in the broadcast. as the impeachment trial gets under way, president trump is in davos, switzerland, for the world economic forum where he delivered a speech earlier today to the gathered elites. the climate crisis was the top t the top priority foror this year's foru, bubut trump fosed onon toutingns tax cuts come immigration policies, and trade deals with china, canada and mexico. he also said that u.s. air and water was cleaner than ever. trump has worked to dismsmantle environmental regulations since takingng office and has denied climate change.

climate change. trump also told reporters in davos the impepeachment trial ws a "hoax" and a "wiwitch hunt." meanwhile, a newew oxfam report releaseded aheadad of the world economic forum warns thatt "economic inequality is out of control the e world's richesest% , owning twice as much wealth as nearly 7 billion people." the report also finds that just over 2000 billllionaires have me combined wealth than 4.6 billion people. the website quartz calculated that trump's two-day appearance in davos will cost u.s. taxpayers over $5.6 million. 17-year-old climate activist greta thunberg is also in davos, where she spoke on a youth climate e panel earlier today. 6 6% to 7%are t to have a a chchance of meeting the global average tempererature ririse to below 1.5 degrees celsisius, we had an generally firstst, 2 28, co2t - -- january 1, 2018,

left in the budget. since last summer, i have been repeating these numbers ovever d over again and on most every speech. but honestly, i dodon't think i have once seenen any media outls or person empower communicated this and what it means. i know you don't want t to repot about this. know you d don't wantnt to talk ababout this. continueure you i willl repeat these numbers until you do. amy: eight democratic presidential hopefuls took part in the brown & black presidential forum in iowa monday, on martin luther king jr. day. also on monday, democratic presidential candidates marched arm-in-arm through the streets of columbia, south carolina, to honor dr. king. the show of democratic party unity came only one day after, in a highly unusual move, "the new york times" announced it was endorsing two democratic candidates for president -- massachusetts senator elizabeth warren and minnesota senator amy

klobuchar. "the times" editorial board wrote of their controversial decision -- "in this perilous moment, both the radical and the realist the radical and the realist models warrant serious consideration." in 2016, "the new york times" endorsed hillary clinton for president, who went on to lose the election, despite winning the popular vote. senators warren and klobuchar are the last two women senators in the democratic primary race. hawaii congressmember tulsi gabbard is also running for the nomination. in more election news, washington congressmember pramila jayapal has endorsed senator bernie sanders. senator bernie sanders. jayapal tweeted -- "bernie has the bold passion, authenticity & clarity that working people across this country desperately need." congressmember jayapal is the co-chair of the congressional progressive caucus, along with wisconsin congressmember mark pocan, who endorsed sanders for president last thursday.

meanwhile, senator elizabeth warren has joined vermont senator bernie sanders in criticizing former vice president joe biden over his record on social security, which includes being willing to raise the retirerement age or freeze cost-of-living increases. sanders has opposed biden on social security since as early as 2010 when sanders filibustered a biden-negotiated deal that sanders said would weaken social security. in puerto rico, protesters took to the streets monday to call for r the resignation of governr wanda vazquez after a video was posted saturday showing undistributeted emergencncy sups sitting in a warehouse in the city of ponce. many puerto ricansns are still reeling after a 6.4 magnitude earthquake hit thehe island earlier ththis month, foforcing thousands to leave their homes. sosome of the e supplies, which included bottled water, baby diapers, and propane gas, date back to 2017 and were reportedly intended as emergency aid fofor victims of hurriricane maria.

wanda vazquez replaced ricardo wanda vauez replac ricardo rossello as governor after leaked text messages revealed he and his associates mocked victims of hurricane maria, among other r offensive remarks. govevernor vazazquez ordered an investigation and fired three members of her cabinet as public outrage mounted over the viral video. inin yemen, an attack k on a government military base killed over 100 soldiers in central yemen satuturday. no group has claimed responsibility, but the yemeni government has blamed houthi rebels. saturday's drone and missile attack marks one of the e single bloodiest days in the ongoing conflict in yemen. in lebanon, anti-government protests continued over the weekend, resulting in violent clashes with police, who deployed water cannons, rubber bullets, and tear gas against demonstrators s in the capital beirut. hundreds were injured according to local reports. human rightsts groups have accud riot police of using excessive force and violating the rights of protesters. the committee to protect journalists is calling on authoritieies to investigate attacks and the detaining of

