatives, i am going. fall, but the conservative movement is as strong as ever. more voices are being heard here in this hall and across the nation because we are fighting for our rights and the traditional american values we all share. we believe in american exceptionalism, not obama's socialist agenda. unfortunately, some in the republican establishment arewe as a movement cannot let that happen. contrary to what some in the establishment want you to win every election. we are not willing to sell out our principles for the sake of a wind. rinos will use our

. >> guest: citizens united pushed us back. technology allows us to democratize the voice. >> host: what can you do about citizens united? the fact is it is there, it is the law, the supreme court past and now congress can do something that. >> guest: never be better off than where restarted than five and a thousand and a couple dollar contribution it is rather distressing. i see problems of governing is generally respectfurespectfu lly the party system is one and the tribal nature. number 3-d district's. we paid you. you do not pick us. that is my fear with congress there is no incentive for good behavior in washington d.c.. the worst thing you could do would be to work with the other side. the of a stronger chance of taking over the senate by going through sequester than break -- breaking ranks in the primary. i said this on meet the press the number two republican is under cruise control he cannot even exercise his independents because he is up in 2014 he will have of version of cruise and his own backyard. >> host: they hav

after the break the supreme court's twenty ten citizens united decision give corporations free rein to manipulate elections by his time we took money out of politics one petitioner in the white house words petition board thinks that making lawmakers display donor names on their suits will do the trick if they're going to really work as cross and peter's just. a potentially deadly blizzard taking aim for the northeast it's expected to hit stunning in a few hours from new york to maine we have team coverage of the storm. but we're watching is the very heavy snow moving into boston properly or today it was very sticky you can see it start to become much more. significant and there's still a lot of snow out here and a good place for snowball fight. piece and it is going to be pretty incredible today there and even record snowfall throughout what's been like you'll be slow to be driving lessons to them urgency if you are exceptions. it was so. in the best of the rest of the news should lawmakers be required to display the names of their donors on their bodies like nascar drivers do i suppor

after the break the supreme court's twenty ten citizens united decision to give corporations free rein to manipulate elections by paying his time we took money out of politics one petitioner in the white house words petition board thinks that making lawmakers display donor names on their suits will do the trick if they're going to really work as cross and peterson just. let me let me i want to know we're going to let me ask you a question from. here on this network is what we're having the pain we have our knives out if. the truth is this time to spend staying there again you're in a situation where b. and i don't even talk about the surveillance we. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so for lengthly you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm trying hard welcome to the big picture. here is mitt romney trying to figure out the name of that thing that we americans call a dog and. i'm sorry i'm just a guy who cares an awful lot of you sir are a fool you kn

he says, i love citizens united because he took the ball out of the establishment's hands and put it in the speech for private citizens. of the nine supreme court justices wanted the house and senate to pass full disclosure. in a bipartisan way, the house of full disclosure and the senate did not. vote of 59te a senators who voted to support the closure -- disclosure, but were blocked because of the filibuster. filibuster is unconstitutional. we believe our founding fathers never intended that money would be equated solely with speech. money gives opportunity for speech. money can also stifle speech. this is the strangest supreme court i have come to know. all of its decisions seem more partisan than we were taught in .lementary school corporations are not people. money is not speech. we should have a system that works. there are two examples i want to share. the first example is on money and politics. take a look at what happened in connecticut. a governor was put in jail. the legislature passed a public financing system where in the 2008 election, the 2010 election, and the 2012 ele

we are a country that can be bought off because of citizens united, because you can give as much moneyyou want to politicians. that rule is shocking that the supreme court passed that. it was a tight margin but it was passed. everyone should be up in arms about that. that means our government is now bought by corporate interests, so we have to insist that our representatives are representing us and our best interest, which is to protect our life support systems especially during the drought, unprecedented drought in the bread basket of our countries, wildfires, floods super storms. we need to protect what we have. there are resources to survive. >> michael: indeed. >> and this pipeline will also be a conduit to expansion -- further expansion of the tar sands. people say it will be developed anyway. but it will not be because they don't have a way to get it to the gulf. >> michael: the film is called "greedy lying bastards." it opens in major cities nationwide on march 8th. thank you daryl hannah. >> thank you. >> michael: up next, mitt romney is once again gracing us with his presence.

