welcome back to the big picture i'm tom hartman coming up in this half hour sick of those t.s.a. love pats well new hampshire's got something for it but will a state law have any authority over a federal agency and why would a unionized t.s.a. do for you safe travels or not so friendly skies will debate and then later there are bad its birth ers in legislation form in almost a dozen states will their bills make it through capitol hill. say lawmakers new hampshire proposed a bill that would classify t.s.a. pat downs and body scans as forms of sexual assault a co-sponsor of the bill andrew news said of his legislation what let's put their name on the sex offender registry and maybe that will tell them new hampshire means business so this is a good idea anyway and what else can be done about the church off porno scanners and the want to be proxy knowledge is who run the t.s.a. joining me now is alaska state representative sharon system who has her own story to tell about the t.s.a. representative system welcome to the program. thank you very much thank you and i do have a story it w

good evening i'm lucy calhoun of in for tom hartman in washington d.c. here's what's coming up in the big picture gunfire and bloodshed is intensifying in libya and the united states is finding itself in a tough position i mean how do we juggle protecting civilians and meddling in the civil war and was this a bad idea to begin with plus a class action sex discrimination lawsuit against walmart finally makes its way the supreme court but in this battle of david versus goliath do women stand a chance against this retail giant in this corporate friendly supreme court and japan is running out of solutions to fix the radiation leak at its troubled nuclear plants but could be our gain at least when it comes to preventing a similar crisis. all right well the war in libya took a turn for the worse yesterday as rebels were forced to retreat after heavy attacks by moammar gadhafi stroup uncertainty on the ground raises questions about the role that the rest will play and what is essentially another spend other countries civil war i mean even if we keep to the stat

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hello i'm tom hartman in washington d.c. here's what's coming up tonight on the big picture the u.n. security council approved a resolution to enact a no fly zone over libya and to take all necessary measures that's code for military action to prevent moammar gadhafi launching attacks against his own people resolution was approved and nothing five countries abstaining governments of france and united states have already announced they're preparing a plan for action if you go into effect within hours if you did this rapidly developing story and as crews desperately try to water down the hot situation in japan back here at home because sort of radiation reaching our shores or our oceanic food chain it's a use for when the players and legislation michigan that allows the governor to throw elected officials out of city hall and replace them with this problem he's has one foot out the door it is a constitutional. and the geek squad may play a part in tracking down porn but it's not an invasion of privacy to have a repairman rifle

well i'm tom hartman in washington d.c. and here's what's coming up tonight on the big picture. it seems wisconsin governor scott walker has it out for teachers and others more proof and his two year budget proposal with a wall democrats and protesters for days literally the labor movement when it was strong numbers the koch brothers and their money certainly don't think so in fact charles koch is defending his support of walker but take a look at his wall street journal op ed today and how do you get the best congressional committee money can buy just as dear all i said is money has a lot to do with this. you need to know this even though as union busting agenda has stalled thanks to a wall democratic state senators governor walker in wisconsin un veiled his two year budget proposal today and guess what its part is teachers i know you're a stone walker is proposing a nine hundred million dollars cut to education and more than two thousand teachers have received layoff notices as a result and walker is also pledging more layoffs this week if senators don't return to ask his so-c

talk about the big picture on tom hartman coming up in this half hour that insult the injury as state already struggling with sky high unemployment rates will now receive six fewer weeks of fits so what is the governor of that state really trying to do plus a new article in a conservative magazine based the koch brothers not as super political power players but instead as victims on earth was this conclusion reached and is it even worth as much as it was printed on. and executives at b.p. could face criminal charges involving last fall's gulf coast oil spill one of the charges manslaughter details it's a stereo take. it looks like another republican is read the story of robin hood backwards it is stealing from the poor to give to the rich michigan residents are getting screwed over by their governor rick snyder yesterday republican snyder signed into law legislation that would cut six weeks from unemployment benefits every state in the country currently pays out twenty six weeks of benefits but now michigan will lead the way and ate out only twenty weeks and that's a state that's had

