Democracy Now! Audio

Democracy Now! Monday, January 18, 2021

Authorities across the U.S. brace for more violence by armed right-wing extremists in the lead-up to Joe Biden's inauguration; As the U.S. COVID death toll nears 400,000, we speak with Dr. Peter Salk, whose father developed the first polio vaccine.

We speak to lawyer John Bonifaz and professor Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor about Donald Trump's historic second impeachment; More than 8,000 people in the U.S. die from COVID-19 over the past two days as complaints grow over slow vaccine distribution.

As President Trump continues to deny any responsibility for the attack on the U.S. Capitol, we speak with Timothy Snyder, a historian of fascism, about what comes next; The coronavirus hits Latinx and Indigenous communities in Los Angeles the hardest.

Filipino scholar Walden Bello on the push to impeach Trump and the violent right-wing groups he has inspired; A federal judge grants a stay of execution for Lisa Montgomery, who was set to be the first woman executed by the federal government since 1953.

Nancy Pelosi threatens to begin impeachment hearings for Trump if Vice President Mike Pence doesn't support removing him from office; We debate Big Tech's response to the Capitol insurrection with academic Ramesh Srinivasan and author Chris Hedges.

Rep. Ro Khanna on new efforts to remove President Trump from office; Looking at Joe Biden's Justice Department picks with The Nation's Elie Mystal; We speak to Rebekah Jones, a data scientist who blew the whistle on Florida's misleading COVID-19 numbers.

A violent mob incited by President Trump stormed the U.S. Capitol Wednesday, some carrying Confederate flags like the one torn down by Bree Newsome Bass. We talk to Bass; Manisha Sinha, historian of slavery and Reconstruction; and journalist Allan Nairn.

Democrats Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff appear to have won the Senate runoff elections in Georgia; Washington braces for possibly violent protests by Trump supporters; The white police officer who shot Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wisconsin, won't be charged.

Republicans in Georgia denounce President Trump's efforts to overturn the state's election results; Polls open in Georgia for two key Senate runoff races; Israel vaccinates a record number of people, but not Palestinians in the Occupied Territories.

A British judge blocks the extradition of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to the U.S.; President Trump pressures Georgia's Republican secretary of state to "find" enough votes to overturn Biden's victory in the 2020 election in an hour-long phone call.