Can You Hear The Donald Ring?
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🗓️ 4 January 2021
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
In a leaked phone call from this weekend, Trump used every line he could to pressure Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensberger to overturn the state's election results. About a dozen GOP senators say they’re going to raise objections during the congressional vote to certify the presidential election this week, in a show of election theater that will lead nowhere.
A more-contagious coronavirus variant first discovered in the UK has been identified in California, Florida, and Colorado. Despite predictions from the federal government that 20 million Americans would receive their first vaccine dose by the end of December, the current number is about 4.2 million… we discuss why that is.
And in headlines: India approves two COVID vaccines, Pelosi reelected as Speaker, and Bitcoin does huge numbers on its 12th anniversary.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Monday, January 4th. I'm Achilles Hughes. |
| 0:09.0 | And I'm getting a rest of the time. This is what a day where we are excited to kick off |
| 0:12.2 | the first year of the rest of our lives. |
| 0:15.0 | Yeah, we're not letting anything touch us in 2021, including contagious aerosols and |
| 0:19.6 | other viral vectors. |
| 0:21.1 | I am fully in SRANRA at this point. |
| 0:24.1 | Yeah, I can get away from me during this stop playing. |
| 0:35.1 | Well, we're back. It has been a little bit of a break. A lot of people on Twitter saying |
| 0:40.4 | that they cannot start their day. So are you ready to start a day? We're back. 2021. |
| 0:46.0 | We only came back because people were tweeting. Not for any sort of like, your |
| 0:49.4 | track show. |
| 0:54.4 | Yeah, tweets are pretty much the only way I can communicate with people these days because |
| 0:57.2 | you know, the whole virus thing. Yeah, can't even wave anymore. On that note, on today's |
| 1:02.0 | show, an update on those vaccines that we are all waiting to patiently for. What we know |
| 1:06.4 | and don't know about the new coronavirus variant than some headlines. |
| 1:10.2 | But first the latest. |
| 1:13.2 | I just want to find 11,780 loves one more than we have. Have they moved the inner parts |
| 1:25.0 | of the machines and replaced them with other parts? 11,000. |
| 1:30.2 | All right. So that was another hit from the Gregory Brothers, mashing up seasons of love |
| 1:35.7 | from Rint with Trump's latest perfect phone call. So yesterday, the Washington Post published |
| 1:40.8 | audio from a phone call which took place on Saturday between Trump and Georgia Secretary |
| 1:45.3 | of State Brad Raffensberger and Raffensberger's lawyer that sounded more like this. |
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