if some tax increases to julian's point, only mild increases in unemployment rate. >> brenda: julian?> lock, tok, the point was thaf obama was reelected, it was tank. when obama took office, everyone said the stimulus wod fail. 2.7. >> wh? >> 2.7 gdp right now, so gdp is probably. >> brenda. >> between positive 11, positive 12 swing. everyone keeps talking how the obama plan isn't going to work and it isn't going to work and the data seems to show the difference, which is to president clinton'point if you want to live like a republican, vote for a democrat, they'll give you better economics. >> brenda: gary b, go ahead. give your best. >> well, you know, julian's very good at raising the straw man. i don't recall everyone saying the market was going to tank if obama was reelected. to sate that oh, it didn't tank, that's kind of silly. the other thing, every time the tax rate habeenried to stick it to the rich. 91% tax rates during fdr years and failed misably and they've gone bacand ended up lowering the rate. it's such a good idea and look for historical examples where it worked. it

if you take top two percent. >> julian. it is powerball. >> we, we, we folks. >> you add that with the spending cuts and talking about three trillion over three years that. is it serious debt reduction. >> we are so stuck on the lottery on the show because none of us won. julian epistein thank you. >> and thank you for having me. >> coming up. a new health care plan >> it is time for what you need to know for next week. tracey burns. uk doing business via scipe -- skype. you can dedect a snivel over the computer. >> don't have to get out of your pajamas. hn lay field what have you gompt >> julian said republicans are worthless. i think they are all worthless. who knows what is going to happen. inin sectorings. >> i am like john. this is aon making air conditioning equipment and i owned the stock over 20 years and small company and does well.

if you take top two percent. >> julian. it is powerball. >> we, we, we folks. >> you add that with the spending cuts and talking about three trillion over three years that. is it serious debt reduction. >> we are so stuck on the lottery on the sho bause none of us won. julian epistein thank you. >> and thank you for having me. >> coming up. >> coming up. a new health care plan i always wait until the last minute. can i still ship a gift in time r christmas? yeah, sure you can. great. where's your gift? uh... whew. [ male announcer ] break from the holiday stress. ship fedex express by december 22nd for christmas delivery. [ engine revs ] ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] the mercedes-benz winter event is back, with the perfect vehicle that's just right for you, no matter which list you're on. [ santa ] ho, ho, ho, ho! [ male announcer ] lease a 2013 ml350 for $599 a month at your local mercedes-benz dealer. >> it is time for what you need to know for next week. tracey burns. uk doing business via scipe -- skype. you can dedect a snive

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playing the waiting game six months ago today julian assange walked into the ecuadorian embassy in london seeking asylum we'll have a report on his time inside the embassy and what's next for the wiki leaks founder . gunning for rights since the mass shooting in newtown connecticut the gun debate has been thrusted back into the spotlight so will there be new gun restrictions here in the us a little bit the issue in just a moment and to the surprise of exactly no one time magazine named president obama the two thousand and twelve percent of the year so is this ritual of naming whoever wins the presidency the person of the year just another waste of time. it's wednesday december nineteenth five pm in washington d.c. i'm maggie lopez and you're watching r.t. today marks the six month anniversary since wiki leaks founder julian assange onj took refuge in the ecuadorian embassy in london to refresh your memory a songe was granted political asylum in ecuador to escape the extradition to sweden where he is wanted for questioning about sexual assault allegations six months and still this man rema

assange and we've had him publish a book we seen concerns over his health we've seen julian assange addressing world leaders as well as giving a number of personal exclusive into the city and of course we've had the ongoing protests and vigils in support of both julian assange and the wiki leaks website and in the next couple of days judy the sun is expected to give a christmas address normally the territory of mourning but in this case julian a son's will be summing up his own going predicament and outlining his plans for the year ahead now what is to come remains relatively unknown we've seen the dramas unfolding over the last six months so you can be pretty sure it will be unpredictable there's a lot of rumors a lot of talk at the moment that we could see in twenty thirty julian a son's running for the australian senate and forming his own wiki leaks political party well those will be the next steps and of course r.t. is going to be there every step of the way taking you through this ongoing story and today we're marking the six months since julian assange thought asylum in ecuad

