Speaker 1: Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio Podcast. Good morning, everyone,
Speaker 1: Welcome to Morning Run. It is Thursday, or as we'd
Speaker 1: like to call it here Friday Eve, January twenty ninth.
Speaker 2: I'm Amy Robox and I'm TJ. Holmes. We have a
Speaker 2: very very busy newsday cooking here on this Thursday. We
Speaker 2: already have a couple of updates in our feet already
Speaker 2: about the first execution in the country that happened last night,
Speaker 2: the first for twenty twenty six happened last night. Then
Speaker 2: keep an eye on everything going on in Minneapolis. A
Speaker 2: bunch of significant updates there. But we need to get
Speaker 2: to the Morning Run that's going to take us to
Speaker 2: a number of places, including DC, Texas, Virginia, also up
Speaker 2: and down the East coast actually, but we do have
Speaker 2: to begin rogues once again in Minneapolis, where new video
Speaker 2: is being talked about. Not a video of the shooting
Speaker 2: and the killing of Alex Pretty, but no, this is
Speaker 2: another interaction between Alex Preddy and Border patrol agents. This
Speaker 2: one happened eleven days before he was shot and killed,
Speaker 2: but it just came to light yesterday.
Speaker 1: Yes, that video shows Pretty angrily confronting immigration officers. You
Speaker 1: see him on the video spitting at the officers while
Speaker 1: they were inside their vehicle and then kicking their back
Speaker 1: tailight so hard that it shatters, and that is when
Speaker 1: the video shows the agent's vehicle stopping. Agents get out.
Speaker 1: They tackle Pretty to the ground and he resists the
Speaker 1: entire time. Now, once the agents let him go and
Speaker 1: take off, you can see in the video that handgun
Speaker 1: tucked in Preddy's waistband. Now, Preddy's family, through a representative,
Speaker 1: says yes, we knew about this incident, and they said
Speaker 1: Pretty sustained injuries from that scuffle but didn't receive any
Speaker 1: medical care.
Speaker 2: And this has now set up a whole new round
Speaker 2: of arguments over the video, over Preddy, over his background,
Speaker 2: over how he's being perceived and presented by two different size.
Speaker 2: The family did release a statement saying that they knew
Speaker 2: about this again, despite posing no threat to anyone. They're
Speaker 2: describing the incident here said he was violently assaulted by
Speaker 2: a group of ICE agents. Nothing that happened a full
Speaker 2: week before could possibly have justified Alex's killing at the
Speaker 2: hands of Ice. On January twenty fourth, wrote that is true. However,
Speaker 2: this video does show don't know what happened before, don't
Speaker 2: know what happened after, just like the other video. But
Speaker 2: this is not the right. He could still be a
Speaker 2: very caring and sensitive ICU nurse. He was spitting, cursing
Speaker 2: angrily at these agents who were getting in their vehicle
Speaker 2: and leaving. What he did we see as an assault,
Speaker 2: that's correct. An assault on officers, that's correct.
Speaker 1: And again yes we will reiterate we are not and
Speaker 1: no one is saying that anything justifies what happened to
Speaker 1: him ultimately eleven days later. But this notion that he
Speaker 1: is a peaceful protester who was just carrying signs and shouting.
Speaker 1: He caused property damage and went after a vehicle that
Speaker 1: was leaving, So that is indisputable.
Speaker 2: You know, And this is one of those if you
Speaker 2: want to talk about the ICE agents, he spit in
Speaker 2: the direction of these agents. He spit and they didn't react,
Speaker 2: They got in their vehicle.
Speaker 1: Look, it wasn't until he damaged their car that they
Speaker 1: got out.
Speaker 2: Significant to your point, significant He kicked not just out
Speaker 2: a light, the whole backside of the light. The whole
Speaker 2: piece came off. So it's just this does not justify
Speaker 2: anything that happened eleven days later, but it's now giving
Speaker 2: fuel to folks like President Trump was saying, Hey, look
Speaker 2: see who posted the president of course on truth social
Speaker 2: he reposted the video, but then reposted what someone else
Speaker 2: had said about it, saying, quote such a peaceful protester
Speaker 2: also shared another screen grap describing Preddy as a domestic terrorist. Meanwhile,
Speaker 2: we do want to let you know the two border
Speaker 2: agents who were involved in that shooting and killing of
Speaker 2: Preddy have officially been placed on administrative lead.
