i'm amy goodman. venezuelan president nicas maduro says he's defeated a coup attempt launched by oppotion leader juan guaido, the president of the venezuelan national assbly. on tueuesday morning guaido , appepeared in an o online vid, standing among heavilyly armed soldiers, callining for the military too oust maduro but the venezuelan military appears to have remained largely behind maduro. during the day, clashes broke

i'm amy goodman. calls for launching impeachment proceedings are growing among many house democrats as president trump continues to block congressional oversight efforts by refusing to hand over documents and by barring officials from testifying. however, the issue remains divisive as the chamber's leadership has thus far opposed the move. house speaker nancy pelosi has argued that focusing on impeachment could hurt the chances of democrats in the 2020 election. she has called for a closed-door special caucus meeting this morning to discuss the issue. we'll have more on impeachment after headlines with houston congressmember al green. the house judiciary committee has issued subpoenas to former white house communications director hope hicks and former chief of staff to don mcgahn, annie donaldson. the panel is seeking documents and the two women's testimony as they investigate trump's potential obstruction of justice, corruption, and abuse of power. the news came as former white house counsel don mcga

i want to honor my son, michael joshua-goodman.he went to gratten elementary school or lincoln high school where he was the spirit director. he nowly in kansas city, missouri, working for the transit system and born on may 8 of 1982, full moon in may, and i was unanimouslie unanimously end that was a great honor and thank you very much. >> thank you, are goodman. next speaker, please. >> i was born in 1950 and my father had a new television and what i don't remember was the first three years of bombing korea into oblivion and i don't remembeaprogressive president ws selected and you wanted to give some of the beaucoup land. same happened in iran. they said let's make a new deal and give some of the oil in iran, let's give that back to some of the people and they gave them the shaw. here we are in 1967, we had the gulf of tonken and vietnam to follow and what happens after that? we get angola, which i never really figured out and now we've got the past three years of bombing yemin into the backwards states and now we have an upset w

i'm amy goodman. attorney general william barr defended his handling of the robert mueller investigation to the senate judiciary committee wednesday as democrats accused him of working as an agent of president trump rather than the top u.s. law enforcement official. during hours of rancorous testimony, bar repeatedly refused to answer senators questions about his conclusions that president trump did not obstruct justice in a just in the mueller investigation. this week the washington post and new york times" reported mueller wrote to barbara march initialing that four-page summary of the special counsel's findings "did not fully capture the con, nature, and substance" of mueller's report. >> the letter is a bit snitty and d i think was prablyly wrien by one of his stataff people. did you make a memorandum of your conversation? did anyone, e either yoyou or ae on your staff memorialize your conversation with robertrt mumueller? >> yes.. >> who did that? >> there were notes taken. >> may we have those n

i'm amy goodman. the trump administration admitted wednesday that a 10-year-old girl from el salvador died in the custody of the department of health and human services last september, making her at least the sixth child to die in recent months after crossing into the united states from mexico. the office of refugee resettlement described the girl, who was not named, as "medically fragile" and said she died of fever and respiratory distress in an omaha, nebraska, hospital. five other children, all of them all of them from guatemala, have died in u.s. custody or shortly after being released over the last eight months. before last year, no child died in immigration custody in over a decade. on wednesday, lawmakers on the house homeland security committee grilled acting dhs secretary kevin mcaleenan about the deaths. this is illinois freshman democratic congressmember lauren underwood. >> at this point with five kids that have died, 5000 separated from their families, i feel like , and the evidence is re

i'm amy goodman. venezuelan president nicolas maduro says he's defeated a coup attempt launched by opposition leader juan guaido, the president of the venezueuelan national assembly. on tuesdayay morning guauaido , apappeared i in an online vid, standing among heavily armrm soldiers, calling r r the military to oust maduro but the venezuelan military appears to have remained largely behind maduro. during the day, clashes broke out between backers of guaido and the venezuelan government. ththere are reports more than 10 people were injured. on tuesday night, venezuelan president nicholas maduro gave a televised address and denied claims by u.s. secretary off state mike pompeo that he had prepared to flee the country. >> the skirmish and venezuela has beenen defeated a mrmr. trup set up a thousand expletives and lies. my god, how far the men in the united statates government are willing to go. amy: maduro and guaidodo have bh called on supporters to take to the streets today. we will have more on venezu

