Consider This: Make Sense Of The Day

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🗓️ 12 July 2020

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Every weekday afternoon, Kelly McEvers and the hosts of NPR's All Things Considered — Ailsa Chang, Audie Cornish, Mary Louise Kelly and Ari Shapiro — help you consider the major stories of the day in less than 15 minutes, featuring the reporting and storytelling resources of NPR.

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0:00.0	Right now, there is a lot going on.
0:04.0	The dangerous and growing surge of new coronavirus cases across 40 states.
0:09.0	A pandemic that is not going away.
0:12.0	Can we turn this around? Can we turn these numbers around?
0:16.0	I believe the answer is yes, but we have to do things differently than what we've been doing.
0:20.0	A reckoning.
0:23.0	With racial justice.
0:26.0	Okay, so you have this kindling and George Floyd's and Breonna Taylor's killings were just like the matches here?
0:34.0	Yeah, and this kindling is essentially the baseline.
0:38.0	Oh, and a presidential election.
0:41.0	Five months from now, we're going to defeat Sleepy Joe Biden.
0:46.0	Where it's looking like the old rules no longer apply.
0:50.0	Is there a cost to playing his game of name, calling, and petty insults?
0:54.0	Well, I mean, there's been a big cost to the United States and to this country with the way he's conducted himself and he's dividing us on his way out the door.
1:03.0	With everything that's happening, it's not enough to just read the headlines.
1:07.0	You need to let them sink in.
1:09.0	So follow or subscribe to Consider This, where we will give you the biggest stories of the day and help you make sense of them too.
1:16.0	Every week, day after, noon, from NPR.
1:24.0	You

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