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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio Podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Good morning everyone, Thank you for joining us for today's
morning Run. It's Wednesday, May fourteenth.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
I'm Amy Robot.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
And I'm TJ. Holmes on the run this morning. Trump
wants a trillion dollars on this trip and he's already
halfway there. A major investment announcement on day one of
his Middle East tour.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Why did I want to see John bon Jovi there?
Ooh oh yeah, I didn't get it, living on a
prayer halfway there?
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Sorry, all right, let me move on.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Then, the US and Syria are buds again, President Trump
announcing he is lifting all sanctions against the once designated
state sponsor of terrorism, and a top Democrat is using
his limited power to send a major message to Trump
about that four hundred million dollar gift from Qatar.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Also on the Run this morning, Harvard, I need to
start checking their couch cushions for loose change after the
White House announced another huge cut in the school's federal funding.
So it's day three of the Diddy trial. Day two
included graphic and gripping details of those so called free calls,
details that we can't onhere.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
And the Menendez brothers are one step closer to freedom
after an LA judge re sentences them for the nineteen
eighty nine murder of their parents. Also on the run,
Pete Rose is finally eligible for the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
And all he had to do was die.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
And remember those hair on fire warnings that tariffs would
cause prices to skyrocket, Well, prices actually went down last month.
But the devil is in the details. Also good news,
and prices are dropping. There's a devil in those details too.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
We'll get into all that, all right, But we begin
our run on this Wednesday in Rio odd Saudi Arabia,
where President Trump's trillion dollar mission is apparently off to
a pretty good start. The President is on a four day,
three nation tour of the region, where his stated goal
is to secure a trillion dollars worth of investments, and.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
He is getting there. On the first day of his trip,
Trump said, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia agreed to invest
six hundred billion dollars with the US. Now this includes
a bunch of deals. There were memorandums of understanding, letters
of intent, all kinds of stuff being signed. But that
six hundred building billion includes deals and defense, technology, and
(02:21):
other economic areas. President Trump also intended an economic forum
this morning, where he talked about wanting to do a
deal with Iran and also praise the region again. This
trip robes three of the richest nations in the world.
He was going to visit. But he goes from Saudi
Arabia heading over to Katar later today.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
Maybe they can talk about their plane all right. Also,
in a major shift in US policy, President Trump announced
the US would lift sanctions on Syria. He calls this
a first step towards restoring a normal relationship between the
United States and Syria for the first time in a decade.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Syria has been designated a state sponsor of terrorism by
the United States since nineteen seventy nine, and the US
put economic sanctions in place to punish the Assad regime
during its brutal crackdown on anti government protesters, most recently
in twenty eleven.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
The Assade regime fell at the end of last year,
and now President Trump says he wants to give them
a chance at greatness. He even met with the interim
leader of Syria at a private side meeting. So that's
a very big development, in a big.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Development for the region. This is something some of the
regional partners have been pushing for to normalize Syria again
before the United States. It's huge, This is absolutely huge, Folks,
pay attention to that one. We continue on our run
this morning. Next leg takes us to Washington, DC, where
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer is drawing the line in
the sand with President Trump. What is it this time? Well,
(03:43):
Schumer announced yesterday that he is putting a blanket hold
on all Trump administration Justice Department nominations until Schumer's as
he gets answers about that luxury jet from Cutter that
is set to become the new Air Force One.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
During a Senate floor's, Schumer said this in lighted the
deeply troubling news of a possible Katari funded Air Force
One and the reports that the Attorney General personally signed
off on this clearly unethical deal. I am announcing a
hold on all DOJ political nominees until we get more answers.
And he went on to say that accepting this gift
(04:20):
is something so corrupt that even Russian President Vladimir Putin
would give a double take.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Okay, they're all starting to sound like Trump now because
Republicans have the majority. However, Schumer can't actually block Trump's nominees.
