amy: your book. blanche: my book was the first to really deal with their relationship in a very friendly way. their letters are full of politics and love and longing. amy: and how long did their relationship go on foror? blanche: well, i t think it lasd until about four years until about 1936, by 1938 it's really, you know, the romance is gone. the friendship lasts forever. but the romance is gone and eleanor roosevelt becomes increasingly dismayed by her occasional bigotries. she doesn't like eleleanor roosevelt's young jewish friends. she doesn't like her black friends. and she's a bit of a racist, and eleanor roosevelt gets increasingly impatient with hic and moves on. amy: i mean, she wrote aboutut fighting segregation. did she ever write about prejudice against gay men, lesbians? blanche: no, not that i know of. not that i know of. but she does say at one point that love is a kind of insanity. you do strange things when you fall in love. and so there's this sense of the fluidity of love and roma

i'm amy y goodman. this year 2020,, marks the 100th anniveversary of the 19th amendment, which guguaranteed women the right to vote, and we begin the new decade with an hour long special about one of the most influential women in u.s. politics, eleanor roosevelt, who served as the first lady of the united states from 1933, when her husband franklin d. roosevelt took office, until his death during his fourth term in office in 1945. that wasn't the end of the story for eleanor roosevelt, though. she went on to serve as united states delegate to the united nations general assembly and spearheaded the u.n. convention on human rights. president harry truman later called her the first lady of the world. i recently sat down with blanche wiesen cook, distinguished professor of history and women's studies at john jay college and the graduate center of the city university of new york, who is the author of the definitive three-part biography of the former first lady, "eleanor roosevelt, volume 1: the early years 1

i'm amy goodman. former white house national security adviser john bolton has said he would be willing to testify at president trump's impeachment trial in the senate if he is subpoenaed. bolton's announcement increases the pressure on senate majority leader mitch mcconnell and other republicans to agree to call witnesses to trump's senate trial. mcconnell has previously said he will not call witnesses, that he will coordinate the trial with the white house and he himself is not an impartial juror. protesters rallied and the hart senate office building as part of a swarm the senate protest, demanding the senate hold the trial now for president trump.. ththe pentagon andnd the trump administration have issued confusing and at times contradictory messages on the united states' positions on iraq and iran amid an escalation of global tensions following the united states' assassination of iranian commander qassim suleimani. on monday, the u.s. command in baghdad issued a memo to the iraqi government that a

i'm amy goodman. the house of representatives voted thursday to approve a nonbinding war powers resolution aimed at limiting president trump's ability to take further military action against iran without congressional approval. president trump ratcheted up tensions with iran by commandering iranian qassem soleimani last week. thursday's 224 to 194 house vote included three republicans voting yes and eight democrats voting no. the resolution now heads to the senate. the vote came as iran's ambassador to the united nations blasted the u.s. at the u.n. security council, speaking on behalf of iranian foreign minister javad zarif, who was unable to address the security council thursday after the u.s. denied him a visa in violation of a 1947 u.s.-u.n. agreement. this is ambassador majid takht ravanchi. >> i'm here today to deliver a statement on behalf of mr.zarif, whose visa was denied .y the united states here is the statement. we're meeting today to discuss a moment is imperative we are all confronted wi

i'm amy goodman. the republican-led senate appears poised to acquit president trump as early as today in just the third presidential impeachment trial in u.s. history. on thursday night, republican senator lamar alexander of tennessee announced he would vote against calling witnesses, likely leaving democrats one vote short. if the vote to call witnesses fails, the republican leadership is expected to move quickly to end the trial and vote to acquit the president. we'll have more on the impeachment trial after headlines with dahlia lithwick. the world health organization has s declared an international public health emergency as the death toll from the coronavirus tops 200 in china, with nearly additional 10,000 cases of infection in 20 countries. >> i am declaring a public health emergency of international concern over the global outbreak of the coronavirus. let me be clear. this declaration is not a vote of no competency in china. on the contrary, the who continues to have confidence in china's capa

