. >> the united states media has been terrible trying to cover that. and it probably leads to the downfall of jordan as we know it. >> let's hope not. we can do better than that, right, america? >>> a chance to insult republicans, but in his mind he's not all that partisan. >>> plus, the president may have just lost one of his staunchest supporters. who is that? coming up. >>> there we go again. >> on monday, president obama attended the irs hearings to condemn the corruption that infests the agency. i kid again, he was at a fund-raiser. no press was allowed, no biggy, not like they'd report anything. when obama talks, they glisten. but there the president claimed he's not very partisan. perhaps, but compared to what, the red army? then i realized he's right. he's not a partisan, because for him, democrats are too moderate and too fearful of the change he's unleashed like a bag of gremlins in a crowded theater. obama succeeded where other progressives have failed making the next democratic presidential candidate seem like a republican. it's true, after

. >> the united states media has been terrible trying to cover that. and it probably leads to the downfall of jordan as we know it. >> let's hope not. we can do better than that, right, america? >>> a chance to insult republicans, but in his mind he's not all that partisan. >>> plus, the president may have just lost one of his staunchest supporters. who is that? coming up. really... so our business can be on at&t's network for $175 dollars a month? yup. all five of you for $175. our clients need a lot of attention. there's unlimited talk and text. we're working deals all day. you get 10 gigabytes of data to share. what about expansion potential? add a line anytime for 15 bucks a month. low dues... great terms... let's close. introducing at&t mobile share value plans... ...with our best-ever pricing for business. >>> there we go again. >> on monday, president obama attended the irs hearings to condemn the corruption that infests the agency. i kid again, he was at a fund-raiser. no press was allowed, no biggy, not like they'd report anything. when obama

we talked about the media soccer fever and people think it is overboard and now the united states teamlost to belgium, is the media dialing down? >> dialing down on ordering bell judgment waffles and the united states is out and people are still interested. i was out on tuesday at 4:00 and still a, would day and you could not fit a shoehorn where i was watching at the jersey shore. >> so it does not just need the members it will? >> people are clearly still interested. i was at sak's 5 avenue and everyone was glued to the tv. >> there is a strain of criticism this is not really an american sport and it is un-american and only real americans are interested in soccer, football baseball and it is culture war. >> i don't think it is a culture war. it is a universal sport that anyone canbly. there is no barrier of entry because it doesn't cost a lot of money. you only need passion, feet, and something that resemble as ball and there you go. you have a game. >> nbc made a huge mistake aftery jobs was interested in the killing of trayvon martin but the court has therein out the sound they edi

united states. so this is iran's state-run media. and, yes, it is in the english language, but it is very much the work of the iranian government. and a lot of different countries have english language state-run media. that's sometimes about us but sometimes just their english language take on the world. sometimes you can tell from the awkwardness of the use of english language you're not dealing with a typical. one of the chinese newspapers, u.s. chicken off to china again. and actually when you read the story, i think that may grammatically be technically accurate, but u.s. chicken off is a hard way to start any sentence no matter what comes after those three years even if it's technically accurate. sometimes you can tell because of the story selection. sometimes you can tell by the way they write their stories. but there's always a little bit of awkwardness, right, a little bit of friction in state-run media trying to look like normal news. and in march of this year, at the not quite state run but definitely state sponsor tv chann

the only difference is we have the president of the united states and members of congress and folks in the media saying we need to get them here and turn them into citizens. that's what's creating this crisis. >> do you agree with that? >> i don't. i think he's absolutely incorrect on the law, number one. let's establish what the law is. we passed the law when we created homeland security and it said that unaccompanied minor when is they arrive in the united states, are within 72 hours to be released by the border patrol. and handed over to the refugee division. that's the law. and they are supposed to be put in the least restrictive. that happened when there were calmer times. when reasonable people sat around the table and said this is how we should treat children. look, that's not only 2002. in 2008 we passed an antitrafficking law. i got to tell you, michele bachmann voted for it. mr. gomer from texas who thinks every immigrant that comes here -- if i could just finish. even steve king who talks about

