the conclusion, that because an accused is untruthful, he is therefore probably guilty, must be guided against as a false statement does not always justify the most extreme conclusion. in the present case, the deceased was killed under very peculiar circumstances. there are indeed a number of aspects in the case which do not make sense, which is why the accused did not ascertain from the deceased when he had the window open whether she too had heard anything. why he did not ascertain whether the deceased had herd him, since he did not get a response from the deceased before making his way to the bathroom. why the deceased was in the toilet and only a few meters away from the accused, did not communicate with the accused or phone the police as requested by the accused. this the deceased could have done irrespective of whether she was in the bedroom or in the toilet as she had her cell phone with her. it makes no sense to say she did not hear him scream "get out." it was the accused's version that he screamed on top of his voice when ordering the intruder to get out. another question is

they know that the citizens united, that these negative, poisonous, untruthful ads have just proliferatedand they know this is wrong. >> in the spotlight tonight, senator al franken tries to do campaign finance reform the hard way. tonight, in a rare bipartisan vote, the united states senate voted 79-17 to proceed to debate on something huge, a constitutional amendment. the amendment would, in effect, turn over the spriem court decision in the campaign finance case. joining me now, al franken, a co-sponsor of that. how did you get 79 votes in the senate on anything? this is huge. >> i don't want to disillusion you. i now your staff director and the fnts committee under chairman moynahan. but sometimes procedural votes are taken for cynical reasons. and every time we've tried to reverse citizens united, the republicans have stopped us. and i think this was, this vote was taken to really slow down action in the senate on other things, on minimum wage, on equal pay on student loans, so i, every time we've tried to reverse this horrible decision made on a 5-4 basis to put in undisclosed and u

the situation in iraq, former vice president dick cheney who spent months telling our countries untruths about iraq's weapons, and more months banishing sunnis from the iraqi government, pushing unknown numbers of foreign iraqi military leaders into the ranks of the terrorist group itself. plus, today's announcement by speaker john boehner that this congress won't even vote on the war in iraq, even in the lame duck. and even after the election this year. plus the news that most americans are totally in the dark on the outlandish sums corporate ceos are taking home these days. former ambassador to the u.n. and former ambassador to saudi arabia. governor richardson, what do you make ever the fact that the saudis are making such an effort to let the world know that even the crown prince is in the cockpit in this attack on isis? >> well, this is very encouraging. it's a message to the arab world and the saudis are almost with the egyptians the leaders of the arab world, they finance and provide resources to everybody, that they're in deeply with the united states on this isis effort. that th

he give us an untruth about something like that? why? this week's speech was supposed to air it all out and give the american people an open answers to what exactly our strategy is and once again we're being told half of the truth. >> okay, julie, here's an example. there was an article yesterday or day before that openly acknowledged that we're going to start basing u.s. aircraft at the air field in erbil. if you do that you've got pilots and maintainers and people who are hauling supplies and got that. they are not wearing sandals. they are wearing boots. so essentially, we are going to have to put support troops in there if we're going to do that. if we're not going to do that, why are we talking about it and publicizing it. it's a mess. >> gentleman from va on twitter writes, leads to disaster. respond with full measure. >> you say we should immediately focus efforts on supporting the kurds and efforts to push isis out of northern iraq. what does that entail exactly? what do you believe the advisers are telling president obama?

. >> your version is not only untruthful but it is so improbable that it cannot be reasonably possiblyed the blade runner intended to kill his girlfriend. >> she locked herself into the toilet. you armed yourself with the sole purpose of shooting and killing her. >> that's not true, my lady. >> and that's what you did. >> in closing, prosecutors said the former olympian had dropped the baton of truth. >> without the baton of truth -- it is the state's case the accused was a deceitful witness. >> reminding the court that pistorius who lost his legs when he was a child suffers from anxiety and like some abuse victims, suddenly snapped. >> we say there he is without legs, facing the door, hearing the sound, and he fired the shots. if you find it was reasonable, you must acquit him. >> and one month later, a decision from the judge that surprised many observers. oscar pistorius was found not guilty of murder. >> the state clearly has not proved beyond a reasonable doubt that the accused is guilty of premeditated murder. >> but the judge did rule that pistorius was guilty of culpable homici

