03/23/18 03/23/18 [captioning made possible by democracy now!] amy: from pacifica, this is democracy now! stories today,amy:side has tapd ultra hawk john bolton to be national security adviser, replacing general h.r. mcmaster. alton has called for bombing h s been aongtime cric of international bodies from united nations to the international criminal court.

then to political corruption and the art of the deal. >> i am a big fan of hindu anan. big, big fan. amy: we will look at a groundbreaking investigation into how the trump family businessndndndndndndndndndndndna and donald trump, jr. to the president are creating c conflicts of inintert in the whitete house and corruptiting the presidency. we will speak with reporter anjali kamat. plus, was "professor who sued cambridge analytica in an attempt to recover his personal information from the controversial data mining company accused of harvestingthn facebook users without your permission. all of that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy n n n n n d

peace report. i'm amy goodman. president donald trump said thursday national security adviser h.r. mcmaster is wi john bolton, a foreign policy hawk who has openly backed war against iran and north korea. bolton will take over the position on april 9 and will not need to be confirmed by the senate. in 2005 and 2006, bolton served as u.s. ambassadorthththe united nations after president george w. bush named him to the post as a recess appointment amid fears he would not be confirmed by the senate. bolton is a senior fellow at the american enterprise institute and in recent years had d made just three weeks ago, bolton wrote an op-ed for the wall street journal titled, "the legal case for striking north korea first." we'll have more on john boltoton after headlines with g g g g g h porter. donald trump has ordered the u.s. to drop a list of $60

billion worth of chinese goods to be targeted for tariffs and whatayayayayayayayayayayayayayad to reduce the u.s. trade deficit. in response, china immediately lifted 128 u.s. products it is targeting first of google tariffs, including steel, one, fresh fruit, and pork. trump's a a a a a a a a a a a at stocks around the world plummeting with the dow jones losing more than 720 point on thursday. congress approved a one pointnt three e dollars trillion spendin averting what would have been the third government shutdown of the year less than a day before it was set to take effect. the bill won bipartisan support in both houses, clearing the senate on a vote of 65 to 32 just after 1:00 a.m. eastern time a after m more than two ths of house lawmakers approved an earlier in the day. president trump has signaled he will send the bill which will boost spending on weapons and war to an all-time high while increasing for u.s.-mexico border wall.

it does not address the plight of immigrants rights of the u.s. as children, so-called dreamers, a key demand of immigrant rights groups and some democrats. the bill also containinininining tightening a background check measure known as nick's, but does not provide for universal background checks for perspective gun buyers. donald trump's top lawyer defending the president in special cococococoinvestigation. john dowd confirmed thursday he's leaving trump's legal team, writing in a statement, "i love the president and wish him well." dowd reportedly resigned after trump repeatedly ignored his legal advice and attacked robebe mueller by name on twitter after mueller's team subpoenaed financial documents from the trump organization. in syria, hundreds of rebels a d their family members have begun boarding buses in the town ofa o surrender to government forces in exchange for safe passage to northern syria. their surrender in the damascus suburb known as eastern ghouta comes as syrian human rights

groups say a government offensive launched last month has so far killed 1500 civilians, injured 5300 others, and forced more than 80,000 people to flee in recent days. in mexico, media workers are demanding a swift investigationt leobardo vazquez, who was gunned down wednesday night inside his home in the state of veracruz. vazquez was at leastst the third jojournalist to be murdered in mexico this year. and last year, mexico was among the deadliest countries in the world for media workers. this is obber chino jimenez speaking at a protest thursday held in vazquez's home city of gutierrez zamora. i think now io demand of veracruz government protect us and not just with words. every time this happens, security is guaranteed for the media, but it is just words. these incidences happen daily. amy: in france, tens of thousands of public employees walked off the job in cities

around the country thursday in a strike against president emmanuel macron's plans to roll back labor rights and shrink the public sector. macron has proposed cutting 120,000 public employee jobs over five years, while raising taxes on pensions and inintroducing a merit-based sysm of pay. in somalia, at least 18 peoplewa massive car bomb ripped through a hotel near the parliament building in the capital mogadishu. the militant group al-shabab has claimed responsibility for the attack, which comes on the heels of similar bombings including a double bomb attack late last month h h h h h h h h h h h h h in texas, the associated press reports that hurricane harvey released far more toxins into the environment than initially reported when it brought unprecedented d flooding to the texas gulf coast last summer. ap reporters catalogued more than 100 harvey-related toxic releases, most of which were never made public, including the release of carcinogenic

