Headlines
by Amy Goodman
DemocracyNow
October 10, 2025
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/10/10/headlines
Israeli Government Approves First Phase of Gaza Ceasefire Deal
Oct 10, 2025
The Israeli government has approved the first phase of a Gaza ceasefire deal. It includes an exchange of the hostages held by Hamas in return for Palestinian prisoners held by Israel. Al Jazeera is reporting that Israeli forces in Gaza have started to retreat behind the lines agreed to under the deal. Tens of thousands of displaced Palestinians are streaming from the southern part of the Gaza Strip to the north. On Thursday, Hamas’s exiled Gaza chief Khalil al-Hayya said all Palestinian women and children will be released, and issued a statement declaring an end to the war.
Khalil al-Hayya: “Today, we announced that we have reached an agreement to end the war and aggression against our people and to begin implementing a permanent ceasefire, the withdrawal of the occupation forces, the entry of aid, the opening of the Rafah crossing in both directions and the exchange of prisoners.”
It comes as President Trump announced that the Israeli hostages will be released from Gaza on Monday or Tuesday. Under terms of the deal, 250 Palestinian prisoners serving life sentences and another 1,700 Gazans detained by Israel during the war would be released. Meanwhile, the U.S. is sending about 200 troops to Israel to monitor the ceasefire deal.
This is Palestinian Civil Defense member Nouh Al-Shaghnouby, who joined celebrations Thursday in Gaza City.
Nouh Al-Shaghnouby: “Honestly, these are indescribable feelings. We can’t believe it. But thank God the war has ended, and we are alive. Honestly, we hope the war does not come back and for this to be really the end.”
In Tel Aviv, Israelis gathered at the public plaza known as Hostages Square to celebrate news of the ceasefire. This is Udi Goren, cousin of Israeli hostage Tal Haimi, who was confirmed dead in Gaza and whose body is believed to be held by Hamas.
Udi Goren: “Bringing back the hostages is just the first phase of this deal, and rightfully so, finally prioritizing bringing them home before anything else. But after we bring them all home, it’s time to start rebuilding our future.”
Meanwhile, Israeli Army Radio is reporting that 600 aid trucks will be allowed to enter Gaza daily, coordinated by the United Nations and other international aid groups. Tom Fletcher is the U.N.’s top emergency relief coordinator.
Tom Fletcher: “So, here is what we plan to deliver in the first 60 days of the ceasefire. We will aim to increase the pipeline of supplies to hundreds of trucks every day. Food — we will scale up the provision of food across Gaza to reach 2.1 million people who need food aid and around 500,000 people who need nutrition. Famine must be reverted in areas where it has taken hold, and prevented in others.”
Grand Jury Indicts New York Attorney General Letitia James
Oct 10, 2025
A grand jury has criminally indicted New York Attorney General Letitia James after President Trump instructed Attorney General Pam Bondi to go after his political enemies, writing on X, “We can’t delay any longer, it’s killing our reputation and credibility.” Lindsey Halligan, whom President Trump installed to serve as U.S. attorney in the Eastern District of Virginia, presented the case to the grand jury. Last month, Halligan secured charges against James Comey, the former FBI director. Trump forced out his previous U.S. attorney for refusing to bring charges against Comey and James. This is Attorney General Letitia James.
Attorney General Letitia James: “This is nothing more than a continuation of the president’s desperate weaponization of our justice system. He is forcing federal law enforcement agencies to do his bidding. … And so, today, I’m not fearful. I’m fearless.”
2025 Nobel Peace Prize Awarded to Venezuelan Opposition Leader María Corina Machado
Oct 10, 2025
The 2025 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado. The Norwegian Nobel Committee announced its decision in a ceremony in Oslo earlier today.
Jørgen Watne Frydnes: “She is receiving the Nobel Peace Prize for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy.”
In 2023, Machado launched a campaign to challenge incumbent President Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela’s 2024 election. She was barred from running after the government accused her of corruption and cited her support for U.S. sanctions against Venezuela. Machado has vowed to privatize Venezuela’s state oil industry. She’s praised right-wing Latin American leaders, including Argentina’s Javier Milei.
In 2020, Machado’s opposition party, Vente Venezuela, signed a pact formalizing strategic ties with Israel’s Likud party led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Machado has said that, if elected, she’ll move Venezuela’s Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
We’ll have more on María Corina Machado later in the broadcast.
Colombia’s President Petro Claims Colombians Killed in Boat Struck by U.S.
Oct 10, 2025
The Nobel Peace Prize is being awarded at a time when the U.S. bombed four boats off the coast of Venezuela, killing 21 people. Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro said Wednesday that the U.S. killed Colombians in one of the boats it bombed in the Caribbean for allegedly carrying drugs.
Peruvian Lawmakers Swear In New President
Oct 10, 2025
In Peru, lawmakers swore in a new president, 38-year-old head of Peru’s Legislature, José Jerí, soon after voting unanimously to remove President Dina Boluarte. Her removal comes after months of deadly protests in rural Andean and Indigenous communities; rights groups accused Boluarte’s government of using lethal force to suppress the protests. Boluarte was also enmeshed in a corruption scandal involving undeclared assets and watches.
U.S. Begins Implementation of $20 Billion Bailout for Argentina
Oct 10, 2025
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced that the U.S. has begun implementing parts of a bailout for Argentina by finalizing a $20 billion currency swap with Argentina’s central bank. Argentina’s far-right President Javier Milei is an ally of President Trump. On Thursday, eight Democratic senators introduced a bill that would prevent the Treasury Department from rescuing Argentina’s economy. Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren said, “It is inexplicable that President Trump is propping up a foreign government, while he shuts down our own.”
Federal Government Shutdown Enters 10th Day
Oct 10, 2025
In Washington, the federal government shutdown has entered its 10th day. On Thursday, President Trump said at a Cabinet meeting he will permanently cut programs approved by Congress during the shutdown, like billions of dollars in climate and infrastructure for Democratic-led states, adding, “we’re only going to cut Democrat programs.” The White House has suggested furloughed federal workers may not receive back pay. On Thursday, House Speaker Mike Johnson ruled out advancing a standalone bill to pay the salaries and benefits of military members, who are due to miss paychecks on October 15.
Meanwhile, Food & Water Watch reports that if the shutdown continues into next week, 5.3 million children under the age of 5 will lose access to SNAP food assistance benefits, with many likely to go hungry. That’s on top of more than 2 million people set to lose some — or all — of their SNAP benefits under the budget reconciliation bill Trump signed in July.
Federal Judge Blocks Trump’s Deployment of National Guard Troops in Illinois
Oct 10, 2025
A federal judge in Chicago has issued a temporary restraining order against President Donald Trump’s deployment of hundreds of National Guard troops to Illinois, after city and state officials sued to block the move. U.S. District Judge April Perry said in an oral ruling Thursday that deploying soldiers would “only add fuel to the fire that defendants themselves have started.” The ruling came as Illinois’s Democratic Governor JB Pritzker once again accused Trump of overstepping constitutional limits on his authority.
Gov. JB Pritzker: “We’ve seen at every turn that they’ve tried to militarize our cities. Indeed, look at what ICE and CBP are doing. They’re wearing fatigues. They’re carrying long guns, automatic weapons. They’re coming to downtown. Come on, downtown Chicago, Michigan Avenue, what is the purpose of that? It’s all a show.”
Separately, another federal judge in Chicago ruled Thursday that federal agents violated the constitutional rights of peaceful demonstrators, journalists and religious leaders at recent protests against ongoing ICE raids. A lawsuit brought by victims of the violence accuses federal agents of a “pattern of extreme brutality,” saying they tackled and slammed people into the ground and fired rubber bullets and pepper balls at peaceful protesters and working journalists. In her ruling, District Court Judge Sara Ellis wrote, “Individuals are allowed to protest. They are allowed to speak. That is guaranteed by the First Amendment of our constitution, and it is a bedrock right that upholds our democracy.” Judge Ellis’s temporary restraining order also requires all uniformed federal agents to prominently display identification like badge numbers on their uniforms or helmets.
National Guard Troops Set to Begin Patrols of Memphis
Oct 10, 2025
In Tennessee, National Guard troops are scheduled to begin patrolling the streets of Memphis today, over the objections of city officials. They’ll add to a surge of federal law enforcement officers already in Memphis. Trump claims the deployment is aimed at quelling violent crime in the majority-Black city. On Thursday, Trump signaled he’s prepared to send troops into even more cities.
President Donald Trump: “And we’re restoring law and order in our country. We’re restoring it here, but we’re restoring it — right now we’re in Memphis. We’re going to Chicago. We’re going to other cities.”
Oklahoma’s Republican Governor Criticizes Trump’s Deployment of Texas Troops to Illinois
Oct 10, 2025
Oklahoma’s Republican Governor Kevin Stitt has criticized the deployment of National Guard troops to Illinois. Stitt is the current chair of the National Governors Association. Speaking to The New York Times, he said, “Oklahomans would lose their mind if Pritzker in Illinois sent troops down to Oklahoma during the Biden administration.” Stitt stated that President Trump should have first federalized troops already in Illinois.
Texas Court Halts Execution of Robert Roberson, Convicted over “Shaken Baby Syndrome”
Oct 10, 2025
A court in Texas has halted the execution of Robert Roberson, whose 2003 murder conviction over the death of his 2-year-old daughter was based on the “shaken baby syndrome” theory, which has never been scientifically validated. On Thursday, a narrow 5-4 majority of Texas’s Court of Criminal Appeals granted Roberson’s request to stay his execution, citing a Texas law that allows for new trials in cases with flawed scientific evidence. The trial court that convicted Roberson will now consider whether he should be granted a new trial. Throughout his more than two decades on death row, Roberson has always maintained his innocence.
