that is what the pentagon papers show. f it went on to put other papers, which had not yet been stopped, because they had done nothing yet, could they publish the papers? the next one was "the washington post." we got the papers to "the washington post" and they published and then they were stopped and we tried to keep that process going as long as we could. amy: explain what happened with "washington post." there is more attention because of the steven spielberg film that stars tom hanks and meryl streep, "the post." how contact with the washington post was made. gar: it was very simple. you had to reach people. this is the day before cell phones. i actually went around the area, the boston area using coin phones, public phones that were everywhe. i called up and i had the alias or the nickname mr. boston and i spoke with someone there and arranged a meeting because ben actually knew dan. he had been at the rand corporation. he came up and dan with him in a motel room. he gave him the papers. that was the next step. then,

and the new york times who exposed the pentagon papers back in the seventy's were also against it so the cia and f.b.i. went from bad guys hiding their secrets from the public to a pillar of society standing strong against the evil trump the irony today among many ironies is how the mainstream media forgotten their own history the new york times washington post today when it comes to a songe and others call him the worst threat to our republic is that we've ever seen but just years ago decades ago this same behavior. now lauded in the movies seem to herald this particular type of behavior that i show you gain the unmitigated unbelievable hypocrisy that astounds me daily so there you have it the same outlet that has democracy dies in the dark as its slogan would prefer its secret intelligence actions never see the light of day samir khan r.t. washington d.c. so. when america goes by these days without a bunch of russia. the russians would be thrilled if we were doing nothing but killing each other every day and sadly. if you don't seem. to hear the same side which. you should take a s

and the new york times who exposed the pentagon papers back in the seventy's were also against it so the cia and f.b.i. went from bad guys hiding their secrets from the public to a pillar of society standing strong against the evil trump the irony today among many ironies is how the mainstream media forgotten their own history the new york times the washington post today when it comes to a songe and others call him the worst threat to our republic is that we've ever seen but just years ago decades ago the same behavior. now lauded in the movies seem to herald this particular type of behavior that is showing again the unmitigated and unbelievable hypocrisy that astounds me daily so there you have it the same outlet that has democracy dies in the dark as its slogan would prefer its secret intelligence actions never see the light of day samir khan r.t. washington d.c. protests have erupted in gaza are over the killing of a palestinian terror suspect story and more still to come. local blogs show you on the idea that dropping bombs brings police to the chickenhawk forcing you to fight th

the new york times who exposed the pentagon papers back in the seventy's were also against it so the cia and f.b.i. went from bad guys hiding their secrets from the public to a pillar of society standing strong against the evil trump the irony today among many ironies is how the mainstream media forgotten their own history the new york times the washington post today when it comes to us songe and others call him the worst threat to our republic is that we've ever seen but just years ago decades ago the same behavior. now lauded in the movies seem to herald this particular type of behavior though i show you again the unmitigated unbelievable hypocrisy that astounds me daily so there you have it the same outlet that has democracy dies in the dark as its slogan would prefer its secret intelligence actions never see the light of day samir khan r.t. washington d.c. . now the news a human rights watch report has exposed how drugs are being misused in us nursing homes victims' relatives say strong psychotic medicines are used to control residents with dementia the rights group has released

one of the reveals of the pentagon papers during the vietnam war was us a u.s.official saying that the continued u.s. military escalation was ten percent about helping the south the enemy's twenty percent about defeating the communists seventy percent about avoiding the humiliation of u.s. military defeat we have a similar dynamic now nobody wants a no us partition certainly not the president it's one of the last one for want to take responsibility for the past the implications of knowledge in that the u.s. that taliban cannot be defeated militarily therefore there has to be a political diplomatic solution rather than what i'll have to interrupt you there we're about to run out of time so civilian deaths but do appreciate your views interesting thoughts there robert nine and policy director at just foreign policy. and very quickly finally israeli legal entity safad a lawsuit against t. new zealand as one of whom is jewish a self because they apparently influenced pop star lord to cancel a gig in tel aviv pulis lyrics blanks. late last year the new zealand pop st

