that are growing growing but in fact much more explosives really so-called patriot groups the groups we used to think of as malicious back in the one nine hundred ninety s. which rose from a mere hundred forty nine in two thousand and eight before obama appeared on the scene and as of last year it breached twelve hundred seventy four groups that is a seven hundred fifty five percent increase in just three years well let's talk about these. patriot groups i do have some questions about it i mean we are change with keepers i mean i know a lot of people in these groups and what what constitutes someone as to put on your radar putting them on as you know why is patriotism bad i mean what are these people doing that constitutes you guys to be watching them well it's not remotely suggestion that patriotism quote unquote is bad that is simply what these groups as a general matter a call themselves a good example is oath keepers the group you just mentioned oath keepers does portray itself as kind of a mainstream group which acts asks its members law enforcement officials retired and present

it's these outside groups. they're calling the shots in terms of what's being talked about in this race, more so than the candidates. that's the problem. >> tell congressman rehberg, government fences and drones are wrong for montana. >> ryssdal: so who are all these outside groups calling the shots? >> what we affectionately call the war room. >> ryssdal: to find out i had to go all the way to washington, d.c., where i was taken inside one of the democrats' key super pacs, american bridge 21st century. this looks for all the world like a bunch of kids sitting around surfing the web. >> for the most part, yeah, but they are very smart kids and they know what they're looking for. >> ryssdal: rodell mollineau, the president of american bridge, showed me around. tell me what these guys are doing. it was a rare look at the world of outside groups. american bridge was the only super pac, in fact, that let us in to see what they do. >> some of these people are video specialists. some of them are researchers. >> ryssd

environmental groups sued saying law americas were being too lenient. just a few cases that show how environmental groups ex tort influence over the epa. >> they used a lot of litigation to get federal judges they ordered the epa to do what they want them to do. >> steven hayward is a policy at pepperdine university. >> it is poorly understood by the public and by members of congress. >> my understanding is there is situations where groups file suit against your agency. literally on the same day there are settlements entered into by the agency for those groups. >> i am not aware of any settling in the same day. >> there is a long history of epa working with advocacy groups. and what i would call a sweetheart deal. >> he is a former assistant epa administrative assistant. >> they get to cases they get to recover any fees you have to pay for the costs of bringing a suit. it's a pretty good money maker. >> it gets even worse says homestead. >> many of the same groups get grants from epa. seems like a skewy system. >> i have said it for years but it's the s

while i bring a group d. romania have maintained that perfect starts today group d. campaign me they want to know when. to leave the window on the stroke of half time this team that had a victory in as many games. however two thousand and ten world cup runners up the netherlands went top of their group on goal difference following their comfortable three nil defeated and dora hungary better all the stuff we are one minute. but germany kept their one hundred percent record after a six one thrashing of ireland in dublin while sweden though they survived the scared to come from behind to beat the faroe islands two wars and kazakhstan and austria become secured their first points given group c. the coldest draw. while england have seven points from three games after wayne rooney skippered their final thumping a part time a son marina i think sold at wembley and the other guy against ukraine finished all this and finally switzerland are in charge of they drew with norway iceland i'm slipping. yes that is claimed victory is. further afield kept in little messy scored twice

and as i said, we could have several different groups. just in the interest of time, let me shift over to the mormons. now i don't want to- you know, we'll have a chance to come back to look at some of these other groups and make mention of them. but you see, we've got the ball rolling here in class, which is what i wanted to do by picking just- not really just any two groups out of the air- but two groups that make us think about just what a challenge it is to deeply religious people to make agreement compromises, a working relationship with the in-world experience. now the mormons, if we could take a peek at them for a minute. joseph smith, jr., the founder of the mormons, is one of the most extraordinary stories in american history- truly extraordinary. and what makes it so powerful from the point of view of, well, beliefs and believers, is mormonism- you say mormon, if you're not a mormon, just what i talked about, that level of cliches come up and people start picking here, picking there, doing that. but what you find if you look at

-- structures and multiple groups. it doesn't take too much of criminal moxie to put together a group of four, five people and target individuals on the street and say, you stepped in some blood. now you've got bad luck. you better bring down all your money and jewelry, we will bless it for you. >> thank you. next speaker is assistant district attorney rebecca prozen. thank you for the prosecutions on these cases too. >> thank you. good morning, supervisors. it is a pleasure to be here, thank you for the opportunity to talk about our outreach efforts on these horrible cases. it is important to attorney gascon to use the office as an educational tool so we use our resources to let seniors and the best way to prevent crime is by education. cases like these can grow exponentially, especially if thieves are successful, it spreads. and the only way to stop that is to let folks know individually and by a group. we have been doing a lot of elder abuse, financial abuse education starting in may for elder abuse awareness month.

