and understand that there are going to be consequences and actions typically create reactions. and so you want to be intentional about it. you don't want to do things off the cuff. when it comes to an issue this volatile. >> mr. president, chris johnson. >> chris johnson. i'm sorry. where's chris? >> you've had a lot of achievements the past eight years, including don't ask, don't tell, marriage equality. make sure trans-gender people are accepted. how do you thinking lgbt rights will range in your achievements and how confident that they'll continue under the president-elect? >> i could not be prouder of the

transformation that's taken place in our society in the last decade. and i have said before, i think we made some useful contributions to it, but the primary heros in this stage of our growth as a democracy and a society are all the individual activists and sons and daughters and couples who courageously said this is who i am and i'm proud of it. and that opened people's minds. opened their hearts. eventually laws caught up. but i don't think any of that would have happened without the

activism in some cases loud and noisy, but in some cases just quiet. very personal. and i think that what we did as an administration was to help the society to move in a better direction but to do so in a way that didn't create an enormous backlash and was systematic and respectful of the fact that, you know, in some cases these issues were controversial. i think the way we handled don't ask don't tell, being methodical about it, working with the joint chiefs, making sure that we showed this would not have an impact on the effectiveness of the greatest military on earth.

then to have defense secretary and bob gates and the chairman, mike mullen, the joint chiefs that were open to evidence and ultimately, you know, worked with me to do the right thing. i'm proud of that. but again, none of that would have happened without this incredible transformation that was happening in society out there. when i gave ellen the presidential medal of freedom, i meant what i said. i think somebody that kind and likeable projecting into, you know, living rooms around the country, you know, that changed attitudes. that wasn't easy to do for her.

that's just one small example of what was happening in countless communities all across the country. i'm proud that in certain places we may be provided a good block downfield to help the movement of events. i don't think it's something that will be reversible because american society has changed the attitudes of young people in particular. that doesn't mean there aren't going to be some fights that are important, legal issues, issues surrounding trans-gender persons. there's still battles that need to take place.

but if you talk to young people in malia's, sasha's generation, even the republicans, even if they're conservative, many of them would tell you, i don't understand how you would discriminate against somebody because of sexual orientation. that's burned into them in pretty powerful ways. april. >> long before today you've been considered watchful president. you've expanded the rubber band of inclusion. with the election and incoming administration, people say rubber bands are maybe broken. i'm thinking back to a time on air force one going to selma, alabama when you said your job was to close the gap that

remains. with that, what gaps still remain when it comes to whitish y -- white issues on the table and lastly, you're the first black president. do you expect this country to see this again? >> well, i'll answer the last question first. i think we're going to see people of merit rise up from every race, faith, corner of this country. base america's strength. when we have everybody getting a chance and everybody is on the field, we end up being better. i think i've used this analogy before. we killed it in the olympics in brazil. and michelle and i, we always have the here. it's a lot of fun, first of all,

because any time you're meeting somebody that is the best at anything, it's impressive. these mostly very young people are all just so healthy looking. they just beam and exude fitness and health. so we have a great time talking to them. but they're of all shapes, sizes, colors. the genetic diversity that is on display is remarkable. if you look at a -- simone biles and then a michael phelps. they're completely different. it's precisely because of those differences that -- we've got people here that can excel at any sport. and, by the way, more than half of our medals came from women,

and the reason is because we had the foresight several decades ago with something called title 9 to make sure that women got opportunities in sports, which is why our women compete better. they have more opportunities than folks in other countries. so, you know, i use that as a metaphor. if in fact we continue to keep opportunity open to everybody, then yeah, we'll have a woman president, a latino president, we'll have a jewish president, a hindu president. who knows who we're going to have. i suspect we'll have a whole bunch of mixed-up presidents at some point that nobody knows what to call them. and that's fine. what do i worry about? i obviously spent a lot of time on this, april, at my farewell address tuesday. so i won't go through the whole

list. i worry about inequality because i think that if we are not investing in making sure everybody plays a role in this economy, the economy won't grow as fast and it will also lead to further and further separation between us as americans. not just along racial lines. there's a whole bunch of folks that voted for the president-elect because they feel forgotten and disenfranchised. they feel as if they're being looked down on. they feel their kids won't have the same opportunities as they did. and you don't want to -- you don't want to have an america in which a very small sliver of people are doing really well and everybody else is fighting for scraps as i said last week. because that's oftentimes when

