meade was just as hard on his subordinates and superiors. i of tired of this playing war without risky declared a gritty. we must encounter risk that we cannot carry on without fighting. but their real flaw of george meade was not his temper ironically office save a version to taking risks that he complained about of the other generals. once in command of the army on the potomac he saw his task is purely defensive, to shadow lee's army as it moved into pennsylvania, but keep between the rebels and washington and the susquehanna river. i can only say now it appears to be imus moved to the susquehanna hero to keep the washington and baltimore well covered. only if the enemy is checked in his attempt to cross the susquehanna or turns to baltimore would meade try to give him battle once he turned away to the gettysburg he considered himself done and then was going to go 25 miles to the southeast to keep a shield in place between the confederates and the capital. he was not inclined to go hunting for the high noon encounter with robert e. lee. ha

after he was arrested the latest from inside the courtroom and his supporters who are surrounding fort meade next. signed stamped and sealed guantanamo bay hunger strikers write a letter to their doctors demanding better treatment we'll speak with an attorney representing some of those men just ahead. the. massive demonstrations rocked turkey to its core hundreds of thousands flood the streets and protest without at least two casualties and no sign of this slowing down anytime soon the sights and sounds from this unbelievable scene coming up. it's monday june third four pm in washington d.c. i'm maggie lopez and you are watching r.t. more than three years after he was arrested in iraq and accused of the biggest leak of classified military documents in u.s. history private first class bradley manning is finally getting his day in court today the twenty five year old former intelligence officer is facing twenty two charges ranging from ranging from possession a transfer of documents to violating the computer fraud and abuse act to his most serious charge aiding the enemy if he is found guilty

he's, uh.... he's saying he was up at a bar at lake mead and, uh...wood, and, uh, got into a little argument with some guys, and, uh... they pulled a gun on him, and he went to grab the gun, and they shot him in the hand. let me see your hand, man. >> be careful. it's bleeding. >> i know. (garbled radio transmission) i don't know if it exited right there. it was so close, you could see the muzzle blast. >> patton: tell me what happened. >> we're on the side. we're at hollywood and lake mead at the albertsons. >> patton: you were at the albertsons? >> went on the side where there's a tattoo shop. >> patton: okay. >> i was out there. three latino mexicans got out and said, "hey, do you have a problem?" i said, "no, no, no, i don't have no problem." as i was backing up, they were coming towards me with a gun in my face. so i had no chance but to grab that gun and put it to the side, or else, i-i was dead. >> patton: they didn't say, "give me your money?" they weren't trying to rob you or anything? >> no. it was... truthfully, i think it was gang-related.

military whistleblower private bradley manning continue to protest at the gates of the army base fort meade on the eve of the court martial which will determine whether he spends the rest of his life in prison. broadcasting live from our studios in moscow this is thomas good to have you with us street battles between riot police and anti-government protesters have resumed for a third night in the turkish city of bull clouds of tear gas and pepper spray have been flying across the peak district where up to five thousand demonstrators have gathered so trying to break through police lines and the prime minister's office security forces have responded by firing water cannons on the protesters. has been following events. this is the third night of protests in turkey and unfortunately for the people here this isn't a calm died earlier we have seen there are clashes between police and protest broken out and now one of the stumbles that main square is invested caution in fact we do know that there is some confrontation going on there still at the moment at least we have seen clouds of smoke and of

military whistleblower private bradley manning continue to protest at the gates of the army base fort meade on the eve of the soldier's court martial which will determine whether he spends the rest of his life in prison. and broadcasting live from our studios in moscow this is thomas good to have you with us. street battles between a riot police and government protesters have resumed for a third night in the turkish city of bull clouds of tear gas and pepper spray have been flying across the district where up to five thousand demonstrators have gathered people there have put up barricades and started throwing rocks and firecrackers at police security forces responded with water cannons injuries have been reported at the scene. has been following the events for. about ten kilometers away from the main square of. nights and days in a row at this point. they were broken up by police according to what. mobs of angry youth who were throwing stones we do know that. by police also with tear gas and water cannons international says there are at least that which have occurred as a result of the clas

