i'm amy goodman. president biden arrived in israel wednesday for a four-day middle east visit that includes a stop in saudi arabia. israel's interim prime minister yair lapid held a red carpet ceremony as biden landed at ben gurion airport, giving him what "the new york times" called a "rapturous welcome" and calling him "our brother joseph." before departing the airport, biden toured a u.s.-funded advanced missile defense system. on friday, biden will visit the occupied west bank and meet with palestinian president mahmoud abbas. ahead of biden's trip, biden activists hung banners hung in bethlehem that read, "mr. president, this is apartheid." earlier today, biden met with israeli prime minister yair lapid in jerusalem, where the pair discussed iran's nuclear program and the war in ukraine. the u.s. and israel are expected to announce a joint declaration building on past calls to take military action halt iran's nuclear program. biden has promised he won't agree to any deal that would restore the la

i'm amy goodman in new york, joined by democracy now! o-host juan gonzÁlez in new brunswick, new jersey. hi, juan. juan: hi, amy. welcome to all of our listeners and viewers from around the country and around the world. amy: on his historic trip across canada, pope francis has -- is apologizing for the abuse of indigenous children who were removed from their homes and sent to church-run residential schools where they faced psychological, physical, and sexual abuse. francis made the apology in maskwacis, alberta, the site of a former residential school. >> i'm here because the first step of my pilgrimage among you is that of asking forgiveness, of telling you once more that i am deeply sorry, sorry for the ways in which regrettably many christns suprted the colonizing mentality of the powers that oppressed the indigeno peoes. i am sorry. i ask forgiveness, in particular for the ways in which many membs of the church and religious community's cooperated , not least through their indifference, and a projects of cultural destruction and force

i'm amy goodman. as the war in ukraine enters its sixth month, russia and ukraine signed deals on friday to reopen ukrainian ports on the black sea in an effort to increase grain exports. the deals were brokered by the united nations and turkey. u.n. secretary general antonio guterres praised the development. >> and let there be no doubt, this is an agreement for the world. it will bring relief for developing countries on the edge of bankruptcy and the most vulnerable people on the edge of famine. amy: on saturday, just a day after the deal was reached, russia attacked the black sea port of odesa. ukraine said the missile attack damaged infrastructure, including a grain warehouse. russia said the missiles were targeting ukrainian military assets, including a docked warship and a warehouse housing u.s. supplied anti-ship missiles. ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy decried the attack on odesa as "barbarism" and said it "destroyed the very possibility" of dialogue with russia. in related news, some

i'm amy goodman. japan's former prime minister shinzo abe has been shot and killed by an assassin wielding what appeared to be a homemade gun stop he was campaigning for a parliamentary election friday morning and essential japan when two shots rang out. images of the attacks aftermath shows security officials tackling a man in a gray t-shirt . they later named the suspect, former member of japan's maritime self-defense force. footage from the scene shows what appears to be an improvised double barrel gun. japan's strict gun control laws prevent almost everyone from possessing guns. in 2021, there were 10 shooting incidents in japan, just one gun death. by comparison, the u.s. typically records 45,000 gun deaths each year. shinzo abe was airlifted to a nearby hospital with injuries to his neck and heart and pronounced dead earlier today from blood loss. he was 67 years old. he was the longest running prime minister of japan when he stepped down in 2020 citing poor health. over nearly eight years in of

i'm amy goodman. in highland park, illinois, the death toll in monday's mass shooting at the city's july 4 parade has risen to seven. the dead include a married couple, irina and kevin mccarthy, who attended the parade with their two year-old son aiden who was found wandering alone after the shooting. the boy's father died as he tried to protect his son from the rooftop sniper who fired 70 rounds at parade-goers. nine shooting victims remain hospitalized. on tuesday, authorities filed seven counts of first degree murder against the suspected gunman, a 21-year-old resident of highland park named robert crimo. police also acknowledged they visited the man's house twice in 2019, first after he tried to -- his family said he tried to take his own life by suicide and then when he threatened to "kill everyone." this is chris covelli, a spokesperson for the lake county's sheriff's office. >> the police removed 16 knives come a dagger, and a sword from crimo's home. at that time there was no probable cause to

i'm amy goodman in new york, joined by democracy now! co-host juan gonzÁlez in new brunswick, new jersey. hi, juan. juan: hi, amy. welcome to all of our listeners and viewers from around the country and around the world. amy: six people were killed and at least two dozen injured when a rooftop gunman armed with a high-power rifle attacked a fourth of july parade in the chicago suburb of highland park monday. the gunmen reportedly fired dozens of shots at parade goers shortly after 10:00 in the morning. five of the shooting victims died in the street, a sixth in the hospital. the chicago tribune reports the victims ranged in age from eight to 85. i witnesses described the scene of terror as parents scrambled to protect their children from the attack. one father said he hid his son in a dumpster to protect him. >> we were sitting right in front of the stage where the parade announcers were announcing and there was probably about 20, 30 feet away. i thought it was the navy saluting the flag with rifles. but when i saw people running, i picke

