thank you oh you're going to throw back to throw up right. ok great that after george zimmerman was found not guilty of protests spread nationwide we'll look at why so many people took to the streets and what it says about race relations here in the u.s. watching the media at first attorney general eric holder to nine to the involvement in an e-mail search of a fox news reporter turns out that's not the case and now the department of justice has created new guidelines they claim will protect journalists but will they really . edward snowden may have a blueprint of the n.s.a. the guardian's glenn greenwald suggested that the n.s.a. whistleblower has the instruction manual on how the n.s.a.

is built more on this story and his efforts to leave moscow later in today show. it's monday july fifteenth find him in washington d.c. and i'm meghan lopez and you are watching r t well again this afternoon with a look at the protests that are taking place across the country as a result of the george zimmerman trial now in case you have somehow managed to avoid the media mayhem surrounding the trial let's get you caught up to speed late saturday night a jury of all women ruled that george zimmerman the man who shot and killed an unarmed seventeen year old named trayvon martin was not guilty and that photo test civil rights groups calling this a case of institutionalized racism the tragic death of one teenager has now turned into a national discussion of the law known as stand your ground as well as race relations

here in the u.s. today for a look at how these protests played out let's take a trip across the country will start off in washington d.c. where yesterday i braved the heat to attend the protests with hundreds of others. i . ever. not guilty that was the jury verdict in the george zimmerman case that caused people across the country to rally within hours of that announcement calls had gone out over social media for protesters to demonstrate against the ruling i don't claim to be an expert i'm just literally someone who just did a google search about trayvon martin found out about it and decided to get involved hundreds heated to the call and took to the streets with signs and chants. they use their fists to show solidarity instead of acting in anger in the volcano dissimilar in cement and their words to tell the world that they believe racism is alive and well in the u.s.

but we got big show was we can say go on the road he weighs a ton the fact that this was sanction. last night by the state of florida just further illustrates the reality of what it means to be young black men in this country despite him sitting in the white house you know we're still sitting in the courthouse we're still sit in the cell house a group of protesters gathered in washington d.c. over the weekend far from the courthouse in florida because they say this case is bigger than one teenager look at me. you know twenty years ago it was trayvon martin and it's bigger than one court case i want this to basically turn it into a rally about actually accomplishing rather than simply advocating human rights reforms because at the end of the day when you're a young black boy that there there's a cause there's a conversation you get from the adult men from the adult male role models that you don't get if you anybody else you know they're aware that there is

a conduct you are expected to hear to that you are not there are levels of deference that you're expected to show just to get home safely the fact that they have to have these conversations with their children is discussed. deplorable we shouldn't have to do that the protesters paused for a short time at the park to speak out and then march down they used to record or the same location of the one nine hundred sixty eight street riots after martin luther king jr was murdered for delivering a message of equality but this time the protests were peaceful and the protesters say this isn't a moment but a movement i think that we're seeing something over the first start to something you know what we saw in the sixty's and seventy's the new civil rights work but they want to see people who mobilize energize the route as they should become part of organizations in our community that are doing good work you don't want to just see people just riled up and out in the streets doing anything up productive i am here malcolm x. park right now where there is about a hundred and fifty people all marching and protesting against the jury verdict in

the george zimmerman case you know all the people that i spoke to today have said dad trayvon martin that they have to stop the point jury ruling is a tragedy yet but the community needs to come together moving forward to discuss and come up with a plan to deal with race relations in the u.s. in the future in washington meghan lopez our take. a collective course of anger and frustration manifested itself in southern california after the acquittal of george zimmerman in the killing of trayvon martin oh you know was it put out that a saudi don't even make no sit state of florida versus george zimmerman verdict we the jury find george zimmerman not guilty president obama has asked the nation to respect the jury's decision he's a wannabe cop but they let him get away with it but protesters here in los angeles

believe the verdict is another example of an unequal justice system they've been doing it for hair people kill black boy all black me and they get off you know black men get her back and for that they kind of both of them are demanding the angry masses have made their presence felt in l.a. . a few hundred people shut down a metro train in the hours following the verdict. to start the bags at marchers hitting a protester and a journalist. with a police helicopter overhead a group of protesters took over a major interstate photo show the crowd bringing traffic to a standstill anger over the trayvon martin case has clearly spilled into the streets of los angeles behind and you can see police in full riot gear trying to hold off demonstrators who have approached the ten freeway one of the busiest freeways in the entire world has been shut down as protesters make their way

