local reporters are heroes. that s your assignment. go cover the guy who is pooping on the cars. yes, sir got it. i get to stay safely in the studios. thanks lawrence. we re going live to ferguson, missouri tonight, where a candle light vigil has ended peacefully. and two secret service drunk driving suspects are still on the job and the secret service director has not said a word about it. and dramatic new video was introduced today in boston showing the man whose car was hijacked by the boston marathon bombers and how he managed to escape and then help police close in on the bombers. we re lucky, by god s grace we didn t lose two officers last night. reporter: at least three shots shattered the calm eaving. one officer was shot in the shoulder, the other in the face. this was not someone trying to bring healing to ferguson. this was a damn punk. nor fallout from that controversial letter written to iran by 47 republican senators. i think it s very very d
in addition to hillary clinton s. vice president biden, john kerry and wall street journal editorial page among others today. today the german foreign minister went after it and those who signed it. new york times seemed to sum it up with this hid line, republican idiocy. madeleine albright weighed in, saying the stunt was very damaging. here she is. it s as if somebody had written a group of members of congress had written a letter to kruschiv during the cuban missile crisis and prevented some agreement to be made. i think it s totally inappropriate, in many ways damages to the system. i m surprised it s even legal, frankly, i mean, in terms of how you get involved in negotiations. i think it s very, very damaging to us. what do you think iranian leaders think about it? i think they probably think we have lost it, seriousry. the supreme lead el said it was a decline in political ethics, and the destruction of the american establishment within. he s fairly sophist
the countries where troops had been mobilized, governments forced by the u.s. to join what was known as the coalition of the willing, places like london, , in mad kid, in barcelona. these were governments that were going to war with the u.s. and, of course, in the u.s. in new york at the foot of the united nations and also in san francisco there were millions of people. the guinness book of world records said that it was the largest protest ever held in the history of humanity on one day, and it was somewhere between 12 and 14 million people. and it was one of the most extraordinary things. i think by that time, peter, i think most of us who had been involved in organizing and it had been over just a six week period, it s been a very rapid decision at a global movement, a global meeting of the world social forum had decided we should all do a protest on february 15th. and lo and behold, it actually happened that way just six weeks later. i think most of us knew the war was
fellow and former united nations journalist will discuss u.s. influence on the international body and the status of the wars in this iraq and afghanistan. ms. bennis works on u.s. foreign policy since 9/11 include before and after: challenging empire, and ending the iraq war. host: phyllis bennis, in your first book from 1990, stones to statehood, you write: being partisan does not allow one to fail in honesty, to fail to tell the truth: host: what s your objective in your writings? guest: you know, ever since i began doing writing which i first started writing for radio, i was writing radio commentaries first, i felt like it was part of political organizing. i never felt like i was writing a book for history, or i was writing an essay for the poet in us all. i appreciate the writing for history, i appreciate poetry, but for me it was always very practical. it was because it was a story that needed to be told. it was an analysis that i thought would help mobilize peo
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