Trump’s Plans for Greenland, Canada, & “Gulf of America”; Meta Stops Fact-Checking; Palisades Fire; Medicine To Lengthen Your Dog’s Life

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🗓️ 8 January 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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A daily non-partisan, conversational breakdown of today’s top news and breaking news stories This Week’s Sponsor: – LMNT – Free Sample Pack with any LMNT drink mix purchase | Code: MoNews – BetterHelp - 10% off your first month Headlines: – Welcome to Mo News (00:00) – Trump’s American 🇺🇸 Expansion Plan (03:00) – Meta Stops Fact-Checking In Free-Speech Pitch (17:40) – Massive Pacific Palisades Fire Forces Thousands To Evacuate (26:00) – Judge Temporarily Blocked Special Counsel’s Report On Trump From Being Released (28:25) – House Passes Laken Riley Act As Congress Takes on Illegal Immigration (30:25) – Biden Releases 11 GTMO Detainees (32:35) – Medical Debt Will No Longer Show Up On Credit Reports (35:35) – FDA Approves Medication That Extends The Lifespan Of Dogs (36:40) – On This Day In History (38:15) — Mosheh Oinounou (@mosheh) is an Emmy and Murrow award-winning journalist. He has 20 years of experience at networks including Fox News, Bloomberg Television and CBS News, where he was the executive producer of the CBS Evening News and launched the network's 24 hour news channel. He founded the @mosheh Instagram news account in 2020 and the Mo News podcast and newsletter in 2022. Jill Wagner (@jillrwagner) is an Emmy and Murrow award- winning journalist. She's currently the Managing Editor of the Mo News newsletter and previously worked as a reporter for CBS News, Cheddar News, and News 12. She also co-founded the Need2Know newsletter, and has made it a goal to drop a Seinfeld reference into every Mo News podcast. Follow Mo News on all platforms: Website: www.mo.news Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mosheh/ Daily Newsletter: https://www.mo.news/newsletter Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@monews Twitter: https://twitter.com/mosheh TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@mosheh Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MoshehNews Snapchat: https://t.snapchat.com/pO9xpLY9

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0:00.0	Hey, everybody. It is Wednesday, January 8th, 2025. You're listening to the Mo News podcast. I'm Oshuununu.
0:10.0	And I'm Jill Wagner. This is the place where we bring you just the facts.
0:13.6	And we read all the news and read between the lines so you don't have to and figure out how Canada could ever become a 51st state, Jill.
0:20.8	Yeah, we'll take a bit of a reality check here on some of Donald Trump's big plans.
0:25.7	The big expansion plan for Greenland, Canada, the Panama Canal, definitely not something
0:30.1	he discussed on the campaign trail, but some surprises already early in 2025 as he gets
0:37.4	ready to take over the White House.
0:39.1	And a little housekeeping here. You and I are back in the same state for the first time
0:43.2	in a few weeks. Welcome to the tundra of New York. Oh, man, landed back from Florida yesterday.
0:50.0	You opened the doors of LaGuardia Airport and just the wind chill on your face and you're like, oh, winter, I forgot you for a couple weeks down in Florida.
1:00.7	Though I will say the Floridians as I was leaving were complaining about the 50-something degree temps in the morning there in South Florida.
1:08.0	It was all the talk, how cold things have gotten in Florida.
1:10.5	Yes, it's almost cold enough for the lizards to fall from the trees in Florida.
1:15.5	Our favorite annual winter story when it gets cold in Florida.
1:19.0	All right, but let's get to some other news here, starting with politics. If Donald Trump
1:23.2	gets his way, the U.S. is going to be a whole lot bigger. We're talking Greenland, Canada, and the
1:30.3	Panama Canal, a reality check on whether any of these expansion plans are even possible.
1:36.1	Jill, what started as a joke or trolling appeared to be pretty serious at Trump's press conference.
1:40.5	We'll talk to you about what he said yesterday. To tech news, meta says,
1:44.7	no more fact checking. Why and what it's going to be doing instead. Yeah, we'll take you through
1:50.4	the evolution over the last 10 years over at Facebook and Instagram. A fast-moving wildfire exploded
1:55.6	Tuesday in Southern California will tell you the latest. Also, a Florida judge temporarily blocks the special
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