Friday, July 22nd, 2022

Morning Announcements

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🗓️ 22 July 2022

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Today's headlines: The biggest takeaways from last night’s January 6th hearing, which focused on how Trump did not only *fail* tell the mob to go home after 4pm - he *chose* not to. Then, the department of homeland security is conducting a criminal probe into the deleted texts by the secret service, and President Biden tested positive for covid yesterday. Health officials in New York reported its first case of polio in almost a decade yesterday, the DHS under the Trump administration had used mobile location data on a much larger scale than was previously known, and it was revealed that the Trump administration spent years trying to add a citizenship question to the census. Finally, the House of Representatives voted on a bill that would protect access to birth control. Resources/Articles mentioned this episode: NY Times: Jan. 6 Live Updates: 187 Minutes of Violence and Trump’s ‘Complete Dereliction’ of His Duty NBC: DHS watchdog has launched criminal probe into destruction of Jan. 6 Secret Service text messages, sources say CNN: Biden tests positive for Covid-19 and is experiencing mild symptoms Washington Post: Unvaccinated man in Rockland County, N.Y., diagnosed with polio Politico: Homeland Security records show 'shocking' use of phone data, ACLU says NPR: Documents detail the secret strategy behind Trump's census citizenship question push CBS: House passes bill to protect access to birth control in latest answer to Supreme Court Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Today is Friday, July 22nd, and you're listening to The Morning Announcements
0:04.5	presented by Betches Media. I'm Sammy Sage, and this episode is brought to you
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0:23.1	We are of course starting with the biggest takeaways from last night's
0:26.6	January 6th peering, which focused on the approximately four hours of the
0:30.6	insurrection and afterwards. Last night's session outlined how Trump did not
0:35.1	only fail to act during the 187 minutes between his speech at the ellipse
0:39.5	and telling the mob to go home after 4 p.m. but that he chose not to act.
0:44.2	Yesterday's live witnesses were two individuals who were high up in the
0:48.2	Trump administration but resigned immediately following January 6th. The first
0:52.4	was Matthew Pottenger, a deputy national security adviser who served in the
0:56.2	White House from the first day of the administration until January 7th, and the
1:00.3	second was Sarah Matthews, who worked as deputy press secretary and special
1:04.3	assistant to Trump until she resigned the night of the insurrection. They
1:08.6	each spoke to the desperate scramble by the people around Trump to get him to
1:12.2	call up the mob for over three hours. At the time, even minority leader Kevin
1:16.6	McCarthy was scared and begging for help and personally called Trump's kids to
1:20.6	beg him to call off the attack. Even Don Jr. texted Mark Meadows to quote,
1:24.8	go to the mattressist to try to get his dad to call off the mob, which leads me
1:29.0	with two questions. Doesn't Don Jr. have his dad's number? And who knew he was
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