Wednesday, December 8th, 2021

Morning Announcements

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🗓️ 8 December 2021

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Summary

Let's start this news day with a debt ceiling update. We cover Biden and Putin's two hour video chat, the end of an era following the end of Germany’s first female chancellor's tenure, and why a Georgie federal judge blocked the COVID vaccine mandate for employees of federal contractors. Earlier this week, the Justice Department closed the investigation into the 1955 lynching of Emmett Till. Finally, Former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows says he will no longer cooperate with the House committee that’s investing the January 6th insurrection. Resources/Articles mentioned in this episode: Washington Post: "Debt ceiling deal reached in Congress, party leaders say" NY Times: "Biden Delivers a Warning to Putin Over Ukraine" AP News: "End of an era: Germany’s Merkel bows out after 16 years" AP News: "Judge blocks Biden’s vaccine mandate for federal contractors" NPR: "The Justice Department closes its investigation into the lynching of Emmett Till" Axios: "Mark Meadows will stop cooperating with Jan. 6 panel" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Today is Wednesday, December 8th, and you're listening to the Morning Announcements presented
0:07.2	by Beaches Media.
0:08.5	I'm Sammy Sage.
0:12.0	Good news.
0:13.0	The United States is not going to blow past our debt ceiling, and therefore we won't
0:16.6	be sending the global economy into a tailspin, at least not this year.
0:20.8	Yesterday, top Democrats and Republicans in Congress announced that they had reached
0:24.6	a deal to raise the debt ceiling eight days before we were expected to hit it.
0:29.0	Apparently, the deal itself does not directly raise the debt ceiling, but sets up a process
0:33.2	that allows Democrats to do without the GOP's support.
0:36.9	Because how could a Republican ever think of voting along with Democrats to a worldwide
0:40.5	financial catastrophe?
0:42.6	Can't we just use this process for everything else now?
0:47.3	Yesterday, President Biden met with Donald Trump's boss, Vladimir Putin, via video call
0:51.8	for about two hours.
0:53.4	They talked about the crisis along the Ukraine border, with Biden telling Putin that
0:57.2	better not see any funny business over there.
0:59.9	That was a direct quote.
1:01.4	That crisis was of course not resolved in any capacity.
1:04.9	They also discussed the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline that runs from Russia to Germany, which
1:09.2	geographically would majorly screw over Ukraine and give Putin leverage over Europe's
1:13.5	entire energy supply, a horrible idea on its face.
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