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🗓️ 20 August 2025
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| 0:00.0 | Tonight on 360, the president calls the Smithsonian Museum out of control and party, |
| 0:07.0 | says, because of its focus on how bad slavery was. |
| 0:10.7 | Also tonight, will they or won't they? |
| 0:12.8 | The White House says Russia has agreed to a Putin-Zelensky meeting. |
| 0:15.4 | The Russians, though, have yet to say. |
| 0:17.8 | And later, House Republicans set to make some Epstein files public. The question is which |
| 0:21.6 | ones and what's being left now. Good evening. Thanks for joining us. We begin tonight, |
| 0:25.6 | keep it am honest, with the president's latest attack on the Smithsonian. Just a week ago today, |
| 0:30.5 | he unveiled plans to review and oversee what museums there exhibit or plan to exhibit. And though |
| 0:35.9 | the White House letter to the Smithsonian's top executive at the time said the goal was, quote, |
| 0:40.3 | not to interfere with the day-to-day operations of curators or staffers. |
| 0:44.3 | It seems the president already has some ideas of his own. |
| 0:46.3 | He laid them out today in a social media post. |
| 0:48.3 | In it, he writes, the Smithsonian is out of control. |
| 0:52.3 | Where everything discussed is how horrible our country is, |
| 0:55.0 | how bad slavery was, and how unaccomplished the downtrodden have been. |
| 1:01.0 | Nothing about success, nothing about brightness, nothing about the future. |
| 1:05.0 | He goes on to say, this country cannot be woke because woke is broke. |
| 1:09.0 | We have the hottest country in the world, and we want |
| 1:11.5 | people to talk about it, including in our museums. Now, it was, of course, the slavery part |
| 1:16.4 | that first stood out in that even the best possible interpretation of what the president |
| 1:20.2 | said is that by his way of thinking the Smithsonian is focusing too much on bad things, including |
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