Ld hear almost the sound it was amazing. I kept jumping and jumping. Amy in a victory for press freedom, two jailed al jazeera journalists have finally been pardoned and released. Baher mohamed and Mohamed Fahmy spent over a year in and egyptian jail. We will speak with the third al jazeera journalist, peter greste , who was imprisoned with them for more than 400 days and reported to australia. He has yet to receive a pardon. The fact is, we did nothing wrong. There was no evidence of wrongdoing. Ande guys are innocent men innocent men are in prison. That is what it is about. One day in prison would be unjust. Amy peter greste has traveled to new york to lobby for a pardon from egyptian president elsisi whos here for the general assembly. All of that and more coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Pope francis has left the United States after a historic sixday visit. During his trip, pope francis addressed congress and the Uni
It is very, very bad and bad for our allies, south korea and japan and the statements are very inflammatory. Theyre horrible. Well have to see. I dont like drawing red lines but i act if i have to act. Bill President Trump will speak by telephone to russian president Vladimir Putin. The focus will largely be on the topic of syria. Shannon we have fox team coverage. Former u. N. Ambassador john bolton is standing by but we begin the roberts. 12 30 today the president will pick up the phone to talk to Vladimir Putin. The first time they spoke by telephone since the deadly train bombing on april 3. It will mark the first time the two leaders have spoken since the missile strike against syria. Theyre expected to discuss the civil war in syria. Russias continued backing of bashar alassad. North korea likely on the agenda today. Publicly the relations between the United States and russia have been very strained. Behind the scenes through diplomatic channels the tone has been different. Well
Lastminute compromise with moderates they think theyre there. Late last night house leader Kevin Macarthur confident while leaving this meeting. Listen. To me its a very big amendment that helps close the bill. And close it. Youre not quite there yet . Very close. Shannon peter doocy is live outside the meeting of house republicans. Do they feel confident they have the votes . Leader macarthur was as confident as he has been in weeks. He said were going to pass it after spending several hours huddling in speaker ryans office to see if there are enough members of their own party to back the American Healthcare act. Not just members of congress. The white house put pressure on republicans yesterday as well. Mike pence was here for the third day in a row. He was joined by the hhs secretary tom price in some of those meetings. Price and pence have known some of these skeptical republicans for years. They appear to be some of the more moderate members. They didnt make big public announcemen
that stands for presenting extreme negligence with classified information licenses. and really went democratic in particular, the resolution expresses the sense the house of representatives that congressman adam schiff should not have access to classified information and should be investigated by house ethics committee and comments made during proceeding of congress regarding russian collusion and trump campaign. and officially struck from the record. this was parked after house speaker kevin macarthur remove congressman adam schiff from an intelligence committee. the pencil act would bar adam schiff from classified information at all. matt gaetz accuses adam schiff of leaking information in the past. certainly no one can defend adam schiff and eric swalwell. they made career is and embroidering lies unto those very leaks. and it is also coincides with congressman schiff launching for running for the seat occupied by dianne feinstein. they aren t going to stop. we have to stop th