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Speaker 1: morning everyone, Thanks for joining us for today's Morning Run.
Speaker 1: It's Wednesday, June twenty fifth. I'm Amy Roboch.
Speaker 2: And I'm TJ. Holmes and on the run this morning, Robes.
Speaker 2: We just listened to the President a short time ago
Speaker 2: making comments about what's happening between Iran and Israel, and
Speaker 2: in true Trump fashion, he compared them to kids fighting
Speaker 2: on a playground, which for a lot of people that
Speaker 2: might make sense. He said, sometimes you just gotta let
Speaker 2: him go for two or three minutes and then you
Speaker 2: go break them up. He said, these two folks don't
Speaker 2: want to fight no more. We let them fight for
Speaker 2: two or three minutes. Now we stepped in, how do
Speaker 2: you like that analogy?
Speaker 1: One way to put it, I guess seems a little rudimentary,
Speaker 1: but okay.
Speaker 2: But it works. Whatever he said, something right now is working.
Speaker 2: But yes, the ceasefire at this point is holding.
Speaker 1: Also this morning, speaking of maybe the verbide you use
Speaker 1: on a playground, the leaker is a loser. The White
Speaker 1: House is fuming over a leaked intelligence report that suggests
Speaker 1: the US airstrikes only set run back by a couple
Speaker 1: of months.
Speaker 2: Also this morning, the easing tensions in the Middle East
Speaker 2: and word of a possible interest rate cut sent stocks
Speaker 2: on their way to a new high. Also a shocking
Speaker 2: shakeup in New York mayoral politics. A thirty three year
Speaker 2: old social media savvy candidate claims victory over a guy
Speaker 2: with the last name Cuomo.
Speaker 1: And this may be the final day of an oppressive
Speaker 1: and now deadly heat wave that has impacted more than
Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty million Americans, and just thirty minutes
Speaker 1: to defend Ditty, the defense wasted no time before resting
Speaker 1: its case as Sean Combe's criminal trial enters its final phase.
Speaker 2: Plus, we heard from Combs himself in court yesterday delivering
Speaker 2: a personal message to the judge something he's been wanting
Speaker 2: to say for a while. And is Bezos really taking
Speaker 2: his party somewhere else? A protest group is claiming their
Speaker 2: efforts are working and forced venue changes for the billionaire's
Speaker 2: wedding weekend, and our love Island fans spreading hate. The
Speaker 2: show itself sure thinks so, and it's issued a gentle
Speaker 2: reminder to viewers. Islanders are people too, They sure are.
Speaker 1: And you know what, I appreciate the warning. I think
Speaker 1: it's about time. Sometimes people think they have license to
Speaker 1: say whatever they want about whomever they want. And I
Speaker 1: liked the gentle reprimand you know.
Speaker 2: The idea that we need to remind people to be
Speaker 2: nice on a show called Love Island is amazing.
Speaker 1: Both the irony. We'll get into that shortly, all right,
Speaker 1: but we do begin our run with the latest overseas.
Speaker 1: Per usual, words like shaky and fragile are being used
Speaker 1: to describe a Middle East ceasfire. But you know what matters.
Speaker 1: The ceasefire appears to be holding for now.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Iran and Israel appear to be honoring the Trump
Speaker 2: broker deal and finally stopped firing missiles at each other yesterday.
Speaker 2: This was after a public and profane scolding from President Trump,
Speaker 2: who told reporters he wasn't happy with Iran or Israel
Speaker 2: because both appear to have violated the ceasefire deal soon
Speaker 2: after Trump announced it.
Speaker 1: You men that it was profane. So these are Trump's words,
Speaker 1: This is what he had to say. We basically have
Speaker 1: two countries that have been fighting for so long and
Speaker 1: so hard that they don't know what the fuck they're doing. Whoo.
Speaker 1: And while everybody claimed some sort of little victory. Talks
Speaker 1: between Iran and the US on a long term peace
Speaker 1: deal are ongoing and have been called promising by the administration.
Speaker 2: That will continue on the run here on this Wednesday morning.
