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Speaker 1: Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio Podcast.

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Speaker 2: Good morning everybody, certainly, hope you had good Thanksgiving and

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Speaker 2: welcome to our first morning run post Thanksgiving on this Monday,

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Speaker 2: December second, I'm TJ.

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Speaker 1: Holmes and I'm Amy Robach and on the Run this morning,

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Speaker 1: a President, a parent, a promise, and a pardon. Biden

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Speaker 1: delivers another bombshell of this political season and goes back

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Speaker 1: on his word and grants clemency to his son Hunter.

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Speaker 2: Also this morning, President elect Trump stays on brand with

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Speaker 2: his latest pick to be FBI.

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Speaker 1: Director, dangled by Diddy. A new suit claims Sean Combs

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Speaker 1: held a woman over a seventeenth floor balcony.

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Speaker 2: Also six figure brawl. Michigan and Ohio State have been fined

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Speaker 2: for that ugly scene at the end of their rivalry

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Speaker 2: game this weekend.

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Speaker 1: And don't worry your boss doesn't expect you to be

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Speaker 1: productive today because today is expected to be the busiest

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Speaker 1: online shopping day of the year.

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Speaker 2: Also, winter decided to show up. Now half the country

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Speaker 2: is dealing with a state of emergency and winter and

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Speaker 2: weather warnings.

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Speaker 1: And this was the biggest Thanksgiving weekend at the box

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Speaker 1: office since ever. GLICKTT continued its runs and Moana I

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Speaker 1: made record waves. But first up on our morning run,

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Speaker 1: President Biden has broken a public promise he made repeatedly

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Speaker 1: and emphatically to the American public. Another way to put it, well,

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Speaker 1: he's just being a dat.

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Speaker 2: Biden has pardoned his son Hunter, who was scheduled to

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Speaker 2: be sentenced later this month for his conviction on three

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Speaker 2: firearms charges in a case in Delaware. He'd also pleaded

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Speaker 2: guilty to tax related charges in another case in California.

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Speaker 1: There was a collective wait what when the news broke

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Speaker 1: around seven Eastern time last night, Because for months and

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Speaker 1: on several occasions, Biden directly responded no when asked whether

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Speaker 1: he'd pardon his son, and then went further by saying

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Speaker 1: he wouldn't even come his sentence, And as recently as

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Speaker 1: November seventh, the White House spokesperson said in the press

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Speaker 1: room that Biden again would not pardon his son.

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Speaker 2: The President issued a lengthy statement about the pardon, which

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Speaker 2: starts off by saying he watched as his son was

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Speaker 2: quote selectively and unfairly prosecuted. He went on to say

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Speaker 2: the charges in his cases came about only after several

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Speaker 2: of my political opponents in Congress instigated them to attack

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Speaker 2: me and oppose my election. No reasonable person who looks

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Speaker 2: at the facts of Hunter's case can reach any other

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Speaker 2: conclusion than Hunter was singled out only because he is

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Speaker 2: my son, and that is wrong.

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Speaker 1: Biden closed the statement by making a plea for understanding

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Speaker 1: to the American public, saying, for my entire career, I

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Speaker 1: have followed a simple principle. Just tell the American people

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Speaker 1: the truth. They'll be fair minded. Here's the truth. I

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Speaker 1: believe in the justice system, But as I have wrestled

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Speaker 1: with this, I also believe raw politics has infected this

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Speaker 1: process and it led to a miscarriage of justice. And

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Speaker 1: once I made this decision this weekend, there was no

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Speaker 1: sense in delaying it further. I hope Americans will understand

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Speaker 1: why a father and a president would come to this decision.

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Speaker 2: President Biden has issued a full and unconditional pardon, meaning

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Speaker 2: he wipes the slate clean of Hunter's two criminal cases,

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Speaker 2: but it also pardons him for any crimes he may

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Speaker 2: have committed from January twenty fourteen to today. Why January

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Speaker 2: twenty fourteen, that's around the time that some of the

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Speaker 2: time of the issues that are under investigation, that is

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Speaker 2: around the time those things go back to so essentially

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Speaker 2: he's protecting Hunter from possible future prosecutions.

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Speaker 1: We heard from Hunter as well. He reacted to the

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Speaker 1: pardon by saying, I have admitted and taken responsibility for

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Speaker 1: my mistakes during the darkest days of my addiction, mistakes

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Speaker 1: that have been exploited to publicly humiliate and shame me

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Speaker 1: and my family for political sport. I will never take

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Speaker 1: the clemency I have been given today for granted, and

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Speaker 1: will devote the life I have rebuilt to helping those

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Speaker 1: who are still sick and suffering.

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Speaker 2: Of course, there was immediate and strong reaction across the

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Speaker 2: country and in DC to Biden's pardon. Too much to

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Speaker 2: go through this morning right here, so we'll summarize it

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Speaker 2: for you. Republicans have steam coming out of their ears,

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Speaker 2: and Democrats are a little more sympathetic to Biden's move.

