The NewsWorthy - Biden’s ‘Wartime Effort’, Impeachment Trial Preps & Movie Releases Delayed- Friday, January 22nd, 2021

The news to know for Friday, January 22nd, 2021!

What to know about:

  • White House plans to overhaul the pandemic response in what President Biden calls a "full-scale wartime effort"
  • the first wave of backlash Biden faces as president: what top Republicans are saying about his executive actions
  • one storm impacting nearly the entire nation
  • the weekend football games that will determine who goes to the Super Bowl
  • Apple's possible plans for a new product

Those stories and more in around 10 minutes!

Head to www.theNewsWorthy.com or see sources below to read more about any of the stories mentioned today.

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Sources:

President Biden Pandemic Response Plans: NY Times, Axios, NPR, White House

Fauci ‘Liberated’ with Biden: Politico, CNBC, CBS News

Republicans React to Exec. Actions: FOX News, LA Times, USA Today, Cruz Tweet

Trump Impeachment Preps: CNBC, WaPo, Reuters, LA Times, Politico

Seattle, Portland Violent Protests: Reuters, CNN, WSJ, Oregonian 

Storm Moving Across Country: ABC News, Weather Channel

NFC, AFC Championship Games: NFL, CBS Sports, USA Today

Judge: Amazon Can Keep Parler Offline: NPR, Politico, AP

Movie Release Dates Delayed: The Verge, USA Today, MarketWatch

Apple Working on VR Headset: Bloomberg, The Verge, TechCrunch

Feel Good Friday- Kindergartner’s Diversity Book Drive: CBS News, Fox59, Amazon Wish List

The Daily Signal - What’s Next for 1776 Commission and the Fight to Preserve US History

One of President Joe Biden’s very first executive actions was to disband the 1776 Commission and remove the commission’s report from the White House website. 


Mike Gonzalez, a Heritage Foundation senior fellow and member of President Donald Trump’s 1776 Advisory Commission, joins the show to explain the purpose of the new report and why Biden was so quick to discredit it.


Read the full report here.


Purchase Mike Gonzalez's book, "The Plot to Change America: How Identity Politics is Dividing the Land of the Free," here.


We also cover these stories:

  • President Joe Biden signs over 10 executive orders for coronavirus vaccinations and testing. 
  • House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says Congress will move ahead with former President Donald Trump’s impeachment even as Biden calls for unity in the nation. 
  • Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, is now working with the Biden administration and says the U.S. will remain a part of the World Health Organization. 


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Opening Arguments - OA458: Biden’s Amazing First Day

In case you missed it, we have a president now! Andrew gives us the full deep dive on his first day in office and all the harm reduction the administration has already achieved!

Links: All the Biden Executive Orders, Trump's stupid Reducing Regulation and Controlling Regulatory Costs and Enforcing the Regulatory Reform Agenda and Evaluating and Improving the Utility of Federal Advisory Committees, Board of Scientific Counselors - ATSDR, Trump Promoting the Rule of Law order, Executive Order 13,891 Sub-Regulatory Guidance Document Portal Tops 70,000 Entries, 18 U.S. Code § 207, FACT SHEET: President-elect Biden's Day One Executive Actions

The Gist - Pardon Me?

On the Gist, before he jetted off to the sunshine state, Trump had a last bit of business to attend to. 

In the interview, Mike talks to Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, senior associate dean of leadership programs, and the Lester Crown Professor in the Practice of Management for the Yale School of Management. He is also founder and president of the Chief Executive Leadership Institute. Mike and Sonnenfeld discuss C.E.L.I., a nonprofit educational and research institute focused on CEO leadership and corporate governance, and Trump’s influence on their decision making.

In the spiel, oh the people he pardoned.

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Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons - From COVID To The Capitol: How Biden Will Try To Heal A Nation In Crisis

After 4 years of chaos and thousands of Americans dying every day from COVID-19, President Biden’s administration needs to get to work. Fast.

Reset talks about the president’s priorities for his first 10 days in office, and we’ll compare and contrast his speech with inaugural speeches of the past.

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Consider This from NPR - How President Biden’s Immigration Plan Would Undo Trump’s Signature Policies

President Biden followed through on a day-one promise to send a massive immigration reform bill to Congress. Now the hard part: passing that bill into law.

Muzaffar Chishti of New York University's Migration Policy Institute explains the president's plans — and the signal they send to other countries around the world.

Biden is also pursuing big changes in how the U.S. admits refugees. Corine Dehabey, an Ohio-based director of the refugee settlement organization Us Together, says families who've been separated for years are looking forward to reuniting.

Follow more of NPR's immigration coverage from Southwest correspondent John Burnett.

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Science In Action - Saving the Northern White Rhino

Northern white rhinos are extinct in the wild and there are just two females in captivity in Kenya. Conservationists are working on an artificial breeding programme, using eggs from the females and sperm from a deceased male. Now five embryos have been created. Thomas Hildebrandt of the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research in Berlin explained the research.

President Biden’s first executive order was what’s being called the hundred-day mask mandate. The day before the inauguration a massive analysis of mask-wearing and COVID rates demonstrated a clear, if small, benefit. Epidemiologist Ben Rader told Roland Pease that it got over 300,000 opinions by using the online questionnaire, SurveyMonkey.

After the alarming series of record-breaking heatwaves last year, global warming is causing specific problems in the innumerable lakes around the world. Lakes are ecologically particularly vulnerable to extremes. The European Space Agency’s Yestyn Woolway has been analysing past trends, and modelling the future.

2020 delivered a record year in hurricanes, which caused around $60 billion dollars in damage to the US alone, according to one estimate. A new technology called Airborne Phased-Array Radar promises to improve the measurements that are currently made by planes that fly right into the eye of the hurricanes, and make the missions safe. It’s being developed at the National Centre for Atmospheric Research and Roland discussed the new technology with the Director of NCAR, Vanda Grubišić.

(Image; Najin and Fatu, the only two remaining female northern white rhinos graze in their paddock. Credit: Tony Karumba/AFP via Getty Images)

Presenter: Roland Pease Producer: Deborah Cohen