i guess this month is amy goodman cohost of democracy now! ms. goodman's five nonfiction books begin from 2004 "the exception to the rulers" exposing politicians will profiteers and the media that love them. in 2006 she came out with static standing up to madness ordinary heroes in extraordinary times came out in 2000 a covert and with her brother david goodman. the sound barrier in 2009 and finally her most recent "the silenced majority" stories of uprisings occupations resistance and hope. he came out last year. if you'd like to participate in our conversation this afternoon 202's is the area code 585-3880 and for those of you in the east and central timezones by the 53881 and if you live in the mountain or pacific timezones you can also make comments on social media. you can go to our face with page facebook.com/booktv. it's posted up there at the top of page and make him a good comment under this section the amy goodman section or send us an e-mail to booktv@c-span.org and finally you can send in the tweet as well at booktv is our twitter han

matt goodman here at csis holds our william simon chair in political economy. the simon chair examines current issues in international economic policy, with a particular focus on the asia-pacific. but i should also say that matt previously served as the white house coordinator for the east asia summit, for the asia- pacific summit, but he also served as director for international economics on the nsc staff and was responsible for the g-20, g-8 and other international forums. and with that, i'd like to introduce my colleague matt goodman. >> ok, thank you, andrew. thank you, heather. so the president will be participating in the eighth g-20 summit on september 5th and 6th at the constantine palace in strelna, outside st. petersburg. when andy gets here, he can tell us how to actually pronounce strelna, and not to mention st. petersburg. the g-20, as you know, just to recap, is a gathering of leaders of 19 individual countries and the european union, which has its own seat, and then another five invited guests, including spain, singapore and a couple of african c

goodman. the next cop. the last one i had to see up there, i swear to tell the whole truth, nothing but the truth. same testimony. they're lying. you know, the people on the band will be able to tell you that. i said what are you talking about, manny. you know, the van they pick pilot and flight attendant up. you saw a van there in he said yeah, they were right there. i'm sure they saw everything that happened. i said you have to be kidding. i said to the judge, your honor, i can have a day where i can find some very important evidence to produce for you? so he said, what do you want a day for? i he gave me a half day. he didn't think i was going to be able to do anything but speak to my client i'm sure he didn't particularly like. manny was a likable guy if you got know him. the public doesn't generally like heroin dealers. but i think they don't like lying cops even more. so i go back to my office, and i knew when the flight was coming in. and was able to ascertain what airline it was on. and i had one of

i'm amy goodman. egyptian forces have committed a new mass killing of muslim brotherhood demonstrators supporting the ouster president mohammed morsi. dozens of people have been killed in overnight raids on two pro more seeing cap mincing cairo. initial reports said between 42 to 94 bodies were counted at one more, including those of two babies. both sides have offered conflicting accounts, with the muslim brotherhood claiming an even higher toll of hundreds killed in the egyptian government giving a total of 13, including five egyptian state forces. in a statement, the egyptian government praised its forces for the "utmost degree of self restraint" in the face of what it called violence from protesters, the journalists and witnesses on the scene reported what appeared to be widespread and indiscriminate shootings with government snipers firing from rooftops on the crowds. in addition to live fire, egyptian forces used tear gas, helicopters, armored cars, bulldozers to clear the encampments. pro-democ

i'm amy goodman. the sentencing hearing for army whistleblower bradley manning began wednesday with a prosecution witness undermining the state's own claims manning's disclosures to wikileaks harm the united states. on wednesday, retired brigadier general robert carr, who oversaw the pentagon task force assessing the leaks impact, admitted that not a single person lost their lives as a result of the disclosures. press by manning's defense on deaths resulting from the wikileaks cables, he said -- tosuggested the main harm the u.s. was in souring relations with foreign governments and villagers in afghanistan. manning is facing 136 years in prison after being found guilty on 20 counts for leaking hundreds of thousands of government documents to wikileaks. he was acquitted on the most serious charge against him, aiding the enemy. the prosecution is expected to call up to 20 sentencing -- witnesses during the sentencing phase. the senate held a long-awaited hearing on government surveillance wednesday jus

