liz: we take it up with katrina pearson. we should note laguardia airport is in cortez's district. what is your reaction. reporter: someone forget to tell miss cortez it is time to shift gears from being an activist to a politician. great to push these ideas and notions. but now it time for her to put forward actual solutions, one thing she really complaining about with separation of family, trump administration policies. it is not the trump administration policies. it is everyone that she supported prior to the last elect who are in was on the that -- in wa office that created the laws, this pride full ignorance makes her the perfect choice to lead the democrat party as tom perez likes to promote her, they share similar ideas with regards to raising taxes and socialism and everything she talked about. democrats voted present for abolishes i.c.e. liz: separating of family was the zero tolerance policy, white house trying to reunite the families, still going on. a tough story. i want to get to this former democrat senator, now independent, joe lieberman, criticizing alexandria ocasi

it was supposed to be trumps katrina, remember that? it was a full month of angry protest, hysterical columns. tricking media personalities. all designed to turn voters agai >> tucker: good evening, and welcome to tucker carlson. it was supposed to be trumps katrina, remember that? it was a full month of angry protest, hysterical columnists, and tricking media personalities. all designed to turn voters against the president, decisively and permanently. immigration policies coming out of the white house made trump look like hitler. they told you again and again on the other channels. it was a month of nonstop drama. nstio d progressive mobs threatening administrations in public. what was the effect of all this, politically? we now have a conclusive answer to that.

amy: katrina vanden heuvel, thank you for being with us. when we come back, a man who critiques every level of the state. and their thoughts and not just thekatrina vanden heuvel is edir and publisher of the nation.and. she's also a co-signer of the magazine's open letter: "common ground: for secure elections and true national security." the letter is also signed by daniel ellsbsberg, gloria stein, noam chomsky, governor bill richardson, reverend dr. william barber and michael moore, among others. we will link to it at democracynow.org. when we comeme back, boots rile. stay with us. ♪ [music break] amy: "pimps" performed by the coup and produced by boots riley. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman with juan gonzalez. we spend the rest of the hour with boots riley, director of "sorry to bother you," the dystopian social satire that follows one oakland man's rise to the upper echelons of an evil telemarketing company, only to discover a secret that threatens all of humankind. here is the crical

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.org, the war and peace report. i'm

members and nato has come to our aid on a number of occasions to include after 9/11, but after hurricane katrina when they coordinated elements of a rescue mission. all of that is really pennies on the dollar when you think about nato's core mission and what nato does for us. it is about deterrence and ensuring there is not a colossal world war initiatied by russia that would draw in the united states. if that were to pass, it would be trillions of dollars and the u.s. investment in nato because of that is a really smart economical idea. >> i go back to the folks that have our back. you have the president's meeting at the nato summit and the president's meeting with the currently embattled pm of the uk, teresa may. how do you react as a veteran of pentagon and cia, to hear him say the easiest part of his trip is likely to be his time with vladimir putin? >> it's unbelievable. if you think of the operational activity under way at this hour with many of the service members and intelligence and diplomats serving in many corners of the world and many under fire in the dark, difficult places of the w

hurrican katrina caused a level of human suffering not seen in this countryn many years. almost 2000 people died after that hureicane. han one million people were displaced from new orleans and surroundingea jackie bensen caught up with a girl who was 12 when the storm hit andas built a new life for herself right here in the d.c. area. >> i'm speaking to you from the city of new orleans. >> reporter: just 12 years old, she sat n mt to herher in a relative's apartment in northeast d.c. there was a look d ofed shock on her face as she watched then president george bush address the nation about annihilationat as hurricane katrina. >> i think it's nice that he's getting everything together now. people really need it. >> reporter: we met her days after she swam for her life out of t flooded eighth ward neighborhood of new orleans with her mother and grandmother on he back because they could not swim. >> i rem nber that. i'er forget that. >> reporter: 13 years later her bright smile is much more ready now. she has become an accomplished young woman. she continues to swim forwar