11/07/16 11/07/16 [captioning made possible by democracy now!] amy: from pacifica, this is democracy now! mr. trumump: it is being r repod that certain key democratic: locations --: locations were kept opepen for hours and hours beyond closing time to bus and bring democratic voterers in. system.t is a rigged it is a rigged system and we are going to beat it. amy: as donald trump accuses inocratss of rigging the vote

heavily latino districts in nevada, we will speak to ari berman. he says tuesday's election n may be rigged, but in a very different way. >> the big threat to american democrcracy is from republican-d efforts to make it harder to vote. things like strict voter id laws, coming early voting, making it harder to register to vote. amy: we will also look at how state laws that forbid more than 6 million people with felony convictions from voting. but mow many more former prisoners are being disenfranchised by misinformation. and we will continue our conversation with michael moore who has been warning for supporters of donald trump if he wins o on tuesday. >> gooood night, america. you have just elected the last president of the united rates. -- united states.

amy: all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. fbi director james comey on sunday said hillary clinton will not face charges over newly discovered emails from her private server, ending nine days of speculation that jolted the race and threatened clinton's run for the white house. in a letter to lawmakers, comey said he would not alter a decision he made in july, when he said clinton had been careless with classified materials but would not face criminal charges. clininton campaign spokesperson jennifer palmieri welcomed sunday's news. >> we have seen director comey's latest letter to the hill. we are glad to see as -- that he is found, as we were confident he would, that he is affirmed the conclusion that he reached in july and we're glad this matter is resolved. amy: fbi director comey's announcement is unlikely to quell democrats who have called on him to resign. they charge comey violated the

hatch act, which prohibits federal employees from influencing elections. on the campaign trail, hillary clinton enlisted some of the biggest names in show business to get out the vote. superstar beyonce performed at a rally in cleveland after her husband jay z introduced clinton. >> this other guy, i don't have any ill will towards him, but his conversation is divisive. he cannot be my president. president!e our once you divide us, you weaken us. we are stronger together. without further a do, i would like to introduce to you the next president of the united states. amy: hillary clinton returns to campaign in michigan today to follow-up on a friday evening campaign stop in detroit, but first lady michelle and

president obama are campaigning in swing states and will join bruce springsteen and bon jovi for a concert tonight in philadelphia with the clinton family. meanwhile, donald trump is pushing ahead with campaign event in florida, north carolina, pennsylvania, and new hampshire. in wisconsin, trump's campaign canceled an event near milwaukee sunday, mere secononds after hoe speaker paul ryan said he would take to the stage to support trump. a spokesperson said the cancellation was due to a scheduling conflict. meanwhile, donaldd trump continues to accuse democrats of voter fraud. on saturday, trump claimed the late openingng of a voting siten a latino neighborhood of las vegas due l long lines s pointd to a rigged systemem. mr. trump: it t is being r repod that certatain key democratic polling locations in clark county were kept open for hours and hours the on the closing time to bus and bring democratic voters in. folks, it is a rigged system. we are rigged system and

going to be it amy: in arizona, anti-immigrant supporter joe arpaio will step critics say his move is aimed at chilling voter turnout in election that is expected to see a record turnout for latinos who heheavily favor hillarary clinton for up in ren, nevada, protester -- a protester was tackled and beaten on saturday after he held a sign reading "republicans against trump" at a donald trump campaign rally. austyn crites says he feared for his life after trump told supporters to, "take him out." >> trump -- i did d not say exactly what was happening. it looked d like he w was pointg at me, almost t as if you sinceo getting something. people startrted going crazy. .hey started tackling me someone yelled something about a gu i wawas yelling down there, "the is no gun, i only h have a sisi" there e were people wrenching on my neck so hard, they could have struggled me to death. amy: secret service agents rushed donald trump from the

stage as crites was beaten. police detained him -- crites and detained him, but was released without charge. in pennsylvania, state police in riot gear held back hundreds of counter-protesters from a rally of about 30 white supremacists at the state capitol building on saturday. one of the self described national socialists wore a nazi-style uniform and a hat reading "make america great again." he unfurled a banner reading, "president trump, build d the wall." in south carolina, jury selection begins today in the trial of dylann roof. prosecutors say roof opened fire at emanuel ame church in charleston, south carolina, in june 2015, killing nine black worshipers, including the pastor clementa pinckney. roof, who is pleading not guilty, embraced white supremacist views and was shown in photographs posing with the confederate flag and a pistol. a white cincinnati police officer was wearing a t-shirt emblazoned with a confederate battle flag under his uniform,

when he shot and killed an unarmed black motorist last year. the revelation came during testimony by a crime scene investigator at the murder trial of former university of cincinnati officer ray tensing, who fatally shot 43-year-old sam dubose in july of 2015 after stopping him for not having a front license plate. in missouri, a mother of an african american man found dead in a st. louis area home is demanding an investigation after a leaked photo showed a white officer smiling and giving a thumbs up over the body of her son. the photograph was leaked to local station kmov, which blurred the officer's face. it shows the officer, who is white, wearing gloves and smirking as he grips one arm of omar rahman's body. a medical examiner ruled rahman died of an accidental drug overdose, but his mother says she has not heard from police since the day of his death last august.

