military and state department are implementing the so-called leahy law this prohibits the government from providing aid to another nation's security forces if there is credible information that human rights have been violated. now the watchdog also cites the state department as saying that the afghan government has failed to meet human rights standards and that afghan officials are complicit in the sexual abuse of children by afghan security forces or the u.s. government meantime is accused of turning a blind eye to one afghan custom in particular known as. this involves the sexual abuse of pre-pubertal and an adolescent boys and has been illegal in afghanistan since the start of this year. yeah. it is a. little boat this is. a show that was. it's something that's there. it's not the first time such allegations of afghan soldiers were raping young boys have surfaced back in two thousand and fourteen human rights groups claimed abusers were often paying bribes to hide their crimes but in two thousand and fifteen reports surfaced that american military personnel were being told to look

military personnel in afghanistan reported one possible explanation is the leahy law process through its u.s. government that's foreign security forces as well as defense training programs to ensure recipients have not committed human rights abuses in other words break human rights laws and there's no more money and that could prove tricky in afghanistan where over the last fifteen years washington's pumped in over seven hundred billion dollars and they're not planning to stop anytime soon twenty seven teams going to be another tough year for the value of afghan security forces and the international troops moved good and will continue to stand shoulder to shoulder i do believe it will involve additional forces to ensure that we can. make the advise and assist mission more more effective a presence yet to define his afghan policy many hope human rights will trump war. r.t. washington d.c. we discussed the issue with a number of experts they told us that by keeping the report classified information is in effect being protected. turned away and as they have turned away what we are sayin

. >> here is a look at two books vermont senator patrick leahy is reading this summer. "all the light we cannot see" selling the story of two children struggling to survive in france during world war ii. and minnesota senator al franken "giant of the senate" recalling his path from -- to becoming a politician. booktv on c-span2. television for serious readers. >> next on booktv, roxane gay discusses her body and its impact on her life in her memoir, "hunger." this program contains language some may find

." >> here's a look at two books from vermont senator pat trick bash patrick leahy is reading. a story of two children struggling to survive in frat. and al franken's giant of the senate recalling his path from sat tiist to politician. booktv wants to know what you're reading. send us your summer reading list via at this timer, or instagram. or post it to our facebook page, facebook.com/booktv. booktv on c-span2, television for serious readers. >> we're so glad 'er here today, we love people are coming to our programs. we are happy to hear larry goldstone. he is currently -- the third -- i don't know if there's another in your series on industrial innovators -- i remember the drive did quite well out of here, the one on ford. another one on the wright brothers as well. going deeps what we talk about tonight, on the development of the military submarine, john phillip holland. can't speak to submarines up out

patrick leahy/ d-vt18:28:08 "if you're using your iphone, if you're traveling somewhere using your gpssured of your privacy. you shouldn't have the government or anybody else snoop on what you're doing." 12 secsfor years senator leahy and republican senator mike lee have been working on the legislation. it's called the electronic communication modernization protection act. it forces law enforcement to obtain warrants supported by probable cause evidence, before collecting something like content or location data. right now he says current laws don't have strong enough privacy protections.ááásotáááleahy 28:36 "some in law enforcement would love to just come in and go snooping everywhere. that's wrong." 6 secs a similar bill has already passed in the house. in washington, i'm ( grant ) facebook says it is upping its effort to fight fake news. the company is turning to an automated system to flag stories that could be suspicious.... and then send those suspect stories to fact checkers. currently it's up to users to flag content that could be a hoax so it can be reviewed. facebook has taken

senator leahy on the impact of map on searches today. >> we have a blanket sweep of all of this, inhe long run, that's going to hurt us. that's not going to make us safer. again, we have to go back to the rules, the example i used is this. if you had papers in your desk at home, you fully expect that the police want to come into your home and look at those papers. they're going to have to get a warrant, and to come in and look at them. if you're holding those same files in the cloud, you've got it somewhere on the internet or you're communicating like that, shouldn't they have to follow the same rules? it is your privacy we're talking about. if you collect anything, in many ways you have nothing. you learn to do better, better analysis of it, we had at that time of 9/11, we had very few people looking at this material who could speak the languages of those who were in the wiretaps. we have learned from that. but it doesn't make us less safe to have to follow the rules of law. >> so senator leahy, in the broad scope of thinking about how important warrants are to our civil society, c

