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Speaker 1: Shannon Sharp announced he's chosen to take a leave of

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Speaker 1: absence from his co hosting job at ESPN's First Take

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Speaker 1: in light of his sexual assault and battery lawsuit by

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Speaker 1: a twenty two year old female that he said he

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Speaker 1: is said to have had a rocky two year consensual

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Speaker 1: relationship with. Last Thursday, Shannon issued this statement on Instagram.

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Speaker 1: He said, quote, my statement is found here, and this

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Speaker 1: is the truth. The relationship in question was one hundred

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Speaker 1: percent consensual. At this juncture, I'm electing to step aside

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Speaker 1: temporarily from my ESPN duties. I will be devoting this

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Speaker 1: time to my family and responding to and dealing with

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Speaker 1: these false and disruptive allegations set against me. I planned

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Speaker 1: a return to ESPN at the start of the NFL preseason.

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Speaker 1: That was his statement, Steve, you know, I hope for.

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Speaker 2: His sake it works out exactly that way. Now, he

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Speaker 2: didn't step way just to handle this that that wasn't volunteered. Yeah, it.

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Speaker 1: Was necessary.

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Speaker 2: Oh no, they went to him and said, we're gonna

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Speaker 2: give you a chance to step away, just step away

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Speaker 2: right now, or we're gonna have to you know, because

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Speaker 2: that's the normal procedure thing it is. I have not

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Speaker 2: cared the way man Stephen a man. He did another

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Speaker 2: take on this where he got up from behind the

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Speaker 2: desk and walked out to the front to talk about this.

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Speaker 2: And you know, I just wish he would run some

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Speaker 2: of his statements by somebody.

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Speaker 1: Person, no one, or just himself.

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Speaker 2: But he needs some other counsel. I can't explain it

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Speaker 2: because he didn't really say anything except now I'm talking

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Speaker 2: about this. I'm not talking about Shannon Shop, but you

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Speaker 2: were talking exactly about Shannon Sharp in your statement because

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Speaker 2: you were talking about you don't understand why these players

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Speaker 2: are not understanding what's going on. Then he's self absorbed.

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Speaker 2: You know why you never see anything like this going

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Speaker 2: on about me. Careful, brother, careful, you have to be

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Speaker 2: careful because false accusations can happen to anybody, and they

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Speaker 2: can tie to some form of truth. Now do I

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Speaker 2: believe that Shannon Shop had a consensual relationship with this person. Absolutely.

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Speaker 2: The problem is this consensual relationship has a claim in

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Speaker 2: it of some force happening. That's where his problem is.

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Speaker 2: It ain't the consensual and then a new little dude

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Speaker 2: or somebody coming out and that ain't what person's preference

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Speaker 2: and all that is is not against the law. What's

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Speaker 2: against the law's force of any kind the me too,

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Speaker 2: that's that's the problem. And so I just wish that

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Speaker 2: date rape.

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Speaker 3: You could go out with somebody on a date and

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Speaker 3: you canted to have a date with them, but they

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Speaker 3: forced themselves on you, then that's ripe. So just because

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Speaker 3: they had a consensual relationship that particular day, she may

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Speaker 3: have said.

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Speaker 1: No, All right, I'm coming up next, Switch gears here too.

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Speaker 1: You're listening Steve Harvey Morning Show