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What we know about Palestinians killed near aid trucks · Apple News Today

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  [MUSIC FADES IN]
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  Mark Garrison, Narrating: Good morning! It’s Friday, March 1st. I’m Mark Garrison in for Shumita Basu.
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  This is Apple News Today.
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  On the show, Biden and Trump make dueling visits to the border,
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  understanding the deadly and traumatic reality
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  first responders face at that border,
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  and answers to burning questions about the 2024 presidential race.
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  [MUSIC FADES]
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  But first, a deadly incident in Gaza underscores just how dangerous
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  humanitarian conditions are there.
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  Gaza health authorities say more than 100 people were killed
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  and hundreds more injured during a delivery of aid yesterday.
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  Palestinian and Israeli sources are providing very different accounts
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  of what happened.
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  Palestinians say many civilians were gunned down by Israeli forces.
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  Israel’s military says troops did open fire,
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  but only in a limited way after feeling threatened by the crowd.
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  Israel says many deaths happened in the crush of people
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  approaching the convoy, and as people were run over
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  by the aid trucks.
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  The "BBC" aired an eyewitness account from Kamel Abu Nahel, who was injured.
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  [START BBC ARCHIVAL CLIP]
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  Kamel Abu Nahel: [SPEAKING THROUGH TRANSLATOR]
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  Translator: After they stopped shooting, we went back to get our aid.
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  By the time I got flour and some canned goods and took it down
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  from the truck, they shot at us.
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  They shot me, and the truck driver left and ran over my leg.
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  [END BBC ARCHIVAL CLIP]
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  Garrison, Narrating: There may be disputes about exactly what happened
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  in that incident, which the U.S. and U.N. want fully investigated.
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  But what is clear is that there are severe shortages
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  of food and water in Gaza.
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  And families in that crowd were desperate to get something to eat.
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  A recent U.N. report says one in six children in Gaza
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  are acutely malnourished.
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  The World Food Program has warned that famine is ‘imminent.'
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  That means a substantial portion of Gaza's population lacking access
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  to food, and widespread risk of death by starvation.
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  Philippe Lazzarini is head of UNRWA, the U.N. humanitarian agency
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  working in Gaza. He told "CNN" about the situation on the ground.
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  [START CNN ARCHIVAL CLIP]
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  Philippe Lazzarini: We are talking about a man-made famine, because we have kind of a total blockage
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  for the people who are living in the north.
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  [END CNN ARCHIVAL CLIP]
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  Garrison, Narrating: The chief of humanitarian aid for the U.N. is calling on countries
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  to prohibit the use of starvation as "a method of warfare."
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  The U.N.’s top court previously ordered Israel to take steps to make sure
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  humanitarian aid can get to Palestinian civilians.
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  As conditions get worse, other efforts are ramping up.
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  Jordan and France airdropped aid into Gaza earlier this week.
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  And the U.S. is reportedly considering airdrops as well,
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  [TENSE MUSIC]
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  as it gets harder to deliver supplies by land.
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  Now, let’s take a quick look at some other stories in the news.
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  In Washington, a stopgap spending measure is in place
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  to avoid a government shutdown.
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  [MUSIC FADES]
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  The House and Senate passed a bill to keep the government funded
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  while talks go on about a larger budget deal.
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  In Alabama, state lawmakers are moving forward on legislation
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  that would protect IVF patients and doctors from legal repercussions.
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  Many clinics there stopped services after the state Supreme Court
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  ruled that frozen embryos were children.
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  The State Senate and House have more work to do.
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  A final bill could be signed into law by the governor soon.
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  Now to immigration news, where a federal court is blocking
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  a new Texas law that would allow state law enforcement to deport migrants.
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  The judge says it’s unconstitutional because the federal government
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  has authority over border issues.
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  The law is a key piece of Texas Republican Governor Greg Abbott’s
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  immigration policy.
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  Former president Donald Trump appeared with him yesterday
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  on a visit to the border.
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  [START FORBES ARCHIVAL CLIP]
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  Former President Donald Trump: Texas is very secure and it’s going to be even more secure
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  by the time you finish, which will be soon.
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  [END FORBES ARCHIVAL CLIP]
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  Garrison, Narrating: President Biden visited a different stretch of the border yesterday.
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  And he said Trump should back a new immigration bill.
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  [START CNBC ARCHIVAL CLIP]
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  President Joe Biden: Join me, or I'll join you, in telling the Congress
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  to pass this bipartisan border security bill.
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  We can do it together. You know, and I know
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  it's the toughest, most efficient, most effective border security bill
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  this country has ever seen.
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  So instead of playing politics with the issue,
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  why don't we just get together and get it done?
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  Let's remember who the heck we work for.
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  [END CNBC ARCHIVAL CLIP]
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  Garrison, Narrating: That bill had support from some GOP lawmakers.
