Teenager. Shooting happened when she was just 16 years old but she was tried as an adult. The after years of protest, she was granted clemency by former tennessee governor bill haslam. She was released just two months ago at the age of 31 and has now published her memoir free cyntoia my search for redemption in the american prison system. To any young women and girls who find themselves in the situation i was in, i would say that there are people that hear you. There are people who understand what youre going through. I understand. I have been through it myself. And there were times i did not think i was going to make it, but the lord brought me through it and he can bring you through it as well. Just keep faith and keep fighting. Amy we will speak with cyntoia brownlong in one of her first interviews after prison. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Shelling is continuing in Northern Syria one day after
Slavery as a child and sentenced to life in prison after been convicted of firstdegree murder for shooting her rapist as a teenager. Shooting happened when she was just 16 years old but she was tried as an adult. The after years of protest, she was granted clemency by former tennessee governor bill haslam. She was released just two months ago at the age of 31 and has now published her memoir free cyntoia my search for redemption in the american prison system. To any young women and girls who find themselves in the situation i was in, i would say that there are people that hear you. There are people who understand what youre going through. I understand. I have been through it myself. And there were times i did not think i was going to make it, but the lord brought me through it and he can bring you through it as well. Just keep faith and keep fighting. Amy we will speak with cyntoia brownlong in one of her first interviews after prison. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy
And that Rudy Giulianis quote shadow policy alarmed top Security Officials inside the white house. And perhaps more troubling still for the president his white house and his republican allies are all over the place when it comes to defense against the impeachment drive. Trump has tried attacking the whistleblower. Hes also tried to block officials from testifying, although many have now defied that order. He continues now to insist that there was no quid pro quo, but his own white house chief of staff Mick Mulvaney said otherwise yesterday. Did he also mention to me in the past that the corruption that related to the dnc server . Absolutely, no question about that. But thats it. Thats why we held up the money. To be clear, what you just described is a quid pro quo. It is funding will not flow unless the investigation into the democratic server happened as well. We do that all the time with foreign policy. I have news for everybody, get over it. Theres going to be political influence in
Conservative commentator Ben Shapiro announced last week to the more than 15 million monthly listeners of his eponymous podcast that he wouldn’t just vote for Donald Trump, he would also co-host a fundraiser for the former president.