journalists who have been targeted while covering the protests. lebanon has been rocked by mass demonstrations f for months, whh forced out prime minister saad hariri in october. hariri in october. protesters say they are increasingly frustrated by the deepening financial and political crises. protests also continued in iraq, protests also continued in iraq, where at least four people were reported killed and scores injured monday after clashes with security forces in baghdad and otheher cities. security forces used tear gas and live fire against the and live fire against the protesters, who continue to demand democratic reforms and the appointment of an independent prime minister. this is protester abed al rahman. >> we want our demands -- jobs, safe atmosphere, and we want to feel like citizens. jobs, no goodood education, no schools. people graduate and sit. amy: security forces and militias have killed hundreds of protesters since the popular uprising started in october.

iraqi officials said three rockets fell into baghdad's but noone tuesday, casualties were reported. prince harry arrived in canada monday, joining his wife meghan markle and their eight-month-old son archie on vancouver island, after harry finished one of his last official royal appearances since announcing he and markle are stepping back as senior members of britain's royal family. their decision, known as megxit, has captivated the world. the british press has largely reacted with shock. but in a "new york times" op-ed piece headlined "black britons know why meghan markle wants out," afua hirsch writes -- "from the very first headline about her being 'straight outta compton' and having 'exotic' dna, the racist treatment of meghan has been impossible to ignore." back in the united states, tens

of thousands of so-called gun rights supporters took to the streets of richmond, virgrginia, to protest new gun control proposals by the state's freshly elected democratic government. protesters included members of far-right groups and many opopel proposals by the s state's fresy elected democratic government. protesters incluluded members of fafar-right groups a and many oy carried guns, including assault rifles, as they gathered around the state capitol. democratic governor ralphto prol northam called a state of emergency ahead of the rally but no major incidents were reported. in environmental news, the ninth circuit court of appeals has rejected the landmark youth climate lawsuit against the u.s. government, arguing the case does not belong in the courts. juliana v. united states accuses the u.s. government of perpetuating the climate crisis, and endangering the lives of citizens. judge josephine staton, the dissenting voice on the three-judge panel, wrote -- "the government accepts as fact that the united states has reached a tipping point crying out for a concerted response -- yet presses ahead toward calamity. it is as if an asteroid were barreling toward earth and the

government decided to shut down our only defenses." our only defenses." a lawyer f for the plaintiffs hs vowed to appeal the ruling. to see our interview with the lead plaintiff in the case, kelsey juliana, last september , go to democracynow.org. in more environmental news, the u.n. has ruled that climate refugees cannot be forced to return to their home countries. the landmark decision could grant significant new legal power to millions of people around the world. experts say tens of millions of people are expected to become climate rerefuge w within thee decade. tens of thousands of demonstrators took to the streets around the united states saturday for the fourth annual women's march demanding action on climate change, reproductive rights, and immigration. at the new york women's march, evelyn yang, the wife of democratic presidential candidate andrew yang, took to the stage to speak out against sexual assault. evelyn yang recently revealed she was assaulted by her

obstetrician, dr. robert hadden, when she was pregnant. this is yang speaking on saturday. >> as horrifying as it was to share my story on the nationonal stage, i had to believe that coming forward would help me reclaim my voice and help others reclaim there's -- theirs. we would all just be ananher statisistic in the shadows. we need to do better for our mothers, for our daughters, for our sisters come and for everyone who loves them.m. we need to roar against sexual violence. because a nationwide women's protest came as the national archives was forced to apologize for blurring protest signs in a photograph from the 2017 women's march. they blurted out signs that were

