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he's not putting troops anywhere, but seemed to leave the door open to using ground troops
“in the war on Iran if necessary. And Piers Mara lies and reports."”
President Trump said that the U.S. will do whatever is necessary in the war on Iran, but he told reporters that if he was going to commit ground troops, quote, "I certainly wouldn't tell you." Poll show committing ground troops would be extremely unpopular on top of a war that most Americans already oppose. The President also addressed reports of a
potential $200 billion funding request for the war in Iran, Trump called that a small
price to pay. But Congress has not voted to approve the war, and many Republicans could find it hard to justify spending the equivalent of a quarter of the Pentagon's annual budget at a time when gas and other prices are rising because of the war. Mara Lyosim and PR News, the White House. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claims Israel is winning the war against Iran, saying
today, "The Islamic Republic can no longer enrich uranium or make ballistic missiles." Hundreds of their launchers have been destroyed. Their stockpiles of missiles are being
“hit hard, and so are the industries that produce them. That's important.”
At the White House, while hosting Japan's first female prime minister today, Trump suggested
the war may be over with pretty soon, but didn't provide details. The former director for Iran at the National Security Council, Nate Swanson, told NPR, "The end game for the war in Iran keeps changing." I don't know if it's to call markets. If it's buyer's remorse, or if it signals something broader, which is, you know, that his recognition, there's no easy way out of this. There's
no good options for ending this war, and so at some point he's just going to have to force an ending. So I don't know which one of those that is, and maybe some combination of all all of those options at this point. Swanson is a resident senior fellow and director for the Iran strategy project at the Atlantic Council. The Senate is one step closer to voting on President Trump's new choice to run the
Department of Homeland Security, Oklahoma Republican Senator Mar-Goyne Mullin. San Piers Elena Moore reports his nomination moves out of committee and heads to the Senate floor. The Senate Homeland Security Committee has voted to advance Mullin's nomination with eight lawmakers voting for and seven against Senator John Fetterman of Pennsylvania was the sole Democrat to vote yes, and the only Republican on the panel to vote no, committee chairman, Rand Paul of Kentucky.
During Mullin's committee hearing on Wednesday, Paul questioned whether he was the right person to lead DHS, zeroing in on Mullin's temperament, and frequent use of violent rhetoric. Mullin walked some of that rhetoric back and distanced himself from the administration on some hard-line immigration enforcement policies. Mullin's nomination now proceeds to the Senate floor for vote, but it's unclear when that will happen. Elena Moore and Piers News.
This is NPR. The Minnesota family who's five-year-old son Liam Kano, Ramos, made national headlines in his bunny hat, while being to take an into immigration custody plan to appeal their case. An immigration judge rejected the family's asylum case yesterday according to the family's attorney, Danielle Mulliver. The Minneapolis-based lawyer said the
family which includes Liam and older brother, their parents and a third child on the way,
told the Star Tribune newspaper that the family is very disappointed and had hoped to get their day in court to present their testimony. NPR has learned that a new company is setting up a lab in New York City to try to edit the genes of human embryos, and Piers Rob Stein reports. The company is called Origin Genomics, and founder Kathy Ty, tells NPR that her goal is to demonstrate that it would be safe to edit DNA in human embryos.
“I'm very excited. This is the most important technology of my generation.”
Most scientists and bioethicists say it's too dangerous to try to use genetically modified embryos to make babies, and some worry this could lead to a dystopian future of designer babies. But Ty says gene editing embryos could prevent children from being born with devastating genetic disorders. At least two other U.S. startups have recently been formed with the same controversial goal, Rob Stein and Piers News. U.S. oil prices have climbed more than 48%
since the start of the war in Iran. The price of brain crude is over $113. This is NPR.
