Trump card marked: the January 6th investigation
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🗓️ 20 December 2022
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The Congressional committee probing the riot at America’s Capitol recommended that the Justice Department bring four charges against Donald Trump. But the road to indictment and prosecution of the former president is long and winding. The UN’s biodiversity summit ended with a historic but still unsatisfying agreement. And our language columnist presents his choice for word of the year.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the intelligence from the Economist. |
| 0:07.0 | In New York, I'm John Fastman. |
| 0:09.6 | And in London, I'm Jason Palmer. |
| 0:11.7 | Every weekday we provide fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. |
| 0:18.1 | The UN's biodiversity summits get less attention than their climate change powers. |
| 0:23.2 | But biodiversity is crucial to a functioning planet. |
| 0:26.4 | The latest meeting ended yesterday in Montreal with an historic agreement that still left |
| 0:31.2 | many unsatisfied. |
| 0:35.2 | And it's time for our language columnist to select the economist's word of the year. |
| 0:40.4 | Some years, that's hard when the roiling of news and culture doesn't really throw up any |
| 0:45.1 | worthy new words. |
| 0:47.1 | 2022 has presented the opposite problem. |
| 0:55.8 | But first, on January 6th, 2021, having lost the presidential election, Donald Trump rallied |
| 1:11.0 | thousands of his supporters in Washington, DC, and encouraged them to march on the US Capitol. |
| 1:16.3 | Right here, we're going to walk down to the Capitol, and we're going to cheer on our brave |
| 1:25.5 | senators and congressmen and women, and we're probably not going to be cheering so much for |
| 1:32.5 | some of them. |
| 1:34.2 | What happened when they got there was one of the darkest moments in recent American history. |
| 1:39.0 | The ports of rioters stormed the Congressional building, trashing offices, and leaving lawmakers |
| 1:54.7 | hold up in fear of their lives. |
| 1:57.8 | For months, a Congressional committee has been hearing testimony from witnesses about |
| 2:01.9 | what happened that day, and who should be held accountable. |
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