Speaker 1: Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio podcast. Hello everyone,
Speaker 1: this is your Morning Run for Thursday, June twelfth.
Speaker 2: I'm Amy Robots and I'm TJ Holmes and on the
Speaker 2: run this morning, it was a matchup robes. A lot
Speaker 2: of people wanted to hear last year, Trump versus Newsome. Well,
Speaker 2: they're not getting it on a ballot, but they're getting
Speaker 2: it on a court docket. Today. Those two are going
Speaker 2: to face off in court all over what's happening in
Speaker 2: the streets of LA. But now it's not just La.
Speaker 2: We'll tell you how busy it was around the country
Speaker 2: last night with these anti ice protests.
Speaker 1: And coming up on the run. Singer and music legend
Speaker 1: Brian Wilson, the co founder and genius behind The Beach Boys,
Speaker 1: has died. So many honoring the man who created the
Speaker 1: soundtrack of Summer for millions.
Speaker 2: Also, a lot of folks are honoring longtime and beloved
Speaker 2: MTVVJ Ananda Lewis. She's passed away at the age of
Speaker 2: fifty two after a five your battle with breast cancer.
Speaker 2: Also this morning, another day of headlines in the Diddy
Speaker 2: trial with his former girlfriend on the stand. Now for
Speaker 2: the sixth day in.
Speaker 1: A row plus singer and convicted sex trafficker r Kelly
Speaker 1: says prison officials are trying to kill him. He's asking
Speaker 1: for help from President Trump and the courts to release
Speaker 1: him to home detention. And there's a partial guilty verdict
Speaker 1: for former movie producer Harvey Weinstein after wild accounts of
Speaker 1: a hostile jury room.
Speaker 2: Also, former ABC News correspondentary Moran breaks his silence after
Speaker 2: being let go from the network for a late night
Speaker 2: tweet against the Trump administration. And two hours and fifty
Speaker 2: four minutes and an AURA sleep score of fifty four.
Speaker 2: And it was all worth it for me to see
Speaker 2: Game three of the NBA Finals last night, Rhodes. I
Speaker 2: made a mistake not long ago, and I went to
Speaker 2: sleep on a game earlyer than I should have, and
Speaker 2: I missed the comeback. It's not gonna happen again.
Speaker 1: How you feeling today with that less than three hours
Speaker 1: of sleeping?
Speaker 2: Look look at my face.
Speaker 1: You look pretty tired.
Speaker 2: I am chipper as I can be.
Speaker 1: This is the eyes. It's in the eyes. It's gonna
Speaker 1: be lids, all right. We're going to begin our run
Speaker 1: with more on those protests in LA and across the country.
Speaker 1: President Trump will face off against California Governor Gavin Newsom
Speaker 1: in court today, and we say face off, so to speak.
Speaker 1: Newsom and his state sued the Trump administration after the
Speaker 1: President sent in National Guard and Marines in response to
Speaker 1: all that on rest in downtown LA. They're challenging the
Speaker 1: constitutionality of Trump's moveth.
Speaker 2: All right, So with all that's getting worked out in court,
Speaker 2: things were a little calmer on the streets of downtown
Speaker 2: LA for the sixth day of anti ice protest. The
Speaker 2: curfew seem to be working for a second straight night,
Speaker 2: though there were sporadic clashes and authorities at one point
Speaker 2: declared unlawful assembly around city hall. These protests are catching
Speaker 2: on in more than a dozen US city San Antonio, Philadelphia,
Speaker 2: San Francisco, Denver, Spokane, Seattle, New York, just to name
Speaker 2: a few.
Speaker 1: Yeah, New York. We watched it again from our apartment window,
Speaker 1: seeing all the folks gathering, but again fairly peacefully, with
Speaker 1: a lot of signs and a lot of shouting and
Speaker 1: even marching bands. The Texas governor announced he will be
Speaker 1: deploying his States National Guard in anticipation of demonstrations there.
Speaker 1: We've already seen some in Austin and in Dallas. There
Speaker 1: was also a protest outside the arena for Game three
Speaker 1: of the NBA Finals, which TJ just mentioned. Will have
Speaker 1: much more on that that, of course, happened in Indianapolis.
Speaker 2: I will continue our run now. With the co founder
Speaker 2: and creative mastermind behind the Beach Boys, Brian Wilson, has
Speaker 2: passed away at the age of eighty two. His bandmate
Speaker 2: said Wilson wasn't just the heart of the Beach Boys,
Speaker 2: he was the soul of our sounds. The melodies he
Speaker 2: dreamed up and the emotions he poured into every note
Speaker 2: changed the course of music forever.