Speaker 1: That's right, But next up on the run. We're going
Speaker 1: to stay in Minneapolis because we now know what that
Speaker 1: foul smelling liquid was that a man sprayed on Congresswoman
Speaker 1: Ilhan Omar at that town hall meeting earlier this week,
Speaker 1: Apple cider vinegar. Fifty five year old Anthony Kazimar kazumer
Speaker 1: Zak has been charged with third degree assault. He could
Speaker 1: face federal charges now for assaulting a member of Congress.
Speaker 1: Ilhan Omar seemed to suggest that was going to happen today.
Speaker 1: We don't know that that's the case, but we do
Speaker 1: have a little bit more information about Kazimirzak. He told
Speaker 1: a neighbor that he might get arrested, So this was
Speaker 1: something that he reportedly planned. He had a lot of
Speaker 1: social media posts that were pro Trump, anti Omar, and
Speaker 1: he does have a criminal history, several duy's, and so
Speaker 1: a lot of people are just looking into his background
Speaker 1: and saying that this was somebody who legitimately was going
Speaker 1: after Omar. This isn't somebody who Omar paid to go
Speaker 1: after her.
Speaker 2: Still, despite all that many people and still this morning
Speaker 2: sucklelook as always do on x the word staged was
Speaker 2: still trending in the top ten, in fact, in the
Speaker 2: top five. That's because a lot of people are pointing
Speaker 2: to this video and breaking it down and slowing it
Speaker 2: down and thinking that ilan Omar gave some kind of
Speaker 2: a signal to this man to get up and do it.
Speaker 2: So they're saying this was all stage. And now President
Speaker 2: Trump has chimed in saying quote, she probably had her
Speaker 2: self sprayed knowing her So Trump is questioning the validity
Speaker 2: of the attack. Elan Omar is questioning his mental capacity,
Speaker 2: asking is he suffering from dementia. She went on to
Speaker 2: say that every time the president has chosen to use
Speaker 2: hateful rhetoric to talk about me and the community, that
Speaker 2: I represent my death threats skyrocket. I do believe that
Speaker 2: the facts of the situation are that I wouldn't be
Speaker 2: where I am today having to pay for security, having
Speaker 2: the government to think about providing me security if Donald
Speaker 2: Trump wasn't in office. I thought that was powerful. She say,
Speaker 2: every time he opens his mouth, I get more death threats.
Speaker 1: And that makes sense. That absolutely makes sense. We're gonna
Speaker 1: head now to Washington, d C. Where a bipartisan miracle
Speaker 1: is in play. I was actually looking to see if
Speaker 1: I could make a miracle on Independence Avenue. But yes,
Speaker 1: President Trump and Senator Chuck Schumer are reportedly close to
Speaker 1: an agreement that is miraculous in and of itself. They're
Speaker 1: negotiating a plan to avoid the government shutdown that is
Speaker 1: looming at midnight tomorrow. Now. The plan would reportedly remove
Speaker 1: the legislation that funds the Department of Homeland Security from
Speaker 1: the larger spending measures that would keep the rest of
Speaker 1: the government running through the remainder of the fiscal year.
Speaker 2: Yeah. So the Congress would then consider a short term
Speaker 2: extension for DHS, which would prevent any disruptions with TSA,
Speaker 2: the Coast Guard, and FEMA. So they're doing it They
Speaker 2: seem really really adept at kicking the can down. Really,
Speaker 2: this is all they're doing is buying yourself more time now. Now,
Speaker 2: this yes will give them more time to draft a
Speaker 2: new homeland security spending bill that would include restrictions on
Speaker 2: tactics employed by ice agents. They just want to rain
Speaker 2: them in a bit. The deadline for getting the sixty
Speaker 2: votes needed and the Senate is midnight tomorrow. Yes, we
Speaker 2: are potentially looking at another shut down within the next
Speaker 2: twenty four hours.
