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Speaker 1: morning everyone, Thanks for joining us for today's morning Run.
Speaker 1: It's Wednesday, June eleventh.
Speaker 2: I'm Amy Robots and I'm TJ Holden. On the run
Speaker 2: this morning, mass arrests in Los Angeles after an eight
Speaker 2: pm curfew is enforced amid ongoing immigration protests, and now
Speaker 2: it's not just La experiencing unrest.
Speaker 3: That's right.
Speaker 1: Chaotic scenes on the streets in New York as well
Speaker 1: as in Chicago where a car plowed through a crowd.
Speaker 1: Plus President Trump was at Fort Bragg to make a
Speaker 1: major announcement Confederate names are making a comeback.
Speaker 2: Also breaking billionaire bromance News Elon Musk says my bad
Speaker 2: publicly admits he went too far in his feud with Trump. Also,
Speaker 2: you're not fired, but don't bother coming back either. ABC
Speaker 2: News is parting ways with a long time journalist because
Speaker 2: of his itchy Twitter fingers.
Speaker 1: Plus running out of words to describe what continues to
Speaker 1: be a jaw dropping testimony in the Ditty trial. And yesterday,
Speaker 1: yeah it was another doozy.
Speaker 2: And also on the run this morning, one of the
Speaker 2: most talked about covered and visible athletes in the NFL
Speaker 2: surprised everybody yesterday, casually mentioning that he's been married for months.
Speaker 2: We'll get into this, wrote, this is even a guy,
Speaker 2: you know, And this is a guy whose personal life,
Speaker 2: his dating life has been covered a lot over the
Speaker 2: past decade. Nobody knew who's naing.
Speaker 3: You know what's funny. I don't know why. I feel
Speaker 3: like it's a personal.
Speaker 1: Win to see someone like him be able to have
Speaker 1: some privacy and feel good about it. After yes, his
Speaker 1: public his private life has been very publicly displayed for
Speaker 1: years now.
Speaker 3: It's a win for him, But I don't know why.
Speaker 1: It feels like a personal win too, Like, yeah, somebody
Speaker 1: got you know, was able to actually do something without
Speaker 1: having everyone covered at nausea.
Speaker 2: Get this. We're still not quite sure who his wife is.
Speaker 2: We'll get into that.
Speaker 3: That's the even thought, like that's the best part of
Speaker 3: the story. Yes, we'll get into it in just a sec.
Speaker 1: But we begin our Wednesday morning run taking us to
Speaker 1: downtown Los Angeles, where police say they made mass arrests
Speaker 1: after a curfew went into effect last night. The LA
Speaker 1: Mayor imposed an eight pm curfew for a very small
Speaker 1: and very specific one mile area of downtown Los Angeles,
Speaker 1: which has been the site of classes between police and
Speaker 1: protesters for several days now.
Speaker 2: Demonstrations over ice raids started last Friday in LA, mostly peaceful,
Speaker 2: but then delved or devolved, i should say, into more
Speaker 2: widespread chaos and clashes. President Trump has ordered National Guard
Speaker 2: and Marines to the area, a move that California leaders
Speaker 2: say exacerbated the situation. For the most part, National Guard
Speaker 2: stood by. We saw them on video. There's just standing
Speaker 2: by what LA police were doing all of the work
Speaker 2: of doing the arrests of people who were still in
Speaker 2: the street after that curfew.
Speaker 1: Now, LA officials say at least twenty three businesses have
Speaker 1: been looted so far, and the mayor expects she could
Speaker 1: keep we back heur few in place for the next
Speaker 1: several days. Meanwhile, President Trump defended his use of the
Speaker 1: National Guard and Marines and called demonstrators animals and a
Speaker 1: foreign enemy that he's going to liberate Los Angeles from. Well.
