Civilians are displaceded by fighting in northehern syria, President Trump defends his decision to withdraw u. S. Support for the kurds, paving the way for turkeys assault. This comes as the house passes a bipartisan bill to rebuke the president. Today, Vice President mike pence and secretary of state mike pompeo are in turkey seeking a ceasefire. We will get the latest from Congressmember Ro Khanna and also speak with him about the legacy of baltimore Congressmember Elijah Cummings, chair of the House Oversight and Reform Committee. He died earlier today. Whererst, to chicago, 25,000 teachers and thousands more aides, custodians, and security guards, have gone on strike. Is to takerategy back everything that we have already won in previous contracts and offer it back to us with percentages. Not what we have already, not what o our students deserve or what we are demanding, but the same thing or less. That is the problem here. Amy all that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now
Quorum call quorum call the presiding officer the senator for ohio. Mr. Brown i ask unanimous consent to dispense with the quorum call. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Brown right now, at this moment, thousands of u. A. W. Workers in ohio, in places like the chevrolet plant in the cleveland area, the transmission plant in toledo, the plant in defiance, ohio, all over the country are going without their paychecks, without their Health Insurance to demand that General Motors respect the work they do to make their company successful. In a nutshell, workers are fed up. More and more of them are beginning to see that unions are the best way to make their voices heard. For too long, General Motors hasnt listened. Auto workers are the engine behind g. M. s success. G. M. Wouldnt be making a dime in profit without the workers who actually make their cars and trucks. Back up for a moment, mr. President. Think about whats happened to General Motors, and you have you have auto worker
Last year he was barred from entering a migrant child jail inside an old walmart in brownsville, texas, where over 1000 children were being held. He is out with a new book americas better than this trumps war against migrant families. There is nothing darker than the deliberate mistreatment of Migrant Children as a strategy to determine immigration. Literally mistreating children is not acceptable under any moral code or religious tradition. We have to stop his new plan of indefinite incarceration of these children. Amy are houses is on fire. As the french president declares the devastating fires in the amazon to be a an International Crisis at of the g7 summit, we will looook at how the policiesf brazils far r right president Jair Bolsonaro are destroying the amazon. Bolsonaro needs to face stop the b burning, that we will not tolerate deforestatation. We will fight the crimes that deststroyed thee forest. He attacks inspectors and scientists in the indigenous. He criticizes them all,
Last year he was barred from entering a migrant child jail inside an old walmart in brownsville, texas, where over 1000 children were being held. He is out with a new book americas better than this trumps war against migrant families. There is nothing darker than the deliberate mistreatment of Migrant Children as a strategy to determine immigration. Literally mistreating children is not acceptable under any moral code o or religious tradition. We have to stop his new plan of indefinite incarceration of these children. Amy are houses is on fire. As the french president declares the devastating fires i in the amazon to be an N International crisis at of the g7 summit, we will look k at how the policiesf brazils far riright president Jair Bolsonaro are destroying the amazon. Bolsonaro needs to face stop the bururning, that we will not tolerate deforestatition. We will fight the crimes that destroroyed the forest. He attacks inspectors and scientists in the indigenous. He criticizes them a
President trump condemns White Supremacy, but fails for acknowledge his own ratist rhetoric t that was echoed in t man necessary owe of the antigunman who killed 22 people in el paso. Trump proposed no new major gun control measures but instead blamed video games and Mental Illness for the spike in Mass Shootings. President trump Mental Illness and hatred pulls the trigger, not the gun. Amy well get response from two leading gun control advocates, plus well speak to manny and Patricia Oliver. Their son joaquin was killed last year in the Mass School Shooting in parkland, florida. They just happened to be in el paso on saturday to unveil a mural near the u. S. Mexico border on what would have been joaquins 19th birthday. And we will get an update on the political crisis in puerto rico. All that and more, coming up. Amy welcome to democracy now, democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. The death toll in saturdays massacre at an El Paso Walmart has gone up to 22 people