sequester ation cuts would hurt the economy well earlier i got some input from political commentator sam sachs and from the executive director at the iran institute you're on drugs here's what they had to say. it's really what we're seeing is is is with the sequester cuts and we're just in general the austerity regime that's been implemented in europe and here in the united states is you can see money being taken out of the hands of working people and out of the middle class and i think if you look at the with the economies function they don't function when wealthy people have tons of money they are stocking shelves with goods they function. people have money to spend in their pockets and go out and spend that more your idea how do you think the question isn't hurting the jobs market well it's not what the jobs market is the economic policies of the last fifteen years we should disaster increased regulation increased government spending increased government borrowing increased taxation that's what's just that's what's hurting the job market what's destroying the u.s. economy would slowing grow

that was surely would not simply have shrugged after watching sam sachs go at it with iran rugs from the iran institute and finally bart chilton strapped on as gloves the battle big points or at least regulate them thanks for watching it for you come back tomorrow and be sure to follow us on facebook at facebook dot com slash prime interest him everyone at prime interest i'm hearing him boring have a great evening. the oh super says the u.s. is disappearing if he's a lawyer there's been a new. lawyer so you. lose you lose you think you know who it was or you for sure. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realized everything you thought you knew you don't. charge marc. the big picture. wealthy british. markets why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy. to go into the. technology innovation hall the list of elements from around russia we. play. it. and. live. and. play. and. i. live from moscow ten pm outrage in the u.n. offer a syrian rebel grou

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that was surely would not simply have shrugged after watching sam sachs go at it with the run from the iran institute and finally bart chilton strapped on his gloves to battle big coins or at least regulate them thanks for watching make sure you come back tomorrow and be sure to follow us on facebook at facebook dot com slash prime interest from everyone at prime interest i'm hearing i'm boring have a great evening. let me let me or the world let me ask you a question. here on this network it's one of the things we have our night so. please stay with the story we're staying there together here it is always will be and i didn't really talk about the surveillance. so. you live on one hundred thirty three bucks a month for food i said try it because if you know how bad the less bad luck. i mean. i guess i'm still really not so. very so personally apologized. worse for the missing flight out soup of the day radio guy in front of a minutes from a click on a watch watch closely or a budget because you've never seen anything like this i'm told. it's just so. what's up guys i'm abby martin and

state of workers' rights in this country and may day i'm joined by our two political correspondents sam sachs and what are up man i thought a happy day really good to be obedient to the state thank you eisenhower for that you know it seems like the rest of the world gets it i mean they're all celebrating made in solidarity with americans why is it that we have still not reinstated may first as may day here we're exceptional you know but why haven't we used the metric system. now it seems strange that this holiday as you mentioned came out of the labor action here in the united states and that the rest of the world got behind. and devoted to this action in the united states hundred thirty years ago isn't celebrated by the united states you know we have labor day which is our sort of workers' day i think there was some sensitivity by grover cleveland you know early politicians and i think grover cleveland was president at the time about commemorating what happened at haymarket square since most of the ruling elite at the time thought what happened was there was very bad that this is what extrem

state of workers' rights in this country and may day i'm joined by our two political correspondents sam sachs one of the man but if you want a happy of law days really good to be obedient to the state thank you eisenhower for that you know it seems like the rest of the world gets it i mean they're all celebrating made in solidarity with americans why is it that we have still not reinstated may first as made it here we're exceptional you know and why haven't we used the metric system now it seems strange that this holiday as you mentioned came out of in a labor action here in the united states and that the rest of the world got behind devoted to this action in the united states hundred thirty years ago isn't celebrated by the united states you know we have labor day which is our sort of workers that i think there was some sensitivity by grover cleaver. and you know early politicians a grover cleveland was president at the time about commemorating what happened at haymarket square since most of the ruling elite at the time thought what happened was there was very bad but this is what extreme po

