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Not funny. I think its important to acknowledge were unified by our common humanity. I would like to expose the positivity as aspiring to greater things. What should a revolution look like . Many people want a revolution, but im asking you what it will be like. Well, i think what it wont be like is a huge disparity between rich and poor where 300 americans have the same amount of wealth as the 85 million poorest americans. Where theres an exploited and underserved underclass that has been continued to be ignored. Welfare is slashed while cameron and osborne go to court to continue the rights of bankers to continue receiving their bonuses. Thats all im saying. In his new book, revolution Russell Brand details his ideas of an alternative way to organize and says we all have a right to join the conversation. He said theres no heroic revolutionary figure in whom we can invest hope except for ourselves as individuals together. Joining me now, comedian, actor, author and media commentator, Russell Brand. So, you know, i love watching truths which is your youtube channel. Yes, thank you. Because among many other things, some of my favorite media criticism is there, especially when you turn your attention to some of the other men in makeup in the cable news business. Can we play a little piece of you talking about mr. Oreilly . I would love to. Lets do that. Hello. Welcome to u. S. Truths. Looking a bit like oreilly. Im oreilly. Thanks for watching us tonight. I think tonight hes talk act immigration. How the left wants to handle tens of thousands of children illegally entering the usa. Right then, bill. Were on earth for a limited amount of time. One thing we know for certain is human beings basically are the same. On a cellular level. What are you offering, bill . Look, most of these kids and narnts cant speak english, have little education and few skills. How are they going to compete in our competitive marketplace. The answer is they are not going to compete. How . How . Theyre not going to. Without immigrant labor, food in america would cost four to five times as much because the cheaper labor provided by immigrants is making food affordable. So bill, your whole economic argument is rubbish and based on bigotry. So many things i love about that. Just actually first offal all, the idea that Russell Brand is home watching bill oreilly. That just cracks me up right there. In a way, it shows what a convenient and useful tool comedy is when dealing with bigotry. He becomes actually a quite enjoyable figure. You do that with hannity, too. You always begin with the laugh when you Start Talking about these guys. Yeah. Bill oreilly is like a man constantly at war with hemorrhoids as much as immigrants. And hannity is whining confusion. Whats happening . I can hear the highpitched bafflement hes constantly emitting. I feel a lot of affection for them as individuals, if not the bigotry they espouse. There doesnt seem to be a big culture gap peen you and what you pick up from the American Media. In a way, the british media is a subset of American Media. America is the dominant culture, so were all subject to it. Its grammar, lexicon and to a degree, were all fluent in American Media. And is british media kind of less colorful than whats going on in American Media now . Sometimes thing that british media is more nuanced. We have more vitriol in our print media. The daily mail is more like the fox news of print. They supported hitler when he was in power. You think some very big thoughts in here. Also some very funny stuff. New york times review saying the bloke can write, which is no surprise, because this is not your first book. But what gave you the ambition to take on these larger ideas in a book like this . For a long time, as an entertainer, my opinions, musings and contemplations on spirituality or social institutions were kind of like a garnish. But as a comedian, you necessarily have to be attuned and be able to commentate on whats happening. Increasingly, this now seems to be the dominant this is now the dominant thing. And one, i went back to the town im from, which is comparable in terms of demographic to Something Like camden, new jersey. A pretty ordinary blue collar town. It deteriorated. It made me feel a pang, glitter and all famous and selfaggrandized as an individual and the place i come from is deteriorating. Ple, where im from its normal not to vote, like 50 of americans dont vote. Why is it normal not to vote . Because theres a tacit acceptance that the people who you vote dont care about you and only look out for the interest of economic elite. Its understood. That kind of community in england, does it feel like it doesnt who wins . It dont make any difference to their lives who wins . They know that. Think eve been alive for a while and theyve seen it happen. What if someone other than tony blair was there and making the decision to go into the iraq war. It seems in warmaking powers, there may very well make a difference in whos the prime minister. At that time, a Million People took to the streets to protest that war. That war still happened. I think that i dont think that war is excluded from the overall milieu of tyranny. Who would you vote for . If theres someone you can vote for, were not going to support the military complex. Its a devastating cyclical nightmare. Is there a party who says that . Rand pauls father used to say Something Like that. It sound like a folk tale. Well, Hukleberry Finn was very antiwar. For me, in this country, in my country, there are the two dominant Political Parties that ultimately represent the interest of an economic elite and global corporations, increasingly bureaucracy worldwide prevents even at a National Level politicians having very much power. We see it becoming more and more destitute. We see the economy deteriorating and no one is responsible. Where are the people who are benefits from this. Where are