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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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