in news from iraq, u.s.-backed iraqi forces and iraqi government militias are continuing the campaign to retake mosul from isis. mosul is the militant group's most populous territory in iraq. there are reports of suicide bombs, booby traps, and house fighting. as part of the campapaign, iraqi kurdish fighters backeked by u.. airstrikeses are battlining for control of b bashiqa, justst north-eaeast of mosul, today. meanwhile, in syria, the u.s.-backed kurdish-led troops known as the syria democratic forces launched a campaign sunday to take control of the city of raqqa from isis. the u.s., france and britain , have all pledged to back the campaign with air strikes. u.s. central command says the u.s.-led coalition has already conducted 16 airstrikes north of raqqa. an estimated 200,000 people currently live in raqqa, which was seized by isis militants in 2014. back in n the iteded states, inn oklahoma, a strong earthquake 5.5.0 struck the citity of cushg on sunday y evening, knocking ot popower, rupturing gas lines, ,d

partially collapapsing b buildi. cushing bills itself as the pipeline crossroads of the world and is home to above-ground tanks that store millions of barrels of crurude oil. scientists believe that wastewater disposal wells from oil and gas fracking are linked to the dramatic rise in earthquakes in oklahoma in recent years. in alabama, colonial pipeline restarted its gasoline l line sunday, six days after a massive explosion killed one worker and severely burned four o others. this same pipeline leaked nearly 340,000 gallons of g gasoline in central alababama in september.. in north dakota, p police fired tear gas at native american water protectors fighting the $3.8 billion dakota access pipeline sunday as they tried to protect a sacred site where they say their ancestors are buried. water protectors say they won a promise by the army corps of engineers to delay any potential construction of the pipeline under the missouri river for at least 30 days, if the dakota access pipeline company is granted a permit to bore under the river.

kandi mossett of the indigenous environmental network says the delay could be as long as 2.5 months. she also celebrated president obama's statement last week that the army corps of engineers is considering ways to reroute the pipeline. >> many of us do not support a reroute, but it is important for people to know that even uttering those words could effectively kikill this projectt because they cannot possibly afford it. amy: the united nations climate change talks opened today in morocco with the u.s. election casting doubt over efforts to slow global warming. delegates to the negotiations in marrakesh fear that, if elected, donald trump would make good on a campaign pledge to withdraw the u.s. from the paris agreement on climate change reached last year. meanwhile, many climate scientists warn countries need to commit to far deeper reductions in greenhouse gas emissions to meet the agreement's goal of limiting global temperature rise to 2.7 degrees fahrenheit. we'll have more on global

warming all next week as democracy now! broadcasts from the u.n. climate talks in marrakesh, morococco. in new jersey, chris christie is denying involvement in a plot to slow traffic on the george washington bridge after two of his top aides were convicted friday on all charges in the scandal. jurors found bridget anne kelly and bill baroni conspired to create a traffic jam to punish the democratic mayor of fort lee for failing to endorse christie's re-election. they each face a maximum sentence of 86 years, and plan an appeal. a former ally to christie, david wildstein has testified that christie knew all about the plan ahead of time. this i is governor chris chchrie on "cbs ththis morning," governr . if you cannot defend

yourself, then if there's only one light of information that people will be -- believe the line of information they're being given. found federal jury y has that rolling stone magazine defamed an administrator at the university of virginia. the jury found the 9000 word article, "a rape on campus," showed actual malice toward uva associate dean nicole eramo, who was accused of indifference towards survivors of sexual assault. the article centered on a student named jackikie who sayss shshe was gang-raped at a fraternity. rolling stone retracted the story after acknowledging discrepancies and raising questions about its source. the woman named jackie still maintains she was sexually assaulted, and charlottesville police have kept her case open. in hong kong, police fired pepper spray and charged thousands of demonstrators who flooded the streets to protest a crackdown by china's central government on the city's independence movement. the clashes came after authorities said they would bar a pair elected officials from

taking office after the two pledged allegiance to the "hong kong nation" and displayed a banner reading "hong kong is not chinina" during a sweaearing-in cereremony in october. volkswagen faces fresh accusations that it rigged its cars to avoid pollution standards. the california air resources board says some of vw's line of audi luxury cars contained software that lowered carbon dioxide emissions under testing conditions. regulators found that when cars were put into real-world conditions, the carbon dioxide emissions rose dramatically. volkswagen previously admitted to rigging some 11 million vehicles worldwide, allowing them to emit up to 40 times more nitrogen oxide p pollutants than standards allow. in nicaragua, president daniel ortega is set to win a fourth term in office after wininning more than 70% of s sunday's s v. ortega's wife, rosario murillo will l serve as his vice president. and janet renono, the first womn to serve as u.s. attorney general, has died at the age of 78.