all right today marks the six month anniversary since wiki leaks co-founder julian assan shook refuge in the ecuadorian embassy in london to refresh your memory assad was granted political asylum in ecuador in order to escape extradition to sweden where he is wanted for questioning about sexual assault allegations six months and still this man remains in the middle of an international political standoff between the u.k. sweden the u.s. in ecuador r.t. correspondent ana stasia churkin takes a look back at what the past half year has been like for julian a songe. i least i have a voice. prisoners rarely even have a voice six long months and counting in a tiny room in london's ecuadorian embassy julian assange keeps himself busy been many messages from we can. distinguish between them and we of course always it's to increase individual privacy as well as exposing corruption with. secrecy continuing to release secret cables put out not one but a million documents in the year two thousand and twelve they try to cut off all his funding he's continued to function they haven't been able to ar

assange and the wiki leaks website and in the next couple of days julian the sun is expected to give a christmas address normally the territory of monaco but in this case julian assange to be summing up his own going predicament and outlining his plans for the year ahead now what is set to come remains relatively unknown we seen the dramas unfolding over the last six months so you can be pretty sure it will be unpredictable there's a lot of rumors a lot of talk at the moment that we could see in twenty thirty julian assange is running for the australian senate and forming his own wiki leaks political party well those will be the next steps and of course r.t. is going to be there every step of the way taking you through this ongoing story. greece prepares for yet another twenty four hour standstill as people protest against growing cops and the disintegrating economy the details all matter just ahead here altie. already lost all three space been falling but farewell to their families and gear up for a five month trip to the stars and they just addition to the space station team is set

wayne john and john and julian and carroll. welcome everyone. so, oregon's democraticic congressman asking for a mileage tax to rebuild our roses and bridges. john is thi good or bad what s going on here? >> this is a ridiculous. it is the wrong time to implement it. electric cars are decades away . having a mileage tax is cadesway . putting odom heretos and logging down to the mileage manually. this would cost a fortune for the tax. we have a gas tax that is do go through road and bridges. >> and talking about a vehicle miles traveled tax. someone like me wayne, so much. i understand why people would want to clarge me more. >> i understand it, too. but john is right we have a fuel tax. and and it is it another way to track pime and look for trouble . you got auelax and fuel x is a huge tax . they are using the argument to get better mileage now. maybe you don't need to do so much. it is based on mileage. >> wayne makes a good point about the pvacy issue. transponder tracking my mile it is big brotherish. >> it is and john makes a good argument

he has already announced his intentions to run for parliament in australia but what else is on julian assange and his agenda for twenty thirty mile the top whistleblower is set to deliver a christmas message his plans for the year ahead as sarah first reports. it's been six months to the day since julian a son's thought refuge behind the doors of the ecuadorian embassy it was a bid to avoid extradition to sweden where he's wanted for sexual assault allegations that he continues to refuse to travel to sweden because if it will be extradited to the u.s. america investigating the wiki leaks website for publishing documents including dossier on the wars in iraq and afghanistan now despite having twenty four hour round the clock police protection it's been a busy six months that julian assange and we've had him publish a book we stream concerns over his health we seem to live in a sound addressing world leaders as well as giving a number of personal exclusive interviews. and of course we've had the ongoing protests and vigils in support of both julian assange and the wiki leaks website and

and julian epstein, welcome to everybody. todd, if taxes go up, get ready for that unemployment rate to shoots u, too. >> you've got that right. brenda, not only going to go higher, we're looking at hundreds of thousands of jobs eliminated because of higher taxes. you can't, you can't simply look at small business owners small business comprise of two-thirds of all jobs created in the country in the last ten years, if you're going to raise that personal income tax, that's going to hit the small business owners they won't have enough to go out and hire and we all have to be epared because the lor picture is going to get fragile real quick. >> julian, you agree? >> no, and a certain point on the show and elsewhere we have to stop utterin opinions and using facts. the most definitive study done about this, the nonpartisan agency that republicans and democrats agree to be the ultimateuthoty is the congressional budget office. they looked at this question and they found that raising the top, the rates on the top 2% will have virtu

also later today say we'll bring you julian assange just christmas address as they add so we can make small six months of asylum in the ecuadorian embassy in london. reason is set for a grilling by the media in his class tomorrow some question on secession since returning as president. and you saw russia and iran the wall this is us he was me our thanks for joining us . u.s. president barack obama has become time magazine's person of the year for a second time gaining the award for being the symbol and the all over new america by the publications and for the president is not shared by all many remain unconvinced by obama's action on such topics as gun control she's going to check out now reports. they're choosing president obama as the person of the year second time the first time they gave him the title right after the two thousand and eight election as to someone who had the most influence on global affairs although at that time he hadn't had the time to exercise all that influence but then president obama also received the nobel peace prize in two thousand and nine ers shortly afte

