>>horton: absolutely it is. absolutely. it allows us to keep our children at home and employ them here and they don't have to leave home. >>webb: of all the land that's been flattened in west virginia, only about 3% has had any reclamation. it's not being used for anything. they're ing >>reporter: in fact, environmentalists say mountaintop mining is nothing more than a cheap way to access coal...by blowing the tops off mountains, and filling in adjoining valleys with leftover waste that chokes off streams, pollutes rivers and tarnishes water supplies.... >>raney: first of all it's not waste. it's the natural rock and dirt that is out in the ground above the coal. it's not waste at all and i take offence to people using that term because it's completely inaccurate. >>sebok: it turns everything orange, like rust. the only thing i could clean it off with my bathtub and commodes and things was an acid cleaner, an acid based cleaner.. >>raney: every drop of water that leaves the site has to be treated in a system of some sort to

of their actions and the lack of oversight and accountability joining me to discuss this is scott horton contributing editor on legal and national security matters for harper's magazine scott i want to thank you for joining us tonight now of course we all know that the cia launches drone strikes but this is something that they never publicize it's something of a try to keep a secret is possible now the washington post is reporting that they have thirty predator and reaper drones and they claim to have killed two thousand people since two thousand and one more than you expected. you know when i think we can say the number is growing i think we'll see it stepping up rationally and we'll see probably an entire anyway it's because new robotic weapons systems coming in there and i think this point so i think that washington post for you actually the periphery very well done very well present there and it presents right to see which is the leader of a militarized cia for a generation cia was essentially an intelligence gathering and analysis operation not a minor paramilitary component it woul

turn into a killing agency instead of an intelligence agency pretty good on that subject was scott horton contributing editor of harper's magazine. into that only a military mechanisms to deal with a cut to bring justice or accountability. i have every right to know what my government should do if you want to know why i pay taxes. but i would characterize obama as a charismatic version of american exceptionalism. you know sometimes see a story and it seems so sorely asleep you think you understand it and then a glimpse something else here see some other part of it and realized everything you saw you don't i'm sorry welcome to the big picture. says. let's not forget that we had an apartheid regime in britain. i think iraq is beatable and wanted well. we have the government says the bird keep you safe get ready because your freedom. for. thank you. our we've got an update on a story we first brought you yesterday billing dispute between two aviation companies and of leaking sensitive details about the cia an extraordinary rendition of the company say they were hired to transport government

horton, the backup tight end, gets to the 30. two yards short of the first down.atch of the day for horton jr. and mike sherman uses his second time-out. he also has a player down. >> matt: sean, this is a big play obviously right here. this third down. >> sean: play of the game. they convert, it's essentially ball game over. third down and three upcoming. a pass but a conservative pass. almost like a long handoff. steven terrell is the injured player getting up now. do you run that same kind of play? three yards is a long way to go on a running play. do you like a short pass to move the chains? >> matt: if they're going to throw, it will be something like that, where if there's misdirection first and you have somebody sneaking up. they don't really have the feet option with the quarterback like tannehill would. i would expect it's going to be something like that. >> sean: third and three. 1:59 remaining regulation time. a conversion for mike gundy's cowboys should put it away. spread it out. that means there's the possibility of an inside run. good thing for weed

his wife jane horton. chris met jane while attending king's college in new york city. jane said it was chris' fiery passion and their mutual love for politics that brought them together. he was the most honorable man i've ever met in my life and that's why i snagged him and we were engaged within two months. we were married very fast. so she knew what she was out after. i know this is true because my staff and i got to know chris through his wife, jane. she was an intern for me. she worked in my office, and we had these exchanges all the time. as could be expected, jane took a personal interest in operations afghanistan. she worked with my legislative staff responsible for military and veterans affairs. during her time in washington, she coordinated a campaign that resulted in over 20 care packages being sent to the oklahoma national guard infantry combat brigade. i can tell you this, having been over there at a time when a lot of these car packages come in, we -- care packages come in, we know as we go ac