you see that kind of balance here in the united states there's much greater pressure on media. there's a more active pro israel israeli community here in the united states and i don't think the arab american community is very organized and active like the pro israel community i mean we protest but we don't have the same level of sophistication when it comes to. putting out press releases. using strategic communication there are very few arab americans in journalism there are some maybe about two hundred out of fifteen thousand so that tells you that we're at an imbalance to begin with let alone in a battle where we're up against some very smart people on your thoughts on this and also on the increasingly it seems like and this seems to happen every time there's a conflict that the edges get larger and harder in other words it's all israel's fault it's all hamas or the gazans fault. it's all black and white these kinds of positions that get hardened in the american press and the american dialogue i think that's true and i think you're seeing it especially in this case i think it

at the website of the iranian state-run media company called press tv, they've got a special news section just for news about the unitedo it's basically the news about america from iran. and so according to iran's state-run media, these are the top stories in the united states right now. number one, obviously the story that has transfixed america, congress staffer arrested on gun charge. that's the very top story. second story, u.s. foreign aid clobbers third world. also, they've got a story about the curse of american exceptionalism. big business loves desperate workers. and then their main international story, u.s. taxes

incorporated was motivated by its members believed they were fortunate to find shelter in the united states. the miami media and the -- miami media and especially the exile media agreed with this interpretation of the exodus. beginning in 1992, they began to publish a said he -- a steady stream of news stories featuring pedro pan members stories and their own memories of the exodus. quotes president chavez. [speaking spanish] acknowledged the expense of most pedro panists was difficult, but her story nonetheless was the story of adversity overcome with a happy ending. herald" tooke this one step further cleaning had been protagonists in one of the most beautiful pages in the history of cuban exile and are conscious of this. they have made their lives. many of them have achieved in business, art, but they don't forget. it is not possible to forget the generosity and support of those around you. in its zeal to recognize the real achievements of many of miami's former pedro pan children, it failed to recognize that in fact most pedro pan children had not been protagonists of their childhood flight from the isl

united states, the ukrainian conflict fell off the radar a bit. there hasn't been much attention in the united states. in the u.s. media, and i'm curious to know since the elections, since there's been a sense that there would be an attempt to move forward in the new administration in ukraine, has there been a steady increase in violence or is this in recent days? >> there's a steady increase in violence. we had a ceasefire that was not a ceasefire for 10 days earlier in the month. comparatively it was less fighting to what we saw before. it wasn't a ceasefire. it was eventually declared over. that's when we have seen this steady increase in violence. we need to focus on the numbers that we saw, the areas targeted now, that they are civilian areas. it's coming in daylig daylight. there's separatist fighters. it's a popular area. we saw separatist fighter military equipment, we know where there's installation, it's a big concern when you talk about luhansk, when you talk about how the ukranian army is operating, trying to push the separatists out of town. if it comes here, the ukranian government says they will not do t

at the website of the iranian state-run media company called press tv, they've got a special news section just for news about the unitedso it's basically the news about america from iran. and so according to iran's state-run media, these are the top stories in the united states right now. number one, obviously the story that has transfixed america, congress staffer arrested on gun charge. that's the very top story. second story, u.s. foreign aid clobbers third world. also, they've got a story about the curse of american exceptionalism. big business loves desperate workers. and then their main international story, u.s. taxes pay for israeli war crimes. e'

united states ambassador or a secretary of state can communicate to the public. so it was both a tool to convey information but also it became a source of information. what are people saying on social media about the united states? about our policy but and then we saw through the arab uprisings how many of those were catalyzed and organized by social media. so we have to be on social media. there isn't any choice. the other piece that i focused on was how we did, how we debated and try to checkmate jihadists groups, particularly al-qaeda and affiliates, like al-qaeda in the arabian peninsula, or al-shabaab, or any of the other groups. they were using the internet to convey propaganda. sometimes just gross and gory videos. sometimes recruitment. sometimes telling people how to make dangerous weapons. so i recommend forming a group inside the state department to monitor their media and to be not this passive observer but to intervene, to basically get in there, those chat rooms and those discussions and saying, who has killed more muslims in the last 30 years? the jihadists. who goes after innocent women and children in the jihadists. and to really take the fight to them informationally. w

