Thursday, January 12, 2023
The 7
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🗓️ 12 January 2023
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Thursday briefing: Another Biden classified document discovery; flight chaos; Damar Hamlin; Jeff Beck; In-N-Out Burger; and more
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| 0:00.0 | Dr. It's the seven from the Washington Post. I'm Jeff Pierre. It's Thursday January 12th. |
| 0:15.7 | Let's get you caught up with today's seven stories. |
| 0:21.6 | Number one, President Biden's lawyers found more classified documents. |
| 0:27.0 | A search of a second location turned up more secret government papers after some were found in a different Biden office in November. |
| 0:35.2 | Biden's files were voluntarily returned to the National Archives. |
| 0:39.2 | And if you're wondering how this compares to the case of former President Donald Trump, there were far fewer than |
| 0:44.5 | the hundreds of files taken from Trump's home in Florida. |
| 0:48.1 | An FAA glitch caused chaos at airports yesterday. |
| 0:55.0 | That's our second story. A key federal safety system failed, |
| 1:00.0 | possibly because of a damaged database file. |
| 1:02.7 | That caused the FAA to ground planes for about 90 minutes |
| 1:06.2 | until 9 a.m. Eastern time. |
| 1:08.2 | It was the first time that's happened on a nationwide scale |
| 1:11.5 | since the 9-11 terrorist attacks. The delay created a |
| 1:15.0 | backlog for the rest of the day. Yesterday, Transportation Secretary Pete |
| 1:19.3 | Buttigieg said the FAA will continue to examine why the system broke down. |
| 1:24.0 | We are now pivoting to focus on understanding the causes of the issue. |
| 1:28.0 | And the main thing I want everybody to understand is that every step of the way safety is going to be our North Star. This follows a meltdown. is at |
| 1:33.3 | North Star. This follows a meltdown at Southwest Airlines last month, |
| 1:36.8 | and it's raising more questions about whether enough is being done |
| 1:40.4 | to upgrade air travel infrastructure. |
| 1:43.0 | Number three, inflation probably slowed down again last month. |
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