editor in chief of the guardian. new york times executive editor and a member of the president's committee. they spoke for about one and a half hours. >> good evening. if you're interested and care about the u.s. constitution and freedom of speech and press, protected by the first amendment, or if you care about the role of journalism and the press in informing the public about important public issues, or if you care about the rules and rights of leakers of government classified information, or the level of information the public needs to exercise our responsibilities of self-government in a democracy, or the role of the state in keeping its citizens safe and functions effectively, or in the perplexing problems of working out a global system of free expression, in a new world defined by a truly global communications system, and nations with vastly different views about the freedom of speech and press, if any or all of this interests you, then tonight is your night. we can look forward to hearing from distinguished lea

the editor of "the guardian." and we had a chat in my office the following week and sort of -- it was a somewhat vague conversation about collaborating and maybe we could and as any aggressive journalist would do, the door was a little bit open and i tried to stick my foot in it and keep, you know, keep it opening a little wider. from time to time i would call allen and just say, you know, we'd love to work with you and nothing happened for a while and then he did get in touch with me and the catalyst, i believe, for him reaching out to me was that he definitely had the sense that the british government was about to come down very hard on "the guardian" and probably demand the return of the materials and he was deathly worried that the public interest role that janine spoke so powerfuly about would be -- the plug would be yanked. >> of course that was proved to be the case. > exactly. sometime before the authorities actually came to the guard -- came to "the guardian" and they had to literally destroy their "the an

the editor of "the guardian. and we had a chat in my office the following week and sort of -- it was a somewhat vague conversation about collaborating and maybe we could and as any aggressive journalist would do, the door was a little bit open and i tried to stick my foot in it and keep, you know, keep it opening a little wider. from time to time i would call allen and just say, you know, we'd love to work with you and nothing happened for a while and then he did get in touch with me and the catalyst, i believe, for him reaching out to me was that he definitely had the sense that the british government was about to come down very hard on "the guardian" and probably demand the return of the materials and he was deathly worried that the public interest role that janine spoke so powerfully about the plug would be yanked. >> of course that was proved to be the case. >> exactly. sometime before the authorities actually came to the guard -- came to "the guardian" and they had to literally destroy their drives and what n

the u.k. laws. there is very little oversight. guardian staff, as far as we know, still being investigated. >> conrad martin with the fund for constitutional government. i want to go to the term you used, edward snowden's eerie prescience. i would say it was more an informed and healthy paranoia. in the thomas case, where they went after him under the espionage act, he had taken documents to the house of intelligence committee. those documents were turned over. diane rourke got the documents. the fbi waited at the house of intelligence committees office in going after that data. the healthy paranoia that is there -- my question goes to and you mentioned the whistleblowers, where are the reforms? the espionage act does not work and has not worked. it has been overly broad. any whistleblower protection act that should have been extended to contractors was not extended to contractors. the recommendations coming forward are coming forward about the metadata. third-party people handling them. the underlying systems of how we are going to approa

the u.k. laws. there is very little oversight. guardian staff, as far as we know, still being investigated. >> conrad martin with the fund for constitutional government. i want to go to the term you used, edward snowden's eerie prescience. i would say it was more an informed and healthy paranoia. in the thomas case, where they went after him under the espionage act, he had taken documents to the house of intelligence committee. those documents were turned ver. diane rourke got the documents. the fbi waited at the house of intelligence committees office in going after that data. the healthy paranoia that is there -- my question goes to and you mentioned the whistleblowers, where are the reforms? the espionage act does not work and has not worked. it has been overly broad. any whistleblower protection act that should have been extended to contractors was not extended to contractors. the recommendations coming forward are coming forward about the metadata. third-party people handling them. the underlying systems of how we are going to approac

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i worked for "the guardian" for many years. if you are worried that this is too cozy a panel, i am here to tell you that is right and it is your job to be the opposition. really do have a great panel tonight, but there are many voices not included on the panel. there were the reporters involved with the story. green -- glenn greenwald, edward snowden himself. we wrapped up the panel. will have a quick response, &a withn we will have q the audience as well. please have questions emma because i'm sure there are many i will not get to. on my left, we have the editor-in-chief of "the which broke the initial story. next to her, jill abramson. obviously, she needs no introduction to editors of the new york times. think it is fair to say the new york times is still the , the editorial voice that is most listened to by the establishment in the u.s. i hope that is not too controversial. have david, we schultz. he is a leading first member lawyer. he is a partner in a law firm. "guardian" lawyer on links, ind wiki believe. he has been ins

