This Ken Is On Trial
What A Day
What A Day
4.6 • 12.6K Ratings
🗓️ 12 September 2023
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
The 22nd anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attack was yesterday, and officials around the country memorialized the nearly 3,000 people who were killed. Roughly 40 percent of the victims remain unidentified, but officials recently used DNA testing to discover the identities of two more of those killed in the attack.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's impeachment trial continued into its fifth day Monday, when his former chief of staff testified that Paxton had an affair with a woman named Laura Olson. Paxton is only the third public official in Texas to be impeached, and if convicted he will be basically fired. A verdict could come down as soon as this week.
And in headlines: the FDA greenlit a new round of COVID-19 vaccines, thousands are feared dead in Libya after Storm Daniel hit the country, and strippers at Portland’s Magic Tavern Club voted to unionize.
Show Notes:
- Tre’vell Anderson and jarrett hill, co-authors of “Historically Black Phrases” join Reparations Club in LA on September 19 – https://rep.club/products/historically-black
- Tre’vell Anderson presents their book “We See Each Other” at All She Wrote in Boston on September 23 – https://tinyurl.com/yv9nnrdt
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | It's Tuesday, September 12th. I'm Josie Duffy-Race. |
| 0:04.5 | And I'm Trayvell Anderson and this is What A Day, where we have one request for Smuckers now |
| 0:10.0 | that the company announced yesterday that it'll buy hostess. |
| 0:13.1 | Yeah, fill those twinkies with Smuckers jam and the ding-dongs with jiffy nut butter. |
| 0:18.6 | A cinnamon roll with jam instead of icing. |
| 0:22.9 | Perhaps? Yes. Yes. That's brilliant. That's bold. That's new. That's different. I love it. |
| 0:30.9 | On today's show, an update on the impeachment trial against Texas Attorney General Ken |
| 0:35.5 | Paxton, plus striking writers are mad that Drew Barrymore taped episodes of her talk show. |
| 0:40.8 | But first, yesterday marked the 22nd anniversary of the 9-11 terrorist attack on the US, |
| 0:46.6 | in which almost 3,000 people were killed, and thousands more were injured. |
| 0:51.2 | I joined you on this solemn day to renew our sacred vow. Never forget. |
| 0:58.4 | Never forget. We never forget. That was President Biden delivering remarks on a military base |
| 1:06.8 | in Anchorage, Alaska, which is notable news insofar as he did not commemorate the tragedy |
| 1:12.8 | at one of the actual attack sites, which include the World Trade Center in New York, |
| 1:17.3 | and the Pentagon, or at the White House. This was the first time that a sitting president had |
| 1:22.4 | not acknowledged the event from any of those places, which, of course, a number of folks said was a |
| 1:28.2 | bad look. Yeah, I bet Republicans took that great. Why wasn't he at any of these places? |
| 1:34.8 | He just returned from the G20 summit, which happened in New Delhi, India, and apparently just |
| 1:40.7 | wasn't able to make it back to the East Coast in time. That said, Vice President Kamala Harris, |
| 1:46.4 | her husband Doug, and First Lady Joe Biden, were all dispatched to various ceremonies to pay |
| 1:52.5 | respects. One of the biggest ceremonies, of course, happened in New York City at the National |
| 1:57.4 | September 11th Memorial. That's where VP Harris joined New York Governor Kathy Hocal, |
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