. >> do you see yourself as a patriot? >> i do. you know, i think patriot is a word that's thrown around so much that it can be devalued nowadays. but being a patriot doesn't mean prioritizing service to government above all else. being a patriot means knowing when to protect your country, knowing when to protect your constitution, knowing when to protect your countrymen from the violations of and encroachments of adversaries and those adversaries don't have to be foreign countries. they can be bad policies. they can be officials who, you know, need a little bit more accountability. they can be mistakes of government and simple overreach and things that should never have been tried or that went wrong.

there are many a patriot. you can go back to the pentagon papers with dan ellsberg and others who stood and went to the court system of america and made their case. edward snowden is a coward, he is a traitor and he has betrayed his country and if he wants to come home tomorrow to face the music, he can do so. >> well, today the famed pentagon papers whistleblower dan ellsberg is sounding off about kerry's comments.

there are many a patriot. you can go back to the pentagon papers, dan elsberg and others who stood and went to the court system of america and made their case. edward snowden is a coward. he is a traitor, and he has betrayed his country. and if he wants to come home tomorrow to face the music, he can do so.

here, in perfect military order, lie the patriots who won our freedom and saved the union.by-side, live privates and generals who defeated fascism and laid the foundation for the american century. here lies the americans who fought in vietnam. those who one the long struggle against truck -- communism. here lay the men and women who kept the homeland safe over more than one decade of war in afghanistan. early this morning, i returned from afghanistan. somerday, i visited with serving their. -- there. for more than 12 years, men and women, like those i met with, have bore the burden of security. because of the progress they have made, we are in a pivotal moment. our troops are coming home. by the end of this year, the war in afghanistan will finally come to an end. [applause] [cheers] yesterday and today, we paid patriots whoe 2200 have made the ultimate sacrifice in afghanistan. we will honor them always. , in the small towns across america, and cemeteries throughout the country and , onnd the world, and here this solemn hillside, the families of the fallen share stories. a

it's a holiday when a force of patriotism triumphs. we know how important it is to defend its interest. >> well steve rosenburg has been following the morning in red square. he listened to president putin as he addressed the crowds. >> reporter: we heard him make a speech earlier full of patriotic sentiment. he was talking about victory day being the most important holiday in the country, day of national triumph. a day that taught russians, he said to be true to the mother land. he promised war vet rerans heree will protect russia and its history. one commend he we have to remember, if you look at opinion polls carried out since russia's annexation into crimea, that's supported by the population here. there's been a wave of patriotism sweeping the country since that event. if president putin appears in crimea later today, russians will greet that positively. the international reaction will be very different. >> steve with me as bbc defense correspondent jonathan marcus. this is a day to show off your military prowl isn't it? >> it's di

and second we redesigned section 250 in the patriot act kept voluntarily.going to the expense and effort for the extended periods of time meaning they are no longer occurred doing so in the course of business. so the gentleman is well intentioned and said some good things in general about the measure before us and i would hope this is not successful if i yield back the portion of my time. >> strike the last word. >> you are recognized for five minutes. >> i appreciate the chairman's comments. but the phone companies don't know necessarily to make sure we have it when we needed. with the co-sponsors of the underlying bill i have concerns about the changes made but applied my friend for the fantastic work that was done on the bill that i co-sponsored. with the cia attorney and other attorneys for intelligence so why shouldn't the government? it is easily explained. and that is why it is important the government not be the report -- repository for every single phone call log from every single voter in america. that should behalf in the private entities the and

he believes he's a patriot. >> being a patriot doesn't mean prioritizing service to government above all else. being a patriot means knowing when to protect your country>> securi. >> secretary of state john kerry says a patriot would never run away and snowden should man up and come back to the u.s. >> aaron hernandez killed two men over a spilled drink. hernandez pleading not guilty the ex patriot becamed ago dated and told the friend one of the victims had deliberately bumped into him inside the club and spilled his drink. he allegedly tracked the victim and his friend down and shot them. he is already facing charges in the killing of pro football player otis lloyd. >> officials in the born no state region of nigeria say the girls managed to get away from the captors yesterday. 279 girls are still being held hostage by the terrorist group. two of the girls have reportedly died in captity because of snake bites. 20 others are said to be sick. >> happening today the homeland securi security. jay johnson is expected to be grilled on immigration enforcement when he testifies later this

