Bezos purchases the Washington Post. Year, amazon inked a 600 million Cloud Computing deal with the cia. Now the founder owns the most important newspaper in washington. We will speak to media critics as well as book publisher Dennis Johnson. In the view of american publishers, they are a threat. They have been discounting books so severely they have done great damage to the markets and publishers have been really struggling as to how to control that. We will also speak to mother jones reporter mac mcclelland, author of i was a warehouse wage slave my brief, backbreaking, rageinducing, lowpaying, dildopacking time inside the onlineshipping machine. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Yemeni officials claim to have foiled a plot to blow up key oil locations. Officials say the motives of the planned attack appears to be retaliation for the u. S. Killing a deputyalshihri, health today in the arabian peninsula. A military jet has reduced
You know, who knows. Its going to be wide open. Ive got lots of good friends who certainly got it under now. Deration right weve got lots of good governors around the country, lots of good former republican governors around the who would make excellent candidates. Ive got one that lives south of me in florida that his family is friend. Whether the country would go for another bush, i dont know. But hes an example of the quality of candidates who weve got. John kasich in ohio, scott walker in wisconsin. Chris christie in new jersey. I served with rand paul and a folks like john thune who are certainly giving consideration to it. These are all really, really men, all men who are committed to whats best for america and i think at the end of the day it will be a slugfest comehe right person will out and i look ford forward campaigning for him in 2016. Senator. You very much, retiring u. S. Ss. Senator from georgia. Thank our audience here and on radio, television and the internet. Im john
I love you, son. Then he would say i love you, dad. Anonymous Officials Say militia leader Ahmed Abu Khattala is facing charges for the attack in benghazi. No one has so far been arrested. The pentagon official in charge of guantanamo bay, who played a key role in creating the prison is now saying it should never have been built. In an interview with the british and daily mail newspaper, William Lietzau said that they should be have should have been designated as prisoners of war. He says the most effective way to close the prison now is to announce an end to the socalled war with al qaeda. He said lietzau announced he will be stepping down from the pentagon to take a job with a military contractor, bae. In egypt, one person was injured one person died and others injured during a protest about Mohamed Morsi in alexandria. His comments followed a visit paul when a visit from u. S. Congressmembers, urging for a dialogue on egypts future. John mccain said that he believes the ousting was
Donald trump and his campaign are fighting back against a number of stories that came out late yesterday accusing trump of unwanted and inappropriate touching. The New York Times released an article yesterday that features allegation of two women, Rachel Crooks tells the paper she was a 22yearold receptionist working for a Real Estate Group in trump tower in new york when she met trump one morning in 2005. They shook hands and trump kissed her on the cheek before kissing her on the mouth. And in the case of Jessica Leeds she met trump white sitting in first class on the flight. He put her hand up her skirt. Both women say they support Hillary Clinton. And leeds says she hopes her story makes a difference in the election. Nbc news has not confirmed the allegations. The Trump Campaign told nbc news the article was fiction and it trivialized Sexual Assault. Trumps lawyer went even further sending a letter to the executive editor of the paper demanding a retraction and apology calling the
Perhaps he deserved to go for lying to the Vice President , but even if he did, what does it say about u. S. Intelligence that it may be spying on the administration . When the democrats who demanded the firing of general flynn, we are joined now by him. Thank you for coming on. F as you know, the law requires a warrant in order to proceed with the wiretapping. The law specifies that if an american citizen is caught up in that wiretapping, his identity be protected and the content of his side of the conversation be protected. That did not happen and somehow this information was leaked to the press. Are you for that . We are not for that, we want their due process and civil rights defended, at the same time, there is some very questionable stuff going on, this was in the course of some type of wiretapping and they happened to cap somebody else in the process but at the same time, the best way to answer this is to have a full investigation. Lets go through the proper process so that way