09/28/20 09/28/20 [captioning made possible by democracy now!] amy: from new york, thisis is democracy now! $750. that is w much dold trump in 2016raltaxes and 2017. in 10 of thexes last 15 years. we will speak to the nationss

elie mystal. today's other top story, thee nomination of amy coney b barret to the u.s. susupreme court. >> i clicked justice scalia more than 2 20 years s ago, but the lessons that i i learnrned still resonate. his judicial philosophy is mine, too. a judge must apply the law as written. andes are not policymakers they must be resolute in setting aside any policy views they might hold. amy: democrats are blasting senate republicans for racing to confirm amy coney barrett in what could be the final months of the trump presidency. >> there's no mystery about what is happening here. president trump is trying to throw out the affordable care act. he has been trying to do it for the last four years. amy: we will also talk to the head of planned parenthood alexis mcgill johnson about why

amy coney barrett's selection poses a dire threat to reproductive rights and the affordable care act in the country. it would look at how body cam footage raises questions about the investigation into the police killing of breonna taylor inside her own home. all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the quarantine report. i'm amy goododman. president trump annonounced saturday the nominatation of federal appeals judge amy coney barrett t to fill ruth bader ginsburg's seat on the supreme court. the 48-year-old barrett is a devout catholic who has taken conservative stances on abortion, gun rights, immigration, and lgbtq rights. a former notre dame law professor, she clerked for the late supreme court justice antonin scalia. the republican-controlled senate could confirm amy coney barrett just days before election day, as hearings are set to begin on

october 12. over the weekend, demonstrations were held across the country calling on democratic lawmakers to do everything in their power to delay proceedings until after the results of the election are known. meanwhile, house democrats will introduce a bill setting an tuesday 18-year term limit for supreme court justices. we'll have more on judge barrett and the supreme court later in the broadcast. "the new york times" published an explosive report diving into over two decades of trump's tax returns, which reveal he paid no income taxes at all in 10 of the last 15 years. the report also finds he pai just $750 in federal income tax in 2016, the year he was elected. according to "the times," trump minimized his taxes by reporting mass losses across his businesses, including his golf

course and his hotel in washington, d.c. the trump family reduced its tax bill by reporting so-called fees. "the times" reveals trump has been locked in a battle with irs over $73 billion tax refund he claimed after his casino business in atlantic city collapse. trump could be forced to pay loses.00 million if he in addition, trump has over $300 millioion in loans he personally guaranteed that will soon come due. trump dismissed "the new york times" report as fake news. we'll have more on this story after headlines. in louisville, kentucky, over two dozen protesters were arrested saturday as demonstrations continue over a grand jury decision last week clearing police officers of shooting and killing breonna taylor, a 26-year-old african american emt, in her own home in march. on friday, taylor's family spoke

publicly for the first time since the grand jury's decision. bianca austin, taylor's aunt, read a statement written by taylor's mother tamika palmer. >> when i speak on it, i am considered an angry black woman. but know this. i am an angry black woman. i'm not angry for the r reasons that you wouldld like me to be. i'm sorry. but angry because our black women keep dying at the hands of police officers. >> and b blackmun. >> and black men. amy: this comes as new bodycam footage obtained by vice news shows police officers involved in taylor's killing breaking several department policies, raising questions about the integrity of the crime scene and the investigation that followed. we'll have more on this later in the broadcast. coronavirus cases in the u.s. have now topped 7.1 million, with nearly half of all states

reporting a rise in daily cases over the past week and major surges reported in the midwest. despite the mounting cases, recent numbers published in the journal "the lancet" shows only 9% of the country's population may have been exposed to the coronavirurus, meaning t the vat majoririty of people remain susceptible going into the fall and winter months. florida said friday it is fully reopening its economy, allowing restaurants to operate at full capacity and banning localities from ordering closures. in virginia, governor ralph northam and his wife have tested positive for covid-19. presidenent trump repeatedly attacked the democratic governor at his rally in newport news, virginia, friday night, hours after news of northam's infection was announced. virginia officials had attempted to halt the rally, which violates an executive order by northam banning gatherings of more than 250 peoplele. in labor news, the airline

industry is set to cut over 35,000 jobs by the end of the week, barring a move from congress to continue funding payroll protections included as part of the cares act, due to exexpire at the end of this mon. in education news, new york city's principals union unanimously passed a vote of no confidence in mayor bill de blah zero, asking -- blasio, asking that he cede control of city schools to the state education department for the duration of the pandemic. this comes just days before the now-twice-delayed reopening of the city's public schools, which is scheduled to happen this week. the global covid-19 deatath toll is nearing 1 million, with over 33 million reported cases. latin america continues to suffer the ravages of the virus, with five out of the top 10 most infected countries. mexico has the fourth highest death toll in the world, topping