and we honor the patriot dreams of america's sons and daughters.n every climb and in every place. they were willing to give their lives for our nation's ideals. we grieve, but we are also inspired. here we celebrate the timeless strength of america, undimmed by human tears. we know we are a better nation for the sacrifice of the men and women who served. we have the chance to bow our heads and remember our fallen heroes. we respect their sacrifice. it is the responsibility of a grateful nation to look act. it is incumbent on us to look forward. we are out there still, on the frontiers of air, defense. they are in afghanistan and around the world. they are across the shining cities -- sees. withwill marshal the day courage to make a difference for each other, us, and people they have never met but with whom they share a dream of a better future. day by oured every men and women in uniform. they rep resent the best of this country. let us remember those who made the ultimate sacrifice and show that america stands firmly with those who protect her. le

and this goes beyond the patriot. and after a dozen years, we it looksre looking to like a bill that could actually pass, and this amendment would affect the ability to pass a bill. and benjamin franklin said they expect no better, and they are not sure that it is the best. i suspect we can get a better bill than we have now, perhaps in some respects, but i certainly do not want to jeopardize what we have in this bill. this amendment would jeopardize that. the gentleman yield? >> sure. >> i thank the gentleman for yielding. i understand the comment made that we do went to get the but as for the issue of business records, in 2001, when we worked together, when and big dated does not exist the way it was. i do believe this committee and what it means for personal privacy in the digital age. >> reclaiming my time. i think you could argue this bill does not go far enough to protect that, and we could improve that, but i think the standard goes till far. is not the time to do that by jeopardizing this will. , do think we w

its vote on the patriot act, the judiciary committee unanimously passed the freedom act. the challenge we faced was to draft legislation that was tight ough to avoid abuse, without incringing on intelligence collection. perfect is rarely possible in politics and this bill is no exception. . in order to preserve core operations of the intelligence and law enforcement agencies, the administration insisted on broadening certain authority and lessening certain restrictions. some of the changes raised justifiable concerns, and i don't blame people for losing trust in their government because the government has violated their trust. let me be clear. i wish this bill did more. to my colleagues who lament the changes, i agree with you. the privacy groups who are upset about lost provisions, i share your disappointment. the negotiations for this bill were intense. we have to make compromises, but this bill still does deserve support. don't let the perfect become the enemy of the good. the day we have the -- today, we have the opportunity to make a powerful statement. congress does

patriot act. we have relaxed standards and i think the relaxed standards for getting information are appropriate when you're trying to protect a nation from terrorist attacks. but section 215 covers a lot more than terrorist attacks. foreign intelligence. that's not even spy. that's, that could be a trade deal. thing that is are not dangerous to anybody. and i think the relaxed standards may be inappropriate for those situations but unfortunately we're either you accept the amendment and cover everything or cover nothing. i think the standards are a lot easier to protect the company but inappropriate when applied to a lot of other situations. so i'm going to oppose the amendment but i hope we would notice that this -- that the present law is overbroad and gives a relaxed standard. >> the gentleman? >> i would just i thank the gentleman for further yielding. i do believe that the entire doctrines in nt the fourth amendment are going to be -- need to be dealt with by this congress and ultimately if

flag, calling themselves patriots when in fact, they are anything but patriots. >> reporter: juan lopez formed a new group called we the people. he's afraid the patriot protest will spark violence because groups from outside morgan hill say they are planning to come. he also says live oak students don't want anyone in front of their school on monday. >> we actually have choices. her choice is to stand in front of the school. where the children have already told us that at community meetings, including one young lady who cried and plead with her, please move your rally. i have a choice to join her in front of the school or a choice to respect what the children want. >> reporter: the children have been very vocal about this. now we did try and catch up with the four students who wore the american flag t-shirts four years ago. all of them have graduated. many of them are away at college. now the plis department says they will be beefing up security here on monday and the school superintendent says he will do everything he can to protect the students if necessary. reporting live in morgan h

they are many a patriot. you can go back to the pentagon papers with dan ellsberg and others who stood and went to the court system of america and made their case. edward snowden is a coward. he is a traitor, and he has betrayed his country, and if he wants to come home tomorrow to face the music, he can do so. >> an energized secretary of state john kerry who made those comments on the air today to our chief white house correspondent political director chuck todd. chuck is with us from the white house tonight. chuck, without exception, this is the position you hear on edward snowden where you are. >> reporter: that's right. here at the white house, he was channelling rage, frankly, that you sometimes hear from about edward snowden. i've had a similar experience with staffers, particularly in the national security wing, who when you talk about this, they want to have a sober conversation, and say, look, we're not going to get into a back and forth about edward snowden and you poke for just a second and hear t

