Stake in todays meeting from military deals to immimigration. Then we go to jackson, mississippi. In jackson,ens mississippi, impacts each and every one of us. And so we have to make the decision that we are going to start controlling the way electoral politics proceeds. And so we have made the decision that we are going to be the most radical city on the planet. Amy we will speak to the mayor elect of jackson, mississippi, Chokwe Lumumba. He was just elected to fill the post once held by his father who was dubbed americas most revolutionary mayor before his death in 2014. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. On capitol hill, opposition to the Republican Health care bill is growing as an increasing number of republican senators come out against their partys plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care act. The bill is facing criticism both from republicans who say the bill includes too many cuts to medicaid, as well as from those who say it doesnt go far enough to gut the Affordable Care act. So far, five republicans currently say they will not support the bill as written nevada senator dean heller, kentucky senator rand paul, texas senator ted cruz, utah senator mike lee, and wisconsin senator ron johnson, who called for the vote on the bill to be postponed. There is no way we should be voting on this next week. Are you going to work to stop a vote next week . Ive hard time believing wisconsin constituents even myself will have enough time to properly evaluate this for me to vote for motioion to proceed. I hahave been encouraging leleadership, the white house, anybody i can talk to for quite some time, lets not rush this process. Amy republicans have been pushing for a vote on the bill this week ahead of the july 4th recess. The Republican Health care plan would remove millions of lowincome and disabled people from medicaid, cut subsidies to Purchase Health insurance, allow states to effectively eliminate protections for people with preexisting conditions, and defund planned parenthood for a year. According to the center on budget policy priorities, the bill would also give 33 billion in tax cuts to the 400 richest u. S. Households. Its facing opposition not only from some republican senators, but also from also the democrats slew of governors from both , a parties, the majority of the health care industry, hospitals, doctors, nurses, Patient Advocacy groups, the u. S. Conference of catholic bishops, and even members of the farright Koch BrothersPolitical Network who claim the legislation is not sufficiently conservatitive. Over the weekend, progreressive groups held dont take our health care rallies in pittsburgh, pennsylvania, charleston, was virginia, and in columbus, ohio, where vermont senatotor Bernie Sanders called the republicans plan beyond comprehension. Sen. Sanders and while 28 Million People are uninsured, this bill will throw an additional 23 Million People off of the health care they have, raising the total of uninsured in america over 15 millionn people 50 Million People. This is literally beyeyond comprehension. It is unconscionable, and it must not be allowed to happen. Amy vermont senator Bernie Sanders and others are calling for a singlepayer health care system, alalso known as medicare for all. Though he has not introduced a formal bill yet. Shows support for singlepayer a recent poll by the Pew Research Center shows support for singlepayer is growing, with a full third of americans in favor of a National Single payer system. However, on friday, California Assembly speaker Anthony Rendon shelved a proposal to establish a singlepayer system across california, saying the bill will not be voted on this year. It was approved in the california state senate. The Washington Post is reporting that president obama received a highly classified eyes only letter in august detailing that russian president Vladimir Putin was directly involved in a Cyber Campaign with the objective of defefeatig dedemocratic nominee hillary clclinton and helping elecect hr opponent, now president donald received a highly classified trump. The post investigation is based on interviews with current and former unnamed government officials. The report also chronicleses president obamas attempts to punish russia for the alleged interference in the u. S. Election, including by imposing sanctions, expellingng 35 russin diplomats, closing two russian compounds in the u. S. , and a covert measure to plant Cyber Weapons in russias infrastructure. The New York Times printed a full pitch report detailing every lie President Trump has told since taking office. The dozens of statements chronicled in the ad include trump lying about his position in the 2003 invasion of iraq, trump lying about how many times hes been on the cover of time magazine, trump lying about the size of his inauguration crowds, and trump lying about widespread voter fraud that in fact never took place. And those are only the lies trump told in her first week in office. The report includes an infographic showing that trump either lied or issued misleading statements every single day for his first 40 days in office. Workers at the carriers plant carriers plant in indianapolis are bracing themselves for a massive round of layoffs next month, despite the fact that President Trump had claimed that he had saved the jobs at the plant. As many as 600 workers will be laid off next month. President trump