described previously berkowitz's duties as "daily just excited in coffee and corn aiding meetings." and voters in north carolina's ninth district head to the polls today for a special election, the final uncalled election from last year's midterms. last november's race was never certified after evidence of voter fraud started to emerge and was linked to republican mark harris's campaign. harris dropped out of the race in february. democrat dan mccready now faces off against pro-trump republican dan bishop. trump spoke at a north carolina rally in support of republican bishop monday night. during his speech, trump railed agaiainst sanctuary cities and made false claims about illegal voting in california. and those are some of the headlines. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. juan: and i'm juan gonzalez. welcome to all of our listeners and viewers from around the country and around the world. we begin today's show with the bahamas, where thousands remain missing and thousands more have had their lives thrown into disarray since climate

berkowitz is going to be the new chief or whatever of middle east negotiations.d. his predecessor had no background but at least he was an accomplished real estate lawyer. he's hugely unqualified. the nonpeace process is always going to be still born because it doesn't rely on the basic principal of building peace which is a two-state solution. that has been thrown out by the trump admin operation. it will be a demand for surrender from the palestines with the idea that they get more money. people are not going to sell out to promises by the trump administration which we know doesn't keep promises anyway. >> you are saying they are not going to take process seriously? >> they are trying to win votes and the evangelical. you remember trump saying how disloyal many jews are but evangelicals do vote for him. they eventually want all jews to convert to christianity, they support. >> good to see you in person. thank you for being here. >>> a new poll that my ignite more from president trump. of 5g with ultra wideband, so more screaming, streaming, posting fans... can

victims of violent crime are blacks in high crime urban areas benefit the most and protect themselves berkowitz great if police were there all the time but the police themselves no they arrive on the crime scene after they occur and that occurs of what people should do. hold on a second. here we go. now we are set. so let me just finish up. and there is no reason why it to do criminal background checks on employees all the time. with an error rate 100 if you ever want to debate somebody with these background checks and just ask them why it is we don't have the federal government to meet the same standards that they demand the private companies have to meet if they are roughly phonetically similar names then democrats would be screaming bloodied murder. if bad is good enough to require the why not require they have to do the same thing cracks but if you bring this up to gun control advocates a scream poison pill. i personally think the reason why they try so hard is because that there is three. 5 million dangerous or prohibited people have been stopped from buying good money - - guns and to say

unclear if his successor will be able to put his proposals into practice the man taking over is avi berkowitz he graduated from law school 3 years ago and according to reports has no middle east experience ups now he's worked as an aide to trump's son in law jared cushioning. meanwhile the former envoy green bought have received criticism in the arab world for unpopular decisions after supporting the relocation of the u.s. embassy to jerusalem and recognizing israeli sovereignty over the golan heights but his decision to leave the job is now raising questions over what happens next the trump administration's long delayed peace plan is set for publication after the israeli elections in september but previously details appeared to highlight some key decisions like an expansion of israel's territory to include west bank settlements all palestinians would get part of the gaza strip for infrastructure but cannot live there leaks also suggested palestinians would be forbidden from having an army are guesstimated how this could work out. 1st of all let's agree that the there and there might be a pla

unclear if his success there will be able to put his proposals into practice the man taking over is berkowitz he graduated from law school 3 years ago and according to reports has no middle east experience up to now he's worked as an aide to trump's son in law jared krishna. meanwhile the form and void green black to had received criticism in the arab world for unpopular decisions i've to supporting their relocation of the u.s. embassy to jerusalem and recognizing is ready sovereignty over the golan heights but is ascension sillies the job is now raising questions over of what happens next our guests debated to how the d.l. of those century idea could workout 1st of all let's agree that the there and there might be a plan that the us administration is working on but that piece is not part of it and the palestinians are not part of it then that's why the palestinians have taken the very logical approach in forming the international committee that so long as this administration does not recognize palestinian rights for international law there's really not much to talk about if the palestinians

