It through the impeachment. Amy today we spend the hour looking at the growing political crisis in brazil and air an exclusive extended broadcast interview with ousted brazilian president dilma roussef. She was impeached last year in what many described as a legislative coup. This comes as brazil is engulfed in a major Corruption Scandal. Rousseff is a former political prisoner who took part in the underground resistance to the u. S. Backed brazilian dictatorship in the 1960s. She was jailed where she was repeatedly tortured. When a was a prisoner in Rio De Janeiro, they would throw water at you and it would also connect wires to your toes. They would alslso place on your headad these electric cables. Is worst thing in torture electrical shock. Amy we will first speak with Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Glenn Greenwald, who is based in brazil, about how the countrys major Corruption Scandal has only widened. At its center are many of the rightwing politicians who orchestrated rousseffs ouster, including her successor, president michel temer. He said troops into the streets of the capital brasilia this week. All that and more, coming up. Orchestrated rousseffs ouster, including her successor, welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. In a major setback to president trump, the u. S. 4th Circuit Court of appeals has refused to reinstate trumps ban on all refugees and citizens of six majoritymuslim nations from entering the United States in the majority decision chief judge Roger Gregory wrote that trumps executive order uses vague words of National Security, but in con drips with religious intolerance, animus, and discrimination. The Justice Department has vowed to challenge the Appeals Court ruling and take it to thee suprpre court. In montana, republican tech millionaire Greg Gianforte has won a special election for t the states solele congressional set a day after he was charged with assaulting a reporter. Gianforte won about 51 of the vote defeating democratic , challenger rob quist received 44 . On wednesday, gianforte bodyslammed guardian reporter ben jacobs to the floor after jacobs tried to ask about the republican Healthcare Plan. Gianforte addressed the incident during his victory speech last night. An action i cant take back. I am a proud of what happened. I should not have responded in the way that i did. And for that, i am sorry. Amy more than 6 million was spent by outside groups in montanas special electition, 9 of the money favored gianforte. The Washington Post is reporting president trumps soninlaw andnd influential advisor Jared Kushner has become a focus of the investigation into russias meddling in the 2016 election. According to the post, investigators are focusing on meetings kushner had with the Russian AmbassadorSergey Kislyak and the head of a russian n bank which had been under u. S. Sanctions. The postt reports kushner iss the ononly Current White House official known to be considered a key person in the fbi probe. President trump met with nato leaders in brussels thursday and accused certain member countries of owing massive amounts of money to the u. S. And nato. Pres. Trump 2 23 of the 28 memr nations are not paying with a should be paying and w what theyre s supposed to be paying for their defefense. This is not fair to the people and taxpayers of the United States. Amy under nato rules, state contributions are considered voluntary. Meanwhile trump made headlines , in brussels when he was videotaped apparently shoving the Prime Minister of montenegro in order to get to the front of the group of world leaders. In news from egypt, at least 24 Coptic Christians have died after gunmemen opened fire on a bus headaded to aa monastery soh of cairo. The attack comes less than two months after 46 people died in a interpretingngs coptic churches. The government has blocked access to many new sites, including al jazeera, huffington post, arabic, and mada masr which is the leading independent news outlet in egypt. In britain, an eighth arrest has been made in connection to mondays suicide bombing in manchester that killed 22 people. This comes as investigators are attempting to piece together the recent whereabouts of the suspected bomber salman abedi. Authorities believe the manchesterborn man was recently attempting to piece together the in libya and then traveled back to britain via turkey and germany. Abedis sister said she believed he carried out the bombings as revenge for the wars in the middle east. She said i think he saw children Muslim Children dying everywhere, and wanted revenge. The manchester bombings comes just weeks before british voters head to the polls for a general election. Earlier today British Labour , leader Jeremy Corbyn said there is a link between Foreign Policy and the growing terror threat. We must be brave enough to isit that the war on terror not woworking. We need a smarter way to reduce the threat from couountries that nurture terrorists and generate terrorism. Amy meanwhile, in syria, u. S. S. Led Coalition Air strikes have reportedly killed at leleat 35 civililians, including five children, in the eastern town of mayadeen. According to the syrian observatory for human rights the , strikes hit a series of residential buildings. The pentagon has admitted in a new report at least 105 iraqi civilians died in u. S. Airstrike airstrikes