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| 0:00.0 | This message comes from Bayer. Science is a rigorous process that requires questions, testing, transparency, and results that can be proven. This approach is integral to every breakthrough Bayer brings forward. Innovations that save lives and feed the world. Science Delivers.com. |
| 0:18.5 | Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Rylan Barton. |
| 0:22.2 | Paramount is mounting a hostile takeover bid for Warner Brothers Discovery, as NPR's |
| 0:27.5 | Maria Aspen reports, Saudi Arabia and China are involved in the latest Hollywood drama, |
| 0:32.5 | and so is President Trump's son-in-law. |
| 0:34.9 | Paramount is taking on Netflix, which last week agreed to buy some |
| 0:38.9 | of Warner Brothers businesses. Paramount wants to control all of them and is offering Warner Brothers |
| 0:44.1 | shareholders a deal worth $108 billion. Paramount is also controlled by Larry Ellison, one of the |
| 0:51.0 | world's richest people and his son, David. But they're not putting up all the |
| 0:55.2 | cash themselves. Instead, they've lined up money from the governments of Saudi Arabia, |
| 1:00.2 | Abu Dhabi, and Qatar. Another investor has ties to China, and another was founded by President |
| 1:06.2 | Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner. Paramount says that if its hostile takeover succeeds, the Middle |
| 1:12.4 | Eastern governments and Kushner's firm would not be involved in running Warner Brothers. |
| 1:17.4 | Maria Aspen, NPR News, New York. The Supreme Court seems open to overruling a 90-year-old |
| 1:23.6 | precedent that's prevented presidents from removing members of independent agencies at will. |
| 1:28.8 | As NPR's Andrea Shue reports, the case could reshape the balance of power within the federal |
| 1:33.1 | government. Iceblock is an app that went viral for allowing users to anonymously send out alerts |
| 1:37.7 | when immigration and custom enforcement agents were conducting a raid. Joshua Aaron is the app's |
| 1:42.0 | developer. It would alert users within a five-mile radius of that |
| 1:46.3 | location, and they would get a notification on their phone, and then they could make a decision |
| 1:51.4 | on whether or not they wanted to be in that vicinity. Attorney General Pam Bondi said the app |
| 1:58.3 | endangers federal agents. Bondi has said Aaron is under investigation. |
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