Less than a week away, many president ial candidate are accusing all you know Michael Bloomberg of buying his way into the election and spreading his wealth to keep critics silent. The New York Times has some are calling bloomberg a wallett too big to happen. We will speak with a lawyer who would you work for the bloomberg bundy, said she was told remove or revise a chapter on antimuslim bias and surveillance of muslim communities in new york that mentioned bloomberg by name a times. Then to yemen, where 31 people were killed in u. S. Backed saudi airstrikes, including women and children. The United Nations called the atta shockinin here. We are this is one of the cars that were targeted by the saudi americanan air force l last nigt and d they alsoo tgeted vlages in residential areas, causing tens of thousands of marty and injuries. This i is a civilians s car. Amy all that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. The
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Of staff. Were really very thrilled hes been able to carve time out of his busy schedule. And spend time with us today to talk about counterterrorism in an era of competing priorities. Russell will deliver opening remarks from the podium and well sit down for a little fireside chat. Ill take the moderators prerogative and ask the first few questions then ill open it up to all you here in attendance in person to ask some questions, and we welcome all of you who are watching via live stream or via cspan. Thank you for joining us today. Russell, the podium is yours. So, thanks very much, matt. Its a great pleasure to be here amongst a number of old friends to talk about counterterrorism in an era of competing resources. I happened to testify earlier this week with the leadership at the fbi and dhs and was talking to a friend of mine yesterday from dhs and said a colleague of hers had seen the testimony and that characterized my performance as that of a thoughtful nerd, so i am hoping to a
Portion of the event they spoke with google Senior Vice President can walker and joined Lieutenant General shanahan. applause i hope everyone had a good lunch or finished a great launch, im joined with to Close Friends of mine and im probably the only person who can say this in the entire world, i work with and for both of them so i want to make sure i disclose my conflict of interest to start with, so general shanahan went to michigan, and entered the service of our country in 1984 he has been promoted again zillion times and in charge of whole bunch of operational activities and eventually we needed somebody operationally to implement ei in the entire d. O. D. And he was the Perfect Choice so i have worked with him in my role as chairman, can walk was a federal prosecutor law an order federal prosecutor who then chose to come to Silicon Valley, worked at ebay and then we snacked and maybe 15 years ago, every day together and during that time not only did he sell out our Legal Functio
As a Senior Reporter for investigative reporting reveals program. He has written three previous books before homewreckers and the thing is that what he has done again has initially looking at veterans of the war because of his reporting half a million ella terry veterans face long lines waiting for disability compensation. His journalism has sparked federal legislation and congressional hearings what he does leads our response by a government and maybe we will see the same thing when it comes to homewreckers. A dupont columbia Journalism Award winner. Twice nominated for a National Emmy for pbs news hour. He is really good at what he does. We are fortunate tonight to interview him Dorothy Brown professor vaught Emory University nationally recognized scholar of tax policy and extensively on the race implications. When i called her and talk to her about coming in participating she was excited because she was eager to read his book i said i have one better. You can actually talk to him. S