BONUS: Naomi Klein on Fighting Trump’s Tin Pot Coup; Peace Activists Face Federal Prison

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🗓️ 18 November 2020

⏱️ 43 minutes

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The Intercept’s Senior Correspondent Naomi Klein argues why Democrats should forcefully defend the integrity of votes and condemn coup-plotting for what it is, and stop from blowing a mandate they’ve won Associate Producer Elise Swain follows the sentencing hearings for peace activists, known as Kings Bay Plowshares 7, who face federal prison for nonviolent protest. Associate Producer Elise Swain follows the sentencing hearings for three of the Kings Bay Plowshares Seven peace activists. Despite a lethal pandemic ravaging prison populations, Carmen Trotta and Martha Hennessy are among those due to report to prison within the next few months for their nonviolent protest against nuclear weapons.

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0:00.0	This is intercepted.
0:30.0	Welcome to Intercepted. I'm Laura Flynn, one of the producers. We'll be back with Jeremy
0:39.8	and a regular show soon. For now, the producers bring you this special bonus episode.
0:46.4	The Fox News decision desk can now project that former Vice President Joe Biden will win
0:52.0	Pennsylvania and Nevada putting him over the 270 electoral votes he needs to become the 46th president
1:00.1	of the United States. Two weeks have passed since the election and Donald Trump has yet to concede.
1:06.6	States are in the process of certifying results projected to give Joe Biden the electoral votes to win.
1:12.6	Biden also leads a popular vote by more than 5 million at this point.
1:16.3	As Trump wages failing legal challenges and a disinformation campaign, the coronavirus is again
1:23.8	ravaging the country. In a span of only six days, the number of recorded COVID-19 cases jumped
1:31.7	from 10 to 11 million. Nearly a quarter of a million Americans have died from this disease.
1:39.9	The intercepts senior correspondent Naomi Klein outlines the multiple crises facing us and the
1:46.0	urgent response needed. I'm Naomi Klein, senior correspondent for the intercept.
1:53.4	There are tens of millions of unsolicited ballots without any verification measures.
1:57.9	Well, we're interrupting this because what the President of the United States is saying in
2:03.4	large part is absolutely untrue. He began and we're not going to allow it to keep going because
2:12.5	it's not true. Yeah, the President coming out and basically saying that he believes the election
2:18.6	has been stolen. He didn't take any questions, Brett. At this point, it would be wrong for him to
2:21.9	concede. There is strong evidence that this was an election that in at least three or four states
2:28.3	and possibly ten, they were stolen. Democrats, they just want to try and block any and all audit
2:34.8	of what are now growing examples and frankly, affidavits of ballot irregularities and outright
2:43.2	illegality. We don't know how many votes were stolen on Tuesday night. We don't know anything
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