i'm amy goodman. house judiciary chairman jererrd nadler is expected to submit -- request documents for over 60 people and groups tied to president trump and his business today. congressional probes will look into some of trump's s closest business p partners, i including allen weisselberg, the cfo of organization, donald trump son, as well as the justice department. this i is congressmemberer nadln "abc this week." >> it is very clear. 1100 times he returned to the mueller investigation as a witchhunt. he fired -- you try to protect the swing from being best edition -- to be investigated. he ordered comey to stop the rurussian thing, as he told thte news. amy: nadler's statements come as other democratic committees have also indicated they are investigating trump on multiple fronts. house oversight chairman elijah cummings s said last week he wod like to question weisselberg and trump's children awewell, andd the house ways andnd means committee is reportedly planning to request trump's past tax retu

i'm amy goodman. in the vietnamese capital hanoi, talks between president trump and north korean leader kim jong-un came to an abrupt end thursday after the leaders -- trump walked out of the talks. their second summit fell apart over kim jong-un's demand that the u.s. lift all sanctions on north korea in e exchange for te ososure of o one nuclear facaci. thisis is prpresident trump speg at a press conference. pres. trump: basically, they wanted the sanctions lifted in their entirety and we could not do that. denuke a willing to large portion, but we cannot give up all of the sanctions so we continue to work that we will see. we had to walk away from that particular suggestion. we had to walk away from that. amy: the summit's collapse comes just days after house democrats introduced a resolution to formrmally end the koreaean war after nearly 70 years of conflict. after r headlines, we'll go to hanoi to speak with christine ahn, founder and executive director of women cross dmz, a global movement of w

amy: rio?> how i started was i was sort how humans about have been living on this earth and stuff. emotions into action. greta thunberg was one of the people that inspired me, me and my sister and my mom. we watched a video of her. it really inspired me to take action and use my voice. so that is how we created the bay area earth garden crew. amy: what is your next step? you confronted senator feinstein. we will see what happens, whether she will ultimately support the green new deal -- probably because of what you did. what are you going to do now? be a youth going to strike -- global climate led by youth, mainly schoolchildren who will be walking out of schools on march 15. calledsite it is that is thclimatatestrike.us.org. you canan go to thahat page andf you want, you cacan particicipae anand use your voice. so promotingng that idea, that s going to be pretty much our next step of action. amy: and the last comments, magdalena? >> i think our next step of action -- well, for me, i think befo

i'm amy goodman. in new zealand, at least 49 people have died and dozens have been hospitalized with gunshot wounds after a gunman attacked two mosques in the city of christchurch during friday prayers. it was the deadliest shooting in new zealand's history. police have arrested and charged a 28-year-old australian man named brenton tarrant who has been described by authorities as a right-wing extremist. tarrant livestreamed the attack on facebook and published a manifesto in which he praised president donald trump as "a symbol of renewed white identity and common purpose." three other people -- two men and one woman -- were detained nearby, but at least one of them has already been released. new zealand's prime minister jacinda ardern called it one of her countries darkest days. >> many of those who will have been directly affected by this shooting may be migrants to new zealand. they may even be refugees here. they have chosen to make new zealand their home, and it is their home. they are us. the pe

i'm amy goodman. executives at boeing have tacitly admitted that software in the company's 737 max airplanes may have played a role in two recent deadly crashes in indonesia and ethiopiaia. on wednesday, boeing executives laid out plans for new software updates to the 737 max plane, giving pilots more control of the aircraft. many aviation security experts believe faulty autopilot software was to blame for the crashes of lion air flight 610 and ethiopian airlines flight 302, which killed a combined 346 people. this comes after "the new york times" reported both those flights lacked optional safety features that could have prevented the deaths. on capitol hill, acting faa administrator daniel elwell on wednesday defended his agency's oversight of boeing. he was questioned by massachusetts senator ed markey. >> i find it hard to believe that a safety company like an airline would save a couple thousand dollars on an option that might improve safety -- >> it may be hard free to believe, but it is happeni

i'm amy goodman. the state of oklahoma has reached a $270 million agreement with purdue pharma, the makers of oxycontin, settling a lawsuit that claimed the company contributed to the deaths of thousands of oklahoma residents by downplaying the risk of opioid addiction and overstating the drug's benefits. as part of the settlement, more than $100 million will fund a new addiction treatment and research center at oklahoma state university in tulsa. this is the first settlement purdue has made amid some 2000 additional lawsuits connecting its painkiller oxycontin to the opioid crisisis. after headlines, we'll spend the rest of the hour looking at the opioid crisis. the house of representatives failed tuesday to overturn trump's veto of a resolution nullifying the president's declaration of a national emergency at the u.s.-mexico border. just 14 republican lawmakers joined tuesday's 248-to-181 vote, which failed to muster the two-thirds majority needed to override the first veto of donald trump's preside

