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afghanistan and the continued fallout from the koran burning in prison so to speak to colonel lawrence wilkerson on that iran syria north korea and the n.d.a. then former louisiana governor buddy roemer and reason dot com and reason t.v. editor and chief make unless you will join us for an alternative politics panel and google's new privacy policy started today we're going to tell you what's changed with the ways are the can get around it and we'll explore the possibility of quitting google altogether with all that and more for tonight including a dose of happy hour but first let's take a look at the mainstream media has decided to miss. all right so today's one of those days when the mainstream media is all over the place and granted there is a lot of news today with the death of andrew breitbart continued tornadoes sweeping through inflicting damage in the midwest and of course more campaign coverage. conservative blogger andrew breitbart has died in los angeles he was just forty three years old folks in the midwest bracing for new storms after a string of deadly trying to go there i dozen peo

very very interesting to think about really appreciate you being here and a lawrence wilkerson thanks so much and i want to turn on to another story something not discussed today but it is bringing about quite a bit of discussion is also criticism about israel and that is the practice of administrative detention basically holding people in prison for months or even years without charge or trial the issue is gaining even more widespread attention internationally after a palestinian man hunter odd man came close to death after a sixty six day hunger strike it was a protest against his own imprisonment but more so against israel's practices in general and his case is just one of many and this growing movement is worried about various efforts to protest administrative detention in general i spoke more about this earlier today with human rights advocate ken o'keefe here's his take. well it's as if we're living in people times now isn't it i mean there there is no no due process of law in israel i myself have been in israeli prisons on more than one occasion and i have experienced what the

letter to the president is retired army colonel and former chief of staff to colin powell lawrence welk wilkerson colonel wilkerson thank you so much for being here and i guess just tell me first what was kind of the impetus for us we wanted to do what little we could to give the president some political space in the movie room we see the congress now in the low teens if not the single digits with the american people none the worse using its power to paint the president lukewarm critical congressman lloyd lindsey graham and others who are barely look we want to let the president know that there is political space there's room for diplomacy there's room for economic financial and other actions just as he said in his speech there let's talk about i mean we have senators lindsey graham i always a group often group together with senator john mccain and joe lieberman often making this call to move their reserve big day on the ground in combat and i might point out. making this call reminding the americans how dangerous iran is and the import. the standing for israel what is their reason for this i thi

you netanyahu policy or the a lobby without being called that yesterday our jihad it colonel lawrence wilkerson on the alona show he's also the former chief of staff to colin powell and i want to just play a little bit about what he said and then we'll talk about it. this is true irony we have one group of jewish americans calling another group of jewish americans who are funding the efforts to stop war with iran any semites this is incredible i never thought i'd live to see this not just as not just small groups of people but huge groups of people on the left like the j. street group and then groups on the right like apec or trading barbs of edison because of between morning after reading about islam and actually a set of rules for those who do the criticizing and those who criticize the critics well indeed i mean you can't raise a voice in the united states in support of the palestinian people for instance and their legitimate rights without being accused as we have been and has all of those who have stood with opposing an accused wrongly by the zionists forces and a pack another from a right

say with our we've got a packed show tonight a lot of great guests are going to have colonel lawrence wilkerson on the show former chief of staff to colin powell to touch a range of foreign policy issues everything from iran to afghanistan to syria to north korea and then we're going to have an all star political panel you know everywhere you look you just see a lot of left versus right we're going to have buddy roemer on the show he's the former governor of louisiana also now running for president as an independent and nick gillespie from recent t.v. and read dot com really going to few political issues there and then this is for the tech crowd out there google has just rolled out its brand new privacy policy it is effective as of today actually went into effect at midnight last night and basically what has just bought it all of their free services that everyone uses so they can track your information or easily they're going to tell you what you can do to try to avoid it and ask the question is to whether or not people can actually did do will and quick google all together all right that is co

. >> colonel lawrence wilkerson, appreciate your time tonight. thank you for joining us on "the ed show." i'm ed schultz. rachel maddow, the show starts now. good evening, rachel. >> good evening, ed. thanks to you for joining us at home at this hour. >>> there 100 united states senators, 83 are men, 17 are women. of the 17 women in the senate, 12 of those women are democrats. all 12 of those senators, all 12 democratic female senators today threw a proverbial political bomb into the lap of the republican speaker of the house, john boehner. back went republicans thought they had a winning issue in trying to roll back women's access to contraception in america, they introduced an anti-contraception amendment in the senate that democrats, who control the senate, were super happy to hold a vote on the democrats were happy about that because they wanted to get all of the republicans in the senate on the record with an anti-contraception vote, talking to you, scott brown, and because the democrats in the senate knew that it would fail when they voted