appalled. when we see what's happening with the kids that literally reminds me of katrina, and it niouldn't be hap in this country, it's abhorrent. but with katrina, we've seen a big lift in the president's approval rating. there's slight decline in the president's approval lating last week. to me the tribal warfare h become so rigid it's almost as if nothing can movye anthing. while we see images which should be horrific of anybody of any political persuasion, it doesn't seem to move politics. i think that's right. the place where i want to push i this -- and it's not about the politics, b's about the false choice we are being offered. what the trump adminion said is we have two choices, one is we can treat families c unimaginabuelly by separating them from their children or detaining the whole familynor as long as they t to, or we cannot enforce our laws. both to have the fir options are illegal. courts ruled against the indefinite detention of the family and separating children from the family, at ths point. they're doing something we know is not allowed by the courts. they're

blocks to help rebuild a narrow peninsula damaged by hurricane katrina. since the nearly one-mile of artificial reef s installed in 2010, the shore has grown dramatically, creating a vrant ecosystem. >> so, it's a very healthy environment. we have documented that oysters lon settle here. and also, a of birds will come over to hang out here, as well. and also, there's a lot of fish that come to these blocks because they find a structure. so, all in all, combining marshes with pyramids is a very effective way to create living shorelines. >> sreenivasan: and there's a lot of research behind this. before these concrete pyramids were deployed in the bay, they e were tested here, at a wol at the nearby university of south alabama. engineers tested scale models of the sign. here, they can adjust the size and frequency the waves to simulate real-world conditions. bret webb is a pro coastal engineering and has shnsulted on dozens of living elines on the gulf coast. >> testing allowed us to say, trmber one, that the original sizeture would not really work well for that site, that they were goi

outrage. we will get response from katrina vanden heuvel and speak with sam husseini, who was credential to cover the summit for the nation. before monday's news conference, he was dragged out while holding a piece of paper that read "nuclear weapon ban treaty." >> oh, my god. for what? i am telling you what i'm dog. i am being totally open. amy: then we spend the rest of the hour with boots riley, director of the new film "sorry to bother you." >> action. an aurdist dark comedy ipipired by the world of telemarketing. >> that is intriguing. amy: all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. president trump is meeting with congressional lawmakers on capitol hill today as he faces bipartisan crititicism over r hs decision to lash out at his own intelligence agencies over the investigation of alleged russian interference in the 2016 election, while speaking at a joint news conference with russian president vladimir putin following their summit in helsinki. have trump: i do feel we both made some steaks. is a

military spending to 4%, making clear where he wants that money to go. we will speak with katrina vanden heuvel from the nation magazine. looks the nation has released --, ground for secure elections for international security and the belief when a 2-d escalate tensions with russia and that there is a false choice between having secure elections and that relationship. nucuclear a catastrophe, elections are going to be an a afterthought. amy: masass protest are expected to greet trump as he arrives for his first visit to britain as president. protesters will float a 20 foot long giant baby trump blimp outside parliament that will ngry the president as an orange baby clututching a cell phone ready to tweet. repsents a hosof issu. it isn't just about mocking him. it is about drawingttention that his politics are havining a real i impact on real lives, not just in the u.s.s., but all over the world. amy: we will speak witith sheila menon, one of the b blimp organizers, and with colin -- guardian columnist george monbiot. all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.o

since 1983 but after hurricane katrina, the exhibit was moved out and put into storage until basically now. it's slowly but surely starting to -- we slowly but surely started taking the instruments out of the archive and taking it here. the exhibit behind me. this mural, slowly but surely it actually is a jazz museum. they turned the entire second floor and to an entire history of jazz exhibit. it's kind of collectively improvised dance music, influenced by blues, and ragtime, and other things that had come across the city. >> jazz starts new orleans for a lot of different reasons. one is that new orleans was a huge port place, the various cultures that contributed to jazz they came here through the port with people delivering goods either from europe or from the caribbean or you know, from the northern portions of mississippi. there was a large presence of enslaved africans here and yet, there wasn't laws -- the laws governing how you treated them were more lenient than any other place in the country. i'm not saying that was easy to be a slave here, no, it was as difficult a