Leleaders at the u. N. Climate action summit, but the Worlds Largest Greenhouse Gas emitters make few new commitments to address the climate crisis. President trump attended the summit for just 14 minutes. We speak to the prizewinning writer Tanehisi Coates about slavery, the power of memory, and reparations. His first novel is out today. The water dancer is the story of hiram maker, enslaved after nemec and the son of a slave master and the child of a woman w who that slave master intern sold out. In 1861laved people wanted freedom. Amy Tanehisi Coates on the water dancer. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. The u. N. Climate action summit kicked off in new york monday with World Leaders calling for action to prevent apocalyptic Climate Change. U. N. Secretary general Antonio Guterres said his generation had failed in its responsibility to protect our planet. 16yearold swedish climate activist Greta Thun
This one says chuck schumer, the democratic leader will speak on the senate floor at about 3 50. We passed that. You can follow that over on our companion network, cspan2. Were getting your thoughts on the potential impeachment of the president and the whistleblower complaint filed with the director of National Intelligence. 2027482940, the line for democrats. 2027482941 for republicans. Or all others, 2027488922. One more tweet before we go to calls. This is not a partisan matter. The president authorizing the release of the transcript of the phone call with the president of ukraine. Lets hear from shawn in georgia. Go ahead. Caller thanks for taking my call. Yeah, i have a complaint. I mean, two things. Number one, i agree with nancy pelosi, watching her today, they are looking for the facts to get the whistleblower information. They waited for the mueller report. They waited for basically to get the facts. For some reason, with all the things that this president has done, its been s
Action summit, but the Worlds Largest Greenhouse Gas emitters make few new commitments to address the climate crisis. President trump attended the summit for just 14 minutes. We speak to the prizewinning writer Tanehisi Coates about slavery, the power of memory, and reparations. His first novel is out today. The water dancer is the story of hiram maker, enslaved after nemec and the son of a slave master and the child of a woman whoho that slave master intern sold out. In 1861laved people wanted freedom. Amy Tanehisi Coates on the water dancer. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. The u. N. Climate action summit kicked off in new york monday with World Leaders calling for action to prevent apocalyptic Climate Change. U. N. Secretary general Antonio Guterres said his generation had failed in its responsibility to protect our planet. 16yearold swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg fought off tears as she ga
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York stock exchange. Very monday morning and its going to be a very busy week were going to start with some talk about technology and antitrust. Our next guests latest column says, are we finally getting serious about big tech monopolies is it too late cnbc contributor kara swisher joins us this morning. Good morning, kara good to see you. Hi. Good to see you. You ask, are we finally getting serious about mo monopolies and then you go on to say, youre not holding your breath and no one in Silicon Valley is holding their breath no, were not theres been so much suggestion about the ftc and the justice department, i just wanted to point out some information for them about how much of a cheap date consumers have been to these Tech Companies and whether we need morecompetition. Its something ive been talking about the idea that we should have a new social network, that we should be able to have a new Search Engine and have some choice and theres very little choice in many, many too many sec