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After Gaza Ceasefire, “Massive Political Pressure” Needed to Prevent Israel from Restarting the War
by Amy Goodman
DemocracyNow
October 10, 2025
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/10/10 ... transcript
"A 'magic pill' made Israeli violence invisible. We need to stop swallowing it"
International Crisis Group
A ceasefire came into effect in Gaza on Friday after the Israeli government approved the first phase of the U.S.-backed plan to end two years of war in the Palestinian territory. The deal calls for a pause in Israeli attacks, the release of the remaining Israeli captives held by Hamas in exchange for Palestinians detained in Israeli prisons, as well as an influx of badly needed humanitarian aid for the starving population of Gaza. Israeli forces have pulled back but continue to control roughly half the territory, with the ceasefire agreement calling for further withdrawals in later phases.
“This is a deal that really should have been made long, long ago,” says Amjad Iraqi, a senior analyst at the International Crisis Group. “We’ve known that the parameters of this truce have been on the table for well over a year, if not since the very beginning of the war.”
Palestinian human rights attorney Diana Buttu says while people are happy for a pause in the slaughter, she finds it “repulsive” that Palestinians had to bargain with their own oppressors. “It should have been that the world put sanctions on Israel to stop the genocide, rather than forcing Palestinians to negotiate an end to it.”
Transcript
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AMY GOODMAN: Israel’s government has approved the first phase of the Gaza ceasefire deal, that includes a pause in Israeli attacks and the release of the remaining hostages held by Hamas in exchange for Palestinians detained in Israeli prisons. President Trump announced yesterday the Israeli hostages will be released from Gaza on Monday or Tuesday as he plans to travel to the Middle East.
According to the deal, 250 Palestinian prisoners serving life sentences and another 1,700 people from Gaza detained in the last two years would be released. Hamas has demanded the release of prominent Palestinian political prisoner Marwan Barghouti, but his name was reportedly secretly removed from the prisoner exchange list by Israel.
Meanwhile, the U.S. is sending about 200 troops to Israel to monitor the ceasefire deal.
The Israeli military Friday confirmed the ceasefire had come into effect as soldiers retreated from parts of Gaza. Tens of thousands of Palestinians, including families that had been forced to the south, began their trek back to northern Gaza after news that Israeli forces were withdrawing.
Returning Gaza City residents made their way through mounds of rubble and destroyed neighborhoods, searching for any sign of their homes and belongings. Among them, Fidaa Haraz.
FIDAA HARAZ: [translated] I came since the morning, when they said there was a withdrawal, to find my home. I’m walking in the street, but I do not know where to go, due to the extent of the destruction. I swear I don’t know where the crossroads is or where my home is. I know that my home was leveled, but where is it? Where is it? I cannot find it. What is this? What do we do with our lives? Where should we live? Where should we stay? A house of multiple floors, but nothing was left?
AMY GOODMAN: Al Jazeera reports Israel’s army said it would allow 600 humanitarian aid trucks carrying food, medical supplies, fuel and other necessities daily into Gaza, through coordination with the United Nations and other international groups.
On Thursday, the exiled Hamas Gaza chief Khalil al-Hayya declared an end to the war.
KHALIL AL-HAYYA: [translated] Today, we announced that we have reached an agreement to end the war and aggression against our people and to begin implementing a permanent ceasefire, the withdrawal of the occupation forces, the entry of aid, the opening of the Rafah crossing in both directions and the exchange of prisoners.
AMY GOODMAN: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke today in Israel.
PRIME MINISTER BENJAMIN NETANYAHU: [translated] Today, we mark one of the greatest achievements in the war of revival: the return of all of our hostages, the living and the dead as one. … This way, we grapple Hamas. We grapple it all around, ahead of the next stages of the plan, in which Hamas is disarmed and Gaza is demilitarized. If this can be achieved the easy way, very well. If not, it will be achieved the hard way.
AMY GOODMAN: In the United States, President Trump hailed his administration’s ceasefire plan during a Cabinet meeting Thursday as concerns mount regarding potential U.S. and foreign intervention in the rebuilding of Gaza.
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Gaza is going to be slowly redone. You have tremendous wealth in that part of the world by certain countries, and just a small part of that, what they — what they make, will do wonders for — for Gaza.
AMY GOODMAN: For more, we’re joined by two guests. Diana Buttu, Palestinian human rights attorney, former adviser to the negotiating team of the Palestine Liberation Organization. She’s just recently written a piece for The Guardian. It’s headlined “A 'magic pill' made Israeli violence invisible. We need to stop swallowing it.” And Amjad Iraqi is a senior Israel-Palestine analyst at the International Crisis Group, joining us from London.
We welcome you both to Democracy Now! Diana Buttu, let’s begin with you. First, your response to the ceasefire-hostage deal that’s just been approved by the Israeli government and Hamas?
DIANA BUTTU: Well, first, Amy, it’s really quite repulsive that Palestinians have had to negotiate an end to their genocide. It should have been that the world put sanctions on Israel to stop the genocide, rather than forcing Palestinians to negotiate an end to it. At the same time, we’re also negotiating an end to the famine, a famine that Israel, again, created. Who are we negotiating with? The very people who created that famine. And so, it’s really repugnant that this is the position that Palestinians have been forced to be in.
And so, while people here are elated, happy that the bombs have stopped, we’re also at the same time worried, because we’ve seen that the international community, time and again, has abandoned us. Everybody is happy that the Israelis are going home, but nobody’s talking about the more than 11,000 Palestinians who are currently languishing in Israeli prisons, being starved, being tortured, being raped. Many of them are hostages picked up after October of 2023, being held without charge, without trial, and nobody at all is talking about them.
So, while people are happy that the bombs have stopped, we know that Israel’s control has not at all stopped. And it’s made it — Israel has made it clear that it’s going to continue to control every morsel of food that comes into Gaza. It’s going to control every single construction item that comes into Gaza. And it’s going to continue to maintain a military occupation over Gaza.
This is not a peace agreement. This is not an end to the occupation. And I think it’s so important for us that we keep our eyes on Gaza and start demanding that Israel be held to account, not only for the genocide, but for all of these decades of occupation that led to this in the first place.
AMY GOODMAN: Can you talk about the exchange of hostages, Israeli hostages, dead and alive, and Palestinian prisoners? According to the Hamas Gaza chief, I believe they’re saying all women and children, Palestinian women and children, picked up over these last two years — or is it beyond? — are going to be released. And then, of course, there are the well over a thousand prisoners who are going to be released.
DIANA BUTTU: No, not quite. So, there are 250 who are political prisoners who are going to be released, and that list just came out about a little over an hour ago. But there are also 1,700 Palestinians, solely from Gaza, who are going to be released. And these were people — these are doctors, these are nurses, these are journalists and so on, who were — who Israel picked up after the 7th of October, 2023, and has been holding as hostages. These are the people that are going to be released. There are still thousands more, Amy, that are from the West Bank, that we do not know what is going to happen to them.
And so, while the focus is just on the people in Gaza — and again, there is no path for freeing all of those thousands of Palestinians who are languishing in Israeli prisons, being starved, being tortured, being raped. What’s going to happen to them? Who’s going to be focusing on them? I don’t think that it’s going to be this U.S. administration.
AMY GOODMAN: I want to talk about the West Bank in a minute. More than a thousand Palestinians have been killed in the West Bank just over the last two years. But I first want to get Amjad Iraqi’s response to this deal that has now been signed off on. I mean, watching the images of tens of thousands, this sea of humanity, of Palestinians going south to north, to see what they can find of their homes in places like Gaza City, not to mention who’s trapped in the rubble. We say something — well over 60,000 Palestinians have been killed, but we don’t know the real number. It could be hundreds of thousands.
AMJAD IRAQI: Indeed, Amy. And to kind of continue off of Diana’s points, this is a deal that really should have been made long, long ago. We’ve known that the parameters of this truce have been on the table for well over a year, if not since the very beginning of the war, what they used to define as an all-for-all deal, the idea that Hamas would release all hostages in exchange for a permanent ceasefire. And the reasons for the constant foiling of it are quite evident. And it’s important to recognize this not for the sake of just lamenting the lives, the many lives, that have been lost and the massive destruction that could have been averted, but it needs to really inform the next steps going forward.
The biggest takeaway of what’s happening right now is that in order for a ceasefire to be sustained, in order for Gaza to be saved from further military assault, you need massive political pressure. And we’ve seen this really build up in the past weeks and months. You saw this, for example, from European governments, which, even through the symbolic recognition of Palestinian statehood, was very much venting their frustration with the Israeli conduct in the war, the fact that the EU was actually starting to contemplate more sort of punitive measures against Israel, such as partial trade suspensions, potential sanctions against Israel. We saw this building up over the past few weeks. Arab states have started to use much of their leverage, especially after Israel’s strike on Doha or on Hamas’s offices in Doha. We started seeing Gulf and other Arab and Muslim states come forward to President Trump at the U.N. saying that Israel aggression cannot continue like this.
And most crucially is, of course, President Trump himself and of Washington finally saying that it needs to put its foot down to stop this war, which we’ve heard repeatedly from Trump himself. But this is really the first time since the January ceasefire agreement where Trump has really insisted that this come to an end.
