>> we will play more of the speech and be joined by medea benjamin after the headlines. what president obama spoke on thursday about the future of or, wired jaw, is reporting the pentagon is preparing to launch a miniature communications satellites that will be used by elite forces of the u.s. special operations command, designed to stay aloft for three years or more and will be used to hunt down people overseas. in a major development in the ongoing scandal over the obama administration spying on journalists, nbc news is reporting attorney general eric holder personally signed off on a controversial search warrant that identified fox does reporter james rosen as a possible co-conspirator and violations of the as been not to act. the search warrant enabled justice department investigators to secretly seize his private emails. on thursday, president obama ordered a review of the justice department's procedures for legal investigations involving reporters. >> as commander in chief, i believe we must keep information secret that protect our operations and our people in the

his treatment of medea benjamin i think is a credit to him and i think her passion is a credit to her. but i like the fact he didn't just try to diss her. i was proud to see he didn't do that. at the end of the day it's about execution because the president has articulated some good views. there are people who are going to try to stop him. there are people who don't want to change the amuf or close guantanamo. now the question becomes, how do we work with the president to make sure that some of these good ideas get carried out and it won't be easy and we're going to need all of that passion across america. >> do you think the politics on this issue have changed? i mean, i was struck today by the president saying, you know, this is not -- this war needs to end, and his very specific point about getting out of a framework of being in perpetual war. even saying some group of thugs that call themselves al qaeda doesn't mean they're a credible threat to the u.s. is something you don't, you haven't heard high officials say in a very long time in this country. >> that's right. and that has t

i want to begin by talking about the interview i just did with medea benjamin. what were your feelings as you watched president obama's speech and witnessed ms. benjamin's interruptions. i'll start with rick. you're the big democrat here. >> the interruptions are kind of weird. in a sense, i guess they're a little bit annoying but you know what? she serves a very valuable role. i listened to what she said earlier on your show. there wasn't much i could argue with. i actually thought the president would have done well for himself letting her talk and not interrupting her. >> john: michael? >> i agree. what medea seized upon in the speech is it lacked a moral vision. we're not accustomed to that. he usually has a moral vision. even if you disagree, there is an attractive vision he lays out. in that case, the moral vision was brought by medea and the crowd by interrupting the president. >> john: you don't think the notion albeit vague of scaling down the war on terror compromises a moral vision? >> i don't. after you've spent five years invading -- afghanistan and

>> medea benjamin, co-founder of the anti-war organization code pink interrupted the president as hean to talk about det n detainee transfers from guantanamo. this is what she does. recently she interrupted john brennan's confirmation hearing. she's shown up to protest dozens of hearings, speeches and events throughout the bush and obama administrations. today she interrupted president obama three separate times. first the president was frustrated which is the moment you just saw. then benjamin came back at him and the president still frustrated started to engage her. >> we will insist that judicial review be available for every detainee. now, ma'am, let me -- let me finish. let me finish, ma'am. this is part of free speech is you being able to speak, but also you listening. and me being able to speak. [ applause ] all right? thank you. >> okay. so that exchange you've seen before with people in power and protesters, but then medea benjamin came back at the president a third time and this time the president stood there and she spoke mostly uninterrupted. >> how about abdul al awlaki,

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>>grant: peace activist medea benjamin broke into the president's speech three times. after the third time, she was ejected. (nats) >>grant: the protestor, medea benjamin, is a well known bay area activist, and one of the founders of code pink. during the most recent bush administration, she camped out near the president's texas ranch to protest the iraq war. more recently she has written a book criticizing the u=s drone program. >>gary: coming up a little later in this broadcast. the sharks a big game tonight. we will update you and to give you a hit on the bay area sports hall of fame. that later in this broadcast. >>pam: again we are falling breaking news and washington state were a major bridge has collapsed. cars have tumbled into the water. you are looking at a still picture of this bridge. on interstate 5, a television crew is on its way to the scene and we will bring you live pictures as soon as the helicopter to that location. a number of votes in the area are also reportedly going over to the scene of this collapse tried to help rescue any people who may be t