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Speaker 2: No surprise there. We will, however, give you Trump's reaction.

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Speaker 1: That's right, Trump said on his social media platform quote,

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Speaker 1: does the pardon given by Joe to Hunter include the

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Speaker 1: January sixth hostages who have been imprisoned for years such

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Speaker 1: an abuse and miscarriage of justice end quote. Hunter's legal

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Speaker 1: team has already filed motions last night asking for the

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Speaker 2: Hunter had been facing possible prison time. President Biden certainly

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Speaker 2: isn't the first president to issue a pardon to family

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Speaker 2: member or an ally. President Clinton pardoned his half brother

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Speaker 2: on drug charges. Also, Trump pardoned his son in law's father,

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Speaker 2: Richard Kushner, for witness tampering, campaign finance violations, and tax evasion.

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Speaker 2: Kushner has now been tapped by Trump, who be is

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Speaker 2: ambassador to France. So you're going to see this everywhere.

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Speaker 2: Everybody chiming in about this and what it means today,

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Speaker 2: and it does have implications and how much on his

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Speaker 1: We will see, and I'm sure we will be talking

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Speaker 1: about this again in the days to come. But in

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Speaker 1: the meantime, next up on the Run, we're going to

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Speaker 1: continue with politics. Lawmakers weighing in on yet another bombshell

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Speaker 1: of a nomination by President Alec Donald Trump over the weekend.

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Speaker 1: Trump is nominating a fierce ally of his forty four

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Speaker 1: year old lawyer, Cash Patel, to serve as FBI Director.

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Speaker 2: Oh the Countries he would be the country's chief law

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Speaker 2: enforcement officer. And he has said previously that radical transformation

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Speaker 2: is needed at the FBI and Patel is the person

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Speaker 2: for the job. And Patel happens to have been out

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Speaker 2: there preaching the same thing Trump posted on social media

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Speaker 2: cash as a brilliant lawyer, investigator in America, first fighter

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Speaker 2: who has spent his career exposing corruption, defending justice, and

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Speaker 2: protecting the American people.

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Speaker 1: Now Nation means that the current FBI Director Christopher Ray

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Speaker 1: has to either resign or be fired by Trump because

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Speaker 1: he is currently serving a ten year term after he

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Speaker 1: was appointed by Trump. He was named back in twenty

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Speaker 1: seventeen after Trump fired his predecessor, James Comey.

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Speaker 2: The decision to nominate Ptel is expected to set up

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Speaker 2: a potentially explosive confirmation battle in the Senate. Bettel has

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Speaker 2: called for dramatically reducing the agency's footprint, going after government

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Speaker 2: officials who seek information to the press, leak information to

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Speaker 2: the press, I should say, and also making it easier

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Speaker 2: for the government to sue journalists.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. He wrote a book back in twenty twenty three.

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Speaker 1: Just last year called government Gangsters, the Deep State, The

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Speaker 1: Truth and the Battle for our democracy. And in that book,

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Speaker 1: Betel criticize what he calls crazed partisans for hijacking law

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Speaker 1: enforcement to retaliate against Donald Trump. So some lawmakers we've

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Speaker 1: already heard from have expressed concern that with Bettel at

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Speaker 1: the Helm, if he is in fact confirmed of the

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Speaker 1: Trump could use Patel to carry out his threats to

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Speaker 1: go after his political opponents. Now, the tenure thing came

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Speaker 1: after Watergate, where FBI directors have typically served that amount

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Speaker 1: again are going to see a lot of back and forth.

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Speaker 1: Not even all Republicans are on board with this potential nominee.

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Speaker 2: All right, folks, Our next leg of our run will

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Speaker 2: bring us back to New York. And we actually do

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Speaker 2: make a point here every morning not to report every

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Speaker 2: new ditty lawsuit. We'd practically be doing that every single day,

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Speaker 2: and then sometimes several times a day, but we will

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Speaker 2: report this latest one. It's an exception because of a

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Speaker 2: couple of reasons, some of the details coming out, and

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Speaker 2: because the accuser is not remaining anonymous like so many other.

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Speaker 1: Accusers in a new lawsuit, Sean Combs allegedly threatened to

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Speaker 1: kill the woman and dangled her off a seventeenth floor

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Speaker 1: apartment balcony. Her name is Brianna Bongolan and she is

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Speaker 1: claiming false imprisonment, sexual battery, and infliction of emotional distress.

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Speaker 2: And Bongolan worked as a fashion designer for Ditty and

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Speaker 2: was close to Ditty's ex Cassie Ventura, and the alleged

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Speaker 2: incident happened at Ventura's apartment building in twenty sixteen. According

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Speaker 2: to the complaint, Bongolan was staying over at Ventura's apartment

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Speaker 1: She claims he groped her, she resisted, and then he

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Speaker 1: picked her up end quote. He immediately lifted her up

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Speaker 1: of Miss Ventura's apartment, with only Combe's grip keeping her

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Speaker 1: he firmly denies these allegations.

