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2.8.25 · Washington Post

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the reading of the Washington Post for today, Saturday,
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February the eighth, twenty twenty five. As a reminder, radioib
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is a reading service intended for people who are blind
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or have other disabilities that make it difficult to read
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printed material. Your reader today is Mark Webster. This reading
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will be in two parts, Today's for today's front page
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headlines from the Washington Post contains six headlines.
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Speaker 2: Here they are one.
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Speaker 1: UK orders Apple to let its spy on encrypted data.
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Two Inside the skating world as joy turned the tragedy,
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three in Idaho, A preview of vaccine skeptical America. Four,
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purge of USAID staff put on hold. Fifth, Trump's Gaza
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vision leads to saudy shift six and last filmmaker aligned
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with Krimlin paid Patel cash Patel paid cash Patel Russian filmmaker.
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Speaker 2: Here's the first one.
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Speaker 1: UK orders Apple to let it spyle on users encrypted accounts.
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Secret order requires blanket access to protected cloud backups around
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the world, which if implemented, would undermine Apple's privacy pledge
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to its users.
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Speaker 2: Here's the article.
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Speaker 1: Security officials in the United Kingdom have demanded that Apple
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create a back door allowing them to retrieve all the
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content any Apple user worldwide has uploaded to the cloud.
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People familiar with the matter told The Washington Post the
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British government's undisclosed order issued last month requires blanket capability
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to view fully encrypted material, not merely assistance in cracking
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a specific account, and has no known precedent in major democracies.
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Its application would mark a significant defeat for tech companies
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in their decades long battle to avoid being wielded as
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government tools against their users, the people said, speaking under
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the condition of anonymity to discuss legally and politically sensitive issues.
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Rather than break the security promises it made to its
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users everywhere, Apple was likely to stop offering encrypted storage
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in the UK, the people said, yet that concession would
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not fulfill the UK demand for backdoor access to the service.
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In other countries, including the United States, The Office of
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the Home Secretary has served Apple with a document called
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a Technical Capability Notice ordering it to provide access under
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the sweeping UK Investigatory Powers Act of twenty sixteen, which
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authorizes law enforcement to compel assistance from companies when needed
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to collect evidence.
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Speaker 2: The people said.
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Speaker 1: The law, known by critics as the Snooper's Charter makes
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it a criminal offense to reveal that the government has
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even made such a demand. An Apple spokesman declined to comment.
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Apple can appeal to Apple can appeal the UK capability
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notice to a secret technical panel, which would consider arguments
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about the expense of the requirement, and to a judge
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who would weigh whether the request was in proportion to
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the government's needs. But the law does not permit Apple
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to delay complying during an appeal. In March, when the
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company was unnoticed that such a requirement might be coming,
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it told Parliament quote, there is no reason why the
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UK government should have the authority to decide for citizens
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of the world whether they can avail themselves unquote of
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the proven security benefits that flow from end to end
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encryption close the quote. The Home Office said Thursday that
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its policy was not to discuss any technical demands.
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Speaker 2: Quote.
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Speaker 1: We do not comment on operational matters, including, for example,
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confirming or denying the existence of any such notices. A
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spokesman said. Senior national security officials in the Biden administration
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had been tracking the matters since the United Kingdom first
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told the company it might demand access, and Apple said
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it would refuse it could not be determined whether they
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raised objections to Britain. Trump, White House and intelligence officials
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declined to comment. One of the people briefed on this situation,
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a consultant in advising the United States on encryption matters,
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said Apple would be barred from warning its users that
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its most advanced encryption no longer provided full security. The
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person deemed it shocking that the UK government was demanding
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Apple's help to spy on non British users without their
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government's knowledge. A former White Out security advisor confirmed the
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existence of the British order. An issue is cloud storage
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that only the user, not Apple, can unlock. Apple started
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rolling out the option, which it'd called Advanced Data Protection,
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in twenty twenty two. It had sought to offer it
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several years earlier, but backed off after objections from the
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FBI during the first term of President Donald Trump, who
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pillaried the company for not aiding in the arrest of
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quote killers, drug dealers, and other violent criminal elements unquote.
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The service is an unavailable is an available security option
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for Apple users in the United States and elsewhere. While
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most iPhone and Mac computer users do not go through
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the steps to enable it, the service offers enhanced protection
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from hacking and sharp UT's down, a routine method law
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enforcement uses to access photos, messages, and other material iCloud
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storage and backups are favored targets for US search warrants,
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which can be served on Apple without the user knowing.
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Speaker 2: Technologists.
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Speaker 1: Some intelligence officers and political supporters of encryption reacted strongly
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to the revelation. After this story first appeared, Senator Ron
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Wyden of Oregon, a Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee,
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said it was important for the United States to dissuade
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Britain quote Trump and American tech companies. Letting foreign governments
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secretly spy on Americans would be more unconstable and an
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unmitigated disaster for Americans privacy and our national security.
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Speaker 2: Close the quote.
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Speaker 1: Meredith Whitaker, president of the nonprofit Encrypted Messenger Signal That's
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Capital S Signal, said Colin quote using technical capability notices
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to weaken encryption around them globe is a shocking move
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that will position the UK as a tech pariah rather
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than a tech leader. If implemented, the directive will create
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a dangerous cybersecurity vulnerability in the nervous system of our
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global economy. Close law enforcement authorities around the world have
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complained about the increased use of encryption in communication modes
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beyond simple phone traffic, which in the United States can
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be monitored with the court's permission. The UK and FBI
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in particular have said that encryption lets terrorists.
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Speaker 2: And child abusers hide more easily.
