The deluge of Trump news
Make Me Smart
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🗓️ 15 July 2024
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
We’re still processing the news of the shooting at Donald Trump’s campaign rally in Pennsylvania over the weekend. On top of that, a federal judge dismissed the classified documents case against the former president. We’ll get into the news and why it matters how we talk about it. Then, we’ll explain why eviction rates remain above pre-pandemic levels in many parts of the country. Plus, some good news from the world of science about a malaria vaccine rollout in Ivory Coast and a $14 million investment in battery recycling.
Here’s everything we talked about today:
- “Evictions Surge in Major Cities in the American Sunbelt” from The Wall Street Journal
- “Judge dismisses Trump’s classified documents case” from The Washington Post
- “Malaria Vaccines: Which Countries in Africa Are Using Serum’s New Shots?” from Bloomberg
- “It Will Soon Be Easier for Americans to Recycle Batteries” from Wired
- Biden-Harris Administration Announces $14 Million to Increase Domestic Battery Recycling from the U.S. Department of Energy
- “How can we talk about politics in the workplace?” from Marketplace
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone. I'm Kimberly Adams. Welcome back to Making Smart where we make today |
| 0:10.6 | makes sense as if that's possible these days. |
| 0:13.8 | Yeah, we're gonna try. |
| 0:15.5 | I'm Amy Scott in for Ky Rizdahl. |
| 0:17.3 | Thanks so much for joining us everybody. |
| 0:18.9 | It is Monday, July 15th, quite a weekend |
| 0:21.9 | to come back from. Yeah, quite a weekend to come back from. |
| 0:23.0 | Yeah, quite a weekend. |
| 0:25.0 | We are going to do some news. |
| 0:26.0 | We're going to get to some smiles. |
| 0:28.0 | Starting with the news, I don't think we need to spend too much time unpacking what we've all been watching all weekend |
| 0:36.8 | the attempted assassination of President, foreign President Trump. |
| 0:40.9 | But I just feel like this is going to be one of those moments where we all kind of look back and it's like, where were you when? |
| 0:47.0 | What was interesting to me is where I was specifically was sitting on the couch playing with my new cat and my mother |
| 0:57.6 | texted me about what was happening and she also is the person who notified me about January 6th as it was happening, which is funny because my mother's not a super news junkie, but in these critical moments in American politics, she seems to be the one notifying me of crises |
| 1:15.9 | as they are unfolding. |
| 1:17.1 | Oh wow yeah that's kind of amazing given that you and I are in the news but yeah you never I mean |
| 1:23.6 | especially on a weekend you could be doing any number of things and not looking at |
| 1:27.7 | the headlines yeah it must have been quite a weekend in Washington I would |
| 1:32.2 | imagine it really was must have been quite a weekend in Washington I would imagine. |
| 1:33.8 | It really was and you know as some folks will know I do some other work for |
| 1:39.3 | other news organizations on the weekend and on on C-SPAN yesterday just listening to people call in from all over the country |
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