and we are joined in seattle by jennifer shaw, deputy director of the american civil liberties union of washington state, and a member of the community police commission in seattle. she wrote a letter urging the justice department to launch an investigation into the fatal police shooting of antonio zambrano-montes in pasco, saying the local police probe was needlessly focusing on his activities prior to the incident. welcome both of you to democracy now! but go directly to pasco. felix vargas, explain what happened and the fact there so much a video of this. it was during rush hour? >> yes, it was and crowded intersection in downtown pasco. a gentleman is seen throwing

. >>> the american civil liberties union calling it a great day for the state of alabama. the federal judge has ordered to issue same-sex marriage licenses. most alabama counties are still complying with roy moore's issue. >>> breaking news overnight. david carr has died. times editor says carr collapsed in the newsroom on thursday night. bill carter tweeted his tribute. saying david carr was funny and generous. my heart breaks for his family and legion of friends. he is proud to be one of those friends. david carr was 58 years old. >>> more alleged exaggeration coming to light as nbc news investigates now suspended nightly news anchor brian williams. new questions about williams claimings about flying to baghdad with s.e.a.l. team six. among them a knife. sources tell us here at cnn it would be impossible for williams to have traveled with s.e.a.l. team six. questions surfacing about the brush with pope john paul ii as a university student. more on that later in the show. >>> let's get an early start on your money. cristina alesci joins us now. >> we are looking at a good

. >>> this morning, the american civil liberties union calling it a great day for the state of alabama. the federal judge who struck down the state's ban on gay marriage has now ordered a mobile county probate court to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples. this is in defiance of the order from the alabama chief justice roy moore. most counties are complying with moore's ruling. >>> very sad news to tell you about breaking overnight. another blow to the world of journalism. david carr has died. carr collapsed suddenly in the newsroom around 9:00 eastern last night. bill carter tweeted, david carr was brilliant and funny and generous. my heart breaks for his family and legion of friends. he is proud to have been one of his friends. david carr was 58 years old. >>> more alleged exaggeration coming to light and suspended news anchor brian williams is being investigated. new claims of flying in baghdad with s.e.a.l. team six and war memorabilia he received as gifts. among them a s.e.a.l. team knife. sources in the s.e.a.l. community tell cnn it is impossible for williams to travel wi

and we are joined in seattle by jennifer shaw, deputy director of the american civil liberties union hington state, and a member of the community police commission in seattle. she wrote a letter urging the justice department to launch an investigation into the fatal police shooting of antonio zambrano-montes in pasco, saying the local police probe was needlessly focusing on his activities prior to the incident. welcome both of you to democracy now! but go directly to pasco. felix vargas, explain what happened and the fact there so much a video of this. it was during rush hour? >> yes, it was and crowded intersection in downtown pasco. a gentleman is seen throwing rocks at cars. police are called. there's a minor scuffle. then you see the gentleman running across the street away from the police. police draw their weapons and fire shots at him. it appears they hit him. he gets to the other side of the street heads west and police are in pursuit. three or four yards behind him. he is wounded. he turns around, appears to raise his arms up. he does not have a knife or gun in his hand. he i

the decision not to charge her came after the american civil liberties union said the indents raised serious questions about the department's tactics. >> personal information of tens of millions could have been compromiseed when hackers targeted anthem, a health insurer. >>> good morning, 80 million people impacted. anthem said it was not health or credit card information but the information stolen is equal sensitive. >> it is the biggest health insurers and today anthem is scrambling to kin a massive security breach. the personal information of tens of millions of customers and employees and the c.e.o. is pong the victims targeted. >> the high profile frenches are the most severe of what are becoming common. >> anthem said it was a very sophisticated attack from the outside. the insurance giant confirms hackers stole product, special social security numbers and home addresses and employment information that can be used for identity theft. >> company says this what was in evidence that credit card or medical information such as test results or insurance information was compromised. a

the american civil liberties union applauds this effort but questions whether the program singles out black female students. in a letter to bowser the aclu writes studies show that separating boys and girls does not improve academic performance. it simply increases gender stereotyping. > l federal employees could be working for ious next week if congress doesn't work on way to fund the department of homeland security. reports show 1,000 workers in maryland would stay on the job but without their regular paychecks. the federal emergency management agency has also notified workers it will be unable to process emergency declarations and could furlough 3600 employees, and mu that the u.s. fire administration headquarters in frederick is to be shuttered unless an agreement can be reached. >>> fairfax county high school students and parents packed an aw tore yum tonight for a unique program aimed at preventing teen suicide. jackie bensen tells us why it's different from traditional. >> tonight you'll hear from six brave souls. >> reporter: no psychiatrists, therapist ors counselors just bra

