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7.16.26 · Washington Post

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Speaker 1: Welcome to today's reading of the Washington Post for Thursday,
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Speaker 1: July sixteenth of twenty twenty six. I will start with
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Speaker 1: the reminder the radio eyes for those blond with other
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Speaker 1: difficulties making it hard to read a whole printed material.
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Speaker 1: And your reader is Alice Stainer. So here's the front
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Speaker 1: page of today's paper. On the very far left, US
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Speaker 1: Aaron Trade Fresh barrages in impasse, Trump threatens to destroy
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Speaker 1: infrastructure unless talks resumed by Rachel Chasin. In the middle,
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Speaker 1: there's a picture of acting US Attorney General Todd Blanche
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Speaker 1: with his wife Christine Blanche, leaving Wednesday after testifying at
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Speaker 1: his hearing, and he is in a dark navy's suit
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Speaker 1: with a sort of an arne she read tie in
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Speaker 1: a white shirt, and she's in a white dress holding
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Speaker 1: a black purse with open toe heels on, and he
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Speaker 1: is not looking very happy as he's leaving. But they're
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Speaker 1: in the background people in the room that we're listening
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Speaker 1: to the hearing, and the article is Blanche promises to
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Speaker 1: put America over Trump by Jeremy Roebuck, Theodoric Mayor and
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Speaker 1: Perry Stein, and the Attorney General nominee is asked about
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Speaker 1: djy's handling of the Epstein files and the scuttled payout
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Speaker 1: fun and on the far right, halt on traffic arrest
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Speaker 1: is lifted. ICE reverses after Trump's criticism. Short lived pause
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Speaker 1: followed a spate of fatal incidents, and this by Isaac
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Speaker 1: Arenstaff and Ted Hessen below the fold.
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Speaker 2: On the left, China's global.
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Speaker 1: Image is on the rise as America, SOA's survey concludes.
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Speaker 1: Shift comes amid a wave of high profile US actions
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Speaker 1: on the world stage. By Joshua Yang. And there there's
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Speaker 1: another picture, and you see a barren field, very very brown,
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Speaker 1: but you see bicycles galore, bicycles galore underneath a blue
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Speaker 1: sky with.
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Speaker 2: Mayor's tail.
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Speaker 1: Clouds just streaks of clouds across it.
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Speaker 2: It's a new record.
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Speaker 1: In Tour de France a pack of riders Wednesday, during
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Speaker 1: the eleventh stage of the one hundred and thirteenth edition
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Speaker 1: of the Tour de France cycling race, Norwegian writer Soren
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Speaker 1: Brenstoll attacked late and powered to victory in the fastest
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Speaker 1: ever stage of the competition, while Taiji Procar protected his
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Speaker 1: overall leads. And then on the very far right, below
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Speaker 1: the ICE article Trump's face will grace a new one
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Speaker 1: dollar coin by Megan Vasquez.
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Speaker 2: Her first article.
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Speaker 1: Blanche insists he is not Trump's yes man as attorney
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Speaker 1: general vote looms. At a contentious Senate confirmation hearing, the
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Speaker 1: acting Attorney General defended his role in the release of
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Speaker 1: the Epstein fouls and Trump's settlement with Thers. And there's
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Speaker 1: another picture of him in the foreground, and lined up
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Speaker 1: behind him his wife and just a sea of people
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Speaker 1: with suits and coats and ties on and dresses, and
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Speaker 1: its pictures entitled with Democrats united against Acting Attorney General
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Speaker 1: Todd Blanche. Even one Republican Committee vote against him would
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Speaker 1: be enough to sink the nomination by Jeremy Roebuck, Theodoric Mayer,
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Speaker 1: and Perry Stein. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche sought to
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Speaker 1: reassure skeptical lawmakers from both parties Wednesday that he had
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Speaker 1: put his days as President Donald Trump's personal lawyer behind
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Speaker 1: him and would, if confirmed as head of the Justice Department,
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Speaker 1: place America's interest above those of his former client. But
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Speaker 1: whether he succeeded in convincing the members of the Senate
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Speaker 1: Judiciary Committee. After a contentious five hour confirmation hearing, remained uncertain.
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Speaker 1: At least one key Republican Senator, John Cornyan, Texas, told
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Speaker 1: reporters afterward that he had not yet decided whether he
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Speaker 1: would support advancing Blanche's nomination to become attorney general for
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Speaker 1: a full Senate vote. With Democrats united against Blanche, even
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Speaker 1: one Republican committee vote against him would be enough to
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Speaker 1: sink the nomination. I think he's an impressive guy, Cordon
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Speaker 1: said after hearing the hearing, But attorneys general, Cordon added,
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Speaker 1: have to walk a very narrow path between the chief
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Speaker 1: law enforcement officer of the country and then being the
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Speaker 1: president's guide. The senator joined colleagues in peppering Blanche during
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Speaker 1: the hearing with sharp questions over his role overseeing a
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Speaker 1: controversial deal to resolve the lawsuit Trump filed against the
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Speaker 1: IRS over the leak of his tax returns. The agreement
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Speaker 1: included broad tax protections for the President and his family,
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Speaker 1: and now a scuttled proposal to establish a nearly one
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Speaker 1: point eight billion dollar payout fund for those who claimed
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Speaker 1: they were targeted by politicized prosecutions. Cornon, who lost a
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Speaker 1: primary re election bid earlier this year and has more
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Speaker 1: forcefully questioned the Trump administration since then described both those
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Speaker 1: provisions as unusual. He told reporters after the hearing that
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Speaker 1: it seen Blanche certainly leaned in to help the president
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Speaker 1: beyond what was necessary to resolve the case. And indeed,
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Speaker 1: there is a picture of John Cornyn, the Senator, Republican
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Speaker 1: Senator from Texas at the hearing. He's got a bunch
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Speaker 1: of white roses in front of him, and he is
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Speaker 1: questioning the nominee Todd Blanche for Attorney General. Blanche, who
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Speaker 1: has held the title of Acting Attorney General since the
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Speaker 1: April firing of his predecessor, Pam Bondy, voted in his
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Speaker 1: opening remarks Wednesday to regain senator's trust. He said he
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Speaker 1: was proud of his past work as Trump's criminal defense
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Speaker 1: lawyer during the four indictments he faced during his year's
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Speaker 1: out of office, but he stressed it was only a
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Speaker 1: small portion of his resume, which also included years working
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Speaker 1: as a federal prosecutor in Manhattan. He highlighted his record
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Speaker 1: since returning to the Justice Department last year as the
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Speaker 1: number two official under Bondye of combating violent crime, prosecuting fraudsters,
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Speaker 1: and bringing gang leaders and human traffickers to account. I
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Speaker 1: am a career prosecutor. I started out as an intern
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Speaker 1: down the street at the Department of Justice, as a paralegal.