the strong over the weak and a history of skewing the rule of law itself in america and washington sam sachs r t let's turn now celeste information coming out of florida where the f.b.i. has now revealed that law enforcement officials shot and killed an unarmed man that they were questioning that's according to the w a s a steve a local news station twenty seven year old iraqi into lachelle boy shot six times by police on may twenty second while police officers were questioning him over his connection to a triple homicide that happened back in two thousand and eleven todashev was also close friends with the boston marathon bombing suspect tom are long time i have r t international correspondent were in a port in iowa brings us the newest information from this case. at the time of the shooting up to half a dozen law enforcement officials including two massachusetts state police troopers and an f.b.i. agent from the agency's boston division were present at the florida condo which was not far from universal studios but the f.b.i. has provided few details after the shooting saying that the matte

review now does the need an update all the talk to me about this debate being waged on capitol hill sam sachs joins me again hi there sam so i want to talk to you about this action of the authorization of the use of military force act the knack to twelve years ago congress it says essentially that congress must approve all wars but this act which handed that power over to the executive branch the senate as i understand it had a hearing yesterday over the us where d.o.d. officials were a question can you tell me about this and what it means so the authorization for use military force the u.m.s. was was passed after nine eleven now congress that's their job is to declare wars. what they did in two thousand and one that was basically declare a never ending war an open ended war and give the white house the power to conduct that war. ever since then you know they're your math basically says that the white house has the authority to conduct military operations against al qaeda and associated forces and really they they can conduct this this operation and you where it is and where these associated

as rescuers sift through the rubble president obama's declared the area a disaster zone are the sam sachs has more from washington. a massive tornado ripped through oklahoma ripped through the areas around oklahoma city it was the four tornado is the second strongest tornado on the scale from you one to you five that means winds over two hundred miles an hour the tornado was reportedly two miles wide something you don't see very often here wide swaths of residential area have been completely just decimate is though something you'd see after the hiroshima or nagasaki atomic bombings was just barely rowdy. and you can see stuff flying everywhere just about like on the movie twister. everything i know. my my pickup was sitting out there my daughter's car everything and rescuers are frantically searching through the rubble where there was an elementary school in line with the tornado reports are that there were seventy five students in staff in the school at the time the tornado hit and that school's been reduced to rubble rescuers are now combing through that school trying to pull out people

more on this may day is past and present i was joined earlier by r t is political correspondent sam sachs here in d.c. and art's his correspondent on a stasia turkana from new york and i began by asking sam why the stay is so important for the labor community take a listen well i mean the day goes back we've always i mean this goes back to the dark days of the gilded age nine hundred eighty six when workers were trying to organize for an eight hour work day when workers were fighting against automation and we saw automation taking over the workplace as far back as the late nineteenth century so this was the beginning of the labor movement it all came to a head in eight hundred eighty six on may fourth in haymarket square there was a peaceful rally going on workers that turned violent a bomb was thrown into the crowd the police opened fire lots of people were killed actually used by police and by the government to crack down a lot of extremist organizations you know what they refer to as an artist or the far left socialists. but also the what it how did the effect of that is it strengthen

the provisions in place to protect those who come forward while our team is political commentator sam sachs brings us more today so called whistleblowers took center stage in the house government oversight committee three state department officials who oversight chairman darrell issa has deemed as whistleblowers are testifying on the events that happened in benghazi on september eleventh of last year there is a round up of various news outlets reporting on it today from c.b.s. news benghazi whistleblowers head to house committee from fox news republicans look to show cover ups as whistleblowers give benghazi testimony and from usa today benghazi whistleblowers to testify state defends its actions so you get the picture at the hearing chairman i said made it clear that he expects whistleblowers to be protected these brave whistleblowers are in fact what makes this committee's work work. we are the committee that oversees and that lead for new whistleblower protection signed by this president the public has a right to hear their accounts and we more than any other committee in the congress mu