critical of trump as well as references to female reproductive anatomy. the photo is part of an exhibit for the centennial of women's suffrage. aclu deputy legal director louise melling said -- "apologizing is not enough. the national archives must explain to the public why it even took the orwellian step of trying to rewrite history and erasing women's bodies from it, as well as who ordered it." we'll have more with louise melling later in the broadcast. move 9 member delbert orr africa, known as del africa, was released from a pennsylvania prison saturday after 42 years behind bars. del africa was arrested with eight others f following a 1978 police raid on the house of move, a radical, anti-police-brutality and largely african-american organization. the members were convicted in the killing of philadelphia police officer james ramp. one member of the move 9, chuck africa, still remains in prison. six othehers have been released and one member died behind bars. to see our 2018 interview with move 9 member debbie africa with

move 9 member debbie africa with her son mike shortly after debbie was released from prison, go to democracynow.org. former new york republican congressmember chris collins was sentenced friday to 26 months in prison and fined $200,000 for insider trading. collins, who resigned from congress in september, was the first republican congressmember to support donald trump's run for the white house. and in oakland, california, the group known as moms 4 housing has reached an agreement to purchase a previously vacant house that they began occupying as parart of their fight against homelessness and real estate speculation. the mothers had been fighting eviction attempts by investment firm wedgewood properties, which now says it will sell the property at a fair price through the oakland community land trust. this is activist carroll fife, director of the oakland office for alliliancef cacaliforniansnr community empowerment, lebrbrating the news monday. >> it i impornt t to undstand the history of vil disobedience in this country becaus every single right that

have today wasne by people engaging in pushing on what was ushing on what was lel.l. sot t is iortatanto nott criminalize women who e e tryi toring atttion a a justice and humanityo o the sseses f everne. ey are n the c cminals here. system is one that allows homelessness. amy: you can see our recent interview with carroll fife andt allows homelessness. amy: you can see our recent interview with carroll fife and dominique walker, a founding member of moms 4 housing at democracynow.org. and those are some of the headlines. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace e report. i'm amy goodman. juan: and ij amuan zealous. welcome to all of our listeners and viewers from around the country and around the world. it is a historic day in washington as the senate opens just the third impeachment trial of a u.s. president in the country's history. under proposed rules by senate majority leader mitch mcconnell, each side will be given 24 hours over two days for opening

arguments beginnnning on wednesday. then senators will then have 16 hours for questions and four hours for debabate. at that point, the senate will vote on whether to heaear from y new witnesses. senate minority leader chuck schumer accused mcconnell of trying to rush the impeachment procesess. >> a trial where there is no evidence, no existing record, and no new evidence -- no witnesses, no documents, that is not a trial at all. it is a cover-up. amy: this comes as president trump has added several prominent lawyers to his legal team, including former independent counsel kenneth starr, whose probe led to the impeachment of bill clinton and former harvard university law professor alan. in 2008, starr and dershowitz helped serial pedophile jeffrey epstein receive a sweetheart plea deal when he was arrested on sex trafficking charges. one of epstein's victims also accused dershowitz of sexually assaulting her, but dershowitz has long denied the charge.

starr is also the former president of baylor university. he was ousted from the job over the school's mishandlining of reports of sexual assault by football players. on monday, the white house released a 110-page brief claiming that impeachment is "a dangerous perversion of the constitution that the senate should swiftly and roundly condemn." another impeachment news, house intelligence chair adam schiff, one of the impeachment managers come has accused the cia and nsa of withholding documents potentially relevant to the impeachment trial. we are joined now by two guests. rick perlstein is a historian and the author of several books including "the invisible bridge: the fall of nixon and the rise of reagan," which covered the watergate investigations and nixon's impeachment. nixon ashley resigned before he was impeached.

epstein's forthcoming book is titled "reaganland: america's right turn, 1976-80." he joins us from chicago. and in washington, kristen clarke with us, president and executive director of the lawyers' committee for civil rights under law. rick epstein, let's begin with you. , i'mr, rick perlstein sorry, forgetting that wrong. can you talk about what we are about to see? close a show trial. i am really struck by the fact the guy running this, mitch mcconnell, comes out of this tradition of southern politics, that all of us should go back and study. the fact of the matter is, for most of the 20th century, the south was basically an authoritarian society. it w wasn't really a democracy. it used all kinds of strategies democratic accountability.

