against another narrative is a kind of capitulation to the first narrative. so i was sort of explicitly uninterested in doing that, if that makes any sense. >> well, in some ways you are writing against another narrative because there's a writer of the holocaust that said that the holocaust and slave trade turned real people into numbers and statistics. and by writing about real people, you're writing, you're restoring them as real people as opposed to being a number or a statistic. >> certainly. >> right? >> certainly to some extent. but if i write with that foremost in my mind, then i'm writing something differently than what i wrote, which is to say that if i'm writing against, if i am consciously in every sentence and in every paragraph writing against that narrative, then i'm not writing a book that is free that narrative. >> i gotcha. what are your thoughts on this? >> well, you talk about the master narrative, and i tend to agree with ayana that you don't tend to sit down and write a book with, okay, i'm going to oppose whatever the narrative that has

they can't use a narrative to oversell the truth.e to stick with the structure in a lot of way, this is about numbers. numbers do exist. if the data didn't exist you couldn't determine the subsidy, you couldn't determine the cost. the insurance company couldn't determine a price. if the data is there. why don't they it out? they can't support argument and narrative. >> this debate will continue. thank you. >> thank you. >> federal education standards known as common core facing controversy. one state has withdrawn, will other states follow suit. >>> the powerball winner who got his jackpot on april fool's day. those winnings are no joke. >>> we have a winner, a retiree who didn't want to show his face holding up a checks for $425 million after winning last month's powerball jackpot. he finally claimed his prize on april fool's day. >> he's no fool. no way. indiana drops out of common core, controversial education standards. 45 states adapted math and reading measures. now other states may follow the hoosier lead. mike in chicago on t

they just want one particular narrative and every egyptian should always follow this narrative.nother voice, another different voice will always be unacceptable. >> even today, one of the stories on the first page is the minister of endowments in egypt asking that aljazeera should be put on a list of institutions that support terrorism. aljazeera has been so thoroughly demonized that everything will be dealt with through a security perspective rather than freedom of expression perspective. >> the attitude toward aljazeera in particular is very toxic and have been for months now. aljazeera is rewarded as an ally have the muslim brotherhood, however, it must be noted that the head of the journalist syndicate was very active in defending the three aljazeera journalists who are currently incarcerated on trial and has worked with international correspondents to improve prison conditions. >> that's of note. >> there's not a chorus asking for their release. that would stray from the narrative. the one being reinforced on television, egypt surviving 7,000 years of history can now only b

what are we going to do to change her narrative and doing it to change our national narrative for our sake and not for america's sake? >> if i can add one last thing on this i think is so important and i think of growing up in small-town america and it's become a bad word in a lot of places when i visit america. i think it's up to americans to have experience working on pakistan to help tell that story of a different pakistan that we have seen and interacted with. pakistan is ignored. at ignored. at the end of the day is going to be young pakistanis in pakistan doing this work but there's so much i've seen in terms of the exchange. i agree on the fulbright thing but that's one out of 100 people. i can tell you 20 stories of young people that have done fulbright and gone back and it's because they met and stayed with an american family. they know christian customs. they know jewish customs and they can go back and talk to the community about that. my thing is that luck it's too important to ignore. we have gone through the story before where we have ignored pakistan to our peril so i w

ultimately, narrative starts to wear on you if it is always linear. you are trying to find a new way to tell a story. that can be by structure or by changing the form from a movie theater to a play. >> do have a sense of the power of theater -- the capacity to change theater? >> i have to of course find my way through it. i'm not trained as a theater director. i understand directing and storytelling. i understand actors and composition. >> that will get you a long way. >> it would be stupid for me to go and do a revival of a shakespeare play. to do a straight piece of theater would be stupid. that is not my background. i want to do other pieces, but they have to be things i feel like what i bring to them is going to make them -- i'm going to make them better. i don't know what that is. >> the other reason is to look at it with a fresh eye. you haven't done that. your skills have been mostly employed in a different place. you may see your with a fresh eye, a beginners eye, that gives you the possibility to use it in an interesting way. >> if i can be t

that's part of narrative that we want to change. they are not separate from the citizenry of the united states. they are part of. i and so a lot of times, i think we talk about the military civilian divide. i think we as the military ommunity have wanted the civilian count in include us more and learn more about us. many of us were reading recently, i think the conversation has turned because america at large is sort of losing interest in the military because the wars are winding down. we're starting to downsize. military service has been in the media a lot. people are starting to lose interest and we have traditionally wanted the civilian community to reach out to us. i think it is time for us to start reach out to the community and highlighting our strengths i think a lot of people have talked about we need to change the conversation because the stories we hear are about poor military families. they all have ptsd. they are not getting jobs. and that is part of the narrative. we don't want to dismiss that. but another part of the n

