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6.27.26 · Washington Post

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the reading of today's Washington Post paper for Saturday,
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June twenty seventh of twenty twenty six. Your reader is Alistaina,
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with a reminder that radio as for those blind with
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other difficulties in holding a reading printed material. And I
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will start with the first page of the Washington Post.
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And on the very far left Bolton admits his guilt
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in plea deal. Ex Trump advisor who became a critic
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faces up to five years by Katie Mettler and Jeremy Roebuck.
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In the center of the front page, at the very top,
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across four columns, it's a picture of a group at
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the Great American State Fail and it's his Education Secretary
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Linda MacMahon left, well, she's on the left, and Agriculture
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Secretary Brooke Rollins, who is next to her. Oversee and
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exhibit Friday by members of the Future Farmers of America.
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The FFA power outages and other problems led to ride
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delays and melted ice cream, but many visitors made the
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best of the sixteen days event opening.
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Speaker 2: On the National Mall. And this is a judging.
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Speaker 1: It looks like of goats and they are in a
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pen and you see I've never seen a spotted goat before,
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but here's a spotted goat. I mean, it really does
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look like a dalmatian. And then there are one, two,
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three others, four others lined up, white ones, and then
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one brown one and what I think look like typical
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goats being judged, I suppose a dirt floor. And on
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the far right of that picture, on the right hand column,
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US attacks sites in Iran retaliation for Hermu's ship strike.
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Trump accuses Tehran of violating ceasefire by Karen DeYoung. Below
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the American State Fair picture is access to latest chat
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GPT model subject to vetting. The US government will decide
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who gets to use the newest upgrade by Garrett Dovinic
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and Isaac Arnstorfft of San Francisco. And to the left
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of that, below the John Bolton article Nation braces for
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fallout as temporary statuses end, panic ripples through communities, nursing homes,
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and factories by Maria Checchetti and Lauren Keori Gurley. And
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then there is a picture of the awful situation down
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in Venezuela. Twin quakes test US's friendlier Venezuela ties the
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country once rejected American Disaster Aid this time is different
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by Terence McCoy, And there is a picture of a
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gentleman poking up, I mean his head is just poking in.
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His hands look like they are across a rebarb, horizontal rebarb.
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And his name is Franklin Puentes, who is searching for
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missing relatives Friday in the collapsed building where they lived
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two days after the earthquakes struck La Greia, Venezuela. He
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has a mask on from the days of the pandemic
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and is nothing but cement, concrete and rubble around him.
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And you just see top of his body, head, hands
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and shoulders as he's standing in the rubble. Let's go
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to the first article on the very left hand side
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of the page. Former Trump advisor John Bolton pleads guilty
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in classified file's case. Bolton served as National Security advisor
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in Donald Trump's first administration before becoming a vocal critic
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of the president. And there's a picture of John Bolton
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in a blue suit, white shirt with a striped small white, blue,
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red and green tie. He is standing on the steps,
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right hand outstretched holding a file and pictures of cameras
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and media personnel around him, and he's leaving court Friday
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in Greenbelt, Maryland by Katie Mettler and Jeremy Roebuck. John Bolton,
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who served as President Donald Trump's first term national security
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advisor before becoming a vocal critic, pleaded guilty in federal
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court Friday to one coat of retaining sensitive government information
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as part of a deal in which prosecutors recommend he
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be sentenced to no more than five years in prison.
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The admission added a black mark on the legacy of
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a public servant whose career has spanned several presidential administrations
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and delivered a victory to a Justice department focused on
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prosecuting Trump's political foes. When asked if he was guilty
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of the offense, Bolton told US District Judge Theodore D. Chung,
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I am your honor, and I'm sorry for it. Bolton
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initially pleaded not guilty last year in the case that
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prosecutors alleged involved the foreign policy expert sending diary like
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recollections of his sensitive work to relatives who were helping
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him prepare a memoir. As part of his plea deal,
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Bolton also agreed Friday to forfeit his government pension and
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pay a fine of two points to five million dollars
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two and a quarter million dollars. He will have to
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pay half that sum than five days of his sentencing,
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and the rest within ninety days, prosecutor said in exchange,
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they agreed to recommend Bolton faced no more than five
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years in prison at his sentencing hearing scheduled for October.
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It will be up to the judge to decide whether
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to accept that recommendation. In the original indictment, which charged
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Bolton with eighteen counts of transmitting or retaining national defense information,
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he faced as many as ten years behind bars per count.
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A long time conservative, Bolton served in the administrations of
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numerous Republican presidents. Under President George W. Bush, Bolton was
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US Ambassador to the United Nations and later worked as
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Trump's third national security advisor during his first term in
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the White House. The president fired Bolton in twenty nineteen
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after the two clashed over Trump's approach to foreign policy.
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Bolton went on to call Trump stunningly uninformed in his
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twenty twenty memoir The Room Where It Happened, about his
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time in the White House. It was his preparation for
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that book, authority said that became the basis for his indictment.
