plus taking the moral low ground abu ghraib and guantanamo bay aren't only examples of u.s. human rights abuses but they do speak volumes about america's hypocrisy so one of the larger implications of this blatant disregard for international law. and marching for a cause of thousands of new york city protesters hit the streets in opposition of the n.y.p.d. stop and frisk policy a look at the law that has angered so many. it is monday june eighteenth at four pm in washington d.c. my name is christine for you're watching our tea. well it wasn't too long ago that the u.s. and russia were celebrating an historic partnership agreement but the passing of the strategic arms reduction treaty or start it was to be a reset in u.s. russia relations as it turns out the celebrations were short lived but heightening tensions between the two countries on many levels there's russia's anger at the u.s. being unwilling to budge on its plans to build a missile defense shield there is the u.s. is angry at russia and its refusal to approve a plan for the u.n. security council to intervene in syr

>>> an nbc news exclusive, our cameras go inside guantanamo bay prison. and you may not believe how your tax dollars are being spent. >> it's official, the springtime of 2012 was the warmest ever. and from cherries growing in michan to bears in colorado, mother nature is thoroughly confused. >>> new threat, more tonight on the huge piece of tsunami debris that washed up on u.s. shores. tonight, what we're learning about what else came along for the ride. >>> and the warning to parents. why children are at risk when the doctor orders a c.a.t. scan. "nightly news" begins now. >>> good evening. the world may be about to witness another civil war. we have already witnessed horrible violence yet again in syria where the fighting goes on. a civilian uprising, remember, brutally outgunned by the heavy hand of the regime trying to crush it. the united states tries to fend off withering questions about when the world will act. the problem is syria's leader assad still has a lot of power and a lot of friends around the world, and while the wheels of diplomacy grind

detainees from yemen well today there are still one hundred sixty nine prisoners being held at guantanamo bay and one half of them though have already been cleared for release and where the engine author of the book the guantanamo files joined me a little earlier to talk about what that means for american citizens i started off by asking him what he thought about today's announcement by the supreme court to not take on this case take a look. well you know this is a very depressing ruling by the supreme court decision that they're not going to take up any of the appeals that were lodged by guantanamo prisoners the problem is that four years ago. tomorrow actually exactly four years ago the supremes courts gave the guantanamo prisoners saviour's corpus rights and that led to a flurry of cases in which judges in the district court in washington d.c. heard the prisoner's cases looked at the evidence from both sides and decided in a lot of these cases that the government didn't have a case against them and ordered their release now these appeals are about just that for the last two years in partic

plus trapped in a legal limbo dozens of guantanamo bay prisoners have been cleared for release but only a few have actually been set free so why is the pentagon still detaining men they deemed innocent delve into this with the author of the guantanamo files. and if you think the u.s. is still the land of opportunity you may want to keep dreaming one well respected economist says the american dream is now a myth or give you a few good reasons why it's harder to improve your socio economic status today than ever before. it is monday june eleventh five pm in washington d.c. my name is christine and you're watching our t.v. well some interesting news came down this afternoon that may cause some of you to want to take cover but should at the very least cause all of us to take notice the u.s. navy has confirmed that an unmanned aerial vehicle a drone has crashed on maryland's eastern shore just a few hours ago a spokesman for the patuxent river air station said the crash happened during a routine maintenance flight near bloodsworth island around noon today no one was injured when this forty f

you had some choice words for for the president came through not closing guantanamo bay the last time we were here on the show but here before long before he was the president while he was still a candidate when this first supreme court ruling was made in two thousand and eight he supported that decision and yet here his justice department is actually urging the supreme court to say no to these appeals so what happened there it's amazing that i mean like as i said back then president obama's balls fell off apparently they're not at the supreme court because they didn't show any either in the decision they made yesterday. if you look president obama's got what a forty eight percent approval rating the supreme court's got a forty four percent approval rating congress has a fifteen percent approval rating so majority of americans don't approve of any of the three branches of government yet they're the ones that are supposed to be our government of the people by the people and for the people and the people trust those three branches so it's not a an optimistic place to be in june of two t

a lot of people have been set free from guantanamo bay as i said earlier in the show that just happen to have been scoped out because they were at the wrong place at the wrong time and so you know what was the case that really stood out to you here i think the one that a lot of folks really had hoped for was a case called the tooth was a d.c. circuit opinion or the lower court judge the district court judge ordered him release granted hey because there was one statement an intelligent statement that summarizes information that suggests that mr. was on the afghan pakistan border potentially seeking training from al qaida but the judge found at the district court level that statement what incredible and then amazingly the d.c. circuit said that there was a presumption of regularity that this intelligence report where you can't really test the validity or who gave the information at a presumption of regularity that the judge not relying on that statement therefore they overturn the decision of mr wood to facilitate one ton of you know if you look at that same standard used in a place thi

