Midterm elections 15 days away, curfews in France after violent protests, more | The Takeout

Name: Midterm elections 15 days away, curfews in France after violent protests, more | The Takeout
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[0:01] We are not in Kansas anymore. At least

[0:03] not the Kansas of 2024. GOP candidates,

[0:06] hello, Roger Marshall, need President

[0:09] Trump's help in a state he carried by 16

[0:11] points. All part of the GOP's nationwide

[0:14] midterm stress test. The city of lights,

[0:18] not this week. Paris imposes curfews

[0:21] tonight and tomorrow after shocked city

[0:23] residents pick through the rubble and

[0:26] destruction of a weekend of riots.

[0:29] Nearly 10 million early votes have been

[0:31] cast as the midterms approach. Lots of

[0:34] fears about Trump administration

[0:36] interference. Are those fears justified?

[0:39] We search for answers.

[0:50] Hello everyone, I'm Major Garrett in

[0:51] Washington. Welcome to the Takeout.

[0:53] Paris is on fire and under curfew. Saudi

[0:56] Arabia's renewed war with Houthi rebels

[0:59] in Yemen has turned so dangerous. The

[1:01] kingdom has canled a massive global

[1:04] investment conference. Russia continues

[1:07] pounding Ukraine with missiles and

[1:09] drones while the Trump administration,

[1:11] for motives it has failed to fully

[1:13] explain, finds more and more reasons to

[1:15] bankroll and forgive Moscow's murderous

[1:19] onslaught.

[1:20] This is the molten metaphorical core of

[1:24] turbulent world energy markets. And that

[1:26] brings all of this unrest globally home

[1:29] to you in terms of persistent inflation,

[1:33] high interest rates, and as you notice,

[1:35] week by week, higher gasoline and

[1:37] utility costs. with that a vortex of

[1:41] political polls that show nothing but

[1:43] peril for Republicans. Even in the

[1:46] safest of safe spaces like Kansas,

[1:49] Nebraska, South Carolina, Iowa, in the

[1:53] Trump era, these states have been

[1:55] protective v