12/16/19 12/16/19 [captioning made possible by democracy now!] amy: from new york, this is democracy now! clclose there are e millions of world who aroround the are already suffering from thehe impacts of climate chahange. denying this fact could d be intetereted by some to be aa crime against humanity. thank you. climateted nations summit in madrid, spain, ends

and monumental failure as negotiators faililed to agree oa deal to limit t global warmingn. but grgrassroots organanizing oe climate crisis is at an unprecedented level. >> society has been shut out of this cop. our children and future generations are e in your hands and you are failing as. amy: we will get responsnse from asad rehman from war on wanant n london and f from cape town, soh africa, tatasneem essop, execute director of the climate action network international. back at home, the house judiciary committee is poised to vote to impepeach president trup this week. next step, a senate trial. >> everything i do -- i'm correlating with white house counsel. there will be no difference between the president's position and our position as to how to handle this. amy: we will get response from

consumer activist ralph nader. he is calling for impeaching trump for deliberatately abettig the climate c crisis, among othr issues. all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. in madrid, spain, the cop25 united nations climate summit ended in failure sunday after negotiators failed to agree to a deal that would limit global warming to 1.5 degrees celsius above pre-industrial levels, a key goal of the paris agreement. scores of civil society groups condemned governments in the european union, australia, canada, and the u.s. for a deal -- blocking the talks. alden meyer, strategy chief at the union of concerned scientists said -- "never have i seen the almost total disconnect we've seen here at cop25 in madrid between what the science requires and what

the climate negotiations are delivering in terms of meaningful action." ian fry, the climate negotiator for the pacific island nation of tuvalu, whose existence is threatened by rising sea levels , called out united states, even though president trump is withdrawing the u.s. from the paris agreement. >> this is an absolute tragedy and travesty on those affected by the impacts of climate change. there are millions of people all around the world who are already suffering from the impacts of climate change. fact could be interpreted by some e to be a crime against humanity. thank you. amy: environmentalists and indigenous leaders blasted the united nations for marginalizing civil society groups over two weeks of negotiations at the summit, while welcoming

polluters. this is kera sherwood-o'regan, a maori representative from the indigenous peoples organizations at the cop. >> when you silence us, you deny yourself learning from our ways and you continue to sideline those who have real solutions for all communities. we are experts on climate. we are the stewards of nature. we know that legitimacy of our voices, and it is about time you recognize it, too. hear our stories, learn our histories, stop taking up space with your falsee solutions and get out of our way. amy:y: we will have more on the failures of cup 25 climate summit. we will be joined by asad rehman from london as well as tasneem essop, executive director of the climate action network from cape town, south africa. on capitol hill, the house judiciary committee has released its report explaining its decision to charge president

trump with two articles of impeachment for abuse of power and obstruction of congress. the 658-page report details trump's efforts to withhold military aid in order to pressure ukraine to investigate his political rival joe biden. on wednesday, the full democratic-controlled house is expected to vote on trump's impeachment, sending the charges to the republican-controlled senate, which h will then hold a trial on whether to remove trump from office. on sunday, senate minority leader chuck schumer proposedd terms for an evidentiary trial that would start on january 7 and go beyond the investigation conducted by the house. witnesses who could be called to testify include former national security adviser john bolton and acting white house chief of stafaff mick m mulvaney. this comes as top republican senators face calls to recuse themselves from trump's impeachment trial. late last week, majority leader mitch mcconnell told fox news he was "taking my cues" from the

white house. and on sunday, republican senator lindsey graham was questioned by "face the nation" host margareret brennan about coordinating with the white house on impeachment. >> should republicans in the senate really be taking their marching orders from the person being investigated? >> i i understand the presidents frustration, but i think what is best for the country is to get this thing over with. i have clearly made up my mind. i'm not try to hihide the facaci have this name for the accusations in the process. amy: senate majority leader mitch mcconnell said he may not have any witnesses at the senate trial. we'll have more on trump's impeachment later in the broadcast with ralph nader, longtime consumer advocate, corporate critic, and former presidential candidate. the trump administration is reportedly planning to withdraw 4000 u.s. troops from afghanistan, with president trump set to make an announcement as early as thiss week. the drawdown would leave between

