like us on facebook at facebook dot com slash interest and don't forget to follow sam on twitter at sam sachs you can follow me on english so sam thank you so much for thinking about the do all this i. i . it was a surreptitious day here at prime interest more snowden stuff ok all under the table we know but how about that john cordes and story were the all the headlines on the cause i banker who might actually have had to answer for his crimes we're still waiting for the m.s.m. on that one mark levine was not afraid to weigh in on the patriot act and corporate taxes and and other guys no short of opinions we all know that but sam sachs very tightly brought the wage issue comes out of its minimal cover and that's just the kind of issue we like to cover here at prime interest so thank you for watching to make sure to come back tomorrow from everyone here a prime interest have a great night. i would rather ask questions for people in positions of power instead of speak on their behalf and that's why you can find my show larry king now right here on r.t. question more. interview. live. live. liv

the letter and the latest in the snowden saga i was joined earlier by our to political commentator sam sachs and abby martin host of breaking the set and i started off by asking sam if there was any proof that this letter was in fact genuine take a look. well it seems like it is reuters is coming out with another corresponding statement that snowden sent to the ecuadorian embassy where you he says been the point person for snowden since he left hong kong when we found out he was heading to moscow with plans to seek asylum elsewhere through statements made by wiki leaks so i don't think it's strange that wiki leaks is releasing his statement now about this and i think it's about time the snowden does make a statement i mean there's been a lot of questions as to what exactly is going on over the last eight days whether or not this was the plan all along was to take a flight from hong kong to moscow and then just kind of wait there and in find out were going to go or whether there was some plan ahead of time so a lot of people wanted to hear from snowden joining us on just come out and said tha

well there and you don't want to miss my duel with political commentator sam sachs and we're going to talk to him about the seventy fifth anniversary of wage price fixing that would be the minimum wage. wealthy british style sign. is no time. for. markets why not come to. 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 on our. i would rather ask questions to people in positions of power instead of speaking on their behalf and that's why you can find my show larry king now right here on our t.v. question more. interview . a. good. all right we're back with mark levine now you actually are one of the only authors of the patriot act that have ever had the privilege to was talked to so why don't you tell me a little bit about why don't overstate my role after about five pages of a two hundred page bill and in fact the part that i draft is no longer in the bill so i don't want to overstate it but what i wrote what's called the frank amendment barney frank my body sponsored it and

well there and you don't want to miss my duel with political commentator sam sachs and we're going to talk to him about the seventy fifth anniversary of wage price fixing that would be the minimum wage. here is mitt romney trying to figure out the name of that thing that we americans call a dollar. i'm sorry i'm just a guy who cares an awful lot but you sir are a fool you know what that is my other terror cells you know want to give us a feature is on the on the ball the crystal ball because your beliefs about the. you know the corporate media distracts us from what you and i should care about because there are profit driven industry that sells a sensationalistic garbage because that breaking news i'm not me martin and we're going to break that. i would rather as questions for people in positions of power instead of speak on their behalf and that's why you can find my show larry king now right here on our t.v. question more. is it possible to navigate the economy with all the details of his text message information and media hype will he do you up to date by decoding the mainstream st

that was political commentator sam sachs thank you sam. now former enforcement chief of the security and exchange commission robert khuzami just accepted a job offer with d.c. corporate law firm kirkland and ellis fighting off other recruitment attempts from firms like visa and bridgewater now the kirkland ellis job will pay khuzami more than five million dollars a year and in accepting the offer he's following the quintessential washington script about being an influential government insider becoming a paid advocate for the industry he once policed now predicts say that this revolving door common at the f.c.c. undermines the agency's independence and link links that an extra in extra could lead to wall street who saw me spent seventeen years in the government and has publicly called for lawyers to build public and private experience saying that defense work is essential to the justice system but as a partner at kirkland cruz amin will represent some of the same corporations that the f.c.c. oversees now kirkland is known for lavishing its

