Democracy Now! 2024-12-23 Monday
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🗓️ 23 December 2024
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Headlines for December 23, 2024; Elon Musk’s Opposition to Gov’t Spending Bill a “Smokescreen” for His Business Interests: Robert Kuttner; Landmark Rape Case of Gisèle Pelicot: As Ex-Husband & 50 Men Are Sentenced, Will French Laws Change?; “Christ Is Still in the Rubble”: Bethlehem Rev. Isaac Calls on U.S. to Stop Funding Gaza Genocide
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| 0:00.0 | From New York, this is Democracy Now. |
| 0:18.2 | President Trump has seated the presidency. Elon Musk. No, no, that's not happening. |
| 0:29.0 | The Republican-led Congress rejects a last-minute demand for a debt limit suspension from |
| 0:36.2 | President-elect Donald Trump and his billionaire advisor |
| 0:39.7 | Elon Musk, who many are calling President Musk. |
| 0:43.5 | We'll speak with the American prospect editor Robert Cutner. |
| 0:47.6 | He says Musk outmaneuvered Trump. |
| 0:50.8 | Then, merci, Giselle. |
| 0:52.4 | That was the nationwide |
| 0:54.2 | response in France to |
| 0:56.1 | Giselle Pelicoe, the |
| 0:57.9 | 72-year-old French woman |
| 0:59.8 | whose landmark rape case |
| 1:01.9 | galvanized France. |
| 1:04.2 | On Thursday, her husband |
| 1:05.8 | and 50 other men were |
| 1:07.6 | sentenced for raping her |
| 1:09.3 | for more than a decade. |
| 1:11.7 | She insisted on dropping her anonymity. |
| 1:18.6 | I'm thinking about the victims who aren't recognized and whose stories often remain in the shadows. |
| 1:24.7 | I want you to know we share the same struggle. |
| 1:31.3 | We'll speak with the French journalist Diane the Vignamant. She covered the Avignon trial and wrote about finding sisterhood at France's mass rape trial. |
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