Allegedly failed to signal giving a lane change. Video captures her saying you are slamming my head and the ground and an i can hear. She was then jailed with bond set at 5,000. Three days later, she was found dead in her jail cell. Authorities now say sandrabland committed suicide. Her family strongly disputes that account. We will speak with Sandra Blands sister Sharon Cooper and with the familys attorney cannon lambert. Any Blacklivesmatter Movement takes center stage. Lets be clear, every single day folks are dying. Not being able to take another breath. We are in a state of emergency. We are in a state of emergency and if we if you dont feel that emergency, youre not human. Amy we will speak with a three founders of the Blacklivesmatter Movement, Patrisse Cullors alicia garza and opal tometi for hosting a movement for black lives convening in cleveland this weekend. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman
Allegedly failed to signal giving a lane change. Video captures her saying you are slamming my head and the ground and an i can hear. She was then jailed with bond set at 5,000. Three days later, she was found dead in her jail cell. Authorities now say sandrabland committed suicide. Her family strongly disputes that account. We will speak with Sandra Blands sister Sharon Cooper and with the familys attorney cannon lambert. Any Blacklivesmatter Movement takes center stage. Lets be clear, every single day folks are dying. Not being able to take another breath. We are in a state of emergency. We are in a state of emergency and if we if you dont feel that emergency, youre not human. Amy we will speak with a three founders of the Blacklivesmatter Movement, Patrisse Cullors alicia garza and opal tometi for hosting a movement for black lives convening in cleveland this weekend. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman
Pr guys. So donald trump has spent a lot of time hanging around people who have thought a lot about how to promote your brand, as they say. I still think ultimately elections are different from trump tower. That will eventually reality will hit in that way. But voters, i think, are sort of enjoying the trump phenomenon for that. Lets get to calls. Bettys first. Caller Mitch Mcconnell created donald trump when he got on National Television and said that he hopes that he was going to work to see that president obama be a oneterm president. And then the house of republicans went in a lock step with him and didnt help the president do anything. And the night of inauguration they all got together and had a meeting that they wasnt going to help the president. So if you dont have anybody working with you to help get anything done, people get angry because nothing being done and thats what created donald trump. Thank you so much. All right. Betty, lets take that point. People are dissatisfied
At can also send us a tweet cspan wj or join the conversation at facebook. Com cspan. Good morning. We will get to your thoughts are just a minute. First, let me show you the National Journal headlines. House republicans really think that they can amend obamacare this fall. The health care legislative package is tentatively expected to move in the coming months. The inside of the story dylan scott reports that while congressional leaders continue to debate whether to pursue near full repeal of the act and gop president ial candidates layout replacement proposals, republicans are looking at smaller changes. It to theey can make president s desk. The ways and means subcommittee chairman said that his panel could mark up Health Care Tax legislation later this year. The bills related to overthecounter drugs, Health Savings accounts, and perhaps most ambitiously, a repeal of cadillac taxopular on highend insurance plans. It goes on to say the Health Care Agenda will be determined in part by
It is said advertising but it is sort of ralph that is why negative wordofmouth a pattern occurring right through our time. [applause] this is the fifth installment of the race in america series. Lot of places dont have a vision this is a bookstore that has set the tone to talk about such a sensitive issue of race yes were authors we have dealt with this and written about it. But to think enough of this series to come and cover it dealt with this kind of people in this kind of room so thank you for being here tonight with this installment feel at home and come to the microphone so be civil and we will cancer a want to introduce this great panel then we will get into the discussion and someone that i have such respect for and adoration is. Caller former head of the civilrights commission is she has a list of things she has been in jail for fighting and the list goes on and on but is also an author called 5 in the pork chops in which and she has a new book coming out. [applause] then we