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The Tax Deal, The Trial, and The Outbreak · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: The IRS is now agreed it will no longer pursue
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  Speaker 1: audits of President Trump's past tax returns or those tied
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  Speaker 1: to his family and businesses.
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  Speaker 2: I know very little about it.
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  Speaker 3: I wasn't involved.
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  Speaker 1: And a former Virginia assistant principle is now on trial
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  Speaker 1: three years after a six year old shot his teacher.
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  Speaker 4: I knew it.
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  Speaker 5: And the World Health.
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  Speaker 1: Organization declares a new Ebola outbreak a global health emergency.
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  Speaker 5: Should Americans be worried?
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  Speaker 3: There is an American that is symptomatic and has tested positive.
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  Speaker 1: It's Wednesday, May twentieth, from the Black Effect Podcast Network.
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  Speaker 5: I'm mem Brown.
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  Speaker 1: This is front Page, and here are the day's biggest stories.
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  Speaker 1: Plus today on the underplayed the ninety four billion dollar
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  Speaker 1: HBCU story.
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  Speaker 5: Almost nobody is covering.
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  Speaker 1: Stay with me, so lots of breaking news today front Pagers.
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  Speaker 1: The Trump administration officially creating what it's calling the Anti
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  Speaker 1: Weaponization Fund, a nearly two billion dollar fund the federal
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  Speaker 1: government says well compensate people it believes were unfairly investigated
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  Speaker 1: or prosecuted during the Biden administration. We talked about this
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  Speaker 1: a little bit yesterday, but let's talk about it some
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  Speaker 1: more because This is taxpayer.
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  Speaker 5: Money, your money, my money.
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  Speaker 1: Federal dollars nearly one point eight billion dollars at the
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  Speaker 1: government could now send to people this administration decides were
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  Speaker 1: politically targeted.
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  Speaker 5: Here's Vice President JD. Vance defending the idea, we're going.
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  Speaker 4: To valuate these things on a case by case basis,
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  Speaker 4: and if we think that somebody whatever they were accused of,
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  Speaker 4: if we think that somebody was unfairly prosecuted and deserves
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  Speaker 4: just compensation, then that's what this fund is going to
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  Speaker 4: exist provide. It's just going to correct a wrong. And
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  Speaker 4: I think that's a good thing, and I'd encourage everybody, Democrat, Republican, Independent,
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  Speaker 4: let's turn the page on this thing that we did
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  Speaker 4: under the last administration where we try to throw people
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  Speaker 4: in prison because they had the wrong politics.
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  Speaker 1: And now this story goes one step further because overnight
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  Speaker 1: another document surfaced, and this is the part that should
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  Speaker 1: make every working taxpayer in this country stop in their tracks.
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  Speaker 1: According to a separate, one page document quietly posted by
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  Speaker 1: the Justice Department Tuesday morning, the IRS is now barred
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  Speaker 1: from auditing Donald Trump, his family, or his businesses over
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  Speaker 1: tax returns filed before this past Monday so that means
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  Speaker 1: the President, his sons, his companies, his trusts, none of
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  Speaker 1: them can be audited by the IRS for any return
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  Speaker 1: they filed before this week. The document was signed by
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  Speaker 1: Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche. There is no signature from
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  Speaker 1: the IRS itself. But let me put this in perspective.
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  Speaker 1: The IRS audits regular working people every single day over
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  Speaker 1: a missing W two, over a math error, over a
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  Speaker 1: few hundred dollars in unreported tips. And two former IRS commissioners,
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  Speaker 1: people who act actually used to run the agencies, said
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  Speaker 1: this week they have never seen in the agency's history
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  Speaker 1: anything like this. One of them called it a terrible precedent.
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  Speaker 1: The others said they can't find a single example of
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  Speaker 1: the IRS ever agreeing in advance to permanently stop auditing
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  Speaker 1: one specific person. So let's land this plane. In one week,
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  Speaker 1: the administration set up a nearly two billion dollar taxpayer
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  Speaker 1: funded payout system to compensate people. They decided we're wrong
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  Speaker 1: and quietly signed a separate document making sure the President
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  Speaker 1: and his family never have to answer to the IRS
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  Speaker 1: about a previously filed tax return ever again. Meanwhile, millions
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  Speaker 1: of Americans will still be audited, and millions are deciding
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  Speaker 1: right now between paying rent and putting food on the table.
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  Speaker 1: And if this is allowed to continue, what's next. Perhaps
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  Speaker 1: Senator Chris Murphy said it best.
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  Speaker 6: And if he gets away with it with this slush
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  Speaker 6: fund from the IRS, he's going to do it everywhere.
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  Speaker 6: He'll show every federal agency with some bogus book claim,
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  Speaker 6: he'll settle out of court for billions of dollars, and
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  Speaker 6: that money will be used by him to try to
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  Speaker 6: curry favor and gain political influence. We've never ever seen
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  Speaker 6: anything like this before. I get it that people don't
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  Speaker 6: know what a big number is anymore, but one point
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  Speaker 6: seven billion dollars that's a lot of money. That's your
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  Speaker 6: taxpayer money, worked hard for that money, and that money
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  Speaker 6: is now going into a political slush fund for the
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  Speaker 6: president to give to January sixth rioters to hand out
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  Speaker 6: to his political allies around the country. That's outrageous.
