important bradley manning's incarceration is also important some all. .radley manning is now a martyru did not choose to be a martyr. i don't think it is a proper way r activists to behave to choose to be martyrs. men, allegedly in the case of bradley manning and clearly in the case of edward snowden, have risked their freedom, risked their of us.or all that makes them heroes. in a statement just released this morning, radley manning thanked supporters and announced lands to live as a woman under the name chelsea manning. manning said -- tens of thousands gathered in washington, d.c. on saturday to mark the 50th anniversary of the march on washington for jobs and freedom, originally held on august 28, 1963. democratic congress member john lewis of georgia o'neill the surviving speaker from the 1963 march, said the struggle for racial and economic justice continues today. >> we are one people, one family, one house. we all live in the same house. [applause] so i say to you, my brothers and .isters, we cannot give up we cannot give out. we cannot give in. we must get out there and push

me put it this way if i become president the first two pardons i will do will be that guy and bradley manning there knows eve snowden and manning would receive presidential pardons from me because anybody anyone out there that is a whistleblower and government wrongdoing is a hero and yet we're going to put bradley manning in prison and what was the first thing showing a helicopter gunning down innocent civilians murdering them the person that carried the message is going to jail and the people that killed are walking free but you know the only person that said that cornel west he said it and i say and he and i get along great obama said about snowden though all right if he did the right thing why not come home and face a trial and bring the story public rather than hiding wealth because do you really think with our government he'd get a fair trial we a uses but everything that you don't believe in anyone no i just think that in a situation where it's national security and that that high level v.a. going to get a fair trial here i don't believe he would how come we haven't tried any of the gu

let's cut to all these years later, my song about bradley manning that i wrote with my friend, jamesmond. same thing. i wasn't particularly interested in whether he was guilty of the charges brought against him, bradley manning being the whistleblower that released all the diplomatic and military cables to wikileaks. but to be incarcerated in awful, awful conditions which the united nations equated to torture for 1000 days before his trial was not fair to me. that's why i wrote "almost gone." that's why i'm convinced that we need to spread light on some of these cases. we need whistleblowers in this world. we need a little more transparency from our government and from our military. tavis: now i'm going back. tell me about your mother. we talked about your father and you referenced your mother. as a matter of fact, you dedicate this book to both of your parents and i don't want to leave your mom out of this conversation. so tell me about your mother and the influence she had on you. >> two years before my mother died, i asked her why was it she had encouraged me in my passion, my sea

but in bradley manning's case, the allegations are that he engaged in illegal activity for political tivations. >> people in the united states think he's a traitor. >> that's clearly not true. >> regardless of what happens to private manning, any prosecution of assange will be fraught with problems because wikileaks wasn't alone in publishing the classified material. the new york times also published some of it. if the government were to try and prosecute wikileaks and not the times, it would likely need to prove that assange was actively involved in a conspiracy to illegally obtain the documents. did you encourage anyone to leak this material to you? or have you done anything in connection with the u.s. cases, in terms of encouraging an individual to provide you with material? >> no, never. >> there are people that believe that it has everything to do with the next threat, that if they don't come after you now that what they have done is essentially endorsed a small, powerful organization with access to very powerful information, releasing it outside their control. and if they let yo

administration is often classified at a much higher level of secrecy, at a much higher level than bradley manning or edward snowden are being prosecuted for. how do you classify those leaks, leaks for political expediency around, leaks for americans to better understand what they think americans should in fact know? >> this is not a drip of leaks. this is a hemorrhage of practically every classified program that the national security agency has operated. there is a problem and there should be prosecution of people who leak for political reasons. this administration that is been remarkably aggressive in pursuing leaks that were put forward for political reasons. but i don't think that there's any equivalence between that and what snowden and manning has done. >> another thing you wrote on your blog was, the united states can't stop gathering intelligence without running the risk of terrible surprises so it won't. now, no one is suggesting a full stop to u.s. intelligence gathering, just to stop it when it goes too far. as you frame it, either we do it or we don't do it. but there's got to be a pli

