Democracy Now! 2025-01-23 Thursday
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🗓️ 23 January 2025
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Headlines for January 23, 2025; “Attack on Science”: Trump’s Exit from WHO Could Make Next Pandemic More Likely, More Deadly; “A Terrifying Moment”: Son Who Tipped Off FBI Fears for His Life After His Father Receives Jan. 6 Pardon; Ex-FBI Agent: Trump’s Jan. 6 Pardons Send Dangerous Message Encouraging More Far-Right Violence; Israel Continues Deadly Attack on Jenin; Trump Lifts Sanctions on Extremist West Bank Settlers
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| 0:00.0 | From New York, this is Democracy Now. |
| 0:18.1 | My name is Jackson Reffitt, and I reported the authorities on my dad's, you know, |
| 0:23.0 | far-right behavior leading up on January 6th, and even though his violent actions were absolutely |
| 0:30.5 | destroyed my family, now he's pardoned, and I don't know what I'm going to do. I'm in hiding. |
| 0:40.2 | As President Trump defends his sweeping pardons for the January 6th insurrectionists, |
| 0:46.8 | we'll speak with a young man who fears for his life after Trump pardoned his father, |
| 0:52.1 | who've been sentenced to over seven years in prison. |
| 0:56.2 | We'll also look at Trump's decision to withdraw the U.S. from the World Health Organization |
| 1:01.2 | while freezing communications by many federal health agencies and canceling upcoming meetings |
| 1:08.2 | of the National Institutes of Health and other agencies. |
| 1:12.8 | Then to the Occupy Territories, while ceasefires largely holding in Gaza, |
| 1:17.7 | Israel's intensifying attacks on the West Bank. |
| 1:20.8 | The Israeli military has killed at least 13 people in Janine in recent days, |
| 1:24.5 | while Israeli settlers carried a new wave of attacks. |
| 1:30.0 | What they failed to achieve in Gaza, they are trying to make up for here in Janine. |
| 1:34.5 | Not only in Janine, Janine is the center of resistance in fighting. |
| 1:39.1 | If they finish the resistance in Janine, they will finish it in all of the West Bank. |
| 1:43.6 | All that and more coming up. |
| 1:50.5 | Welcome to Democracy Now, Democracy Now.org, the War and Peace Report. I'm Amy Goodman. |
| 1:56.6 | President Trump's expanded his crackdown on diversity, equity, and inclusion, DEI, revoking a 60-year-old |
| 2:04.2 | executive order signed by then-president Lyndon B. Johnson banning hiring discrimination by federal |
| 2:10.9 | contractors. On Wednesday, the Trump administration also ordered federal employees to report on their colleagues |
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