i'm amy goodman. president trump ordered tariffs thursday on imported steel and from canada, mexico, and the european union, prompting criticism from u.s. allies and threats of sanctions. the european union said it would challenge the u.s. tariffs at the world trade organization. the terrace came as justin trudeau -- the tariffs came as justin trudeau said talks during have to get nafta broke down after vice president mike pence insisted any new deal include a five-year sunsetet claususe. meanwhile, mexico blasted the tariffs as a a latest insult by hostile trump administration. this is the mexicacan foreign minister. mexico's position on trade or on immigratition or on secururiy war on whahatever area of cooperation with the united states will not vary, not because of offensive rhetoric or a justified unilateral measures like this type. we will continue to defend thehe intereststs of mexixico just ase have done ununtil now. amy: the european court of human rights has ruled that the when you and roman

amy: yes, i do.t was quite exhilarating, because it is a grand privilege to argue before the supreme court. not very many people get to do it. it was a rather humble case involving a technical question, on social security benefits and how the government collects and refunds social security benefits, but obviously very, very important to many people because the social security program is enormous. it's massive. a lot of money was involved. what struck me about the experience was that it is a very intimate one. the court room is relatively small. the advocates are right up in front of the bench. one of the challenges is that you are so close that it is hard to see all of the justices at once. you kind of have to turn your head and make sure you are monitoring the situation. and it is a performance. that is another thing you realize. it is a great training ground for any kind of performance the you will ever have to deliver. and anything in your past life that involved performance is preparation for it.

amy: yes.rian: so you're saying that students of color that are in the law review are pretty much at the bottom at penn? a survey, inot done have not done a systematic study. the class is 89, 90 students every year, so i see a big chunk of students and i am going on that. a lot of the data is a closely guarded secret, as you can imagine. brian: what is the solution to what you are talking about? amy: first you have to decide there is a problem. brian: does anybody think there is a problem, by the way? amy: one of the distortions that came out of this tiny clip which , is completely taken out of context, is the conclusion that i am completely adamantly and totally against affirmative action and that i have some kind of crusade going about that. well, i don't. my attitude toward affirmative action, like any good small seat conservative, is it has pros and cons, cost and benefits. we are not going to bring about every benefit has -- every upside has a downside. my view is if we are going to have t

amy: yes, i do.was quite exhilarating, i think because it is a grand privilege to argue before the supreme court. not very many people get to do it. it was a rather humble case involving a technical question, on social security benefits and how the government collects and refunds social security benefits, but obviously very, very important to many people because the social security program is enormous. it's massive. a lot of money was involved. what struck me about the experience was that it is a very intimate one. the court room is relatively small. the advocates are right up in front of the bench of nine. one of the challenges is that you are so close that it is hard to see all of the justices at once. you kind of have to turn your head and make sure you are monitoring the situation. and it is a performance. that is another thing you realize. it is a great training ground for any kind of performance the you will ever have to deliver. and anything in your past life that involved performance is prepa

amy: u.s. ambassador to the united natns nikki haley has announced the united states is withdrawining from t the u.n. hn righghts council, accusingng the cocouncil of being biased againt israel. long, the human rights council has been a protector of human rights abusers and a cesspool of political bias. regrettably, it is now clear our call for reform was not heeded. amy: the a announcement ofof the withdrawal comomes only y one dy after the office of the u.n. high commissioner for human rights slammed the trump administration for the "unconscionable" separation of children from their parents. the trump administration has been threatening for months to withdraw from the human rights body, which has repeatedly condemned israel for its treatment of palestinians, including its bloody crackdown against nonviolent protesters in gaza. this is phillip alston, u.n. special rapporteur for extreme poverty speaking on democracy , now! >> if you have eig countries in the entire world who don't tank that is

amy: as the u.s.-backed saudi backed coalition begins a major offensive on a key port city in yemen, we speak to democratic ssman ro khanna, a leading critic of the war which has already killed 15,000 civilians, sparked the world's worst cholera epidemic, and pushed the country to the brink of famine. then to the po campaign. >> americans wngjob atoes not pay you a living wage day in and day out. imagine not having a basic income and not knowing how you're going to feed your children. we have to have a people in this country that are willing to stand as long as it takes and organize as long as it takes and fight as long as it takes. amy: 50 years after the assassination of martin luther king, jr., the reverend william barber is helping to lead a new poor peoples campaign. we will air a report from washington where barber and many others were arrested on monday. some religious leaders were handcuffed for five hours from had their religious vestments ripped off of them, and were brought into court in an