Speaker 1: Wilson's family made the announcement of his passing on social media,
Speaker 1: saying they are heartbroken and at a loss for words
Speaker 1: right now, adding that while they are asking for privacy,
Speaker 1: they realize that we are sharing our grief with the world.
Speaker 1: Wilson founded The Beach Boys in the early nineteen sixties
Speaker 1: and with his brothers, his cousin and a good friend,
Speaker 1: and by nineteen sixty three they had their first big hit.
Speaker 1: I think you might have heard it before surfing USA
Speaker 1: from there. Their hits are endless and timeless. My nineteen
Speaker 1: year old has the Beach Boys on loop. She loves
Speaker 1: their music.
Speaker 2: So here we go. Help me, Ronda, I get around
Speaker 2: California girls. Good vibrations. God only knows. Wouldn't he be nice?
Speaker 1: I could sing all of those right now. They're just
Speaker 1: so familiar.
Speaker 2: See here's the weird thing to me. I can too.
Speaker 2: But I never grew up with Beach Boys in the house.
Speaker 2: And I'll be honest, you say the name Brian Wilson,
Speaker 2: it didn't come to mind. That is not an insult
Speaker 2: to It's more of a compliment. I never sought out
Speaker 2: their music, but it was ubiquitous, ubiquitous in my life.
Speaker 2: It's everywhere, to the point I know the lyrics to
Speaker 2: every single one of their songs, even though I didn't
Speaker 2: grow up seeking out the music.
Speaker 1: Ah and they it's their sound was so fun. It
Speaker 1: was like summer fun, happy good times, Like you feel
Speaker 1: joyful when you hear their music. Yeah.
Speaker 2: So thirty singles in the top forty with worldwide sales
Speaker 2: of more than on one hundred million. Wilson had several
Speaker 2: career achievements. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll
Speaker 2: Hall of Fame with the Beach Boys. That was in
Speaker 2: nineteen eighty eight. He's also in the Songwriters Hall of Fame,
Speaker 2: and he was also recognized by the Kennedy Center Honors.
Speaker 1: After his wife died last year, Wilson's publicist and his
Speaker 1: manager became co conservators of him because he had a
Speaker 1: major neurocognitive disorder and he needed full time care and
Speaker 1: a full time care giver. Wilson is survived by his daughters.
Speaker 1: You might know them Carney and Wendy. They are two
Speaker 1: thirds of the singing trio Wilson Phillips, and five other
Speaker 1: children he adopted with his second wife, as well as grandchildren.
Speaker 1: But so many celebrities have reacted to the passing of
Speaker 1: Brian Wilson. I love what Elton John said. He said
Speaker 1: that Brian Wilson was the biggest influence on my songwriting ever.
Speaker 1: And if you love the Beach Boys and you followed them,
Speaker 1: we certainly have them in studio with us several times,
Speaker 1: but John Stamos would sometimes be the drummer for them
Speaker 1: when they would go on tour. He said, Brian Wilson
Speaker 1: didn't just soundtrack my life. He filled it with color,
Speaker 1: with wonder and some of the most unforgettable emotional joyful
Speaker 1: moments I have ever known.
Speaker 2: It's got to be one of the most influential groups
Speaker 2: in the history of music. And to lose and to
Speaker 2: hear them say, yes, it was a group, but to
Speaker 2: hear them say that he was the key, he was
Speaker 2: the mastermind. I mean, this is music royalty, this is
Speaker 2: music legend and genius that we just lost on a
Speaker 2: level we don't see that often.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I'll be definitely playing some Beach Boys music today.
Speaker 2: All right, I want to continue on the run here
Speaker 2: with another sad passing. Ananda Lewis, long time and wildly
Speaker 2: popular MTVVJ, has died at the age of fifty two.
Speaker 2: She was with MTV for its heyday, hosting several shows
Speaker 2: including Total Request Live and if you have a certain age,
Speaker 2: certainly remember TRL.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Her sister released the statement saying that Lewis was now
Speaker 2: quote free and in his heaven lyon Ah.
Speaker 1: This is deeply personal for me because this is just
Speaker 1: so sad. Lewis was diagnosed with stage three breast cancer
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty, and she spoke openly about her decision
Speaker 1: to go against doctor's advice to have a double mistectomy.
Speaker 1: And it's a decision she said she ended up regretting.
Speaker 1: She admitted this in a CNN interview just last year.
