he silenced ellsberg and he whynced our ability to hear these things were done. and for the jury to consider not only was this legal, but was it momoral. is the sadnk t this history of the united states government's rerelationship to e press s in the last dececade. they h have been more e and more concerned with what is legal thth what is moral. is what began with ellsberg an extraordinary case against the lone individual which challenge the government's involvement in the war, which challenged by new generation of whistleblowers like chelsea manning who revealed torture and war crimes committed definite attentioion on the p part of the united states government in places likike iraraq and afafghn and guantatanamo bay and cuba. my own invnvolvement in the revelatition of globabal mass surveillance. and every cacase,e were charged under this same law that forbids the jury to consider if this was something that did more good for the did harm know than it to the government in terms of inconvenience or theoretical risks. and this is wherere w we get tos cruciaial part

fielding, louis fielding who was daniel ellsberg's psychiatrist. you can listen to him talk about the operation. >> [indiscernible] timothy: then you might ask yourself -- by the way, that break-in was illegal. again, in our country you can go and get a subpoena to get information. could have gone to the fbi. the fbi handles this all the time. the white house chose to use a group of its own and they broke in illegally into dr. fielding's office because dr. fielding had not wished to share information about his client. he cited doctor-client privilege. so the white house breaks in and the question is, well, what did the president know of this? we don't know what he knew in advance, but we know from the tapes that he was informed that a domestic covert action occurred in los angeles. here we go. this is five days after. >> so, tomorrow we'll review all the stuff. we had one little operation in los angeles. i think it's better if you don't know about it. >> agreed. >> but we have some dirty tricks that might pay off. >> in this period, the summer of 1

dan ellsberg used to come in twice the semester when he was living here. i also talked about the navy perspective. chester cooper talked about the cia. we want to give people different contexts. the question i wanted to deal with was whether vietnam was an aberration. so many think it was a noble cause that went awry. let me explain that differently. in 2007, i was having dinner with oliver stone. he said, peter, let's do a documentary. we will make a one hour documentary about hiroshima and the cold war. i got to see oliver two weeks later in new york. hour, an idea for a 10 multipart documentary. we had 12 episodes. it took us five years to do it. we wrote a book with it, "the untold history of the united states," based on the documentary narratives, graphic novels coming up. is aat, we agreed -- it real challenge. oliver stone, a preeminent filmmaker about vietnam. challenge in a lot of ways. not that they disagreed, but our experiences were so different. oliver grew up in a right-wing cold war family in new york. at yale, he dropped out of yale to volu

so they raided the psychiatrist's office, daniel ellsberg, who had leaked the pentagon papers.his chief of staff, met a few days after the watergate break-in, they said, we have to worry about these guys because of the other stuff that they had done. >> hm. >> what>> nixon was really afra of was the break-in of daniel ellsberg, psychiatrist, dr. fielder, was going to be discovered. >> great point. you talk about why cover-ups are seen as so indicative. of course i suppose it's a little different here because the only thing that donald trump has ever done that's raised any questions of propriety or legality is this one phone call? >> only thing, there'sing in else that's ever happened. >> and his intention to cover up is only because of that one thing? >> that's caright, just a littl teenie weenie thing. this is the problem i've been banging on about this.pr i think it's a big mistake -- >> you do? >> yes, to narrow it to just this one thing. it will get over in the senate and they'll say,ov you're goingo throw him out of office over a phone call? it's not just a phone call, obv

on the counter demonstration were both instigated by colson for the purpose of disgracing daniel ellsberg. this hypothesis was formulated from two fact. first, colson's memorandum on ellsberg says we have to do something about him, and this particular demonstration brought together two very explosive elements, the antiwar and the patriots, so you might have assumed that there would be trouble. on the basis of this hypothesis it was decided to interview members of colson's staff, reelection committee employees, counter demonstrators whose knowledge might be important, and the employees including top officials, their assistance, -- assistants, their secretaries, participants in the counter demonstration. we got people from the d.c. police, the fbi had observers. we interviewed all of them. we started to focus on a couple of people from the republican national committee. and karl rove. karl was a kid-- at the time in charge of students for nixon. so his name is misspelled. but his name pops up every once in a while. he is lucky he escapes. in september, karl rove, an employee of the rnc and

