New york are continuing to monitor gentlemans out of The Middle East where were learning more about the Ceasefire Proposal that hamas, except in israel, rejected today and is really strikes on Southern Gaza. There are raising new questions about whether these limited operations will grow into a full fledged invasion of raffa, which Binding Ministration has been warning against for weeks. We begin the hour right now today, 12 and the Trump Hush Money Trial And Judges Second Contempt Finding against the former president today in his warning that a third could mean jail time that im is calling two longtime trump employees as they try to show exactly how Michael Cohen was repaid by trumps trust and personal accounts in 2017 after he paid hush money to Stormy Daniels back with the panel joining us as well as harry lipman, who was in court todays and la times Legal Affairs columnist, host of the talking feds podcast, and former Deputy Assistant attorney general. Im wondering what you observe
Across this country. You are looking live right now at the scene on the campus, ucla, one of the jewels in the crown of uc system. And tonight, it is the scene of ,outright lawlessness. Propalestinian protest is have been camped out there in the center of the ucla campus for several days now. And this evening, l. A. Time, a group of Counter Protesters showed up and those two groups have clashed to repeatedly. We have seen firecrackers thrown into crowds of people. We have seen people attacking each other with large paw poles. We have seen fistfights. What we have not seen for the last hour or more that this has been going is one single officer from the Los Angeles Police department. This lawlessness is playing out on the campus of a Public University and not a sign of los angeles law intervening. We have seen people hurt. We have seen at least one person taken away by ambulance. We seen other people on the ground. Weve seen people Pepper Sprayed. We have seen people clearly suffer phys
Proposed fiscal year 2018 budget. Members asked questions about the proposed cuts of the budget as well as to where to store the ations Nuclear Waste. The committee will come to order. I apologize for the delayed start. But hopefully we will have an opportunity to hear from the of the and learn president s views for the department of energy. Secretary perry, i want to welcome you to your first hearing following your bipartisan confirmation here in the senate. It took us a little bit longer, we are grad to have you at the helm and getting a full complement of folks there at the department. The budget request for the department of energy takes a different approach. The president has made a concerted effort to increase funding for the National Nuclear facility. This is a portion of the department that falls outside the scope of our committee here. The administration has requested robust funding for the cleanup of Nuclear Waste left behind by our countrys cold war legacy. The budget reques
Resignation, charlottesville, how trends, policy threads the world, and how the massive hurricane is racing toward texas. And to florida when the state has just executed a man despite protests from pharmaceutical giant Johnson Johnson about drugs in theits execution last night. Meanwhile, in missouri, the governor stayed an execution after new dna evidence. Plus, the white house has drafted a memo on implementing President Trumps ban on transgender people serving in the u. S. Military. Seems what the president is saying is that he is going to fire 15,000 highly trained motivated troops. It is a catastrophe for military readiness. Amy all that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. In texas, tens of thousands of residents began evacuating coastal communities thursday, as forecasters predicted Hurricane Harvey could make landfall late friday as a major category 3 storm, delivering a lifethreatening 35 inches of rain to
Trump. The first letter of each paragraph of his Resignation Letter spells out the word impeach. About hiseak to resignation, charlottesville, how trends, policy threads the world, andnd how t the massive hurricane is racing toward texas. And to florida when the state has just executed a man despite protests from pharmaceutical giant Johnson Johnson about drugs in theits execution last night. Meanwhile, in missouri, the governor stayed an execution after new dna evidence. Plus, the white house has drafted a memo on implementing President Trumps ban on transgender people serving in the u. S. Military. Seems what the president is saying is that he is going to fire 15,000 highly trainined motivated troopops. It is a catastrophe for military readiness. Amy all that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. In texas, tens of thousands of residents began evacuating coastal communities thursday, as forecasters predicted Hurric