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The Sticky Note, The Senate Bar Tab, and the $89 Streaming Bill · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: The Trump administration is now issuing subpoenas to journalists, and
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  Speaker 1: the Attorney General says this is just the beginning. The
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  Speaker 1: move marks one of the administration's most aggressive efforts yet
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  Speaker 1: to uncover national security leaks. The FBI director just challenged
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  Speaker 1: the you as Senator to take an alcohol test.
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  Speaker 2: The ivery person that ran up a director found out
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  Speaker 2: Dollar BARTTEV in Washington, DC.
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  Speaker 1: And Louisiana is preparing to pay five million dollars to
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  Speaker 1: the family of Ronald Green. Grease stricken. Hasn't the word
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  Speaker 1: it's terrific, It's it's it's so evil. It's Thursday, May fourteenth,
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  Speaker 1: from the Black Effects Podcast Network. I'm Mimi Brown. This
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  Speaker 1: is front page and here are today's biggest stories. Plus
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  Speaker 1: today on the headlines we didn't take seriously how we
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  Speaker 1: ended up paying more for streaming than cable ever cost us.
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  Speaker 1: Stay with me. The Trump administration is going after journalists.
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  Speaker 1: Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said Tuesday that reporters in
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  Speaker 1: this country quote should not be surprised if they receive
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  Speaker 1: a federal subpoena. He said it in response to The
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  Speaker 1: Wall Street Journal, which revealed Monday that the paper had
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  Speaker 1: already received subpoenas from the Department of Justice dating back
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  Speaker 1: to March. Let me walk you through how we got here.
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  Speaker 1: Back in February, the Wall Street Journal ran a story
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  Speaker 1: It said top military officials had quietly warned of President
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  Speaker 1: Trump before he ordered military action that going to war
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  Speaker 1: with Iran was a bad idea. In other words, his
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  Speaker 1: own people inside the administration were trying to stop the war.
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  Speaker 1: That story set everything off. According to the Wall Street
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  Speaker 1: Journal's own reporting, on Monday, Trump personally urged Acting Attorney
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  Speaker 1: General Blanche to aggressively pursue the leakers. At one point,
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  Speaker 1: and this is in the journal's piece, he slid Blanche
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  Speaker 1: a list of recent articles. Stuck to the top of
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  Speaker 1: the list was a yellow sticky note one word on it, treason.
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  Speaker 1: The next month, the subpoenas went out, and here's where
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  Speaker 1: the story sits today. Blanche held a press conference Tuesday
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  Speaker 1: and defended what his department is doing. He said prosecuting
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  Speaker 1: leakers of a priority for the Trump administration. He framed
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  Speaker 1: it as a national security issue.
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  Speaker 3: Well, look, first of all, we have thousands of ongoing
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  Speaker 3: investigations and prosecutions going on in this country right now,
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  Speaker 3: and it is true that some of them involve men, women,
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  Speaker 3: and entities that the President in the past has had
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  Speaker 3: issues with, and the belief should be investigated. That is
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  Speaker 3: his right, and indeed it is his duty to do that.
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  Speaker 1: The Wall Street Journal and many other major news outlets
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  Speaker 1: are pushing back First Amendment. Lawyers say what Blanche is
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  Speaker 1: doing breaks sharply from recent precedent. The new standard is
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  Speaker 1: whatever the administration decides it is. Without sources, journalists cannot
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  Speaker 1: expose the power people would rather hide. This is the
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  Speaker 1: system this administration is moving to dismantle. If you've ever
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  Speaker 1: read a story that mattered about war, about a cover up,
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  Speaker 1: about a government doing something it didn't want you to know,
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  Speaker 1: that story had a source, and that source had a
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  Speaker 1: reporter willing to protect them. The sticky note said treason.
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  Speaker 1: The Constitution calls it pre press. The FBI director just
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  Speaker 1: challenged a US Senator to take an alcohol test. It
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  Speaker 1: happened during a Senate hearing on Wednesday. FBI Director Cash
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  Speaker 1: Battel and Democratic Senator Chris van Holland of Maryland got
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  Speaker 1: into a public exchange that ended with the two of
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  Speaker 1: them comparing bar tabs.
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  Speaker 2: The person that ran up a director dollar bartab in Washington,
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  Speaker 2: dco drinking on tax paired dime during the day. Director
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  Speaker 2: Patel come on.
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  Speaker 1: Earlier this month, the Atlantic magazine published a story alleging
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  Speaker 1: that the FBI director Cash Battel had been drinking heavily
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  Speaker 1: on the job and that at times his own staff
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  Speaker 1: couldn't reach him during work hours. But Hell denies the report. Wednesday,
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  Speaker 1: at a Senate oversight hearing, Senator Van Holland brought it
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  Speaker 1: up directly.
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  Speaker 2: These are serious allegations that were made against you.
