Biden Welcomes Kenyan President For State Visit
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🗓️ 23 May 2024
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Democratic Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer announced plans on Wednesday to fast-track a vote on a bill to protect access to birth control and other contraceptives. It comes the day after former President Donald Trump suggested he would be open to new restrictions, only to backtrack hours later. Longtime Capitol Hill reporter Eugene Scott explains the strategy behind Schumer's fast vote.Kenyan President William Ruto arrived in Washington on Wednesday for a three-day state visit. The White House will host him at an official state dinner tonight, making Ruto the first African leader to have state visit since 2008. We’ll look at what that 16-year gap says about broader U.S. relations on the African continent.
And in headlines: The New York Times reports a second right-wing flag was flown at a beach house owned by Justice Samuel Alito, the families of 19 victims of the Uvalde, Texas school shooting sued the school district and nearly 100 police officers for the botched response to the attack, and British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak called for a snap general election on July 4.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Thursday, May 23rd. |
| 0:03.0 | I'm Priyanka Arabindi. |
| 0:04.0 | And I'm Juanita Tolliver, and this is what a day, the show where we're |
| 0:07.3 | unsurprised by Nicky Haley's non-existent backbone. |
| 0:10.9 | After blasting Donald Trump on the campaign trail for months, |
| 0:14.0 | especially after he questioned her husband's military service, Haley announced that |
| 0:18.2 | she will in fact be voting for the former president. Call it a lack of moral |
| 0:22.2 | scruples. |
| 0:23.5 | That backbone's been on the run for quite some time. |
| 0:27.6 | On today's show, U.S. Supreme Court, Justice Samuel Alito is outed by his neighbors for flying right-wing flags outside his home for the second time. |
| 0:40.0 | Plus, several countries have come together to recognize a |
| 0:43.9 | Palestinian state. But first on Wednesday Democratic Senate |
| 0:47.2 | majority leader Chuck Schumer announced plans to fast track a Senate vote on a |
| 0:51.1 | bill that would protect access to birth control and other |
| 0:53.8 | contraceptives around the country. Yesterday we told you how former |
| 0:57.1 | president and current candidate Donald Trump flip-flopped on this very same issue |
| 1:00.9 | first telling a Pittsburgh TV station that he was |
| 1:03.5 | considering a quote interesting policy on contraceptive access and then taking to |
| 1:08.4 | truth social later in the day to deny that he would ever do such a thing. |
| 1:12.4 | As we know, GOP policies to impose deny that he would ever do such a thing. |
| 1:13.2 | As we know, GOP policies to impose restrictions |
| 1:15.4 | on reproductive rights have been incredibly unpopular. |
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