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NPR News: 02-14-2025 5PM EST

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🗓️ 14 February 2025

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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Jack Spear. Vice President J.D. Vance told European leaders

0:08.4

gathered at the Munich Security Conference their biggest security threat was not from Russia or China,

0:14.8

but from their own suppression of free speech inside Europe. MPOs Rob Schmitz reports from Munich.

0:20.1

After a week of top U.S. officials

0:22.4

making comments about negotiations with Russia to end its war in Ukraine, European leaders were

0:27.6

expecting Vance to lay out the Trump administration's vision about the future of Ukraine. Instead,

0:33.7

Vance delivered a lecture on how European leaders should listen more to supporters of far

0:38.3

right and populist political parties, and by not doing so, said Vance, they're failing to live up

0:43.9

to their democratic ideals. Vance also warned the audience about out-of-control migration.

0:49.5

Vance received only tepid applause throughout his 20-minute speech.

0:53.9

Rob Schmitz and then PR News, Munich.

0:55.9

New York City Mayor Eric Adams, along with President Trump's new border czar, Tom

1:00.2

Holman appeared on the show Fox and Friends today.

1:03.3

Comes as the interim prosecutor for the Southern District of New York, along with other

1:06.9

career prosecutors, have been stepping down, claiming corruption charges against the Democratic

1:12.2

Mayor were dropped in exchange for his cooperation on immigration.

1:15.7

Adam said immigration has been ongoing concern for him, and he praised Holman's work.

1:19.6

That's what's good about what we're doing right now, what Tom, the border czar, has done.

1:25.0

I've said it over and over again.

1:26.2

We need to control our borders and not allow

1:29.4

people to come into the country gang members coming into the country of people who are here to

1:34.9

commit crime i think what we we've witnessed the borders are has has done we have seen a

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