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Trump Faces Backlash Over L.A. Comments, Nolan Wells’ Family Pushes for Federal Investigation & Chris Rock’s Regret · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: President Trump is facing backlash over something he said about
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  Speaker 1: Los Angeles and San Diego while talking about the war
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  Speaker 1: in Iran.
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  Speaker 2: Let him take out Los Angeles. Let him take out
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  Speaker 2: San Diego.
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  Speaker 1: And the family of Nolan Wells is renewing its call
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  Speaker 1: for a federal investigation, saying 94 days later they still
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  Speaker 1: don't know how their son died.
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  Speaker 3: Treat him as if this were your child's.
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  Speaker 1: And Chris Rock is opening up about a decision he
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  Speaker 1: made years ago that he says still bothers him today.
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  Speaker 4: He's one of my best friend's brothers. Went to jail
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  Speaker 4: for 19 years for a murder he didn't commit.
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  Speaker 1: It's Wednesday, October 7th. 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. President Trump is
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  Speaker 1: facing backlash over comments he made about Los Angeles and
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  Speaker 1: San Diego. Trump was at a campaign rally in Nebraska
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  Speaker 1: talking about the rising diesel and gas prices because of
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  Speaker 1: the war with Iran. He argued those prices are, quote,
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  Speaker 1: a small price to pay to keep the country safe.
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  Speaker 1: And then he took it a step further.
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  Speaker 2: And again, remember, with the war, it's just artificial. It's
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  Speaker 2: a little bit high. It's a small price to pay.
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  Speaker 2: for keeping the world safe, keeping our country safe. They
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  Speaker 2: can take out a city. Let them take out Los Angeles.
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  Speaker 2: Let them take out San Diego. This is a very
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  Speaker 2: small price to pay, and it's going to be over
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  Speaker 2: with very soon. It's essentially almost over with.
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  Speaker 1: And California leaders quickly pushed back. Governor Gavin Newsom called
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  Speaker 1: the president deranged and dangerous. Los Angeles Mayor Kieran Bass
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  Speaker 1: said the job of the president is to protect American cities,
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  Speaker 1: not to encourage attacks on them. And San Diego Mayor
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  Speaker 1: Todd Gloria said San Diego is not collateral damage and
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  Speaker 1: not expendable. Now, it's important to point out there is
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  Speaker 1: no public evidence that Iran currently has the ability to
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  Speaker 1: launch a missile attack on Los Angeles or San Diego.
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  Speaker 1: But both cities have a major U.S. military and defense presence.
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  Speaker 1: San Diego is home to the Navy's largest bases along
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  Speaker 1: with major Marine Corps operations in the region. And the
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  Speaker 1: Los Angeles area is home to the headquarters of the
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  Speaker 1: Space Force Space Systems Command along with some of the
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  Speaker 1: country's biggest defense contractors. Trump's comments come as the war
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  Speaker 1: with Iran is now more than seven months old and
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  Speaker 1: Americans are feeling some of the economic efforts including higher
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  Speaker 1: fuel prices. And the parents of Nolan Wells are renewing
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  Speaker 1: their call for a federal investigation into their son's death
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  Speaker 1: nearly 100 days after his body was found. Nolan was
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  Speaker 1: just 18 years old. He disappeared during a Fourth of
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  Speaker 1: July trip to Horn Island, Mississippi, with a group of friends.
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  Speaker 1: His body was found two days later. And his mother
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  Speaker 1: says nearly 100 days later, they still don't know how
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  Speaker 1: their son died.
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  Speaker 3: So it is our plea that his case is reopened, reexamined,
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  Speaker 3: but also that the authorities do their job. Treat him
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  Speaker 3: as if this were your child, your niece, your nephew,
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  Speaker 3: whatever you need to do to give us an honest
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  Speaker 3: and thorough.
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  Speaker 4: investigation.
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  Speaker 2: That's it.
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  Speaker 3: That is all we want.
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  Speaker 1: Last month, a Mississippi grand jury reviewed the case and
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  Speaker 1: decided no criminal charges should be filed. The grand jury
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  Speaker 1: said there's no credible evidence that anyone with Nolan that
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  Speaker 1: day committed a crime connected to his death and said
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  Speaker 1: the evidence was consistent with drowning. But Nolan's family says
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  Speaker 1: there is still evidence that needs a closer look. Both
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  Speaker 1: the state autopsy and the family's independent autopsy list Nolan's
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  Speaker 1: cause and manner of death as undetermined. The state autopsy
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  Speaker 1: also found two bruises on the back of Nolan's head.
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  Speaker 1: And the family has raised questions about Snapchat messages and
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  Speaker 1: Nolan's cell phone, including whether messages were deleted before that
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  Speaker 1: phone was returned to them. And that's why they're now
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  Speaker 1: asking the FBI and the Justice Department to go back
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  Speaker 1: through the evidence themselves. Nolan was Black and Filipino-American, and
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  Speaker 1: the family was also joined by Cynthia Choi of Stop
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  Speaker 1: AAPI Hate. And the Congressional Black Caucus has previously called
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  Speaker 1: on the Justice Department to conduct an independent review. Florida
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  Speaker 1: Congresswoman Frederica Wilson is also asking the National Park Service
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  Speaker 1: to investigate because Horn Island is part of the Gulf
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  Speaker 1: Island National Seashore. And for Nolan's parents, the message is simple.
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  Speaker 1: They want another set of eyes on the case, and
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  Speaker 1: they want answers about how their son died. And Chris
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  Speaker 1: Rock is opening up about a decision he made years
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  Speaker 1: ago that he says still bothers him today.
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  Speaker 4: Let's listen. Go on your phone and punch up Roger Logan, exonerated.
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  Speaker 4: A guy named Roger Logan, who I grew up with,
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  Speaker 4: who was one of my best friend's brothers, went to
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  Speaker 4: jail for 19 years for a murder he didn't commit.
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  Speaker 4: And here's a weird thing. Yeah. His brother used to
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  Speaker 4: plead with me to pay for a lawyer for Roger.
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  Speaker 4: And I never did it. I always had like a
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  Speaker 4: no lawyer thing because a lawyer is like an open-ended thing.
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  Speaker 4: Like I'll pay your mortgage. I'll put whatever. There's a
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  Speaker 4: bunch of shit I've paid for, education, all sorts of shit.
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  Speaker 4: I always stay out of lawyers because it's so open-ended.
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  Speaker 4: And it still fucks with me. I was like... I
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  Speaker 4: had the means to help him, and I didn't. And
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  Speaker 4: I don't know if we could have got him out
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  Speaker 4: or not, but still.
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  Speaker 1: Years later, prosecutors went back through the case and found
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  Speaker 1: a major problem. The woman who identified Logan as the
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  Speaker 1: killer was actually in jail on the day of the murder.
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  Speaker 1: The detective who questioned Logan was former NYPD detective Louis Scarcella.
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  Speaker 1: Scarcella's cases later came under intense scrutiny over allegations involving
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  Speaker 1: witnesses and wrongful convictions. Logan's conviction became the seventh tied
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  Speaker 1: to Scarcella to be overturned. And after nearly two decades
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  Speaker 1: behind bars, Logan finally walked out of prison. He later
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  Speaker 1: received millions of dollars in settlement from New York City
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  Speaker 1: and New York State. Barack says that stays with him
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  Speaker 1: because something much more personal. He had the money to
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  Speaker 1: help and says he didn't. And he admits he doesn't
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  Speaker 1: know whether paying for that attorney would have gotten Logan
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  Speaker 1: home even sooner. He just knows he had an opportunity
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  Speaker 1: to try and that decision still bothers him to this day.
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