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Trump Asks Courts to Let Him Pick Which Outlets Cover the White House, Nolan Wells' Family Pushes Back After Grand Jury Declines Charges, and DoorDash Pays $131 Million to NYC Workers · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: President Trump wants to change the rules on who gets
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  Speaker 1: into the White House, and today, that fight heads to court.
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  Speaker 2: It's an honor to be here.
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  Speaker 1: I'm surprised that CNN is here covering me.
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  Speaker 3: You should be here.
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  Speaker 2: You should not be.
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  Speaker 1: Here covering me. And Nolan Xavier Wells, his family is
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  Speaker 1: pushing back against the grand jury's decision. What they say
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  Speaker 1: still doesn't add up.
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  Speaker 3: What we have learned is that we still have no answers.
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  Speaker 3: Elmore and I do not believe that Nolan simply and
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  Speaker 3: accidentally drowned.
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  Speaker 1: And DoorDash agrees to pay millions of dollars. Why hundreds
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  Speaker 1: of thousands of delivery workers could soon be getting a check.
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  Speaker 2: DoorDash had underpaid more than 260,000 delivery workers across New
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  Speaker 2: York City.
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  Speaker 4: From the Black Effect Podcast Network, I'm Amy Brown.
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  Speaker 1: This is Front Page, and here are the day's biggest stories.
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  Speaker 4: Stay with me.
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  Speaker 1: A federal judge will hear arguments today in the lawsuit
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  Speaker 1: over President Trump's decision to ban CNN, Political, and MSNOW
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  Speaker 1: from the White House. But the administration is taking this
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  Speaker 1: fight even further. The Justice Department is now asking the
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  Speaker 1: courts to overturn a nearly 50-year ruling that protects reporters'
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  Speaker 1: access to the White House. In a court filing Tuesday night,
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  Speaker 1: the administration defended the ban, accusing the three news outlets
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  Speaker 1: of publishing classified and national security information. They say reporting
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  Speaker 1: on the war in Iran and the White House construction
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  Speaker 1: has raised concerns that sensitive information could be exposed.
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  Speaker 4: But here's what's interesting.
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  Speaker 1: The letters the administration sent to those outlets don't actually
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  Speaker 1: accuse them of publishing classified information. And some of the
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  Speaker 1: complaints have nothing to do with national security. One letter
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  Speaker 1: to Politico even complains about a story describing bad vibes
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  Speaker 1: at the Republican convention in Texas. Now, the administration argues
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  Speaker 1: that reporters have a First Amendment right to report the news,
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  Speaker 1: but that doesn't automatically give them the right to be
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  Speaker 1: inside the White House. And the Justice Department goes even further,
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  Speaker 1: arguing the president can decide who gets into the restricted
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  Speaker 1: areas like the Oval Office. And we saw this fight
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  Speaker 1: play out in real time earlier this week at the
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  Speaker 1: United Nations.
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  Speaker 2: It's an honor to be here.
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  Speaker 1: I'm surprised that CNN is here covering me. You should
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  Speaker 1: not be here covering me.
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  Speaker 2: You said you.
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  Speaker 3: Weren't going to cover me.
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  Speaker 2: You shouldn't be covering me. But I will tell you,
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  Speaker 2: it is an honor to.
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  Speaker 1: Be at the United Nations.
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  Speaker 2: And we're making a lot of progress. Our country is
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  Speaker 2: doing really, really well.
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  Speaker 1: Now, here's why this case matters beyond just the three
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  Speaker 1: news outlets. The ruling the administration wants overturned says the
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  Speaker 1: government cannot take away a reporter's White House press credentials.
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  Speaker 1: The ruling the administration wants overturned says the government cannot
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  Speaker 1: take away a reporter's White House press credentials without following
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  Speaker 1: certain procedures. CNN, Political, and MSNOW all argue the ban
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  Speaker 1: violates the First Amendment because they're being punished for their reporting.
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  Speaker 1: They filed a lawsuit Monday and they are asking for
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  Speaker 1: an emergency order restoring their access as the case plays out.
