Democracy Now! 2024-07-15 Monday
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🗓️ 15 July 2024
⏱️ 119 minutes
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Headlines for July 15, 2024; Long Legacy of U.S. Political Violence: RNC Begins in Milwaukee in Wake of Trump Assassination Attempt; “An America Awash in Guns”: Brady President Kris Brown on Trump Shooting & the Need for Gun Control; Mawasi Massacre: Over 90 Killed in Israeli Airstrikes on Tent Camp in Gaza “Safe Zone”; Jeff Sharlet on Trump Assassination Attempt, Authoritarian Violence & Project 2025; Voices of the Unhoused: Poor People’s Army Sets Up Encampment Near RNC to Protest GOP Policies; “The Fall of Wisconsin”: How GOP Transformed Once-Progressive State into Union-Busting “Laboratory”
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| 0:00.0 | You're going to. From the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, this is Democracy Now. |
| 0:22.1 | You want to really see something to say. This is democracy now. |
| 0:22.8 | You want to really see something that said, |
| 0:25.4 | take a look at what happened. Donald Trump was shot Saturday in an attempted assassination at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania just ahead of the Republican National |
| 0:45.3 | Convention, which begins today here in Milwaukee. |
| 0:49.1 | A bullet grazed Trump's right ear. |
| 0:52.0 | One spectator was killed, too critically injured, the gunman was |
| 0:56.5 | also shot dead. President Biden is calling for National unity. This is inevitable in American lives. |
| 1:05.0 | It's part of human nature. |
| 1:07.0 | Politics must never be a little battlefield, a God forbid, a killing field. |
| 1:13.0 | We'll speak to the nation's John Nichols here in Milwaukee, |
| 1:18.0 | then Chris Brown, the head of the gun control group Brady, |
| 1:22.0 | named after James Brady the former White House |
| 1:25.3 | Press Secretary who was left paralyzed when a gunman shot President Reagan in |
| 1:30.0 | 1981. Then to Gaza, Israeli airstrikes killed at least 90 people in a massive attack on a designated |
| 1:39.0 | safe zone in the Al-Mawasi displacement cap. |
| 1:42.7 | All that and more coming up. Welcome to Democracy Now, Democracy Now. the War and Peace Report, I'm Amy Goodman, |
| 2:02.6 | were broadcasting from Milwaukee. |
| 2:05.1 | The FBI is attempting to pin down a motive |
| 2:08.1 | after the assassination attempt against |
| 2:10.2 | former President Donald Trump Saturday. |
| 2:12.8 | The shooting took place during a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. |
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