Trump's Racist Somali Remarks, Signalgate Report, CDC Vaccine Meeting
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🗓️ 4 December 2025
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A Pentagon watchdog report finds Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth endangered U.S. troops by sharing classified strike plans over Signal, directly undercutting the White House’s claim that no harm was done.
And a CDC advisory panel appointed by the Trump administration prepares to revisit long-standing vaccine recommendations, including whether to scale back protections for newborns and young children.
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| 0:00.0 | President Trump has offered two days of racist rambles about Somali Americans, |
| 0:06.7 | specifically targeting a Minnesota lawmaker Ilhan Omar. |
| 0:09.9 | She's garbage. Her friends are garbage. These aren't people that work. |
| 0:14.2 | What's behind Trump's latest tirade? |
| 0:16.3 | I'm Steve Inskeep with Michelle Martin, and this is up first from NPR News. |
| 0:22.2 | Defense Secretary Pete Hankseth is under scrutiny. |
| 0:25.0 | A Pentagon Inspector General says his March signal chat regarding military plans in Yemen |
| 0:30.8 | violated the rules and may have put U.S. troops at risk. |
| 0:34.1 | So how does the White House respond? |
| 0:36.4 | And CDC vaccine advisors meet today with a new chair |
| 0:39.4 | and a new agenda after Robert F. Kennedy Jr. replaced the entire panel. They're considering |
| 0:44.2 | rolling back recommendations that doctors have followed for decades. Stayed with us. We'll give you |
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