Biden Visits Hawaii After Deadly Fire
The NPR Politics Podcast
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4.4 • 25.7K Ratings
🗓️ 21 August 2023
⏱️ 15 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Angie from Indianapolis. I'm at Howard University in Washington DC today, dropping my daughter off for her freshman year of college. |
| 0:10.0 | This podcast was recorded at... |
| 0:13.0 | 108 PM Eastern Time on Monday, August 21st. |
| 0:17.0 | Things may have changed by the time you hear this, but my daughter will still be a Howard Bison, and I will still be missing her terribly. Here's the show. |
| 0:26.0 | I put my kindergartener on the bus today for the first time. |
| 0:32.0 | Was that hard? |
| 0:34.0 | My baby. |
| 0:35.0 | Sad or no? |
| 0:36.0 | I did not cry. |
| 0:37.0 | It's not that I wasn't sad. |
| 0:39.0 | It's that I held it together. Thank you very much. |
| 0:43.0 | All right. Well, hey there. It's the NPR Politics Podcast. |
| 0:46.0 | I'm Asma Khalid. I cover the White House. |
| 0:48.0 | I'm Tamara Keith. I also cover the White House. |
| 0:50.0 | And I'm Dominican Montenegro, a senior political editor and correspondent. |
| 0:53.0 | And today on the show, we're going to talk about the devastation in Maui and the president's role as Consolar in Chief. |
| 1:00.0 | President Biden is headed to Hawaii today, as the state reels from one of the deadliest wildfires in recent U.S. history. |
| 1:08.0 | More than 100 are dead. Thousands are displaced. |
| 1:12.0 | The beach town of Lahaina was almost totally destroyed. |
| 1:16.0 | Here's Hawaii's first lady, Jamie Kanani green. |
| 1:19.0 | More than 200 years ago, King Kamehameha first unified our islands and made Lahaina the capital of the Hawaiian Kingdom. |
| 1:27.0 | Over two centuries with their aloha, their dedication and their hard work, the people of Lahaina built their town into a special place. |
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