brazil has recordeded over 141,0 76,000. deaths, second onlnly to the u.. manaus, the largest city in brazil's amazon, reported a fresh surge in cases days after scientists speculated recent decline in cases may be attributable to reaching a certain level of "herd immunity." in israel, thousands of protesters took to the streets for a 14th straight week to demand prime minister benjamin netanyahu resign despite government attempts to quell demonstrations through strict new lockdown measures as it battles one of the world's worst outbreaks. armenia and azerbaijan have declared martial law and mobibilized their r militaries r heavy fightiting broke out sunuy between the two nations in a diuted terriry in the caucasus mountains. there are poports of at t least3 dedead and over r 100 wounded, including civivilians, as bothth sides s traded tank, artillery d drone fire in a region that's

internationally recognized as azerbaijani territory, but whose population is mostly ethnic armenians. it's the worst fighting in the area since a five-day war in 2016 left overer 100 people dea. in belarus, police again deployed tear gas and arrested scores of protesters during the seventh straight week of demonstrations demanding the ouster of long-time authoritarian leader alexander lukashenko. he was quietly inaugurated last week, but both the u.s. and the european union said they do not recognize his rule as legitimate. critics say last month's election was rigged, and many of the leaders of the opposition have gone into exile. at least 16 refugees are feared dead after a boat capsized off the libyan coast thursday. at least 22 people were rescued. this year alone over refugees 620 are feared to have drowned attempting passage to europe

from north africa. in lebanon, prime minister-designate mustapha adib has stepped down after he failed to form a new government. lebanon has been left reeling, with mounting calls for reform, following the devastating explosion at the p port of beirt on august 4 that killed 200 people a and led to the e collae of the previous government. in el salvador, a 29-year-old woman sent to prison for having a stillbirth has been released on conditional freedom after six years. in 2014, cindy erazo suffered an obstetric emergency, unaware she was eight months pregnant. she woke up handcuffed to a hospital bed, accused of having an abortion and charged with aggravated homicide. el salvador has long criminalized abortions, with a total ban since 1998. dozens have been convicted and imprisoned after having miscarriages and stillbirths. young climate activists around the world staged thousands of protests, strikes, and other actions friday for a global day

of climate action. in uganda, activist vanessa nakate, who launched the fridays for r future climate strike in uganda, led a march in kampala. issues is a personal because many people are dying. many people are suffering. systems are collapsing. our life-support systems are being destroyed. that is w why i speak o of and demand for action because i want to see change. because i want to have a future. amy: here in new york city, activists projected anti-racist, anti-colonialist and environmental messages on the manhattan headquarters of kkr overnight, calling out the private equity firm over its investment in coastal gaslink, a $4.7 billion pipeline in western canada. it is part of a day of action against kkr solidarity with wet'suwet'en first nation land defenders who are in a protracted battle to protect

their territory from construction of the 400-mile natural gas pipeline. protesters are also demanding kkr divest from safari land, a major producer of tear gassed another r crowd control weapons. in california, firefighters struggled to contain more thanan fires as hotajor weather and gusty dry winds fanned existing flames and sparked new blazes overnight. the latest fires in northern california's napa and shasta counties have consumed some 10,000 acres, destroying wine vineyards and homes, and prompting evacuation orders. as california enters the peak of its historic fire season, a record-shattering 3.4 million acres have already burned. climate scientists warn greenhouse gas emissions have led to searing record heat and an enduring drought that's dried out vegetation and left californians vulnerable to explosive fires. this comes as stanford

university researchers found at least 1200 people -- and as many as 3000 -- died as a result of inhaling toxic smoke that's blanketed california in recent weekeks. a federal judge ruled friday trump'p's head of publblic lands been serving in his role unlawfully, blocking him from carrying on in his position. william perry pendley has been the acting director of the interior department's bureau of land management for the past year, allowing him to bypass senate confirmation. the interior department said it would appeal the ruling. last month, 300 organizations signed on to a letter calling on the senate to reject pendley as head of the bureau of land management, highlighting his "radical anti-science and anti-conservation positions," which include once calling the endangered species act a "joke." he has also repeatedly attacked imimmigrant, indigenous, and communities of color. a federal judge sunday ordered an 11t1th-hour injunction n halg donald trump's executive order banning the smartphone app tiktok -- owned by the chinese company bytedance -- from online stores in the u.s.

