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Speaker 2: News, fifty one degrees and Sonny in Boston at eleven o'clock.
Speaker 2: Good Thursday morning. I'm Madison Rogers, and let's start this hour.
Speaker 2: In Washington, d C. Demonstrators there are spending May Day
Speaker 2: setting up an encampment on the National Mall. They say
Speaker 2: they'll be there twenty four to seven.
Speaker 3: We are advocating and urging Congress to act and impeach,
Speaker 3: convict and remove the president.
Speaker 2: David Mittich is with a grassroots group called May Day
Speaker 2: Movement USA. He says there are dozens of reasons to
Speaker 2: impeach the president, including his administration's defiance of court orders
Speaker 2: and the president's commutations for January sixth.
Speaker 3: Rioters, it's a constitutional crisis, and there's a lot of people,
Speaker 3: unfortunately on the Democratic side, that want to wait till
Speaker 3: the midterms. We believe that we don't have that much time.
Speaker 3: There's over I don't know, five hundred days now till
Speaker 3: the midterms.
Speaker 2: Demonstrations are happening around the country today, including on Boston
Speaker 2: Common this evening. Organizers there have a rallying cry of
Speaker 2: stop the billionaire Takeover. May Day is International Workers Day
Speaker 2: as well. Yesterday, the President acknowledged his tariffs will cause
Speaker 2: working families some pain, but insists it will be well
Speaker 2: worth it. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has reportedly been
Speaker 2: in touch with Kilmar Abrego Garcia. He's the Maryland man
Speaker 2: who the Trump administration has admitted to mistakenly deporting his
Speaker 2: native El Salvador. ABC's Catherine Folders has more.
Speaker 4: There have been a lot of mixed messages from the
Speaker 4: government on this. We know that Trump said in an
Speaker 4: interview with Terry Moran that he could pick up the
Speaker 4: phone and call on but of course he's deferring to
Speaker 4: his lawyers on that. While we know that the Secretary
Speaker 4: of State has been in direct contact, the question remains,
Speaker 4: though our house significant are those conversations, Are they really
Speaker 4: trying to get him back? Are there active negotiations going
Speaker 4: on around this, and what exactly is Rubio doing. But
Speaker 4: it does seem that it is a big development in
Speaker 4: terms of the contact between the US and El Salvador.
Speaker 2: The Supreme Court has told the administration to facilitate a
Speaker 2: Brego Garcia's return from a notorious El Salvador prison, but
Speaker 2: the White House says that is not going to happen. Yesterday,
Speaker 2: a federal judge in Maryland once again ordered the administration
Speaker 2: to provide details about its efforts or lack thereof, to
Speaker 2: bring a breako Garcia back, a local immigrant advocacy group,
Speaker 2: has joined a new lawsuit against the Trump administration over
Speaker 2: stripped federal funds. The Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy or
Speaker 2: MIRRA Coalition lost out on three hundred thousand dollars after
Speaker 2: DHS cut off grants which we're supposed to go to
Speaker 2: helping local greenhard C Green card holders apply for citizenship.
Speaker 2: Now that programming has been halted, the mere coalition says.
Speaker 2: The HS told mass Live that taxpayer funded programs that
Speaker 2: support or have the potential to support illegal immigration are
Speaker 2: out of step with the President's priorities. In the four
Speaker 2: day wbz ACI weather forecasts, we have tons of sun
Speaker 2: and clouds out there this afternoon in Boston. The highs
Speaker 2: near sixty, but it gets into the low seventies for
Speaker 2: some inland suburbs. Tonight turns out cloudy. We will have
Speaker 2: a shower too late. It's a low near fifty. Some
Speaker 2: rain for Friday, really a spotty thunderstorm. Otherwise, It's damp
Speaker 2: to start, with some breaks of sunshine in the afternoon,
Speaker 2: warm and humid seventy six toot eighty for the high
Speaker 2: again upper seventies, maybe eighty on Saturday, with a couple
Speaker 2: of showers, maybe a thunderstorm. Sunday looks like a couple
Speaker 2: of showers around Otherwise it's cloudy and breezy, bit cooler
Speaker 2: out there, with a high around sixty four in Boston,
Speaker 2: and looking ahead, some rain and drizzle are possible both
Speaker 2: Monday and Tuesday. It is sunshine across the Bay State.
Speaker 2: Right now in Boston fifty one degrees and breezy at
Speaker 2: eleven oh five. As Harvard fights the Trump administration in court,
Speaker 2: some Ivy League professors are enlisting. The wlbz's Jim McKay.
Speaker 1: Explains several dozen faculty members at Harvard have pledged to
Speaker 1: donate ten percent of their salaries for an entire year
Speaker 1: to help Harvard in their legal battles against the Trump administration.
Speaker 1: While eighty members have committed to the ten percent salary
Speaker 1: pledge thus far, they're still collecting signatures. The total commitments
Speaker 1: they have right now are totally two million dollars. On
Speaker 1: top of the legal battles. Billions in research grants have
Speaker 1: also been pulled by the Trump administration over Harvard refusing
Speaker 1: to buckle to their demands. Jim MCKAWBZ Boston's News radio.
Speaker 2: Former Vice President Kamala Harris delivered her first major speech
Speaker 2: since leaving office last night, and she used it to
Speaker 2: attack the man she lost to in November.
Speaker 5: You are not alone and we are all in this together,
Speaker 5: and straight talk.
Speaker 2: Things are probably going to get worse before they get better,
Speaker 2: Harris in San Francisco as rumors swirl around a potential
Speaker 2: run for California governor. The former Vice president accused President
Speaker 2: Trump of abandoning American ideals and using his agenda to
Speaker 2: slash public education, to shrink and privatize the governments, and
Speaker 2: to cut taxes for the wealthiest among us. The Tony
Speaker 2: nominations are out this morning, and there are some big
Speaker 2: names on the list getting ready for Broadway's biggest award
Speaker 2: show of the year. George Clooney, Mia Farrow, Bob Odenkirk,
Speaker 2: Sadie Sink, and Sarah Snook all nominated for their performances.
Speaker 2: Contenders for Best Play include English, The Hills of California,
Speaker 2: and Oh Mary for Best Musical. The noms include Buena
Speaker 2: Vista Social Club, Death Becomes Her and Operation Mincemeat. The
Speaker 2: Tony Awards are set for June eighth, and there's a
Speaker 2: controversial new musical out in San Francisco about a murder
Speaker 2: case that's script and divided the nation.
Speaker 5: Twenty six year old accused of shooting United Healthcare CEO
Speaker 5: Brian Thompson in Midtown Manhattan late last year is the
Speaker 5: subject of the sixty minute musical called Luigi, now in
Speaker 5: Rehearsalshoni creators say the musical will follow Mangioni's time at
Speaker 5: the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn with real life cell
Speaker 5: mate Sam Bankman Freed and p Diddy by a side
Speaker 5: For anyone who likes comedy and show tunes, they say,
Speaker 5: Luigi will be your new favorite Felony. Luigi, A True
Speaker 5: Story of love, murder, and hash Brown's runs from June
Speaker 5: thirteenth to the twenty eighth. More information is available at
Speaker 5: Luigiimusical dot info. I'm Michael Cassner.
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