While the White House has condemned anti-Muslim rhetoric as divisive, the administration is also worried such talk will hurt antiterrorism efforts.
Audie CornishDonald Trump and his team have not provided any evidence of widespread fraud in this year's election.
Audie CornishThere's evidence that one of the Paris attackers may have entered Europe posing as a refugee.
Audie CornishI think it's a big disservice to our country and to our democracy to continue to raise these doubts.
Audie CornishIf anything, a message back to [Donald] Trump is, if you have proof, if you have evidence, please bring it forward. Procedures are in place to investigate any real voter fraud.
Audie CornishDonald Trump's presidential campaign has been getting a lot of questions about his wife .
Audie CornishIf you see something, say something. This is more than a slogan. If you see someone turning toward violence, say something. Say something to law enforcement or to one of you in your community.
Audie CornishWhen anybody and everybody registers to vote, they do so under the penalty of perjury. They're signing a contract that they are 18 years of age or older and they're citizens of the United States.
Audie CornishNew Year's Day probably is not going to work. And one of the main reasons it's not going to work is that the Rose Bowl is on New Year's Day, and it's not moving.
Audie CornishDonald Trump has been rejecting the idea of trade agreements like NAFTA, like the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
Audie CornishWe've - we heard a lot from state secretaries of state and other elections officials from all states in the nation, both Democrat and Republican. Before Election Day, we heard for weeks concern about the election being rigged or the election being hacked.
Audie Cornish[people] very fact that it's decentralized makes it literally impossible to try to hack or rig the results.
Audie CornishWhen anybody and everybody registers to vote, they do so under the penalty of perjury.
Audie CornishReports by Politico, Bloomberg and other news outlets have raised inconsistencies in Melania Trump's immigration story.
Audie CornishWe'll review President Obama's plan [on closing Guantanamo], but since it includes bringing dangerous terrorists to facilities in U.S. communities, he should know that the bipartisan will of Congress has already been expressed against that proposal.
Audie CornishThere are still many questions about how law enforcement responded to the shooting at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando.To get some answers, media organizations, including NPR, have asked for tapes of the 911 calls and other recordings. So far, authorities have not released that audio, only edited transcripts. Doing more, they say, would re-victimize the survivors.
Audie CornishSo when a music artist puts an album out that can only be streamed, not downloaded, what happens? In Kanye West's case, apparently it gets pirated a lot.
Audie CornishKeeping this facility [Guantanamo prison] open is contrary to our values. It undermines our standing in the world. It is viewed as a stain on our broader record of upholding the highest standards of rule of law.
Audie CornishAn herbal medicine made from a plant native to Asia is about to be banned in the U.S. It's known as either kratom or kratom, and forms of it are sold in shops and on the internet. In the next few weeks, kratom is set to be classified as a Schedule I drug. That puts it in the same category with marijuana and heroin.
Audie CornishAnother big promise Donald Trump made during the campaign - cutting taxes. But there's some confusion over how much he wants to cut.
Audie CornishThe Internet kept the joke going. Abevigoda.com was devoted to updating the actor's status, as was @AbeVigodaUpdate, a Twitter account.
Audie CornishA People Magazine article in 1982 referred to him as the late Abe Vigoda. The very-much-alive Vigoda placed an ad in Variety with him in a coffin holding a copy of People Magazine.
Audie CornishAs the evidence has shown, the cases of voter fraud across the country are statistically minimal if you go back decades.
Audie CornishDonald Trump singled out three particular states where he claimed there was, quote, "serious voter fraud" - Virginia, New Hampshire and California. Trump lost all three of those states.
Audie CornishAnd I'm hoping that between now and two years from now and four years from now and future election cycles, people have gotten past the hype and the hysteria of these most recent allegations.
Audie CornishGames were moved to New Year's Eve as part of a plan by college football executives where they want to create a tradition of watching football on New Year's Eve.
Audie CornishAll of us in a bipartisan manner went out of our way to explain to the voters how our election systems are secure, the fact that voting systems are not connected to the Internet - not the machines that we use to mark ballots, not the machines that we use to count ballots, the fact that our election counting procedures are very transparent.
Audie Cornish[People] will be reminded of the integrity of our election systems and the confidence that they deserve to have.
Audie CornishLet's remind ourselves that offering an opportunity for somebody to register to vote at the Department of Motor Vehicles has been required by federal law for decades now. We know it as motor voter. So whether it's motor voter and people registering on paper or online voter registration, we have the protocols in place to keep people who are not eligible to register to vote from registering, whether it's for citizenship status, whether it's for age or any other reason.
Audie CornishAnybody from the public can come in and observe ballots being processed and those votes being counted in elections officials' offices in any county in any state in the nation.
Audie CornishHillary Clinton made history becoming the first woman to win a major party nomination for president. She's done so even as many Americans say they don't trust her. Her close friends and family say there's a disconnect between the Hillary Clinton that they know and the one the rest of American knows.
Audie CornishObviously this prison has been controversial ever since the first detainees arrived in Guantanamo more than 14 years ago.
Audie CornishClosing the prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, is a promise President [Barack] Obama made it but has yet to fulfill.
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