. >> here is a look at two books vermont senator patrick leahy is reading this summer. "all the light we cannot see" selling the story of two children struggling to survive in france during world war ii. and minnesota senator al franken "giant of the senate" recalling his path from -- to becoming a politician. booktv on c-span2. television for serious readers. >> next on booktv, roxane gay discusses her body and its impact on her life in her memoir, "hunger." this program contains language some may find ms. -- offensive. [applause] [cheers and applause] >> good evening. new york times best selling author of "bad feminist," "difficult women," she is a contributing opinion writer to "the new york times" and has also written for time, mcsweenys, the nation, salon and more. her fiction has been selected for the best american short stories of 201 and the best american mystery stories of 2014 among other anthologies. in her new book, "hunger," she delivers a seringly honest memoir of food, weight, self-image and learning how to feed your hunger while taking care of yourself.

. >> senator patrick leahy is the senior democrat and the senate judiciary committee. we spoke to him and other members, democrats and republicans in preparation for the series. we're going to show you a clip now from senator leahy on the impact of mapp on searches now. >> the idea that we have a blanket sweep of all of us, the law is that going to hurt us. that's not going to make us safer. again we have to go back to the rules. the example i used is this. if you had papers in your desk at home, you fully expect that the police want to come into your home and look at those papers. they're going to have to get a warrant. and to come in and look at them. if you're holding the same files in the cloud. you've got it somewhere on the internet or you're communicating like that shouldn't they have to follow the same rules? it is your privacy we're talking about. if you collect everything, in many ways you have nothing. learn to do better analysis of it. we had at that time, 9/11, we had very few people looking at this material who could speak the languages. of those who are

but let's listen to senator patrick leahy of vermont who is the senior democrat on the senate judiciarymittee talking about the 14th amendment and why that was such an important thing for the united states of america. let's listen. >> the 14th amendment, 150 years now since it had the second founding, prior to the second founding. >> why do you call it that? >> well, because i think we had the founding, the original -- government, those series of amendments came through. it is like the united states became more aware of what they are and more aware of the fact of slavery and so on, that we had to treat all, all people the same. now, you know and i know, having considered that time, it took a long, long time, and in someplaceness this countsome places in the country it is still going on. but with the second coming of the united states. >> senator leahy talking about why the three amendments are the real second founding of our country. let's look at the text of section one of the 14th amendment just so you understand the legal framework for our discussion tonight. it says, "all persons bo

world answer as well, but i just hope that -- outswanson: i would point it violates the charter and leahy law ino the the u.s. that says you can only support another nation in mass murder when the other nation doesn't violate human rights. how you conduct mass murder without i leading human rights, i cannot answer for you. but that is an additional way in which u.s. operations in yemen are illegal. on top of which you get into can question in yemen of and exiled dictator create reality by inviting other nations to attack his country? when donald trump is impeached and removed and invites china to bomb washington dc, we would accept that, right? no. these are nonsense. the actions of russia being legalized in the charter. that is no understanding war is ok if they did cater asks -- if a dictator asks you to help. u.s. is committing a crime in syria, so is russia. i think, certainly, yet, your concerns about the removal of assad in a vacuum, you have certainly seen that in libya and other locations. as far as the relationship of the united states to saudi arabia, oh, yeah, the hypocrisy of

purchases and illegal drug trafficking introduced a bipartisan bill with susan collins and senator pat leahy. congress should also close, the glaring gaps in fbi background checks that make it easy for convicted felons, terrorists, people with mental instability and others to get handguns and other weapons. we cannot just police our way out of this epidemic of violence. if we are going to ask young men to put down their guns, we have the opportunity chance at a better life and that has to include a job. i'm glad to see the father here. he has spoken to this group before and we know him by reputation. he is my friend. we know he is a pastor. that a year and a half ago, got a message. he wanted to tell me about a young man 26 years old, a former -- this young man and the father had an interesting history. several years ago, the man put out a hit on the father for the trouble he was causing gangs in the neighborhood. it sounds like mike. one day, that young man came and asked will you help me? i want out. i would don't want to live this way. in in a ged course. , young man was driving down the