i'm amy goodman. mourners gathered over the weekend in new zealand and around the world to pay tribute to the victims of friday's deadly terrorist massacre at two mosques in christchurch, new zealand. the death toll has reached 50, with at least 50 people injured. police have arrested and charged 28-year-old australian brenton tarrant, who they say acted as a lone gunman and is described as a right-wing extremist. tarrant livestreamed the attack and published a manifesto in which he praised president donald trump as a "symbol of renewed white identity and common purpose." in the wake of the horrific attack, the deadliest shooting in new zealand's history, prime minister jacinda ardern vowed to reform the country's gun laws. >> we cannot be deterred from the work we need to do on their gun laws in new zealand. they need to change, regardless of what activity may or may not have happened with than retailers they will change. amy: meanwhile, president trump came under fire for refusing to acknowledge the

amy: the first step act. they w worsen the situation when it cocomes to dealing with peoplele who committed violent crimes in perpetuating stereotypes? >> something every policy reform is going to be incremental and to your actually passing the abolitionist prison and full reparationss. anything short of that is incremental reform. i don't think rejigging those laws simply because they don't go far enough -- critiquing those laws because they don't go far enough is not the right approach. at the same time, when we make laws or when we pass laws that prevents reform for nonviolent offenses and mobilize a narrative that distinguishes those people from the troop that once, don't lock them up with the one tool make them worse somehow by sheer proximity to their evil -- will we double down on a narrative, we cause enormous harm. policy is the space of compromise. we are naive to think it is anything other than that. our narrative, our arguments for why we make those changes don't have to be. nermeen: d.c. any indi

amy: u.s. africa command is disputing the new report saying in a statement, "our assessments found that no africom airstrike resulted in any civilian casualty or injury." "the new york times" reports data shows about 550 people have been killed in u.s. air strikes in some isis the start of 2018, but the pentagon has claimed only militants died in the strikes. we go now to washington where we are joined by brian castner, amnesty international's senior crisis advisor on arms and military operations. he helped write the new report titled "the hidden u.s. war in somalia." brian castnener, lay out whahatu found. >> thank you for having me. so we found, as you point out,, that in five of the strikes of the 110 africom is claiming, we found 14 civilians killed and eight injured. we did this through a variety of inteterviewsws, analysisis, corroborating the information through a variety of open-source investigation techchniques, speaking to doctors, etc. and in 2017, or i i should say from 2017, the af

i'm amy goodman. a federal judge in virginia has sentenced donald trump's former campaign chair paul manafort thursday to 47 months in prison for eight counts of bank fraud and tax evasion, far less than the 19-to-24-year prison term recommended by federal sentencing guidelines. u.s. district judge t.s. ellis, who was nominated to the bench by president ronald reagan, called the sentencing guidelines outlined by special counsel robert mueller's to excessive and said manafort had led and otherwise blameless life. in response, new york congressmember alexandria ocasio-cortez tweeted -- "paul manafort getting such little jail time for such serious crimes lays out for the world how it's almost impossible for rich people to go to jail for the same amount of time as someone who is lower income. in our current broken system, 'justice' isn't blind. it's bought." paul manafort faces a second sentencing hearing at a federal court in the district of columbia next week on two additional counts of conspiracy. the

i'm amy goodman. an ethiopian airlines s flight traveling from the ethiopian capital addis ababa to nairobi, kenya, crashed sunday morning, killing all 157 passengers and crew on board. the boeing 737 was carryining passengers of 35 different nationalities, including 8 americans. the e un confirmed at least 19 f itits staffers were on boaoard e plane. ththis iththe second f fatal crh of a boeing 737 max 8 in the past fivive months. that is aftft a donation lion air flight 610 crashed last year in october, killing 189 people. indonesia, and ethiopia are corrupting the aircraft after the crash. u.s. army whistleblower chelsea manning has been sent back to jail after refusing to answer questions before a grand jury friday. manning had been subpoenaed by federal prosecutors in virginia's eastern district to appear for questioning about her 2010 release to wikileaks of hundreds of thousands of state department and pentagon documents about the u.s. wars in iraq and afghanistan. manning was imprisoned from m

