as freedom house a stated mission is to promote democracy abroad but it's come under fire by critics who say its mission is to remove regimes that aren't friendly to the us that does broadcasting to business and civil society leaders in the muslim world is the priority today in the middle east we were seen as the aggressor the occupier and that's a hard that's a hard position to be but the day to day is also in a tough position at home senator tom coburn called it a quote most worthless organization and a federal government full of people who know nothing about media or foreign policy and don't employ frank the worst government agency to work for tim shamble is the union representative for b.g. employee it's like a one strike policy and you're out. and also the feeling is the v.g. has declared war against their own employees they don't support them they don't support the voice of america blocking stickley fighting on employees who leave early or make personal phone calls and political interference in the newsroom are also something shamble says he's fought against he tried to shield

. >> i am with freedom house. thank you. given the importance of asean to the region can you tell us how you think burma and will engage as the new asean and whether that is an opportunity and how the u.s. would engage with carrying asean and prospects for the future for a mixture? >> first of all i am not sure that decision has been taken. in terms of our bilateral relationship there are several things we're looking for and tried to underscore. progress on these issues would be important in any circumstance but clearly if that country seeks to play a larger goal on international stage, we have asked that there be a political process, a dialog between the new government and assan suchi. we think it is appropriate and we would like to see that come to pass quickly. we recognize and understand there's a large number of political prisoners inside the country. we would like to see the release, the beginning of the process of the release of the prisoners. we think that would send an important message going forward. obviously seei

penalty as a result of these charges of course depending on what the outcome is now house called for manning's freedom and in his testimony he pled the fifth he invoked his right to remain silent before this grand jury according to house he says this is a show trial not to curtail press freedom and r.t. got to speak with him one on. and at the grand jury hearing he talked about the public reaction to the bradley manning case first take a listen but i think there's a groundswell movement happening right now in the us up just for example in boston today students that were never politically active and all standing up to support probably nothing to keep peace and protest this grand jury i think the u.s. government is frightened of what it perceives to be mass public support for probably manning it with the reason i think you should and we could be some states and i think that over time we're going to try to. influence public opinion by launching these tactics would chill the personal rights association and harass activists involved in this campaign. now one thing that he also made very clear is that he be

finances they want they want money in their pocketbook americans want to work they want their houses they want freedom they want their own identity they don't want the government to be taking everything and giving it to afghanistan or iraq or in some some liberal minded people think that we're doing is actually occupying and killing a lot of innocent people over there so we certainly certainly americans in general don't want to be killing innocent people in america's don't want their tax dollars given or taken from them so that's why it's pretty interesting to just if we think about what we've seen over the weekend in terms of some of the lawmakers and politicians kind of taking different stances than we're used to in terms of the hock position in the position president obama as you've already seen sort of seem seen as hawkish continuing to you know the surge in afghanistan the involvement at all in libya that he's in favor of and then we have people like lindsey graham who i never thought i'd say this in you know now now time post two thousand election john mccain saying obama's right to be involved

chancellor will be presented with the presidential medal of freedom tonight during a white house dinnerwe will have more on this later on. >>> a canadian man has the country's first suspected case of eco lie linked to the house link to the outbreak in europe . the canadian man traveled to germany recently and does not appear to have a severe case and has been released from the hospital. >>> today, agricultures are holding a meeting to find the source of the the outbreak. >>> stoliders have approved the largest development plan in history, and we tell you about the 49 connection. >> reporter: steve young went to the city council meeting to lobby for the project. the vote was 8-0. so i don't know if he necessarily needed to be there. i just talked to bill and the chief of orthopedic surgery and they are excited about this project. 4-yearlong lobbying campaign had two years of deadlock negotiations. construction begins in just a couple of weeks. this animation was provided by stanford by the media to show what it should look like. the vote was 8-0 with one council member obtaining because

republican presidential candidates and prospective candidate spoke at last week's faith and freedom conference. first, housety caucus michelle bachmann plans to an answer can is the plans this month. the-announce her candidacy plans this month critics hello, everyone. thank you for coming. good to see you, good morning. thank you for coming. i can tell this conference is off to a great start already, isn't it? what a wonderful year this is going to be and 2012 is going to be even better. [applause] we're looking forward to winning the triple crown, aren't we? holding on to the house of representatives, getting a conservative senate for the first time in a long time, and extending a change -- sending a change of address form 21600 pennsylvania avenue. [applause] if we have anything to say about it, barack obama and will be a one-term president. it is a new day and their new things coming our way and i am extremely grateful for all of us who are here this morning, extremely grateful. there's a lot of bad news going on around the world, but a lot of good news going on around the world, too. i want to talk abou