Speaker 2: With a complete obliteration or a temporary setback, It's got
Speaker 2: to be one of the other. Those two things don't
Speaker 2: go together. The White House is pushing back on a
Speaker 2: leaked Defense Department assessment of the damage done to the
Speaker 2: Iran nuclear program. According to this report, the attacks may
Speaker 2: have only set back Iran's program by a few months.
Speaker 1: The Defense Intelligence Agency report suggests that significant damage was done,
Speaker 1: but that the primary facilities were not destroyed. It also
Speaker 1: said Iran might have moved much of its enriched uranium
Speaker 1: before the attack, and that the centrifuges needed to need
Speaker 1: to enrich a uranium were largely still intact.
Speaker 2: Hey the White House, though blasting the leak, the leaker
Speaker 2: the report itself, President Trump pushed back with this fake
Speaker 2: new CNN, together with the failing New York Times, have
Speaker 2: teamed up in an attempt to demean one of the
Speaker 2: most successful military strikes in history. The nuclear sites in
Speaker 2: or On are completely destroyed. Both the Times and CNN
Speaker 2: are getting slammed by the public. He said that own social.
Speaker 1: Media, all right. The White House Process Secretary added to it,
Speaker 1: saying the alleged assessment is flat out wrong and was
Speaker 1: classified as top secret, but was still leaked to CNN
Speaker 1: by an anonymous low level loser in the intelligence community,
Speaker 1: and just a short time ago, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth
Speaker 1: said a leak investigation is now underway.
Speaker 2: This was a top secret report, This wasn't supposed to
Speaker 2: get out, So this is a pretty big no no.
Speaker 2: But they claim this is one of several assessments that
Speaker 2: they use. It wasn't supposed to get out, and it
Speaker 2: also included this may have happened, and it may have
Speaker 2: done more significant damage. But they think this was a specific,
Speaker 2: politically motivated leak, a very particular information.
Speaker 1: That sounds like that's probably the case. It does seem
Speaker 1: to be politically motivated if they only leaked the worst
Speaker 1: report possible.
Speaker 2: If they find out who did this, can you imagine
Speaker 2: what Trump is possibly yes going to say and do.
Speaker 1: With his bass more than a loser?
Speaker 2: Oh my goodness. All right, we'll continue on the run now,
Speaker 2: and the promising piece in the Middle East has boosted
Speaker 2: stocks here at home, along with the little help from
Speaker 2: the Federal Reserve.
Speaker 1: The ceasefire between Iran and Iraq, and the Fed chair's
Speaker 1: comments about a possible interest rate cut in July sent
Speaker 1: the US stock market soaring on Tuesday. Futures are up today,
Speaker 1: sending the markets towards an all time high.
Speaker 2: Jerome Powell, who was a favorite punching bag of Donald Trump,
Speaker 2: he told lawmakers Tuesday, if it turns out that inflation
Speaker 2: pressures do remain contained, then we will get to a
Speaker 2: place where we cut rates sooner rather than later. He
Speaker 2: didn't offer a specific timeline, but his comment spurred optimism
Speaker 2: among investors' situation in the Middle East brought relief that
Speaker 2: the war between Israel and Aram where Iran would not
Speaker 2: damage the flow of crude oil to the world. So
Speaker 2: oil prices dropped the markets.
Speaker 1: Sword that's right. The SMP climbed more than one percent,
Speaker 1: the Dow Jones jumped up more than five hundred points
Speaker 1: that one point two percent higher, and the Nasdaq rallied
Speaker 1: up one point four percent.
Speaker 2: The next leg of our run brings us here to
Speaker 2: New York City, and what the actual hell just happened
Speaker 2: in the New York mayoral Democratic primary, a thirty three
Speaker 2: year old self described Democratic socialist Zoron Mamdani, declared victory
Speaker 2: after an upstart and social media savvy campaign.
Speaker 1: Former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said he called and
Speaker 1: conceded the race. Mamdani got forty four percent of the
Speaker 1: vote last night. Cuomo got thirty six percent, But because
Speaker 1: Mamdani did not get fifty percent of the vote, he
Speaker 1: is not officially the victor because of New York's rank
Speaker 1: choice voting, a system that allows the bottom chier candidate's
Speaker 1: votes to be redistributed to the top vote getters.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's kind of confusing for us who live here.
