>> probably the most profound moment was when i stood up. these were emotions i had been dreaming about for so long. thank you. >> techknow, proud to tell your stories on al jazeera america. >> this is aljazeera america, live from new york city, i'm tony harris. a question of qualifications, bernie sanders and hillary clinton argue over who is ready to be president. the man in the hat. belgium prosecutors release new video of one of the suspected attacks. and the indicted mayor of a texas town has a plan, and inside of the pentagon, our northbound security correspondent takes us inside of the military headquarters.

>> so after months ago of playing nice, the race for the democratic nomination is feeling nasty. hillary clinton seems to be feeling the heat from a surging bernie sanders, so she's going on the offensive. the war of words comes after the war in new york, sander's birthplace, and clinton easy adopted home. >> reporter: outside of the state, hillary clinton threw a brush back pitch at bernie sanders afteret democratic rival said that she's not qualified to be president. >> i don't know why he's saying that, but i would take bernie sanders over donald trump or ted cruz any time. so let's keep our eye on what's really at stake in this leaks. >> reporter: but it was

clinton herself who seemed to ignite this brawl. she told politico that bernie's supporters are being duped, reveling to rivals stumbles in a local interview and repeatedly refuses to answer a key question. >> do you believe this morning that bernie sanders is qualified and ready to be the president of the united states? >> well, i think that the interview raised a lot of serious questions. >> so you say this guy is ready to be president of the united states? >> well, i think he hasn't done his homework, and he has been talking for more than a year. >> do you think that he's qualified and able to deliver on the things that he is promising all of these democrats? >> i will leave it to the voters to decide who of us can do the job that the country needs. >> almost immediately, the "washington post" headlines said clinton questions whether sanders is qualified to be president.

and a few hours later in philadelphia, sanders shot back. >> i don't think that you have qualified if you voted for the disastrous war in iraq. i don't think you are qualified if you have supported virtually every disastrous trade agreement, which has cost us millions of decent paying jobs. >> reporter: on twitter, the clinton campaign demanded, sanders take back your words, and accused him of inventing grievances, but on thursday morning, sanders continued his offensive >> reporter: >> anchor: we're going to be attacking my qualifications for president after being in congress for 25 years, and standing up to every special interest in this country in they're going to question my qualifications? i think that i have the right to question theirs. >> clinton said that it's

unwarranted. >> we'll get used to it fast. going to get beaten up and lied about. we will fight back. >> the feud comes less than two weeks from the new york primaries. the viters here are used to rough and tumble politics, and photo ops as clinton provided on this day. democrats strategists say that the sudden abrasiveness in the race is dangerous, and it could create democratic party unity in the summer more difficult. and then again, the clinton campaign has been bitter for months. >> the last thing we want to do is nominate someone like donald trump, who over and over again has litigations of fraught against him, he has been on the witness in october and november as much as hillary clinton. >> those references have been a

source of a class action lawsuit, as well as the clinton email investigation. trump reminded his audience, thousands in long island, that cruz once attacked him with a phrase about new york. >> do you remember during the debate, when he started lecturing me on new york values, like we're no good. like we're go good. >> reporter: it all ends up to unbracive and aggressive battle for new york, a battle that's intensifying in both parties. david schuster, al am. >> conservative radio hosts are an influential group. they can help to make or break a republican presidential candidate. but they have never facing the a candidate like donald trump. he's not part of the gop establishment. but he's popular with listeners. >> good morning and relative humidity welcome to the show. >> reporter: across america,

the presidential election is burning up talk show phone lines. we joined t-bone and heather solar, husband and wife. one conservative, the other liberal, holding down the morning shift in southern maryland for two decades. >> welcome to al america in the studio today, liz trudy. >> their listeners enjoy a mostly rural lifestyle. some commute to washington d.c. just over an hour away, and many are military. there's a large naval air stationary by, and whether republican or democrat, there's frustration driving these voters. >> i am pro trump right now, and i say right now, i would vote for anybody besides hillary. >> the message was loud and clear, a distaste for the frontrunners. >> who were you votinger for? >> i will tell you, if trump gets the nomination for the

