talked about the trial of bradley manning where a verdict is expected sometime today. if you want to sound smart today you can tell your friends since 2010 wikileaks released over 20 million documents ranging from e-mails to classified military information and u.s. embassy cables, most recently wikileaks published 2.4 million e-mails from various syrian politicians. let s start with jimmy kimmel who is back from his honeymoon. he has an eye for finding local tv talent that needs a national audience. thanks for joining us here on wnn this evening. i m karina kling. here s to the s top story. he was saying that. there is he. my friend, jennifer, who used to work here, she was at another station where we covered the capitol together and we used to do a dance to that song in the car.
the pilot who was flying the plane told them a flash of light blinded him temporarily and it happened at the same time the pilots realized the plane was flying too low and too slow. the faa is increasing requirements for airline co-pilots, first officer also now have to log at least 1,500 hours of flight time before heading to work in the cockpit. current regulations allow co-pilots to have 250 hours under their belt. they call for co-pilots to be rated for the aircraft they are flying which will require additional training and testing. the defense has rested in the trial of bradley manning, who admits leaking hundreds of thousands of pages of classified material to wikileaks. his defense team argues it didn t harm national security. the rebuttal phase of the trial starts monday with both sides expected to call witnesses. justin bieber behaving badly again, this time apparently got him a phone call from former president bill clinton. tmz released a video of the pop
now the government first reaction to that disscloes yur was yes, to try to suppress every aspect of it, from forcing newspapers to censor the stories, to chrjing this man, daniel elseberg under the espionage act. the nixon administration failed. the supreme court ruled that the newspapers had the right to publish top-secret reports and the case against elseberg fell apart. what would dan elseberg think of this trial of bradley manning? he told us on the show on monday. he realized what he ought to do at 22, which took me, i was 40 when i did it. there are of course differences. the material i put out was top secret, rather than the secret and unclassified that he put out. as for those secret documents, manning has pled guilty to leaking, charges that carry 20 years in jail. but he s facing a much more aggressive prosecution than elseberg. prosecutors say manning should not be treated as a leaker.
washington battles over attorney general eric holder files the most significant dispute over leaks is happening 40 miles north of ft. meade, maryland, where the trial of bradley manning has gotten underway. his guilty plea would have sent him to prison for about 20 years. but the military and the obama administration didn t think that was enough. prosecutors today are pursuing a charge of aiding the enemy, which carries a life sentence. jim miklaszewski joins us live with more. actually, today, ari, in the opening staples from both the defense and the prosecuting attorney, we learned more about that charge, the specifics of the charge of aiding the enemy.
morning talking about getting back into riding and that she has partial to paul ryan. that she and mitt like him come 2016. thanks to all three of you. i really appreciate your time. so if you didn t get enough from our agenda panel, you can find more from them on our website. just follow the link to my name. here s a look at some stories topping the news. more than 100 people were killed by a fire at a poultry processing plant in china. survivors telling local media the front gate was locked when the fire broke out. the cause is still under investigation. openinging arguments are underway in the trial of bradley manning. he pleaded guilty to sending probes of classified materials to wikileaks. faces 20 years in prison, but the government is pushing for a charge of aiding the enemy, which carries a life sentence. angelina jolie made her first appearance on the red carpet since revealing her double