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>> making money. >> declaring yourself a church means you dont have to pay taxes if the irs agrees youre a church. >> thats exactly right. and it affords you enormous protection. protection which is one of the subjects of this documentary and the thing i feel very passionate about is that abuses that go on within the church of scientology are in some form protected because they can hide behind the cloak of religion. >> under the banner of religion. being a child in this church, lets talk about t...

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Were willing to look at the fact we do have bias at play, we looked at data in terms of the local news stations and crime reporting. and if you look at arrest records and all four of the stations, all of them had a rate of 20 to 30 to 40% more in terms of black crime they were showing. so nypd arrest records compared to the suspects, pictures so the city is seeing over and over again black crimes. >> i want to do one other thing and lay over that. the bias does tell us a lot about individual int...

Fellow for center for security policy is joining us. let me break this down and well start first with iraq. i spoke with a form u.s. commander in the region who said look a key to fighting isis is that kurdish peshmerga. so is president obama making a serious mistake aligning with iran to fight isis in iraq? >> its great to be here. i think thats exactly right. the rise of isis is because of the abuses of the shiite government under president maliki and his use of iranian trained shiite militias...

>> and thats par for the course for scientology. in fact that sort of reaction and response is what proves much of whats shown in the film. look, megyn, they say that about every single person. alex gibny, an academy award winning has become a bigot -- nobody who says anything about scientology that they dont like -- >> they go after you. im up against a hard break. ive got 30 seconds. tell us why we should care. why should people care? >> you should care because there are people that are being ...

Remaining a dedicated and committed member of the church. and to stray from it is something that will result in very dire consequences. >> i watched the documentary. i apologize for calling you mark. i watched the documentary mike and it talks about how there is allegedly abuse against members who want to lead the church, theres blackmail, theres allegedly tapping of peoples phones who try to speak out against scientology. that some are put in a sort of prison called the hole where theyre not fr...

Nobody who says anything about scientology that they dont like -- >> they go after you. im up against a hard break. ive got 30 seconds. tell us why we should care. why should people care? >> you should care because there are people that are being hurt. and there are abuses that are going on. and theyre being hidden behind the first amendment. the church claims all sorts of religious protection which certainly is a good thing or great thing in this country. but its bad when abuses and people are ...

These are falsehoods. >> and thats par for the course for scientology. in fact that sort of reaction and response is what proves much of whats shown in the film. look, megyn, they say that about every single person. alex gibny, an academy award winning has become a bigot -- nobody who says anything about scientology that they dont like -- >> they go after you. im up against a hard break. ive got 30 seconds. tell us why we should care. why should people care? >> you should care because there are ...

That some are put in a sort of prison called the hole where theyre not free to leave monitoring by security guards. and an absolute commitment not to speak out against the religion, a commitment you say you were actually one of the enforcers of for years. >> yes, thats correct, megyn. i mean its ugly. there is no question. and thats the reason why i and others are speaking out. because we feel that the abuses that are ongoing within the church of scientology need to have the light of day shone o...

Know. what we found every time we visited a campus was that instead the institutions are incentivized to protect themselves and not their students. so thats why these crimes proliferate at these epidemic numbers. >> its the same thing you found out in "the invisible war" with the fact the chain of command doesnt allow these types of abuses to be rectified, justified through criminal resource. so with the school institutions and as we learned in that sound bite there, the fact no one was expelled...