the latest from the scene ahead and what are the new stories you missed in twenty thirteen from bradley manning to get mo our t. has covered many of the stories that other news networks seem to overlook coming up we'll break down this year's most under-reported news and goodbye mayor bloomberg new york's nanny state mayor will soon be out of office but he will not leave without of bang or should i say ban from the cigarettes to sugary big gulps we'll take a look at the bans that will define his decade in office. it's tuesday december thirty first time a mirror david in washington d.c. and you're watching our t.v. and we begin this hour with the blast that have rocked ball gras just ahead of the twenty fourteen olympic games such a take place in russia police have detained dozens of people in an anti-terrorism operation involving the southern city where two suspected suicide bombings killed more than thirty people and injured over one hundred more the death toll of the attacks has been increasing after some of those who were wounded have now died from their injuries the two deadly attacks in vol

numerous protests in support of whistleblowers such as julian a song bradley manning and edward snowden have taken place around the world in recent years our team meets one woman who chose a different way to show her support for the movement. she's a lawyer she's got a ph d. in international law and she was a lecturer but she's also posed for glamour what some would say would be provocative or racy photos of her age she says is to raise funds and awareness for the works of whistleblowers and other activists like that today we're joined by dr roles live fuller thanks very much for joining us today but what i'd like to know is why did you choose this matter of getting awareness why not another way well actually i have written articles on whistleblowers in the military so i have actually written quite lengthy articles that are going to be published but i really thought that in order to make a difference to these with employers who as we know are in jail or. at the moment i needed to involve myself in a more material way and i thought well how can i do something that isn't just a matter of

there was protest in support of whistleblowers such as julian assange bradley manning and edward snowden have taken place around the world in recent years are teammates one woman who chose a different way of show her support for the movement. she's a lawyer she's got a ph d. in international law and she was a lecturer but she's also posed for glamour calendars what some would say would be provocative or racy photos of her age she says is to raise funds and awareness for the works of whistleblowers and other activists like that today we're joined by dr roles live fuller thanks very much for joining us today but what i'd like to know is why did you choose this matter of getting awareness why not another way well actually i have written articles on whistleblowers in the military so i have actually written quite a lengthy article is that are going to be published but i really thought that in order to make a difference to these with employers who as we know are in jail or you know at the moment i needed to involve myself in a more material way and i thought well how can i do something that is

but you know don't why should we believe in this thing these threats remind me of the ones when bradley manning chelsea manning released all those terrible things going to happen in afghanistan and iraq terrible things where troops and so forth and finally carl levin said it's a bobby gates mr secretary please give us a paper and he gave in papers here will contrary to our or worse or worst fears nobody has been so much as spat upon it and said it exactly that way but the command said the same thing later gates said the charges that this was great damage were quote fairly significantly over russia and i think that phrase probably pertains with respect to snowden yes and james clapper today you had mentioned clapper and he brought up snowden today snowden was a was on that debate floor today some republicans as we've heard has gone as far to say that snowden works for russian intelligence clapper demanded that snowden return these documents that he said that he's that that he stole and it went as far as to call journalist that published these things their accomplices and i want to ask you becaus

than enough and that it added that if he did what he did come from somewhere else is because bradley manning and tom bake until danny were already a deterrent enough that he cannot go into the channel. slowly just under an acting is so much for coming in and lang and on every sentence that growing popularity here in the landscaping cute. the u s senate committee on commerce science and transportation held a hearing today isn't that the use of domestic unmanned aerial vehicles under the microscope the committee debated potential economic benefits of the ladies as well as ways to update the federal aviation administration's regulations to accommodate these vehicles. we must be on the news and analysis or make crops at the hearing sen feinstein said she was concerned about surveillance issues and particularly safety. really we should not allow armed drones in the united states period. it should be a crime for a private individual in the united states to arm the drum. the faa should use its certification and licensing authorities to prohibit armed drones and no government state or federal she us

publicly more than enough and that the fact that he did what he did from somewhere else is because bradley manning and tom drake and bill binney were already a deterrent enough that he cannot go through channels absolutely just one right thank you so much for coming in and weighing in on edward snowden growing popularity here in the u.s. ok thank you the u.s. senate committee on commerce science and transportation now the hearing today to put the use of domestic unmanned aerial vehicles under the microscope the committee debated potential economic benefits of you avi's as well as ways to update the federal aviation. administration's regulations to accommodate these vehicles but the meeting looks beyond using the drones to survey crops at the hearing senator feinstein said she's concerned about surveillance issues and particularly safety i nearly we should not allow armed drones in the united states period. it should be a crime for a private individual in the united states to arm a drone the f.a.a. should use it certification and licensing authorities to prohibit armed drones and no government stat

