front lawns what does this say about the state of our country i spoke to the iraq war veteran michael prysner just a few moments ago and this is what he had to say about the crisis. well it says that conditions for poor and working people in the united states are very bad and they're getting much worse i know that all of these militant actions taking place across the country the retaking of foreclosed homes the taking of vacant buildings to provide housing for people you know these people aren't going out to the streets and doing this because they want to get arrested or because they want to get attacked by the cops but because they're left with no other choice because they're compelled to fight because they have no other choice but to fight because this government after years of an economic crisis has taken no real meaningful action to try to improve the lives of the people that are affected by a crisis that they didn't create and had no role in creating and i think when you see even war veterans like who's featured in this story you know people who the politicians are saying over and over a

families michael thank you so much for weighing in and coming on the show that was iraq war veteran michael prysner. well still ahead on r t washington d.c. is rolling out the red carpet for conservatives welcoming c pac but this conference might just be all show and tell. the capitol i'm laura mr. pepper spray let's just bring gerard's right right i mean it's like a derivative of actual pepper it's a food product essentially. this is much stronger than anything it's you buy off. thousands of times stronger than any kind of bird you ever put you know. well they're fired up about their guns their god and their goals the biggest of which is to see president obama and his health care program gone for good and every year people just like them come together and talk politics and policy at the conservative political action conference well that conference kicked off today right here and washington d.c. and as our tease christine presented as scuppered see back in many ways is nothing more than a carnival for conservatives. if. you will it. come one come all to the thirty ninth annual conservative politica

will get a fair trial and some to bomb a city simply broken the door former iraq war veteran michael prysner says sends a message to. the u.s. military before bradley manning was convicted of any crime he still hasn't they wanted to punish him and they wanted to punish him very harshly for the accused him of doing but not only that it wanted to send a message to every other person in uniform every other service member that if the to decide to take that type of action that bradley manning is accused of taking that they will be well aware of very harsh torturous repetitions if they decide to do this and this is a real big concern for the u.s. military because all that bradley manning did what bradley manning experienced was he was a rank and file soldier who went to the war in iraq and was repulsed by what he saw he was repulsed by the war and he was repulsed by that the things that you saw going on day to day and so he felt that he had to take a stand and thought that other people deserve to see what was happening what all of their tax dollars were going to you and what their families were dy