i'm amy goodman. in france, former investment banker and political centrist emmanuel macron was elected president on sunday in a decisive victory against far-right candidate marine le pen. with the majority of votes counted, macron won about 65% to le pen's 35%. even though le pen lost, it was a record performance for her party, the national front, whose anti-immigrant policies once made it a pariah. le pen had campaigned on an openly xenophobic and racist platform, calling for france to crack down on immigration and leave the european union. on sunday night, macron addressed thousands of supporters in front of the louvre museum in paris. >> europe and the world expececs us to o defend t the spirit of on the threat in some many places. they expect us to defend freedom everywhere, to protect the oppressed. they expect us to bring some new hohope, i knew humanism, that oa safer world, protected freedoms, a world of growth with more .ustice, more ecology amy: macron ran on a pro-trade, pro-eu and pro-nat

amy goodman, of course, was there. that was the video we showed from labor day weekend when the water protectors came up on the property where they did not expect to see the dakota access pipeline bulldozers, excavating what they called their sacred land, and the security guards unleashed dogs on the water protectors who were biting the people and the horses. right. so after that, tigerswan came on as sort of manager for all of these various small sticky firms -- security firms involved. they did not even receive a license to operate this security firm in north dakota, framing themselves as management and i.t. consultants rather than saying they provide no security work. amy: after your article was published in the intercept, north dakota indigenous activist and organizer kandi mossett posted a picture of a small device on facebook, writing -- "this bug was found under a table in a room at the prairie knights casino in october 2016. i do believe it's a violation of some sort for a hotel to bug their rooms. i'm sure thi

i'm amy goodman. nermeen: and i'm nermeen shaikh. welcome to all of our listeners and viewers from around the country and around the world. president trump has set off a political firestorm after firing fbi director james comey just weeks after comey confirmed the fbi was investigating whether trump's campaign collaborated with russia to sway the 2016 election. comey was four years into a 10-year term.

i'm amy goodman. hundreds of thousands, if not more than a million people poured into the streets around , the world on saturday for a global people's climate march, which coincided with president trump's 100th day in office. as temperatures topped more than degrees in washington, d.c., 95 tying the record for the hottest april 29 ever recorded in the capitol, more than 200,000 people filled 20 blocks of pennsylvania avenue, marching for climate, jobs and justice. the protesters decried president trump's steps to roll back environmental regulations, appoint climate change deniers as the heads of government agencies, and defined in a race climate change programs and research, including the move friday, only hours before the march, to scrub climate science pages from epa's website. sister marches were held hundreds of u.s. cities, from new york city to the downpour in chicago, to the snow in denver, to boston, los angeles, miami, to dutch harbor, alaska. demonstrations were also held worldwide, includin

i'm amy goodman. we are broadcasting today from tampa, florida, from tampa pbs. i'm amy goodman.close t today's show with a look at the battle between residents of eastern north carolina and one of the state's largest industries, hog farms. last week, the north carolina lawmakers passed house bill 467, which limits the damages that residents can collect against hog farms. the billion-dollar industry is primarily clustered in the eastern part of north carolina where hog farms collect billions , of gallons of untreated pig feces and urine in what are essentially cesspools, then dispose of the waste by spraying it into the air. in an investigation into the industry, filmmaker mark devries used drones to capture aerial footage of several massive facilities that supply pigs for smithfield foods. he spoke with steve wing, associate prprofessor of epididemiology at the univiversy of north carolina's giddings schoolol of public health whwho described what happens in the facilities. >> the waste passes through the floors w will stop get i is fled out into an open pit, like a cesspool. >>

i'm amy goodman. in sweden, prosecutor friday dropped the investigation into allegations of sexual misconduct by wikileaks founder julian assange. assange has always denied the allegations, which he is called a pretext for his ultimate extradition to the u.s. to face prosecution under the espionage act. since 2012, assange has taken refuge in the ecuadorean embassy in london. it's not clear whether assange will emerge any time soon. wikileaks tweeted friday -- "u.k. refuses to confirm or deny whether it has already received a u.s. extradition warrant for julian assange. focus now moves to u.k." last month, u.s. attorney general jeff sessions confirmed that the u.s. has prepared a warrant for assange, calling his arrest a priority. and washington, d.c., president donald trump has -- assailed his critics thursday over a series of scandals that have rocked his administration, calling an investigation into alleged ties between russia and trump associates a witch hunt. speaking at a white house news confer

