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Villages. Amy the battle for new york. In their most contentious debate yet Hillary Clinton and bernie , sanders sparred in brooklyn over wall street, saving Social Security, israel, guns, and more, and we will host our debate here in l. A. Between veteran journalist Robert Scheer and longtime lgbt activist torie osborn. Think about 1000 people protest donald trump in new york. The Police Arrest at least two dozen, including two journalists from democracy now First Amendment rights. As we were saying this, they grabbed the camera and the microphone and slammed us on the ground. In moment later, i saw juan carlos on the ground with dirt on his for head and Police Officers were on top of him and handcuffing him. Amy than what our school Police Officers doing with grenade launchers, and 16 assault rifles, and an antiminetech . We look at the battle getting militarygrade weapons belong inside schools. Getting military grade weapons out of the los angeles schools. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now, democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Lowwage workers across the country walked off the job in more than 300 cities thursday, marking the longest action in the nationwide fight for 15 an hour minimum wage. The fight for 15 is brought together fast food and childcare workers, health care workers, and many more. Thursdays protest followed victories in california and new york, which had become the first states to enact a path toward establishing a 15 in our minimum wage in the coming years. The fight for took center stage 15 at thursday nights democratic debate in brooklyn, new york. In their most contentious debate of the campaign Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders faced off over wall street, saving Social Security, israel, guns and more. Cnn moderator wolf blitzer asked clinton if, given her support for 15 an hour minimum wage she , would sign a bill raising it to 15 an hour. If a Democratic Congress put a 15 and wage bill on your desk, would you sign it . Of course i would. And i have supported i have supported the fight for 15. I am proud to have the endorsement of most of the unions that have led the fight for 15. Im sure a lot of people are surprised to learn that you supported raising the minimum wage to 15 an hour. Aboutn new york city, 1000 people rallied outside the grand height Hotel Thursday to protest an appearance by republican president ial frontrunner donald trump and republican gala. Among those condemning trumps racism direction ine which trump has taken the country and exploded the negativity and the racism in the classism that we know exist, but it is not all right to bail on those values. He has made it appropriate to do it. I think that is terrible. I dont want to live and that kind of country, and i dont want to see young people behind me have to struggle with that kind of amy Police Arrested more than two dozen people, including. Emocracy now s videographers they were taken into custody as they attempted to film the protest. They were held for five hours. We will have more on the action and their arrest, later in the broadcast. Donald Trumps Campaign manager Corey Lewandowski will avoid prosecution for battery after video showed him grabbing breitbart reporter Michelle Fields as she tried to question trump. Fields said lewandowski bruised her arm. But prosecutors in florida, where the incident took place, said there is not enough evidence to pursueriminal charges. Brazils Supreme Court has rejected a lastditch effort by president Dilma Rousseff to avert a looming impeachment vote. Rousseffs attorney general had sought to prevent lawmakers in brazils lower house from voting this sunday, amid reports her opponents have enough votes to advance the impeachment. The senate would then vote on whether to put rousseff on trial on accusations of breaking budget laws. Rousseff has accused her rightwing supporters of attempting a coup. Many of the lawmakers leading the impeachment charge face serious corruption and fraud charges of their own. Republican oklahoma senator jim inhofe has recommended reopening the u. S. Military base on Vieques Island in puerto rico as Congress Considers legislation to address puerto ricos debt crisis. For decades, the navy used nearly three quarters of vieques for bombing practice, war games and dumping old munitions, leading to lasting environmental damage. The navy ended Training Operations in 2003 following a massive civil disobedience campaign. But speaking this week, senator inhofe said reopening the base would benefit the u. S. Military and the puerto rican economy. I would think any kind of a deal that is made is going to have to include consideration of the training. It is still available. Nowhere vstill likeieques anywhere. It cannot be done by one location by joint force. Amy the navy ended their Training Operations in 2003. Senator inhofe is best known for bringing a snowball to the floor of the senate in an effort to debunk global warming. Newly disclosed documents show the university of california davis spent at least 175,000 to try to scrub the internet of criticism following the 2011 pepperspraying of student protesters by campus police. The school made National Headlines after video showed police