web producer andrew blake is on the ground in fort meade with all the latest hi there andrew so what did what did bradley manning say. you know that's right aaron things just wrapped up around twenty minutes ago private first class bradley manning took the witness stand he read a sworn statement to the judge colonel denise lin and then was excused from the stand it was very brief he spoke given directly to the judge you actually seem like he was on the verge of tears he was very sincere i have part of it here in front of me from what we were able to gather from the statement just a moment ago manning took the stand and you first he said first your honor i want to start off with an apology. i'm sorry i'm sorry that my actions hurt people and i'm sorry i hurt the united states at the time of my decisions as you know i was dealing with a lot of issues but manning said no this was no excuse while he was well aware of what he did and he understood while he was doing while he did it he does not appreciate what his actions have been have spawn's he said i'm apologize for hurting the united

tha> that was andrew blake. as michael bloomberg ends the near of his reign, we decided to look at some of his more memorable decisions. things like his attempted ban on large sodas and trans fats, the blatant favoritism of wall street, and who could forget his final major act as mayor, stop and frisk. mayor bloomberg said he asked courts courts to intervene after the city council overrode his veto's to the controversy of modifications of nypd's stop and frisk measures. this is the top three most memorable, aka questionable moments. >> as the rush to find the next mayor is underway, i could bloomberg has left theegacy of controversy of the dions. the fight to keep stop and frisk alive is the latest. >> there is nothing [inaudible] and save lives. >> critics see it as a way to legalize racial profiling. the city council overrode the bdo to scale back the law. not too long ago, mayor bloomberg was on a crusade to ban big sugary drinks. >> this has nothing to do with tanning. 0-- banning. the size of the cup cannot

on the ground in fort meade with all the latest for more i'm joined by our two web producer now andrew blake andrew what did manning say this afternoon there and how you did. so i was at or what did bradley manning say today. well bradley manning took the stand around an hour ago at four pm eastern here for need a side of baltimore maryland and for the first time he actually apologized for everything that he did months ago during his providence inquiry statement to the court during pretrial hearings private manning actually got up and he admitted everything that he did he said yes i sent hundreds of thousands of files to wiki leaks and i did this then the other thing and there is a reason for that i want to remove this fog of war and i want people to see what was actually going on in the world what was happening in iraq and afghan wars that with pantano bay and with the flow missy and all of that today however private manning took the stand in just around ninety seconds to two minutes he turned his head to colonel denise wind for citing judge in the case and he asked for forgiveness he apolo

that was our web producer andrew blake thank you. as new york city mayor michael bloomberg nears the end of his reign over the big apple we decided to look back at some of the more memorable decisions that the politician made while in office things like his attempted ban on large sodas and trans fats the blank favoritism of wall street particularly goldman sachs and who could forget the final major act of his from his political modest administration stop and frisk argy correspondent liz wahl brings us mayor bloomberg top three most memorable aka questionable moments. as the race to find the next new york city mayor is underway current mayor michael bloomberg has left a legacy of some controversial decisions it's fight to keep stop and frisk alive and well is the latest this is. the old it is harder to. say. stop and frisk critics see it as a way to legalize racial profiling and just yesterday the city council overrode the mayor's beat out to scale back the law not too long ago mayor bloomberg was on a crusade to ban big sugary drinks

city now def-con is one of the world's largest annual hacker conventions and archie's very own andrew blake is there covering the event we go to him now live from las vegas are you there andrew. there absolutely are you good good good now you've been attending definite and all morning can you start off by telling us what stood out so far as the best. you know what's really really shifted me is actually just the whole community vibe here there's people from you know from practically toddlers to senior citizens walking around trying to get their hands on things to learn more this is really all about learning it's not necessarily breaking stuff it's pushing the bill and trying to learn new new tools and tricks to make everyone more happy you know everything from improving robotics to improving computer code to improving personal security it's all people who want to improve things that we you know are using more and more every single day whether it's a computer system a computer server or just the way we communicate with one another it's all people getting together who are all interested in adv