racial divisions get magnified. people think, well, the only way i'm going to get ahead is if i make sure something else gets less. somebody that doesn't look like me or worship the same place i do. that's not a good recipe for our democracy. i worry about, as i said in response to a previous question, making sure that the basic machinery of our democracy works better. we are the only country in the advanced world that makes it harder to vote rather than easier. and that dates back. there's an ugly history to that. that we should not be shy about talking about. >> voting rights? >> yes, i'm talking about voting rights. the reason that we're the only country among advanced democracies that makes it harder to vote is it traces directly back to jim crow.

and the legacy of slavery. it became sort of acceptable to restrict the franchise. and that's not who we are. it shouldn't be who we are. that's not when america works best. so i hope that people pay a lot of attention to making sure that everybody has a chance to vote. make it easier, not harder. this whole notion of voting fraud -- this is something that is constantly been disproved. this is fake news. the notion that there's a bunch of people out there that are going out there and not eligible to vote and want to vote. we have the opposite problem. we have people that are eligible to vote that don't vote. so the idea that we put in place a whole bunch of barriers to people voting doesn't make sense. then, you know, as i've said before, political gerrymandering

that makes your vote less because politicians decide you're in a district that everybody votes the same way you do so these aren't competitive races. we get 90% democratic districts, 90% republican districts. that's bad for our democracy, too. i worry about that. i think it's very important for us to make sure that our criminal justice system is fair and just, but i also think it's very important to make sure that it is not politicized and it maintains an integrity that is outside of partisan politics at every level. i think at some point we're going to have to spend -- this will require some action by the supreme court -- we have to reexamine the flood of endless money that goes into our politics, which i think is very

unhealthy. so there's a bunch of things i worry about there. and as i said in my speech tuesday, we got more work to do on race. it's not true that things have gotten worse. they haven't. things have gotten better. i have more confidence on racial issues in the next generation than i do our generation or the previous generation. i think kids are smarter about it. they're more tolerant. they are more inclusive by instinct than we are. hopefully my presidency maybe helped that along a little bit. but you know, we -- when we feel

stress, when we feel pressure when we're just fed information that encouraging some of our worst instincts, we tend to fall back into some of the old racial fears and racial divisions and racial stereotypes. it's very hard for us to break out of those and listen and think about people as people and imagine being in that person's shoes. and by the way, it's no longer a black and whitish you alone. you have spanish. you have asian folks. this is not -- you know, the same old battles. we got this stew that is bubbling up from people everywhere. we have to make sure that we in our own lives, our own families and workplaces do a better job

of treating everybody with basic respect. and understanding that not everybody starts off in the same situation. imagining what it would be like if you were born in an inner city and had no job prospects anywhere within a 20-minute radius. or how does it feel being born in some rural county where there's no job opportunities in a 20-mile radius. seeing those two things as connected as opposed to separate. so, you know, we have work to do. but overall, i think on this front the trend lines will be good. chrissy is going to get the last question. chrissy is -- you know, i've

been knowing her since springfield, illinois. when i was a state senator, she listened to what i had to say. so the least i can do is give her the last question as president of the united states. go ahead. >> well, thank you, mr. president. it has been an honor. >> thank you. >> and i have a personal question for you because i know how much you like this. the first lady put the stakes of the 2016 election in very personal terms in a speech that resonated across the country. she really spoke the concerns of a lot of women, lgbt, people of color, many others. and so i wonder now how you and the first lady are talking to your daughters about the meaning of this election and how you interpret it for yourself and

for them. >> you know every parent brags on their daughters or sons. if your mom and dad don't brag on you, you have problems. but me and my daughters are something. and they just surprise and enchant and impress me more and more every single day as they grow up. so these days, when we talk, we talk as parent to child but also we learn from them. and i think it was really interesting to see how malia and sasha reacted.

