government the pictures that a.p. people took eddie adams a picture of the police chief executing him yet on the streets of saigon a nine hundred sixty eight nick but another a.p. photographer take your picture of a young girl with the clothes burned off by napalm running down a country road these were very negative images. u.s. media turned away from. reporting. from then on independent journalism was regarded as a collateral and a. after the terrorist attacks of september eleventh two thousand and one the bush administration took the chance on trying to control the media and manipulate american public opinion. i think the bush administration absolutely manipulated. the media in america at the time in hindsight of course their justifications for the war were more spurious and best and they just they were they were falsehoods one of the things that was most disturbing about the nuclear issue was that. in november the inspectors went into iraq to look at whether there were weapons of mass destruction of a program. mode

theyed told the a.p. that forced the suspect to switch to a different weapon, cutting down on how quickly he was able to shoot into the crowded theater. the suspect's parents, visibly disstressed, asked for privacy. >> it was a very sad day. and they are working with and communications with the authorities. really that's all we could say. >> reporter: back in aurora, they will continue to remember those lost with 12 funerals planned in the days ahead. >> we've got some grieving to do, but then we've got to start moving ahead. and we've got to make aurora a better place even more than what it was two days ago and we will. >> reporting live from colorado. just ahead on 9news now this sunday, a somber remembrance this weekend for the 40th anniversary of the massacre. >>> and we're finally getting some sun this weekend. a little bit of a break for you in the cloud cover, but the humidity is high. we're going to take it even higher as we head into a pretty hot workweek. reagan national tonight, 82 today, so di

a.p.orts that the president has been considering more dramatic cuting. the group global zero says the u.s. can safely reduce its stockpile to 900 nuclear weapons over the past two years. president obama said the arsenal inherited from the cold war is poorly suited. >>> reporting live from washington, d.c., alison burns, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> breaking news out of north carolina, where tv icon andy griffin has -- has died. according to tmz, he passed away at his home. while known for his long-time roll on the show, he also played on "matlock." he was awarded the medal of freedom by 1986. he was 100. >>> pg&e says an underground equipment failure knocked out power to about 4300 customers at the height of the out idge last night. it's now working to restore power to 135 customers. the high resort area of mammoth lakes is the latest california town to file for bankruptcy. they say bankruptcy is the only option because it want a -- because it can't afford to pay a judgment. the town plans to

again, this is the a.p. saying that the university of colorado medical school says that the shooting suspect, 24-year-old james holmes, had been a student at their school but withdrew last month. again, you're looking at the exterior pictures of the aurora, colorado apartment about four miles away from the movie theater where the shooting massacre happened last night roughly around 12:30 a.m. at the midnight premier showing of batman where people on the scene say that the shooting suspect entered through the movie theater exit, released some type of tear gas canister, shot into the air -- fired one shot into the air and then opened fire on the crowd. obviously this was a packed house movie theater, there were multiple showings of the movie going on at the time. 16 different screens in all, i believe, showing in this movie house, sending people fleeing into the streets. we do have confirmation of 12 deaths. 38 other people have been injured. earlier this morning at 9:30 we had a medical update from the aurora

reports seven army soldiers and two marines are getting -- the a.p. reports seven army soldiers and two marines are getting military punishment. >>> tonight the secretary of agriculture says about 1/3 of the counties in this country are under some form of a disaster declaration because of the drought. the president is calling on congress to offer farmers assistance. >> now it's all hands on deck. the president is very concerned about making sure we do everything we possibly can to help as many producers through this difficult circumstance. >> this is the worst drought in 25 years. >> not much of our area is included in those drought designations, but the hardest hit is on maryland's eastern shore where drought conditions are at extreme levels. scott broom is in talbot county where agriculture is king and where the economic pain is expected to be sharp. >> reporter: look around me in this field in talbot county and you are looking at something now one can remember seeing around here. this is a cornfield that was so withered and burned by drought that t

