from having a voice in the election certainly succeeded we'll talk to investigative journalist greg palast and find out just how many americans were denied one of their most basic rights and more and more state governments are throwing their support behind for profit charter schools that spells doom for the middle class in america is a nice daily take i'll tell you why maintaining our public schools is crucial for the survival of the u.s. . to the best of the rest of the news something strange happened in palm beach county florida on election day as columnist nancy smith points out in the sunshine state news has reason to believe the palm beach county may have lost suppressed or even outright destroyed more than fifty thousand votes on election day. past voter turnout averages in palm beach county there was a significant drop off in voters this year in two thousand and four voter turnout was seventy five percent two thousand and eight it was seventy two percent this year was drastically lower just sixty four percent meanwhile florida's statewide voter turnout was only down four points othe

pipeline i'm joined now by investigative journalist greg palast nice to see you there greg. so this is only temporary it's a temporary injunction that the judge granted what happens next. well according to mayan calendar it will be permanent because the world went today about midnight but if that doesn't happen i expect that it's going to be a tough time there was more it's going to be a tough time for the x.l. pipeline because the the complaint says something interesting is that look this was the crude oil and it's not it's it's glop it's it's pretty hard to call the tar sands oil it's really asphalt it's just that it's been melted it's as if you took your street and melted it down and as soon as it is it the hits cooler air it becomes solid this is junk in gunk and so i think that this is just the beginning for the x.l. pipeline but the real the real power here the real danger the real political force here are the koch brothers who are not the owners of the pipeline they're not yours the oil but they are the intended recipients of the oil this is very very important to the

unfortunately we are at a time mr pelz appreciate you coming on that was investigative journalist greg palast. and that it was story we are always on top of and that is the revolving door between the public and private sector we try to bring you the most egregious examples of people who go back and forth between working for the government and working with the government on behalf of big businesses and working on public policy they can blur the line between what is best for citizens and what is best for their high paying employers the latest to make the switch a fellow named bob ryan ryan was a top housing advisor for the obama administration until he announced that he was leaving to take a senior position at wells fargo that's the same wells fargo that was investigated and sued by the department of housing and urban development where ryan currently works wells fargo settled with hud for allegedly kicking people out of their homes without trying to offer them a refinance of their mortgage and doctored their paperwork clearly no hard feelings for a while so far though it has grown its mortgage