SCOOP: "Purse Tuna," Peace Talks & What's Happening In Washington D.C.
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Jenna Lee
5 • 615 Ratings
🗓️ 11 August 2025
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
The SCOOP on the week ahead!
- A concerning trend for restaurants on the West Coast: "purse tuna" and BYOF (Bring Your Own Food)
- President Trump meets Russia's President Putin in Alaska on Friday: What to watch and why it matters.
- The latest on the war between Israel and Hamas, including the targeting of someone Israel calls a "terrorist" but Al Jazeera calls a "desperate attempt to silence the voice of truth."
- The White House makes a sudden announcement on Washington D.C., safety and security and "beautification." What to know and what to consider.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Scoop, where you get the scoop on this week's news. |
| 0:04.6 | My name is Jenna, and this is Smarter News. |
| 0:16.1 | Welcome to Scoop, where you get the scoop on this week's news. |
| 0:19.9 | My name is Jenna and this is |
| 0:21.1 | Smarter News and it's Monday, August 11th, 2025. And I'm so glad to see you today. We got |
| 0:27.5 | kind of shot out of a canon this morning with news because the president made an announcement |
| 0:32.2 | about how he would like to and is going to try to change the course in Washington, D.C., |
| 0:39.9 | when it comes to safety and beautification, his words of the city. |
| 0:43.9 | There are those that disagree with his assessment of Washington, D.C., |
| 0:47.8 | and what he's doing as far as putting some of the D.C. agencies, and we're going to get into this a little bit, |
| 0:58.2 | underneath federal power. |
| 1:00.3 | DC is interesting. |
| 1:01.4 | We all think about Washington, D.C. likely as just another American city. |
| 1:06.3 | I mean, that's sort of how I think about it. |
| 1:07.8 | But we have to really step back and look at D.C. in the unique way |
| 1:13.0 | that it's set up for its own or lack of government, because it's very unique in the United States. |
| 1:23.0 | And so Washington, D.C. is connected to the federal government in ways that other cities simply |
| 1:28.3 | are not. And so we got news from the president today on this. I have a lot of sound for you on that, |
| 1:33.4 | including sound from the D.C. mayor, who really just over the last 24 hours, painted a completely |
| 1:39.8 | different picture using data about what's going on in the city itself. So let me just put that |
| 1:46.3 | aside for a second. We're going to get to that big news. We have some big diplomatic stories that |
| 1:50.2 | we're going to be covering this week as well for some of our largest conflicts that we've been covering, |
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