thank you very much, lee fang.ee fang, investigative journalist at the intercept covering the intersection of money and politics. we willing to his piece "cia's , venture capital arm is funding skin care products that collect dna." the headline "beauty secrets of the spies." we will link to it at democracynow.org. when we come back, we look at police killings here in california of a homeless man most recently, and we will talk about the story of alex nieto. stay with us. ♪ [music break] amy: the leader was a witness to the police killing of alex nieto . this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. we are on the road in san francisco. "death by gentrification: the killing that shamed san francisco." that's the name of a recent article by the acclaimed writer rebecca solnit about the 2014 police killing of alex nieto. in the early evening of march 21, 2014, alex nieto was sitting in a san francisco park eating a burrito. he was wearing a taser that he carried for his job as a b

joining me lee fang, investigative report are fore"the intercept" who's been covering all this.ks for having me. there's been a number of kind of very dedicated single payer activists all over the country working methodically to build support for single payer. we've seen resolutions all across the country from cities and towns calling for single payer. but this is one of the first concrete steps to actually put that dream and make it a reality. so this is a state ballot measure. as you mentioned, very underreported, under the radar, that would actually change the colorado state constitution and set up a system that would allow for a true single payer system. so that means anyone in colorado who's a resident, there will be no health insurance premiums, no deductibles, paid for through a payroll tax and provide basically all care. health care, dental care, everything from a doctor's checkup to open-heart surgery. >> so there's that great phrase about laboratory is a democracy from a supreme court opinion, this is a great example, there's back and forth, can single payer work, can