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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Ryland Barton. Three weeks into the government shutdown, President Trump tried to rally Senate Republicans with a lunch in the White House Rose Garden today. As NPR's Tamara Keith reports, there's been no movement since the shutdown started.
There are no negotiations, no frantic back and forth between the White House and Capitol Hill. Trump said Democrats are holding the government hostage as they withhold their votes to push for an extension of health care tax subsidies.
We will not be extorted on this crazy plot of theirs. They've never done this before. Nobody has. You always vote for an extension. Chuck Schumer and the Senate Democrats need to vote for the clean bipartisan CR and reopen our government.
Trump glowingly referred to his budget director, Russell Vogt, as Darth Vader, cheering him on for slashing Democratic priorities during the shutdown. Tamara Keith, NPR News, the White House.
Vice President J.D. Vance says the Mideast ceasefire plan is making progress despite recent fighting in Gaza. As NPR's Greg Myrie reports, the Trump administration is trying to keep the truce on track.
Vice President Vance traveled to southern Israel, not far from Gaza.
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Chapter 2: What are the latest developments in the government shutdown?
He spoke about prospects for peace at a military-civilian coordination center that will monitor the ceasefire. It was built in recent days by U.S. troops.
Can I say with 100 percent certainty that it's going to work? No. But you don't do difficult things by only doing what's 100 percent certain. You do difficult things by trying, and that's what the president of the United States has asked us to do.
The next stage of the ceasefire calls for a new government in Gaza, an Israeli troop pullback, and for Hamas to give up its weapons. At the moment, there's no clear plan for any of these steps. Greg Myrie, NPR News, Tel Aviv.
Plans are on hold for President Trump to sit down with Russia's Vladimir Putin to discuss the Ukraine war. Trump floated the idea last week. The decision was made following a call between Secretary of State Marco Rubio and his Russian counterpart. The corporate owner of HBO Max, CNN, and DC Superheroes is putting itself up for sale.
As NPR's David Folkenflik reports, the announcement comes three years after the deal that put Warner Bros. Discovery together.
Cable TV still makes a lot of money, but ratings and revenues are ultimately headed in the wrong direction. In 2022, Discovery took on billions of dollars in debt to acquire Warner Brothers Media from AT&T.
Earlier this year, company CEO David Zasloff announced he intended to divide the company into two to split streaming and Hollywood holdings from its conventional cable properties, such as CNN, TNT and Discovery. Then Skydance founder David Ellison, who recently acquired CBS's corporate parent Paramount, made an unsolicited bid for the entire company.
That opened the door to more suitors, such as the major streamers, though a top Netflix executive recently said his company was in the business of building assets, not buying them. David Folkenflik, NPR News.
This is NPR News from Washington. The World Bank says rebuilding Syria could cost about $216 billion after over a decade of civil war. That's nearly 10 times Syria's gross domestic product last year. The conflict began in 2011 and destroyed much of the country and its infrastructure. Aleppo and the Damascus countryside, where fierce battles took place, will need the most investment.
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