We need the hopeful versions of what America can be.
Is it bad?
Yes.
Is it bleak?
Absolutely.
But there is a way out.
And the only way out, as our friend Melissa Murray has told me, is through.
I'm Jane Koston, and this is What A Day, the show that's recording on the go.
If the podcast looks and sounds a little different today,
we've had a bit of a rough start coming back from the 4th.
Turns out our building lost Wi-Fi over the long weekend, but the news stops for nothing and no one.
On today's show, we sit down with MS Now's Simone Sanders Townsend to unpack
America's 250th birthday and what it means to be patriotic in the Trump era.
Before we get into all that, here's what we're following today, Monday, July 6th.
I asked for a review because I didn't think it was a foul.
And, you know, again, I'm good at this stuff.
I didn't think it was a foul.
I thought it was two great athletes that crashed into each other and got entangled.
That was not a guy punching somebody in the face or anything that, you know, would be different.
FIFA resended a red card given to one of the U.S.