but in a lot of show we'll get the real headlines with none of the mersey are going to live out of washington d.c. yesterday hillary clinton made quite these strong statements when she said that the u.s. is losing the information war to international media outlets so and that's why u.s. media is playing second fiddle to the rest of the world including r.t. when it comes to reporting the facts and then the president finally speaks out on libya details on what obama had to say today we also want to go could there be

a disagreement on the issue between obama and the military then it was mike huckabee is the latest remark considered an apology after misspeaking about president obama's trial heard a fox news host made news statements today that they weren't much better so i have to ask if huckabee should really consider running for president when he comes off as such a bigot a new charges for p.f.c. bradley manning after being held in solitary confinement for ten months the army has laid out twenty two new charges for the private including aiding the enemy but who exactly is that enemy and then it was almost d.-day for the n.f.l. a twenty four hour extension has been made before a lockout will take place so how do we compare this labor disputes with what's happening across the country a look at and to all of that and more but now let's move on to our top story. secretary of state hillary clinton has been talking about another war recently a war of words and according to her the u.s. is losing losing to al jazeera international media outlets even our team and it's

a far cry from the old days when the u.s. won the war because they had the quote best propaganda artie's guy in a chicken has more on the war of words. war declared the us is now officially in an information battle with foreign media which provide alternative views on world news views which often running contrast to the coverage of events by the us mainstream media we are in an information war and we are losing that war i'll be very blunt in my assessment al-jazeera is winning. the chinese have opened up a global english language and multi language television network the russians have opened up an english language network i've seen it in a few countries and it's quite instructive we are cutting back the b.b.c. is cutting back some five years ago western media outlets including c.b.c. and c.n.n. had a near monopoly in the coverage of world news things have changed since then more

and more viewers across the world tuning in to various foreign media to get a fresh take on events clearly the united states feels on the defensive in part because it can no longer monopolize not only the terms of you know the soroti in these countries but also the terms of the debate there's other information out there other points of view and those points of view are profoundly damaging to a country that believes that its point of view is the only point of view who should be the only point of view r.t. presence on you tube is one example almost three hundred million views as opposed to c.n.n. that has around three million r.t.s. constantly growing audience is already an indication to many that the days of media monopoly are over and people demand a multi-polar approach to news in the real commitment to the kind of freedom of the you versed speech that we really need if we're going to be in

a democracy at home and in a you know a community of nations overseas is to many hillary clinton speech a few weeks ago on freedom of internet seemed contradictory to the treatment that sources like we can leaks are getting us legislators are not crafting a law that would give the administration increased flexibility to go after weiqi leaks and the likes and now the administration is seeking more funding to step up u.s. propaganda efforts abroad during the cold war we did a great job in getting america's message out after the berlin wall fell we said ok fine enough of that you know we. we're done and unfortunately we are paying a big price for it but many say the lack of funding is not the reason why us media are unpopular among world audience the us is losing and has been for years losing popularity and respect around the world but that's not a result of its failures in media communications it's a result of all of us foreign policy recently asked you're the head of the agency

that manages the u.s. government run international broadcasting asked for more money for his the partment we can't allow ourselves to be out communicated by our enemies. the list of enemies included russia china iran and venezuela walter isaacson the head of the agency which runs with american on the other media outlets later backtracked on this statement isaacson speech for more funding seemed even more unconvincing considering his agency has a budget of seven hundred fifty million dollars and its wave more than the budget of r t iran's press t.v. and venezuela's tell us we're combining probably money alone can't provide global media clout. speech last year sent quite a hostile message to foreign media exposing shortcomings in the us mainstream but that very clear statement that it will push the us is fighting a global information war and i'm going to start our reporting from washington r.t. . so why is the u.s.

losing this information war ahead of this castle with me is christopher chambers georgetown university professor and author of the blog turner's revenge chris thanks so much for you here for starters do you think there hillary's right are we engaged in an international information war and is the last losing it. no to the first question yes to the second one we're losing but it's not a global war. some very good points it's great to get a shout out from the you know from the surge. but i'll take it she misunderstands one point or itchy al-jazeera the new chinese network they are legitimate real news outlets that have been able to exploit holes in coverage that fox which i don't even consider news anymore it is a propaganda arm c n n. b c have that works have wolf fully cleared the table and allowed these networks to come in i mean al-jazeera for the middle east

unrest the loom you know these are real news networks which she's talking about is getting money for propaganda operations like voice of america all that money she would literally better off taking that money and start. in the state run real news operation the trying to be for voice of america's propaganda arm which are not really catching on overseas and do you think that's why it's they're not catching on overseas i mean as kind of just mentioned in the piece here seven hundred fifty million dollars a year that's not a tiny little budget you know the u.s. has seven of these channels and i consider what i do every day to be breaking the news through talking about the news to be uncovering the stories of the mainstream media he is touching is you know doesn't want to go near so what exactly are these voice of america and al gore are doing wrong world first of all they are propaganda arms of the world is comes out of springfield virginia a lot of the correspondents are lebanese christians and they're there beaming their

