republican party during that time in fact he's responsible for the largest single donation to the r n c in its history so it's like you see how these things work and we're underwriting this dirty kind of lobbying and the kind of privatized fraternity army that blackwater represents with all its murderous intentions and sports becomes the prime economic engine and for that process and in the last thirty seconds i thought it was a million things in your article is the miller hyper militarization of sports oh yes refund every poll no no no. absolutely i mean i mean david petraeus throwing the first point it blames on the way in which you saw that the recent ten year anniversary of nine eleven was really given over not to the president but to the n.f.l. to celebrate throughout the day and that was the public space and it really was a celebration of war more than it was the kind of somber remember and that me as a new yorker would have much much more comfortable with right frankly and as i said i thought the best thing the n.f.l. ever did was after nine eleven they canceled the games that ne

i am not getting texts from r n c. i should be. we knew we got creamed and have done some things to change it. every republican member of congress have a twitter account and are tweeting they vote on this or that. a step in the right direction. my hope is this will coalesce once we have a candidate. parties are redefined by candidacies. once we have a candidate it is my sincere hope that there will be an honest effort to reach out and connect to the next generation because we can make inroads and we have got to. we have this window to do it. >> time for one last question. >> i teach junior high and high school kids. they hear constant attack on teachers' unions. they know how hard we are working because it is their chance for a better future. constantly the republican party tends to vilify their teachers and educators and the kids pick this up. every time we try to advocate for our students we are constantly being selfish or trying not to be accountable. i have seen deconstruction of public education. i care about my kids. i don't

washington post salon and the columbia journalism review and is a familiar presence on an assembly c c n p r c and d d c even the daily show with jon stewart charlotte is currently the ellen assistant professor of english and dartmouth making him that college is first professor of creative nonfiction and he can. being editor for her prison magazine and rolling stone his newest book sweet habit when i die explores the spiritual landscape of the united states and profiles religious radicals realists and scape as he straddle that undefined border between belief and skepticism very pleased to welcome jeff sharlet to our conversations great minds jeff welcome. hi tom good to be with you thanks for joining us. we've talked before about some of your other books when they came out in particular the family but we've never talked about jeff sharlet what animates you to write about. religion spirituality culture and be coalitions and intersections the kind of joy and agony that comes out of all of that i'm curious what drew you all into the into the weeds of this range of top. yeah you know i think it'

mike's cause or a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune in to kaiser report on r t. c. n. n. welcome back to cross talk i'm peter lavelle to remind you we're talking about the future of syria. and. say. ok mark i want to go back to you in washington so give me your opinion should there be an intervention an armed intervention to overthrow this regime in damascus and if we should do that should if we should it is a coffee out then should we do with bahrain as well. first of all i think that's a last resort i don't think we have tried all the same chins in fact i think contrary to what our young he was saying united states and in a very slow to say anything about syria the europeans have said something far before president obama finally said that president assad has to go frankly were slow in libya as well the english and the french he took away and was until khadafi promised to kind everyone in their closets and murder and massacre them that the united states finally came in to help their eyes in terms of an armed intervention that for the syrian people to decide this is t

forum here and yet us love it thank you very much and thanks to our viewers for watching us here r t c n x time and remember cross talk rules. breaking news this hour there's been an explosion at a nuclear power plant in southern france one person reported killed virgins he crews on the site warning of a possible radiation leak. stronger relations for mutual benefit russia and the u.k. agree not to allow their divided opinions on the litvinenko scandal and the resolution to the syrian crisis stand in the way of the political and economic partnership. generating power iran plugs in its first nuclear plant to the national grid in the vicinity had to share was built with the help of russia. and it will leave moves closer to the center of the eurozone debt crisis as its crucial austerity package enters a final stage triggering a new wave of protests at the top spending cuts.

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