and the pentagon will say quite openly in public that we're not censors. we allow you to make your movie in the way that you want to do it. but, you know, it tilts the playing field because we're talking about an economic advantage that is given to some film makers and not to others. >> what's a show stopper? >> a show stopper is anything that the military flags as being sort of nonstarter in terms of what's in their script. so if they find something like war crimes, torture, disparaging the military in any way, not showing the military in a competent capacity, not depicting the military as, you know, being ultimately the first kind of -- not showing the military as a noble enterprise, that would be a show stopper for the military. >> all right, listen, you're struggling for your words. i'm going to help you. give me an example, give me an example, of something that they wanted to put the kabosh on. >> i'll give you an example from the 1990s. this was a film that most people who have not seen the documents don't know about because it was never made. it was

amy: i want to go to the comments of the pentagon. in may, "the new york times" won pulitzer prize this year for their "courageous and relentless reporting that exposed the vast civilian toll of u.s.-led airstrikes, challenging official accounts of american military engagements in iraq, syria and afghanistan." pentagon spokesperson john kirby responded to the pulitzer. >> we knew we made mistakes and we're trying to learn from those mistakes. we knew we were not always as transparent about those mistakes as we should be. but they're reporting we enforced those concerns and in some cases gave us cause for additional concerns. it made us ask ourselves new and difficult questions of her own even as it forced us to answer their difficult questions. amy: that is the pentagon press spokesperson john kirby. aisha dennis if you can respond to this? also how it would specifically apply to adel al manthari. >> the first point to make is when he says these are mistakes, it speaks to trivialize what we're talking about, which is the killing and m

and the pentagon, they are talking about a black hole. the ukraine is one of the most corrupt countries, which is also no surprise and most secret, and they sending weapons there without any control. it's, it's, it's clear that at least part of these weapons will come to the black market. but this is nothing you or the west did the same in iraq and syria. and later on they had to say, yeah, well, at these weapons, nearly all of these weapons came to the i s to the stomach state. it's it political, a wish of the west to support the ukraine against russia, and they do that on any cost. and looking at the 2 bill, you're right now and weapons and you have to check what they were sending. they were sending the old weapons. so i don't know, for example, norway was sending anti tank rockets, which were produced until in 1976 misses from the museum it's, it's quite simple and quite obvious that this is just a sponsorship for, for, for the weapon industry. it's not really about helping you create what helped us you crank it with a detailed weapons

have denied that the pentagon is linked to bio labs in the country. ah, ah. since 2018 under road number 928, issued by ukraine's ministry of health international pharmaceutical companies have had access to the country's hospital patients as a testing ground, including children. special safety measures in the handling of hazardous microorganisms are very expensive. mm. with a lot cheaper and easier to conduct, that kind of research in countries where lives are of low of value to the usa. the west, of course, does not care about the lives or the conditions of the ukraine or the population. it is also been a, historically, i'd buy people like adolf hitler, and the german were wor, doe to strategic plans for defeating russia. ukraine was rich with oil and it was always i'd as a natural resource ah, area that could be utilized muster just it's plumber to won't be, was, would have to use them. we do it. when could go to it wasn't very severe jay's squished as a poet of superior. but then you really to nurse jennings conquest as a bonus is within your manual contex

ah, and that wasn't the 1st time the pentagon at all. so sheltered several german fascist, the removal of nazi criminals from the country was code named operation paperclip. there were thousands over all by one estimate as many as 10000. not just the scientists, the scientists total about $1600.00 or more. but there were also concentration camp guards from load of medium levels. there were even common dance at concentration camps or who in eastern europe, nazis really of all stripes, from scientists to spies to work for the cia. ah eric little blow, an american journalist and pulitzer prize winner wrote the nazis next door, a book revealing the harrowing story of how america became a safe haven for thousands of nazi ruinolds. ah, i think a lot of this is, it was really a stain on the united states. it was a shameful period in which we allowed thousands and thousands of nazi persecutors who we are just to feed it. we are just gone to war. we had lost just lost hundreds of thousands of men in battle and then allowed them in despite their o

