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Trump Heads to Texas, Tupac Murder Trial Nears the End & Texas Roadhouse Calls Racism Claims a “Hoax” · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: President Trump is stepping into the Texas Senate race. Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: So I'll be going to Texas and we're working very hard.
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  Speaker 2: We want to win that race.
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  Speaker 1: And closing arguments are expected today in the Tupac murder trial.
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  Speaker 3: When I received the call that we were going to
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  Speaker 3: go down and do an interview, I ran everybody.
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  Speaker 1: And Texas Roadhouse is calling a viral claim of racist
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  Speaker 1: food tampering a 100 percent hoax. It's Monday, August 31st.
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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.
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  Speaker 4: Day's biggest stories. Stay with me.
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  Speaker 1: President Trump was in Texas last week trying to help
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  Speaker 1: Republicans hold on to a Senate seat they normally would
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  Speaker 1: not have to worry much about. Trump traveled there to
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  Speaker 1: campaign for Kim Paxton, the state's attorney general, who is
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  Speaker 1: now running for U.S. Senate.
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  Speaker 4: And here's why the trip mattered.
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  Speaker 1: Texas has been reliably Republican for decades. Republicans have not
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  Speaker 1: lost a US Senate race there since 1988. But this year,
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  Speaker 1: Paxton is facing Democrat James Telerico, and the race has
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  Speaker 1: gotten much tighter than Republicans expected. The nonpartisan Cook Political
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  Speaker 1: Report now rates the race a toss-up, meaning neither candidate
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  Speaker 1: has a clear advantage. I asked Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett about
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  Speaker 1: this race earlier on my podcast.
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  Speaker 4: This is what she had to say.
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  Speaker 5: Where they're asking me, well, can he win or can
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  Speaker 5: this and that? I get that everybody thinks Ken Paxton
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  Speaker 5: is terrible.
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  Speaker 6: And he is. He's absolutely trash.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 5: At the same time, he's been elected almost for 20
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  Speaker 5: years in Texas. So if you want to sit there and.
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  Speaker 6: Believe that just because he's a creep.
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  Speaker 5: That he somehow can't be elected, then you ain't been
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  Speaker 5: paying attention.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Because in Texas he can get elected because he's been
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  Speaker 5: getting elected.
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  Speaker 6: You see what I'm saying? So my deal is.
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  Speaker 5: Let's go ahead and be honest about the fact that
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  Speaker 5: this isn't a cakewalk. Like y'all needs to be real.
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  Speaker 5: And let's also look at how bad polling has been.
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  Speaker 5: Polling told y'all Hillary was going to win. And y'all
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  Speaker 5: looked at Donald Trump and said he was trash and
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  Speaker 5: said he couldn't win.
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  Speaker 4: And what happened?
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  Speaker 6: Trash got elected. So I'm not going to sugarcoat.
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  Speaker 5: And I would have had the same attitude if I
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  Speaker 5: was the nominee of this.
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  Speaker 6: Can't just be, oh, yeah, we got a good poll.
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  Speaker 6: You have to get out there and work.
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  Speaker 1: And one University of Texas, Texas Policy Project poll released
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  Speaker 1: last week had Tallarico at 42 percent and Paxton at
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  Speaker 1: 39 percent. Before the trip, Trump made it clear that
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  Speaker 1: he planned to get involved.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you. So I'll be going to Texas. And we're
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  Speaker 2: working very hard. We want to win that race. He's
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  Speaker 2: running against a man who should never be. We have
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  Speaker 2: a very good candidate, Ken Paxton. And he's running against Telefrico,
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  Speaker 2: they call him, because he is a little freaky. And
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  Speaker 2: that's not a man that represents the value of Texas.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm going to help Ken Paxton. And I'm going
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  Speaker 2: to spend a lot of time in Texas. I have
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  Speaker 2: the all-time highest vote in the history of Texas also.
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  Speaker 1: And there's another reason Republicans are watching Texas closely, the money.
