amy goodman is the host of democracy now its really popular news program and she was coming to town to do a book signing she's come to salt lake three people independently one of them told her hey while you're here in salt lake you should interview this army sergeant she calls up that night and we were expecting to hear the next day we were down there in salt lake doing interviews even goodman is going to announce. today ted democracy now exposed to army reservist marshall thompson dispensing year in iraq working as a military journalist the son of a former you time they are he now plans to walk across his home state in the nation to protest war at this point it doesn't matter why we got into the war or what the partisan politics were about what matters is that two soldiers die every day on average and any anyway that we can in this war one day soon as two lives saved and i would walk five hundred miles for that i would walk a thousand miles for that. some people said some terrible things not never to my face you know but in even they got this electronic bravery and they would really s

[applause] >> we have gene sperling and amy goodman. conference. i think somewhere around my boss john podesta might be here. and we have the 42nd president of the united states bill clinton. [cheers and applause] >> don't you dare sneak out to visit during the breakout session. we have represented gwen moore, cecile richards ahead of planned parenthood. and a whole lot more. why are they all your? not because of the money because we can't afford to pay them a dime. not because they do have other educations because they'll be. they had because they know that and people are essential to making progressive change for reality. put another way, for the seventh year in a row of this conference most important person here is you. now, it sounds corny. i don't care. it's true. because you're the person who can leave your and make a difference. by finding the truth, by speaking the truth, to powerful interest, and by turning truth into power for your generation. many of you know the concept of the truth of power. it comes from the quaker traditi

all that remains is to welcome amy goodman of "democracy now." she is a multiple award winning journalist, and is the main presenter for the show and has come all the way from america to be here. she is a pretty fine person, and i'm extremely glad to have her now. thank you very much. [applause] >> and good afternoon. it is a great honor to be with you this afternoon. and a shout out to all of the people who are watching this broadcast rivals all over the world. we are live streaming this at democracynow.org. by the way, how many of you watch or listen to or read "and marcel"? we have given out about 1000 fliers of where we have broadcast and written. also, where you can watch, read, and listen to the broadcast. we are also live streaming -- we have offered the event for anyone to take to put on their website. i hope people tweet and facebook and let us know what you are doing with this broadcast. it is extremely important because information is power. information is a matter of life and death. we have learned that through these remarkable trove

. >> you know, alan, the spokesperson released this statement, chris goodman, saying everyone who is involved with amy is shocked and devastated. our thoughts are with her family and friends. the family will issue a statement when ready. they're shocked and devastated, yet publicly and we still don't know the exact cause of death, but publicly we have known about her drug and alcohol problems. you mentioned the rehab, just a couple of months ago. talk to me how people around her, how concerned they were, about her addiction, about her experience, about her trying to handle that and her performance. >> well, you know, in 2009, her parents went public with their efforts to try to help save her daughter, predicting she was on the road to destruction if she didn't get any help, if she didn't take the road to recovery. she went into rehab several times, she had, of course, a much publicized arrest and a broken marriage. and, again, preparing for her european tour. they put -- she voluntarily went into rehab. we don't know which rehab, a british rehabilitation program. she got out in early june and immediat