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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio podcast. Good
morning everyone, It's Tuesday, June seventeenth. Welcome to Morning Run.
I'm Amy Robots.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
And I'm TJ Holmes. And on the Run this morning,
terrifying new details about the man accused of hunting down
and killing a Minnesota lawmaker and her husband. His plan
was far bigger and deadlier.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
President Trump says I'm out and leaves early from the
G seven summit, but gives conflicting statements about the reason
for his early exit.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Meanwhile, Israel and Iran are still at it, lobbing more
missiles at each other overnight, and yeah, I said it.
Terry Moran stands by his hater tweet about Trump that
cast him his job at ABC News.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
One juror was dismissed yesterday in the Diddy trial, but
now there's another issue with another juror, and R. Kelly
says someone is trying to kill him and wants out
of prison. The government's response to that stopped just short
of lol.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Also on the Run this morning, it is one of
the most romantic cities in the world, but some folks
there want Jeff Bezos to take his romance elsewhere, and
Mona Lisa was lonely yesterday. No visitors got to see
her because the Louver Museum's employees all.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Walked out, and an injury to one superstar is threatening
to change the course of the NBA Finals.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
But the Goat is coming back. The greatest of all
time at eating hot dogs is returning to the competition
that made him famous.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
We had some fun stories in the run this morning.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
We give you some.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Yes, we certainly could, because we have to begin our
run in Minnesota, where police say the suspect who shot
two Minnesota lawmakers over the weekend had a hit list
of lawmakers with him and they were all Democrats.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Yeah, that was just one of the new and terrifying
details police released about the suspect, Van's Belter, who is
now facing state and federal murder charges. He's accused of
going to the home of one of the state's top Democrats,
House Speaker, Melissa San, shooting and killing her and her husband.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Then police say he went to the home of another
Democratic state lawmaker, John Hoffman, and shot him and his wife.
They miraculously both survived, but authority say Belter went to
the homes of two other lawmakers that very night.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Yeah, at one Belter was disguised as a police officer
and he rang the doorbell, but the family was away.
At another home, he was actually encountered by a real
police officer who pulled up next to him asked him
what he was doing. That says Belter just looked ahead,
didn't respond, didn't acknowledge, and then drove away and ropes.
That was tough because after that interaction, Beltzer allegedly then
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went on to a home to kill. So if he
would have been stopped there correct, then that death could
have been prevented.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
And police arrived at the home as he was entering
and shooting them. So it was really a horrific scene.
And perhaps if they had just gotten there sooner, minutes earlier,
it could have been prevented. Police Belter had maps, he
had names, and he had an arsenal of weapons in
his vehicle. They say he researched, did surveillance on his
potential targets. And despite those on his targets all being Democrats,
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please say they're still not ready to announce a motive.
Governor till Walt has called this an act of political violence.
But if you see some of the doorbell cameras that
they have of him. He was wearing this scary latex mask.
It looked like something out of a horror movie. But
unfortunately this was all real life.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
All right. We continue here in the next leg of
our run to talk about President Trump. He is coming
back home early from the G seven summit in Canada,
but there are conflicting reports about why the thing is.
Those conflicting reports are all coming from Trump and his team.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
The President had just arrived on Sunday in Alberta, was
expected to be there through Tuesday, but he started signaling
yesterday he might be heading back to deal with the
Iran Israel crisis. He said, I have to be back
as soon as I can for obvious reasons. His press
secretary then followed that with this, because of what's going
on in the Middle East, President Trump will be leaving tonight.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
But then Trump got on social media and later wrote this,
and I quote publicity seeking President Emmanuel Macrone of France
mistakenly said that I left the G seven summon in
Canada to go back to DC to work on a
ceasefire between Israel and Iran. Wrong. He has no idea
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why I am now on my way to Washington. But
it certainly has nothing to do with a ceasefire. Much
bigger than that, whether purposely or not, Emmanuel always gets
it wrong. Stay tuned. That's what he wrote. What do
you make of that? The bag of I.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
Don't know why he's he's actually like trying to provoke
Macrone and say he's wrong, when clearly he and his
presecretary said that that's why he was leaving.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
No, no, but there's something much bigger robes. You don't understand.
There's something much bigger coming. We don't know what that
is for that, okay. But even though he says not
why he came back in that social media post, at
least several outlets are reporting that the president has instructed
his national security team to convene upon his return.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
We'll wait for clarification, but let's now go on our
run to the Middle East, where Iran and Israel continue
to trade missile strikes for a fifth straight day, although
without the same deadly results as the first days of
the conflict.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
Israel said Iran's latest barrage of missiles overnight represent it
and I quote the least impactful night by the Iranian
tack since the beginning of the operation. No reports of injuries.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Overnight, Israel also carried out strikes overnight, going after military
infrastructure and leadership, killing Iran's new wartime chief of staff.
