Buried Intel Bombshell Released, Athletes Sue over Trans Dispute, Harris’s 2028 Hints： AM Update 8⧸1
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It was an attempt to stop Trump and also proves that the FBI had a hand in it. A newly declassified annex reveals how the FBI helped bury intelligence about the Hillary Clinton campaign s plan to falsely tie then-candidate Donald Trump to Russia. Two female athletes suing the Oregon school system alleging their First Amendment rights were violated when they refused to share a podium with a male athlete. Former VP Kamala Harris drops a pair of announcements shining light on her potential plans for 2028.
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It's Friday, August 1st, 2025, and this is your AM Update.
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It was an attempt to stop Trump and also proves that the FBI had a hand in it.
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A newly declassified annex revealing how the FBI helped bury intelligence
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about the Hillary Clinton campaign's plan to falsely tie then-candidate Donald Trump to Russia.
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Two female athletes suing the Oregon School Activities Association,
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alleging their First Amendment rights were violated when they were punished
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for refusing to share a podium with a male athlete.
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Since leaving office, I've spent a lot of time reflecting on those days,
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talking with my team, my family, my friends, and pulling my thoughts together.
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And former VP Kamala Harris drops a pair of announcements shining light on her potential
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plans for 2028. All that and more coming up in just a moment on your AM Update.
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Republican Senator from Iowa Chuck Grassley on Thursday releasing the now declassified annex
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from the 2023 Durham report, a special counsel investigation into the Russiagate hoax against
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Donald Trump. Durham's 2023 report sharply critical of the FBI's decision to open a full investigation
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into alleged collusion between the 2016 Trump campaign and Russia due to a lack of sufficient
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evidence and heavy reliance on bogus intel, including the discredited Steele dossier, which the FBI knew
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at the time was not reliable. The annex, containing raw intelligence reports and allegedly hacked emails,
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reveals evidence that top FBI officials had received intelligence showing that the 2016 Hillary Clinton
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campaign was working to deflect from her own private email server scandal by crafting a narrative that
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Russian President Vladimir Putin was helping Donald Trump win the election. Despite knowing about this
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Clinton-conceived plot, the FBI played right into the Clinton campaign's strategy, opening its
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investigation into the Trump campaign instead of saying, wait, this is a Clinton campaign operation.
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Senator Grassley on Fox News saying this annex is a bombshell.
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It actually brings attention to the fact that there was either a Clinton conspiracy to make this happen or a
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Russian disinformation. But either way, it was an attempt to stop Trump and also proves that the FBI had a
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hand in it. And now after these eight years, three years of my trying to get the document,
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we know that there was the Steele dossier paid for by the Democrats and the Clinton campaign,
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that it was all effort of total distraction. And to make it look like Russia was playing a very major role
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in helping Trump to be elected. And now we know none of that was true. And now with this Durham report
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annex out, it finally proves that the FBI was covering up. The annex containing multiple troubling
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pieces of information, including the allegation that the Clinton campaign brazenly expected the FBI
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to help boost their manufactured story. In July 2016, one Clinton foreign policy advisor emailing a
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member of the Intel community, quote, we're looking for ways to build on Franklin Four's great and scary
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piece on Trump and Russia. This appears to be a reference to a piece in the Atlantic by Franklin Four
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about Trump in July 2016, entitled Putin's Puppet. Returning here to the email. One thing I've heard
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from a few folks is that the Russia desk at State has been tracking parallels between rhetoric, words,
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methods that Trump uses, and Putin-supported European right-wing candidates. I'd love to get
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my hands on details of what they are seeing. Can one of you help run this down? It is illegal for a
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political campaign to coordinate with the U.S. intelligence agency, something this advisor seems
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to realize, adding, quote, obviously need to be a bit careful here. The annex also implies that while
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Hillary Clinton was determined to distract attention from her email scandal, she was also receiving secret
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assurances from President Obama's Attorney General Loretta Lynch that she did not need to worry too much
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about possible criminal charges. A Russian memo appears in the annex summarizing a meeting between
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then-chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, and two Soros Foundation
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executives claiming that Attorney General Loretta Lynch privately told a Clinton campaign official
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that she would make sure the investigation did not, quote, go too far. The newly released annex
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reportedly discovered inside burn bags stashed in a secret room at FBI headquarters. Director of National
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Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard Wednesday on the Glenn Beck program saying the discovery has all the
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hallmarks of a cover-up. A burn bag is something that you'll find in many offices throughout the
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intelligence community, throughout these different workspaces in national security. Basically, if I
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have a document that's highly classified, I read it, I review it, I'm done with it, my copy can then go in
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the burn bag to make sure that it doesn't end up in the wrong hands, that there's not an unauthorized
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disclosure of classified information. It's a very different story, however, if you use a burn bag
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to try to get rid of evidence of which maybe there is only one copy of, and then hide it in a secret room
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in the FBI. That is a tactic, obviously, that has been used by those deep staters, these bad actors within
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the intelligence community to try to get rid of evidence. It is unclear why the stashed documents had not yet
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been destroyed. In an apparent attempt to get ahead of the release of the annex, former CIA Director
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John Brennan and former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper writing an op-ed in the
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New York Times, accusing current DNI Director Tulsi Gabbard and current CIA Director Ratcliffe of
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rewriting history, insisting all their work was above board. Brennan and Clapper writing to, quote,
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set the record straight on a number of issues, including, quote, the so-called Steele dossier.
