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The Epstein Hearing, The Kennedy Center, and the Concert Walkouts · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: Former Attorney General Pam Bondi admitting mistakes were made in
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  Speaker 1: the Epstein files investigation.
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  Speaker 2: It you refuse to answer any questions about President.
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  Speaker 1: Trump and a federal judge ordering President Trump's name removed
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  Speaker 1: from the Kennedy Center.
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  Speaker 3: Clearly the Congress has to say in this and.
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  Speaker 1: More artists are pulling out of the Trump aligned Freedom
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  Speaker 1: two fifty concerts on the National Mall. This will be
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  Speaker 1: a time like you've never had in your lives America
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  Speaker 1: till fifty. It's Monday, June First, from the Black Effect
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  Speaker 4: I'm Mimi Brown. This is front page.
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  Speaker 1: Here are the day's biggest stories, plus your Monday Brief,
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  Speaker 4: You need to watch this week. Stay with me.
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  Speaker 1: One of the biggest unanswered stories in America is back
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  Speaker 1: in the spotlight. Former Attorney General Pambondi is now admitting
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  Speaker 1: the Justice Department made mistakes handling the Jeffrey Epstein files,
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  Speaker 1: including releasing sensitive information that should have stayed private. Now
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  Speaker 1: lawmakers are trying to figure out what was released, what
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  Speaker 1: is still being hidden, and who inside the Justice Department
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  Speaker 1: signed off on it all now. Bondi sat down behind
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  Speaker 1: closed doors on Friday with the Oversight House Committee for
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  Speaker 1: her first congressional interview since being fired by President Trump.
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  Speaker 1: Earlier this year, when Bondi was Attorney General, she publicly
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  Speaker 1: promised the Justice Department would release information connected to Jeffrey Epstein. Eventually,
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  Speaker 1: millions of pages were turned over, but millions more were withheld,
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  Speaker 1: and many documents released to the public had heavy blackouts.
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  Speaker 1: At one point, some victims' names they were even released,
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  Speaker 1: and explicit images were accidentally released before even being removed.
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  Speaker 1: Now during the hearing, Bondi tooled lawmakers the process was
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  Speaker 1: complicated and that the Department released everything legally required, but
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  Speaker 1: she also said she personally did not oversee all the
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  Speaker 1: document reviews. Instead, she pointed to Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche,
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  Speaker 1: who was now leading the Justice Department and previously worked
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  Speaker 1: as one of Trump's personal attorneys. Democrats say Bondi is
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  Speaker 1: trying to shift the blame. Here's Congressman Robert Garcia.
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  Speaker 2: She continues to push all of the investigation and the
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  Speaker 2: blame on Acting AG Todd Blanche. She said, and I
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  Speaker 2: quote Acting AG Blanche was managing the entire investigation end quote.
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  Speaker 2: All of the mistakes that we saw, the reactions not
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  Speaker 2: protecting survivors. She continues to push that back onto the
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  Speaker 2: acting AG, Todd Blanch, who, by the way, with Donald
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  Speaker 2: Trump's former personal lawyer. I also personally asked the former
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  Speaker 2: AG five times and five different questions about her conversations
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  Speaker 2: with President Trump, whether he directed her at any given
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  Speaker 2: time on the Epstein files, what he knew when he
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  Speaker 2: asked her to redact or not, and she refused to
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  Speaker 2: answer any questions about President Trump. In fact, she said
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  Speaker 2: that she would not speak or respond to any questions
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  Speaker 2: that had anything to do with President Trump. It's also
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  Speaker 2: interesting that sitting next to her is DOJ Council, somebody
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  Speaker 2: who currently works for the Department of Justice, who on
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  Speaker 2: multiple occasions stepped in and told the former Attorney General
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  Speaker 2: that she was not going to answer those questions, and
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  Speaker 2: especially when we ask questions of what the president directed
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  Speaker 2: her to do.
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  Speaker 1: Lawmakers now planned to release the transcripts of the interview,
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  Speaker 1: but there will be no video and Bondi was not
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  Speaker 1: under oath. A federal judge is now blocking President Trump
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  Speaker 1: from renaming the Kennedy Center and ordering his name removed
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  Speaker 1: from the building within two weeks. The ruling came down
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  Speaker 1: on Friday, on what would have been President John F.
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  Speaker 1: Kennedy's birthday. So last year, President Trump took control of
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  Speaker 1: the Kennedy Center board and appointed several members only loyal
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  Speaker 1: to him. The board later voted to make him chair
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  Speaker 1: and to rename the famous art institution the Donald J.
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  Speaker 1: Trump and John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts.
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  Speaker 1: Trump's name was placed first on the building. The Congresswoman
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  Speaker 1: Joyce Batty sued, arguing that the board did not have
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  Speaker 1: the legal authority to change the name.
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  Speaker 3: Clearly, the Congress has to say in this this center,
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  Speaker 3: the Kennedy Center, was created by the Congress. I think
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  Speaker 3: it's important for us to know that this is just
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  Speaker 3: another attempt to evade the law and not let the
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  Speaker 3: people have a say.
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  Speaker 4: And now a federal judge agrees.
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  Speaker 1: The judge said that Congress originally created and named the
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  Speaker 1: Kennedy Center after President Kennedy, which means only Congress can
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  Speaker 1: legally change the name. The Trump administration argued this was
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  Speaker 1: just an additional name, not a full rename, but the
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  Speaker 1: judge rejected that argument. The ruling also blocks plans to
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  Speaker 1: shut down the Kennedy Center for two years of renovations.
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  Speaker 1: President Trump says he plans to fight the decision and
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  Speaker 1: is now calling on Congress to take control of the building.
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  Speaker 1: It's Monday, which means it's time for your Monday brief.
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  Speaker 1: kill it. And Forth, Washington is back in session. Congress
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  Speaker 1: returns this week with immigration fights back on the table,
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  Speaker 1: more questions surrounding the Justice Department, and growing attention around
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  Speaker 4: At the White House next month.
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  Speaker 1: That's your Monday, bris, You're walking into the week well informed.
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  Speaker 1: A growing number of artists are pulling out of a
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  Speaker 1: major concert tied to America's two hundred and fiftieth birthday
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  Speaker 1: celebration after realizing the event had closer ties to President
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  Speaker 1: Trump than they expected. The concert is called the Great
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  Speaker 1: American State Fair and is scheduled for next month on
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  Speaker 1: the National Mall in Washington, d C. Artists including Martina McBride,
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  Speaker 1: Brett Michaels, Young mc more day, in the Time, and
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  Speaker 1: the Commodores have now all backed out. Performers say they
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  Speaker 1: originally believe this was a nonpartisan event celebrating America's birthday
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  Speaker 1: in all fifty states, but after the lineup was announced,
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  Speaker 1: several artists say they learned the event was connected to
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  Speaker 1: Freedom to fifty, a group helping to organize the celebrations.
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  Speaker 1: Here is a spokesperson, Julia Friedlan, for the group.
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  Speaker 5: So I can't speak to negotiations that were made for performers.
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  Speaker 5: But what I can say is we're selling it the
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  Speaker 5: same way to every single person in this country. This
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  Speaker 5: is a celebration of America two hundred and fifty years,
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  Speaker 5: glorious years. It's inherently non political. We're coming together to
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  Speaker 5: celebrate our country. We live in the best country on Earth,
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  Speaker 5: and we're putting on a huge birthday party because America
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  Speaker 5: deserves it.
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  Speaker 4: But not everyone has dropped out.
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  Speaker 1: Vanilla Ice is still scheduled to perform, and Flowrida has
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  Speaker 1: not publicly announced a decision.
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