Pardon Me, Mr. President
What A Day
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🗓️ 30 November 2020
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
New York City is opening up elementary schools next week after city officials faced heavy criticism for appearing to prioritize economic activities like restaurant dining over the well-being of children. Across the country, public school closures have led to a spike in private school matriculation, since private institutions have a better chance of staying open.
Trump still hasn’t conceded yet, but he has ramped up predictable lame-duck behavior like pushing through a battery of new rules and policy changes. Some policies might not pass legal muster or will be easy for the Biden administration to reverse, but others will have a lasting impact.
And in headlines: Biden announces the first all-female senior White House communications team, Iran’s foremost nuclear scientist assassinated, and the Utah monolith is gone in a cloud of dirt.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Monday in November 30th. I'm Achila Hughes. |
| 0:08.4 | And I'm Erin Ryan filling in for Gideon Resnick. |
| 0:10.4 | And this is what a day where we believe that every day is cyber Monday because most of |
| 0:14.2 | our human interactions are now just through computers. |
| 0:16.9 | Yeah, honestly, this year has been a year comprised entirely of Mondays. |
| 0:21.4 | Every day is Monday. |
| 0:22.6 | Today is Monday. Yesterday was Monday. Tomorrow is also Monday. |
| 0:26.8 | We've all got a case of the Mondays. We're all Garfield and everybody else is John, |
| 0:32.9 | Arbuckle and Normal. |
| 0:34.2 | All we wanted was some Lasagna and a nap. But that never gets to happen. |
| 0:44.5 | On today's show, we'll explore the last minute policies that Trump is trying to push through |
| 0:48.1 | before January 20th, then some headlines. |
| 0:50.7 | But first, the latest. And we'll start with coronavirus, which is still surging and |
| 0:55.1 | expected to spike even more because of Thanksgiving and commensurate dumbassery, which is causing |
| 1:02.2 | some states and cities to take even more actions to restrict the spread. |
| 1:06.2 | Before the break, you and Gideon were talking about how New York Governor Andrew Cuomo |
| 1:09.8 | and New York City Mayor Bill DeBlasio were causing some confusion when they closed city |
| 1:14.3 | schools due to a rise in cases. Well, there's been another update. |
| 1:18.6 | That's right, Erin. So just yesterday, DeBlasio announced that New York City Elementary Schools |
| 1:22.9 | will reopen December 7th and parents will have the option to allow those children to go |
| 1:26.8 | to school five days a week, effectively abandoning the hybrid in-person remote learning system |
| 1:31.8 | that's been in place since the schools opened in September. Middle schools and high schools |
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