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Morning Announcements

Friday, June 17th, 2022

Morning Announcements

Betches

News, News Commentary, Daily News, Politics

4.71.7K Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2022

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Today, we begin with the biggest takeaways from yesterday's January 6th hearing, and Biden saying that a recession is ‘not inevitable.’ Then, The leaders of France, Germany and Italy met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky yesterday, expressing support for granting Ukraine entry to the European Union. Finally, thousands of cattle in Kansas have been reported dead of heat-stroke, and Elon Musk has addressed twitter’s employees for the first time in a while. Resources/Articles mentioned this episode: AP News: Jan. 6 panel sends letter asking Ginni Thomas to testify  AP News: AP Interview: Biden says a recession is ‘not inevitable’ Axios: Leaders of Germany, France and Italy endorse Ukraine's EU bid after meeting Zelensky in Kyiv AP News: Heat stress blamed for thousands of cattle deaths in Kansas NPR: Elon Musk addresses Twitter staff about free speech, remote work, layoffs and aliens Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Today is Friday, June 17th, and you're listening to the morning announcements presented by

0:06.1

Betches Media.

0:07.7

On Sammy Sage, and this episode is brought to you by Credit Karma.

0:11.6

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0:16.3

Apply with more confidence today.

0:27.0

Congratulations on making it through yet another week with our reproductive rights and hopefully

0:32.1

our sanity somewhat intact.

0:34.6

Let's start with the biggest takeaways from yesterday's January Stick Committee

0:37.8

hearing, which was mostly about the pressure campaign specifically targeted at getting

0:42.1

Mike Pence to overturn the election.

0:44.9

Yesterday's live witnesses were Pence's former counsel Greg Jacob, who was with him

0:49.1

on January 6th and also had his life threatened by the angry mob, and former federal judge

0:54.6

unleading conservative thinker Michael Ludig.

0:57.8

He's relevant because Pence had consulted with Ludig in the days leading up to the election

1:01.8

certification on whether there was any constitutional basis for Trump's claim that Pence could

1:07.0

decide the election outcome himself.

1:09.5

Spoiled alert, no, there wasn't.

1:12.4

Ludig told the committee that his opinion was, quote, that declaring Donald Trump as president

1:17.0

would have plunged America into what I believe would have been tantamount to a revolution

1:21.6

within a constitutional crisis in America, which in my view would have been the first constitutional

1:26.8

crisis since the founding.

1:30.1

After opening statements, the committee showed video footage of insurrectionists violently

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