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The Gist

Kevin Williamson Dies by the Sword

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

Daily News, News

4.53.7K Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2018

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

On today's Gist, London's enviable crime wave. Plus, what will we think of the Obama presidency in 50 years? Julian Zelizer set out to get really smart people to "take a first cut" at the Obama legacy on an array of issues. One person from his brain trust is Peniel Joseph, who surveys the Obama administration's work on criminal justice. Their book is The Presidency of Barack Obama: A First Historical Assessment. In the Spiel, why Mike rejects both tribes' arguments on the Atlantic's firing of conservative writer Kevin Williamson. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

The Following Show has a lot of explicit content, I'm sure you'll like it because of that.

0:09.2

Thursday April 5th, 2018 from sleep, it's the G��dheimeyk Peska.

0:13.3

There's a crime wave in London, an unprecedented death toll.

0:17.8

They have already surpassed the Halfway mark

0:20.6

to last year's murder toll, and even in England, it's just only April.

0:25.1

Headline Spectator, why London's soaring murder rate

0:28.2

is everyone's problem.

0:29.6

Washington Post covered it this way.

0:31.3

London struggles to fight crime spike murder soar in 2018,

0:36.4

and I'll read from the tabloid, the sun.

0:38.5

Two fatal shootings in an hour, the latest killings

0:40.9

in a rising tide of violence sweeping the Capitol,

0:43.6

but just how common is gun crime in London?

0:46.0

And what are the latest statistics?

0:47.8

Here's everything we know about the worrying epidemic.

0:52.0

All right, you ready for the stats about these fatal shootings?

0:55.2

So far this year, they've had seven.

0:58.1

Seven fatal shootings this year on a pace for about 20,

1:01.3

maybe 21 in a city of 8.7 million.

1:05.3

That's about the same.

1:06.3

Actually, that's a little more than the state of Virginia,

1:09.2

and by way of comparison, Virginia last year,

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