UK PM Duped by Wiles Impersonator, Clancy Defense Begins, Lifeguard Honored at WH: AM Update 8/18

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UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham reportedly exchanging messages with someone impersonating White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles.

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What did she tell you?

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She told us that she had thoughts of harming the children.

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The prosecution resting its case in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial as the defense begins presenting evidence about her mental state before the killings. The US. Supreme Court rejecting President Trump's final effort to overturn the $5 million verdict awarded to E. Jean Carroll.

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Teen lifeguard Ryder Williams honored at the White House alongside the 10-year-old boy he rescued from the violent California surf. All that and more coming up in just a moment on your AM Update.
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New UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham reported the exchanging messages with someone he believed was White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles before becoming suspicious that he was communicating with an impersonator. Politico reporting, four officials confirmed the exchange with one person briefed on the communications saying Burnham exchanged quote, a few messages with the person and that the messages were quote, of no significance. It is unclear what exactly they discussed or when Burnham first began communicating with the person. The situation reportedly concerning British officials enough that the UK Embassy in Washington raised it with the White House. Downing Street declining to comment citing national security. Wiles reportedly telling associates then that contacts from her personal cell phone had been hacked, potentially giving the impersonator access to private numbers belonging to influential people. However, the White House telling Politico the incident had quote, nothing to do with the chief of staff's devices being hacked. President Trump asked about the report yesterday during an unrelated Oval Office event, though he did not appear familiar with the story. The incident comes roughly a year after a separate impersonation campaign involving Wiles. The Wall Street Journal reporting at the time that senators, governors and prominent business executives had received calls and text messages from someone pretending to be the White House chief of staff, prompting an investigation by the FBI and White House. It is unclear whether that investigation ever identified who was behind the impersonation campaign and whether the person who reportedly contacted Burnham is connected.
The prosecution resting its case yesterday in the murder trial of Massachusetts mother, Lindsay Clancy, as the trial enters its fourth week of testimony. Prosecutors calling roughly 70 witnesses over their case before the defense beginning to present its own evidence yesterday afternoon. Five-year-old Cora, three-year-old Dawson, and eight-month-old Callan Clancy were killed inside their family's home in Massachusetts on January 24, 2023
Clancy not disputing that she killed her children before attempting to take her own life, suffering spinal injuries that left her paralyzed from the waist down. Clancy pleading not guilty to three counts of first-degree murder, with her attorneys arguing she should not be held criminally responsible because she was suffering from severe mental illness, including what they say was postpartum psychosis. Prosecutors arguing Clancy understood what she was doing and acted intentionally, contending she sent her husband Patrick to pick up takeout and medicine before killing the children. Under Massachusetts law, prosecutors must prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Clancy was criminally responsible at the time. After the Commonwealth rested, defense attorney Kevin Reddington asked the judge for a required finding of not guilty or alternatively to reduce the charges from first degree to second degree murder. Judge William Sullivan denying the motion for now, clearing the way for the defense to begin calling witnesses. Clancy's sister, Allison Osga, among the first defense witnesses, describing a decline in her sister's mental health in the months before the killings.