The News Roundup For November 22, 2024
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🗓️ 22 November 2024
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Summary
Reporting indicates New York prosecutors are open to the possibility of pushing Trump's sentencing in his hush money case to 2029 when his second term in the White House will end.
Meanwhile this week marked 1,000 days since Russia's invasion of Ukraine. This week the Biden administration made a two major U-turns on Ukraine's military aid policy – allowing missiles to be used in Russia territory and a decision to supply Zelenskyy with landmines. Both decisions that have put pressure on the European Union.
Russian President Vladimir Putin issued a new nuclear doctrine that lowered his bar for using nuclear weapons.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, it's Todd, your host for this edition of The News Roundup. Just a quick heads up before we start the show. The news is constantly changing and things might have changed by the time you hear this episode. Stay up to date with the news by listening to your local NPR member station and by visiting npr.org for all the latest. Thanks for listening. Enjoy the show. |
| 0:33.5 | You're listening to the 1A podcast. I'm Todd Zwillick, and it's time from the News Roundup. |
| 0:38.5 | When Republicans take back the White House and we will, the Department of Justice, the prosecutors will be prosecuted, the bad ones. The investigators will be investigated. That is President-elect |
| 0:45.2 | Donald Trump's new choice for Attorney General, Pam Bondi. She's a former Florida AG and longtime |
| 0:51.6 | ally of the incoming president. And for a lot of Republicans, she might be a sense of relief. |
| 0:57.5 | That doesn't mean the path is clear for all of Trump's other nominees. |
| 1:01.2 | This week, more names were added to his wish list for cabinet posts. |
| 1:05.0 | Things are moving fast. |
| 1:05.9 | And we're grateful to have three amazing panelists to help us catch up this week with us. |
| 1:10.9 | Alexis Simondinger, co-author of The Hill's Morning Report and political correspondent at the Hill. |
| 1:16.2 | Alexis, welcome. |
| 1:17.0 | Hello. |
| 1:17.9 | Arthur Delaney is here. |
| 1:19.3 | You know the voice. |
| 1:20.0 | He's a senior reporter at Huff Post. |
| 1:21.7 | Arthur, as always. |
| 1:22.6 | Thanks for being here. |
| 1:23.2 | Great to be here. And for the first time, we welcome Alana Shore, self-described, fast-talking Brooklynite here on the roundup, but also a senior Washington editor to talk about Pam Bondi in just a moment, but we start with Matt Gates, Donald Trump's original pick for Attorney General. He withdrew his name for consideration |
| 1:49.5 | on Thursday, very abruptly. The former congressman said his confirmation process in the Senate was, |
| 1:56.2 | quote, unfairly becoming a distraction. And this came minutes before new reporting was due to air on CNN |
| 2:02.9 | about accusations of sexual misconduct against him. And a day after Republicans on the House |
| 2:08.9 | Ethics Committee blocked the release of findings of an investigation into the former Florida |
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