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🗓️ 11 August 2020
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
Five states hold primaries today, including Minnesota, where Rep. Ilhan Omar is running to keep her seat in Congress. The elections come a week after another progressive, Cori Bush, won a major upset in her race against a longterm incumbent in Missouri. We speak to Bush about her path to politics and check in on Justice Democrats, the political group that backed Bush, Omar, and a handful of other progressive Democrats since 2017. Read our full interview with Cori Bush at crooked.com/articles/cori-bush-democratic-party/
Lebanon Prime Minister Hassan Diab announced his resignation yesterday, following mass protests after the chemical explosion in Beirut. Protests continue in the country with demonstrators demanding that other top leaders resign as well. Donate: ImpactLebanon.org
And in headlines: protests in Chicago and Belarus, a big loss for Uber and Lyft, and Nikki Haley tries to cancel popcorn.
To read more of Gideon's reporting on primary races, check out: https://crooked.com/articles/kentucky-underdog-booker/
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| 0:00.0 | It's Tuesday, August 11th. I'm Achila Hughes. |
| 0:09.0 | And I'm Gideon Resnick and this is what a day where we haven't lost hope that we'll |
| 0:12.2 | get picked as VP. |
| 0:13.2 | Yeah, I mean, I'm a black woman, but you know, they're not going to just have one. |
| 0:17.1 | So maybe a black woman and a white man will get us there. |
| 0:21.0 | Yeah, you know, the takes will be nuclear. |
| 0:23.6 | That's all I can say. |
| 0:26.1 | They don't like it. |
| 0:29.0 | On today's show, an interview with Corey Bush, the latest Democrat to beat a long-term incumbent |
| 0:41.4 | and then some headlines. |
| 0:43.1 | But first, the latest Lebanon's Prime Minister Hassan Diab announced his resignation yesterday, |
| 0:47.9 | following mass protests over the chemical explosion in Beirut, which has killed more than |
| 0:52.0 | 160 people, injured 6,000 and left roughly 250,000 people homeless. |
| 0:57.8 | In a speech, Diab blamed Lebanon's ruling elite class saying that a level of corruption |
| 1:02.2 | quote, bigger than the state precipitated the events and quote, only God knows how many |
| 1:07.0 | catastrophes they're hiding. |
| 1:09.4 | This resignation is monumental not only because of the speed with which it happened, the |
| 1:13.6 | deadly explosion happened less than a week prior, but also in the middle of the pandemic |
| 1:17.7 | and continued economic collapse that began well before the COVID-19 crisis. |
| 1:22.5 | That's right. |
| 1:23.5 | So there's a really great opinion piece in the New York Times that was eerily published |
| 1:26.7 | the day before the explosion took place. |
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