for free if you go to greg palast dot com at least you'll know what they're doing. i mean that's the first thing you can't stop the pickpocket unless you find their hand in your pocket you've got to grab him by the wrist so the information is first and that's why i appreciate our t. letting you know thank you so much greg palast investigative reporter indeed awareness comes first before we can all to make the change always also have you. well if you like what you see so far how do our you tube channel at youtube dot com slash breaking the set and be sure to subscribe so you don't miss a single episode or segment we have every segment tagged out if you want to catch those separately encourage everyone to check out our interview with josh sachs on the keystone pipeline from yesterday and also look at every segment we've done separately under the tab section on top of the page from big brother watch to weapons of mass destruction all that and more youtube dot com and a set and they took a break from my preaching but stay tuned to hear my hero and villain of the day nex

both in venezuela and around the world let's ask a man who knew the venezuelan leader quite well greg palast joins me now greg is an investigative reporter for b.b.c. news in the guardian and the author of the book billionaires in ballad bandits how to steal an election and nine easy steps greg welcome back. glad to be with you tom great to have you you met over chavez what kind of a leader was he in your eyes what kind of person was well actually i met with him many times i knew his pretty well and i have to tell you i've met many heads of state including bill clinton and he's probably the smartest guy and most courageous of all that i've met and quite a guy because he like you said he took the money that the from venezuela as well and he gave it to the people was such a shocking idea that anyone would take the oil wealth of a nation and whether that oil wealth is in russia or kazakhstan or saudi arabia or the united states of america and give it to the people that own the oil is a totally shocking concept and politically unacceptable to the corporate elite of america and that's why he's be