[captioning made possible by democracy now!] amy: from pacifica, this is democracy now! >> it would be difficult to talk about impeachment of a president a month into his term. with this president, it is oddly appropriate. amy: donald trump has been in office for 30 days. there are voices calling for his impeachment. nearly 900,000 people have signed an online petition entitled "impeach donald trump now." this comes amid reports that the

-- trump campaign and russia. we will speak to someone at the center of the unraveling of the theident the -- of presidency. exclusivemocracy now! interview with professional football star michael bennett made headlines when he pulled out of an israeli-government sponsored trip to israel for nfl players. ondoing my research palestine and israel and the things going on, i see between the movement. did not want to be an ambassador for a certain government if i was not sure if i agreed with everything the government was doing. with michaelspeak

bennet, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. in north dakota, a heavily militarized police force raided the main resistance camp set up by lakota water protectors fighting the $3.8 billion dakota access pipeline. the camp was largely vacated ahead of a deadline set reedt peoplier, but police refused to leave. police in armored vehicles backed by national guard soldiers later raided the nearby rosebud resistance camp. despite the evictions, indigenous-led water protectors say they'll continue to oppose the pipeline. this is navajo activist lyla june. this movement in profound ways. a acrosslanted seeds

the world and inspired and awakened people to see water in a new way, to see water as life. have united things that were never united before. amy: earlier this month, construction crews resumed work on the final section of the pipeline, after the trump administration granted an easement to allow energy transfer partners to drill beneath the missouri river. in mexico, homeland security secretary john kelly insisted thursday the u.s. would not carry out "mass deportations" and that president trump's deportation program was not a "military operation." contradicting a statement made hours earlier. >> listen to this. force ine of military immigration operations. none. there will be no use of military forces in immigration.

amy: his comments came after was asaid the deportation military operation. mr. trump: we are getting bad dudes out of this country at a rate no one has seen before. it is a military operation. amy: mexico has rejected donald trump's pledge that he will force mexico to pay for an expanded wall on the u.s.-mexico border. mexico's foreign minister also denounced new rules authorizing the u.s. to deport undocumented immigrants to mexico, whether or not they are mexican citizens. trump suggested thursday he's looking to expand size of the u.s. nuclear weapons arsenal. trump's comment came during an interview with reuters. mr. trump: it would be wonderful if no countries had nukes. if countries are going to have nukes, we are going to be at the top of the pack.

amy: the statement drew alarm from anti-nuclear activists who fear it will touch off a new worldwide nuclear arms race. the trump administration said thursday it will seek to enforce federal laws barring the use of marijuana. it reverses the obama administration decision. the trump administration would prioritize enforcement in states that have passed laws allowing for the recreational -- rather than the medical -- use of the drug. >> they are going to continue to enforce the laws on the books. amy: meanwhile, the justice department said thursday it will reverse an obama administration policy that would have phased out the federal government's use of private prisons. the announcement touched off a spike in the after-hours share prices of for-profit prisons including core civic and geo group. white house chief strategist steve bannon made a rare public appearance thursday at the conservative political action conference, or cpac. speaking alongside white house

chief of staff reince priebus, bannon admitted that many of president trump's cabinet picks were selected to head agencies whose mission they oppose. it is deconstruction of the administrative state. it you look at the cabinet appointees, they work selected for deconstruction. the progressive left, if they they aret it passed, going to put it in a regulatory agency. amy: steve bannon is the former head of breitbart media, a far-right website which frequently publishes racist, sexist, anti-immigrant and xenophobic news. his appearance at cpac came as officials expelled white nationalist richard spencer from the conference on thursday. a cpac spokesperson called spencer's views "venomous," "horrible" and "repulsive". breitbart has previously praised spencer, calling him one of the leading intellectuals of the so-called alt-right movement.