8000 and u.s. troops in 9000 afghanistan, continuing to fight the longest war in u.s. history, now in its 19th year. this comomes just t days after a major expose by "the washington post" revealed senior u.s. officials lied throughout the war in afghanistan about progress whilele hiding g evidee it had become unwinnable. in india, the death toll from a crackdown on demonstrations has risen to six as massive protests rage against the citizenship amendment bill, which many have denounced as a major step toward the official marginalization of india's 200 million muslims. among the dead were four people shot dead by police in assam state's biggest city, guwahati, where government-imposed curfews closed schools and brought commerce to a halt. the citizenship bill passed by the upper house of the indian parliament provides a path to citizenship for immigrants from afghanistan, bangladesh, and pakistan -- unless they are muslim. in bangladesh, at least 10

people were killed after a fire tore through a factory near the capital dhaka sunday. a local fire official said the three-story building clearly had no safety measures. the deadly blazeze came just f r daysys after a fire at a dhakaka plasastics factotory killed 19 people. in lebanon, government forces fired tear gas and water cannons at thousands of protesters who flooded the streets of beirut for a second straight day sunday, dispersing a peaceful rally calling for an end to official corruption and economic inequality. protesters responded by throwing rocks and setting trash cans on fire. dozens of people were arrested. this is protester nadine farhat. >> we will not leave until they submit to our demands. they are t the ones who o stolee untry. ththey are the ones who broughts to this point, not us. we are citizens who want our rights. what we are asking for is not something the political elite own, it is our own rights they took away from us. amy: lebanon has been rocked by weeks of massive anti-government demonstrations that forced lebanese prime minister saad hariri to resign. back in the united states, a

state judge in wisconsin has ordered 234,000 names to be purged from the voter rolls ahead of the 2020 election, in a momove decried by critics as a republican-backed effort at voter suppression. under the ruling, registered votersrs who did not respond toa letter within 30 days asking them to confirm their home address will be forced to re-regisister or will be ineligible to vote next year. according to "the milwaukee journal-sentinel," a majority of the voters who were sent the letters were in districts that leaned democratic in the 2016 presidential election. donald trump won wisconsin by fewer than 23,000 votes that year. ben wikler, the chair of the wisconsin democratic party, called the purge a "product of a right-wing legal and political strategy to prevent eligible voters from voting," adding, "it should be a concern to anyone who believes in the core idea of democracy." new jersey democratic congressmember jeff van drew

will switch parties and become a republican. van drew's announcement came over the weekend after he met president trump at the white house friday. after news of his defection broke, five of van drew's top staffers resigned in protest. he is opposed to the impeachment of president trump. in media news, the hallmark channel says it will resume airing advertisements from the wedding-planning company zola that feature same-sex couples. hallmark inialally bned d fo ads featurinbrbridesissising each otherwhwhile ceptptintwo silar ads that fearered heterosexu c coupl. aftea a backsh, , hamark ceo mike perry rerersed urse and apologized sunday nit,t, sayg in a statentnt -- "we are trulsosorry r ththe rt and sasappoimentnt ts hass used." pentntag officia s say ty' investating g udents athe army's westoint acamy and the u.s. naval academy after they were filmed flashing white power hand gestures at the army-navy football game in philadelphia on saturday.

army cadets and navy midshipmen in the stands were seen repeatedly making the signs, which resemble an "ok" gesture, and one such incident was broadcast live by espn. last year, the u.s. coast guard reprimanded an officer who used a similar hate symbol during a tv broadcast. and executives at boeing are reportedly considering ending production of the troubled 737 max passenger jet and an announcement could come as early as this afternoon after markets close. boeing's 737 max airplane has been grounded worldwide after two crashes in ethiopia and indonesia that killed all 346 people on board. last week, former boeing manager edward pierson testified to the house transportation committee that he tried to warn executives about safety concerns four months before the first deadly crash, as well as before the second crash, but his warnings were ignored.

>> i requested a one-on-one meeting with the general manager on july 18 and repeated my recommendation to shut down the factory for a brief period of time. when i mentioned i had seen operations in the military shut dowown for lesser safety concerns, i will never forget his response, which was "military is a profit-making organization." amy: we will get response from ralph nader, who lost his grandniece who was on the deal began flight -- the ethiopian flight. and those are some of the headlines. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. we are just back from madrid, spain, where the cop25 united nations climate summit ended in a monumental failure sunday after negotiators failed to agree to a deal that would limit global warming to 1.5 degrees celsius above pre-industrial levels, a key goal of the paris