on saturday, hundreds of manning supporters rallied outside the barracks at fort meade, maryland where the trial will be held. we will have more after the headlines. hunger striking prisoners at guantanamo bay have written an open letter asking military doctors to stop contributing to what they call abusive conditions. the letter calls out the doctors taking part in force feeding and pleads for independent medical professionals in their place. it signed by 13 prisoners, the letter says -- more than 100 of guantanamo's's 166 prisoners are taking part in the strike. at least 36 are being force fed through tubes. the death toll from friday's tornado in central oklahoma stands at 13, including four children. three people were killed in neighboring missouri. the storm triggered massive flooding areas around oklahoma city. it came 11 days after an ef5 category twister left 24 people dead in a nearby suburb. oklahoma governor mary fallin toured the damage on sunday. >> we will recover. we need people to spring to action just like it did a couple of weeks ago in moore, oklahoma. with all the d

we're at fort meade maryland in baltimore on monday the court martial against by the first class bradleymanning will finally begin private manning twenty five year old army intelligence officer is accused of the biggest leak in the history of the united states according to army prosecutors manning is responsible for the lion's share of material that's been shared by the anti-secrecy wiki leaks in the last few years u.s. state department cables watanabe detainee assessment files on iraqi and afghan war logs have all been attributed to private manning and for leaking this material the u.s. government is charging him with aiding the enemy and he could spend the rest of his life in prison on monday however the courtroom here in fort meade in the back with supporters and prosecutors attorneys on both sides waiting for the court martial of finally get three years after manning was first brought into custody it was late being twenty ten with manning was picked up in baghdad transferred to kuwait brought back to united states and spent three years of waiting and waiting for this court martial to

adrian lamo the man who gave manning up to federal authorities testifies in court an update from fort meade just ahead. protesters in turkey continue to plash with police thousands have left their jobs to join the demonstrations and the violence has turned deadly the science and sounds of turkey's unrest coming up. and connecticut's legislature is making a push for labeling all g.m.o. foods a new bill is on the governor's desk but does it have teeth the latest on the battle over g m o's on the state level later in the show. it's tuesday june fourth pm in washington d.c. i'm meghan lopez and you are watching r t well day two of the bradley manning trial kicked off today the moment many of the courtroom were waiting for a testimony from the man who alerted federal authorities that manning was the person behind the biggest document drop in american history former computer hacker adrian lamo detailed how he communicated with the army private first class using a number of computers and e-mails addresses along with encrypted text now r.t. has been covering this story since the first apache helico

jason pride, director of investment strategy at glen meade. nice to have you back us with. >> thank you for having me, suzie. >> great to have you here. wanted to get your take on the markets. what will you be doing on monday morning? buying more stocks? >> well, you know, i think it's a cautious investment stance we have really, looking at an environment where the fed is really forcing investors to take risk, markets are rallying, probably more than the fundamentals actually reflect they should. still in a good, but not great growth environment. so we're wanting to take risks in a cautious way. that means seeking stability but being an equity buyer through the period. >> so some of the stocks you have meet that criteria. let's begin by leaping in here, one of your choices is philip morris, i guess that's philip morris international as compared with altria. why do you like it? >> the main thinking, we're going for div dens and stability. div den growth. 3% dividend yielder, 10% growth potential in the underlying dividend. great when you can ge

thousands of people have rallied over the weekend at the gates of fort meade in the american city of baltimore where the anticipated court martial for whistleblower bradley manning kicks off on monday u.s. military private faces dozens of charges after sharing a huge cache of secret documents exposing alleged american atrocities committed abroad with wiki leaks artes and blake was at the rally. we're at fort meade maryland in baltimore on monday the court martial against by the first class bradley manning will finally begin private manning twenty five year old army intelligence officer is accused of the biggest leak in the history of the united states according to army prosecutors manning is responsible for the lion's share of material that's been shared by the anti-secrecy wiki leaks in the last few years u.s. state department cables guantanamo bay detainee assessment files iraqi and afghan war logs have all been attributed to private manning and for leaking this material the u.s. government is charging him with aiding the enemy and he could spend the rest of his life in prison on m

but in a matter of minutes, mother nature took nearly everything from five military families in fort meade. >> we also had to call in fire companies from bwi, howard county and anne arundel county. >> reporter: lightning started it. now five families are within consider iting where they're going to go from here. that's where army community services comes in. >> we're family away from family. >> i could not, not help. >> reporter: she's been through this before when a near destroyed her home and she lost everything. she is amazed at how the community has stepped forward. clothes and food are easy to get, but photographs are hard this replace. they found a solution for that. >> several of the photographers here on the installation have come forward and offered each one of the families photo sessions through the next year so they can at least start over. >> more supplies are coming in every day. >> this is america. this is what america is all about, that we take care of each other and our own. we have our six, not just our six our 12, our 3, our 6, our 9. >> reporter: in ft. meade, don harris

