they became know as the plowshares eight. i want to turn to a clip from the from the film, "in the king of prussia." this scene features dan berrigan reciting what he told the judge and jury during the trial. >> you have heard about hammers and blood in this room. these are the hammers of hell. these are the hammers that will break the world. flingare the hammers that the end of the world. the judge knows it. the prosecutor knows it. we have seen people walk away from these things. we have seen them disclaim them. we have seen them say they are not responsible for them. we have seen all sorts of language, like a dance of death. they are murderers. he knows it. he knows it. you must know it. we ate --en trying -- to take responsibility for these things. to call them by their right .ames, which is murderers debt. genocide, the end of the world. their properties is known to the judge and the prosecutor and to yo weould likyou to know the name of our crime. we would like to assume responsibility for a world, for children, for the

at the time of plowshares 8, taking dish it led to the founding of the house of peace for refugees and owar. he was always asking about the children. he asked a couple of months ago, how are the children? summit who had such unbreakable, unrelenting moral awareness and direction encourage and the ability to affirm everybody that was in it with him. he loved people. he loved the people of this city. he loved -- he loved. from a procession heading to father dan berrigan's funeral on friday. he would have turned 95 years old today. for today'ss it show. i will be speaking tonight in minneapolis and tomorrow in cameras, massachusetts. check our website democracynow.org. ú [wind whistling]

at the time of plowshares 8, taking dish it led to the founding of the house of peace for refugees anden of war. he was always asking about the children. he asked a couple of months ago, how are the children? summit who had such unbreakable, unrelenting moral awareness and direction encourage and the ability to affirm everybody that was in it with him. he loved people. he loved the people of this city. he loved -- he loved. from a procession heading to father dan berrigan's funeral on friday. he would have turned 95 years old today. for today'ss it show. i will be speaking tonight in minneapolis and tomorrow in cameras, massachusetts. check our website democracynow.org. democracynow.org. [captioning made possibl - today on america's test kitchen, julia prepares the ultimate semolina gnocchi, jack challenges chris to a tasting of balsamic vinegar, and bridget cooks italian sausage with grapes and balsamic vinegar, right here on america's test kitchen. america's test kitchen is brought to you by dcs. dcs: manufacturers of professionally styled indoor and outdoor kitchen equipment. at dcs

we need to beat our swords into plowshares. i think that is the solution to this nightmare, is over militarization that is making america less safe every day. guantanamo, isf their policy about placement of troops overseas? guest: the temporary money is setting policy for afghanistan, for continued operations in the middle east against isis. some money dealing with the ukraine situation and russian. this is affecting all spending worldwide. the military does have a big footprint across the globe. they are there. you have to figure out a way to pay for them. isn't it difficult to make a d.o.d. budget with the drifting, undefined pentagon east. the isis issue has been a source all over d.c. here largely because the congress won't take up the issue of the authorization of new military force and the parameters of it. a white house has sent version of what they'd like to see, limiting the presidential operations to certain things. emocrats on capitol hill are saying it's too brad. republicans are saying it's too narrow. been stalled

>> the plowshares funds. >> the what? >> the plowshares fund has funded many of the elements of the so-called echo chamber, to use ben rhodes' words. supposedly neutral assessors, for example, in various arms control think tanks, perhaps in the atlantic council as well, and elsewhere were receiving grants. now, one can say just because one has received a grant from this high-level funder -- and by the way, this funder also had provided grants to senior iranian officials working in the united states as well at universities and so forth. just because they have funded doesn't necessarily mean that there's a quid pro quo, but what you will find is that anyone who has received plowshares funding especially for the bulk of their grant or the bulk of their salary, never, not once, contradicted the assessment which ben rhodes sought to put forward. >> thank you. i yield back. >> thank the gentleman. now recognize the gentle woman from new york ms. maloney for five minutes. >> thank you. after a good deal of deliberation and resea

now, npr had the president of the plowshares fund on the air twice in the past year.as he should have been, the other time he was not. no one's pointed to me with an example of where they killed the story, but nonetheless, if you're in the news be business and you're taking big bucks from a group with an agenda, i just think it raises all kinds of journalistic questions. stuart: i bet if npr invited me to be on the program and i pounded the table that the iran nuke deal was absolutely awful, don't touch it with a 10-foot pole, i would never, ever appear on npr ever again. that's just my feelings about the issue. >> i'd listen to that segment. [laughter] stuart: yes. i don't think they care about ratings, you know what i mean? [laughter] howard, it's always a pleasure. thank you very much for joining us every monday morning. we appreciate it, sir. >> good to see you, stuart. stuart: how about this one? public schools in portland, oregon, have banned any textbook that shows any doubt of climate change. we're all over that one. >>> plus, a baltimore police officer cleare

the president of plowshares fund called the other nonsense -- nonsense.utter claim oflaim -- official deception were never substantiated. , so we these experts could have a bounced picture, or call your. unfortunately by not invite these experts we are getting a very one-sided authority. i yield to the chairman. democrats always have an opportunity to invite a witness to the hearing. democrats chose not to invite a witness. and the person we call the white house, mr. rhodes, also refused to show up. >> i understand mr. chairman. the ranking members already heather beent time, there would have been a democratic witness. thank you, i yield back. >> we now recognize the gentleman from ohio. youentlemen, are any of familiar with the name jonathan gruber? do know that name? anyone? mr. rubin: i know the name. >> do know what his occupation as? mr. rubin: i think he is an economist with was enlisted to help with health care reform. do you know what title he was given when he was helping with obamacare and health care reform? anyone remember? architect of obamacare. he got a little notoriety

