Shadowing Practice: Holy Sh*t Everyone Just Quit On Trump - Learn English Speaking with Video

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Another Republican is quitting on Donald Trump and oh boy, do I get so much pleasure in saying that.

Now, I have to preface by also stating none of these people are leaving this administration

because they've suddenly grown a spine or a moral compass.

No, no, no. Nothing has changed about them.

They just recognize the reality in the West Wing.

And that is that the president of the United States has dementia.

He could die any day.

He is going to lose his majority in the House and likely at this point the Senate.

And so they are trying to cash in right now.

But it is humiliating to Donald Trump.

We are going to get into the latest example of a Republican quitting on Trump, leaving his administration and humiliating him.

And if you want to support our work in exposing all of this, do make sure you are subscribed to this channel if you are not already.

But I want to start with the culture in the White House

that is being reported that has led to the second major Trump official this week to just up and quit.

We got to start with that culture.

It's the context that we need for this latest resignation.

Why Trump's goons are fleeing the West Wing from hell.

The Daily Beast, our friends, break down what the exits of Carolyn Levitt and others reveal about the pressures facing this administration.

As we know, and as we celebrated thoroughly on this show,

White House Press Secretary Carolyn Levitt's departure at month's end is the result of a combination of factors both personal and institutional.

Ooh!

On the Daily Beast podcast,

Joanna Coles and Hugh Doherty dissected Levitt's AI-altered announcement this week that she would be leaving to focus on family.

Levitt, 28, has two children, Nico, born in 2024, and Viviana, okay, doesn't really know how to name kids,

born this May with her 60-year-old real estate developer husband.

But there are other factors at play, Coles and Dougherty said.

Coles began by citing details shared with the Daily Beast on Sunday by first-term Trump communications director Anthony Scaramucci.

He said it's widely known among Trump's aides that Trump is just meaner.

You can see it.

He's more unpleasant to deal with.

He yells at people.

He's always yelled at people.

But he's yelling louder and for longer, Coles said.

And I'm sure Carolyn Levitt, who you know by all appearances, has a nice marriage, has a husband who's wealthy enough that she doesn't need to work,

thought, what am I doing with my life?

I have these two adorable little babies at home.

Why do I need to come to work and get shouted at when I could go to Fox, make more money, and just be as famous?

One prior Trump administration press secretary, Kayleigh McEnany, is a Fox host.

The network also brought on former Trump press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders as a contributor for a

while after she left the White House.

Dana Perino, who served as press secretary in George W.

Bush's administration, is also a Fox host.

Doherty added that regarding the personal reasons for Levitt's exit, there's no doubt that she was not enjoying herself.

In addition to Levitt not accompanying Trump to Turkey when she returned from maternity leave,

he said it felt like there was a notable diminution of interest that there was just less of the energy from her.

The president's phone calls to her while she was away must have weighed on her, he added.

What was quite clear was that behind the scenes, she has been repeatedly phoned by Donald Trump during the month that she was off, and the low did not get any lighter for her.

When she came back, it got worse.

As for the institutional motivations to leave the West Wing, the midterms are looming large,

and all the consequences for the Trump White House that could bring if Democrats indeed retake the House, let alone the Senate, are going to be bad.

If the polls are right, it's going to be a blue wave that's going to be so unpleasant if you are in the West Wing, if you are Carolyn Levitt,

if you are other people who are leaving that want to talk about as well.

You don't want to be there, Doherty said, referring to the exits this month of Deputy National Security Advisor Andy Baker and Deputy Press Secretary Abigail Jackson.

More are expected, Politico reported.

With Democratic control of Congress, you are bombarded as a West Wing employee.

Oof, that doesn't sound good, except it does to me.

By subpoena after subpoena after subpoena, you are told to go and give evidence.

You spend your time with lawyers.

It's not very rewarding.

And if you're Carolyn Levitt, all the questions coming out are about those investigations, Doherty said.

And just think about what the Democrats want to investigate.

They want to talk about the files.

They've talked about investigating Barron Trump's links to the Tate brothers.

They want to investigate the grift.

Do you want to be the person up there answering those questions?

So there's the personal, then there's the wide institutional problems.

Oh boy, is it bad.

Carolyn Levitt leaving is really symptomatic of all of the other problems in this White House.

I got a smile on my face because I just have

so much joy in talking about this and

that everyone is leaving right now so they can make sure that they get a check cut to them.

And I want to talk more about that and why everyone's leaving right now.

But of course, we got to talk about this breaking story.

Another Republican out of the White House.

Trump loses second top aide in a week in White House exodus.

Another top official decides they want to spend more time with their family.

Donald Trump has lost another senior aide, The second top official to quit the administration in less than

a week as his wife's White House exodus shows little signs of slowing.

Andy Baker, the White House's Deputy National Security Advisor, which seems like a very important role in the middle of a war,

will leave the administration in the coming weeks, Axios reported Friday.

