The Breakfast Club - Congress Woman Ayanna Pressley Interview

Episode Date: August 14, 2019

Today on the show we had Congress woman Ayanna Pressley stop by, where she spoke about the origin of 'The Squad', Power Of Representation, Policy Change and more. Also, Charlamagne gave "Donkey of the Day" to an interracial Florida couple because they got into an argument about a declined request for slave and slave master sexual role play and Angela helped some listeners out during "Ask Yee". Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Had enough of this country? Ever dreamt about starting your own? I planted the flag. This is mine. I own this. It's surprisingly easy. 55 gallons of water, 500 pounds of concrete. Or maybe not. No country willingly gives up their territory. Oh my God.

What is that? Bullets. Listen to Escape from Zakistan. We need help! That's Escape from Z-A-Q-istan on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey guys, I'm Kate Max. You might know me from my popular online series, The Running Interview Show, where I run with celebrities, athletes, entrepreneurs, and more. After those runs, the conversations keep going. That's what my podcast

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The camera's a mother******. I agree. What kind of show is this? Let's all listen to this show. The Breakfast Club. With DJ Envy. The captain of this b****. With Angela Yee.

The only one who can keep these guys in check. With Charlamagne Tha God. I'm a lovable a**hole. And this is The Breakfast Club, bitches. Good morning, Angela Yee. Good morning, TJMV. Charlamagne Tha God. Peace to the planet. Guess what day it is. Guess what day it is. Pump day.

Yes, it's Wednesday, middle of the work week. Good morning. Yes, it is. Hey, good morning. I hope you guys had a great day yesterday. I was in the airport for a while yesterday. I guess a lot of bad weather. I was in the airport for about four hours yesterday trying to get back.

Oh, sounds familiar. Storms passing through Florida, but it was good. I just went to sleep. That's all I did. I was doing this financially clean panel at the Brooklyn Borough Hall with Sean Linda. So he does this eight-week course, which people can take online also. And it was him and the Brooklyn Borough President, Eric Adams. So I was there yesterday.

People talking about their financial journeys. It was nice. It was a packed building. Borough President, Eric Adams. So I was there yesterday. People talking about their financial journeys. It was nice. It was a packed building. Okay. That's pretty cool. That's pretty cool. Now, today, we have a congresswoman joining us this morning, right? Oh, not just any congresswoman.

We got one for the squad, Ayanna Presley, damn it. Mm-hmm. All right. She'll be here this morning. Yes, very excited for that. I was watching a great documentary last night, too, on Netflix. I was watching King in the Wilderness. It's a documentary on Martin Luther King Jr.

that documents the last 18 months of his life. Oh, my God, man. So amazing, because it's got a lot of never-before-seen footage and footage from his funeral, and it just shows the resistance that Martin Luther King Jr. received the last 18 months, but not just from white people shows the resistance that Martin Luther King Jr. received the last 18 months but not just from white people and the powers that be that

didn't like what he was doing but from his own people. Black people. Oh my god, it was so good, man. Everybody should watch that. Kings of the Wilderness. Let's get the show cracking. Front page news, what are we talking about, Yee? Well, let's talk about something that happened overnight in New York and this is going to be a first.

But it's allowed for hundreds of child sex abuse claims to be opened up. Okay. All right. We'll get into that next. Keep it locked. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning, everybody.

It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are The Breakfast Club. Let's get some front page news. Where we starting, Yee? Well, just overnight at 12.01 a.m., people were allowed to start filing these suits. Now, these are New Yorkers. This is just in New York. These are for New Yorkers who were molested or sexually abused as children.

So a lot of them have been waiting for years or even decades for their day in court. So the way the law works here is you have to file a suit no later than age 23 for when you are a child. If it's after that, then it's a statute of limitations and you're not allowed to file a suit anymore. Were they suing? Anybody. So a lot of the people they are suing are Catholic priests. These are people who abused them when they were kids. And they said also the Boy Scouts of America were named in five suits already.

So since this went into law at midnight, 200 legal claims have been filed already across the state. And there's abuses of many different descriptions. Some of these suits are filed by accusers who have never come forward before. Some of them will target alleged abusers that have never previously been publicly named. Other cases are people who went to court in the past, but so are their cases dismissed because of the statute of limitations. Like I said, you have to be under 23 to be able to file. But from what they've been seeing and statements from some of these firms,

they said it looks like there's going to be about 2,000 to 3,000 lawsuits filed in the coming year. So they can sue the actual church now? Yes. Wow. Okay. A lot of those places of business are going to have to fold because there's no way they can uphold and stand all those lawsuits and pay for attorneys and all that. Some of them are teachers, some of them are going to have to fold Because there's no way they can uphold and stand all those lawsuits And pay for attorneys and all that

Some of them are teachers, some of them are priests Aren't those like some of those state funded organizations? The Boy Scouts The Boy Scouts, yeah Yeah, absolutely Alright, now Illinois has just become the first state to require Insurance companies to cover EpiPen injectors I didn't know insurance didn't cover that

So you know when you have an allergy Or another serious allergic reaction to something You have to have an EpiPen injectors. I didn't know insurance didn't cover that. So, you know, when you have an allergy or another serious allergic reaction to something, you have to have an EpiPen just in case. Yeah, some insurances cover it, but most doesn't. Well, now they're requiring that insurance companies cover it, and Illinois is the only state that's done that so far.

So, that's true because if you can't afford it and your child has a serious allergy, should they just not be able to have an EpiPen? That doesn't make sense. Alright, in Newark, they've been having a lot of issues with their lead contamination in the water. So, they also gave out a small number of filters.

Well, some of the filters that they gave out, they are supposed to remove lead and they found out that these filters were not functioning as effectively as expected. So, that water is still contaminated. So, in response to that, they started giving out drinking water. And I guess the bottled water is being distributed to certain residents at four different locations in Newark. So right now, according to the mayor, Raz Baraka, and the governor, Phil Murphy, they put out a joint statement.

They said the city is expanding testing of filtered drinking water, and they are working with the filters manufacturer to determine the scope of the situation. Access to safe drinking water is critically important, and they said we take health risks associated with lead in drinking water very seriously. But you can imagine people are very upset. Yeah, they had this problem for a while, and it's crazy that they haven't fixed it as yet, because it's been over a year that they had,

well, two years, actually, that they had the problem with the lead, and I figured they would have fixed it by now. They gave out the filters but then it turns out some of the filters aren't working as effectively and some of that water is still contaminated. Michigan is like ketchup, guys. Not long they've had contaminated water.

Advertisers are dropping Tucker Carlson's show and Fox News after he said that whole issue about white supremacy being a hoax. Check it out. But the whole thing is a lie. If you were to assemble a list, a hierarchy of concerns or problems this country faces, where would white supremacy be on the list? Right up there with Russia, probably. It's actually not a real problem in America. White supremacy, that's the problem. This is a hoax, just like the Russia hoax. It's a conspiracy theory used to divide the country and keep a hold on power.

What made them draw the line at that? I don't know, but I guess the people got very outraged about that. Obviously, for him, it's not a problem because he's white. So why would it be a problem for him? By the way, same people telling you that Russia interference is a hoax. The same people that are telling you white supremacy is a hoax. So what should that tell you about Russian interference? So right now, Long John Silvers, HelloFresh, SoFi,

a lot of people have dropped them from advertising and they are no longer running ads on his show. And the Sleep App Calm, they tweeted, the brand is no longer advertising on the show as well. All right, that is your front page news. All right, thank you, Miss Ski. Now, get it off your chest. 800-585-1051.

If you're upset, you need to vent, hit us up right now. Maybe you had a bad night or horrible morning or maybe you feel blessed and you want to spread some positivity.

800-585-1051. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. Is your country falling apart? Feeling tired? Depressed? A little bit revolutionary? Consider this. Start your own country.

I planted the flag. I just kind of looked out of like, this is mine. I own this. It's surprisingly easy. 55 gallons of water, 500 pounds of concrete. Everybody's doing it. I am King Ernest Emmanuel. I am the Queen of Laudonia. I'm Jackson I, King of Kaperburg. I am the Supreme Leader of the Grand Republic of Mentonia.

Be part of a great colonial tradition. The Waikana tried my country. My forefathers did that themselves. What could go wrong? No country willingly gives up their territory. I was making a rocket with a black powder, you know, with explosive warheads. Oh my God.

What is that? Bullets. Bullet holes. We need help! We still have the off-road portion to go. Listen to Escape from Zakistan. And we're losing daylight fast. That's Escape from Z-A-Q-istan on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

Hey, guys. I'm Kate Max. You might know me from my popular online series, The Running Interview Show, where I run with celebrities, athletes, entrepreneurs, and more. After those runs, the conversations keep going. That's what my podcast, Post Run High, is all about. It's a chance to sit down with my guests and dive even deeper into their stories, their journeys, and the thoughts that arise once we've hit the pavement together. You know that rush of endorphins you feel after a great workout? Well, that's when the real magic happens. So if you love hearing real, inspiring stories from the people you know, follow, and admire, join me every week for Post Run High. It's where we take the conversation beyond the run and get into the heart of it all. It's lighthearted, pretty crazy, and very fun. Listen to Post Run High on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

As a kid, I really do remember having these dreams and visions, but you just don't know what is going to come for you. Alicia Keys opens up about conquering doubt, learning to trust herself and leaning into her dreams. I think a lot of times we are built to doubt the possibilities for ourselves. For self-preservation and protection. It was literally that step by step. And so I discovered that that is how we get where we're going. This increment of small, determined moments. Alicia shares her wisdom on growth, gratitude, and the power of love.

I forgive myself. It's okay. Like grace. Have grace with yourself It's okay. Like grace. Have grace with yourself. You're trying your best and you're going to figure out the rhythm of this thing. Alicia Keys, like you've never heard her before. Listen to On Purpose with Jay Shetty

on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. This is your time to get it off your chest, whether you're mad or blessed. So you better have the same energy. We want to hear from you on The Breakfast Club. Hello, who's this? Hey, what up, Envy, Charlotte? What's happening, my brother?

What's up, bro? What's going on? Slow-mo, man. I just want to say I'm blessed, man. I started my new job today, man. Well, congratulations. Started working for the city of Detroit, you know. All right, well, that's what it is. You know how we do. Exactly.

