Amy Senate Democrats led by chris murphy of connecticut have wrapped up a nearly 15hour filibusterer calling for stricir gun controrol in the wake of the orlando massacre, but will it does but what exactly was agreed to . We will get t the latest. Then to the president ial race. I am donald trump. I wrote the art of the deal. I have made billions and billions of dollars dealing with people all over the world and i want to put whatever that talent is to work to this country. Amy today, we look at trump the businessman and a series of new investigative articles that expose trumps shady business dealings in Atlantic City, his failure to pay hundreds of former employees and contractors, and new evidence from a Pulitzer Prize money journals that trump did not even pay his taxes. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. President obama is slated to visit orlando, florida, today, following sundays attack on an lgbt n nightclub in orlandndo, flororida, which k killed d 49 e and was the deadliliest massss shshooting i in modern u. S. H. The massacre has reignited calls for gun control by Senate Democrats, who mounted a nearly 15hour filibuster that ended early this morning after republicans reportedly agreed to hold a vote on gun contrtrol measures, including prohibiting peoplen the govevernmentss terrrrorist watctch list fromm obtaining gun licenses and exexpanding background checks to include gushows and internet sales. Connecticucut democratic senator chris murphy launcnched the filibuster a little after 11 00 inin the morning on wednesdaday. Imf my withth end. End. Am at my witss ive had enougugh. Ive had enough of the ongoing slaughter off innocents and body. Of inaction in this so i im goining remain on this floor until we get some signal, some sign that we can come together on these two measures, that we e can get a papath forw. Pidemic inin ag this memeaningful, bipartisan way. Amy it was the 9th longest filibuster in u. S. History. About 90 of americans support stricter gun control measures, while new cbs news poll finds 57 of americans support a full nationwide ban on assaultt weapons up from 44 last december although, this was not one of the issues republicans have agreed to vote on. Well have more on the filibuster aftfter headlines. Presumptive republican president ial nominee donald trump has said hell meet with the National Rifle association today to discuss gun control measures to prohibit people on terror w watch lists from purchasing firearms. The nra has endorsed trump. Meanwhile, donald trump reiterated his call for bans on muslim immigration and called for increased surveillance of muslim communities, including at mosques. He spoke at a a news conferencen atlanta, georgia wednesday. , we have to stop on a temporary basis, at least, but we have to stop people from pouring into our country. We have to stop it. Until we find out what the hell is going on. And we have to go and we have to maybe check, respectfully, the mosques, and were to check other places. Amy a new cbs news poll finds the majority of americans disapprove of trumps response to the mass shooting in orlando. During trumps speech in atlanta, members of the press corps symbolically saved seats for the Washington Post reporters who had been banned by trump from covering his events. Trump has also banned buzzfeed, the huffington post, the daily beast, the des moines register, the union leader, univision, and fusion. Meanwhile, Government Agencies are refusing to release Public Records about sundays massacre in orlando, florida. Multiple media sources have reported shooter omar mateen called 911 during the time of the assault and declared his allegiance to isis, but the city of orlando is refusing to release any 911 calls. Other agencies are refusing to release documents about mateens Security Guard license, and records from mateens brief stint as a corrections officer. Barbara petersen of the First Amendment foundation said, they are trying to control the stream of information. They are trying to control what people know. This comes as a a federal grand jury is reportly considering whether to indict omar mateens wife, noor salman, on criminal charges related to the attack. Multiple news outlets, citing unnamed sources, have reported she know about the planned attack ahead of time and even drove mateen to the pulse club one night. But other reporters have cast doubt on these claims. Sam husseini of the institute for public accuracy reports one of noor salmans Close Friends says salman is saying that she knew nothing of her husbands plans and never drove her husband to the club. Husseini writes, she is apparently telling people around her that virtually everything youre hearing about her is a lie. E. Meanwhile, the intercept is reporting an orlandobased imam named Marcus Dwayne Robertson has received a slew of Death Threats after fox news inaccurately reported robertson had been arrested for alleged connections to omar mateen. Fox cited d anonymous government officials claiming mateen had been radicalized through robertsons online seminary. But rorobertson had not beenen arreststed and mateen was neneva stududent of robertsons semina. In facact, the two never hadad y contact. Robertson told the intercept some members of the media decided to start pushing their own narrative in order to build this mentality that is trying to foment hatred and blame us for these terrible acts. Theyve put our lives in danger. Video of utahs republican Lieutenant Governor spencer cox has gone viral after he apologized to the Lgbtq Community for hihis own homophoa during a vigil in Salt Lake City on monday. Highwent to a small rural school. There were some kids in my class that were different ththen me, d somemetimes i wasasnt kind to. I did not know it at the time, but i know n now they were gay. I regret not treating them with thee kindness, dignity, anand respect, the love that they deserved. For that, i sincerely and humbly apologize. Speaking out to the straight commmmitted the, how did you fel when you heard 49 people hadad been gunned down by a so proclaimed terrorist . That is the easy question. Heres ththe hard one. Did that feeling change when you found out the shooting was in a gay bar at 2 2 00 a. M. In the morning . If that feeling changed, then were doing something wrong. Amy from the campaign trail, a single hacker using the name guccifer 2. 