Tuesday, February 8th, 2022

Morning Announcements

Betches

News, News Commentary, Daily News, Politics

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🗓️ 8 February 2022

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

For our first story, we start off with the White House record boxes recovered at Trump's Mar-a-lago property. Next, we cover why the Supreme Court could soon act on a dispute over whether Alabama's new voting map infringes on the rights of Black voters, before getting to some Russia-Ukraine updates. Finally, we close with an announcement from your two favorite low budget airlines. Resources/Articles mentioned this episode: Washington Post: "National Archives had to retrieve Trump White House records from Mar-a-Lago" NY Times: "Supreme Court, in 5-4 Vote, Restores Alabama’s Congressional Voting Map" NY Times: "As Biden Vows ‘United’ Response to Russia, Putin Says Ukraine Talks Will Continue" NPR: "Frontier-Spirit merger promises better deals and service; critics aren't so sure" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Today is Tuesday, February 8th, and you're listening to the Morning Announcements presented
0:07.3	by Betcha's media.
0:08.6	I'm Sammy Sage.
0:12.0	Today is going to be a shorter, lighter news day.
0:14.4	As a treat.
0:15.4	For our first story, it sounds like Mara Lago was almost in the running to host the next
0:19.6	season of Hortars.
0:21.3	News broke yesterday that Donald Trump took 15 boxes of official records, in violation
0:26.2	of the Presidential Records Act, and dropped them with him tomorrow, which had to be retrieved
0:31.1	by the National Archives last month.
0:33.5	For context, the National Archives are in charge of preserving all presidential documents,
0:37.6	gifts, notes, and other written communications.
0:40.3	Among the documents included personal correspondence from leaders such as Obama and Trump's favorite
0:45.4	penpal, Kim Jong-un.
0:47.1	Oh, shit, those letters I saw on eBay were real.
0:50.7	It's also been reported that Trump personally tore up numerous documents, some of which
0:55.8	were taped back together, or arrived at the National Archives still in pieces.
0:59.8	And my heart goes out to the unwitting public servant who's in charge of taping those
1:03.4	back together.
1:07.4	The Supreme Court strikes again, this time at Voting Rights in Alabama.
1:11.4	In a five-four decision, the Court upheld a voting map that a lower court in Alabama
1:15.3	had struck down on the grounds that it violated the Voting Rights Act by diluting the
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