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Morning Announcements

Monday, March 28th, 2022

Morning Announcements

Betches

News, Daily News, Politics, News Commentary

4.71.7K Ratings

🗓️ 28 March 2022

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

Let’s start off this week with the Ginni Thomas text message scandal and a recap of President Biden’s speech in Poland on Saturday. Next we discuss Biden’s “Billionaire Minimum Income Tax” before closing with the major ice shelf that collapsed in East Antarctica after record high temperatures. Resources/Articles mentioned this episode: NBC News: “Ginni Thomas pressed for GOP lawmakers to protest 2020 election results” Reuters: “Biden says Putin ‘cannot remain in power’ in fiery speech on Ukraine war” Reuters: “Exclusive: China’s Sinopec pauses Russia projects, Beijing wary of sanctions” Washington Post: “President Biden to unveil new minimum tax on billionaires in budget” Axios: “Ice shelf collapses in East Antarctica for first time” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Today is Monday, March 28th, and you're listening to the morning announcements presented

0:07.5

by Betcha's media, Homestemy Sage.

0:12.1

The Ginny Thomas text message scandal continued to unravel this weekend, with new reporting

0:16.9

that showed that in addition to pressuring Trump's chief of staff Mark Meadows to overturn

0:20.8

the election, she also pressed other Republican lawmakers to do the same.

0:25.7

She wrote an email to Indiana Representative and incoming chairman of the Republican

0:29.6

Study Committee, Jim Banks, that members of his caucus were not as loyal to Donald Trump

0:34.6

as members of the Freedom Caucus, which is, you know, the Jim Jordan's margaries, etc.

0:40.3

of the world.

0:41.3

It's also clear that Ginny Thomas was in touch with the office of Congressman Louis Gomer,

0:45.7

as she referenced his chief of staff's belief that, quote,

0:48.5

the most important thing you can realize right now is that there are no rules in war.

0:53.4

Judge obviously leads me to ask, what war is she talking about?

0:56.9

This is an election in a democratic country that you claim you love Ginny.

1:01.3

Unless you don't think that's what this is?

1:05.6

President Biden was in Europe this weekend and gave a major speech in Poland on Saturday.

1:10.4

In the speech, he strongly warned Putin against expanding the war, saying, quote,

1:14.7

don't even think about moving onto one single inch of NATO territory.

1:19.2

He also made an off the cuff comment that Putin, quote, cannot remain in power, which led

1:23.9

to a whole flurry of commentary over whether Biden was calling for regime change, which

1:28.8

I should add, Secretary of State Antony Blinken later clarified that he wasn't.

1:34.0

Biden did, however, also refer to Putin as a butcher when answering a reporter's question.

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