We all agree that we have to do something about Sexual Assault and rape in the military and victims arent democrats or republicans. They dont an ideology. Victims voices have to be heard. Brown parts of honduras have become overrun by violent drug gangs. We report on one city where more than 20 people are murdered each week. People here do whatever they want. No one believes things will change. It felt like the most dangerous city was returning. Ifill and life and death in assisted Living Centers here in the u. S. , we explore a frontline investigation into whether some in the industry are putting seniors at risk. Brown thats all ahead on tonights newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf, the engine that connects us. The william and flora hewlett foundation, working to solve social and environmental problems at home and around the world. And with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. And. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Brown the verdict was not guilty today on the one charge that could have sent private first class Bradley Manning to prison for life. After a trial at fort meade, maryland, though, he was convicted of numerous lesser crimes, involving the release of more than 700,000 classified documents to the antisecrecy group, wikileaks. The verdicts ended mannings twomonth courtmartial and came more than three years after his disclosures rocked the u. S. Government. The former Army Intelligence analyst listened attentively as the judge, colonel denice lynn, acquitted him of the most serious charge aiding the enemy. Usually reserved for direct provision of assistance of an enemy. She also found him not guilty of one other espionage charge. But the judge convicted manning of 19 other charges, including six counts under the espionage act, five counts of stealing u. S. Government property; namely, the databases that contained files he disclosed, and computer fraud. Defense attorney davis comes hailed the acquittal on aiding the enemy saying today is a good day, but bradley is by no means out of the fire. His supporters have argued manning is a whistleblower who exposed official malfeasance for the public good. Engage, roger reporter among the most incendiary of his disclosure, a 2007 video that wikileaks called collateral murder. It showed the crew of a u. S. Helicopter gunship in iraq as mate sheen gunned a group of men suspected of being iraqi insurgents. Instead, those killed included a Reuters News Service cameraman and his driver. The 25yearold manning had already pleaded guilty to several lesser charges. The sentencing phase on todays convictions begins tomorrow and the penalty could add up to 136 years in prison. And well have more on the manning verdict after the other news. Ifill still to come on the newshour, a new definition of cancer. Senator gillibrand on curbing Sexual Assaults in the military; drug gangs turn honduras into the murder capital of the world; and life and death in assisted living. But first, with the other news of the day, heres kwame holman. Holman pakistans leaders faced new questions today about their ability to safeguard the country after taliban fighters stormed a prison and freed more than 250 inmates. We have a report narrated by kylie morris of independent television news. Reporter the television excitedly relayed glimpses of what was a sophisticated midnight attack. So sophisticateed that booby traps were set to thwart reinforcement who came to the aid of the embattled few guarding it. An injured police sergeant,m black mat i can of the fight who lost what are thought to be dozens of taliban. Survivors gave vivid detail of the on sought. translated when they started shooting, we parked up in front of the main gate in an Armored Vehicle to fight back. Then the gate exploded. We opened fire and then we were hit by a rocket shell or a mortar. Two of my men were killed on the shot. Reporter six policemen died in all, as well as a number of shiite muslim prisoners unfortunate enough to have been identified by the sunni fighters. Rather than liberation, they faced execution, their throats slit. But behind these walls, the real objective was fellow talib fighters held prisoner. Eyewitnesses spoke of some attackers with loud hailers calling out the names of those they most sought to liberate. But k. P. K. Province had been warned with suggestion it is threat of a jailbreak was known to the authorities in the days before the attack. Still, they had no answer when the talib fighters Wearing Police uniforms roared out of the darkness on motorbikes. The pakistan jailbreaks repeat a pattern established in yemen, libya, and, most recently, iraq. Only last week al qaeda claimed responsibility for an assault that led to a mass breakout of the notorious abu ghraib prison. Holman the leader of the pakistani province where last nights attack took place, said hed been told this week that prison security was good. He vowed to investigate, and warned, heads will roll. No one will be spared. Israelis and palestinians have agreed to try to work out a final status Peace Agreement within nine months. Secretary of state john kerry gave that word today, after two days of initial talks in washington. The lead negotiators for each side shook hands after the first talks in nearly three years, and kerry said hes convinced peace is possible. While i understand the skepticism, i dont share it and i dont think we have time for it. I firmly believe the leaders, the negotiators and citizens invested in this effort can make peace for one simple reason because they must. A viable twostate solution is the only way this conflict can end and there is not much time to achieve it and there is no other alternative. Holman the two sides will hold substantive talks again sometime