he's martin amis. this is overheard. [applause]. [music]. >> actually, there are two sides to every issue. >> so i guess we can't fire him now. >> i guess we can't fire him now. [laughter]. >> the night that i win the emmy, being on the supreme court was an improbable dream. >> it's hard work and it's controversial. >> and so without information, there's no freedom, and it's journalists who provide that information. >> the window rolls down and this guy says, "hey, he goes until 11:00." [laughter]. >> martin amis, welcome. >> thank you. >> nice to see you. >> nice to be here. >> you had me at "a comedy about the holocaust," which is, you know, i think in some ways a very simplistic way to describe this book, because it's not really a comedy or a comic novel, per se, but it is entertaining. >> yeah, i -- part of my shrivels up when people call it a comedy or an office comedy, even worse. >> yeah. black comedy, comedy of manners, you've heard all of that stuff, huh? >> yeah. but i would edge more towards satire. >> satire. >> that doe

he's martin amis. this is overheard. [applause]. [music]. >> actually, there are two sides to every issue. >> so i guess we can't fire him now. >> g

. ♪ ♪ >> martin o'malley amy, is going to announce that he's running for president. 's kind of a cute video. but what about this? >> you know martin o'malley has a decision to make here. he's obviously going to run as a more progressive. he's talking about being the more clear progressive, a new generation. he's 15 years younger than hillary clinton. he also has to decide how hard he'll run against hillary clinton. hillary clinton, think about her on a football field. she's the strongest player on the field but she has a weakness and we know that iraq is one of those things foreign policy and the clinton foundation and others. i don't think he's going to go for the knee, but we'll see. >> bernie sanders on trade went towards the knee just recently saying i made a decision i'm against it. she has to make a decision. >> right. the trade thing is a perfect example where she's staying out of the spotlight -- well she's in the spotlight, under her terms but she's not answering questions on trade which is tearing the party apart. have we looked at what happened in baltimore

. ♪ ♪ >> martin o'malley amy, is going to announce that he's running for president. o. but what about this? >> you know martin o'malley has a decision to make here. he's obviously going to run as a more progressive. he's talking about being the more clear progressive, a new generation. he's 15 years younger than hillary clinton. he also has to decide how hard he'll run against hillary clinton. hillary clinton, think about her on a football field. she's the strongest player on the field but she has a weakness and we know that iraq is one of those things foreign policy and the clinton foundation and others. i don't think he's going to go for the knee, but we'll see. >> bernie sanders on trade went towards the knee just recently saying i made a decision i'm against it. she has to make a decision. >> right. the trade thing is a perfect example where she's staying out of the spotlight -- well she's in the spotlight, under her terms but she's not answering questions on trade which is tearing the party apart. have we looked at what happened in baltimore when bernie sanders w

martin. acknowledgment of all deceased officers. mrs. amye of alvin scully, florence township police department new jersey. acknowledgment of all disabled officers. deputy sheriff robin hawkins leo county sheriff's office, new mexico. acknowledgment of all international officers. new south wales police force australia. acknowledgment of law enforcement officers in deleterious service, united states navy. -- military service. united states navy. acknowledgment of all officers tc stats a result of terrorist action. sergeant craig pollin, pennsylvania state police. acknowledgment of all law officers still serving in law enforcement. the top-performing team of the 2015 honor guard competition. united states border patrol honor guard. [applause] >> please stand national chaplain phillip wiggins delivers the closing benediction. >> please join me in prayer. hear our prayer, god, at 10 to our prayer. from the end of the year if i will cry to you. when my heart is overwhelmed lead me to what is higher than i am. you have been a shelter for me a stro

amy: this is the wife of the late philip berrigan, liz mcalister, speaking outside the lockheed martinffices in king of prussia, pennsylvania on the 30th anniversary of the plowshares inaugural disarmament action. >> we shall beat our swords into plowshares, their spears into folks -- hooks. [indiscernible] thou shalt not kill [indiscernible] not to say just thou shalt not kill, but take a hammer to the weapons of death and destruction . which ge did in the ge facility to stand in the way of the machinery of -- amy: that is liz mcalister well-known peace activist, wife of the late philip berrigan, who spoke outside the lockheed martin offices in king of pressure -- prussia, pennsylvania on the 30th anniversary of the plowshares inaugural disarmament action. we're going to come back to this discussion and then remember malcolm x who would have been 90 today. stay with us. ♪ [music break] amy: this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. we are talking about what "the new york times" described as the biggest security breach in the history of the na