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welcome back to the big picture i'm tom hartman coming up in this half hour the crisis in japan is hitting home in a major way the dow jones stumped the session plummeting to one hundred fifty points so what's next for the global economic climate and think the u.s. is immune to nuclear disaster we pinpoint the hotspots of plants across the country warning one may be located in your backyard but first. here on the way in our face risks of nuclear meltdown another devastating consequences the apocalyptic quake and tsunami in japan what are some of the other global effects of this catastrophe both the u.s. and japanese stock markets have taken to the last few days over concerns that one of the wealthiest nations on the planet and a major supplier of technology around the world could suffer a nuclear meltdown so what are some of the unforeseen economic consequences of a cripple japan here to shed light on this issue from tokyo economics writer and author of the book in the jaws of the dragon one of my absolute favorites amun fingleton and welcome. thank you tom to most to be with you great to

education for schools for health for housing for environment we cannot spend a billion dollars on tom hartman says against libya it is up to the people of africa and it is amazing that in this discussion we have not discussed the role of the african union the united nations security council should be giving assistance to the african union for humanitarian assistance to libya that was the mandate of the security council of the united nations france and britain were in bed. with a good laugh it off the son finance succors his campy sour cause he is no in the lead to fight against this is a pork receipt of the highest order africans and this is a very. good reason to allow humanitarian disaster to take place go ahead a little has to go i had a very there's no there's no getting around the fact that the libyan rebels asked for our help that's plain and simple or if you want to reply that yes i agree that the libyan insurrection forces ask for your help but we can also assist the libyan insurrection forces to say to them that it is very pass through move by the f.a.a. if they asked the west to com

dog and add to the big picture on tom hartman coming up in this half hour record high levels of radiation now being detected in japan nuclear specialist paul gunter will fill us in on the potential dangers of that situation plus just when you thought it was safe to come up for air the real estate waters deepen the details of the new housing crisis and is it mandatory for the commander in chief to declare war i'll show you why corporate control over everything in government up to and including our foreign policy has gone over the top and tonight's daily take. the international atomic energy agency issued their latest report on the situation that day each a nuclear plant today take a look. the pressure is. in the reactor pressure vessel in drawing of units three is stable however pressure is in it's increased in both to react to pressure vessel on the dry well of unit one where she was rejected has been increased japan is still in a dire situation as we asian readings in some areas are now hitting their highest levels yet and in a town forty kilometers away from the day to plant radiation t

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hey tom hartman here broadcasting live from washington d.c. coming up today on the big picture. wealthy british. market why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy with my stronger for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines two kinds of reports. is he he. says. came. along and welcome across our computer lavelle a world clamoring for change around the globe people are protesting against governments and tyrants can a self defined democratic west learn from the people of the arab middle east and how to create more just society. you can. discuss of more revolutions are likely elsewhere in the world i'm joined by brendan o'neil in london he is editor of spiked in paris we cross to john locke and he is director of studies at the institute of democracy and cooperation and in phoenix we go to rachel alexander she is coeditor of the intellectual conservative and another member of our house talk team yell on the hunger all right folks this is cross talk that means you can jump in anytime you want to read and if i could go to you in london first. we w

welcome back to the big picture i'm tom hartman coming up in this half hour eighty one percent of americans want to see taxes raised on millionaires but what do you think republicans in congress want to do cut taxes for millionaires and this gets caught possibly get away with a stop loss and you get your computer fix to trust your personal files or for your eyes only write. a new bill may force technicians to search through your private files and possibly even alert the police and finally our economy may be on the mend it is our faith in the american government critically wounded and i still take attack tackle this issue. earlier this week the oregon state house passed legislation that requires computer technicians to report any evidence of child pornography they may find while working on a computer the bill also states that if a technician fails to report evidence that he or she may face jail time too so is this good way to crack down on child pornography or is there a problem in deputizing computer checks and requiring them to go through our computers and if you're against this bill does