Now, this — now there’s much to be sort of debated about the Trump plan itself, but this aspect of the truce cannot continue, and certainly cannot save Palestinian lives, unless that pressure is maintained. The concern now is that that pressure will recede or alleviate, because there’s now a deal that’s signed. But, actually, in order to enforce it, that pressure really needs to be maintained.
AMY GOODMAN: What do you think was the turning point, Amjad? The bombing of Qatar? Now, I mean, The New York Times had an exposé that Trump knew before, not just in the midst of the bombing, that Israel was bombing their ally to try to kill the Hamas leadership. But do you think that was the turning point?
AMJAD IRAQI: It certainly might have expedited, I think, a lot of factors that were already building up. As I said, pressure had been mounting against Israel for quite a while. There was really outrage, not just at the continuance of the military assaults, but the policy of starvation, which was very evident on the ground, and Israel’s complete refusal to let in aid, its failed project with — through the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.
So, this had all been building, but I do think the strike on Doha really pushed Arab states to say that enough is enough. To see them really meet all together with President Trump and create a bit more of a united position to insist that this really couldn’t go on, I think, has really signaled that Israel really crossed a certain line geopolitically. Now, of course, that line should have been recognized as being crossed well before because of the facts on the ground in Gaza, but I do think that this has helped to kind of push things over the edge a bit more assertively.
There are also speculations about Trump, of course, trying to have his name in for the Nobel Peace Prize, and potentially other factors. But I do think that the timing of this, again, regardless of what ended up pushing it over the line, it is unfortunate that it has really taken this long. And it’s really up to global powers and foreign governments to recognize that in order to make sure that this stays, that they really need to keep that pressure up.
AMY GOODMAN: And, Amjad Iraqi, the core demand of the ceasefire is that Hamas disarm and end its rule. What security guarantees is Hamas seeking for its own members to lay down their arms and not face a wave of arrests or assassinations? How is this going to work? And talk about who you see running Gaza.
AMJAD IRAQI: So, these things are still a bit unclear. So, throughout the ceasefire talks, Hamas has kept insisting about the idea of U.S. guarantees that Israel will not end the war. But there’s never really any clear, concrete way to prove this. And as we’ve seen before, like in the January ceasefire deal and in much of the ceasefire talks, even if President Trump expresses his desire to see an end to the war, oftentimes he would still hand the steering wheel to Prime Minister Netanyahu. And if Netanyahu decided that he wanted to thwart the ceasefire talks, if he wanted to relaunch military assaults, and the Israeli military and the government would back it, then Trump and Washington would fall into line and amplify those calls, and even President Trump himself would sort of cheer on the military assaults.
And so, this factor has certainly weighed a lot on Hamas, but I do think there’s a culmination of pressure, the fact that Arab states have insisted on Hamas to try to show, at least signal, certain flexibility, even though many of its demands have been quite consistent throughout the war. But the fact that I think Hamas is now feeling that there’s also a bit more pressure on Israel to actually ensure that they at least try to take the gamble that they will not return to war.
And in regards to decommissioning and disarmament, publicly Hamas has placed a red line around this right to bear arms. But historically, and even recently, they do say that they are willing to have conversations about decommissioning, as long as it’s tied to a political framework, especially one that’s tied to the establishment of a Palestinian state. Now, one can really debate how much this process is actually quite feasible, and obviously the Israeli government and much of the Israeli public is quite adamant in its opposition against Palestinian statehood, but Hamas may at least offer some space for those conversations to be had. There are discussions about it potentially giving up what it might describe as its larger or more offensive weaponry, like rockets or anti-tank missiles. And there’s bigger questions around firearms.
But I think it’s important to put this question not as a black-and-white issue, as something that has to come first in the political process, as Israel is demanding, but one that requires trust building and confidence building in the rubric of a process of Palestinian self-determination. This is important not just in the case of Palestine, but across many conflicts around the world where the question of decommissioning, about establishing one rule, one gun, one government for a society, requires that kind of process. So, it shouldn’t just be a policy of destroying and military assaults and so on. You do need to engage in these questions in good faith.
AMY GOODMAN: There are so many questions, Diana Buttu, in this first stage of the ceasefire-hostage deal, is really the only one that Netanyahu addressed today in his speech. You’re usually in Ramallah. You spend a lot of time in the West Bank. Where does this leave the Palestinian Authority? I don’t think the West Bank is talked about in this deal. And what about the fact that we’re looking at pictures of Netanyahu surrounded by Steve Witkoff on one side and Jared Kushner, who has talked about — as we know, famously referred to Gaza as “very valuable” waterfront property?
DIANA BUTTU: Well, I think that this plan was really an Israeli plan, and it was repackaged and branded as a Trump plan. And you can see just in the text of it and the way that all of the guarantees were given to the Israelis, and none given to the Palestinians, it’s really an Israeli plan.
But beyond that, it’s important to keep in mind that when Trump was going around and talking about this plan, that he consulted with everybody but Palestinians. He didn’t talk to Mahmoud Abbas. He didn’t even let Mahmoud Abbas go to the U.N. to deliver his speech before the U.N. I’m pretty certain he didn’t speak to the U.N. representative, Palestine’s representative to the U.N. And so, this is — once again, we’ve got a plan in which people are talking about Palestinians, but never talking to Palestinians. So, again, this is very much an Israeli plan repackaged as a Trump plan and branded as a Trump plan.
In terms of them looking at Gaza as being prime real estate, this is not at all different from the way that they’ve done it in the past, and this is not at all the way that Israel has looked at Palestine. And this is because this is the way that colonizers look at land that isn’t theirs. They ignore the history of the place. Gaza is an — has an old history. It has some of the oldest churches, I think the second-oldest church in the world. It has some of the oldest mosques. It has an old civilization. We want Gaza to be Gaza. We don’t want it to be Dubai or any other place. We want it to be Gaza. And so, the idea of somehow turning it into prime real estate, this is the mentality of somebody who’s coming from outside. This is the way that colonizers think. This isn’t the way that the Indigenous think. And so, you can see in this plan that it’s not only the idea of the outside coming in, but they certainly didn’t consult Palestinians at all.
As for what’s going to happen to the Palestinian Authority, it’s clear that they don’t want the Palestinian Authority in the Gaza Strip, and it’s clear that they do want to have a foreign authority in the Gaza Strip. But once again, Amy, when is it that Palestinians get to decide our own future? Are we really going back to the era of colonialism, when other people get to decide our future? And that’s what this plan is really all about.
AMY GOODMAN: Well, we’re going to be continuing to cover this story. President Trump is expected to be there for the signing of the ceasefire in Sharm El-Sheikh in Egypt on Sunday, and the hostages and prisoners are expected to be released on Monday or Tuesday. Diana Buttu, I want to thank you for being with us, Palestinian human rights attorney, former adviser to the negotiating team of the Palestine Liberation Organization, and Amjad Iraqi, Israel-Palestine analyst at the International Crisis Group.
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2025 Nobel Peace Prize for Anti-Maduro Leader María Corina Machado “Opposite of Peace”: Greg Grandin
by Amy Goodman
DemocracyNow
October 10, 2025
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/10/10 ... transcript
"America, América: A New History of the New World"
The Norwegian Nobel Committee has awarded the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize to María Corina Machado, a leading Venezuelan opposition figure. Machado was set to run for president last year, but she was disqualified by the government of President Nicolás Maduro, with fellow opposition leader Edmundo González standing in for her. Venezuela’s National Electoral Council ultimately declared Maduro the winner of the contested election, and he was sworn in for his third term in January.
Machado has voiced support for U.S. sanctions against Venezuela and other efforts to topple the government; she aims to privatize the country’s state oil industry and has praised right-wing Latin American leaders, including Argentina’s Javier Milei and El Salvador’s Nayib Bukele.
Friday’s Nobel announcement comes as U.S. President Donald Trump has openly campaigned for the award.
“It’s a perplexing choice,” says Greg Grandin, a historian of Latin America. “They’ve given it to somebody who’s completely aligned with the most militarist and darkest face of U.S. imperialism.”
Transcript
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 Norwegian Nobel Committee announced today the recipient of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize.
JØRGEN WATNE FRYDNES: The Nobel Peace Prize for 2025 goes to a brave and committed champion of peace, to a woman who keeps the flame of democracy burning amidst a growing darkness. The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the Nobel Peace Prize for 2025 to María Corina Machado. She is receiving the Nobel Peace Prize for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy. …
María Corina Machado meets all the three criteria stated in Alfred Nobel’s will for the selection of a peace prize. She has brought her country’s opposition together. She has never wavered in resisting the militarization of Venezuelan society. She has been steadfast in her support for a peaceful transition to democracy.
AMY GOODMAN: María Corina Machado is a longtime U.S. ally, nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize last year by a number of Florida Republicans, including then-Senator Marco Rubio, who’s now President Trump’s secretary of state. In 2002, Machado supported the coup that briefly overthrew Venezuela’s democratically elected President Hugo Chávez.
Machado attempted to run for president against incumbent Nicolás Maduro in the 2024 race, but was barred from running after the government accused her of corruption and cited her support for U.S. sanctions against Venezuela. Edmundo González ran in her place. Venezuela’s National Electoral Council declared Maduro the winner, but the opposition claimed González won.
Machado has vowed to privatize Venezuela’s state oil industry. She has also praised right-wing Latin American leaders, including Argentina’s Javier Milei.