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we still have democratic strategist julian epstein watching and with us on stand by. julian, you heard a fairly conflicted discussion there about controls. you're a lawyer yourself. what's your view of this? >> and i spend many years of the judiciary committee trying to close up some of the gaping loopholes in the federal laws. i mean, i tend to be closer to where toure is on this thing and i'll tell you why. it's not just the data that we spoke about in terms of how much gun violence there is in this country, which is just exponentially more than in other countries, industrialized countries with sensible gun laws, but when you look at how -- you look at the nature of the loopholes. and terrorist groups like al qaeda have been the ones that have commented on how ridiculously lax the u.s. laws are and how relatively easy it is to get things like assault weapons and 50 millimeter rifles that can blow a foot away of concrete from a quarter of a mile away. the amount of loopholes that are in the laws right now make me wince a little bit when people say we should be very c

you have julian assange annette ecuadorean embassy.hat the government is trying to do is destroy the idea of the government's secrets and its corruption and crimes ought to be known and get the whistleblowers and publishers were doing it. we see across the board that these three are the ones they're obviously focused on, putting them away for as long as they can. >> michael ratner is president emeritus of the center for constitutional rights and a lawyer to julian assange and wikileaks. he recently returned from attending part of a pre-trial hearing for bradley manning. this is "democracy now!," democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. when we get back, what is happening within freedomworks and dick armey? what was that $8 million payout? stay with us. ♪ [music break] >> marva whitney that it the age of 68. this is "democracy now!," democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman with juan gonzalez. >> we turn to a deepening rift within the conservative political movement. new details have emerged in the

it's been six months to the day since julian a son's thought refuge behind the doors of the ecuadorian embassy it was a bid to avoid extradition to sweden where he's wanted for sexual assault allegations that he continues to refuse to travel to sweden because if it so be extradited to the u.s. america investigating the wiki leaks website for publishing documents including dossier on the wars in iraq and afghanistan now despite having twenty four hour around the globe acted in a visit six months to julian assange and we've had him publish a book we see concerns over his health we seem to live in a sound addressing world leaders as well as giving a number of personal it's nice of into the city and of course we've had the ongoing process victories in support of both julian assange and the wiki leaks website and in the next couple of days judy the sun is expected to give a christmas address normally the territory of mourning but in this case julian assange to be summing up his own going predicament and outlining his plans for the year ahead now what is that remains relatively unknown we se

an ongoing attempt to find an angle to bring charges against julian and possibly all those working for with police is a very serious matter of course very shameful for the obama administration not to stop that for the man who was right even taken four years ago to increase transparency and what we have seen is totally the opposite witch hunt against whistleblowers. has no first place in history it will continue to work as we have done despite the difficult situation that has been in the ecuador embassy now for six months but prior to the house arrest that hasn't stopped us we have continued to work. the economic blockade has not stopped us either even though we are getting into a dire situation financially but that's a battle that we have decided to turn into an all out war and until we have a victory there as well in the new year us president barack obama has become time magazine's person of the year for a second time getting the award for being the symbol and the architect of a new america but the publication's enthusiasm for the president is not shared by all and he remain unconvinc

let's bring in our panel, in miami, julian epstein.in new york, my colleague joy reid, manager of "the gree yoe" and author of ç"blackward" joy, one is beginning to feel a little sympathy for poor speak are boehner. all he did was chop together erskine/bowles proposal to the super committee and not only opposed by the president but opposed by a large number of republicans. what does he do? >> this general's troops are running from the battlefield. when you read right wing sites you see a mix of despair and a lot of anger. i think the despair comes because they understand the capitulation is warranted. imagine a world in which wall street wrecks the economy and decides its wisdom to dominate the equivalent of a hedge fund manager and say, he should be the next president. when you do that and lose, have you to expect your next move is capitulation. they're going to lose on the top tax rate. just go ahead and do it. >> do republicans like to be seen as protecting millionaireses amillionaire millionairesmillionaires and billionaires from

