The News Roundup For May 26, 2023
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🗓️ 27 May 2023
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Summary
Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis attempted to announce his 2024 Presidential bid via Twitter Spaces this week. However, the online meeting was marred by technical difficulties, despite the social media platform's owner, Elon Musk, being present.
Meanwhile, the head of the Wagner mercenary group fighting in Ukraine said that he's lost more than 20,000 troops during the invasion. Meanwhile, the European Union is exploring ways to send billions of dollars in frozen Russian assets to Ukraine to fund its war effort.
Elsewhere in Europe, countries are taking steps to fight climate change. France banned short flights in order to cut emissions from the use of jet fuel and Germany is considering banning gas boilers.
And we remember the legendary Tina Turner who passed away on Wednesday, at the age of 83, in her home in Switzerland.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the 1A podcast. I'm David Gara, thanks so much for being here. It's time once again |
| 0:13.2 | for the news roundup and if you will just give me a second here, check in with the control room, |
| 0:18.6 | make sure that we're good to go. We're good to go. We've got so many people here that I think we |
| 0:23.3 | are kind of melting the servers. Okay, and our guests, we've got three of them. I'm assuming that |
| 0:29.0 | they're all ready. Are you there? Can we go ask? I'm here. Okay, and sorry, sorry, I've just |
| 0:34.8 | I've lost track of what we're doing here. I am running for President of the United States to lead |
| 0:40.8 | our great American combat. Well, believe me, those of us who work in live radio or live television |
| 0:46.6 | feel your pain. Lots of politics to come and knowing well how good a team we've got here. I'm |
| 0:51.6 | confident we're not going to have any of the technical glitches. A certain Republican governor had |
| 0:55.6 | to navigate when he announced his candidacy for his party's nomination on a multi-billionaire |
| 0:59.9 | social media platform just a couple of days ago as I knock on wood here in the studio in New |
| 1:05.6 | York. Allow me to introduce my guests. Benji Sarlin is the Washington Bureau Chief at SEMIFOR, |
| 1:10.8 | Wendy Benjaminson is the deputy managing editor at Bloomberg News and from the New York Times, |
| 1:14.5 | we've got Cheryl Gay Stolberg who covers health policy and politics. Welcome to all of you. |
| 1:19.5 | Great to be here. Thank you. Well, the clock keeps keeps ticking and the US is edging close to |
| 1:23.6 | potential default as we wait to see if Congress will raise or suspend the nation's dead limit. |
| 1:28.6 | Secretary Janet Yellen says it's highly likely the US government will run out of cash if Congress |
| 1:34.0 | doesn't act by June 1st. That's just a few days from now. Wendy, let me start with you. |
| 1:39.0 | Where do these negotiations stand here as we head into the long weekend? |
| 1:42.5 | Well, we're sort of in, you know, crouched and ready for something to happen. We really believe |
| 1:49.9 | that we are almost there. There is a great desire on both sides to get this done today. |
| 1:56.6 | That way they have 72 hours over the weekend for the bill to wind its way out of committee |
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