kimberly horton. i manage a network of over a thousand nurses, and i am a phoenix. [ male announcer ] university of phoenix is proud to sponsor education nation. because we believe an educated world is a better world. >>> after years after raking in excess profits off an unfair and anti-competitive system, bank of america is trying to find new ways to pad their profits by sticking it to the consumers, i hope their customers have the final say. they might. the good news, the transaction fee will take effect on october 1st. that limit will be 24 cents per transaction for debit card purchases. it's not enough for bank of america. so they're adding in the monthly fee. so good of them, huh? you can bet other banks will do the same unless customers leave in protest. >>> coming up, a new poll shows democrats just can't get excited about reelecting the president. i've got a message for them next. bill o'reilly's conspiracy theory about muffins lands him in the zone. >>> and the republicans have been attacking

, in fact, ruby bates' we can't think of the charges act of 1933 decatur trial which led to judge horton basically saying that we mustn't bring this circus to an end. >> where the prostitutes? >> they were prostitutes is a loaded term, particularly in the context of the socioeconomic circumstances that they live in and the socioeconomic circumstances that they inhabited. they were known in their communities for exchanging sexual favors. sometimes for money, sometimes for pleasure. but they were also factory workers. and as factory workers they're also looking for work. one of the note about ruby bates. after ruby bates recanted, she was immediately embraced by the ild and the communist party and went on to her. speaking tour on behalf of gaining freedom for the scottsboro boys. >> the importance of the racial issue in 1931 when this happened? >> absolutely central. absolutely inflammatory if you go back and look at some of the newspaper reports in early alabama newspapers, montgomery, look at the headlines. every single stereotype thing that you can imagine about black men, white women,

of the tenth anniversary of the nine eleven attacks and our resident reporter in new york laurie horton is has been out on the city's streets asking people how the war has changed in the decade since birth. at that gate after the horrible man eleven terrorist attacks in the us how is the world change this week let's talk about that there were these i won't say more dangerous but it's more like our tick so all things are predictable you don't know what what's going to happen next to life is much intense i think so no. every day can can be the last and you think people around the world feel this way. i think in europe in america i think so i don't know you kind of more aware of a threat just more on the lookout do you think that people all around the world still keep that vigilance ten years later probably not as much as we did five years ago do you think that the amount of lives lost in the name of the war on terror has been worth feeling safer i think that's a difficult thing to comment on to be honest i have a lot of friends that are caught over there and i would say it's hard every ti

the bush administration previously which fear that israel could sell the technology to china scott horton is host of the antiwar radio of the antiwar radio station that's where it's called this is the man he's on the line now from california scott love to have you on the program the smaller this story emerged today didn't it in what way could the u.s. benefit from this deal in israel. none that i can think of other than money for those you know david and the receivers you know money poured the military industrial complex. for the united states for israel and for iran it bodes ill of course. this deal was rejected by the bush administration originally as i mentioned but nonetheless it was approved more recently by the obama administration and went on to win of course the mobo peace prize president so much critics might find that little bit rolnick. the paste loving what you make of. well he's the worst warmonger of all he's doubled down on every one of bush's bad moves i think some people might accept iraq but i won't until every last soldier is gone and i'm not counting on that happening

was much more ambivalent yen fact was recanting of the charges of the 1933 trial that led to judge horton saying we must bring the circus two and 10. >> host: were they prosecuted? >> guest: that is a loaded term in the context of social economic circumstances that they lived and and and what they inhabited. they were known in their communities for exchange of sexual favors but also factory workers. and also looking for work. after ruby recanted, she was immediately embraced by the communist party and went on speaking to or about gaining freedom for the boys. >> host: importance of the racial issue? >> of some of the central and inflammatory if you go look back at some other day newspaper reports. some montgomery advertiser advertiser, every single stereotypes that you can imagine with black men and white women sexually predatory behavior of rape and racism is at work and the headlines. >> host: how widespread is the coverage? >> very, very widespread for several reasons. also it turns out as part of their own program the communist party was at work and they cover the case immediately and

