My point, apparently there is a god. Of and will obama exploit the manti teo store just to punish those going online pretending to be girls. If andiy kaufman was alive he would be wrestling his fake online girlfriend right now. This is view point. | [music] |. Good evening. We are leading off the show with breaking news about a Hostage Rescue Mission where civilians and possibly some americans have reportedly been killed. We will turn to what many feel is a broken american approximately see that may have killed close to 200 children. Troops attacked a remote gas complex to free foreign and will algerian hostages. If you havent heard much about this on the news its because it doesnt involve fake girlfriends or blood doping but leob panetta said 100 were at the complex when the cud napping too kidnapping took place. Hillary clinton i says antiterrorism fors have been in close contact but the situation we mains fluid. The security of the americans held hostage is our highest priority ask we care about the other algerian and foreign hostages as well. And because of the fluidity and the fact there is a lot of planning going on, i cannot give you any further details at this time about the Current Situation on the ground. According to the bbc five american hostages survived the assault and have left algeria and one irish hostage was freed. Many kidnappers and four hostagas were killed and efforts are underra way to free those being held. A spokesman for the extremists say 35 hostages and 15 kidnappers died in the assault today. You a surveillance drone is said to be giving real tim surveillance. Robert greenwald is back from pakistan to determine if strikes are strickly targeted targeted on terrorists are making americans safer or creating a new generation ofant iamerican militants. You are creating 1,000 morminds in people who will go in the ranks of the al qaeda and taliban and feel illegal activity happens it is a hostile one and something that has reaction. We will have more on the dron warfare in a moment. First on the crisis we are joined by the staff writer for defense and National Defense for the hill. Thank you for having me. What is the latest . Officials say the assault is over but some prisoners are still being held. Thats where the situation stands right now. You mentioned alger an special forces and the numbers regarding the hostages still on the at the facility, it is just as murky as the numbers coming out as who were killed and who escaped. Some reports have said as many as two americans are still on the facility under lock and key by the militants who are there. Again, reports vary. Are we to assume these are are bp employees or contractors being held . More than likely. It is was a bpowned facility. They would be employees algerrian and other countries as well. The group calls themselves the masked brigade and are they a new strain of al qaeda . I am not sure if they are a new strain. They are in line with many of the al qaeda groups in the country. They have a named terror cell which has affiliated cells. This group seems to fall along those lines. Recent reports noted the head of this group had experience fighting in afghanistan before going back to africa to take up the cause there. Does it seem north africa is becoming ground zero for new al qaeda reutment. As far as it becoming ground zero for al qaeda rey cruitment the continent has been concerned for the Defense Department for a while. They have created a command and also a joint special Operations Task force in early 2000 and part of the previous bush administrations global war on terror. The white house and the pentagon have had their eye on that area in terms of possibly becoming a safe haiive for al qaeda and Al Qaeda Affiliated groups, i think the number of incidents that have happened in the recent weeks have drawn attention to it now. Thank you very much. I hope you keep us updated on this development. Will do. From the hostage crisis to the covert american drone war im pleased to be joined by film maker and activist robert greenwald. Thank you for joining us. My pleasure. Before we begin talking about drone warfare in your upcoming film you i want to ask if you see any connection between the drone war and the kidnapping. Unlike other folks i like to stick with the facts. We dont have any factual information about that particular attack and what caused and motivated it. What we have attacks about are the drones alienating and servicing as recruiting tools for al qaeda and taliban all over the world. Eems im sure one day we will know if this is relateed to a drone attack. Remember the times square bomber was there because of drones. Its having a widespread and continuing impact in ways that will come back and haunt us for years and years and years. It does seem like the more we take out america haters the more america haters we create. When i was in pakistan i wases work i was working with amazing men and women and brought 2530 people i interviewed and there were family members fathers children who had lost friends or relatives to drone attacks and pleaded with me literally at the end of every interview would say could you please tell mr. Obama we are not terrorists and to stop killing our people as if i could walk into his office and talk to him. Over the time i was in pakistan and i talked to politicians and a psychiatrist who runs a hospital where he tells stories