trump's ban was due to take effect at midnight as a first step towards a complete u.s. ban on the popular social media platform. that ban is still set to take effect on nonovember 12. and in philadelphia, housing activists celebrated a historic victory after city officials friday agreed to hand over 50 vacant homes to a community land trust following months of organizing by unhoused people. including protest encampments and taking over vacant homes. 50 mothers and children who have been occupying 15 vacant city-owned houses will also be permitted to stay as part of the deal. philadelphia housing action, the group behind the direct action campaign, will set up the community land trust. sterling johnson, an organizer with black and brown workers cooperative, welcomed the news but stressed it is only a first step, saying -- "there was already a major housing crisis in philadelphia and we anticipate a wave of mass evictions on top of that due to covid-19. the scale of the housing crisis

would require thousands of new units of low-income housing. this is only the beginning." to see our interview with sterling johnson, go to democracynow.org. and those are some of the headlines. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the quarantine report. i'm amy goodman. we begin tododay's show l lookit a bombshell report in "the new york times" thatat reveals donad trump paid no federal income taxes in 10 of the last 15 years. and he paid just $750 in federal income taxes in both 2016 and 2017. "the times" published the report after obtaining more than two decades of trump's tax return data. on sunday, trump called the report fake news, but he continues s to refuse to release his tatax returns. the reporting paints a picture of trump as either an inept entrepreneur or a criminal tax

cheat. for years, he has reported massive losses in some of his key business projects -- including more than $300 million in his golf courses and $55 million in his hotel in washington, d.c. he has used the losses to offset his taxable income in other areas. "the new york times" also reveals the president has been locked in a battle over taxes wiwith the irs o over a $73 mimn tax refund he claimed after his casino business in atlantic city collapsed. trump could be forced to pay over $100 million if he loses the fight. inin addition, "the new york times" reports trump has more than $300 millioion in loans h e personally guaranteed that will soon come due. the trump family also reduced its tax bill by paying so-called -- pay nearly $750,000 in so-called consulting fees to ivanka trump while she was an employee of the trump organization. former department of justice

inspector general michael bromwich responded to the report by writing on twitter -- "trump knew something we didn't when he started balking at the peaceful transfer of power. if he loses the election, he faces federal and state prosecution for bank fraud, tax fraud, wire fraud, and mail fraud, as does his entire family. no olc memo will spare him." "the new york times" also reports how w president trump ps earned millions of in overseas dollars licensnsing deals since entering the white house, including $3 million from the philippines, over $2 million from india, and $1 million from turkey. in 2017, trump paid just $750 in federal income taxes in the united states, but he and his businesses paid nearly $157,000 in taxes to the philippines and $145,0,000 in taxes to india.

we begin today's show with elie mystal, the nation's justice correspondent and author of the magazine's new monthly column "objection!" he has reported on the legal fight over trump's tax returns. welcome back to democracy now! can n you talk about the significance of this bombshell report in "the new yorkk timeses goes what? >> it is a doozy. look, i go back on this to michael cohen, terms for a murder lawyer -- former lawyer and fixer's testimony. -- when itt trump helplps them, to get onn forbes richest people in the world list. and hehe deflates it when it hes him when it comes to hiding his taxes onon his tax reform. michael cohen testifies to this imprint of congress. the tax dococuments that were leaked too "the new york timime" and reported on do not prove

michael going's sorry.. and if michael cohen was telling the truth, this s is what the tx documents would look like. amy: you tweeted last night, the thing about the tax leak is that while tax avoidance is legal, tatax evasion is not. explain. >> look, as certain high levels -- and this is the thingng we fd about a lot, but at certain levels of the economy, there are bothorts of tricks people can do to avoid paying taxes. that is one reason why tax lawyers are so well -- there are things you can do. losses from one side of the ledger to offset huge gains on another side of f the ledger is commononplace. there are various tax avoidance schemes thatt are legalal, thate perfectly y legal. we can argue about whether or

not they should be illegal, b bt it is clear they are legal. to make it work, you kind of just have to be really bad at something. trump happens to be really bad at businesess, according toto te documents, and that is how he is able to fritter away somemething along the lines of $434 millioin he earned from "thehe apprentic" and otheher licensing dedeals. 101, if whatdance he is in the documents, is absolutely true. however -- amy: go ahead. >> however, there is the possibilility that thehe tax documents are fraudulent. if they are fraudulent, theheres a lot a suguggestion here thahat what we e could be looking at is not tax avoidance, it coululd be michael cohehen allocation of tx evasion, which is in fact a crime.

night, president trump held a news conference right as "the new york times" was dropping a bombshell report. news.trump: it is fake totally fake news. made up. fake. we went to the same stories -- you can ask me the same .uestions for years ago totally fake news. actually, i pay tax, and you'll see that as soon as my tax returns -- it is under audit. they have been under audit for a long time. amy: elie mystal, he tweeted last night, there's something he could do to prove this. >> he could just release his t x returns which is been asked to do multiple times. this audit excuse is now known to everybody. we know what the audit is about. it is thehe $95 million he paidn tatas to the irs that he just then got a $72.9 million refund on later.