0, has claimed responsibility for hacking into the Democratic National commmmittees Computer Network d obtaining a trove of donor information and a 200page antitrump playbook. The dnc had previously blamed the attack on the russian government. On wednesday, the hacker leaked the donald trump report, which was created in december 2015 by democratic strategist warren flood. The playbook highlights the dncs strategies to take down trump, which include focusing on how trump is a misogynist in chief and a bad businessman. Well, for more on Donald Trumps business practices, well be joined later in the broadcast by a roundtable of awardwinning reporters from the New York Times, usa today, and the daily beast. In more news from the 2016 election, the aclu has sued the city of cleveland over restrictions on free speech. Free speech cleveland officials are planning to impose during the Republican National convention in july. Cleveland hahas demarcated a 3. 3 square mile event area in downtown cleveland that will be subject to broad restrictions during the convention, including banning everyday items such as umbrellas with metal tips, glass bottles, canned goods, large backpacks and sleeping bags. , the lawsuit argues the bans of such items are arbitrary and will criminalize the homeless community. The city has also delayed issuing permits for marches and parades for months, making g it difficult to plan. In news from the u. S. War in afghanistan, u. S. Defense secretary ash carter has reportedly told nato the u. S. Is again reconsidering the proposed withdrawal of u. S. Forces. The u. S. Currently has 9800 u. S. Troops in afghanistan. The current plan is reduce this number 5500 by the end of this year. Carters comments wednesday come as nato countries agreed to extend the mission in afghanistan through 2017 and to keep the network of baseses acrs afghanistan in place. Tens of thousands of palestinians living in the Israelioccupied West Bank are withthout access to safe drinkig water during the holy month of ramadan after israels National WaterCompany Began siphoning off Water Supplies to multiple west bank cities and villages. Meanwhile, European Union officials are warning 95 of the water in the israelioccupied gaza strip is currently not fit for human use. This comes as u. S. Officials announce breakthroughs in talks over increased u. S. Military funding to isrsrael. While visiting israel for the talks, u. S. Deputy secretary of state Antony Blinken spoke out. Under this administration, the United States has invested nearly 24 billion in Foreign Military financing for israel since 2009. 9. Far more than for any other country, more than at any other previous time in the history of the u. S. Israel relationship. We are also prepared to sign a new tenure memorandum of understanding that would constitute the largest single pledge of military assistance from the United States to any country in our history. Amy he also said u. S. Military funding to israel currently amounts to 8. 5 million every single day. A new report by the netherlandsbased Peace Organization pax accuses 150 financial institutions, including u. S. Banking giants Jpmorgan Chase and bank of america, of investing billions of dollars in companies manufacturing internationallybanned cluster bombs. The weapons contain bomblets which fan out over a wide area and often fail to explode e unti civilians pick them up later. In florida divers have found the , body of f a twoyearold boyoy following an alligator attack at disneys theme park just outside orndo, floririda. Totoler lane g graves of nebrasa was attackcked and dragged away from his familily on the shohorf a manmade lake on t tuesday night. Disnsney has closesed the beacht its florida resorts in the wake of the attack. In oakland, california, a Second Police chief has been ousted in less than a week amid a massive scandal in which multiple Oakland Police officers are facing allegations of statutory rape and Human Trafficking after allegedly having sex with an underage girl who was working as a sex worker. On wednesday, oaklkland mayor libby schaaf removed ben fairow as interim police chief. He had been appointed only six days earlier after former police chief sean whent resigned amid the scandal. And today marks the 50th anniversary of Stokely Carmichaels historic black power speech in greenwood, mississippi, on june 16, 1966. Carmichael was speaking after james meredith, the first black student to attend the university of mississippi, had been shot and wounded by a white man during the walk against fear from memphis, tennessee, to jackson, mississippi. Following the shooting, carmichael declared to a crowd of 3000 people we been saying freedom for six years. What we are going to start saying now is black power. Speaking years later, carmichael explained the decision to adopt black power as the movements slogan. Luckily for us, the net in greenwood, k keene had to go doa television thing i think for meet the e press, so he had do