in kansas, police have charged a 51-year-old man with first degree murder after he allegedly shouted "get out of my country" before firing on a pair of indian men at a restaurant in suburban kansas city. the gunfire killed 32-year-old srinivas kuchibhotla. his friend and a bystander who confronted the shooter were injured. witnesses say adam purinton was drinking and spouting racial slurs before he opened fire. purinton fled the scene and was arrested hours later after telling a bartender in clinton, missouri, he had just shot two middle eastern men. police have said it's too early in their investigation to determine if they'll charge purinton with a hate crime. in new york city, customs and border protection agents met passengers as they exited a flight from san francisco wednesday, demanding to check their ids. a staffer for vice news who was aboard the flight captured photos of the incident, saying passengers were told they couldn't disembark without showing their documents. the cbp later said its agents

were assisting immigration and customs enforcement in seeking a person ordered removed by an immigration judge. in malaysia, a pair of women used a banned chemical nerve agent vx to assassinate kim jong-nam, the half-brother of north korea's leader. kim died of a seizure on his way to a hospital february 13th, after the women doused his face with the chemical as he was waiting to board a flight at kuala lumpur international airport. the united nations has banned vx as a weapon of mass destruction. although north korea has denied involvement in kim's assassination, the country is not a signatory to the chemical weapons convention and is believed to have stockpiles of vx and other nerve agents. white house chief of staff reince priebus sought unsuccessfully to have the fbi refute news reports that donald trump's campaign advisers were in frequent contact with russian intelligence agents ahead of november's election. that's according to cnn, which reported thursday the fbi declined to publicly corroborate

priebus's denial. his outreach violated policies intended to limit communications between the fbi and the administration on pending investigations. we will have more on that story with white house counsel, former white house counsel john dean. the pentagon is considering a plan that would see troops to defeat of after the isis. they are discussing the possibility, saying the possibility to extend troop deployment -- officer gerrit lansing was among six staffers fired by the white house after they failed an fbi background check. lansing is the former head of the republican party's digital operations. according to politico, lansing failed due to conflicts of interest posed by his business investments. in the philippines, police arrested an opposition senator

and fierce critic of president rodrigo duterte today, accusing her of taking bribes from drug dealers. senator leila de lima says she's innocent of any crime, and called her arrest retribution for her criticism of duterte's bloody war on drugs, which has seen police carry out thousands of extrajudicial killings. >> the truth will be out in the right time. if they think they can silence they think i will no longer fight for finding the truth, it is my honor to get arrested because of what i am fighting for. amy: president duterte has boasted about personally murdering drug dealers. last september he compared himself favorably to adolf hitler, saying he wanted to kill millions of drug addicts. in portugal, police have arrested a former u.s. intelligence operative and are preparing to extradite her to italy, where she faces a prison sentence for her role in the kidnapping and rendition of an egyptian cleric in 2003. former undercover cia officer

sabrina de sousa was one of 26 americans convicted in absentia by an italian court in 2007. they were charged with illegally seizing the cleric, abu omar, from the streets of milan in 2003, and sending him to egypt where he was tortured during a four-year imprisonment. de sousa moved to portugal in 2015, and was arrested monday as she attempted to leave the country. she faces four years in an italian prison. japan's supreme court has denied bail to a prominent activist opposed to the u.s. military's presence in okinawa. hiroji yamashiro was arrested last fall on charges he cut through a barbed wire fence surrounding a u.s. base. for decades, residents have called for the expulsion of u.s. troops from okinawa, which houses about two-thirds of the 50,000 u.s. troops currently stationed in japan. in puerto rico, thousands of university students are on strike this week, protesting imminent cuts to public education amid an economic crisis. puerto rico's governor has until the end of the month to submit a

budget plan to a federally appointed oversight control board with sweeping powers to run puerto rico's economy. the oversight board wants sharp cuts to public spending and a strategy to pay the debt to bondholders. if the demand is not met, the oversight board will make its own budget plan. on thursday, thousands of students gathered in front of the capitol and marched to the governor's mansion. this is graduate student loderay bracero marrero. >> we are here in defense of the university of puerto rico and public education and the education of the working class, for us to have an accessible and public education. different campuses have approved different shutdowns to protect the university of puerto rico. of theecaying because plans of wall street and the plans of the government that is a puppet of whatever the oversight control board says. amy: and those are some of the

