Friday, February 17th, 2023

Morning Announcements

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🗓️ 17 February 2023

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

Today's headlines: Special Counsel Jack Smith has subpoenaed Trump’s former chief of staff and prolific texter Mark Meadows. A federal judge in Fulton County Georgia ordered the release of a 5-page excerpt of the grand jury report. Convicted liar Alex Jones is apparently holding onto firearms that belong to people who participated in January 6th. Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman announced yesterday that he had checked himself into Walter Reed Medical Center to treat severe clinical depression. President Biden is scheduled to speak to Chinese president Xi Jinping soon about how Chinese spy balloons ended up in U.S. airspace. Finally for this week, Tesla has announced that they are issuing their largest recall so far. Resources/Articles mentioned this episode: CNN: Exclusive: Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows subpoenaed by special counsel in Jan. 6 investigation Washington Post: Georgia grand jury: ‘Perjury may have been committed’ in Trump election probe Washington Post: Alex Jones is ‘holding firearms’ for Jan. 6 participants, bankruptcy docs show AP News: Sen. John Fetterman checks into hospital for depression NPR: Biden says the 3 aerial objects shot down were not Chinese spy balloons Washington Post: Tesla issues recall of cars with ‘Full Self-Driving’ over crash risk Host: Sami Sage Morning Announcements is produced by Sami Sage alongside Amanda Duberman and Bridget Schwartz Original Music and Editing by Brandon Lee Bjornson Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Today is Friday, February 17th, and you're listening to the Morning Announcements
0:04.7	presented by Betches Media.
0:06.3	I'm your host, Sammy Sage, and the Morning Announcements is your daily five-minute
0:09.6	breakdown of the headlines that isn't afraid to take a side and roast the most
0:13.0	consequential reality show there is, our government.
0:16.2	This episode is brought to you by Aura Ring, an easy-to-wear, water-resistant ring
0:19.9	that delivers accurate personalized health insights so you can work on
0:23.2	building healthy habits.
0:24.4	Another day, another subpoena from D or J Special Counsel, Jack Smith.
0:34.1	This time, their recipient was Trump's former chief of staff and prolific
0:37.0	tech star Mark Meadows.
0:39.1	As with most Trump adjacent testimony, it's possible that Meadows will attempt to invoke
0:42.6	executive privilege to prevent or at least substantially delay testifying.
0:47.2	Considering the wide birth that these men insist on giving the concept of executive privilege,
0:51.1	I may just start using it as a reason to cancel my plans.
0:59.5	In a separate but, of course, relevant attempt to hold Trump accountable for trying to
1:02.6	overturn the 2020 election, a federal judge in Fulton County, Georgia, ordered the release
1:07.1	of a five-page excerpt of the Grand Jury Report.
1:10.1	The Atlanta area Grand Jury concluded that some witnesses, whose names were not mentioned,
1:14.7	may have lied under oath during their testimony and recommended that perjury charges be filed.
1:19.2	I myself would bet a stay at the four seasons, total landscaping, that one of those names
1:23.7	rhymes with Shmuliani.
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