Mosheh Oinounou
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Pretty remarkable move here. Again, not a surprise. I think the surprise for a number of Republicans on Capitol Hill was they were hoping that some of these guys, literally there's video of them assaulting police officers, beating them up with their own shields. And the hope was that they would distinguish between all of them.
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But it appeared the priority at the Trump White House was all about just doing this as quickly as possible. And it would have taken a lot of time to go through the various cases, I guess. They didn't do it in advance of his presidency. So they decided to go with this blanket pardon, despite the fact that Trump you know, talks about, you know, protect the blue, protecting police officers here.
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And so Trump was actually asked about this during one of his many media appearances in the first 36 hours here saying, hey, how does this jive with the fact that, you know, you're all about defending police officers? And he's just like, these people have served their time. There's other people out there who do worse things. You don't get prison time.
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You know, sort of made it a sort of a what about argument. But nonetheless, he's like, these people have served their time. I have no issue with this. You know, this needed to happen.
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Nonetheless, media running around Capitol Hill yesterday talking to Republicans, a number of Republican senators disappointed in the lack of discernment here between those who were pardoned for nonviolent offenses and those who were pardoned for violent offenses, basically just wiping them all clean. Lisa Murkowski, Republican senator from Alaska, said, I was disappointed to see this.
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I do fear the message that is sent to these great men and women that stood by us. Speaking of police officers, you also had Bill Cassidy. He's a Republican senator from Louisiana. He said it's wrong to assault anybody, certainly a police officer. I'm a big back the blue guy. He was disappointed. Josh Hawley, Republican, big Trump guy from Missouri said,
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Yeah. Much productivity in the household in the past 24 hours? Zero. No, just pure celebrations. First win in like a decade for the Buckeyes, right?
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said that if he were president, he would not have offered pardons to individuals who committed violence. But nonetheless, this was what Trump campaigned on. I could go on here. Tom Tillis, Republican from North Carolina, Susan Collins, Republican from Maine. All of them said, yeah, don't love this. But then they were quick to say, well, remember the Biden pardons of his family?
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Can we talk about that right now? Many of them just want to look forward here. But a major move among all the various moves Trump is making right now.
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There were attempts for urban skiing along Bourbon Street, a priest and nuns snowball fight outside a church down there, a snowboarding behind a golf cart, sledding down these snow covered Mississippi River levees on kayaks, cardboard boxes, inflatable alligators. People enjoying themselves with snow in places where they never see this sort of thing. The first ever blizzard warning.
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issued for parts of the Gulf Coast, including Southeast Texas, Southern Louisiana. Mid-city New Orleans recorded nearly 10 inches of snow as of this recording. Areas of Baton Rouge in New Orleans also got 5 inches of snow. You saw a blanket of snow in places like Houston with 20-degree weather. Schools and airports were closed.
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They're not equipped down there at Bush International like they would be at O'Hare, LaGuardia, or JFK. The governor of Georgia warning people to stay off the roads because of the onset of snow and ice. Again, it's the South. They're not really prepared for snow and ice. So everyone there, be careful as this thing melts.
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Yeah, it's a cool setup now in college football, a 12-team playoff. So it gives an opportunity to teams that wouldn't typically have gotten a chance to play in the national championship game, specifically this year in Notre Dame and Ohio State. They both made their runs, and then Ohio State's just lasted a bit longer.
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Yeah, so AI is our future. It's going to require an incredible amount of power and incredible amount of data infrastructure. And Trump is looking to own that in the future. We're in this race against China when it comes to all things AI. Trump has now secured a trillion dollars in private investment for a variety of projects, as includes this project, along with some other stuff. Altman
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Well, I happened to see, but he was on the phone the whole time I was at this party in D.C. over the weekend, has been meeting with investors across D.C. I'm really looking to get plugged in here as the new administration prioritizes A.I., He had actually been looking at various places for data centers across the Middle East, as well as in Asia. American officials caught wind of that.
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They expressed concerns about a U.S. company like OpenAI, which owns ChatGPT. It was trying to build vital technology in the Middle East. So it said, listen, you need to focus on doing this here in the United States. So Texas, first spot, we'll have more of these coming up here. But a huge priority as we continue here is going to be all things AI, including regulating it, right?
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How we're going to utilize it, but first building that backbone for it.
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Yeah, I mean, the thing about AI is it can do the power of many, many, many, many humans. You give it various tasks to do analysis, and it's doing data analysis at a speed that we can't even comprehend. So when it comes to some of these very large tasks, and you know, you mentioned there with cancer, you know, the future with cancer. And medicine writ large is customization, right?
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So congrats to all the Buckeye fans, including a couple on our team here at Mo News. And good luck to the Fighting Irish, who they haven't won a championship, Jill, since the 80s. They'll get it one day.
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That we won't all just be in an ideal world in 20 years, not all be assigned the same medication when something happens. We'll be customizing it to your genes and your experience. And that level of customization will only be possible utilizing stuff like AI. So I don't want to digress here, but there's some very exciting things in the offing here.
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And part of what this is, is just, again, building the backbone for AI to be able to operate.
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Warren Wagner, you know, tracking the news, the Mo News team. We enlist the whole family here.
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See, that's the thing. You know, the Senate has this advise and consent role. But as long as the person is qualified, you typically get most Democrats on board as well. You're going to have some very party line votes coming up here. Pete Hegseth is one of them. I'll mention that in a second. But ultimately, Rubio, he comes from the Senate. All the senators know him, even with different issues.
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They understand that, like, you know, he is the president's choice. They feel he's qualified. And so they have sent him off now to be the secretary of state. You mentioned his Cuban-American heritage. He's particularly a hardliner on Venezuela. Cuba, etc. So we'll see what comes of the policies there, specifically in Latin America. But he's got a tall order, right?
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We're talking about continuing the Gaza ceasefire deal, things related to Iran, various terror issues globally. What do we deal with Syria, the Ukraine-Russia crisis, managing China? The world is full of challenges right now. And Rubio has said that the Secretary of State, the State Department will be central to that. We shall see how it plays out.
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Certain administrations give secretaries of state more power. We saw that in the last administration. Some do less. And so we'll see how the relationship also works between Rubio and Trump, Rubio and other national security leaders, as well as some of the other cabinet appointments as they come aboard here. Now, they could vote on Pete Hegseth as soon as in the next couple of days here.
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But there was some news yesterday. You might have seen this from NBC and The New York Times.
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An affidavit, a sworn statement, was submitted to senators on Tuesday accusing Hegseth, this is the latest accusation against Hegseth, of apparently being so abusive towards his second wife, he's now on his third wife, his second wife, his ex-wife, that she once hid in a closet from him and had to use a safe word to call for help if she needed to get away from him.
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Jill, I will note, I was talking to friends in the White House press corps. In the first 48 hours of the, it's not even been 48 hours as we record this, in the first 36 hours of the Trump presidency, they believe he has now taken more questions from the media than Biden did in a year. And so just a remarkable amount of news coming out of Washington right now.
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Now, this is a sworn affidavit from Danielle Hegseth, who happened to be the ex-wife of Hegseth's brother, describing what she said was erratic and aggressive behavior by Pete Hegseth towards, again, his second wife, Samantha. So this is the sister-in-law describing Hegseth's behavior towards an ex-wife here.
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The affidavit has been obtained by several media outlets, describes him drinking to excess and and just abusive behavior. At the same time, the woman at the center of this, the ex-wife, the second ex-wife, Samantha Hegseth, apparently doesn't want to be a part of this. She's put out a statement saying there was no physical abuse in my marriage. This is the only statement I will make to you.
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I've let you know I am not speaking and I will not speak of my marriage to Pete. Please respect this. So she was very specific. She didn't deny everything in there. She just said, you have your information wrong. There was no physical abuse in my marriage. So that's where things stand.
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We'll see how much of an impact that has as he's been voted out of committee and now goes to a full Senate floor vote.
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Yeah, there's been a number of allegations against him. I mean, he was on the verge of being forced out, dropping out. They were talking openly about having Ron DeSantis be the next nominee to be secretary of defense. Hegseth fought back, was able to recover his nomination here, but now a new allegation. So something we'll be tracking.
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Some of his family and friends follow Mo News and sent us notes talking about their gratitude just on cloud nine here that he's finally released here as part of this prisoner exchange, which, again, was mainly negotiated by the Biden team as they were leaving office here.
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Now, as far as who was traded in exchange for these Americans, the Justice Department referred to Khan Mohammed at the time they arrested him and were convicting him as a violent jihadist and narcotics trafficker who sought to kill U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan using rockets. He is the first person to be convicted in the U.S. on narco-terrorism laws. So apparently a really bad dude here.
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But nonetheless, a negotiation. And this goes back, I mean, all the way back to Trump won when we were negotiating the exit deal from Afghanistan. Trump allowed the release of 1,500 Taliban prisoners. as part of that deal to get U.S. troops out. So this is not the first deal we've made with them. They aren't presenting an overt threat right now to the U.S.
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They're sort of just managing their own situation in Afghanistan, though a terrible treatment of women and other matters in Afghanistan. Nonetheless, this deal is done. But two Americans remain detained in Afghanistan right now. Their names are George Glesman and Mahmoud Habibi. And so we'll see if Trump will negotiate for their release.
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He's accessible. He's talking about everything. But of course, you know, there are people who vehemently disagree with some of the things that he's doing. Nonetheless, he is talking and explaining why he's doing what he's doing. And so we'll try to get to some of the headlines made in the last 24 hours here on this podcast.
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It feels like a Netflix situation. Like every Thursday, we're going to drop a new episode. We're going to drop some new soup drops. Very trendy there for Progresso. Apparently the drops taste, we haven't had a chance to try them, Jill. They taste like broth, savory veggies, soft egg noodles with a hint of parsley.
