Hunter Biden's Plea Deal, Niger Coup, New York City's Migrant Shelters
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Hunter biden plea deal is on hold.

There was over tax evasion and illegal gun possession but how our house republicans justifying connecting that with possibly starting in peaching .

probe the president, i'm Steve, and this is up first from npr news. The military in the west african nation of nations has removed the president from power.

What clearly is an effort to cease power by force and the disruption stimulus.

What happens to this?

U. S. I? Now, a new york city mayor, eric adam, says his city is overwhelmed by influx of people, seek asylum and we need help.

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Biden does not yet have a plea agreement on a gn charge.

President biden sun spent several awkward hours in court yesterday. This is a little complex, so it's worth taking a moment to to run IT down by an expected to plead guilty and avoid prison for tax and gun charges. Instead, the judge had questions about how the deal is supposed to work.

Prosecutors filed the tax and gun charges during a wider investigation into biden's business dealings. Republicans talk about those business dealings on fox news all the time, so biden wants assurance against future prosecution, especially a former president. Trump returns to office. The judge held up the deal to clarify just how IT would work and how much protection biden would receive.

Republicans remain eager to connect the case to president biden. Past investigations have failed to do that, but house republicans have talked of trying again through an peaches and inquiry. M. P, R, S. Congressional correspondent, due to walls joins us now due to how our house republicans message this.

mean they're saying this ongoing investigation proves that there are serious allegations around hunter biden's business dealings and congress should be looking at them beyond hunters predial about tax and the gun charge. Republicans are focused on other allegations, allegations that hunter biden involved his father, who was then vice president, in some of his business dealings with foreign companies. I talked to house oversight chairman James comer, who says he's more focused on the president than hunter.

At the end of the day, I investig joe bad, hundred bad in the subject of that investigation, because I think the president used this sun to launder all this money.

We should say that house republicans have not CoOperated any of the allegations about any payments involving president biden. White house says the president was never in business .

with his son how democrat responding?

I talked to Jerry now there he's the top democrat, the house to Sherry committee he stresses that the prosecutor who's still investigating hunter biden was appointed by former president trump and he says there's no evidence leaking the on doing and now there says, talk about in teaching biden is all about the twenty twenty four election this .

is all firstly, absurd and second, really designed to take people's attention away from the real endicotts of a of former president.

He's talking about indictments that former president trump faces related to his handling of classified documents and other cases. Do how .

republicans agree that in peach bin should be pursued.

For now, house republicans are pretty united on this idea that it's their responsibility to conduct oversight and investigate allegations, get testimony from witnesses and some administration officials, but not all, want to vote those on the far right one and started calling for a one right after biden was elected on impeachment.

But more mainstream republican and say the house needs to build any case using evidence first, and then decide whether IT actually rises to impeachment. But you know, speaker ma, thy has just a four vote majority, is facing a lot of pressure from members on the right, the republican base and the former president to win. Peach.

what about senate republicans? Are they on board?

Many or not. They see a chance for themselves to win back control of the senate and twenty twenty four and think impeachment could step on their message on the economy. I talked to texas republican senator john corny, who says, even if the house in peached through on the votes to convict biden in the senate, he wants to spend time on other, more productive things and legislating.

Here's corny. I just think that we need to try to work out our political differences and not use tools like impeachment to try to redress our grievances. And the top .

senate republicans, mcconnel, impeachment should be rare. He says he understands why houses republicans may want to to go down that road because they oppose the two trump and peaches. But he says multiple impeachments are not good for the country.

M, P, S, thanks. Thank you. The president of the west african nation of new jair was removed in a cool late last night local time, despite frantic c diplomat efforts to save his government.

The president was held for several hours by his own guards at his residence and and then soldiers appeared on national T. V. After midnight local time and announced the president had been deposed.

Him many, well, I can vote to is M P R S. Africa correspondent, join us now from neighboring nigeria. How about the soldiers justified this cool?

Well, a group of ten soldiers, they appeared on national TV last night, and one of them read a preprepared red speech that really followed what's become a familiar pro print for many of the recent crews we've seen in the region.

He said they took over the government because of the deterioration of the security situation there and he was referring to the islamist insurgencies, the raging and he said because of the poor economy and poor governance. Until last night we know um the president mmd bazoo was still being held at the presidential palace. But in a further development this morning actually the president posted on social media on his own account and vote to defend the country's democracy, so responding with defined words.

