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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio Podcast. Hello everyone,
this is your Morning Run for Thursday, June fifth. I'm
Amy Robots and I am TJ.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Holmes. Always appreciate you running with us. And on the
Run this morning, President Trump has banned citizens from more
than a dozen countries from entering the US, signing national
security concerns.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
And the Trump administration finds another way to block international
students from attending Harvard, deny all their visas. Plus, Trump
and Putin spend more than an hour on the phone together,
and President Zelenski didn't seem so happy about it.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Also this morning, the White House has ordered an investigation
into the alleged cover up of President Biden's cognitive decline. Also,
a judge has blocked the deportation of the Bolder Terror
suspects family, while the number of victims in that attack rises.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
And another wild day in court as another woman details
alleged abuse at the hands of Sean Diddy Colms, claiming
he dangled her off a balcony. Plus Nebraska joins dozens
of other states officially banning transgender athletes from competing in girls' sports.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Also on the Run this morning, British pop stars Jesse
j announces she has breast cancer, but finds a cheeky
silver lining to her diagnosis, and one Love Island contestant
seem to love saying the N word. She is off
the villa already in what has been robes a controversial
and a really rocky start to Love Island Season seven.
(01:31):
It's a wildly popular show. We've had fun with it,
but it's been a mess. Just two episodes then.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Yeah, just two episodes and we will get into all
of that in just a moment. But we begin our
run on this Thursday morning with a lot of Trump News.
Give me your tired, you're poor, your huddled masses, as
long as they don't come from twelve countries in particular.
President Trump has issued a new travel band that prevents
citizens from twelve cousins countries mainly in Africa and Asia,
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from enter the United States.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Yeah, those citizens and their cousins, all of them, they
can't come. The President said it's necessary for national security
and that the countries on the band list have failed
to cooperate in addressing terrorism risks. So the countries on
this list now Afghanistan, Myanmar, Chad, Republic, of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan,
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and Yemen.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
The ban officially goes into effect on Monday, and another
seven countries had travel restrictions put on them as well.
You might be thinking, surely a lawsuit is coming. Well,
the president had a similar ban in his first term
that was eventually upheld by the Supreme Court. So a
lot of folks in those countries now scrambling with plans
they had in place, waiting for visas, et cetera. There's
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a lot of confusion and a lot of fear.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
It goes into effect on Monday. It caused chaos the
first time. You kind of put the ban in place
and nobody knew what to do, So you got a
few days to get your ducks in a row. I
guess they're saying, but yeah, the Muslim ban. People remember
that one from the first, same thing, and he's got
some legal standing this time. We do mention that travel
ban from Trump. Well, he's also banning students from any
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country from entering the United States, that is, if they
want to attend Harvard University. Yeah, Trump and Harvard, they
are still going at it.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
It's exhausting, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Come on, y'all, what's the end game? I still wonder
how is this going to end with everybody having to
save face in some way?
Speaker 1 (03:27):
It doesn't seem like Trump is backing down, and right
now Harvard isn't either. Well, in this latest move, the
President said, yes, he will deny visas to any student
trying to come to the United States if that student
is wanting to attend Harvard. Remember the President previously tried
to stop Harvard from enrolling international students by revoking its
certification in this student visitor and exchange program. Well, that
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effort was blocked by a judge. So the Trump administration
found a workaround of sorts, and now they will deny
visas to students coming to the US.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Yeah. Harvard called it yet another a legal retaliatory step
taken by the administration and violation of Harvard's First Amendment rights. Now.
Trump v. Harvard, as you know, has been going off
a months now. Started with the President accusing the school
of not doing enough to fight anti Semitism. That led
to the school rejecting some demands that he made, and
then it led to them blocking what two plus billion
(04:19):
dollars in grants to the school. They've canceled all federal
contracts with the school, So you think it's the biggest
step they can make, and then it escalates, and then
it escalates.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Exhausting. That is the word I will continue to use
all right. Next up on the run, President Trump and
President Putin had more than an hour long conversation yesterday,
Trump saying the call was good but acknowledged it didn't
really move the peace process forward with Ukraine. In fact,
in the call, Putin let Trump know he will be
retaliating for Ukraine's recent attack on Russia's military airfield, destroying
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forty of its bombers.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
This is what Trump said on social media about that call.
He said, we discussed the attack on Russia's docked planes,
and also various the attacks that have been taking place
by both sides. It was a good conversation, but not
a conversation that will lead to immediate peace. President Putin
did say and very strongly, that he will have to
respond to the recent attack on the airfields. Again, that's
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all according to Trump.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Yes, and so. Ukrainian President Zelensky responded to that call
between the two later leaders with some sharp words intended
for Trump, saying if the powerful do not stop putin,
it means they share responsibility with him. There was another
round of peace talks between Ukraine and Russia earlier in
the week in Istanbul, brokered by the US, but so
far not even close to getting a peace agreement on
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the table.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Uh. Next up on our run. Now you all trumped
out yet, Well we got one more for you. The
Trump administration is officially investigating the Biden administration. The President
directed the White House Council and the Justice Department to
look into a possible conspiracy that Trump calls one of
the most dangerous and concerning scandals and American history robes.
