The News Roundup For June 03, 2022
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🗓️ 3 June 2022
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Summary
On Capitol Hill, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi plans to introduce legislation to ban assault weapons and a bipartisan group of Senators says it has a framework for a gun control bill. But analysts and experts are skeptical any real progress will be made.
Meanwhile, the Kremlin is saying the U.S. is intentionally adding "fuel to the fire" of the conflict in Ukraine by sending aid to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's troops. President Joe Biden announced his intentions to send missiles to the Ukrainian army in an op-ed this week.
We cover all this and more during the News Roundup.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, it's Jen. Just a quick heads up before we start the show. |
| 0:03.8 | The news is rapidly developing and things may have changed by the time you hear this episode. |
| 0:09.0 | For the latest news tune into your public radio station and follow updates at npr.org. |
| 0:22.1 | This is the OneA podcast. I'm Jen White and you're listening to the news roundup. |
| 0:26.5 | Another week, another mass shooting. This time in Tulsa, we're a gunman shot and killed four people |
| 0:33.4 | at a hospital before turning the gun on himself. We are supposed to be the ones that are caring for |
| 0:38.8 | others during tragedies like this to think that our caregivers were the victims. |
| 0:45.2 | It's just incomprehensible to me. It's the 233rd mass shooting so far this year, |
| 0:52.0 | according to data from the gun violence archive. The archive characterizes a mass shooting as four |
| 0:57.1 | or more people shot or killed, not including the shooter. Last night, President Biden renewed his |
| 1:03.0 | call for more gun control, calling for roughly a half dozen new measures. That's a lot to ask |
| 1:08.4 | from a Senate that hasn't successfully passed any gun reform in nearly 30 years. So what happens now? |
| 1:14.8 | Joining us this week is Eva McKend. She's a National Politics reporter with CNN. Eva, welcome back. |
| 1:20.4 | Good to be with you. Also with us, Wendy Benjaminson, the Deputy Managing Editor of Bloomberg's |
| 1:25.4 | Washington Bureau. Wendy, it's great to have you. Thanks for having me. And David Lightman, |
| 1:29.9 | the Congressional correspondent for McClatchy newspapers. David, welcome. |
| 1:33.7 | Thanks for having me. So let's start with President Biden. |
| 1:37.1 | Guns are the number one killer of children in the United States of America. |
| 1:41.4 | The number one killer, more than car actions, more than cancer. Over the last two decades, |
| 1:50.4 | more school-aged children have died from guns than on-duty police officers and active duty |
| 1:56.0 | military combined. Think about that. More kids than on-duty cops killed by guns. |
| 2:03.8 | More kids than soldiers killed by guns. For God's sake, how much more carnage are we really to accept? |
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