Move, the local massachusetts District Attorney dropped criminal charges, calling Climate Change one of the gravest crises our planet has ever faced. We will speak with the environmentalists and the da himself. As philadelphia is poised to become the largest city in the country to decriminalize marijuana, group of former president s from around the world are calling for in end to the drug war. Governments, as a general directing enforcement, resources strategically towards the most disruptive and violent elements of the trafficking. In the Spinning Wheel of death. You know that circle that spends and spends and spends near looking for webpage to load . You will see that circle today on many websites, including netflix, kickstarter, as they take art in the Global Internet slowdown to defend Net Neutrality. All of that and more coming up. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. The white house is asserting president obama already has authority
That will do it for me. Im don lemon. Thanks for watching. The situation room with mr. Wolf blitzer begins right now. Don, thanks very much. Happening now, the United States senator talks about the traumatic day she tried to find a pulse by putting her finger into the bullet hole of a colleague who had just been shot. Now she wants to ban 158 kinds of assault weapons. Dispute all the iphones, the tablets, ipods and a whole lot more there are out there, perhaps in your hands right now, apples day as a wall street darling potentially, potentially could be over. Wait until you hear how the stock got clobbered today and why. And football star manti teo opens up about the hoax that fooled him and the rest of the country. Its the interview that so many people have been waiting for. Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. We begin with a new effort to ban 158 specific assaultstyle weapons and prohibit other guns from using magazines containing more than ten rounds of ammunition. Those a
Thank you very much. 1 million. Wow. Thats a big deal. Thanks for inviting us into your home tonight. That is it for this special report, fair, balanced and unafraid. Greta goes on the record. Charles heads to the game now. You have to see this, the state department producing graphic video showing barbaric acts by this horrible evil isis. How did the state department do that . Well, they say to scare americans from joining isis but critics say it looks more like isis recruitment video. After weeks of blistering criticism president obama finally getting ready to face americans to tell us how he plans to combat isis. The president will address the nation on wednesday. Senator joins us good evening, sir. Greta, good to be with you. A bit of the plan has somehow leaked out from the white house. Your thoughts on what the president is going to say and do . Unfortunately from the beginning of this, we have seen president obama being fundamentally unserious. He dismissed isis at the outset as
Door. And the snipers from the roof had come down, there was a lot of commotion, we still have not been able to confirm exactly who this person was and how he got that close to the white house. But at that point, they evacuated all of us from the White House Press and escorted us off campus. And now we were able to go back in since we have a white house card pass. So we were able actually to go back in after the situation was over, but we dont have confirmation on what happened. It is not clear how this person got onto the white house grounds . Reporter we do not know this. Summertime, things happen from time to time. It very may well be that case today. Ive been doing this for years and i have never been evacuated off campus, usually were just hunkered down in our work space, but this time they were very serious about getting us all out of the white house very quickly. As you said, fence jumpers do happen from time to time. How difficult is it to get over the white house fence and how
Varsity. That turned out to be very wrong. Then last week he told us they had no strategy to the surprise of nobody. In syria . Well, and for dealing with isis. And he hasnt had a strategy for dealing with isis. And at this point, we have seen isis declare war on the United States. They are crucifying christians. He they are beheading children. They have beheaded two american journalists and they have done so on the world stage, policemenning an intent to take jihad to america. To get isis you have to go to syria. You are opposed to boots on the ground, right . My we have to set the objective of taking isis out. Assume set the objective we dont want isis. Secretary of defense hagel has been scary the way he has warned everybody. Assuming he wants that, boots on the ground or not . We can do this predominantly through a concentrated air campaign. Isis are diffuse. They are covering too much territory. They are 10 to 15,000 people on the ground. And but what wep simply lob a missile, dro