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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio Podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Good morning everyone, It's Tuesday, July first. Welcome to Morning Run.
I'm Amy Robots.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
And I'm TJ Holds and on the run this morning.
I guess they don't call it Vodorama for nothing. Senators
are still as we speak, burning the midnight oil as
Republicans try to pass Trump's Big Beautiful Bill.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
And President Trump takes another shot at Harvard University with
a new investigation by his own administration and another round
in the Trump versus California saga. Trump is now suing
the city of Los Angeles.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Also this morning, we now know the identity of the
man who lured, ambushed, and killed two firefighters in Idaho,
but his motives remain unclear. Also, an eighty two year
old victim of last month's Boulder attack has died of
her injuries. Add first degree murder to the suspect's list
of charges.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Plus a second day of deliberations begin in the Dittach
after a very busy first few hours yesterday afternoon.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Also slander, what's slander? It's just a rap beef. A
judge is now deciding give Kendrick Lamar's not like us
crossed the line from rap beef bangor to defamation. And
a record has been set for the fastest serve ever
recorded at Wimbledon and robes it was recorded on the
day that was the actual hottest first day in the
(01:27):
history of Wimbledon. I just put that together.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
Lots of records being set.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
It's the heat. Had anything to do with the heat
he put on that tennis ball. I didn't put it together.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
I like that spin you just putting.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
We'll get it. We'll get into that, all right.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
But we begin our run in Washington, DC.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
As of this recording, the floor.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Of the US Senate was still open for business and
has been for about twenty one hours in counting. Now
Senators work through the night into so called vodama, and
we're not quite sure when this thing is going to
actually end.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Yeah, Republicans are trying to get President Trump's big, beautiful bill,
his legislative agenda passed, but in order to do so,
it has to go through this process where senators are
allowed to offer amendments. They can offer as many as
they want, and can they do this for as long
as they want. However, they don't have all the time
in the world. The clock is ticking and Trump is
your timekeeper.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
That's right, He said, he wants this bill to his
desk by the fourth of July holiday, and no one
goes on vacation until his bill gets passed. The fourth is,
of course, on Friday. But even if the Senate passes
this bill, it still has to go to the House.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Which is known to do things rather quickly. I'm kidding, folks. Also,
a key sticking point of this bill that cuts to
Medicaid that are in their analysis show that the bill
would leave up to eleven million people without health insurance
in the next ten years. Again, romees, there is no
sign at this point of when this could possibly end.
(02:50):
They could go and go and go. Democrats, of course,
trying to stretch this thing out.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Yeah, we keep hearing Republicans saying they're close, They're oh
so close.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
But close is not good enough. So we will keep
you update on that.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
But next up on our run, an investigation has determined
that Harvard University is in violation of the Civil Rights
Act and has failed to protect its Jewish students.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Granted it was President Trump who was doing the investigating,
but still take that with a grain of salt. It
is the latest public salvo in the ongoing beef between
Trump and Harvard. The DOJ yesterday sent a letter to
the school saying that Harvard was in violent violation the
term they used of the Civil Rights Act and said quote,
Harvard has been in some cases deliberately indifferent and in
(03:33):
others wilful participants in the anti Semitic harassment of Jewish students, faculty,
and staff.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
The DOJ goes on to threaten the loss of all
federal financial resources if the school doesn't make adequate changes immediately.
Harvard pushed back on the investigation's finding say they disagree
with the assessment. The administration has already frozen more than
two billion dollars in funding over the past few months
after Trump accused the school of failing to address anti
Semitism on campus in the wake of the Israel Hamas war.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Next up on ouran who is Trump gone and soued Now, Yes,
we got another lawsuit in the ongoing battle between the
state of California and President Trump. He got specific, I guess,
not just the whole state. He got very specific in
his lawsuit with just the City of Los Angeles Mayor
Karen Bass and the city council. So in then why
over the city sanctuary city law, saying they are obstructing
(04:25):
federal immigration law enforcement.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Yes, the lawsuit says the sanctuary laws are illegal and
designed to stop federal officials from carrying out their duties.
