12/08/17 12/08/17 [captioning made possible by democracy now!] amy: from m pacifica, this is democrcracy now!w! >> look, peoplple are inin the streets. there are chcheckpoints. there arare demonstrationsns. people are alslso begg killed, assassinated by the apparatatusf ththe state.e. ththere is a massisive protest f society because of the lack of transparency in the electoral

system. amy: the political crisis continues in honduras as the government is still refusing to release the results of the presidential election that pit november 26 u.s.-backed president juan orlando hernandez against opposition candidate salvador nasralla. massive protests erupted after the government-controlled electoral commission stopped tallying votes when the count showed nasralla ahead. we'll speak with former honduran president manuel zelaya, was ousted in a 2009 u.s.-backed coup. he now heads the opposition libre party, part of the coalition, alliance against the didictatorship. so democracy here.. we are suffering repreression. people a beieing persesecuted. is no o dueere process. there is n nothing. , thenthe coup d'etat changed all of the laws. amy: president zelaya in a democracy now! exclusive.

then, "the dangerous case of donald trump: psychiatrists and mental health experts assess a president." we will speak with forensic lee,iatrist dr. brandy organizer of the yale duty to warn conference. all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. in california, nearly 200,000 people have been forced to evacuate as drought-fueled wildfires tear across southern california. climate experts say the intensity of the winter blazes is linked to climate change. the fires caused the intermittent shutdown of the 101 and 405 freeways. nearly 150,000 acres have been scorched so far by the fires. authorities have warned residents to stay inside because of the dangerous air quality caused by smoke and cancerous ash from the fires. but a number of farms have stayed open, sparking concerns that farm workers are laboring

in hazardous conditions without proper equipment. on wednesday, volunteers handing out free protective masks to farm workers say they were kicked off some farms, despite the fact that the pickers were asking for the safety equipment. tens of thousands of palestinians proteststed in the west banank and gaza strip following president trump's annonounce h he was recognizing jerusalem as israeael's capital and initiating a process of moving the u.s. embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem. dozens of palestinians were injured as israeli soldiers crackdown on the protest. at least 16 protesters were hospitalized. control of jerusalem is one of the most contested issues between israelis and palestinians. the israeli military seized control of east jerusalem in 1967, and has occupy the territory ever since. palestinians have long seen east jerusalem as the capital of their future country. the un security council is meeting today to discuss

president trump's announcement a top palestinian official has now said vice president mike pence is not welcome to visit the palestinian city of bethlehem in the west bank during his scheduled visit later this month. democratic senator al franken of minnesota is resigning after being accused by at least seven women of groping them or forcibly trying to kiss them without their consent. >> today i am announcing that in the coming weeks, i will be resigning as a member of the united states senate. i, of all people, am aware that there is s some irony in the fat that i am leaving, while a man who has bragged on tape about his history of sexual assault sits in the oval office. and a man that has repeatedly preyed on young girls campaigns for the senate with the full

support of his party. but this decision is not about me. it is about the people off minnesotota. amy: minnesota governor mark dayton is expected to appoint lieutenant governor tina smith to replace senator franken. republican arizona congressman trent franks has announced he's also resigning, after learning the congressional ethics committee is investigating him for sexual harassment. multiple female staff members say franks asked them if they would give birth to his children because he and his wife were having trouble conceiving. franks is one of the most conservative members of congress, part of republicans' far-right-wing freedom caucus. meanwhile, republican utah congressmember m mia love callining on her fellow republin congressmember, blake farenthold of texas, to resign following revelations of his 2014 sexual harassment settlement with a

former aide. former usa gymnastics doctor larry nassar has been sentenced to 60 years in prison for possessing tens of thousands of images of child pornography, including images of infants. nassar has also admitted to sexually assaulting women and children and is awaiting sentencing in two separate trials. dozens of female athletes, including members of the u.s. olympic gymnastics team, have accused him of penetrating their vaginas with his fingers and covering up the abuse by pretending it was papart of aa medical treatment. in alabama, a numberer of africn american lawmakersrs are plannig to campaign for democratic senate candidate doug jones, who is running against republican candidate roy moore in the contentious december 12 special senate election. among those who are planning to campaign with jones this weekend are new jersey senator cory booker, alabama congress person terri sewell, georgia congress person john lewis, and former massachusetts democratic governor deval patrick. jones is in a close race against