i'm amy goodman. in the latest revelations about the national security agency sweeping surveillance, the new york times reports the nsa is searching through the contents of fast troves of e-mail and text communications flowing into and out of the country. an unnamed senior official told the new york times the nsa is not only intercepting the communications of americans who are in touch with foreign targets -- a practice that has been acknowledged publicly -- they are also casting the net far wider to include those who cite information linked to foreign targets. is --mes reports the nsa according to the unnamed official, after the communications are scanned for keywords or other red flags, those that do not raise alarms are deleted. the entire process takes seconds . the practice is touched on in a document leaked by what edward snowden to the guardian about the nsa's powers under the 2008 foreign intelligence surveillance act. the document notes the nsa -- the revelations follow the announcement wedne

i'm amy goodman. the obama administration is reconsidering plans for a summit with russian president vladimir putin next month after russia granted a year of temporary asylum to national security agency whistleblower edward snowden. on thursday, snowden left the moscow airport where he had been sheltering for more than a month while the united states sought his return to face espionage charges for revealing nsa spy programs. in a statement released by wikileaks, edward snowden said -- a russian lawyer for snowden said he is set to begin a new life in russia. we will have more on snowden and the latest nsa leaks after headlines with two members of congress were trying to defined the nsa's all collection of phone and data records -- democrat john conyers of michigan and kentucky republican thomas massie. says iraq hasions closed out its deadliest month in more than five years following a wave of sectarian bombings and shootings. in total, the violence killed 1057 iraqis and injured more than 2300 in jul

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i'm amy goodman. the obama administration has announced it will keep 19 embassies in north africa and the middle east closed from to a week due to fears of a possible military threat. ramped up security measures were in place over the weekend that some of the 22 diplomatic posts shattered by the concerns. saxby chambliss, the top republican on the senate intelligence committee, said intercepted communications were reminiscent of what was heard before the 9/11 attacks. credited the nsa spy programs with detecting the threat. >> these programs are controversial. . we understand that. very important. there are what lead us to have or allow us to have the ability to gather this chatter that i refer to. if we did not have these programs, then we simply would not be able to listen in on the bad guys. the 702ay, it is program that has allowed us to pick up on this chatter. that is the program that allows us to listen overseas, not on domestic soil, but overseas. >> opponents of the nsa sweeping program held

i'm amy goodman. encrypted e-mail service leaved to have been used by national security agency leaker edward snowden shut down abruptly thursday amidst a legal fight that appeared to involve u.s. government attempts to win access to customer information. the owner of love abit wrote -- lavabit wrote a message online saying he said he was barred from discussing the events over the past six weeks that led to his decision. he went on to write -- later on thursday, another security mail provider called silent circle also announced it was shutting down. new information has come to light about a secretive unit inside the drug enforcement the special operations division. earlier this week, reuters reveal the unit finals information from overseas nsa intercepts, domestic wiretaps, and informants to help dea agents launch criminal investigations of americans. instructedare then to re-create the investigative trail in order to conceal the origins of the evidence area reuters is reporting the dea has also provid

crystal joked that when he was told john goodman was chosen he didn't even know who goodman is.mong the others inducted the late apple co-founder steve jobs, actor ed wynn and the late tv host dick clark. impressive list of names there. >> 640. i was going to say a weather legend. >> ahh. >> now you're really stretching things. [laughter] >> the weather, this summer, going down as a cool for daytime temperatures but we'll buck that trend later on today. take a look at this picture. this was sent in by dave johnson in loudoun county. he caught the sun dog on saturday, i caught it, too, in fairfax county when i was driving on 495. that's just a reflection of the sun and the ice crystals of the cloudiness crease a rainbow. did you catch the perseid meteor showers, unfortunately we had cloud cover last night, if you caught that, tweet it to me or send it to us on our facebook page. 74 degrees this morning. look at that, a little bit of haze but the sun is coming up and bringing nice color across the area. our dew point is at 69 so we do have a bit of moisture out there across the ar

