mainstream media ignoring the role voter suppression may have played in helping karen handel defeat john asaf in the georgia six runoff greg palast just a mole and the senate republican health care bill is secret no more just one problem it's not really a health care bill will discuss what it really is into its politics panel what they would call on and krrish. since the race was called thursday night a variety of theories have been put forward to help explain john asaf loss to karen handel in the special run off election for georgia's secure groeschel district some think just didn't have a message others think that the georgia six was just too conservative for any democrat to win very few pundits however virtually none of the mainstream media are looking at the wall voter suppression may have played in handing former georgia secretary of state karen addle a four point victory joining me now to talk about just that is greg palast investigative reporter and creator of the brilliant new documentary the best democracy money can buy a tale of billionaires and ballot bandits greg palast welcome ba

coming up tonight on the big picture for republican steele the georgia six runoff election between john asaf and karen handel investigative reporter greg palast slinks they couldn't ill explain why in just a moment and donald trump has confirmed he's under investigation how much longer are republicans willing to sit by and let this dumpster fire burn the whole house down alaska greer and kind newkirk into night's big picture. the latest polls out of the sixth district of georgia show the democrat john os off as about a three point advantage over republican challenger karen angle if these polls are accurate asaf will sneak by with a win in tuesday's special runoff election or will he one of america's leading investigative journalist now thinks that the georgia six runoff will be stolen or at least could be by republicans and their racist voter suppression laws joining me now to explain just what's going on down in georgia is greg palast state a reporter and creator of the new documentary the best democracy money can buy billionaires and ballot bandits greg welcome back. glad to be with you to

is a democratic socialist country so why did democrats like fail georgia congressional candidate john asaf continue to run on a republican lite message that and more with julio rivera and charles sour in tonight's lono robel. america's longest war is about to get even longer the pentagon is expected to announce any day now that it's sending four thousand additional troops to afghanistan in the washington post the purpose of this mini troop surge is to break a stalemate in a war that has now passed to the third u.s. commander in chief but can we ever really win in afghanistan joining me now is jim caisson associate general secretary for strategic advocacy at the friends committee on national legislation jim welcome back thank you tom it's great had to be yours thank you so what is the current situation afghanistan well the u.s. has been at war in afghanistan for over fifteen years now and we've had one hundred thousand troops and we've got a little less than ten thousand troops al-qaeda the taliban all these forces are operating there the taliban by some estimates controls forty percent. al

history is over and i think democrats need to recognize always is that how you're characterizing john asaf i mean that characterization certainly did not make its way through the media machine no i absolutely characterize in that that way he he emphasized cutting waits for government spending and in fact i have his words here somewhere he basically said he said he wanted to bring the government up to private sector standards in other words he campaigned against government can and is a corporate cyst yes and i soon he did not mean the private sector sander standards that created the financial crisis or the private sector standards that created the b.p. oil spill so you know that that whole kind of rhetoric he was against single payer health care was against medicare for all he was against it he was the kind of democrat the old thinking is in a district like that you have to run as a republican light but i went through the demographics of the district there are one hundred thousand african-americans there were turnout was low one hundred nearly one hundred thousand hispanics there are people

camp tonight i'm going to tell you how the special election in georgia was stolen from john asaf but before i get to that i have part two of my interview with peter joseph creator of the ice movement he's out with a new book and the last time we talked about the problems with our system this time he and i discussed the solutions how do we fix this mess and start moving forward. for all the advertising against actually something else i wanted to ask you which is a while back for your other serious culture in decline i did a thing on advertising and about how abusive they are to you know what ads in general to what they're trying to get make us think and and act. but i don't know what i what i don't thing i explicitly said is that it's basically the estimate as a thousand to three thousand ads and brand names a day and they're all really selling one thing it's needed and solving that need with consuming consumerism is it possible to get past that system when we have that much advertising for this way of life like there's just endless thousands and thousands of ads telling you this is t

camp tonight i'm going to tell you how the special election in georgia was stolen from john asaf but before i get to that i have part two of my interview with peter joseph creator of the movement he's out with a new book and the last time we talked about the problems with our system this time he and i discussed the solutions how do we fix this mess and start moving forward there are a lot. first of all the advertising against actually something else i wanted to ask you which is a while back for your other serious culture in decline i did a thing on advertising and about how abusive they are to you know what ads in general to what they're trying to get make us think and how and act. but i don't know what i what i don't thing i explicitly said is that it's basically the estimate is a thousand to three thousand ads and brand names a day and they're all really selling one thing it's need and solving that need with consuming consumerism is it possible to get past that system when we have that much advertising for this way of life like there's just thousands and thousands of heads telling

mainstream media ignoring the role voter suppression may have played in helping karen handel defeat john asaf in the georgia six write off greg palast just a mole and the senate republican health care bill is secret no more.

sixth district of georgia show the democrat john a soft as about a three point advantage over republican challenger karen andal if these polls are accurate asaf will sneak by with a win and tuesday's special runoff election or will he one of america's leading investigative journalist now thinks that the georgia six runoff will be stolen or at least could be by republicans and their racist voter suppression laws joining me now to explain just what's going on down in georgia's greg palast state a reporter and creator of the new documentary the best democracy money can buy billionaires and ballot bandits greg welcome back glad to be with you tom and why don't we have escaped from the sixth i was just going to say welcome back home from georgia so tell us you know first of all if you pay attention the mainstream media they're pretty confident that asaf will win tuesday but you aren't what did you learn when you were in georgia last week that informs your opinion oh boy because that os off isn't running against karen and all the republican she's running against jim crow they are they are testing the latest jim crow techniques to keep voters of col

mean what people want him john the all the money is coming in because democrats want to send a message to donald trump ok it's about the message they want to have a message if asaf when it's obviously or a rebuke to the trump agenda the problem is that. both ways because if i lose is with all of this money and all the wind his back if he loses his hand right there he's right into the presidency and let's not forget that south carolina has a special election for mick mulvaney seat director of the office of management and budget that will likely stay republican but the margin is going to matter to d.c. insiders if it's even remotely close if it's not a double digit win for the republican the republicans have big problems in south carolina the margins matter here for what ends up going on in capitol hill the assumption of power all eyes are on georgia as i mentioned but they say and as you mention the same cannot be said for the special election going on in south carolina's fifth people say who is are cheaper now it was john galt who was our tea party now why does he matter what's going on only matters to you any matters to a lot of people in politics here why is t