misconduct resonated with her. he spoke about acts he had seen in pornographic films. why speak out now? nearly two decades after the denial. don t think this is right. plus, cutting, burning, whipping and rape. just released wikileaks documents reveals torture by u.s. allies. what does it mean? larry: good evening. in 1991, anita hill leveled some explosive charges during the confirmation hearings for clarence thomas who ultimately became an associate justice of the u.s. supreme court. those accusations resurfaced recently, when one of thomas former girlfriends spoke out about them. lillian mcewen is that person. a former federal prosecutor, administrative judge and council to the senate judiciary committee. this is her first and only network, prime time interview. silent all these years, lillian, you could have been a valuable edition to those hearings, why not? i was not subpoenaed by either side. did they know about you? yes. both sides? yes. larry:
enthusiasm gap. shark attack. a man on a boogie board is killed off the coast of california. what s behind this rare attack? good morning, everyone. i m alex witt. welcome to msnbc saturday. the group behind the release of nearly 400,000 secret war documents is speaking out this morning. the wikileaks website released the files last night shedding light on some of the darkest episodes of the iraq war. it is the same website that released 77,000 classified documents from the afghan war back in july. veronica de la cruz is here with more. what are the people at the wikileaks website saying about the controversial release of all this information? good morning to you, alec. the website released the documents despite the pentagon saying it puts the line of the u.s. troops and their coalition partners at risk. as you just mentioned a short time ago, in london the group spoke to reporters defending the decision to make the classified documents to the public. they say the discl
from getting a nuclear bomb. they believe iran could make nuclear grade fuel in less than a year and could have a bomb in less than five years. after iran blue past a deadline set by the president for diplomatic talks. one senior toe fix says the gates memo is a wakeup call and includes a revised set of alternatives to be considered. they deny that it provoked military or diplomatic options. some critics aren t surprised by the memo. for well over a year now, in fact, including the previous administration we keep threatening an and we have not done anything that would in any way be viewed effective. if this was a wakeup call it did come in january and nobody in the administration has woken up so it wasn t a very loud wakeup call. jeff morell tells fox the secretary believes the president and his administration have spent an
airports throughout the continue continent and around the world. determine knee has opened some airports and klm has flown a plane through the ash cloud. we have coverage from around the world on this story. we have a correspondent from brussels, one is stranded in dubai and here is the very latest from laura. while the volcanic ash continues to spew, thousands of travelers are wondering when they will get home. klm is sending test flights into the air to see if it is safe for passengers in anticipation of the eventual news that it will be safe to put planes back in the air over large parts of europe. airports are reopening including six in germany, airports in spain including barcelona and southern france. almost all norwegian air space north of bergen was reopened today which is good news. airport operators say the air space over south of the country is expected to be open by today. the cranky volcano shows no sign of settling down as it continues to send explosions of