Is struggling for my people. I did not kill those agents. Amy we will speak to the attorneys of Chelsea Manning and Leonard Peltier, as well as Oscar Lopez Riveras brother. He is preparing for him to come home. Then we look at betsy devos, Donald Trumps pick to be come education secretary. Do you think if you were not a multibillionaire, if your family had not made hundreds of millions of dollars in contributions to the republican party, that you would be sitting here today . As a matter of fact, i think there would be that possibility. Amy we will speak to Jeremy Scahill about besty devos and how her brother, blackwater founder erik prince, is advising donald trump from the shadows. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. President obama has commuted the sentences of Army Whistleblower Chelsea Manning and puerto rican independence activist Oscar Lopez Rivera as part of more than 200 commutations he issued tu
Will rank and how confident are you that this will continue under the president elect . Obama i could not be prouder of the transformation that has taken place in our society just in the last decade. , i thinke said before we made some useful , but theions to it ofmary heroes in this stage our growth as a democracy and as a society, all the individual daughtersand sons and and couples who courageously said this is who i am, and im proud of it. That opened peoples minds and opened their hearts, and , the laws caught up. But i dont think any of that wouldve happened without the activism, in some cases loud and noisy, but in some cases just quiet and very personal. And i think that what we did as helpministration was to to move in a better in a way, but to do so that did not create an enormous systematic ands respectful of the fact that in some cases, these issues were controversial. I think the way we handled, or ,xample, dont ask dont tell being methodical about it, working with the joi
But obama took no action on longtime imprisoned native american leader Leonard Peltier. The only thing i am guilty of is struggling for my people. I did not kill those agents. Amy we will speak to the attorneys of Chelsea Manning and Leonard Peltier, as well as Oscar Lopez Riveras brother. He is preparing for him to come home. Then we look at betsy devos, Donald Trumps pick to be come education secretary. Do you think if you were not a multibillionaire, if your family had not made hundreds of millions of dlars in contributions to threpublican party, that you would be sitting here today . As a matter of fact, i think there would be that possibility. Amy we will speak to Jeremy Scahill about besty devos and how her brother, blackwater founder erik prince, is advising donald trump from the shadows. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. President obama has commuted the sentences of Army Whistleblower Chelsea Ma
Will rank and how confident are you that this will continue under the president elect . Obama i could not be prouder of the transformation that has taken place in our society just in the last decade. , i thinke said before we made some useful , but theions to it ofmary heroes in this stage our growth as a democracy and as a society, all the individual daughtersand sons and and couples who courageously said this is who i am, and im proud of it. That opened peoples minds and opened their hearts, and , the laws caught up. But i dont think any of that wouldve happened without the activism, in some cases loud and noisy, but in some cases just quiet and very personal. And i think that what we did as helpministration was to to move in a better in a way, but to do so that did not create an enormous systematic ands respectful of the fact that in some cases, these issues were controversial. I think the way we handled, or ,xample, dont ask dont tell being methodical about it, working with the joi
In the hospital. Somebody shot him. Im lucy noland. Im chris oconnell. Another teenaged victim of gun violence and another search for the person who pulled the trigger. Fox 29s Shawnette Wilson live outside of Albert Einstein Medical Center where that teen is recovering tonight. Shawnette, you talked to neighbors who are just fed up. Reporter yeah, no doubt about it, chris. Certainly they are fed up because once again we find ourselves in this situation here in philadelphia where an iphone and other things like that have a bigger yall value than a persons live. As you mentioned that i talked to people in the enabled tonight and much like them, i just cant imagine what this boys parents are feeling tonight. A book bag left on the corner of the 6500 block of east wister street in germantown. A disturbing reminder of the violence killing young people in philly. The 16yearold who was carrying that backpack hes alive but in the hospital tonight. He was shot in the hip police say someone wal