Pentagon to pull 2500 u. S. Troops from afghanistan, iraq, by mid january. And that the Defense Department will cut the number of troops in afghanistan from 452500, the number of forces in iraq from 322505 january 15th, just 5 days before joe biden would get sworn in. Naturally cries of National Security dominated the airwaves in response to this news. Yes, it was an all out political news media blitz to convince you that somehow removing us troops and bringing them home from war are now multigenerational wars. That somehow puts them in more danger than being in a never ending war. But that wasnt the only bad news for the pentagon this week, as it appears once again. They just cant seem to get the old books right. Reuters is now reporting that the pentagon failed, failed its comprehensive audit in fiscal 2 the and fiscal year 2020. Thats the 3rd year. The pentagon has failed since the 1st audit was conducted back in 2018. But apparently my friends there misuse and disregard for keeping
Across the United States. We will speak to members of the Standing Rock sioux and Navajo Nation and go to north dakota, which has the highest covid19 death rate of any state or country in the world. Then democracy now cohost Juan Gonzalez looks at how the Corporate Media missed the real story about latinx voter turnout in the 2020 election. Juan the main story is that in an election which saw historic tnout, people of color, and especially latinos, had an unprecedented increase in voting. And they, not white voters, represented the bulk of that increase. Amy plus, we will speak to antiracist activist bree newsome bass and princeton professor eddie glaude about the election of joe biden and Kamala Harris. We have to get about the work of responding to the problems we face as a nation at scale and not returning back to some sense of normalcy, which in some ways laid the foundation for the disaster that was and is trumpism. Amy a that d more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democrac
Democracy, our ability to choose our leaders. It has to start soon or we are into deeper yogurt than a dairy. For more than two weeks President Trump is been claiming the election stinks to high heaven and it was stolen from him hurt his been online every day tweeting the great state of michigan with those being far greater than the number of people who voted. May not certify the election, the democrats cheated big time and got caught. They would not let republican poll watchers into the counting room was unconstitutional. And sometimes, my favorite, i won the election. Today fox and Friends White House press secretary Kayleigh Mcenany echoed those claims and more. There were three groups of ballots and counted in georgia amounting to his nearly 6000 votes per gift 2034 pages of sworn affidavits in michigan one county alone alleging agree just misconduct bipolar workers pushing back observers. Their allegations of fraud in there. Their allegations in pennsylvania. So far heres the prob
Greeting since us President Donald Trump dast it could double stating laws to former Vice President joe biden, all the way back on what feels like ages ago. November 3rd, our brand name in chief has been running a sort of scorched earth transition policy from outright denying his defeat in a half brained attempt to muddy the upcoming Electoral College vote in the summer for team to his randomly on purpose. Firings of pentagon and Homeland Security officials who just happen to disagree with them about the election. Trumpets, how the news media isnt political punditry for outrage, machine running on full time minutes on a full tank of gas 27. 00 ratings, clicks and pearl clutching was galore. But it wasnt until recent reports that on his way out the door, the donald may drawdown or outright end the u. S. Wars in afghanistan and iraq. That, that hit the washington d. C. Where it hurts the most right between its military Industrial Complex legs. In fact, the hill is now reporting that acti
Wrong. Its a late show with Stephen Colbert. Tonight down for the count. Plus, stephen welcomes Shepard Smith. And musical guests leon bridges and lucky daye. Featuring jon batiste and stay homin. And now, live on tape from the ed sullivan Theater Office building in new york city, its Stephen Colbert stephen welcome, ladies and gentlemen to a late show. It is 11 35 east coast time, and cbs is ready to project that i am your host, Stephen Colbert. Though theres a good chance donald trump is going to challenge that in court. And 24 hours later, we still dont know the winner of the president ial election. I win i win i win stephen get out of here go more on that later. As you can see, i am still on the election set, because the elections still going on. As we knew it would. We planned to keep this set up for days, because, covid. Its going to take a while to count all the votes and its all coming down to a few states where theyre still counting votes in north carolina, georgia, nevada, an