they were disappointed. they paid attention to what their mom said during the campaign and believed it because it's consistent with what we have tried to teach them in our household. what i've tried to model as a father with their mom and what we've asked them to expect from future boyfriends or spouses. but what we've also tried to teach them is resilience and tried to teach them hope. and that the only thing that is the end of the world is the end of the world. so if you get knocked down, you get up, brush yourself off and you get back to work. that tended to be their attitude. i think neither of them intend

to pursue a future of politics. and that, too, i think their mother's influence shows. but both of them have grown up in an environment where i think they could not help but be patriotic, to love this country deeply, to see that it's flawed, but see that they have responsibilities to fix it. and that they need to be active citizens and they have to be in a position to talk to their friends and their teachers and their future co-workers in ways that tried to shed some light as opposed to just generate a lot of sounds and fury. and i expect that's what they're

going to do. they do not -- they don't mope. and what i really am proud of them -- but what makes me proudest about them is they also don't get cynical about it. they have not assumed because their side didn't win or because some of the values this they care about don't seem as if they were vindicated that automatically america has somehow rejected them or rejected their values. i don't think they feel that way. i think they have been part of osmosis and part through dinner-time conversations appreciate this is a baked complicated country and democracy is messy and doesn't always work the way you want.

doesn't guarantee certain outcomes. but if you are engaged and involved, then there are a lot more good people than bad in this country. there's a core decency to this country. that they have to be a part of lifting that up. i expect they will be. and in that sense, they're representative of this generation that makes me really optimistic. i have been asked -- i had -- i've had some conversations with journalists where they said, okay, you seem like you're okay but really, what are you thinking? and i said no, i -- what i'm saying is what i think. i believe in this country. i believe in the american people. i believe that people are more

good than bad. i believe tragic things happen. i think there's evil in the world. i think that at the end of the day, if we work hard and if we're true to those things in us that feel true and feel right that the world gets a little better each time. that's what the presidency has tried to be about. i see that in the young people i've worked with. i couldn't be prouder of them. so this is not just a matter of no drama obama. this is what i really believe. it is true that behind closed doors i curse more than i do in public. sometimes i get mad and frustrated like everybody else does. and in my core, we'll be okay. we have to fight for it, work for it and not take it for

granted. i know you'll help us do that. thanks very much, press corps. good luck. >> shepard: that is the final farewell for the 44th president of the united states. president obama on equality and press freedoms, israeli and palestinian, russian sanctions, lgbt issues. what he will be advocating in his world after the white house and on his daughters sasha and maria and their generation and their hopes and dreams for a better tomorrow. for those of you watching on fox television stations across the country, join us for analysis that begins now. from new york, i'm shepard smith, fox news. john bussey is with us. he's been watching with us for the better part of the last hour. he started off telling the reporters in the room how glad he was to have them in the

building. >> yes. he started off thanking the press and ended thanking the press. there was a message being sent for all of the criticism of the press, particularly by the trump campaign and by the president-elect. i think he wanted to underscore what he believed the role of press to be. as he said at the outset, you're not here in the white house or out there doing your job to be fans. you're here to keep us honest and accountable to the people. you're part of the democratic process. he went so far to say i want to thank you for your extraordinary service to our democracy. a message was being sent to the critics of the press. you know, you and i know, the press is fallible, but at the same time, it was the institution that he was speaking about. the value that it has for the democratic process. >> the president-elect said this morning -- it was taped yesterday but aired this morning, the press went crazy

over this idea that i would -- we would move things to another building. so we're going to keep everybody in this building but i'll pick who comes into this room. that is not something -tried toy and other colleagues backed this up and he was wrong and they were right. as our forefathers would say, donald trump is wrong on this issue. >> the press is a strong institution. the public is a strong institution. it has a desire to get information and to know what's going on. and so it will gravitate to those sources of information that are thauthoritative over time. on the whole, the electorate is smart at the end of the day. the institution of the press will be fine. the press was not always in the white house. it was in various parts of washington. it got dribbled into the white house over the years in the very

early 1900s. it will do just fine even if it's kicked out of the white house or moved to another room. it's not less skeptical. it's not going to have fewer sources. it will get information that the public needs. i think what he was speaking to was the value of that institution as communicated by the president of the united states. don't push them out, welcome them in. would have an adversarial relationship with them, but they're part of the democratic process. that's the message i took it from. >> shepard: he spoke on the matter of equality, lgbt issues, the differences in thoughts of a younger generation now and an older generation. for older people, change is harder even though change is good, we all experienced this over a lifetime. the president seems hopeful and optimistic when looking through the eyes of his daughters. >> yeah, he was hopeful and optimistic throughout this. he spoke to a number of issues including his farewell address