during her eightht-year tenure,, reno oversrsaw the arrest and prosecution ofof the so-called "unibomber" ted kaczynskski, and oklahohoma city bomber timothy mcveigh. she oversaw the deadly raid on the branch davavidian cult in texas, which left 76 people dead. reno drew fire for her prososecution of wen h ho lee, e u.s. nuclear scientist of chinese descenent who spent nine months in solilitary confinement after he was falsely accused by the clinton administration of spying for the chinese government. and those are e some of the headlines. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. we are one day away from the u.s. presidential election, and both democrat hillary clinton and republican donald trump are crisscrossing the country to make their final case to voters. trump is scheduled to campaign today in florida, north carolina, new hampshire, and michigan. clinton is headed to michigan and north carolina. on friday, the clinton appeared next to the on say and j zee. >> 100 years ago, women did not

have the right to vote full dust vote. look how far we have come from having no voice to being on the brink of making history full top again. by electing the first woman president. yes! but we have to vote. the world looks to us as a progressive country that leads change. eight years ago, i was so inspired to know my nephew, a young black child, could grow up knowing his dream could be realized by witnessing a black president in office. [cheers] and now we have the opportunity to create more change. i want my daughter to grow up

seeing a woman lead our country and know that her possibilities are limitless. amy: meanwhile, donald trump is accusing democrats of voter fraud, claiming the late opening of a voting site in a latino neighborhood of las vegas due to long lines pointed to a "rigged system." mr. trump: it is being reported that certain key democratic polling locations in clark county were kept opepen for hous to hours beyond closing timime bus and bring democratic voters in. folks, it is a rigged system. it is a rigged system and we a e to be good.. amy: trump's remarks come after several key court decisions this weekend around voting rights. on saturday, the u.s. supreme court restored a republican-supported law in arizona banning political campaigners from collecting absentee ballots filled out by voters.

in new jersey, a federal judge decided against the democratic national committee in a complaint it brought against the republican national committee, ruling that the rnc's poll monitoring and ballot security activivies did notot violate a legagal settlement. but in a ruling held by advocates a federal judge late , friday ordered county elections boards in north carolina to immediately restore registrations wrongfully purged from voter rolls. all this comes as this year's presidential election is the first in half a century to take place without the full protection of the voting rights act. in 2013, the supreme court struck down crucial components in section five of the act in a case called shelby county v. holder, when it ruled that states with histories of voting-related racial discrimination no longer had to pre-clear changes to their voting laws with the federal government. we're joined by ari berman, author of, "give us the ballot: the modern struggle for voting rights." his most recent article is titled "there are 868 fewer

places to vote in 2016 because the supreme court gutted the voting rights act." 868 fewer places to vote. >> this is significant and i think needs a lot more of attention. states with a long history of discrimination have been eliminating polling places on a massive scale according to a new report by the leadership conference for civil rights. nearly 900 fewer polling places on election day in places like texas, arizona, and north carolina -- states that i've had a long history of closing holding places and that -- like neighborhoods, for example. when there are fewer polling places, there are longer lines. people do not know where to vote . there is more confusion. yet again, another under the radar votiting change they could have a big impact. amy: talk about the reno, nevada, speech that trump gave talking about the polls closing later than was originally scheduled. >> what happened was, on

saturday night, there was a huge turnout of latino voters in las vegas. this has been a trend in early voting. polls were extended because people were in line. if you are in line when the polls closed, you legally have to be able to vote. there was no foul play. nevada officials were just following the law. this is a trend with trump that any time the voting looks like it is going against him, he claims the election is rigged. i think trump's election rigging talk is code word for too many black and brown people voting. when he talks about monitoring the polls, in certain communities, insert areas, whehn he complains about too many people voting, we know what he is talking about. where you seet are the key places right now and now the supreme court decisisios that have come down and the court decisions this week in effect voting on tuesday. >> we have seen that african-american turnout is down

in certain places, north carolina, because they limited the number of polling places, for example. in texas, a lot of people have been wrongly told they need , even for -- photo id know they no longer do. i'm headed to wisconsin later today, which has had huge problems with their voter id law. the state says everyone who will get one. it we have many stories of people wrongly being turned away from the dmv in wisconsin, turned away from the polls in early voting because they do not have strict id that is necessary. many states where there are problems. you factor in polling place close is in all of the ones we don't know about, right? this happened over and over in the primary. five era -- five our lines and maricopa county. i did not know that occurred until the five hour lines were happening. and concern not just what i know is going t to happen but to paraphrase donald trump, the known unknown. amy: talk about that.