robin meade is used to saying this just in.me, she's singing it for her second album "count on me" which releases this week. >> i look at music and journalism as different forms of the same thing. because in reality my job as a journalist is to relay that human experience, right? make it understandable. well, that's exactly what i do as a songwriter. >> reporter: besides anchoring the news for six hours a day, she's written a best-selling book, performs live concerts and has a success debut album "brand-new day." your viewers at home are saying i'm trying to get kids ready and make breakfast and how did robin have time to make an album and do what she does and keep the same crazy hours? >> i do normally go bed at seven. my husband and i have been happily married for 19 years i joke because we've only seen each other for the equivalent of seven. >> she wrote 7 of the 12 tracks in one week, collaborated with notable musicians such as kenny loggins and also did covers of some music legends' songs. you kind of, lack of a better wor

producer adriano seto is at fort meade with the latest on the bradley manning trial hi there adriaan a so what came out of the average testimony today. hi there megan yes today as you just said it was the second day in the court proceedings of the court martial of bradley manning some key things happening today and most noteworthy was as you pointed out earlier the testimony of adrian lamo a former hacker that actually ended up actually giving over manning to authorities very interesting testimony we were able to just reconfirm some of the things that we already knew throughout the trial and a lot to talk about for sure so how was he received in the courtroom adrian lamo. well megan it was actually kind of a shock not a lot of people were expecting him to testify today especially not as early in the day as he did so you could hear some gasp in the courtroom from some of the visitors and some from of the media attending and as he made his way to the podium it was actually very interesting you could see his demeanor just very straight very serious very straightforward just ready to be

we're at fort meade maryland in baltimore on monday the court martial against by the first class bradley manning will finally begin private manning twenty five year old army intelligence officer is accused of the biggest leak in the history of the united states according to army prosecutors manning is responsible for the lion's share of material that's been shared by the anti-secrecy wiki leaks in the last two years u.s. state department cables watanabe detainee assessment files iraqi and afghan war logs have all been attributed to private manning and for leaking this material the u.s. government is charging him with aiding the enemy and he could spend the rest of his life in prison on monday however the courtroom here and for me to leave with supporters and prosecutors attorneys on both sides waiting for the court martial finally against the three years after manning was first brought into custody it was late may twenty town when manning was picked up in baghdad transferred to kuwait brought back to united states and spent three years of waiting waiting for this court martial the final

the military trial in private first class bradley manning resumed today at fort meade maryland manning is accused of violating the espionage act and for aiding the enemy among other charges for releasing hundreds of thousands of documents to wiki leaks artie's list wall is like that for me today to bring us the latest from the fourth week of hearings in the trial against private first class bradley manning. high their lives so what happened today what's the latest there margaret hi there could you give us an update on the latest developments in the case. absolutely yet today focused around the two hundred fifty thousand diplomatic cables that were leaked to wiki leaks the prosecution has alleged that manning stole this information from a special database. and leaked it to wiki leaks manning admitted to leaking this information he says that he didn't steal it though we heard testimony from various state department of fish officials much of it was in the form of written testimony it's called stipulations so it's basically testimony as if that person was present this is how this person wo

still facing prosecution under the espionage act bradley manning speight remains unclear he is at fort meade for another day of testimony details just ahead. be careful where you charge her if you're going to do the perp walk in the u.s. there's been several activist arrested for chalking on sidewalks to express their concerns look at that issue later in the show. it's friday june twenty eighth eight pm in washington d.c. i'm margaret how well you're watching our t.v. we begin the show with the latest update on the ad word snowden the man who leaked confidential national security agency documents to media outlets he is at this moment still holed up in the transit area of the moscow airport meanwhile edward snowden's father speaking out saying he believes his son will be willing to return the unit to the united states if certain conditions are met in an interview with n.b.c. loney snowden said that he had not spoken to his son since april however artie's lucy kavanagh is in moscow and brings us the latest. above edward snowden continues for yet another day of course he still presumed to be so

begin this half hour with the trial from our army private first class bradley manning he's in fort meade maryland right now today's hearing resume just as the news broke of yet another whistle blower that was a blower has been identified as edward snowden but before we get to that story today the prosecution in the manning case was slated to focus on the specific video the private first class bradley manning had leaked to wiki leaks the video showed an airstrike that happened back in two thousand and nine in afghanistan at least twenty six civilians were killed in that attack however in reality the court spent the majority of this morning talking about computer forensics are to correspondent liz wahl joined me just minutes ago with the very latest information coming out from that trial take a look. pay their lives so what new information came out from court today. that's our bag and it is day four week two of the bradley manning trial here in fort meade maryland and today we heard testimony from a number of witnesses mostly in relation to computer forensic analysis first up on the stand