plaza trapped in legal limbo dozens of guantanamo bay prisoners have been cleared for release but only a few have actually been set free so why is the pentagon still detaining men they deem innocent we'll delve into this with the author of the guantanamo files. it is monday june eleventh four pm in washington d.c. i'm christine and you're watching our team. well the very interesting news came down this afternoon and may cause some of you to want to take cover at the very least should cause all of us to take notice the u.s. navy has confirmed that an unmanned aerial vehicle has crashed on maryland's eastern shore just a few hours ago a spokesman for the patuxent river air stations of the crash happened during a routine maintenance flight near bloodsworth island around noon today and no one was injured when the forty four foot long aircraft came barreling toward the earth the navy is now in the process of setting up a safety zone around the crash site and the cause is still being determined and you know this comes at an interesting time congressman peter king was on c.n.n. state of the u

tonight on r t taking the moral low ground abu ghraib and guantanamo bay aren't the only examples of u.s. human rights abuses but they do speak volumes about america's hypocrisy so what are the larger implications of this blatant disregard for international law. plus congress might not be able to agree on health care tax breaks or the budget but it sure can get its act together on one thing war coming up we'll tell you why the drums of war are beating louder than ever. good evening it's monday june eighteenth eight pm in washington d.c. i'm christine for you're watching our team. well it wasn't too long ago the u.s. and russia were celebrating an historic partnership agreement with the passing of the strategic arms reduction treaty or start it was to be a reset in u.s. russia relations as it turns out the celebrations were short lived with heightening tensions between the two countries on many levels now there's russia's anger at the u.s. being unwilling to budge on its plans to build a missile defense shield there is the u.s. is angry at russia for its refusal to approve a plan for

that is why he ordered the closing of the detention center guantanamo bay and will seek swift justice for captured terrorists, because living our values does not make as weaker but safer. it makes us stronger. >> 3.5 years after president obama vowed to close guantanamo, 169 men remain in prison there. now the supreme court is refusing to hear any new guantanamo appeals, even though half of the men being held were cleared for release five years ago. then, new questions emerge over mitt romney's record on lgbt issues. >> marriage is a relationship between one man and one woman. >> just weeks after romney refused to endorse same-sex marriage, the boston globe reveals the former massachusetts governor paused a administration once blocked the publication of an troubling report for teenagers because it contained the words "by sector" and "transgenders." homeless this reaches a record high in new york. >> i see homeless people out here in the streets and i think to myself, i wonder, i hope that is not going to be me and my daughter in the next month or so. >> despite the record number of ho

the guantanamo bay detention center infamous for its military trials and allegations of torture appears to be stuck in limbo these days president obama has so far failed to fulfill his promise to shut the facility down the new york resident took the issue than on to the streets of the big apple. well. even though president obama promised to close the prison at guantanamo bay or get him out it would maine's open why this week let's talk about that and i think the logistics of closing it of prevented president obama for making it happen city think it was a mistake for him to make such a promise no i don't i think. i think he's i think you still committed to the policy he's trying to roll the rock and it's a tough rock to roll i say that i'm ready to be fed up of both the u.s. imperialism you should deal your own issues first and then you will deal we ve issue of the world after a get is guns out of bed just an example of our imperialism of course it is an example you know because you want to impose democracy even though some countries and you're not even able to impose democracy in your o

even though president obama promised to close the prison at guantanamo bay or get him out it remains open why this week let's talk about that and i think the logistics of closing it of prevented president obama for making it happen do you think it was a mistake for him to make such a promise no i don't i think that. i think he's i think is still committed to the policy he's trying to roll the rock and it's a tough rock to roll i say that i'm ready to be fed up of both the u.s. imperialism you should deal your own hughes first and then you will deal we ve issue of the world after a get is one time obey just an example of our imperialism of course it is an example you know because you want to impose democracy enos some countries and you're not even able to impose democracy in your own country i think it's an issue i think it's hard for us to you know portray as being the sort of promoter of human rights while also keeping people in prison for as long as they have without any trials or any any chance that us just as applied to them so yes i think it's an issue if you think it's fair for

