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| 0:00.0 | Live from NPR News, I'm Janine Herbst. President Trump is threatening to send more military deployments to Democrat-run cities. |
| 0:09.8 | He has said Chicago, New York, and possibly Baltimore could follow Washington, D.C. in having a military presence. |
| 0:18.0 | And Pierce Ashley Lopez has more. |
| 0:20.1 | Trump recently announced Chicago could be the next |
| 0:22.3 | city in which he will deploy active duty troops for an alleged crackdown on crime. Illinois |
| 0:27.3 | Governor J.B. Prisker said in a statement Saturday that the state has not yet received any |
| 0:31.8 | request or outreach from the federal government. Pritzker said there's no emergency in the state |
| 0:36.8 | that warrants this |
| 0:37.6 | kind of intervention. He accused Trump of manufacturing a crisis and abusing his power. |
| 0:43.3 | In a truth social post Sunday, Trump also went after Maryland's governor and threatened to send |
| 0:47.6 | troops to Baltimore. Trump also wrote he'd now have to rethink federal funding to repair |
| 0:52.5 | Baltimore's Francis Keycott Bridge, which was |
| 0:55.4 | demolished by a cargo ship in 2024. Ashley Lopez, NPR News. South Korean President E.J. Miang |
| 1:02.9 | is headed to the U.S. for a summit with President Trump tomorrow. MPR's Anthony Kuhn reports |
| 1:08.7 | from Seoul that Lee took office in June after his predecessor was impeached for declaring martial law. |
| 1:15.6 | In Washington, South Korean President E.J. Myeong will try to hammer out details of a trade deal reached last month. |
| 1:21.8 | It includes a pledge for South Korea to invest $350 billion in the U.S. in exchange for lower tariffs. The U.S. has been talking about |
| 1:30.3 | modernizing its alliance with South Korea, which includes focusing less on deterring North Korea |
| 1:36.0 | and more on countering China. Most South Korean presidents visit the U.S. first, but he will be |
| 1:41.6 | coming from Tokyo, where he met with Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba. Japan and South Korea are both U.S. first, but E. will be coming from Tokyo, where he met with Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiiba. |
| 1:45.6 | Japan and South Korea are both U.S. allies who depend on exports to the U.S. and host large |
| 1:51.2 | numbers of American troops, and E. apparently wanted to coordinate with Ishiiba before meeting |
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