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Your weekly deep breath of news.
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Yemen: An escalation that could have worldwide implications - and why the U.S. Navy is getting more involved.
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Mask mandates in the air and Philadelphia.
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Afghanistan update - 1 year ago, Pres. Biden announced America's intent.
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Plus - your questions live - Elon Musk, & Shanghai
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| 0:00.0 | Hello from the Heartland. 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. |
| 0:17.6 | It is high noon, central time in Texas. |
| 0:21.4 | I always feel that when we hit this mark, I should be ready for some sort of showdown at a corral or something like that. |
| 0:28.0 | I'm still getting used to Texas life. |
| 0:29.7 | Thank you very much to Texas for welcoming me and welcoming smarter news. |
| 0:33.1 | I think it's really important that we're based here in Texas when I started smarter news. |
| 0:37.1 | There was that term that was floating around, you know, in the lead up to the 2016 election |
| 0:42.8 | and after that about flyover country, which I laugh about now, because what is flyover country? |
| 0:49.7 | Flyover country is actually the majority of the United States of America. |
| 0:55.7 | There's a lot more states in between the coast than just the two coast. |
| 0:58.5 | And I say this as someone born on a coast that spent most of her time on the coast, both |
| 1:03.6 | east and west. |
| 1:04.3 | And I think that really impacts our media perspective in America because so many media companies |
| 1:09.9 | are only based in New York City |
| 1:13.5 | or Washington, D.C. and that provides a certain perspective of the country. So I think it's really |
| 1:17.8 | important that we're based here in Texas. And like I said, I'm very grateful for Texas for welcoming |
| 1:22.3 | smart news as well. Thank you very much for that. We have a great debrief ready to go for you guys |
| 1:27.2 | today. Did you ever read those choose your own have a great debrief ready to go for you guys today. |
| 1:32.0 | Did you ever read those choose your own adventure books when you were a kid? I love these. |
| 1:36.7 | These were where you were able to get through a chapter and then you would have two or three different choices and depending on what choice you made, then you would go on a different sort |
| 1:41.6 | of plot line in the book. And you could have any number of different |
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