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Zelenskyy-Vance-Trump Blow Up, DOJ Demotions, Feds Plan for Bird Flu

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🗓️ 1 March 2025

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Ukrainians react to the stunning events in the Oval Office that ended not with a signed minerals deal, but with shouting. Trump's Department of Justice demotes career lawyers who were involved in prosecutions of Trump allies and January 6th rioters. The Department of Agriculture announces plans to fight bird flu and high egg prices.

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Don't tell us what we're going to feel.

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I'm not telling you.

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Because you're no position to dictate that.

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A heated exchange in the Oval Office in front of reporters and a minerals deal left unsigned.

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I'm Aisha Roscoe.

0:16.2

And I'm Scott Simon.

0:17.2

This is up first from NPR News.

0:21.0

The meeting with Ukraine's president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy began smoothly with President Donald Trump touting his role as a peacemaker between Ukraine and Russia.

0:31.5

But it ended in shouting, we'll have the details and the reaction from Kiev.

0:36.1

Demotions at the Department of Justice, including lawyers who worked on the January 6 cases.

0:41.8

Also, the Department of Agriculture's plan to fight bird flu and high egg prices.

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