the election where maricopa county sheriff arpaio, who is also running, and actually -- i was just in arizona. people are saying he is not winning. but this threat to send out election monitors, what exactly this means, him being concerned about overall well-known trump supporter, but his own race? >> basically, what has happened, there is a prohibition on the rnc doing what is called ballot security efforts. back in new jersey in the 1980's, they tried to purge black and latino voters from the rolls and sent off-duty policeman to black and hispanic polling places. they had armbands that said ballots a could be task force,, and they carried weapons. this was intimidating. courts basically said republican party cannot intimidate voters at the polls under the guise of stopping voter fraud. yet again, trump has raised the prospect of intimidation saying is going to monitor the polls in certain areas, places like philadelphia, in cities like las

vegas. the fact he is calling on law enforcement to monitor the polls that gop state parties have admitted they're doing this kind of work in states like michigan and pennsylvania -- this is just another specter hanging over the selection that people are going to be intimidated, that trump supporters have called for racial profiling. one said he wawas going toonitor people like e mexicans, syrians, anyone in his words that doesn't speak american. in arizona, there is high latino turnout. people who have been very racially discriminatory, lilike sheriff joe arpaio, are on the ballot. amy: last month, donald trump warned that dead people and undocumented immigrants are voting. they're going to try to rig the election at the voting booths. there's a lot going on. they say "there's nothing going on." people that have died 10 years ago are still voting. illegal immigrants are voting. i mean, where are the street of some of these politicians?

>> they don't have any. >> they don't have any is right. so many cities are corrupt and voter fraud is very, very common. amy: ari berman, there was someone who was arrested for voter fraud. >> yes, someone was arrested for voter fraud in iowa. first off, she was a trump supporter but let's leave that aside. the important part is she voted twice during early voting and she was caught. the system worork as it was supposed to in a state without a strict voter id law. the authorities noticed this woman had voted twice and now she isis facing five years in jl , a felony conviction, and a $10,000 fine. this is why vovoter fraud is ra. number one, we have systems to stop it. the risks do not translate to all of t this effort and swung e extra vote? iowa is not going to be decided by one extra vote. now she is facing losing her

voting rights for the rest of her life. despite what trump says about dead people voting, noncitizens voting, it just does not happen. this entire talk about her fraud a completely manufactured controversy. there was a small amount of voter frau in american elections. when occurred, it was usually caught. donald has massively picked up the latino vote. i mean, this could be the deciding vote in this country. there were some headlines that african-american voting is down. latino voting is surging. can you talk about that in relation to early voting? millions and millions -- what is the number of people e this year that will have voted before tuesday? >> 40 million people i voted early as of a few days ago. i think it's safe like florida, north carolina, we will see over 50% has already voted.

you're right, when trump gave his first writing down the elevator in trump towers, that is for he called mexicans rate this. i think k the latatino unity frm the very beginning has paid close attention to what trump has been saying and he is been uniquely attacking this group.. they are coming out in force. mamany of these new vovoting restrictions are not just targeting african-americans, but latinos. you look at a state like texas were 600,000 registered voters do not have ststrict forms of f. latinos and african-americans are more likely do not have them. if you'rere talking about intimidation at ththe polls, muh of it is directeted at latino voters. i am concerned without the full protecections of the voting rigs act, these communities are more profitable. it is heartening to o see them coming o out and saying, we're part of this democracy. lawsuit thatut the local democratic parties brought in ohio, arizona, nevada,

pennsylvania based on the 1871 ku klux klan act. >> this is amazing. democrat said trump's voter intimidation schemes violate both the voting rights act of 1965 and the ku klux klan act of 1871 -- which basically says that it is illegal to obstruct someone's right to vote based on race. they said the fact the trump campaign is calling for de facto racial profiling at the polls, that they're singling out places like las vegas and cleveland and philadelphia where is large minority communities to do this kind of poll watching, violates his kinds of laws. it is reminder of how far back you have to go in this country to contextualize the fight for voting rights. that people have been murdered just for trying to vote. that there is a long history of disenfranchising people through things like poll taxes and literacy taxes in all of these primaries. it is so important we not go backwards, we not allow voter id