i'm amy goodman. president trump has announced immigrants should be deported immediately without seeing judges and without due process. in a series of xenophobic tweets, trump wrote -- "we cannot allow all of these people to invade our country. when somebody comes in, we must immediately, with no judges or court cases, bring them back from where they came." trump also lashed out at immigrants in an address saturday. pres. trump: unfnfortunatelyly,n borderememocra support the loopholes that prevevent familis fromeieing dainened d removed togeerer. they jt t wantveveryonto be released into our country no maerer howangegero theyyre.. they can be kills.s. they can be thies. they can be horrible people. the e decratats y it i i ok for them to be in our ununtry. i i d't t ink so. congress and congress aloncan ltlt theroblblem and thonly solution that will te prosece, and probablyemove anyo who illegallcrosses e border amy: trump's latest comments come after he was forced under enormous pressure to sign an e

amy: as the u.u.s. milaryy prepares to house up to 20,000 immigrantt children on n militay bases, the justice department wants to live the 20 day limit on family detention. meanwhile, thousands of immigrant parents still do not well -- do not know whether children are after they were taken from them at the border. we will go to brownsville, texas, dispute with reporter debbie nathan we just interviewed a guatemalan woman whose five-year-old son was taken from her last month by immigration authorities in texas after she sought asylum. this week she reunited with him after 38 days in detention. >> they tricked me. they told me we should go to the bus, that we were leaving. i was happy i was going to be with my son. when i set out on the bus, my boy and they said, ma'am, get off. code red. that is the name of an explosive new human rights watch report that exposes dangegerously subsbstandard medidical care ine detention centerers. >> f fst ones, t then a secondd seizure in immigration detention. our medica

i'm amy goodman. afghan p president ashraf ghani has announced an unconditional ceasefire with the taliban to last until june 20. the ceasefire comes after muslim clerics in afghanistan issued a fatwa, or religious ruling, against suicide bombings after an attack on claimed by isis monday killed 14 people o had gathered for a clerics' peace summit in kabul. this was president ghani's first unconditional offer of a ceasefire tie 2014. the white house says president donald trump may hold a second day of talks with north korean leader kim jon-u-un when the par meet for an unprececedented sumt hotel in singe trump will meet in washington today with japanese prime minister shinzo abe to d discuss north korea a before both head o canada for a g-7 summit on friday. the preparations come as trump reportedly held a testy phone call wednesday with canadian prime minister justin trudeau, tling hd't you guys are down tte hhise?" it was an apappearance reference to the war of 1812 when british forces, not canadian

i'm amy goodman. presidenent trump p is continuio defend his administration's policy of forcibly separating immigrant children from their parents at the border in violation of iernational human rights law. pres. trump: the united states camp andbe a migrant it will not be a refugee holding facility. it won't be. you look at what is happening in europe and other placeces in a e can'n't allow that to happppen o the united states. not on my watch. amy: during his speech monday, trump also falsely claimed democrats were to blame for the practice. momore than 2000 children have been forcibly separated from their parents since mid-apapril alone. trump also went on xenenophobic twitter rant monday about migration into europe, tweeting -- "crime in germany is way up. big mistake made all over europe in allowing millions of people in who have so strongly and violently changed their culture!" in fact, germany recently recorded its lowest crime rate since 1992. trump also tweeted -- "we don't want what is happen

i'm amy goodman. presidenent trump and north korn leader kim jong-un have arrived in singapore ahead of tuesday's planned summit, slated to be the first-ever meeting between an american president and a north korean leader. the summit will be held at the capella resort on sentosa island. trump is slated to meet alone with kim jong-un, along with just there to translators. moments ago secretary of state , mike pompeo held a news conference in which he said trump is prepared to offer north korea unprecedented security assurances, although he did not specify what these guarantees would be. the official north korean news agency said sunday kim is prepared to talk about denuclearization and a durable peace. meanwhile, president trump told reporters saturday he would know within the first minute of their meeting whether kim is serious about making peace. pres. trump: good question. how long will it take. i think within the first minute i will know. just my touch, my field. that is what i do. how long will it

