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Stephen A. Smith, Angel Reese, Man Utd and Barclays headlines

Smith says the four-hour White House dinner included Bill Maher and Kid Rock, and that he raised the country's forty trillion dollar debt; the trillions can wait.

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  1. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorIt's seven oh one Eastern, four oh one Pacific; if you're just joining us, this is BBN This Morning. Stephen A.

  2. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorSmith says President Trump told him over dinner that he is the greatest president who has ever lived, and then asked him, quote, do you understand?

  3. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorSmith says the dinner lasted four hours at the White House, with Bill Maher and Kid Rock at the table.

  4. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorHe says Trump kept promising trillions of dollars were coming in, and when Smith asked where it was, Trump told him to wait.

  5. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorAtlanta's Angel Reese had twenty-one points and twelve rebounds in a ninety-seven to seventy-one Game 3 win over Golden State.

  6. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThe Dream lead the WNBA Finals two to one, with Game 4 on Saturday.

  7. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorThirty points and sixteen rebounds in Game 2 before that. I'd call it a statement, Hank, though you'd probably call it a Tuesday.

  8. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorIt was a Wednesday.

  9. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorOver in England, Bruno Fernandes has questioned Michael Carrick's tactics after Manchester United lost four to one to Como, and The Telegraph says Julian Nagelsmann would be open to the job.

  10. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorUnited have won two of eleven games this season and none of their last seven.

  11. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorAnd Barclays says it will cut about five thousand jobs this year as it adopts more AI, a thousand already gone.

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