join something he david boss circumstance president of citizens united and republican strategist and cnn contributor, margaret hoover a big day forth republican party in this country, in many ways, to start with, the portman sensation. another way of putting it really, here is a republican senator who had repeatedly voted against gay marriage doing a complete u-turn because his son turned out two years ago, went to him and said, dad, i'm gay. margaret, what did you make of that? >> look, i think rob portman acted in a way that was consistent with the love for his son and consistent with a movement happening across the country with republican legislators. piers, many people don't know, more than 205 republican state legislators across the country have voted, elected leaders have voted for the freedom to marry and not lost their seats because of it. 135 members signed on to amicus brief for the supreme court, a solution to a conservative case and a constitutional case for freedom to marry. so, there is a sea change happening within the republican party across the country that is just n

future of marriage in this country rests with justice anthony kennedy the man who declared in citizens united that corporations are people with constitutional rights. i pray he doesn't do something rash like declaring homosexuals people with constitutional rights. [cheers and applause] folks, the decision will not be handed down for months so there's no way to know what the court will decide. here to tell me what the court will decide is slate senior editor and research fellow emily bazelon. all right. let's get into this. okay, the prop 8 decision, that's the california law that says no gay marriage, that was struck down by a lower court. what is going to happen there? >> a few different things could happen. the supreme court could uphold proposition 8, no gay marriage in california. the supreme court for a couple different reasons will dismiss the case, decide the wrong parties were there. >> stephen: they already said we'll heart case. >> but they could still change their mind. if that happened the lower court ruling would stand there and would be gay marriage in california. >> stephen: if

constitutional amendment to block the disastrous effects of the supreme court's unprecedented citizens united decision millions of americans are fed up with the corrupting influence of money in politics and the corporate takeover of our democracy while public sentiment towards citizens united is reaching new levels the supreme court is poised to deal yet another blow to campaign finance law joining me to talk more about the latest assault on our democracy is david cobb former green party presidential candidate and national spokesperson for move to amend dot org david welcome back thank you tom always a pleasure great to have you here with us so what's this first of all moved just for the record move to him and the work of the whole movement to amend the constitution goes way beyond just citizens united well you know it tom is the author of an equal protection what you know and what your viewers know is that it goes beyond even money in elections as horrific as that is but corporations are currently claiming constitutional rights which means that they can go into court and overturn democratica

there was passage of 65 in citizens united.of undocumented immigrants and even a debate on repealing the death penalty. big changes are happening here. >> michael: and the changes that are happening are happening close by in nevada too. you know maybe it's going to start spreading into arizona as well. is it something about the west or something about colorado. you think about traditionally colorado springs area there is a huge bible belt there. big military state and then of course the city of denver, the city of boulder fort collins as well fairly democratic strong holds. >> there is a big demographic shift. there is an influx of latino. the latino community is growing and that is a community that tended up until now vote for mostly or more progressive measures than conservative measures and support those. there is an influx of simply knew people. a lot of people moving to colorado so the old paradigm of conservative coloradoans and the conservative intermountain west is changing in a really profound way. there is the whole i

. >> the president of citizens united declared the civil war has begun. >> it's full-on gop warfare. it's gop civil war. >> stephen: yes, gop civil war. of course, the first thing they'll have to fight over is which side gets the confederate flag. [laughter] so, as a conservative, i guess i have to choose sides. karl and i have had some good times, we buried that hooker. [laughter] but deep down, my heart is with the tea party. well, maybe not my heart. what organ produces bile. gall bladder, i guess. i don't know. i believe that republicans can not wuss out here. they need to charge ahead and take even more conservative positions. forget embracing latinos, we need a program to shoot them into space. [laughter] let's give them a pathway to low orbit. gays shouldn't be allowed to marry, or vote. i for one don't want sloppy seconds on their lever-yanking. and i believe all women should have mandatory transvaginal ultrasounds before they can get a driver's license. [laughter] hey, nobody's happy with their picture anyway. now are these extreme positions? maybe. can we really win the ele

