Democracy Now! 2026-05-18 Monday
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🗓️ 18 May 2026
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Headlines for May 18, 2026; As WHO Declares Ebola Outbreak a Global Health Emergency, Did USAID Cuts Worsen the Crisis?; Trump’s Christian Nationalist Agenda & Taxpayer-Funded D.C. Prayer Rally: Bishop Barber & Sarah Posner; “Staggering Corruption”: Rep. Raskin on Trump’s $10B IRS Lawsuit, Stock Trades & Family Business
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| 0:00.0 | From New York, this is Democracy Now. |
| 0:19.1 | The outbreak is a reminder of the persistent threat to human health of disease outbreaks and |
| 0:25.8 | the importance of cooperation and solidarity to continually strengthen global health security. |
| 0:33.0 | The World Health Organizations declared a global health emergency due to the rapid spread of Ebola |
| 0:40.9 | virus in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda. |
| 0:45.6 | We'll speak to Dr. Craig Spencer, who survived Ebola in 2014. |
| 0:53.3 | Then a government-sponsored prayer rally is held on the national mall in the |
| 0:59.0 | latest move by the Trump administration to push Christian nationalism. |
| 1:04.0 | It's hard to believe that it would take two centuries for the Lord to raise up a great man |
| 1:10.0 | to bring that ballroom finally to stand where it needs |
| 1:13.6 | to stand. |
| 1:14.6 | It's extraordinary. We only had to wait 200 years. |
| 1:18.6 | We'll speak to Bishop William Barber and journalist Sarah Posner, author of Unholy, |
| 1:25.6 | how white Christian nationalists powered the Trump presidency and the devastating |
| 1:30.8 | legacy they left behind. Then President Trump is reportedly set to drop his $10 billion lawsuit |
| 1:39.7 | against the IRS in exchange for the creation of a taxpayer-funded $1.7 billion fund to compensate |
| 1:48.4 | January 6th insurrectionists and other Trump allies investigated by the Biden administration. |
| 1:54.9 | We'll speak to Democratic Congress member Jamie Raskin. |
| 1:58.8 | He's just introduced legislation to target corruption |
| 2:02.7 | and Trump's efforts to profit from the presidency. |
| 2:06.9 | All that and more coming up. |
| 2:15.5 | Welcome to Democracy Now, Democracy Now.org, the War and Peace Report. I'm Amy Goodman. President Trump's escalated his threats against Iran Sunday, posting on truth social, quote, for Iran, the clock is ticking and they better get moving fast, or there won't be anything left of them." |
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