citizens since two thousand and six and they say well it's perfectly legal to discuss this and more michael brooks our producer from the majority report joins me in studio new. work michael hello martin luther if you see these documents seem to reinforce all the accounts of law enforcement targeting activist coincidentally the chest secretary janet the politan oh just yesterday well she wrote a blog post concerning privacy and civil liberties saying quote the department has implemented strong privacy and civil rights and civil liberties standards in all cyber security programs and initiatives from the outset in order to protect privacy while safeguarding and securing cyberspace now so michael what do you make of that well i think it's really interesting because i think that in some respects you know president obama we go back to two thousand and eight and two thousand and seven he actually campaigned very aggressively on restoring civil liberties and obviously in a lot of ways he simply hasn't done that i think you know he's he's moderate in certain areas and not in others but instead what you've

recused himself because of a possible conflict of interest now to help me untangle the story michael brooks as a producer for the majority or for. michael can you help us break down the story i mean is it everyone is guilty in this case so or is it a disgruntled former employee trying to make trouble for his old boss. you know it's great to be talking with you it could be all of the above everybody here looks pretty questionable i would say that the stakes seem to be pretty significantly different. the embezzlement charges are worth maybe a couple hundred dollars or something like that the gifts. of the governor and the attorney general have received are in the thousands and clued in a fifteen thousand that the c.e.o. of this nutritional supplement company i think called star scientific which i would probably never do anything that a company with that name manufacturers are gay fifteen thousand dollars to the governor for his daughter's wedding so even if nobody here looks good the questions that are raised about the governor and the attorney general are pretty significant so what exactly i

joining now is nbc's amon, and michael o'hanlon at the brookings institution. welcome to you both.ocrats and republicans press the mpresiden to take action. european and middle eastern countries, too. how long can the administration wait for a definitive judgment to quote jay carney, before the pressure to do something becomes overwhelming? >> you know, martin, it's a great question because i think the administration may have to quote/unquote do something, but it doesn't necessarily mean we're going to intervene the way advocates of a much more muscular policy would prefer. i could imagine the president saying it looks as if a small number of people were, indeed, hurt by chemical weapons, that's unacceptable, that crosses a red line but all i can do is identify a specific unit in one place as having done that and punish that unit in some way. and he might announce this, you know, half an hour after cruise missiles have landed around that unit and taken out some of its weapons. or maybe kill ten of its soldiers. that's the kind of response i could imagine that would be a one-off. it

michael o'hanlon, the defense analyst at brookings said in this article april 2. one of the most consistent, i guess, observers of our operations in afghanistan and iraq of anybody in america. from the beginning he's been observing, commenting and writing about it and this is the liberal heritage foundation. he says the absence of a clear message from obama about continuing u.s. presence in afghanistan may be an indication -- excuse me. he's not saying this. this is what the writer said. "the absence of a clear message may be an indication that the president has not made up his mind, said michael o'hanlon, defense analyst at brookings. "obviously obama was of two minds about keeping u.s. troops in iraq after the war ended there, o'hanlon said. he may have similar ambivalence in afghanistan. isif the president ambivalent about the future, well, i won't ask you to respond to that. i will just say if the president is ambivalent about the future, what will happen in afghanistan, i'll observe, i think, without doubt, it makes your job more difficult and makes success m

michael o'hanlon, the defense analyst at brookings said in this article april 2. one of the most consistent, i guess, observers of our operations in afghanistan and iraq of anybody in america. from the beginning he's been observing, commenting and writing about it and this is the liberal heritage foundation. he says the absence of a clear message from obama about continuing u.s. presence in afghanistan may be an indication excuse me. -- excuse me. he's not saying this. this is what the writer said. the absence of a clear message may be an indication that the president has not made up his mind, said michael o'hanlon, defense analyst at brookings. "obviously obama was of two minds about keeping u.s. troops in iraq after the war ended there, o'hanlon said. he may have similar ambivalence in afghanistan. so if the president is ambivalent about the future, well, i won't ask you to respond to that. i will just say if the president is ambivalent about the future, what will happen in afghanistan, i'll observe, i think, without doubt, it makes your job more difficult and m

peter singer, he is director of 21st century security and intelligence at the brookings institution. here in new york michael boyle, he was formerly a counterterrorism advisor to president obama. i am pleased to have all of them here to talk about this. i begin with michael boyle. explain how this became and why, you know, a crucial element of the battle against terrorism on the part of the obama administration. >> well, i think the obama administration confronted a unique series of difficulties when they came into office. the one thing is there was growing instability in pakistan which made rely on pakistan's government much more difficult. the second as we know hamid karzai in afghanistan has also been becoming more and more difficult for the united states to deal with. i think drones began to look like a very attractive way of dealing with a terrorism problem in afghanistan and in pakistan, in part because dealing with the government's was so difficult and costly to do. in a relatively short period of time we've moved from a relatively spare use of drones under the bush administration on something like 50

and michael o hanlon, director of research and senior policy fellow at the brookings institution.id that the missile launch from north korea could come at any moment. but what are you hearing on the ground there in seoul? >> reporter: hi, martin. well, we're hearing pretty much the same thing. basically from this morning, we've been in missile watch mode, if you will. today was april 10th. this was the first in a series of probable dates for a launch because you'll recall it was mentioned specifically by kim jong-un's regime to foreign diplomats up in pyongyang as a kind of recommended dateline to evacuate. tomorrow, however, is a good day as well. april 11th. >> i think -- i think we've lost jim maceda for the moment. let's go to mike o'hanlon. international observes have been speculating on why jim jong-un has decided to become so provocative over the last 10 to 14 days, particularly. do you yourself have any insight into what he's doing given that most people assume that he would rather not light the touch paper for a nuclear war? >> exactly, martin. well, i don't have any part

