First Lady Visits Ukraine and the Hyperpolyglot Who Cleans Carpets

As the war in Ukraine rages on, we saw another high-profile U.S. visitor go to the country to show support.  First Lady Jill Biden met with her counterpart Olena Zelenska, Ukraine’s first lady.  The met at a school and showed support for mothers across the war-torn country.  Ginger Gibson, deputy Washington digital editor at NBC News, joins us for this and a look at the fallout since the leak of the draft opinion of the Supreme Court.  Justice Clarence Thomas has said the court can’t be bullied and that young people now show no respect for the law.

Next, we’ll tell you about a man named Vaughn Smith who cleans carpets for a living. Vaughn is also a hyperpolyglot. A hyperpolyglot is someone who can speak 11 languages or more, but Vaughn is special, by his count her can speak closer to 37 languages. To see what makes his brain tick, he decided to undergo an MRI at MIT and found that his brain does not function like that of a monolingual person. Jessica Contrera, reporter at The Washington Post, joins for more about Vaughn and what drove him to learn so much, a deep need for understanding others. 

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