(06:00):
What conspiracy could he be talking about?
Speaker 1 (06:03):
Well, according to the White House, they are looking into
whether certain individuals conspired to deceive the public about Biden's
mental state and unconstitutionally exercise the authorities and responsibility of
the president. Essentially, they're looking into whether someone else besides
Biden was exercising the duties of the office of the
President in order to keep Biden's health under wraps.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Now. President Trump also suggested that many of Biden's pardons
and proclamations could be void, not valid because Biden used
an auto pen. Are you familiar with this thing?
Speaker 1 (06:36):
Ropes not until I started reading about what the autopen was.
I didn't know it before this came up.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
And how much it has been used in presidential history,
it makes sense. They sign a lot of stuff. What
an autopen is is what it exactly sounds like. It's
a machine that essentially signs for you. It will sign
your exact signature, essentially. President Trump is saying that Biden
signed so many pardons. You know that reck had fifteen hundred,
I can't remember, but he signed so many documents that
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if he used an auto pen, Trump is claiming they
could be.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Void because they don't know who actually signed it.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Because the machine did it and he didn't do it
with his actual hand, is what he's trying to argue.
But presidents have used this before, it has happened in
the past, and it has been upheld as being legit.
Now Robes. President Biden chimed in on after hearing all
this news, defending himself. He said, I made the decisions
during my presidency. I made the decisions about the pardons,
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executive orders, legislation, and proclamation. Any suggestion that I didn't
is ridiculous and false.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
Yes, and Biden did take the opportunity while he had
the nation's ear or eyes at least to say that
this was an intentional distraction from the President's disastrous, big
beautiful bill. He didn't go with the Elon Musk terminology.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
I'm trying to get it out, that big beautiful abomination. Okay,
just repeat it. It's going to catch on, and remember
tell everybody you heard it here first, all.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
Right, next up on our run. Turns out the government
can't kick them out just yet.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
The family of the suspect in that fiery Boulder attack
has been granted a reprieve from a judge who says
the government must immediately stop deportation proceedings. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
The suspect, Mohammed Sabrey Solomon, is facing federal hate crimes
and attempted murder chargers for that attack on peaceful demonstrators
in Boulder, accused of using molotov cocktails and a makeshift
flame thrower on them. The Department of Homeland Security detained
his wife and five children and planned to question them
first to ensure they didn't have any prior knowledge or
played a role in the attack.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
And then after that they were supposed to be deported
back to Egypt, but they lawyered up and a judge
granted their request to halt their deportations. The wife, one
seventeen year old, and two boys and two minor girls
are all being held at a detention facility in Texas
right now. They will be afforded due process, but of
course this story will continue.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
All right, We continue on our run this morning. Next
leg brings us back to Lower Manhattan for the Didty trial. Yesterday,
yet another day of explosive testimony, this time from Brianna Bongolan,
who was a close friend to shancolmb's ex Cassiventura fine A.
Bongolan is testifying under an immunity deal and told jurors
that Ditty dangled her over a seventeenth floor balcony.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
We've heard about this incident in past testimony and in
previous legal filings, but this was the first time we
actually got the first person account, and Bongolan said she
was at Cassie's La home when Ditty came up behind
her and lifted her over the balcony and said, you
know what the f you did? To this day, she
claimed she doesn't know exactly what did he meant by that,
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but she said he held her there for ten to
fifteen seconds before then tossing her into furniture, and she
says she was injured. She had photos of those injuries
she claimed she received from being thrown against the furniture.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
And she had to on the stand as well admit
that she was a regular drug user and was even
on cocaine at the time time of this incident. Under
cross examination, she said she couldn't remember a number of
details about that balcony incident. She does have a ten
million dollar civil lawsuit pending against Combs, but she said
on the stand she would give up ten million dollars
in exchange for the incident to have never happened now.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
A forensic video expert also was on the stand yesterday
as well, and that testimony he gave was described as
highly technical and tedious, boring. Unfortunately I missed that one.
Dang all right. Bonglin will though be back on the stand,
which won't be any of those things this morning for
more cross examination. The defense attorney said she needed about
forty five more minutes with her and then they will
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move on to a highly anticipated potential witness later in
the day. Her name is well Jane Doe because she's
testifying under a pseudonym.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
That is I mean since kid cutting, I mean, we've
had they all seem highly anticipated. This is one that's
been talked about for a while that really folks are waiting.
There's he would Let's not get ahead of it, man,
This is potentially and she's expected to be on the
stand the rest of the week when she gets up there.
