Pentagon Upheaval, Hamas Releases More Hostages, NY State Prisons

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🗓️ 22 February 2025

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President Donald Trump fires the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, plus the Defense Department is set to lose more than 5 thousand personnel. Hamas releases 6 more living hostages as part of its ceasefire agreement with Israel. Corrections officers in NY protest working conditions and some walk off the job, prompting the governor to send in National Guard troops to secure some state prisons.

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0:00.0	upheaval at the Pentagon. President Donald Trump fires the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff.
0:08.1	Top military lawyers are also out, as are more than 5,000 personnel. I'm Aisha Roscoe. And I'm Scott Simon,
0:15.7	and this is up first from NPR News.
0:26.5	Hamas frees more Israeli hostages in exchange for Palestinian prisoners.
0:31.0	The militant group has also returned the body of Sherry Bebas, whose remains were initially misidentified in an earlier handover.
0:34.2	We'll have the latest.
0:35.5	And in New York State, the governor has deployed National Guard troops to help secure prisons.
0:41.3	That's amid protest by corrections officers.
0:43.7	Some are on strike.
0:44.9	Guards at two prisons walked off the job last week.
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1:17.8	Air Force General Charles Q. Brown Jr., the second African American to serve as the chairman
1:23.7	of the Joint Chiefs of staff is now out of a job. He was fired last night by President Trump.
1:29.7	Trump has nominated Air Force Lieutenant General Dan Cain as his replacement.
1:34.9	And Pierre Pentagon correspondent Tom Bowman joins us with more details about this and other
1:39.2	Department of Defense shakeups.
1:40.7	Tom, thanks for being here.
1:42.3	Good to be with you, Scott.
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