Transcripts For CURRENT The Young Turks With Cenk Uygur 20130126

I think the number one thing that viewers like about the young turks is that were honest. They can question whether im right, but i think that the audience gets that this guy, to the best of his ability, is trying to look out for us. Cenk welcome to the the young turks. Guess what kind of show we have for you guys, an awesome show. First of all theyre putting highpowered rifles in schools in california now. Bad idea. The place in connecticut called newtown, there is a shooting up north in northern california. There was a shooting in texas. Do we wait until kids and Staff Members are killed before we take proactive action . Cenk its not proactive action. Ill talk to a person fighting against that in just a minute. And then, the republicans have a brilliant new idea. Why dont we do some tricky moves, redistrict, and then romney would have won. Or their new candidate in 2016. The story that has me fired up. The c. I. A. Officer that revealed that there was torture 30 months in prison. The only person going to prison about the torture regime is the guy who blew the wrestle on thewho blew the whistle on torture. Not the guys who performed the torture in what happened, president obama. Im just getting started. Its go time. [ theme music ] cenk all right well, in fontana, california, they have a really good idea. How about if we put high powered rifles right next to kids. Their purchase of high caliber assault weapons by the Fontana School district has parents up in arms. I think its a bad idea about the Mental Health aspect. Rifles like these from the cool. Com website. Theyre 1,000 teach. School police chief said the purchase was a must to protect all 45 campuses. There is a place up in connecticut called newtown. There was a shooting up in northern california, there was a shooting in texas. Do we wait until kids are killed before we take proactive action . Cenk how about give all the kids highpowered weaponry right from the beginning. Thats a terrible idea. Theyre putting theirtheir colt 6940 guns. Enthusiasts can tell me. Designed for Long Distance accuracy stopping power against body armor designed for u. S. Special operations. Now theyre next to your kids. And now the Fontana Police are armed to the teeth. They have 14 Police Officers, 40 hours of training, stored in Police Armory overnight and kept at a safe in assigned schools. There is one person fighting back against this. Laticiaf shes a school board member. Guess what is happening, she is he right here on the young turks. Great to have you leticia. There are a couple of things i dont like. The way the purchase was made, we were not informed of the board. I sit on the board of education. We were not informed that we would be having these weapons purchased and then they would be storedthere are conflicting reports, we dont know. If theyre going to be stored on the school sites, which is the information that i got from the superintendent, or theyre transported back and forth from the Police Department office to the different schools. We still dont know. My thing is they should not be at the schools, number one. Number two, we should have had an opportunity to vet this issue with the board of education as well as the community. They should have had some input as to whether we wanting to this route. Cenk i want to talk about both of those issues. First in terms of whether its going to work. There are a couple of argument they will be deterred because we have assault rifles, and then two, theyre disturbed and they kill themselves. Theyre disturbed any way. Now when i was in school. You have to understand that i was a massive dork and i once broke into the school. I would have gotten 20 years for that now but back then they let you fight. I broke into the school because i forgot mycal my calculous home work. And i needed my text book. Kids getting ahold of the rifles is that one of your concerns. In the transportation of them, even a Police Officer could be overcome, and whether or not they would have access if they were innovative. Break a lock and break into a safe. There are a lot of questions that need to be answered before we take that kind of a step. Unfortunately, that did not happen. We did not have the opportunity the community didnt have the opportunity to ask these questions and get these answers. Cenk so let me go to that issue. The chief of police said thats not true. He said, quote not once throughout this course of this has garcia, you has reached out to find out why this is needed. Who is telling the truth. I will tell you i have not reached out to him. The found out about this after the fact. And at this point there were two piano in the community who reached out to me and asked why you approved of this. I didnt approve of this, and i didnt know they were on campus. The reason i havent is i donteveryone should get the information at the same time. We should have a conversation in public in the light of day with parents invited to the