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The Oval Office, the Cruise Ship, and the $50 Million Check · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: President Trump says the financial pain Americans are feeling won't
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  Speaker 1: push him into a deal with Iran. Not a little
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  Speaker 1: bit and a deadly hand to virus outbreak tied to
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  Speaker 1: a cruise ship is now spreading to several states, but
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  Speaker 1: officials are saying about a mandatory quarantine.
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  Speaker 2: What we do recommend is the active monitoring and follow
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  Speaker 2: up of all of the passengers and crew who disembark.
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  Speaker 1: And Google is paying millions to settle a racial discrimination lawsuit.
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  Speaker 1: Google settled the lawsuit for fifty million dollars. It's Wednesday,
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  Speaker 1: May thirteenth, from the Black Effects Podcast Network. I'm Mimi Brown.
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  Speaker 1: This is front page and here are today's biggest stories,
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  Speaker 1: plus today on the underplayed the bipartisan bill in Congress
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  Speaker 1: that could change the funding picture for HBCUs. Stay with me.
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  Speaker 1: If you're feeling financially squeezed right now, Trust me, you're
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  Speaker 1: not alone. Gas prices are climbing, inflation is back up,
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  Speaker 1: and according to new polling, most Americans say the war
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  Speaker 1: with Iran is now hurting them financially. So when President
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  Speaker 1: Trump was acted Tuesday at the White House, how much
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  Speaker 1: that financial pain is motivating him to reach a deal
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  Speaker 1: with Iran. His answers raised a lot of eyebrows.
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  Speaker 3: Not even a little bit. The only thing that matters
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  Speaker 3: when I'm talking about Iran, they can't have a new
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  Speaker 3: blue weapon.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think about American financial situation.
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  Speaker 4: I don't think about anybody.
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  Speaker 1: That comment comes as the national average for gas sits
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  Speaker 1: at four dollars and fifty cents a gallon, up sharply
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  Speaker 1: since the war with Iran began earlier this year. Inflation
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  Speaker 1: also rose up in April, its fastest paced in nearly
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  Speaker 1: three years, driven largely by higher energy costs and a
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  Speaker 1: CNN poll out this week, seventy seven percent of Americans
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  Speaker 1: say the president's policies have driven up the cost of
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  Speaker 1: living in their own communities. Seventy five percent say the
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  Speaker 1: war in Iran is hurting their finances. Our check is
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  Speaker 1: getting smaller and smaller, boy a day. It's just these
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  Speaker 1: decent prices is out of control. The President now floating
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  Speaker 1: a proposal to suspend the federal gas tax, though Congress
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  Speaker 1: would have to approve that. Lawmakers on Capitol Hill say
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  Speaker 1: it's not enough.
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  Speaker 3: Quote Trump's guess tax gimmick wouldn't end his war, wouldn't
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  Speaker 3: open the Strait of Hormuz and wouldn't bring down the
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  Speaker 3: cost of crude oil. There's no evidence it would even
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  Speaker 3: bring down costs at the pump because companies could just
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  Speaker 3: pulk at the savings.
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  Speaker 1: It's another distraction. And while the White House says the
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  Speaker 1: focus remains preventing I Ran from obtaining a nuclear weapon,
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  Speaker 1: many Americans say their focus on something much more immediate,
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  Speaker 1: the cost of everyday life. You've probably been hearing the
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  Speaker 1: word hand to virus a lot this week, especially as
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  Speaker 1: health officials continue monitoring a deadly outbreak tied to a
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  Speaker 1: cruise ship that is now spreading across multiple countries and
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  Speaker 1: several US states. So here's where things stand. First, here
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  Speaker 1: at home, health officials in Illinois are investigating a possible
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  Speaker 1: handavirus case in Rockford. Officials believe that person may have
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  Speaker 1: contracted the virus while cleaning a home containing rodent droppings.
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  Speaker 1: And here's what's important to note about this case. It
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  Speaker 1: is not connected to the cruise ship outbreak overseas. Doctors
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  Speaker 1: say this is the more common way hand to virus
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  Speaker 1: appears in the United States, typically through exposure to infected
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  Speaker 1: rooded urine or droppings in enclosed spaces. The Illinois patient
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  Speaker 1: experience mild symptoms, was not hospitalized and is recovering, but
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  Speaker 1: the international outbreak tied to the cruise ship is far
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  Speaker 1: more serious. Health officials now say there are eleven confirmed
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  Speaker 1: or suspected cases connected to that ship, including three deaths.
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  Speaker 1: One French passenger remains in critical condition in Paris and
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  Speaker 1: is currently on an artificial lung machine after developing severe
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  Speaker 1: respiratory and heart complications. And here in the US, two
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  Speaker 1: Americans connected to the ship are being treated and monitored
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  Speaker 1: at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, inside the same high
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  Speaker 1: level bio containment unit used during Ebola outbreaks. Here's doctor
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  Speaker 1: David Fitter. He's the head of the CDC's hantavirus response.
