The News Roundup For September 9, 2023
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🗓️ 8 September 2023
⏱️ 88 minutes
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Summary
Special Counsel Jack Smith is not making Donald Trump's life any easier. Smith has charged the former president with four counts over his attempt to overthrow the results of the 2020 election.
Meanwhile, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to reassure Ukrainian leaders that they could continue to count on American support in their fight against the Russian invasion. And North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is expected to travel to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin to discuss their respective conflicts with the U.S.
And abortion restrictions grow in the United States, Mexico is moving in the opposite direction. The country's supreme court did away with all federal penalties and decriminalized abortion this week.
We cover these headlines and a whole lot more during the News Roundup.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, it's Sarah. I'm your host for this edition of The News Roundup. |
| 0:03.4 | Just a quick heads up before we start the show. |
| 0:05.5 | The news is rapidly changing and things may have changed by the time you hear this episode. |
| 0:10.4 | Stay up to date with the news by listening to your local NPR member station |
| 0:14.4 | and visiting npr.org for all the latest. |
| 0:17.4 | Thanks for listening and enjoy the show. |
| 0:19.5 | You're listening to the 1A podcast. I'm NPR's Sarah McCammon and it's time for another edition of |
| 0:32.8 | The News Roundup. The official end of summer brought a week of sweltering temperatures across |
| 0:37.6 | much of the country, with heat indices hitting over 100 in many places, including here in the |
| 0:42.8 | nation's capital. And apart from the weather, we have a lot of political news coming up this |
| 0:47.6 | hour. Vice President Kamala Harris breaks silence from the White House on the legal troubles |
| 0:52.4 | of former President Trump. Everyone has their right to their day in court, but absolutely people |
| 0:57.4 | should be held accountable, but under our system of law. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's |
| 1:02.8 | impeachment trial begins, and farewell to a legend. |
| 1:17.9 | That's right. We said goodbye to Jimmy Buffett this week. |
| 1:27.8 | With us this week is Idris Collune, the Washington Bureau Chief for the Economist. |
| 1:31.2 | Thanks for being here Idris. Great. Thanks for having me. |
| 1:33.7 | Megan Scully, Congress team leader at Bloomberg News. Welcome back. |
| 1:36.9 | Thank you. And Ftalli Ben David, White House Editor at the Washington Post, Tine Ftalli. |
| 1:41.7 | Hi, thanks for having me. And we were just saying it's we're all in studio together, |
| 1:45.0 | which is a really nice thing to say at this point in where we are in our nation's history. |
| 1:50.4 | And I don't want to say ever post pandemic, but to be able to see you all face to face is really nice. |
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