Speaker 1: Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio Podcast. Hello everyone,
Speaker 1: this is your Morning Run for Thursday, May twenty ninth,
Speaker 1: or as I like to call it, Friday Eve. I'm
Speaker 1: Adee Robots.
Speaker 2: And I'm TJ Holmes. And on this Friday Eve Run.
Speaker 2: After all that talk about tariffs, after all that back
Speaker 2: and forth, after all that market fluctuation and uncertaining anxiety
Speaker 2: that the tariffs coused, turns out President Drum doesn't have
Speaker 2: the authority to impose tariffs, so says a federal court.
Speaker 2: We'll tell you where we go from here.
Speaker 1: Also on the Run, Diddy's defense team tried to end
Speaker 1: his trial yesterday, accusing the prosecutors of misconduct and devil
Speaker 1: on the Run, a convicted felon whose exploits were the
Speaker 1: subject of a Max documentary has escaped from prison.
Speaker 2: Also this morning, hit with a fifty million dollar sexual
Speaker 2: assault lawsuit, Smokey Robinson responds with a five hundred million
Speaker 2: dollar count.
Speaker 1: And a movie legend has passed away. You may not
Speaker 1: know his name, but you know the redheaded, knife wielding,
Speaker 1: overalls wearing killer doll that he portrayed.
Speaker 2: Plus, Elon Musk is out of a job in government.
Speaker 2: Good thing. He has Tesla and SpaceX to fall back.
Speaker 1: On, and Bieber makes a billion not justin.
Speaker 2: Hailey one of my favorite stories of the morning. I'm
Speaker 2: so impressed with what this young lady has done. It
Speaker 2: really and she has an impact on both of our
Speaker 2: daughter's lives. It seems like day and day out with her.
Speaker 1: It's so true, true story. You stopped dinner preps yesterday
Speaker 1: to announce, Oh my goodness, did you hear what happened
Speaker 1: with Hailey Bieber?
Speaker 2: I love it.
Speaker 1: It's amazing, I absolutely love it.
Speaker 2: We will get into that this morning, but we do
Speaker 2: begain our run on this Friday eve with a major
Speaker 2: ruling by a federal court here in Manhattan. This court
Speaker 2: now says that President Trump cannot impose his Liberation Day
Speaker 2: taras you remember the ones he was up there with
Speaker 2: the big poster board pointing everybody that all the countries listed. Yeah,
Speaker 2: all that shouldn't have happened because he didn't have the
Speaker 2: authority to do it. According to this three judge panel,
Speaker 2: they have now blocked Trump's tariffs after several lawsuits have
Speaker 2: argued that yes, he exceeded his authority.
Speaker 1: Congress typically approves tariffs, not the President, and the judges agreed.
Speaker 1: Trump circumvented Congress by claiming he had the right to
Speaker 1: act under an emergency powers law, saying, our trade deficits
Speaker 1: have become, yes, a national emergency. But the judges ruled
Speaker 1: that Trump's tariffs do not meet the condition of an
Speaker 1: unusual and extraordinary threat that would allow the president to
Speaker 1: act alone without congressional approval.
Speaker 2: Hogwash, says the White House. They responded by saying this
Speaker 2: and I quote, it is not for unelected judges to
Speaker 2: decide how to properly address a national emergency. They also
Speaker 2: noted that the Trump administration has already filed a notice
Speaker 2: of appeal to challenge yesterday's decision. That means the case
Speaker 2: is headed to the US Court of Appeals, where the
Speaker 2: White House will ask for a stay of this most
Speaker 2: recent order. Legal experts believe the case is probably headed
Speaker 2: to the Supreme Court. And who are those unelected judges
Speaker 2: he's talking about ropes?
Speaker 1: Yes, so there are three of them, and one was
Speaker 1: appointed by Ronald Reagan, one was appointed by Barack Obama,
Speaker 1: and the other was appointed by President Trump.
Speaker 2: And he still don't like him. That's as much variety
Speaker 2: as he's going to Get's court.
Speaker 1: Yeah, more to come on this a lot more. Next
Speaker 1: up on a run though, we turned to the Ditty trial.
