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plus, from total celebration to complete chaos, two people were shot, a police officer hit by a fire truck during a victory parade for nba champion denver nuggets. and the department of justice tees off an investigation, looking into that mega merger between the pga tour and saudi funded liv golf. our reporters are fouling all of the latest developments. we start, though, with the breaking news out of pittsburgh where nbcs george solis is covering the guilty verdict in the trial of t...

This just in to cnn, eight people are injured following a possible gang-related shooting in southern california overnight in the city of carson, about 20 miles south of los angeles. investigators say the victims range in age from 16 to 29. theres no word yet on what may have led to the shooting. authorities have not released any possible information about suspects or a suspect. daniel elseberg has died at 92 from pancreatic cancer. he risked his freedom to share classified documents during the...

Quite often, theyll be criminally investigated by the organization. they are black balled in their chosen line of work and never work again. these are major, major consequences. someone in the agency calling out the commander in chief and accusing him of serious wrongdoing is really putting their career and lives on the line. if were to listen to trumps references to spies and rubbing them out. >> what can we learn from the past whistle-blowers who have come forward, chelsea manning, edward snow...

Broken into daniel elsebergs psychiatrists office under the pretext of national security to try to see what elsebergs medical records had to try to discredit him. it was, as john mitchell, the head of the re-election committee and former attorney general, thought that crime was worse than the bungled burglary that he approved at the watergate. >> there was a whole series of criminal abuse of power, including misuse of the irs, unprecedented crimes by a president of the united states seeking to u...

The south vietnamese, 20% to hold back the chinese and 70% to save american face. well, every woman in america that had a boyfriend or husband could take it if we defending the south vietnamese, to learn just trying to save face is a thing that angers you. >> that was part of a documentary airing on msnbc tomorrow called "the most dangerous man in america." daniel elseberg and the pentagon papers. the man responsible for sharing those critical documents is also the author of a new book "the doom...

Casualties will be over here. >> daniel elseberg, the perfect guest for these times. thank you so much for joining us. the author of "the doomsday machine: confessions of a nuclear war planner." and dont miss msnbcs special airing "the most dangerous man in america c daniel ellsberg and the pentagon papers" only on msnbc. thank you. we will be back in just a moment.sa w the change in rich wn we moved into the new house. but having his parents over was enlightening. ♪ you dont like my lasagna? ...

Nsa has always denied. the obama administration has challenged snowdens credibility on many fronts, before and after the interview aired. national security adviser susan rice, dismissed his allegations as a spy. >> you can go back to the pentagon papers, edward snowden is a coward, he is a traitor, and he has betrayed his country. and if he wants to come home tomorrow to face the music, he can do so. >> snowden said in the interview he wants to come home, but believes under the espionage act, he...

Enduring the deployment of this. instead of waiting until it was in place. >> should edward snowden come back and face a trial? >> it depends on what you think should happen to somebody who launched this global debate. who is his revelations have led to historic reforms, to ending programs that even the president thought had gone too far. if you think he should spend the rest of his life in prison, he should come back and face trial. daniel elseberg -- >> he got off because the nixon administrat...

Your forehead. so the idea of mattoo, were trying to have fun even as were trying to bring a message of change and real efforts to get the economy moving. if we want to solve the problems we need to solve, we need independent thinking out of washington. maybe that starts with a mattoo as well. >> we shall see. matt miller, well be watching the race very closely. its a wild affair. good luck. stay safe on the trail and well check back in. thank you, sir. >> thank you. >> new fallout this morning ...

Allegations, not proven fact -- but by affiliating himself with assange, is edward snowden risking changing the narrative out there about himself for himself, standing up for something, standing up against the surveillance programs that the national security agency is standing for? >> well, i mean, im not certain what the extent of mr. assanges personal involvement was in any of this as opposed to the wikileaks organization, which has never been charged with a crime, let alone convicted of one. ...