He is the man who just replaced the other men
that Israel just killed. He just got the job, and
now he has also been assassinated.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Sure, they're probably not getting a lot of applicants for
that job.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Probably wouldn't want to fill that seat, absolutely, Keith.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
We will continue on the run here this morning with
us Sword of the Head Robot really fired up before
we got going recording on this morning, Ron and we
might even have to do a follow up podcast on
this particular topic. While we're talking about former ABC News
correspondent Terry Moran, he says now he was not drunk
when he tweeted after midnight about the Trump administration. That
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tweet cost him his job at ABC News. Moran did
say now, in his first interviews following getting dumped by
ABC News, I used very strong language deliberately.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
He defended his post, saying it was something that was
in my heart and my mind and that it was
both accurate and true. In fact, Moran talked about the
moments that led up to him tweeting about Trump's deputy
chief of Staff, saying he eats his hate as spiritual nourishment,
and then called both Stephen Miller and President Trump world
class haters. Moran said that evening was a normal family night,
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which began with a walk in the woods with his
dog where he was thinking about our country and what
was happening.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Uh, that was the hell of a walk, he said.
After dinner in a movie with his family, he wrote
the tweet and were surprised by the level of reaction
to it, He said, quote I thought it would hit
a nerve maybe, but did not realize the gravity of
the situation until ABC News initially suspended him. He also
disputes the ABC News statement that his contract was up
and they simply decided not to renew it. He said, quote,
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we had a deal. Moran said ABC was bailing on
the oral agreement they reached to renew his contract for
three more years.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
Moran has launched a sub stack news letters subsequently and
has more than ninety thousand subscribers on a platform so far,
saying we are free to speak our minds here and
here's why I think we need to have a bonus
podcast look for it later in the day, because he
went on to say that that journalists necessarily should not
strive to be objective. He said that there's no Mount
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Olympus of objectivity where a mandarin class of wise people
have no feelings about their society. I think that's in
great dispute to most journalists, who would say, absolutely, it's
our job to do our best job to be and
remain objective.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Uh yeah, maybe we'll have to get into that one later.
But it's a longtime guy who's done this at his
level knows better than what he's saying. You know, we
have to be objective. So I'm not sure what he's
going at now. He's going in a different direction, and
that's fine.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
Just surprising, very surprising.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Now we will continue here on this run on this
Tuesday morning. Now, and the jury for the first time
saw actual video of a so called freak off. A
juror was dismissed, another juror could soon be on the
way out. Those are just some of the headlines from
the Diddi trial, which is now in its sixth week
of testimony.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
The day started with the judge kicking juror number six
out for inconsistencies and a lack of candor about where
he actually lives full time. The judge went as far
as saying there was nothing the juror could do now
to repair his credibility. So now there's an issue with
another juror who possibly discussed the case with a colleague. Also,
at the end of court yesterday, the jury for the
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first time saw actual video of a freak off.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Yeah, the videos weren't played in open court for all
of the guests and all the folks in the courtroom
who were gathered to see. Rather, the attorneys and the
jury used headphones and they had monitors set up to
play for what only they could see. So the video,
at least one of them was forty minutes long. Well
reportedly so as the testimony goes, though, the prosecution called
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summary witnesses yesterday who could walk the jury through the
text message exchanges, bank statements, hotel flight book is all
that stuff all meant to set it up and show
that Ditty was the one who was funding these freaky events.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
The Washington Post reporter in the courtroom, who we have
actually had a We've really appreciated their reports. They're described
it this way. If reviewing charts sounds like dry testimony,
it is well that dry testimony will continue this morning,
and we will say that is a rarity, at least
it has been so far in these six weeks of
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the Ditty trial.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
All right, we're going to continue on our run now,
wow with federal prosecutors who have now responded to former
R and B superstar R Kelly his claim that prison
officials are trying to kill him in prison, and they
responded with a strongly worded nineteen page response.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Here are some of my favorite parts. Prosecutors say that
Kelly's murder for higher plot allegations, which, by the way,
claimed that prison officials have enlisted a fellow inmate who
was a leader of the Aryan Brotherhood to kill him,
is quote fanciful, deeply unserious, and makes a mockery of
the harm suffered by victims of Kelly, referring to him
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as a prolific child molester. Hours after prosecutors filed their response,
Kelly's attorneys had even more allegations regarding prison officials.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
All right, so they claimed that last Friday, Kelly was
given a life threatening overdose of his medication by prison officials,
saying after their client's allegations, he was moved to solitary
confinement and stopped eating the food out of fear he
was being pulled. They say Kelly was feeling faint and
dizzy after he took his prescribed medication and was rushed
to the hospital, where they say doctors told him he
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had been given an overdose and found blood clots in
his legs and lungs and scheduled him for surgery.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
That's when Kelly's lawyers claimed prison officials intervened with that
medical help and brought Kelly back to prison. Prosecutors say
he's in solitary confinement, that is true, but to keep
him safe given his concerns of a murder for higher plot.
