Earthquake of 2010. And we go back to North Carolina to look at how a group of africanamerican residents are fighting back against factory farms that spray liquid manure on their communities. You dont open your doors or windows. The smell takes your breath away. Then you start gagging. I shut my hog operation down and got out of it. I could not i just could not do another person that way, to make them smell that. Amy all that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. We are reporting from tampa, florida. President trump and russian president Vladimir Putin agreed tuesday during a phone call to Work Together to seek a ceasefire in syria. According to the kremlin, putin and trump agreed to meet in july to discuss a resolution to the protracted conflict. Reporters were not able to ask questions about trumps phone call on tuesday, however, because White House PressSecretary Sean Spicer stormed out of Tuesdays Press Briefing without taking questions as reporters shouted sean sean trump and putins phone call commit same day isis militants attacked a makeshift camp for displaced syrians and iraqi refugees, killing nearly 40 civilians and kurdish fighters near syrias northeastern border with iraq. Well have more on the ongoing conflict in syria later in the broadcast. Meanwhile, President Trump is meeting with Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas at the white house today. Trump already hosted israeli Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu in february. In afghanistan, at least eight civilians were killed and 28 more were wounded in a suicide bombing in kabul. Officials say the target of the attack was a nato convoy. Three u. S. Soldiers were wounded in the attack. Isis militants claimed responsibility for the attack. On capitol hill, the republicans new bill to repeal and replace the Affordable Care act is facing major opposition from key members within the republican party, casting doubt on whether the latest effort will garner enough votes to pass the house. On tuesday, Michigan Republican congressman fred upton came out against the legislation, saying it does not protect people with preexisting conditions. Upton is the former chair of a House Committee that helped draft an earlier version of the Republican Health care bill. Trump has repeatedly claimed the latest bill guarantees coverage for people with preexisting conditions, even though the bill would actually allow Insurance Companies to charge them significantly higher premiums. The republicans previous effort to pass a healthcare bill failed in march due to party infighting. In baton rouge, louisiana, more than 100 people gathered for a vigil tuesday after the Justice Department announced it will not bring charges against two White Police Officers for the 2016 killing of alton sterling, an africanamerican father of five. Bystander video shows sterling was pinned to the ground by the two Police Officers when they one of them shot him. His killing sparked nationwide protests. This is Community Organizer arthur silky slim reed speaking at the vigil tuesday outside the triple s food mart where sterling was killed. Let this be a wakeup call to you. Dont keep begging for justice. Show them what justice looks like. Standup, be strong, and refuse to then. This is an unjust situation. Alton sterling did not have to die. Amy it was the Justice Departments first high profile decision on whether to charge Police Officers for killing civilians since President Trump took office. Trump has repeatedly vowed to be propolice and proLaw Enforcement. Hours after his inauguration, the Trump Administration took down the white house websites pages on civil rights, and replace them with a page entitled standing up for our Law Enforcement community. Meanwhile, in charleston south carolina, former white Police OfficerMichael Slater has pleaded guilty to shooting and killing African American walter scott in 2015. Video footage shows scott was unarmed and running away from officer slater when slager opened fire, shooting scott eight times in the back, killing him. Slager pleaded guilty to a federal civil rights charge. He had also been tried for murder, but a judge declared a mistrial in that case in 2016 after jurors couldnt reach a verdict. Slager now faces the possibility of life in prison. This is Walter Scotts brother, anthony scott. We will never be able to share walter again as a brother. To hear his laughter, here his jokes, hear him make sing a song. We will never be able to share that. Never again. That is gone forever. But i hope he is looking down and saying, good job. Job well done. Appreciate you standing in there for me, brother. And family. Got the sure that i justice. Amy meanwhile, in texas, the Balch SpringsPolice Department has fired Police Officer roy oliver, who killed 15yearold jordan edwards on saturday, shooting the African American teen in the head while he was in a car leaving a party. Former acting attorney general sally yates is slated to testify before a senate panel next week, in which shell