say that i blame him you also have said that if you have a game but if you have presidents and bradley manning would be pardoned immediately the usa though in there yes i did because they are whistleblowers they are people who have exposed our government for government wrongdoing for violating our constitution and bill of rights and the government needs to be held accountable it's that simple what gives them the right to violate the constitution what we need now larry our laws were some teeth in it when we catch a government person and let's have investigations where the government doesn't investigate itself when when when we find a government official has violated the constitution at minimum they should be fired if not jail time how come you know it's like it's like everything when we lied to the government as citizens we can go to jail when they lied to us all that's right we go to war when they lie to us don't go in and exert law into the stick all the time and the editorials in the new york times and the guardian in london have called for clemency for snow not get you to agree with that ab

very difficult to rebut when you've got these wildly inappropriate programs going on you know bradley manning julian assange now snowden they actually you know made a huge sacrifice do you understand their position or is it something weird for you . know i do understand their position you know i don't agree with everything that different people have said or done i don't want to give a blanket endorsement but i absolutely do understand there is a time when people he wrote people have to take a stand and say of information of wrongdoing evidence of wrongdoing and if i go forward and i go public with it i can bring about positive change in the world it's a very courageous thing to do and it's something that we should all be thankful for but do you think snowden will see the change he hoped for or will people stand up against programs like prism yeah i think so i think it's having an enormous impact and we're we're going to see it in the next few election cycles as. politicians begin to really understand that this is not something they can get away with anymore the public is quite united in oppos

>> folks like snowden and bradley manning have gotten a lot of attention over the past year, but i think facing 100 years in prison, he's a journalist, activist, whose main crime as the government sees it is including a link in some of his analysis of hacked material that sort of linked private surveillance firms potentially to the american government. he didn't steal this information, but he did put the link out, which is something a lot of news organizations have done in various forms and he's facing 100 years because of it. >> what's your story? >> mine's a little lighter than that. i read several articles this week about spanx. >> you know what spanx are. >> it's like a girdle. >> they squeeze your organs. >> they squeeze your innards. >> you should know what it is. >> she created them out of pantyhose one day. >> it can cause damage to your internal organs. >> what's your story? >> the president got a report from a commission today about voting, about long lines and how to improve voting. one of the facts in there was that schools are not allowing voting as much anymore, because of

have to acknowledge, however, that two of those leaks were edward snowden and the army private bradley manning who did serious damage to the national security of the country. those are cases that should be investigated. what i think troubles me is when this white house starts investigating journalists including our own fox news james rosen gets caught up in that. >> conservatives in hollywood appear to be the latest target now of this irs targeting investigation. the tax agency reportedly investigated a group known as the friends of aid. this comes on the hooems of the fbi report that there aren't going to be criminal charges. >> i love there's a friend of a. as someone who covered hollywood, it's a lonely place for anyone conservative. it does hurt your career. people who work in the industry say it hurts your career. they describe it as fellowship, a way they can talk about conservative ideas and bring in speakers. they are applying for a very specific tax exempt status that's tougher than the other ones targeted by irs. >> they want 501 3 c. the other was 4. they got a ten-point request of

i think others will too when they separate the snowden case from the bradley manning case, if you willthink acted much more irresponsibly in releasing his or her information. and the question is do we want to just see snowden punished? or do we want to see the public properly informed about what its own government is doing. and protect whistle blowers. i think that snowden has exposed also how the whistle blowing laws have not been as effective as many hoped they would be. >> professor alan dershowitz was here with us last week. there were no constitutional protections that applied to the circumstances, for example, of angela merkel. and it's almost as if snowden was spiteful. he wasn't making a statement when he exposed that state secret. that's where he really went too far. wouldn't you agree with that? >> well, i think, again, this is something that the public ultimately should decide which is what snowden was saying before. we're living in a post-9/11 atmosphere now. many people aren't having second thoughts about what powers we gave through the patriots act and with advancing tech

