Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Herbst. President Trump is suggesting the Justice Department should pay him roughly $230 million in damages. According to the New York Times, Trump says the money would be compensation for investigating him. NPR's Elena Moore reports.
NPR has not independently confirmed the report, but when asked about it by reporters, Trump stopped short of affirming it. But he did say the Justice Department, quote, probably owes me a lot of money and that he'd give any potential payment to charity or use it to keep restoring the White House. He also acknowledged the unusual nature of any potential payment from the DOJ.
That decision would have to go across my desk. And it's awfully strange to make a decision where I'm paying myself. In other words, did you ever have one of those cases where You have to decide how much you're paying yourself in damages. But I was damaged very greatly.
The report comes as critics of the White House have voiced concerns that Trump is using the agency for his own political and personal agenda. Elena Moore, NPR News.
President Trump is turning back Democratic demands that he meet with them to end the government shutdown. Negotiations on this 22nd day of the federal shutdown seem to be at a stalemate, as NPR's Giles Snyder reports.
Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer says President Trump has a responsibility to meet with them before he leaves for Asia later this week.
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Chapter 2: What are President Trump's claims regarding Justice Department payments?
Democrats have been arguing that Trump needs to get involved, but so far that hasn't happened. At the White House Tuesday, Trump said he is willing to meet with top congressional Democrats, but he repeated Republican demands that the government must reopen first.
NPR's Giles Snyder reporting, this as worries about the effect to the economy from the shutdown grow. North Korea test-launched several ballistic missiles just a week ahead of a scheduled visit to South Korea by President Trump and other foreign leaders. NPR's Anthony Kuhn reports from Seoul it's the North's first known missile launch in five months.
The South's Joint Chiefs of Staff says the North fired several short-range ballistic missiles from near the capital Pyongyang to the east. It's not clear whether they landed on land or in the sea. The launch comes a day after Japan's parliament voted in Sanae Takeuchi as its new prime minister.
It comes a week before President Trump arrives in Gyeongju, South Korea, ahead of a summit meeting of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Forum, or APEC. South Korea's unification minister has speculated about the possibility of President Trump meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un at the inter-Korean border during his trip.
But there's been no official mention of any plans for such a meeting. Anthony Kuhn, NPR News, Seoul.
World financial markets, Asian markets closed mostly lower. The Nikkei, the main market in Japan, was flat. The Hang Seng in Hong Kong was down nine-tenths of a percent. You're listening to NPR News. Ahead of the United Nations climate meeting in Brazil next month, a new report shows countries are not meeting goals to reduce methane pollution.
NPR's Jeff Brady reports countries pledged to cut methane emissions by 30 percent by the year 2030.
The European Union and the U.S. launched the Global Methane Pledge at the U.N.-Glasgow Climate Meeting four years ago. 159 countries and the EU have signed on to it. Methane is a powerful greenhouse gas and the second biggest contributor to heating the climate after carbon dioxide. Scientists say it's responsible for about a third of the planet's warming. The U.N.
Environment Program report finds there has been progress in tracking methane pollution, About a third of methane emissions from oil and gas companies is now measured. The report also finds companies and governments are responding more often to an alert and response program. Still, nearly 90% of those alerts go unanswered. Jeff Brady, NPR News.
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