Face impeachment proceedings. Impeachment of the president will be cosmetic. In fact, probably exacerbate e e very antagonisms and divisions that are running apart the country. Amy we will speak with journalist chris hedges. His latest article the problem with impeachment and john , one of the organizations calling for trumps impeachment. Then we turned to the water crisis in newark with mayor ras baraka. The plan is never altered. Restlan now and we wont until every lead service line in the city is completely replaced. Amy all that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. House democrats have subpoenaed president Donald Trumps personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani seeking documents related to his work in the ukraine. Last week, giuliani admitted on television that he had urged the Ukrainian Government to investigate trumps political rival joe biden. This comes as House Democrats continue to build their case for impeaching the
Trouble tonight at eight eastern on cspan q a. You can listen to q a and all of our podcasts on our free cspan. Now app. Daniel ellsberg has passed away at the age of 92. He is best known for leaking sensitive documents on the vietnam war, known as the pentagon papers, which many believe helped to end the longest u. S. Conflict of the 20th century. The disclosures would also lead to a Landmark Supreme Court decision on freedom of the press. In 2019, the university of massachusetts amherst acquired the papers of Daniel Ellsberg and next from the school he talks about his career and his fight against the proliferation of Nuclear Weapons. This is just over 2 hours. All right. Good evening. Good afternoon. Good evening. Were going to get started. So greetings and welcome to the 21st annual friends of the umass librarys fall reception. Im simon nehme, dean of libraries here at Umass Amherst. And today i have the honor of welcoming you to a very, very special program planned to celebrate the
News from arizona today was the house representatives repealing the 1864 bill, getting three republicans to switch, we now have 11 republicans in arizona indicted, its 7 p. M. In arizona right now, alex, and theres 11 indicted Fake Electors there who may be struggling with what they want for dinner at this particular hour. Maybe thinking about what they should do in the medium term, maybe thinking not be on the stand, maybe being prosecution witnesses, just maybe. Yeah. We all discovered tonight in arizona law coconspirator is written without a hyphen, never seen that before, but theres 50 states. Thats the sign of the time, isnt it . How do they punctuate Co Conspirator in arizona . Sign of the times. Have a good show. Well, the Breaking News of the night is that Donald Trumps name appears in another indictment. This one is in arizona. The Attorney General has charged 11 republican Fake Electors and seven trump associated, including mark meadows and Rudolph Giuliani, with a criminal c
Planner was to improve the eisenhower euro plan for Strategic Nuclear operations in general war with the soviet union. That was a low bar because the eisenhower plan was a diverse military plan. Amy that is Daniel Ellsberg, one of the worlds most wellknown whistleblowers. In 1971, he was a high level defense analyst when he leaked a top secret report on u. S. Involvement in vietnam to the New York Times and other publications that came to be known as the pentagon papers and played a key role in ending the vietnam war. Few know that ellsberg was also consultant who drafted plans for nuclear war. In his new book titled the doomsday machine confessions of a Nuclear War Planner, Daniel Ellsberg reveals for the first time that he also made copies of topsecret documents from his Nuclear Studies an entire second set of papers in addition to the pentagon papers for which he is known. I want to awaken people to the dangers and the possibility of destroying most life on earth by general war, not
Im gordon freedman. Elizabeth here and i [applause] mr. Freedman thank you. Three or four months ago, we said maybe we should get some people together, and i thought that was a good idea. Then i started trying to find people. It was a little difficult, and then some stuff started happening in d. C. That was vaguely reminiscent to some of the stuff we worked on, and all of a sudden, everybody seemed to want to show up. This is just fantastic. Raise your hands if you were on the committee staff. This is pretty amazing. We said goodbye to each other 43, 44 years ago, and when i got ready to do this, i called jim hamilton, who was my boss back then. I said, i mean it, ill have it in tomorrow. He said, gordon, you better have it in tomorrow. Its like no time has passed. When we broke up i dont know how many of you remember this sam dash had a final meeting. He said this has been the most important thing that has happened in my life and im sure will ever happen in my life and will ever happe