The battle over aid to Ukraine

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🗓️ 7 December 2023

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

President Biden has asked Congress to pass a hefty aid package for the war in Ukraine and other defense initiatives, but the funding can’t seem to get through the Senate. We’ll hear the president implore lawmakers to act swiftly and get into why the package is being held up. Plus, the ballet of federal regulators and Wall Street banks continues. And, Google introduced its new AI model called Gemini. Among other capabilities, it can see!

Here’s everything we talked about today:

- “As Ukraine aid falters in the Senate, Biden signals he’s willing to make a deal on border security” from AP News

- “Is a recession on the horizon? More bank CEOs think so” from CNN Business

- “Introducing Gemini: Google’s most capable AI model yet” from Google

- Video: “Hands-on with Gemini: Interacting with multimodal AI” on YouTube

- “Tommy Tuberville ends blockade of 400 military promotions” from The Guardian

Join us tomorrow for our last Economics on Tap of 2023! The YouTube livestream starts at 3:30 p.m. Pacific time, 6:30 p.m. Eastern. We’ll have news, drinks, a game and more.

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0:21.0	Doc.
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0:25.1	it's pretty good uh... magical
0:29.0	everybody i'm kind of risdell welcome back to make me smart where we make
0:32.0	today make sense.
0:33.0	And I'm Kimberly Adams.
0:35.0	Thanks to everyone for joining us this Thursday, December the 7th, happy Hanukkah to all those celebrating.
0:41.0	We are going to listen back to some of the big stories of the week,
0:43.4	as we do on Thursdays.
0:44.8	We've got some audio clips lined up.
0:46.4	Ready, go.
0:48.3	Congress needs to pass supplemental funding for Ukraine before they break for the holiday resources.
0:55.0	As simple as that. Frankly, I think it's stunning that we've gotten to this point in the first place.
1:00.0	While Congress, Republicans think Congress are willing to give Putin the greatest gift he could hope for and
1:07.2	abandon our global leadership, not just Ukraine but beyond that. Obviously the President.
1:14.0	And astonishingly.
1:16.0	Yeah, and astonishingly it did not get done to no one's surprise.
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