first, citizens united. eight of the nine supreme court justices, even those who voted badly on the issue, wanted the house and senate to pass full disclosure. the house in a bipartisan way asked full disclosure. the senate did not. it overrode a vote of 59 support who voted to disclosure but were blocked because of the filibuster. common cause was in the federal court. we believed the filibuster is unconstitutional. we believe our founding fathers never intended that money would be equated solely with speech. money gives the opportunity for speech, but money can also stifle speech. this is the strangest supreme court i have come to know. all of its decisions seem more partisan than we were taught in elementary school. corporations are not people. money is not speech. we should have a system that works. there are two examples i want to share. the first example is on money and politics. take a look at what happened in connecticut. a governor was put in jail. the legislature passed a public financing system wh

>> first, in the case of nsa and cia, there are strictures against tracking american citizens in the united states for foreign intelligence purposes. i think i may ask director

indeed, in the citizens united supreme court decision that set off this crazy contortions of campaign finance law, it was an interesting statement by the court, joined by eight of nine justices that says disclosure is the less restrictive alternative to more comprehensive speech regulations. that would indicate the court is looking increasingly, approvingly of disclosure. okay. you've got the statutory power. we don't have to do what we failed by one vote with 59 votes and we didn't get 60 votes four years ago to have the disclose out. you have the power. so i'd like to know what each one of you thinks about implementing the statutory authority that you have for all that undisclosed money that is hiding behind the committee for god, mother and country, and yet, it is fueled by very -- various special interest. >> it's a very important issue and i agree with you that disclosure is a first amendment friendly powerful tool in this space. last year, and this was a contentious decision. we approved new rules that require broadcasters to put online the information that they now receive abou

one of the best things i get to do as president of the united states is to address all of you as fellow citizensbless the united states of america. and we now have one last piece of business to conclude this ceremony. i'd like to ask one of our newest citizens, dulin from columbia to lead us in the pledge of allegiance. >> pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under god, in did i visible, with liberty and justice for all. >> congratulations! congratulations all of you! [ applause ] >> thank you! >> the president at the white house. the emotion behind becoming a u.s. citizen, but also the emotion behind becoming a u.s. citizen at the white house, with the president there and the pledge of allegiance. that's what happened with 28 new citizens of the united states, newly now this day. >>> in education nation coverage as we switch gears to a live speech by chris christie, the republican governor formally announcing the state's fiscal takeover of camden school district. let's listen for a second. >> parents should not be sub

supreme court is the end all be all when it comes to litigation the ruling on the now infamous citizens united case was probably the best darn thing that's ever happened to the koch brothers and wouldn't you know it justices scalia and thomas are personal friends of the coax in fact they've attended multiple retreats organized by the billionaires should influence their ruling on the case there's a key aspect in the story missing the mechanism they've used to ensure their agenda to make sure it comes to fruition and that my friend is where the think tanks and front groups come in most notably. the group that the koch brothers have funded for decades alec the american legislative exchange council now you might have heard of alec through their controversial salt on the voter rights voter id laws passed in a number of conservative states but check this out here's a list of just a few more happy koch recipients the cato institute the heritage for. and asian their reason foundation the heartland institute and americans for prosperity just to name of you believe me there is many more. and all of thes

essentially have more power then then voter resolutions and how yes yes after buckley versus the lay on citizens united corporations took enormous power over our government monsanto look they were able to get the bush administration and its waning days to be able to claim that the first bush administration to be able to claim in one thousand nine hundred three that genetically modified organisms are the functional equivalent of conventional food no science based on at all but the dollar bill as a science all of its own and so now you have hundreds of millions of acres of crops . and it would. generate genetically modified organisms used to do that and we can't our markets are closing in europe as a result where people don't want these crops to commit and even more than that we have no idea as to the effects with respect to with respect allergenicity toxicity functional characteristics antibiotic resistance we're part of a grand experiment now in our food and you know this is another one of the reasons why i and i'm a vegan indeed we are and thank you for bringing those fringe ideas up to the mainstream