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Federal prosecutors accused Bolton of sharing more than one thousand
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pages of the diary like summaries of his work from
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twenty eighteen to twenty nineteen with relatives through a personal
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email account. That account authorities said was later hacked by
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someone US officials believe was linked to the Iranian government,
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who sent emails threatening to re leased the information. According
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to the indictment, a representative for Bolton notified the FBI
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about the hack and those menacing emails in July twenty
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twenty one. As part of their investigation, FBI agents also
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rated Bolton's downtown Washington office and his Bethesda, Maryland home
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last year, where they said they discovered documents described as
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classified or secret. The specific count to which Bolton pleaded
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guilty Friday involved information he acknowledged sharing. It included details
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about and Advisori's plans to attack US forces in another country.
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That information, prosecutor said revealed details of human intelligent sources
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and methods, and had been marked top secret, the highest
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level of national sececurity classification. Bolton's indictment last October came
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soon after two of Trump's other political foes, former FBI
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Director James B. Comy and New York Attorney General Letitia James,
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were targeted for criminal prosecution in separate cases. The charges
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against Komy and James, which were pursued against the objections
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of career prosecutors in the Eastern District of Virginia, were
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both dismissed and widely criticized as political retribution. Comy has
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since been indicted in a separate case in federal court
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in North Carolina on allegations that a photo he posted
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on social media in twenty twenty five constituted a dangerous
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threat to the president. He asserted his innocence in a
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video statement. For his part, Bolton had previously contended that
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his conduct was legal, and said last all that the
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Justice Department's investigation was an extension of Trump's. In intensive
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effort to intimidate his opponents. At the time, Trump told
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reporters at the White House that the veteran diplomat was
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a bad guy, too bad, but that's the way it goes,
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Trump said. Then after Friday's hearing, Bolton's attorney Abe Lowell,
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praised him for accepting responsibility for his crimes, something the
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defense lawyer said Trump refused to do when facing similar charges.
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Trump was indicted on multiple counts of retaining sensitive information
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at his mar Alago estate in Florida after his first
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term in office. He maintained his innocence, and the case
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was thrown out before it reached Trump after a judge
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found that the special counsel who had brought the charges
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had been illegally appointed. President Trump thunked his nose that
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the classified information laws took actual classified documents to his
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Florida mansion, interfered with the investigation of that conduct, and
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has never accepted anach accountability for his conduct, Lowell said
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in a statement, adding, Ambassador Bolton, whose offense was only
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keeping a diary which contained classified information, kept a record
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to preserve history, but Donald Trump kept records to serve himself.
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The White House declined to comment on that comparison. Natalie
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bold Sara, a spokesperson for the Justice Department, dismissed it.
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Trump did not accept responsibility because he did nothing wrong,
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she said in an email. Bolton pled guilty because he
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is guilty. The Bolton case became with the probe initiated
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under President Joe Biden's Justice Department, and was led by
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veteran prosecutors in Maryland, including US Attorney Kelly o'hayes and
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National Security Division chief Tom Sullivan. Speaking to reporters outside
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the courthouse after the hearing Friday, Hayes said, the rules
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governing classified in national defense information apply equally to everyone,
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regardless of position and regardless of how long you have
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served with the United States government. John Bolton betrayed that
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trust with an extraordinary fashion by unlawfully retaining and unlawfully
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disclosing the information with which he was entrusted, said Hayden O'Byrne,
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a top official in the Justice departments Criminal Division. Today's
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plea should be a warning to anyone at any level
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of government that if you leak America's secrets, or if
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you mishandle them, the United States Department of Justice, National
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Security Division and our US attorney partners will be there
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to prosecute them. O'burne said. Our second article, nursing homes,
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factory owners, and immigrants brace for fally from Supreme Court ruling.
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The High Court's decision to strip Hatians and Syrians of
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their protections from deportation had immediate ripple effects for immigrants
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and their employers, but Maria Shashetti and Lauren gory Gurley,
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immigrants began making plans to sell, rent their homes, secure
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bank accounts, and figure out thorny issues like child custody arrangements.
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Business owners started calculating how many days they can continue
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to employ workers whose legal status is set to expire,
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and nursing home leaders warned they would have fewer beds
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to offer if Health AIDS are forced to leave the country.
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Panic rippled through communities from Florida to Ohio and beyond
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in the hours after the Supreme Court cleared the Trump
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administration Thursday to strip humanitarian protections from Haitians and Syrians
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and potentially all one point three million immigrants from over
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a dozen countries who had previously been shielded from deportation.
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The residents would be losing caregivers that they really have
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become attached to, said Colinan O'Leary, executive director at Laurel
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Ridge Rehabilitation and Skilled Care in Boston. Manages that the
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facility were racing to figure out how much longer staff
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members from Haiti with temporary protected status could continue taking
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care of patients. That's a lot for our residents to handle.
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Attorneys said Haitians and Syrians could lose work permits in
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little more than a month, but the deadline remained unclear
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because lower court judges must issue orders to implement the decision.
