Democracy Now! 2025-01-28 Tuesday
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🗓️ 28 January 2025
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Headlines for January 28, 2025; As ICE Conducts Made-for-TV Raids, Cities from Chicago to Newark Resist Trump’s Immigration Crackdown; “War of Plunder”: How Rwanda Has Fueled War in DRC as Western Countries Look Away; Gold, Guns & Genocide: How the UAE Profits from RSF War Crimes in Sudan; Genocide Denial in Holocaust Studies: Scholar Raz Segal on Gaza & 80 Years After Auschwitz Liberation
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| 0:00.0 | From New York, this is Democracy Now. |
| 0:17.6 | It's a slippery slope when we think it's okay to suspend the Constitution of the United States in order to make a political point or statement. |
| 0:27.9 | As the Trump administration ramps up immigration raids across the country, cities are pushing back. |
| 0:35.2 | We'll go to Newark, New Jersey, and Chicago. |
| 0:38.3 | Then to the Congo, where Rwandan back, M23 fighters have entered the eastern Congolese city of Goma. |
| 0:45.3 | The people will not cede to this injustice. |
| 0:49.6 | The Congolese people will not see to this injustice. |
| 0:52.8 | We will continue to defend our rights, |
| 0:54.7 | protect our territory, and demand respect and sovereignty. History will judge the world's response |
| 1:00.5 | to this call. We'll also look at the Civil War in Sudan, where a drone struck a hospital |
| 1:06.0 | Friday killing at least 70 people. And finally, Holocaust survivors mark 80 years since the liberation of Auschwitz. |
| 1:14.3 | We'll speak to the Israeli-American Holocaust scholar Raz Siegel about Gaza and his latest article genocide denial in Holocaust studies. |
| 1:24.5 | All that and more coming up. |
| 1:30.4 | Welcome to Democracy Now, Democracy Now.org, the Warren Peace Report. I'm Amy Goodman. |
| 1:36.0 | The Justice Department Monday fired over a dozen officials who work with special counsel, |
| 1:41.9 | Jack Smith, on now dismissed criminal investigations |
| 1:44.4 | into Donald Trump. Acting Attorney General James McKenry said they could not be trusted |
| 1:49.8 | to faithfully implement Trump's agenda. Meanwhile, Ed Martin, the interim Trump-appointed |
| 1:56.3 | U.S. attorney in Washington, D.C., launched investigation into prosecutors who brought |
| 2:00.5 | obstruction charges against some 250, January 6th, D.C., launched investigation into prosecutors who brought obstruction charges |
| 2:01.5 | against some 250 January 6th Capitol rioters. Those charges ended up being tossed after a Supreme |
| 2:08.6 | Court ruling last year. In related news, the Justice Department has removed a database from its |
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