do, amy.: pat mitchell, author of "becoming a dangerous woman: embracing risk to change the world." she is former just first woman president of pbs and chair of the sundance institute. go to democracynow.org for part one of our interview where she tatalks about her own life story and describes her arrest in washington, d.c. come earlier thisis month with jane fonda and more than 140 other people and climate protest. tune into our new year's day special wednesday about one of the 19th a minute. we begin the are decade by one of the most influential women in u.s. politics, first lady eleanor roosevelt. she u.n. u.n. spearheaded the declaration of human rights. president truman called her the first lady of the world. that does it for our show. democracy now! is looking for feedback from people who appreciate the closed captioning. e-mail your comments to outreach@democracynow.org or mail them to democracy now! p.o. box 693 new york, new york 10013. [captioning made possible by democracy now!] . >

i'm amy goodman. in the first day of oral arguments in the historic impeachment trial of president donald trump, democratic lawmakers accused the president of abusing his power in order to cheat an election. the senate trial comes a month after the house impeached trump for withholding congressionally-approved military aid to ukraine as part of his effort to pressure the ukrainian president to investigate trump's political rival, democratic presidential candidate joe biden. this is democratic congressmember adam schiff, the lead impeachment manager. >> if president trump is not held to account, we send the message to future presidents, compasses, generations of americans that the personal interests of the president can take precedent over those of the nation. the domestic effects of this dissent from democracy will be a we can trust of the integrity of our elections and the rule of law and a steady decline of the spread of democratic values throughout the world. amy: while the impeachment trial was ta

i'm amy y goodman.e now turn to the city of juarez, mexico, where the assassinatation of beloved feminist artist isabel cabanillas has resurfaced the spotlight on the border city's painful legacy of femicides and violencece against women. less than two weeks ago, isabel was reported missing on social media by her friends after she never returned home. on was riding her bicycle saturday, january 18, the 26-year-old was found shot to death on a sidewalk next to her like in downtown juarez. she reportedly was biking home after leaving a friend's gathering when cabanillas was shot in the back of the head. she is survived by her four-year-old son. was a memberllas of the juarez feminist collective hijas de su maquilera madre. she was a local painter and a local painter and clothing designer. she was also involved in the observatory project that tracks crimes against women in juarez. n apriler eakingng 2019. >> one of the reasons why i paint t come aside f from the fa it has helelped me overcome e at of h har

amy: joy?to the question of how are the systems working in china in our first study: gender shades, we looked at ibm, microsoft, but we also looked at face plus plus, a billion-dollar tech startup in china. infound similar racial bias gender bias. but overall, when they have done studies on ai systems developed in china, they tend to work better on chinese faces, right than those developed in western countries. one thining i did want to bringp related to china and data collection is this data colonialism that we are starting to see. we have reports of chinese companies going to african facial providing recognition or surveillance technologies in exchange for something very precious, the biometric data of the citizens. parallel to what we had with the slave trade where you are extracting bodies, now you are extracting digital bodies in service of a global trade because even when you talked about is going on in london, they are using technology from a inpany called nec based japan. you have to th

i'm amy goodman. iranian forces fired 22 ballistic missiles at two iraqi military bases that house u.s. and iraqi troops early wednesday mornrng in what iran describibed as revenge for the u.s. assassination of iranian commander qassim suleimani at the baghdad d internationanal airport the missiles were friday. launched from inside i iran. iraq says iraqarned themem ahe of the attacacks, which stckck e al asad airbase base in ee weern prprovince o of anbar anda base near erbil in northern iraq. senior iraqi officials say there were no u.u.s. or iraqi casualts in the strikes. this is iranian foreign minister javad zarif speaking after the missile attacks. >> we have said very clearly if the unitited states tatakes any further action, iraq willl respond -- iran will respond. we did not start this process of escalation. the united states waged anan economic w war against iran. amy: only hours after the launch of the missiles, a boeing 737 jet crashed shortly after takeoff from tehran's international airp

i'm amy goodmaman. on capitol hill, senate majority leader mitch mcconnell told fellow republican senators in a private meeting g that he does t yet have enough votes to block democrats from calling impeachment witnesses. democrats are pushing for former national security advisor john bolton to testify. bolton writes in a forthcoming book that trump personally told him he wanted to maintain a freeze on $391 million in military aid to ukraine until ukraine turned over materials related to former vice president joe biden. on tuesday, trump's defense team -- lawyer jay sekulow tried to dismiss the reports about bolton as inadmissible. >> responding to an unpublished maybe somethat reporters have an idea of what it says. that is what the evidence, if you want to call that evidence, i don't know what you call it. i call it inadmissible. but that is what it is. amy: president trump has rejected bolton's account. but on monday, trump's own former chief of staff general john kelly said "john bolton says in the

