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Senate Passes New Rules for College Athletes, Millions Spent on Trump TV Ads & Jasmine Guy Responds to Critics · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: The Senate just passed new rules for college athletes, but
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  Speaker 1: critics say the players could be the ones giving up
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  Speaker 1: the most.
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  Speaker 2: It's a bill that was written without input from college
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  Speaker 2: athletes themselves whose lives will be directly affected. It violates
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  Speaker 2: a simple rule, nothing about us without us.
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  Speaker 1: And millions in taxpayer money is spit on TV ads
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  Speaker 1: praising Donald Trump. And now members of his own party
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  Speaker 1: are pushing back.
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  Speaker 3: I think there ought to be a rule that you can't, well,
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  Speaker 3: there probably is a rule. You can't spend public money
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  Speaker 3: to promote yourself.
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  Speaker 1: And Jasmine Guy has something to say to people criticizing
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  Speaker 1: how she looks after her return to a different world.
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  Speaker 1: I know I was 25 when I got a different world.
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  Speaker 1: It's Wednesday, September 30th. From the Black Effect Podcast Network,
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  Speaker 1: I'm Amy Brown. This is Front Page, and here are
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  Speaker 1: the day's biggest stories. Stay with me. College athletes could
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  Speaker 1: soon have a whole new set of rules around how
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  Speaker 1: long they can play, how often they can transfer, and
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  Speaker 1: even how they get paid. The Senate just passed the
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  Speaker 1: Protect College Sports Act with support from both Republicans and Democrats.
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  Speaker 1: And here's what this means. Well, right now, college sports
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  Speaker 1: have changed a lot. Athletes can make money from their name, image,
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  Speaker 1: and likeness. Those are called NIL deals. You hear about
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  Speaker 1: those all the time. And some of the biggest college
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  Speaker 1: athletes are making millions of dollars a year. Now, this
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  Speaker 1: bill would give the NCAA more power to set rules
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  Speaker 1: around those deals. It would also allow the NCAA to
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  Speaker 1: bring back its five-year eligibility limit and put new restrictions
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  Speaker 1: on how often athletes can transfer from one school to another.
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  Speaker 1: Supporters say college sports needs some rules everybody can follow.
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  Speaker 1: Texas Senator Ted Cruz helped negotiate the bill for more
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  Speaker 1: than a year. He says right now college sports are
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  Speaker 1: basically the Wild West, and this bill would bring some
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  Speaker 1: order to it. But here's where the fight comes in.
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  Speaker 1: Critics say the NCAA and the schools would get more power,
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  Speaker 1: while the athletes would get more restrictions. And the NAACP
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  Speaker 1: and Congressional Black Caucus, they are against it. They say
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  Speaker 1: Black athletes are finally making money from a system that
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  Speaker 1: has made billions off of them, and they don't want
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  Speaker 1: Congress putting limits on what those athletes can earn. New
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  Speaker 1: Jersey Senator Cory Booker played football at Stanford and voted
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  Speaker 1: against the bill.
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  Speaker 2: It's amazing how For more than 14 years in this place,
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  Speaker 2: I was trying to get Congress to step in and
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  Speaker 2: do something to help athletes. But the answer was no, no, no.
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  Speaker 2: But suddenly when college athletes start winning cases in court
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  Speaker 2: amidst a $ 20 billion gravy train that has been benefiting
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  Speaker 2: everybody but college athletes, suddenly there seems to be this
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  Speaker 2: race to pass a bill to allegedly protect college athletes
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  Speaker 2: from but really we know who this bill is protecting.
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  Speaker 2: The sentence on the verge really could happen tonight of
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  Speaker 2: passing a bill that could reshape college sports for generations
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  Speaker 2: to come. It's a bill that was written without input
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  Speaker 2: from college athletes themselves whose lives will be directly affected.
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  Speaker 2: It violates a simple rule, nothing about us without us. Well,
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  Speaker 2: this is a bill going forward where college athletes and
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  Speaker 2: the organizations that represent them have not had a seat
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  Speaker 2: on the table. It's a bill that was actually shaped
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  Speaker 2: by millions of dollars in lobbying from the NCAA, other
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  Speaker 2: powerful interests that control that industry. And at its core,
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  Speaker 2: it's a bill that undermines the rights of young people
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  Speaker 2: who pour their blood, sweat, tears, countless hours of work,
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  Speaker 2: and more into their craft.
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  Speaker 1: And keep this in perspective, there are more than a
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  Speaker 1: million college athletes in this country. Only a small percentage
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  Speaker 1: are making six figures or more. Most of those big
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  Speaker 1: money deals are going to star football and men's basketball
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  Speaker 1: players at major schools. So this could affect a lot
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  Speaker 1: more athletes than just the ones you see making millions.
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  Speaker 1: The Senate has passed it, but it's not law yet.
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  Speaker 1: It still has to get through the House, and the
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  Speaker 1: House is out until after midterm elections. From there, it
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  Speaker 1: would go to President Trump's desk for his signature. We'll
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  Speaker 1: keep you updated. You may have seen these ads while
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  Speaker 1: watching football, President Trump on your screen talking about his
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  Speaker 1: record and his agenda. But what you may not have
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  Speaker 1: realized is that you are helping pay for them. The
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  Speaker 1: federal government has spent more than $ 1. 7 million so far
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  Speaker 1: running the ads featuring and praising President Trump. And at
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  Speaker 1: the end of each one, it says paid for by
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  Speaker 1: the U.S. government, which means taxpayer money. The ads are
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  Speaker 1: running on network television, cable and streaming, including during college
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  Speaker 1: football and NFL games. Let's listen to one of those ads.
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  Speaker 4: warmongers from our government.
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  Speaker 1: Critics say these ads violate federal propaganda law, but the
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  Speaker 1: White House says the ads are not campaign ads. They
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  Speaker 1: call them public service announcements and point out that Trump
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  Speaker 1: isn't on the ballot and the ads don't tell people
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  Speaker 1: who to vote for. But the ads are now getting
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  Speaker 1: pushback from both Republican and Democratic senators. Here's Republican Senator
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  Speaker 1: John Kennedy.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think any public official, including President Trump or
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  Speaker 3: Kristi Noem or John Kennedy, should spend public money. on
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  Speaker 3: private ads for themselves. Now, the White House sees it differently,
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  Speaker 3: but I think there ought to be a rule that
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  Speaker 3: you can't, well, there probably is a rule, you can't
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  Speaker 3: spend public money to promote yourself.
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  Speaker 1: Democrats are criticizing the ads, too. Senate Minority Leader Chuck
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  Speaker 1: Schumer says Americans should be able to sit down and
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  Speaker 1: watch a football game without being forced to pay for
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  Speaker 1: political messaging at the same time. But with Republicans controlling Congress,
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  Speaker 1: there are no signs right now that lawmakers will hold
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  Speaker 1: hearings before the midterms. And Jasmine Guy has a message
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  Speaker 1: for people criticizing how she looks now that she's back
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  Speaker 1: on our screens. A Different World is back on Netflix.
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  Speaker 1: And Guy is back as Whitley Gilbert and this time
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  Speaker 1: the mother of a new Hillman freshman. And a lot
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  Speaker 1: of fans were excited to see her. But then some
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  Speaker 1: people on social media started talking about something else. Her face,
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  Speaker 1: her looks, and her age. Jasmine Guy saw those comments
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  Speaker 1: and she responded. She wrote, The internet can be brutal
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  Speaker 1: to women as we grow older. It asks us to
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  Speaker 1: celebrate life while criticizing every sign that we lived it.
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  Speaker 1: And she didn't pretend aging is always easy. She said
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  Speaker 1: growing older brings changes, but beauty, style, and joy don't
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  Speaker 1: have an expiration date. And she ended with a message
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  Speaker 1: that was bigger than what people were saying about her.
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  Speaker 1: She said we should spend less time judging ourselves and
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  Speaker 1: each other and more time loving each other, making memories,
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  Speaker 1: and actually living our lives. Jasmine Guy is 64 years old,
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  Speaker 1: and before many of us knew her as Whitley Gilbert,
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  Speaker 1: she was already dancing with Alvin Ailey and performing on Broadway.
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  Speaker 1: She went on to win six NAACP Image Awards for
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  Speaker 1: A Different World. The original show ran from 1987 to
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  Speaker 1: 1993 and became much more than a sitcom. It showed
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  Speaker 1: black college life on television, and it took on issues
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  Speaker 1: like racism, police violence, and HIV at a time when
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  Speaker 1: a lot of shows wouldn't touch them. Now a new
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  Speaker 1: generation is heading to Hillman, and Whitley is right there
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  Speaker 1: with him. That's your front page. I'm Mimi Brown. This
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