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| 0:00.0 | This message comes from The Economist. Introducing the Economist Insider, a new video offering with twice-weekly shows featuring in-depth analysis and expertise to make sense of an increasingly complex and dangerous world. More at Economist.com slash insider. |
| 0:17.8 | Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Rylan Barton. Three weeks into the government shutdown President Trump tried to rally Senate Republicans with a lunch in the White House Rose Garden today. As NPR's Tamara Keith reports, there's been no movement since the shutdown started. |
| 0:33.4 | There are no negotiations, no frantic back and forth between the White House and Capitol Hill. |
| 0:39.4 | Trump said Democrats are holding the government hostage as they withhold their votes to push for an |
| 0:44.4 | extension of health care tax subsidies. |
| 0:47.0 | We will not be extorted on this crazy plot of this. |
| 0:52.0 | They've never done this before. |
| 0:53.4 | Nobody has. |
| 0:55.5 | You always vote for an extension. |
| 1:02.2 | Chuck Schumer and the Senate Democrats need to vote for the clean bipartisan CR and reopen our government. Trump glowingly referred to his budget director Russell vote as Darth Vader, |
| 1:07.6 | cheering him on for slashing Democratic priorities during the shutdown. |
| 1:11.9 | Tamara Keith, NPR News, the White House. |
| 1:14.0 | Vice President J.D. Vance says the Mideast ceasefire plan is making progress despite |
| 1:18.6 | recent fighting in Gaza. As NPR's Greg Mirey reports, the Trump administration is trying to |
| 1:23.7 | keep the truce on track. Vice President Vance traveled to southern Israel, not far from Gaza. |
| 1:29.7 | He spoke about prospects for peace at a military civilian coordination center that will |
| 1:34.6 | monitor the ceasefire. It was built in recent days by U.S. troops. |
| 1:39.4 | Can I say with 100% certainty that it's going to work? No. But you don't do difficult things |
| 1:44.1 | by only doing what's 100% certain. |
| 1:46.2 | You do difficult things by trying, and that's what the President of the United States has asked us to do. |
| 1:49.9 | The next stage of the ceasefire calls for a new government in Gaza, an Israeli troop pullback, and for Hamas to give up its weapons. |
| 1:58.3 | At the moment, there's no clear plan for any of these steps. |
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