Congress Iran briefings, Trump threatens CNN, ‘Twitter killer’ hanged & more

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🗓️ 27 June 2025

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Lawmakers from the House are set to be briefed on Iran today. President Donald Trump has threatened to sue CNN and the New York Times. Kilmar Abrego Garcia could be deported from the US to another country, instead of El Salvador. The US and China have announced a trade breakthrough. And, Japan has executed the infamous “Twitter killer.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.8	Amazon offers term time working to their employees, like Anton,
0:07.4	who's home to look after his daughters during their holidays.
0:10.0	Hello!
0:10.8	To him, this is the best sound in the world.
0:17.2	Actually, maybe that's the best sound of all.
0:23.1	Now that's term time working.
0:24.5	Offered at Amazon.
0:26.8	Ten weeks off guaranteed per year.
0:29.0	Mix of paid holiday and unpaid time off.
0:29.8	Conditions apply.
0:33.1	Hi there, from CNN.
0:38.3	I'm Charlie Drever with the five things you need to know for Friday, June 27. Members of the House of Representatives will receive a classified briefing on Iran today.
0:43.3	It comes after senators were briefed on the U.S. strikes on Iran yesterday, but afterwards,
0:48.3	lawmakers had different opinions on the extent the country's nuclear program was set back.
0:53.3	Many Republicans say they believe it will take Iran years longer to build a nuclear weapon,
0:58.4	but Democrats say the situation is far less clear.
1:01.8	The Trump administration is continuing to express confidence in the success of the strikes,
1:07.0	despite not releasing any new intelligence supporting President Donald Trump's claims that its nuclear
1:12.2	program was, quote, obliterated. And at yesterday's briefing, Defense Secretary Pete Hegsef
1:17.9	heavily criticized the media's reporting on the early assessment of the strikes.
1:22.3	There are so many aspects of what our brave men and women did that because of the hatred of this press
1:28.5	corps are undermined because people are trying to leak and spin that it wasn't successful.
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