it clear the top british spy agency was monitoring "the communications of myself, david, and/or the guardian." he said -- in venezuela, right-wing opposition leader leopoldo lÓpez

meantime, the guardian is reporting the u.s. agency work with the surveillance counterpart to set and store the yahoo! webcam images for millions of internet users that aren't even suspected of any wrongdoing. to 2010, a from 2008 shocking stat of 1.8 million users targeted. yahoo! says they were not aware --nor would we condone walking dead keeping amc network very much alive. we will be talking to jon erlichman. but first, our lead. google has built its empire by selling ads on its search engine. chasingcompany is not driverless cars or mobile maps. homespeed internet in your leaves competitors in the dust. we are taking an in-depth look at google fiber. our internet at large is in utah. i'm so curious how much better google fiber really is. >> i have not used it yet. moore is the right number. we talked to a guy who is one of the early users, a big tech user. we asked him about his experience. check it out. the company they found was just losing it in the process. the are starting to roll this thing out over the country. it i

newspaper where he tracks the geopolitics of environmental energy and economic crises via his guardian hosted blog earth insight welcome to the last report. ok so you write about the triple cronje of environment energy economic crisis clearly we've got this flooding going on in the u.k. so we're having you on talk a little bit about ok so i mean obviously it's a lot of people are recognizing that the nature of the weather at the moment is is a little bit unprecedented has not been seen for a good few decades this this intensity of extreme rain and flooding and storms and things like that so this is kind of certainly i think for the for the incumbent tory policy it's come as a bit of a shock because it's you know the standard line is you know we don't really need to do anything or climate change obviously we need to do some things and suddenly you know this you know we've been hit on expectedly boy this extreme doubt of it is a shock it's like oh most people make a comparison to katrina disaster in america where they had this enormous breach of the levees and the floods and everything c

. >> tell her to read the guardian. aughter] >> to attend upon her majesty immediately. >> it tolls for thee, maggie. [laughter] >> you have heard there, dennis skinner saying, "it tolls for thee, maggie." >> to attend immediately in the house of peers. >> i do not need to say to experienced viewers, that was probably the labor mp dennis skinner. therefore the royal family. >> the queen commands the honorable house to attend her majesty immediately. >> royal expenses are on the way. >> mr. speaker, the queen commands the honorable house. >> no royal commission this week. >> immediately in the house of peers. >> thank you. [laughter] >> to attend her majesty immediately. >> jubilee, double-dip recession, what a start. >> to attend her majesty immediately in the house of peers. >> royal mail for sale, the queen's head privatized. [laughter] >> contribution from dennis skinner. >> some of those were hard to hear. repeating a number of them, telling her to read the guardian. why would you want to read the guardian? they do n

"the guardian" says the operation "optic nerve" was still in operation in 2012. and just to be clear, you may not have known this was happening, but if you were on a web cam intimately with anyone, the british intelligence saw it. >> disturbing on many levels. >>> all right, here at home, the costing big technology companies billions. many tech firms have cooperated with the spy agency and now businesses like cisco, ibm and microsoft say they're losing revenues because overseas companies are very suspicious and reluctant to work with them. christine romans nodding her head here. one firm estimates potential losses for u.s. companies at $180 billion. >> these ceos have been complaining about this for some time now. >>> all right, score one for the bulls. stocks set to close out a pretty sweet february. wow. we were all so gloomy back in january. heading into the last trading day of the month, major averages up 3% to 5%, enough to make up for the particularly weak start to the year. look at that chart. remember january, everybody talking about correction, and now t

hash tag free al jazeera staff has won international support which is no mystery given that cnn, the guardianther global outlets have also been criticized and sometimes threatened over their coverage. >> three of my colleagues are in jail for doing their job. as you know very well. >> conspicuously absent from the social media are names of journalists from egyptian news outlets, the vast majority of which back the interim government. >> t.v. news in egypt today resembles america journalism post 911 right down to the graphic did. what u.s. outlets trumpeted as the war on terror, egyptian channels have rewritten as e equipment fights terrorism. >> the military had a plan to sway media organizations to their favor. most of those have already been pressured by morsi supporters over the course of one year. so they were easily swayed to serve and to work with the military government once morsi was ousted. it for them served as an opportunity of pay back. this tactic of divide and conquer was used by the military to discredited and reduce any potential unity among journalists against suppression. >>

