all mean for the future of internet freedom in america well josh harkin's then a reporter for mother jones magazine who was following this story closely joining me just moments ago today and i asked him to give me the inside scoop on how this all went down. it was just fascinating to watch it unfold in real time i mean you know there are dollars and people all over the world who participate in the chat rooms when i was there i was in this chat room for this anonymous splinter group known and it's and on ops where i think any given time there were between a thousand and two thousand people who were logged in and coordinating with each other to launch these denial of service attacks or g.t.o. us to talks on various websites around the country and they were giving each other updates particularly about the f.b.i. website which i think was their main target and you know people were were messaging that it was down in hungary or it was done in belgium or it was young malaysia and the goal is to shut it down worldwide and i think it was successful for quite a while it went up and down and you know

those are porter from mother jones magazine josh harkin said. well three years ago today the world watched president obama get inaugurated and the office many saw it as a possible turning point and now merged by his promises of hope and change to sear the country in a new direction but here we are today and some are wondering what happened to that change they were promised and as election season is underway are americans now ready for a radical change in this take that question to the streets of the big apple. this year the u.s. has the opportunity to elect a new president are they ready for radical change this week let's talk about that i think they need to give obama a chance to to go along with what he's doing i think. i think a lot of americans are a little bit impatient. do you think change is happening just very slowly and i think this also because of the economic crisis going on so you have to give it some time to changing that much i just don't think it's realistic at all we don't move that quickly it's not the way our system works i thi

week, genius and mother jones doing this today, this otherwise is not sinking in. the reason mitt romney pays only a mini tax on the money he made closing factories at bain because bain uses their share of the money they made closing factor is to lobby for executives to keep paying that rate. so yeah, poor people do have sucky lobbyists. >>> on the eve of the florida primary, mitt romney is getting paid for laying people off in florida. but money from his campaign and from his super pac has bought a whole lot of tv ads that make it look like he would be great for florida. >>> one of the reasons that you are you anxious to protect your family with life insurance ... but afraid you can't afford it? well, look how much insurance many people can get through selectquote for less than a dollar a day. selectquote found, rich, 37, a $500,000 policy for under $18 a month. even though dave, 43, takes meds to control his blood pressure, selectquote got him a $500,000 policy for under $28 a month. ellen, 47, got a $250,000 policy for under $20 a month. all it takes is a phone

week, genius and mother jones doing this today, this otherwise is not sinking in. the reason mitt romney pays only a mini tax on the money he made closing factories at bain because bain uses their share of the money they made closing factor is to lobby for executives to keep paying that rate. so yeah, poor people do have sucky lobbyists. >>> on the eve of the florida primary, mitt romney is getting paid for laying people off in florida. but money from his campaign and from his super pac has bought a whole lot of tv ads that make it look like he would be great for florida. >>> one of the reasons that you >>> one of the reasons that you might want to be president one day is because presidents get to do a weekly address on anything they want. and good radio stations all over the country air that address and you can watch it online and opposing party runs a rebuttal like a mini state of the union every weekend with less clapping and because i guess only politic dorks and people like me who love a.m. radio pays attention. it happens every weekend. this weekend the repub

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as far as we're concerned well you know i also like jeffrey's over mother jones basically called this the conservative trifecta because he said that has this free market free will sort of sound to it at the same time it could reduce deportation costs of people are living on their own and it really you know emphasizes the states passing their own legislation that tries to push on documented immigrants out and they don't even need the federal government involved either so it kind of makes sense that they try to just use this this word that sounds flowery but really i mean isn't this you know if you look at some of the laws that are being passed in alabama and arizona it's about scaring people to right to the point where they're afraid to sign their children for school or they might be afraid to take them to the hospital if your citizenship is going to be checked all the time. this is and you are right and i think what is even more mind boggling is that this is precisely what he's been advocating whether candidate romney you know a lot of the other campuses well they have been advocating

people in the house that could have killed her. >> okay. >> you or your mother. >> but police apparently don't believe melody jonesd caylee. >> now, all i want to know, i really want to know why. >> why what? >> why you would kill year sister. >> i wouldn't. >> but you had to have. if your mother didn't, that just leaves you. >> well, i didn't kill her. i know i didn't. >> i'm finally starting to realize that she was dead. i'm scared, i'm getting a business frustrated at the police for asking me all these questions. it pushes me over the edge. i start to break down. >> you killed your sister. >> no, i didn't kill her. i didn't. >> it will feel a whole lot better if you just tell me. >> i didn't. god. i didn't kill her. i did not. >> then who killed her? >> i don't know. >> it had to have been you, son. >> i didn't do it. i didn't kill my sister. i wouldn't kill her. >> is there any way i can prove that to you? >> it's going to be difficult. >> i'm going in circles. there's nothing else i can think about, but there had to be somebody else that had to get in there. but the cops kept saying that wasn't the case. >> l