the patriot act needs to be fixed desperately. there is a bill coming on thursday that says it will be fixing the problem, but it doesn't fix the problem. it leaves the hole for the federal government. might as well not have a bill even though there are good things in it. so i hope that people will wake and know the bill's pronets don't want any amendments. their they will mess up ticklish deal they presented, which is a bit of a plob. there will be who will come to the floor this bill has gone through the regular record fer order. it has gone through a ski hearing, committee, full committee markup where we vote on amendments and anybody can bring amendments. but mr. speaker, i don't believe that when somebody negotiates a backroom deal and then they come to committee and convince the that this peaker this deal is too ticklish, you can't allow any amendments to actually pass that committee, that's not regular order. regular order is when you are allowed to bring amendments and have full debate and if you make your case as i did an

. >>> edward snowden, traitor or patriot? overnight, the nsa leaker on the run and wanted for espionage explains why he believes he was right to expose u.s. security secrets to the world. >>> breaking news this morning. the search for missing malaysia airlines flight 370 could be back to square one. investigators reveal the pings they thought were the plane's black boxes, they may be completely unrelated to the vanished jetliner. we're breaking down the surprising, new turn and what comes next. good morning. welcome to "early start." i'm christine romans. >> i'm john berman. it is thursday, may 29th. it is 4:00 a.m. in east. it is early, but a lot going on. you'll be happy you're awake. we begin with breaking news in the scandal at the va. this morning, the white house says vet caerans affairs secret eric shinseki is on thin ice. that's the white house saying he's on thin ice. more lawmakers, including democrats, calling for his resignation, after the va's own inquiry substantiated what we first discovered in a cnn investigat

patriotism was that way. i am not endorsing it but when it is wrong is shame. that is a political motivator. our friends in the world's, if they like us, they love us, remind us of the shameful things we are doing and we celebrate when we do decent and honorable things and that is part of the dialogue between people with different nationalities i think. i criticize china and sometimes chinese students have said to me -- most of my time, it was my country but as a friend of china as someone who cares about the fate of the future of china, it is my job to tell them as it is their job to tell us what are you doing in the home of the brave and land of a free, what you doing with incarcerated people in your country? majority black is 13%. my way of helping them is to celebrate the fact they had taken people of poverty in the last couple decades. historical achievements but also in prison for 11 years because he advocates among other things respecting the chinese constitution which says you have a right of free expression. in the dialogue between people of different

flag calling themselves patriots when they're anything but patriots. >> a morgan hill police plan to beef up security on campus on monday. the school superintendent says he will do everything he can to protect the students against any violence if necessary. >>> and now to an nbc bay area follow-up. they are out. san jose state university expelled the three white students accused of bullying their black roommate. the university investigation found that they violated school rules and placed the victim's safety in jeopardy. a fourth student was suspended until july. all four students are accused of putting a bike lock around their roommate's neck and taunting him because of the color of his skin. >>> a student from will cox high school in the south bay died in a car crash in north san jose. she was the passenger in the car. it happened yesterday afternoon on north first street. the driver of the car, 17-year-old boy, remains in the hospital this morning with life-threatening injuries. he was driving the black sedan you see on the screen that crashed. >> a traffic signal pole. the girl w

what we understand, 7:30 today, gilly morgan hill patriots will be out here in groups of 50 people at a time. silently holding american flags in protest. now the we the people morgan hill group, they were planning to have a counterprotest but the students said we don't want that. they don't want to deal with the headache. >> morgan hill unified school district released a student made video intended to promote unity and yummy. >> the adults battle now and our jobs to show the media, the world, the community that we're over this. >> a live oak student created a banner with united at the roots. we're all different branches of the same tree and tree-themed t- shirts they planned to wear today. >>> happening today, a bay area racetrack wants to get your heart pumping for a new cause. sonoma hosts a high speed blood drive from 1:00 to 6:00 this afternoon. donors ride along with the pro on the 12 turn course giving or before giving blood. walk-ups are welcome. you have to be at least 17 years old with a valid id to donate. >>> new this morning, target ceo greg resigns nearly five months afte