conversation so everyone can get the same information at the same time. That hashopefully going to happen. Cenk can you overturn it . Would there be a vote . How would that work. There is nothing to overturn. We did not approve of this. This decision was made by interim chief of police, chief green, and the superintendent. He were informed of the purchase of rifles in december. But we were never informed they were going to be located on campuses. Cenk so now theyre going after you. There is a newspaper article out about who you were married to, and they say he was a gang member etc. How do you respond to all that, and why do you think theyre doing it. Because there is a vendetta against methere is a Community Leader who has a vendetta against me personally, and every time there is an issue that i have questions about and i am have questions. She turns it into a personal attack. My personal life is no one else elses business. Im concerned about the access these kids have to these guns. Im concerned about the direction were going as a community and as a society. And i want to deal with this peaceful. Cenk i thought it was an interesting attack. They mentioned who you were married to, he was in prison and stuff. What was their point you want people attacking schools . I didnt understand the point of the attack. Thats why i was a little dubious of it. And it feels a little dirty because they should be fighting you on the grounds of substance of this issue because it isnt about you. Its about the kids in the school. It is. It is about the kids and what were doing as a community. We should all be coming together to find solutions that dont include as our chief of police said neutralizing and killing. We have 11yearold children who slow up to school with plastic pellet guns that look very real. What are we going to do, shoot them . We are to neutralize them and kill them according to the chief of police. Cenk he showed us an old rifle, earlier before the show he was showing me a picture of these new kind of toy guns that look exactly like an ar15. They dont have a red tip. They dont have an orange tip. They look like an ar15. But its a water gun and a kid could bring it who cant wait how far he can shoot it, that scares the hell out of me. And its my responsibility to ask question and say there are could be liabilities. Cenk what do they call fontana, funtucky. I dont refer to it that way. Its beautiful. Cenk youre a representative, but for people who dont knowcal, its a little bit more rural. Its not in the middle of los angeles. Which way do you think its going to go . I think were going to have a conversation, and we will decide whether or not it needs to bewe need to have a policy of how were going the implement the use of these weapons and where theyre going to be stored, or if were going to continue to keep them. Well have to have that conversation and that will happen on february 6th. Cenk well look forward to that. We have a story of a cop who leaves his gun in the bathroom. His fifth grader is there. Man, as a parent, that scares the hell out of me. I dont want guns anywhere near the schools. On the substance im with you. Thank you for joining us. Thank you for having me. Cenk no problem. The republicans have a new dirty trick. When will they run out of dirty tricks . The answer may be never. What it is and how we can fight back. Well be right back. We will carry the state of ohio, he wins reelection. Event. It doesnt anymore real than this. Currents Award Winning original series is back with an allnew episode straight from the headlines. In the minefield of the nations gun control debate, this could be the most polarizing issue. Anybody could claim stand your ground and they can get away with murder. Only on current tv. [ voice of dennis ]. Safe driving bonus check . Every six months without an accident, allstate sends a check. Ok. [ voice of dennis ] silence. Are you in good hands . I want the people who watch our show, to be able to come away armed with the facts, and the arguments to feel confident in their positions. I want them to have the data and i want them to have the passion. But its also about telling them, youre put on this planet for something more. I want this show to have an impact beyond just informing. An impact that gets people to take action themselves. As a human being, thats really important. This is not just a spectator sport. Cenk were back on the young turks. You know how we do elections in this country. We do state by state and then count all the votes in florida although in florida you dont necessarily count all of them, but youre supposed to count all of them. Whoever winds the votes up with the most votes they have the electoral vote from that state. Now what if we did not count the popular vote would that make a difference . It would maybe a gigantic decision. States considering this is virginia, michigan, ohio and pennsylvania. President obama in the last election won 51 of the popular vote, hence carried the state as it should