gop, i'll had cast my vote for the democratic nominee. >> reporter: on the democratic side, the schism is dividing conservative talk radio show hosts. >> i think that they have a great deal of influence, they're classic opinion leaders. we're in the race, and classically, the opinion leaders should be doing is rallying around the mag, and they seem to be raising a caution flag instead. >> some are cautioning against donald trump, including wisconsin's charlie sykes, whose campaign led to the defeat of him in that state. he took on the fight with ted cruz over the two candidates' wives. >> he started it, and if he didn't start it, nothing like this would have happened. >> we're not on a playground, we're running for president of the united states. >> gop heavyweight, rush

limbaugh, who says that he's neutral, has taken heat from listeners who see him as an apologist for the new york businessman. >> it seems like you're going out of your way and doing cartwheels to defend trump. it's a turn off at this point. >> back in maryland -- >> you can certainly vote over the airwaves right now. >> just weeks ahead from the primary, a surprising number of callers admit that they're crossing party lines. >> i'm a lifelong democrat. >> you go girl. >> but i changed my party so i can vote for trump. >> i don't know why you think that you need to fall on this electoral grenade. vote for the best candidate. >> it's all strategy. >> callers express many opinions about the hot button issues, like the col yee and

obamacare, and none of them feel they can retain the ship. >> you were in the boat, and you have hillary, bernie, trump and cruz, and to survive, who are the other ones that you throw off? who do you kickoff the boat to survive? >> i would drill a hole in the boat and sink it many. >> well played, sir . >> for now, talk radio is hot, and there's no dialing back. signing off from mechanicsville, maryland. >> and the fight over the voting able, why some people want it to be 16, and some think that that's a terrible idea. an investigation show that supervisors at veterans affairs and medical facilities in at least seven states told workers, the changes are made to look like they're complying with the new standards. and the inspector general found that workers had 40 facilities

in 19 states. zeroing out at times, which helped to cover up an increasing demand for medical services. president obama made another push today for supreme court nominee, judge merritt garland. more at stake from all. >> president obama trying to keep up the political pressure to confirm his confirm his nominee to the supreme court, merrick garland. where he was once a constitutional law professor, from a moderator and many of the law students there, he continued to take the case for garland, and he said that the political process continues to overfake the jude innerry as well. more of the republican senators

are willing to meet with garland on the visits to capitol hill in the next several days, and the leadership in the form of mitch mcconnell standing firm on the senate floor, and president obama said that that's simply not fair. >> what's unsusceptible, not meeting with him. and the increasing use of the fill buster for someone who -- to essentially say, we're going to nullify the ability of a president who is from another party from making an appointment. and we're going to wait to see if maybe we can get a guy from ours to make the appointment. >> despite the continued refusal of mitch mcconnell and the republican leadership to allow the nomination of america

garland to go forward, from soutsouthcarolina, they have and plans to meet with garland as well. a lame duck session, and that's the hope of president obama, and the senate remains in the democratic hands, or even if it goes into democratic hands, for republicans to see the writing on the wall with a democratic president coming in in january, to go ahead and confirm garland, makingent best of a bad situation. >> mike viqueira there for us, and a new report claims that people have been credible allegations of sexual abuse against former house speaker, dennis hastert. the alleged victims wer, the

federal prosecutors have been hinting that the money was to fend off the allegations of sexual abuse. police in belgium want a man in connection of the brussels bombing today. he is believed to have escaped after his explosives failed to detonate. and we have more on where the footage came from. >> walking away from an attack that caused carnage. this video has been released by the brussels police the so-called man in the hat who fled the airport when his bomb failed to explode. the police need to recover that item. the investigators have peaced together images for two hours after the attack. the authorities hope someone on the street may have spotted him. >> people who might have filmed or taken a photograph of the suspect, or if they can provide information on this