also add lining dramatic leagues all of maybe the launch of a political career well julian assange is set to outline his career well julian assange is set to outline his plans and it could also london embassy look at that. and the u.k. reveals the war in afghanistan is costing over seven billion that figure expected to rise before british troops are withdrawn. hello and a very good evening chief you just joined us it's kevin irwin here at the new center tonight in our top story let him approach in a slammed america's he would rights record citing indefinite detention and sanctioned torture in overseas prisons while speaking to journalists the president defends. i mean ski act passed recently by american lawmakers saying that it's a continuation of a series of anti russian laws like the jackson then a guy act which was abolished recently and putin says that the us as a country which is still uses prisons like i will agree will go on to animal words violations of human rights happen on a daily basis has no rights to criticize the human rights situation in russia. our us partners and the

forward julian will be remembered for what he did you know someone who was quite courageous. decided to make these documents available once he had them to the was that he initially tried to do it in collaboration with some of the leading use those in your in the united states even if this were to end tomorrow somehow they join us on in wiki leaks have already done an incredible incredible service to us and shame going forward will not be about what julian assange has done but about the fact that the major media in this country and essentially abandon him and are not supporting his struggle for freedom to massage agrees and in a way what's happening to doing this on a particularly important except that it is part of a much wider process and if that you took enough parties you know. given the pace that things are moving at right now join us onto a likely spend the holidays and the embassy he'll be giving a christmas base to supporters at the ecuadorian embassy in london tomorrow evening . it's just it's been just five days since an unspeakable tragedy forever changed newtown co

there is julian. [applause] julian and served on the navy -- in the navy. . he is a published poet.e took his first trip to washington d.c. on and on our flight. next, i want to tell you about joe. he is gone -- he is accompanied today by his wife terese. many of you no joke, but you might not know why. his picture was taken in 1945 for the "life magazine." it was called the human skeleton, weighing only 70 pounds. his photograph became one of the most iconic images of world war two. it is only fitting that today is joe's 87th birthday. [applause] gio and julian's stories have been submitted to the veterans history project at the library of congress. for years and years, researchers and documentarian's can use those stories for their future projects. these two men represent a less than 2 million world war ii veterans living today, men and women who fought all across the world to defend and protect not only our country from harm, but something much more fundamental, our freedom. freedom is this big lofty ideal, it is a word used a lot in washington, d.c., but i wonder if it has lost

concerns over his health we think julian assange addressing world leaders as well as giving a number of personal exclusive interviews. and of course the ongoing protests in support of both julian assange and the wiki leaks website and in the next couple of days is expected to give a christmas address normally the territory of mourning but in this case julian assange will be summing up his own going predicament and outlining his plans for the year ahead now what. remains relatively unknown in the dramas on voting over the last six months so you can be pretty sure it will be predictable it's a little remote a lot of the. twenty thirty to leave the sounds running for the australians that it and forming his own wiki leaks political party although it will be the next steps and of course he is going to be there every step of the way taking you through this ongoing story. well transport grinds to a halt and services shut their doors in greece a twenty four hour nationwide strike sees people vent their fury despite a new challenge of bailout cash that story had feared. that in a few minutes

later on thursday julian assange is doing something which is usually reserved for heads of state queens the pope people like that he's giving a christmas message from the balcony of the ecuadorian embassy where he's been holed up for the last six months and in fact this speech will mark his six month anniversary inside the ecuadorian embassy now the last time julian assange appeared in public it was back in august and he'd organize a kind of a rally around the embassy so speeches by politicians and other supporters as a kind of a carnival atmosphere with balloons and all that kind of thing and then he came on and made his speech and he made a couple of important points one of which was to urge the u.s. to end what he calls the witch hunt against wiki leaks and he also called for the release of bradley manning who's of course being held. on trial in the u.s. accused of leaking classified documents to wiki leaks so those are two things that he may mention again when he talks later on thursday he also may talk about his most recent bids to run for the senate in the two thousand and thirtee

