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Morning Announcements

Monday, July 18th, 2022

Morning Announcements

Betches

News, Daily News, Politics, News Commentary

4.71.7K Ratings

🗓️ 18 July 2022

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

Today's headlines: A special committee in the Texas state House released a comprehensive 77-page report about the police response to the elementary school shooting in Uvalde. Meanwhile, a bipartisan group of senators has agreed to a series of provisions to reform the Electoral Count Act, while the UAE has detained the American lawyer who had previously represented Jamal Khashoggi. Senator Joe Manchin has backed out yet again on negotiations for a democratic budget package, and a small town library in Vinton, Iowa has closed due to what they said was harassment by conservative residents over the display of LGBTQ books and staff. Finally, Betsy DeVos stated at a conservative education summit yesterday that she believes the Department of education should not exist. Resources/Articles mentioned this episode: NY Times: Report on Uvalde Shooting Finds ‘Systemic Failures’ in Police Response NBC: Senators are close to releasing a bill to stop candidates from stealing elections US News: UAE Detains U.S. Lawyer for Khashoggi on Money Laundering Charges NPR: Biden urges Democrats to pass slim health care bill after Manchin nixes climate action Yahoo! News: Iowa Library Shuttered After Anti-LGBTQ+ Sentiments Flare Axios: Betsy DeVos calls for abolishing the Department of Education Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Today is Monday, July 18th, and you're listening to the morning announcements presented by

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Betches Media.

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I'm Sammy Sage, and this episode is brought to you by Grove Collaborative.

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It is Monday morning, and we are already full of headlines.

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A special committee in the Texas State House released a comprehensive 77-page report about

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the police response to the elementary school shooting in Yvonne.

0:36.0

And the findings were very bad, to say the least.

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The report revealed that almost 400 law enforcement officers were at the school as they waited

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to confront the shooter.

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This included Yvonne, DPD, Sheriff Stephanie's, school officers, neighboring law enforcement,

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almost 150 Border Patrol officers, 90 state police, 13 U.S. marshals,

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eight federal DEA officers, and a partridge in a pear tree.

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The reported knowledge that a rapid police response would not have saved every victim,

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but that some victims who died on the way to the hospital could have survived if they

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were rescued sooner.

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In terms of consequences, so far the Yvonne mayor announced that the acting police chief

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on the day of the massacre had been placed on leave, just like they say.

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The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is at least 401 good guys with a gun.

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Here's a story that starts with a phrase you don't hear very much.

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