issue. they are requested to call the telephone number, shown on the site, or the email address. all of the information will be handled discretely. >> three of the attackers are believed to have gone to the airport and two of them blew themselves up. he worked as a cleaner in 2019 and 2010, and he is expected to be one of those who killed 132 people in paris. and he has had his latest court hearing in brussels. he won't be ex diet to france for several weeks, where the investigators can finish questioning him. >> according to the information i just received, the belgium arrest warrant needs to be heard before he can be handed over to france. and he still needs to be heard

in another case. >> the fbi official has accused europe of ignoring tools provided by the potential terrorism. using the cct images that they do have to find this man. >> up next, building a better life in america. the story of a single mother who left afghanistan. and how the one-child policy in china has shaped a generation. looking for love.

>> this year, the white house is looking to increase the number of refugees that it takes in around the world to 25,000. that would be an increase of 70,000 taken in last year. for much these refugees, way of life can be difficult. a single mother who fled war-torn afghanistan. >> 42-year-old satara would have never imagined this sight two decades ago. her 11-year-old daughter, sara, would have never made it. >> sarah had grown up in afghanistan, she would have never had a good life. because there's no safety, no education, and even today it's bad. >> being in afghanistan comes with its own challenges, for satara, being a single mother is one of them.

after her marriage, she decided to go to her parents in pakistan. >> whatever relief i had, it was taken away by the taliban. fighting, terror, everyone knows the relationship between the taliban. she decided to apply for refugee status. my friend told me about the program, and said that it would be easy for me to be approved, being a mother with a child. after years ago, satara made it to the u.s. in 2013. >> it was very hard for me to believe that i was finally going to the u.s. >> in new york, she was introduced to women for afghan women, a non-profit organization helping afghan women settle in the u.s. founded in 2021, an organization of 58 on 0 afghan women last year. the group's program director said that life in afghanistan

has improved for women after they were allowed to join politics and attend school. >> this is a country which has more than 30 years, and it takes more than just a few years to get back to the way it was. >> reporter: women for afghan women helped me, with security, and food staffs, and i.d. and other matters. i used to get scared of traveling, but now i go on my own. >> and it doesn't stop there. satara has a job in a restaurant. she's learning to speak english and to drive, something that she would have never dreamed back home. >> i am learning to speak english, and i go to school. parent conference, and my daughter. >> you can see satara now in

the school, who came to the united states a couple of years ago, with no english, and they put her on -- when she didn't know. >> no matter where i go, if i'm not able to speak in english, my daughter steps in as my translater. >> for people to learn, they can work a lot of times, and they get scared, able to answer the questions and do their homework by themselves. >> reporter: satara and sara have come a long way from their home in afghanistan and pakistan. and they say life is good. aljazeera, new york. >> so earlier this year, a wedding photo of a young chinese couple went viral after it was posted live. and the reason, the two teenagers really gave a new

meaning to the phrase, young love. we'll show it too in a second, and they were both 16 years old. the legal age for women to marry is 20, and for men, it's 22. the young lovers said that they can legally marry once they come of age. recently, they domed a rising trend of teen marriages in village in eastern china. talking about this trend, and it's good to have you on the program. >> thank you. >> let's start with the photograph, it shows one of the photos that you captured here. you can see the photo there. what are we looking at here? >> well, this photo, this husband, who is 18 years old, he's touching the pregnant belly of his wife, who is 13 years old and the girl is pregnant. >> she is a 13-year-old girl.