as she said, she could never imagine she would be in the white house, receiving the medal of freedom.atically. your most profound dreams -- the reality can exceed your fondest dreams. this happened to her. she is saying once again that totalitarians are a danger in the world. the muslim totalitarian regimes are now facing a change. she was raising an issue that possibly they could also disappear and they could have freedom for the muslim peoples. that is what she is working for, and hopefully obama and the other leaders in europe. let us pray that they succeed. >> there is no question that you are right that she represents a historic figure in some sense, and that she did grow up in eastern germany, in a totalitarian system. now she is standing in the rose garden, getting the medal of freedom as chancellor of germany. you have to pinch yourself when you look at that. one of the things obama and merkle have been talking about is how to shepherd the middle east in the same direction that east germany went. i have to say it is going to be a tougher job in the middle east because many of

freedom forum in d.c. he brought down the house, but was any new ground broken? >> it was just excruciating pain. >> let me ask the question everybody is thinking. what were you thinking? >> that is a good question. for this magician whose stunt went a wry at a stunt race. i want you to check this out. this is the aids memorial quilt and this weekend marks the anniversary of the cases of aids. we will talk about this and also talk to an hiv positive woman who lost her mom and son to the disease. you don't want to miss that. i'm don lemon in atlanta. there is a lot of news so let's get you caught up. we will begin in syria where protesters merch marched to demand the end to the killing by security forces this is the response they got. this is what witnesses are saying that troops shot into the crowd in the city on friday. it's not clear how many died, but human rights groups put the toll at 80. that's not silencing the protest. there had been more violent clashes even today. a ve leiolent attack drove the president of yemen out of his country. he arrived in saudi

freedom. the sights and sounds at tuesday morning at the white house. ♪ ♪ >> ladies and gentlemen, the presidentthe united states and mrs. michelle obama. ["hail to the chief" playing] ♪ [and fair playing] -- [fanfare playing] [inaudible] [inaudible] >> ladies and gentleman, the national anthem of the federal republic of germany, followed by the national anthem of the united states. ♪ [german national anthem playing] ["star spangled banner " what playing] ♪ ♪ [military march playing] [applause] ♪ ♪ [applause] ♪ ha ♪ fifes playing] ♪ >> very nice. ["yankee doodle" playing] >> after meeting in the oval office, president obama and chancellor merkel spoke at a joint news conference in the east room of the white house. >> ladies and gentlemen, the president of the united states and the chancellor of the federal republic of germany. >> please, everyone, have a seat. good morning again. it is an honor to welcome my good friend and partner chancellor merkel back to the white house. we had a wonderful dinner last night, one on one -- although, as you saw again this morning, angela's english is much bette

. >>> and the white house welcomes -- the president and first lady are hosting a state dinner for chancellor merker tonight where she's be awarded the presidential medal of freedom. >> the fact that we can stand here today as president of the united states and as chancellor of a united germany is a

and soon i shall receive the presidential medal of freedom from president obama as the white house hosts a state dinner but maybe what obama should really be doing is asking market how it is that the germany's economy the fourth largest in the world is recovering so well from the recession twenty time was an all star year for germany their economy grew at nearly six times faster than the u.s. in the second quarter for two thousand and eleven projected growth is looking to be a little smaller than the u.s. two point five percent versus a u.s. two point. but a euro zone in debt crisis is partially responsible for that but their unemployment rate is we really have to look at it they're at seven percent compared to the us nine point one that's all having one of the highest tax rates in the world i wages high social welfare benefits all those things that are right wing likes to scorn as socialism or the death of capitalism you can call germany's economy a close one though the second a larger export in the world trailing only china which has sixteen times its population so what can we learn fr

presidential medal of freedom during a dinner at the white house is the nation's highest civilian honor. eyewitnesses say that 400 tribal gunmen clashed with yemeni government forces earlier this morning and have mackay taken control of the yemen city tidies the fighting has intensified since president ali abdullah saleh i was forced out of the country to recover from one suffered in an attack last friday officials said that he is burned on over 40 percent of his body initial reports said that the winds came from a rocket or mortar attack but officials are now saying it's possible an explosive device was hidden in the palace >>in libya nato unleashes air strikes on muammar gadhafi compound and a military base today we're hearing a released 25 loud explosions and the bonds despite several buildings. no wayword yet on if muammar gadhafi suffered a knee injury is the libyan government claims the airstrikes had some television stations killing two people and injuring 16 nato calls those claims bogus and insists that it did not target any broadcast facilities. the european farming officials

