Left the event bloodied. Hours later, he trucked he caeled theally in chicago after thousands of protesters showed up. He is now offering to pay the legal fees of his violent supporters. Speak with the professo and a student at the university of illinois chicago and former chicago mayoral candidate julie garcia, who ran against rahm emanuel. Rahm emanuel has become the focus of the illinois primary he is pportingillary clinton. Beie sande says ev if he ns the nination,e does n want rm emanues pport. Lis, ao go tot. Th to flora, where0 of e adultopulatiocannot vot because they have a felony conviction. Nearly one in four black adults is disenfranchised. In florida when a person is disenfranchised, they are basically stripped of their citizenship for life. Amy we will speak with the president of florida writes the florida rights coalition. Afterdisenfranchised serving his time. All that and more coming up. To democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Donald trump is forced to cancel a rally at the university of illinois chicago friday after thousands of people staged antitrump protests inside and outside the venue. After trump canceled the event, scuffles broke out. Five people were arrested. One trump supporter was for the salute. Ing a nazi in st. Louis at least 31 people were arrested friday, and on saturday, and dayton, ohio, charged a security barricade. Trump later tweeted what appeared to be a doctored video reporting to show the protester with a gun in the backdrop of the isis flight. Despite evidence to the contrary, trump accused the protester of links to isis. Donald trump this was not a guy looking to have a little fun, this was a guy looking to do hard. So the judge let him go. Then one of my people said, wow, they found his name. And it was probably isis or isis related. Do you believe it . And then they go online and they displaying all sorts of music that you would not be liking, dragging an American Flag along the sidewalk , making all sorts of gestures, having all sorts of statements on the internet. Amy the protester, thomas dimassimo, said he planned to take the stage and say donald trump is a racist in the microphone. Trump has blamed supporters of Vermont SandersBernie Sanders of vermont senator Bernie Sanders. On friday, where the winner takes all of the state delegates. On the democratic side, delegates are rewarded proportionately with all eyes on florida, illinois, and ohio. In new york city, sanders supporters, many with occupy wall street, gathered in the birthplace of occupy. We are inspired by the incredible amount of momentum and energy that has been in cited. We want to take the conversation as long as possible, and many more people in the political revolution. That is what we are doing here. Amy Hillary Clinton has been forced to walk back statements on Hillary Clinton on ronald reagan. Hillary clinton because of both reagan, innd mrs. Particular mrs. Reagan, we started a National Conversation went before nobody would talk about it, nobody wanted to do anything about it. That, too, is something i really appreciate, with her very effective, lowkey advocacy. T it penrated thpublic conscice, and opleegan to say we he to do mething about th. Amy after ctics not that esident agan aot eve figgs and reagan president aidsn did not even mention until the end of his presidency. She credited clinton also came under attack over the weekend are criticizing rival Bernie Sanders record on Health Care Reform in the 1990s. The clinton i get a chuckle when i hear my opponent talking about doing it. I do not know where he was when i was talking about health care in 1993 and 1994. Amy sanders was standing right behind clinton in a dress on Health Care Reform in acting 93. In ankara, a car bomb attack has killed 37 people, marking the second such attack in less than a month. No one has taken responsibility, but unnamed officials alleged one of the bombers was a female member of the kurdistan Workers Party, or pkk. Turkey has vowed a crackdown, launching airstrikes, targeting kurdish rebels in northern iraq, imposing curfews in majority kurdish towns and arresting at least 36 people. In the west african nation of ivory coast, militants attacked a beach resort in the south, killing at least 16 people, a number of them foreigners. Maghreb in the islamic has claimed responsibility. It protests was stationed at the countrys long the balkan route closed their borders. About 12,000 people are living in a makeshift tent camp that was drenched with rain over the weekend. The refugees called for german chancellor Angela Merkel to pressure other countries to open borders. Back in germany, the german chancellor faced a major setback as an antirefugee party made historic gains in regional elections, entering state parliament in all three regions that voted. The elections were seen as a rebuke of her policies, allowing one in one million refugees to enter germany in the past year. Israeli air strikes in gaza have killed two palestinian children. A 10yearold boy and his sixyearold sister. Palestinian officials said yes he abu cus a was killed by trap said yes seen abu coosa khoussa wasabu killed by trap eyes he slept. His sister died in a hospital. Police on okinawa have arrested a u. S. Navy seaman accused of raping a japanese tourist as she slept at her hotel. Past allegations of Sexual Assault have been at the center of protest over the presence of u. S. Troops and planned construction of the new u. S. Base in okinawa. The japanese government agreed to halt construction on the new base and resume talks wi local authorities who oppose it. In brazil, more than one Million People have rally to call for the impeachment of president Dilma Rousseff amid an economic crisis and corruption scandal. A polling firm said a record half Million People rallied in sao paulo alone, while estimates by military police, who have been accused of inflating numbers in the past, put the nationwide turnout at about 3. 