well coming up on our t.v. moore oklahoma remains devastated after it was hit by a massive tornado on monday locals are trying to pick up the pieces while planning to rebuild their lives all updates from the ground and we're just ahead. today's lawmakers starting to look at the needs of the pentagon when it comes to the budget for twenty four teams from cyber defense to arms armed forces on foreign soil what are the details inside the national defense authorization act find out coming up the new york city anarchistic finds himself in jail after refusing to speak in federal court and he may face eighteen months for a silence later on in the show will shine a spotlight on the case of terri koch. well

it's wednesday may twenty second at four pm in washington d.c. i'm margaret held you are watching our t.v. starting off this hour oklahoma residents try to pick up the pieces after that devastating storm ripped through the region late monday the hardest hit the small telling of moore oklahoma the search and rescue efforts are ongoing as official struggled to handle the destruction left in the wake of this category five tornado the storm was upgraded from an e.f. four late tuesday well monday's tornado will no doubt have a profound impact on the daily life indefinitely however one question lingers what will it take to rebuild more artie's nicholas sanchez donovan is on the ground and brings us the latest. just fulci a towel is off to a devastating e.f. five tornado hit the streets of moore just south of oklahoma city and causing massive damage the scene is just pretty much the same in the streets of mole still

look like a real walls and we can't forget that mold in twenty four hundred houses have been leveled to the ground here but the mood is different now it's not so much the search and rescue teams that are on the ground but the cleaning teams in fact the media had to be relocated to allow those cleaning teams and the actual owners of the homes to get back to their houses but will can't go away is the memory of those forty minutes of terror caused by that e.f. five tornado. under a bridge listen to my radio it's all i could do i don't know what else to do. i mean i thought the worst about everything and clearly we got it you did when you came back and saw your neighborhoods where you needed to be literally unable to the ground but when we don't. honestly have another home all life and turn it has never been a big deal to me as how like a tornado we have them all the time and then the. thing all the houses now and be

in flying and it's actually scary to know what i can actually do but i was like likely to walks away from being demolished. but as time goes by questions arise for instance why be in an area traditionally hit by tornadoes homes hospitals and even schools weren't properly prepared. and that's something the mayor of moore is trying to fix by passing a law making storm shelters mandatory for new homes so that the next tornado doesn't cause the twenty four deaths that this one did another issue to be addressed is the safety protocol in schools nine children who were killed on monday and parents i spoke to aren't happy at all with the inexistent safety measures. they had. with us in the decision to let them leave would have made things different but not as many children would have died the county made the decision of not letting children go home and in my opinion that was

a mistake there were parents knocking down the doors of schools and begging for their children and that didn't happen and now they'll be mourning their kids is that's what's most difficult here in oklahoma the loss of so many innocent lives. and that but for now there is a much needed sunshine here more after days of rain destruction in the heavy winds that gives the people of the area a glimpse of hope that life goes on off the tragedy nicholas o'donovan r.t. more of the houma. moving on now to the national defense authorization act commonly known as the n d a today congress begins considering the latest version of this legislation and the massive bill includes defense funding outlining the budgetary authority of the department of defense drones sexual assault and guantanamo bay are all on the table and the language that in this bill dictates how and where the money goes with me to discuss is breaking the set host abby martin and political

commentator sam sax hi there guys ma'am let's start with you what are some of the main issues lawmakers are looking at in this bill will have you this bill you've heard a lot of talk on on capitol hill about drones this kind of this issue kind of jumped to the forefront when when john brennan was going through his confirmation to be the cia chief and you've seen a lot of lawmakers who want to use the new n.d.a. to inject more congressional oversight over the targeted killing program that's run out of the white house right now. guantanamo is another issue that's going to be addressed in this the president is giving his speech tomorrow and in the press briefing yesterday jay carney said that the president is going to put forward his latest plans to close guantanamo bay so i mean these are the two major issues that the new india is going to look at it's also going to examine issues related to sexual assault in the military it's going to look at recommendations from the the attack in benghazi and ways to keep our diplomatic mission safer. i mean this is

all about funding the department of defense programming our war machine so it's a pretty all encompassing piece of legislation ok programming or were machine i like that ok i have a there the president says that he wants to close gitmo and take a new approach on drones we got a lot of the table for you to talk about here as well can we take him at his word while it's hard to take about his word when he would hear in this for the last six years i mean he said that he wanted to close it was a main point in his policy making going in-doors campaign rhetoric going into the election and during the first two years he had control over the house he had control over the senate here executive power he did not. choose to close it instead he choose to cater to a very radical fringe right and the republican party that were saying that we could not put these people back to yemen that we've radicalized the mic ceterus so he made a point then to not go through with his word and so now i think that he's just forced to address it because of this hunger strike it's really bad press but more importantly i think the broader picture is john bellinger one of the drone architects came out to