. >> the kgo radio reporter was released after 5 minutes and mother jones reporter spent an hour in the jail before being freed. the police chief says reporters either had expired press passes or didn't have the proper identification. he says they were released after their credentials were verified. >> rescue crews were able to revive a woman pulled from a burning apartment. firefighters nound a woman not breathing inside clayton creek apartments. paramedics performed cpr and rushed her to the hospital. she is in critical condition. the fire was contained in one unit but eight others had damage. investigators trying to determine what caused the fire. two days after a construction worker was bury add live, crews there are in the process of recovering his body. abc 7 learned the worker was killed in a site supposed to have been shut down. and he was crushed in a trench 10-12 feet deep in a home in milpitas. last wednesday, building and safety department inspectors issued a stop work notice there but work continued. cal osha and police are on the scene right now. >> and authorities are inv

. >> i wish i could get mother jones to pay me with carried interest.et the folks to swing it. i was about to say newt romney which works. mitt romney is playing by the rules. he wants to keep the rules, the carried interest provision and other measures pertaining to capital gains are one of the things we have been fighting about in the last couple of years in policy terms. he's come on to the scene says he wants low capital gains, keep them low. the theory is if you have low capital gains it juices up the economy more so. we have a real good case study. a guy who worth almost a quarter of a billion dollars. he's paying 15%. is he doing anything differently creating jobs than if he was paying 25% ore 35% on these investments on this unearned or interested income. i can't see it. i can't see how this is changing his behavior, his investment strategies that is making it better for anyone else out there to get a job. >> indeed. it's making it better for him and his reconstruction of his mansion. michael, if this has nothing to do with tax evasion why did m

mother jones, david corn liken newt gingrich to a suicide bomber in his article today, newt the destroyer. gingrich is now on a single-minded mission to blow up the republican party in the process. we're back with our guests. after a small teleprompter failure there. howard, you've done these things before. you know how these things can go. >> i do. >> howard, i don't think we've ever seen this on a debate stage. can you imagine yourself on a debate stage with a candidate who is articulate, who is well-armed, who also, by all appearances, knows he has no chance of winning and hates one particular candidate on that stage? >> well, that's actually the problem here. newt is not going to be effective. you can't show your anger and hate. you can do this, because i've had people do it to me, but you've got to be subtle. you've got to do it in a laughing matter. but if it's motivated by what most americans are going to think is bad sportsmanship, i think it's going to be incredibly ineffective. >> newt gingrich is talking about a possible apply generals with rick santorum. >> can you see a scena

joining my is mother jones washington bureau chief david corn and politico senior congressional reporter jonathan allen. gentlemen, good morning. david, one report said the obama campaign took notes where mitt romney got rattled. do you think that after all this practice, romney still has little laws to expos? >> he as been pretty good in the debates up to now. he's been getting better. last night he wasn't that great, but i don't see any of the others gaining grounds. maybe they can tie him down or get a hook in him here and there, but he still strides along. if you have -- like rick santorum had in great exchange last night, so i thought -- >> let me stop you and play it. you've got to tell you, i thought going into this, debate 16? what's this going to be? and there are a lot of great moments. let's take a look at the one you were referring to. >> i would ask governor romney, do you believe people who are felons, who have served their time, who have exhausted their parole and probation, should they be given the right to vote? >> i don't think people who have committed violent crimes l

. >> well, i tell you, i'm really happy to have newt gingrich take the mother jones perspective here. others who have covered bain and raised these issues. we've seen in the last week mitt romney get tripped up over how many jobs were created or lost by bain. you don't expect a las vegas casino magnate with shady deals financing something that attacks capitalism and i assume the romney camp will strike back. i think what mike said there was key thing. these attacks will not help newt gingrich. he's had an undisciplined campaign and has more baggage than anyone else out there. >> do you agree it won't help him? >> for two reasons. like david said, i mean, newt gingrich is not very likable. when he levees these complaints, i would look for a mitt romney ad in the future. you had former governor on your program the other day saying none of the candidates like superp superp superpacs. everyone is in the same park on this. >> obviously you can't put the geni back in the bottle. maybe we'll see something different. >> i think this is the way presidential elections will be fought. the candid

