Trump and Minnesota, Venezuela's Opposition, Trump's Healthcare Plan
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🗓️ 16 January 2026
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Summary
Venezuela’s top opposition leader brings her Nobel Peace Prize to Washington to press her case with President Trump, even as the U.S. signals support for an interim leader.
And President Trump unveils what he calls a new healthcare plan, leaning on cheaper insurance with limited benefits as Congress debates the future of ACA subsidies.
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(0:00) Introduction
(1:57) Trump and Minnesota
(05:29) Venezuela's Opposition
(09:20) Trump's Healthcare Plan
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| 0:00.0 | Protests are growing in Minnesota after the second shooting by a federal agent in the state. |
| 0:07.1 | President Trump is threatening to send in the military on top of the thousands of federal agents already there. |
| 0:12.3 | I'm A. Martinez. That is Michelle Martin. And this is up first from NPR News. |
| 0:21.0 | Venezuela's top opposition leader brought her Nobel Peace Prize to Washington and handed it to |
| 0:25.9 | President Trump. |
| 0:26.7 | But in Caracas, the country's interim president struck a defiant tone in her national |
| 0:30.6 | address. |
| 0:31.1 | So who does the White House actually back to lead Venezuela? |
| 0:34.2 | And President Trump says he has a health care plan. |
| 0:37.1 | We're calling it the great |
| 0:38.7 | health care plan. It leans on cheaper insurance plans with fewer benefits. What does Trump's |
| 0:44.0 | plan mean for negotiations over subsidies that kept premiums low under Obamacare? Say with us, |
| 0:49.3 | we've got the news you need to start your day. |
| 0:56.7 | President Trump has threatened to take military action against Minnesota to stop the |
| 1:00.8 | protests in Minneapolis. |
| 1:02.5 | On Wednesday, immigration officer shot another man, this time in the leg, which sparked unrest |
| 1:08.1 | on the city's north side. |
| 1:09.4 | And here as Meg Anderson is in Minneapolis and is with us |
| 1:12.1 | now to give us latest. Good morning, Meg. You know, looking at this from the outside, things seem |
| 1:16.3 | pretty volatile, but thankfully, you're there. So could you just describe what you're seeing? Yeah, |
| 1:21.0 | there are now as many as 3,000 federal immigration officers on the ground or arriving soon here in the |
| 1:27.1 | Twin Cities. |
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