that the trust, the lack of trust and the lack of trust makes the united states insist on a lesser capacity than the - than iran media wants, and, of course, iran also distrust the united states when it says "we will provide you with the fuel from outside." that is you can import. then again, that's the issue. when the issue says the beginning, and all of this agreement that had been made, which had been said to be very progressive and good, great. >> how much of a problem are hardliners on both sides? >> i'm sorry? >> how much of a problem are hard liners on both sides of the issue. at this point i don't think it's a hard liner. i think president obama, president kelly - the fact is the two sides, regardless of what the hardliners are saying are far apart. i don't think that mr kelly said iran can have an industrial enrichment capacity. i don't believe mr zarif has ever accepted iran having a symbol k fuk leer enrichment -- nuclear enrichment programme. regardless of what hard liners are saying behind the scope. i believe those in the frost of the negotiation do not have their heart on a deal. that is mutually benef

opposition in the american congress and there is no opposition in the mainstream american media to the united states' policy toward russia today only blaming russia now the only way you can explain that is a kind of inherent meijer assumption by the five hundred plus members elected members of congress that what we're doing must be benign and therefore what russia is doing must be nothing but quote as they put it naked aggression even though in peer a clean it's plainly not the truth but there is no opposition there is no criticism in the mainstream media that would slow this process and the explanation i guess is what professor marshall reimer has just said out stephen it's very interesting is that during the cold war there was a debate about the nature of american foreign policy in its relationship to the soviet union but after the cold war there is no debate as you just said there that's quite interesting isn't it. it is more than interesting for me because it's autobiographical i'm probably the oldest oldest person on this broadcast today i participated in the debates of a light late one nine hu

least -- at least -- one episode of violence along their way from central america to the united states. one media network did an investigation that followed the path of central american migrants, including children, and while their numbers have not been verified or documented, they are staggering and even if the results are half of what they claim, it is a situation of immense humanitarian dysfunction. they found that 80% of all migrants will be assaulted, 60% of women will be raped, and 40% of all migrants and only 40%, will actually make it to the border. now, let's say those numbers are exaggerated, there's some indication this media outlet was perhaps sensationalizing their numbers. let's say it just half of that. but if it's just half of that it is something we absolutely cannot tolerate. we absolutely cannot sit by and say the only humanitarian crisis is taking care of these children once they cross the border making sure they have vaccinations, u.s.s. enhance, a place to clean until we get them processed. need -- those that chamber that need to understand the crisis that exists before they

have is clearly a civil war by anyone's definition except for the western media and politicians in europe in the united states are still calling it as as the government in kiev is an anti terror operation meanwhile civilians are being targeted that's the very thing that the graham phillips is trying to relate to the world i think this policy out of. transparency is something they're clearly not very good at it's been hiding getting of this crisis right all the way back to february to the mite on so why should we expect anything different right now. well the finger of blame for the escalating crisis in ukraine being reportedly pointed at moscow the e.u. has imposed a fresh round of sanctions brussels has blacklisted another fifteen individuals and eighteen companies which it says have been involved in supporting anti government forces in ukraine the measures included visa bans and asset freezes and further restrictions may be on the way but the head of the franco russian chamber of commerce and industry says deep divisions remain among member states. for the time being there is no economy could centrum from th

have is clearly a civil war by anyone's definition except for the western media and politicians in europe in the united states are still calling it as as the government in kiev is an anti terror operation meanwhile civilians are being targeted that's the very thing that they're graham phillips is trying to relate to the world i think this policy out of. transparency is something they're clearly not very good at. it's been hiding in cover ups right from the beginning of this crisis right all the way back to february to the mike on so why should we expect anything different right now. the brother of former russian f.s.b. officer aleksandr who previously blame vladimir putin for ordering the agent's murder has not made a u. turn and interview to the mail on sunday this week he claimed foreign secret services were involved seeking to build public opinion against the russian president alexander the few who died seven and a half years ago after drinking tea poisoned with radioactive polonium in a london hotel this week the you can and would hold a public inquiry into his death saying there is evidence which indicat

