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This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. AMY GOODMAN: We begin today’s show looking at the Trump administration’s tightening grip on Latin America and the aftermath of the abduction of the Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores. On Thursday, Venezuela’s interim leader, Delcy Rodríguez, signed a […]

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. The families of two Trinidadian men killed by a U.S. boat strike in the Caribbean are suing the Trump administration for wrongful death and extrajudicial killing. On […]

This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. AMY GOODMAN: This is democracynow.org, The War and Peace Report. I’m Amy Goodman. We turn now to Trump’s deportation campaign, with temporary protected status, TPS, for immigrants from Haiti scheduled to end next week, February 3rd. A federal judge in Washington, D.C., […]

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. We end today’s show in Iran. The New York Times reports President Trump has been presented in recent days with a, quote, “expanded list of potential military […]

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 go now from New Jersey’s most famous musician to New Jersey Democratic Congresswoman LaMonica McIver. She’s facing up to 17 years in prison, stemming from an incident last May when she […]

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. We turn now to the facial recognition technology widely being used by ICE and CBP agents to facilitate President Trump’s mass deportation campaign. The smartphone app is […]

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. The Trump administration is removing Border Patrol Commander-at-Large Gregory Bovino from Minnesota, after federal agents fatally shot Alex Pretti, the 37-year-old VA ICU nurse, Saturday morning. Bovino […]

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 end today’s show with Congresswoman Delia Ramirez from Chicago, who’s calling for ICE to be abolished and the Department of Homeland Security to be dismantled. We had planned to focus this […]

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 Juan González. We are continuing our conversation with Georgetown University Law Center professor Stephen Vladeck, who’s written a piece, co-authored a piece, in The New York […]