martin o'malley. for now joining me are amy goodman, host of democracy now. marcus mabry from "the new york times." richard kim for the nation.com and matt welch, editor in chief of "reason" magazine. can martin o'malley make this an actual contest? i mean it's not just primary for primary's sake. people only show up if there's a vigorous contested race going on. >> no. >> that feels like the answer yeah. >> what problem does martin o'malley solve? that's one way of looking at any kind of presidential scrums. i think he address only one problem which is youth. everyone who is being contemplated so far for the democratic nomination clinton, joe biden, jim webb. these are all 70-year-olds basically. he gets his guitar out and he's younger. >> a lot. >> but no one sits around and talks about the baltimore miracle or the maryland blueprint. >> but they did talk about maryland blueprint. they didn't call it that. it was called city stat. there was a point which first baltimore then maryland became the technocratic way to run, right, a local government this idea that you collect all these data. you analyz

amy: vermont independent senator bernie sanders is the only challenger to democratic front-runner hillary clinton so far, but former maryland governor martin o'malley could declare later this week. and those are some of the headlines. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. we turn now to a democracy now! exclusive with wicks i leaks founder julian assange, who has spent nearly three years inside ecuador's embassy in london where he has political asylum. assange faces investigations both in swede and not united states. here in the u.s. a secret grand jury is investigating wikileaks for its role in publishing a trove of leaked documents in the iraq and afghanistan wars, as well as state department cables. in sweden, he's wanted for questioning on allegations of sexual misconduct, though no charges have been filed. earlier this month sweden's supreme court rejected his appeal to lift his arrest warrant. swedish prirs are reportedly preparing to travel to london to interview assange after refusing to do so for years. while assange has been holed up inside the ecuadorian embassy wikileaks has contin

martin o'malley will. >> woodruff: she welcomes the question. >> i'm sure she does. >> woodruff: amy walter, tamara keiths monday. thank you. thank you. >> woodruff: tonight we begin a series of reports from pakistan a nation that's been gripped for years by political instability, sectarian violence, natural disasters, and poverty. the country is also home to one of the world's largest populations of young people. special correspondent fred de same lazaro recenty met with some innovators in the capital karachi who are hoping that generation will fuel pakistan's rise to becoming a high-tech powerhouse. the story is part of our "agents for change" series. >> reporter: it's one of asia's fastest growing tech start-up companies. this team of website developers is on a project for coca cola. >> reporter: umair aziz, the founder, can name-drop other blue chip american clients. >> sears, amazon, microsoft. >> reporter: one secret to his success; actually its pretty much a secret, period, is where this company, called creative chaos, is located... karachi. the teeming and indeed chaotic commercial capital of pak

amy: the youngest victim of the boston marathon bombings was 8 year old martin richard.is parents wrote a front page opinion column for the boston globe last month in which they urged the federal government to drop its pursuit of the death penalty for tsarnaev on the grounds that the appeals process would prolong their mourning. bill and denise richard wrote -- "we hope our two remaining children do not have to grow up with the lingering, painful reminder of what the defendant took from them, which years of appeals would undoubtedly bring." they conclude by saying -- "we believe that now is the time to turn the page, end the anguish, and look toward a better future -- for us, for boston, and for the country." eric freedman, your constitutional lawyer, hofstra law school, can you talk about the instructions to the jury? flex yes, that is not a technical problem. it builds on what denny lebouef was saying about the very unrepresentative nature of the jury in this case. in light of that, it is incredibly important for the jury to know that a single holdout juror can block t

amy: george zimmerman, who was acquitted of murder after fatally shooting the unarmed african-american teenager trayvon martin in 2012, has suffered minor injuries after police say he was shot at while driving in central florida. zimmerman was struck by flying glass and debris, not by a bullet. the man accused of shooting at him was involved in a previous encounter with zimmerman last year, when he said zimmerman threatened to kill him and asked him, "do you know who i am?" zimmerman has had repeated run-ins with police since his acquittal, including two arrests on allegations of domestic violence. an african-american man has been found hanging from a tree in the rural town of greensboro georgia. the man, roosevelt champion iii, had been questioned last week in connection with the murder of a white woman. he had not been charged. authorities say there is "nothing to suggest any foul play" in his death. they're continuing to investigate. here in new york, an unknown amount of oil has leaked into the hudson river following an explosion and fire at the indian point nuclear power plant in buchanan, north of new y

