for reaction, we're pleased to be joined by rick ungar and alexis mcgill johnson.thank you both for stick around. alexis, do you think that tragedies like the ones we're seeing in bangladesh will result in any systemic changes or is it just going to be a matter of the corporations will pay off a few families, maybe pay a fine and more business as usual? >> well, i think the real challenge is these kind of tragedies have to connect with the consumer of the brands. it is not just the corporation of the brands making the decisions. it is the people going into the. had and ms and the -- going into the h & ms and the benettons and whether or not the clothes are being made ethically. we've seen it happen with food and sneakers and other areas. that's where the tipping point is going to happen. >> john: how is the average consumer to know? not talking about folks who have to shop at walmart for the lower prices, how are folks supposed to know was it made in a decent factory or hell hole? >> alexis has this right. we need bono. we need a program created so that you know wh

please welcome rick ungar. bachelor number two republican contestant is a writer, comic carl starring in living in exile on stay tuned tv.net. played for many of the troops overseas and author of the complete idiot's guide to comedy writing. this is jim mendrinos. topic number one tea partiers and republicans. rick ungar, what would you like to ask a tea partier? >> first question, the survey we just mentioned that john was talking about, reveals republicans are only slightly more acceptable to tea partiers than democrats. this being the case, why will the tea party not have the courage to run its own candidates rather than simply using their clout to primary challenge republican candidates? where are your party candidates? >> let's point this out. that's what you as a democrat would love for us to do. you would love for us to split this republican party up. wouldn't you? wouldn't that be a genus thing to do? >> my people run for their party. they stand up and run. >> because they're all democrats. so republica

to discuss we are pleased to be joined by contributor to forbes.com, the great rick ungar and the host of ring of fire and the majority report, the great sam seder. thank you for joining us. >> good to be here. >> john: sam when we look back on this week, do you think it will be seen as a bad blip on the eight-year obama radar or is this a defining week for his second term? >> i think it's actually going to have some staying hour but even before addressing that, i think there is more to this a.p. story than i think we're giving credit. it is not clear that what the justice department did was actually legal. they have their own internal guidelines statutory guidelines as to when they are to get a secret subpoena as opposed to informing the media outlet. they're seeking one and giving the media outlet a time to negotiate. with that being said, yeah, look, the republican party i've said this in the context of many other issues, they have created a frankenstein and it is running through the streets. they're going to run with benghazi. they're going to run with the i.r.s. because that feeds

agricultural commodities and that it could achieve humanitarian objectives associated with reducing ungar and under-nutrition and that it could perhaps with some our allies abroad. with the same law kennedy founded usaid the u.s. organization responsible for international development which would administer civilian foreign aid. is. the u.s. government for spreading many foreign policy through human and. systems. during the cold war large quantities of food were sent to countries of strategic importance to the united states like india indonesia and pakistan. likewise large cargoes were sent to eastern asia during the korean and vietnam wars. during the seventy's a large bulk of food aid went to the middle east. during the ninety's after the fall of the berlin wall food aid was directed to countries the former eastern bloc the same pattern was repeated in afghanistan and iraq during the war on terror. if you have took aboard diplomacy it's a bit of a subtle way of pushing a message of agenda. to another country you know because if you do even if you've seen even more so because dick cheney

and coming back for more is rick ungar, contributor of forbes.com. let's talk about gitmo.e ran on closing it in 2008. we havehalf of the men jailed there have been cleared for release. they're still there. they have been on a hunger strike for three months, nothing changes. they're force fed to make them get proteins, some consider this torture. we're paying for it. tom, what needs to happen here? >> the president needs to show leadership. you cited the it accurate facts. to house inmates at guantanamo cost per year. send them home. get them out of our country. >> not so simple. >> leadership said it's been four years. find a place to put them. >> do you take issue with the republican congress that won't let him take leadership. >> it's a political problem i get that. no question. in the budget-- >> john: what can he do? >> because you know what you need to reach out to people like myself. when i looked at the facts of this, i said we're wasting money here. but the president only talks about it in a political year and it never gets done. >> john: basil. >> but congress sai

we're joined now by rick ungar contributor to forbes.com. thank you for being on the show, rick. >> always a pleasure. >> john: are you shocked and awed at agreeing with the humanity of rubio? >> my favorite critic is the cato institute. in all of the years of xoistence, it hasn't happened. >> john: is it because of they genuinely don't like the report or want to win elections for republicans? >> you have to understand how remarkably flawed this report is. what's amazing about this, it is like you have a five-part assignment to do and you only did the first one and turned in your homework. basically, they took the position that there's going to be x amount of dollars going out as government support for these people and x number of dollars coming in for taxes, obviously the disparity. but the rest of it, they presume that every single immigrant will come to this country sit on a street corner, never eat a speck because they won't be spending anything into the economy nor will anybody be giving them food. >> john: they'll never buy anything so

ramsey didn't say he was paying his exxonmobil heating bill and then exxon tweet about it because rick ungar may have had a mild, transient stroke over that one. no, i' just kidding, or heart failure. listen, thiss just a tweet. it's just a tweet. basically mcdonald's is not saying we're going to build a commercial built on kidpping. think how we blast companies and ceos for not being socially conscientious and now mcdonald's put out a tiny its eet. it's not as if they went and poured cyanide intohe pacific ean, they just put out a tweet, that's all they did. >> bill, is this a good move or not? >> i didn't think it took very long for it to boomerang on mcdonald's. first it wasn't just the hero but the apparent perpetrator of the crime that loves mcdonald's. the second thing is charles ramsey's rambling discourse on television had a lot of negativity in it. talking about domestic violence and 9/11. does mcdonald's want its brand associated witthat kind of stuff? >> first of all, a lot of that stuff from his history has been admitted by him and his ex-spouse who apparenly was involved in the

