Dismantling, destruction of soviet nuclear and chemical weapons. Next, former senators sam nunn and Richard Lugar marked the 25th anniversary of the initiative in the historic kennedy caucus room on capitol hill. Hopehour and 15 minute discussion and Award Ceremony was hosted by the National Security archive, the Carnegie Endowment, and the Nuclear Threat initiative. Thomas blanton ladies and gentlemen, distinguished guests, just a few words of welcome today. I am tom blanton, i am director of the National Security archive at George Washington university and honored to be one of the organizers of today. This is the day that 25 years ago president george h. W. Bush signed the nunnlugar legislation into law. Now being document fetishists, we scoured the bush library for the photographs of that extraordinary moment, and none exist. There was not a signing ceremony, which gives you a sense of the kind of mixed opinion in the Bush Administration about this Congressional Initiative in foreig
things. nypd s secret spying unit. today, pillow to prize-winning journalist matt apuzzo and adam goldman on how the new york police department, with help from the cia, spies on muslim neighborhoods across the city and northeast. the police targeted mosques, coffee shops, student groups and even a soccer league. first, they will talk about the mass shooting in washington. 50 years after the ku klux klan bombed the 16th street baptist church in birmingham, alabama, we will speak with sarah collins rudolph. she lost her eye in the blast that killed her sister addie mae collins and three other little girls. i remember when the bomb went off, i said, jesus because it scared me so bad and i hollered for my sister. as she didn t give me an answer. all of that and more coming up. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i m amy goodman. 13 people have died after former navy reservist opened fire at a naval base in washington, d.c. monday morning, killi
things. nypd s secret spying unit. today, pillow to prize-winning journalist matt apuzzo and adam goldman on how the new york police department, with help from the cia, spies on muslim neighborhoods across the city and northeast. the police targeted mosques, coffee shops, student groups and even a soccer league. first, they will talk about the mass shooting in washington. 50 years after the ku klux klan bombed the 16th street baptist church in birmingham, alabama, we will speak with sarah collins rudolph. she lost her eye in the blast that killed her sister addie mae collins and three other little girls. i remember when the bomb went off, i said, jesus because it scared me so bad and i hollered for my sister. as she didn t give me an answer. all of that and more coming up. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i m amy goodman. 13 people have died after former navy reservist opened fire at a naval base in washington, d.c. monday morning, killi
insurrectionist, amplifying racist videos,protecting confederate monuments by executive decree, this as covid-19 cases go tragically and predictably up. i ll talk to alabama senator doug jones shortly about the spiking pandemic numbers in his state and the final chapter of a tragic act of racial terrorism that took the lives of four little black girls 57 years ago. more on his role in that story in a bit. but first, what might be the most meaningful police reform legislation in american history, overwhelmingly passed in the democratic house one month after george floyd s death, appears to be stuck, because it actually has teeth to attack the problem of police violence, which means senate republicans are almost certain not to take it up and senate democrats say they will block the reform bill from their gop colleagues, which they have cast as toothless. joining me now is democratic new jersey senator cory booker. senator booker, first of all, we saw on one of the morning sho