compounds like bennenendnd vinyl chloride and a spill of nearly half a billion gallons of industrial wastewater mixed with storm water from one chemical plant in baytown alone. the ap reports texas investigators haha 89 incidents and have yet to announce any enforcement actions. you can go to our reports at democracynow.org when democracy now! went to houston after the hurricane particularly focused on the fence line communities, those on the fence lines of the refineries. conservationists are mourning the death of the world's last remaining male northern white rhinoceros.45454545454545454545i mondayt a natu reser in kenywhere h'd been under med guard prote against poache. in aast-dihed efforto save the ecies, zlogists e noww attempng to usin-v-v-v-v-v rtilizatioto impgnate th lastwo remaing feme northernhite rhinoroses, w arunableo producoffsfsprin

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retailers who sell firearms to people who have not passed the background check or are younger than 21. the move takes citibank -- makes them the first major bank to move to restrict gun sales in the wake of laststststststststsn douglas high school in parkland, florida. this comes ahead of saturday's march for our lives protest in washington, d.c., which is expected to see hundreds of thousands of students, teachers, and others rally for new gun control. this is alaya eastman, a studedt survivor of last month's massacre speaking thursday ahead of saturday's march. >> unfortunately, i lost two people in my classhihihihihihih. i was on the wrong side of the class and no student should have to cover themselves with a deceased classmate to survive, but i was that student. school shshootings, though. urban communities and low income commununities have always been t with gun violence forever.

i lost my uncle due to gun violence in brooklyn 15 years ago, and nothing has changedcols changed. sandy hook happen, nothing has changed. parkland happen, nothing has changed. a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a l for our broadcast t on saturday from noooon eastern standardrd e to 4 4:00 coverering the march r our lives. you can go to democracynow.org. in sacramento, california, hundreds of demonstrators chchantingng "black lik k k k ki game thursday as they protested the police killing of 22-year-old stephon clark, an african american father of two who was unarmed and outside his owown home sunday y y y y y y ye officers. the protests came as sacramento police chief daniel hahn said he dodoesn't know why the officers who killed clark turned off the audio on their bodycam video recorders in the wake of the shooting.s s s s s s s s s s s e

start of the sacramento kings game against the atlanta hawks, as only a fraction of ticket-holders made it into the arena. afterwards, team owner vivek ranadidive spoke in solida with the protests. >> we stand here before you, old, young, black, brown, and we're all united in our commitment. we recognize that it is not just business as usual, and we work really hard to bring everybobody together to make the world a better place starting with our own community. news, at leastg one person has been killed by gunfire in southern france after a gunman reportedly took several a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a r is in isis-inspired terrorist. and those are some of the headlines. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. in the latest white house

shakeup, general h.r. mcmaster is resigning as national security adviser. president trump has tapped john bolton to replace him. he is known for his ultra hawkish views. he has openly backed war against iran and north korea. he was a prone a supporter of the u.s. invasion of iraq to this day. wrotehree weeks ago, he an article for "the wall street journal" titled, "the legal case for striking north koreaeaeaeaea administration was negotiating the iran nuclear deal, bolton wrote a piece headlined "to stop iran's bomb, bomb iran." bolton will take over the position on april 9 and will no. under president george w. bushs, bolton served as u.s. ambassador to t the united nationons. he was given a rececess appointment after bush feared he would not be confirmed by thee senate. for r decades, johohn bolton has

beenen one of the most v vocal critics of t the united nanatio. >> the pointnt i want to l leave with you in n this very bririef presentatation i is where i sts. theres.s.s.s.s.s.s.s.s.s.s.s.s.. the is an international community that occasionally can be led by the only real power left in the world, and that is the united statesssssssssssssssn get others to go along. ththe secretary y building in nw york hasas 38 stories. if you lost 10 stories today, it would not make a of difference. amy: john bolton has been a leading critic of the international criminal court. human rights groups have condemned the selection of bolton. zeke johnson of amnesty international said -- "this is a reckless decision. bolton's influence over national security policy could result in even more civilian deaths and potentially unlawful killings given his disdain for international law and international institutions." trita parsi of the national iranian american council also bolton.zed the selection of