who somehow makes this livable, and the problem is -- >> charlie: livable -- -- their narrative -- >> charlie: it softens the impact to have the tragedy. >> the parent didn't just show up the day after the shooting. they have the narrative that began long before the shooting with their child and spouse, so how does this event integrate into that. >> charlie: so everyone is affected by what their life was before they were at that moment. >> yes. >> charlie: and police play a role because they're interrogator and they're intimidating. >> the media plays a role. the fact we live in a world with unfiltered content that quickly can masquerade as truth plays a role. >> charlie: and you also put this in the context of media today, and what do you believe? >> well, as i'm sure you've seen, it's, in many outlets, you'd rather be first than right. so this is a situation in which that's happening in a big way, and the affect it has on the lead character is pretty intense. >> charlie: what drove you to want to do this theme? >> i don't know. i think it just grew out of these conversations scott

as with any government official narrative. they seek to disseminate to the public and get the pressed to adopt. and you know i was the middle east bureau chief for the new york times and the official narrative which is a pro israeli air of is one that often is in variance with the truth and for those who attempt to challenge that narrative even if you work for the new york times you feel the wrath not only of systems of power but often the media institutions themselves. these media institutions have a vested interest in perpetuating this narrative and we saw that on the iraq war where the new york times acted in essence as a mouthpiece for the bush administration's. propaganda about weapons of mass destruction that's not a new phenomenon it's not even particularly unique to the united states. but the more intense a conflict becomes the more you have power vested in. perpetuating that narrative in the middle east again would be a good example of these of the israel the more fierce and real unrelenting their attack will be and t

and that is part of the narrative. we don't want to dismiss that, but another part of the narrative is that they bring strength to their community. they are great leaders. they are, they volunteer at high rates, they have leadership. we want them in government, we want them at the highest levels in our corporations, and ross is going to talk about that in a minute. but we also want to think about the military spouse and the military family member. one thing i want to highlight is we talk about the military/civilian divide and the strengths that families can bring. we have about 80% of our military children are in schools out in the community. and one of the greatest things we can do to bridge that divide is having those kids there k and also having military service members and their family members teaching in those schools so that there can be an interface. and the same thing happens on college campuses. so the benefits that military service members and their families receive through the g.i. bill helps those families

number one the narrative that the attack evolved spontaneously from a protest was a narrative that intelligence community analysts believed. not just cia analysts, intelligence community analysts. that turned out to be incorrect but that is what they believed at the time. there is no politics there whatsoever. that's point number one. .. number two is what they actually give you the facts of what the state department changed in those talking points and what the white house changed. the white house change three things. the first thing the white house changed was to add cairo in front of the word emcee for the sake of clarity. the second thing the white house changed was to rearrange a couple of sentences purely stylistic. the thing the white -- the third thing the white house change was to change the were consulate from diplomatic posts for accuracy. the changes the state department made, just too they wanted to change the were consulate to diplomatic post for exactly the same reason. the second change the state department made was to remove the entire bullet on unfair of sharia. the state depar

they can write the own narrative now on what it has been about and their own narrative about what modias been about. it's tough to say whether all of these tactics will work out for the bjp or not. we know that internet penetration in india is about 20%. there are many more battles to be won. >> it is debatable how much influence the media has on these elections compared to the previous ones. it's been reported more than a third are owned by politicians or business people. given the distrib bucs system, slightly more than 60% are owned by local politicians. the second is unfortunately in instances of paid media over the last few years. third is the emergency he knew /* -- the e american he knew he iss of social media is part of the narrative. >>e he knew /* -- the e american he knew he iss of social media is part of the narrative. >> . >>> a the city of harki, ransacking, destroying broadcasting equipment and telling judgists they were quote, unquote fired. charter 79 reported the protesters went under their transmission tower. it wasn't a one-off. >> same day, armed men tried to repor