roy moore, who has been accused by at least nine women of sexually harassing or assaulting them when they were teenagers. one as young a as 14. moore has repeatedly been endorsed b by president trump, o is holding a rally today in pensacola, does four days before the special election. pensacola is just 20 miles from the alabama border and in the same media market as mobile, alabama. president trump will be in pensacola this afternoon. white former police officer michael slager has been sentenced to twenty years in prison for murdering unarmed black motorist walter scott in north charleston, south carolina, in 2015. video footage shows scott was unarmed and running away from officer slater when slager opened fire, shooting scott eight times in the back, killing him.

the video was captured by a bystander. an investigation by the center for investigative journalism in puerto rico has revealed that nearly 1000 more people died in the 40-day period after huhurricane maria hit puerto ri, compared to that same time period last year. these findings sharply contradict the september 20 storm's official death toll of 62.. meanwhil n nearly 90% ofof schos hahave reopened d across the i , following protests andololitical presre from parerents. but paparents whose e children atattend the schools thaststill remamain closed are concerd d ty may nenever bee reoeoned and tht the e storm may bebe used to fur privatizizeducation.n. >> i i am a fatherer of a child. we'rere here right now a at thee department of public education if we cananr rico to seee resolve e the issssue with thee goes s that hasid

been clolosed. right now we don't have an answer as wyatt habeen closed. evenen though it didn't have any structctural damage. amy: protesters flooded the streets thursday for a national day of action protesting the federal communications commission plan to dismantle landmark regulations that ensure equal access to the internet. protesters demanded the net neutrality rules stay in place at more than 100 rallies coast to coast, including here in manhattan. >> my name is ellen. i am fighting for net neutrality, which will be voted on next week. if the fcc gets their way, they will have more control over the internet. it will cost everyone more. and the only one who benefit will be big business. it will hurt small businesses, individuals. and once again, the trump administration is helping the

top 1 1% and the corporations, d hurting everybody else. amy: two african american democratic congress memberers, john lewis of georgia and bennie thompson of mississippi, say they will not attend the opening of a new civil rights museum in jackson, mississippi, in protest of president trump's planned attendance saturday. in a joint statement, the lawmakers said -- "president trump's disparaging comments about women, the disabled, immigrants, and national football league players disrespect the efforts of fannie lou hamer, aaron henry, medgar evers, robert clark, james chaney, andrew goodman, michael schwerner, and countless others who have given their all for mississippi to be a better place." congressmember's john lewis and bernie thompson wrote that statement. in new york city, hundreds of people rallied outside the brooklyn courthouse thursday to demand courtrooms prohibit undercover immigration agents from arresting people at or in the vicinity of courthouses. attorney. immigigration

i am also a member of the defenders here in new york city. i'm here today because joining all of the public defenders in our city to demand that our city courts, the courts and our state, our free from the president -- presence of ice. what is happening right now, ice is arresting and really high numbers. a lot of the plants we are representing for. the fact is, the immigrant community here in new york no longer has the trust that they need to have in order to be able to access justice in courts. amy: in california, advertisers are pulling their business with the award-winning alalternative newspaper "the l.a. weekly" after it was bought by a shadowy group of male investors, who fired every editor and all but one writer on staff last week. "the l.a. weekly" is a long-running left-leaning newspaper in los angeles. but the new owners, who refused

to even reveal themselves at the time of the mass firing, are conservative investors based in orange county, some of whom have donated heavily to the republican party. and football player colin kaepernick accepted the puffin/nation prize for creative citizenship tuesday night for having sparked a movement against racism and police brutality across the nfl and beyond after refusing to stand for the nationalal anthem before nfl l games. >> i would likike to say a at ts point t in time with freedom of speech and freedom of press being under attack in so many ways and s so many fororms, the nation institute and the work that journalists and reporters are doing right now is more important than it ever has been. you truly are the pathway for the people to see the truth that is going on. so in this moment of time, my message to all of you is, continue to speak just and ununjust, regagardless of the