All you can do is just be a pain in
the ass. He can actually call for a hold for
each nominee, Sure he can do that, but he's only
going to be taking up valuable floor time. He's just
extending the process, yes, making it more.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Difficult, because all they need is a simple majority to
override the hold. So they just have to continually call
for a vote before they get into each nominee.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
So he can just be annoying. White House spokeswords and
Carolyn Levitt said legal details on accepting the jet are
still being worked out. That makes you nervous. We're working
out the legalities, but we'll get back to you. She said.
Any donation to this government has always done in full
compliance with the law.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
All right, Next up on our run.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
They already lost two billion dollars in funding, So what's
another four hundred and fifty million. Well, the Trump administration, yes,
is taking more money from Harvard in its still escalating
standoff with the Ivy League.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
School at the White House announced that several federal agencies
will terminate approximately four hundred and fifty million dollars in
grants to Harvard, which is in addition to the two
point two billion that was already terminated. As they put it,
Harvard is quote prioritizing appeasement over accountability, and that school
(05:46):
leaders have forfeited the school's claim to taxpayer support.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Now, several schools have had the Trump administration withdraw federal
funding over ideological differences. In particular, the president says several
universities did not do enough to cut down on anti
semitism during campus protests over the war in Gaza. But
Harvard certainly has borne the brunt of the public scrutiny
and punishment.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Yeah, the school vows though, to fight on. They've sued
the White House with a loss of funding, and the
school's president said they will not surrender their independence to
the White House.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
All right.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Next up on the Run, we're going to head to
that Manhattan courtroom where Cassie Ventura is expected back on
the witness stand today after day of at times emotional
and at times explicit testimony in the Diddy trial.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
Now, Ventura, as you know, is the ex girlfriend of
Sean Ditty Combs. Now, that hard to watch hotel surveillance
video of her being assaulted by Combs was shown in
court yesterday and she testified in graphic detail about those
so called freak offs, these sex parties that she said
she was forced to participate.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
In Ventura said the parties were fantasy for Combs, who
she said directed every aspect of them, including how much
baby oil would be used and who she would have
sex with while Combs watched. She also described living in
constant fear that Combs would turn violent at the slightest
perceived mistake she made.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
And we should note here there were a lot of
graphic details when this story. When he was first arrested,
so much was made in the press about these freak costs,
these parties and the baby oil. We got more details
probably yesterday about those parties than we have gotten anywhere else.
It's salacious, sure, and how it was reported, but she
(07:30):
described some pretty horrific and even hostage situations. You could
almost suggest in that he held people for days. She described
one when for four days that she can remember.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
It's hard to get your head around and what was
going on.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
And she is expected back on the stand today this
morning and is going to face cross examination from the
defense team. Combes of course, is facing federal charges of
sex trafficking and racketeering and has pleaded not guilty to
all charges against it.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
All. Right, next up on the run, we're going to
head to la where Lyle and Eric Menendez are now
eligible for parole after a judge decided to re sentence
them for the nineteen eighty nine.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
Murder of their parents.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Yeah, the California State Parole Board will still have to
make the final ruling on whether to release them from prison.
That could take a few weeks, could take a few months,
but they are now eligible at least to be considered
by the state parole board. That is the change. That
is a big deal and roads right now. The expectation
is that they will be free soon.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
That's right.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
And this all happened yesterday during that re sentencing hearing,
where the judge heard from Menendez family members and a
former inmate, who all testified about the big changes they
have seen in the brothers over the years, one of
their aunts telling the judge thirty five years is enough.
They are universally forgiven by the family.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Well. The brothers, Lyle Eric also gave statements in a
video link after the judge made his decision. Lyle to
the court makes no excuses for the murders. He said this,
I committed an atrocious act against two people who had
the right to live my mom and dad Today thirty
five years later, I am deeply ashamed of who I was.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
And Eric apologized publicly, saying this, I fired all five
rounds at my parents and went back to reload.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
That gives you chills, right, he.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
Says, I lied to police, I lied to my family.
I'm truly sorry. I mean, seriously have chills from head
to toe. The brother's emotional statements seemed to disprove what
the recently elected La DA had been claiming as his
argument against the re sentencing that Lyle and Eric had
not fully taken responsibility for their crime. Certainly they did
(09:43):
that yesterday.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
They had done so prior to Am I mistaken? Have
they not? For years they had talked about and taking responsibility.