i'm amy goodman. we are broadcasting from los angeles. the department of justice has tapped former fbi director robert mueller as special counsel in an investigation into russia's role in the 2016 u.s. election, including allegations russia colluded with donald trump's campaign to sway the presidential race. the move by deputy attorney general rod rosenstein came one day after reports emerged that president trump had personally asked former fbi director james comey to end the agency's investigation into trump's former national security adviser, michael flynn, who was fired for lying both publicly and privately about his contacts with russian officials. mueller's appointment came as the "new york times" reports flynn told president trump's transition team weeks before the inauguration that he was under federal investigation for secretly working as a paid lobbyist for turkey during the campaign. that is far earlier than the administration previously admitted. meanwhile, reuters is reporting flynn and other advisers to trump's campaign were

i'm amy goodman. we are broadcasting from atlanta, georgia, as we traveled the country covering the movements changing america. the house of representatives on thursday voted narrowly to do away with the affordable care act, replacing it with a healthcare bill that would traumatically rolled back medicaid provide billions of , dollars' in tax cuts for the wealthy gut protections for , patients with pre-existing conditions, and add tens of millions of americans to the ranks of the uninsured. the legislation passed by a vote of 217-213, with 20 republicans and every democrat opposed. house speaker paul ryan rushed the vote at the request of president trump, before the congressional budget office had a chance to score the bill, meaning republicans voted in favor of legislation whose full impact remains unknown. speaker ryan hailed the vote as an historic achievement. cook's a lot of us have been waiting seven years to cast this vote. many of us are here because we pledged to cast this very vote. amy: pre

i'm amy goodman. around the world, millions of workers took to the streets monday for may day, also known as international workers day. this year, in california, tens of thousands of people took to the streets in the bay area, as immigrant workers refused to go to work and students walked out of class. in milwaukee, wisconsin, more than 30,000 people marched to demand the governor fire milwaukee county sheriff dave clarke, block anti-immigrant legislation, and return driver's licenses to undocumented immigrants. at least 140 businesses were shut down across milwaukee. in texas, two dozen people were arrested, including austin city councilmember gregorio casar, after an eight hour sit-in at the office of texas governor greg abbott in protest of anti-immigrant bill sb4. this is julie ann nitsch. a six generation texan. my family has served this country for a very long time. we did not come to this country to live in a country where people are stopped, detain, and abused because of the color of their ski

i'm amy goodman. in a major setback to president trump, the u.s. 4th circuit court of appeals has refused to reinstate trump's ban on all refugees and citizens of six majority-muslim nations from entering the united states in the majority decision chief judge roger gregory wrote that trump's executive order uses "vague words of national security, but in con drips with religious intolerance, animus, and discrimination." the justice department has vowed to challenge the appeals court ruling and take it to thee suprpre court. in montana, republican tech millionaire greg gianforte has won a special election for t the state's solele congressional set a day after he was charged with assaulting a reporter. gianforte won about 51% of the vote defeating democratic , challenger rob quist received 44%. on wednesday, gianforte body-slammed guardian reporter ben jacobs to the floor after jacobs tried to ask about the republican healthcare plan. gianforte addressed the incident during his victory speech last night.

i'm amy goodman. in manchester, england, at least 22 people were killed in a bombing at a concert arena at the end of a performance by american pop star ariana grande. dozens more were wounded in the explosion, which appears to be a suicide attack. this is 19-year-old sebastian diaz, who survived the blast. >> we heard the explosion. we just looked behind us and there was chaos. in front of us, people were screaming. towere determining whether stay and seek shelter or on and try to get out. people were running and screaming around us and pushing down the stairs to go outside. people were falling down. girls were crying. we fill these women being treated by paramedics with wounds on the legs. no shoes. it was just chaos. amy: police say they are investigating the explosion as a terrorist incident, and that the alleged attacker died in the explosion. this morning on twitter, isis claimed responsibility for the attack. british prime minister theresa may says the police know the identity of the alleged at