amy: the u.s. state department says it will send an ambassador to bolivia for the first time in more than 11 years. it's the trump administration's latest show of support for the right-wing government that took power after president evo morales was deposed in a military coup last november. undeder secretary y of state dad hale said in a video statetement thursdsday that ththe u.s. is looking to restorere what he called a normal relationship between the u.s. and bolivia. hale traveled to the presidential p palace in la paz thisis week, where h he met with jeanine aÑez, who o declared hersrself interim prpresident in november. aÑez has a history of using racist, anti-indigenous language and has vowed to bring the bible back to the bolivian presidency. the last u.s. ambassador, philip goldberg, was expelled in 2008 by then-president evo morales, who accused the george w. bush administration of working to destabilize his government. at least 32 anti-coup protesters have been killed by security forces s

i'm amy goodman. the united states has assassinated iranian commander major general qassim suleimani in a major escalation of the conflict between iran and the united states, which now threatens to engulf iraq and the middle east. president trump authorized the drone strike that killed suleimani at the baghdad international airport and four other people, including a high-level iraqi militia chief, thursday night u.s.-time, friday morning in baghdad. general suleimani has long been one of the most powerful figures in iran. he was t the leadeder of the isc revolutionary guards corps' quds force -- iran's powerful foreign military force, similar to a combination of the cia and u.s. special forces. iran called suleimani's assassination an act of "international terrorism." the iranian foreign minister javad zarif said -- "the u.s. bears responsibility for all consequences of its rogue adventurism." the pentagon said -- "general suleimani was actively developing plans to attack american diplomats and servic

i'm amy goodman. on the opening day of just the third presidential impeachment trial l in u.s. history, the senate approved the rules for the trial of president trump in a partyline vote following a nearly 13 hour marathon session. republican senators rejected 11 amendments from democrats to subpoena documents and witnesses , including former national security advisor john bolton. democrats repeatedly accused the republican leadership of orchestrating a cover-up by blocking witnesses at this stage in the trial. this is house impeachment manager congressmember jerry nadler. >> ambassador bolton has made clear he is ready, willing, and able to testify about everything he witnessed, but president trump does not want you to hear from ambassador bolton. the reason has nothing to do with executive privilege or this other nonsense. the reason has nothing to do with national security. if the president cared about national security, he would not have blocked military assistance to a vulnerable strategic ally i

i'm amy goodman. as the historic impeachment trial of president donald trump continues this week, explosive new revelations about trump's decision to freeze aid to ukraine emerged sunday. "the new york times" reports former national security adviser john bolton writes in his forthcoming book that trump told him he wanted to continue withholding nearly $400 million in security aid until ukraine turned over materials on joe biden and supporters of hillary clinton. it is based on a leaked manuscript of bolton's book. trump took to twitter shortly after midnight monday to deny the claims, writing -- "i never told john bolton that the aid to ukraine was tied to investigations into democrats, including the bidens. in fact, he never complained about this at the time of his very public termination. if john bolton said this, it was only to sell a book." this comes as trump's defense team is resuming their opening arguments today after using just two hours of their allotted 24 hours on saturday. white house cou

i'm amy goodman. for just the third time in u.s. history, the senate has opened an impeachment trial to determine if a sitting president should be removed from office. on thursday, supreme court chief justice john roberts swore in senators who will serve as jurors when the trial officially begins on tuesday. roberts called on the lawmakers to render "impartial justice," although senate majority leader mitch mcconnell has already said he is not an impartial juror. mcconnell is facing increasing pressure to call witnesses during the trial, as new information contntinues to emere about president trump's effort to pressure ukraine to investigate his political rival, joe biden, ahehead of this yea's presidential election. on thursday, the nonpartisan government accountability office said the white house's office of management and budget broke the law by withholding the nearly $400 million in aid to ukraine, which had already been allocated by congress. also on thursday, fbi agents visited the home and busi