pose imminent threats regardless of whether they're actually engaged in any ongoing media attack against the united states we have a responsibility to defend this country and that's what we're doing killing terry as it made us any safer it's taken away young boys. it's destroyed a family in a community under the interpretations we've heard from the administration and members of congress drone strikes could go on indefinitely against enemies that keep morphing into new enemies but killing should be the exception not the rule to ricos he should never have died the u.s. should not have been using military force to attack innocent civilians let alone children. i would question a policy that says it is a just a minute and even sensible to assassinate a sixteen year old boy he was trying to be part of the constructive way forward. there's two guys in front and guy in the rear. no walking up this path and. two guys in front are discussing like you can see them having a nap conversation they've got something slung over their shoulders which look to be. weapons mountainous portions of afghanistan are not so unsimi

united states ambassador or a secretary of state can communicate to the public. so it was both a tool to convey information, but also it became a source of information. what are people saying on social media about the united states, about our policies? and then we saw through the era of the arab uprisings how many of those were catalyzed and organized by social media. so we have to be on social media. there isn't any choice. the other piece that i focused on was how we did, how we debated and tried to check mate jihadist groups, particularly al-qaeda and atill yates like al-qaeda -- affiliated like al-qaeda in the arabian peninsula or al-shabaab or any of the other groups. they were using the internet to convey propaganda. sometimes just gross and gory videos. sometimes recruitment, sometimes telling people how to make dangerous weapons. so i recommended forming a group inside the state department to monitor their media and to be not just passive observers, but to intervene. to basically get in those chat rooms and those discussions and saying, you know, who's killed more muslims in the last 30 years? the jihadists. who goes after innocent women and children? the jihadists. and to really

return to the united states because he is a wanted man there that's after years of hours he's accused them of leaking secrets surveillance programs by the u.s. national security agency to the media and he's facing charges that related to espionage at one point it was even treason and the charges there year if he does go back to the united states he faces up to ten years on the charge and of course as we know it's not only one charge or two that he has so he faces a substantial time behind bars and also here right now in the country he's been here a year and reportedly has found a job of related to website maintenance and of course we'll find out what happens and if he gets it another extension and will be bringing all the latest. well the n.s.a. whistleblower recently spoken to put in the guardian newspaper which frequently published his revelations snowden said that he wasn't working with moscow anyway so added that if the u.s. could have found any link to the russian government well this would have been all over the media snowden went on to say that he believes the u.s. won't be able to give him a fair trial and even in exile he says he feels more comfortable until war activis

united states. and then solitary confinement then any meaningful contact with the news media or the paul and then put him away in prison . and of the news at least fifteen palestinians including a journalist and two paramedics were killed when israeli air strikes hit a busy marketplace in gaza the shopping area was busy because israel's four hour humanitarian ceasefire was supposed to be in force a warning he may find some of the following pitches distressing. gunmen are going to get a little bit. was . i. israel's full week bombardment as claimed more than thirteen hundred palestinian laws the majority of those civilians israel itself has lost fifty eight people including fifty six i.d.f. soldiers with hamas violating cease fons by firing rockets and using tunnels to infiltrate israeli land at one time and also lost his life. and here is a look at the scale of devastation in gaza from another round of these before and after satellite images well they have been released by the united nations institute for training and research and they show the huge level of damage caused by israel's bombing israel h

have is clearly a civil war by anyone's definition except for the western media and politicians in europe in the united states are still calling it as as the government in kiev is an anti terror operation meanwhile civilians are being targeted that's the very thing that they're graham phillips is trying to relate to the world i think the policy. of transparency is something they're clearly not very good at it's been hiding in cover ups right from the beginning of this crisis right all the way back to february to the mike on so why should we expect anything different right now. eastern ukraine has become the world's most dangerous place but john according to the international news safety institute they say that since the start of the year working in eastern ukraine has been more risky than even iraq syria and pakistan seven media workers have died in the region while covering the conflict between kiev and anti-government forces and four of those people were employees of russian newspapers and broadcasters. kiev's army hasn't been able to take control of the two biggest cities in eastern ukraine this week despi

