welcome back to the big picture lucy calif now filling in for tom hartman now we continue with another edition of tom's conversations with great minds segments tom recently sat down with bill moyers of course a journalistic icon to look back on his distinguished career and to discuss the current state of our nation's news media take a look. for tonight's conversations the great minds are joined by an icon of television journalism as a resume includes being a founding organizer of the peace corps a press secretary for president lyndon johnson decades of reporting for both print and television outlets as most famous project was bill moyers journal that weekly television show that was one of the highest rated public affairs programs that run television between two thousand and seven and two thousand and ten as many as two million viewers tuned in to hear what he had to say every single week and his accomplishments have not gone unnoticed as the recipient of more than thirty emmy awards and nine peabody awards as well as a slew of other honors and this month he released his latest book bil

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and you hear or see some other part of it and realize that everything is ok you don't know i'm tom hartman welcome to the big picture the first. few. just. it's the good the bad and the very very incontrovertibly ugly the good this appear in court of pennsylvania walmart may be one of the biggest corporations in the world but it couldn't throw its weight around this way three pennsylvania judges omar was ordered to pay one hundred eighty seven million dollars for denying their employees human rest breaks court said because of pressure from the home office to reduce labor costs and the availability of significant bonuses for managers based on store profitability wal-mart scheduling program created chronic understaffing leading to widespread rest resprayed violations are one hundred eighty seven million bucks and change for the right to work but this case is still a victory for working americans and today's anti worker climate are taking victory would get a bad texas governor rick perry rumors are swirling about perry jumping into the republican race for president and a recently under uncove

welcome back to the big picture and tom hartman coming up in this half hour chaos erupts in wisconsin as a supreme court justice allegedly chokes another just it's one of the accused governor scott walker's right hand man it was scandal unravel the governor's radical agenda plus big oil is added begin with or astroturf phony front perhaps see how the world's biggest polluters are manufacturing support for their anti-american agenda and what is it that corporate c.e.o.'s republicans don't want you to know it's just it's the same thing that any bank robber wouldn't want you to know just how much they're stealing from. the. students that was causing can forget about a quality education yesterday cockcrow their lapdog governor scott walker signed a new republican budget bill to tackle that state's deficits caused by governor walker's tax breaks for corporations and millionaires and billionaires so how does walker's bill reduce the deficit the republican way of course by cutting eight hundred. and dollars from public schools in the state and directing those savings to even more corporate t

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all right good evening i'm lucy in for tom hartman here in washington d.c. and here's what's coming up tonight on the big picture as a huge victory for wisconsin governor scott walker after his union busting build up a stamp of approval from the state's highest court so what does all this mean for was throngs and public workers and more importantly believe or movement here in america and the grand jury hearings in the wiki leaks case continues today so what will the justice department dig up against julian assange and is it a all part of a larger war against whistleblowers. all you need to know this a major development in the wisconsin labor battle lasting last night yesterday evening as governor scott walker's union busting bill is now the law of the land so what exactly happened now although a lower court did decide to belong to walker's budget repair bill from going into effect the wisconsin supreme court yesterday evening decided to overturn that ruling effectively making it completely illegal for state workers in wisconsin to collectively bargain now do

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welcome back to the big picture i'm tom hartman coming up in this half hour protesters fed up with the nation's failing to health care system thirteen was streets in d.c. today calling for health care and out of warfare people from one of the organization organizers president crowds of america join me on the show to explain their cause plus l. is liberalism a longtime staple in children's programming is slammed by news accused of anything kids' minds fairness equality and diversity how dare they and children are known to be very honest for example a group of arkansas a middle school students composed a top five worst people of all time list grizz ulcer stuff. yes they we took a look at the health care in our ward. your campaign carried out by the national nurses united of the progressive democrats of america campaign is raising awareness about our deteriorating health care system it's bankrupting millions of americans and leaving them sick with nowhere to go and while this is going on our nation is spending hundreds of billions of dollars on endless wars in the middle east so the choic

good evening i'm lucy captain of the tom hartman there in washington d.c. here's what's coming up tonight on the big picture after weeks of casting a dark dark shadow across america the winner is finally gone the democratic congressman announced his resignation today so can we as a country finally put this whole wiener must behind us here to bring you that discussion in just a bit and riots continue on the streets of athens with protesters furious over the government's austerity measures so could that financial unrest actually spread and what's next for greece. well you need to know this the scandal that has mesmerized washington as well as of course people news channels is finally coming to a close and new york congressman anthony weiner today gave in to mounting pressure mostly from his own party and the president and that announced resignation from office now if you're thinking of i guess i might be able to continue the work that the citizens of my district elected me to do to fight for the middle class you know struggling to make it unfortunately the di