headlines this is democracy now, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. as of today, president trump has been in office for only 36 days, and there's already a growing chorus of voices calling for his impeachment. nearly 900,000 people have signed an online petition entitled "impeach donald trump now." thousands of protesters poured into the streets monday for "not my president's day" marches. thousands more stormed republican town halls this week to confront republican leaders over their support for trump. even the city of richmond, california, has joined the movement. on tuesday, the richmond city council voted unanimously to approve a resolution calling on congress to consider trump's impeachment, arguing trump is in violation of the constitution's emoluments clause, which prohibits people holding federal office from accepting payments from foreign governments. the demand for trump's impeachment comes as he presides

over an understaffed white house in near constant crisis. this comes as reince priebus sought unsuccessfully to have the fbi refute news reports that donald trump's campaign advisers were in contact with russian intelligence agents before the election. that is according to cnn, which reported that the fbi declined to publicly corroborate his denial. policiesach violates intended to limit communications between the white house and the fbi on pending investigations. reince priebus denied the reports. >> know what they were told. i have talked to the fbi. i know what they are saying. i would not be on your show telling you we have been assured there is nothing to the story if

i did not actually have clearance to make this comment. allegations of white house communications with the fbi during the investigation have raised questions as to whether the trump administration has violated ethics restrictions meant to protect such investigations from political influence. they have also drawn comparisons to former president richard nixon's 1972 discussion with aides who used the cia to push the fbi away from investigating the watergate burglary that later led to his resignation. will the constant chaos, confusion, and conflicts of interest in the trump administration lead to president trump's impeachment? for more, we go to someone at the center of the unraveling of a presidency. whiteent richard nixon's house counsel, john dean. he is the author of several books including, "the nixon

defense: what he knew and when he knew it" and "conservatives without conscience," and "broken government: how republican rule destroyed the legislative, executive, and judicial branches." john dean, welcome to democracy now! >> good morning. 36 days into this presidency. it took a second term of office for president nexen before the house judiciary committee voted on articles of impeachment against him. he would later resign. can you talk about where donald trump is now? john: what i see and hear in following it are echoes of watergate. watergate ran about 900 days. it went on for years, starting with a bungled burglary, right up to richard nixon's resignation, followed by the conviction of his top aides.

it ran a long time. what we are seeing is accelerated. thes partially because of media and technology today. it is also the behavior of , asld trump and his aides well as the media's vigilance on this. what i see and hear are echoes of watergate. we don't have watergate 2.0, but something that looks like it could go there. to what tooko turn place in richmond, california. became the first u.s. city to call for an investigation into whether to impeach president donald trump. a resolution approved by the richmond city council states trump is in violation of the emoluments clause of the constitution, which prohibits people holding federal office from accepting payments from foreign governments. these are some of the city officials who voted unanimously in favor of the impeachment resolution.

>> ordinarily, to be talking -- everything about this administration is on. it would be odd to be talking about the impeachment of a president a month into his term. is oddlytely, it appropriate. >> the word is clear that the residents of these united states are not in alignment with his movement of hate, his movement of fear, his movement of bullying and intimidation. voices of the city council members in richmond, california. do you think what they are accusing trump of could lead to his impeachment? could if the republicans did not control both houses of congress.

it is a beginning. it takes a lot of momentum, much more than one city. it takes hundreds of cities, a national change of attitude about this president before we will have an impeachment. given the fact that the house and senate are controlled by the republicans, they are not going to impeach their president as long as he gives them what they want and signs into law a lot of the things they have had in their dreams for many years, they will not give him any problem. he will not give them any problem because he does not want to have a fight with them. it will be a while. impeachment is not a legal process. it is primarily a political process. we are not there yet. it,t of people might like but it will not happen until the political process reaches that stage. amy: let me ask you about the