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Speaker 1: The fact that I represented President Trump for a period
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Speaker 1: of time under two years does not define my career,
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Speaker 1: nor does it define me, Blanche said.
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Speaker 2: Still.
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Speaker 1: Blanche, at one point during Wednesday's hearing appear to stumbol
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Speaker 1: over that distinction when asked whether he considered Trump a friend,
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Speaker 1: I am his lawyer, the acting Attorney General said, before
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Speaker 1: quickly correcting himself, I was his lawyer. Democrats quickly seized
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Speaker 1: on that remark to press their case that.
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Speaker 2: Blanche had never truly given up his old job.
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Speaker 1: They have maintained that in his brief but tumultuous tenure
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Speaker 1: over the Justice Department, Blanche has overseen a hallowing out
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Speaker 1: of the department's ranks and defended Trump's efforts to erode
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Speaker 1: its traditional independence from the White House. They argued Wednesday
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Speaker 1: that he has used the Department's resources to enrich Trump,
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Speaker 1: chase his baseless claims that the twenty twenty election was stolen,
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Speaker 1: and pursue political vendettas against the president's foes. This nation
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Speaker 1: deserves an attorney general who loves the Constitution more than
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Speaker 1: he loves any single president. An attorney general who is
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Speaker 1: focused on keeping Americans safe and combating corruption, not satisfying
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Speaker 1: the president's personal grievances and filling his bank accounts, said
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Speaker 1: Senator Dick Durbin of Illinois, the top Democrat on the committee.
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Speaker 1: And there is a picture of Senator Dick Durbin speaking
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Speaker 1: at a news conference with Jeffrey Epstein's survivors behind him.
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Speaker 1: That's one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight that
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Speaker 1: I see, and one gentleman who's holding some papers in
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Speaker 1: his hand. But the front of the podium has a
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Speaker 1: big placard saying Block Blant. Throughout the hearing, Blanche met
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Speaker 1: even the most barbed attacks from Democrats with a largely
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Speaker 1: calm and measured tone. Unlike Bondy, who routinely arrived at
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Speaker 1: congressional hearings with prescripted insults for political opponents, Blance showed
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Speaker 1: only brief flashes of impatience with kneedling from his interrogators.
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Speaker 1: Senator Adam Shift, Democrat of California, one of the Trump
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Speaker 1: Justice Department's most vocal critics, demanded at one point that
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Speaker 1: Blanche explained how he'd gone from a respected federal prosecutor
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Speaker 1: to Trump's lawyer, and now someone willing to sacrifice everything
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Speaker 1: he once believed in for that title, that position of
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Speaker 1: attorney general. What happened to you, Todd Blanche, the attorney demanded,
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Speaker 1: I'm still here. Blanch shot back, I'm the exact same
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Speaker 1: person I was when I was a federal prosecutor. At
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Speaker 1: another point, Blanche explained, President Trump trusts me to give
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Speaker 1: him counsel. Council does not mean I'm a yes man.
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Speaker 1: It was one of a few moments during Weinsday's hearing
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Speaker 1: where Blanche attempted to carve some distance between himself and
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Speaker 1: the president. For instance, the acting Attorney General said he
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Speaker 1: did not believe federal judges should be impreached simply for
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Speaker 1: ruling against the president's agenda. Trump has repeatedly called for
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Speaker 1: such action against jurists who have ruled against him.
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Speaker 2: When asked about.
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Speaker 1: Trump's blanket pardon for those convicted of playing a role
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Speaker 1: in the January sixth, twenty twenty one attack on the
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Speaker 1: US Capitol, Blanch said it was the president's right to
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Speaker 1: pardon anyone he wanted, but stopped short of endorsing it.
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Speaker 1: I wasn't celebrating it, Blanche said, describing Trump's decision as
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Speaker 1: very generous. He later said that all defendants who attacked
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Speaker 1: the officers on January sixth should have been prosecuted and
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Speaker 1: were Democrats seized on Blanche's oversight of the congressionally mandated
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Speaker 1: public release of millions of pages of fouls related to
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Speaker 1: the investigation of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Lawmakers from
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Speaker 1: both parties criticized the department for sloppy redactions that exposed
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Speaker 1: the names of Epstein victims, while accusing officials of over
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Speaker 1: redacting in other instances, potentially obscuring the names of people
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Speaker 1: who may have been complicit in Epstein's files. And there's
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Speaker 1: a picture of a woman in a striped suit with
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Speaker 1: a T shirt with writing on it something survivors are
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Speaker 1: the with a blanked without ex bill or whatever.
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Speaker 2: She has on a name tag.
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Speaker 1: Name stand with Survivors released and then it's blanked out files.
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Speaker 1: And this is Laura Blue m macgee, who was a survivor,
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Speaker 1: showing her support for releasing the files. Blanche acknowledged Duenstay
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Speaker 1: that mistakes were made, but he maintained that only about
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Speaker 1: one percent of the records have redactions that needed to
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Speaker 1: be fixed. This administration, when it comes to Jeffrey Epstein,
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Speaker 1: has been more transparent than any past administration, than Biden
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Speaker 1: was or anyone else.
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Speaker 2: He said.
