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ICE Could Be Deployed to Polls, NBA Slams Clippers Over Kawhi Leonard Scandal & HBCU Football Pulls 1.2M Viewers · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: Could ICE agents show up at polling places this November?
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  Speaker 1: Homeland Security Secretary Mark Wayne Mullen is not ruling that out.
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  Speaker 2: The only reason why we would be at polling places,
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  Speaker 2: if there is a threat to that polling place.
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  Speaker 1: And the NBA just handed the Los Angeles Clippers one
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  Speaker 1: of the harshest punishments in league history.
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  Speaker 3: The Clippers get fined $ 30 million. Clippers owner Steve Ballmer
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  Speaker 3: is suspended from all league and team activities for one year.
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  Speaker 1: And HBCU Football is putting numbers up. We'll tell you
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  Speaker 1: which two schools just pulled in 1.7 million viewers on ABC.
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  Speaker 1: That's coming up. It's Friday, September 4th. 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 the day's biggest stories. Stay with me.
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  Speaker 1: There are new concerns about ICE agents showing up at
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  Speaker 1: polling places this November. Homeland Security Secretary Mark Wayne Mullen
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  Speaker 1: is not ruling that out. Mullen says ICE would not
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  Speaker 1: be there just to patrol polling places, but says agents
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  Speaker 1: could show up if there's a specific threat.
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  Speaker 2: I was being very, very clear when I said ICE
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  Speaker 2: isn't there to patrol the polling places. We're there to
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  Speaker 2: enforce specific threats. The only reason why we would be
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  Speaker 2: at polling places if there is a threat to that
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  Speaker 2: polling place or we're serving a warrant on someone that
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  Speaker 2: we have been actively tracking down. We're not going to
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  Speaker 2: be at the ISIS job is immigration custom enforcement. That's
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  Speaker 2: their job. And so if we're doing something, we're doing
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  Speaker 2: that specifically for immigration custom enforcement. If we're serving a warrant,
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  Speaker 2: we will be where we need to be.
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  Speaker 1: And that answer is getting attention because voting rights groups
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  Speaker 1: and some Democrats have been warning about armed federal agents
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  Speaker 1: being anywhere near voters this November. There's also a federal
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  Speaker 1: law restricting armed federal personnel from being stationed at polling
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  Speaker 1: places where elections are being held. And Senator Alyssa Slokin
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  Speaker 1: is now asking DHS, the Justice Department, the FBI, and
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  Speaker 1: the National Guard for something very simple in writing. Promise
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  Speaker 1: you will not send armed federal agents to the polls.
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  Speaker 1: The Pentagon has already told the military it has no
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  Speaker 1: plans to send federal troops or federalized National Guard members
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  Speaker 1: to polling places. DHS also says ICE has not been
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  Speaker 1: given any special instructions to be at polling places on
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  Speaker 1: Election Day. But Mullen is leaving the door open if
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  Speaker 1: agents say they're responding to a threat or serving a warrant.
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  Speaker 1: And with the midterms just months away, voting rights groups
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  Speaker 1: are watching this closely. And the NBA just handed the
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  Speaker 1: Los Angeles Clippers one of the biggest punishments in league history.
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  Speaker 1: a $ 30 million fine, and the first five round draft
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  Speaker 1: picks are now gone. And the owner, Steve Ballmer, has
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  Speaker 1: been suspended for a year. The NBA says the Clippers
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  Speaker 1: broke salary cap rules by helping arrange outside endorsement money
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  Speaker 1: for Kawhi Leonard. And here's how it all came to light.
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  Speaker 1: Journalist Pablo Torre broke the story last year, uncovering a
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  Speaker 1: $ 28 million endorsement involving Leonard and a company connected to
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  Speaker 1: Ballmer and the Clippers. That reporting triggered an NBA investigation.
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  Speaker 1: And now Torre and his team are reacting to the punishment.
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  Speaker 3: This is the largest punishment in the history of the NBA.
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  Speaker 3: The Clippers get fined $ 30 million. Clippers owner Steve Ballmer
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  Speaker 3: is suspended from all league and team activities for one
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  Speaker 3: year for knowingly seeking to help Mr. Leonard obtain off-court
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  Speaker 3: income opportunities for approving a business deal that he knew
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  Speaker 3: was a precondition for aspiration to enter into an endorsement
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  Speaker 3: agreement with Mr. Leonard, and for Ballmer's failure to create
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  Speaker 3: conditions under which his organization abided by the NBA's circumvention rules.
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  Speaker 4: Steve Ballmer, in this situation, when you're suspended from league
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  Speaker 4: and team activities, that means he doesn't go to owner's meetings?
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  Speaker 4: And you could say that's no big deal. Maybe he
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  Speaker 4: doesn't want to go. He can't be around the team.
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  Speaker 4: He can't go into his own arena. According to this punishment,
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  Speaker 4: as you just read, he will be attending a total
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  Speaker 4: of zero games, zero practices, zero league-wide events, owners' meetings,
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  Speaker 4: et cetera. This is a full one-year suspension.
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  Speaker 1: And the punishment goes beyond Ballmer. Kawhi Leonard was fined.
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  Speaker 4: $ 700, 000.
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  Speaker 1: Clippers business president Gillian Zucker is suspended without pay for
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  Speaker 1: a year. Basketball operations president Lawrence Frank is suspended without
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  Speaker 1: pay for six months. And Leonard's former business manager Dennis
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  Speaker 1: Robertson is banned from doing business with NBA teams and
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  Speaker 1: players for five years. And those five first-round picks, well,
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  Speaker 1: the Clippers lose them every year from 2029 through 2033.
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  Speaker 1: But the Clippers are pushing back. They say the investigation
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  Speaker 1: was biased and they're challenging the punishment. But unless that changes,
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  Speaker 1: they won't have another first-round pick of their own until 2034.
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  Speaker 1: That's not just a punishment for what happened. That's a
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  Speaker 1: punishment this franchise could feel for years. And finally, on
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  Speaker 1: this Friday, HBCU football is putting up numbers. Howard University
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  Speaker 1: and Alabama AMU faced off in the MEAC Swag Challenge
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  Speaker 1: in Atlanta, and 1.2 million people watched the game on
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  Speaker 1: average on ABC, and at its peak, 1.7 million viewers.
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  Speaker 1: and that audience was up 10% from last year. Howard
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  Speaker 1: won the game 31-24, and it came down to the
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  Speaker 1: final minutes. Alabama A & M had actually come back
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  Speaker 1: from being down 13-0 and took the lead late in
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  Speaker 1: the fourth quarter. Then Howard answered. Saquon Osborne caught a
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  Speaker 1: 51-yard touchdown with less than three minutes left, putting Howard
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  Speaker 1: back on top, and the Bison held it from there.
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  Speaker 1: But the story is getting so much attention because of
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  Speaker 1: the audience. Because this wasn't some quiet weekend with nothing
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  Speaker 1: else on television. There were more than 20 other HBCU
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  Speaker 1: games being played that weekend, plus the rest of the
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  Speaker 1: college football schedule. And Howard and Alabama A & M
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  Speaker 1: still averaged 1.2 million viewers on network television. So anyone
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  Speaker 1: still talking about HBCU football like it's some niche audience,
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  Speaker 1: the numbers tell a different story. The audience is there
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  Speaker 1: and they're watching. That's your front page. I'm Mimi Brown.
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