But obama took no action on longtime imprisoned native american leader Leonard Peltier. The only thing i am guilty of is struggling for my people. I did not kill those agents. Amy we will speak to the attorneys of Chelsea Manning and Leonard Peltier, as well as Oscar Lopez Riveras brother. He is preparing for him to come home. Then we look at betsy devos, Donald Trumps pick to be come education secretary. Do you think if you were not a multibillionaire, if your family had not made hundreds of millions of dlars in contributions to threpublican party, that you would be sitting here today . As a matter of fact, i think there would be that possibility. Amy we will speak to Jeremy Scahill about besty devos and how her brother, blackwater founder erik prince, is advising donald trump from the shadows. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. President obama has commuted the sentences of Army Whistleblower Chelsea Ma
Effective Youth Mentoring Organization in the United States is Big Brothers Big Sisters, the bay area chapter was founded in 1958 and covers alameda, couldnt San Francisco mateo counties. Joining me is the organizations ceo kathy bella and chair of the board of directors tom kaiser. Kathy, i want to start with you. Thank you. Why is mentoring so important . Well, i think meantoring is important for both the mentes and our meantors. For us, we serve children who are really going through some very tough straits. Most of our kids come from lowincome families. About 90 of them come from single parent or guardian households. And a significant portion of them have an incarcerated parent. So theyre living through very challenging times. Theyre living in tough neighborhoods often. And there are lots of just daily challenges in terms of navigating all of the intricacies of live. How many children do you serve . We serve 1,000 kids through the five county area. For our kids meant rg really makes
Training or in need of repair. Frank kendall defended the plan to gradually phase out reliance on Russian Rocket engines for u. S. Space launches. Testifying, kendall argued the base needs tomorrow for look for alternatives. Some leaders argued that an immediate end to the use of Russian Rockets is appropriate. They could replace the rd180 engines by 2020 at the earliest. Here to speak to that topic is beauchammp, gutt undersecretary for air space. Thanks for having me. There is a lot of talk on the use of russian engines, and actually development of alternatives to those russian engines for the space launches. Can you talk to me a little bit about the potential of the alternatives that are under development right now . Sure. This is an exciting time in the space the air force requires two launch services to be ability to launch the full range of payloads into orbit. We dont have that today. To incentivize those developments, we will let contracts that will fund the development of new
Into the Great American tower in january 2015. Herald is behind bars tonight. A News Conference is planned for tomorrow morning where we expect to learn how police connected herald to the shootings. Its been a week but Cincinnati Police still dont know who shot and killed a 23 year old in east price hill. Tonight his family is speaking out for the first time. Nine on your sides ashley zilka is live in that neighborhood where came together for that young man. Ashley . Jamar givens was found dead in a backyard here in this neighborhood. His father says the violence needs to stop before someone else loses a son. The pain of losing a child is unbearable for carl givens. Carl givens father 17 19 34 the only reactions i had are hurt and pain. What could have happened . Who could have done it . 43 these Community Leaders say theyre not staying quiet. nats stop the shooting, stop the killing. 17 28 04 their message will reach everyone in the neighborhood. Mitchell morris Phoenix Program for ci
Oakland before a rally. Clintons motorcade gets stuck in the evening commute. Abc7 News Reporter Laura Anthony spent the day in oakland following the events. We begin with Wayne Freedman where protest are tonight. Reporter its safe to say if a fundraiser is not running on schedule, its still running on time. Let me show you the protestors protesting this event. People are paying from 45,000 to 5,000 to hear Hillary Clinton with senator feinstein and barbara boxer, here are shots of people. Lets show you videotape. Security here was tight, but not suffocating. There are more women than men and a certain fervor. We asked one hillary supporter why this years election is more important. More important because trump is the republican nominee, or at least the presumptive. We cant let him be in the white house. Would you say that about any other republican . A quiet protest. Nothing like what we saw in los angeles last might. I asked Erin Brightwell why she came. Representation, she said. Or