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Stephen Miller, the White House Deputy Chief of Staff, told
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reporters Thursday that Haitians and others with temporary protected status
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should be detained and deported once they lose the benefit.
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If you no longer have status in this country, then
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you're supposed.
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Speaker 2: To be deported.
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Speaker 1: Miller said some of the immigrants have lived in the
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United States for decades and said they feared being sent
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back to conflicts reading homelands that they barely know and
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whose languages they do not speak. Temporary Protected status, a
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program created in nineteen ninety Grant's work permits and deportation
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reprieves to immigrants for up to eighteen months if their
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nations are engulfed in war, natural disasters, or other emergencies.
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Applicants cannot have serious criminal records, and the government can
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and has renewed the protection multiple times. President Donald Trump
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and his allies have alleged that the temporary protections have
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lasted long after the emergencies have passed and have allowed
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undocumented immigrants in Visa Ovastavas to live and work in
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the United States, but the program also has become a
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political wedge. When he was a senator representing Florida, home
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to thousands of Haitians, Venezuelans, and others with the protections,
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio favored the protections. Approximately three
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hundred and fifty Haitians and roughly six thousand Syrians f
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f TPS, but the Supreme Court ruling ultimately could affect
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immigrants from seventeen countries whose citizens were safeguarded under the program.
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When Trump took office, his administration has sought to terminate
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protections for thirteen of those countries. Harleane, thirty eight, a
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registered nurse in Florida, said she hasn't been to Haiti
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since she left for the United States at age seven,
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and had never visited because everyone told her it was
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too dangerous. She spoke on the condition that only her
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first name be used because she fears being targeted by
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immigration authorities. To tell me to go back to a
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country that I know nothing of is the sickest and
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most evil thing I think that somebody could do.
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Speaker 2: She said.
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Speaker 1: News of the ruling devastated residents and staff at healthcare
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and elder care facilities across the country, since a large
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share of the Haitian immigrant population works in those industries.
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Nursing homes, labor unions and governors condemned the decision and
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called for an emergency resolution. Advocates called the decision one
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of the largest delegalization efforts in US history. Ohio Governor
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Mike Downe, a Republican, characterized the decision as a mistake
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and said it is too dangerous to deport people to Haiti,
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including the more than ten thousand Haitians living and working
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legally in his state. New York Governor hath Kathy Hochel, Democrat,
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vou to fight the ruling, even as the path to
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challenging it is unclear. I'm telling you it's going to
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cripple our healthcare system. Who's going to show up tomorrow
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to take care of grandma?
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Speaker 2: Who's doing that? Who's stepping up? Hochel told reporters.
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Speaker 1: Miami Jewish Health, a senior living community and healthcare provider
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in Florida, cut one hundred and twenty nursing home beds
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a few months ago, in part due to staffing issues,
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including those stemming from the pending.
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Speaker 2: Cancelation of TPS for Haitians.
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Speaker 1: About forty health care employees and contracted food and housekeeping
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workers were affected by the Supreme Court ruling, said Jason Pinkus,
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a vice president at the Center Goodwin Living, a senior
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living nonprofit that serves thousands of older adults in northern
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Virginia and Washington, d C raced for staff cuts, and
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at Laurel Ridge Rehabilitation and Skilled Care in Boston, managers
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prepared for having to say goodbye to dietary aids and
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certified nursing assistants who care for bed one hundred and
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fifty elder residents. Reader Simon Aller, a resident of Goodwin
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House Bailey's Crossroads in Virginia, called the decision sad, dreadful,
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and very upsetting for the seniors that I know. We
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are now threatened with the loss of valuable, trained, vetted,
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very very reliable caretakers.
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Speaker 2: She's said.
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Speaker 1: The decision is expected to hit hard in Springfield, Ohio,
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where about one in four residents is Haitian. Trump falsely
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claimed on the twenty twenty four campaign trail that Haitian
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immigrants we're eating cats and dogs. The loss of hard
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working employees, homeowners and renters who became trusted members of
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the community will be painful residents, said Ross McGregor, a
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fifth generation Springfield resident and the president of a heavy
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machinery factor in town, has employed dozens of Haitians with
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temporary protections in the past and worried that he will
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not be able to find workers in the future. If anything,
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right now, our business is starting to pick up and grow,
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I might have trouble hiring because the workforce is already
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challenging in Springfield, said McGregor.
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Speaker 2: Sixty one.
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Speaker 1: Harlen, the nurse from Florida, obtained temporary protected status after
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Haiti's catastrophic earthquake in twenty ten. She said she paid
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her way through college to earn a bachelor's degree, taking
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years longer than most students to finish because she had
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to pay for it herself. She went on to work
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in emergency rooms, including during the deadly COVID pandemic that
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killed her system. Now she is facing the loss of
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her life in the United States, she lives with her
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elderly mother, a retired factory worker who also has the
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temporary status, and her seventeen month old son, who is
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a US citizen. Her mother paid off the home with
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her wages, she said. Starting over in Haiti, she said,
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is unimaginable. You're basically sending me to stick of it
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like a sore thumb. I barely know the language. That's crazy,
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she said. Fishers have emerged incent in recent weeks among
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some Republicans over Trump's immigration enforcement policies. Some host Republicans
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broke ranks in April to help Democrats pass legislation that
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would have extended Haitian's TPS protections through April twenty twenty nine.
