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Speaker 1: Smokey Robinson was accused of sexual battery, assault, false imprisonment,

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Speaker 1: gender violence, and creating a hostile work environment by four

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Speaker 1: Jane Does, who worked for Smokey and his wife Francis

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Speaker 1: for almost twenty years. The four Jane Doe accusers seek

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Speaker 1: a total of fifty million dollars in damages from eighty

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Speaker 1: five eighty five year old Smokey Robinson. The Daily Mail

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Speaker 1: put in a call to Smokey on Wednesday to address

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Speaker 1: the allegations, and Smokey replied, quote, I am appalled. I

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Speaker 1: can't speak about this right now. The reports of abuse

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Speaker 1: were very descriptive, and the accusers claimed that Smokey's wife

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Speaker 1: Francis was aware of the sexual abuse over the years.

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Speaker 1: So we have to the story is still developing. We

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Speaker 1: have to wait to see what happened here. Yeah he's

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Speaker 1: eighty five.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, wow, very.

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Speaker 1: Disad they said. They said the Jane Does were afraid

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Speaker 1: of losing their jobs.

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Speaker 2: See here's the climate that we live here. You can't

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Speaker 2: comment on this subject. You can't say anything that you

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Speaker 2: truly feel because you're just not allowed to because of

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Speaker 2: political correctness. So everyone on this show sides with the

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Speaker 2: potential victim. And you do it repeatedly, and if you

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Speaker 2: stand up and say for an instant I find that

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Speaker 2: hard to believe, then all of a sudden you get

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Speaker 2: thrown into the category of saying that people who are

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Speaker 2: accuseders are liars. I've known Smoky for a number of years,

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Speaker 2: and I'm hoping it's not true. That's what I'm saying.

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Speaker 2: I'm hoping it's not true because I've known the man.

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Speaker 2: I've known the man for a long time. I don't know,

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Speaker 2: but even once again, I don't know his private life.

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Speaker 2: You know, I knew bills, you know, and I've had

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Speaker 2: people come to me all the time. How can you

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Speaker 2: still be friends with him? Look, man, I can't erase

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Speaker 2: the good this this man has done towards me and

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Speaker 2: the things he's done for me and taught me and

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Speaker 2: set me down with Karr. Because he did something obscure

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Speaker 2: or something ratchet in his private life. How could you

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Speaker 2: still be friends? You ain't got no friends? Done something

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Speaker 2: messed up? I do them, we.

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Speaker 3: All, I think what it is to Steve. It's like

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Speaker 3: when you hear about sexual assault accusations. A lot of

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Speaker 3: times women the victims aren't not believed, and because sometimes

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Speaker 3: these accusers are famous. People take the celebrity side all

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Speaker 3: enriched automatically, and the victims are never heard. So I

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Speaker 3: think at this point people are saying, you know, you

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Speaker 3: got to listen to what the victims are saying, especially

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Speaker 3: for serious allegations. And though sometimes the accusations are false,

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Speaker 3: sometimes they're true.

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Speaker 2: Here's I want to say. Something will be come back

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Speaker 2: about that.

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Speaker 1: All right, you're listening, Steve Harvey Morning Show