i want a cnn narrative, a straight narrative of objective analysis. be partisan, be on equal footing. >> it's not the media spinning it. it's the american people the cancellation and saying that their doctor, they can't keep them. that is real life for americans. that has nothing to do with the media. >> let me read from a column in the "washington post" a couple of days ago and have you react. he wrote this, "from now on will there be more healthy skepticism about conservative claims against the aca? given how many times the law's enemies said the sky was falling when it wasn't, will there be tougher -- given what you know about the media, will there be more skepticism next time? >> for nine to 12 months they've told us the policy won't work, people won't sign up, likely to be repealed. none of knows things turned out to be true. yet we brought into -- places like the a.p. were pushing this as something requiring someone to walk on water for a 6 million sign-up to happen. it wasn't true. we need to be more skeptical. >> ben, i'm guessing you do think

this is business as usual that narrative about the ukraine. ip is an example of that but it's hardly isolated example. meanwhile russian journalists are facing growing pressure in ukraine and there have been numerous cases of attention to protection and even physical assault on russian reporters. its first major tv networks to urge international organizations to doubt the idea the other stuff brings the house. it was an open letter essentially from the hands of resting on top to the corporations including arts unit reduce human rights groups asking him to pay attention and protects the rights of the professor writes journalist so working in ukraine while the last ten weeks we've seen increasing number of fat on the traditions of arrests and beatings at times then defected after a million russian journalist and trying to work in ukraine now just to give an example of what this has happened in ukraine i have been incidents justified it with a crew from a life news on tv networks they were arrested and are now being deported under the premise tha

are more narratives than just two. there are many that we need to do a better job of connecting what we say and what we do as part of that broader, strategic narrative. as has been said, in this competitive environment, the player with the best story will ultimately win. as rick said yesterday, and rightly, we do have a great story to tell. thank you very much. [applause] >> we open the floor to any and all questions. starting with mike. we have a microphone here if you would like. >> and my on? ok. a quick question, do you approve of the usaid support for regime change in cuba? is that the right way to go about what many would say is the goal? >> do i support the goal of regime change in cuba? cuba hasime change in been the united states policy for 60 years. support using social media up cubantry to open society? absolutely. i was there at the state aigrtment when the contractor was apprehended in cuba and we continued to urge his release and return to his family. one of the more interesting and relatively unknown act

i've are from the id of an narrative offered where was concluded a narrative is more than a series ofinterconnected fact's. a story line, bound by events that leads to some notable action of consequence. take for instance the story of a demand for greater attention to stem. in 1997, 1999, the reference was smet. stem, but to science, mathematics, entertaining, -- engineering, and technology. gun i s were think i appreciate to discuss the role of federal government in science, mathematics, engineering, and technology, smet education. we have a long history to sustain and improve our country's educational systems. or than a decade later, a professor of technology average unitech dutch at virginia tech noted in the 1990's the national science foundation used smet, when there was a complaint that smet sounded too much like smut. as recently as 2003 relatively few knew what it meant. many that year asked that the stem education graduate program i was beginning to and vision had something to do with stem cell research. that was still much the same case in the fall of 2005 when we launched o

yesterday he managed to set up the narrative clearly.ut he did manage to really make much -- didn't manage to really make much progress in getting pistorius to support that narrative. that could be what he aggressively pursues today. >> that aggression that you speak of, that you say he must display, does it come with risks -- especially when you're taking on a defendant like pistorius, that has been emotionally fragile? >> reporter: well, that aggression really is a key feature of most systems of law that we call accusetorial systems of law. in other words, where it all revolves around two sets of lawyers who are going at the witnesses through cross-examination -- >> but it's a fine line, isn't it? a fine line that so that you don't -- it doesn't seem as if you're beating up on someone who we've seen in court time and time again unable to keep his emotions in check. >> reporter: absolutely. and there needs to be that line adhered to from aggressive cross-examination, a natural feature of our system, toward badgering a witness and coming

and our concern is trying to understand all of this, and that narrative, and did that narrative leado what israel policy today, which is why you see members so frustrated about what are we doing to bring these people that -- back. and if there were those involved in the decision who did not believe terrorism is alive and well that poses a threat, you can see that narrative actually being implemented in a way that i think is dangerous to the united states, and that's why i think you see the concern of this committee. and, by the way, behind closed doors in this committee, there is bipartisan concern, as even salt today, about moving forward , about things that are not being done that we used to do that i do believe put america in a position to be more vulnerable. that is why i think you see the interest and the emotion today. i want to, again, thank you for your candid testimony today. i want to thank you for your 34 -- 33 years. someone told when you started when you were 11. i think your wife floated that to us. we do appreciate it. thank you for being here voluntarily. >> you're we

