and gary indiana goes down a few jobs and your prospects could this be the economic fate that awaits the rest of the country. we have been watching former georgia congresswoman cynthia mckinney and she's traveling in the muslim world saying awful things awful things about her own country well some say awful and some say she's just telling the truth and we'll hear from the congresswoman herself right here on r.t. . anything it's friday july twenty ninth eight pm here in washington d.c. i'm lucy capping off and watching our t.v. . well the race against the clock kicked into high gear at the eleventh hour here in washington earlier this evening house republicans finally passed a bill to raise the debt ceiling of course to cut twenty two billion dollars from next year's spending but it was largely a symbolic gesture in fact boehner might as well have added a pony to his bill he's not getting that either that's because legislation now has the senate with it where it is pretty much guaranteed to be voted down possibly as early as this evening and then of course it is back to square one and

welcome to gary a.j. a ghost town in indiana frightening reality for one town because the the future that awaits us all washington doesn't get its act together. we have been watching former georgia congresswoman cynthia mckinney because she's traveling in the muslim world saying awful things awful things about her own country and we believe mr cain is being paid to do this but we can't confirm that but one of those awful so called awful things are just the truth congresswoman cynthia mckinney will join us live to set the record straight coming up and if. anything it's friday july twenty ninth four pm here in washington d.c. on this account for nothing watching our team. well instead of looking forward to a relaxing evening sorry weekend a relaxation this friday unfortunately this nation is still at the mercy of washington gridlock now d.n.a. is just around the corner as the august second deadline approaches and default looms prevent states and just how close are we according to our handy dandy little clock here four days seven hours and counting until doomsday now of course if you lo

gary indiana. incredible piece there all the political debt debate may have eclipsed all the other battles here in washington but don't forget folks we are still at war several wars in fact now whether you agree. the politics of a u.s. airstrikes in afghanistan iraq pakistan somalia libya i lose count of all the countries whether you believe or not that our national security absolutely totally demands that we keep bases and more than half of the countries on this planet whether you vote democrat or republican or not at all it does seem like it's time to face the facts that we can afford to keep separating the fiscal crisis from or worse i mean in what world does it make sense to keep spending so much money on defense when economy seems to be on the brink of collapse and that's a question my next guest has been asking and answering former u.s. congresswoman and presidential candidate cynthia mckinney stopped by our new york studios earlier today because part of that interview. before we get to these

about and on a state level now we want to look at a local level we want to look at the city of gary indiana. the facts of the economy have taken a huge toll on cities unlike the federal government obviously cities can't print money and states defer taxes to cities which can also put them in a bind cities can't do that they have no one to defer taxes to gary indiana is an example of what some of the tolls of these things have taken poverty buildings that used to floor a sharp crumbling anasazi is going to go she takes us there to show us the ghost town it has become. this is america's ghost town. just twenty five miles from downtown chicago gary indiana dubbed the symbol of urban blight by some computer to post evacuation chornobyl by others it is a sad thing that really is. very depressing. when you see something like this in this kind of condition to just continue to be continue to fall apart this is the city methodist church. which today it's an abandoned shell with rusted ceilings rotting junk and graffiti on the parts of sites fall into this kind of disrepair. it's almost like a lot of

the rage but places like this are being a race from a map of america as they see turkana party gary indiana. now still ahead here we like to highlight the bloated spending on defense here in the u.s. tonight we have yet another example and while everyone is focused on the debt ceiling congress is moving forward with a law that requires internet providers to track your history for a year will discuss this bill in a moment.

just twenty five miles from downtown chicago gary indiana the symbol of urban blight by some compared to post evacuation sure noble by others it is a sad thing really is and very depressing. when you see something like this in this kind of condition to just continue to age and continue to fall apart this is the city methodist church today it's an abandoned shell with rusted ceilings rotting junk and graffiti on the sorts of sites fall into this kind of disrepair. it's almost like like like the ones all. historical soul built in the one nine hundred twenty s. first a place of worship leader a community center that is now at the forefront of gary's decline were used to be a symbol of architectural might and brought the people of gary together is now an enormous space filled with ruins where the only form of life for the pigeons that flying through the walls and the ceilings urban explorers historians and architects are saying that the chances of this place ever being rebuilt are close to zero so it looks likely that this place as well as many others throughout gary are on their way to c

host: gary, indiana, we are running out of time so make it brief. we know that free speech as constitutional limits symbolized by a yelling fire in a crowded theater. i would suggest that anonymous donors is granting the status of personhood to anonymous corporations is analogous to the climate of this country that is so intense, that that could be interpreted as people falsely and anonymously yelling fire in crowded theaters of the national campaigns. guest: that is the calculation. that is what the supreme court based their decision of citizens united on, this idea that corporate money his speech. therefore, laws that limit the ability of corporations to spend money on politics are an unconstitutional abridgment of speech -- free speech. they clearly reached a different conclusion come even with the same sort of calculation, did not deem it to be a danger to democracy. in dead -- in fact, they did the opposite. host: our last call comes from taxes. also on our line for democrats. caller: my comment is very simple. financing all these politicians w

. >> donna and gary brought tricia here to marion, indiana, to attend a small christian college. one spring evening in 1993, tricia left her dorm room for a walk. on march 29th around 8:00 at night trish night, tricia reitler came here to this shopping center. she bought a soda and a magazine and started walking back to campus. but then, she disappeared. >> phone call came a little bit after midnight and the voice on the other side of the phone said, do you know where your daughter? >> 19-year-old tricia lin reitler was seen at 8:00 on monday night. >> tricia's disappearance rocked the community and devastated her parents. >> who is ever responsible, we will never know what they've taken away from us. >> tricia's mother made a desperate appeal to tricia on "the jerry springer show." >> hang in there and know we love you and we're doing everything we can to find you. >> despite huge media coverage and their pleas for answers, none ever came. >> it's like she just vanished into thin air. >> tricia was never found. >> young college students, they need to be aware. >> kristen zeller

indiana. it had been two weeks since larry hall recoiled from a photo of jessica roach. and investigator garyinct. >> i really think we're on to something. he portrays this weak timid person, but, you know, i don't think he truly is. >> miller thought hall was vicious and as the investigation unfolded, miller also thought he knew how hall abducted jessica roach. >> when he first seen her, she was riding from toward the house going down this way. >> hall followed and stopped to talk. jessica got scared and backed away. >> that's when he opens the door, grabs her and there's a physical confrontation where he overpowers her. put her in his van and left, probably going up this road right past her house. >> in an interview in the wabash police station, hall surprised investigators by explaining what happened next. i tied her up but i can't remember with what. i took her pants off. hall said he raped her and led her off through the woods. i laid her up against a tree and put a belt around her neck and she stopped breathing. hall said he strangled jessica from behind so he didn't have to see her fac