Speaker 2: It's confusing certainly to folks who don't live here. But
Speaker 2: bottom line, after all this said and done with the calculations,
Speaker 2: he's not expected to get out of the top spot.
Speaker 2: So for now he is the Democratic nominee for mayor
Speaker 2: here in New York. Now, Cuomo might not be done,
Speaker 2: though he is already qualified to appear on the ballot
Speaker 2: as an independent in the general election. He says he's
Speaker 2: already considering doing that. He's going to get with his
Speaker 2: folks and see if there's a path for him do that.
Speaker 2: But can you imagine Cuomo, Mam Donnie rematge. But also you.
Speaker 1: Got Eric Adams. That'll be a heck of a vote.
Speaker 1: You know, you and I don't always vote, And a
Speaker 1: lot of times it was for journalistic reasons, but we
Speaker 1: were saying we might actually vote in this one. It's
Speaker 1: gotten so contentious, right, this might have risen to the
Speaker 1: level all right? Next up on the run, it looks like,
Speaker 1: thank god, this is the final day of an oppressive,
Speaker 1: record setting and now deadly heat wave for more than
Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty million Americans. Wednesday, tens of millions
Speaker 1: of people had to endure temperatures near or above one
Speaker 1: hundred degrees over the past three days. More than one
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty record highs have been set.
Speaker 2: And a Missouri woman died in her home from the heat.
Speaker 2: This doesn't make sense to me. She was living without
Speaker 2: water and no air conditioning for three days. It's Tara.
Speaker 2: That is an awful, awful wait to go here. In
Speaker 2: New York City, the oh JFK Airport reached a record
Speaker 2: of one hundred and two degrees, hottest temperature ever recorded
Speaker 2: in June. Multiple power outages the Oh Power company con
Speaker 2: ed here in New York sent customers a warning. I
Speaker 2: got that warning as well, did I.
Speaker 1: We're at capacity to like unplug all of your appliances.
Speaker 1: That's where we were. But thank goodness, we did not
Speaker 1: lose power here, but some people did. Thousands of people
Speaker 1: did here in New York City. Baltimore reached one hundred
Speaker 1: and five degrees, smashing an earlier record of one hundred
Speaker 1: and one back in twenty ten. Newark, New Jersey, had
Speaker 1: a record setting temperature of one hundred and three degrees,
Speaker 1: breaking the record of ninety seven from nineteen sixty six.
Speaker 1: Boston swared to one hundred and two, breaking its record
Speaker 1: of ninety five. These are not records that were broken.
Speaker 1: They were smashed, they were shattered.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and those were actual temperatures, right, And then there's
Speaker 2: the feel like temperatures out there. These will blow your mind.
Speaker 2: Philly one hundred and six, Boston hundred and six, Charleston
Speaker 2: hundred and six, Saint Louis won O five, Charlotte won
Speaker 2: O five, Nashville one O four, Memphis one O four.
Speaker 2: Temperatures began to slightly cool from yesterday. We're gonna get
Speaker 2: some relief here in New York the high is going
Speaker 2: to be ninety seven. Only that's awesome, But yeah, they're
Speaker 2: still gonna have record highs today in places like DC
Speaker 2: and Philly. Relief finally comes Thursday, we're told, and then
Speaker 2: it actually gets cool for some cities. High on Friday
Speaker 2: in New York seventy one, yes, Boston just sixty eight.
Speaker 1: This is wild, wild weather, and especially for June. All right,
Speaker 1: next up on the run, we're gonna stay here in
Speaker 1: New York City. Time for testimony is over. As expected,
Speaker 1: The prosecution and the defense rested in the Diddy trial yesterday.
Speaker 1: The prosecution's case took seven weeks and thirty four witnesses.
Speaker 1: The defense's case took about thirty minutes and zero witnesses.
Speaker 2: He said did He's legal team didn't call one person
Speaker 2: to the stand to defend him. They only presented a
Speaker 2: few exhibits into the record, and that was It didn't
Speaker 2: take long. Even though he didn't testify in his own defense,
Speaker 2: the courtroom heard directly from Sean Combs yesterday. There's a
Speaker 2: standard procedure and trials the judge needed to confirm with
Speaker 2: the defendant Combs about his decision not to testify. On
Speaker 2: his own behalf.
