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🗓️ 9 December 2024
⏱️ 24 minutes
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0:00.0 | From WNYC Studios. |
0:06.9 | I'm Brian Lerer. |
0:08.0 | This is my daily politics podcast. |
0:10.7 | It's Monday, December 9th. |
0:14.1 | If you took the weekend off from news, you may not know that serious dictator Bashar al-Assad got overthr |
0:22.2 | by a coalition of rebels and was granted asylum in Russia by fellow dictator Vladimir Putin. |
0:28.8 | But considering that many of the rebels have had ties to ISIS and al-Qaeda, |
0:32.8 | will the new boss provide any more democracy in human rights than the old boss? |
0:38.6 | They're saying they will, |
0:45.4 | we will see. As for democracy and the new boss in this country, President Elect Trump mused on Meet the Press about whether he might try to ignore the Constitution and deport United States |
0:51.5 | citizens who are related to people here illegally just by issuing an |
0:56.3 | executive order? |
0:58.3 | Well, if we can, through executive action. |
1:00.6 | I was going to do it through executive action, but then we had to fix COVID first, to be |
1:04.1 | honest with you. |
1:05.2 | An executive order rather than a formal repeal process to abolish the 14th Amendment. |
1:13.1 | We'll see if he really tries it. |
1:16.3 | Then there's this weekend's health and economic news. |
1:19.4 | They're related. |
1:20.4 | Friday's jobs report was surprisingly strong, with 227,000 jobs added last month. |
1:27.4 | The health care sector led the way with 53,000 new jobs. |
1:32.4 | Trump's interest in cryptocurrency kept Bitcoin trading around its recent record high. Yes, |
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