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and the suggestion that we can gloss over them is wrong. >> the activists at code pink and medea benjamin are not trying to make friends. they are out to be disruptive to those with whom they disagree. the president today reacted in a way that was so surprising in part, i think, because he thought he was saying something in which anti-war protesters would agree. essentially the moment was there, hey, stop interrupting me and you might like what you're hearing. at least only some of it, you might like what you're hearing. more ahead. >>> these look like printer cartridges but they're not. they're explosive devices. taken apart and packed with bombs. they contain the explosive pentaerythritol tetranitrate. known as petn. in 2010, two bombs concealed like this in printer cartridges were mailed from a u.p.s. and fedex office in yemen to addresses in chicago. the packages delivered through four different countries, two different planes, two carrying passengers before they were intercepted in britain and dubai following a tip from saudi arabia's intelligence service. that was in 2010. that was

and the suggestion that we can gloss over them is wrong. >> the activists at code pink and medea benjamin not trying to make friends. they are out to be disruptive to those with whom they disagree. the president today reacted in a way that was so surprising in part, i think, because he thought he was saying something in which anti-war protesters would agree. essentially the moment was there, hey, stop interrupting me and you might like what you're hearing. at least only some of it, you might like what you're hearing. more ahead. ♪ [ male announcer ] purpose elevates what we do. raises it to a more meaningful place. makes us live what we do, love what we do and fills our work with rewarding possibility. aarp connects you to a community of experienced workers and has tools to help you find what you're good at. an ally for real possibilities. aarp. go to aarp.org/possibilities. constipated? yeah. mm. some laxatives like dulcolax can cause cramps. but phillips' caplets don't. they have magnesium. for effective relief of occasional constipation. thanks. [ phillips' lady ] live the regular life

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medea benjamin with code pink. or having me in. >> for more on the protest visit cnn.com because medea has been protesting at a lot of meetings in washington, d.c. and beyond. we'll be right back. we raise black and red angus cattle. . >> good morning. thank you so much for being with us. i'm carol costello. the text messages from martin's cell phones include messages of pot, fighting and guns. the testimony of george zimmerman, he was charged with second degree murder in the teenager's death. cnn's dait david mattingly has more. >> you seen these texts? what do they say? >> reporter: it's impossible to think that trayvon martin may have given george zimmerman some of what the jury needs that he's not a murderer. are these the photographs of a troubled and violent teen. pictures and text messages from trayvon martin's phone made public by george zimmerman's testimony suggest the teen was into guns and fighting and pot. >> he has been familiar with fighting and used drugs and he has as well. >> reporter: three months

>>catherine: the woman who interrupted the president is medea benjamin.pink" -- and lives in san francisco. group members have protested a lot of political events. this one is from egypt in 2011. there's no word yet on whether benjamin has been arrested. the clean-up of neighborhoods in moore, oklahoma area is a huge job. today - we got our first close look at the school that was destroyed by the tornado -- plaza elementary. c-n-n's john king took a tour with a local police officer. there's not much left. rooftops gone. classrooms without walls. authorities say it's amazing that out of the more than 450 students - only seven of them died in this e-f-5 tornado. >> none of this had been touched. this is what it looks like. none of this has been touched. nothing has been moved, this is what landed. this has all been searched and this is why it has taken so long. we had to go through all of this and this goes for 50 mi. the other way- 15 miles the other way. >>catherine:today would have been the final day of school at plaza elementary before summer break. but