the president of plowshares fund called it utter nonsense. susanne maloney of the brookings institution agreed, and she explained the core claims of official deception around the iran deal were never actually substantiated. now, none of these experts, so that we could have some balanced picture, were called here. unfortunately, mr. chairman, by not inviting these experts we're getting a very one-sided story. >> will the gentle woman yield? >> i'll yield to the chairman. >> democrats always, always, have an opportunity to invite a witness to come to this hearing. the democrats chose not to invite a witness to this hearing. and the person we called from the white house, mr. rhodes, also refused to show up. >> i understand, mr. chairman, and the ranking member has already indicated that had there been time -- that had there been time there would have been a democratic witness. i thank you very much and i yield back. >> now recognize the gentleman from ohio, mr. jordan, for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman. gentlemen, do any of you -- are

with his brother were the founders of the powershares movement, believing in beating swords into plowshares. not far from here in 1968, they burned draft cards, hundreds of a1 draft cards with homemade napalm. and he wrote in his rationale for doing this -- our apologies, good friends, for the fracture of your order, the burning of paper instead of children, he said. profit invoice of a this country, taking on war, taking on nuclear weapons. it's one that should have gotten much more coverage in the media. another is someone who passed just this week. the great human rights attorney, michael ratner in new york city. michael ratner was the head of the center for constitutional rights, he was a pioneering aman rights lawyer, who was person and part of a movement. yes, he used law, but equally believed in people taking to the streets around the issue of war, of torture. and ultimately brought the case of the guantÁnamo prisoners to the supreme court. not believing he would win, but purely on principle, that they should have habeas corpus rights. they should have their day in court. and ultimat

>> the two mentioned in the article were the plowshares fund and nyac. but it's not hard, you know, if you followed what happened on twitter when this article came out, the friends of the white house and the friends of the -- of the echo chamber, you could identify the echo chamber by seeing how they pounced immediately on the article, picked out one or two little facts that they could criticize and build the whole i think specious argument that the author had a political agenda in this, and then that narrative, then, was spun out of social media and into the mainstream media. >> if i may say very quickly, sir, i don't know david samuels, the author of the article, but to criticize him for not being supportive of the iran deal illustrates the problem of an echo chamber because journalists saying only sympathetic journalists can cover the administration that itself is a sign of a much greater problem. >> huge problem. >> thank you. >> can i play a video here or are we done with our time? >> let me go to mr. palmer and if you want to come back, we'll come

with his brother were the founders of the powershares movement, believing in beating swords into plowshares. not far from here in 1968, they burned draft cards, hundreds of a1 draft cards with homemade napalm. and he wrote in his rationale for doing this -- our apologies, good friends, for the fracture of your order, the burning of paper instead of children, he said. profit invoice of a this country, taking on war, taking on nuclear weapons. it's one that should have gotten much more coverage in the media. another is someone who passed just this week. the great human rights attorney, michael ratner in new york city. michael ratner was the head of the center for constitutional rights, he was a pioneering aman rights lawyer, who was person and part of a movement. yes, he used law, but equally believed in people taking to the streets around the issue of war, of torture. and ultimately brought the case of the guantÁnamo prisoners to the supreme court. not believing he would win, but purely on principle, that they should have habeas corpus rights. they should have their day in court. and ultimat

there was a recent report out by plowshares and some others that partnered on that report that estimate 125,000 post-9/11 vets with bad paper. now, not all of these are going to fall into that category of needing mental health, but certainly some of them will. and for some of these, these are individuals who might have been received that discharge status due to symptoms of an undiagnosed mental health illness or injury. and so this is why we're certainly urging passage of the fairness for veterans act, but we're also calling for -- we all need to come together. this is a dod, v.a., congress and the vsos and msos. there needs to be a comprehensive plan. we've been, over the last few years there have been pieces that have been getting to the solution, but we haven't got near to that solution. the other challenge is that many of the community providers out there, many of the community programs base their eligibility off of the definition and the eligibility requirements at v.a. so even those programs that could potentially be helping these individuals aren't available to them. the vet cent

the president of plowshares fund called it utter nonsense. the core claim of official deception were never substantiated. none of these experts, so we could have a bounced picture, or call your. unfortunately by not invite these experts we are getting a very one-sided authority. i yield to the chairman. >> democrats always have an opportunity to invite a witness to the hearing. democrats chose not to invite a witness. and the person we call the white house, mr. rhodes, also refused to show up. >> i understand mr. chairman. the ranking members already indicated that heather been time, there would have been a democratic witness. thank you, i yield back. >> we now recognize the gentleman from ohio. >> gentlemen, are any of you familiar with the name jonathan gruber? do know that name? anyone? mr. rubin: i know the name. >> do know what his occupation as? mr. rubin: i think he is an economist with was enlisted to help with health care reform. >> do you know what title he was given when he was helping with obamacare and health care reform? anyone

know who was going to be able to carry our messages effectively and how to use outside groups like plowshares, the iran project, and whoever else they needed to use. so we knew the tactics that worked, he said. he is very proud of the way that he sold the iran deal. we drove them crazy, he says, of the deal's opponents. yet rhodes bristles at the suggestion that there has been anything deceptive about the way the agreement itself was sold. look, he said, with iran, in a weird way, these are state-to-state issues. they are agreements between governments. yes, i would prefer that it turns out that rue -- rouhani and zarif are real reformers that will be able to steer this country in a direction i believe it can go in because the public is educated and in some respects pro-american, but we're not getting on any of that. you remember what we heard last summer when they were testifying before us. we never heard this. we never heard that this was the spin, that they didn't actually believe it, but now here is the guy thinking about his next step in life, we hear the real story. i will continue. in