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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. |
| 0:11.5 | On the web at theshmit.org. |
| 0:15.1 | Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Herbst. |
| 0:19.5 | The Department of Justice says it's not investigating the U.S. |
| 0:22.9 | Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent who shot and killed a woman in Minneapolis earlier this month. |
| 0:29.7 | Earlier this week, the DOJ opened an investigation into the top lawmaker in Minnesota. And peers, |
| 0:35.4 | Luke Garrett has more. The Justice Department is not investigating the killing of a woman by an ICE agent. |
| 0:40.8 | Here's Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche on Fox News. |
| 0:43.6 | We investigate when it's appropriate to investigate. And that is not the case here. |
| 0:48.2 | It wasn't the case when it happened. And it's not the case today. |
| 0:51.1 | Blanche did not rule out a federal probe in the future and said an |
| 0:54.2 | internal review of the killing is ongoing at the Department of Homeland Security. The deputy |
| 0:58.7 | attorney general then defended the DOJ's active investigation into Minnesota Governor Tim Walts |
| 1:03.5 | and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Fry. Whether you're a governor, a mayor, or somebody out there on |
| 1:08.7 | the streets assaulting ICE, you cannot, under federal law, you cannot |
| 1:12.8 | impede a federal officer doing their job. Frye Ann Waltz said they will not be intimidated and denied |
| 1:18.4 | impeding federal law enforcement. Luke Garrett and PR News, Washington. President Trump is escalating |
| 1:25.0 | his crusade for the U.S. to acquire Greenland, saying he'll impose 10% tariffs on eight European countries until they agree to his plan. And as Impeer's Barbara Sprunt reports, a congressional delegation went to Denmark this weekend, trying to turn down the temperature. |
| 1:39.8 | Congresswoman Sarah McBride, a Democrat from Delaware, said the Greenlandic delegation told lawmakers |
| 1:44.9 | how existential this threat feels. I think it is easy for people back in the United States to see |
| 1:50.6 | these headlines and to dismiss it as show, as pure saber rattling. But I cannot stress for people |
| 1:59.2 | enough how serious people in Greenland and Denmark |
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