that is what the audit is about. everybody knows that now. greatt post of done. now he could just release his taxes. just go to his file cabinetet, open the drawer, and send out his 2019 tax return if he is calling this fake news. like, we cannot just accept anymore this blanket fake news story. what exactly is fake, president trump? is it fake that you pay your daughter $750,000 while she was an employee to lowower her tax bill? is it fake you called your westchester proroperty in bebed, new w york, business and wrote f $2.2 million in property taxes as business expenseses? boarded you actually do that? -- boarded gently do that? we don't just have to take his word for the fact that he paid lots of taxes. we can see the documents he'd didndn't. it does documents are wrong, donald trurump can release hisis taxes and d show us what he clas

-- super simple. amy: "the near times" says he is responsible for debt anand loans over -- most coming due in four years. should he win reelection, his lenders could be placed in the unprecedented position of weighing whether too foreclose n a sitting president austin he owes $421 million, elie mysysta. >> and we do not know to whom.m. that is the thining. of a all of the storieies here,e incompetencearioious on drumsms part. sosome is peperhaps criminal tax evasion. the e outstanding loan is the threat to american -- i'm not being hypeperbolic when i say that. we findnd reasons why large amounts of outstanding debt disqualalifying for many positionons and at the fedederal

government is that it is a hook into corruption, right? like the people you owe money to might have leverage over you as you execute your duties. the fact that he owes this much money, t the fact that we don't even know w who he owes t the my to come and the fact that he apparently, according to his taxexes, has no legititimate waf paying the money, all l makes hm a compromised person. and pray compromised person to be running the american government, it is textbook bad thing that can are terrorism experts and the lights have warned us about from the beginning with this man. so from a governmental kind of integritity of government perspective, the outstanding loan moneyey is actually the biggest story for people to vote on.. amy: " "the near times" is promising to publish more stories in the first debate between him and joe biden come tuesday night.

elieie mystal, stay with us. we're going to move to another top story and that is president trump's nomination of amamy cony barrett to be justice on the supreme court. stay with us. ♪ [music break]

amy: instrumental version of "beautiful liar" by bebeyonce. this is democracy now!w!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report.. i'i'm amamy goodman. president trump has nomiminated the conservative f federal judge amy coney barrett to the supreme court to fill ruth bader ginsburg's seat. barrett is a 48-year-old former notre dame law professor who clerked for the late supreme court justice antonin scalia. on saturday, barrett spoke alongside president trump at the white house. >> i c clerked for justice scala more thahan 20 years ago but the lessons i learneded still resonate. his traditional philosophy his mind, too. a judge must apply the law as written. judges are not policicymakers ad they must be resolute in setting aside any policy views they

might hold. amy: senate democrats have slammed senate majority leader mitch mcconnell for proceeding on barrett's nomination so close to the election. in 2016, mcconnell refused to hold confirmation hearings for merrick garland, president obama's pick to replace scalia, who had died nearly nine months before the election. at the time, mcconnell said, "the american people should have a voice in the selection of their next supreme court justice." but now w republicans are racicg to get barrett confirmed at a time when early voting has already begun in some states. the senate judiciary committee plans to start barrett's confirmation hearing on october 12. a full senate vote could occur as soon as october 22. if barrett is confnfirmed by election day, she will immediately take part in a major case that could determine the future of the affordable care act. three years ago, she wrote a law review article criticizing chief justice john roberts upholding the aca, writing -- "chief justice roberts pushed

the affordable care act beyond its plausible meaning to save the statute." on sunday, democratic presidential nominee joe biden criticized trump's nomination of barrett. mr. biden: there is no mystery about what is happening here. president trump is trying to throw out the affordable care act. he has been trying to do it for the last four years. amy: amy coney barrett could also help decide who wins the presidential election. last week,rurump sd hehe eects thelelecti to o enup befefe the supre court,ayaying at''s why he's puing g thsenateteo rapidly coirirm a placacemt for ginsbu. 20 yea ago, barrett worked witheoeorge busush's lelel team on the conststed fridada recounun two her future supreme court justices at the time, jojohn roberts and d brett kavanaugh, also helped bush's team which actively worked to stop a recount. amy coney barrett has a record of taking conservative stances on abortion, gun rights, and immigration. she once called abortion "always immoral." the human rights campaign has

calleded her a"absolute ththreat to lgbtqtq rights."" duduring her c confirmatioion h, sesenate democrats are also expected to ask questions about her membership in a secretive catholic group called people of praise. members of the group pledge a lifeng l loyty oath the group,hich assigns eacmemember a personal adverer kno as "headsfor men d, until recent, "handmds" for men. in a ment, we're goio alexis mill johnn, but w are aying wi elie myal for few minut, the naon' juste corresndent. urote aiece that headlid "y coney rrett is extremist -- ju not t kind y think." expln. eoplere ara lolot who kindftarted whereou end, a amy they focusedn her rigious consvatism a herembebersp inhis group, and the ct that she ha written extensively