There's been no question of them being responded.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
There was some discrepancy with the DA saying that he
didn't feel like they admitted to lying, to trying to
get people to lie for them. He wanted them to
fully it all of the wrongs they had committed within
like in the days leading up to the murder and
in the days following the murder.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
And they did say, though they've always maintained they killed
their parents after years of sexual, physical and emotional abuse,
the resentencing hearing was just one path to freedom for
the brothers. Next month, on a June.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
Thirtieth, June thirteenth, right thirteenth.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
Excuse me there, the State Parole Board is going to
conduct a separate hearing and send results to Governor Newsom
to decide whether to grant the to clemency. You were
explaining this to me. It seems like the State Parole
Board is involved in both that they are different processes, correct.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
So with the judge resentencing the brothers, now the parole
Board will get the final say and can actually say
you are released when they consider that. But this separate
thing was something that Governor Gavin Newsom did where he
was trying to potentially grant clemency to the brothers, and
so he asked them to conduct a basically a like
(10:59):
a an investigation into whether or not the brothers would
be likely to commit crimes when they got out.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
So it's two separate things.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
It's confusing, but it does look like they are getting
out of prison soon.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
That's remarkable. We'll stay with us here on this Wednesday
Morning run when we come back. One of the most
heated debates in all of sports is actually about to
get even hotter because Pete Rose is now eligible for
the Hall of Fame. Also, those tariffs didn't cause prices
to go up. They actually went down last month. But
(11:33):
the devil is in the details. Oh yeah, those eggs
they went down last month too. There's some really deviled
eggs in that and those details. Stay with us.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
Welcome back to our Wednesday morning run.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
And next up on the run, Pete Rose is no
longer banned from baseball, which now clears the way for
baseball's all time hits leader to finally get into the
Hall of Fame.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
The Commissioner Rob Manfred announced a major change in Major
League Baseball's longtime policy and now players who have been
permanently banned from the game will have their ineligibility lifted
once the individual die. So you get that, if you
were banned from baseball, that ban gets lifted upon your death.
(12:23):
And Rose died in September at the age of eighty
three and had been banned from baseball since nineteen eighty nine,
when an investigation found that he'd bet on baseball while
he was a player and manager of the Cincinnati Reds.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
It's been one of the most consequential and ongoing stories
in baseball's history, and it's been the center of heated
sports debates for decades because it seemed crazy that one
of the game's greatest players, who holds one of the
game's most important records, is not in the Hall of Fame.
The Rose can now be considered for the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
He may not be a shoe.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
In because get this, there are a lot of sports
fans out there, sports fanatics and enthusiasts, and also people
who just followed the game for a long time. We
have these historians of the game who end up voting
for the Hall of Fame. They have come out, a
lot of them critical of the move by MLB and
still believe that Rose cheated the game, he broke the rules,
(13:18):
and should not be allowed to enter the Hall of Fame,
dead or alive. Estimated seventeen players are impacted by this
MLB change, including shoeless Joe Jackson. He was implicated in
the nineteen nineteen Black Sox scandal fixing the World Series,
of course, and he is I think has the one
of the greatest batting averages in the history of the game.
(13:39):
So he is now eligible. But people are roes. What
do you do? I thought everybody's doing great, he should
go in. A lot of people immediately came out and said, nope,
this is awful for the integrity of baseball. They don't
like the move at all.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
Yeah, I mean, I really don't have a horse in
the race.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
So they say, you didn't know he was in, didn't
care he wasn't it. Who cares?
Speaker 2 (14:00):
You're telling me, Oh, this is a huge story.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
Yesterday I was like, Okay, I believe you.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
It's huge. It actually is all right.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
Next up on our run, despite Trump's trade war, we
are not paying more for products, at least not yet anyway,
The all important inflation report just out gave us some
better than expected news.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
Prices did not shoot up last.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
Month, and our inflation rate, get this is actually at
the lowest point in four years.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
Yeah, you hear about this. The CPI Consumer Price Index
as essentially just a measure of the cost of goods. Well,
that measure was at two point three percent last month.
