We will speak to the chairman of the Standing Rock sioux tribe dave archambault. Then we look at the billionaire behind the pipeline, kelcy warren. In addition to Running Energy transfer partners, warren is a major supporter of the folk music scene, rning a rub heard record label and a festival in texas. Now a number of major musical acts are speaking out against the pipeline, including kelcy idol, Jackson Browne, who will hold a concert at Standing Rock against the pipeline thanksgiving weekend. We will eat to the indigo girls who will talk about the recent trip to Standing Rock. It is an amazing convergence it is open to everyone. People who live here do so much work. It is for all of us. Amy plus, we will go to alabama where at least one worker has died and five have been hospitalized after a section of the Colonial Pipelines bloated pipeline exploded. In september, a leaked really 340,000 gallons of gasoline, leading six governors to declare states of emergencies as gas prices rose to out the region. All of that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. In news from the campaign trail, president obama has criticized fbi director james comey for announcing an investigation into a new batch of Hillary Clinton emails. They were discovered as part of a probe into former Congress Member anthony weiner, the estranged husband of top clinton aide huma abedin, who is under investigation after he sent illicit sext messages to an underage girl. Comeys announcement only days before election day has jolted the race and narrowed Hillary Clintons lead over donald trump. This is president obama. Pres. Obama and i do think that , when there are investigations, you dont operate on innuendo bring complete information. We do not operate on leaks. We operate based on concrete decisions that are made. When this was investigated thoroughly the last time, the conclusion of the fbi, the conclusion of the justice department, the conclusion of repeated congressional investigations was that she had made some the stakes, but there wasnt anything there that was prosecutable. Amy president obama is campaigning for clinton every day this week in North Carolina as well as ohio and florida. In more election news, a woman who has sued donald trump are allegedly rubbery raping her two decades ago when she was 13 years old canceled a news , comments wednesday. The lawsuit the lawsuit alleges trump raped her at a party hosted by billionaire jeffrey s dean who has been jailed on charges of soliciting sex from a minor. The woman who has remained anonymous was scheduled to come forward wednesday but canceled the conference after her lawyer, lisa bloom, said she had received multiple death threats. Bloom said she has decided she is too afraid to show her face. She is in terrible fear. Trumps lawyer has denied all of the allegations saying they are not only categorically false, but disgusting. In local election news, in louisiana, Police Attacked protesters with pepper spray as the group demonstrated against u. S. Senate candidate, former ku klux klan leader david duke outside a candidate debate wednesday night held at the historically African AmericanCollege Dillard university in new orleans. At least one protester was detained by police and others were forced out of the venue. The six candidate debate was closed to the public and occurred inside an empty auditorium. In mississippi authorities are , investigating the burning and vandalism of a historic African American church in greenville on tuesday night. The 111yearold Hopewell Missionary Baptist Church was torched and then spray painted with the words vote trump. Authorities say they are investigating the attack as a hate crime. Greenville mayor errick simmons called the incident as an attack on the black church and the black community. This happened in the 50s and the 60s. This should not happen in 2016. In iraq, hundreds of families are fleeing the fighting in eastern mosul amid the u. S. Backed iraqi armys offensive to retake the city from isis. Amnesty international is accusing some of the militias fighting against isis of revenge attacks against local villagers. The group says some militia members have engaged in torture tying suspected isis sympathizers to cars and driving them through villages, beating peoples faces with cables, and holding them inside poultry cages in public. The pentagon says two u. S. Soldiers have been killed in kunduz, afghanistan. U. S. Soldiers have been backing the Afghan Forces battling the taliban, which took control of the city of kunduz in october. Kunduz is also the site of the deadly u. S. Bombing of a Doctors Without Borders hospital in october, 2015, which killed 42 people, including patients and staff. This comes as the United Nations is a warning of new wave of displacement in afghanistan amid the ongoing violence. At least one million afghans have been uprooted from their homes by the violence this year. The pentagon says a u. S. Drone strike killed an al qaeda leader in syria last month. Navy captain jeff davis says the strike on october 17 killed haydar kirkan, whom allegedly had ties to osama bin laden. In france, authorities have forced the remaining 1600 refugees out of the calais refugee camp known as the jungle. Authorities have been in the process of demolishing the camp for more than a week and bussing the camps approximately 7000 residents to refugee Intake Centers across france. The final refugees removed wednesday were predominately children and teenagers, mostly from afghanistan and south sudan. They had been refusing to leave the refugee camp, hoping to win asylum in britain, where many say they have family members. Meanwhile, in breaking news from britain, the plan for the country to leave the European Union has been thrown into turmoil after a court ruled today that the British Parliament has to vote on whether to in fact begin the formal exit proceedings. In june, britain stunned the world by voting to leave the European Union during a nationwide referendum, leading to the resignation of Prime Minister david cameron. German chancellor Angela Merkel has spoken out against the crackdown on press freedom in turkey, where 170 news outlets have been forced to close since the failed military coup attempt in july. Earlier this week, police raided the Istanbul Office of a prominent newspaper, detaining at least 12 journalists and administrators on terrorism charges. The newspaper won the 2016 right livelihood award. This is Angela Merkel. Is strewn with alarming to me in the federal government the freedom of the press is think retail time and again. The latest example of these already very unfortunate development is what is happening. O the editors and journalists were serious doubts as is allowed under the principles of the constitutional state. Amy in iowa, a man has been arrested following this the fatal shootings of two police officers. Suspect Scott Michael greene, who is white, is accused of killing the two White Police Officers in ambushstyle attacks early wednesday morning. The shootings come a few weeks after greene brought a confederate battle flag to a Football Game at Urbandale High School and waived it in front of people of color. He was thrown out of the stadium by police. He has also been accused of multiple instances of Domestic Violence. A few days after he brought a Confederate Flag to the Football Game, he was arrested and charged with elderly abuse after he reportedly attacked his mother. He was also charged for Domestic Violence in 2001. The charges were later dropped. In north dakota, Police Deployed pepper spray and teargas against dozens of native American Water protectors during a standoff at cantapeta creek, north of the main Oceti Sakowin camp where thousands have been resisting the construction of the 3. 8 billion Dakota Access pipeline. At least two people were shot with nonlethal projectiles. Video and photos show Police Firing the pepper spray and tear gas at the water protectors who were peacefully standing in the creek. The u. S. Army corps of engineers had ordered police to arrest the native americans and destroy a bridge that members of the camp had constructed over the creek in order to protect a sacred Burial Ground they say are being destroyed by construction and Law Enforcement activity. This comes after president obama said the army corp of engineers is considering plans to reroute the pipeline. Well have more on the latest standoff and president obamas comments after headlines with Standing Rock sioux tribal chairman dave archambault. In alabama, the Colonial Pipeline remains shut down following the fatal explosion of a section of the pipeline on monday in Shelby County, one worker died and five were hospitalized after columns of fire burst from the punctured alabama pipeline and shot up to 150 feet in the air. Colonial Pipeline Company has said as much as 168,000 gallons of gasoline could have burned, spilled, evaporated, or remained in the pipeline following the blast. Democrats on the house energy and Commerce Committee are seeking an investigation of the georgiabased company. This comes after the same pipeline leaked nearly 340,000 gallons of gasoline in Central Alabama in september, forcing the line to shut down for 12 days and leading six governors to declare states of emergency as gas prices rose throughout the region. The Colonial Pipeline carries 1. 3 Million Barrels of gasoline a day down to refineries in texas and louisiana, accounting for a full 40 of the regions gasoline. Well have more on the disaster pipeline explosion later in the broadcast. General electric and baker hughes have announced plans to merge, which would create the second Largest Oilfield Service Company in the world after schlumberger. The merger comes amid increasing consolidation in the oil and gas industry. And in northern michigan, a nestle bottling plant that has been sucking water out of aquifers that feed Lake Michigan for free for years is now petitioning the state Regulatory Agency for permission to expand and pump even more fresh water out of the ground for free. The nestle ice mountain bottling plant in mecosta county, michigan, is proposing a 36 million expansion of its plant. Its asking the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality for permission to more than double the amount of water it can pump out of the ground from 150 gallons per minute to 400 gallons per minute. The bottling plant has been the site of a more than decadeslong struggle by local residents, who oppose the extraction of the ground water for profit and who. This is a local activist. The water that nestle is bottling here and elsewhere in our state is coming from the great lakes basin. It is feeding here into the stream and cold creek, that into little muskegon river, that i prefer, and eventually, ultimately, into Lake Michigan. So it is great lakes basin water. It is part of the commons. It belongs to all of us. Part of the reason the people in mecosta were upset about it is that the extraction of that water was being taken out of the watershed. It was the streams were being pumped down to the point the dead stream look like a mud hole at one point. It was bottled and shipped all over the world. Amy to see our full interview with some of these activists from when democracy now was in michigan, go to our website, democracynow. Org. And those are some of the headlines. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Nermeen and im nermeen shaikh. Welcome to all of our listeners and viewers from around the country and around the world. President obama says the u. S. Army corps of engineers is considering rerouting the 3. 8 billion Dakota Access pipeline, amid months of resistance from the Standing Rock sioux tribe and members of more than 200 other native american nations and tribes from across the americas. Obama made the comment during an interview with now this news. The candidates arent really talking about the Dakota Access pipeline. Is that something you would consider intervening in . People have called for your administration pres. Obama we are monitoring this closely. As a general rule, my view is that there is a way for us to accommodate sacred lands of i thinkmericans and right now the army corps is examining whether there are ways to reroute this pipeline in a way. Oute going to let it play for several more weeks and determine whether or not this can be resolved. In a way that i think is properly attentitraditions of tt americans. Is there something to be done about the way protesters are being treated . Pres. Obama it is a challenging situation. Rule when ieneral talk to governors and state and local officials, whenever theyre dealing with protests, including during the black lives matter protest, there is an obligation for protesters to be peaceful. And there is an obligation for authorities to show restraint. , asnt to make sure everybody is exercising their Constitutional Rights to be heard, that both sides are refraining from situations that might result in people being hurt. Nermeen president obamas comments on tuesday came on the same day that north dakota officials approved an additional 4 million for policing, bringing the total costs of the Police Crackdown on the pipeline protests to 10 million. On wednesday, Police Deployed pepper spray and teargas against against dozens of native american protesters during a standoff at cantapeta creek, north of the main Oceti Sakowin camp. At least two people were shot with nonlethal projectiles. Video and photos show Police Firing the pepper spray and tear gas at the water protectors who were peacefully standing in the creek. The u. S. Army corps of engineers had ordered police to arrest the native americans and destroy a bridge that members of the camp had constructed over the creek in order to protect sacred Burial Ground they say is being destroyed by construction and unlawful for spent activity. The protesters, or water protectors as they call themselves, had gathered to pray and protect sacred sites they believe were being disturbed by construction and Law Enforcement activity. Well, for more, were joined now by dave archambault, chairman of the Standing Rock sioux tribe. Welcome to democracy now respond first to this statement that i think surprised many. President obama talking about considering rerouting the pipeline. Can you explain what is being considered right now . Hello, amy. Ist the president is doing he is starting a process that is needed. And that is to respect Indigenous Peoples rights. A reroute is something that can require new state permits, new federal permits to cross waterways, new land owner agreements, and also restart the process where environmental studies can happen. That is a huge step. I think this whole press process was flawed from the beginning. Reflect whato weve been saying all along, Indigenous Peoples rights continue to give violated. We have all been protecting water. In 2010, theres a study. There is a hole in the map. Step is, starting to take a look at what was it that we have to do around the world as people. We have to start changing our dependency on fossil fuels and we have to start investing in renewable energies. Until we Start Building cars that use fossil fuels, this is going to be a force that continues to exist. Waysve to start to look at we can be selfsustaining without fossil fuels and force investments, force corporations to look at how we can save this world. , our now, Standing Rock sovereign lands, our sovereign rights, were asking stop infringing on those who have we have said it repeatedly. I think the president s statement is starting to be heard. Amy can you explain exactly what the process is, the consultation that is going on for the rerouting and when will they sto