brooks. but the king of pop, and pay? in 1996 michael jackson did a private party for the sultan of bruni.ag? $16 million. no, you really can't beat it. back to the republican convention for a minute you know they didn't get lady gaga in tampa. they didn't get dolly parton. but they did get journey and the band reportedly made about $500,000 in the process. you might say, everyone won. sort of. jake? >> thank you, john. as for lady gaga's decision to turn down the rnc she wasn't alone. in addition to dolly parton the gop got pit bull. hell has no furgty like a john stewart scorned. the daily show host is mocking him for having his egyptian counterpart arrested. he made fun of morsi on his tv show so last night stewart stood up for his fellow comedian and took morsi to task. >> so he pokes fun at your hat and your lack of promised democratic reforms. what are you worried about? you're the president of egypt. you have an army. he's got a show. you have tanks and planes. we should know. we still have the receipts. >> the state department has weighed in citing a disturbing trend in egypt on re

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. >> joining us now is michael o hanlon, who is director of research and a senior foreign policy fellow at the brookingswhen you add today's decision on the cason complex to north korea's decision to nullify the 1953 korean war armistice last month to reactivate a previously moth balled nuclear power plant, after conducting a third nuclear weapons test, what do you think kim jong-un is planning? >> that's a great question, martin. my first guess is that he doesn't know. my first guess is he's looking for ways to provoke, to spend a message that he wants to announce his arrival on the world stage as if there were any doubt, as an equally strong willed and independent ruler just as his father and grandfather were. that he's not interested in economic reform, or he would not have interfered with the cason complex as you mentioned earlier. that he's perhaps trying to extort more of a higher price out of us for any nuclear weapons concessions. otherwise why would he tell us about his plans to restart a nuclear reactor. so, you know, it sounds like more of the same, just at a higher level of intensity. and th

brooke baldwin live here in boston. welcome back to our special coverage. mayor michaelmberg in new york says the boston bombing suspects also had plans to attack new york city by detonating their leftover explosives after what they are accused of doing here in boston last monday, taking them to times square. mayor bloomberg said dzhokhar tsarnaev told investigators that he and his brother discussed the plan while they were in this suv they had allegedly hijacked after the boston bombs. meanwhile, the suspects' father is headed for the united states to cooperate in this investigation, but the suspects' mother, she believes what happened here in boston is fake. she thinks it's a hoax, the red paint splattered on the sidewalk was just red paint, wasn't blood. i know. the mother got emotional today and lashed out at america. >> i'm, like, sure that my kids were not involved in anything. yes -- not to live in america now. why did i even go there? why? i thought america was going to protect us, our kids were going to be safe. for any reason, it happened. my kids, america took

michael jackson arrivinghospital. this is a picture we understand that has not been shown to jurors before. so a few more gritty details because this is a civil trial. the next person, brookee, l.a. police detective oliver martinez and he is -- orlando martinez excuse me, a person who diddeath. brooke? >> kyung, what about family members? i know there has been some new information about the jackson siblings that can be in the courtroom at any given time. what do you know about that? >> this is actually an argument brooke, that happened before the testimony began. so what aeg live said is they don't want the jackson siblings inside the courtroom. why? because the siblings are on the potential witness list. aeg live isalling every single one of them potentially except for one. and so what aeg live said is we can't have them sitting in the courtroom for all of katherine jackson, 82 years old, she did say that she needs at least one of her children in the courtroom randy jackson has arrived yesterday. we saw him arriving today as well. she says she needs him for support and the judge at this point is saying that, okay you can have one, but you can't have exactly five of these

brooks, november 5th, 2015. what took so long? one reason a feud between ceo at the time michael eisner and steve jobs, who controlled pixar's makerand never mind that toy story 3 with later gross a billion dollars. and making sequels to seven pixar films that disney owned and likely enraged steve jobs and michael eisner quickly shut down circle seven and wooed steve jobs and bought pixar outright a year later and millions in revenue have streamed in since for disney. "finding dory" could add to that. and andrew statton, the writer and director of "finding nemo", the voice of crush, the surfing dude turtle. and john carter, the first effort at a live action feature and logged for disney, it could be a comeback. >> megyn: my kids are little, we don't have a lot of these, "finding nemo" and two years until the sequel. apparently i'm the only one who hasn't seen it. coming up, two female researchers, identical twin sisters, sparking a heated debate today, suggesting that white men are the ones to blame for america's problems with gun violence and there are some spin-off theories about why that may be, and you may find them rather off

i'm brooke baldwin live in boston for special coverage of the investigation into the boston marathon attacks. much more on that in a moment. also coming up here, the first witness in the michaelkes the stand. we will tell you who was called to testify, and what is being said right now. also, huge fallout in the christopher dorner case. remember, he's the guy, the ex-police officer who killed four people for revenge, in an angry online manifesto. it was dorner who claimed he was unfairly fired by the l.a. police department. well, today, we're now learning 40 other fired police officers want their cases reviewed now. >>> plus, this -- >> we have come down what was the elevator shaft. we had to be lowered 12 meter. they tell us the tunnel here runs about 300 meters in the direction of the u.s. border. never knew where it would come up on the other side. >> 400 yards and a mere four feet wide. look at this. we're going to take you inside this drug smuggling tunnel just discovered in mexico. but, first, this. >>> he was a box we are dreams of one day representing the united states in the olympics. "entertainment tonight" got its hands on this never before seen footage of tamerlan