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Speaker 1: As he spoke, Several of Epstein's accusers were seated behind
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Speaker 1: him in the Senate gallery, Yet, under questioning from Durban,
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Speaker 1: Blanch resisted calls for him to personally meet with him,
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Speaker 1: saying he was legally prohibit from doing prohibited from doing
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Speaker 1: so if they have attorneys, He offered a staffer to
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Speaker 1: meet with them instead. When it comes to the victims
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Speaker 1: of this horrible man, we will never, never, not talk
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Speaker 1: to victims, Blanche said. We will never not do anything
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Speaker 1: we can to prosecute anybody that committed any crimes against
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Speaker 1: these women. But it was the issue of the Justice
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Speaker 1: Department's recent deal with Trump to resolve the suit against
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Speaker 1: the IRS that consistently drew the most heat. Several Senators
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Speaker 1: question a provision of the agreement that granted Trump his
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Speaker 1: family and their business sweeping immunity from past tax claims,
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Speaker 1: a potentially lucrative benefit for a president who has repeatedly
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Speaker 1: complained about burdensome IRS audits Blanche responded to that criticism
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Speaker 1: by saying that while a case involving a president was unusual,
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Speaker 1: such agreements were common. The deal's separate provision to establish
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Speaker 1: the nearly one point eight billion payout Fund, which Democrats
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Speaker 1: have derided as a slush fund to funnel taxpayer money
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Speaker 1: to Trump's allies, also continued to provoke scrutiny. Blanch walked
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Speaker 1: back plans for the pay fund this spring after a
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Speaker 1: rare revolt from Senate Republicans who were concerned some of
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Speaker 1: the money might end up in the pockets of January sixth,
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Speaker 1: twenty twenty one capital rioters. Though he has repeatedly insisted
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Speaker 1: the Justice Department no longer intends to move forward lord
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Speaker 1: with the fund, he has resisted repeated calls from lawmakers
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Speaker 1: and a judge to put that pledge into writing. It
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Speaker 1: is a moot issue, meaning there is no weaponization fund,
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Speaker 1: Blanch reiterated Wednesday, adding the weaponization fund is dead. It
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Speaker 1: is not moving forward. Cornin, for one, appeared unsatisfied without
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Speaker 1: an answer, saying, just to be clear, the President of
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Speaker 1: the United States, who's a plaintiff in this lawfood has
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Speaker 1: not agreed in writing to delete the anti Weaponization Fund,
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Speaker 1: and there's no guarantee that he won't raise it in
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Speaker 1: the future, Cornan said. Blanch responded that Trump has no
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Speaker 1: power over the fund, which would have to be initiated
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Speaker 1: by the Justice Department. The senator highlighted a ruling earlier
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Speaker 1: this week for from the judge who oversaw Trump's are
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Speaker 1: as suit. She described the litigation, in which attorneys on
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Speaker 1: both sides of the case ultimately reported to Trump as
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Speaker 1: an improper attempt to manipulate the judicial process. I very
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Speaker 1: much disagree with the judge's insinuations about me, and we're
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Speaker 1: going to do what we can to make that right,
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Speaker 1: Blanche said. Those responses appeared to dispel the doubts of
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Speaker 1: at least one Republican Senator. Tom Tillis, Republican of North Carolina,
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Speaker 1: who is retiring after this term, previously expressed reservations about
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Speaker 1: Blanche's nomination and said any whiff of a suggestion that
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Speaker 1: the acting Attorney General supported January sixth writers would immediately
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Speaker 1: prompt a no vote from him. He has also raised
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Speaker 1: concerns that the pay fund could be revived and that
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Speaker 1: rioties could be among those receiving money, but Tilla's praised
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Speaker 1: Blanche during his testimony Wednesday, saying he did a great
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Speaker 1: job today. The senator told reporters afterwards that he was
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Speaker 1: leaning toward voting to advance Blanche's nomination first, though Tillus
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Speaker 1: added he needed absolute certainty that the fund is dead,
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Speaker 1: and suggested his vote could hinge on whether Trump would
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Speaker 1: endorse a bill in Congress codifying its demise. The Judiciary
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Speaker 1: Committee on Thursday is expected to hear from several witnesses,
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Speaker 1: both in support of and against Blanche, before voting on
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Speaker 1: his nomination later this month. Republicans have said former Attorney
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Speaker 1: General John Ashcroft, who served under President George W. Bush,
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Speaker 1: will be among those testifying in Blanche's favor. Democrats planned
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Speaker 1: to call an Epstein accuser and Liz Oyer, the Justice
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Speaker 1: Department's form a pardon attorney who was fired by Blanche
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Speaker 1: last year, to speak out against his nomination. Should Blanche's
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Speaker 1: nomination clear the committee, the Senate's Republican leadership has said
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Speaker 1: it intends to hold a full vote on his nomination
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Speaker 1: before the Chamber departs for its August recess. ICE lifts
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Speaker 1: pause on vehicles stops after Trump criticism. The administration is
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Speaker 1: caught between delivering on a campaign promise and the deadly
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Speaker 1: consequences of its enforcement operations. And there is a picture
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Speaker 1: believed below that of a counter protester yelling at a
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Speaker 1: volunteer providing security during a demonstration near an ICE facility
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Speaker 1: in Scarborough on Tuesday, a day after the shooting. This
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Speaker 1: man is practically biting off this person's nose. She has
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Speaker 1: on a military uniform with a yellow thing over top
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Speaker 1: of it, ball cap on her long hair. He has
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Speaker 1: on a hat with stripes around it, and he is
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Speaker 1: literally his mouth is right at her nose, and he
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Speaker 1: is leaning over her, very very closely by. Isaac Arnsdorf
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Speaker 1: and Ted Henson Hessen. US Immigration and Customs Enforcement lifted
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Speaker 1: a temporary pause on vehicle stops after President Donald Trump
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Speaker 1: touted the controversial tactic as an essential enforcement tool, a
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Speaker 1: White House official said Wednesday, ICE halted vehicle stops after
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Speaker 1: officers fatally shot two people in less than a week
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Speaker 1: during encounters involving vehicles. Within days, the short lived policy
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Speaker 1: had been ended, the official said, speaking on the condition
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Speaker 1: of anonymity to discuss the internal policy change. The latest
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Speaker 1: reversal underscored the White House his bond or bind between
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Speaker 1: delivering on a core campaign promise for mass deportations and
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Speaker 1: the deadly consequences of its enforcement operations, repeating a cycle
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Speaker 1: of escalating arrest and recalling from the political following. The
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Speaker 1: men and women of ICE are doing a great job,
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Speaker 1: one that has to be done, Trump said of Immigration
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Speaker 1: and custom enforcement agents in a social media post on
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Speaker 1: Wednesday morning, adding we cannot give up one of our
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Speaker 1: ICE's most important and effective crime fighting tools, the traffic stop.
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Speaker 1: That loudness was because the words were in caps all.
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Speaker 1: A Department of Homeland Security spokesperson confirmed the pause had
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Speaker 1: been lifted. President Trump and I are on the same page,
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Speaker 1: Homeland Security Secretary Mark Wwayne Mullen said Wednesday, and in
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Speaker 1: the ex post, Wayne Markwayne Mullen added, we want air
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Speaker 1: ICE CUB officers to have all options available to keep
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Speaker 1: them safe while executing our mission of deporting as many
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Speaker 1: illegal alien criminals from our country as possible. The whipsaw
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Speaker 1: policies shifted ICE followed the shooting deaths of two immigrants
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Speaker 1: at the hands of federal immigration officers in the span
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Speaker 1: of six days. A third person died on Tuesday when
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Speaker 1: he was hit by a truck while fleeing agents in Florida.