consequences and the backlash. we are with yoyou. we need that tree. ntntinueo spspad that treat for us because people need to know whais truly gng o on we caname plans far asow to fig against tse oh prs oforces. y: that is ftballlayeyer colin kaeperni being horored athehe natn instute gal and ose are me of th headnes. th is demoacy now! democrynow.orgthe waand peacreport. i'm y goodma in hondus, the pitical isis connues as e governnt is stilrefusi to relee the resus of the noveer 26 presential ection. the eltion pitu.s.-bked present ju orlandoernandez against opposition candidate salvador nasralla, head of the alliance against the dictatorship. massive protests erupted over the weekend after the government-controlled electoral commission stopped tallying votes when the count showed nasralla ahead of hernandez by more than 5 percentage points. after the delay, the electoral commission then claimed hernandez was ahead, sparking

protests in as which as many as 11 people were killed and others to attain. earlier this week, thehe hondurn polilice mutinied against the government, saying it would no longer enforce a curfew and crackdown against protesters. well, on wednesday, we spoke via democracy now! video stream with manuel zelaya, who was president of honduras from 2006 to 2009 before he was ousted in a u.s.-backed coup on june 28, 2009. he is now head of the opposition libre party, part of the coalition of the alliance against the dictatorship, which which is led by the opposition presidential candidate salvador nasralla. we spoke the democracy now! video o stream. i began by asking president zelalaya to dedescribe the sitin in honduras righght n now.

>> look, people arare in the streets. there are a million people in the streets. there arare takeovers. there a are cheheckpoints. their demonstrtrations. people are also being killed, assassinated by the repressive appaparatuses of the state. therere is a massive protetest f society because e of the lack of transparency in the electoral system. calling oure candidate who is now president-elect, we are calling for a count of all polling places. there are only 18,000 polling places. that can be done in a matter of four days. so the people can regain calm. on the data the state itself put out, the supreme electoral tribunal, the alliance of opposition against the dictatorship on the day of

the election, the tribunal said thead a 5% lead with 71% of votes counted. with 57% counted, the alliance already had a 5% advantage. them was 71% have to, the 5% trend was maintained. 71%. it was a 5% lead and growing. now than the system went down to three days. they say that their sererver was overloloaded. that is like putting three needles i into a room. how is a servever going to be overloaded with h so little dat? the seserver can take billions d billions of pieces of data. so three days, , the vo count was stopppped.

then there was a change in t servrver. and we were told they had reset when we asked to the backup, and it was all lost. then it was resumed and we were told 29% left of the vote to be counted, we were losing. people were indignant. that -- withe fact respect to honduras, they control the country. they control the media, the private enterprise, the churches, the military, and they are silent. it is very striking is a twofold didiscourse. amy: presidedent zelaya, what ae you calling for right now? >> at this time, we are asasking for two things. first, foror people e to stay fm and stay in the streets. because if we don't defend what wewe havee won at the polls inie

streets, hundreds of institutions have been co-optedd from the coup d'etat. there is no rule of law. we're suffering repression. there are human rights violations. there is no due process. since the coup d''etetat, the u. has done what it wants with this country. they have all of the laws. this is a military state with iraq, andcolumbia, afghanistan. that is what is happening in honduras. there done away with guarantees. what is being done in this country is unjust. we're calling for people to defend themselves in the streets the polls, we at defend in the streets. and second, the little bit of institutional framework that the --te has, well, theoas let's count the 1 18,000 polling places. review thelet's

ports on t the votes. but that is manipulative. let's actually look at the vote. the votershere signed and see if the signatures on the reports of the votes coincide with what is on the actual vote. we're asking for something that is very -- this is a sensitive demand and we think the community should support democracy in honduras. we want peace in honduras. amy: are you calling for a full recount or a new election?n? we know that salvador nasrsralla won thehe election. in a matter of six months. we had an alliance with the libre party that was founded after the coup d'etat. injured into an alliance with him. he is practically a tv personality and sports journalist. and in a matter of six months,

with happiness and dancing in all of the towns with music, he won the elections. we defeated 130 years of bipartisan rule in honduras. the people defeatedd them becaue of the poverty, the misery, the violenence, the people could not put t up with anymore. so the elections weree won. theyey recognize it the day of e elections. it was in the preress worldwide that the alliance hadwon n the election. and today, silence. herere.e the voice of the church, the mililitary? they react only when the united states gives them the order. amy: president zelaya, the u.s. state department certified the honduran government has been fighting corruruption andd supppporting human rights, clearing the way for honduras to receive millions of dollars in u.s. aid.