laws and cuts to early voting, and restrictions to voter registration turns people away from polls. we have been through this history before. it is an ugly history we do not want to go back to those days. did an expose.t melania trump was paper 10 modeling jobs in the united rates worth over $20,000 that occurred in the seven weeks before she legal permission to work in the country. this according to detailed accounting ledgers, contrtracts, and related documents from 20 years ago provided to the associated press. >> yeah, again, goes to show you the hypocrisy here that it seems like trump's own wife was working illegally and here he mightmonizing people who be here illegally. it is important to talk about the fact h he says noncitizens e votingng. it doesnsn't make anany sense. the e people who are here illegally that a are undocumentd are probably here to work and provide a better life for their family. the last thing they want to do is vote, face a felony, and face

deportation. i think laws of -- a lot of the history is not about noncitizens voting, it is to create this specter of intimidation that will keepp legal voters, people of color, from the polls. amy: north carolina is definitely a swing state right now. florida, n north carolina can en nenew h hampshire, michigan, oh, pennsylvania. the ruling in north carolina, what this means? >> republicans in north carolina tried to purge many afrirican-american voters from e popolls, putting a womanan i wre about who was 100 years old who lived in belhaven, north carolina, her entire life and voting regularly since 1982. she voted in the north carolina presidential primary in march, yet they claim she was illegally registered to vote. she would haveve had to show upt a board of electctions meeting r return a notarized form, at 100 years oh, just to maintain her voting rights. north cacarolina has this crazay law where any c citizen can challenge the right to vote of

another cititizen. republicans brouought these votr purges in three counties. the federal court said they violate the voting rights act and they violate the national board of registration. you cannot purchase them 90 days before an election. but more worrisome, in thehe county where grace is from, the 100 euros woman, republicansns challenged 138 people. of those people, 92 were african-americans and 92 were democrats. it seems like this was less about people being illegally registered to vote and were about the fact they wanted to keep voters of color and democratic voters from voting. amy: could the swing the election? >> i hope not. hope this will be something that will not be organized, not effective. that is done, will only be done in isolated cases. it is worrisome in the euro 2016 people could be challenged in the most fundamental right simply because of where they live. amy: in the next segment, we will talk about felon rights,

people have served time in prison, millions will not be of the vote, but there are many who actually can vote but do not realize it. we will talk about what is happening throughout this country when it comes to prisoners and ask prisoners. ari berman, thanks for joining us, senior contributing writer for the nation. his latest piece "there are 868 , fewer places to vote in n 2016 because the supreme court gutted the voting rights act." we will link to that and also your book "give us the ballot: , the modern struggle for voting rights in america." stay with us. ♪ [music break]

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this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. trump is accusing virginia governor terry mcauliffe, democrat, is acting illegally i restoring voting rights to some 67,000 former felons. trump made the rememark during a speech in leesburg, virginia. trump that youour governor has illegally given voting rights to 60,000 felons -- [boos] he iss letting criminals cancel out the vote of law-abiding citizens. you have to get everyone you know to the polls. we are going to win. we're going to have one of the .reat victories of all time amy: across the country, almost 6 million people are prohibited from voting as a result of state felony disenfranchisement laws . three quarters o othose noww prevented from voting have been released from prison and are living in their communities either under probation, on parole or having completed their , sentences. african americans have been disproportionately impacted by

ththe laws. florida has the highest number of disenfranchised voters. nearly one-in-four black adults cannot vote. meanwhile, in vermont and maine, prisoners can vote from jail. how will this impact tomorrow's election? to talk about the disenfranchisement of people who have spent time in the prison system under felony convictions, we're joined now by two guests. in philadelphia, malissa gamble is with us. founder of "the time is now to make a change," a support center for formerly incarcerated women in philadelphia. she was incarcerated in muncy, pennsylvania, and released 13 years agago. here in new york, victoria law is a freelance journalist and author of "resistance behihind bars: the struggles of incarcerated women." her latest piece for truthout is headlined, "disenfranchised by misinformation: many americans are allowed to vote but don't know it." we welcome you both to democracy now! victoria, tell us what the rules are. what are the laws for people who have been convicted of crimes in

this country? votinglaws vary around state-by-state. in new york state, once you are out of prison and off of parole, you are allowed to vote. you may have to reregister, but you can vote. many people do not know this. if you are in jail awaiting trial, you have not lost your right to vote. if you been convicted of a misdemeanor, you have not lost your light -- right to vote. we do not know how many hundreds of thousands or millions of people across the country are unaware of this because they're often told by jail and prison officials they have permanently lost their right to vote. this is often reinforced by the people who do release planning, by the probation officers, parorole officers, even by misinformation in the community. amy: tell us some of the stories you write in your piece. >> one of the women i interviewed was actually a woman who had voted heher entire life before she had gone to prison. during her 3.5 years in prison,

