3 PM ET: Diplomats meet about Mideast tensions, Trump’s team takes on Walz, abortion rates rise & more

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🗓️ 7 August 2024

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We’ll tell you what leaders from Islamic countries are hoping to achieve at an emergency meeting in Saudi Arabia. Former President Donald Trump’s campaign didn’t hesitate to take on Vice President Kamala Harris’s new running mate. Tropical Storm Debby is on the move, dumping rain in its wake. Monthly abortion rates are continuing to rise. Plus, the impact of the slowing economy has reached the “place where dreams come true.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:35.8	Wednesday August 7th. Diplomats from Islamic countries are huddling in Jeddah
0:41.2	Saudi Arabia for an emergency meeting to discuss the rising tensions in the Middle East.
0:46.0	Iran says it's determined to punish Israel in response to the killing of Hamas political leader Ismael Hania in Tehran, but it remains unclear how and when Iran will launch an attack.
0:57.0	CNN's Clorice Award explains what the diplomats in Jeddah are trying to achieve.
1:02.0	Potentially, there is a little bit of wiggle room.
1:04.8	There is space for diplomats to do what they are so furiously trying to do right now,
1:09.9	which is to avert a retaliation.
1:12.3	Right now in Jeddah Saudi Arabia and crucially
1:15.4	we've just learned that there was a phone call between French President
1:18.8	Emmanuel Macron and a new president of Iran, Masu Pezhkien, in which Pheshkin basically said,
1:25.0	you know, if the US and the West wants to stop an attack or wants to decrease instability in the region, then they need to push for a ceasefire in
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