5 million. The protests, after her Workers Party predecessor Luiz Inacio Lula da silva, was charged with money laundering. Has increasedri her lead in perus president ial race after two rivals were disqualified from running. She is the daughter of former rightwing peruvian president alberto fujimori, now in prison for crimes including death squads to carry out massacres. She was complicit in a dictatorship, and human rights were violated which women were sterilized, which fears of corruption crimes were committed our country. Amy in alabama, prisoners staged uprising at the William Holman correctional facility, stabbing and wounding a warden and a guard and setting at least one fire. The riot comes amidst longstanding complaints about overcrowding in alabamas prisons. Has narrowed his list of potential Supreme Court nominees to three names and could announce in an could announce an appointment to replace Antonin Scalia a. s reach rayna vossen, merrick garland, and paul watford. Sri srinivasan was confirmed to his current Appeals Court posed by an Unanimous Senate vote of 970. He would be the first asianamerican a first hindu on the court. New data from nasa shows Global Temperatures last month smashed previous monthly records. Andorologists jeff masters bob henson called the report a bombshell, a true shocker. The investigator journalist media critic, editor, ikian hastor been bagd died. 1971, as an editor at the Washington Post, he received the pentagon papers from Whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg and turned them over to alaska senator mike gravel, who entered them into the congressional record. He pulled the story of how ben gdikian give him the topsecret documents, which exposed the true history of u. S. Involvement in the anon. Tell you i have to have a little more experienced or to here is how we are going to transfer the papers. You are going to come at 12 00 at night under the marquee of the Mayflower Hotel in washington, d. C. At 12 00. You park your car there, i will come up with my car, open your andk, i will open my trunk, we will process the papers and i will race off. That is how we will do it, and they will not even know how they do it. Storyou can see the whole at democracynow. Org. Died at his home in berkeley, california, friday at the age of 96. Those are some of the headlines. ,his is democracy now democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Republican front runner donald trump is facing growing criticism from across the political spectrum for a. For appearing to condone violence. Speaking at meet the press, he said he instructed his staff to look into paying the legal fees for a trump supporter who punched an africanamerican protester in the face at a recent rally in North Carolina. Donald trump as i told you before, nothing condones, but the man got carried away. He is 78 years old. He obviously loves the country and maybe he does not like seeing what happened. I want to see the full page. I am going to look at it. I am going to see what is behind this because it was a strange event. From what i heard, there was a lot of talk because a certain finger was placed in the air. Not nice i do not condone the violence or what he did, and i have instructed my people to look into it, yes. Amy Donald Trumps comments came two days after he canceled a rally at the university of illinois chicago after thousands of people staged antitrump protests inside and outside the venue. After he canceled the event, scuffles broke out inside and outside the rally. Five people were arrested. One trump supporter was photographed giving a nazi louis, ate it in st. Least 31 people were arrested friday at a trump rally. The cover of saturdays New York Daily News showed a bloodied africanamerican processed or protester. The headline read, blood on dons hands. On saturday a man in dayton charged through security barricade. Our principles released an ad highlighting trumps endorsement of violence. Trumps campaign violence. Donald trump i would like to punch him in the face, not the crappy out of him. I promise you, i will pay for the legal fees. Now his Campaign Manager faces criminal charges for allegedly assaulting a female reporter. Today it was said earlier this week that trumps Campaign Manager grabbed me by the arm and showed to me to the ground. They are not telling the truth. There is an eyewitness of a Washington Post supported. Another supporter arrested for assault. A trump supporter is under arrest after punching a protester at a rally. The latest in what some believe the next time we see him, we might have to kill him. Donald trump is too reckless and dangerous to be president. Amy in the wake of the violent protests, trumped blamed supporters of vermont senator Bernie Sanders for the unrest. Sunday trump wrote a message on twitter saying, Bernie Sanders is lying when he says his disruptors are not told to go to my events. Be careful, bernie, or my supporters will go to yours, he tweeted. Sunday night Bernie Sanders appeared at a Town Hall Forum and was asked about this weekend positive element. Mr. Trump said that he is prepared to pay the legal costs of an individual who sucker punched somebody at a recent event. He is going to pay the legal who committed a terrible act of violence. That means is that donald trump is literally inciting violence with his supporters. He is saying if you go out and beat somebody up, that