25 Years After Columbine: Why The Massacre Was a Turning Point for America
Inside the Hive
Vanity Fair
4.2 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 18 April 2024
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Host Brian Stelter checks in with Vanity Fair’s Dan Adler, who describes the strange scene at Donald Trump’s hush money trial. Then Stelter speaks with “Columbine” author Dave Cullen about the 25th anniversary of the Colorado school shooting. Cullen discusses what changed, and what didn't, about American culture, police practices and gun laws. He also reflects on his personal connection with the families intricately linked through an unending American tragedy.
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| 0:32.3 | read watch and hear. Vanity Fair. So Dan, Donald Trump's been reportedly dozing off during the first stage of his trial. |
| 0:53.6 | Have you been staying wide awake for us there? |
| 0:56.4 | I will say jury selection is not necessarily |
| 0:58.9 | the most thrilling thing in the world. |
| 1:01.9 | But we're trying the best we can from an overflow room to ascertain |
| 1:06.6 | this guy's behaviors so maybe there's some eyes closing maybe there's a jaw going |
| 1:11.7 | slack but you know in his defense perhaps, it could be understandable. |
| 1:16.0 | But it is genuinely unprecedented, it is genuinely historic event, and people are trying to clean what they can. |
| 1:25.0 | That's Dan Adler who is covering Trump's hush money cover-up trial for Vanity Fair. |
| 1:30.0 | And I'm Brian Stelter. Let me welcome you to Inside the Hive. This week we are multitasking. |
| 1:37.0 | In a few minutes we're going to talk with Dave Cullen, the author of the seminal book Columbine on the occasion of a very somber anniversary. |
| 1:45.8 | But first, we're going inside the Manhattan Criminal Courthouse. That's where Dan and lots of other |
| 1:51.2 | reporters have been watching Trump try to stay awake. |
| 1:55.8 | So Dan, Monday and Tuesday were consumed by jury selection. |
| 2:00.4 | Maybe Trump wasn't the only person that was bored. |
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