see if she will bear on too big to fail then political commentator sam sachs goes toe to toe with bob inglis on apple's new and though i fully named it i want. one of the great state blind to what is happening in their country. the american dream is disappearing. the houses with gardens are laid. the poor are left hopeless the streets are full of angry crowds that are fighting against. the storm the american dream. actually what happened there i don't know. piers later is when i got arrested for. for a crime i did not do. we have numerous cases where police officers lie polygraph results. innocent people to the police officers don't beat people anymore i mean it just doesn't happen really. in the course of interrogation why because there's been this is like no because the psychological techniques are more effective in obtaining confessions than physical abuse they were taking they could get what they wanted they could say what they wanted and there was no evidence of what they did or what they said. some of these traditional chili lines they've been bred and developed and passed down

i'm sam sachs and you're watching r.t. and we begin with a story that could have been ripped straight from the headlines of the onion the n.s.a. which has the power to read all of our e-mails is apparently unable to read its own e-mails pro publica filed a freedom of information act requests looking into the agency's p.r. efforts after a very friendly documentary about the n.s.a. aired on the national geographic channel basically pro publica was asking for records of e-mail exchanges between the n.s.a. and the national geographic channel but the n.s.a. freedom of information act officer cindy blacker responded to the request saying quote there's no central method to search an e-mail at this time with the way our records are set up unfortunately she acknowledged it's quote a little antiquated and archaic. but the n.s.a. could have bigger problems on its hands and. namely what's happening in congress today as we near a key vote in the house to defund part of the n.s.a. surveillance programs targeting american citizens that a

guess what we got sam sachs back here thank you for joining me for today's dual thank you bob let's get to our first story. that we got that apple product it's called i watch you got to love that name i watch after all this tech stuff according to forbes apple is said to be hiring outside help to tackle design problems with its smart watch and according to the financial times a tech firm wants to bring in fresh pair of eyes to look at the device because it's in the house developers may be struggling to solve. the problems i give you the floor on this one i don't really get the point of this i mean. i don't even know why we're watch anymore than the fact that my wrist feels weird if i don't have a watch on it seems to check their time with their i phones their i pad i had a hunch you later watch in the one nine hundred eighty s. it wasn't that cool but i mean are we regress into the prior state where you know google glasses seems to be the future here why is apple going with a watch yeah that doesn't make sense when i was going to watch that could change it was a t.v. remote control and

in washington sam sachs r.t. . you know as entertaining them now we have some news from guantanamo bay where a hunger strike has lasted for five months among detainees at the facility of the one hundred and two detainees currently tracked as hunger strikers. by the department of defense an official spokesperson told reporter ryan j. reilly that ninety nine of those strikers ate a meal within the last twenty four hours why did they eat well get no officials allowed prisoners the option of living communally with with one another rather than splitting them up in individual cell blocks does this mean the hunger strike is over not necessarily because officials must see what they call sustained eating meeting at fifteen hundred calories a day for one week elsewhere getting plush embassy jobs to big ticket presidential donors is not a new phenomenon however it appears president obama has taken the practice to new heights barack obama has rewarded some of his most active campaign donors with plum jobs in foreign embassies

the situation is so is that justification enough for the alleged us spying political commentator sam sachs reports. the spy game has changed used to be a world of moles shady briefcase exchanges and honey traps now it's a world of blanket surveillance across pretty much the entire planet through little more than a tap on the world's internet and phone communication lines some help from willing internet service providers and massive storage facilities that could be capable of holding a billion phone calls a day we're reminded of this thanks to more revelations from edward snowden has released documents showing that the united states is engaging in rampant spying on key allies around the world particularly the european union as the guardian reports one document lists thirty eight embassies and missions describing them as targets it details an extraordinary range of spying methods used against each target from bugs implanted in electronic communications gear to taps and cables so the collection of transmissions with specialized antenna along with traditional ideological adversaries in sensiti