Attorney General Pambondi pointed to the recent unrest in LA,
saying this sanctuary policies were the driving cause of the violence, chaos,
and attacks on law enforcement that Americans recently witnessed in
Los Angeles. Jurisdictions like Los Angeles that flout federal law.
(04:50):
By prioritizing her words, here, illegal aliens over American citizens
are undermining law.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Enforcement at every level. It ends under Trump.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
You know, we have been trained in journalism for years
and years to stop using the term illegal aliens. Yes,
undocumented undocumented immigrants. Yes, people say that's insensitive. I just
noticed as you did that, you're reading a quote, and
you stopped in the middle of the quote to say, hey,
just reminding you.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
She said this, right, her words duly noted, all right.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
LA sanctuary policies prohibit local resources, in particular police officers,
from taking part in federal immigration enforcement efforts. The Trump
administration says it's one thing to refuse to help federal agents,
it's another thing to interfere, obstruct, and discriminate against them.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Now, a lot of legal experts believe this lawsuit is
more of a political statement, saying it's actually legally a
weak argument because the federal government cannot force a city
to use its resources for federal immigration enforcement. LA along
with a couple other cities around the area, also have
these sanctuary laws in place, and that's what Trump's been
trying to do. He's just been trying to defund but
(05:59):
now he's taking this step further with this lawsuit.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
All right, we'll continue on the run on this day
is it's Tuesday, Tuesday morning.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
Crist I had to stop and think, actually, hi, you.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Continue on this Tuesday morning run. The suspect who ambushed
firefighters in Idaho has been identified. Police say it was
twenty year old West Roly, who intentionally set a brush
fire on Sunday to draw firefighters to the area, and
then fired on them in a sniper style attack, killing
two firefighters and injuring another.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
This all happened on Canfield Mountain. It's a popular recreation
area in the community of Cordelane in northern Idaho. Roly
is described as a transient who is living out of
his car, and his family says they're shocked by this.
They say he was actually an aspiring firefighter.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
They said he had the utmost respect for police firefighters
the job they do, and wanted to be a part
of that community. This does not make any sense. Police
did find his body in a wooded area hours after
the attack and say Roley died by suicide. They say
he had no criminal history at all, and they do
not have a motive what happened here.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
His grandfather talked to some local media outlets and was
trying to figure it out. The only thing that they
can point to is that these firefighters apparently there was
some sort of interaction about asking him to move a car,
but his grandfather didn't seem to think that would rise
to the level where he would be that angered. So
it's very confusing, and no one really knows. There was
no manifesto, there was no written word, so there's really
(07:29):
no explanation as to why that tragedy happened all right.
Next up on the Run, an eighty two year old
woman who was severely injured in the fire bombing attack
and Boulder last month, has died from her injuries. Karen
Diamond was a wife, She was a mother and a
grandmother of five, and she had just been peacefully walking
for the first time that day to support Israeli hostages.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
Well, the Boulder District Attorney has now charged Egyptian national
Mohammed Solomon with first degree after her death. There is
no death penalty in Colorado, but the Trump administration could
seek it because the FEDS have already charged him with
twelve counts of hate crimes.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Now, police say, if you remember, Solomon was shouting free
Palestine during the attack, told investigators later he wished all
Zionist people were dead. A total of thirteen people were
injured in that attack, eight of whom actually had to
be hospitalized with burns and other injuries. It was so
sad hearing some of the reports of this woman, Karen
(08:29):
Diamond recovering in the hospital. She that her family would
come and visit her, and according to family members, she.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
Said, don't worry about me. I'm a tough cookie.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
She was fighting till the very end, and we certainly
just want to offer our condolences, all right.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
We want to continue our around. The next leg brings
us back here to Lower Manhattan, where deliberations will continue
this morning. In the Diddy trial, after an eventful first
day of deliberations yesterday, eventful first hour, we could even argue,
the jury got instructions from the judge first thing Monday morning,
went back to start deliberating. But after only about one hour,
(09:03):
they sent a note to the judge saying, we had
a problem with one of our own.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
That was crazy. So what was the problem.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Apparently that juror either can't or won't or wouldn't.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
Follow the judge's instructions.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
The exact text of the note to the judge said this,
we have a juror, jur twenty five, who we believe
cannot follow your honor's instructions one hour.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
How do you know this in one hour? I am
so fascinated. The judge got the attorneys together. They had
to decide how to respond. Ultimately told the jurors say, hey,
stay at it, follow the law, keep deliberating now. The
juror in question, Jury twenty five, is a fifty one
year old man who is a molecular biologist and lives
in Manhattan, so he knows how to follow instructions.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
I feel like that's a very very yes. We can
absolutely say that with confidence.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
Yes, and better than most even deliberations then continue. The
jury wrapped it around five o'clock, but not before sending
another note this when asking for clarification about what legally
constitutes drug distribution.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
So the judge is expected to give the jurors a
response this morning when they returned to court to continue
their deliberations. Did He meanwhile, will remain at the courthouse
in a holding cell during the time the jury is deliberating.