of people literally having to travel 8 hours to get any kind of mental help because of the drone attacks. And a wide variety of people all of whom are unan mouse that it is making the United States of america less safe because of the number of enemies we were creating. The footage we showed you are being greeted warmly and its worth remembering that pakistan is still an ally. Are you disturbed by a growing hostility. The people i met with and one doesnt want to over generalize, couldnt have been more gracious. A man held upa a picture of his 6570yearold mother and said she was killed bu a drone and was not a terrorist. His children and grandchildren couldnt have been more helpful and wanted to get the word to the United States that they were not doing anything to justify our assass nating them and their relatives. They are able to separate at this point United States policy from members and people of the United States of america. A president ial candidate of pakistan said there are 100 fanatics in this tribal area, you now have 1 Million People who hate you because you are murdering their relatives. Think about that for a minute. And think about we didda did a separate video on this, 178 children have been killed by drones in pakistan and yemen. John brennan says the drone strikes have been executed with surgical precision. Does that jibe with what you found on the ground . Its a disgusting statement. They have not been executeed with surgical precision maybe a terrible hack surgeon if thats your definition. There are numerous people and numerous incidents of absolutely out rain outrageious suvillian casualties each if the drones are technically accurate how do they get information about who to attack. They are expakistani military are bribing people in the provinces to give them names and thats how and who the drones are directed at and just in began gone guantanamo they are turning in people they have a grudge against. And bribes leading to bad intel are all to familiar. We have 20 seconds left do you think whether we like it or not drone warfare is the future . I think we have to do neferg our power everything in our power to stop it for all the obvious reason moralliy, spiritually and its not making us safer. As americans and policy makes understand it as we get the word out i hope the policy will be changed. The argument if we we are not at war with pakistan. Its not troops or drone, its how to you protect and defend and drones are not doing the job. Robert greenwald am, im a big fan of your films. Alan grayson is back in congress and joining us next. Converstion started weekdays at 9am eastern. Im a slutty bob hope. You are. 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If you expected democratic firebrand alan grayson to tone down his comments now that hes back in d. C. , you dont know grayson if you get sick in america this is what the republicans want you to do. If you get sick, america the republican Healthcare Plan is this. Die quickly. John oh, you can sell the signs on ebay. Admit it. You miss this guy. As i pointed out three years ago, their Healthcare Plan is dont get sick and if you do get sick, die quickly. Now we see the same thing true with guns in the wake of a terrible National Tragedy recurring national tragedies. Their answer is do nothing. They want to instill in us a fatalism annihilism that means we cant do anything to solve our problems. John the pride of floridas ninth district, the one and only ayatollah rock n rolla, alan grayson. Good evening distinguished representative. Thank you for your time. Good evening. John great to have you back sir. I speak on behalf of many who are thrilled to see you back on capitol hill. After two years off sir has anything changed . A lots changed. The democrats no longer have the house and as a result, nobodys doing anything unless you hold a gun to their heads literally. It is remark to be see the inaction. I saw that directly in full force. It has been 79 days since Hurricane Sandy before the republican majority in the house was linked to do something to address the problem. 79 days where people cant flush their toilets. 79 days where people are living in the dark with candlelight and it took that long for the republicans to do anything to help all of those people. It is shock. They cant get anything done. John those people live in the northeast and not in actual america. I think thats the rationale. I think the rationale is what it always is. The republicans dont want to do anything for anybody. There is a mean streak, too that you only see you only recognize when youre close up. These are people who went to kick you when youre down. John like you so eloquently described republicans plan seems to be do nothing. When you see you your g. O. P. Colleagues do nothing now it is on gun control measures, what do you think the odds are when the next mass shooting happens god forbid, will they be blamed . Will the g. O. P. Once again bow to the nra pressure or is this time going to be slightly different . No. They will bow to the nra pressure. Im almost certain of it. Because you have to understand the real audience for about 150 members of congress who are republicans, most of their caucus the real audience is those 4 or 5 of humanity who vote in republican primary elections. They dont care what happens in november. They care what happens in june, july august, when theyre having