see if she will bear on too big to fail then that political commentator sam sachs goes totally tell with bob inglis on apple's new endo i fully named i watch. i would rather as questions for people in positions of power instead of speak on their behalf and that's why you can find my show larry king now right here on r.g.p. question more. looks pretty dominant in the field but while you won't find it here if you're looking for relevant stories unique perspectives on top my scans and our. i. i to ensure that banks have sufficient cash on hand that there are requirements for the level of capital that banks need to set aside the bigger the spofforth the better a bank can weather financial turbulence there are different proposals for determining capital requirements one proposal is to use a percentage of a bank's total assets and another is to weight each asset according to risk under current risk weighted assets rules the holding government that is considered to have zero risk earlier i sat down with former f.d.i.c chairwoman sheila bair and asked about the incentives the banks have to incre

party trying to reach voters as much as voters trying to reach the green party and i was city iowa sam sachs r t well medical advancements have unlocked the secret of the human body just wasn't the span of a few decades and elements that had unknown causes has simply become solvable issues doctors have the ability to see inside the body as never before some modern examples of that include x. rays and m.r.i.'s that help us find out what's happening inside the human's body that makes them suffer so much and other methods can't reveal them but what if the secrets unlocked are no longer just a matter of medical know how but the very thoughts inside of a person's head for more on that the residents laurie her finest. it's better not to the government is reading our emails and personal bank account information and web and these searches and anything else they want to if they decide to log in to us without even telling us but guess what sometime in the not too distant future they'll probably be reading our minds as well here's the deal there's a technology called and asked m.r.i. or functional m.r.

that was political commentator sam sachs thank you sam. now to concerning news about your cell phone a german mobile security expert says he's found a flaw i mean christian technology used in some sim cards sim cards are the computer chips you find inside your cell phone and the flaw could allow cyber criminals to take control of a person's phone archie correspondent on a stasi a church cannot tells us more. turns out that as many as seven hundred fifty million cell phones around the world could be carrying flawed sim cards that could potentially leave their owners vulnerable to financial fraud and surveillance now sim cards hold key user data and have up until now been generally known to be one of the most secure parts of a mobile phone however the recently discovered bugs could allow hackers to access personal information and carry out illegal transactions and this was researched and announced by thirty one year old ethical hacker and renowned german codebreaker carsick know after repeated attempts to hack into sim cards over the last th

that was political commentator sam sachs thank you sam. now in other news millions of pieces of trash are floating in the world's oceans and fundamentally changing the makeup of the earth's food chain in fact tons of plastic has accumulated into what is known as the great pacific garbage patch it was discovered in one thousand nine hundred seven by captain charles moore and he describes it as actually a soup in mixture of micro plastic fragments that's wrong to vast belts in the remote north pacific ocean since his discovery however more and others have engaged in rigorous scientific sampling of the plastics and its multiple consequences on the environment archies ramon go into a spoke with captain moore and explains how consumer based economies are literally trashing the ocean. this is the stomach contents of a four month old check bottle caps trash bags and broken plastic are now part of the diet of many birds and sea creatures around the world it's very depressing initially to realize the extent of the problem one of the largest concent

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the vote and the bipartisan coalition that came together to fight for it all political commentator sam sachshas more we're here to answer one question for the people we represent. do we oppose the suspicion this collection of every american's phone records when you have the chance to stand up for americans privacy did you please support the monster amendment and oppose the n.s.a.'s blanket surveillance of our constituents let us get back to the big politics of protecting america and moving america forward soundly reject this amendment the responsible thing to do is so some contrition let's pass this amendment let's make sure that we can have a practical approach that show that protecting our liberties and securities are consistent and critical for the united states of america i urge a yes vote let us not deal in false narrative let us deal in facts that will keep the american people say after the debate was over in the votes taken the a mosh amendment was defeated but you'd be hard pressed to find another vote total that looks like this in the end one hundred eleven democrats joined with eig

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at the replications and snowden's actions and who fears his leaks the most political commentator sam sachs has compiled a list of the top five liars exposed by edward snowden's disclosures here's sam with more edward snowden's latest leak reveals how microsoft has been working with the n.s.a. as prism program handing over contents of skype users' phone calls specifically snowden's leaked documents show in july of last year nine months after microsoft bought skype the n.s.a. boasted that a new capability had tripled the amount of sky video calls being collected through prism and this appears to contradict a very specific message that microsoft ice president in general council brad smith made earlier this year regarding the privacy protections for skype users he noted in a recent blog post quote skype received four thousand seven hundred thirteen requests from law enforcement those requests impacted more than fifteen thousand accounts or other identifiers such as p.s.t.n. number skype produced get this new content in response to these requests but it did provide non-content data so what does