i'm amy goodman in new york, joined by democracy now! co-host juan gonzÁlez in new brunswick, new jersey. hi, juan. juan: hi, amy. welcome to all of our listeners and viewers from around the country and around the world. amy: and people should read your book "the harvest of empire: the history of latinos in america" to understand the diversity and the enormous rich history of the latinx population in this country, juan. we begin today's show in sri lanka, where president gotabaya rajapaksa has reportedly made a failed attempt to flee the country ahead of his resignation set for agence france-presse wednesday. reports the president may now use a navy patrol craft to flee the island nation which is facing a major economic crisis and saw thousands of protesters storm the president's home saturday and set fire to the prime minister's residence. protesters are still occupying the president's home until he formally resigns. rajapaksa is immune from arrest while he is still president and may be trying to leave in order to avoid being detained. h

i'm amy goodman. a federal appeals court in georgia has ruled the states near total ban on abortion can take effect immediately. the 2019 law outlaws abortions once fetal cardiac to what he is present. it also changes the definition of a natural person to include fetuses that have formed in utero after just a few weeks before many people even realize they are pregnant. the law provides for limited exceptions for rape and incest but if i survivor must first file a police report. in a joint statement, the amick and civil liberties union, the center for reproductive rights, and planned parenthood said "this is a highly unorthodox action that will immediately push essential abortion care out of reach for patients beyond the earliest stages of pregnancy." across the state, providers are being forced to turn away patients who thought they would be able to access abortion immediately change in the course of their lives and futures, they said. the house of representatives votes today on a bill guaranteeing ac

i'm amy goodman. boris johnson has announced his resignation as leader of the united kingdom's conservative party after he lost the support of much of his own cabinet. he spoke earlier today outside 10 downing street after some 60 members of parliament quit his government in recent days to protest a series of scandals. >> it is clearly now the will of the elementary conservative party that there should ash parliamentary conservative party that there shod be a new prime minister. the process of choosing that new leader should begin now. the timetable will be announced next week and i have appointed a cabinet to serve as i will until a new leader is in place. amy: he now faces widespread calls for his immediate resignation as prime minister, including from prominent members of his own party. after headlines, we will go to the u.k. for the latest. in illinois, a prosecutor investigating monday's massacre at a fourth of july parade in highland park says the suspect has confessed to the mass shooting, whic

i'm amy goodman in new york, joined by democracy now! -host juan gonzÁlez in new brunswick, new jersey. hi, juan. juan: hi, amy. welcome to all of our listeners and viewers from around the country and around the world. amy: outraged residents of uvalde, texas, confronted members of the city's school board monday nearly two months after an 18-year-old gunman shot dead 19 fourth graders and two teachers at robb elementary school. speakers at the meeting included 17-year-old jazmin cazares. her nine-year-old sister jackie died in the shooting. >> what are you guys going to do to make sure i don't have to watch my friends die? what are you going to do to make sure i don't have to wait 77 minutes, bleeding out on my classroom floor just like my little sister dead? i know there's nothing you can do to bring my sister back, but maybe -- maybe if you do something to change this, you can prevent the next family from losing their child. amy: the school board's meeting came a day after a texas house panel released a damning report on the response by

i'm amy goodman in new york, joined by democracy now! co-host juan gonzÁlez in new brunswick, new jersey. hi, juan. juan: hi, amy. welcome to all of our listeners and viewers from around the country and around the world. amy: the u.s. secret service has reportedly only provided a single text exchange to the department of homeland security inspector general who had requested the agency to hand over all text messages from 24 individuals around the time of the january 6 insurrection. the agency has also told the house january 6 committee that it has no new text messages to share with lawmakers. the secret service is claiming all of the messages have been purged. last week, a government watchdog with the homeland security department said in a letter to lawmakers that the erasure took place shortly after oversight officials requested electronic communications from the agency. -- the agency be preserved. the messages could come from testimony from former white house aide cassidy hutchinson to the house select committee to investigate the januar

