amy: wwill speak with melissa mark-viverito and go to puerto rico for an update. then to syria. as protests against the regime of president bashar al-assad began in 2011, a young economics student began filming on aelell phone in her native city o aleppo. for veve years, waad al-kaab documenteded herife andnd the lives of those around h to make an award-wiing dodomentary entitled "for sama." you you i know ununderstand whahat is happenin. i can e it in yourur eyes. you never cry like a normal baby wod. that is what breaks my heart. amy: filmmaker waad al-kateab and her husband hamza al-kateab joined us in the studio. all that and more, coming up. welcome to dememocracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. the house of representatives voted 332 to 95 on wednesday to table a resolution to impeach donald trump as democrats continued to fracture over whether to seek the removal of the president ahead of the 2020 election. house speaker nancy pelosi has resisted impeachment calls, focusing instead on congressssional investigations. wednesday's vote came

profane text messages with government officials, calling former new york city council speaker melissa mark-viverito whore, mocking victims of hurricane maria and joking about shooting san juan mayor carmen yulin cruz. rossello said sunday he will not seek reelection next year and was resigning as head of the ruling new progressive party, but he is refusing to step down as governor. this is a protester speaking from puerto rico yesterday. to be withded to come the people because we are tired. it has been disrespectful to the people. the governor and his cabinet has made fun of the gay community, women, handicapped people, the of theion -- we are sick corruption. the people are tired. it has been years and years of people have awoken. amy: we'll have the latest from puerto rico after headlines with carla minet of puerto rico's center for investigative journalism, which published the 900-pages of rossello's messages with his colleagues, triggering the popular uprising. boris johnson was named at the next british prime minister. the election, which pitted him against the conservative party's foreign mi

profane text messages with government officials, calling former new york city council speaker melissa mark-viverito a whore, mocking victims of hurricane maria, and joking about shooting san juan mayor carmen yulin cruz. this is a protester in san juan speaking sunday. >> his resignation is inevitable. the question is whether he is going to make us wait another week or two weeks or how many more weeks he's going to force us to continue on the streets. there's no question of whether he is going to have to resign. he has to because puerto rico will continue to hit the streets. once we get this governor out, we must continue to fight because we still have to deal with the austerity policies come all of the measures they want to impose on us to do with this untenable d debt. wewe have to transfer this enery to the struggles. amy: boris johnson is expected to become the new british prime minister this week as theresa may makes her exit. he previously served as lonondon mayor and foreign secretary post a president t trump has cacallem a friend of mine who would make in a leader. in hong kong, police depl

shooting san juan mayor carmenen yulin cruz and cacaed former r new york c city council speaker melissa mark-viverito, who is s an allyf yulin cruz, a whore.e. rossello also took aim at the federally appointed financial oversisight board chararged with managing the island's debt crisis, writing -- "deaear oversisight board, go f- yourself" and made jokes about victimims of hurricane maria. twtwo top officials resigned as the scandal broke but rossello, who is up for reelection next year, is resesisting calls to sp down. on monday, denis m marquez of te puerto rican independence party introduced formal complaints against the governor and called for his impeachment. thousands of protesters have been taking to the streets in puerto rico. >> it is time for puerto rico to wake up. we want to force the resignation of rose low --rosello. even if the legislature does not care about the people, they are there because of us and we are amy: on monday, lilice isan n ju teargrgsed monstrtrors and made multiple arres.s. puerto ricans also gatrered in new yo a and oer c cits in pport t the isld. mo protests are pln

in one chat, mr rossello calls the former new york city council speaker melissa mark viverito, a horseia. another made vulgar remarks about puerto rican singer ricky martin. president trump tweeted about it today. the governor has so far refused to resign but he has apologised. today he issued this statement. it says: david from cbs is in sanjuan. thank you very much for your time today. is there any evidence the governor is managing to find that reconciliation that he thinks is possible? he sent out a message this morning saying listen, i saw last night's protest and it did not go unnoticed by me and my family. look, clearly the guy has never had this much pressure put on him and his administration. this has been a weeks worth of protest, last night was upwards of 100,000 people, right now there's about 100 behind me and we are right in front of the mansion with 40 to 50 police officers, a few of them in riot gear, but this is very peaceful and listen, to tell the story accurately, you have to say that 98% of the protests when it happened, have all been peaceful. there have been a han

. >> back with me, melissa mark viverito, susan del percio. and basil smikle.u make of the debate, asking themselves the question can a woman actually win the white house? >> to me as a feminist, as someone who believes in women, representation that we need to increase women's representation in power, we only have 24% of women in the u.s. congress. there's a lot of work to do i think it's reflective of in a way a moment in time where we continue to live in a paternalist and sexist society. that we do in some ways -- not myself, but other women that may somehow -- you know, might manifest in doubting themselves and their ability to lead. and so i think that we have to push against that narrative. you know, as someone that's advocating as strongly in -- we endorse the candidates. we last year was the year of the latina. we saw a record number of latinas running and getting elected and we have to continue to build a bench and show the capacity and capability of women to lead. i think between the candidates we have there in the democrating party right now, we have

in one chat mr rossello calls the former new york city council speaker melissa mark—viverito a whore. about puerto rican singer ricky martin. mr rossello has apologised but he's refused the step down. president trump was asked about puerto rico today. he is a terrible governor. i think you have an even worse mayor of sanjuan, she is horrible. i think she's horrible. i watched her. my people did nothing but complain about her when we helped them with the hurricane problem. the mayor of san juan, puerto rico is a horror show. she is incompetent, grossly incompetent. at the same time, the governor is not good. that was donald trump speaking a bit earlier, talking about what is going on in puerto rico. david begnaud from cbs is in sanjuan. david, it seems the protesters, regardless of what the governor says, are still on the streets. yes, they are, but they've taken refuge under and over pass because it's been raining. it is the caribbean, after all. but the major expressway which is the big highway connecting sanjuan to which is the big highway connecting san juan to the which is the big

in one chat mr rossello calls the former new york city council speaker melissa mark—viverito, a whore exchange, an official makes vulgar remarks about puerto rican singer ricky martin and says "nothing says patriarchal oppression like ricky martin." well ricky martin has fired back. "we cannot allow our puerto rico to be in the hands of such ‘leaders'." the governor has so far refused to resign but he has issued this apology. "i'm not proud of what i did. they were hurtful comments. so, i apologize for what i've done" he added "this is a very painful situation for me, as governor, as a human being and as a puerto rican" and we've also had this update from cbs correspondent david beg—no who is sanjuan, "puerto rico's governor, & 11 current & fmr staff members of his, must surrender their cell phones to the islands dept ofjustice by friday" david joins me from the capital san juan now. bring us up—to—date with this request for the cell phones. please forgive me for wearing sunglasses it's so bright here in the caribbean said looking into the camera and talking is difficult without the g