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This month, the US Chamber of Commerce and other business
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leaders pressured Trump to back off a plan to require
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Green card applicants to leave the United States for processing,
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fearing they'd get stuck abroad and it would harm their workforces.
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Advocates for immigrants say it is inhumane to deport so
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many residents to struggling countries. Some are trying to find
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alternate ways to stay legally, but attorneys say they could
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be tained detained depending an ASYLEMN hearing if they lose TPS.
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People haven't been here in this country, in some artificial
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limbo like in a waiting room, people are married, people
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have had children, people who have started businesses, people who
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have made this country their home, said Jessica Mansel, an
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attorney involved in the case, adding are half a million
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people going to be torn from their communities in thirty
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two days, oh wrote Congress, and that people do something
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to stop it. Mustapha Doe, a Syrian immigrant in his
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twenties with tp S status, was among the plaintiffs named
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using a pseudonym in the case the Supreme Court decided tuesday.
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In an interview, he said he fears persecution in his
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homeland because he is gay and not a practicing Muslim.
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He works for a fortune five hundred company in New York,
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helping manage it its philanthropic programs, but he said he
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also recently bought a co op and sits on the
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board and now fears he'll have to sell it. He
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is among the younger residents in the building of older
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residents who rely on him to help like heavy bags
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of groceries upstairs and even paint the building. It is
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like a family, he said. His parents are legal US
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residents and most of his relatives are scattered across the US.
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Nobody is left in Syria to receive him if he
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is forced to go back. He said he became he
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came to America with a student visa in twenty twenty
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one to attend college. There's no one in Syria, he said.
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It's literally gone, just going to be me.
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Speaker 2: Well. New Iranian news.
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Speaker 1: US strikes Iranian military sites after ship was hit in
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Straight of Hormuz. US launched air strikes against Iranian missus
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and drone storage locations Friday in what Central Command called
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a powerful response to unwarranted aggression.
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Speaker 2: By Karen de Young.
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Speaker 1: US forces launched airstrikes against Iranian missile and drone storage
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locations Friday, in what Central Command called a powerful response
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to unwarranted aggression by Iran with its Thursday attack on
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commercials on a commercial ship exiting the Strait of Hormuz.
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The strikes came after President Donald Trump accused Iran of
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violating a ceasefire that was solidified in a memorandum of
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understanding signed by the two countries last week. Iran's Islamic
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Revolutionary Guard Court said it had thwarted the US counter
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attack on Shrik Island near the strait, forcing a US retreat.
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According to a statement posted on telegram by the semi
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official Armenian Students News agency, the aggression will not go unanswered,
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the IRGC said, warning that any new foolishness will be
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met with a harsh response that will shut up the
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illusion of the attackers. Vice president j d Mann said
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if Aron has disagreements about how the MoU is being applied,
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they can pick up the phone in a post on
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x Thursday, adding but violence will be met with violence.
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The attacks and exchange of harsh words put the cease
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fire on shaky, groaned and added to ongoing confusion as
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to the strength and details the memorandum of understanding. Earlier
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in the day, Iran said it would not tolerate any
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transit through the strait undertaken without its approval. Safe passage
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data DAT cannot be guaranteed by vague arrangements, parallel roots
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or decision making outside of Iran's consideration as a coastal state,
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Deputy Foreign Minister Kazim Garibaldi said in a social media
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post published by state aligned media, adding any credible framework
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must be based on coordination with Iran. As sixty days
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of technical negotiations on implementation of the broadly written agreement
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are said to be underway. Each side has put its
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public spin on its terms and apparent violations. I don't
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like the fact that they took a shot yesterday, Trump
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told reporters in the Oval Office just for news of
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the US attack. They shouldn't be doing that. You'll find out.
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But despite renewed hostilities in the Strait, Secretary of State
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Marco Rubio announced a step forward Friday with a tripartheid
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agreement among the US, Israel, and Lebanon for Israeli withdrawal
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from two areas in southern Lebanon, following a fifth round
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of US led negotiations in Washington. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
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Nettin Nahu called it a great achievement that will allow
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Israel to continue most of its Lebanon occupation, while Iran
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backed HOSPITALA denounced it as Lebanese capitulation. THEU calls for
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the end of military operations on all fronts, including Lebanon.
