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| 0:00.0 | This week on Consider This, amid the Trump administration's overhaul of the Justice Department, a whistleblower who worked there for 15 years speaks to NPR about what he says is happening inside. |
| 0:11.7 | Judges say, where's the evidence? |
| 0:13.4 | And we have no evidence because there is no evidence. |
| 0:16.8 | That's this week on Consider This. Listen each weekday afternoon on the NPR app or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:24.8 | Live from NPR News, I'm Janine Herbst. President Trump says he's ordering two nuclear submarines to be moved toward Russia. |
| 0:34.5 | NPR's Franco-Oerdonias reports the move follows threats from a top Russian official. |
| 0:41.2 | President Trump announced he was taking cautionary steps because of, quote, provocative statements from former Russian president, Dmitri Medvedev. |
| 0:49.9 | Earlier this week, Medvedev warned Trump was playing an ultimatum game with Russia after Trump |
| 0:56.0 | shortened a 50-day deadline to 10 days for Russia to agree to a ceasefire with Ukraine or face new |
| 1:03.0 | tariffs. Medvedev said each new ultimatum is a step toward war. Trump posted on social media that the submarines were being moved, |
| 1:12.6 | quote, just in case these foolish and inflammatory statements are more than just that. |
| 1:18.3 | Trump added that words are very important and can often lead to unintended consequences. |
| 1:23.9 | I hope this will not be one of those instances. |
| 1:27.0 | Franco, Ordojouz, NPR News, the White House. |
| 1:31.3 | The Smithsonian's National Museum of American History has removed a reference to President |
| 1:36.7 | Trump's two first-term impeachments that was part of an exhibit on the American presidency. |
| 1:43.0 | And Pierre Scott Newman has more. |
| 1:45.6 | The museum says it removed the references to Trump's impeachments last month as part of a review |
| 1:51.0 | of the exhibit titled The American Presidency, A Glorious Burden. It says the exhibit, which |
| 1:56.6 | also notes the impeachments of President's Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton, as well as the |
| 2:01.5 | narrowly averted impeachment of Richard Nixon, needs updating and that references to all |
| 2:06.7 | impeachments will be restored. But it didn't say when. The Smithsonian's move follows a White |
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