September 8, 2025 • 4 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is your twenty four to seven use update the
latest use this hour in just four minutes. The trial
from the man accused of attempting to assassinate President Trump
starts today in Florida. Jury's election in Ryan Ruth's trial
at the federal courthouse in Fort Pierce is scheduled to
get under way earlier this summer. A judge ruled that
Ruth can defend himself after advising him against it. Ruth
(00:23):
is accused of stinking out Trump for twelve hours with
a rifle on Trump's golf course in September of twenty
twenty four. He pleaded not guilty to attempting to assassinate
a major presidential candidate and other charges. President Trump is
denying that he's planning to go to war with the
city of Chicago. Trump was asked by a reporter yesterday
if he was ready to go to war with Chicago.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
We're not going to war.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
We're going to clean up our cities. We're going to
clean him up so they don't kill five people every WEEKDND.
That's not war, that's common Senate. The president sparked outrage
on Saturday with a social media post in which he
said Chicago is about to find out why it's called.
The Department of War accused him of declaring war on
a major Democrat led city. President Trump's borders are tom homans,
(01:05):
His Americans can't expect more workplace immigration raids like the
one at a Georgia Hundai plant last week. Immigration and
Customs enforcement agents arrested hundreds of people Thursday at the
electric battery plant, most of whom were South Koreans here illegally.
A new poll shows President Trump's approval rating remains underwater.
Lisa Carton has the numbers.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Just four in ten Americans approve of Trump's job performance,
according to the latest NBC News Decision Desk poll. Overall,
forty three percent of adults approve, while fifty seven percent disapprove.
With his weakest ratings over his handling of inflation, trade
and tariffs, Americans gave the president stronger grades on border
security and immigration. Notably, the poll also shows US adults
(01:46):
also expressing bipartisan support for vaccines. I'm Lisa Carton.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
And the class of twenty twenty five was enshrined into
the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame on Saturday. Among the
inductees were longtime NBA All Stars Carmelo Anthony and Dwight Howard,
along with w NBA legends Sue Byrd and mayamor I'm
Mark Mayfield. Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelensky is expressing the need
for more pressure from American and European allies against Russia.
(02:14):
During an appearance on ABC's This Week, Zelensky said, it
starts with Russian energy.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
How to stop the killer, you need to take off
his amand to take off his weapon.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Energy is his weapon.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
This comes as the two nations have been at war
for over three years and the US has been trying
to negotiate an end to the ongoing conflict. The Justice
Department has asked a federal judge overseeing the Jeffrey Epstein
case to deny a request from NBC News to conceal
the names of two associates who received large payments from
Epstein in twenty eighteen. Court documents show the Justice Department
(02:49):
cited privacy concerns as the reason for not making their
names public. One of them received a one hundred thousand
dollars payment from Epstein and the second person got a
two hundred and fifty thousand dollars payment into eighteen from
the late sex trafficker. As part of the plea agreement,
federal prosecutors in Florida agreed not to prosecute the two
former Epstein associates. A Star Wars fan is making history
(03:10):
after sholling out three point six million dollars for an
original lightsaber Tammy Trujillo. As details.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
It was used during the filming of the sequels The
Empire Strikes Back in the Return of the Jedi. It's
the exact same lightsaber used in the iconic no I
Am Your Father scene from Empire where Luke Skywalker finds
out he's Darth Vader's son. The buyer's identity remains a mystery.
The winning bid as the most anybody's ever paid for
a Star Wars prop.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
I'm Tammy Truheo.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
And an Italian teenager who was known as God's Influencer,
has been canonized as the first Millennial Saint. Thousands of
young people filled Saint Peter's Square in the Vatican Sunday
to witness a ceremony presided over by Pope Leo the
fourteenth and held up pictures of Carlo Acutis, who died
in two thousand and six of leukemia at age fifteen.
A Mark Mayfield
This is your twenty four to seven use update the
latest use this hour in just four minutes. The trial
from the man accused of attempting to assassinate President Trump
starts today in Florida. Jury's election in Ryan Ruth's trial
at the federal courthouse in Fort Pierce is scheduled to
get under way earlier this summer. A judge ruled that
Ruth can defend himself after advising him against it. Ruth
(00:23):
is accused of stinking out Trump for twelve hours with
a rifle on Trump's golf course in September of twenty
twenty four. He pleaded not guilty to attempting to assassinate
a major presidential candidate and other charges. President Trump is
denying that he's planning to go to war with the
city of Chicago. Trump was asked by a reporter yesterday
if he was ready to go to war with Chicago.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
We're not going to war.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
We're going to clean up our cities. We're going to
clean him up so they don't kill five people every WEEKDND.
That's not war, that's common Senate. The president sparked outrage
on Saturday with a social media post in which he
said Chicago is about to find out why it's called.
The Department of War accused him of declaring war on
a major Democrat led city. President Trump's borders are tom homans,
(01:05):
His Americans can't expect more workplace immigration raids like the
one at a Georgia Hundai plant last week. Immigration and
Customs enforcement agents arrested hundreds of people Thursday at the
electric battery plant, most of whom were South Koreans here illegally.
A new poll shows President Trump's approval rating remains underwater.
Lisa Carton has the numbers.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Just four in ten Americans approve of Trump's job performance,
according to the latest NBC News Decision Desk poll. Overall,
forty three percent of adults approve, while fifty seven percent disapprove.
With his weakest ratings over his handling of inflation, trade
and tariffs, Americans gave the president stronger grades on border
security and immigration. Notably, the poll also shows US adults
(01:46):
also expressing bipartisan support for vaccines. I'm Lisa Carton.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
And the class of twenty twenty five was enshrined into
the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame on Saturday. Among the
inductees were longtime NBA All Stars Carmelo Anthony and Dwight Howard,
along with w NBA legends Sue Byrd and mayamor I'm
Mark Mayfield. Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelensky is expressing the need
for more pressure from American and European allies against Russia.
(02:14):
During an appearance on ABC's This Week, Zelensky said, it
starts with Russian energy.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
How to stop the killer, you need to take off
his amand to take off his weapon.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Energy is his weapon.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
This comes as the two nations have been at war
for over three years and the US has been trying
to negotiate an end to the ongoing conflict. The Justice
Department has asked a federal judge overseeing the Jeffrey Epstein
case to deny a request from NBC News to conceal
the names of two associates who received large payments from
Epstein in twenty eighteen. Court documents show the Justice Department
(02:49):
cited privacy concerns as the reason for not making their
names public. One of them received a one hundred thousand
dollars payment from Epstein and the second person got a
two hundred and fifty thousand dollars payment into eighteen from
the late sex trafficker. As part of the plea agreement,
federal prosecutors in Florida agreed not to prosecute the two
former Epstein associates. A Star Wars fan is making history
(03:10):
after sholling out three point six million dollars for an
original lightsaber Tammy Trujillo. As details.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
It was used during the filming of the sequels The
Empire Strikes Back in the Return of the Jedi. It's
the exact same lightsaber used in the iconic no I
Am Your Father scene from Empire where Luke Skywalker finds
out he's Darth Vader's son. The buyer's identity remains a mystery.
The winning bid as the most anybody's ever paid for
a Star Wars prop.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
I'm Tammy Truheo.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
And an Italian teenager who was known as God's Influencer,
has been canonized as the first Millennial Saint. Thousands of
young people filled Saint Peter's Square in the Vatican Sunday
to witness a ceremony presided over by Pope Leo the
fourteenth and held up pictures of Carlo Acutis, who died
in two thousand and six of leukemia at age fifteen.
A Mark Mayfield
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