Tuesday, July 9, 2024
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🗓️ 9 July 2024
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Tuesday briefing: NATO summit; Biden campaign support; Hurricane Beryl damage; Alec Baldwin trial; Johns Hopkins tuition; and more
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| 0:00.0 | NATO's 75th anniversary summit starts today. |
| 0:06.0 | That's where we're starting the seven from the Washington Post. |
| 0:09.0 | I'm Hannah Jewel. |
| 0:10.0 | It's Tuesday, July 9th. |
| 0:12.0 | Let's get you caught up with today's 7 stories. |
| 0:15.0 | The NATO Summit will be held in Washington, D.C. |
| 0:21.0 | over the next three days. It's kind of a diplomatic |
| 0:25.0 | Super Bowl. Dozens of world leaders will meet to mark the military |
| 0:29.1 | alliance's birthday. 75 years after it was founded, NATO is bigger and more relevant than it's been in |
| 0:35.7 | decades. But there are some serious clouds looming over the summit. |
| 0:40.9 | President Biden has championed NATO. But if Donald Trump wins November's |
| 0:45.1 | presidential election that could send shock waves through the alliance. Back in |
| 0:49.7 | February, Trump claimed that he would encourage Russia to attack US allies if they |
| 0:54.7 | failed to spend enough on their militaries. The allies are also worried about |
| 0:59.2 | Trump pulling the plug on military aid for Ukraine, So they'll use the summit to outline how they |
| 1:05.2 | plan to keep helping Ukraine in its war against Russia. Security will be tight. So if you're |
| 1:11.2 | listening to this in DC, you should prepare for a complicated commute. |
| 1:15.2 | You can find everything you need to know in our newsletter. |
| 1:17.9 | Follow the link to that in our show notes. President Biden won some crucial new support for his re-election campaign. That's number two. A parade of elected Democrats |
| 1:36.0 | embraced Biden's bid for a second term yesterday. It was a sharp reversal |
| 1:40.7 | after a stretch when every day seemed to bring another defection. |
| 1:45.5 | Support came from influential figures, like Representative Alexandria Acasio Cortez of New York |
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