USMCA Trade Deal, Google's Parent Hits $1T & Netflix Ice Cream - Friday, January 17th, 2020
The NewsWorthy
Erica Mandy
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🗓️ 17 January 2020
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Summary
The news to know for Friday, January 17th, 2020!
What to know today about a new report involving the White House, and the bipartisan support for a major new trade deal.
Plus: another $1 trillion company, another new streaming service, Demi Lovato is back, and introducing 'Netflix & Chill'd'...
Those stories and 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:
Report Says Trump Administration Broke Law: FOX News, The Hill, WSJ, CNN
Impeachment Trial Begins: Washington Post, NYT, NBC News
Ukraine's New Investigation: CBS News, NYT, Politico
USMCA Gets Bipartisan Support: AP, CBS News, NPR
Weekend Winter Storm: USA Today, ABC News, Weather Channel
Microsoft Goes "Carbon Negative": Reuters, NPR, The Guardian
MLB Scandal 3.0: CBS Sports, USA Today
Superbowl National Anthem Singer: Yahoo
Alphabet Hits $1 Trillion: CNBC, WSJ
Smart Contact Lenses: Cnet, The Verge, USA Today
NBC Peacock Coming in July: CNBC, Variety
Netflix Ben & Jerry's: Cnet
Feel Good Friday - Cash on England Streets: NYT
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| 0:00.0 | Today is Friday, January 17th. |
| 0:02.0 | What to know today about a new report involving the White House, |
| 0:05.0 | the bipartisan support for a major new trade deal, |
| 0:08.0 | and which company promises to be carbon negative soon. |
| 0:11.0 | Plus another $1 trillion company, Demi Lovato is back and Netflix and |
| 0:15.4 | chilled. |
| 0:17.4 | Welcome to the newsworthy. All the days news in less than 10 minutes. Fast, fair, fun, and on the go. I'm Erica |
| 0:26.0 | Mandy. Thanks so much for being here. You ready? Let's do this. |
| 0:30.1 | A new report says the Trump administration broke the law just as the Senate |
| 0:37.8 | impeachment trial formally gets underway. Here's the deal. The |
| 0:41.4 | Government Accountability Office, which is the nonpartisan |
| 0:44.1 | Federal watchdog, put out a new report yesterday saying yes it was illegal for the |
| 0:48.6 | White House Budget Office to freeze 400 million dollars in military aid for Ukraine because that money |
| 0:55.1 | had been designated for Ukraine by Congress. |
| 0:58.4 | Remember, President Trump directed the office to put that money on hold, |
| 1:02.1 | but the report says the White House isn't allowed to do |
| 1:04.2 | that unless Congress signs off. Of course, this situation is at the heart of why President |
| 1:09.2 | Trump was impeached in the first place. Some say he did it to pressure Ukraine for investigations |
| 1:14.0 | into his political rivals for his own gain. But President Trump and his supporters |
| 1:18.0 | blew off the report calling it untrue and questioning its credibility. |
| 1:21.8 | President Trump has said he put the money on hold |
| 1:24.0 | only to make sure it wasn't going to Ukraine if there was still corruption there. |
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