agreement. scores of civil society groups condemned governments in the european union, australia, canadada, and t the uniteted sts for a deal that requires far less action than needed to avert catastrophic climate change. alden meyer, strategy chief at the union of concerned scientists, said -- "never have i seen the almost total disconnect we've seen here at cop25 in madrid between what the science requires and what the climate negotiations are delivering in terms of meaningful action." ian fry, the climate negotiator for the pacific island nation of tuvalu, whose existence is threatened by y rising sea leves due to global warming, called out the united states, which worked to water down the final agreement even though president trump is withdrawingng the u.s. from the paris agreement. >> this is an absolute tragedy affectedvesty on those by the impacts of climate change. there are millions of people all

arouound the world whoho are aly suffering from the impacts of clclimate change. denying this fact coululd be interpreted by some to be a crcrime againstst humanity. thank you. amy: environmentalists and indigenous leaders blasted the united nations for marginalizing civil society groups over two weeks of negotiations at the climate summit, sometimes kicking them out of the summit, while welcoming polluters. this is kera sherwood-o'regan, a maori representative from the indigenous peoples organizations at the cop. >> when you silence us, you deny yourselves learning from our ways and you continue to sideline those who have real solutions for all communities. we are experts on climate. we are the stewards of nature. we know the legitimacy of our voices, and it is about time that you recognize it, too.

stories, learn our histstories, stop taking u up se with youour false solution and t out of our way. amy: for more on the outcome of u.n. the u.n. climate summit, we are joined by two guests who were there. now in london, asad rehman is executive director of "war on want." and from cape town, south africa tasneem essosop is executive , directoror of the clate e actn network internatational. she is joining us via democracy now! video stream. we welcome you both to democracy now! toneem essop, you were there the end. he organized a response on sunday when the final cop closed. can you talk about why it is being described as a monumental failure, even by negotiators? or then, though the success the unprecedented level of organizing that t is going on cocoming out of f this summit? >> yes, a amy, thank you very mh

for having me on the show. thinknk across the board,d, many parties andnd civl society orgrganizers a and expes from diffeferent conststituenci, the trad unionons, indigigenous peoples,omen, anand gender, have had one voice about the o outcoe itthis cop, and that is that is a failure. the gap between the reality and the outside of this process, whether that is the science that has become clear to the 1.5 rereport, whether itit is the vs of many citizens in many countries across the world demanding a reresponse to the climatate emergency, and in addition to that, the impact already being felt and countries across the world -- the disconnectct inside the halls wh key countriries like the u.s.,

australia,a, japan, was phenomenalal. only were -- and not these countries kekey blockers,e also h had brazil added to thats well. the commitmentr to advancing this climate emergency and, in fact, the commitment to the p paris agreement was not demonstrtrated at all. in thihis outcome clearly points in that direction. amy: you mention brazil. let's talk about the history of this particular cop, conference of parties, the 25th conference of parties, was supposed to be held in brazil but then the men many call the trump of brazil, the right wing president jair bolsonaro, and one of his first acacts, canceleded the cup in bl and it was then moved to chile and the right wing g presidenent there in the midst of the social upheaval like they have not seen in decades, the protests going on, he canceled the cop, but chi

le still presided over the cop in madrid, spain -- moved there in the last weeks. you have jair bolsonaro come up dinero, and president trump. trump is pulling the u u.s. outf that paris climate agreement. it would officially be pulled out the day after the electioion nenext year, y yet h how did thy wield so much power at this cop ? >> they are not out off the protest yet. that w will happen next year. they w wielded a lotot of power. there were storiries about negotiators, loss a and damage negotitiations, saying g they we literally bebeing bulullied by e u.s. negotiators sthey playedd an extremelyly destructive role, partrticularly in n the loss and damamage negotiationons pertaing

to finance for loss and damage.. you know, t this is unbelievabl. amy:y: expla. i'm always tryrying to break don u.n. language to explain loss and damage. >> thihis is the impact of clime change. the losses that we are witnessing across the world, the damage t that is expernced devastatining typhoons as we've seen, for examample, in ththe philippines.s. thee devevastation caused by fis as we have seen in australia. damagehe losses inin the relad to that.t. --is not only about something called slow onset. sea level rise, for example, would be us low -- it is not an extrememely -- it dodoesn't t hn all l at once. ththis is exactltly what the sml

island states are tatalking abot in terms of their survival. already they are experiencingg sea level rise and many are being forced to move.e. so displacemenenand migrants he isis also partrt of the impactsf climate change that needs to be addressed. amy: asad rehman, you actually left a few days before the end of the summit yesterday because you would back to london to deal with, well, t the election that took place there, the landslide election for the prime minister boris johnson over the labor some, jeremy corbyn, what like george monbiot, have called the climate election. others called it brexit. about in your time there -- we see you every year at these climate summit -- the significance of why this year was so devastating and so monumentally a failulure?