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united states. well now that should make every citizen guaranteed due process by the constitution feel safe.bring in aclu senior legislative counsel christopher anders and raha wala, advocacy counsel in the law and security program at human rights first. thank you both for coming on the show tonight. christopher, how string is it when i have someone from the aclu on to support the actions of senator rand paul who is quoteing groan greenwald charles pierce on the senate floor. >> i think what's really key here is that this issue has been around for a couple of years but the senate over the last couple of weeks, they have focused in on this very broad claims the president has made that he can order the killing of people far from any battlefield including the united states citizens. and what senator paul asked is a very simple question. it was do you mr. president believe you have the authority to kill american citizens use a drone to kill american citizens on american soil. the answer to that should have been, of course, no. but there is dodging around, and refusing to answer the question by t

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view of a conservative billionaire or a corporation you know the newly empowered i guess with citizens united they can give money to one of these kind of groups if we put in five million and then they get a law passed that says hey we're now right to work for less state that corporation might make back ten million or twenty million of their billionaire might make a huge tax cut to the return on investment is really part of the issue here i have a few anecdotes in the article online school companies have worked very closely with this network to push these virtual charter school bills you see a lot of the oil and gas companies working with the state think tanks to pass or to prevent new regulations on fracking and to kind of oppose what the e.p.a. is trying to do but the broader picture here at least with the unions is that you have so many large corporations working with this network and at the end of the day they didn't they would they want to get rid of their unions or they would not like to be organized so the you know a few minutes ago i said who are they is there in the back twenty thirty

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resolution calling on congress to propose a constitutional amendment to overturn the disastrous citizens united ruling and to reduce the corruptive influence of money in politics as west virginia delegate to mansion told a local newspaper yesterday this is doing the only thing we know how to do when the supreme court bases a ruling on a constitutional principle this is what we've got to do is to change the constitution we can't continue to let corporate officials buy off our elected officials now is the time to say enough is enough and end this terrifying reign of money and politics go to move to amend or and join the fight to stop the fire sale of our democracy. after the break you've seen the headlines massive bomb plot foiled the f.b.i. now this culprit just in time but who is really behind these would be terrorists last trevor aaronson tonight's conversations it's. wealthy british scientists i. sometimes write for. markets why not come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with max keiser for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into kinds a rep

the loopholes the five twenty seven's were created on the left in the right then you take the citizens united and you get a super pac be it rove koch your source whoever you want to pick on for a super pac and all the sudden you're going to get three million spent against you so you're going to take your federally paid staff or most likely you're going to leave the capitol down the street to the democrat or republican headquarters and you're going to dial for dollars and have a little sheet or your wife's birthday how is that hi how is your child john by the way i need five thousand dollars and so the money is still in the system in capitol hill and in the my book sideswiped i say you know once jackie and i were sentenced and put away in prison the swamp was drained no it wasn't in fact the things that jack and i did eating sushi is rest. drinking with i'm going to scotland that's peanuts today i officially as a lobbyist can take you if you were a congressman to alaska we can go hunting i can have a three thousand dollars dinner and raise you one hundred thousand i can then take you some fami

citizens united and the whole influence of money and the political system needs to be revisited and tackled and taken care of because it is corrosive to democracy. >> just a for a minutes left. >> how many? >> about three. >> we sat here in the studio last year in the lead up to the 2012 election and you talked about pushing the unions to be more independent, politically independent especially in the democratic party but as it turns out, i think you guys were pretty much in line with the president and democratic party and helping out the party as you have in the past. were there ways you did show your independence before and are now? >> look, when i talked about independence, i was talking about building our structure or building someone else's structure. when we build somebody else's structure, no matter who it is, democrats, republicans, independents, after the election they don't. we talked about bigging structure and we talked to millions of workers and we built our structure and had the ability to talk to nonunion workers we never could do before. we're actually building a permanent st

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