Monday, February 15th, 2021

Morning Announcements

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🗓️ 15 February 2021

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Our first episode this week details how former President Trump was acquitted 57-43 in the Senate impeachment trial, but not until after some crazy news breaks that led to a debacle on Saturday morning over whether witnesses would be called. Then we have an update involving Lindsey Graham and the criminal investigation in Georgia into Trump’s attempts to overturn the election. Then we talk about a Covid-related scandal in New York involving a potential cover-up of nursing home deaths by Cuomo’s administration. We finish with some comical corruption by Mike Pompeo that involved spending $10,000 on embossed pens Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Today is Monday, February 15th, and you're listening to the morning announcements.
0:06.8	I'm Sammy Sage.
0:12.3	As I'm sure you've heard by now, former President Trump's Senate impeachment trial
0:15.6	came to a close over the weekend in quite a dramatic fashion.
0:19.7	In the end, the Senate voted 5743 to acquit, in the most bipartisan vote in a presidential
0:24.6	impeachment trial in history.
0:26.6	This was not without our favorite throwback from the Trump administration, a chaotic Friday
0:30.5	night full of news breaks.
0:32.4	First, news broke that Senator Tommy Tuberville had informed Trump that Mike Pence was being
0:36.4	evacuated from the Capitol around the same time that Trump tweeted about how Pence lacked
0:40.4	courage, which, if true, would be direct evidence of incitement because he was tweeting about
0:45.0	him while he knew who was in danger.
0:48.8	Another Friday night news break was that minority leader Kevin McCarthy had what reports
0:52.4	described as an expletive-laced phone call while the insurrection was going on, where
0:56.7	McCarthy tried to get Trump to call off his supporters and Trump replied, I guess these
1:00.6	people are more upset about the election than you, Kevin.
1:04.0	The accounts of the call was confirmed by a Republican member of the House, Jamie Herrera
1:07.7	Butler, who was with McCarthy at the time.
1:10.5	Butler was one of the 10 members of Congress who voted for the article's impeachment in
1:14.1	the House.
1:15.1	All of these news breaks led to his scramble early Saturday morning where lead impeachment
1:18.8	manager Jamie Raskin said he wanted to depose Butler in the trial and her contemporaneous
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