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Supreme Court Deadline in Trump's Mail-In Voting Fight, 5-Year-Old Trapped on Daycare Bus, Shonda Rhimes Re-Ups With Netflix · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: A major deadline hits today in the fight over mail-in
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  Speaker 1: voting as ballots are already going out. We'll explain what
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  Speaker 1: happens next.
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  Speaker 2: Your goddamn job is to deliver the mail. We pay
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  Speaker 2: you to deliver the mail. That is it. We don't
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  Speaker 2: pay you to process the Republican agenda or to do
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  Speaker 2: Donald Trump's bidding.
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  Speaker 1: And a five-year-old girl was left alone on a daycare
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  Speaker 1: bus in triple-digit heat. How her mother finally found her
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  Speaker 1: is hard to believe.
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  Speaker 3: Her sister immediately called her mother. Mom came to the
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  Speaker 3: daycare and began searching for her daughter.
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  Speaker 1: And Shonda Rhimes just made another major move with Netflix,
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  Speaker 1: and this one goes well beyond Bridgerton. It's Wednesday, September 9th.
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  Speaker 1: From the Black Effect Podcast Network, I'm Mimi Brown, and
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  Speaker 1: here are the day's biggest stories. Stay with me. The
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  Speaker 1: Trump administration is back at the Supreme Court for a
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  Speaker 1: third time over its new rules for mail-in ballots. And
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  Speaker 1: today matters because responses to the administration's latest requests are
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  Speaker 1: due by 4 o'clock Eastern. So let me explain what
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  Speaker 1: this fight is actually all about. President Trump signed an
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  Speaker 1: executive order in March aimed at changing how mail-in ballots
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  Speaker 1: are handled. Under the new Postal Service rules, states would
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  Speaker 1: have to give the Postal Service information on voters receiving
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  Speaker 1: mail-in ballots. And those envelopes themselves would need special markings
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  Speaker 1: and unique barcodes. If states don't follow those requirements, the
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  Speaker 1: Postal Service could refuse to deliver those ballots.
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  Speaker 4: The Postal Service is proposing a nationwide brand new IT
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  Speaker 4: project where states and local jurisdictions send them lists and
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  Speaker 4: they collate the list and they get it out to
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  Speaker 4: their personnel. This has never been built and never been tested.
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  Speaker 4: And they're building a nationwide IT project or proposing to
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  Speaker 4: do so in the next three weeks. which is lunacy.
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  Speaker 1: Traditionally, the post office's job has been pretty simple. Take
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  Speaker 1: the ballot from point A to point B. These new
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  Speaker 1: rules would give the federal government a bigger role in
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  Speaker 1: determining what has to happen before that ballot gets delivered.
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  Speaker 1: And here's where the legal fight comes in. Democratic-led states
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  Speaker 1: and voting rights groups sued arguing the president and the
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  Speaker 1: Postal Service don't have the power to make these kinds
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  Speaker 1: of election rules on their own.
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  Speaker 2: Your goddamn job is to deliver the mail. We pay
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  Speaker 2: you to deliver the mail. That is it. We don't
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  Speaker 2: pay you to process the Republican agenda or to do
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  Speaker 2: Donald Trump's bidding. Your job, every stamp that we put
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  Speaker 2: on an envelope is secured, by your promise to do
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  Speaker 2: your job.
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  Speaker 1: A federal judge in Massachusetts agreed that there are serious
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  Speaker 1: constitutional questions and block the rules from taking effect while
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  Speaker 1: the case continues. The Trump administration says the judge got
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  Speaker 1: it wrong. It argues these are mail processing requirements, not
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  Speaker 1: an attempt to take over state elections. And it now
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  Speaker 1: wants the Supreme Court to lift that block. There's also
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  Speaker 1: another major concern, timing. We told you last week about
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  Speaker 1: the whistleblower who warned the system was put together quickly
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  Speaker 1: and that problems with the new barcodes could cause entire
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  Speaker 1: batches of ballots to be sent back.
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  Speaker 5: This idea that if a single name doesn't match, a
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  Speaker 5: single name, then the entire batch gets rejected. The example
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  Speaker 5: that you use of 10,000 ballots could be 100,000 ballots,
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  Speaker 5: could be 500,000 ballots. I don't think we can see
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  Speaker 5: this as a design flaw. I think that this is
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  Speaker 5: actually the feature that Donald Trump has wanted, right? Donald
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  Speaker 5: Trump wants a system that disenfranchises mail-in voters, not one here,
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  Speaker 5: one there, but rather hundreds of thousands at a time.