be. If the republicans had gotten that law passed before the location he wouldnt have only gotten 4 out of the 13 electoral votes although he had the majority of the votes. Thats called tricky and perhaps dirty politics. To give you a sense of it p president obama cleaned romneys clock when it comes to electoral votes. Now maybe we should just go with the popular vote which i this is fairer and president obamas margin of victor of popular column is larger than the popular vote over all. But if you did the republican plan, even though president obama won the popular vote by 5 million and currently won over by 120 votes in the Electoral College. In the republican fan the republican candidate would woo have been. Is this so controversy that even some republicans are saying, well it seems a little embarrassing. Here is pat mullin in virginia who said changing the Electoral College rules in vow is not at all on my list of priorities. People get mad when you try to subvert democracy and have someone who did not win the popular vote become the president , not that that would ever happen in a president ial election or anything. But Reince Priebus thinks, hmm we cant seem to win elections otherwise. All of a sudden its an interesting idea to him. Its something that a lot of states that have been consistently blue that are fully controlled red ought to be looking at. Meaning, even though these states are voting for democrats we have found a way to control them politically and maybe we should look at making that permanent. Again, that would appear to be antidemocratic. Lets talk to a couple of experts. Our own Michael Shure epics politics man. We dont call him epic for no reason. And chris moody. Thank you for being on the program. Thank you for having me. Cenk chris how is this playing out so far. He have some republicans saying this is kind of interesting and then you have some who say this is too far. Are they going to actually do it . This bill was dead on arrival. It wont even make it past the committee. They dont have the votes in the committee to put it on the floor of the Virginia Legislature. They talked about it breathlessly but its not going to see a vote. The governor of virginia, a republican, said hes against it. This bill has been introduced into the Virginia Legislature 13 times in the past ten years. Most of the time by democrats. It goes both ways of people trying to do this idea, but its not going to happen now and its not going to happen any time soon. Cenk i knew there was a reason why we had you on. Thats an excellent point. Really, the Political Parties are trying to find a political advantage, hmm. They do that. Now its not a good idea because its by district, as you pointed out. Theyre all gerrymandered. Some of them look like crazy numbers and shapes that have not been invented yet. They made it so that republicans can win in their districts and democrats with win in there is theirs. This is an idea that is dead on arrival. I think the gerrymandering is insane. I know weve gotten used to it, but we shouldnt get used to it. For the audience, the democrats in the house got 1 million votes than the republicans did even though theyre in the minority because the districts are so gerrymandered and drawn up in funny ways, even though they have less votes the republicans have more house members. There is something fundamentally wrong. You know what im reminded of, senator bunning from kentucky before he retired introduced the idea of not continuing the unemployment sures and the republicans were saying, no, thats crazy. Were not with this guy. Then a couple of years later its Standard Operating Procedure for republicans. One thing to Pay Attention to, it is how they do it in maine and to a degree in nebraska even though nebraska is more complicated than maine. Theyre trying to do itthe proponents say its the most democratic way to do it, but its decidedly undemocratic because they have people drawing the lines. When that happens it can only lead to a very undemocratic and disasterrous result. Cenk it looks like well avoid it for now and theyve been shamed into it. The republicans have retreated from things in the past that seem so controversial only to come back to them later when people had gotten used to the idea oh, maybe not so bad. Look as chris pointed out the democrats have wanted to do it in the past, it doesnt matter which party it is, its a bad idea. In a democracy more votes should equate to winning the election. The u. S. Court of appeals on the dc circuit all three republicans said president obamas recent appointments are not constitutional. Quote, obama did not have the power to make three recent appointments in the National Labor Relations Board because the senate was officially in session at the time. How important is this decision in terms of its effect, not only on that four but other eight governing agencies as well. Well, the game is not over. This is not the end of the line. It will be appealed and likely go on to higher courts. Constitutionally