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The White House Lie, The Park Signs, and Tyra vs. Netflix · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: A UFC fighter steps into the spotlight at the White
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  Speaker 1: House and sparks backlash after spreading false claims about Michelle Obama.
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  Speaker 1: Moschelle Obama is at a federal judge orders the Trump
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  Speaker 1: administration to restore exhibits on slavery, civil rights, and climate
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  Speaker 1: change at national parks across the country.
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  Speaker 2: And we want the museums to talk about the history
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  Speaker 2: of our country in a fair manor not in a
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  Speaker 2: local manner.
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  Speaker 1: And Tyra Banks is taking Netflix the court, accusing the
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  Speaker 1: streaming giant of editing her into a false narrative in
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  Speaker 1: its America's Next Top Model docuseries. It hasn't really said
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  Speaker 1: much amount's time. It's Wednesday, June seventeenth, from the Black
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  Speaker 1: Effect podcast Network. I'm Mimi Brown. This is front page
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  Speaker 1: and here are Forday's biggest stories. Stay with me. The
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  Speaker 1: fallout is growing from the US see Freedom to Fifty
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  Speaker 1: event at the White House. This past weekend, heavyweight fighter
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  Speaker 1: Josh Hotik used his post fight interview to spread false
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  Speaker 1: conspiracy theories about former First Lady Michelle Obama. Mochelle Obama
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  Speaker 1: is a man, am I right in America. The comment
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  Speaker 1: drew a criticism from Democrats, civil rights advocates who call
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  Speaker 1: the remark offensive and inappropriate. UFC President Diana White quickly
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  Speaker 1: distanced himself from the comment. He called it quote false
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  Speaker 1: and nasty, and says he does not support attacks on
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  Speaker 1: people's family. The White House has not condemned the remark,
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  Speaker 1: despite calls from critics and some Trump supporters to do so.
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  Speaker 1: Senator Raphael Warnock also weighed in on the controversy.
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  Speaker 3: Michelle Obama is one of the most dignified people one
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  Speaker 3: could ever meet. She served brilliantly as First Lady of
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  Speaker 3: the United States of America. She's a graduate of Princeton
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  Speaker 3: in Harvard. It doesn't matter to.
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  Speaker 2: Folks like that.
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  Speaker 3: This idea that black women aren't really women and black
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  Speaker 3: people aren't really people. Hearkens to the darkest days in
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  Speaker 3: our country's history. This is not political speech. This is
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  Speaker 3: immoral speech. This is this is bigotry. This is this
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  Speaker 3: is evil come alive in words, because words have power.
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  Speaker 3: And if you if you can diminish people, if you
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  Speaker 3: can say that there's something other, then that opens the
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  Speaker 3: door for you to unleash the kind of cruelty that
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  Speaker 3: we're seeing under the Trump administration.
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  Speaker 1: As of today. It is unclear whether Josh Holtek will
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  Speaker 1: face any consequences from the UFC. A federal judge is
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  Speaker 1: ordering the Trump administration to put history exhibits and signs
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  Speaker 1: back in national parts after they were removed as part
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  Speaker 1: of an effort to reshape how American history is presented.
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  Speaker 1: The administration had taken down displays covering topics like slavery,
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  Speaker 1: climate change, and civil rights. The administration argued that some
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  Speaker 1: exhibits reflected what it calls quote false revision of history,
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  Speaker 1: and we want the.
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  Speaker 2: Museums to talk about the history of our country in
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  Speaker 2: affair manner, not in a woke manner or an a
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  Speaker 2: racist manner.
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  Speaker 1: President Trump signed an executive order last year directing federal
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  Speaker 1: agencies to remove content his administration believed portrayed the country
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  Speaker 1: too negatively. Last week, a federal judge ruled the government
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  Speaker 1: went too far. A judge said removing the exhibits amounted
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  Speaker 1: to censorship and ordered the science restored within twenty one days.
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  Speaker 1: The lawsuit was brought by historians, conservation groups, and scientists.
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  Speaker 1: They argued the administration was trying to erase parts of
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  Speaker 1: American history and science from public view. The Department of
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  Speaker 1: Interiors says its goal is to ensure now National Parks
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  Speaker 1: tell what it calls quote the full and accurate story
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  Speaker 1: of America. The administration has not said yet whether it
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  Speaker 1: plans to appeal the ruling. And finally on front page,
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  Speaker 1: Tyra Banks is suing Netflix, accusing the streaming giant of
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  Speaker 1: misleading viewers in his docuseries about America's Next Top Model.
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  Speaker 1: The former supermodel and TV host claims producers took more
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  Speaker 1: than three hours of interview with her and edited it
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  Speaker 1: down to just sixteen minutes in a way that made
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  Speaker 1: it seem like she created a false and damaging picture
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  Speaker 1: of her role on the show. According to the lawsuit,
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  Speaker 1: key parts of her answers were left out, including moments
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  Speaker 1: where she took responsibility for controversial decisions made during the
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  Speaker 1: show's run. One of the biggest complaints involves former contestant
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  Speaker 1: Shandy Sullivan, who says she believes she was sexually assaulted
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  Speaker 1: while filming the show. Banks argues the docum u minary
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  Speaker 1: edited her interview to make it appear she either did
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  Speaker 1: not remember Sullivan's story or did not take it seriously.
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  Speaker 1: Banks says that's not true. The lawsuit also takes issues
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  Speaker 1: with claims involving longtime top model judge Miss Jay Alexander.
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  Speaker 1: In the documentary, Alexander suggests Banks never visited him after
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  Speaker 1: he had a stroke. Banks says producers never gave her
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  Speaker 1: a chance to respond and claimed she spent years trying
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  Speaker 1: to contact him through texts, phone calls, and messages after
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  Speaker 1: his recovery. Banks is accusing Netflix of selectively editing out interviews,
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  Speaker 1: leaving out context, and creating what she calls a quote
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  Speaker 1: false narrative that damaged her reputation and future business opportunities.
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  Speaker 1: She is now seeking damages and a jury tribe. Netflix
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  Speaker 1: has not publicly responded to the lawsuit. That's Your front Page,
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