i've been introduced to bipartisan bill with susan collins of maine and pat leahy. and they should close the glaring background checks, makes it easy for people to get handguns and other weapons. let me be honest with you. congress will not act. the national gun lobby has our president and congress, cower and not even the carnage in our street is going to change that shameful political reality in washington. as superintendent johnson remind us, we can't police our way out of this epidemic of violence. if we're going to ask young men to put their down guns. that has to include a better life, including a job. and i'm glad to see father michael here, you know him b. a year and a half ago i got a message that he left for me. father flagger wanted to tell me about a 26-year-old man, a former gang member. an interesting history. several years ago the man put out a hit on father flagger for the problems he was causing the gangs in his neighborhood. sounds like him. one day the young man came to father flagger and said i want out. i don't want to live this way. he enrolled

flake: none of that but we went to andrews air force base at 5:00 in the morning, myself and senator leahy. upflew down to cuba to pick allen gross, an american who had been held for five years. i visited him before in havana, he was about to take his own life, he said, unless he was released. there were three cuban spies in our jail who got on a plane. we all landed in cuba at the same time and were on the ground for exactly 31 minutes. we picked up allen gross and headed back to the united states. i will never forget we had been in the air about 25 minutes and the pilot came on and he said, we have now entered u.s. airspace. allen gross stood up and just cheered and breathe deeply in and out several times and said, now i know i am free. it was just a wonderful reminder of what it means to be an american. sure, youles from our can have a communist socialist government that imprisons people who protest and want freedom. just a reminder of what this country means. a greatas just experience, one of the best i've congress. host: thank you. wonderful story. we have another question. him to sle

flake: none of that but we went to andrews air force base at 5:00 in the morning, myself and senator leahy. we flew down to cuba to pick up allen gross, an american who had been held for five years. i visited him before in havana, he was about to take his own life, he said, unless he was released. there were three cuban spies in our jail who got on a plane. we all landed in cuba at the same time and were on the ground for exactly 31 minutes. we picked up allen gross and headed back to the united states. i will never forget we had been in the air about 25 minutes and the pilot came on and he said, we have now entered u.s. airspace. allen gross stood up and just cheered and breathed deeply in and out several times and said, now i know i am free. it was just a wonderful reminder of what it means to be an american. just 90 miles from our shore, you can have a communist socialist government that imprisons people who protest and want freedom. just a reminder of what this country means. and it was just a great experience, one of the best i've had in congress. host: thank you. wonderful story. we

this individual, carey leahy, the damage from harvey, could create a hit to gdp of 1%.a loss of a million workers from the september payrolls. these are huge numbers. would you agree with that? >> well, you know, it is hard to say. a. there is a lot of zeros on the numbers on the damage. i wouldn't be surprised if it weren't the biggest natural disaster in our history because some people live in houston. i think two things, for sure you know there will be a massive regional impact on gdp of texas and of the houston region. the thing we don't know is for the wider aggregate economy, how much impact and how lasting impact this will have on fuel prices. that is a key component. then, two, how fast will the adjustment take place, and what share of these people have flood insurance. ashley: right. >> what is different here than in a lot of these cases is much of the, multimillions of people, fraction of them, do not have flood insurance, they are not in a flood zone. so that makes it in some way like the housing bubble popping. so if you lost your home but insurance isn't go

the trump base will be ecstatic over the pardon of joseph arpaio in part because people like patrick leahyand other figures on the other side of the aisle are expressing absolute outrage over all this. >> errol lewis, still so much to talk about. hopefully talk to you a little bit later. thank you. >> okay, thanks. >>> so another major story we have to talk about, north korea. and this new show of force. the regime fired off three short-range ballistic missiles hours ago. traveled about 350 mile. no threat to the u.s. mainland or guam. this comes just day ks after rex tillerson praised the country for showing restraint. >> the launches cap a week of threats from north korea. it also comes, we should point out, amid the annual u.s. and south korea military exercises, something that north korea sees as provocation and as hostile. >> still to come, there were babies who were in intensive care, and they had to be evacuated from hurricane harvey's path to north texas. our next guest was part of that transport team. and she's with us. stay close. electric light orchestra ] ♪ sailin' away on the

but it is a first lesson as you saw, senator leahy say it. he set a low bar.t least his critics will be arguing that that is what he is trying to do. >> okay. a couple questions regarding the timing this is all done on a friday night but with the eyes of the country and the focus of the news media on the hurricane, for obvious reason, but also this pardon of arpaio coming within minutes that adam gorka, both of these guys controversial, talk about that rochester it was the friday news dump and traditional definition of the term. lots of things going on within they assumed no one was watching. we could wonder if maybe it was because they wanted someone to watch, we know president trump doesn't lick being out of the headlines and maybe wanted to share the spotlight with harvey. but it was done at a time when it was going to get less attention t. gorka news, a very controversial figure, he was aligned with steve bannon. many had thought his days in the white house were numbered. i suspect we are going to hear maybe a little back and forth about whether he quit or

