amy: we will go to guatemala city to speak with rigoberta menchu and allan nairn after headlines. in kentucky, rowan county clerk kim davis has also been jailed after a federal judge ruled her in contempt of court for refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples. davis had stopped issuing all marriage licenses rather than comply with the supreme court ruling in june that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide. in an interview with the conservative radio program crosstalk america, kim davis' lawyer matt staver of liberty counsel compared the judge's ruling to the actions of officials in nazi germany. saudi arabian king salman has arrived in washington, d.c., today to meet with president obama today to discuss the iran nuclear deal and other issues. this is the king salman's first visit to the united states since he assumed the throne in january following the death of his father king abdullah. the group codepink has planned a protest in front of the white house to coincide with the meeting to denounce the ongoing saudi-led bombing of yemen, which has sparked a humanitaria

amy: jules lobel amy: allan nairn, thank you for joining us.lan nairn, longtime journalist who has covered guatemala since the 1980's. for transcript, i know the phone line was difficult to follow, you can go to democracynow.org. you can also see his interviews in spanish on our spanish website. back, kissinger's shadow. we will be joined by the historian greg grandin. stay with us. ♪ [music break] amy: this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. it's been nearly 40 years since henry kissinger left office but his influence on the national security state can still be widely felt as the united states engages in declared and undeclared wars across the globe. kissinger served at national security adviser and secretary of state in the nixon and ford administrations and helped revive a militarized version of american exceptionalism. during his time in office, henry kissinger oversaw a massive expansion of the war vietnam and the secret bombings of laos and cambodia. in south america, declassified documents sho

last year, allan nairn confronted prabowo during the presidential campaign in indonesia. response, fadli zon filed criminal charges against nairn. for back we go -- from were we go back to allan nairn who has reported from indonesia for years exposing government , killings of civilians. >> he is the right hand man of general prabowo subianto. in addition to being a general who has been implicated in numerous massacres in his mused about being a fascist dictator, general prabowo likes to pose as being anti-american, anti-neoliberal. this is very interesting because prabowo is in fact a general who has been closest to the u.s. throughout his career. he worked for u.s. intelligence, specifically for the dia. he brought u.s. special forces into indonesia on repeated told me which prabowo does u.s. special forces used to do contingency planning for possible future invasion of indonesia. should the u.s. find this necessary. as a nationalist, he is completely phony, but he uses this to attack opponents within indonesia if they bring up the fact that he is also a mass murderer of

amy: journalist allan nairn reporting from guatemala city. is covered guatemala since the 1980's. you can follow him on twitter for the latest news on the resignation of the president of guatemala, otto perez molina. and we come back, we go to louisville and lexington, kentucky to cover the showdown, the county clerk kim davis, who refuses to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples. we will talk to the man, david moore, who she refused to issue a marriage license to three times. stay with us. ♪ [music break] amy: this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman with nermeen shaikh. in kentucky, the county clerk who testified the supreme court and refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples is set to appear before a federal judge in just a few hours to make her case for why she should not be held in contempt of court. rowan county clerk kim davis stopped issuing all marriage licenses rather than comply with is a bring court ruling in june that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide. on monday,