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Speaker 1: Tech companies have pushed back, stressing a right to privacy
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in personal communication and arguing that back doors for law
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enforcement are often exploited by criminals and can be abused
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by authoritarian regimes. Most electronic communication is encrypted and to
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some degree as it passes through privately owned systems before
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reaching its destination. Usually, such intermediaries as email providers and
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internet access companies can obtain the plaintext if police ask,
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but an increasing number of tech offerings are encrypted in
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the end, meaning that no intermediary has access to the
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digital keys that would unlock the content That includes signal
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messages again capital s, signal meta that's capitl M meta
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metas WhatsApp and Messenger Capital M messenger texts, and Apple's
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I messages and FaceTime calls. Often such content loses its
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end to end protection when it is backed up for
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storage in the cloud. That does not happen with Apple's
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advanced data protection option. Apple has made privacy a selling
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point for its phones for years, a stance that was
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enhanced in twenty sixteen when it successfully fought a US
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order to unlock the iPhone of a dead terrorist in
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San Bernardino, California. It has since we ought to compromise
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such by developing a plan to scan user devisors devices
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for illegal material. That initiative was shelved after heated criticism
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by privacy advocates at security experts, who said it would
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turn the technology against the customers.
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Speaker 2: In unpredictable ways.
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Speaker 1: Google would be a bigger target for UK officials because
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it has made the backups for Android phones encrypted by
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default since twenty eighteen. Google spokesman Ed Fernandez declined to
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say whether any government had sought a backdoor, but implied
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none had been implemented.
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Speaker 2: Quote.
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Speaker 1: Google can't accuse Android in the end encrypted can't access
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Android into end encrypted backup data, even with a legal
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order unquote.
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Speaker 2: He said.
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Speaker 1: Meta also offers encrypted backups for WhatsApp. A spokesperson declined
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to comment on government requests, but pointed to a transparency
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state on its website, saying that no back doors or
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weakened architecture would be implemented. Even if uk A secures
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access to the encrypted data, other countries that have allowed
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the encrypted storage, such as China, might be prompted to
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demand equal backdoor access, potentially property Apple to withdraw the
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service rather than comply. The battle over storage privacy escalating
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Britain is not entirely unexpected. In twenty twenty two, UK
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officials condemned Apple's plans to introduce strong encryption for storage.
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Speaker 2: Quote.
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Speaker 1: End to end encryption cannot be allowed to hamper efforts
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to catch perpetrators of the most serious crimes unquote, a
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government spokesperson told the Guardian newspaper, referring specifically to child's
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safety laws. After the Home Office gave Apple a draft
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of what would become the backdoor order, the company hinted
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to lawmakers and the public what might lie ahead. During
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a debate in Parliament over amendments to the Investigatory Powers Act,
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Apple warned in March that the law allowed the government
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to demand backdoors that could apply around the world.
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Speaker 2: Quote.
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Speaker 1: These provisions could be used to force a company like
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Apple that would never build a backdoor into its products
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to publicly withdraw critical security features from the UK market
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to private UK users of these protections, it said in
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a written submission. Apple argued then that wielding the Act
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against strong encryption would conflict with a ruling by the
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European Court of Human Rights that any law requiring the
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companies to produce and encrypted communications quote risks amounting to
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a requirement that providers of such services weakened the encryption
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mechanism of all users unquote, and violates the European right
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to privacy. In the United States, decades of complaints from
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law enforcement about encryption have recently been sidelined by massive
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hacks by suspected Chinese government agents who breached the biggest
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communications companies and listened in on the calls at will.
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In a joint December press briefing on the case with
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FBI leaders, a Department of Homeland Security offered official urged
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Americans not to rely on standard phone service for privacy
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and to use encrypted services when possible. Also that month,
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the FBI National Security Agency and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure
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Security Agency joined in recommending dozens of steps to counter
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the Chinese hacking spree, including quote, ensured that traffic is
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end to end encrypted to the maximum extent possible.
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Speaker 2: Unquote.
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Speaker 1: Officials in Canada, New Zealand and Australia endorsed the recommendations.
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Those in the United Kingdom did not. All right, that's
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the end of the first article. We'll go back to
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the second one. Inside the Skating World, as joy turned
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to tragedy, and for some reason that page cannot be found.
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Speaker 2: I'll try to The print might be too small for me.
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Speaker 1: But Inside the Skating World, as Joy turned the tragedy.
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A heartbreaking week revealed the nature of their sport to
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a generation of skaters. The most disorienting work in the
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history of American figure skating started with a familiar pair,
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familiar mix of promise and nostalgia. Blocks away from the
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rink were sense of the nation's best athletes leaped, twirled,
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and left the crowd gaping, gasping. A group of the
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sports old guard convened in a hotel ballroom on January
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twenty five for the induction ceremony of the US Figure
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Skating Hall of Fame. That was not a fancy affair.
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Skewn and skewers and dessert bites at buffet tables, small plates,
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and a ten pm start time to accompany the National
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Championships in nearby Championships nearby. Tina Nois, one of the
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four Arnourees, was nervous anyway. She shuffled in the front,
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now wearing a black dress with ekline, with sequence going
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over as speech she drafted fifteen times, hoping she would
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not break down, describing the most heartbreaking moment of her life. Quote,
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these people don't need me to stand up here and
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act like a blubber fool. Unquote Noise seventy six reflected, quote,
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I grew up in Boston, very private. Close of quote,
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Noise had rarely talked about what happened in nineteen sixty
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one when a plane carrying the country's figure skating team
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crashed on its way to the World Championships in Prague.
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Thirty four people associated with skating died. About half of
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them were fellow members of the Skating Club of Boston.
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Her mentors and role models, the people she looked up
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to the most. And I'm going to have to cut
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it off there. It's too difficult to bee the apprentice,
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too small for me. The third article is in Idaho
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A preview of vaccine. Skeptical America. The caption says, in Idaho,
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a preview of RFK juniors vaccine skeptical America. This Idaho
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health district banned public clinics from distributing the coronavirus vaccine
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as why had spread fear during the pandemic fades from
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public memory. There's a photo with a caption at a
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Southwest District health clinic in Caldwell, Idaho, the coronavirus vaccine
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can no longer be administered. Here's the article The doctor
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beamed onto a health clinic video screen in October to
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convince the regional Health board to ban public clinics in
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Southwest Idaho from giving the Corona vaccine to the district's
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three hundred and thirty five thousand residents. Ryan Cole, a
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pathologist who touted his expertise in immunology and virology, called
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the vaccines quote experimental gene therapy unquote end quote, all risk,
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zero benefit unquote, falsely describing the shots that helped the
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country recover from a pandemic that had killed more than
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one point two million Americans.