senator leahy came to me and said we are going to get that little boy back to his father. going to make it happen if you don't involve a lawyer in this. i have a lawyer for you. his name is greg craig. i'm calling him now. he won't say no. >> i went to the justice department and said i'm going to go to cuba and i want to be able to tell juan miguel that when he comes back the united states he will be able to take custody of his son within the space of a few days, that he's not going to have to sit in some room and watch his son on television being paraded around by these relatives. they were not willing to give me that commitment. i had nothing going down to cuba. other than to say now is the time to do it. ♪ >> we're talking with dr. andrew we'll, the author of eating -- >> let me cut you off. >>let go to greg craig at the office of -- >> i'm pleased to report that juan miguel, gonzalez, his wife and 6-month-old son will be coming to the united states. they will arrive tomorrow morning, thursday, april 6th at 7:00 a.m. at dulles airport. ♪ [ speaking foreign language ] ♪

this is patrick leahy, democratic senator of vermont and at the time miranda came around, he was in vermonts home state, in the state's attorney's office. he talks about the effect on the state. let's listen. >> at that time, it was very controversial. what do you mean we have to read this guilty accused we have here as somebody once said -- a normer attorney general once used that expression. are what do you mean we have to tell them their rights. of course you do. what if you were arrested for something and you may think, they got the wrong guy, wouldn't you want to know what your rights are? that sunk in pretty heavily. >> he went on to tell us he had his own cards printed up with the miranda rights and passed them out to police officers around the state to educate them. every lawyer knows police found a myriad of tactics for avoiding miranda. what's your reaction? >> i've done a lot of research on the effects of miranda. and what you see is there's been a staggering effect on law enforcement in this country. before miranda, if you go back to the start of the 1960s, you're looking about

next you'll see senator leahy and representative goodlatte on the use of executive power by presidentst's watch. >> any president has used executive power. the easy answer is that the congress doesn't like it, pass a law. >> i'd like to see the court step up more and make decisions like that when the congress or the private sector challenges the power of the executive branch. we have a president today who came to the congress as presidents do with his long list of things, every president does that, that they would like the congress to enact, change different policies, but he did something different that i had never seen before. at the end of that he said, and if you don't do it, i will. >> gentlemen, comments from both of you. >> well, i think, again, jackson's concurrence is putting congress on notice to say that, look, we will most reliably stand with you when you speak clearly about what the appropriate boundaries are of executive authority. and when you don't speak and when there is an unbroken chain of historical precedent which is going to come out back in subsequent court cases

. >> so senator leahy, comments on that? >> i they're extremely important. i think the more we sort of set up liberty and safety as oppositional ideas, the more distracted we get from the real issue. there is not inconsistency from liberty and safety. there's in reason for us to believe that we cannot have police forces and law enforcement with limited powers, limited constitutional powers that are still able to cape us safe. i think, you know, carolyn was talking about it a little early, about the statistical studies and what they've shown with regard to the quote cost of the exclusionary role and they are not as significant as they are made out to be. they are not significant numbers of lost prosecutions or lost convictions as a result of forcing the police to play by the rules. >> the court continue to take up these cases about the rights of the accused and about warrants. here's just a few of them. staff ford united school district versus redding in 2009 which involved strip search of a middle schooler, florida versus jardines, dog sniffing at a home, ma

this is patrick leahy, democrat of vermont senator, who has headed the judiciary committee, now seniorocrat on the committee. at the time miranda came around, he was in vermont, his home state, in the state's attorneys' office. he tells a story about the miranda decision and its effect on the state. let's listen. >> at that time, it was very controversial. what do you mean we have to read this guilty accused we have here, as somebody once said, a former attorney general once used that expression, "the guilty accused." but what do you mean we have to tell them their rights? i said, of course you do. because think of it this way. what if you were arrested for something and you think, they got the wrong guy. wouldn't you want to know what your rights are? that sunk in pretty heavily. >> he also went on to tell us in that interview that he had his own at his own expense had cards printed with the miranda rights and passed them out to police officers as he was educating them on what the supreme court decision was all about. i've got comments from people about the effects of all this. let me

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