from tucson, arizona, a border litigation attorney for the american civil liberties union of arizona, he works on cases relating to civil and human rights violations. and also out of tucson, he says he has been stopped more than 300 times and frequently, films his check point refusals, his channel has gotten close to 2 million views. thank you for joining us, you say you have been stopped more than 300 times why? and over what period of time. >> sure. well, the border patrol first set up a check point along a rout that i frequent to our remote site. near mile marker 146.5, which is just a few miles outside of 3 points arizona. what is interesting about this check point, is that it is set up along the secondary rout, that runs east to west. it never intersects the border and my remote work site doesn't take me to the border, in fact, i am about how miles away, but since 2008, i have had to go through this check point on the order of about 50 to 60 times every year. that puts me through 300 stops back in 2008. >> all right, i want to play a clip you provided to us about refusing to comp

the american civil liberties union calls it little brother surveillance and says the involvement of privatezens actually provide insulation against government abuse. >> feel better, all right? >> eddie lewis has owned this pennsylvania avenue hardware store for 18 years. all 24 of his security cameras are registered with police. >> i hope they can, you know, use my cameras and anything else i got to help, especially if it's helping to keep the community safe. it may save a life. you never know. >> reporter: since its launch in october, 26 people have signed up for the program adding 178 cameras to the streets. vinita nair, cbs news, new york. >> axelrod: bruce jenner, the gold medal olympian turned reality show star has been in plenty of headlines recently. this afternoon one more. jenner was involved in a three-car crash in malibu, california. one person was killed. jenner was not seriously injured. up next, suggested gratuities are on the wise. we'll be discussing the changing tippography. my feet hurt so bad. it felt like hot pins and needles coming from the inside out of my skin. when i

the american civil liberties union call an end to the use of jump out squads. they show raphael briscoe running from an unmarked police car in 2011. they said briscoe had a gun and a shot was filed, killing briscoe. they cleared officers of any wrong-doing. it was a drive by. i'm very, very angry. i'm not going to stop until justice is had for my son. >> all of d.c. police cars should be clearly marked. unmarked cars and jump outs are used to address problems across the district. >> an inquest will be held into the shooting of an unarmed man in washington state. a farm worker is accused of throwing rocks and cars at officers and it was all caught on camera. they used a tazer to stop the man and when that didn't work police ran after him and opened fire. the shooting has drawn criticism. the family of the man filed a lawsuit against the city of pacifico. >> if you have anthem health insurance, you can take advantage of health protection following a hack. they hired an outside company for assistance and credit monitoring. they hacked social security 234b security

the american civil liberties union is using them to call for anent to the jump out slots. it shows this 18-year-old running from an unmarked police car in 2011 right there. he had a gun and shot was fired from the cruiser, killing briscoe. a jury killed officers of any wrong-doing. >> it was a drive by on him. so i'm just angry. very, very angry. i'm not going to stop until justice is served for my son. >> the aclu said all police cars should be marked. unmarked cars and jump outs are used to address crime problems across the district. >> an inquest into the shooting of an unarmed man in washington state. a farm worker is accused of throwing rocks and cars at officers. that's right there. they used a tazer to stop the man and when that didn't work police opened fire. the shooting has drawn criticism from the president of mexico. he condemned the violence against the mexican citizen the family filed a lawsuit against the city. >> if you have anthem health insurance, you can take advantage of theft insurance. they said anthem hired an outside company to offer identity theft

what they got and what you can do now >> the american civil liberties union aclu says the dmv is doingoor job of allowing people to register to vote and threatening to sue. kqed says the civil rights organization filed a complaint today alleging that the dmv makes it unnecessarily difficult to register and even when people do file a voter registration application they dot always end up on the voter role. spokesman for the dmv declined to comment hasn't seen the complaint. congress passed motor voter act in 1993 to make it easier for americans to register to vote. >>> state attorney general parris issued consumer alert data breach of anthem. if you are one of the 80 million customers you may have been hacked by cybercriminals who have now moved beyond retail targets. here's of nick smith. >> it's one of the biggest health insurance today and anthem scramble to contain a massive security breach. personal information of tens of millions of customers and employee even anthem ceo is among the victims targeted. >> high profile breaches are the most severe of what have become common occurrenc

the city's decision comes after the after the american civil liberties union called for a review of departmenticy, saying this incident raised serious questions about the department's tactics. >>> a federal appeals court has dismissed a third lawsuit on proposition two. the law bans the inhumane consignment of hens, breeding pigs, prohibiting putting them in cages so small they can't stretch, turn around. california's proposition two was approved by voters in 2008. >>> a new survey of this year's college freshman is they spent their senior year of high school a lot different than their parents did. a survey shows they spent less time partying and being with their friends, and they submitted more college applications than their parents did. this year's college freshmen drank less, reported feeling more overwhelmed. researchers at ucla says the study indicates students face a lot more pressures to succeed than earlier generations, and they're having a lot less time for fun. >>> there's also a new app that's helping college students stay focused in class, called pocket points. it works by rewardi