Speaker 1: This is what she said. Her plan at first was
Speaker 1: to get out excessive toxins in my body. I felt
Speaker 1: like my body is intelligent. I know that to be true.
Speaker 1: Our bodies are brilliantly made. I decided to keep my
Speaker 1: tumor and try to work it out of my body
Speaker 1: a different way. She says. I wish I could go back.
Speaker 1: It's important for me to admit where I went wrong
Speaker 1: with this. So she started out with stage three breast cancer.
Speaker 1: She didn't go through with the treatments her doctors had suggested,
Speaker 1: and then her cancer unfortunately metastasized, became stage four and sadly,
Speaker 1: Lewis passed away. She leaves behind the sun, but her sister.
Speaker 1: She said so many beautiful things about her, and so
Speaker 1: many people have wonderful memories of her. And I appreciate
Speaker 1: the fact that she went on and said that publicly
Speaker 1: because some of these decisions, all of these decisions truly
Speaker 1: about your body and dealing with cancer, are deeply personal.
Speaker 1: But she wanted to let other women know that she
Speaker 1: regretted her decision not to have surgery.
Speaker 2: Well deeply personal, you say, and I guess every decision
Speaker 2: feels like it's life or death. And she for her
Speaker 2: to come out admit I was wrong. I wish I'd
Speaker 2: done something different. She talked about she needs to be
Speaker 2: around for her son. This was tub, but it was important. Look,
Speaker 2: she left a hell of a legacy. And you remember
Speaker 2: she was the it girl. She was hot is anything
Speaker 2: I'm hot, not talking about physically, which is thoughtful. She
Speaker 2: was very beautiful, but she was just the it girl
Speaker 2: everywhere doing everything for a long time. And she had
Speaker 2: a great energy. And she's one of those. She's a
Speaker 2: dear friend of a dear friend of mine and first
Speaker 2: met her at a wedding that I was actually m
Speaker 2: seeing and so her energy everything you saw on she
Speaker 2: jumped out at you with a wild, infectious energy about her.
Speaker 2: And so that's tough, but a lesson. She has taught
Speaker 2: us all and we appreciate that. So stay with us
Speaker 2: here though on this morning run folks. When we come back,
Speaker 2: we'll get you updated about what's going on in the
Speaker 2: Diddy trial. Also let you know what happened in the
Speaker 2: Harvey Weinstein trial. This guy is uh, yes, he's just
Speaker 2: been found guilty, but what in the world is going
Speaker 2: on in the jury room? Also an update on r Kelly.
Speaker 2: He says, get me out of prison right now because
Speaker 2: somebody is trying to kill me. All right, welcome back, folks.
Speaker 2: We will continue on our run now with the Diddy trial.
Speaker 2: This is officially week five, day twenty two of the trial,
Speaker 2: and today Jane will be back on the stand for
Speaker 2: the sixth straight day, testifying under that pseudonym to protect
Speaker 2: her identity. Jane dated Shawn Combs up until last year
Speaker 2: and is a key prosecution witness, one of four victims
Speaker 2: the government has based its case on.
Speaker 1: She has been testifying to a pattern of abuse and
Speaker 1: control by Combs in which she felt obligated, she says,
Speaker 1: to participate in so called freak offs. Yesterday, under cross examination,
Speaker 1: Jane cried several times as the defense went through some
Speaker 1: loving and at times explicit messages between her and Diddy,
Speaker 1: and at times having Jane read her own words aloud.
Speaker 1: The defense has been trying to establish the Jane's participation
Speaker 1: in their hotel nights or freak offs was consensual and
Speaker 1: not a matter of coercion.
Speaker 2: Deamn part of making the case, they pointed out that
Speaker 2: Jane had a two month stretch of her relationship in
Speaker 2: which she saw Diddy one on one. There were no
Speaker 2: freak COFs, point there being that doesn't sound like coersion,
Speaker 2: does sound like sex trafficking? You showed up for two
Speaker 2: months and this seemed to be a one on one
Speaker 2: relationship as well. She is expected to spend this day
Speaker 2: on the stand as well, supposed to be her last day.
Speaker 2: And get this, The prosecution told the judge they expect
Speaker 2: to rent their case as early as next Wednesday and
Speaker 2: by the latest next Friday.
Speaker 1: All right, and then the defense gets to make their
Speaker 1: case to the jurors as well. But before testimony even
Speaker 1: begins this morning, as I mentioned jurors, well, the judge
Speaker 1: is expected to address the government's request to kick one
Speaker 1: juror off the jury. This has been a developing issue
Speaker 1: all week and yesterday prosecutors told the judge that after
Speaker 1: investigating one particular juror, they concluded he showed a lack
Speaker 1: of candor with the court. That raises serious questions.
