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KCSM Democracy Now September 19, 2017

As President Trump addresses the human generalissimo today, he will be protesting outside trump tower with other lawmakers. Will this increases number of arrest . Not clear. And we will speak with dulce garcia, an immigration lawyer in california who is one of six Daca Recipients suing the Trump Administration over its plans to rescind the program. Then President Trump childhood childhood trumps home in queens, new york, is now in airbnb. Oxfam rented it out this week and four refugees to spend the night and share stories of hope, resistance, and like in the United States. To me, the American Dream is having a safe and stable home and being able to accomplish your goals and having those opportunities, and now it is starting to feel threatened. Amy all that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. In the caribbean, Hurricane Maria strengthened rapidly monday over the warm waters of the atlantic, growing from a category 1 to a category 5 storm in a single day, threatening puerto rico and other islands already suffering from Hurricane Irmas landfall earlier this month. On monday, the storms eye passed directly over dominica, where Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit wrote online my roof is gone. I am at the complete mercy of the hurricane. House is flooding. He later said hed been rescued, but that the island had been devastated. The storm also brought high winds and flooding to guadeloupe, the staging ground for relief efforts for islands ravaged by Hurricane Irma earlier this month. Hurricane maria now threatens the capital of puerto rico, san juan, with a direct hit as a major hurricane. The storm also prompted hurricane warnings in the u. S. And British Virgin islands, where residents scrambled to collect debris from massive damage caused by Hurricane Irma. Officials warn that shards of metal and glass from the rubble could be turned into deadly projectiles as Hurricane Maria passes. At the United Nations, President Trumps chief economic adviser, gary cohn, said monday the u. S. Would withdraw from the landmark 2015 Paris Climate Accord as planned. His comments came as u. N. Secretary general Antonio Gutteres said climate should be a top priority at this years General Assembly. We see the consequences daily. Since 2008 coming no better than me, some 20 Million People have been forcibly displaced by storms, fires, and extreme temperatures. Climate change is not a distant problem for future generations, it is here, it is now. We need to deal with it. Amy gutteres call was echoed by french president emmanuel macron, who joined President Trump monday in a meeting that was cordial despite their disagreement over the paris accord. Speaking to reporters alongside macron, trump praised a military parade on bastille day he witnessed during history to paris in july. Pres. Trump i was her guest at bastille day. And one of the greatest parades ive ever seen. It was two hours on the button and it was military might. I think a tremendous thing for france, and the spirit of france. It was a tremendous day. To a large extent, because of what i witnessed, we may do Something Like that on july 4 and washington down pennsylvania avenue. Make a President Trump also met monday with israeli Prime Minister benjamin netanyahu, claiming theres a good chance for middle east peace, and strongly hinting hes prepared to withdraw the u. S. From the iran nuclear deal. And trump also repeated a threat to intervene militarily in venezuela to oust president nicolas maduro, saying the u. S. Would take additional steps if necessary. Truck is set to deliver his first address to the u. N. General simile where he is expected to single out north korea and iran. A lastditch senate effort to repeal the Affordable Care act on a major boost when the Arizona Republican governor doug ducey said hed support the legislation. The governors backing prompted Arizona Republican senator john mccain to say he would reluctantly vote yes on the Health Care Bill. In july, mccain cast one of three republican votes to defeat another effort to repeal obamacare. The Congressional Budget Office wont be able to fully score the u. S. S impact on the economy by september 30 deadline, meaning senators could vote on legislation whose full effects are not understood. The center on budget and policy priorities says the grahamcassidy bill would cause many millions of people to lose coverage, gut medicaid, eliminate or weaken protections for people with preexisting conditions, and increase outofpocket healthcare costs to individuals. All while showering tax cuts on the wealthiest americans. A group of six young undocumented immigrants sued the Trump Administration monday in a San Francisco federal court, challenging the president s decision to end daca the deferred action for childhood arrivals program, which gives nearly 800,000 undocumented immigrants permission to live and work in the United States. The suit argues the Trump Administration failed to follow proper administrative procedures in rescinding daca, and that revoking the program violates due process laws. We will have more on that later in the broadcast. The lawsuit was filed as undocumented activists and their allies shouted down Democratic House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi during a San Francisco news conference, accusing her of using dreamers as bargaining chips in a meeting with President Trump last week in which she sought to win legislation protecting young immigrants in exchange for a more militarized u. S. Mexico border. The protesters demanded protections not only for dreamers, but for all 11 million undocumented immigrants living in the United States. After headlines, we will speak to congressman Luis Gutierrez and a daca recipient suing President Trump. Cnn is reporting investigators wiretapped Donald Trumps former Campaign Chair Paul Manafort both before and after the 2016 election, including during periods when manafort spoke by phone with President Trump. Cnn reports the fbi sought and won a fisa warrant from a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act court in 2014 and later got a second warrant that extended at least into early this year. The fbi also reportedly conducted a search of a Storage Facility belonging to manafort. He is a key figure in special counsel Robert Muellers investigation into russias role in the 2016 u. S. Election and whether Trump Officials colluded with russian officials to sway the outcome. In nigeria, suicide bombers killed 12 people and injured at least 26 others monday in an attack in the Northeastern State of borno. There was no claim of responsibility, but the area is home to the boko haram insurgency and has seen at least 200 People Killed since june 1. Indias government asked the countrys Supreme Court monday to allow the deportation of more than Rohingya Muslim 16,000 refugees to burma, where human Rights Groups say the government is waging an ethnic cleansing campaign. The threatened deportation came as Human Rights Watch distributed beforeandafter Satellite Photos it says show the near total destruction of 214 villages, with tens of thousands of homes burned to the ground. Photos echo the stories of the more than 410,000 rohingya whove fled to refugee camps in bangladesh. The military torched our houses. Myhusband along with daughter and her husband were killed. Was able to flee somehow