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Ms. Gabbard and Mr. Ratcliffe have claimed it played an integral role in formulating the assessment.
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We have testified under oath, and the reviews of the assessment have confirmed that the dossier was
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not used as a source or taken into account for any of its analysis or conclusions. Co-founder of
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The Federalist, Sean Davis, who has been covering the story extensively now for years, says,
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I found two major things in their op-ed, which I found fascinating. The first was them referring
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to the Steele dossier as largely discredited. That is a remarkable admission. It was Comey
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and Clapper and Brennan who forced that thing into the ICA, something they continue to lie about,
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because according to Brennan at the time, it rang true. So to see them now try to retcon and pretend that
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there were always problems with it. I just find amazing. The second major thing that I found
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fascinating in their op-ed was their claim against all evidence that the Steele dossier was never used
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in that 2016-2017 intelligence community assessment. They used the Steele dossier to buttress their claim
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that Russia wanted Trump to win and Hillary to lose. And we know this because the documents that Gabbard
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released about that ICA showed us the exact line and text and quotes of them citing the Steele dossier.
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And yet we have them going into the New York Times and claiming that never happened.
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In the brazenness of that dishonesty, I find honestly shocking, even after having watched everything
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That op-ed was fascinating to me because I think it showed, number one, how much trouble
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they know they're in. We've now had Comey and Susan Rice and Barack Obama and James Clapper
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and John Brennan come out and make statements. And these are normally people who are content to do
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all their little maneuvering behind the scenes. So the fact that they're coming out and addressing
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D&I Gabbard, also on Glenn Beck's program, slamming legacy media for failing in her view,
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to cover this story accurately or in some cases at all.
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And if they do mention it, their approach is to try to diminish the effect and the impact of
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the revelations, the historic revelations that were found in the documents that we declassified
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and released, or to try to bring voice to detractors and critics who also just say,
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oh, well, this is bizarre or this is crazy because they recognize that it would push forward a very
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inconvenient truth for the mainstream media because it exposes their complicity in pushing
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this lie and this hoax from not only day one, but throughout President Trump's entire first
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Coming up, two female athletes fighting back after being punished for peacefully protesting
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the inclusion of a male competitor in their girls' track and field state championship.
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And former Vice President Kamala Harris drops two big hints about her political future.
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get started. Earlier this week, the Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights launching an
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investigation into whether the Oregon Department of Education is in violation of Title IX for allowing
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male athletes to compete in girls' sports. There's certainly reason to believe so. In late July,
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the America First Policy Institute filing a lawsuit against the Oregon School Activities Association
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on behalf of high school track athletes Alexa Anderson and Reese Eckerd, who argue their First Amendment
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rights were violated when officials punished them for a silent protest at the track and field state
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championship, where they were forced to compete against a male athlete posing as a female. Both
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girls were high school seniors, placing third and fourth respectively in the high jump in May at the state
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track and field championships. In fifth place, a male athlete who previously had competed in the male
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division. Anderson and Eckerd had planned to wear Save Women's Sports t-shirts on the podium, but were told by an
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official to change, citing a rule that athletes could only wear school apparel. We spoke to Alexa
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Anderson about what happened next. When we heard the announcer start announcing names starting in eighth
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place, me and Reese Eckerd from Sherwood stepped off the podium. So when they read our names and presented
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us our medals, we would not be joining that ceremony. Immediately after we stepped off the podium, we faced our backs
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to the podium facing the audience and we were ushered out of the way by OSA officials telling us to get out of
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the pictures if we weren't going to participate. We would have been in the pictures on the ground, but we were
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ushered out of the way out of the podium and we never received our medals. I just wanted to create
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attention and draw people's attention to this issue because I don't feel that it is fair and the people who are
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in charge needed to be notified that us girls were not okay with the situations they're imposing upon us.
