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The obama administration. jane, thank you so much for your time. i appreciate it. thank you. still ahead, more on reports of the pending suspension against alex rodriguez. they say it is imminent. it could bring his career to an end. and how the league plans to pursue this. we ll have the latest. es fast-fh but also wants to save. a lunch like this from walmart is less than $1.50. whoa! if you switch out fast-food lunch just twice a week you can save over $470.00 bucks a year. $470 bucks. that s a ton of money. yeah. save on hot pockets sandwiches backed by the low price guarantee. walmart. ....
Guilty of multiple lesser charges, including illegally leaking documents and violating military code. manning faced 21 counts in all for the largest leak of classified information in u.s. history. investigators say he leaked 700,000 documents to the website wikileaks. manning, who was branded a whistleblower and a traitor, depending on the perspective, already pled guilty to a number of lesser charges, including unauthorized possession of information related to national defense. joining me now, jane hamshire, an outspoken supporter of manning, even visiting him in jail. thank you so much for joining us. it s good to see you. it s interesting. i m looking at some of the reaction, jane. you have, for example, mike rogers, the ranking member as well of the intelligence committee saying justice was served today. meanwhile, the defense attorney for bradley manning is saying today is a good day, referring to the fact his client was found not guilty of giving information to it the enemy. he s ....
Years in prison. what s your reaccidetion, jane? i think it was good he wasn t found guilty of aiding the enemy. if he was, it would have turned the espionage act into a state s secret act and called into question the ability of anyone to do foreign war reporting. obviously, everyone is really pleased. i don t think the defense expected he would be found innocent of aiding the enemy. it s still quite serious that he has been found guilty of five charges under the espionage act, which is an outdated act that was meant to suppress anti-war sentiment after world war i. people are very concerned that he s going to be eligible for 136 years in prison, as you said. which is why it s intriguing that some progressives see this as a victory. i understand the argument of aiding an enemy, which was always controversial. many people felt that would go nowhere. but he is facing 136 years. as i ve pointed out, for some he was simply being a whistleblower ....
Difficult to watch my government do this to one of my very good friends. it s very hard to watch. and it s very hard to see this man s due process become infringed upon ahead of his trial. this emotional trauma he s undergoing, i don t think this is i don t think this is how a government should treat an alleges whistle-blower. david house and jane hamshire, thank you. when we come back, the million dollar question and a surprising look at who americans think can bear more of the burden for our financial future. and come on, guys, we can work it out, can t we? the clock is ticking on an nfl lockout. ben and his family live on this block. ben s a re/max agent, and he s a big part of this community. re/max agents know their markets, and they care enough to get to know you, too. nobody sells more real estate than re/max. visit remax.com today. [ male announcer ] not sure what to take? ....
the senate is going to have to deal with the bill. and we have very strong feeling we think ought to be in there that s what the caucus said today. joining me again, former presidential candidate, ralph nader, jane hamshire, founder of firedoglake.com and rabbi michael learner and congressman alan grayson. congressman grayson that does sound like steny hoyer discussing business as usual, going to go to the senate, come back here, we are going to see what we can do. do you share ralph nader s sense that what we are in for here is probably business as usual, some noise, some opposition within the democratic party, but the essentials of this framework with some sort of changes, of course, ends up becoming law? i think it will have to be very substantial changes before it will even reach the floor of the house. today s vote was much more than symbolic. the speaker control what is bills reach the floor of the ....