Speaker 1: But this is a midterm election year and nobody wants
Speaker 1: to actually be blamed for this shutdown, so they are
Speaker 1: motivated more than ever before to make sure that does
Speaker 1: not happen. Next up on the run, everyone, literally everyone
Speaker 1: who lives along or near the Eastern Seaboard is being
Speaker 1: warned right now another storm may be coming. We should
Speaker 1: no more later today, but right now meteorologists are saying
Speaker 1: this major storm, it's been called a nor'easter, it's been
Speaker 1: called a bomb cyclone. It's going to form We know
Speaker 1: this for sure off the coast of the Carolinas this weekend,
Speaker 1: but there are a lot of different scenarios depending on
Speaker 1: which storm, which pack, the storm takes. If it shifts
Speaker 1: slightly to the east, we'll all pretty much be able
Speaker 1: to breathe a sigh of relief, but it will stay
Speaker 1: out to see. However, there is another scenario.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that scenario has it moving slightly west. Slightly west
Speaker 2: would be the East coast. So we could be looking
Speaker 2: at another major storm and ice event. And it's going
Speaker 2: to be no matter what is, it's going to be coal.
Speaker 2: National Weather Service talking about the Ohio Valley, mid Atlantic
Speaker 2: and down to the south, that entire region or regions
Speaker 2: could set record low temperature starting on Friday and into
Speaker 2: the weekend. As we sit here in New York, we
Speaker 2: are not getting a buff freezing until next Wednesday. They
Speaker 2: are telling us at all the air temperature will not
Speaker 2: get above thirty two degrees and for the most part
Speaker 2: it's twenty nineteen over the next two days.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and we're actually traveling south this weekend, and I thought, okay, good, Nope,
Speaker 1: still going to be single digits in the South this weekend.
Speaker 1: You can't escape it, exactly all right. Next up on
Speaker 1: the run, we are going to head south to Texas,
Speaker 1: where that state carried out the first execution of twenty
Speaker 1: twenty six fifty five year old Charles Victor Thompson was
Speaker 1: pronounced dead at six fifty pm Central time. He was
Speaker 1: convicted for the nineteen ninety eight murders of his ex
Speaker 1: girlfriend Denise Hayslip and her new boyfriend, Darren Kine. There
Speaker 1: was a pretty big attendance at his execution last night
Speaker 1: compared to other executions we've covered. You had Thompson's own dad,
Speaker 1: who was in a separate room, Denise Hayslip's son, her brother,
Speaker 1: her brother's wife, and then Darren Kane's parents and his
Speaker 1: ex wife were all in attendance to watch Thompson die.
Speaker 2: They watched him die, and they heard him give his
Speaker 2: final words. We have seen plenty, and we covered a
Speaker 2: lot last year. Most of the time they say nothing
Speaker 2: when asked for their final words. Sometimes they might let
Speaker 2: out a word or two, certainly a sentence he had
Speaker 2: more to say. His final words were I hope the
Speaker 2: victims family, their extended family, and their loved ones can
Speaker 2: find forgiveness in their heart, and that you can begin
Speaker 2: to heal and move past this. There are no winners
Speaker 2: in this situation. It creates more victims and traumatizes more people.
Speaker 2: Twenty eight years later, I'm sorry for what I did.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry for what happened. That I want to tell
Speaker 2: all of y'all I love you and that you keep
Speaker 2: Jesus in your life, keep Jesus first to my children,
Speaker 2: get to know the Lord, and I love you all. Okay,
Speaker 2: this was the first time, according to the DA that
Speaker 2: he took responsibility and certainly apologized for anything. Even the
Speaker 2: son of one of the victims said, yes, it gave
Speaker 2: accountability is all he was looking for.
Speaker 1: Yeah. And by the way, just getting into the case itself,
Speaker 1: he had an escape. There's a Netflix documentary. There's a
Speaker 1: movie that was made based on what happened, not just
Speaker 1: in the murder, but in the years it followed while
Speaker 1: he was on death row. So we did an entire
Speaker 1: podcast before Morning Run if you want to check that out.
