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I told Pete, we should use some of these dangerous cities as training grounds for our military,

national guard, but military, because we're going into Chicago version.

That's a big city with an incompetent governor, stupid governor, stupid.

President Trump, addressing an unprecedented gathering of hundreds of U.S. generals and admirals

will get response from Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson.

It is dangerous.

Absolute dangerous.

And he is a threat to our democracy and our humanity.

Then a Reagan appointed judge has issued a scathing ruling, rebuking the Trump administration's

targeting of pro-Palestinian students.

It's a historic ruling and really a scathing critique of the Trump administration for intentionally violating the First

Amendment by targeting pro-Palestinian protesters for arrest and deportation. And it made clear

what hopefully should have been obvious before, which is that if free speech means anything,

it means that mass agents shouldn't be picking up political protesters for their speech and throwing them

in jail.

We'll speak to the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University, which argued the case,

as well as the head of the AAPUP, the American Association of University Professors, and

former Columbia University student protest activist, Mahmoud Khalil, who was detained

for 104 days.

All that and more coming up.

Welcome to Democracy Now, Democracy Now.org, the War and Peace Report. I'm Amy Goodman. Israel continues to bomb Gaza, killing 51 Palestinians in 24 hours. Two missiles struck off a law school in Gaza City, which had been converted into a shelter for hundreds of displaced people.

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