Speaker 1: The state of California has now sued Trump over his
Speaker 1: use of the military, calling it unconstitutional, but a hearing
Speaker 1: isn't happening on that issue until Thursday, so we'll see
Speaker 1: about that. But this unrest has spilled over to several
Speaker 1: cities across the United States, and personally here in New
Speaker 1: York City, we actually witnessed some of it.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, just we live here in Lower Manhattan, I
Speaker 2: think a lot of people know by now, but one
Speaker 2: of the main areas is just a couple of blocks
Speaker 2: from us, And sure enough, it was a mass protest.
Speaker 2: But then later in the night, things we saw later
Speaker 2: got a little test to year and there were some
Speaker 2: clashes and at least eighty people were arrested here in
Speaker 2: New York.
Speaker 3: Yes, it seemed very peaceful what we saw.
Speaker 1: We actually went over to check out one of the
Speaker 1: staging areas right outside of the courthouse there in Lower Manhattan.
Speaker 1: People had signs and they were shouting, but it was
Speaker 1: very peaceful. Yes, it was after midnight when things unraveled,
Speaker 1: so to speak. And apparently they are saying that the
Speaker 1: protesters will return again at five pm in Lower Manhattan
Speaker 1: here today, So it remains to be seen how.
Speaker 3: That will go.
Speaker 1: But in Chicago, a car drove into a crowd of demonstrators.
Speaker 1: No one was injured, but certainly hundreds, if not thousands,
Speaker 1: had gathered in that city as well. In Austin, Texas,
Speaker 1: several cities across the country uniting with LA protesters.
Speaker 2: All right, we'll continue on this Wednesday morning run now
Speaker 2: with a major development in the thawing feud between Elon
Speaker 2: Musk and President Trump. Musk might have been up late,
Speaker 2: or maybe he gets up early at three am like
Speaker 2: the rest of us, because while most folks, yes, most
Speaker 2: of you, were sleeping, Musk was doing some self reflecting
Speaker 2: and tweeted at three four am.
Speaker 1: This, I regret some of my posts about President Donald
Speaker 1: Trump last week.
Speaker 3: They went too far. That's it.
Speaker 1: This is a major, major departure from what we had
Speaker 1: heard before. It comes just a few days after Musk
Speaker 1: did delete some of his most incendiary tweets about Trump,
Speaker 1: including the one where he accused the President of being
Speaker 1: in the Jeffrey Epstein files. He also deleted that post
Speaker 1: where he replied yes to a call for Trump to
Speaker 1: be impeached and for Vice President JD. Vans to take
Speaker 1: his place.
Speaker 2: So what's President Trump saying about all this? Well, Originally
Speaker 2: the President talked about Musk losing it and said he
Speaker 2: had gone crazy, but things softened. On Monday, the President said, quote,
Speaker 2: we had a great relationship and I wish him well,
Speaker 2: very well. Actually, that clip was posted on X and
Speaker 2: Musk responded to the post with a heart emoji.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so you started to see the beginning of thawing tensions.
Speaker 1: And as at this recording, neither Trump nor the White
Speaker 1: House has directly reacted to Musk's latest tweet of regret.
Speaker 3: But who knows.
Speaker 1: This could be the first step to reconciliation. Even though
Speaker 1: we heard Trump say he had no interest in resuming
Speaker 1: his relationship with him public.
Speaker 3: And ugly back and forth.
Speaker 1: I'm sure you all remember between Trump and Musk began
Speaker 1: after Musk went on X calling Trump's Big Beautiful Bill
Speaker 1: a disgusting abomination, and it unraveled from there.
Speaker 2: I don't mind this. The stock market might even react
Speaker 2: if they think the relationship is coming back together in
Speaker 2: one way or another. But still, look, anytime people speak
Speaker 2: bad or do something wrong and can come back and
Speaker 2: say I apologize or I did something wrong and do
Speaker 2: it in a public way, that's got to be a win.
Speaker 1: You know. It feels good that at least there can
Speaker 1: be some reflection, there can be some regret, and there
Speaker 1: can be maybe some better understanding of how to conduct.