Next leg of our run is going to take us
to Nebraska. Now we're surrounded by female athletes. Nebraska's governor,
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Jim Pellen signed a bill that bans transgender students from
competing in girls sports now.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
The bill originally included banning transgender students from using bathrooms
and locker rooms that correspond with their gender identities, but
that part of the bill was dropped after one Republican
whose vote was absolutely necessary to pass this bill said
he would vote against it if that measure was included,
so they dropped that part of it.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
So this now makes twenty four now twenty five states
total that have passed similar bans that have some kind
of band like this in place. President Trump also signed
an Executive Order earlier this year. You might remember it
was called Keeping Men Out of Women's Sports. It says
the government will rescind all funds from educational programs that
deprive women and girls of fair athletic opportunities. We'll stay
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with us here on this third Morning Ron when we
come back, Jesse Jay announces she has breast cancer. But
she found a pretty hilarious silver lining in that All
and Love Island. It is off to a rough start
after just one episode. Someone has been kicked off or
for something she did before she ever got to that Della.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
Welcome back everyone to this Friday Eve edition of The
Morning Run and next up on the Run, British pop
star Jesse j has announced she has breast cancer. The
thirty seven year old shared the news on social media,
saying her breast cancer is in the early stages, writing
cancer sucks in any form, but I'm holding on to
the word early.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
Okay. She has a performance in London next weekend and
she says she's going to go on with that performance,
but then she has to undergrow surgery, serious and scary
undertaking of course for anybody, but used some humor to
reassure her fans and robes. I would like for you
to take this quote.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
Okay, she says, it's a very dramatic way to get
a boob job. I Am going to disappear for a
bit after summertime ball to have my surgery, and I
will come back with massive expletive. I'm assuming she probably
said tits and more music. Look, that would imply to
me that she's having a double mistectomy, which I have
also undergone. And yes, this is about as serious of
(13:28):
a surgery as you can get. This is an amputation,
but it ultimately results in new implants, And so I
actually applaud her for taking a humorous spin on something
that is incredibly daunting and incredibly difficult to get through.
So she said it with a smile and with good spirits.
The singer also said she wanted to share her diagnosis
because in other past difficulties, sharing has helped her receive
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love and support and hear other people's stories. I agree
that sense of community is so crucial to getting through
this sort of diagnosis and treatment. So again, I think
it's wonderful that she's spreading the word and she's bringing
people along with her. She added, it breaks her heart
that so many people are going through so much similar
and worse. That's a bit that kills me. But we
certainly wish her well and again applaud her efforts for
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spreading awareness and making just having someone I've talked about this,
we've talked about this cancer humor. Like humor, when you
have anything awful, it helps, It really does help, and
it just lightens the movie because this is tough stuff
to talk about, but it's important that we all do.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
And a reminder, only the cancer patient can make the
cancer joke.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
That is true. That is actually a very important part
of it. But I have done it, you know, and
you've heard it, and you've been able to laugh along.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
But yes, you laugh along, But you know what, cancer
is difficult to talk about. You here, You don't know
what to say. Someone says they have cancer, and you
don't know stage ones day Tuesday three, you don't know
where they are in the whole process. And then when
someone when she makes a joke like that, it almost
eases the tension of everybody around. And it's not her
job to make everybody else comfortable, sure, but it certainly helps.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
It makes the conversation easier, and it's an important conversation
that we all have.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
Let's continue the next leg of our run. The next
leg takes us to Paradise. Well, it doesn't seem like
paradise right about now. For Love Island Season seven, it
is highly anticipated. It had been teased for so long.
You have seen the promos everywhere and you couldn't wait
for season seven to start. But it is a rough
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and controversial start. Now, I Robes, I've watched this show
with you, and all through the show we usually have
to pause because I say, wait, now, if she picks him,
then what happens? Now? Who goes to the hilt? Now?
Why these two coming back? So I don't know all
the rules, but what I do know is that you're
not supposed to get kicked off after one episode.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
That's not how it goes, right, That is absolutely not
how it goes. You're on that show for a while
until you eventually either get voted off by the Islanders
or voted off by the public. But she got voted
off by the show's producers. I believe that is what happened.
Just after one episode of the new season of the
hit show debuted on Peacock this week. Her name is
Ulyssa Escobar, and she has yes been booted from the villa.
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Escobar was one of the hotties on the show, which
debuted on Tuesday, but by Wednesday, that particular hotty was
out of their Yes.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
In the second episode, the narrator only said this, Ulyssa
has left the villa, with no further explanation given we
just watched the episode of that moment this morning. That
is all they said. You never hear anything else about
it or about her. So, Robes, What in God's name happened? Well,
(16:39):
she used the N word several times and quite casually,
not on the show, not on Love Island, but in
previous appearances. She made robes on a couple of podcasts.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
Yeah, and she wasn't shy about it at all. She
knew there was a microphone, she knew she was being recorded,
and she knew it was being disseminated. Escobar, who we
should point out is not black, has been taking heat
ever since it was announced last week that she was
joining the Love Island cast because those clips from those
podcasts surfaced of her using the racial slur. We're going
(17:11):
to tell you exactly what she said in a discussion
about relationships and TJ, I'm gonna ask you to read this.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
Yeah, I'll take this one for you. Discussion about relationships.