but what they are doing at the pentagon is not talking about gun control. amy: dentyne -- then to ukraine. united states warns the war could continue for many more months. oops we can't predict how this is going to play out, when this is going to play out. as best we can assess right now, we are still looking at many months of conflict. amy: we will speak to anatol lieven. his latest piece for the atlantic is headlined "cold war catastrophes the u.s. can avoid this time." plus, the climate emergency and the war in ukraine is leading to a devastating global hunger crisis. oxfam says one person is likely dying from hunger every 48 seconds in drought-ravaged ethiopia, kenya, and somalia. all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. in tulsa, oklahoma man armed , a with a rifle and a handgun stormed a medical office building on wednesday, killing four people and wounding several others before turning the gun on himself. police have not identified the shooter. they said the attack was not r

there are 2 million words in the pentagon papers and not one of them is "nixon." should've been one of the great political coups of his life. two mortal enemies, jfk and lbj, are slammed in these papers and nixon is not mentioned at all. however, the key that we now understand, that has been unlocked in the last two years that gives us the understanding for the first time of nixon's overreaction to the pentagon papers, is the chennault affair, which is that nixon becomes afraid in the wake of the ellsberg release of the pentagon papers in june 1971 that as part of these leaks that the documents documenting the chennault affair will come out. he knows these documents exist. he doesn't know where they are. he ces to think they are at the brookings institute, the think tank in washington. he is on tape in december 1971 ordering the only burglary that hes actually on the white house -- wch isn't the watergate in 1972, but is a brookings in 1971. the white house with g gordon liddy and e howard hunt, the sort of overeager plumbers who go on to become the masterminds --

this moment of vietnam and the pentagon papers and a watergate . you see the modern moment of congressional oversight. one of the things that we again forget is the irving committee when it begins its hearing in the summer of 1973 were new. that congress had very little history of oversight here. so when they set out to figure out what they're going to do and how to do this they go back to congresses earrings to investigate the 1861 battle of bull run. that's how far they had to stretch back to look for analogues of congressional oversight. hearings that you mention , those are televised that summer for something like 240 hours on national tv in the moment when there were far fewer tv choices of course this was the three networks and vbs and the average american household that summer watchesnearly 40 hours of televised hearings . which is just a tremendous amount of newsconsumption imagine . and the whole battle over iv executive privilege. something we still see playing out in the papers literally day by day right now begins with richard nixon . t

there are two million words in the pentagon papers, richard nixon's name does a single time. so in theory, this should be a great scandal for him. it's about tearing down lyndon johnson and john f. kennedy two democrat presidents. yeah. he he becomes afraid that this this chenault affair is going to become public so he orders a break-in of brookings to try to retrieve these papers, which he thinks exist, which don't really exist the plan that they come up with is that they are going to buy a fire engine staff it with the same. cuban emigraves who are later caught breaking into the watergate a year later dressed as firefighters. they're going to fire bomb brookings then have this fake fire engine respond these burglars run up burglarize the safe get these papers out and flee in the chaos of the fire at brookings. yeah and gordon liddy. explains the plan fell apart not because it's actually like an incredibly criminal and awful thing for the president of the united states to try to order by the way completely crazy as well, but completely crazy in addition to being criminal but

mike maloof, former pentagon security analysts life on r t. thank you. the italian prime minister is say, some major european states are not in favor of ukraine becoming any you member. however, mario draggy also stated, he remained fully supportive of care and believes giving candidacy status to ukraine would be an important symbolic gesture. so stangler green, i support ukraine and becoming a member of the you. i have done so from the start, all of the major european states, except italy are objecting to ukraine becoming a member of the year. we may request a candidate status, but this is not currently expected because of the opposition from some countries such as well the other side of the coin, the ukrainian foreign minister says key of his tired of hearing about alternative scenarios on how it can join the last week presidente lensky even demanded. the dutch prime minister, give a clear answer on whether there's a place for ukraine in the block. the country was told it must go through the established stages. we spoke to an italian independent journa

some is from a special assistance fund that is in the pentagon budget. so some of the money comes directly to the contractors, some gets paid later because there are funds to replenish those stocks by giving contracts to lockheed martin and raytheon and boeing and the other countries that are cashing in on this war. there are multiple ways they're getting paid, but there even kind of crowing about this to their investors that this is going to be a source of revenue for them for some time to come. amy: let's go to the lockheed martin ceo speaking to cbs's "face the nation" last month. >> we are planning for the long run, not just in the javelin. this has highlighted a couple of important things for us. one is when you have superior systems in large enough numbers like advanced cruise missiles, javelin stingers, equipment like that. so we know there's going to be increased demand for those kinds of systems on the u.s. and for our allies as well and beyond into asia pacific, most likely, too. the second valuable lesson, control of the airspace is critical.

