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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Nora Rahm. Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene says she's leaving Congress on January 5th. Her announcement follows months of public clashes with party leaders and former allies. NPR's Amy Held reports.
Chapter 2: What prompted Marjorie Taylor Greene's announcement to leave Congress?
The news seems to have taken aback even Republican insiders.
President Trump told ABC News in a phone call he was not given a heads up, and he thinks the news of Greene's departure is great. He posted to Truth Social her relationship with Congressman Thomas Massey did not help her. Massey, who co-led the effort to get the party to defy Trump with the Epstein file vote, posted he's sad Greene is leaving and lauded her honesty.
Greene rose to fame embracing QAnon conspiracy theories. Not now, in her resignation video, There is no plan to save the world or a 4-D chess game being played. Some analysts suggest Green may be trying to broaden her appeal before a bid for higher office. The one-time hard-right, die-hard Trump loyalist has a prediction. Republicans will likely lose the midterms.
As for herself, she says she's looking forward to a new path. Amy Held, NPR News.
Ukraine's European allies are racing to respond to a Kremlin-friendly proposal by the Trump administration to end Russia's nearly four-year full-scale war on Ukraine. NPR's Joanna Kakisis reports Ukraine's president says the proposal is forcing Ukraine to choose between its dignity and the loss of the U.S. as an ally.
In his evening video address, President Volodymyr Zelensky said any plan to end the war must include provisions that would prevent Russia from attacking Ukraine again. Real peace is always based on guaranteed security and justice, he said. And I'm not the only one who feels this way. So do Ukrainians and so do most people in the world. A U.S.
official told NPR that Army Secretary Dan Driscoll is in Geneva to work on the next steps to end the war and that a Ukrainian delegation will join him. European leaders have criticized the current proposal and say they must be involved in any deal. President Trump says he wants Zelensky to sign a deal by Thursday. Joanna Kakisis, NPR News.
Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has been rearrested and taken into custody after the country's highest court determined he was trying to flee house arrest. The BBC's Jacob Evans has more.
According to Judge Alexander de Moraes, Mr Bolsonaro attempted to break his ankle monitor in the early hours of Saturday morning. He's been on tag for months since disobeying a court order and was sentenced in September to 27 years in jail for plotting a military coup after losing the 2022 election.
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