Bottom line, this means that the cost of goods actually
slowed from the previous month. So yes, the idea with
all this going on that prices actually went down slightly. Okay,
(14:50):
that's great, but it doesn't mean we're out of the
woods with price increases in the near future.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
Economist suggests that maybe the impact of the tariffs hasn't
hit us yet, or perhaps businesses built up their inventory
early and absorbed any initial tariff hits and have not
passed those costs along to customers yet. Also, a lot
of the tariffs were immediately paused after they were put
in place, so they were never fully implemented. Yet we
saw a lot of on again, off again and now
amended versions of the tariff.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
So fingers crossed.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
I was going to say, hold your breath, fingers crossed.
With things all right, the final leg of our run here.
They got some good news bad news. When people ask
you that you I got good news bad news, which
one do you want?
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Find I always want the bad news first, you really, Yeah,
I want to take because I don't want to anticipate
it and worry about it as I'm hearing the good news.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
It takes away from the fun of the good news.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
Okay, fine, I'm gonna switch up the story and give
the bad news first. All right, here is the bad news.
The bad news is about egg prices. And if you
look at the price of eggs year to year, the
price of eggs is up seventy nine percent from where
it was last April. That is the bad news. That
(15:59):
you are paying seventy nine percent more right now for
eggs than you were a year ago. So now let's
go back to the top. Now you want the good news, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
The good news, Give me the good news.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
The good news is that the egg prices actually dropped
from the previous month, and I mean they plumbing it robes.
Twelve point seven percent drop in April.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
See doesn't it feel good to end on a good note.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
This is the first time we have seen a monthly
drop since last October. The average cost for a dozen
eggs sits hit five dollars and twelve cents.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
So that's good.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
And I have to tell you, I just bought a
dozen eggs and I paid less than four dollars. So
maybe I don't know why it would be cheaper here
in New York, because nothing is cheaper here in New
York except for flowers and massages. Oh yeah, those are
the two things that you can get a little bit
cheaper here in New York because they're readily available on
every street corner.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
I trying to think of another thing that's cheaper here
in New York. But you know that was a better
way to go. I did. I gave you the bad
news first, But that's essentially what we're saying. Yes, they're
way up from last year, but they are way down
from last month. That could be a trend that could
tell us that things are going a different or better direction.
For that's Fresh Direct.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
Yes, Fresh Direct less than four dollars. I think it
was like three dollars and eighty something cents.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
They are not a sponsor of the show. We should
say we just happened to act yesterday. Before you go
about your day on this Wednesday, folks, on this hot day,
is something we would like for you to consider. It's
our quote of the day.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of
your own ignorance.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
Man, Ain't that the truth? We think we know Everything's
what's the other one? The smartest man in the room
is the one that knows.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
It's like The wisest man in the world is the
man who knows he knows nothing, and that.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
Is something to accept. If you can just be curious,
to be open to the idea that you are wrong
or something you don't know, you know how much smarter
you're going to get than if you just assume you
know everything.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
Yeah, I am the opposite. I you know.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
I'm always like, here's what I think, maybe I don't,
or here's what I know.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
Wait, is that right?
Speaker 2 (17:59):
I'm always questioning my own information, which I'm sure gives
you great, great security in what I have to do.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
I'll always say to you, I like watching your process
and sometime I don't have to argue with you, I said,
and watch you argue with yourself, and then you come
around to what my opinion was anyway, without me having
to do anything.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
Oh man, all right, So let's give you all the
quote of the day to consider as you go about
your day to day. It takes considerable knowledge just to
realize the extent of your own ignorance.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
This is from your files.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
By the way, I can't remember where I got this one,
but it sounds like, you know what. I'm not sure
where I got this, and so I'm not going to
attribute it, but heard it somewhere. Love it. Hope it
does something for you today, folks. So we always appreciate
you running with us. We will send you back on
the run tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
On TJIL and I'm Amy Robock.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
Have a great hump Day everyone,
Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio Podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Good morning everyone, Thank you for joining us for today's
morning Run. It's Wednesday, May fourteenth.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
I'm Amy Robot.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
And I'm TJ. Holmes on the run this morning. Trump
wants a trillion dollars on this trip and he's already
halfway there. A major investment announcement on day one of
his Middle East tour.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Why did I want to see John bon Jovi there?