he said -- "bolton now represents the greatest threat to the united states. this is a dangerous time for our country and a slap in the face even to trump's supporters who thought he would break from waging disastrous foreign wars and military occupations." one longtime supporter of bolton has been right-wing billionaire robert mercer. jane mayer of "the new yorker" reports mercer has donated $5 million to bolton's superpac since 2013 and is bolton''s we go now to washington where we are joined by longtime investigative reporter gareth porter. his new piece for the american conservative is heaeaeaeaea ununtold story of john bolton's campaign for war with iran." gareth porter, welcome to [captioning made possible by democracy now!] when you heard the newss yesterday, what were your thoughts you go? probable john bolton was going to become the next national security adviser for the trump administration,

but i was not expecting it this soon. so it was a bit of surprise in terms of the timing.g.g.g.g.g.gr of some weeks now that there have been rumors that -- not rumors, but reports based on leaks from the white house that mcmaster was going to be t t t t t t t t t t t t t t bols going to be the leading candidate. that is why i wrote that piece in anticipation of the likelihood this was going to happen. amy: what are your major concerns? >> i thinknknknknknknknknknknk w that john bolton has been in fact a very vocal advocate of war with iran as well as with north korea. he has, for years, been appearing on fox news regularly. i have not counted them, but there must be dozens of times that he has publicly called for the united states to attack iran militarily. no one else in american life has

done anything even remotely similar to what john bolton has done in terms of advocating war with iran. he is not the only one, but he has done it more consistently. sincncncncncadministration in 2, -- rather,he has 2007 i guess it was, he has been a leading advocate of war with make himresident trump to the national security adviser clearly is the most alarming thing that has happened in terms of u.s. foreign policy under thisis administration thus far. amy: i want to turn toto john news 2015. >> you wrote an op-ed headadlind ""to stop iriran's bomb, bomb iran." what do you u mean? >> the negotiatitions, whether ththey lead toto an agreement tr not, a are not going to stotop n frometting nuclear weaponsns. ey a are so far r events now, te

coconcessionons that made are eo trivivial and easily r reversib, that the deaeal actctuallylelegm of iraran. my cononclusion is not a happy one, but giviven that ifrann ges nuclear weapons, s so will othe, ththat just as israel twice rprs struck n nuclear weapons program in the hanands of hostile state, i am afraiaid given the circumumstances,s, that is the y real option opopen to us now. amy: your response, gareth porter? >> john bolton actually begun to as 2003, 2004 when he was the point man for vice president dick cheney in the bush administration for policy toward iran and the leading -- i mean, key point of contact with the israeli government on this question. during that time, bolton was consciously maneuvering to get

whatat he did was to basicallyly the iaea,e that international atatomic energy agency, could nonot or would not make an n agreement,t, have an agagreement with iran that would result the issue off whether irn had a nuclear weapons program. t that the had of iaea would do that, that he consciously maneuvered to try to iaea, theile from the file on iran, to the u.n. security council or he believed the united states would be able to then essentially accuse iran of having a nuclear weapons program and use the lee terry force. in his memoirs, he is very candid about the fact he did do that and that the purpose was to basically give that option a

real chance of being carried out. and he said that he was doing so because the israelis were telling him that iran was very close to what they call the point of no return, which meant that at point, the united states would not be able to prevent iran from having a nuclear weapon without using force. of course, as i have documented in my book "manufactured crisis emco that whole story about iran was really a falsified account which the israelis planted with the international community and bolton maybe, maybe not, was aware of that israeli plot, but he worked with the israelis very closely to try to bring about his situation where the i i i ia nuclear weapons program. that is for sure. amy: to this day, john bolton

