i'm amy goodman with nermeen shaikh. rmeen: we turn now to look at the texas billionaire behind the dakota access pipeline -- kelcy warren, the ceo of energy transfer partners. described by bloomberg as "among america's new shale tycoons" warren is personally worth $4 billion. he has become a major donor to the republican party. during this election cycle he , gave over $500,000 to super pac backing former texas governor rick perry. he also maxed out his donations to house speaker paul ryan, house energy chair fred upton, house majority leader kevin mccarthy, and senate energy and natural resources chair lisa murkowski. kelcy warren owns a small music label and recording company, and is the founder and driving force behind the cherokee creek music festival in texas. later in the show we will be , joined by the grammy award-winning indigo girls who have written an open letter to kelcy warren. but first, i want to turn to sue sturgis. editorial director of facing south. her latest piece is headlined, "meet the texas billion

i'm amy goodman with nermeen shaikh. een: many musicians, including emily saliers and amy ray, better known as indigo girls, are confronting kelcy warren and help stop the pipeline. in addition to owning the pipeline, warren owns a small music label and is the founder and driving force behind the cherokee creek music festival in texas. amy: the indigo girls began speaking out after september 3 when democracy now! filmed security guards working for the dakota access pipeline company attacking native americans. it showed guards unleashing dogs and using pepper spray and feature people with fight injuries and a dog with blood dripping from its nose and mouth. courts these people are threatening us with these dogs. that woman over there, she was charging them. amy: the dog has blood in its nose and mouth. >> and she is still standing here threatening -- amy: why are you letting her dog go after protesters? amy: in addition to raising awareness and funds for the land and water protectors at standing rock, the indigo girls are

i'm amy goodman with nermeen shaikh. guest is glenn greenwald, who wrote the piece "democrats, trump, and the ongoing, dangerous refusal to learn the lesson of brexit." nermeen: glenn greenwald, in -- he'e's, you write "the prevailing institutions of authority in the west for decades have relentlessly and with complete indifference stopped on the economic welfare and social security of hundreds of millions of peoeoe." you also point to the manyy analogogies between brexit, the decisionon by the british public to exit the e european union, so could you say a little about those analogies and how trump fits into wider public sentiments, not just in the u.s., but also in europe? it is incredibly striking, but also very alarming how similar the path of brexit was to the election of trump because just like with the u.s. election , in the u.k. during the brexit debate referendum, british he leads outside of this kind of circle of populist right-wing murdoch types pretty much were unified across ideological and party lines. you

i'm nermeen shaikh. amy goodman is on assignment and will return on monday. south carolina governor nikki haley has reportedly accepted president-elect donald trurump's offer to be ambassador to the united nations, making her the first woman to be picked for his cabinet. the first five appointments were white men. haley, the daughter of indian immigrants, has almost no foreign policy experience. except for making the trips overseas to discuss economic devevelopment opportunities. during the presidential race, she supported florida senator marco rubio but ter said she vovoted for trump. if cononfirmed by the senate, she would be replalaced by south carolina lieutenant governor henry mcmaster, a major ally of trump. this comes as trumump has repoportedly asked retired neurosurgeon and 2016 republican presidential candidate ben carson to consider taking the position of secretary of housing and urban development. carson has no government experience and no experience with housing or urban policy. trump held an on-the-record meeteting with r reporters and editors a

last month, nermeen shaikh -- spoke to catherine frankie.poke about govevernor mike once and his record reproductive rights and planned parenthood >> as governor, he cut all of the funding in the state of indiana, and it resulted in the closing of all of their clinics. what resulted from that -- since these clinics did reproductive rights work certainly, they also did hiv testing and counseling, and as a result of the closing of the planned parenthood clinics, the hiv infection rate skyrocketed in indiana, and this was all over the newews. the antiabortion crusade has a ripple effect much further out beyond the issue of abortion itself. :ermeen can you say --nermeen can yoyou say a little on tim kaine in context of positions he is takenen on the death penalty and abortion? >> it is interesting -- both of these candidates profess to be devout christians. mike pence, evangelical, protestant, and tim kaine, a catholic. amy: mike pence said i am a christian, a conservative, it are republican, in that order. >> in that order, that is right. what