>> no, but i think everyone in d.c. was surprised that mueller was able to get this guy to take a plea agreement on october 5 and keep it silent until now. what shocked me is just how well he is keeping secrets. amy: marcy wheeler, they can for being with us, independent journalist who covers national security and civil liberties. she runs the website emptywheel.net. her new piece for the intercept is headlined "george papadopoulos's indictment is very, very bad news for attorney general jeff sessions." when we come back, we are just back from puerto rico.o. now reportedly the of the eye is investigating the $300 million whitefish energy deal. will it be killed altogether? we will be back with the mayor of san juan. stay with us. ♪ [music break] amy: this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman with juan gonzalez. juan: we turn now to puerto rico, where united nations expertrts are warning of alarmig coconditions now more than five weeks after hurricane maria. in a report release

but that doesn't seem to be in the gray matter and washington, d.c.. amy: i want to bring a medevac another conversation around this latest news about what happened in niger. president donald trump breaking his silence monday over the deaths of the four u.s. army green beret's who died in an ambush in niger two weeks ago, saying he would contact the families of the soldiers, falsely claim that president obama did not reach out to u.s. troops killed in combat. trump's comments came only after he was questioned over silence by reporters or news conference at the white house that he held with senate republican leader mitch mcconnell. pres. trump: the traditional way, if you look at president obama another presidents, most calls, aid not make lot of them did not make calls. i like to make calls when it is appropriate, what i think i'm able to do it. there may be ultimate sacrifice. injure outrage from former members of the obama administration like ben rose, former deputy national security adviser, who said was outrageous and disrespectful. the four green

that same year, aim took over the bureau of indian affairs building in washington, d.c. in early 1973, aim members took over and occupied wounded knee on the pine ridge indian reservation for 71 days, which some have come to call wounded knee ii. speaking with democracy now! in 2012, dennis banks recounted how he was taken from his family in the 1940's and forced into a boarding school along with thousands of other native american children. >> i was taken to boarding school when i was four years old, and taken away from my mother and my father, my grandparents who i stayed with most of the time. i was abruptly taken away and then put into the boarding school 300 miles away from our home. you know, the beatings began immediately. de-indianizing trying to destroy the culture and the present, destroy the indian-ness in them. kill an indian, save the man. amy: dennis banks remained politically active throughout his life. last winter, he joined protests against construction of the dakota access pipeline at the standing rock reservation in north dakota. dennis banks died sunda

a federal kill scored in washington, d.c., -- a federal appeals court in washington, d.c., has ruled an undocumented teenager detained in a refugee resettlement shelter in texas does have the right to have an abortion. the ruling comes after the trump administration tried to stop the 17-year-old from accessing an abortion. her lawyer says the staff at the refugee shelter in the brownsville, texas, forced the girl to call her abusive parents to tell them about her pregnancy despite the fact that her parents allegedly beat the girl's older sister until she miscarried for getting pregnant out of wedlock. the lawyer also says the staff retaliated against the girl after learning about her plans to get an abortion, limiting her time with other kids at the shelter, and allegedly repeatedly asking her what she planned to name the baby. and football players on the philadelphia eagles traveled to pennsylvania's capitol to lobby for criminal justice reform tuesday. the three players -- malcolm jenkins, chris long, and torrey smith -- lobbied for the passage of the clean slate act, which would s

this is produced by sinclair's corporate headquarters here in the d.c. area and in maryland. then sendsduces and out to its stations around the country almost 200 of them and says "you are required to require this 92nd commentary or this two-minute editorial." that content that is being just related out around the country -- distributed out and around the country has an unequivocal conservative partisan bent to it and basically, a pro-trump bent to it. epstein, former trump campaign aide and former trump left these aide, who administration and immediately went into this role at sinclair, his segments are called "bottom line with boris." their required to run every day at sinclair stations. these are basically trump talking points. you can go on youtube and watched all of his clips in a row. they are what hundred percent during the trump line. if they're not that, there saw all interviews with trump administration. boriseople might know who epstein is because during the campaign, he was one of the spokespeople always interviewed on tv. this is one of his recent commentaries. >

he currently has a solo exhibition at the hirschhorn museum in washington, d.c. called "trace." the exhibit features 176 portraits of activists and free speech advococates made of lego bricks. he also has a major new exhibition opening next week in new york city, in which he's erecting security fences across the boroughs, including under washington square arch, to explore the rise of nationalism and the closure of borders worldwide. it's called "good fences make good neighbors." >>o divide, to set up some kind of border. it is s about territory. about dividing to push the others away or to stop others from crossing. generally, -- amy: ai weiwei is also the director of a major new documentary on the e struggle of refugees worldwide called "human flow." for the documentary, he traveled to 23 countries, visiting dozens of refugee camps. this is the trailer, which takes us to iraq, jordan, gaza, northern greece, and kenya. >> being a refugee is much more than a political status will step it is the most northernrn greece, and kenyaya.e kind of crueltlty that canan be exerercised agai

in washington, d.c., the trump administration said tuesday it will end the clean powerer plan, president obama's landmark rule on greenhouse gas emissions from power plants. epa administrator scott pruitt made the announcement standing alongside senate republican leader mitch mcconnell during a visit to a coal mining and construction firm in hazard, kentucky. >> any regulatory body can kentucky. pick winners andnd losers. the cast of administration was unapologetic. they were using every bit of power come every bit of authority to use the epa to pick winners and users and how we generate electricity in this country. amy: obama's clean power plan would have reduced greenhoususe gas emissions in part by decommissioning coal-fired power plants. the plan would have helped the u.s. partly meet its obligations under the paris climate accord, though critics say it didn't go nearly far enough. cancellation of the clean power plan move drew condemnation from environmentalists, including author and activist bill mckibben who tweeted -- "neither flood nor hurricane nor wildfire can keep these men f

