School in northeastern nigeria. Then occupy on trial. I ended a 40 something our stay in jail and ended up with this. Occupy wall street activist Cecily Mcmillan has been found guilty of assaulting a new York City Police officer in a trial that critics say should have been about the police assaulting her. She faces up to seven years in prison. After the trial, she was immediately taken to Rikers Island. We will speak with her attorney. And former black Panther Kathleen Cleaver and actor danny glover on black power mixtape. Youre able to reflect on a moment and understand the core values of that moment. It was james brown, but at the same time from he said, im black and im proud at the same time. All of that and more coming up. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Ukraines interior minister says 30 prorussian insurgents and four soldiers have been killed in the eastern city as ukraine continues an assault to reassert control. Ukraine is al
From the factor, President Trump defends oreilly, saying, quote, i dont think bill did anything wrong. First of all locker room tock. Rebecca tracer and gloria ryan are here to respond. Plus senator tim kaine on the democrats fight to stop neil gorsuch. And congressman Eric Swalwell on todays hearings on the trump russia probe when all in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. A lot to get to tonight, including a remarkable president ial press conference that well get to in just a moment. But we begin tonight with news that President Trump has removed his controversial chief strategist, the website publisher steve bannon, from his permanent seat on the National Security council, which is the nations primary policymaking group on National Security. Trumps initial decision to putt bannon on the nscs Principals Committee, despite the fact he is a political operative with no National Security experience other than his time in the navy, was widely criticized as reflec
Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. A lot to get to tonight, including a remarkable president ial press conference that well get to in just a moment. But we begin tonight with news that President Trump has removed his controversial chief strategist, the website publisher steve bannon, from his permanent seat on the National Security council, which is the nations primary policymaking group on National Security. Trumps initial decision to putt bannon on the nscs Principals Committee, despite the fact he is a political operative with no National Security experience other than his time in the navy, was widely criticized as reflecting a plitcization of Foreign Policy, particularly since actual National Security officials were given reduced roles. The Trump Administration today insisted bannon was not being demoted. So its not a demotion for steve bannon . Well, not not for steve, not for tom. These are very highly valued members of this administration. Theyre going to continue to pl
Still in its early stages, and i talked about the president and the possibly Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch and the president started talking about susan rice, about how this is a big story, it is going to become the biggest story, he intimated without powering any evidence, there are other people involved in this, and he was adamant that she had done something wrong and improper, suggested it was not getting the Media Attention that it deserved including the times and other papers. And when i went on to say do you think she may have committed a crime, he said do i think . He said yes i think. I said do you have any intelligence that relates to this . And this man has a habit of escalating and also when he has previously made claims that he will provide Additional Information for, and he has not. So well see where this goes. He didnt offer any evidence to support the accusation . Reporter he did not, he said there were other people, we asked him how high up this might go, he wouldn