Intensifies his attacks on his attorney general Jeff Sessions. Pres. Trump i am disappointed in the attorney general. He should not have recused himself. Amy we will speak with joshua green about the latest news, plus his new book devils bargain steve bannon, donald trump, and the storming of the presidency. The book gives an insight into steve bannon and donald trump, who they can together to do, and really explains why things have gone off the rails in early months of the Trump Administration. Amy all that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Senate republicans narrowly pushed through a procedural vote to open debate on plans to repeal and maybe replace the Affordable Care act tuesday, but then suffered a defeat only hours later when republicans failed to muster enough votes to pass their replacement bill. First on tuesday, the senate voted 50 to 50 to open the debate, with Vice President mike pence breaking the
Certainly makes you think about it very carefully and watching the film on women and womens right is what is this reconciliation all about. And that is about an afghanistan that works with the rule of law and that supports the rights and responsibilities of all citizens, but particularly women. On the questions of reconciliation im sure they are still high on the administrations agenda but the principles remain very much the same. The second point you asked me to talk about our the elections. Hes done a wonderful job on that. Two things that are important to me. One is what is the outcome here and it is an election that is seen by most afghans as legitimate and a leader as someone they can say here is someone we can support Going Forward into second being appointed ambassador made that the United States has no favorites and has no candidates in this and the election is a matter for the people of afghanistan. They will choose the future leaders. The final point on that is a good questio
A and that action has cost us dearly. It has cost all of us dearly. And so i believe that the investments that we have planned to continue building afghanistans economy, to continue building its capacity of its people and to continue to set it on a path for its own self sustainability is a critical opportunity that now more than ever we have to recommit too. Thank you. [applause] thank you all. Were trying to pack a lot in todays we dont have much time for question and answer, but i think we have about 15 minutes where we can take some questions from the audience. We have microphones that can be handed out, if you identify yourself. I would make a plea to keep your questions or comments short so that we a time for as many people to as questions as possible. So please identify yourself. We will start there, close to the microphone. I think probably afghanistan is the only democracy where there are no Political Parties which are so crucial for any democracy. So why it didnt happen when t
On the eve of World Press Freedom Day, the Afghan Journalists Safety Committee (AJSC) in a program in Kabul said that the presence of women in the media has increased by 17% compared to las
On the eve of World Press Freedom Day, the Afghan Journalists Safety Committee (AJSC) in a program in Kabul said that the presence of women in the media has increased by 17% compared to las