Trump Resort Controversy, All-Female Spacewalk & Lyft's Free Rides - Friday, October 18th, 2019
The NewsWorthy
Erica Mandy
4.7 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 18 October 2019
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
The news to know for Friday, October 18th, 2019!
There's a lot to talk about today, including controversial comments from the White House that some are calling a confession. Also, did a ceasefire agreement with Turkey actually work?
Plus: a Brexit vote happening this weekend, a historic spacewalk this morning, and free rides from Lyft for weeks...
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:
Mulvaney's Comments: NYT1, NYT2, FOX News, Washington Post, NBC News
G7 Summit: The Hill
Rep. Elijah Cummings Died: USA Today, Washington Post, Fox News, The Hill
Turkey Ceasefire?: AP, WSJ, ABC News, CBS News, Reuters
Brexit Deal: CNN, BBC, WSJ, NBC News
Bomb Cyclone: CBS News, Weather Channel, NYT, USA Today
All-Female Spacewalk: CBS News, Reuters, CNBC, NASA Live
Juul E-Cig Sales: USA Today, CNBC, The Verge
Venmo Credit Card: Engadget, Fox Business, MarketWatch
Google Map Update: TechCrunch, 9to5Google
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Today is Friday, October 18th. |
| 0:02.0 | There's a lot to talk about today, like controversial comments from the White House |
| 0:05.5 | that some are calling a confession and a conflict of interest. |
| 0:08.5 | I'll break down both sides. |
| 0:10.0 | Plus a Brexit deal, historic spacewalk, and free rides from lift. |
| 0:15.0 | Welcome, welcome to the newsworthy. |
| 0:19.0 | All the days news in less than 10 minutes. |
| 0:21.0 | Fast, fair, fun, and on the go. I'm Erica Mandy, thanks so much for being here. |
| 0:26.5 | You ready? Let's do this. |
| 0:28.6 | A major admission when it comes to the Ukraine scandal. The Washington Post reports |
| 0:35.6 | President Trump's acting chief of staff basically said, yep, they were |
| 0:39.3 | withholding $400 million in military aid from Ukraine to pressure the country's |
| 0:43.6 | leaders to investigate Democrats. |
| 0:45.8 | Mick Mulvaney made the comments during a press briefing yesterday and this is a |
| 0:49.4 | pretty big deal. Some are calling it a confession of quid pro quo, meaning you only give something when you get something in return. |
| 0:56.0 | In fact, a reporter even called that out, and Mulvaney responded, quote, |
| 1:00.0 | we do that all the time with foreign policy. |
| 1:02.0 | He then told reporters to, quote, get over it. we do that all the time with foreign policy. |
| 1:02.8 | He then told reporters to quote get over it. |
| 1:05.4 | To be clear though the investigation he was specifically referring to was not the one |
| 1:09.0 | about Joe Biden and his son. |
| 1:10.8 | It was actually about an unfounded conspiracy theory that Ukraine helped |
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