when they said, african-americans can't vote, the loss did not say african americans can't vote -- they used literacy tests, things like property qualififications, intimidation. seeuch the same way now, we the republicans running the senate manipulating the rules in order to make it impossible to basically achieve a fair trial or any thing approaching justice. wherehave this situation they're only going to be able to introduce the actual evidence and witnesses after they make their arguments. that means anything that comes out tomorrow we won't be able to see. lev parnas said he has not been said he has not been able to present his evidence of rudy giuliani's implication in these events into the southern district of new york. probably has something to do with william barr. from every angle, we see the kind of walls closing in all isp the big picture i think -- you can think of that

of americanakeover politics as the southernization by the united states. this is sort of like what you saw when southern juries would always acquit whites accused of crimes against african-americans. african-americans accused of crimes against whites, no matter the evidence. we see t this kind of pattern, this deeply embedded in american history, rising up to the highest level of american justice. it is horrifying. we should not have any illusions about what is going on here. juan: rick perlstein, this whole ande of witnesses -- specially witnesses from the administration who might have direct knowledge of the president's actions, could you were for those who

don't know of the specifics of what happened --nixon resigned before impeachment, but several key white house were for those o don't know of the aides haldema. john dean testify before congress about what actually happened. or at least were submitted themselveses for questioning.. >> that is basically to keep themselves out of jail cocome to basically look good for the judge in the watergate trial. one of the heroes because basically, he was kind of expected to gogo along w with te white house's cover up. he basically at every step in the trial pushed further and said, no, the white house must be involved. as white house figures basically faced the music, they submitted themselves to testimony. richard nixon at first tried he basically at every y step in assert executivey to privilege -- which wasas a novel doctrine at the timeme. sam ervin, the e head of the

senate watergate committee, it executive poppycock. eventuallyly, people jusust sai, look, we're going to save our hides. it was a different republican party than. some of the peoplele in the sene committ, some of the rerepublans,s, we actutuly quite active in investigating. one of the members w was inindependentltly wealtlthy andd hiowown instigatioefforts. that wasn't e e impehmenent. that happened the nexteaear in ththe use. not quite a parallel. but what y s saw was a lot tan actuafair, op, go faith iuiry. even the there we still ewspleho baved le fox republics and resed to considerhe evidee no matter at. ll basiclyle were voteout of oice inin974. buit is ve memorle tt onof theepublica who was fmendgixon, a ma

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this happeni, the supreme urt is diding a vy aplolo cas whichchhey decing whetr nixon apollo ce, whichhey decing whher nixohas the ght to extend ecutive pvilege t cover up his own crimes. they say, welcome executive privililege exists. it is important for ee president toto be able to haveve private conversations with his aides, but you can basically use it to stay out of jail, to avoid being kicked out of office. that forced 60 more tapes to be forced into public record. forced into public record. on one of those tapes was this

smoking gun that showed nixon have been involved in the car of our desk cover-up. after that happened, he should support and senators basically let it be known they were going to vote to remove him from office. and a couple of things happen that were very dramatic. first of all, in the final impeachment vote that day come after the first vote, the chairman, congressman from new jersey, said we have to clear this room because we have reports that a plane might be heading here. afraid a plane was going to crash in of the capital. that was a rumor. it did not happen. rumor. it did notot happen. but it t tells the f fear and de drama and the idea that the walls were closing in toward dictatorship in america. very closely after that, yes, the republican leadership most famously barry goldwater who have been the last republican presidential nominee, but more importantly the leaders of the house and senate of the minority, came to richard nixoxo to richard nixon and spoke to him in the language that he understood, which was politics -- which was votes. they said he did not have enough votes to survive and he would suffer historic humiliation if you persevered. that is when he decided the chips were down and he had to quit. amy: rick perlstein, we're going we're going

to continue with you, other several books, including "the invisible bridge: the fall of nixon and the rise of reagan," to we will also speak kristen clarke about what was not handed over to the house. is the justice department involved in a cover-up? she isis the president a and executive director of the lawyers' committee for civivil rights under law. stay with us. ♪ [music break]

amy: the rate anthem was developed and is since gone viral. it was performed all over the country this weekend at the limits marches. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman with juan gonzalez. today is the senate impeachment trial day in washington. it is historic. we are speaking with rick perlstein, who has written several books on president nixon , alsoat happened to him

