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Democracy Now! 2026-01-21 Wednesday

Democracy Now! Video

Democracy Now!

News, Daily News

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2026

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Headlines for January 21, 2026; Facing Possible Arrest, Minnesota Lawyer Defends Protest at Church Whose Pastor Is Top ICE Official; As Trump Threatens to Take Greenland, Oxfam Warns of Rising Authoritarianism & Billionaire Boom; NYC Nurses’ Strike Enters 10th Day; Mayor Mamdani & Sen. Sanders Join Picket Line

Transcript

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0:00.0

From New York, this is Democracy Now.

0:18.4

How far are you willing to go to fire Greenland?

0:21.5

You'll find out.

0:23.0

As President Trump repeats his threat to seize Greenland, we'll go to Davos, Switzerland,

0:29.2

where the World Economic Forum has turned into an emergency summit.

0:33.9

Canada's prime minister is warning of a rupture in the world order.

0:38.7

We'll go to Davos to speak with the head of Oxfam International about Trump's threats

0:44.0

and the soaring wealth of the world's billionaires.

0:47.7

Then New York mayors are on Mamdani and Senator Bernie Sanders join the picket line

0:52.6

at the largest nurses' strike in New York history.

0:57.0

Don't tell me you can't provide a good nurse staff ratio when you're paying your CEO at New York Presbyterian $26 million a year.

1:09.0

But first to Minneapolis, as the Justice Department threatens to arrest demonstrators

1:15.4

who disrupted services at a St. Paul Church Sunday because one of its pastors is reportedly

1:22.2

a top ICE official in the Twin Cities.

1:25.4

We'll speak to civil rights attorney Nikima Levy Armstrong,

1:29.9

who took part in the protest.

1:35.9

David Easterwood is a pastor here. He is also the director of the field office for ICE in St. Paul. So someone who claims to worship God,

1:49.0

teaching people in this church about God, is out there overseeing ICE agents.

1:57.0

Nakema Lee the Armstrong will join us from an undisclosed location.

2:01.6

All that and more coming up.

2:05.6

Welcome to Democracy Now.

2:11.6

The War and Peace Report.

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