From New York, this is Democracy Now.

Let's say Social Security didn't send out their checks this month.

My mother-in-law, who's 94, she wouldn't call and complain.

She just wouldn't.

She thinks something got messed up, and she'll get it next month.

A fraudster always makes the loudest noise screaming and yelling and complaining.

Trump's billionaire Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnik sparks outrage after suggesting

only fraudsters would complain if social security checks don't go out on time.

As protests over field office closures are taking place nationwide, Trump's pick to head

the agency was grilled Tuesday during his Senate confirmation hearing. We'll get response.

Then Democratic lawmakers demand defense secretary

Pete Hegsech, the national security advisor Michael Waltz, resigned after they discussed plans

to bomb Yemen on an insecure signal group chat. We'll get response from journalist Safa al-Ahmat.

She's been reporting on Yemen for decades.

As everybody's talking now about the potential security leaks through the signal chat groups,

I think we should also focus, more importantly, on the civilian casualties, as we are now

commemorating the 10-year anniversary of the war that's been ongoing in Yemen.

And mass protests continue in Turkey over the arrest and jelling of the mayor of Istanbul, seen as the biggest political rival of Turkey's authoritarian president.

More than 1,400 protests have been protesters have been arrested in the past week.

By keeping him in prison for four days, sending him to court while Turkey was going to the polls for him

and sending him to prison while Turkey was electing him, Erdogan defied not only him, but millions

and attempted to stage a coup.

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