has focused on what happened to president, also has focused on what happened to president clinton. and we are joined by kristen clarke. she is head of the lawyers committee for civil rights under law. she is an washington, d.c. kristen clarke, today we are expected to see a battle between senate majority leader mitch mcconnell and the minority leader chuck schumer. they will debate for several hours about what is going to take place. then there is going to be 24 hours for both the house managers, the prosecutors, the democrats come and president lawyers lawyers. and as mitch mcconnell laid out the rules last night, these 24 hours each half to be over two days each. 12 hour days. clearly, wanting to make this extremely fast. in a debate over whether there will be witnesses. then there will be 16 hours where the senators will weigh in. they are kind of like jurors. they are all sitting there,

can't have any phones. they can't actually get up and ask questions of both sides. they have to hand questions to chief justice john roberts, who then read out there questions -- apparently, this will go on for about 16 hours. can you talk about the form of this and also what information out - -- weretten only recently?

out - -- werere only rececently? >> the process feelsls rigged. intentntionally designed to keep ththe senate and theweek.. there has been resistance to entering the record that was built in thethere has been resio entering the record that was built t in the house into ththe record i in the senate.. the waway senator mcconnell hass constructed the rules is intended to make it virtually agreeible for majoritity to we come to consensus t that should hear frfrom the witnesse, that we should hear we should hear from the witnesses, that we should hear from the facts. thisis is particularly startling when you think aboutut the very positions that senator mcconnell and senator lindsey graham took during the clinton impeachment. both of them w were therere andh openly andked very openly

frankly about conducting examination n of the truruth, te importance of hearining from tnesesses, aboutut the importane of having a full and fair trial. so i am deeply c concernrned abt the prococess thatat is underway becaususe at the end of the day, we can't t forgethis very issue that are the subjectct of this impeachment, whichimpeachment, s alallegations that a president interfered with our elections. as somebody who has been practicing voting rights and election law for virtually every , i of my professiononal life care d deeply about the , i care deeply about the allegations at hand. so the idea we would have a president who would abuse his power and leverage of $400 million payment that have b been authororized by congngress in or that have been

authorized by congress in order to secure from a foreign country a public announcement that is broadcast, announcement that is broadcast, that political opponent is under criminal investigation is deeply troubling. this is conduct announcement ths broadcast, that political opponent is under criminal investigation is deeply troubling. this is conduct that undermines democracy come that undermines the integrity of our elections, that destroys public confidence in the process. there is much debate about the rules and about new evidence circulating every day, but we cannot forget the deeply troubling and startling allegations that are the very subject of this impeachment process. juan: i want to get back to the back to the rules for a. you mentioned chuck schumer has limited the reality that mcconnell is proposing to go to the wee hours of the morning. he wants to start the 12 hour process that 12:00 in the afternoon so it will go to at least 1:00 a.m. and the amazing revolution -- that that they won't control the camera angles, what is seen on c-span is in an uproar over the fact basically they're not going have either control over the cameras to be able to show individual senators or whatever from the hearing as the trial is ongoing.

>> there is no question>> theret senator mcconnell is rigging the rules that this is being set up in a way that feels like a sham process. it is a gross departure from the precedent set by the clinton impeachment process where there was 24 hours of debate that extended over a longer period of time. by cramming and forcing the senators to sit for this period of time over two days, it is clear they clear they intend fr the debate to extend into the wee hours of the night when the public will miss the opportunity to hear the very important facts at issue here. amy: i want to stay on that issue of press restrictions. the republican senate leaders have issued these restrictions on journalists covering the impeachment trial. the press will be restricted to a pendant would be subjectcted o passing through a magnetometer that would check to o make sure they are not carrying electronic

sure they are not carrying electronic devices that would allow them to report on the trial from the press gallery. several news organizations have criticized the rules, including c-span, which is calling on the senate to allow its cameras to document the trial. a coalition of organizations led by the aclu has written an open letter to senate leaders, saying -- "the public and the press should be empowered to bear and use computing devices to bear witness to history from the galleries. c-span should be allowed into the senate chamber to position its cameras so that they can broadcast the historic proceedings throughout the country and make the archives available to the public. journalists are not, as the available to the public. journalists are not, as the senate itself unanimously affirmed in 2018, the 'enemy of the people,' nor should they ever be treated as such by an institution in the united states government." kristen clarke, also being told they cannot talk to senators, something like i don't know the exact time restriction, half an hour before the proceeding and half an hour after. that means, especially the republican senators, who won't want to go on the record on this, know when they can run chamber chamber w without