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According to the company, the drops are packaged in a can that look like a soup can, of course, naturally. With 20 individually wrapped candies in each can, the idea behind it, Progresso says, when you're sick, nothing is truly more reassuring than chicken noodle soup. So we thought, why stop at the soup bowl? Let's take our flavors and make them a fun, savory candy for a new way to enjoy life.
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Jill, I don't know how I feel about this. I'm open-minded, but you said we've got to use it last week. Jill, we've been sick in this household. One of us has been sick since mid-December, so we've got to use these for a while. We've gone through our share of both soup and cough drops, but no soup drops. So, TBD.
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Just double down on soup, all forms of soup in drop form, in soup form, in drink form. If anyone works related to Progresso here, we'll send us a message and we'll give you our address. Jill and I will try them live on the podcast.
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The ground dog hasn't even made its appearance yet. Like winter is going to be lasting a while. All right, now time for On This Day in History. In 1984, On This Day, 41 years ago. Can that be right, Jill? Was 1984 41 years ago? Not in my book. No, no way. Jill says this was 20 years ago. On This Day in 1984, Super Bowl XVIII audiences.
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See a commercial that is now widely agreed to be one of the most powerful and effective of all time. This was the commercial directed by Ridley Scott is Apple's 1984 spot featuring a young woman throwing a sledgehammer through a screen on which a big brother like figure is preaching about the unification of thought.
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It heralded a new age for Apple, one of the most innovative ads of all time for Apple. The Apple 1984 spot. Check it out on YouTube. Still, I think stands the test of time. A bit of politics legal news on this day in history. Roe v. Wade made history on this day in 1973.
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The Supreme Court issuing one of its momentous decisions ruling in Roe v. Wade that a Texas statute criminalizing abortion actually violated a woman's constitutional right of privacy. That, of course, stood for nearly 50 years, the court overturning Roe v. Wade in 2022. One of the more iconic magazine covers of all time came out on this day in 1981.
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This was a month and a half after the shocking assassination of John Lennon, formerly of the Beatles. A Rolling Stone magazine's John Lennon tribute issue hit the stands featuring a naked Lennon curled up in a fetal embrace of Yoko Ono. It's an iconic Annie Leibovitz portrait. And we end here with a bit of music history on this day 60 years ago. It's not unusual to be loved by
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Tom Jones on this day is 60 years ago. Also on this day. She's a rich girl.
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It's not she's a rich girl. You're a rich girl and you've gone too far.
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No, I said it. I said it. Because you know it don't matter anyway. Well, but the lyrics mattered as far as I was concerned. I wanted you guys to know that I will correct myself on Hall & Oates lyrics. Jill, finally, Adele made some history on this day in 2012, more recently, breaking an American chart record that was held previously by the Beatles and Pink Floyd.
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This is when her album, 21, went number one for 16 weeks. Hello, Adele. You're a rich girl. It's not unusual. Hello. Some iconic songs on this day.
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You say hello and I say goodbye. Hey, listen, we had Glennon on this day.
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See everyone tomorrow.
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Jill, we had to look twice outside Cafe Du Monde in New Orleans. What you thought were streets full of powdered sugar, totally understandable. Actual snow there down in NOLA.
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We haven't gotten a chance to try these, we will admit.
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Jill, we'll tell you about the most famous Super Bowl commercial of all time here as we near this year's Super Bowl.
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Jill, there is talk that all the leaks about the deportations beginning might have made things more challenging for Immigrations and Customs Enforcement. So it appears while they had planned to be in Chicago there, the heads up didn't make life easy for federal authorities.
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So they're reconsidering right now how they're going to do this to ensure that all the places they plan on going don't leak out in the media in advance.
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So it's interesting here, Jill, naming the drug cartels as terror groups and what that opens up to the U.S. military here, what it means to U.S.-Mexico relations and other side of this, asylum seekers. You can now make a claim in the U.S. that you live in an area controlled by a terrorist group and make a claim that you should have a right to seek asylum here in the U.S.,
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So there have been some people internally within the Trump administration who were pushing back on the idea of making drug cartels terror groups, especially with asylum seekers in mind, that there's a downside here to naming the drug cartels as terror groups.
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Nonetheless, significant move here, putting an MS-13 and other cartels at the rank of an al Qaeda or Hamas or ISIS or any other terror group around the world here. It comes as there was just a slew of Trump executive orders in the past day here, including some that involve U.S. procedures here in the country. You mentioned the potential deportation rates in Chicago.
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Well, there are no new directives from the Trump administration on where raids can happen. For years now, going back to the Obama years, federal immigration authorities had policies they would not do raids in areas like churches and schools, what they call sensitive areas. Well, according to Trump, criminals will no longer be able to hide in America's schools and churches to avoid arrest.
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I know we have Hi, this is Mo Schwanunu, the Mo from Mo News. If you're familiar with us on Instagram or our podcast, I'm a longtime TV news producer who launched an independent news brand just a few years ago. As you know, Nicole is on maternity leave. So this week, my co-host Jill and I are guest hosting Money Rehab.
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The idea before was they didn't want to stoke fear in immigrant communities that would keep children from going to school, stop people from going to hospitals. Nonetheless, it appears those directives have changed.
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This is an experiment. Trump administration, even conservative legal scholars, even those who are sympathetic to Trump, who agree with him overall on the issue, know that this is an uphill fight in the courts. Trump is effectively trying to overturn a constitutional amendment, the 14th Amendment, with a simple executive order.
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I was watching an appearance by the former Trump Attorney General Bill Barr from his first term over on Fox News, who was like, listen, the executive order sounds great, but it doesn't have that much authority. You do need... at least Congress, to pass a law here.
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But you potentially need a constitutional amendment given how many cases the courts have faced related to the 14th Amendment over the course of more than a century here, years of precedent. And if you were born here, regardless of your parents' legal status, you are an American. And so that is the interpretation of the 14th Amendment. And you can't just sign an order.
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Otherwise, you do need Congress to get involved or even, again, further an amendment to the Constitution that revises the 14th Amendment. However, at the same time, the Trump order here gets the ball rolling on a national conversation. This is one of his goals about birthright citizenship that could lead to an eventual death. constitutional amendment here.
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Now, amending the Constitution, we've only done it a few times in American history. It's incredibly challenging. You need a majority of states to sign on. You need Congress to go through it. That's an option. And so this will be difficult. And Trump sort of acknowledged it in the Oval Office as he was asked about it as he was going through all of his executive orders. And he had media in the room.
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Each day, we're going to be sharing the latest episode of Mo News right here on the Money Rehab feed. So you guys get the news you need to know every day this week. Here's today's episode. Hey, everybody. It is Wednesday, January 22nd, 2025. You're listening to the Mo News Podcast. I'm Moshe Nenu.
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And they're like, well, what about this one? What about this one? He's like, we'll see about this one. You know, one of the many things that He signed related to immigration. Jill, before we leave the issue, a remarkable moment yesterday in Washington as part of inauguration festivities. There's a prayer breakfast at the National Cathedral.
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Trump and Vance and their families, among a number of officials, were there on Tuesday. And that's where there were a number of religious officials who spoke, including a bishop. This is the Right Reverend Marian Edgar Buddy. And she made a point with the president in the room yesterday. of speaking directly to him, speaking critically of him.
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We should note that Buddy has been critical of Trump in the past. And so she's a bishop there. And she took the opportunity to say it's incumbent upon us to speak the truth. And I want you, Mr. President, to show mercy to Americans who are scared right now. Those include LGBTQ Americans. She included illegal immigrants in there. Here, take a listen to a bit of what she had to say.
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Jill, pretty remarkable that this bishop was like, you know what? I'm going to go for it here in the ceremony. A lot of people, if you read the comments, we posted the clip over on Instagram where you see the side by side of Trump staring at her in one camera while she speaks. People who are big advocates of hers being like, yeah, you know, I'm so glad she spoke to him.
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Others who are like she was completely out of line. That was not something she should have been doing at the prayer breakfast. You know, she's very policy oriented here at a time where she's just been praying for the country. Trump, nonetheless, was asked about it afterwards and told the media as he was walking on White House grounds, he didn't like the service.
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They need to do better over there at the church.
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Well, yeah, you know, he's in a prayer breakfast. He thought it was just like being, you know, like we're going to pray for the country. We're going to pray for the president, et cetera. And the bishop here was like, no, I have thoughts for you. And I want to talk to you about how some people are feeling about your presidency.
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Trump not one to enjoy, you know, being effectively lectured from the pulpit.
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Jill, media was running around Capitol Hill yesterday trying to ask Democrats about it. And the repeated phrase from Chuck Schumer and others was, we're focused on the future. We're focused on the future. We're focused on the future. They did not want to talk about it.
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And we read all the news and read between the lines so you don't have to. And Jill, in your household, celebrations continue over the big national championship win in college football.
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This is a pretty large high school, Antioch High School, home to approximately 2000 students from grades nine through 12. They're about 10 miles southeast of downtown there in Nashville.
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It definitely brought back memories of that Covenant school shooting that took place less than two years ago, where three nine year old children and three adults were killed at a private Christian elementary school in Nashville led to a huge debate in regards to guns in the state. And
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Notably, one of the most prominent people in that debate, one of the three state reps that became controversial, one of whom was booted, Justin Jones. His district includes parts of Nashville. He says the fear reverberating around the Antioch and Nashville communities today is a chilling reminder of the human cost of inaction and the senseless tragedy of gun violence.
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Gun violence perpetuated by leaders who have prioritized firearms and the profits of the gun industry over the lives of our students. A reminder that Republicans there in Tennessee have a super majority in the state legislature. So not much has been done when it comes to gun reform efforts in the state. But this certainly will revive the debate there.
