. >> is that drake? >> jimmy: let's see one more time that likeness of drake.t is drake, shortly after his face was run over by a steam roller. i want to see the part of the video where he shoots his barber. it's on the back of his head so he'll probably never notice. tonight here on abc we rang the holidays in with a primetime special called "celebrity plastic surgery gone too far." who says there are no holiday programs for the family anymore? it was -- it was interesting. actually made me think twice -- i was planning on having botox injections to get the wrinkles out of my knuckles over the break, but -- the star of the show was heidi montag of heidi and spencer fame. she had a lot of plastic surgery for no reason whatsoever. she said she was addicted. she had ten surgeries in one day. and it's a shame. she was a very pretty girl and now she looks like this. >> you represent, right now as we sit here, the queen of plastic surgery. >> well, there's nothing you can do to -- >> jimmy: actually the most an mated i've seen her. and they spoke to the lead singer

. >> reporter: that drove matthew drake to start a team at the university of massachusetts two years running around with a broom between your legs. you're acting like a 5-year-old. there's not much other sports like that when you can bring out your inner kid. >> reporter: drake serves as the snitch, what he calls the most important position on the field. >> i can trip them. i can steal their broom. i can get in everybody's way. the reason the snitch is so fun, they're sort of the jester of the game. >> reporter: teams have sprouted up all over the country in the last few years. the two-day event will feature wizards, witches, and most importantly harry potter enthusiasts. for abc news on campus, austin, texas. >> the world cup is a significant event. we're talking about over 750

so all that makes us just a little step ahead, i guess. >> drake also points out that small businesses provide 65% of the nation's new jobs. and with the unemployment rate steady at 9.5%, she thinks communities across the country can learn something from lakeshore avenue. >>> coming up next at 11:00, what led to an explosion at a popular destination for american travelers? >>> also, a toxic turn to going green. what is behind a call for a federal investigation into reusable grocery bags. >>> what a day around the bay area. some record highs set. we had some 80s concord, kentfield. i'll have a look at the week ahead, coming up. >>> you don't need a lot of equipment to stay in shape. everything you need is right here on your body. >> weight loss combat tips from the marines. how their train cog be your gain in the battle of the bulge. we'll be right back. we gave it a more powerful duramax turbo diesel and allison transmission to help it move over 21,000 pounds. and then we gave it an advanced exhaust brake system, to help slow it down. saving wear and tear on your brakes. and on you. wi

marries over drake. warriors back to work, hosting the new york knicks tomorrow night. and david lee has been released from the hospital following the second procedures to clean out an infected elbow. he could be out as long as three weeks. sharks go into overtime. tod's team, you still pick up a point, even if you lose in ot. patrick and the sharks have a 4- 2 lead. last night they were up 3-1. did mike -- jackie? that ties the game at 4. and then overtime. who does it again? and there it is. they beat the sharks 5-4. sharks get a point but they lose in overtime. no cy young winner ever won as little as 13 games until feliz hernandez. 13 wins, 12 losses. great e.r.a, 2.27. david price second. c.c. sabathia game winner. people looking knyond the numbers. trevor cahill finished 9. andrew luck, big game week. pretty much a bottom line by every scout, he would be, if he comes out, the number one nfl draft choice, he is that good. stanford is a touchdown favor to beat the golden bears. >> that's all i am thinking about. we have to rattle the quarterback. he is one heck of a

i promise you, go to drakes saturday or sunday. good as it gets.utiful weather, big football over there at the stadium, cal and oregon. >> number 1 oregon ducks. >> promise going to the beach, good weather. >> should be good. >> thanks, bill. >>> two teens going head-to- head tonight. this week's high school football game of the week coming up next in sports. well, they have been doing really well, now this happens. >> cane of like there's some weird hex on the golden state warriors. every time they get a whiff of the air that comes with victory, injuries, year after year they crop up. this time it's the team's new star, david lee, freak play, win over the knicks this week, he collided with wilson chandler going for a rebound, lee's elbow knocked a couple of chandler's teeth out. he looked like he got the worst of it. as it turned out, lee sustained a bad cut on his elbow. shortly after his game they found out the area had become infected. lee was flown home, underwent surgery tonight to clean the area out. no one has given an estimate as to when l