.™ a mega budget, how what will nasa see the pentagon hasn't? joining me to discuss scientific coalition for uap study board member and uap research legend, alejandro rojas, welcome back. >> thank you, good to be back. kennedy: my first question, nasa hasn't been studying uap's, how is that? i just assumed nasa would be looking into space for flying things. >> that's great points, why haven't they been? it's been a thing for decades. president carter had a ufo sighting and he said if he gets president, he will ask nasa to do it, he did in 1977 and they essentially said thank you but no thank you. they kind of think of it as a losing situation so ufo believers, they will never be happy until you show them an alien body or scientific community, they won't be happy you're touching this topic at all because it's not seen as credible. kennedy: that's what nasa has said, we are getting a lot of skepticism and pushback, we are not supposed to look into these things, they are supposed to. scientifically and skeptically that's how we want government bodi

the pentagon is scrambling to make sure it has computer chips for its weapons. and at this point, us officials are trying to figure out how to set up a whole new chain of mine's tariffs are being put on hold. washington has a big mass on its hands, a big mass that could easily be avoided if they simply learned to get along with china. so far, the chinese government has not threatened to cut off the supply to the us and keeps insisting data one site, a sanction is illegal and not aligned with the national policy of china. china repeatedly that a tree war is a lose lose situation. the vital administration ought to a ban on the us imports of a key solar panel, material from chinese space companies over force labor applications over the course of the last few years. similar issues and other reasons such as gina has been used as an excuse for the u. s. to south h to tell you trade war we've china, but he's china who has pains that can tolerate the heavy pollution stage to get to this stage of manage pollution to build up the whole supply chain of where of production

it was not just the pentagon papers that exposed that, but it brought it into sharp exposure. we learned about that lying. we then saw what happened during the nixon administration. prior to watergate and vietnam, there was a much cozier relationship between reporters and public officials. there was much more trust that what government officials were saying was accurate, was correct. i think, again, watergate helped shatter that, and we have had, since then, a much more adversarial relationship between the press and government. and i think the other aspect, and give credit to bob woodward and carl bernstein in investigating and producing the stories nobody else was, investigative reporting is now a central part of what any major news organization undertakes. we have a very large investigative unit, as do most big news organizations. this is now a critical part of the responsibility that we feel is part of our work. host: speaking to some of those exact issues that you just brought up, a column i will point viewers to in the op-ed of -- pages of the washington post -- the forme

the pentagon has. i give them credit for being all in here. assuming the decision will be successful, they are packing the stuff up, when they finally get a decision, then they ship very quickly. then there are countries that are all-in. their decision making process is good and they deliver quickly. the pols have taken the equipment out of the hands of their troops and given it to the ukrainians. and they got into the basic premise, if we destroy the russian army in ukraine, that's in our national interest. and also the united states and the pols certainly understand that. brian: we have to keep this story alive. >> we are at a tipping point. zelenskyy has the people, the skill, the will. he needs the weapons. he can turn this war to his favor. brian: general jack keane thank you so much. dads matter. we'll talk to two dads with important messages about having a father figure. talk about a run for your money. why one company wants to let a nasty insect run free in your home. they will pay you. cancer research requires bold and innovative thin

has promised to the pentagon has promised to send them 4,000 more javelin batteries. david martin, cbs news, the pentagon. >> diaz: we learned today that a federal judge in nevada has thrown out a rape lawsuit against soccer superstar cristiano ronaldo. the alleged victim had sued him for $25 million in damages, but the judge dismissed the case with prejudice, meaning it can't be re-filed, writing that the woman's case had been tainted by the conduct of her lawyer, including the use of stolen confidential documents. straight ahead on the "cbs weekend news," former models speak out about their alleged sexual abuse in the fashion world. also, russia replaces mcdonald's, bringing back burgers and fries. and later, the arizona teenager turning her birthday gifts into a campaign of kindness. and jelly beans. the number one brand for hair, skin and nails. with two times more biotin to bring out more of your inner beauty. nature's bounty. live bountifully. i started screening for colon cancer because of my late husband jay. i wish he could have seen our daughter ellie get ma

