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Native Americans versus big oil About 2000 Native Americans from tribes all over the country have gathered in Canon Ball, North Dakota near the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation. They're waiting for a court ruling on Friday, when a federal judge will decide if construction on an oil pipeline should be stopped for an environmental impact report. Did the Army Corps of Engineers ignore Indian rights when it approved an oil pipeline under the Missouri River? The tribes claim it endangers the water supply and that sacred burial sites have already been disturbed. In the past few days, there's been violence. A new generation is raising issues that go back to America's founding — in the midst of current debate on the nation's energy supply. NOTE: On Friday, September 9, Federal District Judge James Boasberg denied the plaintiffs' motion for a preliminary injunction.
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What happens when America retreats from the world? Is President Trump taking his "America First" agenda to extremes, withdrawing the country from the international stage on trade and climate change, distancing America from its traditional allies across the Atlantic and even threatening to physically isolate the country through the building of a wall along its southern border? León Krauze guest hosts.
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Ex-FBI Director Comey tells his side of the story Today, former FBI Director James Comey came close to calling the President who fired him a liar. The White House denied the claim and called it insulting, but Republican Senators did not challenge Comey’s truthfulness. Many questions remain: did the President try to obstruct a federal investigation? Later, we’ll go behind the “velvet rope” for a look at 5-Star health care for the richest Americans.
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President Trump: US to withdraw from the Paris Climate Accord Trump says he was elected to serve Pittsburgh, not Paris.
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Human Rights in the era of Donald Trump President Trump’s UN Ambassador, Nikki Haley, said today the US might pull out of the United Nations’ Human Rights Council. Serious violators of human rights are members of the Council itself–and a US resignation could make things worse. Later on today’s show, now that he’s into his second term, comedian turned US Senator Al Franken is telling jokes again.