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doctor ford spoke foror herself but she was channeling the voices of millions of women and survivors across the country for two often ignored, interrupted, or bullied. i hope everyone of my speak and answer questions. he has made it clear. she was not there because she wanted to be. she had to be. he shared her story not because she wanted to create or embarrass anyone but because she felt it was her civic duty to share what she knew about kavanaugh. they are making a decision of whether or not he should be on. they were too afraid to ask her anything. but she did an amazing job keeping composure under cross-examination to question. doctor ford made it clear. over and over tonight politely, she welcomed the investigation. she opened up her self and scrutiny. she took a polygraph. she rememberede details. she seemed to not be able to understand why nobody was digging into these details to pflp even more. she wants to be more helpful. she did her job and she was simply asking for senators to do theirs. i watched judge kavanaugh the rage on his face, refusing to answer questions while h

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that does it foror today's show. special thanks to them. and to our camera crew. i am amy goodman. much for joining us. >>  çç?? i am amy goodman. man: we have tonight yascha mounk, the author of "the people vsvs. democracy." let me tell you a little bit about it. he's a lecturer on government at harvard university and a senior fellow at new america. he's a columnist at slate and a host of the "good fight" podcast. he's a leading expert in the rise of populism and the crisis of liberal democracy. so, that's yascha, and i think the club will recognize our moderator tonight, francis fukuyama, who has been here many times before. he's currently a senior fellow at stanford's freeman spogli institute for international studies and his new book on identity, his "identity politics" will be coming out in september. so, thank you very much, francis. thank you very much. ok, thank you.

that does it foror today's show. special thanks to them. and to our camera crew. i am amy goodman. much for joining us. >>  >>> welcome to nhk "newsline." i'm keiko kitagawa. we begin here in japan where typhoon jebi is set to make landfall, the strong system has people on alert and ready to evacuate. it's already affecting public transportation. you're looking at live shots from western japan which is being battered by strong winds.

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"if the gutless person does exist, the times must foror national security group this is turn him or her over at once." while some are scrambling for clues as to the author's identity, others want to focus on the message. >> i think the alarming part of the op-ed is there is someone in the white house who is very afraid t that our nationon is bg damaged on a daily basis. i think we should take that very seriously. this is not a warning from a liberal democrat. this is a warning from someone donald trump hired to work in the white house who is revealing information that is very oubling. reporter: americans are divided. should an insider resistance be commended or condemned? brent: the trump presidency and america's divisions are things that people in germany are watching with growing concern. a new survey puts donald trump at the top of a list of things that people in germany worry about. let's go through the numbers for you. more than two thirds strongly fear that donald trump's policies -- 69% -- are making the world a less stable place. the consequences of immigration are playing on ge

so we are recruiting and supporting great leaders and public servants foror office who can run for office and serve independent of political parties to represent theo people and not the special interest to bring the country together. >> putting your back into a candidate how do you find an independent candidate? >> someone running for office not to either political party with the general election ballot. there are over 450 independent candidates running for state and federal office 100 more than 2016 more than twice as many as before so they are growing in number. and then to figure out who to support we have endorsed 27 of those candidates what they get from their political party access to the community of donors or supporters and to run a competitive campaign. and in particular with independence? >> joining you from denver colorado this is a great time for our state organization unite colorado. last time i joined you last year we were retreating -- trying to recruityo five candidates. we succeeded. we have a slate of independence. we are supporting two focandidates for u.s. senate in mi

facebook is done by about 2.5%, but those have been some pretty rough months foror facebook sine thell-time high that was reached in july. the stock is down a good 25%. >> thank you. over 200 ryanair flights were struck from departure boards in spain, italy, germany, the netherlands, as workers walked off the job for better pay and working conditions. the budget airline has seen repeated strike actions in recent months. ryanair's continuing negotiations but the union says the offer put forward is not acceptable. with its low ticket prices, ryanair has taken over established carriers to become europe's biggest airline by passenger numbers. a frightening flashback to the 2004 asian soon o tsunami. >> a powerful earthquake triggered a two meter soon o tsunami, hitting the city of palu on the island of sulawesi. reports say houses of been destroyed and communications are cut. reporter: it's a horrifying thought, being in the path of an oncoming tsunami. people in high-rise buildings could only watches t the wave hit. the impact destroyed many people's homes and businesses, and also place