british intelligence refusing to comment on the guardian report other than to say it acts within the law. >>> the department of transportation is releasing a 400-page report today on the nation's aging infrastructure. it highlights a record setting $86 billion backlog of transit projects that need to be repaired. >> reporter: every day 1 # 0,000 cars and -- 180,000 cars and trucks use this stretch in philadelphia. >> we shouldn't be hearing that sound. >> reporter: we should not be hearing that sound? that sound means? >> decay. >> reporter: decay. that this is a structure that needs to ultimately be replaced. pennsylvania department of transportation says it will cost nearly a billion dollars to repair. 90% of that from the federal government. the city's massive transit system is having its own problems. this 91-year-old bridge can literally be chipped away with a hammer. should it be falling off so easily? >> no, no, it's not a good situation. basically like i said, the water is moving through the structure. >> reporter: as the nation's aging infrastructure starts to break down, fe

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co-director of the center for economic and policy research mark weisbrot recently wrote an article in the guardian about what's happening on the ground he joins me now to break it down thanks so much for coming on mark so can you give us a brief timeline of how these protests have gotten at this point well they started out. just where they started from beginning to manning that the president resigned and of course he was elected in a democratic election in april and in december which was seen by the opposition in the international media as a referendum on the presidency just two months ago they had nationwide municipal elections and the government won by a much wider margin by ten percentage points so i think what happened was the opposition was facing two years without an election which is actually a long time event where they have a lot of elections and they figured that this was the time to go for it. if they can get people in the streets destabilize the country you know maybe they can provoke some kind of regime change why did opposition leader leopoldo lopez decide to turn himself in oh well

of the right i'm joined by my guest sony one dell in london he is a journalist and writer for the guardian and al-jazeera in berlin we have harold whelan back he is a researcher and member of the european radicalization awareness network and in harrisburg we cross to paul godfrey he is an author and professor emeritus at elizabethtown college right gentlemen cross-talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i very much encourage it sunny if i go to you first day i think my introduction should be a little familiar to you because i stole it ok from an article that you wrote recently and i want to quote one of the sentences talking about the right wing right wing groups and parties in the west they put on smart suits stop using crude racist language and set out to gain respectability explain to our viewers what you mean. well i think that the lot of the parties across western europe especially in the u.k. in france in germany austria austria you know and specially in the netherlands what they're trying to do is realize that a lot of the language at the union of past w

a report from "the guardian" says that the british spy agency reportedly collected 1.8 million imageso! webcam chats in a six-month period between 2008 and 2010. the program was called optic nerve and they apparently saved one image every five minutes from random yahoo! webcam chats to an agency database. they got help from the nsa. ceo who worked at the nsa cyber center and created intelligence programs for the u.s. army joins us now, and the in san francisco. i'm a journalist and throughout this whole nsa, all the revelations that have come out, i'm trying to be objective, but this one really upset me. do i need to go home i close all my laptops and unplug every single camera and electric appliance in my house? >> as a consumer you have a lot of different options to webcam chat. you really want to pick something that has encryption built in. that is something yahoo! did not do. they did not make it possible for their customers to protect themselves because they did not encrypt everything. >> yahoo! has come out with a statement saying they are absolutely floored by what is happening

here anyway because why nobody in the media here except for maybe george will be up over there at the guardian will say anything about the fact that this is an ecological disaster and more importantly an economic boon doggle that will increase britain's debt to even higher than it is right now the highest it's been a decades well you talk about the health problems and this woman that they cover here limbering she has severe asthma as i said but as the article points out people who live close to oil and gas development whether in texas is eagle ford pennsylvania's marcellus shale or wyoming is green river basin tend to report the same symptoms nausea news bleeds headaches body rashes and respiratory problems public health experts say the shared experience just point to a pressing need for improved air monitoring quote if you have pockets of communities with the same symptoms downwind of several sources then there is a body of evidence says isabella simpson an atmospheric scientist at the university of california irvine who studies air pollution around the world so there's a body of evidence but