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So the deal continues this Saturday. Hamas has confirmed that four Israeli female hostages will be freed in exchange for what is likely to be based on the numbers. We've seen more than 100 prisoners that we haven't gotten the hard numbers yet from the Israelis on their side. Now, we don't have the names of the four women who will be released after more than 470 days in captivity.
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It turns out a resident was walking by and was like, this might be worth something, this headless statue. It turns out the statue, 31-inch statue, so just a couple feet tall, is 2,000 years old. You got to watch out there, I guess, especially in Greece. If you find something in your backyard,
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We'll await those details here. Still, this next stage, as you mentioned, Jill, going to be much more challenging as Hamas ratchets up the demands on. how many prisoners they're going to be looking for for every individual hostage that's left. The hostages that are left are mainly men of fighting age, soldiers.
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So typically, Hamas asks for even more, including senior leaders of the terror group in exchange for them, at least they have in the past. Now, how this is all going to go down and continue is super important to Trump here, though even he's acknowledged that he's not confident that all of this will be upheld. Notably, Jill, there was a conversation in the last 24 hours.
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The first foreign leader to hold a phone call with Donald Trump, the Saudi crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman. Now, Trump has expressed a desire here. For the Abraham Accords, the deal that was signed between Israel and several Arab countries, creating peace there. This is Bahrain, UAE, Morocco, several others.
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He wants to expand that to Saudi Arabia, which is the big prize here, the home of Islam and the home of Judaism. can sign a deal here in the Middle East. Now, Salman is looking for certain guarantees for the Palestinians as part of that deal, but still notable that Trump held this conversation. There's a huge military deal probably in the offing here between the U.S. and Saudi Arabia as well.
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The U.S. sells the Saudis a lot of equipment. They're part of an alliance against Iran, even though they've sort of softened their stance against Iran of late. So we'll see what happens. Things are still pretty precarious in the region. There was a Moroccan national with a U.S. green card, incidentally, who stabbed and wounded four people in a terror attack in Tel Aviv on Tuesday.
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We also saw in the West Bank, this is the other piece of land the Palestinians have some control over that they're looking over. for a future Palestinian state and a group of Israeli settlers, a group of Israelis who live in the West Bank rampage through Palestinian villages, targeting homes, businesses and vehicles.
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There's been a lot of back and forth violence there over the course of the last year and a half. So we'll continue to watch the region here for how this ceasefire hostage deal unfolds.
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something kind of sitting around you might be sitting on like ancient treasure even if it is a headless statue apparently uh police have an open investigation they talked to the person who threw it away they have not been charged with anything nonetheless this is from the roman era in greece so just a heads up don't quickly well i guess in greece this is especially important but even here in the us you might be sitting on something valuable as you clean out your garage
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So this is a pretty big deal. And this has been Harry's life's mission here, to reform media practices. I heard him speak about this recently. He was being interviewed by Andrew Russ Sorkin over there at the New York Times Dealbook Conference in New York just last month. And he's talked about how passionate he was, how important this was.
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So the fact that he took a settlement here, not insignificant. The settlement reportedly an eight-figure sum. They weren't specific here, but you can do the math, somewhere between 10%. $10 million and $100 million, if we're going with an eight-figure sum here, probably more significant than they would have been made to pay in court.
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NGN, the news group owned by Murdoch here, has previously settled with 1,300 other individuals. Payouts have exceeded $1.2 billion for a variety of things that they were accused of doing. Prince William, Harry's brother, actually privately settled just a few years ago for a seven-figure sum for a few million dollars with NGN.
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Now, based on the way the law works in the UK, Harry could have been stuck with a big bill if he didn't win the case. In fact, he would have had to pay the legal bills for Murdoch here. So it appears Harry took the safe bet here, taking the money. He also got a rare apology from the news group for what they did.
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And again, for Harry, this has been an issue going back to his childhood, what he believes the paparazzi and the media did to his mother, leading to her death. as well as what they've done to him his entire life. This has been a huge thing. Of course, him and Meghan Markle have talked about this as well. So a pretty significant day for Harry yesterday.
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yeah though we have seen a number of uh people uh not get renewed or take buyouts or leave the chris wallaces and some of the other correspondents and anchors they had uh cnn trying to figure out his future here because they got this boost during trump one a lot of the media did uh with a lot of interest a lot of subscribers you saw the washington post get a boost the new york times get a boost the atlantic uh get a boost here uh cnn and the cables got a boost
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The interest not as high this time around among members of the public. Nonetheless, CNN in the fall launched a paywall. You might have noticed this over on CNN.com. You had a certain number of articles and then you got to pay $3.99 a month. CNN is hoping that that could bring it up to a billion in revenue annually from its heavier users of CNN.com.
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A lot of these companies, and I lived and breathed it as I launched the digital streaming channel at CBS, trying to figure out their future here as cord cutting becomes more prevalent. Fun fact, Jill, the median age of a cable news viewer today, 70 years old. Half the viewers of a CNN or MSNBC or Fox News are over the age of 70, and they're not getting replaced significantly by younger folks.
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And so they're trying to figure out their digital strategies here. CNN, not alone. NBC News also planning cuts later this week. Their job losses estimated to be about 50, according to CNBC reporting here. And so people are transitioning. Right. We're discovering this at Mo News. They're coming to podcasts. They're coming to Instagram. But the revenue isn't quite there for these organizations.
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They're all figuring it out. They're all recalibrating here. Still at CNN, you have like 3,500 employees worldwide, significant organization, but they're all being asked to do more. And in some cases, do more for pay cuts or keeping their pay flat as they figure it out. And they've gone through various iterations.
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Certainly a storyline we'll be watching here in the new media space, how legacy media pivots and adapts to the changing, the ever-changing environment. Yeah.
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Let's just pause there. You used to pay eight bucks a month and you still get ads. Remember when they were charging that for no ads?
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Be careful what you throw out. I mean, listen, you're not going to have millennia old stuff in the backyard on Long Island or anywhere else, but you might have something that's really valuable from 100 or a couple hundred years ago, you know, here in American historical terms.
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Hey, they can get away with it, right? They're charging you for a subscription and they're double dipping, right? And they're getting the ads.
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Yep.
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It adds up. You're getting the ad tier for $8 a month, the ad-free for $18 a month, and the premium plan where you can do multiple streams at the same time for $25 a month there. And yet they feel what they're offering there at Netflix is valuable. All these new live events, right? You might have seen the recent NFL games there, the Paul Tyson fight.
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And they're seeing huge numbers as they add in more live events here. Disney trying to stay competitive here with Disney+. They acquired the sports streamer FuboTV. And sports is going to be key here to these streamers as they look to charge more and more. Last month, Netflix, back to Netflix here, they got exclusive U.S. rights for the next two FIFA Women's World Cup tournaments.
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But certainly, Jill, as these numbers go up, it's going to be harder and harder for people as they look at their numbers to subscribe to multiple streamers, right? So it's going to lead to some hard decisions of like, do I keep the Disney Plus? Do I keep the Netflix? Do I keep Paramount Plus or the Peacock? But all of them, when you add them all up, are going to get pretty pricey.
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All right, now time for On This Day in History. We begin in 1849. Geneva Medical College bestowed a medical degree on Elizabeth Blackwell. She was the first woman in the U.S. to receive a medical degree. At the time, she was facing and women were facing near uniform opposition from male students and medical professionals about women in medicine.
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Blackwell would go on to set up a clinic for the poor in New York City. And she was determined to treat as many patients as possible, despite all of the pushback she was getting. Notable years later, 2017 is the year for the first time that a majority of medical students in the U.S. were women.
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Yes, because it turns out that women don't go in there thinking they know everything. They ask more questions and that's turned out to be effective, especially when surgery is happening. So keep that in mind if you have to go in for surgery at some point. No insult to the great male surgeons out there just passing along the data that we saw recently.
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On this day in 1941, Charles Lindbergh testifies before Congress and suggests that the U.S. negotiate a neutrality pact with Hitler. Charles Lindbergh, despite being a national hero for flying nonstop solo across the Atlantic, was very into Hitler, was very friendly with Hitler. They had lots of conversations where they shared their mutual hatred of Jews and other issues.
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In fact, Henry Ford, the founder of Ford, was in those conversations. And there was actually a scenario, Jill, where Charles Lindbergh was considering running for president against FDR and might have won to keep the country isolationist. So a moment there in American history, again, before Pearl Harbor, when the U.S.
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was having a serious conversation and there were advocates like Lindbergh saying, you know what, just make a deal with with Hitler. Let's not plan to go to war with him.
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Yeah, scary, scary alternate history there. Fast forward to 1957 on this day, the Wham-O Toy Company introduced these new aerodynamic plastic discs they called Frisbees. Now to a bit of pop culture history, to the clue from the beginning of the podcast. Here's looking at you, kid. Of all the gin joints in the world, you walk into mine. Casablanca premiered on this day 82 years ago.
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Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, a classic Hollywood film. Turning 41 years old today. Just got this. Another classic, but in this case, music. Michael Jackson released Thriller on this day in history. And turning 40 years old today. Material Girl, not Madonna herself. Her song, Material Girl, released on this day in 1985.
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Material girl living in a material world. Makes sense.
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Listen, another generation memorizing Madonna lyrics.
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You need to go, well, I don't know what's left there, but you probably should go do inventory ASAP, Jill, before mom gets rid of some more stuff.
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making a lot of changes very quickly there as his team has been taking over.
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A lot of pain right now at some of the legacy media companies.
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Made it harder to steal someone's password and raising the price there over at Netflix. And Moshe's on the stay in history. Your clue today of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world. She walks into mine.
