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--:-- Host (Michelle Martindez-Martinez): An arrest has been made in the killing of a Minnesota state lawmaker and the shooting of another. Police say a man was captured after the largest manhunt in that state's history. We'll hear about who else he may have been targeting.
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--:-- Host (Michelle Martindez-Martinez): Another night of strikes and damage as Israel and Iran both widen attacks.
--:-- Guest (Hadil Alshalchi): It was terrible. Boom. Big one. Everything is shaking. I'm afraid. I'm afraid.
--:-- Host (Michelle Martindez-Martinez): Is there any sign of de-escalation?
--:-- Guest (Hadil Alshalchi): And President Trump has arrived in Canada for another tense reunion of G7 countries. Discussions about Trump's trade wars and the Middle East conflict will be front and center.
--:-- Host (Michelle Martindez-Martinez): And the Department of Justice is demanding an unprecedented amount of election data from Colorado.
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--:-- Host (Michelle Martindez-Martinez): A man suspected of killing a Democratic Minnesota legislative leader over the weekend is in custody.
--:-- Host (Michelle Martindez-Martinez): Last night, police arrested Vance Belter in a rural area outside Minneapolis.
--:-- Host (Michelle Martindez-Martinez): The 57-year-old is charged with murder.
--:-- Host (Michelle Martindez-Martinez): Governor Tim Walz has called it a politically motivated attack.
--:-- Guest (Matt Sepik): Minnesota Public Radio's Matt Sepik joins us now from Minneapolis.
--:-- Guest (Matt Sepik): Matt, let's start with the victims of this attack. Who were they?
--:-- Guest (Matt Sepik): Investigators say that Vance Belter posed as a police officer and fatally shot former Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark around 3.30 a.m. Saturday inside their home in Brooklyn Park, a suburb of Minneapolis.
--:-- Guest (Matt Sepik): Belter is also suspected of shooting and seriously wounding Democratic State Senator John Hoffman and his wife Yvette at their house about 90 minutes earlier.
--:-- Guest (Matt Sepik): When Hoffman's daughter called 911 to report the shooting, police went to the Hortman's home.
--:-- Guest (Matt Sepik): According to the criminal complaint, officers saw Belter, who was dressed as a policeman, shoot Mark Hortman through an open door.
--:-- Guest (Matt Sepik): Police then exchanged gunfire with Belter, who ran through the house and out the back.
--:-- Guest (Matt Sepik): Belter left a vehicle in the Hortman's driveway that was similar in appearance to a police SUV.
--:-- Guest (Matt Sepik): Inside it, investigators allegedly found a list of names and addresses of other public officials.
--:-- Guest (Matt Sepik): At a news conference late last night, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz said that the initial 911 call and the officer's decision to check on Hortman stopped the gunman from killing other public officials.
--:-- Guest (Matt Sepik): The Democratic governor pleaded for civility in public life.
--:-- Guest (Matt Sepik): This cannot be the norm. It cannot be the way that we deal with our political differences.
--:-- Guest (Matt Sepik): Now's the time for us to recommit to the core values of this country.
--:-- Host (Michelle Martindez-Martinez): Matt, where was Belter caught?
--:-- Guest (Matt Sepik): Yesterday morning, residents of rural Sibley County, that's about 50 miles southwest of Minneapolis, got cell phone alerts telling them to lock their homes and vehicles.
--:-- Guest (Matt Sepik): That was after police found a car belonging to Belter down the road from his home in that area.
--:-- Guest (Matt Sepik): Brooklyn Park Police Chief Mark Bruley says an officer thought that he may have seen Belter run into the woods, so authorities hurried to set up a perimeter.
--:-- Guest (Matt Sepik): During that, we got privy to additional information of an individual that was in the woods, and that search went on for many hours until ultimately we were able to locate him in the woods.
--:-- Guest (Matt Sepik): Brule says officers called Belter out of the forest and into a field where he surrendered.
--:-- Guest (Matt Sepik): The chief called the operation the largest manhunt in Minnesota history and said 20 SWAT teams were involved with it.
--:-- Guest (Matt Sepik): Authorities say Belter was armed, but they did not specify what type of weapon he had.
--:-- Host (Michelle Martindez-Martinez): Does anyone know any motive for what happened?
--:-- Guest (Matt Sepik): Authorities offered any new information about Belter's alleged motive but several Democratic elected officials including U Senator Tina Smith and Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison confirmed that they were among those on the list of people allegedly targeted by Belter
--:-- Guest (Matt Sepik): Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension Superintendent Drew Evans added last night that the list included names of people from other states, including Wisconsin, Illinois, Michigan, Nebraska, and Iowa.