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The International Mayriorage Time Organization said it was pausing implementation
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of a separate agreement reached earlier this week under the
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MoU to allow safe transit along two routes, one in
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the north near the Iranian coast and another in the
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south along the coast of Aman, until the rules could
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be clarified and Iranian mines were cleared from a central
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route in the middle of the strait. We still have
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an investigation underway on exactly what happened to the vessel,
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IMO Secretary General Arsinio Dominguez said in a press briefing
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following Monday with Iranian and Omani. Following meetings Monday with
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Iranian and Omani officials, he said a process was set
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up for the IMO to coordinate the passage of some
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five hundred ships that have remained stranded in the strait
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since the US Iran well began in late February. Pain
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a vessel struck Thursday, the Singamore Singapore flag ever Lovely,
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had not transited as part of what the Minguez called
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the evacuation framework, but had done its own risk assessment
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and apparently not contacted authorities in either Iran or Oman
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before traveling along the southern passage, he said.
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Speaker 2: According to Trump, Iran.
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Speaker 1: Shot at least four one way attacked drones at ships
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traversing the Strait of Hormuz. One, he said, hit the
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upper deck of a large and very expensive cargo carrying ship.
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We knocked down three other drones. No injuries were reported
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aboard the vessel, which continued its passage. De Minguez said
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that at least eleven vessels had exited the Straight Friday,
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along with the Southern Corridor, along the Southern Corrida and
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four along the Northern Route without IMO coordination. I am
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hoping that this is an isolated incident and we can
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then again reiterate those guarantees of the safety and the
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need for the flow of transit to continue in line
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with the MoU that was signed, Dominguez said of the
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Thursday attack. Oil prices continued to fall Friday despite the
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Thursday incident. Beyond the immediate provisions of the MoU, the
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opening of the Straight and US sanctions waivers on the
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purchase of Iranian oil, technical terms from technical teams from
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Tehran and Washington are to work out the details of
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final agreement over the next two months, including the lifting
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of all sanctions and what is to be done about
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Iran's nuclear program. The memorandum says the final deal will
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resolved the disposition dot dot dot under the supervision of
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the International Atomic Energy Agency of more than nine hundred
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pounds of highly enriched near weapons grade uranium buried under
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Iranian storage sites bombed last year by the US and Israel.
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It says that the two sides will discuss the issue
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of enrichment under a framework being agreed upon in the
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final deal. Tehran said it is entitled to low level
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enrichment capability for civilian use, while Trump and other administration
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officials have said Iran can have no enrichment at all. Vance,
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the chief US negotiator, Vance, has suggested there could be
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an agreement on enrichment moratorium for a period of time.
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Speaker 2: I don't think they are two dvances.
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Speaker 1: Vance, the chief US negotiator, has suggested there could be
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an agreement on an enrichment moratorium for a period of time.
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The US has also said Iran has agreed to allow
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the IAEA to inspect the buried sites. Iran has said
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no agreement has yet been reached on that. In a
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news conference Friday during a visit to Japan, IAEA Director
35:28
General Rafael Mariano Grosi said the agency must first verify
35:34
the location and condition of all enriched geranium, but we
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have fairly initiated conversation with Iran and no inspections have begun.
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Grosy emphasized that while the agreement on inspection modologies can
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be reached within sixty days, implementation dot dot dot will
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take more.
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Speaker 2: Than sixty day.
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Speaker 1: This is very important for everybody to realize.
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Speaker 2: He said.
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Speaker 1: As to be contradictory US and Iranian statements, Grasie noted
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that each has a political position, but in reality there
36:16
is an agreement and to comply with that agreement that
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i AA will have to have access and inspect As
36:24
wrangling continued over the MoU, Israel and Iran continued to
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threaten each other. In a statement Friday, Iran's Central Military
36:35
Headquarters called on the US to restrain and control Israel
36:42
and warned against any Israeli aircraft movement through neighboring countries
36:47
near Iran's borders. In a social media post in Persian,
36:53
Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz dismissed iran'sridiculous threatening gestures and
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said that if Iran attacks Israel, it will make its
37:06
biggest mistake. Dot nothing will stop. US air forces are
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ready to finish the job Israel has made. Clear its
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disapproval of the MoU, and fighting between Israel and Hesbela
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and Lebanon has threatened to undermine it. Iran has insisted
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that Israel withdrawal from Lebanon and stop all tax there,
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while Israel insists that Hasbela attacks on communities in northern
37:35
Israel can be stopped only with the destruction of the
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militant group that operates outside Lebanese government control. Rubio, who
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hosted a State Department signing ceremony of the Israel Lebanon
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Agreement Friday, called it the beginning of the beginning. This
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first step sometimes is the hardest one, but it's an
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important one dot da dada, and hopefully we'll have many
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more of those conversations and make real and tangible progress,
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he said. The agreement calls for the Lebanese military, which
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thus far has been unable to significantly confront Hesbala, to
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take over two areas that have been occupied by the
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Israeli military. In a recorded statement broadcast in Israel, Netanyahu said,
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the most important thing is that first of all, Israel
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remains within remains in the security zone in southern Lebanon.
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This is a great achievement and we will maintain it
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as long as Hesbealah is not disarmed. This is also
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a major blow to Iran. Netanyahu said, I'm going inside
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first article. Her host was on fire. Her poodle's frantic
39:02
barking helped save her life. Ada Kelly jumped out of
39:07
bed and realized her home was in flames. And there's
39:11
a picture of Squellium, Ada Kelly's three year old poodle,
39:17
who alerted her to a fire in her house on
39:21
June third. And the poodle is in a plaid kerchief
39:27
around its neck, on a red blanket and sitting in
39:31
what looks like a fire in front of a fireplace.