Speaker 2: Now, what does that sound like? Lack of candor with
Speaker 2: the court. It sounds like he kept something.
Speaker 1: From them, tell them something that they needed to know.
Speaker 2: It needs to all right, So it has been made
Speaker 2: clear this week what exactly the issue is with this juror,
Speaker 2: But whatever the issue is, that the defense has no
Speaker 2: problem with this juror and is asking the judge to
Speaker 2: keep him, saying the government is making a quote thinly
Speaker 2: veiled effort to dismiss a black juror. Now, if juror
Speaker 2: were to be dismissed, would be the first time that
Speaker 2: a jury has been dismissed in this case. In Robes,
Speaker 2: I've forgot to mention here what was a few weeks
Speaker 2: ago the judge got on to Diddy for making too
Speaker 2: much eye contact and acknowledging and almost communicating with one
Speaker 2: juror in particular.
Speaker 1: So we don't know if that's the same juror, but
Speaker 1: we will have more information today when that trial resumes
Speaker 1: next up on the Run, Though, singer and convicted sex
Speaker 1: trafficker are Kelly says there is a murder for higher
Speaker 1: plot against him in prison, orchestrated by prison officials. The
Speaker 1: fifty eight year old Singer has been behind bars since
Speaker 1: twenty twenty two, serving a thirty year sentence for racketeering
Speaker 1: and sex trafficking.
Speaker 2: His lawyers are asking that Kelly be moved from federal
Speaker 2: prison to home detention after they claim three prison officials
Speaker 2: have been plotting to have a fellow inmate kill him Okay.
Speaker 2: His attorneys released this statement, quote, Federal officers have solicited
Speaker 2: the murder of R. Kelly because he intends to expose
Speaker 2: the corruption underlying his federal prosecutions. We have filed our
Speaker 2: motion to make sure that they fail. The only thing
Speaker 2: that can protect mister Kelly behind the prison walls now
Speaker 2: is the fact that now the world is watching, and
Speaker 2: we will call on the courts and President Trump to
Speaker 2: help put an end to the corruption that now threatens
Speaker 2: mister Kelly's life.
Speaker 1: Kelly's lawyers provided a sworn statement from that inmate, who
Speaker 1: says officials offered to release him because he has a
Speaker 1: terminal illness if he murdered Kelly. That inmate also claims
Speaker 1: he was previously instructed to order beatings and killings of
Speaker 1: other inmates by prison officials and says he was transferred
Speaker 1: this spring to the facility where Kelly is being held
Speaker 1: and placed in the same unit as him to carry
Speaker 1: out their orders. The Bureau of Prisons had no comment
Speaker 1: on these allegations, saying they will not comment on pending
Speaker 1: litigation or matters that are the subject of legal proceedings.
Speaker 1: This is a wild story.
Speaker 2: Um, it sounds like some wild conspiracy theory. But we
Speaker 2: will see how this one plays out. But asking for
Speaker 2: r Kelly to be released immediately at sinhom that's probably
Speaker 2: not probably a tall order, not gonna happen, all right,
Speaker 2: we go from a Diddy to R Kelly to now
Speaker 2: Harvey Weinstein. Yes, we turned to the Harvey Weinstein trial,
Speaker 2: where there's a partial verdict in the case and apparently
Speaker 2: a hot mess in the jury room. The former Hollywood
Speaker 2: heavyweight has been on trial in New York for sex crimes,
Speaker 2: and after five days of deliberations, the jury came back
Speaker 2: yesterday and said guilty of criminal sexual misconduct against one woman,
Speaker 2: not guilty of that same charge against another woman. But
Speaker 2: then the jury said they were deadlocked on a third
Speaker 2: count of rape.
Speaker 1: And before all of this there was some unusual jury activity. First,
Speaker 1: the jury four persons sent a note to the judge
Speaker 1: which read, cannot go back inside with those people. Those
Speaker 1: people being his fellow jurors. His note led the judge
Speaker 1: to call him into his chambers for a meeting in
Speaker 1: which the foreman said the jurors were attacking each other. Yea.
Speaker 2: He told the judge he didn't feel safe going back
Speaker 2: in there because one juror told him he'd see him outside.