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  Speaker 1: There's a trial happening right now in Newport News, Virginia,
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  Speaker 1: and it's probably the type of trial that ends up
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  Speaker 1: being studied in law schools years from now. So the
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  Speaker 1: defendant is doctor Ebeny Parker. She's a former assistant principal
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  Speaker 1: at Richnek Elementary School, and she's facing eight separate counts
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  Speaker 1: of felony child neglect, one for every bullet in the
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  Speaker 1: gun a six year old brought to school that day.
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  Speaker 1: So you may remember this story. Back in January of
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty three, a six year old child known in
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  Speaker 1: court documents only as JT, brought a loaded gun to
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  Speaker 1: school to his first grade classroom. He pulled it out,
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  Speaker 1: he pointed at his teacher, and he pulled the trigger.
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  Speaker 1: The bullet went through her hand and into her chest,
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  Speaker 1: and she survived. She came back to teaching, and on
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  Speaker 1: Tuesday she took the witness stand.
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  Speaker 2: So, if he was on that presented the danger to
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  Speaker 2: your students, is that correct?
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  Speaker 1: Yes?
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  Speaker 2: Okay, So you took no action to separate JT from
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  Speaker 2: his other classmates is that correct?
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  Speaker 1: Yes?
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  Speaker 2: All right? And so you allowed him to go out
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  Speaker 2: to recess with the understanding that he may have had
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  Speaker 2: a gun. Is that correct? Yes, you could have refused
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  Speaker 2: to let him to go to recess. You could have
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  Speaker 2: removed them from the presence of his other classmates. Is
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  Speaker 2: that correct.
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  Speaker 1: But the person on trial is doctor Ebeny Parker. She's
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  Speaker 1: a school official who was warned that a child had
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  Speaker 1: a gun in the building multiple times over the course
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  Speaker 1: of more than an hour, and prosecutors say she did nothing. Now,
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  Speaker 1: Parker's defence team they are not denying the shooting happen.
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  Speaker 1: They're not even denying that the staff came to her,
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  Speaker 1: But they are arguing that the teachers, the ones who
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  Speaker 1: reported the concern, should have done something themselves. A civil
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  Speaker 1: jury has already weighed in, and last November, Abby's werner
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  Speaker 1: won a ten million dollars civil judgment against Parker. Now
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  Speaker 1: Parker is appealing that. But again, this is a criminal trial,
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  Speaker 1: and each of those eight counts carries up to five
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  Speaker 1: years in prison. If Parker is convicted on all of them,
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  Speaker 1: she could face forty years in prison. But I think
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  Speaker 1: part of the reason why this story is gaining so
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  Speaker 1: much national attention because Parker is the first school administrator
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  Speaker 1: in American history to face criminal charges in a case
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  Speaker 1: like this. So what this jury decides, every superintendent, every
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  Speaker 1: school board member, every educator in this country will be watching.
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  Speaker 1: Every Wednesday on Front Page, we spotlight a story that
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  Speaker 1: deserved way more attention than it got. Today's pick. The
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  Speaker 1: Department of Energy just announced ninety four million dollars in
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  Speaker 1: clean energy grants going directly to HBCUs. The money will
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  Speaker 1: help fund sustainable technology on campuses, student led energy startups,
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  Speaker 1: a new farming technology using solar panels above crops across
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  Speaker 1: the rural south. And here's the key part. The government
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  Speaker 1: says the funding is being fast tracked to reach schools
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  Speaker 1: in months and not years. So if you've got family
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  Speaker 1: at an HBCU, especially studying engineering, science or tech, tell
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  Speaker 1: them to pay attention because this is one of those
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  Speaker 1: opportunities that can quietly change lives. That's the underplayed. Health
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  Speaker 1: officials are closely monitoring a new ebola outbreak in Central Africa.
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  Speaker 1: That's where an American mission doctor tested positive for the
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  Speaker 1: virus is now being transferred to Germany for treatment. The
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  Speaker 1: doctor had been working in the Democratic Republic of Congo
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  Speaker 1: when the outbreak began. Several family members and other doctors
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  Speaker 1: are also being monitored. Health officials gave an update on
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  Speaker 1: the situation.
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  Speaker 3: There is an American that is symptomatic and has tested
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  Speaker 3: positive for it's the Bundibuja virus, a strain of a bola.
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  Speaker 3: That American, as well as six other high risk contacts,
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  Speaker 3: are going to be taken out of that region and
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  Speaker 3: taken to Germany. We want to thank our German counterparts.
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  Speaker 3: For all other Americans, we have issued travel warnings, we
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  Speaker 3: have instituted just today entry restrictions for non US citizens
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  Speaker 3: that have been in the region in the past twenty
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  Speaker 3: one days. So in Uganda, Democratic Republic of Congo, and
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  Speaker 3: South Sudan. Right now, there are no cases of a
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  Speaker 3: bola in America. We want to keep it that way.
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  Speaker 1: And health officials, they say ebola does not spread casually.
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  Speaker 1: It requires direct contact with bodily fluids from someone showing symptoms,
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  Speaker 1: but concerns are growing because this particular strain has no
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  Speaker 1: approved vaccine. As of today, more than one hundred people
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  Speaker 1: have died in the outbreak. That's your front page. I'm
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  Speaker 1: Me Me Brown. This podcast is brought to you by
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  Speaker 1: The Black Effect Podcast Network.