she would intentionally -- she had continually been told she lost her right to vote. amy: where was she in prison? >> in a federal prison and then very, connecticut. federal prisons house people who are from all over the country. the people in the prison may not necessarily know or care about the individual state laws. when she returned to new york state, she technically was allowed to vote and she went for years thinking she lost that right. it was not until she attended her friend's wedding at city hall and happened to see a poster stating that she had the right to vote even if she had a felony conviction that the lightbulb went off in her head that she could register. so she went to the voter table and asked the person there and they told her, yes, you have the right to vote. he handed her a registration form. she received her voter registration card. has she not look at that poster, she might have gone for yearsrs,

if not the rest of her life, thinking she did not have that right. amy: we have done a lot on rikers jail. 80% of the thousands of people there have not been charged -- rather, have not been convicted. can they vote? >> technically, they can. how many people know this? we don't know. recently the city council passed a bill, which is waiting for the mayor's signature, stating the department of correction that oversees new york city's jails including rikers island, has to actually promote voting. it is not enough for a person to go to a correctional officer and say, hey, i want to vote. they have to let people know that the right to vote and provide them with voting materials -- registration n fors and absentee ballots -- no less than two weeks before any primaries, special election, or general election. in other words, they actually need to let people know and then make it easy for them to vote. amy: can people vote in rikers

tomorrow? >> if they know they have the riright to vote -- amy: on the day? >> they can fill out an absent he ballot. it depends on the officer on duty. if you have an officer on duty that things people cannot vote or does not care to find the forms, then the person may not be able to vote. what this law does is it systematizes it. law.ed a amy: i want to turn to comments when welle alexander spoke to her last year. " we have to grant the right to vote not just people upon release from prison, you know, so i have trouble with the framing of this is being a movement and the oftenranchisement -- voting drives are within prisons

and other wewestern democracies and here in the united states, we deny people the right to vote not only when they are in prison, bubut often when they ae out and sometimes for the rest of their lives. amy: malissa gamble, that was michelle alexander, author of "the new jim crow." you are founder of "the time is now to make a change", a support center. what are you telling women now? >> that they have the right to vote and they should not allow their voices to be heard -- you know, here in philadelphia, or in pennsylvania, we were granted the right to vote by one vote door smithte was rignet. i tell them that if this wasn't important, they would not be trying to take it away. amy: so how -- what do people have to do in pennsylvania? clearly, a swing state.

well, truth that returning if you are convicted of a felony and you come home, on the day of election, as long as you're registered to vote, you can vote here. you just need to participate. it has been studied and stated that returning citizens who protested the in three elections or more are less likely to recidivate. them, registerte them, and get them to the polls. amy: can you talk about former philadelphia mayor micicel nutter taken thehe decision to n the term ex-offender and replace it with the phrase you just used, returning citizens? >> in october 2013, michael , with wilson good junior, sign an ordinance to change the

name of ex-convict because it put a stigma on their on people for jobs and for everything. it shut the door before you even had a chance to go in. he thought it was wrong and wanted as to call ourselves returning citizezens. amy: i want toto turn to anothtr former prisonener who has been advocatiting for voting rights, desmond meade, president of the florida rights restoration coalition, as well as chair of floridians for a fair democracy. he was previously homeless and he is still disenfranchised. we spoke to him earlier this year about his own experience. >> i i had a drug adaddiction proboblem back in my younger da. that caused me to go in and out of prison. at the time, i did not even realize that, you know, the collateral consequences that, you know, i faced by pleading guilty to a lot of these charges. 2004, i gotly, in

out of prison and that was the .ast time i was ever in trouble as a matter of fact, i took it upon myself to go above and beyond the call -- you know, i went back to school, i dived into committed to service, dedicated my whole life to giving back to others, fighting for the homeless, fighting for the disenfranchised, fighting for the children. thinking by doing this and by excelling in school that this country would see that i had been rehabilitated and i am an asset to the community. apparently, everybody else think so, but the state ofof florida r the governor and his cabinet because in spite of all that i have been able to overcome to include graduating from fiu college e of law with aa jd deg, not only can i not vote, i cannot buy a home anywhere i want to and i'm not even allowed to practice law because i cannot evenpply to o the flororida bar

until my rights have been restored. i can go to 40 other -- 48 other states a and apply t to the bard practiced law, butut that just remiminds me of thehe dangers of slslavery when all thehe slave d to d do was s cross the state le to getet freededom. we're in 2016. it is time to o get rid of these jim m crow policies.s. an americacan citizen should not have to move to anothther state just to participate in the democratic process. amy: desmond meade also spoke on the increasing number of infractions that qualify as felonies in florida. >> it seems like every year, our legislators create more felonies. in the state of florida, you can get a felony conviction for disturbing turtle nesting eggs, driviving with a suspended license, burning a tire and public, trespassing on a construction site, andnd my favoririte was when a gentleman released helium filled balloons in the air. he was immediately arrested and charged with a felony offense.

