EPISODE · Aug 26, 2025 · 18 MIN
"All Things Considered" - Special Extended Report
from Stories by ssentially · host Schuyler Vandersluis
Veteran correspondent Eleanor Hartwell, 81, delivers a haunting firsthand account of the Trump-South Korean President Lee Jae-myung meeting that left her shaken to her core. Broadcasting through a dust storm at Burning Man (where she was inexplicably sent to cover "political resistance art"), Hartwell breaks from traditional diplomatic reporting to share the visceral dread she experienced watching democracy bend to autocracy in real-time.
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Veteran correspondent Eleanor Hartwell, 81, delivers a haunting firsthand account of the Trump-South Korean President Lee Jae-myung meeting that left her shaken to her core. Broadcasting through a dust storm at Burning Man (where she was inexplicably sent to cover "political resistance art"), Hartwell breaks from traditional diplomatic reporting to share the visceral dread she experienced watching democracy bend to autocracy in real-time.
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