News of his departure comes just days after White House Press Secretary Carolyn Leavitt announced her own exit.

The back-to-back resignations add to a steady stream of departures from

the 80-year-old president's inner circle in recent months as the administration

heads toward what is expected to be a challenging midterm election cycle.

A source close to Andy Baker told Axios he wanted to spend more time with his family.

No, he wanted to make money.

So a deputy national security advisor leaves and says, family time.

I want to spend some time with the family.

I don't believe it.

I don't buy it.

I don't trust it.

It's not real.

That is not the case.

What you want to do is make money.

That is what all of these people want to do.

They want to make money.

They want to cash in right now.

And if you're Andy Baker, you go, okay, we got this war going on.

Netanyahu is going to make sure that it continues.

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Pete Hegseth is a fuck up.

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Do you know what?

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How about I leave the administration?

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How about I go work with a nice lobbying group?

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How about I go work for, you know, Raytheon?

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How about I go work for Lockheed Martin?

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How about I go make myself a couple of bucks, right?

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Maybe I, uh, maybe I give a quote here or there to some journalists and I, I don't know, maybe I get myself a contributorship at Fox. Who knows?

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It's all set up for you there, Andy.

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That's the rotating door of the Donald Trump White House.

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It's really the rotating door of Washington, but it's especially bad in this administration.

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That is why people are leaving.

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Yes, it is also, of course, because the midterms are looming large.

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Democrats saying, when we get in, we're going to get you, like Robert Garcia has been bringing the heat.

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Yeah, nobody wants to be a part of that.

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And so they're scared.

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They're leaving.

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And that should show you all that you need to know about how bad things are looking for Republicans in the Congress.

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You don't have to look at the polls.

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You don't have to look at who's got what in terms of spending, who's got what in terms of, you know, their volunteer and organizing capacity.

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Although, make sure you are signing up to volunteer, to door knock, to make phone calls for Democrats in swing states, or of course, in your own districts.

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You don't even need to look at all that though.

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All you need to look at is how many people are leaving this White House and going, fuck, this is going to be bad.

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And I do not want to have to pay my legal bills

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when I go in front of a Democratic Congress and get teared apart.

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They don't want to do that.

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And they don't want to do that for this guy.

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This guy?

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The guy with the poopy diapies?

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The guy who goes sleepy weepy in the Oval Office? That guy?

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Is he inspiring the troops?

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Is he moving people?

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I say no. And not only that, not only is there no future with Donald Trump because, you know, the big obituary from heaven or

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because he's a lame duck already but also there's no future with Trump

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because he doesn't give a shit about you we saw

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that with the plane saga the decoy day right Donald Trump doesn't care about his staff now

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if you're Natalie Harp special place in his heart Marco Rubio

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nope Miller nope fucking present nope Donald Trump doesn't care about you why Why are you taking a bullet for him?

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They've all decided, eh, this isn't it for me.

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And they shouldn't.

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You'll just get screwed.

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That's what always happens with Donald Trump.

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Always, always, always.

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So why would you do that?

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You shouldn't, and they won't.

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And I want to end on that.

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Actually, something that J.B.

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Pritzker had to say about Donald Trump and his plane saga that I found quite interesting.

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You know, you hear Trump on the final leg home from this trip saying to reporters, knowing that they had flown on the decoy plane that was under an imminent threat and that he had not, right?

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He says, quote, if I go, you go, right?

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You know, what do you even, how haunting is that statement given what we know now, as you look at all this, this whole thing that was pulled off with catering trucks?

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Well, it's obviously not true.

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If I go, you go.

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That's not what happened.

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In fact, It was a bait and switch.

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He put people in harm's way to save himself.

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That's who Donald Trump is.

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And he's willing to put our troops in harm's way.

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And they were in Iran, even though he shouldn't have done that in the first place.

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He's also somebody who obviously I mean, he slinked away literally in a catering truck while the reporters

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and his own staff were on a plane that apparently was under threat?

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You know, yeah, and his own staff.

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I mean, it is pretty incredible.

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And then not only governor that, right, they made a point of showing him board Air Force One.

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So everybody saw him do it.

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So everybody believed the reporters believed he was on a plane.

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But then when he got off the plane, they stuck him back on so he could walk off the plane.

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They would hope they're hoping that Nobody would ever know this had happened.

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You know, I just want to be clear here.

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The New York Times reporting originally was extremely clear, right?

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It was that the imminent threat was to whatever plane Trump was believed to be flying on.

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So the White House made every effort for everyone on the planet to believe

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that the plane that Trump is on was the plane that all the reporters were on and his own staff was on, even though they took him off, right?

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I mean, that's a fact of the situation.

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You know, how do you make sense of this?

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Do you think that anyone on that plane had the right to be briefed on this, even though they're not the primary security focus?

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He did not need to put his staff and those reporters in harm's way.

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He literally could have warned them and taken them off the flight.

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There were other ways to handle this, but instead he was OK with the idea that maybe

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that plane would be shot down or maybe there was some other security threat to that aircraft.