i'm amy goodman. as states around the country ramp up their attacks on reproductive rights, the supreme court tuesday declined to rule on an indiana law that would bar abortions based on the sex, race, or disability of the fetus. the supreme court decision will keep in place a lower court injunction on the measure. the supreme court however decided to allow indiana's so-called "fetal burial" law to go into effectct, which stipulas that abortion clinics must dispose of fetal remains either through burial or cremation. the measure was signed into law by then-governor mike pence in 2016. in more reproductive rights news, the sole remaining women's health clinic that provides care in missouri says it could be shut down this week. planned parenthood said it filed a lawsuit after missouri's health obama refused to renew its license. a judge is scheduled to hear the case today, if planned parenthood's license is not renewed by friday, missouri would become the first state in the country without an abortion c

i'm amy goodman. in sweden, prosecutors are reopening an investigation into sexual assault allegations by -- against wikileaks f founder julian assange, and are seeking his extradition to face charges in sweden. prosecutors had dropped the investigation in 2017 because they said the case could not proceed while assange was holed up at the ecuadorian embassy in london, where he lived for seven years before being forcefully removed by british police last month. julian assange has since been sentenced to 50 weeks in jail in britain for skipping bail in 2012 to avoid extradition to sweden. he was ultimately concerned of being extradited to the united states. assange has denied the sexual assault accusations. he p previously faced another sexual misconduct allegation but its statute of limitations expired in 2015. "kileaks editor in chief said since julian assange was arrested on april 11, there has been considerable political pressure on sweden to reopen their investigation, but there has always been poli

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i'm amy goodman. house speaker nancy pelosi has accused attorney general william barr of committing a crime by lying to congress. >> he lied to o congress. if anybody else did that, it would be considered a crime. nobody is above the law. nothing president of the united states and not the attorney general. being attorney general does not give you a back to go say whatever you want. amy: speaker pelosi alleges barr lied when he told congress he did not know whether special counsel robert mueller supported his preliminary public description of the mueller report. lawmakers learned this week that mueller had written barr a letter saying his summary of the report "did not fully capture the context, nature, and substance" of his work. a justice department spokeswoman said pelosi's comment was "reckless, irresponsible, and false." meanwhile,e, jerry nadler, the chair of the house judiciary committee, is threatening to hold barr in contempt for refusing to comply with a subpoena for the full redacted mueller

i'm amy goodman. president trump said thursday he will impose a 5% tariff on mexican goods and will keep increasing trade sanctions each month until mexixico cracks down on central american migrants heading for the u.s. border. the announcement caused the mexican peso to plunge against the dollar, rattled markets around the world, and set off fears of a broader trade war. trump's taririff threat could derail a trade deal known as the united states-mexico-canada agreement, negotiated as a successor to nafta at trump's insistence. trump announced his plans for tariffs just hours after mexican president andres manuel lopez obrador sent lawmakers the renegotiated deal for ratification. in a statement, amlo condemned trump's immigration actions and called his slogan "america first" a fallacy. this comes as the trump administration is reportedly considering a plan to bar anyone who passes through a third country from seeking asylum at the u.s.-mexico border. the move would effectively prevent most central a

i'm amy goodman. in missouri, republican governor mike parson signed into law a bill banning abortions a at eigt weeks of pregnancy. the bill does not make exceptions in cases of rape or incest. it also includes a provision that would completely ban abortion at any stage if roe v. wade is overturned. architects of the bill, as well as similar bills in alabama and other states, say they're aimed at overturning roe v. wade, the landmark 1973 supreme court ruling that recognizes the constitutional right to an abortion. meanwhile, a federal judge on friday blocked a mississippi law bannining abortions as e early s six weeks into pregnancy, which was set to go into effect july 1. in a blow to president trump's attempt to build a massive wall along the u.s.-mexico border, a judge and got 20 block trump from redirecting $1 billion of army personnel funds to build sections of the wall as part of his declaration of a national emergency. in his ruling, judge haywood gilliam said, "the position that when congres

i'm amy goodman. the house judiciary committee voted wednesday to hold attorney general william barr in contempt of congress over his refusal to turn over the unredacted mueller report to lawmakers. it's not clear when the full house of representatives might vote on a contempt charge, but house judiciary chair and new york democratic congressmember jerrold nadler said he expected a vote rapidly. wednesday's vote came just hours after the white house said president trump will claim executive privilege to prevent the e full report's release to congreress as well as documumeny top officicials. this is texas democratic congressmember sheila jackson lee. >> i can only conclude the president now seeks to take a wrecking ball to the constitution of the united states of america. for the first time in the history of the united stateses m a p president i is now exerting executive privilege over every aspect of life that the american people desire to have information. amy: we'll have more on the constitutional c

