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Morning Announcements

Friday, August 19th, 2022

Morning Announcements

Betches

Politics, Daily News, News, News Commentary

4.71.7K Ratings

🗓️ 19 August 2022

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

Today's headlines: Trump’s longtime CFO of the Trump organization pled guilty yesterday to 15 felonies, while a federal judge ordered the DOJ to propose redactions that would make it okay to release the affidavit that was used to justify the Mar-a-Lago search warrant. The Secret Service apparently knew of a threat to Nancy Pelosi on January 6th days before the insurrection, but did not pass it along until 5:55pm the day of. Scotland has passed legislation that would make all period products available in pharmacies and community centers free of cost. A federal judge ordered Walmart, Walgreens, and CVS to pay $650 million dollars to two Ohio counties that they were found to have flooded with prescription painkillers. Finally, the Director of the CDC Rachelle Wallensky delivered remarks yesterday where she rebuked her own agency’s handling of the Covid pandemic. Resources/Articles mentioned this episode: NY Times: Plea Deal Requires Weisselberg to Testify at Trump Organization Trial NY Times: Judge May Release Affidavit in Trump Search, but Only After Redaction CREW: Secret Service held onto Pelosi threat until after insurrection NPR: Scotland becomes the first country to offer tampons and pads for free, officials say Washington Post: Walgreens, CVS and Walmart ordered to pay $650 million in opioid lawsuit NY Times: Walensky, Citing Botched Pandemic Response, Calls for C.D.C. Reorganization Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Today is Friday, August 19th, and you're listening to the Morning Announcements presented by

0:06.4

Betches Media.

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On your host, Tammy Sage, and the Morning Announcements is your daily five minute breakdown of the

0:12.0

headlines that isn't afraid to take a side and roast the most consequential reality show

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there is.

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Our government.

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Today's episode is brought to you by Framebridge.

0:21.4

Framebridge makes it easier and more affordable than ever to frame your favorite things, without

0:25.2

ever leaving the house.

0:26.9

We're framing today with Framebridge.

0:33.4

We've made it to Friday, and our final roundup of the former president's criminal investigations

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for the week.

0:39.6

Trump's longtime CFO of the Trump Organization, Alan Weiselberg, pled guilty yesterday

0:44.1

to 15 felonies.

0:46.2

Weiselberg has the opportunity for his sentence to be reduced from five months and rinkers

0:50.0

to 100 days.

0:51.7

If he is called as a witness at the company's trial in October, and he testifies about

0:55.8

his role in the scheme to avoid paying taxes.

0:58.8

He is not expected to implicate Trump and the family if he does take the stand, and he

1:02.9

is not officially agreed to cooperate, in the soprano sense, you know.

1:08.2

But his testimony would either way definitely be bad news for the company, assuming he doesn't

1:12.9

end up as Ivana's next door neighbor first.

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