the people who are benefitting from 1 in 6 americans living on food stamps . What do you do when confronted with the issue of voting . To me, i always tell people become active and collectivized in your own lives. Theres no one to vote for. What i would urge is for i would urge for a Political Organization that generally represents people. I would say what we require is democracy. We have democracy in name but not in practice. In my country, of which im more qualified to speak, we see increasing poverty, increasing inequality, ecological disaster on the horizon, and nobody saying all right, were the Political Party thats going to stop that. Well make sure the most vulnerable are looked after, ordinary working people are represented and well regulate big business, control big business, control corporations in the way they were designed to be controlled. Not as these infin nit dieties who have control of aur lives. Its time for us to become active in these issues. I would agree with you in this country, and i am not qualified to talk about the politics of your country. But in this country, there is no place to cast a vote of to exprez everything you just expressed. But there is a place to cast a vote that says, i want women in all 50 states of the United States to be able to determine their own reproductive rights. Sure. And i want to make sure that the Supreme Court doesnt become seven conservative republican justices ruling against women in these kinds of options, taking these options out of their lives. And so what that translates to is, you know, if im in kentucky and theres a senate race, it really matters to me whether we end up with the democrat or the republican in the senate, because the senate is who decides the Supreme Court justices. It doesnt sound like a very effective system to me. What were quibbling over is basic human rights of women. But we are. But wait, in the United States, we are quibbling over that big time. We dont have, is what im saying. Its us. We choose. When did they get to decide the parameters of the debate. When did they get to decide the issues that are evolcano tif and provocative for us. Of course women should have dominion over their own bodies. Democracy is this gleaming excall bure of freedom. And what are we offered . These tidbits, thaez crumbs from tables while corporations maraud. Thats not enough for me. Goodbye, we wont complain anymore. We want our power back. Nobody says you dont complain anymore once you win those rights. This great democracy founded on wonderful freedoms and right to pursue happiness. If were going to be satiated by these little shards of freedom, thats not enough. Democracy should be the representation of the will of the people. First we need an informed media and informed population so people can have a legitimate population and understand the issues were talking at. And secondly, we need the means by which people control their destiny. That can happen under the federal level. Im not saying that women shouldnt have dominion over their bodies. Pim saying they should. Why are we even talking about that . Thats over, thats done with. But its not over with. It hangs by one vote in the United States Supreme Court. The presidency and the senate determines who gets that next seat on the United States Supreme Court. Its a distraction. Meanwhile, we are 50 years from total ecological meltdowns and the corporations that are causing this are going to do nothing to prevent it from happening. While i agree your senate is important, more important than that, lawrence is were about to destroy the planet. More important than that is the walton heirs have more money than 100 million american people. The democracy of this country is alleged to already have. Now, you talk about income inequality in this book a great deal. You know, whenever the subject in this country veers into that territory, immediately the world socialism comes up. You must not say anything that sounds even slightly socialistic in our political dialogue, even though we have plenty of socialism in our system. Were just the only country who refuses to call it socialism when we actually do it. So its immediately thrown back at people, and so, you know, this book in terms of the fox news reviews is just filled with socialism from cover to cover. Incredible socialism in the financial industry. Theyll pump trillions and trillions of dollars. Bail you out if youre big enough. Too big to fail, lets put our arm around you. They have socialism for them. Socialism is not a dirty word. Socialism is just the politics of christianity. Its just the politics of common decency. A little bit of sharing. Im sure that after the revolution there will be some form of hierarchy. There will be some inequality. But not the galling inequality and suffering we live with now. And what is your hope for this book. What is the thing that you would want someone to take away from this book and tell their friends about, heres the reason to read this book. What i would like, mate, you know them fast food workers that are organizing and unionizing. I would like people everywhere who feel oppressed, feel like they have in purchase on their own life, paying too much money for their homes or losing their jobs or living on food sfafrps and ordinary working people having to work hard and still havent lived a decent live. Know it isnt their life. Neither is it the fault of immigrants or homosexuals is the result of an economic elite that are taking all the resources and all of the money globally and together, we can change that story and narrative if on a local level, we organize collectively, protest and disobey and on a global level we communicate. It will be easier and better than what we already have. Russell brand, thank you very much for coming in tonight. This is just as much fun as i expected. Thank you very much, sir. Ive got to read something here. Dont distract me. Ill be good. I love you coming up dont distract me. A new perk. Women working at apple or facebook, freezing your eggs. You can freeze your eggs. 