NPR News: 09-15-2025 6PM EDT

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0:00.0	Hey, it's Rachel Martin.
0:01.1	I'm the host of Wildcard from NPR.
0:03.5	For a lot of my years as a radio host, silence sort of made me nervous.
0:08.7	That pause before an answer, because you don't know what's going on on the other side of the mic.
0:13.5	But these days, I love it.
0:16.2	Hmm.
0:17.1	Oh, gosh.
0:18.5	Give me a minute.
0:19.4	Yeah, yeah.
0:20.0	Think.
0:20.5	Listen to the WildCard podcast only from NPR.
0:24.5	Live from NPR News in Washington.
0:27.2	I'm Jail Snyder.
0:28.5	At the White House a short time ago,
0:30.2	President Trump signed a proclamation making Memphis,
0:33.4	the latest Democratic-led city to face a federal crackdown on crime.
0:37.2	Today, at the request of Governor Bill Lee of Tennessee, who's standing with us, as you know,
0:44.3	I'm signing a presidential memorandum to establish the Memphis Safe Task Force.
0:50.5	Trump called the deployment to Memphis of National Guard and federal law enforcement officers
0:55.3	a replica of his crackdown in Washington, D.C. Memphis is a majority black city. The Memphis
1:01.1	Police Department says crime in every major category is down this year compared to previous
1:05.8	years. And the Democratic mayor said Friday that he did not ask for the National Guard.
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