>> amy priess meyer took me to the apartment and showed me how the law was. >> amy prism i know amy wasbout? this >> yes. >> amy knew about it. but not just knew about it, right along with jennifer, she as apparently loving girl from had arranged everything. you recall how he gave a form of ricky hide in the bedroom and so we could see ricky coming up the stairs. the murder of ricky cowles was all set to go, but then came the day. august 12th, 1997, late in the day. jennifer and amy drove the two tenths of a mile up the road to belize house to pick him up. >> they drop me off, let me in and then the left. >> billy sat there he said, with a hammer, a knife, a gun, a pillow to use as a silencer. but remember, ricky ended up working late that night, fixing lights at the county fair. waiting the house, billy started get sleepy. he started having second. thoughts >> you know, i got tired of waiting to see he ended up staying late for work or wherever he was and i didn't know what was going on, and i just kind of you know what? i'm gone. and i left. >> thus the murder of ricky cowles was prev

i'm amy goodman. voters in alaska and wyoming went to the polls tuesday for primary elections. in wyoming, pro-trump primary challenger harriet hageman has unseated incumbent congressmember liz cheney, who has emerged as the leading anti-trump republican in congress. cheney voted for trump impeachment and is serving as vice chair on the house january 6 committee. hageman won about 66% of the vote. cheney received about 29%. cheney, who is the daughter of former vice president dick cheney, spoke to supporters last night in jackson, wyoming. >> two years ago i won his primary was 73% of the vote. i could easily have done the same again. the path was clear. but it would have required that i go along with president trump about the 2020 election. it would have required that i enabled's ongoing efforts to unravel our democratic system and attacked the foundations of our republic. that was a path i could not and would not take. amy: in alaska, former governor and 2008 republican vice presidential candidate s

i'm amy goodman. in georgia, prosecutors have informed rudy giuliani is a target of a criminal investigation into interference and the 2020 election. he is scheduled to appear before a special grand jury in atlanta tomorrow he faces questions about his efforts to keep former president donald trump in power. he led trump's attempts to overturn the results of joe biden's victory in georgia by more than 12,000 votes. giuliani repeatedly cited baseless conspiracy theories and led to put forward an alternate slate presidential electors. a federal judge in georgia has denied a bid by republican senator lindsey graham to quash a subpoena ordering graham to testify to the grand jury in atlanta. fulton county prosecutors want him to explain the reason for two calls he place just after the 2020 election to brad raffensperger, george's republic secretary of state. raffensperger told reporters after the calls lindsey graham hinted he should throw away ballots from areas where biden likely got moreotes. >> he aske

>> amy? are you referring to me? amy? amy: hi, robert.hare your thoughts today on albert, his life and death. >> can you hear me? amy: we hear you perfectly. >> well i was listing to bert -- listening to the program. wow. kind of hard -- it seemed as if albert was in the room with me. look, my sentiments now, albert was my brother. he was my friend. i am going to miss him. we saw things in and out of prison. we decided [indiscernible] albert, just in short, he decided to do just that. he took the government knowing it would create a ripple and knowing they would eventually create tsunami effects. he understood his reasoning for existing. he lived out that. kind of hard for me to believe. but then again, you know, this will carry him on into eternity. he won't be forgotten. amy: he will certainly not be forgotten. i want to go back to 1972 when albert and fellow imprison like panther herman wallace were falsely accused of stabbing the prison guard brent miller to death. woodfox and wallace always maintained their innocence. they said they

i'm amy goodman. attorney general merrick garland asked a federal judge to unseal the warrant the fbi used in its august 8 search of former president donald trump's estate in florida. garland announced the request thursday as he delivered his first public comments since trump said the fbi had searched his mar-a-lago residence monday. >> the department filed a motion to make public the warrant and receipt in light of the former president public confirmation of the search, the surrounding circumstances, and the substantial public interest in this matter. amy: attorney general garland said he personally approved the warrant and condemned verbal attacks on the fbi and justice department by trump and his allies. "the washington post" reports the fbi seeking among other things highly classified documents about u.s. nuclear weapons. hours after garland's remarks, donald trump said he encouraged the immediate unsealing of the warrant. if trump is proven to have mishandled classified documents, who could be gu

