Democracy Now! 2023-09-25 Monday
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🗓️ 25 September 2023
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Headlines for September 25, 2023; Striking Hollywood Writers Reach Tentative Deal with Studios After 146 Days on Picket Line; Clarence Thomas & the Koch Network: ProPublica Reveals SCOTUS Justice Attended Fundraising Events; Sen. Bob Menendez Indicted in Case Revealing How Egypt Tried to Keep U.S. Military Aid Flowing
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Amy Goodman, host of Democracy Now, the climate crisis, the curtailment of reproductive |
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| 0:46.7 | From New York, this is Democracy Now. This has been a long and incredible hall and |
| 0:55.0 | may this deal be done. We have worked hard. The feet of our feet on the streets and I think it's |
| 1:04.0 | really set the tone for other workers in America and other unions. After 146 days on strike, |
| 1:11.3 | a tentative deal has been reached between writers and the Hollywood studios. The writer's guild |
| 1:16.4 | of America's described the new deal as exceptional. We'll get the latest and get an update on auto workers |
| 1:23.3 | expanding their strike against the big three. Then Supreme Court Justice Clark's Thomas is facing |
| 1:28.9 | new scrutiny. After pro-publica revealed he secretly participated in at least two donor fund |
| 1:35.9 | raising events organized by a right-wing network founded by that Koch brothers. The Koch political |
| 1:42.7 | network has brought multiple cases to the Supreme Court, including one of the most closely watched |
| 1:47.5 | of the upcoming term. And Justice Thomas's appearance at these donor events was not previously |
| 1:54.3 | disclosed. And New Jersey Democratic Senator Robert Menendez has been indicted along with his |
| 1:59.6 | wife for allegedly accepting large bribes to benefit the Egyptian government. Special agents with |
| 2:06.3 | the FBI executed search warrants on the residents in safe deposit box of Senator Menendez and Nadine |
| 2:12.6 | Menendez and New Jersey. When they got there, they discovered approximately $500,000 of cash |
| 2:19.8 | stuffed into envelopes and closets. Some of the cash was stuffed in the Senator's jacket pockets. |
| 2:26.1 | We'll go to Cairo and New Jersey for the latest. All that and more coming out. |
| 2:31.9 | Welcome to Democracy Now, democracynow.org, the War and Peace report. I'm Amy Goodman. New Jersey |
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