host: adam goodman speaking with us. if you want to ask him questions you can do so on the phone lines. democrats, (202)-748-8000. republicans, (202)-748-8001. independents, (202)-748-8002. youru want to text us thoughts, you can do so at (202)-748-8003. you can post on twitter and on our facebook page. mr. goodman, the president's personal response to the inquiry. were they effective? guest: i think they have been effective. it took a while for the white house to get their sea legs underneath them and the counter narrative, what has become the prime and of -- prominent narrative coming out of the democratic controlled house. i think they have done much better in the last week. better, more effective spokespeople beyond the president himself. pam from florida, i know her very well. she has done a very effective job in the counter effective -- counteroffensive. jim jordan has been tremendously compelling, painting a counter point of view. a representative from the -- from new york has become a rock star overnight for her

host: adam goodman speaking with us.u want to ask him questions you can do so on the phone lines. democrats, (202)-748-8000. republicans, (202)-748-8001. independents, (202)-748-8002. youru want to text us thoughts, you can do so at (202)-748-8003. you can post on twitter and on our facebook page. mr. goodman, the president's personal response to the inquiry. were they effective? guest: i think they have been effective. it took a while for the white house to get their sea legs underneath them and the counter narrative, what has become the prime and of -- prominent narrative coming out of the democratic controlled house. i think they have done much better in the last week. better, more effective spokespeople beyond the president himself. pam from florida, i know her very well. she has done a very effective job in the counter effective -- counteroffensive. jim jordan has been tremendously compelling, painting a counter point of view. a representative from the -- from new york has become a rock star overnight for her willin

now we come to lori goodman, our champion.ue a few moments ago about yosemite, and that's one of your favorite places to hike, i understand. it is. i love yosemite. i travel there with my family, who are here today. - all of you as a group? well, when the kids were little, we would force them to hike up to the top of nevada falls, and my younger son, noah, when he was about 5, made it, but he fell and scraped his knee and i told him he was a trouper. but he thought i said he was a tripper, and he felt really bad about it. [ laughter ] do you realize one of the things you just said, which could be misconstrued? you said, "we would force them to climb all the way to the top." [ laughter ] that's cruel and unusual punishment. we'll talk about that after the program. but for now, kyle gets to pick again. similar words, $200. monica. what is a palate? - yes. - mob rule, $200. kyle. - who is capone? - right. mob rule, $400. monica. docile don? what is a docile don? yes. mob rules, $600. kyle. - what are families? - yeah. mob rule, $

i'm amy goodman. the trump administration has formally notified the united nations that it will withdraw the united states from the historic paris climamate agagreement, starting a year-log process to leave the international pact to fight the climate crisis. the u.s. is the world's largest historic greenhouse gas emitter. it will become the only country outside the agreement. the 2015 agreement aims to limit global temperature rise to less than 1.5 degrees celsius, a target that would prevent the worst effects of catastrophic climate change. trump's decision to withdraw from the historic pact has sparked widespread international condemnation. this is the chinese foreign ministry spokesperson speaking monday. >> china express his regret official starting the relevant process of withdrawing from the paris climate agreement. we believe climatete change is a common challenge faced by all of humankind. all memos of the international community should join hands to cooperate, each doing their best according

i'm amy goodman. army lt. col. alex vindman testified in a televised house impeachment hearing over whether president trump withheld military aid from ukraine to pressure the ukrainian president to investigate trump political rival joe biden and his son. among his statements, then men said he could not believe what he was hearing when he listened to his july 25 phone call between president trump and ukrainian president zelensky. during the call, trump pressured celestia to investigate his political rival joe biden and his son, who served on the board of ukrainian natural gas company burisma. vindman, the director for european affairs at the national security council, testified along with jennifer williams, russia advisor for vice president pence. i tuesday afternoon, house investigators heard the testimonies of kurt volker, the former u.s. special envoy to ukraine, and tim morrison, former senior director for european and russian affairs. today u.s. ambassador to the european union gordon sondland will testify to l

