SCOOP: Aliens, George Washington's Cabinet, & A Titanic Gift
SmartHERNews
Jenna Lee
4.9 • 663 Ratings
🗓️ 18 November 2024
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
The news you need to know for the week ahead:
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✓ 1:00: What we're watching: G20 sideline convos and Congressional Hearings.
✓ 5:00: #ICYMI Aliens.
✓ 11:00: UAP = Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena.
✓ 12:00: Looking ahead ... funding the federal government.
✓ 13:00: Pres-Elect Trump’s team and why we’re not covering it, yet.
✓ 15:00: Three things to keep in mind about Cabinet Nominees ... and how big is the Federal government?
✓ 21:00: Context on the Senate confirmation process.
✓ 24:00: China. Meetings at the G20 and a possible diplomatic role in the Russia-Ukraine War.
✓ 27:00: Developing story ... the Russia-Ukraine War.
✓ 31:00: What's happening with mortgage rates?
✓ 35:00: Who is the next star player in the Democratic Party? The Republican Party?
✓ 39:00: Pres. Elect Trump’s “Hush Money Trial” in NY. And quick updates on his other cases.
✓ 42:00: The heartfelt story behind a historic watch ... and why we're talking about it now.
✓ 49:00: Save the Date for our first Family Meeting!
SHOW NOTES
“Tracking Trump’s Cabinet and Staff Nominations” (New York Times)
“Are Mortgage Rates Going Down Since The Fed Lowered Rates? Addressing Client Misconceptions” (Forbes)
"History-making Sale of Watch Given to ‘Titanic Hero’” (SmartHER News)
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Scoop, where you get the scoop on this week's news. My name is Jenna, and this is |
| 0:06.9 | Smarter News. |
| 0:17.5 | Hi, everybody. It's great to have you here. I don't know if that just happened in my headphones, |
| 0:20.8 | but it seemed like a little bit like of a slurred start to what's a pre-recorded opening to Scoop. |
| 0:25.9 | I don't know if that's just sort of like a Monday moment for some of our audio. |
| 0:30.0 | And isn't that sort of reflective of our energy levels after the election? |
| 0:34.5 | It's like, here we are. Welcome to Scoop. It's great to see all of you. I am the founder of Smarterer News. My name is Jenna. I'm a journalist. I've been a journalist for 20 years now. I remember thinking back like, well, that's going to be so crazy when I can say 20 years because I used to say, you know, 16, 17. Then you're at 20. And then at this point, I'm like, do I keep going? You know, is it 21? You're 22? I don't know. That just starts to feel, |
| 1:00.8 | you start to lose authority and feel a little less relevant. When I get to 30, |
| 1:07.7 | then I can really kind of celebrate that. But it's great to have you here as we |
| 1:12.0 | have our scoop broadcast for the week, sort of set the table for you as we go into Thanksgiving. |
| 1:16.0 | We can start using some of those analogies. We're going to set the table for you for the week ahead. |
| 1:20.1 | We got a really busy week because we have Congress back in session. We have the world leaders |
| 1:24.8 | at a major meeting in Brazil, meeting of the G20. |
| 1:28.6 | There's just a lot of activity and sort of this movement of back to business in this quick sprints before we get into the holidays. |
| 1:35.6 | So we have this week for Congress to do some business in Washington, D.C., and then they're back to their districts. |
| 1:41.3 | They get that week of Thanksgiving, and then they're back again |
| 1:44.3 | for this condensed period of several weeks of working before the Christmas holiday. |
| 1:49.0 | And then once you get to January, although those that are currently serving remain in |
| 1:54.4 | office, now we're going to do the turnover to the new Congress and to the inauguration. |
| 1:59.1 | And that's what January is really for. |
| 2:01.1 | The G20, anytime you have world leaders together, |
| 2:03.8 | we're going to pay close attention to that. |
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