reiterate that she warned the white house about former National Security adviser Michael Flynn nearly three weeks before he was fired. Yates says she told White House Counsel Don Mcgahn on january 26 that flynn was lying both publicly and privately about whether hed discussed sanctions on russia in his conversation with Russian Ambassador sergei kislyak, and that she thought these lies made flynn vulnerable to being blackmailed. Former House Intelligence Committee chair devin nunes canceled hearings in march in apparent efforts to block yate testimony after she and former cia head john brennan, who was slated to testify at the same hearing, informed the government they would contradict some statements that white house officials had made. Former democratic president ial candidate are clinton claimed that fbi director james comey and russian hacking cost her the u. S. Election during an interview tuesday. Mrs. Clinton i was on the way to winning until a combination letter on october 28 and russian wikileaks raised doubts in the minds of people who were implying to vote for me inclined to vote for me, but got scared off. Had the election midoctober 27, i would be your president. Amy thats hillary clinton, referring to the day before fbi director james comey sent a letter to lawmakers saying the fbi was once again investigating whether clinton had sent classified information from her private email server while she was secretary of state. Comey is testifying to the Senate Judiciary committee today. In response to clintons comments, trump tweeted trump russia story was an excuse used by the democrats as justification for losing the election. Perhaps trump just ran a Great Campaign . In greece, International Creditors have once again forced the greek government to impose austerity measures in exchange for another round of bailouts. The austerity measures include raising taxes and cutting pensions. This is an eight year old pensioner in athens. We have been working for 40 years. Unfortunately, they are taking it. Now we dont have enough to live on. It is a shame they have reached such a leveled after exploit people who are in the last stages of their lives. This is really terrible. Amy the Washington Post reports that videos of President Trump and his daughter ivanka promoting trump tower in the philippines were featured on the skyscrapers website until this week. This is a clip of the video, which was filmed in 2013. Trump tower manila will be something very, very special, like nobody has seen before. Amy this promotional video remained on the skyscrapers website until the Washington Post asked about it earlier this week and it was subsequently taken down. Trump developed the skyscraper outside the capital manila with one of the philippines most powerful real estate moguls, who is currently philippine president Rodrigo Dutertes top trade envoy. Over the weekend, President Trump invited duterte to visit the white house sparking outrage from human rights experts who say the invitation condones the thousands of extrajudicial killings in the philippines since duterte launched his socalled war on drugs. Cnn has refused to air and that from the Trump Campaign that calls the Mainstream Media fake news. Cnn says it will not air the ad because it is false. In response, the Trump Campaign lashed out at cnn, accusing the network of censorship. Kentucky republican governor matt bevin is threatening to close the states only remaining abortion clinic, meaning kentucky could becoming the first u. S. State without a single abortion clinic. The aclu has sued kentucky on behalf of the last remaining clinic, the e. M. W. Womens Surgical Center in louisville. Kentucky has been forced to shut 16 abortion clinics since 1978 amid a slew of increasingly harsh antichoice legislation. It is now one of seven u. S. States with only a single clinic remaining. In washington state, imprisoned immigrant women continue a Hunger Strike at the forprofit northwest Detention Center in tacoma, washington. Organizers say some of the Hunger Strikers have faced threats of forced transfers or forced medical treatment from geo group, the company that operates the prison. Organizers also say the strike has also spread across state lines to the norcor jail in oregon, which contracts with the immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, known as ice, to imprison immigrants, including some transferred from the tacoma prison. Meanwhile, in texas, a state representative has admitted that the antiimmigrant bill he introduced into the state legislature was actually written by the forprofit Prison Company geo group. Republican state representative john raney said ive known the lady whos their lobbyist for a long time. Thats where the legislation came from. The bill would allow texas prisons that hold immigrant families to be classified as childcare facilities, meaning ice could imprison women and children for longer stretches of time. The legislation, if passed, would directly benefit one of geo groups forprofit prisons Karnes County