have is clearly a civil war by anyone's definition except for the western media and politicians in europe in the united states are still calling it as as the government in kiev is an anti terror operation meanwhile civilians are being targeted that's the very thing that they're graham phillips is trying to relate to the world i think. out of kiev transparencies something they're clearly not very good at. hiding in cover ups right from the beginning of this crisis right all the way back to february to the might gone so why should we expect anything different right now and eastern ukraine has become the world's most dangerous place for journalists this according to a brand new report from the international news safety institute in fact they say they since the start of the year working in eastern ukraine has become more risky than even in a rock syria and pakistan seven media workers have died in the region while covering the conflict between kiev and anti-government forces four of those people were employees of russian newspapers i'm broke asas. now the ukrainian military has killed at least sixteen civilians w

have is clearly a civil war by anyone's definition except for the western media and politicians in europe in the united states are still calling it as as the government in kiev is an anti terror operation meanwhile civilians are being targeted that's the very thing that the graham phillips is trying to relate to the world i think this policy out of. transparency is something they're clearly not very good at. hiding cover ups right from the beginning of this crisis right all the way back to february to the mike on so why should we expect anything different right now at least sixteen civilians have been killed after the ukrainian army launched grad rockets into populated areas in the restive ace that's according to human rights watch the group says the opposition controlled city of donetsk came under such missile attacks four times in mid july now the group warns that the ground rocket systems cannot carry out precise attacks and that they use in residential areas can be classified as a war crime human rights watch is appeal to both sides in the conflict to stop using this kind of weaponry as more lives are at

clear about kinds of pressure and intimidation put on american media and political figures such that we have less of an ability in the united statesdebate israel policy than they do even in israel. >> glenn greenwald, thank you for being with us. his piece for "the intercept" at first look media is "nbc news pulls veteran reporter from gaza after witnessing israeli attack on children." to that. his new book is "no place to hide: edward snowden, the nsa, and the u.s. surveillance state." we will speak to stephen cohen. stay with us. ♪ [music break] >> this is democracy now, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. with juan gonzalez. flightlaysian airlines carrying 293 people was shot russian--- russian surface-to-air missile, according to the ukraine in the u.s., but it is not clear who fired the missile. the plane was traveling from amsterdam to kuala lampur with passengers from at least 10 countries on board, including 173 dutch nationals, 44 malaysians and 27 australians. leading aids and hiv researchers were on the plane, including a pioneer, joep lange. the malaysian prime minister vowed to launch a full i

the latest dustup over the united states' tactics, including those reported nsa wire taps in germany. german mediareports that investigators are looking into two men who apparently passed secret moves kind 0 the united states, and last year reports surfaced the nsa was eavesdropping on chancellor angela merkel's cell phone which appears we absolutely were. the chancellor said there needs to be better trust. the white house had no comment on germany's order to kick out the american spy, but a spokeswoman says the united states will continue its intelligence relationship with germany. heating up. maybe they'll win the world cup and be distracted. >>> hacker in china broke into the government computer network that stores personal information on every single united states federal employee. chinese hackers got all the stuff on all our federal workers. did you have a drug test? some medical problems? chinese may know now, or do they? that's what homeland security officials are telling "the new york times," reporting the hackers targeted government employees who applied for top secret security clearance

perfectly valid point you know it's not just an east west thing increasingly in the united states you know we have segments of media where you have sort of an echo chamber on the right with fox news you have an echo chamber on the left with and this and b c and what i do you know that in educating students is trying to be sort of cognizance of not only where the editorial line in some of these different places lies but not being just you know stopping with that and saying oh ok well this is a fox news so we can't listen to it or this is an assembly scene we can't listen to it or this is our team we can't listen to it but we need to go beyond that and actually engage with the ideas and the information that is presented as well and confront that information and i think that's something that as you mentioned before not everything is black and white not everything is in tegan istic and the more that we can be i guess open open minded con a source of information regardless of the source i think we're all going to be better off oh well i did really a group of you a very quick question though you mentioned and couple of m