Puerto rico for about a year and a half. The debt crisis, the public alsoh issue, the grid, and their consideration of statehood, independence, voting. So, basically, i have been developing our puerto rico beat for two years. And of course, when Hurricane Irma and maria a hit, it was no question. I was going to go down and see what happened. So, yeah. Host ok, and you describe the situation in puerto rico as in environmental catastrophe. How much does this have to do with situations before the landfall of hurricanes irma and murray at, and how much is due to the storms . Guest the important thing to understand about mariko, infrastructure, debt, those things were crippling the island the storms. People were saying, any storm would bring the great down. Any storm would cause problems with debris and trash. There is justfor trash. The roads are already bad in the mountains and hospitals were already closing. Mostly depends on diesel fuel for its energy and anything that could disrupt sup
Will be our guest on the bus. Starting at 9 30 a. M. Eastern. Now, federal Emergency Management Agency Administrator testifies at a Senate Hearing committee on the federal response to the hurricanes that recently hit the u. S. Territories. This hearing has come to order. On the one hand, it is nice to see senator carper acting as my Ranking Member. But the circumstances are unfortunate, to say the least. Senator mccaskills husband is in the icu. Senator mccaskill is with him in missouri. We want to send her thoughts and send them our thoughts and prayers. I just mentioned, he had a massive heart attack, i think it was an internal did did you later that may have say defibrilator that may have saved his life. There is still blockages to worry about it additional surgery that needs to be done. To what the chairman said, keep them in our thoughts. Thank you. I want to thank our witnesses, not only for being here and your testimony, for what you are about to answer in terms of our questions
He visits this week. We begin with the political debate over social media. Examining twitter, google and facebook. Should there be more regulation . Emocrats, 202 7488000 republicans, 202 7488001. And if you are independent, 202 7488002. Join us on twitter or facebook. Good sunday morning to you. Thank you for being with us. We begin with the issue of regulation and whether there should be more of it on social media sites like facebook and google. Article what is the honest ads act and can it stop on socialical ads media . Requiring digital platforms with more than 50 million monthly viewers to create a public database of political ads purchased by a person or group who spends more than 500. Also, it would require the date and time to the ad ran, the price and Contact Information for the purchaser. The house and senate focused on social media and here is senator al franken with this line of questioning. Political ads paid for with foreign money in the future, with rubles or the north k
[inaudible] amy this comes as a group of democratic and progressive activists have published a new report autopsy the Democratic Party in crisis. Influence Democratic Party loyalists for refusing to examine their own role in their partys defeat. We will speak with coauthor norman solomon. Then more on money of politics as we look at new revelations from the Paradise Papers, a trove of millions of leaked documents in offshore finance that reveal commerce secretary wilbur ross conducting business with russian president Vladimir Putins soninlaw through a shipping venture in russia. Ross says he is to nothing wrong. Made aink the media has lot more out of it than it deserves. The fact that it happens to be called a Russian Company does not mean that there is any evil. Amy we will speak with guardian reporter jon swaine who coauthored three reports from the Paradise Papers on tuesday. Lone all that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report.
Good morning and welcome to this news conference. My name is norman solomon, action. Org, roots which is hosting the event today. Cosponsor ofs the a Petition Campaign calling for no u. S. Were planes over syria. Together with ive other organizations, veterans for kos, theylor daily nation magazine, will be on war, and watchdog. Net. U. S. Government began bombing. Yria nearly three years ago that was back in september 2014. Since then that killing from many sides has continued unabated. Last two, during the years, tensions between the worlds two Nuclear Superpowers have escalated. Nd escalated sharply in the process, russia and the United States have come closer to direct military warfare with each other. When addressing the tensions between the United States and russia, former senator sam nunn, chair of the Senate Armed Services committee cosigned a letter recently and i would like to quote from it. Urgently pursuing practical steps now that can stop the downward spiral in relations