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Democracy Now! 2025-01-08 Wednesday

Democracy Now! Audio

Democracy Now!

News, Daily News

4.75.8K Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Headlines for January 08, 2025; “Outrageous”: Rep. Jim McGovern Slams Trump’s Rhetoric on Taking Panama, Greenland & Canada; Will Biden Exonerate Ethel Rosenberg Posthumously? Declassified Docs Show FBI Knew She Was Innocent; Will Biden Pardon Steven Donziger, Who Faced Retaliation for Suing Chevron over Oil Spill in Amazon?; With Trudeau Out & Conservatives Set to Win, Canada Needs a Real Resistance to Trump: Avi Lewis; 11 Men Freed After 20+ Years of “Extreme Deprivation.” Will Biden Close Guantánamo for Good?

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0:00.0

From New York, this is Democracy Now.

0:18.2

And they're not back by the time I get into office, all hell will break out in the Middle

0:23.3

East.

0:23.9

And it will not be good for Hamas, and it will not be good, frankly, for anyone.

0:29.3

As Trump holds a news conference at Mar-a-Lago for more than an hour, we'll get response

0:36.0

from Massachusetts Democratic Congressmember Jim McGovern.

0:40.3

He's also calling for President Biden to posthumously exonerate Ethel Rosenberg, who along with her

0:46.4

husband, Julius Rosenberg, was executed for sharing nuclear secrets with the Soviet Union. We'll also

0:53.0

speak with one of the Rosenberg's son, Robert Mirapult,

0:56.9

who's citing a newly released classified document showing the National Security Agency

1:02.6

knew Ethel Rosenberg was not a spy and that the government executed her anyway.

1:08.7

We'll also speak with McGovern about calls for Biden to

1:12.9

pardon human rights lawyer Stephen Donziger. Then after nearly a decade in power, the Canadian

1:19.0

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is stepping down.

1:21.9

I intend to resign as party leader, as prime minister, after the party selects its next leader through a

1:32.0

robust, nationwide, competitive process.

1:36.3

We'll speak with longtime Canadian activist Avi Lewis, who's now running for office in Vancouver.

1:43.1

And after more than 20 years of being imprisoned without charge

1:45.8

under the so-called war on terror,

1:47.4

the Pentagon's transferred 11 men from Yemen out of Guantanamo to Oman to restyat their lives.

1:54.0

We'll speak with two lawyers whose clients are among those released this week.

1:58.2

All that and more coming up.

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