At todays Court Appearance, the bond was set for manafort at 10 million and 5 million for gates, and both men agreed to hold the tension. Is a congressman Eric Smallwood joined us by phone, and said the plea deal is the clearest evidence yet that members of trumps team were working with russia. I think we have established a working relationship. We have a senior Foreign Policy advisor, someone the president said he was an excellent guy, traveling multiple times over to europe at a neutral location, to meet with russians to receive dirt on their opponent hillary clinton. I expect there will be more to come. They hope the wakeup call the indictments would be a wakeup call to the republicans in congress. Coming up, we will have our political analysis to talk about what this means to the president. A federal court today barter President Donald Trump from reversing his policy on transgender military members. The president said he wanted to return to a previous policy were servicemen could b
Russia. The white house emphatically maintains that the president has no connection to these charges. We have been saying from day one that theres been no connection between the president and russian collusion, and these charges just prove that. Reporter the president asked why not crooked hillary and the democrats the focus . Indictments against both manafort and gates contains 12 counts including conspiracy against the United States and conspiracy to launder money. A spokesperson for gates said the fight is just beginning, and all of this is coming just as we are learning that the this man pleaded guilty to charges of lying to the fbi about his communication to someone connected to the russian government. Reporter manaforts bond is set at 10 million in case bond is set at 5 million. East bay congressman eric farwell said the plea deal by George Papadopoulos is the clearest effort yet that members of trumps team were working with russia. I think we have established a working relations
Hundreds of civilians have been killed and injured since the u. S. Backed offensive began in june. Then as thousands of muslims march against violence after last weeks barcelona van attack , we will speak to prominent muslim scholar tariq ramadan. And we will look at President Trumps warning to pakistan. Trumka we can no longer be silent. The taliban and other groups that pose a threat to the region and beyond. Amy all of that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. In charlottesville, virginia, residents cheered and celebrated as wororkers covered two confederate statues one of general robert e. Lelee and another of general Stonewall Jackson with black fabric on wednesday in order to mourn the death of heather heyer, who was kikilled by a neonanazi duringa white supremacist rally in charlottesville on august 12. I feel like it is progress. I am concerned it wiwill be an invitation for people who disagree with shroudi
, we will speak to prominent muslim scholar tariq ramadan. And we will look at President Trumps warning to pakistan. Trumka we can no longer be silent. The taliban and other groups that pose a threat to the region and beyond. Amy all of that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. In charlottesville, virginia, residents cheered and celebrated as workers covered two confederate statues one of general robert e. Lee and another of general Stonewall Jackson with black fabric on wednesday in order to mourn the death of heather heyer, who was killed by a neonazi during a white supremacist rally in charlottesville on august 12. I feel like it is progress. I am concerned it will be an invitation for people who disagree with shrouding the statue to come back here. I have concerns about that. The real resolution that i would like to see is the statue coming down. I feel really impatient about that at this point. But i also feel
Resignation, charlottesville, how trends, policy threads the world, and how the massive hurricane is racing toward texas. And to florida when the state has just executed a man despite protests from pharmaceutical giant Johnson Johnson about drugs in theits execution last night. Meanwhile, in missouri, the governor stayed an execution after new dna evidence. Plus, the white house has drafted a memo on implementing President Trumps ban on transgender people serving in the u. S. Military. Seems what the president is saying is that he is going to fire 15,000 highly trained motivated troops. It is a catastrophe for military readiness. Amy all that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. In texas, tens of thousands of residents began evacuating coastal communities thursday, as forecasters predicted Hurricane Harvey could make landfall late friday as a major category 3 storm, delivering a lifethreatening 35 inches of rain to