details of how they plan to use taxi drivers for racial profiling and his freedom of the press under attack by the white house one pulitzer prize winning journalist as. we remember one that is in the size of our prison population united states bows the highest rate of imprisonment of any other developed nation in the world and that's not enough for some people specifically the private prison industry the justice policy institute just released a report detailing how the private prison industry. millions of dollars every year to lobby lawmakers around the country to pass tougher laws to throw more people in prison ideally private prisons and it's working in the last decade the number of people in prison increased sixteen percent but the number of people in private federal prisons increased one hundred twenty percent it means massive profits in fact the two largest private prison corporations in the country corrections corporation of america in the g.p.o. group rate did nearly three billion dollars in revenue last year so it was a problem in america the corporations have a direct interest in throwing more and mo

freedom. as we first told you yesterday david house a supporter of bradley manning was subpoenaed to testify before a grand jury in alexandria virginia he was amongst a handful of individuals from the boston area who were all instructed to come to virginia and testify about various elements involving bradley manning and the whistle blowing web site wiki leaks as a whole now while hells did in fact show up he didn't give out any information other than his name and his address to the grand jury has attorney peter cropp explains why. the house. materials are questions over. his rights to remain silent under the fifth amendment to the u.s. constitution. so while house didn't have much to say inside the courtroom he did exercise his right to free speech outside during a press conference and there he fully expressed his opinions on this entire court case saying it's legal proceeding is nothing but a means by which the government wants to put fear into americans and keep them from standing up to the wrongdoings of the government tell us also compare the grand jury to a historic incident that happened fort

house. president obama awarded her the presidential medal of freedom. earlier in the day they held talks on the global economy. >>> economic issues are front and center for the president today as well. he will visit a community college in suburban washington to emphasize the importance of training u.s. workers and cutting unemployment. joel brown is in washington with more on this. good morning, joel. >> betty, good morning to you. the unemployment rate up, housing prices down and the president's out to convince skeptical americans that the latest economic news is not a trend, just a bump in the road. president obama is trying to give the economy and american confidence a boost. >> i'm not concerned about a double dip recession. i am concerned about the fact that the recovery that we're on is not producing jobs as quickly as i want it to. >> reporter: he'll tour an auto repair program at a community college to stress the importance of job creation. his visits come on the heels of last week's disappointing jobs report which showed only 54,000 jobs were c

house for a state dinner. merkel will be awarded the presidential medal of freedom, during the black tie event. >>> and the miamiheat and dallas mavericks take the courta r game four of the nba finals. it's been close so far. the first 3 games were decided by 12 points total. all of the action begins at 9:00 p.m. eastern time. >>> for some of you, your local news is next. >> for everybody else, our newest star, katie couric, talks about her future plans right here at abc. that's coming up. aflac! oh, i've just got major medical... major medical. ...but it helps pay the doctors. pays the doctors, boyyy! [ quack ] oh yeah? what about your family? ♪ we added aflac, so we get cash! it's like our safety net... ♪ to help with the mortgage or whatever we need! so my family doesn't feel the pain too. ha! [ male announcer ] help protect your family at aflac.com. [ pigeons ] heyyy! hooo!!! discover aveeno positively radiant tinted moisturizers with scientifically proven soy complex and natural minerals. give you sheer coverage instantly, then go on to even skin tone in four weeks. aveeno tinted moisturizers. took some wil

freedom. >> there is somebody in the white house who doesn't get it.esn't understand the need to be energy-secure. >> he is absolutely on the wrong track. it does come down to drill, baby, drill, in addition to all of the above energy policy that really is nonexistent in the obama administration. he doesn't know what he is doing when it comes to energy. >> well, sarah palin before and after. again, 24,000 pages of e-mails came out today. with us now drew griffin who is in alaska who has been digging through them. drew, what was the big delay in, excuse me, releasing these e-mails? what was the argument to not release them? >> well, it was a huge task. obviously, alaska didn't want to take on the dollars that it would take to go through this search. they said they spent over a million dollars on it. and i think the delay was also that they wanted the alaska law department to look individually at each of these e-mails and determine whether or not there was an attorney-client privilege or whether there was this policy privilege that they have in alaska wh