the guardian newspaper says british version of the n-s- with the help of the n- s-a itself, snapped photos from- point-8 million users' webc videos... including intimatd naked ones. it was part of a facial recognition experiment, codenamed "optic nerve." yahoo says it had nothing t with it. president obama admits he w not a perfect kid. he opened up about his past at white house yesterday, duri speech about "my brother's keeper"... a new program to help reverse underachievement among young black & hispanic males. "i made bad choices, i got without always thinking abo the harm that it could do. i didn't always take school as seriously as i should have. made excuses. sometimes i sd myself short." the president told the younn his story is not much different from theirs. but cautioned them not to make excuses as he said he did is youth. the program aims to partner government and business... to connect younn of color with mentoring networks. oakland mayor jean quan waso at the white house. the city will soon launch the program locally. now there are more places f scientists to try to find "" na

saying rebel activity is to blame let's get some reaction now from jonathan steele a columnist for the guardian newspaper joining us live here on r.t. international jonathan good to see you today thank you very much for coming on the program this evening here with us syria maintains it will be able to meet the un backed road map it will give up all of its chemical weapons by june is that looking realistic to you at this stage yes i think it is i mean. it's a half months away that's quite a long time and dearly if the u.n. diplomats in charge of this whole also thinks that it will be done by june thirtieth so that all of their missed the deadlines there's no real sense of alarm so that they will miss it and certainly the summer read radical rebel factions have refused to recognize the ongoing disarmament deal is it is there any way possible do you think for the rebels to get their hands on these chemical weapons one might imagine army brigades delivering these to the coast to get onto the ships might stick out like a sore thumb you know so i think that's very unlike you i mean there are well gua

[laughter] tomorrow morning, you are sitting in your office, and you get a call from the guardian in london and the guardian says, hey, tom, you are one of the greatest columnists ever and we want to bring you in on something. we have just received from bin laden's mother-in-law who does not live in chicago, should live somewhere else in the middle east, and she has his personal plans for taking over the world. this is what he was going to do. we want to bring you in on that. you have to come over here and take a look at it and then run with it. would you do that? >> i would definitely go over there and take a look at it. whether i would run with it would depend on the veracity of it. would depend on what the real content was. the journalist in me get -- would definitely do that. >> let's move along. "the new york times." i love to pick it up in the morning. ten years from now, will i have that privilege? >> don't know. really don't know. you know, one of the themes of my columns in the last seven or eight years has really, what i call, i think we are in a gutenberg scale moment of c

it shows editors of the guardian destroying computers that edward snowden sent to them. the british government ordered the paper to turn over the documents. they threatened legal action if the paper did not stop publishing the links. the british spy agency watched the journalist destroy the computers in the "guardian's basement. in california the drought situation is worse. on friday obinitials announced the state water project would not deliver reservoir water. the move affects drinking water and other water. now more than 25 million residents and 750,000 acres of farm land will have to find other sources. >> much of this winter season has been the haves and the have not. the west void of wet and snow which conditions. but in the mid west we continue to get the rounds of snow storms. today it's into chicago, and st. louis, where winter weather advisories were in place. the area in pink includes chicago, and a winter storm warning. this morning snow has been falling and we have freezing fog. that assist been bringing down visibility. you need to watch. along i70 condition

snowden's leaks to the guardian and other media outlets have generated a series of exposÉs on nsa surveillanceactivities from its collection of american's phone records, text messages and email, to its monitoring of the internal communications of individual heads of state. the latest revelations based on the leaks were reported by journalists jeremy scahill and glenn greenwald with first look media. they show how the nsa has secretly assisted in u.s. military and cia assassinations overseas by using metadata analysis and cellphone tracking technologies. the unreliable tactic that has resulted in the deaths of innocent or unidentified people. >> well, the nsa has defended its activities as essential in the fight against terrorism. in january, director of national intelligence james clapper attacked snowden while speaking before the senate intelligence committee, and called for him to return all stolen documents to the nsa after causing what he major harm to u.s. security. clapper also suggested that the journalists who have published snowden's leaks are his "accomplices." >> edward snowden clai

honestly, i felt like things started quieting down with my grandfather being there a lot, being the guardianand nermeen couldn't do as much as she had done before. her drinking had to be controlled. you know, her anger had to be controlled because she did have a guardian there at all times. >> reporter: the situation did get better. and michael shannon and nermeen khalifa briefly reconciled, resulting in the birth of another son. >> jason. >> patty cake boy. >> reporter: jason. born in january of 2001. but the relationship fell apart again. within months the couple divorced. adam would live with the shannons. jason would live with nermeen. no one was happy. what michael shannon didn't realize was that nermeen khalifa and her mother were plotting to change everything. >> i remember when the time came where they asked, well, would it be okay if her mother was the guardian for watching adam for a weekend. and i remember how difficult that decision was. >> reporter: august 2001. nermeen's father, afaf khalifa, flew from her home in cairo to baltimore to visit her daughter. and there was somethin