a think tank lately and said that obama has avoided getting the entirely because of its you know such bad press for the bush administration that he's just opted to kill suspected militants and suspected terrorists abroad so he's actually just taking it one step further bush like to go and capture people and torture them and hold them indefinitely obama has just opted to killing people and blowing up their friends and family without charges or trial so you know to me it's even just going farther than anything we've ever seen if i could add on to that you know there's been a lot of talk out of the white house the congress has handcuffed ability to close guantanamo there's a lot of members of congress who are speaking out and saying well that's not exactly the case carl levin has reached out to the white house saying there's a national security waiver in the in last year's national defense authorization act that allows you to close it senator dianne feinstein has sent similar letters to the white house congressman jim moran recently held a hearing saying on top of the needs to be closed so there's going to be a lot of pressure coming from congress for the president to step up and do

something not exactly him saying oh i'm by al green gage with congress well no you have this national security waiver which sam just mention that you can do it and you can really take power to do so so it's just complete passing the buck one thing a lot of the relevant committees are saying they're saying you know we like to hear a plan to close guantanamo but the white house hasn't offered up a plan yet in considering that the white house is just house for four hundred fifty million dollars to renovate on time and it was and is and sounds like to me a lot of listen i want to say what i do but neither here nor there ok so does this end to a debate in congress have anything to do with his speech tomorrow because it seems like a lot of coincidence to me that he would be talking about this just as they're considering the budget i think i think it absolutely. doesn't. the person differently want wants to see some some changes to the national national defense authorization act he has some priorities you want to get through the white house's hinted at that one a move the drone program out of the central intelligence agency agency to the department of defense where there might be more oversight although there was a cab to that saying all or drone strikes in pakistan will still be one of the cia so that there's plausible deniability there but as far as yemen goes we're already

working with the with the government of yemen and our military is working with them so it just seems like it makes sense to let our drones run out. you know out of the department of defense of yemen eric a are and having let's talk about the effects of this bill what it means you know what's it going to affect talk to me about in terms of the policies of the bill like one time when everything coming out of it well i think that the end of two thousand and twelve the really controversial section ten twenty one that authorize indefinite detention of american citizens took a concept that was already in place one step further and of course that's the pressure to pass this military spending bill you know of course obama's going to say i had to pass the bill in order to fund our military so that's why they sneak these provisions in there and then have these cats and later say oh you know whatever we had to do it we have to support the troops right but you know the math in two thousand and one basically allowed an all out preemptive war against al qaeda anywhere around the world and in that provision basically that everyone vote on

except barbara lee basically just said a used to do this drones indefinite detention so the section ten twenty one in two thousand and twelve took who broke new ground according to journalists like chris hedges who decided to take this lawsuit actually and sue obama it's hedges versus obama's the lawsuit where he says that the math was vastly extended in this provision basically just has the authorization to strip americans of due process a lock them up in military tribunals for indefinite time i would argue that you know this is already been happening and this is more of a codification of something that's already been in place for the last decade but it brings out the. porton things since we certainly tend to care more about nationalism an american exceptionalism that hey we're subject to this law too this could affect everyone in this country do you think this bill is different from the other bills that have an anarchist you know what is it different from last year's bill do you think i mean it's a long process this process is just sort of beginning in the wild card here is whether or not congress is going to do something about the your math the

authorization for use of military force is now been on the books for well over a decade here and congress really hasn't revisited it in the time that it's been on the books. what various white houses have expanded its meaning to say that allows us to indefinitely detain americans this allows us to launch drone strikes all over the world last week we learned that the department of finance thinks that allows them to put boots on the ground in places like congo or the even in boston if there's if it's against al qaida or associated forces then you're seeing movement within the progressive caucus in the house and even a lot of senators including angus king who spoke up last week to reform the narrow in scope or repeal it altogether and if congress moves on the i.m.f. then that will have really significant impacts on stuff like one time obey on indefinite detention on the drone talker that sam ok so this bill are we going to see any big changes coming out in terms of drones and get no anything significant well you're mad still remains to be seen i think on drones you might see something happening one of the chairs of the armed services subcommittee that's in in charge

of writing the new india this guy named congressman mack dorn very he's a republican he's introduced legislation to force the white house to disclose all of its targeted killing missions to congress with justification and he's gotten some democrats on board so if you can cobble together some sort of coalition in the house to put legislation like that into the n.d.a. that will have really profound impacts on the white house is targeted to as well i think that we need to be clear that this is a very small minority of people in the government right now who are saying let's give more oversight let's let's repeal the aoe math i mean we're talking about a very small very really the large majority of people are. or completely extreme wanting to ramp up wanted to as these things wanted to exacerbate all these bush administration policies the pentagon official just argued asked point blank how long is this war going to go on and he said ten to twenty years thirty year war i mean this is on top of twelve years of just that or ok so nonexistent right sorry is congress has been yielding too much power to the president we were running out

