jill stein. on tuesday, she and her running mate were arrested as they attempted to enter the debate site. "democracy now!" was there at the time of their arrest. >> we are here at the arcades of the american debate to say that we need to open up this debate and make it a full, fair, and inclusive debate. >> issued not to be whether or not you have billions of dollars that determines whether or not the american people can hear about your platform. >> our green and pain is on the ballot for 85% of -- campaign is on the ballot for 85% of voters. they deserve to know who their choices are in this election and the resolutions are. the commission on presidential debates makes a mockery of democracy. by conducting this fate and >> do you have credentials? >> yes, we do. we have been on the ballot in 85% of the voters. >> this is an educational experience. >> we think it is more than that. >> you're going to be run over by a car. move in with the traffic cones critics ma'am, please. >> we're here to sta

barrier by pausing after president obama's and romley's answers to get real-time responses from jill stein of the green party and rocky anderson of the justice the party. dr. stein is a physician from massachusetts. rocky anderson is the former mayor of salt lake city. we also invited gary johnson, the decline to join us. today we bring you highlights from our expanding the debate special. we begin with the debate moderator jim lehrer. >> let's start with the economy, segment one, and let's begin with jobs. what are the major differences between the two of you about how you go about creating new jobs. you have two minutes each of you to start print a coin toss determines, mr. president, you go first. >> four years ago, we went through the worst financial crisis in the great depression. millions of jobs were lost. the auto industry was on the brink of collapse. the financial system had frozen up. and because of the resilience and the determination of the american people, we've begun to fight our way back over the last 30 months, we've seen 5 million jobs in the private sector created. the a

jill stein of the green party and rocky anderson of the justice party.ing a special broadcast monday night, we broke the sound barrier during the brahma -- obama-romney debate, to get real-time responses from jill stein and rocky anderson. this is debate moderator bob schieffer of cbs news. >> are you saying you want a bigger military, a bigger navy? you do not want to cut defense spending. what i want to ask you, we were talking about financial issues. where you going to get the money. >> first of all, i'm going through from the beginning we will cut about 5% of the discretionary budget, excluding military. >> [indiscernible] >> i will be happy to have to take a look. come on our website. we will have a balanced budget in eight to 10 years. number one, i get rid of obamacare. there are a number of things that sound good but we cannot afford them but that does not sound good and is not affordable. i would get rid of that from day one. we take program after program, and that we don't absolutely have to have come and get rid of them. number two, we take so

jill stein of the green party on the young turks. >> i'm voting for jill stein. >> we need jill steinresident. >> jill stein! (vo) what is said here could decide the election. current tv presents coverage of the unrivaled analysis and commentary. >> was this the game changer? is this going to change the dynamic? (vo) the only network with real-time reaction straight from the campaigns and from viewers like you. >> so keep on tweeting and maybe you'll have your voice be part of this democracy and see your tweets up on our screen. >>now that's politically direct. >> mitt almost famously now said in the first presidential debate that he would cut funding to pbs and to big bird. president obama has been hitting the trail and hitting that theme pretty hard. >> finally somebody is cracking down on big bird. elmo has been seen in a white suburban he's driving for the border. oscar's hiding out in his trash can. we're crocking down on 'em. romney's plan is to let wall street run wild again but he's going to bring the hammer down on sesame street. >> i think that's really funny. i don't think

jill stein and her running mate cheri honkala. stein called her ticket a viable third-party ticket challenge too beholden republicans and democrats. >> i believe grass-roots grows from the community up, but at the same time, we have a state of emergency at the national mall. to silence the only hope of that opposition's voice in this election when so much is at stake, i think, would be a terrible loss for the american people. there is no reason why americans should have to walk into the voting booths in november and only have effectively two wall street-sponsored choices. >> that was green party nominee jill stein. we also spoke to justice party nominee rocky anderson in the republican national convention in tampa, florida last month. >> these two parties have a stranglehold on our democracy. they are depriving people around the country of not only being able to get on the ballot. they are denying us of our freedom of choice. we are seeing it in the most aggressive ways. >> again, we are going to have this presidential debate, incl

my guest today is jill stein nominee for president of the united states with the green party thank you very much for joining me dr stein it's pretty to be with you can really really appreciate it thanks for coming i read you said you'd be the underdog candidate for the underdog boulder's who are these on the docket voters it's certainly most of the american public people are losing their jobs wages are declining millions have lost their home another million are in the pipeline to lose their homes this year the cost of health care is skyrocketing public higher education.

