the department of journalists there was a look moment a woman who was convicted but this was after there was a guilty verdict and i said that i believe that the verdict was too harsh and well when you make up you know just going on that's a digital the prosecution service responded this is why the president should be very careful with what he says but still. like i said prison cannot the stooping you corrected which i personally have been at the bottom make a different person when you deal with out of the limited. certainly if you allow me i'd like to talk about something else speaking about social networks. they contributed much to the so-called arab spring that took place in the rhetoric worlds of sort of what do you think is there an exhibit. and to come to and what's going on with the russian. the political season or here are we going to have in our country the arab spring to hold fall in russia we have spring i congratulate you all we have a spring in every sense of the word the weather forecast says it's going to be cold in today it's. going to be temporary. but speaking east and a

was a conference call and a bunch of us participates in and the labor department spokesman did say that there have been two instances in the last two years of journalistcommitted unspecified senators and he did not say it but he emlied that was the reason for the change. speaking for myself and i think for the other journalists there is a lot of skepticism. >>stuart: what do you make of the priority access give ton some reporters and the labor department will choose which reporters get the 20 to 30 priority access slots. what do you make of that? >>guest: that is not unusual. they have been doing it that way for years. and basically what it does it favors the wire services and the cable news networks, fox news being among them, and to help get the news, the data out, as quickly as possible. that is not the financial part. the government computers, that is the change. >>stuart: in the background you have millions of people leaving the workforce and the unmoment rate coming down during the obama administration and people seem to say, wait, what really going on here and along comes the labor department and changes the computers you can see to get the inf

department of justice today demanding justice for mumia abu jamal the african-american radio journalist was convicted of killing a philadelphia police officer back in one nine hundred eighty two since then he spent most of his time on death row the death penalty was dropped just five months ago and he's now serving a life sentence a good ramallah supporters are fighting to get him released from prison they believe his case was flawed and he's a victim of racial profiling. in support of. not only that also the issue of mass incarceration on a whole political imprisonment i've been involved in struggles around political prisoners in the u.s. now for about fifteen years and it was moving as keysar originally in the late ninety's that introduced me to the issue. with this issue. to the state because. we've we've. just surfaced just with this generation. just our generation our children. the american dream is supposed to be for everyone who is in this country and right now what we do in this thing is only for the one percent who can afford to make should do this to dream well they're hoping

department of justice today demanding justice for lumia abou jamal the african-american radio journalist was convicted of killing a philadelphia police officer back in one thousand eight hundred two he was recently moved off death row and is now serving a life sentence of regional supporters are fighting to get him released from prison they believe his case was flawed and he's a victim of racial profiling they're hoping to catch the attention of attorney general eric holder to make their case as to why a boo jamal should be set free it's officially called the our all to occupy the justice department and it's happening today jamal's fifty eighth birthday party correspondent abbie marr and was at the protest and spoke to the supporters. let me give to jamal's an american writer and journalist who spent the last twenty nine years of his life in prison on death row earlier this year sentence was reduced to like in prison without the possibility of parole in one thousand nine hundred one the media was charged with first degree murder for allegedly killing a police officer but many have disput

of nothing. according to the white house counsel, there's nothing -- >> but you have nothing. you're making stuff up bob. >> i'm not making stuff up. i'm asking questions as a journalist. >> maybe the department of labor, maybe the cia were involved in this too. we should have investigations of them, just as well. >> i think the american people would be curious about an investigation. >> david, i didn't mean to interrupt you before. okay, i apologize. but i can say, with i cannot accept your view that obama's out there managing the war. yes, that is part of his job, but really, he is out there campaigning every single day. in no small part, by the way, on the taxpayer dime. that was my interruption and i wanted to make that point. because i think it's a fair on the. and i don't think that he has impressed people with his ceo leadership in problem solving. for example, just having the general counsel say there were no white house staffers involved has got to be insufficient. you, yourself, would acknowledge if george w. bush or a republican had this problem and there was potential and possibilities, you would want something much grander in terms of an investigation. >> will be, if members of c

of u.s. policies in iraq the state department since two thousand and eight has spent seventy six million dollars all received on internet freedom healing tools in support of bloggers and journalists and online people around the world particularly in countries that we have difficulties with at the same time the state department has spent all that time and all that money supporting those bloggers it has found internet freedom to be inconvenient in the form of we q leaks i just work just as hard and spend probably more money trying to shut down free speech that it opposes was supporting free speech that it feels furthers america's own political goals overseas we call that hypocrisy but it's not just a leaking website is that the u.s. is after but also their sources critics say this administration is involved in an unprecedented campaign against whistleblowers but in this culture where this administration is going after whistleblowers in a president away we all have an obligation to protect our sources i have to say that i myself i'm really nervous about the safety of some of the people that i talk to as a journalist that covers national security i'm talking all the time with people