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guess what we got sam sachs back here at thank you for joining me for today's dual thank you bob let's get to our first story. we got the apple product it's called i watch you got to love that name i watch after all this tech stuff according to forbes apple is said to be hiring outside help to tackle design problems with its smart watch and according to the financial times a tech firm wants to bring in fresh pair of eyes to look at the device because it's in the house developers may be struggling to solve the problems i give you the floor so i don't really get the point of this i mean. i don't even know why we're watching more than the fact that my wrist feels weird if i don't have a watch on it or a seems to check their time with their i phones their i pad as i had a house you later watch in the one nine hundred eighty s. it wasn't that cool but i mean are we regress into that primary state where you know google glasses seems to be the future here why is apple going with a watch yeah this is to make sense when i was going to watch that could change it was a t.v. remote control and i c

extradite people to other countries so is this a case of do as i say not as i do political commentator sam sachs shows us some examples currently pending before the united states senate is a bipartisan resolution calling on the russian government to hand edward snowden over to u.s. authorities the resolution says that russia's willingness to provide shelter to edward snowden is quote negatively impacting the u.s. russia relationship they were committed to taking actions including recommending a different location for the september twenty third team g twenty summit in st petersburg russia if edward snowden is handed over in a statement one of the co-sponsors of the resolution senator lindsey graham says on multiple fronts russia is becoming one of the bad actors in the world and then here was senator john mccain talking recently about russian president putin. he is a person who feels so involved in these days that he doesn't mind sticking to some right and i which is what he's doing in this noble case you see lawmakers in washington just can't understand what the heck is going on. here they're ab

tapping your phones or your internet well get ready for a trip in the wires the political commentator sam sachs takes us there. and it's not something that you just it's just something i just i don't think try it it's a series tell us the late senator ted stevens from alaska and his the mortal description of what the internet really is despite sounding bizarre and spawning several viral parodies. senator stevens description of what exactly the internet is so wasn't really that far off at all. the internet is really a series of tubes or at least cables hundreds of them that stretch for over five hundred thousand miles underwater connecting all the major condensate to the web and to each other so this is what the internet physically looks like so how does the n.s.a. go about physically tapping into it rewind back to two thousand and one wall street journal reports in early one nine hundred eighty nine the agency assembled a team of researchers in a small warren of labs had its headquarters in fort meade maryland their mission according to one former n.s.a. researcher who worked on it was to find

joining me is political commentator sam sachs lowered a comfortable there i'm feeling comfortable in here a few times to sort of your jacket off my hands loosen tied to her story big banks meet big beer large beer companies including miller coors are putting pressure on the federal reserve to crack down on wall street miller coors a major aluminum buyer asked the fed to toughen oversight of banks like goldman sachs and j.p. morgan both banks are accused of manipulating a lot of prices by controlling large metal warehouse is part of the london metal exchange network your thoughts so basically we have banks running a racket that's screwing over companies like these big companies that other companies that use aluminum the bigger picture here is this wall street the wall street economy the fire economy finance insurance real estate used to be about ten percent of our economy now it's about twenty five to thirty percent of our economy is starting to dominate our economy and it's doing that because it's preying on all the other industries in our economy through these rockets through price

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but one or one a bass guitarist has a new idea to improve elections or his political commentator sam sachs has that story. the supreme court crippled the voting rights act last month removing key protections that prevent discrimination against minority voters but really the problems with our elections go far beyond the racial discrimination that underpin the need for the voting rights act and election reformers are trying to highlight this fact pushing for broader election reform to fundamentally change how we elect a representative government chris nervous elegant the chairman of the board at fair vote dot org insiders partisan hacks the use of this decade of demographic cartography technology and they basically carve out these districts and there are there are leaks crazy gerrymandered it's like a drunk man with a sketch you know he just just looks terrible ok and so we're so we're saying that if you pay taxes and if you're subject to the laws and rules of the land that that merits representation so everybody can have representation now the state of pennsylvania is a perfect example of w

