race matt welch and who are going to be joining us then a greece was burning this week at protests and riots broke out after the parliament approved a strict austerity package so at the end of this we have to wonder if it's even going to help and admiral william mcraven is now asking for more off already to move special ops forces faster and outside of the normal pentagon channels so is that what we need or will it only allow for less accountability we have all that morphy tonight including a dose of happy hour but first take a look what the mainstream media has decided to miss. all right so today the obama administration released a budget for fiscal year two thousand and thirteen that was a lot to discuss within this breakdown and we'll get to that during our panel after the break but the mainstream media are also talking about this today and looking at some of the details. president obama delivered his twenty thirteen budget plan to capitol hill and it's sure to fan well morally debate over your tax money and how the government wants to spend it the plan calls for spending three poin

with me to discuss the balance of powers, matt welch, editor and chief of "reason" magazine and author of the declaration of independents. hi, matt. i'm so glad you're here to talk with me about this. >> thanks for having me. congrats on the show. >> thank you. this really is for me like a legitimate challenge, a real concern i have about, how do we think about when the state is legitimately using its coercion, its force, power, and when do we want to push it away from us? i think the example i use it, look, when the klu klux klan is using its freedom to lynch, i want the state to intervene. but if the state is racially profiling in black communities i want the state to give me more liberty. where do we find this balance? >> we've been arguing over this in america since the founding, since after the civil war the 14th amendments and the equal protection clause and all this. this is an interesting moment when you are agreeing with newt gingrich it's going to be temporary, right? >> i don't think this is a longstanding agreement with me and the speaker. >> but there's something to that.