that was archie web producer andrew blake in las vegas. u.s. secretary of state john kerry went to pakistan for a surprise visit to restart partnership talks that collapsed two years ago and intense anger in islam about over the impunity of u.s. drone strikes in pakistan now kerry went on pakistani television with this to say about the strikes. and there is no timeline that you and the sausage for ending this. strike whether the president has a very real to them we hope it's going to be very very soon kerry may hope that drone strikes will end in pakistan and very soon but several hours after his comments the state department didn't exactly have the same timeline handy now a spokesperson for the state department said quote in no way would we ever deprive ourselves of the tool to fight a threat as it arises the tool they were of course referring to are drones. elsewhere the u.s. has issued a worldwide travel alert to all americans effective through august thirty first due to an unspecified al qaeda threat the al qaeda threat is linked to an anno

that was archie web producer andrew blake in las vegas. and the new york city mayoral election is in full swing with the democratic primaries coming up on september tenth but the media coverage is focusing on someone who won't appear on the ballot someone is carlos danger now that's the pseudonym candidate anthony weiner used when sending out some of his infamous crotch shots so why all the focus on wiener our t.v. correspondent honest. looks into it. new york mayoral candidate anthony weiner his ever widening sexting scandal wiener is once again seeking redemption a pervert all of this. last for an entire week and a media mesmerized by a politician and a body part he belongs to i'm interested in why it's such a big story like a trendy to think of a story but then of course we wind up making it that much more of a story because the story becomes why is a story born a democrat with the guts to send receive photos to random women online the thing that's really interesting and very few people have mentioned is just how boring this particular

snooping methods over speech wasn't exactly well warmly met by participants artie's web producer andrew blake was there to attend the event and has more on it. people who touch computers with any sort of degree and anyone who can do something with technology to harness it to make it better to innovate to to invent their fifteen thousand of them they're all here in vegas and they're all looking forward to having an interesting couple of days soon to leave with some new knowledge in the past in christian and different ways of communicating with people over the internet over the phone these are these are topics that have always been discussed at def con but this year in particular given the recent disclosures for met word snowden and what we've learned about the n.s.a. people are especially interested this year and in fact it's for out of the course of the convention there's going to be a panel discussion with the electronic frontier foundation and another with the american civil liberties union where they're going over what exactly is n.s.a. leaks mean you know it's not just civil liberties tha

where producer andrew blake attended the event and has the details where's the discussion def-con is united states premier happy security convention and actually comes just days after another one right up the street there are a range of topics being covered here at def con of course everything from personal security to home security internet security computer security it's not just that civil liberties are very hot discussion especially given the recent and the say disclosures people want to know how they can communicate privately and securely on the web and really there's no better place to do it than here one doesn't necessarily have to say that tensions are high given those recent n.s.a. disclosures but it's certainly clear that people aren't exactly happy with the way the government has been reading computer hackers given those disclosures made by edward snowden and its impact on intelligence community the computer world privacy security so many different topics he's obviously being discussed all over the place there is a party leader this weekend called snowed in and there's ano

discharged manning's attorney now plans to call on president barack obama to release him producer andrew blake heard what the lawyer had to say and joins me now live and so what does manning's attorney plan to do next what did he say. well you get pretty much already there within the coming days you can be filing paperwork with the secretary for the united states army who will then push a petition towards president obama who in turn will be presented with the opportunity to pardon p.f.c. manning or perhaps offer him clemency should the president decide not to do either and only three years time p.f.c. manning will first be able to appeal to be heard by a clemency board and four years after that p.f.c. manning could petition to actually be paroled so although it is a thirty five year sentence there is a possibility pretty well possibility that the whole process could start in a few years and by the time manning is in his early to mid thirty's he might be a free man again now his lawyer has read a statement from his client to the media let's listen to a part of what he had to say. has had simila

