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Speaker 1: Morning Run with Amy and TJ an iHeartRadio podcast. Good

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Speaker 1: Friday morning, everyone, and welcome to Morning Run. Yes it

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Speaker 1: is Friday, November twenty second.

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Speaker 2: I'm Amy Robox and I'm TJ. Holmes and on the

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Speaker 2: run this morning. All of our phones were going off.

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Speaker 2: Yesterday a flurry set off by a couple of stunning,

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Speaker 2: back to back breaking news stories.

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Speaker 1: First, Matt Gates abruptly withdrew his name from consideration to

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Speaker 1: be Trump's attorney General. Trump had another ag nominee within

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Speaker 1: hours of that announcement.

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Speaker 2: And then the other shocker nobody seemed to see coming.

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Speaker 2: Jesse Smolette's conviction for planning a racist, homophobic attack on

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Speaker 2: himself was.

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Speaker 1: Overturned, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahoo is now a

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Speaker 1: wonted man after a warrant was issued for his arrest.

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Speaker 2: Also, first it was Deli meat, then it was onions,

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Speaker 2: Then it was the carrots. Now it's the ground beef,

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Speaker 2: the latest food to be recalled for E. Coli and

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Speaker 2: that potentially tainted meat koltz fiel Be in restaurant freezers.

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Speaker 1: Shame, shame, shame. One airline is hoping to embarrass you

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Speaker 1: into sticking to your own boarding group.

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Speaker 2: Also this morning, he spent six million dollars for a

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Speaker 2: banana duct tape to a wall. He says, now he's

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Speaker 2: gonna eat it. We have an update on what is

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Speaker 2: the funniest and most frustrating story of the day on

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Speaker 2: this Friday.

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Speaker 1: I know you can't wait to dig back into that one, TJ.

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Speaker 1: All right, But first up on our run we head

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Speaker 1: to DC, where Matt Gates is out Pam Bondy is in.

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Speaker 1: A head spinning turn of events yesterday set off when

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Speaker 1: Trump's pick for Attorney General, Gates abruptly quit, pulling his

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Speaker 1: name out of consideration.

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Speaker 2: Then in just a matter of ours, Trump announced that

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Speaker 2: Pam Bondy, the former Florida Attorney General, is his new pick.

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Speaker 2: Bondy is considered a so called Trump loyalist and has

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Speaker 2: worked as a lawyer for him for years after serving

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Speaker 2: as a prosecutor, and the Florida.

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Speaker 1: Aging Republicans are said to be breathing a sigh of

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Speaker 1: relief with this new pick, and don't at this point

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Speaker 1: think she will face the same type of enormous challenges

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Speaker 1: that Gates would have faced. Still, Gates's decision to withdraw

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Speaker 1: his name from consideration came as a surprise. First, he

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Speaker 1: was all smiles in his meetings with senators just yesterday

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Speaker 1: on Capitol Hill. And then second, Trump had publicly stood

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Speaker 1: by him despite all of the fervor over Gates's alleged

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Speaker 1: sexual misconduct.

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Speaker 2: Then he made the announcement himself yesterday on X that

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Speaker 2: he was stepping away, and I quote, I had excellent

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Speaker 2: meetings with senators yesterday, Gates says. I appreciate their thoughtful

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Speaker 2: feedback and the incredible support of so many. While the

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Speaker 2: momentum was strong, it is clear that my confirmation was

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Speaker 2: unfairly becoming a distraction to the critical work of the

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Speaker 2: Trump Vans transition. There is no time to waste on

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Speaker 2: a needlessly protracted Washington scuffle. Thus I'll be withdrawing my

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Speaker 2: name from consideration to serve as Attorney General.

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Speaker 1: Up until the announcement, Trump had personally been calling lawmakers

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Speaker 1: to try and secure support for gates confirmation. So then

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Speaker 1: what happened to make Gates suddenly withdraw now?

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Speaker 2: Well?

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Speaker 1: According to CNN, they called Gates team for comment on

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Speaker 1: new reporting they had that a seventeen year old testified

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Speaker 1: she had sex with Gates on two separate occasions, and

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Speaker 1: less than an hour later, Gates withdrew his name.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that was a detail that had not been out

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Speaker 2: there publicly just yet. The president elect said in a

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Speaker 2: statement that he appreciated Gates' recent efforts to seek Senate approval,

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Speaker 2: and that withdrawing was gates choice, not Trump's choice. Trump

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Speaker 2: wrote that Matt has a wonderful future and I look

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Speaker 2: forward to watching all of the great things he'll do.