We know he has to have a couple of books
to pass the time, but certainly this has got to
be nail biting.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
I guess would be one way to put it.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
All right. We'll keep an eye on that all day today. Again,
really a verdict at this point could come at any time,
but stay with us here on this Tuesday morning. Ron
when we come back. Oh, you thought Kendrick Lamar after
the Super Bowl that was the end of the rap battle,
he could declare victory. Uh uh. Drake is taking that
battle to a whole new arena. Also coming up, a
(10:47):
man hit a tennis ball at Wimbledon harder than anybody
has ever hit it in the history of that tournament.
We continue now on this Tuesday morning run and the
Drake Kendrick Lamar rap battle officially became a court battle yesterday,
(11:10):
and not like us is at the center of it all.
Drake sued Universal Music Group last year, claiming the label
worked to promote Kendrick's mega hit, knowing full well that
the song included false allegations against Drake, namely that he's
a certified pedophile.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
By the way, Universal Music Group is both Kendricks and
Drake's record labels. UMG has denied all of Drake's accusations
and is arguing in court that this was a rap
beef and there is supposed to be trash talking, even
extreme trash talking, but the lyrics are not supposed to
be taken as fast.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Do you get that? Does that make sense to him?
Did you understand that listening to the song that you
should like this is real? Did you take it as fact?
Speaker 3 (11:55):
No?
Speaker 1 (11:56):
Okay? So Drake is arguing though, that the song achieved
such popularity that was heard by a wider, non traditional
rap audience. So that wider audience, that's why I was
asking ropes. They say they argue they didn't know not
to take the lyrics seriously.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
Are you implying that I'm a non traditional rap audience member?
Speaker 1 (12:17):
Yeah, okay, you'll should see her nodding her head right now.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
The answer is yes, I'll answer that for you. Of
course I am in that group.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
Yes, I am a non traditional rap audience member.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
So Drake's lawyer is arguing that the song was such
a hit, and this was his example. He said, a
thirteen year old girl might be dancing to the song
at a bar mitzvah. That girl doesn't know not to
take what she's hearing seriously and understands the history and
the legacy and the context of rap battles. That is
the argument. Okay there. It's fascinating the judge was even
getting into this legal standard of what is an average listener.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Like how we went to a bar mitzvah about mitzvah.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
That's funny they were arguing in New York those are
also non.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
Traditional rap audience members, I'm guessing, is what they're trying
to say, trying.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
To imply with the age and as the all right,
the judge is not making an immediate ruling. Drake, however,
is not suing Kendrick. Kendrick Lamar is not named specifically
in the lawsuit. Neither of them attended yesterday's hearing. But
the battle is not.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
Over now a legal one. Indeed.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
All right, for the final leg of our run, we
are heading across the pond.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
Ah, wouldn't that be nice?
Speaker 2 (13:19):
A new record has been set for the fastest serve
in the history of Wimbledon.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
Yeah, this happened yesterday in a first round match. Yesterday
was Day one of Wimbledon. But this was a match
between American Taylor Fritz and Giovanni and Peschi perry Card
of France. Now, in the first set, it was Frenchy
who ripped a serve one hundred and fifty three miles
per hour. That is the fastest serve ever recorded at Wimbledon.
