This Is the Fight Democrats Need To Have

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🗓️ 18 April 2025

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Donald Trump insists he has the right to render people to a foreign prison even though the courts say otherwise, and Democrats dig in for a critical fight. From El Salvador, Senator Chris Van Hollen briefs Dan on his effort to get answers about Kilmar Abrego Garcia. Then, Jon and Dan look at the latest targets of Trump's retribution tour, most notably Harvard, his threats to fire Fed Chair Jerome Powell, and Elon Musk's ultra-creepy project to populate Earth with a "legion" of his own offspring. Then, Tommy sits down with Maryland Congressman Jamie Raskin, the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, about how he's trying to push back on Trump's defiance of the courts.

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0:52.7	Text America to 5-Eleven, 511, 511, text fees may apply. Welcome to Pod Save America. I'm John Favro.
1:20.7	I'm Dan Pfeiffer.
1:21.4	On today's show, we're going to talk about the Democrats fighting back against the Trump regime's illegal renditions to a foreign torture dungeon.
1:28.7	And Dan just spoke to Maryland Senator Chris Van Hollen, who's in El Salvador trying to get
1:33.8	answers about Kilmar Obrego Garcia. One person the government has admitted sending to the prison
1:39.3	by mistake. We'll also get into Trump's latest targets for retribution, colleges and universities, most notably Harvard.
1:46.5	The president is also threatening to fire Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell.
1:51.1	We'll talk about whether he can or will.
1:53.3	And in case you didn't think Elon Musk was creepy enough, there's a shocking new Wall Street Journal story about the billionaires, quote, baby making project.
2:03.6	Yeah, that's right. Then later in the show, Tommy talks to Congressman Jamie Raskin,
2:08.0	the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, about how Democrats are trying to push back on
2:12.2	Trump's defiance of the courts. Big show. But let's start with what's keeping many of us up at night, at least me.
2:20.6	Our government is disappearing people to a dungeon in El Salvador. They don't get a trial. They don't get
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