Week our troops stationed in tough neighborhoods around the world are caught in the political crossfire here at home but 1st the patriot act sailed through congress after 911 now it is about to expire. Im home and cook in washington this is the big picture. When this did not get much Media Coverage the new Expiration Date is march 15th will Congress Really up the patriot act should they lets ask. Author of battlefield america the war on the American People and a government of wolves the emerging American Police state constitutional attorney Rutherford Institute president syndicated columnist and host of the podcast freedom under fire john w. Whitehead and we also welcome the author of everyones crazy except you and me and im not so sure about you americas favorite contrarian cuts loose legal and media analyst and r. T. E. Contributor lionel gentleman welcome back to the big picture thank you thank you in the foggy fearful aftermath of 911 only one u. S. Senator voted against the patrio
Facebook c. E. O. Mark zuckerberg says regulation of social media may be inevitable during his last day in washington but congress could not pin him down on how he plans to protect private data. On the number of executions carried out last year around the world fell compared to the year before that according to a new Amnesty International report on Capital Punishment. And italy has been without a government since an indecisive election last month a new push to form a Coalition Kicks off today a reporter went to rome to ask politicians why it is so hard to find any agreement. With. Brian thomas thanks so much for being with us the trumpet ministration says all options are on the table but that no final decision has been made on. Military action in syria President Trump took to twitter yesterday telling russia to quote get ready and that missiles will be coming fueling expectations that a strike on syria is imminent now in a moment well be crossing live to our correspondents for the very
mark zuckerberg says regulation of social media may be inevitable during his last day of testimony before a congressional panel but u.s. lawmakers failed to get a direct answer from zaka berg on how he s going to protect user data. well the human rights organization amnesty international says the number of reported judicial executions around the world fell during twenty seventeen agnes he also says the trend around the world leans towards abolishing the death penalty but the group also warns that the true number of people put to death is actually concealed some countries treat execution numbers as a state secret china for example we re talking to amnesties regional director for east asia shortly first we have this report. iran responsible for carrying out its more than half of the world s known executions last year that s according to amnesty international s latest figures in dozens of those cases that