World. They explode the new york time times, are seemingly racist tweets inexcusable as it claims. Are they claiming the hoax, the lawyer says this is Freedom Of Speech is that going to work. Plus the boston globe uncovers a tsa program call quiet skies that been spying on thousands of ordinary americans. Is that good post9 11 police work neighborhood, several primaries not yet old enough to vote for themself, ill ask when navigating controversial issues in our political process. First, are tweets making fun of white the people necessarily racist . And are attacks on police to be taken at face value . Those questions arose this week regarding the New York Times new hire sarah john a 30yearold technology writer
hired for their prestigious Editorial Board. Typically for a conversation like this id go to the times, today there was nothing in the Print Version for hatred of white the people, police, et cetera, et set ramp thats something i noted on twitter, which prompted somebody else to
Michael Smerconish tackles the American political and news stories of the week, offering only one kind of talking points his own. The times, by the way, standing by her hire saying they understood her twitter past and understand it for what it was. We had candid conversations with sarah as part of the thorough vetting process which included a review of her social media history. She understands this rhetoric is not acceptable at the times and we are confident she will be an important voice for the Editorial Board moving forward. Interestingly, the fact that the times already knew about her tweets is significant due to another hire in february, quinn norton. When some of miss nortons old tweets surfaced which included racial slurs and an Internet Troll which works for a neonazi website she ended stepping down that same day. In that case, it had not been aware of her tweets before it hired her. We reached out to miss jeong, but we were told she was unavailable. Go to smerconish. Com and a
for 600 million barrels of oil a day 600,000 barrels of oil a gray russia. we have to get it from somewhere else. believe it or not, the administration is trying to rationalize to the american people going to iran and venezuela g.o.p. meeting with a country we don t even recognize the leader arrests the true leader of that communist marks ips oppressive rerah jet stream. so they have got to get it somewhere. their idea is to go to evil incarnate iran and venezuela. what an insult. steve: and what are we doing with iran right now? it sounds like we are reopening the nuke deal. so that would be okay, iran, give us some more oil, and we will give you your deal. and then they are also dealing with saudi arabia, and what happened in the last couple of days. ainsley: and venezuela. i don t know what the deal is with venezuela, but i know the deal with saudi arabia was we released back to saudi arabia from gitmo the so-called 20th
the subtext we are seeing go on in russia and ukraine in that region is energy. the reason why putin is doing what he is doing. he uses energy as a weapon. and there were certain countries, particularly germany and many countries in europe thought that they could engage in contracts with him to get cheap energy now they are seeing the cost of that for the first time you are seeing germany bump up military spending to over 2% of g.d.p. which they re required to do under their nato agreement. now they are finally waking up to that but here at home we have got to open up the pipeline. we need democracy to be supporting europe s energy needs not dictatorships. steve: sure. speaking of dictatorships. congressman i m sure you heard apparently the united states is asking saudi arabia, who we just gave the 20th hijacker back to from gitmo in the last week or two. saudi arabia, can you give us more oil? can you pump more soil in venezuela, can you pump more oil?
ramzi bin al shibh showing up in sun glass later praying in court. ramsey yemeni national accused organizing the hamberg sell actually as the go between hijackers and suspected 9/11 mastermind khalid sheikh mohammed. ramsey tried and failed to get into the u.s. before the 9/11 attacks. some consider him the 20th hijacker unable to board his flight. later captured in a raid in pakistan in 2002 at the beginning of four year stay at cia black sites. pre-trial hearption stretching near a decade. a date no cases have been to trial. judge matthew mccaul an air force colonel a seventh judge to handle the case. vigorously questioned by the defense because of his experience. only two years and one day on the bench. mccaul admitted his experience with islam and capital punishment in this death penalty case is very limited. the lawyer for khalid sheikh mohammed s nephew asked why these hearings are dragging on so long. having this case at gahanna ton mow means a whole lot of