Speaker 1: We'll stay here in Manhattan, where Shancomb's defense team actually
Speaker 1: tried to end the whole thing. Yesterday, his attorneys asked
Speaker 1: the judge to declare a mistrial on grounds of prosecutorial misconduct.
Speaker 1: We're not going to get into the weeds, but basically,
Speaker 1: the defense attorneys argue that the prosecution made a claim
Speaker 1: that did he might have destroyed fingerprint evidence, and just.
Speaker 2: By suggesting that you put that in the jury's head
Speaker 2: that maybe this guy's destroying evidence, so therefore he must
Speaker 2: be doing something wrong. They said, come on, you shouldn't
Speaker 2: have even mentioned that. The judge said he put poop
Speaker 2: poo on the mistrial argument.
Speaker 1: So by washing poo poo, you're on a roll today.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is where I am on this Friday Eve. Well,
Speaker 2: the judge yes denied the motion, so we yes had
Speaker 2: a full day of testimony yesterday and most of it
Speaker 2: from Deontey Nash. This is a celebrity stylist who worked
Speaker 2: for Ditty. He also was a close friend and continues
Speaker 2: to be a close friend to Ditty's ex Cassie Ventura Fined, who,
Speaker 2: of course, was the prosecution's star witness. Nash, on the
Speaker 2: stand detailed several instances in which he witnessed Comb's being
Speaker 2: violent with Casey, kicking, hitting her, dragging her by her hair,
Speaker 2: and so on.
Speaker 1: Yes, in one instance in twenty thirteen, Nash said he
Speaker 1: actually jumped onto Combe's back to stop his attack on Cassie.
Speaker 1: He also broke some news to the court Cassie had
Speaker 1: her baby. Nash testified that he spoke to Cassie the
Speaker 1: previous day to tell her congratulations on having her baby.
Speaker 1: We're gonna have a lot more on that in just
Speaker 1: a moment. But Nash also gave more insights into Cassie's
Speaker 1: behavior and fear while she was dating Didty.
Speaker 2: He mentioned that he would regularly help Cassie hide from Ditty,
Speaker 2: this happened at hotel sometimes, and also recall a time
Speaker 2: when did Hey came to his home looking for Cassie. Now,
Speaker 2: he gave this detail that did he searched the whole house,
Speaker 2: including looking in the oven.
Speaker 1: Are you kidding me?
Speaker 2: And his quote on the stand was I have no
Speaker 2: idea why he looked in the oven, but yes, he
Speaker 2: looked in the oven while the search was going on.
Speaker 2: Now also in the stand yesterday first was an laped officer,
Speaker 2: after that a fire investigator. But most of the day, yes,
Speaker 2: Nash was on the stand. He's also going to be
Speaker 2: back on the stand again this morning. And then the
Speaker 2: next person Robes we're expecting to hear from could be
Speaker 2: another explosive witness who actually is an accuser, says she
Speaker 2: was abused by Ditty and I believe has a lawsuit
Speaker 2: against him.
Speaker 1: Yes, she is actually going to be testifying anonymously under
Speaker 1: the pseudonym Mia, but a lot of folks really anticipating
Speaker 1: what she will have to say. So more on that
Speaker 1: of course. Next up on the run from the Diddy
Speaker 1: trial to the delivery room. Yes, for Cassie Ventura, fine
Speaker 1: did he's X? And Yes, the star witness for the
Speaker 1: prosecution gave birth to her third child on Tuesday. That
Speaker 1: was just about a week and a half after wrapping
Speaker 1: her testimony.
Speaker 2: And we remember the judge, the prosecutors, and the Devins
Speaker 2: attorneys all agreed that she needs to be done that
Speaker 2: first week. They actually thought she wrapped on a Friday robe.
Speaker 2: Do you remember they said she has to be out
Speaker 2: of here because she might have the baby this weekend. Yeah,
Speaker 2: she was that close to popping in court. But she
Speaker 2: has now given birth to their third child with her
Speaker 2: husband Alex Fine. From all indications, they're doing well. They
Speaker 2: have two kids already, two young girls. But any woman listening,
Speaker 2: anybody who's had a baby, can think of how stressful
Speaker 2: that time is, especially that last month. And to think
Speaker 2: that she was on the stand doing what she did
Speaker 2: for three days, I think twenty hours is how much
Speaker 2: she testified under this stress. It's incredible.
