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The Two-Billion Dollar Fund, The Bar, and the Bond · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: President Trump just dropped a ten billion dollar lawsuit against
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  Speaker 1: the IRS days before judge demanded answers here that decision, you.
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  Speaker 2: Would have to go first my desk. And it's so
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  Speaker 2: fully strange to make a decision where I'm banging myself.
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  Speaker 1: And the American Bar Association has voted to end a
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  Speaker 1: decades old diversity role for law schools.
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  Speaker 3: Two steps forward and fifteen steps backwards and.
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  Speaker 1: Twenty nine years on Oklahoma's death Row, a man is
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  Speaker 1: now free on bond with help from Kim Kardashian.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm just thankful for about life and my attorneys,
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  Speaker 2: and I'm just happy.
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  Speaker 1: It's Tuesday, May nineteenth. From the Black Effects Podcast Network.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Mimi Brown. This is front Page, and here are
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  Speaker 1: today's biggest stories plus today on the two minute take
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  Speaker 1: Fox News, redistricting and the lie underneath the joke. Stay
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  Speaker 1: with me. A ten billion dollar lawsuit five by President
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  Speaker 1: Trump against the IRS has been dropped by the President himself.
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  Speaker 1: But what's coming next is the bigger story. Court documents
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  Speaker 1: showed Trump is moving to set up a one point
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  Speaker 1: seven billion dollar fund paid for by US taxpayers, to
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  Speaker 1: compensate people who claim they were wrongfully investigated under the
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  Speaker 1: Biden administration. According to ABC News, the fund is being
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  Speaker 1: called the President Donald J. Trump Truth and Justice Commission.
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  Speaker 1: The commission would pay people who claimed they were victims
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  Speaker 1: of quote weaponization of the Justice Department under President Biden.
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  Speaker 1: According to multiple news reports, that category includes January sixth defendants,
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  Speaker 1: members of the Oath Keepers, members of the Proud Boys,
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  Speaker 1: including some who were convicted of seditious conspiracy and then
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  Speaker 1: pardoned by President Trump earlier this year. In other words,
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  Speaker 1: the same people the President pardoned for January sixth would
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  Speaker 1: now be eligible to receive taxpayer funded settlements through a
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  Speaker 1: commission he controls. The commission would have five members. Trump
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  Speaker 1: would have the right to remove any of them without cause,
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  Speaker 1: and it would not be required to disclose how it
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  Speaker 1: decides who gets paid.
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  Speaker 4: I don't even know how that's allowable to happen.
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  Speaker 1: This all stems from a lawsuit filed by Trump and
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  Speaker 1: his two oldest sons against the IRS for ten billion dollars.
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  Speaker 1: The lawsuit accused the agencies of failing to protect Trump's
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  Speaker 1: tax returns after a former IRS contractor leaked his tax
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  Speaker 1: returns to the press. The contractor was convicted and sentenced
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  Speaker 1: to five years in prison, but the lawsuit itself raised
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  Speaker 1: a problem. Trump sued as a private citizen, but the irs,
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  Speaker 1: the Treasury Department, and the Justice Department. Attorneys defending those
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  Speaker 1: agencies all fall under his presidential authority.
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  Speaker 2: It's interesting because I'm the one that makes a decision, right,
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  Speaker 2: and that decision would have to go first my desk,
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  Speaker 2: And it's softfully strange to make a decision where I'm
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  Speaker 2: buying myself.
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  Speaker 1: The judge overseeing the case raised that concern in open court.
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  Speaker 1: She asks outside lawyers to brief her on whether the
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  Speaker 1: case was even appropriate for the court to hear. Those
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  Speaker 1: experts came back with serious concerns. On Monday, Trump dropped
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  Speaker 1: the case with prejudice, meaning he can't file it again.
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  Speaker 1: But minutes later, nearly one hundred House Democrats submitted a
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  Speaker 1: brief to the court accusing Trump of quote blatant self dealing.
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  Speaker 5: Is setting up a one point seven billion dollar political
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  Speaker 5: slush fund for the Proud Boys and the Oathkeepers and
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  Speaker 5: his other political lieutenants and hangers on.
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  Speaker 1: For taxpayers, here's the math. Every dollar in that fund
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  Speaker 1: comes from you. The same agencies that collect your taxes
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  Speaker 1: are being asked to pay them back out to people
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  Speaker 1: the President has decided were wronged by the previous administration.