i promise you, go to drakes saturday or sunday. good as it gets.ful weather, big football over there at the stadium, cal and oregon. >> number 1 oregon ducks. >> promise going to the beach, good weather. >> should be good. >> thanks, bill. >>> two well, they have been doing really well, now this happens. >> cane of like there's some weird hex on the golden state warriors. every time they get a whiff of the air that comes with victory, injuries, year after year they crop up. this time it's the team's new star, david lee, freak play, win over the knicks this week, he collided with wilson chandler going for a rebound, lee's elbow knocked a couple of chandler's teeth out. he looked like he got the worst of it. as it turned out, lee sustained a bad cut on his elbow. shortly after his game they found out the area had become infected. lee was flown home, underwent surgery tonight to clean the area out. no one has given an estimate as to when lee might return to action. >>> changing the subject, we're going to find out quick if mike singletary's believe hi

is your dad drake or josh?no, he's not drake. >> jimmy: what do you want to study? >> i'm not sure. i was thinking film. >> jimmy: well, it all fits in. >> yeah, they have a good film department too. >> jimmy: i heard you recorded an album. so do you do concerts? are you on the road? >> i just did a concert in california a few weeks ago actually with ludacris. >> jimmy: hold on a second. you did? why? >> i don't know. >> jimmy: what kind of a mix of fans was that? >> i got there and it was pretty crazy because everybody was -- they were all r&b people. right before i went on, they played "birthday sex." i don't know if you guys heard that. right before i went on. i was pretty nervous. i looked back at my band. they didn't want to go on stage. >> jimmy: "birthday sex." that's crazy. and did you get to chat with ludacris? >> i didn't. i met him once though. i do like his music. i was excited about -- >> jimmy: it seems like a weird kind of mix. >> definitely, yeah. >> jimmy: i hear jack black is going to be on "i

la toya drake, thank you so much.hanksgiving, happy shopping. >> thanks, same to you. >>> it was an airport patdown that one with woman will never forget. she will talk to us all about it next on msnbc sunday. hi, we're looking to save some money on our car insurance. ♪ [ male announcer ] open up a cadillac during our season's best sales event and receive the gift of asphalt. experience the exhilarating cadillac cts with a direct injection v6. it's the one gift you can open up all year long. see your cadillac dealer for this attractive offer. backed by the peace of mind that only comes from cadillac premium care maintenance. the season's best sales event. from cadillac. >>> it is msnbc sunday, i'm alex witt. at 32 past the hour, here are your fast five headlines. >>> concerns about a nuclear plant newly discovered in north korea it comes to light now only after an american scientist visited the plant. the u.s. is sending an envoy to the renal ton consult with allies. >>> a day after nato reaffirmed its commit n afghan

pamela drake said there is a reason most of the businesses on lakeshore are doing so well. >> it's very kind of boring stuff that we do that i think makes a difference. cleaning the sidewalks and steam cleaning every month. we have the gardener and we keep up the lighting. we have events. >> also chain stores like trader joe's help keep foot traffic on lakeshore avenue high. >> we have a security guard who is not a police officer, but he keeps in touch with the police department and lets the merchants know he is always available. all that makes us just a little step ahead, i guess. >> small businesses provide 65% of the nation's new jobs and with the unemployment rate steady at 9.5% nationwide, communities across the country can learn something from lakeshore avenue. mike has the day off and i am going to wiz right through this. a good day to take over traffic as we look at green across the board and a closer look at oakland and 580. no trouble and no problems. yellow is expected this time of day. no construction to speak of. the carquinez bridge to the maze at speed. easy and green. as

really again past sir francis drake, those speeds improve. out to 280 in san jose.now in the clearing stages. the bay bridge the bright spot. this is definitely a holiday week for a lot of folks. easy ride into san francisco. that's your traffic. here's tracy with your forecast. >>> hey, thanks, elizabeth. in the weather department we are still seeing some showers. and those showers have been playing favorites with the north bay for the morning. currently some showers through sonoma, petaluma, towards novato and the eventually moving into san rafael. forecast for the morning and for the afternoon, some leftover showers, a chance of those during the day with highs in the mid- to upper 50s. rainfall moving in tomorrow, with a low pressure system. wednesday, thursday and friday plenty of sunshine but still fairly cool. and another round of showers likely saturday and sunday. do note, sierra winter storm warning comes into effect late tonight. come on... isn't it time an auto insurer gave it to you straight? that's why you should talk to state farm. but not yet. first,