the judge bought the argument but said he was a poor witness, at times untruthful. that when he fired the shots he used excessive force and was found negligence. if found guilty he could face up to 15 years behind bars. debora patta, cbs news, pretoria, south africa. >>> this morning much of the country will is have that fall-like feeling. there are freezes from washington state to michigan and to the dakotas. large wet flakes startled tourists. blowing snow was brought to colorado where more is expected this morning. in the south heavy rains and flooding was the issue. some arias looked like rapids. 7 inches fell yesterday. at least 37 people were forced from their homes due to the flooding. >> now the fight against isis. the ccia says nay have as many 1 thousand fighters in iraq and syria. this morning they raised the terror alert from medium to high and on capitol hill lawmakers expect to vote by next week on president obama's request for money to aid and train syrian rebels. mark albert is in wachlt mark, good morning. >> good morning, marlie, the u.s. has launc

he can't live very long without the cia especially the target of his untruths, that is how we know he hesitated, that is how we know for more than 13 months he knew about the threat of the islamic state. it is without question a president in conflict on so many levels it seems to me at this point after six years. heather: let's not forget congress role in all of this. saying don't go in with massive force because the american people don't want it, message has to be sent through congress. >> saying with a handcuffs off. i asked on twitter do people really want to know the strategy because i thought maybe we don't want to put everything we know out there. like usama bin laden. people are saying he needs to tell us he has one. >> the president cannot have it both way to say congress is dysfunctional and then say no congress can take the lead. >> you are right. we're not asking for all of the specifics. many have said barack obama, don't play all the cards on the table. but right now what we're hearing as he has known this information for a while, he is not handling it. >> more on that la

. >> the judge saying he was a poor witness who was often untruthful. but she said this did not mean he was a murderer. >> the state clearly has not proved beyond a reasonable doubt that the accused is guilty of premeditated murder. p>> the whole point of this turs on whether the judge believes pistorius shot his girlfriend by mistake thinking she was an intruder or in a murderous fit of rage. the judge said the state had not provided enough evidence to discredit pistorius' version of events. the judge said pistorius should have foreseen that when he shot those four shots through the locked bathroom door, it would have resulted in the death of the person behind it. >> i am of the view that the accused acted too hastily and used excessive force. >> as the judge read her verdict, oscar pistorius sobbing uncontrollably. this continued long into the lunch break. for him this could be hisredemp >> ahead, we'll talk to legal analyst ricky clekliemann aboute verdict. that's ahead. >>> in an address to the nation last night, the president said american warplane

president your candor is actually refreshing, giving your pred lix for untruthfulness as in you can keep your doctor and your health plan. why would you have no strategy? if you've been watching isis for some time? why would you have no strategy if, as was reported this week, you've been getting isis intel reports for at least a year. and if you had those intel reports and you had been following isis, why would you say that isis was a jv team? but then again, you must have been following isis because you sent in the special ops to rescue foley sotloff, which rescue, unfortunately, failed. unless you really weren't following them and now you choose to blame your favorite scapegoat, the intel community. you lying again? nothing you say is clear. but you are clear on getting us justice. >> we will not waiver in our commitment to see that justice is done for this terrible act and make no mistake, justice will be done. our message to anyone who harms our people is simple. america does not forget. our reach is long. we are patient, justice will be done. >> but no one believes that either. it's

she made a very telling comment that even if she felt that the witness was telling untruths, it didn'tean he was guilty. she gave a liberal judgment in that sense. at the same time, she still was harsh on his conduct and of course the implications of that judgment her assessment of how he performed on the stand might have implications for sentencing and of course she again gave those sign posts the indication she's going to find him guilty of culpable homicide, the equivalent of manslaughter. >> that charge is certainly still hanging over him. this culpable homicide. what technically does that mean there and what kind of sentence could that mean? >> reporter: you know, in south africa and in the states as well murder is about intention. she ruled he didn't intend to kill reeva steenkamp and he couldn't have foreseen she was in that bathroom. however, she did say she felt not only was he unreasonable in his behavior but that he was negligent. that's legally saying he's guilty of culpable homicide. the implications for him difficult to judge. you speak to different legal analysts and iss