ellsberg was a hero. this to me is exactly the this is newsworthy and what i thought was the courts always said if it's newsworthy that that trumps sorry about the pun everything but apparently not in some. not in virginia courts apparently especially the fred records i want to jump to the story so we have time finally to have to bring up the story of caitlin hardy a kindergartner recently set up a lemonade stand sort selling site or hot cocoa and cookies and or to help raise money for fellow students who couldn't afford or had negative balances on their school lunch accounts she ultimately raised about $80.00 and was able to pay off the negative balances of $123.00 students with that $80.00 and she's going to pay off more as she goes for about well this is a beautiful act by a young girl in her family to help her community to me this raises a very serious problem why in the united states of america do 123 students and refill a mentor school in vista california or for that matter any kid across the countr

until late tonight or tomorrow, but there is rain being painted hear from clincher -- cloverdale, ellsberg hillsboro north. fog is a big story. some of it is a quarter mile visibility. some is zero. it continues to come down for most. that dense fog advisory is covering everybody. it is warmer to the cell. 5:01 am. sal is here, and he is going to talk about it. >>> steve, i will show you a picture of what we can see of the golden gate bridge. that is one of the towers that is pretty dramatic. there is a fog. we can't see much. that means you will be in fog. let's go out and take a look at the maps. not a whole lot of traffic going on. i would 24 is okay driving to a foggy east bay and oakland. you can see there is some fog at the bay bridge toll plaza. 5:02 am, let's go back to the news. >>> police are investigating the shooting of a man and then who was run over by a car. it happened near eighth and adaline about 6:30 pm. as many as 20 shots were fired. that victim was rushed to a hospital. right now, we do not know his condition. other people may have been hurt. if you have any informati

first, colson's memorandum on daniel ellsberg, says we have got to do something about him, and second this particular demonstration brought together two very explosive elements, the antiwar and the patriots. so might have assumed there was going to be trouble. on the basis of this hypothesis, it was decided to interview members of colson's staff, employees,to midi counterdemonstrators whose knowledge might be important. the employees included top officials, their assistants, secretaries, counterdemonstration. we got people from the d.c. police had observers, the fbi had observers. we interviewed all of them. we started to focus on a couple of people from the republican national committee. our friend karl rove. he was a kid in charge of students for nixon. so his name is misspelled here. his name pops up every once in a while. he is lucky he escapes. in september karl rove, an employee of the dnc, and one of the counter demonstrators are lucky -- fancy that, we went and put him under oath and put him in front of a grand jury to find out what is going on. then we started focusing on two

and then in 1971 you had the most well-known case the pentagon papers prosecution of daniel ellsberg and anthony russo, and again that case read was an dismissal because of government misconduct. and then finally in the mid- 1980s there is a case with samuel morrison and that resulted in the conviction, but after lobbying campaign after he had served his sentence, his conviction was upheld on appeal. in the late 1980s, after he had served his sentence, senator patrick lobbying clinton for a pardon, nothing because it is notorious in the case but because of the singularity of his conviction and the leaks happen all the time and prosecution at that.were exceedingly rare. then in the early to thousands', you had a couple of cases that sensibly involved leaks, but they were not pure, they were not exactly like the morrison case. yet one case involving an american israel committee, two plays there an alleged conspiracy with the pentagon analyst to disclose information about iran. there were allegations in that case of disclosures to the press, that case also resulted in much reduced charg

to serve and in 1971 you had the most well-known case, the pentagon papers, prosecution of daniel ellsberg and anthony russo. that case resulted in dismissal because government conduct, finally in the mid-1980s, there was a case about a navy and was named samuel morrison resulting in a conviction but after a lobbying campaign after he served his sentence his conviction was upheld on appeal in the late 1980s, daniel patrick moynihan lobbied president clinton for party -- pardon, not just because of anything notorious in the case because of the particularity of his conviction, prosecutions were exceedingly rare. in the early 2000s you had a couple cases that ostensibly involved leaks, but they weren't exactly like the morrison case. you had one case involving the american israel public affairs committee, two employees, and alleged conspiracy with pentagon analysts disclosing information about iran, there were allegations in that case, disclosures to the press. that case resulted in much reduced charges for the insider, the pentagon analyst, and there was the valerie plane disclosure the resu