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A High Percentage offal the United States carried out 22 air strike against Islamic State fighters. 21 of those were near a small town in syria near the Turkish Border that is in danger offaling to the Islamic State. A terrorism analyst joins me now. This news out of pakistan that here you have taliban members in pakistan saying we are now loyal to, in effect coming out of the Prince William of what seems to be the ever expanding Islamic State. Thats absolutely correct. These are prominent members of the islamic taliban. Theyve led battles in lawless areas. He said this is not the first time he gives allegiance. Hes given allegiance to al bagdadhi before. The leader of the Islamic State. State may have been doing a bit of a field survey. Maybe some people will give allegiance to the Islamic State, but we have to do some field survey. Get some credibility from a number of jihadi leaders around the world. What does this mean . This gives him a lot of credibility. Not only for him as a leader of this new caliphate or over the Islamic State hes clearly the leader of something bigger than Osama Bin Laden was ever the leader of. What he was able to accomplish in a short period of time took Osama Bin Laden two decades to accomplish. Its not just his charisma, its his military expertise, his sharia law, jurisprudence study, which he has a ph. D. In. What did he get his command expertise . Hes been engaged in battles since take us back to that. Before the invasion in 2003, he was where doing what . He was basically hanging out with a number of militants in the north. He was one of the founding members of an islamist militant faction that was already prepare for the u. S. Invasion. This was preu. S. Invasion early 2003. He was part of that community. Then he defected and shortly after he was imprisoned by the u. S. Forces. Defected to whom . He defected to form his own group. He was captured and imprisoned. Then authoritily thereafter, once he was released, he had already made friends with a number of former baathist officers who became a member of the council of the Islamic State. So meanwhile, between 2006 and 2010, he was really prepared into a number of highranking missions. He went from a middleranking commander after being a top military commander. The two answers are unknown how he got to that point. We know as of commandeering operations in the region and the charisma he was able to exert, hes gotten up in the ladder and was able to get to that status. What would it take to target him individual lain what would it mean if the United States, or if anyone involved in this conflict were able to take him up . It takes a lot of intelligence work. Intelligence is everything here. We dont know his exact location yet. When he appeared in his first and only video announcing the caliphate, it was indicative that he was in mosul. But shortly thereafter, we dont know. Oneof his relatives committed a suicide operation in baghdad. That just shows you he actually is still in charge. Hes not somebody relinquishing power to his lowranking commanders. Hes actually taking charge and directing the operations. Its a very centralized focus. Do we know how much of a command structure he has built under him . Is it one of those things where hes got a series of successors or strong people under him, if somehow he was taken out of the action . Hes got a number of strong individuals in the council, which is basically the council that makes all the decisions that have to do with the Islamic State, operationally or otherwise. And those individuals, many of them are actually much older than him in age. They have military experience. But he was able to really attract individuals who have long, long years in jihad from all around the world. People everywhere from afghanistan and pakistan all the way to africa, all the way to somalia and what not. So his influence and his character have really gone overseas and have been really, really essential in giving credibility to this new caliphate. Thanks for giving us this portrait of him tonight. Appreciate it. Coming up, anne romney sort of said never again today about mitt romney running for president. We will show you how she will rewrite that into here we go again in tonights rewrite. And remember, shes done this before. Ecked bag. With my united mileageplus explorer card. I have saved 75 in checked bag fees. Priority boarding is really important to us. You can just get on the plane and relax. I love to travel, no foreign transaction fees means real savings. We can go to any country and spend money the way we would in the us. When i spend money on this card i can see brazil in my future. I use the explorer card to earn miles in order to go visit my family which means a lot to me. Goodnight. Goodnight. For those kept awake by pain the night is anything but good. 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Join meg now, Sarah Elizabeth richards, author of mother hood rescheduled. And megan garber, a staff writer for the atlantic. Is this just a new and enhanced benefit of Health Care Policies . Its a great thing just from the fact that it offers this opportunity to more women. It does feel sticky that its coming from an employer, other than your mother offering it to you as a graduation gift. It brings up questions we Vice President dealt with before. Like what . The first generation of women who froze their eggs, they were in late 30s, early 40s. Most of them didnt have a partner or gone through a breakup. Thats why they froze. Now youve got younger women doing it. You think what happens if youre 32 and your employer offers you this benefit, is it going to change the way you think about egg freezing and what kind of expectations is your employer going to have of you . It seems the only way it should affect your thinking is if you were wanting to