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🗓️ 3 February 2017

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Leaks from a chaotic White House, reconsidering journalistic objectivity, and the failed promise of the Internet.

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0:00.0	From WNYC in New York, this is on the media.
0:07.8	Brooke Gladstone is out this week.
0:10.0	I'm Bob Carfield.
0:11.8	Well, we begin with excellent news.
0:14.7	The United States is not at war with Australia.
0:19.3	Yet.
0:20.5	On Thursday, news consumers were treated to the details of a call
0:23.9	between President Donald J. Trump
0:26.3	and Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull,
0:29.1	which Trump cut off after insulting Turnbull
0:32.4	about his country's refugee agreement with the United States.
0:36.7	The Washington Post reports the new U.S. President candidly declared Australia's refugee agreement with the United States. The Washington Post reports the new US president candidly declared Australia's refugee
0:41.8	agreement with Barack Obama, the worst deal ever, said Australia was seeking to export the
0:47.7	next Boston bombers.
0:49.2	This was the worst call by far, the president's quoted saying, after hanging up, 25 minutes into a scheduled
0:56.0	hour-long call. News of this episode came hot on the heels of another scoop, in which Trump did
1:02.7	threaten to invade Mexico. President Donald Trump says he would send troops into Mexico if they
1:09.2	don't take care of, quote, bad hombres.
1:12.1	And there were reports that Trump's first actual use of military lethal force was a rushed, botched job.
1:20.1	The first major military operation authorized by Donald Trump,
1:24.1	the target al-Qaeda in Yemen, and it didn't go as planned.
1:28.7	It's now emerging that more civilians were killed, including women and children.
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