tucker and james peterson. thank you both for being here. good to be here. thanks, rev. cynthia, let s put this up again. the confederate flag outside the white house at a rally with republican senators. how did the republican party get here? well, reverend al, i for one i know this is going to sound a little perverse, but i for one am glad to see all this out in the open. because for five years now, i and you and a few others have been talking about the clear racism aimed at president obama. is it coming from all republicans? absolutely not. this is not an indication that all republicans are racist. but that group of ultraconservatives, the tea partiers, they re absolutely steeped in racism.
snowd snowden, and little we know, and you know him better, this has been a man who a lot of americans think is a hero because he put all this out in the open. we know that he has said that he loves democracy and he loves the country and yet when we look at the possible countries he may go to,cuba, sven way larvenezuela, can you explain that? i would urge every one of your viewers to look at an article from this morning about the obama administration s treatment of whistleblowers and leakers. what it desicribes is that they have been more vindictive in punishing people than any president in all of american history. and so obviously we should have a country in which american citizens like mr. snowden are free to come forward and inform us as his fello citizens of what our on government is doing deceitfully and in the dark and not put this n. to prison for
but my sense is that one of them involves this long general election. is the public losing interest in the way we cover the presidential campaign? the justice department is investigating national security leaks to the new york times and critics blame the obama team for spilling some of the secrets that put the administration in a favorable light. a firestorm today as republicans claim the white house has been leaking national security secrets to the press, to make president obama look good. david sanger, the author of one of those stories, will be here. plus walter cronkite was the most trusted man in america. and that s the way it is, friday, march 6th, 1981. but sometimes he did things that were rather untrustworthy. would that have gotten him fired today? we ll ask his biographer, doug brinkley. i m howard kurtz, and this is reliable sources. remember when the republican primaries were going strong and we all bounced from bachmann to trump to perry to cain an
martin had emerged. now, also in dispute the relevancy of george zimmerman s arrest record. his supporters say that it has no bearing on the case. though in previous weeks it was cited by the martin family. now details about trayvon martin s life are emerging, problems at school primarily and the family says they have no bearing on what happened the night the son was killed. the teen had been suspended three times from school, including once fore writing gra titi on a school drawer. the officer called it a burglary tool and the miami-dade police uncovered no evidence that the jewelry was stolen. well, today at a house democratic forum on the case attended by trayvon martin s parents, family attorney darrell parks said that his past has no bearing on his encounter the night of february 26. whether or not trayvon martin was a perfect student is irrelevant to whether zimmerman s conduct that night was justified. trayvon was a kid. he was another unarmed black boy whose life wa
zimmerman look menacing. an older and larger trayvon martin had emerged. now, also in dispute the relevancy of george zimmerman s arrest record. his supporters say that it has no bearing on the case. though in previous weeks it was cited by the martin family. now details about trayvon martin s life are emerging, problems at school primarily and the family says they have no bearing on what happened the night the son was killed. the teen had been suspended three times from school, including once fore writing gra titi on a school drawer. the officer called it a burglary tool and the miami-dade police uncovered no evidence that the jewelry was stolen. well, today at a house democratic forum on the case attended by trayvon martin s parents, family attorney darrell parks said that his past has no bearing on his encounter the night of february 26. whether or not trayvon martin was a perfect student is irrelevant to whether zimmerman s conduct that night was justified. trayvon was