'The time is now to stand up!': Eric Holder sounds alarm on Trump's war on the rule of law
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Who is Eric Holder and why is his perspective important on Trump's policies?
We do have Obama administration Attorney General Eric Holder here tonight. I have been trying to get him to do an interview here on the show for a gazillion years, but he is here tonight. And boy, what a night for it. I'm really, really, really looking forward to that conversation. I hope you are as well. That is coming up in just a moment. This was Springfield, Massachusetts today.
Protesters were outside of the federal building on Main Street in Springfield, chanting. We say fight back. Holding signs that read, hands off our social security. The group made up of concerned citizens and advocacy organizations believe social security that supports 73 million Americans is in danger.
The changes that this government is trying to impose have a great deal of pain for a lot of people.
Their concerns are centered around the Doge cuts to Social Security and the modernization of online systems, as well as the threat of a cutoff of telephone services that was scheduled to take effect April 14, but has since been pushed back.
The good news is that pushback has happened a little bit and worked a little bit. We all have to do more. No time to stop.
The Social Security Administration plans to cut over 7,000 employees and to close regional offices, which people worry could create an even bigger problem. Seniors and disabled residents tell 22 News this could break the system and interrupt benefit payments.
This is really dire. This is just going to throw a lot of old people and people with disabilities on the street. This is unconscionable. I can't imagine. What are they thinking?
That was Springfield, Massachusetts, just today. This was Washington, D.C., today. As the Republicans did today, managed to pass their budget plan through the House. They tried last night, couldn't do it, pulled it at the last minute. But then they got it through today. It will trade huge tax cuts. benefiting the richest people in the country for huge Medicaid cuts, taking healthcare benefits away from more than 70 million regular Americans. People turned out today in Washington to protest that. This was Bloomington, Indiana today, where students and Bloomington community members turned up and protested after the Trump administration started stripping visas from kids at that school, kids studying at Indiana University, forcing them to abandon their studies and flee the country under threat of being arrested and imprisoned.
We saw the same at UC San Diego, protests there today in response to Trump revoking student visas from students at UCSD as well. We saw the same in Minnesota, people coming out and protesting against students at the University of Minnesota at Mankato, where at least one student has already been seized, been grabbed by Trump's agents and more University of Minnesota students are now under the same threat.
After two separate incidents on MSU Mankato's campus over the past couple weeks, Mavericks for Change, alongside other student groups, demonstrated on campus Wednesday. The first incident saw a still unidentified student detained by ICE, and another saw five international students have their visas revoked unexpectedly.
University of Minnesota at Mankato. This was Connecticut yesterday. New Haven, Connecticut. There's a small airport there called Tweed Airport, and protests sprung up at the airport. Now, that's because there's an airline that operates out of New Haven Airport, a small carrier called Avelo Airlines, A-V-E-L-O. You see it there painted on the side of the plane. Avelo Airlines has signed a contract with the Trump administration with ICE. to fly people out of the country on Trump's deportation flights. And they are doing that. They've announced that they've signed that contract with ICE to do Trump's deportation flights while they're still trying to market themselves to the public as a nice airline you might want to fly for your own vacation or business travel or whatever. You can see why that might not turn out to be a feasible combination.
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