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Speaker 1: Trump's intervention undermine Mullen, who had not addressed the crisis
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Speaker 1: in public, and Senator Susan Collins, Republican Maine, who urged
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Speaker 1: Mullen to stop the traffic stops and disfacing one of
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Speaker 1: the chamber's toughest elections in November. On Tuesday, officials had
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Speaker 1: moved to contain the crisis quietly while directing agents to
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Speaker 1: pause most traffic stops, in the latest retrenchment from the
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Speaker 1: administration's more controversial enforcement tactics since agents killed two US
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Speaker 1: citizens in Minneapolis in January. Administration officials have sought to
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Speaker 1: minimize controversies ahead of November's mid term elections, but Trump's
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Speaker 1: base and some advisers objected to the retreat, leading the
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Speaker 1: White House to renew pressure on the Department of Homeland
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Speaker 1: Security to accelerate and immigration arrest in recent weeks. The
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Speaker 1: latest deaths reignited that debate, whirling con crucial Senate races
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Speaker 1: and escalating Democratic demands to overhaul domestic immigration enforcement. Republicans
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Speaker 1: expect Democrats to overreach as public support for border security
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Speaker 1: and deportation remains hot. Immigration stands out as a relative
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Speaker 1: strength for Trump as polls show growing dissatisfaction with his
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Speaker 1: handling of the economy and the war in Iran. Still,
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Speaker 1: he and Ice lost ground after the January shootings, underscoring
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Speaker 1: the challenge of energizing hardline based supporters with repelling Republican
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Speaker 1: leaning independence. The White House said the administration's agenda hasn't changed,
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Speaker 1: focused on public safety. DHS said seventy percent of those
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Speaker 1: deported half criminal records, which could not be independently verified
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Speaker 1: at the time. Officials have emphasized that they view all
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Speaker 1: undocumented immigrants as subject to removal. Trump's approval rating for
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Speaker 1: his handling of immigration recovered from thirty eight percent in
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Speaker 1: February after the shootings of Renee Good and Alex Pritty
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Speaker 1: in Minneapolis to forty two percent in June, according to
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Speaker 1: Quinnipec University's national poll of registered voters.
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Speaker 2: He entered his second.
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Speaker 1: Term with forty seven percent support on the issue. According
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Speaker 1: to the survey, even with fifty five percent disapproval, I
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Speaker 1: keep getting stuff in front of my writing, Trump scored
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Speaker 1: better on immigration than the economy at fifty nine percent,
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Speaker 1: Iran at sixty two percent. Overall, thirty eight percent of
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Speaker 1: voters approved of Trump's job performance, while fifty five percent disapproved.
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Speaker 1: Business groups have protested raids at job sites, leading the
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Speaker 1: administration to ease enforcement at farms and hotels. In pursuit
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Speaker 1: of deportation goals, agents have mentioned into residential neighborhoods, where
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Speaker 1: rest have at times grown gone arrived. The shootings have
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Speaker 1: quickly become an issue in several competitive Democratic primaries, exposing
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Speaker 1: divisions over how far to go on changing immigration enforcement.
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Speaker 1: Republicans planned to use democrats calls to abolish ICE to
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Speaker 1: paint them as extreme.
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Speaker 2: Similar to the defund police.
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Speaker 1: Motto of twenty twenty. The sight of the second shooting,
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Speaker 1: hundreds of protesters went to the office of Collins, a
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Speaker 1: Republican who faces a tough reelection race. Colin said she
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Speaker 1: urged Smellin to stop non urgent vehicle stops. Colin said,
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Speaker 1: while the investigation of the Beitefit shooting is not yet complete,
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Speaker 1: it raises sufficient critical questions. While it is clear ICE
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Speaker 1: needs to improve its performance, it is important to remember
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Speaker 1: that the work ICE does to protect their country goes
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Speaker 1: far beyond immigration in fot enforcement, Collins added on x
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Speaker 1: Collin's Democratic opponent is up In the air after nominee
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Speaker 1: Graham Platner withdrew over sexual assault allegations. Leading contenders have
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Speaker 1: joined protests calling for eliminating ICE. How many more people
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Speaker 1: must be fatally shot and murdered by ICE agents before
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Speaker 1: we admitted is time for a change, candidate Narav Shah
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Speaker 1: said on Monday. Rival Sennabellos said it's time to get
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Speaker 1: ICE off our streets. Troy Jackson posted abolish Ice. In
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Speaker 1: the Michigan Democratic Senate primary, Moderate Representative Hailey Stevens called
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Speaker 1: the shootings horrifying and outrageous. The more progressive candidate Abdul
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Speaker 1: al Sayed responded to the first shooting on July ninth
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Speaker 1: by calling to abolish ICE. Several Democratic politicians joined that
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Speaker 1: position for the first time. This cannot be reformed, Representative
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Speaker 1: Morgan McGarvey, Democrat of Kentucky said on social media. Virginia
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Speaker 1: congressional candidate Adam Dunnaghan said you cannot get away with
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Speaker 1: actions like this and continue to exist. Representative Sherri Thanadar,
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Speaker 1: Democrat of Michigan, who is trying to fend off a
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Speaker 1: primary challenge from Democratic socialist Donovan McKinney, posted, we need
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Speaker 1: to abolish and prosecute these goons. While abolishing ICE has
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Speaker 1: become popular among Democrats, the party has also consolidated around
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Speaker 1: supporting tougher border security. In Texas, Democratic Senate candidate James
30:45
Speaker 1: tallerco condemned the July suiting in Houston. On Monday, he
30:50
Speaker 1: announced a border policy including hiring more border patrol agents
30:55
Speaker 1: and deploying more surveillance technology. The Republican candidate State Attorney
31:01
Speaker 1: General Ken Paxton responded by accusing Tollerico of running away,
31:08
Speaker 1: of running away from pass votes and positions. US meant
31:16
Speaker 1: to produce one dollar coin with Trump's face on it,
31:21
Speaker 1: Treasury Secretary says the US Mint will soon begin producing
31:27
Speaker 1: a new one dollar gold hued coin with President Donald
31:33
Speaker 1: Trump's face on it, and the picture of the coin
31:37
Speaker 1: is obviously gold. The headside, she has Liberty around the
31:45
Speaker 1: top with stars on the beginning and the end of
31:49
Speaker 1: the word seventeen seventy five with the dash twenty twenty
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Speaker 1: six and in.
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Speaker 2: God We Trust.
