amy: glenn greenwald, i will give you the last word on this. also have been writing about these candidates. >> it is kind of amazing there is nobody with a more adept skill at being able to just selectively concentrate on some things while it pouring unpleasant things than the democratic partisan. jeremy is right that bernie sanders has been given a pass, but that is because democrats have largely chosen to ignore foreign policy as part of the democratic primary because they simply don't care. they only pretend to oppose wars when there's a republican in office and doing so can lead to partisan gain. hillary goes around the world vowing to get even closer to to take a relationship with israel to the next level, refuses to talk about palestinians like they are human. she is responsible for one of the worst disasters of the last five or six years, which is the nato intervention in libya. obvious the, supports president obama's bellicose policies and wants to escalate them. she criticizes him for not being aggressive enough and yet democrats just

well, last week, i spoke to glenn greenwald, pulitzer prize-winning journalist, who joined us from riojaneiro, brazil. i began by asking greenwald to explain what's happening there. >> is actually remarkable because it is somebody -- as summit who grew up in the united states, a democracy that is a couple of centuries old, you do sort of assume once you live in a democracy or the leaders are chosen through the ballot box as opposed to just being imposed through force that it is always going to be that way. you kind of take it for granted. being here in brazil where majority of the country actually was born into a military dictatorship, one that overthrew the democratically elected government in 1964 then proceeded to impose military rule on the country for the next 21 years, very brutal and oppressive military rule, i am living in a country here that is actually very young and therefore a fragile democracy. although it has become this inspiring model for the world. it has really thrived under its young democracy. politicals fiber coulter. it has made extremely impressive strides in ter

amy: last week, the intercept's glenn greenwald spoke to former president dilma rousseff. she expressed some concerns about the situation unfolding in brazil. say it isis thei end d of democracy? becacause today, institutions cn bebe disrupted, but they are stronger thahan you think. i am apprehensive becaususe what hahappens undeder an illegitimae government? it tries to dress itself in the villa of pseudo-order. it bans free of expression and shows an enormous willingness to cut social programs. , well, thet is president does the democratically elected president domaazil, delivers just rousseff, who is just been asked to by the vice president michel temer. maria luisa mendonca, go more into who juca is, who was then a senator but became a planning minister after the ousterrousse. the one on the states speaking to the former oil executive and they're talking about ending the corruption investigagations against them. >> yes, he has been a key player in this conspiracy against president dilma rousseff, and that is very clear now by the transcripts. ofis a very powerful memb

he has covered brazil extensively along with glenn greenwald and david miranda. when we come back, we look at syria. stay with us. ♪ [music break] amy: this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman with nermeen shaikh. we turn now to syria, where renewed violence has erupted around the embattled city of aleppo after a ceasefire between the syrian regime and the opposition expired. a surge in fighting between rebels and the syrian regime has killed about 300 people there over the past two weeks. at least three people were killed last week when a maternity hospital in a government controlled section of the city was hit by rocket fire. secretary of state john kerry said the rockets be a direct come from a rebel area. the hospital attack came days after the syrianegime destroyed a doctors without borders-backed hospital, killing at least 14 patients and three doctors. including one of the last pediatricians and rebel held east aleppo. meanwhile outside damascus, syrian government officials turned back an aid convoy carrying the f

on wednesday, jeremy scary help, glenn greenwald and staff members will discuss the us governments drone warfare program. on thursday may jacobs recalls america's energy crisis of the 1970s in atlanta. and that same evening at the free library of philadelphia daniel shapiro talks about how to resolve conflicts between governments. that is a look at some of the author programs book tv is covering this week. many events are open to the public. look for them to air in the near future on book tv on c-span2. and you are watching book tv. >> good morning. thank you, everyone, for coming out for the 3rd annual san antonio book festival. fourth, i'm sorry. i can't count. they were asking me if i have done this before, i have been involved in all of them. thank you for coming out for the 4th. i want to remind you that this morning session is being filmed by c-span2. at the end of the comments by marisa abrajano when we get to q&a they will bethere will be a microphone that will be passed around if you have questions, and we certainly hope that you do. immediately after the session you can go arou

writing for the intercept, pulitztzer prize-winning journalist glenn greenwald said -- "the transcripts provide proof for virtually every suspicion and accusation impeachment opponents have long expressed about those plotting to remove dilma from office." on monday, the planning minister said his comments were taken out of context but he would step , down. as brazil's new interim foreign minister visited argentina, protesters gathered in buenos aires to condemn rousseff's ouster as a coup. >> this is a coup which has been made legitimate by the brazilian national congress, but it is not legitimate. it is illegal. it is a coup to put those corrupt criminals in power. amy: a baltimore police officer has been acquitted on all charges for his role in the arrest of freddie gray who died of spinal injuries last year after he was arrested and transported in a police van. officer edward nero faced misdemeanor charges of second-degree assault, reckless endangerment, and two counts of misconduct in office. a total of six officers were charged -- four were directly charged in gray's death. jujudge

michel temer's decision to install an all-white male cabinet, during an interview with journalist glenn greenwald. >> how did you react when you saw his teamam? >> look, i i think that -- i it seems s to me thisis interim and illegititimate government will e very conservrvative in every aspect. one of which is the fact it is a government of white men, withtht blblacks, in a couountry thahate last census in 2 2010 -- and i ththink this i is very imporort- more than 50% of thehe populatin self i identified as income of african origin. i think k not having any women r black people in the government shows a lack of care. amy: in washington, d.c., senate democrats held a mock confirmation hearing wednesday for judge merrick garland, president obama's nominee to replace justice antonin scalia on the supreme court. no republican senators showed up to the mock hearing. meanwhile, presumptive republican presidential nominee donald trump has unveiled a list of 11 candidates he would consider to fill scalia's seat on the supreme court if he were elected president. the judges are overwhelmingly conservative