president are trying to clarify the process for targeting these threats are his political commentator sam sachs brings us more on the a.u. a math and how we currently manage the war on terror. when we think about our wars since two thousand and one we usually think of just these two countries afghanistan and iraq but those were the signature wars our so-called war on terror stretches beyond those borders if we include nations that we've launched drone strikes into for example it looks like this in pakistan yemen somalia we have also launched trikes in libya but really even this map doesn't show how limitless the so-called war on terror has now become. here's why very early on in the obama administration in march of two thousand and nine the definition of the authorization for use of military force the a un method which basically authorized the war in afghanistan in two thousand and one against al qaeda was expanded to include not just al qaida but also associated forces that are engaged in hostilities against the united states or its coalition partners including any person who has committed a b

the strike to various degrees for a look back at the last one hundred days political commentator sam sachs reports. this is gone tom obey settled on a picturesque caribbean island. the place is teeming with iguanas they're protected under the endangered species act meaning if you kill one you pay a ten thousand dollars fine unfortunately for the one hundred sixty six prisoners still left at the guantanamo bay detention facility they don't have legal protections like the iguanas and so for the last one hundred days they've committed themselves to a hunger strike it's the largest hunger strike yet of to when it comes more than four years after president obama promised to close down the facility one hundred days in more than one hundred prisoners are involved in the strike nearly a third of them kept alive by force feeding which the american medical association says is unethical and the united nations says is torture or demo guard brandon neely describes the process what they did they didn't sit in the. middle to. pull fluids or whatever the congress has made the task of closing gitmo harder

interview we're out of time we have to leave it there thank you so much for the political commentator sam sachs. well last month was the deadliest in iraq since two thousand and eight and civilian casualties continue to rise just the four morning a series of blasts at least fifty eight people dead in and around baghdad but give up tact and sectarian violence the fragile government not only faces unrest and destruction but a crumbling infrastructure as well oh. cavanaugh has an inside look at what's happening on the ground there. it is the land between twin rivers ancient day mesopotamia modern day iraq and in baghdad there's no shortage of ways in which water is used to wash cars to clean shop fronts to store fresh meat fish before they're gathered for sale everything it seems except drinking person nobody drinks the city would say because i know it's not clean since when you are heads around the law what comes out to happen is contaminated makes us sick how can we drink can't. water is just one of the many services that still lagging in post-war iraq despite years of promises and billions of d

way to bring clarity on its drone program was that the case artists political comment commentator sam sachs explains in november of two thousand and twelve a cia drone strike in yemen killed adnan al qaida he was accused of being an operative with a q a p one of those associated forces of al qaeda are those details are still murky now a year many political analyst told mcclatchy news quote it is inconceivable to imagine that al qaida could not have been taken into custody alive and his brother was interviewed saying quote we could have made sure he turned himself in that no one was guilty of any crime than arrest him put him on trial. since the drone war began there are thousands of stories just like this as many as five thousand perhaps more people have been killed in targeted drone strikes from the air but also includes a civilian death toll perhaps into the thousands though it is very difficult to know for sure but in his speech on thursday the president unveiled what the white house calls a new presidential policy guideline for targeted drone strikes it was signed by the president this

bombs on the new limits on this global war on terror is exactly what's needed most in washington sam sachs r t it looks like president obama will nominate it x. bush administration official for the f.b.i.'s top spot replacing robert mueller komi was a former senior justice department official serving under attorney general john ashcroft for many bod comey as a good public servant under bush he doesn't come to the table without controversy privacy be advocates question his ability to protect civil liberties considering recent allegations about the obama administration's policies regarding wiretapping and surveillance. well serving as deputy attorney general comey approved the n.s.a. warrantless wiretapping policy so what can we expect from an f.b.i. with comey at its helm artie's liz wall looks into it. it looks like president obama will nominate james comey to lead the f.b.i. has a resume that has garnered both praise and controversy between two thousand and three and two thousand and five komi you served as deputy attorney general in the bush administration in two thousand and four comey

needs to stop and i'm really happy that you were able to break down the disinfo and everything else sam sachs r t correspondent better shape it. if you like what you see how do our you tube channel you to bring a set show described so you miss a single episode and i'm all over it interview seven tad out there if you want to catch those separately i encourage everyone to check our likely interview from yesterday's show with former presidential candidate gary johnson you can also look at every segment we've done separately in the tab section on the top of the page from big brother watch the weapons of mass destruction check out all that more at youtube dot com plus breaking the sat you know it took a break from my preaching for now but stay tuned for more updates from the boston bombings next. wealthy british style it's time to be right on. target. market why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike stronger for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune in to kaiser report. more news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images th

