Many under the control of things ganga that kidnap people and extort people and now mexico is a very dangerous safe place. As president obama hosts mexican president pena nieto at the white house, we speak to a mexican journalist living in exile who just exposed how federal police in mexico were involved in the disappearance of 43 students in iguala, guerrero. We will speak to Anabel Hernandez. First, we go to boston where jury selection has begin in the trial of accused bostomarathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. The new u. S. Congress convenes today with republicans in control of both houses for the first time in eight years. Republicans now have 246 seats in the house, their largest majority in nearly 70 years. The new congress is also more diverse than ever before, with a record 104 women, including utah representative mia love, the first black republican woman in congres
Like you said, just creepy. D. C. Mayor vince gray tying up a few loose ends before he leaves office on friday. Today he signed a few bills into law, one of them approving funding for a soccer stadium to be built at Buzzard Point in southwest. I know the purpose of this transaction is to keep our soccer team here in the District Of Columbia and create a new venue for them to play. Lets be mindful that it also will create a tremendous catalyst for Economic Development in an area that tremendously blighted. He signed a bill that establishes a memorial for a victims of the metro crash in 2009. Hundreds of officers paid their final respects to corporal jumedical clagget. He was killed when his cruiser went off the road and struck a tree. Stephanie ramirez was there for the solemn sendoff. Reporter the last this corp corporal jumedical clagget did was surprise people with breakfast, acts of kindness. Thats how family and friends tell us how the corporal lived, helping out the homeless. Even
We will speak to mark potok of the southern poverty law center. Then to narcoland. Now in mexico, there many, many under the control of things ganga that kidnap people and extort people and now mexico is a very dangerous safe place. As president obama hosts mexican president pena nieto at the white house, we speak to a mexican journalist living in exile who just exposed how federal police in mexico were involved in the disappearance of 43 students in iguala, guerrero. We will speak to Anabel Hernandez. First, we go to boston where jury selection has begin in the trial of accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. The new u. S. Congress convenes today with republicans in control of both houses for the first time in eight years. Republicans now have 246 seats in the house, their largest majority in nearly 70 years. The new congress is also more diverse than ever befo
We will speak to mark potok of the southern poverty law center. Then to narcoland. Now in mexico, there many, many under the control of things ganga that kidnap people and extort people and now mexico is a very dangerous safe place. As president obama hosts mexican president pena nieto at the white house, we speak to a mexican journalist living in exile who just exposed how federal police in mexico were involved in the disappearance of 43 students in iguala, guerrero. We will speak to Anabel Hernandez. First, we go to boston where jury selection has begin in the trial of accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. The new u. S. Congress convenes today with republicans in control of both houses for the first time in eight years. Republicans now have 246 seats in the house, their largest majority in nearly 70 years. The new congress is also more diverse than ever befo
President number 17 was this clown, Andrew Johnson. Inarguably just a terrible president. And there were a lot of terrible things about Andrew Johnson but the most important and notably terrible thing for the time in which he served is that Andrew Johnson was really, flagrantly, unapologetically racist. He became president upon the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Right as the north was winning the civil war. Right . And as the war the civil war was ending, this guy, johnson, became president. And johnson did everything he could to undercut the North Victory in the war and to try to undercut the abolition of slavery for which the war had been fought. Luckily for the country, a lot of the worst stuff that Andrew Johnson wanted to do, congress stepped in and stopped him and congress was able to pass a bunch of important legislation over Andrew Johnsons veto. He had no support. But it made johnson furious, the whole process. Over and over again, congress would pass these bills to try to