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What are the latest developments regarding the Department of Homeland Security shutdown?
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Hurst. It's the second day of a partial shutdown for the Department of Homeland Security after Democrats demanded changes to rein in immigration agents, requiring them to wear IDs and stop wearing masks, among other things, in order to extend funding. But Congress left without a deal and now is on a one-week recess.
This after ICE shot and killed two U.S. citizens in Minnesota. White House Border Czar Tom Holman.
I'll let the White House and members of Congress, you know, fight that out. But I think some of the asks are just, I think they're unreasonable because there is no racial profiling. There is identifying marks. But masks, you know, while they talk about maybe passing legislation to make it illegal to dox at agents or something like that. But the masks right now are for officer safety reasons.
speaking there on CBS's Face the Nation. He says more than 1,000 agents have left Minnesota and that more will leave soon. Secretary of State Marco Rubio is on a two-day trip to Eastern Europe and is now in Hungary, where he's expected to meet with President Viktor Orban tomorrow.
Empire's Michelle Kellerman reports he was asked about a report saying Russia poisoned the late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny.
Secretary Rubio is visiting Slovakia and Hungary, two European Union countries that lean toward Russia and rely on Russian energy. And it was in Slovakia where he was asked why he didn't sign on to an investigation into the Navalny poisoning by other European partners. He says the five allies came to their own conclusions based on their own intelligence reports.
We don't have any reason to question it or we're not disputing or getting into a fight with these countries over it. But it was their report and they put that out there.
Rubio says their findings were troubling. Russia has denied responsibility for Navalny's death two years ago in a Siberian prison. Michelle Kellerman, NPR News, Budapest.
Former President Barack Obama this weekend addressed the racist video President Trump posted on social media earlier this month. And Pierre Chandelier-Stuster has more.
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