are dutch martin advisory board member of project twenty one a contributor to townhall dot com medea benjamin co-founder of code pink and global exchange author of the book drone warfare killing by remote control recent television star and conservative columnist commentator and activist chris allman thank you all for joining us actually i want to start with that reason television star medea this is president obama's speech yesterday you interrupted his speech call on him to stop the drone policy and also to free people in guantanamo and immediately after you finished your riff you're like ok ok i want to this is what the president had to say. the voice of the woman. is worth paying attention to. obvious obviously i. obviously i do not agree. with much of what she said and obviously she wasn't listening to me in much of what i said but these are tough issues and the suggestion that we can gloss over them is wrong. so medea first i think we need to acknowledge that it's kind of a cool thing that we live in a country were you could do that and you're here today rather than well i was. actually a

speech wasn't just a one sided affair his speech was paused multiple times by code pink founder medea benjamin who shouted out to literally stopping the president in his place and forcing him to respond medea was demanding answers for the drone strikes on four american citizens as well as the end to guantanamo bay she is a well known antiwar protester in d.c. and around the world earlier today medea benjamin herself joined us to talk about why she couldn't remain silent during the president's speech i first asked her how she got into that speech in the first place oh that's actually something i can't reveal ok did anything the president just say i have. let's just say i have friends on the inside. good now you have protested time and again at different places they say the president say today i inspire you or change your mind about anything. i thought it was positive that he said that he was going to lift the self-imposed ban i and allow yemenis from guantanamo to be returned to yemen and i think it was good that he acknowledged that the drone strikes have created a lot of animosity against the

think the administration wants to even go down that road and really it only took a protester medea benjamin of code pink to try and raise this issue of anwar al to the president while he was speaking today well let's talk about another thing that he mentioned which is the million death counts of course and brennan famously said there were no civilian death counts in the war but i find it hard to believe that three thousand four hundred people have all been millett tens especially when they have said new york times investigation comprehensive investigation speaking to three dozen current and former administration advisers about what they gauge as militants and suspected terrorists and really it's every military age male but you've said that this rhetoric has actually changed now a little bit yeah the president did acknowledge that there were civilian deaths right there that's different from what john brennan. has this new presidential policy guidelines that seem to be like. they want to be a little bit more stringent what they choose their targets and you just sign this guideline yesterday s

the killing of lockie or of the other three americans including his teenage son which my friend medea benjamin interrupted him to ask him about and he did not answer her very very little of substance very little of change or hope you don't think that there's an element to transparency using to be opening up a bit more on the his tactics on war on terror. how so i mean he claims that he is going to further limit his murder by drone program including applying these arbitrary criteria met in secret by himself to his own satisfaction to non americans at least in certain countries countries other than afghanistan and yet he's not provided publicly any documentation of the claims he's made thus far i mean if if he would rather have captured anwar locky why did he not indict him with with any criminal charges or provide any evidence to anyone that he was guilty of any criminal acts this is this is not transparency and if these reforms and limitations are needed on this program then what of the conduct of this program here to four and six not as criminal and abusive as it appears but it in effect to i

medea benjamin made headlines when she broke into the president's counter-terrorism speech three timesr the third time, she was ejected. she is been called a heckler, but she says, that is not an accurate description. "first i want to take objection with the term "heckler." i actually had an invitation to get in. and i felt compelled to speak out./ i don't call it heckling. i call it speaking out, because the president is not implementing policies that we need to see changed." the national defense university. where the speech was held. says, benjamin listed herself as press in order to get an invitation. benjamin is a well known bay area activist, and one of the founders of the group. 'code pink'. during the most recent bush administration, she camped out near the president's texas ranch. to protest the iraq war. more recently she has written a book criticizing the u-s drone program. > > anny: right now, here's a live look at the golden gate bridge. it isn't a pretty shocked. clear skies and only a few high clouds coming in. we are expecting clear conditions tonight and chile and some

