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DONKEY: Trump Launches Trump TV After Banning Multiple News Outlets · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: It's time for donkey of the day there's a bunch
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  Speaker 1: of donkeys out here i'll make donkey of the day
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  Speaker 1: called donkey of the day it really caught me off guard.
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  Speaker 2: We live a life where we bite our tongue based
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  Speaker 2: off who we may offend we never would say anything.
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  Speaker 1: You are a donkey that is why charlamagne is here
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  Speaker 1: Some donkey todays just saw themselves. On The Breakfast Club.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, Charlamagne, we've been giving donkey of the day to
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  Speaker 3: you today.
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  Speaker 2: You know, donkey of the day for Tuesday, September 22nd
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  Speaker 2: goes to Donald J. Trump because he continues to wage
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  Speaker 2: war on the press, okay? See, if you've been paying attention,
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  Speaker 2: all right, then you saw yesterday Donald Trump launched Trump TV. Now, listen,
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  Speaker 2: the White House can have a live screen. Presidents can
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  Speaker 2: communicate directly with the American people. It is what it is, okay?
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  Speaker 2: But Trump TV is a whole different animal. Let's go
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  Speaker 2: to CBS 9 News for the report, please.
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  Speaker 4: A White House press ban is sparking a showdown with
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  Speaker 4: major TV networks. CBS, ABC, NBC and Fox News have
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  Speaker 4: all suspended their presidential pool coverage after President Trump banned CNN,
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  Speaker 4: MSNOW and Politico from White House grounds. The three outlets
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  Speaker 4: say they are being punished for their reporting and they
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  Speaker 4: are now suing the administration, calling the ban a, quote,
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  Speaker 4: direct assault on the First Amendment. The president accuses those
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  Speaker 4: outlets of spreading fake news. At the same time, the
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  Speaker 4: White House has launched Trump TV, a 24-7 stream on
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  Speaker 4: its YouTube channel. Officials say it'll feature past speeches, administration
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  Speaker 4: events and highlights.
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  Speaker 1: Trump TV.
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  Speaker 2: See, for me, the problem is everything that happened around
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  Speaker 2: trump tv okay this was clearly all calculated because trump
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  Speaker 2: banned cnn ms now and political from the white house
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  Speaker 2: after accusing them of publishing fake news those outlets are
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  Speaker 2: now suing the trump administration and then the white house
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  Speaker 2: launches trump tv which you could call state-run media now
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  Speaker 2: i'm not the highest grade of weed in the dispensary
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  Speaker 2: but i'm bright enough to know that you can't kick
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  Speaker 2: journalists out because you don't like their coverage and then
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  Speaker 2: turn around and say don't worry america we'll cover ourselves OK,
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  Speaker 2: that's not journalism.
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  Speaker 1: That's propaganda.
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  Speaker 2: If a restaurant kicked out the health inspector and said,
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  Speaker 2: don't worry, we inspected ourselves.
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  Speaker 1: Kitchen looks great. We as a people would collectively say,
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  Speaker 1: you know. You know what? That's not right. OK, I
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  Speaker 1: don't think we should eat at that restaurant.
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  Speaker 2: And this is where I need everybody to stop thinking
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  Speaker 2: like Democrats and Republicans for five minutes. As I tell
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  Speaker 2: you often, put your pom poms down. OK, take off
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  Speaker 2: your party's jersey and let's just discuss. Honestly, OK, I
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  Speaker 2: know some of y'all here, CNN and MSNOW, formerly MSNBC,
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  Speaker 2: and immediately say, good, they're fake news.
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  Speaker 1: They should be banned. Well, riddle me this.
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  Speaker 2: OK, what happens when it's the news organization you trust? OK,
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  Speaker 2: Barack Obama asked that question the other day. He said
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  Speaker 2: if a Democratic president banned Fox News because he didn't
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  Speaker 2: like their coverage and then launched, you know, Democrat TV,
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  Speaker 2: Republicans would be screaming for this man to.
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  Speaker 1: Be impeached and removed from office at the least. And
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  Speaker 1: guess what? They should. You know why?
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  Speaker 2: Because freedom of the press doesn't mean freedom for the press.
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  Speaker 2: you agree with okay the whole point of freedom of
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  Speaker 2: the press is to protect the press you don't agree
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  Speaker 2: with and this is why i have to drop one
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  Speaker 2: of clues bombs for fox news okay abc cbs and
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  Speaker 2: nbc because cnn was scheduled to handle the white house
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  Speaker 2: television pool We saw that the other day and after
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  Speaker 2: CNN was banned, all those networks refused to replace them. OK,
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  Speaker 2: and they issued a joint statement saying no administration should
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  Speaker 2: restrict the news organization because it objects to its reporting.
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  Speaker 2: That's exactly what any Constitution loving American is supposed to do. OK,
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  Speaker 2: Fox doesn't have to like CNN and CNN doesn't have
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  Speaker 2: to like Fox. But when the government, OK, starts deciding
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  Speaker 2: which journalists deserve access based on whether said government likes
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  Speaker 2: their reporting, every journalist, media personality in America should understand
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  Speaker 2: the assignment because today it's them.
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  Speaker 1: Tomorrow it's you.
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  Speaker 2: OK, this is bigger than whether you think CNN is
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  Speaker 2: biased or Fox is biased because there's a truth, right?
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  Speaker 2: All media has bias.
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  Speaker 4: All right?
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  Speaker 1: We're human beings. Human beings have bias. That's why we
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  Speaker 1: need more voices, not fewer.