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This comes, Jill, as the war is still extremely deadly. Ukraine claiming that Putin's forces suffered nearly 2,000 casualties in a single day. It would be the worst casualty total in 24 hours since the war began. There's a lot of estimates going around. In fact, Trump
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sort of it appears has talked about some classified numbers several hundred thousand ukrainians and russians killed in this war uh waiting on confirmation on that nonetheless trump not surprisingly taking a very different approach from biden here direct engagement of vladimir putin that's something biden was not up to he says he actually wants to meet with vladimir putin here and as you mentioned he took a harder line there saying we're gonna you know we can do this hard glad he had said earlier in the week that zielinski appeared to be more open to a deal than putin
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So he's pushing back on Putin here. The significant change, though, is that as far as the Biden administration was concerned, it was about Ukraine winning, even if it was totally unrealistic that they would win. They've been basically along the same battle lines for three years now. But the West and the U.S. strategy was to basically bleed Russia out. And in talking to NATO officials.
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They found that to be extremely successful, that this has really been a suck for Putin, that he's reliant on some technologies and weapons from the 1950s on the Iranians, on the North Koreans. Nonetheless, the Trump approach is different, not to basically have this war go on in perpetuity here, but to end it. He sees himself as a dealmaker looking for talks here between Zelensky and Putin.
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Now, what's unclear is what sort of deal he can come to here. Remember, Putin claims that all of Ukraine is his. He occupies 20% of Ukraine. He's reluctant to walk back on any of that territory, in particular, these regions he's taken over that are very Russian speaking regions of Ukraine.
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And then you have Zelensky, who doesn't want to give up an inch of territory here, but is probably willing to if he gets security guarantees, like he gets to be part of NATO, which means in the future, if Putin tries to invade Ukraine again and take even more territory, NATO would come to bail him out because he'd be part of the alliance.
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I know we have Hi, this is Mo Schwanunu, the Mo from Mo News. If you're familiar with us on Instagram or our podcast, I'm a longtime TV news producer who launched an independent news brand just a few years ago. As you know, Nicole is on maternity leave. So this week, my co-host Jill and I are guest hosting Money Rehab.
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Now, that's not something Trump is keen to do either, and certainly not something Putin would allow. So what is going to be the magic deal here? What's going to be the compromise here? as he tries to apply pressure on both the Ukrainians by giving them less in the way of weaponry and aid, but then also put pressure on the Russians by promising tariffs, sanctions, and other threats.
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What is rhetoric here? What's the final deal going to look like? In terms of these economic sanctions on Russia, particularly tariffs, in the first 11 months of last year, the U.S. imported less than $3 billion worth of Russian goods. That's one-tenth of 1% of U.S. imports coming from Russia. Now, that is down significantly over the last couple of years since Russia first invaded Ukraine.
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So it's not clear how much of an impact tariffs and these other measures would have on Russia here. Now, remember, Putin and Trump have a unique relationship, interesting relationship. According to Bob Woodward reporting, they spoke a number of times while Trump was out of office here. Putin has congratulated Trump for his victory. He says he wants long term peace. But what are the terms?
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And so ultimately, we'll see what goes down here. Zelensky spoke with reporters yesterday. Recently, Trump spoke with Zelensky. Trump says, again, Zelensky appears to be more open to negotiations here, but it takes two to tango. Hence the message for Putin.
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Yeah. In particular, the focus there, Jill, beyond the government is going to be higher education. Because remember, student loan programs, there's a number, there's a lot of funding that comes to education at all levels, but in particular, higher education through the federal government. So they're looking to hit institutions that have endowments of over a billion dollars for compliance here.
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Each day, we're going to be sharing the latest episode of Mo News right here on the Money Rehab feed. So you guys get the news you need to know every day this week. Here's today's episode. Hey everybody, it is Thursday, January 23rd. You're listening to the Mo News Podcast. I'm Moshua Nunu.
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And so they have a couple months to figure it out, identify state and local educational institutions that receive federal funds and grants who participate in the student loan program here. So that's going to be a focus here. This comes all in that aftermath of that 2023 Supreme Court ruling we told you about that overturned affirmative action in college admissions.
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And that has been interpreted, extrapolated out by a number of organizations that potentially have more far-reaching ramifications for any race-based program, race-based hiring program. And you have seen companies in the last year, Meta, McDonald's, Walmart, all ending their DEI programs here partially due to their legal concerns about that Supreme Court ruling.
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And as you mentioned, completely different philosophy. From the Biden administration, they came in looking to reverse decades of systemic inequity, make the federal government look more like America. Trump says this socially engineers race and gender into public life.
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We're hearing from people, Jill, who were involved in planning Black History Month events and other events in the coming months here who are canceling those or fear that they have to cancel those because of what it might mean for their jobs. A lot of these DEI programs came out of the Black Lives Matter movement, the killing of George Floyd.
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And there is acknowledgement, both in the corporate sector and the government sector, that some of these DEI programs, not as effective as some had hoped, that some had gone too far, that some of the companies that are brought in here to do DEI are not really accomplishing their goals.
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At the same time, there is a feeling among some that some aspect of this is a necessity, but it really goes down to, boils down to the debate.
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that's being had societally in this election in the government about equity and equality those who advocate for equality which is equal treatment of everyone versus those who believe in dei equity equity as in elevating the needs of minorities to get to equality so inequity versus equality fight continues here.
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We did see that Trump signed an executive order that we mentioned declaring there are only two genders. That has its own ramifications here. But when it goes to all the things Trump is up to, this has been key as he looks to remake the workforce here and knock out a lot of the priorities and programming that has been implemented over the course of the past few years under Biden.
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A lot here, Jill, both the DEI stuff that we were talking about, this stuff, there's going to be a lot of lawsuits here, back and forth, when it comes to these changes and what they mean. And so look for a variety of those cases. They're probably already being filed as we record this.
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And we read all the news and read between the lines so you don't have to. Jill, with that old expression that one man's trash is another man's treasure, a fun story I was reading about out of Greece where somebody apparently... threw away a statue, a headless statue that they thought was just, you know, garbage, put in a garbage bag in the city of Saloniki.
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When you look at recent presidents in the second term, Obama was hung up with some Obamacare issues, the re-rise of ISIS in his second term, loss of a congressional majority, Bush in his second term, Katrina, Iraq started to go downhill, as did Afghanistan, the financial collapse. Clinton, well, Monica Lewinsky, enough said in his second term.
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Now, what's unique about Trump here is this is not your typical second term straight off of a first term. He's had four years out of office. So he had his four years where he was a newbie, didn't really know how Washington worked, learned a lot of painful lessons, right? But now he's had four years out of office, time to gather, time to learn lessons from that first term.
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This is a very unique second term. Again, you know, you mentioned the top. The first time we've seen this sort of situation since Grover Cleveland in the 1890s, when the presidency mattered much less, you know, presidents now have much more power. So how much can you learn about overreach? That's always the challenge is like thinking you have more of an agenda than you have.
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And also knowing that time is of the essence, that ultimately he's a second term president, which means he's done. The clock is starting towards an open race on the Dem side, an open race on the Republican side. So really, in essence, he's got a year, maybe 18 months here to accomplish everything that he wants to going into midterms in 2026.
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They're really looking at the July 2026 date as a deadline of sorts that happens to also be the 250th birthday of America. Not this July 4th, but the following July 4th. So they're looking at that deadline, that party, the 250th birthday party of America, trying to get as much done as they can.
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Trump stopped by a rally of supporters yesterday, super pumped about what they're going to be able to accomplish, what he says they'll be able to accomplish here. But back to the festivities here for a second. Again, this weekend is not just today's swearing in, but in entertainment, these parties happening all weekend.
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Another indication for the Trump people that they feel that this time is different. Who's performing here? Last time there was like nothing in the way of A-list talent that Trump could pull in in 2017. Super controversial. You know, there were huge protests here eight years ago. The women in pink hats, the Women's March, all those protests against Trump. Nothing like that. This go around.
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Hey everybody, it is Monday, January 20th. You're listening to the Mo News Podcast. I'm Mo Schwanunu.
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Jill, who's inside the balls and the parties? Snoop Dogg was DJing one of the Trump balls, the crypto ball over the weekend. This is the same Snoop Dogg who eight years ago literally said F Trump in a variety of ways, saying that any black performer was a literal Uncle Tom for performing for President-elect Trump at the time.
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This weekend, Snoop is DJing at a ball in front of people with MAGA hats. I mean, for a price, of course, you got to pay for Snoop Dogg services. But another indication that the Trump folks feel like, well, this time is different.
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Yeah, all of you should be familiar with the Village People.
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And we read all the news and read between the lines so you don't have to on this Inauguration Day 2025, also Martin Luther King Day here in the US. Not your typical MLK weekend, though. Lots of news, lots of news today. Jill, we will begin the day with one president and end the day with another president.
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Yeah. So a lot of presidents do this. They like to do stuff on day one. It's a sign of, you know, enacting our promises from the start. In fact, Trump plans to sign some of these orders at the Capitol. Like he's not even waiting till he makes his way to the White House. A couple hours later, he might sign some at Capital One Arena. We're told he has a very long list and he likes to break records.
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So he's probably has somebody researching right now. How many executive orders is the most amount anyone's ever signed? I want to do one more than that or 10 more than that. Like Who knows? But look for that. Now, remember, executive orders, some are meaningful, some are not meaningful, some are really symbolic. So we'll try to work through all of them.
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It'll be a busy week working through all the various things that he has promised among some of the significant executive actions that will likely lead to legal moves. He's looking to weaken the power of federal employee unions, stripping workers of collective bargaining rights. This is something that Project 2025 was working on that he's talked about.
