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press freedom, 40 years ago james goodale from the new york times when the nixon administration attempted to block the paper s publication of the pentagon papers, the secret history of the vietnam war, leaked by daniel ellsberg. then, environmental activist tim dechristopher recently released from prison joins us in the studio. there are a lot of things we have tried, most of which have not worked, especially on climate change, on trying to get our government to do something about climate change. mostly, we need people taking action. nobody can really tell you what that action should be. first, we turn to a shocking senate hearing for the pentagon declared the entire world is a battlefield and the president can send troops anywhere without new congressional authorization. i have only been here five months, but this is the most astounding disturbing hearing i have been here. you essentially have rewritten the constitution here today. all of that and more coming u ....
press freedom, 40 years ago james goodale from the new york times when the nixon administration attempted to block the paper s publication of the pentagon papers, the secret history of the vietnam war, leaked by daniel ellsberg. then, environmental activist tim dechristopher recently released from prison joins us in the studio. there are a lot of things we have tried, most of which have not worked, especially on climate change, on trying to get our government to do something about climate change. mostly, we need people taking action. nobody can really tell you what that action should be. first, we turn to a shocking senate hearing for the pentagon declared the entire world is a battlefield and the president can send troops anywhere without new congressional authorization. i have only been here five months, but this is the most astounding disturbing hearing i have been 2 cents i have been here. you essentially have rewritten the constitution here today. all of th ....
most of you who took the course are taught in the fall of 2009 will remember the figures of speech who are in the book who are first amendment heroes and villains and it is hard to sort out who are of the heroes and dylan s. i saw this on line cartoon on the internet. i don t know if you can read the captions but julian assange is saying come private information on corporations to you for free and i am a villain. mark zuckerberg says i give your private information to corp s for money and i am man of the year. who is the hero and who is the villain in this area? the characters in the wiki leaks phenomena and arrived on the scene too late for the book. us suppose there will have to be a sequel. sons of figures of speech. are will talk today about the characters who came on the scene with the wiki leaks phenomenon. if you like you can hiss the villains and cheer the heroes if you can figure out who is who, which is which. let s start with julian assange. is he a first a ....
amendment number 589 offered by the senator from nevada, mr. reid, shall be brought to a close? the yeas and nays are mandatory under the rule. the clerk will call the roll. vote: vote: the presiding officer: does any senator still wish to cast a vote? if not, on this vote, the yeas are 50, the nays are 49. three-fifths of the senators duly chosen and sworn not having voted in the affirmative, the motion is not agreed to. mr. reid: mr. president? the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. reid: i enter a motion to reconsider the vote by which cloture was not invoked. the presiding officer: the motion is reconsider is entered. mr. reid: thanks, mr. president. mr. leahy: can we have order. mr. reid: i ask unanimous consent the time until 4:00 p.m. be equally divided and controlled between the two leaders or their designees with senators permitted to speak for up to ten minutes each during that period of time. the presiding officer: without ob ....
we ll have a live report in just a few minutes. but first, we want to tell you about the big developments tonight in libya. we haven t heard a word from the country s longtime ruler since deadly protests erupted five days ago. but his son spoke just a short time ago. he warned the libyan people against taking up weapons against the government. now while he promised widespread reforms, he s also said that libya s army will restore security at any price. and he said he accused the international media of lying by reporting that hundreds had been killed in the unrest. and as he spoke, witnesses say angry demonstrations against moammar gadhafi are spreading into the capital of tripoli from the flash point city of ben benghazi. tell us what this means for the united states. and we at the top of it, really, this is about oil for us. for the folks in the united states. well, what analysts are saying is that immediately it will not affect oil prices because libya at this poi ....