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🗓️ 26 July 2021
⏱️ 12 minutes
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0:00.0 | Hi, this is Nick Medley calling from Beppu, the hot spring capital of Japan. |
0:05.4 | My university English students and I are about to finish our third semester learning online. |
0:10.8 | This podcast was recorded at... |
0:13.0 | It is 105 Eastern on Monday, July 26th. |
0:17.5 | That's a long time online. |
0:19.3 | That is. |
0:20.3 | Things may have changed by the time you hear this, |
0:23.0 | but I'll still be grading papers daydreaming about going back to in-person classes next semester. |
0:28.9 | Alright. |
0:29.9 | I'm your guest in the show. |
0:31.9 | Alright, here's the show. |
0:37.9 | Have the two of you speaking of Japan been watching the Olympics? |
0:41.9 | Oh yeah. |
0:42.9 | My husband is a former rower so I'm getting a play by play. |
0:47.9 | Hey there, it's the NPR Politics podcast. I'm Scott Detro, I cover the White House. |
0:52.9 | I'm Frank Ordonia's, I also cover the White House. |
0:54.9 | And I'm Mara Laias and National Political Correspondent. |
0:57.9 | Well, we are going to not become an Olympic's podcast despite our best efforts every four years to do that one day maybe. |
1:04.9 | Today we are going to have a conversation about immigration. |
1:07.9 | President Biden, you know, is in a tough play sign immigration. |
1:10.9 | He faces growing pressure from supporters who want his administration to stop turning away asylum seekers. |
1:16.9 | And critics of course want him to do more to stop what is turned into one of the largest waves of migrants arriving at the border in recent history. |
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