being g bothered is how they wod view it, by rereporters. it is ouour role to put our elected leaders on the record. >> yeah, i smell a potentitial legal challenge here. i think the restrictions that have been imposed on the press and are lilimiting and stifling their ability to do their job are deeply troubling and go to the heart of the first amendment. we will see how that plays out. but no doubt when you think about the effort to stifle the public's ability to follow and observe this process, when you observe this process, when you think about the restrictions on the press, when you think about senator mcconnell's rules -- which are intended not to o shie light on the evidence and the facts, but are constructed to keep the public in the dark and to keep what played out here shrouded in secrecy -- it almost witnessing witnessing the

death of democracy here. all of these issues, a public and open forum and congress, free press, really go to the heart of american democracy. democracy. i think what is playing out here is deeply troubling. i hope we can get the american public to focus again on the issues at hand, which really go to the heart of democracy. we want elections where there is a level playing field, where cacandidates field, where candidates can compete freelely anand fairly. that is critical to ensuring at the end of the day, the public can have confidence in the outcome produced by our elections. allegations levied allegations leviednt

against the president here are deeply troubling. our very concerning. we have allegations levied against the president here are deeply troubling. our very concerning. we have about 286 days left until the november 2020 presidential election. what is to keep him from doing this again? it is important the senate do its job, that it error all of facts laid to bear all of the evidence so that the public in the senate can understand what the president did here and whether the president violated his oath of office and abused his power. juan: i am wondering if you could comment also on the announcement by senate judiciary committee chair lindsey graham last week that whilele the trial is ongoing, there will be no meetings of the senate judiciary committee and the possible implications of that? >> this is s a very significant development. we now mark three years into the trump presidency, and president has moved at lightning speed to fill vacancies across our federal coururt system and has done so at a r record-breaking pace. when you compare the number of

nominees named by president trump three years into h his presidency compared to president obama at the same point, there is a stark disparity. two supreme in place two s supreme court justices. 50 jududges on the federal circt court. obama appointed 25 over that time period . 133 district court judges. obama appointed about 97 duririg that same time period. these are judges that are there for a lifetime. these are judges who are overwhelmingly white and male. they do not reflect the diversity of our country. these are judges who bear

extremist records and raise real questions about their ability to hear issueues that come befofore them democrats showing remarks made by senators lindsey graham and senate majority leader mitch mcconnell during the clinton impeachment trial. isin every trial that there everery event in the s senate regardrding impeaeachment, witns were called. >> it is not unusual to have a witness in a trial. >> if ththere anyy doubts, call witnesses. >> it will only be by fair at searchch of the truth. fofolks who was engaged in it?

who was s in the middle of it? telling you what they were doing and why. totally different case and it is the difference between getting the truth, the whole truth, nothing but the truth. >> certainly not unusual to have witness in an impeachment trial. >> we don't get to commenting for witnesses, direct witnesses to the point is that you're basically changing impmpeachmen. amy: so ththat is to the issue f witnesses. again, lindsey graham and mitch mcconnell, now saying they don't want witnesses. now i want to go to play two clips of alan dershowitz, one of the newest members of trump's legal team. this is dershowitz speaking and 1998 and reference to the clinton impeachment. c certainly does not have to be a crime. if you have somebody completely corrupts the offffice of presidt and who abuses trust andnd poses great danger to our liberty, you don't need a technical crime. amy: so that is alan dershowitz in 1998 around clinton.

