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  Speaker 1: CIN News This Hour, I'm Andrea Coleman. Coming up.
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  Speaker 2: So for nearly eight years, we fought for every New
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  Speaker 2: Yorker without fear or without favor.
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  Speaker 1: And tonight, New.
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  Speaker 2: Yorkers told us loud and clear they want Tish James
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  Speaker 2: to finish the job.
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  Speaker 1: New York's Attorney General celebrates a victorious election result while
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  Speaker 1: making a move on the Cornell 7 case. D.C. 's
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  Speaker 1: mayor-elect is wasting no time prepping for the future.
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  Speaker 3: As of right now, the only black governor in this country.
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  Speaker 3: I also wanted to make sure that no one ever
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  Speaker 3: has to hold that title ever again.
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  Speaker 1: Governor Westmore puts the election of four new black governors
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  Speaker 1: into perspective. But first, here's BIN News Now.
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  Speaker 4: Democrats have secured majorities in both the U.S. House and Senate.
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  Speaker 4: NBC News projects Democrats will gain full control of Congress
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  Speaker 4: in January after sweeping the midterm elections. Seven Senate seats
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  Speaker 4: were flipped by Democrats on Tuesday. Democrats will also hold
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  Speaker 4: a majority in the House. Colorado voters are still waiting
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  Speaker 4: for final results on Amendment 87. a proposal that would
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  Speaker 4: replace the state's flat income tax with a graduated system.
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  Speaker 4: Michael Fields, president of Advance Colorado, spoke out.
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  Speaker 3: I do think the chart being on the ballot had
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  Speaker 3: a huge impact because people looked at it individually, maybe
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  Speaker 3: not looked at the impact of businesses.
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  Speaker 4: Jury selection is continuing today in the federal death penalty
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  Speaker 4: trial of Buffalo supermarket shooter Peyton Grendon. Grendon has already
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  Speaker 4: pleaded guilty to opening fire inside a top store back
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  Speaker 4: in 2022. killing 10 black people in what's being called
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  Speaker 4: a racially motivated attack. I'm Alexandria Ikemony with BIN News Now.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, Alexandria. When New York Attorney General Letitia James
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  Speaker 1: has hired outside counsel to head the Cornell University rape case...
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  Speaker 1: In a statement released yesterday, James said she selected former
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  Speaker 1: federal prosecutor Jacqueline Kelly, a Cornell graduate, to look into
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  Speaker 1: an alleged 2024 sex assault at the university. Kelly oversaw
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  Speaker 1: the criminal case against record producer Sean Diddy Combs and
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  Speaker 1: is now a partner at a New York law firm
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  Speaker 1: that represented women who accused Jeffrey Epstein of sexual abuse.
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  Speaker 1: The announcement comes one day after James celebrated voters, giving
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  Speaker 1: her a third term in office.
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  Speaker 2: We have used the sword and the shield of the
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  Speaker 2: law to protect the rights of New Yorkers, no matter
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  Speaker 2: what God they worship, no matter what the color of
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  Speaker 2: their skin, no matter their gender or who they love,
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  Speaker 2: no matter their immigration status or their socioeconomic status. Because
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  Speaker 2: our state has always defined itself by the diversity of
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  Speaker 2: our strength and the strength of our diversity.
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  Speaker 1: But James says she is confident that Kelly, with her
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  Speaker 1: criminal expertise, will lead a fair and comprehensive investigation. A
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  Speaker 1: woman known only as Jane Doe claims she was raped
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  Speaker 1: by seven members of the Chi Phi fraternity on the
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  Speaker 1: Cornell University campus after initially agreeing to a threesome. James
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  Speaker 1: is New York's first black attorney general. Janice Lewis-George, D.C.
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  Speaker 1: 's mayor-elect, is moving quickly following her election. Lewis-George, who
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  Speaker 1: is black, announced her six-person transition team yesterday. The team
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  Speaker 1: will be led by Jennifer Levy, who previously served as
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  Speaker 1: a deputy attorney general in New York. Her team will
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  Speaker 1: conduct an audit of the D.C. government to help cut
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  Speaker 1: costs while assuring service continuity. She added that her team
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  Speaker 1: has reached out to the White House and that she
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  Speaker 1: is open to working with President Trump in areas that
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  Speaker 1: will benefit the city. Governor Wes Moore of Maryland has
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  Speaker 1: a unique take on the four black governors elected in
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  Speaker 1: the midterm election. Moore says the number is more than impressive.
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  Speaker 3: And you think about it for a 250 year history
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  Speaker 3: of this country, we've had three African-Americans elected governor in
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  Speaker 3: 250 years. Come January, 10 percent of this country, 10
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  Speaker 3: percent of the governors in this country will be black.
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  Speaker 3: That's one election cycle. And so this is a pretty
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  Speaker 3: remarkable time. And so I'm really proud of my colleagues.
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  Speaker 1: Moore, who is a Democrat, said he campaigned for Keisha
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  Speaker 1: Lance Bottoms in Georgia, David Crowley in Wisconsin, and Aaron
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  Speaker 1: Ford in Nevada. The fourth black governor elected is Byron
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  Speaker 1: Donalds in Florida, who is a Republican. Moore himself also
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  Speaker 1: was reelected to a second term. This is BIN News
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  Speaker 1: This Hour. Be sure to follow us wherever you get
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