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🗓️ 8 June 2025
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0:00.0 | Tonight on PBS News Weekend, the Trump administration orders the National Guard to Los Angeles following clashes between immigration officers and protesters. |
0:14.6 | Then a book that pulls back the curtain on a company that's considered a driving force behind the boom of artificial intelligence, |
0:22.6 | open AI. They were going to be open and collaborative, and they wanted this technology to be ushered |
0:28.2 | into the public purely for social benefit. And that is not what I found. And how gene editing |
0:35.7 | technology may offer a breakthrough approach to combating a devastating |
0:40.2 | disease ravaging Florida's citrus industry. |
1:00.0 | Good evening. I'm John Yang. In Los Angeles, quiet streets have greeted the first of 2,000 National Guard troops sent by President Trump in response to two days of clashes between |
1:05.8 | protesters and immigration officers. Demonstrators had gathered at places around the city |
1:10.6 | where officers |
1:11.2 | were carrying out raids, some of them throwing things. Authorities used pepper spray and flash |
1:16.6 | bang grenades to try to restore order. In a memo to the Pentagon and the Attorney General, Mr. Trump |
1:22.3 | said he was acting under a rarely used law because the demonstrations constitute a form of rebellion against the authority |
1:30.0 | of the government of the United States. California Governor Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, objected |
1:35.1 | saying on social media that the guards' presence will escalate tensions and erode public trust. |
1:41.3 | Democratic Representative Nanette Barrigan represents Paramount, California, a heavily |
1:45.7 | Latino city where there were clashes yesterday at a Home Depot. Representative, thanks for joining |
1:51.1 | us. What do you think accounts for the fact that things are calm now? I haven't seen any |
1:55.8 | immigration activity today and raids like we saw in the last couple of days. So I think that that is a |
2:04.6 | factor. But look, you know, people are afraid. They're worried. They're concerned. I think that's |
2:11.3 | why you're seeing the protest. They are protesting mass deportations. And what this administration |
2:17.1 | has been doing for the last several months, |
2:20.0 | whether it's trampling on due process, just deporting people. |
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