we will speak to codepink medea benjamin and nicolas davies, co-authors of the book "war in ukraine: making sense of a senseless conflict." then we look at how private health insurance companies are making billions of dollars in profit by jeff rotting u.s. government and the medicare advantage program. >> i have no doubt in years to come, the medicare advantage program will be held as the biggesheist, the biggest the biggest wae of taxpayer dollars we have ever seen. it has represented huge transfer ofaxpayer dollars from middle-class families, senior citize, to corporate executives and their shareholders. amy: we will speak with the health insurance whistleblower wendell potter. and we look at a dunning leak of documents from inside the mexican government. >> active members of e miliry working with cartels and are actually surveilling activists all over the country. amy: we will speak with a reporter luis chaparro. all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. russia says it detained eight people linked to satur

labour councillor, sian i davis, senior vice chairman of the local government resources but, thank you. the snp leader, nicolarse relationships between — joanna, of course relationships between the scottish and uk government not in a particularly good _ government not in a particularly good place nicola sturgeon is actually— good place nicola sturgeon is actually going to make the argument this afternoon that she believes independence would help improve that relationship through both countries being _ relationship through both countries being seen in her opinion as equals. nowt _ being seen in her opinion as equals. now. what— being seen in her opinion as equals. now, what won't be really talked about _ now, what won't be really talked about by— now, what won't be really talked about by nicola sturgeon today is the strategy for independence because we know when the scottish government and the snp stands on that, they— government and the snp stands on that, they will be a legal case in the supreme court this week, the scottish— the supreme court this week, the scottish government lawyers will argue _ scottish