two other rallies had to do with american flagy7Ñ and patriotism.adults were outside to make a point they stand by the flag. four students were told to cover up the american flag on their shirts because it was cinco de mayo. however, student leaders told the district they'd rather focus on preparing for advanced placement exams. >> they want to make it a regular day they don't like outside attention. and the patriots went along. >> we didn't bring signs. just silent. and we're leaving now as soon as we're done with this because school, we did it before school. one man whose son was involved in the controversy was here to spread a message of diversity and respect. he talked to us. >> we're a nation of many religions and creeds a nation of immigrants but do not make this a race issue of us versus them. that is not what it was or is. >> a short disstance aby a band of motorcyclists gathering to ride over to the school with flags. most are veterans, americans of the american legion and patriot guard >> we feel it's wrong to tell a group it's okay to do

. >> do you see yourself as a patriot? >> i do. being a patriot means knowing when to protect your country, knowing when to protect your constitution, knowing when to protect your countrymen from the violations and encroachments of adversaries, and those adversaries don't have to be foreign countries. they can be bad policies. they can be officials who, you know, need a little bit more accountability. they can be mistakes of government and simple overreach and things that should never have been tried or that went wrong. >> you hear often in the united states, why doesn't he come home and face the music? >> it's a fair question, you know, why doesn't he, why doesn't he face charges? but it's also uninformed. because what has been lain against me are not normal charges. the espionage act provides anyone accused of it of no chance to make a public defense. you are not allowed to argue based on all the evidence in your favor, because that evidence may be classified, even if it's exculpatory. so, when people say why don't you go home an

there are many a patriot. you can go back to the pentagon papers, dan elsberg and others who stood and went to the court system of america and made their case. edward snowden is a coward. he is a traitor, and he has betrayed his country. and if he wants to come home tomorrow to face the music, he can do so. >> strong statements there from secretary kerry. >>> a seven-term republican senator is making a bold prediction about the push for marriage equality. senator orrin hatch of utah says while he's opposed to same-sex marriage, it's becoming clear that it will soon become legal across the country. >> sooner or later, gay marriage is probably going to be approved by the supreme court of the united states, and certainly as the people in this country move towards it, especially young people. you know, i don't think that's the right way to go. on the other hand, i do accept whatever the courts say. >> marriage equality currently exists in 19 states plus washington, d.c. >>> a new study out reveals an alateraling r

that's what a approximate patriot would do. a patriot would not runaway and look for refuge in russia or some other country, he's a fugitive from justice which is why he's not being permitted to fly around the world. >> in my opinion in typical millenniumal fashion, he was offended by being called for a low level analyst. >> i worked for the central intelligence agency under cover overseas and i've worked for the defense intelligence agency as a lecturer at the joint counterintelligence academy where i developed sources and method for keeping our information secure in the most hostile dangerous environments around the world. when they say i don't know what i'm talking about, i would say it's somewhat misleading. >> kimberly, snowden has very high approval ratings in america. his approval ratings are actually higher than president obama. >> really. >> i find him increasingly insufferable. pajama boy. if he were to man up as kerry says, what kind of legal jeopardy is he in. >> he's in jep dardly for sure. i like what secretary of

it's a unified school. >> while the patriot group say they are supporting freedom of speech, there is concern violent may break out. a motorcycle club is planning a rally. that has caused parenten os -- parents and other community members to hold a rally. they don't want to disturb the students either and say they will just have 50 demonstrators. they say they have no association with the motorcycle club holding the afternoon rally. the school has put up a temporary chain link fence. back out here live you can see that fence right up here. students have not arrived yet at school but we will be sure to have are you will hear what the school plans on doing if anybody shows up bearer wearing an american flag t-shirt. >>> in san jose that annual cinco de mayo celebration quickly turned into chaos. several arrests were made last night. at one point they jumped a city bus. police were working over time trying to keep things under control. >> it gets crazy because alcohol gets involved and people get out of hand. it happens every year. >> many stores actually close down early to try to preve