(13:49):
But get this, and Pesci per Card also hit a
one hundred and fifty one miler in the same match.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
Both of those bested the previous record of one hundred
and forty eight miles per hour, which had stood since
twenty ten. And by the way, Impeshi Paracard is six
foot eight.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
There's a reason he's able to do this. Oh, my
six goodness. But here is the highlight for me. You
would think he just crushed one the hardest ball ever
hit at Wimbledon. You would think, surely that was an ace. No,
the American he was playing, Fritz, actually returned that serve
and eventually won the point.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
That's insane.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
What's your arm field like after returning a ball that's
going one hundred and fifty three miles per hour.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
I was also.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
Thinking, if you don't get out of the way of
the ball, that's gonna leave us car hurt. That is
going to leave a mark. But wow, that I think
both of those Uh are very impressive. Yes, are incredibly impressive.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
And I should mention Pericard. He's not ranked number thirty
six in the world, so he's obviously really good. But
he's ranked the number one server.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
Wow, in the world, because he's got that strength.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
He's six eight. It's hard at that angle.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
He's he might not be as adept a running across
the court back and forth, but man, he can serve
a serve.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
That's for sure.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
All right, Well, we would like to leave you with
something to think about on this Tuesday. This is our
quote of the day.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
Those who seek a better life must first become a
better person. Well, if you pull this one on an author.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
This is a entrepreneur and motivational speaker, Jim Rohan. But
I just thought this was so cool because we're always
looking for more, for better. A lot of times we
think about material things, homes, cars, maybe even a better partner,
all of the above, But how often do we actually
turn it around, look in the mirror and say, why
(15:41):
don't I start with myself and from there everything gets better?
Right if you focus on becoming a better person, all
boats rise.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
I just it's such a good way to look about it.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
If you're feeling like you're wanting more, start looking inward
and being more and being better.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
I just thought it was such an empowering quote.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
So folks, take that with you as you go about
your day today. Those who seek a better life must
first become a better person. And with that, I always
appreciate your running with us.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
So I'm TJ Hoult and I'm Amy Robock.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
Have a great twesday, everybody, and make sure to check
out our feed, check your phones, because we are waiting
on that Diddy Verdict
Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio Podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Good morning everyone, It's Tuesday, July first. Welcome to Morning Run.
I'm Amy Robots.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
And I'm TJ Holds and on the run this morning.
I guess they don't call it Vodorama for nothing. Senators
are still as we speak, burning the midnight oil as
Republicans try to pass Trump's Big Beautiful Bill.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
And President Trump takes another shot at Harvard University with
a new investigation by his own administration and another round
in the Trump versus California saga. Trump is now suing
the city of Los Angeles.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Also this morning, we now know the identity of the
man who lured, ambushed, and killed two firefighters in Idaho,
but his motives remain unclear. Also, an eighty two year
old victim of last month's Boulder attack has died of
her injuries. Add first degree murder to the suspect's list
of charges.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Plus a second day of deliberations begin in the Dittach
after a very busy first few hours yesterday afternoon.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Also slander, what's slander? It's just a rap beef. A
judge is now deciding give Kendrick Lamar's not like us
crossed the line from rap beef bangor to defamation. And
a record has been set for the fastest serve ever
recorded at Wimbledon and robes it was recorded on the
day that was the actual hottest first day in the
(01:27):
history of Wimbledon. I just put that together.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
Lots of records being set.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
It's the heat. Had anything to do with the heat
he put on that tennis ball. I didn't put it together.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
I like that spin you just putting.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
We'll get it. We'll get into that, all right.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
But we begin our run in Washington, DC.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
As of this recording, the floor.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Of the US Senate was still open for business and
has been for about twenty one hours in counting. Now
Senators work through the night into so called vodama, and
we're not quite sure when this thing is going to
actually end.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Yeah, Republicans are trying to get President Trump's big, beautiful bill,
his legislative agenda passed, but in order to do so,
it has to go through this process where senators are
allowed to offer amendments. They can offer as many as
they want, and can they do this for as long
as they want. However, they don't have all the time
in the world. The clock is ticking and Trump is
your timekeeper.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
That's right, He said, he wants this bill to his
desk by the fourth of July holiday, and no one
goes on vacation until his bill gets passed. The fourth is,
of course, on Friday. But even if the Senate passes
this bill, it still has to go to the House.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Which is known to do things rather quickly. I'm kidding, folks. Also,
a key sticking point of this bill that cuts to
Medicaid that are in their analysis show that the bill
would leave up to eleven million people without health insurance
in the next ten years. Again, romees, there is no
sign at this point of when this could possibly end.
