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CSPAN Washington Journal August 22, 2013

Should it for information given to wikileaks. He was given 35 years. What do you think about the sentence . 31 people commenting so far. We want to ask you about the sentence. Was it too lenient or appropriate . We want to hear from you this morning. Here is how you can weigh in this morning. Twitter is available to you. You can also send as emails. The new yorkrom times. Bradley manning escorted into Court Wednesday for the maryland retreat in maryland. It shows a picture of him with the headline. Manning giving sentence 35 years for lookeaking. Then gives youe a little bit of perspective. There have been a series of opinions in the sentence that was handed down yesterday. You may have opinions of your own. Here is how you can share them with us. If you live outside the United States, if you could also give us opinion on that. He made a statement and thoughts known on the release yesterday saying reprimanding betrayed his country. Obligations as a soldier. Editors of New York Times known eir opinion and again, with all that in mind, your thoughts and opinions on the 35year sentence given to Bradley Manning yesterday. And as we start this morning, we will start in florida on the republican line. David. Good morning. Guess they had to give him something, but i have an issue with the fact that what were doing around the world cannot stand the light of day. There is a problem. There is a little saying that truth is treason is in the empire of lives. That is all i have to say. To get tell us about the role in this. What this says about those who will provide information about government activities. They do take an oath and all that and they do have a chain of command. You are there to do what you are told. They know that going in. I guess that comes a point where your conscious and you want your soldiers to have one might override whatever theyre being told. They say you have to follow orders but some are not always lawful. I am admire people when they stand up against what they believe to be wrong. Know what a right to is going on. In california. In the next to john on the democrat line. I just have a brief comment. That is Bradlee Manning probably deserve some time. I thought it was harsh. How about those people who lied to the congress that represents the people about the nsa activities and bold faced lies saying they did not spy on americans . That is all i have to say. What you think about the sentence to reprimanding and what others would do if they provide that type of information . Those in the future might provide this type of information to the public as well . Caller i would like to echo the previous gentlemans comments, and that is they did take an oath. At what point does your scious do the right thing it is really a tough question. He did break his oath. At the same time, at what point is there a point when you should break the oath when it is for the greater good . Usa today reflects hemlines and other papers. Nsa admits new privacy violations. Kevin johnson writing about the top intelligence officials here yen. There are other accounts of the story as well. Theheard some thoughts on 35year sentence handed down. You could make your thoughts known as well. Kentucky up next. Archie on the independent line. Good morning. Personally i think they both deserve a government of freedom. This government serves its self and huge multinational corporations. That is all it serves. They have no interest in what we want and our rights as a citizen. Privacy as out the window. This is 1984. Thank you very much. Host a president ial pardon is the goal of a new web site. This is for Bradley Manning. In conjunction with the announcement, the support network has launched the website that connects to a petition written by Amnesty International and a video with testimony from veterans and civilians from afghanistan. It will link to the official application for pardon as soon as it is available. A couple of thoughts this morning on pardon. Randall says parted him, but finally go out to the criminals that manning exposed. No one seems to mention them. Brian jarvis had about 40 comments when we started the show. That has decreased during our time together. A variety of ways you can make your thoughts known this morning. Republican line. Victoria. Corn good morning america. With thisajor problem whole situation. President of the United States food does not apply the constitution that we hold so dear to our hearts. Then we have this young man and and nsa. As an american citizen, i am totally disappointed in whole system. This guy supposedly exposed classified information. I would like to know what major harm this guy has done with classified information. That he a way, glad exposed as to the American Public to the nsa or we would never have known it. I am confused. The president better stick to theoath to uphold constitution. He is walking all over the constitution. Democrat line in new jersey. Tim oneill. Me is i want to say Bradley Manning did that really break his oath. Did not really. His oath was to protect the constitution, and that is what he did. In my opinion he is just as brave and as much of the patriot menhe bed he off as the on the front lines. Host even with the type of information he left out . Of the the type information he let out did not endanger the men on the front line. He left out information that xposed he let out information that should not have happened, that the government was hiding. The men on the front lines have thanof a conscious officers and generals do. They just issues the orders and try to hide mistakes. Morningphotograph this out of damascus. The bodies of the people who Syrian Rebels they were killed in wednesday on a government attack. Hospitals flooded with victims. There is an accompanying story post andwashington taking a look at nerve gas. In general it says Bradley Manning and his 35year sentence this morning. Sean on the republican line from massachusetts. Any army based on anything to buy with the constitution is a hero in my mind. This government answers to the people. Anybody, if you in this today and you find that the government is violating the constitution, you have a responsibility to inform the public. 