jefferson, while he's secretary of state, he puts an anti-administration journalist on his payroll at the state department so the guy can have access to government documents and cover his expenses, but he stays in the washington administration through the end of 1793. washington is following the principle of keeping your friends close but keep your enemies closer, and it's a great achievement to washington's cunning and to his tact that he was able to keep jefferson as little unhappy as possible. the third thing that washington does is he goes home. now this has become a matter of course for every president, but washington made it a matter of course. he had done it for eye long time. as the revolutionary war was ending he had his portrait done by benjamin west. the king asked him what did he think washington would do after the war and west said, well, your majesty, i believe he will return to his farm. and the king said, if he does that, he's the greatest man in the world. washington did it. now he's doing it again in the farewell address. we've heard the passages from it and we've heard the discussion of

journalists in for a closer look. in pyongyang we saw up to 100,000 people express devotion to kim jong-il as the giant mural of the departed leader was unveiled. the control of this society was immediately apparent. people stood in rows at attention. applauded on cue. and waved poms-poms. north korea's vision of patriotic utopia. this is the first time journalists have been allowed into north korea since kim jong-un came to power. >> in washington state students are being called heroes after their school driver suffered a medical condition. a seventh grader grabs the wheel, steers the bus to the shoulder, turning off the ignition and even did chest compressions on the driver while they were still moving. another student jumped in to help while other kids called 911. the driver is now recupperating. >>> arose the northeast high winds and low humidity led to several wildfires. in connecticut flames burned alongside railroad tracks that caused the suspension of some amtrak and commuter service. in new york city a fire on staten island could be seen from mid-town manhattan making for a smokey unhealthy area. in long island two

statements and violating the espionage act so the justice department is going out of pure curiosity for releasing classified information to journalists that included the identities of a covert cia officer and information on the role of another cia employee in classified activities now they won't tell us who the reporter. is that he actually gave this information to the it's widely believed to be new york times reporter scott shane there's a long story there but the man that shane wrote about was not an undercover officer he had never engaged in the waterboarding or other techniques described as torture and if so many others had been named in the campaign against al qaeda at the times put it that would make this case any different chain also had twenty three other sources for this article but the justice department is going after here yahoo so you see the warning that the government's trying to give here more intimidation so that fewer sources will be willing to talk to the press about national security matters and the fewer people talk and the less we know unless of course it's a government sanctioned leak by officials and then the s

journalists in for a closer look. in one of pyongyang's squares today, we saw up to 100,000 people express to devotion to kim jong-il as a giant mural of the departed leader was unveiled. the control of this society was immediately apparent. people stood in rows at attention. applauded on cue. and waved pom-poms in a shimmering sea of pink. north korea's vision of a patriotic utopia. this is an important period for north korea, and over the next two weeks, there will be a series of festivals, parades, and massive assemblies like this one. it's all designed to show national unity and political stability after the death of kim jong-il late last year. the pageantry also has a purpose. it re-enforces the cultive personality around the kim jong-il family and passes it on to his son, the new ruler, kim jong-un. strikingly, when the assembly was over, the school children in pressed uniforms, families, and workers simply left. no trash left behind. they were gone in minutes. thousands of others went to a nearby park. it's also part of the kim family worship, built around the family home of kim jong-il's father. a tour guide here earned her college degree i

journalists, in for a closer look. in one of pyongyang's main squares, we saw up to 100,000 people express devotion to kim jong-il as a giant mural of the departed leader was unveiled. the control of this society was immediately apparent. people stood in rows at attention. applauded on cue and waved pom-poms in a shimmering sea of pink. north korea's vision of a patriotic utopia. this is an important period for north korea and over the next two weeks, there will be a series of festivals, parades and massive assemblies like this one. it's all designed to show national unity and political stability after the death of kim jong-il late last year. the pageantry also has a purpose. it reinforces the cultive personality around the kim jong-il family and passes it on to his son, the new ruler, kim jong-un. strikingly, when the assembly was over, the schoolchildren in pressed uniforms, families and workers simply left. no trash left behind. they were gone in minutes. thousands of others went to a nearby park. it's also part of the kim family war ship built around the childhood home of kim jong-il's father. a tour guide here earned her college degree in t