(02:50):
They could go and go and go. Democrats, of course,
trying to stretch this thing out.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Yeah, we keep hearing Republicans saying they're close, They're oh
so close.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
But close is not good enough. So we will keep
you update on that.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
But next up on our run, an investigation has determined
that Harvard University is in violation of the Civil Rights
Act and has failed to protect its Jewish students.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Granted it was President Trump who was doing the investigating,
but still take that with a grain of salt. It
is the latest public salvo in the ongoing beef between
Trump and Harvard. The DOJ yesterday sent a letter to
the school saying that Harvard was in violent violation the
term they used of the Civil Rights Act and said quote,
Harvard has been in some cases deliberately indifferent and in
(03:33):
others wilful participants in the anti Semitic harassment of Jewish students, faculty,
and staff.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
The DOJ goes on to threaten the loss of all
federal financial resources if the school doesn't make adequate changes immediately.
Harvard pushed back on the investigation's finding say they disagree
with the assessment. The administration has already frozen more than
two billion dollars in funding over the past few months
after Trump accused the school of failing to address anti
Semitism on campus in the wake of the Israel Hamas war.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Next up on ouran who is Trump gone and soued Now, Yes,
we got another lawsuit in the ongoing battle between the
state of California and President Trump. He got specific, I guess,
not just the whole state. He got very specific in
his lawsuit with just the City of Los Angeles Mayor
Karen Bass and the city council. So in then why
over the city sanctuary city law, saying they are obstructing
(04:25):
federal immigration law enforcement.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Yes, the lawsuit says the sanctuary laws are illegal and
designed to stop federal officials from carrying out their duties.
Attorney General Pambondi pointed to the recent unrest in LA,
saying this sanctuary policies were the driving cause of the violence, chaos,
and attacks on law enforcement that Americans recently witnessed in
Los Angeles. Jurisdictions like Los Angeles that flout federal law.
(04:50):
By prioritizing her words, here, illegal aliens over American citizens
are undermining law.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Enforcement at every level. It ends under Trump.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
You know, we have been trained in journalism for years
and years to stop using the term illegal aliens. Yes,
undocumented undocumented immigrants. Yes, people say that's insensitive. I just
noticed as you did that, you're reading a quote, and
you stopped in the middle of the quote to say, hey,
just reminding you.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
She said this, right, her words duly noted, all right.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
LA sanctuary policies prohibit local resources, in particular police officers,
from taking part in federal immigration enforcement efforts. The Trump
administration says it's one thing to refuse to help federal agents,
it's another thing to interfere, obstruct, and discriminate against them.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Now, a lot of legal experts believe this lawsuit is
more of a political statement, saying it's actually legally a
weak argument because the federal government cannot force a city
to use its resources for federal immigration enforcement. LA along
with a couple other cities around the area, also have
these sanctuary laws in place, and that's what Trump's been
trying to do. He's just been trying to defund but
(05:59):
now he's taking this step further with this lawsuit.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
All right, we'll continue on the run on this day
is it's Tuesday, Tuesday morning.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
Crist I had to stop and think, actually, hi, you.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Continue on this Tuesday morning run. The suspect who ambushed
firefighters in Idaho has been identified. Police say it was
twenty year old West Roly, who intentionally set a brush
fire on Sunday to draw firefighters to the area, and
then fired on them in a sniper style attack, killing
two firefighters and injuring another.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
This all happened on Canfield Mountain. It's a popular recreation
area in the community of Cordelane in northern Idaho. Roly
is described as a transient who is living out of
his car, and his family says they're shocked by this.
