Putin Year-End Address, SCOTUS Abortion Access, Trump Fraud Trial

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🗓️ 14 December 2023

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Russian President Vladimir Putin traditionally ends most years with an extended press conference. What does Putin say as another year ends with his country still at war in Ukraine? The Supreme Court will hear its first abortion case since overturning of Roe v. Wade. Lower courts delivered mixed rulings on mifepristone. What does this mean for women who receive abortion pill in the mail? Also, the civil fraud trial against former President Trump is done.

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0:00.0	Russian President Vladimir Putin long ago cracked down on his country's independent media,
0:08.0	but at the end of most years he holds an extended press conference.
0:11.0	What does he say as another year ends with his country
0:13.8	still at war in Ukraine? I'm Steve Innskeep and this is up first from NPR News.
0:21.2	The Supreme Court having ended a constitutional right to abortion, will hear its first abortion case since overturning Roe versus Wade.
0:29.0	This is a challenge to an abortion pill. Lower courts have delivered mixed rulings on the pill.
0:35.0	What does this mean for women who receive it in the mail?
0:37.0	Also, the civil fraud trial against former President Trump has done.
0:41.0	The judge already found that his company inflated the value of its
0:44.6	properties, so what did 10 weeks of testimony add? Stay with us, we've got the news you need to start
0:50.5	your day. Russian President Vladimir Putin is talking today, a lot.
0:57.0	This is an almost annual tradition. Putin holds an extended press
1:06.0	conference at the end of the year. He also hosts a televised call-in show with the
1:10.5	Russian public. I say almost annual because Putin skipped this last year as
1:15.9	his invasion of Ukraine went wrong. Today both rituals are back and combined into one.
1:22.4	And P. Charles Mainz is following along in mind. back and combined into one.
1:22.8	And P. Charles Mainz is following along in Moscow and joins us now.
1:25.9	Hey there, Charles.
1:27.3	Good morning.
1:28.3	I guess we should notice you and I are talking.
1:30.3	We're in the middle of an event that can usually go for hours. So what is Putin saying?
1:35.4	Well, so far it's classic Putin with his meld of conservatism and nationalism. Once again, we hear him arguing that Russia is the
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