31:58
Speaker 1: On the right side of the President's face, and it
32:04
Speaker 1: shows his hair as swept back along the sides. It's
32:08
Speaker 1: a very dour looking face of him, I think, and
32:12
Speaker 1: he's in a suit. You just see the collar and
32:16
Speaker 1: the tie and the outline of the suit. But it's
32:19
Speaker 1: a very dour looking picture. The back has United States
32:23
Speaker 1: of America with the eagle and all of the paraphernalia
32:28
Speaker 1: around the eagle, and one dollar along the bottom. Megan Vasquez.
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Speaker 1: The US Mint will soon begin producing a new one
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Speaker 1: dollar gold hued coin with President Donald Trump's face on
32:44
Speaker 1: it to commemorate America's two hundred and fiftieth birthday. Second
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Speaker 1: Treasury Secretary Scott Bissent said this week. The coin's face
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Speaker 1: features Trump alongside the phrase in God we Trust. It
33:01
Speaker 1: is encircled with the phrases liberty and seventeen seventy six
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Speaker 1: to twenty twenty six. The flip side of the coin
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Speaker 1: shows an eagle holding arrows in one.
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Speaker 2: Talent and olive branches in the other.
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Speaker 1: Since the start of his second term, Trump and his
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Speaker 1: allies have pushed to reissue federally created currency and documents
33:26
Speaker 1: to feature the president's name in nightlis. Examples include a
33:31
Speaker 1: commemorative passport with Trump's image inside its pages, and the
33:36
Speaker 1: addition of his signature on newly printed one hundred dollar bills.
33:42
Speaker 1: There are also proposals to feature the president's image on
33:46
Speaker 1: a twenty four carrot gold coins and commemorative two hundred
33:51
Speaker 1: and fifty dollar bills, Bassid said on x in a
33:58
Speaker 1: post on x at, the coin celebrates the strength of
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Speaker 1: American values and the promise of a nation dedicated to
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Speaker 1: preserving freedom for all. A Treasury Department spokesperson said the
34:13
Speaker 1: coin is in production and minted in Philadelphia and it
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Speaker 1: will be.
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Speaker 2: Available in the fall.
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Speaker 1: They also said there is no gold in the coin,
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Speaker 1: but that it has a gold like finish. Earlier draft
34:28
Speaker 1: proposals of the dollar coin showed Trump's standing with a
34:32
Speaker 1: clenched right fist in front of the American flag and
34:36
Speaker 1: the words fight, Fight, Fight, of reference to the twenty
34:40
Speaker 1: twenty four assassination attempt at his campaign rally in Pennsylvania.
34:47
Speaker 1: When plans for the dollar coin were revealed last year,
34:51
Speaker 1: concerns emerged whether the proposal to include a living president's
34:57
Speaker 1: image on a US currency could violence the law. Under
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Speaker 1: a law passed in twenty twenty, the Treasury Department can
35:06
Speaker 1: mint one dollar coins during the twenty twenty six to
35:11
Speaker 1: mark the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary with designs emblematic
35:16
Speaker 1: of the US semi quincentennial. However, according to US Code Quote,
35:24
Speaker 1: only the portrait of a deceased individual may appear on
35:29
Speaker 1: United States currency and securities. A law that sprang from
35:34
Speaker 1: a colonial era tradition against putting current presidents on American
35:39
Speaker 1: coins themselves from the British monarchy. In addition, the twenty
35:46
Speaker 1: twenty law states that no head and shoulder's portrait or
35:51
Speaker 1: bust of any person, living or dead, or no portrait
35:55
Speaker 1: of a living person, may be included in the design
35:58
Speaker 1: on the reverse of any coin produced for the semis
36:03
Speaker 1: Quinn Centennial, which could be violated by having Trump's image
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Speaker 1: on both sides of the coin. The set argued that
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Speaker 1: the dollar coin design was legal, telling Fox News this
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Speaker 1: week that although he is otherwise borrowed from featuring a
36:21
Speaker 1: living person's image on US currency, during the one one
36:26
Speaker 1: hundred and fiftieth there was a Calvin Coolidge coin, so
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Speaker 1: we can put living president's images.
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Speaker 2: On a coin.
36:35
Speaker 1: The design for the coin also is not what the
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Speaker 1: Commission of Fine Arts, which is composed entirely of Trump appointees,
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Speaker 1: recommended when members met in January.
36:48
Speaker 2: The obverse design.
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Speaker 1: Recommended by the Commission featured Trump's face and profile, while
36:54
Speaker 1: the final design shows the presidents with his eyes forward
36:58
Speaker 1: the Treasury Secretary as the finals say on the design.
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Speaker 1: Megan Sullivan, the acting chief of the US Mint's Office
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Speaker 1: of Design Management, said during the January Commission meeting that
37:12
Speaker 1: the legal research has been done both at the Mint
37:17
Speaker 1: and up into the Treasury, and they have determined that
37:21
Speaker 1: the proposed coin featuring Trump's image does not violate any laws.
37:28
Speaker 1: Sullivan described the coins as being a little bit larger
37:33
Speaker 1: than a quarter in being composed of magnanese brass and
37:39
Speaker 1: displaying as golden in its color. The dollar coins are
37:44
Speaker 1: distinct from the twenty four carrot coins created by the
37:48
Speaker 1: Treasury Department that typically sell for one thousands of dollars.
37:53
Speaker 1: Senate Democrats in June urged the Trump administration to halt
37:57
Speaker 1: production of that solid gold coin, citing concerns that some
38:02
Speaker 1: of the US's mints gold could have links to foreign cartels.
38:10
Speaker 1: Trump passes Hose passes Trump plan to make daylight saving
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Speaker 1: time permanent. The bipartisan Sunshine Protection Act would end the
38:20
Speaker 1: practice of switching clocks twice per year. By Annalysroy and
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Speaker 1: Dan Diamond, The HOUSSE voted Tuesday to end Americans practice
38:32
Speaker 1: of switching their clocks twice per year, delivering a wind
38:36
Speaker 1: for President Donald Trump, who has called for permanent daylight
38:39
Speaker 1: saving time over the objections of medical groups and lawmakers
38:43
Speaker 1: who represent Midwestern states. The bill bypassed a lopsided three
38:49
Speaker 1: oh eight one seventeen vote, but still needs to clear
38:52
Speaker 1: the Senate, where its prospects are uncertain to take effect.