up the fight for a seat at the table i'm joined now by green party presidential nominee herself jill stein thank you so much for coming on and taking the time joe it's a great honor it's great to be with you so joe tell me about the green new deal and why this vision is so important for the country. well you know as you alluded to earlier the real issues and the real solutions are not being discussed in this debate or in this election in fact ninety million voters that's one out of every two voters is voting with their feet by not going to vote because they know that the policies of barack obama and of mitt romney do not represent them and do not serve them so a key missing solution is actually creating jobs both romney and obama are basically saying more of the same you know just wait for a trickle down economics to hit you when in fact gushing up it's not trickling down and we've seen this over several decades it's only getting worse we're calling for a green new deal like the solution that actually got us out of the great depression in the one nine hundred thirty it's not rocket science

green party candidate jill stein was arrested for trying to enter the presidential debate at hofstra university and now i know why there's never a third party candidate at the debates because the cops left the cuffs on them when they try to get in we all know we have a two party system so why do we lie to ourselves and pretend it's not that way it's the lying that bothers me it's the illusion that you have the freedom of choice when there are only two real options cut out the games just make the two party system the law of the land just make the two parties part of the government make their inner workings transparent and bound by the law and make it clear to every american that there are only two real ladders to climb to power stop lying to me and to everyone else about this democracy stuff what forty percent of the country are independents with virtually no representation either cut the lies and make the two party system the law or make your lies become true by letting the candidates like jill stein and gary johnson have a simple conversation with obama and romney on t.v. hey if the

presidential candidate jill stein arrested in texas as she tries to help eco activists opposing the expansion of an old pipeline latest on but just ahead. plus no news is bad news in greece media workers blue have sick using the government targeting journalists who are trying to bring the powerful to account. her majesty's secret service is suspected of racial profiling in taking british citizens off the radio under the banner of combating terror. live from moscow to levon pm this is r t very warm welcome to if you just tuned to us round the world my name is kevin owen our top story for you as a just mentioned the u.s. presidential candidate from the green party is on the saving been arrested in texas as he tried to help protesters opposing the building of a pipeline jill stein was supporting activists who can come over a month among trees in the path of planned pipeline extension let's get the latest on this too scott macleod sees the media coordinator for the green party mclarty good evening could you outline for why he would jill stein forbidden from supporting the activists what's the bac

my guest today is jill stein nominee for president of the united states with the green party thank you very much for joining me dr stein it's great to be with you can really really appreciate it thanks for coming i read you said you'd be the underdog candidate for the underdog voters who are these on the docket voters it's certainly most of the american public people are losing their jobs wages are declining millions have lost their home another million are in the pipeline to lose their homes this year the cost of health care is skyrocketing public higher education is increasingly out of reach we have thirty six million young people who are students or recent graduates who are effectively indentured servants because they don't have the jobs or the wages to repave these unforgiving debts and the political establishment is not doing anything about it while a very small segment of the american population the one percent we say is making out like bandits so neither party is fixing this i just want to make this clear you're going to be on ballots but not in all states can you explain what i

jill stein? first, joe biden soothes a crying baby, president obama responds to a crying baby named trump and bill o'reilly provides a timetable for mitt romney turning this economy arounund all by himself. when it doesn't fit anywhere else, the spitzer crew puts it in the viewfinder. >> i guess donald trump made his bombshell announcement. remember he's been saying -- this is going to change the whole course of everything. >> everyone was tuned in wanting to hear what donald trump had to say. turned out to be nothing but a silly little publicity stunt and i said to myself, hey that's not the donald trump i know. >> i believe we have the footage of the announcement of making it -- yeah, wait a second. you know what? i'm sorry. i'm sorry. [ laughter ] that wasn't donald trump essentially trying to publicly extort the president of the united states. that was a gorilla eating its own [ bleep ] >> what's this thing with trump and you? it is like me and letterman. what does he have against you? >> pre

