The News Roundup For November 18, 2022
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🗓️ 18 November 2022
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Meanwhile, in Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says his military's reclamation of the city of Kherson is "the beginning of the end" of the conflict. U.S. President Joe Biden has asked Congress to approve $37 billion in emergency aid for Ukraine.
In sports news, the World Cup has not yet officially started but controversy is already percolating. Players and government officials are publicly criticizing host nation Qatar over well-documented human rights abuses. Qatari officials are in turn calling their critics racist.
We cover all this and more during this week's News Roundup.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the 1A podcast. |
| 0:10.1 | I'm Jen White and it's time for the news round up. |
| 0:12.2 | Let's get into it. |
| 0:13.8 | It's been a week and a half since Election Day and we now know who's running Congress. |
| 0:18.5 | The GOP took the House and the Democrats took the Senate and both hold their respective |
| 0:22.9 | chambers by a very slim majority. |
| 0:25.8 | So where does that leave the government? |
| 0:27.4 | The CNN package plus reports indicate the self-proclaimed Chief Twitch has driven away hundreds |
| 0:32.7 | of his own employees and Ticketmaster faces anti-trust scrutiny after a matte dash to |
| 0:38.1 | buy Taylor Swift tickets broke the platform. |
| 0:41.2 | Let's bring in our guests. |
| 0:42.5 | Wendy Benjaminson is the deputy managing editor of US Government at Bloomberg News. |
| 0:46.8 | Wendy, great to have you back. |
| 0:48.0 | Thanks for having me. |
| 0:49.4 | Shane Harris covers national security for the Washington Post. |
| 0:52.6 | Shane, thanks for joining us. |
| 0:54.3 | Hi, Jen. |
| 0:55.3 | Susan Page is the Washington Bureau Chief for USA Today. |
| 0:59.0 | Her latest book is Madam Speaker, a biography of Nancy Pelosi. |
| 1:02.4 | Susan, great to have you. |
| 1:03.7 | Hey, Jen, it's great to be with you. |
| 1:05.6 | So it's been 10 days since Election Day and we now know what the next Congress will look |
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