Amy Michael Moore in trumpland. With just days before the election, we spend the hour with awawardwinning film maker and d talk about his surprise new movie, filmed before a livive audiencece at te Murphy Theatre in wilmingtonon, ohio, where there are 25,000 registered voters in the county and only 500 of ththem are registered democrats. This is not a film that is an hour and a half bashing trump. You already know everything about him. I do want to say what im going to vote for her. I have huge political disagreements with her. The obvious ones, the war, too cozy with wall street, etc. , etc. But there are also these things about her that i think are pretty decent and good. They never get talked about. Amy all that and more, coming up. Welclcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. In turkey, the two leaders and at least 10 other lawmakers of the leftist prokurdish People Democratic party, known as the hdp. Its the Third Largest party in the turkish parliament. Social media was also reportedly shut down across the largely kurdish Southeast Region of turkey. This comes amid a widening crackdown in turkey. Less than a week ago, the turkish government fired 10,000 civil servants, ordered 15 mostly kurdish news outlets to shut down, and raided ththe offices and detained a dozen journalists from an awardwinning newspaper on terrorism charges. In a afghanistan, up to 30 civilians have been killed by natoled Coalition Airstrikes near kunduz thursday morning. The u. S. Called for the airstrikes in order to support the u. S. Special operations soldiers and afghan troops fighting the taliban in and around the city. Later thursday afghans marched , to the local governors office, carrying the corpses of their relatives, which included women and children. This is one of the family members of the victims. Seven people were killed from one family. My brotherinlaw and all of his family were killed in this attack. See their bodies here . All members of one family. Amy these killings come afteter two u. S. Soldiers were killed in kunduz earlier this week. Wiwith the u. S. Election is only days away, a new poll shows the majority of voters are disgusted by the election and think both major Party President ial candidates Hillary Clinton and donald trump are dishonest. The New York Times cbs news poll also shows clintons lead over trump has narrowed. This comes as Donald Trumps wife, melania, has given her first major speech since the Republican National convention. In her remarks in pennsylvania she said that as first lady she , would focus on decreasing Cyber Bullying and toxic social media culture. We have to find a better way to talk to each other, to disagree with each other, to respect each other. We must find better ways to honor and support the basic goodness of our children, especially in social media. It will be one of the main focuses of my work if i am privileged enough to become your first lady. Amy Melania Trump did not mention in her speech the frequent social media attacks launched by her husband, donald trump, whose combative twitter use over the years has included attacks on journalists, other women he has called dogs, and other candidates including Hillary Clinton once tweeting meanwhile, despite Melania Trumps expressed concern over social media bullying, she did not come to the aid of a journalist earlier this year who faced a barrage of death threats, holocaust references, and other antisemitic attacks on social media after writing a profile about melania for gq. Instead, melania said in an interview that journalist julia ioffe had provoked the harassment. In pakistan, at least 18 people have died after an oil tanker explodeded at a gadani s ship y. Dozens more are still trapped inside the burning tanker, which has been ablaze since tuesdaday morning with the fuel inside the tataker contntinuously feeding e fire. At least 200 refugees have drowned off the coast of libya in the last 48 hours as tens of thousands of refugees from syria, afghanistan, iraq, somalia, south sudan, and other wartorn areas continunue to attempt the perilous trip across the mediterranean. At least 4220 refugees have died attempting this crossing so far this year more than in n allf 2015. In new york city, a man has died after being repeatedly tased by a new york police sargent. Police say they arrived at 49yearold ariel galarzas apartment on wednesday after someone reported seeing a man who was emotionally disturbed holding a knife. When the police arrived, he did not have a knife but the police say he threatened them with a glass bottle. Sergeant William Melrose repeatedly tased galarza, who died from cardiac arrest later that night. In south carolina, judy scott, the mother of water scott, testified on the first day of the murder trial of white former Police Officer michael slager, who was caught on video shooting 50yearold African American walter scott in the back as he ran away. The jury includes 11 white men and women and one black man. And in denver, colorado, jury selection is slated to begin today in thehe retrial of clararence mosesel, an African American man who was convicted of rape in 1987 after a woman said she dreamed he was the man who raped and beat her in the dark. Mosesel has always maintained his innocence. In 2012, another man confessed to the attack. Mosesel was freed in 2015, but prosecutors have decided to retry him despite the other , mans confession. To see our interview with clarence mosesel afafter he was freed, go to democracynow. Org. Harvard university has announced it is canceling the rest of this years Mens Soccer Team season after it emerged the male soccer plplayers hahad for y years maid a writtenen scoutining r reporte womenns sosoccer team. The men ranked the womens appearances using pictures, numbers, and lengthy written evaluations. They also aside each of their fellow f female students a sexul position. And those are some of the headlines. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Today, with the president ial election just days away, we spend the hour with the Academy Award winning filmmaker Michael Moore, the director of roger me, fahrenheit 9 11, bowling for columbine, sicko, capitalism a love story, and where to invade next. He has just released a surprise new film. It is called Michael Moore in trumpland. Just hours ago i sat down with , Michael Moore in our new york city studios. We started with a clip from the trailer of his new film. A lot of people say that trump is a a clolown. If this is anany indicationof how mr. Trumump isoingng to do,t is g going to be lands widide fr trump. I think is going to be closo. I ththink hillary aroundd here, i a aint heard nobody for clintnton. He didnt get it handed down to him like hillary did from her parents. Mr. President amount of first lady, michaeael moore . Micichael moore will perfoa oneman shshow tonightht. I really wanted to invite people w who are thinking g of voting f for donald d trump. The e ushers asksked mexixicanamericicans if theheyd sit in a a special mexican section. There will be a s symbolic wawal built aroundnd them in the balconony. At a mullalah. Clclose enough. Three things nice about george w. Bush. Were all americans, right . Youmen generally dont shoot unless you deserve it. W women what is she doing here . The rest of europe . There like, by felicia. You can say everything nice except for hitlers and matt lauer. R. , i think h Hillary Clinton isa hell of a good woman. Donald j. Trump was sworn in today as t the 45th h president f the e united states. Molotovt being a humanan cocktail that theyey can throw. Mr. Trump i just left michael and he is a good man. He is done a good job. Amy michael filmed most of the movie and a two night stand before a Live Audience at the Murphy Theatre in wilmington, ohio. Wilmington is the county seat of clinton county, ohio, but it is hardly clinton country. There are 25,000 registered voters in the county and only 500 of them are registered democrats. In a moment, Michael Moore will join us in our new york studio. First, a bit more from trumpland. If hillary wins, the the women take over. Because they dont need as you know what this is going to lead to. Therell be internment camps for men. Hillary will have all of her, you know, wellesley students there with a clip boards checking is into the internment camp. They have to pick out a few to keep the speeches going. Who are they going to pick . The smart ones and the goodlooking ones. Im looking at faces here. We all going to be in the camp. Yes, you. Keep g going. You. Oh, you. Over here. [laughter] yes, you. Keep going. You. Just because hes got a good sixpack for the abs . I was going to start going to the gym last month. Now youre going to the camp. Dont worry, theyre going to be lots of gyms in the guy camps. That is why theyre so upset. You have seen them at the rallies, these guys of the trump rallies . There like [groaning] dyingthe sound of the dinosaur. [groans] amy that is Michael Moore in trumpland. He is in studios in democracy now land. How much did you have to practice that dying groan . We had no chance for rehearsal. We filmed it as i did it for the first time. We were supposed to be in another ohio town used of columbus in licking county, ohio. When it was announced we were going to be there, the republicans got the board of the theater to go back on theieir wd to let us perform this there and essentially banned me from the theater. I had to find another town very quickly. It took of a, so i did not have a chance to do any rehearsal. Andve spoken at colleges you have done this, too, but ive never done this ive never filmed this sort of thing. I wanted to do a oneman show in ththe u. S. For some time. Amy talk about the audience. Who was in the audience . 800 seats in the theater and we recruited this audience because i wanted a good mix of people. Half are hillary supporters. S. About 100, 150 trump people. There were 100 to 150 people who sasaid there were planning on nt voting. Slightht l less than 100 peoeope that were going to vote third party. I had quite a good mix of people. The trump voters i did not want the crazies because i did not want the show disrupted. The david duke worshipers were not in the building. We did go to union halls. I wanted to go to places to look for mostly guys, lets bebe honest, guys who used to or have voted for the democratic party. In this case, think of voting for trump. Fortunately, a lot of the women in the area brought their husbands or boyfriends and most of the women in the audience were very much in favor of hillary. You could see in the show, the guy sitting there like this. But they loosened up after a while. By the end of it, i think maybe a few of them maybe it brought them around a little bit. Amy you talk to them and you talk about the conservatives in the family. This is the one about everyone having a conservative in the family. You know, these trump voters are going to be up at 5 00 in the morning on election day. They were up at 5 00 in the morning a lot. Dealey time we see 5 00 in the morning is when we are out partying all night. [applause] eveverybody in here as a conservative in the family, right . Many of you brought that person with you here tonight. A brother, father, and uncle, a brotherinlaw, a sisterr not a sister. I know. I jusust threw that in there. [laughter] they are the organized one in the family. They never lose their car keys. The conservative they have books w with a label by the back door. That is the key for the car Matthew Mcconaughey drives. Our side, were like, this is uh, where do so, you want to go eat tonight . I dont care, where do you want to go . I dont know, wherever you want to go. No, you picked last time. Seriously the