jill stein and put the same question to rocky anderson. want to play an excerpt of jill stein's response to moderator jim lehrer's questioned about so-called entitlement programs and social security. >> it is very important to point out that while we hear a very different narrative from barack obama and the democrats than we do from mitt romney, with mitt romney's narrative being, usually harsh, scary, selfishness on steroids, and the democratic narrative being warm and fuzzy and we're all in this together let's just wait for things to get better, it is really important to look beyond the talk, to look at the walk, to look at what is being proposed. geoffrey sax at the university of columbia has pointed out in his analysis of the budget proposal to both obama and romney-ryan, points out they are both aiming for essentially the same targets. they're both aiming for social security to be about 5% of gdp some years down the line whether it is four or eight years. and on medicare, there are both aiming for medicare to be reduced to about 3.2%

in them paying manager now your party's presidential candidate jill stein was arrested outside the latest t.v. debate and will be tried in court this could be a great p.r. moment just three weeks ahead of the election so why is there really not much reaction in the u.s. to this. well i would say there has been quite a bit of reaction here in the u.s. we can see it at the campaign where we've had literally tens of thousands of people join the campaign on line we are single largest fund raising day following the arrests of dr jill stein and her running mate. people are outraged about the fact that candidates who represent millions of americans that's what all the polls show were prevented from entering into the debates in any country that claims to have contested elections this was germany or france or mexico dr stein would have been on that stage in new york on tuesday in a running mate protesting outside cheese days t.v. debate and not being allowed to take part despite having the names on enough ballots across the country to hear resolutely when what is it that americans should allow to

tuesday the participants will be a libertarian candidate gary johnson and green party candidate jill stein are as he was one of the only news outlets to air the first third party debate and fall on tuesday now we are hosting the second round this time the focus is on foreign policy are you producer adriano who said oh join me now for more adriano espaillat actually had a little free party panel prior to the debate as there was no as i wrote it was good so now we have the second one in the works what can we expect this time it's interesting as you just you know you pointed out it will be just on foreign policy and you'll likely see something completely different than you know what you saw back this monday during the you know republican democratic presidential debate you will likely see several issues that weren't touched there some anything from drones troop withdrawal n.d.a. well those were touched upon but not any sort of difference so patriot act military industrial complex guantanamo bay all of these things that a lot of people care about you you'll probably hear about that all about th

the other contenders say they are being sidelined green party presidential nominee jill stein and her running mate were arrested this week after trying to make their way to the venue for last tuesday's debate stine blames the system for what she says is locking out nearly a third of the country's populace at the upcoming election green party campaign manager ben nancy thinks the two party system is down to outdated laws and corporate influence. it's. the reality is that there's nothing in our constitution which prevents a multi-party system from emerging here in the u.s. but we do have laws on the books all across the country and we also have the actions of private corporations that have grown up over the last sixty years to prevent independent parties from challenging the two establishment parties here in the united states the laws that we have in the books prevent or make it very difficult for independent parties to get on the ballot to kill voters that choice those laws date from the cold war they date from the mccarthy era and which there was a fear of communism and socialism and

this tuesday this says this will be holding the last debate featuring the post when as jill stein and gary johnson you won't be seeing it on any major u.s. network will be broadcasting it live right. through us aren't international. you know we both agree we agree we have to bring the tax rates down i felt the same as the president did. you agree let's go back to something the president i agree on and you do you bring it over to every choice you wonder no to vote for when romney and obama agree on so many things where you do have other options come november sixth tune in to see the second round of debates between the major third party candidates october thirtieth. eurozone finance ministers are set to hold a series of meetings decide whether greece hasn't taken enough const to get its next aid package without is the greek prime minister says his country could be bankrupt by mid november athens has received some backing for its requires that a big given two more years to get a difficult decision under control pushing the deadline to twenty sixteen that would cause the euro zone thirty

