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Lee fang about what he has uncovered in the leaked emails. Then to an unprecedented act of civil disobedience. Climate justice, to ensure a future for human civilization we Must Immediately halt the extraction and burning of tar sands. For safety, im calling to inform you that when i hang up the phone, were closing the valves. Amy five climate activists shut down all Tar Sands Oil coming into the United States by manually turning off the pipelines in minnesota, montana, north dakota, and Washington State. We will get the latest. Plus, we will go to phoenix. Federal prosecutors have announced they are charging Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio for criminal contemptofcourt over his refusal to end unconstitutional immigration patrols in arizona. And we will speak to former u. S. Diplomat colonel ann wright who was detained and arrested by week for being on board a flotilla bound for gaza carrying food, medicine and , other humanitarian aid. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. The haitian government, local organizers and International Aid , organizations are continuing to provide Emergency Assistance in the wake of the devastating category 4 Hurricane Matthew, which has killed more than 1000 haitians with the death toll expected to continue to rise. The Haitian Health Ministry Says at least 320 fatal cases of cholera have been reported since the storm. The World Health Organization says it is sending one million doses of cholera vaccines to haiti. The United States has announced its suspending deportations to haiti in the wake of the hurricane. This comes as emails show atop a two Hillary Clinton gave priority after the 2010 Haiti Earthquake to aid contractors marked fob, that his friends of bill clinton, or wjc vips by that is William Jefferson clinton. One who was coordinating incoming assistance offers been forwarded from the Clinton Foundation read need you to flag when people are friends of wjc, most i can probably id, but not all she said. Meanwhile, the death toll from Hurricane Matthew in the u. S. Has risen to 34 people as North Carolina is hit with widespread flooding thats submerged cars, forced the closure of major interstates, and knocked out electricity from more than 280,000 homes and businesses. At least 2000 people have been rescued from the flood waters, some by helicopter. This comes as North Carolina governor pat mccrory has confirmed a North Carolina Highway Patrol officer shot and killed a man amid the flooding on monday night. The victims identity has not been released. In election news, the Republican Party is facing increasing turmoil after donald trump , the partys president ial nominee, declared war against the Republican Party establishment. On tuesday, trump tweeted it is so nice that the shackles have been taken off me and i can now fight for america the way i want to. In a second tweet he wrote disloyal rs are far more difficult than crooked hillary. They come at you from all sides. They dont know how to win i will teach them trumps words came after House Speaker republican paul ryan said hed no longer campaign for trump following the release of a 2005 video in which trump boasts about sexually assaulting women. Ryan has not said he will not vote for trump. This comes as billy bush is reportedly out on the today show over his comments in the 2005 donald trump video. Billy bush is the cousin of former Florida Governor jeb bush and president george w. Bush. Nbc suspended him after the videos release. This also comes as a case alleging donald trump raped a 13yearold child more than two decades ago has been refiled in a new york federal court. The victim, identified only as jane doe, is now being represented by florida criminal defense lawyer cheney mason, who rose to prominence after successfully defending Casey Anthony over charges of killing her daughter. The lawsuit alleges trump tied plaintiff to a bed, exposed himself to plaintiff, and then proceeded to forcibly rape plaintiff. Trump responded to plaintiffs pleas by violently striking plaintiff in the face with his open hand and screaming that he would do whatever he wanted. The lawsuit alleges trump raped her at a party hosted by billionaire jeffrey epstein, who has been jailed on charges of soliciting sex from a minor. Trumps lawyer has denied all the allegations, saying they are not only categorically false, but disgusting. In more news from the campaign trail, al gore appeared at all rally tuesday when he talked about getting out e vote in florida, evoking is uncontested bid for the presidency in 2000 against george w. Bush. Corrects here is my point here is my point. I dont want you to be an a whereon years from now you welcome hillaryclinton and say, actually, you did win, it just wasnt close enough to make sure that all of the votes were counted or whatever. Consequences. Amy al gore spoke about Climate Change in his speech. Nine climate activists were arrested tuesday for attempting to shut down all Tar Sands Oil coming into the United States by manually turning off pipelines in minnesota, montana, north dakota, and Washington State. The group, which calls itself climate direct action, said the action was in support of the call for International Days of prayer and action for Standing Rock. Pictures and videos of the action shows them cutting chains and turning the manual safety valves to stop the flow of Tar Sands Oil through the pipelines. Well go to Washington State for more on the action later in the broadcast. In iraq, two kurdish fighters have died after an isis drone exploded, marking whats believed to be the first time an isis drone attack has killed troops. Isis already uses surveillance drones, and has launched at least two previous drone attacks without any reported fatalities. U. S. Military officials are now warning isis might successfully use drones against u. S. Led Coalition Forces in the upcoming battle for control of mosul. In afghanistan, at least 14 people have died and more than two dozen were injured after a shooting attack at a shrine outside kabul tuesday. No one has claimed responsibility for the attack, which came on the holy day of ashura. This is an eyewitness. I was at the site of the attack, saw around 10 people, four were already martyred in the rest were wounded. They were all taken and nearby hospitals. The attackers were dressed in police uniforms. Amy this comes as the taliban seized control of a strategic district on the border with turkmenistan tuesday. A july report issued by a u. S. Government watchdog says the taliban now controls more territory across afghanistan than at any point since 2001. In financial news, former wells fargo whistleblowers are coming forward saying they reported the fraudulent creation of fake banks accounts to their supervisors and wells fargos internal ethics hotline as early as 2005, but that their reports were ignored and some of them were fired for speaking out. Wells fargo is currently facing a massive scandal over the creation of 2 million fake accounts, which employees opened in order to meet grueling sales targets. Wells fargo ceo john stumpf has said he first became aware of the practice in 2013. But former wells fargo worker Julie Tishkoff says she reported the practice as early as 2005 the year stumpf became the president of wells fargo. She says she complained for four years until she was fired, in 2009. At least two workers reported the practices in letters written directly to stumpf in 2011, two years before stumpf claims he learned about the practice. At harvard university, hundreds of cafeteria workers are entering the second week of a strike to demand Affordable Health care and a average salary and an average salary of 35,000 a year. Harvards endowment is over 35 billion. The campus newspaper harvard crimson reports harvard administrations have attempted to call on other workers to volunteer to work for free in the dining halls amid the ongoing strike. The lgbt newspaper the advocate is reporting the number of murders of transgender people in 2016 is officially the highest on record. At least 22 transgender people have been murdered so far this year. This figure does not include transgender people who have been murdered but whose deaths havent been reported, or who have been misgendered by local newspapers, meaning the real death toll is likely even hier. This comes after transgender woman 30yearold jazz alford was found murdered in birmingham, alabama in late , september. Alfords sister said, her death was a huge hit for the lgbt community. And in arizona, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio is facing the possibility of jail time after federal prosecutors announced they are charging arpaio for criminal contemptofcourt over his refusal to end unconstitutional immigration patrols in arizona. Arpaio has long been under fire for his immigration policies, which have included racial profiling and detaining immigrants in a scorching, outdoor tent city jail, which arpaio once referred to as his own concentration camp. Arpaio has also been a key supporter of donald trump, appearing at rallies alongside the republican president ial candidate, and where hes joked that both he and trump have been key members in the birthers movement, which refuses to acknowledge president obama was born in the United States. Trump and arpaio also share a birthday, june 14. Arpaio now faces up to six months in jail if hes convicted on contempt of Court Charges. Activists are also organizing for him to be voted out of office in this novembers election. Well go to phoenix for more on arpaio later in the broadcast. 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. The chairman of Hillary Clintons president ial campaign, john podesta is accusing russia of being involved in the hacking of his email account. In recent days wikileaks has , published thousands of podestas internal emails. Podesta spoke to reporters on tuesday. Contacted by the fbi. They are investigating the matter. A criminal breach under our federal statute of hacking my private email account. Dont of thei circumstances other than we did hear about a person that authorities confirm it was part of the Ongoing Investigation of into democratic organizations. Juan on friday, wikileaks least excerpts of clintons paid remarks to wall street firms, showing clintons closeddoor remarks were starkly at odds with many of her public positions. In one speech to a housing trade group in 2013, clinton spoke of eating both a public and private position when crafting laws. In other speeches, clinton largely absolved wall