US Senator Visits Abrego Garcia, Florida State University Shooting, Fed Independence
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🗓️ 18 April 2025
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| 0:00.0 | A U.S. Senator traveled to El Salvador to visit the man illegally deported there by the Trump |
| 0:07.4 | administration. My mission today was simply to see how his health is, what his condition is. |
| 0:13.7 | Is he any closer to returning to the U.S.? I mean Martinez with Le LaFadle, and this is up first from |
| 0:19.1 | NPR News. |
| 0:28.3 | Students at Florida State University lock themselves in basements and bathrooms to escape an active shooter on campus. |
| 0:33.6 | We have no idea what's going on, and they said we can go back, but like, how do I know that campus is safe? |
| 0:36.5 | The alleged gunman is the son of a local sheriff's deputy. |
| 0:38.9 | And President Trump is pressuring the Fed to cut interest rates, and it's got economists worried. Just look around the world |
| 0:44.3 | at places where there isn't independence. The inflation rate is higher, the unemployment, |
| 0:50.0 | and the job market are worse. Say with us, we've got the news you need to start your day. |
| 1:01.6 | Thank you. Yeah, and the job market are going to work. Say with us, we've got the news. You need to start your day. Democratic Senator, Chris Van Hollen, held a face-to-face meeting with Kilmart Abrego Garcia yesterday. |
| 1:08.1 | He's the Salvadoran citizen who lived in Maryland for about 15 years before the administration illegally deported him last month. |
| 1:14.9 | Now, he's being held in a notorious mega prison in El Salvador where the administration is sending people deported from the U.S. |
| 1:21.6 | Now, the White House insists he will not be returning to the U.S. despite a federal judge's order to facilitate his return. |
| 1:28.8 | Joining us with the latest is NPR's Rylund Barton. Good morning, Rylund. |
| 1:33.5 | Hi, Leila. |
| 1:34.1 | Okay, so Senator Van Holland says Salvadoran officials initially refused to let him meet with |
| 1:39.1 | Abrako Garcia, and then we see a meeting happened. What changed? |
| 1:43.1 | Yeah, so we know very little about how exactly |
| 1:45.7 | the meeting happened, but in an interview yesterday on All Things Considered, Van Hollen said |
| 1:50.1 | soldiers had initially prevented him from reaching the prison. I was stopped by soldiers |
| 1:55.1 | about three kilometers out who said they'd been ordered not to allow me to go see him. My mission today was |
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