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News Wrap: Biden announces purchase of more vaccine doses
S2021 E42 - 5m 21s
In our news wrap Thursday, President Biden announced the U.S. purchased another 200 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines while blaming President Trump for doing little to lay the groundwork, a gunman in Afghanistan killed five police officers, fresh protests gripped Myanmar’s largest cities over the military coup, and a deadly pileup on an icy interstate.
Democracy is elusive in Egypt 10 years after Arab Spring
S2021 E42 - 6m 56s
Ten years ago on Thursday, longtime Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak was deposed. The Egyptian revolution was the high point of what became known as the Arab Spring, a movement that spread across the Middle East bringing with it the possibility of democracy. But for many Egyptians and much of the region, the intervening decade, has not been kind. Nick Schifrin reports.
Democrats wrap up their case in Trump’s impeachment trial
S2021 E42 - 9m 43s
Thursday was the second and final day for the House of Representatives to make their case against former President Trump for inciting an assault on the U.S. Capitol. Senators serving as the jury at his impeachment trial heard that the mob on Jan. 6 had no doubt about why they were there. Yamiche Alcindor and Lisa Desjardins join Judy Woodruff to discuss the day's events.
Sen. Mark Warner: Evidence 'overwhelmingly compelling’
S2021 E42 - 6m 9s
House Democrats on Thursday zeroed in on the argument that former President Trump wanted rioters to invade the U.S. Capitol. Democratic Sen. Mark Warner of Virginia, one of the jurors in the trial, joins Judy Woodruff to discuss his views on how the trial has gone thus far.
Assessing the strength of the legal arguments on Trump
S2021 E42 - 7m 52s
President Trump's defense team will make their argument Friday in his impeachment trial. Elizabeth Chryst, the Republican Senate secretary during President Bill Clinton’s impeachment trial, and Melody Barnes, of the University of Virginia's Democracy Initiative, helped broker that trial's rules as chief counsel to Massachusetts Sen. Ted Kennedy. They join Judy Woodruff to discuss Trump’s trial.
How the country is reacting to Trump's impeachment trial
S2021 E42 - 8m 2s
To get a sense of how the impeachment trial is being seen and heard across the country outside Washington, D.C., we spoke with two political reporters about what people are saying on the ground in Phoenix, Arizona and Ann Arbor, Michigan. Yvonne Wingett Sanchez, a national political reporter for The Arizona Republic, and Tim Alberta, of POLITICO, join Judy Woodruff to discuss.
Abandoned by the U.S., Afghan fighter pilot faces new threat
S2021 E42 - 8m 5s
Thousands of Afghans who worked with the U.S. military are trying to get visas promised to them when they took the jobs. Naiem Asadi was one of Afghanistan’s most celebrated military helicopter pilots who was trained by Americans to fight. But now, abandoned by the U.S., hunted by the Taliban, and threatened by his own government, he faces new dangers. Jane Ferguson and Emily Kassie report.
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