Welcome to 2020, two headlines highlights, and history. We are coming to from times square in the heart of new yor city, home to the famous bal drop that marks the beginning, and and of every year. I am and im Savannah Sellers but the next hour, we ar taking a look back at th biggest stories of 2022. It started with the war i ukraine,s Supreme Court retirement, and the oscar slap the shook hollywood. And it is ending with a tripledemic, looming recession fears and a world uniting on the soccer field along the way there were celebrations, loss, an hopefully some lessons to take until 2023 first, lets remember the headlines that fine 202 were seismic, and historic europes Largest Armed conflic since world war ii, a suprem Court Decision that overturned more than four decades o precedent. The death of a monarch who had rainforest 70 years. Yet, in its earliest days, 202 seemed more like a copycat wit the worst qualities of the two previous years staggering new covid numbers, deadly cases
welcome to a special thanksgiving edition of th show to what i am coming the mehdi hassan book club via oprah. bucks and all have been mainstay of the show giving me a chance to dive deep into a subject. book segments helping me understand the male strip of this relentless news cycle so we will revisit some of our famous conversations wit authors this year. how the media needs to cover elections when one party i campaigning against democrac how marjorie taylor greene has gone from the fringe to th center of the republican party and how outgoing speaker nancy pelosi consequentially one o the most consequential speaker of our lifetimes may have bought the opportunit to convict president donal trump. we start the day about books particularly the endless strea of tell-all books about donald trump. what was to all of them was no the what or the when if that i with so many crucial whereas relations wait for a boo publishing date? i want to show you an old news we cover from almost
welcome to 2020, two headlines highlights, and history. we are coming to from times square in the heart of new yor city, home to the famous bal drop that marks the beginning, and and of every year. i am - and i m savannah sellers but the next hour, we ar taking a look back at th biggest stories of 2022. it started with the war i ukraine, s supreme court retirement, and the oscar slap the shook hollywood. and it is ending with a tripledemic, looming recession fears and a world uniting on the soccer field along the way there were celebrations, loss, an hopefully some lessons to take until 2023 first, let s remember the headlines that fine 202 were seismic, and historic europe s largest armed conflic since world war ii, a suprem court decision that overturned more than four decades o precedent. the death of a monarch who had rainforest 70 years. yet, in its earliest days, 202 seemed more like a copycat wit the worst qualities of the two previous years staggering new
year they are history making, unprecedented, consequential from criminal investigations into the former president of the united states to midterm elections that preserved our democracy, from the makeup o the supreme court and th decisions that threatened ou rights to the very rapid ris of hate speech on public discourse, we have plenty to dig into you are watching simone and yo know i have a lot to say when i reflect on the wil ride that was 2022, i keep coming back to these words historic and unprecedented democrats bumped historica trends by expanding thei senate majority and preventing a red wave in the house of representatives. and voters, they changed the representation in more way than one electing the first gen z membe of congress with maxwell frost in florida the first woman elected to congress from vermont, wit becca blunt, the first out lesbian governor s, lamar heal in massachusetts, and tina kotek in oregon. the first black governor o maryland with wes moore. th
grown into something larger an more fruitful than we uppe match and. the velshi banned book club wa created in response to the targeting a removal of so many important books from libraries and school curricula across th country. according to p.e.n. america, and nonprofit organization the champions the freedom to rea and write in the united states from july 2021 to june 2022, there were 2532 instances of individual books been banned that s a shocking number what the figure doesn t make clear is the types of book that have been fans. as we begin to compile our own list of banned literature, or feature for you, with author from margaret atwood to a clear pattern emerged. it became apparent that th most frequently targeted boo shared at least one of the sam three topics sexuality or gender, and sexua identity, race, and bodily autonomy including sexual and physica violence we re moving books that deal with these three very real topics sends a clear message t readers that those