well, not foror: everyone. there are too many people, but i will sign until i give out. anyway, it has been nice to talk to you. [applause] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2017] which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, -- [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] >> on "history bookshelf, here from the country's best-known history writers of the past decade every saturday at 4:00 p.m. eastern and watch any of our programs at any time. visit our website, c-span.org/history. >> sunday night, former secretary of state john kerry discusses his book "every day is extra." by formerviewed congresswoman and president and ceo of the wilson center jane harman. >> john and i were flying to kuwait on an airplane. we did not know each other very well at all, but we were seated opposite each other by seeing your do. it worked because it brought us together and we had a conversat

soso i think those narratives ae pretty common from just one-on-one interaction anecdotally foror me, i can't think of anyone right who was really publicly apologetic for that but that may be a product for my ignorance. thank you. >> thank you, sir. one last, the last question. >> how's everyone? the second question, he got as good as. i work at the civil rights museum and this question comes from ms. brenda travis. i was just wondering, there's a lot of information about whatat you've done for young -- in the civil rights movement and your voice is and and i was just wondering, have you been to the museum? if you have what are your thoughts on the civil rights museum in jackson now? >> i haven't been in jackson. i'm on my way. [laughing] >> this has been an amazing panel ofhe phenomenal authors. [applause] >> tonight on "after words," former obama administration education secretary arne duncan on his book how schools work. he's interviewed by former chancellor of the district of columbia public schools. >> i don't know if voters make the connection between what politicians do and wha

. >> i'm not for criticizing someone foror having an opinion, because we all have opinions. >> yeah, you are. >> laura: yeah, why not? >> make sure when you speak of a certain instance, make sure that the facts are, very, very clear. and i'm -- >> laura: guys, we have to roll. all right, we have to roll, guys. thanks so much for joining us tonight. i have a question, though is president trump about to prove his naysayers wrong and score a huge victory for america? well, how about in trade? back in a moment. >> laura: canada feeling the heat from president trump over a new trade deal. tensions spilled out in the public view throughout the day under a looming deadline. take a listen to canada's minister of foreign affairs. >> we are committed speaking for canada to a deal which is a good deal for canada, not just any deal. we are very good as canadians at finding win-win compromises. at the end of the day, though, we are only going to sign a deal that's good for canada. >> laura: now, a final agreement was not yet inked, reached today, but talks are set to resume next wednesday. my sou

that is how confirmation hearings began tuesday foror jue brett kavanaugh.resident trump's to fill justice anthony kennedy seat on the supreme court. amy: after the hearing, fred guttenberg tweeted -- "just walked up to judge kavanaugh as morning session ended. put out my hand to introduce myself as jaime guttenberg's dad. he pulled his hand back, turned his back to me, and walked away. i guess he did not want to deal with the reality of gun violence." white house spokesperson raj shah disputed guttenberg's account saying that a security guard intervened to escort kavanaugh away. shah tweeted -- "as judge kavanaugh left for his lunch break, an unidentified individual approached him. before the judge was able to shake his hand, security had intervened." we will ask fred guttenberg himself f what happened,d, the father of parkland shooting victim jamie guttenberg. she died on valentine's day at the marjory stoneman douglas high school when a gunman opened fire. fred guttenberg our condolences on the loss of your daughter. talk about why you are in washington a

sexist foror suggesting ? >> we have two really big issue is. don't like that politics is the blood sport that it is. the democrats sat on the letter for seven weeks. you and i can actually agree on something. i didn't like that either. the politics is politics. theyey sat on it you try to dely this. but what has happened now is we have women who are being slammed and slandered and attacked and disbelieved and we are in the middle of the me too movement after 1,000 -- >> tucker: hold on, hold on! >> it's time to give them their time. >> tucker: it's not about all men. it's not about all women. it's about one man and one woman. it's not about me, it's not about you. it's about brett kavanaugh and christine ford. the case is specific. we are not putting men on trailer trying to exonerate women for the crimes committed by our ancestors. we areou talking about the here and now. let me ask you a specific question about christine ford. you are suggesting you're not allowed toyo disbelieve somebody but i retain my right of reason and i can determine as

thank you so much foror coming .ciate it. >> thank you for having me, tucker. >> tucker: as someone who's interested in words and ideas and messages, i have been waiting with baited breath to find out watch while they run on? what is the idea, and that is the standby, vote for us or else? will that work? >> you have senior officials writing up ads in "the new york times" saying that they are trying to protect our democracy. so this notion that you are hearing from john kerry or obama, that our democracy is on the ballot, it is not rooted in fear, it's rooted in fact. >> tucker: do you find it -- just i will ask you if you perceive this, that the people who say that they are concerned our democracy are the ones saying that trump should be removed from office without an election. do you see any kind of contradiction there? >> here's the thing. the mainstream democrats are not really toting this impeachment passage. i think that is what you are getting at. here maxine waters -- >> tucker: no, not the impeachment. the 25

