Russian Bots, Wardrobe Malfunction & iPhone Update - Tuesday, February 20th, 2018
The NewsWorthy
Erica Mandy
4.7 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 20 February 2018
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
All the news you need to know for Tuesday, February 20th, 2018!
Today: President Trump's take on gun control and how Russian bots got involved, too.
Plus: a wardrobe malfunction at the Winter Olympics, an iPhone update available and Fergie says sorry.
All that and much more in less than 10 minutes!
Award-winning broadcast journalist and former TV news reporter Erica Mandy breaks it all down for you.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome, welcome to the newsworthy. |
| 0:05.8 | All the days news in less than 10 minutes. |
| 0:08.2 | Fast, fair, fun, and on the go. |
| 0:10.8 | Thanks so much for tuning in. Today, President Trump's take on gun go. Thanks so much for tuning in. Today President Trump's take on gun control |
| 0:15.2 | and how Russian bots got involved too, plus a wardrobe malfunction, an iPhone |
| 0:20.0 | update and Fergi says sorry. |
| 0:22.6 | All that and much more in less than 10 minutes. |
| 0:25.4 | I'm Erica Mandy. |
| 0:26.3 | Today is Tuesday, February 20th. |
| 0:29.0 | You ready? |
| 0:30.0 | Let's do this. |
| 0:37.9 | The White House is showing some support now to have stronger background checks before you can buy a gun. |
| 0:39.7 | The Wall Street Journal reports President Trump is now at least open to it and is in talks with |
| 0:44.2 | lawmakers about a plan. |
| 0:45.9 | A possible solution he might support? |
| 0:48.2 | A bill that both a Republican and Democrat have created together that would give states |
| 0:52.4 | and federal agencies new |
| 0:53.8 | incentives to make sure they're uploading criminal records to a national |
| 0:57.5 | database. They're already supposed to do that but it apparently can fall |
| 1:01.7 | through the cracks. The bill hopes to make sure people |
| 1:04.4 | who already aren't supposed to be able to buy a gun actually can't. We're talking about |
| 1:09.0 | people with severe mental illness or serious criminal histories. NBC News points out it means strengthening the system in place now, |
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