latest news out of cnn. seekingriebus unsuccessfully to have the fbi advisers wereports ths campaign infrequent touch with -- were in frequent touch with russian intelligence agents. they declined to corroborate the denial. he violated policies intended to eliminate -- to limit communications between the white house and the fbi during an investigation. can you explain what is improper here and possibly what is illegal here? ask about your position white house counsel at the time. what were you seeing happening there and why these allegations are so significant? there is nothing illegal

about talking to the fbi. no one has to talk to them unless they are carrying a subpoena or acting for a grand jury. there is no grand jury at this stage of any inquiry into his or his aides' conduct. a policy written in the late to thousands between the fbi and anybody in the executive branch or congress talking to them about an ongoing investigation. that appears to be the regulation that may have been violated. directors assistant told -- pulled reince priebus aside after a meeting and said the new york times story is a little bit overboard.

-- the fbi story was a little bit overboard as reported by the new york times. get moreiebus tried to out of them and that is probably where he crossed a regulatory line, not a legal line. also, a call to comey, to get them to say the stories between the contact of trumps people and russia were not true. john: it was an effort on behalf of the white house that failed. buy into not about to it. he has an ongoing investigation and he was not about to undercut it by giving that kind of comment to reince priebus. the investigation has to play out. it will play out on capitol hill, in the fbi. rusher breaks down into three categories.

there is the pre-election activity, and did the trump campaign have contact with russians and somehow know they dnc,hacking into the trying to hurt hillary and help trump? then, there is the period between the election and the inauguration, when flynn was having contact with the ambassador, did the president, who else on his staff was trylved in those efforts to to undercut the obama administration. of they areg area investigating is what is the truth or falsity of the dossier that appeared from the mi six , who recordede what he was finding from some of his contacts in russia as to

whether or not russia had compromised donald trump. those are the big three areas they are looking at. any one of those could cause mr. trump a series of problems. -- a serious problem. amy: you discussed using the cia avoidinghe fbi from the investigation into the watergate burglary. by the had been called acting director of the fbi to have an update and a report. i reported what was going on. i have gone through every watergate conversation for the book i did. we transcribed everything. beginningit from the

to the ends. what happened in that conversation is he took what i told him and pushed it farther than mitchell or i thought tried to use it as a tool to use the cia to cut off the fbi. and was later called obstruction of justice. i am not sure, technically, it was. lie.ught nixon and a he denied he knew anything about a cover up until i told him , it was the lie that caught him more than that incident. are going to break and come back to this discussion. we are talking to john dean, who served as counsel to the president, president next and. he is the author of several

books including, "the nixon defense: what he knew and when he knew it" and "conservatives without conscience", and "broken government: how republican rule destroyed the legislative, executive, and judicial branches." then, we will go to our exclusive interview with michael bennet. ♪ [music break]

amy: this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. we continue our conversation with john dean. on thursday,pac white house chief strategist trump'snnon threatened war on the media is going to get worse. opposed to adamantly economic nationalist agenda like donald trump has. it will get worse.

he is going to continue to press his agenda. will getconditions better, jobs will get better, they will continue to fight. if you think they are going to give you your country back without a fight, you are's adly mansour taken. every day it will be a -- you are sadly mistaken. every day it will be a fight. on what he isghts saying? sayingnt trump himself the media, the press is the enemy of the american people. john: i find it startling and troubling. nian than nixon. nixon made those comments we only know about because he had his egret taping system and seemed to forget it was on when he was in the office. make those attacks

against the media, calling the media the enemy, saying he was going to wiretap them. top hatchete his man call the heads of the networks and read them the riot act for their coverage. trump isifference is, doing this right out and challenging the first amendment, one of our most important, because it involves freedom of the press and freedom of the speech. anything he does not like, reporting he calls being an enemy of the people, it is ludicrous. troublesome he would try theway the press by using bully pulpit of his office to intimidate them. my hope is he does not.

