Prolific transparency activists, ryan shapiro, reveals he is suing the nsa, fbi, and Defense Intelligence agency in an attempt to force the agencies to open the records detailing how the u. S. Secretly helped apartheid south africa capture leadingandela in 1962, to his 27 years in prison. We will also speak with ryan shapiro about why the fbi considers his Academic Research on the Animal Rights movement a threat to National Security. All of that and more coming up. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. The Obama Administration is preparing to ask congress to reform the National Security agencys own collection of phone records one of the most controversial nsa practices exposed by Edward Snowden. The New York Times, setting an end officials, says the proposal would leave the bulk data in the hands of phone companies. To obtain specific records, the nsa would seek permission from a judge in the form of a new kind of court order. While the ns
Knuckle political knife fight. Another schiff show. And yeah, bloomberg admitting yeah, i bought the house of representatives for pelosi. Breaking moments ago, four republicans, eight elected officials in mississippi have announced that they are switching from democrats and independents to the republican party. The mississippi gop expects that more announcements will follow soon. Also breaking tonight, in the state of kentucky, special election, a republican just won a state House District that has been in democratic control since the 1980s. This is a preview of coming a tractions . Major news. Potential barometer of things to come. Full election analysis is moments away. We start with Bernie Sanders that just cant seem to help himself. Now the democratic frontrunner is doubling down on his praise of communism. Sure, castro murdered tens of thousands of his own citizens, outlawed freedoms and induced widespread starvation and poverty. But according to bernie, Fidel Castros Literacy Pro
Disputes, but on Core Principles, those are the kind of things we discussed and im encouraged. Keep in mind speaker ryan did not endorse donald trump but he says unifying republicans will take time and he doesnt want the party to fake it. He also called the presumptive nominee a warm and genuine person. Trump for his part tweeted that he had a great day in d. C. With speaker ryan and other Republican Leaders and that things are, quote, working out really well. The two also took a swipe at Hillary Clinton in a joint statement. They said the United States cannot afford another four years of the obama white house. Last week speaker ryan claimed he was just not ready to support donald trump and the billionaire responded by saying he was wasnt ready to support paul ryans agenda. Well for now it seems theyre trying to bury the hatchet and not in each otheries backs. Others backs. John roberts is live in washington with more. Whats the thinking with what happens when speaker ryan might be rea
The trump campaign. This as Intel Committee chairman devin nunes has a new request today. He wants to see more of the background how the court arrived at their decision as this thing gets more heated by the day. Last night fox correspondent ed henry brought news that mark warner texted with a lobbyist for a Russian Oligarch in an effort to contact trump dossier author Christopher Steele. He attempted to do that without initially letting the rest of the members on his committee know about it joining me now once again tonight ed henry. Good evening, ed. Martha, good to see you. Here we go again. Five day window is closing for President Trump to decides whether he is blocking this memo all together or making some final changes. We are told late this afternoon he met here at the white house with the fbi director, lawyers for the Justice Department and from inside the White House Counsels Office to go over some of those final redactions. We expect the release any moment late tonight or tomo
The ingraham angle and frank luntz to explain it all. The publication christianity today most of you have never heard of them up but it comes out for impeaching the president. And an obvious attempt to boost its lagging sales and subscriptions. Ralph reed is here tonight to deliver a fiery response, also come it wouldnt be friday night without Raymond Arroyo and chris desk christmas themed friday follies in which holiday song is number one . It just hit number one. And this cannot be true. Am i reading this . We speak exclusively to santa. Wait a second. A small santa replaced forget this, wearing a trump 2020 hat in a private photo. But first, it is time to put House Democrats on trial for perpetrating a massive fraud on the American People. I started this conversation last night and tonight, we will continue it. House democrats not only wasted taxpayer dollars on incredibly, lengthy, tedious, boring costly bogus inquiry, but now nancy pelosi is withholding the articles of impeachment