well, marcus eriksen joins us now from los angeles. welcome to democracy now!we lead into earth day, first explain what microplastics are. lay out the challenge to the world. >> microplastics are small broken down fragments from larger items. those are your secondary microplastics, formed by things falling apart. for example in the oceans, we often find bottles -- you can see the edges is all bitten off. animals are during larger plastics and the smaller bits. waves crush it. we're finding a lot of trash dishleaves their land leaves our land are forming bigger items in the smaller items that microplastics forms nearshore. by the time it gets to the middle of the ocean, i'm hardly finding any big items. but a smog a small particles are everywhere. amy: explain these microplastics beads everywhere. -- they wereeads designed to be small. those are the ones we saw in our facial scrubs and to face that obama signed the microbead-free waters act in 2015. microbeads, we been able to do away with because of great campaigning. at the microplastics are everything that br

amy: we will speak with environmental scientist marcus eriksen, author of "junk raft: an ocean voyage anana rising de of activism to fight plasc c pollution."" and we w will go to hohouston to tatalk to priscicilla villa of earthworks, which is part of that break free from plastics movement. all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. "what follows are notes i typed in the vehicle immediately upon exiting trump tower." so begins one of the newly-released memos written by former fbi director james comey before he was fired by president trump last year. on thursday night, the justice department sent 15 redacted, declassified pages of comey's detailed memos to congress. these memos have been at the center of a public dispute between the president and former fbi director comey, which has escalateted in recent days with the publication of comey's book "a higher loyalty." he writes -- but with this president is unethical and untethered to truth." he districts trump as distracted by political rivalries and afraid about

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