in the next two weeks, either in israel or the west bank. The military group hamas, which rules in gaza, has refused to join the negotiations. In egypt, the European UnionsForeign Policy chief was allowed to meet with ousted president Mohammed Morsi at an undisclosed location. Catherine ashton was the first outside official to see morsi since the military forced him from power earlier this month. Ashton said morsi is doing well, and that they had an open and very frank discussion. We talked for two hours. We talked indepth. We have access to information in terms of t. V. Weve weve been able to talk about the situation. And we were able to talk about the need to move forward. Holman ashton also met with the countrys interim leaders, including the army chief, as well as officials of morsis muslim brotherhood. Also today, france called for morsi to be released from custody. The driver of the train in last weeks deadly crash in spain was talking on the phone when the train derailed, killing 79 people. Investigators said today he had taken a call from a railroad controller, and apparently was consulting a document. They also reported the train was doing 95 miles an hour, nearly twice the speed limit. The findings were taken from the trains black box recorders. President obama today tried to rally support for a plan to cut Corporate Tax rates if republicans agree to spend more on job creation. It was his latest bid to get action on his Economic Policy i came here to offer a framework that might help break through some of the political logjam in washington. President the backdrop was a smalling distribution facility for amazon. Com in chattanooga, tennessee. The Company Announced monday its adding 7,000 jobs. The president said its time to create even more jobs by cutting Corporate Tax rates to 28 from the current 35 . At the same time, hed spend more on public works and other jobs programs paid for by onetime changes in the tax laws. Im willing to work with republicans on reforming our Corporate Tax code as long as we use the money from transitioning to a simpler tax system for a significant investment in creating middleclass jobs. cheers and applause thats the deal. Now its time for republicans to lay out their ideas. If they have a better plan to bring back more manufacturing jobs to tennessee and around the country, then let me know i want to hear them reporter but not . Republicans claim mr. Obama has given up on the idea of overhauling corporate and individual tax rates. Sometimes it just seems this Administration Never misses an opportunity to miss an opportunity to grow this economy. Reporter pennsylvania senator pat toomey said hes hoped for an agreement to simplify the overall tax code. I thought we might be able to make progress on that. Im losing confidence that we can when senator reid insists the tax reform has to start at a trillion dollars of tax increases and the president says today that even Corporate Tax reforms a part where i thought we were close to a consensus has to be another opportunity to raise taxes on the american people. Hole hole the opening bids on tax action come as Congress Makes ready to start a fiveweek summer recess on friday. There was strong new evidence today of a recovering housing market. The Standard Poors case schiller index showed home prices in may surged more than 12 from the same month last year. Its the largest gain since march of 2006. But on wall street, stocks mostly marked time, ahead of tomorrows policy statement from the federal reserve. The Dow Jones Industrial average lost one point to close at 15,520. The nasdaq rose 17 points to close at 3,616. And on capitol hill, the senate moved to confirm five president ial nominations to the National Labor relations board. The series of votes on the three democrats and two republicans comes after months of negotiations between both parties to end republican delays on executive branch nominees. Those are some of the days major stories. Now, back to jeff. Brown we come back to the courtmartial of Bradley Manning and get reaction from jeffrey smith, former counsel for c. I. A. And the Senate Arms Services committee. Hes currently in private practice and serves on the department of defense Legal Advisory Board and michael ratner, president emeritus, the hes currently in private practice and serves on the department of defense Legal Advisory Board. And michael ratner, president emeritus of the center for constitutional rights. His organization represents wikileaks and Julian Assange in the u. S. , and filed a suit to gain access to documents and court briefs in the manning trial. Let me get a response from both of you and well walk through some of the issues. Mr. Ratner, you first, was justice served . I think its probably one of the greatest injustices of our decade. Here off man who whos revealed very Important Information about war crimes, whose information sparked the arab spring and you have him being convicted of 20 charges. And you have to people who were engaged in the criminal atty he revealed not being investigated at all. Bradley manning is a whistleblower, he should not be prosecuted. The people who committed the crimes ought to be prosecuted. Brown jeffrey smith, your response . I see it very differently. He betrayed a trust. He had a trust to the United States when he made an open to serve his country and to not disclose classified information. But more fundamentally he had a trust in his fellow soldiers. The information that he released involved a lot of detail about our activities and iraq and afghanistan. To be sure, some of it was terrible, the machine gunning of civilians, that should never have happened. But he betrayed his trust and put their lives at risk and i think it was a fair trial and i believe he deserves