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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is your twenty four to seven use update.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
The latest use this hour in just four minutes.

Speaker 1 (00:08):
President Trump is welcoming Ukrainian President Zelensky to the White
House on Friday. It's part of Trump's ongoing efforts to
end the Russia Ukraine War, but Whine House correspondent John
Dekker says nothing will change unless Russia's leader stops bombing civilians.

Speaker 3 (00:22):
The problem is is that Putin continues to attack civilian
areas of Ukraine with impunity, and it happens on a
nightly basis.

Speaker 1 (00:32):
The President said he had a very productive phone call
with Putin on Thursday, adding he thought his relationship with
the Russia leader would have already led to peace by now.
Trump said he will discuss the call with Selenski. The
two leaders may discuss the possibility of Ukraine receiving Tomahawk
missiles as its war with Russia continues. Former National Security
Advisor John Bolton says he is the latest victim of

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what he describes as President Trump's ongoing effort to weaponize
the Justice Department after he was indicted on Thursday. Bolton,
who held the National Security Advisor role during Trump's first
term before becoming a vocal critic, now faces federal charges.
A grand jury indicted him on eight counts of transmitting
and ten counts of unlawfully retaining national security information. Bolton

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faces federal counts that are connected to the Espionage Act.
The University of Southern California and the University of Pennsylvania
have become the latest schools to reject a deal proposed
by the White House.

Speaker 3 (01:27):
Jim Roupe explains the administration wants policy changes in exchange
for federal funding benefits. The deal would have required the
universities to limit international students and otherwise align with the
priorities of the Trump administration. In exchange, the schools would
have received priority for federal funding. Brown University and MIT
have also rejected the deal. I'm Jim Rope.

Speaker 1 (01:49):
Three people are dead after a plane crash in Michigan.
Authority say the small jet went down in Clinton County
Thursday evening. All three of those killed were passengers on
board the plane, and the Bengals fought back to beat
the Steelers thirty three to thirty one on Thursday Night
Football from Cincy to Kok off Week seven. I'm Markneyfield,
former Trump National Security advisor John Bolton has been indarted.

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President Trump reacted to the news yesterday from the Oval Office.

Speaker 2 (02:13):
I didn't know that. You tell me for the first time.
But I think he's a bad person.

Speaker 4 (02:18):
I think he's a bad guy.

Speaker 2 (02:21):
Yeah, he's a bad guy.

Speaker 1 (02:23):
Justice Department officials in Maryland brought the charges. Bolton's Maryland
home and DC office were searched by FBI agents in August,
reportedly over the possible mishandling of classified documents. Bolton became
a strong critic of President Trump after he left the
administration in twenty nineteen. Bolton also served as the US
Ambassador to the United Nations under President George W. Bush.

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The first debate I have next month's mayoral election in
New York City is over, and things got testy fast
between front running Democratic nominee Zorah on Mandami and independent
former Democratic Governor Andrew Cuomo. Andrew Whitman reports.

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The early debate fireworks came on the sub objective experience.
Here's the thirty three year old mom, Donnie, and.

Speaker 4 (03:03):
The definition of experience is not doing the same thing
again and again and hoping for a different result. That's
actually the definition of insane.

Speaker 2 (03:09):
Cuomo fired back.

Speaker 5 (03:11):
In other words, what the assemblyman said is he has
no experience, and this is not a job for someone
who has no management experience.

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The former governor with another zinger up his sleeve.

Speaker 5 (03:20):
On his resume, it says he in turned for his mother.

Speaker 2 (03:22):
Then he talked challenges of the job.

Speaker 5 (03:24):
Any day you got our hurricane, God forbid a nine
to eleven, a health pandemic.

Speaker 2 (03:30):
Mom, Donnie had a singer of his own ready.

Speaker 4 (03:32):
And if we have a health pandemic, then why would
New Yorkers turn back to the governor who sent seniors
to their death in nursing homes.

Speaker 1 (03:38):
Andrew Whitman, New York and President Trump's planned to send
troops to San Francisco, causing a rift in Silicon Valley.
He floated the idea earlier this week and was quickly
denounced by San Francisco Democrats. Democratic ally Mark Biddioff, who's
the CEO of Salesforce, set however, that he was all
for using troops to fight crime in the city. Following
his remarks, top Democratic donor Ron Conway resigned from the

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board of the Salesforce Foundation and said he was shocked
and disappointed by Benioff's comments. A Mark Mayfield,