I should say it is a raging debate in the United States are virtually alone, almost everywhere else, the dust greeted with relief and optimism and without even parliamentary review. This is one of the many striking examples of the famous concept of american exceptionalism. Amy noam chomsky weighs in on the 2016 president ial race and donald trump. I think we should recognize that the other candidates are not that different. Todays democrats are what used to be called moderate republicans. The republicans are just drifted off the spectrum. They are so committed to extreme wealth and power, that they cannot get votes. Amy professor noam chomsky on power and ideology. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Pope francis arrives in washington, d. C. , today for the start of his historic u. S. Tour. The pope will meet with president obama on wednesday and address a joint session of congress on thursday. On friday,
I should say it is a raging debate in the United States are virtually alone, almost everywhere else, the dust greeted with relief and optimism and without even parliamentary review. This is one of the many striking examples of the famous concept of american exceptionalism. Amy noam chomsky weighs in on the 2016 president ial race and donald trump. I think we should recognize that the other candidates are not that different. Todays democrats are what used to be called moderate republicans. The republicans are just drifted off the spectrum. They are so committed to extreme wealth and power, that they cannot get votes. Amy professor noam chomsky on power and ideology. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Pope francis arrives in washington, d. C. , today for the start of his historic u. S. Tour. The pope will meet with president obama on wednesday and address a joint session of congress on thursday. On friday,
In two months, the u. S. Coast guard, the Shallow Water service, will cover all seven continents on the globe. Today, we are in afghanistan, iran, africa, liberia, in south america, china, we are everywhere and i could not be more proud to serve the service but i cannot be more proud to have a seat that chairman dempsey has afforded me to be a guest on the chairman of the joint chiefs as we deal with many challenges that face us and the world ahead. Really what people ask why do you give to come to work every day . What causes you to get up to work every day is the people we are proud to serve. First of all, we are an all volunteer service and how appropriate we are here with the uso, an all volunteer service as well. Im just delighted to say that my wife fran is one of those 29,000 volunteers. [applause] she kept her maiden name because no one can pronounce zukunft so people would come through Reagan National air force airport at the uso office and asked what her husband does. All of
Complete. Ord is yet that is exactly what we expect prosecutors to do in applying materiality standards to pretrial without any sense of the perspective of the defendant. Complicating the problem further, is the prosecutors dual role. Prosecutor is a minister of justice, but importantly a advocater is also an with the skills, the training and ability to effectively winecute cases and convictions. What is inherently difficult thet the prosecutor making materiality decision is that he cannot be neutral within this context. When deciding whether information is material or relevant, that is exactly what expected to do, to set aside their role as advocates, pour through the open mind,th an recognize the importance of the information to the defense, and an objective decision about whether or not to disclose it. Are subject to what psychologists call confirmation bias. Tend tons that we evaluate what we perceive in a way that is consistent with what believe. R a prosecutor with the responsibi
And get into syria . Yes, they do. Do the turks permit that . I dont think so. One final question. Iran is in the midst of iraq. Its in the midst of syria. Do we share much rale goals with iran . Well oob ill say that our goals with respect to iraq is that we return iraq to the sovereign control of the people and the government. Do you think the iranians share that view . I believe so. I believe the iranians would believe that their interests would consider their interests are best served because they have significant influence in iraq . They have regional interest and those interests are in iraq. Thats not something that should surprise us or necessarily alarm us. Im looking beyond. So if we think an accommodation with iran to fight isil is good the aftermath of that in iraq, in syria, in yemen and elsewhere in my view is not so good. So times we look at the short game versus the long one and im concerned about what the long one is. I would not propose that were accommodating iran and