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| 0:00.0 | Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Hurst. The USS Gerald R. Ford Aircraft Carrier Strike Group is now in the Caribbean in an escalation of tensions between the U.S. and Venezuela. And Piers Joe Hernandez has more. |
| 0:16.9 | The USS Gerald R. Ford was commissioned in 2017 and only left on its first combat deployment two years ago. |
| 0:24.5 | It's part of a new class of advanced aircraft carriers being built for the United States military. |
| 0:30.3 | The Ford has a number of technological advancements, including an electromagnetic system for launching aircraft. |
| 0:37.1 | It also has a higher price tag than its |
| 0:39.1 | predecessors, topping $13 billion, according to the Navy. The strike group at Leeds arrived in the |
| 0:45.6 | Caribbean on Sunday as part of a growing effort to put pressure on Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro, |
| 0:51.3 | but it's still unclear if the Trump administration is planning any |
| 0:55.0 | military action against the country. Joe Hernandez, NPR News. |
| 1:00.2 | The House is set to vote on the Epstein files this week after lawmakers gathered enough |
| 1:05.8 | signatures to force a ballot. In Peers-Luke Garrett reports reports one of the lawmakers behind the discharge petition |
| 1:12.1 | is now warning of a last-minute cover-up. Republican Representative Thomas Massey of Kentucky |
| 1:17.9 | helped gather the 218 signatures needed to force the vote. On ABC News, Massey cautions his fellow |
| 1:24.0 | Republicans that this ballot record will live on beyond President Trump. |
| 1:27.7 | In 2030, he's not going to be the president, and you will have voted to protect pedophiles |
| 1:33.2 | if you don't vote to release these files, and the president can't protect you. |
| 1:37.2 | But Massey says new Trump administration investigations may be an effort to bar the release |
| 1:42.2 | of the Epstein documents indefinitely. |
| 1:44.1 | If they have ongoing investigations in certain areas, those documents are not may be an effort to bar the release of the Epstein documents indefinitely. |
| 1:49.5 | If they have ongoing investigations in certain areas, those documents can't be released. |
| 1:51.7 | So this might be a big smokescreen. |
| 1:57.5 | Even if the House advances the Epstein file bill, it faces difficult odds in the Senate and the White House. |
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