38:56
Speaker 1: In the House, the bill was supported by one hundred
38:59
Speaker 1: and ninety three report publicans, one hundred and fourteen Democrats,
39:02
Speaker 1: in one independent. The Sunshine Protection Act would stop the
39:07
Speaker 1: annual practice of springing forward and falling back by placing
39:12
Speaker 1: most of the country permanently on daylight saving time, with
39:15
Speaker 1: an exemption for the few places that are on year
39:19
Speaker 1: round standard time and already don't change their clocks. That
39:23
Speaker 1: change would delay late December sunrises in the Washington region
39:28
Speaker 1: from about seven thirty am to eight thirty am, but
39:32
Speaker 1: also push sunset from roughly four forty five pm to
39:35
Speaker 1: five forty five pm. Other parts of the country would
39:39
Speaker 1: see similar effects, although the specific impact would vary by
39:44
Speaker 1: longitude and latitude. The legislation has been championed in both
39:49
Speaker 1: the Host and Senate by bipartisan members disproportionately from southern
39:54
Speaker 1: and coastal states, who argue it would allow Americans to
39:58
Speaker 1: enjoy more outdoor, afternoon and evening activities.
40:02
Speaker 2: During the winter.
40:03
Speaker 1: It has also drawn support from golf course operators, who
40:07
Speaker 1: say the extra hour of daylight in the evenings would
40:10
Speaker 1: notably boost their business. It means more sunlight at the
40:15
Speaker 1: end of the day so Americans can return safely from
40:18
Speaker 1: work and children can return safely from school. Representative Brett Guthrie,
40:23
Speaker 1: Republican of Kentucky, who chairs the Energy and Commerce Committee,
40:28
Speaker 1: said in a hearing Monday that teed up the bill
40:31
Speaker 1: for full HOST consideration. The legislation would allow states to
40:35
Speaker 1: opt out a permanent daylight saving time and remain on
40:39
Speaker 1: year round standard time if they make the change before
40:42
Speaker 1: the legislation takes effect. Ahead of the HOST vote Tuesday,
40:47
Speaker 1: the White House reaffirmed its support for the measure. This
40:51
Speaker 1: bipartisan legislation represents a popular, common sense reform, and we
40:55
Speaker 1: benefit Americans by protecting precious daylight during the evening, people
41:00
Speaker 1: are most likely to be awake and active, It's said
41:03
Speaker 1: in a statement. The American Academy of Sleep Medicine and
41:08
Speaker 1: other medical groups have said that year round daylight saving
41:11
Speaker 1: time does not align with humans natural circadian rhythms, and
41:16
Speaker 1: that year round standard.
41:17
Speaker 2: Time would be preferable.
41:19
Speaker 1: Some lawmakers of Ossa's head that the status quo provides
41:23
Speaker 1: the best balance for all states, and that year round
41:26
Speaker 1: daylight saving time with inconvenient people who live in the
41:30
Speaker 1: center of the country by pushing local sunrises beyond nine
41:34
Speaker 1: am in the middle of winter. Senator Tom Cotton, Republican
41:39
Speaker 1: of Arkansas, often a staunch Stump supporter, veried last year
41:44
Speaker 1: he would always oppose efforts for year round daylight saving time.
41:48
Speaker 1: Several lawmakers have predicted that the Trump backed bill will backfire.
41:53
Speaker 1: Congress in the early nineteen seventies enacted year round daylight
41:57
Speaker 1: saving time, but the change quickly became unpopular, particularly with
42:02
Speaker 1: parents complaining about their children waiting in the dark for
42:05
Speaker 1: school buses to arrive, and was repealed.
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Speaker 2: Less than a year later.
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Speaker 1: Trump, a Florida resident who owns golf courses, has repeatedly
42:14
Speaker 1: vowed to end the practice of switching clocks back and forth,
42:18
Speaker 1: calling it wasteful.
42:20
Speaker 2: We're going with a.
42:21
Speaker 1: Far more popular alternative, saving daylight, which gives you a longer,
42:26
Speaker 1: brighter day and who can be against that this is
42:29
Speaker 1: an easy one, Trump wrote on his Truth social platform
42:34
Speaker 1: in May. Trump has also privately urged lawmakers to enact
42:38
Speaker 1: the Sunshine Protection Act, and asked his policy staff at
42:42
Speaker 1: a meeting last month for an update on the legislation.
42:45
Speaker 1: According to White House officials, Trump's support is completely unsurprising thing,
42:51
Speaker 1: said Scott Lindchicombe, a Cato Institute economist who has written
42:56
Speaker 1: on the drawbacks of daylight saving time. He said, the
43:00
Speaker 1: guy owns golf courses. Golf courses get richer because of
43:04
Speaker 1: later evenings, and he's a total night out, so it
43:08
Speaker 1: makes perfect sense for him. For young parents, on the
43:12
Speaker 1: other hand, a slightly different calculus. The legislation, which advanced
43:18
Speaker 1: out of the host Energy Committee in May with overwhelming
43:21
Speaker 1: support from both Republicans and Democrats, has stoked an unusual
43:25
Speaker 1: divide in today's hyperpartisan Congress. Disagreements in how Americans should
43:31
Speaker 1: set their clocks tend to fall along a geographical divide,
43:35
Speaker 1: not a political one. Trump, who frequently returns to his
43:39
Speaker 1: Mari A Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida, is not
43:43
Speaker 1: alone in prioritizing sunshine later in the day, particularly in
43:47
Speaker 1: that part of the country. The switch to permanent daylight
43:51
Speaker 1: saving time has historically been led by GOP members of
43:54
Speaker 1: the Florida Congressional delegation, such as Representative Vern Buchanan and
44:00
Speaker 1: during his time in his Senate, Marco Rubio. Some unlikely allies,
44:05
Speaker 1: such as prominent Senate Democrats Ed Markey of Massachusetts and
44:10
Speaker 1: Patty Murray of Washington, have repeatedly joined them. Representative Anna
44:16
Speaker 1: Paulina Luna, the leader of a GOP rebellion that sent
44:20
Speaker 1: the House into an early recess for the July fourth
44:23
Speaker 1: holiday in response to hosts in action on Trump backed
44:28
Speaker 1: voting legislation, is also a Florida Republican and supporter of
44:32
Speaker 1: year round daylight saving time. Luna voted in support of
44:36
Speaker 1: the measure as a mom of a toddler. I support
44:41
Speaker 1: the cause, Luna said on the host steps after the vote.