Speaker 1: The judge first asked did he how he was doing,
Speaker 1: and he responded, I'm doing great. Thank you you, Ronor.
Speaker 1: I've been waiting to tell you. Thank you. You're doing
Speaker 1: an excellent job. Sorry, that still cracks me up. About
Speaker 1: his decision to not testify, he added, we have discussed thoroughly.
Speaker 1: That is my decision. That is totally my decision I
Speaker 1: am making.
Speaker 2: Can't believe testimony is over in this case. The jury
Speaker 2: is off today while attorneys and the judge meet to
Speaker 2: hash out jury instructions. Closing arguments will take place on
Speaker 2: Thursday's schedule to start at nine am, but the prosecutors
Speaker 2: now say this might go into Friday with the closing arguments,
Speaker 2: and is predicting that the jury now is not going
Speaker 2: to start deliberating until next Monday. So the schedule has
Speaker 2: shifted a lot in the past couple of weeks, fairly dramatically.
Speaker 2: With got a holiday, a jury got kicked off, another
Speaker 2: jury got sick, some of the testimony went longer than expected.
Speaker 2: So this thing is really messing with the timeline.
Speaker 1: But it might end up wrapping if the jury can
Speaker 1: come to an agreement by what the judge was hoping
Speaker 1: for the July fourth, which is next Friday.
Speaker 2: We shall see. Well, folks, stay with us here on
Speaker 2: this Wednesday Morning Run. Billionaire Bezos is about to have
Speaker 2: a wedding and some group that's been protesting the wedding
Speaker 2: there in Venice said they have forced him to make
Speaker 2: a venue change. Also, we love some Love Island, so
Speaker 2: why are its fans spreading hate?
Speaker 1: Stay with us, Welcome back to this Wednesday edition of
Speaker 1: Morning Run, and this is kind of our love block
Speaker 1: because we're gonna with a lot of hate. Though is hateful? Right?
Speaker 1: You wish that it wouldn't It isn't so, but that's
Speaker 1: exactly what we're going to tell you about. Next up
Speaker 1: on the Run, we're heading to Venice, Italy, where a
Speaker 1: group called No Space for Bezos is claiming victory and
Speaker 1: says they have forced Jeff Bezos to alter some of
Speaker 1: his wedding plans.
Speaker 2: So they claim Bezos and his fiancee, Lauren Sangez have
Speaker 2: changed the venue for one of their wedding celebrations. As
Speaker 2: guests have begun to arrive for a three day celebrity
Speaker 2: affair in and around Venice, the No Space for Bezos
Speaker 2: group planned a blockade of inflatable crocodiles on the Famed
Speaker 2: Canals at a location where Bezos was rumored to be
Speaker 2: having a post wedding party.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the group saying this we won. The protests managed
Speaker 1: to ruin bezos plans. They were forced to flee and
Speaker 1: take refuge okay, somewhere else. Even bezos two yachts will
Speaker 1: not arrive in Venice. So the details, what will we do?
Speaker 1: I know, Oh, no, they have all been He's taking refuge. Okay,
Speaker 1: I don't really think that's what's happening. The details of
Speaker 1: bezos wedding plans have been tightly held, so we're not
Speaker 1: sure exactly what's happening. But it's believed that the celebrations
Speaker 1: officially begin tomorrow on Thursday. There will be about two
Speaker 1: hundred or so wedding guests that include Elon Musk, Kim Kardashian, Evaka.
Speaker 1: Trump apparently has already arrived in Venice, Leonardo DiCaprio, Mick Jagger,
Speaker 1: just to name a few of the big name celebrities.
Speaker 2: Are we surprised this hasn't been talked about? Would Trump
Speaker 2: show up?
Speaker 1: You know who knows? Can you get there from the Netherlands?
Speaker 1: He's not that far.
Speaker 2: He's not he's in that Wait a second.
Speaker 1: Ah, you never know, and you.
Speaker 2: Heard it here first. I would not be surprised if
Speaker 2: he showed me.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't either.
