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Trump vs. Two Republicans on His AG Pick, Ben Crump Sounds the Alarm on Three Cases, and Obama's Summer Playlist Drops · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: President Trump is threatening to pull one of his biggest
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  Speaker 1: nominees and wait until two Republican senators are out of
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  Speaker 1: office to try again.
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  Speaker 2: This we was just between me and Todd Blanche. We
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  Speaker 2: would have worked this out. But apparently he's getting some
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  Speaker 2: pushback from higher ups at the White House.
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  Speaker 1: And civil rights attorney Ben Crump is now connecting three
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  Speaker 1: cases involving three black eighteen year olds who died within
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  Speaker 1: three months of one another, and their families say they
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  Speaker 1: still do not have the answers that they need.
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  Speaker 3: For this mother and this praying grandmother who refused to
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  Speaker 3: let them sweep the death of her grand baby under
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  Speaker 3: the road.
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  Speaker 1: And President Obama just dropped his annual summer playlists. We'll
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  Speaker 1: tell you who made the cut. It's Friday, July thirty,
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  Speaker 1: first from the Black Effects Podcast Network. I mean me 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: Stay with me. President Trump is threatening to pull his
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  Speaker 1: nominee for Attorney General and then resubmit his name once
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  Speaker 1: two Republican senators leave Congress in January. Trump wants Todd
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  Speaker 1: Blanche confirmed as the nation's top law enforcement officer, but
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  Speaker 1: two members of his own party Texas Senator John Corwin
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  Speaker 1: and North Carolina Senator Tom Tillis are refusing to move
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  Speaker 1: the nomination forward. Untrue social Trump called Blanche a star
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  Speaker 1: and said he has potential to become one of the
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  Speaker 1: greatest attorney generals of all time. Trump then said he
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  Speaker 1: would have no problem temporarily with drawing Blanche's nomination if
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  Speaker 1: the Senators do not, in his words, do the right thing.
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  Speaker 1: He said he could simply nominate Blanche again once Corwen
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  Speaker 1: and Tillis are out of office. Both senators are already
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  Speaker 1: on their way out. Tillis announced last year that he
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  Speaker 1: would retire, and corn lost his Republican primary earlier this
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  Speaker 1: year to a Trump backed challenger. But this fight is
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  Speaker 1: not really about Blanche himself. It centers on a one
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  Speaker 1: point eight billion anti weaponization fund included in Trump's legal
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  Speaker 1: settlement with the Justice Department and the IRS. Corwin and
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  Speaker 1: Tillis want the Justice Department to put in writing that
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  Speaker 1: the fund will never be created. They say the White
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  Speaker 1: House has refused to give them that written assurance.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not the only one that has concerns about this
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  Speaker 2: settlement and the scope of the release.
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  Speaker 3: We just want to end the fund and this is
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  Speaker 3: not about Blanche.
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  Speaker 1: Because of the dispute, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley
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  Speaker 1: postponed Thursday's vote on Blanche's nomination. Blanche will remain acting
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  Speaker 1: Attorney General for now. Civil rights attorney Ben Crump held
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  Speaker 1: a press conference Thursday at the National Urban League's annual
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  Speaker 1: conference in Nashville. Crump is now representing the families of
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  Speaker 1: three eighteen year old black teens who all died within
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  Speaker 1: three months of one another, Colan Wells, Daniel Irving, and
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  Speaker 1: Tyler Smith. Nolan Wells was found in the water near
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  Speaker 1: Horn Island, Mississippi, on July sixth Daniel Irving died at
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  Speaker 1: a lake in Texas on April thirteenth. His death was
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  Speaker 1: ruled in accidental drowning, and Tyler Smith died from a
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  Speaker 1: gunshot wound in Lexington, Kentucky, on July fourth. Police ruled
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  Speaker 1: the shooting accidental and self inflicted, but his family disputes
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  Speaker 1: that conclusion. The families of all three young men stood
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  Speaker 1: together at Thursday's press conference in Nashville, and the Nolan
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  Speaker 1: Wells case, specifically, Krump rebuilt several new developments.
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  Speaker 3: We are announcing that we have the audio from the officials,
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  Speaker 3: and we have retained an our consultant were some of
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  Speaker 3: the foremost audio engineering experts to review those audio tapes
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  Speaker 3: from the seat call in its entirety. We also have
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  Speaker 3: consulted with oceanic engineering experts to talk about how these
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  Speaker 3: facts are lining up. The fact that they say Nolan's
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  Speaker 3: body was found in the same location where they say
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  Speaker 3: they left them at and so we want to know
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  Speaker 3: how is that possible with the oceanic tides.
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  Speaker 1: And doctor Roger Mitchell, who performed Nolan's independent autopsy, is
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  Speaker 1: now trying to obtain Nolan's throat structures, which were not
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  Speaker 1: available during the second autopsy. Mitchell is also seeking photographs
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  Speaker 1: seeking closer to the time Nolan's body was recovered. The
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  Speaker 1: independent autopsy listed Nolan's cause and manner of death as
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  Speaker 1: undetermined pending further investigation. The official state autopsy is being
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  Speaker 1: withheld into the case can be reviewed by a grand jury.
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  Speaker 1: Crump also address the harassment Nolan's mother has been receiving.
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  Speaker 1: Christine Wansley is a nurse, and Crump says people have
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  Speaker 1: been leaving negative reviews on her page for her employer.
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  Speaker 1: He called the attacks proul and said people are targeting
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  Speaker 1: a grieving mother and father simply because they are asking
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  Speaker 1: what happened to their child. During the press conference, Christine
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  Speaker 1: and Elmore Wansley both pleaded with the public they're asking,
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  Speaker 1: if you know something, please come forward. And finally, President
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  Speaker 1: Barack Obama is dropping his summer playlist. At this point,
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  Speaker 1: it's become a summer tradition and once again the music
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  Speaker 1: stretches across generations and genres. Obama opened this year's announcement
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  Speaker 1: with a tribute. He wrote, quote, this starts with a
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  Speaker 1: song Michelle and I Love by Glenn Hanzart, a great
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  Speaker 1: musician who passed away tragically this week. Our hearts go
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  Speaker 1: out to his family. But the playlist mixes old school
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  Speaker 1: favorites with some of today's biggest artists. The classics include
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  Speaker 1: Marvin Gay, Nina Simone, Chaka Khan, The Temptations, Neil Young,
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  Speaker 1: The Beatles, David Bowie, The Police, and Johnny Cash. The
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  Speaker 1: newer side includes Sizza and Doci, along with Tyler and
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  Speaker 1: Zara Larson, Drake, Future, Vince Staples, Anderson Pack and Ray.
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  Speaker 1: Obama has been sharing his seasonal playlist since leaving the
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  Speaker 1: White House, and every summer people check the lists, debate
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  Speaker 1: the choices, and run the songs back. That's your front page.
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