and the new york times who exposed the pentagon papers back in the seventy's were also against it so the cia and f.b.i. went from bad guys hiding their secrets from the public to a pillar of society standing strong against the evil trump the irony today among many ironies is how the mainstream media forgotten their own history the new york times the washington post today when it comes to a songe and others call him the worst threat to our republic is that we've ever seen but just years ago decades ago the same behavior. now lauded in the movies seem to herald this particular type of event they're showing again the unmitigated unbelievable hypocrisy that astounds me daily so there you have it the same outlet that has democracy dies in the dark as its slogan would prefer its secret intelligence actions never see the light of day samir khan r.t. washington d.c. . turkey's president has accused the u.s. of plotting against in syria this comes amid a follow up between nato allies over turkey's operation against u.s. backed kurdish militias in the country. why does the us continue to send

he's the star of the scene now because the shoebox holds 200 pages of "the pentagon papers."o i thought the scene was about ben bradlee! ( laughter ) and it was instead "guy with shoebox." ( laughter ) but that's what he does. you'll think-- you think you're just a guy in a movie, and the next thing you know stephen will say, "here's what i want you to do." it turns out to be great-- i wish i knew the guy's name. but i don't learn anybody's name in the course of movies. ( laughter ) >> stephen: of course not. >> it's all "skipper" and "buddy" and "captain" ( laughter ) and, "hey bozo-leo good to see you." and if i don't know their names it's always, "there you are! there you are!" ( laughter ) >> stephen: i tell you what, we're going to take another break. but we'll be right back with more tom hanks, everybody. ( band playing ) ( cheers and applause ) emerge restored. fortified. replenished. emerge everyday with emergen-c packed with b vitamins, antioxidants, electrolytes plus more vitamin c than 10 oranges. why not feel this good everyday? emerge and see. -ahh. -the new guy.

and the new york times who exposed the pentagon papers back in the seventy's were also against it so the cia and f.b.i. went from bad guys hiding their secrets from the public to a pillar of society standing strong against the evil trump the irony today among many ironies is how the mainstream media forgotten their own history the new york times the washington post today when it comes to a songe and others call him the worst threat to our republic is that we've ever seen but just years ago decades ago this same behavior. now lauded in the movies seem to herald this particular type of behavior that is showing again the unmitigated unbelievable hypocrisy that astounds me daily so there you have it the same outlet that has democracy dies in the dark as that slogan would prefer its secret intelligence actions never see the light of day samir khan r. t. washington d.c. . u.s. defense secretary james mattis has called on congress to increase military funding otherwise it will continue troops modest made the comments while talking about the need to release the national defense strategy nucl

the new york times who exposed the pentagon papers back in the seventy's were also against it so the cia and f.b.i. went from bad guys hiding their secrets from the public to a pillar of society standing strong against the evil trump the irony today among many ironies is how the mainstream media forgotten their own history the new york times washington post today when it comes to a songe and others call him the worst threat to our republic is that we've ever seen but just years ago decades ago the same behavior. now lauded in the movies seem to herald this particular type of behavior that i show you again the unmitigated unbelievable hypocrisy that astounds me daily so there you have it the same outlet that has democracy dies in the dark as its slogan would prefer its secret intelligence actions never see the light of day so america on r.t.e. washington d.c. . pentagon has announced a new strategy in iraq and syria following the liberation of islamic states key strongholds enabled by exhilarated successes following the liberation of mosul the coalition will shift its focus in iraq fr

as a backdrop of the pentagon papers in one nine hundred seventy one about us behavior in indochina and i rank everyone here by age but i remember the talk of the imperial presidency where the president has the right to do on a whim like we saw the missile strikes i think in april the trump conducted against syria this is what i find really quite disturbing because we don't we yeah exactly but you know you have congress you know when it's trying to used to hang cling on to hits it's authorities when it came to foreign policy now they're just giving it away and for. democrats and liberals. this is. very strange of the ones that want to accountability from the imperial presidency but they're only adding fuel to this and the congress has essentially walked away from its obligations when it comes to foreign policy as mark said there is no debate about any of these issues and the issues of war and peace could not be more important it will look let's not forget going back to when trump did send missiles on to the airbase in syria the first mainstream media or she would have. missiles brian wi