in mosul in march, making it one of the deadliest u. S. Bombings of the war. But u. S. Central command blamed the high death toll on explosives that militants from Islamic State were storing in the targeted building. The pentagons death estimate is far lower than previous counts. Iraqi Civil Defense forces initially put the death toll at 278 civilians. On capitol hill bipartisan , resolutions have been introduced in the senate and house to block president trumps 110 billion saudi arms deal. The senate bill was introduced by republican rand paul and democrats chris murphy and al franken. In a statement senator paul said , given saudi arabias past support of terror, poor human rights record, and questionable tactics in its war in yemen, Congress Must carefully consider and thoroughly debate if selling them billions of dollars of arms is in our best National Security interest at this time. And while trump was visiting brussels on his first european trip as president , barack obama spoke in berlin thursday. He never mentioned trump by name but said countries should not , hide behind walls. He also expressed concern that progress made on Health Care Reform in the United States will soon be rolled back. Pres. Obama certainly, i have some regrets that we werent able to get Everyone Health care and obviously, some of the progress we made is now imperiled because there is still a significant debate taking place in the United States. But the point is, for those 20 Million People, their lives have been better. And we have set a standard of what is possible that people can then build on. Amy obamas remarks came a day after the Congressional Budget Office said the new republican Healthcare Plan would cause 23 Million People to lose their healthcare by 2026. And those are some of the headlines. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Today we spend the hour looking at the growing political crisis in brazil and air an exclusive broadcast interview with former brazilian president Dilma Rousseff. She was impeached last august as brazil in what many described as a legislative coup. Her impeachment came as brazil was engulfed in a major Corruption Scandal, but rousseff herself was never accused of any financial impropriety. Her removal ended nearly 14 years of rule by the leftleaning Workers Party which had been credited with lifting millions of brazilians out of poverty. Since rousseffs removal from ouster last year brazils , Corruption Scandal has only widened. At the center of the scandal are many of the rightwing politicians who orchestrated rousseffs ouster. Her successor, brazilian president michel temer, is now facing mounting calls to resign or be impeached, following explosive testimony released by the Supreme Court accusing him of accepting millions of dollars in bribes since 2010. On wednesday, temer authorized the deployment of the army to the capital brasilia as tens of thousands of protesters marched to congress to demand his resignation. Facing public outcry temer has since order the troops off the streets. In a moment, we will air our recent interview with Dilma Rousseff. But first, i want to turn to interview Juan Gonzalez and i did on wednesday with the Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Glenn Greenwald who is based in brazil. I asked him to describe recent events there. It is amazing because we have spoken often over the past 18 months of the political crisis. I thought you could never have a more insane and unhinged political situauation as was in brazil until november 202016 whn i thought the u. S. Has surprised it andnd brazil looks same. Againste argument impeachment all along was that in thehe scope of wronongdoing, whatever you think of dilma , what she was even accused of, even if you believe it all, so pills in comparison to the criminality and corruption of virtually everybody who is surrounding her and would be empowered once she was removed that to rememove her in the name of corruption was to be so perversese because whahat youre doingng was empowering corruption. Now you have michel temer, who could never have been electededn hihis own, w was extremely unpor literally Single Digits of approval, has had one Corruption Scandal after the next, a full ththird of his cabinet are now e targets of criminal investigations. But what has really reached a boiling point, what caused it to really explode, was lasttargetsk video and audio tapes surfaced of him meeting just three months ago with a millionaire or a multimillionaire executive in which he approved and encouraged anand even directed the paymentf bribes, including the House Speaker who presided over dilm ass impeachment, to keep the silence as part of the investigation, directing bribes to otherer members of his party ackley getting caught on tape ordering bribes. This is the person they installed with a removed dilma in the name of corruption. Amy and they did not accuse her personally. She is one of the few officials in brasilia was never been accused of corruption for her own personal gain. This has been piling up, the accusations against temer. Everyone agreed to ignore them because he was willing to be a popular as a result. Brazilian elites wanted him in there because he was one of the few willing to do it. Now it is even too embarrassing event for brazil to have a president i think that everyone can listen to ordering