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  Speaker 1: BIN News this hour. I'm Andrea Coleman. Coming up, the
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  Speaker 1: Justice Department explains who election monitors will be and... Hello, Atlanta! Hello, 4-4!
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  Speaker 2: Oh, it is good to be back in Georgia.
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  Speaker 1: Former President Barack Obama rallies voters in Georgia as early
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  Speaker 1: voting in the state winds down. But first, here's BIN
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  Speaker 1: News Now.
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  Speaker 3: I'm Brie Wood with BIN News Now. A federal judge
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  Speaker 3: has ruled that Bill Asele has served too long in
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  Speaker 3: his temporary role as U.S. Attorney for Southern California and
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  Speaker 3: ordered him disqualified from overseeing several cases. When asked if
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  Speaker 3: he planned to take the matter to the Supreme Court,
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  Speaker 3: Asele said... We plan to appeal. The Trump administration has
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  Speaker 3: appealed the decision, putting the ruling on hold for now.
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  Speaker 3: Democratic Senate candidate Angie Nixon is facing criticism after declining
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  Speaker 3: to directly say whether Cuba is a dictatorship during a
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  Speaker 3: CBS News interview. Nixon, who is black, later said she
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  Speaker 3: believes Cuban Americans who describe Cuba that way and accused
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  Speaker 3: the network of mischaracterizing her comments. And a Miami judge
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  Speaker 3: has granted rapper 50 Cent a temporary restraining order against
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  Speaker 3: social media personality Tia Kemp to protect his 14-year-old son.
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  Speaker 3: Kemp must stay 500 feet away from the teenager and
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  Speaker 3: is banned from contacting him online. Both parties are due
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  Speaker 3: in court November 3rd. Get BIN news now on demand
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  Speaker 3: 24-7 on the iHeartRadio app. Here's more with Andrea Coleman.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, Bree. The Justice Department is clarifying who will
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  Speaker 1: serve as monitors on Election Day, and court documents filed
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  Speaker 1: yesterday in a lawsuit brought by the NAACP, the DOJ
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  Speaker 1: said no FBI or ICE agents will be among the
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  Speaker 1: monitors dispatched to all 50 states next Tuesday. Instead, employees
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  Speaker 1: from the Federal Bureau of Prisons, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms,
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  Speaker 1: and Explosives, and the Drug Enforcement Administration will serve as monitors,
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  Speaker 1: and none will have firearms. Georgia was among the latest
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  Speaker 1: states to receive notice of the monitors being dispatched. Over
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  Speaker 1: the weekend, state leaders were informed of monitors being sent
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  Speaker 1: to six counties, including Cobb, Fulton, DeKalb, and Gwinnett in
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  Speaker 1: the metro Atlanta area. Two races in the state have
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  Speaker 1: captured national attention, one being the Senate race between Don
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  Speaker 1: Ossoff and Congressman Mike Collins. the other being the governor's
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  Speaker 1: race featuring Keisha Lance Bottoms against Rick Jackson. Last night,
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  Speaker 1: former President Barack Obama was a featured speaker at a
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  Speaker 1: rally held for both candidates.
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  Speaker 2: Mr.
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  Speaker 1: Obama leaning hard on the affordability issue to make a
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  Speaker 1: case for supporting both of them.
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  Speaker 2: Because you know your prices are still up. Because you
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  Speaker 2: pay your utility bills. You've seen what.
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  Speaker 1: Those are like.
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  Speaker 2: You know it's still hard to pay rent and pay
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  Speaker 2: for child care and pay for health insurance. And you
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  Speaker 2: know we need serious people who are listening to your concerns,
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  Speaker 2: who see you and care about you and have real
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  Speaker 2: plans to make your life better. People like John Ossoff,
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  Speaker 2: people like Keisha Lance Adams.
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  Speaker 1: And Mr. Obama also poked fun at President Trump's reaction
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  Speaker 1: to comments he made last weekend likening Mr. Trump's White
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  Speaker 1: House renovations to Saddam Hussein opening a cheesecake factory.
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  Speaker 2: They did not dispute. What I said about them being
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  Speaker 2: directly responsible for rising prices, they did not argue with that.
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  Speaker 2: They did not deny terrorists were contributing to higher costs
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  Speaker 2: for families. They didn't say anything about that. I accused
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  Speaker 2: this administration based on the facts that they were engaging
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  Speaker 2: in unprecedented levels of corruption. They didn't say.
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  Speaker 1: Anything about that.
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  Speaker 2: The president wasn't even mad about the Saddam Hussein comparison.
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  Speaker 2: That part didn't bother him. But he was very upset
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  Speaker 2: about the Cheesecake Factory comments. He took great umbrage. He said,
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  Speaker 2: I didn't understand. the work of the artisans in.
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  Speaker 1: The White House. The latest polls show Ossoff with a
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  Speaker 1: comfortable lead in his race against Collins and Bottoms neck
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  Speaker 1: and neck with Jackson. Early voting in the state ends tomorrow.
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