this came just a few days after the election took place on november 26, in the midst of the dispute. can you talk about the significance of this? ago, the onone monthh ununited nations orgrganizationn genevava that looks out for humn rightsts involved honduras. and footage roughly on the list of countries t that violate humn righghts. just one year ago, they assassinated berta caceres. they went to assassinate her and the dust it indicates the masterminds of this crime are being protected by the state. nonetheless, the s state department comes out with these things. the ststate department i is a vy political organization. they protect the dictators who are their friends. nonethelesess, in honduras it hs been clear, well, in the last

six months, t there has notot bn an ambassadoof the uninited states. the ambabassador of the ununited statates is likike a governor. it i is like a s sta that is unr the dollar. we find d it shameful that state department is so indifferent to the honduran people who are suffering. there have been 12 assassinations in the last 48 hours. we're under a state of siege. they have declared a state of siege against the protest. there catching the votes under a state of siege with color present state i in honduras. -- highly reprpressive s state n hondurasas. amy: what is the united states doing behind the scenes, prpresident zelayaya? >> they want to leave the dictator in, endorsing a a dictator. amy: h how do you know thahat? t is it doining to ense e that? the orgrganization of a americn ststates put o out a report mostlyay, whihich is

, , about how the operational side of the elections are being held. is ahe o oas, well, this repoporthat must b be analyzed with the state department as well. and they say cleararly thatt the oas s cannot cononsider the ress put out by t the election tribul to be reliable. they are sayining the current illegallyis being reelected. they violated the constitution. they have assaulted the institutions of the state. they carried out a fraud. they did not want to carry out the census. since they were not able to win at the ballot box, they are now manipulating the count system. the oas are to put out a report ththat we find very satisfactor. based on that report, today we

will be presenting c chaenges to the election. we will be calling for a a genel count of all of the votes. now, if the state department would like to rectify its physician, they should go along with us that there should be account. ,f the current president won then what is wrong with having a recount? let's have a count. what is the problem? if the electoral tribunal says you won -- they're all employees of the presidency -- is have a public count in front of cameres and levision andnd international organizations.s. until they saye everything is transparent. i would hope it would be. and i would hope that c can hapn in coming hours. amy: that his former honduran president manuel elias ousted in 2009.

we will be back with our exclusive interview with him and then talk about the dangerous case of donald trump. psychiatrists s and mental healh experts assessing the president. stay with us. ♪ [music break]

amy: one of the most politically outspoken bands in honduras. after the 2009 u.s. backed coup, they became known as the band of the resistance. this is dedemocracy now!, dedemocracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. now to our exclusive interview with the former honduran president manuel zelaya, ousted in the 2009 u.s. backed coup. the political crisis in hunter's is continuing as the government still refuses to release the results of the november 26 presidential election that hit the u.s. backed president juan orlando hernandez against opposition candidate salvador nasralla, head of the alliance against the dictatorship. massive protests erupted over the weekend after the government-controlled electoral commission stopped tallying votes when the count showed nasralla ahead of hernandez. i asked if he thinks t the u.s.s ststilrunnnning e e show in honduras. i have no doubtbt about i it,

amy. and you know why? because i wass president of the country. they tried to run everything.. their opposition is what took me out of power. the coup d'etat against me was planned in miami. i know here thehey run the churches. not all of them. not all of the pastors or prieiests. but ththey finance the main churches, evanangelical churches asas well -- not all o of them,t mostst of them. r run the large owners of the media corporations.. they feed them a line daday aftr day. and the military only them because they werere trained by them at the school of the americas. it now has another name, but graduates aree throughout latin