says the invasion of iraq was the right thing to do. he does that have to be approved by the s s s s s s s did not had by the senate to become u.n. ambassador to the united the u.s.not because -- ambassador to the united nations because bush understood he might not get approved so he made a recess appointment. his support for the invasion of today.rough three weeks ago, this "wall street journal" piece he wrote, three weeks ago in february. can you talk about his views on what korea and as nsa, power does he have? what is the significance of his power so close to president trump? the "wallrds to street journal" piece, it is quite astonishing the kind of argument he made was essentially claiming to give a legal -- for afor bombing

strike against north korea. what he did in fact was simply to say, the north koreans are getting the capability to strike the united states with nuclear weapons. that means that the united states must strike first. it was simply a sort of psychological argument rather than a legal argument for evening an argument that took into account the fundamental notion of deterrent. he never used the word "deterrent" in the entire article. it was as if that concept does not exist. that sort of gives you an insight into the mentality that john bolton will bring to this job. with regard to what he could do as national security adviser, obviously, he will have the ear of donald trump more than anyone else in the administration at this point. anananananananananananananananaa summit meeting with kim jong-un in may, we have to anticipate

that there are bumps in the road in the future that will give move noton the opportunity to just away from that agreement with the north koreans, but towards the kind of unilateral first strike policicy that boltn hasamamamamamamamamamamamamamamo questions. what is the gate still institute that he chairs? and also, his super pac, the major funder of it being the ultra-right billionaire funder robert mercer? >> they gave stone institute as one of the many think tanks that have extreme right-wing obviously a a a a a a a a a a y orientation. basically, it is not -- i want to add it is not just mercer who has been very close to bolton or who bolton has been close to come it is also sheldonwho has'n

funder during the 2016 presidential election. it is no accident that it was in las vegas meeting with sheldon adelson from which bolton called the white house last october and convinced trump to basically take the position that he would withdraw from the iran nuclear deal unless the u.s. allies encumbmbers agree to changes, which obviously work deal killers. amy: in the super pac. time magazine says president donald trump strippers do national security adviser has ties to cambridge analytytytyttm currently facing criticism for its use of improperly obtain facebook data. a super pac run by former u.n. ambassador john bolton has paid camera to analytica more than $1 million since 2014 for research. that is according to the center for public integrity review of campaign finance records. he will end with that, gareth porter.

being to thank you for with us. investigative journalist. his new piece for the american conservative, which we will link to "ththe untold story of john , bobolton's campaign for war wh iran." gareth porter is also the author of "manufactured crisis: the untold story of the iran n nuclr when we come back, we look at donald trump, jr., history to india, preresident donald trump, trump.ghter and advisisisisisia we will look at corruption in the white house. stay with us.

amy: "money"y" by the flflying lizards.s. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the e e e e ew investigation into trump's business partnerships in india. and the conflicts-of-interest these deals pose for the white house. the cover-story article for the new republic is titled, "political corruption and the art of the deal." notes the trump organization has entered into more deals in india than in any other foreign country.

these deals, she writes, are worth an estimated $1.5 billlllo $11 million between 2014 and 2017. during her year-long investigation, anjali kamat traced trumps' india partners' long history of facing lawsuits, evidence of potential bribery, fraud, intimidation, illegal land acquisition, tax evasion, and money laundering. donald trump, jr. has made repeated trips to india as recently as last month. last year, ivanka trump headed the u.s. delegation to a global entrepreneurship summit in the . and president trump himself has welcomed indian prime minister nationalist, to the white house as well as entertained politically connected indian real estate developers at the trump tower in manhattan shortly after the november 2016 election. the new republic investigation comes as "the wawashington post" reveals trtrp organizazation's real estate partner in i india s been accused of large-scale fraud and swindlining investors

out of $147 million. wewell, for more, we''re joinenw by anjali kamat, an award-winning investigative journalist, reporter witith the investigative fund, and belle zeller visiting professor at brooklyn college. her vever sty y for the new republic, again "political , corruption and the art of the deal," which is accompanied by a podcast "trump inc" from wnyc and propublica. the project was reported in partnership with the wayne barrett projoject at t the investigative fund. was ausly, anjali kamat producer and correspondent for al jazeera's fault lines and democracy now! talk about this at the one-year investigation and it comes out at the heels trump under enormous fire here in the united states for going to push trump business interests in india. >> donald junior made this visit to india last month.