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  Speaker 1: The decades old role that required every American law school
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  Speaker 1: to commit to diversity is being repelled. On Friday, the
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  Speaker 1: American Bar Association Council that controls law school accreditations voted
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  Speaker 1: to repeal Standard two six. That role has for years
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  Speaker 1: acquired every ABA accredited law school to show a real
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  Speaker 1: commitment to diversity in recruitment, admissions, and student programming. If
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  Speaker 1: the law school wanted its graduates to be eligible for
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  Speaker 1: the bar in most states, it had to show real
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  Speaker 1: effort to recruit Black, Latino, Asian, American, Native American, and
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  Speaker 1: women's students.
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  Speaker 3: Some schools when they were banning African Americans, women and
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  Speaker 3: other minority groups from being admitted, the ABA was lifting
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  Speaker 3: some of those barriers out of the way. And so
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  Speaker 3: when you have folks in the room that have went
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  Speaker 3: through those types of things and had to go around
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  Speaker 3: or jump over barriers, it makes it easier for you
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  Speaker 3: to say and argue to the board, hey, we shouldn't
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  Speaker 3: have these policies in place. And so, yes, the bar
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  Speaker 3: is equal, but the access in the opportunity to get
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  Speaker 3: to law school is not equal.
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  Speaker 1: The rule have been frozen since February of last year
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  Speaker 1: pause as soon as the Trump administration returned to the
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  Speaker 1: White House and federal pressure on diversity, equity and inclusion
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  Speaker 1: programs accelerated. The Department of Education had already warned other
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  Speaker 1: accreditors that in racial diversity standard would be treated as
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  Speaker 1: a violation of federal law.
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  Speaker 3: I can understand that there are attacks in all locations
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  Speaker 3: in our country right now, and this is one of them,
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  Speaker 3: with attack on diversity, equity, inclusion, and as it continues
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  Speaker 3: to be attacked, you'll see more organizations do things like this.
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  Speaker 1: In one calendar year. The ABA is potentially repealing for
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  Speaker 1: civil rights related standards at once. The rules on racism, bias,
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  Speaker 1: non discrimination, and disability accommodation are lined up right behind it.
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  Speaker 1: The repeal still has to clear the ABA's House of
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  Speaker 1: Delegates in August. The official elimination may not be in
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  Speaker 1: the books until twenty twenty seven, but the direction is set.
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  Speaker 3: What I can say is, I don't think this is
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  Speaker 3: the end. This is just a we're on a roller
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  Speaker 3: coaster ride, and right now we're in that point in
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  Speaker 3: history in our country where folks are fed up with
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  Speaker 3: the efforts that we're being made with diversity, equity, inclusion,
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  Speaker 3: and just like in the fifties and sixties, typically you
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  Speaker 3: see people that are frustrated with it and then at
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  Speaker 3: some point you get back on the upswing.
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  Speaker 1: All right, it's Tuesday, which means it's time for the
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  Speaker 1: front page two minute take. Every Tuesday, I take two
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  Speaker 1: minutes to talk about something in the headlines that deserves
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  Speaker 1: a little more honesty, a little more context, the thing
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  Speaker 1: underneath the thing. And today we need to talk about
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  Speaker 1: Jesse Waters Fox News and what was actually said on
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  Speaker 1: national television because a few days ago on the Five,
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  Speaker 1: Jesse Waters was talking about Black Americans losing congressional districts
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  Speaker 1: and somehow his conclusion was black people need to have
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  Speaker 1: more babies. Listen to this.
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  Speaker 4: I did some research on the blacks. As Jude Jinine
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  Speaker 4: so eloquently would said, the solution at Ha Kim's problem
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  Speaker 4: the Scay Obama is baby making. Blacks for one hundred
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  Speaker 4: and fifty years have only represented ten to fifteen percent
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  Speaker 4: of the American population. Okay, that's not that much. So
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  Speaker 4: if they want to have more seats, they got to
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  Speaker 4: get in between the sheets.
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  Speaker 1: First of all, did everybody catch the part where this
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  Speaker 1: man referred to black people as the blacks and then
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  Speaker 1: they all laugh? Okay, and here's Senator Corey Booker. He
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  Speaker 1: went on MS Now with Jonathan Kapart. So, first of all,
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  Speaker 1: I just I'm sorry that was grotesque and I pity him.
