Wednesday, July 20th, 2022

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🗓️ 20 July 2022

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Today's headlines: Secret Service cannot recover texts between January 5th and 6th for the January 6th Hearing Committee. Then, news out of the DOJ, and The House of Representatives voted on Monday over the question of whether Finland and Sweden should be able to join NATO. The UK hit an all time record high temperature of over 104 degrees yesterday, with the country experiencing a huge surge in fires due to the heat wave. An Indiana doctor who helped perform an abortion for a 10 year old girl in Ohio who became pregnant after being raped, has filed a claim against the Indiana Attorney General for his comments in the wake of the incident. Finally, more than a dozen members of congress were arrested yesterday at an abortion rights protest in front of the Supreme Court, and the House of Representatives passed a bill codifying same sex and interracial marriage yesterday. Resources/Articles mentioned this episode: Washington Post: Secret Service cannot recover texts; no new details for Jan. 6 committee Washington Post: What the Garland memo really means for investigating Trump The Hill: Justice Department probe into Trump won’t stop if he announces 2024 run: Deputy AG Rolling Stone: Trump Tells Team He Needs to Be President Again to Save Himself from Criminal Probes Business Insider: 18 Republicans — including MTG, Matt Gaetz, and Lauren Boebert — voted against Sweden and Finland joining NATO CNBC: UK shatters record for its hottest day ever; London fire service declares ‘major incident’ Washington Post: Doctor in 10-year-old’s abortion case takes legal step against Indiana AG CNN: Democratic lawmakers including Ocasio-Cortez, Tlaib, Speier and more arrested in abortion rights protest in front of the Supreme Court ABC News: House passes bill codifying same-sex marriage right, with some Republicans joining Democrats Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Today, it's Wednesday, July 20th, and you're listening to the morning announcements presented by Batch's media.
0:06.2	I'm Sammy Sage, and this episode is brought to you by Grove Collaborative.
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0:23.9	We're starting today on the CooBeat in preparation for tomorrow night's Primetime January 6th hearing,
0:29.3	which is possibly the final one.
0:31.4	Last, we left off the committee wanting to see texts that were exchanged between the Secret Service on January 5th and 6th,
0:37.5	but for some inexplicable reason, those texts were deleted.
0:41.0	And despite the fact that these should have been backed up, the Secret Service confirmed again yesterday that they do not have the ability to access any of the deleted text messages.
0:49.6	They're claiming that agents' phones were permanently cleared as part of an agency-wide reset and replacement of staff phones that they had begun planning months earlier.
0:58.0	Now the National Archives are requesting additional information on the potentially unauthorized deletion,
1:03.3	an ask Secret Service to report back within 30 days about what was purged and the circumstances of how the documentation was lost.
1:10.6	Hopefully this has a similar effect as when you tell your mom you can't find something, and she's like,
1:15.3	if I come look, and then I find it!
1:21.4	Next, we're heading over to the DOJ probe of January 6th.
1:24.8	New reporting revealed two days ago that Attorney General Merrick Garland had sent a memo to the department back in May,
1:30.7	stating that he is continuing the policy of his predecessor Bill Barr,
1:34.3	which requires the Attorney General to sign off on investigations involving presidential candidates and their staff during an election year.
1:41.5	However, following that reporting, Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco stated yesterday that,
1:46.1	quote,
1:46.8	We're going to continue to do our job to follow the facts wherever they go,
1:50.6	no matter where they lead, no matter to what level. End quote.
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