The context isn't necessary here because once you hear the
sentences of what she said, no context, Oh o great,
it makes sense. And this was not in any academic
form that she's talking about there. So in a discussion
about relationship, she says, and I quote, are you that
inWORD that controls what she wears? Now? That was a
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clip from one podcast. In another instance, talking about relationships,
on another one, she says and I quote, are you
fing my in word?
Speaker 1 (17:48):
Perfect?
Speaker 2 (17:49):
That's it, But now I'm efing my in word? He's
my in word.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
Now.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
Viewers promised to vote her off as soon as possible
from the show. They didn't get the opportunity because she
is gone. We have no official word about her exit
from Peacock or from Escobar just yet. This was you
can't I don't know how to explain that. It's clear
if you watch the clip she has been saying this
all of her life.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
She said it comfortably, casually.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
And it comes out of her mouth all the time.
Somewhere why she felt comfortable enough. Look, I've been around
folks who hang out with enough black folks and hear
black folks say it, and they get a little comfortable. Sometimes.
It felt like that in hearing her, but it was
without a doubt Robes. It's casually and comfortable and easy
coming out of her mouth as anything.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
Like I said, she knew she was being recorded, and
she knew that it was a podcast that anyone could
listen to. So that's mind blowing to me. But that
the N word is never okay no matter what. But
even it was especially to I would love your input
on this. It seemed especially hard to hear given the
context and how she was using it. It was even
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it was even worse, if that's possible.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
Yeah, you do what I always say. I'm trying to
give somebody a little grace until I hear a story,
hear some understanding about why. But she uses this word
and my estimation based on that all the time, and
why and who is she around that made her feel
like it was okay to do this. Also, you're in public,
in this this place. What makes you think this is
okay even if you do it in private? I don't.
(19:23):
I don't. It's confusing. I would love to hear from
her and hear what this is about, but no official word.
And also we mentioned Love Island rough start. They've been
highly anticipating this season and been promoting it forty five
minute delay because of technical issues when it started when
it debuted, So people are not gonna stop watching. They
love the show, but man, it was a it was
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a rough go so far.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
All right, well, are you gonna watch the first episode
with me of this love?
Speaker 2 (19:51):
I'm not gonna watch that racist ass show. Now, I'm kidding.
I am just kidding. Just a joke, everybody, just a joke.
But yes, I'll probably end up watching it with you.
But before we go here, it's something we like for
you to consider. Take this with you. It's our quote
of the day.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
Yes, and it's our Gabby Bernstein quote of the week.
As we are, highly anticipated podcast episodes with Gabby Bernstein
are going to be dropping this weekend, so please check
that out in your feeds. But this quote from Gabby Bernstein,
this is what she told us, And uh oh, it's great.
If you project out, you don't have to feel what's inside,
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so start checking in instead of checking out. I love
this because when you find yourself getting mad or feeling
upset or triggered. As everyone likes to say, we all
point the finger at someone else. Her point is you
got to check in with yourself and ask you why,
ask yourself why, and that's how the healing begins. It's
not by blaming others. It's by looking inwards and finding
out why you're so upset. You know.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
I I use this a lot, you see she said
it to us, But just that part about oftentimes people
come at you, come at us. We look, we take
a lot of heat for a lot of reasons. But
when you look at someone and think something's going on
with them and that's why they're projecting out on me.
When you look at it that way, it does. It
gives you a chance to give everybody a little grace,
as I always say, and give them something's going on
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with them. When people project out like that, I certainly
try not to do it, but when it happens, it
helps you be calm when people are coming at you.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
I like the way you put that because it can
be used both ways. When you're getting heat, you can say, wow,
I'm not going to take that personally, because that person
obviously is dealing with something that they're projecting onto me.