here i borrow from the idea of a narrative offered by henchmen and henchmen would be concluded in a narrative that a significant narrative is more than a series of interconnected facts. instead, there's a storyline that leads to some notable action of consequence. now take for instance, the story of a demand for greater and greater attention to stem. in 1987-1999, a reference was not the stb in stem but do try to. in testimony before the house science committee, the national science foundation director neil lane began his comment on july 23, 1997 by saying, mr. chairman, appreciate the opportunity to appear today together with secretary riley to discuss the role of the federal government in sides combat medics, engineering and technology, s.m.e.t. education. we have a long history of working with the department of education to sustain and improve our country's educational system. now, more than a decade later, mark sanders, a professor of technology of virginia tech riding in the technology teacher would know this, and it denied the national science foundation began using s.m.e.t. a shorthand

significant narrative, it's more than a system of interconnected facts. instead there's a storyline down by events that lead to some notable action of consequence. take, for instance, the story of a demand for greater and greater attention to stem. in 1997-1999 the reference was not the stm, stem but to smith. science and mathematics engineering and technology, in testimony before the house science committee, the national science foundation director neil lane began his comments on july 23, 1997, by saying, mr. chairman, appreciate the opportunity to appear today together with secretary riley to discuss the role of the federal government insights mathematic engineering and technology, and a long history of working with the department of education to sustain and improve our country's educational system. more than a decade later, mark said, the professor to held at virginia tech right in the technology teacher would know this. in the 1990s national science foundation began using s.m.e.t. a shorthand for science, mathematics engineering at the delta. when a p

is presenting a narrative that fox and c.n.n. are not presenting so they don't have to go after fox and c.n.n. fox and c.n.n. are basically toeing the line r.t. isn't and so are t.v. or any other media outlet that doesn't toe the line is going to come under attack because of the purpose is to shut down competing nerves. so since ukraine is such a huge story and so much attention paid to which media says what like in an argument u.s. state department used fake photo evidence instead later gets quietly to bunked for instance the publication of alleged pictures of russian soldiers in the new york times now the photos later turned out not to be genuine although the newspaper did apologize but it was hidden in the fine print and public opinion is obviously influenced more by an image is that a conscious tactic. i can't speak to that specific incident but that is a common tactic. and images that buttress again the the narrative that those in power want disseminated will find currency and images even if they're true and again as i speak

i mean, certainly with narrative closure... it's also inherently paternal.t basically says, we know best. we know how to make people look beautiful. we know how to tell a story. we're going to give it to you and you are going to watch it. we're in control. which is what you say to a six-year-old before he goes to sleep. a lot of movies put us on the knee of the filmmakers and say, "once upon a time..." and if you're good and if you listen carefully to the story not only will everything turn out well but you will be able to take the story with you to sleep. there is part of that. but haven't we gotten a little more sophisticated? i know you have made films where you've taken the traditional storytelling modes and yet, you've stretched and tweaked and sort of shaped it to a personal as opposed to merely a hollywood style. i think i want to get a sense of is this not going to be more open to some of the other filmmakers that are following us? schrader: it's going to be open in the same way pandora's box is open. ( chuckling ) i mean, i think it's scary. i mean,

they can write the own narrative now on what it has been about and their own narrative about what modias been about. it's tough to say whether all of these tactics will work out for the bjp or not. we know that internet penetration in india is about 20%. there are many more battles to be won. >> it is debatable how much influence the media has on these elections compared to the previous ones. it's been reported more than a third are owned by politicians or business people. given the distrib bucs system, slightly more than 60% are owned by local politicians. the second is unfortunately in instances of paid media over the last few years. third is the emergency he knew /* -- the e american he knew he iss of social media is part of the narrative. the most important money stories of the day might effect your savings, your job or your retirement. whether it's bail-outs or bond rates this stuff gets complicated. but don't worry. i'm here to take the fear out of finance. every night on my show i break down confusing financial speak and make it real. al jazeera america. we understand that every

atack obama was good packaging a vision and a narrative. she was not. should be the president because i'm the most qualified. >> do you have any indication of what her narrative would be? having spentesting so much time with people very close to her up and down the level of the operation. it is one thing that they will very much be poking and prodding and should she enter the race. >> one lesson that she needs to embrace the fact that she's a woman candidate. it's something she did not do in 2008. >> you don't want to be on the wrong side of history, kind of rallying troops. >> making it clear that the claim on history was a strong narrative. >> and embraced it. >> the relationship with former president clinton, her husband. they have gone through much-publicized rocky roads. they have embraced chelsea to come within the foundation they've created. that if you have someone close to you in a political world, bill clinton would be a good choice. great advisor, a great strategist for himself and for almost everybody else but not for her. goodrned out to be