message towards the most of them world they're not going they're not on the ground they're talking to people asking them what are your problems what are your crises what are both sides of the the issue that's new starts what these news outlets like al-jazeera are to you're doing all of the news gathering reporting analysis like what the networks here were doing maybe thirty forty years ago when you had walter cronkite and john chancellor and all those people not with the networks are doing now certainly not with the twenty four hour cable news is doing these propaganda outlets that the government is running it's just basically putting on full of programming and kind of phony programming and the people overseas you don't have to be that smart to see through that you know if that's the thing and it's not genuine but clinton mentions. maybe was lamenting the days of the cold war here in this speech and say you know during the cold war we did it we won the propaganda war and then we kind of well we let it drop off and now we are reading it how did the u.s.

do it then you know why why did that work then propaganda arguable whether she's right or not i mean there are a lot of other circumstances that contributed to this you know that the fall the girl in law and all that kind. stuff that really had nothing to do with the constant barrage of propaganda being they've been aiming at cuba for as long as i've been alive and castro still there but i think what she's talking about is a more directed approach towards real quote enemies we don't really have that now we have a global economy a global culture on some levels and you can't have that same kind of focus directed be moved of kind of anti soviet or anti chinese sorts of messages any more i mean it's absolutely and the coalition black and white. the world is brown basically mix and there you have our corporate media which is totally abdicated newsgathering news reporting for entertainment for fighting pundits for attacking

the president that kind of stuff for you know keeping you know sarah palin and mike huckabee on the payroll until they decide to run for president and then saying i'm going to yank their contracts so you can look like you're unbiased i mean that's the kind of stuff we're dealing with and that has hurt us overseas it's a spillover effect that stuff is heard as domestically now it's hurting us overseas because our news networks are not dealing with the real problems and reporting them so she's got a point there but fixing it through a propaganda arm is not going to work you just need some real new this this is the wonderful thing about the words that you can no longer just project that this is an enemy ad everyone must hate because now you have a world where everyone is connected through the internet or you know i actually and you have options exactly i think chris thanks so much for joining us. now speaking of the media we want to mark the anniversary of a major media event that happened twenty years ago today it was shortly after

midnight march third one nine hundred ninety one when something happened on a street in los angeles and it started the movement of citizen journalism george holliday heard police sirens outside his apartment he grabbed his video camera stepped out onto his balcony and recorded very grainy video of the los angeles police department beating an unarmed motorist now here's a clip of the beating of rodney king that changed the city of los angeles and the u.s. forever four police officers were later found not guilty in the beating of king and that set off days of rioting across l.a. where more than fifty people were killed because since that video shot by george holiday citizen journalism is now an all time high and today's high tech world smartphones allow all of us to record video take pictures of course it's illegal in your state to do so now video taken by everyday citizens has become a valuable part of the criminal justice system cell phone cameras are rolling in oakland on a transit officer shot and killed an unarmed man. oscar

grant was killed by a bart police officer on new year's day in two thousand and nine video recorded by several people at the scene eventually helped convict the officer in the shooting but only of involuntary manslaughter not guilty of second degree murder but this video by citizens prove that the officer had no reason to kill oscar grant now in some cases even police video can come back to haunt apartments but happened in columbia missouri during a drug raid were two dogs were shot by police when they entered a home take a listen. once that video shot by police turned up online department received. death threats police only found a small amount of weed inside the house not even enough for any charges to be filed

and the man who owned the dogs has now filed a lawsuit in this case those are three examples of how a video camera every day citizens changed journalism and hopefully the police now even more so than ever police and law enforcement are much more aware that their every move could be recorded some states even now consider videotaping police officers a form of higher tapping and in maryland for filming an officer is illegal the man who shot ravi king would have been charged with a crime i think about that that shows you how fearful the police are of citizens videotaping their actions so don't let law enforcement get away with acting like they are above the law. also to come on tonight's show talk of a no fly zone over libya isn't ramping up here in d.c. are you americans realize that a no fly zone because of the u.s. but huff alliance and other military operations we'll discuss that in a moment and then mike huckabee says the media is being tough on him after he made comments about barack obama growing up in kenya that he made another stupid comment

or he's a bigot so obviously that attic is faring from the young turks about that this is the return. to what drives the world the fear mongering used by politicians who makes decisions to break through that sort of it may who can you trust no one who is you know view with the global machinery see where are we heading state controlled capitalism school sessions when nobody dares to ask what we do our t. question more of. the same.