and russia, israel. there was a basic tone to it as you pointed out. he said the younger generation has metabolized some of these inequalities and dealt with them more honestly and takes it as a matter of course for there to be many colors in the room, many faiths in the room. i thought what was interesting was his second point that he was making. when asked what he was going to do after the presidency, he said, look, i'm going to be a citizen, do some writing, enjoy not talking so much. i will be there and speak out not only as politics but core fundamentals. he said outright discrimination towards some group. throwing up obstacles to vote. institutions to silence the press and rounding up people that were born here and deport them. that struck as a message that was being sent to donald trump,

the president-elect, because those are topics that have come up as points of controversy if not explicit policy. >> shepard: certainly bigger picture matters from the president on his final news conference. more on president obama defending his decision to cut short the prison sentence for chelsea manning who gave hundreds of thousands of u.s. secret documents to wikileaks. catherine herridge is in washington 0 this matter. he said her sentence was longer than so many others. >> that's right, shepard. it was the first question at the last news conference and focused on clemency for chelsea manning. the president said he focused on the founder of wikileaks and assange. he said reduction was appropriate. >> the sentence that she

received was very disproportionate relative to what other leakers had received. and that she had served a significant amount of time, that it makes sense to commute and not pardon her sentence. >> mr. obama's senior military leadership including top army leaders had advised clemency because they said the 700,000 records likely contributed to the rise of isis and accelerated the arab spring. after wikileaks pullished the domment, the taliban went on a killing spree murdering everybody working with the u.s. government. in a tweet today, wikileaks said assange is still happy to come to the u.s. providing his rights are guaranteed. today the president seemed somewhat dismissive of assange and the justice department is

silent on the status of any criminal findings against him, shep. >> shepard: catherine, thanks. >> so john bussey from the "wall street journal." >> yeah, this will remain a point of contention and debate. whether an information that released confidential information, chelsea manning did this, should be presented a break. may have been a disproportionate sentence, initially invoked, but many say look, the damage was disproportionate as well and you sent a wrong signal to people that are tempted to leak. that after six or seven years if you get caught, you'll get out. >> shepard: he suggested that, you know, the message has been sent. there's nobody -- the president's point is there's nobody that thinks you can get away with, this she's been punched. >> the defense department finds this a difficult issue for them

to deal with. those were considerations that kind of went into the decision. but at root will remain -- this is a point of debate. you can watch it and almost sense that it's going to be something that we can anticipate seeing in the news for some time, of whether or not this was in fact a fair enough sentence for the damage that was done by the release of that information. >> shepard: it feels as if in the big picture this sort of measure, the news conference, is something of our past. this sort of thing we've just seen, the president-elect conducts himself in quite a different matter, instructions to us and about us, come in different forms. but today the end may be of an era. >> yeah, if you compare this news conference to the one that we just had, the president-elect shouting down reporters, i think you're going to see a much more contentious relationship between the president and the press. it will be the responsibility of viewers and readers to sift

through what is fact and what is not. it's the responsibility of the press to underscore what is fact and what is not. >> shepard: important responsibilities for both groups. thanks, john. >> thank you. >> shepard: the news continues after this. ...only allstate sends you a bonus check for every six months you're accident free. silence. it's good to be in, good hands.

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>> shepard: senators grilling the president-elect's nominee, time price. he appeared before the senate health and labor pensions committee. he's a republican from georgia, a doctor, a orthopedic surgeon. this was price's first chance to make his case for his nomination. also an opportunity for democrats to defend obamacare. price has been an outspoken critic of the healthcare law. but this was not price's formal confirmation hearing that is next week before the senate finance committee, which will vote on his nomination. today's hearing gave progressive senators including bernie sanders, elizabeth warren and

patty murray a chance to question price. so they did. mike emanuel is on capitol hill. some tense moments, no doubt. >> shepard: they were. dr. price faced questions about his finances. he says everything he's done is above board and legal. elizabeth warren questioned him about an investment in a medical bio mass company. >> i'm asking, did you buy the stock and did you introduce a bill that would be helpful to the companies that you bought stock in? >> the director was directed by a broker that was making those decisions. i wasn't. >> these are your stock trades. they're listed under your name, right? >> georgia senator johnny isaacson jumped in to say that a financial advisor buying a stock is something that could have happened to any lawmaker. so any questions about his

