Friday, August 12th, 2022

Morning Announcements

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🗓️ 12 August 2022

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Summary

Today's headlines: Attorney General Merrick Garland spoke for about 2 minutes about the Mar-a-Lago search warrant, and announced that the DOJ has filed a motion to unseal the search warrant and FBI property receipt. The FBI has searched Trump’s home to look for nuclear documents and other items, while Judge Bruce Reinhart has been consistently attacked and doxed by Trump’s base since Monday. Finally, the C.D.C. has eased Covid guidelines, noting that the virus Is ‘Here to Stay,’ while some school districts in rural Texas have been switching to 4 day weeks. Resources/Articles mentioned this episode: NY Times: Read the full transcript of Merrick Garland’s comments on the F.B.I.’s search of Trump’s home. Washington Post: FBI searched Trump’s home to look for nuclear documents and other items, sources say Forward: Judge who approved Trump search warrant attacked for synagogue involvement NY Times: C.D.C. Eases Covid Guidelines, Noting Virus Is ‘Here to Stay’ Texas Tribune: Rural Texas districts struggling to attract teachers are switching to four-day school weeks Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Today is Friday, August 12, and you're listening to The Morning Announcements presented by
0:06.4	Betches Media.
0:07.4	I'm Sammy Sage.
0:13.6	Yesterday was officially the most dramatic season ever.
0:16.4	With Attorney General Merrick Garland giving us all, including President Biden, about an
0:20.5	hour's notice that he was going to give his speech yesterday afternoon.
0:24.3	Garland spoke for about two minutes about the Mar-a-Lago search warrant, and announced that
0:28.1	the DOJ has filed a motion to unseal the search warrant and the FBI property receipt, which
0:33.4	would reveal the inventory of what they seized.
0:36.1	Garland also confirmed that copies of both the warrant and the property receipt were given
0:39.9	to Trump's attorney on-site during the search, which is, shockingly, at odds with what
0:44.7	Trump's adult sons have claimed about the search.
0:47.6	Garland is also clearly taking the reaction by Trump and his supporters against the FBI
0:51.8	quite hard, and he closed his remarks by making clear that he does not want the integrity
0:56.2	of the DOJ and the FBI question, and that he personally approved the warrant.
1:01.3	Which is Attorney speak for, tell Cersei, I want her to know what was mean.
1:06.4	We won't know more specific things about the search until the warrant is unsealed, but
1:10.1	late last night, the Washington Post reported that some of the documents that agents were
1:13.8	looking for contained details about nuclear weapons and possibly other national security
1:19.0	issues.
1:20.0	Trump now has a deadline of 3pm today to formally object in court to the unsealing of
1:24.2	the search warrant.
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