parties in chicago catching up with war veteran and occupy wall street activists all say after serving two tours of duty in iraq scott became an icon for the occupy wall street movement when he was severely injured in the head into one consciousness. occupy oakland protests where in two thousand and eleven protesters clashed with police. wabbit wabbit. but you know what you're. right. scott thank you so much for joining us today you're one of dozens of war veterans who have returned their medals to nato generals here and chicago throwing the medals and into the direction where leaders are meeting what is the reason for this is do you feel betrayed i really do and betrayal is the biggest facts are a thing you know we all join for own reasons it will join the military for our own reasons you know one thing is that as common as we join something to do good work to help other people to be part of something bigger than ourselves and to defend our country and when we went over to iraq or afghanistan or whatever our service was you saw that that wasn't true and we were deuce destroying people

right now trying to demean the occupy movement trying to link it to president obama although many present or maybe obama sympathizers really spoke out strongly against. wall street so beyond just. framing the political debate we still see occupy having an impact when it comes to the issue of home foreclosures we see occupy foreclosures we see break off groups such as occupy the hood in occupy skid row which bring up issues that are affecting the homeless bring up issues that are affecting the poor and imprisoned here in los angeles so although the encampments were taken down and many of the movement did break all of this has really emboldened a lot of people to speak up for injustices and inequalities that they've seen in their neighborhood and in their states for quite a long time right we have just a little bit of time left but andriana we are going to we have the democratic national convention coming up there republican national convention coming up there are protests scheduled at both a lot of factions of the occupy wall street movement will be there will be there and do you think it could possibly be a resurgence and bringing some of these things back into

-- next step for occupy wall street? >> what is your main interest in the issues raised by occupy wall street? if it is money and politics, you should join with those who are occupying the supreme court, fighting in states for clean money reform, and fighting for an amendment strategy to overturn the citizens united decision, and fighting in elections to change the supreme court. >> what would you think of having a national general assembly modeled on the original contial

one of the leaks was this occupy wall street analysis or report on occupy wall street. i thought it was very odd to have a department of homeland security report about a peaceful protest movements. that raised normal alarm bells. that is why we did the report. but it was a credit to the wikileaks guys who put this stuff out there. i always find it -- i guess as a journalist, i should be flattered by as much editor. yesterday, when they're trying to pad your file. that was certainly the case here. they brought their concerns to the white house when trying to come up with a statement. clearly, allegations the department of homeland security was spying were monitoring occupy wall street hit a nerve in washington. >> they said the stratfor document was not true. >> i think it was authentic as far as i can tell. they're not disputing the authenticity. what they're disputing is the should not have done it, as far as i can tell. they cannot even figure out how stratfor got the document to begin with. >> i want to ask you quickly about the three military personnel, to of of who

the government would never spy on occupy wall street. that was the response.ng let's follow up and see what kind of information we can find, most of the response among our media colleagues was to dismiss the story. that's why we didn't find out about the other questions about this until jason leopold of truth dot did this. >> cenk: that's exactly right. i got to leave it right there but i want the audience to understand by reemphasizing. if the other press had followed up, they would have had to respond. you see, from that last e-mail when the rest of the press says, forget it, forget t and they're on the side of the government instead of challenging the government, then the government gets away with it. michael hastings from buzzfeed, the "rolling stone," "the young turks" notebook, thank you. >> and now most wanted from homeland security. >> we'll have to change your nickname to "most wanted." now when we come back, more olympics terror. >> eight women double players have been disqualified from the games after purposely trying to lose matches in hopes of rec

. >> was there relationship between wikileaks and occupy wall street, the occupy wall street movement and anonymous and lulzsec? >> with occupy wall street i think there was a lot of support between the two sides. certainly there was an overlap of, in terms of west wayne -- left wing libertarianism. i think there was certainly the kind of processes that anonymous was using to propagate ideas and to spread the word about an event, people from wall street to choose those kind of processes and people from anonymous were a part of occupy wall street as we'll. so there was an overlap. nothing official but the kind of symbiotic relationship. as far as wikileaks one of the things i learned from reporting on anonymous was, sorry, on anonymous and lulzsec was the guise of lulzsec were invited into a chat room in late june where they could talk to representatives of wikileaks. another claim to be julian assange to sell. there was video evidence of this which was uploaded to youtube showing julian assange at a laptop at the same time as a discussion happening with the lulzsec hackers. and then d