americica. private business, w well, if you'reoioing to be a a business person and makake money in hondururas, you have to have a goodod relationship with the u., have a be set. anything thehe united s statess, it is a law for the private seseor here. if they say go into the business, ththey will. they run a transnationals, private sector, churches am a the major media.. nonot just here, but a around te world. the major dififference robererts answer to the u.s. line. and that is what it dismissesest fofor them t reflect upopon wh they''re doing to small country like this is incredible. but they're not going to bebe ae to govern. -- people willis be in the streets. joseone is shouting "ouout orlando hernandez, the president." has n nasralla beenen speaking

to the u.s. government? >> yes, quite a a bit. they have been meeeeting withh ththem. but theyey wanant salvadoror ton an agreeeement with thee presidt to r review only y some of the e reports. salvador has refused because he knows it is a trap that they are trying to lead him intnto. they want just a a partitial re. that is obviously not enough. amy: and whahat does nasralla sy to that? whatat is his response? is the same t that i am givin you all stetep i have spspoken with him. i am the coordinator of ththe alliance. he is the candididate and thehe president-elect. the answerer is, let's have a general count and have the people in the streets. amy: can you talk about general kekey? general kelly, who is this white

house chief of staff right now the formerly the head of south com. do you see him playing a role en the honduran election? please extend my greetings t to general kelly. he cameme here several times. i did not meet him persrsonally, but i know who he is. when he was s the head of the southern command, hehead o of southcom, he was given respsponsibility o over hundndr. he exercised a great deal of influence in the changes in the country. president obama said it was a mistake to put the military in charge of drug traffickiking because their armed forces are going to become contaminated. general kelly made a mistake of getting the armed forces involved instead of involved in defense, there are

involved in security. that is a big mistake because the military have a patriotic function to defend and support security, but not be the first line on sick dirty. inhe is currently responsibility. and he could you see the difference in the trump administration involvement in honduras and the obama administration, clearly involved , that coup against you toppleled u, president z zelaya, in 2009? there i isess hypypocrisy with trp.p. he is more direct about what he's goioing to do and h he say. under r the previous administration, there was a lack of s sincerity in the words. so anyway, we like this but trump is very repressive. he is very cold and harsh. he only sees the world from the standpoint of business. beings,that we, human in the eyes of god and the eyes

of the law, have the same value. this is what jefferson said and what washington said and what the u.s. constitution says. he lacks humanity. amy: dcn connection with between the two interview in 2009 in the violence that has grown in honduras -- do you see a connection with the coup between you in 2009 and the violelence that has grorown in hondurasas? is a g global village. everything is interrelated. you are here after the coup d'etat and you experience the tragedy of honduras. since then, those who carried out the coup and removed me have been governing. i organized the people. we have now defeated them. at the polls, and a civic manner, without violence we defeated them. they have the weapons. and of course, they changed the state. they turned it into a military, repressive state, violator of human rights. and there is no more respect for

due process. ththey have introduced new laws. there's a law on secrecy.. i had a law called -- a law for access to public informatition d for trtransparency. and a lalaw on citizenship per dissipation. -- or dissipatation. anand now they are -- popularar consultations arare by the juriridical governmentnt. they say thehere are elections wiwith the elections are not the essence of demracy. you are presented a a piece of papaper with a bunf photos andnd you market. thatats not the full extent of dedemocracy. making decicisis is democracy. it is not t accepted here come almost 10 years after the e coup d'etat. of death squads, people are being massacred, we haven't seen that

before in this country. that is a result of the state instead of s seeking to be democratic, well, it is simply centralized poweinin mated authorititarian d military. indicated in ththe reports, the amount of drugs coming through honduras has tripled. of course, now there i is direry military control over the country so it is easier for the drug traffickers in an o on democratic system. now t there is too ch conontroly the secucurity forces, therefor, ththe drugs s go through vereryy through hondnduras. of course, all of that has been the result of the control t that the united states came too acququire afte the coup d'etat. right camember, auto through. camamthrough the