journalist and host of the d.l. so i asked him why the v.h.s. needs four hundred fifty million hollow point bullets for the department of homeland security just to be clear with your viewers consists of the t.s.a. the transportation security administration and immigration services among other divisions so exactly this is not the u.s. military this is the domestic law enforcement agency and the t.s.a. you're basically glorified bag screeners and airport screeners that was that was their original congressional mandate was to screen passengers before they get on an airplane so the question the question really is why do they need four hundred fifty million rounds of ammunition and to be fair some people online who don't want to believe i would say going on have said that this is just going to be used for target practice or also it could be that the government is simply stockpiling ammunition because they don't want to get into a situation where there's an ammo shortage and our law enforcement officers don't have any ammunition and those are both fair points but that kind of ammo that they purchased from eighty k. hollow point in unison as you would

department of justice filed an antitrust lawsuit against apple and book publishers macmillan >> up next on booktv, masha gessen, a journalist based in moscow, talks about the rise and continued influence of vladimir putin and russia. this is about an hour. >> thank you for the amazing introduction. i have to stand on a little box to reach this. i'm going to read from the epilogue to the book, which i was actually incredibly lucky to have been able to get in the book in the last minute. because otherwise it would outdated the moment it came out. the book is all different in tone, much more personal than the rest of the book. but i like it, and so i'm going to read from it. this is called a week in the summer. saturday, december 3. i am driving my family to see american economy in central moscow. snow is late this year. the city feels like it is in plunged into prominent white darkness. excess of light on the gardening, the road that circles the city's center does little to change it and. i am struck by a giant illuminated structure. one might call it a post or billboard but neither description would do justice to the scale.

of the fiscal affairs department with two colleagues. carlo will offer opening remarks and then we open this press conference for your questions. i invite also all journalists watching this online to send questions through our press center now. carlo? >> thank you very much, and thanks to all of you for being here. before -- saying before my colleagues and i answer your question, i would like to underscore a few messages from this issue of the physical fiscal monitor and i will cite particularly on the economy, because that's where the fiscal problems are most acute at the moment. i have some messages, key messages, on the fiscal monitor. the first one is that fiscal risks are declining but they are are still very high. with respect to six months ago there has been some reduction in risk. primarily because there has been some policy action. policy action has taken place, with progress being made particularly in europe in implementing a policy, fiscal adjustment. for example, in italy, but also elsewhere. but the risks are very high. remain very high, as underscored by continued market volatility, and by the fact that the public debt is still on the rise. th

department dedicated to their study. >> you think it's a good system for the people of north korea? >> yeah. everybody that understands and they uphold the line. >> this weekend, journalists were taken by teams of minders on a luxury train to a military base. a shocking contrast to the barren fields we passed. we saw few tractors, mostly farmers with hand tools. people here are starving. we arrived at the base to see the satellite north korea says it will soon put into orbit, carried by that controversial rocket on the launch pad. north korea says it is going ahead with the launch. a show of strength and determination to preserve this secretive dinacy. this is the first time journalists have been allowed into north korea since kim jaung un came into power, and all of the political theater, some of it quite provocative, seems designed to help ease the succession. >> richard engle in north korea for us. richard, thank you. >>> back in this country tonight, there are now definitive facts to prove what we all felt was true during this very bizarre winter season just past. some places witnesses summer arriving in march, really. a ton of records fell, and violent weather hit ac

. >> and the department of transportation has the list where they rank all the bridges in the united states, 1 to 100 on how safe they are, how likely they are to collapse. when journalistsent and looked at the bridges in california. they saw doyle drive was a 2. 2 out of 100. i guess the worst in the state of california. i had no idea it was that bad. >> it was the worst in the state of california. the second worst in the nation. i can't remember what the first was. i think it scored a two or a three on the scale the bridge in minnesota was in the range of the 20s. >> so we're very lucky this didn't fall down already. >> and that does not consider seismic safety. it's basically road safety. it was the narrow lanes. the fact that there's no median and the type of construction. and the ever changing approach of the little yellow markers in the road. so from day-to-day it could be something different. >> yeah, it could be a terrifying experience. just to add to that. i remembering it was identified as a prop, going back to the 50s or further. it's beautiful to look at this animation. why did it take so long? literally decades? >> it's a typical bay area or california exper

journalists in for a closer look. in one of pyongyang's main squares, we saw up to 100,000 people express devotion to kim jong-il as a giant mural of the departed leader was unveiled. the control of this society was immediately apparent. people stood in rows at attention, applauded on cue and waved pom-poms in a shimmering sea of pink. north korea's vision of a patriotic utopia. this is the first time journalists have been allowed into north korea since kim jong-un came to power and all of this political theater, some of it quite provocative, seems designed to reinforce his succession. richard engel, nbc news, pyongyang. >>> here is your first look at some of the other news going on around america today. in washington state, students are being called heroes for their quick thinking after their school bus driver suffered a medical condition right during their morning commute. the seventh grader grabbed the wheel, steered the bus to the shoulder and then turned off the ignition, even did chest compressions on the driver while they were still moving. another student also jumped in to help while the other kids called 911. the driver is now recoveri