correctional , center in texas. Journalist and activist Barrett Brown has been released from federal prison after he was arrested again on only one day thursday, before he was slated to be interviewed for an upcoming pbs documentary. He was imprisoned for unknown reasons. His arrest came after he served four years behind bars on charges related to the hacking of the private Intelligence Firm stratfor, which exposed how the firm spied on activists on behalf of corporations. Last year, Barrett Brown won the National Magazine award for a series of columns he wrote for the intercept. United Ceo Oscar Munoz and other Airline Executives testified to the house of representatives Transportation Committee tuesday amid the ongoing fallout about the violent removal of a doctor who refused to be involuntarily rebooked from a flight. Viral video shows a bloodied dr. David dao being dragged semiconscious down the aisle of a united jet by Airline Security officers. Dr. Dao reportedly suffered a concussion, a broken nose and lost teeth during the violent removal. Despite expressing outrage over the incident, lawmakers did not say they would move to impose more regulation on the industry, which was deregulated in the late 1970s, leading to massive mergers and near monopolies by the four Major Airline carriers. Instead, lawmakers called on the industry to selfregulate. This is arkansas republican congressman rick crawford. I dont want to jump into a competitive model and apply reregulation. But that means the industry has to do some selfregulation to demonstrate that you dont need interference from congress. I couldnt agree more. Amy and thats united Ceo Oscar Munoz, saying he couldnt agree more that the Airline Industry should regulate itself. And in new york city, the Historic Riverside Church has announced it will divest its 140 million endowment from fossil fuels. The church was founded by John Rockefeller jr. , the son of the , founder of standard oil. In response, 350. Org cofounder Bill Mckibben said 50 years after dr. King used its pulpit to call for an end to the war in vietnam, Riverside Church now issues a call of its own for a future free of fossil fuels, where the gospel call to love ones neighbor can be carried out effectively around the world. And those are some of the headlines. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. We are broadcasting from tampa, florida. The sunshine state, particularly southern florida, is home to a very large, vibrant haitian population with many living in the miami neighborhood of little haiti. Well, the Haitian American Community is now facing a looming deportation deadline. Up to 55,000 haitians could be forcefully repatriated to their fragile, struggling homeland if the Trump Administration refuses to extend a temporary protected status that has allowed them to legally reside and work in the u. S. After an earthquake devastated haiti in 2010. Haitians temporary protected status, known as tps, is set to expire on july 22. Earlier this month, the acting director of u. S. Citizenship immigration services, james mccament, wrote a letter to Homeland Security secretary john kelly suggesting haitians should be deported as early as january. In the letter, mccament said conditions in haiti have improved considerably. His conclusion and recommendation contradicts an assessment done by the Obama Administration in december. Under obama, the state department examined the same circumstances and recommended haitians be allowed to remain in the United States. Immigrant rights advocates note haiti is still reeling from Hurricane Matthew, which in october 2016, destroyed the countrys southwest peninsula. The hurricane killed more than a 1000 people and decimated villages and farmland. Haiti is also suffering from a devastating cholera epidemic that erupted after the earthquake. On the campaign trail in september, donald trump visited little haiti in miami, florida. He told the Haitian Community he was to be a champion. Pres. Trump whether you vote for me or dont vote for me, i want to be a greatest champion and i will be your champion, whether he wrote for me or not. Amy that was donald trump speaking last year in little haiti. From more, were joined in miami, florida, by marleine bastien, executive director of haitian women of miami. Welcome to democracy now can you talk about what you understand is happening right now to the Haitian Community, who came to the u. S. Under temporary protected status . Good morning, amy. Thank you so much for having me. Well, as you clearly indicated, over 50,000 haitians, some who have been living in the u. S. For years,age of 7. 5 to 15 who have made their lives are, build their homes and businesses here, facing deportation to haiti. Haiti, as we know, is not equipped and ready to absorb all of these refugees. Imposedsident obama tps, it was so haiti had a chance to recover. We know based on what we have heard that haiti has yet to recover. Not only that it is suffering probably the natural disasters you mentioned, the cholera epidemic and