Comey refuses to criticize the broad collection of phone records of americans and defends the indefinite detention of americans deemed to be enemy combatants. He also explains why he signed off on a memo authorizing waterboarding loss serving under james ashcroft. We will speak to a former fbi agent. And then Bradley Manning on trial. The former chief prosecutor, morris davis, testifies for the defense. Colonel davis joins us today. First, a political crisis escalates in egypt. We go to cairo for a report from sharif Abdel Kouddous. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Spain has a knowledge their request from the u. S. Prompting the blockade of a plane carrying bolivian president and evo morales. The plane was grounded in austria for 14 hours after spain, france, portugal, and italy closed their airspace over false rumors that Edward Snowden was aboard. The Spanish Foreign minister confirmed for the first time the rumor came from the u. S. Government.
The average cost to educate a child in school per year is 52 sals and dollars. Almost four times what the rest of Public Education costs. And the vast majority of our basis we just Public Schools. We could take the money were spending today, pay every Public School system 14,000 a child, and save billions of dollars per year. And with the same or better outcomes. This weekend you can talk with oklahoma senator tom coburn about the fiscal cliff, Affordable Care act and the future of the Republican Party on booktvs in depth. He has written several books and reports including his latest, the debt mama. Join our conversation, your calls, emails and tweets and Facebook Comments for medical doctor, author and senator coburn on cspan2. [inaudible conversations] good morning. If i could ask are going to take their seats. Welcome to the Arms Control Association the National American council titled iran 2013, making diplomacy work. Im the president of the National American council and welcome to
In egypt, the crackdown of pro morsi growing. A key leader of the Muslim Brotherhood was also arrested last night. More on the developments later in todays show. Tuesday, august 20, 5 20 p. M. Bradley manning is less than 20 hours from finding out how much time youll spend behind bars after they found him guilty of stealing and sharing government secrets. The judge will make her final sentencing decision on wednesday. Manning could face up to 90 years in prison. We have the latest from fort meade. The judge is now deliberating Bradley Mannings sentence. The judge announced that she would be beginning to deliberate. The sentences tomorrow morning and the importance to the judge in this case, facing a maximum of 90 years after he was found guilty of most of the charges against him including espionage. The Closing Argument of the sentencing hearing yesterday, the prosecution requested manning spend no less than 60 years in prison for leaking hundreds of thousands of documents to the ant
This is the cbs evening news. Good evening, with the west coast edition of the broadcast. Asiana Airline Flight 214 from Seoul South Korea crashed upon landing today. The boeing 777 had at least 300 on board, 2 are dead and as many as 23 to 103 injured. It appeared to be an uneventful touch down suddenly the tail section broke apart and fire burned in the mid section. Our coverage begins in San Francisco. It took just seconds from the time asiana flight 214 crash landed and what is left shows how fortunate most of the passengers were to get out unharmed. It hit a sea wall as it tried to land and hit a trail of debris as it tried to land. The initial impact looked like the plane had just split in half. This Eyewitness News said he was in disbelief as the flight approached. This is the runway it came in like this and it just hit like that and the whole thing just collapsed immediately. It never really had a chance. Passengers got out using emergency slides. Roberts wife and daughter were
A Young American staging a weekend of protest against gun violence we focus on the High School Students from florida taking the debate on gun control by storm and putting everything aside to make their voices. So if that means taking another year off of college. I always plan on going to college but i truly believe that im never going to get another chance. In my in my personal opinion save the country. Welcome to the program another week another dismissal the latest victim of staff at the white house as National Security adviser. Hes being replaced by john bolton a prominent hardliner whos called for the use of military force against north korea and iran bolton was also you may remember a leading advocate of the two thousand and three invasion of iraq will be Donald Trumps third National Security adviser since he took office just fourteen months ago. Even in a crowded field john boltons provocative views have long stood out whether its north korean brinkmanship or Irans Nuclear progra