spraying seated students directly in the face at close range. The Sacramento Bee reports uc davis paid consultants to improve its online image, in part by scrubbing negative search results related to the pepper spray incident. Uc davis is a Public University supported by taxpayer money. At university of massachusetts, amherst about three dozen people , have been arrested after launching a sitin this week to demand the university divest from fossil fuels. Students launched their occupation of an administrative building tuesday. Hours later, umass officials pledged to advocate for a policy that would see the fivecampus umass system divest and prohibit direct investment in fossil fuel companies. Tech Firm Microsoft is suing the Justice Department for the right to inform users when the government is spying on their emails. The lawsuit challenges the governments frequent use of orders barring microsoft from telling people about government requests for their emails and other documents. It focuses on data stored on remote servers in the socalled cloud. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has introduced legislation to legalize doctorassisted suicides for people suffering from serious and incurable diseases. The measure applies only to canadian citizens and residents. Assisted suicide is legal only in a handful of u. S. States. In other news from canada, activist have occupied government offices to demand Prime Minister trudeau visit a First Nations community rocked by a spate of suicide attempts. The attawapiskat first nation in ottawa saw 28 suicide attempts last month within a population of 2000 people, and 11 attempts on saturday alone. Activists with the black lives matter and idle no more movements occupied the toronto offices of a Government Indigenous Affairs agency wednesday, while another group of activists staged a sitin in the agencys Winnipeg Office thursday evening. A mexican woman has been reunited with her two u. S. Citizen children after the three attempted to cross the u. S. Mexico border together to call for authorities to end their separation. Mirna lazcano has been unable to return to her husband and children in new york since returning to mexico in 2013. When she attempted to reenter the United States through the arizona desert, she was captured and deported. This week, lazcanos children came to join her in mexico as she traveled with the caravan for peace, life and justice, a group that has traveled through Central America and mexico calling for an end to the war on drugs. Lazcano spoke out after reuniting with her daughters in mexico. I thank god that i have my daughters here, that i can touch them now. And i thank all of you who have helped me to bring my daughters here this time, and i also want to announce that theyre going to join the caravan starting today. Theyre going to economy to el paso tomorrow until i turn myself into immigration. Amy on thursday, with a daughter on each hand, lazcano turned herself in to immigration authorities in laredo, texas. Meanwhile in mexico, two soldiers face military charges following the release of a video showing them helping a federal Police Officer torturing a civilian woman during an interrogation. The video shows officers pulling the womans hair, putting a rifle muzzle against her head and placing her head in a , plastic bag as she thrashes and nearly passes out. The interrogation took place last february in guerrero state, the same state where 43 students went missing after an encounter with local police in september 2014. Mexicos National Human Rights Commission confirmed thursday a witness has reported two federal police were present when some of the students were taken off a bus and disappeared. The account bolsters earlier journalists reports pointing to a role by federal police as well as the mexican military in the disappearance of the 43 students. And those are some of the headlines. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Were on a 100 city tour marking democracy now s 20 the anniversary. I am amy goodman, broadcasting from los angeles with Juan Gonzalez in new york. In their most contentious debate of the campaign Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders met in brooklyn last night days ahead of the crucial new york primary. Sanders is hoping to pull a major upset in new york on tuesday and keep his streak of victories alive. He has won eight of the last nine contests. But Hillary Clinton, who served im sorry, eight years as a senator from new york, maintains a lead in the polls. On thursday, they sparred over wall street, saving Social Security, israel, guns, and more. The debate began when cnn moderator wolf blitzer asked Bernie Sanders about his recent comment that Hillary Clinton was unqualified to be president. The secretary clinton have the experience in the intelligence to be a president . Of course she does. But i do question but i do question her judgment. I question a judgment which voted for the war in iraq [applause] the worst Foreign Policy blunder in the history of this country, voted for virtually every disastrous trade agreement which cost us millions of decent paying jobs. And i question her judgment about running super pacs which are collecting tens of millions of dollars from special interests, including 15 million from wall