1: ITALY: WATCHING LA TURMOIL; VENICE PROTESTING BEZOS WEDDING. LORENZO FIORI
The John Batchelor Show
John Batchelor
4.5 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 14 June 2025
⏱️ 9 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is CBS. I am the world. I'm John Batchel. I welcome my colleague Lorenzo Fiore. He's in Milan, |
| 0:12.2 | helping me understand, first of all, what it is to become an Italian without actually becoming an Italian, |
| 0:19.4 | to visit the country, and to enjoy the the country and to follow the rules about being a long-time resident, being a citizen. |
| 0:28.4 | But we begin with the story of headlines in Italy. |
| 0:33.1 | Lorenzo, Los Angeles has dominated the story here in America for more than a week now. |
| 0:39.4 | The turmoil, the disruption, the charges, the legal fight. |
| 0:44.2 | Has it been a big story in Italy? |
| 0:46.6 | And how has it presented on the television and the newspapers? |
| 0:50.4 | Good evening to you. |
| 0:52.0 | Good evening. |
| 0:52.9 | Good evening. |
| 0:53.5 | To the radio listener. |
| 0:55.0 | Even in Italy, that was one of the headlines until yesterday, I would say, after the |
| 1:01.3 | Israeli attack Iran. |
| 1:03.2 | The L.A. riots were commented on any media and the TV as one of the priority news. |
| 1:13.0 | And it was presented like something very, very scary in terms of democracy and freedom |
| 1:20.9 | that are somehow undermined by the Trump administration. |
| 1:26.2 | There were also a lot of question to the foreign minister |
| 1:29.2 | regarding Italian that have been arrested and may be brought to Guantanamo basis. And Mr. |
| 1:36.3 | Tajani said, no, no, no, no problem. I have already informed the U.S. authority that if there |
| 1:41.3 | is any legal Italian citizen that |
| 1:44.6 | has been arrested, there is no problem |
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