i'm amy goodman. egypt's political crisis is growing after the country's deadliest file and sends the egyptian revolution broke out in chocolate thousand 11. at least five people were killed and over 3500 wounded in government rates on protesting catchments. usede and troops bulldozers, tear gas and live ammunition to clear out the sit ins. makeshift clinics were overrun with the dead and wounded area did members of the muslim brotherhood responded by storming and torching police stations. 43 police officers were reportedly killed. four journalists also died. egypt's army installed government has declared a month- long state of emergency and imposed a dusk to dawn curfew on the capital of cairo and 10 other provinces. the move came shortly after it installed 25 provincial governors, including 19 military generalists. peaced elbaradei, nobel laureate, resigned hours after wednesday's crackdown began, saying the conflict could've been resolved by peaceful means. the muslim brotherhood has called for new

i'm amy goodman. jeff bezos is buying the washington post, one of the leading newspapers in the country. the amazon.com founder and chief executive is one of the wealthiest people in the united states. he will pay $250 million for the post and a number of , less than one percent of his wealth, which is estimated at more than 28 billion dollars. he is a friend of donald graham, chief effective of the washington post company, whose family has owned the newspaper for eight decades. over the past the gate, the companies newspaper division a seen a 44% drop in operating revenue. in addition, he will get another -- a number of other washington post owned businesses. the deal does not include slate.com or foreign-policy magazine, which are own by the parent company that also owns kaplan and will change its name following the sale of the paper. he said management of the washington post newspaper will remain the same, but it is unclear what changes might be coming. last year, he was quoted in an interview with

i'm amy goodman. we begin today with a major development for opponents of new york city police department's controversial stop and frisk row graham. in a settlement announced wednesday, the nypd agreed to stop storing the names of people who were arrested or issued a summons after being stopped and frisked -- and later cleared of any criminal wrongdoing. for years police have used the database to target new yorkers for criminal investigations, even though it includes people who were victims of unjustified police stops. since 2002, the police department has conducted over 5 million stop and frisk. the vast majority of those stopped have been black and latino. according to the police department's own reports, nearly nine out of 10 new yorkers stopped and frisked have been innocent. two of the people at the center of the case spoke about what happened to them in 2010 in this video produced by the new york civil liberties union, which filed the case just settled. first we hear from daryl kahn who was pull

our next award goes to briget goodman. we know the saying when life gives you lemons you make lemonade. the next awardee always smiling and a good sense of humor and despite the challenges in the personal life they removed the bitter and looked to the sweet, our next recipient is jonathan regara. >> another saying that we are all familiar with is that at first you don't succeed, try, try again and in our next award case try again for the third time. well, it is true, the third time is the charm, because they were finally accepted into city build. others would have succumb to defeat, instead she rose to the challenge and prove that they did deserve a spot in city build and that person is princess green. [ applause ] >> princess is very special to me because she was kind of like the little sister i looked after in the academy, i really pushed for her to get in, i know that she was trying hard. congratulations. [ applause ] >> our final award goes to one of our youngest students, fresh from high school and in fact he too was

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i'm amy goodman. brotherhoode muslim has called on supporters of ousted president mohamed morsi to join the nationwide day of rage today to protest the killings of hundreds of people in a crackdown that began with raids on two cairo sit ins. according to the health ministry, the death toll from wednesday's violence has risen to 638 with thousands more wounded. on thursday, the government authorized security forces to use live ammunition to defend themselves and public buildings. president obama responded to the situation in egypt from martha's vineyard where he is on vacation . he condemned the violence, but stopped short of calling it a coup or announcing cuts to the $1.5 billion in aid to egypt's military. >> while we want to sustain our relationship with egypt, our traditional cooperation cannot continue as usual when civilians are being killed in the streets and rights are being rolled back. as a result, this morning we notified the egyptian government that we are canceling our biannual joint mili