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Speaker 2: Quote.
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Speaker 1: We shouldn't give untested products to the citizens of Idaho, unquote,
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said Cole, accusing Pazar of contaminating its vaccine with a
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quote known carcinogen unquote. The federal government and medical experts
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say that the vaccines have gone through rigorous studies and
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that there is no evidence the shots cause cancer. What
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Cole did not reveal during the meeting, the Washington State
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Medical Board had restricted his medical license in previous January
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after determining he had made quote numerous demonstrably false unquote
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statements about the coronavirus vaccines, among other pandemic related topics.
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According to disciplinary documents, the board restricted Coal from practicing
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primary care medicine and prescribing medications in Washington amid concerns
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he would quote use his professional position as a physician
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to harm members of the public unquote. The documents said
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his practice was limited to pathology. Coal is appealing the decision. Nevertheless,
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the Regional Health Board in Idaho voted four to three
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that octobernoon to prohibit the district's four public health clinics
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from distributing the coronavirus vaccine three years after the vaccine
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became widely available, a sign of skepticism over its use
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that has only deepened as widespread death and fear during
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the pandemic fade from public memory. The board, one of
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seven in the state, covers six country six counties. It
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marked the first time in the United States that access
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to a vaccine has been curtailed because of a local
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health board deeming it to be unsafe despite federal assurances.
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According to Adrian Cassilati, chief of Government and public Affairs
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for the National Association of County and City Health Officials,
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Public health experts said they fear other health boards across
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the country could follow the Idaho Board's lead in assuing
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the medicals consensus that the coronavirus vaccine is safe and
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effective at preventing hospitalsations and death as scientifically inaccurate.
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Speaker 2: Information about vaccines swirls.
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Speaker 1: From the top of Donald President Donald Trump's potential health administration.
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By the way, there's a photo of Ryan Cole within
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this article.
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Speaker 2: Robert F. Kennedy, Junior, Trump's picked to lead the.
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Speaker 1: Department of Health and Human Services, has falsely referred to
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the coronavirus vaccine as quote, the deadliest vaccine ever made,
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unquote and repeated of the debunk statements about vaccines. Kennedy's
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view will be magnified through his new platform if he
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is confirmed by the Senate and feather depressed already falling
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vaccination rates across the nation, warned George C. Benjamin, longtime
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executive director of the American Public Health Association. Quote he
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is dangerous because he doesn't use the vacxsin unquote, Benjamin said.
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Quote he can have enormously negative influence on people who
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are primed to use bad information to support their decision
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making unquote.
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Speaker 2: Neither Trump's team.
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Speaker 1: Nora Kennedy's spokesman responded to requests for comment. Idaho is
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especially vulnerable to the consequences of vaccine misinformation. Physicians say
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about fourteen percent of Idaho kindergarteners received exemptions from providing
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proof of state required childhood immunizations in the twenty twenty
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three twenty twenty four school year, the highest rate in
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the country. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Idaho has long led the nation and non medical vaccine exemptions,
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but the rate has nearly doubled since the twenty nineteen
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twenty twenty school year.
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Speaker 2: Quote.
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Speaker 1: Idaho's exemption rate is a wildfire preventable disease waiting to
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happen unquote said Kelly Moore, a physician who leads Immunization
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dot Org, a Saint Paul, Minnesota based nonprofit focused on
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vaccination education for healthcare professionals. Zach Brooks, a Kenyon County
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commissioner who serves on the Health Board, said he pushed
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for the vote to ban the coronavirus vaccine from public
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health clinics because he is in favor of protecting people's health.
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After listening to guidance from quote recognized subject matter experts
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in this kind of medicine unquote, Cole said. Another doctor
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who argued that the coronavirus vaccine is unsafe in October
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had been sanctioned by state medical licensing and national specialty
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certification boards. Another of the doctors who testified before the
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Health Board had been under investigation by a state medical
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board for previous statements about the coronavirus vaccine. A fourth
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physician who testified in Idaho said later during a similar
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presentation in a Washington County Board meeting that the medical
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medical establishment quote threatened me with removal of my state
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license and my board certifications unquote because of his beliefs
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about the coronavirus vaccine. Brookes said their expertise, Trump vaccine
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guidance from the Food and Drug Administration and the CDC,
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whose authority he said he does on trust. The CDC
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recommends the coronavirus vaccine to stave off severe illness, especially
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among the elderly and immuno compromised. The board's decision means
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that residents of long term care facilities in their Idaho
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district will no longer have easy access to coronavirus vaccines.
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Speaker 2: Quote.
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Speaker 1: That's exactly why we stop providing it, unquote, Brooks said,
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quote to try and protect the most vulnerable in our
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population unquote. Mistrust of government looms large amid the lingering
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scars of the pandemic, said Ted Epperley, president and chief
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executive of Full Circle Health, a nonprofit group of clinics
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serving low income residents of the Bois area. Epperley had
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faced armed protesters over coronavirus restrictions He was involved in
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approving as the physician board members of a neighboring health
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district until county commissioners replaced him with coal in the
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summer of twenty twenty one. The movement against science is
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not limited to IDOL, Eparly said, quote. The community has
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just been so poisoned with misinformation, either through social media
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feeds or word of mouth from irreputable sources that they
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now hear from a friend, and all of a sudden,
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it becomes dogma. Unquote, he said, quote this is the
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crisis of truth. Who's going to believe in what? Close
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the quote. It all started a year ago in Caldwell,
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a city surrounded by farmland in the shadow of the
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Rocky Mountains, where new housing developments are rapidly rising to
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handle the influx of self described political refugees fleeing California
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and Washington. Among the recent transplants was John Tribble, an
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emergency medical doctor who said he quit his job at
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a California hospital to protest the state requirements that medical
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staff get vaccinated against the coronavirus. To some board members,
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Trible was the ideal candidate to serve as the physician
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member of the Southwest Idaho Health Board, someone who would
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lend credibility to the fight against mandates. Since joining the
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board in January twenty twenty four, Trible has questioned the
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CDC's recommendation of prohibiting unvaccinated children who have been exposed
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to measles from attending school. He also said that he
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wants more studies investigating a potential link between autism and
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the childhood vaccination schedule, noting his concerns mirror Kennedy's in parentheses,
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experts point to dozens of studies that show no link
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between vaccines and autism.
