The News Roundup For August 22, 2025
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🗓️ 22 August 2025
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He’s calling on one of its governors to resign, publicly criticized Chair Jerome Powell, and is trying to fast-track a close ally onto the board.
The White House continued its campaign against the Smithsonian Institution this week. Its given museums 120 days to adjust any content that the administration finds problematic in “tone, historical framing and alignment with American ideals.”
In a break from the federal guidance under Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the American Academy of Pediatrics released updated recommendations this week that urge COVID-19 vaccinations for infants and young children.
Meanwhile, on Thursday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov questioned whether Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy even has the authority to sign a “peace deal” for the war in his country at all.
Israel’s military says they’ve taken the first steps in their planned operation to take over and occupy Gaza City. On Thursday, they ramped up their attacks in a move that could displace close to one million Palestinians.
Haitian police are deploying drones armed with explosives in an attempt to fight back against gangs that control the majority of the capital city of Port-au-Prince.
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| 0:16.0 | Hey, it's Todd, your host for this edition of the News Roundup. Just a quick heads up before we start the show. |
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| 0:56.9 | The United States military and a force of federal agents are policing the American citizens of Washington, D.C., on the orders of the president, Donald Trump. It's all part of Trump's crackdown on the story he's |
| 1:01.9 | invented about runaway crime in American cities. And it's expanding Republican governors of |
| 1:07.4 | West Virginia, South Carolina, Ohio, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Tennessee, all agreed to send up to 1,000 more troops to support Donald Trump's so-called crackdown on crime in D.C. |
| 1:19.1 | Last year, violent crime in D.C. hit its lowest level in more than 30 years. |
| 1:24.5 | That's according to the Justice Department. But Donald Trump has a proven track record of |
| 1:28.7 | cracking down on statistics and people he doesn't like. Now the Justice Department is probing whether |
| 1:34.8 | D.C. police falsified their crime data. We'll talk about the realities of boots on the ground |
| 1:41.1 | on U.S. soil, also this hour on the Friday News Roundup, redistricting in Texas |
| 1:46.5 | and maybe in California. And more doctors speak up against HHS. We start this week with our panel here in the |
| 1:56.3 | studio, Steve Clemens, editor at large at the national interest. Hi, Steve. Hey, good morning. Hello. Alexis Schallfant. Well, Alexis Simondinger, let's start there. Let's not mix our guest today if we can avoid it. Alexis Simondinger, national political correspondent at the Hill. Hi, Alexis. Good to see you. And Morgan Schallfant. Yes, now we've got them straight deputy, Washington Bureau Chief at Semaphore. First-time guest on the roundup. Hi, Morgan. |
| 2:21.7 | Hi, good to see you. Well, before we get into Trump's D.C. takeover, let's spend just a little bit of time on Joe Bolton. If you remember, that's Donald Trump's former national security advisor, now a staunch critic of the president. On Friday morning, FBI |
| 2:35.8 | agents raided John Bolton's home just outside of Washington, D.C. tweets from the vice president, |
| 2:44.0 | the FBI director, the deputy, the co-deepidy FBI director, and more. We're going to dig into the raid on |
| 2:49.9 | John Bolton's home a little bit later. |
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