39:35
By Sydney Page. Ada Kelly was losing patience. It was
39:42
around twelve forty five am and her standard poodles, Squillium,
39:47
would not stop barking. He paced between the kitchen and
39:51
her bedroom for ten minutes, getting louder each time he
39:54
re entered her room. Kelly said she was half asleeper
39:58
there a sea pap machine running, and initially tried to
40:02
shoe him away. He kept at it, and eventually she
40:06
realized something must be wrong. I was like, oh my gosh,
40:11
what's going on? Said Kelly, who lives in West Mildforod,
40:15
New Jersey.
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Speaker 2: He never does that.
40:18
Speaker 1: She jumped out of bed and realized the back wall
40:21
of her house was engulfed in flames. She said she
40:24
could hear glass windows shattering as the blaze spread. Kelly
40:30
ran back for her phone that morning and called nine
40:32
to one one. She grabs Squilliam and a few belongings
40:36
and ran for the front door. The smoke alarms started
40:40
sounding as they left. Had she waited for it to
40:43
go off, Kelly says she believes they would not have
40:46
made it out alive. My fire alarm was my dog
40:50
going back and forth barking, Kelly said. And there's a
40:55
picture of the house looking like it's been on fire,
40:59
and a whole but one, two, three, four, five, six seven,
41:04
about seven firemen outside of it with hoses all over
41:07
the hose all over the grass. Kelly has lived in
41:11
the house for twelve years. She said her husband and
41:14
son were not home that evening. Michael Muskatillio Muscatello, West
41:20
Milford's fire marshal lives around the corner and arrived at
41:24
the scene that day, June nineteenth, to investigate the fire.
41:28
When I got there, the fire had already been about
41:31
halfway through the home, he said, noting that the flames
41:34
were spreading quickly. Musquitolo said there had been a different
41:38
outcome if not for Squillium. He gave her a lot
41:43
more time to escape considering how quick the fire traveled
41:47
through the home.
41:48
Speaker 2: Muscatolo said.
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Speaker 1: Mouscitolo was a firefighter for thirty five years, and he
41:53
said this is not the first time he has seen
41:55
a dog alert its owners to danger. Due to their
41:59
strong since of smell and sound, dogs have a keen
42:02
ability to detect fire. The cause of the blaze is
42:07
still under investigation, Moscatellos said, adding that it started at
42:11
the back exterior of the home, which could explain why
42:15
the smoke detectives took so long to go off. The
42:18
story was first reported by CBS in New York. We
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are looking at different several different potential causes, Moscollo said.
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Kelly said she's considered Squillium, who is named after the
42:33
SpongeBob Square pat Pants character, Squillium Fancy's son, her best friend.
42:42
He's the greatest dog, she said. Everybody loves him. Kelly
42:46
said Squillium three is often on high alert. He's very smart,
42:51
I'm not at all surprised that he saved me. Kelly
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and her family are now staying with Kelly's adult's daughter,
42:58
who lives about fifty minute and it's away.
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Speaker 2: Kelly said.
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Speaker 1: They lost all their belongings in the fire, you name it, everything,
43:07
Kelly said, I can't digest it.
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Speaker 2: It was like a nightmare. Still, she said.
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Speaker 1: She's grateful to be alive. And for Squilliam, here's my hero,
43:18
my angel. Kelly said, he watched over me. DHS chief
43:27
acknowledges missteps in one bigging dollar where host purchases. The
43:34
department is looking to offfload seven of the industrial buildings
43:38
it bought for large scale detention centers. A person familiar
43:43
with the matter said. And there's a picture of Homeland
43:47
Security Secretary Mark Wayne Mullen testifying before her subcommittee on Thursday.
43:54
Speaker 2: And he has on the blue suit within.
44:00
Speaker 1: Tie read but print on it. I can't see it
44:04
an American flag pen. He has a beard and a
44:09
mustache trimmed very nicely by Douglas McMillan and Jonathan O'Connell.
44:16
Facing lawsuits, protests, and opposition from local officials nationwide, the
44:23
Trump administration is scaling back its plan to convert warehouses
44:28
into immigrant detention centers, with the Department of Homeland Security's
44:33
top leader acknowledging the effort lacked proper planning. In testimony
44:39
before the host of Representatives on Thursday, DHS Secretary Mark
44:45
Wayne Mullen said his department is evaluating all eleven warehouses
44:50
it purchased.
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Speaker 2: This year for about one billion.
44:53
Speaker 1: Dollars to decide where it makes sense for the government
44:58
to proceed with the versions.
45:02
Speaker 2: There's some that.
