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The Year in Sound: An Audio Time Capsule of 2018

Between the government shutdowns that bookended the year, there were furious standoffs over a border wall; shootings at a high school, a bar, a grocery store, a synagogue; devastating wildfires in California. Handshakes and promises shared with autocrats in North Korea and Russia. Powerful men brought down by #MeToo or trying to make a comeback, and a Supreme Court nominee accused, then elevated to the bench. Questions about a murdered journalist, about election interference, about how much Facebook knew. A midterm vote that delivered one of the most diverse — and divided — governments in American history. Here’s what 2018 sounded like. For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily.
Duration
32m
Broadcast on
24 Dec 2018
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Between the government shutdowns that bookended the year, there were furious standoffs over a border wall; shootings at a high school, a bar, a grocery store, a synagogue; devastating wildfires in California. Handshakes and promises shared with autocrats in North Korea and Russia. Powerful men brought down by #MeToo or trying to make a comeback, and a Supreme Court nominee accused, then elevated to the bench. Questions about a murdered journalist, about election interference, about how much Facebook knew. A midterm vote that delivered one of the most diverse — and divided — governments in American history. Here’s what 2018 sounded like.

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2018, starting off just as 2017, ended a flurry of news and controversies. All right, so President Trump went on a tweet storm on his first day back at work, attacking his own Justice Department as a deep state secretly working to undermine his presidency. Developing now a new war of words with North Korea, President Trump taught to North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un regarding the size of his nuclear launch button. Bragging in a tweet that he has a bigger and more powerful nuclear button than North Korea. But it doesn't stop there. The President tonight apparently uncorking another astonishing statement. The President is teaching little kids a new word. Quote, "Why are we having all these people from..." A word, a bad word. Blank hole. Asshole. Shithole countries. Why do we want these people from quote, "all these shithole countries here?" It appears the federal government is headed for a shutdown in... Day one of the government shutdown, and right now no end in sight. The main issue is immigration. Democrats want legal status for 800,000. Over the issue of a DACA program to protect young, undocumented, responsible... The President is responsible. No wall, no DACA. Senator Schumer now says the border wall funding is no longer an option. All back. And it's not even February yet. The special counsel's investigation will continue to haunt the Trump administration in 2018. Special counsel Robert Mueller brought the indictment of 13 Russian nationals on charges they interfered with the President's race. First charges by Robert Mueller specifically for that interference. Sources tell the New York Times that President Trump ordered the firing

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Between the government shutdowns that bookended the year, there were furious standoffs over a border wall; shootings at a high school, a bar, a grocery store, a synagogue; devastating wildfires in California. Handshakes and promises shared with autocrats in North Korea and Russia. Powerful men brought down by #MeToo or trying to make a comeback, and a Supreme Court nominee accused, then elevated to the bench. Questions about a murdered journalist, about election interference, about how much Facebook knew. A midterm vote that delivered one of the most diverse — and divided — governments in American history. Here’s what 2018 sounded like. For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily.