didn't join in the celebration completely -- almost all of them criticized it because he was an american citizen, which makes him a person in theory as distinct from non-citizens who may look like persons but are not. that's incidentally a core principle of current american law with regard to undocumented aliens. interesting interpretation of the 14th amendment, but so he was an actual person and maybe we're not supposed to murder people suspected of citing others to carry out terrorist acts. now, again, there were some critics and the response who went beyond that and said we should believe in the principle of presumption of innocence, and the reaction to them, actually, it was one, was quite interesting. most was the usual shrieking, which you can disregard, but some was interesting. in fact, the most interesting, i thought, was a column by a well-known respected left liberal commentator who wrote that it is, as he put it, amazingly naive to criticize the united states for violation of international law or other crimes because the international, the international order is established precisely

who write for them do things and say things to mitigate or defend things like assassinating an american citizen with no due process, probably the most radical act that you can think of, really underscores an important point about the way the obama legacy is being defined and the way that lawlessness has become normalized. so if, you know, three years ago, and i say this as somebody who was doing it, if you were to go to an event and fill the room with 50% republicans and 50% democrats and you were to condemn things like wild assertions of executive authority, the idea that the president can't act against anyone he wants including killing him, that he can do so in total secrecy ask with to -- and with no transparency. two weeks later his son and cousin were killed in yemen. if you were to talk about those things and the other radical secrecy doctrines the bush administration used, you would have 50% of the room -- the ones self-identified as republicans -- supporting it, cheering for it, justifying it, apologizing for it and being happy with it. but 50% of the room -- the ones self-identified as

my husband is just became an american citizen a couple of months ago.friendlieds who are first generation from vietnam. palestine, israel. mexico, as i watch them struggling with their cultural identities and trying to maintain the identities and have the respect as the american citizens they are in this country, it got me to thinking about my family heritage and thinking about how history really does repeat itself. because i know that my people want through these same issues in the famine times when they came. and i thought to myself, why are not more of these stories being told? we need to collect these stories. i am at an age where my parents and their cousins, their siblings, they are getting close end of their life. one of the main ways i collect my information is through oral history i knew time was on the essense. there were stories that would be lost if i didn't collect these stories immediately. and that's what i embarked upon doing. >> i grew up in brooklyn, new york. my experience was landing by birth into an urban town land. my family, my mo

>>from what we understand you're an american citizen? >>have you done this before? >>no >>did you buy all of this in the u.s.? >>pretty typical. she's poor. she has two kids and was looking to make a little extra cash acting as a mule getting this stuff across. >>okay, this is your typical ak 47 long gun. (vo)in the el paso office of the u.s. bureau of alcohol tobacco and firearms, agent robert champion showed us some of the weapons and ammunition that his team has seized on its way to the border with mexico. >>this the american version of ar 15 type firearm. >>this is what the cartel is really liking right now? >>yes. >>this is a 50 cal, belt fed 50 cal. it was attempted to be smuggled into mexico before we >>you can buy this legally in the u.s.? >>yes. >>what is this used for? >>i mean, i think this is what they're using to a certain extent in iraq or afghanistan. >>and how difficult is it for to purchase these guns in the united states? >>go to a gun show without any paperwork and purchase these guns, as many as you want. gun show loophole. at gun shows along the

was done to an american citizen.that bought him back. >> reporter: some of the camp survivors say if they ever get redress money they want to use it to restore the tully camp to a museum. the kids playing on the stone monument don't really know what happened here. the elderly who so long remained silent now want them to know. >> it's a memory, a tribute, to honor what happened. not because it was right but to honor the people who came. >> that guy told me that they were shipped here during the war. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> reporter: and what do you think about that? >> it's sad. >> yeah. >> at a small cemetery at clemoth falls, a memorial service for 12 who died in the camp. their remains were unclaimed and left behind when the camp closed. and until toe their common grave had only a stone reading, in memory of the deceased. two years ago, mark mioshi found the grave. >> we didn't know how many people were in there, who it was. what their story was, so we just felt like we needed to honor these individuals as human being

an american secretary, her royal destiny and the inspiring story of how she changed an african village." first of all, explain to the good people of america-- my kingdom-- (laughter) how you became... you're an american citizen now, you were born in gonna. >> yes. citizen now. how you became the king of this village? >> well when my uncle passed away they did the rituals and then i was chosen because i was the first woman so they did it three times to make sure i'm the woman they wanted. >> stephen: so he passes away. did you know he passed away. >> no, i didn't know. they called me at 4:00 in the morning. that has changed my life after today. >> stephen: i would imagine to go from secretary to king would change your life. >> so it's really special. >> stephen: so first of all why king, why not king? >> i'd be a lousy queen because the king is supposed to be in charge of all the executive positions but if i become a queen, i'd have to listen to the king because i'd have to collect all the data from the town and then talk to the king about it and the king doesn't really work on it i would do everything. >> stephen: so there's a queen over there right now. >> yes, yes, yes. >> stephen: what's she like? (laught

is it someone who is an american citizen or did he travel in from overseas.ou are seeing a heavy police presence down at corner of louisiana avenue and pennsylvania. we understand that is where the arrest took place. and we also understand that there is a heavy police presence because there may and vehicle in that garage. the working theory that the individual went to friday prayers. drove into the city with what he believed was an active suicide belt and went by foot up towards the capitol building and being arrested two blocks from that building. to give some congress text we have had a series of meetings in the capitol with what i call al qaeda 2.0. and we herd head from the head of the defense agency ron burgess. >> while we have made gains, we remain in a race against their ability to evolve, he generate leadership and launch atarks. sloan wolf individuals including within the united states and even within our own ranks remain an enduring concern. >> reporter: the key questions to watch for, is this individual an american citizen or someone who traveled

because i'm not an american -- i'm not american born, as you can tell from my accent. i am an american citizen who came here in 1968 wanting to learn about my country of adoption. and i couldn't think of a better way to learn all about america, its character and its history and its essential principles than by studying the life of theodore roosevelt. >> back in 1999 i think maybe the last time we talked, i'm not sure, was your reagan book "dutch" i asked you, we've got some video of that moment, i asked you about the early introduction to thee theodore roosevelt, let's watch. >> there's a preliminary apprehension of him when i'm a small boy. at the age of 10 i looked at the history of nairobi that was published to celebrate the 50th anniversary, and it had this historic photograph of president theodore roosevelt heading to nairobi, kenya, in 1909 on his great safari. i remember identifying as a small boy with that picture. the smile, the snarl, the spectacles. there's something about him that affected me. and a quarter of a century later, i ended up writing his biography. >> when is your secon

as an american citizen, thank you for doing that. it is a good first step. it is progress. change is evolutionary' posed to reeve lugsary. it's not a requirement to share information. it's encouraged. i always tell people when i speak publicly. we're separated by a common language, and we define them differently. in terms of economic attack and so forth, some entities may not want folks to know what has been taken and they're not required to divulge that. sir, just a comment from the peanut gallery. >> i take that seriously. it's a good comment. it's a thoughtful poke, and thank you for your words. thank you sh, mr. chairman. >> thank you, senator lieberman. senator enhoff. >> i think this is one of the better hearings we've had, the straightforward sfonss. i appreciate that very much. your comment about language, i'm going to get that for the record and use it later on. >> i just wrote it down. >> all right. that was a good one, general. i think we have pretty much decided on this 20% getting back to iran now it that it's something that's either achieved or being achieved

journalist it's kind of interesting to see them ignoring this topic and skirting the issue but as an american citizen it's really terrifying it's not interesting to see them not talking about the fact that our a lot of our civil rights have been signed away and it's being dismissed as not a big deal but what do you think is behind it this kind of selective picking and choosing of what's important and what's not important what the cover what not to cover when something like the n.d.a. and the a.s.x. every citizen and has huge implications for our freedom. why are we seeing certain types of stories covered and others overlooked well this is just my opinion but the n.d.a. is a very treasonous piece of legislation it's perhaps one of the most dangerous laws we've ever signed into law in the united states and i think the media knows that if this got out there and you know all three hundred eight million americans knew about it there would be such outrage that pretty much everyone in congress would have to go they would have to be replaced. and i think there's that fear there and the other problem is we do

and he came here during the campaign and he was very big in the polish crowd, but he was not an american citizen, he was a polish citizen, and the drive was to get them out and see the people. and there's a fellow who worked in the state department, palensky, he was a very, very powerful political figure in the polish world. so he definitely wanted stash to come to his district. or to his campaign, i said, mish, we cannot do that, we cannot have a foreign dignitary campaigning in a domestic election. well, he said, let me see what i can do. so, the next thing i remember is i get a call from shaplinsky, misch, last a night, in wilkiesberry, stash was a smash. did you hear me? i said well thank you stash. >> and pennsylvania went democratic that year by a much larger margin than expected, we now know the reason. >> dick, how do you think that president kennedy would have negotiated in this kind of a climate. how would he have helped our system recover? >> i really do not know, the system as we have it today where people refuse to tolerate the other person's view. how he could possibly have honed u

on november 21st, an american citizen of east indian dissent attacked in the parking lot of lucky store on south white road. a group of man smashed a liquor bottle over his head and called him a terrorist. a lull also in front of the police podium criticized police for taking so long to investigate. it was only last week that p.d. released a sketch of one of the suspects. it took him going to a city council women to get police to pay more attention to his case. >> not looking to point any fingers at anyone. i just want that the public can know about it. crimes happen. it's hard for the police department to investigate this. they may not have the resources to proceed. just need to be revamped and investigations like this all depend on timely response. and that's what was missing. because of that, my attackers may go free. >> reporter: chief of police chris moore spoke as well as representatives from mine north community groups. the chief wants to let the public know sjpd will not tolerate hate crimes and show how serious the department takes the issue. he has sent half of his senior staf

yeah we will talk about it and as an american citizen i would feel lists that and if iran has then pakistan was appalled pakistan is becoming very much close to or feel this state is a good idea at least as our government is in charge and say that again comparing it and pakistan a new credit and we'll be there then you could affect us then ok gilbert do you do you think it's a double standards even implied here when it comes to political ration because again we have because there is a country in the middle east that has up to two hundred nuclear warheads and that's israel and it's never been investigated inspected by the i.a.e.a. it doesn't even admit to having a program of hypocrisy is the small change in the plan mostly so i don't think it's particularly shocking to see apocryphally here. yes there are double standards that's patently true ok patrick what do you think about that why don't we just have a no nuclear free middle east everybody signs up to it all countries. why not a nuclear free world that doesn't well it starts somewhere let's start something or give up its nuclear weapons

well, i must tell you that there are times in my own life as an american citizen where i have -- i wonder about that. i wonder about that in my basic infantry training in fort mclellan, alabama, named after a general that most alabamans may not know too well, but may if they knew his history might like him pretty well because he directi dragged his feet really also when it came to making war on richmond. at any rate, that we have some reasons for ambivalence is for me a very important part of learning from history. learning from historians like the ones on this panel. i have to say that i have to admire what general grant said at appomattox as right after he had signed that end of the war with generally. in his journal, he said, i felt sad and depressed at the downfall of this foe who had fought so long and so valiantly, and had suffered so much for a cause that was, i believe, one of the worst for which a people ever fought. now, most northerners have no problem believing that it was one of the worst causes that was ever fought for. not a whole lot of northerners have that same kind of c

and that's a really horrifying prospect a horrifying prospect that is now reality if you're an american citizen and you betray your country you're going to be held in military custody and you're going to be questioned about what you know you're not going to be given a lawyer and freedom of speech and the internet may soon follow right now china the government can disconnect parts of its internet in the case of war we need to have pushing the u.s. down the road to tyranny says retired army colonel lawrence wilkerson i don't think they're doing this based on their fear of terrorists. i really think they're doing this based on their ultimate fear of the occupy wall street other movements in this country the face of a freedom fighter or a terrorist here in the u.s. the line between the two is growing increasingly blurred obscured by fear and the fog of cyber war you see catherine of our t. washington an anonymous response to threats from washington we have the details at our dot com. the national security agency is fueling fear among americans with claims that the hackers plan a total blackout acro

drone strikes to take out american citizens suspected of terrorism abroad if it hit closer to home do you think there would be any difference and we did see a little bit of an outcry and we saw the crowd booing at some of the g.o.p. debates when the n.d.a. was signed by the president when this whole concept of indefinite military detention of american citizens came into play. i think it does depend on who the target is unfortunately most liberals and or you know well talk about americans in general probably would be willing to violate a lot of these civil liberties and how they've been trained to think since nine eleven and so they're willing to undermine civil liberties so that they can be safe so that they can supposedly the government can prevent terror attacks from happening but you know i just think that people here in this country. they they're very trusting of the government to they were willing to go along and and say to themselves that you could never really be as bad as as you were have you or i might think that it is that even though people are being targeted without due process overseas and they are being killed without having any chance to defe

of barrage president obama released his birth certificate last april proving he was indeed an american citizen surprise surprise as a result a new poll by you gov shows that the overall number of birth errors has decreased drastically great news right now because while overall numbers have decreased republicans who believe president obama was not born in the u.s. has actually increased. thirty seven percent of republicans that's more than a third think the president wasn't born in the u.s. it's a twelve percent increase since he released his birth certificate last year. it doesn't make any sense to me either and the very very ugly karl rove and one of the most talked about ads of sunday's super bowl clint eastwood touted the resilience of the american workforce particularly particularly in the auto industry here's what he had to say. this country can't be knocked out with one punch we get right back up again and when we did it was going to hear the roar of our engines. time. and our second half so about to begin. so who could possibly be offended by an ad like that well of karl rove could here

we are talking about the end as an american citizen and i would feel. if iran has one then pakistan was appalled that pakistan is becoming very much ghost or feel this state is a good idea at least as our government is in charge and. again comparing it and pakistan in new credit and will be there it is then you cross back a step ok do you do you think that the double standards have an implied here when it comes to political ration because again we have a there is a country in the middle east that has up to two hundred nuclear warheads and that's israel and it's never been investigated inspected by the i.a.e.a. it doesn't even admit to having a program. the small change of diplomacy so i don't think it's particularly shocking to see you talk recently here. yes there are double standards that's probably true ok patrick what do you think about that why don't we just have an eye i'm nuclear free middle east everybody signs up to it i'll countries. what a nuclear free world why doesn't want to start somewhere and let's start somewhere give up its nuclear wea

and he came here during the campaign, and he was very big in the polish crowd, but he was not an american citizen, he was a polish citizen. and the drive was to get him out and see the people. and this fellow who worked in the state department by the name of ms. plasenski, who was a very powerful political figure in the polish world, so he definitely wanted stash to come to his district or to campaign. i said, mich, we can't do that. we can't have a foreign dig any ta -- dignitary campaigning. the next thing i remember is i get a call from shlopenski, last night in wilkinsbury, stash was a smash. thank you, stash. >> pennsylvania went democratic that year by a much we now know the reason. >> michael alluded to the toxic political climate we live in now. dick, how do you think president kennedy would have negotiated within that kind of a climate? how would he have helped our system recover? >> i really do not know with this system as we have it today, where people refuse to tolerate the other person's views how we could possibly have owned up to it. when i left washington, which was a week before

journalist it's kind of interesting to see them ignoring this topic and skirting the issue but as an american citizen it's really terrifying it's not interesting to see them not talking about the fact that a lot of our civil rights have been signed away and it's being dismissed as not a big deal. and that was journalist and political contributor david seaman. well it's an issue the occupy movement has brought a voice to and one we highlight here at r t the sad tale of two america but the income inequality gap growing in the middle class dwindling the american dream for many is dying and perhaps it's a new york city where this tale can best be told just miles away from the wealthy family jarius lifestyles manhattan offers is the nation's poorest district artie's on a stasia churkin and takes us to the bronx and gives us a glimpse into the daily struggles americans face there. welcome to the south bronx. where feeding garbage a daily fight for dignity it is the poorest district in america but yet just a twenty minute ride from the wealth of manhattan this is the stop for those whose life is largely a s

under the guise of humanitarian aid and the afghanistan war killed an american citizen and. that he doesn't he doesn't need. because we need something even worse. we're going in the wrong direction already. because it is going to take is. right now it's interesting because that they would choose these guys because the bush administration wasn't exactly popular that you know that's why president obama was elected a lot of the country was calling for hope and change a change from the bush administration so why would the candidates revert back to that i think some of it is. one of the g.o.p. nomination they believe they have to say that they're probably right but it will be interesting to hear their retort when the general i get a feeling. what they really think this is how they really so it'll be interesting as they backpedal backpedal. like all the exception to all of this is ron paul as expected last night he used the opportunity as he had done and g.o.p. debates past to push his anti-war message let's take a listen to part of. the sanctions already back firing what we're do

american citizen. while it is true, almost all criticize because he was an american citizen which makes it distinct from those who may look like persons but are not. that is the core principle of current american in law which has a interesting interpretation but he was a natural person and some people suspected of inciting terrorist acts. there were some critics those that said we should believe in the presumption of innocence and their reaction was quite interesting. most of it was the shrieking and disregard the some of it two was interesting in the most interesting was the column but i will the and respected liberal commentator who wrote to as he put it amazingly 92 criticize the united states for violation of international law or other crimes because the international order is established precisely too legitimate the use of violence so that is then nature of the international order to legitimate the criminal resort to violence and therefore amazingly nine p to raise criticisms about this. he goes on to say it is silly to raise these questions. happy to except gilts on that charge. [laughter] but if

the invaded libya you know under the guise of humanitarian aid that you have and or killed an american citizen abroad and don't think you're going to show. that he doesn't he doesn't meet the. requirements when you come and you can work the way i think we're going in the wrong direction or are you and the founders going to further down that road. now it's interesting because that they would choose these guys because the bush administration wasn't exactly popular that you know that's why president obama was elected on a lot of the country was calling for hope and change a change from the bush administration so why would the candidates revert back to that. i think some of it is you know. when the g.o.p. nomination they believe they have to do this they're probably right but it will be interesting to hear their rhetorical in the general comes around i get a feeling don't hold it down but you know how they really think this is how they really so it'll be interesting as they backpedal on well see him back along the general. course michael the exception to all of this is of ron paul as expected last

approve of the obama administration's use of drones in targeted killings even in cases where it's an american citizen so what does that say about our society that the state department is reportedly going to have to slash its personnel in iraq to do what some described as a rocky obstructionism but whoever thought it was a good idea to keep.

like they're treating me like a terrorist or criminal and there are giving me my my rights as an american citizen i was born and raised here so i feel different and star a nice feeling. and now the government was fighting for their right to continue tracking people without a warrant until sco just waited and the ruling is finally forced the feds to act in fact that says that they've already turned off three thousand g.p.s. devices that were currently in use to talk about scary i mean the feds had three thousand of those trackers keeping tabs on people for what may be must have been long periods of time now this sea change as the f.b.i. has described it is a step in the right direction we're going to make sure to keep tabs on these new guidelines while they're in the works. now the second story which makes up our doubleheader glimmer of hope tonight has to do with information that's on your laptop you see we're living in an era where anybody who serves the web could be the victim of identity theft so your banking information your shopping history even your personal documents could all be a serious

the president now has the right although it violates the geneva accord to designate an american citizen or anyone on the planet's an enemy and has him or her assassinated. indeed it recently occurred on september 30th, obama had two american citizens murdered. it was not clear whether they were aiding al qaeda or not. it hadn't been proven but the point is the u.s. constitution guarantees any american citizen you get your day in court. you have a chance to defend yourself against the charges. the constitution doesn't say if the president doesn't like you you get rubdown. it says you get your day in court. chris hedges wrote an article on july 18th called america has disappeared in which he writes torture for long detention without trial, sexual humiliation, random murder and abuse in argentina part of our own subterranean world. we have a hundred detainees who died during interrogation is. there are many more who were never made public. tens of thousands of muslim men pass through our clandestine detention centers without due process. retired general barry mccaffrey. we probably murdere