Speaker 2: What is happening? So how the judge handle all this,
Speaker 2: you might wonder. He told him to get their butts
Speaker 2: back in there, come back today, continued deliberating and try
Speaker 2: to come to a conclusion on the one count they're
Speaker 2: deadlocked on. And a reminder, all this going on, this
Speaker 2: was part of a retrial. He was previously convicted of
Speaker 2: some of these charges and then that was thrown out
Speaker 2: on a procedural matter. But even forget all that, he's
Speaker 2: already serving a sixteen year prison sentence for convictions in California.
Speaker 1: And this is in New York. So it's actually kind
Speaker 1: of I don't want to say his point less because
Speaker 1: I know the victims want justice and all of that,
Speaker 1: but he's already serving sixteen years. He is in extremely
Speaker 1: poor health, so any more years on his sentence, I
Speaker 1: don't know how actually how much time he'll actually serve
Speaker 1: extra beyond this sixteen years. But we shall see what
Speaker 1: happens in court today. All right, Next up on our
Speaker 1: run Terry Moran has spoken, and he did not give
Speaker 1: an apology or even an explanation for his blistering tweet
Speaker 1: that cost him his job at ABC.
Speaker 2: I at least wanted an explanation. Maybe I wanted to
Speaker 2: know what this was about. But Moran was initially suspended
Speaker 2: after his social media post in which he referred to
Speaker 2: both President Trump and his deputy chief of staff as
Speaker 2: world class haters. He said a whole bunch of other
Speaker 2: very personal stuff in there attacking them. But ABC News
Speaker 2: went further after initially suspending him and announced yesterday that
Speaker 2: Moran wouldn't return to the network.
Speaker 1: Moran had an announcement of his own yesterday, posting a
Speaker 1: video on x of himself sitting behind a desk with
Speaker 1: a bookshelf behind him, and he spoke directly to the camera.
Speaker 1: He starts his message with this cheeky line. For almost
Speaker 1: twenty eight years, I was a reporter and anchor at
Speaker 1: ABC News. As you may have heard, I'm not there anymore.
Speaker 2: Okay, And that's where he left it. He said, I'm
Speaker 2: not there any or I'm now here. On substack, he's
Speaker 2: announcing that he is doing something with Substack. He didn't
Speaker 2: give a lot of details about what he'll be doing,
Speaker 2: but said he wants to get at it on the
Speaker 2: important work that we all have to do.
Speaker 1: So everything sounds fairly deliberate and intentional.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they announced that he's not coming back to the network,
Speaker 2: and hours later he announced that he's got something else cooking.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, Well that was one of our conjectures
Speaker 1: that perhaps he went out with the blaze of glory intentionally.
Speaker 1: All right. The final leg of our run takes us
Speaker 1: to Indianapolis for Game three of the NBA Finals between
Speaker 1: the Indiana Pacers and the Oklahoma City Thunder. This was
Speaker 1: the first NBA Finals game in this basketball crazed city
Speaker 1: in twenty five years, and their hometown Pacers made it
Speaker 1: a special night. Yeah.
Speaker 2: They won this game one, sixteen, one oh seven in
Speaker 2: front of a really fun, exuberant home crowd. It was
Speaker 2: cool to see them. This is love, this is Indiana,
Speaker 2: this is where basketball was born. They breathe the stuff, so.
Speaker 1: That measures that's what you think of.
Speaker 2: It's really cool to see them having a nice moment again.
Speaker 2: So now the Pacers up to one in the series.
Speaker 2: Game four is going to be Friday night in Indianapolis,
Speaker 2: as well.
Speaker 1: Okay, at least if it's Friday night, you can sleep
Speaker 1: in on Saturday mornings, so maybe I'll even watch it
Speaker 1: with you dead.
Speaker 2: It's worth it. But maybe we should get through my eyes.
Speaker 1: I swear you're so heavy. Okay, oh, I know it's
Speaker 1: very true, all right, so we'll get through this very quickly.
Speaker 1: Here is our quote of the day, something we'd like
Speaker 1: you to consider it as you go about your day today.
Speaker 1: You might use this one too, TJ. Whether you think
Speaker 1: you can or you think you can't, you're right. That
Speaker 1: is from Henry Ford, and I love that the power
Speaker 1: of our thoughts. It's real. So if you think you
Speaker 1: can stay awake, TJ, you can.
Speaker 2: And if I think I can't, I'll probably be napping soon.
Speaker 2: But with that tug that with you today, folks, whether
Speaker 2: you think you can or you think you can't, you
Speaker 2: are right. And with that we always appreciate you running
Speaker 2: with us.
Speaker 1: I am Tjing and I'm Amy Robot. Have a wonderful
Speaker 1: day today and will see you on the run tomorrow.
Speaker 1: M