being a patriot means knowing when to protect your country. could go anywhere in the world, that place would be home. >> edward snowden's last posting was in hawaii. there he rented a house where he lived with his girlfriend and performed electronic surveillance for the nsa. it was said he took his last position to gain access to the final documents he wanted to steal and then leak. >> how long prior to leaving hawaii did you start to say to yourself, i'm going to gather this, i'm going to put this away, i'm going to expose this? >> i think given the ongoing investigation that something better not to get into in a news interview, but i would be happy to discuss these things with the government. >> what is the number? what is the closest you've come to estimating the number of documents? >> i will say the 1.7 million documents figure that the intelligence community has been bandying about, the director of nsa himself keith alexander said just a week ago in the australian financial times, or australian financial review, i believe, that they have

hosting the patriot cup golf tournament.o have those two guys with you and what does this mean for you? >> it's an awesome day. it's about god and country, memorial day, those who paid the ultimate sacrifice to defend our freedom and to have wingmen like these two. >> he's in trouble. >> life's about believer, right? we're certainly blessed to have these guys on our flanks today. >> that's so true. rickey, you won a lot of golf awards over the recent time. but you got a big award last night. tell us about it. >> yeah. for me i have won some cool golf awards and won some tournaments over the years, but last night winning the corporal bucklapped award was probably the most special to me just because of the meaning of it and being given to me by dan and the folds of honor foundation and corporal buckman's son who was able to be there to give it to me. so pretty special. and definitely honor to receive it. >> david, four years ago you became an american citizen. on a holiday like this, what does this mean to you and to be part o

the dissent itself becomes the fourth of patriotism. martin luther king maturity to a, a very rich tradition. >> i'm not sure if this quote -- i'm not there where it's from. the quote is if you don't understand why supremacy, then everything else he thought unit will only confuse you. so if i could find out first if you could ask why not and second, is that relevant to that or how is it relevant today? >> that's a question for you, brother. >> which one? >> it sounds like some and he wouldn't have said. a few minutes not just the fight against white supremacy, but how it shapes the modern world and the economy and nation statement so forth. others have allowed us to see just how deeply cut. and to boy of course is part of that. >> he said many times that the problem is the color line. that is just plain and in the 20th century. there are things you can understand and i suppose -- >> opera is 131. i'm telling you. >> in general as he tried to run his hand sort of a nonce darker, it is a nonce character. one should say about, you know, th

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there are many a patriot.ou can go back to the pentagon papers with dan ellsberg and others who stood and went to the court system of america and made their case. edward snowden is a coward, he is a traitor and he has betrayed his country and if he wants to come home tomorrow to face the music, he can do so. >> well, today the famed pentagon papers whistleblower dan ellsberg is sounding off about kerry's comments. he joins me now from california. mr. ellsberg, thank you very much. tell me why you responded so strongly to what secretary kerry had to say? >> secretary kerry was once a hero of mine along with a lot of other people, did a very credible role in front of the foreign relations committee and denouncing war crimes, and asking the question who wants to be the last man to fight in -- to die for a mistake, let me correct that. who wants to be the last man to die for a mistake. i was thinking of that only yesterday as i saw the headline that the president was keeping almost 10,000 men almost two more years

morgan hill patriots and the we the people worked cooperatively but it was news to others. they say they are willing to go along. >> iville that margarita with them. i don't have any problem with cinco de mayo as far as celebrating it but i have a problem with you trying to silence my freedoms. >> live oak senior gives us his opinion. >> we are a free country. no matter what day it is, we should is all have the right to fly the american flag with that being said, the beauty of this country is we can fly any flag on any day. >> reporter: while a large turnout of protesters and police is expected tomorrow there may not be all that many students. many are keeping their kids at home. reporting live in morgan hill, don knapp, kpix5. the group that lost the court decision has filed an appeal. >>> now, back to that tragic story at travis air force base. during the show. a pilot lost his life. we go to fairfield where the officials wrapped it up moments ago. >> reporter: that is right. 85,000 people attended this air show today and many of them witnessed that crash. now,. [indiscer

german headquarters on guernsy so a situation filled with a lot of possible danger as someone as patriotict is outspoken as her. but the chap at the hotel was a great admirer of hitler but ms. green was an admirer of winston churchill. a teasing relationship developed between the two when he would creature every day with good morning and mrs. greene dash hitler and she would say good corning high-yield churchill. it became a tit-for-tat when the chef would go over the news. germany is taking yugoslavia or one day it was we have a the battleship bin he came back we got to bismarck the danger for subjugated people with such joking exchanges is apparent in this case the chef are commenting on patriotism or life of death dennis started to wear away in the comments were more bitter with meaning than one day the chef said would you like some rice pudding? yes please she replied. >> only if you say heil hitler and after a few seconds she burst forth with to help with hitler for rice pudding and one made with skim milk. this is really important number one the she defiantly verified she received si