a bellwether group. um, in terms of the impact of campaigns and what difference it makes politically, um, one of the things you have to keep in mind is that while i think the term swing voter is most often used to describe those who are closely divided, you also have to keep in mind that especially in a closely-divided electorate, um, changes on the margins among any group no matter what their proclivities are are politically consequential. so if evangelicals even though they're strongly republican and there's no indicator that that won't continue to be true this year, if they move even a little bit in the democratic direction, that can have big political consequences. the same thing is true on the other side. if you have strongly democratic groups who remain that way, if they move a little bit in the republican direction, that can be important as well. so the campaigns can have an impact not just among the closely-divided groups, but among any group. >> i would just follow up and, what greg said and not

they have a group of women in publications, communications, there's no reason the two groups should be necessarily paid the same. the paycheck would be moving toward requiring firms to pay men and women the same even if they're in different jobs. that is not paycheck fairness. that's communism. >> diana furchtgott-roth your book -- was there a time when women were treated unfairly in the workplace. >> there certainly was. there was timed in the 1950s and '60syou look at the arizona and see jobs advertised at one salvation army for men and another for women. and the original feminist are to be congratulated on ending that. as many of you know, there were times when wouldn't couldn't even vote. there were times when women got pregnant they were fired. and feminists are to be congratulatedded for having moved the goal post and having changed that and the culture in the workplace. but now feminists want to move the goal post even further and say there's disimtion if there is know call outcome. so the discrimination is 50 percent of the ceos are woman. there's discrimination at 50% construc

working group thank you very much for having me. so if you like what you see so far go to our youtube channel at youtube dot com breaking the set and subscribe to our facebook page at facebook dot com going to set follow me on twitter abby martin the states who care about one of the most influential groups that you've probably never heard of the next. presidential election is not just about obama and romney they're also third party candidates on the ticket and they will influence its outcome see a debate among this nation's major third party candidates right here on our team like over twenty third. i will fight all that i also promised that i'd like every single day i'm ever heard to. write. my own. little. little. interlude. have you ever heard of the build the bird group if you haven't you are not alone but today you're going to learn that it's probably one of the most influential groups that you've never heard of you see the ruling establishment has been around since one thousand nine hundred fifty four and every year some of the

looking at our various sub groups other sub groups we saw the same trends. okay. then we also disaggregated it by programs so this is looking at our special education students as well as our english language learners and we do see in 2008 we tested three two 98 students on the test and as compared to 212 we tested 2,094 students. in the first three years which is 2008, nine, and ten, we were introducing the cma or the state was introducing the cma through the grade levels so first was the elementary grades. then the secondary grades and then high school subject grades, so it was being introduced, so when you look at the last two years you will see that we have increased the number of students taking the special ed because it was 1,920 in 2011 and now in 2012 we have this amount taking the csd. the english language adult proficiency level over these years is 12% increased but has to be looked at with the lens that they were students taking moving on to take zvzv okay. over the last two years we did see increase in csd and when we disaggregated the results from move

enter a local environmental group which complained to the epa. the fact that no plan or permit had been submitted for review the epa announced test opposition to the project concluding it might interfere with a sock isal monday habitat. whether or not the project ultimately happens, vitter says the epa abused its power. >> they are jumping the gun and looking to pre-empt. >> even worse some groups are using the system to advance agendas that have nothing to do with the environment. in 2010 a collision -- collection of groups petitioned the epa to regulate the led in pull lets as a toxic substance saying they contaminate groundwater and wildlife. they shut it down when a political firefight broke out. >> the era accused the epa of back door attempt to limit hunting. >> you buy that? >> i think it was clearly a clever leftist approach to try to cut down on gun rights and make life tougher for folks to own guns. >> hayward thinks we haven't seen the last of it. >> environmental groups think of the epa as their agency. they are making a mess of thing

a group like anonymous is much further towards the chaos and i think that anonymous is a group that lacks of i mean they would they would say that they lack a kind of coherent idea. and you just do whatever their members feel like doing at the time and often that's tearing stuff apart for the walls what do you hope that readers get from your book well i you know i think we were all shocked by for i was shocked by collateral murder one of the appeared in april of two thousand and ten and to me it seemed to come out of nowhere you know i think that the media as a whole has treated this the wiki leaks phenomenon as a kind of one off strange kind of miracle or disaster whichever you want to call it and so i wanted to explore i want to explain where this came from but in the process i think that. showing the history of this movement reveals that the way that information is changing as a whole and that there can be no more shared secrets that's the whole idea of secrecy among a crowd is falling apart and we think we saw this most recently with this with the romney appearance where he was speaki

