radio, trying to make sense of this. what did you learn? one of the things i wanted to do was try and get past the whirlwind of it s ironic that the world politics is is in there. because the political language. there are so many things with all the arguments we have and everything are based on real structures. real institutions. real laws. and they re not quite as necessarily, don t have to be as emotional and heated, to figure out what they are and what s going on. but it seemed like the way in to talking about things is very rarely from that base of what it really is. and instead from the megaphones and yelling. right. on both sides, to be fair. this is deep stuff and important stuff and stuff our world is built on. i want to talk about this new film. this is a film so timely and cutting edge. we re probably going to get in a lot of trouble. maybe. we ll see. a kid called ed we ll see. a kid called eed like jake. a kid with gender identity
decision to commute the manning sentence. well, don, it came as a big surprise here. chelsea manning was serving a 35-year sentence. she served six years, six and a half years of that sentence for leaking about 750,000 defense and state department documents. in the last few months, she s been the subject of a tremendous outpouring from the human rights community, which have argued that she was suffering in this prison, in the military prison, because, as you know, she s been suffering, she s been struggling with gender identity issues. as a result of this, human rights groups from around the world had collected signatures, trying to get president obama to grant clemency to her, and that s exactly what he did. it this was done over the objections of the pentagon and other people inside the government, including the national security officials who
came as big surprise here, certainly in the last couple of days before the president leaves office. chelsea manning serving 35-year sentence, served about 6 1/2 years of that sentence for leaking about 750,000 defense and statement department documents. in the last few months she s been subject of tremendous outpouring from the human rights community who argued she was suffering in this military prison because she s been struggling with gender identity issues. as result of this human rights groups from around the world collected signatures trying to get president obama to grant clemency to her. that s exactly what he did. done over the objections of the pentagon and other people inside the government including the national security officials who felt this went too fafrmt and
my understanding is the first public hearing on this is tomorrow where the public will step up and share their thoughts. how do you expect that to go. i think people on both sides of this issue are rallying the troops so to speak. we hope there will be a strong turnout of pro family citizens to express their view they oppose this proposed ordinance. there are concerns that basically what it said in the latest version i ve seen and know it s gone through different iterations. if someone in word or deed expressed a viewpoint not compatible with all gender identity issues and sexualality issues they would be banned from holding certain positions or doing business with san antonio and there are concerns that say i posted on facebook i support traditional marriage when it was at the supreme court. are those the kind of people that would be kept out of those positions because of an
because the unit was underpowered. so he stayed in iraq and later became the man behind the largest leak in history. legal experts tell us it s that crime and manning s behavior while being held that will determine whether he s paroled. they don t believe his gender identity issues will be a huge factor. his lawyer says he hopes the ar my will do the right thing and provide his client with hormone replacement therapy. if not, the lawyer says he ll do what he can to force the army to pay. let s bring in our legal guys. good to see you. okay, so let s talk about in