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Democracy Now! 2025-12-04 Thursday

Democracy Now! Audio

Democracy Now!

News, Daily News

4.85.4K Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Headlines for December 04, 2025; Will Hegseth Go? Defense Secretary Faces Anger from Congress over Boat Strikes, Signal Chat; Can a Deal Be Reached to End Russia’s War in Ukraine? Matt Duss on Latest Diplomatic Efforts; “Making America White Again”: Trump Further Restricts Immigration, Ramps Up ICE Raids; West African Asylum Seekers Find Safe Haven in NYC Volunteer-Run Kitchen

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0:00.0

From New York, this is Democracy Now.

0:18.0

The fear among the Somali community is real.

0:21.6

Like, this mall, if you come to, like, around noon, nobody's here.

0:27.6

It is deserted.

0:28.6

Every business is closed, and it has been like this for the last three days.

0:32.6

Federal immigration agents have reportedly begun operations targeting the Somali community in the

0:40.8

Minneapolis-St. Paul area after President Trump repeatedly attacked Somalis describing them as garbage.

0:50.0

We'll speak with Omar Fata, the first Somali American to be elected to the Minnesota State Senate.

0:57.6

Then to Trump's move to, quote, permanently pause migration from all third world countries, unquote.

1:06.1

We'll speak with Marad Ovalda of the New York Immigration Coalition about the new rules,

1:13.5

as well as an anti-ice protest here in New York,

1:17.2

where protesters halted a potential ice raid by preventing agents from leaving a Manhattan parking lot.

1:27.2

So while this operation was meant to inflict fear, chaos, and panic,

1:32.3

New Yorkers stepped up and New Yorkers defended one another,

1:37.3

making sure that no one was taken and disappeared

1:43.3

from their communities and their families.

1:45.9

Then to Matt Duss of the Center for International Policy on negotiations to end the war in Ukraine,

1:53.2

as well as a Pentagon watchdog report finding Defense Secretary Pete Hegeseth risked endangering troops by sharing

2:03.5

sensitive information about U.S. strikes on Yemen in a signal group chat. All that and

2:10.7

more coming up.

2:16.7

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

2:23.7

A bipartisan group of senators has introduced a war powers resolution seeking to block the White House from launching an attack on Venezuela without congressional authorization after

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