through the streets of los angeles. in cities across the u.s. victims of profiling perceived zimmerman's pursuit of martin as racist right oh. thank god oh oh. department of justice claims it hasn't found any evidence of racial profiling this is a research structure that benefits me every day i think white folks need to at least recognize it and it made it and i think one step further is how willing are they really to get rid of the ila bell says he's privileged to not feel the discrimination young black men feel i've never known what it was like to be followed around a store i've never known what it was like to be followed him on a neighborhood zimmerman's claim of self-defense against an unarmed black teenager has awakened simmering fury with emotions still high street protests are expected

to continue the same number and you know numbers i speak to people. why was it people in los angeles ramon got in the r t i. the case may be over but the outreach has just begun. from manhattan to brooklyn the streets and parks of new york city were clogged with demonstrators sunday evening leading thousands of strangers united by overwhelming outrage and disbelief that george zimmerman the neighborhood watch volunteer who fatally shot an unarmed black seventeen year olds is walking free this verdict makes it very clear and gives a green light to anyone that wants to shoot and kill a youth of color you know and you can get off in iraq and go on and live your life and it's ok i do have a daughter and it's terrifying that i now have to go and have this conversation with her about being profiled and keeping her safe and helping her understand what

she has to do to keep herself safe against other people and the police department and. several different justice for trayvon rallies as they're being called took over the big apple halting traffic throughout the city. a diverse crowd of all ages and races converging at times square chanting and findings. signs of solidarity with trayvon martin by the late evening the mostly peaceful demonstration took a chance for the worst as police in riot gear moved in on protesters bottles were thrown pepper spray was used and at least twelve people were arrested the deal shooting of trayvon martin has come to symbolize a national debate on racial profiling a practice that many civil rights attorneys say happens on a daily basis in new york city courtesy of the police department's stop and frisk program since two thousand and two more than five million citizens have been

stopped and searched for no reason other than looking suspicious and eighty percent of those searched have been african-american and latinos forty from new york marine up or not you are to. just a few short months ago the associated press a respected journalism outlet that often breaks the news made the news when word came out that the u.s. justice department secretly confiscated two months worth of telephone records from multiple bureaus days later fox news reporter james rosen found out that his personal e-mails had been targeted in an investigation dealing with north korea this type of monitoring of the press caused outrage as well as demands for an official investigation president obama responded by ordering attorney general eric holder to come up with reports on these cases now we finally have a response the d.o.j. issued a new set of media guidelines friday that restricts the agency from labeling a journalist as a criminal coconspirator while searching for some of their reporting materials but

not all are happy with the outcome of this investigation tell me dig into the new set of guidelines i was joined just a short time ago by jesselyn radack she's a national security and human rights director at the government accountability project and i began by asking her if this was a new start for the justice department. i hope so i mean definitely it's a make nice gesture with reporters i mean under the old guideline they could only subpoena a reporter as a very last resort this doesn't address the fact that they have the right jim risin of the new york times these guidelines like so many things obama sound really good in theory but in practice that's where. the rubber meets the road in terms of actually carrying them out and the one of the things that this report said time and time again is that they will not try journalists as coconspirators

but they can't pursue them in other ways right right now i mean that's significant that they can't be churches coconspirators because of course they should be allowed to engage in ordinary journalistic news gathering and publishing the problem is that i can see an exception being carved out for a group like wiki leaks where the government will make the argument that it's not ordinary journalistic publishing even though it is so they also had an interesting provision in there about finding other ways then criminal investigations to deal with leaks for example in ministry to penalties with that part i agree with i just i mean it's a good start if that accurate and they're going to abide by that but. i want to see followed through now one of the things that is another kind of issue that we need to be bring up here is the fact that attorney general eric holder was the one who

was responsible for signing off on the investigation of fox news reporter james rosen he is the same person that president obama tapped and tasked in order to look into this kind of investigation into journalists this kind of warrants taking a journalist information so is there an ethical problem here yeah i mean i think holder scott. for a number of reasons and again all of these. kind of the intrusive spying that was done on reporters are all under the rubric of these leak investigations and prosecutions of whistleblowers because journalists are in every single indictment so i mean if you really wanted to put some meat on this skeleton that has been put out i mean there are four active cases right now as we well know than and manning among the two most visible but also of strolling and jeffrey sterling and stephen tim i mean go ahead and drop those charges and charges and ministry typically as

they should be in the first place and something else are going up is the fact that these days the idea of media is changing fundamentally it is not just reporters working for newspapers or reporters working for television station anyone can be a journalist presumably but they use this word media numerous times throughout the entirety of this report and it's very hard to determine what a media person is but can we go beyond this and talk about the media shield law that might be regurgitated at this point as a result of these investigations well i would be in favor of the media shield law that would give source protection because obviously all of these leakers that they may have in common a number of them some of them implicated themselves but also it would mean they were caught in some cases by the news media outlet revealing who they were not

intentionally necessarily and not know all cases but i would love to see that i mean that federal bill has been kicking around for a long time i would love to see that kind of reporter shield law but i don't have a lot of hope i would also love to see these guidelines followed because again so many of these cases for example the thomas drake case collapsed and he played. guilty to a minor misdemeanor that was essentially and in the history of penalty which is all he should have been charged with if anything in the first place so perhaps a very small ray of hope moving forward jesselyn radack national security human rights director of the government accountability project thank you so much thank you. still ahead here on our team imagine a blueprint to the n.s.a. a blueprint that would allow you to was born there of surveillance or replicate it and as a leaker edward snowden says he has one that will discuss that in just a moment.