also later in the day we're bringing you julian i sounded christmas address as the ed so we could leak smoke six months of asylum in the ecuadorian embassy in london. time magazine named the bronco bar pass and i'll be here calling him the architect of a new america but critics say they need action not words from the president on issues like gun control. or watering all see live from moscow hello and welcome to the program. legit putin has defended russia's position in the latest round over human rights with the you was the president has washington shouldn't be pointing the finger when it's all record of violations goes far beyond anything moscow is being accused of let's now get the details from on t.v. north hello there you go so what's going on there. well the road between moscow and washington around the moneyed ski act and russia replying to it which lawmakers are currently working on and which meet potentially include a ban for american story russian children it's been dominating the news it's been one of the main issues in society and on the political elites for the past week or

closely michael ratner president emeritus of the center for constitutional rights and attorney for julian assange and wiki leaks michael thank you so much for joining me abby i'm so pleased you're covering this important case michael what exactly are prosecutors alleging jeremy has done can you run us through the charges well they allege that he was a group of people roughly possibly known as anonymous and others like that hacked into the stratfor emails and into their web site and the count there as you said there are actually a private spying company there like a private cia they spied on everything from the yes men to people who were opposing dow chemical for what happened in bhopal to organizations like peta they did work for the cia for the israeli army private security company revolving door with other government officials and they allegedly hacked into that jeremy hammond is accused of various computer fraud crimes which could amount as you said to a thirty seven year to life to life sentence he was part of this group allegedly called anonymous interestingly there was a government

ever been caught let's talk about the media's role when it comes to with we seen the response to julian assange is being very divided why do you think the media's message has been say confused what the media's also been hostile to do in. particular the guardian here in the new york times i mean basically the establishment press. the liberal establishment press if you can call it that are probably the most critical strangely enough they're not supportive of people like julian assange or even some whistleblowers we. get their particular anger go and there's no doubt about that because you're also he produces more stories in one after a huge than they've produced in twenty five years and that makes them very angry because it's he's not a professional he's not one of us he's a strange australian crazy man and they are frightened by that. because it by the way encourages others and one of the interesting things about wiki leaks is far from it being suppressed there are thirty three new wiki leaks all around the world there's even one in bulgaria there's one in the appalachian mountains of te

him today we'll bring you julian sundress christmas address the editor wiki leaks marks six months of asylum in the ecuadorian embassy in london. with putin is set for a grilling by the media in his first tomorrow for the question answer session since returning as president. international news and comment live from moscow this is all she was me you know hello and welcome to the program. u.s. president wrong obama has become time magazine's person of the get for a second time gaming be awarded for being the symbol and the architect of a new america but the publications enthusiasm for the president is not shared by all many were made and convinced a bomb was actions on such topics as gun control he's going there to check out the reports. they're choosing president obama as the person of the year second time the first time they gave him the title right after the two thousand and eight election as to someone who had the most influence on global affairs although at that time he hadn't had the time to exercise all that influence but then president obama also received the nobel peace prize i

there is a problem. >> julian, we have two seconds.us, yes or no, anything going to really happen in congress? >> i think something will so long as progressives and the media don't suffer from attention deficit disorder which has been the major problem facing us when dealing with guns. >> all right. so given the fact that if we don't suffer that attention deficit disorder and we do have the ability to gin up something, julian says yes -- very quickly. >> can't get through the house. dominated by republicans. >> all you need are 18 republicans. i've done this before. >> a lot of democrats are with them on this. >> but i think you've got a majority in the public that wants very, very significant reform right now. there are a lot of procedural mechanisms you can do to get an amendment on the floor. i think we will see something get done. >> republican voters will vote out republican who constrict beguns. democrats don't do that. we need to punish democrats who are -- >> there are a lot of people in republican districts that want major ref