--:-- Host (Michelle Martindez-Martinez): Now, one more thing, the couple who survived the attack, How are they doing?
--:-- Guest (Matt Sepik): Yvette Hoffman was struck by eight bullets and her husband, State Senator John Hoffman, was hit nine times.
--:-- Guest (Matt Sepik): Governor Wall said last night that John Hoffman came out of his final surgery and is moving toward recovery.
--:-- Guest (Matt Sepik): Yvette Hoffman exchanged text messages with U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar yesterday, writing, quote, we are both incredibly lucky to be alive.
--:-- Host (Michelle Martindez-Martinez): All right, that's reporter Matt Sepik of Minnesota Public Radio.
--:-- Host (Michelle Martindez-Martinez): Matt, thank you.
--:-- Guest (Matt Sepik): You're welcome.
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--:-- Host (Michelle Martindez-Martinez): World leaders and the United Nations are calling for a de-escalation in the conflict between Israel and Iran.
--:-- Guest (Hadil Alshalchi): There were explosions and there was destruction in both countries for a fourth day as the two exchanged fire.
--:-- Guest (Hadil Alshalchi): And the death toll grows.
--:-- Guest (Hadil Alshalchi): Iran's Ministry of Health says more than 200 people have been killed, including many women and children, and more than 1,000 injured.
--:-- Guest (Hadil Alshalchi): An Israel official said more than 20 people have been killed.
--:-- Host (Michelle Martindez-Martinez): For more, we're joined by NPR's Hadil Alshalchi in Tel Aviv.
--:-- Guest (Hadil Alshalchi): President Trump posted online that Israel and Iran should, quote, make a deal and that there have been calls and meetings taking place.
--:-- Guest (Hadil Alshalchi): Hadil, any sign of de-escalation right now?
--:-- Guest (Hadil Alshalchi): I mean, yes, President Trump did say that the two sides needed to, quote, end this bloody conflict.
--:-- Guest (Hadil Alshalchi): And then he told reporters yesterday, though, that, quote, sometimes they have to fight it out.
--:-- Guest (Hadil Alshalchi): Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave an interview to Fox News last night, and he doubled down on continuing the war.
--:-- Host (Michelle Martindez-Martinez): Let's take a listen.
--:-- Guest (Hadil Alshalchi): The issue here is not de-escalation. The issue here is not ceasefire. The issue here is stopping those things that will threaten our survival.
--:-- Guest (Hadil Alshalchi): And we're committed to stopping them, and I think we can achieve them.
--:-- Guest (Hadil Alshalchi): Iran also has not signaled, publicly at least, that talks were imminent, and it remains adamant to respond to the Israeli strike.
--:-- Host (Michelle Martindez-Martinez): So no, it doesn't seem like things are calming down anytime soon.
--:-- Guest (Hadil Alshalchi): Yeah, a sign of that escalation was an under-night of strikes and damage in both Iran and Israel.
--:-- Guest (Hadil Alshalchi): What was it like where you are?
--:-- Guest (Hadil Alshalchi): Yeah, it was a very deadly night of strikes here in Israel.
--:-- Guest (Hadil Alshalchi): The Israeli military says four areas were hit, including the northern city of Haifa and also an area in central Tel Aviv.
--:-- Guest (Hadil Alshalchi): Yesterday, I visited one of those neighborhoods' worst hit. It's called Batyam in central Israel.
--:-- Guest (Hadil Alshalchi): You know, a massive high-rise was completely gutted from one side.
--:-- Guest (Hadil Alshalchi): Search and rescue teams were looking for missing people in the rubble.
--:-- Guest (Hadil Alshalchi): There were blown out windows for miles.
--:-- Guest (Hadil Alshalchi): I met 62-year-old Ilana Kopchak.
--:-- Guest (Hadil Alshalchi): She was in a bomb shelter when the missile hit nearby.
--:-- Guest (Hadil Alshalchi): It was terrible. Boom. Big one. Everything is shaking. I'm afraid. I'm afraid.
--:-- Host (Michelle Martindez-Martinez): The level of destruction and attack seemed unprecedented for many in Israel.
--:-- Guest (Hadil Alshalchi): I mean, what's the mood where you're at?
--:-- Guest (Hadil Alshalchi): Absolutely.
--:-- Guest (Hadil Alshalchi): So, you know, Israelis can sometimes be nonchalant about missile fire.
--:-- Guest (Hadil Alshalchi): Hamas, Hezbollah, the Yemeni Houthis fire rockets at Israel.