she's not a woman, she's a girl. >> yeah. >> and she's six months pregnant. >> right. >> where did you take this photograph? where in china? >> i took this photo in -- province. it's a big province, and in the township called mala. >> is this happening, would you say a lot in this particular province? >> well, like in the area, in the township i visited, it's pretty common. >> so explain it to me. why is it happening? i guess that's the question. why is this early marriage phenomenon happening? why am i looking at pictures of children with a child? >> well, i think, like generally speaking, the less

developed the place s. the more people get married. >> and more in the rural areas. >> yeah. >> is it more accepted there? >> yes, it's more accepted there. there is no social condemnation on it. the family members, the parents, the teachers, they're okay with it, and this phenomenon existed for a long time, so everyone feels it's normal. >> and the parents and the youth feel it's normal. you just used the word normal, didn't you? >> yes, the parents also got married early. >> so is there an economic factor here for this happening? because i've heard suggestions that the reason it's encouraged is because it increases the labor pool for the family and this is a primarily rural and farming is the way of life complexion if you're having children at a young age, you're increasing the labor pool.

does that make any sense? is that what you're fining in your area? >> yes, if for example, in these kind of poor areas, it's likely that people go, like the kids go to school, they're going to start to study through middle to high school. and after that, they don't have things to do, such as people in cities, don't have a job training or something. they usually go to bigger cities to work as a migrant worker, so before that, they just get married x. so there's nothing between. >> well, something here, education. that's the problem. >> that's a problem. >> in terms of what you do after your high school years, education, do these young people know that, particularly in the case of the young girl, there are real risks to being

essentially underage and carrying a child? >> that's a very good question. because what i found out there, education is very poor. so for example, the 13-year-old girl. we particularly talked about sex education, and she doesn't know anything about protection. she told me she has pain every time she has a period, but the people told her it's a sign that you get pregnant, then they gave her some medicine, and not a long time after, she just got pregnant. >> i'm curious. this is happening in rural areas, and we understand that the one-child policy in china has been relaxed a bit. and i wonder what it is in some of the bigger, more industrialized areas. if young coups, if established

coups are rushing to have that second child. is that happening in china? >> no, as far as i know, kind of rushing to the second child doesn't really happen. yeah. okay, let's look at a couple of these pictures one more time, and as you were reporting on this, as you were taking these pictures, and tell us so of the conversations that you were having with the young couples. >> one thing that was quite surprising, they're pretty happy with their lives. >> happy? >> they chose to be with them, it's not like a forced marriage. they chose whom to date. and they got married, some of them were pregnant first, and then married. then like families are happy. just like that's what is really striking to me. because for me, it's a really

strange phenomenon. but for them, it's really normal. >> good to have you on the program. new york times and elsewhere, and terrific pictures. thank you for being here. >> still ahead on the programs, scandal in a texas town. corruption in human trafficking, and the mayor accused of being involved. well, he wants to be reelected. and the city of chicago's new plan to help the homeless.

>> a texas border town is being known for corruption. and the mayor and most of the city council are facing criminal charges, but as heidi

joe castro explains, despite ththe allegations, the mayor is running for re-election. >> reporter: crystal city, texas, once the spinach capital of the world, now being called the capital of corruption. a town touched by scandal, 40 miles above the mexican border. every official is now under federal indictment. the mayor, the city manager, and others charged with bribery, and another charged with human smuggling. >> they thought that what they were doing, they were above the law. >> the shady dealings at city hall have long been the talk around town. >> $40 million a year. >> reporter: that was half of the city's tax revenue. in the community where the median family income is

$26,000. they were cashing it in. the city manager was a former washington d.c. lobbyist, living in san antonio. to establish that he really lived in crystal city, the only problem, it's an empty train caboose. the indictment says don't return the favor, by securing bribes for the mayor and the city councilmen. and when the money ran out, they raised the taxes by 20% to pay for him. >> agreed, it just boils down to agreed. >> the fbi says corruption is common along the border, where proximity to cartels, access to government grants, and poverty conditions are ripe for abuse. >> you know, a bribe of 500, $1,000, $2,000 is a substantial amount of money, and a great temptation for them. >> when a local business owner

approached the crystal city mayor, lopez, with money in exchange for favors, the mayor accepted it. [ knocking ] ricardo, it's al jazeer a. and . and just want to ask questions. >> lopez refuse to come to the door, and when we asked a neighbor, it turns out that the man was lopez. he's running for re-election next month. >> okay, ricardo -- -- are you difficulty of corruption charges? why are you walking away if you are running for mayor and you invited us to give you an interview. >> a little more and the mayor finally opened up. he said his business dealings were all legal. >> i got the receipt here. >> you got a brown bag with

