The News Roundup For January 12, 2024
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🗓️ 12 January 2024
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Summary
Following an incident on an Alaska Airlines flight, the federal government has grounded all Boeing 737-9 MAX jetliners. A door was ripped off the airplane, which the pilots returned safely to the ground.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is back in the Middle East. He said this week that the cost of the conflict between Israel and Hamas being paid by the civilians, especially the children, of Gaza is far too high and that Palestinians displaced from their homes must be allowed to return.
Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa said this week that the country is "at war" with drug gangs in Guayaquil, the country's largest city, who are holding prison staff hostage and briefly captured a television station.
We cover all this and more during the News Roundup.
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| 0:15.3 | concur.com. Hi it's Indira I'm your host for this edition of the news round up |
| 0:21.0 | just a quick heads up before we start the show. The news is |
| 0:24.4 | rapidly changing and things may be different by the time you hear this episode. |
| 0:28.0 | So stay up to date with all the latest by listening to your local NPR member station and visiting NPR.org for all the latest. |
| 0:36.4 | Thanks for listening and enjoy the show. You're listening to the 1A podcast. I'm Indira Lakshmanan and it's time for the |
| 0:50.8 | news roundup. Let's get into it. The 2024 Iowa |
| 0:54.8 | caucuses are just days away and perhaps you remember eight years ago when then |
| 0:59.7 | candidate Donald Trump uttered these words two weeks before the Iowa |
| 1:04.0 | caucuses of 2016. They say I have the most loyal people. Did you ever see that? |
| 1:08.4 | Where I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody and I |
| 1:12.0 | wouldn't lose any voters okay it's like incredible |
| 1:15.7 | in federal court this week perhaps in an echo of that famous boast that the usual rules |
| 1:20.7 | don't apply to Donald Trump, the former president's lawyers |
| 1:24.0 | suggested that a US president could order seal Team 6 to assassinate a political |
| 1:29.4 | rival. And unless the president had been impeached and convicted by Congress, Trump's lawyers continued, |
| 1:35.0 | that president would be immune from criminal prosecution. |
| 1:39.0 | We'll get into that and a whole lot more. |
| 1:41.0 | But first, let's introduce our our guests with us for the roundup is |
| 1:44.4 | Adres Caloon he's Washington Bureau Chief for the economist also with us as |
| 1:49.3 | Benji Sarlin he's Washington Bureau Chief at Semaphore. Thank you both for joining us. |
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