[laughter] >> nothing freudian, then. >> without narrative, this is nuts for us. want always want a happy ending, you know, this clark rockefeller character knew that about us. he had a predatory intelligence. he saw the form abilities in his fellow men as always a sociopath without feelings can, and one of the things he noticed about us, we earthlings is that we live by enchapterment, and by providing it, he would intreg -- intrigue and draw me many particularly because i was a writer, and i live by the same skills. >> by the enof the book, you're a collaborator, and perpetuate this. you lived with aceps of denial. you sort of knew things were going wrong, but you still perpetuated it. why do we perpetwait these things and turn an eye away from it? >> well, this rockefeller character, quickly, you know, posed as a rock feller, told me at one appointment he was an exploited bennet who was going through the walls of the apartment. invited me up to meet him in new hampshire because of the next door neighbor, and he was always at that particular time liesing me with

and the narrative. and she was not good at it. it was i should be president because i'm the mostic most expd and qualified. >> charlie: do you know what her narrative would be? >> i don't. it's one of the things as reporters we'll very much be poking at and prodding at should she enter the race. >> charlie: go ahead. she needs to embrace she is a woman candidate and that's something she didn't do in 2008. >> charlie: that's history. you can expect her to say you don't want to be on the wrong side of history. >> charlie: obama stole that from her and made it clear his claim on history equally was a strong narrative. >> right. he embraced it. >> charlie: finally, the relationship with former president clinton. they had gone through publicized rocky roads. the foundation they created. seems if you have someone close to you in a political world, bill clinton would be a good choice. >> he's such a great advisor, such a great strategist for himself and almost everybody else but not her. at least in 2008, he turned out to be not a good s

they got away with changing the narrative from a coordinated terrorist attack to a protest caused by hateful video. >> as you can mention, you mentioned politics. there is some bushback from the other side. on another channel this was said. >> unfortunately now we have another round of stories about basically nothing which is what the whole debate what the talking points have been all along. speaking of political motives, lindsey graham is trying to fend off an attack by tea party. people know why he's doing this. there's certainly politics in all of this. >> your response. >> my response is that if i'm doing something wrong for political reasons, i should have egg on my face and i should be punished by the people of south carolina. if what he is saying is a bold-faced lie and that i'm correct that this administration hid the truth from the american people about a coordinated terrorist attack because they were more worried about the president's re-election than telling the truth to the american people about why four people died, they need to be held accountable? >> what's next. >> mo

the problem is when narratives stick. >> this narrative is over for now. dana milbanks, matt lewis. thank you very much. >>> nbc orders an assessment of david gregory. what's up with that? >>> and later, mariel hemingway, what's it like dealing with the media having been a celebrity since she was 16. >> i have to be honest. i'm not the best celebrity. i don't believe in living out loud and airing everything. i don't feel that that is -- i think it's uninteresting. ke >>> there was a time when "meet the press" was the dominant sunday morning show under the late tim russert. but it slipped to third place under david gregory who has a very different style. >> if you don't have the ability to shoot off 30 rounds without reloading that possibly you could reduce the loss of life. >> to the extent you have aided and abetted snowden, even in his current moments, why shouldn't you, mr. greenwald, be charged with a crime? >> things have reached ai point where nbc tried to improve gregory's performance by hiring what t"the washington post" called a psychological consult and the to talk to his

as with any government official narrative. that they seek to disseminate to the public the last thing they're interested in is an honest debate you know they have. they will pick and select the true facts and sometimes. even incidents that are not facts to perpetuate the narrative that they seek to. disseminate and let's go to lead up to the iraq war then they would leave the white house would leak stuff to the new york times and then they would cite the new york times as an authority this is this is business as usual the narrative about the ukraine. is certainly an example of it but it's hardly an isolated example meanwhile russian journalists facing growing pressure in ukraine the have been numerous cases of detention deportation and even physical assault on russian reporters that's was the major t.v. networks to urge international organizations to step in and. brings us the details . well it's an open letter essentially from the heads of russian top to the corporations including r t and they're turning to human rights group

number one, the narrative that the attack default spontaneously from a protest was a narrative that intelligencecommunity analysts believed. not just cia analysts, intelligence community analysts. that turned out to be incorrect. but that is what they believed at the time. there is no politics there whatsoever. that is point number one. point number two, let me give you the facts of what the state department changed and those talking points and what the white house changed. the white house changed three things -- the first thing the white house changed was to add cairo in front of the word embassy for the sake of clarity. the second thing was to rearrange a couple sentences, purely stylistic. the third thing the white house changed was to change the word consulate to diplomatic post for accuracy. those were the only changes the white house made. the changes the state department made, just two. they also wanted to change the word consulate to diplomatic post for the same reason. the second change was to remove the entire bullet on ansar al-sharia. because state said it was premature to single out

