this is america! how many of you people want to pay for your neighbor s mortgage that has an extra bathroom and can t pay their bills. raise your hand! president obama, are you listening?! we re thinking of having a chicago tea party in july. all you capitalists that want to show up to lake michigan, i m going to start organizing. that comment sparked seemingly spontaneous protests across the country. but as jeff nesbitt points out in his book, poisoned tea, the tea party s rise was orchestrated, well-funded, and deliberate, with the goal of breaking washington on behalf of the super rich. nesbitt detailed how the koch brothers teamed up with cigarette company phillip most, , knowing that know one would be the wiser or even care that these anti-tax groups would be jointly created and sfrundven f by the largest private oil company and the largest cigarette company in the world. it was perfect timing. stoking outrage over the
administration stage. and here to accept that apology, glenn greenwald. mr. carter, thank you for joining us tonight. glenn is going to be on a little bit of a delay coming to us from south america. tell us how you did this most remarkable of things from washington creatures, changing your mind. i have a suspicion that living outside washington had something to do with it. it had something to do with it, but actually, just sitting back for a moment and saying, wait a minute, what did the man actually do? yes, yes, yes, he released some material. it was material which the government had no business having. that becomes clear. the second was material the government has been assembling in ways which no one outside the inner reaches of government had any idea that was going on. the combination was sort of overwhelming.
admit that your original opinions weren t accurate. i think that s hard for all of us to do. there have been some people who have done it. there was a vicious post about snowden early on and said later on, i ve thought about it and everything i said was wrong. he wasn t in it for fame or money, he was in it because he believed the public had a right to know. juan williams just wrote a column in the hill that said he was wrong, in light of the court says that he was this program was illegal, in light of the ongoing debate in washington where there s clearly going to be reform, what he did was strengthened for democracy and ought to be brought back home. i think that s often how it is with whistle blowers. i remember daniel told me earlier on he had almost no support doing what he did in the beginning and it took years for basically a consensus that what he did was heroic and he told me he thinks it s going to be the same pattern for mr. snowden. hodding carter, when i first saw that
program was illegal, in light of the ongoing debate in washington where there s clearly going to be reform what he did was strengthened for democracy and ought to be brought back home. i think that s often how it is with whistle blowers. i remember daniel told me earlier on he had almost no support doing what he did in the beginning and it took years for basically a consensus that what he did was heroic and he told me he thinks it s going to be the same pattern for mr. snowden. hodding carter when i first saw that headline i thought, oh, the court made that ruling and hoding inging carter reconsidered. but you clearly came to this view before that recent court ruling. yeah. i was thinking about the examples being cited and thinking at the time most of us were writing our renditions or chapters of the new book. that was not being said by people. and this was for some of us a step over a line which seemed to be very clear.
tonight. we re going to take a break and when we come back, with the world changing around them, republican presidential candidates are still clinging to the wreckage of their hopeless position on marriage equality. and today, a shock. a truly shocking thing, something that never happens in washington. a former state department official says he has changed his mind changed his mind about edward snowden. love making sunday dinners. but when my back hurt, cooking all day. forget about it. tylenol was ok, but it was 6 pills a day. but aleve is just 2 pills all day. and now, i m back! aleve. the technology changes the design evolves the engineering advances. but the passion to drive a mercedes-benz