even after the revolution of the pentagon papers, he would admit that he worked for the cia and so whenthis memoir came out it was basically laughed at by critics who felt they'd taken an oath to protect the secrets of the cia and he wasn't going to break it and then. >> i can sense that the president of this great organization is about to come upon the stage. before she does that, i want to get to what you think we should take from your book. there are three words and i think they are quite brilliant distillations of what other of us have experienced with you out there helping us from time to time. it is learned, like canvassing. >> for example we are cutting aid to pakistan but that wasn't for landfill approach athe land. the methodology out of the country and understand them understand their culture and what they are all about. learn what they are all about as people and then like them. identify people that you like and cultivate them and become friends with them. learn to like them and the final thing is to send. the secret sauce to the lansdale method is you would listen instead of

it is the way the pentagon papers were read. that's how that was disclosed. so we could see this all go down in a very public way. what we saw from the axios reporting, what if this is just built up to be a lot of nothing? we'll find that out, i guess. >> someone should think about maing a movie about the pentagon papers. >> phil, take us into your reporting, when the president he first became aware of the existence of this memo. >> he first became aware of this two weeks ago. he was on a call to discuss the government shutdown and congressman mark meadows and jim jordan brought it to his attention on the call. brought up the idea of declassifying this nunes memo. the president didn't think much of it at that moment but his chief of staff learned more about it and figured out what kind of troll president might play in a public pressure to get it released publicly and the president very quick will tuned in and became very supportive of releasing the memoest watched a lot of news including a piece that trey gowdy had just before trump headed off to davos, switz

that's not something that's decided by the pentagon papers case. it's interesting to see this case came up on a superfast track. i think it was two weeks from the beginning of the publication of the pentagon papers to the time it's decided by the supreme court. the supreme court does it in rapid fire fashion. the movie captures this wonderful -- i can't believe a law professor hasn't gone to see it. seen a movie about a supreme court case. jeffrey: take them. they'll love it. mike: but there is a range of opinions from the first amendment absolutists that say the government cannot restrict what the press publishes. to brennan's opinion, justice william brennan, who says you know, they might be able to restrict publication of national security secrets of the sort analogous to letting hitler know where the d-day invasion is going to be. that there are compelling interests that overrides. to a middle block of justices who say, we don't need to decide that because one principle that's firm is that the government may not shut down the press in advance.

the government said the country would not survive the release of the pentagon papers, we're doing quite well. i think the same thing is true here. i suspect we would see the fisa application, and be redacted. would not endanger national security. would give us a better basis, deciding, reading the original book instead of the term paper on one side or the other side. these are hearsay, these are hearsay descriptions of what republicans claim is in the application. we're hearing hearsay descriptions of what the democrats claim. we should see the real thing. trish: that said, what they're claiming isn't very good. it is kind of scary stuff. >> no. trish: if this is the case, if somehow our fbi relied on opposition research to get a fisa warrant, what's that tell you about the state we're in? >> the most important thing is not what's in it, what was left out. that they didn't tell, apparently didn't tell the fisa court who paid for, who commissioned the report on which the application was at least partially based. the court should have known that this was opposition research, paid for by o

look, the movie, the post, obviously the pentagon papers makes that point.he government got up in front of the supreme court and said the country would fall if the pentagon papers were released and they were released and of course only positive came from it. in general i'm in favor of disclosure and full transparency and, sure, you follow the rules. but the rules ought to error on the side of disclosure rather than suppression. >> laura: just for disclosure adam schiff's tweet sent out discovered late tonight that chairman nunes made material changes to the memo he sent to the white house. changes not approved by the committee. white house, therefore, reviewing a document the committee has not approved for ry release. he attaches a copy of that document. so, chris, you can close it out. but, you know, you shouldn't -- if that happened and i don't know if it did or not, well, you can't materially change a document that the committee hasn't approved. i would assume that's a no-no. we have to learn more about that. chris, you know mueller, you know wray. you al