used for political purposes it can help win elections look back at herbert walker bush is willie horton ads for the fact that ronald reagan gave his first speech after being nominated for president in philadelphia mississippi a little town of six thousand people in the middle of nowhere that's famous for only one thing back in the one nine hundred sixty s. three civil rights workers were brutally tortured and murdered there that's why it's so important to call out resubmitting gimmicks like this one from the college republicans and u.c. berkeley for what they are someone should add to the required curriculum a class on by privilege because until white people figure out what every person of color in this nation already knows things will continue to stay the same and during down economic downturns like this one actually get worse. that's the big picture first night for more information on the stories we covered this is our web site the thom hartmann dot com free speech dot org and archie dot com also check out our two you tube channels there are links to thom hartmann dot com this entire

it's new plant which will create about five thousand jobs is in india largely correspondent marina horton i was recently in detroit and took a look at some of the impact this is having of these companies sending their jobs overseas is contributing to a surge in scraps take a look. this was once a city that symbolized america's innovation and manufacturing might. but today it troy is the third most violent city in the u.s. with unemployment estimated at up to fifty percent according to officials a once glamorous motor city now has more people living in poverty then cars on the streets home foreclosures and continue flight to the suburbs which takes the tax base away from the city and there's more and more of that the decline in the school system. is making people leave the city and so there's no money here really in the there are no jobs here and as the u.s. census points out a quarter of a million people have left detroit in the past ten years the economic scars of this once vibrant city are impossible to escape roughly sixty thousand vacant buildings and thirty five thousand abandoned ho

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this ad is drawing comparisons to the willie horton ad run by the first president bush in the 1988 campaignukakis. is it that bad? >> i'm not sure it goes quite that far, but what's clear here is that all of the gop candidates in the race, mitt romney should have greater sensitivities to immigrants coming from our southern border. i think it's deplorable for him to make an attack like this about children who were here in this country. really through no fault of their own. the idea that governor perry wants to educate them in public schools and provide an in-state tuition discount for them, mitt romney and other republicans ought to see it as they like to say, as a state issue and let governor perry do for his constituency as he pleases. >> mr. perry had to walk that comment about those who oppose his position as not having a heart. he had to walk that back. it seems as though compassionate conservatism is out. >> it is not in 18 this season. you are absolutely right about that. the difficulty here is there real economic implications for not educating immigrant children and making them produ

kimberly horton. i manage a network of over a thousand nurses, and i am a phoenix. [ male announcer ] university of phoenix is proud to sponsor education nation. because we believe an educated world is a better world. >>> so did the president really want to reach a deal with congress on the budget and taxes? sure didn't sound like it when he called out john boehner in the rose garden yesterday. >> the speaker says we can't have it my way or the highway and then basically says, my way. or the highway. that's not smart. it's not right. >> as the white house said today, the governing phase is over. game on for the re-election campaign. msnbc political analyst eugene robinson is a pulitzer prize winning columnist for "the washington post" and jonathan alter a msnbc political analyst. it's great to be here with the two of you. >> it is great. >> this is great. >> eugene, the president really made his base very happy. just watching michael moore with rachel last night, clearly he and other so-called progres

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kimberly horton. i manage a network of over a thousand nurses, and i am a phoenix. [ male announcer ] university of phoenix is proud to sponsor education nation. because we believe an educated world is a better world. >>> chicago mayor rahm emanuel made education reform a pillar of his campaign, extending the city's short school days. he has extended school days at half a dozen elementary schools despite resistance from the teacher's union. mayor rahm emanuel joins me from chicago. great to have you hear. in terms of longer school days. this was one of your first reforms. a total of 13 degrees to do it. that is still 482 of the overall number of elementary schools. where do you go next to increase the school hours for your school kids? >> i was at a school today. every child in that elementary school is getting an additional 30 minutes of math, an additional 30 minutes of readings and 30 minutes of science. because the day is longer they are also getting recess. there are other schools now that are go

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