attorney i was joined earlier by r t web producer andrew blake and i started by asking him if mcbride's decision to retire came as a surprise. seems like really came to a surprise to most people especially given the cases that he's working on right now like you just said he was actually in charge of filing that indictment against edward snowden and of course you know he's on the other side the world right now and it's not working out too well he's also involved in the indictment against wiki leaks which has been several years in the making now and there's been ongoing cases involving the indictment against him dot com and mega upload which again that's a year and a half in the sense it was filed in this just hanging out so who is going to take over these things who is going to follow up these cases who is going to prosecute these people for the u.s. government it's a really good question and i think it was rather unexpected he's only been there for four years he was appointed by president obama early on in that administration and he's really put his nose in a lot of places during that t

documents to wiki leaks we'll also be dishonorably discharged producer andrew blake was in the courtroom. colonel denise lind just handed down a sentence of only thirty five years and i say only because private manning came into this case looking at potentially a life a life sentence he would have faced life had he been found guilty of aiding the enemy and then when the conviction was finally handed down a few weeks ago he was downgraded to a potential maximum sentence of only ninety years so thirty five years is really much less than a lot of people had expected and even the prosecution asked the court for a minimum of sixty three years ago that he was first picked up outside of baghdad iraq he was deployed as an intelligence analyst at the u.s. army and he was arrested and charged with a number of crowds related to his admitted role with the anti-secrecy website wiki leaks manning earlier this year actually admitted yes over the course of a couple of months i uploaded and shared all sorts of files that were diplomatic state department cables one time will be detainee assessment briefs

most effective when it comes to protecting the privacy of his constituents are to web producer andrew blake tells us why his own macof is worth making note of when it comes to privacy the piece of technology we consider vital to the conduct over everyday perth one professional life although smartphone happens to be a combination phone listening device location tracker and hidden camera we already know that the government is collecting sensitive information from the e-mails to your mom to the texts and calls to a significant other it's not that easy to escape the eyes and ears of the federal government on the local level however some people are looking to change that enter one of the youngest elected lawmakers in america i'm doing is on top of a mystery representative of the montana republican daniels' own a cough has made it his mission to keep government intrusion at bay or at least that's his ultimate goal only twenty six he's already proposed a number of initiatives focusing on montana residents right to privacy earlier this year he drafted legislation that requires the police to obtain

just as likely to find and fix security breaches as they are to create them artes web producer andrew blake just returned from def con two thousand and thirteen deaths on his one of the longest running underground hacking conferences held annually in las vegas where old school hackers meet with a new generations to discuss everything from hacking cars to appliances to pacemakers now andrew explains how and why hacking is much more about curiosity than if arius intent and that the real hackers to fear are the ones operating out of the u.s. intelligence agencies they might look like an unassuming bunch of one we can hear their key people are causing unimaginable have it one of the busiest cities in america around fifteen thousand hackers and security experts descended on los vegas for the twenty first annual def time to discuss the latest and greatest exploits in vulnerabilities targeting seemingly anything and everything sure this computer could be hacked or this phone or this t.v. or care might just like this one at def con hackers go to learn how to which attacks on just about anything but

leaks will also be dishonorably discharged producer untrue blake is in the courtroom when the sentence was read out and joining us now live andrew andrew nice to see so you were in the courtroom so can you tell us why that's ok to tell us the details. yeah i finally was here today we're here in fort meade maryland after waiting more than three years for the sentencing of private first class bradley manning and as you said colonel denise lind just handed down a sentence of only thirty five years and i say only because private manning came into this case looking at potentially a life a life sentence he would have faced life had he been found guilty of aiding the enemy and then when the conviction was finally handed down a few weeks ago he was down. back some sentence of only ninety years so thirty five years is really much less than a lot of people had expected and even the prosecution asked the court for a minimum of sixty so thirty five years for a twenty five year old soldier yes it's a tremendous amount of time but it's way left way fewer years way less years and then people had really had in that there got to a lot of people