is the remaining team the president's son in law jared kushner brian hook who handles iran an avi berkowitz until given the task of finding middle east peace this 30 year old was cush nurse assistant who staffers reportedly say was mostly in charge of getting them coffee and setting up meetings the administration says it will unveil its still secret plan after the israeli election but they've made it clear their overall approach take hundreds of millions of dollars in aid from the palestinians in an attempt to pressure them to make a deal promising a $50000000000.00 investment if they do at the same time assuring israel its full support some analysts say that's been a critical mistake and one thing we know we're further apart than we ever worked to get a deal because the president. has given up some of our bargaining positions he's moved the embassy to jerusalem he basically has given the golan heights back to israel what is our leverage now to get them to withdraw from all or part of the west bank in the run up to his own election israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu promised to annex

the remaining team the president's son in law jared kushner brian hook who handles a ran an avi berkowitz until given the task of finding middle east peace this 30 year old was cush assistant who staffers reportedly say was mostly in charge of getting him coffee and setting up meetings the administration says it will unveil its still secret plan after the israeli election but they've made it clear their overall approach take hundreds of millions of dollars in aid from the palestinians in an attempt to pressure them to make a deal promising a $50000000000.00 investment if they do at the same time assuring israel its full support some analysts say that's been a critical mistake one thing we know we're further apart than we ever want to get a deal because the president has given up some of our bargaining positions he moved the embassy to jerusalem he basically has given the golan heights back to israel what is our leverage now to get them to withdraw from all or part of the west bank in the run up to his own election israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu promised to annex parts of the we

but what we do know is that in his place when he does eventually depart we'll be having berkowitz who is an aide to jared cushion or as well as the special envoy to iran brian hook who works for the u.s. state department so a very busy portfolio already in the hands of mr hooke now taking this went on as well but the white house saying in all of this that they do have a vision for middle east peace that this is in capsulated a plan which has now been drafted and that's why the jason green but is leaving because his work essentially is done kimberly how could. you. still ahead of you on al-jazeera more military deaths in afghanistan a u.s. service member and a romanian soldier killed and harken dorian strengthens again that threatens at the u.s. east coast. how it was still got some showers across southern parts of china we have got to feeling just off the side of our screen here that's making its way up that western side of the pacific towards the korean peninsula through later on in the week for china itself it does stay dry will be a little line of showers there was a said down towa

new middle east peace envoy will be 30-year-old white house administrative assessment -- assistant berkowitzp'slacing jason friend real estate lawyer. what did former white house spokesperson hope hicks, berkowitz'sescribed duties as? correlatingee and meetings. as we wrap up the significance of all of this. think that point is very important. who is playing the role is very important -- not as important. a was educated partly at right-wing yeshiva in israel. this is a consistent piece. the more important point from what normal was talking about in terms of changes afoot in the united states where there are possibilities now, not yet congress but the shift in public discourse and media discourse about the question of palestinian rights, is a massive shift underway. things may become possible in the future. what has been different with president trump in office, the blatant nature of his recognition, no one before was willing to say the u.s. recognizes or does not mind the u.s. of that pine. his official recognition of it did bring expressions of opposition. that gives us a way in to build th

in terms of the world focusing on terrorism, that will be with us berkowitz and ambien threat and notgoing away we have to fight it and then try to set the conditions of education of economic opportunities to reduce the need for people to think they have to go. is have to fight the rest but the bigger threats are russia and china to give veto authority over the surrounding nations in economic and security decisions. china standing in the rose sgarden and then they go when and then russia invading crimea. we have to recognize what russia is under putin not what we want it to be.. terrorism goes on. you have china and russia with the declining power. that m could make it more dangerous in the short term. but in the long-term, we have to find a way to manage our differences. with those two nuclear armed powers we don't want to be as stupid as the europeans to engulf the world in the doggone war. so to talk about a rising power that has to go to war but in a nuclear age would've written a different book but trust me on this pico i'm old enough. [laughter]m. but there is a bigger threat to