• Inside Sources Full Show January 13th, 2025: Utah House Majority priorities, SCOTUS rejects Utah's public lands lawsuit, Senate confirmations this week

  • Jan 13 2025
  • Length: 1 hr and 23 mins
  • Podcast

Inside Sources Full Show January 13th, 2025: Utah House Majority priorities, SCOTUS rejects Utah's public lands lawsuit, Senate confirmations this week

  • Summary

  • Hosts: Erin Rider and Taylor Morgan

    On the Hill 2025: Utah House Majority outlines top priorities for Legislative General Session Education, safe communities, energy, elections – all top priorities for the Utah House Majority in the upcoming 2025 Legislative General Session. Today, Republican leadership in the State House outlined several issues they’ll focus on in the 45-day session that begins next week. We hear a press conference on the issues; Inside Sources hosts Erin Rider and Taylor Morgan share their thoughts and compare the House priorities to the Senate priorities shared last week. Speaker Johnson's Congressional priorities Now to the national stage – what are the top priorities in the United States House of Representatives? House Speaker Mike Johnson has been walking on a tightrope within the Republican Conference since he took the speakership, and that challenges continues with the new Congress. It appears that whatever Speaker Johnson does, someone in the Republican Conference is going to be upset. SCOTUS rejects Utah’s lawsuit over public land management The United States Supreme Court has rejected Utah’s lawsuit against the federal government over the management of unappropriated public lands. KSL Legal Analyst and Inside Sources co-host Greg Skordas gives us legal analysis on the lawsuit, including potential next steps for the state. Today’s hosts then share their thoughts on whether the accompanying public relations campaign is worth it or not. Pres.-elect Trump’s cabinet nominees face Senate confirmation this week Senate confirmation hearings for President-elect Donald Trump’s cabinet nominees kick off this week. The first day of hearings include Secretary of Defense nomination Pete Hegseth. Following the withdrawal of Matt Gaetz as Attorney General, Hegseth’s nomination is the most controversial. Are we likely to see any big hiccups in the confirmation process for him or anyone else? Meta pushes artificial intelligence accounts while ending fact-checking programs Last week, Meta announced its decision to end its so-called ‘fact-checking’ program. At the same time, Meta is growing its artificial intelligence offerings in the hopes that it’ll appeal to younger users. So it begs the question: what’s the appropriate balance in order to maintain safety and dissuade misinformation? The Inside Sources hosts go in-depth with their thoughts.
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