house last night, a rare state dinner for germany's angela merkel. president obama presented her with the presidential medal of honor. merkel spoke about dreaming of freedom while growing up in communist east germany. a 19-gun salute welcomed her to the white house. germany is trying to negotiate another bailout for guess. >> i am confident that germany's leadership along with other key tactors in europe will help us arrive at a path for greece to return to growth. >> i think each and every one ought to deal with his or her own problems. we have our hands full already with what we need to do. >> reporter: the fair at the house was very formal. the first lady wore an ivory v- neck dress. >>> the wildfire in arizona, now the second large nest that state's history. coming up next, more people are forced from their homes. >>> plus, caught on camera, a vicious attack inside of a local restaurant. a woman actually punched in the face. we are checking that story and more headlines for you when we come back. 7md"ú( !$ man: we need a sofa.  something i can stretch out on! woman: ooh... that will go with those lamps my mother gave us. or we could get some new lamp

laughter] >> but imagining that i would one day stand in the rose garden of the white house and receive the medal of freedomreams and believe me, receiving this prestigious award moves me deeply. >> my thanks goes to the american people, first and foremost, for this extraordinary honor, knowing full well how much you have done for us germans. and i thank you, personally, mr. president, because you are a man of strong convictions. you touch people with your passion and your vision for a good future for these people, also in germany. you have been able, time and again, to put on important international goalposts, injecting issues such as disarmament, the question of how to shape our relations with the countries of the middle east and last but not least, the solution to the middle east conflict with new dynamism. mr. president, i see the award of the medal of freedom as a testimony of the excellent german-american partnership. our countries stand together for peace and freedom. history has often showed us the strength of the forces that are unleashed by the yearning for freedom. it moves people to overcome the

columbus tattoo parlor. >>> president obama awarding angela merkel the presidential medal of freedom at a white houseoperate on economic issues and agreed that libyan leader moammar gadhafi must go. >>> you're caught up on the day's headlines. "american morning" will be back after a quick break. >>> 48 minutes past the hour. rebel fighters taking control of a key city in yemen. >> it's a big setback for government forces loyal to president saleh. joining us from abu dhabi cnn's mohammed jamjoon. what's the latest on this? >> we heard yesterday last night that government forces. >> the government forces had been clashing with anti-government gunmen in the city of taiz in the southwest part of the country. gunmen had gone into that city to protect the anti-government demonstrators out and about in that city. they have been for the last several months. what happened yesterday we heard from eyewitnesses and residents that anti-government gunmen had started clashing with the government forces there, over 400 had taken over the city, driven the security forces outside the city and then there was a lot of w

house today. the president will award her the medal of freedom and host a state dinner tonight in her honor. >>>>ngressman admitting that he sent a nude pictures of himself to a seattle woman. he also sent inappropriate messages to other women. colleagues are calling for an ethics evaluation. >>> firefighters are dealing with strong winds as they battled a huge wall of fire in eastern arizona. the blaze is out of control. they think it was sparked by an abandoned campfire. >>> here is another example as to why he should watch what she post on facebook. and who you should post to. >> one person wanted to have a nice sweet sweet 16 party. 15,000 people rsvp. they canceled the party. 1500 people showed up. the police broke up the crowd. she bolted from her own sweet 16 party. >> it is always a bad situation when you literally have people swinging from the trees. you just cannot do that. >>> let's get that check on traffic and weather every 10 minutes. >> it is very busy. we go quickly to ever cameras and show you slow traffic right now. -- to our cameras ensure you slow traffic right now. -- and sho

freedom. woodward wilson said that the white house was a jail.rise that wilson played over 1500 rounds during his term. >> reporter: after game the foursome did look relaxed, enjoying a cold drink at the clubhouse. the white house won't say what kind. they did tell us that the president and the speaker beat the vice president and the governor on the 18th hole. and that they won $2 each. the foursome visited with service members. they also watched a bit of the coverage of the u.s. open. perhaps to see how the pros do it. for sunday morning, i'm bill plante at the white house. >> osgood: and at the u.s. open in maryland yesterday, mcel roy kofernted to dominate the field with a record setting 14 under par after 54 holes. the 22-year-old has an eight- stroke lead entering today's final round. in boston yesterday hockey's holy grail was paraded through the streets as the nhl champion boston bruins and their fans celebrated the team's first stanley cup victory since 1972. a notable passing in the morning headlines. ♪ clarence clemons, legendary saxoph

freedom hating commies. anyway amy kramer of the tea party express is in the house tonight mitt romney is set to announce his presidential run of morrow and make it official but he still hates the u.s. constitution i'll tell you how i staged the body slam from saturday here's a hint it included a jet a mind tree and bush is there but you're pretty. and the dance parties now a global phenomenon with parties being planned for noon on saturday in solidarity and stuff on molyneux joins us to explain why dancing is such a broad appeal when say protesting maybe not so much fortunately you can always count on bringing people together with a message of the love olution on adam vs the man. here and adverse is the man we like to keep a close eye on the police state as you know but it appears they're keeping an eye on us too and i'm not just talking about that and i say are surveillance authorized by the patriot act and i'm not talking about the officer you may have seen at the jefferson memorial on saturday with a video camera asking tourists if they have permits for their cameras after kicking out the mainstream medi

