Wednesday, August 31st, 2022

Morning Announcements

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🗓️ 31 August 2022

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Today's headlines: The DOJ has released their legal response for why Trump’s request for a special master to review the documents that were seized from Mar-a-Lago should not be granted. President Biden gave a big speech in Pennsylvania yesterday afternoon to campaign on behalf of democratic candidates Jon Fetterman for the Senate and Josh Shapiro to be governor. Tony Ornato, one of the most well known secret service agents to come out of the January 6th Insurrection), retired unexpectedly on Monday. Trump reportedly bragged to his aids that he had ‘Intelligence’ on Emmanuel Macron’s sex life. Finally, the entire city of Jackson, Mississippi has had no access to running water since Monday, and Google has removed the Truth Social app from the Google Play store. Resources/Articles mentioned this episode: U.S. Courts: Official Response NY Times: Biden Calls Out Republicans on Guns and Crime in Pennsylvania Speech Intercept: ANTHONY ORNATO, TOP SECRET SERVICE OFFICIAL SOUGHT BY INVESTIGATORS FOR ROLE IN JAN. 6, RETIRES UNEXPECTEDLY Rolling Stone: Trump Bragged He Had ‘Intelligence’ on Macron’s Sex Life CNN: The water crisis in Jackson, Mississippi, has gotten so bad, the city temporarily ran out of bottled water to give to residents CNBC: Trump’s Truth Social barred from Google Play store over content moderation concerns Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Today is Wednesday, August 31st, and you're listening to the Morning Announcements presented
0:07.1	by Betches Media.
0:08.1	On your host, Sammy Sage, and the Morning Announcements is your daily five-minute breakdown of headlines
0:14.0	that isn't afraid to take a side and roast the most consequential reality show there is.
0:18.9	Our government.
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0:35.8	Late last night, the DOJ released their legal response for why Trump's request for a special
0:40.6	master to review the documents that were seized from our logo should not be granted.
0:45.9	They claim that appointing a special master would be a risk to national security, as well
0:50.3	as inappropriate and unnecessary because everything has already passed through a filter
0:54.5	team.
0:55.5	While the details of the documents themselves are sparse, the filing claim that some of the
1:00.0	documents were so sensitive and classified that in some instances, the FBI agents and DOJ
1:05.8	attorneys needed additional security clearances to view them.
1:10.1	But perhaps the most memorable part of the filing was the photo that they included of a large
1:14.7	pile of classified documents on the floor of Mar-a-Lago, in which they are very clearly
1:20.0	marked top secret.
1:22.1	The DOJ also argued that they have evidence that government records were likely concealed
1:26.5	and removed from the storage room that Trump had been instructed to secure them in, but
1:30.6	that efforts were instead likely taken to obstruct the government's investigation.
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