That is the headline of a new article about escalating crashes clashes on syrian soil. We will speak with the author, New York Times Beirut Bureau chief and with canadian a canadian researcher. As the deadly flu sweeps across the United States, will go to austin, texas, to speak with austin city Councilmember Gregorio Casar where the council is set to vote on an historic ordinance for mandated paid sick leave. The infection rate has decreased by 6 or 7 . Getare twice as likely to everybody else sick. Workers fromnt having six sick leave. Amy can they overcome the opposition of a Koch Brothers based lobbying group . All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now, democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. President trump unveiled his 4. 4 trillion budget plan monday, proposing deep cuts to education, healthcare, and social safety net programs, while massively increasing the pentagons budget. Trumps plan would slash the department of educations budget by more th
The United States is designating north korea as a state sponsor of terrorism. It should have happened a long time ago. It should have happened years ago. In addition to threatening the world by nuclear devastation, north korea has repeatedly supported acts of International Terrorism including assassinations on foreign soil. So let me bring in head of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for scholars and former california congresswoman. A pleasure to have you on. Welcome. Thank you, brooke. So designating north korea as a state sponsor of terror. How significant is that . Its a big deal, and its sad that the news is going to move to tweets. This should be the centerpiece of President Trumps day. It was worked on by rex tillerson. Kudos to our secretary of state who worked behind the scenes with all of the countries in the region to support this effort and its clearly justified. Its legal to do this. North korea was on the state sponsor of terrorism list until it was removed in 2008 b
Planned, ordered up ready to go. Walmart Just Announced its not going to sell guns anymore to people under the age of 21. The president made a bunch of startling comments on camera today about gun safety reform, comments out of keeping with his previous remarks on this subject. Therefore and for some other reasons, nobody really thinks he meant any of the things he said, and hes the president , so theres chaos around those remarks themselves. Then the white house the Communications Director hope hicks, suddenly resigned today without warning. Our newsroom, our cubicle farm set up to work on my show is in a sort of corner of the building here and way down at the other end of the floor is the folks from chris hayes show and around the corner theres a couple of other shows. Were all very rarely looking at the same time at the same thing. But when the hope hicks news broke it was like a stadium wave, it was like, oh, oh, oh, oh, all the way down the floor. It was a legitimate surprise. So
Bring us any news youre hearing on this rather remarkable headline, ashley parker. Jared kushner, the president s soninlaw, has been under scrutiny since minutes after the election was won for i think his very earliest contacts with foreign governments, as he sought to fill out all the background forms that anyone going to work in the white house fills out. The sf86. The more extensive form, its been amend ed countless times. His clearance attorney, jamie gerelik, who was a very senior democrat at the doj, has departed him. Hes now represented by abbe lowell in the special counsel investigation. Hes someone at the center of every controversy facing this white house. Hes also at the center of every ambitious Foreign Policy goal that this president has. Today he has been stripped of the security clearance that permitted him to read the most sensitive piece of intel inside that west wing. The president ial daily brief. Huge news for this white house. Thats right. It is huge news. You know
Im Yasmin Vossoughian alongside louis burgdorf. We begin with fresh concerns that the u. S. May not be ready to thwart the cyber intrusion expected from russia ahead of the midterm elections. Three senior u. S. Intelligence officials tell nbc news that there is substantial evidence that russia backed operatives gained entry into the elect websites or Voter Registration systems of seven states prior to the 2016 election. Those states include alaska, arizona, california, florida, illinois, texas and wisconsin as you see on that map. All state officials agree no voters were changed and no on voters were taken off the rolls. While several states were told foreign entities were probing their systems, state Officials Say none were told russia was behind it. To this day illinois is the only state to acknowledge that its systems were compromised. The other six deny they were breached based on their own investigations. Discrepancy that Officials Say underscores how unprepared some experts belie