acacquisitions againinst hondur. evenen so, we won t the electio. controled s states took after the coup d'etatat and they've d done a very badad j jb running the country, the ecocony has bebeen low, the violence has grown. violence went down i in the six months leading up to the elections. well, that was clelearly ann indicator that those w who are violence anand control, those producing the violence are those who -- why? because there is e elections. after the electioions, the violence will l come back. a plan colombia. amy: are you are the passage of the berta caceres h human rights act in the u.s. congress that would cut off military aid to honduras until human rights

viololations stop? >> yes, i agree with passage of ththe burda berta c caceres - -a cacereres human rights act becae e we need to have an investigation. amy: having the organization of american states, the oes alarm observation mission, said the tight margi -- president zelaya, whwhat is yoyo reresponse to the former bolivin president? look, he is a man from the far right. of the cia.n

few works with them. he informs them. of as vice president dictator in bolivia. in bolivia, he appears to be criticical of the system.m. here he e has come to defend a dictator. a traitor forever. amy: in "the wall street journal," there was a opinion doingthat said you are the bidding of venezuela, president zelaya. it is also what the pr firms in washington that represent the honduran right are tryining to say. what is your resesponse to theh? >> i did not knothe venezuelans until i became president of hononduras and i mt hugo chavevez. my record as a cititizen is wewl known throughout my y entire lie inin honduras. i am a democratic minded man. i am a pacifist.

i don't use weapons. plus, i have a clean record throughout my life. my private life. my public lifee, my administrative lifife. no one can have any doubts about me. in terms of my t thinking and my idideology and m my ways of thig , i sharare directly w with alal --ple struggling forr justice venezuela, the people of bolivia, c central a america, te ecuadoror, the, --ple of mexico, the people the sandinistas all have struggleled against dictatotorss fofor centuries. ththat is consistent with my way of eating. defend that revolutions in the

african countries,s, the middle east are putting up withth so mh prpressure by the emrere. i am a defender of just causes and i identify with that. because of that, they y say hae some affinity with thehe people. itit is true. the strugglele being c carried t by nicolas maduro to defend his natural resources thatat the united states wants to recover oil for the oil wells and the european companies as well, is a just strugglgle the v venezueln people and i am with ninicolas maduro in that struggle bececaue the actions cacarried out by the united stas agagainst venenezuea are public. the obama decrees against venezuela a is public. the aggression n by trump sayayg he's going to invade venezuzuela isis public. we latin amemericans and

caribbeaean's, hispanic americas , just t as we defend immigrgrants in the united stat, we also defend people who fight forhange here in honduras ii began a prococess of changnge ad they took us out by bullets. anand it was the latin amemericn left the defefenda me.e. at that timime, the right united but as a matter of hypocrisysy. within months, those who carried out the coup here said they don't want change anywhere inin ththe world, not even in the united states. there was s a candidate proposig democratic socialism. similararly, we had a pposal along the same lines at the opposition alliancnce. is denyingited statetes reality. they might stop changes momomentarily, but changes of

human kindnd cannot be stopped. we contitinue going forwarard, of the rces thatt hihistorically have tried d to p things as they are. humankind has gone through all sorts of change -- war, revovolutionon, peaceful demonstrationsns like gandhi ass jejesus christ taught us. we are involved in that. in thosee causes is a matter of public record. i come from a right-wing already. but in a resizing power -- in exercising p power at the top realized we neededed to teachers. workers, the , wanted -- - i brought chavez presidentsf mexico. i maintain good relations with

ththe united statetes. you mimight not believeve me, bt center r with chahavez. they wanted to destroy chavez becaususe he wanted to free thee peoplerorom th oppressioion of ththat transnationals, the military and thehe transnationa. the u.s. and european milititary that,rialal complex with they've gone to destroy thee middle east. we have anti-imperialist principles anand anti-capitalist principles becausese capital is good. it needs to be developed. private enterprise plays a fundamenental role in the histoy of our peoeoples. the private sectctor. own agricultural businesses and so onone. butt capital was created by m m. it is not possibible capital is dominating human beings. here they want to r run the nations. they want to run thehe states. theyey want to oppppress and ext