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  Speaker 1: Fall diled.
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  Speaker 2: You drink at Margarito's with a youang guy just running
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  Speaker 2: a seven thousand dollars bar tab at the lobby bark,
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  Speaker 2: but has been filed by your own aufit to show
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  Speaker 2: during the.
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  Speaker 1: Day you He then challenged the senator to take an
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  Speaker 1: alcohol screening test. Van Holland accepted the challenge. He took
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  Speaker 1: the alcohol screening test, he posted the results publicly online,
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  Speaker 1: and now he's challenging Patel to release his own. The
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  Speaker 1: FBI has not commented further, and Pateel maintains the original
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  Speaker 1: Atlantic allegations are false. But here's the bigger picture. This
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  Speaker 1: is the FBI director of the United States, the most
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  Speaker 1: powerful law enforcement officer in the country and a public
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  Speaker 1: argument with a sitting US Senator about bar tabs. Whatever
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  Speaker 1: the allegations are, whatever the responses are, the fact that
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  Speaker 1: this is what the Senate Oversight hearing looked like Wednesday,
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  Speaker 1: in itself is the story. The hearing was supposed to
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  Speaker 1: be about the FBI. It ended up being about who
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  Speaker 1: had more drinks last week? Every Thursday on front page,
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  Speaker 1: this is what we do. We pull an old story
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  Speaker 1: that ended up shaping the world we live in right
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  Speaker 1: now because some headlines we read once and we move on,
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  Speaker 1: and we shouldn't have today's pick the cable bill. Back
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  Speaker 1: in twenty thirteen, when Netflix announced it was going to
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  Speaker 1: start making its own original shows, the trade press left
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  Speaker 1: House of Cards was a vanity project. Industry analysts said
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  Speaker 1: streaming was a side dish cable was forever. One time
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  Speaker 1: Warner executive said it on the record. He said the
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  Speaker 1: streaming world quote would never replace the bundle. Thirteen years later.
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  Speaker 1: Let's check the math. The average American household now pays
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  Speaker 1: for between four and five streaming services Netflix, Hulu, Disney Plus, Max, Peacock,
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  Speaker 1: maybe Apple TV. That bill on average runs about eighty
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  Speaker 1: nine dollars a month. A traditional cable package in twenty
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  Speaker 1: thirteen costs about eighty bucks. We didn't escape the cable bill.
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  Speaker 1: We rebranded it. Now we paid across five different apps.
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  Speaker 1: The commercials are back, the bundles are back, and watching
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  Speaker 1: one show with a friend on a Sunday night now
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  Speaker 1: requires a spreadsheet. The lesson. When something looks like a
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  Speaker 1: fat and the headline tells you you'll never replace something,
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  Speaker 1: pay attention. Sometimes the future is hiding in the joke.
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  Speaker 1: That's the throwback. The State of Louisiana has reached a
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  Speaker 1: tentative settlement with the family of Ronald Green four point
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  Speaker 1: eight million dollars back in twenty nineteen. On May tenth,
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  Speaker 1: Ronald Green was a forty nine year old black man
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  Speaker 1: driving near Monroe. Louisiana State troopers tried to pull him
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  Speaker 1: over for what police described as an unspecified traffic violation.
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  Speaker 1: He didn't stop, a high speed chase began. When that
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  Speaker 1: chase ended, Louisiana State Police told Ronald Green his family
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  Speaker 1: one story. They told his mother, Mona Harden, that her
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  Speaker 1: son had crashed his car into a tree. That was
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  Speaker 1: the official cause of death. I was in total shock.
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  Speaker 1: I know I'm still in shock, just trying to I
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  Speaker 1: don't even know if absorbing it is bringing it into
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  Speaker 1: reality that this has happened to my son Green. Stricken
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  Speaker 1: isn't the word. It's horrific.
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  Speaker 3: It's so evil.
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  Speaker 1: For nearly two years, that story held until reporters at
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  Speaker 1: the Associated Press got their hands on body camera footage
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  Speaker 1: and forced it into the open. What was on that
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  Speaker 1: footage was not a car crash. It was Louisiana State
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  Speaker 1: troopers beating Ronald Green, shocking him with stun guns, pinning
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  Speaker 1: his face on the ground. That was when he died.
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  Speaker 1: And here's where the story sits today. Five officers initially
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  Speaker 1: faced state charges. Several have since been dropped or reduced.
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  Speaker 1: In January of last year, the Department of Justice told
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  Speaker 1: the Green family it would not pursue federal charges. The
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  Speaker 1: four point eight million dollars settlement still needs final approval
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  Speaker 1: from the Louisiana State legislature. Six years later, this is
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  Speaker 1: what the Green family is getting. The officers will not
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  Speaker 1: face federal charges, but the State of Louisiana is writing
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  Speaker 1: a check. That's your front page. I Mimi Brown. This
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