i'm amy goodman. on capitol hill, the prereside's former top adviser on russia and europe told the house impeachment inquiry thursday that donald trump sacrificed u.s. foreign policy goals by pressuring ukraine's leaders to announce an investigation into his political rival joe biden and his son. the advisor, fiona hill, said she came to realize the president was personally directing his attorney rudy giuliani and u.s. ambassador gordon sondland to pressure ukraine into helping trump's reelection bid by smearing one of his main political rivals. >> he was being involved in a domestic political air and -- errand and w we were involved in national security policy. in national security policy. and those two things just merge. said it was ukrainian operatives, not russians, who meddled in the 2016 election. >> right now russia's security services and their proxies have geared up to repeat their interference in the 2020 election step we're running out of time to stop them. in the course of this investigati

i'm amy goodman. in news from washington, all four white house officials who were scheduled to testify to lawmakers today in the house's ongoing impeachment hearings have refused to testify. the officials refusing to testify are john eisenberg, deputy counsel to the president for national security affairs and legal adviser to the national security council, robert blair, assistant to the president and senior adviser to the acting chief of staff, michael ellis, senior associate counsel to the president and deputy legal adviser to the national security council, and brian mccormack, associate director for natural resources, energy, and science at the office of management and budget. the impeachment inquiry is investigating whether president trump withheld military aid to ukraine in order to pressure the ukrainian president to investigatate trump's political rival joe biden and his son . the lawyer for the whistleblower who went public about trump's july 25 phone call with the ukrainian president says he w

i'm amy goodman. u.s. defense secretary mark esper has fired the secretary of the navy richardrd spencer's ouster came a week after president trump overruled luke perry leaders and pardoned three u.s. service members who havee been accused or convicted of war crimes. men included navy seal eddie gallagher who has been accused of multiple war crimes, including shooting two iraqi civilians and fatally stabbing a captive teenager in the neck. gallagher was convicted of posing with the teenaged courts but acquitted of premeditated murder. esper had opposed trump's decision to intervene in the case as well as the cases that ththe two otother soldiers accud of convicted of war crimes. we will have more on this case after headlines. in washington, released state department emails further implicate secretary of state mike pompeo in president trump's effort to pressure ukraine to investigate his political rivals, joe biden and his son hunter, which is at the center of the ongoing impeachment hearings. the docu

i'm amy goodman. longtime bolivian president abel afters has departed stepping down and what he calls a military coup. late monday, morales departed laplace on the mexican government plane. he has been granted asylum in mexico. he announced his resignation shortly after the bolivian military took to the airwaves to call for his departure. last month h he was reelected fr fourth term in a race his opponents claimed was marred by fraud. morales' departure has sparked outrage and protest across latin america with many saying he was the victim of a military coup. iss is in argentina -- this daniel in argentina. >> all social indicators and bolivia. it bothered the privilege sectors that hydrocarbons have been nationalized, basic income has been increased for the entire population. despite all of this, together with the armed forces, are carrying out this outrage. this barbarity. it has to do with the coup. and policies we thought have been eradicated from the region. and that is wider so important that po

i'm amy goodman. on capitol hill, the house judiciary committee will begin impeachment hearings next week into whether president trump withheld military aid from ukraine to pressure ukraine to investigate his political rivals, joe biden, and his son hunter. "the new york times" reports president trump knew about the whistleblower complaint about his july 25 phone call with the ukrainian president and that congress had been informed when trump decided to unfreeze the withheld $391 million in military aid. an office of management and budget official testified to the house intelligence committee that two of his colleagues quit after expressing concerns and frustration about trump's decision to withhold the aid. and an anonymous senior trump administration official, who has blasted the administration, said t they wod rereve themselves before the 2020 election. the official is the author of a book "a warning" and a viral "new york times" op-ed. in colombia, anti-government protesters have called for anothe

