papantonio attorney and host a ring of fire radio with robert kennedy jr mike welcome tom how are you just great and it was great to see in seattle last week and by the way i want to play somebody program it was want to play something congress congresswoman carolyn mccarthy said last week and listen this. i always look at it this way no one from the n.r.a. is ever going to vote for me and they're just not they might even come after me on other issues but the thing of it is as a politician a lot of politicians know it's the right thing to try to fight for something to save lives they don't have a spine and the more the pander to who's giving the money certainly the the the gun lobby outspent gun control groups seventeen to one on lobbying last year is the congresswoman right. well she is right for a lot of reasons first of all i don't know if you saw the report by paul wald when paul waldman really deconstructed this idea that the n.r.a. is such an effective political entity as far as affecting elections what he did was he looked at the margin of victory he looked at money spent he loo

papantonio he's an attorney and co-host of ring of fire radio mike welcome how are you a path great to have you with us this was a pretty surprising a huge issue impacting so many americans this mortgage debacle started in two thousand and six and yet we heard so little about proposed solutions to deal with the rampant foreclosures to entire neighborhoods across america why not well i think you saw an effort by by obama in eric holder to somehow convince the american public that they were paying attention to what happened it happened with this great american morning scam what we saw in september is there a cold or come forward and say listen we're going to deal with the criminals we're going to deal with the banks who did this to you now he did that because there was there was a lot of anxious about the fact that obama had been in office three and a half years eric holder a better attorney general for three years and nobody understood why nobody had been purple or nobody understood why there had not been prosecutions this was a big issue in this state because you had people that wer

mike papantonio thanks so much for that analysis thank you so much appreciate your insights. in the best of the rest of the news tonight kids all across the country are running around the neighborhoods dressed up in as many characters as you can imagine and knocking on every door within walking distance to collect as much cavity inducing candy as they can carry it is that what this holiday is really all about joining me now to break down the real story about this day is dr steven larsen a practicing psychotherapist psychologist professor emeritus at the state university of new york and author of ten books including the schama is a doorway open imagination to power and myth dr larson welcome. thank you tom you know the sherman is a good place to start our conversation because if you go way back into the urgency of prehistory you find this primordial figure wearing masks and coming out of the supposed cruel darkness of the paleolithic caves and here is seen the film cave of dreams just released a few years ago you see the handiwork of the shermans interacting with the animals a