amy: thank you, gavin boyd, for joining us policy and advocacy , manager at the rainbow project , speaking to us from belfast, northern ireland. catholic archbishop martinyone who doesn't show loved toward gay and lesbian people is insulting god. they're not just homophobic, he said, there actually god-aphobic because god loves everyone of those people. when we come back, we go to another catholic country, but we goes out to el salvador where this weekend, 300,000 people turned out for the edification of the slain archbishop -- beatification of the slain archbishop romero. stay with us. ♪ [music break] amy: wolfe tones' version of "a nation once again." this is democracy now! democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman with aaron matÉ. aaron: thirty-five years ago archbishop oscar arnulfo romero was murdered by members of a u.s.-backed death squad while delivering mass in san salvador, el salvador. on saturday, hundreds of thousands gathered in the same city to see him beatified. the recognition has long been opposed by right wing clerics and politicians. during the ceremony, eight deacons carried romero's blood-stained shirt to the alta

of jesus gandhi, martin luther king people in the audience right now who are the hope of the future. you're not hearing about them yet, but i think we can encourage it in ourselves. amy what can be heard and what can't be heard can you talk about being blacklisted during the 1960's? on monday, we're going to be playing the sixth ordinary panel that juan moderated and washington, d.c. with ron dellums, house of the armed services committee oakland commerce member, former oakland congress member, has shored or pat shorter tom hayden, wayne smith who is a vietnam medic. it is the 40th anniversary of the end of the war, 50th anniversary of the was invading south vietnam. when you were singing about it, what happened? why was it difficult to hear your songs? >> i did not know the time, but i found out 20 years later apparently administration johnson and dixon administration's, apparently, they drown my career, the career of her thicket, taj mahal had problems him and i was told irate over broadcast or live on the air at the beginning of an interview -- this was in the 1980's. richard nixon was gone. the democratic administration and republican administration apparently ha

amy: senator rand paul's effort was aided by seven democrats and three republicans who gave speeches to help keep the session going. the democrats were senators ron wyden, martin heinrich, joe manchin, chris coons, maria cantwell, richard blumenthal and jon tester post of the house approved a measure last week that calls for ending the bulk collection of telephone records i requiring the nsa to make specific requests to phone companies for user's data rather than vacuuming up all of the records at once. but republican leaders in the senate say they want to keep the ball spying, federal appeals court ruled the ball collection of phone records is illegal. california has declared a state of emergency for santa barbara county after a ruptured pipeline leaked oil into the pacific ocean. the estimated spill size has grown five-fold to up to 105,000 gallons. a coast guard spokesperson said the oil slick from the spill has also expanded to 9 miles. >> we have basically, two miles from shore, a slick that is possibly 3.7 miles long that goes along the shoreline heading east. and northeast, we have a slick offshore that is 5.3 miles. so a slick totaling about nine miles

martin. [background sounds] acknowledgment of all deceased officers. mrs. amyth wales police force australia. [background sounds] acknowledgment of law enforcement officers in deleterious service, united states navy. -- military service. united states navy. acknowledgment of all officers tc stats a result of terrorist action. sergeant craig pollin pennsylvania state police. the [background sounds] [background sounds] acknowledgment of all law officers still serving in law enforcement. the top-performing team of the 2015 honor guard competition. united states border patrol honor guard. [applause] [background sounds] [background sounds] [background sounds] >> please stand national chaplain phillip wiggins delivers the closing benediction. >> please join me in prayer. hear our prayer, god at 10 to our prayer. from the end of the year if i will cry to you. when my heart is overwhelmed, lead me to what is higher than i am. you have been a shelter for me, a strong power from enemy. i will abide in your tabernacle forever. i will trust in the shelter of your wings. fa

the hearts of daughter amy, son ben, her grandchildren, her extended family and the friends and the millions she entertained. and she was trending on facebook and twitter. steve martin tweeting stiller and meara have been a wonderful presence in my life. i salute her. ben stiller saying thank you so much about all of the kind words about anne. anne meara, comedy icon whose work will be remembered by many. >> thanks a lot. we were talking about how much fun it was to have them in studio with us. you'd see them around town and they truly were a team. >> historic career but that marriage and that bond together, so beautiful. >> thinking about you all this morning. >>> coming up new questions about that mansion murder in washington, d.c. this morning the search for possible accomplices and why investigators were lied to about a $40,000 ransom. >>> plus we're going for a ride with the very first woman to fly with the famed blue angels. but first this is "today" on nbc. >>> coming up, what's the best prank you've ever pulled? what george clooney did to brad pitt that could land him behind bars he ♪ me and you, ♪ ♪ and you and me. ♪ ♪ no matter how they tossed the dice. ♪