conservatives will argue that theyre restricting the power of the president , the same way if the republican does it, hell be restricted either. This will go on to another court and they could see it very differently. Cenk you know, michael im really worried about the consequences if they do not see it differently. I read the ruling today and its doll and im droll and im not good at reading legal documents but it depends on when they go to recess or when its in adjournment, and its wonky stuff. Cenk please tell me more. Here we go, lets say they get everything they want. The Supreme Court passes all the judicial muster it needs to, they could conceivably go in and undo all the work that has been done. Cenk the court would go back and say everything you did to try to protect us from the banks is now invalid. So the banks on wall street have got to be popping bottles of champagne over this ruling. President obama passed the National Labor board that is pro union. Its the labor board. I want to go back to that, an interesting comment michael made, whether or not it believe it or not an interesting comment. It isnt a recess appoint before they go to lunch on the other hand the republicans say well bring someone in for ten seconds and even though were in recess it will be technically in session. How do you resolve that . Well, they do this all the time where they have a session in the morning but nobody is there. Theyre technically there but the warm bodies are off in different parts of washington or even in their districts. Like i said before. In these case it is you let the president dothe democratic president do Something Like this now during an actually recess, the republican will claim that power a couple of years later. Just like the virginia thing where you give them the power the tables can always be turned, so you have to be very careful. That is the underlying factor of the filibuster that we didnt see reformed yesterday. Its the same thing. Its an insurance policy against when theyre in power. Cenk wrong again. I vote against both of you. Lets be reckless. Chris moody, great information. Michael shure hanging in there im just playing with you. Im in recess. Cenk were going to take a recess right now. President obama youre not allowed to make any appointments during the commercial break. When we come back, stand your ground. A brilliant documentary about vanguardfromvanguard related to who can you kill when can you kill them and how can you get away with it. Im gonna try one shot. If he stops great. If not well go from there. Do you wish youd kill him . Thats hilarious . And the thinkers thinking. Okay, so theres wiggleroom in the Ten Commandments is what youre telling me. Shes joy behar. And current will let me say anything. Only on current tv. Desmond tutu said a quote that is one of my favorite quotes. We are tied together in a web of humanity. I am a person only through you. 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Given the chance. The situation where you did escalated it, but then you were justified to shoot him in the back. But if he did turn around like he generally did and saw you with the gun now he chose to think of a gunfight. Cenk that bothers me every time i see it. That shooting in the back thing is a little problematic but go for it. In is a training. To give a sense of the results of all this. Stand your ground was passed in 2005. Look at justifiable homicide since 2005. Through the roof. Were giving people the license to kill. Let me bring in kristof vanguard writer. I want to talk about chives people first. It looks like stand your ground should have applied but it didnt. A man useing a penknife to defend himself against a gang attack seems like exactly the kind of case that strand your ground is supposed to cover. Although he was able to use it horror chivas people. His actioned might have been justified under the laws. He was sentenced 15 years for manslaughter and 15 years for using a weapon as a penknife. He got 30 years in total. 30 years especially when they were beating him i cant understand that. Cenk kristof, thats really interesting. We cover a lot of cases where they shouldnt use stand your ground, but in this case they should have. What do you from that . There is not a whole lot understanding of the law for a lot of people. Youre dealing with social Economic Issues with this. There are a lot of people who dont have the resources to hire a lawyer, they go with the public defender, and maybe thats just one of the reasons we wanted to look at this. The law is not applied the same way to everybody. Cenk thats interesting. It gives the prosecutor a lot more discretion as to which way theyre going to go on this . Does it empower them to be perhaps more of a judge and jury in some ways in whether they apply this or not . No question about that. Look the reason why we looked at so many Different Cases because we wanted to take a look at this law and see how is this being used, and who gets to use it and who doesnt. Cenk