i'm amy goodman. defense secretary mark esper has acknowledged he didid not see specific evidence that iranian general qassem soleimani was planning attacks against u.s. embassies at the time he u.s. forces assassinated him in a drone strike at the baghdad international airport a week ago friday. this is despitite trump'p's clas soleimani was planning to attack embassies. pres. trump: i can reveal i believe it would have been four embassies. and baghdad certainly would have b been the leader, bt i think it would have been auto. he could have been militaryy bases or a lot of other thining, but it was imminent. and then all of a sudden, he was gone. amy: that was president trump speaking on fox on friday. but this is esper speaking with cbs "face the nation" " host margaret brennanan sunday. >> he did not cite a specific piece of evidedence. >> arere you saying there wasn't one? clubs i did not see onone with regard to four embassies. i sure the presidency that probably -- my expectation was there were

i'm amy goodman. the house of representatives is slated to vote today to send the articles of imimpeachment againt president trump to the senate. today's vote sets in motion only the third presidential impeachment trial and all of u.s. history. house speaker nancy pelosi is scheduled to name the impeachment managers in a news conference today. senate majority leader mitch mcconnell says supreme court chief justice john roberts will swear in senators as jurors later this week, and the impeachment trial will start next tuesday. this comes as "the washington post" reports explosive new information at the center of the impeachment inquiry. new materials released by house democrats show text messages between former giuliani andciate now indicted it, robert hyde, republican congressional candidate from connecticut, i in which the two have threatening exchanges about maria bonaventure, the former u.s. ukraine. in the text messages, they discuss how yovanovitch was under surveillance. in one message, hyde wro

i'm amy goodman. president trump is now trying to claim that "it doesn't really matter" whether iranian general qassem soleimani posed an imminent threat before the united states assassinated him in a drone strike at the baghdad international airport on january 3. trump's words, from a tweet yesterday, come after president trump spent days claiming soleimani was planning to attack four u.s. embassies. but trump's claims began to unravel after his own defense secretary mark esper said he had not seen specific evidence of any planned embassy attacks. this is president trump answering questions from reporters about his changing claims. pres. trump: first of all, i think it has been totally consistent. but here is what is inconsistent. we killed soleimani, the number one terrorist in the world by any account. that person, killed a lot of americans, killed a lot of people. amy: that was trump speaking monday. meanwhile, secretary of state mike pompeo is dismissing the iraqi parliament's vote demanding the

i'm amy goodman. in iraq, members of an iranian-backed militia and its supporters have withdrawn from the green zone after a two-day standoff outside the u.s. embassy in baghdad. the militia members broke into a gatehouse at thehe perimeter of the sprawling embassy tuesday, setting fire to the structure. on wednesday, u.s. troops tear gas militia members. aftersh -- they withdrew pledging to pursue legislation to force u.s. troops out of iraq . >> the american troops in iraq are supposed to be either training y your rocky forces to combat terrorism but the killing of militias, this is something unacceptable. for this reason, we are miming here untilhe u.s. troops lveve aq.. amy: the embassy standoff meme after the u.s. launcd d a sl of airrikekes iraq q d syriri sunday that lllled a l lst 24 iraq m members o of thirirania back militit kataiaib hezbollal. the iraqi imime minister had warnrned defense secretary m mak esper against the airstrikes, which me a as retaliation after a u.s. contractor was kil

i'm amy goodman. president trump vowed on wednesday to hit iran with new sanctions but appeared to pull back from taking any new military action. tension between the two countries soared afterer the u.. assassinated iranian commander qassem soleimani at the baghdad international airport last week. iran retaliated by firing 22 ballistic missiles at military babases in iraq hohousing u. and i iraqi forces. no one was injured in the attack. iran had warned the iraqi government about the strike in advavance. on wednesday afternoon, two small rockets also later landed near baghdad's green zone. they did not cause any casualties or damage to coalition facilities, and no group has claimed responsibility. the house of represesentatives s slated to vote today on a war aimed atsolution president trump's ability to take future military action against iran without congressional authorization. a number of republicans say they will support the resolution after lawmakers attended a closed-door briefing on iran on we

i'm amy goodman. global tensions are mounting following the united states' assassination of iranian commander qassim suleimani in a drone strike at the baghdad international airport friday morning. up to a million mourners poured into the streets of iran and iraq for the funeral procession of the longtime leader of the islamic revolutionary guard corps' quds force. in response to the assassination, the iraqi parliament voted sunday to expel all u.s. military forces from iraq. president trump responded by threatening to impose sanctions on iraq "like they've never seen before." iraq has already been the target of some of the harshest sanctions the world has even seen. u.s.-backed sanctions killed more than a million iraqis, including over 500,000 children, between 1990 and 2003. president trump has also threatened to target 52 locations in iran, including cultural sites, if iran retaliates against the u.s. the targeting of cultural sites is widely viewed as an war crime. pentagon said the number 52 is

