Still no deal in Washington, but the Louvre opens doors after heist

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00:00Three weeks in and still no deal.

00:03President Trump digs in, Democrats double down as the shutdown drags on.

00:08Plus, Trump wants payback, literally.

00:10Why he's demanding more than $200 million from the Justice Department.

00:14And the Louvre is open this morning, but the jewels still missing.

00:18The hunt is on for the thieves behind the heist that shook Paris.

00:24The stories that matter, clear and credible,

00:27from across the country to around the world.

00:30These are your unbiased updates from Straight Arrow News.

00:36Hello everyone, I'm Kaylee Carey in today for Craig Negrelli.

00:40This morning, the government shutdown hits three weeks with still no end in sight.

00:44Top Republican leaders met with President Trump over lunch at the White House Tuesday

00:48and came out united in their decision to stand firm.

00:52Trump told GOP senators not to back down,

00:54insisting Republicans will not be extorted by Democrats

00:58who want health care concessions before reopening the government.

01:01The Senate has now failed 11 times to pass a short-term bill

01:05that would keep the government open through November 1st.

01:08We will not be extorted on this crazy plot of theirs.

01:13They've never done this before.

01:15Nobody has.

01:16You always vote for an extension.

01:17Democrats are pushing back,

01:19urging the president to get personally involved as a critical deadline approaches.

01:23If Congress doesn't act by October 31st,

01:26millions of Americans will see higher premiums

01:29when open enrollment begins November 1st.

01:32The decisions made or not in the next 10 days

01:35will determine whether working families

01:37can afford their health care next year.

01:40And Americans are desperately looking to Republicans,

01:42the party and the majority, to do something about it.

01:45Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries

01:48say they've asked to meet with Trump,

01:50but the president told reporters he won't sit down with Democrats

01:53until the government reopens.

01:56Now to the tenuous ceasefire in Gaza.

01:59Israel's military says Hamas returned the remains

02:01of two more hostages late Tuesday.

02:04It's another step toward honoring the ceasefire deal,

02:06which requires Hamas to return all remaining hostages,

02:10both living and dead.

02:11And while that process has been fraught,

02:13Vice President J.D. Vance says the truce

02:15is actually going better than he expected.

02:17He's in Israel this week with Special Invoice Steve Witkoff

02:21and President Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner,

02:23the architects of President Trump's peace plan.

02:26The trip is aimed at keeping the deal on track

02:28and preparing for Phase 2,

02:30which focuses on reconstruction and security in Gaza.

02:34Look, I think that we are one week into

02:37President Trump's historic peace plan in the Middle East,

02:40and things are going, frankly, better than I expected that they were.

02:44This is a very, very tough situation.

02:46You have two peoples, two enemies,

02:48who have fought a very tough conflict against each other.

02:51You have a terrorist organization on one hand

02:52that murdered a lot of innocent people.

02:55You've got an Israeli army that was defending itself on the other,

02:58that has learned a lot over the past couple of years.

03:00And, of course, you have an innocent civilian population in Gaza

03:02that's caught in the middle.

03:04Vance also announced the opening of a new

03:06civil-military coordination center in southern Israel.

03:10Run by U.S. Central Command,

03:11it's designed to be the main hub for Gaza stabilization and aid.

03:15The vice president is expected to remain in Israel through Thursday.

03:19This morning, new questions about just how far President Trump

03:22is willing to go to turn the tables on his former prosecutors.

03:26The New York Times was first to report that the president

03:29is demanding about $230 million

03:31in compensation from the Justice Department,

03:34money he claims he's owed for what he calls

03:36years of unfair investigations into him.

03:39The claims filed before he returned to the White House

03:42cover both the Russia investigation and the Mar-a-Lago document case.

03:47But now, the same department that once investigated him

03:50is run by his own appointees,

03:52including Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche,

03:54his former defense lawyer,

03:56one of the officials who may have to sign off on any settlement.

04:00Legal experts tell the Times the ethical conflict is, quote,

04:03bizarre and almost too outlandish to believe.

04:06I don't know what the numbers are.

04:08I don't even talk to them about it.

04:09All I know is that they would owe me a lot of money,

04:12but I'm not looking for money.

04:14I'd give it to charity or something.

04:15I would give it to charity.

04:16With the country, it's interesting,

04:18because I'm the one that makes a decision, right?

04:20And, you know, that decision would have to go across my desk.