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  Speaker 1: He's right, it was disgusting. But let's be very clear
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  Speaker 1: about something. Black Americans are not losing political power because
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  Speaker 1: Black women aren't having enough children. That's not what's happening
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  Speaker 1: in this country. Black voters are losing districts because maps
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  Speaker 1: are being redrawn, because courts have weakened part of the
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  Speaker 1: Voting Rights Act, because states are carving up Black communities
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  Speaker 1: that have organized politically for decades. That's what this is.
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  Speaker 1: And honestly, the audacity of telling black women they need
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  Speaker 1: to do more in this country is really what got me,
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  Speaker 1: because who has been doing more than black women politically?
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  Speaker 1: Who keeps showing up for elections, who keeps organizing, who
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  Speaker 1: keeps saving Senate races, governor races, presidential elections? Who keeps
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  Speaker 1: dragging democracy across the finish line every time the country
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  Speaker 1: gets in trouble? Black women? And now the conversation on
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  Speaker 1: Cable News is, well, maybe y'all should produce more voters. No,
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  Speaker 1: maybe stop suppressing the ones already here, because here's the
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  Speaker 1: part that Jesse Waters skip. You could double the black
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  Speaker 1: population tomorrow and politicians would still try and move district
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  Speaker 1: lines around black voters. If the goal is maintaining power.
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  Speaker 1: That's the real story, not the birth rates, not the blacks,
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  Speaker 1: not some weird population panic on Fox News. The story
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  Speaker 1: is that black political power keeps getting treated like a
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  Speaker 1: problem to manage instead of citizens to represent. And maybe
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  Speaker 1: before Cable News starts offering reproductive advice to black women,
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  Speaker 1: they should explain why the people who do the most
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  Speaker 1: voting somehow keep ending up with less representation. That's the conversation,
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  Speaker 1: and that's your two minute take. After twenty nine years
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  Speaker 1: on death row, Richard Glossop just walked that of prison,
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  Speaker 1: his freedom paid for by Kim Kardashian. What's it like
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  Speaker 1: to be out today?
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  Speaker 2: What is this day like for you?
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  Speaker 4: It's overwhelming, but it's amazing.
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  Speaker 1: At the same time, Glossip was convicted in the late
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  Speaker 1: nineteen nineties for the murder of a motel owner. Prosecutors
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  Speaker 1: say he masterminded a murder for higher plot He has
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  Speaker 1: maintained his innocence since the day he was arrested.
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  Speaker 5: They've offered me a.
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  Speaker 2: Life sentence at my second trial, and I turned it
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  Speaker 2: down because I'm not going to.
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  Speaker 5: Stand there and admit to doing something that I didn't do.
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  Speaker 1: Earlier this year, the US Supreme Court threw out his conviction.
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  Speaker 1: The court ruled the Oklahoma prosecution allowed a key witness
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  Speaker 1: to lie under oath knowing the testimony was false.
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  Speaker 5: This conviction is an unjust conviction. It has been unjust
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  Speaker 5: for thirty years. This never if the police had done
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  Speaker 5: even a halfway decent investigation, this never would have happened.
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  Speaker 5: If the prosecutors would have not cheated in the trials,
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  Speaker 5: this never would have happened.
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  Speaker 1: The state still plans to retry him, but the Attorney
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  Speaker 1: General has said they will not seek the death penal
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  Speaker 1: this time.
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  Speaker 5: They can't prove this case beyond a reasonable doubt.
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  Speaker 1: So let's have that trial this weekend. In Oklahoma, judge
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  Speaker 1: granted Glossop a five hundred thousand dollars bond to walk out.
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  Speaker 1: He needed to post just ten percent fifty thousand dollars
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  Speaker 1: in cash. Kim Kardashian wrote the check Kardashian, who is
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  Speaker 1: currently studying law, has been quietly using her money and
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  Speaker 1: her platform to pay for the release of people she
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  Speaker 1: believes the system has failed. But here's the bigger picture.
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  Speaker 1: Richard Glossip came within minutes of execution multiple times for
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  Speaker 1: a case the US Supreme Court has now said was
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  Speaker 1: built on a line that's your front page, I Me
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