jeb bush, he's a goodman and good governor, but he doesn't have the car is -- carisma his brother did. >> father and son competing? >> no, it wouldn't happen. >> the dad supports the son, but those, right now, i would say those are the two front runners. >> why hasn't anybody mentioned the donald? >> he's a fringe player under the best scenario. rand paul will do good on college campuses, wears blue jeans. he's not a friendly person. >> they cheer this guy and come out of their chairs when he speaks. >> who? >> rand. >> senator ted cruz, here he is blasting obama care. >> i'll tell you the single biggest thing in washington, and i think the most important fight, is the fight to defund obamacare. >> it expires on september 30th. i've publicly stated under no circumstances will i vote for one penny of obamacare. >> so cruz is somebody to keep your eye on? >> he's going to do battle in the near future. they're going to try to defund the continuing resolution to get obamacare out of it, and if necessary, let the government shut down. >> that's a strategy for the democrats. whose intereste

i'm amy goodman. the guardian newspaper has revealed that national security agency has a backdoor into its databases to search for e-mails and phone calls of american citizens without a warrant. according to documents leaked by edward snowden, operatives can search for individual communications using their name or other identifying information. the article was published on friday, hours before president obama held a news conference about the nsa. he repeatedly defended the surveillance operations and outlined four proposals for reforming the programs. >> i will work with congress to pursue a program of reforms to section 215 of the patriot act, the program that collects telephone records. this program is an important tool in our effort to disrupt terrorist plots and does not allow the government to listen in to any phone calls without a warrant. given the scale of the program, i understand the concerns of those who were read it could be subject to abuse. after having a dialogue with members of congres

post, 80 goodman is the journalist commentamy goodman is the journalist comment as an invited guest. >> we are not supposed the party to any party. this is the only one explicitly protected by the u.s. constitution. we are supposed to be the check and balance on power. >> host: in that book also, war and peace, life and death, that is the role of the media in a democratic society, to provide a forum for this is course, to do anything less is a disservice to the servicemen and servicewomen of this country. >> i had a jet flown in from denver when i was at the national conference on media reform and when we flew into the airport, at denver airport people hold up signs when you come out to pick you up and as we were walking there were some soldiers, they were going to be picking up the general and as we walk by they were waving and i thought maybe the general was behind me. it didn't look that way. i thought i am going to go back and talk to them so i went back and you watch democracy now and they said every day so i said really? why do you watch? it is objective and you cover war. it i

i'm amy goodman. federalstoric move, a judge has ruled the stop and frisk rules used by new york city are unconstitutional. shira scheindlin wrote that police have a policy of racial profiling, leading them to stop blacks and latinos who would not have been otherwise stop if they were white. attorney general eric holder has officially unveiled a major policy shift to help certain low-level drug offenders avoid harsh mandatory minimum prison sentences. in an address to the american bar association, he address the issue of mass incarceration, noting that it houses a quarter of the world's prisoners. among other changes, he touted an expansion of the compassionate release program for some elderly prisoners and announced a review of racial sentencing disparities, citing a recent study that cited black men received senses 20% longer than white men convicted of the same crimes. >> vicious cycle of poverty, criminality, and incarceration weakens to many communities. many aspects of our criminal justice syste

i'm amy goodman with nermeen shaikh.ontinue to look at the track record of amazon.com, whose owner jeff bezos, purchased the washington post. president obama delivered a major speech on jobs at an amazon warehouse in chattanooga, tennessee. obama offered to cut corporate taxes in exchange for creating new jobs. >> here is the bottom line. if the folks in washington really want a grand bargain, how about a grand bargain for middle-class jobs? how about a grand bargain for middle-class jobs? i am willing to work with republicans on reforming our corporate tax code as long as we use the money from transitioning to a simpler tax system for a significant investment in creating a middle class jobs. president >> obama's comments were part of an effort to take on widening u.s. inequality, but critics say creating more jobs like those at the amazon warehouse where he spoke would do little to achieve the goal. >> for more, we are joined by reporter mac mcclelland, who went undercover and was hired by amazon. her article was titled