hey guys welcome to shelley tell me alone a show we've heard our guests have to say on the topic now i want to hear. just go on to you tube to video response or the twitter for part of the question that we post on you tube every monday and on thursday to show the responses later your voice. so

they obama announced that all options are on the table when it comes to libya he said that he authorized the use of u.s. military aircraft and chartered civilian aircraft to assist those fleeing libya to return back home to tunisia egypt and other countries he also said that he was looking over a full range of military and nonmilitary options including enforcing a no fly zone but the thing is that the pentagon doesn't really seem to be on board here with defense secretary robert gates reminding everybody that a no fly zone means military airstrikes. thirty years a lot of frankly loose talk about some of these military options and let's just call a spade a spade a no fly zone begins with an attack on libya. so what's going on could we be seeing a disagreement between civilian and military leaders on how to act joining me to discuss it is scott horton contributing editor on legal and national security

matters for harper's magazine scott thanks so much for joining us what do you think is happening here because we're seeing of course the secretary of state hillary clinton say that nothing has been taken off the table for the saying all options are on the table but the military is caution here that this would be quite a big commitment so are they you know is this an act to say that i was thinking about it really hard or are we seeing some kind of disagreement. but it's actually typical in recent years that professional military men article are more research in their views about the use of military force them politicians are but i think what we're seeing here is a division i save you can see three camps out there one we have the neo conservatives people like charles krauthammer bill kristol who have been arguing aggressively war robust employment of military forces they you know rhizome is the absolute minimum that the u.s.

could do they'd like to see more i guess they think they're so delighted with the outcome of the point of the american forces in iraq and afghanistan they think a third american land war and middle east would be quake then we have the political leaders of the administration president obama but much more actually it's been secretary clinton who taken the all options are open they're all options are on the table approach and they're on a cute it doesn't seem clear that they're committed to actually using no lies down as a child. but they definitely want to to to chill. the adoptee regime's use of military force and finally we have a career in military people and secretary gates also general mattis and others they haven't. by the outspoken years there's irresponsible talk in the media about this and that people need to understand that if you're going to use a no fly zone it's going to start with an attack on the air defense assets of the

country in question and that no matter how you cut it that's an act of war under international law so it's not something to be played too lightly once or the u.s. experience with no fly zones hasn't been great and we go back and look at the no fly zone that was opened up in the north of iraq and ninety ninety two with maintained there for many many years we actually only had two aircraft taken out in that entire action and they were american aircraft helicopters that were mistaken for rocky aircraft and shot down with the loss of more than twenty american lives so then why is this being a thrown around so lightly or perhaps irresponsibly like you mentioned i mean let's be honest i ask this question yes i ask again does this have to do with oil because we've seen many humanitarian crises go on in the world go on in africa where there wasn't all this talk of international intervention and a no fly zone as

a moral imperative to do something about it. well i think certainly he's certainly that figures in the mind of some people i mean certainly if you look at what's been written by kristol and krauthammer in the past it's clear that they're driven by geopolitics i think people i think really do have humanitarian concerns in mind that you don't see because the graphs of the planes being ordered for up on some peaceful demonstrations and they don't want to see that happen well in fact nobody wants to see that happen but the question is whether you have to reach the no fly zone to accomplish that end and i think there's a lot of skepticism particularly with american military leaders a step this isn't that you need to do this and in fact when i think russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov put it well when he said the security council has adopted a white house of measures right now and there's no reason to think that those measures won't work now i'm curious suddenly we hear hillary clinton and moammar

gadhafi using the same line when they're avoiding about the threat of al qaida getting a stronger foothold or taking over in libya if gadhafi is out and what's what's the reality of everything you believe that we're seeing them use the exact same excuse . well you know this is. this is a concern that's been articulated by the by the counterterrorism establishment for the united states for a long time but actually most analysts strongly discount that i mean it's quite clear that because this rebellion like the one in tunisia the one in egypt were not driven by al qaida and fact a number of analysts said that this must be very disturbing because they're on the sidelines it's driving right past them and in fact what we're seeing throughout the middle east is the emergence of a new generation with new attitudes with people who by the way really don't think

that their concerns about education and having a meaningful life with the job are going to be answered by voting in reciting lines from the koran i've got i want to thank you very much for joining us and of course we'll keep on following this as the international community weighs its options. great to be with you. mike huckabee has been making news this week and for all the wrong reason he first gave an interview to right wing radio host the wall where he claimed that obama lived in kenya child don't you think we should know more about this man i would love to know more but what i know is troubling and one thing that i do know is his having grown up in kenya his view of the brits for example very different than the average american and he gave us back to. a great insult to the british but then if you think about it his perspective as