that was surely would not simply have shrugged after watching sam sachs go at it with iran from the iran institute and finally our children strapped on gloves to battle big points or at least regulate them thanks for watching thanks for you come back tomorrow and be sure to follow us on facebook at facebook dot com slash prime interest from everyone at prime interest i'm hearing and boring have a great evening. for you. all or look. at least. partly. due. to. the. in the early hours of a hot july dawn a group of unusually dressed people carefully head on to the shore of one of the me up as tributaries their clad in servant military uniform from the days of world war two. in the summer of nine hundred forty one on the sort of view of a crossing the a small landscape one hundred thousand people were killed while they were trying to escape the surrounding enemy eyewitnesses say that the river ran red with blood for several days.

capitol hill continue to struggle with how to tackle this conflict artie's political commentator sam sachs explores how looking at the past may give us an insight on how to handle the future. senator john mccain snuck into syria over the weekend to meet with rebel commanders he talked about providing them heavy arms in air support in their civil war against president assad but these aren't just empty promises since february mccain and his buddies senator lindsey graham have been pushing plans to arm the syrian rebels and last week thanks to mccain's efforts the senate foreign relations committee overwhelmingly approved legislation to do just that to arm the rebels you see mccain has taken the role of charlie wilson in this war you remember charlie wilson right here is the congressman from texas who arm twisted congress to approve billions of dollars in military support back in the one nine hundred eighty s. for the afghan mujahedeen in their fight against the soviet union hollywood made a movie about wilson and how all that military aid helped the mujahideen when it started tom hanks and j

sends to israel will remain practically untouched political commentator sam sachs does some number crunching for us. as the sequester takes hold across the country and critical government services to tens of millions of americans are reduced there's one special interest that's trying to protect itself from the pain and no i'm not talking about members of congress who are trying to avoid flight delays i'm talking about lobbyists for israel who are concerned that budget cuts could affect their cash line from washington d.c. and particular funding for the israeli missile defense system iron dome and here's some of the numbers this year israel is slated to receive roughly three point one billion dollars in military systems on top of that they're getting more than four hundred seventy nine million dollars in missile defense systems including two hundred eleven million dollars specifically for the iron dome missile defense system now all of these numbers all of them are subject to sequester cuts a fact that wasn't lost on apac the american israel public affairs committee which lobbied congress hea

like that remains to be seen but i don't think we can ditch unions just a political commentator sam sachs always got the inside on unions and organized labor thank you so much. when you think of all the times you have seen lawmakers play the fingerpointing game or whine about what people on the other side of the aisle are doing do you ever feel like the government is being run by a bunch of children well one town in minnesota that is actually the case every year the town of door said a town that is so small it doesn't even have its own zip code it holds a drive to pick the next mayor and this time around four year old bobby tuffs was awarded the position he is the youngest mayor in history he also knows an awful lot about the best fishing spots in town as well as the best way to use now this is of course just a symbolic position and no one has asked to see his birth certificate yet and make sure that he's an american citizen his mayoral duties now include helping people cross the street as well as singing and dancing which is more that can be said for certain other lawmakers currently hol

david in struggles just like this so just like wall street big oil is too big to jail in washington sam sachs r t well earlier this week pretrial hearings continued in the case against private bradley manning however not much is known about the latest round of corporate seatings in an unprecedented move the us government decided to hold most of those hearings behind closed doors limiting access to the public and the press now this latest move comes after many in the media have expressed frustration over the lack of transparency and clarity in the government's handling of information surrounding this case as well as the lack of access to one organization is trying to change all valid the freedom of the press foundation and now a new fund raising campaign designed to raise money to hire a professional still not refer to cover the manning trial the money would go towards hiring a court reporter that would transcribe every event of this meeting trial as of right now there is no official stenographer and the only information regarding the trial comes the reporters on the scene now over the next th