joining us for our conversation is security as, -- shakyra diaz, policy manager for the american civil liberties union. andres gonzalez is the chief of police for the metropolitan housing authority and previously joined us as a panel member at our forum, turning the tide on sexual assault in october. jonathan gordon is a professor of lawyer skills, writing to his -- law students. he was one of the inaugural mentors in the provost scholars program. before joining, he was a trial attorney for the u.s. equal employment opportunity commission, where he handle cases involving racial description. bashir jones is a community activist and public speaker who hosts a variety of radio shows in the cleveland area. during the 2012 presidential campaign, he was the regional field director for organizing for america. i will cede the stage to anthony price. thank you very much. [applause] >> good afternoon. i am anthony price. a council member here at the city club. i want to thank you all for coming out to this very special moment for teachers and administrators here. we also have a second forum on the 29th, called

and now the american civil liberties union is using to call for an end to a controversial anti-crime tactic that's long been used by the d.c. police. they're known as jump-out squads. jackie bensen is in northwest d.c. with more on this. jackie jackie? >> reporter: jim, the d.c. chapter of the aclu is calling to an end these jumpout squads as they refer to them plain clothes officers in unmarnged vehicles and the video from the day that rafael brisco was shot shows them in action. >> reporter: the ford suv seen speeding up the road southeast in the seconds before rafael brisco was shot is a police vehicle. the head of the d.c. chapter of the aclu says it doesn't look like one and she thinks it should. >> rafael's death remains the result of a disturbing and ongoing pattern of dangerous tactics and strategies employed by the metropolitan police department in black communities in the district of columbia. >> reporter: the images from a d.c. police surveillance camera mounted on a utility pole begin with a shot of 18-year-old rafael brisco's shadow. attorneys representing the d.c. govern

. >> reporter: coming up at 6:00, the american civil liberties union has become involved in this case. we'll tell you why. live in northwest washington jackie bensen news4. >>> there is outrage on the west coast after police shoot and kill a homeless man who they say was throwing rocks at cars and at officers. cell phone video appears to show the man tossing at least one rock at a group of officers. police say the officers then deployed a taser and it had no effect. they then followed the man across the street where you can see them open fire. this happened earlier this week in pasco in washington state. pasco's police chief is asking for patience this weekend as they review this case. >>> president obama offered his condolences today to the families of the three unc college students shot and killed this week. it comes as the fbi launches its own probe into the case. the fbi is trying to determine if any federal laws were violated. the victims found shot to death at an off-campus condo. police say it may have stemmed from a parking dispute, but the families believe the suspect, a neig

he is the principal technologist at the american civil liberties union. law school's information society project. "the great sim heist: how spies stole the keys to the encryption castle" is the name of the story. what is the great sense heist? >> gchq has been involved in an aggressive effort to obtain these encryption keys, in essence, over the loss -- last five years or so, telecom companies, wireless carriers around the world have upgraded their networks and moved from older, less secure second-generation technology to more secure, 3g and 4g technology and as the networks have moved to this newer technology, it is become much more difficult for governments despite unto medications that take place outside of their own countries. so for gchq, for nsa, for the chinese and the russian governments to be able to spy on telephone calls everywhere in the world, they need these kinds of keys. what we have learned just yesterday is by hacking into one of the largest manufacturers of sim cards and the keys that are on them, gchq has acquired a huge amount of info

for our conversation today is shakyra diaz, policy manager for the ohio chapter of the american civil liberties union. as policy manager she's worked on policy campaigns regarding political activism, reproductive health care for latinos in gain initiative. idriss themselves is the chief of police for the tie among to match up onto housing authority to join us as a panel member turned the tide of sexual assaults in october. we are very glad to have him back. jonathan secord is a professor of law and skills at case western reserve university teaching legal analysis riding dj distance and international law students in cases. he was also at the inaugural mentors and before joining casey was a trial attorney for the u.s. equal implement opportunity mission where he handled many cases including cases involving racial this commission to and basheer jones is a political and community activist radio host spoken word poet writer and public speaker who hosts a variety of great shows on radio in the cleveland area and turn the 2012 presidential campaign he was the regional field director for organizing for ameri

