Wednesday, August 17th, 2022

Morning Announcements

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🗓️ 17 August 2022

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Today's headlines: The DOJ has reportedly returned Trump’s passports after the Mar-a-Lago search, while several media outlets and Trump himself are requesting that a court unseal the affidavit. The New York Times reported yesterday that Trump’s White House counsel and January 6th hearing starlet Pat Cipollone, along with his deputy Patrick Philbin, have both been questioned by the DOJ. The Washington Post revealed that Trump’s team of lawyers pursued voting machine data in more states than just Georgia, and Trump’s longtime CFO Allan Weisselberg has a hearing scheduled for tomorrow in front of the Manhattan district attorney. Liz Cheney was defeated by election denier Harriet Hageman in the republican primary in Wyoming. Only 2 of the 10 republicans who voted to impeach Trump in 2020 will be moving onto their general elections in the upcoming midterms. Finally, an appellate court in Florida blocked a 16 year old girl from getting an abortion and President Biden announced yesterday that the FDA cleared the way for hearing aids to be sold online and in retail stores. Resources/Articles mentioned this episode: NBC: Trump’s passports returned after Mar-a-Lago search, DOJ official says Washington Post: Justice Department opposes release of Mar-a-Lago affidavit NY Times: F.B.I. Interviewed Top White House Lawyers About Missing Trump Documents Washington Post: Trump-allied lawyers pursued voting machine data in multiple states, records reveal NY Times: Trump Executive Nears Plea Deal With Manhattan Prosecutors NBC: Rep. Liz Cheney loses her primary in Wyoming to Trump-backed challenger Washington Post: Election deniers march toward power in key 2024 battlegrounds Axios: Florida court blocks teen from getting abortion, must continue pregnancy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Today is Wednesday, August 17th, and you're listening to the Morning Announcements presented
0:06.1	by Betches Media.
0:07.1	I'm your host, Sammy Sage, and the Morning Announcements is your daily five-minute breakdown of the
0:12.1	headlines that isn't afraid to take a side and roast the most consequential reality
0:16.5	show there is.
0:17.8	Our government.
0:18.8	Today's episode is brought to you by Frambridge.
0:21.4	Frambridge makes it easier and more affordable than ever to frame your favorite things without
0:25.4	ever leaving the house.
0:27.1	Start framing today with Frambridge.
0:33.4	For our first stories today, we have several updates in three out of the four major investigations
0:38.3	into Trump's various crimes and coup attempts, which I think I'm going to start calling his
0:42.9	legal egot.
0:44.8	First up, the DOJ investigation into the top secret documents at Mar-a-Lago.
0:49.4	We're starting easy, with a follow-up on Trump's passports.
0:53.1	Since he announced earlier this week that the FBI took his passports during the search,
0:57.3	the DOJ has now made a statement that they did indeed take Trump's passports, not intentionally
1:02.4	or permanently, but because they were amidst the items that were seized.
1:06.4	However, they added that they had contacted Trump's team shortly after to return the
1:10.4	passports, since they were not part of the things that they intended to search.
1:14.8	In other words, we've now learned that Trump did this whole they took my passports thing
1:18.8	after the DOJ had told him that they took them, and that he was getting them back.
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