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Church where a father of five usborn children who has lived in the country for more than 15 years has sought sanctuary to avoid deportation back to mexico. Maybe it would be a psychological, for my children and my wife to visit me very often. It would be very difficult if ice came for me, difficult for them. But we hope this doesnt happen. Amy and we remember the late rebel reporter john ross who died five years ago. I could have not been close to the 1970s movement if i had not spent so many years living in an Indigenous Community and understanding dynamic of the indigenous life in rural mexico. Amy we will speak to norm stockwell, editor of a new rosssion of john lectures. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now, democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. French president holland and greek officials have said the egypt air passenger jet the disappeared this morning en route from paris to cairo has crashed. Egyptian and greek authorities are searching for the jet, which has 66 people aboard. There is no information yet about what caused the crash. Last november, a Russian Airlines plane was brought down over egypt, killing all 224 people on board. The selfproclaimed Islamic State claimed responsibility for taking down that plane. Meanwhile, an azerbaijani plane has crashed in southern afghanistan, killing 7 of the 9 people on board. The pentagon says the plane crashed during takeoff when one of the planes wings clipped the runway. Ecuador, venezuela, and el salvador have announced a are recalling their investors from brazil over the suspension of democratically elected president Dilma Rousseff. She faces impeachment proceedings over accusations of tampering with government accounts to hide a budget deficit. But she has accused her rightwing opponents of fomenting a coup. Salvadoran president Sanchez Ceren said he would not recognize the government of interim president michel temer, who himself faces corruption charges. The salvadoran president said we respect democracy and the peoples will. In brazil an act was done that was once done through military coups. Meanwhile, president Dilma Rousseff has criticized Michel Temers decision to install an allwhite male cabinet, during an interview with journalist glenn greenwald. How did you react when you saw his team . Look, i think that it seems to me this interim and illegitimate government will be very conservative in every aspect. One of which is the fact it is a government of white men, without blacks, in a country that in the last census in 2010 and i think this is very important more than 50 of the population self identified as income of african origin. I think not having any women or black people in the government shows a lack of care. Amy in washington, d. C. , Senate Democrats held a mock confirmation hearing wednesday for judge merrick garland, president obamas nominee to replace Justice Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court. No republican senators showed up to the mock hearing. Meanwhile, Presumptive Republican president ial nominee donald trump has unveiled a list of 11 candidates he would consider to fill scalias seat on the Supreme Court if he were elected president. The judges are overwhelmingly conservative and the majority are white men. The list includes judge william pryor, who has argued for the criminalization of consensual sex between gay and lesbian partners and who opposes abortions, including in cases of rape and incest. During law school, pryor said his inspiration for becoming a lawyer was because i wanted to fight the aclu. The list also includes judge thomas hardiman, who has supported strengthening mandatory minimum sentences, and judge raymond gruender, who ruled a 1978 pregnancy law does not give female employees the right to contraceptive coverage. Curiously, the list also includes judge don willett, who is known for his extensive commentary on twitter, where he has mocked donald trump multiple times, including in a donald trump haiku that read who would the donald name to scotus . The mind reels. Weepscant finish tweet meanwhile, donald trump met with former secretary of state Henry Kissinger in new york to discuss foreign policy. During his time in office, Henry Kissinger oversaw a massive expansion of the war in vietnam and the secret bombings of laos and cambodia. He also presided over secret he also orchestrated secret u. S. Military interventions across latin america, from bolivia to uruguay to chile to argentina. In nigeria, family members say one of 219 schoolgirls abducted by boko haram from their dormitory in chibok two years ago has returned home. 19yearold Amina Ali Darsha Nkeki is the first of the group to be rescued. 57 other girls managed to escape soon after the 2014 attack. Her return sparked renewed hope for the family members of other girls who are still missing. This is nkeki mutah. Hereu can imagine, we are every day of every day i have been here because of the hope. Has been kind to me because of the rescue of the one i got news today. Amy afghan Officials Say 5 people were killed in a u. S. Drone strike in Zabul Province tuesday. The Officials Say the victims were alqaeda militants, including one commander. The pentagon confirmed the strike but refused to say , whether anyone was killed. The parliament of the seychelles has voted to decriminalized sex decriminalize sex between consensual gay and lesbian partners. Before wednesdays vote, homosexuality was a crime punishable by up to 14 years in prison in the seychelles. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has formally apologized for the 1914 Komagata Maru incident in which canada turned away a japanese steamship in order to prevent more than 300 sikhs from immigrating to the country. The move was widely acknowledged to be aimed at keeping sikhs out of canada. Then premier of British Columbia sir Richard Mcbride said at the time we always have in mind the necessity of keeping this a white mans country. On wednesday, more than 100 years after the boat was turned away, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau finally apologized. No words can erase pain, suffering that they experienced. Regrettably, the passage of time means that none are alive to hear our apology today. Still, we offer it fully and sincerely. For our indifference to her plight, for our failure to recognize all that you had to offer, for the laws that discriminated against you so senselessly, and for not for all ofoner these things, we are truly sorry. We willorrow, friday, be broadcasting from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation studios in toronto, canada. Kentucky has elected the first African American to the state legislature in 20 years. On tuesday, attica scott won the democratic primary for state representative of the 41st district. She has no republican challenger for the falls general election. During the primary, scott overwhelmingly defeated longtime incumbent tom riner, best known for his support of kentucky county clerk kim davis, who was briefly jailed for refusing to issue marriage licenses to samesex couples following the Supreme Court decision legalizing Marriage Equality nationwide. Attica scott, in contrast, has been a longtime social justice activist and a vocal supporter of the black lives matter movement. In south carolina, the legislature has passed a bill banning abortion past 20 weeks, even in the case of rape and incest. Governor nikki haley has said she will sign the bill. The highest court in massachusetts has dealt a victory to four teenage plaintiffs in a lawsuit over climate change. In a case brought by the teenagers and environmental loops, the massachusetts Supreme Court found massachusetts failed to fulfill its legal obligations to reduce Greenhouse Gas emissions that are warming the planet. In a statement, 17yearold plaintiff Shamus Miller called the ruling a historic victory for young generations advocating for changes to be made by the government. The Global Climate change crisis is a threat to the well being of humanity, and to my generation, that has been ignored for too long, miller said. Here in madison, wisconsin the , graduate Student Union at the university of wisconsinmadison has voted to join the global boycott, divestment and sanctions movement. The 9000member union is the oldest graduate Student Union in the u. S. It becomes the third Student Union in about a month to vote to divest from israeli state institutions and corporations who do business in the israelioccupied palestinian territories. And today would have been the 95th birthday of civil rights activist yuri kochiyama. Until her death in 2014, kochiyama championed civil rights, protested racial inequality and fought for causes , of social justice. Her activism began after the bombing of pearl harbor, when she and her family were held in a japaneseamerican internment camp. She was with mathematics malcolm x the day he was gunned down in harlems audubon ballroom, cradling his head as he lay dying on the stage. Today, google marked her birthday with an illustration of the civil rights activist on its homepage. To see our interview, go to democracynow. Org. And those are some of the headlines. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. We are on the road, on our 100 city tour, today broadcasting from madison, wisconsin. On wednesday, democratic president ial candidate Bernie Sanders rallied supporters in san jose, california, emphasizing the importance of next months primary in the delegaterich state. All of you know that as part of the democratic nominating process, california has by far the most delegates at stake 475 of them. [cheers] the vast, let us win majority of those delegates. ,f we have a high voter turnout we will not only win, we can win by a lot, which is what we have to do. [cheers] and my hope is that this great state, one of the most progressive states in the country [cheers] , andmake it loud and clear say to the American People and the world, california is on board for a political revolution. Amy on tuesday, sanders won the democratic primary in oregon, while Hillary Clinton declared victory in kentucky with a razorthin. 