i'm amy goodman with nermeen shaikh. rmeen: we turn now to look at how a limousine crash that killed 20 people saturday in upstate new york is linked to a man who is an fbi informant, long accused of lying to the government and getting away with it. the crash in the town of schoharie was the deadliest u.s. transportation disaster since 2009. the limousine had failed an inspection last month and was not licensed to be on the road. "the new york times" reports that shortly before the crash, one of the victims sent a text message to a friend saying she was worried about the limo's condition. it has since been revealed the company that owned the car had a record of repeated safety violations. earlier this year, it was issued written violations after vehicle inspections by the new york state police and the department of transportation. on wednesday, state officials arrested the operator of prestige limousine chauffeur service and charged him with criminally negligent homicide. he is nauman hussain, the son of a pakistani immig

i'm amy goodman with nermeen shaikh. rmeen: we continue with senator elizabeth warren, who has come under fire for her crimson native american ancestry. in a videleased nday, sh tolder fami's sty. myother waborn in stern oklahoma it h been indian territor untijust a f years earlr when ibecame atate. my daddylways sa he felt heels ove hd in lovwith my motherhe firstime he s her. but myaddy's parentwere tterly oppedo their marrying becse my moer's fami wasart nati america thisort ofiscriminion was mmon at the te. sohen my ther was9 and my daddyas 20 eit you loped and gether ty bui a famy . myhree old brotherand me. nermn: elizath warrehas sa her motr told h her milies h ties tohe cherok and delare trib. but tive amecans acrs the countrare critizing waen' decisi to use dna testo assert h heritag chuck skin, jr secreta of state of the cherokee nation, said -- "sovereign tribal nations set their own legal requirements for citizenship, and while dna tests can be used to determine lineage, such as paternity to an individual, it

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i'm amy goodman with nermeen shaikh. he new york times" is reporting the trump administration is attempting to eliminate the rights of transgender people by creating a narrow legal definition of gender. citing a government memo, "the mes" repororts that the department of health and human services has undertaken an effort across several government agencies to establish a legal definition of sex under title ix, the federal civil rights law that bans discrimination on the basis of sex. that definition would be either male or female, unchangeable, and determined by the genitals a person is born with. according to "the times," the memo says -- "sex means a person's status as male or female based on immutable biological traits identifiable by or before birth. the sex listed on a person's birth certificate, as originally issued, shall constitute definitive proof of a person's sex." amy: if enacted, the proposal would reverse the expansion of transgender rights that took place under president barack obama. on sunday night, hundre

nermeen: and i'm nermeen shaikh. welcome to all of our listeners and viewers from around the country and around the world. the new york state department of taxation and finance has opened an investigation of president trump for fraud and tax evasion following a major expose by "the new york times." new york city mayor bill de blasio has also called for a city probe. democratic senator ron wyden has urged the irs to investigate the president. "the times" revealed trump inherited much of his family's wealth through tax dodges and outright fraud, receiving at least $413 million in inflation-adjusted dollars from his father's real estate empire. "the times'" 13,000-word investigative report found the late fred and mary trump transferred more than $1 billion in wealth to their children, and much of it to donald trump, paying less than 5% of the $550 million in taxes they should have under inheritance tax rates. as part of a scheme to reduce taxes, donald trump also helped his parents undervalue real estate holdings by hun