i do not think, knowing the journalists i know, that he will. nixon failed. he had a deep reservoir of ill will to draw on when he got himself in trouble. trump is creating the same problem for himself. amy: many have compared his speech to the one given by richard nixon in 1968. inwe see cities developed smoke and flames. we hear sirens in the night. see americans dying on battlefields abroad. hating each other, fighting each other, killing each other at home. as we see and hear these things, millions of americans cry out in anguish -- did we, all this way for this? amy: that was president nixon. your thoughts? john: i was not part of his

campaign. wasd not join him until he well into his first term. he was playing scare tactics. very much like donald trump did in his cleveland speech. they are both authoritarian personalities. is a type of personality that tries to frighten people to take a strong man as their leader. it works. no one knows how many americans are affected by this. are aboutuesstimates 30%. it looks like trump got more than that when he used these tactics. not a healthy way to run a democracy, by trying to fight people into voting for you. amy: i want to turn to donald trump speaking in new york shortly before his inauguration. he addressed questions about his

business interests, and asserted that as president, he would be exempt from possible conflicts of interest. mr. trump: i have a no conflict of interest provision as president. it is many years old. they don't want presidents getting tangled up in minutia. they want a president to run a country. i could actually run my business and run government at the same time. looks, like the way that but i would be able to do that if i wanted to. i could run the trump organization, a great company, and i could run the country. i don't want to do that. .my: donald trump send the famously said if the president does it, it is not illegal. john: the law says he cannot be criminally prosecuted.

a president cannot be criminally prosecuted for any offense. a president could shoot someone on 5th avenue and not be prosecuted for it. he could be impeached for it and then later prosecuted. president, the best tradition and law we have, and ,ots of opinions have come out but he is immune from prosecution. that does not mean he is immune from the law. it was anticipated he would set the example for conflicts of interest. nixon, he sold all of his stock, passiveeal estate, a investment he could not affect. he got criticized for having makinggret service for improvements on the property for security reasons, that were also good for the value of his properties.

trump has pushed this to a level had to never seen, never cope with. it is very troublesome. thingslear he is doing that are helping his business. at some point, americans are going to say -- this is not what we had in mind. play and it will come back and haunt him. in january, he fired the acting attorney general, sally eight, hours after she announced -- sally yates, hours after she announced the justice department would not defend trump's muslim travel ban. chuck schumer referred to it as a monday night massacre, which alludes to president nixon and the saturday night massacre.

talk about that and this comparison. suggests how ignorant he is about the job he has. i don't think he has ever read an autobiography of any of his predecessors. what he did is an example of the way nixon handled a special prosecutor he did not want to pursue his own tapes at that point. it is a very early effort. they didn't need to fire her. they could ask her to stay on as an acting attorney general. she was going to leave 1/8 permanent attorney general was confirmed. this is more evidence of his ignorance. amy: thank you for being with us. john dean, former counsel to the , white house counsel to president nixon. up next, an interview with

michael bennet. ♪ [music break] amy: this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. we turn to our democracy now! exclusive. earlier this month, michael bennet made headlines when he pulled out of his israeli-government sponsored trip to israel for nfl players.

in an open letter bennett, who plays for the seattle seahawks, wrote "one of my heroes has always been muhammad ali. i know that ali always stood strongly with the palestinian people, visiting refugee camps, going to rallies, and always willing to be a voice for the voiceless. i cannot do that by going on this kind of trip to israel." bennett's words struck a chord with his teammates. in the end, only 5 out of the original 13 players ended up traveling as ambassadors of goodwill for israel. michael bennet about his decision not to go to israel. michael: doing my research on palestine and israel and the things going on, i see similarities between the black lives movement and the palestinian movement. to go to israel, i should be able to see both sides. to be an want ambassador for a certain government if i was not sure i

agreed with everything the government was doing. i thought it would be better to go on my own and figure out my own situation. amy: how did this trip get planned? michael: they contacted us during the last year, in the summertime. getought it was a trip you to go see israel. i didn't know it was an ambassador trip. about that, myt friends said -- do you know this or that? , iecided i cannot do this don't want to be an ambassador for something i don't agree with. amy: what kind of response did you get from posting that letter? michael: there were people who thought i was anti-semitic. they were getting mad.

