NPR News: 01-22-2025 5PM EST
NPR News Now
NPR
4.2 • 14.3K Ratings
🗓️ 22 January 2025
⏱️ 5 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices
NPR Privacy Policy
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | This is Eric Glass. |
| 0:01.3 | On this American life, sometimes we just show up somewhere, turn on our tape recorders, and see what happens. |
| 0:06.1 | If you can't get seven cars in 12 days, you've got to look yourself in the mirror and say, |
| 0:11.9 | holy, what are you kidding me? |
| 0:13.2 | Like this car dealership, trying to sell its monthly quota of cars, and it is not going well. |
| 0:17.6 | I just don't want one balloon to a car. |
| 0:19.4 | Balloon the whole freaking place, so it looks like a circus. Real life stories every week. Live from NPR News in Washington, |
| 0:27.1 | I'm Janine Hurst. On Monday, President Trump gave full, complete, and unconditional pardons |
| 0:32.8 | to all of the people charged in connection with the deadly January 6th to 2021 attack on the Capitol. As NPR's Tom Dreisbach reports, one of the people charged in connection with the deadly January 6th to 2021 attack on the Capitol. |
| 0:39.4 | As in Pierce, Tom Dreisbach reports, one of the men Trump freed has already been |
| 0:44.2 | re-arrested on gun charges. During the January 6th attack on the Capitol, Daniel Ball allegedly |
| 0:49.7 | threw an explosive device, which ricocheted off a police officer's helmet and exploded, |
| 0:54.7 | causing multiple injuries. Later, he allegedly threw a piece of wood at police officers |
| 0:59.4 | protecting the Capitol. His case was pending when Trump ordered Ball freed as part of his |
| 1:04.7 | blanket clemency for January 6th defendants. But then, Ball was re-arrested on unrelated charges. Federal prosecutors in Florida say he |
| 1:13.9 | illegally possessed a gun, even though he had a criminal record for multiple felonies, including |
| 1:19.0 | domestic violence battery by strangulation and resisting law enforcement by violence. Tom Dreisbach |
| 1:25.0 | and PR News. And those pardons have police organizations criticizing President Trump, |
| 1:30.6 | saying they set a dangerous precedent. That includes the International Association of Chiefs of Police |
| 1:36.3 | and the Fraternal Order of Police, which is the biggest police union in the U.S. |
| 1:41.6 | Meanwhile, House Democrats are scheduled to hold a meeting this hour with former |
| 1:44.9 | Capitol Police officers over Trump's pardons. As of right now, the White House Office of |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from NPR, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of NPR and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.