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Speaker 2: Closed the quote.
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Speaker 1: He expressed similar skepticism about the coronavirus vaccine. Tribble soon
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formed an alliance with Cole, who served on a neighboring
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health board and whom he had known because of Cole's
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public appearances speaking against the coronavirus vaccine at the state
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legislatures and communities across the country. By WAI, there's a
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photograph of John Tribble, the physician cenative of the Southwest
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District Board. In a joint interview at a local dive bar,
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Trible and Coal said they see their roles as physician
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board members as bringing accountability and a critical lens to
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health issues that means bucking the establishment and questioning vaccine
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guidelines set up by CDC. Both men said they said
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they have reviewed data about the safety of coronavirus vaccines
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and conclude the vast majority of the medical profession has
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it wrong. Over a period of two hours, the men
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recited falsehoods about the vaccine. They said they agree with
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Kennedy that the coronavirus vaccine is the deadliest vaccine ever made.
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They cited debunk conspiracy theories about the vaccines contaminating DNA.
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They complain their views have been suppressed and claimed people
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are suffering as a result. Triple and Coal said their
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advocacy is already having an impact. At least six other
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counties or health districts in Idaho and other states have
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tacked them about copying the health district's ban on the
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coronavirus vaccine.
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Speaker 2: Quote.
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Speaker 1: All politics is local, unquote, Cole said, quote you can
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wait to move that battleship of the federal government, or
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you can act at the local level unquote. But if
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Kennedy were to be confirmed as Trump's health secretary, he
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could bring more transparency to governmental data and restore public
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trust and federal agencies, they said. Cole said Kennedy called
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him about the possibility of joining a Trump administration before
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Trump won the presidency. Kennedy's team followed up after Trump's victory.
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Cole said he assured them he would be happy to
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serve in any role. Cole said he is challenging the
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disciplinary action against his medical license in Washington based on
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his belief it represents an attack on his First Amendment rights.
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A spokesman for the Washington Board told The Washington Post
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that Cole submitted.
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Speaker 2: A petition for judicial review.
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Speaker 1: Spokespeople for Kennedy and Trump team did not respond to
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questions about a potential role for Coal. The public health
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consequences of anti science rhetoric from doctors such as Coal
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can be devastated, said Andrea Christopher, an internal medicine doctor
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who is seen rising vaccine hesitancy among the patients at
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the Boise Veterans Affairs Medical Center. She said she has
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dismayed that Cole serves as a physician representative on a
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health board and could have broader influence in the Trump administration.
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She has written to the Idaho Medical Board asking it
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to investigate Cole's false claims about the coronavirus vaccine. Bob McLaughlin,
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spokesman for the Idaho Medical Board, said the board was
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unable to comment unpotential investigations or complaints. A previous Post
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examination found that while medical boards vowed to punish doctors
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who spread misinformation during the pandemic.
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Speaker 2: Those efforts were limited.
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Speaker 1: Those who jeppard patients' lives by going against medical consensus
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and prescribing unapproved treatments for COVID or misleading patients about
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vaccines faced few professional repercussions. Quote. If we're not willing
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to take away any of those credentials, then it allows
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these folks to be out of the community making false
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statements that go against the compendium of data. Unquote, Christopher said,
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all right, I'm going to have to stop there and
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go to part two.
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Speaker 2: All right, welcome back.
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Speaker 1: To the second part of the reading of the Washington
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Post for today, Saturday, January Saturday, February the eighth. I
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might have said the wrong date earlier. As a reminder,
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radioized a reading service intended for people or a blind
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or have other disabilities that make it difficult to read prematerial.
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Your reader today is Mark Webster, and we left off
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on the third headline from today's front page about coronavirus.
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I'm about two thirds away through the article. I'll complete it.
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While Americans stood in line for hours in twenty twenty
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one to receive the coronavirus vaccine, with seventy percent of
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adults having received a shot in the months after they
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first became available. Uptake of the latest versions has been limited,
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despite recommendations from medical authorities. Only one in five have
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received the updated vaccines, according to the CDC, not only
29:23
because of vaccine skepticism, but also because there is greater
29:26
immunity given that most people have contracted the coronavirus at
29:31
least once. Demand for the coronavirus vaccine in this region
29:35
is not high. The public health clinics in the Southwest
29:40
District administered only ninety three shots in twenty twenty four,
29:43
accounting for a minuscule percentage of the population they serve.
29:47
Public health experts say they worry most about those who
29:51
no longer have easy access to the shots because of
29:53
the Health Board's ban, including residents at long term care
29:57
facilities and those who are home bound. Without the help
30:01
of government subsidized public health clinics, the cost of safely
30:05
distributing the vaccine in nursing homes and other congregate care
30:09
settings can be prohibitive because of its code storage requirements,
30:14
said nicky Zog, director of the Health District, quote it's
30:18
concerning when you see the vulnerability of the people who
30:21
need that support in those long term care facilities or
30:24
skilled nursing facilities. Unquote, She said, people can still get
30:28
the coronavirus vaccine from their doctors or other health care facilities,
30:33
including pharmacies, just not from public health clinics that serve
30:37
low income families or other vulnerable populations. Public health officials
30:42
say they fear that under the influence of the Trump administration,
30:45
more health boards nationally will disregard scientific evidence and medical
30:49
consensus to limit access to life saving measures beyond the
30:53
coronavirus vaccine. Brooks, the board member who orchestrated the coronavirus vote,
30:59
shared another healthcare concerned with the post, re examining the
31:02
childhood vaccination schedule.
