Call foror muslims and. We speak to the mayor of san juan, 23 of the victims in orlandndo massacre were puerto rico. We w will also look at a new bil in congress to grade federally appointed control board sweeping powers to run puerto ricos economy. The house has already backed the legislation, now it is on to the senate. We are engaged in a holy and democratic undemocratic, debating how we w will take our from the p people that are virtrtually powerless already. Amy first, georgigia c congresn hank johnson has introduced a bill to stop all military aid to honduras following the assassination of Berta Caceres. We will speak to Congress Member , the e new head o of the indigs groucopinhnh. B because we know thihis assassssination wawas political. It hasas to do withth neoliberal policies, but t also with h a vy u. S. Policies that a are being imimplemented in our country o r economomic aid to the armed fors or through security aid. Amy all that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy
Trump recession, clintons own economic policies are coming under criticism from the progressive wing of the Democratic Party. We speak to thomas frank author of listen, liberal or, what ever happened to the party of the people . He says the problem is not that they have been bribed by goldman sachs, Morgan Stanley, and others, but they have been supplanted they have supplanted the gop as the party of wall streetet. Then we look at the white supremacist whoo killed jo cox, the british member of parliament. We speak with the e former paid fbi informant who met the killer mair at a neonazi gathering the informant set up in 2000. Then to california where plans have been announced to shut down the states last Nuclear Power plant and replace it with greenhousegasfree Renewable Energy. We will speak with damon moglen of friends of the earth, the group who negotiated the historic agreement. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im
Caceresdaughter as well as Lilian Esperanza lopez with copinh. Then as the u. S. Congress holds more hearings on lead poisoning of the water supply of flint, michigan, Governor Rick Snyder testifies for the first time. Tomay ask you repeatedly come to flint, you admit you did not show up for more than seven after he asked you. Im not familiar. I would have to check my schedule. That is what he said, you did not put october until 2015, is that right . I dont know if that is right or not. Amy well get reaction from two flint residents. Nayyirah shariff, coordinator with Flint Democracy Defense League and melissa maze, of water you fighting for, a flint, michiganbased research and Advocacy Organization founded around the citys water crisis. She and her three children suffer from longterm exposure to heavy metals. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. In the 2016 race for the white house, leading Republican Par
The poisoning of flints water. But for the rest of the evening, the repeatedly sparred. If you go to a gun store and you legally purchase a gun and then three days later, you go out and you start killing people , is the point of this lawsuit to hold the gun shop owner or the manufacturer of that gun liable . We talk about corporate greed , the gunman defectors sell guns to make as much money manufacturers sell guns to make as much money as they can make. Amy will Hillary Clinton finally leased transcripts of her paint paid speeches . I will be happy to release anything i have as long as everyone else does, too. I am your democratic opponent. I release it. Here it is. There aint nothing. I dont give speeches to wall street for hundreds of thousands of dollars. You got it. Amy well speak with congresswoman Yvette Clarke of new york and congressman raul grijalva. Then we stay in flint for more from our democracy now special, thirsty for democracy the poisoning of an american city. All tha
Drone warfare, today we look at the stunning new book, the assassination complex written by Jeremy Scahill and the staff at the intercept. On this issue, when obama has been the drone president and his me, iis sort of, trust know it im doing. But time and again, we see incidents where large numbers of civilians are being killed and there seems to be no public accounting. Amy today Jeremy Scahill and Glenn Greenwald for the hour on the governments secret drone warfare program, the death of font father Daniel Berrigan, and more. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Honduran authorities have arrested four men in connection with the murder of environmentalist Berta Caceres. Caceres was gunned down in her hometown of la esperanza last month. For a decade, she led the struggle against the agua zarca dam, planned along a river sacred to her people, the lenca. Last year she won the prestigious goldman environmenta