i'm amy goodman. outrage is mounting over the trump administration's practice of separating immigrant children fromom theirir parents at the u.s.-mexico border as partrt of the crackdown against immigrants and asylum seekers. "the a associated press" reports nenearly 2000 children have been separateted from their parenents since apapril 19. "the new york times" is repoporting some parents have bn dedeported without their childl, and with no ininformatioion abot how the family will be reunited. on fririday, vice presesident me pence was interrupted by opponents of family separation during a speech in columbus, ohio. vice pres. pence: including our historic tax cuts. let's hear it for america first policies that brought alall of s here together today. i am here -- i am here today first and foremost -- foremost torst and say thank you. youk you to all must all of -- almost all of you. amy: people were yelling "why are you ripping children from their families?" over the weekend, there were protests nation

i'm amy goodman. in a series of extraordinary legal decisions tuesday, the supreme court has upheld president trump's so-called muslim travel ban, while a federal judgdge in california hs ruled immigration offificials mt stop separating immigrant children from their parents at the border must reunite all parents and children within 30 days. on tuesday, the supreme court ruled 5-4 to uphold trump's travel ban, which prohibits people from entering the united states from five majority-muslim countries -- iran, libya, yemen, syria, and somalia -- as well as people from koreh and some government officials from venezuela. in a scathing dissent, justice sonia sotomayor condemned the ban as harrowing and said it was "motivated by hostility and animus toward the muslim faith." sotomayor also said the decision to uphold the ban involved "ignoring the facts, misconstruing our legal precedent and turning a blind eye to the pain and suffering the proclamation inflicts upon countless families and individuals, many

i'm amy goodman. in gaza, thousands of palestinians gathered saturday for the funeral of 21-year-old medic razan al-najjar, who an israeli sniper shot dead on friday as she was helping evacuate wounded palestinians at a protest near the separation fence between israel and gazaza. the israeli sniper shot her in the chest even though she was clearly wearing a medical vest and a medical id at the time of raeli liry has killed at least 119 palestinians and wounded more than 13,000 more as part of the brutal crackdown against the palestinians' ongoing nonviolent great march of return protests demanding an end to the israeli occupation. this is razan's mother, sabreen al-najjar. >> i call for international protection. where is this international protection? where are the human rights? how is my daughter a threat? what was her weapon. this is her weapon. this ethical equipment. this is my daughter's weapon. this is what she was resisting what mosost of what basis to the soldier kill her? she has beenen targe

i'm amy goodman. house republican leaders have released a draft of an immigration bill that would vastly increase funding for a heavily militarized u.s.-mexicoo border wall and sharply curtail the number of documented immigrants allowed into the united states, while providing a path to citizenship for young undocumented dreamers. the draft bill would also end the trump administration's policy of separating migrant children from their parents. it's an apparent concession to growing outrage over the practice, which has seen immigration and border agents rip children and even babies out of the arms of their mothers. this comes as more than 300 catholic bishops blasted the trump administration's immigration policies, calling for an end to the separation of migrant children from their parents, and condemning attorney general jeff sessions' policy of ending the right of domestic violence survivors to seek asylum in the united states. >> separating babies from their mothers is not the answer and is immoral.

amy: yeah.emonis: so, i never like the brand on the door to be the brand on the product inside that store. the idea of creating brands and doing what you do inside of anderson is great, but what i would prefer to see is anderson on the door, and then inside of the store, other brands that you may own in your back pocket. when the brand on the door and the name on the product is the same, the customer is gonna see that as almost a house brand, like generic cereal. and the high margins that you were actually going for, they may not come to fruition. what's it like working for these two guys? val: the way that they treat us, they're fair. they're nice. i will say that they are kind of spread thin. amy: usually, it's pretty stressful, and you know, john is going, "give me the new art, new customer, new business, sales." and he's just very pressured and wanting to make sure we're doing our jobs. sometimes i feel like they just need to focus on one thing. lemonis: are they late with their deadlines? a

