Comey And Beyond, Costs Of TikTok Deal, Dreamers Amid Deportations

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🗓️ 27 September 2025

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President Trump claims not to have a list of people for the government to punish but he has already specified some individuals alongside now-indicted former FBI Director James Comey. Experts question the fees investors are paying the U.S. government to buy TikTok from its Chinese owners. Though they are supposed to be protected from deportation, some DACA recipients have been detained.

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0:00.0	Oh, oh, Ayesha, it's you.
0:04.9	Yes, yes.
0:06.1	Oh, my goodness.
0:10.0	The question.
0:11.4	Who's next on the president's retribution list?
0:14.4	It's not a list, but I think there'll be others.
0:16.7	Others who could find themselves in the same situation as James Comey.
0:20.4	I'm Scott Simon. And I'm
0:22.0	Ayesha Roscoe with Up First from NPR News. The Justice Department indicted the former FBI
0:31.8	director days after President Trump called on Attorney General Pam Bondi to do so. We'll talk to our justice correspondent.
0:40.5	American investors are taking over TikTok and paying the government to do it. Our tech correspondent
0:45.5	asks experts when a fee is just a fee. And then NPR's immigration policy reporter on DACA in the era of mass deportations.
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