--:-- Guest (Hadil Alshalchi): But this isn't the same at all.
--:-- Guest (Hadil Alshalchi): And the Israeli air defense system known as the Iron Dome hasn't been able to intercept all of them, as we can see, which is leading to a level of destruction in central Israel, particularly that hasn't been seen before, really.
--:-- Guest (Hadil Alshalchi): You know, there's been some criticism in the media about the war.
--:-- Guest (Hadil Alshalchi): There's questions. What is Netanyahu's endgame?
--:-- Guest (Hadil Alshalchi): But generally, there's actually a sense that this is a time for Israel to unite against their common enemy, the Iranian Islamic regime.
--:-- Guest (Hadil Alshalchi): The area I visited, Batyam, is a Netanyahu stronghold.
--:-- Guest (Hadil Alshalchi): He visited the neighborhood, and many people were chanting his name in support.
--:-- Guest (Hadil Alshalchi): And people I talked to, yeah, they were rattled by the attack.
--:-- Guest (Hadil Alshalchi): Some homes, their homes were also damaged.
--:-- Guest (Hadil Alshalchi): But they said this war was inevitable.
--:-- Guest (Hadil Alshalchi): It's been hanging over their heads for decades, and that this destruction was perhaps the price to pay for Israel's safety in the region.
--:-- Host (Michelle Martindez-Martinez): All right, that's NPR's Hadil Alshalchi in Tel Aviv.
--:-- Host (Michelle Martindez-Martinez): Thank you very much.
--:-- Guest (Hadil Alshalchi): You're very welcome.
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--:-- Host (Michelle Martindez-Martinez): President Trump has arrived in Kananaskis at a lodge in the Canadian Rockies for this year's G7.
--:-- Host (Michelle Martindez-Martinez): It is the annual summit for the leaders of advanced economies, and this year's comes in a tense time.
--:-- Host (Michelle Martindez-Martinez): The conflict between Israel and Iran has escalated, as we've just heard.
--:-- Host (Michelle Martindez-Martinez): The Ukraine-Russia war continues, and Trump has imposed tariffs on all of his fellow G7 countries.
--:-- Guest (Danielle Kurtzleben): NPR White House correspondent Danielle Kurtzleben traveled to Canada last night with the president.
--:-- Guest (Danielle Kurtzleben): She joins us now from Calgary, Alberta.
--:-- Host (Michelle Martindez-Martinez): So, Danielle, what's on the agenda for the next couple of days?
--:-- Guest (Danielle Kurtzleben): Well, Canada Prime Minister Mark Carney he the host of this meeting He laid out a few really broad areas Among them he listed boosting the response to wildfires building infrastructure and using AI for economic growth.
--:-- Guest (Danielle Kurtzleben): Now, Trump, for his part, has his own priorities.
--:-- Guest (Danielle Kurtzleben): His White House has said that he wants to talk about migration, critical minerals, trade, and drug smuggling, among other things.
--:-- Guest (Danielle Kurtzleben): But given the timing of this meeting, the Iran-Israel conflict, like you just mentioned, that's sure to be a big part of the conversation and also Russia's ongoing war in Ukraine.
--:-- Guest (Danielle Kurtzleben): On that note, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is going to be at the summit.
--:-- Guest (Danielle Kurtzleben): And the White House says Trump will have some time to meet with Zelensky in the next couple of days.
--:-- Guest (Danielle Kurtzleben): Not only that, but they confirmed he will have one-on-one meetings with Mexico's President Claudia Sheinbaum and Mark Carney, the host.
--:-- Host (Michelle Martindez-Martinez): I remember back in his first term, President Trump had some pretty memorable clashes with his fellow leaders at these two seven summits.
--:-- Guest (Danielle Kurtzleben): Yeah.
--:-- Guest (Danielle Kurtzleben): So what was behind all that?
--:-- Guest (Danielle Kurtzleben): Well, some of it was personal.
--:-- Guest (Danielle Kurtzleben): I mean, for example, look back to 2018 when Trump called then Canada Prime Minister Justin Trudeau dishonest and weak.
--:-- Guest (Danielle Kurtzleben): And that was inspired by trade issues is what caused that argument.
--:-- Guest (Danielle Kurtzleben): Trump also argued in the past with former German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
--:-- Guest (Danielle Kurtzleben): But stepping back from those personality clashes, there have just been differing values between Trump and other G7 leaders.
--:-- Guest (Danielle Kurtzleben): Trump's team wanted narrowly focused G7 agendas, focusing heavily on economics.