of time but i've got to get your opinion on that do you think that. are they having over their power i think that congress is making things harder for them to move that are good but i think overall the president has executive privilege to do a lot of things signing statements a lot of executive orders that he has not done he's dropped the ball and he likes to pass the buck on congress and it is that if the president doesn't have the authority to declare war and he thinks he does under the authorization for use of military force congress can step up and say no you don't have the power we're talking about power back by repealing it and that's why we need to pressure congress to at least take a you know be aware that were aware of that kind of rolling information guys we have to leave it there thank you so much that was breaking the the sat host abby martin and political commentator santa facts ever since the two thousand and eight presidential campaign president obama has promised to shut down the detention facility in guantanamo bay well last week he reiterated his intent in a press conference take a listen it is not a surprise to me that we've got problems in guantanamo which is why. when i was

campaigning in two thousand and seven and two thousand and eight. and when i was elected in two thousand and eight i said we need to close guantanamo i continue to believe that we've got to close guantanamo now congress. determined that they would not let us close. obama's defense department over at the pentagon just asked congress to allocate more than four hundred fifty million dollars forget mon these funds are intended to go toward maintaining it upgrading the facility so why spend four hundred thirty million to maintain and operate a facility you say you want to close meanwhile over guantanamo hunger strike continues to grow since beginning in early march now one hundred three detainees are hunger striking to protest their conditions during the indefinite detention with thirty one detainees currently being force fed and one in the hospital according to the miami herald perhaps president obama will explain the four hundred thirty million dollar request in

a speech he set to give tomorrow on national security well he's slated to spend about half of the time discussing want to obey. and now to the case of the anarchistic activist because silence in court has landed him in jail twenty four year old cherry coke was subpoenaed to testify as a witness to a two thousand and eight midnight bombing outside armed for armed forces recruitment center in which no one was injured and although he was granted immunity and is not a suspect in the case he was found in contempt of court for refusing to testify before a federal grand jury he is now being held at the metropolitan detention center artie's. with afa courthouse yesterday and brings us more on this case. a twenty four year old new york anarchist brought into court to face a federal grand jury. in two thousand and nine and again in twenty thirteen mr coach was in subpoena to a federal grand jury that was investigating. a bombing of the times square

recruitment center back in more of two thousand and eight both times jerry coach refused to speak based on an assertion of his constitutional rights and his belief that the grand jury was an illegal infringement upon the exercise of his first amendment rights among others to have free association and freedom of speech . chose not to testify before the grand jury his resistance met with support from the radical political community thank you i mean the prosecution sees gerry as a witness in the times square bicycle bombing case that injured no one he's not a suspect and has never been accused of a crime the n.y.p.d. has not yet identified the bomber or named suspects they didn't know anything in two thousand and nine and there's absolutely no reason to believe that four years later all of a sudden you have better a better memory of something that happened five years ago but because coach refused to answer any questions the judge was essentially just not having it and the judge

basically said i don't want to hear a political argument my courtroom on may twenty first he was found in contempt of court and confined refusing to speak jerry is now in jail until he either decides to testify or until the term of the grand jury expires which is usually eighteen months the supporters say officials are just trying to scare political activists and that adjust for the activist longtime partner his friends and his supporters believe officials are trying to coerce him into snitching on new york's radical political community the government is trying to get jerry to name names there really are echoes of the red scare in the green scare and. it's it's really terrible i think it's a really. disgusting misuse of the water it's about a very well connected very intelligent very active person who's doing a lot of political good against the state and. you know

if he if you talk then he's saying that's it that's ok and that's not ok and i think that it's an amazing example and. i love you guys amazing. because coaches position is a matter of principle it is unlikely that he will agree to testify in the months to come now faced with a long battle ahead in the name of a fight against a system he believes to be flawed from behind bars. r.t. new york. well still ahead here and f.b.i. agents in florida fatally shot a man after a supposedly attacked them during questioning the suspect was being investigated for a possible connection of the boston bombings but what could those connections be will more on this new development after the break. i. thought was a new alert animation scripts scare me a little bit. there is breaking news tonight and we are continuing to follow

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are going to support you to distract us from what you and i should care about because they're profit driven industry that facials that garbage you call that breaking news i'm having martin and we're going to break that. well a florida man allegedly linked to the boston marathon bombing suspects was shot and killed early this morning following a violent confrontation with the f.b.i.