Speaker 1: We go into all the details. They are fascinating about
Speaker 1: this case. But next up on the Run, we're going
Speaker 1: to head to Fairfax County, Virginia and talk about a
Speaker 1: fascinating case. It is going to be another explosive day
Speaker 1: in court today. Forty year old Brendan Banfield, the man
Speaker 1: accused of killing his wife, Christine and another man, Joseph Ryan,
Speaker 1: in an elaborate catfishing scheme is on the stand testifying
Speaker 1: in his own defense. Today, he is going to continue
Speaker 1: his narrative, telling jurors his version of events, and it
Speaker 1: is completely at odds with the prosecution. Star witness the
Speaker 1: family's O pair, with whom Banfield admits to having an
Speaker 1: affair with in the weeks leading up to the murders.
Speaker 1: And just for those who don't know, the O pair
Speaker 1: is claiming that she and Brendan conspired to set up
Speaker 1: this fake account to lure a stranger to the home
Speaker 1: to play out a violent sex fantasy and then pin
Speaker 1: the murder of Christine on him and look like a
Speaker 1: hero trying to save Christine.
Speaker 2: We have been trying, We've been covering this case for
Speaker 2: a while. It is impossible to sum it up like
Speaker 2: it can't just say so. That's why people saying old
Speaker 2: pair affair murders is just such a complicated case. Banfield
Speaker 2: has maintained his innocence from the beginning, testified on Wednesday.
Speaker 2: There was no plan, no plan with the old pair
Speaker 2: to kill his wife so they could be together. He did. However,
Speaker 2: he flat out admitted he has had previous affairs. Also
Speaker 2: said his wife had had previous affairs, they worked through
Speaker 2: them and wanted to continue their marriage. Juliana. He said
Speaker 2: the old pair was nothing more than just another affair.
Speaker 2: Why after six or eight weeks am I trying to
Speaker 2: kill my wife and have this elaborate plan. No his words,
Speaker 2: it's absurd. The line of questioning for something that is
Speaker 2: not serious, that a plan was made to get rid
Speaker 2: of my wife. That is absolutely ridiculous. In quote, we're
Speaker 2: back on the stand this morning, and Robes, the prosecution
Speaker 2: is going to get a chance to cross examine a
Speaker 2: murder suspect. You just don't get this a lot.
Speaker 1: This is appointment television for us. We have been riveted
Speaker 1: by the trial from the very beginning, but today is
Speaker 1: going to be a red letter day.
Speaker 2: All right, Well, folks, stick with us on this Thursday
Speaker 2: morning run. When we come back. Parents need to hear this.
Speaker 2: There is a recall a food having to do with
Speaker 2: teething babies. You'll want to hear that. Also, the Hall
Speaker 2: of Fame is chiming in on what everybody else has
Speaker 2: chimed in on. Hainda hell is Bill Belichick not getting
Speaker 2: into the Hall of Fame on the first pass? And
Speaker 2: Milania Trump is on a promotional tours to.
Speaker 1: Hear Welcome back to our Thursday morning run and parents
Speaker 1: need to listen up to this next story. Baby food
Speaker 1: product maker Gerber. We all know gerber It is recalling
Speaker 1: its arrowroot biscuits because they could contain pieces of plastic
Speaker 1: or paper. Now, these biscuits are really popular with teething babies.
Speaker 1: When I saw the box, I was immediately taken back
Speaker 1: to when my girls were little. I absolutely bought the things.
Speaker 1: They really help when babies are teething. They love them
Speaker 1: and they're chewing on them and it just helps them
Speaker 1: get through some of the pain.
Speaker 2: Well.
Speaker 1: Thankfully, despite the fact that there could be plastic or
Speaker 1: paper in these biscuits, no injuries have been reported so far.
Speaker 1: But Gerber says those pieces of plastic in paper, they
Speaker 1: know where they came from, a supplier of the flower
Speaker 1: that's used to make the biscuits.