i'm amy goodman. this week marks the one-year anniversary of the attack on a sikh temple in oak creek, wisconsin the of six people dead and five when did. people of all faiths join the community for vigils to remember those who died on august 5, 2012 when a neo-nazi gunman wade michael page opened fire on worshipers in the temple. the oak creek tragedy brought national attention to the threat of hate and discrimination that has become routine for millions , muslim, hindu, and arab-americans in the last decade. according to reports, hate crimes against these communities are now at their highest since 2001, and a number of hate groups has more than doubled since 2000. last friday, ahead of the anniversary, attorney general eric holder announced the justice department will begin collecting data on hate crimes committed against sikhs along with other religious groups. this is jasit singh. >> in the year after oak creek, we have made some progress with the government and in one year, to get the fbi to agre

lois goodman was called away in cuffs in uniform before reffing at the open. she said the police had to have known she couldn't have done it. linzie janis is here with the story. >> good morning. her lawyer says she deserves compensation for what police put her through. her reputation hasn't recovered. this morning, the tennis referee accused of beating her husband to death with a coffee mug last august is heading back to court, only this time it's the los angeles police department playing defense. goodman, who was accused of murdering her 80-year-old husband last year is suing the lapd for falts arrest and malicious prosecution. prosecutors dropped the charges after she passed a lie detector test, and her dna was not on the alleged murder weapon. she said he died from an accidental fall. >> rather than being able to grieve for him, for the next several months, the lapd houndeder her and harassed her and finally arrested her. >> in a suit filed in a california court on wednesday, goodman's lawyers say they subjected the 76-year-old to extensive humiliation. al

you know robert civvy you know on twitter wants to know would deem have a role to play in the saul goodman spinoff. that we have to vince gilligan in character i don't know about that daniel on twitter wants to know the job or think you might have been written off on a whims knows i didn't because i know that vince gilligan would have would have told me ahead of time along as soon as he knew because he's that kind of guy which is which is to his great respect and i knew that they needed this you know wind and guns character found out early on in that i think was season three i realized that the final arc they had to deal with was what hank would do when he found out about walt and knew they needed needed that tension and now we're going to get that answer these final we were going to go to break even what on facebook what was your favorite episode. other coming up but prior to these coming up it would be one minute season three which eloise only that was that my favorite episode within breaking bad that changed my career violet alba and facebook wants to know what am i supposed to do of mi

we also tried to interview the company's ceo, gila goodman, in new york but she refused to speak with us. kevin taxin was success' president at the time of the fire. he also refused to speak to us on camera. he now heads up another supplier called americo group. one of its clients...is walmart. >> if walmart were really so upset about what success apparel did, one assumes they would not be keen to continue to do business with a leading executive from success apparel. >> on the phone, kevin told us that neither success nor its agent in bangladesh, true colors, knew about the subcontract to tazreen. but we managed to track down true colors' last remaining employee in dhaka. >> if there's any subcontracting, would you be aware of that? >> yeah. >> and then what do you do with that information? do you pass it up? >> yeah. we pass it up to our importer. >> so can you read this email for me and tell me who it's from? >> ok, it's saying hi kanta, i heard the shocking news about the fire last evening. it's nov 26. >> and what's the subject line of the email? >> fire at subcon. >> subcon is in

lois goodman will be back to f officiate this year's u.s. open.he was call hauled away in handcuffs for allegedly killing her 81-year-old husband in california. her lawyers are suing the lapd. they say the arrest was a publicity stunt to humiliate goodman. >> police commissioner ray kelly is making a strong defense that the department stop and thrift policy. kelly is warning of a dramatic surge in crimes without them. wnyw robert moses is live with more. >> good morning to you. we are outside police head kw r headquarters in new york city. the judge's rulings to hamper police officers not only here in new york but nationwide as well. the police commissioner who is a very familiar face all across the country appeared on three network talk shows yesterday. he credited stop and frisk with bringing crime legals to record lows in new york city. last week the judge ruled stop and frisk unfairly targets minorities and is therefore unconstitutional. kelly sound the the alarm and said if police officers do not have stop and frisk at their proposal crime co