1943 anyone who brought to light the massacre of the jews, they would say you violated your oath or whatever. Host the president embarks on a bus trip today. New york and Pennsylvania College campuses will be the destination. Stopping in new york today. New york and pennsylvania on friday. A story taking a look at some of the message. David jackson is the white house reporter. Could you highlight some of the message that the president will how colleges should be ranked and how that ties to Financial Aid . On a this is the latest series of speeches to the middle class and the topic is college affordability. He will outline a revamped plan that. First of all, it involves payment for performance. Theyre holding down costs and delivering a more effective education. These rankings will be tied to federal aid. The higher the school is ranked, the more federal aid they will be eligible for. Change the Student Aid Program where it will be tied to student progress to a degree. The way i understand it right now, a lot of students get them at the first semester. The way i understand it will be allocated through the year as they make more progress. It will also challenges promote innovation and Competition Among themselves and basically improve Innovation Services and how they deliver them. That will reduce cost as well. He will talk a little bit about a new student debt program. The president has also talked about how the student debt load has increased in recent years making it harder and harder for graduates to enter the workforce and middleclass. Also changing the way students would have repayments no more than 10 percent of what the earnings are after he graduates. He will go to College Campuses and speak directly to students. It seemed that throughout the campaign. And talk about the other issues like the economy at large and health care. And yet he is focusing on college this week. Guest i am standing right now at the university of buffalo. According to the white house, they are already doing things with technology innovation. He is coming here to us to spotlight the kinds of things he is talking about how colleges can lower the cost and still maintain a good education. He will start here and then go to a high school in syracuse. As you mentioned, this is all part of a larger strategy based on what he calls the middle class programs. Over the past several weeks he has given several speeches on different aspects of the programs. He talked about housing and of other city. He says education is the key to middleclass. Are college graduate, a better class of entering the economy and making more of an income. Even on top of that, he was on vacation last week, now getting back to the real grind. Were heading into september where we will look at budgets. The fiscal year ends september 30 and the temporary spending bill ends on september 30. If the president and congress cannot agree on a new spending plan, the government will shut down. I think you are also hearing him make his pitch for how we should handle the budget going forward. For the proposals he is laid out, what are the expectations . Significant factor. I thought he would talk a lot about the executive order but that does not appear to be the case. A lot of it is ranking the college in tying college aid to this. They would have to agree to a new system that would base college aid on the rankings. Also, i think he has to be involved if you change the structuring of debt prepayments for college loans. That will be a challenge. They are tied up on the budget. There is a potential argument over the debt ceiling. Congressional republicans who are trying to defund the health care law. A lot of disagreements. This college issue, while it is important, i can see it getting lost in the shuffle. Host i suspect he will have to do will reach a deal with College Administrators and leadership directly at the places he is going to be at in the next few days. Think he will seek College Officials saying it is subjective, and they will argue, which is expensive. Providing a topquality education is expensive. You have to pay professors and pay for equipment and subject matter. This will be interesting because a lot of them support president obama. Host David Jackson talking about the president s bus trip he embarks on today in new york and pennsylvania. Thank you. Topic this on that morning. Aboutced to 35 years and the maning case. Thank you for waiting. Go ahead. Caller i wanted to comment that i thought the sentence was a bit harsh. He is not a hero. Ofdid leak a massive amount information. In light of what he released, i think it was a bit harsh. I think thats got handed down in light of the Edward Snowden controversy. If i would say there were direct marching orders to the judge to give him a harsher sentence, but in the light of more recent paranoia, i would say there is probably a culture more directed at securing that sort of thing. The numbers to call in another eric from pennsylvania. This is on the independent line. Good morning. Caller i somewhat agree with the previous eric, but i depart from him and what should happen subsequent to the hearing and whenever kind of harshness it has. An effectiveot movement to pardon him. It is looking pretty good. I am optimistic from the citizen standpoint. It there is not some sort of direct action to remedy this wayr the fact, that is the we as americans, those that our constitutionminded, regardless of partisan loyalty, we can know that america is officially terminally cancelled. Beene constitution has presented. Aspects of what he violated, it is almost like we have come to a point where now that we have secret vaults and courts and jails and torture programs and so forth, it astonishes me that the american drink the willing to koolaid and the current day