i'm amy goodman. pakistan has declared a national emergency as massive floods continue to devastate the country. at least 119 people died over the weekend bringing the death to over 1,000 since june. more than 33 million people have been displaced. pakistan's top climate official described the flooding as a “serious climate catastrophe." floods have swept away homes, roads and bridges across pakistan where some regions have received 600% more rain than usual. this is pakistan's prime minister shahbaz sharif. >> when the plane was landing just now, i looked on with great concentration. it looks like the river had spread across the whole region. the flood of 2010as a huge flood in our history, but i fear this flood has caused greater havoc. there is extreme devastation all around. more than 900 people have died. amy: we will go to pakistan later in the broadcast. in mississippi, governor tate reeves haseclared state of ergency, after torrentl rains brought massive flooding and caused the pearl riv to ov

amy: not yet is the short answer.e are living in a moment of reckoning akin to 9/11, where the intelligence community has to undergo a radical transformation and reimagining to deal with the threats that are driven by new technology. i think about these threats, driven by technologies in terms of five wars they create. -- five "mores" they create for the intelligence community. more threats that can work across vast differences, more speed, much faster paces, more data that intelligence analysts have to confront, more customers that don't have security clearances that need intelligence, people like voters who need to understand foreign election interference, and more competitors. that is probably the most challenging more, which is that u.s. intelligence agencies do not dominate the analysis and collection of information like they did in the cold war. anyone with an internet connection or cell phone can produce, collect and analyze intelligence. mores -- those five mores are really challenging fundamentals of the inte

i'm amy goodman.a p united nations official has warned fighting in ethiopia's northern to gray region has spawned the worst humanitarian disaster on earth. world health organization, who is originally from tigray, says it threatens the lives of millions. >> i can tell you the humanitarian crisis is more than ukraine. without any exaggeration. and i said it many months ago, maybe the reason is the color of this can of the people in tigray. , go his remarks came as if you nobly and officials called for formal cease-fire agreement to end nearly two years of fighting with separatist were some 6 million people have been largely cut off from the outside world for months, unable to aess food, medicine, and other necessities. they have called it obvious geisha meant to distract from ongoing fighting. the united nations no -- once the conflict has combined with the worst drought to threaten the lives of 20 million people. in ukraine, a russian missile left dozens injured. video of the aftermath showed rescue w

i'm amy goodman. gaza, at least 44 palestinians, including 15 children, have been kill in three days of an israeli military bombardment before a ceasefire began on sunday. at least 350 palestinians were wounded. palestinians accused the israeli government of launching the attack in an effort to build political support ahead of november's elections. palestinian children who survived the israeli assault described horrifying situations. this is a nine-year-old girl named leen matar who was rescued -- pulled from the rubble. >> i was at my grandfather's house when suddenly the rubble started to fall on us and we started screaming and the neighbors came to rescue us. we don't want to keep going through this. every year there are strikes, killing children and injuries. i am happy i am alive because i always had a dream to become a doctor and help people in such times, to help them because i have been through many problems like this. amy: israel defended the bombardment of gaza saying it was a preemptive ope

i'm amy goodman. the top democrat and republican on the senate intelligence committee have made a joint request for lawmakers be allowed to see the classified documents seized last week by the fbi during its raid of former president donald trump's mar-a-lago estate. democrat mark warner and republican marco rubio made the request sunday to the justice department and the office of the director of national intelligence. on friday, the u.s. district court for the southern district of florida unsealed and released the search warrant for the raid. the warrant revealed trump is being investigated for three federal crimes -- violating the espionage act, obstruction of justice, and criminal handling of government records. the fbi reportedly seized 11 sets of classified documents during its search, iluding papers marked "topecret/i," which ands for sensitive compartmented information, one of the highest levels of classification. last week, "the washington post" reported part of the fbi search focused on classi