we are kicking off in washington, mother jones bureau chief and news week and the daily beast and msnbc contributor jonathan cape hart. each with at least two credentials. hadn't they the most vicious political assassin out there accusing mitt romney of being a liar hours before iowans make their choice. he is say merciless attacker and he timed it perfectly. >> i don't think he timed it perfectly, but he timed it in a way that had very little impact and he is done. he's toast in iowa. he had a great chance. this whole campaign has been about a default candidate, mitt romney and non-default candidates who had a chance and each time they completely imploded. they shot themselves in the foot. they lost their chance to take that one-night stand with the republican primary voters and turn it into a marriage. >> this is newt gingrich who said he was playing positive and would be a nice guy and break with the past. >> you didn't believe that. >> he delivered that crushing blow to mitt that resonates with voters given the fact that many people feel that mitt romney is untrust worth when it com

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david corn, the esteemed washington bureau chief of "mother jones" magazine has said it better than anybodye former house speaker who finished fourth signaled a shift in his mission. he would no longer be running to obtain the republican presidential nomination, he would be campaigning to obliterate mitt romney." mr. corn even went on to suggest that for newt gingrich, the upcoming debates at the weekend will be an opportunity for him to become a suicide bomber. why would he do this? why, having seen the republican party embarrassed so many times during this process, why would he want to degrade and dishonor it even more? maybe it's because, perhaps for the first time in his life, it would appear that he's not going to get what he desperate wants, the nomination. you see, newt gingrich is the very essence of entitlement. when he wants another wife, the covenant he made before god and man with his previous wife, well, that's simply torn up and tossed aside. when he wants to purchase the most expensive jewelry that money can buy, he gets tiffany's to give him a $1 million line in revolving cr

joining us u karen finney, msnbc analyst and david corn a political analyst and dc bureau chief for mother jonespossible that newt gingrich, who on this very day 15 years ago was reprimanded as speaker, fined $300,000? has he managed to parlay an interview with his second wife where she made the most humiliating allegations against him? has he managed to turn this to his advantage? >> well, it's possible, i mean, who knows? may believe we'll see gingrich supporters for open marriages in florida. but i think there's two parts to this. seriously, there's two parts to this. number one, in a state like south carolina the idea of repenitence is potentially a very powerful, relatable kash t characteristics that may make voters say we've all sinned. that only counts if you believe he's really changed. his grandiose behavior suggests he hasn't changed. women voters, he still has a very big problem with women voters. while it may work for him in south carolina where the primary of the republican primary ele electorate are men, in a general election which goes to the broader answer of electability, unmarr

joining me now is msnbc analyst richard wolffe and david corn, msnbc political analyst and mother jonesau chief. thanks to both of you for being here tonight. >> thanks, reverend. >> sure thing. >> richard, let me start with you. can you believe how low they're going? >> sadly, i can, yes, reverend. this has been going on for a very long time. and your opener was right in the sense that you linked together the strengths of the president with the sort of edge of these attacks because what we saw from day one was an arc straighted campaign of vilifcation of this president. he won big. he won in states that democrats didn't normally win in, and the strategy, the explicit strategy of mitch mcconnell in the senate was to deny this president any -- any bipartisan votes. so not a single republican could switch sides and vote with this president, even when he was doing things that were actually republican ideas. that led to all sorts of contortions. health care had to be a socialist thing as compared to a republican bunch of ideas that this president picked up. and you go through the list here.

been making fun of newt gingrich for this for a little bit over the course of the campaign, but mother jones today posted the actual excerpt from newt's book where he explains the idea. it says, "ambient light covering entire areas could reduce the current danger of criminals lurking in darkness. mirrors could be arranged to light given to metropolitan areas only during certain periods so there could be darkness late at night for sleeping." a couple years after that book came out, and this was posted by buzzfeed today, mr. gingrich proposed that not the moon, but space could be used for something related to farmers. in a speech to a world science fiction convention, congressman gingrich said that america could take what he called all the extra farmers and put them on space stations working for a living in orbiting factories. the ap then said that gingrich lamented that most human beings will have to live and work on earth until at least the year 2500, but candidate gingrich, congressman gingrich wanted to get to work on this farmers working on factories in orbit plan right away. now, i don't

i want to bring in david corn, msnbc political analyst and washington bureau chief for mother jones. david, thank you for joining us. >> good to be with you, reverend. >> tell me, david, as mr. romney, when you look at the fact that citizens for tax justice says his tax plan is a complete handout to the top 1%, while the poorest suffer, the bottom 20% would only get a 1% tax cut while the top 1% would get a 38% tax cut. that's the analysis on the citizens for tax justice. is that why mr. willard wants us to only talk about this in quiet rooms, maybe so we're so quiet no one knows what he's really proposing? >> well, you know, this is an old and classic tactic that we've seen from conservatives and people in business community for decades. i think actually the notion, the term politics of envy was coined by marie anttoinette. any time you start talking about these issues, they come in and say it's class warfare. you are dividing us. you are looking down at american values of free enterprise. there's a word that's missing from this debate that is actually a conservative word that conse