But it's not clear how he could do that. You yesterday he was actually confident that the military would come to his aid, but they never did. There's been no apparent under resistance that this could so far, not only year is important to keeps my mind, has been a key western ally in a region where some of its neighbors have weakened or severe western ties.

The U. S. Has a military based there with over a thousand troops as the fronts with a larger force. But even though IT had western military support, insecurity has actually got on worse. And we'll have to see now how the military approaches these ties.

You said new ja, a strong western ally. How has the west responded?

Or as you imagine, the U. S. Has condemned ed the coup in strong terms. They've demanded the president's release.

Secretary blinkin, who actually visited nejan march, said he spoke to the president yesterday to offer a support and said, U. S. Support for his air crucially depends on the continuation of democratic governance, his own words.

So, you know, there were really pretty urgent, maybe frantic, departed efforts last night to avert this outcome, which of obviously failed in the regional block of west african countries called echos. They sent a delegation to miami. Probably that didn't work.

Now we'll have to see how they all respond. Crucially, the chAllenge is that when junes were, military leaders have launched crews in this region and then been isolated by the west. Russia has been there waiting in the wings to exploit this. And we've seen that in countries like money.

you, I mean this, this region has really been impacted by instability. And we've seen wagon mercenaries, they become more active. So what does this all do to that?

Yeah, the potential destabilisation could be really severe. Know is key to keep in mind is this large landlords in a fragile region, most of the people they are live in poverty and like neighbors. Mod fossil, it's been overwhelmed by multiple islamist insurgencies for years now, is one of the worst humAnitarian crisis in the world. And the situation in all of these countries is getting worse.

M, P, R, in many, well, I can vote to thank you very much. Thank you.

New york city has received over ninety thousand migrants and asylum seekers in last year.

That is a lot to abroad, according to the leader of the nation's most popular city. Mayor eric Adams has been saying the city can't handle so many and recently announced several changes, which amount to an historic shift in how new york city treats immigration.

Mp r. Jassan, an guards, has been covering the story tella about new york responded what tens of thousands of immigrants at of land in the sea.

sure. Well, two big things. mr. Eric atoms has said the city will be handing out flyers at the U.

S. Mexico border, dissuading people from coming to new york and also the city. He has announced that single migrants can only stay in new york shelters for sixty days. Ice poke to professor A A Laura a. Mckerrow SHE teaches immigration law at columbia university and SHE says this is a big departure from new york historic stance as a beacon for immigrants.

For at least four years, new york city has provided a right to shelter to all people, regardless of their immigration status, who need a place to stay for the night. And the recent changes announced by the mayor are devastating. devastating.

right? Will tell us so what IT .

looks like there. sure. The city has been scrambling. IT just announced a center for migrants in queens in the parking lot of a psychiatric hospital.

I spent the last few weeks at another one of these new sites for migrants. This one is for migrant men, is located in broke lin. They can serve around fourteen hundred people.

I spoke to dozens of people there who told me conditions are dire. Two bathrooms per eighty or ninety people, meals that are sometimes in such bad condition, folks get sick. I did reach out to the city with these allegations, and they did not respond.

I met a Young colombian man named David. He asked his last named be withheld because he was worried about retaliation. And here.

what he to say, what is saying is, I understand enough english to know .

the security guards are insulting us. They treat us like animals. And this is something I heard widespread complaints about, people saying they've been physically harassed and insulted by security guards. So as a result of all this, there's a number of migrants and asylum seekers who are now just sleeping on nearby street.

Eric atoms has over over again, asked the federal government for help. What kind of help is he asking for?

Well, first, financial assistance. The mayor has said, new york cannot pay for all this alone, but also he in new york, governor Cathy hole, have urged the federal government to expect giving these folks legal work permits. And every single migrant I spoke to told me, I just want to work.

I want to move on with my life. I don't want to live in a shelter. But the thing is, the soon as asylum seeker can get a work permit is six months after they apply for asylum, and applying for asylum can take years.

So this is pushing a lot of people into an underground economy. For example, in overwhelming number of folks I met out there, they work in food delivery and several have gotten injured or had their bike stolen or a chunk of their wages taken. And you know, they're not in a situation where they feel they can ask for help. So this lends itself to a lot of and pr .

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