dershowitz sundayay apappearing on "abc this weekk benjamam curtitis defense e of presidt anandrew j johnson durug his impeachment trial in 1868. >> when you read the texext of e consnstitution,, bribery -- treason, bribery, other high crimes a and misdemeanors, other really means that crimes a and misdemeanonors must be of akin o treason and bribery. and he a argued, very successfuy that youg the case, need to prove of an actual crime. it needn't be a statutory crime, but it has to be criminal behavior, criminal in nature. amy: so there you have the complete that you need to prove of turnaround of e men. rick perlstein, have covered nixon and the clinton impeachment. talk about what dershowitz is now saying and with the others are saying around witnesses, how it played out with clinton. >> right. definedan once

conservatism as the ideology that says the law covers but does not bind certain people and binds but does not cover others. in other words, it is about protecting the powerful and procedural defined conservatism as the ideology that says the law covers but does utility, fairness, of hypocrisy haspocrisy nothing to do with it. what is happening as republicans are being protected from the humiliation and the political being forced to go on camera and say that black is white, that up is down, that two plus two equals five. they're being being forced to gn protected from the judgment of history. if the world ends up in smoking ruins because of donald trump,

these guys do not want to be recorded in history books as the people who did not stand up. the clinton trial shows come actually, quite the difference between the very flawed democratic party in this deeply corrupt republican party. when clinton was impeached, the reason this happened was because clinton was willing to allow his attorney general to replace an independent counsel when that counsel's term was up and that the attorney general, jenna reno, showed a person republican. that is how committed the was totic party fairness. in the same way when the democrats took over the senate judiciary committee my patrick leahy gave enormous latitude to allow republicans to pick a blue slip was to fairness. latitude to allow republicans to pick a blue slip or veto demococratic budge. the republicans have n no committed -- they're only interested in basically one like in germany, the leader is always right, we're going to protect

right, we're going to protect them at all terms. and whether r a republic can survive this sort of depredation is very much in question. of depredation is very much in question. the walls are closing and. the hour is very late. amy: finally, kristen clarke, you are a voting rights leader in this country. how do you answer those who say, why impeachment? if people don't likeke what president trump has s done, vote him out of o office in the next election. >> we need fair rules. we need a level playing field in order for our democracy to work. when you have a publichow do yol president -- who abuses his office and abuses his president -- who abuses his office and abuses his power to rid the outcome, to undermine a political opponent because they are afraid to compete on that level playing field, then we should all be concerned. we won elections were the outcomes are ones that people feel are fair. outcomes where they can have confidence. here i think it is important -- what is to stop

president trump from doing it again? it is important to senate do its job, labor the evidence, and that we determine whether or not he indeed abused his office and withheld aid to ukraine in order to buy public pronouncement about a criminal investigation and ait is important political . conduct we should conduct we should tolerate in american democracy. and for kristen clarke, thank you for being with us, president and executive director of the lawyers' committee for civil rights under law. rick perlstein the author of , several books, including "the invisible bridge: the fall of nixon and the rise of reagan," and when we come back, the national archives a racist history? -- erases history? ♪ [music break]

amy: this is democracy now!, i'm amy goodman with juan gonzalalez. juan: the national archives and records administration apologized saturday for

apologized saturday for doctoring a photo of the 2017 women's march to remove criticisms of president trump. the shocking revelation that the agency, which calls itself the "recordkeeper," had altered the image were first repoported last week. in an exhibit called "rightfully post" that thewomen and the changes were made "so as not to engage in current political controversy." archives spokeswoman miriam

kleiman said -- "modifying the image was an attempt on our part to keep the focus on the records." but saturday, as tens of thousands in washington dc and across the country took to the streets for the fourth women's streets for the fourth women's march, officials at the archives were seen flipping over ththe image at t the exhibit. an apology went up in its place. streets for the fourth women's march, officials at the archives were seen flipping over the image at the exhibit. an apology went up in its place. come out and made a mistake."te

apologize. that is an important first move but it is completely insufficient. what we need now from archives is an accounting of who made this decision, why they made this decision, and really have they done this before? and ago they changed the photo. when you have a poster that says "god hates trump," and you blurt out "trump," it makes you look like someone is caring a poster that just as "god hates." >> absolutely. they changed history. they are waiting out criticism and erasing women's bodies. asterix to this is your take on their initial reasons for doing this, even if they had some concerns, they should have at least had some explanation at the

exhibition or chosen a different photograph. >> i can imagine it is sufficient for them to dr. and altered -- doctor and alter photographs. their job is -- their job is to record history, to show us history. their job is -- what they did was to manipulate history. what they did was to obliterate criticism of the president. they obliterated references to women's bodies as if to say those things are not acceptable. if we can't trust the archives can't trust the archives actually be accurate, what can we trust? you're talking about face and democracy, face and institutions. that is essential to our full functioning. this is one institution where we got a job was more basic, preps than others, and here they are altering photographs. it is orwellian. amy: talked about the fact this is all discovered by a a reporter goesst" over to the archives.