the peoples. i i am a businesspersoson. but the role of a businessperson is to driveve the economy. not to guide the nation. ththe nation should be guided by common senense and reason. and ththat is democracy. fororhisg grateful opportunity. i i see ththis is not coming frm the coup d'etat. we arere resisting with force. it maintainened its position the rest of our lives and we see the people who are on the right side of history. the peoples like the concecept f god, the people is justice, the people is transparency. the pepeople is calling for justice, demanding justice. want to judge me e or criticize me for these views, they may do so. amy: would you say salvavador nanasralla shares your v views? .. in large measure, h he is a

fair manan he is a man of the right, but is a fair man. into an alliance and said we're going for participatory democracy because representative democracy is a betrayal. it represents a betrayal of the people who need to be involved in consultations. a socialist, but he is a progressive man. that is why he was our candidate and that is why we won the election. the people were able to pick up on his message. amy: president zelaya, thehe police refusing to enforce the curfew for president hernandez? thehere was a mutiny in special commando group, the cobra group, rebellion. that t then spread to all of the civilian police. therere was like 24 hours of rebellion. logically, these are disciplined espirithat have their

d'cor. it since two messages. your governing poorly. we want clean elections and we want the winner to be recognized as the winner. obey the going to president when he orders us to lash out against the people. they are sisters and brothers. and they said, we're not going to repress the people. they demand transparent elections and vote count. stepped back.have they reached a specific agreement. but thehey left a revolututionay message wiwith the people. it is a group that is with h the people. we have confnfidence and we're grateful for this is sort of gesture on the part of the police, ununlike the military.

ththe military are the ones who are killing usus. they should reflect upon this because they, too, are persons of t the people. amy: finally, whwhat do you see happenening fromhis went o on, president zelaya? >> asked generalal kelly. i alreadady told you what we're going to do. whate going -- i told you salvador nasralla is doing. we are calling on the people to defend themselves and the streets, to take to the streets. if they do not defend their defend inhat we don't the streets, we are not going to feel to defend in the institutions which is co-opted and controlled by the tyranny that has been established in honduras and the sport of the state department. in the state department, to conclude -- i ask you, you in the united states, you're a major responsibility in the world. you have the weapons, power, the technology, some of the greatest

strides in science. don't do this to these people. stop supporting a fraud in honduras. allow us to act democratically. we want to have e a good relationshship with the united states. but in this way come all that is done this for the u.s. to get a poor image, worse than it alreadady might be. amy: that his former honduran president manuel zelaya who was ousted in a 2009 u.s. backed coup. he was speaking to us from tegucigalpa, honduras. he has the operaration librere party, led by salvador nasralla, the opposition presidential candidate. the honduran government controlled election commission still refuses to release the final results from the election nearly two weeks ago. you can go to democracynow.org to see all of our honduran coverage, including the coverage inhis return to honduras 2011 on a plane from nicaragua.

this was after he was deposed and then returning to honduras after the u.s. backed coup. when we come back, we will be talking about the dangerous case .f donald trump stay with us. ♪ [music break]

amy: "if i was president" by l.a.-basased band las cafeteras here on our democracy now! studio. this is democracy now! i am amy goodman. we end today's show with growing questions about president donald trump's mental health. on wednesday, trump slurred his speech and mispronounced words during an address on israeael. allo let us rethink assumptions and open our hearts and minds to possible and possibilities. anand finally, i ask the leaders of the region, political and religious,s, i israeli and palestinian, jewish and christian and muslim, to join us in the noble quest for lasting peace. thank you.

god d bless you. god bless israel. god bless the palestinians. and god bless united states. thank you very much. amy: white house press secretary jack reese reynders -- sarah huckabee sanders responded thursday to questions. physical for the first part of next year. the full physical that was presesident's garter take placet walter reed. those records will be released by the doctor following that. amy: this comes as "new york times's" chief white house reporter maggie haberman commented on t trump's behavior when she was interviewed on cnn last week. >> something is unleashed with them lately. i don't know what is causing it. >> you see a difference in the past days and weeks? >> the last couple of days tweets have beenen -- >> unhinged. >> markedly accelerated in terms of seeming a little --

