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From New York this is Democracy Now. DeFault was the giant sword hanging over

America's head. But because of the good work of President Biden as well as

Democrats in the House and Democrats in the Senate, we are not defaulting.

This Senate is approved by partisan deal to suspend the debt ceiling, preventing

the country from defaulting for the first time in history. We'll speak to

California Congressmember Rokana about why and he and many progressive

Democrats voted against the deal. Also why he continues to call for his colleague

Senator Diane Feinstein to resign. Then we go to Atlanta where a police

SWAT team guns drawn raided the Atlanta Solidarity Fund and arrested three

people who've been raising money to bail out protesters opposed to the

construction of a massive police training facility known as COP City.

Plus the billionaire Sackler family gets legal immunity as a federal appeals

court. His role the makers of oxycontin can be shielded from prosecution for

their role in creating and fueling the deadly opioid epidemic. There is no

admission of wrongdoing and now at the second circuit ruled no individual

stay government will ever be able to sue the Sacklers in civil courts and get

...