i'm amy goodman. president biden has returned from his trip to the middle east where he met with saudi crown prince mohammed bin salman on friday. the two men greeted each other with a friendly fist bump. the meeting comes three years after biden vowed as a presidential candidate to make saudi arabia a pariah for the state-sponsored killing of "the washington post" columnist jamal khashoggi in istanbul. the publisher of "the washington post," fred ryan, criticized biden saying -- "the fist bump between president biden and mohammed bin salman was worse than a handshake -- it was shameful. it projected a level of intimacy and comfort that delivers to mbs the unwarranted redemption he has been desperately seeking." during a news conference after their meeting, biden said he confronted bin salman over khashoggi's murder. pres. biden: i raised at the top of the many what i thought at the time and what i think of it now, and knows exactly how straightforward and direct under discussing i i made my view crys

i'm amy goodman. the supreme court has voted to sharply limit the environmental protection agency's power to regulate carbon emissions from power plants. the courts 6-3 ruling in the case of west virginia v. epa is seen as a major victory for the fossil fuel industry and a result of a decades long attempt to limit the regulation of corporations. liberal justice elena kagan slammed the decision writing for the dissent -- "the court appoints itself, instead of congress or the expert agency, the decisionmaker on climate policy. i cannot think of many things more frightening." joining the majority opinion was trump appointee justice amy coney barrett, whose father helped lead the american petroleum institute for two decades. we will have more on the supreme court and the climate crisis after headlines. environmental groups have filed a pair of lawsuits seeking to block the biden administration from restarting lease sales for oil and gas wells on public lands in western states. together, the lawsuits seek

i'm amy goodman. president biden has met with palestinian leader mahmoud abbas and it is really occupied west bank. earlier today come he traveled from israel to the palestinian authority's presidential compound in bethlehem. his motorcade passed billboards and banners protesting your support for u.s. occupation as well as the killing of palestinian-america journalist shireen who shot dead by the military last may next to the jenin refugee camp. biden claimed u.s. continues to support a two state solution to the israeli-palestinian conflict and defended the u.s. response to the killing of shireen. >> pres. biden: she was an american, an american citizen, proud palestinian. i hope her legacy will inspire more young people to carry on her work in reporting the truth and telling stories that are too often overlooked. the united states will continue to assist on a full and transparent accounting of her death and will continue to stand up for media freedom everywhere in the world. amy: his remarks came aft

i'm amy goodman. president biden is urging the senate to swiftly pass the inflation reduction act of 2022 after west virginia senator joe manchin's a surprise announcement that he would support a budget reconciliation package to combat the climate crisis while lowering health care costs. the legislation represents just a fraction of the more than $3 trillion sought by progressive democrats in 2020. biden said thursday the deal would still be the most important climate legislation ever passed by congress payment pres. biden: this bill is far from perfect, it's a compromise. that is often how progress is made, by compromise. this bill would be the most significant legislation in history to tackle the climate crisis and improve our energy security right away. amy: the package includes nearly $370 billion in new spending on climate and energy over the next 10 years, but environmentalist morning it contains poison pills for the in -- environment, like the interior opening up millions of land to elements. t

i'm amy goodman.the house select committee to investigate the january 6 attack held a primetime hearing on thursday night focused on donald trump's refusal to take action asis supporters attacked the capitol on january 6. lawmakers focused on the three hour period after trump urged his supporters to march to the capitol and "fight like hell." knowing many of them were armed. for the next 187 minutes, trump refused to take any action to stop the deadly insurrection at the capitol. we will spend the hour airing excerpts from thursday's hearing. committee chair bennie thompson, who recently tested positive for covid, opened the hearing by speaking from a remote location. >> for the weeks between the november elections and january 6, donald trump was a force to be reckoned with. he shrugged off legality, correct, sober advice of his advisers. instead, he recklessly blazed a path of lawlessness and corruption come at the cost of which democracy be damned. and then he stopped. for 187 minutes on january 6,

i'm amy goodman.mass protests in sri lanka have forced the country's president and prime minister to agree to resign as the country faces a dire economic crisis. on saturday, thousands of protesters stormed president gotabaya rajapaksa's home and set fire to the prime minister's residence. protesters have vowed to keep occupying the president's home until he fmally resigns. many people were filmed swimming in the president's pool. demonstrators condemned the president for living in luxury while sri lanka faces an economic crisis. >> there president and the prime minister and to have a new era for sri lanka. also, i feel very sad they had not gone earlier. if they had gone earlier, there would not be destruction. it is time we got our stolen money back to the country. while people don't have electricity in their homes. amy: voters in japan went to the polls for parliamentary elections on days after a gunman sunday, two assassinated former prime minister shinzo abe while he was campaigning for a candida