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They want to weaken what they call the deep state, the more than two million career civil servants who work in the government, regardless of whether there's a Democrat in charge or Republican in charge. Trump looking to replace some of these career folks with political folks that he gets to appoint or any president will get to appoint. When they come in there, he has clashed repeatedly.
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He thinks that they blocked him from his agenda the first time. So look for executive actions on that and then look for lawsuits related to that. Trump and aides looking at a lot of things on Capitol Hill.
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They're already talking about one, what Trump calls one large, beautiful bill that will include all of his priorities, the extension of his tax cuts from 2017, immigration measures, reversing Biden climate initiatives, a variety of domestic energy production initiatives. So there's going to be a lot and we'll try to get to all of them.
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He's going to try to be very busy at the front part of his goal. So some even some of the controversial things, if there's like six controversial things in a day, it's hard to cover all those things. Well, that's part of the goal here is a shock and awe, according to officials around Washington.
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uh trump shock and awe in terms of the number of things he has promised in the coming hours and coming days jill you mentioned the tiktok thing we'll get to that in that next story keep in mind a place to ask questions about all this the mo news premium page uh if you're not already a member mo.news a free trial to become a premium member it's an instagram members only page where you ask questions and we break down everything that you want to know and the questions you have related to all of that and everything else going on the news
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Jill, I was watching X. I knew that something was popping. I didn't realize how early it was, but I was in my friend's basement watching NFL playoff football. Yourself?
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Anticlimactic.
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But and then it was back.
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Yeah. I mean, I rarely take a weekend off for the premium folks, but. I will say some of these holidays quieter than others, some busier than others. Jill, we were tracking three major stories this weekend, the presidential transition, the TikTok outage heard around the world for about 16 hours there. We'll talk about it.
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So listen, ByteDance was proving a point this weekend. They didn't need to completely go dark. They decided to go dark. Officially, it was on the internet service providers to stop accepting updates and drop them from the store. They didn't need to go dark on existing users, but they did. Why would they do such a thing?
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Well, number one, they asked explicitly for a written assurance from Joe Biden. They wouldn't enforce a law. You know, their legal team looked at it and they're like, I know that you say you won't going to enforce it. That's what the Biden team said effectively on Friday, but they didn't put it out formally. The TikTok team, the ByteDance team, I should say ByteDance owns TikTok.
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Was looking for more. And the Biden team was like, no, we're not going to do anything more than that. Besides just saying, don't don't worry about it. Trump will deal with it on Monday. So they got a chance this weekend to remind 170 million Americans or however many of them noticed who have the app and love the app of what life is like.
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Without TikTok for at least a few hours with the prospect of not knowing how long it would last. In fact, they also made a move to shut down another app called Capcom, which many creators, marketing folks and video editors use. It's a mobile video editing app, which also happens to be owned by ByteDance. So they wanted to make a point this weekend of what life is like.
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With that, they're in a negotiation, right? ByteDance and the Chinese government above them does not want to sell to anybody else. They want to come to a compromise here that doesn't entail selling TikTok. So they made this move. They tried to push public support here. It also gives Trump a win here.
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It gives Trump a chance to be like, and look, you know, as simple as it was, I made an assurance to them on Sunday and poof, I'm the guy who saved TikTok for many of you. You saw that in their messaging. They made a point of praising Donald Trump. Shou Chu, among the many tech CEOs you mentioned that will be in Washington today for the inauguration. And Trump is the dealmaker.
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You know, he wants to go to China this year, according to an NBC report. He wants to visit there. He had a call with the Chinese leader on Friday. They put out a readout that included among the many topics he says he discussed TikTok. So he understands that this is significant for many Americans. Remember, some Americans run businesses on TikTok. It's hugely impactful to some people.
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But at the same time, there are huge national security concerns. Why do they ban it? Over the Chinese ability to potentially mess with the algorithm and influence. I mean, it was so many concerns on the national security level that overwhelming majorities of Republicans and Democrats in Capitol Hill decided to vote for said ban.
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Now, the TikTok folks say there's got to be some sort of compromise here in terms of preserving American privacy and information security on servers here in the U.S. We'll see what comes of this 90 day extension. Expect legal maneuvers. I mean, guys, just this is going to be messy. This is the law of the land. Trump's going to make a push here. He even has people in his own party who are opposed.
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And then, of course, the hostage release or the beginning of the hostage release and the beginning of the ceasefire in the Middle East. Though I should note, I am in Washington tracking it all. I made my way down here this weekend. And... Jill will be watching what is an atypical, for many reasons, inauguration today as one of the headlines that popped over the weekend.
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This Tom Cotton, a Republican senator from Arkansas, said over the weekend, any company that hosts, distributes services or otherwise facilitates communist controlled TikTok could face hundreds of billions of dollars in ruinous liability under the law, not just from DOJ, but from state AGs, shareholder lawsuits, securities law. That's a Republican. That's a Trump supporter.
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There's some Republicans that are very hard here on the Chinese issue. By the way, one of them was Donald Trump not so long ago. He was the first guy who wanted to ban TikTok during his first term before he decided to turn over a new leaf on TikTok in recent years. Unclear exactly why that is. Now, some of his big supporters are TikTok people. And so there's that.
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And some of his big donors are TikTokers. TikTok or ByteDance investors. And so as many people are drawing the line there, at the same time, Trump has now said he wants to save TikTok. And so we're going to watch all of this. But they made a point this weekend. A lot of people heard them. As I mentioned at the top, some people in the Modus community said their kids were in tears.
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Over the weekend, without the prospect of TikTok for a few hours, someone joked to us, Jill, that there could be a lot of TikTok babies, or I should say TikTok band babies in nine months from the night without TikTok. So, you know, I got a good note from a couple of people being like, wait, what should I do tonight? Because normally it's just me on TikTok. Do I have to talk to my spouse tonight?
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Well, not for some, some people, it was very, it was very dramatic and emotional for some people, Jill, not you, others.
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The outdoor ceremony, the traditional outdoor ceremony has been canceled due to the weather. Trump, for the first time since the mid 80s, since Reagan, too, will be taking the oath of office inside the U.S. Capitol.
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There's a lot of specific measures in place. So this is just the beginning of it. The three hostages released. It appears at least as of this first exchange that they're demanding 30 Palestinian prisoners for every Israeli hostage they release. That's something we'll watch for, whatever that formula is that was agreed to.
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In the coming weeks here, as they release both hostages that are dead and alive here, hugely controversial in Israel. Some of the hostages will be released in exchange for prisoners who are in Israel on life sentences for committing murder. So Israelis actually in those cases will have a chance to protest the release.
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If a prisoner murdered a family member, they'll have a chance to protest that with the Israeli high court. So we're going to watch this day by day here in this carefully orchestrated agreement. Now, even at the end of this phase one, there will still be just over 60 hostages remaining inside the Gaza Strip, mainly men and then also a whole bunch of remains.
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of Israeli hostages who are dead that Hamas is holding on to as leverage. So this is going to be very precarious a few weeks here. As part of the deal, Hamas is obligated to give the names of the hostages. They're set to release 24 hours in advance. They didn't do that. And so this deal actually almost fell apart on Saturday night into Sunday morning.
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Way past the deadline, they finally gave the names here. It's very powerful moments on both sides, given the circumstances. We haven't seen this since November of 2023. Early on in the war was the last time we saw these exchanges on a day by day basis. Photos of the Israelis coming home for the first time. No audio.
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We don't have a sense of what they don't have these women talking for obvious reasons after 470 days and being held by Hamas to the media anytime soon. But you see the images, the hugging their mothers with them, just incredibly powerful images, very complicated politics here. For the Israeli side, there's people on the right who say they should not be making a deal with Hamas.
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There have been people in the country, too, who say, no, make a deal, whatever it takes to bring home Israeli citizens, because it's taken so long. Some Israelis are now dead over the course of the past year. And so we're going to watch how this deal proceeds here. But so far, at least day one into day two here, the deal holds.
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Very briefly, Joel, and then the value of the Trump coin then dropped significantly right after that.
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Yeah, a lot of concerns here because as president, he oversees the CFTC, which would oversee this sort of thing. And ultimately, you don't see the CFTC with a Trump appointee going after Trump coin here. Critics say it could be a way for special interests, foreign governments to try to buy influence with him. There's little to no transparency here over who's buying this sort of thing.
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It was released by the Trump Organization, which has said Trump will have no role in day-to-day decision-making, but it has significantly and can again influence Enrich Trump personally in a very massive way. Trump ran on a very crypto friendly agenda. He's promised to be very lenient on crypto.
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It's essentially a meme coin is a digital playing card, the purchase of which is supposed to symbolize a show of support for Trump. But the Trump organization here owns about 80% of supply and appears to collect a fee on sales. And he's also promoting this to his nearly 100 million followers on social media. The total value of Trump coin keeps fluctuating there to the tens of billions of dollars.
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And so there have been a lot of meme coins out there. I told you recently about the Hawk Tua girl and her meme coin and how that was under investigation in terms of how that enriched, how that popped, and then how that collapsed. So a lot of folks here worried about the potential consumers of this who might not know what they're doing, but want to do this as a show of support.
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Fair warning on meme coins. They go very high and they go very low. It's like Bitcoin on crack in terms of valuation here. And it could really ride the headlines. So beware of all of this and look for more headlines on all of this as we learn more about the Trump meme coin and what else they might do in the crypto space.
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All the good stuff. Coffee, meat, candy, chocolate, eggs. Remember, this is a big thing for Trump. You know, he did say during the campaign he would lower prices. Some are looking at that and he sort of changed his tune on that, saying, I'm not going to lower prices, but I try to keep prices flat here. The thing about inflation is and prices is they go up over time.