unfortunately, we have a pentagon filled with woke. i and i would not have said this until recently, but incompetent generals, i mean for whatever they're me politics, we always believe they were competent. i don't believe that's true anymore. i got we have real idiots over there. and if they can support the regime with a with lies about how well ukraine is doing. well, joe biden is walking a gang plank to a place where he's got to announce we didn't win. and what is that going to look? and that is, and that is in the wake of kabul also. ok, yes it, it, you know, mike, michael, you know, and not only are they incompetent, the, i know why they're incompetent because they're just angling for the, the pay out. when they finished being working at the pentagon, they are looking for a board at buoying and etc. that's all that, that's the game plan that you know, tony blair invented it for everybody. ok. public service is just taking the box. maxine, let me go to you here in moscow. this conflict in ukraine will come to an end. i to, i absolu

unfortunately, we have a pentagon filled with woke. i and i would not have said this until recently, but incompetent generals, i mean for whatever their politics, we always believe they were competent. i don't believe it's true anymore. i think we have real idiots over there. and if they can support the regime with a with lies about how well ukraine is doing. well, joe biden is walking a gang plank to a place where he's got to announce we didn't win. and what is that going to look? and that is, and that is in the wake of kabul also. ok, yes it it, you know, mike, michael, you know, i got not only are they incompetent, the, i know why they're incompetent because they're just angling for the, the pay out when they finished being working at the pentagon, they are looking for a board at buoying and etc, that's all that, that's the game plan that you know, tony blair invented it for everybody. ok, public service is just taking the box. maxine, let me go to you here in moscow. this conflict in ukraine will come to an end. i to, i absolutely

and let's, despite the pentagon, said it will only deliver rockets limited to 80 kilometers. you took machine or do you remember how this war started when, but they were afraid to give us extra sting is extra javelins. they said it was a precedent. they could never set, and now there are a lot of them, the stingers. there could be no talk on artillery and yet western artillery has now been received. so where the radius is 80 kilometers there, you see it will be 300 kilometers. crimea is ours. it's ukrainian, therefore we will show crimea swiftly if there is such a need. this is considered strategic russian territory. and the fact that we hit crimea during the war. that was a little secret. and now just some background to the story washington early agreed to send a new $700000000.00 military, a package to ukraine, including a number of advanced rocket launchers. the by did administration said it had agreed to supply rockets with a maximum range of only 80 kilometers. but if the 300 kilometer claim is true, that would put the russian border city of brianna within range. as you

according to the pentagon, key of has promised it won't use the weapons to strike russia though the u. s. envoy to the country seemed to suggest cave will ultimately decide either put to use as 1st and biden announce yesterday, $700000000.00 security assistance package had been signed. this include time are longer and truck systems. this will help you create and forces to a more accurately, but also have a longer range. the exact range will be determined by the korean forces or writer and activists, sorry slanders for years. the new long range u. s. rocket launchers heading to ukraine, will create a dangerous situation for the entire region. from the very beginning, every stage of this war. it's a proxy why ukraine has no independence, whatsoever. proxy means public. and it's a u. s. it's pulling the strings in every pronouncement. but this will not change the military balance, no matter how many weapons are sent, at least so far by every measure. the russian military response has been consolidating the games. and don bos, perio po, see a garage and so on. it's a very dangerous things

for pentagon security analysts, michael maloof, believes european countries are being put under u. s. pressure. the u. s. has pushed the nato countries into this predicament. and, and they are, and the european countries really are now their own backs against the wall. they weren't prepared for this. they weren't prepared for the, the escalation of this crisis to the point that it is right now. and it's rely and once again on the west to try and, and back fill as we call it. clearly they are, they were under us pressure to do something. and you get to see the, the defense minister and the defense military, sorta cringing at that at that announcement because they knew that they don't have the, the, the, the equipment in their, in their stocks. they don't even have it in their inventory. a lot of these weapons are going into the hands of the as of italian and the other, neo nazi groups that are now part of the ukranian military. and we have no way of knowing how they're being used or that could be sold for that matter. and, and maybe even sold to a terrorist groups. we have no, we ha

