NPR News: 01-07-2025 4PM EST
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🗓️ 7 January 2025
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| 0:25.0 | Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Lakshmi Singh. |
| 0:30.0 | Under sunny skies but freezing temperatures, the late former president, Jimmy Carter's, motorcade is slowly making its way through downtown Washington, |
| 0:39.2 | D.C. Carter's flag-drape casket has been transferred to a horse-drawn case on at Navy Memorial |
| 0:47.2 | to make its way to the U.S. Capitol. Carter, who died last month at the age of 100, will lie in state in the rotunda for members of Congress and the public at large to pay their final respects. |
| 1:03.6 | At a press conference, President-elect Donald Trump said he was looking at issuing pardons to people who assaulted police when a mob of his supporters attacked the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. |
| 1:18.9 | And as NPR's Tom Dreisbach tells us, Trump also made multiple false claims about that day's violence. |
| 1:25.3 | Trump spoke to reporters at his Mar-a-Lago resort and said he was |
| 1:29.2 | looking at pardoning January 6th rioters convicted of assaulting police and wanted to re-investigate |
| 1:36.4 | the attack. So we'll be looking at the whole thing, but I'll be making major pardons, yes. |
| 1:41.0 | The FBI calls the attack an act of domestic terrorism. More than 140 police officers were injured. |
| 1:47.8 | Trump also falsely claimed that the rioters did not have guns. In fact, several were armed with loaded handguns. |
| 1:55.1 | And he said his administration would find out about the supposed role of the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah. |
| 2:02.1 | No investigation has found any involvement by that group in the insurrection. Tom Dreisbach and PR News. |
| 2:07.2 | A New York appellate judge is denying Trump's request to delay sentencing in his criminal New York |
| 2:12.1 | hush money case. It's still set for Friday. Trump argued he is protected by presidential immunity. |
| 2:18.6 | The wildfire danger is growing across much of southern California where several small fires |
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