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Morning Announcements

Monday, June 26th, 2023

Morning Announcements

Betches

News, Daily News, Politics, News Commentary

4.7 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 26 June 2023

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

Today’s Headlines: Over the weekend, Yevgeny Prigozhin, the former friend of Russian President Vladimir Putin and head of the Wagner Group mercenary army, attempted a coup against Putin but eventually agreed to retreat to Belarus. The Department of Veteran Affairs analysis revealed that Black veterans were more likely to be denied disability benefits compared to their white counterparts. The US Coast Guard is leading an investigation into the implosion of the OceanGate submersible to enhance safety recommendations. The House Freedom Caucus discussed potentially removing Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene from the caucus. The I-95 highway near Philadelphia has reopened after a deadly truck fire. Resources/Articles mentioned in this episode: WA Post: Officials question whether truce will hold in Kremlin, Wagner standoff  Axios: VA denied Black veterans health benefits more often than white vets, data shows  Axios: U.S. Coast Guard leading investigation into cause of sub implosion  Politico: House Freedom Caucus faces an internal purge push  CNN: How a collapsed section of I-95 reopened in just 12 days  Morning Announcements is produced by Sami Sage alongside Amanda Duberman and Bridget Schwartz Edited by Grace Hernandez-Johnson Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Today is Monday, June 26th, and you're listening to the Morning Announcements presented by

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Betcha's Media.

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I'm your host, Sammy Sage, and the Morning Announcements is your daily five-minute breakdown

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of the headlines that isn't afraid to take a side and roast the most consequential reality

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show there is.

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Our government.

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The big news of the weekend was, of course, the casual-flash coup attempt against Russian

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President Vladimir Putin by his very own former friend.

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And head of the Wagner Group mercenary army, Yvgeni Pregozion.

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Pregozion rose from being a petty criminal who served nine years in prison, to owning a hot

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dog stand that he parlied into a massive catering business that was contracted by the Kremlin,

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earning him the nickname Putin's chef.

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Putin's chef then went on to start a bot farm, naturally, which the United States DOJ sanctioned

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for interference in the 2016 election.

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Before becoming commander of the paramilitary army, the Wagner Group, which helped fight

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alongside the Russian military in Ukraine, that is until Pregozion started publicly criticizing

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Putin and the war effort, while also cultivating loyalty to himself rather than to the Kremlin.

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Then on Saturday, Wagner Group forced his march 120 miles towards Moscow, at the direction

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of Pregozion, with the apparent intent to overthrow Putin.

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However, by the end of the day, he abruptly agreed to pull back the army and said that

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he would retreat to Belarus, effectively an exile.

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The truth was reportedly brokered by Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, ostensibly

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