Speaker 2: Okay, so this recall includes the five and a half
Speaker 2: hounce packages of the biscuits with best by dates between
Speaker 2: October sixteenth and December sixteenth YEP of twenty twenty twenty
Speaker 2: twenty six those so a two month stretch there at
Speaker 2: the end of this year. If you got anything that
Speaker 2: says best by the last two months of the end
Speaker 2: of this year. Fair to just go ahead and toss
Speaker 2: those suckers right, correct. Okay, you have any of these products,
Speaker 2: they say, you can get a full refund if you
Speaker 2: return it to where you got it. Also continue on
Speaker 2: the run here now. NFL Hall of Fame has responded
Speaker 2: to the uproar over Bill Belichick being left off this
Speaker 2: year's lists. This kind of sounds like a warning they
Speaker 2: had to their own selection committee committee. This was such
Speaker 2: a big deal. This guy has won more Super Bowls
Speaker 2: than anybody. The question is is he the greatest coach
Speaker 2: of all time, not whether or not he goes into
Speaker 2: the Hall of Fame. So for him to be left
Speaker 2: off first ballot is like the greatest honor anybody can get.
Speaker 2: Think about the Tom Brady's, the Michael Jordan's like the
Speaker 2: greatest ever. Of course, your first chance you're eligible, you're
Speaker 2: getting in. This was his first chance being eligible and
Speaker 2: he didn't get in. That just yeah, you can't justify
Speaker 2: it and cannot.
Speaker 1: And all of the biggest names, all of the household
Speaker 1: names that have anything to do with the NFL past
Speaker 1: and present, have weighed in with outrage and shock. So
Speaker 1: this then was the statement from the Hall of Fame. Basically,
Speaker 1: they're saying they understand and respect the passionate reaction of
Speaker 1: many fans, media members, and in Schineese, of the Hall
Speaker 1: itself in light of published reports regarding the voting results
Speaker 1: for the Class of twenty twenty six. They say, it's
Speaker 1: that very passion that propels the game, right. Okay, So
Speaker 1: they say, each year, the Hall reviews the selection process
Speaker 1: and the composition of the fil fifty persons selection committee.
Speaker 1: If it is determined that any members violated the selection
Speaker 1: process by laws, action will be taken that could include
Speaker 1: the possibility that such selectors would not remain a member
Speaker 1: of the committee moving forward. The selection of the new
Speaker 1: class is the most important duty the Hall of Fame
Speaker 1: overseas each year, and the integrity of that process cannot
Speaker 1: be in question. So basically they're gonna it sounds like,
Speaker 1: look into who voted against Bill Belichick and why, and
Speaker 1: if they think that there was anything other than the
Speaker 1: merits of the case, they're going to get kicked off
Speaker 1: the committee.
Speaker 2: Okay, that's eleven people. They're going to be kicked off.
Speaker 2: You cannot tell me. Nobody I don't care. There's none
Speaker 2: to talk about. I don't understand this.
Speaker 1: How could you justify not including.
Speaker 2: I would love to hear it, but it's not on
Speaker 2: the merits. It's about something personal. So if it's the
Speaker 2: flate Gate, if it's spygate, I want to hear that.
Speaker 2: But that means Tom Brady's not going in because he
Speaker 2: was in the middle of the flate Gate. You can't
Speaker 2: justify that one scandal and all those Super Bowl Nope,
Speaker 2: we're gonna punish you, or at least embarrass you. What'd
Speaker 2: you say a middle finger.
Speaker 1: To Bill Bellichie? Yeah, it was an fu that's yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah. You also need to note Eli Manning. He didn't
Speaker 2: make it either. This is a second time around. Okay,
Speaker 2: I'm a fan, but if you want to make an
Speaker 2: argument on the merits, I'll listen on Eli.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Oh Peyton, Yeah, you know, you know what they said.
Speaker 1: If Belichick hadn't been the headline he has been obviously
Speaker 1: by being omitted, everyone would have been talking about Eli Manning.
Speaker 1: But he's kind of like, no one even cares. Yeah,
Speaker 1: because the Bill Belichick thing is so much bigger. All right,
Speaker 1: For the final leg of our run, the Milamia premiere
Speaker 1: is tonight. It's going to have an invitation only premiere
Speaker 1: screening in twenty one cities. They say, some hand pick
Speaker 1: celebrities that we did not. All the members of President's
Speaker 1: President Trump's cabinet will all be it some of these premieres.
