What one senator saw inside Delaney Hall
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🗓️ 4 June 2026
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And, on Wednesday night, four Republican voted with House Democrats to limit President Trump's ability to wage war in Iran, exposing a rift between Trump and his own party. Axios congressional reporter Kate Santaliz explains how other votes Thursday could further expand that rift.
Then, Iranian French author Marjane Satrapi, known for her "Persepolis" series of graphic novels, has died at age 56. We revisit her 2008 conversation with host Robin Young.
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| 0:00.0 | When I'm in there and I'm talking to a high school senior who just is trying to graduate high school, why are we wasting money, detaining her? |
| 0:15.6 | Inside the Delaney Hall Detention Center, where some immigrants are on a hunger strike. |
| 0:21.3 | It's Thursday, June 4th, and this is here and now anytime, from NPR and WBUR. |
| 0:26.0 | I'm Chris Bentley. |
| 0:31.2 | Today on the show, Republican Senator Tom Tillis said President Trump's new acting director |
| 0:40.5 | of national intelligence is a joke. |
| 0:43.1 | Whoever these people are in the White House need to get the hell out of the White House. |
| 0:47.2 | I am tired of amateur hour. |
| 0:49.1 | It's one of several examples of Republican senators going against Trump lately, after years of supporting him. |
| 0:56.3 | We'll ask what it all amounts to, whether it's a passing fad, and what it means for legislation |
| 1:01.3 | that affects you, including war powers. Also, we'll listen back to a little of our past |
| 1:08.1 | conversation with Marjan Satrapi, the Iranian French author |
| 1:12.4 | known for her series of graphic novels, Persepolis. Satrapi has died at just 56 years old. |
| 1:19.2 | The problem is that today, in today's world, we talk about everything but about the human |
| 1:23.8 | being. We're always, you know, going towards abstract notion. We forget that people there are just, people just like us. |
| 1:30.5 | Persepolis was a portrait of a girl growing up after the Islamic revolution in Iran. |
| 1:36.0 | Some of the things she told this in 2008 are really prescient for the situation there today. |
| 1:41.4 | And you can hear it in about 10 minutes. |
| 1:44.0 | But first, we've been following the protests |
| 1:47.7 | outside Delaney Hall, a privately run immigration detention center where some detainees say they've been |
| 1:53.6 | on a hunger strike. The government is holding several hundred immigrants there, including some |
| 1:58.8 | married to American citizens. We've heard from lawyers, |
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