i am amy goodman. ashe supreme court overturns roe v.e, we spend the rest of the hour looking at the fight for reproductive rights. on june 24, the conservative court ruled 6-3 in the case dobbs v. jackson women's health organization to uphold a republican-backed mississippi law that bans abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy while voting 5-4 to overturn roe v. wade. as protests continue across the country, we turn now to my conversation with two leading legal scholars who i spoke to after the ruling came down. kathryn "kitty" kolbert is co-founder of the center for reproductive rights. she argued the landmark supreme court case planned parenthood v. casey, which upheld roe. she is the co-author of "controlling women: what we must do now to save reproductive freedom." and michele goodwin is chancellor's professor at university of california-irvine school of law, host of the ms. magazine podcast "on the issues with michele goodwin," and author of "policing the womb: invisible women and the criminalization of motherhood." her new piece for

i'm amy goodman. the house committee investigating the january 6 attack on the u.s. capitol has revealed stark new details kind former president trump to the most violent extremist leading the insurrection. tuesday, the committee heard live testimony from former spokesperson for the oath keepers militia group jason van tatenhove. >> i think we need to quit mincing words and just talk about truths and what it was going to be was an armed revolution. people died that day. law enforcement officers died. there was a gallows set up in front of the capitol. this could have been the spark that started a new civil war and no one would have won there. amy: some of the evidence came from the recent video deposition of former white house counsel pat cipollone, who described heated arguments and at the west wing over trump's attempts to find a path which remain in power. we will spend the rest of the hour hearing highlights from tuesday's hearing. sri lanka's embattled president has fled the country aboard a mili

i'm amy goodman.est virginia senator joe manchin has agreed to a deal with democratic leaders on a major domestic policy bill to combat climate change and lower health-care costs, while paying down the national debt. the agreement caps nearly two years of negotiations that saw manchin repeatedly foil efforts by fellow democrats in the narrowly-divided senate to pass president biden's legislative agenda. the emerging deal seeks to slash u.s. emissions by nearly 40% by the end of the decade and will cost $400 billion with tax crits and bates for me insulation, solar panels, electric vehicles and more. the bill would also place a $2,000 cap on seniors' annual out-of-pocket costs for prescription drugs, and would for the first time, allow medicare to negotiate the price of drugs. the agreement with manchin does not include a tax increase on wealthy americans and instead it seeks to raise about , three-quarters of a trillion dollars over the next decade through a 15% minimum tax on corporations. it's not k

i am amy goodman. "the washington post" is porting the justice departnt is investigating former president ump as part of its iminal probe into efforts to overturn the 2020 election. as part of t probe prosecutors , have reptedly received phone records of key officials within trump's circle including his former chief of staff, mark meadows. "the post" also revealed two aides to former vice president mike pence, his chief of staff, marc short, and lawyer, greg jacob, recently testifd before a grand jury. on attorney general merrick tuesday, garland spoke to lester holt on nbc's nightly news. garland refused to rule out charging donald trump. ag garland: we plan to hold anyone who was responsible for events surrounding january 6 or any attempt to interfere with the lawful transfer of power from one administration to another, accountable. that's what we do. we don't pay attention to other issues. >> if donald trump were to become a candidate for president again, that would not change your schedule on how y

i'm amy goodman. live witnesses testified at tuesday's hearing of the house select committee to investigate the january 6 attack on the united states capitol. jason van tatenhove, and stephen ayres, a former trump supporter who pleaded guilty last week for illegally entering the capitol january 6. congressmember jamie raskin questioned jason van tatenhove first. >> in the run-up to january 6, stewart rhodes publicly implored president trump to invoke the insurrection act, the 1807 law that allows the president to call up militias to put down a rebellion against the united states. and i want to get your thoughts about this in the con of your prior relationship with stewart rhodes. i understand that you had conversations with rhodes about the insurrection act. why was he so fixated on that, and what did he think it would enable the oath keepers to do? >> well, i think it gave him a sense of legitimacy, that it was a path forward to move forward with his goals and agendas. i think we need to quit mincing

caller: amy goodman, rt, wi on out of india, france 24, al jazeera, there are couple more but i forgotcnn, definitely not. host: why those international outlets? caller: i get the truth. i really do. i like to watch nam chomsky, retired cia, retired mi six. i get the truth from them people. cnn, no. for the simple reason that the situation in kyiv, he interviewed a man talking about how the people were acting and they were talking about the fighting and he said the shooting did not come from the russian side and that was dr. steven cohen. thank you, greta. host: greg in texas, democratic caller. caller: can you hear me? host: yes we can. caller: c-span is my number one channel. i want to give a shout out all of the black video stations that when the politics were going on, they were telling us the facts. they were facts checking everyone and those that don't what the facts check that don't want to hear the truths. we can do this on both sides. people shutting people down and telling people you don't know what you're talking about. then also they have like on tiktok, they have their tal