chevron has hired almost two thousand lawyers to fight this payment artie's political commentator sam sachs tells us more. the more than a decade long legal battle between chevron corp and tens of thousands of ecuadorian villagers took another turn this week as a federal judge in new york ordered this guy's chevron c.e.o. john watson to testify in the case and defend his company against an eighteen billion dollar legal settlement now here's the story in two thousand and one chevron bought texaco a company that drilled for oil in ecuador in this area over here and it's alleged that texaco contributed to the environmental contamination of the ecuadorian rain forest and the poisoning of local populations with these oil pits that you see here by buying texaco in two thousand and one chevron was suddenly responsible for all of texaco's liabilities and pending lawsuits and that liability grew a lot more expensive in two thousand and eleven when a judge in ecuador ruled on behalf of the plaintiffs in the case ordering chevron to pay more than nine billion dollars in damages later revised up to eig

and welcome back to the big picture i'm sam sachs coming up in this half hour today marks the one hundredth day of the guantanamo hunger strike in more prisoners than ever before undergoing the highly controversial force feeding process over human rights groups pressuring the defense department to stop this controversial technique with a hunger strike be the final straw in the longest serving history of guantanamo bay and while the obama administration deals with a series of issues this week republicans are arguing that this is all proof that our government has gotten too big but it's our government really too big or not big enough tom will tell you in tonight's daily take. today marks the one hundredth day of the guantanamo bay hunger strike of the one hundred sixty six inmates act one ton of oh at least one hundred two of them are on a hunger strike of those one hundred to thirty are now being force fed at least through a nasal tube it's also worth mentioning that of the one hundred sixty six prisoners eighty six have been cleared for release or transfer the kuantan of a hunger strike beg

his actions justified the name of national security talk with our political commentator sam sachs after the break. the real damage and complexity of this oil spill was not something you can grasp just by looking at dirty birds we have between four to five million people in this directly affected area of the coast and it's pretty clear why it's not being reported because b.p. can't afford to have a reported all along the gulf coast are clean they are safe and they're open for business if b.p. is the single largest oil contributor to the pentagon the us war machine is heavily reliant upon b.p. and their oil this is a huge step backwards for the marker sea it's a step forward. corrects it is toxic is a look a lot like spraying and. it was it was not a picture that either the government or b.p. really wanted to have out there i don't want dispersants to be the agent. of this. mission three cretaceous three times four judges three. major months three. three stooges free. download free broadcast quality video for your media projects a free media to our teeth on top. it all go back joining me

his actions justified the name of national security talk with our chief political commentator sam sachs after the break. potentially deadly blizzard taking aim for the northeast it's expected to hit stunning in a few hours from new york to maine we have team coverage of the storm. but what we're watching is the very heavy snow moving into boston proper earlier today it was very sticky you can see it start to become much more powdery say the bottom line there's still a lot of snow out here a good place for snowball fight. piece and it is kind of pretty incredible day there and even record snowfall throughout much of it might still be slightly driving lessons to them urgency vehicles are exceptions. i think a little worse if you're going to. the white house to give a. radio guy for a minute. because you've never seen anything like this. is it possible to navigate the economy with all the details of his diction misinformation and media hype will keep you up to date by decoding the mainstream. they take it think your right. it all go back joining me now to talk more about scandals season in

come from today's speech tell me break it all down i was joined earlier by political commentator sam sachs and human rights lawyer david remes david began by talking about what we learned from today's speech well i can't speak as an expert to everything he spoke on but i don't think that we got very much new from him on guantanamo it was disappointing that he endorsed indefinite detention it was disappointing that he said he'd go back and rework you the yemenis to send home and most of all it's disappointing that he can to news to blame congress for his inability to transfer detainees back to their home countries or third countries he simply isn't willing to show the kind of political leadership that's required president obama addressed several issues through this hour long speech that he gave today let's play a part of what he said about guantanamo bay since we're talking about it and given my administration's relentless pursuit of al qaida leadership there is no one justification beyond politics for congress to prevent us from closing a facility that it should should have never been open