for over a decade the american civil liberties union has been fighting for the release of the photographswhich are said to be more disturbing than the famous images of torture by u.s. forces at abu ghraib in iraq. in october, the judge ordered the government to outline, for each photograph, its reasons for keeping the images secret, but the government has not complied. the prominent palestinian activist and professor has been deported from the united states. in one of the most controversial prosecutions of the post-9/11 era, al-arian was accused of ties to the group palestinian islamic jihad, but a florida jury failed to return a single guilty verdict on any of the 17 charges against him. after prosecutors refiled charges, al-arian chose jail time and deportation rather than face a second trial. for much of the three years following his arrest in 2003 al-arian was imprisoned in solitary confinement and reportedly abused by prison staff under conditions amnesty international called "gratuitously punitive." wednesday night, al-arian told the news site the intercept -- "i came to the united

our first is the staff attorney for the american civil liberties union here representing the aclu. our second is the executive director of the grass roots leadership our third is the executive director of heartland alliances national immigrant justice center. i'll ask the three of you to raise your right hand and be sworn that you affirm that the information that you're about to provide to us is true and accurate to the best of your knowledge and belief; is that correct? >> yes okay good. >> good afternoon and thank you mr. chairman and members of the commission. ice detention is a sprawling network of 34,000 detention beds and approximately 250 facilities composed of county facilities county jails and private prisons. it is intended to be civil and nonpunitive. it's purpose is not to punish but simply to secure appearance at immigration proceedings and transfer for removal when applicable applicable. ice overwhelmingly consist of jail and jail facilities. over half of detainees are literally kept in jail. my statement addresses the short term custody facilities operated by a custo

the u.s. and abroad as well. >> we have obviously had a number of distractions and they may be important ones, american civil liberties union, have gone into this thing objecting thattists about targeting muslims in america and about putting them on the wrong side. we just heard from mike viqueria, our guy in washington to say the president was really front and center in making it clear that he's not talking about islam and muslims. he's drawing a different line but that's getting him into hot water with republicans who say why don't you call it like it is, islamic extremism. >> well, the majority of people attended the summit today were from different backgrounds and different countries as well. a lot of muslims and heavy on the issues of islamic extremism. and especially now, on the rise in many different countries. and i -- we all now suffering from this islamic extremism, violent extremism in the middle east and in the western world. to point out the issue of islamic extremism was addressed and the president made clear that we are not in a war with islam. we are in a war of radical ideology, radicals who are committing

. >>> roger baldwin who was famous as the founder of the american civil libberties union, would not allow a young civil liberty's attorney's to represent the japanese because he was a close friend of roosevelt. and all of the roosevelt policy was designed to keep as much of this secret as possible until after the 1944 election. he won re-election for a fourth term. so it is not a new story. and immaterial has never been a new story. some of these themes racist, greed, injustice denial, are part of the history of the country. and then there comes the soul-searching the apology and the most american of coping mechanisms. let's move on. we're moving on. that is to say nothing of the indians, the native americans, who were forced out of their land and their land was taken by patriots. there was also a great deal of censorship in world war ii. there was a lot of censorship -- they only allowed pictures to come out of these camps. when the government approved of them. it takes a lot of manpower to do that when 120,000 people are writing letters. and the censorship went so far as to the fact that until d-day, 1944 june

. >>> roger baldwin who was famous as the founder of the american civil libberties union, would not allow a young civil liberty's attorney's to represent the japanese because he was a close friend of roosevelt. and all of the roosevelt policy was designed to keep as much of this secret as possible until after the 1944 election. he won re-election for a fourth term. so it is not a new story. and immaterial has never been a new story. some of these themes racist, greed, injustice denial, are part of the history of the country. and then there comes the soul-searching the apology and the most american of coping mechanisms. let's move on. we're moving on. that is to say nothing of the indians, the native americans, who were forced out of their land and their land was taken by patriots. there was also a great deal of censorship in world war ii. there was a lot of censorship -- they only allowed pictures to come out of these camps. when the government approved of them. it takes a lot of manpower to do that when 120,000 people are writing letters. and the censorship went so far as to the fact that until d-day, 1944 june

the american people as being dedicated to liberty. >> does jefferson link union and nation in his mind. by the time of the civil war they're deployed interchangeably interchangeably. they'll drop all of them in the same far graph. >> it's a wonderful question the idea of a nation is implicit in the notion of popular sovereignty and self-determination that is an idea of the people as an organic hole. a great family of families, i talked about the importance of family before but by the time we get to lincoln at medicine tourry and beyond this is the great period of romantic nationalism, there's something about the nation as its organic hole that supersedes subsumes individuals, it subsumes everything. your identity is a national identity. it trumps everything else. >> well for some people. >> for some people -- >> for many people. >> we don't want to exaggerate it, because lincoln is not about to abolish states though he would love to abolish those southern states, he believes in the federal distribution of authority. he believes in the compromises that were worked out in the constitution, all that's important to