Trump Threatens To Deploy Military To States If They Don't Stop Violent Protests
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🗓️ 2 June 2020
⏱️ 14 minutes
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This episode: White House correspondent Tamara Keith, White House reporter Ayesha Rascoe, and national political correspondent Mara Liasson.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast. |
| 0:06.8 | It is 8.43 pm on Monday, June 1st. |
| 0:10.7 | I'm Tamer Keith. |
| 0:11.7 | I cover the White House. |
| 0:12.7 | I'm Ay Shorasco. |
| 0:13.7 | I also cover the White House. |
| 0:15.2 | And I'm Mara Liyas and National Political Correspondent. |
| 0:18.2 | At around 6.30 tonight, just as President Trump was supposed to begin delivering a speech |
| 0:23.1 | from the White House Rose Garden, police, federal agents, and the National Guard began |
| 0:27.9 | clearing peaceful protesters basically just across the street. |
| 0:32.1 | They held up shields and pushed in a line as tear gas canisters exploded. |
| 0:40.8 | And back in the Rose Garden, you could hear the bangs and pops as Trump spoke about the |
| 0:46.9 | escalating crisis as protesters gather across the country. |
| 0:50.9 | My administration is fully committed that for Georgia and his family, justice will be |
| 0:57.0 | served. |
| 0:58.1 | He will not have died in vain. |
| 1:01.2 | But we cannot allow the righteous cries and peaceful protesters to be drowned out by |
| 1:08.2 | an angry mob. |
| 1:10.3 | Mara, in a podcast earlier today, you and Iisha were talking about how for 48 hours, President |
| 1:16.2 | Trump was essentially silent on this except for tweets. |
| 1:19.3 | Now he has delivered the speech that many people were asking for. |
| 1:23.5 | What stood out to you? |
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