amy: as u.n. secretary general antonio guterres warns about the growing risk of nuclear war, we look at efforts to revive the iran nuclear deal. after 16 months of negotiations, a final text has been sent to washington and tehran. we will get the latest. plus, we look at a growing house -- housing crisis in the united states as rents soar and cities crackdown on the unhoused. >> [indiscernible] safety is to find the opportunity. amy: texas republican governor greg abbott is sending busloads of asylum-seekers to so-called liberal cities like new york and washington, d.c. we will speak with the head of the new york immigration coalition. all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. ukraine's military says its special forces were behind a blast at a russian air base in crimea on tuesday that destroyed ne russian warplanes. if confirmed, it would be ukraine's most successful attack on russian air power since the start of the war

i'm amy goodman. at least 21 people died in somalia after militants stormed an upscale hotel in mogadishu friday beginning a 30-hour siege. somali officials say at least 117 people were wounde authorities accused militants with the group al shabab of attacking and seizing the hotel at 7:00 p.m. local time on friday. an intense battle between the -- of the hotel lasted until saturday night. it was the first large attack in mogadishu since somalia's new president hassan sheikh mohamud took offe in may. the attack in somalia comes at a time when the country is on the brink of famine. the head of the world food program david beasley visited somalia last week and warned the humanitarian crisis is intensifying. >> climate changes impacting the entire world and where i stand here and the horn of africa, absolutely no different. we are looking at 20 million people marching to starvation here in the horn of africa. where i stand in somalia, 7 million people. that is twice as many as it was just six month ago.

i'm amy goodman.kentucky, the death toll from last week's massive rainstorms and flooding has risen to 28, including several children. on sunday, kentucky governor andy beshear told nbc's meet the press that recovery crews face weeks of work, even as forecasters predict more rain in the coming days. >> this is one of the most devastating, deadly floods we have seen in our history with the level of water. we are going to be finding bodies for weeks, many of them swept hundreds of yards, core plus from where they were lost. amy: meteorologists say the record-breaking deluge would have had a one in 1000 chance of happening if not for climate change. in california, governor gavin newsom has declared a state of emergency after a fire in the klamath national forest grew to become the state's largest of the year, scorching more than 52,000 acres near the california-oregon border. in montana, the elmo wildfire expanded overnight, tripling in size to over 11 square miles. in other climate news, in iran, at lea

i'm amy goodman. the fbi seized more than 100 50 documents marked classified when it searched the residence of former president donald trump earlier this month. that is according to "the new york times," which reports the sheer number of top-secret documents held by trump ignited intense concern at the justice department and triggered the criminal investigation that led to the august 8 raid. on monday, trump's lawyers asked the judge to appoint an independent arbiter known as a special master to review whether the documents were seized properly by the fbi. if the district judge canon approves the request, it could slow a federal, investigation into whether trump broke the espionage act and the presidential records act was to judge kate and was nominated to the u.s. district court the southern district of florida in 2020. by then, president trump. it is believed he now took more than 300 classified documents to mar-a-lago. ukraine's government has issued a curfew in the capital kyiv and banned public e

i'm amy goodman. russia has rejected a call by the united nations to create a demilitarized zone around the russian-controlled zaporizhzhia nuclear power station. russia's foreign ministry on thursday called the russian army's occupation of the site in southeastern ukraine a guarantee against a "chernobyl scenario," a reference to the 1986 nuclear catastrophe in northern ukraine. russia's rejection of the deal follows thursday's visit by u.n. secretary-general antonio gutteres to lviv, in western ukraine, where he met with ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy and turkish president recep erdogan. he said fighting by russia and ukraine near the plant risks a worldwide nuclear disaster. >> equipment and personnel should be withdrawn from the plant, for the diploma in of forces and equipment must be avoided. the area needs to be demilitarized. any potential damage to several e.g. is suicide. -- zaporizhzhia is suicide. amy:oday guterres is visiting the coastal city of odesa to inspect ain shipments aft