$40,000 you didn't find that to be suspicious? >> there's $40,000, yes. >> he was forced to resign, and now he's giving voters a chance to reelect him. he said that he's innocent of all charges. >> this could be a better community without corruption. it could be. and hopefully crystal city will take this as an opportunity to take the first step for a better city. >> as for the only city councilmember not under indictment, he says he can't handle another term. >> i'm tired you have all of this. what we're trying to do is get this town to go forward. >> elections in crystal city are may 7th. and riding on them, the people's hopes that they can keep the city going. >> federal investigators are finally responding to complaints about the water in flint. some of those are two years

old, and the investigators from the epa inspector general's office will interview residents this weekend. they say more than 100 people complained about the water quality in flint between april 2013 to 2014. a growing number of people in chicago are responding with compassion, and the push is on finding permanent housing for some. >> holder is a student by day, studying criminal justice at a downtown college, and at night, she hunkers down in a tent near the viaduct on lakeshore drive. >> it's no way of life, what we have been going through. >> in the neighborhood north of downtown, for three viaducts. they are all pretty much the only way for the uptown residents to get to the beaches and the parks along lake

michigan. these tent cities are growing under all three viaducts. to get to the city's crown jewel, they have to jog past an unpleasant truth. >> to me it should be the warning involve that something is really wrong. >> rothschilds said that he considers these people his neighbors, so he started a go fund me page, and a twitter account and a website, they have raised about $9,000 toward supplies and tents. that's how mark got his. >> one of the worst things about being homeless, you have no place to go and shut the door on the rest of the world. >> part of the problem here is that illinois' current budget stale mates, 10 months now with no state budget, has led to big cuts in the funds that could help city residents. and this is squeezing out lower income residents. >> there has been a steady

bleeding of low-priced apartments, housing in the area. >> isn't there a process for that? >> and police have also been showing up, giving tickets, and trying to shoo the homeless away. but justice week, the newly formed task force was helping to distribute meals to the residents, so what gives? >> what gives is these people need permanent housing with services, and that's going to happen. >> reporter: the city alderman for the neighborhood said that the city has been sending mixed messages but he assured us that within months, the city will have help getting ready to go, using existing buildings in the neighborhood. >> they will have a place to go, and it will not be a shelter. it needs to be permanent housing. >> the alderman said that he knows that the residents won't know until they see it, but they want to stick together.

>> we're like family out here, and we don't leave nobody out. >> al am, chicago. >> uber and lift, gearing up for a big expansion. the legislature approved that ride sharing companies will be starting in syracuse and albany. a coalition urged the legislature to expand it. uber and lift in the new york city area. you might soon be able to use uber if you fly into the nation's largest airport, hartfield-jackson right now, and they're not allowed there. but that could change if a law requiring background checks goes through. >> it's the busiest airport in the world, but if you're an uber driver right now, it's illegal to pick people up because atlanta wants fingerprints and background checks to be mandatory, and uber is challenging that.

ezekiel has been an uber driver for a year, but thinks that the company has been cutting corners. >> i think that uber is not going through the right channels, and right now, it's a fight between the airport and them. i think that they will get it rectified pretty soon. >> reporter: taxi and limo drivers already undergo background checks, as do airport officials and workers, and that's the point. that's why they want uber drivers to do the same. >> uber has agreements with airports, background checks being proposed and wanted company made a statement and said that atlanta's plan would add substantial additional bureaucratic barriers. bill gibbons told allege al, the taxi drivers are required to have the background checks already, and many of them think uber is cheating the system.