and that is something that so many american citizens do without even thinking about the repercussions of that was specifically in florida. any code that is desmond meade. malissa gamble, , if you could respond to this and talk also about the distinction between misdemeanors and felelonies andt matters, in pennsylvania -- when it comes to voting. >> you can vote with a misdemeanor or a felony conviction in ththe state of custom -- pennsylvania. it goes to show -- another thing that i tell returning citizens is that the laws are different in each estate. in pennsylvania, we have the right to vote we should not take it for granted. the five-year waiting ban is over. if you are sitting on state road , if you have a felony conviction, you cannot vote.

estimated 10,000 people sitting on state road and none of themm have been convicted. those people are allowed to vote. amy: canan you talk more about that, victoria law? this issue of who can vote and you cannot, not only in pennsylvania, and around the country when it comes to misdemeanors, felonies. malissa was talking about the five-year waiting period that is no longer there in pennsylvania. >> differerent states have different lalaws around voting. in most states, you can vote if you have a misdemeanor conviction, but people do not know this. i spoke to a woman who was recently released earlier last month in arizona. nobody told her anything about her right to vote. so she went through -- she went through the sheet of papers for probation officer handed her and found out that s she had to wait dust she was off her role, parole, but had she been convicted of only a misdemeanor, she would have retained her right to vote throughout her entire prison sentence.

nobody told her this. it was inapplicable to her because she of in convicted of a felony. if nobody told her that and she only learned this by going through a s sick sheet of papers because i asked her to come how many other peoeople in the same situation don't know this? alissa, what would it take people of pennsylvania to know? >> there an estimated 200,000 to 400,000 returning citizens in the city of philadelphia alone. if one third of this population were educated, registered to vote and then participated, we do have the ability to sway elections. that is not just the presidential election, that is the local elections where all of the decisions are made for us. and here in pennsylvania, we can vote on probation or parole, living in n a house boy house, transitional -- halfway house, transitional housing.

amy: what are you telling the corrections system in pennsylvania to inform people what their rights are once a get out? believell them -- i that the instituted something where they give a voter registration card upon release, experiencebeen my that once they are out, they don't follow through on that. if you have a program in place, such as ours, that goes in, educates, and registers them to be absent the application, that is much better. they get the ballot, but if you blow -- reading blowup a grade level, they don't understand. it will take more work. for the most part, returning citizens sway elections in the state of pennsylvavania. in philadelphia alone, we hahave the ability to sway this presidential election. amy: w we do not hear politicia,

even those who are scrambling for every last vote -- yes, we her donald trump refer to criminals, that was people who came out of jail in virginia being able to get the right to vote, and he was insulted and angry about that, but we don't hear hillary clinton talking about people coming out of prison, victoria, and telling them they can have the right to vote. >> i think there is still a stigma around people who have misdemeanor felony convictions or any sort of arrest or criminal record. so we're not seeing politicians actively courting them. while they may be talking about kernel justice reform, they're not seeing them as people who they want to be seen reaching out to. amy:y: we will leave it there. i want to thank you, victoria law, freelance journalist, author of "resistance behind bars: the struggles of incarcerated women." for will link to your piece truthout "disenfranchised by , mimisinformamation: many amers are allowed to vote but don't

know it." and malissa gamble founder of , "the time is now to make a change," a support center for formerly incarcerated women in philadelphia. when we come back, michael moore . stay with us. ♪ [music break] amy: this is democracy now!,

democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. in late october, donald trump sent out a tweet that may surprise many of his followers. he linked to a video a film maker michael moore along with the words "i agree." trump went on to say to all americans -- i see you, i hear you, i'm your voice. onin the swamp with me november 8. history included a four minute audio recording pulled from michael moore's new film "michael moore in trumpland." it was edited to make sure like -- make it sound like michael moore was endorsing trump. he responded -- we end today's show with the un-doctored clip from michael moore's film. this is from "michael moore in trumpland." >> donald trump came from the