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  Speaker 5: And that is the system that the Postal Service built
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  Speaker 5: And we're.
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  Speaker 1: Not talking about something that may happen months from now.
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  Speaker 1: Voting is already beginning. North Carolina has already started sending
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  Speaker 1: mail-in ballots and Alabama began sending out ballots today. Other
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  Speaker 1: states are right behind them. That's why what the Supreme
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  Speaker 1: Court does next matters. If the justices allow the rules
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  Speaker 1: to take effect, states could be forced to change how
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  Speaker 1: they handle mail-in ballots after the voting process has already started.
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  Speaker 1: If the court leaves the judge's orders in place, the
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  Speaker 1: new rules would remain blocked while the legal fight continues.
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  Speaker 1: Justice Katonji Brown-Jackson has given the groups challenging these rules
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  Speaker 1: until 4 p.m. Eastern Standard Time today to respond. We'll
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  Speaker 1: keep following. A five-year-old girl in Texas is okay after
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  Speaker 1: her family says she was left alone on a daycare
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  Speaker 1: bus for about two hours in triple-digit heat. And here's
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  Speaker 1: what makes this even harder to understand. Nobody realized she
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  Speaker 1: was still on that bus. This happened in Forney, Texas.
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  Speaker 1: The family says the little girl had just started school.
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  Speaker 1: On August 14th, she got on a school bus headed
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  Speaker 1: to her monastery school for after-school care. She was tired,
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  Speaker 1: fell asleep, and apparently never got off. When she woke up,
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  Speaker 1: she was trapped inside. Her family says they didn't realize
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  Speaker 1: something was wrong until her older sister came to pick
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  Speaker 1: her up and the daycare workers couldn't find her. Her
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  Speaker 1: mother rushed to the daycare and started looking everywhere. She
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  Speaker 1: searched inside and then she went outside calling her daughter's name.
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  Speaker 1: And according to the family's attorney, the little girl heard her.
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  Speaker 3: And from inside that daycare bus, a little girl started
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  Speaker 3: banging on that bus door. That is how our mother
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  Speaker 3: found her.
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  Speaker 1: After roughly two hours in that heat, it wasn't a
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  Speaker 1: staff member doing a final bus check who found her.
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  Speaker 1: It was her mother. The little girl was taken to
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  Speaker 1: the hospital and treated for dehydration, and Texas has rules
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  Speaker 1: specifically designed to prevent this. Daycare centers transporting children are
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  Speaker 1: supposed to keep track of every child and make sure
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  Speaker 1: everyone is accounted for. Police have now arrested one woman
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  Speaker 1: who is facing a felony charge of abandoning and endangering
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  Speaker 1: a The girl's mother says she doesn't want another family
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  Speaker 1: to experience what hers did. And lastly today, Shonda Rhimes
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  Speaker 1: is not leaving Netflix anytime soon. Rhimes, her company, Shondaland,
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  Speaker 1: and longtime producer partner Betsy Beers have signed on for
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  Speaker 1: another five-year deal with the streaming giant. And this is
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  Speaker 1: bigger than just one season of Bridgerton. Shonda first moved
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  Speaker 1: to Shondaland to Netflix back in 2017, a huge move
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  Speaker 1: at the time because she had spent years dominating network
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  Speaker 1: television with shows like Grey's Anatomy and Scandal. Since then,
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  Speaker 1: Shondaland has given Netflix some of its biggest shows, including Bridgerton,
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  Speaker 1: Inventing Anna, and The Resident. Now Netflix is locking that
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  Speaker 1: relationship down for another five years. The deal keeps Netflix
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  Speaker 1: as the exclusive home for Shondaland's television and film projects,
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  Speaker 1: but they're also expanding into gaming, merchandise, live events connected
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  Speaker 1: to Shondaland's shows. Financial terms were not released, and Bridgerton
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  Speaker 1: is the centerpiece. Season 5 is already in production and
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  Speaker 1: expected in 2027. And Netflix has already renewed the show
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  Speaker 1: for Season 6. The new agreement also continues Netflix's support
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  Speaker 1: for Shondaland's ladder programs, which help train and create opportunities
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  Speaker 1: for people from underrepresented backgrounds who want to work behind
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  Speaker 1: the scenes in television and film. So after nearly a
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  Speaker 1: decade together, Netflix is making a pretty clear bet that
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  Speaker 1: It wants to stay in the Shonda Rhimes business for
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  Speaker 1: a long time. That's your front page. I'm Mimi Brown.
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