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Democracy Now! 2025-09-05 Friday

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Democracy Now!

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4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Headlines for September 05, 2025; “How Can You Be So Ignorant?”: GOP & Dem. Senators Slam RFK Jr. for Attacks on Vaccines & Science; Deadly U.S. Strike on Venezuelan Boat Raises Fears of Wider War: Greg Grandin; Indonesia Protests: At Least 10 Killed, Thousands Arrested Amid Police Crackdown

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0:00.0

From New York, this is Democracy Now.

0:19.3

Secretary of Health and Human Services doesn't know how many Americans died from COVID.

0:24.3

I don't know if the vaccine help prevent any deaths.

0:28.8

And you are sitting as Secretary of Health and Human Services.

0:32.1

How can you be that ignorant?

0:34.3

In a heated hearing, Democratic and Republican senators, two of them doctors,

0:40.2

grill, health and human services secretary Robert of Kennedy Jr.

0:44.8

over his attacks on vaccines and the firing of the head of the CDC.

0:49.8

We'll speak to vaccine expert, Dr. Paul Offutt, who was recently blocked from participating in an FDA advisory committee.

0:59.1

Then the Trump administration's threatening to carry out more military attacks in Latin America under the guise of the war on drugs after the U.S.

1:08.9

blew up a boat off the coast of Venezuela.

1:12.8

You see the bags of drugs all over the boat, and they were hit, obviously.

1:17.6

They won't be doing it again.

1:18.7

And I think a lot of other people won't be doing it again when they watch that tape.

1:22.2

While President Trump claims the strike-targeted drug smugglers,

1:27.0

some are questioning if the U.S. actually blew up a boat carrying migrants.

1:32.6

We'll speak to the Pulitzer Prize-winning Yale historian Greg Grandin.

1:37.7

Plus, we go to Jakarta to look at the mass protests in Indonesia.

1:42.9

Human Rights Watch is calling on the Indonesian government

1:45.9

to end its crackdown on protesters. All that and more coming up.

1:55.4

Welcome to Democracy Now, Democracy Now.org, the War and Peace Report. I'm Amy Goodman.

2:01.7

Israel's military says it now controls 40% of Gaza City as its forces expand their assault

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