i'm amy goodman. donald trump and other leaders of the world's largest economies have gathered in quebec city, canada, for this year's g-7 summit, with the u.s. president increasingly isolated over trade and climate change. the g-7 meeting comes after president trump ordered tariffs on imported steel and aluminum from canada, mexico, china, japan, and the european union, prompting world powers to talk of uniting against the u.s. in a trade war. reuters quoted french president emmanuel macron as saying thursday "we don't mind being six, if needs be." macron echoed that comment in a joint press conference with canadian prime minister justin trudeau. >> the six other countries of the g-7 represent a larger market than the american market will stop let's face it. there's no wororld h hegemony oe find a way to organize ourselves and we don't want there to bebe. amy:y: president trumpss scheduled to leave the g-7 summit early at of next week's meeting with kim jong-un. with his early departure tomorrow morn

i'm amy goodman with juan gonzalez.ichael, 20 years ago this month june 7, 1998, james byrd was brutally murdered by white supremacists in jajasper, texas. three white men change the african-american man to the back of their truck by his ankles, dragged him for more than three miles along the road. i the time the men and hihis boy from the back of the truck, his head and right arm had been severed. you write about james byrd in your book "things that make white people uncomfortable." you talk about the seminal moment in your life 20 years ago when you heard what happened, born in louisiana, you grew up in texas. >> for me, it was the imminent till moment, the moment as a young kid i came to realize that was goingbeing black to be an issue. for me, it was very traumatic safet to think that the my in this skin? can i do normal things?, able to grab a cappuccino and be seen as a customer and not as, you know, as a robber? when they see me, do they see me as a man first and not as a criminal? from a, that chapter in my book

i'm amy goodman. president trump has signed an executive order wednesesday reversing himself, claiming to end the separation of children from their parents at the border by jailing the kids and the parents together while their legal cases wind through the courts. the order does not say where the families will be detained or whether children will continue to be separated from their parents until the facilities are ready. pres. trump: we want security for our country. the republicics won secucurity d insist on security foror our country. we will have that at t the same time we have compassion. we want to keep p families together. i will be signing something in a little while that will do that. amy: critics warn the order will lead to the indefinite detention of entire families.. and the trump administration has so far not outlined any plans for reuniting children already separated from their families -- at least 2300 children have been separated since attorney general jeff sessions announced a zero tole

amy: from pacifica, this is democracy now! >> simply put, does the president believe he is above the law? >> certainly, no one is above the law. amy: as president trump claims the power to pardon himself and to dismiss the mueller investigation, is the nation on the path to a constitutional crisis? we will speak to philadelphia daily news columnist will bunch about trump's attempts to go what he calls "full dictator" and about trump's decision to disinvite the super bowl champions philadelphia eagles from the white house. then we go to the u.s.-mexican border. we will look at how the u.s. government is breaking up families and sending children to detention centers often hundreds of miles from their parents. this is how one judge in brownsville, texas, described the situation. >> what you've done by separating these childrens putting them someplace without their parents. y: treme cul favor of a colorado baker who refused to make a wedding cake for a gay couple citing his religious opposition. all that and more, coming up. welco

amy: yeah. have your own room. you don't have to be bunkmates. jackie: yeah. lemonis: anything happen since i was here? ameah. jackie: well, after you guys were getting ready to head out, john turned around and told us, "you need to work harder to, like, earn your keep." amy: yeah. he just was feeling a little bit out of control, and so therefore, he is, like, micromanaging all of us and just really riding our asses. jackie: if i had another job opportunity, i would take it. lemonis: you would? jackie: yes. amy: same. lemonis: same thing for you? amy: mm-hmm. lemonis: does -- does he kn that? jackie: no, because he's never asked. amy: no. no. lemonis: are you guys open to having a frank discussion with him about it? 'cause i won't do business here if he's that way. it's just not -- it's not okay. jackie: yeah. lemonis: so let me talk to them and see if we can just find a place to just have a quick chat, okay? jackie: cool. lemonis: thank you very much for being honest. look, myxptation is are tr