>> well, we come into these climate talks with governments having unprecedented mandate from their citizens. if we remember coming millions of people have been marching on the streets calling other government to take action come to take urgent action on the climate emergency. we have seen this scallop impacts philip television screens in every single country in the world. we have seen the impacts of floods and droughts and famines and at the same time, we have seen unprecedented protests taking place around the world about economic inequality. it is clear the government is broken and governments need to act. you expected governments to come knowing this was a critical moment and come with ambition. instead, we saw the united states, aided and abetted by other rich countries, take a wrecking ball to those outcomes. first of all, commitment came not willing to take action in terms of the lost techie when they literally have done nothing

in the previous decade, which has made the critical actions required in the coming decade are much, much harder. they attempted to block any support for poorer, developing countries. as you just heard -- i mean, this is outrageous. justwe are asking is not the united states, but the european union as well, is basically to have liability for the damage their inaction is causing. and more heinous than that, not only are they not putting anything on the table in terms reductions, but finance. what they wanted was loopholes so their big polluting companies could continue to pollute. they would basically bust budget for the 1.5 degrees guard rail. we're coming here with governments with no willingness to act and actually acting not in the interest of their citizens, but in the interests of their big polluting companies. it was an absolute disaster. the question we must ask

ourselves, what will it take for our voices to be heard? the climate talks moved to the u.k. in 2020. it is in a president a moment. we are at the end of ththe deca, the last decade, and now we're in the beginning of the new decade. if governments don't come with that willingness with which we can only a citizens force them and hold their own governments to account at a national level so they come with the right mandate, i think we are talking about not just losing the 1.5 degrees, but the two degrees. just to put that in context. i totally agree with you. wordsmes these climate don't quite have the residence. the difference between the ice age and now was only four degrees. ready in the pledges we have got for the paris agreement, we're seeing warming that will lead to three degrees. we have absolutely no idea what the world will look like. but what we can say is the impacts on the poorest people in the most vulnerable around the world will be absolutely

devastating. amy: you are on the committee for glascow next year where cop 26 will take place. explain the significance of this five-year period from the paris climate accord and what it means if president trump succeeds in pulling the u.s. out, it will be a day after the election, before the glascow summit. thees, he will be before glascow summit. the glascow summit is seen as a critical moment when either governments will come with a promise to increase their week pledges for the 2020 to 2030, which is formally when the so-called paris agreement kicks in. they have to come with more willingness to be able to put finance on the table and to recognize the support that is needed, the so-called loss and damage, needs to be moved forward. even after 40 hours have been extended climate negotiations

which lived across the finishing line, much of the decision was then kicked in and left for next year. next year is really make or break anything genenerally peope will ask themselves come after cop26, if it doeoes not deliver the -- what is the process for? how do we generally get more action? clearly, our governments are not being able to deliver it in the u.n. process. --: this is >> civil society has been shut out of this cop. our lives, children and future generations, are in your hands and you are failing us. do you want t to be remembered s the ones who had the chance to act but decided not to? as betrayersrs of our generation of i indigenouous people anand f communities fighting on the ground?

we are rising. we are fighting. and we willl win. have saved people and the planet. people power, climate justice now. thank you. activist is a youth from the polish ecological club addressing the negotiators on sunday. he was in madrid, spain the cop ended on sunday. i want to go to "the washington post" that is reporting a growing number of americans describing climate change as a crisis. two thirds i president trump is doing too little to tackle the problem. the results conducted by a poll found a growing disconnect between americans worried about the warming planet and trump administration officials who aggressively scale back obama era environmental regulations. the numbers are amazing. , again from "the

washington post," a strong majority of americans, about eight and 10, say human activivy is fueling climate change and roughly half believe action is urgently needed within the next decade if humanity is to ever is worst effects. nearly four in 10 now say climate change is a crisis from less than a quarter last year. tasneem essosop, we give you the last word here. it is around the awareness, especially young people, have brought to t the world the urgey of this problem, and breezy that activism going now, even i if te cop was a m monumental failure. this isgnize that going to be in our handnds. so cititizens acrossss the worl, women,,h, indigigenous, the e worker-- a all of usus hao be united. it is amazingg t youth

