Capitol Insecurity
What A Day
What A Day
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🗓️ 24 February 2021
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Former Capitol security officials appeared before the Senate yesterday, citing communications failures for their inadequate response to the January 6th attack on the Capitol. The Senate also confirmed two more members of Biden’s cabinet: Linda Thomas-Greenfield as UN ambassador and Tom Vilsack as agriculture secretary.
Facebook has now un-banned news on its platform in Australia, after blocking it there in protest of a proposed law that would have required Facebook to pay the outlets that give the platform its content. Now, Australia has backed off, and will only require Facebook to negotiate with media partners.
And in headlines: the police officers who killed Daniel Prude will not face criminal charges, the Biden administration opened its first facility to house migrant children in Texas, and McDonald’s releases its new crispy chicken sandwich.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Wednesday, February 24th. I'm Achila Hughes. |
| 0:09.0 | And I'm Gideon Ressnick and this is what a day where we've been working from home for |
| 0:12.1 | so long that we no longer recognize ourselves without our Zoom blemish filter. |
| 0:16.0 | Yeah, I don't know who this lady is with all the wrinkles in the mirror, but yeah, I would |
| 0:20.6 | like to see myself please. |
| 0:23.2 | I have been disturbed that there's been an old man in my house for weeks now. |
| 0:35.0 | On today's show, Australia re-friends Facebook, then some headlines. |
| 0:38.6 | But first the latest. |
| 0:40.4 | The events I witnessed on January 6th was the worst attack on law enforcement and our |
| 0:44.4 | democracy that I've seen in my entire career. |
| 0:48.2 | A witness insurgents beating police officers with fists, pipes, sticks, bats, metal barricades |
| 0:55.4 | and flag poles. |
| 0:57.7 | These criminals came prepared for war. |
| 1:00.2 | That was former Capitol Police Chief Stephen Sund testifying and a hearing yesterday about |
| 1:04.2 | the January 6th attack at the Capitol. |
| 1:06.7 | He was joined by the former House Incident Sargents at Arms who were there to address |
| 1:10.2 | how and why this happened. |
| 1:12.2 | The day had a lot of finger pointing about what went wrong. |
| 1:14.7 | So Gideon, what were your main takeaways? |
| 1:16.3 | Yeah, finger pointing was definitely one of them. |
| 1:20.0 | Another is that all of these former chiefs were saying that there were intelligence and |
| 1:23.5 | communication failures leading up to this. |
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