fact germany has some lessons to offer and that's in fact the question i posed to the big picture tom hartman if you had to say. well with regard to trade germany has some very very colorful carefully calibrated trade policies particularly have to taxation that effectively work like tariffs so they're protecting their their trade economy but with regard to the short workweek and the unemployment which i think it's you know it's a bit more to the point of what we're talking about here they have a program called curt's are but. kurtz's german for short it is work so it's kind of short work and what the german government did there while the rest of europe was having eight a half percent unemployment and i think still is in that neighborhood right now. during the recession germany never won a loeb's seven or above so unhappy senator my recollection is correct and they did it with this program where they took five point one billion euros the government did they said to all the employers ok you don't have so much demand for your products you know we have in a recession but don't lay anybody off ins

and what can we learn from our friends across the atlantic will join me now to discuss this is tom hartman author radio talk show host and also the host of the big picture here on r t tom thank you so much for joining us you know when it comes to the political rhetoric here in washington if anyone brings up the european economic model i mean we hear whoa is me this is evil code word socialist what we possibly learn from those lazy europeans abroad who work less than us and pay more and have more benefits and social welfare nantz and yet germany's doing really well what can we learn from this country when it comes to our economic crisis what would you go to trade germany has very very colorful. carefully calibrated trade policies particularly have to do it taxation but effectively work like tariffs so they're protecting their their trade economy but with regard to the short workweek in the unemployment which i think is you know it's a bit more to the point of what you're talking about here they have a program called kurds are bite kurtz's german for short market is work so it's got short wo

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how about the big picture i'm tom hartman coming up in this half hour prisons and profits now go hand in hand in america private corporations are taking over our nation's prison system so one of the consequences of the opposite motive in our judicial system meanwhile the state of georgia is not being so peachy when it comes to immigration reform details of how they plan to use taxi drivers for racial profiling and his freedom of the press under attack by the white house one pulitzer prize winning journalist as you. will remember one that is in the size of our prison population united states goes the highest rate of imprisonment of any other developed nation in the world and that's not enough for some people specifically the private prison industry the justice policy institute just released a report detailing how the private prison industry is. millions of dollars every year to lobby lawmakers around the country to pass tougher laws to throw more people in prison ideally private prisons and it's working in the last decade the number of people in prison increased sixteen percent and the

welcome back to the big picture i'm tom hartman coming up in this half hour republican senators up for recall elections in wisconsin and thought of a way to hold onto their seats yeah it's called cheating so what's tiki tactic do they have up their sleeves in detail plus he's seen as the g.o.p. has really taken the philosophy of ai and rand. and rand who hated religion doesn't this interfere with their constant courting of the religious right. in the latest news coming out of wisconsin the dates apparently are set for a dozen recall elections against sitting state senators in the fallout over governor scott walker's radical budget plan elegant party was constance already made their campaign strategy public plan to run fake democrats in the primary elections just to disrupt the democratic party family style it works but these recall elections against republicans couldn't come any sooner for one industry in wisconsin craft beer brewers that's right small independent craft brewery businesses are next up on governor walker's list of people to screw as part of his new overhaul plan of the s

about the big picture i'm tom hartman coming up in this half hour a man desperate to receive medical treatment robs a bank for just a measly buck so he can see a doctor in jail so we finally discover the republican health care plan and the nation's corporations are taking on a new form they're actually merging into a legion of decepticons aimed at destroying the little four. was there in time for the lone liberal when i debate two expert conservative commentators on some of the big issues of the week on our panel tonight daniel helper you have any online editor the weekly standard and heather serve all conservative strategist managing owner of the for forty public group public relations other. and it was this week the nation heard the story of genes of her own man so desperate for medical care and he walked into a bank stole one dollar and set down the couch and waited for the cops to arrest him and throw him in jail just so he could finally receive some health care here's over on justified is to say. that with my logic. if you really should then added preferably because i need medic

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welcome back to the big picture i'm tom hartman coming up in this half hour during their routine obama bashing this weekend republicans got their feathers ruffled when the tables were turned on them by their own hired media see what republican reaction to jokes about their own candidates may be very telling and in tonight's daily take i'll tell you how a six foot. wall is the only thing standing in the we have nuclear disaster right here right now in the united states. over the weekend i turn to the progressive net roots nation conference in minneapolis minnesota and thanks to lucy in fact for filling in for me while i was gone just down the street from net roots another about was being held the conservative right on line conference so needless to say with progress is in right wingers commingling there was potential for some explosive confrontations and that's exactly what happened when a group of muslim women were in his jobs flash mob to the right on line conference the women showed up to protest an incident that had happened the previous evening outside a local bar the place right h

welcome back to the big picture i'm tom hartman coming up in this half hour workers at another nuclear power plant in japan are racing against the clock to prevent yet another catastrophic nuclear disaster there's quite a large hurdle they have to jump three tons to say and as you hear about the statewide ten day manhunt here in the united states for a known terrorist i'll tell you all about it and the terrorist who is still on the loose and tonight still a take. it japan didn't have its hands full with one militant down nuclear plant actually six at fukushima it certainly does now with another nuclear power plant on the verge of melting down about three hundred miles southwest of fukushima since the manjoo nuclear reactor prototype fast breeder reactor filled to the brim with plutonium the deadliest element on the face of the earth and last year a three ton device of some sort fell into the module reactor blocking access to the nuclear fuel rods in the reactor core and despite several attempts as yet to be recovered another attempt will be made next week to clear those three ton objec