foreign investors is getting caught up in red tape in fact this year's physics nobel prize winner on drake game but refused to return. to russia silicon valley called skolkovo being built. memo story here because he says the whole project will become ports up in red tape and corruption now we're joined by the head of russian scientists a bit to stuff so far of bitches the government have to. bring scientists by the best scientists from abroad. because they do something for . minister of science indication africa's problems one program to provide temporary vision of scientists working abroad a force which success so many people clustering so many russians. the are scientific areas for them to russia to leave the group. to a few here as the program is to invite. for the more important project which has been budgeted about two million dollars to hear us and i believe to come back it does not and i haven't is a procedure it's take some time to people to re-install the relations with the scientific group to see how things are going on with them both the bars on the bench universities if they sa

it's a car that ran off into the water on sir francis drake almost to 580. so very near to san quentin prison there. there's water there. a car ran in to it. it was flipped over in the water but we did see that the person was able to get out of -- to get out of the car. this is sir francis drake. if you take that shortcut, i think you may want to think twice. i want to move the maps -- this is the bay bridge toll plaza. let's go to the toll plaza t here. traffic is moving along pretty well as you -- i would say well for this time of the morning. it's about a ten-minute delay. this is a look at 880 and that traffic is moving along okay. now, across the bay on the peninsula, highway 101 southbound past the airport, i a know a lot of people are worried about getting to the airport. nothing that you especially need to worry about on the bayshore freeway. 280 will be slow at 380, which is typical. if you are leaving the city, i would say 101 is a better bet. let's go to, sal. >>> some sunbreaks, some clouds. cold out there. a lot of 40s and a few o ff-and- on sho

further south 1101 we have overnight construction in effect, between anderson and their francis drake that shuts down a few lanes. we checked road maps completely green conditions not dealing with any delays nevada to city limits 23 minutes. highway 37 these big, shortcomings we've eight minutes. traffic maps, completely in the green coming from the shore freeway westbound 580 and no. of 80 as he reached the top was said to me during lights are still cycle of, no overnight construction along the upper deck. he arrived in the foot of the macarthur maze into fremont nine manager. james. >> more developing news this time with the giants and that team must decide pretty quickly what they want to do with edgar renteria the world series mvp used to a $10 million auction of your peers on the roster after to allow that to decide to keep him or let him go. edgar renteria was think about retirement but that's still up in the air. they have the option to buy him out. we should know within the next 24 hours whether or not edgar renteria will be with the giants. the other giants is audrey half, he

i'm interested in watching a guy like drake, but i don't think, you know, that one artist guides an entire culture. >> you say it sunk to new lows. explain to me why you feel this way? i mean, these are street poets, okay? why do you feel they sunk to new lows if they are expressing their reality? >> well, it's debatable if they are expressing their reality. a lot of them are simply propagating some of the worst stereotypes of black people that ever existed. [applause] >> okay. if that's their reality, should they be silent? >> it's not their reality, some of them do -- >> there's a movie about biggie, and we can clearly see he rapped about his reality from the streets. >> no, he rapped about observations more than his own. [laughter] i lived in the fort green area of brooklyn for a few years, and the part of princeton hill biggie comes from is nicer than the rural south where james baldwin and it's better than the environment my father grew up in. >> the guy was a drug dealer. >> yeah, he made choices. i grew up in the suburbs and my friends sold drugs. his mother was a schoolteacher and

drake dunnsmore. they gave up a late score to penn state and then got rolled.n in the third quarter. penn state scored five touchdowns in five possessions. the last one from mcgroin. joe pa gets the star treatment is as he should. and what a finish in bloomington. indiana quarterback chapel needs a touchdown to up set iowa. he's got bell gas ger for the game winner. although he drop t.z how did he nice? iowa hangs onto a piece of the big ten lead. and iowa is the one team in the big team and so is wisconsin. michigan state rolled minnesota 38-8. and the spartans has one defeat. and illinois state trails youngstown and matt brown and tyrone walker. and the redbirds win it at hancock stadium 31-49. there was not a lot of skull cracking going on in the thrashers locker room. they worked atlanta after helping the hawks win the cup last year. but joe was not in a conversational mode. here's the answer. a break away. he drew the five hole and tied the game at three. and then in the third period, thrashers leading again and patrick cane, they had two goals apiece. and

