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Morning Announcements

Wednesday, August 10th, 2022

Morning Announcements

Betches

Politics, Daily News, News, News Commentary

4.71.7K Ratings

🗓️ 10 August 2022

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

Today's headlines: FBI is searching Trump safe at Mar-a-Lago for possible classified documents, while Congressman and Trump ally Scott Perry is saying that the FBI has seized his cellphone. Then, A DC Circuit court of appeals ruled unanimously yesterday that the House Ways and Means Committee can access Trump's tax returns. The January 6th Committee met yesterday with Trump’s former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, while Trump had dinner with 12 of his most loyal Republican lawmakers last night at Bedminster. Finally, President Biden signed the $280 billion bipartisan CHIPS bill into law, which is intended to boost domestic high-tech manufacturing. Resources/Articles mentioned this episode: Washington Post: FBI searches Trump safe at Mar-a-Lago for possible classified documents Guardian: Congressman and Trump ally Scott Perry says FBI seized his cellphone Washington Post: House can view Trump’s tax records, appeals court rules CNN: Mike Pompeo meets with January 6 committee Yahoo! News: A dozen House Republicans plan to dine with Trump in Bedminster on Tuesday, a day after the FBI raid at Mar-a-Lago CNBC: Biden signs China competition bill to boost U.S. chipmakers Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Today is Wednesday, August 10th, and you're listening to the morning announcements presented

0:05.9

by Betches Media on Sammy Sage.

0:13.6

We have more information on Monday night's news Christmas.

0:16.4

Of course, I'm referring to the day-long FBI search of Mar-a-Lago, which was executed

0:21.3

at the behest of federal judge, which means that someone literally swore on an affidavit

0:26.1

that there was sufficient evidence for this search warrant.

0:28.7

And the head of the FBI, Christopher Ray, was himself appointed to this position by Trump.

0:34.0

You might be wondering if the FBI was searching for information related to January 6th,

0:38.6

or the New York State investigation into financial malfeasance in the Trump organization,

0:43.4

or maybe it's the election interference in Georgia.

0:46.5

But no, it was actually a referral to the Justice Department from a breakout star

0:50.8

on the bureaucracy scene, the National Archives that sent the FBI to Mar-a-Lago.

0:56.0

They were looking for documents, some of which were apparently top secret,

1:00.1

the Trump took with him when he left office, and they were found to be stored in his Palm Beach

1:04.7

mansion in a padlocked room, where your typical former president keeps their documents.

1:10.4

Honestly, it is just mostly surprising that Trump read enough documents to know which ones to hide.

1:14.8

In a potentially related story, but we can't be sure,

1:24.0

yesterday FBI agent seized the phone of Trump ally and Republican representative Scott Perry.

1:29.3

The seizure of his phone may be related to an investigation into his role in January 6th,

1:33.9

but we don't yet have confirmation. For some context, Perry was instrumental in introducing

1:39.0

Trump to DOJ attorney Jeffrey Clark. And I know it's easy to mix up our Jefferies,

1:43.7

but he is the one who personally sent a letter to Georgia to ask them to investigate

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