Speaker 3: Your very private issues less publicly.
Speaker 2: Yeah, life lessons with Donald Trump and Elion Musk. We'll
Speaker 2: continue on our run here on this Wednesday. I keep
Speaker 2: saying it's Wednesday.
Speaker 3: Man is Wednesday.
Speaker 2: Okay, we'll continue our run here on this Wednesday morning.
Speaker 2: We had to Fort Bragg, the country's largest military base,
Speaker 2: where President Trump kicked off the Army's birthday week with
Speaker 2: a major announcement that the Confederacy is making a back.
Speaker 2: Let me explain specifically. He's talking about seven military bases
Speaker 2: that are getting their old names back, and all of
Speaker 2: their old names are of Confederate officers.
Speaker 1: The seven bases had their names changed during the Biden
Speaker 1: administration in an effort to not have US military bases
Speaker 1: named after Confederate leaders. Well, now Trump says their names
Speaker 1: are being restored, so their bases will go back to
Speaker 1: these names. Fort Pickett, Fort Lee, and Fort ap Hill.
Speaker 1: That's all in North Carolina.
Speaker 2: That's my mistake. Those are all in Virginia. Apologies, Virginia folks.
Speaker 2: I wrote that in there incorrectly for her. All of
Speaker 2: those are in Virginia.
Speaker 3: Oh, thank you for that. Ah, all right, I should
Speaker 3: have known Fort Lee, duh? All right?
Speaker 1: Fort Hood in Texas Fort Gordon in Georgia, Fort Rucker
Speaker 1: in Alabama, and Fort Polk in Louisiana.
Speaker 2: Now you might remember the Trump administration previously restored the
Speaker 2: names of Fort Bragg and Fort Benning. They did that
Speaker 2: with a lot of fanfare. Fort Bragg, if you maybe
Speaker 2: I didn't even notice at the time, it had been
Speaker 2: called Fort Liberty for the past couple of years. Fort
Speaker 2: Benning had been called Fort Moore. So those two initially
Speaker 2: had their name restored. But this is the key here, folks.
Speaker 2: In the case of each they found a way around
Speaker 2: actually naming the base after a Confederate officer by finding
Speaker 2: a different namesake. My point being Fort Bragg was originally
Speaker 2: named after a Confederate general, Braxton Bragg. They changed it
Speaker 2: to Fort Liberty, got rid of that. So but when
Speaker 2: they brought it back to be Fort Bragg again, they
Speaker 2: said they were naming it after Private first Class Roland Bragg.
Speaker 1: Who was that?
Speaker 2: No one of note, but just somebody who had the
Speaker 2: same last name. They've done that to every one of
Speaker 2: these bases. You find a random namesake, so you can
Speaker 2: say it's Fort Bragg or whatever, which is the original name,
Speaker 2: but you can say it's technically not named after a
Speaker 2: Confederate general or leader.
Speaker 1: So in each one of these basics, they found another
Speaker 1: person to replace the original Confederate leader.
Speaker 2: Which nobody's going to go Google and look up. You're
Speaker 2: just going to look up and you're going to see
Speaker 2: it's still the same name that it was when it
Speaker 2: was named after some Confederate.
Speaker 1: All find it so ironic that in the same week,
Speaker 1: or at least within a matter of days, they've restored
Speaker 1: Confederate names, but they're taking down names of iconic pioneers
Speaker 1: like Harvey Milk. Wow, that flies in the face of
Speaker 1: so much. All right, next up on a run, let's
Speaker 1: come back to Lower Manhattan and talk the Ditty trial.
Speaker 1: Today will be day twenty one of testimony and Jane
Speaker 1: is expected to continue cross examination. She has been on
Speaker 1: the stand since last Thursday, testifying under the pseudonym Jane
Speaker 1: in order to protect her identity.