there's not much other sports like that where you can really bring out your inner kid. >> reporter: drakeown, i can trip them, i can steal their brooms, i can basically get in everybody's way. the reason the snitch is so much fun is they're sort of the jester of the game. >> reporter: players called chasers tray to throw balls through circular hoops and everyone must stay on their broomsticks at all times. >> chaser is the one that scores. there's three on each team. and beater, there's two on each team. their job is to hit other people and knock them out. >> reporter: with the world cup only a week away the four houses here at ut, including gryffindor, slytherin, hufflepuff and ravenclaw say they're prepping for next year's competition. >> we are. we actually wanted to go this year but we could not get funds for it. >> reporter: teams have sprouted up all over the country in recent years. there are even high school teams registered to compete in the world cup. the two-day event will feature wizards, witches, and harry potter enthusiasts. there's a lot of entertainment and it's just a gre

la toya drake is here. good morning. >> good morning. >> what is it that makes a toy hot?toys "r" us comes out with a list. we're looking at the inventory, the toys that big box retailers can't seem to keep in stock. they're showing up on ebay at the increased mark-up. those are the ones you know will be hot. >> among the hot ones, paper jams. >> this is about a $20 paper thin cardboard guitar. it actually plays music and like guitar hero -- >> it actually plays music? >> you strum the strings. you're playing the i guess tar and it's cheap. >> it's 20 bucks? >> it's cheap. it's not a lot of loss. >> that's actually cool. what about the v-tech reader? it's like a speak-and-spell? >> it's like an e-reader for kids. they see you with your sony e-reader. they understand the knowledge and technology. it teams them how to read. it's touchscreen. very interactive and colorful. >> we mentioned the singing bieber doll. >> justin bieber is going nowhere. they had trouble keeping it in stock. if you're looking on amazon, you're not going to see it. it says we'll be back december 1st.

i am kind of interested in watching -- in watching a guy like drake. but i don't think that, you know, one artist guides an entire culture. >> so you say it sunk to new lows. explain to me why you feel that way. i mean, these are our street poets, okay? why do you feel that they've sunk to new lows if they are expressing their reality? >> well, it's debatable if they're expressing their reality. a lot of them are simply propagating some of the worst stereotypes about black people. that ever existed. [applause] >> but if that's their reality, should they be silent? >> it's not many of their realities. some of them do have pretty gritty realities. >> but there's been a movie about biggie and we can clearly see that he rapped in the streets. >> biggie was a guy who observed more other realities than he rapped about his own. i lived in the fort green area of brooklyn for a few years and the part of clinton hill that biggie comes from is quite nice compared to the parts of the rural south where a lot of -- it's much nicer than what james baldwin grew up in

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then, drake gets indicted by the federal grand jury in baltimore for leaking information to the baltimore sun. and at that point i realized i was really smart not putting the names of my sources into the footnotes of my book. the other thing i would like to say is, before i turn over to you, for those of you who may think that i was a little too critical of the agency in the book, i tacked onto the paperback version sort of a postscript of what's going on since president obama became, moved into the white house in january of last year. i mentioned a few programs which, you know, took the breath away of some people at fort meade, but didn't reveal as much as i could have about what these programs are up to. i wanted to sort of correct, begin the process of correcting what some people think is a slant towards the critical aspects of my book, by paying tribute and mentioning the successes that are currently taking place. you have to be wary when you read a newspaper article, take for example, the dana priest series that was published by the "washington post" recently. which, you know, someti

but now i think she's going in like drake.ill be the best to po tential presidential political theater ever. and the only people happier about this than me are the people on the eighth floor, the people that work at "snl." watch closely. this ride may not last a long time. palin's unfavorable rating is at 52%. it's not like "dancing with the stars" where you get propelled forward on the strength of your personality no matter how well you dance. being in a presidential campaign is like being under a microscope where your intellect, integrity and character are tested on a minute by minute basis. put palin under that scope and i predict she'll burn up in flames like a bug under a magnifying glass under the alaskan summer sun. >> do you truly think that her decision to sort of venture into economic punditry or policy of any ilk that is in that arena is valid interpretation for her presidential ambitions? >> absolutely. she's saying i'm a thinker. i have thoughts. i can opine and decide on the big meaty, intellectual issues of the