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Anderson says two months later, she has yet to receive her medal. Eckerd only receiving her medal because
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another athlete picked it up from the empty podium and delivered it to her coach. Executive General
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Counsel at the America First Policy Institute, Jessica Hart Steinman, says what happened was not just
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unfair, it was a violation of the girls' First Amendment rights. The official that day would not allow them
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on the podium with those shirts, so they had to remove their t-shirts. Secondly, they tried
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to, once on the podium, silently protest by stepping off and turning their back on the podium. And again,
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this was silent. It was not disruptive. They were sidelined again by that official. And the official,
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instead of respecting her rights, that official overseeing the ceremony ordered them to move aside.
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And that's when it became suppression of their viewpoint. And that's when it became a First Amendment
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violation. Steinman says officials crossed the line by selectively enforcing the rules,
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allowing some students to wear expressive shirts, but punishing Alexa and Reese for theirs.
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It would be completely different if they had a policy and they stuck to it and you could only wear,
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you know, school-sanctioned shirts. But in this situation, they have let other students wear other
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shirts. And here they did not let Alexa and Reese wear the shirt they desired to wear. So again,
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that is them suppressing that exact viewpoint. And they did it specifically for what was said on the
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shirt. We've seen the Oregon School Activities Association celebrate and be involved in other
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forms of protest throughout the year. We've seen them be involved in Black Lives Matter and Pride
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protests. But again, when it came to these girls talking about boys and girls sports, they did not
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allow that viewpoint. And so they are picking viewpoints to back. With the lawsuit now underway,
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Steinman spells out what they hope to achieve. The overall result that we would like from this lawsuit
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is to have a declaration from the state of Oregon and their athletics association saying Reese and
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Alexa's rights, First Amendment rights, were violated when they were not allowed to wear their shirts that
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said Save Girls Sports. And when they were asked to leave the podium and leave the ceremonies that day
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when they peacefully protested and stepped off. And additionally, specifically for Alexa, she has never
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been given her medal from that day. Still to this day, the state has not given her medal for coming in
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in the state championship coming in third. She would like that medal.
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Anderson says she has received a lot of blowback in the wake of her silent protest. But she has no
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regrets. A lot of people have definitely been very hateful, accusing me of hate and transphobia when
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there is no motive like that at all in this issue. My motive is purely to let the people in charge who
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are making these rules know that us girls are not okay with it. And we want our own protected and safe
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division to compete in. It's not just about me or where I placed. It's about the girl in ninth who should
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have had a place on that podium and scored for her team or the girl who didn't even qualify for state
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because they were beat by a biological male in districts. It's not just about me. It's about
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all of these other girls. And if we keep allowing biological men to take up space in women's sports,
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we're going to see national titles, national records, everything like that being set by biological
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men in the women's division. At this point, the case is still in its early stages. The defendants have
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not yet filed a response and the court has not yet set any deadlines. The Oregon School Activities
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Association did not respond to our request for comment. Former Vice President Kamala Harris with
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two big announcements, both signaling Ms. Harris is gearing up possibly for another shot at the White
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House in 2028. On Wednesday afternoon, Ms. Harris releasing a statement declaring she will not run
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for California governor, quote, for now, my leadership and public service will not be in
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elected office. I look forward to getting back out and listening to the American people, helping elect
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Democrats across the nation who will fight fearlessly and sharing more details in the months ahead about
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my own plans. Then on Thursday, the former Veep announcing a new book reflecting on her failed
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presidential campaign in 2024, launched after President Biden withdrew from the race.
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Just over a year ago, I launched my campaign for President of the United States. 107 days,
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traveling the country, fighting for our future. Since leaving office, I've spent a lot of time
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reflecting on those days, talking with my team, my family, my friends, and pulling my thoughts
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together. In essence, writing a journal that is this book, 107 days. With candor and reflection,
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I've written a behind-the-scenes account of that journey. I believe there's value in sharing what
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I saw, what I learned, and what I know it will take to move forward. In writing this book, one truth
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kept coming back to me. Sometimes, the fight takes a while, but I remain full of hope, and I remain
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clear-eyed. I will never stop fighting to make our country reflect the very best of its ideals.
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Set to be released by Simon & Schuster in September, a preview of the riveting content readers can
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Your Secret Service codename is Pioneer. You are the first woman in history to be elected Vice
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President of the United States. The presidential election will occur on November 5th, 2024. You have
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107 days. Specifics on the financial terms of the deal, not yet clear. Former President Joe Biden
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reportedly selling his memoir to an imprint of Hachette for about 10 million bucks. That's less
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than former presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama. But what will the auto pen get?
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That'll do it for your AM Update. I'm Megyn Kelly. Join me back here for The Megyn Kelly Show,
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