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Speaker 1: The House Ethics Committee decided this week not to release

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Speaker 1: its findings from its three year investigation into those alleged

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Speaker 1: sexual misconduct allegations, among other things. However, many senators believe

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Speaker 1: the details from that report would eventually have become a

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Speaker 1: public during confirmation hearings. And the question is will it

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Speaker 1: become public at all anymore? Because now, yes, one of

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Speaker 1: the questions was jurisdiction, because he's a former congressman, So

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Speaker 1: what jurisdiction did they have over him? Now is a

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Speaker 2: There seems to be a trickle trickle trickle. Well, I mean,

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Speaker 2: You assumed those details were going to come out. Maybe

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Speaker 2: He just withdrew. So something happened to where they knew

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Speaker 2: this was an uphill fight and probably didn't have the votes.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and not having the votes is probably a huge

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Speaker 1: the question is what happens to his House seat that

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Speaker 1: he just re won and just vacated a lot of questions.

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Speaker 2: After all this, he could still end up being one

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Speaker 2: of their colleagues on Capitol Hill because he did resign

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Speaker 2: January because he was re elected to Congress. So legally speaking,

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Speaker 2: they say he can go right back to serving in Congress.

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Speaker 1: He can go right back, but if he becomes a

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Speaker 2: Some this is probably not the last time we were

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Speaker 2: going to be covering something related to Matt Gates, is

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Speaker 2: what we're trying to say. But let's move on to

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Speaker 2: the other big story yesterday that had all the breaking

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Speaker 2: news alerts going. This was former Empire actor Jesse Smolette.

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Speaker 2: He is no longer a convicted felon.

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Speaker 1: The Illinois Supreme Court threw out his twenty twenty one

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Speaker 1: conviction for lying about an alleged hate crime. Two years earlier.

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Speaker 1: Smollette was found guilty for faking a racist and homophobic

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Speaker 2: Initially the charges were first brought against him, the state's

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Speaker 2: then the details of that deal were made public and

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Speaker 2: there was a huge public outcry because so many folks

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Speaker 1: So that's when a special prosecutor was enlisted to reinstate

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Speaker 1: those charges, and Smollette was ultimately convicted of felony disorderly

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Speaker 2: Now, the court acknowledged that a lot of folks were

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Speaker 2: sentenced to five months in jail. He served six days

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Speaker 2: We have to make clear the conviction was thrown out.

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Speaker 2: They made no determination about his guilt or innocence. This is,

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Speaker 2: I guess, kind of a technicality, but essentially saying you

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Speaker 1: Correct, And I think the problem is a lot of

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Speaker 1: And so to the Supreme Court's point, what type of

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Speaker 2: And he's still at this point. He has always said

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Speaker 2: And the state that the folks that prosecute him, made

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Speaker 1: don't it doesn't seem like it's not as if he's

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Speaker 2: Just kind of a big deal.

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Speaker 1: It's definitely a big deal. He and Trump might be

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Speaker 1: possible E. Coli contamination. So far, fifteen people in the

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Speaker 1: exact same strain of E. Coli that was found in

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Speaker 2: USDA has the list of affected products and labels. They

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Speaker 2: All right, Well, well stay with us on this Friday

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Speaker 2: when we come back and continue our run. The Israeli

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Speaker 1: Welcome back everyone on our morning run. Next up, Benjamin

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Speaker 1: Netanyahu is a wanted man. The International Criminal Court issued

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Speaker 1: of crimes against humanity.

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Speaker 2: That warrants were also issued for the former Israeli Defense

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Speaker 2: which has killed and estimated forty four thousand people.

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Speaker 1: The court said the warrants for Netanyahu and the others

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Speaker 1: As a rule follower myself, I applaud this. But for

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Speaker 1: Find a way to implement this on on when you're

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Speaker 1: We need to know the difference between the fears that

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Speaker 2: heart broken? Are you scared of maybe being rejected and

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Speaker 2: not getting the job. But what are the things that

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Speaker 1: Yeah, fear of failure, I think is probably one of

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Speaker 1: always said this fear either cripples you or motivates you.

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Speaker 1: And to know the difference between you know, what is

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Speaker 1: real and what is presumed is a big difference.

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Speaker 2: You know, take that one with you this weekend. We

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Speaker 2: need to know the difference between the fears that keep

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Speaker 2: us alive and the fears that keep us from living.

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Speaker 2: I hope you do some good living to this weekend, folks.

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Speaker 2: We always appreciate you running with us.

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Speaker 1: So I'm t J and I'm Amy Robot. Have a

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Speaker 1: wonderful weekend, everyone,