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Speaker 2: Now she's seeking ten million dollars in damages. As we know,

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Speaker 2: Diddy remains in jail and Brooklyn awaiting trial on federal

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Speaker 2: sex trafficking and racketeering charges. He was denied Bell yet

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Speaker 2: again late last week. Since he's been in he's faced

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Speaker 2: a barrage of civil lawsuits from men and women. I

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Speaker 2: should point out the dangling. One of the first things

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Speaker 2: I thought was how was he able to do that?

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Speaker 2: And the woman is actually she said she is andre

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Speaker 2: one hundred pounds, she's four eleven, so she's not a

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Speaker 2: once I heard that, but it's like, how did he

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Speaker 2: do that? Physically able? And maybe that's how he was

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Speaker 1: All Right, We're going to continue our run with a

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Speaker 1: costly brawl in Columbus. The Big Ten Conference has fined

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Speaker 1: both Michigan and Ohio State one hundred thousand dollars each

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Speaker 1: for their participation in a post game fight on the field.

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Speaker 1: And it began after Michigan beat Ohio State thirteen to ten.

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Speaker 2: Which was a huge, huge upset for Ohio State. There

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Speaker 2: that game, after the game, a Wolverine player, after winning

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Speaker 2: the game, of course they were in Columbus, tried to

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Speaker 2: Of course, Ohio State is not going to react well

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Speaker 2: Sawyer took the banner off the field, he threw it away.

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Speaker 2: Then you got some pushing, then you got some shoving,

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Speaker 2: Then you got some punches between folks on both sides.

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Speaker 1: Yes, it became a full on brawl. Stadium security police

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Speaker 1: and if you were watching on TV, you could see

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Speaker 2: The Big Ten said that not only did the actions

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Speaker 2: respect and civility, That part of the statement was kind

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Speaker 2: of funny, that's like dull. But then it goes on

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Speaker 2: to say the nature of the incident also jeopardized the

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Speaker 2: safety of participants and bystanders. And that is the point,

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Speaker 2: I guess rope. So no further fines or suspensions are

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Speaker 2: expected from this. Some little surprised that, but this was

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Speaker 2: an ugly, ugly, ugly ugly scene. And it happened again

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Speaker 2: actually in another game. It was rivalry weekend, so every

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Speaker 2: team that ate each other was essentially a plan Florida

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Speaker 2: Florida State. Florida wins the game, try to go plan

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Speaker 2: a flag and Florida State players and you got a

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Speaker 2: brawl broke out.

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Speaker 1: It's tough to see. I mean, we unfortunately see this

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Speaker 1: happen a lot of times with fans, sometimes with professional sports,

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Speaker 1: So it's not great to see. And you know, the

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Speaker 1: fines were probably exactly what was supposed to happen. But

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Speaker 1: again I'm surprised too that no individual players are being

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Speaker 2: You don't plant the flag on the team's logo.

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Speaker 2: I know they won the game, they're excited a lot

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Speaker 1: I'm imagining being in Sandford Stadium between the hedges and

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Speaker 2: All right, folks, day with us here on this Monday

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Speaker 1: Welcome back everyone. We continue our morning run by heading

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Speaker 1: online like all of you are doing. Yes, it is

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Speaker 2: And once again they are predicting that Monday sales, Cyber

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Speaker 2: Sunday sales will be record breaking. They're expecting around thirteen

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Speaker 1: And you know what, that's really impressive given the online

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Speaker 1: it kind of makes sense, TJ. We were actually out

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Speaker 2: I don't know. I was annoyed by how many people

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Speaker 1: I was actually holding my bread this year if you

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Speaker 1: That's up nearly nine percent from just last year. So

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Speaker 1: TJ what were people gobbling up? Toys, jewelry, appliances, clothing,

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, well, the thing about the phone is

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Speaker 1: Yeah, lake affect snow, dumping feet of snow in areas

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Speaker 2: Why do that? I mean, why even do that to

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Speaker 1: Yeah. A full week of major movie releases made this

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Speaker 1: Yeah, they said that the theaters are back, especially after

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Speaker 2: And now she's ready to go try and you know what,

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Speaker 2: Second Weekend tried to get tickets last night and couldn't.

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Speaker 2: I hope this is a trend.

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Speaker 1: I know, and we love our theaters, so probably hit

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Speaker 2: Right, what are you trying to say? You can you

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Speaker 1: You know how much I love a movie date. All Right,

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Speaker 1: we'd like you to consider this as you go about

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Speaker 1: your day to day. Found this again in the files

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Speaker 2: Holmes, and please everybody, please hold on to this one.

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Speaker 2: And the quote is that cell phone can bring you

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Speaker 1: You actually say this all the time to me, and

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Speaker 1: I know, but it is true when you look around,

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Speaker 2: By the way, absolutely from a pastor.

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Speaker 1: Every time I ask, that's the answer. All right, I'll

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Speaker 1: t thanks so much for running with us everyone on

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Speaker 2: And I'm t J. Holmes. Happy shopping.

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