go to memphis a am a he was not therere the night in greenwood. They saiaid, dont hit too muchn freedom now, but hit the need for power. There, rix wasot saying, hit them now. I kept saying, give me tim wewe drdropped like power. They h have been primed and respond immediately. I myself, to o be honest, i did not expect that enthusiastic response. Amy Stokely Carmichael adopted the name he died in and those 1998. Are some of the headlines. This democracy now, demomocracynow. Org, the wawar ad peace report. Im amy goodman. Return to thee guncontrol debae on capitol hill. For nearly 15 hours, democratic senator chris murphy of connecticut led a filibuster calling for stricter gun control in the wake of the orlando massacre that left 49 people dead. Murphy began the filibuster at 11 21 eastern time in the morning on wednesday. With help from allies, he kept the filibuster going until 2 11 this morning saying that , republicans have agreed to hold votes on measures to expand background checks and prevent people on u. S. Terrorism watch lists from buying guns. Murphy accused the Republicanled Senate of failing to address the nations gun epidemic. I think the people notice when we remain silent i know it is unintentional, but it seems to some people as if we dont care about what happens when we dont try to do anything about it. And i understand we have deep disagreements here about how to proceed, but with the exception of one week in 2013, we have not brought a debate to this floor in which we try to hash out our differences. Republican leadership did not announce in the wawake of orlano that we are going to spend this week working o on trying to enat measures to make sure that another mass shooting doesnt happen. And a fundamental disconnect with the American People when these tragedies continue to occur and we just move forward with this is as usual. So im going to remain on this floor until we get some signal, some sign that we can come together on these two measures, that we can get a path forward on addressing this epidemicic ia meaningful, bipartisan way. Amy on the president ial campaign trail, Hillary Clinton tweeted her support of murphys effort, saying some fights are too important to stay silent. Preventing gun violence is one of them. Stand strong chrismurphyct. Meanwhile, donald trump suggested in a tweet that he will push the nra to accept some new forms of gun control. He wrote i will be meeting with the nra, who has endorsed me, about not allowing people on the terrorist watch list, or the no fly list, to buy guns. Meanwhile, the cover of todays boston globe, features a large photo of a military style ar15 next to just three words make it stop. For more were joined by caroline fredrickson, president of the American Constitution Society for law and policy. Welcome to democracy now you are in washington, d. C. , with a knife longest filibuster in u. S. History took place on the floor of the senate will stop where the night long as filibuster in u. S. History took place on the floor of the senate. Quite i think it is pretty important to recognize the Republican Leadership has been unwilling to even discuss the most limited, basic, commonsensical restrictions on access to guns. And after this historic filibuster, they have agreed to allow votes to go forward on a couple again, we could be asking for a lot more, but these are some basic measures that the senate will move forward to a vote on. At least the American People can get these senators on the record. Amy talk about this. One of them is a nofly ,no buy. Explain what that is. Essentially, we have these terrorist watch list in the United States or the government has determined that people are perhaps terrorists were associated with terrorists and they are dangerous. The nofly list prevents them from getting on an airplane. The no buy list would extend that to the purchase of guns and saying, you know, as we might think another commonsense measure, that if you are thought to be a terrorist and we wont let you fly, we should probably not let you buy a gun. Amy theres Something Interesting that happened with republicans yesterday on this issue. Because the republicans have been so opposed, along with the nra, to any kind of regulation, they find themselves on the side of the terror watch list saying that there should be a way people can get off it which is interesting, and i think a lot of people would agree with that. What happens when you are put on this list and you have no recourse . They are calling for this now because theyre saying, if people cant get off it, they can buy guns. So explain what theyre pushing for. Well, and i think all of us who care about Civil Liberties should want to make sure that those lists are fairly come to an theres a process for getting off if there is a mistake. I know the aclu where i used to work has long pushed for that. I think that is important. But the idea is, what we need is a process that can recognize and deal with mistakes, but not put up a false effort to simply derail with the democrats are trying to do just what i am very for the nra and the Republican Leadership is aiming for here. Amy explain. The best way to get something off the public stage is to set up meetings and to say theres going to be a dialogue and a discussion. Take a long time to finally reach the end, which is that you cant get to an agreement. I am somewhat skeptical, but i do think the democrats should be pushing as hard as they can. The filibuster is an important tool to bring people to the table. I think senator murphy was right not to back down simply because some republicans said they were discussing a possible compromise with senator feinstein. At