i am john harbin here in washington d.c. and here's what's coming up tonight on the big picture president obama declares his plan on how to lower the nation's debt without jeopardizing the country's most vulnerable the poor and the elderly all america by it and most importantly will congress. and it seems not paying their taxes came back to haunt general walker today to talk to the activists who crossed g.e. billions in stock losses in just a few minutes and officials in bolivia are pushing for a new law granting mother nature the same rights as you and me so how will this heal the world mentality fly in the united states. president obama delivered his big speech today outlining his deficit reduction plan the president pledged to cut four trillion dollars out of the deficit over the next twelve years reducing domestic and defense spending getting more bang for the buck in medicare and in the bush tax cuts for the very very wealthy millionaires and billionaires and closing corporate tax loopholes but far more important than a

well back to the big picture i'm john harbin coming up in this half hour a public interest company is trampled by a monopolistic greed driven media mogul this is scenario consumers been screwed by wealthy powers would be sounds so familiar plus montana republican representative alan ill is opposing the dui law proposed by his own party is he saying the bill is destroying a way of life and with the government shutdown possibly on the horizon republicans are pretty much you know win win situation explain it and i still take. who screwed residents of wilson north carolina and for that matter all of us in two thousand and eight the city of wilson created its own broadband internet company named green light to lead wire for all of its citizens to have access to high speed internet cheap price was essentially a public option for broadband and the residents scooped it up because green light was offering internet at twice the speed as the for profit corporation time warner that otherwise held a monopoly in the state which didn't last long as time warner dumps six hundred thousand dollars last