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It's just a matter of how slowly or how quickly that they go up. And so here, we're seeing that. We're also going to watch how his potential tariffs here. That's something he's promised potentially as soon as today, imposing tariffs here. What they could mean for higher commodity prices is a lot of our food and other items come from abroad. So imposing tariffs could mean the prices go up there.
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Your long national nightmare is over, kids. Jill, we got some messages Saturday night from some members of the Mo News Committee who are like, my teenager is in their room crying right now. And I said, listen, at worst, this is Monday or Tuesday. It turned out this thing lasted like 16 hours. We'll tell you what was behind it and what's next.
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And we'll see here if companies try to absorb the prices or pass it along to consumers, something that will be closely scrutinized here.
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The jury also concluded that CNN set out to harm Young. So look for potential additional penalties here. CNN is informing the jury, you know, the media business is tough right now. So don't go crazy with this fine. At the trial here, Young testified that the story's portrayal rendered him a pariah in the industry, sent him on a spiral of depression, sleeplessness, panic attacks.
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hurt his marriage. He said that CNN didn't make clear that his clients were nonprofits and corporations, companies like Bloomberg and Audible, and that his prices reflected complex evacuation logistics. He felt that things were taken out of context here. He also was able, his legal team was able to obtain damning CNN internal messages.
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It showed staffers, and this is something I always told folks at CBS, Like, if you're having a controversial story, do not opine about the story subject in emails and text messages. It is all findable by lawyers.
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And here, in this case, the CNN producers apparently texted and emailed that they called him an S-bag, you know, an obscenity that starts with an S, an a-hole, saying he had a punchable face as they put together this story. Well, the jury got to see those text messages, and it reinforced to them that they felt that CNN did have an agenda there. in this story.
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Now, CNN did issue an on-air apology back in 2022. However, several CNN staffers actually took the witness stand to say they didn't feel an apology was necessary. Some of them were standing by the story here. Nonetheless, the jury found otherwise. There's a very high bar for defamation in the U.S. because of the First Amendment, the freedom of the press.
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But ultimately here, the jury feels that CNN went too far in this story, significant at a time where Trump in particular has been going after media believing that they have an agenda here. And so this is a story that we thought we should bring to your attention.
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It actually took states upwards of two decades, more than that, for every state to recognize MLK Day here. Jill, key to that lobbying effort for MLK Day, Stevie Wonder's Happy Birthday song. Happy birthday to you. That is sorry for the off key version of it. You can listen to Stevie's version, though. It's about MLK's birthday. It was part of the lobbying effort to get a day for MLK.
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A reminder, he was just 39 years old. very young as he was assassinated there. And at the time of his death, he was a very polarizing figure. He had actually taken on the Vietnam War. He had taken on the poverty, housing, other issues that he saw as part of the civil rights movement. And so there were a lot of people at the time who thought he was way too radical.
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He's not the figure that we look back at today in their unanimity back then. Very controversial. So they had to rally for a while there for support, 17 years to finally get 50 states to observe it. Clinton back in the 90s made it a national day of service. So many of you engage in volunteer projects today. Which takes us, Jill, into On This Day in History on this January 20th. A couple items.
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On this day in 1841, Hong Kong was ceded by China to Great Britain during the First Opium War. It would take a very long time for China to then get back. Hong Kong was returned to Chinese control in 1997. On this day in 1981, Inauguration Day. This has been Inauguration Day, actually, going back to FDR. Back before then, in the first 120 years or so of American history, I was actually in March.
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And then they're like, listen, we now have cars. We don't need horse and buggy anymore. We don't need this long period of time between presidents. So they moved up Inauguration Day from March to January in the Constitution. On this day in 1981, by then it was already a January inauguration. Minutes after Jimmy Carter's presidency ends, Ronald Reagan takes the oath of office.
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52 Americans released from Iran after being held hostage for 444 days. Many folks drawing a connection there to the hostage release in Israel over the weekend. Ending here with a bit of pop culture news. On this day in 1982, Joan Jett and the Blackhearts release I Love Rock and Roll. And...
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TV history, one of the more iconic shows of all time, Breaking Bad, starring Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul, premiered on this day in 2008. So a happy 17th birthday to Breaking Bad. Jill, were you a Breaking Bad-er?
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Oh, I think it was phenomenal.
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Noted. Noted.
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Thanks for listening, everyone. Live coverage all day over on Mo News Instagram.
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A lot of concerns. We'll lay them out.
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Sorry to make you report that one, Jill.
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We'll look at a little inauguration history for you.
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A little bit of trivia for you, everyone. There's been 45 presidents. Two of them, though, carry those multiple labels.
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So this will be my fifth inauguration in person. I was actually at that first Obama inauguration. We'll see how cold it gets. Right now, the latest projections are a high of 25 degrees, a low around 12. But again, there will be the windchill. So windchill that feels like temperature will be somewhere between 7 and 15 degrees.
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Nonetheless, about the Obama 09 numbers, but Trump made the call to move it inside. It does have some wondering whether there might have been a security conversation.
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component here that they're not telling us about officially again they moved it in because it's cold uh and they don't want any uh frostbite or medical issues for the hundred thousand plus uh that would have been in the crowd several hundred you know we we won't know some people due to the fact that they already made this call on Friday uh canceled their trip to Washington so we'll never have a sense of what the full crowd size was going to be uh notably Jill we would find out later
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Again, that Obama 09 inauguration was held outdoors in 09. But that one actually, in addition to the cold temps that will be similar to today, also had a terror threat. We would find out years later turned out to be a false alarm.
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But they were so serious about the terror threat in 09 that Obama actually had a note in his jacket on how to direct people should there have been an explosion or some sort of attack on the National Mall. This one moved preemptively inside. They like the connection in talking to Trump folks to the second Reagan inaugural. You know, he likes that historical analogy there.
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We'll be watching the proceedings all day on our Instagram thread. I'll try to pop up live as I can. I won't be out on the mall. No one else will be out there. but I'll be monitoring it from indoors like the rest of you. Also, it's being moved to the Capitol Rotunda, the Capitol Rotunda inside the Capitol. Those tickets, though, reserved for only the most important people.
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Jill, we're going from a situation where we were going to have, we're going to see thousands of people seated, tens of thousands of more standing, everyone out there on that main platform, members of Congress and the cabinet and the Supreme Court and former presidents inside the Rotunda. They can fit a couple hundred people. I got a sneak peek there yesterday. 250 seats in the rotunda.
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Like that's not even all members of Congress. That's not even the spouses of cabinet, I'm told, will not even be allowed in the rotunda. So it'll be a very intimate affair there. It's a small space if you've ever taken a tour of the Capitol. And so those tickets, very, very hot tickets, even among the most important and most significant or those who would like to think so.
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Hi, this is Mo Schwanunu, the Mo from Mo News, a longtime TV news producer who launched Mo News, that independent news brand you may have heard of.
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members of the government.
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Right. The first lady gets a seat.
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And Jill, at that point, you're already at like 10 percent of the rotunda.
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Michelle Obama was like, I was going to stay in Hawaii anyway. And now this reinforces my decision.
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I think Elon gets in. What do you think, Jill? Or he will find his way into that rotunda.
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Prediction by Jill Wagner, everyone. Let's see if she turns out to be right.
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That seems like a... Maybe they get in the room, but maybe they're standing room in the back.
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They'll find a way like behind a camera somewhere to like just kind of crouch.
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Oh, to be in that limousine with the four of them. Jill, again, this has been tradition going back a very long time. The exiting president, the incoming president riding together. We saw it as most recently as 2017 when the Obamas took the Trumps to the Capitol. But again, Trump upset about the 2020 loss, which he still claims is a victory.
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Decided he won't be doing any of that for the Bidens, decided to get out of Dodge, not even attend the inauguration. The last time we saw that was John Adams in 1801, upset about Thomas Jefferson winning. So he didn't do that. Trump didn't do that. But now Biden's bringing it back, thinking that tradition is super important, despite his personal feelings about Mr. Trump.
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right now? Fascinating. I happen to be at the Capitol on Sunday with a bunch of conservative creators. They invited a group of creators, a couple of nonpartisan but mainly conservatives up there to the Capitol to get a sneak peek inside the Capitol Rotunda. The setup. We happen to have a chance to meet briefly with Speaker Mike Johnson as well. This is the sense you get.
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Jill, we also like to say that we read the news so you don't have to and bring it to you in a conversational way, telling you the news like you would get from a friend. Nicole and I actually go way back. You may remember I've been a guest on Nicole's show several times on this podcast. She's appeared on our podcast.
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Overall, yes, there's disappointment among Trump supporters who made their way to Washington, some who spent thousands of dollars to come to Washington. Hotels are super expensive. The flights were expensive for some, hoping for a glimpse to be in the same place as Donald Trump for the second inaugural, the revenge of Trump after the impeachments and the indictments and the assassination attempts.
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So certainly people who are like, what? Will I get a chance to see him? Well, what about the Basketball arena, you mentioned the Capital One Arena. Well, that's like 20, 30, maybe 40,000. We'll see how many people that can fit in there, but not for everybody. So some people came all the way to Washington only to like watch it from a bar or hotel room. Nonetheless, there's a lot of camaraderie.
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You look at the streets here full of people wearing the red MAGA hats, really excited about what's to be. And when I asked them, like, what's the most important thing for you? Time and time again, Joe, immigration, the border. He's got to take care of the border. That's what I keep hearing from the folks who made their way to Washington. There's also excitement that Trump will make his best effort
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to stop by the arena and, you know, try to get out there to see people. Keep in mind that inaugurations are not just that event, but inaugural balls and parties. There are balls, you know, devoted to the states, devoted to issues. There was a crypto ball.