i'm amy goodman. president trump declared thursday the u.s. is ready to recognize israeli sovereignty over t the occupupied golan hei, which it seized from syria in 1967. trump announced the move via twitter, writing -- "after 52 years it is time for the united states to fully recognize israel's sovereignty over the golan heights, which is of critical strategic and security importance to the state of israel and regional stability!" after a meeting with secretary of state mike pompeo, israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu hailed t trump's announcement. has just maderump history. i called him. i thanked him on behalf of the people of israel. he did it again. amy: israel annexed the golan heights in 1981, though the international community does not recognize its sovereignty. the syrian state news agency responded to trump's vow to overturn decades of u.s. policy by saying it showed the blind -- "the blind bias" of the u.s. towards israel, and that his comments had shown contempt for international law

i'm amy goodman. special counsel robert mueller has ended his 22 month p probe concluding president trump and his aides did not conspire or coordinate with russia i in ordr to influence the 2016 elelectio. has yet toull report be made public, attorney general william barr sent a four page letter to congressional leaders sunday laying out his interpretation of the findings. trumpr examine whether could be criminally charged for obstructing justice, but he did not come to a definitive conclusion. barr said "while this report does not conclude the president committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him." in his letter barr, who became attorney general just last month, announced that he and deputy attorney general rod rosenstein had concluded there is not sufficient evidence to "establish that the president committed an obstruction-of-justice offense." president trump responded to barr's letter by tweeting "no collusion, no obstruction, complete and total exoneration. keep america great!" democratic l

i'm amy goodman. new york state announced a sweeping lawsuit against members of the sackler family, the owner of purdue pharma, which makes oxycontin, the highly addictive drug at the center of the opioid epidemic. new york attorney general letitia james accused the sacklers of masterminding a scheme that "literally profited off of suffering and death." this is james speaking at a news conference thursday. opioidsce more and more , the sackler family transferred wealth toore and more their personal accounts. held uphe lawsuits have against the sackler family and purdue in their role in this crisis, they continue to move and yes,o trusts, offshore accounts. amy: purdue pharma and t the sackler family are facing multiple lawsuits. a group of over 500 0 cities, counties, and native american tribes filed a a lawsuit against the sacklers last week, accusing them of lying about the dangers of oxycontin and deceitful marketing of the drug. the new york suit names five other opioid manufacturers, including jo

i'm amy goodman. burials are beginning in new zealand as the country mourns the loss of 50 muslim worshipers gunned down by a white supremacist friday in the deadliest attack in new zealand's history. the worshipers killed in the christchurch massacre came from around the world. most of them were immigrants, or refugees who had come to new zealand seeking safety. six pakistanis, four jordanians, four egyptians, and at least three bangladeshis are among the dead. the palestinian authority's foreign ministry said that six of the victims were of palestinian origin. new zealand prime minister jacinda ardern has been calling for unity and support for muslim cocommunities following the horrific attack. on friday, she was a asked abobt her phphone call with president trtrump. >>>> i spoke with donanald trump thisis morning. he sought to call us dirirectly. he v very much w wished for hihs condolences to be papassed on to new zealand.. he asked w what offer ofof suppt the united states could providee loveage

i'm amy goodman. homeland security secretary kirstjen nielsen defended the trump administration's immigration policies wednesday, telling lawmakers border officials were on track to detain more than 900,000 migrants at the u.s.-mexico border this year. nielsen push backs and they routinely denies migrants a chance to apply for asylum in the u.s., claimiming no one woud be turned away adding was or to been true. the claim prompted democrats of the house homeland security committee to reply "you're either lying to this committee, or you donon't knowow what isis happening at the border." asked how many childldren are detained at the border, nielsen replied she did not have the number handy. and she denied migrant prisoners are being held in cages. this is new jersey congressmember bonnie watson coleman questioning nielsen. fence, is a chain-link enclosed into a chamber on a concrete floor represent to you? is that a cage? that t is a detention space has existed for decades. >> does it differ from the cag

