and michael mann, professor of atmospheric science at penn state university. coming up, we will look at the thousands of california prisoners who are on the frontlines battling the fires. they make one e dollar a day. stay with us. ♪ [music break] amy: this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman with nermeen shaikh. nermeen: we continue our coverage of the california wildfires with a look at who's actually fighting the fires, and it may just surprise you. in addition to roughly 7000 full-time and seasonal california firefighters, the ststate relies on about 3500 prisoners, including many women , to battle the blazes. at least 2000 prisoners are curly fighting the wildfires, burning acrossss the state, offenders.8 youth earlier this month, california governor jerry brown thanked the firefighters on the front lines, including those who are incarcerated. >> you have heard there is a tremendous effort fighting these fires, and i want to personally thank all of the firefighters who are on the lines. the members of calfire and

michael mann-- he's an atmosphec scientist at penn state university, where he directs the each systemence enter, and co-author of "the abmadhouse effect" which it climate change. united states be thank you for being here. this is a series of striking events happening, ghthe dr, the heat waves, the fires. none of those in and of themselves are unique. so could you help us understand, what is the scien say about how climate changer is exacerbating these types of events. >> yeah, so's not saying tha climate change is literally causing the events to occur. what we can conclude with a great deal of confidence now is that climate change is making these events more extreme. an's a not rocket science. you warm up the atmosphere, it is going to hold more moisture, you get larger flod events, you get more rainfall. you warm the plen et, are you nding to get more frequent a intense heat waves. you warm the soils, you dry them out, you get worse draught, you bring all that together, and those are all the ingredients for unprecedented wildfires. now beyond that, there is something elsehat we think

face jail time long time trump lawyer michael cohen completes guilty to a hush money scheme to influence the twenty sixteen election and campaign manager paul mann a foretaste convicted of financial crimes what will these stunning legal developments mean for the white house also coming up fake news social media giants facebook and twitter moved to stamp out just information campaigns launched from their platforms but with the u.s. midterm elections just three months away is it too little too late and desperation along one of europe's most heavily fortified borders d.w. news goes to the spanish territory of ceuta in north africa following migrants determined to get across. iraq it's great to have you along everyone well we begin with those dramatic developments in the u.s. were two of president trump's closest associates have either pleaded guilty or been found guilty of criminal offenses the most potentially damaging for the president the statements of michael cohen president trump's former personal lawyer and go to fixer former campaign manager paul a man of force convictions could also add momentum to the special counsel's russia collusion for

a fairly momentous day in terms of what's happened here you've got michael cohen a long time friend and fixer of the president paul mann afford a longtime aide in front of the president both pleading guilty to extremely serious charges that came from the mother investigation it cannot be ignored the gravity of what's happened here is something despite what the president says it will not be ignored i don't think by the american public donald trump can call the special counsel's investigation a witch hunt as much as he likes but when six men and six women at a jury trial here in virginia find paul manifold guilty of what he did with it with tax fraud and bank fraud that really speaks to what robert muller's investigation is all about close friends and aides of donald trump are basically falling like flies right now it must have serious implications and it's also important to remember that the midterm elections are coming up in november robert muller's investigation still hasn't concluded but these kinds of cases from people so close to the president may well have a deep impact on those midterm elections which are being s

president went on twitter praising former campaign chief paul mann afford for not breaking under pressure while at the same time accusing xa lawyer michael cohen of making up stories in order to get a plea deal. the french interior ministry has admitted to a bureaucratic error led to the release of a terrorist suspect allegedly involved in plotting an attack party's more if national has more from paris. an interesting story here in fronts and the alleged islamist terror plot it was freed here early in april because an investigating judge had forgotten to renew his pretrial custody and this information was first emerged in the local media but later was also confirmed by france's justice ministry the spokesperson of the french government has called it a failure and for much more to go it is obviously agree failure i think the justice minister already initiated an internal probe to identify the reason for the speech and then introduce certain amendments to prevent such things from happening in the future because obviously the priority now is to find this individual the man who was one of the defendants in the case over alleged planned terro

face jail time long time trump lawyer michael cohen completes guilty to a hush money scheme to influence the twenty sixteen election and campaign manager paul manna foretaste convicted of financial crimes what will these stunning legal develop.

michael cohen knows information that would be of interest to the special counsel in my opinion where guarding both knowledge about a conspiracy to corrupt american democracy by the russians robert manne this investigation centers on a meeting between campaign aides in a russian delegation that promised to dish political dirty. on hillary clinton cohen's lawyer has indicated his client has direct knowledge of the meeting with claims donald trump knew it was happening something the president denied of the president knew about it and there is other evidence in addition to michael cohen just basically saying it on his own then the president at this point could be one his way very fast paced to impeachment at the first press briefing since cohen's appearance in court so how could the sunda says the president has nothing to hide as the president has stated on numerous occasions he did nothing wrong there are no charges against him in the us and just because michael cohen made a plea deal doesn't mean that implicates the president on it. on the same day cohen pled guilty in new york the president's former campaign manager paul manifolds was found guilty on a charges of tax and bank fraud bo

catherine mann, on any number of trade fronts, she has been a academics.a trade i was in a room with michaela pin drop 15 years ago as you laid out a theory of this function, of the behavior of china and the u.s. , withs the trade-weighted a leveling out in the last three years. up, up. function likes the dysfunction you canonized 15 years ago? back then, the economics between the two countries was more of a dysfunction. right now, the politics are .enerating an economic dysfunction i also think what is happening between the u.s. and china right now is that the u.s. policies being put into place, and having them put into place in the government spending and tax cut has made the u.s. economy stronger than most people thought. china wase time, undertaking a strategy of trying to clean up their financial sector, they were implementing policies in order to make that happen. it was expected to slow the rate of growth in the chinese economy. what has happened is that there has been collateral damage in the household sector with consumption slowing a lot as well. even as the u.s. has been stronger