all right so joining me today for happy hour i have our two producers jenny churchill and lucy calf enough. first of all you said it was like the most glorious thing you've ever been. to take that back and still in europe you are. thinking or a slapping or something but being you failed your mission where's my muslim brotherhood you know i have to say i searched high and low they were nowhere to be found and some fortunate frank gaffney but the only person i found maybe even could have possibly represent the muslim brotherhood was sue hale and i think we all know that that's ridiculous you know jihad jane was a blonde so i don't know jenny what religion do you practice i think there is so hiding somewhere in the midst because frank gaffney had said it's all embodied in the sole person of so he'll call but just to go on how ridiculous this is you know frank gaffney is a guy who he he believes that obama is a secret muslim he thinks that the u.s. missile defense agency that like on their logo it has some kind of a secret inscription that proves that obama really works you know that it's a ma

today joined by jenny churchill and peter happened after grace was with her presence because her mother is putting her on the internet right now as we speak right now. this is really just horrible because there's this chinese mother who posted a video of her twenty six year old daughter like getting out of the shower naked online because she's trying to marry her off and basically she's saying like what's wrong with you you know i don't you describe your back anymore husband should you better your husband it's not tiger mom like poor mom yes a little crazy i mean first of all when you watch the video she walks up to her and has this video camera face and the woman just goes about her business like if my mom god forbid were to walk up to me with you know a camera phone in my face i'd say mom what are you doing i have you know i'm watching one and secondly this woman is obviously not going to go mother of the year although i did i may be able to i would give her my diaries yes we're trying to tie her to the extreme here yeah i mean i think that it just shows a vast difference in culture y

to come tonight we have our friday fireside chat and then it happy our hearts and prayers are jenny churchill anneliese the capital for join me to discuss some of the stories that you're probably hear your favorite watering hole this weekend including sexting attempts on a popular news website back and. hungry for the full story we've gone to. the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers. would be soo much brighter than if you knew me. from things to. start on t.v. don't. street still keep. trying to feel. the soviets like the kitchen seems to. like. to. go to tonight's fireside fridays be your host cops. and this day and age of austerity talks in the u.s. the constant political banter that we hear about needing to cut spending we've already learned a few things a that obama has first some reason this idea to cut heating assistance to low income americans and maybe thought that was a good political move to i don't know give the street credit for republicans while giving a middle finger to the poor then there's be republicans are going to whine about how in adequate o

and know friday would be complete without a happy hour so i'll be joined by lucy kept up and jenny churchill to discuss some hot stories this week like the latest sexting at lingo for anyone who's out of the loop but we're saving that for the end of the show now to move on to this night's top story. protests continue today in wisconsin where thousands of teachers public workers students other supporters have been protesting in front of and inside the capitol building some camping out overnight now it's all response to governor scott walker's plan to take away bargaining rights from public sector unions somebody he claims will help close the state's budget gap but it's also becoming an all out political war president obama has expressed that he feels that this is an assault on unions scott walker said that he is not going to be bullied and the unrest is spreading as a number of other states have similar legislation on the table and today workers in connecticut and tennessee also took to the streets so the question is which side is going to win we're discussing with me is j.p. frere soucy edit

that we're going to celebrate with a little happy hour i'll be joined by lucy catherine of and jenny churchill to talk about the hottest conference in town see pack but we're saving that fun for the end of the show right now let's move on to our top story. after eighteen days of protests egypt's president hosni mubarak has finally. step down as morning reports are coming out the mubarak had left cairo for sharm el sheikh a seaside resort where his family has a residence then omar suleiman the vice president announced in a televised address and the president was waving his office that he had handed over all thore to the supreme council of the armed forces and the crowd roared in approval the military made an announcement that they would lift the thirty year emergency law but only as soon as the circumstances and and they guaranteed changes to the constitution as well as a green election so for now it seems like the people of egypt have gotten what they want but what comes next discussed with me is joel rubin blogger at democracy arsenal thought or joel thanks so much for being here for eighteen

winston churchill had his family and the united states. his mother was jennie jerome. he spent the day in court and he watched the case that howe and hummel are involved in. more consequentially, winston churchill's cousin was william travis or jerome. a new york city prosecutor for many years and also the man that eventually took down abraham hummel and force the dissolution of howe and hummel. and finally, benjamin cardozo, a great supreme court jurists. he was an infant -- he was born in the 1870s, but his father, i thought this was fascinating, he has a reputation. his father albert was a hack. howe and hummel first came to great public notice in the early 1870s when it was revealed that they had essentially bought at least 300 writs of habeas corpus from albert cardozo. cardozo was part of a group of four judges that were notorious for their corruption in new york, and affect the association of the bar of the city of new york was founded essentially to take down these judges. now, corrupt judges were not a new thing in new york by any, but one of the things i learn