The Calm Before the Stormy
What A Day
What A Day
4.8 • 166 Ratings
🗓️ 31 January 2023
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
The Manhattan district attorney’s office started presenting evidence to a grand jury about former President Donald Trump’s role in paying hush money to adult film actress Stormy Daniels in 2016. Journalist Andrea Bernstein, who covers democracy for ProPublica and Trump legal matters for NPR, joins us to discuss the investigation – and whether it will bring criminal charges.
And in headlines: two more Memphis police officers involved in the violent arrest that led to Tyre Nichols’ death were relieved of duty, a suicide bombing at a crowded mosque in Pakistan killed at least 59 people, and former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro is seeking a six-month tourist visa to remain in the U.S.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Tuesday, January 31st. |
| 0:03.5 | I'm Priyanka Arabindi. |
| 0:04.8 | And I'm Trevelle Anderson and this is what a day, where despite the fact that neither |
| 0:09.0 | of us are watching the last of us, don't you dare tell us what happens to Nick Offerman. |
| 0:13.5 | Listen, I'm so behind that I'm just now realizing that this is why everyone's talking about |
| 0:17.8 | Nick Offerman. |
| 0:18.8 | You could try to spoil it. |
| 0:19.8 | I probably wouldn't even realize what you were talking about. |
| 0:21.8 | Yeah, I don't know if I'm going to watch at all, but just in case I do, I don't want |
| 0:26.2 | to know what happens. |
| 0:31.3 | On today's show, two more Memphis police officers involved in the violent arrest that led to |
| 0:36.0 | Tyree Nichols' death were relieved of duty. |
| 0:38.8 | Plus, it's been three years since COVID-19 was declared a global health emergency. |
| 0:43.8 | But first, the Manhattan District Attorney's Office started to present evidence to a grand |
| 0:48.0 | jury about former President Donald Trump's role in paying hush money to adult film actress |
| 0:52.3 | Stormy Daniels back in 2016. |
| 0:55.4 | If you remember, when that story came out and how could we forget, it was like this |
| 1:00.2 | candle of a century at the time. |
| 1:02.9 | We learned that Trump's former attorney Michael Cohen made a deal with Daniels before the |
| 1:06.6 | 2016 election. |
| 1:07.6 | He paid her hush money so that she wouldn't talk to reporters about her alleged affair with |
| 1:12.8 | Trump. |
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