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  But many pulled back after Trump encouraged Republicans
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  [GENTLE MUSIC]
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  to oppose a compromise on border security.
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  While politicians talk about the border, first responders have to deal
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  with deadly realities there, day in and day out.
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  "NBC" talked to firefighters and EMTs in the border town of Eagle Pass, Texas.
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  And we should warn you, their stories are graphic.
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  [MUSIC FADES]
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  They’re often recovering the bodies of migrants,
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  including many children, who’ve died trying to swim across the Rio Grande.
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  Marcos Kypuros is a 20-year veteran of the department,
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  where emergency calls have doubled.
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  [START NBC ARCHIVAL CLIP]
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  Marcos Kypuros: It was just a constant thing, showing up to work at 8 a.m.
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  and receiving that tone out at 8:03 to respond to a body recovery
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  and from that it escalated to a body rescue
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  and back to a body recovery and we'd be in the river
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  for three, four hours.
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  [END NBC ARCHIVAL CLIP]
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  Garrison, Narrating: Kypuros says, he’s lost count of how many bodies he’s had to recover.
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  He told "NBC" about the toll it’s taking on his mental health.
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  [START NBC ARCHIVAL CLIP]
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  Kypuros: I went up to chief one day and I said, "Hey chief, I kind of need a break."
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  [END NBC ARCHIVAL CLIP]
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  Garrison, Narrating: That Chief, Manuel Mello, understands why his people
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  are struggling to cope.
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  It’s more than anything he’s ever had to deal with.
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  [START NBC ARCHIVAL CLIP]
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  Manuel Mello: Nothing even close to what I experienced while was on the line.
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  It's a whole different monster.
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  [END NBC ARCHIVAL CLIP]
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  Garrison, Narrating: Mello went into graphic detail about the traumatizing experiences
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  first responders are dealing with on a regular basis.
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  [START NBC ARCHIVAL CLIP]
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  Mello: They see decomposing bodies. They see children that have drowned.
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  And if you ever see that, I can give you an image of that.
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  Babies two months old with their eyes half open,
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  their mouth full of mud, their ears full of mud,
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  where they've been stuck on the side of the river.
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  That's what these guys are seeing.
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  [END NBC ARCHIVAL CLIP]
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  Garrison, Narrating: City officials are trying to get first responders more help
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  to deal with the mental strain.
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  They’re applying for a state grant to bring in additional
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  mental health services.
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  [GENTLE MUSIC]
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  But for now, the drownings keep happening, giving firefighters and EMTs
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  little time to stop and breathe before they have to respond
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  to another call.
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  Let’s end the show with a quick look at the presidential race.
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  For the next few weeks while Shumita is on maternity leave,
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  Apple News "In Conversation" will be hosted by Brian Stelter,
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  former anchor of "CNN’s" "Reliable Sources."
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  [MUSIC FADES]
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  In his first episode, his guests are "New Yorker" staff writers
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  Susan Glasser, Jane Mayer, and Evan Osnos, who also cohost
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  "The Political Scene" podcast.
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  They’ll give us the answers to some of the unavoidable questions about the 2024 race.
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  Like, can Trump still run for president even if he gets convicted of a crime?
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  [START IN CONVERSATION CLIP]
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  Jane Mayer: He can still be president, even if he's a convicted felon.
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  [END IN CONVERSATION CLIP]
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  Garrison, Narrating: And, why are so many Americans in denial about the names
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  that are almost certain to be on the ticket?
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  [START IN CONVERSATION CLIP]
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  Evan Osnos: If you talk to people inside the Biden campaign,
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  their own polling is telling them that only about 20 percent
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  of Americans believe at this point that it's going to be a contest
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  between Donald Trump and Joe Biden.
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  And here's the most amazing fact…
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  Brian Stelter: Even though that is the most likely outcome.
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  Susan Glasser: Twenty percent.
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  Osnos: Twenty percent.
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  Glasser: Twenty percent.
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  [MUSIC FADES IN]
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  Osnos: And, so, the reason why that's important
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  is that until you have a moment when the choice is in front of you,
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  until you're standing at the buffet, and that's it.
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  It's either the salad or the hamburger. You don't have any real capacity
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  to make an abstract decision.
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  Glasser: What if I don't want a salad or a hamburger? [LAUGHS]
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  Osnos: Well, then you can stay home, and that's a politically meaningful fact.
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  [END IN CONVERSATION CLIP]
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  Garrison, Narrating: If you’re listening in the News app, we have this episode cued up
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  to play for you next.
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  If you’re listening in the Podcasts app, you can find it by searching for
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  Apple News "In Conversation."
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  Enjoy the weekend, and we’ll be back with the news on Monday.
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  [MUSIC FADES]