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amy hollyfield, abc 7 news. >> thank you, amy. another look at what's happening there from sky 7. it really gives you a sense of just how many people have gathered there in support of these moms who have been in the house, as amy said, since november. it's been a little bit of back and forth with the judge deciding if they would be evicted or not. the judge ruled they had five days to get out. if it was friday, this might be day five -- we're trying to figure that out. deputies are there evicting them. >> yes. and remember the company that owns the house said they would house these women for a couple months, and the women said that was an insult and rejected the offer out of hand. it has led to this. they refused to leave and now are being evicted. we'll have continuing coverage as we get more information we will post updates for you all morning long at abc7news.com and our abc 7 news app. >>> also breaking overnight we're learning more about what was a heavy police presence in san jose. >> the streets are now open in blossom hill road. anser hassan is there gathering more informa

tamra: i think it is probably a bigger challenge for amy sanders.r than it is for bernie amy klobuchart starting to get some bloklobmentum or whatever you want to call it. now she's going to spend this week in washington. bernie sanders, if you look under the hood, of the voters who have made up their minrn, for sanders, more of them say a there is no chance th going to change their mind than therrs who support any candidat bernie sanders has had this titanium piece of the pie and it is strong. his supporters supporhim. that titanium piece of the pie phrase is something borrowed from people who were describing the way president trump went through the primary in 2016. dy: it is fascinating. we started out saying we can't believe it is right around the corner and it literally is. tamra keith, amy walter, thank you both. ♪ judy: finally tonight, the legacy of nba great kobe bryant. jeffrey brown looks at how bryant is being remembered and whyis too short life resonated for so many. around the country, around the wld, the shock of kobe bryant's death continues. heoutsidetaples center in lo

amy: dr. martin luther king for the hour, coming up. this is democracy now! democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'i'm amy goodman. totoday is a federal holiday that honors dr. martin luther king. he was born january 15, 1929. he was assassinated on april 4, 1968, at the lorraine motel in memphis, tennessee. he was just 39 years old. while dr. king is primarily remembered as a a civil rights leaderer, hehe also championed thehe cae of thehe poor and organizedd the poor people's campaign to addressss issues of economic justice. and dr. king was a fierce critic of u.s. foreign policy and the vietnam war. "beyond vietnam" was the speech he delivered at new york's riverside church on april 4, 1960 seven, a year to the day before he was assassinated. in it, dr. king called the united states "the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today." "life magazine" called the speech "demagogic slander that sounded like a script for radio hanoi." "the washington post" said king "diminished his us

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amy hollyfield is on the scene there. she has not been able to talk with police officers to find out what happened here. she says she did witness someone being handcuffed and taken away. that person was talking as they entered an ambulance. we are still waiting to find out more information on that. want to move over to another crash in fairfield, this is westbound 80 before travis boulevard. car spun out s hit a center divide. it doesn't look like injuries have been reported a slowdown is starting. >>> today is the last day to file a claim for free credit monitoring or compensation if you were effected by the massive 2017 equifax data breach. a u.s. district court finalized the $70 million settlement. the personal information of 147 million people was a part of the breach. those who do file claims are eligible to get at least four years of credit monitoring or get a cash payout. the original amount was $125, but given the number of people who have filed, it could be substantially less than that. >>> controversy swirling a

amy hollyfield is near the fatal accident to bring us more details. amy?> they kicked us off the highway which is always a good sign, that means lanes are about to reopen. so highway 17 returning to normal in time for many peoples commute this morning. they tell us a woman in her late 20s was driving the wrong way on northbound highway 17 in campbe campbell, this is near hamilton. she was driving a honda accord and drove into an avalon. the driver of the avalon was up and walking around after the accident. he was taken to the hospital to be treated. but it looks like he'll be all right. the woman did not survive this crash. at this time they don't why she was driving the wrong way. there's nothing obvious to suggest drugs or alcohol. they are warning all of us to be careful especially late at night when we get on to the freeway. >> we have to pay attention where we're getting on to the freeway. a lot of times people may be going to work late, pay attention to signs and the direction of travel we're going. >> he says they got calls that she was driving the