so i think that's mix: but also occupy wall street, you know, you have to remember that occupy wall streete out. it was crushed by police action. it was coordinated activity by mayors around the country. and that did not stop the activity. there is a lot of those young people in occupy wall street that went on to occupy houses, and housing and urban centers that are involved in union activities. a number of tm are beginning to get jobs in unions. the story is really just unfolding. and also again it's about a new internationalism. and just as occupy wall street was being crushed the student movement in quÉbec was heating up. for last semester there is this provin in quÉbec, and it's part of this largeer global movement against neo-liberalism and global capitalism. so to zoom the camera in and to say that a battle may have been won or lost, it's not the entire story. and the story of labors demise has been told over and over again in history. in 1877, 1886, 1919, all these are moments in which the epitaph of labor has been written and then labor rises again. usually under the radar of mains

these are people occupying wall street. am sure the film went into the planning stages before there was a occupy wall street. they are occupying wall street. the stand up and cheer moment is when the new york city police department in full uniform charges the guys and dislodges them from the stage. it's right out and the left has ignored it, in the same way they have ignored the violence of the real occupy wall street. >> sean: i am very appreciative that there are different voices in hollywood. thanks for being with us. greta's next. see you tomorrow. >> greta: tonight -- put up or shut up. that's what governor mitt romney is telling senator harry reid and that showdown is rough. the mud slinging is just getting started. hear from the combatants straight ahead. who is the smart choice for runningmate? dick morris will tell us. and eric cantor is here, what is happening with the extension of the tax cut? did it hit the wall? what does it mean to you? leader kantor will tell you. right now, former secretary of defense, donal

occupy wall street money. and. the riots and their global fan club foreign governments and media hit out of the two year jail sentence given to members of the russian female band. breaching the president veterans and protesters take over barack obama's election office and calling for the release of jailed whistleblower bradley manning. the u.n. officially appoints a veteran diplomat as its amboy in war torn syria and its ears you may lack objectivity do is links to dourness royal family. on the back of the top of the hour with more updates in the meantime sports news. hello there all the latest from the sporting world here are three things for joining us this hour coming up in the program. seemingly unstoppable stop the olympic champion serena williams is out of a tournament in cincinnati with soap and round the corner. world number three rafael nadal was not russia's return from an injury after being forced to withdraw from the last season. and. completes his thirty eight million dollar more from ourselves and i'm

these are people occupying wall street. am sure the film went into the planning stages before there was a occupy wall street. they are occupying wall street. the stand up and cheer moment is when the new york city police department in full uniform ch

dennis is not what wall street and occupy wall street is trying to do? ll street would've prosecuted every banker that we could? occupy wall street -- it's a politely to say i think they should be shot. it's been a beautiful summer. where have they been for the last year? show up at the park. these guys, they were a failed movement existing on nothing more than envy. when they say that they are going to handcuffed wall street bankers, this is ridiculous. [talking over each other] monica: consider the special request for that. remember that occupy wall street was set up to basically supply the democrats and the president with a scheme of income inequality speech you've just because it's really cool, take a look at this. adam: that was a 550-pound bomb discovered underground in munich, germany. they blew up last night. it was a whole national tv event around that. monica: it does look pretty spectacular. there are countless unexploded bomb from world war ii scattered throughout eastern europe. dennis well, you won't e

and activists said it is part of occupy wall street solidarity with movements around the world. >> occupywall street has been working with a lot of community groups around the world. i think the action today is just part of a larger solidarity building between different action groups, unions. finding ways to target wealthy individuals, institutions, and other practices that need serious modification or real radical change. >> those are some of the headlines. this is "democracy now!," democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman with nermeen shaikh. >> welcome to all our listeners and viewers from around the country and around the world. we begin today with a look of a new policy that could stop the deportation of as many as 1.3 million undocumented immigrants who were brought to the united states as children. people can start to apply for the new status starting next wednesday, august 15. president obama first announced the so-called deferred action for top rivals program back in june. >> young people who study in our schools, slater neighborhoods, our friends with our kids

occupy wall street, the same people you see every date. nobody knew.n: one more example that throws me, there was all this liberal of rage. tebow existed. the president obama was elected. ticket but disappeared. >> i put this underbite theory called ou0. okay under obama. a lot of things that fall under that. did most selectively targeting american citizens for assassination if. could you imagine it pushed it is? at the, as to the really good job going after terrorists, but i know that the left would not feel that way. it is okay under obama. john: they keep. >> you will be of ready very soon. i'm holding you to that. >> three in the morning. >> we take early. john: the media do of to get it wrong, but i want to talk about what we get right. there is some good news. we have big dreams. one is for a clean, domestic energy future that puts us in control. our abundant natural gas is already saving us money, producing cleaner electricity, putting us to work here in america and supporting wind and solar. though all energy development comes with some risk, w