Speaker 1: I can not even imagine what that must have been
Speaker 1: like for her. And yes, your emotions and your anxiety
Speaker 1: and your stress levels all affect the baby, and my goodness,
Speaker 1: she definitely was able to give that powerful testimony just
Speaker 1: in the nick of time.
Speaker 2: And a little context here. And I changed actually ropes
Speaker 2: this morning. How I wrote some of the stories because
Speaker 2: her friend Deontae Nash, she was on the stand. The
Speaker 2: defense attorney mentioned her and saying something but just asking
Speaker 2: a question about miss Ventura and corrected her missus fine, right,
Speaker 2: he's trying to make a point kind of Yes, that's
Speaker 2: her name, that's what she has it on her Instagram.
Speaker 2: And she is married to this man, and she has
Speaker 2: moved on with her life. She's not that And it
Speaker 2: was just a moment that he took to say missus fine,
Speaker 2: And I thought that actually spoke a lot about us.
Speaker 2: All need to remember who this moment is, where she is,
Speaker 2: what she've been through. But she is a married moment
Speaker 2: with three kids now. Yeah, she's moved on with her life.
Speaker 2: And yes, so I started writing missus vent Tura fine
Speaker 2: this morning.
Speaker 1: That's true because if you think about how she is
Speaker 1: now being regarded and most likely will be remembered as
Speaker 1: a part of these freak offs and just something that's
Speaker 1: so different than who she is today. So that makes
Speaker 1: a lot of sense. All right. Next up on the Run,
Speaker 1: we're gonna head to your home stay TJ of Arkansas,
Speaker 1: where residents are on edge after the man known as
Speaker 1: the Devil in the Ozarks remains on the loose. He
Speaker 1: escaped from prison over the weekend.
Speaker 2: His real name is Grant Harden. He was a police
Speaker 2: officer and briefly I was police chief for a small
Speaker 2: town in Arkansas before he was convicted of killing a
Speaker 2: city employee and raping an elementary school teacher. Hard to
Speaker 2: escape from prison on Sunday afternoon by impersonating a corrections officer.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he was not in a standard correctional uniform for
Speaker 1: that facility, but according to authorities, and if you look
Speaker 1: at the surveillance video, he looked and acted enough like
Speaker 1: an officer that a prison guard opened the gate for
Speaker 1: him and let him freely walk out of the facility.
Speaker 1: It happened around two fifty five pm on Sunday afternoon.
Speaker 2: Garb fired Yet.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well we don't know yet, but officials are investigating
Speaker 1: how Harden was able to get this uniform that he
Speaker 1: was wearing, or whether he was able to make it himself.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's confusing because it's not the one that
Speaker 1: they issue, but it looked official.
Speaker 2: Where did it come from exactly? Sow it in there somewhere. Well,
Speaker 2: authority's an hour using everything they got, drones, helicopters, police
Speaker 2: dogs to search the rocky and ruggered yes, ozarks, the
Speaker 2: terrain up there. This is all outside of the prison.
Speaker 2: They're searching that area. But two years ago, Harden and
Speaker 2: his crimes were turned into a true crime documentary that
Speaker 2: streamed on Max and is on Hulu. It's called Devil
Speaker 2: in the Ozarks and Robes, I have it right. He was.
Speaker 2: He was caught for one crime and then he was
Speaker 2: linked to something twenty years prior because of DNA.
Speaker 1: Right, it was an unsolved vicious rape. And so when
Speaker 1: he was charged with the murder for shooting a city employee,
Speaker 1: a guy who ran the water department in the head,
Speaker 1: they ran hiss DNA and boom, it popped up in
Speaker 1: this rape case, this cold case from twenty years prior.
Speaker 1: So he was convicted for thirty years for the murder,
Speaker 1: fifty years for the rape. But a lot of folks
Speaker 1: are really concerned that he may be on a vengeance tour.
Speaker 1: They have described him as evil and there's just a
Speaker 1: lot of fear in that area right now, all right.
