Weekly Roundup: Israel vs. Iran, Immigration News, and A Mascot Love Triangle
The NPR Politics Podcast
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4.5 • 24.9K Ratings
🗓️ 13 June 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Also, the dramatic removal of a U.S. Senator from a Homeland Security press conference capped off a week of aggressive immigration moves by the Trump administration. How are Americans responding to Trump's shows of force?
This episode: political correspondent Sarah McCammon, senior political editor and correspondent Domenico Montanaro, and national security correspondent Greg Myre.
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| 1:10.6 | Hey there. It's the NPR Politics Podcast. I'm Sarah McCammon. I cover politics. I'm Greg Myrie. I cover national security. And I'm |
| 1:12.8 | Domenico Montanaro, senior political editor and correspondent. Last night, Israel launched strikes on Iran's |
| 1:18.1 | nuclear facilities, killing at least three of Iran's top military leaders. These attacks came |
| 1:23.5 | days before international talks to address Iran's nuclear program were planned for Sunday. |
| 1:29.1 | Greg, let's start with the basics. Why did Israel launch these strikes? And why now? |
| 1:33.8 | Yeah, this is something Israel has been talking about forever. When I was based in Israel in the early |
| 1:39.5 | 2000s, they were talking about this. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has spoken about it for years, |
| 1:46.1 | but it was always considered too risky. It could ignite a regional war. Israel could suffer heavy |
| 1:51.0 | losses. Often the U.S. was opposed to it. But a lot of factors seem to come together right now, |
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