with my grandson. Amy the Trump Administration is planning to shrink 10 National Monuments and open them up to mining, logging, drilling, and other forms of extraction. In the memo from ryan zinke shows the plan would cut hundreds of thousands or perhaps millions of acres from protected resees, including utahs bears ears and nevadas gold butte National Monuments. The plan would also open the rose atoll and the pacific remote islands marine National Monuments to commercial fishing. Meanwhile, the Trump Administration is laying the groundwork to open the Alaska National wildlife refugee toilet gas trilling. The Washington Post reports that are modifying a 1980s regulation to allow for exploratory drilling and seismic surveys in the nearly 20 million acre reserve. In atlanta, georgia, Police Officers arrested three people on riot charges monday evening as they clashed with students at georgia tech over the Police Killing of the president of a gay and transgender Student Group last sunday. Video of the killing shared online shows officers ordering 21yearold Student Scout schultz to drop a knife, as schultz refuses to comply, at one point shouting, shoot me after a brief standoff, one of the officers then kills schultz with a single shot to the heart. Schultz had dialed 911 to report a man with a knife and gun, though schultzs family says the student was armed only with a small multipurpose tool and was having a Mental Health crisis. Schultz was president of the Georgia Tech Pride Alliance and identified as bisexual, nonbinary, and intersex. And those are some of the headlines. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Juan and im juan gonzalez. Welcome to all of our listeners and viewers from around the country and around the world. We begin todays show by looking at the political showdown over daca, the deferred action for childhood arrival program. Daca gives nearly 800,000 young people the legal right to live and work in the United States. It was implemented by president obama in 2012 after years of grassroots protests led by undocumented students nationwide. Earlier this month, attorney general Jeff Sessions announced the Trump Administration plans to rescind the daca program. But President Trump and Democratic Party leaders are now attempting to strike a deal to protect dreamers. Last week, Senate Minority leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority leader nancy pelosi met with President Trump at the white house for a meeting aimed at enshrining the protections of daca into law. After the meeting, trump said any potential deal would rely on also approving massive Border Security. Well, on monday morning, dozens of undocumented activists and their allies shouted down congresswoman pelosi during her news conference, accusing her of using dreamers as bargaining chips in her meeting with trump. The protesters demanded protections not only for dreamers, but for all 11 million undocumented immigrants living in the United States. Yes yes, i am. Yes, i am. You do not [indiscernible] you dont know what youre talking about. You are a liar amy well, for more, were joined here in studio by congressman Luis Gutierrez, democrat of illinois. He is a member of the Judiciary Committee and is the cochair of the Immigration Task force of the congressional hispanic caucus. Today is President Trump addressing the United Nations, general similar, congressman iteris will be with other lawmakers protesting outside trump tower, demanding trump work with congress to pass a version of the dream act that provides a path to citizenship and does not increase funding for the militarization of the border. Welcome to democracy now , congressman iteris. You have been arrested a number of times over immigration issues and other issues related to policy. Will today be another of those arrests outside trump tower . Im going to be with my with a broadd from makectivist here the wrote new york. I want to thank the activists and organizations on behalf of make the road new york. A few congressman getting together in front of trump tower does not make any event unless there is grassroots support. So im going to join them and we will take the necessary steps to make sure that trump understands and the world understands, you need to continue this fight while the negotiations are going on. Juan were you surprised by these talks that have gone on between the Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and your minority leader in the house and Chuck Schumer in terms of crafting some kind of an agreement with trump . Look, first i was surprised when we reached an agreement so rapidly when i know in the democratic caucus, the feeling to be we should tie 800,000 visas, that is for the dreamers come to any continuing resolutions, to raising the debt ceiling. And nothing was done. I was even more surprised when a week later i hear that they said to have for dinner and that now it had changed not only from the dream act daca they call it, we call it the dream act because we bought a dream act enshrined in law that will forever protect the dreamers and allow them a pathway to citizenship. We are thankful to obama for the executive order, but lets build on that and get something lasting and trusting to the country. Amy do you think it is possible that is what trumps actions will lead to come it leading to a dream act . That is what the democrats have said and were pretty clear about that at the leadership level and the grassroots level. Let me give you my take on this. 90 republicans walked away from supporting the debt ceiling, from supporting continuing funding the government, and including harvey. That means they no longer have an operating majority when it comes to the budget. What come into more months juan those 90 were against lifting the debt ceiling. Yes. They were against continuing financing the government, and they were against aid to the victims of harvey. 90 republicans. That means they need about 70 democrats to pass. Please, tell me the last time in the last decade of budget has been passed at the federal level without the cooperation of the democrats. All were saying is, look, there is a line in the sand. In december, i dont want to shut down the government. I will vote to live the debt ceiling. But if it is a republican budget, the democrats, let the republicans put the votes up on the board. If they dont have the votes, then lets make it a bipartisan budget, which includes it the seems to me, you know, transgender acuity that is been attacked, the Muslim Community, those stripped of health care, mankind had all. F those who have been attacked it is like saying enough is enough. We will not cooperate with you if you do not give us some kind of balanced budget that brings fairness. Juan why do you think President Trump is pretty spinning in these negotiations . What is in it for him in terms of his presidency . I havent the slightest idea. It is donald trump. In the a. M. It is one thing, it in, another, and the pm. He is such an untrustworthy person to be sitting across the table. One thing is become known for come he does not tell the truth. He lies and brags and his untrustworthy. Just ask all of those who helped him get elected, much less as on the other side. He began his campaign again his campaign pressing mexicans are murderers, rapists, and drug dealers and we need to get rid of them. He starts his campaign. Then he attacks

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