Transgender Ban, Marijuana Ad & Netflix Nod - Wednesday, January 23rd, 2019
The NewsWorthy
Erica Mandy
4.7 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 23 January 2019
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
The news to know for Wednesday, January 23rd, 2019!
Today, we're talking about the Supreme Court decision affecting transgender troops, and what lawmakers will vote on this week to try and end the shutdown.
Plus: the Super Bowl ad you won't see, a new service like Uber and the two ways Netflix just made history.
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.
Head to www.theNewsWorthy.com to read more about any of the stories mentioned under the section titled 'Episodes' or see sources below...
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Sources:
Shutdown Latest: NYT, USA Today, AP, CNN, NBC News
State of the Union Address: AP, Washington Post
Transgender Ban Ruling: CNN, TIME, FOX News
Supreme Court's Gun Case: NYT, WSJ
LA Teachers Deal: LA Times
BMW Ride Hailing: Reuters, TheDrive
Marijuana Ad: USA Today
Viacom Buys Pluto.TV: CNBC
Oscar Nominations: NYT, The Hollywood Reporter
Netflix Joins Motion Picture Assoc. Of America: Variety
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Today is Wednesday, January 23rd. What the Supreme Court decided about transgender troops, |
| 0:04.7 | and what lawmakers will vote on this week, will it end the shutdown? Plus the Super Bowl ad, you won't see, |
| 0:10.1 | a new service like Uber, and the two ways Netflix just made history. |
| 0:14.1 | Welcome, welcome to the newsworthy. |
| 0:19.0 | All the days news in less than 10 minutes. |
| 0:21.3 | Fast, fair, fun, and on the go. |
| 0:24.1 | I'm Erica Mandy, thanks so much for being here. |
| 0:26.6 | You ready? |
| 0:27.5 | Let's do this. |
| 0:28.7 | Congress is taking more action this week to try and end the government shutdown. |
| 0:36.0 | Tomorrow, the Senate will vote on two competing bills that could reopen the government. |
| 0:41.0 | The first time the Senate will vote on anything related to the shutdown by the way. |
| 0:44.9 | One would give President Trump the $5.7 billion he wants for a border wall or barrier. |
| 0:50.0 | In exchange for some protections for dreamers, the undocumented immigrants brought over to the U.S. |
| 0:54.5 | as children. |
| 0:55.7 | The other would reopen the government until early next month as a way to at least fund the government |
| 1:00.3 | while talks continue about border security. But USA |
| 1:03.7 | today reports both of those bills will likely fail. Either bill would |
| 1:07.6 | need 60 votes to pass in the Senate and it doesn't look good since each |
| 1:11.4 | party is supporting a different one. |
| 1:14.3 | And today lawmakers in the House will be voting on some other bills attempting a compromise, |
| 1:18.7 | but even if they pass there, they'll likely die in the Senate. |
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