>> john, i believe that this is an opportunity to have a serious new narrative for sherpas who see its their destiny to climb an everest. we need to initiate a new narrative where the sherp ape's see some of their communities, pilots, teachers, engineers working in the hills - in the southern foot hills. there's different nar tiles. as we understand it, that is the second poorest country there are people bucking the trend, and there are different narratives in place. >> it has sparked a discussion about a number of issues and will continue to do that. >> we appreciate you sharing your expertise and stories thank you. >> i'm sorry that we are together on a sad occasion to do so. i'm hoping it ignites a referendum on the issues facing sherpas and all climbers around the world. >> me too. >> climbing the highest peak is an enormous challenge. risks are great. last week's avalanche is an example. avalanches are like i to happen after a fresh lair of snow, new snow sliding off existing snow packs and open slope is effected by changes in atmospheric conditions, high winds on an exposed moun

if hillary clinton decides to run this, will be the narrative.hey'll blame it on bureaucrats at langly here in america. who came up with the conclusion it's protestor. they'll cables said they knew it's terrorism z it could be be an al qaeda affiliated group. so they knew. and so who is taking the fall? morell for hillary and barack obama today. >> he's concerning a nice salary. >> nice job today, congressman. i appreciate you coming on. >> thank you, bill. >> factor tip of the day protecting american children. an important tip just moments away. >> first something that will help american children, my brand new children's book, the last days of jesus, came out yesterday. doing extremely well. we encourage all parents and grandparents to give this book to the kids. because they should know the history surrounding the most famous man who every lived. believe me, if they go to public school, they're not going to hear that. any mention of jesus is fraught with danger as someone will complain to school authorities. you can get any one of my books abso

this is important because being in control of that public narrative sometimes called the metanarrative by theorists really does matter. in fact i saw an example graphically of how an agenda to a story can make a difference. let me before a show you those pictures just mention this. this is one of the reasons this is important is because robert webb said the most pressing issue of our time is who narrates the world? who narrates the world and how they narrated matters in the way public policy decisions get made. now that photograph i will share with you. a great storytelling and a putt can elicit a powerful reaction but who holds the camera? in this case it really does matter. small changes can make a big difference. i think we see this every day at the nation media that these changes or differences are subtle but they really do make a powerful difference in the ultimate narrative that gets told to the american people. so content matters and what is in the media can shape the way we think. i've like to shift gears a little bit and spend the next couple minutes also talking about the med

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number one, the narrative that the attack evolved spontaneously from a protest was a narrative that intelligence analysts believed, not just cia but intelligence community analysts. that turned out to be incorrect but that is what they believed at the time. so there is no politics there whatsoever. that's point number one. point number two is let met actually give you the facts of what the state department changed in those talking points and what the courthouse changes. the white house changed three things. the first thing the white house changed was to add cairo in front of the word embassy for the sake of clarity and the second thing was to rearrange a couple of sentences and the third thing the white house changed was to change consulate to diplomatic post for accuracy. those are the only changes the white house made. the changes the state department made, just two, they wanted to change consulate to the white house post. the second change was to remove the entire bullet because state department said it was premature to single out a specific group and the cia agreed because the only unclassif

as with any government official narrative. they see to disseminate to the public the last thing they're interested in is an honest debate you know they have. they will pick and select the true facts and sometimes even incidents that are not fact to perpetuate the narrative that they seek to disseminate it let's go to lead up to the iraq war they would leak the white house would leak stuff to the new york times and then they would cite the new york times as an authority this is this is business as usual the narrative about the ukraine. is certainly an example of it but it's hardly an isolated example. kipps military offensive against antigovernment protesters in the eastern city of slovyansk is gaining momentum with four of the activists checkpoints reportedly destroyed by troops and the town encircled earlier at least five people were killed in the course of the assault now the activists are themselves earlier stopped a bus with a group of western military observers to be invited into the country by the interim government here