review articles about what catholic judges should do o and should not do while on the bench. so people have focused in on th religious conservatism of f her nomination. and i just wanteted to focus pepeoplen the issue t that her religious conservatism is not whwhat is extreme about heher. it is her actual judicial opinion. in fact,t, she only uses the religion card, the religigion angle when it serves for particular purpose in terms ofof policy against abortion rights or lgbtqtq rights. overall, she does not use he religion to guide her through her decisions. she uses her exextremist conservative views to guide her through her decisions. not a religious position to deny people seeking public assistatae coneyn card, it is amy barrett's position. that is her deal.l.

it is not a a religiouous positn to ignore the deliberate indifference to human life when shooton guard shot just shotgun shells into a crowded cafeteria, that is amy coney barrett's. she has a bunch of extreme conservative positions that make her problematic nominee far bebeyond her religious affiliations and whahatever. quite frankly, i don't care about t her religion. i care about her decisions. amy: she can also weigh in on the election if in fact the presidential election goes too the supreme court. > yes. to be clear, donald trump could have nominated atticicus finch d i wowould oppose the nominee because having the nominee to take office in the middle of an election -- people are saying, right befofore the election. the elecection as started. peoplere v voting. what trump is trying to do iss

pick his o own judge in a contested election about his own presidency, , as we talked about in the last segmgment, he ki o f has to win or he is going to jail. that is notow the sysystem of laws and government is supposed to work. so therere is no p person that i think ump should b allowed to nominate in the circumstances because of the election issue and becacause of the timing of e nomination. is of the barrett people that trtrump could have nominated, amy coney barrett is one of the m most extreme people that he could have nominated as opposed to a kind of moderate,e, middle-of-the-roroad person. so obviously, i think there's a that ifujustified concern she gets to the c court, she wil be a fitit votote in favor of handing donald trump the presidency. amy: we're going to talk with alexis mcgill johnson, head of planned parenthood, and moment

about abortion and obamacaree -- which is going before the supreme court on november 10. but i wanted to ask you about versussr case, fulton philadelphia, which involves religious freedom and gay rights that could havave much broader implications. the case was brought by catholic social services, a faith-based organization which refuses the placement of foster children to same-sex couples. the grgroup was one of0 0 agencs that the city of philadelphia contracted with to place abused and neglected children in foster homes, but the city ended the contract after learning that css denied placement of children with same-sex x couples. the charity then sued the city of philadelphia, citing a violation of free religious exercise and free speech if they were forced to provide services to lgbtq couples. explain the status andnd importance of this case. >> this is one of the most importanant cases goes right to

the heart of l lgbtq rights and adoption pririvileges. but it also o goes to the heartf a new anything dangerous trend in ourur first amendment jurisprudence. the first amendment's prototectn of freedom of religion is supposed to be a shield. it is supposeded to protect me, religious observer, to allow me to act and support my faith in the privacy of my own home and inin my public space. what the releligious right is trying to do to the first amendment is change it from a shieldo protect people to a sword to go after people who don't agree with their preferred religion. like it is completely flipping ththe first amendmenent on itst. soso what the issue in this fuln county casase is thee group who discriminates against gay people and adoptions -- that is what they do. and they're allowed to do that because that is freedom of religion, freedom to he people that you don't like so they cann

hate them m or whatever. what they y want to do is force the city of philadelphia to adopt that discrimination, t to adopt that bigotry come and make it part of city policy by allowiwing them to continue e to place foster chihildren who are wards s of the state based on te catholic services bigoted decision-making in terms of who isis able to adopt. it is a critically important case. the reason why amy coney barrett to me does not weighgh into this isis becausese liberals are goio lose that ca alreadydy. there e are not five votes agait this kindd of corruption of the first amendment. i don't know that ruth bader ginsburg, passing away, i don't know there are two votes. because e in the past, cases lie this, this version of the firirt amendment, both justice stephen breyer and elena kagan have joined the releligious conservatives for this -- again,

i think corruption of the first amendmenent. gone, i think it will only be a case of one with sonia sototomayor oppose. amy: what you think democrats should be doing right now? >> eveverything except adding legitimacy to the process. you cannot go to t these hearin, you cannot add your voice to these processes. you have to do e everything you can to delay and then whenen the white e house and the senate and expand the court because that is the only way -- the only thing you can do. amy: elie mystal is the nation's justice correspondndent as we continue our coverage of president trump's nomination of amy coney babarrett to the supue court. we now look at how her confirmation pose a threat to reproducuctive rights. on sunday, president trump appeared on fox & friends and was asked about the future of roe v. wade. > do o you thinknk your pix d potentially rule on 11 issue? pres. trump: i it is certainly possible and maybe t they do itn different way.

