nermeen shaikh and i recently s spoke to him from t tucson, aririzona, wherere he now teachches at the university of arizona. he is also institute professor emeritus at the massachusettsts institute of technology, where hehe has taught for 50 years. i began by asking himm about president trump's national security adviser john bolton's recent praise of brazil's newly elected far-right president jair bolsanaro, a former army captain who has embraced brazil's former military dictatorship and has a history of making racist, misogynistic and homophobic comments. noam: it is entirely natural for bolton to welcome bolsonaro. bolsonaro is definitely his kind of guy, vicious, brutal, a strong and enthusiastic supporter of torture. he was a little bit critical of the military dictatorship because it did not kill enough people. he thought it should kill 30,000. it was one of the worst u.s. backed dictatorships in latin america. he wants to throw the country open to investors and turn brazil into kind of a caricature of a country. this includes opening up the amazon to agribusiness supporters. tha

i'm amy goodman with nermeen shaikh.. rmeen: democrats have seized control of the house of representatives, flipping more than two dozen seats in a historic midterm election that gives democrats subpoena power for the first time since president donald trump was elected two years ago. a day after the election, trump fired attorney general jeff sessions. manyiring has led to comparisons between trump and former president richard nixon. on wednesday, cnn's jake tapper called sessions ouster another chapter in "a slow-motion multi-monthed saturday night , massacre." he was referencing the infamous saturday night massacre in 1973, when then-attorney general elliot richardson and his deputy resigned after president richard nixon ordered richardson to fire the special prosecutor investigating the watergate scandal. amy: for more, we continue our conversation with elizabeth holtzman, former u.s. congresswoman from new york who served on the house judiciary committee that voted to impeach richard nixon. for over 40 years,s, she had

nermeen: and i'm nermeen shaikh. welcome to all of our listeners and viewers from around the country and around the world. house republicans have quashed debate on a resolution that aims to end u.s. military support for the saudi-led war in yemen by sneaking a single line into an unrelated resolution about wolves. the house voted 201 to 187 on the bill wednesday, approving a provision that blocks the democrats from forcing a vote on the u.s. role in yemen under the war powers act. for nearly fouour years,s, the united states has played a key role supporting the saudi-ledd invasion, which has devastated yemen, creating the world's worst humanitarian crisis. the u.n. is warning 14 million yemenis are on the brink of famine. one new study has estimated the war has killed at least 57,000 people since the beginning of 2016. we're going to o be joined in a minute by ro khanna,a, democratc congressmember from california, who introduced the legislation in the house. but first, let's go to him responding wednesday to the repu

i'm amy goodman with nermeen shaikh. nermeen: the 2018 u.s.term elections mark a critical point in the era of president donald trump. the potential democratic takeover of the house of representatives has unleashed a torrent of white supremacist vitriol that is without precedent in recent years. in the past week alone, a militant trump supporter was accused of mailing three pipe bomb to cnn and 12 bombs to people trump frequently criticizes, including the obamas and the clintons. two african-americans were murdered by a white supremacist outside louisville, kentucky, after he unsuccessfully tried to enter a predominantly african-american church. and 11 jewish worshippers were massacred in a pittsburgh synagogue by a white supremacist who railed on social media against jews who help refugees, or "invaders," as he and trump call them. amy: this comes as president trump has sharply escalated his attacks on immigrants. so far this week, trump has threatened to send as many as 15,000 u.s. troops to the u.s.-mexico border and to rewrite the constitut

s nermeen shaikh and i interviewed him from tucson, arizona, where he now teachehes at the universityf arizona. noam chomsky is also institute professor emeritus at the massachusetts institute of technology where he has taught for 50 years. during part one we plalayed on friday, noam chomsky talked about what is at stake in tomorrow's midterm elections. >> so is it the most greatest moment in my life? yes, but also in all of human history. and things like the election will have an impact on this. amy: during our conversation on thursday, , i asked professor chomomsky to outline some of the issues he thinks should be followed most closely. of the domestic policies of the trump administration? they are very straightforward. s on the rich, powerful, corporate sector and try to undermine and destroy anything that might be of benefit to the general population. that is quite explicitly what is happening before our eyes. so take the legislative achievement that the republican party is most proud of, their , as joseph stiglitz described it, the donor relief plan of 2017. it is an enormous gif

nermeen shaikh and i spoke with noam chomsky. he joined us from tucson, arizona, where he now teaches at the university of arizona. his recent books include "global "who rules the world, was put an requiem for the american dream." i began by asking professor chomsky to respond to nsa national security adviser john bolton's remarks on latin america. >> of course, immediately it brings to mind the access of evil -- axis of evil speech of george bush back in 2002, which was the precursor, laying the groundwork for the invasion of iraq of the worst crime of this century with her in this consequences for iraq, eliciting conflicts that are cheering the region apart. a major atrocity of john bolton's was behind that and his new troika -- i doubt the u.s. will dare to do something similar, but that is what it brings to mind. it is kind of interesting to see ravingsterical, astonishing another propaganda campaign that bolton and his colleagues are carrying caravan regard to the of poor and miserable people fleeing from severe oppression,

amy: i'm here with jeremy skjei hill and nermeen shaikh. jeremy?eremy: i think one of the things we can do on a program like this that you won't see on any of the big corporate net wrong, is have some discussions about what people with justice want to do with their time and not just get involved in the horserace and the fadget we have and you alan, a great independent journalist sitting here. with amy, of course, survived the as kerr in the early 1990's, the most dogged reporter certainly from the united states, arguably the world in holding the indonesian military with all of its support from the united states accountable for the mass killings, the genocide that it carried out over the course of decades but having you, r ralph nader, and alan he, i think it's an interesting opportunity to talk about what does a just and strategic response to this authoritarian administration look like? ralph, of course, you are constantly blamed for the results of the 2000 presidential election, which is factually inaccurate and we don't need to get into that but