. >> i felt things started quieting down with my grandfather being there, being the guardian. she couldn't do as much as before. he drink hg to be controlled, her ang her to be controlled because she does have a guardian there at all times. >> reporter: the situation did get bet around michael shannon and she briefly reconciled resulting in the birth of another son. >> hey. patty cake boy. >> reporter: jason. born in january of 2001. but the relationship fell apart again. within month, the couple divorced. adam would live with the shannons. jason would live weer in mean. no one was happy. what michael shannon did realize was that she and her mother were plotting to change everything. >> i remember when the time came where they had asked, well, would it be okay if her mother was the guardian for watching adam for a weekend? and i remember how difficult that situation -- that decision was. >> reporter: august, 2001. her mother flew from her home in ki troe boug cairo to visit her daughter and there was something else. she was asking permission to take her two grandsons and her d

"the guardian" were partners in the reporting off of the nsa material. we personally went and pain-stakingly made preparations about how we would handle the material. >> is that unusual? >> unusual for the executive editor to be involved? >> yeah. >> not when something is -- >> this big? >> where the reputation of "the times" could be at stake. there aren't that many stories of that nature, but when they are it's usual for the top editors to be directly involved. >> is it comparable to the pentagon papers? >> it's hard to say. i mean, the pentagon papers and in that situation, obviously, daniel elsburg was the source for that material coming out of the pentagon. that material exposed really terrible, terrible official lies but the u.s. government. lies about the progress of the vietnam war, and that made that material so consequenceal because of that. in this case the material has, you know, provided a window onto like the scale of eavesdropping and all kinds of troubling things. certainly, some misstatements by officials, but i'm not sure they've expose

it is scheduled to be released on february 11th and they were written by the reporter, the guardian. and from honk congress to hush why -- hong kong to russia he reported where he is currently living. >>> it happened around several cities around the country but around the international airport they are also on the compromised list. a security expert said the common link said they are all managed by white lodging and they are investigating cases of debit and credit card information being stolen. . >>> american airlines is now charging you as much as $450 for an over packed bag. they also charge 100 on top of the fair for any booked flight within 6 days of the departure. >>> there is a little bit of a hassle for caldecott tunnel? >> yes, witnesses say it is completely engulfed and they did not say if it was blocking a lane but hopefully it is on the shoulder. this little arrow i have, this is an area of heavy, heavy fog and this is 280 southbound at 92 and it starts at hills dale and goes to the top of skyline and the fog clears on the northbound side after bunker hill. all right up nex

an international fairs columnist, and served as a foreign correspondent and european editor at the guardianhe is currently at the world policy institute. and joins us from washington this morning. good morning. >> good morning. >> we heard the president try his best at french, and the french president chuckled, but with that humor aside, how has the relationship between france and the u.s. suffered and come back. >> back when 9/11 happened in 2001, and nato and the french as well all decided everybody had to stand firmly with the us. but when it came to the iraq war, there was a great deal of anger about that towards the united states. and there was a great deal of self satisfaction in france when that war turned out to be very much more difficult than at first it seemed. by the french have been in afghanistan out there, and very much in support of the usa in syria and iran. if anything the french have been rather tougher on iran than the americans have, and played a very important role in bringing us close to possible negotiations. and the french along with the british played a leading rol

the steady stream of pains and distortions of this controversy at the time had come to standards the guardian welcomed the inquiry. gasol will feel happy with plans to extend the reader's soul to something here for both protagonists a package which explodes with ease tensions between them. did the double cohort to the news dancer us for more political correspondent mike fitzgerald attacked government buildings might seem that this is a complete u turn by the government is it not the goal line to fourteen eighteen carries and watch a difference on sunday the boys to lose out under week in politics and whether they should be an independent inquiry he said they would await the work of the joint iraq does commission tec is the key is the magic touch with the government position full stop. just hours before it gets in a private member's motion calling for an independent and white which is supported by clean it all the government the cabinet has decided to refer to high court judge in for his part the minister for justice said in a statement today that he had received information from the ombudsman