Ooh oh yeah, I didn't get it, living on a
prayer halfway there?
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Sorry, all right, let me move on.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Then, the US and Syria are buds again, President Trump
announcing he is lifting all sanctions against the once designated
state sponsor of terrorism, and a top Democrat is using
his limited power to send a major message to Trump
about that four hundred million dollar gift from Qatar.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Also on the Run this morning, Harvard, I need to
start checking their couch cushions for loose change after the
White House announced another huge cut in the school's federal funding.
So it's day three of the Diddy trial. Day two
included graphic and gripping details of those so called free calls,
details that we can't onhere.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
And the Menendez brothers are one step closer to freedom
after an LA judge re sentences them for the nineteen
eighty nine murder of their parents. Also on the run,
Pete Rose is finally eligible for the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
And all he had to do was die.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
And remember those hair on fire warnings that tariffs would
cause prices to skyrocket, Well, prices actually went down last month.
But the devil is in the details. Also good news,
and prices are dropping. There's a devil in those details too.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
We'll get into all that, all right, But we begin
our run on this Wednesday in Rio odd Saudi Arabia,
where President Trump's trillion dollar mission is apparently off to
a pretty good start. The President is on a four day,
three nation tour of the region, where his stated goal
is to secure a trillion dollars worth of investments, and.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
He is getting there. On the first day of his trip,
Trump said, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia agreed to invest
six hundred billion dollars with the US. Now this includes
a bunch of deals. There were memorandums of understanding, letters
of intent, all kinds of stuff being signed. But that
six hundred building billion includes deals and defense, technology, and
(02:21):
other economic areas. President Trump also intended an economic forum
this morning, where he talked about wanting to do a
deal with Iran and also praise the region again. This
trip robes three of the richest nations in the world.
He was going to visit. But he goes from Saudi
Arabia heading over to Katar later today.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
Maybe they can talk about their plane all right. Also,
in a major shift in US policy, President Trump announced
the US would lift sanctions on Syria. He calls this
a first step towards restoring a normal relationship between the
United States and Syria for the first time in a decade.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Syria has been designated a state sponsor of terrorism by
the United States since nineteen seventy nine, and the US
put economic sanctions in place to punish the Assad regime
during its brutal crackdown on anti government protesters, most recently
in twenty eleven.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
The Assade regime fell at the end of last year,
and now President Trump says he wants to give them
a chance at greatness. He even met with the interim
leader of Syria at a private side meeting. So that's
a very big development, in a big.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Development for the region. This is something some of the
regional partners have been pushing for to normalize Syria again
before the United States. It's huge, This is absolutely huge, Folks,
pay attention to that one. We continue on our run
this morning. Next leg takes us to Washington, DC, where
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer is drawing the line in
the sand with President Trump. What is it this time? Well,
(03:43):
Schumer announced yesterday that he is putting a blanket hold
on all Trump administration Justice Department nominations until Schumer's as
he gets answers about that luxury jet from Cutter that
is set to become the new Air Force One.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
During a Senate floor's, Schumer said this in lighted the
deeply troubling news of a possible Katari funded Air Force
One and the reports that the Attorney General personally signed
off on this clearly unethical deal. I am announcing a
hold on all DOJ political nominees until we get more answers.
And he went on to say that accepting this gift
(04:20):
is something so corrupt that even Russian President Vladimir Putin
would give a double take.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Okay, they're all starting to sound like Trump now because
Republicans have the majority. However, Schumer can't actually block Trump's nominees.
