Friday, February 3rd, 2023

Morning Announcements

Betches

Politics, News, News Commentary, Daily News

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🗓️ 3 February 2023

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Today's headlines: The DOJ is in talks with former Vice President Pence’s legal team to schedule a voluntary FBI search of his Indiana home and DC office. Republicans in the House of Representatives garnered enough votes to remove Representative Ilhan Omar from the Foreign Services Committee yesterday. The new republican-led House Oversight and Accountability Committee is prioritizing pandemic fraud. A Chinese surveillance balloon has been hovering over the United States for several days. Mother Jones has revealed a leaked memo from the Kremlin to Russian state-friendly media outlets. The number of “ghost guns” traced and recovered by the federal government more than doubled in 2021. Finally for this week, almost half of adults in the US are unsure whether medication abortion is legal in their state. Resources/Articles mentioned this episode: CNN: FBI is expected to search Mike Pence’s home and office for classified materials soon AP News: House GOP votes to oust Democrat Omar from major committee NBC: In new oversight role, House Republicans target billions lost to Covid relief fraud Washington Post: Chinese spy balloon flying over U.S. ‘right now,’ Pentagon says Mother Jones: Leaked Kremlin Memo to Russian Media: It Is “Essential” to Feature Tucker Carlson Axios: Number of traced "ghost guns" doubled between 2020 and 2021, new report says CNN: Survey finds widespread confusion around medication abortion in post-Roe US 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 3rd, and you're listening to the morning announcements presented
0:05.3	by Betcha's media.
0:06.3	I'm your host Sammy Sage, and the morning announcements is your daily five minute breakdown
0:10.4	of the headlines that isn't afraid to take a side and roast the most consequential reality
0:15.1	show there is.
0:16.3	Our government.
0:22.1	For today's installment of the Amazing Race Classified Documents Edition, the DOJ is
0:26.7	in talks with former Vice President Pence's legal team to schedule a voluntary FBI search
0:31.7	of his Indiana home and DC office for any remaining classified materials.
0:36.8	His team says they don't expect them to find anything new, but they want to completely
0:40.6	cooperate.
0:42.1	Once a boy scout always a boy scout, except for that brief phase where you scour the
0:46.2	Constitution for a feasible way to make your boss a dictator.
0:54.1	Yesterday Republicans and the House of Representatives garnered enough votes to remove representative
0:58.2	Ilhan Omar from the Foreign Services Committee, citing her anti-Israel comments.
1:03.2	Minority leader Hakim Jeffries defended Omar, saying that she had at times, quote, made mistakes,
1:08.4	but that yesterday's vote was really about political revenge.
1:11.7	While she was ultimately voted off the committee in a 218 to 211 vote, she gave a speech on
1:17.2	the House floor saying, quote,
1:18.7	My voice will get louder and stronger, and my leadership will be celebrated around the
1:22.7	world.
1:23.7	End quote.
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