>> yes, for a few hours he is scheduled to be back in d.c. in the late afternoon early evening. so trump is scheduled to arrive here around 11:45. he is going to be landing next to the san juan international airport at the base. that is usually the air force base where the presidents, when they come and visit, go. later he will meet the aircraft carrier. he will meet their with the governor puerto rico and the governor of the u.s. virgin islands. he is going to fly into the base rico,en fly out of puerto off the island, junior craft carrier to meet with the governors of puerto rico and the u.s. virgin islands. it is still unclear where he will head out around the island. he just said that he is going to visit and talk with first responders them also that he is going to be talking with people and families that have been impacted were severely impacted by the hurricanes. it is still unclear at this time where he is heading. earlier today, i heard the secretary of security here in the island, and even he doesn't have a clear idea where trump is going to be at if you place to go out

and thousands of protesters took to the streets of washington, d.c., and cities across united states over the weekend for a series of marches for racial justice. in new york city, hundreds marched sunday over the brooklyn bridge. this is a new york r resident. >> racial justice is when we are working to intentionally ensure that t the most marginalized communities are at the center. when we think about economic justice, we also have to think about pay equity when it comes to women and the pay gap that happens when it comes to white women compared to latina women and black women. it is easy for me to stay in my sallow and work on issues, but i have to speak an effect that muslim people in this country are being mistreated. i have to stand up for that because even know it does not personally affect the, it impacts my community. amy: and those are some of the headlines. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace reportrt. i'm amy goodman. we begin today's show with the unfolding humanitarian crisis in puerto rico. nearly two weeks after hurricane maria devasteded thesla

the legislation follows similar bills that passed in oregon and washington, d.c., with other states, including new york, set to follow suit. in chechnya, a russian man who says he was kidnapped and tortured by police has become the first openly gay witness to describe what human rights groups are calling a "gay pogrom" carried out by chechen officials. 30-year-old maxim lapunov told reporters monday he was abducted on the street in the chechen capital grozny last march and taken to a bloodstained jail cell where he was tortured for 1212 days. >> this cell was really scary. one quarter of it was covered in blood. it was no blood from yesterday or the day before yesterday. it was fresh. it just soaked into the floor. first ththey were beating me wih plplastic types. i can't say for how long, but it was long. i was falling down because i could no longer stayn my feet any longerer. my legs, bututtocks, back were l beaten. they would let me take a breath now and then but afterwards, pushing me back up and resuming the beating shouting threats and neck is asian's. -- threats and accusation

we're also joined and washington, d.c., by trita parsi, founder and president of the national iranian american council. you are author of "losing an enemy: obama, iran, and the legacy o of diplomacy" what news do you have in washington? it was "the washington post" reports that trump will decertify the landmark deal that is not just between the united states and around, but between a number of countries. what that means, what role the president plays and what role congress plays. >> thank you. this was not entirely unexpected. people knew the trump administration was looking for ways to get out of the deal. and much of the focus has been, would congress reimpose sanctions once the president shifts this issue onto them? i think a more important matter may actually be what trump himself chooses to do outside of the nuclear deal once he has decertify. this, to give about this is the calm before the storm. the buzz here is there is going to be a very significant ramping up an escalation in the region against iran, potentially including sitting down iranian airplanes, sinking iranian ships

i'm elaine reyes in washington, d.c., and this is "americas now." first up, thousands of women in the 1990s coerced into sterilization in peru. a program to control population and reduce poverty, it was supervised by both doctors and the government. om

chairman of the finance committee and others -- is she is with the civil rights attorney in washington, d.c.? >> indeed. that commission the bernie sanders is fine with it. elizabeth warren. an alternative to the voter fraud commission. but last week, i went to virginia, went to 21 stops in five days doing voter registration and in new jersey. i found many who are protesting have not yet faced the fact that if you are from new york, go to school in charlottesville, you have the right to do on-site voting where you live actually. so students were living in one place and voting in another make an unnecessary burden upon themselves. we are fighting for residential rights in voting. and students in virginia, higher crime and teterror act, they can win the election in virginia. but they cannot very well be in virginia and charlottesville or richmond and not be able to vote where they live. amy: finally, you know, president trump tweeted against the black athletes but did not tweet about the second charlottesville rally that was held this past weekend. he attacked the black athletes, but not the

speaking last thursday at a washington, d.c., conference, cia director mike pompeo said under president trump, his agency will become m much more vicious. >> we have laid out a strategy on how we're going to execute our mission with incredible vigor. we're goingng to become much moe vicious agency in ensuring we are delivering this work. we're going to go to some of the hardest places with some of our hardest pepeople in our organization to crush it. when we do it, the president has promised he w will have our bacs and he will resource us. amy: president trump signed an executive order friday authorizing the air force to call up as many as 1000 retired aviators to active duty. trump's order came as the pentagon said it is facing a large shortagege of pilots as te administration prepares to ramp up the u.s. war in afghanistan. meanwhile, the air force says it will place nuclear armed b-52 bombers on 24-hour ready alert for the firstt time since the cold war endeded in 1991. in hollywood, florida, mourners gathered saturday as the body of u.s. army sergeant la david johnson was laid to re