but the pentagon papers case is a narrow one. it's a great story, but it only stands for the proposition that government can't stop the presses in advance but the court knowledges there is a possibility that once the new york times or washington post published this, there could be prosecutions afterwards. though they were very happy that they would not hold back and actually published. they were at risk of after-the-fact punishment and the free press clause which again, is only a ruleof no prior restraint . >> that's an important wrinkle. in the movie,catherine brown is worried about being put in jail for conspiracy because both she and the times relied on the same source . mike, is that the correct written principle? you can't be stopped from publishing before the fact but you can be stopped from publishing after-the-fact. why didn't the nixon administration tried to stop them from publishing after-the-fact or do you believe the national rights and would prohibit publishing after-the-fact? >> that's a tough question. whether the

. >> people defending the release bring up, what about the pentagon papers?e left cheering the release of those way back when, but now people saying there's something wrong with the republican memo. >> the pentagon papers was an authoritative document that went back for ten years. it wasn't drafted for a political purpose. this is a memo that was selectively drafted to create an argument for the president to make. if that weren't the case and if transparency was the goal here, then they would release the democratic memo as well. >> here is how donald trump felt about releasing the torture report in 2014 that the senate intel committee wanted to have out. he felt quite differently then. let me read his tweet then. the cia report should not be released. puts our agents and military overseas in danger, a propaganda tool for our enemies. it's interesting to see how different he felt -- >> it's fair to say the president has never been burdened by consistency. >> the bigger picture ultimately seems to be a concerted strategy from the president, his lawyers and mayb

we've been slowly uncovering a massive american scandal that makes watergate, the pentagon papers, lookike minor infractions. fox news is reporting tonight that president trump has in fact reviewed the four page classified men without explosive massive and severe price abusesf his campaign and his incoming cabinet. sources are telling us that memo will be released tomorrow. as you can imagine, after a year of lies at painting a false narrative, democrats in the media, they are now hyperventilating and breathlessly doing everything theynd can possibly do to discredit and stop the memo from being released. were they so afraid of? let's start with the msnbc conspiracy hosted training, congressman adam schiff. he went running to all his liberal allies in the media, like paul revere, claiming that the memo sent to the white house had been "secretly altered" and thathe "material changes" were made. in his twisteded mind, he thougt that it shouldn't be released to the public. the media goes into hyperventilation mode and they were ecstatic at all wrong.ak we'll explain that. first, take a look

he revered lansdale, when ellsberg revealed the pentagon papers, that was a very painful episode for lansdale because among the papers that were revealed were operational reports that laps dale himself had weren't nor cia and revealed the fact that operation brotherhood was not a spontaneous filipino civic organization and was actually an organization created and fund by ed lansdale of the cia and that exposed his filipino friends to danger and retribution so this added to some of the agony he felt at the end of his life, but kind of interesting guy. he was such an honorable man or perhaps so quixotic that he refused to admit he worked for the cia. when this memoir came out, it was basically laughed at by critic whose knew he was not telling the truth but he felt like he had taken an oath to protect and preserve the secrets of the cia and wouldn't break that oath even then. >> i want to -- i can sense that president of this great organization is about to come up on the stage and before she does that, i really want to get to what you think we should take from your book for contemporary

by that point you have the release of the pentagon papers that when dan ellsberg, by the way if you've seen the post the very first line spoken in the movie he's out in the boonies in vietnam told in a machine gun with the marines in one says to the other whose the long hair. the answers that's ellsberg he worked for the embassy. but then. >> worshiped him. >> and he still does. he said he was a real -- of winston. when ellsberg revealed the pentagon papers that was a painful episode because among those revealed were operation reports that he will for the cia. for the fact that operation -- is not a single organization it was created and funded by advanced of the cia i met expose some of his friends to danger and retribution. that added to some of the agony. such an honorable man that after the revelation he refused to admit he worked for the cia. when the memoir came out it was laughed at by critics who knew he wasn't telling the truth. he felt like he had taken a note to protect the secrets of the cia and he was like a federal. >> i can sense the president of this great organization

