About the top issues facing states in this country. Thats her question for you as well, what are the top issues in your states . All in a calling and let us no. Remind our viewers what the National Governors association is and what is your mission . It was actually started by president theodore roosevelt, he was governor of new york and became president and he said the governors need to get together both parties and share information so all states know what other states are doing good and bad. A very important is making sure that the administration and congress, whoever is in power knows how states will be impacted by the many things they do. With healthcare and some of the other issues going on its critical that governors of both parties are talking to members of congress and theso administration so theres an a understanding of the impact on states. Who are the leaders of the National Governors association . The chair is brian of nevada. His republican and then we have governor of mon
The managers have been able to include more than 100 moments in the substitute. I hope we can do another package to today. Senator mccain and reid are managing this on their great skill. And now how important this is to senator mccain and wants to see it through as soon as possible. S and we are going to help in that regard. Now, last night leader plus he and i had a constructive meeting with President Trump and several members of the cabinet. Hich one of our most productive discussions was about the daca. Program in which we all agreed on a framework. Pass additional measures, excluding the wall. We agreed the president would support and enshrining the daca protections into law. He and encouraged and the president would also encourage the house and senate to act. What remains to be negotiated are the details of Border Security with a mutual goal of finalizing the details as soonny as possible. P both sides agree the wall would not be part of this agreement, the president said he plans
Assembly, was another chance to set out her agenda and focus for he next few years. Unfortunately that message was lost as social medias attention turned to her choice of outfit of a pink dress costing a ortunately that message reported 3,000. The bbc also reported saying that others were working to focus on the contents of the speech itself and were equally unimpressed. That speech available courtesy of a reported our cspan video libra. But from yesterday. On this speech of hers concerning cyberbullying, heres melania trump. The first lady. A it remains our generations moral imperative to take stability for what our children learn. We must turn our focus right now to the message and content they exposed to on a daily basis through social media, the bullying experience of lying and in person. And the growing global epidemic of drug addiction and drug overdose. No children should ever feel ungry, frightened, terrorized, bullied, or afraid. With nowhere to return. We need to step up, com
Who writes puerto rico is already an environmental tragedy. Hurricane maria will make it even worse. Then President Trump gives his first address to the u. N. General assembly, boasting about the size of the u. S. Military and threatening to totally destroy north korea. Pres. Trump the United States has great strength and patience. But if it is forced to defend itself or its allies, we will have no choice but to totally destroy north korea. Rocket man is on a Suicide Mission for himself and for his regime. Amy we will get reaction from jeff sachs on north korea, iran, climate change, President Trump. As continues its ethnic cleansing with more than 400,000 people forced out of burma we will speak with andrea pitzer, author of the new book, one long night a global history of concentration camps. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. In mexico, the death toll from the massive, magnitude 7. 1 earthquake has ri
Sanctions were needed to bring kim jongun to the negotiating table and force them to give up their Nuclear Weapons. Im very confident that such moves will contribute to [ indiscernible ] [ extremely heavy foreign accent ] reporter when asked if dialogue with north korea was still possible, the president replied, why not . Lauren blanchard in washington tonight. Lauren, thank you. An aboutface tonight from facebook which says it will now turn over thousands of ads linked to fake accounts from russia and will turn those ads over to congressional investigators. Im not gonna sit here and tell you that were gonna catch all bad content in our system. We dont check what people say before they say it. And frankly, i dont think society should want us to. Freedom means you dont have to ask for permission first. If by default you can say what you want, and if you break our Community Standards or break the law, then youre going to face consequences afterwards. We wont catch everyone immediately. B