Hey, I heard Charlemagne talking about catching up with the Michigan thing. I live in Highland Park. It's got lead in our water, too, so. Damn, I'm hearing about bad water in a lot of places. What is it, Denmark, South Carolina? I heard the water's real bad. Yeah, you know, it's messed up, man.

So we just like Flint, man, unfortunately, man. Where the hell is High Park at? Highland Park. Where's that at? Highland Park is like in the middle of Detroit. Oh, got you, got you, got you. It's a small city like South Bend in the middle of Detroit. What are they doing about it?

They're giving us filters, you know, but like them filters don't be really working. So, damn. We got to do something. I've been like

that for the last six years now, so. All right. Well, good luck, brother. All right, man. Hey, y'all take it easy.

Have a blessed day. Yes, sir. You know what I saw, too? The bottled water they gave out in Newark

was expired. I didn't know that bottled water expires. I didn't know water could expire either. By the way, if water's expiring, it's probably not water. Yeah, no, no.

Water can expire. It's the plastic bottles. You can taste it. You can taste the water. Or if you leave it in your car. I never knew that. Yeah, no, I definitely can't. Hello, who's this?

Hey, this is Ali from Atlanta. Ali from Atlanta. Get it off your chest, Ali. Hey, I want to tell Charlemagne and you yourself, DJ Envy, y'all need to give y'allself a blanket of the week. Why? Because what y'all did yesterday was talking about who loved Nicki Minaj the most. That was really a waste of time.

Why, you want to join in? You say what? Why you don't want us to love Nicki, bro? Who's the biggest vibe? I mean, you can love Nicki, that's fine, but a whole sentiment on who loves Nick Manard the most, that's done kind of weak for you. I don't believe that you feel that way because you waited the very next day

to call in to talk about it. Well, I couldn't call yesterday because I couldn't get through yesterday. That's why I'm calling today. He's passionate. So you weren't entertained at all? No, not about who loves Nick Manard the most news. Not at all. We, not about who loved Nick Minaj the most news. Not at all.

Well, today we're going to try. We'll try harder today to entertain you. Well, let me ask you a question. Who do you think loved him more? All right, DJ Envy, you won, man. I'm going to give my vote to you, man. There's no way in hell Envy loved Nick Minaj more than I do. Let that man have his opinion. See, that's all.

He was mad he couldn't get through and give his opinion. He definitely had an opinion. Hello, who's this? Marcus. Hey, Marcus. Get it off your chest, brother. Yeah, man. So I just got out

of this bad relationship, man. Pretty much helped this girl through her problems for a year. She had bad drinking problems. But she left me about a month ago for a bisexual male because I ain't know how to eat ass. Damn it, man. First of all, you don't have to be a bisexual male't know how to eat ass. Damn it, man.

First of all, you don't have to be a bisexual male to know how to eat ass, sir. All right? I heard you, too. I've been eating ass for a long time, my brother.

Exactly. I'm about 20 years in on this ass eating thing. So how do you know that? She told you that's the reason? When Charlamagne is up there, man. You don't eat ass, Envy? Y'all are so fake on this show.

That's why I think you don't like y'all. Hold up. Can we talk to the list? So how do you know that that's why she left you? She told you that? Well, pretty much

the dude put her out and then she came back to me and we had a whole conversation and I was like, okay, so what you like about this dude? She was like, I'm a square

and I ain't know how to eat. Well, you need to start eating some ass, bro, bro. At least she was honest. Learn how to suck farts out of your woman's my G. Are you willing to learn how to do that? I mean, it's not that hard, bro. Like least she was honest. Learn how to suck farts out of your woman's ****, my G. Are you willing to learn

how to do that? I mean, it's not that hard, bro. Like, it's really not that hard. Don't try to jump into the conversation now. You just tried to shame me for it. Now you want to jump into the conversation. Sit your dumb ass down. I'm not saying for you. This guy crazy. I said it on the scene. I eat my wife's ass. I did. So act like an ass eater, then. How does an ass eater act?

You wasn't acting like one when you first called. How does an ass eater act? Hey, my brother. Like that? No. Act like a man. Eat ass for once. Hey, man, I'm a man up there. I get it.

That's right. Not too many things going on down there. It's not that difficult. I guess not. I mean, I don't like... Just put your mouth to the hole and go in. And by the way, if you don't like it, all you got to do is when you go back there,

be like, oh, man, damn, you ain't wiped good enough. And she'll be so embarrassed that she won't ask you to do it anymore. Thank you, bro. Get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. If you need to vent, hit us up now. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning.

The Breakfast Club. Wake up, wake up. Wake your ass up. This is your time to get it off your chest. Whether you're mad or blessed, we want to hear from you on The Breakfast Club. Hello, who's this? Yo, what's good, Envy? What's up, bro?

Get it off your chest, man. Yo, I actually met you in Miami for the, with Caesar. When the lights went out, you remember that joint? That just sounded crazy. This guy is kinky, boy. You got to watch DJ Aries. We had a real estate seminar in Miami and the power went out. What if you just said, you know, when the lights went out,

when you were teaching me to try to flip stuff? Nah, I'm trying to flip, but not that. Oh, my goodness. Go ahead, brother. Real talk. Envy, like, the last few weeks been crazy. So I had two jobs. I work from home.

And I left one of them thinking, like, let me really invest in real estate. Then come to find out my government job, it canceled my joint. So now I'm like, is this a sign? Do I really go forward with this? Like, I've seen you mentor. So I'm trying to see what's good. Yeah, I got about three kids right now that I'm actually trying to help to get into some cribs. You being in Miami makes it very difficult because I'm in New York, New Jersey. Nah, but I can fly anywhere.

I can fly anywhere. Like, I'm ready. All right. What's your credit? What's up? What's your credit? My credit right now is $7,000, sitting on like $45,000. All right. You got your credit? He's ready. What's up? What's your credit? My credit right now is $7,000, sitting on like $45,000.

All right. You got some money saved up? Yes. All right. Well, you can get started. Email me, CesarNDJMV at Gmail. I can't mentor you,

but I can guide you down the right path. All right. You got the email? Cesar. And DJMV at Gmail. All right? All right. Good luck, bro.

All right. Thanks. Hello, who's this? This is Ty from Harlem. Hey, Ty from Harlem. Get it off your chest. Yeah, basically, I just want to vent, kind of give myself the donkey of the day

for being too trusting. Long story short, you know, New York girl, city girl, I'm supposed to know it all. City girl. I'm dating an older guy. Yeah, city girl. And when dating an older guy, he's 45 from my early 30s. I have two children.

So my kids went away to school for vacation. I mean, went away for vacation to New York at the end of May. And he went through a situation. The only way I could help him out at the time was, you know, I didn't have the cash, but I allowed them to basically pawn a 50-inch TV and my son's Xbox One with the intentions of him getting it out the next week. You let him pawn

your son's Xbox? Yeah. And you ain't get it back? No. The next week, he was supposed to get it out, so when he got paid, it went from, you know,

a check was short, so from one story to another, I asked him for the paperwork to get it out myself, and it turned into arguments and turned ugly, so I stopped dealing with him. I went to New York, you know, got my kids, came back down.

So he's trying to get back in where he's sitting, and I'm like, well, what about my kids' things? You know what I mean? Like, you never replaced it. That's cool. And he's like, oh, I have $145. That's not an LG Smart TV and an Xbox One. You know, I gave it to you to help you pay your rent.

And come to find out, you was, you know, doing things I didn't know about. And speaking of speaking, that's why I left you alone. And you're 45 years old. You know what I mean? So I took myself in the behind, you know, lesson learned. But it still messed up because I feel like now this dude is like

playing reverse and it's like, oh, well, you know, your mouth and you're rude and disrespectful. You're like, I still ain't got my kid's Xbox. Thank you.

And this is why I'm rude and disrespectful. You know, I found out, you know, I guess Molly is the new thing in Orlando. It's the new crack to me.

Molly's the new thing? Nah, Molly Orlando is the new crack community. Molly's the new thing? Nah, Molly been around, boo. It's crazy that Dick got you pawning your kid's Xbox, though. Cityboy's up 1,000. It's very crazy that the D got you pawning your kid's Xbox. Basically, I was hypnotized. And, yeah, I thought I was helping him out. And, you know, it didn't work out that way.

What's crazy is he didn't have any of his own things to pawn? Nope. No, he was renting a room. I took it after he was getting back on his feet. You know, he went to a breakup. How do you explain that to your child? Why are you dating a crackhead anyway? He's not a crackhead.

He's a mollyhead. How do you explain that to your child, though? You said what? I didn't know child, though? After the fact. You said what? I didn't know what it was until after the fact. I'm not from here. I don't know anyone. How do you explain that to your child, though? Honestly, I didn't explain. I said the TV broke and it's in the shop.

You lied. And what about my Xbox, though, ma? Yeah, it broke. Everything, I still water. It got in the TV, the Xbox, and it'll be back this Friday. He's probably so sad. How old is he? My son, he's 14, his first year of high school. Oh, my goodness.

At least you're right. You gave yourself donkey of the day. My daughter is sick, so I have one hollering about YouTube TV and the other hollering about his Xbox, and I'm just like, oh, I'm going to get it out the shop. Well, don't worry. Your son in a few years, he'll be doing the same thing to some poor woman, using his D to get what he wants.

No, he will not. I'm determined. That's why I'm putting it on blast. I want you to stop falling for these dudes. You have to really be careful who you deal with and pay attention. Let's just learn, never pawn your child's items for a man. How long have you been with him?

Never, ever, ever. How long were you with him? That's a lot. We were dating for like, only like four months. Four months too long.

Hey, pawn it for penis. Have a nice day, okay? Damn it, man. Get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. If you need to vent, you can hit us up.

Naeem, we got rumors on the way? Yes, let's talk about somebody who's upset about fake friends and says they had to cut off about 20 people last year because they were stealing, sleeping with boyfriends behind her back, being abusive, alcoholics, all of that. All right, we'll get into that next. Keep it locked.

It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. It's about time. What's going on? Rumor Report. Rumor Report. This is the Rumor Report.

Talk to them. With Angela Yee on The Breakfast Club. Well, Trina was thrust into the middle of some controversy, and that's because her A&R, Reginald Saunders, had some things to say about Nicki Minaj that weren't so great, just basically that Nicki didn't help promote the single BAPS that she had with Trina. Well, I don't know if Trina is aware that this was going to happen, if there was really a problem with her. But here's what she had to say on her own live.

