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The Gist

Boeing, Get Off My Plane!

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

Daily News, News

4.53.7K Ratings

🗓️ 7 December 2016

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

On Tuesday, President-elect Donald Trump decried the cost of a very important plane, tweeting, "Boeing is building a brand new 747 Air Force One for future presidents, but costs are out of control, more than $4 billion. Cancel order!" Boeing then disputed Mr. Trump's numbers, saying their contract was worth only $170 million. Turns out, unlike other Twitter rants, Trump was kind of right this time. But on The Gist, analyst Todd Harrison warns that lowering the cost of Air Force One might involve some compromises, like outsourcing the contract to a foreign company. Harrison is a director at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.  For the Spiel, Mike works his sources to get you the latest on Canadian birds. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:23.3

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0:25.3

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0:29.9

The following podcast contains explicit language.

0:33.9

This Wednesday, December 7, 2016, from slated to the gist I might pesca, diversity.

0:44.0

I like it.

0:45.0

I like a cabinet that looks like America police force that looks like the community

0:48.8

of police is an undergraduate population that more or less reflects the world at large.

0:53.2

And I'll believe in strict quotas.

0:55.6

I know that we can't always achieve the ideal for all institutions.

1:00.6

And I see the limits of believing that the only definition of diversity is racial diversity,

1:05.2

where that diversity will solve all the ills of exclusion.

1:08.7

So there's my bonafides.

1:10.7

I'm pro-diversity.

1:11.7

I think it's good thing.

1:14.0

When I worked at NPR, we'd frequently get criticized for lack of diversity yet.

1:18.4

When you took into account the fact that most of the reputorial positions required college

1:22.1

degrees, we were more diverse than the population at large.

1:25.4

We used papers embrace diversity, but they probably could do with hiring more Mormons

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