i'm amy goodman. israel carriried out a new wavef airstrikikes in gaza mononday in retaliation for rocket israeli authorities say was fired by hamas which destroyed a house there tel aviv and injured at least seven people. the airstrikes, which injured at least seven people in gaza and destroyed several buildings, were met by additional rocket strikes from gaza. an egyptian-brokered truce between hamas and israel was announced late monday, but gaza residents reported more explosions and a build-up of tanks by the separation barrier with israel on tuesday. this is gaza resident yousef abu shaban speaking among the wreckage of monday's airstrikes. >> i do not know what to tell you. where are we supposed to go? where we supposed to live? our children and families have become homeless. we do not know where to go anymore. amy: the escalating attacks came as president trump officially recognized the golan heights as israeli territory at a signing ceremony with prime minister benjamin netanyahu at the white

i'm amy goodman. president trump hosted brazil's far-right president jair bolsonaro at the white house on tuesday. bolsonaro has been dubbed the trump of the tropics. trump announced he would designate brazil to be a major non-nato ally, opening the door for brazil to receive more u u.. militatary aid.. trump also suggested brazil could even become a member of nato. the two leaders both criticized what they called the fake news and discussed increasing efforts to topple venezuelan president nicolas maduro from office. president trump threatened to further intensify crippling u.s. engines on venezuela, which is already facing a humanitarian crisis. prpres. trumump: we really not e done the tough sanctions yet. all options are open, so we may be doing that. but we have not been the toughest sanctions. amy: we will have more on brazil after headlines. in a major blow for immigrant rights, the supreme court ruled the government can detain immigrants with past criminal records indefinitely and without due

i'm amy goodman.he president presented his proposed 2020 budget monday, which includes $8.6 billion to fund a wall on the u.s.-mexico border, more than six times what congress approved for border projects in each of the past two years. the budget also includes an almost 5% increase in military spending while calling for cuts to domestic spending, including for both medicare and medicaid over the next 10 years, as well as to federal student loan programs and the supplemental nutrition assistance program, or snap. funding for the environmental protection agency would be slashed by 31% and the interior department's budget by 14%, while providing over $900 million in law enforcement funding for the agency, which would be directed toward border security. democrats blasted the budget. house speaker nancy pelosi said, "the cruel and shortsighted cuts in president trump's budget request are a road map to a sicker, weaker america." we'll have more on ththe 2020 bubudget with investigative reporter david cay jo

i'm amy goodman. one week after trump's former lawyer and fixer deliver that explosive testimony, new y york state regulators are investigating insurance claims and policies and have subpoenaed -- the truck regulation -- the trump administration regularly inflated -- rerequested documents from 80 group -- 81 groups and people. in sacramento, california protesters continue to take to the streets following the saturday that the sacramento county district attorney would not file criminal charges against the 2 police officers who shot and killed 22-year-old unarmed african american stephon clark in his grandmother's backyard last year. on monday night, police arrested 84 protesters, including local religious leaders. tanya faison, founder of the local black lives matter chapter said there was heavy police presence prior to the monday crackdown, which she attributed to the demonstration taking place in a wealthy neighborhood. demonstrators are now occupying a local police station, in an action called by bl

amy: from pacifica this is democracy now! >> this case is about the widening corruption of elite colleges, to the study application of wealth combined with fraud. there can be no separate college omission system for the wealthy and they will not be a separate criminal justice system either -- and there will not be a separate criminal justice system either. -- for taking part in a scheme where wealthy families paid exorbitant bribes to secure response for their children in elite colleges including yale, stanford, georgetown, ucla, usc and wake forest. we will get the latest. former vice president joe brydon -- joe biden launches more hints -- drops more hihints that he will soon launch a bid for the white house. >> i appreciate e the enerergy you showed when n i got appear. save it a a little longer.r. i might need it in a few weeks. amy:y: we will speak to andrew cockburn about his latest headline, no joe. first we look at the growing calls for the -- growing calls for the faa to ground the boeing 737 max flights following su

cheda: with that being said, please welcome amy o'rourke. >> amy. amy. amy. amy.owd chanting "amy"] [cheers and applause] ms. o'rourke: good morning. >> good morning! ms. o'rourke: i am so, so excited to be here with everyone today. so many familiar faces, so many people that have been with us from the very beginning. it's amazing. [cheers and applause] as many of you know, i was not raised in el paso. i moved here in 2004, thinking i would be here for a year max. i wanted to be close to family. i wanted to get more experienc , teaching, and little did we know, that was not at all what was in store. a few months after moving here, beto and i were set up on a blind date. [cheering] ms. o'rourke: it was a magical first date. we walked over the border, had to drink that the kentucky pub. -- had drinks at the kentucky pub, and strolled around for hours. and what was so clear to me was that beto was deeply passionate and committed to el paso. [cheers and applause] ms. o'rourke: he was, on our very first date, trying to get me to change my plan and give el paso a shot.