First of all, everybody that knows me knows anything that I got to say, I will say it and address it. I don't need anybody to speak for me. Second of all, everything that I have to say, I will address it tomorrow. So, catch me live, and I will say it one time and one time only.

And Trina don't really be beefing with people like that. Not at all. She pretty cool with everybody, so. She about to start beefing with Nicki, though. Yeah, I don't think so. But who knows? You know, according to her A&R, he said, this isn't the first time Nicki Minaj has pulled this stunt, and trust me, it's cool. I can't get

over how fake people can be for a little fame, likes, and followers. When everyone tried to warn me, I still gave her the benefit of the doubt. And her cousin, who you know from Love & Hip Hop Miami, Bobby Lights, also went on Instagram Live and said that Trina is a nice person who will continue to be friends with Nicki despite being upset. So everybody else is talking.

Trina hasn't said anything yet, so she's going to talk about it today. Boy, people will really be taking them social media posts serious, boy. You better post your friend stuff if y'all doing something together. Wasn't that the reason why Amik and Drake and Beef had one time? Amik and Drake or Amik and Wale or something like that? It wasn't just a post. I guess there was no video for it and other issues too. So who knows?

But maybe Trina hasn't got a problem at all. All right. Amber Rose, in the meantime, speaking about people being fake, is calling out fake friends. And she also has canceled the slut walk. She said, let me tell you this. If you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude.

It's because they have tried to blend into the world before and people continue to disappoint them. She goes on to say, so me, I stopped being friends with about 20 people last year. I've had friends steal jewelry and money from me, sleep with my boyfriend behind my back. Male friends lying and telling people we were sleeping together. Alcoholic, drug addict friends, abusive friends, toxic personality friends. And I even had a friend call social services on me twice for no effing reason, only to sue me for calling her and cursing her out when I found out it was her. Wow. She goes on to talk about it, and she said,

The funny thing is, I never snitched publicly on anyone. Ain't that some ish? People may not know this, but I'm extremely unproblematic. I don't start fights. I don't do drugs. And, you know, she does have a baby on the way and an amazing man. She said she's not having her slut walk this year.

Sorry, I just have to protect my energy and peace. I will say that's somewhat true, but I like being a loner because I like being alone. I do not need people. I will go sit in my backyard or sit on my porch or my deck all day by myself or with a good book and not give a damn about nobody. It's not because I got scorned by the world.

It's just like I like being alone. Yeah, I love being alone. I think when you're around people all the time, every day, you enjoy the time that you have by yourself.

But I don't like to always be alone. And when you talk all day for a goddamn living, you like to sit around and not say nothing. I love being, well, I wouldn't say

alone or loner, but I love being with my kids and my kids and my wife. I'm good with that all day long. That's not no outside world, no friends, it's just me and my wife and my kids. I love being with them too, but no, I love being with my kids, my kids and my wife. I'm good with that all day long. That's not no outside world, no friends. It's just me and my wife and my kids. I love being with them too, but no, I like being alone.

You're talking about alone. I prefer to be with them. I like to have my alone time because I feel like there's people around me all day, every day. Daddy going in the backyard to read a book. I'll be back. All right. Mary J. Blige, they are saying, owes more than $1 million in back taxes according to Bossip. And they

filed a lien against her, so I'm sure she's going to take care of it, but she's on the road with Nas. They're doing their royalty tour, which wraps up in September. I'm so sick of the IRS bothering Mary J. Blige. If one person should not have to pay taxes in this world, it's Mary J. Blige, goddammit. Yeah, you gotta get your

accounting right always, though. They don't play. Has anybody at the IRS ever heard, Life or What's the 411? Have you never gotten joy from seeing Mary J. Blige dance on stage? Leave that lady alone. Only the IRS kids. By their damn taxes. They don't care about that. They're like, oh, okay.

That album's still making money? That's what they care about. Well, her, you want to talk? How about this? I'm just playing with y'all IRS. See? And speaking of music, Snoop Dogg hasn unveiled his new track list for I Wanna Thank Me. So you can pre-order that.

It comes out on Friday. So if you want to get that new Snoop Dogg album, I Wanna Thank Me. I don't see a problem with that. Yeah, that's the new album. We don't celebrate ourselves enough, man. Self-care is important. Thank yourself sometimes, goddammit. And Drake has broken another record.

He is the first solo artist with 200 Billboard placements. So congratulations to him. He has his ninth number one Billboard 200 album this week. We told you about that care package with all those previously unreleased songs.

So now he is the first solo artist ever with 200 Billboard placements. Congratulations. Very strange to watch a rapper have this kind of run. This is really like watching Tom Brady in the NFL. Six out of the 17 songs

on Care Package is why he's now the one with that record. It's just very strange to see an artist have this level of success and hotness for 10 years straight. That's very rare. You can think about everybody who's done it in pockets.

You can think about the Ja Rules and the Nellies and the DMXs and the 50 Cents, but this guy has really maintained that for 10 years straight. That's right. And they said he's back in the studio now, so I'm sure he's working on another one. And you know who's the only other? And he's a solo artist,

so I said he's the only solo artist with over 200 Billboard placements, but do you know who has more than him? Who? The Glee cast. They have 207 placements. He has you know who has more than him? Who? The Glee cast. They have 207 placements. He has 203. I don't know nothing about them white people.

Yeah, but that's crazy. I would never have even thought that. All right, well, I'm Angela Yee, and that is your rumor report. All right, thank you, Missy. Now we got front page news coming up. Yes, we are going to be talking about Jeffrey Epstein and what happened with the two guards

that were assigned to watch him. All right, we'll get into that next. Keep it locked that were assigned to watch him. All right. We'll get into that next. Keep it locked. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha God.

We are The Breakfast Club. Let's get some front page news. Where we start, Yee? Let's start with the two guards who were assigned to watch Jeffrey Epstein have been placed on leave. So, as you all know by now, he has allegedly killed himself in jail. And the guards that were supposed to watch him, there were all kinds of issues. For instance, they were supposed to check on him every 30 minutes,

and they did not do that. They weren't done for several hours. So now those guards have been placed on administrative leave, and I'm sure they're still investigating what exactly happened. Yeah, the guards got a paid vacation for getting the job done. And the warden actually has also been temporarily reassigned as well. Amen. All right, Walmart has removed about 1,000 items, third-party items, from their website,

and those items are anything that has to do with actual guns and violence. But they still sell guns. Yes, they do. Man, I hate America, but what is wrong with us? Why do we care about symbols? Everybody cares about symbols that change instead of actual real change.

And I bet you it's people applauding that stupid move, aren't they? I don't understand it because they definitely still sell guns. I never understood why we would sell guns, though. Any type of merchandise that glorifies violence.

Oh, but they still sell guns. Yo, we are so in love with symbols of change. All you gotta do is give somebody a symbol of actual change instead of actual change. No, a symbol of change instead of actual change, and they'll be happy. Let me ask you a question, because Walmart, of course, down here doesn't sell guns,

but in the South, they sell handguns as well, or is it just rifles, just hunting? I don't know. I've never bought a gun from Walmart. I just remember seeing rifles in there. I've never paid attention. By Walmart. I just remember seeing, like, rifles in there. I've never paid attention. By the way, they had been getting a lot of pressure to take the guns out of their physical stores, but they are still selling guns and also pro-gun T-shirts as well on their site.

And last week, they pulled displays of violent video games from their stores. Why should Walmart stop selling guns? But they still sell the games, but they just pull the displays. But why Walmart? Why should Walmart in particular stop selling guns? The only still sell the games. But they just pull the displays. But why Walmart? Why should Walmart in particular stop selling guns? The only reason I say this is because you got so many young kids that go through Walmart

that see the guns and they can almost glorify and have it. But if I don't want my kids to see a gun, if I want to purchase a gun, I purchase my gun from a gun store where I have to physically go with, you know, and some kids are not even allowed in gun stores. So Walmart should just do what they're doing. They should stop selling toy guns.

They should stop selling movies that have guns in them. Like, what do you mean? This is America. You're going to see guns everywhere. Yeah, but... This is the Cowboys and Indians nation. Yeah, but you can't see the gun that's in the movie. You just see the cover of the movie.

You don't know what's in that movie. Elmo Fudd had a big-ass rifle in a cartoon. I'm sure they don't have that no more. Elmo Fudd? I'm sure they don't have that. I'm serious. You think they edited it out? Elmo Fudd. I'm sure they don't have Elmo Fudd. I'm serious. You think they edited it out? Elmo Fudd chasing the wascally wabbit?

Yeah. Bugs Bunny? On the cover of a thing? I don't think they would have that anymore. Man, these kids play Grand Theft Auto with guns. Call of Duty got guns. Fortnite got guns. Like, stop.

This is America. Guns are as American as America. America as America. Can't get more American than that. Can't get more American than that. Can't get more American than guns. All right. Now, drug tests and background checks are becoming less important. And employers are saying it's because America has a talent crunch.

And it's across all age groups. So now some companies are actually reducing hiring requirements, like the background checks, the amount of experience, the amount of education that they want, and they actually have to pay more, and they are asking for less because they need more talent. They said a lot of people just haven't been able to fill some of these jobs. A lot of these companies are in a situation where they can't compete on wages, so they're trying to find more creative ways to get talented people to come in and apply for those jobs.

I'm so confused. So they're not doing drug tests because they need the people with talent to do drugs? Well, you know that sometimes it's very strict hiring requirements. So imagine you fail a drug test for whatever reason. You smoked a little weed. You know, now that might not matter anymore. They might not even do

drug testing. And sometimes things pop up in a background check that shouldn't prohibit you from getting a job. Especially weed. Weed shouldn't prohibit you in 2019. Especially being that weed is every goddamn where. A friend of mine owns a staffing company where they actually get people jobs, but they was like, the turnaround rate is so

fast because people only work like a week and then they do something to eff it up. They're late, they don't come in, they smell like weed. It was like, it's so hard to keep people to keep a job because people don't take it seriously. And also some people, if you don't come in. They smell like weed. It was like, it's so hard to keep people a job because people don't take it seriously. And also, some people, if you don't have a bachelor's, you know, it used to be if you don't have at least an associate or bachelor's degree

or an MBA, sometimes people won't hire you, but now a lot of people are dropping those requirements as well. Look, we own a brick and mortar store at the Juices for Life store, and we're always having to deal with staffing issues and hiring people and all of that. People end up going back to school.

