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Trump Immunity Trial, Lloyd Austin Diagnosis, Mayorkas Impeachment

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4.659K Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2024

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Former President Donald Trump made his case for immunity to appeals court judges. U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has been hospitalized for the past week, following surgery for prostate cancer. Some House Republicans want to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.

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Today's episode of Up First was edited by Krishnadev Calamur, Andrew Sussman, Kelsey Snell, and Miguel Macias. It was produced by Ziad Buchh, Ben Abrams, and Lindsay Totty. We get engineering support from Arthur Laurent. And our technical director is Zac Coleman.

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0:00.0

A lawyer for ex-President Trump said he should be immune from prosecution for acts committed as president.

0:07.8

Prosecutors said that would mean a US president can get away with anything.

0:11.2

What did the judges seem to think?

0:12.9

I'm Stephen Skeep with Michelle Martin, and this is up first from NPR News.

0:21.1

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin went into the hospital last month.

0:25.0

Last year, the White House received news of his diagnosis yesterday.

0:29.0

He's a vital player in national security, so how did Austin's boss, his department in the country, goes so long without knowing

0:34.4

about his prostate cancer?

0:35.9

Also Congress has nine days to avoid a partial government shutdown.

0:40.6

But many Republicans are focused on impeaching Homeland Secretary Alejandro Mayorcas and going after Hunter Biden.

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