secrets but was cleared of aiding the enemy and his news i have across and our correspondent lisa catherine of here with me in the studio to discuss the show and also we're joined by michael korda who is president and general counsel for the national whistleblower center as well as a reporter and columnist james kirchick so welcome to the program all of you and let me yes let me address our gas first michael calling and and james kirchick sir michael please tell us quickly your position on bradley manning to just to turn the stand what actually your grounds. mr manning in the middle of room war he acted out of. he did not go about it the right way however the government overreach when to charge him with espionage he was not involved as he was involved with the leak of classified information and i think the government has overplayed its hand and i'll be very disturbed if the sentence is anything near what the government is seeking yet james and let me ask you the same the same position establishing question. yeah well harvey firestone is a very famous american playwright and after he said th

calling for russia to be stripped of the games for introducing all they believe is an anti-gay law lisa catherine looks now at what's causing the strong reaction. the international reaction as well as domestic here reaction here in russia has really been hinged on what the law does and doesn't do and there's been a lot of misconceptions about it so let's really break it down now the bill criminalizes the public expression of support for so-called nontraditional relationships russian lawmakers say that it doesn't outlaw homosexuality it merely discourages the discussion of it among people younger than eighty and now the law doesn't outlaw gay sex which was actually legalized in russia back in one thousand nine hundred three it also doesn't explicitly ban the participation in gay pride parades the problem however is that the defendant and of propaganda is rather vague and it's based on intent so anyone who distributes information for example with the intention of persuading minors that nontraditional sexual relationships are attractive could be accused of breaking this law any individuals or organi