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Deep Throat, Operation Gemstone, two valiant reporters, and a secret 30 years in the making. Watergate was not a single scandal, but rather an avalanche of events and co-conspirators, all engaged in corruption to keep President Nixon in office. The stakes were so high that Nixon’s Special Security Advisor, G. Gordon Liddy, lived under fear of being assassinated, and the wife of Nixon’s Campaign Director & Attorney General was drugged and held captive in a hotel room to keep her silent. What was the “smoking gun” that led to the toppling of this enterprise? Was it the tapes Nixon secretly recorded, and the 18-minute gap, that ultimately pushed Nixon to be the first and only President to resign?

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Megyn Kelly is joined by  Jesse Kelly, host of "The Jesse Kelly Show" and "I'm Right", to discuss Karine Jean-Pierre’s new Vogue feature, Mayor Eric Adams admitting his sanctuary policy for illegal immigrants will “destroy” New York City, Vivek Ramaswamy and MSNBC's Mehdi Hasan debating the GOP hopeful's past criticism of former President Donald Trump and January 6th, theories on why Ramaswamy is running, the Rolling Stone report on Jimmy Fallon's behavior backstage at The Tonight Show, how Fallon’s staffers spoke up about his “erratic behavior” and whether or not the complaints are justified, and more. Plus, Sasha Ayad, co-author of "When Kids Say They're Trans," joins Megyn to discuss why children may struggle with gender identity, Chris Cuomo’s interview with a Yale pediatrician who says there should be no safeguards on affirming care because “children know who they are,” why that rationale is misguided, how parents can navigate this issue with their kids, and more.

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Krystal and Saagar discuss Biden shamed into a Hawaii visit as death toll rises, Hawaiians call out real estate vultures for preying on burned lands, Fox News reveals its new "power rankings" of the GOP candidates, Was Peter Zeihan Right? As Chinese Economy goes down, extreme Passport delays screw millions of travelers, Kansas cops rebuked by Prosecutor into returning newspaper equipment from insane raid, Saagar looks into YouTube's new medical censorship regime, and Krystal looks into Homelessness surging after Safety Net ripped away.

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Krystal and Saagar talk about Americans losing confidence in institutions, Ukraine demands rebuild, FBI surveillance, RadioShack cringe, Shireen Abu Akleh, airline chaos, and Max Alvarez talks staffing of workers!

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In today's episode, Andy & DJ discuss a video from last year that shows Will Smith demonstrating to a group of kids how to fake slap someone before the Oscars incident, President Biden using cue cards to address the current situation happening in Ukraine, and the Trump-backed candidate ineligible to run for Congress due to a recent relocation.

On this week’s programme we talk to Clare Griffiths from the UK’s coronavirus dashboard and Alexis Madrigal from the Atlantic Magazine’s Covid Tracking Project in the US.

Humans like starting new things much more than taking care of older things. This is true on both an institutional and individual level: it's more exciting to build a new road than to maintain it; more exciting to lose weight than to keep it off. There's plenty of short-term pleasure and intrinsic motivation when it comes to pursuing something novel, but the effort to keep up unsexy maintenance on what we've already got takes real intent.

My guest today says we've lost that intent and need to revive it. His name is Lee Vinsel and he's a professor of science, technology, and society, the co-founder of The Maintainers, a research network dedicated to the study of maintenance, repair, upkeep, and ordinary work, and the co-author of The Innovation Delusion: How Our Obsession With the New Has Disrupted the Work That Matters Most. Lee and I begin our conversation with how our cultural focus on innovation has come at the expense of attention paid to maintenance and repair, and yet how talking more about innovation hasn't really led to greater progress. We then get into the way the necessity of maintenance, repair, and caretaking has been neglected in business and government, creating a situation where we keep on building new things without investing in the upkeep of our current infrastructure. From there we turn to the way our all too common neglect of maintenance applies not only to big institutions, but also our personal lives, as in the areas of home ownership and health. We discuss how there's less incentive these days to repair things in our disposable society where everything is cheap, and stuff is harder to fix, even when we want to. We end our conversation with how we can revive a maintenance mindset in our culture and individual lives.

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Wildfires are devastating Australia, incinerating an area roughly the size of West Virginia and killing 24 people and as many as half a billion animals. Today, we look at the human and environmental costs of the disaster, its connection to climate change and why so many Australians are frustrated by Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s response.

Guest: Livia Albeck-Ripka, a reporter for The Times in Melbourne a reporter for The Times in Melbourne who spoke with Susan Pulis, a woman who fled the fires with kangaroos and koalas in her car. For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily.

Background reading:

• After Australia’s hottest and driest year on record, Mr. Morrison has minimized the connection between the wildfire crisis and climate change and declined to make moves to curb the country’s carbon emissions.
• Many Australians entered the new year under apocalyptic blood-red skies as smoke from the fires choked the country’s southeastern coast. “I look outside and it’s like the end of the world. Armageddon is here,” one woman in Canberra said.
• The fires have burned through dozens of towns, destroying at least 3,000 homes. Now, unbridled by continuous fire fighting, the blazes have returned to some scorched areas to level what is left.
• Rupert Murdoch controls the largest news company in Australia, and his newspapers have contributed to a wave of misinformation about the cause of the fires.