growing up in sydney with a kenyan father and grandfather their view of the moment revolution in kenya is very different than ours because he probably grew up hearing the british were a bunch of imperialists to persecute all grandpa to. now that obviously caused a media storm because it was a blatant lie and everybody knows that obama in fact never visited kenya as a child huckabee spokespeople later said that he misspoke it was a mistake by the clearly i think it's a little different than just a slip of the tongue when you base an entire theory about obama's foreign policy on a false promise but the thing is that instead of trying to redeem himself huckabee made two more statements on right wing radio host bryan fischer show and this is the one that should make everyone squirm. most of this group when the boy scout meetings that you know our communities were filled with rotary clubs. so not

only has he proven himself to be a revisionist historian and a liar but i also dare say he's a bigot and this man might even run for president so earlier from our studio in los angeles i caught up with from the young turks to talk about it and i first asked her to mull over the fact that so much of this centers around a bust of winston churchill. yeah it's incredible so obama decides to move the bust and he moves it to another room in the white house and everyone panics ok well everyone doesn't panic mike huckabee uses it as a way to blow things out of proportion and draw. some crazy foreigner who's an enemy of the state who's living in the white house. it's actually i mean if this is a bust on a set understand the funny thing is so many people have mentioned here is that he replaced it with linking who's an american president and yet we're using you know britain are allied with churchill as a reason to paint obama as anti-american but let's stick more on the way that

huckabee has been acting here first who thought that you know maybe he could redeem himself after the first comment then he went and made more comments and he painted himself as the victim and said that the media attacked him baselessly just for the fact that he misspoke they have a double standard because when obama once said that he. visited fifty seven states they didn't attack him in the same way but i'd say the two are pretty different. the two are extremely different ok i'm pretty sure that the president of the united states who graduated at the top of his class from harvard knows that there are fifty states in the us ok i'm pretty sure the president miss misspoke when it comes to huckabee he said that barack obama grew up in kenya and he claims that when he said that he misspoke he meant to say indonesia. that's complete b.s. because right after he said that he misspoke he went on to make this quote ok he said well americans grew up with boy scouts the president grew up in the addresses that is absolute b.s.

you can't say oh i'm sorry misquote i misspoke i misspoke but by the way obama grew up in these religious is long schools you know obama was actually educated by the college board. he did not misspeak and that was completely on purpose i'm with you there i think it's absolutely absurd but you know if you get deeper into it what what he's doing here is he's examining obama's bringing and trying to use it against him the fact that perhaps obama has a different upbringing than some americans but i don't understand how it can possibly be looked at as a bad thing and painted as anti-american just because we have somebody representing us that i don't know maybe has a more worldly view and hasn't only lived the neighborhoods of the rotary club the never left the country. right it's incredible because you would think most americans would be happy to have a president who so culture for instance bill clinton was very cultured i mean he was known as the president of the world because of his curiosity and you know his

intellectual ism that's the type of president that we need right the reason why mike huckabee is doing this is the same reason why the birth of war questioning obama's birth certificate they want to fearmonger they want people to be afraid of the president because he has brown skin he's a. foreigner he's anti american right mike huckabee is doing this because he has his eye on the two thousand and twelve elections he wants to do whatever he can to cast obama in a negative light make people scared of him and you know what he's a massive failure at it i've know that americans are smart enough not to buy into it do you really think they're smart enough not to buy into it because that's where i am kind of a little torn right now of course there's a lot of speculation that huckabee is going to run in two thousand and twelve and you wonder whether comments like this whether you know him continuing to spew hateful bigoted remarks is going to hurt him in the long run or whether you know truly represents the views of

a lot of americans and that will get some people on his side and get them to vote for him. there will be some people on his side people can't think for themselves and investigate the crazy claims that he's making but i think when you look at the overall picture of my cook huckabee is received a tremendous amount of criticism for these crazy things that he's been saying about obama and i think that the majority of people look at what or how could be saying and they laugh at it i mean he's just a massive clown i don't think anybody can you know. look at his claims listen to his claims re disclaims and think like oh yeah. he moved the bus anti-american it just doesn't make any sense i hope you have perhaps more faith than i do is there any question still left in your mind as to whether he could be is going to run he hasn't been suspended from fox news the way santorum was. i think that he is planning on running my question to you is do you think that fox

news would suspend him during the election. i guess not right he makes a little bit too much money. but yeah i read into the u.r.l. sees what i could be with them on and he would use fox news as a platform for his crazy ideologies all that hopefully maybe there will be some legal obstacles to that and i thank so much for joining us. thank you. so to come on tonight's show a live sex show has some on the right outrage so we'll call them out in a moment in tonight's schooltime war and then twenty two new charges have been filed against bradley manning the man suspected of leading thousands of u.s. documents from wiki leaks to time a look at charges he's facing and the case of the government is building a fence and.