can die and you get in or you know you still could you know when they were torturing people in guantanamo bay they don't have to pay for sesame street because it's by the communists. p.p.s. right so i want to call broadcasting corporation a public broadcasting what do you even call it anymore i don't know public broadcasting service right there we go yes that's i was right the first time i don't listen i don't watch commie t.v. . should've watched their really great frontline documentary and al qaeda in the arabian peninsula the other day is it way there you say to the next story if you're not i just right after you are totally destroyed yeah i mean i have a lot to tell you i've been going crazy about this all week because i'm so riled up about this kill list and finally had the new york times write this big piece about it and then i was talking about this frontline documentary that showed how you know the people that we've killed are now used as propaganda. but. there's also a petition out there that's been launching the white house web site asking him to create a do not kill list needs what

that the cia perverted his music to serve evil by using his work as well to torture prisoners at guantanamo bay and sesame street i mean yet rage against the machine but i mean isn't the idea that like it's foreign music or foreign culture to be used and it's played over and over again i mean i think i guess my every will drive you crazy with a lot of regular dude like the same thing with it and you know when i was growing up you know i had nobody would ever look beyond it's torture and use it but you know she did like how many times can you hear the way i do it because i hear something like that like well i was trying to sleep and weird stuff like that you know what it would be or torture music of choice but you know i was i thought it was a weird coincidence because you know back during the iraq war they used to use metallica on soldiers overseas and in afghanistan at the taliban and just this week and telling us said that they're going to have to start touring a little sleep because they weren't making enough for realty they weren't getting paid for anything you know completely unrelated so

is bliss guantanamo bay prisoners of justice as the u.s. turns a blind diagram and is being held for years without being charged with any crime. you optimism over spain's one hundred billion euro bailout crumbles as markets realise that not even that's enough to bring them back bring. russia's opposition is getting back into protest mode with a planned march through central moscow dates on tuesday a similar rally in may descended into violent clashes with dozens of police officers injured and criminal cases filed against those who started the trouble ortiz degrees across the story in central moscow. fairly on both sides of the fence will not want to see a repeat of what occurred on may the sixth just ahead of the inauguration of bellamy putin as president where do you see those violent clashes suit scene protesters and police and that is largely isn't the target is being hijacked on the day by more hardcore extreme elements of the opposition movement but again though it was dubbed a march of millions and on the day according to many conserv

i was going to get to guantanamo bay later. but i think you better respond. >> first of all the, it remains the position of this administration that guantanamo should be closed. that is the president's position. that's the administration's position. [ applause ] the fact that it has not closed is the result not simply, not even principally of the intrinsic difficulty but because the congress has put numerous roadblocks in our way prohibiting us for example, from the kinds of civil, normal trials in federal courts that have actually a very good track record of convictions and long sentences. i say this with regret. also in the spirlt of bipartisanship i will note that the bush administration also sought to close guantanamo and moved out many detainees, over 500 and faced none of the congressional restrictions that we face. so two presidents, not simply one, wanted to close guantanamo. which begs the question, if both presidents wanted to close it, might they both be right? that's a question for congress, though not for congressm

it applies to the people in guantanamo bay.ordered, the federal government district court in washington, dc, hear the applications from the detainees. meaning the government had to reveal the evidence it had. and how it got the evidence. so, of 59 who asked for the hearings the court ordered 32 released and 27 kept in prison. none of the 32 has been released so they filed appeals to the circuit court of appeals which invalidated the release orders and they asked the court to hear that appeal and they said "no." so we are left with a terrific 2008 decision which says habeas corpus basically the government cannot lock you up without evidence against you applies to everyone. no matter who they are or where they are restrained. but when the decision is applied it does not work the way it is supposed to work because they are ordered freed or incarcerated. >>shepard: after 9/11 attacks there was belief by many who are experts that we may have to change the rules. >>judge napolitano: yes. >>shepard: so rather than changing the rules w

supreme court is refusing to hear an appeal followed by seven guantanamo bay prisoners who are being locked up for lengthy periods without even being charged despite president obama's an actual promise to close the tourist facility for good and the wellington author of the content of the files believes such an approach makes a mockery of the entire us justice system. for the last two years in particular the d.c. circuit court said the appeals court has been rewriting the rules of detention has been overriding that decisions that were made by the district court judges has been saying effectively anything that the government says we should be treating as though it's true. and has been stopping any of the prisoners being released through these legal means in the last two years not a single prisoner has when they hate this court was decision it's very very politically motivated by the d.c. circuit court these are very right wing judges they don't want prisoners released under any circumstances what was happening in the early days was that judges were very impartially looking at the evide

