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Mississippi Governor Blames Crump and Sharpton for Nolan Wells Threats, Howard Unenrolls 500 Freshmen, and Trump Calls LeBron "Maybe a Racist" · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves is blaming Ben Crump and Al
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  Speaker 1: Sharpton for threats to the Nolan Wells case. Now the
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  Speaker 1: FBI is investigating, Well, when you.
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  Speaker 2: Make those types of threats against public officials, against possible witnesses,
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  Speaker 2: then you are also committing a criminal act.
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  Speaker 1: And how our university has dropped more than five hundred
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  Speaker 1: incoming freshmen just weeks before the fall semester begins.
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  Speaker 3: Fantasy came he insidy on the old fourteen hundred thous.
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  Speaker 1: And President Trump is calling Lebron James quote maybe a racist?
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  Speaker 1: Lebron is, maybe he's a racist as the NBA superstar
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  Speaker 1: prepares to join the Philadelphia seventy six ers. It's Monday,
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  Speaker 1: July twenty seventh from the Black Effects Podcast Network. I'
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  Speaker 1: memi Brown. This is front page and here are the
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  Speaker 1: days biggest stories. Stay with me. Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves
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  Speaker 1: is publicly blaming civil rights attorney Ben Crump and Al
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  Speaker 1: Sharpton for the growing hostility around the death of Nolan
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  Speaker 1: Exavier Wells.
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  Speaker 2: Well, when you make those types of threats against public officials,
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  Speaker 2: against possible witnesses, and against the folks that are involved
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  Speaker 2: in this investigation in the family, then you are also
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  Speaker 2: committing a criminal act and that's going to be taken very,
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  Speaker 2: very seriously.
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  Speaker 1: In a statement to Fox News Digital, Reeves said, quote,
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  Speaker 1: Ben Crump and Al Sharpton are to blame for the threats.
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  Speaker 1: They are stoking division for personal gain. It's sad to
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  Speaker 1: see the governor's accusations come after Crump announced the preliminary
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  Speaker 1: findings from an independent autopsy commissioned by Nolan's family and
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  Speaker 1: conducted by Board certified forensic pathologists doctor Roger Mitchell Junior.
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  Speaker 1: The report did not determine how Nolan died. His cause
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  Speaker 1: and manner of death remain undetermined. As the investigation continues,
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  Speaker 1: Mississippi Department of Public Safety Commissioner Sean Tindale says the
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  Speaker 1: FBI is now looking into threats directed at public officials,
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  Speaker 1: possible witnesses, and people who were with Nolan before he disappeared,
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  Speaker 1: and their families. Tindall says the intense public attention surrounding
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  Speaker 1: the case has led to threatening phone calls and messages.
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  Speaker 1: He also confirmed that Nolan's mother, Christine Wansley, has also
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  Speaker 1: received threats. Mississippi authorities have not presented any evidence linking
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  Speaker 1: Crump or al Sharpton to the threats, and neither Crump
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  Speaker 1: nor Sharpton have publicly responded to the governor's accusations. The
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  Speaker 1: investigation into Nolan Well's death remains active and ongoing. Hundreds
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  Speaker 1: of incoming Howard University freshmen are scrambling after learning they've
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  Speaker 1: been dropped from enrollment just weeks before classes begin. Howard
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  Speaker 1: University says five hundred and two first time students were
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  Speaker 1: unenrolled after their accounts did not meet enrollment in financial deadlines.
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  Speaker 1: The university says it began notifying students as early as
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  Speaker 1: March through emails and orientation sessions about payment expectations and deadlines. However,
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  Speaker 1: parents dispute that account, like.
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  Speaker 3: What's this money? Is the problem that that can be solved? Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: it's not fair. I call this may trying to get
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  Speaker 3: in contact with somebody. They did not respond, and then
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  Speaker 3: when they did respond, they gave me miscommunication. They can pull,
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  Speaker 3: they say the calls are recorded. They can pull those
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  Speaker 3: calls to hear what the rep told me. Her scholarship
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  Speaker 3: came in today to awe the old fourteen hundred dollars.
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  Speaker 3: I told them I will pay this now.
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  Speaker 1: Howard says students who believe their financial accounts did not
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  Speaker 1: accurately reflect their aid or their payment status should contact
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  Speaker 1: the bursar's office, adding that cases will be reviewed individually
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  Speaker 1: and reinstatement maybe possible. The situation also comes as families
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  Speaker 1: navigate significant changes to federal student aid under President Trump's
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  Speaker 1: One Big, Beautiful Bill, which took effect July first. Among
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  Speaker 1: the changes, the law places a twenty thousand annual PAP
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  Speaker 1: on parent plus loans, which previously allowed many families to
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  Speaker 1: borrow up to the full cost of attendance. For students
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  Speaker 1: attending higher cost schools like Howard, that means some parents
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  Speaker 1: now have fewer options to cover last minute tuition gaps.
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  Speaker 1: While Howard has not said the new federal law caused
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  Speaker 1: the unenrollments, the timing has raised concerns among students, families,
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  Speaker 1: and college access advocates, who say changes in federal aid,
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  Speaker 1: delayed scholarship disbursements and outstanding balances may have combined to
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  Speaker 1: leave some students without enough funding before the university payment deadlines.
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  Speaker 1: Howard's fall semester is scheduled to begin August seventeen, and finally,
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  Speaker 1: President Trump is reigniting his long running feud with Lebron James.
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  Speaker 1: Trump was acts in the Oval office whether he preferred
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  Speaker 1: Lebron or Michael Jordan. Here's what he had to say.
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  Speaker 4: Lebron James has decided that he wants his next team
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  Speaker 4: to be the seventy six ers. Where do you stand
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  Speaker 4: on Lebron versus Michael Jordan as the best ever?
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  Speaker 2: Well, Michael Jordan's a guy that's a friend of mine,
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  Speaker 2: play golf with him. He is a really good guy.
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  Speaker 3: And I think Lebron is maybe he's a racist, but
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  Speaker 3: maybe he doesn't like Trump. I don't know, but I
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  Speaker 3: only like people that like me, so I would say Michael.
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  Speaker 2: Jordan all the way.
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  Speaker 1: The comments came the same day Lebron announced that he
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  Speaker 1: was leaving the Los Angeles Lakers and joining the Philadelphia
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  Speaker 1: seventy six Ers. The forty one year old reportedly agreed
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  Speaker 1: to a two year, eight million dollar contract that includes
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  Speaker 1: a player option. Lebron says he seriously considered retirement but
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  Speaker 1: decided he still wants another opportunity to compete for a championship.
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  Speaker 1: Trump and Lebron have publicly clashed for years. In twenty seventeen,
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  Speaker 1: Lebron called Trump quote a bum after the president said
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  Speaker 1: he was withdrawing a White House invitation from Steph Curry,
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  Speaker 1: who had already indicated he did not want to attend.
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  Speaker 1: A year later, Lebron accused Trump of using sports to
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  Speaker 1: divide the country and said the president did not understand
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  Speaker 1: or care about the American people. Lebron has not publicly
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  Speaker 1: responded to Trump's latest remarks. That's your front page, Immi Brown.
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