declaration of a state of emergency after the necessary legal and c constitutional procedures are comomplete, , r three momonths in egypypt. amy: egyptian president sisi declares a state of emergency after a pair of bombings on palm sunday killed 49 people, injuring over 100. we will go to cairo for the latest. then we look at how jeff sessions speaking -- seeking to limit oversight over troubled police deparartment and e escale ththe war on drurugs. >>> in recentnt years, laww enforcement as a whole, ii t th, has been unfnfairly maligned and deeds of aacceptable few bad actors. amy: plus, as the trump administration an aircraft carrier in several warships for the korean peninsula, and issues new warnings to syria, we will look at who profits when the u.s. goes to war. all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. secretary of state rex tillerson is heading to russia today, where he's meeting with foreign minister sergey lavrov amid increasing tensions between the u.s. and russia over the ongoing war in syria. russian pr

but ththey're comompletely independent and i'm transparent about that. >> can you see from the publicoint of view, it t is familyy members, thinking, issue really not involved? do you really not get on the phone and d say, what is going ? do you have no involvement whatsoever? >> i take a legal document very seriously. amy: the ap says sales of ivanka trump's merchahandise have s sud since her father was elelected presidenent. to talk more about this, we're joined by vicky ward, new york times best-selling author, investigative journalist, contributor to esquire and the huffington post's highline magazine. vicky ward, welcome to democracy now! let's go back to this moment that became very famous, the president of china, the president of the united states seated at the dinner at mar-a-lago. next to them, jared kushner and ivanka trump. that same day, she got three exclusive trademarks from china to sell her merchandise? >> right. well, i mean, it speaks for itself. i wish i could tell you i was surprised. but i am really not. i am doing a lot of reporting, spending half of my time in d

declaration of a state of emergency after the necessary legal and c constitutional procedures are comomplete, , r three momonths in egypypt. amy: egyptian president sisi declares a state of emergency after a pair of bombings on palm sunday killed 49 people, injuring over 100.