freeze eggs but couldnt afford it and now you might be able to afford it, then there you go. I would think so, yeah. Part of the question, i think, is this whole question basically about career and family and can you have both at the same time. So i think that is sort of where the controversy lies. But in terms of, you know, on an individual bhas sis what women want, this gives a more assurance that your reproductive years can be extended a little bit. Theres a cynical take saying yeah, these Tech Companies want to work these women to the bone and give them the idea that they dont have to sacrifice anything. They can just work right through their 30s and freeze their eggs at some point and put off those bigger decisions about life for later. And so that strikes mes at h as kind of insulting to the women, that they can be thrown off track by a little incentive like this. Sure. Egg freezing is hot right now. Its kind of got this sexy allure. Were talking about women going to egg freezing parties. Bloomberg business week saying freeze your eggs, freeze your career. Were all talking about it as if its going to work. Thats the biggest question. For some of these women, its not going to work. If they do it in their early to mid 30s and dont do the things theyed knee to get themselves into position to be parents or mothers, where are they going to find themselves if it doesnt work. Are they going to blame facebook for not having a family. Now theyre 45. The frozen eggs dont work but its too late to have a baby with their own natural fertility. That is a great point. If you just throw the benefit out there and dont go through some of the statistics that we have here. For example, a woman who freezes her eggs at 25 years old and frans fers three embryos has a 31 chance of a live birth. For a 30yearold, thats a 25 chance. For a 35yearold woman, its a 19 chance. And megan, that does seem to be a very serious factor, and im glad were talking about this. Theyre talking about it as if it just works. Thats such a great point. So much of it is just one way of quelling the anxiety that so many women feel. Theres so much pressure to have your life go according to a certain plan. If that plan doesnt happen, a lot of women feel guilty and anxious about what is going to happen in the future. So much of the marketing of this procedure taps into that. But certainly as a medical procedure, the odds arent fantastic. This new thing theyre adding is theyre offering women up to 20,000 worth of egg freezing. Youre going to have a lot of different tries. So those figures might be one cycle or one chance. But three or four chances youre going to have better chances overall. And the technology is much, much better now. Thank you both very much for joining me tonight. Thank you. Coming up, anne romney sort of said mitt romney would never run for president again. 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[ male announcer ] join the scientists and engineers of exxonmobil in inspiring americas future engineers. Energy lives here. Anne romney said the romneys are done with president ial campaigning. Not only mitt and i are done, but the kids are done, done, done. And on the today show this morning, anne romney said her husband would Never Campaign for president again. Sort of. We are having no serious conversations about it because we said at the end, we will never do this again. It was hard. Weve done it. Weve had our turn. So how hard will it be for anne romney to walk that back when the time comes . She said mitt romney was never going to run for president again after he lost in 2008. And here she is in february of 2012. I was very certain about something at the end of the last campaign, that was that i was never going to do that again. I meant that. And then mitt looked at me and said, you said that after every pregnancy. And there you go. Thats all it took. And the big advantage the romneys had in rewriting never again into one more time is that no one believed them when they said never again in the first place. Just as no one should believe them now, especially since they are being very careful to not really say never again again. Anne romney had more to say about why her husband was breaking his promise, and it was that mandatory political schtick about how he has to do it because he owes it to the country, because hes ott only superhero among us who can fix the world. Everyone running for president does a version of this. And the acting challenge, and it is a very big one, the acting challenge is to somehow appear humble when saying you are the one and only person who can save the world. Oh, youre married to the one and only person who can save the world. Mitt was reluctant and when we were making this decision, i thought to myself, you know what, this country is in so much trouble, and i said, you know, in making this decision, i dont think we should try to consider who the opponents are going to be. Because you cant figure that out. You cant figure out who the final person will be that youre running against. I said, but i need to you have to answer me this question. If you can be the nominee and if you can by chance and we know how hard its going to be to defeat barack obama, i want to know if you really get in that chair and get in that office, can you fix america . For me, it wouldnt be worth it at all if we just go in there and shuffle the chairs around. Im not in for that. Im in there for youre going to go in there and youre going to change it and were going to change the course of this country. And his ansz was yes, i can do that. And ive done that. When i heard that, im like okay, its worth it to go do this thing again. Youve got to admit, shes good. Shes very good at rewriting never again into here we go again. Heres how you say it when you really, really mean that youre not going to run again. I shall not seek, and i will not accept the nomination of my party for president. Anne romney did her part to help encourage