street firms for the crash of 2008 and said financial reform really has to come from the industry itself. The leaked emails also show clinton openly touted her support of fracking while secretary of state. In a speech to Deutsche Bank in 2013 she said, ive promoted , fracking in other places around the world. Amy the leaked emails also show how Hillary Clintons view on the Transpacific Partnership changed during the campaign. As secretary of state she backed , the tpp but on the campaign trail she came out against it. In an october 6, 2015 email, the day after the Obama Administration finalized the details of the 12nation tpp, clinton speechwriter dan schwerin wrote in an email this is indeed a hard balance to strike, since we dont want to invite mockery for being too enthusiastically opposed to a deal she once championed, or overclaiming how bad it is, since its a very close call on the merits. Well, to talk more about these Clinton Emails were joined now , by lee fang, investigative journalist at the intercept. His recent piece coauthored with zaid jilani is headlined, memo shows what major donors like Goldman Sachs want from democratic party. So why dont you share with us the highlights, what you felt was most important in these emails, lee. Thank you for having me. These emails are very interesting. They provide a window into clinton and her experiences, certainly her speeches. I do not believe there are any huge bombshells that this will change the course of the general election. Maybe if these emails came out earlier in the year during the democratic primary, that could have maybe changed history. But it that this wont change the general course of the election. That being said, the emails really show, including the transcripts, that Hillary Clinton is far more conservative, far more businessfriendly when she is speaking with aids, when she is giving speeches to these wall street banks. The emails show clintons inner circle is filled with wealthy people, wall street types, washington insiders, that are kind of part of a what you might call the washington bubble. They are very quick to attack and show a lot of contempt for anyone they perceive on the political left, whether that is activists were journalists. These are interesting emails, but for folks who have followed Hillary Clintons tenure in government, they arent particularly surprisingly fit a larger pattern. Juan they do reveal, especially with wall street firms or commercial interest, that they expect to be able to be heard given the money they contribute. They also showed some of the major labor unions in the country also seeking to get heard because of their donations as well to the Clinton Campaign, dont they . Yeah, that is right. I think the dodd frank comments are interesting. The ones you just highlighted. On the campaign trail, as she competed with Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton embraced dodd frank passed by president obama, called it a great law she will defend. She was very proud of it. But begin to bankers, she showed contempt for the law. She subsidized with bankers she sympathized with bankers, maybe argument it was only passed because of politics, that after the financial crisis of 2008, democrats had to do something so they had to pass this. She mentioned a Goldman Sachs in some of these paid speeches that she sees the Financial Sector folks who work on wall street, that they know how to make the rules better than those in washington. So it is a stark contrast. Juan i have not seen or read all of the emails, but i have seen some of the reports. I was surprised by two in particular. One where she appears to come in private the left discussions with wall street than she has publicly. One was over the issue of health care where she said in one of favoredches that she the universal singlepayer plan, and the other that her dream was a hemispheric trade agreement that would include not only free trade, but open borders. Yeah. Interestingis comments. On health care, this is the enigma of Hillary Clinton. Over the last 30 years, she has played such a big role in health care. She understands the system probably better than anyone. But where she stands on the issue is confounding for anyone. As you mentioned, in these speeches, Hillary Linton talks about the benefits of singlepayer, the Health Care System used in places like canada, that they provide better primary care using this system. It is much better at holding down costs for both consumers and the government. But at the same time, Hillary Clinton attacked singlepayer on the campaign trail this year as she was competing with Bernie Sanders saying it will never, ever happen in the United States. Kind of dismissing the idea. Really stick into the Affordable Care act, Health Reform system enacted by president obama. It is tough to see where she actually stands on these issues. Again, she has kind of taken every position. Amy let me ask you about one of the recently released documents where wall street donors use their influence to complain about senator Elizabeth Warrens influence over the direction of the democratic party. Right. There has been so many leaks in the last week. When it rains it pours. This is in a separately, separate from the podesta emails. Last week there were number of emails and memos released