--:-- Guest (Danielle Kurtzleben): Meanwhile, the other leaders wanted to talk about more expansive topics like climate change and gender equality in addition to economics.
--:-- Host (Michelle Martindez-Martinez): Now, at the end of these summits, they usually wrap all of that together in a big joint statement called a communique.
--:-- Guest (Danielle Kurtzleben): But this year, they're scrapping that approach.
--:-- Guest (Danielle Kurtzleben): So I talked to Kellyanne Shaw.
--:-- Guest (Danielle Kurtzleben): She was Trump's lead negotiator in 2019.
--:-- Guest (Danielle Kurtzleben): She said this.
--:-- Guest (Danielle Kurtzleben): In many respects, it's an improvement, right? Because last year, if you look at the communique, it was 36 pages of empty promises and platitudes.
--:-- Guest (Danielle Kurtzleben): It doesn't move the needle.
--:-- Host (Michelle Martindez-Martinez): Now, again, she's making the Trumpist argument there.
--:-- Guest (Danielle Kurtzleben): But other G7 leaders have seen the summit as a venue for global governance and just for consensus on big problems.
--:-- Host (Michelle Martindez-Martinez): Do you expect any friction between Trump and other leaders this week?
--:-- Guest (Danielle Kurtzleben): I mean, there could be on a few topics.
--:-- Guest (Danielle Kurtzleben): One is Trump's repeated statements about making Canada, again, the host country, the 51st state.
--:-- Host (Michelle Martindez-Martinez): Oh, that.
--:-- Guest (Danielle Kurtzleben): I forgot about that. Yeah, that's big.
--:-- Guest (Danielle Kurtzleben): Not only that, but French President Emmanuel Macron sent a message during a stop he made on the way to this G7.
--:-- Guest (Danielle Kurtzleben): He stopped at Greenland, and that's another place that Trump has said he would like to annex.
--:-- Guest (Danielle Kurtzleben): And that, of course, is part of Denmark.
--:-- Host (Michelle Martindez-Martinez): One more area that they may talk about is Russia, or they will likely talk about.
--:-- Guest (Danielle Kurtzleben): Fundamentally, the G7 has not been friendly to Russia because of its actions in Ukraine.
--:-- Guest (Danielle Kurtzleben): But Trump is friendly with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
--:-- Guest (Danielle Kurtzleben): They spoke over the weekend, and Trump has even said he would be open to Putin mediating the Israel-Iran conflict.
--:-- Host (Michelle Martindez-Martinez): Now, Macron, for his part, said he would not support that.
--:-- Guest (Danielle Kurtzleben): Capping all that off is trade.
--:-- Guest (Danielle Kurtzleben): Trump has tariffed goods from nearly every country, including all his G7 partners.
--:-- Guest (Danielle Kurtzleben): And he has said he will be talking tariff deals this week.
--:-- Host (Michelle Martindez-Martinez): All right. That's NPR's Danielle Kurtzleibit.
--:-- Host (Michelle Martindez-Martinez): Thanks a lot.
--:-- Guest (Danielle Kurtzleben): Thank you.
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--:-- Host (Michelle Martindez-Martinez): Last month, President Trump's Department of Justice made a sweeping demand to the state of Colorado.
--:-- Host (Michelle Martindez-Martinez): Give us all your records from recent federal elections.
--:-- Host (Michelle Martindez-Martinez): Voting officials say they've never seen anything like it.
--:-- Guest (Jude Jaffe-Block): NPR's Miles Parks and Jude Jaffe Block were the first to obtain this data request.
--:-- Guest (Jude Jaffe-Block): So Jude, let's start off with you. Tell us more about what's happening here.
--:-- Guest (Jude Jaffe-Block): Well, yeah, last month, the Justice Department sent the Colorado Secretary of State a letter citing a number of federal laws, including those that say election officials need to keep relevant records for 22 months after an election.
--:-- Guest (Jude Jaffe-Block): DOJ said they received a complaint about Colorado's compliance with election law, and they're requesting all records from the past 22 months as a result.
--:-- Guest (Jude Jaffe-Block): But this request goes even further back to preserve any 2020 election records Colorado has, even though there isn't a legal obligation for state officials to have saved those old records at this point.
--:-- Host (Michelle Martindez-Martinez): All right. So requests for both 2020 and 2024.
--:-- Guest (Miles Parks): I mean, no voting official we've spoken with has ever heard of a request for all election records from an entire state.
--:-- Guest (Miles Parks): I mean, depending on how you read this, election law experts told us it could encompass ballots, voter registration materials to equipment.
--:-- Guest (Miles Parks): Justin Levitt is a professor at Loyola Law School.