A hearing is scheduled for this Friday, but the judge
in the case is only expected to decide whether she
even has jurisdiction to rule on Kelly's request for a
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temporary release to home detention.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
So he's not due to be released from prison until
December of twenty forty five. So Kelly is serving thirty
years for racketeering and sex crime convictions in New York
and serving simultaneous twenty year sentence for his twenty twenty
two child porn conviction in Chicago. I don't know what
to make it is, but they didn't make much of it.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
Oh, prosecutors just eviscerated him in their response. We'll see
what the judge has to say and if the judge
is even going to even consider ruling on this.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
All right, we'll stay with us here on this Tuesday
Morning run. When we come back. Why why Venice one
of the most romantic places in the world, So why
do they have a problem with one of the biggest
weddings that's about to happen in the world. Also coming
up a major shakeup, possibly for the NBA Finals, And
poor a Mona Lisa, she's not smiling.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
Our Tuesday Morning Run continues, taking us to one of
the most romantic places on Earth, Venice. The canals, the gondolas,
the sunset, the scenery. No wonder. Georgia Lamal Clooney chose
this place to get married, and.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
So maybe no wonder. Jeff Bezos one of the richest
men in the world. He has also chosen Venice as
the site of his upcoming All Star wedding, and some
folks in Venice really wish he hadn't. They're protesting in
the streets of Venice folks against Bezos and his fiancee,
Lauren Sanchez. It's been a huge banner that was hung
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there yesterday in a prominent location that had bezos name
cross it out.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
There were also signs and stickers that say no space
for Bezos. So what's their problem with him? It's not
necessarily specifically Bezos they're taking issue with. Rather, they're frustrated
by their city being overrun with tourists, celebrities and yes,
billionaires who use their historic city for their temporary amusement.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
Yeah, it's only about fifty thousand people that live there
in Venice, but they get twenty million visitors a year. Wow.
The Bezos Sanchez wedding is reportedly happening at the end
of this month, expected to be as you could expect,
a star studied affairs, a three day deal. Ropes is
going to go on, but you got Oprah Mick Jagger
among the guest lists, at least according to the Associated Press.
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What's happening in Venice, though, is not isolated. It's actually
part of a growing frustration across Europe over mass tourism.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
Yes, which will take us to Paris, where striking workers
shut down the world's most famous and most visited museum
because it's being visited too much. The LOUVER staff said
the museum is crumbling under the weight of mass tourism.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
Yeah, striking workers say the unmanageable crowds and understaffing have
created untenable working conditions. Last year, the Louver had nearly
nine million visitors, but that's more than double what it
was designed to accommodate. There's currently a daily limit of
thirty thousand visitors, but workers say that leaves too few
rest areas, limited bathrooms, and it's too hot because the pyramids,
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that greenhouse. You didn't think about that. It must be
piping in there.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
No, They so many complaints from tourists as well as
to how hot it is in there, and that certainly
can't be good for the paintings and artifacts they have
in there, the big draw, the big painting, the Mona Lisa.
They have twenty thousand visitors each day in the museum's
largest room, and yet have you been there?
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Not in time? I've never seen the mons it was.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
I think it was twenty five years ago that I went,
and even though it's the museum's largest room, it feels really, really,
really small. When all of those visitors cram in there.
They complain that all you end up seeing are cell phones,
arms and elbows. When I went, we didn't have cell phones,
so I didn't even have that issue. But now they say,
you get there, you can't see it, and then you're
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quickly ushered out and it's hot as hell in that room.
Just a few months ago, President Macrone announced a decade
long plan to address the loose problems, which include water leaks,
dangerous temperature fluctuations, and outdated infrastructure. But workers say, we
don't have years to wait for improvements.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
Decade long is what you just said, right. The museum
is closed today. It's always closed on Tuesdays, but it
could reopen as normal on Wednesday, potentially. In addition to
tensions in Paris and Venice, like we mentioned, other cities
across Europe held anti tourism rallies as well, Myorica, Lisbon
to name a couple. And in Barcelona this was is
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it funny, but they've been spraying tourists with water guns. Yep.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
They said they're trying to cool down mass tourism.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
That's kind it would you be mad?
Speaker 1 (16:08):
I mean, if I had a silk blouse on or
I just had my hair blown out, I might be
a little annoyed. But I don't know. I kind of
get their frustration.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
It's amazing that that's where you immediately.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
Went, Yeah, of course, like, so, how is he gonna
like permanently damage me? No, but you know, in New
York we have a lot of tourists and it can
be frustrating, and yet at the same time we understand
that's what makes our city special and and creates the
industry that is a huge part of New York City.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
I thought you were gonna say congestion and annoyance.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
There's that too, But in terms of like restaurants.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
Kitt we love you, we love you, Please just walk.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
Faster, all right? Next up on a run. They are
one game away from an NBA championship. The Oklahoma City
Thunder beat the wounded Indiana Pacers last night one twenty
to one oh nine in Game five of the NBA Finals.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
Yeah, and we say wounded here because Pacers superstar Tyree's Halliburton,
who's been the main for the Pacers all playoff long, well,
he was hampered early by an injury last night to
his leg. He was essentially limping around the court most
of the night. Robes, this is a guy who has
been scoring like a madman throughout the playoffs. Dude had
four points last night, and that was only on free throws.
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So that's the lowest points you've ever had in a
playoff game, the only game in which he's never had
a field goal. So worried about he's gonna play. He's like, hey,
it's the finals. We're all gonna get out there for
Game six is Thursday. But that would suck if that
superstar couldn't be one hundred peruit.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
You know, I haven't been paying attention to this one,
but when I have, all I heard was Halliburton, Halliburton, Halliburton.
So that is a huge blow, all right. The final
leg of our run takes us to Coney Island, where
hot dog eating legend Joey Jaws Chestnut is back and
ready to compete. Chestnut, who was often referred to as
the Michael Jordan of hot dog eating, was forced out
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of last year's Nathan's famous Fourth of July hot dog
eating contest after a sponsorship conflict, which is also kind
of funny to me.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
This is I was so annoyed by this, this sponsorship thing.
He's a sixteen time champion, won eight straight titles twenty
sixteen to twenty twenty three. He says the conflict was
over his partnership with Impossible Foods, that is a plant
based company, but that he and event organizers have now
come to an agreement that will allow him to compete
once again in this year's event.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
Yes, Chestnut, saying that the event means the world to
him and is a huge part of his life, and
added that while I have and continued to partner with
a variety of companies, including some in the plant based space,
those relationships were never a conflict with my love for
hot dogs.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
Yeah, some other dude won last year, with Chestnut out
that dude won with fifty eight hot dogs. He won
by eating fifty eight hot dogs in ten minutes. Chessnut
won the year before he ate sixty two hot dogs.
His record is seventy six hot dogs, so he still
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is better than the guy who won last year. He
is ranked first in the world in Major league eating,
which is a thing. He is hoping to beat his
own official record by eating eighty hot dogs this time around.
That's just they can't.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
Can you imagine in ten minutes? And so the rules.
I actually it was a long long time ago I
got to interview Joey Chestnut and it is remarkable. They
actually practice with the food. They're like, it's unreal. So
they have to swallow the hot dogs and keep them down.
You can't use utensils, you can't use condiments to help
it go down. But you can drink water. But if
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you regurgitate, you are disqualified, so you cannot. Your gag
reflex cannot.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
So it can. It's not like if I have twenty
down and then I regurgitate one up, I don't go
down to night.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
You're just call out you're disqualified. Yes, so, and by
the way, partial hot dogs count, and any hot dogs
that are still in your mouth at the end of
the ten minutes, if you can successfully swallow them, it
can even you can swallow them, but as long as
they're in your mouth, they count. I mean, have you
ever watched this when they're stuffing their mouths.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
I have, but I to limit my exposure to it.
It is disgusting. It just is. It's impressive what they do.
But it's disgusting.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
I don't know how they keep it down. All right, Well,
if that didn't inspire you, how about our quote of
the day today. This is from the files of TJ.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
Holmes, and keep this one in mind, folks. Quote. Most
of your success before the age of thirty is based
on things you say yes to. After thirty, your success
is based on what you say no to.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
Hmmm.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
I can't remember where I got it. I remember at
least two people, it's possibly who said this to me.
But it is so true, and I found it so true.
And you and I have spoken to college students before,
and I've used this quote, and you remember that when
you're grinding early in your life, yes, yes, yes, I'll
do anything. I'll go anywhere. After thirty, you got to
start making different choices, and you got to start looking
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where you want to spend your time. You got to
start looking at what respect you want to have by
saying no and setting boundaries. It is so different. I've
found this to be so true.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
You know I've said it this way. You should say
yes everything until you've earned the right to say no.
And I say they when it comes to any kind
of work situation, because people say, oh, I was lucky,
I was in the right place at the right time. No,
you have to consistently put yourself in the right place
for it to be the right time. And so yes, yes, yes,
that is certainly how I would I would say that
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was a huge factor in me getting to where I
got to. But yeah, then you have to learn an
even harder lesson and to learn when to say no.
And that's been a much harder lesson for me to learn.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
Well, take that with you today, folks, as you go
about your day. Most of your success before the age
of thirty is based on things you say yes too.
After thirty, your success is based on what you say
no to. And with that, folks, good luck with you
yeses and your nose today.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
I'm DJ and I'm Amy Robach. Thanks for running with us.
Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio podcast. Good
morning everyone, It's Tuesday, June seventeenth. Welcome to Morning Run.
