Tuesday, November 29th, 2022

Morning Announcements

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🗓️ 29 November 2022

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Today's headlines: Arizona’s Maricopa County has voted to certify the 2022 election over GOP objections. Former Trump advisor and purveyor of alternative facts, Kellyanne Conway sat for a deposition with the House January 6th committee for almost five hours yesterday without invoking the 5th amendment. Security has tightened in China after multiple widespread Covid protests. More than 2 million people in Houston Texas are currently under a boil water notice as of yesterday after a power outage at a purification plant. Five police officers in Connecticut were each charged with second-degree reckless endangerment and cruelty misdemeanors for their treatment of a Black man named Randy Cox in June of 2022. Finally for today, New news suggests Twitter is considering pulling twitter out of the App Store as a result of the false and dangerous content that Elon is now allowing, and even encouraging, on the platform. Resources/Articles mentioned this episode: The Hill: Arizona’s Maricopa County votes to certify 2022 election over GOP objections AP News: GOP-controlled Arizona county refuses to certify election NBC: Kellyanne Conway meets with Jan. 6 committee for nearly 5 hours BBC: Security tightened in China after widespread Covid protests NY Times: Protest in Xinjiang Against Lockdown After Fire Kills 10 AP News: Water boil order issued for more than 2 million in Houston Washington Post: Elon Musk says Apple threatened to remove Twitter from App Store Bloomberg: FTX US Donated $1 Million to a Super-PAC Aligned With Mitch McConnell in October Host: Sami Sage Morning Announcements is produced by Sami Sage alongside Amanda Duberman and Bridget Schwartz Original Music and Editing by Brandon Lee Bjornson Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Today is Tuesday, November 29th, and you're listening to the Morning Announcements presented
0:07.7	by Betches Media.
0:08.7	I'm your host, Sammy Sage, and the Morning Announcements is your daily five-minute breakdown of the
0:13.1	headlines that isn't afraid to take a side and roast the most consequential reality
0:17.4	show there is, our government.
0:24.1	The midterm elections may have gone smoothly, but unfortunately, some election deniers
0:28.3	that still refuse to quit, particularly in Arizona.
0:32.0	Yesterday was the deadline for the state's 15 counties to report their final results
0:35.9	to the Secretary of State's office, which is known as the Canvas.
0:39.6	However, not all 15 counties have reached agreement on reality.
0:43.9	The good news at least is that the big name in Arizona elections, Maricopa County, voted
0:48.4	unanimously to certify their results, even as Carrie Lake continued to spread lies about
0:52.9	it.
0:53.9	However, the Republican-controlled rural Cochized County has missed yesterday's deadline to certify
0:59.1	their results, despite having zero evidence of anything wrong with the vote count there.
1:04.4	State election officials said that they would sue the county if they missed the deadline,
1:08.2	so expect that to happen if it hasn't already by the time this podcast comes out.
1:12.7	And don't even get me started on the fact that there are serious hours to be built to lawyers
1:16.7	thanks to people's refusal to accept simple math.
1:25.2	Though speaking of people who refuse to acknowledge empirical reality, former Trump advisor and
1:29.9	purveyor of alternative facts, Kellyanne Conway sat for a deposition with the House January
1:35.0	6th Committee for almost five hours yesterday, without invoking the Fifth Amendment.
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