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playing out as the debate goes on over when and whether to close the prison now political commentator sam sachs takes a look at what if anything this hunger strike has accomplished. late february two thousand and thirteen reports begin trickling out that prisoners at the guantanamo bay detention facility have refused meals for several weeks and a hunger strike is beginning but the u.s. continues to deny it lawyers of one of those prisoners say the strike is in response to a new search for seizures at the facility but other reports indicate that the strikes started because president obama forgot his five year old promise to close down the prison facility he began the year by not even mentioning get mao and his inaugural address or his state of the union address so the prisoners went on a hunger strike to force the president to once again remember what's going on a kuantan m o bed march nineteenth the hunger strike count swells to twenty four and the united nations human rights body announces it is looking in to the strike later in march fifty days into the strike the international committee of t

surveillance programs as well as the manhunt for the man you see behind me edward snowden now sam sachs was at the code pink rally and he tells us more. today a coalition of civil libertarians in washington d.c. went on a thank you tour visiting the embassies of those nations that have offered n.s.a. whistleblower edward snowden asylum and we're here outside the venezuelan embassy where a group of civil libertarians have gathered to thank them to say officials for offering asylum to edward snowden the screw behind me is gone from the bolivian embassy to the nec wrong for an embassy to now the venezuelan embassy all countries that have offered snowden asylum in all countries that are willing to defy u.s. authority here in the region in the last fifteen years there's been a huge geopolitical shift there and these countries are now much more independent of the united states and europe. for example europe is and that's something that wasn't true you know in most of the last hundred hundred years this is a matter of international human rights you know that is how amnesty international said i

stuart is now being held without bond in the newport news city jail does it for now i'm sam sachs more news back to date. the guantanamo bay detention facility is now over eleven years old the broken presidential promises the congressional sabotage the never ending war on terror all forces and conspired together to keep this prison open but now a hunger strike threatens the tear it all down as this hunger strike near six months party takes a closer look at the prison i just can't be close. lisa . cohen welcome to cross talk we're all things considered i'm peter lavelle the arab muslim world is a place with conflict and turmoil be it revolution civil wars or external meddling it could be no doubt this region will never be the same again it would also appear that the old neo colonial order for much of the region is coming to an end but what is we placing it and who is on the right side of history.

is obsession with data do you think they'd leave any of these tubes unchecked in washington sam sachs r t an update now to the edward snowden diplomatic standoff that has captured public attention around the world yesterday we told you that bolivia nicaragua and venezuela had offered the n.s.a. secrets still are asylum in their countries and just today there was a tweet sent out by a russian lawmaker that spurred speculation that edward snowden might have accepted venezuela's asylum bid however no source was actually named meanwhile other news reports are surfacing saying that the government of venezuela itself confirmed that snowden accepted asylum but again no sources. and now that you are all caught up let's move on to the next big dilemma facing edward snowden how he will actually be able to get to whatever country he finally chooses and if he flies the plane will most likely have to travel through american airspace or that of our allies we could see the plane diverted like bolivian president evo morales this plane was cuban president raul castro said that he would allow the plane

america and check out our website r t dot com forward slash usa you can also follow me on twitter as sam sachs stay tuned prime interest is next. the arab muslim world is ablaze with conflict and turmoil be revolution civil wars or external meddling there can be no doubt this region will never be the same again it would also appear to be old and new colonial order for much of the region is coming to an end but what is replacing it and who is on the right side of history. 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 realize everything you thought you don't know i'm tom hartman welcome to the big picture. download the official. language stream quality and enjoy your favorite. if you're away from your television just. not with your mobile device so you can watch on t.v. anytime anywhere. is it possible to navigate economy with all the details and to stick to them for me and media hype keep you up to date by decoding the mainstream status if in your right. good afternoon welcome the prim