that is, stripping away all the untruth and ego and confusion that our parents and society had laid on us from the moment we were born. there was a room in the back of the ranch house totally lined with mattresses. i eventually got used to making love to one or more women. charlie did occasionally stage an orgy for the benefit of select men he hoped to lure into the family. charlie never allowed calendars or clocks at spahn. time meant nothing when you lived in eternal now. as bizarre as charlie's teachings might sound to an outsider, it was compelling to us. there was no talk of killing. not yet. >> when you live for the moment, when you live for now, when you don't think of the future, you also don't have to think of consequences. that means if you commit murder, you don't have to think of the aftermath. and it was that kind of thinking that made it possible for these young people who had never committed murder before to do it with moral impunity. >> people don't understand. they don't understand how much charlie just stole everyone's soul and made them just helpless to make any deci

ari shavit's book and in others, that the zionist movement, at its very birth, was founded on an untruth a myth, that palestine was a country without a people. and as he says, obviously -- and he recognizes in his book that it was a lie. and therefore, from the very beginning, zionism didn't confront this profound moral dilemma that lay at its very heart. how do you deal with that reality? and as a consequence of that, one of the ways in which they dealt with it was to see to the expulsion of 700,000 people from their cities, from their towns and villages, and the destruction of all of them, which, to his credit, ari shavit writes about very painfully and honestly. ofhenry siegman, former head the american jewish congress will stop we will continue our conversation with him in a minute. ♪ [music break] >> this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report, i am amy goodman, as we continue our conversation with henry siegman, president of the u.s.-middle east project, former head of the american jewish congress. nermeen shaikh and i sat down with him on july 27. i asked hi

fulton phillips is our direct ancestor and it is our endeavor to judge her on fact and not theory or untruthh that we also historical scholars of this era to be cognizant of the extent of misinformation, distortion and speculation paraded as facts surrounding this woman and the subject. a prime example of this is a theory that not only kerry but her daughter ayes isabella were involved in espionage. there is no prove of this. this was vaeinvestigated by two u.s. government agencies finding no evidence of inclusion merely two people expressing their german sentiment. other popular notion is that there are no living dissidents of kerry phillips. remember these areg"3z four gre grandsons. a further area of concern to us is the portrayal of how kerry handled these letters during her lifetime. even well after the death of president warren harding when there was no alleged pay offs being made, kerry kept her collection of letters concealed, protecting the legacy of this president. it was only after she lost control of these letters due to control of these letters due to old age that they came toa

. >> that's in part because there's a lot of performance involves and i think it's untruthful ultimately and i don't like being a witness to it or things that i'm participating in. so that's really what i try to do is to be truthful but sometimes being truthful can hurt somebody else and i think it's hard for me to balance when it's important to be truthful and when it's important to eyewitness a fudge things but omit. the most recent example of this is i was doing a magazine piece about an athlete in this piece is not out yet so i'm not going to get into too much detail but the athletes mother said something to me on the record that was questionable with regards to her feelings about native americans in the town that she lived in. the story is not about native americans. the story is not about the town that she lived in but she made some cracks that she might've thought was funny that i was thinking i could just ring if i publish that and the story isn't even about that. i really struggled because it did say something about her character and it did reflect or does reflect a kind of inco

has to do with the possible conclusion by the team and the league that ray rice must have been untruthful with the team and the league in explaining what happened because that -- that would suggest why there's such a harsh reaction by the team and the league now. >> some people are reporting that the league did have access to this video. hard to imagine they didn't, as hard as they would investigate the situation, to understand this from a p.r. point. the league is saying they did not see it. which is a bit difficult to imagine. what could they imagined have happened in that elevator when janay is dragged out, lying flat? clearly something horrific happened and we have to punish him, just to protect the shield f nothing else? there were different rumors and whispers and accounts of what happened. remember, janay palmer got up at the press conference, sat at the table with her husband and apologized for her role. based on the video, i don't know what her role was. we were led to believe there was extreme provocation. i was told the video shows her spitting in his face from six inches away.

disastrous step to have even taken in bet beginning and i think cameron's words were unbelievably untruthfull note, this whole independence thing worked out okay for us. let's just stipulate that right now. and i do have -- >> but the big fight. >> but it's been okay. americans seem to be doing fairly well right here. you are, sir, in the united states, both your scottish half and your english half right now. i will note you're in florida. i'm struck by the fact that the scots want independence yet they want to keep the queen. and to me nothing says freedom like a monarchy. explain this to me. >> well, the queen is a wonderful, wonderful person. i personally think she'll go down in history as elizabeth the great. and, of course, they want her because who else are they going to put in as head of state in the queen has enormous constitutional powers and who would you put them? would you put them in salmon's hands? in cameron's hands? here's a man, cameron, you heard him on the broadcast just now talking about he'd be almost weeping. he designed it. he denied the british people a vote going int

