Tucker, Putin and the NSA

1 big thing

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🗓️ 8 July 2021

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Last Monday, Tucker Carlson went in front of his several million viewers and made an extraordinary accusation: that the NSA was spying on his emails. The NSA issued a rare, public denial that Carlson had been targeted. Plus, turmoil in Haiti. And, Dr. Ibram X. Kendi on the unfair expectations placed on athletes. Guests: Axios' Dave Lawler, Jonathan Swan, and How to Be an Antiracist's Dr. Ibram X. Kendi. Credits: Axios Today is produced in partnership with Pushkin Industries. The team includes Niala Boodhoo, Sara Kehaulani Goo, Dan Bobkoff, Alexandra Botti, Justin Kaufmann, Nuria Marquez Martinez, Sabeena Singhani, Amy Pedulla, Naomi Shavin, and Alex Sugiura. Music is composed by Evan Viola. You can reach us at podcasts@axios.com. You can text questions, comments and story ideas to Niala as a text or voice memo to 202-918-4893. Go deeper: Scoop: Tucker Carlson sought Putin interview at time of spying claim Haiti President Jovenel Moïse assassinated Controversy ahead of the Olympics Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	What do I do?
0:01.2	What do I do?
0:02.4	What do I say?
0:03.6	What do I say?
0:30.0	Good morning, welcome to Axios today, it's Thursday, July 8th, I'm Nyla Boudou, here's
0:39.8	what you need to know today, Jonathan Swan joins us with his latest scoop, plus Dr. E-Broom
0:45.4	X-Candy on the unfair expectations we place on athletes, but first, turmoil in Haiti
0:52.0	is today's one big thing.
0:59.9	Maybe like me, you woke up yesterday to the news that the president of Haiti, Juvenile
1:04.5	Moïse, was assassinated overnight at his home on Wednesday.
1:09.0	Last night, Haitian police said they had killed four suspects and arrested another two that
1:14.0	they called the presumed assassins.
1:16.9	It's just the latest and most serious incident in months of turmoil for the Caribbean nation.
1:22.6	Axios's world editor, Dave Loller, is here now to catch us up.
1:25.6	Hey Dave.
1:26.6	Hi, Nyla.
1:27.6	I think the most important question is, do we know who's running Haiti right now?
1:31.4	So according to the Prime Minister of Haiti, he is running the country.
1:35.1	He did a televised press conference yesterday where he came out and tried to say that the
1:40.4	situation was under control.
1:42.0	But obviously, if you have to come out and say that you are the president now, you're
1:45.6	in a position where this chain of succession is not clear, and so you have a situation
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