Democracy Now! 2023-06-21 Wednesday
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🗓️ 21 June 2023
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Headlines for June 21, 2023; NY Dems Pass Medical Debt Relief as Progressives Push to Expand Healthcare to Undocumented Residents; Minnesota Miracle: Democrats Use Supermajority to Pass Abortion, Voting, Labor, Tenant Reforms & More; DOJ Report Exposes Minneapolis Police Civil Rights Violations Amid Call for Community Role in Reforms; Hunter Biden: President’s Son Takes Plea Deal on Tax & Gun Charges, But Legal Trouble May Not Be Over
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| 0:00.0 | From New York, this is Democracy Now. |
| 0:27.6 | The immigrant advocates are rallying in New York State capital calling on the Democratic |
| 0:32.4 | governor and legislative democratic supermajorities to expand health care coverage for people |
| 0:38.8 | regardless of their immigration status after passing a bill to protect New Yorkers with medical |
| 0:44.9 | debt. We'll speak with New York State Assembly Member Jessica González Rojas, who says the |
| 0:50.3 | assembly can make history by passing health coverage for all. |
| 0:55.0 | Welcome to the Minnesota Miracle. As the state's democratic supermajority and governor, |
| 0:59.6 | just enacted sweeping progressive reforms on abortion rights protections for transgender |
| 1:04.9 | people, drivers licenses for undocumented residents in gun control, will get an update. |
| 1:10.6 | And also look at the Justice Department's new report on how Minneapolis police disproportionately |
| 1:16.5 | targeted black and native American people with excessive and unlawful use of force. |
| 1:22.1 | The patterns and practices we observed made what happened to George Floyd possible. As |
| 1:28.8 | one city leader told us quote, these systemic issues didn't just occur on May 25, 2020. There |
| 1:37.1 | were instances like that that were being reported by the community long before that. |
| 1:43.2 | And as the president's son Hunter Biden reaches a deal with federal prosecutors, we speak with |
| 1:47.3 | the intercepts Ken Clippenstein about his piece, What does the FBI have on Hunter and Joe |
| 1:53.6 | Biden? |
| 1:54.6 | In a really extraordinary move, Congress has threatened to hold the FBI director in contempt |
| 1:58.8 | of Congress unless he produces records alleging corruption by Hunter Biden, President Biden's |
| 2:04.8 | son, and then Vice President Joe Biden. But what we know about the documents now shows |
| 2:10.0 | that they reveal things a bit different than how Congress has ought to portray it. |
| 2:15.0 | All that and more coming out. |
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