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Yasmeen Khan
Good morning. It's Monday, June 9th. I'm Yasmeen Khan in for Shamita Basu. This is Apple News today. On today's show, how Donald Trump and Elon Musk could hurt each other. Families with transgender kids are leaving the United States. And a thrilling finish to the French Open. But first to Los Angeles, where President Trump has defied the wishes of the California governor and other local officials and dispatched the National Guard following protests and violent clashes with ICE officials. On Sunday, 300 troops were on the ground as demonstrators gathered downtown by an immigration center, while others brought traffic to a standstill, marching on the 101 freeway. Tear gas and rubber bullets have been used, and the LA Police Department said demonstrators ignited vehicles. California Governor Gavin Newsom formally asked Trump to rescind the order and return troops to his command. The unrest began on Friday. Immigration enforcement teams had targeted the fashion district in LA, one of three raids that day, which the US Attorney's office says resulted in more than 100 detentions. Protesters gathered downtown outside the federal building, where they were ordered to disperse. But as you'll hear, protesters continued undeterred and were met with the use of non lethal force.
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David Huerta
You guys have an opportunity to leave right now.
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Yasmeen Khan
More than 40 people were eventually arrested on Friday, including union leader David Huerta. Then on Saturday, protests continued, this time in Paramount, a small city 20 miles from downtown. Clashes there quickly turned violent. The LA Times reports protesters threw objects at law enforcement vehicle windows and police utilized tear gas. As night fell, clashes continued in Compton, across the river from Paramount. The New York Times reports officers used flashbang grenades and shot rubber bullets at the protesters, who threw rocks, glass bottles and fireworks at the officers. One demonstrator told local station ABC 7. What brought him to the streets?
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David Huerta
We have a very beautiful community, a very strong community, and this is why we show up. And we're going to keep showing up because, well, it is an obligation and a duty for each and every one of us to be here and fight against the oppress.
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Yasmeen Khan
By 6pm Pacific time on Saturday, Trump had signed a memo authorizing the use of the National Guard, declaring that the protests, quote, constitute a form of rebellion against the authority of the government of the United States. In a joint statement, Newsom and LA Mayor Karen Bass, both Democrats, called the move an alarming abuse of power. Newsom also said Trump was hoping for chaos. Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna described the deployment of the National Guard against the wishes of state leaders as unprecedented. This is the first time a president has called upon the National Guard against the wishes of A state leader since 1965, when Lyndon Johnson sent troops to Selma, Alabama, to protect civil rights campaigners. On Sunday, troops with the California National Guard and officials with the Department of Homeland Security used smoke and pepper spray to disperse protesters outside a federal detention center in downtown Los Angeles. Here's one protester, Maya Malika, speaking to npr.
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Maya Malika
Our people are righteously standing up against what's happening with immigrants. And what we're facing right now is Trump's armed gestapo. We're just seeing a glimpse of the future that Trump wants to implement.
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Yasmeen Khan
And in what would amount to a far bigger escalation, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has suggested the Marines could be called in a on Sunday, Trump told reporters there would be troops everywhere to maintain law and order. The unrest over the weekend comes against a backdrop of an increase in immigration raids. A spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security said 2,000 immigrants per day had been arrested over the past week, up from around 600 earlier in the administration. And White House border czar Tom Homan told reporters there would be more raids to come.
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David Huerta
So you're going to see more teams on the streets you've never seen before. You're going to see more work site enforcement than you've ever seen in the history of this nation. You got sanctuary cities. Like I said, we're going to flood the zone.
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Yasmeen Khan
Now let's turn to the very public breakup between Elon Musk and President Trump. Over the weekend, Trump suggested their relationship was beyond repair and told NBC there would be serious consequences if Musk began funding the campaigns of Democrats who run against Republicans that vote in favor of the GOP's budget bill. During their social media feud last week, Musk called the bill a disgusting abomination, and he said it would make the US Budget deficit worse and put Americans into, quote, crushing debt. Meanwhile, Vice President J.D. vance echoed Trump's warnings when he spoke to podcaster Theo Vaughn.
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J.D. Vance
I think it's a huge mistake for him to go after the president like that. And I think that if he and the president are in some blood feud, most importantly, it's going to be bad for the country. But I think it's going to be. I don't think it's going to be good for Elon either.
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Yasmeen Khan
So what could the world's richest man and the President of the United States do to each other and to the country as their relationship continues to unravel? Trump has already threatened to cut off federal contracts and subsidies to Musk's companies, including SpaceX. Bloomberg's Ted Mann told us what that could mean.
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Ted Mann
They are the dominant player in this particular market, at least for this near term. We don't know what that will look like in half a decade or so, but it's probably at least that far away that there's someone else who could.
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Yasmeen Khan
Just step in, Mann told us. If Trump were to cancel SpaceX contracts, they wouldn't be easy to replace.
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Ted Mann
That means food for the International Space Station, travel back to Earth for the astronauts who are up there. When the facility itself is decommissioned, it's probably going to be a SpaceX rocket that brings it back to this planet. So for the government of the United States to suddenly have to go without SpaceX would be a huge logistical problem. So it's a real threat.