gary johnson, libertarian nominee, and jill stein, green party nominee.ren't allowed in the debate so we brought them here to add their voices to the national discussion. we'll cover a lot of topics from the economy to social issue. but as third, even fourth party candidates, i decided to start with the obvious question, though -- why are you running? >> i'm running as a mother and a medical doctor really concerned about the direction we're going. and what propelled me into this race at this time, and i've been an activist for two decades really. people ask what kind of medicine i'm practicing, and i say political medicine because it's the mother of all illnesses. we got to fix this one in order to fix everything else that ails us. what propelled me into this race was when the president put medicare and social security on the chopping block as the solution to the debt ceiling crisis a year ago. so i'm basically in this to ensure that everyday people have a voice in this election and a choice at the polls that's not bought and paid for by wall street. and

are we have actual other candidates that are running did you know that no i didn't know there's jill stein she's the the green party there's gary johnson and libertarian and none of these names ring a bell and i don't think it's unfortunate that americans don't know they have more than two main options you know we're stuck with democrats or republicans we don't go over for that so why do you think that is. the tradition. tradition. we do we used to where i would think either one of the third party have other ideas other than democrat into somebody sure they do they're against the n.c.a.a. they're against the war and junks they're against drone strikes there's a lot of other ideas. you don't agree with me about you know drone strikes no one to protecting us and saving our soldiers being killed even when they have a very low actually percentage rate of unfortunate collateral damage as part of war you know what else is running besides the two main ones don't i don't so do you feel informed enough to make a vote. no. which is going to i think the media has pretty much walked to that whole aspe

well just jill stein is now suing the commission on presidential debates for not letting her take partin the big national debate although dr stein argues she meets all u.s. constitutional no required requirements to take the office of president because the commission is organized and controlled by democratic and republican parties there is no enthusiasm on the part of the truth to lead a third party in arguably both parties fear that a third party candidate could become a spoiler in the election for example in the year two thousand independent candidate ralph nader was seen as a spoiler who contributed to the victory of george w. bush so it seems their solution is to black out alternative candidates and convince the american people that they have no other choice but barack obama and mitt romney and the mainstream media here are very much part of that black house. she's going that she can live from washington guy and then he thanks indeed for your perspective. and see host tom hartman took part in the key event and he says party candidates will continue to be barred from the big picture

>> we'll start with jill stein. >> thank you. and thank you so much to free & equal, and thank you for being here. i think top two does not enlarge our democracy. in many ways, it confuses things more. it puts many candidates onto the ballot all together, and it arbitrarily attaches party labels to them. any candidate can choose any label they want. so it really degrades the meaning of our political parties, where they have meaning, and i know they don't always, but there are some that do have meaning that aren't bought and sold to the highest bidder, and the green party is one of those parties. and i know there are some other parties here as well, the independent parties, where the parties actually represent real values. and the top two obscures the meaning of those parties, and it puts everyone together, so you really can't tell who is representing you, and whoever hats the biggest budget stands to win that primary -- whoever has the biggest budget stands to win that primary, and it becomes another way that big money can contro

and there have been people who have been working both inside and outside the system folks like jill stein who have gotten arrested protesting the fact that they can't get into those debates that they can't make those alternate ideas and voices come out because the commission on presidential debates says that they can't they can't participate and and yet so i think that some people are aware and programs like yours are helping to bring that awareness out in a democracy now also did some good mates and c.-span as well so that's helping but it's certainly not getting the attention that that they should be getting now as we all know i finally when it came to obama and his whole campaign pledge four years ago his whole platform was about change now do you and your fellow activists expect any change to come off to this presidential election. well. i don't know i don't know what you expect exactly i think i think that he's going to be moving forward in some of his some of his policies and i think it's up to us really to continue to pressure him and he said that himself back in the in the last hi

this commission on presidential debates keeping out voices like gary johnson or jill stein who would have been in the bait and would have been talking about drones are not there and so we're going to talk about politics and the reason why many americans wouldn't be exposed to the criticisms that some political leaders have is because of the electoral politics while having let me interrupt you since you mention had a lot of people are talking about these third party voices but we as you may know aired that third party debate last night and we do have a little bit about what some of those candidates said about drones so although i hadn't played out that since you mentioned that we need to end the drone wars not bring the drones home because they're already coming home we need to put an end to the use of drones and actually lead not to lead this development of a new arms race there's a reason why we shouldn't be using drones it's because we don't just take out the target we do go to a lot of innocent civilians in these countries we're going. so i think governor johnson sort of hit the n