All you can do is just be a pain in
the ass. He can actually call for a hold for
each nominee, Sure he can do that, but he's only
going to be taking up valuable floor time. He's just
extending the process, yes, making it more.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Difficult, because all they need is a simple majority to
override the hold. So they just have to continually call
for a vote before they get into each nominee.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
So he can just be annoying. White House spokeswords and
Carolyn Levitt said legal details on accepting the jet are
still being worked out. That makes you nervous. We're working
out the legalities, but we'll get back to you. She said.
Any donation to this government has always done in full
compliance with the law.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
All right, Next up on our run.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
They already lost two billion dollars in funding, So what's
another four hundred and fifty million. Well, the Trump administration, yes,
is taking more money from Harvard in its still escalating
standoff with the Ivy League.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
School at the White House announced that several federal agencies
will terminate approximately four hundred and fifty million dollars in
grants to Harvard, which is in addition to the two
point two billion that was already terminated. As they put it,
Harvard is quote prioritizing appeasement over accountability, and that school
(05:46):
leaders have forfeited the school's claim to taxpayer support.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Now, several schools have had the Trump administration withdraw federal
funding over ideological differences. In particular, the president says several
universities did not do enough to cut down on anti
semitism during campus protests over the war in Gaza. But
Harvard certainly has borne the brunt of the public scrutiny
and punishment.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Yeah, the school vows though, to fight on. They've sued
the White House with a loss of funding, and the
school's president said they will not surrender their independence to
the White House.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
All right.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Next up on the Run, we're going to head to
that Manhattan courtroom where Cassie Ventura is expected back on
the witness stand today after day of at times emotional
and at times explicit testimony in the Diddy trial.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
Now, Ventura, as you know, is the ex girlfriend of
Sean Ditty Combs. Now, that hard to watch hotel surveillance
video of her being assaulted by Combs was shown in
court yesterday and she testified in graphic detail about those
so called freak offs, these sex parties that she said
she was forced to participate.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
In Ventura said the parties were fantasy for Combs, who
she said directed every aspect of them, including how much
baby oil would be used and who she would have
sex with while Combs watched. She also described living in
constant fear that Combs would turn violent at the slightest
perceived mistake she made.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
And we should note here there were a lot of
graphic details when this story. When he was first arrested,
so much was made in the press about these freak costs,
these parties and the baby oil. We got more details
probably yesterday about those parties than we have gotten anywhere else.
It's salacious, sure, and how it was reported, but she
(07:30):
described some pretty horrific and even hostage situations. You could
almost suggest in that he held people for days. She described
one when for four days that she can remember.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
It's hard to get your head around and what was
going on.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
And she is expected back on the stand today this
morning and is going to face cross examination from the
defense team. Combes of course, is facing federal charges of
sex trafficking and racketeering and has pleaded not guilty to
all charges against it.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
All. Right, next up on the run, we're going to
head to la where Lyle and Eric Menendez are now
eligible for parole after a judge decided to re sentence
them for the nineteen eighty nine.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
Murder of their parents.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Yeah, the California State Parole Board will still have to
make the final ruling on whether to release them from prison.
That could take a few weeks, could take a few months,
but they are now eligible at least to be considered
by the state parole board. That is the change. That
is a big deal and roads right now. The expectation
is that they will be free soon.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
That's right.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
And this all happened yesterday during that re sentencing hearing,
where the judge heard from Menendez family members and a
former inmate, who all testified about the big changes they
have seen in the brothers over the years, one of
their aunts telling the judge thirty five years is enough.
They are universally forgiven by the family.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Well. The brothers, Lyle Eric also gave statements in a
video link after the judge made his decision. Lyle to
the court makes no excuses for the murders. He said this,
I committed an atrocious act against two people who had
the right to live my mom and dad Today thirty
five years later, I am deeply ashamed of who I was.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
And Eric apologized publicly, saying this, I fired all five
rounds at my parents and went back to reload.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
That gives you chills, right, he.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
Says, I lied to police, I lied to my family.
I'm truly sorry. I mean, seriously have chills from head
to toe. The brother's emotional statements seemed to disprove what
the recently elected La DA had been claiming as his
argument against the re sentencing that Lyle and Eric had
not fully taken responsibility for their crime. Certainly they did
(09:43):
that yesterday.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
They had done so prior to Am I mistaken? Have
they not? For years they had talked about and taking responsibility.