The Nobel Committee’s selection of Machado comes at a time of heightened tension between the U.S. and Venezuela, as the U.S. continually bombs boats off the coast of Venezuela while threatening to launch a larger military operation. On Thursday, the Venezuelan government requested an emergency session of the U.N. Security Council to discuss the U.S. military actions.
For more, we go to Greg Grandin, Yale University history professor, Pulitzer Prize-winning author, whose latest book is America, América: A New History of the New World.
Professor Grandin, welcome back to Democracy Now! Your response to this Nobel Prize announcement?
GREG GRANDIN: Well, thanks for having me, Amy.
It’s a — it’s a perplexing choice on a number of levels and, it seems, inevitably will bring about the opposite of peace. You know, Machado is not a unifier, as the committee said. She represents the most intransigent face of the opposition, and not just — as you mentioned in your introduction, not just against Maduro, but against, you know, a democratically elected Hugo Chávez. She was a supporter of the 2002 coup. She has constantly divided the opposition and handicapped the opposition, frankly, when the opposition was trying to come up with a more moderate position that could challenge the social — the socialism of — 21st-century socialism that Chávez represented. She constantly represented a more hard line in terms of economics, in terms of U.S. relations, you know, and that intransigence has led her to rely on outside powers, notably the United States.
So, I mean, they didn’t give it to Donald Trump, but they seem to have given it to the next best thing in terms of — at least as long as Marco Rubio is concerned, if he needs justification to escalate military operations against Venezuela. It really seems to be a disastrous choice and a smear on the — I mean, your next guest is Cory Doctorow. It’s really the enshittification of the Nobel Peace Prize. I mean, they gave it to Kissinger in the 1970s, but at least he — they waited 'til he negotiated an end to the Vietnam War. I mean, I think of Rigoberta Menchú, who won it in the early 1980s, and, you know, her whole family was wiped out by U.S.-supported militarists and death squads in Guatemala. And now they've given it to somebody who’s completely aligned with the most militarist and darkest face of U.S. imperialism. It’s really a shocking choice.
AMY GOODMAN: And very quickly, again, this coming as the U.S. bombs one Venezuelan boat after another. The Colombian president, Petro, said in one of the bombings, a Colombian was killed. But an interesting piece in The New York Times, President Trump calling off efforts to reach a diplomatic agreement with Venezuela, paving the way for potential military escalation. Richard Grenell, the special presidential envoy, interim executive director of the Kennedy Center, had been leading the negotiations with Maduro. He has been instructed to cut off all diplomatic outreach. So, as we wrap up, if you can talk about what is happening —
GREG GRANDIN: Yeah.
AMY GOODMAN: — right now and the rage President Trump, interestingly, will feel at not getting the Nobel Peace Prize himself, as he has very explicitly demanded, and escalating what’s going on in Venezuela?
GREG GRANDIN: Yeah, it’s just going to harden positions all around. And Machado has not denounced, she’s actually endorsed the general framework for the — that legitimates the bombing of these go-fast boats in the Caribbean, four of them now, last one filled, apparently, with Colombians. She hasn’t denounced it. She’s supported it. She supports the idea, the framework, that the government is basically a cartel, and to blow up these boats is not to kill Venezuelans, but to kill, as she puts it, narcotraficantes.
I mean, it’s really — you know, there are plenty of feminist activists that oppose Maduro in Venezuela that would have legitimated the peace prize, that would have legitimated the opposition. There’s Isabel Mejias, who’s a feminist. She’s the head of Araña Feminista, the Feminist Spider. There’s Ana Rosa Torres, who considers herself a socialist, and she opposes the opposition and U.S. policy. That would have — that would have made sense, if the committee felt that, you know, it was time for Maduro to go.
But this really just actually strengthens Maduro, because, you know, it confirms his narrative about the opposition being in league with the Trump administration. So, you can just imagine that this is going to, as I said, bring about the opposite of peace. It’s going to — it’s laying the groundwork and justifying greater military escalation. It’s really a disaster. It’s really, really hard to understand how they came to this decision.
AMY GOODMAN: Greg Grandin, I want to thank you very much for being with us, Yale University history professor, Pulitzer Prize-winning author. His latest book, America, América: A New History of the New World.
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Trump RUNS AWAY As LEAKED Call EXPLODES MAGA CIVIL WAR!
by Jack Cocchiarella
Oct 10, 2025 Jack Cocchiarella Show
Political commentator Jack Cocchiarella reacts to the civil war within MAGA that has Donald Trump panicking.
Transcript
There has been a civil war brewing in
MAGA for quite some time. It really
started with Donald Trump's Jeffrey
Epstein scandal and Republicans trying
to figure out how hypocritical they
could be, how uh shamelessly that they
could lie for Donald Trump before some
realized they just can't. And of course,
one of those Republicans is Marjorie
Taylor Green, who has been going on an
allout offensive against Donald Trump in
the recent days, as it looks like
something has flipped in her brain,
which I didn't really even know was
there. But now, Republicans are falling
in line. And after a leaked call has
gone public, it's only getting worse for
Trump. We're going to get into it all
and how it's blowing up his term. But
before we do, if I could quickly ask you
to leave a like on this video, and if
you haven't already and you enjoy our
channel, to hit that subscribe button
because it goes a long way in supporting
her work. Now, before we get into the
MAGA civil war abbrupting and that
leak's call that is really sparking it
all, I want to start with what Jasmine
Crockett had to say about Marjorie
Taylor Green because I think it's
important context on the shutdown and
her attack on Trump.
I just talked to one of my Republican
colleagues about 30 minutes ago. Um
because I was trying to find out if we
were actually going to go back into
session next week um as my staff is
trying to plan what's going on. But I
can tell you, uh, we actually discussed
that Marjorie was flipping on this
because it seems like everything that is
important, this child ain't read the
bill and has no idea of what's going on.
I don't understand why Georgia keeps
sending her um to DC, but uh, this is
not the first time that she wasn't quite
clear on what damage it was that her
party was ushering in. But listen, I
will take her seeing the light uh, at
any point in time. And so, yeah, it's
sad that she can only see the light when
it directly impacts her because she is
elected to represent almost a million
people. And so, not listening to your
constituents is their calling and
they're talking about their struggles,
but then making it about your children,
your adult children, because their
premiums are going to go up. Listen,
I'll take a yes vote or somebody coming
to the table, whatever way I can get it,
but I just don't believe that that's how
government is supposed to work. I don't
have any children. when I am governing,
I am governing for the people that
elected me. And I don't think that I
should be looking at it and thinking,
well, because this personally is going
to impact me, then maybe I should flip
um how I feel about it.
Yeah. I should note also in that
statement, in all fairness, she did talk
about the people in her district who are
facing uh the the same. One of the one
of the issues right now is that you guys
are when you were saying you're you're
asking about next week. So, the House is
out. Um and it was supposed to come back
next week. Now, it's not coming back
next week. What has been communicated
about how long the House is going to be
out? It seems like the idea is that you
don't come back before the shutdown
ends, which seems difficult to do if you
want to actually negotiate some end to
the shutdown.
Yeah, that was my question because I
said, is it that we're not going to go
back until and unless the Senate passes
the House's version? because what if the
Senate actually does come to some sort
of an agreement and the Senate passes a
version then like we need to come back.
So, um that particular member did not
know. Um but his stance was that he was
like, "Aren't the Dems going to cave?"
So, uh you know, I don't know. I don't
work in the Senate. Um you know what I
mean? But I haven't heard anything about
uh any caving going on. And I think this
issue is just too important. And you
know, this is actually a really ripe
time to have these conversations because
one of the reasons I'm sure that Rep.
Green knows that the premiums are going
to double is because this is when people
are actually going through the renewal
process, right? Like this is um when
when most people are signing up for
their plans. And so now they are seeing
in real time what the estimated cost is
going to be.
Let's make one thing clear. This
shutdown is bad for Republicans.
Overwhelmingly, Americans are blaming
Donald Trump and the Republican party,
as they should, for this shutdown. So,
Democrats, continue to hold the line. Do
not bend the knee. Don't get scared.
Don't capitulate. Don't Chuck Schumer
and strongly worded letter your way out
of this thing. No, hold tough. We are
not having a policy dispute right now.
Healthc care, it's not a policy. It's a
human right. stand up for people's
ability to afford to live and not die of
a treatable illness in the wealthiest
nation in the world. That is the fight
we need to continue to bring on what
Crockett said about Marjorie Taylor
Green. She's so right. She really is
only making this big stink in my opinion
because she's either running for
president trying to maybe avoid a
primary in her district trying to make a
big show. This is about Marjorie Taylor
Green. She said that she realized her
kids premiums were going to go up and
that changed her mind. If that's the
only thing you think about as a
representative of millions of people,
you're not representing anyone. Let's
make that damn clear. But Marjorie
Taylor Green is creating a stink that
I'm pretty happy with. She's creating
problems for Donald Trump. And she
leaked the call that they had recently
and also the calls they haven't had in
this clip right here before how we get
into how that is leading to this civil
war. You know, there's reporting that
President Trump, as you know, recently
called at least two senior Republicans
to ask, and I'm quoting now from these
reports, what's going on with Marjorie,
end quote.
Uh, have you talked to the president
about this issue personally? Uh, it's
obviously so personal for you.
