Biden Migration Plans, E. Jean Carroll Testimony, Fox Without Tucker Carlson

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🗓️ 28 April 2023

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Summary

The Biden administration is planning out new measures to deter migrant influx on the U.S.-Mexico border, as one of the current policies, Title 42, is set to expire in May. Writer E. Jean Carroll testified in her civil suit against former President Donald Trump alleging that he raped her in a New York department store in the 1990s. And Fox News is losing ratings following the departure of their biggest star Tucker Carlson.

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0:00.0	The President Biden prepares new policies for when an immigration rule ends.
0:06.5	Some people may find it easier to reach the United States.
0:09.5	Others may find new barriers.
0:11.2	What does that really mean for asylum seekers?
0:13.3	I'm Michelle Martin here with Steve Innskeep and this is up first from NPR News.
0:19.7	Lawyers for Donald Trump got their chance to question E. Jean Carroll.
0:23.2	She's the former columnist who says Trump sexually assaulted her and then defamed her.
0:27.5	Now her case is one of many the former President faces all at once.
0:31.6	How did she answer cross-examination?
0:33.6	Also, where does Fox News turn after firing Tucker Carlson?
0:37.5	The network settled a defamation lawsuit and then dismissed its biggest star.
0:42.1	We ask our colleague David Fulkenflake who wrote the book on the TV channel.
0:45.9	Stay with us.
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1:01.7	This Arbor Day take a moment to celebrate trees and all of the benefits they share with the world.
1:07.0	Find ways to get involved at ArborDay.org.
1:12.2	The pandemic rule known as Title 42 expires next month.
1:16.8	This rule always had an official purpose, a little different from its practical effect.
1:21.8	The purpose was to protect the United States from COVID, obviously they didn't work out.
1:26.6	But the effect was to make it easier for the U.S. to expel migrants.
1:30.7	Since 2020, officials have used the policy to remove more than two million people who crossed the border.
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