. >>> y juliÁn gil sale en defensa de los hispanos dijo que quiere a su ex, y quemÓ a un ilusionista otras hermanase, laura zapata dijo que recibiÓ amenazas por correos electrÓnicos y mensajes en twitter, estÁ en vivo desde nuestros estÚdios en mÉxico, bienvenida laura, gracias por acompaÑarnos. >>> hola cÓmo estÁn, buenas tardes. >>> presuntamente se dijo que recibiÓ amenazas por correos pelectrÓnicos y mensajes en twitter, quÉ dicen los mensajes, por quÉ crees que son de verdad? >>> efectivamente yo hace tres semanas que recibÍ unos correos de ernestina sodi, una hermana sodi, mis medias hermanas, amenazandome y bueno pues de alguna manera, hoy salieron en una revista en mÉxico, porque yo se las di a la revista para que las publicara. y son dos correos, en un correo se habla de que para libros el de ellas. que iban a dÉcir con quien me casÉ, con quien, quienes fueron mis novios, hombres, mujeres o perros. y que van a hablar de mis adicciones, y que mÁs pronto calla un hablaror que quiero que sean mis vÍctimas, segÚn ellas son mis vÍctimas, porque digo lo que hacen. >>> laura por qu

julian and james, thanks very much. >> thank you. >> happy new year. >> stay with us. much more ahead. >> many new year. >> happy new year. in this country we say happy new year. >> ha, ha, ha, ha! safety, gun control, however you in this country we say happy new safety, gun control, however you in this country we say happy new >>> stay with us. the day's "top lines" are coming up. ♪ i heard somebody say ♪ burn, baby burn ♪ disco inferno ♪ burn, baby burn >>> fireworks and old friends, champagne toasts and resolutions. oh, and that dreaded fiscal cliff. here are today's "top lines." countdown to sky fall. >> the last thing you want to hear on new year's eve is another speech from me. >> the thought of not kissing somebody is just -- >> an agreement to prevent this new year's tax hike is within sight. >> we're going to come in at 11:00 a.m. we'll have further announcement perhaps. >> it looks like i'm going to be spending new year's here. >> what's happening in walk right now is pathetic. >> had the republicans been willing to take the deal i gave them. >> they have had

at some point we've got to talk about julian -- julian robertson on twitter.f we'll consider that a headline. if he's on twitter -- >> did you know about this? >> no. >> there's a handle -- >> i've seen other people that it's obviously not them -- >> this could be him, though. and there's a big debate. a raging debate going on line about whether julian robertson is actually tweeting or not. you have a view? >> i -- i'm going shy away from this conversation other than -- >> we need to find out, though. >> other than to say it's a raging debate. >> i e-mailed him. this julian robertson -- >> how do you know you're e-mailing the right one? >> wow. >> because i have e-mailed with him previously. so i believe it's a verified address. i believe it's a real address. the e-mail address is real. the twitter thing i'm less -- >> he was actually e-mailing with michelle cabrera -- >> what's weird about his tweets? >> he's tweeting. he's tweeting it all. he's big on apple. >> and he -- >> he said he went on, i'll pick it up -- >> he doesn't have a social person like we hav

you already have a little bit of a ski because we've been learning julian assange says he'd actually had the interview with the ecuadorian president so there was a lot of the story so. you spend most the last few months come every day or two of the longest serving you know news stations come turn every bit a bit of a joke amongst all the other journalists is now at the forefront of it you got to speak to him while he was in the ecuadorian embassy to say you took a note through tell us a bit more about. i did you know you could see looking for in. him a night and went off and knocked on the door and the two in their very calmly let me and say that go to all the cameras and everyone going up to the front doors well everyone wanting to know what was in my notebook turn. softer volume of the original i do remember. what i mean but it was such an insight is when we actually did meet in the songs to see just to sort of condition susan you know you get getting a look of the inside with the man himself and that was really fascinating if you can imagine and i just briefly sara take us through

an ongoing attempt to find an angle to bring charges against julian and possibly all those working for we can use as a very serious matter of course very shameful for the obama administration not to stop that for the man who was right even taken four years ago to increase transparency and what we have seen is totally the opposite which hunter against whistleblowers. has known first verse in history will continue to work as we have done despite the difficult situation that you has been in in the ecuador embassy you know for six months but probably it was your house arrest that hasn't stopped us we have continued to work. the economic blockade has not stopped us either even though we are getting into a dire situation financially but that's a battle that we have decided to were torn into well all out war and until we have a victory there as well in the new year. coming up israel the north calls from western powers by pressing ahead with plans to build more settlements in occupied territory we'll examine how to define construction plans in the west bank later in the program. and the new gr