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There's a South Carolina ball that I met some folks had there, some from South Carolina, some not, but they heard that South Carolina ball had some exciting musical talent and was letting some folks in. So a lot of excitement. I mean, from the Republican side, I remember being here for the 01 inauguration when Bush came in and feeling the excitement from Republicans after eight years of Clinton.
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You saw a bit of it in 2017 when you were here. But nonetheless, you know, that was still people, the Republicans and Trump supporters in 17 2017. Still were shocked by the entire thing. They're like, oh, my God, I can't believe we're doing this. And this is crazy that, you know, he made it in. You know, we we weren't expecting this. This time around, there is a feeling of vindication.
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There is a feeling of of real excitement that Republicans now control democracy. They have the 6-3 majority in the Supreme Court. They have the majority in the House, majority in the Senate. And there's a lot of excitement that they can get a lot of things done here. I happened to be at a few different events yesterday. One of them was hosted by the folks over at the All In podcast.
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If you're familiar with the All In podcast, tech and VC executives who co-host that, very close to Elon Musk. The tech bros, so to speak. Sam Altman was at the event, saw RFK Jr. and Cheryl Hines at the event. RFK told me briefly, asked him, what are you excited about? And he said, you know, that cabinet confirmation, we got it. Cheryl Hines, again, by his side.
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We go back to our traditional journalism days before we entered the digital journalism world here. So we're thrilled at the opportunity to guest host Money Rehab this week while Nicole is on maternity leave.
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And then I happened to have a moment with incoming Interior Secretary Doug Burgum. Doug Burgum, who briefly ran for president, was considered seriously to be VP, a former North Dakota governor, tech billionaire, Interior Secretary. What do they do? They control all federal land. and national parks, including federal drilling rights.
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And he says, you know, we're going to unwind all those regulations that Biden imposed. We're very excited about what we can handle in interior. There's an energy you feel from the Trump folks. And notably, Joe, a lot of Democrats not in town this weekend. They did not want to be here for this, some of whom just like didn't want to deal with it.
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Some of whom just like don't like didn't want to be here for a party for Trump, someone who they didn't want to be president. Right. So there's just a lot of Democrats who are like, yeah, we'll come back after the inaugural festivities are done on Monday night or Tuesday morning.
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So he addressed us briefly. He was like, you know, nearly skipping, I would say, in terms of happiness. Like giddy. Like giddy, yeah. Super, super pumped. Here's a bit of when we asked him, how are you feeling? What his reaction was.
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So, Jill, just to reinforce that Johnson is calling this upcoming period, quote, a new golden age for the country. And this is going to be a huge challenge for Republicans, even with majority is right. It's a very slim majority in the House, a slim majority in the Senate. Trump knows that he has to overcome a second term curse. of sorts.
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So the deal continues this Saturday. Hamas has confirmed that four Israeli female hostages will be freed in exchange for what is likely to be based on the numbers. We've seen more than 100 prisoners that we haven't gotten the hard numbers yet from the Israelis on their side. Now, we don't have the names of the four women who will be released. after more than 470 days in captivity.
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We'll await those details here. Still, this next stage, as you mentioned, Jill, is going to be much more challenging as Hamas rashes up the demands on how many prisoners they're going to be looking for for every individual hostage that's left. The hostages that are left are mainly men of fighting age, soldiers.
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So typically, Hamas asks for even more, including senior leaders of the terror group, in exchange for them, at least they have in the past. Now, how this is all going to go down and continue is super important to Trump here, though even he's acknowledged that he's not confident that all of this will be upheld.
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Notably, Jill, there was a conversation in the last 24 hours, the first foreign leader to hold a phone call with Donald Trump. The Saudi crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman. Now, Trump has expressed a desire here for the Abraham Accords, the deal that was signed between Israel and several Arab countries, creating peace there. This is Bahrain, UAE, Morocco, several others.
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He wants to expand that to Saudi Arabia, which is the big prize here, the home of Islam and the home of Judaism. can sign a deal here in the Middle East. Now, Salman is looking for certain guarantees for the Palestinians as part of that deal, but still notable that Trump held this conversation. There's a huge military deal probably in the offing here between the U.S. and Saudi Arabia as well.
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The U.S. sells the Saudis a lot of equipment. They're part of an alliance against Iran, even though they've sort of softened their stance against Iran of late. So we'll see what happens. Things are still pretty precarious in the region. There was a Moroccan national with a U.S. green card, incidentally, who stabbed and wounded four people in a terror attack in Tel Aviv on Tuesday.
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We also saw in the West Bank, this is the other piece of land the Palestinians have some control over, that they're looking to for a future Palestinian state in a group of Israeli settlers, a group of Israelis who live in the West Bank rampage through Palestinian villages, targeting homes, businesses and vehicles.
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There's been a lot of back and forth violence there over the course of the last year and a half. So we'll continue to watch the region here for how this ceasefire hostage deal unfolds.
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So this is a pretty big deal. And this has been Harry's life's mission here, to reform media practices. I heard him speak about this recently. He was being interviewed by Andrew Russ Sorkin over there at the New York Times Dealbook Conference in New York just last month. And he's talked about how passionate he was, how important this was.
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So the fact that he took a settlement here, not insignificant. The settlement reportedly an eight-figure sum. They weren't specific here, but you can do the math, somewhere between 10%. $10 million and $100 million, if we're going with an eight-figure sum here, probably more significant than they would have been made to pay in court.
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NGN, the news group owned by Murdoch here, has previously settled with 1,300 other individuals. Payouts have exceeded $1.2 billion for a variety of things that they were accused of doing. Prince William, Harry's brother, actually privately settled just a few years ago for a seven-figure sum for a few million dollars with NGN.
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Be careful what you throw out. I mean, listen, you're not going to have millennia old stuff in the backyard on Long Island or anywhere else, but you might have something that's really valuable from 100 or a couple hundred years ago, you know, here in American historical terms.
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Now, based on the way the law works in the UK, Harry could have been stuck with a big bill if he didn't win the case. In fact, he would have had to pay the legal bills for Murdoch here. So it appears Harry took the safe bet here, taking the money. He also got a rare apology from the news group for what they did.
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And again, for Harry, this has been an issue going back to his childhood, what he believes the paparazzi and the media did to his mother, leading to her death. as well as what they've done to him his entire life. This has been a huge thing. Of course, him and Meghan Markle have talked about this as well. So a pretty significant day for Harry yesterday.
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yeah though we have seen a number of uh people uh not get renewed or take buyouts or leave the chris wallaces and some of the other correspondents and anchors they had uh cnn trying to figure out his future here because they got this boost during trump one a lot of the media did uh with a lot of interest a lot of subscribers you saw the washington post get a boost the new york times get a boost the atlantic uh get a boost here uh cnn and the cables got a boost
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The interest not as high this time around among members of the public. Nonetheless, CNN in the fall launched a paywall. You might have noticed this over on CNN.com. You had a certain number of articles and then you got to pay $3.99 a month. CNN is hoping that that could bring it up to a billion in revenue annually from its heavier users of CNN.com.
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A lot of these companies, and I lived and breathed it as I launched the digital streaming channel at CBS, trying to figure out their future here as cord cutting becomes more prevalent. Fun fact, Jill, the median age of a cable news viewer today, 70 years old. half the viewers of a CNN or MSNBC or Fox News are over the age of 70. And they're not getting replaced significantly by younger folks.
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And so they're trying to figure out their digital strategies here. CNN, not alone. NBC News also planning cuts later this week. Their job loss is estimated to be about 50, according to CNBC reporting here. And so people are transitioning, right? We're discovering this at Mo News. They're coming to podcast, they're coming to Instagram, but the revenue isn't quite there for these organizations.
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So they're all figuring it out. They're all recalibrating here. Still at CNN, you have like 3,500 employees worldwide, significant organization, but they're all being asked to do more. And in some cases, do more for pay cuts or keeping their pay flat as they figure it out. And they've gone through various iterations, certainly a storyline that
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We'll be watching here in the new media space how legacy media pivots and adapts to the ever-changing environment.
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Let's just pause there. You have to pay $8 a month and you still get ads. Remember when they were charging that for no ads?
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Hey, they can get away with it, right? They're charging you for a subscription and they're double dipping, right? And they're getting the ads.
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Yep.
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It adds up. You're getting the ad tier for $8 a month, the ad-free for $18 a month, and the premium plan where you can do multiple streams at the same time for $25 a month there. And yet they feel what they're offering there at Netflix is valuable. All these new live events, right? You might have seen the recent NFL games there, the Paul Tyson fight.
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And they're seeing huge numbers as they add in more live events here. Disney trying to stay competitive here with Disney+. They acquired the sports streamer FuboTV. And sports is going to be key here to these streamers as they look to charge more and more. Last month, Netflix, back to Netflix here, they got exclusive U.S. rights for the next two FIFA Women's World Cup tournaments.
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Hi, this is Mo Schwanunu, the Mo from Mo News. You might be familiar with us from our Instagram account or our daily podcast. I'm a longtime TV news producer who launched an independent news brand just a couple of years ago. As you know, Nicole is on maternity leave. So this week, my co-host Jill and I have been guest hosting Money Rehab and sharing fresh episodes each day of Mo News.
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But certainly, Jill, as these numbers go up, it's gonna be harder and harder for people, as they look at their numbers, to subscribe to multiple streamers, right? So it's gonna lead to some hard decisions of like, do I keep the Disney+, do I keep the Netflix, do I keep the Paramount+, or the Peacock? But all of them, when you add them all up, are gonna get pretty pricey.
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All right, now time for On This Day in History. We begin in 1849. Geneva Medical College bestowed a medical degree on Elizabeth Blackwell. She was the first woman in the U.S. to receive a medical degree. At the time, she was facing and women were facing near uniform opposition from male students and medical professionals about women in medicine.