welcome back to the big picture i'm tom hartman coming up in this faffing are released felons in the sunshine state and not be smiling when it comes down to casting their votes in two thousand and twelve and why one republicans governor is trying to preserve his reelection by revoking the rights of tens of thousands of largely democratic voters in his state and it was constant republican senators who supported governor walker's anti union busting efforts may soon be busted out of a job thanks to a statewide recall effort to break down the numbers of markos moulitsas in just a minute. the wisconsin democratic party claims it has already collected half the signatures necessary to recall eight republican state senators who supported koch lapdog governor scott walker's a union busting legislation that was illegally passed last week with publicans currently holding a nineteen to fourteen edge in the state senate democrats only need to successfully recall three of the eight republicans they're targeting to reclaim the majority and put an end to walker's and coax radical agenda really close

welcome back to the big picture i'm tom hartman coming up in this half hour a phony a video posted on line by right wing hack james o'keefe led to the resignations of two n.p.r. executives last week o'keefe o'keefe did was not illegal but if someone from peta were to do the same thing in say a farm or a slaughterhouse they could be thrown in jail for ten years will explore this double standard plus what this chamber president tom donohue you know the you don't i'll explain and i still take but first a pharmaceutical drug once priced at ten dollars is now fifteen hundred dollars. and how it how and i'll explain to you how this thing is screwing expectant moms. you know how pharmaceuticals are putting profits ahead of human lives. kavi pharmaceuticals has just raised the price of their drug maneka. and i'm a keen i think it is which is used in high risk pregnancies to prevent premature births a kidney used to go for ten dollars a dose but now it's going to retail at one thousand five hundred dollars a dose why because the f.d.a. gave kavi pharmaceuticals a license to be the only manufac

talk about the big picture i'm tom hartman coming up in this half hour now thing is certain except death and taxes right lots of course you're a big corporation then forget about those taxes and about death for that matter so we're americans finally awakened to the apocrypha see here and are you a state that doesn't like obama's health care plan well as the president says you can opt out take a look at the fine print it. then later my daily take on what could not be has to do with wisconsin here's a hint divide and conquer. labor protests weren't the only demonstrations occurring nationwide this week inspired by the u.k.'s uncut movement hundreds of thousands of people across the country joining the us uncut movement that's on us to speak out against massive transnational corporations that don't pay any taxes carl gibson co-founder the new movement said i have one dollar amount of wallet that's more than the combined income tax liability of g.e. exxon mobil citibank and bank of america i mean somebody is gaming the system and is gaming the system or you could add boeing wells fargo was t

welcome back to the big picture i'm tom hartman coming up in this half hour the tiny nation of iceland is going after two wealthy brothers accused of bringing that country's banks to its knees so why isn't this powerful country the united states doing the same plus a serious discussion on the lack of clean drinking water in this nation consumer advocate error erin brockovich will join me but first don't believe everything every especially if it has the koch brothers names attached to it. besides lobbying against e.t.a. regulations meddling in wisconsin and courting supreme court justices what else are the koch brothers up to try rewriting with a pedia think progress has uncovered evidence that the coax employed a p.r. firm jack. and the sign up but for them on websites and i don't mean the scientists act but here to explain exactly what's going on and how the codes are trying to manipulate the internet leaf reporter and blogger extraordinary over at think progress welcome to the program they found us going through some going to some. well koch industries sock puppets are a little bit l

all the back to the big picture i'm tom hartman coming up in this half hour first a movement has targeted the bank of america is preparing to jump off a national day of action what the protesters are up to later in the show and he went on a whim in search of solutions to the world's trouble in problems and found the solutions to some of his own but we're winning director tom shadyac who wrote the and directed the new movie i am with you here and vermont really can pull off single payer health care is it possible that two hundred doctors could be on the move that in science daily take. speaking to robert robin hood what would happen if a rich famous and successful guy decided to change his lifestyle out of a more average american that's just what filmmaker tom shadyac did and has just released a movie titled i am a tells a story and if you are a very real way all of our stories check out this trailer for the. reason. we are asking to see significant. what's wrong with our world or what can we do. most importantly what we can do about. science. elements that undermine everything we've been