Speaker 1: But then tomorrow on Friday, it's going to have its
Speaker 1: theatrical release around the world for all to see. A
Speaker 1: lot of people want to see what these numbers are
Speaker 1: going to be like with the bottom line for the
Speaker 1: yeah who goes to see this, what the standings will
Speaker 1: be after this movie is released. But the contents of
Speaker 1: the one hour and forty four minute film, it's no
Speaker 1: one knows. It's been kept under wraps. There were no
Speaker 1: advanced screeners for reporters like we usually get, so no
Speaker 1: one really knows what we're going to see.
Speaker 2: Exclusive footage capturing critical meetings, private conversations, and never before
Speaker 2: seen environments. That's how they promote it. Now she has
Speaker 2: been promoting it as well. Look, I saw the tea's
Speaker 2: on Fox News yesterday, as said coming up Malania Trump.
Speaker 2: I said, oh, do they have her? They're just saying
Speaker 2: it's gonna be a story. I looked up she's sitting
Speaker 2: there on set because she is trying to promote this movie.
Speaker 2: She said, I'm a very private person and very selective person.
Speaker 2: What I do, what I don't do, when I talk
Speaker 2: and when I don't talk, and that's my choice, and
Speaker 2: nobody is in charge of me.
Speaker 1: Honestly, hearing that makes me totally want to see this documentary.
Speaker 1: I'm interested.
Speaker 2: Look, I am fast as we all are. I think
Speaker 2: about Melania Trump. We just are because we see her.
Speaker 2: We're impressed by her. She says so much without saying anything,
Speaker 2: and I'm dying. I am kind of itching to see this.
Speaker 1: I'm itching to see it too, because they're also reportedly
Speaker 1: Baron Trump might be in here in some of the footage.
Speaker 1: I don't think I've ever heard his voice. That's someone
Speaker 1: else I've just seen. We hear all from all of
Speaker 1: Trump's other children. I don't know that I know what
Speaker 1: Baron's voice sounds like.
Speaker 2: This makes you very curious about the move. I'll look up,
Speaker 2: I'll see what it's expected to do at the box
Speaker 2: office this weekend. But yeah, it'll be a big push
Speaker 2: and it might be a big MAGA turnout for this
Speaker 2: thing as well.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yes, the ratings are everything, and you know we'll
Speaker 1: hear all about them.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, it'd be the biggest pa.
Speaker 1: No one in the history of filmmaking has had a
Speaker 1: premiere like Malamia. But we'll wait for that, all right.
Speaker 1: Quote of the day, as you head out on this
Speaker 1: Friday eve, you cannot see your reflection in boiling water. Similarly,
Speaker 1: you cannot see the truth in a state of anger.
Speaker 1: When the water calms, clarity comes.
Speaker 2: I love the truth. Sounds like that was that was
Speaker 2: more direct than it was been happening at the Robot
Speaker 2: Holmes house.
Speaker 1: Oh, I was thinking about the country.
Speaker 2: You want to you want to take our issues out
Speaker 2: to the people. You really want to do that.
Speaker 1: Okay, fine, you know what, this is something you can
Speaker 1: use in a macro lens or in a micro lens.
Speaker 1: You can apply it to yourself. You can apply it
Speaker 1: to the world and what we see in the headlines
Speaker 1: every day. But I just thought that was such an
Speaker 1: important point. We all get clouded by our anger, and
Speaker 1: we all want to see things to justify how we're feeling.
Speaker 1: But actually you're blinded by your anger. That is so true.
Speaker 2: All right, Let the water stop boiling.
Speaker 1: One more time for everybody. You cannot see your reflection
Speaker 1: in boiling water. Similarly, you cannot see the truth in
Speaker 1: a state of anger. When the water calms, clarity comes.
Speaker 1: I love that all right. And with that everyone, thank
Speaker 1: you so much for listening to us and running with
Speaker 1: us on this Thursday.
Speaker 2: I'm Amy Robots and I'm TJ. Homes. We will be
Speaker 2: talking to you all plenty throughout today.
Speaker 1: M hm.