They get another job. They're late all the time. They fall asleep at work. All different kind of things can happen. It's crazy. You can't even get into radio no more without being in school. You can't get an internship. That's all. You can get into radio. You can't.

You never did an internship. That's what I'm saying. It's different now. We didn't have internships back in the day when we got in. That was my whole point? I never did an internship. That's what I'm saying. It's different now. We didn't have internships back in the day when we got in. That was my whole point because I damn sure wouldn't be here. Yeah, I mean,

I never even worked in radio at all before I did this. I never did an internship. I just thought I was a mixer. You can't even get an internship

unless you're in school. So how do you get an entry point in the radio? You can work in a different department like in sales or as a receptionist and then transition over

as a lot of people have done. Can you still do that? Definitely. I know people have just done that in other markets. Well, if you want a job where you can come in late smelling like weed and not get in trouble for it, radio is the job for you. Stop it. That almost got us fired. Stop it.

All right. Well, that is your front page news. Don't listen to him. The party don't start until we walk in. All right. Well, that is your front page news. Don't listen to him. The party don't start until we walk in. All right, well, thank you, Missy. Now, when we come back, we have Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley joining us. Ayanna Pressley, baby. So we'll kick it with her when we come back.

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Yep, it's the world's most dangerous morning show, The Breakfast Club. Charlamagne Tha God, Angela Yee. We have a very special guest in the building. She's a member of the House Repping Massachusetts. One-fourth of the squad is here. Ayanna Presley, what's happening? Good morning. So we are very honored to have you with us today.

I think about the squad often. I lift y'all up in prayer because I don't think people understand the courage it takes for someone in your position to speak out against the celebrity in chief, the president of the United States of America. Where does that courage come from? Well, first I just want

to say, you know, so what did you call him? The celebrity in chief. The celebrity in chief, yeah. That's appropriate. I call him the occupant because he's just occupying space. The squatter. Yeah, I mean, it's like, you know, we went from a president who sang Amazing Grace

to someone that displays zero of it. He does not embody the integrity, the empathy, the compassion. And so I will never refer to him as the president, not because I dishonor the office, but because he does. And as far as any courage, you know, I have to tell just the whole truth here. I am so grateful for the solidarity and the love and support

and the prayers and the covering that people have extended to us throughout this journey. And in particular, during that intense three-week period, it really targeted assaults and hateful rhetoric. But I felt that I was really sitting in a position of privilege, that we could garner that level of support in the face of the injustices that everyday people are living with. And including in that same week and on that day that Eric Garner's family had been denied justice. And so, you know, ultimately this is hateful rhetoric, and I would never give short shrift to the danger that hateful rhetoric puts people in.

You know, it is why El Paso happened, and we know hateful rhetoric also leads to hateful policies, and those threats are real. But at the end of the day, we were built for this. You know, I think Representative Ocasio-Cortez and Omar and Tlaib, and I would argue really any woman and certainly any woman of color, what we're doing, this is the role that we have played in movement building and ushering in, you know, social movements throughout history.

We shake the table. We call into question. We seek justice. We tell the truth. We preserve democracy. So I think we're just honoring that long tradition. And, you know, for me, it's directly influenced by the example of my mother. May she rest in power. So I don't know anything else. You also have been getting death threats. So I know that has to be really tough because you don't know how credible any of it is, where it's coming from and disappointing to see how people that you might consider this is the United States. Like, why is there so much hate here? And so all of that, I think, can weigh on somebody. Sure. It takes a toll. But let me just

say this. Like, I didn't think so.'m new to congress but not government right so I served on the Boston City Council for eight years and then I was an aide on the federal level for 16 years so I'm 45 right so when all this black really don't cry but when all this first started happening and you know folks was claiming me as a millennial my husband was like go with it you know You know, I'm like a whole grown ass woman. But, you know, but but but I received that. But the thing is, is that, you know, at the end of the day, I didn't think that my experience as a marginalized person, as a black woman suddenly changes when you have a comma and an elected title after your name. So and again, I'm not new to this. So I was an aide on the federal level, 16 years, four years in the house to former Congressman Joseph P. Kennedy II,

and then 11 years with Senator John Kerry. And then again in the city council for eight. So I've been, you know, on my grind for a long time. Now on the death threat front, let me just, I'll just argue that I don't think any leader, if you are really disruptive in the pursuit of progress and justice, if you are challenging conventional thought and wisdom, is not going to be subject to death threats. So to me, in my striving to be a leader and certainly being a black woman, that is just par for the course. It comes with the territory. It's par for the course. It comes with the territory. It's par for the course. I mean, you know,

I serve on the Oversight and Reform Committee. And one of the subcommittees I serve on is civil rights and civil liberties. And, you know, one of the things that I went at the FBI really hard about was this designation they created of black identity extremist. Yes.

Which to me is just another excuse to profile and survey black folk. Because you could argue that someone affiliated with Black Lives Matter is a black identity extremist. And this category was created because of six tragic shootings. So again, I want to honor the fact that there were six lives that were lost. But the only common denominator in those six separate tragic shootings is that the perpetrators were all black and this was created. But yet in greater incidents of domestic terrorism and white supremacy, such a category was not created. So I say all that to say that, you know, we pose a threat.

And when you pose a threat and when you make people uncomfortable you're going to be subject to those kinds of threats but I'm not afraid because one I know God's got me but two I'm much more concerned about the fear and fragility and the real hurt that everyday people that I represent in the Massachusetts

7th that they're really feeling and experiencing What are the things that are happening to y'all that we don't see though? Like it's got to be things experiencing. What are the things that are happening to y'all that we don't see, though? Like, it's got to be things behind the scenes that have happened that you have to say, okay, this is definitely a different time and a different climate. I don't know. I think the part of this work that people might not get

is that it can be very lonely. So even when you have sisterhood and when you have community, it's very lonely. So even when you have sisterhood and when you have community, it's very lonely. And I also just want to say that, you know, all of these women, I have incredible respect, admiration, and adoration for, you know. We share a unique kinship because we have walked a very unique path. It is a blessing and a burden to be the first anything. And so they're very, this dichotomy of joy and pain that we carry. We did not know each other before we were elected to Congress. I had met Alex once before because both she and I were challenging incumbents. Representative Tlaib and Omar ran in with an open seat, but they are first, you know, trailblazing, you know, in their in their own right.

But Alex and I challenged 20 year incumbents. So we actually first met here in New York. But prior to other than that, we had had no interaction. And then we came to Washington, D.C. for freshman orientation. And it's literally there's so many things about this experience that I would liken to to college, even though I didn't finish getting my degree, but including the freshman 15, it is very like college in that way. But so we were there for new member orientation and they asked to do an interview with the four of us because each of us represented first. We did this interview, and at the end of the interview, they said, oh, let's take a picture

because they thought it was a really interesting visual contrast that behind us were the paintings of all these white men. So the four of us took this photo, and then, you know, Alex said, oh, what should we call it? And she just hashtagged it squad goals, which we all know is a very popular hashtag, you know know on social media and it went viral you know so i i know that there are folks that would like to fashion us as

some sort of like we move as a unit we're joined at the hip we're some like insurgent gang you know virus of socialism and radicalism you got to be careful in this conversation. It might label you as a game task for a few years. But what we... It was a moment that went viral. It was a moment that went viral. Now, why did it go viral? Because it was resonant. It was deeply resonant because we just visually...

Defied. Represented progress. And it was just a resonant thing. And so, you know, we are... Again, we have this kinship. We forge this bond, but we have distinct voices, lived experiences, different districts. You know, we're not a monolith. Right. We have more with Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley when we come back. So don't move. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha Guy we are The Breakfast Club. We're still

kicking it with Congresswoman Ayanna Presley Yee. I was going to ask you sometimes we get really tired of talking about Trump, right? There's so many different things that he's done, that he's said and so many things that we're seeing the results of like I know we've been talking about this whole public assistance for

immigrants and if you apply for that then you can't get your green card or your visa. If you have to get like Medicaid or food stamps and things like that. Section 8. Yeah, Section 8. So I wanted to ask you, how do you stop yourself from getting numb about certain situations? Like we see these families being ripped apart. We see kids crying.

They can't find their parents. We don't know where this young girl's dad is. And when that happens and Donald Trump is saying, I'm not a racist, do we call everything that Donald Trump says and does out? I know people get exhausted having to hear it because every day is something different on Twitter. Every day is something different in the media.

So how do you balance making sure you call those things out but also just sometimes you're like, I mean, that's just who he is. Ayanna just let out a big ass sigh when you were talking about it. Yeah, yeah. I mean, you know, it is fatiguing, definitely. But I think that he does these things intentionally as a distraction. Yep.

This is like a completely corrupt, callous, chaotic administration. And, you know, he wants to distract us from that. It is fatiguing. I think we have to continue to call it out. But when it comes to things like public charge, you know, at this point, it's like nothing is surprising. It's par for the course. This is a coordinated strategic attack against immigrants

from the immigration status question, from HUD's rule that mixed immigration status families cannot live in public housing. By the way, most people are in mixed immigration status families. You have TPS holders, DACA recipients, asylum seekers in one family. The Muslim ban, public charge. You know, the cruelty is the point. Right. And, you know, I did go to the border.

I urge every member of Congress to go to the border and to bear witness to the trauma that we experienced there and that I observed. But it's also important to remember that we have been here before. Right. So this is a shock to our system. Children being ripped from the arms of their mothers and families being separated and how dehumanizing and how demoralizing all that is. But we know that separating families is one of the most effective tools of oppression, right? We saw this with indigenous people on reservations. We saw this at the auction block during slavery and we see it now

and so it is fatiguing, it is exhausting but we just have to continue to do the work because people are counting on us and I will not further embolden a racist and rogue agency this is why I do believe that ICE does need to be abolished and defunded

and so we have to be too pronged in our approach what can we do as citizens? Are you kidding me? You could do it every day on this platform. You educate people. You empower. Look, this is not just

the work of Congress. This is the time for the uprising of bold activist leadership from every corner. No one person, no four members of Congress can defeat the hate, the draconian and oppressive,

xenophobic policies coming out of this administration every single day. This is a fascist regime. Absolutely. And so only a movement can really be an affront to that. And this is why throughout my campaign, I said the people closest to the pain should be the closest to the power driving and informing the policymaking. This is not work that we do alone. This is work that we do in symbiotic partnership with community, like my work on gun violence. That work has got to be survivor-led, victim-centered, and offender-sensitive because of the dichotomy of community-based violence where we're dealing with both the highest incident of both perpetrator and victim and often living next door to one another.

