Democracy Now! 2026-04-02 Thursday
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🗓️ 2 April 2026
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Headlines for April 02, 2026; “This War Is Already Lost”: Spencer Ackerman & Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi on Trump’s Iran Debacle; “Born in the U.S.A.”: Supreme Court Appears Skeptical of Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Ban; Israel’s Death-by-Hanging Law Marks Further “Dehumanization of Palestinians”: B’Tselem
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| 0:00.0 | From New York, this is Democracy Now. |
| 0:20.6 | We're going to hit them extremely hard over the next two to three weeks. |
| 0:25.6 | We're going to bring them back to the Stone Ages where they belong. |
| 0:29.6 | Iran is threatening to escalate attacks in the Middle East. |
| 0:33.6 | After President Trump gave a prime time address, where he provided no timeline to end the war. |
| 0:41.3 | We'll get response. |
| 0:42.3 | Then Supreme Court justices appear skeptical of Trump's efforts to end birthright citizenship. |
| 0:49.3 | Trump broke precedent by attending the arguments in person sitting in the front row. |
| 0:57.0 | But he left the court early. |
| 0:59.8 | We'll air excerpts of the arguments and hear from lawyers involved in the case. |
| 1:04.8 | I come out of the court today with the thought of my parents and so many of our parents and ancestors who came to this country |
| 1:15.6 | seeking refuge, seeking new opportunities, and who relied on the rule that we've had in this country for 150 years |
| 1:25.6 | that everyone born here is a United States citizen, all alike. |
| 1:30.3 | Then to Israel's new death penalty law, which was designed only to apply to Palestinians. |
| 1:38.7 | All that and more coming up. |
| 1:43.6 | Welcome to Democracy Now. |
| 1:45.8 | Democracy Now.org, the War and Peace Report. |
| 1:48.9 | I'm Amy Goodman. |
| 1:50.1 | Iran's military says it's launching crushing, broader, and destructive attacks. |
| 1:55.3 | After President Trump threatened to bomb Iran, quote, back to the Stone Ages, unquote. Trump made the threat |
| 2:03.5 | in a nationally televised primetime address Wednesday night from the White House. He said the U.S. |
| 2:10.9 | would continue strikes on Iran for the next two to three weeks but provided no timeline for an exit. |
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