Democracy Now! 2024-11-13 Wednesday
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🗓️ 13 November 2024
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Headlines for November 13, 2024; ACLU Attorney Lee Gelernt on How Rights Groups Are Preparing to Fight Trump’s Mass Deportations; Immigrant Activist to Biden: Close Deportation Cases Now to Take a Weapon Away from Trump; Trump Taps Fossil Fuel Ally Lee Zeldin to Head EPA, Push “Anti-Environmental Agenda”; Head of U.N. Climate Summit in Azerbaijan Caught on Tape Pushing Oil & Gas Deals
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| 0:00.0 | From New York, this is Democracy Now. |
| 0:17.5 | And on day one, I will launch the largest deportation program of criminals in American history. |
| 0:24.9 | We're going to get them out. |
| 0:25.9 | We have to. |
| 0:26.9 | I will invoke the Alien Enemies Act of 1798. |
| 0:31.4 | You know, 1798, that's when they ran the country a little tougher than we run it today. |
| 0:36.9 | As Donald Trump threatens to invoke the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, |
| 0:42.3 | we'll look at how immigrant rights lawyers are preparing to challenge Trump's plans to close the border and deport millions. |
| 0:51.2 | We'll speak to Legal Alert of the ACLU. |
| 0:54.9 | Then to Arizona, a state won by Donald Trump, |
| 0:58.4 | but where a Democrat, Ruben Gallego, won a heated Senate race. |
| 1:03.0 | Arizona voters approved a constitutional amendment guaranteeing abortion access |
| 1:07.4 | while also backing a harsh anti-immigrant ballot initiative. |
| 1:11.6 | Then we'll look at Trump's pick to head the EPA, |
| 1:14.6 | former New York Congressman Lee Zeldin, |
| 1:17.6 | who has a long record of opposing environmental regulations. |
| 1:21.6 | Finally, the head of the UN Climate Summit in the Petro State of Azerbaijan |
| 1:26.6 | is caught on tape promoting new fossil |
| 1:30.0 | fuel deals. |
| 1:31.0 | Well, definitely in a couple of years, I think the production levels will start declining, |
| 1:37.8 | not now, not next year. |
| 1:40.5 | And even with net zero, we will have a certain amount of oil and natural gas being produced, perhaps forever. |
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