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Today, Explained

Vox

Politics, Daily News, News

4.310.3K Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2018

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Amazon will soon announce which city will land its second headquarters along with 50,000 new jobs. There’s a lot to win and maybe just as much to lose. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:04.6

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0:12.4

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0:17.2

Squarespace.com and the offer code explained.

0:20.4

Hello.

0:21.4

No, I'm Hassan Feld.

0:24.4

You produced today's explain today.

0:25.9

You're reporting for today's explained.

0:27.5

Where are you?

0:28.5

I am standing right outside the Pentagon.

0:31.2

The Pentagon in Virginia.

0:33.2

Yeah, Northern Virginia just south of DC.

0:35.5

It's just this huge gray stone wall as far as I can see.

0:40.5

There's gonna prove glass everywhere.

0:42.2

There's security guards left and right.

0:44.4

I've passed on the highway.

0:45.4

It's like a whole city, yeah?

0:47.0

It is the biggest office building in the world.

0:49.4

Really?

0:50.4

Yeah, it's over six million square feet, I believe, which I think is bigger than something

0:55.1

like a hundred football fields.

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