those efforts are boosted by spending from outside groups. according to newshour partner kantar media/cmag, groups opposing the president and supporting romney in the general election alone have run record numbers of television commercials. that's more than 41,000 spots from american crossroads; more than 43,000 spots from americans for prosperity; and 45,000 spots from the restore our future super pac. backing president obama, the super pac priorities usa action was the only democratic- affiliated group to come close. priorities has run nearly 40,000 spots. here are the two spots with the most money behind them from each campaign. >> i'm an independent. i voted for him. i contributed to him. governor romney promised he would bring jobs to this state. by the he left office we had fallen to 37th in the nation. he cares about big business and tax cuts for wealthy people. i certainly do not believe that he cares about my hard-working employees. i feel like i was duped by mitt romney. i'm going to vote for president obama. >> prioties usa action

these are not outside groups. these are groups of american citizens participating in the elections and it came up with the idea ever that only the candidates want to be speaking in the campaign or they should have some preferred speech pattern in the campaign? outside groups are what it is all about. >> thanks brad and melanie we will turn to you. i just want to remind people that your organization, the citizens for responsibility and ethics in washington or crew. how do you parse out the equation of money and speech for starters? >> first i would say that what brad said is often not true. it is not new voices. its old voices and very few voices of very rich people so when you have a group like the american action network or crossroads, they are funded by remarkably -- and i think that is the key and we are talking about people who give $500,000 in. this is this is a man on the street. this is a couple of people, maybe 100 people participating in in the selection so think about whether you really think our electio

social welfare nonprofits, 501(c)(4) groups, the main groups were talking about this evening, the whole idea of dark money, their primary purpose is supposed to be social welfare, right? is supposed be hoping security at large. at a specific group, not a political party on either side of the aisle. but you've got these groups that are not even required to get recognized by the irs before they start operating. so what you have had since citizens united are these pop-up groups. they come along, they call themselves something like commissioner hope, growth and opportunity. that is one name. on the other hand, you've got citizens for strengthen security action fund which is a liberal group, right? these groups will come along, although the commission of hope growth and opportunity apply to the irs, on the left side of the aisle on liberal groups often won't apply to the irs at all. they will spend through the election and then they will fold. they will fold right after the election and their tax returns are due, say a year or so after the election at the very earliest and you don't have a s

in the other games in group b. both gary a stay second off the drawing won one with denmark out of the czech republic and did that for much gold racked with a stream one when i was paid to check the saving a last minute penalty. while a much fancied young belgian team claimed a space victory in belgrade and that this is one of the three no against serbia who ensured their first home defeat in a decade aston villa's. opener ten minutes before the interval and second top spot from the brain is. currently chelsea and a last minute effort from evidence had been made i asked sealed the comfortable when. i'm not when it's belgium top of group a on goal difference croatia also have seven points off to win in two one in macedonia. sport and later brace for wales who came back to stun scotland to watch. however well run as the netherlands went top of group d. on goal difference following a three no defeat about indoor maybe i'll second all side with a perfect record off to beating turkey one nail in istanbul while hungary a

free reduced number of small dictators small intolerance and warlords who are pushing libya into groups actually in iraq in chaos during. the war on terror if i do strongly demoralize are we going to do it in a parmesan in pakistan in your are but as the americans to apply these jihad these forces or all chill calling america out immediately east as well that is one reason for america to finance from pakistan to b.b. and there's a new reason this is begun clear in the recent years that american strategic priorities are changing at the moment after spending more than a decade in the price of no american strategic foolish is sure to go through it isn't he can you believe in the events of it and i'm sure that americans are used to for a longer period of time when we do least in the asia pacific region. the appeal hearing for a prominent bahraini human rights activists is adjourn till next month was jailed for three years nor has for organizing and participating in illegal rallies sentence brought hundreds of program demonstrators on to the streets to demand his release but already. in bahr

all student groups are learning more. the tide is rising for all groups. however in order to narrow or close the achievement gap african-american, latino students must accelerate their learning at a greater pace than the other sub groups in order to close the w=ó/Ñhachievement gap if you notice even though we have tremendous cause for celebration in 2012 the achievement gap still looks for african-american students 38-point 2% so we have narrowed it from where we started. for the latino students it's almost identical, 37%. 35%. we narrowed it by 2% but we have by no means closed the achievement gap. we started to narrow the gap and that's an important distinction to make. when we look at math over the same time period we started with 54% achievement gap for african-american students. this year we closed it to 45% of achievement gap. for latino students we narrowed it somewhat to 40% so while we are starting to see the narrowing of the achievement gap over the five years the point i want everyone understands and why we clapped once and now it's time to get