. -- drake. i don't think one artist guides an entire culture. >> you say it sunk to new lows.to me why i feel that way. these are street poets, okay? why do you feel they have sunk to new lows if they are expressing their reality? >> it's debatable if they are expresser their reality. a lot of them are propagating some of the worst stereotypes about black people that have every existed. >> okay. [applause] >> but if that's their reality, should they be silent? >> it's not many of their realities. some of them have realities. >> there's been a movie about biggie, we can see he rapped about his reality in the streets. >> no, he was a guy that observed some other people's realities. than he rapped about his own. i've lived in the brooklyn for a few years. the part where biggie comes to is much nicer than what james baldwin and ralph grew up in. >> i mean the guy was a drug dealer. >> yeah, he made choices. i chew up in the suburbs who choice to deal drugs too. his mother was a school teacher. he didn't have to deal drugs. >> right. that was his choice. >> it was. exactly. >> so l

. >> reporter: that fantasy world is what drove matthew drake to start a team at the university of massachusettsd launch four different quiddich teams based on the houses of harry potter. >> running around with a broom between your legs, basically acting like a 5-year-old. there's not much other sports like that where you can really bring out your inner kid. >> reporter: he serves as the snitch, what he callth the most important position on the field. >> i can throw them down, i can trip them, i can steal their brooms, i can basically get in everybody's way. the reason quiddich is so much fun is they're sort of the jester of the game. >> reporter: players called chasers tray to throw balls through circular hoops and everyone must stay on their broomsticks at all times. >> there's three on each team. their job is to hit other people and knock them out. >> reporter: with the world cup only a week away the four houses here at ut, including griffen doer, slither rin, and raven claw say they're prepping for next year's competition. >> we are. we actually wanted to go this year but we could not get fu

it happened around 1:30 on sir francis drake boulevard. both the highway patrol and deputies from the marin county sheriff's department were on the scene. the driver was not seriously hurt but was arrested for dui. >>> as a reminder, today starts the maximum enforcement period where they will be looking on the -- where they will be looking for drunk drivers as more drivers hit the road for the long thanksgiving weekend. the dui checkpoints hit today and continue on sunday. >>> sal, you're back. how are we doing out there? >> well, we're doing well out there, as a matter of fact. traffic is doing very well in many areas this morning. we're looking at the commute in oakland, 880 north and southbound trying to get to the oakland international airport, are you? well, 880 won't be a major problem for you. as of last word we have plenty of parking at the oak international airport for you. if you are driving to the bay bridge toll plaza, it's certainly not a commute day. and if you are driving to the san francisco airport, not a big delay getting

san rafael accident cleared off to the shoulder southbound 101 approaching sir francis drake.s sluggish near the 580 interchange. southbound backed up into novato. this is an earlier accident cleared as well coming up northbound 280 right by the 101 interchange. had a two-car wreck that was just cleared out of lanes, but again, still seeing speeds under 25 miles per hour. at the bay bridge, unfortunately, it's a backup to the macarthur maze for an hour. that's your traffic. here's tracy with your forecast. >>> hey, thanks, elizabeth. forecast for this morning includes a few sprinkles. look at our doppler, not a lot going on right now. but we are expecting to kick up a little bit of the action later on today. here's a look at the seven-day forecast. we do have some showers likely today. best chance will be later on this evening into tonight. temperatures in the mid up toker 50s. a few showers still in the forecast saturday and sunday and maybe even a few thunderstorms saturday. monday some leftover showers and plenty of sunshine tuesday, wednesday and thursday. also, there is a

usher, drake, wolf blitzer? soul train awars but our own wolf blitzer will be mingling among the stars as well. he's making a special presentation. we will talk to him in just a minute but a lot of us remember soul train for this. ♪ a little moving, shakin', moving down the world famous soul train line. that show started back in 1971 and ran, are you ready for this, 35 years. it's a mark on culture. undeniable, and the awards show lives on as well, which leads us to radio show host michael baisden. you remember the days of soul train. was that you? >> that was me back in the day. i did have a big fro, by the way. great to see you. >> boy, it's been a long time since you and i were in louisiana. >> great to see you again. >> likewise. let's talk about the awards ceremony tonight, and why it's so important and it's history. >> soul train is classic. it was one of those times when blacks and whites watched both american bandstand and we all watched soul train today. we had a chance to see black artists for the firs