Well, you know, the president has my
cell phone number and he's called me
many, many times. So if he wants
how recently how how recent
I don't get into that kind of uh details
but he knows how to call me and he can
ask me himself.
More Republicans break party ranks. MTG
was right. In the unusual world of
Congress during a shutdown, far-right
fire brand Marjgery Taylor Green is
emerged as an unlikely ally of Democrats
seeking to save millions of Americans
from spiraling health care cost. And
she's not the only Republican making
such an admission. The government
shutdown comes as Republicans call for a
clean continuing resolution that funds
the government as it stands. However, at
the end of 2025, the subsidies for the
Affordable Care Act or ACA will expire.
Democrats want a deal to continue the
subsidies, but according to Punch Bowl
News founder Jake Sherman, Republicans
do not want to extend those Obamacare
premium tax credits at all. Period. When
speaking to Senate Republicans who
remain on Capitol Hill during the
shutdown, Ross story found more strange
bedfellows generated by increasing voter
support for tax breaks on health care
costs. Senator Susan Collins said that
the Affordable Care Act is important to
a lot of us, not just the Democrats. She
agreed that the subsidy should be
extended, though she would like to see
some reform. She didn't specify what,
though. But the sooner we can get an
appropriations bill through, the better
off we're going to be, she said. There
are many discussions going on and I have
been in very close contact with Senator
Jean Shaheen, Democrat New Hampshire,
who is very constructive and is trying
to find a path forward. North Carolina
Senator Tom Tillis told RAW story that
he became the second Republican speaker
of the North Carolina state house since
the Civil War because he was convinced
that former President Barack Obama was
going to make a bad healthc care
decision. Now he appears to have
evolved. We will be making a bad health
care decision if we don't help. All
we're really trying to do is reduce the
waste and abuse, he told Ross Story,
noting that it should be a tax cut that
NYX's highincome wage earners. I do
think there should be skin in the game
for people that have means. Ultimately,
he confessed that Marjgery Taylor Green
is right and noted that only a handful
of members want to see the subsidies
expire. That isn't what reporters are
hearing on the House side, however. So
more and more Republicans are waking up
to the political cost that will be
cutting health care for millions of
Americans. Now, I wish they had woken up
to actually caring about people who are
going to have their premiums double and
triple. People who are going to be
paying more than any other individuals,
countries around the world. It's a
little ridiculous that our health care
system is so yet we pay so much for
it because it's not really a health care
system. It's a corporate sick care
system.
Yeah, it's been broken for a while, but
we don't need Republicans to break it
anymore. But that's the argument that
they are trying to make that it needs to
be fixed because it doesn't work. But by
fixed, they mean broken even more so
that you're further dissatisfied with
government and they can try to push you
away from the idea that maybe Medicare
for all is the way to go, which of
course it is. But Donald Trump is in a
weak position because of Marjorie Taylor
Green and further Republican push back.
Why do you think he's going after his
political enemies? needs a distraction
and Lawrence O'Donnell called out that
distraction right here.
Imagine this prosecutor has never
prosecuted a case in her life trying to
convince a trial jury that Attorney
General James willfully lied on the
application and always knew that she was
going to rent out the property. That is
simply not a provable state of mind. And
the prosecutor cannot call Attorney
General James as a witness to ask her
what her state of mind was. And so
there's a very strong chance that this
case, if it makes it to trial, will get
a directed verdict from the judge
finding that the prosecution was
incapable of proving what it claims in
writing in the indictment is a fact.
Attorney General James state of mind.
So, Attorney General James
is probably on her way to take her place
in history with former FBI Director
James Comey at the top of the Trump
enemies list. and as the people who beat
the madman in the White House in court
because that is what is likely to happen
here. You can listen to all sorts of
lawyers talk about this case, but it
comes down to the same elements as the
James Comey case. The first motions are
going to be to disqualify this uh new
acting US attorney. Those motions will
very probably succeed. The other motions
will be to uh identify this as a
selective and prejuditial prosecution.
Those motions will likely succeed and
that'll be the end of the case.
Attorney General James has already
beaten Donald Trump in court for
business fraud practices in the state of
New York. Donald Trump's appealing that
case in the state of New York. James
Comey and Leticia James have the best
defense lawyers you can possibly have in
these cases. They're going to win.
Donald Trump is going to lose. Don't
worry about them. You don't have to
worry about them. There is much to
summon our outrage about in the madness
of the Trump presidency. But the people
who Donald Trump has so far dragged into
court could not possibly be better
equipped or better financed to fight
Donald Trump in court and crush him.
what Donald Trump is doing to other
people in court, what he's doing to
immigrants in this country who show up
at federal courts for their appointments
and then get thrown to the floor by
masked men and beaten and dragged away
from their families and shipped off to
countries that they've never been to.
They deserve the full force of your
outrage. Those people have no resources.
They have no voice. They've done nothing
wrong. They've tried to do everything
white right. They went to that federal
court to do everything right. and their
lives are already ruined. They cannot
wear their deportation as a badge of
honor.
But the attorney general of the state of
New York
can.
This is nothing more than a continuation
of the president's desperate
weaponization of our justice system.
He is forcing federal law enforcement
agencies to do his bidding.
All because I did my job as the New York
State Attorney General.
These charges are baseless and the
president's own public statements make
clear that his only goal is political
retribution at any cost.
This blatant perversion
of our justice system, that is Donald
Trump's perversion.
She's right. She has nothing to fear.
That smile is real.
She knows she's going to win. She knows
Donald Trump's going to lose. And she
knows she can wear her place on the
Trump enemies list as a badge of honor
for the rest of her life. Donald Trump
is going after James Comey, going after
Leticia James because he is weak,
because he knows his poll numbers are
because he knows Republicans are
starting to turn on him and because he
knows that we are fighting back and we
are keeping Epstein in the news and we
are going to continue to do all those
things. And if you want to support us
doing that on this show, as always, you
can hit that subscribe button, leave a
like on this video. If you stuck around
to the end, drop a blue heart in the
comments. And if you want to watch me
debate some AAGA idiots, you can click
right there. Keep on fighting. Don't let
them silence you. Until next time, I'll
see you
by Jack Cocchiarella
Oct 10, 2025 Jack Cocchiarella Show
Political commentator Jack Cocchiarella reacts to the civil war within MAGA that has Donald Trump panicking.
Transcript
There has been a civil war brewing in
MAGA for quite some time. It really
started with Donald Trump's Jeffrey
Epstein scandal and Republicans trying
to figure out how hypocritical they
could be, how uh shamelessly that they
could lie for Donald Trump before some
realized they just can't. And of course,
one of those Republicans is Marjorie
Taylor Green, who has been going on an
allout offensive against Donald Trump in
the recent days, as it looks like
something has flipped in her brain,
which I didn't really even know was
there. But now, Republicans are falling
in line. And after a leaked call has
gone public, it's only getting worse for
Trump. We're going to get into it all
and how it's blowing up his term. But
before we do, if I could quickly ask you
to leave a like on this video, and if
you haven't already and you enjoy our
channel, to hit that subscribe button
because it goes a long way in supporting
her work. Now, before we get into the
MAGA civil war abbrupting and that
leak's call that is really sparking it
all, I want to start with what Jasmine
Crockett had to say about Marjorie
Taylor Green because I think it's
important context on the shutdown and
her attack on Trump.
I just talked to one of my Republican
colleagues about 30 minutes ago. Um
because I was trying to find out if we
were actually going to go back into
session next week um as my staff is
trying to plan what's going on. But I
can tell you, uh, we actually discussed
that Marjorie was flipping on this
because it seems like everything that is
important, this child ain't read the
bill and has no idea of what's going on.
I don't understand why Georgia keeps
sending her um to DC, but uh, this is
not the first time that she wasn't quite
clear on what damage it was that her
party was ushering in. But listen, I
will take her seeing the light uh, at
any point in time. And so, yeah, it's
sad that she can only see the light when
it directly impacts her because she is
elected to represent almost a million
people. And so, not listening to your
constituents is their calling and
they're talking about their struggles,
but then making it about your children,
your adult children, because their
premiums are going to go up. Listen,
I'll take a yes vote or somebody coming
to the table, whatever way I can get it,
but I just don't believe that that's how
government is supposed to work. I don't
have any children. when I am governing,
I am governing for the people that
elected me. And I don't think that I
should be looking at it and thinking,
well, because this personally is going
to impact me, then maybe I should flip
um how I feel about it.
Yeah. I should note also in that
statement, in all fairness, she did talk
about the people in her district who are
facing uh the the same. One of the one
of the issues right now is that you guys
are when you were saying you're you're
asking about next week. So, the House is
out. Um and it was supposed to come back
next week. Now, it's not coming back
next week. What has been communicated
about how long the House is going to be
out? It seems like the idea is that you
don't come back before the shutdown
ends, which seems difficult to do if you
want to actually negotiate some end to
the shutdown.
Yeah, that was my question because I
said, is it that we're not going to go
back until and unless the Senate passes
the House's version? because what if the
Senate actually does come to some sort
of an agreement and the Senate passes a
version then like we need to come back.
So, um that particular member did not
know. Um but his stance was that he was
like, "Aren't the Dems going to cave?"
So, uh you know, I don't know. I don't
work in the Senate. Um you know what I
mean? But I haven't heard anything about
uh any caving going on. And I think this
issue is just too important. And you
know, this is actually a really ripe
time to have these conversations because
one of the reasons I'm sure that Rep.
