Democracy Now! 2025-02-10 Monday
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🗓️ 10 February 2025
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Headlines for February 10, 2025; Constitutional Crisis: Who Is Musk’s ”DOGE Army,” Gutting Gov’t Agencies as Courts Question Legality?; In Bid to Help White Landowners, Trump Cuts Off Aid to South Africa, Putting Millions of Lives at Risk; “The PayPal Mafia”: Meet the South African Oligarchs Surrounding Trump, from Elon Musk to Peter Thiel; Mustafa Barghouti on Trump, Ethnic Cleansing & Israel “Moving the War” from Gaza to the West Bank
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| 0:00.0 | From New York, this is Democracy Now. |
| 0:18.2 | I'm very proud of the job that this group of young people, generally young people, |
| 0:22.6 | but very smart people they're doing. |
| 0:24.6 | They're doing it at my insistence. |
| 0:26.6 | It would be a lot easier not to do it, but we have to take some of these things apart to find |
| 0:32.6 | the corruption. |
| 0:33.6 | We found tremendous corruption. |
| 0:34.6 | Legal experts are warning of a constitutional crisis as the Trump administration hints |
| 0:39.0 | it may ignore a federal judge's ruling, temporarily blocking Elon Musk and his Doge |
| 0:44.7 | associates from accessing the Treasury Department's payment systems and American sensitive data. |
| 0:52.7 | Over the weekend, Musk called for the judge to be impeached. |
| 0:55.4 | Vice President Vance questioned the judge's authority. We'll look at Doge's young, so-called |
| 1:00.1 | engineers who are playing a key role in Musk's overhaul of federal agencies. We'll speak with |
| 1:05.9 | Wired reporter Victoria Elliott, who's broken major stories on Musk and the young men who comprise his Doge |
| 1:11.9 | army. |
| 1:12.9 | Meanwhile, the South African-born billionaire, Elon Musk, is claiming white South Africans have |
| 1:18.4 | been victims of racist ownership laws and accused the post-apartheid government of anti-white |
| 1:23.5 | racism, pushing the Trump administration to cut off all aid Friday until further notice |
| 1:30.3 | to South Africa. |
| 1:31.9 | This comes after Musk's father helped arrange a call with the South African president to oppose |
| 1:37.5 | the land reform law. |
| 1:39.5 | I can only imagine that Elon would have said, look, we want to help you, but you have to quit this, |
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