that brings us to Jay Rodney Lewis. Many people look at this as why stand your groundworks. Hes a former irs employee and former law enforcer. He stopped. He took a half turn counterclockwise, turned away from me. Then he turns from back around and started to charge at me. Thats when i shot him. Getget away from me. I man just attacked me. Ive been attacked. Please sir. I need a Police Officer. I am being attacked. Did i hear you say you have a gun. Yes, i do. A man attacked me. I fired a shot. Cenk as i watch that, im not convinced if thats a good case. He said im being attacked after he shot the guy. Well, all of these cases theyretheyre challenging cases. But the bottom line is that the reason Jay Rodney Lewis is pedal upheldup as to why stand your ground should apply is because he end up going to jail. He paid a lot of legal fees. He lost his job. Evicted from him home and he was homeless. This is a case if youre going to follow the law maybe this is a case where he should have been able to use it. Cenk but im going to put you on the spot. I dont believe in the stand your ground law. I believe it was a bad law. If it empty there was the other guy armed . In that case he didnt die but did somebody have to get shot in this circumstance . Could it have been avoided . Cenk, i think youre asking the ultimate question about this law. Could it have been avoided . The thing is, look, there are a lot of guns in this country. There are a lot of people carrying them. The bottom line a lot of people dont flow when they can and cant shoot somebody. In these cases theyre taught to shoot. When youre carrying a gun you are thinking about shooting. Youre thinking about how youre going to use it if youre in a bad situation, a tricky situation as opposed to thinking what else could you do to avoid this. Cenk thats the whole problem. Thats the whole issue. Cenk thats it in a nutshell. And this isnt mace, these arent clubs. These are guns. These are bullets that go right through people and kill them. Cenk in the case of jay rod lewis, it didnt kill the guy but you asked a devastating question. Do you wish you would have killed him . Um, thats aim going to be frank with you. I got a feeling im going to say yes because this guy demonstrated to me that he is a thug and a bully. He had criminal history including a history of criminal violence. I think he is he going to continue to escalate, and hes not going to stop until he kills somebody. Cenk were you surprised by that answer . You know, to be perfectly honest, cenk, i wasnt. Throughout this piece what a lot of people told us was look, dead men dont talk. Thatsthat was kind of the bottom line of something that wasthere was an under current of that with everybody we talked to. The reason why people were saying that is in a lot of these cases there is only one person left with the story of what happened. Youve got forensic evidence and you have witnesses in some cases but in a lot of cases you dont. Sometimes and in some peoples opinion that person is better off left dead with only one version of the story. Cenk thats powerful. I heard that again and again. Dead men dont talk. Cenk oh, all right. Everybody check out the whole documentary. Its fascinating. Its called right to kill past stand your ground in usa. Kristof, youre in new york because youre offered 18 other awards, do you upon the, dupont, etc. Its been a good week but i hope you tune in to watch this one. Cenk good talking to you kristof. Thanks. Cenk when we come back, a fascinating picture taken of a young kid dressed in a kkk outfit youre about to see with a black tie. 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Common side effects include nausea trouble sleeping and unusual dreams. It helps to have people around you. They say youre much bigger than this. And you are. [ male announcer ] ask your doctor if chantix is right for you. Ripped apartment birmingham 16th street baptist church. Cenk we still have a clan issue today in this country. They picked up membership significantly over the past four years. One guesses as to why that might have happened. Were going to talk about this and iconic photos while i have all of my rowdy friends, ana kasparian, Michael Shure and Jayar Jackson the birthday boy. Happy birthday, jayar. And let me show all of you guys a picture here. This was a picture taken in gainesville georgia on september 5, 1992. A young kid dressed in a clan outfit and his parents had brought him there and hes looking at his own image in the shield of a black troop center georgia. That was 20 years 1992. But it has been revitalized in some way and its gone viral and its being used everywhere. And i guess it strikes a chord with people and thats why theyre doing it. Interestingly enough we found the person who took the picture and the trooper involved. Lets hear from the trooper. Im there doing a job. His mother and father brought him there. I dont know how he wandered over to where we were. He was tracing his reflexion on the shield. I looked