Speaker 1: Next up on our ran a screen legend has passed away,
Speaker 1: but the way you know him on screen is as
Speaker 1: a duck from outer space and as a red headed
Speaker 1: psycho killer doll. We are talking about Ed Gail. That
Speaker 1: is the actor who portrayed Howard the Duck and the
Speaker 1: original Chucky in Child's Play.
Speaker 2: And that's something a guy is. These movies have played
Speaker 2: such a role in so many of our lives and
Speaker 2: just didn't know the name of the guy who was
Speaker 2: behind it. But yes, it's Ed Gayle. He was born
Speaker 2: with dwarf fizzelm and he passed away this week at
Speaker 2: the age of sixty one. Now his niece put out
Speaker 2: a statement on behalf of the family, and it's one
Speaker 2: of the more colorful death announcements about a public figure
Speaker 2: that you will ever Here, we are not overstating that, folks.
Speaker 2: And so the statement begins with this quote, it is
Speaker 2: with a heavy heart and a surprisingly light coffin that
Speaker 2: we announced the sudden passing of our uncle Ed Gaile.
Speaker 1: That's funny, that's amazing. I love that they can find
Speaker 1: humor or just keep even the death announcement in the
Speaker 1: spirit of who he was.
Speaker 2: Yes, but this is the other thing about it. I
Speaker 2: read it right, just the lines, but they put something
Speaker 2: in parentheses when they wrote it. It is with a
Speaker 2: heavy heart and surprisingly light coffin parentheses. See what I
Speaker 2: did there, And then they went there clearly amazing they're
Speaker 2: doing with this. But it's a really funny statement.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I love because it continues in the same spirit.
Speaker 1: It goes on to say that Gail leaves behind a
Speaker 1: full legacy of questionable lighting and amazing one liners Ed's
Speaker 1: favorite role was that of the fun uncle. They say,
Speaker 1: ed love seven to eleven hot dogs with disgusting amounts
Speaker 1: of ketchup. I too have enjoyed a seven eleven hot dog.
Speaker 1: I'll be honest. I think that was after the Chicago marathon.
Speaker 1: He hated Bill Maher for no good reason. He had
Speaker 1: one hell of a laugh and we will and he
Speaker 1: will be missed. Rest in love, you cranky bastard.
Speaker 2: That's great, you know what.
Speaker 1: That's amazing. That speaks to who he was and how
Speaker 1: he didn't take himself so seriously and loved laughing. I
Speaker 1: just I think that's so cool. It speaks volumes about
Speaker 1: who he was. Gil By the way, as we mentioned,
Speaker 1: we might not not have known his name, he had
Speaker 1: one hundred and thirty film and TV credits to his name,
Speaker 1: which is remarkable.
Speaker 2: We can legitimately say he was a film legend that
Speaker 2: nobody knows his name. Nobody walking down the street, you'll
Speaker 2: be able to come up with his name, but everybody
Speaker 2: knows Chucky. How are to do?
Speaker 1: That?
Speaker 2: Is so cool? But but yeah, good for his family,
Speaker 2: and again, much respect for the statement that they put
Speaker 2: out in the sentiment that it had We want to
Speaker 2: continue our run here on this Friday Eve, run now,
Speaker 2: and this time we turned to smoke you Robinson. He
Speaker 2: has responded to that fifty million dollars sexual assault lawsuit
Speaker 2: against him by countersuing for five hundred million dollars. Yes,
Speaker 2: the Motown Legend says he's being defamed by the four women,
Speaker 2: all former housekeepers who worked for him at his La home.
Speaker 1: The women filed their suit earlier this month as Jane
Speaker 1: Does one through four, claiming Robinson sexually assaulted them on
Speaker 1: numerous occasions, to even claimed he raped them dozens of time.
Speaker 1: They called them a serial rapist. Robinson denied the allegations
Speaker 1: when they were first made earlier this month, and then
Speaker 1: his counterclaim is asking the judge to throw out the
Speaker 1: suit against him and force the women to refile it
Speaker 1: using their real names.
Speaker 2: They also states that Robinson treated the planoffs with quote
Speaker 2: the utmost kindness and generosity, but unfortunately the depths of
Speaker 2: the plaintiffs avarice and greed knows no bounds in quote.
