between europe and the united states to get what they really wanted out of these talks, which was relief from the economic sanctions. so that s one reason why it was never reasonable to expect that anything was going to come out of this. iran, on the one hand, the west on the other hand have completely different objectives, they re 180 degrees apart. and negotiations aren t going to bridge differences like that. martha: it s interesting, you know, one sort of subtext here is that perhaps the iranian leadership is trying to influence the american people with all of these sort of pr moves, just sort of kind of so much the water soften the waters a little bit to lower the aggressiveness of the united states against their country and, meanwhile, they will continue to, you know, enrich uranium and get as close as they can to nuclear power and nuclear weapons, perhaps. yeah, sure. that s exactly what the diplomatic and pr charm offensive has been about. and they ve succeeded with the
insurance companies bottom lines and it really is sickening, isn t it? joining me now is wendell potter, senior fellow at the center for media and democracy and he is the author of the forthcoming book, deadly spin, an insurance company insider speaks out on how corporate pr is killing health care and deceiving americans. mr. porter, good to have you with us tonight. thank you, ed. who s doing it and what are they doing? well, the insurance companies are showing their true colors. you might remember that soon after the president signed this bill into law, they were tripping over themselves to, as part of their pr charm offensive to say that they would be accelerating one part of the bill to be sure that they were covering young people up the age of 26 on their parents policies, which the new law requires and that, too, will take effect this week. that was they are not even making good on that promise, but what we are seeing now is what they are doing is showing theft intere