welcome back to the big picture i'm tom hartman coming up in this half hour drill baby drill you may feel some pain at the pump soon due to rising oil prices should the u.s. really start drilling in the gulf again then later a christian couple in the u.k. is being denied the right to be foster parents because of anti-homosexual views is this a good thing or bad thing. big news in the world of oil crude oil futures climbed to their highest prices in two and a half years today on the heels of ongoing unrest in the middle east perhaps a response to these high prices president obama yesterday issued the first deepwater drilling permit in the gulf of mexico since the b.p. disaster last year now will energy will resume drilling seventy miles off the coast of louisiana at an even deeper depth than the b.p. oil well environmental groups are wary of well progress being granted in the gulf they contend not enough has been done to prevent another deepwater horizon and the full effects of last year's spill are still unknown so far republicans are given a lackluster response to this new perm. in

declare war by read the constitution but you still have time to tell us what you think log on to tom hartman dot com to cast your vote will be open until all. japanese officials had yet to restore power to the crippled daiichi nuclear power plant that is leaking deadly radiation into the atmosphere efforts of a critical pool in pumps back on line were delayed today as new white smoke was seen pouring out of mangled reactor three forcing workers to evacuate the area. reactor three remember contains high levels of who tony i'm the deadliest element on the planet artificially produced by reactors that can remain deadly for a quarter million years distributed evenly just one pound of blue tony as if to kill every person on the planet and this reactor in its ways pools contain tons of plutonium and as officials try to contain the situation japan may soon be facing a food crisis elevated levels of radiation were detected in milk and spinach as far as ninety miles away from the nuclear plant also radioactive iodine and cesium were detected in the tokyo water supply about one hundred seventy miles s

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welcome back to the big picture i'm tom hartman coming up in this half hour get this big banks just pay their taxes all the teaching jobs lost during the recession could be back so could such a simple solution solve. the problems of our country and just when you thought the airport scanners were bad turns out it could have been a way worse i'll tell you what else was on homeland security surveillance agenda plus later my daily take on why gas prices are really on the rise and the unrest in libya is only the smallest part of that story. a bank of america in washington d.c. is having a difficult time staying open these days two weeks ago was shut down by hundreds of people as part of the u.s. uncut movement demanding corporations pay their fair share of taxes and yesterday a similar movement named make wall street pay shut was shutting down bank of america when hundreds of people arrived to protest bank of america not a dime in taxes in two thousand and nine because they used over one hundred off shorts x. evens take a look. now from cairo. a new report by the national people's action and

lapdogs have the upper hand these thoughts on cast your vote if you're an optimist or grounded tom hartman five zero zero zero you think the poll will be open until tomorrow. coming up good japan's increasing energy troubles threaten their neighbors across the ocean discuss what this means for the american west coast. actress lindsay lo and keep. the preaching that these women have nothing people are suggesting she's told her no she says she's a stuck. up . alan . there are confirmed reports that a the radiation is leaking from the fukushima daiichi nuclear plant and elevated levels of radiation now been measured in tokyo really two hundred kilometers away from sendai when we as we reported yesterday elevated levels of radiation were also detected aboard the u.s.s. ronald reagan which was stationed nearby and today higher levels of radiation were detected it two u.s. military bases in that region japanese government has instructed people living within nineteen miles of the malfunctioning player to stay inside their homes and close the windows so just how deadly is radiation poisoning if th

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oh i'm tom hartman in washington d.c. and here is what's coming up tonight on the big picture it's friday and that means it's time for conversations with great minds and i we have ohio congressman dennis kucinich to talk about how he got into politics and his thoughts on the label protest in ohio wisconsin and are you ready to rumble will break down the top stories a little bit of the week in tonight's big picture rumble which side will blink first in wisconsin stalemate and should fat cat bankers be in jail then later ideally take on the on equal protection but the supreme court. heard tonight's conversations with great minds of happy to be joined by a man who devoted his life to progressive politics he's been a mare is currently united states congressman has run for president as it's twice as a servant of the people he's spoken out for working families across our nation and spoken out against foreign wars and corporate partners like to welcome the eight term congressman from ohio and this percentage congressman welcome

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