meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Log in
Start Here

Homecoming Dance: Will Texas Dems Return?

Start Here

ABC News

Politics, Daily News, News

4.56.4K Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

With a 30-day emergency session winding down, Democratic state legislators in Texas consider returning to Texas. President Trump hears out Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy ahead of a Russia summit. And glacier melt threatens to flood Juneau, Alaska for a third straight year. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0

This show is supported by Dell, introducing the new Dell PC powered by the Intel Core Ultra processor.

0:06.2

It's not just an AI computer, it's a computer built for AI.

0:09.8

That means it's built to help do your busy work for you, so you can fast forward through editing images, designing presentations, generating code, debugging code, running lots of apps without lag, creating live translations and captions,

0:22.0

summarizing meeting notes, extending battery life, enhancing security, finding that file you

0:26.5

were looking for, managing your schedule, meeting your deadlines, and responding to long

0:31.4

emails. Leaving all the time in the world for more you time and for the things you actually want to do.

0:37.3

Get a new Dell PC at Dell.com slash AI-PC.

0:41.3

That's Dell.com slash AI-PC.

0:44.5

How those ahead. Stay ahead.

0:50.0

It's Thursday, August 14th, and voters aren't in it for the moral victories.

0:55.0

We start here.

0:58.0

Texas Democrats prepare to return to their home state.

1:01.0

We need people to understand what is taking place and what type of power grab this is.

1:07.0

But can you declare victory if you're still going to lose the vote? President Trump

1:11.9

prepares his pitch. The goal is to end the war to get some sort of an agreement to broker a

1:17.0

ceasefire. But Vladimir Zelensky and other allies had some suggestions before he meets

1:21.7

Vladimir Putin. And glaciers move slowly until they're dumping water into your town.

1:26.9

This isn't just like flash flooding that we always see.

1:29.8

Alaska's capital faces flooding caused not by storms, but by heat.

1:36.3

From ABC News, this is Start Here.

1:39.3

I'm Brad Milkey.

1:51.5

Multiple times this week, the Texas House of Representatives has gaveled in the session in Austin as part of a special session to consider new congressional district maps.

...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from ABC News, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of ABC News and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.

Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.