indicates that pressure coming from the left to pressure the president experienced firsthand when medea benjamin of code pink interrupted his speech thursday is working. but is it too little too late with the mid-term elections looming followed by the lame duck phase of his presidency barack obama is running out of time to explicitly and legally rein in the kill powers of the executive branch powers that a new president may or may not have the same zeal to use while stocking the planet with killer robots in washington sam sacks r.t. coca-cola the iconic american brand thrives off its history and promotes its all truism in advertising but the residents for a harvest takes a closer look at coke's impact on the world and questions whether it should really be always coca-cola. coca-cola wants to buy the world a coke and if you believe what they say it's because they want to spread peace love and brotherhood to everyone but their history of lacing their products with coke cavemen doing business with lot of moland death squads and colombian paramilitary and pioneering the super sizing of america all p

so that was medea benjamin she's a code pink founder a vocal advocate against drones really protesting it there do you think that because of the fact that american polls one after another have shown that americans do support drones do you think people are listening to president obama over protests or sam will start with you will with the president says that we should listen to be a benjamin is right she's been in pakistan and she's been in these regions of where these drone strikes have taken place she knows the consequences of them so you know and when it when he says that she wasn't listening to him while she was talking about sixteen year old son which he wasn't talking about it all that's why she brought it up david your overall just final word here my final word is that i fear that this speech will lead people to conclude that these problems have been solved and will put the issues out of their mind and it'll be another five years before we hear about guantanamo once again fascinating discussion thank you guys for coming in and weighing in political commentator sam sax and david r

indicates that pressure coming from the left to pressure the president experienced firsthand when medea benjamin of code pink interrupted his speech thursday is working. but is it too little too late with the mid-term elections looming followed by the lame duck phase of his presidency brock obama is running out of time to explicitly and legally rein in the kill powers of the executive branch powers that a new president may or may not have the same zeal to use while stalking the planet with killer robots in washington same sex party well if you're heading out to the jersey shore for this long memorial day weekend you may want to think about bringing your own booze during a sting operation swell inspectors found numerous businesses passing off cheap alcohol for top shelf prices the investigation spanned a year and included a collection of one thousand bottles of vodka gin rum scotch whiskey tequila from bars across the state one investigator says government will make you sick some establishment for passing off dirty water for premium priced liquor one place was mixing together rubbing alcohol and

rachel hartman, yet a recent story about president obama, the codepink activist medea benjamin heckledhe president at a major speech that he gave last week. why did to cover the story and wanted to learn? guest: it was an incredibly speech for the president. he was talking about drones, closing guantanamo bay, so we were covering the speech because of that. medea benjamin decided to protest during this and once that happened, there's a new element to the story so we decided to write a separate piece just on her protest. she was protesting drone strikes used by the government as well as guantanamo bay prisoners. that felt like a unique angle and interesting, an expected part of the speech. we both had in a primitive the -- and format of side to the offshoot well as this piece on medea benjamin herself, the co-founder of codepink, which is a peace activist organization. host: kentucky, republican. seeer: i would like to those look into the net worth of these politicians when they go into office and the net worth after they get out of office. it is just like harry reid getting at $150,000

more on this is michelle rhee get chief of campaigning programs at amnesty international usa and medea benjamin co-founder of code pink and global exchange author of the book drone warfare killing by remote control welcome to you both thanks for having me on so i want to start last week senator carl levin wrote a letter to the white house reminding them that this national security waiver in the in last year's n.b.a. and that the president should be using it another national security waiver allows the president to work around all the restrictions that congress put up and start releasing prisoners as long as it's in the national security interest of the united states and i've heard the president routinely say that guantanamo goes against our national security interests that it's being used as a recruitment tool for extremists so. why why has me used it you know it's really extraordinary and the reality is that if president obama really wanted to close guantanamo as he says and i really want to take the minutes were he could do it tonight right he could take shakur aamer who is a prisoner who's be

she decided to protest, and once that happened there was medea benjamin decided to protest during this and once that happened, there's a new element to the story so we decided to write a separate piece just on her protest. she was protesting drone strikes used by the government as well as guantanamo bay prisoners. that felt like a unique angle and interesting, an expected part of the speech. we both had an informative side to the speech as well as this offshoot piece on medea benjamin herself, the co-founder of codepink, which is a peace activist organization. host: kentucky, republican. caller: i would like to see those look into the net worth of these politicians when they go into office and the net worth after they get out of office. it is just like harry reid getting at $150,000 politico contribution from this guy that supposedly was an illegal contribution. this guy could get five years in prison and harry reid will not get anything out of it. this stuff has got to stop. that is the only way -- the news are going have to stand behind what the people want, not with the politicians

