Legal Experts Testify, Once-a-Month Birth Control & 'Favorite' Uber Drivers (+ 2019 Holiday Shopping Trends) - Thursday, December 5th, 2019
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Erica Mandy
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🗓️ 5 December 2019
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
The news to know for Thursday, December 5th, 2019!
What to know today about the constitutional law experts who testified about President Trump and impeachment, and the new rule impacting people on food stamps.
Plus: we're talking about once-a-month birth control, McDonald's coffee in car parts, and Uber's new feature to choose your 'favorite' drivers.
Those stories and many more in less than 10 minutes!
Then, hang out after the news for Thing to Know Thursday's bonus interview about holiday shopping trends in 2019 - from what's changing to Amazon's impact. Our guest today is Sam Yagan. He's the CEO of ShopRunner, known as the "Amazon Prime for everyone else."
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Sources:
Legal Experts Testify: Washington Post, NBC News, NYT
NATO Summit Drama: Politico, USA Today, WSJ, FOX News, AP
Pearl Harbor Shooting: CNN, NBC News, AP
New Rule for Food Stamps: Reuters, CBS News, The Hill
Famous Tree Lightings: FOX News, Thenationaltree.org, National Park Services
Once-a-Month Birth Control: AP, Wired
Coffee for Car Parts: CNBC, Cnet
Uber's "Favorite Driver" Feature: Engadget, Uber.com
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| 0:00.0 | Today is Thursday, December 5th. |
| 0:02.0 | We're talking about the constitutional law experts who just testified, |
| 0:05.0 | what they said about President Trump and impeachment, |
| 0:08.0 | and there's a new rule impacting many people on food stamps. |
| 0:11.0 | Plus, once a month birth birth control McDonald's coffee in car |
| 0:14.9 | parts and Uber's new feature to choose your favorite drivers. Then hang out |
| 0:19.1 | after the news for thing to note Thursday's bonus interview we're talking |
| 0:22.1 | about how things like Amazon and our |
| 0:23.7 | smartphones are changing holiday shopping for good. |
| 0:27.0 | Welcome, welcome to the newsworthy. |
| 0:31.0 | All the days news in less than 10 minutes fast fair fun and on the go I'm |
| 0:36.2 | Erica Mandy thanks so much for being here you ready let's do this |
| 0:46.7 | three constitutional this. Three constitutional law experts testified that yes President Trump's actions are impeachable offenses and one expert |
| 0:50.3 | testified that no they're not. That was the main takeaway from yesterday's impeachment hearing |
| 0:54.7 | in front of the House Judiciary Committee. |
| 0:56.6 | Lawmakers questioned the four constitutional scholars |
| 0:59.0 | on live TV about the meaning behind high crimes and misdemeanors. That's the phrase in the Constitution |
| 1:04.2 | talking about grounds for impeaching a president. So Democrats requested |
| 1:08.1 | three law professors from Harvard, Stanford, and the University of North Carolina, they all basically said Trump abused his |
| 1:14.4 | power for personal gain and his actions easily meet the threshold for an impeachable offense. |
| 1:19.2 | They're referring to Trump asking or demanding Ukraine announce investigations into his political |
| 1:24.3 | rivals, while at the same time withholding military aid from Ukraine. |
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