he visited four cities in four days and got massive press coverage, most of it very, very positive in india. he was there to sell apartments country. the thing to remember here is that the trump organization's largest overseas portfolio is in india. they have five active projects there right now. only one o c c c c c c c c c c . four are still in very us stages of constructction and ththey are selling preconstruction apartments. the way they were advertising sales for these apartments is offering access to right before don jr.'s visit, about a month before, there was and never ties with that was taken out that said google if the first 100 buyers of this one project that is right in the capital new delhi would get flown to new york tojr. when don jr. was oxley coming to india the weekend before,

newspapers and new delhi come all of the major english newspapers, had full front-page cover ads that said, trump has arrived, are you invited? ad anyone who can put down deposit of about $39,000 to $40,000 on an apartment would get a chance to have dinner with don jr.. it raises a lot t of questions about potential conflicts of interest. the other thing about don jr.'s visit to india is initially when he first planned his trip, he was supposed to speak at a conference, global business modi was also speaking out. he was supposed to give a foreign-policy speech on indo pacific relations. this raise a lot of questions a month ethics experts in the u.se chat. amy: let's go to an interview donald trump, jr. did last month in india think there's something

about the spirit of the indian people that is unique and other parts of the emerging world. -- io t through a town and don't mean to be glib, but you can see the poorest of the poor and on face. yoyou say hello -- it is a different spirit that you don't see in other parts of the world where people walk around so solemn. i think there's something unique about that that does not exexist does ihwhwhwhwhwhwhwhwhwhwhwhws know somome of the most successl people in the world and some of them are the most miserable in the world. amy: in a separate interview during his visit, trump jr. said that trump properties would delivery that luxury to indian consumers. beforemumumumumumumumumumumumuh you could say, hey, this is the best of the best. it was difficult.

starved for luxury. they know what it is, but could not get it in their home market. being able to deliver that kind of product has made a big differenence. amy: that is donald trump, jr. in india. talk about how he defended his trip and how exactly these businesses work. the poor in india very happy, smiling, happier than anywhere else. later he got very upset when he was criticized for saying that. -- ade a comment saying of attention in india. saying the indian media is so nice and mild becausee people were very, very nice stamp are the most part. then he is at that fireside chat in the last clip we saw and at that chat during that the busins summit, he made a point of saying, i am here as a businessman, as a developer. i'm not here to do anything else. , hethe question is station that he nt on witht saying "asosing it

the president son." as theeing advertised sitting u.s. president son and buyers are getting access to him. the real question is, he held events in every city he went to with buyers, with investors, some politicians as well that they claimed they were not there in an official capacity. all of these people are coming to meet with them and their names are not being disclosed. indian regulations do not necessarily allow you to know who is exactly put down deposits or bought apartments in these condos. new real estate regulatory authority that is supposed to make things more transparent, but it might be years before we actually know who was in that room with don jr.room. they might be ere because they are starved for luxury. maybe people in india really want to buy trump tower apartments. there is a class of people who certainly do want to do that in india is one of the most unequal

countries in the world. thereeee is an aspirational clas of millionaires and billionaires that would want to buy trump tower apartments. the point is, if there were people in the room trying to access don jr. because he is the president's son, we don'n'n'n'ns in ter o of indianan politics ad the relationship he has with indian developers and the central role developers play in indian politics about the united states, of course, because one became the president of the united states. >> this was one of the things most interesting to me, just trying to get a sense of how politics and real closely tied in india. corruption in real estate is very entrenched in india. this is something widely recognized as a problem. the world bank ranksksksksksksks on the ease of doing business and they haven't ease of getting a construction permit.

india ranks 181 out of 190 countries. last year it was 185. part of the reason for that i lena construction is very heavily regulated and requires someal dozen permits is cases to complete an actual bubuilding. in order to get a permit at every stage, it is very common and often bribe in order to move the process along. that is one of the main reasons for it. the other main reason is real estate developers have been merged as a major funder for political campaigns. between builders and politicians is so deep that a phrase that is used for a common nexus." is "the builder lililililililililililililiar toe in new york city and was. unfamiliar to a figure like donald trump. figurenot unfamiliaiar to barrett's book.p will stoi reae

the parallels are striking. when donald trump announced his deal with., he said, i've never it is that mentality that also the real estate industry. amy: let's go to donald trump, jr. of the global business summit in new delhi when he w ws asking -- what he w was asked about t corruption there. >> effinger's entrepreneurial [indiscernible] furtherneeds no explanation, that t the media wl say a seset some thing totally diffent. there is an entrepreneurial spiritthhe in the world. i have seen changes come. once i got with the right people and understood, i havave seen reforms.