leadership on this i issue the past year -- of course, putting the e issue off it firmly on the agenda, the fact we are in a climate ergency.. so together r with the rising up and thatg peoeople today many, mamany, many people across the world who h have beenen figg this on the front linines, who hahave been losing theheir liver protecting their envnvironment d industriess extractive lilike the f fossil fufuel comps destroying the planet and sacrifice their lives for this, this k kindf unity isis becoming more and more clear and stroronger. and i think as asad said, linked to t the protetests on economic injustices andocial injustices, i thinkhat we e going to witness is much bigger, werful movements across the

world and h holding their governmentnts into account. butt not only justst accountability, there have to be consequences for t inactioion. i think, amy, we are gointo see, i believe, much strtronger movements. they're not goioing to tololerae inaction b by the governments. not just developoped countries, but in all of the countries. sosouth africa, for e example, l also be w witnessing movementsts against t the kind of c continud use of coaoal in the country. i i think that is the pe now he will l have to come from us, the e people. and d some of the uninity was already dememonstrated in the yu in trouble see process. it can only y grow stronger andd stronger.. amy:y:asneem e essop, thank you for being with us executive , director of the climate action network international. speaking just from cape town, south africa, where she is just arrived back from the madrid cop

. executiveehman, director of "war on want." to see all of our coverage of the u.n. climate, you can go to democracacynow.org. we come back, impeachment with ralph nader. stay with us. ♪ [music break]

amy: this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. this week, donald trump is set to become the third president to be impmpeached when the democrat-controlled house votes wednesday on two charges related to his effort to pressure ukraine to investigate his political rival joe biden. the vote will send the charges to the republican-controlled senate to hold a trialal on whether to remove trump from office. on sunday, senate majority -- minority leader chuck schumer

proposed terms for an evidentiary trial l in the senae that would start on january 7 and go beyond the investigation conducteted by the house.. witnesses that could be called to testify include former national security adviser john bolton and acting white house chief of staff mick mulvaney. this comes as senate majority leader mitch mcconnell faces calls to rececuse himself trum's impeachment trial after mcconnell said last week that he is "taking my cues" from the white house. this is mcconnell speaking on fox news. >> everything i do during this, i'm correlating with white house counsel. there will be no difference between the president's decision and our decision on how to handle this. amy: meanwhile, on sunday, republican senator lindsey graham was questioned by face the nation host margaret brennan about coordinating with the white house on impeachment. clubs should republicans in the senate really be taking their marching orders from the person being investigated? >> i i understand the presiden's frustration, but i think what is

best for the country is to get this thing over with. i have clearly made up my mind. and not try to hide the fact that i have disdain for the accusations in the process. amy: a new fox news poll says 54% of americans want trump impeached. i repeat, this is a fox poll. which also says 50% want him impeached and removed. says half of poll americans want trump rememoved. early this morning, the house judiciary committee released its full report on trump's impeachment that is nearly 700 pages and explplains in four pas the committee's justification for recommending two articles of impeachment against trump -- abuse of power and obstruction of congress. tol, for more, we go washington, d.c., where we are joined by ralph nader. he has called for impeaching trump for "deliberately abetting

the climate crisis" in his witht article is written mark green, titleded "fake president: decoding trump's gaslighting, corruption, andnd geneneral b.s." except he spells it out. welcome back to democracy now! respond to what is happening this week. it is historic. what you think about the grounds on which president trump is about to be impeached? narrow and perilous. narrow and perilous. ifif nancy pelosi once to remove donald trump, she wewent under very narrow base. she is clearly not supported of impeachment generally. she took it off the table when it was proposed to her in 2007 in the impeachment of the war crcriminals george bush and dick cheney. and she has comome forward witha very narrow hand, a very narrrrw handnd for the most imimpeachabe president of all time.

to go forward under ukraine, as important as that is because it affects the upcoming election by trump, soliciting foreign aid into intference, n not just do ukraine effort, he is actually said china, russia, help him. but just think of all of the other impeachable offenses -- our of them,per se, that kitchen table offenses. he has destroyed, shredded, disabled the lifesaving injury prevention and disease reduction programs in the federal government, environment protection agegency, osha prprotecting worker safety, the product safety commission. he basically has closed on the consumer financial protection bureau, protection from wall street and other financial crimes against ordinary people, consumers, investors, small savers. that is a critical impeachable

offense according to the framers of our constitution. the defiant refusal to faithfully secured the law. she did not go with that. his family, with foreign hotels.nt using his the so-called emoluments clause. slam dunk, per se. she did not go without. the appropriations power of the congress, exclusively reserved for congress by the constitution. she did not go without. he took $3.7 billion from the defense department to build the wall. that is a clear impeachable offense. it even gets worse, amy. a month or so ago, speaker pelosi came to a press conference and said decisively that he committed bribery. well-documented. and she dropped the bribery impeachable clause. the whole obstruction of

congress is restricted largely to the ukraine investigation. when yes the broadest contempt of congress of any president, including, by the way, armed force in nine countries overseas without any congressionalal declaration of war. and there is more as well.l. ththe question is, why are the democrats -- why the democrats didd not take a stronger stand and gogo with a strong hand that would have sharply increased public opinion because of the kitchen table issusues -- healt, safety, economic situatitions tt he has fostered. just look. average life expectancy is down. productivity and labor is down. manufacturing employment is s dn under trump. these a are not i impeachable offenses, but the point is he is vulnerable on these p points. and he is a lylying machchine. i always thougught alexander

hamilton's definition, one of his definitions, high crimes and misdemeanors, was abuse of trust. consider this -- he is a sexual predator. where is congress on that? they got rid of fraranken and jn conyers for 1% of what trump has done. he is embroiled in all kinds of lawsuits by women who have sworn under oath he has assaulted them and harassed them, is. then you have the bigotry and racism, which he follows up with. his policies come down very hard on minority and the poor. then you have his incitement to violence. if he is impeached, civil war. there will be riots in the street. and then you cluster those under serial lying. utilized by the hour. lies by the day. overerages 22 lies come 14,000 since he came into office. you have interviews of the public trust.

people understand that. they don't have neighbors, they don't want to raise their children with this kind of model in the lighthouse -- white house line, misogyny, racism, incitement, violence. so she is forfeited a huge opportunity not just to impeach trump, but to remove him. of justthe point impeaching him if you don't use the full arsenal of impeachable offenses? what a lot of people don't know, i've been down on capitol hill and most of the democratic members of the house judiciary committee opposed her narrow approach, but they were overruled. they were even backed by the chair of the foreign relations committee, mr. engngel, by the chair of congrgresswoman maxine waters. the obstruction of justice and the molar report where he had about 10 document it obstruction of justice is, that was even supported by her deputy, the

number two person steny hoyer from maryland. so she overruled them all. and as a result, i don't think she's protecting those 10 or 12 new members of congress from trump. he is going after r them alread. and he is crowing. he is taunting her. he is saying, nancy pelosi has thee majority in the house and she did not go forward with all these charges. and don't you know why? because they are all lies. they're all fake. that's why. i've done nothing wrong. so he is taunting her and he will do it before hundreds of thousands of people in his rallies in the coming months. a huge lost opportunity. ay: ralph nader, also wrote column saying trump should be impeached for his climate policy alone. 25,we come out of this cop this u.n. summit in madrid that has been called a monumental failure with many blaming it

partially on the united states, even though the trump denying -- the climate denying president trump is pulling the u.s. out of the accord, not before they helped to water down these negotiations. done a lot has worse. he is completely unleashed the fossil fuel industry, drilling in the arctic, drilling overseas, drilling rather on the shores. he has at least these massive greenhouse gases. he had an o opportunity as president, either to ignore climatee disruption -- and climate change should never be used. climate disruption, climate crisis, we have these the right words. he could have ignored it. diminishhave worked to greenhouse gases. instead, he is expanding greenhouse gases. the pentagon years ago declared

climate d disruption as a natiol security danger, and they continue to do so. even the federal reserve is beginning to speak up on this. but donald trump calls it a hoax. he calls it a chinese plot. this is instability. this is a psychiatric problem. this is a president who does not defend our country against a fossil fuel unleashed ravaging nature with massive droughts and massive floods and ocean currents beginning to change and melting glaciers, and all kinds of critical assaults on the security of the united states and its people, on farmers, on the poor, on the shore -- all of that. thatat is not an impeachable offense? i mean, what is the congress up to hear? you even if they

