Monday, February 6th, 2023

Morning Announcements

Betches

Politics, News, News Commentary, Daily News

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🗓️ 6 February 2023

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Today's headlines: The Defense Department issued a statement that they were waiting until the Chinese surveillance balloon was over the ocean to shoot it down. The January job report showed non-farm payrolls increased by 517,000, the largest gain since May 2022. News broke on Friday that George Santos told campaign donors in 2021 that he had been a producer of the Broadway musical Spiderman, which ran from 2011 through 2014; Santos may also owe up to $3400 dollars in unpaid parking tickets and traffic citations from New York and Florida. Democrats have made South Carolina the first presidential primary voting state. Finally for today, New England and eastern Canada experienced a record-breaking Arctic chill this past weekend. Resources/Articles mentioned this episode: US Department of Defense: F-22 Safely Shoots Down Chinese Spy Balloon Off South Carolina Coast NBC: Another Chinese 'surveillance balloon' is flying over Latin America, Pentagon says CNBC: Jobs report shows increase of 517,000 in January, crushing estimates, as unemployment rate hit 53-year low Bloomberg: George Santos Produced Ill-Fated Spider-Man Musical. At Least, He Claims He Did CBS: George Santos may owe thousands for traffic violations in two states NBC: Democrats make South Carolina first presidential primary voting state NY Times: Jury Rules for Elon Musk and Tesla in Investor Lawsuit Over Tweets Washington Post: ‘Historic Arctic outbreak’ crushes records in New England Host: Sami Sage Morning Announcements is produced by Sami Sage alongside Amanda Duberman and Bridget Schwartz Original Music and Editing by Brandon Lee Bjornson Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Today is Monday, February 6th, and you're listening to the Morning Announcements presented
0:05.7	by Betches Media.
0:06.7	I'm your host, Sammy Sage, and the Morning Announcements is your daily five-minute breakdown
0:10.6	of the headlines that isn't afraid to take a side and roast the most consequential reality
0:15.0	show there is.
0:16.2	Our government.
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0:33.3	In case you miss the memes, impossible, the big drama of this past weekend was a surveillance
0:38.0	balloon sent by China, floating across the U.S. from Montana to the East Coast, before
0:43.1	it was finally shot down on Saturday night off the coast of South Carolina.
0:47.6	The Defense Department issued a statement that they were waiting until the balloon was
0:50.6	over the ocean to shoot it down, as falling debris would have been dangerous.
0:55.0	As it is, the debris field spans 37 miles, and collecting it for intelligence purposes
0:59.3	is expected to take days.
1:01.6	Even before the balloon was shot down, U.S. officials say that they took steps to protect
1:05.6	against its collection of sensitive information.
1:08.5	Adding quote,
1:09.5	Though it didn't pose a military or safety threat, its intrusion into American airspace
1:14.0	over several days was an unacceptable violation of U.S. sovereignty.
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