. >> and one of my favorite producers of all time, robyn goodman, who scored a big success with "avenue seasons back, and she's here with, this is a kind of expensive show for you, isn't it, robyn? i mean, you're always identified with smaller... >> this is the biggest show i've ever done. >> riedel: what's the cost of this? >> $13 million. >> riedel: can you say that without passing out? >> i just passed out. >> and the fabulous victoria clark, whom i loved so much in "sister act" and "light in the piazza," is playing the fairy godmother, right? >> yes, i am. >> but you have no "bippity boppity boo" song, 'cause that's the song in the disney movie. >> no, thank goodness. no, no, this is all rodgers and hammerstein. >> haskins: she sings "impossible." >> yes, i get to sing that wonderful song with laura osnes, and i have a wonderful song in the second act, too. >> now, robyn, what got you thinking about doing a $13 million... and i'm going to keep repeating that number. >> i'm sorry i ever told you. >> ...the $13 million production of "cinderella"? i mean, is this a play for that family

. >> so this is goodman's office. >> you ever see "american samoa"?on -- >> the question is, will any of the clients still be alive? only his creator knows. >> i wrote that you cried writing the least episode? >> i did, because it was just so darn brilliant. no, i did, when i wrote the very last paragraph of the last episode. it suddenly dawned on me i'm never going to be writing any of this character again. >> chances are we're in for a very rough ride. i'm david wright for "nightline," in albuquerque. >> can't wait, the final episodes of "breaking bad," one of the great series ever. and for more behind the scenes photos with the cast and crew, check out our slide show on our website. >>> well, next up, dogs. a man's best friend, what happens when they get a friend in need? one may measure it by the thickness of its glass. the integrity of its high-strength frame. the amount of stitching in its interior. the power of its torque. or the sheer number of its safety systems... including collision prevention assist, standard. but the true measure is how i

: okay, f.d.r. is in the white house an ice cream cone costs a nickel and a hot new tune by benny goodman is hitting the charts. the year is 1939. 19... 1939! oh, my god. i've gone back in time! i've got to warn everybody about hitler! and get to the ice cream store! hey, homer, what's all the hubbub? let me guess-- you travel back in time again? shut up. you haven't even been born yet. easy, homer, i'll bring you back. ( tuning radio ) ( "the safety dance" playing ) oh, boy, am i glad to see you guys. marty: that was men without hats. orn without jobs! ( laughing ) bill: hey, don't go there, marty. marty: i'm not going anywhere. i'm staying right here at p.j. o'harrigan's! we're broadcasting live from p.j. o'h's and this place makes animal house look like terms of endearment! we're kicking off our 35th consecutive happy hour

john goodman. >> oh, man. turturro. i mean, julianne moore. >> buscemi -- come on, the whole -- >> jimmy: tara reid, by the way. >> oh, yeah. >> jimmy: the star of "sharknado," -- [ laughter ] is in this coen brothers movie, but, i was laughing -- i was, like, crying. >> oh, it's so good. >> jimmy: and you were so good in it -- >> thank you, man. >> jimmy: -- i didn't -- i didn't kiss your butt enough last time you were here. tell you how much i loved it, because i hadn't really seen it. i watched it, i loved it so much. and i hope i'm not spoiling it, the movie's been out for a while, so, no spoilers. [ light laughter ] if i am spoiling, it's your fault. but you're dumping the ashes out -- john -- and you're just like, dumping ashes out over a cliff. >> classic. >> jimmy: and you turn around, and the winds blow all the ashes all over you. you're like, covered in ashes. i loved it so much. i loved it so much, and the dude abides. >> oh, man. >> jimmy: the dude abides. [ cheers and applause ] >> thank you, jimmy. >> jimm