at when we come back, we look at -- wes internrnational s look at iran. ♪ [music break] amy: this isocracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman with juan gonzalez. juan: we turn now to iran, where amnesty international says over 100 protesters have been killed in nationwide demonstrations sparked by a sudden hike in fuel prices last week. on thursday, iran announced a rise in the cost of gas ranging from 50% to 300%. iranian state media says anan addiditionalal 1000 people haven arrested. the amnesty report also warns the death count may be much higher with some suggesting as many as 200 have been killed. amy: on sunday, soon after t t protests broke out, iran imposed an almost completete internet blackoutut, makingng it nearly impossible for protesters use social mededia to share images r information. the civil society group netblocks, which monitors internet access worldwide,e, sad iran's usage e had decreased to% of its normal level. for more we go directly to washington, d.c., to speak with iranian-american journalist, negar mortazavi. she is the dipl

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amy hollyfield is live at tesla headquarters with details. amy? >> good morning. big news for this east bay company, federal regulators want to look at the model snd x teslas. they are worried why they're bursting into flames. not because of a crash, just catching on fire. federal investigators are looking into the lithium-ion components that make up the battery. >> lithium-ion battery has two components that has to be kept apart from each other. if they contact each other, then you get a fire or an explosion. >> what sets them apart? the battery. that has caught the national highway safety administration's attention. they will be asking tesla to hand over information from the past eight years of the company's model s and x teslas. they want to see if there are consumer complaints, software updates and any reported fires. tesla called these fires extraordinarily unusual but did not respond to calls for comment about this latest investigation. they have until the end of the month to turn over the information or they could be fined. reporting live in fremont, amy hollyfield, abc7 news. >> all right. thanks. the iteam's dan noyes has a number of ex

at the first presidential forum on environmental justice. stay with us. ♪ [music break] amy: "paisaje japones" by mon laferte. at t the latin grammys thursday ninight, she uncovered herer s as she walkeked under the red carpet revealing the words "in chile they torture, rape, and kill" written across her chest. this is democracy now!, i'm amy goodman. the first ever presidential forum on environmental justice was held last friday at south carolina state university in orangeburg. i co-moderated the event with former e epa official mustafa santiago ali. earlier in the week, we aired our interview with senator elizabeth warren. today we turn to senator cory booker of new jersey. mustafa ali began the questioning. mustafa: so we know that currently come our federal agencies have withdrawn themselves from addressing environmental injustices that are going on. can you talk about what your administration will do to fix that problem? >> i'm smiling because he asked me questions we know we talked about. first and foremost, what he means by the federal agencies pulling back is the epa, they are at half the level they were in 2010 on inspections right now. the m

flatet: as we marvel at the s&p 500 has been, what do you see with volatility? amy from silverman was telling us earlier that if you go out on the futures curve, there is still quite a bit of volatility that people are pricing in down the road. luke: i fully agree with that and make the larger point that volatility is lower now than september 2018 or the january 2018 market peaks. the vix is higher. the tangoe at the front of the curve, bigger than it was then. the back of the curve, much higher than it was then. all of this talk about a record vix short signals complacency, not at all. that is not what it appears to be saying. caroline: in terms of complacency, we have not brought up the so-called phase i deal. if we don't get it, what is the risk? i think there is a lot being priced in. it is interesting, president trump saying today that in fact he would raise tariffs further. that is the real risk. i think what markets have been pricing is perhaps we have reached an and -- reached an end. if we return to the environment where there is potential for tariff escala

amy hollyfield is live at tesla headquarters with details. amy? >> good morning. big news for this company and those of you who drive the model s and x teslas.al investigators are looking into why teslas have been catching on fire. teslas just bursting into flames over the last year without an obvious reason. they want to look into the lithium-ion component that make up the battery. >> lithium-ion battery has two components that has to be kept apart from each other. if they contact each other, then you get a fire or an explosion. >>> the national highway transportation safety administration wants to see all documents related to fires from the high voltageir extraordinarily unusual but did not respond to calls for comment about this latest investigation. they have until the end of the month to turn over the documents or will be fined. reporting live in fremont, amy hollyfield, abc7 news. >> all right. thanks. the iteam's dan noyes has a number of exclusive reports about tesla battery fires and reported issues with the autopilot feature, you can find >>> we are following more on the halloween shooting. >> tomorrow the orinda city council will

