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Democracy Now! 2023-10-02 Monday

Democracy Now! Audio

Democracy Now!

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4.75.8K Ratings

🗓️ 2 October 2023

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Headlines for October 02, 2023; Far-Right Republicans Look to Oust Speaker McCarthy After He Averts Government Shutdown; Gavin Newsom Taps Laphonza Butler to Fill Sen. Feinstein’s Seat, Rejecting Calls to Pick Barbara Lee; Survived & Punished: Meet Tracy McCarter, a Nurse Jailed, Then Cleared, for Stabbing Abusive Husband

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0:00.0

Hi, I'm Amy Goodman, host of Democracy Now, the climate crisis, the curtailment of reproductive

0:06.8

rights, authoritarianism. These threats aren't looming. They're here now. If you believe

0:13.1

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gift of $5, $10, or even $20. Go to democracynow.org to make your donation right away. Oh, and your

0:25.7

gift will be matched dollar for dollar by a generous donor. Thank you so much.

0:46.6

From New York, this is Democracy Now. Just moments ago on the House floor,

0:53.5

we passed by overwhelming numbers the ability to keep government open for the next six weeks.

0:59.5

The House and Senate voted Saturday to keep funding the federal government for 45 days,

1:05.1

but the House is in a state of turmoil as far right lawmakers threatened to

1:09.9

oust House Speaker Kevin McCarthy for working with Democrats to pass the spending bill.

1:15.4

We'll get the latest from Capitol Hill and look at the legacy of California Senator Diane

1:21.0

Feinstein, who died at the age of 90 last week. She was the longest serving woman to ever serve in

1:28.5

the Senate. Then October is National Domestic Violence Awareness and Prevention Month.

1:35.7

We'll look at the remarkable story of a domestic violence survivor, Tracy McCarter.

1:41.6

She's a nurse and grandmother who is jailed after her husband died of a stab wound when she defended

1:47.8

herself during an altercation. Her imprisonment sparked outrage across the country.

1:54.7

I stand with Tracy. I stand with Tracy. I stand with Tracy. I stand with Tracy. I stand with Tracy.

2:02.8

I stand with my mom. Today, Tracy McCarter joins us for her first television

2:09.2

interview since her murder charge was dismissed almost a year ago. All that and more coming up.

2:21.6

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

2:27.6

The U.S. Congress narrowly averted a government shutdown Saturday just hours before a midnight

2:33.2

deadline and an unexpected reversal. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy agreed to a plan with

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