i'm not talking policy. i'm talking about as an outside bunessman c coming in. i have seen changes. me of the reforms probably h everyone, but they also weeded out the real estate s sector. if you are a developer, was a four letter word. your promimised x and deliveredx minus, if anything at all. on alldrden proposed developers. e ones who have done a g good job, the once w well-intentione, they've done a good job. the top anyway. itit will weed out the bad players, that needed to happen. amy: that is donald trump, jr.. anjali kamat, talk about the developepepepepepepepepepepepepe trumpald trump and the organization have five different projects. so each project has a few different partners. what is interesting is almost all of the partners have a long history of legal entitlements, a long history of being

invevestigated for tax evasion y the government. at least three of them are very closely connected to very powerful political officials. of them have close connections to powerful political officials who are in the ruling party right now, who are part of the bjp, the party of modi. one is actually a political official himself, a five term state lawmaker in bombay. and then one of the wealthiest men in the country, also a lawmaker, and he shares the same kind of ideological and political vision in some ways, both right-wing politicianans ad developers who politicians. his campaign slogan a couple of years ago became "making mumbai great again." and another group, ties to the

rulingbjp, have also been under investigation on allegations of money laundering. so thehese are, you know, thesey the close friends of don jr., but a lot of questions about how exactly they were vetted anddddl campaign in ococtober 202016, rt before the election, donald inmp attended a fundraiser edison, new jersey, organized by the conservative lobbying group comments. >> i am a big fan of hindu u and i'm a bibig fan of india. big, big fan. .ig, biganananananananananananan let me start by stating right up front that if i'm elected president, the indian and hindu community will have a true friend in the white house. that i can guarantee you. twowo massivein

development in india. you probably know. very successful. wonderful, w wonderful partners. very beautiful. i must say i bececececececececee and i haveve great confidence in india. incredible people and an incredible countrtry. amy:y: later in his s speech, dd trump p praised indian prime minist n narendra modidi, a far-right hindndu nationalalist. >> prime minister modi, who has been very energetic and reforming india's bureaucracy i applaud him for doing so. and i look forward to doing some serious bureaucratic trimming right herere in the united stat. believe me, we needed also. amy: interestingly enough, the india was not allowed in this country for many years. i would like you to talk about the reason for that. but first, this edison, new jersey, event was interesting.

talk about who introduced donald trump. the guy who introduced donald trump is a chicago-based indian-american electronics billionaire. he was one of the largest donors -- his family donatedsssssssssss campaign he is also one of the biggest backers of prime minister modi here in the u.s. before hester modi was prime minister, , , , , , ,t of a governor here, of the state of a western state where there was a massacre of muslims in 2002. he was chief minister of the state at the timimimimimimimimio prevent the massacre. there were various accusations, various court cases that later came out with different decisions around it. 20, he was005-t not allowed in the united states. one thing that changed his

diplomatic isolation, but the fact he was doing well in the polls and he would later be elected prime minister in 2014, but also modii is widely seen as a pro-business leader. he's a right-wing leader, but also very pro-business. as seen as someone who is going to drain the swamp, as it were. but one of the people who were key in turning around modi's diplomatic isolation was the man who organized the delegation in 2013 just before modi became prprprprprprprprprprprprprprprp? >> there were several hundred muslims killed in 2002. it is a long, complicated story, but the tragic part about it is that many of the survivors and those -- the families of those who were killed are still waiting for justice. a lot of these cases are dragging on in court. this is something that was very politicized and come in the

icicicicicicicicicicicicicicici. amy: youou write notot only abot donald trump, jr., but also ivanka trump. senior adviser to president trump, her father. she sort of pave the way for donald trump, jr. in india just a few weeks before. >> ivanka trump with india in november. when prime minister modi came to the white house in june of last year, he made a point of inviting the president's daughtererererererererererererea in november. so ivanka went in november to she wereern city, and all of these beautiful indian-inspired dresse which -- must of what the media coverage was about. and right before she came, the streets work cleanup. there were a lot of news s repos about t people who were homeless and living on the streets were removed. everything was made a looks a fancy party forr r r r r r rh her. right after she left, one of my