They say he was actually an aspiring firefighter.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
They said he had the utmost respect for police firefighters
the job they do, and wanted to be a part
of that community. This does not make any sense. Police
did find his body in a wooded area hours after
the attack and say Roley died by suicide. They say
he had no criminal history at all, and they do
not have a motive what happened here.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
His grandfather talked to some local media outlets and was
trying to figure it out. The only thing that they
can point to is that these firefighters apparently there was
some sort of interaction about asking him to move a car,
but his grandfather didn't seem to think that would rise
to the level where he would be that angered. So
it's very confusing, and no one really knows. There was
no manifesto, there was no written word, so there's really
(07:29):
no explanation as to why that tragedy happened all right.
Next up on the Run, an eighty two year old
woman who was severely injured in the fire bombing attack
and Boulder last month, has died from her injuries. Karen
Diamond was a wife, She was a mother and a
grandmother of five, and she had just been peacefully walking
for the first time that day to support Israeli hostages.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
Well, the Boulder District Attorney has now charged Egyptian national
Mohammed Solomon with first degree after her death. There is
no death penalty in Colorado, but the Trump administration could
seek it because the FEDS have already charged him with
twelve counts of hate crimes.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Now, police say, if you remember, Solomon was shouting free
Palestine during the attack, told investigators later he wished all
Zionist people were dead. A total of thirteen people were
injured in that attack, eight of whom actually had to
be hospitalized with burns and other injuries. It was so
sad hearing some of the reports of this woman, Karen
(08:29):
Diamond recovering in the hospital. She that her family would
come and visit her, and according to family members, she.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
Said, don't worry about me. I'm a tough cookie.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
She was fighting till the very end, and we certainly
just want to offer our condolences, all right.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
We want to continue our around. The next leg brings
us back here to Lower Manhattan, where deliberations will continue
this morning. In the Diddy trial, after an eventful first
day of deliberations yesterday, eventful first hour, we could even argue,
the jury got instructions from the judge first thing Monday morning,
went back to start deliberating. But after only about one hour,
(09:03):
they sent a note to the judge saying, we had
a problem with one of our own.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
That was crazy. So what was the problem.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Apparently that juror either can't or won't or wouldn't.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
Follow the judge's instructions.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
The exact text of the note to the judge said this,
we have a juror, jur twenty five, who we believe
cannot follow your honor's instructions one hour.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
How do you know this in one hour? I am
so fascinated. The judge got the attorneys together. They had
to decide how to respond. Ultimately told the jurors say, hey,
stay at it, follow the law, keep deliberating now. The
juror in question, Jury twenty five, is a fifty one
year old man who is a molecular biologist and lives
in Manhattan, so he knows how to follow instructions.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
I feel like that's a very very yes. We can
absolutely say that with confidence.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
Yes, and better than most even deliberations then continue. The
jury wrapped it around five o'clock, but not before sending
another note this when asking for clarification about what legally
constitutes drug distribution.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
So the judge is expected to give the jurors a
response this morning when they returned to court to continue
their deliberations. Did He meanwhile, will remain at the courthouse
in a holding cell during the time the jury is deliberating.
We know he has to have a couple of books
to pass the time, but certainly this has got to
be nail biting.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
I guess would be one way to put it.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
All right. We'll keep an eye on that all day today. Again,
really a verdict at this point could come at any time,
but stay with us here on this Tuesday morning. Ron
when we come back. Oh, you thought Kendrick Lamar after
the Super Bowl that was the end of the rap battle,
he could declare victory. Uh uh. Drake is taking that
battle to a whole new arena. Also coming up, a
(10:47):
man hit a tennis ball at Wimbledon harder than anybody
has ever hit it in the history of that tournament.
We continue now on this Tuesday morning run and the
Drake Kendrick Lamar rap battle officially became a court battle yesterday,
(11:10):
and not like us is at the center of it all.
Drake sued Universal Music Group last year, claiming the label
worked to promote Kendrick's mega hit, knowing full well that
the song included false allegations against Drake, namely that he's
a certified pedophile.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
By the way, Universal Music Group is both Kendricks and
Drake's record labels. UMG has denied all of Drake's accusations
and is arguing in court that this was a rap
beef and there is supposed to be trash talking, even
extreme trash talking, but the lyrics are not supposed to
be taken as fast.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Do you get that? Does that make sense to him?
