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I'm Chris Chermack.
Coming up on today's program, South Korea's former president is impeached, but his arrest is blocked after a standoff at his compound.
Supporters are celebrating and calling for Donald Trump's intervention.
After that, we turn to the United States, where the speaker of the House of Representatives, Mike Johnson, faces a vote and uncertain future.
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We'll also get a roundup of arts and culture news.
And finally, using the Dozer School Boys images themselves, that's kind of where this sort of aching truth is built into.
The film the Nickel Boys in cinemas today.
We'll speak to the film's director, Ramel Ross.
All that right here on the Briefing with me, Chris Chermack.
We start with some extraordinary scenes in South Korea today as authorities were forced to call off an attempt to arrest the impeached President Yoon Suk Yung, who tried to impose martial law on the country late last year.
The whole kerfuffle has taken on a certain American flavor with some Yun supporters carrying Stop the Steal signs in protest of his ouster and in celebration of the failed arrest today.