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| 0:00.0 | Support for NPR comes from NPR member stations and Eric and Wendy Schmidt through the Schmidt Family Foundation, working toward a healthy, resilient, secure world for all. On the web at theshmit.org. |
| 0:14.7 | Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Rylan Barton. President Trump is threatening to invoke the Insurrection Act and |
| 0:22.1 | deploy troops to quell protests against immigration officers in Minneapolis. The city has been on edge |
| 0:27.7 | since an ICE agent fatally shot Renee Maclin Good in the head. NPR's Jasmine Garst has more on the |
| 0:34.2 | rarely used 1807 law that allows a president to deploy the military for domestic law enforcement. |
| 0:39.9 | It's different from the National Guard deployments we saw last year, and that the Insurrection Act goes further. |
| 0:47.1 | It allows the military to carry out local law enforcement functions. |
| 0:53.7 | Every person I have spoken to out here has told me they are furious |
| 0:58.2 | and they have no intention of backing down. So there's a sense here that we're at a boiling point |
| 1:05.5 | and that invoking the Insurrection Act would only inflame the situation. NPR's Jasmine Garz reporting |
| 1:13.2 | Venezuelan opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Karina Machado met with |
| 1:18.5 | President Trump at the White House today. I presented the president of the United States, |
| 1:24.8 | the medal of the Nobel Peace Prize. |
| 1:29.0 | Trump has openly campaigned for the award. The Nobel Committee says the Peace Prize is not |
| 1:33.7 | transferable. Since capturing Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, Trump has been working with |
| 1:38.7 | acting Venezuelan President Delci Rodriguez. Trump has said Karina Machado does not have the support necessary to lead the country. |
| 1:46.5 | Bipartisan health talks in Congress have stalled. Negotiators said last week they were getting |
| 1:51.1 | close to a deal to restore health insurance subsidies that expired at the end of the year. NPR's |
| 1:55.8 | Sam Greenglass reports. After a burst of activity last week, bipartisan talks are floundering as the Senate heads for a |
| 2:02.1 | week-long recess. Negotiators have been grappling with demands from some Republicans for tougher |
| 2:07.1 | language on ensuring federal dollars don't fund abortion. And then President Trump unveiled his |
| 2:12.2 | own health plan, which would not extend the subsidies. Senator Lisa Murkowski, Republican of Alaska, |
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