--:-- Guest (Miles Parks): He worked for DOJ during the Obama administration, and he was a voting advisor in the Biden administration.
--:-- Guest (Miles Parks): I've never seen a request that says, you have a responsibility to keep everything.
--:-- Guest (Miles Parks): We're investigating whether you kept everything, so send us everything.
--:-- Host (Michelle Martindez-Martinez): Has the Department of Justice said anything about this request so far publicly or maybe in response to your reporting?
--:-- Guest (Miles Parks): We got no comment on the substance of the request and the DOJ also has not provided a copy of the initial complaint
--:-- Guest (Miles Parks): What about the letter? Any explanation as to why they want all these records?
--:-- Guest (Miles Parks): Not exactly.
--:-- Guest (Miles Parks): I mean, we don't know anything about that initial complaint, who sent it, what the specifics are.
--:-- Guest (Miles Parks): But election officials in Colorado note the last time that a state records retention issue was in the spotlight involved a Trump ally who's become a sort of election denial folk hero.
--:-- Guest (Miles Parks): You might remember her name, Tina Peters.
--:-- Guest (Miles Parks): She's a former county voting official who was convicted on a bunch of crimes related to giving unauthorized access to her systems after the 2020 election.
--:-- Guest (Miles Parks): As part of her defense in her trial, she accused the secretary of state of illegally ordering records to be deleted.
--:-- Guest (Miles Parks): That accusation was never substantiated, but election officials in Colorado see this request from DOJ as in some way linked to that case.
--:-- Host (Michelle Martindez-Martinez): All right, so just to be clear then, anything in the DOJ's letter that mentions Peters, or is that maybe just a hunch among people in Colorado?
--:-- Guest (Miles Parks): There's nothing in the letter, but it's also worth noting that just a week before Colorado got this letter, President Trump posted a long social media post where he called Peters a political prisoner and he even directed DOJ to take, quote, all necessary action to help get her free, even though she's in state custody.
--:-- Guest (Miles Parks): And when we spoke with Colorado's Secretary of State, Democrat Jenna Griswold, she noted the timing that this request came soon after Trump's post.
--:-- Guest (Miles Parks): Though she's not sure why DOJ ultimately wants all her records, she is worried they'll be used to make false accusations about the state's voting systems.
--:-- Guest (Miles Parks): We are seeing them use the apparatus of the federal government to undermine our elections and our democracy, and I would assume that this is more of the same.
--:-- Host (Michelle Martindez-Martinez): In response to the request, the state provided DOJ with a couple different snapshots of its publicly available voter rolls and a more detailed voter history.
--:-- Host (Michelle Martindez-Martinez): But it's unclear whether DOJ will be satisfied with that considering how broad the request was.
--:-- Guest (Jude Jaffe-Block): Jude, I mean, what does this data request then say about the focus of Trump's Department of Justice?
--:-- Guest (Jude Jaffe-Block): Yeah, the DOJ's Civil Rights Division, which includes the voting section, is really undergoing a dramatic transformation right now to home in on Trump's priorities.
--:-- Guest (Jude Jaffe-Block): We've seen DOJ lawyers drop voting rights lawsuits brought under Biden and instead focus on searching for fraud or how states are verifying voters on their roles.
--:-- Guest (Jude Jaffe-Block): One of our colleagues reported that the Civil Rights Division has lost about 70 percent of its attorneys.
--:-- Guest (Jude Jaffe-Block): The key person to note here is the head of the Civil Rights Division, Harmeet Dillon.
--:-- Guest (Jude Jaffe-Block): She's the one who signed this request to Colorado.
--:-- Guest (Jude Jaffe-Block): And Dylan, frankly, has a history of working in the election denial space.
--:-- Guest (Jude Jaffe-Block): She advised Trump's legal team in 2020 and also worked for Carrie Lake's campaign in Arizona in 2022, both campaigns that involved casting doubt on election results.
--:-- Guest (Jude Jaffe-Block): And then up until the time she was confirmed, Dylan was working at her own private firm, which was also commissioned by the Republican National Committee this spring to send out election records requests across the country.
--:-- Host (Michelle Martindez-Martinez): A secretary of state not in Colorado, but who got one of those requests, told me she was getting flashbacks to the post-2020 period when voting officials really felt targeted more than ever before.
--:-- Guest (Jude Jaffe-Block): That's NPR's Miles Parks and Jude Jaffe-Block.
--:-- Host (Michelle Martindez-Martinez): Thanks, you two.
--:-- Guest (Jude Jaffe-Block): Thanks.
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