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🗓️ 25 February 2025
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Tuesday briefing: Trump and Macron; Elon Musk’s email to federal workers; DoorDash payout; Roberta Flack; Fyre Festival 2; and more
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0:00.0 | The French president paid a visit to Washington. |
0:05.4 | DoorDash workers in New York got a big settlement. |
0:09.2 | And if you missed out on the first fire festival, now's your chance to attend the next one. |
0:15.0 | That's some of what we'll get to on the seven from the Washington Post. |
0:18.2 | I'm Hannah Jewell. |
0:19.3 | It's Tuesday, February 25th. Let's get you caught up with |
0:22.6 | today's seven stories. Number one, President Donald Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron |
0:32.0 | met in the Oval Office yesterday. The meeting came on the third anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, and at a pivotal |
0:40.3 | moment for the relationship between Europe, Russia, and the U.S. At the United Nations yesterday, |
0:46.7 | the Trump administration sided with Russia and against Ukraine, voting to oppose a resolution |
0:52.5 | condemning Russia for its invasion. It was the most profound |
0:56.7 | split between the U.S. and its Western allies at the U.N. in decades, and it reflected what |
1:02.3 | appears to be a historic realignment between Washington and Moscow. Despite this, the meeting |
1:08.6 | between Macron and Trump was mostly friendly, at least in front of the cameras. |
1:13.6 | Macron did attempt to bend Trump back to the side of Ukraine in its war with Russia. |
1:18.9 | He offered a warning to Trump that Russian President Vladimir Putin could not be trusted. |
1:24.2 | He said that he had had extensive conversations with Putin ahead of Russia's 22 invasion of Ukraine. |
1:33.7 | The Trump administration told agencies that they can ignore Elon Musk's email order. That's number two. |
1:41.5 | Over the weekend, Musk said he'd effectively fire federal employees who don't |
1:46.1 | send in summaries of what they did at work last week. The billionaire Trump advisor has been on a |
1:51.6 | mission to slash the federal workforce. But his latest move is facing pushback from Trump's |
1:57.3 | own officials. Yesterday, the Office of Personnel Management tried to clarify things. |
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