Takeaways From Pete Hegseth’s Confirmation Hearing; TikTok Users Flock To Another Chinese-Owned App; Michelle Obama Skipping Trump’s Inauguration; Workers Are Meh About Their Jobs~ Survey
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🗓️ 15 January 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everyone, it is Wednesday, January 15th. You are listening to the Mo News podcast. I'm Jill Wagner. |
| 0:09.6 | This is the place where we bring you just the facts. We read all the news and read between the lines so you don't have to. |
| 0:15.1 | As you can tell, it is just me again today. Moche, still not feeling well. Moche, if you're listening, I hope you are feeling better. |
| 0:22.4 | So much political news in today's podcast. I know he wasn't happy to miss this one, but of course |
| 0:28.2 | you've got to take care of yourself. For now, though, let's get to the headlines. Starting with |
| 0:32.6 | politics, the big moments from Pete Hegset's confirmation hearing. So far, it looks like Republicans seem like |
| 0:39.2 | they could be ready to confirm Hegseth for Defense Secretary. And we're still waiting for the |
| 0:43.8 | Supreme Court to weigh in on the TikTok ban, and it turns out some users have already flocked |
| 0:48.9 | to a different Chinese-owned app instead. Jack Smith releases his report on January 6th and Donald Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 |
| 0:57.6 | election. |
| 0:58.9 | Speaking of Donald Trump, he'll be inaugurated on Monday and one of the big names who will not |
| 1:03.5 | be there, Michelle Obama. |
| 1:05.7 | To health news, you are not imagining things. |
| 1:08.1 | This year's neurovirus wave is bad. I'll tell you why. To business news, |
| 1:13.5 | a lot of workers feeling meh about their jobs, the results of a new Gallup survey. And a self-help |
| 1:19.8 | book from 2020 is going viral after a Philadelphia Eagles player was seen reading it on the sidelines |
| 1:25.7 | during the game. And as always, we end with |
| 1:28.8 | on this day in history. Okay, let's start with the Senate confirmation hearing for Pete Hegset, |
| 1:34.5 | President-elect Donald Trump's controversial pick to run the Pentagon. Hegset is an Army National Guard |
| 1:40.5 | veteran and a former Fox News host. He's described himself as a change agent who |
| 1:45.8 | wants to rid the Pentagon of, quote, woke policies. He says they've made the U.S. less battle ready. |
| 1:51.9 | Well, on Tuesday, Hegstaff faced some tough questions on Capitol Hill about his limited management |
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