Russia amidst reports that members of trumps team made repeated contact with russian intelligence officials before the november election. We will speak with democratic commerce member ted lieu of california. Then we look at one of Donald Trumps most powerful advisors, Stephen Miller, a 31yearold former aide to senator Jeff Sessions. The end result of this is that our opponents, the media, and the whole world will soon see as we begin to take further actions that the powers of the president to protect our c couny are very substantial and will not be questioned. Amy we will look at how Stephen Miller went from pestering latino students to designing trumps immigration policy. We will speak with one of his former classmates and a reporter at univision. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. The Washington Post reports the white house is in fullblown crisis following the resignation of former National Security ad
Over the years. Can you see the western middle class so to speak increased their income from zero percent to 10 percent reedit but theres another graph as well, the red line. In the redline, compensates for Something Else. That population growth was bigger in poor countries and rich countries which means a lot of people took a larger part of every percent and it means that they, especially incomes of the population growth in asia, pushed the western middle class from the lower percentile into the higher so what used to be the 80th and 90th percentile of western middleclass people were replaced by the richest people in china. And they are still poor, some 60 percent as rich as the western middle classes which means it looks like its Income Growth is coming down in those areas as well but thats more an illusion that comes from population growth. If you keep population growth, if you pretend the population is stable over these years, the elephant wrath shifts to the redline instead and th
Get really nervous and thats much the same way donald trump, as you say a new yorker to the bone is a suddenly plain that you may not have guessed we first heard him talk. You can watch this and other programs on my netbook tv. Org. Good morning and welcome to the Cato Institute. Im an analyst here and also editor of Human Progress, which is an educational website that tries to put together as many statistics about human world being as possible in order to present to our users and the general public a more real action of the world than the headlines would suggest. Speaking about headlines, it is perhaps an understatement to say that we live in an era of great pessimism. This pessimism is not distributed easily evenly across the world. But, it is felt very acutely in many western democracies including ours, here in the us. Some three quarters of americans believe that the us is going in the wrong direction. The choices that the electric will be presented with comes november, exaggerates
Seaside resort banned the socalled burkini, a modest swimsuit popular with muslims. And finally, kidnapped as a newborn and raised by strangers. The incredible case of a girl in capetown, as the woman she thought was her mother is sent to jail. Sarah im sarah kelly, welcome to the program. Last week, donald trump said that barack obama and Hillary Clinton found the founded the Islamic State. This week, hes telling america how to shut the terrorist organization down. In a major security speech in ohio, trump laid out his plans to fight the Islamist Group on all fronts. In a moment, we will cross live to d. W. s Richard Walker for analysis. First, lets hear the tough words he had on u. S. Immigration policy under a trump presidency. Mr. Trump the time is overdue to develop a new Screening Test for the threats we face today. I call it extreme vetting. I call it extreme extreme vetting. Sarah Richard Walker joins us from our washington studio to put this into context for us, because donald
House searches and a woman killed in childbirth. Coming up, our driverless car is coming to our roads soon. Google has taken the idea to the Detroit Auto Show to get the motor industry on board. We will head to the new paris philharmonic inaugurated last night. The outside may not be complete first, Francois Hollande gave a speech today to the arab world institute. That is linked to the opening of a forum called rebuilding the arab world. The stock comes eight days after the attack on the magazine Charlie Hebdo. The building was one beaming the phrase we are all charlie. Lets listen to what the french president had to say. All the misery, all the inequality all the conflicts that have remained unresolved for too long. It is muslims who are the first victims of fanaticism, fundamentalism, and intolerance. There were 40 World Leaders who came to paris for the march. There was no toplevel u. S. Dignitary. Washington is hoping to make up for some criticism over the absence by sending john