amy: u.s.tary of state antony blinken accused russia of "dangerous nuclear saber rattling" over its invasion of ukraine and blamed iran and north korea for harming efforts at nonproliferation. his comments come as the u.s. and the world's eight other nuclear-armed nations continue to refuse to sign the treaty on the prohibition of nuclear weapons, which was adopted by the un last year after it was ratified by more than 50 states. -- 50 countries. in iraq, hundreds of supporters of the powerful shiite cleric muqtada al-sadr continue to occupy the iraqi parliament, protesting efforts led by al-sadr's pro-iran rivals to form a new government. al-sadr supporters have declared an open-ended sit-in at parliament until their demands are answered. meanwhile thousands of al-sadr opponents held a counter protest monday and were met with police using water cannons. at least 125 people have been injured in the unrest. the formation of a new government has been stalled since the parliament election was held

amy: u.s. house speaker nancy pelosi becomes a high striking official to visit taiwan in quarter of a century. china responds with military drills. we'll go to taipei to speak with brian hioe, taiwanese-american journalist and editor of new bloom magazine and we'll speak with michael swaine, director of the quincy institute, author of "america's challenge: engaging a rising china in the twenty-first century." senate republicans reverse themselves again and pass a bill to aid u.s. veterans poisoned by the pentagon's use of toxic burn pits in iraq and afghanistan after being shamed by veteran victims, their survivors, and comedian jon stewart. >> i will say this, i am not sure i have ever seen a situation where people who have already given so much had to fight so hard to get so little. i hope we learn our lesson. amy: president biden says toxic burn pits may have contributed to the death of his son beau biden who served in iraq and died of brain cancer. we will look at the impact of burn pits no

i'm amy goodman.dent biden has announced plans to cancel as much as $20,000 in student debt to help as many as 40 million borrowers. response to president biden's cancellation plan has been mixed across the political spectrum. vermont senator bernie sanders hailed the plan as a big deal but added, we have got to do more. senate majority leader mitch mcconnell condemned the plan as student loan socialism. meanwhile, many student debtholders who own more than the $20,000 say the plan does not go far enough. this is an artist to hold about $100,000 in student loan debt. >> biden's announcement means that we need to continue to apply pressure. it is great that he has made that decision, is going in the right direction, but also as people we don't have to accept crumbs. amy: after headlines, we will hear more from members of the debt collective on president biden's student loan forgiveness plan. a federal judge has blocked a part of idaho's trigger ban from taking effect payment a district judge struck dow

amy: u.n. secretary general antÓnio guterres said -- "mikhail gorbachev was a one-of-a kind statesman who changed the course of history. the world has lost a towering global leader, committed multilateralist, and tireless advocate for peace." in moscow, a top kremlin spokesperson described gorbachev as an extraordinary person but said his romanticism about rapprochement with the west was not justified. there are reports in russian media that gorbachev will not receive a state funeral. russian president vladimir putin has called the dissolution of the soviet union ithe 1991 "greatest geopolitical catastrophe" of the 20th century. u.n. secretary general antonio guterres is warning that he world is sleepwalking toward the destruction of the planet by planet. he made the comment in a plea for nations to help pakistan recover from devastating floods that have left a third of the country under water and have killed over 1100, while displacing 33 million. >> the government of pakistan has asked for th

amy: that was howard zinn.back, we continue with our zinn-tennial with a speech that he made two weeks after the u.s. invaded afghanistan in 2001. back in 30 seconds. ♪♪ [music break] amy: "ludlow massacre" by woody guthrie. about a colorado militia got call strikers. howard zinn said hearing the song was a defining moment for him and made him to research and tell stories left out of most history books. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. as we continue with our zinn-tennial. remembering the legendary historian howard zinn on what would have been his 100th birthday. on october 21, 2001, howard zinn gave a major address at the university of vermont, burlington. this was just over a month after the 9/11 attacks and two weeks after the u.s. invaded afghanistan beginning what became the longest war in u.s. history. it was a year ago this month that the u.s. finally withdrew from afghanistan and the taliban regain control. this is howard zinn in 2001. howard: i emphas