44:45
Speaker 1: I am telling you it'll be nice to have a
44:47
Speaker 1: consistent time and not throw off everyone Circadian rhythm. Representative
44:53
Speaker 1: Mike Flood, Republican of Nebraska, said he wanted to stop
44:58
Speaker 1: the clock changes, but didn't have I have a preference
45:00
Speaker 1: between daylight saving time or standard time. I think the
45:04
Speaker 1: majority of Nebraskans want to just have the time and
45:08
Speaker 1: have it not change all the time. He said, I
45:12
Speaker 1: saw a bill that would stop changing, so I voted
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Speaker 1: for it. Just twelve percent of Americans favor of the
45:18
Speaker 1: current system, according to an ap NRC poll conducted in
45:24
Speaker 1: October twenty twenty five. Another forty seven percent oppose it,
45:29
Speaker 1: and the remainders said they were neither opposed or in favor.
45:33
Speaker 2: There's little consensus.
45:34
Speaker 1: On what to adopt instead. While fifty six percent of
45:38
Speaker 1: Americans say they would prefer a year round daylight saving
45:42
Speaker 1: time with more light in the evening and less in
45:44
Speaker 1: the morning, forty two percent what year round standard time
45:48
Speaker 1: with more light in the morning unless at night. The
45:52
Speaker 1: ap n RC poll found currently Hawaii, parts of Arizona,
45:58
Speaker 1: and five US territory or has observed permanent standard time.
46:03
Speaker 1: The Sunshine Protection app would exempt those places from the
46:07
Speaker 1: change because they do not switch back and forth. Senator
46:12
Speaker 1: Rick Scott, Republican of Florida, reintroduced the bill in the
46:16
Speaker 1: Senate last year. The Senate previously passed the Sunshine Protection
46:21
Speaker 1: Act in a unanimous vote in March of twenty twenty two,
46:24
Speaker 1: but the bill died in the House a mid questions
46:27
Speaker 1: over whether year round daylight saving time was actually safe
46:31
Speaker 1: or healthy. Trump dramatically shrinks two national monuments in the
46:39
Speaker 1: West again. The President orders to trim Grand Staircase Escalante
46:46
Speaker 1: and bears Ears National Monuments to a small fraction of
46:51
Speaker 1: their current size, and there is a picture of looking
46:56
Speaker 1: through a hole in the grand Esculante National Park from
47:01
Speaker 1: Abate one point eighty seven million acres to about one
47:05
Speaker 1: hundred and eighty one thousand, five hundred acres by Jake Spring.
47:12
Speaker 1: President Donald Trump on Mondays signed orders to shrink two
47:16
Speaker 1: national monuments in Utah by more than a million acres each,
47:21
Speaker 1: potentially opening up vast wilderness and sacred tribal lands to
47:26
Speaker 1: exploration for minerals, oil, and gas. The orders reduced the
47:32
Speaker 1: size of Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument from about one
47:37
Speaker 1: point eighty seven million acres to Abate one hundred and
47:40
Speaker 1: eighty one five hundred thousand acres and Bearzier's National Monument
47:47
Speaker 1: from Abate one point thirty six million acres to Abate
47:50
Speaker 1: one hundred and twenty one hundred acres. Both sites are
47:56
Speaker 1: home to spectacular expanses of Utah's famous Red Rock cliffs
48:01
Speaker 1: and canyons, standstone formations that are arconic among hikers, and
48:08
Speaker 1: a door enthusiasts that surpasses how much. Trump initially shrank
48:13
Speaker 1: the two protected areas in twenty seventeen, a move that
48:17
Speaker 1: was undone by President Joe Biden. Trump has declared a
48:22
Speaker 1: national emergency energy emergency and rolled back dozens of environmental protections,
48:30
Speaker 1: seeking to aggressively boost drilling for oil and gas and
48:34
Speaker 1: mining for critical minerals that are essential to energy infrastructure.
48:39
Speaker 1: The two national monuments contain significant deposits of coal, uranium, oil,
48:46
Speaker 1: and gas. Revising the boundaries of the monument will also
48:51
Speaker 1: unburdened public national for system lands that can and should
48:55
Speaker 1: be put to a higher priority use. Trump said in
49:00
Speaker 1: order shrinking Bear's Ears, adding the Bear's Ears region contains
49:05
Speaker 1: several resources that have vital the energy and resource independence
49:09
Speaker 1: and in turn critical to national security. Environmental and public
49:16
Speaker 1: lands groups blasted the decision. This action will only bring
49:21
Speaker 1: uncertainty and chaos to places that should instead be protected
49:24
Speaker 1: for their rich biodiversity, unique geology, and remarkable cultural values,
49:31
Speaker 1: said Scott Braden, executive director for the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance,
49:37
Speaker 1: in a statement, Grand Staircase Escalante is a crown jewel
49:42
Speaker 1: of America's public lands, and Bear's Ears is an incomparable
49:48
Speaker 1: cultural landscape. Trump's moves sets up a legal battle with
49:53
Speaker 1: environmental advocates. The Antiquities Act, signed into law by President
49:59
Speaker 1: Theodore Roosevelt in nineteen o six, gives the president broad
50:04
Speaker 1: authority to establish monuments without spelling out many details. Supreme
50:10
Speaker 1: Court Chief Justice John G. Roberts Junior in twenty twenty
50:15
Speaker 1: one suggested the Court would become would welcome litigation asking
50:20
Speaker 1: to limit the president's power under the Act, stating that
50:24
Speaker 1: the law had been transformed from its original intent into
50:28
Speaker 1: a power without any discerm discernible limit to set aside
50:33
Speaker 1: vast and amorphous expanses of terrain above and below the sea.
50:39
Speaker 1: Trump's orders cite the same legal principle as Robert's opinion
50:44
Speaker 1: that the monument should be the smallest area compatible with
50:49
Speaker 1: the proper care and management of the objects of scientific
50:52
Speaker 1: or historic interest identified therein. Whether a president has the
50:58
Speaker 1: power to shrink a mining is particularly unclear. The Antiquities
51:03
Speaker 1: Act only addresses the creation of monuments without congressional approval,
51:08
Speaker 1: but does not mention whether such moves can be undone
51:12
Speaker 1: by subsequent presidents. President Bill Clinton established Grand Staircase in
51:18
Speaker 1: nineteen ninety six and President Barack Obama established Bearsiers in
51:23
Speaker 1: twenty sixteen. Trump is the first president in at least
51:27
Speaker 1: half a century to attempt to shrink a monument. Dozens
51:33
Speaker 1: of tribal groups have advocated for the protection of the
51:36
Speaker 1: two monuments, with Native Americans first referring to the area's
51:41
Speaker 1: two distinct debutes as Bears Ears the Grand Staircase. Escalante
51:48
Speaker 1: Internal Tribal Coalition, a group founded by six tribes, said
51:53
Speaker 1: the administration shrank the monument without consulting them, in violation
51:58
Speaker 1: of US obligations under treaties with Native American groups. Our
52:04
Speaker 1: tribes were not informed of or asked about this decision,
52:09
Speaker 1: and that's unacceptable, Coalition coordinator Autumn Gillard, a member of
52:15
Speaker 1: the Southern Paiute tribe, said in a statement, adding it
52:20
Speaker 1: is through our strong connection to the land that we
52:23
Speaker 1: can maintain our spiritual and religious beliefs and practices. Senator
52:29
Speaker 1: Martin Heinrich, Democrat of New Mexico, ranking democrat on the
52:33
Speaker 1: Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, veried to fight the orders,
52:39
Speaker 1: saying the protection, safeguard critical wildlife habitat, conserve areas important
52:46
Speaker 1: to tribes, and benefit local economies that rely on outdoor recreation.
