Book still the talk of the town and now steve bannon is backing down. And the president s supporters defensing his intelligence. Well have the latest in the back and forth. And later, proud mary tar Taraji P Henson joins us live with sneak peek at her all new thriller. Good day at 9a starts now. Keep on turning and rolling into other work week. Its minute monday. Nine sol zero one and it is good day d. C. January 8th. Thanks so much for being with us this morning. First at 9 00, this morning, we have to talk about the weather because a thaw is on the way. We just have to make it through tonight thats because around of freezing rain is on the way and at least one major School District shut down already. For details tucker back with first check of the forecast and tucker, we are all ears for you. Yeah, lets get to it. Well start with temperatures which once again were back in the teens and low 20s overnight and gradual warm up temperature ground temperatures will be lagging much its been
Edwidge danticat. Then to times up thats the rallying cry thats bringing together women from hollywood actresses to housekeepers to demand gender and Racial Justice and a world free of Sexual Harassment and assault. I hope people see the momentum in the energy and the fact we are uniting across all industries and all communities, standing together saying we all deserve workplaces where our work is valued and we can live and work with dignity. Amy we will speak to tarana burke, the founder of the Metoo Movement, actress Shailene Woodley and leading native american Domestic Worker and farmworker organizers. Plus, a prominent immigrant rights activist is detained by ice in new york. You will get all of the details. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. President donald trump sparked International Outrage thursday over a racist comment in which he said the u. S. Should limit immigration from haiti, el salvador,
Marissa mayer is she was hired to be a coder at google. She was hired to be someone who literally makes the programs. Her first big project was supposed to be like googles first ad delivery system, you know . Google makes billions and billions of dollars off of ads, and she was going to make the first one. And it was taking her months and monthses and months to do. Google went out and hired someone named jeff dean and this sort of shocked the industry because jeff dean is a superstar. Hes really known for being one of the best coders on the planet. And he did the project that meyer had been work on in a matter of weeks. And mayer, you know, to her credit sort of looked at this and said is, you know, she loved working at google and she said im not going to make my mark at this company by being a coder. Is so she said what else can i do. So she sort of threw herself at whatever problems the company had. You know she actually got involved in pr and marketing and all sorts of strange thing
Worst kind of behavior from iran. Generally it wont prevent all of their bad behavior. When it comes to the tough sell we welcome the scrutiny and even skepticism of everybody across the country and across the world as they consider this agreement. We continue to be confident, upon looking at the details once they have been released that we will be able to make a strong case about how the president havent just achieved his goal but how the International Community has achieved the important goal of preventing them from obtaining a nuclear weapon. When it comes to a tough sell i think the part will be on the part of the republicans as they try to take the deal. It will be a tough sell to say we should back away from an international agreement. Why should we throw away the best possible avenue for preventing iran from obtaining nuclear weapons. That will be a tough sell to suggest we should undermine the sanctions that have been put in place thus far. It will be a tough a tough sell to sa
Set at 5,000. Three days later, she was found dead in her jail cell. Authorities now say sandrabland committed suicide. Her family strongly disputes that account. We will speak with Sandra Blands sister Sharon Cooper and with the familys attorney cannon lambert. Any Blacklivesmatter Movement takes center stage. Lets be clear, every single day folks are dying. Not being able to take another breath. We are in a state of emergency. We are in a state of emergency and if we if you dont feel that emergency, youre not human. Amy we will speak with a three founders of the Blacklivesmatter Movement, Patrisse Cullors alicia garza and opal tometi fohosting a movement for black lives convening in cleveland this weekend. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. In lafayette, louisiana, at three people were killed when a gunman opened fire in a packed movie theater. The shooter, described by authorities as a lone white male