US Kills al-Qaida Leader In Drone Strike; Pelosi Visits Taiwan, Rankling China
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4.4 • 25.7K Ratings
🗓️ 2 August 2022
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visits Taiwan today, She is the highest-ranking elected American official to visit Taiwan since then-Speaker Newt Gingrich in 1997. The island democracy governs itself, but China claims it as its territory and the speaker's visit has heightened tensions with the Chinese government in Beijing.
This episode: politics reporter Miles Parks, White House correspondent Franco Ordoñez, congressional correspondent Claudia Grisales, and China correspondent Emily Feng.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Allison Courageo from Durango, Colorado. |
| 0:03.8 | I'm tracking my brothers, sister-in-law, and two nephews |
| 0:06.9 | as they sail across the ocean from Hawaii to Oregon. |
| 0:10.7 | This podcast was recorded at... |
| 0:12.6 | 106 PM on August 2, 2022. |
| 0:15.8 | Things may have changed by the time you hear it. |
| 0:18.4 | Okay, here's the show. |
| 0:20.0 | [♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪ |
| 0:23.1 | Wow, how long do you think that takes? |
| 0:25.7 | Weeks? |
| 0:26.7 | By the time this airs, hopefully they will be a little closer to it. |
| 0:29.4 | Hopefully so if they've got the navigation going well. |
| 0:32.4 | Hey there, it's the MPR Politics Podcast. |
| 0:34.8 | I'm Miles Parks, I cover voting. |
| 0:36.4 | And I'm Franco Adonia as I cover the White House. |
| 0:38.6 | And I just want to start with some news that happened last night. |
| 0:41.9 | President Biden announced the U.S. killed a top al-Qaeda leader |
| 0:45.1 | and 9-11 organizer, |
| 0:46.7 | I'm in Al-Zawahari, in a drone strike in Afghanistan. |
| 0:50.3 | He carved a trail of murder and violence against American citizens, |
| 0:54.5 | American service members, |
| 0:56.2 | American diplomats, |
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