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🗓️ 6 December 2024
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0:00.0 | Did you know over 1.6 million kids use e-cigarettes? Nearly 90% use flavored products, almost all of which are illegal. |
0:07.8 | That's right. Thousands of e-legal, kid-friendly vapes are available in stores right now. |
0:12.7 | They're hooking kids with fun flavors, more nicotine than ever, and even built-in video games. |
0:17.5 | Some vapes have as much nicotine as 20 packs of cigarettes. The FDA and other agencies |
0:22.4 | must protect kids by removing illegal products from stores and stopping them from pouring into |
0:27.3 | our country. To learn more, visit www.tobaccofreekids.org. Generational change. It's been a hot topic for Democrats. since Joe Biden announced he'd run for a second term. |
0:42.7 | But after Vice President Kamala Harris's November defeat, the winds of generational change |
0:47.5 | have really started blowing, and they're whipping up a big old storm on Capitol Hill. |
0:51.9 | Basically, rank-and-file Democrats have been pushing aside aging |
0:55.2 | heavyweights like Jerry Nadler and Rahul Grahavov, the top dims on the judiciary and natural |
1:01.2 | resources committees respectively. Basically, they think some younger blood is needed to oppose Trump. |
1:06.8 | It doesn't mean that experience ceases to be relevant or that seniority ceases to be a consideration. |
1:13.6 | I think those will always be important considerations. |
1:16.6 | But, you know, there are moments where the torch should be passed, and I think we're seeing that happen in some places where it should. |
1:23.6 | So for this week's show, I caught up with one of the key insurgents who's |
1:28.1 | driving this generational change among congressional Democrats, Representative Jared Huffman. |
1:33.4 | Huffman just won re-election for his seventh term, where he represents a chunk of California's |
1:38.8 | coast that runs from the end of the Golden Gate Bridge all the way up to the Oregon border. |
1:43.8 | That's the long way of saying that he's got a lot of beaches, |
1:46.9 | seals, and mountains to worry about |
1:48.9 | if he succeeds in winning the top spot |
1:50.9 | at the Natural Resources Committee. |
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