BREAKING NEWS: Legendary Whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg Dies at 92 — Transcript

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1. 0:01foreign
2. 0:03at the core of it an intense drama
3. 0:07at night over several months his heart
4. 0:10pounding Daniel Ellsberg copies
5. 0:12thousands of defense department
6. 0:14documents
7. 0:16proof the U.S government was lying about
8. 0:19its role in the Vietnam War
9. 0:21Ellsberg exposes that lie to the works
10. 0:24the New York Times has started
11. 0:27publication of a series of reports based
12. 0:29on a Top Secret Pentagon study of the
13. 0:31Vietnam War
14. 0:33the central facts so far revealed is
15. 0:35that there was a massive deception of
16. 0:37the American public for starting the
17. 0:39bombing of North Vietnam
18. 0:42hey stop it Ellsberg was walled off by a
19. 0:45mob of newsmen and supporters as he
20. 0:47admitted that he was indeed the man who
21. 0:50brought the Pentagon papers to the press
22. 0:51and Congressional leaders I could no
23. 0:53longer cooperate in concealing this
24. 0:55information from the American public
25. 0:57Daniel Ellsberg the Pentagon paper
26. 1:00whistleblower dies at the age of 92
27. 1:03years old Ellsberg in 1969 secretly
28. 1:08photocopied seven thousand a seven
29. 1:11thousand page study privately
30. 1:13commissioned by the defense department
31. 1:14which revealed the U.S government knew
32. 1:17early on in the Vietnam war that that
33. 1:20war could not be won and here is a
34. 1:24picture of Mr Ellsberg as well please
35. 1:27make sure that you read the different
36. 1:29articles that are coming out about him
37. 1:32just really truly a champion to put
38. 1:34something on the line like that and
39. 1:36think about when he did that there was
40. 1:38no you know there were no apps for that
41. 1:40mayor I mean he had the hardcore take 7
42. 1:43000 pages and photocopy those pages the
43. 1:46good old-fashioned way called the United
44. 1:48States government and a flat out lie and
45. 1:51exposed them any thoughts mayor yeah I
46. 1:54think you know
47. 1:55um when when when Ellsberg when they
48. 1:58when I found out a few minutes ago he
49. 1:59had passed it's not just uh the idea of
50. 2:02like overs what what a responsible
51. 2:04government it owes its citizen that dies
52. 2:07it is in stock contrast to where we find
53. 2:09ourselves right now where Donald Trump
54. 2:11is a leading figure in our political
55. 2:12landscape so it is it is definitely uh
56. 2:15newsworthy for so many reasons and like
57. 2:17you said the idea and thoughts that went
58. 2:19into 7
59. 2:21000 papers being copied to tell the
60. 2:23truth to American people is something
61. 2:26serious and also worth uh applauding for
62. 2:29sure yeah for sure so you will
63. 2:31definitely hear deeper report it's about
64. 2:34Mr Ellsberg and maybe we'll do a segment
65. 2:36or two next week but just wanted to
66. 2:38bring that to you if you have never
67. 2:40heard of him he is definitely worth
68. 2:42worth your time to research him and what
69. 2:45he did for this country by exposing the
70. 2:48lies that the federal government was
71. 2:49telling about the Vietnam War and we
72. 2:53would be remiss if we did not give our
73. 2:55condolences to his family and to his
74. 2:57closest friends are condolences