belief on healthcare and questions about his finances, shep. >> shepard: thanks. more to come. president-elect trump's pick to head the epa, scott pruitt, said he doesn't believe climate change is a hoax. that's different from what president-elect trump has to say about climate change. he said the chinese came up with the concept to hurt u.s. businesses. he said he would keep an open mind on the issue. scott pruitt sued the epa more than a dozen teams. rich edson following that hearing. a lot of this was about climate change. >> it was. they're worried that scott pruitt will gut the epa. democrats pressed pruitt on his fundamental environmental beliefs like climate change. >> the climate is changing. human activity contributes to that in some manner. >> in some manner. >> yes, sir.

>> 97% of the scientists that wrote articles in peer review journals believe that human activity is the fundamental reason. >> i believe you can't measure with precision and is subject to more debate. >> environmental groups say that answer is leaving pruitt's epa enough room to do nothing to address climate change. republicans have charged for years that the epa under the obama administration with regulations on power plants and waterways have circumvented congress and they say pruitt is the right personal to overhaul the epa. shep? >> shepard: we'll speak with a journalist that has attended the most high profile hearing. that's coming up on "shepard smith reporting."

>> shepard: continuing coverage now. president-elect donald trump's pick to fill out his cabinet and the hearings to confirm them. let's bring in james, the

congressional reporter from realsearchpolitics.com. he was at the hearing for tom price. it was a bumpy sort of thing, especially during the discussion of stock picks. because it boiled down to you bought these stocks, which you later affected with your moves in congress. and i realize your broker bought it, but you could have told them, hey, i'm in congress and i'm working on healthcare, so avoid healthcare stocks. didn't do that. >> yeah, that's right. that's why democrats were really aggressive in their questioning on this. they oppose tom price almost universally because of the fight over the affordable care act. they feel like these questions about his stock purchases give them real ammunition to stall his nomination. i think tom price, his response was that his broker purchased the stocks. in one case he said to patty murray that he purchased the

stock from one company. so a lot of questions about these still remaining. democrats are really pushing this issue. they think this issue is enough to potentially force congressman price's nomination to stall in the senate. >> shepard: but enough to where they might have a rejection? >> that is their goal. right now it doesn't seem likely. you saw nearly every republican on that committee today defend congressman price. you heard from johnny isaac son giving his defense saying this could happen to anyone in congress. most other republicans said the same thing, depending him. he will have to face another committee next week, the finance commitsty that does. but if what republicans say, they don't consider this to be the issue that democrats do. while democrats think it's the ammunition to stall the nomination, republicans support it. >> betsy devos, the nominee for

education secretary, it's been reported that she's gone viral and not in a good way. she struggled in many cases to answer questions, which so many senators thought would have been easy answers if you prepared for such a thing. >> yeah, she did. that was a hearing from last night before the same committee that had the hearing with congressman price today. a lot of senators were not pleased with the answers that she gave. they felt like she was unprepared for the questioning and suggesting that she might be unprepared for the office. that's another nomination that she will get the support from the republicans, but the hearing didn't go as the transition team and senate republicans would have hoped. >> shepard: she did not appear to be up on the laws. >> yeah, that's exactly right. they pushed pretty aggressively on that. democratic senators in that committee were pushing for more extensive questioning. they wanted the hearing to be pushed back. they wanted an opportunity to really grill her more than they

did. so clearly dissatisfied with her performance last night. >> shepard: nikki haley, a hearing for her today. thoughts? >> yeah, we saw an issue with nikki haley that we saw last week with a couple other nominees for trump's cabinet. she was forceful in terms of calling russia a bad actor and saying that russia is an adversary of the united states. donald trump has been in talking about trying to have a better relationship with putin. she reaffirmed the united states needs to stand with nato allies. these are issues where there's a lot of divergence between the cabinet nominees and the president-elect himself. but she made an interesting point. she can try to talk through these issues with president trump if confirmed and bring her closing to her line of thinking, which is the same thing as senate republicans so probably enough to persuade their concerns about the issues, but there's still some democratic opposition to her.

it's unclear. probably her nomination is straightforward. >> shepard: thanks john. great work. fo good to see you. donald trump says he doesn't like tweeting, but he's not going to stop. he told fox news channel and ainsley earhardt why that is in an interview that covered a lot of ground. from his take on lawmakers, skipping the inauguration to his plans for the media once he takes office. a lot to get into here. stay with us.