But also when you find yourself yelling at someone else,
or being angry with someone else, or feeling you know
that you're a victim, actually ask yourself what you need
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right now? Why are you feeling so triggered, and you
can actually look and heal your own wounds so you're
not so upset with the other person. It works on both.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
I'm going to use that when you're yelling at me,
you know Robot's going through.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
Something, just don't say that out loud because that's going
to be hard to here in the moment, and I
don't yell at you.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
That's Sue. That's fine, Yes, that's true.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
All right, everybody. We hope you can take this with
you as you go about your Thursday. Evil give it
to you one more time. If you project out, you
don't have to feel what's inside, So start checking in
instead of checking out. And with that, thank you for
checking in with us and running with us.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
I may be a robots and I'm TJ. Holmes will
be running with you again.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
SOO
Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio Podcast. Hello everyone,
this is your Morning Run for Thursday, June fifth. I'm
Amy Robots and I am TJ.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Holmes. Always appreciate you running with us. And on the
Run this morning, President Trump has banned citizens from more
than a dozen countries from entering the US, signing national
security concerns.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
And the Trump administration finds another way to block international
students from attending Harvard, deny all their visas. Plus, Trump
and Putin spend more than an hour on the phone together,
and President Zelenski didn't seem so happy about it.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Also this morning, the White House has ordered an investigation
into the alleged cover up of President Biden's cognitive decline. Also,
a judge has blocked the deportation of the Bolder Terror
suspects family, while the number of victims in that attack rises.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
And another wild day in court as another woman details
alleged abuse at the hands of Sean Diddy Colms, claiming
he dangled her off a balcony. Plus Nebraska joins dozens
of other states officially banning transgender athletes from competing in girls' sports.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Also on the Run this morning, British pop stars Jesse
j announces she has breast cancer, but finds a cheeky
silver lining to her diagnosis, and one Love Island contestant
seem to love saying the N word. She is off
the villa already in what has been robes a controversial
and a really rocky start to Love Island Season seven.
(01:31):
It's a wildly popular show. We've had fun with it,
but it's been a mess. Just two episodes then.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Yeah, just two episodes and we will get into all
of that in just a moment. But we begin our
run on this Thursday morning with a lot of Trump News.
Give me your tired, you're poor, your huddled masses, as
long as they don't come from twelve countries in particular.
President Trump has issued a new travel band that prevents
citizens from twelve cousins countries mainly in Africa and Asia,
(01:59):
from enter the United States.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Yeah, those citizens and their cousins, all of them, they
can't come. The President said it's necessary for national security
and that the countries on the band list have failed
to cooperate in addressing terrorism risks. So the countries on
this list now Afghanistan, Myanmar, Chad, Republic, of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan,
(02:21):
and Yemen.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
The ban officially goes into effect on Monday, and another
seven countries had travel restrictions put on them as well.
You might be thinking, surely a lawsuit is coming. Well,
the president had a similar ban in his first term
that was eventually upheld by the Supreme Court. So a
lot of folks in those countries now scrambling with plans
they had in place, waiting for visas, et cetera. There's
(02:45):
a lot of confusion and a lot of fear.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
It goes into effect on Monday. It caused chaos the
first time. You kind of put the ban in place
and nobody knew what to do, So you got a
few days to get your ducks in a row. I
guess they're saying, but yeah, the Muslim ban. People remember
that one from the first, same thing, and he's got
some legal standing this time. We do mention that travel
ban from Trump. Well, he's also banning students from any
(03:11):
country from entering the United States, that is, if they
want to attend Harvard University. Yeah, Trump and Harvard, they
are still going at it.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
It's exhausting, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Come on, y'all, what's the end game? I still wonder
how is this going to end with everybody having to
save face in some way?
Speaker 1 (03:27):
It doesn't seem like Trump is backing down, and right
now Harvard isn't either. Well, in this latest move, the
President said, yes, he will deny visas to any student
trying to come to the United States if that student
is wanting to attend Harvard. Remember the President previously tried
to stop Harvard from enrolling international students by revoking its
certification in this student visitor and exchange program. Well, that
(03:49):
effort was blocked by a judge. So the Trump administration
found a workaround of sorts, and now they will deny
visas to students coming to the US.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Yeah. Harvard called it yet another a legal retaliatory step
taken by the administration and violation of Harvard's First Amendment rights. Now.
Trump v. Harvard, as you know, has been going off
a months now. Started with the President accusing the school
of not doing enough to fight anti Semitism. That led
to the school rejecting some demands that he made, and
then it led to them blocking what two plus billion
(04:19):
dollars in grants to the school. They've canceled all federal
contracts with the school, So you think it's the biggest
step they can make, and then it escalates, and then
it escalates.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Exhausting. That is the word I will continue to use
all right. Next up on the run, President Trump and
President Putin had more than an hour long conversation yesterday,
Trump saying the call was good but acknowledged it didn't
really move the peace process forward with Ukraine. In fact,
in the call, Putin let Trump know he will be
retaliating for Ukraine's recent attack on Russia's military airfield, destroying
(04:51):
forty of its bombers.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
This is what Trump said on social media about that call.
He said, we discussed the attack on Russia's docked planes,
and also various the attacks that have been taking place
by both sides. It was a good conversation, but not
a conversation that will lead to immediate peace. President Putin
did say and very strongly, that he will have to
respond to the recent attack on the airfields. Again, that's
(05:14):
all according to Trump.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Yes, and so. Ukrainian President Zelensky responded to that call
between the two later leaders with some sharp words intended
for Trump, saying if the powerful do not stop putin,
it means they share responsibility with him. There was another
round of peace talks between Ukraine and Russia earlier in
the week in Istanbul, brokered by the US, but so
far not even close to getting a peace agreement on
(05:38):
the table.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Uh. Next up on our run. Now you all trumped
out yet, Well we got one more for you. The
Trump administration is officially investigating the Biden administration. The President
directed the White House Council and the Justice Department to
look into a possible conspiracy that Trump calls one of
the most dangerous and concerning scandals and American history robes.
