We will get reaction from former and speak with Peter Kornbluh coauthor of, back channel to cuba the Hidden History of negotiations between washington and havana. Then swedish prosecutors have dropped part of their Sexual Assault inquiry against wikileaks founder Julian Assange, but the most serious part of the investigation remains in place. Though he has never been formally charged. Now britain has announced plans to challenge ecuadors decision to provide him asylum in its london embassy. The statute of limitation has run out. It is regrettable it is come this far and raise questions about how the prosecution is dealt with the case. Amy we will look at how u. S. Army whistleblower Chelsea Manning could face indefinite solitary confinement of poor leavenworth for having an expired tube of toothpaste in an issue of vanity fair featuring Caitlyn Jenner. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Today the United
We will get reaction from former and speak with Peter Kornbluh coauthor of, back channel to cuba the Hidden History of negotiations between washington and havana. Then swedish prosecutors have dropped part of their Sexual Assault inquiry against wikileaks founder Julian Assange, but the most serious part of the investigation remains in place. Though he has never been formally charged. Now britain has announced plans to challenge ecuadors decision to provide him asylum in its london embassy. The statute of limitation has run out. It is regrettable it is come this far and raise questions about how the prosecution is dealt with the case. Amy we will look at how u. S. Army whistleblower Chelsea Manning could face indefinite solitary confinement of poor leavenworth for having an expired tube of toothpaste in an issue of vanity fair featuring Caitlyn Jenner. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Today the United
Break the records set by jimmy carter and Ronald Reagan in 1980, 80 Million Viewers turned in but humility is called in order, better than 600 million tuned to see see Niel Armstrong walk on the moon. 750Million Viewers, humbling, lou, big events. [laughter] lou a mere 100 million would be satisfying. Neil if you get to that we are going to be focusing on this. This is the spin room as lou has been telling you. The before debate and after tries to set the tone and insist that their candidate is going to put in the best night and lower the expectations ahead. Just as i was walking in here, i dont know if youve seen it, but the expectations are radically lower and each side is saying, well, you know, Hillary Clintons folks will say hes really the entertainer, his folks will say shes the one with experience, 40some odd debates, we cant compete with that. But the idea that expectations have been lowered is probably risky at this stage. Theyre very high. There are even reports now that one
Hour. The three major averages in the red right now. Okay, so its not by much, but it is red across the board. Biggest losers for the day in the dow stocks, apple, nike, and ibm. Oil heading the other way in a big way. Crude rallying on an inventory drawdown, while brent creeps up very close to 50 a barrel at 49. 82. Michelle . Im michelle carusocabrera. Vice President Biden calling on congress for an up or down vote on zika funding to address what he calls a national emergency. Soccer giant real madrid losing its appeal against a oneyear transfer ban by fifa for breaking rules protecting underage players. Olympic swimmer ryan lochte handed a tenmonth suspension following last months shenanigans at the rio games. We have a lot to get to today, but we kick it off with a trio of stock movers that need to be on your radar. First up, to twitter. It is down about 6 right now, deep in the red. The company about to kick off a Board Meeting in san francisco. On the docket, how much more time d
Make tougher laws, and thats not me. We dont we this is such an epidemic and we cannot arrest a way out of this mess. I think the president touched on it briefly. [applause] what the president said earlier is true. We want to arrest the violent, drug dealers that are creating havoc in our communities. We have share of violent crime, and we are very fortunate we have a great partnership, they fund so many of our efforts and so on a daily basis the bad guy gets arrested. So we feel Law Enforcement as im sure our counterparts do, we really attack the supply side of this issue very well and so we are not going to back down from that and keep trying to remove people that are dangerous from society. But whats nice about this and what i want to talk about though, the attacking as a strategy on the demand side and thats what i think is very nice about the panel and this gathering, because weve got a lot of things we can really talk about. We basically have a community of zonbies, for lack of a