the worst fear for those. white house of a. radio guy in four minutes from me. watching closely a politician says you've never seen anything like this i'm told. just so.

i would rather as question the people in positions of power instead of speak on their behalf and that's why you can find my show larry king now right here on r.g.p. question more. get ready for another n.s.a. bombshell over the weekend guardian journalist glenn greenwald told the media about a rival lation that could unravel the very fabric of the national security agency however this weekend's announcement was not so much of a leak as it was a threat of one if something were to happen to edward snowden and this one would

compromise the entire future of government surveillance in order to take documents that show that prove that what he was saying was true here to take ones that included very sensitive detailed blueprints of how the n.s.a. does what they do and so he's in possession of literally thousands of documents that contain very specific blueprints that would allow somebody who read them to know exactly how the n.s.a. does what it does which would in turn allow them either to evade that surveillance or to replicate it and that's what i was talking about that he has basically the instruction manual for how the n.s.a. is built. so is it possible that edward snowden really has the key that unlocks pandora's box of n.s.a. surveillance tactics and how does that affect his ploy for asylum in russia as well as latin america for more dough douglas nick lab nick now is a senior principal at macnab associates and he joined me earlier i asked him if

this would help or hinder or snowden's pleas for asylum. i don't know that it would that it would help him or hurt him he has disclosed significant amount of information he's been charged by the united states government for having committed three offenses and whether he has full further disclosures or not from a legal standpoint i don't think it's going to make any difference the united states government once again and they want to prosecute him for the alleged federal crimes that he's committed now one thing to bring up is that on one hand you have noted that threatening to leak more information when it comes to the n.s.a. surveillance tactics and a lot of other things we don't know really what he has on the other hand president vladimir putin said that snowden would only be permitted to stay in or russia if he stops hurting his quote us partners so is he hurting his case here for me i will to accept or possibly get temporary asylum in russia but i think the disclosures were

released to the press prior to mr snowden's arrival in the transfer there. as i understand it mr snowden has not yet applied for asylum. in russia. and mr putin president putin doesn't quite understand but from what i've read mr snowden in my view is to have a clear strategy in terms of what it is of these doing and i'm certainly not here to giving legal advice because on prevented from giving pretty tribal advice to him that i would recommend to mr snowden that he needs to engage us counsel he's a u.s. citizen charged with u.s. crimes and you used to be advised of what it is he can and he cannot do at this point i see him similar to a ping pong ball he seems to be bouncing all over the place now he had a request for asylum in russia and then rescinded that request and now he's announced that he'd like temporary asylum although yes as you say russian

authorities have said that they have not react received that application or any formal application for to. for a asylum now let me ask you about the idea of temporary asylum is it realistic here . well i think that. president putin has made an offer to him talking about legally is it is something that is a temporary asylum of the common no it's not common but that that isn't to say. that russia couldn't extend that offer to him to be able to stay a bit longer in russia or in the transit zone but that's up to the that's up to the individual states to make that determination this case clearly is ten percent legal and id percent political and the political stakes are very much involved in what is occurring not occurring with regard to mr snow and finally we have a very short amount of time left but does he have a legitimate fear for flying over nato airspace could he prompt or should he could

have perhaps consider taking a boat out of the country or other means well again i can't i can't answer your question i'm afraid i love r t but i can't give a pretty probably biased with regard to that i will cycle you from a legal perspective that the u.s. certainly has the right to ask you start not to allow mr snowden to enter there are spies the united states government has a special maritime interest a real jurisdiction act on law but that's not breaking international law it is not and. under the federal statute the u.s. has jurisdiction over the high seas as well as the airspace over the hog's narrator is going to make it very difficult douglas mcnabb senior principal at macnab associates thank you so much my pleasure. well the bradley manning trial resumed in fort meade maryland today at three pm judge denise linda lauper defense lawyer david coombs and his team to deliver their arguments to have bradley manning