producer adriano settled bringing us the latest from fort meade. well the f.b.i. calls it a backdoor internet companies call it a floodgate to all electronic communication first the government wanted to find tech companies for refusing to provide them with information about their customer's e-mails now a new wiretap bill supported by the f.b.i. is planning to expand wiretap design significantly it will include written communications like emails but also digital functions like video chats and face time the bill forces the tech companies to not only allow the f.b.i. to conduct the spying but to pave the path for them to be able to do it with infrastructure that's because the law enforcement officers actually are concerned about quote going dark and losing their ability to surveil electronically the bill is an update to the communications assistance for a law enforcement act that was passed back in one nine hundred ninety four which compels all telecommunications providers to design their networks so that the law enforcement can sneak a peek a new report from the cen

of manning leaving the courtroom at fort meade after a day of court pinning allegedly leaked hundreds of thousands of classified government cables to wiki leaks liz wahl has been covering the trial from fort meade and brings us the latest. wrapping up the fourth week of bradley manning's trial we have heard some of the most compelling testimony we have heard yet throughout the month that this trial has been going on today colonel david miller took to the stand he was the commander of manning's unit in iraq and he spoke about the impact he believes these leaks had on the brigade and the prosecution asked what was his reaction when he found out that about these leaks and he said quote i was stunned the last thing i anticipated was an internal security breach from one of the prosecution went on to ask ask him about the more rally how these leaks impacted the morale among the troops on the ground there in iraq and he said quote my read of my staff a funeral like atmosphere fell over the crowd went on to describe the anger and frustration among soldiers there. and the brigade i want to tal

for week two of the bradley manning trial here in fort meade maryland and today we heard testimony from a number of witnesses mostly in relation to computer forensic analysis first up on the stand today was a man by the name of the buchanan he is a contractor for the n.s.a. he was also trained at security for something called intel legs and was not is a web based search under used by the u.s. intelligence community and that allows users to find all kinds of information including top secret information and so the point of this testimony is to authenticate evidence proving whether what bradley manning searched for in terms of the information that he's accused of leaking we also heard from another analyst. a man by the name of david shaver he is a special agent for the computer crimes investigative unit he provided for more parental canalis says and he will be able to verify that here in searches did in fact happen he says bradley manning searched the terms of wiki leaks dawn and iceland those specific terms back in december of two thousand and nine so today mostly mostly details in regard

we have more from fort meade. >> he sat quietly in the courtroom three years after his arrest for downloading more than 700,000 files, including diplomatic cables, and sending them to wikileaks. a timeline.t out it is said and arrogant manning used this to seek the notoriety he craved. at the request of wikileaks, he forded the names and personal information of thousands of military members in iraq. while manning has admitted guilt on 10 charges, the prosecution focused on the most serious counts, which he denied, consciously aiding the enemy and endangering u.s. security. osama bin laden personally requested and received the entire database from wikileaks, the prosecution argued. manning says it was out of humanitarian instincts. he called him naÏve but well- intentioned. there was an air strike which killed civilians. he said manning was driven by his desire to make the world a better place. supporters of manning demonstrated outside the base where the court convened as well as at other locations around the country. >> i am here in support of bradley manning. i hope he knows that there are

meade. >> are you guys with the fbi? >> reporter: snowden's mother politely ducked reporters. >> please do not get in my way. thank you. have a good day. >> reporter: fbi agents showed up at his father's home near allentown, pennsylvania. >> my name is edward snowden. i work for booz allen hamilton as an infrastructure for the nsa in hawaii. >> reporter: according to the guardian, the 29-year-old was a high school dropout. he enlisted in the army, but was discharged five months later for breaking both legs in a training accident. worked for the cia undercover in geneva and says he became disillusioned. signed up for a military contractor at a base in japan. he joined booz allen ham 8 on the working in hawaii. and a month later he copied top secret documents and then flew to hong kong to meet with glenn greenwald of "the guardian." snowden says having become hardened about the government's surveillance programs. he told "the guardian" -- >> i'm just another guy that sits in the office day to day and watches what is happen

