the group is fiercely anti-gay and full of hate. it delivered its message by protesting funerals particularly military funerals. westboro baptist church plans to ramp up the protests ep boldined by this massive u.s. supreme court case they won yesterday. the justices ruled that the group s military funeral protests are protected by the first amendment, that right to free speech. the ruling is the final act in a lawsuit filed by one man, albert snyder, westboro baptist protested outside the funeral for his son, matt snyder who was killed in iraq on this day five years ago back in 2006. and i want to welcome mr. snyder for joining me here on the phone. i just first have to get to the supreme court vote, sir. it was 8-1. were you surprised by the ruling? hi, brooke, yeah, i was very surprised by the ruling. i just can t believe that there
there and that i had other children i had to protect from them interrupted the funeral. i know have you two daughters and i ve heard you say your own son matt would be so proud of the battle you have waged over the last five years. at the same time, you haven t given yourself time to mourn for your son. will you have that time now? i think so. i want to take that time. i want to see a lot s happened in five years. i want to see what matt get the feelings out about matt and find out how i ve changed as a person over the last five years. albert snyder, we are thinking of you. we wish you well. let us know what the next step is for you. i will, brooke. let us know. stay in touch. i will. thank you. we are just now getting word of a new ultimatum for the state lawmakers who fled wisconsin. remember the 14 state senators, the democrats, to avoid voting on this budget bill? could they really be arrested now if they don t return to the
vicious verbal assault that occurred in this case and has occurred in other cases by the way. it was vicious. it s all about the first amendment rights and i guess that the supreme court s ruling is that even hurtful speech is still free. at least that s what they found it overwhelmingly 8-1. it doesn t make sense, does it, though? i mean, it doesn t make that as we teased before we came to this segment that kids in high school will be told to take down the 10 commandments from their locker but these wack-a-doodles can go out and destroy a family s life after they ve already lost their son serving in iraq. doesn t seem to make sense to me. if that s what free speech is all about, i guess 8-1 that s what the supreme court anti-gay signs, anti-christian signs, anti-jew signs. thank god for dead soldiers. that s some of the signs you see. you are all going to hell. albert snyder is the dad of matt snyder killed in iraq in 2006. now, not only does the supreme court overturn the o
when you re standing there with your young child s body, bits and pieces in a coffin, you ve been dealt some emotional distress by the lord your god. reporter: the one dissenting voice, judge samuel alito, wrote the church s outrageous conduct caused albert snyder great injury and that the court s decision only compounded that injury. peggy and mike? the army private accused of providing sensitive material to wikileaks is facing the possibility of life in prison. bradley manning was slapped with 22 new charges yesterday, including aiding the enemy. manning could have faced the death penalty but prosecutors say they won t recommend that. he s suspected of providing wikileaks with a quarter million state department tables, information about the wars in iraq and afghanistan. the assassination of the only christian serving in pakistan s government. he was well aware of the danger he faced from islamic rebels. so aware, he left a video taped message to be played in the event of his
and a surprise appearance by ceo steve jobs as apple unveils the ipad 2. will it make you run down and get one, we ll unveil some of the features on this american the features on this american morning . captions by vitac www.vitac.com good morning, i m ali velshi. and i m kiran chetry. we re going to run down the features of the ipad, huh? you love this thing. we ll see. it is pretty impressive. we ll talk about that. we ve got a lot to talk about this morning, include nug developments in libya. we re following that, it s beginning to look like an all-out civil war right now. for the second day in a row, moammar gadhafi has been dropping bombs on his own cities. this morning, there are new reports on the city of al brega. what you re looking at it video from the crew s on the line there. the opposition held and ended up driving the government forces out. meanwhile, u.s. warships are moving closer to libya as we speak. and this morning, calls for a no-fly zon