Amy that was donald trump months ago. We will speak with pittsburgh s there is one city that the president can point to that would represent with that city is, it is pittsburgh. We have exceeded what we have promised in the Paris Agreement and that is been happening throughout this country, throughout the United States. Amy and we will talk with Virginia Governor terry mcauliffe. I am here because we need to send a message to the world. Or yet would donald trump says, that were serious about Climate Change. Im the governor of virginia and went trump moved out of the paris climate agreement allows the first governor to come out and say were going to do it ourselves. Amy Virginia Governor Tim Mcauliffe about the climate and the Political Climate in his regime and socialist a transgender woman have just one race is or public office. All of that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. In zimbabwe, longtime leader Robert M
Sharif abdel kouddous. Then showdown at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Who will become the acting watchdog . Cordray step down. Namingimmediately after Leandra English, President Trump said he planned to go ahead with his own appointment of budget director Mick Mulvaney im who has voted in favor of killing the bureau. Suing. Lish is who will show up at work today . Then can the emergence of nontraditional candidates help revive faltering Democratic Party that is facing his lowest Approval Rating and nearly quartercentury . We will speak with democrats who on key races with grassroots sources outside the Democratic Party in november. In short, North Carolina, Braxton Winston is a former middle School Football coach who took to the streets in 2015 to along with hundreds of people to protest police reality. His win militant secure the second highest number of votes for an atlarge Charlotte City council seat. It was a moment when the fear of what could happen changed to that weg
Then to honduras, where tens of thousands of protesters poured into the streets after the contested president ial election. Theys the counting of the votes when the incumbent was trailing opposition candidate keith calling nasralla was to stop the crackdown on protesters. In this moment im not calling on the general of the armed forces or the kernels of the armed forces because they have already failed the people. On the basealling of the armed forces to rebel against their bosses. Amy at least three protesters have been killed so far. We will go to honduras for the latest. Finally, constitutional attorney john bonifaz on the growing movement to impeach President Trump. Dissatisfiedabout about certain policies of the president. This is about the basic fundamental principle in this country that no one is above the law, not even the president of the United States. Amy all that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Sen
Johnson and jackson mayor Chokwe Lumumba. And in california, nearly 200,000 people have been evacuated from their homes amidst the fifth worst fire fueled by climate change. The fatal blazes are now the fifth largest in california history. There was an awful lot of smoke that came along with the fires. At one point on my property, when the fires got to a very dry area, and sounded like water going over niagara falls. Int is the sound of the fire a particular area. Amy but many farms in the area have stayed open. We will go to california to talk about the fires and the farm workers, some of whom have been forced to continue working despite hazardous air quality. All that and more, coming up. In alabama, Democrat Doug Jones and republican roy moore are locked in a tight and increasingly controversial race to fill the Alabama Senate seat left vacant by attorney general jeff sessions. Polling shows the two candidates are neck in neck ahead of tuesdays special election, despite moore being
And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. So please welcome Phil Angelides back to this program, the former chair in california chaired the Inquiry Commission and recommended prosecutions for a number of executives who they felt were accomplice it in what was called the wall street doctrine. Unfortunately, none of those high profile names were locked up by the Obama Administration, and here we go again. Phil angelides, great to have you on the program. Let me start with you, why did not the Justice Department and the obama era find any one of these persons libel to be locked up . I think its one of the successes, for all the good regulators put in process, i think this is one of the seminal failures of the administration. I cant tell you why, but the fact is they never committed the resources and the will to do the deep dive investigation that was warranted. Our commission, after hearing 700 witnesses and holding 19 public hearings and revealing numerou