>> to take a fingerprint or background check, when we do it, it's a lot of problems. but they want to pick on them, and i don't get that. >> so it's not fair. >> it's not fair. the playing field fair. >> recently, the san francisco and los angeles county district attorneys announced background checks, saying that uber doesn't do a good job, and part of their argument cites this. the background check, the lawsuit states, for now, the atlanta city council will neat again soon top find a compromise between ub and she the busiest airport on the planet. >> there's a new start up in los angeles that's offering a unique way to work and sleep.

it's called pod share, and it overspinses for as low as $35 a night. and the founders are hoping to take on the hotel industry one pod at a time. >> waking up to the smell of pancakes and the sound of brushing teeth. this may look like a youth hoss still, but don't call it that. >> pods coliving, not hoss still. it's very important. >> why is it so important. >> we're trying to create the traveler experience. >> 31-year-old everybodyina created pod sharing in los angeles three years ago. in the college dorm room style. >> you have you own a pod. >> yes, i own a pod. >> a group of mostly millennials, eating and sleeping in an open space. >> i'm chelsea, and your name

is in pod, so it's super easy. >> hanging out with a personal pod with a memory foam mattress and a light and streaming video. >> he said where are you? i'm in los angeles at a pod share site. >> the shared living space is used by travelers. the motto is rent it, don't own it. just about everything is shared, from food to shampoos. >> you just have your name on t. >> she came out of herschel after living here for three months ago. >> it's not very private so, i just was forced to hang out and kind of get comfortable with everybody. >> what about a little curtain? >> no, that's the biggest no, other than pod sex. there's no curtain. it just totally kills the whole dna of the space. >> you heard right. there's also no sex here. >> i totally understand the

urge to want to have hook up, but this is not the place. it's a crazy exhibitionist rule if you did make this the place. >> it's for couples who want to safe some money. a night here is $40, meal included. becky just raised $30,000 through crowdfunding. >> we had to kick people out. we had a dinosaur list, and out of the 5,000 members over the years, ten or 11 are on the dinosaur list. >> chris is passing through l.a., perfecting his comedy routine. >> it's nostalgic, and its converting to know other people are around me and i'm not alone. >> enough time to meet new people, but not grow tired of them. >> everything is here. >> he sparked a marriage, a proposal and too many friends for him to count, even tattoos

to remember the experience. >> so many people have chosen to put this icon on their bodies. it's a share the road sign, and home, and so what is home? >> sharing an experience as they go along. aljazeera, had los angeles. >> the bottles between the candidates is heating up and so is the push to lower the voting age. bernie sanders wants 16-year-olds to vote in the primaries. and 16-year-olds to vote in the municipal election. some think that it's a good idea. >> . >> i'm getting my braces off today. >> so i'm here, surrounded by teenagers, 15, 16, so it's a passage when you turn 16, whether it's driving, getting

your braces off, going to prom. and yet, you're not allowed to vote. you have to wait two more years, until you're 18. is that fair? >> no, it's not. i would argue that we have more of a stake in our future than anyone, because we're going to be around the longest, especially on environmental policy, the current politicians who make the decisions are not going to beer around to see those, but we will be. >> you are head of the new jersey chapter of the nationaluth risings association, and were you an activist for lowering the voting age? >> without representation is just as unfair today as it was 250 years ago. >> why is it so important to you? >> because i want to be involved, i believe that 16 and 17-year-olds, we're not just some random people that are around to be around, but we

have voices and opinions that matter. >> yet you do not agree. >> sure, erica. i think that there are a lot of different reasons why this is not the greatest possible policy, and there are other reasons with politics other than simple voting. i think there's political activism and there's writing. >> there's a reason why young people in most states are not able to marry and enter into contracts, and because of deficiencies and lack of judgment, it would not be a good idea to lower the voting age to 16. >> it's a great idea. and in all of the countries that have lowereds the age to 16, they have experienced great success with 16-year-olds, and they're very informed and responsive in politics. >> so we're here at democracy charter high school in harlem, and we have a group of students who are going to weigh in on this. so you feel like on the whole,