[laughter] >> occupy wall street is a moral compass. they are articulating what they think it should be. the lead essay is a shift. i am wrong all the time. >> give me one example. [laughter] >> i said on national television the night -- election night of 2000 as florida was coming in that the election would be decided that night. people may remember that election was decided by the supreme court. it went on for two or three months. it ended up being decided by the governors, bush's brother, a supreme court judge chosen by his father. >>> george bush was asked if he had ever been wrong and said he could not think of a time. he is still saying that. [laughter] humble man. we are about out of time. do you have a short question? >> what is the circulation of "the nation"? >> 1.5 million readers online and 160,000 paper circulation. paul newman was a great and loyal friend and supporter. his partner in crime, robert redford, has been a supporter. we have a circle of 100 people who give each year. 30,000 associates give little each month abo

. >> last autumn, he joined the young protestors critical of the high jobless rate at occupy wall street movement. he called for a change in policies to reverse social and economic inequality. we asked him the message he wanted to get across in this moveme movement. >> the big message that occupy wall street movement was something is wrong in our society, something is wrong in our economy. the basic law of economics is demand equals supply. that means, demand for equal supply for labor. that means there should be be no unemployment. one of the other underlying problems was inequality. reduced demand. people at the top spend less than those at the bottom. when you have this growing inequality you are going to get more instability. weaker economy. and so -- what we have seen in many countries, united states is the worst, but japan, other countries, inequality has been increasing. >> how did the u.s. get here? >> in america, a child's lifetime prospects are more dependent on the income and education of the parent than any of the other advanced industrial countries for which there is data. i

wall street because of government regulation. >> you were involved -- you had some interchanges with people from occupy wall street, the movement that helped bring my clients to trial. i wonder, the sentiment of the occupy wall street people who think they ever misguided. >> i thought they were misguided. that is why i went down there and this trial is misguided. is not investment banks, the federal reserve banks. the federal reserve are the biggest counterfeiters of money. they are the big destroyers of capital. their financing massive growth in government spending and the federal reserve working with congress that have corrupted wall street and resulted in crony capitalism and i want to let the people at occupy wall street their anger was misplaced. i shared their frustration. government and central banking and central planning, not capitalism. >> did you get the message across to these people? >> i don't think so. i did get it across to hundreds of thousands of people who saw the encounter on youtube. >> if i could follow your logic to its extreme, maybe these people should occupy washington. >> that is what i said. you saw

processes they were using to propagate ideas and spread the word about an event, the people from occupy wall street could use those kinds of processes. people from anonymous were a part of occupy wall street as well. so there was definitely overlap there. nothing really official. but a some dyadic relationship. as far as wikileaks, one of the things i learned from reporting on anonymous and lulzsec was the guys that lulzsec were invited into a chat room where they could talk to representatives of wikileaks. one claimed to be julian assange himself. there was video evidence of this which was up loaded to youtube, showing julian assange at the laptop at the same time as a discussion happening with the lulzsec hackers and then deleted moments later. at that time, wikileaks or the representative was asking lulzsec to collaborate on hacking into the servers of an icelandic organization and try to find elements of corruption. this is really explosive stuff for lulzsec at the time. the guys were shocked that they were being in such grand company. it hit home that they had become big. the guys were actuall

don't don't they also occupy wall street? >> don't they want to unshackle us from wall street? >> they unfortunately are not much of a factor. they're not very visible. so i don't think this -- they want to unshackle -- >> so you think it is just joe being joe? >> joe being joe. running against a ticket that doesn't like the dodge-frank bill. >> you don't have any problem with him jumping in to be president of the united states? >> no. >> and presuming a degree of -- >> i hope it is not for another four-plus years but i don't have a problem. >> john, can we get in here please? the thing about joe biden is this. your key is he was a good asset to the president four years ago. but people are looking at him and one gaffe after another after another and let me tell you this, if he ran for president independently now, people would not move to joe biden because they would be concerned if he could go four years and be in control and in control of the issues. that's what this is really about. >> you think joe biden should be replaced? >> no, it is too late to replace him. >> why is it

today on r t they've occupied everything from wall street to washington and now the oakland protesters are occupying president obama's election headquarters the details ahead see this thing that's right you're. sentenced to three months behind bars but i'm not talking about the police officer you see here slamming a student's head into a cafeteria table table coming up we'll ask why the person who filmed this encounter is now serving time and. space x. rocket as nancy turns to the private sector to research the. plus get ready for the next great space race this fight for the final frontier isn't between countries but companies it's one small step for space exploration one giant leap forward privatization. it's friday august seventeenth five pm here in washington d.c. i'm liz wall and you're watching our t.v. well occupy oakland has a new target president obama protesters decided to occupy his campaign office on thursday about one hundred protesters calling for the release of u.s. army soldier private first class bradley manning invaded the campaign offices they stayed inside for three