sources, who is a retired thating me right after she left, things started going pretty well for bususiness as well. the towers, a a new projectt launched in n january, thehe fil permisissisisisisisisisisi pushd through in no time he said right after she left. so this is a case of the president's daughter who has an official position in the trump administration coming to, and right after she leaves, there is something positive that happens on the business side for the trump organization. then you have don jr. coming in who has no official position in the trump administststststststso give a foreign-policy speech. amy: which existed the foreign corrupt practices act which prohibits businesses from paying bribes to overseas officials. i want to go to a 2012 interview on cnbc in which trump comments on the foreign corrupt practices

act. >> every other country goes into these places and they do with a have to do. it is a verbal law andnd it shod amy: he was the foreign corrupt practices act changed. that was private citizen developer come a man who has a number of business interests in india, donald trump. >> a lot of legal experts are currrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr e structure of the trump organization's deals in different countries that have a reputation and have real problems o of corruption like toia might beibibibibibible the foreign corrupt practices act. part of the problems is these are licensing deals. the trump organization, as for as we know, is not investing any money in these properties. they are just selling their brand. but what i f f f f fof this repe trump organization and the trump organization and the trump family is actually very, very involved in these deals and one of the things that legal experts are looking at is how much do

they know? even if it is a licensing deal or just a ququestion of puttinga name on a different project that you are not involved in building, if they are very, very involved and if they did not know or had reason to know and in a very corrupt environment like india, they're not completely in the clear. if there is of bribes having been paid, you know, it would have reason to know? what do they do to ravenna? which is where due comes in. how carefully today that their partners? one of the most interesting things i've found is there mimiddlemen, their fixer on the ground who is supposed to scope out new deals, is also responsible for doing due diligence on the partners. he is getting paid, getting a cut for finding newew deals andd part of his s responsibility is also making sure these partners are good enough for the trump organizatition. amy:y: a clear conflict of interest. want to end with how this may affect u.s. policy in the region. it is traditional -- let's just

say, not ally. an open question. so far there's been no care indicacation of what thihihihih, president trump tweeted a very -- very critical of pakistan, accusing thehe country of nothig but lies and deceit and then cut some aid to pakistan later. this might havengngngngngngngngg to do with india, but within india members of the ruling party saw this as a victory for diplomacyster modi's and saw this as a pro-india moved and were very pleased wit. the other question that people are also worried about is what will happen if there is another terrible incident of mass violence where there are hundreds of people who are killed, sectarian violence like will we see condemnation from the trump administration? amy: we will leave that question there. anjali kamat, an amazing job of reporting this past year award-winning investigative , journalist, reporter with the

investigative fund and professor atat brooklyn cocollege. we will link to your piece in the new republic headlined "political corruption and the art of the deal." when we come back, we cambridge analytica. ♪ [music break]

amy: this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. wewe turn now to the burgeononig scandal around voter-profiling company cambridge analytica. startling revelations show the company harvested the data of more than 50 milillion facebook users, without t their permiioi, in efforts to o sway voters toto support president donald trump. cambridge analytica was founded by billionaire robert mercer. trump's former adviser steve bannon of breitbart news was one of the company's key strategists. the facebook data was first obtained by a cambridge

aleksandr kogan,hose compa global science research built an app that paid facebook users to take a personality test and agree to have their data collected. the app also collected the data on these users' friends, meaning it actually collected data from tens of millions of users without their knowledge. cambridge analytica then bought this data in order to turn a voter-profiling company into a powerful psycholicical tool, which began launching targeted political ads aimed at carrying out robert mercer's far-right political agenda. facebook ceo mark zuckerberg broke e his silence on the i ise wednesday, telling cnn he's sorry that his cpapany allowed kogan to access the data. >> so this was a major breach of trust. and i'm really sorry that this happppened. we have a basic responsibility to protect people's data. if we can't do that, then we don't deserve to have the opportunity to serve people.

