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🗓️ 15 April 2025
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Headlines for April 15, 2025; Liberation Seder: Hundreds of Jewish Protesters Demand Release of Foreign Students Abducted by ICE; Trump Weighs Expelling U.S. Citizens as Salvadoran Pres. Says He Won’t Return Wrongfully Removed Man; Cover-Up in Ecuador? Disputed Presidential Election Rocked by New Allegation from 2023 Assassination; “The Dark Money Game”: Director Alex Gibney on How Citizens United Ushered in “Legalized Corruption”
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0:00.0 | From New York, this is Democracy Now. |
0:18.0 | I've always thought of Passover as a celebration of liberation. |
0:23.4 | And liberation can never be just the Jews |
0:25.8 | because there's nothing free about being by yourself |
0:29.6 | in some sort of country in battle. |
0:31.9 | The only way to fight for liberation is to fight for everybody. |
0:36.0 | And in this case, the Palestinians. |
0:37.4 | On the third evening of the Jewish holiday of Passover, Jewish Voice for Peace holds a protest Seder outside the New York immigration offices after ICE sees another Palestinian Columbia University student with a green card. |
0:58.9 | Meanwhile, President Trump met with Salvadoran President Naibu Kelle, |
1:03.8 | as Trump defies the Supreme Court order to return a Maryland resident wrongly deported to El Salvador. |
1:12.2 | Mr. Russ, we said that if the Supreme Court said someone who did to be returned, |
1:15.5 | that you would abide by that. He said that on Air Force One just a few days ago. |
1:18.8 | How long do we have to answer this question from you? |
1:21.6 | Why don't you just say, isn't it wonderful that we're keeping criminals out of our country? |
1:26.3 | Why can't you just say that? |
1:28.0 | We'll get an excerpt of the meeting, along with response, and an update on the elections in |
1:35.7 | Ecuador, where business magnate Danielle Naboa was re-elected president, his challenger, contesting |
1:42.7 | the results. |
1:44.1 | Then to the dark money game. |
1:47.6 | Supreme Court rolled back rules on campaign finance. Citizens United said corporations can create a |
1:53.7 | super PAC. Now corporations could fund elections with unlimited amounts of cash. One way you could look at |
2:00.8 | it is that it's a fair fight. |
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