52:52
Speaker 1: Time and again, this administration has put the interest to
52:56
Speaker 1: billionaires in powerful industries ahead of a America's public lands
53:02
Speaker 1: and the people who own them, Heinrich said in his statement.
53:06
Speaker 1: Some conservatives have seen President's unilateral declaration of mass protected
53:11
Speaker 1: areas as an example of federal overreach that hampers mining
53:15
Speaker 1: and drilling that damages the economic development of their states.
53:20
Speaker 1: Many conservative Utah politicians particularly take issue with the establishment
53:25
Speaker 1: of new protected areas, as nearly two thirds of the
53:28
Speaker 1: state is public land controlled by the federal government. Today's
53:34
Speaker 1: proclamation shows that President Trump listens to utahns and respects
53:40
Speaker 1: the limits Congress placed on the Antiquities Act. Senator Mike Lee,
53:45
Speaker 1: Republican of Utah, set in the statement, for too long,
53:49
Speaker 1: presidents have weaponized monument designations to lock up millions of acres,
53:55
Speaker 1: close roads, restrict grazing, and cut old communities off from
54:01
Speaker 1: their lands their families have lived on and worked for generations.
54:07
Speaker 1: The Washington Post reported in April last year that Interior
54:11
Speaker 1: Department staff were analyzing whether du shrink at least six
54:16
Speaker 1: national monuments in the West my last article. With the
54:25
Speaker 1: death of Lindsay Graham, Israel loses Keybaka as its isolation deepens.
54:31
Speaker 1: The senator represented a foreign policy consensus on US support
54:36
Speaker 1: for Israel that has begun to collapse under President Donald Trump.
54:41
Speaker 1: And there's a picture of Lindsey Graham and Israeli Prime
54:45
Speaker 1: Minister Benjamin Netanyahoo and the US Ambassador to Israel, David Friedman,
54:51
Speaker 1: visiting the border of Syria and the Israeli Anax Skolan
54:55
Speaker 1: Heights in March of twenty nineteen.
55:00
Speaker 2: Soroko, Tel Aviv.
55:02
Speaker 1: In recent years, when Senator Lindsay Graham was not in
55:05
Speaker 1: Washington or back home in South Carolina, he would often
55:09
Speaker 1: be found in Israel. The hawkish American senator, who died
55:13
Speaker 1: Saturday at seventy one, visited the country at least a
55:17
Speaker 1: dozen times since the hamas Led attack on October seventh,
55:21
Speaker 1: twenty twenty three, which plunged the region into conflict. Before that,
55:26
Speaker 1: he often visited the company of the visited in the
55:30
Speaker 1: company of the Senators Joseph Lieberman and John McCain who
55:34
Speaker 1: died in twenty twenty four and eighteen respectively. Even as
55:39
Speaker 1: the public opinion on support for Israel grew increasingly divided
55:43
Speaker 1: in the United States, becoming a wedge issue, and as
55:48
Speaker 1: growing fractions within his own party call to reassess the alliance,
55:52
Speaker 1: Graham remained one of Israel's most unwaving, unwavering advocates to
55:57
Speaker 1: the last Israel least notice with his death that circle
56:03
Speaker 1: of defenders of Israel and its government who have persisted
56:06
Speaker 1: in President Donald Trump's remade Republican establishment continues to shrink.
56:12
Speaker 1: Israel has lost one of its greatest friends. Prime Minister
56:16
Speaker 1: Benjamin netin Yahu said in his statement in appearances on
56:20
Speaker 1: Fox News and NBC to offer remembrances. Net Yahoo said
56:25
Speaker 1: Graham had gone ballistic at the idea of facing a
56:29
Speaker 1: US military support for Israel, and that he was unequivocal
56:33
Speaker 1: in his backing for the US Israeli war with Iran.
56:38
Speaker 1: Graham said, if you're concerned about America's safety, then the
56:42
Speaker 1: stronger Israel is in the Middle East, the stronger America is.
56:48
Speaker 1: Net Yahoo recalled net Naho's planning to arrive in the
56:53
Speaker 1: US over the weekend to attend a memorial service for
56:56
Speaker 1: Graham and Washington on Tuesday, a person formiliar with the
57:00
Speaker 1: matter said, speaking on the condition of anonymity because they
57:04
Speaker 1: were not authorized to share sensitive details. Any meeting between
57:09
Speaker 1: Net and Yahoo and Trump has yet to be announced.
57:12
Speaker 1: Graham had a genuine love and not just political love,
57:17
Speaker 1: for Israel. Former Israeli Ambassador to the United States Michael
57:21
Speaker 1: Orn told The Washington Post, It's not like he had
57:25
Speaker 1: a lot of Jewish constituents in South Carolina, so he
57:29
Speaker 1: had nothing politically to gain by being pro Israel. He
57:34
Speaker 1: certainly had a strong support from IAPAC and the adult
57:38
Speaker 1: Son family, Orang said, referring to the American Israel Public
57:43
Speaker 1: Affairs Committee, a powerful pro Israel organization, and the family
57:48
Speaker 1: members of the late Casino magnet Shelton Adelson. But for Graham,
57:54
Speaker 1: it was even more than that. Like many on the
57:57
Speaker 1: Christian right, Graham link support for Israel to his faith.
58:02
Speaker 1: Here's a message for America. Don't ever turn your back
58:05
Speaker 1: on Israel, because God will turn his back on us,
58:09
Speaker 1: he said at a meeting of Christian scientists in twenty fourteen.
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Speaker 1: the Washington Post. Keep on listening and I'll be back Saturday.
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