citizen from your to guantÁnamo bay.nterestingly, about two hours later we had another vote, and they were postponing everything. about that o'clock they start thinking need to go back on oxygen or whatever, but it's bedtime. about 9:00 and their voice voting everything to a vote comes up that i've been watching and this amendment said if you're found innocent in article iii court in the united states, of being accused of terrorism and found innocent, then you could still be sent and desolate to guantÁnamo bay. not that you wouldn't get your topic you'd have a jury trial and be found innocent and still be sent to guantÁnamo bay. they were trying to convince me. the democrat leader was leading the republican leader was making but they both told me they didn't really like it but sort of is like just a long with a buddy, but ago through a loophole about. in the conference committee. you know, well, should i look back at my staff, and went back and said we have to have ago. i have to do is raise for your hand. carl levin was

dianne feinstein says citizens could not be held from the united states to guantanamo bay. she was going to withdraw the amendment. we said no. once it is introduced it is unanimous consent to call aback. we said no. we almost one that although they introduced the watered-down version but 45 people believe you should not send a u.s. citizen from here to guantanamo bay. the senate thinks they need to get on action -- oxygen. [laughter] the vote comes upper i have been watching and it said if you are found innocent of being accused of terrorism terrorism, then you could still be sent indefinitely to guantanamo bay. even with the jury trial. they tried to convince me republican leader was mccain. they said they did not like it but let it go through. we will pull out in the conference committee. i said we have to have the boat. i asked for the voice vote. i was surprised. john mccain and carl levin. 51 democrats voted no and eight to or nine republicans. he said it is the law. i said it is awful. you could be in the senate and kept in prison forever? we should have a recorded v

all right let's switch gears now to the issue of guantanamo bay the treatment of prisoners there has a long been a stain on the u.s. reputation which is probably why a president obama promised time and time again while campaigning that he'd shut it down and would do so in his first year in office well that hasn't exactly happened so how do people feel about that while lori garver has with the resident are not asked that question to some people on the streets of new york city. even though president obama promised to close the prison at guantanamo bay or get him out it remains open why this week let's talk about that and i think the logistics of closing it to prevent that president obama from making it happen do you think it was a mistake for him to make such a promise no i don't i think that. i think he's i think you're still committed to the policy he's trying to roll the rock and it's a tough rock to roll i say that i'm ready to. us. you should deal your own you huge first and then you will deal. with the world after a get is one time obey just an example of our imperialism of cours

citizen from here to guantanamo bay.interestingly, two hours later, there was another vote, and they were voice voting everything. by nine o'clock, every senate needs to think they have to get back on oxygen or whatever. [laughter] it's bedtime. it's nine o'clock, and they are voice voting everything. a vote comes up i've been watching, and the amendment said if you're found innocent in an article iii court in the united states of being accused of terrorism and found innocent, that you could still be sent indefinitely to guantanamo bay, not that you don't have a jury found, you have a trial, found innocent, and you are still sent to guantanamo bay. they were trying to convince me both the democrat leader and republican leader telling me they didn't like it, but it's like let it go through, we'll pull it out in the conference committee. you know, i looked back at the staff, and they were pointing, and i went back, and i said we have to have the vote. i asked for a voice vote, and on that voice vote, first time i was actua

he wanted to shut down guantanamo bay. it hasn't been shut down. they were not realistic about what it would take to get that done. so again the shorthand is kill them, don't capture them because we don't have a place to detain them. >> that's exactly right. these are the unintended consequences of a fairly idealistic policy. during the campaign the president, as you say, wanted to shut down guantanamo. he wanted to restore american principles to the war on terror. and that meant restoring the rule of law. and he promised to shut down guantanamo. the problem is it created all sorts of problems in terms of potential. what do you do when you do capture these people? you can't bring them to guantanamo anymore. huge political problems as you try to bring them to the u.s. homeland. they learned that in the first months of the administration. if you turn them over to other countries you run the risk that those countries are going to end up torturing them. so the perception out there is that instead of capturing and detaining terrorists they've been killi

to protest continued detentions at guantanamo bay. they donned orange jumpsuits.e. 169 people are still being held at guantanamo bay. >>> this week, the u.s. supreme court is expected to decide on arizona's controversial immigration law, one of the hot topics on the sunday morning talk shows. >> yes, we can. yes, we can. >> keep the directive in place while he works out immigration reform in a more holistic manner. >> every action that president obama has taken will be subject to review. there are legitimate questions about the legality of it. every one from here forward will be subject to review and subject to repeal. >> the fact is the president has done what we should do. these kids have been living here for most of their lives. if mr. romney wants to come clean with what he will do, he ought to do it. >> he is far behind president obama among latino voters. >> the enormous, vast and overwhelming majority of republicans are supporters of legal immigration. and compassionate to the plight of legal immigrants. >> american cannot be the only country in the world t