Joaquin chapo guzman. Will it move to reform the drug laws that help keep him in business . Unfortunately, as i said, where i grew up, there was no other way and there still isnt a way to survive. No way to work in our economy to be up to make a living. Amy well go to mexico city to speak with acclaimed mexican journalist Elena Poniatowska and with Laura Carlsen, of the center for international policy. Then 18 months after eric garners death at the hands of new york city police, one officer is facing charges, departmental charges, that she is not one of the officers directly involved in garners death by chokehold. Instead, Sergeant Kizzy adonis, who is africanamerican, faces internal charges of failing to supervise. Well speak to eric garners daughter, erica garner, who says authorities should be charging the officers who killed her father. And we will speak with the only person who was on the scene that day. He is in criminally charged ramsey orta. ,he is the young man who videoed eri
Kind to opponents of the Obama Administrations diplomacy with iran. On wednesday, iran freed 10 u. S. Sailors less than 24 hours after theitwo shipentered anian terrorial wars in th persian lf. This comes just days before the Iran Nuclear Deal is set to take effect, easing sanctions and freeing up billions in frozen iranian money. Is this a new era for u. S. Iran ties . Well speak to trita parsi of the National Iranian american council. Then today is day 84 of a runaway natural gas leak above los angeles thats emitted more than 150 Million Pounds of methane. Some call it the nations biggest environmental disaster since the bp oil spill. It is just like in hell. I dont know if i can work, if i can breathe. Amy then, health and environmental experts are cusing t obama ministraon of cang to th meatndustry its newietary guidelin. Whe the guelines rommend consing lessugar, th do not recommend eating less meat. This comes after an intensive lobbying campaign by the Meat Industry and despite
Amy in his final state of the union, president obama defended his record while making implicit criticism of the republican candidates who seek to secede him. He also hailed his historic agreements with iran and cuba and called for the closing of guantanamo. I will keep working to shut down the prison at guantanamo. It is expensive, it is unnecessary, and it only serves as a recruitment brochure for our enemies. Amy South Carolina governor nikki haley, whose parents immigrated from india, then used the official republican response to take aim at gop president ial frontrunner donald trump. Today, we live in a time of threats like few others in recent memory. During anxious times, it can be tempting to follow the siren call of the angriest voices. We must resist that temptation. Amy and coulter took to twitter and wrote trump should deport nikki haley. We will spend the hour with congresswoman and u. S. Senate candidate Donna Edwards of maryland, public tv broadcaster and author tavis smi
Amy as the republicans engage in another primary debate, this one in South Carolina, we will go to columbia, South Carolina, does it with tom turnipseed, who is a National Director of segregationist alabama governor George Wallaces 1968 president ial campaign, but has since become a civil rights attorney and social justice activist. Well also speak with nation magazine publisher katrina vanden heuvel, not only about the republican bait debate, but also for only the third time in its 150year history, the nation magazine has endorsed a candidate in the democratic primary. Then to the water crisis in flint, michigan. It is an emergency. The cdc and the pediatrics say levelis no safe of lead. It is an emergency. Amy protesters fill the State Capitol in lansing, calling on Governor Rick Snyder to resign over the flint water contamination crisis. We will get the latest from the doctor who helped expose the lead poisoning, mona hannaattisha, as snyder has asked president obama to declare a fe
The new cold war between russia and the west over ukraine is costing russians dearly. Moscow expects russias economy to spiral in recession. That will hit russian households with a 2. 8 drop in collective disposal income. Western sanctions are taking a big bite out of russian economy, but a bigger culprit is falling oil prices. They have plummeted 38 since early summer. Thats a problem because russia counts on oil and gas revenues to fund half its budget. Meanwhile, the war between the government and prorussian separatests stalls while fighting drags on in nearby donetsk. Ukraine accuse russians of sending more troops and weapons to grab mortar tore. The russians hav president Vladimir Putin said that hell make sure that ukraine will never threaten russias soft underbelly. The socalled south stream pipeline would have moved gas under the black sea through bulgaria and on to italy, austria and points west. It would have eventually skirted ukraine. Putin claimed that europe piano union s