Speaker 2: The accusers lawyers responded to Robinson's suit. They called it
Speaker 2: an attempt to silence and intimidate the survivors of mister
Speaker 2: Robinson sexual battery and assault, and we should mention as
Speaker 2: well Robes. Yes, this was a civil suit initially, but
Speaker 2: the La Sheriff's Department, because of that suit, has opened
Speaker 2: up a criminal investigation into these allegations against the Motown legend.
Speaker 2: We'll stay with us here on this Friday Eve run.
Speaker 2: When we come back, Elon is out of a job.
Speaker 2: Hayley is up a billion dollars.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to our Thursday morning run and next up
Speaker 1: on the run, right. I tried to just kind of
Speaker 1: mix it up a little.
Speaker 2: Why you're trying to say you consistent?
Speaker 1: All right? It's Friday Eve, y'all from.
Speaker 2: Your partner, you know, I like to mix it up
Speaker 2: a little bit.
Speaker 1: All right. This was just in my wording, not in
Speaker 1: anything else. Sorry, All right, Elon's work is done. That
Speaker 1: the richest man in the world is the latest government
Speaker 1: employee to lose his job.
Speaker 2: Okay, different circumstances here, but still Musk says he is
Speaker 2: officially done with his role in the Trump administration. As
Speaker 2: head of DOGE, the newly formed Department of Government Efficiency
Speaker 2: was given the task of cutting government waste. Musk headed
Speaker 2: it as a quote special government employee that's what it's
Speaker 2: called as a designation. That meant though he could only
Speaker 2: work one hundred and thirty calendar days a year for
Speaker 2: the government.
Speaker 1: So Musk made the announcement on X saying, as my
Speaker 1: scheduled time as a special government employee comes to an end,
Speaker 1: I would like to thank President Donald Trump for the
Speaker 1: opportunity to reduce wasteful spending. The DOGE mission will only
Speaker 1: strengthen over time as it becomes a way of life
Speaker 1: throughout the government. So Musk is out of one job,
Speaker 1: but he already has some other gigs lined up in
Speaker 1: case you were wondering, you know, CEO of Tesla SpaceX
Speaker 1: and XAI and artificial intelligence startup, and you know, I
Speaker 1: wonder how much this statement might have been in response
Speaker 1: to some of the swirling rumors out there that there's
Speaker 1: some big rift between the two, because Musks made statement
Speaker 1: basically saying he was disappointed with this big, beautiful bill
Speaker 1: that Trump is pushing. So there was a lot of
Speaker 1: speculation as to whether or not they were partying on
Speaker 1: good terms or bad terms.
Speaker 2: I wonder that was such a public bromance, and it
Speaker 2: was over the top billionaire bromance that we couldn't imagine.
Speaker 2: We all some probably looked at say, oh, yeah, this
Speaker 2: angle end will.
Speaker 1: But also you can have a disagreement and still be
Speaker 1: friends and be fine. We have disagreements all the time
Speaker 1: and we're still together.
Speaker 2: We had a disagreement over what we should be calling
Speaker 2: this a Friday Eve run or is it the Thursday run?
Speaker 1: And look we're still doing great.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll only got one story to get through and
Speaker 2: the final leg of our run. Yes, a huge congratulations
Speaker 2: to Hayley Beaver, much respect to you, sister. She just
Speaker 2: sold her skincare and makeup company for a billion dollars. However,
Speaker 2: here's the thing. I swear I was just talking to her.
Speaker 2: We were just talking to her recently about launching a
Speaker 2: skincare company.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we were so excited. Hey, Hailey Bieber came to GMA.
Speaker 1: Why did we get so lucky as to get the interview?
Speaker 2: I actually remember going to the EP saying I probably
Speaker 2: shouldn't be doing it. This isn't my lane.
Speaker 1: We both said that we're like, why are we? Because
Speaker 1: usually like the big names, and you know, obviously Hailey
Speaker 1: Bieber is who she is, go to some of the
Speaker 1: bigger anchors and so we were actually questioning her how
Speaker 1: we got to anchor her, excuse me interview her, but anyway,
Speaker 1: we were excited to do it. She was lovely and sweet. Yes,
Speaker 1: she actually gave me some of the initial products. I
Speaker 1: use them, I love them, and we really were blown
Speaker 1: away by her. But again, this was in twenty twenty two.
