from edward snowden revealed the nsa is recording all phone calls from an entire country. 100% of the phone calls. phone calls are stored for up to 30 days, giving them the ability to rewind any phone call in the previous month. then return to scott olsen, the iraq war vet, who almost lost his life and occupy protests when he was shot in the head by a police projectile. i know i was on the ground, my left side was turned toward the cup, and that is where i was hit, right here. ground, beinghe carried away by all these people. scott olsen joins us today to announce he has reached a settlement in a lawsuit with the oakland police. and we will look at how wells fargo instructed their employees to fabricate missing documents on how to foreclose on homeowners. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i m amy goodman. russia and the united states have each impose new sanctions on the other over the crisis in ukraine. president obama made the announ
the balance of government power. tuesday s midterm elections put republicans in control of the senate for the first time in eight years and allowed the gop to expand its majority in the house. the republican takeover in congress has added president obama to the list of second-term presidents, including ronald reagan, bill clinton and george w. bush who all spent their last two years in office with a congress in which both houses were dominated by the opposing party. it s an odd position to find yourself in as a president, knowing for the remainder of your time in office, all anyone would care about is the next person they re going to pick to do your job. and any attempt to advance your agenda as the clock winds down will face an uphill battle with little political incentive to give you what you want. it s left president obama like his similarly situateded predecessors facing the question, am i the most powerful elected official in the world, or am i a lame duck? barely a week