Vance says Trump doesn't want long-term occupation of American cities
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🗓️ 28 August 2025
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Vice President JD Vance sat down with USA TODAY for an exclusive interview Wednesday.
Two children were killed in a Minneapolis church shooting.
USA TODAY World Affairs Correspondent Kim Hjelmgaard discusses reports in Denmark about U.S. covert operations in Greenland.
The White House fired CDC Director Susan Monarez after she refused to quit in a dispute with Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
The Social Security Administration's chief data officer said in a whistleblower complaint that DOGE put Social Security data of millions of Americans at risk.
USA TODAY Senior Reporter Jessica Guynn talks about how some employees are defying return to office mandates.
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning. I'm Taylor Wilson, and today is Thursday, August 28, 2025. This is USA Today's The Excerpt. |
| 0:14.9 | Today, what we learned from USA Today's exclusive conversation with Vice President J.D. Vance, |
| 0:19.9 | plus is the U.S. running a covert |
| 0:21.8 | operation in Greenland and how some employees are defying return to office mandates? In an exclusive |
| 0:29.4 | sit down with Vice President J.D. Vance yesterday, USA Today White House correspondent Francesca Chambers |
| 0:34.6 | asked him how he felt about being a heartbeat away from the presidency. |
| 0:38.5 | His ambitions for 2028 and the administration's controversial deployment of National Guard troops in American cities. |
| 0:45.0 | I mean, look, we don't want to go in where we're unwelcome. |
| 0:47.6 | There's a political reason because what might very well happen is that these people, mayors or local governors, stand up and say, |
| 0:55.9 | we don't want the National Guard, this is a dictatorship, Trump is a fascist, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. |
| 1:00.7 | We don't want people to stand up before a press conference and accuse the President of being a fascist, |
| 1:06.1 | accuse the National Guard of being part of some dictatorial coup, when in private they're actually thanking |
| 1:11.6 | us for bringing law and order back to these communities. Vance also said his Oval Office blow |
| 1:15.8 | up with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy elucidated some issues for the American people, |
| 1:20.8 | though it's not necessarily how he wanted the meeting to go. He meanwhile defended Trump's |
| 1:24.5 | push to fire Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook, and Vance also remarked on Trump's distinctive style of decorating the White House |
| 1:30.5 | and warned the NFL not to favor the Kansas City Chiefs now that one of their star players is engaged to Taylor Swift. |
| 1:36.8 | You can hear more of the interview and Francesca's takeaways with our colleague Dana Taylor |
| 1:40.4 | in a special episode of the excerpt beginning today at 4 p.m. Eastern Time, right here on this feed. |
| 1:49.4 | Two children were killed yesterday and at least 17 people were injured when a shooter fired |
| 1:53.8 | through the windows of a Minneapolis Catholic church toward young students worshipping at mass, |
| 1:58.6 | authority said. The two children killed were aged eight and ten. |
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