We speak with the directors of the oscar shortlisted documentary, the great hack, as well as a propaganda researcher and Cambridge Analytica whistleblower Brittany Kaiser, author of targeted the Cambridge Analytica whistleblowers inside story of trump, anda, facebook broke democracy and how it can happen again. Should be concerned and everyone should be very concerned about the weaponization of our data i people that are actually experts in selling weapons. Amy all that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. The house of representatives voted thursday to approve a nonbinding war powers resolution aimed at limiting president trumps ability to take further military action against iran without congressional approval. President trump ratcheted up tensions with iran by commandering iranian Qassem Soleimani last week. Thursdays 224 to 194 house vote included three republicans voting yes and eight democrats voting no. The r
Secretary of state has defended washingtons decision to assassinate irans top general my pump a struggle to explain the ledge to threat posed by Major General sort of monitoring a press conference and explains. Things got quite easy at the press conference where we saw mike pompei o the u. S. Secretary of state speaking alongside stephen the new shin the secretary of treasury and this comes just a week after the killing of irans top general qassam solomonic and as the press asked questions got particularly tense mike pompei o seemed a little bit uncomfortable trying to answer the questions of journalists who just dont seem to buy his claim that the killing of solomonic was necessary to protect american lives lets take a listen to some of what went on that specific information about in the threat and didnt have anything to do with our embassies. We had specific emanation information and an imminent threat and those threats trim included the time. On the u. S. Embassies and plays your de
Secretary of state has defended the trumpet ministrations decision to take catherine in general. Confronted by journalist apparently unconvinced by the evidence presented so far to justify the assassination. The following events for us in the United States good evening carol of a tough day them from. Joining this Media Conference just bring us up to speed as to what happened. Well its been almost a week now since the killing of qassam solomonic made as a decision by President Donald Trump now that decision was made and it now seems that the administration is on the defensive about whether that was really the necessary thing to do we had a press conference that took place where mike pompei o the u. S. Secretary of state and steve minutiae in the u. S. Secretary of treasury presented new sanctions against the Islamic Republic of iran and as it went on for over an hour and journalists grilled mike pompei o the u. S. Secretary of state got a little uncomfortable lets review some of what to
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Country. Elsewhere angular merkel is due to me Vladimir Putin in moscow later on saturday will be 1900 official visit to russia as german chancellor and this visit comes amid tight into the global times. That youre watching on t. V. International im writers on a lot could thank you for joining us. In the u. S. Secretary of state has defended washingtons decision to assassinate irans top general mike bumppo struggle to explain the alleged threat posed by Major General solomonic during a press conference and explains. Things got quite easy at the press conference where we saw mike pompei o the u. S. Secretary of state speaking alongside steve minutia in the secretary of treasury and this comes just a week after the killing of irans top general qassam solomonic and as the press asked questions got particularly tense mike pompei o seemed a little bit uncomfortable trying to answer the questions of journalists who just dont seem to buy his claim that the killing of solomonic was necessary t