i'm amy goodman. televised impeachment hearings begin today in the inquiry into whether president trump withheld military aid from ukraine to pressure the ukrainian president to investigate trump's political rival joe biden and his son. two witnesses are testifying today before the house intelligence committee -- george kent, a deputy assistant secretary of state, and william taylor, a former ambassador and the top u.s. diplomat in ukraine. both officials have privately told congressional investigators trump withheld aid to ukraine in an attempt to pressure ukraine to investigate the biden's. in now released text messages, bill taylor texted gordon sondland, the u.s. ambassador to the european union, the wealthy hotel magnate, "are we now saying security assistance in white house meeting our condition on investigations?" silent texted back "call me." today marks on the third televised impeachment hearings in u.s. history. we will have more on today's historic hearings after headlines with the legendar

i'm amy goodman. a federal judge has ruled president trump cannot block top white house officials from testifying in the ongoing impeachment hearings. the judge's reasoning, "the primary take away from the past 250 years of recorded american history is that president are not kings." judge ketanji brown jackson's ruling says former white house counsel don mcgahn must comply with a congressional subpoena and testify to impeachment investigators about president trump's efforts to obstruct the mueller inquiry. the justice department says it will appeal the decision. the ruling could have a sweeping impact on the e impeacachment hearings whehere a number of top officials, including former national security advisoror john bolton, have so far refused to testify. meanwhile, federal prosecutors appeared to be widening the probe into terms personal attorney rudy giuliani. "the wall street journal" reports s recently issuedd subpoenas with ties to giuliani suggest prosecutors may be investigating possible money

i'm amy goodman. a senior state department official george kent told impeachment investigators that president trump's personal attorney rudy giuliani carried out campaign of lies to smear u.s. ambassador to ukraine marie yananovitch before she was abruptly recalled from her post, according to a full transcript of kent's closed-door testimony thursday. he is slated to testify next wednesday on the first day of televised hearings in the impeachment inquiry into whether president trump withheld military aid from ukraine in order to pressure the ukrainian president to investigate trump's political rival joe biden and his son. reports thek times" ukraine president was prepared bow to trump's demands and was planning to announce the investigations in an interview with cnn on september 13. but only days before the scheduled interview, the trump administration released the $400 million in aid after news about the freeze leaked, sparing the ukrainian president from having to announce the investigation. the uni

i'm amy goodman. televised impeachment hearings against president trump are expected to begin wednesday post of the leading witness will be william taylor come the top, karen diplomat in ukraine. he previously has testified there was a quid pro quo making the release of u.s. military aid to ukraine conditional on ukraine from investigating trump's political rival joe biden and his son hunter. on wednesday, house investigators release the transcript from taylor's closed-door testimony. one of the key takeaways? taylor said it was trump's personal lawyer rudy giuliani's idea to have ukraine's president commit to the investigations into the bidens. post" isington reporting president trump wanted attorney general william barr to hold a news conference declaring trump broke no laws during his july 25 phone call with the ukrainian president, which is at the center of the impeachment inquiry. attorney general barr reportedly refused to do so. on wednesday, president trump lashed out at democrats over the imp

i'm amy goodman. house lawmakers on wednesday opened the first public hearings of the impeachment inquiry into president donald trump. two witnesses, george kent and liam taylor, but testified president trump withheld aid ukraine in an attempt to pressure ukraine to investigate joe biden and his son hunter who served on the board of the ukrainian natural gas company. in his opening statement, ambassador taylor details about her previously unknown phone call from july between president trump and gordon sondland, the u.s. ambassador to the european union. >> a member of my staff could hear presisident trump on the phone asking ambassador sondland about the investigations. mr. sondland told president trump, the ukrainians were ready to move forward. following the call with president trump, the member of my staff asked ambassador sondland what president trump thought about ukraine. mr. sondland respondnded that president trump cares more about the investigations have biden, which giuliaiani was pressing f