street. That that is the kind of judgment we need to be the kind of president we need. Collects secretary clinton . Is true now that the spotlight is pretty bright here in new york, some things have been said and senator sanders did call me unqualified. Ive been called a lot of things in my life. That was a first. That he had to question my judgment. Well, the people of new york voted for me twice to be their senator from new york and [applause] and president obama trusted my judgment enough to ask me to be secretary of state for the United States. So, look, we have disagreements on policy. Theres no doubt about it. But if you go and read, which i hope all of you will before tuesday, senator sanders long interview with the New York Daily News, talk about judgment and talk about the kinds of problems he had answering questions about even his core issue, breaking up the banks. When asked, he could not explain how that would be done. And when asked when asked about a number of foreignpolicy issues, it could not answer about afghanistan, about israel, about counterterrorism, except to say if he had had some paper in front of him, maybe he could. I think you need to have the judgment on day one to be both president and commanderinchief. Amy ny1s errol morris questioned Hillary Clinton about the controversial 1994 crime bill, which many critics say lped fuean era omass incaeration. Collects do you regret your advocacy for the crime bill . I supported the crime bill. My husband has apologized. He was the president who actually signed it. What about you, senator . Im sorry for the consequences that were unintended and have had a very unfortunate impact on peoples lives. I have seen the results of what has happened in families and in communities. At thesenator sanders, Apollo Theater in harlem, you called out president clinton for defending secretary clintons use of the team superpredator back in the 1990s when she supported the crime bill. Why did you call him out . Because it was a racist term and everyone knew it. Amy Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders also sparred on the issue on how to preserve Social Security. This is cnn moderator wolf blitzer. Secretary, lets talk about Social Security, another critically important issue. Senator sanders has challenged you to give a clear answer when it comes to extending the life of Social Security and expanding benefits. Are you prepared to lift the cap on taxable income, which currently stands at 118,500, yes or no . Would you list lift the cap . I said repeatedly, i am going to make the wealthy pay into Social Security to extend the Social Security trust fund. That is one way. If that is the way that we pursue, i will follow that. But there are other ways. We should be looking at taxing passive income by wealthy people. We should be looking at taxing all of their investments. Collects are you or are you not supporting legislation to lift the cap on taxable income and expand Social Security for 58 years and increase benefits . Yes or no . Ive said, yes, were going to pick the best way or combination. Or combination of ways. [boos] it is always a little bit challenging because his senator sanders doesnt agree with how you are approaching something, then you are a member of the establishment. Berniellary clinton and sanders facing off last night and program, new york, head of the april 19 new york primary. Youre making a report card of this debate last night for the New York Daily News, and you also attended what has become very well known is the New York Daily News Editorial Board readings, questioning separately, last weekend, Hillary Clinton and before that, Bernie Sanders. Talk about what happened in those meetings, why this New York Daily News Editorial Board meeting became so significant for these candidates. Juan i attended both of those interviews that the Editorial Board held with sanders and clinton, as well as with republican john kasich, ted cruz, donald trump declined to be interviewed. What ie across came back with from that was significantly different from what has been not only reported, but what senator clinton said last night. She really grossly distorted what actually happened in those meetings. In todays i wrote daily news, i can away with a far different impression that, yes, i believe that senator sanders did stumble somewhat in trying to explain the process by which the banks would be closed that are too big to fail or but i dont think i think overall, she handled all of the questions that were thrown at him pretty well. I can away impressed. I think the central issue, you miss the forest for the trees when you get into the details of dodd frank. The reality is, there are a couple of different ways under dodd frank or the government can order the governments that are too big to fail to do best them selves of certain of their assets. There is certainly going to be legal challenges that occur from the banks if the government or the Federal Reserve does attempt to do so. I think senator sanders made clear there were issues that still had to be resolved that might require legislation from congress to actually affect a reduction of these bank assets. So i think when youre missing the forest for the trees, sanders continues to emphasize that there is a major problem in our Financial System wi