according to all press reports from the "washington post" and "new york times," helen thomas of the a.p., there had been massive demonstrations in west germany, in west berlin, protesting president reagan's visit, protesting our views on disarmament, protesting our policies in the middle east. they had burned down buildings. they had torched cars. and so you've got to put that into context as well as we arrived in berlin. things were quiet, but the night before had been very treacherous. >> peter robinson -- actually there was an article that appeared in saturday's "wall street journal" by peter, and he mentioned that -- he repeated some of what we saw in the video clips, but he also mentioned that there were no less than seven drafts that came back from the state department, seven different versions, seven alternative versions to the speech. is that unusual? is that odd? or was the speech at its inception viewed as one of such historic importance? >> seven is a bit much. we knew this would be the capstone of the ten days of the g-7 summit and the visit to the pope, which was significan

quoted by the a.p. saying quote, if you have things to hide, then maybe you're doing things wrong. to be willing to release everything to the american people. >>> after the comments went viral, governor bentley quickly back-tracked saying he was taken out of context. >>> also this morning, a major development in syria, as the international committee of the red cross says it now considers the conflict a civil war. that means international humanitarian law now applies, raising the possibility of prosecution for war crimes. this as some of the heaviest fighting yet has erupted in the capital of damascus. at least five people were killed. nbc's ayman mohedin joins us with more. what's the latest in the brutal conflict? >> good morning, luke. you talk about the international community of the red cross. that's a very important decision. international law applies and it will be used as an argument that justifies why the rebels are allowed to take up arms. according to the international humanitarian law sides are al w allowed to use force to advance their aims. this is's that's going to be

is in regards to the seventh period day and doing that around equity, we wouldn't be asking for much a.p. classes. we are really using that opportunity to help those students that don't have those chances to really deeply understand the work that they have to get through and rigor. building a foundation and taken the more rigorous courses later on in their schedule, it doesn't benefit them if they've gotten even a c. that's a struggle to move on to an advanceed class from a c. that doesn't mean you mastered the topic. which often is passing but unacceptable you see private apologies and we want to be clear with students they need to deeply understand before moving forward in the seventh period day would help support that. i'm grateful the youth commission came out and spoke about credit recovery. those are paramount and we need to offer real credit recovery. online courses don't help when you have missed getting the substantive back and forth with an in-person teacher. if you don't have that interaction where you're able to ask questions as a student and get information and listen to you

switching to reuters, briefly, it is a wire service like jesse worked for a.p., but my work is not quick at the keyboard filing the stories. my job is more to step back and look at the broader trends. it's still, even though i don't have to file in a daily way, it's still the wire. you have to fill a hole faster than you would for a newspaper all the time. >> anybody else working on a book they want to out? not yet? gentlemen, you did a biography of justice o'connor? are you still in touch with her? >> she's always on an airplane. i said, you know, are you going to be there? she said she had so much planned and she went into the various plans. i asked her if she had an instinct and she declared, i haven't had time to read the statute. do you know which way they are going? no clue, no clue. she was in the courtroom the week before. all this speculation of when it will be handed down. nobody knows until the writing on both sides or all sides in this case is finished. so, she didn't know exactly when it was going to come either. she could have suspected the way we did it was going to come o

bank of england injects seventy eight billion dollars of monetary stimulus and here's a tweet from the a.p. a few moments later european central bank cuts mean interest rate by a quarter point to a record low of point seven five percent that's right low rates. low rate. we've been talking about this for years because speculators want low rates to fund their respective bets and squeeze out the entrepreneurs squeeze out the savers squeeze out wages keep rates really low the library scandal is about keeping rates low by manipulating rates quantitative easing is about keeping rates low by engaging in radical central bank policies like operation twist e.c.b. lowering rates is about central bank collusion with other banks to keep rates near zero to fund speculation to squeeze out a population of workers and savers lomax in fact it's a bank robbery i think and they're the bank robbers are posing a speculators in some situations but i'm going to compare this to one of the most famous bank robbers in american history william willie sutton he was born in one thousand one and died in one thousand nin

i say to my colleagues, if you want to lower the amount of money we spend on snvmt a.p., get serious about job creation, put more people back to work. the more people that are working, the less we spend on s.n.a.p. cutting the program is not the right thing to do. i appeal to your hearts and conscience to stand with me on this and support my amendment. i thank the chairman for his indulgence. i yield back my time. >> the gentleman yields back his time. the chair recognizes the gentleman from california, mr. baca, for what purpose? >> strike the last word. >> gentleman is reck nized for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman and ranking member. i, too, want to recognize mr. mcgovern, miss fudge, chellie pingree for the hard work we've done on this amendment. i urge my colleagues to support this amendment which is critical to the health, i state to the health and wellbeing of millions of americans. when we look at health and wellbeing, which means our health costs will also be going down if people are healthy and eat the appropriate nutrition that they need or the additional food tha

