Wednesday, February 1st, 2022

Morning Announcements

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🗓️ 1 February 2023

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Today's headlines: Yesterday, Santos announced that he submitted a request to House Speaker McCarthy to temporarily recuse himself from his assignments on the Small Business and Science committees. New reporting from The Washington Post investigated the real-life impact in Florida schools of a law that took effect last July, which can cause teachers to spend five years in prison and pay a $5,000 dollar fine, as well as potentially lose their teaching license. The Manhattan district attorney impaneled a new grand jury to present evidence regarding Donald Trump’s role in paying hush money to Stormy Daniels during his first campaign. Finally for today, President Biden and Speaker McCarthy will be meeting today to talk about the debt limit and budget priorities. Resources/Articles mentioned this episode: NBC: Rep. George Santos says he will recuse himself from committee assignments amid investigations Washington Post: Hide your books to avoid felony charges, Fla. schools tell teachers Pen America: THESE 176 BOOKS WERE BANNED IN DUVAL COUNTY, FLORIDA 10 Tampa Bay: FHSAA to reconsider mandatory period questions on student-athlete health forms NY Times: Manhattan Prosecutors Begin Presenting Trump Case to Grand Jury NY Times: In Debt Limit Fight, Republicans Won’t Say What Spending Cuts They Want Host: Sami Sage Morning Announcements is produced by Sami Sage alongside Amanda Duberman and Bridget Schwartz Original Music and Editing by Brandon Lee Bjornson Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Today is Wednesday, February 1st, and you're listening to The Morning Announcements
0:04.8	presented by Betcha's media.
0:06.4	I'm your host, Sammy Sage, and The Morning Announcements is your daily five-minute breakdown
0:10.2	of the headlines that isn't afraid to take a side and roast the most consequential reality
0:14.6	show there is.
0:15.8	Our government.
0:22.0	I forgot to provide a shameful anecdote about Representative George Santos Sabrowski yesterday,
0:27.2	so he gets to go first today.
0:29.4	Yesterday, Santos announced that he submitted a request to House Speaker Kevin McCarthy
0:33.4	to temporarily recuse himself from his assignments on the Saul Business and Science committees,
0:38.5	until he's cleared in the multiple investigations into him that are going on across the globe,
0:43.5	literally though, to incidents and counting.
0:46.3	Santos also told reporters yesterday that he is not considering leaving office.
0:50.3	Even after a poll conducted by his hometown newspaper on Long Island, found that 78% of
0:55.1	voters in his own district think that he should resign, including 71% of the remaining
0:59.4	ever-publicans.
1:00.4	Forget that constituents, though, clearly the real victims are small businesses in science,
1:05.8	which have just suffered major setbacks.
1:12.8	From George Santos to Ron DeSantis, next we have two stories out of Florida.
1:17.6	New reporting from the Washington Post investigated the real-life impact in Florida schools of
1:21.6	a law that took effect last July, which mandates that all books in schools be age-appropriate,
1:26.6	free from pornography and suited to student needs.
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