maybe theyey give it back to o e states. he just don't know what is going to happen. to alexis mcgill johnson president and ceo of the , planned parenthood federation of america and the planned parenthood action fund. her recent op-ed in "usa today" is headlined "amy coney barrett won't stand up for women the way ruth bader ginsburg did." welcomome back to o democracy n, alexis mcgill johnson. can you respond to what trump just saiaid? look, we certainly know that judge baird, justice barrett, would be a huge t threat to reproductive rights. she has been an active and vocal critic of roe v. wade and suggggested it would notot - --s settled wrongly. we also know that t there are 17 cases that are a a case away frm the supreme court that would overturn him if n not irrevocaby create, restrictions around access to abortion.

-- ift would mean is ifoe roe rover turn, if there were some states that you wanted to start or expand your family, those would be within your domain, decisions you would be making w with your partner, with -- with your m medical provider. in other s states, you would be forced into pregnancncif y you d nonot have the r resources to as abortion.. i think those are the challenges that we e are facing here. i also think that jusust to type back to the other conversation you're having around h health care, reproductive health care is health care. in the most immediate threat that we are facing in the time of the pandemic is the fact t te aca,a, which has been one of the biggest advancements for women's health across the board, is also under attack and the threat of that i think in combination with the impact it could have on abortion access is r really signgnificant with this judge.

amy: this is absolutely critical because the aca is going to the supreme court on november 10. not clear whether trump's nominee will be seated at that point. but talk about the issues at stake. if obamacare was struck down - - we havave just passed to crisis numbers. and000 deaths from covid-19 7 million -- over 7 million infections. we are talking about how many more millions of people will be suffering from pre-existing coconditions alone. can you talk abobout all of thi? >> first of all, we don't even know enough about coronavirus. we are just trying to focus right now on how not to g get i. but wewe don't know the lonong-m imctcts. coronavirus s itself is a pre-existing condition. that aca things affordeded us were medicaiaid

expansion, for women a guaranteed birth controlol covegege, guauaranteed d will ne discrimination -- that women would not have to pay more for our health care e than men. and for manyny of u us, who have been able to take advantage of our older children being able to stay on our health p plans until age 26. there've been n lots of ways i n which that has created an expanded access to health care for many a americans. what is at stake is almost 30 million americans could lose health insurance at a time -- again, when we are in a pandemic. i think when you look at the conversations thatat americans e having right now, first of all, they're saying this confirmation should wait until after inauguration and also sang if you have this time to rush through a confirmation of the justice and hold these hearings as a senate, why don't you have the same amount of time to rush through covid relief? to think about comprehensive covid testing so that we can all return t to more normalcy of

getting back to work and our schools. amy: and the issue of roe v. wade. exactly what is judge amy coney barrett's record on choice and contraception? >> againin, i think justice baid -- judge their, rather, has been very critical of how roe v. wade was decided. she believes that abortion is always immoral. w woulds suggested that she , from the bench, she would judge based on the constitution and the law b but yet she writes one thing anand says the other. we know in her w writings, particularly about the impact of what it means totoe a catholic judg is that judges, when they don't believe in the lobby because of their persosonal belf that thehey should not uphololde law. so the real threat we are seeing

is the impact ththat she could actutually use hererersona beliefs to undermine rights for millions o of people seseeking abortion. is overturned, we know there will be 25 million w women of reproductive age in states that would have to travel outside of their own statates to access basic reproductive health care come to access health care we already saw it during covid. i think what was an important precursor for what could possibly happen when a lot of these same states that have sugar lawsws would essentially those governors created executive orders banning access to abortion saying it wasn't time sensitive procedures. so we saw people getting in their cars, driving upwards of 16 hours from texas to colorado to california just to get access, in some cases, just the

medication of abortion. we already know what it looks like. we know people will not stop having abortions, , just putting much more significant burden on their ability to access one.. amy: a alexis mcgill j johnson,t do you think democrats should do right now? > look,k, i agree with h her previous g guest. i thihink we need to o put it an the line for this judge. we have to ensure that we are pushing this nominee -- nomination until the inauguration. that is what the majority of americans want. i think the sentiment democrats -- senate democrats should not participate in the process. they should not get this legitimacy. and to the extent that we can push this to where the american people want thisis nomination to happen, i think that would be the most important thing right now. amy: i know there isis a battle within the community, the pro-choice communinity, and we