i'm amy goodman. special counsel robert mueller wednesday broke more than two years of silence over his investigation into russian influence in the 2016 election, contradicting attorney general bill barr's claims of trump's total exoneration and saying he could not state that the president is innocent of a crime. namely, , obstruction of jusust. mueller's remarks came at a surprise appearance at the justice department, where he was announcing he had wrapped up his work and was resigigning as special counsel. mueller repeated his finding that there was insufficient evidence to chararge trumpmp wia broader conspiracy between his conspiracy with russia, but he pointedly contradicted attorney general barr's assertion that mueller had decided not to charge the president with obstruction of justice. >> a president cannot be charged with a federal crime while he is in office. that is unconstitutional, even if it is kept hidden from public view, that, too, is prohibited. the special counsel's office is part o

i'm amy goodman. as tensions between the united states and iran continue to flare, president trump issues a threatening tweet sunday, writing, "if iran wants to fight, that will be the official end of iran. never threaten the united states again!" he did not specify what threat he was referring to. on saturday, iranian foreign minister mohammad javad zarif reiterated that iran does not war and that no country has the "illusion it could confront iran" according to state media. earlier this month, ththe u.s. deployed a carririer strtrike gp and a bomber task force to the region, and last week "the new york times" reported the pentagon reportedly drew up a plan to send as many as 120,000 troops to the middle east if president trump decides to take military action against iran. meanwhile, saudi arabia echoed a sentiment to recent statements by u.s. officials, saying they does not want war but is prepared to respond to aggression with "all strength and determination to defend itself and its interests." thi

i'm amy goodman. president trump has unveiled plans for a new so-called merit-based immigration system that would prioritize highly-skilled and english-speaking workers, while further restricting asylum seekers and immigrants who have family living in the united states. trump announced his plan in the white house rose garden thursday. pres. trump: my plan expedites relieve for legitimate asylum-seekers by y screening ot the merititless claims. ifif you have e a prop claim, yu will quickckly be admdmitted. if youou don't, you will probaby be returnedd -- promptly be returned home. amy: many lawmakers call the plan short on specifics and a non-starter. this is washington state congressmember pramila jayapal. >> it does not include any protections for dreamers. it does not include any plan for the 11 million undocumented immigrants that need a path to citizenship. it undermines the family immigration system that has been the cornerstone of our country's immigration policy. amy: this comes as senator lind

i'm amy goodman. the u.n. is appealing to involved parties to "lower the rhetoric and lower the threshold of action" as tensions flare between the u.s. and iran. iran's foreign minister mohammad javad zarif responded to what he called genocidal taunts from president trtrump, warning him t to threaten the country after trump tweeted on sunday, "if iran wants to fight, that will be the official end of iran. never threaten the united states again!" iranan has repeatedly said it ds not want war with the u.s. zarif said, "iranians have stood tall for millennia while aggressors all gone. try respect -- it works!" iranian state media reported on monday that iran has tripled its production of low-enriched uranium, but still within the nuclear deal. arabia,e, in saudi yemen's the rebels said tuesday they launched another armed drone attack on an airport on the saudi happen you m many borderer. the attack comes a week after the houthis and responsibility for coordinated drone attacks on a saudi oil pipeline. the u.n. is

i'm amy goodman. burmese authorities released award-winning reuters journalists wa lone and kyaw soe oo today after months of global outrage and pressure. the pair had been behind bars for nearly a year and a half. they reported on the systematic expulsion and murder of rohingya muslims from burma in 2017 and uncovered a massacre committed by the burmese military against a group of rohingya in the village of inn din. the two men were convicted to a seven-year sentence last september fofor allegedly violating g burma's colonial-era official secrets act. just last month, burma's supreme court rejected the pair's final appeal. they were awarded the pulitzer prize in april and were honored in last year's time magazine person of the year feature. this is wa lone speaking shortly after he was freed from prison. >> i am very happy and thank you so much to everyone who helped us while we were in prison and who wished for our release. i want to say thank you very much. >> i am really happy and excited to see m

