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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Bin News this hour, Doug Davis coming up. Trump calls
for a DOJ probe targeting Democrats named in the Epstein
files before the House vote next week. Plus, Trump wants
younger Americans to own homes. What critics more in his
fifty year mortgage idea comes with risks. We hear from
the administration's Blackhat director and another HBCU gets a major
boost in funds from billionaire for lanthan Fis McKenzie Scott.

(00:23):
But first, here's Bin News.

Speaker 2 (00:25):
Now the government shutdown is over, but federal workers are
still waiting on back pay. This black worker in Birmingham,
Alabama says seeing an eighty hour check show up at
zero dollars was tough with Christmas around the corner.

Speaker 3 (00:37):
A single parent, and was kind of already living paycheck
the paycheck, so I had to just rely on on community,
rely on resources that were out there.

Speaker 2 (00:48):
And a judge rule the Trump administration cannot block states
from sending full snap benefits. Georgia's election case against President
Trump is moving forward. The state's prosecuting Attorney's Council head
Pete Scandalacus will only the case after black Fulton County
DA Fani Willis was removed over her relationship with the
special prosecutor. Trump and others are accused of trying to
overturn the twenty twenty election results. In Chicago, rapper Little

(01:11):
Dirk's lawyers won his LA murder for hire case dropped
after learning a judge and prosecutor's got death threats that
were not shared with his team. Derek has said for
trial January twentieth, I'm Amber Payton with BI in News.
Now back to you, Doug.

Speaker 1 (01:24):
All right, thank you, good afternoon, and happy Friday. President
Trump took to social media to slam what he calls
the Epstein hoax, accusing Democrats hiding connections to Jeffrey Epstein's
sex trafficking crimes. This comes just days before the House
plans to vote on a discharged petition aimed to force
the release of all Epstein related documents. Now hours ago,
Trump has demanded the Justice Department and the FBI investigate

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democrats tied to Jeffrey Epstein, including Bill Clinton, blaming them
for the political hoax. Democrat David min who sits on
the House Oversight Committee, reacts to the order on CNN
and says he's not shocked.

Speaker 4 (01:58):
Pam Bondy is told by Don Trump jump. She will
always say how high? So that's very clearly not surprising.
What would be surprising if this investigation was viewed, actually
viewed legitimately as nonpartisan.

Speaker 1 (02:09):
President Trump is also named in many of the files
and emails that were just leaked to the public.

Speaker 4 (02:14):
Question is well Donald Trump investigated as part of this
or is there going to be one set of rules
for Donald Trump's friends and supporters another set for his critics.

Speaker 1 (02:22):
Both camps are denying get the involvement, but the public
is hungry for the truth as transparency grows. Meanwhile, President
Trump is eyeing a fifty year mortgage concept to help
young buyers step into home ownership. HUD Secretary African American
Scott Turner tells Fox News and ideas such as this
would be a boost to the economy.

Speaker 5 (02:40):
The average age right now is forty years old for
first time home buyer, and we know that that is
not sustainable. I mean I hear from young people all
the time, you know, how am I going to be
able to afford a house? And I like how Secretary
Bessines said, you know, increasing wages and people taking home
more and that comes from getting our fiscal house.

Speaker 1 (02:57):
In order, but treasury and housing experts warned it carry
financial risks, including lifetime interest and slower home equity build up.
Turner fail to answer the question if the idea is
a solid choice for the country.

Speaker 5 (03:08):
What really matters us, what makes sense for our country,
what's the appropriate policy to put in place and going forward?
So I think at the end of the day, when
we make a decision from our standpoint at HUD, we
have to protect the house and market and also protect
mortgages that are backed by the American tax payers. So
that's really our focus right now. But I believe that
a great solution will come out of the people that

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are at the table.

Speaker 1 (03:29):
Just over forty three percent of Black Americans own homes,
even less they're younger in age and don't earn the
same amount of money that young white Americans do. Systemic
barriers to home ownership among Black Americans continue to hamper
our buying power that no single policy can fix. And finally,
in another heartfelt effort to balance to financial skills at
college institutions, billionaire philanthropists Mackenzie Scott just dropped sixty three

(03:52):
million dollars to HPCU North Carolina and t who now
has the largest enrollment of any black college in the nation.
The generous skift will enhance these pieces of use commitment
to quality education at a time when federal diversity dollars
have dried up thanks to President Trump, who feels every
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I'm look Davis for the Black Information Network.