as she said, she could never imagine she would be in the white house, receiving the medal of freedom.ofound dreams -- the reality can exceed your fondest dreams. this happened to her. she is saying once again that totalitarians are a danger in the world. the muslim totalitarian regimes are now facing a change. she was raising an issue that possibly they could also disappear and they could have freedom for the muslim peoples. that is what she is working for, and hopefully obama and the other leaders in europe. let us pray that they succeed. >> there is no question that you are right that she represents a historic figure in some sense, and that she did grow up in eastern germany, in a totalitarian system. now she is standing in the rose garden, getting the medal of freedom as chancellor of germany. you have to pinch yourself when you look at that. one of the things obama and merkle have been talking about is how to shepherd the middle east in the same direction that east germany went. i have to say it is going to be a tougher job in the middle east because many of the countries there ha

should be sitting on the mark with freedom flotilla two point zero zero zero palestinian activists from twenty two countries are set to join. in the kingdom of evil in the house bill and. the old waverly who took it in the who to some country house. the. towns to remember the groom me to feel. the oil the rubens hotel. in moscow the headlines greece grinds to a halt as a forty eight hour general strike takes hold. ups in violence where protesters voiced their anger at proposed cuts to secure cash this comes as china's prime minister offers a financial lifeline to the union during a visit to europe. french finance minister christine legarde becomes the first female head of the international monetary fund winning overwhelming support from europe russia china and the us the former managing director strauss kahn resigned in may due to a sex scandal. as libya rejects the international criminal court's demand for colonel gadhafi is arrested from the oil port scene of nato's latest bombing campaign tripoli accuses the court of doing nato's dirty work by trying to remove the libyan leader power. next we travel the world's largest garbage a village on the outskirts of

house arrest. he is still not allowed to twitter. he is not really free. it is very much limited freedom. >> germans hope for democratic change in china by boosting economic ties. can that be as successful formula? >> it has not worked so far. china has changed through the economic reforms of the '80s and '90s. but it has not changed on issues of democratic reform. on the contrary, it is now countries, like in africa, they see china as a new model country as an example of all authoritarian rule and economic success. from the point of view from western governments, that might be a negative point.7 >> china has been traveling in germany with a huge delegation. but is their main interest rate, or are they also looking for political alliances? >> it is mainly trade, but also political alliances. especially on the security council. there are certain issues the chinese want to discuss. but they do not want to discuss things like human rights. the economic ties are more important for the chinese as they know that there is still a lot of economic development to continue with the growth of china,

so what does your legislation do the broadcaster freedom act which i'm happy to report is now co-sponsored by every single republican member of the house of representatives and this taping one democrat would simply do this it would take the power away from the federal communications commission and to restore the fairness doctrine without an act of congress but there are new battles yet to be waged time after time and hearing after hearing people complain about licensing there must require at least half of all broadcast licenses in every market to go to a local interest local control doing otherwise violates the public trust you bell to honor and i'd like to say that broadcasting is a lot like driving it's not a right it's a privilege and if i get caught driving recklessly endangering the public i lose my license doesn't matter if i own twelve hundred cars i thank. you. i don't have the right to do this on the public airwaves take their licenses it's pending before you right now how many people here would like to see clear channel lose six licenses for this kind of broadcasting. janie her turn at the mike at the f.c.c. hearing in tampa

after that more about the 2012 campaign with freedom works presidentmatt kibbe. the house transportation committee will allow private companies to compete with amtrak to provide high-speed rail service in the northeast corridor. later, we'll be joined by the head of amtrak. host: good morning. congress is out today. they will be back next week. munier -- negotiations continue between you rationally -- congressional leaders and the white house on unemployment. there could be some agreement by july 4, which could give congress to give some-forgotten details. and in new orleans cannot ron paul, michelle bachmann -- in new orleans, ron paul, michelle bachmann and others. live coverage today and throughout the weekend here on c-span. if we want to begin with looking back at the role that defense secretary bob gates has had. our numbers are on the screen. let's look at some of the headlines on this friday morning, beginning with the "* piggee euan." newt gingrich -- with the times picayune. newt gingrich speech fires of car. and another headline that of giving a lot of attention