Reacting To Biden's First State Of The Union with Jon Favreau
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🗓️ 2 March 2022
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine continued into its sixth day, with explosions shaking the cities of Kyiv and Kharkiv, and the death toll rising. According to the United Nations, approximately 660,000 people have fled Ukraine already, and this could become “Europe’s largest refugee crisis this century.”
President Biden gave his first State of the Union address last night. In it, he devoted large sections to address Ukraine along with the course of the pandemic, the economy and inflation, a “unity agenda,” and more. Jon Favreau, co-host of Pod Save America and the host of Offline, joins us to discuss his takeaways as someone who used to be in charge of writing State of the Union speeches for former President Barack Obama.
And in headlines: Israel’s Supreme Court ruled that four Palestinian families facing eviction in Sheikh Jarrah can stay in their homes, the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services is investigating one of its own employees who has a transgender daughter, and Major League Baseball canceled the first two games of the season.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Wednesday, March 2nd. I'm getting RISIC. |
| 0:08.1 | And I'm Priyanka Aribindi and this is What A Day. |
| 0:10.8 | The podcast that watched the State of the Union on more simultaneous streams than any other |
| 0:16.0 | podcast. |
| 0:17.0 | That's right. |
| 0:18.0 | I had PBS, CNN, MSNBC, Fox all going at once, looking like the director of the Truman |
| 0:22.7 | show inside of his control room. |
| 0:24.5 | Yeah, I managed to take down the internet for my entire apartment. |
| 0:27.6 | Congrats to you. |
| 0:31.1 | On today's show, John Favreau joins us for his biggest takeaways from Biden State of |
| 0:35.1 | the Union. |
| 0:36.1 | Plus, the start of Major League Baseball is off because of continuing negotiations |
| 0:39.7 | between the League and the players union. |
| 0:42.1 | But first, an update on Ukraine as we go to record at 11 p.m. Eastern. |
| 0:47.2 | Yesterday was the sixth day of Russia's invasion of Ukraine and explosions continue to |
| 0:51.4 | shake Kiev and Ukraine's second largest city of Karkev as the death toll continues to |
| 0:56.0 | rise. |
| 0:57.0 | And Kiev, a Russian productile hit the city's main radio and television tower on Tuesday, |
| 1:01.8 | killing five people and taking TV channels off the air. |
| 1:05.2 | In Karkev, there was an explosion at a building in the city's main square at a rocket attack |
| 1:09.4 | that destroyed a hospital, killing at least 18 civilians combined and injuring several |
| 1:14.2 | more. |
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