republicans to encourage mitt to run. As youre walking through airports and everyone is screaming at you run again, its complimentary. As it happened, mitt romney was walking through airports yesterday. Here he is at the detroit airport. Phillip rucker from the Washington Post on the same flight tweeted this picture of mitt romney waiting on the jet bridge for his bag. Its a still photo and not video, so you cant hear the people saying run again, mitt, run. Maybe that woman beside mitt is tweeting run again. But we havent found that tweet. And the guy decide mitt seems no mood for screaming anything except maybe wheres my bag which we all feel like screaming when were stand option the jet bridge and waiting for the carryones they couldnt fit in the overheads. So anne romney may be stretching it a bit when she says beatle mania breaks out at airports when mitt romney walks by. But it is true that when you put the words mitt romney in a poll with potential gop candidates, support for all the other republican candidates collapses. And mitt romney is far ahead of his rivals, way farther ahead than he ever was in his last president ial campaign. The polls indicate very clearly at this point, maybe not in the future, but at this point, that this is mitt romneys moment in the republican party. Eager beaver that he is, mitt tried to make it his moment eight years too early and again four years too early, but the party is familiar with mitt now. And they are familiar enough with the other candidates that they know and they like mitt the best. So when youre wondering if mitt romney is going to run for president again, just ask yourself this question when is the last time that a super rich politician with nothing else to do saw himself with an astronomical lead over all the other candidates for president in his party and decided, nah. Being president is not for me. Who needs air force one when you can wait with the real americans on a delta jet bridge in detroit waiting for your carryon that couldnt fit in the overhead. And remember, anne romneys here we go again is already written. I was very certain about something at the end of last campaign that i was never going to do that again. I meant that. And mip mitt laughed and said you said that after every pregnancy. I do have five boys. [ female announcer ] we help make secure financial tomorrows a reality for over 19 Million People. 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It is the milk and cookie hour here at the last word. Thank you very much for doing this. Thank you. So you were 5 years old. What happened between now and five years later, when did you decide i want to start making cookies and selling them . I started saying i want to ship nationwide cookie doug to our customers nationwide in the United States because people started emailing us and saying that oh, we would love to have your cookies in all these different when did you first start selling . In 2009. Outside the front of my house. Just a stand . Yes. Ive seen lemonaid stands a lot. But this is a cookie stand. We started selling cookies in front of our house to buy my mom a car. Then we started doing it for college. Then we incorporated the business in 2012. So mr. Corys cookies is doing pretty good as a business. Yes. But i want to show what happened when and you started all of this because you wanted to buy your mother a car. Yes. A little while ago, you went out to l. A. To do the Ellen Degeneres show. Which must have been amazing fun. Amazing. Lets show what happened on ellens show. Right now, i dont know how you get to the farmers market, but i want to make sure you get to the farmers market, okay . Thank you. So it worked. There you go. It really did get your mother a car. Yes, it did. How did that feel that day . It was a wonderful day meeting miss ellen and the wonderful car and all the gifts she had for us. I was really thankful. Tell me about corys career from here. Are you doing any Career Planning . Yes. In the future i want to be an investor and i want to be a chef and i want to own stocks in different companies. Can i mention a couple of things that maybe have to happen before that. High school. Youre going to have to go to high school. College, right . Yes. Any ideas where you want to go to college. Yes, i want to go to princeton. Youre a jersey boy. You would want to go down the road to princeton. How are you doing with your homework now . Its wonderful. My homework is great. I do my homework every single day. So the cookies dont get in the way of that . Nope. I do my homework and my mom takes over the business when im in school and doing my homework. Cory, this is not the kind of show where the cookies just sit here as ornaments. This is the cookie hour. It is time for me to try mr. Corys cookies right here. Thank you. Try it. Fantastic. How did you do this recipe . Well, this recipe, we wanted to tonight we have milk because its milk and cookies. We do it the right way. We made a special cookie so everyone could like it because we didnt want a cookie too hard or too soft. Not too crumbly. So we made a cookie, everyone will like it and it has a moist texture inside of it. My oldest brother is the Chocolate Cookie expert in our family. Im bringing these to him. They dont have artificial flavoring, no preservatives, no gmo. So theyre almost healthy. Yes. All healthy. Cory nieves, thank you so much for joining me tonight. Thank you so much. The vatican embraces gays. Lets play hardball. Good evening, im Chris Matthews in washington. Tonight, movement in the rock of ages. For the first time in its 2,000year history, the Roman Catholic church is changing its tone on gay relationships. Also toward unmarried straight couples. A Vatican Panel of bishops says its time to salute the moral value of both. Yes, the walls of jericho are quaking me. Michael steele, who was on the way to becoming a priest, and Washington Post opinion Writer Jonathan capehart. Its the recognition of the