31:05
Speaker 2: That's the end of that article.
31:07
Speaker 1: Will now turn to the fourth article in our list.
31:10
Purge of USAD staff put on hold. Judge bars Trump
31:15
from putting twenty seven hundred additional USAID workers on leave.
31:20
A federal judge temporarily barred USAID from putting twenty two
31:24
hundred workers on paid leave and restored five hundred others
31:28
to regular service. As opponents of the Trump administration's doge
31:32
downsizing head to the courts to slow layoffs and shutdowns.
31:36
Speaker 2: Here's the article.
31:37
Speaker 1: A federal judge on Friday blocked the Trump administration from
31:41
placing about two thousand, seven hundred US Agency for International
31:45
Development employees on paid leave and recalling nearly all of
31:49
those posted abroad, representing a setback to the president's efforts
31:54
to slash the US foreign and Foreign aid apparatus and
31:58
bring it in line with his quote a marrier first
32:00
unquote agenda. US District Court Judge Carl J. Nichols, following
32:05
a hastily called hearing in a temporary restraining order in
32:08
a lawsuit brought Thursday by employee unions challenging the administration's
32:13
authority to shut down the agency. The decision came only
32:17
a day after a filing by the American Foreign Service
32:20
Association and the American Federation of Government Employees asking the
32:25
court to declare unlawful what they called a quote series
32:29
of unconstitutional and illegal actions taken by President Donald Trump
32:33
and his administration that had systematically dismantled unquote usaid without
32:39
authorization from Congress. Nichols, a twenty nineteen Trump appointee, paused
32:45
the actions until both sides flesh out their complex but
32:49
hurtly sketched claims and returned for a fuller hearing Thursday.
32:53
He cited the quote irreparable unquote harm facing workers if
32:57
they were cut off from government support in including communications, payment,
33:01
and security resources while serving in high risk environments.
33:05
Speaker 2: Quote. No future lawsuit could undo the physical.
33:08
Speaker 1: Harm that might result if USAID employees are not informed
33:14
of imminent security threats occurring in the countries to which
33:17
they have relocated in the course of their service to
33:19
the United States unquote, Nichols wrote in the seven page opinion, quote,
33:24
administrative leave in Syria is not the same as administrative
33:27
leave in Bethesda. Simply being paid cannot change that fact unquote,
33:31
he wrote, referring to a Washington, D C. Suburb, adding
33:36
during a ninety minute hearing earlier Friday that quote, there
33:39
is essentially zero harm to the government unquote from a
33:42
week's pause. The suit marks the first major legal challenge
33:47
to the push by Trump and his allies, led by
33:50
billionaire Elon Musk and as US Dog Service or Department
33:55
of Government Efficiency targeting foreign aid programs andsaid's staff as
34:01
part of their campaign to reshape the federal government.
34:04
Speaker 2: These efforts have included.
34:06
Speaker 1: Orders to freeze a broad swath of foreign aid programs
34:09
and fire, furlough or put on leave the vast majority
34:13
of USAID's staff at its Washington headquarters and abroad. Trump,
34:17
in the social media post Friday morning, asserted, without evidence
34:22
that much of USAID's funding had been spent fraudulently. Quote
34:27
and this is all in caps. The corruption is at
34:30
levels rarely seen before, unquote, he said, quote close it down, unquote.
34:35
The lawsuit is just one of a score of legal
34:38
challenges mounted by Trump opponents in recent days seeking to
34:42
slow or halt the administration's barrage of actions to Kurteil's spending,
34:47
pair back the administrative state, eradicate diversity initiatives, and more.
34:51
The ruling was the latest order by federal judges, many
34:54
appointed by Republican presidents, balking at elements of the Trump blitz. Earlier,
35:00
a US District Judge John D. Bates of Washington, a
35:03
George W. Bush appointee, was weighing whether to temporarily bar
35:08
Doge from gaining access to data on millions of Americans
35:12
at the Labor Department, expressing skepticism that Musk's inexperienced, young
35:17
team of software engineers understood confidential handling requirements. On Thursday,
35:22
Seattle federal Judge John C. Kugenauer, a Reagan appointee, became
35:28
the second judge to block Trump's executive order to curb
35:32
birthright citizenship, saying the president was trampling the constitution to
35:36
purserve to pursue quote political or personal gain unquote. The
35:42
plaintiffs in the USAID case, in their filing on Thursday,
35:46
said the whirlwind moves since Trump's return to office had
35:50
quote generated a global humanitarian crisis by abruptly halting the
35:55
crucial work of USAID employees, grantees, and contractors.
35:59
Speaker 2: Closed the quote.
36:00
Speaker 1: Quote they have cost thousands of American jobs, and they
36:04
have imperiled US national security interests close the quote.
36:07
Speaker 2: They wrote.
36:09
Speaker 1: Outside USAID's headquarters near the White House on Friday, workers
36:14
removed the agency's name from a building sign and took
36:17
down its flag. The ruling appeal appears to delay a
36:21
plan by USAID announced on its website earlier this week
36:26
that it would place all global direct hire staff, most
36:30
of whom are civil service and foreign service employees, on
36:33
administrative leave at midnight Eastern time on Friday, except for
36:37
specially designed employees. It was not immediately clear how the
36:42
edict would affect the agency's thousands of locally hired staff
36:45
at its missions and programs around the world. While Republicans,
36:49
including Senator James E. Risch of Idaho, chair of the
36:53
Senate Foreign Relations Committee, have supported merging USAID into the
36:58
State Department, Democrats attempting such a move without congressional authorization
37:02
would be illegal. The Administration has made wildly inaccurate claims
37:07
about USAID to support its drive to shut it down,
37:10
including a statement Wednesday in which eleven out of twelve
37:13
claims were misleading, wrong, or lacking contexts, according to a
37:18
Washington Post analysis. The White House said USAID did not
37:22
immediately respond to requests for comment. The administration's actions jeopardized
37:28
the United States' longtime status as the world's largest provider
37:33
of foreign assistance, funding activities from food aid for malnourished
37:36
children to vaccine distribution and democracy promotion. Foreign aid represents
37:42
roughly one percent of the federal budget. The rollout of
37:46
the orders affecting USAID have been characterized by reversals, bare
37:50
bones information, and widespread confusion, while Secretary of State Marco
37:55
Rubio issued a broad carve out for humanitarian programs days
37:59
after the initial order to freeze most assistance programs. Aid
38:04
groups say most of those programs have not been able
38:06
to restart because USAID has not issued guidance needed for
38:11
them to proceed and because USAID's payment system remains offline.