have it gotten him on all of these different issues, let's go back to nixon. one of the articles of impeachment that was being drafted that was not approved was for the secret bombing of cambodia. regardless, he was gotten on, for example, abuse of power. ultimately, he resigned and he did not go through that impeachment process. what he isess of charged with, does it matter if he is impeached? and then talk about what this means as it goes to the senate, where you have the senate majority leader mitch mcconnell saying he probably won't call witnesses come although i think that is in flux saying he is consulting with white house lawyers, etc. talk about why it matters if he is impeached. >> well, it matters certatainly for some people in t this count. the house of representatatives s an effect indicted him under its

constitutitional authority and sending over for trial in the senate. but mitch mcconnell is a total dictator in the senate. he is an outlaw. he is actually invited the dependenent donald trump to set the rules of the trial of the senators were the jury. i don't know whether chief justice roberts wants to participate in such a kangaroo court. but the tragedy is, there are not enough articles of impeachment that should have been passed through the house. we have a 12 count articles of impeachment on the website nader.org developed by constitutional it over a seriesf hearings. it is truly tragic to see this opportununity. he glories a and and. he is doubling down. he is going to continue nursing these impeachment offenses. not like nixon slilinking back into the corner. he is going to turn it into an advantage friend to the extent

he can. g going tonader, we're go to break and come back to artist russian and also turn to boeing, which for you, is a personal tragedy as well as a global tragedy. ralph nader, longtime consumer advocate, corporate critic, former presidential candidate. his latest book written with mark green, "fake president: decoding trump's gaslighting, corruption, and general b.s." stay with us. ♪ [music c break]

amy: this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. as we turn now to developments in the safety of boeing 737 max airplane, last week the house transportation and infrastructure committee held a hearing on the safety of

the safety of the airplane, which has been grounded worldwide after two crashes in ethiopia and indonesia that killed all 346 people on board. this is former boeing manager edward pierson, who testified that he tried to warn executives four months before the firirst deadly crash. >> i believe production problems at the factory may have contributed to these two tragic crashes. but i don't believe our regulators are paying enough attention to that factory, and i'm calling for further investigation. i formally warned boeing leadership in writing on mumultiple occasions, specificay once before the lion air crash and again before the ethiopian airlines crash about potential risks due to the unsnstable operatining environment within e factory. thosose warnings werere ignored. a requested a one-on-one meeting with the general manager on july 18 repeated my recommendation to shut down the factory for a brief period of time. when i mentioned i had seen operations in the military shut

down for lesser safety concerns, i will never forget his response, which was, "military isn't a profit-making organization." amy: that was former boeing manager ed pierson, testifying last week before the congress last week. samya stumo, great-niece of our guest ralph nader, died on the ethiopian airlines flight 302 in march. we want to turn right now to her , who is the niece of ralph nader, u.n. samya's mother. they filed a lawsuit against boeing and a claim against the federal aviation administration. >> this is not an accident. this is something that could have been invented. as somebody who lost the deer's person in my life, you know, i want her death not to be in vain. i don't when anynydy else toto die. amy: ralph nader, this is a

personal tragedy for you but also global tragedy. because you have been a consusur advocate for so long, you have made these global corporate catastrophes very personal for everyone. again, our condolences to your whole family on the loss of young,a beautiful, activist who is going to africa to work on issues there when she died in that flight. talk about the latest on boeing. is more more disclosures, more more whistleblowers, of john barnett, the quality control inspector on the plate -- in the plant in south carolina saying essentially what edward pierson said. we have mounting evidence brought forth by the house and transportation commimittee that the faa more than it made out publicly, that it becacame an advocate or under pressure from congress the

past years instead of a regulator. in the thunderbolt that just came out a few days ago that in december 2018, after the indonesian crash, there was a risk assessment by the faa that these planes that have orders for 5000 of these dangerous planes, the 737 max, would have 15 crashes over the 40 year life of the plane, taking 2900 lives. faa was not released by the month after montnth covover-up. the two people responsible for the faa'sand the board of direcr boeing that presided over these trails of criminal negligence and the failure to attend to aerodynamic stability, they are still there. and the ceo, dennis muilenburg,

paid millions and mimillions of dollars a year. he is still there. so untntil they aree replaced, e cannot see light at the end of the tunnel. and the light at the end of the tunnel is not trying to use a hoped up, glitch written , atware in the cockpit software fix for hardware defect? you have to recall the planes and boeing has got to develop engineering adjustments, engineering changes so that plane is not prone to stall, which is what led to the crashes and indonesia and ethiopia and the killing of 346 innocent people. that is where it has got to be.. and senator wicker has got to get his senate oversight committee active, along with the activity by congressman peter defazio. amy: this latest news that executives at boeing are reportedly considering ending

