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| 0:00.0 | Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Rylan Barton. Iran's foreign minister says nuclear talks with the Trump administration will begin Friday in Oman. NPR's Michelle Kellerman reports. |
| 0:12.0 | Secretary of State Marco Rubio says he's not sure if the U.S. can reach any deals with the Iranian government, but he says President Trump prefers to have negotiations about a range of issues. |
| 0:22.4 | And that includes the range of their ballistic missiles. That includes their sponsorship of terrorist |
| 0:26.6 | organizations across the region. That includes a nuclear program, and that includes the treatment |
| 0:31.1 | of their own people. Rubio brushed off concerns that a meeting now would legitimize the Iranian |
| 0:36.4 | regime after thousands of protesters were killed |
| 0:39.1 | there. Trump had told the protesters last month that help was on its way and that the U.S. was, |
| 0:44.5 | quote, locked and loaded. Michelle Kellerman and PR News, the State Department. |
| 0:49.5 | The White House is pulling hundreds of federal immigration agents out of Minnesota today. |
| 0:54.5 | Border Tsar Tom Homan says he's looking for more cooperation from local leaders and from the |
| 0:59.5 | community. Estelle Timar Wilcox of Minnesota Public Radio reports. |
| 1:03.9 | Homan said more county jails in the state have agreed to collaborate with ICE so the agency |
| 1:08.4 | can detain people straight from jail. |
| 1:11.0 | Homan said he's looking to end the operation, but... |
| 1:14.1 | That depends on people that want to intimidate and interfere and put hands on ICE officers. |
| 1:20.3 | Toned down the rhetoric. Stop violating the law and impeding and interfering with us, |
| 1:24.7 | and they'll draw it down and be quicker. |
| 1:25.9 | ICE observers across the Twin Cities say federal agents are still detaining people in their neighborhoods. Homan said |
| 1:32.4 | the agency is focused on arresting people with criminal records, but not stopping other arrests |
| 1:37.9 | altogether. For NPR News, I'm Estelle Timar Wilcox in Minneapolis. First Lady Melania Trump, |
| 1:44.0 | welcome to freed Israeli-American hostage Keith Siegel to the White House today. |
| 1:49.0 | NPR's Franco Ordonez report, Siegel was released by Hamas in February 2025 after 15 months of captivity. |
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