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That's clearly what all of this indicates.

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He really doesn't give a darn about the people on that plane.

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Now, I remember he was also slinking away and ending up on his new cutter paid for and apparently personally received 747.

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That's I mean, that total act of corruption.

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He's accepting money and gifts from foreign governments.

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This is at a moment when people can't afford food.

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People aren't going to have Medicaid to cover them, to give them health care.

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And he's taking all those things away from them.

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And meanwhile, we're all talking about this ruse and what he's doing to the people around him.

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We all ought to be focusing on what's best for the people of the United States who are, frankly, under threat by Donald Trump and H.R.1.

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MAGA is a cult and and we know this and we know

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that it's impossible to get these people out of their cults I know that as well But maybe

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that really tight-knit group in the White House Maybe they're kind

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of finally starting to wake up to the fact not

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that Donald Trump is a bad person Like they don't they don't give a shit doesn't matter to them.

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They're all nihilist They just want to take advantage of us

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however they can Maybe they wake up with the fact

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that Donald Trump doesn't care about them Right because if MAGA is all about me me me me me

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So the emin maga for Then maybe they go this guy doesn't really care about me.

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So maybe I should just leave Right, if he doesn't have the loyalists doesn't have all the backers

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and he's just left with the incompetent project 2025 morons that he hired up

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Maybe it really all starts to fall apart a lot faster

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Or at least that's just what we got to hope for

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But we got to keep on putting the pressure because it's clearly scaring the shit out of them

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support the show Keep on fighting y'all don't let them silence you until next time.

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This video has 211 sentences and 2609 words to shadow. The speech runs for 13:50. The speaker talks fast, about 189 words per minute, so expect linked and reduced sounds. 85% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English; the rest is worth studying before you start.

Key vocabulary in this video

15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
reporter noun	/ɹɪˈpoɹ.tɚ/	Someone or something that reports.
exit noun	/ˈɛɡzət/	An act of going out or going away, or leaving; a departure.
investigate verb	/ɪnˈvɛs.tə.ɡeɪt/	To inquire into or study in order to ascertain facts or information.
nope	/noʊp/	No.
departure noun	/dɪˈpɑː(ɹ)tjə(ɹ)/	The act of departing or something that has departed.
subscribe verb	/səbˈskɹaɪb/	To write (one’s name) at the bottom of a document; to sign (one's name).
advisor noun	/ædˈvaɪ.zə(ɹ)/	One who offers advice.
institutional adjective	/ˌɪn.stɪˈtju.ʃə.nəl/	Of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or organized along the lines of an institution.
yell verb	/jɛl/	To shout; holler; make a loud sound with the voice, especially to express intense emotions such as anger or excitement.
aide noun	/eɪd/	An assistant.
poll noun	/poʊl/	A survey of people, usually statistically analyzed to gauge wider public opinion.
volunteer noun	/ˌvɑlənˈtɪɹ/	One who enters into, or offers themselves for, any service of their own free will, especially when done without pay.
scare verb	/skɛɚ/	To frighten, terrify, startle, especially in a minor way.
stack noun	/stæk/	A large pile of hay, grain, straw, or the like, larger at the bottom than the top, sometimes covered with thatch.
resignation noun	/ˌɹɛz.ɪɡˈneɪ.ʃən/	The act of resigning.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
break down verb		To stop functioning.
come back verb		To return to a place.
come out verb	/ˌkʌm ˈaʊt/	To be discovered; to be revealed.
fall apart verb		To disintegrate, to break into pieces.
get off verb		To move from being on top of (something) to not being on top of it.
shoot down verb		To cause to fall by shooting.
walk off verb		To recover from (a minor injury) or digest (a large meal) by walking around.

Grammar in this video

The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:

Structure	In the video
Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it	are subscribed · being reported · are expected
Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now	has changed · has led · has been
Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing	people who are · guy who goes · somebody who obviously

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 49 contractions and reduced forms, such as don't, doesn't, they're. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

The “th” sounds: wealthy /ˈwɛl.θi/, thoroughly /ˈθʌɹ.ə.li/
The “sh” and “zh” sounds: institutional /ˌɪn.stɪˈtju.ʃə.nəl/, resignation /ˌɹɛz.ɪɡˈneɪ.ʃən/, corruption /kəˈɹʌpʃən/, motivation /ˈmoʊ.tə.veɪ.ʃən/, shout /ʃaʊt/
Long words — get the stress right: investigate /ɪnˈvɛs.tə.ɡeɪt/, institutional /ˌɪn.stɪˈtju.ʃə.nəl/, resignation /ˌɹɛz.ɪɡˈneɪ.ʃən/, motivation /ˈmoʊ.tə.veɪ.ʃən/, repeatedly /ɹɪˈpiːtɪdli/

How to practise with this video

Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
Start at 0.75× speed, shadow it sentence by sentence, then go back to normal speed once it feels easy.
Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like reporter, exit, investigate.

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