UNBIASED Politics (1/16/25): Cuba No Longer State Sponsor of Terrorism, Transgender Sports Bill, Israel and Hamas Ceasefire, SEC Sues Elon Musk, FDA Bans Red Dye No. 3, some GOOD NEWS, and More.

UNBIASED Politics

Jordan Berman

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4.8 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Welcome back to UNBIASED. In today's episode: President Biden Removes Cuba from List of State Sponsors of Terrorism (0:10) House Passes Transgender Sports Bill; Here's Why It'll Be Tougher to Pass in Senate (4:27) SEC Sues Elon Musk over Late Twitter Ownership Disclosure (9:05) FDA Bans Red Dye No. 3 (12:47) Senate Confirmation Hearings Kick Off; Recapping Hearings of Pete Hegseth and Pam Bondi (17:16) Multiple Lawsuits Filed After LA Wildfires (24:03) Israel and Hamas Reach Ceasefire Deal with Help of Biden and Trump Administrations (28:43) Quick Hitters: President Biden's Farewell Address, New Rule Bans Chinese and Russian Tech in Passenger Cars, DOT Sues Southwest and Frontier for Delayed Flights, Southwest Airlines Pilot Arrested on Plane for DUI, Trump Announces 'External Revenue Service,' WSJ Reports TikTok Considering Musk to Take Over US Operations, TikTok's CEO to Attend Inauguration, Supreme Court Hears First Amendment Porn Law Case, DOJ Releases Volume One of Trump Election Interference Report, Blue Origin Rocket Launches Into Orbit, Mortgage Rates Are Up (32:24) Some GOOD News (39:04) Listen/Watch this episode AD-FREE on Patreon. Watch this episode on YouTube. Follow Jordan on Instagram and TikTok. All sources for this episode can be found here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:30.1	Welcome back to Unbiased, your favorite source of unbiased news and legal analysis.
0:37.0	Welcome back to Unbiased. Today is Thursday, January 16th. Let's get into some news and legal analysis. Welcome back to Unbiased.
0:38.4	Today is Thursday, January 16th.
0:40.2	Let's get into some news.
0:41.5	Starting with the first story, the United States will remove Cuba from a list of state
0:45.8	sponsors of terrorism, at least for now.
0:48.5	On Tuesday, President Biden notified Congress that he intends to lift the U.S.
0:52.2	designation of Cuba as a state sponsor of terrorism
0:55.5	as part of a deal between Cuba and the Catholic Church. Before we get into the specifics of the deal,
1:02.7	I do quickly want to talk about what it means to be a state sponsor of terrorism and specifically
1:08.3	Cuba's history on the list. So for a country to be designated
1:11.3	a state sponsor of terrorism, the Secretary of State has to determine that the country has
1:16.8	repeatedly provided support for acts of international terrorism. Cuba is one of the four countries
1:22.0	with this designation. The other three are North Korea, Iran, and Syria. Now, Cuba was the first, or I should say it was
1:30.9	first designated a state sponsor of terrorism in 1982. This was during the Reagan administration.
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