senior political analyst and "time" magazine editor at large and david corn is bureau chief for "mother jones." let's look at the new numbers just out from "time" magazine and cnn. the opinion research shows a new rise for newt gingrich in south carolina. this poll was taken from last friday through tuesday of this week but he has gained five points from early this month while romney has dropped four points. gingrich has a decent edge over conservative rival rick santorum. mark, you are a student of these numbers. i'm just wondering if you can see a projection from here until saturday morning that could allow for newt to overtake romney and win the all-important south carolina primary. >> i think he could. i think he could also come close enough that if his team is deft enough in spinning it, he could go into florida with an effective one-on-one matchup with romney for 85% of the vote. the trajectory is good for him. as you pointed out, the poll was done through tuesday. the debate performance for gingrich was monday. most of the poll doesn't have that in it. gingrich is doing well now. he is

. >> david corns washington bureau chief of mother jones and political analyst.ood morning. >> good morning. >> the argument's being made that president obama was the big winner because the field remains unsettled and as long as the republicans are going after each other that only helps him. do you buy that argument? >> i think the field is weak. the fact that mitt romney who has been campaigning in iowa for like 17 years now, can't get above 25% even if after spending $30 million or whatever the final figure was. i think it shows that he is inher rently a weak republican and you have the republican craziness. republicans go ahead and nominate someone like rick santorum who is extreme on cultural ideological issues he's against contraception. he's a cultural warrior. is that what people want when the economy's doing bad and other things have to be dealt with? i don't know. i think the republican party has to take weeks, if not months, to sort this out and that's good for barack obama who has his own problems. >> yeah, he's got problems with the economy, basically

joe, the editor and chief of national memo.com and mother jones and msnbc political analyst, also., give me odds. i don't know if you're a betting man. what are the chances the adults in the room will show up? 92% of political ads aired in florida over the last week, they were negative. >> yes. not surprising, and i would say 91% of them, something like that, were romney ads. people were bombarded with romney's money and gingrich is very bitter about that. if he's expected to be the adult in the room, in new york he's known at cry baby gingrich and not going to change his stripes after this. i think this is very bad for their party, because what it does, you know, you could hear sarah palin creating a narrative about, that almost makes it impossible for them to endorse romney at the convention. he's lied about them. he is dishonest, and they've opened up a whole narrative framework for obama that's very convenient. you know, they made romney release his taxes. done by republican, but he only released two tax returns. when bill clinton ran for president in 1992, he released 12 years

bureau chief for "mother jones." our producers have thought this through ahead of me.s is fantastic thinking on their part. suppose romney is endangered right now, he's scared. he sees the 25% not getting bigger than 26, even nationwide. it's not growing. he's not catching on among the republicans. in order to catch on and beat the people leading the forces against him, santorum and gingrich and the rest of them, and perry, too, he will sort of have to become one of them. move to the right, say i'm one of you. me, too, those guys. if he does that, he puts himself into a boxed canyon where the democrats can close the traps on him, say oh, yeah, you right wing s.o.b., we've shown who you really are, we're going to nail you in november. is it that sophisticated as our producers are? >> no one is as sophisticated as your producers are. the white house is pretty smart. i'm sure that's what they were thinking and i'm sure they were eating popcorn and drinking beer last night and saying this is going to be fun. santorum is not the guy with the most money. you have guys with m

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chris cillizza is managing editor of the post politics.com and david corn from mother jones.l analysts. chris, you first. this game of cat and mouse that this guy has created here, because it's never been created before. everyone assumes you have to show your tax returns. it shows you have done your tax returns. everybody has them. you can't be a legal citizen in this country without tax returns. we know he has them. we know they exist. he refuses to show them. there's only reason reason he doesn't want to show them. he doesn't want to. why? >> chris, i agree with you. i mean, i've been baffled. you showed the bit from cnn last night, but on monday night, romney was asked the same thing and he again fumbled. which is odd to me. this is a guy who is quite good as a debater. he had to know it was coming. if he didn't know it was coming monday, he definitely knew it was coming last night. and yet, he still kind of struggled with it. i think it has to do with him being uncomfortable in some way about his wealth, although we know he's rich. what it makes it look like, chris, and y