There's been no question of them being responded.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
There was some discrepancy with the DA saying that he
didn't feel like they admitted to lying, to trying to
get people to lie for them. He wanted them to
fully it all of the wrongs they had committed within
like in the days leading up to the murder and
in the days following the murder.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
And they did say, though they've always maintained they killed
their parents after years of sexual, physical and emotional abuse,
the resentencing hearing was just one path to freedom for
the brothers. Next month, on a June.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
Thirtieth, June thirteenth, right thirteenth.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
Excuse me there, the State Parole Board is going to
conduct a separate hearing and send results to Governor Newsom
to decide whether to grant the to clemency. You were
explaining this to me. It seems like the State Parole
Board is involved in both that they are different processes, correct.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
So with the judge resentencing the brothers, now the parole
Board will get the final say and can actually say
you are released when they consider that. But this separate
thing was something that Governor Gavin Newsom did where he
was trying to potentially grant clemency to the brothers, and
so he asked them to conduct a basically a like
(10:59):
a an investigation into whether or not the brothers would
be likely to commit crimes when they got out.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
So it's two separate things.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
It's confusing, but it does look like they are getting
out of prison soon.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
That's remarkable. We'll stay with us here on this Wednesday
Morning run when we come back. One of the most
heated debates in all of sports is actually about to
get even hotter because Pete Rose is now eligible for
the Hall of Fame. Also, those tariffs didn't cause prices
to go up. They actually went down last month. But
(11:33):
the devil is in the details. Oh yeah, those eggs
they went down last month too. There's some really deviled
eggs in that and those details. Stay with us.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
Welcome back to our Wednesday morning run.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
And next up on the run, Pete Rose is no
longer banned from baseball, which now clears the way for
baseball's all time hits leader to finally get into the
Hall of Fame.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
The Commissioner Rob Manfred announced a major change in Major
League Baseball's longtime policy and now players who have been
permanently banned from the game will have their ineligibility lifted
once the individual die. So you get that, if you
were banned from baseball, that ban gets lifted upon your death.
(12:23):
And Rose died in September at the age of eighty
three and had been banned from baseball since nineteen eighty nine,
when an investigation found that he'd bet on baseball while
he was a player and manager of the Cincinnati Reds.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
It's been one of the most consequential and ongoing stories
in baseball's history, and it's been the center of heated
sports debates for decades because it seemed crazy that one
of the game's greatest players, who holds one of the
game's most important records, is not in the Hall of Fame.
The Rose can now be considered for the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
He may not be a shoe.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
In because get this, there are a lot of sports
fans out there, sports fanatics and enthusiasts, and also people
who just followed the game for a long time. We
have these historians of the game who end up voting
for the Hall of Fame. They have come out, a
lot of them critical of the move by MLB and
still believe that Rose cheated the game, he broke the rules,
(13:18):
and should not be allowed to enter the Hall of Fame,
dead or alive. Estimated seventeen players are impacted by this
MLB change, including shoeless Joe Jackson. He was implicated in
the nineteen nineteen Black Sox scandal fixing the World Series,
of course, and he is I think has the one
of the greatest batting averages in the history of the game.
(13:39):
So he is now eligible. But people are roes. What
do you do? I thought everybody's doing great, he should
go in. A lot of people immediately came out and said, nope,
this is awful for the integrity of baseball. They don't
like the move at all.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
Yeah, I mean, I really don't have a horse in
the race.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
So they say, you didn't know he was in, didn't
care he wasn't it. Who cares?
Speaker 2 (14:00):
You're telling me, Oh, this is a huge story.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
Yesterday I was like, Okay, I believe you.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
It's huge. It actually is all right.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
Next up on our run, despite Trump's trade war, we
are not paying more for products, at least not yet anyway,
The all important inflation report just out gave us some
better than expected news.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
Prices did not shoot up last.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
Month, and our inflation rate, get this is actually at
the lowest point in four years.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
Yeah, you hear about this. The CPI Consumer Price Index
as essentially just a measure of the cost of goods. Well,
that measure was at two point three percent last month.