that he had dam gone over to research a story i noticed the photograph as he walked by. he noticed their images that were blurred, checked out the credits on the photographs, went back to the office where he and photographer, who is also credited, also uncovers and reveals and tells us all about what happened. it is happenstance and thanks goodness he was there and thank goodness he did the homework and thank goodness he published it. amy: what have they said your amy: what have they said your demand of a eight? >> i i have seen nothingng other than it is the statatement thatt is a m mistake. mistake is if i spelled coffee on the photo. this was an affirmative act. someone made an affirmative choice to blur those images so as to blur and erase criticism of the president and criticism -- words like "vagina." amy: i want to thank you, louise melling deputy legal director at

, the american civil liberties union. as we ended today show with the show with the words of 17-year-old swedish activist greta thunberg, jusust turned 17 in the last weeks. she addressed world leaders today at the world economic forum in davos, switzerland. one year ago, i came one year s and told you our house is on fire. i said i wanted you to panic. i have been telling people to panic about the climate crisis -- i have been warned telling people to panic about the clinic crisis is not a good thing to do. i can assure you it doesn't lead to anything. record, what would

children tell you to panic, we're not telling you to go on like before. we are not telling you to rely on technology -- technologies that don't even exist today at scale in the would children tell you sciences perhs never will. we are not telling you to keep reaching net zero emissions or carbon neutrality by cheating and fiddling around with numbers. we're not telling you to offset your emissions by just paying someone else to plant trees in places like africa, while at the same time for us like the amazon -- forest like the amazon are being slaughtered at an infinitely higher rate. is good, ofes course, but it is nowherere near enoughgh of what is n needed ant repeplace real memedication anand re-wilding nature. let's be clear. we don't need a low carbon economy. we don't need to lower emissions.

our emissions have to stop if we are to have a chance to stay below the 1.5 degreeees target. and until we have the technologies that can put our missions to minas, that we must forget about nancy. we need real zero. zerose distant net emissions targets will mean absolutely nothing if we just continue to ignore the carbon budgets that applies for today, not distant future dates. if high emissions continue like now, even for a few years, that remaining budget will soon be completely used up. the fact the usanow, even for ae paris accord seemed to outrage and worry everyone.

and it should. but the fact we are all about to fail the commitments you signed up for in the paris agreement doesn't seem to bother the people in power even the least. any plan or policy of yours that doesn't include radical emission cuts at the source starting today is completely insufficiene the 1.5 or well below two degrees commitments of the paris agreement. and again, this is not about right or left. we could not care less about

your party politics. from a sustainability perspective, the right, the left as well as the center, have all failed. no political ideology or economic structure has been able to tackle the climate and environmental emergency and createte the cohesive anand sustainable world. because that world come in case you have not noticed, is currently on fire. 17-year-old swedish climate activist greta 17-year-old swede activist greta thunberg addressising world leaders at te world economic forum in davos, switzerland. she spoke just after president davos,poke at the switzerland. she spoke just after president trump spoke at the gathering, touting the economy, but not talking about the climate crisis -- which is the focus of the world economic forum. it for our show. it for our show. we will post her whole speech online at democracynow.org. democracy now! is looking for

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hello. a very warm welcome to nhk "newsline." it's 9:00 a.m. on wednesday in tokyo. i'm miki yamamoto. the coronavirus is spreading overseas. the u.s. has joined a growing list of countries and territories to confirm cases as authorities in china and around the world are ramping up efforts to contain the outbreak. the united states centers for disease control and prevention says a u.s. resident was diagnosed after visiting a medical facility. the patient had recently returned from the chinese city of wuhan for a pneumonia