i mean, you have edward snowden, you had bradley manning, have you leaks involving huge damage to u.sgoing after. so, i think it's a bit of a mixed bag. but as far as just openness with reporters, i don't doubt what she is saying. >> rick, i read some comment from a republican strategist some place saying that why did the "new york times" endorse him if he is so secretive? >> yeah. >> adds to the whole idea is to get information. >> sure, yeah. i think the news side and editorial side are a little bit separate on that. what i think is true is there were more technological ways to shut out the press now than there were before. and i think, i don't have any allusion on this. i really think if the nixon administration had access to the same channels of administration that are available today or clinton or bush or either of the bushes i think they would be taking advantage of them. seen it over time get less and less and i think this president is more secretive in some ways than previous presidents and the next one will be even more secretive. they can get away with it. >> elise? >> the 2

from the scene ahead and what are the new stories you missed in two thousand and thirteen from bradley manning to get mo our t. has covered many of the stories that other news networks seem to overlook coming up we'll break down this year's most under-reported news and goodbye mayor bloomberg new york's nanny state mayor will soon be out of office but he will not leave without of bang or should i say a ban from these cigarettes to sugary big gulps we'll take a look at the bans that will define his decade in office.

>> i think he's highlighting that the severe damage that the leaks from edward snowden and bradley manningt it's hardly inaccurate to say it's our own fail, it still is our external adversaries. but i quite agree. the damage that edward snowden has caused is incalculable. bill: really? more than all this nsa stuff, or is it all kind of lumped into the same pile? >> well, you know, the allegations about nsa spying on american citizens are way overblown, exaggerated. politicians are taking advantage of it. the nsa can't defend itself effectively because it can't say what it does. that tells our opposition the same thing. and i think what clapper's trying to say is we really need to focus on correcting these inefficiencies that allow edward snowden to reveal all the information he has. bill: just make it basic for people, what have the leaks done to our ability to protect ourselves or national security? >> well, they revealed a huge amount of the way we conduct intelligence, the users and methods is the buzz phrase that's used. and the reason that's important is that our adversaries learning

i know bradley as a man of strong character who has dedicated his public life strengthening the community and improving our state. i believe bradley will ably follow in the tradition of his predecessors in proudly representing alabama's first congressional district. i look forward to working with bradley, especially on our shared constituents in clark county. recently a local reporter asked the delegation to give bradley some advice. the best advice that i could give you as you embark upon this special journey is to always put your constituents first. the oath you took today is a very sacred one. you join a body that has awesome responsibility and that responsibility is neither republican nor democrat. the issues that we talk about are for all americans. i look forward to working with you and i know that given your record of hard work and your willingness to work across the aisle, you that will be an amazing addition to the alabama elegation and i welcome you. >> thank you. mr. speaker, it is my great privilege to represent the good and hardworking people of southwest alabama. mr. bryne:

bradley or chelsea manning depending on how you want to refer to that individual, basically did something very very similar, with much less sensitive information, and i think that the nature that some people are called super powers individuals is such that we will see more of this. so sooner or later there will have to be a political reckoning on how we as a society, and also we as a government or a legal system is where going to deal with this. >> if we see the system, so that somebody that works with a private company doesn't get to see the inner sang up the, will we have put it further away? >> i don't think so. i this i that's something that people can agree to disagree, but i don't think the issue here is contractors verses government employees. the same sorts of moral imperatives. however it is you want to characterize ma was behind it, applied to contractors. and they are under essentially entirely the same security regime. so i don't think that's the issue per se. i think there was a bit of a problem in that what whistle blower protections did exist, which i think were grossly ina

having bradley manning now in jail for rest of his life or edward snowden decide that they, know enoughlassified information. he released 1.7 million documents, without anyone's authorization. this country can't have that occurring without some penalties. but i want him back, so i would like to kind of do a kind of deal with him that would discourage others but still punishing him a little. i have to admit, kirsten is right, he did start a debate that was long overdue. jon: kirsten, some think he may have done us a service what he released about nsa spying. as judy points out, there are millions and millions of documents and perhaps methods yet to be released that could prove quite harmful to national security, don't you think? isn't that possible? >> according to the, yeah, that is the claim that the government makes. remember all the false claims the government made about this program, frankly lies they have told about this program, even in front of congress where you have james clapper lying to congress and having to admit he lied to congress about collection of metadata. you had kei