this led many of you to debate on twitter whether this makes snowden patriot, or a traitor.ut it. >> being a patriot means knowing when to protect your country, knowing when to protect your constitution, knowing when to protect your countrymen. >> nbc news asked viewers to tweet their opinion using the #patriot or traitor. immediately after the interview, the number of people who tweeted that snowden's a patriot actually skyrocketed. some of you sent angry tweets like this one. quote, edward snowden is a traitor and coward and hypocrite. civil rights leaders went to jail, they did not hide in the ussr. and then, quote, he's both a traitor and a patriot until someone opens the classified box with all the facts. now, to levar burton and his quest to revive the reading rainbow. you can't stop talking about his kick starter campaign. it raised $1 million in under a day. watch the moment burton got the news that he met the milestone. >> yeah! woo! >> $1 million. >> i am overwhelmed. thank you so much. this is going to enable us to really, really, really do a lot of good. >> the a

i just feel sorry for the guy. >> so no pin head or patriot for bundy. david gregory. >> i don't know him much. i met him a few imes. he's a competitor. i don't particularly like his style. i think he is left wing and doesn't admit it. just admit it david. if he admitted it then i could go with it a little bit but all the stelth left wing stuff it's boring and his ratings are going down because it's boring. >> you know, he actually had tony blair on last week on his particular last week. >> yeah. >> he said is it tony blair and george bush's fault for islamic extremi extremism. >> enough with this. you can ask the question, mr. blair do you think it was a mistake in hindsight to invest all of that money on trade in iraq and iraq is a mess? so was it a mistake and why did you make it? that's legitimate but to bring all of this oh it's not obama's fault it's their fault. >> but the way he framed the question. >> he's a pinhead. are you happy? >> yeah. colbert and john stewart. >> colbert is another guy like gregory who is just a left wing -- just admit it.

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caller: good morning fellow patriots and happy memorial day to our veterans. is that most of the trouble is in red states. we say we claim to be supporting our troops. problem in the a red states about supporting our troops. this did not happen overnight. this was an ongoing -- i used to hear about stories in the and 1980's about how these hospitals were not taking care of the veterans coming back from vietnam. the only way to solve this problem is to put competent people in to help our veterans. that is all the problem is. do we need to crack down on people atmpetent veterans hospitals. let gohould the people -- should that include the secretary himself? caller: there should be disciplinary actions. if you have too many complaints and the person is still working there, that is a problem. i'm sure some of these people have complaints on them and they are still working. that is a problem. if they can't do their job, get rid of them. that is the only problem we have is incompetence in the workplace. host: from twitter, "the v.a. problem is like the public school

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it was a magnificent patriotic witness based precisely on this notion of honor.we are dishonored when over 200 children have been killed in the name of the u.s. government chasing terrorists but their collateral damage and so forth so the dissent itself becomes a form of patriotism and the legacy of henry david thoreau and barred with the king and the very rich tradition. a beautiful smile. >> i'm not sure if this cole, i'm not certain if it's the proper one but the quote is if you don't understand white supremacy than everything else that you thought you knew only confuse you. i would like to find out first if you could explain that in second is that relevant today or how is it relevant today? >> i think that question is for you brother. [laughter] >> i don't honestly know. it sounds like something that he would have said. >> the white supremacy was so central and if you missed not just the fight against white supremacy that how it shapes so much of our modern world and our economy and their nation-state and so forth david brion davis and denzel rogers has allow

to our newest generation of veterans of the wars in iraq and afghanistan, our history shines with patriots who answered the call to serve. they put their lives on the line to defend the country they loved. and in the end, many gave that "last full measure of devotion" so that our nation would endure. every single one of us owes our fallen heroes a profound debt of gratitude. because every time we cast our votes or speak our minds without fear, it's because they fought for our right to do that. every chance we get to make a better life for ourselves and our families is possible because generations of patriots fought to keep america a land of opportunity, where anyone -- of any race, any religion, from any background, can make it if they try. our country was born out of a desire to be free, and every day since, it's been protected by our men and women in uniform. people who believed so deeply in america, they were willing to give their lives for it. we owe them so much. so this memorial day, we'll gather together, as americans, to honor the fallen, with both public ceremonies and private rem

