The longtime civil rights activist has been described as americas most revolutionary mayor. He died of Heart Failure tuesday, less than a year after taking office. He was 66 years old. We will hear lumumba in his own words and speak to several of his close associates. Then as japan pushes to restart its dormant nuclear program, the crisis that fukushima continues. 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 ramping up pressure on afghan president karzai to sign a deal to keep u. S. Troops in afghanistan beyond this year. In a phone call with karzai tuesday, obama said he has ordered the pentagon to launch new Contingency Planning for total withdrawal of u. S. Troops by the end of 2014. White House Press Secretary jay carney said karzais replacement after april elections might still sign the deal, known as the bilateral Security Agreement or bsa. The fact that president karzai has indica
Working with Civil Servants to ensure that any assurances given by pfizer during the proposed takeover of astrazeneca could be made legally binding. As the Prime Minister back this . As i said, the more we can do to strengthen the assurances we are given, the better. The only way youll get a assurances is by engaging and getting stuck in with those companies, which is what we have been doing. I find it extraordinary that the labor party chooses to criticize us for that. Last but not least, dr. Huffer. Hough aan pfizer mentions the patent box as a positive reason for wanting to invest in britain, and actually to examine whether they could increase manufacturing in britain. The way the patent ox works is you only get the low tax benefit if you make your investments and thenrch in the u. K. And exploit that research by manufacturing in the u. K. I agree with him, we should be incredibly hardheaded about this. It is an advantage that written is a low tax country. We used to stand and bemoa
[applause] from nasa bell county. Todays a special morning and it is six degrees of separation in waves. I think it is true because we left our town expanded our horizons and opportunities. The person we will meet is from the six degrees. I work with her mom as a comedian. We have got shorter. I would like her to do a candidate going to be the very strong governor for our state. Like i said she is from here. And secretary of state and hopefully future governor katie hobbs. [applause] ms. Hobbman thank you for the introduction im excited to kick off our tour for kitty. I grew up in penn beach peered were neighbors. As he heard i am the secretary of state and democratic nominee for governor. [applause] we have an election that and since 17 days. Voting is going on now. It is a critical election. I went to talk about that. In 2020, we found the foundation of our democracy faced the most serious challenges. There were false accusations of fraud in our election. Questions about systems and
Trump is almost surely going to defy the subpoena. How likely is this even going to happen . So i think its very unlikely that he will agree to the i think so taking his usual usual approach of bluster in public. And i think the lawyers are probably restraining him in i think the january 6 select committee has drawn what it believes is a very clear Straight Line from the attacks on the capital in the 6 to the oval office. And now i believe they want to hold him to account. And i think they the committee probably thinks its a fairly lowrisk strategy because kind of no matter which move the former president makes, hes not going to end up looking too good. But the committee is under a deadline in order to have him testify. Can you explain that . Right. Thats exactly right. So remember that we are just 4 or 5 weeks away from midterm 4 weeks away from Midterm Elections. And its very likely, if not probable that republicans will actually win control of the house of representatives. And that
Gentleman from california for your leadership on this issue, the leadership on the alzheimers task force and your bringing people together on both sides of the aisle, trying to leverage resources, be wise in how we do this, but recognizing a responsibility that you and i and or colleagues have, and that responsibility is to do everything we can to try to alleviate this burden and ultimately drive toward the cure. Mr. Garamendi thank you. Representative roskam, its been great working with you this evening, well call this a beginning, working on an issue that affects everyone on both sides of the aisle and across america. We can deal with alzheimers, we need to put our shoulders to the wheel and push forward with programs we know are successful. I, too, am happy to be a cosponsor of todays piece of these piece of legislation. So much for tonight on this issue. Well come back to it in a few weeks and see what progress has been made, in the mentime, we have had our discussion this evening