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Trump does nothing about reports that Russia put a bounty on American troops, shares a video of his supporters chanting “white power,” and asks the Supreme Court to end the Affordable Care Act. Then Biden adviser Ron Klain talks to Jon Favreau about the state of the pandemic, and the state of the 2020 campaign.
Guests from the crypto investor Ari Paul to Harvard prof Dr. Vikram Mansharamani discuss bitcoin, the economy and social unrest.
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June 2020 will go down in the history books as an extremely chaotic and confusing period.
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Grim new milestones in the coronavirus pandemic. President Trump insists he was never briefed about an alleged Russian plot to get the Taliban to kill US forces. Lights out for the "Stars and Bars" in Mississippi. Correspondent Steve Kathan has the CBS World News Roundup for Monday, June 29, 2020.
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Special guest Candace Opper tells Mike and Sarah how a grunge star became the protagonist in one of America's most persistent conspiracy theories. Digressions include Neil Young, protest songs and the coolest baby of the 1990s. Mike continues to mine his public school education for anatomically impossible rumors.
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Texas is dealing with a surge of COVID-19 cases, just weeks after it had begun reopening its businesses and considering plans to bring school back in the fall. The state’s governor defanged his own orders and invited Texans to reach their own conclusions about the necessity of masks and social distancing.
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Global Coronavirus Milestones:: WSJ, AP, Axios, Johns Hopkins
Masks Encouraged: NBC News, WaPo, WSJ
“Window is Closing” to Get Virus Under Control: CNN, Axios, Politico
Russia Offers Bounties to Kill U.S. Troops: AP, NY Times, FOX News, Reuters, Trump Tweet
Trump Shares “White Power” Video: ABC News, Reuters, NBC News, CNN, Biden Response
Mississippi Flag Vote: WaPo, Reuters, WSJ
DC 51st State Vote: The Week, NPR, USA Today, WaPo, Bowser Tweet
Facebook Labeling Rule-Breaking Posts: AP, Engadget, NPR, Facebook
Major Brands Join Facebook Ad Boycott: CNN, Mashable, USA Today, FOX Business, WSJ
Boeing to Begin Max Test Flights: WSJ, Reuters, NY Times
Kanye West Brings Yeezy to Gap: AP, NY Times, Forbes, Gap
Tom Sutcliffe discusses racism, the traps of history and the Black Lives Matter movement with the American author Brit Bennett and the British academic Gary Younge.
Racial identity, bigotry and shape-shifting are at the centre of Brit Bennett’s new book, The Vanishing Half. The novel focuses on twin sisters who flee the confines of their southern small town, and the attempts by one of the sisters to escape her background completely by passing as white. The social unrest in the US in the 20th century pervades her latest work, but Bennett is hopeful that today’s protests mark the beginning of real change.
Gary Younge lived in the US for 12 years working as a journalist, before he returned home and became Professor of Sociology at Manchester University. He discounts the attempts by some in Britain to claim moral superiority over America in terms of racism. He argues that Britain’s colonial past meant the most egregious racist acts often took place abroad, and so rarely became an integral part of the country’s story.
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