that's what a patriot would do.triot would not run away and look for refuge in some other country. a patriot would stand up in the united states and make his case to the american people. but he has refused to do that to this date at least. the fact is that -- you know, he can come home, but he is a fugitive from justice, which is why he is not being permitted to fly around the world. >> that will get him home. >>> the military in thailand is tighting its grip on its people. it's part of the army's attempt to control the flow of information following the coup. >> reporter: [ inaudible ] refuses to be silent even though gathering of more than five people are now illegal. every day the student comes to the monument to express his anger against the coup. his protests are organized through social media. >> if everyone agree with coup, then i think for you just keep saying that, keep having power. doesn't want to give us back the power. so he needs to pressure -- give pressure to like -- to do his best, to work best and m

. >> and so they're sort of sifting through the fisa law, they're sifting through the patriot act trying to find existing laws, existing authorities, you might call it loopholes, to justify these programs. >> narrator: general hayden was sent to the secret fisa court to convince a judge to restart it. >> could we get a court order

he said that a patriot would not run away. john and diana he showed no remorse. >> you don't see much remorse in this man at all. did he mention how many documents that he actually stole? >> he would not commit to a number and he said even the nsa has no idea how many he stole. >> that is incredible. are we going to get any more out of him, do you think? >> he hinted there was more to come and glenn greenwald said the next thing he publishes could be his biggest thing yet. >> seems like there's always something coming out of him. >> he doesn't seem to help his pr with these interviews. >> he was slick. >> yes, he was. >> thank you very much. abc's molly hunter reporting. >>> we move to a passing being felt around the world. fans everywhere mourning the death of maya angelou. among those remembering her life and talent, president obama who said angelou inspired the rest of us to be our best selves. in addition her poetry and other writings she was committed to civil writes and tony nominee and sung calypso. we learned her last

>> bush on day two of his tour to defend the patriot act, this time in buffalo, new york... >> in buffalo, he continued his push for an extension of the anti-terror law... >> narrator: that same year, the president hit the campaign trail, publicly arguing there was no warrantless surveillance program. >> nothing has changed, by the way. when we're talking about chasing down terrorists, we're talking about getting a court order before we do so. >> bush got up there several times and said, "when you hear about us wiretapping, that means we're getting a court warrant." well, we knew that wasn't true. he was leaving out this whole other side of the equation in terms of the nsa operation. >> it's important for our fellow citizens to understand, constitutional guarantees are in place when it comes to doing what is necessary to protect our homeland, because we value the constitution. thank you for coming. >> narrator: as the president insisted the government always secured warrants, in washington, that department of justice

. >> do you see yourself as a patriot? >> i do. >> edward snowden speaks. the man who spilled government secrets said he did it for your the good of the country and indicates he wants to return to the united states. >>> and remembering an icon. a look back at the life of poet and activist maya angelo. captioning funded by cbs captioning funded by cbs >>> this is the "cbs morning news" for thursday, may 29th, 2013. good morning. good to be with you. i'm anne-marie green. the investigation into veterans affairs administration is expanding. a preliminary v.a. report found scheduling delays and efforts to cover that up throughout the v.a. system. 42 centers are now under investigation. a spokesman says president obama calls the findings extremely troubling. susan mcginnis is in washington. susan, good morning. >> anne-marie, good morning. it is up to the president now. he says he wants to see the report and if the allegations prove to be true, there would be accountability. the question is does the accountability go all the way to the top of the v.a.? the inspe

patriot, as a coward and someone who betrayed his country is a despicable statement. >> tell me why you disagree with the argument he should have stayed, gone through the chain of command and faced the music, that he should -- >> there are several parts to that. at first chain of command, snowden had seen what had happened to every person who went through the chain of command in nsa. highest officials in nsa, technical people, ed loomis, tom drake, all gone to the inspector general and for that had their careers ruined, several resigned, all of them raided by the fbi and lost computers on suspicion that they had given the truth of what they were saying to the ig, inspector general and to congress about the nsa criminal listening in without a warrant on hundreds of millions of americans. they had told that but not to