production of the 737 max passenger jet, the announcement might come thiss afternoon? >> yes. well, that was actually expected because they have got these jets that they have been producing in recent months ---- 42 a monthh r one-a-day. these are $130 million each. they have them parked and stored in their running out of space. the airlines are furious with the way boeing is maneuvering this whole thing. they are filing lawsuits to recover their financial losses. the labor unions for the airlines are doing the same thing. so this is just another step toward what i think has to be the recall of these planes and the engineering adjustments so that the basic problem, not a software fix, the basic problem is dealt with.

amy: you also sent a letter toto ththe canadian prime minister justin trudeau urging canada to do an independent review of the 737 max. why is this so important in canada right now, ralph? >> because went all of the other countries grounded the max in march of this year, there were two left -- canada and the u.s. the u.s. was stubbornly saying from the coo going to thee faa o president trump, don't worry, it is a safe planet. wo crashes in a few months of a brand-new claim. yeah, it's a safe plane. canada decided to ground them and that clinch, necessity for the u.s. grounds the plane with the faa, it will be a bad scene. if c canada old firm, indndepent with transport canad t the u.s. will have to think twice about

ungrounding the plane because it is hard to find north america without flying over canadian airspace. i wrote e to prime minister trudeau urging him to retain an independent evaluation, full -- pull certification, pull simulator training for the pilots are the two demands that the families of the victims are the faa, before the media in the united states. we are reliant on canada if the faa and donald trump are going toto crumble. i mean, trump is not looking good on this issue. he is very big business oriented. he has rendered corrupt government of corporatism, militarism, and nepotism. you're not going to rely on him. so that is why i appealed to canada. and people who want to get involved, we have a consumer boycott of the 737 max should it ever be ungrounded.

ersrights.org who is run by mr. hudson who lost his daughter in the lockerbie explosion in scotland. it is a wonderful consumer group . people should join it. they have all kinds of up-to-date material on the 737 max. tens of millions of you will fly this monster unless you get involved, unless you put the pressure on members of congress. amy: do you think going executives should be forced to flight in 737 max's, i can to air marshals, as an extra safety measure? >> they aren't going to go up on these flights. they are very careful flights. everybody is on alert. they're not flying all over the world with pilots that say they are less trained because they don't have military asked areas the way many of our pilots have are different kinds of weather patterns or other kinds of

things. so they will go up and say, see? mullah merkel say, see? i went up. see, i went up? you're not d dealing with thatat kindnd of sisituation. the faa itself reduced the probability of a crash t to one out of a million flights instead of usual one out of 10 million flights. these are crashes due to the design and construction, not due to pilot error. amy: what you're calling for and your family's lawsuit? i do not hear. amy: what you are calling for and your family's lawsuit? >> we are calling for full compensationon for the losses, e are calling for boeing to contribute to establishing nonprofit institutions dededicad to airline safety. we are callingng for full disclosure with depositions. the lawyers who do these depositions have a lot more

information under oath by boeing officials than the congress has managed to. so thesese will all begin to reveal the impact in the spring, the depositions will probably start in the spring. amy: finally, a different issue, last wednesday 180 house democrats joint a most all house republicans in voting in favor of a massive three quarters of a trillion dollar military spending bill for the pentagon, one of the largest military spending bills and u.s. history. in the last 30 seconds we have, your response? >> this is the trade of the democratic party has been making for years stuck with every billion dollars to the defense department, they get some money for social safety net. excusest gave boeing -- me, they just gave the department of defense another $22 billion, which would have renovated 22,000 elementary schools in this country and

return for paid family leave for federal employees. what kind of trade-off is that? there should be paid famamily leave without increasing the huge waste and corruption of military budget, which is devourining infrastructure needs in this country. amy: we have to leave it there. we want to thank you for being with us, ralph nader, longtime consumer advocate, corporate critic and former presidential candidate. his latest book written with mark green, "fake president: decoding trump's gaslighting, corruption, and general b.s." and that does it for our show. a very happy birthday to renee feltz! answer my brother steve. democracy now! is looking for feedback from people who appreciate the closed captioning. e-mail your comments to outreach@democ . nine pm at bangk

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