Weekly Roundup: May 29th, 2020

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🗓️ 29 May 2020

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

President Trump responded to violent protests days after the killing of a black man. He said he will send in the National Guard, adding: "When the looting starts, the shooting starts."

Joe Biden called on the nation to better empathize with the pain of black Americans in the wake of the death of the black man by a white police officer.

Plus, the death toll from the coronavirus pandemic reaches a 100,000 milestone.

This episode: Congressional correspondent Susan Davis, White House reporter Ayesha Rascoe, campaign correspondent Scott Detrow, and science correspondent Richard Harris.

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0:00.0	Hey there, it's the MPR Politics Podcast and it's 3.13 pm on Friday, May 29th.
0:09.3	I'm Susan Davis, I cover Congress.
0:11.3	I'm Scott Detro, I'm now back to covering the campaign.
0:14.2	And I'm Aisha Roscoe, I cover the White House.
0:16.2	I just want to give a heads up to our listeners before we get started.
0:19.5	This week's Roundup is going to be a bit of a tough listen for a lot of people because
0:23.1	the news has been pretty heavy this week.
0:25.5	This week the United States passed a sad milestone in the coronavirus pandemic.
0:29.9	More than 100,000 people in counting have died from COVID-19.
0:34.1	In Minneapolis, a black man named George Floyd died Monday after a white police officer
0:39.0	held him down on the ground and knelt on his neck.
0:41.4	Today that officer was charged with third-degree murder and manslaughter and protests have
0:45.8	erupted all across the country.
0:48.4	Yesterday, on this podcast we talked about how President Trump's initial reaction seemed
0:52.9	different.
0:53.9	All the death sad, he was supportive of a swift review by the Justice Department.
0:58.6	But Aisha, he seemed to manage to undo all of that with a single tweet.
1:03.7	Yeah, well, he sent these tweets.
1:06.0	It was about one in the morning, Eastern time.
1:09.2	There was a lot of unrest last night.
1:12.7	And Trump starts tweeting that he can't stand back and watch this happen to a great American
1:17.2	city.
	...

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