Democracy Now! 2026-02-02 Monday
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🗓️ 2 February 2026
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Headlines for February 02, 2026; “Journalism Is Not a Crime”: Georgia Fort & Don Lemon Arrested for Covering St. Paul Church Protest; “Leave Our City Now”: Minneapolis Residents March as Part of National Strike Against ICE; “Billionaire Boys Club”: What the Latest Epstein Files Reveal About Elite Impunity; FBI Raid in Georgia Is Part of “Trump’s Scheme to Try to Rig the Midterms”: Ari Berman
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| 0:00.0 | From New York, this is Democracy Now. |
| 0:20.0 | We are supposed to have our constitutional right of the From New York, this is Democracy Now. |
| 0:29.9 | We are supposed to have our constitutional right of the freedom to film, to be a member of the press. |
| 0:40.3 | I don't feel like I have my First Amendment right as a member of the press because now federal agents are at my door arresting me for filming the church protest a few weeks ago. |
| 0:45.3 | Press freedom groups are expressing alarm after federal agents arrested two journalists, |
| 0:51.3 | Georgia Fort and former CNN host Don Lemon, for covering a protest inside the St. Paul |
| 0:56.9 | Church where top ICE official serves as pastor. We'll speak to Georgia Fort, then hear voices |
| 1:03.7 | from another major protest in Minneapolis, part of a nationwide general strike against ICE. |
| 1:10.4 | Then the Justice Department releases 3 million more pages of documents |
| 1:15.5 | related to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. |
| 1:20.1 | But the DOJ is still holding back over 2 million more pages, |
| 1:26.6 | despite a law requiring everything be released. |
| 1:30.6 | Today's release marks the end of a very comprehensive document identification and review process |
| 1:36.7 | to ensure transparency to the American people and compliance with the Act. |
| 1:42.1 | The department has engaged in an unprecedented and extensive effort to do so. |
| 1:46.8 | We'll speak to a lawyer for Epstein survivors and the journalist Vicki Ward. |
| 1:52.4 | And we'll look at the FBI's raid on the election office in Fulton County, Georgia. |
| 1:57.6 | As President Trump continues to falsely claim, he won the 2020 election, we'll speak to Ari Berman of Mother Jones. |
| 2:05.1 | All that and more coming up. |
| 2:10.6 | Welcome to Democracy Now, Democracy Now.org, the Warren Peace Report. I'm Amy Goodman. |
| 2:16.7 | A federal judge in Minnesota denied a request |
| 2:19.1 | by state officials to temporarily block the surge of 3,000 federal immigration agents that led |
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