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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:09):
President Trump and Secretary of War Pete Haigseth are defending
the strike allegedly targeting survivors on a suspective Venezuelan drug boats.
I want those boats take it out, and if we
have to, will attack on land also, just like we
attacked on seeing. The two are asked about a Washington
Post report that Navy Admiral Frank Mitch Bradley directed a
second strike to comply with Hageseth's order that no one

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be left alive. Haygeseth said he did not know the
second strike involved to survivors, but he backs Bradley's decision.
President Trump meantime, announcing his soul called Trump Accounts Savings
Initiative for Children. Trump says every American child born during
his second term will receive a one thousand dollars government
deposit to help start their account. NBC's Brian Chung reports

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there are some tax issues to understand for parents.

Speaker 3 (00:56):
Contributions you would put into this account a post tax.
Not only that, but you would also take a tax
hit when you do withdraw this money. There's some kind
of confusion here over whether or not that would actually
provide any benefit over just opening up a brokerage account
where you would be paying capital gains tax.

Speaker 2 (01:11):
Dell Technologies founder and CEO Michael Dell and his wife
Susan added six point two five billion dollars to that program.
Personal donation polls are closed. In a special House election
in Tennessee. Democrats are hoping to ride their blue wave
after a major wins in November's elections. The race between
Democrat Afton Bain and Republican Matt Van Epps has unexpectedly

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turned into a tight race, according to the latest polls.
A doctor who pleaded guilty for his role in actor
Matthew Perry's accidental overdose death and twenty twenty three faces
sentencing tomorrow. Doctor Salvador Placentia admitted supplying Perry with ketamine
in the weeks leading up to his death in Los Angeles.
Placentia already issued a statement quote unquote, accepting responsibility, and

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he said again quote he is profoundly remorseful end quote.
I'm Jim Roop. Luigi Mangoni spent today in a Manhattan
court room for a second day as an evident suppression
hearing continues.

Speaker 4 (02:12):
The twenty seven year old Maryland man who's accused of
killing United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson and Midtown Manhattan last December,
came face to face with the Pennsylvania copp who recognized
him at an Altoona. McDonald's officer Joseph Dettweiler said Mangioni
told him he was homeless, denied he'd been in New
York City recently, and handed him a fake New Jersey

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ID card. His lawyers are trying to get statements he
made and other evidence tossed out, claiming Mangioni was searched
illegally and wasn't read his Miranda rights. I'm Sarah Lee
kess Sler.

Speaker 2 (02:45):
The Trump administration has fired eight New York City immigration judges,
prompting questions.

Speaker 1 (02:50):
The eight fire judges were among just thirty four who
worked out of twenty six federal plaza. Former judges fired
earlier in the year say the move of the lay
proceeding some fear it was a move to acts judges
deemed too lenient. This is the Trump administration seeks to
increase deportations. The New York Times as ninety immigration judges

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had been fired nationwide before Monday. Andrew Whitman, New.

Speaker 2 (03:16):
York Costco Wholesale, issuing the Trump administration. Mitch McCann reports
the warehouse chain is seeking refunds for the tariffs that
paid on imported items under the International Emergency Powers Act.

Speaker 5 (03:27):
The complaint, which was filed in the US Court of
International Trade, argues that the President misused the law when
implementing his sweeping tariffs and states that it's Congress, not
the White House, that has the authority to implement tariffs.

Speaker 2 (03:39):
Other companies have also filed legal challenges against the tariffs,
including Revlin Kawasaki and Bumblebee Rapper. Fifty cents long over
haited documentary about Sean Diddy Combs's criminal case premiers today
on Netflix. Colms is serving a fifty month sentence in
New Jersey on federal prostitution charges. A spokesperson issued a
statement on his behalf calling the four part docuseries a

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shameful hit piece. I'm Jim Roop.