(06:00):
What conspiracy could he be talking about?
Speaker 1 (06:03):
Well, according to the White House, they are looking into
whether certain individuals conspired to deceive the public about Biden's
mental state and unconstitutionally exercise the authorities and responsibility of
the president. Essentially, they're looking into whether someone else besides
Biden was exercising the duties of the office of the
President in order to keep Biden's health under wraps.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Now. President Trump also suggested that many of Biden's pardons
and proclamations could be void, not valid because Biden used
an auto pen. Are you familiar with this thing?
Speaker 1 (06:36):
Ropes not until I started reading about what the autopen was.
I didn't know it before this came up.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
And how much it has been used in presidential history,
it makes sense. They sign a lot of stuff. What
an autopen is is what it exactly sounds like. It's
a machine that essentially signs for you. It will sign
your exact signature, essentially. President Trump is saying that Biden
signed so many pardons. You know that reck had fifteen hundred,
I can't remember, but he signed so many documents that
(07:03):
if he used an auto pen, Trump is claiming they
could be.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Void because they don't know who actually signed it.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Because the machine did it and he didn't do it
with his actual hand, is what he's trying to argue.
But presidents have used this before, it has happened in
the past, and it has been upheld as being legit.
Now Robes. President Biden chimed in on after hearing all
this news, defending himself. He said, I made the decisions
during my presidency. I made the decisions about the pardons,
(07:31):
executive orders, legislation, and proclamation. Any suggestion that I didn't
is ridiculous and false.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
Yes, and Biden did take the opportunity while he had
the nation's ear or eyes at least to say that
this was an intentional distraction from the President's disastrous, big
beautiful bill. He didn't go with the Elon Musk terminology.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
I'm trying to get it out, that big beautiful abomination. Okay,
just repeat it. It's going to catch on, and remember
tell everybody you heard it here first, all.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
Right, next up on our run. Turns out the government
can't kick them out just yet.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
The family of the suspect in that fiery Boulder attack
has been granted a reprieve from a judge who says
the government must immediately stop deportation proceedings. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
The suspect, Mohammed Sabrey Solomon, is facing federal hate crimes
and attempted murder chargers for that attack on peaceful demonstrators
in Boulder, accused of using molotov cocktails and a makeshift
flame thrower on them. The Department of Homeland Security detained
his wife and five children and planned to question them
first to ensure they didn't have any prior knowledge or
played a role in the attack.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
And then after that they were supposed to be deported
back to Egypt, but they lawyered up and a judge
granted their request to halt their deportations. The wife, one
seventeen year old, and two boys and two minor girls
are all being held at a detention facility in Texas
right now. They will be afforded due process, but of
course this story will continue.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
All right, We continue on our run this morning. Next
leg brings us back to Lower Manhattan for the Didty trial. Yesterday,
yet another day of explosive testimony, this time from Brianna Bongolan,
who was a close friend to shancolmb's ex Cassiventura fine A.
Bongolan is testifying under an immunity deal and told jurors
that Ditty dangled her over a seventeenth floor balcony.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
We've heard about this incident in past testimony and in
previous legal filings, but this was the first time we
actually got the first person account, and Bongolan said she
was at Cassie's La home when Ditty came up behind
her and lifted her over the balcony and said, you
know what the f you did? To this day, she
claimed she doesn't know exactly what did he meant by that,
(09:42):
but she said he held her there for ten to
fifteen seconds before then tossing her into furniture, and she
says she was injured. She had photos of those injuries
she claimed she received from being thrown against the furniture.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
And she had to on the stand as well admit
that she was a regular drug user and was even
on cocaine at the time time of this incident. Under
cross examination, she said she couldn't remember a number of
details about that balcony incident. She does have a ten
million dollar civil lawsuit pending against Combs, but she said
on the stand she would give up ten million dollars
in exchange for the incident to have never happened now.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
A forensic video expert also was on the stand yesterday
as well, and that testimony he gave was described as
highly technical and tedious, boring. Unfortunately I missed that one.
Dang all right. Bonglin will though be back on the stand,
which won't be any of those things this morning for
more cross examination. The defense attorney said she needed about
forty five more minutes with her and then they will
(10:38):
move on to a highly anticipated potential witness later in
the day. Her name is well Jane Doe because she's
testifying under a pseudonym.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
That is I mean since kid cutting, I mean, we've
had they all seem highly anticipated. This is one that's
been talked about for a while that really folks are waiting.
There's he would Let's not get ahead of it, man,
This is potentially and she's expected to be on the
stand the rest of the week when she gets up there.
Next leg of our run is going to take us
to Nebraska. Now we're surrounded by female athletes. Nebraska's governor,
(11:12):
Jim Pellen signed a bill that bans transgender students from
competing in girls sports now.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
The bill originally included banning transgender students from using bathrooms
and locker rooms that correspond with their gender identities, but
that part of the bill was dropped after one Republican
whose vote was absolutely necessary to pass this bill said
he would vote against it if that measure was included,
so they dropped that part of it.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
So this now makes twenty four now twenty five states
total that have passed similar bans that have some kind
of band like this in place. President Trump also signed
an Executive Order earlier this year. You might remember it
was called Keeping Men Out of Women's Sports. It says
the government will rescind all funds from educational programs that
deprive women and girls of fair athletic opportunities. We'll stay
(11:58):
with us here on this third Morning Ron when we
come back, Jesse Jay announces she has breast cancer. But
she found a pretty hilarious silver lining in that All
and Love Island. It is off to a rough start
after just one episode. Someone has been kicked off or
for something she did before she ever got to that Della.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
Welcome back everyone to this Friday Eve edition of The
Morning Run and next up on the Run, British pop
star Jesse j has announced she has breast cancer. The
thirty seven year old shared the news on social media,
saying her breast cancer is in the early stages, writing
cancer sucks in any form, but I'm holding on to
the word early.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
Okay. She has a performance in London next weekend and
she says she's going to go on with that performance,
but then she has to undergrow surgery, serious and scary
undertaking of course for anybody, but used some humor to
reassure her fans and robes. I would like for you
to take this quote.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
Okay, she says, it's a very dramatic way to get
a boob job. I Am going to disappear for a
bit after summertime ball to have my surgery, and I
will come back with massive expletive. I'm assuming she probably
said tits and more music. Look, that would imply to
me that she's having a double mistectomy, which I have
also undergone. And yes, this is about as serious of
(13:28):
a surgery as you can get. This is an amputation,
but it ultimately results in new implants, And so I
actually applaud her for taking a humorous spin on something
that is incredibly daunting and incredibly difficult to get through.
So she said it with a smile and with good spirits.
The singer also said she wanted to share her diagnosis
because in other past difficulties, sharing has helped her receive
(13:50):
love and support and hear other people's stories. I agree
that sense of community is so crucial to getting through
this sort of diagnosis and treatment. So again, I think
it's wonderful that she's spreading the word and she's bringing
people along with her. She added, it breaks her heart
that so many people are going through so much similar
and worse. That's a bit that kills me. But we
certainly wish her well and again applaud her efforts for
(14:13):
spreading awareness and making just having someone I've talked about this,
we've talked about this cancer humor. Like humor, when you
have anything awful, it helps, It really does help, and
it just lightens the movie because this is tough stuff
to talk about, but it's important that we all do.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
And a reminder, only the cancer patient can make the
cancer joke.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
That is true. That is actually a very important part
of it. But I have done it, you know, and
you've heard it, and you've been able to laugh along.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
But yes, you laugh along, But you know what, cancer
is difficult to talk about. You here, You don't know
what to say. Someone says they have cancer, and you
don't know stage ones day Tuesday three, you don't know
where they are in the whole process. And then when
someone when she makes a joke like that, it almost
eases the tension of everybody around. And it's not her
job to make everybody else comfortable, sure, but it certainly helps.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
It makes the conversation easier, and it's an important conversation
that we all have.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
Let's continue the next leg of our run. The next
leg takes us to Paradise. Well, it doesn't seem like
paradise right about now. For Love Island Season seven, it
is highly anticipated. It had been teased for so long.
You have seen the promos everywhere and you couldn't wait
for season seven to start. But it is a rough
(15:27):
and controversial start. Now, I Robes, I've watched this show
with you, and all through the show we usually have
to pause because I say, wait, now, if she picks him,
then what happens? Now? Who goes to the hilt? Now?
Why these two coming back? So I don't know all
the rules, but what I do know is that you're
not supposed to get kicked off after one episode.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
That's not how it goes, right, That is absolutely not
how it goes. You're on that show for a while
until you eventually either get voted off by the Islanders
or voted off by the public. But she got voted
off by the show's producers. I believe that is what happened.
Just after one episode of the new season of the
hit show debuted on Peacock this week. Her name is
Ulyssa Escobar, and she has yes been booted from the villa.
(16:10):
Escobar was one of the hotties on the show, which
debuted on Tuesday, but by Wednesday, that particular hotty was
out of their Yes.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
In the second episode, the narrator only said this, Ulyssa
has left the villa, with no further explanation given we
just watched the episode of that moment this morning. That
is all they said. You never hear anything else about
it or about her. So, Robes, What in God's name happened? Well,
(16:39):
she used the N word several times and quite casually,
not on the show, not on Love Island, but in
previous appearances. She made robes on a couple of podcasts.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
Yeah, and she wasn't shy about it at all. She
knew there was a microphone, she knew she was being recorded,
and she knew it was being disseminated. Escobar, who we
should point out is not black, has been taking heat
ever since it was announced last week that she was
joining the Love Island cast because those clips from those
podcasts surfaced of her using the racial slur. We're going
(17:11):
to tell you exactly what she said in a discussion
about relationships and TJ, I'm gonna ask you to read this.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
Yeah, I'll take this one for you. Discussion about relationships.
