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This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. AMY GOODMAN: I also wanted to ask Miriam Pensack about Guantánamo, the Pentagon saying some 300 additional soldiers have arrived at the U.S. naval base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, have begun constructing a tent city to detain up to 30,000 immigrants and […]

An executive order that purports to combat antisemitism on university campuses is likely to chill free speech and target students for pro-Palestine, antiwar and anti-racist views. The order, signed by President Trump, threatens to deport noncitizen college students and other international visitors who take part in protests considered antisemitic under a broad and contested definition […]

This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org. I’m Amy Goodman. The top-ranking career U.S. Treasury Department official, David Lebryk, has been forced out of the agency after he resisted a demand by Elon Musk and his associates at DOGE to gain access […]

The National Transportation Safety Board has confirmed that all 64 people aboard American Airlines Flight 5432 were killed Wednesday evening when a U.S. military helicopter collided with the passenger jet, sending both aicraft crashing into the Potomac River as Flight 5432 made its final approach to Reagan National Airport outside Washington, D.C. All three people […]

This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. AMY GOODMAN: During a White House press briefing Thursday, President Trump said the cause of Wednesday’s midair collision of a U.S. military helicopter with an American passenger jet at Reagan National Airport outside Washington, D.C., that killed 67 people is still unknown, […]

This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org. I’m Amy Goodman. We turn now to several confirmation hearings on Capitol Hill for President Trump’s Cabinet members, beginning with Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who faced a second day of hearings for health secretary. Kennedy […]

This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. AMY GOODMAN: Brian Deer, I want to move on to another issue. You wrote the book The Doctor Who Fooled the World. I want to go right now to another interaction in the Senate, another exchange. This is independent Senator Bernie Sanders […]

This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org. I’m Amy Goodman. We turn now to two other confirmation hearings that took place Thursday for roles overseeing American intelligence and law enforcement. Director of national intelligence pick Tulsi Gabbard faced bipartisan skepticism, while Trump’s […]

This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. AMY GOODMAN: I want to go to Edward Snowden, meaning I want to turn — CHIP GIBBONS: Sure. AMY GOODMAN: — to the confirmation hearings for Tulsi Gabbard, Trump’s pick for the director of national intelligence. She refused to call whistleblower Edward Snowden […]

This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org, The War and Peace Report. I’m Amy Goodman, with Nermeen Shaikh. NERMEEN SHAIKH: Rescue workers in Washington, D.C., have launched a massive search operation in the Potomac River after an American Airlines flight and a […]