party some particular to emerge here at the green party we have overcome many of those challenges jill stein is on eighty five percent of the ballots yet they're still preventing her from taking part in the debate if you look at the success of the green party despite all the obstacles we face it says that there is a great demand for the greens people vote for the greens here in the u.s. we are keeping a close eye on the upcoming u.s. elections and of course the two top candidates you can chain in on monday for special coverage of the ongoing race for the white house. will there be who are on the rise china friend or foe is missile defense offensive. where the candidates the u.s. election is close to twenty second on our team. the cia cia excuse me has urged the white house to approve a plan to expand the u.s. drone fleet the agency seems to be ignoring the latest statement by the pakistani interior minister who said eighty percent of those killed by american undermanned airstrikes were civilians and this figure is backed by the growing and to u.s. sentiment among the population robert naiman

warning there and me and watch her full interview with the green party's presidential candidate jill stein next hour here on r.t. . u.s. professor stephen zunes has the big business depend on bipartisan system offers no real choice for americans. we don't have a portion representation we have so it's a winner take all system by state through the electoral college many people might be inclined to for example you know go floor a left wing party or the green party similarly some conservatives are more libertarian bent might want to vote for the look you're in party the center of the you pretty and pretty much realistically anyway if the only choices are these two main parties and are the folks that had more to get elected especially the president you know you need to raise millions and millions of dollars and you have to of course go to people who have that kind of money you certainly have their own agenda and want to impact the outcome in ways that will benefit themselves but we seem to be culturally stuck in this cycle every four years of voting for the lesser evil what will change when ame

well ghana spoke to the green party's presidential candidate jill stein and you can watch that interview in full in just over an hour from now here on r.t. . what will change when america picks its president amid muslim rage walking the around tightrope pushing china russia as occupy anger spreads to parties still dictate their future to a selection of clothes if they are beginning october twenty second. libyan rebels executed sixty seven gadhafi fighters and possibly the dictator himself a year ago that's according to a new report by human rights watch the findings also imply the very same militias that toppled the colonel still play a major role in libyan politics. the president of the arab lawyers association says that the revelation was already common knowledge. i think churchill said that the first victim of four is the truth looks at the what the government in libya saying what the rebels have so well they don't indeed even the major powers that the us and britain are all telling a lie to say the least this is this revelation is not. you know all that is now documented but it is no

the two major parties almost never appear in a televised confrontation is for the green party's jill stein appears on eighty five percent of the ballots across the country but when she and her running mate were arrested for trying to gain entrance to the latest debate there was little or no media reaction then man ski the green party's campaign manager believes the two party domination is due to outdated laws but more importantly the issue of corporate control. the reality is that there's nothing in our constitution which prevents a multi-party system from emerging here in the us but we do have laws on the books all across the country and we also have the actions of private corporations that have grown up over the last sixty years to prevent independent parties from challenging the two establishment parties here in the united states the laws that we have in the books prevent or make it very difficult for independent parties to get on the ballot to give voters that choice those laws date from the cold war they date from the mccarthy era in which there was a fear of communism and socialism a

on this tuesday with a pos comes that will be holding the last debate featuring the post winners jill stein and gary johnson though you won't be seeing it on any major u.s. network will the full cost take it live right here on a c for both u.s. and international. governor romney you know we both agree we agree we have to bring the tax rates down i felt the same as the president did governor romney i'm glad. you agree with let's come back to something the president i agree on and they do view that over to have a choice perhaps you wondered how to avoid forward romney and obama agree on so many things never you do have other options come november sixth turning to see the second round of debates between the major third party candidates i cover thirty. million are now eurozone finance ministers are set to hold it series of meetings to decide whether greece has undertaken enough cuts to get its next aid package without as the greek prime minister says his country could be bankrupt by mid november athens has received some i am of backing for its request it will be given two more years to get is d