Green knows that the premiums are going
to double is because this is when people
are actually going through the renewal
process, right? Like this is um when
when most people are signing up for
their plans. And so now they are seeing
in real time what the estimated cost is
going to be.
Let's make one thing clear. This
shutdown is bad for Republicans.
Overwhelmingly, Americans are blaming
Donald Trump and the Republican party,
as they should, for this shutdown. So,
Democrats, continue to hold the line. Do
not bend the knee. Don't get scared.
Don't capitulate. Don't Chuck Schumer
and strongly worded letter your way out
of this thing. No, hold tough. We are
not having a policy dispute right now.
Healthc care, it's not a policy. It's a
human right. stand up for people's
ability to afford to live and not die of
a treatable illness in the wealthiest
nation in the world. That is the fight
we need to continue to bring on what
Crockett said about Marjorie Taylor
Green. She's so right. She really is
only making this big stink in my opinion
because she's either running for
president trying to maybe avoid a
primary in her district trying to make a
big show. This is about Marjorie Taylor
Green. She said that she realized her
kids premiums were going to go up and
that changed her mind. If that's the
only thing you think about as a
representative of millions of people,
you're not representing anyone. Let's
make that damn clear. But Marjorie
Taylor Green is creating a stink that
I'm pretty happy with. She's creating
problems for Donald Trump. And she
leaked the call that they had recently
and also the calls they haven't had in
this clip right here before how we get
into how that is leading to this civil
war. You know, there's reporting that
President Trump, as you know, recently
called at least two senior Republicans
to ask, and I'm quoting now from these
reports, what's going on with Marjorie,
end quote.
Uh, have you talked to the president
about this issue personally? Uh, it's
obviously so personal for you.
Well, you know, the president has my
cell phone number and he's called me
many, many times. So if he wants
how recently how how recent
I don't get into that kind of uh details
but he knows how to call me and he can
ask me himself.
More Republicans break party ranks. MTG
was right. In the unusual world of
Congress during a shutdown, far-right
fire brand Marjgery Taylor Green is
emerged as an unlikely ally of Democrats
seeking to save millions of Americans
from spiraling health care cost. And
she's not the only Republican making
such an admission. The government
shutdown comes as Republicans call for a
clean continuing resolution that funds
the government as it stands. However, at
the end of 2025, the subsidies for the
Affordable Care Act or ACA will expire.
Democrats want a deal to continue the
subsidies, but according to Punch Bowl
News founder Jake Sherman, Republicans
do not want to extend those Obamacare
premium tax credits at all. Period. When
speaking to Senate Republicans who
remain on Capitol Hill during the
shutdown, Ross story found more strange
bedfellows generated by increasing voter
support for tax breaks on health care
costs. Senator Susan Collins said that
the Affordable Care Act is important to
a lot of us, not just the Democrats. She
agreed that the subsidy should be
extended, though she would like to see
some reform. She didn't specify what,
though. But the sooner we can get an
appropriations bill through, the better
off we're going to be, she said. There
are many discussions going on and I have
been in very close contact with Senator
Jean Shaheen, Democrat New Hampshire,
who is very constructive and is trying
to find a path forward. North Carolina
Senator Tom Tillis told RAW story that
he became the second Republican speaker
of the North Carolina state house since
the Civil War because he was convinced
that former President Barack Obama was
going to make a bad healthc care
decision. Now he appears to have
evolved. We will be making a bad health
care decision if we don't help. All
we're really trying to do is reduce the
waste and abuse, he told Ross Story,
noting that it should be a tax cut that
NYX's highincome wage earners. I do
think there should be skin in the game
for people that have means. Ultimately,
he confessed that Marjgery Taylor Green
is right and noted that only a handful
of members want to see the subsidies
expire. That isn't what reporters are
hearing on the House side, however. So
more and more Republicans are waking up
to the political cost that will be
cutting health care for millions of
Americans. Now, I wish they had woken up
to actually caring about people who are
going to have their premiums double and
triple. People who are going to be
paying more than any other individuals,
countries around the world. It's a
little ridiculous that our health care
system is so yet we pay so much for
it because it's not really a health care
system. It's a corporate sick care
system.
Yeah, it's been broken for a while, but
we don't need Republicans to break it
anymore. But that's the argument that
they are trying to make that it needs to
be fixed because it doesn't work. But by
fixed, they mean broken even more so
that you're further dissatisfied with
government and they can try to push you
away from the idea that maybe Medicare
for all is the way to go, which of
course it is. But Donald Trump is in a
weak position because of Marjorie Taylor
Green and further Republican push back.
Why do you think he's going after his
political enemies? needs a distraction
and Lawrence O'Donnell called out that
distraction right here.
Imagine this prosecutor has never
prosecuted a case in her life trying to
convince a trial jury that Attorney
General James willfully lied on the
application and always knew that she was
going to rent out the property. That is
simply not a provable state of mind. And
the prosecutor cannot call Attorney
General James as a witness to ask her
what her state of mind was. And so
there's a very strong chance that this
case, if it makes it to trial, will get
a directed verdict from the judge
finding that the prosecution was
incapable of proving what it claims in
writing in the indictment is a fact.
Attorney General James state of mind.
So, Attorney General James
is probably on her way to take her place
in history with former FBI Director
James Comey at the top of the Trump
enemies list. and as the people who beat
the madman in the White House in court
because that is what is likely to happen
here. You can listen to all sorts of
lawyers talk about this case, but it
comes down to the same elements as the
James Comey case. The first motions are
going to be to disqualify this uh new
acting US attorney. Those motions will
very probably succeed. The other motions
will be to uh identify this as a
selective and prejuditial prosecution.
Those motions will likely succeed and
that'll be the end of the case.
Attorney General James has already
beaten Donald Trump in court for
business fraud practices in the state of
New York. Donald Trump's appealing that
case in the state of New York. James
Comey and Leticia James have the best
defense lawyers you can possibly have in
these cases. They're going to win.
Donald Trump is going to lose. Don't
worry about them. You don't have to
worry about them. There is much to
summon our outrage about in the madness
of the Trump presidency. But the people
who Donald Trump has so far dragged into
court could not possibly be better
equipped or better financed to fight
Donald Trump in court and crush him.
what Donald Trump is doing to other
people in court, what he's doing to
immigrants in this country who show up
at federal courts for their appointments
and then get thrown to the floor by
masked men and beaten and dragged away
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Oct 9, 2025
Attorneys Brian Kabateck and Shant Karnikian expose how Trump quietly issued National Security Presidential Memorandum 7 (NSPM-7), a sweeping directive that weaponizes federal law enforcement to investigate enforcement to investigate and disrupt Americans based on their political beliefs rather than criminal actions. The hosts reveal how this presidential decree—issued with little publicity unlike traditional executive orders—directs the Justice Department, FBI, and IRS to target individuals and tax-exempt organizations exhibiting what Trump defines as "indicia of political violence," including holding views described as anti-Christian, anti-capitalist, anti-American, or having positions on migration, race, and gender that conflict with "traditional American values." They warn that major law firms, such as Arnold & Porter, are advising clients that activities historically protected by the First Amendment may now be subject to criminal prosecution. The directive makes clear that the DOJ intends to strip tax-exempt status and prosecute organizations and their funders for constitutionally protected speech.
Kabateck LLP: Call
Transcript
The Trump administration is making plans
to start prosecuting people for their
beliefs and their positions on things.
Not their actions, but their beliefs.
Today we're looking at the NSPM7,
which is a new directive that Trump
issued that stands for the National
Security Presidential Memorandum 7. Um,
this happened recently. It happened kind
of quietly and they didn't really
publicize it and I think mainstream
media didn't really pick it up. They
thought of this as a executive order.
and we're going to talk about it today
and we're going to talk about the risks
it poses and and how this is actually a
very scary thing that that may violate
many laws and is very unconventional.
I'm Sean Kernikin. That's Brian Kabet.
This is Civil Action on the Legal AF
Network. If you like this content, hit
that subscribe button, hit that like
button, share this with whoever you
think might be interested, especially
this episode is a very interesting and
and frightening thing that I think needs
to be covered. Um, so Brian, where do we
start with this with the NSB?
Yeah, it really is. I mean, look,
they've been nibbling around this the
corners of this since the Kirk
assassination and of course trying to
maximize the value of the Kirk
assassination for their own agenda. And
what they've been nibbling around the
corners on has constantly been we're
going to go after liberalleaning groups.
We're going to go and they're trying to
tie anybody who disagrees with the
position of the administration to some
kind of criminal activity. They're
trying to strip their tax-free status.
But you're absolutely right, Sean. This
this is something that flew below the
radar that most people don't know about.
And I think that's why it's important
that people do share um these videos,
these podcasts we do so that other
people know exactly what's going on
because I guarantee you the average
person on the street doesn't know. So,
let's do a dive into what NSPM is
actually trying to accomplish here. What
it what it says. So it it's trying to
draw an indisha of violence to certain
statements. Okay. So first of all, we're
talking about speech and content of
speech, right?
Yeah. Yeah. And and by the way, let's
talk about how it kind of works cuz it
this is easy to confuse with an
executive order. executive order. Yes,
it's powerful, but it lays out publicly,
always publicly, the the course of
day-to-day government operations.
Whereas a national security directive is
a sweeping policy decree for, you know,
how intelligence and law enforcement and
and defense should operate in this
country. Um, often times they're secret.
They're issued in secret. For example,
in 1980, Jimmy Carter signed one. um
about nuclear prolifer proliferation or
nuclear arsenal. Um this happens in
secret but then they get declassified.