That work has got to be done in partnership with community. the highest incident of both perpetrator and victim and often living next door to one another. That work has got to be done in partnership with community. Otherwise, the solutions are not sustainable and they're not effective. I saw you on Trevor Noah. You said that there's bills that could be passed tomorrow that could save lives when it comes to guns. What are some of those bills? I mean, like I said, you know, New Zealand, they had a mass shooting and shortly thereafter,

they passed the assault weapons ban. We could do that tomorrow. Right. What about all the guns on the street? We could do a universal background check. Well, we could do a federal gun buyback program. I mean, there's just too many guns. For every 100 people, there are 120 guns.

So there are more guns than people. And for as long as you have that many guns, then you have a higher incident of accidental shootings of children at home, a higher incident of suicides, which no one is talking about. Again, I convened the first hearing in the history of the Congressional Oversight and Reform Committee on childhood trauma and veteran suicide, youth suicide, farmer suicide. This stuff is through the roof. And so you decrease those numbers when people don't have easy access to a gun. So and the other thing is, again, you know, all of this violence is it's interconnected. You know, we also know that domestic terrorists or perpetrators of violence often have the overlay of also being abusive towards women. So the other thing that we could pass is we could close the boyfriend loophole.

I remember during the Violence Against Women Act reauthorization debate, my Republican colleagues from across the aisle were screaming, don't support this. They're coming for our guns. It's like, well, if you've abused women, you're right. Yeah, we are coming for your guns. Like, don't make this a violation of the Second Amendment. You know, I am. There's just for your guns. Like, don't make this a violation of the Second Amendment, you know. Are you anti-gun?

So, I am. There's just too many guns. There's too many guns. We need more gun control. And the access is, you know, there's just too many. But the other thing, in terms of community-based violence, we have got to address straw purchasing and gun trafficking. So, you know, universal background checks,

a federal ban on assault weapons. These things would immediately and dramatically reduce the number of lives lost to gun violence. But then the other thing is the Center for Disease Control. They need to study the root causes of gun violence. A lot of it is a mental health issue. Like I hear a lot of people say a lot of different reasons why they think there's gun problems in America. I don't think nobody's wrong. I think that you're right.

There's too many guns on the street. I think it's mental health issues. I think it's the glorification of violence in America through video games and movies. I think it's all of those things. Well, it's also poverty. I mean, I remember it might have been Detroit. I'm not sure. But there was a gun buyback program where they exchanged groceries for your gun.

And it was one of the most successful. And I think that right there shows the link between, you know, poverty and lack of opportunity and increased violence. But, you know, we also have to be careful in our messaging because I certainly don't want to in any way perpetuate the idea that everyone that is low income or poor is predisposed to violently offend. Everyone battling mental illness is predisposed because that isn't the truth. But the Center for Disease Control needs to study this because if they can study influenza, then they should be studying the root causes of gun violence as a public health crisis and epidemic. And again, the issue that I'm really banging the drum on in partnership and in coalition with families who've been robbed of loved ones due

to gun violence, and please say robbed, we don't lose people, we're robbed of them, is we have to address the rights of survivors. And that's one of the things that I'm working on is developing a survivor's bill of rights. So you have families that are being robbed of loved ones because of gun violence, and then there's no justice. And so that is something we have to address. And then we need the wraparound supports to support people in their healing. Not only do we need justice for survivors, but healing. Yes.

Do you know for every person that we are robbed of, of gun violence, a minimum of 20 people are impacted? Absolutely. So you're talking about trauma that does not immediately manifest, right? So right now, if there's a mass shooting or something, therapists or there's community-based violence, if you're lucky and have resources

and have socio-emotional wellness supports, like a school nurse, like a social worker, like a psychotherapist, they will have interventions for like the first 72 hours, but a lot of trauma is not immediately presenting. So like as an example, they did a survey on asthma, because our communities are disproportionately impacted by asthma, and they asked parents,

okay, how bad is your child's asthma on a scale of 1 to 10? And this was in Roxbury, in my district. And parents said that their child's asthma was like a 3 or 4. But when they were tested, it was 9 or 10. Life-threatening. You know, you don't even realize that you're traumatized and how bad things are or how unhealthy you are

because these things do become normal. Imagine that. Your child has life-threatening asthma and you think it's at a three or four. That's how we treat anxiety. That's how we treat depression. We treat all of those things like they're just normal. You're just supposed to feel like that, especially if you grew up in a certain environment.

We have more with Congresswoman Ayanna Presley. So don't move. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are The Breakfast Club. We're still kicking it with Congresswoman Ayanna Presley. Charlamagne. How can we continue to tell people to vote in 2020

if we know our election is compromised? Why aren't people making more of a big deal about the fact that there was Russian interference in our elections? Why isn't that a big issue? Mitch McConnell blocked an election security bill after learning about all this Russian interference. Like, why isn't this a big deal?

Yeah, I mean, again, I'm grateful for the platform and that you continue to raise this issue. And, you know, the thing that does worry me about educating people about this is that we don't want to suppress the vote. You don't want people to say, I'm not voting because it doesn't matter. But aren't they already suppressing the vote?

Of course, that happens in many ways, but I'm talking about in our psychology. Incentivizing us to stay home. I think it does the opposite. I think if we let people know that there was Russian interference in the 2016 election, it makes people feel who went out and voted that...

It emboldens them? Yeah, it's like, oh, my vote didn't matter. But otherwise, and I'm bummed because I didn't bring Mitch McConnell's phone number in here because I would give it to everybody right now. Because you're right. You know, we could have passed election protection and that is something that should be a bipartisan issue. That's fundamental to our democracy. Why is Nancy Pelosi afraid to impeach Donald Trump? I don't know. You know, you'd have to

talk to her about that. Part of it could be if it doesn't work, it might be a terrible blow. But you have to set a precedent that this is wrong. So to me, this is bigger than Donald Trump and where we are right now. This is about preserving the office of the presidency. So it

is not about Donald Trump. This is not some partisan witch hunt. Which he's calling it, though. He's making it seem like it's a witch hunt. Again, you know, he likes to play victim. So that's, you know, convenient. And that's what he does. But, you know, at the end of the day, this is about preserving the office of the presidency. History will judge us by this moment in time. I know, and you all affirm every day in what you do on this show, that he lost moral authority a long time ago, but also the Mueller report, you know, did prove obstruction of justice. And so there are many grounds, and the majority of our caucus are on board. And I do want to give credit where credit is due to the leadership of Representative Al Green and Representative Rashida Tlaib for their

resolution to initiate impeachment proceedings, and I was proud to be an early co-sponsor of that resolution. When AOC said that Nancy Pelosi was singling out women of color, did you agree with her? I don't know if that's really what she said. You know, I think

what I'll just say is none of that serves us well. And again, I think there is this idea that we're sort of this cohort of some insurgent gang that is like this virus. And a lot of that is unfortunately in politics, perception becomes the only truth. That is not the truth. Each of us enjoy very productive, great relationships with our colleagues. Each of us are lawmaking. So each of us is on our grind. We are doing the work that our district sent us to do.

Even amongst the squad, y'all don't always agree, right? Because I saw an article that a political wrote and the headline was, a member of the squad goes rogue. And you guys aren't a monolith, like you said. Absolutely, but can I, again, that's what I'm just saying, that kind rogue. And you guys aren't a monolith, like you said. Absolutely. But again, that's what I'm just saying. That kind of like language.

We are not a monolith. We don't land in the same place on every vote. This vote was. We are each our own people. I know you got to go. I got one last quick question. OK. And it's from the political article. Oh, OK.

They said you're progressive with the squad, but you spend most of your career pushing for change from within the establishment, not shaking it up from the outside. What do you say to that? Again, binary choices and revisionist history. The Boston City Council has 13 members. I was the first woman of color, first black woman elected to that council. It took over 100 years. I represented about 660,000 people. While I served on that body, six more women were, well, five more women were elected to the Boston City Council who identifies women of color. We completely changed it. And they

are all truth tellers. They are all table shakers. They are all disruptive. And so I think people think the council has always been this way, but that is just not the truth. You know, so did I work to change things structurally and legislatively from within the system? Yes, because I'm a legislator and I was serving on a governing body. But I didn't never did this work alone. You know, I'm just a vehicle in a vessel. I did this work in partnership with the people that I represent. And so I my values have always been progressive. My approach to actualizing my progressive values has always been one through coalition building. And so, again, this is about people forcing a narrative of binary choices. Are you insider or outsider?

Are you privileged or poor? Are you, you know, I'm not, you know, are you radical or sane? I'm working. You're a public servant. You got to serve the needs of the public. I'm working. You know? I'm working. You're a public servant. You got to serve the needs of the public. I'm working. I'm working. And I have been for a very, very long time.

Well, Ayanna Pressley, we are praying for you. I receive that. I want you to get security. I think every squad has shooters. You need some shooters. I'm just saying. Well, listen, keep us prayed up and covered. Can I get those shirts for the crew?

Oh, yes. Let's get our squad shirts. Yeah. That's not the shooter right there? That's not the shooter in the car? That's not the shooter. He can't tell you if he is or not. But we can't open the door, I know, because we're like...

Yeah, you can't. Go ahead, open it. Okay, but the T-shirts, they just say, we are the squad. And again, this is... Open them up. There you go. Bring them in. Let's put them on camera.

Okay, this is, you know, the reason why we created these shirts is because, and this is my husband. What's up, my brother? My black diamond. Now, there you go. See, you got a shooter. That's what I'm talking about. That's what I'm talking about. This is my husband, Conan.

Man, I'm so glad you got a black husband. I didn't know. Yeah, well, I love me some him. But so these shirts say we are the squad. Let me see. Because anyone doing the work of building a more equitable and just world is a member of the squad. Wow. You know, this is not just about, you know, four members of Congress.