conservative is, get in the car were going to outback. Get in there. Decisive organized disciplined thatave got to admire about them. Amy that is the Academy Awardwinning film maker Michael Moore and he is doing a oneman show in clinton county, which is actually trump land. Michael moore in trumpland. You are not guessing about how people think. You grew up in michigan. Right, and still live there. I am around a lot of people who are planning to vote for donald trump. , lot of people i grew up with a lot of them are guys and women me who are of this age and they are angry. They are angry for justifiable reasons. They got jobs in the auto factories and they lost those jobs. If they been able to get a anotr job, theyre working for a lot less money. Some are working two or three jobs. They are really angry at the system. They see trump as their human molotov cocktail where they get to go in the voting booth next tuesday and just go beep. To the systemand because he is told them in his own words he is going to blow it up. Just sort of illegal act of terrorism. You get to go in, vovote for a n who says he is going to blowup the system, and you who have been hurt by the system get to enjoy that. I have spent a lot of time in michigan and ohio, pennsylvania, wisconsin, what i call the brexit states. Amy explain why you call them that. Brexit was passed in large part because the White Working Class of industrial england and wales voted to leave europe because they wanted to send a message. Then they realized after it happened, it is like, oh, we actually have to leave europe now. Yes, you do. You held your anger management views in a voting with. That is not where you take care of your r justifiable anger at e system. Amy and now they have just rolled, actually, the brititish parliamement has to vote o on t. Right. Maybe there is a way out for them. But on tuesday, were not voting to leave europe. If you vote for donald j. Trump, youre essentially voting for america to leave america. We are asking you are basically saying, you know what . We want to leave behind whatever this is that we have just start over with him in charge. With him as the builder of this. To me, that is a frightening thought. Amy we will have more Michael Moore in a minute. [music break] amy this is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. We continue our conversation with Michael Moore, Academy Award winning filmmaker. His latest film, in october surprise, is called Michael Moore in trumpland. I asked him if hes ever met republican president ial hopeful donald trump. I have only met him once, back in 1998. I think it was a clip of it in the trailer where i was on a talk show with him. Amy whose talkshow . Sam ba roseanne barr. She came to new york for a week and she invited me to come on. Donald trump is the other guest. The producer says, im really sorry, but mr. Trump is very nervous about you being on the show and he is afraid youre going to attack him. I said, let me talk to him. He sitting in the corner, ill go talk to him. I am michaelump, moore. I understand you are a little worried. There is nothing to worry about. 1998, so i dont know that much about trump. He built some buildings. I said, were here to have fun with roseanne. You dont have to worry. Im shaking his hand and it is claiming. The guy is so nervous. My job is, i have to call him down. We will have some fun. Im trying to help the producer out because they are afraid he is going to walk. He goes, no, no, it is just that, i just dont want to go , itsd, you know, i said not that kind of show. Dont worry will stop we go out on the show and i dont go after him on anything. I just leave him alone. When it was over, and i did not think this until actually this past year where i thought, that guy is good. I got played. He got me to not bring up any of his craft crap on n at show because i felt sorry for him. I thought, this guy is good. This guy did not get to where he got by being stupid. He is not stupid. Me to not say anything political, do anything political , and just have, you know, a councilaugh fest on the couch on the roseanne show. Amy when you made this, it was right around the time women were coming forward saying he assaulted them. It was just breaking. Yes. Actually, that performance in the film is literally for hours after the billlly bush tape is revealed. Tape. Just watched this ive not heard any of the pundits or anything. I just watched the tape and now on going out on stage. When you see the film, theres a portion where i talk about women of hillarys age and women of that generation who grew up in essentially the first feminist of the modern feminist era in the 1960s and early 1970s and what they went through to be feminists and the crap they had to take as a result of that. Film, i i watch the know what is playing in my head is i just had watched this godawful conversation that trump was having with billy bush. I mean,o vile and so lets be honest. There is nothing he said on that tape that was surprising, you know, i cant believe donald trump said these things. No. I was not surprised by billy bush, w. s first cousin, that he was trying to pimp trump other. It was just awful. It was like summit last year with the dr. Frankenstein and said, we want to create a candidate that embodies all of the worst traits of men, rich people, and white people and put them all into one candidate. And here we have donald j. Trump. Anyway, if you go back and watch that tape, we know the vile comments and attitude and we know now he is confessed Central Province he is a confessed sexual predator, but it is when he tries to get off the bus. He doesnt know how to get off the bus. Look at the tape. He knocked on the door of the bus. I went, oh, my god, this is the first time in his life he is ever been on a bus. This man has never ridden a bus. That should be a disqualifier fo