Mitt Romney retires.
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Isaac Saul
4.8 • 672 Ratings
🗓️ 19 September 2023
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT). Last week, Romney announced he would not seek re-election in 2024, opting to retire after one term. Romney resisted pleas from colleagues like Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (KY) to stay in the Senate, citing his age and a changing party as reasons for his decision.
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| 1:00.5 | I'm your host, Isaac Salland on today's episode, we're going to be talking about Senator Mitt Romney, the Republican from Utah, who just announced that he will be retiring after his term ends. We're going to talk |
| 1:12.9 | about some of the reactions from the right and the left to that retirement and what I think about it. |
| 1:18.6 | Before you jump in, though, as always, we're going to kick things off with some quick hits. |
| 1:38.5 | First up, Iran freed five wrongfully detained Americans in exchange for clemency for five Iranians who had been convicted of nonviolent crimes. |
| 1:45.1 | The U.S. is also giving access to $6 billion of funds that were frozen by American sanctions. |
| 1:51.9 | Number two, top leaders from over 145 countries will convene in New York City for the 78th session of the United Nations General Assembly. |
| 1:54.6 | Volodomor Zelensky, who just dismissed his entire defense cabinet after a series of corruption |
| 1:59.2 | scandals, is expected to attend before speaking |
| 2:02.0 | in Washington, D.C. Number three, Hunter Biden sued the IRS, alleging that it illegally disclosed |
| 2:08.7 | his tax information and failed to safeguard his personal records. Number four, Bill Maher, Jennifer |
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