i want to thank audrey sasson, jews for director of racial and economic justice. alex yablon reports on guns, extremism, and mass shootings. when we come back, media legend pat mitchell on "becoming a dangerous woman" as she talks about t leading activists and figuresand political from mary robinson to ava duvernay a ai. stay with us. ♪ [music break] amy: this is democracy now!, i'm amy goodman. of 2019d our last show with media legend pat mitchell, a woman of many firsts. she was the first woman president of pbs, cnn productions, and the paley center for media chair of the , sundance institute and the women's media center. she tells her story in her new book "becoming a dangerous woman: embracing risk to change the world." we spoke to her last week about her own life story. today she talks about some of the 15 women she chose to feature. >> i learned so much in listening to them talk about their own journeys because they are so vastly different. then you talk to ava duvernay or who so brilliantly describes being dangerous to her means reaching out to one another

before off there in the peace voted to south american troops in a few years responds to washington's sasson ational the wrong general. libya faces further fragmentation as turkey sends troops to support the un recognized government in tripoli few relating to the rival administration placed in vicky. and why the new year's party fell flat for residents in the scottish capital who say they are increasingly being pushed aside in their own city to make way for a rising number of tourists. so it is becoming an issue you think especially. if this local. book store bought this if you then insisted he did not mean people among the. 11 am here in the russian capital thanks for joining us on our team. is ready to begin from welcome to the program. all right now the streets of tehran are packed with tens of thousands of mourners for the funeral procession of general kasam salumi the country's most powerful general was assassinated in a u.s. air raid on baghdad airport on friday and these are live pictures we can show you from the air the supreme leader earlier said prayers over the slain commanders co

few days is there a whole lot of the media you know is starting to get out of the case it's just a sasson ating i can't we. to the musical on broadway comes out with these various characters that will be our viewers but does this not give you and many of the people that agree with your perspective some pause that when you do you think it's a different foreign policy or not but you know clearly the biden piece of this was important to biden was on the border pretty small a lot of people both democrats and republicans said he there's something not right in denmark on this but i think at the same time how do you square the giuliani role . i think mayor giuliani mean look the evidence that's been put forward actually vindicate him in this effort to be exculpatory you take a look at the left part miscommunications or rudy is telling president linsky communicate a message to president alinsky to quit being a boy be a man go and split your ties with the oligarchs crackdown on corruption so i think the evidence is actually good for steve jenner so my point that i think that we have to get to the

been another day of dramatic developments in iran where the burial of the top the radiant command sasson aided in the in a u.s. airstrike on friday has been delayed after at least 50 people were killed in a stampede joining his funeral procession huge crowds that packed qassam saw him on his hometown of come on and the congestion in the streets led to a crush of people in the capital meanwhile tehran the part about passed a bill designating the u.s. army and the pentagon as terrorist organizations it's also boosted the budget for the elite could force that sort of money commanded foreign minister zarif was told i was there that the days of the u.s. in the region and the but. iran would respond because there was a knock toward. an act of will combined with an act of terrorism against a senior official of the stomach republic of iran and its citizens we don't and we are bound to protect our citizens as the act by the united states had other elements it enraged defeating so many people outside iran inside iran and that will have consequences for the united states and i believe the most impo