The News Roundup For December 2, 2022
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🗓️ 2 December 2022
⏱️ 87 minutes
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Now that control of the House has flipped to the Republicans, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy is asking the House January 6 committee to preserve all its records.
Chinese officials are cracking down on protests against the country's zero-COVID policy.
And a senior aide to King Charles resigned this week following "unacceptable and deeply regrettable comments" she made to a guest at a reception at Buckingham Palace.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the 1A podcast. |
| 0:09.0 | I'm Chen White, and you're listening to the news roundup. |
| 0:12.5 | The Democrats have had some real shakeups this week. |
| 0:15.0 | From a new party leader to reordering the primaries, Democrats are tinkering with the status |
| 0:19.7 | quo. |
| 0:20.7 | That includes the normally pro-union President Biden pushing Congress to avert a union-led |
| 0:25.7 | real strike. |
| 0:26.7 | We'll have the strike latest, plus the leader of the Oath Keepers far-right militia group |
| 0:30.9 | faces up to six decades in prison, and the former President sits down to dinner with two |
| 0:35.9 | outspoken anti-Semites. |
| 0:38.4 | Wendy Benjamin Sin is with us. |
| 0:39.7 | She's the deputy managing editor for US Government at Bloomberg News. |
| 0:43.2 | Wendy, welcome. |
| 0:44.2 | Thanks for having me. |
| 0:45.4 | Also with us, Benji Sarlan, the Washington Bureau Chief for Simifor News. |
| 0:49.5 | Benji, great to have you. |
| 0:51.3 | So glad to be here. |
| 0:52.5 | And Josh Meyer, the domestic security correspondent at USA Today. |
| 0:56.1 | Josh, always great to have you on. |
| 0:58.5 | Great to be back. |
| 0:59.5 | Thanks, Jen. |
| 1:00.5 | So President Biden is pushing Democratic leaders to radically reorder the order in which |
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