look to and explaining some of the un rests in anger in many countries out there but yesterday the a.p. made an eyebrow raising report guaranteeing that this issue isn't going away any time soon see according to interviews with experts the latest available poverty rate in the united states from the year two thousand and eleven is expected to be a record breaker the measure was at fifteen point one percent in two thousand and ten but the two thousand and eleven number which will be released this fall could climb as high as fifteen point seven percent and even if it only rises a tenth of a percent the official poverty rate will be at its highest point since one nine hundred sixty five that's right it appears that the reagan revolution has officially erased the gains of lyndon johnson's war on poverty so great job guys i think you must be beaming with pride over this and the rising poverty it's not only about inequality let's not forget we went through a massive financial crash and the census uses an absolute measure to calculate that poverty but with incomes dropping unions under attack

in addition to writing stories on opinions, i also write to the a.p. twitter site. we have a very general office. we publish to everybody. they are doing what we started doing years ago. we just do it in a different way. >> where were you? i guess you were not in the press room, with no electronics. >> i was on where our offices are in the press room, reading the dissent, tweeting and writing. >> it has changed life completely four newspaper reporters. people want things very quickly. they want to be able to come to the web site and find out what happened. they want alerts. they want twitter feeds. it is a huge difference. we have hour-long meetings about what color possibilities could be, that we could make sure would be correct. we sort of disposed of saying health care upheld, because we thought it would be too much of a split decision. we went with individual mandate upheld or individual mandate struck, as an alert possibility. you think about these things that you never thought in a million years you would be thinking about. >> scotusblog is an extremely good w

he just handing out parting gifts well tweet from the a.p. is josh letterman today gave us some insight when he quoted the pentagon spokesman as saying we don't have any plan right now for sequestration to have that certainly appears to be the case the way the pentagon has been spending money makes me wonder if they're insuring that the private counterparts will survive the cuts if they're just ignoring the january deadline. yep but nobody else picks up on it because that means you actually have to pay attention so today i'd like to say told you so to the mainstream media but the thing is that we find ourselves in this position so often here on the show so i think that we're going to create an entire segment for it and it will be called. so told she told you so told you so. so you guys go as far as that on future shows but tonight it's just one more thing that the mainstream media chooses to miss. we often talk about the difference between the official unemployment numbers that are put out there and the use six these six measures not only tho

just handing out parting gifts well tweet from a.p.'s josh letterman today gave us some insight when he quoted the pentagon spokesman as saying we don't have any plan right now for sequitur. ation yeah that certainly appears to be the gates the way the pentagon has been spending money makes me wonder if they're insuring that the private counterparts will survive the cuts if they're just ignoring the january deadline regardless of the reasoning it is as downing to see the pentagon blow money like this one supposedly government spending our deficits and our control but then of course there is your military industrial complex at work people no matter what it'll keep on truckin. our guys it is time for our last break the evening but there's a lot more to come public schools are increasingly second reading classes by sex so does that make as much sense as a clean shot and then can college students major in even call their find out on how they are and they read as a returning argues lauren literally joined us after that. part of american powe

news even the a.p. with more than eight percent of total news viewership on you tube and mainstream media fails us alternative news has an open r.t. has taken advantage of it. the better tea party congressman sean duffy he's not the biggest fan of talking to constituents and believes that holding one town hall meeting a year to meet with voters plenty at least that's what he told one constituent yesterday as he was leaving a meeting in wausau wisconsin take a look. around . like. big congressman sean duffy the most inaccessible. congressman tough tough word to say in america and the very very ugly bryan fischer the head of the american family association one of the radio call president obama a string thought with the mindset of a juvenile delinquent take a listen. you have a lawless president this guy plays jim he reminds me of a juvenile delinquent is really what he reminds me of he's like a street thug where there are no laws there are no rules that apply to him he feels like he could do whatever he w