. >> i hear you.re >> tucker: thank you foror coming on. is it. we're just out of time but i appreciate you coming on and explaining your views. thank you. >> you bet. thank you. >> tucker: alan dershowitz is of course retired law school professor and author of "the case against impeaching trump" and joins us now. alan dershowitz, you are slightly older than i am and old enough to remember a time when boston and other places in the city were too dangerous to walk through because the crime rate. lowering the crime rate changed america completely. it made the urban core habitable again. are you worried that movements like this will spike the crime rate again? >> it depends how they are implemented. i like the idea of addressing the issue of mass incarceration. i like the idea as a criminal defense lawyer of not keeping people, poor people in jail because they can't afford the $500 bail for minor offense. it's all about prioritizing. we have limited resources. i tend to agree with the newly elected prosecutors if we do more to stop murders at the cos

it measures what proportion of the tools, equipment, machines, office space is being used foror prododuction and what part is sitting idle, what part of our capacity is being utilized. and the federal reserve has now pointed out, for some years it's roughly hovering around 20% is not being utilized. 20% of our tools, equipment, machines, vehicle fleets-- you name it--sits idle. ok, you don't need an advanced degree in economics-- i have one, but you don't need it--to understand that if there are 20 million to 25 million people who want to work and don't have a chance, and we have 20% of the tools, equipment, raw materials for those people to work with, that a system that cannot put these two together to produce a quantity of wealth that would solve most of our social problems quickly is a system that doesn''t work very well. that's a fundamental problem of our economic system--that it produces a crisis of this sort. i won't take the time to tell you the details of what happens to people who are unemployed, particularly for long periods of time, and the current unemployment is very long for p

starr to talk about his book "contempt: a memoir of the clinton investigation" a lot of calls waiting foror you. california, melanie is waiting. a democrat. good morning. >> caller: good morning, how are you? mr. starr i have a couple of points to bring up. i don't understand you talk about morality and you talk about different things in your doing. number one i don't know why you continue on with the clinton's and number two, a woman who has been violated. which i have it's not easy to come out. and just because she waited for the eleveth hour, it's hard to come out and say hey, you know what i was abused by somebody. do you take that into consideration, and no therapist convinces you that you have been raped. that is utterly and completely ridiculous. do you have any answers for that? >> guest: well yes i do. i understand it's not easy. i'm not saying that it is by any means. of course any violation of human dignity, the dignity of the human body, is a very serious matter. what we have here is brett kavanaugh saying i did not do any such thing, and we have many people saying brett kavanau

lastly, the legislation would create a new penalty free distribution foror qualified plans, in the case of a taxpayer with a newborn child or an adopted child that it would permit to $7500 penalty free distribution, and it would provide that amount of funds could be re-contributed on an open ended basis to the plan at a later date. that provides a brief description of the legislation of the happy to provide any detail that the members might have. >> thank you. are there any questions about the amendment? mr. connell can you recommend. >> do you have a total cost of this bill before us today. >> yes, i do, mr. kind. my colleagues of estimated budgetary effect of this legislation would be a loss of $20,970,000,000 over the ten yearis budget. of fiscal 2019 through fiscal 2020. >> so it starts in fiscal 2019? >> 2019, yes. >> is there any pay for offset to offset that cost? >> among the provisions there are no provisions that are revenue raising provisions. they are all revenue losing provisions in our estimation. >> son offset. the underlying built upon which this is based had an original

as you know our trade issues have been going on foror decade. we've been having conversations with them in strategic economic dialogue. so this president came in and decided the conversations with china were not working. he's going have to take serious action under intellectual property on our innovation from american industries it stayed on enterprises, but methinks you're aware of. our trade conversation is happening. we still expect full cooperation and north korea. we've told the chinese that very much in their interest to cooperate on north korea asir well. >> thank you. we go to tom suozzi of new york had >> thank you for holding this hearing and four at two witnesses today. a big portfolio from a lot of different things to focus on. i am in the focus today on russia and activities in eastern europe. our focus in america on the person issues related to the 2016 elections i think we've lost focus on how much russia is doing to undermine democracy in europe insi eastern europe and i think we need to call more attention to that. i want to use