acquitted for some of the charges due to a lack of evidence the team is seeking to have the most serious charge aiding the enemy which could result in a life sentence dropped along with six lesser charges meanwhile the prosecution is expected to rebut some of the arguments the wiki leaks defense team laid out last week the defense star's defense of star witness harvard law school professor bank lawyer argued that wiki leaks was only seen as aiding terrorists like al qaeda because the u.s. government vilified the transparency organization now the government will have to reply to that claim we have a correspondent on the ground in fort meade as so we will bring you the latest as the story continues to update let's turn now to egypt a country that is treading through some very trauma choice waterers as the military attempts to restore order in the country on sunday military general abdel fatah all sisi addressed the country to justify his decision to move deposed president

mohamed morsy from power morsi and members of his cabinet are now being detained at an undisclosed location and have not been hit hurts from since his ousting the while the u.s. has sent its first diplomat to visit the country since the protests began deputy sheriff deputy secretary of state william j. burns held meetings today with egyptian egypt's interim president adly long sore burns also plans to meet to wait civil society groups to discuss their position for the latest from cairo we now turn to artie's bell true. egypt's prosecutor general this is from judicial sources because that's the phrase in the assets of fourteen leading is the most figures who are behind mohamed morsi this comes after of course reports all the rest many of the leaders and of course after these recent reports of the charges laid against the former president himself meanwhile the most of brotherhood for their part maintains they will steadfast they want president the

former president but mostly to come back and they will not move from a sit in a mosque in central cairo and that the university of to cairo in tel he is reinstated meanwhile was thinking that it can developments here in the interim government we have a lot of appointments and now it's going to make significant ones is the vice president for foreign affairs and mohamed el baradei he is a leading opposition figure and once head of what was the largest coalition of opposition forces the national salvation front another leading a point we've had is that the foreign head of this. former egyptian ambassador to the u.s. the bill for me he was a barack era ambassador and is very well regarded in washington in america to these two appointments mohamed el baradei and the bill for me could be seen to be a knowledge towards the west as they both have very good relations with america meanwhile america for their part have announced that they will have an envoy coming to you. to egypt the first. to come from america to

egypt since the ouster of mohamed morsi this is reportedly to be a leading member of the state department he's due to come in the coming coming months america is looking cautiously egypt at the moment they haven't announced the last two weeks as a coup neither have they confirmed that it neither confirm that it isn't it's obviously very important that definition because that would affect u.s. assistance to egypt you know america paid to be extending a hand out to the new interim government so we have yet to see what's going to happen with the people who are determined to support the post leader. whether the clashes in the future and also if you see how this interim government continues in the next few months that was r.t.l. true reporting. republican and democratic leaders might not agree on much mud both sides of the aisle are fighting for their vision of immigration reform however despite the washington consensus charging ahead on the road to reform not all are

driving toward a pathway to citizenship for the eleven million undocumented immigrants currently residing in the u.s. in an economy that's only seeing job growth in low wages sectors some americans see those eleven million people as competition instead of come patriots aaron aid went to d.c. as march for jobs where protesters weighed in on the immigration debate. well just like it and triple digit temperatures in the nation's capital members of the black american leadership alliance along with members of the tea party marched from freedom plaza to capitol hill where they marched in protest of the senate immigration bill which they say will of bursley impact the potential for jobs for black americans here in the u.s. i'm out here to support all of the texans texas has the largest southern border we are impacted very heavily through illegal immigration the mexican drug cartels

operating in our state and we came all the way out here to support this effort to kill the amnesty legislation and we have millions and millions of illegals in this country citizenship to grant them access to all of our resources some of which i myself and my children nieces and nephews will get access to because they'll be gone i'm so i don't think the compromise is giving them access to the benefits of our children is not a race issue in this situation it's all americans and that's one of the things that among the few you know it's the show that lets blacks we need to be out here especially in d.c. which like sixty five percent of the population is black and why aren't there more of us out here one of things also it makes me think that while blacks are not coming out because a lot of blacks are getting a good government handout and we say they don't need to work so well what about going out there one about work when i'm getting welfare and you say well i'm concerned with the direction our country is going on i'm all for immigration but not illegal immigration now those here today in opposition of the immigration bill

say that the senate must consider the effects the bill will have on all low skilled workers from all races here in the u.s. in washington d.c. aaron aides are too while it doesn't happen very often but once in a blue moon hundreds of californians head to the amtrak railway roads to show while their full moon is to train riders who happened to be passing by that's right people. dropped their pants to participate in the annual event this year was these thirty fourth anniversary the tradition is said to have started back in one thousand nine hundred seventy nine at most away saloon when a local man told his friends he'd buy a drink for anyone who showed their caboose to the next passing train since that night the event has since grown in size and is expected to for many more moons to come and with this many moons orbiting one place even jupiter with its sixty three is a little jealous and that's going to do it for now for more on the stories we cover

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