against jewish people, not against anybody when it comes to people. anti-somatici was cop -- anti-somatic -- anti-sem itic, but i am not. people were proud and athletes stood for something going on in the world. with the things going on in america, things going on around -- if i am anant am an ambassador, i wanted to be for the good of the world, whether we are talking , therertisan, baltimore are a lot of things going on here. research, i knew i could not go on this trip. you mentioned muhammad ali.

i wanted to go to a clip of muhammad ali. shoot them for what? they never lynched me. they didn't put dogs on me. they did not rob me of my nationality. shoot them for what? how can i shoot those poor people? that was as he protested the war in vietnam. what does he mean to you? michael: he is an inspiration for athletes to use the platform for good. of times, you get caught in the marketing situation, you forget you are a person.

there are things going on, words you speak, you can inspire young kids to make decisions or bring awareness to things going on. mohammed ali inspires me to be the voice for people. it is different from back then, when protesting and rallies and things you had to go out and get them to follow you and do these things to share your message. a button onck of twitter, instagram, facebook, you can share your message and reach millions of people. you can change a lot of lives. the israel trip was about the time benjamin netanyahu came to the united states and had a news conference with donald trump. your thoughts on trump? growing up, you see

these different things. , in he became the president think a lot of people were shocked. for a man with three daughters, i see the way he talks about women, the women's movement, i don't agree with a lot of the ink he says or does. you think about building the ,all when the wall is built when so many things are done by them, i disagree with his policies and terms. i hope he realizes it takes everybody to have a place like america. people from chinese, african, italian, irish,'s and wish, it native-- spanish, american dissent. it takes everybody. i do not think he thinks about the choices and the mindset he

creates for young people that might disagree with somebody. your brother was also in the headlines. five teammates of his and him, they said they will not visit the white house for the super bowl celebration as a protest against donald trump. your thoughts on it. his decision.port when a person has to deal with , i think a strong person, i definitely agree with .im he disagrees with a lot of stuff trump says and i think that is why he does not want to go. he does not want to support a

system that is keeping people of color down. i can understand that. you mentioned john carlos in your letter to the world, explaining why you would not go on the israel-government-sponsored trip. i wanted to go to the documentary film, "not just a game." >> equal chance to be a human being. we are five steps below the latter. -- below the ladder. they don't want us to climb up. carlos after john he raised his fist in the black power salute. fromgoing to play a clip

when he came to visit us. >> we took artifacts out there to illustrate certain points. we wore the black glove out there because this is the first time the olympics was in color. technicolor. we wanted there to be no doubt who was representing our race first and that we were representing the united states second. he suffered enormously over the years. it hurt his career, he got tremendous criticism. over the decades, he has been more proud of what he has done. mean to yout action and you feel repercussions for standing up? when john carlos did

that, i don't think the world was ready for what he did. now, the world is ready for change. with technology, you can share your message. did, itsions of what he probably ended his career, or the things that happened to him, but in sports, sometimes, people identify with your legacy, how many touchdowns to get, how many medals you get, how many grand slams you win. definitely legacy is how many kids you can reach in your community, how much change can you make? is staying held up the same. picture people will

remember. that momentmember when he put his fist up. amy: we are talking to michael bennet. outspoken on everything from politics in the world to what is the nfl. within or we are also joined by a -- we are also joined by dave. >> michael bennet is a person of uncommon character. person of uncommon character, he is part of a wave of athletes who are speaking out right now and have been speing out over the last several years. everything from the influence of

the black lives matter's movement to the influence of social media, to the fact there are people in the streets of fed up with what is happening in this country and the world. athletes don't live apart from this. michael bennet has daughters. there is a misogynist and sexual harasser in the white house. michael bennet reads the work of angela davis. it connects the issues of ferguson and palestine. about black lives matter without looking at it globally. these things are connected. at the same time, it takes those , like john carlos,

colin, it takes those individuals willing to stand up and speak out and share with the world what they are learning or experiencing. that is what makes michael bennet unique. courage is contagious. you see the ripple effect across the nfl and the sports world. amy: you raise the issue of call and cap her neck. .- of colin kapernick it added power to a movement, the decision to take a knee during the playing of the national anthem. your thoughts on what he did and the affect it had on you. think thatdid not movement would be coming from collin. i thought it would come from somewhere else.

