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What A Day
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🗓️ 18 May 2020
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
Democrats in Congress are launching an inquiry into Trump’s firing of an inspector general at the State Department. It comes after three other inspector generals were also removed from their positions earlier this year.
GrubHub is doing great business during the pandemic as more people rely on delivery. But a recent Buzzfeed report shows that the company is also making money from transactions they’re not involved in—and it’s making it harder for restaurants to stay afloat.
And in headlines: Justin Amash won’t run for prez, NYC experiences pandemic fatigue, and Puerto Rico’s governor will hold a vote on whether the territory should try for statehood.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Monday, May 18th. I'm Achila Hughes. |
| 0:08.4 | And I'm Gideon Resnick and this is what a day where we're kind of surprised no one's |
| 0:11.8 | asked us to do a virtual commencement speech yet. |
| 0:14.6 | Yeah, like I bought a cap and gown but one of those ones that looks like a mushroom, |
| 0:18.5 | like I was a real professor a long time ago. I've been waiting for this. |
| 0:22.0 | I bought an electric. What the hell am I going to do with electric? |
| 0:30.1 | Today's show, fraud schemes are impacting the already beleaguered unemployment system, |
| 0:38.9 | then some headlines. But first, the latest. |
| 0:42.3 | More than anything, this pandemic has fully finally torn back the curtain on the idea that |
| 0:47.5 | so many of the folks in charge know what they're doing. A lot of them aren't even pretending to be |
| 0:53.2 | in charge. If the world's going to get better, it's going to be up to you. |
| 0:58.3 | Oh, that really bars, you know, like you just hit me in my soul. |
| 1:02.6 | But in case you couldn't figure that out, that was former president Barack Obama, |
| 1:06.7 | giving an online commencement speech to the class of 2020. We wish them well. |
| 1:11.1 | Sorry about the pandemic. It's all sucks. All right. Well, in other news, |
| 1:15.3 | Democrats in Congress are launching an inquiry into Trump's firing of an Inspector General |
| 1:19.5 | at the State Department. They say this fits into a recent pattern where the president appears |
| 1:23.6 | to dismiss people who might actually find something that he or his administration should not be doing. |
| 1:28.4 | Gideon, take us through what happened in this particular instance. |
| 1:32.0 | Okay, so late on Friday, President Trump tells House Speaker Nancy Pelosi that he's firing Steve |
| 1:37.2 | Linux. This is not a name that we've heard before, but Linux was in charge of the Inspector General |
| 1:42.2 | Office at the State Department, which means it's his job to monitor if there's fraud or abuse, |
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