bradley manning -- between him and snowed and we obviously didn't make a whole lot of progress. the major breaches and leaks that we have had no one backed up-and-up to the data center and took off with the servers. people were stealing data. have you seen any of the dances or a move dionne permit or security to look at what they are stealing in the data itself and its focus. >> i will jump in on this one and you can do it as well. you hit it exact rewrite. this mentality that this imaginal line thinking or the walls of jericho. walls never work. frankly to go back to this issue in the past question of infrastructure. sometimes they'll say i don't need a wall. i will have an air gap. i'd like an air gaps balloons that the nuns would try to put between teenagers at catholic school dances. they just don't work in and. the iranians thought they had a wonderful air gap defending, keeping bad malware out of their research. it worked for them. and so instead we have to change the resilience model but also following basic measures in terms of not only trying to keep bad out but monitor

i know bradley as a man of strong character who has dedicated his public life strengthening the communitynd improving our state. i believe bradley will ably follow in the tradition of his predecessors in proudly representing alabama's first congressional district. i look forward to working with bradley, especially on our shared constituents in clark county. recently a local reporter asked the delegation to give bradley some advice. the best advice that i could give you as you embark upon this special journey is to always put your constituents first. the oath you took today is a very sacred one. you join a body that has awesome responsibility and that responsibility is neither republican nor democrat. the issues that we talk about are for all americans. i look forward to working with you and i know that given your record of hard work and your willingness to work across the aisle, you that will be an amazing addition to the alabama elegation and i welcome you. >> thank you. mr. speaker, it is my great privilege to represent the good and hardworking people of southwest alabama. mr. bryne: to

long trial of chelsea man formerly known as bradley. the army of private was accused of the largest leak of classified information in military history. he was found guilty of leaking hundreds of thousands of secret miles to go with the ball and website rickie weeks the mainstream media coverage of the trial was sparse but our team was out for me merrill and where the court martialed clean out every step of the way. eight presidential or drill a charge which was aiding the enemy. for a simple act of providing information to u turn. the military judge found many non guilty of aiding the enemy charge of a guilty on most other charges he is now serving a sentence of thirty five years. and speaking on internet freedom it. our next hot news maker continues to play for jillian us on to the co founder of the twenty weeks remains holed up in the ecuadorian and to see him monday. this december marks three years since he's been detained in the uk. if he steps flight outside of that and it seemed a likely be extradited to sweden where he faces ques

they were under manned and apparently overlooked. it is john wall, bradley beal and company in for a rough start. wizards down big. jumper here gives boston a 19 point lead. coach whitman not happy. third quarter john wall fast break dunk. wall had his second career triple double. trevor arissa from the corner knocks down a three. the momentum appeared to be heading the wizards way. >> watch this shot. >> that's not square. he is not square. he had 39 points. the game would go to overtime. two seconds left now down to one last shot left for the wizards. wizards fall 113-111. whitman with a few choice words about thinking this was a give me. >> that is the problem. you are exactly right. i can give mind to who we are playing. you cannot screw with the basketball gods like that. it always comes back to get you. >>> check out the moves as we head down a level. virginia tech four game losing streak versus wake forest. trevor thompson underneath throwing down. tech down 11. second half gerald eddie for three. 20 points for him. virginia tech trails by eight. cody

brown wins re-election by 21 points, the largest margin since 1986 when tom bradley was beaten by 236789. >> you are a bold manith points and everything. >> carla? >> the oakland mayor, her approval ratings are in the tank. she hat power of incumbency and rank choice voting. i think she wins re-election, but people talk about the next possible, ann gutch. >> that would be a very interesting election. >> for me, boy, you are heavy-duty people. i'm a cal grad. i predict next year the big game, cal will not lose by a 50-point margin ever again. >> hope springs eternal. >> i'm an optimist for 2014. >> do you have a stanford rose bowl prediction. >> that's for you. you're a man of points. you guys, thank you very much. >> thank you. >>> we do have other stories of the year. and silicon valley diva is a group that calls itself a media community organizing entrepreneurial collective it brings together advocates, organizers and journalists who coffer issues like criminal justice, housing and immigration reform. next, scott shafer heres from the founder for an alternative perspective on stories from the year, but first