detroit economic club and stood there in front of a ford motor executive and saidd, if you pull these factories as you're planning to do in detroit and build them in m mexico, i'm goig carst 35% tariff on those when you send them back and nobody is going to buy them. it was an amazing thing to see. no politician, republican or democrat, had ever said anything like that to these executives. and it was music to the ears of people in michigan and ohio and .ennnnsylvania and wisconsin the brexit states. if you live here in ohio, you know what i'm talking about. whether trump means it or not is irrelevant because he is saying the things to people who are hurting. it is why every beaten down, namelessss, forgotten working stiff who used to be part of

what was called the middle class loves trump. he is the e human molotov cocktl that they have been waiting for. the human hand grenade they cacn legally throw into the system that stole their lives fromm them. day,vember 8, election although they lost their jobs, although they have been nextlosed on by the bank, came the divorcece and now the wife and kids are gone, the carr has been repossessed, have not had a vacation in years, stuck with the obamacare bronstein were he cannot even get a percocet -- [laughter] they have essentially lost everything they had except one thing. the one thing that doesn't cost them a cent and is guaranteed to them by the american constitution, the right to vote. they might be penniless, they might be homeless, they might be

[blelep] it doesn't matter because it is equalized on that day. a millionaire has the same number of votes as the person without a job -- one. and there is momore of the formr middle class then there are in the millionaire class. so on november 8, the dispossessed who walked into the voting booth committee handed a ballot, closed the curtain come and take that lever and put a box of the x by thee name of the man who has vowed to overturn a system that has ruined their lives. donald j trump. elites whoat the ruined their lives hate trump.. corporate america hates trump. wall street hates trump. the career politicians hate

trump. the media hates trump. after they left him and created him. and noww hate him. thank you, media. the enemy of my enemy is who i am voting for on november 8. y you, joember 8, blowow, steve blow, bob blow, billlly blow, billy bob blow -- all of the blows did to go and blowup the whole god damned sy stem because it is your right. trump's election is going to be bleep] ever [ recorded in human history. and it will feel good. for a d day. maybe a week. possibly a month.

brits wholike the wanted to send a message so they voted to leave europe only to find out that if you vote to leave europe, you actuallyly hae to leave europe. [laughter] and now they regret it. all the highlands, pennsylvanians, michiganders and wisconsinites of middle england, they all voted to leave and now they regret it and over 4 million of them have signed a petitionon to have a do over. they want another election. it ain't going to happen n becae you used the ballot as an anger management tool. and now you are[bleep] and the rest of europe? there like, bye, felicia. [applause]

so the rightfully angry people of ohio michigan and pennsylvania and wisconsin, when they find out after a few months in office of president trump wasn't t going to do a dam thing for them, it will be too late to do anything about t it. but i get itit. you wanted to send a message. unjustifiable anger. well, message sent. good night, amererica. you have just elected the last president of the united states. amy: you just elected the last president of the united states, michael moore, in studio here in new york. your response to yourself? --well, that is what i think the united states that we know now, for better or worse, won't be the united states that we know after four years of donald

trump. so those of us who are upset at the things about this country that we are upset about, the way to fix it isn't to put trump in their to blow it up. that whole piece -- it is funny you play that. a couple of right-wing websites doctored that and cut me off right after "when you vote for trump and it will feel good" and they cut it right there. the is, as you just showed, "for a day, maybe a week." this went all over these right-wing websites last week. me a text saying, what is going on? tens of thousands of people suddenly in the middle of the day are buying or film. we were already doing well. it has been number one on itunes for at least a couple of weeks. i said, the right wingers are telling people to buy this movie because they've been shown only

this one little bit of it. just bear with me. it is the irish catholic in me. i was feeling guilty all of these poor conservative right wing dudes are losing five dollars to itunes, and they get my movie and they realize, you know, oh, no, and they can't get their money back. i called up megyn kelly and got her producer and said, can i come on fox? i know i'm not a usual fox guest, but can i come on? i want to tell people to stop buying my movie because i feel that they're losing five dollars. they had me on. i said -- i want you to watch my movie, but i think you will learn a few things because in the movie i have a number of generally disguised facts that i hope might see been a little bit. but i just can't take your money forou think this is some donald trump.

amy: it was donald trump himself who tweeted out this video. he wrote -- "michael moore, to all americans, icu and i hear you. i'm your host. though to drain the swamp with me on 11/eight lowe's quote and he linked to the edited video. courts which only drove hundreds of millions, maybe millions to my movie. i thought, i cannot believe this. does he think -- he clearly has not seen the movie, right? so does he think -- this is what i think it is. i think he saw that his name was in the title of a movie and he is such a narcissist, that he just went, hey, there is a movie about me is that it's got my name in it. you know? he doesn't talk like that, by the way. that was like western michigan accent. amy: academy award-winning film maker michael moore, director of the new film "michael moore in trumpland."

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