i'm amy goodman. as tensions continue to mount between the united states and iriran, "the new york times" reports the ntntagon has drawn upup a plan to s send as many ys 120,0,000 troops t to the middle eastst if presidenent trump decs to take militaryry action ainsnt iran. the u.s. recently deployed a carrier strike group and a bomber task force to the region claiaiming there w was a credibe ththreat by irananian regime f . meanwhile, the european ununions urgingng the trump a administran to s show maximumm restraint following a meeting monday between u.s. secretary of state mike pompeo and eu diplomats in brussels. iran has announced it will stop complying with parts of f the landmark 2015 nuclear deal if others signatories of the deal do not take action to shield iran's oil and banking sectors from u.s. sanctions. we will have more on iran after headlines. president trump welcomed hungarian prime minister victor orban to the white house monday. the far-right nationalist leader is known for his hard

i'm amy goodman. the united states has charged wikileaks founder julian assange with violating the u.s. espionage act. on thursday, the justice department announced 17 new charges against assange over his role in the 2010 chelsea manning leaks in a case that many are warning poses a grave threat to the first amendment. this is the first time a publisher has been charged under the world war i-era law. assange faces up to 10 years in prison for each count of violating the espionage act. up to 170 years in prison. as the news broke, trevor timm of the freedom of the press foundation said, "put simply, these unprecedented charges against julian assange and wikileaks are the most significant and terrifying threat to the first amendment in the 21st century." after headlines, we'll spend the dutch speak with daniel ellsberg. theresa may said she will resign june 7, ending a three-year term that sawaw her repeatedly try ad fail to usher through britain's plan to leave the european union. her r nouncementnt ca

i'm amy goodman. alabama's legislature has just passed the m most restrictive abortion ban in the country. the law effectively bans all abortions. doctorors could face life in prison for performing the procedure. the law does not make exceptions for rape or in says. the only exception lawmakers voted for is cases in which the pregnant person's health is at serious risk. the bill, which was already approved in the house last month, now heads to the desk of the republican anti-choice governor kay ivey. she has not yet indicated if she will support such drastic legislation. the bill is expected to face multiple legal challenges if signed. supporters of the bill say they hope it will end up at the supreme court and lead to the eventual reversal of roe v. wade. democratic state senator vivian by charis, one of four women serving in the chamber, introduced an amendment that would criminalize the vasectomies arguing there are no laws regulating men's bodies. it was defeated. more on the ongoing attack on rep

i'm amy goodman. iran has announced it will stop complying with parts of the landmark 2015 nuclear deal and resume high-level enrichment of uranium in 60 days if other signatories of the deal do not take action to shield iran's oil and banking sectors from u.s. sanctions. this comes a year after the trump administration pulled out of the nuclear deal. in a speech earlier today, iranian president hassan rouhani said iran wants to stay in the nuclear deal, but that it is rolling back its commitments due to washington's actions. in the short term, rouhani said iran would stop exporting excess uranium and heavy water from its nuclear program. >> the joint comprehensive plan of action, the jcpoa, is here and it remains in place, but today we have shown the flip side of the jcpoa coin. this is the same nuclear deal that states the other parties are failing to meet obligations, then we can also reduce our obligations to the deal. today we're announcing a reduction under the deal. we are not leaving the nucle

let's go to london and hear from david goodman. we heard from the governor of the bank of england, not changing the rate but saying maybe changes down the pike. : carney told investors they were getting the outlook wrong. investors do not get that message. the markets stay pretty much unchanged. the markets do not have the same view of brexit as the bank of england does. they do not think it will be a smooth outcome as college seem to think. david: mr. carney seems to be quite concerned about inflation. the wiki concerns about inflation around the corner? g.: by the end of their forecast period, inflation will be above target and still rising . that is the big thing that came through. in the near term they have lowered their inflation forecast because of the conceit from energy prices. it is mixed in the inflation message. david: many thanks to david goodman from london. let's go back to sahil kapur. we were talking about michael bennet entering the presidential race. we also heard from her current candidate, that is joe biden. he

i'm amy goodman. leaders in israel and gaza have reportedly reached a ceasefire after an intense three days of fighting left 25 palestinians d four i israelis dead. the last round of f violence began frfriday. according to "the washshington post" israeli forces shot dead two palestinians and injured dozens taking part in the great arch of return, which have been taking place every friday for the past 13 months. palestinians reportedly shot and killed to the israeli soldiers near the border. israel carried out an airstrike on a refugee camp, killing two palestinian militants. the heaviest combat took place on saturday and sunday as litants inin gaza fifired about 700 rockets into israel while israel launched airstrikes on over 350 targets inside gaza. palestinian authorities said the dead in gaza included two pregnant women, a 12-year-old boy, and a 14-month-old girl. this is the father of the killed infant speaking at her burial. >> the children were playingng. they were struck and missile shot from a