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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is your twenty four to seven US update. The
latest use this hour in just four minutes. The Texas
Senate has approved a new congressional map that gives the
Republican Party five more seats in the US House. The
Texas Tribune reports the map was adopted along party lines
early this morning over fierce Democratic opposition that accuses state

(00:24):
Republicans of gerrymandering. President Trump had called for the new
map to increase the Republican House majority ahead of next
year's mid term elections. The map sponsor, Republican Phil King,
admits it with needed to allow his party to maintain
control of the federal government. Convicted sex traffickers Elaine Maxwell
says she doesn't believe Jeffrey Epstein died by suicide while

(00:47):
in jail. Transcripts and audio of her recent interview with
lawyers with the US Department of Justice were released Friday.
In it, Maxwell claims Epstein was not a suicidal person,
though added she has no idea who might have killed him.
Vice President j. D Vance says FBI raids targeting former
Trump national security advisor John Bolton were not conducted because

(01:10):
of Bolton's criticism of the President's we get more from
Jim Forbes.

Speaker 2 (01:14):
In an interview with NBC's Meet the Press, Vance says
the investigation of Bolton is in the early stages.

Speaker 3 (01:20):
Well, I can't tell you is an Unlike the Biden
DEOJ and the Biden FBI, our law enforcement agencies are
going to be driven by law and not by politics.

Speaker 2 (01:30):
He also said, while classified records are part of the investigation,
there's a quote broad concern about Bolton. The former National
Security advisor became a strong critic of President Trump after
he left the administration in twenty nineteen, and had previously
been accused of leaking classified material that an investigation didn't

(01:50):
go anywhere.

Speaker 1 (01:51):
President Trump is suggesting he may start using troops now
to patrol the streets of Chicago. On Friday, while touting
the use of National Guard troops and Washington d C.
Trump said, when we're ready, we'll go in and straighten
out Chicago. I'm Scott Carr. President Trump is saying the
CEO at microchip giant Intel has agreed to give the

(02:12):
US government a ten percent stake in the company. On
his social media platform last night, Trump praised the CEO,
Lip Bhutan, just two weeks after he called on Lip
Bhutan to resign over alleged ties to China. Intel has
struggled to keep up in the artificial intelligence boom against
rivals like Nvidia and AMD. We get more from Brian Schuk.

Speaker 3 (02:34):
The President said on Friday he reached an agreement with
Intel CEO Lip Bhutan, giving the United States a company
stake worth ten billion dollars. Two weeks ago, Trump called
for tans immediate resignation following reports alleging a connection to China.
The model of this deal is something Trump hopes to
revisit with other companies. I'm Brian Shuk.

Speaker 1 (02:55):
Officials in some Florida cities like Delray Beach, Key West,
and Miami Beach are ignoring orders from state transportation officials
to get rid of artwork from roadways that they say
contain political, social, or ideological messaging. The Republican Attorney General
in Florida, James Uthmeyer, says punishment for some of those

(03:15):
elected city officials could go beyond just having the state
remove rainbows from intersections and then billing those cities for it.

Speaker 2 (03:24):
We don't want, you know, this virtue signaling this artwork,
you know, in intersections across the state.

Speaker 3 (03:29):
Our state legislature. Our leaders they passed the law.

Speaker 2 (03:33):
That says you can't do this, you can't engage.

Speaker 1 (03:35):
In all this graffiti. In particularugh Meyer admits the states
going after municipalities over LGBTQ dedicated artwork and ultimately, if
you know.

Speaker 3 (03:45):
Local officials disregard state law, they are more serious penalties
and in some case the governor can remove them from office.

Speaker 1 (03:53):
While in Orlando, officials there say the state painted over
a rainbow crosswalk meant to honor the forty nine people
gunned down in an attack at the Pulse nightclub. I'm
Scott Carr