and democratic strategist and contributor to forbes.com, rick ungar. good evening gentlemen. thank you for joining us. i want to begin by talking about the interview i just did with medea benjamin. what were your feelings as you watched president obama's speech and witnessed ms. benjamin's interruptions. i'll start with rick. you're the big democrat here. >> the interruptions are kind of weird. in a sense, i guess they're a little bit annoying but you know what? she serves a very valuable role. i listened to what she said earlier on your show. there wasn't much i could argue with. i actually thought the president would have done well for himself letting her talk and not interrupting her. >> john: michael? >> i agree. what medea seized upon in the speech is it lacked a moral vision. we're not accustomed to that. he usually has a moral vision. even if you disagree, there is an attractive vision he lays out. in that case, the moral vision was brought by medea and the crowd by interrupting the president. >> john: you don't think the notion albeit vague of scaling down the war on

the enough security services to counter the ungar of these people. the gruesome episode in london in schools the more security in their british can cause an aircraft school to buy time for it to transfer small and i thought outside london i mean fears of a terrorist attack going to happen a website why the threat of a little wellman saw. and fires raged across the polar suburbs of stockholm for a six night despite a heavy police presence in the streets here is pictures and all the details that. portugal could ask for more time to cut its debt it wants e.u. and i.m.f. crevasses to revise their demanded targets for a third time despite lisbon's seventy eight billion euro bailout and budget the nation is still in crisis. only found out the middle class is being hit. europe's politicians insist that austerity is essential but what effect does that austerity have upon the everyday people to whom it's inflicted upon. i went to meet a family just outside of lisbon who are feeling the pressure of portugal's financial failings. we use to take certain things f

you go how you were going herb ever enough security services to counter the ungar of these people in a similar attack a french soldier has been stabbed in the neck while he was patrolling a business area in a neighborhood of paris the twenty three year old was injured as the unknown man attacked him from behind with a knife or a box cutter police say according to c.c.t.v. footage and suspect is tall the age of thirty five was wearing an arab style cuny and is possibly of north african origin activist and here in this you can chant and thinks the matter who is behind the attack it serves the interests of those who want to undermine islam. these type of attacks plays into the strength the g.o.p. the state to promote a false sense of islam so than is done so what people of the masses around the world conceive wrongly as islam is a disgusting version of the face and in so doing criminalizes all muslims around the world and then they use these groups in asia to conduct the stabilisation of the french who go in pretending to be the neutral arbitrators bringing peace and stability this is a

enough security services to counter the ungar of these people. and the gruesome episode in london is causing more security drifters in the british capital as an aircraft is courted by typhoon fighter jets to a small airport outside london and the fears of a terrorist attack find out through our website of why the threat of overwhelming force more schemes. and fires of rage across the poor suburbs of stockholm for six tonight despite i have a police presence in the streets videos pictures and all the details that i was a tough call. portugal could ask for more time to cut its debts it was easier and i have creditors to revise their demand targets for a third time despite lisbon's seven to eight billion you are bailout and budget the nation is still in crisis as his piece i want to found out the middle class is being hit hard. europe's politicians insist that all star team is essential but what effect does that austerity have upon the everyday people to whom it's inflicted upon. i went to meet a family just outside of lisbon who are feeling the pre

this week when protesters clashed with police in neighboring turkey demonstrate is that angry had ungara support for the rebels and say the turkish people are paying the price for the involvement of the protests in istanbul and the capital to get some clouds in a turkish border town which was the scene of a deadly double bombing a week ago thank you again syria for the attack which it strongly denied and pointed the finger at radical rebels important the aim of the an innocent man while i often try to he's probably the syrian crisis extensively says take his aggravating the conflict by backing the insurgency. straight to the turkish people is upset because of what is happening on the turkish side it's their full right because it's like to let me say to invite a firestarter into your house because you want to send to me later to your neighbors and then you wonder the firestarter starts putting fire on your own house we have to see that turkey has a nine hundred kilometer long border to syria and we have to see that turkey doesn't do anything to prevent terrorists and mercenaries crossing

states is like a third world nation in terms of the percentage of our population that suffers from ungar cutting food stamps is cruel unnecessary and bad for the economy the libertarians like austin peterson want to do it anyway why is that i'm joined now by austin peterson director of production for freedom works at the editor of libertarian republic austin what do you hate about hungry children told tom it's easy to be compassionate with someone else is picking up the tab but i'm going to yeah well it was but i think it was mark twain that said that a full belly is a little worth where the mind is starved so i think it was that it was franklin roosevelt said eight assess that this man is not a free man ok but we want to talk about the people who are on this program you know there in two thousand and ten there was a g.a.o. report that revealed that the people who choose to participate in these food assistance programs generally have yes they choose because there are people who choose not to use it but they have a greater difficulty meeting their food needs and they are more food and sec

cheaper for less well off californians so why no jump in premium costs well as forbes columnist rick ungar a onetime obamacare skeptic points out the desire on the part of the health insurance companies to increase market share thanks to the large influx of customers as a result of obamacare is driving prices down ward that's right insurance companies aren't scared of obamacare they're looking forward to it as an opportunity to add new customers consumers should be excited to california's the most populous state in our nation in a good indicator of what impact obamacare will have when implemented correctly elsewhere however republicans in red states like texas are not all that into implementing correctly they're sticking to their guns and opposing obamacare is medicaid expansion and passing off the responsibility for creating their exchanges back to the federal government as paul krugman pointed out in a recent blog post for the new york times this could actually create two different obamacare one for blue states the other for red states he wrote it looks as if we're going to see blue stat