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  Speaker 2: I'll take CNN. I'll take Fox. I'll take MSNOW. I'll
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  Speaker 2: take Newsmax. I'll take independent journalists. You can give me
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  Speaker 2: Tucker Carlson. You can give me Angela Rye. You can
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  Speaker 2: give me Pod Saves America. You can give me Hasan Piker.
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  Speaker 2: Give me Young Turks. Give me Megyn Kelly.
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  Speaker 1: Give me it all. Okay?
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  Speaker 2: Let everybody talk. Let everybody ask questions. And then let
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  Speaker 2: me decide who I believe.
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  Speaker 1: Okay? I don't need the government... making that decision for me.
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  Speaker 2: And I damn sure don't need the government saying, those
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  Speaker 2: journalists can't come in here anymore, but don't worry.
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  Speaker 1: We started a television station. Excuse me? Say what? Okay.
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  Speaker 2: By the way, Trump TV by itself isn't the problem.
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  Speaker 2: Trump TV combined with restricting independent media is the problem.
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  Speaker 1: Okay?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know what you want to call it. You
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  Speaker 2: don't have to call it communism. You don't have to
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  Speaker 2: scream dictatorship. Just ask yourself, is that a precedent you
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  Speaker 2: want every future president to have?
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  Speaker 1: Because Donald Trump won't be president forever. I don't think.
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  Speaker 1: But just remember, every.
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  Speaker 2: Power you celebrate when your guy has it becomes a
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  Speaker 2: power available to the next person. So if you're cheering
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  Speaker 2: because Trump kicks CNN out, don't start crying. If a
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  Speaker 2: future Democrat president kicks Fox News out.
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  Speaker 1: OK, you already approved the principle. You just changed presidents. Listen, America.
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  Speaker 2: You need independent media, too, because Trump TV can show
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  Speaker 2: you whatever Trump TV wants you to see.
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  Speaker 1: That's literally its purpose.
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  Speaker 2: OK, I don't watch McDonald's commercials expecting investigative journalism about
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  Speaker 2: the McRib.
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  Speaker 1: OK, we don't know what's in it. All right.
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  Speaker 2: I don't expect Nike to tell me their sneakers are
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  Speaker 2: uncomfortable and I don't expect Trump. TV to investigate President
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  Speaker 2: Trump or the Trump administration. That's why an independent press exists.
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  Speaker 2: Their job isn't to make the president comfortable. OK, their
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  Speaker 2: job isn't to be fair, according to the president's definition
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  Speaker 2: of fair.
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  Speaker 1: Their job is to ask.
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  Speaker 2: Questions, investigate the government and tell the public what they find.
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes they're going to get it wrong. Sometimes they might
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  Speaker 2: be biased. Hey, some days they might just piss us off.
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  Speaker 1: And guess what? That's democracy. And that's why I.
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  Speaker 2: Love Fox News standing beside CNN on this situation, because
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  Speaker 2: they're defending the institution of the free press and not
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  Speaker 2: just their brand. And every journalist, every media personality should
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  Speaker 2: be doing the same thing, because if access to the
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  Speaker 2: president depends on whether the president approves of your journalism,
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  Speaker 2: that's not freedom of the press. The government should not
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  Speaker 2: get to decide which journalists you're allowed to hear from
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  Speaker 2: and then volunteer itself as the replacements.
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  Speaker 1: OK, and all of us. All right. All of us.
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  Speaker 2: Fox, CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS, MSNOW, Politico, every news organization
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  Speaker 2: should keep saying that together. OK, not because they agree,
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  Speaker 2: but because they're supposed to disagree. OK, that's the whole
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  Speaker 2: damn point. Please give Donald Trump and Trump TV the biggest.
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  Speaker 1: All right. You're going to wake up and he's going
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  Speaker 1: to say something to you, y'all. He's going to reach out. Well.
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  Speaker 2: He's going to respond and he's going to invite you
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  Speaker 2: to Trump TV.
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  Speaker 1: He has the right to do that. Would you go
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  Speaker 1: and sit down and have a conversation with him? Well, Trump,
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  Speaker 1: if he were to invite you on his platform. Yes, absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: That's what Freedom of the Press is about.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: I would go and ask the questions that I feel
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  Speaker 1: need to be asked. You need to be asked.
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  Speaker 4: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely. Thank you for that donkey today. Yes, indeed.
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  Speaker 3: Now, when we come back, let's open up the phone lines.
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  Speaker 2: 800-585-1051.
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  Speaker 1: We were talking fibroids. This conversation came from Portia.
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  Speaker 4: Yes. Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Now, what happened with Portia? Just break it down briefly.
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  Speaker 2: So Portia sat down with Gayle King on Good Morning
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  Speaker 2: America and revealed that she had been dealing with fibroids
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  Speaker 2: and had a hysterectomy.
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  Speaker 1: We have audio for her.
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  Speaker 3: We'll play the audio when we come back. But we're
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  Speaker 3: asking 800-585-1051. We're asking women, have you dealt with fibroids?
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  Speaker 3: How serious has it been?
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  Speaker 1: Have you had to have surgery? Did they dissolve?
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  Speaker 3: They said by the age of 50, roughly 70 to
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  Speaker 3: 80 percent of women have developed fibroids and especially more
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  Speaker 3: common in black women.
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  Speaker 1: So let's open up the phone lines. Let's discuss. Let
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  Speaker 1: people tell their story this morning.
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  Speaker 4: 800-585-1051.
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