Debrief: A "Tragedy" At Ellis Island
SmartHERNews
Jenna Lee
4.9 • 660 Ratings
🗓️ 21 April 2022
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
A past "adventure" with SmartHER News illuminates this week's top stories including historic news from the Southern Border, masking (or not), and Shanghai's curious COVID numbers.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello from the Heartland. |
| 0:04.0 | My name is Jenna, and this is Smarter News, news when it matters and why it matters. |
| 0:10.3 | Our Smarter series features unique people who help us think and live smarter. |
| 0:20.2 | Good morning. Welcome to our weekly debrief. This is our weekly deep breath when it comes to the news, |
| 0:26.2 | especially during this rapid fire news cycle, where we really aim to be quick, concise and nonpartisan, |
| 0:31.0 | always nonpartisan, sometimes not as quick as I would like. But we try that on a weekly basis. |
| 0:36.1 | This is when we actually get the moment to sit with the news |
| 0:41.1 | a little bit. We take a longer period of time to work through some of our big stories. And I found |
| 0:46.5 | myself transported as I was looking through the stories of this week to a reporting experience I |
| 0:52.9 | had on Ellis Island a couple years ago. And I actually want to |
| 0:57.5 | start with telling you a little bit about that story because it's tragic in a few different |
| 1:02.3 | ways. It was great, very educational, but also tragic, especially at the beginning of |
| 1:08.5 | smarter news as I was really launching into this stage as an entrepreneur. I had my two little kids with me at the beginning of Smarter News as I was really launching into this stage as an entrepreneur. |
| 1:13.1 | I had my two little kids with me at the time. |
| 1:15.4 | I believe my son was three and my daughter's, my daughter was two. |
| 1:19.2 | And we were traveling in New York City. |
| 1:20.5 | It was back in New York City for the very first time since I had left, sort of suddenly. |
| 1:25.8 | You know, this idea that I was going to leave my job as a |
| 1:29.2 | national news anchor and fling myself into entrepreneurship was not something that I had in my |
| 1:36.2 | mind's eye, but it's what happened. It was very rapid when it ended up taking place when that |
| 1:41.8 | decision came into effect. And so we were back in New York City for the very first time. And I had this contact on Alice Island. There's a historian there. His name is Barry Moreno. Some of you will remember my interview with him. I've talked to him repeatedly over the years. But I thought this is going to be great. I'm going to bring my children with me. We're going to see the Statue of Liberty. My little girl is named Liberty, |
| 2:04.8 | in part because of the Statue of Liberty. And I'm going to stay back on Ellis Island and do this |
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