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  Speaker 1: Their attorney called the administration's response exceptionally weak.
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  Speaker 4: And today's hearing.
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  Speaker 1: Is scheduled for later this afternoon before Judge Timothy Kelly.
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  Speaker 1: He's a Trump appointee and the same judge who ordered
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  Speaker 1: the White House to restore CNN reporter Jim Acosta's press
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  Speaker 1: pass back in 2018. President Trump has already signaled that
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  Speaker 1: if he loses, he plans to appeal. And Nolan Xavier Wells,
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  Speaker 1: his family, says the fight for answers is far from over.
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  Speaker 1: A Mississippi grand jury has decided not to bring criminal
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  Speaker 1: charges in the 18-year-old's death.
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  Speaker 4: Nolan was found dead off the.
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  Speaker 1: Mississippi Gulf Coast back in July, two days after going
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  Speaker 1: on a Fourth of July trip with acquaintances. The grand
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  Speaker 1: jury spent five days reviewing evidence and hearing from more
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  Speaker 1: than 40 witnesses. Jurors concluded there was no credible evidence
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  Speaker 1: that anyone on that trip committed a crime connected to
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  Speaker 1: Nolan's death. They also found his death was consistent with drowning.
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  Speaker 1: But Nolan's family says there are still major questions about
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  Speaker 1: what happened to their son.
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  Speaker 3: What we have learned is that we still have no answers.
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  Speaker 3: Elmore and I do not believe that Nolan.
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  Speaker 2: Simply and accidentally drowned.
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  Speaker 3: And nobody saw anything and no one knows anything.
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  Speaker 1: And one of the biggest questions involves injuries around Nolan's body.
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  Speaker 1: Family attorney Ben Crump says no one has explained the
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  Speaker 1: bruises on the back of Nolan's head and on his back.
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  Speaker 1: And here's another important detail. Both the state medical examiner
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  Speaker 1: and the family's independent pathologist listed Nolan's cause and manner
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  Speaker 1: of death as undetermined. The family's independent autopsy also recommended
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  Speaker 1: keeping the investigation open. It says the evidence does not
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  Speaker 1: establish whether Nolan went into the water on his own,
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  Speaker 1: whether he was forced into the water, or whether he
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  Speaker 1: was conscious when he entered the water. And the case
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  Speaker 1: has drawn national attention, including questions about why Nolan's friends left.
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  Speaker 4: The island without him.
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  Speaker 1: And while the grand jury has decided not to bring charges,
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  Speaker 1: Nolan's family says they are not giving up their fight
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  Speaker 1: for answers. In fact, today, they are expected to release
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  Speaker 1: the findings from Nolan's phone. If you deliver food for DoorDash,
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  Speaker 1: this next story is worth paying attention to. New York
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  Speaker 1: City has reached a settlement of more than $ 131 million
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  Speaker 1: with the company over claims it underpaid delivery workers. And
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  Speaker 1: this is a big deal for workers across the country.
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  Speaker 1: New York says it's the largest settlement for delivery workers
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  Speaker 1: in any U.S. city.
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  Speaker 2: After analyzing 152 million payments and 110 million hours of work,
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  Speaker 2: DoorDash had underpaid more than 260,000 delivery workers across New
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  Speaker 2: York City. I am proud to announce that DoorDash will
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  Speaker 2: pay more than $ 131 million, the largest settlement for food
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  Speaker 2: delivery workers ever secured in American municipal history, and a
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  Speaker 2: landmark win for those who have been mistreated and abused
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  Speaker 2: for years.
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  Speaker 1: The city says workers who were underpaid will get back
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  Speaker 1: double what they were owed. So if DoorDash owed you
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  Speaker 1: $ 1, 000 and never paid you, you could now receive $ 3, 000.
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  Speaker 1: New York established a minimum pay rate for app-based delivery
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  Speaker 1: workers in 2023. And this settlement could have the implications
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  Speaker 1: beyond New York as more cities look at how much
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  Speaker 1: delivery companies pay the people bringing food to your door.
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  Speaker 1: DoorDash says it will notify affected workers in the coming weeks.
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