It's Thursday, October 23rd.
I'm Jane Costa, and this is What A Day,
the show that does not want to be made into an AI clone of itself in case it dies.
That's reportedly what Alan Hamill,
the widower of actress Suzanne Summers, did after her passing in 2023.
Hamill told People Magazine that the Suzanne Summers AI clone was trained on her books and interviews and added,
quote, when you look at the finished one next to the real Suzanne, you can't tell the difference.
Nope, see, I think that one could tell the difference,
because one is a person who has died, and the other is an AI clone.
On today's show, the Pentagon introduces us to the, quote,
next generation of Pentagon press corps after legacy media companies reject their new press policy.
And President Donald Trump plans to slap sanctions on...
Am I getting this right?
Russia?
But let's start with Congress and Jeffrey Epstein.
The government shutdown is now in its third week.
The House of Representatives is out, and votes aren't getting scheduled,
particularly the vote to force the Department of Justice to release files centered on financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Let me introduce you to someone who could change that.
Back in September, Arizona Democrat Adelita Grahava won a special election to the House,