. >> the activists at code pink and medea benjamin are not trying to make friends. they are out to be disruptive to those with whom they disagree. the president today reacted in a way that was so surprising in part, i think, because he thought he was saying something in which anti-war protesters would agree. eventu eventu essentially the moment was there, hey, stop interrupting me and you might like what you're hearing. at least only some of it, you might like what you're hearing. more ahead. i met a turtle friend today so, you don't get that very often. it seemed like it was more than happy to have us in his home. so beautiful. avo: more travel. more options. more personal. whatever you're looking for expedia has more ways to help you find yours. with command strips from 3m. designed to stick and eliminate odors anywhere. like this overflowing trashcan. to test it, we brought in the scott family. so what do you smell? beach house and you're looking out over the ocean. some place like, uh, hawaii in like a flower field. take your blindfolds off. aw man! [ screams ]

become a symbol of around the world for an america that flouts the rule of law and then finally medea benjamin of code pink interrupted the president's speech to. protest drones essentially and his response to her interruption i thought was brilliant and insightful interesting. the voice of a woman. is worth paying attention to obvious obviously. obviously i do not agree. with much of what she said and obviously she wasn't listening to me in much of what i said but these are tough issues and the suggestion that we can gloss over them is wrong. it is just simply is. it was very impressed that he said i'm going to go off script and so what she said has over. and it has the rest of the news a pentagon report released earlier this month revealed that the united states military is in the throes of a sexual assault crisis according to a report approximately twenty six thousand people were assaulted in two thousand and twelve a seven thousand person jump from twenty to ten when one nine hundred thousand people were assaulted some commentators have pointed to america's pervasive rape culture as the re

it was hard to tell from the television viewers, but i think the applause was started by medea benjamin, a co-founder of code pink. everyone agreed that they thought guantanamo should never have been opened. this was the transformative moment. if the u.s. is going to move forward with any positive developments from that speech, it is because of that statement. this should have never happened in the first place. how do we move forward to make sure this never happens again? host: bond is in indiana. republican line. caller: let's remember president obama had control of everything the first two years. also, he wants to pass the shield law to protect journalists from him. what kind of a thing is that? i do not know how many members human rights has, but maybe they ought to take each one of these wonderful people from guantanamo into their homes? host: could talk about the reporter shield law? is not my area of expertise, but i am troubled by reporters to expose policy could potentially be prosecuted for that. secret prisons, where detainees were tortured for years, this was exposed by the p

>> heckler medea benjamin, cofounder of code pink, interrupted the president repeatedly. >> once again these people are desperate. >> i am about to address it, ma'am. let me speak. >> reporter: the issues are worth paying attention to. but pointed the finger at congress. >> i tried to close gitmo. transferred detainees to other countries before congress opposed restrictions to effectively prevent us from either transferring detainees to other country or imprisoning them here in the united states. >> reporter: the first first pledged to close gitmo in the 2008 campaign and again when he took office in 2009. it remains open and the situation more urgent than ever as detainees continue a hunger strike. to ease the way to closing the facility. president obama announced he's lifting a ban on detainee transfers to yemen. >> i know the politics are hard. but history will cast a harsh judgment on this aspect of our fight against terrorism and those of us who fail to end it. >> republican senator john mccain, which the president also reminds americans, supports closing gitmo, says there is a lo