Captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2008 they followed your lead, published the papers. At least were not alone. I have to tell the audience just a small eye roll here, because the New York Times was the first to publish the papers, but thats drama, after all. I wanted to ask both of you from a legal strategy standpoint, Daniel Ellsberg sending it out to so many papers, how does that change the governments ability to prosecute the case . Well, floyd should be the one to answer that first because he was directly involved. Right. Well, it did make it harder to prosecute the prior restraint case, the case that weve been talking about, against the times and then other papers. They did bring actions against the post, and the Christian Science monitor and other papers, you know, who got the papers from elsberg, to stop them as well. But one judge in the District Of Columbia board of appeals put it very well when lawyers were in front of him on this case. He said, youre asking u
A shared with exposure when he was also make initiators and detonates is. Very well welcome to you know watching r. T. International with me. Our top story this hour imprisoned u. S. Army whistleblower Chelsea Manning is recovering in hospital after attempting suicide in jail she was due to a parent court on friday morning has been in prison since may for refusing to testify against wiki leaks before a grand jury found taylor got more on the developments earlier from correspondent. But it was allegedly a very very close run thing because the guards when they found her she was hanging by a sheet in her cell unresponsive unconscious and blue already blue they got there in time fortunately the they took her down administer 1st aid she was still breathing they rushed her to the hospital and then i think is now 5 there is no danger to her health shes shes responsive shes talking to her lawyers and unfortunately for her to appear in Court Tomorrow a day after you know a near death experience
So everyone band except those traveling from the United Kingdom they they can still come over. And i wonder why and while trump has was busy wishing he had never met had that mar a lago dinner with the brazilian president both snehal and his aides one of which is now a confirmed carrier things on capitol hill were just well a little sick leave our good buddy out of tennessee Lamar Alexander showed where his loyalties lie when it comes to the human crisis as he blocked an emergency bill that would have guaranteed all American Workers 14 days of paid sick leave in the event of a Public Health emergency when asked why he blocked the Bill Alexander stated its not a cure for the coronavirus to put a big new expensive federal mandate on employees who are struggling in the middle of this matter. Yes because you know we cant have Walmart Mcdonalds and other corporate conglomerates spending their hard earned executive bonuses on things like you know paid sick leave during Public Health emergenc
Leaders on capitol hill reacted in the only way they know how political finger pointing and big money corporate donors bootlicking us President Donald Trump took to the airwaves looking quite peake it i might add to announce that yes we finally have to take this threat seriously and that to keep new cases from entering our shores we will be suspending all travel from europe to the United States for the next 30 days the new rules will go into effect friday at midnight so everyone band except those traveling from the United Kingdom they they can still come over. I wonder why and while trump has was busy wishing he had never met had that mara lago dinner with the brazilian president both marilyn his aides one of which is now a confirmed carrier things on capitol hill were just well a little sick leave our good buddy out of tennessee Lamar Alexander showed where his loyalties lie when it comes to the human crisis as he blocked an emergency bill that would have guaranteed all American Worke
To the airwaves looking quite peake it i might add to announce that yes we finally have to take this threat seriously and that to keep new cases from entering our shores we will be suspending all travel from europe to d. N. A. And in states for the next 30 days the new rules will go into effect friday at midnight so everyone band except those traveling from the United Kingdom they they can still come over. I wonder why and while trump has was busy wishing he had never met had that mara lago dinner with the brazilian president both snare on his aides one of which is now a confirmed carrier things on capitol hill were just well a little sick leave our good buddy out of tennessee Lamar Alexander showed where his loyalties lie when it comes to the human crisis as he blocked an emergency bill that would have guaranteed all American Workers 14 days of paid sick leave in the event of a Public Health emergency when asked why he blocked the Bill Alexander stated its not a cure for the coronavir