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The Bottom Line episodes

June 17, 2021 Has Biden’s European tour strengthened US alliances? | The Bottom Line
United States President Joe Biden has spent the week meeting with European leaders, including his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin.
It can be called his “I’m not Trump” tour, in which many European leaders indicated relief that the “America First” agenda of Biden’s predecessor is over - for now.
A looming cloud is the fear that all Biden’s talk about a new era of Transatlantic cooperation and alliance could subside again, if the Republican Party makes a comeback in the coming years.
Join host Steve Clemons’ conversation with Russia expert Matthew Rojansky of the Wilson Center and German Marshall Fund pollster Bruce Stokes.
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25 min
June 17, 2021 Has Biden’s European tour strengthened US alliances? | The Bottom Line
United States President Joe Biden has spent the week meeting with European leaders, including his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin.

It can be called his “I’m not Trump” tour, in which many European leaders indicated relief that the “America First” agenda of Biden’s predecessor is over - for now.

A looming cloud is the fear that all Biden’s talk about a new era of Transatlantic cooperation and alliance could subside again, if the Republican Party makes a comeback in the coming years.

Join host Steve Clemons’ conversation with Russia expert Matthew Rojansky of the Wilson Center and German Marshall Fund pollster Bruce Stokes.

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25 min
June 16, 2021 The Texas Blackout | Fault Lines
In the winter of 2021, a crushing storm took down Texas’s power grid.
Millions of people were plunged into darkness, left without heat or water. More than 150 Texans died, most from hypothermia.
Texas is the only state in the United States where the power grid is not under federal oversight. Scores of companies sell electricity in a lightly regulated open market - a system that collapsed under the weight of the storm.
Did years of deregulation and prioritising profits for industry lead to Texas’s power disaster?
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26 min
June 10, 2021 Was COVID-19 created in a Wuhan lab? | The Bottom Line
When former US President Donald Trump talked about the possibility that the pandemic was hatched in a lab in Wuhan, it was generally dismissed as a conspiracy theory tinged with racism. Now President Joe Biden is asking his intelligence agencies to look into it seriously.
Johns Hopkins University immunologist Gigi Gronvall says the “lab accident” hypothesis is much weaker than the “natural introduction” theory, which holds that the virus jumped from animals to humans.
Technology and healthcare futurist Jamie Metzl says China should not be afraid to open up and allow researchers to explore every possible scenario without quashing the debate.
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25 min
June 10, 2021 Was COVID-19 created in a Wuhan lab? | The Bottom Line
When former US President Donald Trump talked about the possibility that the pandemic was hatched in a lab in Wuhan, it was generally dismissed as a conspiracy theory tinged with racism. Now President Joe Biden is asking his intelligence agencies to look into it seriously.

Johns Hopkins University immunologist Gigi Gronvall says the “lab accident” hypothesis is much weaker than the “natural introduction” theory, which holds that the virus jumped from animals to humans.

Technology and healthcare futurist Jamie Metzl says China should not be afraid to open up and allow researchers to explore every possible scenario without quashing the debate.

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25 min
June 09, 2021 Her husband strangled her. The state gave him their daughter | Fault Lines
Under Florida law, domestic violence victims can lose their children if the state thinks they didn’t do enough to prevent the kids from witnessing the abuse. The state calls it “failure to protect.”
“I called for help. I wanted out, and I still got punished,” says Lena Hale, who lost custody of her two children after Florida’s child welfare agency deemed her an unsafe parent because she maintained a relationship with her abusive partner.
Her ex-husband — the abuser — was later awarded full custody of their daughter.
Fault Lines investigates Florida’s child protection agency and asks if the state is doing more harm than good to some families.
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25 min
June 03, 2021 Should ‘Critical Race Theory’ be taught to US students? | The Bottom Line
Reverend William Barber, president of the Repairers of the Breach social justice movement, tells host Steve Clemons that the US needs a “third Reconstruction” to really break free of its racist past.
The debate on how to teach US racial history rages in classrooms across the country.
Progressives believe Americans should know more about white supremacy and modern-day discrimination against Black and brown Americans in everything from housing to healthcare.
Conservatives believe that “critical race theory” pits Americans against each other and challenges the idea that the US is the greatest country in the history of the universe.
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25 min
June 03, 2021 Should ‘Critical Race Theory’ be taught to US students? | The Bottom Line
Reverend William Barber, president of the Repairers of the Breach social justice movement, tells host Steve Clemons that the US needs a “third Reconstruction” to really break free of its racist past.

The debate on how to teach US racial history rages in classrooms across the country.

Progressives believe Americans should know more about white supremacy and modern-day discrimination against Black and brown Americans in everything from housing to healthcare.

Conservatives believe that “critical race theory” pits Americans against each other and challenges the idea that the US is the greatest country in the history of the universe.

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25 min
May 27, 2021 Is there hope for revived peace talks on Palestine, Israel? | The Bottom Line
Almost 30 years ago, a Norwegian power couple decided to bring together Palestinian and Israeli officials in Oslo with the aim of reaching a peace treaty. This led to a historic deal signed by the Palestine Liberation Organization and Israel at the White House in 1993.
Host Steve Clemons speaks with Bartlett Sher, the director of Oslo, a new HBO drama telling the story of the secret talks.
And former Palestinian negotiations adviser Diana Buttu and former Israeli adviser Daniel Levy explain that as long as the ongoing occupation of Palestinian lands comes at “no cost,” the future for both sides is bleak.
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26 min
May 27, 2021 Is there hope for revived peace talks on Palestine, Israel? | The Bottom Line
Almost 30 years ago, a Norwegian power couple decided to bring together Palestinian and Israeli officials in Oslo with the aim of reaching a peace treaty. This led to a historic deal signed by the Palestine Liberation Organization and Israel at the White House in 1993.

Host Steve Clemons speaks with Bartlett Sher, the director of Oslo, a new HBO drama telling the story of the secret talks.

And former Palestinian negotiations adviser Diana Buttu and former Israeli adviser Daniel Levy explain that as long as the ongoing occupation of Palestinian lands comes at “no cost,” the future for both sides is bleak.

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26 min