john: oliver stone called him a great hero. >> no.cratically elected the first time, but he rigged the system. they had total control over the media, they had total control of the electoral process. if you put your political opponents in prison, how democratic is that? john: but don king, the boxing promoter, he goes to venezuela and says to see what is happening here makes me feel good all over. you, he says to chavez, you are the one concerned about the poor. danny glover, a true man of the people. >> where are people going to? are they going to live in lovely venezuela, or are they coming here, right? are the cubans hanging out there or getting on ships or little boats trying to get here? the venezuelan economy, the people in control of it, are on some insane quest to repeat the cuban multidecade failure. john: but people in venezuela love these dictators. i mean, reuters reports a venezuela politician rolled out a variation of the lord's prayer. our chavez who art in heaven, hallowed be your name. may your legacy come to us so we

john: oliver stone called him a great hero. >> no. democratically elected the first time, but he rigged the system. they had total control over the media they had total control of the electoral process. if you put your political opponents in prison, how democratic is that? john: but don king, the boxing promoter he goes to venezuela and says to see what is happening here makes me feel good all over. you, he says to chavez, you are the one concerned about the poor. danny glover a true man of the people. >> where are people going to? are they going to live in lovely venezuela, or are they coming here, right? are the cubans hanging out there or getting on ships or little boats trying to get here? the venezuelan economy, the people in control of it, are on some insane quest to repeat the cuban multidecade failure. john: but people in venezuela love these dictators. i mean, reuters reports a venezuela politician rolled out a variation of the lord's prayer. our chavez who art in heaven hallowed be your name. may your legacy come to us so we

jim garrison and oliver stone. jim garrison 6'6" prosecutor in new orleans with an ego to match. he began investigating in 1966 and came to the conclusion that it was a right-wing extremist plot to kill kennedy together working with the cia in the overall conspiracy. the reason was the cia was angry that kennedy wanted to get out of vietnam and possibly make peace with cuba. lee harvey oswald, according to garrison, did not fire a single shot. the fact that lee harvey oswald was a pro-castro marksman and it was a right-wing plot, claims garrison, is proof they got the right guy because he was masquerading as a left-winger but was actually a right-winger. garrison never explained that if you was a right-we are, when he tried to kill general walker. he claimed that oswald was a poor marksman and that it had never been investigated. it certainly was investigated. garrison then claims that kennedy was shot by a precision guerrilla team of at least seven men who were located on the grassy knoll, the texas book depository, and that held x building. one person fired a shot at another on

the director of the movie, oliver stone. >> jimmy: i have heard of him. >> he's a great director.movies. he call med and said he was going to make a movie about edward snowden and he wanted me to play him and the honest truth is i didn't know much about him at the time. >> jimmy: right. >> when it was happening i wasn't up on the news. i didn't really know. i was like, wait, is he the guy that did that or is that wikileaks or who? once oliver asked me to do it i start aed to read about it. and yeah, i think he did very much do the right thing. >> jimmy: you do think he did the right thing. oliver must think he did the right thing? >> it is a long conversation to have but what i would recommend is if you are interested at all, do some looking in to it on your own. >> jimmy: that's a lot of trouble. >> i know. ultimately i think that's the main point he's making is what is beautiful about the united states of america is that we have the right and privilege and even an obligation to look in those things and know about those tngs and know what our government is doing. so when the gove

published the memoir of new orleans district attorney jim garrison, which became the basis of oliver stone's academy award winning movie, "jfk." ellen ray is survived by her husband. and those are some of the headlines. this is democracy now! democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. a judge in ohio has found probable cause to charge a police officer with murder for the fatal shooting of 12-year-old tamir rice last november. on thursday, judge ronald adriane of the cleveland municipal court said there are grounds to prosecute officer timothy loehmann with murder manslaughter, and reckless homicide. the ruling came after community leaders in cleveland took the unusual legal step on tuesday of appealing directly to the judge to commence prosecution of the officer, saying they were tired of waiting over six months without any progress on the case. in a court filing, the community activists invoked a rare ohio law that allows citizens to ask judges for charges, bypassing police and prosecutors. church pastor jawanza colvin was one of the eight who signed the affidavit. he told

danny glover, a trim man of the people oliver stone a great hero. don king.s happening in venezuela makes me feel good all over. stuart: pretty soon if venezuela is going to default. john: 50% inflation. >> your show tonight is all about social justice nonsense as one might say. >> we debate communists and other people who deeply believed in it, the head of the sociology department at brooklyn college we have to do more of this communism hasn't been tried. this is what our kids will be taught. stuart: can i watch this? john: you may, move megan, 8:00. stuart: i will watch this one. i want you to debate the guy who wrote the sociology department. i want to see that too. time for the sector report. you are up there on the balcony. >> that is true. i am looking at cybersecurity and your health records. we had a big breach of a government agency yesterday, finding out today fox news reporting a few moments ago that it is believed the chinese are behind both of these and tax. there are companies stocks you can buy that do protect companies. walton networks is list

