Today is Friday, January 15th, and you're listening to the morning announcements.

I'm Sammy Sage.

I hope everyone is recovering from their impeachment hangovers and excited for their final weekend of the Trump presidency.

A lot of you have been asking about the Senate trial and when that's going to happen.

As of now, there's no reason to believe that Mitch McConnell is

planning to change his mind about starting earlier than January 19th. However, the Senate

still has to go through with the trial and a conviction in the Senate would be the

only way to ensure that Trump cannot take office again,

which we definitely want to do.

One barrier there may be to a conviction in the Senate are the recent reports that a number

of Republican lawmakers are fearful of threats from their base if they turn against

Trump. One Republican lawmaker Peter Major of Michigan who voted for

impeachment last week said both parties have extremists. There's a difference in our crazy

people and their crazy people. Our crazy people have an excessive amount of

arms, they have guns safes, they have grenades, they believe in the Second

Amendment, they come here and chumps made them think this is the alamo. He also revealed

that he's buying body armor due to the threats he's received. But you know if that doesn't work

he can always consider I don't know, the Witness Protection Program or something.

More news coming out of the coup. Yesterday, the Washington Post reported that dozens

of rioters who came to DC on January 6th were actually individuals who were already on the terror

watch list.

The majority of the watchlisted individuals in Washington that day are suspected white

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