nor do i know yet if radley manning is a hero. -- radley manning is a hero. am thankful for what he did. he shed light on some pretty horrific practices and helped bring about the end of those practices but he did commit a crime and a series of crimes and he has yet to substantially pay for those crimes. >> you're talking about criminal acts. anyone who looks at that video that he released, this argument that there were war crimes committed there, that is a pretty stiff charge and yet when you look at it, these are innocent civilians. journalists from reuters create and yet these people have not been brought to justice either. >> that is incredibly unfair and frustrating and our system of justice is apparently unfair. sometimes the wrong people get prosecuted and sometimes you have people who should get prosecutors and gore not. -- prosecuted and some who are not. these individuals were not charged. that is a separate inquiry. what manning did was knowingly take information, gather a tremendous amount of information, 700,000 documents and records, dos years o

. >> radley manning. the escalating war on obamacare. >> under no circumstances will i for a continuing resolution that authorizes even one penny to this. >> and the 50th anniversary of the march on washington. >> you look at how far we have come, but we still have so far to go. >> opposition forces claim the syrian government is killing large numbers of civilians, men, women and children with chemical weapons. russia says the rebels stage the attacks to drum up opposition to the asad regime. the asad regime says the claim is baseless. here is what president obama said a year ago. nowe have communicated in uncertain terms what every player in the region -- with every player in the region that that is a line -- red line for us. >> senator john mccain says the red line threat is a joke. >> the president of the united states says it would be a red line and a game changer. he now sees that as a green light. means the word of the president of the united states can no longer be taken seriously. >> president oba

military judge is set to hear arguments in the sentencing of radley manning. the soldier who handed over thousands of class of five documents to wikileaks. there have been international calls for the court to show leniency. >> the german government human rights chief raised manning as courageous and said that democracies have to open legal channels for whistleblowers. >> on tuesday, manning escape a life sentence without a roll when he was acquitted of the most serious charge of aiding the enemy, but he was convicted of 19 other charges, which could still add up to a combined sentence of 136 years. now to a story that has everybody talking here -- a court in germany has ruled today that a man smoking in the privacy of his own home in dÜsseldorf can be evicted if the smoke gets into the public areas of his apartment building. >> the 75-year-old has discovered that his home is not his castle after all. citing health concerns over secondhand smoke tom at the court ruled that he can be booted out for lighting up. >> the court decision upholds the landlord's writer

, and americans generally will pull back from it, and it allows the media to fill that gap as radley manning being a traitor. >> more headlines than the issues then he uncovered, in the day after the sentencing, his sex became the story. >> who is chelsea? >> bradley manning announced he wants to spend the rest of his life as a female and once to be referred to as chelsea manning. >> a psychiatrist testified that manning has narcissistic tendencies, and i wonder if anything is with that, because she is announcing this in a public way. >> i think this is really trying to let people have the answer that they wanted. she never really wanted this to be public to begin with. when the information came out, you have to understand that she gave it in a very private setting and in a one-on-one chat, never expecting it to be public. now that it is, unfortunately, you have to do with it with it in a public manner. >> the attorney says she never wanted this issue to overshadow the story about what was released in the leaks. >> after a short break, we take a look at the latest allegations against the nsa

remit -- radley manning remains a polarizing figure. >> for more on the story, let's go live toshington. you just heard a statistic. the question about bradley manning being a hero or a traitor -- is the nation really that divided over this? >> it is divided. it depends on the polls you look at, but it seems consistently so that a majority, albeit a small majority, does think that he is more of a traitor than a hero, although you have a lot of people who very strongly feel that he is a hero. generally speaking, there is this impression that people feel less strongly about the whole issue with the manning leaks than they do, for instance, about the snowden leaks. because in spite of the sheer magnitude of the documents he leaked -- 700,000 -- most of them were judged harmless by experts, and they do not really affect people's lives. >> deterrence, as we heard in the report, judge part of the sentence. will it discourage others from coming forward with information that could actually be in the national interest? >>) well, you know, in spite of being pretty far off of what the pros

read the manning has admitted yelled the number of series -- radley manning has admitted guilt and ieel he should serve a significant sentence for his actions three at i did not support the prosecution's pursuit of the charge of aiding the enemy. i thought that was judicial overreach. but i certainly understood the treatment of bradley manning was affecting international opinion of the united states. the last thing the united states stayed was another controversy involving detention issues, even one involving one of our own soldiers. >> i want to play part of an exchange now bradley manning that happened between associated press reporter matt lee and state department spokesperson jen psaki when he asked her to comment on the verdict in the case. >> we have seen the verdict, which i know just came out right before i stepped out here. i would be on that and refer you to the department of defense. no further comment from here. >> for the entire trial, this building had said he wouldn't comment because it was pending, it was a pending case. now that it is over, you still are not going to

you notice which president was the one who was the would do our forces from iraq radley meaning exposing bradley manning and some of the lawyers even ministry i can actually go to jail people who did those crimes should i go to yes bradley manning i'm sorry i was a man who murdered those those civilians you're going to get very two separate issues let's talk about bradley manning i was on active duty i had a security conference one thousand nine hundred six you understand what that means of having that kind of bradley manning these to be held accountable he is not going to. or terror being thirty five years in prison when he could have gotten now easier a war crime and then he should have done and then what he should have done is nothing to be honest i don't really know if you see war there and you're not supposed to say yes sir i'm just taking order then he should have reported it there's a means to report this but he went on to sell the secrets that is illogical when you want to so he doesn't sometimes he was gave my for there and he's a vigilante and if you want to trust me get out of that i'm afraid

ask someonei would to explain to me the difference between radley manning turning these over and this administration supplying military equipment and financial assistance to the muslim brotherhood who are sworn enemies of the united states and have swore they would like to kill us and do away with us. if you read the constitution and provide that kind of help to them, that is treason. that is treason. no one has answered that question yeah. host: the topic of several stores in the paper this morning on the federal reserve, one is taking look at the stimulus program. host: the announcement in june that it will begin scaling back its bond-buying program this year. host: randy up next in missouri, democrats line. >> that was a portion of this morning's program. we move on to philadelphia for live coverage of kathleen the new, talking about health care law and specifically what the administration sees as benefits to the latino community. following part of this event, there will be a sappy it -- separate media availability with the secretary. we will bring that to you as well. >> what we h