. >> i was harvesting olive when around 20 settlers threw stones at us. i tried to run away. i fell. six beat me with a rod. israeli soldiers saw me no one has been arrested or charmed. >> reporter: according to human rights group 85% of police investigations are close because israeli investigators fail to find suspects or enough evidence to lay the charges. of cases investigated 7% lead to an indictment and a third of those lead to a full or partial conviction. >> this is with the organization behind the research. she says the reason crimes against palestinians by israeli citizens who live in settlements is unpunished is because some officials appear to condone it. >> translation: it starts from above. there's no will by some commanders so see the perpetrators as outlaws. there are those that believe the motivation serves the country by expanding israel's control over territory. >> settler violence in the occupied west bank is well documented. according to the u.n. office for the coordination of humanitarian affairs in 2014 there were 399 assaults. al jazeera requested an in

. >> i was harvesting olives when settlers started throwing stones at us. i tried to run away, but i fell. that's when they beat me with a metal rod. none of them have been charged or arrested for assaulting me. >> according to human rights groups, 85% of police investigations are closed because israeli investigators fail to find the suspects or enough evidence to lay charges. the cases that are investigated only 7% ever lead to an indictment. and only around a third of those ever lead to a full or partial conviction. >> with the organization behind the research, she says that the reason crimes against palestinians by israeli citizen who is live in illegal settlements routinely go unpunished is because some senior security officials appear to condone it. >> it all starts from above. there is simply no will by some command tours see these perpetrators as outlaws who should be punished. there are those who believe the motivation behind the offenses serve the country by expanding the control over the territory. >> violence against palestinians in the occupied

. >> i was harvesting olives when settlers started throwing stones. i tried to run away.me with a metal rod. an israel soldier saw everything. no one has been arrested or charged for assaulting me. >> according couldto human rights groups around 85% of these investigations are closed becauseris israeli investigators fail to find suspects or enough evidence to lay charges of those cases investigated only 7% lead to an indictment. often around a third of those lead to a full or partial con conviction conviction. >> she says the crimes against citizens usually go unpunished is because some senior execute officials appear to condone it. >> it all starts from above. there is simply no will by some commanders to see these perpetrators as outlaws should be punished. the motivation serves the country by expanding israel's control over territory. >> violence against palestinians in the occupied west bank is well documented according to the u.n. office for the coordination of humanitarian affairs in 2014, there were 399 assaults. al jazeera requested an interview with israeli polic

. >> translation: i was harvesting olives when around 20 martyr settlers began to throw stones. i tried to run away. i fell six beat me with a rod. israeli soldiers saw everything, and beat me. no one saw nothing. >> according to human rights groups 89% of police investigations are closed because israeli investigators failed to find suspects or enough evidence to lay charges. of cases investigated only 7% ever lead to an indictment and only around a third of those lead to a full or partial conviction. conviction. >> reporter: this woman is with the organization behind the research and says the reason crimes against palestinian citizens routinely go unpunished is some senior security officials appear to condone it. >> it starts from above. there's no will by some commanders to see the perpetrators as outlaws that should be punished. there are those that believe the motivation serves the country by expanding israel's control over territory. >> settler violence against palestinians in the occupied west bank is well documented. according to the office for coordination of humanitaria

interesting that it would take a comedian to do journalism where "rolling stone" couldn't pick up a phone. >> joanne, i assume the oliver interview caused to to change your mind? >> you can make me laugh. you can make me do anything. no. that interview was so funny. i don't watch john oliver's show, but now i want to. i thought it was brilliant. that's what makes it so funny. like you said he was asking the right questions. how has no one asked him this before. and to see him caught off guard was the best. >> i should have read all of them. i am no longer a hero. >> pete, that leads to a point. a lot of people and i think snowden himself was surprised that john oliver got contentious. >> his wife is actually an iraq war veteran. i knew her years ago. he is more inviesed personally in the dash darrin vested personally than anybody else. he talked about intelligence of al-qaeda in mosul and he looked at edward snowden and said what is the cost of that? you are revealing sources and methods in this process. how do you feel about that? edward snowden said yeah, that's a problem. oliver said no that is an -- [bleep] up. ther