i'm amy goodman. president trump and north korean leader kim jong-un have wrapped up in historic summit in singapore where they pledged to work toward a complete denuclearization of the korean peninsula. the summit marked the first-ever meeting between a sitting u.s. president and north korean leader. following the historic many, president trump announced the end of u.s.-south korean wardens. we will stop the workrkers which will save us a tremendous amount of m money, unless and until we see the future negotiation is not going along likeke it should. but we will be saving a tremendous amount of momoney. plus, i think it is very provocative. amy: that was president trump speaking at a news conference early this morning. it was his first full news conference in more t than a yea. trump p also expressed h hope fn end to the korean conflict. pres. trump: an extreremely bloy conflict ravaged t the kororean peninsula. cap wawas people died in the coconflict, including tens of thousands of brave americans.

amy: andn.f the issues u abou this issue of colonialism, of colonialism of the dead, of the relationship between the united states and puerto rico. juan: and the reality that, as you are saying, the infrastructure was so weakened for so manyears, ththat when hurricane hit, it made it worse. there was a recent general accounting office report th came out that looked at the financian puerto rico. it examined 20 of the biggest bond issues that wis by puerto rico. it found 16 hem we just used to refinance debt. they were issuing debt to pay debt. in the wall street firms had to know that this is not kosher, this is not the way you do bonding and capital expenditures. the wall street firms very well knew that puerto rico did not have the ability to continue issuing this debt, but they underwrote it because they were making big fees and figure the day of reckoning would come way after the government had left office and the particular financial officials from these banks ssd afr they were gogone. so th

amy: imagine that. ms. ayotte: it is actually a ton of fun in that it is great to see all of the women playing together and just having a blast. amy: and for me, again, this is not my partisan hack. this is my softball hat. i am not happy about the wave of women running, because if you win, and you look really athletic, and there are also women who come from a military background, like navy seals and stuff, we are going to get killed. that is our problem. you were younger women running for my own softball. ms. ayotte: one of the disadvantages we had at the congressional women's team is that they were younger than us, so i think evening that up would be great, to have some younger women on the congressional team. amy: now that we got through that, a very important sidebar, let's talk about the fact that we are seeing record numbers of women that are democrats running. i think the number right now is 247 democratic women have filed to 83 republican women who have filed. there are fewer republican women. democ

i'm amy goodman. we turn to the headlines. the white house says it will back either of a a pair of immigration bibills heading towards a possible vote in the congress next week, after house spspeaker paul ryan said he'll allow a debate on immigration. white house senior adviser stephen miller said president trump supports the bills, which would provide a path to citizenship for young undocumented immigrants while spending an additional $25 billion for a border wall with mexico, ending the visa lottery system and sharply limiting the number of these is given to legal immigrants. -- visas given to legal immigrants. an even harsher bill would also require employers to use the federal e-verify program. both measures have been condemned by immigrants' rights groups. christine neumann-ortiz, executive director of voices of the border said quote, "speaker ryan's decision is another disgraceful sign that the republican party is a party of anti-immigrant hate, waging a war on families. speaker ryan cannot call

we are here with amy adams!.m. on hbo. >> yes, thank you, jimmy. >> jimmy: yeah, please. >> i know that you're interviewing me. and you were doing a really good job. >> jimmy: thank you. >> but i would also like to interview me. >> jimmy: i think i know what you're talking about, amy. and i have a way to make that happen. it's time for "lip flip." [ cheers and applause ] ♪ it's the lip flip when you flip your lip ♪ ♪ it's the lip flip yeah >> jimmy: hey, yo, yo, yo, yo. hey, yo! [ laughter ] i'm amy adams, america's sweetheart. i'm starring in the new show called "sharp objects." uh-oh! speaking of sharp objects, here's what i sound like when i step on one. i'm like, yee, yee, yee, yee. [ laughter ] wha, wha, wha, wha, whaaaa!" [ laughter ] >> ouch. i only like soft objects like big squishy marshmallows. [ laughter ] 'cause they make the cutest sounds. when you squeeze them, they're like kwee, kwee, kwee. pew, pew, pew. bweep, bweep, bweep! [ laughter ] then you just eat them. [ gobbles ] [ laughter ] >> jimmy: