Drinking water, that they will be able to live amy we will also speak with greenpeaces Annie Leonard, gasland director josh fox, and actress Shailene Woodley who took part in a protest here at sundance against one of the Film Festivals financial backers. One of the largest sponsors of the Dakota Access pipeline as well as wells fargo and these larger banks. Amy all that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. On tuesday, President Trump signed a series of executive memorandums to revive the keystone xl and Dakota AccessOil Pipelines two Major Projects halted by the Obama Administration following massive resistance from indigenous and environmental groups. The Dakota Access project would carry up to 570,000 barrels of oil a day from north dakota to illinois. The Keystone Pipeline would transport 830,000 barrels of crude every day from albertas oil sands to refineries on the u. S. Gulf coast for export. Trumps move sparked a number of emergency protests last night. Thousands rally near fifth avenue near trump tower in new york city and outside the white house in washington, d. C. There were more rallies in seattle, chicago, and los angeles. This is actress jane fonda speaking in new york city. When there is a catastrophe, we have to be out in the street. I call on the predator in chief and i say we must never normalize him, we must never legitimize him. He did not win the majority of american votes. It was an election that was interfered with by foreign by russia. There was a lot of fake news. You should not be legitimized. Amy we will have more after headlines with native american activist winona laduke, water protector bobbi jean three legs, actress Shailene Woodley and phil maker josh fox. More than 50,000 gallons of oil have spilled from a pipeline in the western canadian province saskatchewan, contaminating the land of the ocean man first nation community. An official from the ministry of the economy says there are so many pipelines in the area, he doesnt even know which pipeline leaked. President trump is slated to sign a slew executive orders today and thursday to severely restrict immigration. One order is expected to include a monthslong ban prohibiting refugees from any country from resettling in the United States, including refugees fleeing the devastating war in syria. Another executive order is expected to stop visas from being issued to anyone traveling to the u. S. From iraq, iran, libya, somalia, sudan, and yemen. Trump will also take executive action to redirect federal funds towards the expansion of the already massive wall and Security Apparatus along the u. S. Mexico border. Over the last decade, the u. S. Has already installed 700 miles of fencing, tens of thousands of motion sensors, spy towers, radar systems, predator surveillance drones, and thousands of Law Enforcement agents along the u. S. Mexico border. Trumps orders are expected to add 5000 workers to the customs and Border Protection agency, which is already the largest federal Law Enforcement agency, with a force of more than 60,000 agents. Trump has named julie kirchner, the former head of the extreme antiimmigrant Organization Federation for American Immigration reform, the chief of staff at customs and Border Protection. During the 2016 campaign, trump repeatedly vowed mexico would pay for the border wall a pledge rejected by mexicos leaders. Instead, it appears that trump is planning to redirect department of Homeland Security aid currently going to mexico in order to pay for the expanded wall. Another executive order trump is expected to sign today will seek to eliminate sanctuary cities and triple funding for the immigration and Custom Enforcement agency, known as ice. President trump is also considering moving to reinstate the secret cia black sites used during the george w. Bush administration. The black sites were part of a highly classified program in which suspects captured as part of the abroad were interrogated, and sometimes tortured, at sites around the world. It was widely condemned by legal and human rights experts, as well as much of the world community. President obama ordered all of the black sites to be closed at the beginning of his presidency. The Trump Administration has forced the Environmental Protection agency to freeze all grants and contracts, threatening to disrupt key operations of the agency, including the cleanup of toxic sites and routine Water Quality testing. Trumps administration has also imposed a media blackout on the agency, prohibiting the epa to issue press releases, publish blog updates, or even post information on social media. As the news of the epa media blackout broke tuesday, the twitter account for the Badlands National park in south dakota, part of the u. S. National park service, went rouge, publishing a series of tweets about Climate Change, including today, the amount of Carbon Dioxide in the atmosphere is higher than at any time in the last 650,000 years. Climate. The tweets were later deleted. Trump has also signed an executive order imposing a sweeping hiring freeze for all federal agencies, except for