should say -- i wanted to ask about this -- the vast majority of people inin this country are pro-choice. and that includes catholics. but the supreme court and a number of legislatures around the countryry, to say the least, are nonot. what a about thihis division? >> i think this is about essentially a power grab that has happened over the last decade that really does supportt the will o of the people. since the 202010 congress and de gerrymandering that happened subsequently, we have seen a number of state legislatures across the country were a vocal relievers of power. there is no state -- it is not just the national numbers of 77% of americans support roe a as a lot of the land. there is no state in the country where people don't believe that roe shohould be thehe law of the land. so the idea that we have all of these states that are not

reflecting the will of the people, we now have a judiciary that has been remade under mitch mcconnell -- were over 200 justices have been placed onto the court. incredibly conservative ways, sosome of whwhom don't even b be in i ivf, much less access to abortion. i think those are things that we are very concerned about. i think it is important to think about the kind of ultimate power grab, now trying to seek a justice on the supreme court who also doess notot believe that re was correctly decidided and believes abortion is immoral, how that will tilt the balance of the court completely out ofof syncnc with where the amick and are. amy: a alexis mcgill johnson, thank you for being with us, president and ceo of the planned parenthood federation n of amera and the planned parehoodod action fund. next up, we look at new body cam footage raising questions a abot the investigatition into the policece killing a breonna tayl. ststay with us.

♪ [music break] amy: " "he wants to see you"u" y adam tayaylor. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the quarantine report. i'm amy gogoodman. after nearly 2 200 days of protests c calling for justice r breonna taylor, ththe 26-year-od african american woman shohot to death in h her own apartment b y plplainclothes louisville offics serving a no-knock warrant, new new evidence is raising troubling questions about the integrity of the crime scene after the raid, and the investigation that followed.

on thursday, grand jury failed to charge any of the three white louisville police officers involved in the killing of breonna taylor with her death. could texas governor carl global's mayor, have joined calls to release the transcripts. vice news has obtained body cam fofootage from louisville e meto police officers and swat team members from the night of the raid that raises questions about the investigation. on saturday, five posted a clip that shows former detective brett hankison -- one of three officers who fired their guns and the only one now facing charges of first-degree wanton endangerment for gunshots that not that hit breonna taylor's apartment for her, but that hit a neighboring apartment. in the footage, hankison can be seen entering taylor's apartment while investigators are there examining the crime scene. at one point in the footage, hankison asks about a shell casing on the ground, saying, "that's theirs?" before an unidentified officer tells him to leave until the piu -- the

public integrity unit -- arrives. this is the clip. >> is that there's? >> no, it is ours. amy: vidid footage a also shows detective hankison lingers in taylor''s apartment t even aftee is told to leave the scene of the active invnvestigation of an officer-involved shooting in which he is one of the officers. it also shows that none of the officers who were part of the raid got separated or paired with an escort. this comes as a ballistics report from the kentucky state police was unable to determine that taylor's boyfriend kenneth walker shot officer jonathan mattingly as has been claimed by the kentucky attorney general, or if mattingly was hit by friendly fire. during the raid, walker fired a warning shot at the front door and has said he believed it was

a home invasion. he did not know who was raiding his apartment. even called police for help. he has a license to carry firearms. meanwhile, the footage from the body cameras appears to corroborate several parts of walker's testimony. walker says that when officers arrested him, they threatened to set a dog on him and told him he'd spend the rest of his life in jail. this is a clip from the body camera footagege of his arrest. >> i willsic this dog on you! [indiscernible] walked back to me! keep on walking! walk back to me! >> i'm trying. >> walk back to me now. get down on your knees. what's that man. get on your knees1

amy: for more, we are joined by part of the team that obtained this footage. roberto ferdman is a vice news correspondent. his latest co-authored piece is headlined "new body-cam footage raises questions about breonna taylor death investigation." he is just back from louisville, joining us from new york city. welcome to democacy now! tell us who is shouting this right now and talk about the significance of this footage. i think most people listening or watching right now are saying, wait a second, i thought there was no footage, that the officers who engagaged in this o knknock raid did not have bodycm cameras. >> so you are right. from the very beginning, the police department and the city have maintained that none of the officers who executed d the seah warrrrant were wearing b body cameras because they're p part f a unit called the criminanal --- division. they often perform their dutieis in plainclothes, as they were

that night. up until then, because the policy has been changed, they did not have to wear body cameras.s. that being said, thehere a are y officers and swat team members who arrived on scene immediately afterward. and all of those ofofficersrs, t are uniformed, have to o wear by cameras and were wearing body cameras. so we acquired about 45 different body cameras. many, many hours of footage. some of these are 30 minutes long, or many of them are. we sifted through those. the video where you see kenneth walker being arrested, walking backwards, t that is the body camera of a canine officer who comes over the kind of rush walker to walk backwards faster. the other body cameras from one of the swat team members. there probably about 10 others, and we're working toward more stories at the moment to help