The context isn't necessary here because once you hear the
sentences of what she said, no context, Oh o great,
it makes sense. And this was not in any academic
form that she's talking about there. So in a discussion
about relationship, she says, and I quote, are you that
inWORD that controls what she wears? Now? That was a
(17:40):
clip from one podcast. In another instance, talking about relationships,
on another one, she says and I quote, are you
fing my in word?
Speaker 1 (17:48):
Perfect?
Speaker 2 (17:49):
That's it, But now I'm efing my in word? He's
my in word.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
Now.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
Viewers promised to vote her off as soon as possible
from the show. They didn't get the opportunity because she
is gone. We have no official word about her exit
from Peacock or from Escobar just yet. This was you
can't I don't know how to explain that. It's clear
if you watch the clip she has been saying this
all of her life.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
She said it comfortably, casually.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
And it comes out of her mouth all the time.
Somewhere why she felt comfortable enough. Look, I've been around
folks who hang out with enough black folks and hear
black folks say it, and they get a little comfortable. Sometimes.
It felt like that in hearing her, but it was
without a doubt Robes. It's casually and comfortable and easy
coming out of her mouth as anything.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
Like I said, she knew she was being recorded, and
she knew that it was a podcast that anyone could
listen to. So that's mind blowing to me. But that
the N word is never okay no matter what. But
even it was especially to I would love your input
on this. It seemed especially hard to hear given the
context and how she was using it. It was even
(18:59):
it was even worse, if that's possible.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
Yeah, you do what I always say. I'm trying to
give somebody a little grace until I hear a story,
hear some understanding about why. But she uses this word
and my estimation based on that all the time, and
why and who is she around that made her feel
like it was okay to do this. Also, you're in public,
in this this place. What makes you think this is
okay even if you do it in private? I don't.
(19:23):
I don't. It's confusing. I would love to hear from
her and hear what this is about, but no official word.
And also we mentioned Love Island rough start. They've been
highly anticipating this season and been promoting it forty five
minute delay because of technical issues when it started when
it debuted, So people are not gonna stop watching. They
love the show, but man, it was a it was
(19:44):
a rough go so far.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
All right, well, are you gonna watch the first episode
with me of this love?
Speaker 2 (19:51):
I'm not gonna watch that racist ass show. Now, I'm kidding.
I am just kidding. Just a joke, everybody, just a joke.
But yes, I'll probably end up watching it with you.
But before we go here, it's something we like for
you to consider. Take this with you. It's our quote
of the day.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
Yes, and it's our Gabby Bernstein quote of the week.
As we are, highly anticipated podcast episodes with Gabby Bernstein
are going to be dropping this weekend, so please check
that out in your feeds. But this quote from Gabby Bernstein,
this is what she told us, And uh oh, it's great.
If you project out, you don't have to feel what's inside,
(20:27):
so start checking in instead of checking out. I love
this because when you find yourself getting mad or feeling
upset or triggered. As everyone likes to say, we all
point the finger at someone else. Her point is you
got to check in with yourself and ask you why,
ask yourself why, and that's how the healing begins. It's
not by blaming others. It's by looking inwards and finding
out why you're so upset. You know.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
I I use this a lot, you see she said
it to us, But just that part about oftentimes people
come at you, come at us. We look, we take
a lot of heat for a lot of reasons. But
when you look at someone and think something's going on
with them and that's why they're projecting out on me.
When you look at it that way, it does. It
gives you a chance to give everybody a little grace,
as I always say, and give them something's going on
(21:14):
with them. When people project out like that, I certainly
try not to do it, but when it happens, it
helps you be calm when people are coming at you.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
I like the way you put that because it can
be used both ways. When you're getting heat, you can say, wow,
I'm not going to take that personally, because that person
obviously is dealing with something that they're projecting onto me.
But also when you find yourself yelling at someone else,
or being angry with someone else, or feeling you know
that you're a victim, actually ask yourself what you need
(21:42):
right now? Why are you feeling so triggered, and you
can actually look and heal your own wounds so you're
not so upset with the other person. It works on both.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
I'm going to use that when you're yelling at me,
you know Robot's going through.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
Something, just don't say that out loud because that's going
to be hard to here in the moment, and I
don't yell at you.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
That's Sue. That's fine, Yes, that's true.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
All right, everybody. We hope you can take this with
you as you go about your Thursday. Evil give it
to you one more time. If you project out, you
don't have to feel what's inside, So start checking in
instead of checking out. And with that, thank you for
checking in with us and running with us.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
I may be a robots and I'm TJ. Holmes will
be running with you again.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
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