Start off on this recent quite a fascinating book of yours, the trump century, ive got to ask you a question. You worked on cnn for some 30 years, you have a variety of shows, you are not in orthodox republican, you are obviously yt a liberal democrat. Could you go back into that environment today or Something Like it or what was the formula that allowed you to exist for three decades, did you have a particular relationship with ted turner or just enlighten us a little bit on the development. Guest it was helpful i joined at the beginning as one of the founders of cnn, one of the fortunate ones who was present at the creation as they say. It was a spectacular place to work as they say because it was unflawed of before ted turner. The global cable newscast and he put it into action and institutionalized it. It was truly remarkable though it changed over time as these things do and we founded it in 1980 and by 1984, he was on the forbes list, the lobbyist list and had been basically on t
We will speak to the mayor of Baltimore Stephanie rawlingsblake who gaveled in the Democratic National convention on monday after the resignation of dnc chair Debbie Wasserman schultz. Plus, we get the latest from inside the convention. So, if you agree that there is too much inequality in our economy and too much money in our politics, we all need to be as vocal andnd is orgaganized as persistent as Bernie Sanders supporters have been. Amy we will speak with nobel prizewinning Economist Joseph Stiglitz, who has advised Hillary Clinton. And we will speak to Sister Simone campbell about nuns on the bus. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now, democracynow. Org, this is breaking with convention war, peace, and the presidency. Im amy goodman. Baltimore city states attorney Marilyn Mosby has announced she will drop all charges against the remaining three Police Officers charged in the death of freddie gray. Freddie gray died in april 2015 of spinal injuries after he was arr
Have dropped all chaharges agait the polilice officers s connecto the deatath of freddieie gray, o died last yeyear of spinalal injuries a after he was s arresd anand transported d in a polici. We will speak to the mayor of Baltimore Stephanie rawlingsblake who gaveled in the Democratic National convention on monday after the resignation of dnc chair Debbie Wasserman schultz. Plus, we get the latest from inside the convention. So, if you agree that there is too much inequality in our economy and too much money in our politics, we all need to be as vocal andnd is orgaganized as persistent as Bernie Sanders supporters have been. Amy we will speak with nobel prizewinning Economist Joseph Stiglitz, who has advised Hillary Clinton. And we will speak to Sister Simone campbell about nuns on the bus. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now, democracynow. Org, this is breaking with convention war, peace, and the presidency. Im amy goodman. Baltimore city states attorney Marilyn M
Of indonesia from the military repression in west papua to discriminatory laws restricting the rights of religious minorities and women. We will speak to john sifton of Human Rights Watch and journalist allan nairn who will also talk about sundays election in guatemala. Been to nobel prizeWinning Economist joe stiglitz on rewriting the rules of the American Economy. Would in some of the problems we face, inequality, global warming, pollution, environment problems, and we need to create jobs. And what i show is we can have a tax reform that does all of those and raise money. Amy the university of mississippi has removed the state flag with the confederate emblem on the schools grounds, and a victory for student activists. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. By the end of this century, areas of the persian gulf could be hit by waves of heat and humid they are intolerable to human. From the burning of the fo
The downing of a russian fighter jet threatens to undermine efforts for a united front against islamic state. President obama, chancellor merkel, and nato have called for a deescalation of tensions between russia and turkey. Francine erdogan said no one can expect turkey to not react to violations. Turkey has no intent to escalate the situation. Manus lets bring in andrew. Great to have you back with us this morning. We just heard from erdogan. Francine and i did a double take. Theres the line. Erdogan doesnt want to escalate the situation. President who is absolutely prepared to saber rattle against the russians. You can take it two ways. The glass halffull is that weve had 24 hours now without another major incident, which is certainly wasnt clear yesterday morning when markets tanked. Nobody was talking about invoking nato article five. The glass half empty is the rhetorical escalation continues to rise. Despite what erdogan said this morning, he did take a couple swipes at russia.