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The reasons for the fund, I think, were, were, we remain as important as they were before,

but we are not moving forward to fund.

Not moving forward ever.

Correct.

After facing bipartisan outcry, the Trump administration has dropped plans to create a $1.8 billion

slush fund to compensate January 6 rioters as part of a settlement of Trump's unprecedented lawsuit against his own IRS.

But acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, Trump's former personal lawyer, says the deal is still in effect

to forever block the IRS from investigating Trump, his family, and their businesses.

35 former judges have asked the court to probe the Trump settlement.

We'll speak to one of them and to former Attorney General of New Jersey.

Then calls are growing for the U.S. attorney in Chicago to resign over his mishandling of the

prosecution of the Broadview Sixth immigrant rights protesters outside the Broadview Ice Jail in Chicago, charges were dismissed

after the case collapsed in court due to widespread prosecutorial misconduct.

We'll speak with the lawyer for one of those arrested.

We have the indictment dismissed in our case.

We are seeking the full accountability from the Department of Justice for this failed political prosecution.

We want the American public to see what our Department of Justice has been doing in secret behind the closed grand jury room doors.

We'll also speak to two of the Broadview six. All that and more coming up.

Welcome to Democracy Now. Democracy Now.org, the Warren Peace Report. I'm Amy Goodman. Iran's Revolutionary Guard fired a barrage of missiles and drones at Kuwait and Bahrain, striking a terminal at Kuwait's international airport, killing one person and wounding at least 60 others. The attacks came after the U.S. carried out strikes on Iran's Keshim Island.

In an interview with the New York Post, President Trump said the Strait of Hormuz, quote,

could be closed through Labor Day. Meanwhile, Secretary of State Marco Rubio told Congress

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