i was blindsided when it was him. when it was him who made the i was like do it -- -- well, collin is on another level. he is trying to make a conversation that we should of had a conversation about a long time ago. , when he didlize that, the way he made people speak around the world about this, athletes do have this platform. people just want to hear it. when he made the decision to do that, he changed a lot of lives. it brought out beauty in some people. for me personally, it channels me to join him and tried to make more where people understand.

they want to be part of it. for me, the greatest thing about what he did, it wasn't that the adults or having a conversation. it was the young people's having a conversation about it. --n't -- they understand they do not understand why they are taking a need, they don't understand the magnitude of what they are doing. the middle schools are taking the knee. it started a fire. the greatest thing was the young kids were aware and were starting to be awoken about things going on. young people, the seed he planted with the young people started growing. it was special. he did something really special.

it all started with a knee. it was a great thing. students at the university of missouri, demanding change, toppled their president when a college football team said they would not play until he left. michael: people are the power. people have so much power when they connect together. truly, if you look at the great philosophers, people before us, , to have somes solidarity, to put their minds together. one that would force the president out, that was the most amazing thing of the whole year.

you mentioned angela davis. this was the day after donald .rump's inauguration the next day, there were at least three times the number of people in washington. this is angela davis speaking at that protest. upon toll be called our demands for social justice, to become more militant of our defense of vulnerable populations. those who still defend the supremacy of white males hetero patriarchy had better watch out. 1459 days of the trunk administration will be 1459 days

of resistance. angela davis speaking after the inauguration of donald trump . her significance in your life and your family's life. michael: i love everything about her. you have a person who speaks her mind regardless of the backlash. there are a lot of times people talk to you and have never been through anything. for her, she is on the ground daily. her daily fight and struggle is to make change in life. whether it is in australia, women in jail, political prisoners, in palestine, her

life is about how to create change. that is important. she encourages me to be able to dedicate my life to try to make change. everything else doesn't matter if there is always a system that keeps certain people down. matters, how many touchdowns i score is another black kid is shot and killed. it doesn't matter how many sacks i get if the education system is unfair. it doesn't matter how many times i hit tom brady if there is a wall being built. she gives me power to go out there and speak how i feel and educate myself. she is a great role model for young women, even if you don't agree with her message or the ink she says. you cannot disagree with her speake, her ability to

and make a movement. you cannot disagree with her ability to organize. that is where young people have to look up to her, how to be organized, how to come together and the a change. things sheing the has done, it motivates us to keep doing things we are doing. we are not looking at people, we are looking to link and connect at -- connect as people, not let the government do what they want to do to us. it gives use to speak your mind and get the young people to take a step forward. i think she is a courageous person. i get goosebumps when i talked to her or listen to her messages, or if i am reading one of her books. it motivates me. on: what are your thoughts

the crackdown on immigrants right now, the attempt to build the wall on the southern border of the united states and the muslim ban is something that trump has used to describe what took place. michael: i disagree with it all. this country was built on , from african americans coming from africa, being enslaved, building the ink they built. the white house, you go to the the native americans who built all of these different things. the labor on the backs of slaves and immigrants. they should not be kicked out because they built this place. have you been surprised by the things trump has done in his first days in office and the

resistance he faces over the country? michael: i am not surprised by the resistance. there have been so many times when there have been movements, the 1960's, during world war ii, vietnam, civil rights movements, this is a time where people are agreements that we are all human beings. the resistance to trying to divide us, i am not surprised. i am encouraged and i am happy everybody is starting to come together and have their full circle. amy: michael bennet plays defensive end for seattle seahawks. he recently pulled out of an israeli-government-sponsored trip. that does it for our broadcast.

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