, i'm amy goodman with juan gonzalez.uan: we turn now w to the casef tania romero, an undocumented mother from honduras and stage four cancer patient, who is fighting to remain in the united states with her four children. two months ago, romero was imprisoned by immigration and customs enforcement at the privately-owned irwin county detention center in georgia after she was pulled over for a minor traffic infraction and arrested for not having a driver's license. her arrest and imprisonment interrupted life-saving medical treatment as she recovers from oral cancer. romero remains locked up at irwin, an immigration jail notorious for its abuse and medical neglect, where she is awaiting news about her case. amy: tania romero has lived in atlanta, georgia, for 20 years and raised her children there while working as a nanny and eventually a fulull-time construction worker. a deportation order against her had apparently been outstanding since 2008, but she didn't learn about it until a decade later, according to her family. th

i'm amy goodman. in bolivia, at least 23 people have died amidst escalating violence since president evo morales resigned at the demand of the military last week, in what he and many others have called a military coup. in cochabamba, military forces opened fire on indigenous pro-morales demonstrators friday, killing at least ninine people and injuring more than 100. the violence began soon after thousands of indigenous coca leaf growers and others gathered for a peaceful march in the town of sacaba. the massacre came one day after self-proclaimed president jeanine anez issued a decree protecting the military from prosecution for violent acts. protesters are demanding she step down. we will have more on the crisis in bolivia later in the broadcast. an unprecedented leak of secret intelligence documents from inside the iranian government has shed new light on how iran has taken control of much of t e iraqi gogovernment in the wake f the 2003 u.s. invasion. the 700 pages of d documents frm iran's ministr

i'm amy goodman. bolivia is i in a state of political crisis after longtime president eva morales resigned sunday following what he described as a military coup. bolivia has been the scene of weeks of protests since a disputed election lastst month. morales announceced his resigngnation inin a televised address sunday. >> to my brotothers and sistersa bolivia, the whole worldld, i wt toto inform you that i i am here with the vice presidedent and minister off health,h, that ii decided after liststening to my friends in the bolivian worker centerer and also o listening te catholicic church to resigign my poposition as presesident. amy:y: morales spopoke shortly r the bolivian military took to the airwaves to call for his resignation. bolivia's vice preresident alsoo resigned sununday as did the hed of thehe bolivian senanate and e lower house.e. opposition leader jejeanine anez -- who is ththe second vicice president of the bolivian senate -- is claiaiming she wilill asse the presidency today. we'll hav

i'm amy goodman. u.s. ambassador gordon sondland told the house impeachment inquiry wednesday that president trump directly pressured the ukrainian government to announce an investigation into joe biden and his son hunter and that other senior administration officials were "in the loop." during explosive testimony on the fifth day of public impeachment hearings, ambassador sondland said vice president mike pence and secretary of state mike pompeo were part of the effort to force ukraine into helping trump's re-election bid. sondland testified the officials knew president trump conditioned the release nearly $400 million in u.s. military aid and an oval office meeting with president zelensky on a statement about the bidens. >> i know members of this frame theseequently complicated issues no o form ofa simple question. was there quid pro quo? as i i testified previously with regard to the requested white house call and the white house meeting, the answer is yes. amy: wednesday's impeachment hearings o oversh

i'm amy goodman. in california, a high school student opened fire on the campus of saugus high school in the los angeles suburb of santa clarita thursday, killing two students and wounding three others. authorities have not identified the teen, but say the rampage came on his 16th birthday. police say surveillance video clearly shows him pulling a .45 caliber semiautomatic handgun from his backpack, opening fire on fellow classmates in an outdoor area of the school, before turning the gun on himself. he survived a gunshot to the head and was hospitalized in grave condition. the mass shooting prompted a panicked evacuation, massive police response. this is saugus high school senior ellie pearlman. >> it is so scary now. it is like every day there is a report. anytime there's allowed noise or any sort of threat, we locked down. for second, it was just another lockdown. amy: the gun control group everytown reports it was the 85th incident of gunfire on school grounds so far this year. it came as u.s. sen