eve or game today age twenty seven was being questioned by two massachusetts state police troopers along with an f.b.i. agent they were interviewing him about his ties to the april fifteenth boston marathon bombing suspects as well as his connection to unsolved twenty eleven triple murder murder homicide case possibly involving tamil and survive well today has been linked to the eldest through a mixed martial arts center back in boston artie's guy in sugar candy has more. the f.b.i. says to but to da sheriff was being questioned as part of the f.b.i.'s effort to find and talk to anyone who had any contact with tom or lance or knive officials say if the agents were questioning productive on tuesday he was cooperated first they say but late tuesday night he attacked the agent who shot and killed him now under what circumstances it happened we don't know the f.b.i. says they send a review team to find out more officials also say to doctors had some connections with radical chechen militants but they say it's not clear whether he had any role

in radicalizing time or lone star neiers the f.b.i. did not elaborate on details but the friend of the doctrove who was also questioned by the f.b.i. the same day in the same area in orlando florida he he added more details he said. and the man who was shot late tuesday night had known each other for two years both did boxing he said the f.b.i. had been questioning both him this friend and her daughter for several weeks now and this friend also says that to dr of had tickets for chechnya but canceled his trip due to the investigation some sources told the media here to doctors had lived in the united states as a legal resident since of worksome of the two thousand and eight and was come a long term highest family really they never really lived in chechnya to monitor and i've arrived here in the us ten years ago but based on the connections that he preserved with that part of russia the russian authorities were able to warn the

u.s. about tamerlan and i have radicalization more than two years before the boston bombings now u.s. authorities back then did not find him a long sort of suspicious despite the warnings some say because. the officials the saudis might have taken into account his chechen background look at him from a more political rather than purely line for some point of view because it's no secret that the u.s. has three years seen the forces operating in chad. not not as militants not as terrorists but as rebels and freedom fighters they still use the word rebels when we're further into them also maybe that was the kind of mentality that went into the decision to grant asylum to tom alonso and i his family for example anyway following the tragic events in boston there has been a call from both the u.s. president and the russian president for the security services of both countries to cooperate more closely and especially a call from the russian side to stop seeing the problem as being about your terrorists and my terrorist and to really start seeing it as

a common threat. well that was r t international correspondent guyin chica can. more revelations coming out about the department of justice's expansive leak investigation federal investigators are investigators have allegedly seized phone records of numbers affiliated with fox news and the white house that could potentially show that the government of by leaked information to a fox news reporter well the leak investigation surrounds the state department employee steven khem who is accused of violating the espionage act for allegedly leaking classified information about north korea to james rosen chief washington correspondent for fox news well in the course of the investigation the justice department traced the timing of rosen's phone calls and tracked his comings and goings from the state department security badge well the d.o.j. is also subpoenaed rosen's private g.-mail account the court documents obtained by washington post called rosen and eight are in

a better and more coconspirator of the alleged crime well it's impossible to determine the exact targets in analyzing the search warrant affidavit for his e-mails but the new yorker found that the d.o.j. assessed more than thirty phone numbers while the last four numbers were redacted it seemed to white house phone numbers at least five fox fox news phone numbers as well as the suspected to be fox news reporter james rosen cell phone number were all seized by the justice department. well this revelation from two thousand and nine demonstrates that the d.o.j. seizure of associated press phone records is not an anomaly but rather a larger part of the pattern of the justice department's cracked tail on government leaks. well it seems the final frontier it's got a whole lot tastier that's thanks to it one hundred twenty five thousand dollars grant from nasa the team it system and the system and research corp are on their way to create the universal food synthesizer well the ideas being created with

a wide range of food able to withstand long distance space travel so the project is seen as in the beginning stages but the company is already developed a machine able to print chocolate yum right so how would this work anyway will the macronutrients come in powder form with each layer kraft soft and meat products to be printed separately from the bank or will the space net technology may come in handy not only for feeding astronauts during space travel but also serve as to replenish the world's food supply no word on whether the pizza will be delivered in thirty minutes or less though that's going to do it for now for more on the stories we've covered go to youtube dot com slash r.t. america check out our website at r t dot com slash usa you can also follow me on twitter it underscored j underscore hell stay tune prime interest is next.

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good afternoon and welcome to prime interest i'm perry i'm boring here in washington d.c. and here's the story that i'm keeping up with today. bubbles bubbles everywhere financial markets are becoming too buoyant according to some members of the federal open market committee as expressed in today's at the mc minutes it seems junk bonds are on the rise as investors are chasing yields beyond the zero point two percent offered by their local banks but wasn't that the point mr chairman careful what you wish for and speaking of chairman bernanke you spoke today in front of congress it didn't take much to move the market when he softball the possibility of so-called tapering later in the year this would be the much anticipated wind down of quantitative easing and the final act of kooky.