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Yasmeen Khan
Cutting funding to SpaceX would also threaten Starlink, a division of the company with growing links with the government. It received $3.8 billion in government contracts last year alone. Starlink, as you may know, is a satellite Internet service that aims to provide Internet access to hard to connect areas. It's been a critical tool in Ukraine's war efforts, to the point where Musk has reportedly joined at least one call between Trump and President Zelensky. The Defense Department and other US Agencies have come to heavily rely on Starlink, too. So much so that Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren wrote a letter to Secretary of State Marco Rubio over the weekend asking for reassurances of contingency plans in the events of contracts being canceled. And while there's growing concern about this rift, Mann reminds us that it's hard to know where all of this will end up.
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Ted Mann
Both Musk and Trump say a lot of stuff that they don't follow through on. So I do think there's been a lot of chest pounding and will remain to be seen what actually happens in the coming days. But for both sides, it would be a huge logistical and practical challenge if they went through with this.
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Yasmeen Khan
This weekend, tens of thousands of people marched in pride parades around the country. The celebrations come amid a series of executive orders from President Trump related to transgender rights. One prohibits federal funds from going to hospitals that provide transition related care to minors. Another bars trans girls and women from competing in girls and women's sports. Another prevents trans people from getting passports that match their gender identities. And there's one that bans trans people from military service. Many of these orders are being challenged, but trans kids and their parents regularly report that they're fearful of the growing resentment towards them. A recent Pew Research poll of LGBTQ adults found that just 13% said that they feel Trans people are accepted in the United States.
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Joe Yerkeba
So over the last two months, I've been talking with trans folks from across the US who have either already moved or are planning to to leave the country due to Trump's recent policies targeting the community.
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Yasmeen Khan
That's Joe Yerkeba with NBC. They spoke with five families who have already left or plan to leave the United States. That includes Chase and her family.
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Joe Yerkeba
Chase is a fourth grader in Denver. She's a trans girl who has been receiving care at the Children's Hospital in Denver. And her parents told me that that was really the driving factor of like what made them decide to leave was that about two weeks into Trump's presidency, he issued an executive order that barred really any federal funds, but specifically research and education grants from going to hospitals that provide transition related care to minors.
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Yasmeen Khan
And though that order was overturned by a federal judge, the Supreme Court will be weighing in on the issue soon. And with all the uncertainty, Chase's parents made the difficult decision to move the family out of Colorado and relocate to New Zealand, where some gender affirming care is publicly funded and available to minors with flights, visa applications, lawyer fees, and fees associated with moving their pets. The move is set to cost between 65 and $80,000. Chase told NBC it's hard knowing that her family had to uproot their lives for her.
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Joe Yerkeba
She sort of reiterated that throughout the interview, is that it makes her very sad, that it sort of weighs on her heavily. Her parents mentioned that it's something that she talks about in therapy regular. So even though she's in fourth grade, it's something that she's very much aware of and it's always sort of hanging over her.
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Yasmeen Khan
Chase's mom told NBC that when she found out her dad got a job in New Zealand, Chase burst into tears of happiness. Before we let you go, a few other stories were Kilmar Abrego Garcia is back in the United States after being wrongly deported and imprisoned in El Salvador. But that doesn't mean he's free. The Trump administration is charging him with federal crimes, which he and his family deny. This week he'll have an arraignment and detention hearing. This all comes weeks after the Supreme Court said his deportation was illegal and ordered the government to facilitate his return. In an interview with NBC News, Trump downplayed his role in securing Abrego Garcia's return and said it was the Justice Department's decision and not his to bring him back to Colombia, where the man campaigning to be president was shot in the head over the weekend mid speech, Miguel uribe Turbai, a 39 year old senator for the right leaning Democratico Party, was airlifted to a hospital where he remains in serious condition. After surgery, Police arrested a 15 year old suspect at the scene. President Gustavo Petro said he categorically condemned the attack as an act of violence against democracy. It comes at a time of rising political tensions in the country as the left and right attack each other for their approach to guerrilla groups, with many fearing a return to violence seen in the 90s and 2000s. And finally, it was a dramatic finish at the French Open's men's final. Carlos Alcaraz defeated Jannik Sinner in a marathon five set final that went into a sixth hour, making it the longest final match in French open history. Here's CBS's Russ Thaler reacting to the epic match. Wow, wow, wow.
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David Huerta
From what we just saw, I think.
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Yasmeen Khan
It'S the greatest tennis match I've ever seen. It is Alcaraz's fifth Grand Slam title and his second at the French Open. And on the women's side, Coco Gauff became the first American to win the French Open since Serena Williams in 2015. You can find all these stories and more in the Apple News app. And if you're already listening in the News app right now, stick around for a narrated article. Wired has the story of how police in Colorado solved a deadly arson attack and why their tactics should have everyone concerned about the privacy of of their Google searches. If you're listening in the Podcasts app, follow Apple News plus Narrated to find that story and I'll be back with the news tomorrow.