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  Speaker 1: The race is expected to be extremely expensive. Ad Impact
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  Speaker 1: estimates political ad spending in Texas could reach $ 450 million.
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  Speaker 4: And every dollar.
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  Speaker 1: Republicans have to spend defending Texas is potentially money they
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  Speaker 1: cannot spend in other competitive Senate races around the country. Meanwhile,
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  Speaker 1: Tallarico has also been raising significant money. So what state
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  Speaker 1: Republicans normally count on is now becoming another place where
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  Speaker 1: they may have to keep up the fight to.
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  Speaker 4: Get a Senate seat.
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  Speaker 1: And nearly 30 years after Tupac was killed, a Las
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  Speaker 1: Vegas jury is getting closer to deciding whether Dwayne KPD
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  Speaker 1: Davis was responsible. Closing arguments are expected today after the
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  Speaker 1: defense rested its case on Thursday. And remember, prosecutors are
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  Speaker 1: not accusing Davis of actually pulling the trigger. They say
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  Speaker 1: he helped organize the shooting and provided the gun used
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  Speaker 1: to kill Tupac.
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  Speaker 3: And it was turned over to the Compton Police Department.
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  Speaker 3: The Compton Police Department dissolved. And so the Sheriff's Department
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  Speaker 3: was starting to run all these guns through ATF and ballistics.
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  Speaker 3: And they believe this may be the gun that we
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  Speaker 3: were looking for. They were fairly adamant that this was
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  Speaker 3: the gun that we were looking for, that was the
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  Speaker 3: murder weapon of Tupac.
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  Speaker 1: The defense has been trying to convince jurors that Davis
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  Speaker 1: talked a much bigger game than he actually lived, exaggerating
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  Speaker 1: his involvement in Tupac's killing over the years. On its
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  Speaker 1: final day, the defense called retired Las Vegas homicide detective
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  Speaker 1: Dan Long, who investigated Tupac's murder. Long testified that back
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  Speaker 1: in 2009, Los Angeles authorities told him Davis was willing
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  Speaker 1: to provide information about Tupac's killing in exchange for help
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  Speaker 1: on a drug case. Long said after speaking with Davis,
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  Speaker 1: he planned to return to Las Vegas and get an
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  Speaker 1: arrest warrant and charge him with Tupac's murder.
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  Speaker 4: But that never happened.
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  Speaker 1: Long testified that the district attorney's office told him at
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  Speaker 1: the time it would not move forward with prosecution.
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  Speaker 4: He did not say why.
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  Speaker 1: Davis would not be arrested for Tupac's murder until 2023,
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  Speaker 1: more than a decade later. He is now the only
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  Speaker 1: person still alive who prosecutors say was inside the white
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  Speaker 1: Cadillac connected to the shooting. Davis has pled not guilty.
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  Speaker 1: If convicted, he faces life in prison without parole. Closing
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  Speaker 1: arguments are expected today, and then the case goes to
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  Speaker 1: the jury. And finally, on today's podcast, Texas Roadhouse is
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  Speaker 1: pushing back against a disturbing claim that went viral online.
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  Speaker 1: The now-deleted Facebook post claims white servers at Texas Roadhouse
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  Speaker 1: and Logan's Roadhouse were deliberately tampering with food served to
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  Speaker 1: Black customers. But Texas Roadhouse says there is no evidence
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  Speaker 1: that ever happened. The company's chief communications officer, Travis Doster,
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  Speaker 1: told USA Today they believe the entire thing is, quote,
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  Speaker 1: a 100% hoax. He says there are no videos, no
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  Speaker 1: employees admitting to doing it, and no evidence supporting the accusation.
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  Speaker 1: Snopes also looked into the viral claim and says that
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  Speaker 1: it has found no verifiable evidence to support it. Now,
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  Speaker 1: Texas Roadhouse has hired an outside firm to investigate where
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  Speaker 1: the story came from and why it was started in
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  Speaker 1: the first place. The company operates more than 750 restaurants
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  Speaker 1: across the country.
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