show what can be gleaned from those videos and from other documents as well. amy: explalain who is screamingt him. who also is c captured on camera spend, "you're going to the rest of your life in jail" and threatatening to sic the dog on him? >> t the officer who threaeateng -- the personim is who tells kenny he is s going to spend the rest of his life in jail is bretttt hankison, one of the three officers that is that is said to have fired a weapon that night and who was fired over the summer -- i believe it was the beginning of july. -- hankinson is not just the officer tells kenny is going to spend the rest of his life in jail, he is one of the officers who can be seen inside the apartment. he walks up to the front door and immediately after swat

clears the apartment, leaves and comes back and steps into the apartment. none of this is supposed to happen. in fact, what is supposed to happen is very far from it. all of the officers involved in any critical incident, especially officer-involved shooting's, are supposed to be separated immediately and peered with a peer support officer, someone who brings them over, puts them residence in t the bak of a car so they don't speak to other people so theyey don't invovolve themselves in the crie scene. these things don't seem to have been enforced, these policies. it is so flagrant in some instances that one of the officers, one of the seven who executed the raid, ends up interview neighbors, witnesses. not only can be e seen on video walking down the stairs having come from upstairs in the unit to speak to the neighbors, he tells s investigators in an interview and they don't say

anything, they don't flinch. we have not heard back from the department on what they make of that or why they haven't pointed that out or why they officer has not been punished. amy: i want to go to the witnesses. when daniel cameron announced no charges would d be brought in direct connection with breonna taylor's death, he emphasized the officers who carried out the search warrant did identify themselves that taylor's door noted there was a witness who corroborated the officers version of events. this is cameron. >> evidence shows that officers both knocked and announced their presence at the apartment. the officers statements s about their announcement are corroborated by an independent proximityo was near to apartment 4. wasther words,, the warrant not served as a no knock warrant . when officers were unable to get anyone to answer or open the door to apartment 4, the decision was made to breach the

doorpost of amy: that is the kentucky attorney general. according to audio and documents obtained by your news organization vice news, that's a witness changed his story and months following the raid. in this clip, vice published this week and, we hear the original answer given by the only witness who claims to have heard the police identify themselves that night. >> do you ever hear anyone identify themselves as police? >> no, nobody identify themselves.. amy: "no, nobody identify himself." this is a witness that the attorney general identified as the one whwho said the policiced ididentify themselves as police, roberto? >> this is the witness, yes. this is the key witness. as we in other news organizations have pointed out as early as july, we spoke to over a dozen neighbors, including neighbors within that unit. we did not speak -- we tried,

but failed in reaching him. none of the neighbors we spoke to come including one who lived in the unit, said they were police announce themselves. the attorney general hangs quite ouncingf them ann themselves. when you execute a no-knock warrant, it is import new medially breach the door and go in because if you're knocking loudly on someone's door and not announcing yourself, that creates a very dangerous scenario where someone is alerted to people being at the door. they don't know whom it is. anyone can agree that it is very to assume it could be an intruder, as kenneth walker says he believed it was. the attorney general only presents what mr. sarpy says in the second interview that is recorded with the public integrity unit at lmpd. he does not share the first time they speak with mr. sarpy was march 21, a little over a week

after the raid that killed rhianna taylor. -- breonna taylor. he has a d different story. he says he did not hear anyone announced themselves. the e only way you c could telly were police is because he saw the word "police" on the bullet-proof vest they were wearing. this is significant. especially given how little information has been shared with the public before we started releasing stories and the way in which all of this was represented or presented to the public by the attorney general's office last wednesday when he shared the result of ththe long-awaited invesestigation. amy: he e also wrote a piece headlined "initial police report did not conclude breonna taylor's boyfriend shot a cop in the leg." this is key. the if he did, you have situation where he did not know it was cops. he was calling police saying, help us. but what about this? >> this is important because it

is a theme the attorney general brings up himself in explaining they don't know for sure whether or not brett hankinson, if his bullets hit breonna taylor.r. there were differences in ballistics reports. he says, therefore, it is inconclusive. that is part o of why they were not ablble to charge brett hankison with wanton endangerment for bullets into breonna taylor's apartment, for endangering breonna taylor. it is unclear to us -- and we broke the story on friday -- why --n he also did not present what he presented kenneth walker firing the shotsts that h hit mamattingly as inconclclusive as well.. he said in the press c conferene it is because the bullet that was recovered w was a nine millimeter, but the difference between a nine millimeter and what is normally shot with a 40 caliber weapon -- the bullet was

mangled. we believe it is inconclusive and that the public deserves more information to understand what we know for sure and what we don't. amy: roberto ferdman,

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