What did the president stow and when did he stow it? Biden‘s mess
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The Economist
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🗓️ 16 January 2023
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Summary
A drip-feed of discoveries of classified material in Joe Biden’s home and offices—and the president’s botched messaging around them—are a gift to Republicans and to Donald Trump, who is under investigation for similar infractions. Our correspondent learns that many Ukrainian soldiers are freezing their sperm before heading to battle. And the fight about hunting in France is no small-boar matter.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the intelligence from the economist. |
| 0:06.5 | In New York, I'm John Fassman. |
| 0:09.4 | And in London, I'm Jason Palmer. |
| 0:11.5 | Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. |
| 0:18.1 | Before the war, Ukraine was a global hub for the fertility industry. |
| 0:22.6 | Now those clinics are being used not only by foreign couples who want a baby, but also |
| 0:27.3 | to help Ukrainians preserve the hope of a family should a potential father fall in battle. |
| 0:34.6 | And winters in French forests are mostly quiet and peaceful, except for the gunfire. |
| 0:40.9 | Hunting season runs from September to February, and an increasing number of accidents has |
| 0:45.7 | triggered a rile about the use of France's countryside. |
| 0:56.0 | This weekend, five more pages of classified documents were revealed to have been found |
| 1:09.2 | in President Joe Biden's family home in Delaware. |
| 1:12.4 | The White House disclosing Saturday, five additional pages were found in a review of the |
| 1:17.0 | Wilmington residents. |
| 1:18.8 | It followed the announcement last week that documents had been discovered in the President's |
| 1:22.3 | garage and adjacent room. |
| 1:24.1 | The age to President Biden have now found a second batch of classified documents at a |
| 1:29.0 | new location. |
| 1:30.6 | And more in his former office at the Think Tank, the Penn Biden Center. |
| 1:34.4 | Democrats had been making much of the discovery of top secret and classified files at Donald |
| 1:49.0 | Trump's Mar-a-Lago home last August. |
| 1:52.0 | It seems at the very least something of an own goal for the current President and an unexpected |
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