38:18
Earlier this week, USAID alerted overseas employees that they would
38:22
be required to curtail their assignments and return to the
38:25
United States within thirty days to secure government paid relocation.
38:30
The order resulted in mass confusion among employees unsure if
38:35
they would be able to obtain waivers enabling their children
38:38
to finish the school year, or if they would receive
38:40
assistance in relocating back to the United States. At the
38:44
outset of Friday's hearing, Brett Shuemate, acting Assistant Attorney General
38:48
for the Justice Department's Civil Division, said that by the
38:51
end of the day, two thousand, two hundred USAID employees
38:55
would be placed on paid leave. He said five hundred
38:59
have already been placed on administrative leave, but six hundred,
39:02
roughly double the tally in a plan circulated Thursday, would
39:06
be kept on quote, the president has discretion to exercise
39:09
unquote his constitutional authority over executive branch hiring and firing,
39:14
and workers had regular avenues to seek remedies after the fact.
39:18
Schemate said, quote If every employee put on administrative lead
39:21
could come into court, the government couldn't function close the
39:24
quote planted Attorney Carla Gilbride said the actions were a
39:31
part of a quote cascade unquote of irreparable harms to
39:35
workers posed by the shutdown of the agency. Workers would
39:39
be cut off from communications systems that in sheer security
39:43
and dangerous environments. Overseas, payment systems would be shuttered. Workers
39:48
themselves could be exposed to liability, up for unpaid funding obligations,
39:52
and face immediate threat to their family stability and health.
39:56
Quote the president does not have authority to do this, unquote,
39:59
she said. USAID quote is an independent agency created by Congress,
40:04
and if it is to be reorganized in this manner,
40:07
it needs to be done through the proper congressional path.
40:11
That's the end of that article. We'll go back to
40:13
our fifth article. Trump's vision leads to a Saudi shift.
40:20
Trump's proposal to displace Gosin's may impede efforts with Saudi Arabia.
40:24
Middle East analysts say Trump's comments have complicated his drive
40:27
to secure diplomatic ties between Saudi Arabia and Israel. There's
40:32
a photograph of that, showing a billboard in Tel Aviv
40:38
showing Donald Trump shaking hands with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed
40:41
Ben Salmon.
40:42
Speaker 2: Here's the article.
40:44
Speaker 1: President Donald Trump's proposal to displace all Palestinians from Gaza
40:48
has complicated his efforts to secure the normalization of ties
40:52
between Saudi Arabia and Israel, according to Middle East analysts,
40:56
but it is too early to conclude that his idea
40:59
will do lasting damage to the administration's ties with the
41:02
wealthy Arab kingdom. In the hours following Trump's comments Tuesday,
41:07
official Saudi reaction was swift and unequivocal, calling for an
41:12
independent Palestinian state in territory, including the Gaza's trip, and
41:16
saying that the kingdom quote will not establish diplomatic relations
41:20
with Israel without that unquote. The statement, released just after
41:24
four am Local time, took a firmer line than some
41:27
Saudi comments in the past, suggesting relations could be possible
41:32
if a quote pathway unquote to Palestinian stateshood was set.
41:37
The spread of the official Saudi response reflects the seriousness
41:42
of the issue for officials in Riyad, According to Ali Shihabi,
41:47
a Saudi businessman with close ties to the monarchy, quote,
41:51
Saudi Arabia is usually quite slow in responding to things
41:54
and sometimes takes a week to respond, but this has
41:57
been an instant critique close the quote, he said. He said,
42:01
Saudi officials will be watching to see if Trump's comments
42:04
are followed by American action to advance the proposal or
42:07
triggered a response by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin net Yahou
42:11
on the ground. Quote the danger is that net Yahou
42:15
could take advantage of it unquote, said shi Abi, explaining
42:19
that Trump's comments could emboden the Israeli's leaders actions in Gozim,
42:23
the West Bank and beyond. Trump Warm relations with Saudi
42:29
Arabia extend back further than his first presidency, and the
42:32
kingdom lies at the heart of many of his aspirations
42:35
were reshaping the Middle East. Trump has said the normalization
42:39
of ties between Saudi Arabi and Israel would be quote
42:43
the deal of the century end quote. He initially tried
42:46
to secure such an agreement during the first term, aiming
42:49
to expand on the Abraham Accords, in which four Arab nations,
42:53
the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Morocco and Sudan, recognized Israel.
43:00
As part of a deal, Saudi Arabia has asked for
43:03
a NATO style defense pack with the United States and
43:07
help developing a civilian nuclear program in exchange for the
43:11
recognition of Israel. Joel Gazanski, a former senior official on
43:16
Israel's National Security Council, said he thinks that Trump inadvertently
43:20
quote embarrassed unquote Saudi Arabia by publicly repeating something he
43:25
heard about their position in private.
43:26
Speaker 2: Quote.
43:27
Speaker 1: The Saudis can compromise, but they can't, but they don't
43:30
want to show they're doing that before they know what
43:33
they can get and understand the level of criticism that
43:36
will come to them for doing it, unquote, he said.
