Trump Confronts South African President; No Tax On Tips Passes; Israel Prepping Iran Strike; Our Shrinking Attention Spans

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🗓️ 22 May 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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A daily non-partisan, conversational breakdown of today’s top news and breaking news stories Headlines: – Welcome To Mo News (02:00) – Trump Confronts South African President, Pushing Claims Of Genocide (05:50) – Joe Biden’s Prostate Cancer Diagnosis: His Last Screening (11:15) – Jake Tapper Admits to Megyn Kelly He Didn't Press Biden on Health (15:45) – Senate Passed Trump’s No Tax on Tips Act. Here’s What It Could Mean (24:40) – U.S. Formally Accepts Luxury Jet From Qatar for Trump (27:50) – Israel Preparing To Strike Iran Fast If Trump's Nuclear Talks Break Down (32:00) – OpenAI to Buy AI Device Startup From Apple Veteran Jony Ive in $6.5 Billion Deal (35:00)– In-N-Out Is Removing Red Dye 40 From These Menu Items (36:45) – Easily Distracted? How To Improve Your Attention Span (38:00) – On This Day In History (41:00) Thanks To Our Sponsors: – Boll & Branch – 15% off, plus free shipping on your first set of sheets – ZocDoc - Book Top-Rated Doctors – LMNT - Free Sample Pack with any LMNT drink mix purchase – Sonic Power - 20% off | Promo Code: MONEWS – Surfshark - 4 additional months of Surfshark VPN | Code: MONEWS – Industrious - Coworking office. 30% off day pass – Athletic Greens – AG1 Powder + 1 year of free Vitamin D & 5 free travel packs 🐝 This podcast was recorded from the Mo News office at Industrious at Midtown on 50th St. Mosheh Oinounou (@mosheh) is an Emmy and Murrow award-winning journalist. He has 20 years of experience at networks including Fox News, Bloomberg Television and CBS News, where he was the executive producer of the CBS Evening News and launched the network's 24 hour news channel. He founded the @mosheh Instagram news account in 2020 and the Mo News podcast and newsletter in 2022. Jill Wagner (@jillrwagner) is an Emmy and Murrow award-winning journalist. She's currently the Managing Editor of the Mo News newsletter and previously worked as a reporter for CBS News, Cheddar News, and News 12. She also co-founded the Need2Know newsletter, and has made it a goal to drop a Seinfeld reference into every Mo News podcast.

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0:00.0	Hey, everybody. It is Thursday, May 22nd. You're listening to the Mo News podcast. I'm Moshe Wununu.
0:09.3	And I'm Jill Wagner. This is the place where we bring you just the facts. And we read all the news and read between the lines so you don't have to.
0:17.4	Moshe, you are officially one year older. How does it feel?
0:20.8	It's what you ask the kids, feel? You're like, do you feel
0:22.7	older today? Do you feel older? Woke up with some back pain, worried about how much cake I should
0:29.6	eat due to cholesterol levels. Sounds about right for your early 40s, right? Well, I hope you had a nice
0:35.1	birthday. It was a wonderful birthday with my favorite people,
0:39.5	so I can't ask for more than that. Well, that is good to hear. And the news somewhat cooperated.
0:45.5	I know you were hoping for some big news and not a horrible event. Like the end of war.
0:51.7	That's what I was hoping May 21st would bring us.
0:54.7	Maybe next year.
0:55.9	Yeah.
0:56.3	Instead, we've got some other headlines for you.
0:59.1	Another heated exchange in the Oval Office with a foreign leader this time President
1:04.1	Trump clashed with the president of South Africa.
1:07.7	What happened?
1:08.9	Plus, we are learning more about Joe Biden's prostate cancer diagnosis when he had his last screening.
1:15.5	Yeah, especially as the questions stack up about whether his team is being honest about the timing of the diagnosis here.
1:24.1	And beyond that, it comes as this new book out, the latest book is out. This is the Jake
1:28.0	Tapper, Alex Thompson book, about what took place inside the Biden administration, what they
1:33.9	attempted to cover up here. And it's interesting, Jill, will play a clip from one of the more
1:38.1	challenging interviews they had with Megan Kelly, who was like, why did it take you guys so long
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