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| 0:24.4 | Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Rylan Barton. |
| 0:28.1 | U.S. law enforcement officials say a deadly shooting at an Immigration and Customs |
| 0:32.9 | Enforcement Office in Dallas is being investigated as a targeted act of violence. |
| 0:38.9 | As NPR's Tamara Keith reports, President Trump is linking anti-ice violence to what he calls radical leftists. |
| 0:44.1 | In a lengthy social media post, President Trump blamed the violence, unquote, radical left |
| 0:49.2 | Democrats constantly demonizing law enforcement calling for ice to be demolished and comparing ice officers |
| 0:55.4 | to Nazis, unquote. He referred to a shell casing, the FBI says, was left behind by the gunmen |
| 1:01.3 | that had the words anti-ice written on it. Trump called on Democrats to cut out the anti-ice rhetoric |
| 1:07.7 | and said he would be signing an executive order this week to dismantle what |
| 1:11.8 | he calls domestic terrorism networks, though it's not clear what he means or who he plans to target. |
| 1:18.8 | Tamara Keith, NPR News. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries also commented on the shooting, |
| 1:24.0 | saying the level of political violence across the spectrum in the country is far too |
| 1:28.1 | high. He said the nation needs, quote, leadership that brings people together, not national leadership |
| 1:33.4 | that tears people apart. Ukrainian president, Volodemir Zelensky, addressed the UN General Assembly |
| 1:39.3 | in New York this morning. He warned of an international arms race as Russia invades his country. He said |
| 1:45.2 | nations have no guarantees for security and must depend on friends and weapons. NPR's Michelle |
| 1:51.0 | Kellerman reports. While Ademir Zelensky sounded frustrated that the UN hasn't been able to |
| 1:55.9 | help end Russian attacks on Ukraine or resolve other big conflicts around the world. He says Ukraine has had to |
| 2:01.9 | rely on its friends and on its weapons. Ukraine doesn't have the big fat missiles, dictators love to show |
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