Never has been, never will be. Where can you get these at? Oh, you can get these online at ayanapresi.com. And we are the squad. And the squad is big, y'all. Word. Well, thank you. We appreciate you for coming through.

Thank you. We really do. We've been wanting to have you for quite some time. Oh, thank you. I appreciate you so much. This is so important what you do. And just thank you for you. We appreciate you for coming through. Thank you. I know we've been wanting to have you for quite some time. Oh, thank you. I appreciate you so much. This is so important what you do and just thank you for the voter education that you do every day. Absolutely. And thank you for people like you coming up here and informing our listeners even more. Yeah, my

pleasure. It's Ayanna Presley. It's The Breakfast Club. Hey, morning everybody. It's DJ MV Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are The Breakfast Club. Let's get to the rumors. Let's talk Cardi B. She's sp to the rumors. Let's talk Cardi B. It's time. She's spilling the tea.

This is The Rumor Report with Angela Yee on The Breakfast Club. Well, Cardi B has released a snippet of her interview of Bernie Sanders. Now, she's been wanting to talk to these candidates and ask them questions that affect all of us. She posted, what are your questions? So I know this is long overdue, but here it is. A couple of weeks ago, I asked my followers, if you all had the chance to ask a Democratic candidate a question, what would that question be? The topic that was mentioned the most by all of you was about raising a minimum wage. I got the chance to ask Bernie Sanders about this, and these are his answers.

Keep sending your questions. We will be addressing more of these soon. Body doing exactly what she should be doing. Absolutely. Well, here is her question and Bernie Sanders' answer. What are we going to do about wages in America? Right now, we have tens of millions of people who are earning what I consider to be starvation wages. Can you imagine somebody today earning $9 an hour? That don't make no sense. No, it doesn't. And if you have a child, legislation

that I've introduced, which was passed in the house recently, the US House, would raise that minimum wage to $15 an hour. And what we also have to do is make it easier for workers to join unions so they can sit down and engage in collective bargaining and earn a decent living. Barty doing exactly what she should be doing. And she's reaching out to the people, asking them what they want to know. She has access to these presidential candidates to ask those questions. So why not? All right.

So I'm sure there's going to be more coming soon. I want to talk to different candidates, too. I'm sure. I'm sure she can. All right. Now, Katy Perry, what's going on here? She's being accused of sexual misconduct. And that is by a model and actor, Josh Kloss,

who was her love interest in the 2010 Teenage Dream music video. He posted, you know, after I met Katy, we sang a worship song, opened the eyes of my heart. She was cool and kind. When other people were around, she was cold as ice, even called the act of kissing me gross to the entire set while filming. Now, I was pretty embarrassed, but I kept giving my all. He goes on to say that Katie invited him to a strip club in Santa Barbara after the first day of shooting. He said, I declined and told her I have to go back to hotel and rest because this job

is all I have right now. So he did see her a couple of times after she broke up with Russell. She said, according to Josh Kloss, he said, the one time I bought a friend who was dying to meet her. It was Johnny Bujic's birthday party at Moonlight Rollaway, and when I saw her, we hugged and she was still my crush, but as I

turned to introduce my friend, she pulled my Adidas sweats and underwear out as far as she could to show a couple of her guy friends and the crowd around us my penis. Can you imagine how pathetic and embarrassed I felt? She pulled them out, so that means people had to gather around and look down. She didn't pull them down.

She pulled my Adidas sweats and underwear out as far as I guess. Yeah, that means out, so she pulled them out so people had to go and look inside. So the point of him telling the story... I don't ever want to see you do that action again, all right? I like detail Is he saying that I just say this now

Because our culture Is set on proving Men of power are perverse But females with power Are just as disgusting So can he sue I don't know if he's Even trying to sue

No but can he I think he just wanted To tell his story About what happened I don't even think I mean sadly I just don't think Nobody cares

Like I just said that Just now and people laughed If I said that was about a woman Everybody would have have been looking down like, oh, my God. Oh, my gosh. So should he sue? I just don't think nobody cares. So should he sue? Sue who?

I thought people could sue now if it's something like that. You want to sue all the people that gathered around and looked at your penis? No. Who pulled the pants back and said, He said Katy Perry. And why can't he sue Katy Perry? Well, he goes on to say that he just doesn't want to protect her BS image. And he shows some correspondence that he had with her team because people were interviewing him about being the lead in her Teenage Dream video.

And they actually wrote back the answers that he had to say in order to respond to these interview questions. Did he say when it happened? Because I heard it was last Friday night. No. He said, the fear sticks with you when you are sent to protect someone else's image, but in return treat it like a prostitute and expose it in front of a group of her friends and other random people.

Then you are shocked and you block it out because you watch the face of children being uplifted by positive music that she sang. And he explains what happened. All this is because it was the anniversary of that song. So he just, I guess, felt like getting this off of his chest. In the meantime, a lot of people were flagging his post on Instagram.

So Instagram sent him a warning that his account might be deleted. See what I'm saying? A lot of her fans. Man can't even tell a story. Lord have mercy. So that's what's happening. All right. A$AP Rocky, his assault trial verdict is expected to be announced.

And he doesn't have to be there, of course. This is in Sweden. But, you know, I don't know what's going to happen. They're asking for a six-month jail sentence for A$AP Rocky. They're saying he used excessive force during his fight with Jafari. So perhaps he'll get that. If I'm A$AP Rocky, I'm innocent regardless. I ain't never going back. Even if they said guilty, I'm going to go back. F no.

Well, he's already said he's not going back. I'm going to go back regardless. It doesn't even matter at this point. I'm not going back. All right, Jay-Z and Roc Nation have partnered with the NFL. They're doing a music and social justice campaign. So it's Roc Nation and the NFL. And what's going to happen is they're going to work together

on the league's Inspire Change activism campaign. He's also going to work on the Super Bowl halftime show. He's a consultant. So there you have it. Some people are speculating that Beyonce is going to perform for the third time at halftime, but who knows? On the face, I don't see the problem with this because if you want to change something, sometimes the best change comes from within but I think the biggest issue people have

and question people have is they want to know how could Hov partner with a league on social justice when the man who brought it to the attention of the masses by peacefully protesting against social injustice, Colin Kaepernick, is still denied a job by those exact same people. Like the NFL really can't have social justice

until they fix that, right? I'm sure he probably had a conversation, right, with Colin Kaepernick behind the scenes before making this announcement, I would think. That still doesn't nullify the point that, you know, Colin Kaepernick still doesn't have a job. Well, maybe he's feeling like the way to make change is within. I just said that, and I agree with that.

But I'm just saying, it's hard for people to look at this situation and say, hey, it's a social justice initiative when Colin Kaepernick still does not have a job. He's the person who peacefully protested against social injustice. So the NFL really can't have social justice until they fix that.

When they fix that, then they can move on to doing deals with guys like Holtz. So nobody's going to be mad anymore that people are watching NFL because last year everybody banned NFL, right? Who's, who's, who's... Everybody didn't do that.

A lot of people banned NFL. So you think if, so if Colin Kaepernick got a job, then everything's... This wouldn't be an issue at all. Over and done. Nobody would have any problems at all. They would not,

they would actually be, I mean, I applaud the move because I think that you can make, you can make change from within and you should attempt to make change from within. But if Colin had a job, nobody would have any issue with this whatsoever. All right, I'm ang move because I think that you can make change from within and you should attempt to make change from within. But if Colin had a job, nobody would have any issue with this whatsoever. All right, I'm Angela Yee.

Because sometimes, not even sometimes, most of the time, we like symbols of change more than actual change, which is wild to me. All right, I'm Angela Yee, and that is your rumor report. All right, thank you, Ms. Sheik. Charlemagne, donkey, who are you giving it to? You know, I think that you should always be yourself, especially in the bedroom. And I hate to go back to Florida today, but we need to go to Florida. All right.

We'll get into that next. Keep it locked. This is The Breakfast Club. Good morning. Make sure you tell them to watch out for Florida, man. The craziest people in America come from the Bronx and all of Florida. Yes, you are a donkey. A Florida man attacked an ATM for a very strange reason.

It gave him too much money. Florida man is arrested after deputies say he rigged the door to his home in an attempt to electrocute his pregnant wife. Police arrested an Orlando man for attacking a flamingo. The Breakfast Club, bitches. Donkey of the Day with Charlemagne Tha God. I don't know why y'all keep letting him get y'all.

I don't even mean to do this. Donkey of the Day for Charlemagne the God. I don't know why y'all keep letting him get y'all. I don't even mean to do this. Donkey of the Day for Friday, August 14th goes to a young woman named Ashley Edwards and her boyfriend, Kenneth Atkins. God bless Ashley Edwards. She's from Tampa, Florida. And you know what your Uncle Charla always says about Florida. The craziest people in America come from the Bronx

and all of Florida. And this is just another story that solidifies that once again. Now I'm letting you know right now that we are playing a game of Guess What Race It Is! We don't need the music yet. You know, I just want people to listen to the details of this situation. You know, to get your clues.

Everybody at home, play along. Now, police were called to the home of Kenneth Atkins and Ashley Edwards to find the interracial couple engaged in a verbal argument over refusal to role play. I repeat, this interracial couple engaged in a verbal argument over refusal to role play. Now, let's unpack this, as my therapist says. First clue, and guess what race it is? We have an interracial couple.

All right? Write that down. Now, Ashley, the girlfriend, stated she wanted to play slave in slaver. Kenneth, the boyfriend, did not wish to partake and became verbally aggressive. I don't know how the conversation went, but I'm sure it was something to the effect of, who the hell are you playing with? You think slavery a joke, ho? Go play slave in slaver with your mama, ho.

Well, as tensions escalated, Kenneth, the boyfriend, spit in Ashley's face. I don't condone spitting in anyone's face. I can't think of anything more disrespectful than that. Now, I am a stern believer that when you do something to someone, you can't tell them how to react. But when you spit in someone's face, that rule is reinforced by a million. Okay, I don't care what it is. When you spit in someone's face, there is no such thing as going too far when it comes to that person retaliating. Okay, I was watching a great documentary last night called King in the Wilderness about the last 18 months of MLK Jr.'s life. And there's a part in the doc where a white woman runs up to MLK Jr. and spits in his face repeatedly.