that is not something decided by the pentagon papers case. it is interesting to see this case came up on a superfast track. two weeks away from the publication of the pentagon papers to the time it is decided. the supreme court does it in rapidfire fashion. i cannot believe a law professor is not seen that movie about the supreme court case. [laughter] there is a range of opinions from the first amendment to the absolutists that say government cannot restrict whatever the whateverublishes -- the press publishes. to justice brennan, who says, they might be able to restrict publication of national security secrets of the sorts of analogous to letting hendler nowhere the d-day invasion is going to be, right? but there are compelling interest overrides. say,dle block of justices we don't need to decide that because one principle that his farm is that the government may not shut down the press in advance. here, congress had not passed a law authorizing nixon to sick -- seek the injunction that he did. a court order stopping the presses is not only

remember the pentagon papers?t exposed how the american government, especially the linden johnson administration lied to the public about the country's involvement in vietnam for decades. now, the "new york times" and "the washington post" at the time, they fought all the way to the u.s. supreme court for the right to publish those classified documents and guess what? they won. guess what? the truth was exposed. now the media is doing the exact opposite. they want the memo kept secret, which is pathetic. they are doing a great disservice to you, the american people. instead, pushing for truth. they are now trying to attack anybody that is trying to expose the biggest case of abuse of power we have ever seen in our lifetime. and people that are trying to be transparent and let you see the truth are under attack by the press and the left that has now aligned themselves. they are one in unison now. there is no separation between left wing liberal politicians and your media. no line of separation. the media is a bunch

amy: a decades old mystery behind who helped daniel ellsberg leak the pentagon papers has been partiallyolved. a man who once went by the code name "mr. boston" comes out of

that is not something that is decided by the pentagon papers case. this case came up on a super fast track. i think it was two weeks from the beginning of the publication of the pentagon papers to the time it is decided by the sprinkler. the supreme court does it in rapidfire fashion. the movie captures this wonderfully. i can't believe a lot of professor has counted see a movie about a supreme court case. >> kids at home. >> tape it, they will love it. opinionsis a range of that say, government cannot restrict whatever the press publishes. says,nnan's opinion that there might be able to restrict publication of national security analogous toe sort letting hitler's nowhere the d-day invasion is going to be. there are compelling interest overwrites. to a mental block of justices who say, we do not need to decide that because one isnciple lives that his firm that the government may not shut down the press in advance. here, congress has not passed a law authorizing nixon to seek the injunction that he did. getting a court order stopping the presses is no

pentagon papers case. ?ho has seen the post this case is crucial to the isie where president nixon using his executive authority to prevent the new york times from publishing these top-secret documents related to the vietnam war. as we know from the movie they have been leaked by someone who works for the department of defense. in the movie the publisher of the post makes the brave decision to publish despite the recommendations of her lawyers. she is trying to figure out what the new york times will do. lower court judges stop the presses for the first time in american history. in americant time history depresses have been stopped by someone who feels the exposure of the information made and international -- may endanger national security. as we learn from the movie, the first amendment protects the right of the new york times to publish the papers and justice black wrote one of his most memorable decisions, saying the word security should not be used to up -- akhil, what is the legal principle that justifi

about it, the same media that, you know, obviously was very aggressive with the release of the pentagon papers to get every detail out on inflated body casualties counts in the vietnam war and gets, that in retrospect was a good thing to learn and know and if you subscribe it today, we're questioning the institution that's verboten, we'd never learn that. i know the fbi example is a little different, but what is wrong with finding out how an investigation starts or what triggers it? and i talked to a number of democratic congressman in the last hour and a half who tell me, well, i cannot believe, neil, this was the only means by which that fisa, you know, order was granted. but what do you think of that? >> i think the fact that the democrats will do anything to keep the truth from coming out. the truth is there's been a conspiracy so immense, it defies imagination, a conspiracy so immense against the truth. a conspiracy against the republican party and against the people who elected donald trump. this has been a conspiracy to reverse the results of the election. it's been almost an attempted

amy: a decades old mystery behind who helped daniel ellsberg leak the pentagon papers has been partially solved. a man who once went by the code name "mr. boston" comes out of the shadows to admit he clandestinely aided ellsberg in distributing pages of the top secret history of the vietnam