to be punished. Brown mr. Ratner, pick up on the trial itself. Was it your sense as much as you could tell that he received a fair trial . Well, i wouldnt really call it a fair trial. We had a year until we could getting access to the information. I sat there in platos cave. You couldnt tell what was going on. It took us a year of litigation to get that out. I think he was overcharged tremendously. Aiding the enemy which, of course, he was acquitted on which was the one good part of the trial. But the charge of whistleblower with espionage to charge a whistle blow we are espionage, thats nonsensical. Its the Obama Administration hitting Truth Tellers with a sledgehammer. I dont think thats fair. As far as the oath issue when you see something with a greater crime, vietnam in the my lai massacre or what Bradley Manning saw, you have a higher duty to disclose criminality when you see it. Brown since many of the facts werent in dispute here, it became how one sees Bradley Manning, right . I think it not quite. I think the judge handled it well. He was a soldier. He had promised not to disclose classified information. There were 700,000 documents, not all of those were crimes. The vast majority of them were routine reports, diplomatic exchanges, details about u. S. Operations. I think what he did put american soldiers at risk. It caused great harm and this is not the my lai massacre. Its 700,000 documents that caused great harm. Brown and what is your sense of the aiding the enemy charge, which was much in dispute, of course. Again, i think judge handled that well. The government may have overreached a little bit in its charge but she let the evidence be presented at trial and she then found him not guilty. I think she handled it very well. Brown youre saying not only was that overreach bug you think using the espionage act was as well . Two points i want to make. Mr. Smith talked about harm. There was no evidence of harm that came out at the trial. They never proved that. The state department or others have said there was no genuine harm here so lets get rid of that. Clearly aiding the enemy was a ridiculous charge. But charging whistleblowers with espionage is also nonsensical. Its a world war i statute, it makes no sense. I thought i dont think he should have been charged at all but hitting them with six charges of espionage, five of which he was convicted when hes a whistleblower is really overreaching and its what i call sledge hammer that the Obama Administration seems to be taking to whistleblowers and journalists as well. Brown you want to a number of things to pick up on here but one was the facts of the impact. The impact, i think, was real. I began life as an infantry officer and the idea that details, reports, of combat operations that the enemy was able to pick up and change their tactics on i can only imagine the reaction of young officers out there trying to accomplish their mission and protect their soldiers lives when this information was out there. And the fact that there was no harm the government did, i think establish in the course of the trial certainly enough harm to justify a conviction. He is charged with espionage because thats the one statute we have in the federal system that that punishes the unauthorized disclosure of classified information, including too the press. Its not classical espionage in the sense that youre selling secrets to another government for money but its the unauthorized disclosure. So its a bit of a misnomer to complain that he was charged with espionage. Brown well, mr. Ratner, where does this leave things, do you think, visavis impact on future leakers or potential whistleblowers. Impact on journalists investigating stories like this . Well, two things. One is in terms of my client, Julian Assange and wikileaks, that was spread throughout the trial. They were trying to really say that wikileaks and Julian Assange were coconspirators with Bradley Manning, he was taking orders from them, they tried to drag him through the mud on it. None of it was proven. What i think it tells us is that not only are whistleblowers but journalists in jeopardy as well as the case with the case of rosen at fox news when they charged him or at least had an affidavit and a search warrant saying he was a coconspirator in a espionage case. Similarly, recently, with the New York Times reporter james rison when the court said the hes a crime couldnt have happened without him working with the whistleblower. So i think were seeing an assault that Bradley Mannings trial represents. When you charge one swhos giving the truth out to us with six counts of espionage, convict him of 5 and keep everything in this government secret that they can and dont actually look at their own criminal alty. The number of cases i brought to try to get responsibility for torture, all this mist on secrecy. We need whistle blowers right now more than ever. I think the government is trying to chill whistleblowers, thats clear, but it doesnt seem to be working because even after Bradley Manning was indicted you saw ed snowden come out with his revelations. Brown what do you think, jeffrey smith, will be the impact of this verdict . Its hard to know. Mr. Ratner suggests that the government seems to have no legitimate secrets to keep. It clearly does. And ive seen in my own personal life direct harm from leaks of classified information. There are a number of issues will come out. One is both with respect to private manning and mr. Snowden. The government now is constraining the amount of information thats shared within the government. So prior to 9 11 or after 9 11 the government was criticized for not being able to connect the dots because we didnt share information within the government. When we share information, we find that