And MLK Jr. replied, now you are much too pretty to be acting like that. In that moment, I said to myself, Lord have mercy, Jesus Christ returned, and we didn't even recognize it. MLK Jr. had more patience than Job because in that moment, when she spit in his face, I wanted all the nonviolence to go out the window and I wanted the ladies of the civil rights movement

to knock that white woman to the ground and march all over her in those ballet flat church shoes. But enough of the civil rights talk. Let's get back to slavery. Ashley, Edward and Kenneth Atkins, interracial couple. Do you have your clue? Ashley, the girlfriend, wanted to play slave and slaver. And Kenneth Atkins, the boyfriend, cursed her out and spit in her face because of that request. Before we give out these hee haw's, let let's play a game of Guess What Race It Is! All right.

Now, you got your clues. Right, Envy? Yes. Right, Yee? Yes. Ashley Edwards, Kenneth Atkins, interracial couple, Florida. Ashley, the girlfriend, wanted to play slave and slaver. Kenneth Atkins, the boyfriend, cursed her slave and slaver Kenneth Atkins the boyfriend cursed her out

and spit in her face Angela Yee guess what race it is I would say Ashley is a white woman okay and Kenneth is a black man okay it only makes sense

damn damn all right not a bad guess DJ Envy yeah I thought this was gonna be a little more difficult. You had me writing things down here. You wrote things down? Yeah, because you got to write down the clues.

What'd you write? I wrote Ashley White. That's the clue? And Kenneth Black. I thought it was going to be a curveball somewhere or something. Maybe there is. You don't know the answer. Okay.

Let's listen. I'm going to tell both you niggas you're wrong. Ashley Edwards is a black woman, a queen, and Kenneth Atkins is a white man.

Now, let me tell you something. Put the picture up there. You see the picture up on Revolt right there. Look on Revolt TV. Let me tell you something. Ashley Edwards is getting donkier today

because why the hell would you be making a mockery of something like slavery? OK, slavery is not something to role play, because if you were actually role playing slavery, you would be getting raped by your master. And I don't think it's cute that a sister would request that of her white boyfriend. Now, Kenneth Atkins, I commend you for not involving yourself in this Uncle Tom foolery. But you have to share in this donkey for spitting on a black woman. I just told you I watched King in the

Wilderness documentary last night, and I'm triggered, because all I saw was white men hawk spitting on Martin Luther King Jr. and the brothers and the sisters in the civil rights movement as they were marching, so I'm not feeling that. If I see a white man spitting on a black woman, no matter the context, we're going to beat your ass, okay? Because you may not have role-played slave and slaver

with her, but when you as a white man spit on a black woman, you damn sure could be role-playing in a civil rights protest. So please let Remy Ma give Ashley Edwards and Kenneth Atkins the biggest hee-haw. Hee-haw, hee-haw. You stupid mother f***er. You dumb. Now, I'm not going to name names, but I had a guest on lip service, and he said that he would be turned on if a white woman wanted to pretend to be a slave master

and he would enjoy it. Tell us who it is. It was all lip service. It's out. I don't want to put him out there at this moment. You got a whole podcast. You got a whole podcast out there. You got to go back and listen and figure it out.

People are going to start texting us and hitting us on Twitter and social media. Come on, you tell us who it was. It's a blind item. Stop that Uncle Tom foolery. All right, and breaking news, A$AP Rocky has been found guilty, by the way. Really?

In the Swedish assault case. Yes, he has. And like I said, there's no possible way he would be going back. Well, he's been given a suspended sentence, no jail time, and he has to pay a fine to the victim. I like how you set that up, E. Yeah, that was good. Made everybody think he was going to have to take his ass back. I didn't say that.

I just said he's got found guilty. That was a good setup. That was a good setup. You got me. Good setup. Good job, E. I knew it had to be a twist somewhere. That's why I didn't say that. I just said he's got a bad guilt. That was a good setup. Good setup. You got me. Good setup. I knew it had to be a twist somewhere. That's why I didn't say anything. All right.

All right. Well, thank you for that donkey today. Now, when we come back, ask Yee. 800-585-1051 if you need relationship advice or any type of advice. Call Yee right now.

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Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee. Charlamagne Tha Guy, we are The Breakfast Club. It's time for Ask Yee. Hello, who's this? It's Dave. Dave, what's up?

What's your question for Yee, bro? Hey, so I'm white, and my wife's black, and my grandparents don't treat my kids the same as they treated me when I was a kid. I can see a difference. And I don't know how to approach them and say, look, I can see how y'all are acting and I don't really know how to explain it to them. Okay, so I'm going to say this was my life because my mom is black, my dad is Chinese, and my grandparents definitely weren't feeling me and my brother because we're mixed. And that was something that I did

notice myself. Do you think your children noticed that? Because they don't know how their grandparents treated you. Right, right. So, not really, but I can tell, obviously. Right. So, it might not even, it's just little subtle, is it little subtle things? Yeah, like, I don't know.

They just act weird. It's not the same vibe, like, I don't know. They just act weird. It's not the same vibe. Like, they don't feel like grandma and grandpa. Well, maybe you should just have a conversation with them. And I would also have that conversation with my children and just say, hey, how do you feel about grandma and grandpa? Just to kind of see if they are getting any type of weird vibe. Because I think that's one of the main things to make sure that your kids feel loved by their grandparents. You know, but it might be something that even they don't notice or maybe it's something that you're making too you're maybe too paranoid about so that's why you got to have that conversation with them and just

ask them do you you know ask them about those questions that are hard to ask about race and do you feel upset that i my grandchildren that your grandchildren are mixed? Do you have any issues with that? I've noticed that you've done this and you should give really specific examples. It can't just be a general feeling like, you know, this happened on this day or when you did this, I felt a little weird about it and just let them know

and point it out and hopefully they'll change their behavior if there is something weird. Maybe they don't even think they're acting strange. Right. Okay. Well, appreciate it, Yee. No problem. Alright, y'all. Alright, bro. Have a good one. I ask Yee, 800-585-1051 if you need relationship advice

or any type of advice, call Yee right now. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. N.V., Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are The Breakfast Club. We're in the middle of Ask Yee. Hello, who's this? Hey, man. Hey, man.

What's up, man? What's your question for you, bro? So this is my situation. I was in a marriage, right? Me and my wife been married now about a year. So we got in a situation where the relationship got physical. We had a physical altercation in our relationship. And basically, her family won't forgive me for that.

Being her, we had our issues. You know what we went through. We know why the things happened and they happened. And we still want to work on it. But her family really doesn't approve of it because of me putting my hands on her. Well, of course not. Her family. Yeah.

I'm trying to figure out, like, how could we possibly work around that? Well, her family is very protective of her. So, of course, they should feel that way. And so you shouldn't look at that as something detrimental. Of course they should feel like you put your hands on our family member, on a woman, and they should definitely side-eye you for that. So, first, you have to understand they're very valid in their reason for looking at you in the way that they are. And that's a punishment that you have

to take. And I totally understand that, you know what I'm saying? It got physical, but I want you to understand this, for over the years, right, me and her both been back and forth, we both have put our hands on each other. Right. And it's kind of like, it's kind of like, I know it ain't right for nobody to do it, but it's like

if I were to do something wrong, you know what I'm saying, and she go through my phone, and she'd see something on my phone. She'd go through my phone, and she'd attack me because of things that she'd seen on my phone. And she'd put her hands on me plenty of times. Right. So this time, it was the other way around. I seen something on her phone, so I put my hands on her because of that. You know what I'm saying?

So it really got out of hand only because she had bruises and scars and situations. Wow. That really, really pushed it, you know. Yeah, and you bruised and scarred your woman up, and that should make you feel terrible. And I want to say a couple of things. First of all, it's never right for a woman to put her hands on a man either, and I tell people that all the time. Women shouldn't be putting their hands, nobody should be putting their hands on each other.

I think that, as you said, what happened was worse because you ended up really physically harming her. And you could have ended up in jail for that. And things could have gotten even worse. You could have permanently damaged her. You could have, you know, and one thing

my boyfriend would tell me is that anytime, and his mom has always told him this, if you feel like you have to put your hands on a woman, that's you need to walk away. That's not the right woman for you. But you said this is the one time that it happened. She wants to forgive you for it. And I can't tell a woman what to do. But I suggest that you guys have got to get real help. And that means that you have to go to therapy. You have to

figure out why you reacted the way you reacted. She has to figure out how to keep her hands to herself as well. But there really is never an excuse for you to basically beat your woman up and that's what you did. Yeah, it really ain't new. Can I tell you what happened though? Or why I did it? You went through her phone and saw something.

Yeah, well, basically when I saw it, let me tell you what I saw, though. I went through her phone, right, and I saw that she was actually having an affair with my son's football coach. Listen, I feel you. But there's still no matter, it don't matter what you saw, there's no justification. I see. Yeah, I understand what you're saying. But at a time like that, when you see that, you're still trying to justify it

I'm listening I don't agree with you my brother To leave a damn house? To lead a damn house? Yeah, you can't move off emotion in a situation like that. You got to move off strategy. Number one, because you shouldn't hit a woman. And number two, because you just got too much to lose, brother.

That's right. And if I had Nick in my system, I'd probably cry. And I'm concerned. We know, we know, Evie. In the fetal position. In the fetal position. What I am concerned about is that you are still trying to get people to back you up for your actions. And you cannot justify

your actions. You cannot put your hands you can't appeal to the men in the room and think that they're going to be like, you ought to get it too. I can understand why you did that. There's no explanation. There's no way that you are in the right in this situation. I feel you. You were hurt. But that doesn't mean that you are in the right in this situation i feel you you were hurt but that doesn't mean that you're supposed to physically harm your woman now i will say i can understand why he did

it i don't agree though i can understand the emotion and the alcohol but i don't agree with you you can't justify it you can't say well this is why i did it so all good so you cannot ever do something like that again and you have to own the fact that you were wrong in your reaction now was she wrong dead Dead wrong. You could have left her. You could have said, I'm never going to be with you again. You could have cut off whatever support you give her or she gives you, whatever it is, but you

physically putting your hands on her is never the solution. I know I was wrong, but I really regret it right now because I feel we separated. I didn't move that. I'm away from my kids and family. It's hard now because, like I said, we separated. I didn't move that. And, you know what I'm saying, I'm going to wait for my kids and family. It's hard now because, like I said, her family had a whole lot of respect for me before

getting married, but now they don't respect me. Yeah, you bruised her up. You know how crazy that looks? What you need to do is get yourself into some therapy and show her that you're serious about rehabbing yourself and take that time apart to work on you. I'm doing that. I don't feel like nothing wrong with me. I just had a bad to work on you. I'm doing that.