i'm amy goodman. the house judiciary committee launched a wide-ranging investigation monday into president trump, his businesses and his allies as lawmakers probe possible obstruction of justice, corruption and other crimes and abuses of power. the committee requested documents from at least 81 people or groups, who now have a march 18 deadline to respond. the list includes his sons donald trump jr. and eric trump, his son-in-law and senior adviser jared kushner, wikileaks and julian assange, the department of justice, the fbi, trump's charities, and founder of private security firm blackwater, erik prince, who is also the brother of education secretary betsy devos. an explosive new piece in the new yorker details trump's long-standing and far-reaching relationship with fox news. among the revelations in the explosive report, investigative reporter jane mayer writes that in 2017, trump directed then-top economic adviser gary cohn to put pressure on the justice department to block at&t's $85 billion ac

amy berman jackson can do that. i don't think we've seen from her comments today whether she intends to. i did think it was interesting that ellis' sentence last week would not factor into her decision. at the same time, we wouldn't necessarily expect her to come out and say i'm going to right the wrong that happened last week in virginia. we'll see, she has been tough on manafort so far. i think that if the sentence is longer than what t.s. ellis gave, despite the fact the ceiling is lower in this case, i think that would send a pretty strong signal. >> are we on pardon watch after this? >> certainly always. this is a question the white house has been asked repeatedly. they've never ruled it out. obviously there was not just the fact that paul manafort had lied to investigators, but the fact that his legal team continued to brief the president's legal team while all that was playing out. that was a hugely unusual set of circumstances. that led to the many conclusions about whether paul manafort was still counting o

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live in pacifica, amy hollyfield, abc 7 news. >> amy, thank you. obviously dark out there making it very difficult. >> we'll continue to check in. thank you. new developments in nasa's plan for all female spacewalk. the walk isn't happening as planned because of space suit sizes. nasa says two of the astronauts scheduled to walk need a medium suit but only one at the space station. it will go on friday but it will include a male and female astronaut. >> come on, they couldn't have ordered that in advance. >> people aren't happy about this. >>> bringing in millions, the press democrat reporting the county made more than $4 million during two weeks it was available. visitors from 42 different states and 14 countries came to the north bay last year to try the beer. the money includes spending for hotel stays, meals and gas. this is the fourth year. people will come all over to try that beer. >> people love that beer. got some magic inside or something. >> people that brew that must be so proud. >> it's great for tourism. >> it's a beer celebrity is wh

pulled off at the phoenix open even more unbelievable. >> are you amy?ve me a hug, i'm gary. nice to meet you. >> reporter: pro gary woodland invited amy, who has down syndrome, to play hole 16 with the special olympics. with her dad playing caddie, amy did. >> you got this, kiddo. >> yeah, i got this. >> nice! >> the brilliance and genius of amy is she's not encumbered with self-doubt. >> i love it. >> you can do this. you can do this. >> nice! that is awesome! >> reporter: with one putt to go -- >> i got this. gott? >> yeah. >> let's do it. >> reporter: in front of a massive crowd, amy did. >> yeah! >> that is so awesome! >> reporter: a gracious thanks from a golfer surprising everyone but herself. morgan chesky, nbc news, phoenix, arizona. >> and good for her. amy is one of the first athletes with down syndrome to get a college scholarship to play golf. that's "nightly news" for this wednesday. i'm lester holt. for all of us at nbc news, thank you for watching and good night.the unusual courtroom sct involved the >>> right now at 6:00, his lawyer says

chris thank you so much for joining us my pleasure amy great so let's start with china and the chinese economy china is suffering an economic slowdown and its number two leader warns the country faces a tough struggle so chris i want to ask you what are the implications for the u.s. economy well look we live increasingly in a global economy right now and what happens in china and frankly what happens in europe affects what's happened united states we've seen a slowdown in the u.s. economy in the fourth quarter and many economists believe that all will continue slow in twenty nine hundred so i think it certainly behooves both countries the united states and china to resolve their trade differences that's complicated though because the they're based on serious issues regarding obviously the tariffs that the president has imposed as walls of intellectual property rights opening up of markets and so i know that the economic slowdown will certainly probably a hasten china looking for the deal but they're not going to do that unless it's in their own interest so you think that this slowdown

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