Speaker 2: Oh my goodness, where are they gonna put Air Force
Speaker 2: one in Venice? Though?
Speaker 1: They'll find a way, man, they will.
Speaker 2: Okay, So that guest list, as you just said, DiCaprio, Jagger,
Speaker 2: Trump and whatnot. Guest lists like that, no surprise. Estimated
Speaker 2: ninety five private planes are reported to be landing at
Speaker 2: the city's airports. Believe the couple will exchange vowels on Friday,
Speaker 2: big party. Then on Saturday, protesters say, instead of the
Speaker 2: planned alligator blockade, now they are going to organize a
Speaker 2: no Bezos, no War march in town. Look, you understand
Speaker 2: they they think their town is beautiful, history has been
Speaker 2: tainted by billionaires using it as their playground and their backdrop.
Speaker 2: You can understand. That's fine, it's but I don't know,
Speaker 2: it's another highlights another focus on Venice.
Speaker 1: It seems like that, Yeah, you know, I get it,
Speaker 1: but I also what a stain on your wedding And
Speaker 1: it's just tough to know that everyone in the city
Speaker 1: wants you to leave and doesn't want you there, but
Speaker 1: it has to be giving. I would think a tremendous
Speaker 1: amount of financial gain for the city with all of
Speaker 1: those folks coming spending a lot of money.
Speaker 2: Didn't they say they were a city using eighty percent
Speaker 2: of everything being used for the wedding.
Speaker 1: Was locally They were trying to be giving the city
Speaker 1: a boost while they were enjoying the beauty and history
Speaker 1: of the city.
Speaker 2: Everything. Eighty percent of everything they're using for the wedding,
Speaker 2: they said, is locally sourced.
Speaker 1: Sounds tough to be a billionaire. Everyone hates you, don't
Speaker 1: they all? Right? Next up on the Run, a lot
Speaker 1: of love has been lost on Love Island. This is
Speaker 1: our final leg of the run. And you know, we
Speaker 1: love this show and we know things can get intents
Speaker 1: at the villa, but apparently enough fans at home have
Speaker 1: become a bit too passionate about their opinions of certain Islanders.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's how Areono Maddox put it. She's the host
Speaker 2: of the show. She and the show trying to push
Speaker 2: back on a lot of online hate, as they put it,
Speaker 2: that has been directed towards some of the contestants to
Speaker 2: use the show posted this on X quote, we appreciate
Speaker 2: the fans, the passion for the series, and the amazing
Speaker 2: group of Islanders who are sharing their summer with us.
Speaker 2: Please just remember their real people, So let's be kind
Speaker 2: and spread the love.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and it seems as though some fans have gone
Speaker 1: beyond just the comment pages. Maddox went to ask people
Speaker 1: to stop contacting people's families. She said, don't be doxing people.
Speaker 1: Don't be going on Islanders' pages and saying rude things.
Speaker 1: Wtf is doxing? Did you know what doxing was?
Speaker 2: No, I've heard it before, throwing it Yeah, but I
Speaker 2: couldn't have thrown it. I couldn't have used it in.
Speaker 1: A sentence, So I've never even heard it. I'm I'm
Speaker 1: that out of touch. So I had to look it up.
Speaker 1: And so in case any of you listening don't know
Speaker 1: what doxing is either, here is the official definition. The
Speaker 1: action or process of searching for and publishing private or
Speaker 1: identifying information about a particular individual on the Internet, typically
Speaker 1: with malicious intent, So.
Speaker 2: Like looking up someone's phone number or their address and
Speaker 2: putting it out there for all to see.
Speaker 1: That kind yeah, and finding out looking to see any
Speaker 1: of their past history and putting it out there like
Speaker 1: just anything they can get on any of these folks
Speaker 1: to make them look bad or sound bad.
Speaker 2: Okay, so here's a suggestion that Maddox is making delete
Speaker 2: that stuff now while you have a chance. You have
Speaker 2: to remember, if you're watching the show, they have not
Speaker 2: had a phone. They have no idea what's going on
Speaker 2: in the world, so they don't know how they're being
Speaker 2: talked about. They don't know any of these comments are
Speaker 2: out there. They said, hey, you have a chance to
Speaker 2: delete some of this stuff before they actually get their
Speaker 2: hands on their phone again. You have a chance to
Speaker 2: make it right. So they did put a message in.