04:24And it's awfully strange to make a decision

04:26where I'm paying myself.

04:27In other words, did you ever have one of those cases

04:29where you have to decide how much you're paying yourself in damages?

04:33But I was damaged very greatly.

04:35And any money that I would get, I would give to charity.

04:38The Times says about $230 million in taxpayer money could be at stake

04:43if the president's own Justice Department agrees that he deserves it.

04:47A Trump nominee is out this morning pulling his name from consideration

04:51after a damaging political report on racist text.

04:55Paul Ingracia, the president's pick to lead the government's corruption-fighting office

05:00of special counsel has withdrawn his nomination.

05:03In a post on X, Ingracia wrote that he doesn't have enough Republican votes at this time,

05:08saying he'll continue working to make America great again.

05:11Four Republican senators, including Majority Leader John Thune,

05:14publicly opposed his nomination, enough to sink it if all Democrats voted no.

05:19Politico reports the messages included racial slurs about black holidays

05:23and remarks about having a, quote, Nazi streak.

05:26Ingracia's lawyer told Politico the text may have been altered or taken out of context.

05:32He's still serving as a White House liaison to the Department of Homeland Security.

05:37An earthquake in the media world to tell you about.

05:40Warner Brothers Discovery, the parent company of CNN and HBO, says it's open to a sale.

05:46The move comes after the company announced plans to split in two,

05:49one side for entertainment and streaming, the other for news and sports.

05:52But now, as the New York Times first reported, bidders are already lining up.

05:57Among them, David Ellison, who just took control of Paramount

06:00and recently spent $150 million buying Barry Weiss's free press

06:04and made her editor-in-chief of CBS News.

06:08If that deal goes through, it would put CNN and CBS under the same roof,

06:13two of America's legacy news brands in one empire.

06:16Warner Brothers Discovery CEO says the company is reviewing alternatives

06:20after getting unsolicited offers.

06:22Other potential suitors include Netflix and Comcast, according to CNBC.

06:27For CNN, it's the latest turn in a long string of ownership changes

06:31and an uncertain question.

06:33Who owns the future of that news organization?

06:36The Louvre is open again this morning, but its most prized treasures are still missing.

06:42Police say the jewels stolen in that Hollywood-style heist are worth,

06:45get this, more than $102 million.

06:47That's not including their historic value to France.

06:51Investigators say the thieves used a basket lift to scale the museum's facade,

06:56cut through a window, and smash their way into the Apollo Gallery,

07:00all in under eight minutes.

07:01Eight imperial pieces were taken, including a sapphire tiara,

07:05emerald necklace, and a corsage brooch belonging to Empress Eugenie,

07:09the wife of Napoleon III.

07:11France's cultural minister called it a wound for the nation,

07:14saying the Louvre is more than a museum, it's the soul of French culture.

07:18Still, the museum reopened this morning, crowds back under that glass pyramid,

07:23a symbol, perhaps, that even in the face of theft,

07:26the lights of Paris don't go out for long.

07:29And finally this morning, a little magic from the Oregon Zoo.

07:33It's the zoo's annual squishing of the squash,

07:35where elephants turn into pumpkin-smashing machines.

07:38They get giant gourds, some weighing hundreds of pounds,

07:41donated by local growers who specialize in monster vegetables.

07:45But the crowd favorite, baby Tula 2.

07:47At just eight months old, she weighs about as much as one of the pumpkins,

07:51too small to smash it, but not too small to steal the show.

07:54Instead of stomping, she started dribbling her mini pumpkin like a soccer star,

07:59proving Halloween fun comes in all sizes.

08:02Before we head out, here's what we're tracking today.

08:04In Illinois, opening statements begin in the murder trial of Deputy Sean Grayson,

08:09accused of shooting Sonia Massey, an unarmed woman who called 911, for help.

08:14In Chicago, a federal judge holds a hearing on whether to keep blocking the deployment

08:18of National Guard troops to the area.

08:21At two, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals takes up a similar case over guard deployments in Los Angeles.

08:26And at four, NATO Secretary General Mark Ruda will be at the White House today

08:30for a meeting with President Trump.

08:32And check out more of our stories on the app, where unbiased isn't a tagline, it's certified.

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08:43Facts first, without the spin.

08:45Those are your unbiased updates for this Wednesday.

08:48Craig will be back tomorrow.

08:50For all of us here at Straight Arrow News, I'm Kaylee Carey.

08:52Have a great day.

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