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What A Day
What A Day
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🗓️ 18 December 2020
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Congressional leaders are putting together the final pieces of an emerging deal on COVID relief, but the negotiations could continue into the weekend. We spoke to Congressman Ro Khanna about the relief bill, the Biden transition and what gives him hope for next year.
This year saw the largest-ever racial justice uprisings since the 1960s, following the racist killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and many other Black Americans. We looked back at some of the conversations we’ve had with activists, journalists, and elected officials about the movement and what it means to them.
For our final round of headlines, we focused on the issue of policing: the botched raid of Anjanette Young’s apartment in Chicago and the city’s attempt to keep it quiet, new studies that show giving police military gear doesn’t lower crime rates, and Tamika Palmer’s open letter to Joe Biden about her daughter, Breonna Taylor.
Show Announcement:
What A Day will be off for the rest of the year & back on Monday January 4th. Thank you for listening and we'll see you next year!
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| 0:00.0 | It's Friday, December 18th. |
| 0:07.9 | I'm Kila Hughes. |
| 0:08.9 | And I'm Gideon Resnick and this is what a day where we have determined that all snowflakes |
| 0:13.0 | are liberal snowflakes. |
| 0:14.1 | Yeah, we interviewed some snowflakes and before they melted, they told us that they support |
| 0:17.6 | good social programs, no war, the Green New Deal, a bunch of stuff. |
| 0:21.7 | Yeah, they kept wanting to talk about Walter Mondale, which felt dated to me, but, you know, |
| 0:25.8 | I'll let it be. |
| 0:35.4 | Quick announcement before we get started, this is going to be our last episode of the year |
| 0:39.1 | and what a year, see what I did, it has been. |
| 0:43.6 | So we've had the overlapping crises of the pandemic and systemic racism with a historic |
| 0:48.3 | push in police violence. |
| 0:50.2 | It's impossible to sum it up, but we're going to try to put the focus on those two issues |
| 0:53.6 | today. |
| 0:54.6 | And then we'll be back next year with more news starting on Monday, January 4th. |
| 0:58.4 | Yes, more news. |
| 1:00.4 | Stay tuned. |
| 1:01.4 | But on to today's show, we've got a conversation with Congressman Rokana about the pandemic |
| 1:05.2 | relief bill, then some headlines. |
| 1:07.4 | So let's start with the latest. |
| 1:08.6 | A panel of experts voted in favor of authorizing the Moderna vaccine yesterday, paving the |
| 1:12.9 | way for the FDA to formally do that today, which would mean more doses on the way soon. |
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