now this, despite the pentagon saying it will only deliver a rock, it's limited to a firing distance of 80 kilometers. who took nationalist, who could live? do you remember how this war started when, but they were afraid to give us extra stingers extra javelins? they said it was a precedent, they could never set. and now there are lots of them. these stingers. there could be no talk on artillery. and yet western artillery has now been received, so where the radius is 80 kilometers there, you see it will be 300 kilometers in crimea, is ours, it's ukrainian, therefore we will, shall crimea swiftly if there is such a need. this is considered strategic russian territory. and the fact that we hit crimea during the war, that was a little secret. go on to some background to those remarks, forcing tin earlier agreed to send a new 700000000 dollar military aid package to ukraine, including a number of advance rocket launchers. ukraine though, could use the systems with different 300 kilometer range rockets, which would put the russian border city of brianne sc within range for a nation. small

now this, despite the pentagon, seeing it will only deliver rockets limit to 80 kilometers. good question, let us do you remember how this war started, but they were afraid to give us extra thing as extra javelins. and they said it was a precedent. they could never set, and now there are lots of them. these thing is that could be no talking artillery, and yet western artillery has now been received. so whether radius is 80 kilometers, you see it will be 300 kilometers. crimea is ours, it's ukrainian, therefore we will show crimea swiftly if there is such a need. this is considered strategic russian territory. and the fact that we hit crimea during the war. that was a little secret. just in the background to the washington earlier agreed to send a new $700000000.00 military aid package to ukraine, including a number of advance rocket launchers. ukraine though, could use the systems with different 300 kilometer range rockets, which would pump the russian border city of brianna within range, as you can see them up here. what a ne smell lens would also be at risk. moscow has rep

there we go, live now to michael maloof, michael's a former pentagon security policy analyst on this very welcome to the program. michael ukraine sees it needs a plethora of weapons and ammunition from western countries. are those nations are the able to fulfill? do they want to fulfill all of key ebs demands? well, i think the i western countries would like to do that, but they have a logistical issues for themselves. and that is they their own current supply. and as, as, as european countries provide these weapons, they expect backfill from the united states. and the united states in turn has its own limited supplies. and in order to meet those demands on any persistent basis from here on out, which then raises the question, what is u. s. policy toward ukraine? ultimately, the u. s. is going to have to shift its production to a more war war time production. if it's going to be prolonging this of this conflict and, and, and yet the, by the administration hasn't answered any of these questions in terms of what is the, what is the ultimate goal, what, what it, what are we going to be

the pentagon is scrambling to make sure it has computer chips for its weapons. and at this point, us officials are trying to figure out how to set up a whole new chain of mine's tariffs are being put on hold. washington has a big mass on its hands, a big mass that could easily be avoided if they simply learned to get along with china. so far, the chinese government has not threatened to cut off the supply to the us and keeps insisting data. one sided sanction is.

according to the pentagon. however, the u. s. invoice to ukraine has stated, washington won't control the exact range of those systems. as president biden announced yesterday, a 700000000 security assistance package had been signed. this includes humorous, long range, rocket systems. this will help your grain in forces to a more accurately, but also have a longer range. the exact range will be determined by the ukrainian forces, right, her inactive as sorry, flanders fears the new long range us rock is heading to ukraine will create a very dangerous situation for the whole region. from the very beginning, every stage of this war, it's a proxy war. ukraine has no independence, whatsoever. proxy means public. and it's a u. s. it's pulling the strings in every pronouncement. but this will not change the military balance, no matter how many weapons are sent, at least so far, by every measure. the russian military response has been consolidating the games. and don bos, perio po, see of arise and so on. it's a very dangerous things and

however, despite getting the reassurances from ukraine, the pentagon admit they don't really have a full proof plan about who will receive what's being sent to ukraine. risk of diversion is one of many considerations that we routinely assess when evaluating any potential arms transfer. ukrainian leadership have assured us that they understand the importance of accountability. we're not on the ground with them . and they're not telling us, you know, every round of ammunition that they're firing in, at who and at when. now that's a lot of assessing that could go on, but at the end of the day, many people consider ukraine to be one of the most corrupt nations on earth, and many sympathetic voices to the united states and, and hostile anti russian. ready voices have said over the years that ukraine is notoriously corrupt, so we have increasingly concerns of voices at this point about the amount of weaponry and the amount of money that's being sent to ukraine. elizabeth warren is the latest to speak up the u. s. senator, the u. s. government ascending billions and humanitarian, economic and m