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amy clo klobuchar. it's another example of somebody at 4%. he was at 4% and now he's at 18. these things can happen. 100 day sversal amount of time in politics. 100 days before iowa is a very long way as it is before south carolina. >> that leaves us a lot to talk about. always a pleasure to have you on. thank you. >> thank you. >>> we're going to take you to the front lines of ukraine's war with pro-russian separatists. see what was at stake when president trump froze that nearly $400 million in aid to kiev. with tough food, your dentures may slip and fall. fixodent ultra-max hold gives you the strongest hold ever to lock your dentures. so now you can eat tough food without worry. fixodent and forget it. you ever wish you weren't a motaur? sure. sometimes i wish i had legs like you. yeah, like a regular person. no. still half bike/half man, just the opposite. oh, so the legs on the bottom and motorcycle on the top? yeah. yeah, i could see that. for those who were born to ride, there's progressive. yeah, i could see that. asbut when your team is always dealing with device setups, app updates, and support call

amy: so yoplplay at cbcbgb's -- not very much -- and you open for the remounts and a music producer hears you from outside on the s sidewalk. >> well, yes. so people in the kind d of musc world and record labels and alternative press, etc., started coming in hearing us and the other bands. and we were very lucky to be part of that at that time. i mean, if we had been -- i can imagine if we'd been somewhere else doing the exact same thing we would have gone completely unnoticed. i would like to think we were writing something that had somome kind of intereststing quality toto it, but i also know thatat there's a certain amount of luck involved as well. amy: david byrne, the legendary musician and now broadway star. his showow "american utopia" is on n broadway now. when we come back, he will talk about collaborating with brian enono, reasons s to be cheerfulul, and the swedish climate activist greta thunberg.  [music break] amy: this is democraracy now!, democracynowow.org, ththe war and peace e report. i'm amy goodmaman. are c continuining our conversation with david byrne, co-founder of the talking headss and s

were working on central america at the time and then a little bit later in the 1980's would see the similarities between this action and the north american death squad. amyat happened -- who was put on trial and what were the results of the trials? smen and nazis --i wanted to say, as you saw the video to come in fact, all of this, this was not a mystery. it was al qaeda by four tv cameras on videotape. so the six known shooters were put on trial for murder. jury acquitted them in a tririal where the prosecutn who were supposed to become as we know, representing the was very openly anti-communist and antiunion. these people were all union organizers and leaders, both at duke university hospital and .lso at the cone most textiles the prosecution said terrible things about us and that was reflected in the media itself. and then in all white racist jury was chosen. -- prosecution never wrecked even alluded to the fact the greensboro police informant had this caravan led of klansmen and nazis whoo murdered people, never alluded to the fact that man ed dawson had received the parade permit from the police and was being paid by the police and never alluded to

at democracy now! about the protest movement that took down puerto rico's governor last summer, visit democracynow.org. this is democracy now!, i'm amy goodman with nermeen shaikh. we continue last ninight's s in atlanta. senators elizabeth warren and corybooker clashed on her proposal to impose a 2% annual tax on wealth above $50 million. >> let me tell you what we can do with that two cent wealth tax. two cents on the top 1/1/10 of % in his country and we can provide universal child care for every baby in this country zero to five. that is transformative. we can provide universrsal pre-k for every three-year-old and four-year-old in this country. we can stop exploiting the women, largely black and blount women, who do this work and we could rage the wages of every childcare worker increase will teacher in america. we can put 800 billion new federal dollars into all of our public schools. we can make college tuition free for every kid. we can put $50 billion into historically black colleges and universities. and we can cancel student loan debt for 95% of the folks who've got it. two cent wealth tax and we can invest in an entire generation's future. cook's let me let senator booker respond