45:03
Speaker 1: Just quite frankly, won't work, Mullen said. There are some
45:08
that we're trying to make work, but there were some
45:10
due diligence that maybe wasn't actually checked off. The rare
45:16
public admission of a misstep comes as DHS holds discussions
45:21
with government partners about selling or repurposing at least seven
45:26
of the warehouses. According to a person briefed on the
45:29
department's plans, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because
45:34
they were not authorized to speak about them publicly, the
45:38
administration confirmed to officials in social circle Georgia, Romulus, Michigan, Tremont, Pennsylvania,
45:47
and Hamburg, Pennsylvania that they have ended plans to locate
45:51
the centers in their towns. The New York Times previously
45:56
reported on the planned sale of seven warehouses, citing an
46:01
internal government document. Despite Mullen's critique of the plan, DHS
46:09
has not fully abandoned it. At buildings in Maryland and Arizona,
46:13
DHS has hired private contractors to oversee development and operations,
46:19
and as recently as last month, the department was preparing
46:23
to award contracts to oversee construction and operations at warehouses
46:28
in San Antonio and near El Paso, The Washington Post
46:33
has reported. Lauren Biss, a DHS spokeswoman, said the department
46:39
is moving swiftly to utilize existing detention space with air,
46:45
state and county partners. The high prices the administration paid
46:52
for the warehouses means the administration will likely have to
46:57
offload them at a significant loss, said Andrea Ghent, a
47:01
professor of real estate finance at the University of Utah.
47:06
An analysis by real estate data tracker co Star found
47:10
the DHS paid an average of thirteen percent above market
47:15
values for the warehouses. The commercial real estate market is
47:20
currently strong, but finding bias for buildings of this size
47:25
poses a significant challenge, Ghent added, who is really looking
47:31
for a million square foot industrial space, She said, it's
47:36
really a small market. Before selling real estate properties, the
47:41
government typically has to offer them to other agencies and
47:45
local governments and appraise them to make sure taxpayers get
47:49
a good price, said Dan Matthews, who served as head
47:53
of the General Services Administration's Public Buildings Service during President
47:58
Donald Trump's first The GSA typically helps manage these transactions,
48:05
but it's unclear whether the agency will be involved in
48:09
the sale of the DHS warehouses.
48:14
Speaker 2: The Warehouse Detention.
48:15
Speaker 1: Plan, envisioned as a way of making the nation system
48:19
for detaining and deporting immigrants more efficient, originally call for
48:24
spending up to thirty eight billion dollars to acquire and
48:28
overhaul two dozen buildings around the country into a kind
48:33
of hub and spoke system. Migrants would be booked into
48:37
smaller processing centers, where they would be held for a
48:40
few days before being transported to one of several large
48:44
scale mega detention centers capable of holding up to ten
48:50
thousand people, according to documents US Immigration and Customs Enforcement
48:56
has shared with local governments. Initially, HS said little about
49:01
the effort, but after the Post published the names of
49:04
the town's initially targeted for the project. In a December
49:09
twenty December twenty fourth story, the names of a loose
49:14
network of activists came together to oppose these efforts, packing
49:19
municipal buildings, protesting outside the offices of Congress members, and
49:25
using signal and Facebook to organize nationwide opposition. The activists
49:34
who spanned more than a dozen states, both political parties,
49:37
and a wide range of demographics. They included residents of
49:42
a deeply read Georgia town, an Arizona high schooler who
49:46
spent her senior year lobbying local, state, and federal officials.
49:50
The administration's partial retreat follows months of opposition by those groups,
49:57
which have argued that where his plan arise, human rises
50:01
or raises humanitarian concerns or logistical problems for their communities.
50:07
At least six state or local government sued claiming the
50:12
projects overlooked the National Environmental Policy Act or an EPA,
50:18
a federal law requiring detailed assessments of potential environmental impact.
50:24
After initially claiming in court that the projects were exempt
50:28
from ANYPA, the Department agreed to conduct the reviews, likely
50:33
setting the entire plan back months. This thing was half
50:38
to baked from the very beginning, said Eric Taylor, the
50:41
city manager in Social Circle, which sued DHS over a
50:46
planned wearher's conversion in May. The shift also comes as
50:51
ICE has eased away from its tactic of indiscriminate raids
50:56
and large scale arrest that had contributed to greater need
51:00
for detention capacity during the first year of the administration,
51:05
said Aaron richelind Melnick, a senior fellow at the American
51:09
Immigration Council, a pro immigrant advocacy group. The need for
51:14
that many beds has fallen. Richeland Melnick said the agency
51:20
held fifty nine thousand people in custody on June twenty fourth,
51:27
down from a daily high more than seventy thousand in January,
51:32
according to data the agencies shared with Congress or published
51:36
on its website. Activists scored wins this year when DHS
51:43
backed off plans to purchase buildings in New Hampshire, Mississippi,
51:48
and Tennessee. In other places, including Oklahoma City and Ashland, Virginia,
51:54
building owners announced they refused to sell their warehouses to
51:58
be used as detention centers.
52:01
Speaker 2: By bid.