Speaker 2: She dated Ditty up until last year. She's a key
Speaker 2: prosecution witness, one of the four victims the government has
Speaker 2: based its case on. She's been testifying to a pattern
Speaker 2: of abuse and control by Combs in which she felt
Speaker 2: obligated to participate in those so called freak offs. Now
Speaker 2: before she got back on the stand yesterday, there was
Speaker 2: some business to tend to, and the judge formally denied
Speaker 2: Diddy's request to end this trial.
Speaker 1: Yes His defense team had filed the motion for a mistrial,
Speaker 1: claiming prosecutorial misconduct. The judge did give props, however, to
Speaker 1: the defense. They had said that there was a they
Speaker 1: should have been able to end the trial because one
Speaker 1: of the prosecution's witnesses testified to something that Diddy did
Speaker 1: on a day that they proved he couldn't have done
Speaker 1: because he was in a completely different city. The judge
Speaker 1: did say, hey, nice Perry Mason moment, but it's not
Speaker 1: enough grounds for a mistrial. So once testimony he got
Speaker 1: going yesterday, we heard some wild stuff, including that Diddy
Speaker 1: apparently likes to pretend he's Michael Jordan.
Speaker 3: Jane claiming that she and Diddy.
Speaker 1: And a male escort would refer to themselves as the
Speaker 1: Trifecta on their hotel nights, Jane playing the role of
Speaker 1: Phobe Bryant, the escort Paul would apparently be Shaquille O'Neal,
Speaker 1: and Diddy would be Jordan. I can't even get my
Speaker 1: head around that.
Speaker 2: People are into what they're into and that's fine. It's
Speaker 2: just we are learning so much. These details are so bizarre,
Speaker 2: but you're just getting, just really get You're not even
Speaker 2: looking through the window. It's almost like it puts you
Speaker 2: in the room. Some of the details we have been
Speaker 2: hearing about these personal lives, but that was just one
Speaker 2: that caught a lot of people's attention. The defense was
Speaker 2: able to show through text messages that Jane was at
Speaker 2: times an enthusiastic participant and even had a say in
Speaker 2: how things would go in these freak colls. That's important
Speaker 2: because coercion is a big part of this. Was she
Speaker 2: there consensually or not at times? Jane's cross examination is
Speaker 2: expected to last through today, possibly even tomorrow. Robes That
Speaker 2: would put her as almost a full week that she's
Speaker 2: been on the stand. This will be the one who's
Speaker 2: testified longest.
Speaker 1: Real that's right, And everything I've read saying that the
Speaker 1: defense attorneys agreed to a truncated day today because they
Speaker 1: say they'll go they'll continue their cross examination through the
Speaker 1: day tomorrow. So yes, that would put her on the
Speaker 1: stand for a full week. Court is getting that later
Speaker 1: start today at one pm.
Speaker 2: All right, Well, stay with us. Folks on here on
Speaker 2: this Wednesday Morning Run. You're not fired, but don't let
Speaker 2: the door hit you on the way out either, Terry Moran. Yes,
Speaker 2: ABC News has made its call on his future. Also
Speaker 2: coming up, we have got to learn a thing or
Speaker 2: two from Aaron Rodgers about keeping your relationship details private.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to this Wednesday Morning Rona. Next up on
Speaker 1: the Run, Senior national correspondent Terry Moran is out at
Speaker 1: ABC News. This comes after the network suspended him earlier
Speaker 1: in the week for posting a now deleted tweet that
Speaker 1: was critical of the President and his staff.
Speaker 2: That Moran wrote that Trump band Deputy White House Chief
Speaker 2: of Staff Stephen Miller were world class haters. His words,
Speaker 2: his post said grammatical eras it was written after midnight.
Speaker 2: He went on to say that Miller's hatreds are his
Speaker 2: spiritual nourishment. He eats his hate. Then about Trump, he
Speaker 2: is Hatred's only a means to an end, and that
Speaker 2: end is his own glorification. That's his spiritual nourishment.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was a lot. So turns out ABC did
Speaker 1: not have to technically fire Miran because his contract was
Speaker 1: reportedly and I dare say, conveniently up this Friday, so
Speaker 1: the network said, hey, we just decided not to renew
Speaker 1: it after twenty eight years with ABC News.
