Not a Joke: More Investigations, Mask Shortages, Traffic as Art

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🗓️ 6 February 2020

⏱️ 11 minutes

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President Trump’s Senate impeachment trial is over, but that’s not the end of political investigations in 2020. We’ll explain what info Democrats and Republicans in Congress want to track down now. Then, the coronavirus outbreak is causing a global shortage on protective face masks. We hear from one expert on what this could mean for the healthcare workers who need those masks the most. Also on today’s show: Tensions ease in the U.S.-China trade war, and a performance artist fakes a traffic jam. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	It's Thursday, February 6th.
0:03.1	Welcome to Skim this.
0:04.4	We're breaking down the most complex stories of the day and giving you the context on why
0:08.1	they matter.
0:09.9	President Trump's Senate impeachment trial is over, but he's not about to put away his
0:13.7	boxing gloves yet.
0:14.7	Turns out, some other Democrats and Republicans want to keep the political investigations
0:21.0	going.
0:22.0	We'll explain.
0:23.0	Meanwhile, as coronavirus spreads, surgical masks are selling out, and even Amazon can't
0:27.7	keep up with the demand.
0:29.2	We're here to make your evening smarter.
0:31.2	Let's skim this.
0:39.2	A month and a half after being impeached by the House of Representatives and a day after
0:43.6	his acquittal in the Senate trial, today President Trump declared victory.
0:47.9	They brought me to the final stages of impeachment.
0:53.9	But now we have that gorgeous word.
0:55.8	I never thought a word would sound so good.
0:58.7	It's called total acquittal.
1:03.0	But while he's bragging about how the House couldn't take him down, others are saying,
1:07.3	winged on here.
1:08.9	First, there are still some open investigations on Trump.
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