Greetings and sell you take. Despite what the constitution declares the freedom of the press has had a topsy turvy sometimes even brutal history of abuse here in the United States of america while most of the time attacks on us journalism has been through very indirect or opaque means like the influence of the lure of the almighty ratings dollar the or the herd click mentality of beltway ivy league journalists or even newsroom employees putting their climb up the corporate ladder before their journalistic integrity but every so often throughout our long history there is a very direct abuse of the press by members of the government institutions they are. Paid to report on a lot like the exchange that took place recently when defense one news editor ben watson tried to make his way through customs at Washington Dulles International airport the hill reports that watson was harassed and accused by a u. S. Customs and Border Protection agent of writing propaganda when he attempted to reente
Watson tried to make his way through customs at Washington Dulles International airport the hill reports that watson was harassed and accused by a u. S. Customs and Border Protection agent of writing propaganda when he attempted to reenter the United States this week apparently as watson was going through customs after informing the officer of his occupation the officer held onto his passport repeatedly asked him over and over and over again so you write propaganda write. This started of course a volley of well no im a journalist so you write propaganda write well no im a journalist so you write propaganda write until watson finally relented and said yes whereupon he was given back as a passport and allowed to leave the airport finally as watson told the Washington Post with his tone and hes looking me in the eye i very much realize this is not a joke ive honestly never had a human attempt to provoke me like this before in my life this behavior is totally normal now i guess. That my fr
Inquiry says spin out best lack of candor in a worst a cover up yet they still will not accept their legal liability for american basketball faces a backlash from one of its biggest audiences and sources a cash theres anger than in china over a tweet in support of protesters in hong kong plus. Of course it. Could all reals in violent clashes with cuts to fuel subsidies one of our correspondents from our spanish channel is caught right in the middle of it all. Hello welcome to the program my name is kevin owen youre watching our International Live from our world news h. Q. We have a half an hour we started with this story a developing one for you to update you on iran now warning turkey against a military operation in northeastern syria calling for ankara to respect syrias sovereignty to run joins a chorus of concerned voices which also includes european officials of this lunchtime to a reportedly already conducted air and artillery strikes in northeast and. Syria according to local med
They still will not accept their legal liability. American basketball faces a backlash from one of its biggest audiences sound sources of cash theres anger in china over a tweet in support of protestors in hong kong for us. To see that. Ecuador reels from violent clashes over cuts to fuel subsidies and r. T. E. Spanish channel correspondent is caught in the middle of protests. And very welcome to you watching on c. International with me thank you erin now a developing story. Iran now warning turkey against a military operation in northeastern syria calling for an korea to respect serious thought for entity to run joins a chorus of concerned voices which also includes european officials turkey has reportedly already conducted and artillery strikes in northeastern syria according to local media it comes hours after washington announced it was pulling its troops out of the area anker has also been deploying military hardware along its border with syria on monday video emerged apparently s
Here. 7 00. Good morning to you. Welcome to mornings on 2. Its tuesday, august 4th. Im gasia mikaelian. Is you are you are back. Thats right. Im dave clark. Lets get to steve paulson. A lot going on. A couple of upper 40s. Cobb mountain 49. The humidity is higher as well. Those are good signs. We have some low clouds around. Nothing compared to yesterday. Its the high and midlevel clouds. First of all, our source from clearlake is chloe. Currently, 58, partly cloudy. A 4mile breeze. I think they go partly sunny to cloudy. Humidity, 92 , way up there 50, 51, 81 humidity. Kelsey still, 51. Hawmed is higher. The temperatures are lower. Thats good. I think the cloud cover will help as well. We dont want lightning strikes. But well get the cloud cover. There could be a few showers especially to the north. Clouds are on the increase and they are coming off whats Tropical Storm guillermo sending in a lot of cloud cover. There is a little system grabbing ahold of some of that. Thats whats movi