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Morning Announcements

Friday, April 16th, 2021

Morning Announcements

Betches

News, Daily News, Politics, News Commentary

4.71.7K Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2021

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

In today's episode, we start with a walk down memory lane regarding the Trump administration's election interference. Next, we move to Capitol Police Inspector General Michael Bolton's testimony addressing failures during the January 6 insurrection, new findings in the released footage of the fatal shooting of 13 year old Adam Toledo, and updates on the Derek Chauvin Trial. Then, we talk about the new legislation known as HR 40, a bill on studying reparations. Lastly, we end on Headlines That Speak For Themselves. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Today is Friday, April 16th, and you're listening to The Morning Announcements, presented

0:07.3

by Betcha's Media.

0:08.7

This episode is brought to you by KOM, the number one mental wellness app.

0:12.5

Sleep more, stress less, live better with KOM, I'm Sammy Sage.

0:16.7

Today's first two stories involve walks down memory lane to the Trump administration's

0:23.7

election interference.

0:25.0

For our first story, Russia is back in the news.

0:28.2

This time because the Biden administration levied sanctions against 16 entities and

0:32.5

16 individuals that it accuses of attempting to influence the 2020 and 2016 elections,

0:38.2

as well as in response to the more recent solar winds hack.

0:43.3

Last month, an intelligence assessment concluded that Trump and his closest allies publicly

0:47.5

embraced Russia's 2020 disinformation campaign against Biden, met with Russian linked

0:52.0

officials who were part of the effort and promoted their conspiracy theories.

0:56.0

Two individuals involved in the election interference who were sanctioned were Russia's

0:59.5

first deputy chief of staff, Alexey Gromov, who leads the Kremlin's use of media, and

1:04.1

Constantin Kalimnik, a Russian and Ukrainian political consultant and known Russian intelligence

1:09.0

agent, who was given Trump campaign polling data from then campaign chairman Paul Manafort.

1:14.2

What a throwback Paul Manafort.

1:17.2

The polling data that Manafort gave them was significantly helpful information for their

1:20.9

interference campaign, and it's quite a significant development that this is now on

1:24.7

the record by the government.

1:26.8

Also under new sanctions are a slew of disinformation outlets and individuals and entities operating

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