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

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Speaker 2: Welcome everyone to the Morning Run on this Thursday, November fourteenth.

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Speaker 1: I'm Amy Roboch and I'm TJ. Holmes and on today's run.

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Speaker 1: Oh ma, word a shocker even by Trump standards, as

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Speaker 1: the President elect chooses his attorney general and folks are

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Speaker 1: losing their minds.

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Speaker 2: Meanwhile, Trump was back at the White House yesterday for

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Speaker 2: a fireside chat with President Biden. Milania, however, was apparently

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Speaker 2: in no mood to sit by the fire or to

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Speaker 2: chat with Joe Biden and skips the traditional First Lady

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Speaker 2: get together.

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Speaker 1: Also, the results are finally in and Republicans will retain

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Speaker 1: their majority in the House of Representatives.

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Speaker 3: You can't fire me. I quit.

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Speaker 2: The special counsel heading the criminal investigation of Trump is

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Speaker 2: getting out of there before he's booted out.

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Speaker 1: Plus, Jamie Lee Curtis is leaving Elon Musk's X. Her

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Speaker 1: parting message, Lord, help me accept the things I cannot change.

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Speaker 2: And slowly but surely, those escape monkeys in South Carolina

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Speaker 2: are being recaptured. Now just eleven on the loose, and

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Speaker 2: admittedly we're kind of rooting for them.

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Speaker 1: Okay, this is the first for us, but we have

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Speaker 1: to make an exception. We are rooting for fugitives. That's

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Speaker 1: a weird thing to say. We will get back into

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Speaker 1: that monkey mayhem in just a second, but first up

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Speaker 1: on our run on this Thursday, you thought Trump's pick

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Speaker 1: of a Fox News host as his secretary of Defense

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Speaker 1: with shocking. Well, hold my beer, says President Trump as

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Speaker 1: he announced yesterday that Florida Congressman Matt Gates is his

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Speaker 1: choice for attorney general.

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Speaker 2: And the reaction from lawmakers, in their own words, shocking, stunned, disgusted.

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Speaker 2: One lawmaker called it a middle finger to Democrats and

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Speaker 2: sane Republicans. Whoo why such reaction, you ask, Well, Matt

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Speaker 2: Gates is a scandal ridden congressman. He's a congressional disruptor,

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Speaker 2: if you will. He's annoyed even members of his own

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Speaker 2: party in the past, including leading the charge to remove

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Speaker 2: then Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy. He's also been

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Speaker 1: But Gates has faced some really serious allegations and a

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Speaker 1: for alleged sexual misconduct, illicted drug use, and obstruction. That

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Speaker 1: investigation by the House Committee is now essentially overdone, goes

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Speaker 1: away almost instantly because Matt Gates resigned from Congress yesterday

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Speaker 2: In announcing Gates, Trump called him a champion for the

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Speaker 2: dismantle criminal organizations, and restore American's badly shattered faith and

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Speaker 2: confidence in the Justice Department. Gates called it an honor

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Speaker 1: Now you've got plenty of folks out there already suggesting

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Speaker 1: a Republican majority. He has represented Florida's first district since

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Speaker 1: twenty seventeen. That is a place is going to happen

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Speaker 1: now do a special election. Is solidly a Republican district.

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Speaker 1: But he's also a lawyer. I think he was on

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Speaker 2: He said Gates has a better shot at having dinner

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Speaker 2: with Queen Elizabeth the Second than being confirmed by the Senate.

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Speaker 2: We all remember, of course, Queen Elizabeth the Second's passing

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Speaker 1: They even went as far as saying they thought it

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Speaker 2: And by the way, Trump also selected Tulci Gabbard as

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Speaker 2: And though she is yes, a VET, she does not

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Speaker 2: You looked at that visual, it all appeared like water

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Speaker 2: Because he says he says things the same way each time.

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Speaker 4: He's an excitable fella.

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Speaker 2: Yes. Trump later told reporters that he and Biden discussed

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Speaker 1: And it should be noted they met for two hours.

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Speaker 1: It's a pretty good victory lap there for the President,

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Speaker 1: Those House Republicans had another reason to give a standing ovation.

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Speaker 4: This one was to themselves.

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Speaker 2: Now it's still unclear just how big of a margin

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Speaker 3: That's right.

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Speaker 2: John Fuon of South Dakota will be the new Senate

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Speaker 2: He certainly was, but he was out and Thune is in.

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Speaker 2: Special counsel Jack Smith planning to get out of Dodge

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Speaker 1: According to multiple reports, now, Smith, who has been in

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Speaker 2: Trump has said that they would fire Smith in two

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Speaker 3: However, the day after the election, more than.

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Speaker 3: You don't have to, you don't have to let us

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Speaker 4: It's always funny that they do it.

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Speaker 1: But we love our Jamie Lee, Yes we do, so

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Speaker 1: normally would not be rooting for fugitives who are being

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Speaker 2: Initially, forty three monkeys escaped from their enclosure at a

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Speaker 1: But they do want to remind the public. Lock your doors,

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Speaker 4: It is story. It's okay.

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Speaker 2: I mean they can they can get up to twenty pounds.

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Speaker 2: Yes, this quote of the day is from Truman Capote.

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Speaker 2: Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor. TJ

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Speaker 4: This wasn't in my files.

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Speaker 2: Okay, but you know what, I think it's a positive

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Speaker 1: I just thought it was funny how it was put

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Speaker 3: That's just it's wrapped up in a nice little folk

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Speaker 4: The folks take that with you today.

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Speaker 1: Failure is the condiment that gives success in flavor. And

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