at 27,462. the nasdaq rose 46 points, and the s&p 500 added 11. still to come on the newshour: bluegrass battle-- will the closely-watched kentucky governor's race provide clues for 2020? amyter and tamara keith analyze the latest news from the impeachment inquiry. and ukraine in the crossfire-- where the battle against russia grinds on. >> nawaz: there are ree major governors races underway right now, each offers a ctical early test of republican strength in advance of the 2020 presidential election. one of those races is tomorrow in kentucky, where president trump tonight is campaigning for the incumbent, matt bevin. william brangham went the bluegrass state this weekend to see what's motivating voters in this very tight race. >> hello kentucky! >> brangham: ahead of the president's arrival, the vice president kicked off the final few days of the campaign, rallying supporters in rural kentucky. >> once we re-elect governor matt bevin for four more years, we can make it clear we're going trump for four years!donald >> brangham: the ft t that presidump and vice president pence felt the need to rally supporters here, state that donald trump won by 30 points in the last elec

amy: sarah jaffe, you have been looking at school strikes for years and you have also had this wave of school strikes across the country, not to mention the chicago teacachers union s strif 2012. talk about the significance of what just took place with the nation's third-largest school district. >> i think we have to start with the chicago strike of 2012 because that is where this entire wave was rooted. when stacy says they have been fighting for a decade, this is a caucus within this union that took power in 2010 that fought for the right to strike and then successfully went on strike in 2012 beat rahm emanuel -- in many ways were committed to privatizing to crushing the union then lori lightfoot was -- and so that is where this movement began. the last time i was on we were talking about los angeles and the los angeles teachers pushed her this framework and now the ctu has done this again. they have comeme back to the center o othe teachehers union movement wear them along. they brought demands around housing and they extra funding for students suffering from homelessness, extra nurses and social workers, think students need to be able to go to o schos and learn

at noon tomorrowow. >> y you are here to s say goode toto us. worde don't have a good for it i in engnglish. ththe best is au u revoir. we will see you again. amy: bill moyers, remember that moment. >> we did see him again because he was resurrected after his political death. there he was making speeches, writing books. yes, i watched that moment andnd wasn't surprisesed because e i d watched the watergate hearings all the time and the evidence was as i i said earlier, indefensible. undermine that evidence. theree were so m many seriouous constitutional charges against nixonn that the country to get much more seriously than they did the clinton impeachment. amy: there was this seminal moment in the summer of 1973 when tennessee republican senator fred harris -- people may know him more as the "line order" da from television, asked alexander butterfield about the existence of any recording system. butterfield pauses and then details the system for about an hour nonstop. he was only called -- he only had like three hours before to testify. he did not have a lawyer. he did not consult with a lawyer. if he did, he might never have revealed this. ta

s barely registered at all. the "washington post" only praised two candidate by name, mayor pete buttigieg and amy klobuchar.werful callout for the democratic party for often taking black women voters for granted. senator cory booker slgs didn't merit his own header. he was tossed into a subsection for going after joe biden's stance. and in the entire article, senator elizabeth warren was only mentioned once. so as the candidates try to get their message out, this kind of post debate analysis is also sending a message about who matters in this race as far as the mainstream media is concerned. joining me is now, tiffany cross, jonathan capehart, latasha brown, and glinda carr. thank you all for being here. here is the funny thing about the way that this all works. y'all on this panel demographically are much more representative of the democratic base as it really is, right? much more representative that you would know by listening to the analysis that really tends to center white working class voters almost clufsexclusively o did well. and let's start on that. it feels like that is where the center comes from

s state of texas november 20. when we come back, we look at election results from around the uniteded states with j john nics of the nation. stay with us. ♪ [music break] amyis is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. results are still coming in around the country after tuesday's elections with major wins for democrats in several crucial states. in virginia, democrats have gained control of both houses for the first time in 25 years. in kentucky, democratic challenger state attorney general andy beshear has claimed victory over trump-backed republican incumbent matt bevin in a tightly contested run for governor. bevin was a deeply unpopular governor spark statewide teacher strikes after he threatened to cut pensions. beshear campaigned on promises to expand medicaid and boost teacher salaries andnd pensions. he addressed supporters tuesday night. >> voters in kentucky sent a message loud and clear for everyone to hear. [cheers] that said oure elections don't have to be about right versus left, they are still about right versusus wron. amy: matt bevin has so far refused to concede. the upset victory came despite presid

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