43:39
He noted that when the Abraham Accords were negotiated, discussions
43:42
were held in private.
43:44
Speaker 2: Quote.
43:45
Speaker 1: I'm sure President Trump heard that Saudi's don't need a
43:48
Palestinian state, but there's a big difference between that and
43:51
saying it out loud unquote, he said. Even before Trump
43:55
offered his GODSIP proposal. John Altman, a senior vice press
44:00
at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, said he
44:03
saw few indications that Saudi normalization of ties with Israel
44:06
was imminent or even likely, because from the point of
44:10
view of Riad and Crown Pence Mohammed Ben Salman in particular,
44:14
there's little urgency.
44:15
Speaker 2: Quote.
44:16
Speaker 1: The Saudis feel that normalization with Israel is the biggest
44:19
card they have to play, and the Crown Prince anticipates
44:22
being in power for the next forty years or more unquote,
44:25
Altaman said, But he said that doesn't mean the alliance
44:28
with the United States will suffer short of full diplomatic relations.
44:32
He said, there are many ways for Saudi Israeli ties
44:35
to strengthen, and the relationship with Washington is likely to
44:39
remain strong. Quote Normalization has become the north star of
44:43
our relationship unquote, he said, referring to the United States
44:46
and Saudi Arabia.
44:47
Speaker 2: Quote.
44:48
Speaker 1: By having it out there, it will continue to orient
44:51
U s Saudy ties close the quote. Saudi Arabia was
44:54
Trump's first international visit during his initial term in office,
44:58
and last month, following Trump's and other for a second term.
45:01
Mohammet was the first foreign leader to speak with him
45:04
by phone. US officials have said they hope Saudi Arabia
45:08
will help pay for the reconstruction of Gaza, but a
45:11
push to displace its residence could jeopardize any such plans.
45:16
Firos Moxad, a senior fellow and senior director with the
45:20
Middle East Institute, said Riod was clearly considering its domestic
45:24
audience when the response to Trump this week was issued
45:27
early in the morning and then carried on the front
45:29
pages of the country's national newspapers. Comments from Prince Turkey. Alphasol,
45:35
a former Saudi intelligence official ambassador to Washington, reflected the
45:39
mood que what came out of mister Trump is not
45:42
digestible un quote, he said in an interview with CNN
45:45
on Wednesday that was reposted and summarized in local Saudi
45:50
news outlets. He cautioned that if Trump visits Riod, he
45:53
will receive quote an ear fall quote from Saudi leadership
45:57
about quote not just the wisdom of what he's proposing,
46:00
but the downright unfairness and injustice.
46:02
Speaker 2: Close the quote.
46:04
Speaker 1: The issue of Palestinian statehood has grown in potency in
46:07
Saudi society and across the Arab world over the past year,
46:11
as Israel's war in Gaza has ground on. While Saudi
46:15
officials had previously called for a quote pathway unquote to
46:19
a Palestinian state, by September Mohammad was saying that ties
46:24
with Israel would not be normalized without the quote establishment
46:28
unquote of such a state.
46:30
Speaker 2: Quote.
46:31
Speaker 1: For most young Saudis, the issue of Palestine had begun
46:35
to fade from their memories and their daily priorities. But
46:37
a year and a half of constant images of death
46:39
and destruction has changed that, unquote, said Maksad, referring to
46:44
coverage of the war in Gaza. Quote It's something that
46:47
any Saudi leader and any Arab leader will have to
46:50
factor in.
46:51
Speaker 2: They simply cannot ignore it close the quote.
46:54
Speaker 1: Trump took office last month at a time of rare
46:57
optivism in the region after the announcement of a ceasefire
47:00
between Israel and Hamas. The agreement suspended the devastating war
47:05
in Gaza and has led so far to the release
47:08
of thirteen hostages held by Hamas in exchange for hundreds
47:11
of Palestinian prisoners. AMAS announced Friday that it planned to
47:16
release three more Israelis, Ohad bin Ami or Levy and
47:20
Eli Sharabi on Saturday. For the deal to hold, the
47:24
two sides need to begin a second round of talks
47:27
to hammer out daunting issues, including further withdrawals of Israeli
47:32
forces from Gaza and the future role of Hamas. Israeli
47:36
negotiation teams were slated to arrive in Doha on Monday
47:40
to begin talks about the deal's second phase, but were
47:44
delayed until after Netanyahu's Washington visit. If the war in
47:48
Gaza resumes, it will become that much more difficult for
47:52
Saudi Arabia to consider any kind of roprochmont with Israel.
47:56
Speaker 2: All right, now that's the end of that article.
47:58
Speaker 1: We'll go to our last article, A filmmaker align with
48:04
Cash Patel was paid. I'll go to the article Cash
48:09
Patel was paid by Russian filmmaker with Kremlin tizz. Document
48:12
show Patel, Trump's nominee to be FBI director, was paid
48:16
twenty five thousand dollars last year by a film company
48:19
that has promoted anti Western views advanced by the Kremlin.
48:23
Document shows there's a photograph of Cash Patel appearing on
48:27
January thirty before a genet a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing
48:31
on his nomination to be FBI director.
48:33
Speaker 2: Here is the article.
48:35
Speaker 1: Cash Patel, President Donald Trump's nominee to be FBI director,
48:40
was paid twenty five thousand dollars last year by a
48:42
film company owned by a Russian national who also holds
48:46
US citizenship and has produced programs promoting quote deep state unquote,
48:50
conspiracy theories and anti Western views advanced by the Kremlin.
48:55
According to a financial disclosure form Patel submitted as part
48:59
of his nomination process and other documents, documents obtained by
49:03
The Washington Post showed that Patel received the money from
49:07
Global Tree Pictures, a Los Angeles based company run by
49:11
Igor Lopotinak, a filmmaker whose previous projects include a pro
49:17
Russian influence campaign that received money from a fund created
49:20
by Russian President Vladimir Putin. The payment to Patel came
49:25
as he participated in a documentary that Lopotinac produced depicting
49:30
Patel and other veterans of the first Trump administration as
49:33
victims of a conspiracy that quote destroyed the lives of
49:37
those who stood by Donald Trump in an attempt to
49:39
remove the democratically elected president from office closed the quote.
