Trump accepts the Republican nomination
FT News Briefing
Forhecz Topher
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🗓️ 19 July 2024
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
Donald Trump formally accepted the Republican party nomination for president. HSBC’s new chief executive, Georges Elhedery, will face a unique set of challenges while transitioning into the role, and the European Central Bank decided to keep interest rates unchanged yesterday. Plus, the FT’s Clive Cookson talks about the revival of the space race. Credit: NASA, BBC, NDTV, Global News
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The FT News Briefing is produced by Fiona Symon, Sonja Hutson, Kasia Broussalian and Marc Filippino. Additional help from Ethan Plotkin, Katie McMurran, Breen Turner, Sam Giovinco, Peter Barber, Michael Lello, David da Silva and Gavin Kallmann. Our engineer is Monica Lopez. Our intern is Prakriti Panwar. Topher Forhecz is the FT’s executive producer. The FT’s global head of audio is Cheryl Brumley. The show’s theme song is by Metaphor Music.
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| 0:00.0 | The UK's energy partner. |
| 0:06.0 | Learn more at equinore. |
| 0:10.0 | At Aquinore. UK. Good morning from the Financial Times. Today is Friday, July 19th, and this is |
| 0:18.0 | your FT news briefing. Donald Trump formally accepted the Republican nomination for U.S. President last night, |
| 0:25.0 | and the new head of H.S.B.C. will kick off his tenure with a long to-do list. |
| 0:31.0 | Plus, we're over the moon for going to the moon. Our science writer |
| 0:37.0 | Clive Cookson is especially pumped. I love the idea of going to the moon. |
| 0:42.0 | I'm Mark Filipino and here's the news you need to start your day. Former President Donald Trump locked up the Republican nomination at the Party's |
| 1:01.2 | convention last night and his acceptance speech was one of |
| 1:04.8 | coming together. Every race, religion, color and creed, the discord and division in our society must be healed. |
| 1:14.6 | We must heal it quickly. |
| 1:16.6 | As Americans, we are bound together by a single fate |
| 1:20.8 | and a shared destiny. We rise together or we fall apart. |
| 1:26.0 | His address comes just days after surviving an assassination attempt. |
| 1:30.0 | I'm not supposed to be here tonight. Not supposed to be here. |
| 1:35.0 | Trump focused on unity, at least at the beginning, but he also took some trademark jabs |
| 1:42.0 | at Democrats and President Joe Biden's administration. |
| 1:45.0 | Every week they get another subpoena from the Democrats, crazy Nancy Pelosi, the whole thing, just boom and he hit a lot of the familiar themes too. |
| 1:57.2 | We will return law and order to our streets patriotism to our schools and |
| 2:02.0 | importantly we will restore peace, stability, and harmony |
| 2:06.5 | all throughout the world. |
| 2:09.5 | But to achieve this future, we must first rescue our nation from failed and even incompetent leadership. |
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