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  Speaker 4: Antivirus is a known virus. It is a known pathogen,
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  Speaker 4: and that helps us. We know what we're doing and
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  Speaker 4: we know how we're responding. The system worked. We've moved quickly,
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  Speaker 4: We identified the passengers, we identified a way to get
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  Speaker 4: them back. This is a coordination across the federal government
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  Speaker 4: with ASPER, with DHS, but more importantly, this is across
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  Speaker 4: state and local health authorities as well as the hospitals
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  Speaker 4: like Emery. We understand that this is an uncertain and
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  Speaker 4: stressful time for the passengers. They've gone through quite a
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  Speaker 4: bit and we're trying to help them, and this is
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  Speaker 4: a priority for us. But the priority big priorities for
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  Speaker 4: us are the safe and healthy return of the passengers,
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  Speaker 4: but also safe and healthy American communities, and this is
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  Speaker 4: what we're working towards.
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  Speaker 1: Ale Maryland is monitoring to residents who may have been
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  Speaker 1: exposed during a flight with an infected passenger, and Virginia
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  Speaker 1: health officials are also monitoring at least one resident who
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  Speaker 1: was aboard the ship and has since return home.
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  Speaker 2: What we do recommend is the active monitoring follow up
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  Speaker 2: of all of the passengers and crew who disembark for
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  Speaker 2: a forty two day period. That doesn't mean forty two
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  Speaker 2: days from now or from tomorrow. It actually means forty
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  Speaker 2: two days from the last point of exposure.
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  Speaker 1: But here's the part that's getting a lot of attention
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  Speaker 1: right now. Some passengers are being voluntarily monitored by health officials.
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  Speaker 1: Others are isolating at home, but there is no nationwide
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  Speaker 1: mandatory quarantine in place right now, and that's a decision
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  Speaker 1: US health officials are making at this moment.
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  Speaker 4: That what we're looking at right now is monitoring with
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  Speaker 4: modified activities. We want to make sure with modified activities,
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  Speaker 4: there are people are staying sort of by themselves at home.
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  Speaker 4: We're working with the jurisdictions and also with a federal government,
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  Speaker 4: but with the passengers as well to make sure that
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  Speaker 4: they are comfortable with the plan and the modified activities
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  Speaker 4: is to stay out of crowded venues, to also avoid
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  Speaker 4: crowded spaces if they need to go out for essential activities,
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  Speaker 4: to ensure that they are appropriately wearing any protective equipment
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  Speaker 4: with that and this is again truly to be a
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  Speaker 4: very conservative approach. Do you want to reiterate we know
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  Speaker 4: this virus, we know how it acts, and this has
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  Speaker 4: worked well in the past to ensure that there is
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  Speaker 4: no further.
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  Speaker 1: Spread and for now, the World Health Organization says there's
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  Speaker 1: still no sign of a larger global outbreak. Every Wednesday,
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  Speaker 1: on front page, this is what we do. One story
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  Speaker 1: that didn't get the coverage it deserved this week because
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  Speaker 1: some of the most important news in the country right
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  Speaker 1: now isn't happening on the front page. Here's today's pick.
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  Speaker 1: Two US Senators Raphael Warnock and Katie Britt have a
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  Speaker 1: bill moving through Congress that could change the funding picture
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  Speaker 1: for historically black colleges and universities. Warnock is a Democrat
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  Speaker 1: from Georgia. Britt is a Republican from Alabama. Here's what
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  Speaker 1: the bill does. Right now, Federal funding for HBCUs is
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  Speaker 1: scattered across more than a dozen agencies, different applications, different rules,
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  Speaker 1: different deadlines. Most HBCUs do not have the grant infrastructure
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  Speaker 1: of a Harvard or ste which means even when the
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  Speaker 1: money is technically available, schools often can't get to it.
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  Speaker 1: The Warnock brit bill consolidates it one federal portal, streamlined applications.
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  Speaker 1: It is moving, and almost no one is covering it.
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  Speaker 1: If you went to an HBCU, or if your child
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  Speaker 1: is at one, your community has one, Tell somebody this
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  Speaker 1: is happening. That's the underplayed. If you work in tech,
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  Speaker 1: or honestly, you've ever worked in corporate America at all,
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  Speaker 1: this next story is probably going to catch your attention
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  Speaker 1: because Google is now paying fifty million dollars to settle
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  Speaker 1: a racial discrimination lawsuit brought by black employees who accused
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  Speaker 1: the company of unfair hiring, pay, and promotional practices. The
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  Speaker 1: lawsuit was originally filed by a former Google employee who
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  Speaker 1: alleges that black workers were steered into lower level positions
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  Speaker 1: and face barrier to advancement inside the company. Other former
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  Speaker 1: employees later joined the lawsuit, turning it into a larger
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  Speaker 1: class action case. As part of the settlement, Google will
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  Speaker 1: make payments to workers and implement several key policy changes,
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  Speaker 1: including additional pay, equity reviews, and more transparency around compensation practices. Now. Google,
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  Speaker 1: for its part, is admitting no wrongdoing and maintains it
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  Speaker 1: committed fair hiring, pay, and workplace policies for all employees.
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  Speaker 1: The settlement comes as diversity, equity and workplace treatment continues
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  Speaker 1: to be major conversations across the tech industry and corporate
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  Speaker 1: America more broadly. That's your front Page, I Mimi Brown.
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