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Blackwell would go on to set up a clinic for the poor in New York City. And she was determined to treat as many patients as possible despite all of the pushback she was getting. Notable years later, 2017 is the year for the first time that a majority of medical students in the U.S. were women.
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Yes, because it turns out that women don't go in there thinking they know everything. They ask more questions and that's turned out to be effective, especially when surgery is happening. So keep that in mind if you have to go in for surgery at some point. No insult to the great male surgeons out there just passing along the data that we saw recently.
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You need to go, well, I don't know what's left there, but you probably should go do inventory ASAP, Jill, before mom gets rid of some more stuff.
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On this day in 1941, Charles Lindbergh testifies before Congress and suggests that the U.S. negotiate a neutrality pact with Hitler. Charles Lindbergh, despite being a national hero for flying nonstop solo across the Atlantic, was very into Hitler, was very friendly with Hitler. They had lots of conversations where they shared their mutual hatred of Jews and other issues.
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In fact, Henry Ford, the founder of Ford, was in those conversations. And there was actually a scenario, Jill, where Charles Lindbergh was considering running for president against FDR and might have won to keep the country isolationist. So a moment there in American history. Again, before Pearl Harbor, when the U.S.
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was having a serious conversation and there were advocates like Lindbergh saying, you know what, just make a deal with Hitler. Let's not plan to go to war with him.
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Yeah, scary, scary alternate history there. Fast forward to 1957 on this day, the Wham-O Toy Company introduced these new aerodynamic plastic discs they called Frisbees. Now to a bit of pop culture history, to the clue from the beginning of the podcast. Here's looking at you, kid. Of all the gin joints in the world, you walk into mine. Casablanca premiered on this day 82 years ago.
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Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, a classic Hollywood film. Turning 41 years old today... Another classic, but in this case, music. Michael Jackson released Thriller on this day in history. And turning 40 years old today. Material Girl, not Madonna herself. Her song, Material Girl, released on this day in 1985.
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Material girl living in a material world. Makes sense.
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Listen, another generation memorizing Madonna lyrics.
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Yeah, leave us those five star reviews. They matter. They help. They help us grow. They help expand reach here. So appreciate all of you who can leave us those reviews over in the Apple podcast store. But thanks for listening. We are getting through the week here. Happy Friday Eve and we'll see you tomorrow.
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making a lot of changes very quickly there as his team has been taking over.
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A lot of pain right now at some of the legacy media companies.
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Made it harder to steal someone's password and raising the price there over at Netflix.
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Your clue today of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world. She walks into mine.
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This comes, Jill, as the war is still extremely deadly. Ukraine claiming that Putin's forces suffered nearly 2,000 casualties in a single day. It would be the worst casualty total in 24 hours since the war began. There's a lot of estimates going around. In fact, Trump
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Today's episode is the last of our week of guest hosting. But if you've liked what you've heard, subscribe to Mo News wherever you get your podcasts. Here's today's episode of Mo News. Hey, everybody. It is Thursday, January 23rd. You're listening to the Mo News Podcast. I'm Moshe Wanunu.
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sort of it appears has talked about some classified numbers several hundred thousand ukrainians and russians killed in this war uh waiting on confirmation on that nonetheless trump not surprisingly taking a very different approach from biden here direct engagement of vladimir putin that's something biden was not up to he says he actually wants to meet with vladimir putin here and as you mentioned he took a harder line there saying we're gonna you know we can do this hard vlad he had said earlier in the week that zielinski appeared to be more open to a deal than putin
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So he's pushing back on Putin here. The significant change, though, is that as far as the Biden administration was concerned, it was about Ukraine winning, even if it was totally unrealistic that they would win. They've been basically along the same battle lines for three years now. But the West and the U.S., the strategy was to basically bleed Russia out.
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And in talking to NATO officials, they found that to be extremely successful, that this has really been a suck for for Putin, that he's reliant on some technologies and weapons from the 1950s, on the Iranians, on the North Koreans. Nonetheless, the Trump approach is different, not to basically have this war go on in perpetuity here, but to end it.
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He sees himself as a dealmaker, looking for talks here between Zelensky and Putin. Now, what's unclear is what sort of deal he can come to here. Remember, Putin claims that all of Ukraine is his. He occupies 20% of Ukraine. He's reluctant to walk back on any of that territory, in particular, these regions he's taken over that are very Russian-speaking regions of Ukraine.
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And then you have Zelensky, who doesn't want to give up an inch of territory here, but is probably willing to if he gets security guarantees, like he gets to be part of NATO, which means in the future, if Putin tries to invade Ukraine again and take even more territory, NATO would come to bail him out because he'd be part of the alliance.
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Now, that's not something Trump is keen to do either, and certainly not something Putin would allow. So what is going to be the magic deal here? What's going to be the compromise here? as he tries to apply pressure on both the Ukrainians by giving them less in the way of weaponry and aid, but then also put pressure on the Russians by promising tariffs, sanctions, and other threats.
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What is rhetoric here? What's the final deal going to look like? In terms of these economic sanctions on Russia, particularly tariffs, in the first 11 months of last year, the U.S. imported less than $3 billion worth of Russian goods. That's one tenth of one percent of U.S. imports coming from Russia. Now, that is down significantly over the last couple of years since Russia first invaded Ukraine.
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So it's not clear how much of an impact tariffs and these other measures would have on Russia here. Now, remember, Putin and Trump have a unique relationship, interesting relationship. According to Bob Woodward reporting, they spoke a number of times while Trump was out of office here. Putin has congratulated Trump for his victory. He says he wants long term peace. But what are the terms?
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And so ultimately, we'll see what goes down here. Zelensky spoke with reporters yesterday. Recently, Trump spoke with Zelensky. Trump says, again, Zelensky appears to be more open to negotiations here, but it takes two to tango. Hence the message for Putin.
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And we read all the news and read between the lines so you don't have to. Jill, with that old expression that one man's trash is another man's treasure. Fun story I was reading about out of Greece. where somebody apparently threw away a statue, a headless statue that they thought was just, you know, garbage, put in a garbage bag in the city of Saloniki.
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Yeah. In particular, the focus there, Jill, beyond the government is going to be higher education. Because remember, student loan programs is a number. There's a lot of funding that comes to education at all levels, but in particular, higher education through the federal government. So they're looking to hit institutions that have endowments of over a billion dollars for education.
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compliance here. And so they have a couple months to figure it out, identify state and local educational institutions that receive federal funds and grants who participate in the student loan program here. So that's going to be a focus here. This comes all in that aftermath of that 2023 Supreme Court ruling we told you about that overturned affirmative action in college admissions.
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And that has been interpreted, extrapolated out by a number of organizations that potentially have more far-reaching ramifications for any race-based program, race-based hiring program. And you have seen companies in the last year, Meta, McDonald's, Walmart, all ending their DEI programs here partially due to their legal concerns about that Supreme Court ruling.
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And as you mentioned, completely different philosophy. From the Biden administration, they came in looking to reverse decades of systemic inequity, make the federal government look more like America. Trump says this socially engineers race and gender into public life.
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We're hearing from people, Jill, who were involved in planning Black History Month events and other events in the coming months here who are canceling those or fear that they have to cancel those because of what it might mean for their jobs. A lot of these DEI programs came out of the Black Lives Matter movement, the killing of George Floyd.
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And there is acknowledgement, both in the corporate sector and the government sector, that some of these DEI programs, not as effective as some had hoped, that some had gone too far, that some of the companies that are brought in here to do DEI are not really accomplishing their goals.
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At the same time, there is a feeling among some that some aspect of this is a necessity, but it really boils down to the debate.
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that's being had societally in this election in the government about equity inequality those who advocate for equality which is equal treatment of everyone versus those who believe in dei equity equity as in elevating the needs of minorities to get to equality so uh in equity versus equality fight continues here.
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We did see that Trump signed an executive order that we mentioned declaring there are only two genders that has its own ramifications here. But when it goes to all the things Trump is up to, this has been key as he looks to remake the workforce here and knock out a lot of the priorities and programming that has been implemented over the course of the past few years under Biden.
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It turns out a resident was walking by and was like, this might be worth something, this headless statue. It turns out the statue, 31-inch statue, so just a couple feet tall, is 2,000 years old. You got to watch out there, I guess, especially in Greece. If you find something in your backyard,
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A lot here, Jill, both the DEI stuff that we were talking about, this stuff, there's going to be a lot of lawsuits here, back and forth, when it comes to these changes and what they mean. And so look for a variety of those cases. They're probably already being filed as we record this.
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This is a pretty large high school, Antioch High School, home to approximately 2,000 students from grades 9 through 12 there, about 10 miles southeast of downtown there in Nashville.
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It definitely brought back memories of that Covenant school shooting that took place less than two years ago, where three 9-year-old children and three adults were killed at a private Christian elementary school in Nashville. It led to a huge debate in regards to guns in the state.
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Notably, one of the most prominent people in that debate, one of the three state reps that became controversial, one of whom was booted, Justin Jones. His district includes parts of Nashville. He says the fear reverberating around the Antioch and Nashville communities today is a chilling reminder of the human cost of inaction and the senseless tragedy of gun violence.
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Gun violence perpetuated by leaders who have prioritized firearms and the profits of the gun industry over the lives of our students. A reminder that Republicans there in Tennessee have a super majority in the state legislature. So not much has been done when it comes to gun reform efforts in the state. But this certainly will revive the debate there.
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something kind of sitting around you might be sitting on like ancient treasure even if it is a headless statue apparently uh police have an open investigation they talked to the person who threw it away they have not been charged with anything nonetheless this is from the roman era in greece so just a heads up don't quickly well i guess in greece this is especially important but even here in the us you might be sitting on something valuable as you clean out your garage