i'm amy goodman.n iraq, at least 30 are dead and hundreds more injured after fighting intensified in the capital baghdad as fighting continues between supporters and opponents of the powerful shiite cleric muqtada al-sadr. the violence came after he claimed he would be quitting pilot six. iraqi security forces iran-backed militias and , supporters of al-sadr clashed in baghdad's heavily fortified green zone -- an area that houses foreign embassies and government buildings -- following al-sadr's announcement he's quitting politics. >> before we were committed to the orders of al-sadr. he is letting the people take the lead in their own revolution. we are ready to die. we have nothing to lose. am the formation of a new iraqi government has been paralyzed since parliamentary elections in october, where al-sadr's sadrist movement won the most seats but has faced failed to win a majority. al-sadr's supporters had occupied the iraqi parliament since late july in an effort to block lawmakers from choosing a

amy: as the u.n. secretary-general warns of possible nuclear annihilation, we look at the growing threat of nuclear war as tensions escalate between the united states and two other nuclear powers, russia and china. we will also look at why the head of the u.n. atomic energy agency is warning the situation at ukraine's largest nuclear power went is completely out of control. russia is using it as a shield to attack ukrainian forces. plus, we look at why the american right is embracing hungary's authitarian leader viktor orbÁn who just met with nald trump and is addressing cpac today, the conservative political action conference. this all comes just days after orbÁn delivered a racist speech that drew comparisons to the naziz. >> we cannot except talking about races and mixing of res within the jewish community. amy: one orbÁn longtime aide to orbÁn, describing his remarks as pu nazi text worthy of gerbils. all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace repo

juan: hi, amy.elcome to all of our listeners and viewers from around the country and around the world. amy: we begin today's show in albuquerque, new mexico, where police say they've arrested a primary suspect in the recent killings of four muslim men in the city. the suspect himself is a muslim man. this comes after the body of naeem hussain was found late earlier this month, just hours after he attended the funerals of pakistani immigrants muhammed afzaal hussain and aftab hussein at the islamic center of new mexico. those two were killed the week before in what police described as separate ambush-style shootings. a fourth south asian muslim man, mohammad ahmadi, was killed in november. since the murders, many members of the muslim community say th've been afraid to go outside. albuquerque police deputy commander kyle hartsock gave an update on the arrest at a news conference tuesday afternoon. >> july 2022 late at night, aftab hussein was found shot to death. on august 1, late at night, muhammad

juan: hi, amy.welcome to all of our listeners and viewers from around the country and around the world. amy: the fbi has seized documents from donald trump's mar-a-lago resort in florida monday morning. multiple news organizations are reporting the fbi executed a search warrant as part of a probe into whether trump illegally removed 15 boxes of white house records, including some classified documents, after he left office. the fbi and justice department has made no official comment about what happened monday. the fbi is run by christopher wray, who was appointed by president trump. the contents have also not been revealed. on monday, trump issued a statement saying -- "my beautiful home, mar-a-lago in palm beach, florida, is currently under siege, raided, and occupied by a large group of fbi agents. they even broke into my safe!" trump was in new york at the time. the federal investigation into trump's handling of the records has been escalating for months. cnn reports the fbi interviewed aides to t

i'm amy goodman. in ukraine, the russian-occupied zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant was cut off from the national power grid thursday, after fighting between russian and ukrainian forces sparked fires that destroyed a transmission line. without a source of outside power, the plant's automated system switched to an emergency backup a last line of defense against nuclear meltdown. zaporizhzhia is europe's largest nuclear power station, with six reactors and thousands of tons of highly radioactive materials stored on site. on thursday, ukraine's president volodimir zelensky said russia has put the whole world at risk of a major nuclear disaster. >> diesel generators were immediately activated to provide energy to the station itself to support it after the shutdown. the world must understand what a threat this is. if the diesel generators had not turned on, if the automation in those stations had not passed, we would have been forced to overcome the consequences of the radiation. russia has put ukraine and