welcome back to the big picture i'm tom hartman coming up in this half hour the senior class of twenty eleven is experiencing the harsh reality of our dismal job market by the search for summer cash maybe even longer and while the attack on obamacare continues one organization who knows the field very well is joining in the fight for universal health care rights national nurses united and it's and it's nearly take i'll tell you why don't worry be happy should really be our nation saw . if you thought the recent job numbers were bad with the unemployment rate ticking up to nine point one percent take a look at the unemployment rate for teenagers based on last month's job numbers nearly a quarter of all sixteen to nineteen year olds looking for a job or even a summer job are unemployed in california that number is as high as thirty four percent it's no wonder though considering that people with master's degrees can't even find a job donald's or recent job fair collected over one million applications for about sixty thousand job openings and nationwide corporations only hired fifty four t

welcome back to the big picture i'm tom hartman coming up in this half hour republican congressman phil gingrey is initiated a full fledged war against union workers with bargaining rights claiming that their privileges to negotiate on the clock are a waste of taxpayer dollars and is there truth to the theory of just another with a vote for or just another republican effort to weaken the union organizations and the way we surf on the internet is in danger of a certain disgraced lobbyist gets his way so you really is why it matters just a few minutes and later a daily take on why the land of the free and the home of the brave are no longer the picture perfect images of. the war on organized labor continues house republicans are opening up a new front against federal labor unions going after something called official time official time is a phrase used to describe the time federal workers who are also union representatives to union work like bargaining and meeting with employees also getting a paycheck for the federal job and a house hearing yesterday on this issue probably in congressman

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and welcome back to the big picture i'm lucy now filling in for tom hartman coming up later in this half hour our american prison inmates for the biggest terror threat facing this country congressman peter king thinks seems to think so but only if they follow islam we're going to have a debate on that issue and is there a cyber war brewing across america acts against businesses banks even the cia pranks or a dangerous war on the web. while homeland security committee chairman peter king wrong in the battle on the second round of his hearings on the radical islam yesterday the topic was muslim radicalization in u.s. presidents and democrats on hand wasted no opportunity to call out the chairman i guess is a witch hunts take a look. my point here today information is welcome condemnation is not so the focus of this hearing in the sense that we're looking you know what's wrong with the prison culture and how can we change and how can we improve and i think it's the right focus. to put it in the context of. i think the distractions but the continued discriminatory would i believe of one part

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thought about the big picture i'm tom hartman coming up in this half hour anthony weiner admits he did indeed tweet his body parts for below prompting republicans to call for his immediate resignation. but i wonder had it been one of their own but they call for the same action and there was a battle brewing on capitol hill today between wal-mart and wall street over debit card fees even though one side lost the real losers in the debate are you and me we don't have high paying lobbyists to fight for their cause. it's was it time for the lone liberal and i take god to conservative expert commentators on the big stories of the week on our pals and i had daniel helper ebony on line editor at the weekly standard and jenny weinstein editor of the daily caller dot com daniel jeannie both based on great to have you guys with us let's get going here unfortunately the big news of the week was winner gate democratic congressman anthony weiner admitted after a week of lying that he did indeed send lewd photos of his junk and carried on internet relationships with a variety of women on facebook an

tom hartman, thank you so much. ben ferguson we have to wrap it up.having me. >> that in a nutshell is the voice of the people on talk radio. >> wow. >> you know, we asked our question of the day, what is the single most important issue facing america today and some people said it's the partisan politics. >> yeah. >> can't get over it, can't make it solve problems as long as that continues. we had other interesting responses as well. twitter writes -- dave on facebook -- >> that's the point these two guys disagreed on. on twitter says -- and @roaring jake -- a lot of you are writing in saying education is important. >> as you were saying, kiran, we got one from somebody who said partisan politics, we lack the ability to negotiate solutions to problems. >> we can't even afwre on what the problem is or root of the problem. how do you get to solutions. >> you hear politicians and pundits saying the single biggest problem facing this country, it's very clear that while our polling indicates that really jobs is the number one, people do disagree on what --

let's be honest about this, and i do a radio show every friday, so we speak with a fellow named tom hartman. i don't know if you know tom, does a great job. and we talk to a couple of million people. and every week somebody raises this issue. the issue they raise is, why is it that the republicans are so tough, they don't compromise, and democrats compromise all of the time? is that right? okay. the question they raise. and i just look at what's happened in the last year. in terms of what this book is about, what the republicans said is, okay, there are several million people whose unemployment compensation is going to expire. but we don't want to extend unemployment. and until you give us -- and, by the way, that was ahis -- ahistorical. because historically when unemployment was above a certain level where we are right now, generally, there was bipartisan support. the republicans, we're not going to do it. and obama and the democrats said, well, that's terrible. republicans said, okay, we'll do it, but this is what we need from you. we need to extend bush's tax breaks for the wealthiest p