49:44
The six part series title quote All the President's Men,
49:47
The Conspiracy Against Trump unquote, aired in November on right
49:51
wing broadcaster Tucker Carlson's online network. In one segment, Petel
49:56
vowed to quote shut down the FBI headquarters building an
49:59
open as a museum to the deep State. Closed the quote.
50:06
The details surrounding the payment to Patel add to the
50:09
questions Democratic lawmakers and many veteran national security experts have
50:14
raised about his nomination. If Patel is confirmed, the agency
50:19
responsible for defending against Russian espionage operations in the inside
50:23
the United States would be led by someone who months
50:26
earlier had taken money from a perceived ally of the Kremlin.
50:29
Speaker 2: Quote.
50:30
Speaker 1: Mister Patel has gone above and beyond in his advice
50:34
and consent process unquote, said Erica Knight, Patel's spoke person,
50:38
in response to questions from the Post. Quote That includes
50:41
countless meetings with senators, disclosing and reporting all sources of income,
50:46
submitting hundreds of pages of documents, replying to hundreds of
50:50
pages of questions for the record, and testifying for six
50:53
hours with multiple rounds of questioning before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
50:58
The Senate has evaluated all potential conflicts and concerns. Mister
51:02
Patel looks forward to a vote in the Senate Judiciary
51:05
Committee this Thursday and being swiftly confirmed by the Senate
51:09
so he can start working to refocus the FBI on
51:12
making our country safer. Close the quote. Low Potnik did
51:17
not respond to a request for comment. A spokesperson for
51:20
Senator Chuck Grassley, Republican of Iowa, the committee's chairman, said
51:25
in a statement quote, as part of the nominations process,
51:28
Patel has complied with all financial disclosure requirements. No, the
51:33
quote continues, the Office of Government Ethics and the Department
51:37
of Justice have reviewed and approved his financial disclosures. Any
51:40
effort to raise concerns about Patel's financial disclosures should be
51:44
dismissed as an obvious smear campaign.
51:46
Speaker 2: Close the quote.
51:48
Speaker 1: The Judiciary Committee's planned vote this week on Patel's nomination
51:53
was delayed until next week amid objections raised by Democratic
51:57
members of the panel. Democrats have broadly opposed Patel's nomination,
52:02
portraying him as an extremist with scant leadership experience who
52:06
would use the FBI to retaliate against people He and
52:09
Trump view as adversaries. Senator Dick Durbin of Illinois, the
52:14
committee's top democrat, has said the committee should bring Patel
52:18
back for additional questioning, including about the ongoing investigation and
52:22
removal of Justice Department and FBI officials who worked on
52:25
January sixth cases. As FBI Director, Patel would hold one
52:30
of the highest ranking positions in an administration that has
52:34
signal potential reversals on US policy toward Russia. Trump has
52:39
questioned US support to Ukraine, amid concerns among US and
52:43
European officials that he may seek to end the war
52:45
on terms favorable to Moscow. US Attorney General Pambondi moved
52:50
swiftly to dismantle a special unit established during the Biden
52:54
administration to enforce sanctions on Russia and pursue violations by
52:59
pro putent oligos. The payment Patel received is listed as
53:04
a quote honorariumote on a financial disclosure report submitted to
53:10
the US Official of Government Ethics. US Office of Government
53:14
Ethics and agency tasked with reviewing financial disclosures for Senate
53:18
confirmed nominees within the executive branch. The disclosure report, along
53:23
with an ethics agreement he signed provide a more detailed
53:28
look at Patel's income and work than the written answers
53:31
he provided to Senator's questions ahead of his confirmation hearing
53:35
last month. Both the disclosure report and ethics pledge were
53:39
completed last month, but they were not made publicly available
53:43
until they were posted on the Office of Government Ethics
53:45
website two days after Patel's hearing. In his paperwork, Patel
53:50
described consulting work for clients including Trump's media company and
53:54
the Katari embassy, and writing books. Patel wrote that he
53:58
stepped away from some of his activities already and would
54:01
stop other work while serving as FBI director, while also
54:04
pledging to divest his interest in companies including Apple, Eli,
54:08
Lilly Pollanteer, and Meta, the parent company overseeing Facebook and Instagram.
54:14
Speaker 2: Patel did not vow.
54:15
Speaker 1: To entirely sever himself from the businesses and enterprises he
54:19
worked on between Trump's two terms. However, he wrote that
54:22
he would continue receiving royalties and licensing income for the
54:25
books he's published, and also said he would retain stock
54:28
in a Cayman's Island based company where he had worked
54:33
as a consultant, Lopetnok a native of Ukraine who moved
54:38
from Russia to Los Angeles in two thousand and eight,
54:40
has been unapologetic about the pro Russian stance of the projects.
54:45
In a podcast interview last year, Lopatinak acknowledged that he
54:50
had been accused of being a quote Russian asset, a
54:53
criminal agent, etc. Unquote because of the pro Russian angles
54:57
of his films.
54:57
Speaker 2: Quote.
54:58
Speaker 1: I don't care, because I believe that people of the
55:00
world need to have alternative vision from a mainstream media
55:04
narrative unquote, he said. Little Patonic traveled to Moscow at
55:09
least three times between twenty twelve and twenty fourteen, according
55:12
to his social media post, and was publicly critical of
55:17
the twenty fourteen protests in Kiev that ousted the country's
55:21
pro Kremlin president. In October that year, Lopatinok released quote
55:26
made on Massacre unquote, a film that sought the counter
55:29
widely established findings that pro Russian forces and mercenaries were
55:33
behind the killings of dozens of anti government as activists
55:37
during the protests.
55:39
Speaker 2: Well, this concludes the reading of the Washington.
55:41
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