is ok, i will pay the legal fees. That is an outrage, and i would hope that mr. Trump tones it down big time and tells his supporters that violence is not acceptable in the american political process. Amy that is president ial candidate Bernie Sanders speaking last night. Pallares is with us, professor of political signs and latin american and latino studies at the university of illinois at chicago per she is an advisor to the fearless undocumented alliance. We are also joined by yasmeen elagha, sophomore at university of illinois at chicago, president of the palestine childrens relief fund, the student at the a Student Organization at the uic. Can you talk about what took place on friday . The organizing before hand, d then what happened . Yes. About a week before the event, faculty, staff, students on the campus learned that a trump rally was being held in the uic pavilion, which is on our campus. At that point there were different responses. Immediately a Facebook Page created. And organizers decided to have a protest. Then there was also a petition that circulated, that was i think ultimately signed by 50,000 people asking that it be canceled. , then one day of that chancellor responded the event would continue, and the allowing week, we wrote letter saying asking the university to please come on the basis of security, kind of potentially rethink the decision , but if not, to make sure that students and the community, everyone, whether they were just working there or whether they were protesting, could feel safe and could feel protected. Elagha, talk about the student side of things. Yasmeen all of the Student Organization leaders who wish to be a part of it, throughout the week hasnt last friday, saturday, and sunday, we were planning it really sporadic. Monday night we all decided to meet, and we decided that day that we would have a protest inside and outside. The organizing surprisingly went pretty smoothly. We throughout the week talked to each other, divided into smaller groups, and then on friday amy what were you protesting . Yasmeen as a coalition, we were protesting Donald Trumps speech and his attempts to divide the nation. As students, we had small groups and eh group otested differt idea. The grouias in wa protesng his stance on refugees and immigrants. About mexicans, about blacks, and the things he was saying about them. And these groups were dispersed and we feltdience, we could get our point across with a maximum disturbance throughout his speech. Amy why didnt you want him to speak at the university at all . Amalia i was not necessarily part of created the petition that requested that. I did say in the letter that we that, we said that we felt we respected free speech, but we felt that given the diversity in the campus, given in the community, that we felt issues of security and protection should be important considerations, and i still believe that when such an event happens on campus, when there is a history of attacks that are violent and ostracizing of peoples color in the majority of our students are students of color, then it is a consideration for the University Community that it is safety and protection of our students, that is important, and whether the university should think about that before holding an event. , we know howhat, to organize our students can be. That they wereknew going to protester at our main concern is that the University Police and all the different security would make sure that would not be criminalized, racialized. This is a place where they graduate. This is the place we did not want to be a Place Associated with hate. Amy it is confusing why this rally was canceled, professor pallares. Did trump say the police advised him to cancel it . Amalia he did say that. But the police have stated they were never in conversations with trump that he cancel it or recommend that he cancel it. Nor was the university the to dosity was prepared to make sure that the rally was held, so nobody recommended he cancel it. He canceled it because he decided to cancel it. Elagha, do you feel that your purposes were served by trump canceling the massive rally . How many people would you say were protesters, and how many were Trump Supporters . Yasmeen i would definitely say that we reached the goal by having canceled the rally. His original intent was to hold the rally, and despite the enormous amount of protesters that were at expected to be there, he still decided to come after seeing the sheer amount that came out and were against his coming to the university. He decided to cancel. I think that for us was a success because our voices came across and they actually reached him. Like professor pallares said, nobody advised him to cancel the rally. Him deciding to do that on his own after realizing the backlash from chicago, was a historic moment for us as students and the city of chicago for this campaign. T was a success for us in terms of the numbers, i think it is safe to say that he was probably half and half before the announcement of the cancellation. It seemed they were morrump supporters, but afrwards we realized a lot of people that came were undercover Trump Supporters or undercover protesters, imorry, whhad tout up th facade bng a suorter to be let because lot ofeople were being jected. One grp was wearing shirts that said muslims are human, something along those lines. Lot of people went undercover after the announcement of the cancellation of the event, it was obvious that there was a huge amount of protesters. On sunday, trump tweeted, be careful, bernie, or my supporters will go to yours. Questioned onr cnn about whether he was threatening sanders. This was his response. Donald trump it