George W. Bush uh signed some after
9/11. Uh one of them including the NSA's
intercepts were ultimately which were
ultimately declared unlawful. You know,
and these weren't revealed at the time.
It often comes out later when they're
declassified. So this is Trump's seventh
one since he's been in office.
But this was declassified. This this was
never classified
was publicized. Yeah. Well, it was
publicly released, but it wasn't
publicized much. And it it's it's
entitled Countering Domestic Terrorism
and Organized Political Violence. And he
basically directs the Justice
Department, the FBI, other law
enforcement apparatus within the federal
government to basically fight what he
calls political violence. But if you
really start looking at it, um, what
they're using as indisha of having
political violence or being, you know,
organizations that that should be
investigated, it's kind of scary stuff.
Um,
yeah, let's go through them. Let's go
through what some of this indishia is of
of political violence or of, you know,
anything that they consider to be uh
contrary that they should investigate.
Anti-Christian, anti- capitalism,
uh, anti-Americanism. I mean what what
is that?
Yeah.
Um extremism on migration, extremism on
race, extremism on gender. I mean it is
sort of like the MAGA um manifesto,
right? It's hostility towards those who
hold traditional American values on
family, on religion, on morality.
Yeah.
Okay. So it's the thought police.
Yeah. It's the thought police. It's it's
the uh Minority Report. Have you ever
seen that movie? You know, getting
arrested before you could commit a crime
because you thought about committing the
crime. I mean, this is and these aren't.
First of all, none of these things are
crimes. Uh political violence is a
crime. That's for sure. Uh but what it's
trying to do is directing strategy to
disrupt these individuals or groups too,
by the way. It's not. So, you know, I
think
it's trying to draw a bridge. It's
trying to draw a bridge between
political violence and and groups and
organizations that the administration
views as contrary to them. And you know,
I want to take a word on an antifa
because that's become a mega buzzword.
You know, there is it's a loose
organization. There's no leadership.
There's no Antifa group. It basically
means anti-fascism.
And they've, you know, they've demonized
it. And and I don't know whether there
are people in Antifa that, you know,
would advocate the violent overthrow of
the United States. That's fine. if they
are.
I don't even think it's an official
organization. I think it it's not.
That's the point. It's not. It's But if
you talk to a MAGA person, they think
Antifa is this, you know, network that's
spread across the country. Like, oh, I
don't know, you know, like the Proud
Boys.
Yeah. I mean, well, it's cuz they need a
boogeyman. In every one of these
circumstances, they need a boogeyman.
This is typical uh playbook for the the
the MAGA verse for the Trump
administration and this is their new
boogeyman. And what's I think very
frightening about this is that they're
sort of weaponizing or they're giving
the the green light for these law
enforcement um arms within the federal
government, the DOJ, the FBI, the IRS to
sort of investigate and I think the
words they use are investigate and
disrupt these groups purely based on
their beliefs. I mean, that's the scary
part of this. So, you know, and and I
think it's so serious, Seant, that that
we know that some major law firms, you
know, that are out there advising their
clients, they're advising their clients,
quote, "The stakes are high." This is a
firm called Arnold and Porter, which is
one of the largest law firms in the
world. And um it says the presidential
memorandum makes clear that the
Department of Justice intends to target
taxexempt organizations and their
funders for investigation and potential
criminal prosecution, including based on
activities that have been historically
viewed as protected by the First
Amendment. So that that basically sums
it up. But what these law firms are
saying is you need to be careful
because the government of the United
States is going to come after you. And
right now I have word that there's a
hundred organizations out there,
left-leaning organizations who have
banded together in and vowed in a letter
to um push back on this attack in the
Philip philopropic.
Gee, I'm struggling with that word,
right? I sound like Trump philanthropic
center. Um and these are, you know,
intended to de to undermine these
organizations. So it literally shot Sean
would be the death nail of some smaller
organizations. All of a sudden they get
audited or their tax status gets removed
because of the position they have not
because of something they've actually
done not because I don't know they
orchestrated some uh you know protest
that got violent or even not got violent
whatever. No, before that it even gets
there, this whole idea, this this NS
NSPM is giving these law enforcement
agencies the the directive to go after
folks and organizations for their
thinking, for their beliefs, for their
for what they stand for, which you know,
and and that line you read about things
that are historically uh protected by
the First Amendment, that's kind of
terrifying that that a major law firm
has to advise its clients that, you
know, while these things have been
historically protected by uh major law
uh by uh the first amendment. Um now
they might not be. Um I think this
directive is a huge violation of the
first amendment. I I think it's a major
problem. I mean, for example, let's just
let's just use a hypothetical here,
which is typical in law schools, which
is, you know, Sean, I want you to assume
that the ACLU, which, you know, we know
represents people who are trying to
exercise free speech rights, for
example. Um, suddenly is deemed as being
unamerican.
Yeah.
Right. And they go after the ACLU. They
want to get rid of the ACLU. go after
groups that aren't, you know, directly
tied to the Judeo kind of Christian
values of supposedly the Trump
administration. Although I have personal
doubts whether or not Trump has any of
those personal values. But I think
that's what they're going to do and I
think that's that's exactly what they're
trying to do here is go after these um
these various organizations.
Yeah. uh one of the law firms uh one of
these big law firms warned their clients
that um you know even individuals could
face criminal exposure under under the
uh under this type of
you know and that's a good question.
What is the problem that the Republicans
have with George Soros?
I don't know. I don't know. They're
obsessed with another boogeyman though
that's it's just another boogeyman. I
mean there's a counterpart on the
Republicans add you know Miriam Add is
the surviving spouse of of um
the Sheldon AD right very wealthy gave a
lot of money still gives a lot of money
to Republican causes so George Soros
does the same on the left but man you
talk to a mega person and they they just
view him as the devil incarnate and
obviously the Trump administration does
too and obviously he's a very wealthy
person who's giving a lot of money to
these causes. Yeah, I I mean this is
it's terrifying stuff. Um and we need to
be aware of this. You know, stuff like
this kind of
I don't know why this one specifically
wasn't on everyone's radar, but I think
it's a big deal. Um and and I think
it'll be challenged. A lot of this is
going to be challenged in the courts and
and I hope it shakes out the right way.
But, you know, this is a I I think a
kind of a new bigger step that the
administration has taken in in
weaponizing or um the law enforcement
agencies to go after people for their
thinking. That's the truly terrifying
part of it. So, you know, new thought
police are coming, the the Trump thought
police and you know, I wonder how the
right feels about this about, you know,
people that are for small government. I
wonder how they feel about thought
police being out there and monitoring
how people think and and potentially
Well, I think once again that that you
know, and this is my last thought on
this. I think once again they they fly
some of the stuff below the radar or
they dress it up. They put lipstick on
the pig and they try to make it sound
like they're trying to protect America
when in fact they're just trying to
advance their own agenda. They're trying
to shut down people who disagree with
them. Um, but look, this is why I said
at the beginning, my last comment on
this, this is why it's important that
people share this information and let
people know what's going on.
Yeah. Just being aware of this. Even if
it's someone on the other side of the
political spectrum, I still think that
there's some common ground that can be
found. I think everyone on both sides
should be outraged by this type of
conduct because if it was a Democrat
doing this and doing stuff like this and
creating thought police, I think
Republicans would be very upset and
rightfully so. Um, so I think it's very
important that we find common ground
across the political spectrum on why
this is wrong. So, you know, with that,
you know, I think we should wrap this
up. I'm Sean Kikin. That's Brian Kabet.
We're two lawyers at a firm called
Kabetch LLP. This is Civil Action on the
Legal AF Network. If you like this
content, like we said, share it, like
it, subscribe, but but but also, you
know, get it out there. Get this message
out there so we can find some common
ground with everyone, every American.
Thanks for tuning in. We'll see you on
the next one.
Legal AF
Oct 9, 2025
Attorneys Brian Kabateck and Shant Karnikian expose how Trump quietly issued National Security Presidential Memorandum 7 (NSPM-7), a sweeping directive that weaponizes federal law enforcement to investigate enforcement to investigate and disrupt Americans based on their political beliefs rather than criminal actions. The hosts reveal how this presidential decree—issued with little publicity unlike traditional executive orders—directs the Justice Department, FBI, and IRS to target individuals and tax-exempt organizations exhibiting what Trump defines as "indicia of political violence," including holding views described as anti-Christian, anti-capitalist, anti-American, or having positions on migration, race, and gender that conflict with "traditional American values." They warn that major law firms, such as Arnold & Porter, are advising clients that activities historically protected by the First Amendment may now be subject to criminal prosecution. The directive makes clear that the DOJ intends to strip tax-exempt status and prosecute organizations and their funders for constitutionally protected speech.
Kabateck LLP: Call
Transcript
The Trump administration is making plans
to start prosecuting people for their
beliefs and their positions on things.
Not their actions, but their beliefs.
Today we're looking at the NSPM7,
which is a new directive that Trump
issued that stands for the National
Security Presidential Memorandum 7. Um,
this happened recently. It happened kind
of quietly and they didn't really
publicize it and I think mainstream
media didn't really pick it up. They
thought of this as a executive order.
and we're going to talk about it today
and we're going to talk about the risks
it poses and and how this is actually a
very scary thing that that may violate
many laws and is very unconventional.
I'm Sean Kernikin. That's Brian Kabet.