5 lead. Meanwhile, over the weekend, Bernie Sanders supporters erupted in protest at the nevada state democratic convention. They say rules were abruptly changed and 64 sanders supporters were wrongly denied delegate status. Clinton ultimately won 20 pledged delegates to sanders 15. The state party chair, roberta lange, said she received Death Threats while state Party Headquarters were vandalized. Lange told cnn about the threats. We want you hung. We know where you live. We know where your grandson goes to school. We know where you work. And we are going to get you. That is a pretty huge threat. Amy Senate Minority leader harry reid urged sanders to condemn the behavior of some of his supporters, saying he faced a test of leadership. In a statement, sanders rejected violence, and noted that during the nevada campaign, shots were fired into his Campaign Office in the state, and his staffs housing complex was broken into and ransacked. He also accused Nevada Democratic leadership of using its power to prevent a fair and transparent process at the convention on saturday. This is Sanders Campaign manager jeff weaver speaking on cnn. He does not condone any kind of violence or threats. That language. But were not going to accept the millions of people who supported Bernie Sanders to be sort of rolled over in places like nevada by the way they handled that convention. Amy much disagreement remains over what actually happened or the Nevada Convention during the Nevada Convention. For more we are joined here in madison, wisconsin, by longtime media analyst, robert mcchesney. He is a professor at the university of illinois at urbanachampaign in the department of communication. He cofounded free press, a National Media reform organization. Mcchesney and john nichols recently cowrote the book, People Get Ready the fight against a jobless economy and a citizenless democracy. Bob mcchesney, welcome to democracy now mediasyou think of the coverage of the president ial race . It is been deplorable. We have talked about this in past years coming great in the current, allowing for that coverage is a rule, and this is an alltime low by main street corporate media. I would toss in pr in there. As a journalist, youre looking at one of the most distort stories in decades historic stories in decades. Entirely different vision of our society like no other candidate in decades. You would think this is the greatest story you could cover. You look to the sky and say, thank you for putting me here in 2016. We assume the Sanders Campaign is largely been neglected. It is barely covered. The coverage of the framing has been largely through the eyes of the establishment through the Hillary Clinton campaign. This guy is a nuisance, he is getting in the way up front of the real candidate for presumptive nominee. Presumptive going back to the beginning. When you see sanders or one of your surrogates on the air, generally it is, what would hillarys people want to ask him . It hasput it altogether, been pretty distressing. The source of special frustration for a lot of people that they have not really had a fair hearing and a fair exposure to people who rely upon Cable News Networks and the Mainstream Media to learn about. The other issue that is crucial, it gets to the nevada issue, it is also brought to the front how little extra journalism goes on. How much of it is simply regurgitating what people in power tell them, how much of the predictions that are mindless you know, there is all sorts of crucial issues everywhere you turn. Journalist diving into looking at like the claims about nevada. We had all of this reporting about purported threats and violence in nevada, but it has been basically taking a face fire the words of ones lied and is missing the words of the other side for this is videotape. They could go in an interview people and get to the bottom of it before they announced the results. Amy lets turn to their clintons press secretary who spoke on cnn and april. Today, ted ago divine from the Sanders Campaign was talking to you and you asked him, why doesnt senator sanders decide to run as an independent . For simplesaid that reasons, he decided to run as a democrat, he did not want to be a ralph nader. He did not want to be a spoiler. If you did not win the democratic nomination, he did not want to spoil the chance for the democrats to take the white house. , that is exactly what he will be doing. This is been an extraordinary effort the Sanders Campaign has embarked upon a brought so many people into the process but yesterday the tone of the attacks was suggesting the Democratic Party does not see fit to nominate Bernie Sanders, then it is not a party worth supporting. That would seriously impair our party to come together in these closing weeks. Amy Bob Mcchesney . That has also been the meme in virtually every store for the last month, they got their marching orders from the Hillary Campaign. It is an outrageous and absurd charge. All it takes for journalists is to look at 2000 and when Hillary Clinton was in a similar position. In the last two months, she refused to get out. In fact, Debbie Wasserman chair of they the Democratic National committee, argued even if she did not win the most elected delegates, the superdelegates should pick hillary because she would do better in november. She was making that argument then. That she should stay in and not worry about hurting obamas chances. There was as much evidence then that Hillary Clinton was doing damage their radically to obamas november chances than there is to data sanders is doing damage to Hillary Clintons november chances. Amy on saturday, roger stone acsed cnn of censoring stories about bill clintons treatment of women, suggested trump should shut cnn down if he is elected president. Organizations like cnn, which is not a News Organization but an advocacy group, and if you attempt to d