. >> in is an accident in the north bay on sir francis drake where a car flipped over on its side.through mill valley. slow through richmond and bay bridge toll plaza backed up to the 880 overcrossing and traffic is sluggish in downtown san jose up towards cupertino. >> when we come b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b [ female announcer ] keurig has over 200 varieties of gourmet coffee and tea to choose from. it's the way to individually brew fresh, delicious coffee in under a minute. way to brew, hon. [ female announcer ] choose. brew. enjoy. keurig. [ female announcer ] keurig has over 200 varieties from 15 leading brands including tully's. it's the way to brew everyone's favorite cup in under a minute. woman: way to brew. [ female announcer ] choose. brew. enjoy. keurig. >> all new oprah's ultimate favorite things part two! oprah: josh groban and johnny mathis and -- open the box, joe! >> the fin

you can see that traffic from sir francis drake.his center felsan rafael, it is going to be a problem morning long simmering county. >> thank you, as he mentioned all lot of folks are trying to avoid the delays on 101 get caught in the slow traffic on the alternate routes and then try to get back onto the freeway. there's still lighter traffic margin on, that's why as we check the maps you will see some break, here and there. never and marvin is still backed up. interstate 80 continues to improve, still slow enough that it has backed up the traffic around the berkeley curve. excuse me, all the eschar to the upper east shore freeway. 80 westbound was a boat trailer that slipped on the approach coming in from albany. it created a visual hazard there we're still dealing with all the slow traffic. the upshot, in the back of the bay bridge, i believe that is were going next, i will assure you the right here you can see it's a light, easy ride for the westbound bay bridge. if you're coming from 580 no problems. to the news room, get the l

the rest of the traffic looks good down to surf francis drake boulevard. bridge westbound sadly got backed up early when the meter flights were activated. there were kicked off about 5-10 minutes headed usual this morning ahead of the ordinary time and even as we said 880 approach is backed up the toll plaza flats are backed up to west grand ave. on the creek ride again today as we thought it might it has backed up southbound coming out of walnut creek southbound. >> new this morning the beatles are now finally on the internet as of right now. apple is finally selling beatles on itunes. up to this point they had been the most prominent hold out for itunes and other services but it turns out that now after all the resistance they struck the deal there was a trademark dispute and all kinds of stuff that stop this thing in 2007 this was resolved they joint use of apple's name and based people saw this as paving the way. you can get rain tones just go there now people are already downloading tunes. >> i am. fee hikes as fees that you see campuses can go up aga

in a sort of fiscally responsible way when the economy returns and you're in a position, but avoid drakeconian cuts in economic downturn. that ends up being counterproductive. >> and your comments hold true for no more medicaid dollars? >> i think absolutely, and it's interesting in mitt romney's prescription was to put a cap on medicaid dollars and give that to the states and say you're on your own. i'm not sure that's met by his republican governors with great enthusiasm at the moment. >> yes, sir. >> there was a mention this morning of battle between bachmam. how about leadership on the democratic side? >> well, yeah, we're all waiting to see what nancy pelosi will do. some believe she might step down. others that she won't shrink from the fight, and i'm not even sure she knows herself. if she does decide to step down from a leadership post, then i think it's basically a slam dunk for stan. i don't see anybody challenging him. we'll clearly have battles further down the line including the chairmanship for the national campaign committee. i expect that chris van holland despite a big l

public some good, at least in the most prominent case that this justich department brought, thomas drake, it seems that he's exactly that. he was trying to get out w information about an nsa program thatto was being mismanaged and costing too much money and was being bungled. and that was his primary motive. and if standard that judge ellis set as quoted by baruch is the standard -- >> yeah, but he's not charged with espionage, and that's probably exactly why. he's being charged with bei mishandling the information, isn't that right? >> that's not the only charge. >> let me address that. first, from a technical perspective, judge ellis' decision is not binding. he was the first one to articulate this because he got this very hard case. until this aipac espionage casea most cases where the government used was against a government official who when you get a classified document, you've already signed up for the classification process.e al you've undertaken nondisclosurer you've waived many of your first amendment rights, and the supreme court has really sot ri held. in other words, for the