had also announced a 16 Million Investment in the plant, allegedly to save jobs. But in fact, carriers Parent Company says that money is going to go to factory automation, which will actually reduce the number of jobs at the plant overall. Meanwhile, car manufacturer ford has announced it will be moving some of its manufacturing operations to china. This comes after trump tried to claim credit for fords decision earlier this spring to cancel its plans to build a factory in mexico, tweeting big announcement by ford today. Major investment to be made in three michigan plants. Car companies coming back to u. S. Jojobs jobs jobs in fact, ford simply decided to outsource the jobs to china. United nations says yemen is now facing the w worlds worst t cha ououtbreak, as the u. Sbackeded saudiled bombing and naval blockade has devastated the countryys health, water, and sewewer systems. S. The World Health Organization says more than 200,000 people in yemen are infected with cholere. 1300 people have already died, a quarter of them children. Meanwhile, in more news on yemen,n, the american civil libertieies union s s file freedom of information act requests for records on u. S. Involvement in a secret network of prisons in southern yemen where dozens of people, including childrdren, have repoportedly b been forcibly detained, tortured, and interrogated. The Associated Press reports u. S. Military officials have participated in interrogations in Detention Centers where torture is rououtine and extrem. For a full discussion on this issue, you can go to democracynow. Org. In iraq, u. S. Backed iraqi forcrces continue the battle to seize control of the city of mosul from isis. Residents say at least five members of the same family were killed on sunday in a u. S. Led coalition airstrike. Thousands continued to flee mosul over the weekend. This is fatima mohammed. Was bombed and collapsed as she was inside. We were neighbors. She came out running and yelling and she said that her mom was buried under the rubble. I took her and washed her face. No one came to my help. We were exhausted, hungry, and thursday. Amy meanwhile, two more journalists have died from injuries sustained when a mine exploded in mosul swiss journalist Veronique Robert and french video journalist stephane villeneuve. The explosion immediately killed iraqi i journalist bakhtiar haddad. In syria, u. S. Bacacked troops captured a district of western raqqa from isis over the weekend. The lolocal journalistic group raqqa is being slaughtered sisilently reports u. S. Led Coalition Airstrikes killed at least five civilians on saturday in raqaqqa a man nanamed khal al sharabi along with his wife, asas well as another man named khalil albari, his wife, and one of their sons. The syrian observatory for human rights says the u. S. Led coalition n airstrikes have kild nearlyly 700 civilians in and around raqqa since the campaign to take control of the city began in march. Meanwhile, critics are warning the United States is quietly exexpanding its military role in syria, with an increasising numr of strikes against the syrian government. The u. S. Has shot down at least one syrian governmentnt plane, d two iriranianmade drorones this month. The dean of the Johns Hopkins school of advanced international studies, vali nasr, warns we are sleepwalking into a much broader military mandate, without saying what we plan to do afterward. As many as 50,000 protesters formed a humanan chain that stretched across parts of germrmany, belgium, and the netherlands on sunday to demand belgium shut dowown two nuclear reactors. The reactors are more than 30 years old and have been temporarily shut down twice in recent years after cracks were discovered in the core tanks. In pakistan, more than 150 people were killed when a fuel tanker exploded on sunday in the eastern provincnce. The majority of those killed were nearby residents together to collect the fuel spilling out of the tanker, would have which a crash on the side of the road. Another 100 people were wounded in the explosion. In colombia, at least 13 people have died in a mine explosion in the town of cucunuba on friday. Government Officials Say the mine was not permitted and lacked safety equipment. Back in the United States, the second mistrial has been declared in the murder case of former university of Cincinnati Police officer ray tensing, who shot africanamerican Samuel Dubose in the head after pulling him over for having a missing front license plate in 2015. Tensing was wearing a tshirt emblazoned with a confederate battle flag under his uniform when he killed dubose. This is the second time a jury has deadlocked on officer tensings case. It comes after prosecutors failed to win convictions and to win convictions and two other high profile cases of Police Killing civiliaians. Yanez wasta, jeronimo philando for killing castile. Meanwhile, in dallas a grand , jury has indicted Police OfficerChristopher Hess on charges of aggravated assault for killing 21yearold Genevive Dawes in january after he fired 13 shots into her car through the passenger side window. Dawes was pregnant at the time she was killed by officer hess. Thousands of people marched in pride celebrations across the u. S. And the world over the weekend. In new york city, formerly imprisoned Army WhistleblowerChelsea Manning celebrated her first pride as a free woman, riding in a red convertible with the American Civil Liberties union, alongside transgender teenager gavin grimm, who has sued his local Virginia School district for the right to use the bathroom that matches his gender identity. And in western massachusetts, 98yearold activist Frances Crowe and seven others were arrested blockading construction of a Kinder Morgan gas pipeline in the otis state forest on saturday. Activists helped push crowe to the construction site in her wheelchair, where they then held a mock funeral for fossil fuels. Crowe is a longtime peace and antinuclear activist. This is her third arrest since she turned 90 years old. When asked on saturday how many times shed been arrested throughout her lifetime, crowe answered not enough. And those are some of the headlines. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. President trump is welcoming indian prime mininister Narendra Modi to the white house for their first facetoface meeting. Modi is head of the hindu nationalist bjp party and has led india since 2014. Modi was once banned from the United States on charges he did not intervene in a massacre against muslims in 2002 in the indian state of gujarat. The meeting come just days after the white house announced a 2 billion deal to sell india 22 guardian surveillance drones. The deal will help india expand its use of drones in occupied kashmir as well as along the pakistani border. In addition Lockheed Martin has , Just Announced a deal to begin making f16 fighter jets in india. Another top agenda item at todays trumpmodi meeting, the future of the h1b visa program. Trump signedsident an executive order to review the visa program. Many observers have compared trump to modi. In january steve coll wrote in the new yorker trump will join modi as the latest figure in the worlds swelling ranks of populistnationalist leaders, a gallery of strongmen in countries rich and poor, some more democratic and some less so, who govern partly through intimidation and a certain curated arbitrariness. To talk more about todays meeting, we are joined by two guests. Teesta setalalvad is a civil rights activist and journalist based in mumbai, india. She is the secretary of citizens for justice and peace. And here in new york prachi , patankar, cofounder of the south asia solidarity initiative. We welcome you both to democracy now talk about the significance of this meeting today between trump amid the president of the United States, and modi. Just like the other predecessors of these leaders of these countries, the u. S. And india, i imagine they will talk about similar longterm issues like economic trade deals and Nuclear Deals and things like you mentioned, the arms deal they are about to sign. Of course, given the latest pulling of from the climate deal that trump saw, they will talk that as well. What differs from past leaders is they come together for their authoritarianism. Modi led the way if years ago, coming to power led by very much fascist and fundamentalist take regime followed by what he did. Bringshink this is what them together. Another thing that brings them together is there populist and symbolic rhetoric. Trump has the make America Great idea hemymbolic campaigned on. Modi talks about make in india. They are these nationalistic, keep jobs at home, talk about the economy in that way. But what is happening within their home c countries, as w we know, modi a announced on u. S. Election day in november over the demonic the statation policy which h had disastrous consnsequences for the poorr and marginalized people of india, many of them farmers, the lowest in society. Caste there resisting thehese. Herere was a farmerer strikike amy lets go to teesta setalvd , a civil rights activist basasd in mumumbai, and a journalist. Prachi patankarr jusust mentiond probably note are familiar with what she is referring to. You are very involved with this issue. Can you talk about modis history . It is a very important understand. [indiscernible] talking about the democratic will of the peoplele, having coe to power in a certain power. In adiffers from trump sense that modis political grooming is in n [indiscernible] very been a lot of Academic Studies and issues down at the ground. [indiscernible] is a very popular leaeader today. He comes from the grooming of one the Police Program of 2002 was on modis watch. It was poor governance at best. Killed00 muslims lives in an uprising after a despicable burning. T was allowed [indiscernible] the state was just looking on. Modi has not even expressed regret for that massacre. Amy explain how many people. This was in 2002, modi as the kind of the equivalent of governor, how many people died and then what the u. S. Action was that followed banning him or refusingng to give him a visa to the United States. 06 26 17 06 26 1717 campaign very special launched. Campaigned on the issue of the 2002 massacre and argue that for a man who is chief minister, should not be allowed to visit the United States of america. Repeated even as he rose and became more powerful. What you need to remember about ,odi, in five years [indiscernible] massacre. K of the ththey walk the rarazors edge,f you like. [indiscernible] they represent innocence the democratic will of the people,. Ubut also the instititutions amy were talking to Teesta Setalvad a civil rights activist and journalist based in mumbai, india, speaking to her by video stream. And Prachi Patankar who is here in new york, activist and educator, co