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begin the sense december two thousand and eleven they've been having pretrial hearings here at fort meade and there's been really them all over the world in support of the soldier according demonstrators this is the largest bradley manning really that has ever happened in the three plus years sense these men but if the u.s. military custody people from all over the country gathered here today to really in support of the soldier but there's also demonstrations planned in more than two dozen cities in four continents and i promise the world in the next coming days seoul south korea pearl in germany toronto ontario cities throughout the united states and across north america and the rest of the globe are all holding events this week in support of private manning now his court martial wolfishly began on monday more than three years more than one thousand days after is first brought into custody and by the end of the summer his supporters his family his friends are all finally going to know how he's going to spend the rest of his life. kevin who's written extensively on the case of bradley man

meade. so there is a smaller i.t. section and he may very easily have been put in charge of a lot of access that otherwise if he was a ft. meade proper he would not have had. because it's just a measure of size and the amount of folks you would have in an i.t. office. >> that's fascinating. in terms of security contractors, and we've seen statistics saying that, you know, as many as 70% of the positions inside the world of those who have top secret clearances are actually private firms. should americans be -- is this one point of the debate that these revelations should spark us in about the nature of the intelligence system right now that is so heavily privatized? >> well, it is an issue, because there's an awful lot of work that's being done in the private sector that a decision was made some time ago that they were not going to increase the federal workforce but they were going use contractors. i was a contractor for a period of time. you get paid an awful lot more as a contractor than you do as a federal employee.

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that's right abbie we are in a week for a bradley manning's court martial here in fort meade maryland today centered around the two hundred fifty thousand diplomatic cables that were leaked to wiki leaks the prosecution alleges that manning stole because cables manning says that he admits to leaking the cables he says he didn't steal them we heard testimony today from state department officials some of the testimony we heard testimony specifically about this database called that center of diplomacy this database that's used by the defense intelligence community supposedly this is where these cables came from where they were taken for a couple of interesting things we learned that as much as seventy five percent of the documents are administrative so you know that means a lot of the documents probably weren't too explosive in terms of what they contained another interesting thing is that according to the testimony today there was no proof that manning hacked into the database or hacked into the computers that in order to obtain this information that it was readily. attainable to him ba

that's right abbie we are in a week for a bradley manning's court martial here in fort meade maryland today centered around the two hundred fifty thousand diplomatic cables that were leaked to wiki leaks the prosecution alleges that manning sold because cables but manning says that he admits to leaking the cables he says he didn't steal them we heard testimony today from state department officials some of the testimony we heard testimony specifically about this database called that center of diplomacy this database that's used by the defense intelligence community supposedly this is where these cables came from where they were taken for a couple of interesting things we learned that as much as seventy five percent of the documents are administrative so you know that means a lot of the documents probably weren't too explosive in terms of what they contained another interesting thing is that according to the testimony today there was no proof that manning hacked into the database or hacked into the computers that in order to obtain this information that it was readily. attainable to him

leaks contained classified information are to correspondent liz wahl was at the proceeding in fort meade and brings us this wrap up. well the trial was on recess for much of today as the prosecution and defense worked on written testimony to be submitted to the court and we heard testimony from special agent mark manders the prosecution called into the dishpan to discuss two tweets that appear to be sent from the whistle blowing website wiki leaks one of them is requesting military addresses the other of it is looks like it's from the whistle blowing web site announcing that they have possession of a video a classified encrypted video now mander testified that he took a screenshot of these tweets and said he found them by doing a simple google search the defense then cross-examined had and questioned the authenticity of the tweet they say that there's really no way to prove that these tweets are in fact authentic because he found them through a google search and did not find them directly feed the twitter feed of wiki leaks they say the only way to verify the authenticity of these tweets

correspondent lizzie wall was in the courtroom in fort meade today listening to the testimony and she breaks it all down for us. well today marks the beginning of the third week of bradley manning's court martial and here in fort meade maryland today we heard testimony from witnesses describing blogs hanum obey detainee assessments that manning admitted to leaking to the whistle blowing web site wiki leaks among today's witnesses a senior counterterrorism analyst that worked on guantanamo bay and army intelligence officers now they describe these detainee assessments now these are essentially profiles of the guantanamo detainee guantanamo bay detainees. information and these assessments include everything from up their background health conditions affiliation with terrorist organizations and details of how these detainees were captured those that testified today described the documents as classified and that leaving that could pose a danger to national security we had a rear admiral give us a specific example david was said information revealed intelligence sources now still to come i