please welcome amy mcgrath. [applause] our next guest more than 26 years as special agent with the gefbi and today she recalls the experiences that shaped her life. please welcome kathy stearman. [applause] you can hear me. so amy is going to let me ask the first question. first of all i want to say to you amy thank you for everything you have done for our country and your service and for all that you have done for young women who follow you and all those little girls who can look at amy and not ask the question, will i be able to do that? will i be able to fly back f-18? those little girls can say i can do that and that's because of amy soaked givee her a big hand for that. [applause] my first question is this. for me and for i would say most people in this room we are never going to fly in fa 18, right? the closest we will ever come is watching the new tom cruise movie where he's not really flying the plane. so i've really want to know and amy touched on this in her book about flying in fa 18 but i want to kno

hi amy. my daughter is in the rotc where she goes to school if you could give her some advice, what would you tell her? she an army or navy army. awesome that's great. i would tell her stick with it. there's going to be good days. there's going to be bad days. just she's gonna look back and never regret it. that's what i would tell her. i i see you coming. i'm coming. right here. pardon me? if you'll stand up, please. so i've read your book kathy and of course, i love it, but i have a question what and this is just piddly but why do they call that position leg get it sounds like you have to be a lawyer. so can you explain that a little bit? that is a question that every legat has asked fbi headquarters since the legal attachÉ offices were open. um the department of justice actually sends attaches over to embassies as well and they are called the i don't know. doj attache or something like that. and so the fbi said well, we send attaches over they have to have a different name so they came up

with a woman named amy flora. together, but it didn't last. >> after 12 years, you would think that there would be some kind of a proposal, or something. but like i said, he's kind of a motionless, so -- >> you really didn't want to get married? >> no, and i want to eventually be merry. you know, every girl does. everybody wants their fairytale wedding. >> amy and dave state friendly for the sake of their kits. and amy neo-about dates other women. heard about carrie. >> you expected you to meet her to some point, if it continues? >> yeah, if it continued, i would have liked to meet her. >> but amy did not meet cari, not then. no idea it was coming. >> early that november of 2012, cari told dave she had a big project at work. she would stay over at his place, instead of driving home to the country every night. until they began their work week together, and then, on tuesday, november 13th -- >> i gave her a kiss on her way out to the door. like, high, see later, honey. i was almost like a, that sort of 50s tv show g

amy, why don't you go ahead and get started please? >> well in short yes. and what is important to note is that the n.d.s in 2018 and what appears to be the way we're going in 2022 is that this way of thinking of how we have to structure our force is a aligned with both the republican and a democratic administration. so this isn't a knee jerk reaction. we've been thinking about moving from how do we move from sort of land conflicts in the middle east to focus more on sea based, you know, conflicts in the pacific and so this force design in my opinion from general berger is looking at how does the marine corps fit into that bigger piece? and i think, you know, i think it makes sense. >> mike, over to you. >> thanks, melanie, and also excellent introduction of the topic and of both of us and like you, i am thrilled to have my good friend amy mcgrath, just a real american hero. part of this discussion today , for me, the answer is mostly yes, and we'll get into specifics in a little bit. there is a chance in my opinion, the general has gone slightly too far on

responsible for all of it. >> reporter: investigators know amy is innocent.ut they tell liz they need her help in getting amy to confess to cari's murder, hoping liz will incriminate herself in the process. >> it took a few days for liz to play into their hand. >> reporter: liz starts forwarding emails she says were from amy. investigators press her to get specifics on how cari died. >> when i met crazy cari, she would not stop talking about dave and him being her husband. she fried to attack me, but i attacked her with a knife. stabbed her three or four times in the chest and stomach area, then took her out and burned her. i stuffed her body in a bar began can with crap. >> reporter: in another email liz reveals the crime scene. >> she writes, i really did kill cari, and i did do it in her own car. >> reporter: police then search cari's car. >> we opened up this door, pulled out the passenger seat, pulled off the fabric, that's where we found that big, red stain on the bottom of the seat. the positive test for human blood. >> reporter: a dna test of the bloo

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