when we have seen the proxy wars. It took a decade or 24 things to come out and we can more traditional ways. Was much worse than we thought. Folks should be willing to suspect at this point. If they do not, they really have no room to complain. Regardless of party politics, it is an america that is broken. Eric, thank you. John on the democrat line. As ar i am calling veteran. As a veteran i remember taking the oath to protect the constitution. In any order from a commander that is thought to be a moral and wrong and against the constitution, i would have a moral responsibility to report that act. The fact of the matter is the commander giving the orders, he or she should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law because that is a war crime that was committed. You hear nothing about that. I think back to world war ii, they knew they were serving the constitution. Even in those times, many of those soldiers knew. What heto see him for did with the freedom of information act, and he should be supported and put up in the chain of command. Those people that supported the action are to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. Host a story about income this morning in the washington post. Host scott from florida. You are up next. Independent line. Caller good morning. And ited to say snowden believe this individual deserves what they get. President bush told us a long time ago we are being monitored. In in the reality what they did is take highlysensitive documents and release them throughout the world. These are security documents and has nothing to do with the monitoring us. I wanted to state that. Thank you. More doctors excessing medicare. Kelly kennedy writing the number of doctors and said the new medicaid payments rose by 1 3. It is now higher by a number of positions accepting new patients. In 2007 about 925,000 doctors billed medicare for the services. In 2011 it had risen to 1. 2 5 million. Million. John is also from florida. On the republican line. Odd mani guess i am the out. I feel he should be shot and executed. In my fathers generation we would not have tolerated this. There is a world of difference between what snowden did and he did not like the dont ask, dont tell. Hading was a homosexual who an issue against the army. He put peoples lives at risk, operatives we had in other countries. He should have been shot as well beenhung. Hung. T as well as is on the line. Like to stated something about what the gentleman before me spoke about. I was floored. To the sameth constitution. A lot of people who took the are concerned. We were taught that america does not do certain things. That is what made us great and what made people from Different Countries want to be here. Go back to nazi germany time and the nuremberg trials. Escapewere trying to that country. I do not want people trying to escape america. People afraid. Safetyraid for my babys someday. We have to think in terms of mass surveillance and what they will be capable of doing with these supercomputers in the next 1015 years. Things are being built up as terrorism now. When we think in terms of the Information Age and what our enemies can do these are secret courts like the gentleman said, secret prisons, ndaa 2012. Can be detained indefinitely without trial or charge because of something a secret court or secret whokn ows chooses for us to be hauled off. Looking at ups to make changes on health benefits. Prompted in part by the federal health overhaul. Rising costs for coverage of crime and other health have made it increasingly difficult to continue providing the same level of Health Care Benefits to our employees at an affordable cost. The change will affect about 15,000. Working spouses who can get Health Care Coverage through their own employer. The change does not apply to spouses who cannot get their own coverage or the sponsors of onized employees. Caller good morning. How are you doing . Of the discussion i am folks areout from comparing manning to a for exposing the rights of our constitutional for exposing the fact that our Constitutional Rights are being violated. A warosed documents in theater to the general public, including the enemy. The damage probably still has not been completely assessed, causing potential harm to tactics, mets and potential andbilities that methods potential capabilities. We are fighting an enemy abroad. He exposed classified documents. 35 years is nothing. He should be kept in prison for life without the option of parole. The only reason he should not be executed is because he did it to the general public versus a specific country for the purpose of that countrys gain. There could be links somewhere down the road as to how governments used what he exposed in order to fight us or harm us in the future. Ramirezseph rumor is ing is no hero. Ilso, from american hero, joe, am optimistic on manning being paroled. A new report on mortgage servicers. Numerous ongoing issues in the Mortgage Servicing business ranging from problems helping troubled homeowners to Payment Processing errors and loan changes. The review comes as the new federal regulator prepares to comply with new rules on the mortgage industry set to begin in 2014. The agency plans to press for industry changes. There is a challenge in making nonbanks are following federal law. Virginia up next in alabama. Caller i would like to thank c span for this program. I am a retired Government Employee who worked in the capacity of intelligence. Should bemanning, given life. People do not understand what this man has done. To be caused americans killed. He has but a lot of lives at risk. Concerned,nowden is they need to bring him back to the United States and execute him. You do not give out secrets of the United States of america. About people complaining here. E have terrorists the game has changed since 9 11. Peoples neighborhoods were bombed, they would be complaining to the u. S. Government. O not care about any money anybody detecting my lines or doi

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