phillips is our direct ancestor, and it is our endeavor to have history judge her on fact, not theory or untruthwith that, we ask historical scholars of this era to be cognizant of the extent of misinformation, distortion and speculation paraded as facts surrounding this woman and this subject. a prime example of this is a theory that not only care but her daughter, isabel, was involved in espionage under the direction of the german government. to our knowledge, there is no roof of this. further, this subject was investigated and researched by two united states government agencies finding no evidence of collusion, merely two women vocal in expressing their pro-german sentiment. another popular held false notion is that there are no living descendants of carrie phillips. remember, these are four great-grandchildren. great-grandsons. this is a further area of concern to us is the portrayal of how carrie handled these letters during her lifetime. even well after the death of president warren harding who there was no alleged payoffs being made, carrie kept her collection of letters concealed, protec

she said he was a pro witness who was often untruthful but she stressed the intention to shoot did not necessarily mean intention to kill. >> the state clearly has not proved beyond a reasonable doubt that the accused is guilty of premeditated murder. >> reporter: the whole point of this case is whether the judge believes oscar pistorius's girlfriend that he shot her accidentally or if it was premeditated murder. the judge said the state did not provide enough evidence. >> the accused, therefore, cannot be found guilty of murder. that, however, is not the end of the matter as culpable homicide is a comparable verdict. >> after the reading of the verdict oscar pistorius broke down sobbing uncontrollably through the lunch break. >> we'll talk about the verdict and what oscar could still face. that's ahead. >>> president obama promised his administration will defeat any isis threat to the united states. in his address last night he said american warplanes will expand a bombing cam bane into syria for the first time. bill plante is at the white house. good morning. >> reporter: good mornin

so those people who continue to participate in gross untruths really should stop and give great respect who is deceased. >> to your best knowledge, you say the allegations that there was some type of homicide investigation going on, or some type of charge, to your knowledge, is there any serious behavior that was being examined by any aspect of the court system involving michael brown? >> nothing serious whatsoever. i think if nothing else, maybe, probably may have possibly had a juvenile situation, maybe at worst, maybe a truancy situation. but nothing of any type of serious nature where a person in his situation, and his being a victim, and being shot in broad daylight by an officer would come into play. >> now, this is insensitive. there's no question about it. however, it may be legal. you paused when you said that the law is designed to protect kids. you said, you know, while they're young. i'll fill in the pause a different way. it's designed to protect kids while they're alive. and michael brown, right or wrong, is no longer alive. and i think most people would agree, you lose a

that is untrue, and so there were untruths to his statement and i think what was also very concerning michael brown and sort of painted this narrative of a criminal, a victim who deserved to be shot, and at this point he has lost the trust of the community and the appropriate thing to do when you lose the trust of the community as a public official is to resign, and that is why i think you see this reaction to what the police chief said and did. >> let's play a little bit of what the police chief said right now so we know what we're talking about here. let's play that. >> sure. >> i'm also sorry that it took so long to remove michael from the street. it was just too long and i am truly sorry for that. for any mistakes i have made i take full responsibility. >> danny i want to get to you in one second. sunny, what is wrong with saying you're sorry? it took him a long time but if he is sorry isn't it right to say so? >> i think so. certainly it's appropriate. i think at this point to apologize for his actions and inaction s but let's face t the justice department is involved, there's a

went off to college and the time was right because there were a lot of speculations and untruths regardingork. took me a couple of years. >> take me back, ginger, to 1976. you were 20 years old. you meet elvis by a chance meeting at graceland. what was it like at that point to step into the orbit of the most famous man on the planet? >> he was a magical, magical person. i mean, he had this ability to draw you into his world whether it be through his spiritual studies or his music. he had a gift. such a charismatic person when he entered a room you just felt this energy. >> it's interesting you met him late in his life. a lot of the impressions the public, i think, have of late elvis is that he was unhappy. that he was overweight. that's not the impression you give in this book. >> no. >> who was the elvis you knew in the last days and months? >> elvis was looking forward to so many things. he wanted in more films, more music, wanted to get married, wanted to have children. and i wrote in my book about how he would over-salt his food and at times would appear more puffy or bloated if you wa