i'm amy goodman. we are broadcasting from san francisco. a global computer hack, using a cyberweapon developed by the national security agency, has disrupted hospitals, universities, government offices, gas stations, atm machines, and more than 200,000 computers worldwidide. it is expected to grow worse as people return to work this morning. on f friday, the cyberattatacks ben n to rple e thugh momo than 15050 countries, locking medical workers out of the computer systems at dozens of british and indonesian hospitals, disrupting train schedules in germany preventing , chinese students from accessing their final papers and , freezing government computers from russia's interior ministry to police stations in india. experts say it's the first time a cybeberweapon developed d by e nsnsa has been stolen and relead by hackers. the cyberweapon exploits weaknesses in microsoft software. it appears the u.s. government knew for years about this weakness in the software, but only told microsoft about the vulnera

i'm amy goodman. in britain, nearly 4000 soldiers have been deployed nationwide in the wake of a suicide bombing that killed 22 people and injured scores more at a concert monday night. the victims were mostly young girls and parents who had taken their daughters to the concert by american pop star ariana grande. authorities have identified the bombing suspect as salman abedi, a 22-year-old british man whose parents emigrated from libya. early this morning, police arrested three more people in manchester as part of the investigation. isis has claimed responsibility for the attack. prime minister theresa may has announced thatat the threat levl in the u.k. will be raised from severe to critical, indicating another attack may be imminent. we'll go to london for more on the bombing with political commentator, historian, and activist tariq ali a after headlines. in the u united states, presidet donald trump has lawyered up, appointing attorney marc kasowitz to represent him in the ongoing investigation in

i'm amy goodman. more details are coming to light about president trump's firing of fbi director james comey. "the new york times" is reporting comey's dismissal came just days after he asked the justice department for more resources to expand the bureau's investigation into russia's meddling in the presidential election. comey made the appeal to deputy attorney general rod rosenstein, the same official who wrote the memo trump later used to justify comey's firing. meanwhile, the "washington post" reports rosenstein has threatened to resign after the white house cast him as the main instigator in the firing of comey. the white house has given conflicting explanations as to why comey was dismissed. privately, white house aides say trump was infuriated by comey's recent congressional testimony about the fbi probe into russia. but during a press briefing on wednesday, deputy white house press secretary sarah huckabee sanders accused comey of committing atrocities wile -- while investigating former democr

i'm amy goodman. we're on the road in san diego, california. the white house was rocked by yet another major scandal tuesday after the "new york times" reported that president trump personally asked fbi director james comey to end the agency's investigation into trump's former national security advisor michael flynn. "the times" reports trump made the extraordinary request to comey during an oval office meeting february 14, one day after trump fired flynn for lying both publicly and privately about his contacts with russian officials. trump reportedly asked vice president mike pence and attorney general jeff sessions to leave the room before making the request to comey, saying -- "i hope you can see your way clear to letting this go, to letting flynn go. he is a good guy. i hope you can let this go." "the times" based its report on two sources who cited a memo written by then fbi director comey after the meeting. on tuesday night, jason chaffetz, the republican chair of the house oversight committee,

i'm amy goodman. president trump is visiting israel today as part of his first trip abroad as president. during the two-day trip, he and secretary of state rex tillerson will meet with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu and other top israeli officials. it is tillerson's first trip ever to israel. in a controversial move trump is , also slated to become the first sitting u.s. to visit the wailing wall in jerusalem. trump's visit comes after widespread protests broke out frididay across the israeli occupied west bank after a jewish settler killed a young palestinian on thursday. more than protesters were 100 injured as israeli security forces shot live bullets and tear gas at the thousands of demonstrators. the protests were also in support of the ongoing hunger strikes by palestinians in israeli jails. this morning as donald trump arrived in israel, 200 more prisoners reportedly joined the strike. over the weekend, trump visited saudi arabia, where he signed a series of arms deals totaling a rec

tonight a conversation with amy goodman. we're glad you could join us. amy good man in just a moment. >>> and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >>> amy goodman has been cover ing politics for 20 years now. her newest book is now available in paperback. she joins us tonight from stanford, california. good to have you back on the program. >> it's great to be with you. >> are there still in fact movements that are changing america or are we up against something we haven't seen the likes of ever? and if not ever, certainly in quite a while? >> both. i think there are major movements that are changing this country still. in fact, our escalating, you look just at these three. the media played a lot of the first 100 days of donald trump, as we should have. the evaluation of what he has managed to do so far. what wasn't done as much is evaluating the movements, and they've been quite astonishing, the day after president trump was inaugurated. three times the crowd for his inauguration came out. a lot was made of the fact that

