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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Dan Roman. President Trump says he didn't know a video he instructed his staff to post on social media contained an overtly racist depiction of Barack and Michelle Obama. But as NPR's Tamara Keith reports, Trump isn't apologizing.
The AI-generated image of Barack and Michelle Obama's heads on ape bodies doesn't come until near the end of the two-minute video.
Chapter 2: What controversy surrounds President Trump's recent video post?
And I didn't see the whole thing. I guess during the end of it, there was some kind of a picture that people don't like. I wouldn't like it either, but I didn't see it. I looked at the first part.
Trump says he did instruct staff to post the video to his account.
Nobody knew that that was at the end. If they would have looked, they would have seen it, and probably they would have had the sense to take it down.
Still, Trump says he isn't firing anyone, doesn't need to apologize, and didn't make a mistake. The video was ultimately taken down. Tamara Keith, NPR News, Palm Beach, Florida.
Talks between U.S. and Iranian officials have wrapped up in Oman with no conclusive outcome. Iran's foreign minister described the talks as a good start and said both sides agreed to resume negotiations at a later date. The talks come as the U.S. has built up an enormous military force in that region. NPR international affairs correspondent Jackie Northam has more on what the U.S.
is seeking from the talks.
Trump had been threatening military action over Iran's brutal suppression of widespread protests, but it seems those didn't come up in today's discussions. Trump has said he wants Iran to make concessions on its nuclear program and its support for armed proxies such as Hamas and Hezbollah, and he wants a limit on Iran's ballistic missiles. And these are the ones that were fired at Israel and U.S.
targets last summer.
NPR's Jackie Northam, a federal judge in Minneapolis, is giving the Department of Homeland Security until Thursday to craft a plan to ensure the immigration detainees have access to attorneys. As Matt Sipic of Minnesota Public Radio reports, the judge Friday heard arguments in a lawsuit from a human rights group.
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