found and thought, what is that . I wasnt doing it. When i looked down there was this little kid dressed in a clan uniform. Cenk the other guy you saw there was todd robertson. He was the photographer and carpenter now. Hes on the young turks right now. Todd, thank you for joining us. I really appreciate it. Thank you for having me. Cenk tell us about that picture back then. What was happening and why did you decide to take that picture . Well, i was on assignment for the local newspaper there, and i actually had toi was there with another Staff Photographer. We were just kind of spending the day taking pictures, of course, a lot of other photos during that day but nothing really too exciting until this happened, of course. And for the most part it was a pretty normal, pretty easegoing day. Until this happened, more or less. But a lot of times it was kind of funny because you wouldnt even know you had it back in the old days of negatives. You couldnt see what you had in those little pictures every time. It was just kind of being in the right place at the right time. Cenk thats interesting. Its now become an iconic picture in a lot of ways. When you developed the photo did you think, wow this is really powerful. I think i might have something here . Could you have possibly imagined it having the affect that it has had on people. I never would have thought we would have this much attention out of it, especially this many years later. It obviously tells a story without having to have too many words along with it, but for the most part it was justi was standing right next to a Staff Photographer looking the other direction than he was. Im not reallyit wasnt me. Just the photo more or less. Cenk i want to ask todd and everybody here what do we get out of the picture and why is if striking a chord with everybody. Todd why do you think everybody is focusing on it . Well, in my opinion it tells the story that were notwere not born to hate. Were not born to feel prejudice in any way. Were not born to have this kind of feelings, negative feelings towards other people in any means. Its a learning process. Youre kind of in some ways a product of your environment, i guess you could say. Hopefully this kid turned out to be okay. Id like to know. Does anybody out there know . I was going to ask you the kid is probably 22, 23 years old right now. Somewhere in that range. Im guessing from your response you dont know who it is or they would have been at the table with you and the Police Officers . At this time we dont know for sure who he is. They think they know but havent been able to make contact with him at this time. Cenk you know, we train our kids in 100 different ways. You have to understand brainwashing we do in positive ways. We tell them to eat with a fork and knife and if you believe in religion and if you think of something good you take your kids to church and you teach them positive things, etc. But you teach them bad things, too. As you see this, there is obviously no way in the world your kids would california say say california. He couldnt tell if there was a black or white person. I have a similar reaction to todd. When we see adults spouting off hateful things, we dont have any sort of compassion for them whereas i look at this kid and i think, he has no hope. Hes being raised with this hateful message. Of course hes going to most likely turn into a very hateful person. I think it might change the way i talk to someone who is deeply racist or sexist in any sort of way. Cenk it goes to insecurity and how they were raised, but we dont know. I would like to find the kid. You dont have to go in that direction, but it predisposes you. But jayar, it creates sympathy for the racist. This is what you would hope to happen, as hermella said, when you see someone raised this way, you see this picture that highlights it, people are not born this way. But when you say people were born to be something say a criminal or someone who robs things oh, this kid hes just a product of being a bad person. His parents didnt do right. In reality, your environment forces you to do what you think you have to do because thats just all youve ever known. Sometimes thats hard to convey to people. You see what people are developing into. You could maybe have some realization to fix things rather than throw people aside which causes more hate and more destruction. Cenk i want to show one more thing from an agency night line report from october 26, 2012. Cynthia mcfadden is doing the report. Reporter by the late 80s the clan had dwindled to by a few hundred. They number to 6,000. Many chance we have talked to said barack obama has been our single effective recruiting tool. I think there is some truth to that. Reporter steve and his wife nicole tell us something stunning about steves 11yearold daughter who is here for all of the night proceeding. Your 11yearold daughter has a robe . Cenk ed cenk todd, they dont see this as something negative. Im teaching her the right thing. I put a robe on her and