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I think you have to do it because they're very dishonest.

You need a fair press and the press says, no, I see others.

I have a few others that I'm doing.

As an example, we're bringing, I'm doing this not because I want to.

I'm doing this because I feel I have an obligation.

As a constitutional crisis looms in Washington, we look at President Trump's escalating war

on the press as he ups his lawsuit against CBS to $20 billion.

We'll speak to Jameel Jaffer, the head of the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University.

Then to Guantanamo, the Center for Constitutional Rights,

has preemptively blocked the Trump administration from sending three detained Venezuelan

migrants to the U.S. Navy base in Cuba. Then the acclaimed Palestinian author and poet,

Mohamed al-Kurd. His new book is out today, Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal.

People need to understand that the root cause of all of the violence in Palestine is not

inexplainable or complicated.

It's simply stated Zionism, an ethno--national supremacist ideology of expansion and discrimination

and dispossession, and it must be opposed.

All that and more coming up.

Welcome to Democracy Now.

Democracy Now.org, The War and Peace Report.

I'm Amy Goodman.

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