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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:08):
Former National Security Advisor John Bolton says he's the latest
victim of what he describes as President Trump's ongoing effort
to weaponize the Justice Department after he was indicted Thursday.
More from Mark Mayfield.

Speaker 1 (00:22):
Bolton, who held the National Security advisor role during Trump's
first term before becoming a vocal critic, now faces federal charges.

Speaker 3 (00:29):
A grand juryon.

Speaker 1 (00:30):
Indicted him on eight counts of transmitting and ten counts
of unlawfully retaining national security information. Bolton said in a
statement he has become the latest target in weaponizing the
Justice Department to charge those who Trump deems to be
his enemies with the charges that were declined before or
distort the facts. Bolton faces federal counts that are connected
to the Espionage Act.

Speaker 2 (00:50):
A federal judge in Chicago is ordering federal agents to
wear body cameras, stirring deployments in the city. The move
comes during concerns the agents may have violated a previous
restraining order limiting tear gas use. Federal officers have clashed
with protesters several times, and efforts to send in the
National Guard have faced legal challenges. US Senate employees won't

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be paid until the federal government shutdown ends. The Senate's
financial clerk sent out a letter Thursday stating that the
October twentieth paycheck would be missed unless the shutdown was
resolved by the end of yesterday.

Speaker 3 (01:26):
It wasn't.

Speaker 2 (01:27):
White House correspondent John Decker says President Trump is content
for now to have a hands off approach. He's leaving
it up to the leaders of Congress to find some
sort of compromise to fund the government to reopen the government.
A shutdown will continue after the Senate once again denied
a GOP spending measure. Boeing is facing accusations of refusing

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to bargain in good faith as its Saint Louis Areas
strike continues. The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers
filed an unfair labor practice charged with the National Labor
Relations Board, claiming the company is stonewalling negotiations. I'm Michael Cassner.
The University of Southern California and the University of Pennsylvania

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have become the latest schools to reject the deal proposed
by the White House Jim Roup with more 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.

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Brown University and MIT have also rejected the deal. I'm
Jim Roop. The first debate ahead of next month's mayoral
election in New York City is over and things got
testing fast between front running Democratic nominee Zora and Mamdani
and independent Democratic former governor Andrew Cuomo. Andrew Whitman reports.

Speaker 3 (02:54):
The early debate fireworks came on the subject of experience.
Here's the thirty three year old mom, Donnie.

Speaker 4 (03:00):
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. Clomo fired back.

Speaker 5 (03:07):
In other words, what the assemblemen said is he has
no experience, and this is not a job for someone
who has no management experience.

Speaker 3 (03:14):
The former governor with another zinger up his sleeve.

Speaker 5 (03:17):
And his resume, it says he in turned for his mother.

Speaker 3 (03:19):
Then he talk challenges of the job.

Speaker 5 (03:21):
Any day, you gotta have a hurricane. You God forbid
a nine to eleven health pandemic.

Speaker 3 (03:27):
Mom Donnie had a zinger of his own ready.

Speaker 4 (03:29):
And if we have a health pandemic, then why would
New Yorkers turn back to the governor who sent seniors
to their death and nursing homes.

Speaker 2 (03:35):
Nesley is planning to slash sixteen thousand jobs over the
next two years. Wendy Swanson with more.

Speaker 6 (03:42):
It comes as a food giant wants to focus on
products with the highest returns. It's a goal of the
new CEO, who said the food and beverage giant has
to change faster to keep from losing market share. The
cuts will include twelve thousand white collar jobs and four
thousand other positions for what IS estimates will be a
savings of nearly a billion dollars.

Speaker 2 (04:03):
I'm Michael Kassner.