Speaker 1: This was just three years ago. That is remarkable. So yeah,
Speaker 1: she began Road in twenty twenty two, and what a
Speaker 1: wild and meteoric success story. Budget cosmetic company elf Beauty.
Speaker 1: You see elf in you know, like drug stores, like
Speaker 1: It's very accessible, and that's exactly what she wanted it
Speaker 1: to be. So elf Beauty is buying Bieber's brand, announcing
Speaker 1: it will pay Road shareholders a eight hundred million dollars
Speaker 1: in cash and stock, and then they will add an
Speaker 1: additional two hundred million dollars based on performance related conditions.
Speaker 2: And she is not stepping away necessarily from the company.
Speaker 2: She's gonna stay with it as chief creative officer and
Speaker 2: head of innovation. This is what she said posting on
Speaker 2: social media. I always had big dreams for the company,
Speaker 2: and the most important thing to me is to keep
Speaker 2: bringing the Road brand to more places. Spaces and faces globally.
Speaker 2: So today I'm so incredibly excited and brown to announce
Speaker 2: that we are partnering with elf Beauty as we step
Speaker 2: into this next chapter in the world of Road. Just
Speaker 2: congratulations to her. And she's someone who is never want
Speaker 2: to say in the shadow of but Justin Bieber has
Speaker 2: been for a long time an international superstar, megastar, as
Speaker 2: big as they get, and she is the wife of
Speaker 2: that guy for hers to now she has developed and
Speaker 2: created an international brand that my twelve year old daughter
Speaker 2: I have to see Road products every day because of
Speaker 2: my l to grow that. I just think it's incredibly
Speaker 2: impressive and I applaud her for what she's pulled off.
Speaker 1: It is because if you look her up, it always
Speaker 1: says model and influencer, which can kind of seem fluffy
Speaker 1: and light. But now talk about like bad ass businesswoman, entrepreneur.
Speaker 1: I mean, that is what she gets to say for
Speaker 1: her title now. And you know she went viral when
Speaker 1: she was launched. She's so smart. When she was launching
Speaker 1: this brand, Road, not only was she on Good Morning America,
Speaker 1: but she she created this viral video where she said
Speaker 1: that she could make your skin look like glazed donut skin.
Speaker 1: So glazed donut skin started trending and that is really
Speaker 1: what she's known for with her skincare products. Congratulations to
Speaker 1: Hayley Bieber.
Speaker 2: All right, as we go about our Friday Eve, now,
Speaker 2: something we'd like for you to take with you. It
Speaker 2: is our quote of the day.
Speaker 1: Don't confuse movement with progress. Just because you're doing a
Speaker 1: lot more doesn't mean you're getting a lot more done.
Speaker 2: Say it again for the people in the back. Everybody
Speaker 2: needs to take this with you today. Listen to the
Speaker 2: and you know what, write it down and tell it
Speaker 2: to your bosses as well. Go ahead, roes.
Speaker 1: Don't confuse movement with progress. Just because you're doing a
Speaker 1: lot more doesn't mean you're getting a lot more done.
Speaker 1: This is from the files of TJ. Holks.
Speaker 2: I believe it was my pastor again, I believe it was.
Speaker 2: But this was also always so applicable in our business.
Speaker 2: In news. We're running around like chickens with our heads
Speaker 2: cut off, and we only think we are being productive
Speaker 2: if you look around and everybody's running around and it's chaotic.
Speaker 2: So if we're getting oh we're doing so many things,
Speaker 2: we're not doing them well. But we're doing a lot,
Speaker 2: and that fools us into thinking we're actually making progress.
Speaker 2: Don't confuse the two.
Speaker 1: I love that, and that's something to remind ourselves as
Speaker 1: we sometimes get overly busy for no good reason whatsoever.
Speaker 1: So thank you for running with us everyone.
Speaker 2: I'm Amy Robock and I'm TJ. Holmes. Enjoy your Friday
Speaker 2: Eve folks. We will see you back here for the
Speaker 2: run tomorrow morning.
Speaker 1: M