3 PM ET: Paxton acquitted, Tulsa Race Massacre discovery, venomous snake delays game & more

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🗓️ 16 September 2023

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Texas attorney general Ken Paxton has been acquitted on 16 charges in his state Senate impeachment trial. We get a view from the auto workers’ picket line in Toledo, Ohio as Republican presidential candidates seize on the strike to criticize the Biden administration. More bodies have been discovered at a Tulsa Race Massacre burial site more than 100 years later. And a venomous snake delays a soccer game In Australia. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	A Texas-sized impeachment trial ends in an acquittal.
0:05.0	Hey there, from CNN, I'm David Rhine with the five things you need to know for Saturday, September
0:10.4	16th.
0:11.4	Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has been acquitted on
0:15.6	16 charges in his state Senate impeachment trial. The charges were brought
0:20.0	amid accusations the powerful Republican had repeatedly abused his office to help a donor.
0:25.6	The Republican-led Senate also voted to dismiss four other impeachment articles brought by the House
0:30.8	but not considered during the Senate trial related to
0:33.7	Paxton's ongoing state securities fraud indictment. He had been suspended from
0:38.1	office since May when the GOP-led Texas House voted to impeach him, his attorney painted the impeachment
0:44.2	effort as a witch hunt. Let's get a quick Auto Workers Strike update now from
0:49.6	CNN's Gabe Cohen who's in Toledo, Ohio for us.
0:54.0	As the Auto Workers Union and the big three automakers, Ford, Stellantis, and General Motors
0:58.7	head back to the bargaining table Saturday, nearly 13,000 workers are on strike, shutting down three facilities
1:06.1	in Michigan, Missouri, and Ohio. Nearly 5,800 of them are in Toledo, Ohio, picketing 24-7 outside a Stellantis plan.
1:15.6	Our pay has not crept up with inflation and our temps are being abused here.
1:20.6	These workers are now making $100 a day in strike pay from the union because they
1:26.0	aren't making a salary but they tell me they've been preparing for this for
1:30.1	months and are ready to strike for as long as it takes.
1:34.0	We heard the CEO of Ford say if they gave into all of the union's demands, it would bankrupt
1:37.9	the company.
1:38.9	What do you make of that?
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