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🗓️ 8 April 2025
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Headlines for April 08, 2025; “What About the Capitalists?”: Autoworkers in U.S., Mexico Call for Solidarity, Not Divisive Tariffs; “Detained Without Evidence”: Maryland Father Remains in El Salvador Prison After SCOTUS Ruling; “Black Americans Are Not Surprised”: Christina Greer on Trump’s Attacks on Students, DEI & History
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0:00.0 | From New York, this is Democracy Now. |
0:18.4 | Tariffs will make this country very rich. |
0:21.3 | We're rich anyway, but we're rich in a certain way. |
0:24.4 | We have $36 trillion in debt. |
0:27.9 | I want to get rid of it. |
0:29.4 | And we can do it quickly with proper deals. |
0:33.4 | China is vowing to fight to the end, |
0:37.0 | as President Trump threatens to increase tariffs on China to more than 100%. |
0:42.7 | We'll look at how auto workers in the U.S. and Mexico are responding to Trump's trade war. |
0:48.6 | Then the Supreme Court pauses a court-imposed order for the U.S. to bring home a Maryland father, |
0:56.3 | who was mistakenly flown to a supermax prison in El Salvador. |
1:00.9 | We'll speak to the family's lawyer and go to San Salvador |
1:03.9 | to look more closely at the notorious prison being used to jail immigrants sent from the United States. |
1:15.3 | Then, black Americans are not surprised. |
1:21.8 | That's the headline of a new piece in the New York Times by Fordham Professor Christina Greer. |
1:26.6 | Black people in this particular moment are not surprised by this particular administration. |
1:28.2 | What we've seen in the past, |
1:32.8 | if we reckon with the real understanding of black Americans in this country, we will understand so much of what is happening now. All that and more coming up. |
1:42.1 | Welcome to Democracy Now, Democracy Now.org, the War and Peace Report. I'm Amy Goodman. |
1:49.0 | President Donald Trump welcomed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the White House Monday, |
1:54.5 | where Trump repeated his call to permanently expel Palestinians from the Gaza Strip. |
1:59.9 | Speaking to reporters from the Oval Office |
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