military and National Security. President trump is continuing to desk on for a Major Investigation of voter fraud as he continues to stand by his lies about the 2016 election, the eye the facts claims have been widely debunked why experts. On monday, trump had his first meeting with congressional lawmakers during which he again lied about the election results. He falsely claimed that he lost the popular vote to Hillary Clinton because 3 million to 5 million unauthorized immigrants voted in the election. During a news briefing tuesday, White House PressSecretary Sean Spicer said trump continues to maintain this belief. Having a discussion with some folks i mentioned something in passing, which is been a longstanding belief he has maintain. This is that the first time you have heard this concern is, right . Verifying illegal ballots a study came out that showed 14 of people who voted for not citizens. There are other studies that have been presented to him. It is a belief he maintains. Amy that was sean spicer, claiming that a 2008 study published by the Pew Research Foundation supports trumps elite. Spicer himself was lying on multiple statements. According to politico, there is no study sang such thing. There is one in 2014, since widely debunked that mistakenly , claimed 14 of noncitizens said they were registered to vote in 2008 and 2010. Brian schaffner, one of the academics behind the study, told cnn trump is misinterpreting the study, calling trump claims absurd and not even plausible and saying of the people who we were sure were noncitizens, we could not find any who actually cast a vote. In news from trumps cabinet nominations, the senate has confirm South Carolina governor nikki haley to be the u. S. Ambassador to the United Nations after a 964 vote. The Senate Banking committee has approved ben carson to be the next secretary of the department of housing and urban development. His nomination still has to go before the full senate. Trump has tapped to more members of the far right wing owlet breitbart me to join is a administration. Breitbarts National Security editor Sebastian Gorka is likely to join trumps National Security council. Immigration reporter julia hahn has been named special assistant to the president. Trumps chief strategist Steven Bannon is the former head of breitbart, which frequently publishes racist, sexist, antiimmigrant, and xenophobic news. Trump has also tapped john gore, a lawyer who has defended gerrymandering and extreme voter id laws, to serve as one of the department of justices top senior civil rights officials. President trump says he will name his pick to fill late antonin scalias seat on the Supreme Court as early as next week. Two contenders for the seat have emerged judge william pryor, jr. , and neil gorsuch. Pryor is a fierce opponent of abortion who has called roe v. Wade the worst abomination of constitutional law in our history. He also opposes lgbt rights and has backed an antisodomy law in texas. Donald trump is threatening federal intervention in chicago to address shootings and gun violence. In a tweet tuesday night that made reference to his inaugural address, he wrote if chicago doesnt fix the horrible carnage going on, 228 shootings in 2017 with 42 killings, i will send in the feds a new lawsuit accusing President Trump of violating the u. S. Constitution emolument clause, which prohibits People Holding federal office from accepting payments from foreign governments. The lawsuit filed by the Group Citizens for responsibility and trump isso argues violating this clause by continuing to operate his hotels and businesses. The Justice Department will defend trump against the lawsuit, meaning taxpayers will be funding his defense. The Israeli Government has approved the construction of a massive wave of new jewishonly settlements in the Israelioccupied West Bank and in east jerusalem. More than 500 Housing Units have been approved for east jerusalem, and more than 2500 units for the occupied west bank. The settlements are illegal under international law. The committee to protect journalists is calling on washington, d. C. Come to drop journalists charges against onrnalists after reporting trumps inauguration on friday. At least six journalists were arrested during the actions, including a reporter with rt america as well as freelance journalist aaron cantu a live streamer methow part. And the Oscar Nominations have been announced. Four out of the five films nominated for best documentary were made by black filmmakers, including ava duvernay whose documentary about mass incarceration and race is titled 13th. Other nominated documentaries include i am not your negro, fire at sea, o. J. made in america, and life, animated, directed by Roger Ross Williams about a young autistic man named owen suskind who learns to communicate through disney movies. Last year here at the Sundance Film Festival in park city, utah, i interviewed owen and his father, the pulitzerprize winning journalist ron suskind. What you like dumbo . What is it like the down . Funding or in or hero. Bouygues timothy say that is so powerful