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🗓️ 15 February 2026
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| 0:00.0 | Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Nora Rom. |
| 0:04.8 | Secretary of State Marco Rubio began a two-day trip to Eastern Europe today. |
| 0:09.4 | He's now in Hungary where he's expected to meet with President Victor Orban tomorrow. |
| 0:14.5 | NPR's Michelle Kellerman reports he was asked about a report that says Russia poisoned the late Russian opposition leader Alexi Navalny. |
| 0:22.8 | Secretary Rubio is visiting Slovakia and Hungary, two European Union countries that lean toward Russia and rely on Russian energy. |
| 0:31.1 | And it was in Slovakia where he was asked why he didn't sign on to an investigation into the Navalny poisoning by other European partners. |
| 0:39.3 | He says the five allies came to their own conclusions based on their own intelligence reports. |
| 0:44.6 | We don't have any reason to question it or we're not disputing or getting into a fight with these countries over it, |
| 0:49.3 | but it was their report and they put that out there. |
| 0:51.5 | Rubio says their findings were troubling. |
| 0:53.9 | Russia has denied |
| 0:54.9 | responsibility for Navalny's death two years ago in a Siberian prison. Michelle Kellerman, NPR News, |
| 1:01.6 | Budapest. White House Borders are Tom Homan says he's removing most federal agents from Minneapolis |
| 1:07.8 | this week. Agents had shot and killed two U.S. citizens during their enforcement operations in the city last |
| 1:14.6 | month, prompting demands they be withdraw and there be restrictions on how they do their job. |
| 1:20.7 | Democrats say they should stop detaining people on racial grounds. |
| 1:24.7 | They should wear identification and they should stop wearing masks. |
| 1:28.3 | Holman rejected those demands this morning on CBS. |
| 1:31.3 | I'll let the White House and members of Congress fight that out, but I think some of the |
| 1:37.3 | asks are just, I think they're unreasonable because there is no racial profiling, there is |
| 1:43.3 | identifying marks. But masks, you know, |
| 1:45.9 | while they talk about maybe passing legislation, they make it illegal to docks at agents |
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