the extras shepherding a staff of 13 suburban sections and was in a national style department as a copy editor/head editor. she is on the board of unity, the journalists of color and a graduate in this case of an exceptional school, university of missouri school of journalism. please join us in welcoming her. [applause] our final panelists is jose -- got the wrong person. antoine san quentin of nbc news. he built his career at nbc starting as an intern for the local station w r c. while attending american university. he has also been a producer of notable coverage in africa including reports from the eastern congo and historic interview with the sudanese president al bashir. he is an emmy-winning producer and documentary photographer. please join us in welcoming and one. antoi antoine. let me ask you about something that was mentioned in the last question we had the previous panel. it had to do with race and media and an unusual affair which was athletics. the star of this moment was the new york knicks' player jeremy lin. when he became the focus of what was called l in sanity. so much extraordinary idea that there is an asian-american basketball sup

department needs an outside monitor, they accused officers of violating free speech rights including using excessive force and trumping up champs on protestorinter-- charges on protestorinterfering with journalistts to cover the protest. >> new details in the trayvon martin case george zimmerman's lawyer wants to delay release of documents in the case zimmerman's attorney says he is concerned making those documents public could pose a threat to witness safety according to florida law, documents become public record, 15 days after they have been requested by a defense attorney. the lawyer says he will delay that request until he can prevent a motion to release witness names. >>> a newspaper puts a local elementary school's miraculous turn around under the microscope. >>> school board members take action after anti gay flyers are distributed. >>> anti bullying advocate, causing an up roar. [ female announcer ] with xfinity, you can always expect more. like more on demand shows and movies than ever. and more ways to discover them too. plus more speed from america's fastest internet provider. so you can run more devices at the same time. ♪ feel a firework [ female announcer ] and best of all, it ke

department as a copy editor. she is on the board of unity, the journalists of color, and she is a graduate at the university of missouri school of journalism. please join us in welcoming her. [applause] >> our final panelist is -- i'll take it again. these people don't mind. >> antoine sanfuentes, the washington bureau chief of nbc news. he built his career at nbc starting as an intern for the local station here wrc while he was attending american university. he is also a producer of notable coverage from across africa, including reports from darfur for in the congo. including interviews with president bashir al-assad. please join us in welcoming into one. >> antoine, let me start with you. let me ask you something that was mentioned in the very last panel we had. it had to do with race and media in an unusual way -- which was athletics. the star of this moment was a new york knicks player, jeremy lynch. when he became the focus of "linsanity", there was so much attention that there would be this asian-american superstar of basketball, the question was how do you cover him and let's look at this. even espn has managed

department as a copy editor. she is on the board of unity, journalists of color, and is a graduate of an exceptional school, the universityof missouri school of journalism. please join me in welcoming doris. [applause] our final analyst -- panelist i s antoine sanfuentes, the washington bureau chief of nbc news. he built his career at nbc as an intern at the local station here while attending american university. he has been a producer of notable coverage including reports from our 4, the condo, -- the congo, and coverage on al bashir. welcome, antoine. i will start with you. i will ask about something that was mentioned in the last question we had in the previous panel that had to do with race and media in an unusual theater, athletics. the star of this moment was the new york knicks' player jeremy lin. when he became the focus of what was called "lin-sanity," because there was this extraordinary idea that there would be this asian american basketball superstar, the question was how you cover him? and look at this. even espn had managed to offend him with some racially charged language or look at what the commentator had

individual with an administration talk to the press, talk to the journalists but there were multiple leaks occurring out of the state departmentthe pentagon regarding. >> dave: -- why? >> why? they want to stop israel using -- to attack iran, bottom line. >> dave: in the "the washington post" on friday the president has signaled to iran that would accept a iranian nuclear program because as you know the supreme leader there says they will never pursue nuclear weapons. is that something israel would accept, a civilian nuclear program let alone the rest of the civilized world, the u.s. diplomats as well? >> absolutely not. israel should not accept that. you can still enrich uranium with a civilian nuclear project. so that is unacceptable all together. >> dave: now back to the alleged leak. who would stand to benefit the most from that? >> president obama in this election year. he is play indicating as much as he can the left within the party. he doesn't want to see the nation move forward into any sort of military altercation in the area. but, you know, let's look at at the bigger picture here, which is of great concern to me. w