Today, a democracy now broadcast exclusive, we speak with alayne fleischmann, the whistleblower who helped the Justice Department forced the bank to pay one of the largest fines in american history. You might be surprised what she says about the bank as well as the obama white house. She is featured in a new Rolling Stone piece a recently returned matt taibbi. The significance of this story to me is that it talks a lot about the legacy of eric holder. We finally have somebody from the inside who is telling us what a lot of us expected all along, that the Obama Administration did have enough evidence to proceed against a lot of these banks, and they just did not do enough with that evidence and those witnesses. And we finally have someone like alayne fleischmann who can tell us all about that and all that went on. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now, democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. A federal Appeals Court in ohio has dealt a blow to Marria
With alayne fleischmann, the whistleblower who helped the Justice Department forced the bank to pay one of the largest fines in american history. You might be surprised what she says about the bank as well as the obama white house. She is featured in a new Rolling Stone piece a recently returned matt taibbi. The significance of this story to me is that it talks a lot about the legacy of eric holder. We finally have somebody from the inside who is telling us what a lot of us expected all along, that the Obama Administration did have enough evidence to proceed against a lot of these banks, and they just did not do enough with that evidence and those witnesses. And we finally have someone like alayne fleischmann who can tell us all about that and all that went on. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now, democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. A federal Appeals Court in ohio has dealt a blow to Marriage Equality in a move expected to bring the issue bef
Review in 1955 that the opponents of the new deal consented and even embraced the term conservatism. They thought all along that they were that drove liberals. What to do with the welfare state, that is a big question. I would say in general that i think simplicity is always better and what things we can do to simplify the process by simplicity and in the political logic of the welfare state as it has been created in this country and by other groups is that we, to use one of built up please passphrases, with rack and admitted as complicated as possible. Money comes from us in a variety of ways. It goes to different people in a variety of ways. Nobody is ever quite sure whether they are a net importer or not exporter of all of these free range dollars. At the conservative interest investors compare the pier we should admit in a way that the new deal has sort of one. Liberals act as though they have to keep bribing people to create the charade that everyone can be a net importer of a fin
Interested in American History . Watch American History television on cspan3 every weekend, 48 hours of people and events that helped document the american story. Joel simon come executive director of the committee to protect journalists, and author of the new censorship talks with a target a journalist by governments around the world including the u. S. Government. During this event mr. Simon is in conversation with Kathleen Carroll, executive editor of the associated press. Good evening, everyone. Thanks for being here tonight. Im thinking of Academic Affairs at the columbia Journalism School. We are very pleased to have the Kathleen Carroll and joel simon any conversation on the new censorship. Journalism is an increasingly dangerous profession. No one knows this more than our guests tonight. Joel simon is director of the committee to protect journalists, nor physician founded in 1981 my group of u. S. Correspondence who realized they couldnt ignore the dangers their colleagues arou
Stories were covering on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by charles schwab, proud supporter of the pbs newshour. And by bnsf railway. And with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. And friends of the newshour. And. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Woodruff more americans went looking for work in march, and more people found it. The Labor Department today reported a net gain of 192,000 jobs, although many were in lowerpaying industries. Revised figures also added 37,000 more jobs in january and february than first estimated. The Unemployment Rate for march was unchanged at 6. 7 . Economics correspondent paul solman goes looking for trends inside the numbers in just a moment. On wall street, the jobs report failed to stop a selloff driven by slumping tech stocks. The Dow Jones Industrial average lost nearly 1