52:02
Speaker 1: March, DHS had purchased eleven ware hoses for roughly one
52:06
billion dollars. The deals triggered lawsuits by state attorneys general
52:12
and an audit by the DHS Inspector General, which said
52:16
it was looking into where the ICE had purchased the
52:18
buildings in a cost efficient manner. Mullen, who took over
52:25
the department in late March, has struck a cautious tone
52:30
toward the warehouse effort, which had been launched under his predecessor,
52:35
Christy L.
52:36
Speaker 2: Non.
52:37
Speaker 1: He instructed staff to review the purchases and slowed the
52:41
process of issuing contracts for their development. As news spread
52:48
in recent days that the Trump administration was scaling back
52:51
plans to convert ware hoses into immigrant detention centers, some
52:57
saw a rare opportunity for a victory lap. Grassroots organizers
53:02
in Georgia planned a celebratory pizza party. Senator John Fetterman, Democrat,
53:08
published a statement saying he was pleased to confirm the
53:12
cancelation of two planned attention warehouses in Pennsylvania. In social circle, Taylor,
53:19
the city manager, proudly shared a photo of the lock
53:23
he placed on a city water meter, an improvisery measure
53:27
to block federal officials from using local resources to develop
53:32
a new detention Center. This is a major victory for
53:37
the people versus the government, said David Holates, who helped
53:42
lead protest against the Michigan Detention Center, adding how often
53:48
do we get to say that it may not have
53:52
time to finish this, but it's a distressing article. Pete
53:58
Buddha Judge targeted by fake report to child Protective Services
54:04
detailed sleepless night after separation from kids by Karen Watson.
54:10
Speaker 2: This is out of CBS News.
54:13
Speaker 1: Former presidential candidate and Biden Area Transportation secretary Pete Buddhajic
54:20
said Friday his family was targeted by a false report
54:25
to Child Protective Services that led to twenty four hours
54:29
of confusion and separation from his four year old twins overnight.
54:35
Michigan State Police said in a statement that the police
54:40
and Child Protective Services determined the report was false and
54:45
condemned false reports to law enforcement. Buddha Judge lamented the
54:50
psychological stress to him, his husband, Chasten, and their twins.
54:56
Swatting attempts, false calls intended to sit law enforcement on
55:01
a target's home had become increasingly common for political and
55:06
public figures. Several days ago, Beauty Judge said Friday, in
55:11
a post on substack, a team from Child Protective Services
55:16
showed up to his host and said an allegation had
55:20
been leveled against him concerning the twins whom the couple
55:24
adopted in twenty twenty one. I was bewildered and troubled,
55:30
but tried to stay calm, Beauty Judge wrote, I'm used
55:34
to any number of falsehoods, attacks, and serious problems being
55:38
thrown my way. What I didn't understand was what could
55:43
have have led to this kind of visit. Then the
55:46
CPS worker told me something whoops, hold on, sorry, told
55:56
me something that made my stomach turn. I was not
55:59
to be alone around the children, at least until the interview.
56:02
Speaker 2: Took place the next day.
56:05
Speaker 1: They asked if I had relatives nearby, or could perhaps
56:08
stay at a hotel for the night. Beauty Judge said
56:13
he and his husband, Chasting, were left in the dark
56:17
about the allegations as they agreed to send their children
56:20
to their grandparents home over night. The twenty four hours
56:24
until they returned are among the darkest hours of my life.
56:29
I tried to get my head around the idea that
56:32
I had been accused of something so serious that I
56:35
couldn't be alone around my own children and had consented
56:39
to have them interviewed by strangers without my knowing where
56:43
the accusation had come from or even what it contained,
56:48
he wrote. After local authorities probed the situation and spoke
56:52
to the twins, and officer explained what the allegation was.
56:57
During Butter Judge's formal interview, an anonymous caller had contacted CPS.
57:04
Beauty Judge said. The caller said that he had spoken
57:08
to a woman who claimed to have met me at
57:11
a conference several years ago in Alabama, when she said
57:15
I told her that I had committed unspeakable violent crimes,
57:21
and the caller believed my children were still at risk.
57:25
That was all bea to Judge, who called the authorities
57:29
who visited his home courteous and professional, said he told
57:34
the police officer he had never been to the town
57:37
where the accuser claimed to have met him. Then the
57:40
officer made clear that he believed this was politically motivated
57:45
and said it would not be referred to a prosecutor.
57:48
Nothing in the forensic interview with the children, which was
57:51
conducted but trained personnel, had led to concerns the former
57:56
presidential candidate continued after the officer's spoke The CPS worker
58:02
likewise indicated she had not found anything to substantiate the allegation,
58:07
though her process would take a bit longer to be
58:10
formally completed. In a statement to CBS News, the Michigan
58:15
State Police said it received an anonymous report this week,
58:19
and the law enforcement agency and Child Protective Services responded
58:24
and determined the report was false. And with that I
58:27
conclude today's reading of The Washington Post for Saturday, June
58:32
the twenty seventh of twenty twenty six. Please continue listening
58:37
to Radio II, Stay dry.
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Speaker 2: Bye.