Speaker 2: It was kind of embedded, I think in a commercial
Speaker 2: break during one the last.
Speaker 1: It was last night, So last night, last night episode.
Speaker 2: This is what it said. The keyword in Love Island
Speaker 2: is love. We love our fans, we love our Islanders.
Speaker 2: We don't love cyber bullying, harassment or hate.
Speaker 1: You know some of I saw online, some of even
Speaker 1: former boyfriends. A baby daddy of one of these contestants
Speaker 1: got on and said, hey, please do not talk about
Speaker 1: my child's mother like this. This is going to affect
Speaker 1: her mental health if she sees this when she gets
Speaker 1: off the island, and that will affect my child's mental health.
Speaker 1: People don't realize, you know, what this does to folks
Speaker 1: when they especially, they have no idea what's being said.
Speaker 1: They get back from this and they see all of
Speaker 1: this hate, their children, their families. It affects more than
Speaker 1: just the person. It affects everyone who loves them.
Speaker 2: It's a good way to put it. A mother, right, Yes,
Speaker 2: so it's going to affect my child's mother. You need
Speaker 2: to think of it that way. They we all see
Speaker 2: them as what islanders. You have to call them something
Speaker 2: other than human beings to talk about people this way.
Speaker 2: They're just islanders. I just please. And you know what.
Speaker 2: The message they put on social media saying hey, people
Speaker 2: be nice, you know what, it was met with a
Speaker 2: bunch of hate. Gosh, all the comments coming back. I
Speaker 2: can't believe y'all let those people be beat up on.
Speaker 2: And it was pretty consistent. I read through for a
Speaker 2: little while. There were very few positive messages responses to that.
Speaker 1: I was so hopeful. I'm still hopeful. Maybe people will
Speaker 1: have a second thought, they'll wake up and feel like
Speaker 1: being not even kind, just not mean, how about that?
Speaker 1: All right, that's a really low bar, right, but that's
Speaker 1: where we are now. Really, it's so true, and it's
Speaker 1: all done with anonymity. Ain't that great to just throw
Speaker 1: your hate while living in your I guess non glass
Speaker 1: house because no one knows who you are or where
Speaker 1: you are. But just imagine if that were you? All right,
Speaker 1: on this Wednesday, we would like to set you off
Speaker 1: on the day with our quote of the day. Here
Speaker 1: it is for you and from someone maybe unexpected.
Speaker 2: You know what I am going to start with. Who
Speaker 2: gives the quote first? Well, I don't think we ever
Speaker 2: do that. This comes from the great Will Smith. Okay,
Speaker 2: this is what Will Smith has for you today. Quote
Speaker 2: stop letting people who do so little for you control
Speaker 2: so much of your mind, feelings, and emotions. Those are
Speaker 2: good words from the Fresh Perce.
Speaker 1: It's honestly, it spoke to me when we were writing
Speaker 1: and researching the Bezos and the Love Island story, and
Speaker 1: then I just happened to see this quote and I
Speaker 1: just felt like, for the folks who might be the
Speaker 1: recipients of some of this hate, this might make you
Speaker 1: feel a little bit better, But for everyone who goes
Speaker 1: through a day, and lets what other people think or
Speaker 1: say affect them in tremendous ways, and all of us
Speaker 1: do it. It's really hard to rise above it sometimes
Speaker 1: and to not take it personally and to not have
Speaker 1: that effect how you feel about yourself. So I just
Speaker 1: loved what Will Smith had to say. He's certainly gone
Speaker 1: through his share of online hate. Stop letting people who
Speaker 1: do so little for you control so much of your mind,
Speaker 1: feeling and emotions. Thank you, Will Smith, and thank you
Speaker 1: for listening to us everyone on this still steamy Wednesday.
Speaker 2: That's gonna be in my head all that get jiggyated.
Speaker 1: Oh my goodness. All right, I'm Amy Robots and I
Speaker 1: am d J.
Speaker 2: Holmes. We will see you all very soon.