Good afternoon. My name is armando trull, Senior Reporter withwamufm, top ratednpr station in the country. I would like to welcome you to whats sure to be an exciting conversation about corruption in Central America, the United States, and elsewhere. I will be moderating this conversation and you will have an opportunity to ask questions once the panelists are finished. First, sarah chayes, a senior fellow here at the Carnegie Endowment for international peace, author of this report, one corruption is an operating system and using honduras as a case study. To add perspective to this conversation, Zephyr Teachout is a law professor at Fordham University school of law, the author of corruption in america and she is also an attorney on the emoluments lawsuit against president trump. So, corruption as an operating system. What does that mean . What yeah. What am i talking about . Exactly. Would you mind yeah. So we have a picture but fundamentally what im talking about here is not corrupti
Prominent immigrant rights activists, including a member of the state attorney generals Immigration Task force. When i was detained, they stood up for me in the mobilized the community to fight for my freedom. And i was freed. So now i am here to fight for of these men because they deserve their freedom, too. Amy and recent spike in casualties in u. S. Airstrikes abroad and nearly 49. In syria with the u. S. Struck a mosque and iraq u. S. Air sex continue in mosul. Often coast of yemen, saudi arabia is accused of using a u. S. Apache helicopter to kill refugees on a boat. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Confirmation hearings begin today for neil gorsuch, President Trumps pick to replace the late Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court. If confirmed by the senate, gorsuch would give conservatives a narrow 54 conservative majority on the court. As a judge on the tenth circuit, gorsuch ruled in favor of hobb
Criticized antiapartheid protesters at Columbia University. Then we go to vermont where the immigrant community has been shaken after ice detained three prominent immigrant rights activists, including a member of the state attorney generals Immigration Task force. When i was detained, they stood up for me in the mobilized the community to fight for my freedom. And i was freed. So now i am here to fight for of these men because they deserve their freedom, too. Amy and recent spike in casualties in u. S. Airstrikes abroad and nearly 49. In syria with the u. S. Struck a mosque and iraq u. S. Air sex continue in mosul. Often coast of yemen, saudi arabia is accused of using a u. S. Apache helicopter to kill refugees on a boat. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Confirmation hearings begin today for neil gorsuch, President Trumps pick to replace the late Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court. If confirmed by the
Criticized antiapartheid protesters at Columbia University. Then we go to vermont where the immigrant community has been shaken after ice detained three prominent immigrant rights activists, including a member of the state attorney generals Immigration Task force. When i was detained, they stood up for me in the mobilized the community to fight for my freedom. And i was freed. So now i am here to fight for of these men because they deserve their freedom, too. Amy and recent spike in casualties in u. S. Airstrikes abroad and nearly 49. In syria with the u. S. Struck a mosque and iraq u. S. Air sex continue in mosul. Often coast of yemen, saudi arabia is accused of using a u. S. Apache helicopter to kill refugees on a boat. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Confirmation hearings begin today for neil gorsuch, President Trumps pick to replace the late Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court. If confirmed by the
Comes out of morocco the a political statement . I think it will be. How much will be in it . I think that will be a function of these discussions. How do you recognize the progress we have made but do not rest on your laurels . The lima agreement, accords, each one of these has their own kind of structure that i think the moroccans would want something that they could say, we do these things and we can look back at pride look back with pride. Much, we areyou so out of time. A great discussion. [applause] i want to thank jonathan in coral for this great discussion. Rate moderation and discussion and questions from the audience. We look forward to you all coming to our next program. Once again, lets give a round of applause. [applause] with the Supreme Court back in session, we have a special webpage to help you follow the court. Go to cspan. Org, select Supreme Court. You will see the calendar for this term, a list of all current justices, and with Supreme Court video on demand, watch