their primaries. It is only a tiny fraction of the public who goes to congress from all of those Many Republican districts. Thats their audience. The nra still has veto power over most republican members of congress. Theyll kowtow to the nra. John if they go ahead and block oar filibuster an assault weapons ban or regulations on magazine size, when the next massacre happens does the house g. O. P. Then own it . It just doesnt matter to them. We live in a country where almost 25 Million People cant find fulltime work and the president and the Democratic Party have been trying desperately to do something about this for the past four years and for the past two years, the republicans have blocked every effort. The president s jobs Program Never came to a vote in the house of representatives. It is farcical. They dont want to help people. They dont care. The only way to solve this problem is simply to put them out of power. John in your own state of florida, governor rick scott has been refusing to accept federal money to help severely disabled children but it turns out hes willing to use state and local funds to line the pockets of the gun lobby. Of course, scott gave a 1. 6 million tax subsidy to Colt Manufacturing in 2011. Is there any logic behind this . Well, the logic i think is that of they believe the only problem this country has is the millionaires and billionaires dont have enough money. And if we keep stuffing money into their pockets somehow everything will come up roses. Thats been their plan from the start. Theyre pretty explicit about it. No form of corporate welfare that Governor Scott has been against but if you talk about actually seeing to it that happenky dapped children Handicapped Children can be hope with their families, suddenly theres no money for that. John last week in response to crittism is from you and children, florida launched a socalled enhanced care program which would enlist 28 nurse care coordinators to would, with the families and the Nursing Homes treating the disabled children. Is this close to adequate . 28 people for the whole state of florida . No, of course not. We have 20 Million People in the state of florida. We have tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of children who are dependent upon the state for their care. And the question is it going to be in the hands of their loved ones, the people who care about them the most. Are they going to be institutionalize and treated like, i dont know packed like sardines into a can. Thats the choice that actually is in front of us and the governors already indicated he favors the sardine approach. John im all in favor of giving criminals a Second Chance but governor of florida seems a bit much. Do you think the tide is turning and your constituents are beginning to wake up and realize the character of the man theyve put in the Governors Office . You know, its a tough analogy. In the same way that people in pakistan are sick and tired of seeing drones in the sky day after day people in florida are sick and tired of seeing an unthinking unfeeling government thats constantly doing nothing but taking potshots at them, particularly the ones most in need. I think it is going to end. I think people in florida are waking up. They understand theyre entitled when they choose our leaders, were entitled to have leaders who care about us, who want to help us and serve us. Not people who just tell us if you got a problem youre on your own. John congressman alan grayson from florida. It is a pleasure to see you back in d. C. Thank you. John an american arrested and jailed in egypt after taking pictures of pyramids. He tells his s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s this monday morning current tv presents special coverage of the president ial inauguration. The circumstance the inside analysis. The president ial inauguration this monday morning at 10 eastern only on current tv. Before the sneeze, help protect with a spray. Before the tissue, help defend with a wipe. Before the cold flu season help prevent with lysol. Because when you have 10 times more protection with each hand wash. And kill 99. 9 of germs around the house with each spray. Those Healthy Habits start to add up. This season, a good offense is the best defense and lysol has your family covered because thats our mission for health. John welcome back once again to the quickest awards show in the world tonights category, most absurd right wing overreaction to president obamas executive actions on guns. And the nominees are. Senator marco rubio for saying the executive orders have nothing to do with newtown because this is stuff theyve always wanted to do and now this has created the Political Climate to pursue it. Hes confusing exploiting a tragedy with exploiting the next one. Governor rick perry for saying laws the only redoubt of secularism will not suffice. Lets return to our place of worship and pray for help. Finally, mike levine for saying there are certain things in an executive order that are unamerican. In some ways, theyre even proving his listeners cant look up what a fascism really means. Quickie goes to governor rick perry for suggesting we should stop wasting our time passing laws and instead pray it away. Governor perry couldnt be here tonight because he has a previous engagement. Hes traveling and oops. But we want to accept this award on his behalf and thank him for m