I don't feel like nothing wrong with me. I just had a bad situation that one time. I'm not all goofy. Stop. Listen, there is something wrong. You shouldn't have reacted that way. And you got to acknowledge that. If you did it once, you'll do it again.

So it's all wrong with me because of one mistake. Everybody makes mistakes. I feel like I had to go get therapy and all that. Everybody does make mistakes. But the problem is, first of all, you're using liquor when you're upset, and that's the worst thing to do. You're upset, you're mad, you're using liquor to take away the pain, and you wind up being abusive. And yes, you have a problem, and you need to deal with that problem.

You don't want to make sure that happens again. And then the next time, you're saying, yeah, I made two mistakes. You just want to make sure that you clean yourself up. How old are you, sir? He sounds older. Yeah, I made that mistake when I was 17 years old, you know, putting my hands on a woman, you know, for the same situation. But, you know, I had low emotional intelligence then.

I was immature. I was insecure. I had low self-esteem. Like, my ego was bruised. But at 33 years old, nah, I wouldn't make that mistake. If you're serious, go get some help for yourself and acknowledge that you're wrong because I don't think you really truly

grasped it. Okay. I can understand that. I can understand that. Alright. I wish you the best. Alright. I appreciate that. Alrighty. Well, ask E.E. 800-585-1051. If you need relationship advice or any type of advice, you can hit E.E. now. Now we got rumors on the way.

You know it. We're going to talk about our Brooklyn Nets. How does Steph Curry respond to Kevin Durant deciding that he was going to leave the Warriors? All right, we'll get into that next. Keep it locked. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club.

Listen up. It's just in. All the gossip. Gossip. The rumor report. Gossip. With Angela. Angela Yee.

It's the rumor report. The Breakfast Club. Well, we gave you this breaking news earlier, but A$AP Rocky has been found guilty of assaulting a man in Sweden. Now, he is not going to have to serve any jail time. Another issue they were trying to figure out was his self-defense, and did he actually hit this man with a bottle and cut him? But they couldn't get a single witness who saw that bottle fly during the incident.

And ASAP Rocky said he was holding a bottle for protection but put it down and it never made contact with the guy. No one actually saw that bottle. So ASAP Rocky hit him with it. So that's what it was. They could not prove the bottle was used to hit the victim. So they said there's no more time served and he won't have to do community service,

but he does have to pay restitution to the victim and cover the court expenses in Sweden. We don't know how much that is yet. Okay. All right. Let's talk about another lawsuit. Don Lemon from CNN has been sued. Allegedly, they are saying that he assaulted a man at a bar in the Hamptons. A bartender said that Don Lemon, after he recognized Don Lemon at a location,

he offered to buy him a drink. This was back in July of 2018. Now, Don Lemon declined the offer, but then he approached him and allegedly assaulted the bartender. You didn't say what kind of drink it was.

It's a lemon drop. Yeah, that's true. That really happened. You can't even make this kind of stuff. My goodness. That's a true story. All right, now,

according to the person who is now accusing Don Lemon of assaulting him. You're saying this is a true story? Dustin Heist. No, I said that the guy's, never mind. The guy. The true story is the guy's claiming that it was an assault. I know, but I just wanted to clear it up. Offered him a lemon drop.

Yes. All right. According to this person, Dustin Heist, he said Don Lemon then placed his hands down his pants and vigorously rubbed his genitalia. He looked up vigorously. What did that mean? And shoved his fingers under his nose and then proceeded to ask him, do you like vagina or penis? But not in those words. So he rubbed his hands on his testicles and put it on the guy's nose? Allegedly.

Allegedly. Now, according to the person who was accusing the plaintiff, he said Mr. Lemon was wearing a pair of shorts, sandals and a T-shirt and then also put his index and middle finger into his mustache under his nose. So I don't know. Now, CNN, a CNN spokesperson is speaking on behalf of Don Lemon and saying that Don Lemon categorically denies the allegations and says that the person who's accusing him, Dustin Heist, does not like CNN and has displayed a pattern of contempt for CNN on his social media accounts and that's why this claim is being filed. Rough week for CNN because you saw Chris

Cuomo get approached and this is happening to Don Lemon and you just never know. People really may be upset that they're on a left leaning network talking about what's going on the right in a negative way. So some of this stuff could be plants, people. I'm just saying.

They could be targeted right now. Okay, and let's discuss Steph Curry. He's talking about Kevin Durant's decision to leave the Warriors and join our Brooklyn Nets. Now here is what Steph Curry had to say about their relationship and how they both actually won those rings together. Him going to Brooklyn is just trying to make sure he's happy and going to a place where he feels like he needs to be.

At the end of the day, you got to be happy about that for him. That's what every player in this league wants to be in a situation where they can decide where they want to play. All right, so there you have it. Very mature. I'm sure they'll still be cool. He respects that. Speaking of basketball, Lamar Odom, he's talking about having a new woman, Sabrina Parr.

And he was on Disnation, and he was discussing what makes his new girlfriend different. What makes Disnation different from previous relationships? It's the truth. She's black. And a black woman come along and ain't playing there. Oh, no, I was not playing at all. She keep it real. Now, Sabrina Pryor also talks about what she had to do in order to be OK to be in a relationship with Lamar Odom. You have to meet people where they are. He was never in a position to be someone's husband. You know, he was sick. He needed to heal. He needed to grieve. He experienced a lot of losses and he never had time to go through that. So I knew with my resources and my personality and my attitude, I could help him, you know, and initially a woman is a helpmate. If I'm not helping him, then I'm hurting him. You know, like heal your mind and your heart first. And then let's see what you can become. All right.

Well, sounds like he's in a happy relationship now. Yep. And let's discuss. Imagine you've been working in the adult film industry, making all these movies in the course of three months. And all you made was $12,000. Well, Mia Khalifa, who's a porn star, said that's how much she made when she was doing all these top rated porns. Apparently, they said she's still like number two on the most searched for when it comes to porn.

She said, people think I'm racking in millions from porn. Completely untrue. I made a total of around $12,000 in the industry and never saw a penny again after that. Difficulty finding a normal job after quitting porn was scary. First of all, I've never watched any of those pornos and said to myself, wow, they look like a millionaire. Never. I've never thought that in my life.

I thought they would make more than $12,000. I've never thought porn stars make a lot of money. Not more than $12,000 for doing all them porns? No. You ever seen Mr. Marcus Timms? No. Mr. Marcus Timms so worn down sometimes? Well, I'll say this. I'm not. Never mind.

People also think that when you're a really popular porn star, then you would have made at least hundreds of thousands of dollars. People assume that because she's a really popular porn star. She's the number two. Most searched. Most searched. Yeah. Even now.

Brian Pumper Jewelry is fake. Mr. Marcus has been wearing the same hat for years. I also never think that men make the same amount that women make when it comes to porn. And nobody's searching them. Nobody's searching them. Nobody's searching them. These women or this lady, it's search crazy she said. Since when do searches equate

to dollars? That means people want to see you more. That don't mean you didn't pay just because people search you. What are you talking about? That means your popularity is high, yes, and you would assume that you would get paid more money. That don't translate to dollars. We know this in this social media era. Listen, we interviewed Lisa Ann on Lip Service,

and she actually is a millionaire from doing porn. I don't know who that is. She's a really popular porn star. She probably searched number one. She also has her own radio show as well, and she talks about sports a lot. But did she make that money as a porn? Exactly.

Did she make the million dollars from porn? Yeah, because part of it is having your own production company, and that's how you end up making more money, because you produce your own films, and she talks about that, because a lot of porn stars, and you get paid depending on what you do.

Like, you might get paid more for certain acts, and they put it in your contract. They say they usually get between $2,000 and $10,000 per scene, depending on experience or how popular that person is. Right, so of course you get paid more if you're more popular. And because she was so popular, you would have think she'd have made more than $12,000. You would think she'd get more than that for one movie.

And the men only make $500 to $1,500. I told you, men make way less. Well, that's why Brian Bumper's jewelry fake. His name is Pumper, not Bumper. I don't know, man, whatever. All right, I'm Angela Yee, and that is your Rumor Report. All right, shout to Revolt. We'll see you tomorrow. Everybody else, the People's Choice mixes, and that is your rumor report. All right, shout out to Revolt. We'll see you tomorrow.

Everybody else, the People's Choice mixes up next. Get your request in. Let's go. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee,

Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are The Breakfast Club. Now, shout out to Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley for joining us this morning. Yeah, that was a great conversation.

Salute to the whole squad. The beautiful thing about Ayanna Pressley is the fact that she got a black husband. I really be worrying about them. I worry about outspoken women like the squad members like AOC and Ayanna Presley and

Tlaib and Omar and Angela Riley. I always worry about them and I want them to have people around them that can hold them down in a real way so it's good to see that she got a real nigga as a husband, basically. Okay. Yes. Alright, we'll shout out to her. Straight out of the streets of Roxbury.

You can see the full interview on the YouTube page, The Breakfast Club. Alright? Now when we come back, positive note, don't move. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. Hey everybody, it's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are The Breakfast Club. You guys have a great day today.

Yes, and I just want to tell everybody in South Carolina, man, please keep in mind this Saturday I'll be doing my annual backpack giveaway at the Mount's Corner Recreation Complex, 418 East Main Street in Mount's Corner, South Carolina from 12 to 4. We got backpacks provided by Sprayground and some other people. We got school supplies we're giving away. And we're having a big-ass fish fry. DJ Nylah Simone is providing the soundtrack.

So this Saturday, 12 to 4 p.m. in Monk's Corner, South Carolina. Pull up on me, Lowcountry, okay? All right. Well, can you leave us on a positive note? The positive note is simply this, man. Please, go watch this documentary. I'm telling you, man. I watched this documentary last night. It's called King in the Wilderness.

It shows the last 18 months of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s life. It is very, very, very powerful. And it's a quote that I want to say from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. Breakfast club, bitches!

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