Weekly Roundup: May 20th
The NPR Politics Podcast
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4.5 • 24.9K Ratings
🗓️ 20 May 2022
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
And after decades of reluctance, Finland and Sweden now hope to join NATO, the U.S.-Europe military alliance founded to protect against possible Russian aggression. The change in stance was prompted by Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine.
This episode: White House correspondent Scott Detrow, chief economics correspondent Scott Horsley, congressional correspondent Kelsey Snell, and white House correspondent Franco Ordoñez.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi there, this is Jay and I'm currently waiting on the bandstand at Rutgers University's commencement ceremony waiting to play pomp and circumstance for what will feel like an eternity. |
| 0:10.0 | This podcast was recorded at... |
| 0:12.0 | It is 107 Eastern on Friday, May 20th. |
| 0:16.0 | Things might have changed by time you hear this, but for me I'll have walked across that stage earning my doctorate in clarinet performance. |
| 0:23.0 | Congratulations to all the graduates! |
| 0:25.0 | Very exciting. Congratulations! |
| 0:31.0 | Wait, was he playing it and then also graduating or was he just saying playing it so long gets him a doctorate? |
| 0:36.0 | Yeah, there's going to be a lull in the clarinet portion of pomp and circumstance for the first time in the next semester. |
| 0:43.0 | Hey there, it's the NPR Politics podcast. I'm Scott Detreau. I cover the White House. |
| 0:48.0 | I'm Kelsey Snelli, cover Congress. |
| 0:50.0 | We have surprised special long time friend of the podcast. Scott Orsley here again. Hey Scott. |
| 0:55.0 | And former clarinet player. Really? |
| 0:57.0 | Did you do marching band? I did not. No. I was a seated clarinetist. And even then I was not very good. |
| 1:05.0 | Okay, so Scott, you are here because Baby Formula has been hard to find in many parts of the country. |
| 1:11.0 | This is obviously a major crisis for many babies and parents. It's got a lot of political implications too and because of that it dominated a lot of the news here in Washington this week. |
| 1:19.0 | And Scott, you come into this not because you are responsible for the problem or making more formula yourself, but because you've been covering the story pretty extensively. |
| 1:28.0 | You posted a long story explaining exactly how we got here and the first sentence in a Scott Orsley-esque lead. |
| 1:35.0 | Red like a baby's temper tantrum. The meltdown in the infant formula market has been building for some time. |
| 1:41.0 | Yeah, well, Formula has suffered from some of the same ingredient shortages and transportation challenges that other industries have faced. |
| 1:49.0 | But the real meltdown here started back in February when a big formula factory in Michigan was shut down and had to recall a lot of formula because of suspected contamination. |
| 2:01.0 | And the fact that a single plant shutdown can have such wide ranging effects all over the country shows just how concentrated the formula industry is. There's just four companies that control 90% of the market. |
| 2:13.0 | Wow. |
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