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Morning Announcements

Wednesday, June 9th, 2021

Morning Announcements

Betches

Politics, Daily News, News, News Commentary

4.71.7K Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2021

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

Sami kicks off today’s Announcements with the massive internet outage that led some of the world’s biggest websites to crash. Next, we cover the unsettling congressional report on the January 6th Capitol riot, E. Jean Carroll’s defamation lawsuit against Trump, and the new law expanding voting rights to all registered voters in the state of Vermont. Then we move to Washington State’s ‘Joints for Jabs’ marijuana giveaway for people getting vaccinated, and wrap up the day with details about Chris Harrison officially exiting the Bachelor franchise for good. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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Today is Wednesday, June 9th, and you're listening to The Morning Announcements presented

0:07.2

by Betcha's Media.

0:08.2

I'm Sammy Sage.

0:12.3

Yesterday, a ton of websites and apps globally went down after a major content delivery network

0:16.8

called Fastly, reported a widespread outage.

0:20.4

The outage affected dozens of countries across nearly all continents, and included major

0:24.5

websites such as Parcip Amazon, Google, Target, CNN, and the UK Government website,

0:29.3

gov.uk.

0:31.2

According to Fastly, the issue has been resolved, and I am just grateful it didn't get in the

0:35.1

way of my Morning Instagram scroll.

0:40.9

The first congressional report on the January 6th insurrection is out, and it is just as

0:45.4

unsettling as you might think.

0:47.4

The 127-page report is a product of more than three months of hearings and interviews,

0:51.8

as well as thousands of pages of documents, and it details a number of security and communication

0:56.3

failure surrounding the event.

0:58.2

Generally, it appears that top federal intelligence agencies were aware of what was going to happen,

1:02.8

but they did not adequately warn law enforcement officials.

1:05.7

An FBI memo on January 5th warned of people traveling to Washington for, quote, war at

1:10.0

the Capitol, but it never made its way to top law enforcement officials, and the Capitol

1:14.1

police felt to widely circulate information that its own intelligence unit had collected

1:18.0

in December about the threat of violence on January 6th.

1:23.0

In addition, there are important notes that law enforcement officials did not take seriously

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