Monitor this court case as well as to report on it. You know iran its going to los angeles you know it wasnt many years ago that julian assad was the fed it is a hero alongside the the guardian in the New York Times so why isnt the guardian the New York Times in that dock too because one time he was considered the greatest journalist alive now hes even given that privilege of that title and you know can you explain journalism just abandoning one of its own go ahead ron. Those are all the questions that weve been asking for quite some time now and i wish i had the answer for i mean i do yeah i mean i think it really speaks to just the failures of the industry especially in the United States i mean i remember that when he was exposing these war crimes and he was deemed a hero and rightfully so he exposed some essential information of war crimes going on around the world then all of the sudden he was deemed public enemy number one and hes not even a journalist anymore and you even see seg
Helped him back in july we interviewed 2 Top Republican strategists on the trouble in the trunk campaign they warned us not to write the president off today we turn to the democrats how did they handle the new difficulties of campaigning against a president struck down by cool but we interviewed 2 top academic commentators professor 2 white men from Case Western University cleveland im from the Nations Capital of washington d. C. The fessor can you should grant him but 1st to alex with your tweets emails and messages in response to last. Lots of comments said on last weeks show which featured peter oborne and professor veteran he muffy commenting on the problems the political problems of bloggers johnson the Prime Minister it many says Excellent Program but listening to the predictions of these 2 excellent gas for the vents over the next year its one measurable prospect and john says 1st time ive watched the Program Welcome aboard john i enjoyed it peter oborne and Richard Murphy were
Reinforcing the apparently inevitable this october present from a long time skeptic of the very limits of the covert 1000 pandemic just one week a goal became a victim himself and has dramatically helicoptered from the white house to Walter Reed National military Medical Center in bethesda made a lot and since then we have had regular and often confusing medical briefings with tweets and video messages from the ealing and then recovered president including a bizarre car cavalcade to greet well wishers by monday night he announced on twitter that he was effectively discharging himself from hospital and moving back to the white house feeling better than he has felt for 20 years as well as claiming the credit for a new call for treatment however beyond the entirely human reaction of wishing anyone afflicted well the question now is how will this october surprise impact on the president ial campaign well its have handed the president might it just have helped him back in july we interviewe
He was deemed a hero and rightfully so he exposed some essential information of war crimes going on around the world then all of the sudden he was deemed public enemy number one and hes not even a journalist anymore and you even see segments especially here in the United States i mean one particular one comes to mind off the top my head where it was on n. P. R. And Glenn Greenwald basically had to explain to the reporter what a journalist isnt isnt allowed to do you had to correct the introduction that the reporter gave families as a reporter was like well this is one of julian assad just friends and when i was like i dont really know the guy i just understand this issue and im passionate about it because i am a journalist and it was basically Glenn Greenwald giving a crash course in the idea of freedom of the press so as someone who is supposedly a professional reporter so the the kind of radio silence in the United States has been nothing short of disturbing you know until then what
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