and they've occupied everything from wall street to washington and now the open protesters are occupying president obama's election headquarters the details ahead and. the space x. falcon nine rocket has nasa turns to the private sector to resupply the space to. get ready for the next great space race this fight for the final frontier isn't between countries but companies it's one small step for space exploration one giant leap toward privatization. it's friday august seventeenth eight pm here in washington d.c. i'm liz wall and you're watching our. well an update now into the cop blocking story we reported a short time ago in new hampshire man was sentenced to almost three months behind bars for a secretly recording police conversations thirty year old adam mueller posted the video on a blog connected to the web site cop blog dot org the claims that this web site claims to hold police accountable for their actions that's right here is where the story started you can see a police officer slamming a teen to the ground this looks like a police brutality directed at a new hampshire high sch

money flowing from wall street to washington influencing policies the economic problems have not gone away since the fall of two thousand and eleven they've only gotten worse occupy wall street though has sort of died down a bit why do you think that is well in the fall of two thousand and eleven you know american citizens gathered together and spoke up and protested in occupy public spaces and they were shot with rubber bullets they were given you know lengthy jail sentences they were arrested for staying on the sidewalk as i was and my partner was you know lawfully obeying the law were arrested oh yeah. yeah i was arrested for standing on a sidewalk telling occupy protesters what their first amendment rights were to protest. you know and then we were facing fifteen days in rikers island which is a violent prison yeah it makes you think twice about going out to use your first amendment rights i mean occupy protesters were you know. they were power hosed they were they were locked up for seventeen hours and you know for didn't use the bathroom we were tortured you know as much as the civil system allows you know every activist you know assumes that the e-mails ar

what he is doing is out of the pages of the chicago playbook and out of occupy wall street. they are doing is showing that the president's re-election campaign is no better than occupy wall street, just as devoted to chaos and anarchy and sort of the low-brow tactics and in fact, criminal tactics of occupy wall street. and the other thing, too, to get to your point about the obam brand, built in 2008 on hope and change and sitting above all of this kind of stuff. being transformative and transcendent. that smashed the omnipotent clinton machine and the republican machine in 2008. what he has now is this very jarring disconnect between the chicago gangland politics and the brand that he built for himself four years ago. >> sean: first of all, if you are going to send somebody, you don't send vice-president gaffe. he has had his moment, including clast week. but he has said these things -- watch. >> you don't know my state. my state was a slave state. my state is a border state. my state is the eighth largest black population in the country. it is anything from a northeast lib

. >> greg: which is why they embrace occupy wall street. re inn line with their assumption. dana: i just brought even together. >> eric: yes, you did. we can go. >> juan: let me say on the occupy wall street thing. this is another example i think everybody says oh, well, this is what it means to have one side and the other, when in fact, you know, we do have a wealth inequality in this country. people wonder why wall street gets bailed out. somehow, it's oh, yeah, it's -- >> greg: that is conservatism. >> juan: major trend in the society today, the rich are getting richer. >> greg: occupy wall street representing that concern, because by the time that movement was done, it resembled a different movement. gawps by the way, are you going to the congestion -- >> juan: by the way, are you going to the convention? the movement ain't done. >> greg: looks like a movement. >> eric: you know what the widest inequality gap is? communist countries. much wider than capitalist countries. >> juan: our middle class is now smaller than the one in china whic

it's out of the pages of occupy wall street. ection campaign is no better than occupy wall street. just as devoted to chaos and sort of low brow tactics of occupy wall street. other thing to get to your point, obama brand built in 2008 on hope and change and sort of sitting above this kind of stuff. and being the trance form tiff figure. a uniteor that. brand smashed the clinton machine and the republican machine in 2008. what he's got now is this jarring disconnect between chicago gangland kind of politics and the brand he built himself. >> if you go to slam someone, you don't slam vice president gaffe. he's had moments. and he's also said these things. watch. >> you know my state was a border state. my state is the 8th largest black population in the country. my tate state is anything but a northeast liberal state. >> we've got the first main stream pick of americans who embrace and and this is -- in delaware, the larnlest growth in population is indian american. moving from india. you cannot go to a 7-11 or a dunkin do nuts un

whole hacktivism movement that's come out of kind of you know the war on whistleblowers and the occupy wall street and anonymous and you have you know these takedowns of government websites and then you see legislation like this cyber intelligence security and protection act that kind of puts a stop to these things you think that that's kind of working as a guys. and using the hacktivism and hacktivists to kind of regulate the internet even more so i really think that there are means for legitimate discourse and trying to bring attention with activist x. is wrong on the other hand i believe very strongly in legitimized marches and that sort of stuff you know with the approval of the authorities there's room in our society to go out and have a microphone and to have a say and be heard by so many others especially in this day of the internet so there are a lot of avenues it's just trying to you know grab something to get on the news and i don't think that's the way to maybe it's a start it puts ideas in people's heads but i really. i don't i don't think that's the right way to solve things and he sa