murder. that s the third one that s getting a lot of attention here. i think that s what we re asking here and get answers to. was this something that the army supported, did they oppose or did they advocate for it? something in the waning days of the obama administration. it bears noting when these initial leaks came out in 2010, the white house across the board condemned chelsea manning at the time, then bradley manning, condemned bradley manning harshly. none other than jim jones the current national advisor at the time was quite harsh on the damage that manning had done. those are the questions we ll be asking and following up here at the pentagon, guys. all right hans. thanks. ari, let me bring you back in, obviously these are different cases with, but i think this is going to cause the news of chelsea manning s sentence commutation is going to spark speculation about edward snowden. edward snowden has been living in russia for the last few
months after that high court affirmed same-sex marriage and upheld obamacare. could be more fireworks to come. we bring in ari mel ber. you had a chance also to talk with justice briar about the term ahead. one of the things we talked about was his view that people think of them as more political than they are. he thinks they remain very independent. i ll play a bit of that and we can talk about it. i think that there is the view that we are junior league politicians. when you say political, what do you mean in the context of a judge being political? that s perfect, because that s exactly the point. that s a very good question. i did work in the congress for a while on the staff, so political to me, in that context, means are you republican or democrat? where are the votes?
single scream? it s just very odd. there s folks in that cleveland neighborhood who said they hope that house is demolished. i agree with them. that should be burned down. he did expand on that. he said he s a very happy guy. he s not angry. he does have an addiction, he has an addiction to porn. we re still left with a lot of questions, ari, in terms of why he did this, why he treated these women like this. i feel like i still have a lot of questions. yeah, i think that s right. the trial process or in this case the plea process gives you this window. we re watching it here in the news. people around the country are watching a case that as you were saying was obviously extremely troubling, extremely inhumane, extremely immoral and what we see is the perspective of a defendant. the defendant has the right to address the court and to address his accusers. you see that sort of delusional view of this as some sort of quasi consensual family life,
here is major league baseball seems to have evidence that alex rodriguez tried to tamper with the evidence, tried to get to witnesses and tried to, you know, tamper with the investigation. that is the big thing here. and that gives bud selig, the commissioner, powers in the best interests of the game, to take harsh action. this is his second offense but normally under the collective bargaining agreement we d be talking 100 game suspension. he has the power to suspend him for life. i don t think that ever will happen but it s a huge bargaining chip and i think that s why alex rodriguez s representatives are at the bargaining table right now. for those of us who have not followed this story very closely, ari mel ber, walk us through his options and what do you think based on what we know about him being very humble and all of that. what do you ultimately think he ll decide? he s kind of backed up
e-mails. what are the consequence. we are not near the election. it is time off the clock. it is exactly that. time off the clock matters. if you get your forces aligned properly, if you light a fire under the members with the kind of communication harry is talking about, you can make things happen. what bothers me is a sense of fatigue about trying, thinking new ways. we are going to continue more about one of the bright, shining objects that is sort of making news. when we come back, we will talk about that latest bright, shiny object. joan, jonathan, ari, please stay with us. remember to answer tonight s question at the bottom of the screen. share your thoughts on twitter at edshow. up next, the man that says he is the source of the documents from the nsa data program. he shares the reason for the leaks. our reaction to the latest news coming up. c est aujourd hui