our responsibility now is to make sure that this does not happen again. amy: this comemeas an amererican professor fi challenge in britain asking the court to force cambridge analytica to disclose how it came up with the psychographic targeting profile it had on him. davivid carroll is an assocococc professor of media design at parsons school of dedesign, has filed a claim to force cambridge analytica to turn over all of the data it harvested on him. well, for more, we are joined by davi welcome to democracy now! explain what you are demanding. >> full disclosure, so where did they get our data? how do they process it? who did they share it with? and doe have a rht to opt out? that i thinkrights a lot of people would like to have in the basic questions that a lot of people are asking. amy: explain carriage analytica for people are sitting here

saying, what is this company? is a based here or britain? and why you chose to file in britain. >> we don't know exactly what this company is. it is quitbibibiguous, but what we know for sure is when i requested my data from the company and generate 2017, it arrived from a military contractor. that very unsettling. process ofeen a sharing the data so that i could get advice. when i learnrned that the datats probably not complete and probably not compliant to u.k. law, that is when i got myself a lawyer. amy: explain how you have standing in britain. >> it was really interesting. the house of commons committee that has been investigating this, the chair of the committee asked the information commissioner about my case

specifically in parliament and asked whyononononononononononon? she replied with information commissioner, replied because cambridge analytica processed david carroll's data in the u.k. jurisdiction in thehe u.k. data protection act applies. the act of not excluded by citizenship. younly has authority when has been processed. and we did that back in march. amy: the data was reportedly harvested by the cambridge, cambridge, england, cameras professor aleksandr kogan. who is he? >> the three researchers at the psychometric center at camera to university to develop the psychometrics technique along with a man at david stillwell,

also at the university of cambridge. those two other academics did not decide to join the company that alternately provided scl with the data. former let's turn to the white house chief strategist witithannon, who worked carriage analytica. bannon was speaking with nanancial times editor metal barber. >> it is bought and sold every day. betweenfafafafafafafafafafafaf. by the way, there is -- >> were you aware of the leak? >> i did not even know about the facebook mining. hang on. the point is, that is facebook's business. was google and2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 facebook that wewent to barack obama and met him in san francisco airport and told him all about the power of this personal data. who012 -- we have the woman

headed u u u u u u u u u u u u e information because they were "on our side." the great opposition party, media, never went after the obama campaign, never went after the progressive left who has trump's former chief strategist, breitbart news, kindreds analytica. respond to what he said. >> he's leaving out an important fact. facebook did notfeature called , which allows campaigns to upload voter data to target people individually by name until october 2 2 2 well after obama'a second campaign. so the facebook tools to target people were simply not available during those campaigns. sesesesesesesesesesesesesesese'n director of integration and media analytics during the 2012 campaign. in this video posted online in

2015, she described how the campaign used facebook. >> the obamaamampaign just did this in a digital level on a much larger level, but we were able to ingest the entire social network. social network of the u.s. that is on facebook, which is most people. where thistetetetetetetetetetet, that leaves facebook out, right? so they shut off the future. the republicans never built an app to do that. the data is out there. you cannot take it back. the democrats have this ininformationaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaae when someone comes to them, they can be, oh, you're all of the other people they know in your pupil they can help us persuade because they're really good friends with this person. amy: that is carol davidsen who served as obama campaign's director of integration anand media analytics during the 2012 campaign. welcome on sunday, she wrote on "f"f"f"f"f"f"f"f"f"f"f"f"f"f"f"e

able t to suck out the whole social graph, but they didn't stop us once they realized that was what we were doing. they came to office in the days following election recruiting & were very candid that they allowed us to do things they wouldn't have allowed someone else to do because they were on our side." professor? >> i think this is a waste of call for everyone about the data that we have been leaking all over the place ever since the internet became aaspect of our . it is one thing to collect data and another thing to be able to target people and target people individually. 's a lot of complicated issues here. but i think this whole cambridge analytica crisis has created a potential tipping point where we're going to have new attitudes about letting our data lelegal over the place and try o recapture control of it. amy: i want to turn to an interview mark zuckerberg did in

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there were dealing with a potentially bad actor? carroll, we have to go. are you still on facebook? david carroll is an associate professor of media design at