if a star says earth good, people bad, they get a gold star from the a.p.blicans are easy targets because they're rich. the media envies that. the rich on the left gets a pass. the media doesn't envy them. they just want to be like them. i get it. dan sash like that around me. poor thing. poor you. do you think they are biased toward republicans or just gaga eyed over celebritys? >> andrea: both. i don't think it's mutually exclusive. it's not about them being rich. it's connected versus the not connected, right? it's not especially political belief. as you point out, look at the fundraisers they had sarah jessica parker, from "sex in the city." the townhouse is over $20 million. the money, the martha vineyard vacation they take. the $500 sneakers michelle obama wears. trip to spain. hypocrisy at the highest level. the media lets it go time and again. >> bob: what do you think of the person -- i don't know if they quote it to, but quoted one to romney. she said i don't think the common person is getting it. >> dana: i would love to go to one of those. if yo

i was an all a.p.lasses and i had like a 4 four six something. >> bam. >> reporter: then some exciting news. the olympics decide to add women's boxing for 2012. >> when i was like in elementary, like i was really into greek mythology and stuff like that. i always thought like the olympics games are and i wanted to go and it just ended up being boxing. >> reporter: marlen postpones college to pursue olympic dreams. >> just another day. >> boxing for me has always been my number one sport. i was born in mexico. my kids are mexican americans and making the olympic, that will be something any parent, i don't care who it is or what race they are, they going to feel what i'm feeling right now. and we don't know how to behave sometimes. >> marlen esparza! >> eight spots at the olympic trials as the national champion, she is offered the first. >> the olympics is a big goal. >> yeah, it's huge. i honestly truly feel if i go to the olympics and medal, that i could probably be totally happy for the rest of my lif

a.p research center poll found 67 percent of adults said they expect the remainder of this year's white house race to be " exhausting ". 56 percent say that the race has been too long already and too dull. >> michael bloomberg making headlines by pushing for a ban on the super sized soft drinks. but a richmond councilman is drawn national attention with his own campaign against what he calls " big soda ". the war on soda may not go down easily with consumers. >> the question is, will making softer and more expensive to deter anyone from taunting them or make those veterans them pay more? that is one big issue shaping up this campaign over a soft drink tax. the man pulling a red wagon is a cardiologist in the city council member. he uses a huge job of sugar to campaign for passage of the soft-drink tax .. >> 40 lbs. is what the average child takes in in sugar every year just from sugar sweetened beverages fox. >> he wants the city to be the first in the nation to discourage sugary softer is with a tax. an idea that has not caught on yet. >> that is like saying that if you increase the va

reuters is a wire service, like a.p., but i am not quickly filing alerts the way jim of the knee -- jim matheny had done. i look at broader trends. i do not have to file every day, but it is the wire, so you have to fill a hole faster than you would for the newspaper. >> is anybody else working on a book they want to out? >> not yet. >> you did a biography of justice o'connor. are you still in touch with her? what is she up to? >> she is on an airplane. she is always traveling. i asked if she would be in the room for health care. she said, "i have so much planned." i asked her if she had an instant. she said, i have not even had time to read the statutes. do you know which way they are going? no clue. it turned out that she was in the courtroom the week before. all the speculation about when it will be handed down -- nobody knows until the writing on all sides is finished. she did not know exactly when it was going to come. she could have suspected, the way we did, that it would come on june 28. she was in the courtroom the week before. in many nervous when she showed up. but it was not

. >> in an a.p.last month, 55% said they disapproved of the way this president is handling the economy. he polls really well on other things, on personal likability and other things, but not on the economy. what's the number one thing when voters go to the ballot box in november? >> the economy is it. it will be at this time. part of the problem is romney's having trouble with his own record and his own policies. >> can he do a better job communicating it? >> yeah. i think part of it is, look, you can be upset about the pace of recovery, but what the obama campaign is doing a good job of, okay, but if you're upset with the pace of recovery, do you really want to go back to the policies that got us in the mess? that's what romney wants to do. that's the argument that's going on. well, who wins that argument? that's who's likely to win the white house. >> four months from today. joe trippi, thank you for coming? >> thanks for having me. >> coming up, one year after the verdict that shocked the nation,