bribes. He is refusing to resign. The combination of his refusing to leave office at the same time imposing very harsh and severe austerity cuts that are harming , listening tozil tales of the rich stealing hundreds of millions or billions of dollars has caused serious protests which commented yesterday at the nations capital, demanding his ouster. My husband, who is Donna City Council of Rio De Janeiro as part of the socialist party was there. He said he is nenever seen aggression of the tight not only shooting live, bullets at protesters, but the military has been deployed by president temer onto the streets to battle activists and protesters. Juan i want to ask you about lula, the former president. There are new charges apparently on top of some existing charges against him . Clearly, an attempt to get him convicted on something so he wowould not be a little run for because he is the one of the most Popular Figures in brazil . Incredible irony. If you remove temer, the question becomes, how do you select his replacement . The only two choices are you let the congress, which is one of the most corruptpt lot is in the worlrld, choose his replalaceme, yet another corrupt individual, or allow the natural course of democracy to take hold, which is elections. The problem is if there are elections, it is highly likely that lula, who presided over Economic Growth and lifting tens of millions of people out of poverty, would be elected. Imagine going through this whole political crisis of removing return. Nly to have lula they are petrified of that. At the same time, he faces serious corruption allegations. These are not invented. None of them has been proven, but theyre also not jokes. It is almost a rush to see if the elites can make him and eligible to run by convicting him of a crime or whether he can beat them by having a president ial election which he is likely to win. That is the struggle taking place. Amy the police using live bullets. Haveve people being killed . People were, two shot. They are in the hospital. No one knows there commission. To open live bullets on political protesters is as extreme as a government can be. Amy we are moving into our extended interview with the ousted president Dilma Rousseff. In a minute, can you describe the significance . This woman who was a guerrilla, who was imprisoned, tortured herself she was tortured and then became prpresident of f br. A complex story. I interviewed her last year. She is one of the most Inspiring Women on the planet for the reasons you just encountered. She is incredibly strong and resolute. At the same time, she presided over a lot of economic suffering. There is no question she mismanaged the economy. Yet in the middle of this extreme corruption, they found almost nothing on her yet she was removed. Her legacy is pretty mixed and at the same time, i think she has found complete vindication because that was always her argument, which is, the people removing the in the name of corruption are the ones who are most corrupt and doing it to protect themselves. That has borne out. Amy Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Glenn Greenwald speaking on thursday. He lives in brazil. Shortly after we taped that interview, brazilian president michel temer ordered brazilian troops off the streets. When we come back from break we , will air our exclusive extended interview with former brazilian president Dilma Rousseff. Among the things she will talk about is being torturered and jailed under the brazilian dictatorship and how she rose to become president of brazil. Stay with us. [music break] amy this is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. As we continue to look at the political crisis in brazil, we turn to brazils ousted president Dilma Rousseff, who was impeached last year in what many describe as a coup. Her removal ended nearly 14 years of rule by the leftleaning Workers Party, which had been credited with lifting millions of brazilians out of poverty. Rousseff is a former political prisoner who took part in the underground resistance to the u. S. Backed brazilian dictatorship in the 1960s. She was jailed from 1970 to 1972 during which time she was , repeatedly tortured. Dilma rousseff would later become a key figure in the Workers Party under president Luiz Inacio Lula da silva. She was elected president in 2010 and reelected in 2014. I spoke with president rousseff when she came to new york in april. I began by asking her how, and why, she was ousted from power last year. I believe that the motives that led me to be removed from my position as president and in what was really a coup detat because there was no real high crime and misdemeanor in my case i could attribute this to three , motives. One, which is more important than all the others, has to do with great misogyny and for the first time a woman was elected president. This misogynist treatment has to do with how men and women are seen and described in politics. Women are harsh and insensitive. Men are strong and sensitive. Women, when working intensely, are considered obsessive compulsive. Whereas a man is considered a hard worker. So all of these uses of instruments to attack a woman were mobilized against me. In addition to the many low quality words but what led to , the impeachment were two major , things. They sought to keep they, the one, coupmongers, from the pmdb and