you guys are mature enough, knowledgeable, to vote on somebody who is going to make foreign policy decisions, and things like what we do with isis, on things like how we deal with president putin of russia? you all feel like you can weigh in on that? >> . >> yes, we're doing the same things that adults are doing, and we have the same opinions as adults have, so we should have the same opportunity to vote. >> i've been ready since the 7th grade to vote. and i feel like i've been engaged enough to vote. >> . >> teenagers don't have the maturity and the judgment and the awareness of consequences that older people have. >> so 16, president gets elected and they're in office for four years. i turn eight within two years of their presidency, and the president is the commander in chief, he can decide to go to

war, and that directly affects me, though i wasn't able to vote two years ago, which is ridiculous which is why it makes perfect sense that a senior should be able to vote. >> behind the nation's military, jamie mcintyre takes you inside of the pentagon.

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>> national security correspondent, jamie mcintyre, has spent more than 17 years covering the pentagon. tonight, jamie gives us an insider's tour of the iconic building, and shows us why the pentagon is the most elite military headquarters on the planet. >> reporter: everything about the pentagon is a factor of five. there are five sides, obviously, as well as five rings, and five floors, and ten

corridors, but what really makes this building unique, these, these are the reporters who cover the pentagon, and that's me right there. the pentagon is the only military headquarters in the world that allows reporters to have offices right inside the building, and essentially gives them a free pass anywhere they want to go. there are 17 corridors, and almost all of them are open to the reporters with exception to the super security military center in the sub basement. this is the military briefing room, so let's take a look. here it is. i like the white house briefing room which is bigger than it is on tv. the bent gone briefing room is bigger than it is on tv. it's about three times the size. this is the lecturn where the spokesman talks to reporters, and as any veteran, a reporter will tell that you its rare to

get news from official briefs, it's typical to get statements. and the pentagon runs on sources, and it's done with good old-fashioned -- when you're here on the d ring, and while a lot of the sources at the pentagon are secret sources, a lot of times you get information through the front door, and this is literally the front door. this is the main entrance to the process office at the pentagon, and in here is where all of the public affairs officers are whose job it is to get information to do their story. it looks a little bit like a newsroom, and all of officers have an area of specialty where they're subject matter experts, and their boss, who is captain jeff davis, who is the director of press on regs. you got a minute? i was just giving people a tour. good to see you again, and i

was talking about how this building is more open, and it gets more access than any other military headquarters in the world. and if you talk to people outside, you think it's crazy that you let reporters wander around everywhere. >> a lot of people are surprised by it. we're the most open executive branch building in town, and we have access here for 200 reporters with the badge that you do, that enables them to come in and walk the halls and talk to people in the military establishment. it's unprecedented. and there's no other country in the world that does it. and a lot of people look at the pentagon and think there is a secretive building. sure, there are a lot of secrets here, there better be, but important things that we're doing from the american people and want public. >> so if you go out the back door of the press office, this is the c ring, and behind me

are cbs, abc, cnn, and fox, the big television networks, and in front of me, some of the radio reporters. the space is cramped and it works pretty well, this is where the press hangs out. this is the reuters news agency, and this is where the authoritative associated press works, i like to say authoritative because they are, and over here, we have a lot of publications, including a lot of web publications like the daily beast. and there's nancy, what would you tem people its like covering the pentagon. >> i think that it's great allowing the access in the building and it speaks to something else. and it's a great thing. we're at a time where it's harder and harder to find out information, and while it's great, we have to push finish the kind of transparency that

the american public and the world at large needs to know about u.s. forces are doing around the world, particularly in the war against islamic state in iraq and syria. how much support i get from other people to keep pushing it, and they want it as much as i do in a lot of case, for them, it's not just a news story, but a personal thing. a lot of these guys have lost comrades, and it's important for the public to know what's being asked of them. >> so we end our tour here at the radio buckets, and aljazeera america, because we were here a little bit late for the game, we got stuck with the booth that's in the farthest corner. it's quite small. i affectionally call this our news closet. but it has everything that i need to do my job. it has internet access, and telephone and computers, and of course every television

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