Bottom line, this means that the cost of goods actually
slowed from the previous month. So yes, the idea with
all this going on that prices actually went down slightly. Okay,
(14:50):
that's great, but it doesn't mean we're out of the
woods with price increases in the near future.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
Economist suggests that maybe the impact of the tariffs hasn't
hit us yet, or perhaps businesses built up their inventory
early and absorbed any initial tariff hits and have not
passed those costs along to customers yet. Also, a lot
of the tariffs were immediately paused after they were put
in place, so they were never fully implemented. Yet we
saw a lot of on again, off again and now
amended versions of the tariff.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
So fingers crossed.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
I was going to say, hold your breath, fingers crossed.
With things all right, the final leg of our run here.
They got some good news bad news. When people ask
you that you I got good news bad news, which
one do you want?
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Find I always want the bad news first, you really, Yeah,
I want to take because I don't want to anticipate
it and worry about it as I'm hearing the good news.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
It takes away from the fun of the good news.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
Okay, fine, I'm gonna switch up the story and give
the bad news first. All right, here is the bad news.
The bad news is about egg prices. And if you
look at the price of eggs year to year, the
price of eggs is up seventy nine percent from where
it was last April. That is the bad news. That
(15:59):
you are paying seventy nine percent more right now for
eggs than you were a year ago. So now let's
go back to the top. Now you want the good news, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
The good news, Give me the good news.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
The good news is that the egg prices actually dropped
from the previous month, and I mean they plumbing it robes.
Twelve point seven percent drop in April.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
See doesn't it feel good to end on a good note.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
This is the first time we have seen a monthly
drop since last October. The average cost for a dozen
eggs sits hit five dollars and twelve cents.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
So that's good.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
And I have to tell you, I just bought a
dozen eggs and I paid less than four dollars. So
maybe I don't know why it would be cheaper here
in New York, because nothing is cheaper here in New
York except for flowers and massages. Oh yeah, those are
the two things that you can get a little bit
cheaper here in New York because they're readily available on
every street corner.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
I trying to think of another thing that's cheaper here
in New York. But you know that was a better
way to go. I did. I gave you the bad
news first, But that's essentially what we're saying. Yes, they're
way up from last year, but they are way down
from last month. That could be a trend that could
tell us that things are going a different or better direction.
For that's Fresh Direct.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
Yes, Fresh Direct less than four dollars. I think it
was like three dollars and eighty something cents.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
They are not a sponsor of the show. We should
say we just happened to act yesterday. Before you go
about your day on this Wednesday, folks, on this hot day,
is something we would like for you to consider. It's
our quote of the day.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of
your own ignorance.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
Man, Ain't that the truth? We think we know Everything's
what's the other one? The smartest man in the room
is the one that knows.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
It's like The wisest man in the world is the
man who knows he knows nothing, and that.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
Is something to accept. If you can just be curious,
to be open to the idea that you are wrong
or something you don't know, you know how much smarter
you're going to get than if you just assume you
know everything.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
Yeah, I am the opposite. I you know.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
I'm always like, here's what I think, maybe I don't,
or here's what I know.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
Wait, is that right?
Speaker 2 (17:59):
I'm always questioning my own information, which I'm sure gives
you great, great security in what I have to do.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
I'll always say to you, I like watching your process
and sometime I don't have to argue with you, I said,
and watch you argue with yourself, and then you come
around to what my opinion was anyway, without me having
to do anything.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
Oh man, all right, So let's give you all the
quote of the day to consider as you go about
your day to day. It takes considerable knowledge just to
realize the extent of your own ignorance.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
This is from your files.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
By the way, I can't remember where I got this one,
but it sounds like, you know what. I'm not sure
where I got this, and so I'm not going to
attribute it, but heard it somewhere. Love it. Hope it
does something for you today, folks. So we always appreciate
you running with us. We will send you back on
the run tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
On TJIL and I'm Amy Robock.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
Have a great hump Day everyone,
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