and the rule of law in our democratic institutions and most recently, lieutenant colonel alexander goodman. despite the colonel's two decades of military service, and a purple heart, for his sacrifice to our country interact, his character has faced brutal attacks from cable news, and from some current and former members of congress. these comments about him, are reprehensible attacks with no basis in facts and verbal abuse of lieutenant colonel goodman, not only disrespects his integrity in his service, but undermines our institutions and ultimately makes our nation less safe. and lesses safe. so questioning the character and the loyalty or patriot it to some of lieutenant colonel lindeman, is an attack on all veterans and also an attack on our military. former u.s. ambassador, michael mcfall, and washington post column but just last week. they will coordinate, part of the column. quote such mere tactics are revolting and un-american. lindeman has served our country with honor distinction, both on and off of the ballot field. he is the patriot. as you would expect from someone with his ou

thank you. >> thank you, are goodman. if there are no other members, we will close public comment and undoubtedly, this conversation is going to go on for quite some time between now and january. with that, is there any introduction of new items or general public comment? seeing none, we are adjourned. >> good evening. well congresswoman to the october 23, 2019 board of appeals meeting. rick swig is joined by ann lazarus and commissioner tanner. we expect commissioner darryl honda shortry and commissioner eudardo santacana will be abtent tonight. to my left is the legal attorney. at the control is the board's legal assistant katie sullivan and the league process clerk. i am julie rosenberg, the board's executive director. we will be joined by representatives from the city departments that have cases before the board this even. we expect scott sanchez, also representin t

i'm amy goodman. we begin today's show in brazil, where an indigenous forest protector named paulo paulino guajajara was shot dead in the amazon by illegal loggers on saturday. it is the latest attack in a wave of violence targeting indigenous land protectors since the election of brazil's far-right president jair bolsonaro last year. guajajara was killed when he and another forest protector was ambushed by a group of illegal loggers inside the arariboia reservation in the northeastern state of maranhao. he was part of a group called guardians of the forest. he spoke to reututers in septemr about hihis efforts to save the amazon. >> we're are protecting our land and a life on it, the animamals, the birdrds come even the tribe here, too. there's so much destruction of nature happening.. good trees with wood as hard as steel being cut down and taken away. i am scared sometimes but we have to lift up our heads. we are here fightingng. amy: attacks a against i indiges peoplele in the amazon have spid sinc

thank you. >> thank you, are goodman. if there are no other members, we will close public comment and undoubtedly, this conversation is going to go on for quite some time between now and january. with that, is there any introduction of new items or general public comment? seeing none, we are adjourned. >> three, two, one. [applause.] >> congratulations everybody. thank you. >> so the project was driven by the need to improve conditions for people biking and walking from beach street to mcallister. between 2010 and 2015, there were 290 traffic crashes including two deaths, 110 bike collisions and 78te 78 pedestrin collisions. the construction was a little over two years. it including pedestrian crossing, better bike facilities, new street trees, we repaved the entire corridor. fern alley has decorative street plants and new palm streets. cbd helped maintain the alleys and they are planning farmers markets and pop ups and bands. >> the goal was to build on the economic vibra vibrancy of polkt and to provide a safe street fo

, i'm amy goodman with juan gonzalez.uan: in a sharp reversal to more than 40 years of u.s.s. policy, the trump administration has announced he no longer these israeli settlements in the occupied west bank to be a violation of international law. in 1978, the state department issued a legal opinion stating that settlements were "inconsistent with international law." and every administration has upheld that. on monday, secretary of state mike pompeo announced a reversal to the u.s. position. >> the establishment of israeli submittal -- selling settlement in the west bank is not inconsistent with international law. amy: this announcement puts the u.s. at odds with the international community. in 2016 a u.n. resolution declared the settlements a "flagrant violation" of international law. israel's embattled prime minister benjamin netanyahu welcomed pompeo's announcement as a historic day for israrael t palestinian chief negotiator saeb erekat condemned the u.s. decision. cook's settlements in jerusalem have not only illegal u

