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One of his aides who was there at the meeting then said to me, Rudy doesn't talk about pardons. You have to talk to me.

And he's going to ask you for $2 million. And I laughed. And I said, I don't have $2 million. I said, are you out of your mind?

The Justice Department is facing calls to investigate Donald Trump's attorney, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, for allegedly plotting to sell presidential pardons for $2 million and split the money with Trump.

The allegations part of an explosive lawsuit filed by a former associate who says she was sexually assaulted and harassed by Giuliani.

We'll speak to CIA whistleblower John Karyaku, who was imprisoned after exposing the U.S. torture program.

He says an aide to Giuliani told him a pardon would cost him $2 million.

Then, a human rights panel is calling on the United States to finally release a boost of Ida, who was repeatedly tortured at CIA black sites in Guantanamo.

He's locked up in Guantanamo without charges, not because he did anything wrong, but in fact because he didn't do anything wrong.

It's the CIA who wrongly tortured him, and when they found out they were wrong, they're covering it up by detaining him in Cunicado forever.

We'll speak with one of Abu Zubayda's lawyers and look at Abu Zubayda's shocking illustrations that show torture techniques used on him, including waterboarding, sleep deprivation, force feeding and threats of rape.

Then, the CEO of the company behind chat GPT warns Congress about the dangers of artificial intelligence.

I think if this technology goes wrong, it can go quite wrong, and we want to be vocal about that. We want to work with the government to prevent that from happening.

All that and more coming up.

Welcome to Democracy Now, Democracy Now.org, the Warn Peace Report. I'm Amy Goodman.

The United Nations is warning the next five years are likely to be the warmest on record with far reaching repercussions for health, food, security, water management and the environment.

The UN's World Meteorological Organization said Wednesday, heat trapping greenhouse gases and a naturally occurring El Nino event will combine to make it 98% certain that at least one of the next five years will top 2016 as the hottest year on record.

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