I'm Amy Robots.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
And I'm TJ Holmes. And on the Run this morning,
terrifying new details about the man accused of hunting down
and killing a Minnesota lawmaker and her husband. His plan
was far bigger and deadlier.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
President Trump says I'm out and leaves early from the
G seven summit, but gives conflicting statements about the reason
for his early exit.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Meanwhile, Israel and Iran are still at it, lobbing more
missiles at each other overnight, and yeah, I said it.
Terry Moran stands by his hater tweet about Trump that
cast him his job at ABC News.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
One juror was dismissed yesterday in the Diddy trial, but
now there's another issue with another juror, and R. Kelly
says someone is trying to kill him and wants out
of prison. The government's response to that stopped just short
of lol.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Also on the Run this morning, it is one of
the most romantic cities in the world, but some folks
there want Jeff Bezos to take his romance elsewhere, and
Mona Lisa was lonely yesterday. No visitors got to see
her because the Louver Museum's employees all.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Walked out, and an injury to one superstar is threatening
to change the course of the NBA Finals.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
But the Goat is coming back. The greatest of all
time at eating hot dogs is returning to the competition
that made him famous.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
We had some fun stories in the run this morning.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
We give you some.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Yes, we certainly could, because we have to begin our
run in Minnesota, where police say the suspect who shot
two Minnesota lawmakers over the weekend had a hit list
of lawmakers with him and they were all Democrats.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Yeah, that was just one of the new and terrifying
details police released about the suspect, Van's Belter, who is
now facing state and federal murder charges. He's accused of
going to the home of one of the state's top Democrats,
House Speaker, Melissa San, shooting and killing her and her husband.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Then police say he went to the home of another
Democratic state lawmaker, John Hoffman, and shot him and his wife.
They miraculously both survived, but authority say Belter went to
the homes of two other lawmakers that very night.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Yeah, at one Belter was disguised as a police officer
and he rang the doorbell, but the family was away.
At another home, he was actually encountered by a real
police officer who pulled up next to him asked him
what he was doing. That says Belter just looked ahead,
didn't respond, didn't acknowledge, and then drove away and ropes.
That was tough because after that interaction, Beltzer allegedly then
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went on to a home to kill. So if he
would have been stopped there correct, then that death could
have been prevented.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
And police arrived at the home as he was entering
and shooting them. So it was really a horrific scene.
And perhaps if they had just gotten there sooner, minutes earlier,
it could have been prevented. Police Belter had maps, he
had names, and he had an arsenal of weapons in
his vehicle. They say he researched, did surveillance on his
potential targets. And despite those on his targets all being Democrats,
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please say they're still not ready to announce a motive.
Governor till Walt has called this an act of political violence.
But if you see some of the doorbell cameras that
they have of him. He was wearing this scary latex mask.
It looked like something out of a horror movie. But
unfortunately this was all real life.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
All right. We continue here in the next leg of
our run to talk about President Trump. He is coming
back home early from the G seven summit in Canada,
but there are conflicting reports about why the thing is.
Those conflicting reports are all coming from Trump and his team.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
The President had just arrived on Sunday in Alberta, was
expected to be there through Tuesday, but he started signaling
yesterday he might be heading back to deal with the
Iran Israel crisis. He said, I have to be back
as soon as I can for obvious reasons. His press
secretary then followed that with this, because of what's going
on in the Middle East, President Trump will be leaving tonight.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
But then Trump got on social media and later wrote this,
and I quote publicity seeking President Emmanuel Macrone of France
mistakenly said that I left the G seven summon in
Canada to go back to DC to work on a
ceasefire between Israel and Iran. Wrong. He has no idea
(04:26):
why I am now on my way to Washington. But
it certainly has nothing to do with a ceasefire. Much
bigger than that, whether purposely or not, Emmanuel always gets
it wrong. Stay tuned. That's what he wrote. What do
you make of that? The bag of I.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
Don't know why he's he's actually like trying to provoke
Macrone and say he's wrong, when clearly he and his
presecretary said that that's why he was leaving.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
No, no, but there's something much bigger robes. You don't understand.
There's something much bigger coming. We don't know what that
is for that, okay. But even though he says not
why he came back in that social media post, at
least several outlets are reporting that the president has instructed
his national security team to convene upon his return.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
We'll wait for clarification, but let's now go on our
run to the Middle East, where Iran and Israel continue
to trade missile strikes for a fifth straight day, although
without the same deadly results as the first days of
the conflict.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
Israel said Iran's latest barrage of missiles overnight represent it
and I quote the least impactful night by the Iranian
tack since the beginning of the operation. No reports of injuries.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Overnight, Israel also carried out strikes overnight, going after military
infrastructure and leadership, killing Iran's new wartime chief of staff.
He is the man who just replaced the other men
that Israel just killed. He just got the job, and
now he has also been assassinated.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Sure, they're probably not getting a lot of applicants for
that job.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Probably wouldn't want to fill that seat, absolutely, Keith.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
We will continue on the run here this morning with
us Sword of the Head Robot really fired up before
we got going recording on this morning, Ron and we
might even have to do a follow up podcast on
this particular topic. While we're talking about former ABC News
correspondent Terry Moran, he says now he was not drunk
when he tweeted after midnight about the Trump administration. That
(06:17):
tweet cost him his job at ABC News. Moran did
say now, in his first interviews following getting dumped by
ABC News, I used very strong language deliberately.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
He defended his post, saying it was something that was
in my heart and my mind and that it was
both accurate and true. In fact, Moran talked about the
moments that led up to him tweeting about Trump's deputy
chief of Staff, saying he eats his hate as spiritual nourishment,
and then called both Stephen Miller and President Trump world
class haters. Moran said that evening was a normal family night,
(06:49):
which began with a walk in the woods with his
dog where he was thinking about our country and what
was happening.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Uh, that was the hell of a walk, he said.
After dinner in a movie with his family, he wrote
the tweet and were surprised by the level of reaction
to it, He said, quote I thought it would hit
a nerve maybe, but did not realize the gravity of
the situation until ABC News initially suspended him. He also
disputes the ABC News statement that his contract was up
and they simply decided not to renew it. He said, quote,
(07:17):
we had a deal. Moran said ABC was bailing on
the oral agreement they reached to renew his contract for
three more years.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
Moran has launched a sub stack news letters subsequently and
has more than ninety thousand subscribers on a platform so far,
saying we are free to speak our minds here and
here's why I think we need to have a bonus
podcast look for it later in the day, because he
went on to say that that journalists necessarily should not
strive to be objective. He said that there's no Mount
(07:47):
Olympus of objectivity where a mandarin class of wise people
have no feelings about their society. I think that's in
great dispute to most journalists, who would say, absolutely, it's
our job to do our best job to be and
remain objective.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Uh yeah, maybe we'll have to get into that one later.
But it's a longtime guy who's done this at his
level knows better than what he's saying. You know, we
have to be objective. So I'm not sure what he's
going at now. He's going in a different direction, and
that's fine.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
Just surprising, very surprising.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Now we will continue here on this run on this
Tuesday morning. Now, and the jury for the first time
saw actual video of a so called freak off. A
juror was dismissed, another juror could soon be on the
way out. Those are just some of the headlines from
the Diddi trial, which is now in its sixth week
of testimony.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
The day started with the judge kicking juror number six
out for inconsistencies and a lack of candor about where
he actually lives full time. The judge went as far
as saying there was nothing the juror could do now
to repair his credibility. So now there's an issue with
another juror who possibly discussed the case with a colleague. Also,
at the end of court yesterday, the jury for the
(09:00):
first time saw actual video of a freak off.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Yeah, the videos weren't played in open court for all
of the guests and all the folks in the courtroom
who were gathered to see. Rather, the attorneys and the
jury used headphones and they had monitors set up to
play for what only they could see. So the video,
at least one of them was forty minutes long. Well
reportedly so as the testimony goes, though, the prosecution called
(09:24):
summary witnesses yesterday who could walk the jury through the
text message exchanges, bank statements, hotel flight book is all
that stuff all meant to set it up and show
that Ditty was the one who was funding these freaky events.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
The Washington Post reporter in the courtroom, who we have
actually had a We've really appreciated their reports. They're described
it this way. If reviewing charts sounds like dry testimony,
it is well that dry testimony will continue this morning,
and we will say that is a rarity, at least
it has been so far in these six weeks of
(09:57):
the Ditty trial.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
All right, we're going to continue on our run now,
wow with federal prosecutors who have now responded to former
R and B superstar R Kelly his claim that prison
officials are trying to kill him in prison, and they
responded with a strongly worded nineteen page response.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Here are some of my favorite parts. Prosecutors say that
Kelly's murder for higher plot allegations, which, by the way,
claimed that prison officials have enlisted a fellow inmate who
was a leader of the Aryan Brotherhood to kill him,
is quote fanciful, deeply unserious, and makes a mockery of
the harm suffered by victims of Kelly, referring to him
(10:35):
as a prolific child molester. Hours after prosecutors filed their response,
Kelly's attorneys had even more allegations regarding prison officials.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
All right, so they claimed that last Friday, Kelly was
given a life threatening overdose of his medication by prison officials,
saying after their client's allegations, he was moved to solitary
confinement and stopped eating the food out of fear he
was being pulled. They say Kelly was feeling faint and
dizzy after he took his prescribed medication and was rushed
to the hospital, where they say doctors told him he
(11:08):
had been given an overdose and found blood clots in
his legs and lungs and scheduled him for surgery.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
That's when Kelly's lawyers claimed prison officials intervened with that
medical help and brought Kelly back to prison. Prosecutors say
he's in solitary confinement, that is true, but to keep
him safe given his concerns of a murder for higher plot.
A hearing is scheduled for this Friday, but the judge
in the case is only expected to decide whether she
even has jurisdiction to rule on Kelly's request for a
(11:38):
temporary release to home detention.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
So he's not due to be released from prison until
December of twenty forty five. So Kelly is serving thirty
years for racketeering and sex crime convictions in New York
and serving simultaneous twenty year sentence for his twenty twenty
two child porn conviction in Chicago. I don't know what
to make it is, but they didn't make much of it.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
Oh, prosecutors just eviscerated him in their response. We'll see
what the judge has to say and if the judge
is even going to even consider ruling on this.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
All right, we'll stay with us here on this Tuesday
Morning run. When we come back. Why why Venice one
of the most romantic places in the world, So why
do they have a problem with one of the biggest
weddings that's about to happen in the world. Also coming
up a major shakeup, possibly for the NBA Finals, And
poor a Mona Lisa, she's not smiling.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
Our Tuesday Morning Run continues, taking us to one of
the most romantic places on Earth, Venice. The canals, the gondolas,
the sunset, the scenery. No wonder. Georgia Lamal Clooney chose
this place to get married, and.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
So maybe no wonder. Jeff Bezos one of the richest
men in the world. He has also chosen Venice as
the site of his upcoming All Star wedding, and some
folks in Venice really wish he hadn't. They're protesting in
the streets of Venice folks against Bezos and his fiancee,
Lauren Sanchez. It's been a huge banner that was hung
(13:10):
there yesterday in a prominent location that had bezos name
cross it out.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
There were also signs and stickers that say no space
for Bezos. So what's their problem with him? It's not
necessarily specifically Bezos they're taking issue with. Rather, they're frustrated
by their city being overrun with tourists, celebrities and yes,
billionaires who use their historic city for their temporary amusement.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
Yeah, it's only about fifty thousand people that live there
in Venice, but they get twenty million visitors a year. Wow.
The Bezos Sanchez wedding is reportedly happening at the end
of this month, expected to be as you could expect,
a star studied affairs, a three day deal. Ropes is
going to go on, but you got Oprah Mick Jagger
among the guest lists, at least according to the Associated Press.
(13:56):
What's happening in Venice, though, is not isolated. It's actually
part of a growing frustration across Europe over mass tourism.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
Yes, which will take us to Paris, where striking workers
shut down the world's most famous and most visited museum
because it's being visited too much. The LOUVER staff said
the museum is crumbling under the weight of mass tourism.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
Yeah, striking workers say the unmanageable crowds and understaffing have
created untenable working conditions. Last year, the Louver had nearly
nine million visitors, but that's more than double what it
was designed to accommodate. There's currently a daily limit of
thirty thousand visitors, but workers say that leaves too few
rest areas, limited bathrooms, and it's too hot because the pyramids,
(14:40):
that greenhouse. You didn't think about that. It must be
piping in there.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
No, They so many complaints from tourists as well as
to how hot it is in there, and that certainly
can't be good for the paintings and artifacts they have
in there, the big draw, the big painting, the Mona Lisa.
They have twenty thousand visitors each day in the museum's
largest room, and yet have you been there?
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Not in time? I've never seen the mons it was.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
I think it was twenty five years ago that I went,
and even though it's the museum's largest room, it feels really, really,
really small. When all of those visitors cram in there.
They complain that all you end up seeing are cell phones,
arms and elbows. When I went, we didn't have cell phones,
so I didn't even have that issue. But now they say,
you get there, you can't see it, and then you're
(15:23):
quickly ushered out and it's hot as hell in that room.
Just a few months ago, President Macrone announced a decade
long plan to address the loose problems, which include water leaks,
dangerous temperature fluctuations, and outdated infrastructure. But workers say, we
don't have years to wait for improvements.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
Decade long is what you just said, right. The museum
is closed today. It's always closed on Tuesdays, but it
could reopen as normal on Wednesday, potentially. In addition to
tensions in Paris and Venice, like we mentioned, other cities
across Europe held anti tourism rallies as well, Myorica, Lisbon
to name a couple. And in Barcelona this was is
(16:00):
it funny, but they've been spraying tourists with water guns. Yep.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
They said they're trying to cool down mass tourism.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
That's kind it would you be mad?
