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| 0:00.0 | NPR's podcast Trump's Terms is your source for same-day updates on big news about the Trump administration. |
| 0:07.7 | Short, focused episodes, one topic at a time, about five minutes or so. |
| 0:12.2 | We carry it reporting from across all of NPR's coverage, so you are always getting the biggest, most urgent stories. |
| 0:19.0 | Listen to Trump's terms on the NPR app or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:23.6 | Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Kora-Kulman. The federal government is sent more than |
| 0:28.4 | 3,000 federal immigration agents to Minneapolis and St. Paul. The Trump administration says |
| 0:34.1 | it's doing immigration operations, but protests are growing over their tactics. President Trump is threatening to invoke the Insurrection Act in Minnesota. |
| 0:42.9 | Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado has given her Nobel Peace Prize medal to President Trump. |
| 0:48.8 | The move has been opposed by the Nobel Committee. |
| 0:51.4 | NPR's Danielle Kurtz-Laben reports the two met yesterday at the White House. |
| 0:55.6 | In a social media post, Trump wrote, quote, Maria presented me with her Nobel Peace Prize for the |
| 1:00.4 | work I have done. Such a wonderful gesture of mutual respect. Trump has openly coveted the prize |
| 1:06.8 | and last week expressed anger that President Obama won it. Machado won the prize for leading opposition to former authoritarian President Nicolas Maduro, |
| 1:15.6 | whom the Trump administration has deposed. |
| 1:18.3 | Though Machado has heaped praise upon Trump, he said he didn't think she could rule the country. |
| 1:23.8 | Maduro's vice president, Delci Rodriguez, is now acting president. |
| 1:29.2 | The Nobel Committee said in an earlier statement that a prize cannot be revoked, shared, or transferred. Danielle Kurtzleben and |
| 1:35.6 | PR News. A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers is in Denmark today. They're meeting with Danish and |
| 1:41.1 | Greenlandic leaders. This comes as President Trump insists the U.S. |
| 1:45.2 | needs to take over Greenland. New Hampshire Democratic Senator Gene Chaheen Gabe remarks |
| 1:50.3 | today at Copenhagen University. I'm here today because millions of Americans are deeply concerned |
| 1:57.0 | about the recent rhetoric of the United States taking over Greenland, either buying it |
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