which hersh, he made reference to it. violence spreads throughout the watts section of los angeles in 1965 for six days. again, in response to an altercation between an african-american citizen and a police officer. six days of violence that results in 34 dead people, 1,032 injured, 3,400 arrested. the national guard is called in. and over 970 buildings were damaged and destroyed estimated at $40 million in property loss. that's los angeles 1965. 1967 is a long, hot summer in the language of the 1960s, insofar as there are multiple moments of violence in cities throughout the country. the two largest concentrating in detroit and newark. again, both tied to altercations, misunderstandings, moments of violent exchange between african-americans and police officers. july 12th through 17th, 1967, newark erupts into disorder. that results in 26 people dead, 725 injured, 1,500 arrested, and property damage is estimated at over $10 million. detroit, after a police raid of an after-hours -- illegal after-hours establishment, detro

joshua hersh wrote a great piece and he is live in kabul right now.orning, josh. >> hi, how are you. >> good morning. >> good morning. thank so much for coming on this morning. >> my pleasure. >> the president's speech was very well received among the afghan people. >> yeah kabul functions in a different state than the rest of afghanistan. the taliban did not react that well, but they had a surprising level of warm feelings to the fact that the president came and showed himself even though it was the middle of the night and established a partnership to stay here in afghanistan. >> this is ryan parker. >> this is a long war, and it requires long-term commitment. >> josh, obviously all polling shows the american people have grown weary of this war as well as iraq. do you feel like this was partially a political calculation, so he wasn't going to get this complaint that if you signal a date certain to the taliban that they are just going to wait it out. >> yes, there is a lot of mixed messaging coming from the white house i think in part to make everyone

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do we really need to go there were some journalists out there raising the alarm bells the seymour hersh is the walter pincus of the world but unfortunately those great investigative reporters there are usually exiled when the heat is on it was only after the fact that they end up being praised and given the pats on the back the excitement was to make the case to go to war you know to show that you know that was the controversy that the media barked his you know it was the titillation of a w m d here to us not to not to do a sion of or the conflict of tacky administration all the washington post the new york times it very conservative editors that supported the white house on this. the people of the united states and their friends and allies will not live at the mercy of an ally or regime that threatens the peace with weapons of mass murder is a regime has an active program to acquire and develop nuclear weapons and let there be no doubt about it we know for a fact that there are weapons there. there are a group of people who for many years had advocated going after saddam hussein and th

if you back go back to the summer of 1986, seymour hersh the investigative journalist publishes a front page story in "new york times" that becomes a series of stories and then a life magazine article all about noriega that says he's deeply engaged in the drug trade, he violates human rights. he was probably responsible for killing the principal political opposition leader to his rule in panama. nothing in the story would have surprised experts in the american government, but because it was on the front page of "the new york times," it was suddenly important, and it did get some attention. about the same time congress passed a law listing a number of countries that were engaged in the drug trade, panama among them. the law said none of these countries can receive assistance from the united states unless the president certifies on an annual basis that they are making progress in the war on drugs. in 1987 when ronald reagan routinely certified that panama was making progress, two members of the u.s. senate decided to sponsor a resolution that would reverse that presidential certification.

has been all saw it was that it wasn't truthful because the mr version mr hersh of himself had actually. called for a kind of a democratic democratic solution to the problem where as well as this wasn't this excuse me hello yes we still have you know i want to ask you something international federation for human rights whereas is deputy secretary general they have condemned his detention do you expect some wide international resonance. well why the international residents i think it's a it's problematic because they have been a lot of pressure from the western countries on the on the united nations on on international organizations in order not to actually. react in a way that would actually consider what's happening in. a democratic movement in baghdad in the bahamians are asking for equal rights and asking for a proper democracy they are not a group of shiites as they have been portrayed minority group that is asking for all that is asked that has some demands that are sectarian demands these are trainees they are holding up the flag and no other no other sign or symbol they are askin

recognize as well that there is a shadow war being waged against iran a couple weeks ago seymour hersh's leaves an article in the new yorker we're talking about the iranian dissident group the mujahideen college of which were u.s. state department was a terrorist organization constrained in. trained by the us trained by mistah and so it was been implicated in things like the nations of the iranian nuclear scientists the virus of intolerance visibility computers back so i think i think there is certainly no basis for these sanctions to be applied and look at look at this exploded iran if iran is any it's surrounded by u.s. military installations i mean who is threatening who here honestly i think is a sure of good will of the five plus one ought to drop these economic sanctions because they're they're affecting a lot of the iranian people and iranian nationals abroad i see it every day. do you think that outside pressure can be effective against iran in resolving this crisis. well perhaps perhaps i think i think the ayatollah was ruling iran and i think they're afraid of the the social un

there's a movie out now called bully by lee hersh. teens in small cities across the country who have faced bullying for one reason or another. it doesn't matter whether the kids are gay or perceived to be gay but they were perceived to be different in some way. it was happening when mitt romney was at cranbrook. it is happening to million of kids right now. >> indeed. this speaks, does it not, to this man's character and also the way he responds which is to simply drag out his wife again. i mean, throughout the campaign he says, ann speaks better than me. she defends my position better than me. and then when he has to confront a story like this, he says, well, i changed when i met ann. it is almost as if ann romney is his messianic savior. >> it is like that's when he stop drinking, though he wasn't drinking. it is the equivalent of that. but i think to me, the issue has resonance because of the way romney is now reacting to it. we've all done things that were terrible. i grew up in a time when people were, kids were taunted for being

john hersh adams. [applause] >> now, in deference to the schedule, i know how to be brief.ent, for those kind words. thank you, reverend, for the sermon. i mean, congressman. [laughter] i do want to tell you that i was here for 14 years, and everything that came at you is true. mr. attorney general of the distinguished people here, congress people, clergy people, press people, and all other kind of people, if you do not know who eric holder is, it is too late for you to find out. distinguished servant of the people, relentless pursuer of justice has served at all levels in this country to provide the opportunity for justice for all the people. he receivers now as the attorney general of the united states, the chief legal officer of this country, the honorable eric holder. [applause] >> good morning. it is a pleasure to be here. thank you so much, bishop, for that warm introduction. it is great listening to congressman cleaver, and i'm thinking to myself, why they do this to me? [laughter] you know? he's a congressman and a pastor, and he brought it, didn't he? [applause] so

joshua hersh next on the "stephanie miller show." ♪ it's go time. cenk uygur calls out the mainstream media. >>the guys in the middle class the guys in the lower end got screwed again. >>i think you know which one we're talking about. the overwhelming majority of the country says"tax the rich, don't go to war." >>just wanted to clarify that. [ woman ] oh, my gosh -- it's so good! [ kristal ] we're just taking a sample of all our different items in our festival of shrimp so we can describe them to our customers. [ male announcer ] red lobster's festival of shrimp starts now! for just $12.99, pair any two of 9 exciting shrimp creations like new barbeque glazed shrimp or crab stuffed shrimp. the crab-stuffed shrimp are awesome! [ woman ] very creamy. that's a keeper! [ woman ] shrimp skewer. [ woman #2 ] sweet, smoky. [ man ] delicious! [ laughter ] [ male announcer ] any combination just $12.99! [ woman ] so what are ya'lls favorites? [ group ] everything! [ laughter ] we're servers at red lobster. and we sea food differently. ♪ ♪ okay, so who ordered