Expenses claims: Trump’s hush-money trial
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The Economist
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🗓️ 15 May 2024
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Michael Cohen has been testifying in Donald Trump’s hush-money trial. Did the former president’s fixer provide what the prosecution had hoped for? The Middle East has a militia problem. Many of the region’s governments are too weak to keep them down; others simply let them in (10:36). And investigating whether there is more or less sex on the silver screen these days (19:06).
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| 0:37.0 | Hello and welcome to the Intelligence from The Economist. I'm your host |
| 0:46.2 | Jason Palmer. Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events |
| 0:50.6 | shaping your world. The Middle East has something of a militia problem. |
| 1:00.0 | More than a quarter of the region's people live in countries whose governments are too |
| 1:04.6 | weak to rein in armed groups, and in many cases end up in symbiotic relationships with them. |
| 1:12.4 | And here's one that the makers, critics, and view them. |
| 1:12.5 | And here's one that the makers, critics, and viewers of films have been debating recently. |
| 1:17.7 | Just how much sex there is on screen these days. |
| 1:20.5 | Is it saucier than it used to be? |
| 1:22.4 | More buttoned up? When you look at the data, the answer is nakedly obvious. |
| 1:27.0 | First up, though, though. |
| 1:35.0 | The first up though. |
| 1:37.0 | All over the world they're watching this trial and they're seeing what a disgrace |
| 1:46.2 | this is and a big disgrace for New York. |
| 1:51.1 | For a month former President Donald Trump has been in and out of a New York courtroom |
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