Speaker 1 (16:08):
I mean, if I had a silk blouse on or
I just had my hair blown out, I might be
a little annoyed. But I don't know. I kind of
get their frustration.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
It's amazing that that's where you immediately.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
Went, Yeah, of course, like, so, how is he gonna
like permanently damage me? No, but you know, in New
York we have a lot of tourists and it can
be frustrating, and yet at the same time we understand
that's what makes our city special and and creates the
industry that is a huge part of New York City.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
I thought you were gonna say congestion and annoyance.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
There's that too, But in terms of like restaurants.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
Kitt we love you, we love you, Please just walk.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
Faster, all right? Next up on a run. They are
one game away from an NBA championship. The Oklahoma City
Thunder beat the wounded Indiana Pacers last night one twenty
to one oh nine in Game five of the NBA Finals.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
Yeah, and we say wounded here because Pacers superstar Tyree's Halliburton,
who's been the main for the Pacers all playoff long, well,
he was hampered early by an injury last night to
his leg. He was essentially limping around the court most
of the night. Robes, this is a guy who has
been scoring like a madman throughout the playoffs. Dude had
four points last night, and that was only on free throws.
(17:17):
So that's the lowest points you've ever had in a
playoff game, the only game in which he's never had
a field goal. So worried about he's gonna play. He's like, hey,
it's the finals. We're all gonna get out there for
Game six is Thursday. But that would suck if that
superstar couldn't be one hundred peruit.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
You know, I haven't been paying attention to this one,
but when I have, all I heard was Halliburton, Halliburton, Halliburton.
So that is a huge blow, all right. The final
leg of our run takes us to Coney Island, where
hot dog eating legend Joey Jaws Chestnut is back and
ready to compete. Chestnut, who was often referred to as
the Michael Jordan of hot dog eating, was forced out
(17:51):
of last year's Nathan's famous Fourth of July hot dog
eating contest after a sponsorship conflict, which is also kind
of funny to me.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
This is I was so annoyed by this, this sponsorship thing.
He's a sixteen time champion, won eight straight titles twenty
sixteen to twenty twenty three. He says the conflict was
over his partnership with Impossible Foods, that is a plant
based company, but that he and event organizers have now
come to an agreement that will allow him to compete
once again in this year's event.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
Yes, Chestnut, saying that the event means the world to
him and is a huge part of his life, and
added that while I have and continued to partner with
a variety of companies, including some in the plant based space,
those relationships were never a conflict with my love for
hot dogs.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
Yeah, some other dude won last year, with Chestnut out
that dude won with fifty eight hot dogs. He won
by eating fifty eight hot dogs in ten minutes. Chessnut
won the year before he ate sixty two hot dogs.
His record is seventy six hot dogs, so he still
(18:58):
is better than the guy who won last year. He
is ranked first in the world in Major league eating,
which is a thing. He is hoping to beat his
own official record by eating eighty hot dogs this time around.
That's just they can't.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
Can you imagine in ten minutes? And so the rules.
I actually it was a long long time ago I
got to interview Joey Chestnut and it is remarkable. They
actually practice with the food. They're like, it's unreal. So
they have to swallow the hot dogs and keep them down.
You can't use utensils, you can't use condiments to help
it go down. But you can drink water. But if
(19:30):
you regurgitate, you are disqualified, so you cannot. Your gag
reflex cannot.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
So it can. It's not like if I have twenty
down and then I regurgitate one up, I don't go
down to night.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
You're just call out you're disqualified. Yes, so, and by
the way, partial hot dogs count, and any hot dogs
that are still in your mouth at the end of
the ten minutes, if you can successfully swallow them, it
can even you can swallow them, but as long as
they're in your mouth, they count. I mean, have you
ever watched this when they're stuffing their mouths.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
I have, but I to limit my exposure to it.
It is disgusting. It just is. It's impressive what they do.
But it's disgusting.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
I don't know how they keep it down. All right, Well,
if that didn't inspire you, how about our quote of
the day today. This is from the files of TJ.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
Holmes, and keep this one in mind, folks. Quote. Most
of your success before the age of thirty is based
on things you say yes to. After thirty, your success
is based on what you say no to.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
Hmmm.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
I can't remember where I got it. I remember at
least two people, it's possibly who said this to me.
But it is so true, and I found it so true.
And you and I have spoken to college students before,
and I've used this quote, and you remember that when
you're grinding early in your life, yes, yes, yes, I'll
do anything. I'll go anywhere. After thirty, you got to
start making different choices, and you got to start looking
(20:48):
where you want to spend your time. You got to
start looking at what respect you want to have by
saying no and setting boundaries. It is so different. I've
found this to be so true.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
You know I've said it this way. You should say
yes everything until you've earned the right to say no.
And I say they when it comes to any kind
of work situation, because people say, oh, I was lucky,
I was in the right place at the right time. No,
you have to consistently put yourself in the right place
for it to be the right time. And so yes, yes, yes,
that is certainly how I would I would say that
(21:20):
was a huge factor in me getting to where I
got to. But yeah, then you have to learn an
even harder lesson and to learn when to say no.
And that's been a much harder lesson for me to learn.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
Well, take that with you today, folks, as you go
about your day. Most of your success before the age
of thirty is based on things you say yes too.
After thirty, your success is based on what you say
no to. And with that, folks, good luck with you
yeses and your nose today.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
I'm DJ and I'm Amy Robach. Thanks for running with us.
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