that help him fulfill his destiny . Dont worry, dumbo. Dont worry, dumbo, we will get you to fly. Need is say, all you use the magic feather. The magic feather yet the yeah, i got you. Dumbo, have i got it. The magic feather that you can fly. Amy to see our full interview with owen suskind, his father ron, and life, animated director Roger Ross Williams, as well as our interview with ava duvernay, 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. On tuesday, President Trump signed a pair of president ial memorandums to revive the keystone xl and Dakota AccessOil Pipelines two Major Projects halted by the Obama Administration following massive resistance from indigenous and environmental groups. Pres. Trump this is with regard to the construction of the Keystone Pipeline, something that has been in dispute and subject to renegotiation of terms by us. Were going to renegotiate some of the terms. And if they would like, we will see if we can get that pipeline built will stop a lot of jobs. 20,000 jobs. Reconstruction jobs. Is with respect to the construction of the Dakota Access pipeline. Dakota access pipeline. Again, subject to terms and conditions to the negotiated by us. This is construction of pipelines in this country. Amy trumps move sparked a number of emergency protests last night in washington, new york, los angeles, san francisco, seattle, philadelphia, and other cities. Native american groups and their supporters have long opposed the Dakota Access pipeline being laid a mile from the Standing Rock sioux reservation and beneath the tribes primary source of Drinking Water. The Standing Rock sioux tribe tweeted trumps executive order on dapl violates the law and tribal treaties. We will be taking legal action. The tribe added, creating a second flint does not make America Great again. The Dakota Access project would carry up to 570,000 barrels of oil a day from north dakota to illinois. The Keystone Pipeline would transport 830,000 barrels of crude every day from albertas oil sands to refineries on the u. S. Gulf coast for export. Trumps move comes as scientists with both nasa and noaa, the National Oceanic and atmospheric administration, confirmed 2016 was the hottest year on record, topping the previous record set in 2015, which topped the previous record set in 2014. Well, for more, were joined now by winona laduke, native american activist and executive director of the group honor the earth. She lives and works on the White Earth Reservation in northern minnesota. Here in park city, utah bobbi , jean three legs from wakpala, south dakota, and is a member of the Standing Rock tribe. Last year she led a group of youth water runners on a 2000mile trek from sacred stone camp in cannon ball, north dakota to washington, d. C. , where they delivered a petition against the Dakota Access pipeline to the army corps of engineers headquarters. New york, josh fox, director of how to let go of the world and love all the things climate cant change, one of the leaders last that outside trumps headquarters in new york city that through thousands of people only after a few hours notice. We want to welcome you all to democracy now were going first to bismarck, north dakota. Annie leonard winona laduke, can you respond to the executive action issued by President Trump . Allout war. Can review his thinking on this, aside from being insane, the fact is that infrastructure is needed in this country. I totally agree on that. We have breaking pipelines all over the country. We have water mains that do not work. You definitely wants to shove those pipelines down our throat. Whether we are in north dakota or wherever we are, that is his intention. Amy so what is happening . You were just here are part of a protest outside of chase here in park city, then you went directly to north dakota. What is the response they are . There . Most people here are concerned about what is going to happen. Over the past few weeks, weve had a lot of people hit and county in morton winter Standing National guard is already in their hurting some of our people. A lot of injuries. It continues. We assume they will work on shoving the rest of it through over our right and over a light of people. I just want to say, in the bigger picture, if you invested the money youre going to invest in keystone they say there are 300,000 total jobs more. Five times as many jobs if you fix the infrastructure in cities with those Union Workers and with that steel. The same thing is true with Dakota Access pipeline. The fact is, theyre trying to shove a pipeline through. I am not sure where the oil is coming from. Im sitting in bismarck. This is what a holding cell probably looks like in bismarck. I am not in want today, but maybe soon. In any case, were looking at this there is an 85 drop in drilling weight rates. Theres only 900,000 barrels of oil in the bakken coming out right now. Theyre projecting it will be i do not know where 570,000 barrels of oil coming out of the bakken is going to come from. Is of the oil going out busted. He has a fantasy about getting his Pipeline Projects through, but there