Did you understand that listening to the song that you
should like this is real? Did you take it as fact?
Speaker 3 (11:55):
No?
Speaker 1 (11:56):
Okay? So Drake is arguing though, that the song achieved
such popularity that was heard by a wider, non traditional
rap audience. So that wider audience, that's why I was
asking ropes. They say they argue they didn't know not
to take the lyrics seriously.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
Are you implying that I'm a non traditional rap audience member?
Speaker 1 (12:17):
Yeah, okay, you'll should see her nodding her head right now.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
The answer is yes, I'll answer that for you. Of
course I am in that group.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
Yes, I am a non traditional rap audience member.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
So Drake's lawyer is arguing that the song was such
a hit, and this was his example. He said, a
thirteen year old girl might be dancing to the song
at a bar mitzvah. That girl doesn't know not to
take what she's hearing seriously and understands the history and
the legacy and the context of rap battles. That is
the argument. Okay there. It's fascinating the judge was even
getting into this legal standard of what is an average listener.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Like how we went to a bar mitzvah about mitzvah.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
That's funny they were arguing in New York those are
also non.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
Traditional rap audience members, I'm guessing, is what they're trying
to say, trying.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
To imply with the age and as the all right,
the judge is not making an immediate ruling. Drake, however,
is not suing Kendrick. Kendrick Lamar is not named specifically
in the lawsuit. Neither of them attended yesterday's hearing. But
the battle is not.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
Over now a legal one. Indeed.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
All right, for the final leg of our run, we
are heading across the pond.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
Ah, wouldn't that be nice?
Speaker 2 (13:19):
A new record has been set for the fastest serve
in the history of Wimbledon.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
Yeah, this happened yesterday in a first round match. Yesterday
was Day one of Wimbledon. But this was a match
between American Taylor Fritz and Giovanni and Peschi perry Card
of France. Now, in the first set, it was Frenchy
who ripped a serve one hundred and fifty three miles
per hour. That is the fastest serve ever recorded at Wimbledon.
(13:49):
But get this, and Pesci per Card also hit a
one hundred and fifty one miler in the same match.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
Both of those bested the previous record of one hundred
and forty eight miles per hour, which had stood since
twenty ten. And by the way, Impeshi Paracard is six
foot eight.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
There's a reason he's able to do this. Oh, my
six goodness. But here is the highlight for me. You
would think he just crushed one the hardest ball ever
hit at Wimbledon. You would think, surely that was an ace. No,
the American he was playing, Fritz, actually returned that serve
and eventually won the point.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
That's insane.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
What's your arm field like after returning a ball that's
going one hundred and fifty three miles per hour.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
I was also.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
Thinking, if you don't get out of the way of
the ball, that's gonna leave us car hurt. That is
going to leave a mark. But wow, that I think
both of those Uh are very impressive. Yes, are incredibly impressive.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
And I should mention Pericard. He's not ranked number thirty
six in the world, so he's obviously really good. But
he's ranked the number one server.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
Wow, in the world, because he's got that strength.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
He's six eight. It's hard at that angle.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
He's he might not be as adept a running across
the court back and forth, but man, he can serve
a serve.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
That's for sure.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
All right, Well, we would like to leave you with
something to think about on this Tuesday. This is our
quote of the day.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
Those who seek a better life must first become a
better person. Well, if you pull this one on an author.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
This is a entrepreneur and motivational speaker, Jim Rohan. But
I just thought this was so cool because we're always
looking for more, for better. A lot of times we
think about material things, homes, cars, maybe even a better partner,
all of the above, But how often do we actually
turn it around, look in the mirror and say, why
(15:41):
don't I start with myself and from there everything gets better?
Right if you focus on becoming a better person, all
boats rise.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
I just it's such a good way to look about it.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
If you're feeling like you're wanting more, start looking inward
and being more and being better.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
I just thought it was such an empowering quote.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
So folks, take that with you as you go about
your day today. Those who seek a better life must
first become a better person. And with that, I always
appreciate your running with us.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
So I'm TJ Hoult and I'm Amy Robock.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
Have a great twesday, everybody, and make sure to check
out our feed, check your phones, because we are waiting
on that Diddy Verdict
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