Subpoena Battles, 5G Race & AI Fights Cancer - Tuesday, May 21st, 2019
The NewsWorthy
Erica Mandy
3.9 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 21 May 2019
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
The news to know for Tuesday, May 21st, 2019!
Today, we're talking about the White House winning one subpoena fight today but losing another.
Plus: a ban on a major Chinese company, how AI could help fight cancer, and yes, another mistake on the most popular HBO show ever...
Those stories and many 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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Sources:
McGahn Testimony: ABC News, CNN, AP
Financial Records: CNBC, Washington Post, The Hill, WSJ
Google & Huawei: AP, CNN, Bloomberg
T-Mobile/Sprint Merger: CNBC, WSJ, The Verge
AI Spots Lung Cancer: Engadget, NYT
Little Caesars Impossible Pizza: The Verge, Fox Business
Game of Thrones Water Bottles: Gizmodo, USA Today, Variety, Business Insider
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Today is Tuesday, May 21st. The White House is winning one subpoena fight today but just lost another, I'll explain. |
| 0:07.5 | Plus a ban on a major Chinese company, how AI could help fight cancer. |
| 0:12.3 | And yes, another mistake on the most popular HBO show ever. |
| 0:15.4 | Welcome, welcome to the newsworthy. |
| 0:20.4 | All the days news in less than 10 minutes. Fast, fair, fun, and on the go. I'm Erica Mandy. Thanks |
| 0:26.7 | so much for being here. You ready? Let's do this. |
| 0:30.0 | More testimony about the Russia investigation was supposed to |
| 0:36.5 | happen today but don't expect to see it. The AP says President Trump told |
| 0:40.4 | former White House Council Don McGann not to testify in front of a House committee |
| 0:44.6 | even though he was subpoenaed to show up. |
| 0:47.0 | McGann was a key figure in Robert Mueller's Russia investigation and is named in |
| 0:50.8 | Mueller's final report. |
| 0:52.4 | So the House Judiciary Committee wants to ask him some questions. |
| 0:55.0 | Assuming McGand does not show up, the House Committee is threatening to hold him in contempt of Congress. |
| 1:00.0 | Just like the House already voted to do to Attorney General William Barr for ignoring a different subpoena. |
| 1:05.4 | So what consequences will they actually face? That's TBD. In the meantime, the White House may not be able to block a different request from lawmakers, the one to see |
| 1:14.0 | President Trump's financial records. They subpoenaed the President's longtime accounting firm, and now the Hill reports a |
| 1:19.7 | federal judge decided to uphold that subpoena, basically ruling against the White House |
| 1:24.4 | for trying to block it. But Trump is not giving up his fight, he'll likely appeal. |
| 1:28.7 | China's largest tech company is taking a major hit from Google and the US government. |
| 1:37.0 | Huawei was on track to be the world's top smartphone brand, but maybe not anymore. |
| 1:41.0 | First, the Google situation. Huawei's phones use Google software. maybe not the |
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