Speaker 3: Here was their statement.
Speaker 1: We are at the end of our agreement with Terry Moran,
Speaker 1: and based on his recent post, which was a clear
Speaker 1: violation of ABC News policies, we have made the decision
Speaker 1: to not renew at ABC News.
Speaker 3: We hold all of our reporters to the highest.
Speaker 1: Standards of objectivity, fairness, and professionalism, and we remain committed
Speaker 1: to delivering straight forward, trusted journalism.
Speaker 2: Terry Moran had several recent high profile assignments with the network,
Speaker 2: leading ABC's coverage of the papal conclave in Rome and
Speaker 2: of course, securing that interview with President Trump back in
Speaker 2: April that was to discuss Trump's one hundred days in office.
Speaker 2: The administration had called for Moran to be suspended and
Speaker 2: fired following that tweet. Why How spokesperson said his post
Speaker 2: was unacceptable and unhinged, says speaks to the distrust that
Speaker 2: the American public has in the legacy media.
Speaker 3: What are the chances that his contract was up on Friday?
Speaker 1: We as reporters or anchors usually sign two, but sometimes
Speaker 1: four year deals. I don't know how long his was.
Speaker 1: But that's fairly remarkable that on. And maybe he knew
Speaker 1: they weren't going to renew his contract. Maybe he felt
Speaker 1: like he had the ability to go ahead and say
Speaker 1: what he wanted to say. It's hard to get into
Speaker 1: his head. He hasn't made any comments, but the timing
Speaker 1: is interesting.
Speaker 2: I think about this totally differently now we know Terry Moran.
Speaker 2: This is not characteristic of him, even the language. If
Speaker 2: he knew his contract now I'm thinking like, was he
Speaker 2: just trying to get out of there? Was he just
Speaker 2: over it anyway and knew he was going to be leaving?
Speaker 2: And also, we work in this business. How many times
Speaker 2: did anybody allow your contract to go up to the
Speaker 2: week before or before you start discussing, or before you start,
Speaker 2: before you're signed, it's usually.
Speaker 3: Done, negotiations might have been going off the rails.
Speaker 1: That's usually maybe like a month or two before your
Speaker 1: contract's up. They usually come, do you start the negotiations?
Speaker 1: It is The timing now is very, very very interesting
Speaker 1: to me, and yes, makes me think differently about the
Speaker 1: entire situation.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and especially look.
Speaker 1: If you're hoping to stay with the network when your
Speaker 1: contract's about to come out. When they ask you to
Speaker 1: do anything, go anywhere, stay late, you say yes, yes,
Speaker 1: and yes, because you know that's a part of the negotiations.
Speaker 1: All right, for the final leg of our run, we
Speaker 1: could all learn a thing or two from Aaron Rodgers
Speaker 1: on keeping your relationship private. He got married months ago,
Speaker 1: and guess what, nobody knew.
Speaker 2: So this is a really remarkable thing to pull off,
Speaker 2: considering he is one of the most watched invisible athletes
Speaker 2: in the NFL. He has a regular TV segment that
Speaker 2: he does. He's a future Hall of Famer, he's a
Speaker 2: former MVP, he's a Super Bowl champion. He just signed
Speaker 2: with the Pittsburgh Steelers, so there was a lot of
Speaker 2: coverage of him where he was gonna go. Everybody's been
Speaker 2: watching this guy for several months, but yesterday he hit
Speaker 2: us with this hit training camp. At the press conference,
Speaker 2: he just kind of casually slid in there that he
Speaker 2: had gotten married months ago. Yeah.
Speaker 1: A reporter asked him about a ring that was spotted
Speaker 1: on his left finger recently. The reporter actually gave him
Speaker 1: an out, suggested it was an AURR ring.