amy: last month, pentagon leleaders told a senatate panely would ignore any unlawful order by the president to launch a nuclear strike. the testimony came as part of the first congressional hearings in more than 40 years on the president's authority to start a nuclear war. this is connecticut democrat chris murphy. for more, we are joined by someone who has led a discussion of mental health professionals who are concerned about president trump's psychological instability. dr. bandy lee is a forensic psychiatrist on the faculty of yale school of medicine and an internationally recognized expert on violence. she edited the book, "the dangerous case of donald trump: 27 psychiatrists and mental health experts assess a president." the book became a best-seller when it was published in october. it sold out over and over again. dr. bandy lee, welcome to democracy now! what are your concerns and are they increasing? >> we have been concerned about

the mental stability of the president as well as his since -- pretty much since his campaign, but heightened since his election. i have been flooded with phone messages --ail's, emails, messages since morning after the election. much of my profession has silenced because of what is called the goldwater rule. amy: explain the goldwater rule. not tohiatrists are diagnose a public figure without having examined them are silly and gotten consent -- personally and gotten consent. the psychiatric association has modified its own interpretation of the rule and march of this year to basically say that psychiatrirists are not allowedo say anything about their speech or behavior, even in an emergency. i felt that actually went

against the ethical principles of our profession. i held a conference in april to discuss the ethical rules and invited robert jay lifton as well as other renowned the members of my field. only about 20 people showed up to a large auditorium. basically, they were afraid. they w were afraid of being targeted metoo jusustly by the president or physically by his violence prone followers. andwhen the news got out the national and international mental health of professisionals got in touch wih me. and now we are in the thousands. amy: the movement is called the duty to warn movement, your conference. what does that mean? >> the phrase comes from a

california case which has been litigated hundreds of times compared to the goldwater case, which was only litigated once. but our profession in general has a duty to report, a duty to warn, and a duty to take steps to protect potential victims in the case of danger. and we as mental health professionals rououtinely screen for a risk and are involved in prenting violence, as well as intervening. with collaboration with security forces, generally. so when we have information that would cause as to suspect danger, we do have an obligation to intervene. amy: so you have just left from capitol hill. your urging lawmakers to call for an urgent mental evaluation of donald trump. >> yes.

usually when there is a sign of danger, it is an emergency. what we're doing is we contain the person, remove them from access to weapons, and do an urgent evaluation. this is what we have been urging for with regard to the president. he has shown a number of signs showing proneness to violence, incited violence and the past. here shown an attraction to oflence as a coping strategy his own. he has taunted hostile nations with nuclear power. , and our, the risk minds, is quite high. amy: i want to ask you, there are those who are really questioning the duty to warn movement. there is the disability blogger who said bigotry is not a mental illness. done was a piece that was .y noah feldman

if you can respond to some of this criticism? with ae often confused nonprofessional group called a duty to warn. we are national coalition of mental health professionals who believe in the duty to warn as a principle of our profession because we have an obligation not just to our individual s, but also to the public. immigrant richard freeman wrote -- your response? notental impairment is mutually exclusive with criminal responsibility. in fact, only about 1% of murder

cases are deemed not guilty by reason of insanity. what we're seeing is the combination of mental disability , instabilility, and criminal mindedness actually makes one more dangerous. so we are basically just warning about danger. we're not making diagnonoses. you're calling for an evaluation. i hear that mr. trump is undergoing a physical exam in january. i hope it includes a screen for mental capacity. the capacity to serve. the basic ability to take incorrect information and advice when needed, to process that information to make sound, logical decisions based on fact and real consequences. amy: as we wrap up, how does this relate to the issue of impeachment? >> in my mind, well, that is really not my area. my expertise is in medicine and

psychiatry and violence prevention. but when i met with the lawmakers, it seems thatt while the 25th amendment would be the only area that deals with , evenential disability that is a political decision. in other words, in courts or for legal bodies, we give our expert opinion based on medical data, but all we do is give recommendations. the disability or unfitness for duty, these things are still legal decisions. it seems in this case, it would be a political decision whereby it can play a role. amy: we will do part two of this discussion and put it on our web exclusive at democracynow.org. dr. bandy lee forensic , psychiatrist on the faculty of yale school of medicine, and an internationally recognized expert on violence. editor of "the dangerous case of donald trump: 27 psychiatrists

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