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>> this is america! how many of you people want to pay for your neighbor's mortgage that has an extra bathroom and can't pay their bills. raise your hand! president obama, are you listening?! we're thinking of having a chicago tea party in july. all you capitalists that want to show up to lake michigan, i'm going to start organizing. >> that comment sparked seemingly spontaneous protests across the country. but as jeff nesbitt points out in his book, "poisoned tea," the tea party's rise was orchestrated, well-funded, and deliberate, with the goal of breaking washington on behalf of the super rich. nesbitt detailed how the koch brothers teamed up with cigarette company phillip most, , knowing that know one would be the wiser or even care that these anti-tax groups would be jointly created and sfrundven f by the largest private oil company and the largest cigarette company in the world. it was perfect timing. stoking outrage over the
administration stage. and here to accept that apology, glenn greenwald. mr. carter, thank you for joining us tonight. glenn is going to be on a little bit of a delay coming to us from south america. tell us how you did this most remarkable of things from washington creatures, changing your mind. i have a suspicion that living outside washington had something to do with it. >> it had something to do with it, but actually, just sitting back for a moment and saying, wait a minute, what did the man actually do? yes, yes, yes, he released some material. it was material which the government had no business having. that becomes clear. the second was material the government has been assembling in ways which no one outside the inner reaches of government had any idea that was going on. the combination was sort of overwhelming.
admit that your original opinions weren't accurate. i think that's hard for all of us to do. there have been some people who have done it. there was a vicious post about snowden early on and said later on, i've thought about it and everything i said was wrong. he wasn't in it for fame or money, he was in it because he believed the public had a right to know. juan williams just wrote a column in "the hill" that said he was wrong, in light of the court says that he was this program was illegal, in light of the ongoing debate in washington where there's clearly going to be reform, what he did was strengthened for democracy and ought to be brought back home. i think that's often how it is with whistle blowers. i remember daniel told me earlier on he had almost no support doing what he did in the beginning and it took years for basically a consensus that what he did was heroic and he told me he thinks it's going to be the same pattern for mr. snowden. >> hodding carter, when i first saw that headline, i thought,
program was illegal, in light of the ongoing debate in washington where there's clearly going to be reform what he did was strengthened for democracy and ought to be brought back home. i think that's often how it is with whistle blowers. i remember daniel told me earlier on he had almost no support doing what he did in the beginning and it took years for basically a consensus that what he did was heroic and he told me he thinks it's going to be the same pattern for mr. snowden. >> hodding carter when i first saw that headline i thought, oh, the court made that ruling and hoding inging carter reconsidered. but you clearly came to this view before that recent court ruling. >> yeah. i was thinking about the examples being cited and thinking at the time most of us were writing our renditions or chapters of the new book. that was not being said by people. and this was for some of us a step over a line which seemed to be very clear.
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strongest public advocate became glenn greenwald. tonight's breaking news is that someone has changed his mind about edward snowden. holene carter who was assistant of state of public affairs in jimmy carter's administration published a pielths entitled glenn greenwald, i'm sorry: why i changed my mind on edward snowden. joining us now is hodding carter contributor to the new book after snowden, privacy, secrecy and security in the administration stage. and here to accept that apology, glenn greenwald. mr. carter thank you for joining us tonight. glenn is going to be on a little bit of a delay coming to us from south america. tell us how you did this most remarkable of things from washington creatures, changing your mind. i have a suspicion that living outside washington had something to do with it. >> it had something to do with
the release of omar abdel-rahman. he's serving life in prison for the bombing of the world trade center. six people were killed and a thousand were injured in that bombing. catherine herridge is live from washington with more. >> reporter: eight senior republican lawmaker sending this letter to the just i department and state department. we are responding to reports that omar abdel-rahman convicted in the first world trade center attack in 1993 may be transferred to egyptian authorities for humanitarian reasons. the.
important. number one, the ig speaks in code. the language is not always explicit. you need to read this carefully world for word. you will not see a page that says these guys screwed up and here is how they should be penalized. pay attention to two other points. that's who signed off on this. many conservatives believed the administration hoped to use this to justify stronger gun control laws. democrats say that temperature not true. how explicit was phoenix when it told washington higher ups what they were doing. they say we told our bosses everything. we gave them weekly reports. they knew guns were going down to mexico. if we are to blame, so are the guys in front of is. the buyers didn't have cash or jobs and they were coming in with bundles of money to spend money on assault weapons. i believe the report also says that it was wrong of the atf to
megyn: breaking washington. the inspector general's report on operation fast and furious just being released. moment ago we got word that a top doj official just resigned as a result of the report. jason weinstein is resigning. we are told that the report concludes that he is the most senior justice department official who was in a position to stop this operation. which is a botched gun running sting run by the atf out of phoenix but with the department of justice cooperation. they had to get wiretaps through the doj. and several people wound up dead in mexico, not to mention an american border patrol agent on news soil. they were originally hoping to track these weapons to mexican cartel leaders, instead the guns
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