the largest a group and behind shows a different station. the people who are charged with police outside the people who are charged. with protesting the privilege of. so we have a concert opportunity for having all the people that you know and you present the people like. ours as you say the authorities with a culture of impunity that you told us that two more demonstrators have now being killed in protests and then moments ago two more human rights activists were arrested what would you and your fellow activists want to see change in the very near future that would signal the protest movement is gaining ground and having a genuine impact. i mean all of the people in any fashion indebted to my demand think i'm a christian and the equipment behind the wheel we have we got a consumer i mean people demand that but i'm going to have to stick to what do you think it should photo use which is not go to bed i mean. to go but i mean they demand believe goes the food and they do demand equality and dignity and. women don't. associate and they're goin

it's these outside groups. >> it doesn't corrupt the process.t's necessary for the process. >> we're not seeing where the money's coming from. >> what's more important to this country than free speech? >> "big sky, big money," a frontline election special. >> frontline continues online, with a multimedia timeline that tracks the change in public opinion about climate change. >> david vs. goliath. >> more from those behind the campaign to change the scientific and political consensus. >> and i think that's made a big difference. >> examine the media's role. >> by the way, not a hybrid. >> follofrontlion facebook and twitter, or share your thoughts at pbs.org/frontline. >> frontlinis made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. and by the corporation for public broadcasting. major funding is provided by the john d. and catherine t. macarthur foundation, committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world.additional funding is provided by the park foundation, dedicated to heightening public awarenes

as security analysts explain, if a group of people is planning an attack, that group can check the boardingass and whichever guy is going to have the least screening is going to be the one who will take potentially problematic items through security. >> now, we have chairman of a consulting and research firm in the airline industry. another gap. >>guest: well, this is just one more gap in the giant titanic. it is meaningless. a terrorist does not plan for months and look at the boarding pass and say i will not do it. whatever security they get, it is sloppy and this will not deter or help anyone. >>neil: why are they making a big deal out of this? >>guest: well, some geek found it and decided that, gosh, someone could put his laptop in his bag and get security. so what? that is what we are looking at. the terrorists will do what they did on 9/11, go through the back door. >>shepard: this matter of the, when you get in without taking your shoes off, they treat you like a human being rather than a project. >>guest: that is no less or more security. most of the 9/11 hijacker could have passed

not a specific group of people, not a political group of people. but she's got these groups out there that are not even required to get recognized by the irs before they start operating. so bush should have sent citizens united are pop-up groups. they come along, call themselves something like commission on hope, growth and opportunity. on the other hand companies by citizens for strength and security action fund, which is a liberal group. they will come along, although the commission did apply to the irs and global groups often won't apply to the irs at all. they will start by spending money, spin through the election and then they will fold. i will fold right after the election and tax returns are due a year or so after the election at the very earliest. you don't have a sense of what they were doing until then. they have allowed these groups to allow them to say to the irs, now, we're not going to spend any money in politics whatsoever in turnaround in some cases can even spend money to standdown political the same day they are billing applicati

basketball now whereas says remain undefeated in group d. of the euro league after examining brawls a basket's seven to six sixty nine at mega sport arena in the russian capital well sunny wings seventeen point spacing the home sites of x. ray. charles reports. bros boss kids came into the game seeking their first winning group d. but they faced an uphill battle to take you know see is called who are yet to taste defeat braze got on the board first but it was the home side that led twenty four twenty at the end of the first quarter it was a tight game throughout the second and third quarter as five points by ted to give the german champs to take a fifty three fifty one edge at the end of the third quarter then back to back cost and gave bros a sixty three sixty one lead to the less than seven minutes remaining however it was short lived a serious call buckle down and defense encouraged and went on a thirteen to zero run that put the hosts in control and paved the way to a seventy six sixty nine victory. not a good game. you know we got the w

now the leaders in that group g. barcelona have managed to maintain their spots of the summit following a whole mystery over celtic at the no camp the hoops open first though thanks to a header by greek international you or some of us but the home team equalized right before the break through undress and yes said before jordi alba finally sealed the win for boresight in the fourth minute of stoppage time to ensure the catalans one hundred percent record. you now see in the end if you don't persist until the end you don't win the game playing up in their area the way we did had risks because they're very strong and powerful in their own area they could have scored a second goal we know it but if you don't persist until the last moment you know you don't get to win games like this one everyone says almost a fantastic going to the new camp a lot with your ground level and you haven't worked against a team as good as at the. reprieve. skinny moves and really just thirty seconds more just to see it through but they can ta