advocate who has talked to residents of the village that was raided and with the intercept's jeremy scahill. then i changed and reporter at the public radio's show -- rid of show wrote a blog post and found himself out of a job. all of that and more coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. in a rare move on capitol hill,, senate majority leader mitch mcconnell scheduled an unusual early vote this morning as 6:30 a.m. to advance the unit or to theevos' nomination full senate. the early morning straight party vote dealt with a key senate hurdle required to advance her nomination to the senate floor. the full senate is slated to vote as early as monday. dedes is facining opposition frm lawmakers and education advocates. she is a longtime backer of charter schools and vouchers for private anand religious schools. she and her husband have invested in the student debt collection agency that does business with the education department. on thursday, parents and teachers flooded the senate phone system, calling lawmakers to demand they oppose

amy: jeremy scahill, stephen bannon was with president trump when he okayed the raid, apparently.ould you talk about the significance of this? >> stephen bannon and jared and first lady, as she appears to be now, evocative trump's husband, the event was a dangerous right-wing ideologue. yes, he is a former member of the united states navy, but his life's work is promoting fear mongering against immigrants and promoting what i think can rightly be called the whites from assist agenda. -- white supremacist agenda. donald trump the administration will lie about aerial photos from his inauguration and what they show. do you think they will tell the truth about the details of a covert raid in yemen that killed women and children and got a u.s. navy seal killed? let's look at their actual response in the bigger picture. we learned yesterday that gina hasspel is going to be the deputy director of the central intelligence agency. she was one of the people that ran a cia black sites where prisoners were mercilessly tortured, waterboarded, etc., and she, we understand, was the agent who led

jeremy scahill is co-founder of the intercept and a former producer and correspondedent wih democracy now! and those are some of the headlines. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. nenermeen: welcome to all of our listeners and viewers from around the country and around the world. we turn now to look at the growing scandal over the trump administration's alleged dealings with russia before and after the november election. there have been a number of developments in the past 24 hours. "the wall street journal" is reporting u.s. intelligence officials are withholding sensitive intelligence from president trump because they are concerned it could be leaked or compromised. "the new york times" is reporting trump is considering ordering a review of the nation's intelligence agencies led by stephen feinberg, a billionaire private equity executive who is close to stephen bannon and jared kushner. meanwhile, trump has publicly defended michael flynn who resigned monday as national security advisor after admitting he gave vice president mike penc

and investigative journalist jeremy scahill has canceled a -- his appearance on "real time with bill maher" after the hbo program scheduled white nationalist and breitbart news editor milo yiannopoulos to appear on the same episode. in a statement, scahill said -- "there is no value in debating him. appearing on real time will provide yiannopoulos with a large, important platform to openly advocate his racist, anti-immigrant campaign. yiannopoulos's appearance could also be used to incite violence against immigrants, transgender people, and others at a time when the trump administration is already seeking to formalize a war against some of the most vulnerable people in our society." jeremy scahill is co-founder of the intercept and a former producer and correspondent with democracy now! and those are some of the headlines. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. nermeen: welcome to all of our listeners and viewers from around the country and around the world. we turn now to look at the growing scandal over the trump administration's allege