she knows how to conduct herself. There. There were two kids that day the other probably a little younger, probably from the same family. They didnt know what was going on. Halloween or something. They didnt know what they were doing there. What is poignant is the kid looking in the mirror. As adults we say take a look in the mirror and look at what youve become. I imagine this 22yearold in my hopeful way looks back and sees himself as a child. Cenk hermella says shes sure hes a racist and youre hopeful. When you have a certain population in the country who are racist racists in the country, you have another part of the population who deny that there is a problem. This guy is somewhere around my age and he was taught to hate. Who knows if he learned and became smarter and realized that his parents are idiots and teaching him stupid, hateful things that they shouldnt have taught him. But there are some people who bought into the indoctrination and believe it. Cenk and theyre out there. Todd, thank you so much for joining us. We really appreciate it. And we have to take a quick break here. The story that has me enraged about a whistle blower from the c. I. A. Who is now being sent to prison. Did i commit that crime . Yes, i did. I didnt have any intent to commit a crime. I didnt have any intent to harm this individual. [ voice of dennis ] allstate. With accident forgiveness, they guarantee your rates wont go up just because of an accident. Smart kid. [ voice of dennis ] indeed. Are you in good hands . Cenk were back on the young turks. President obama said he would not look backward, he would look forward, hence, he would not investigate the c. I. A. Agents who might have tortured people through waterboarding. Well a 14year c. I. A. Veteran and he actually exposed the waterboarding program. He was one of the guys who apertured abzabadah. But hes going to prison for 30 months. 30 months is significant jail time. Could it be because he actually revealed the torture program in the first place . Now remember, its not president bush that is trying to prosecute him and send him to prison for 30 months. Its president obama. Algiaaljazeera has an interesting report on it. The plea deal hell serve two and a half years. Did i commit that crime . Yes, did i. I didnt have any intent to commit a crime. I didnt have any intent to harm this individual. Reporter hes the first cousincurrent c. I. A. Officer to be convicted of the event. He was the first to be convicted of water board forture. He believes his conviction is politically motivated. Cenk as i look at that case i think, you know, why does he do it . Why does president obama the National Security ask him to do. Maybe he wants to . Make he gets off making sure anybody who dares reveal the government is doing is bad that he claims to be against is punished and is put in jail, but the guys who do the torture get to walk away. Am i seeing it wrong . Im a little conflicted on this story. The fact of the matter he committed a crime, and he must have known that he was committing a crime. He is a former c. I. A. Operative. Hes not stupid. He must know the rules. Im not saying that he should be put away for two and a half years. Hes a father and he has children, but at some point he did commit a crime. Im not saying that he was the only one who committed a crime. His defense is that he did not know thathe thought it was over with. That he was allowed after the agent retired. He didnt deserve 30 months if nobody else is getting any crime. The only person who has any time here, the only person who is going to jail because of torture, a policy of torture in america is this guy . Thats willynilly haphazard justice. I dont see anything that confirms that. I look for t but we might be making a connection. Cenk no way not buying it. Not buying it, and ill tell you why. Its selective prosecution. You can go after anybody for anything. You track em and oh that guy jaywalked. Did he a crime peace not why theyre going after him. I can prove it to you. Bob woodward has topsecret information put in his book everybody acknowledges, there was a great piece on it, top classified anything more secret than Bradley Manning revealed bob woodward is in jail because the government wants to brag about that stuff. Theyre frauds. Theyre frauds. Dont you think the argument should be those guys should be in jail and not so much that this guy should get scotch free. If they had jailed all the torturers and all the leakers and then got to him and said you might have mistakenly done this, but everybody else is going to jail, you got to go to jail. The only message the government is sending dont mess with us. Well torture you. If you dare to reveal information youre going to jail. The prosecutor was not happy they wanted more jail time. And so did the judge. When it comes to Civil Liberties and all the violations whether its the drone strikes, the in indefinite detention they should be held accountable. Cenk i love the conversation. Come back for one last point