This is Civil Action on the Legal AF
Network. If you like this content, hit
that subscribe button, hit that like
button, share this with whoever you
think might be interested, especially
this episode is a very interesting and
and frightening thing that I think needs
to be covered. Um, so Brian, where do we
start with this with the NSB?
Yeah, it really is. I mean, look,
they've been nibbling around this the
corners of this since the Kirk
assassination and of course trying to
maximize the value of the Kirk
assassination for their own agenda. And
what they've been nibbling around the
corners on has constantly been we're
going to go after liberalleaning groups.
We're going to go and they're trying to
tie anybody who disagrees with the
position of the administration to some
kind of criminal activity. They're
trying to strip their tax-free status.
But you're absolutely right, Sean. This
this is something that flew below the
radar that most people don't know about.
And I think that's why it's important
that people do share um these videos,
these podcasts we do so that other
people know exactly what's going on
because I guarantee you the average
person on the street doesn't know. So,
let's do a dive into what NSPM is
actually trying to accomplish here. What
it what it says. So it it's trying to
draw an indisha of violence to certain
statements. Okay. So first of all, we're
talking about speech and content of
speech, right?
Yeah. Yeah. And and by the way, let's
talk about how it kind of works cuz it
this is easy to confuse with an
executive order. executive order. Yes,
it's powerful, but it lays out publicly,
always publicly, the the course of
day-to-day government operations.
Whereas a national security directive is
a sweeping policy decree for, you know,
how intelligence and law enforcement and
and defense should operate in this
country. Um, often times they're secret.
They're issued in secret. For example,
in 1980, Jimmy Carter signed one. um
about nuclear prolifer proliferation or
nuclear arsenal. Um this happens in
secret but then they get declassified.
George W. Bush uh signed some after
9/11. Uh one of them including the NSA's
intercepts were ultimately which were
ultimately declared unlawful. You know,
and these weren't revealed at the time.
It often comes out later when they're
declassified. So this is Trump's seventh
one since he's been in office.
But this was declassified. This this was
never classified
was publicized. Yeah. Well, it was
publicly released, but it wasn't
publicized much. And it it's it's
entitled Countering Domestic Terrorism
and Organized Political Violence. And he
basically directs the Justice
Department, the FBI, other law
enforcement apparatus within the federal
government to basically fight what he
calls political violence. But if you
really start looking at it, um, what
they're using as indisha of having
political violence or being, you know,
organizations that that should be
investigated, it's kind of scary stuff.
Um,
yeah, let's go through them. Let's go
through what some of this indishia is of
of political violence or of, you know,
anything that they consider to be uh
contrary that they should investigate.
Anti-Christian, anti- capitalism,
uh, anti-Americanism. I mean what what
is that?
Yeah.
Um extremism on migration, extremism on
race, extremism on gender. I mean it is
sort of like the MAGA um manifesto,
right? It's hostility towards those who
hold traditional American values on
family, on religion, on morality.
Yeah.
Okay. So it's the thought police.
Yeah. It's the thought police. It's it's
the uh Minority Report. Have you ever
seen that movie? You know, getting
arrested before you could commit a crime
because you thought about committing the
crime. I mean, this is and these aren't.
First of all, none of these things are
crimes. Uh political violence is a
crime. That's for sure. Uh but what it's
trying to do is directing strategy to
disrupt these individuals or groups too,
by the way. It's not. So, you know, I
think
it's trying to draw a bridge. It's
trying to draw a bridge between
political violence and and groups and
organizations that the administration
views as contrary to them. And you know,
I want to take a word on an antifa
because that's become a mega buzzword.
You know, there is it's a loose
organization. There's no leadership.
There's no Antifa group. It basically
means anti-fascism.
And they've, you know, they've demonized
it. And and I don't know whether there
are people in Antifa that, you know,
would advocate the violent overthrow of
the United States. That's fine. if they
are.
I don't even think it's an official
organization. I think it it's not.
That's the point. It's not. It's But if
you talk to a MAGA person, they think
Antifa is this, you know, network that's
spread across the country. Like, oh, I
don't know, you know, like the Proud
Boys.
Yeah. I mean, well, it's cuz they need a
boogeyman. In every one of these
circumstances, they need a boogeyman.
This is typical uh playbook for the the
the MAGA verse for the Trump
administration and this is their new
boogeyman. And what's I think very
frightening about this is that they're
sort of weaponizing or they're giving
the the green light for these law
enforcement um arms within the federal
government, the DOJ, the FBI, the IRS to
sort of investigate and I think the
words they use are investigate and
disrupt these groups purely based on
their beliefs. I mean, that's the scary
part of this. So, you know, and and I
think it's so serious, Seant, that that
we know that some major law firms, you
know, that are out there advising their
clients, they're advising their clients,
quote, "The stakes are high." This is a
firm called Arnold and Porter, which is
one of the largest law firms in the
world. And um it says the presidential
memorandum makes clear that the
Department of Justice intends to target
taxexempt organizations and their
funders for investigation and potential
criminal prosecution, including based on
activities that have been historically
viewed as protected by the First
Amendment. So that that basically sums
it up. But what these law firms are
saying is you need to be careful
because the government of the United
States is going to come after you. And
right now I have word that there's a
hundred organizations out there,
left-leaning organizations who have
banded together in and vowed in a letter
to um push back on this attack in the
Philip philopropic.
Gee, I'm struggling with that word,
right? I sound like Trump philanthropic
center. Um and these are, you know,
intended to de to undermine these
organizations. So it literally shot Sean
would be the death nail of some smaller
organizations. All of a sudden they get
audited or their tax status gets removed
because of the position they have not
because of something they've actually
done not because I don't know they
orchestrated some uh you know protest
that got violent or even not got violent
whatever. No, before that it even gets
there, this whole idea, this this NS
NSPM is giving these law enforcement
agencies the the directive to go after
folks and organizations for their
thinking, for their beliefs, for their
for what they stand for, which you know,
and and that line you read about things
that are historically uh protected by
the First Amendment, that's kind of
terrifying that that a major law firm
has to advise its clients that, you
know, while these things have been
historically protected by uh major law
uh by uh the first amendment. Um now
they might not be. Um I think this
directive is a huge violation of the
first amendment. I I think it's a major
problem. I mean, for example, let's just
let's just use a hypothetical here,
which is typical in law schools, which
is, you know, Sean, I want you to assume
that the ACLU, which, you know, we know
represents people who are trying to
exercise free speech rights, for
example. Um, suddenly is deemed as being
unamerican.
Yeah.
Right. And they go after the ACLU. They
want to get rid of the ACLU. go after
groups that aren't, you know, directly
tied to the Judeo kind of Christian
values of supposedly the Trump
administration. Although I have personal
doubts whether or not Trump has any of
those personal values. But I think
that's what they're going to do and I
think that's that's exactly what they're
trying to do here is go after these um
these various organizations.
Yeah. uh one of the law firms uh one of
these big law firms warned their clients
that um you know even individuals could
face criminal exposure under under the
uh under this type of
you know and that's a good question.
What is the problem that the Republicans
have with George Soros?
I don't know. I don't know. They're
obsessed with another boogeyman though
that's it's just another boogeyman. I
mean there's a counterpart on the
Republicans add you know Miriam Add is
the surviving spouse of of um
the Sheldon AD right very wealthy gave a
lot of money still gives a lot of money
to Republican causes so George Soros
does the same on the left but man you
talk to a mega person and they they just
view him as the devil incarnate and
obviously the Trump administration does
too and obviously he's a very wealthy
person who's giving a lot of money to
these causes. Yeah, I I mean this is
it's terrifying stuff. Um and we need to
be aware of this. You know, stuff like
this kind of
I don't know why this one specifically
wasn't on everyone's radar, but I think
it's a big deal. Um and and I think
it'll be challenged. A lot of this is
going to be challenged in the courts and
and I hope it shakes out the right way.
But, you know, this is a I I think a
kind of a new bigger step that the
administration has taken in in
weaponizing or um the law enforcement
agencies to go after people for their
thinking. That's the truly terrifying
part of it. So, you know, new thought
police are coming, the the Trump thought
police and you know, I wonder how the
right feels about this about, you know,
people that are for small government. I
wonder how they feel about thought
police being out there and monitoring
how people think and and potentially
Well, I think once again that that you
know, and this is my last thought on
this. I think once again they they fly
some of the stuff below the radar or
they dress it up. They put lipstick on
the pig and they try to make it sound
like they're trying to protect America
when in fact they're just trying to
advance their own agenda. They're trying
to shut down people who disagree with
them. Um, but look, this is why I said
at the beginning, my last comment on
this, this is why it's important that
people share this information and let
people know what's going on.
Yeah. Just being aware of this. Even if
it's someone on the other side of the
political spectrum, I still think that
there's some common ground that can be
found. I think everyone on both sides
should be outraged by this type of
conduct because if it was a Democrat
doing this and doing stuff like this and
creating thought police, I think
Republicans would be very upset and
rightfully so. Um, so I think it's very
important that we find common ground
across the political spectrum on why
this is wrong. So, you know, with that,
you know, I think we should wrap this
up. I'm Sean Kikin. That's Brian Kabet.
We're two lawyers at a firm called
Kabetch LLP. This is Civil Action on the
Legal AF Network. If you like this
content, like we said, share it, like
it, subscribe, but but but also, you
know, get it out there. Get this message
out there so we can find some common
ground with everyone, every American.
Thanks for tuning in. We'll see you on
the next one.
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