Is struggling for my people. I did not kill those agents. Amy we will speak to the attorneys of Chelsea Manning and Leonard Peltier, as well as Oscar Lopez Riveras brother. He is preparing for him to come home. Then we look at betsy devos, Donald Trumps pick to be come education secretary. Do you think if you were not a multibillionaire, if your family had not made hundreds of millions of dollars in contributions to the republican party, that you would be sitting here today . As a matter of fact, i think there would be that possibility. Amy we will speak to Jeremy Scahill about besty devos and how her brother, blackwater founder erik prince, is advising donald trump from the shadows. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. President obama has commuted the sentences of Army Whistleblower Chelsea Manning and puerto rican independence activist Oscar Lopez Rivera as part of more than 200 commutations he issued tu
But obama took no action on longtime imprisoned native american leader Leonard Peltier. The only thing i am guilty of is struggling for my people. I did not kill those agents. Amy we will speak to the attorneys of Chelsea Manning and Leonard Peltier, as well as Oscar Lopez Riveras brother. He is preparing for him to come home. Then we look at betsy devos, Donald Trumps pick to be come education secretary. Do you think if you were not a multibillionaire, if your family had not made hundreds of millions of dlars in contributions to threpublican party, that you would be sitting here today . As a matter of fact, i think there would be that possibility. Amy we will speak to Jeremy Scahill about besty devos and how her brother, blackwater founder erik prince, is advising donald trump from the shadows. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. President obama has commuted the sentences of Army Whistleblower Chelsea Ma
They grow up so fast. Seems like just yesterday the billionaire was riding his gilded escalator right into the 2016 race. 365 days later, the tension between him and his party over just about anything is only growing more tense. Every day brings fresh voices of republican dissension. Today it came from richard armitage, deputy secretary of state under george w. Bush, who told politico he will vote for Hillary Clinton. Trump made clear in an atlanta speech yesterday hes going to travel a lonely road and told gop leaders to be quiet, but in a Weekly Press Conference today, paul ryan gave no indication he would hold his tongue, but kept the door slightly ajar if he was asked if he would rescind his endorsement of trump. I dont plan to do that. We will disagree on some things. Mitt romney and i did not agree on everything. He is a different kind of candidate. This is a different kind of year. Im going to be myself and speak up in defense of our principles. Kasich, the governor of the state
It is interesting the would say Abraham Lincoln. But what do you really think will bring us to the point of action . Because i suspect what i am suggesting it requires Abraham Lincoln like leadership. Liberalism prior to world war ii, as an example of timberland to declare peace forever but only churchill stood up in parliament. We sent people to read maya your germany have those delete thinkers and intellectuals we have mussolini over here to appear. Only when a catastrophe occurs to reappear to wake up. What you think will be required to respond in a meaningful way that will change the direction of this country into world . America always does the right thing when it is out of every other option. [laughter] and alexis day tocqueville said the greatness of america relies in the ability to repair itself and recognize a trajectory and i remained wildly optimistic that this Great Republic will be restored to her full potential. And largely optimistic that america will crush Political Cor
Partisan political purposes. Amy democratic president ial front runner Hillary Clinton defends her record as secretary of state on the september 11, 2012 attack in libya that killed u. S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other americans. Clinton was grilled for more than eight hours before the House Select Committee. Well get reaction from melvin goodman, a former cia and state Department Analyst, and author of, National Insecurity the cost of american militarism. Then to europe, where the United Nations is accusing the Czech Republic of committing systematic Human Rights Violations of migrants and refugees the children were being separated from their children behind wire fences. They were having to see their parents being handcuffed. People are being stripsearched in order to take their money, essentially, because they are actually being charged for being detained. They are being wrongly detained in the first place, than having to pay for it. Amy well speak with the council of