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i am amy goodman. in this special broadcast, we begin with the indigenous scholar r and activist nick est. he is s a co-f-founder of the indigenous resistance group the red nation and a citizen of the lower brule sioux tribe. i talked to him earlier this year about his book "our h history is the f future." the book tells the history of indigenous resistance over two centuries, offering a road map for collective liberation and a guide to fighting life-threatening climate change. estes centers this history in the historic fight against the dakota access pipeline at standing rock. i asked him to talk about the two thanksgiving stories he writes about at the beginning of his book. >> so the first thanksgiving story is -- begins with the pequot massacre by members of the massachusetts bay colony, which really marks sort of -- in my opinion, marks sort of the mythology of the united states as a settlerer-colonial country fofounded on sort of genidide to create, ironically, peace. and then i begin with anothe

i'm amy goodman. the house of representatives voted along partisan lines thursday to formalize the impeachment inquiry into donald trump. all 196 house republicans voted against the measure and all but two democrats voted in favor of the resolution, which sets the stage for the first publicic hearings of the investigation. this is california democrat adam schiff, chair of the house intelligence committee. >> the founding fathers understood that a leader might take hold of the oval office who would sacrifice the national security, who would fail to defend the constitution, who would places personal or political interests about the interests of the country. they understood that might happen. and they provided a mechanism to do with it, and that mechanism is called impeachment. amy: the house vote came as tim morrison, a top official on trump's national security council, testified in a closed-door hearing that the president withheld nearly $400 million in military aid to ukraine over the summer. morrison

i'm amy goodman. tuesday was election day. results are still pouring in from around the united states. in virginia, democrats have taken control of both legislative houses for the first time in a quarter of a century. in the kentucky governor's race, democratic challenger state attorney general andy beshear ousted trump-backed republican incumbent matt bevin, a deeply unpopular governor who sparked a statewide teachers' strike after he threatened to cut pensions. bevin lost despite president trump holding a rally in lexington, kentucky, monday night, in which he claimed a loss for bevin was a loss for himself. pres. trump: and if you lose, they're going to say trump suffer the greatest defeat in the history of the world. you can't let that happen to me. amy: the republican governor said the race is too close to call. in mississippi's governor's race, republican lieutenant governor tate reeves defeated democratic state attorney general jim hood. in virginia, democrats juli briskman, the woman who made

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terrorists goodman enslin and yes bada and young casper all 3 had been imprisoned in a high securityjail and stood guard in southwest germany since 974. yet they still managed to direct the actions of other terrorists fighting on their behalf on the outside the state's reaction was uncompromising and reflects roadblocks and id checks by heavily armed police officers became part of everyday life. deal thor's has launched a dragnet search crunching huge amounts of data to try and identify the terrorists anyone could end up in the investigators crosshairs the presumption of innocence a cornerstone of the rule of law was at risk. classed flieger was a young public prosecutor in stuttgart at the time he was shocked by the way the state was proceeding. with. control of the police carried out intenser checks with submachine guns at the ready you would fear for your life when you got into those situations and it was noting that 2 incidents occurred in the wider stuttgart area where police officers mistook young people for terrorists and shot them dead. only later did they realize they were w

. >> years what lynn goodman has to say about you and your survival on the show. >> we keep throwing you out and the viewers keep throwing you a life preserver. >> the thing is we all like an underdog. >> the washington free beacons is america -- since the election victory in 2016, wind constantly about the superiority of the so-called popular vote was a meaningless metric by which hillary clinton might have won the presidency and yet they cannot accept that spicer's fate on dancing with the stars is ultimately determined by the people as opposed to unelected experts. that popular vote. >> half of that comes from the judgment have from the people. that has been the case for 28 seasons. honestly i am truly humbled people are taking the time to:00 the vote for me. i'm having a blast. the thing i want to stress because it got lost in this is i take this seriously. i didn't do this just have fun. i thought it would be an opportunity to learn something new, i work hard to go out and try to get better and i'm making progress. the judges even acknowledged that. no question that among the ot