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>> shepard: here's one for you. the president-elect says he uses social media only because the press is so dishonest. in an interview that aired this

morning, trump says he will continue to tweet from the white house even though he would not. >> look, i don't like tweeting. i have other things i can be doing. i get very dishonest press. it's my only way that i can get it direct. for instance, when john lewis said he has never done it before where he skipped an inauguration. well, he has. turned out to be a lie. i'm able to say that. if the press were honest, which it's not, i would absolutely not use twitter. i wouldn't have to. >> shepard: in that same interview, donald trump discussed the dozens of democratic lawmakers not attending the inauguration. more than 50. his ongoing feud with the current cia director john brennan and the possibility of moving the press corps out of the briefing room. john roberts with a bit of that live from the trump transition office in d.c. hi, john. >> a potpourri of items, shep. sean spicer having his first

off-camera briefing this morning expressing a lot of concern that he thinks the democrats are slow-walking the confirmation process, potentially jeopardizing the incoming president's intent to have his national security team, secretary of state, mattis for defense, kelly for homeland security and sessions for attorney general in place. on friday, sean spicer sending a message saying i think you send a bad signal to the rest of the world that you show you want to slow down this transfer of power, talking about the hallmark of the peaceful transition of power. donald trump weighing in with an interview and ainsley earhardt about the 60 or more democrats that said they will boycott it led by john lewis of florida who said he will take a pass. here's what trump said. >> as far as other people not going, that's okay. we need seats. what would you do with their

tickets? >> would you sit down with congressman lewis? >> sure. we're off to a bad start. what he did is a bad thing. notice for me. it's a bad thing for the country. very divisive. >> we should point out it's only house democrats that will be boycotting the inauguration on friday, not the senate democrats. president obama reiterated today at his press conference that he will be in attendance. >> shepard: what did he say if anything about his feud with john brennan? >> looks like he's tried to put it to bed. he accepted john brennan's assertion that said he didn't leak word that the intelligence chiefs had briefed donald trump on that dossier of inverified information. but trump still upset that he was told about it at all. the fact that it came from the intelligence chief gives it a credence that it never deserved and said that that was

irirresponsibi irresponsib irresponsible. listen to that. >> they should have never been a part of that. i say that so strongly because there's never going to be a tape that shows up. >> we're talking also about the briefing. i heard you discussing this earlier, shep. donald trump wanted to move it out of the james brady briefing room to a larger room at the eisenhower executive building-with there's a makeshift auditorium. but he and sean spicer saying they're ka pit -- capitulating. they're going to live it that way for the team being. they said it would limit the number of journalists to cover. the plan is to pack the briefing room with as many people as possible so potentially after three or four days people would be screaming to put it in a bigger venue.

we'll see. i like the idea keeping it where it is. >> shepard: we'll see who he eliminates. one president might like you. the next might not. ask fox and now cnn. we'll see how this goes. donald trump raised more money for his inauguration than any other american president ever. coming up, we'll take a look back at another inauguration ceremony that was the most expensive at the time and it began on this day in history. ong that just tastes better. with 10 times more vitamin e. and twice the omega 3s. because why have ordinary when you can have the best. only eggland's best. better taste. better nutrition. better eggs.

. >> shepard: on this day in 1981, ronald reagan's ceremonies were underway in washington. the "washington post" called the four-day event an extravaganza straight from hollywood. it was the most expensive inauguration in history at the time. fireworks, a laser light show, a concert, fancy dinners and balls. donald trump recently said his inauguration is turning out to be even better than expected. we'll soon how out how it

compares to reagan's glitzsy galas that happened 36 years ago today. breaking news changes everything on fox news channel. "your world" with neil cavuto starts right now. >> neil: all right. despite a heap of controversy and criticism, president obama in his final news conference standing by the decision to commute chelsea manning's preson sentence. take a look. >> chelsea manning has served a tough prison sentence. i felt that in light of all of the circumstances that commuting her sentence was entirely appropriate. >> neil: all right. many in the military community say that's not the case. that manning was behind the same type of intelligence leaks that were very big issues to democrats pointing out the