Speaker 3: Rogers said, yeah, it's a wedding ring.
Speaker 1: The reporter did not seem ready for that answer, because
Speaker 1: there was really not much of a follow up other
Speaker 1: than congratulations, how long has it been? And Rogers said
Speaker 1: he'd been married for a couple of months.
Speaker 2: So who is this lucky mystery lady. Well, we know
Speaker 2: she's lucky and that's it. The rest is a mystery.
Speaker 2: Congratulations to you, missus Rogers. He has kept the relationship
Speaker 2: pretty private. He only mentioned her in a TV appearance
Speaker 2: that had nothing to do with his relationship. He just
Speaker 2: said something about the house, and yeah, something right for Brittany,
Speaker 2: and he just kept going and I said, Brittany, it
Speaker 2: was Brittany. Everybody went crazy and somebody even made a
Speaker 2: joke Britney spears. They laughed it off, and he said, no,
Speaker 2: Brittany with an eye, and that's all we got.
Speaker 3: That's all we have.
Speaker 1: And it's great because you know, we talk a lot
Speaker 1: about clickbait here and how annoying it is. If you
Speaker 1: go and google him, it'll say what we know about
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers's new wife, and then when you read it,
Speaker 1: they know nothing.
Speaker 3: They know nothing.
Speaker 1: So it just goes to show you everyone wants to
Speaker 1: act like they got something you can click on.
Speaker 3: But he wins.
Speaker 1: No one you know, and he has had several high
Speaker 1: profile relationships in the press that didn't go well for him,
Speaker 1: and I think he learned his lesson the hard way.
Speaker 3: And I love that they get.
Speaker 1: To have their moment, and they had their moment without
Speaker 1: helicopters flying above and drones trying to get pictures.
Speaker 3: They didn't even know the wedding was happening.
Speaker 2: Well done and congratulations should certainly be said. But on
Speaker 2: this Wednesday before you go, something we'd like for you
Speaker 2: to consider it is our quote of the day.
Speaker 1: Sometimes I like to go way back to some of
Speaker 1: the original folks who we like to quote, like.
Speaker 3: Oh, I don't know Aristotle.
Speaker 1: Here is what he had to say that we hope
Speaker 1: will help you throughout your deck. We are what we
Speaker 1: repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
Speaker 2: I've heard this one before. It's a doozy people. You know,
Speaker 2: you're just born great, you work at it. Everybody the
Speaker 2: I think the people who are best at things that
Speaker 2: you know what, the height of most professions and things
Speaker 2: I've seen are the people who work the hardest, who
Speaker 2: are currently working hard, Like nobody had a harder workout
Speaker 2: than Michael Jordan.
Speaker 3: Right, you got to bring up Michael Jordan.
Speaker 2: I want to bring up Michael Jordan again. You know
Speaker 2: what I was gonna go with, Kobe. Let me go
Speaker 2: to Lebron. Lebron was not a part of the traffeck.
Speaker 3: Keep it out of the diddy the trial.
Speaker 2: The point there being is I have seen people you
Speaker 2: think they're just good at it. I have witnessed people
Speaker 2: how hard they work, harder than I could ever imagine
Speaker 2: for the success they have. And you just know, there's
Speaker 2: a good lesson. But it also applies to a bunch
Speaker 2: of stuff, like bad things you do. If you do
Speaker 2: that repeatedly, we become those habits as well.
Speaker 3: Yes, that's true. It's interesting. I was thinking of must
Speaker 3: tweeting at three am.
Speaker 1: Whatever you think of him, he is highly successful and
Speaker 1: he's up at three am tweeting away. So here is
Speaker 1: your quote of the day, one last time, on this
Speaker 1: hump day. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then,
Speaker 1: is not an act but a habit. Thank you, Aristotle,
Speaker 1: and thank you for listening to us on this Wednesday morning.
Speaker 1: Run I'm Amy Robots.
Speaker 2: And I'm TJ. Holmes. Run again soon