Democracy Now! 2025-01-17 Friday
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🗓️ 17 January 2025
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Headlines for January 17, 2025; Gideon Levy & Mouin Rabbani on Ceasefire: “Netanyahu Will Do Everything Possible” to Kill It Later; Breaking All Records, Trump’s Inauguration Set to Bring in $250M from Billionaires & Corporations; Will Biden Grant Leonard Peltier Clemency? Indigenous Leaders Plead, “Don’t Let Him Die in Prison”
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| 0:00.0 | From New York, this is Democracy Now. |
| 0:18.8 | If this reckless deal is approved and implemented, the Jewish Power Party will give the |
| 0:25.8 | resignation letter to the Prime Minister. |
| 0:28.1 | The Jewish Power Party will not be part of the government and will withdraw from it. |
| 0:32.9 | Israel's far-right ministers threaten to resign if the Israeli cabinet approves the ceasefire deal with Hamas. |
| 0:39.0 | We'll get the latest from Ha' Arat's columnist Gidon Levy and Middle East analyst Muyn Rabani. |
| 0:45.4 | Then to President-elect Trump's billionaire inauguration with Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, and Elon Musk, all joining Trump on the dais Monday. |
| 0:55.3 | We'll speak with public citizens Craig Holman. |
| 0:57.7 | His new report, billionaires, millionaires, and lobbyists cozy up to Trump by flooding the inauguration with record-breaking donations. |
| 1:07.4 | Then, in his final days as president, Biden makes history with a record number of commutations. |
| 1:15.7 | Will he pardon indigenous leader Leonard Peltier? |
| 1:19.6 | Among those calling for his clemency is the man who prosecuted Peltier, former U.S. attorney James Reynolds. |
| 1:27.3 | President Joe Biden, I write today from a position rare for a former prosecutor to |
| 1:33.3 | beseech you to commute the sentence of a man who I helped to put behind bars. |
| 1:38.4 | Reynolds put Leonard Peltier behind bars half a century ago. Now Peltier is 80 and an ailing health. We'll speak to |
| 1:48.4 | activist Nick Tilson about Native American leaders' final push for Biden to grant Peltier |
| 1:54.6 | clemency. All that and more coming up. |
| 2:07.5 | Welcome to Democracy Now, Democracy Now.org, the War and Peace Report. I'm Amy Goodman. |
| 2:14.1 | Israel's war cabinet and government is convening to vote on the long-awaited Gaza ceasefire agreement. Two far-right Israeli cabinet ministers, finance minister Bezal al-Smotrick, |
| 2:19.7 | and security minister Etemar Ben-Gavir, voiced opposition to the deal, with Ben-Gavir threatening |
| 2:24.8 | to quit if it's passed. As Palestinians await confirmation, the deal has been secured. |
| 2:29.9 | Israel continues its deadly attacks across Gaza. Over 113 Palestinians have been killed since the |
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