i'm amy goodman with nermeen shaikh. idpresident trump has off a political firestorm after firing fbi director james comey just weeks after comey confirmed the fbi was investigating whether trump's campaign collaborated with russia to sway the 2016 election. on tuesday, senator chuck schumer reiterated his call for the department of justice to appoint a special prosecutor to the pro into the 2016 election saying failure to do so would rightly make the american public believe there had been a cover-up in comey's firing. >> the only way the american people can have faith in this investigation is for it to be independent,less, special prosecutor. if deputy attorney general rosenstein does not appoint an independent special prosecutor, every american will rightly suspect that the decision to fire director comey was part of a cover-up. nermeen: that is democratic chuck schumer. meanwhile in an interview with cnn's anderson cooper tuesday night, white house counselor kellyanne conway disputed that trump and his white house are

i'm amy goodman. president trump has once again changed his story about why he fired fbi director james comey. now admitting on nbc he made t e decisision in part due to come's probe russia's meddling in the 2016 election. pres. t trump: regardless of recommendation, i was gogoing to fire comey, knowing there was no good time to do it. and in fact, when i decided to just do it him i sasaid to myse, i saidid, you know, this russia thing w with trump and russia ia mamade up story. it is an excuse for the democrats are having lost an election that they should have one. amy: president trump's comment directly contradicts numeral matters -- numerous statements by white house aides in recent days, as well as trump's own claim he fired, over the handling of the investigation into hillary clinton and her use of private you now servers. according to "the new york times," comey was fired after requesting more resources for his probing to the russia-trump connection. during that same interview, trump also called

i'm amy goodman. we are broadcasting from toronto, canada. in new revelations about possible collusion between the trump campaign and alleged russian efforts to influence the 2016 election, the "new york times" is reporting that u.s. sponsored senior russian political and intelligence discussing ways to use then-trump campaign chairman paul manafort and trump adviser michael flynn in order to exert influence over donald trump himself. in the alleged conversations last summer, the russian officials reportedly bragged about their close ties to michael flynn, as well as to former ukrainian president viktor yanukovych, who has worked closely with manafort. it is not known whether russian officials ever actually tried to influence manafort or flynn or, if so, whether they were successful. meanwhile, the "washington post" is reporting former fbi director james comey may have been influenced by a fake russian intelligence document when he decided to publicly denounce hillary clinton's handling of emails as e

i'm amy goodman. president trump has returned to the united states after his first foreign trip as president, where trump faced condemnation from u.s. allies for his failures to commit the united states to fulfilling its pledges to the landmark 2015 paris climate accord. is german chancellor angela merkel speaking sunday after contentious meetings that nato and brussels in a g7 meeting in sicily. long and how rocky this will be came clear when no agreement was reached with the united states. that is why i have to say the consultations were very unsatisfying. is, of course, a close partner of the united states. we are and will stay convinced transatlantic, but we also know we europeans really have to take our destiny into our own hands. amy: the german foreign minister went even further, saying of trump -- "anyone who accelerates climate change by weakening environmental protection, who sells more weapons in conflict zones and who does not want to politically resolve religious conflicts is putting peac

i'm amy goodman. the beginning of the end. that's what many are saying about the trump presidency following the "washington post's"s" explosive article revealing how president trump disclosed highly classified intelligence during his sit-down meeting with russian foreign minister sergei lavrov and russian ambassador sergey kislyak at the white house last week, only one day after he fired fbi director james comey over his investigation into whether the trump campaign colluded with russia to influence the 2016 election. citing unnamed u.s. officials, "the post" reports trump began bragging to the two russian officials about his intelligence briefings, saying -- "i get great intel. i have people brief me on great intel every day." trump went on to disclose highly classified information provided by a third-party about the possible threat of isis launching an attack on an airplane using a computer bomb. this is the "washington post's" greg miller, one of the co-authors of the report. >> at sosome point, ,