notion that this is a religious war one of christianity versus islam already sunk in well the westboro baptist church has their way they're going to make sure of that and a press release sent today the church has announced that they will burn the koran and the quote doomed american flag on nine eleven because terry jones whom they call a false prophet. it's profits as kate so if the president and general petraeus have acknowledged that bernie mcconnell put american lives in danger is there anything they can do about it or do you have to abide by the freedom of speech no matter what the consequences when joining me from our studio in los angeles is j. dilla barito afghanistan veterans and co-founder of veterans for rethinking afghanistan and from kansas is surely phelps roper a member of the westboro baptist church i want to thank you both for joining me now jake i'm going to start with you first i want to talk about this violence in the protests that have broken out in afghanistan you know the country you're a veteran of this war there yourself you know what are your thoughts are you shocked to hear

have a little fun with work he's a journalist who took on the outrageous protests by the westboro baptist church and he's here to tell us about how he pokes fun at the very serious religious groups will back him up. just. the whole of the. more. secure. the future. and. the best in science. and around the world. i'm sure. the trying to. move. from stupid question. dot com. we've got a follow up to a story we brought you last week here on the show some economists try to say of the recession is over in the u.s. but millions of americans would disagree with that unemployment still high foreclosures are still on the rise and a new report says that forty four million americans live below the poverty line so who's to blame for all those financial troubles all laurie harn finest host harf in this excuse me host of the resident dot net took to the streets of the big apple to get a report from those live on the streets. the u.s. census bureau released a report indicating that about forty four million americans or one in seven live below the poverty level that's the highest it's been in over half of that

trusted also down professor peter ludlow to discuss that topic and we're sure that you know the westboro baptist church gets you guys as fired up as it gets me we're going to introduce you to a comedian who really gets a laugh out of them and their ridiculous and quite offensive protest his name is rick stone and he'll join us at the end of tonight's show but now let's move on to tonight's top story. well there is a war brewing in pakistan and for some reason people keep denying it but we are fighting just this past weekend fifty three people were confirmed dead after nato helicopters chased militants across the afghanistan border into pakistan and then struck rather unusual attack because this one came from a manned aircraft not just dropped now this violent weekend brings the total number of killings there to one hundred and one so we know that the number of attacks and drone strikes in pakistan have been on a constant increase we now know thanks to bob woodward's new book that was just released today that the cia's operating a three thousand man paramilitary of local afghans who cross into pakistan