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Speaker 1: Morning Run with Amy and TJ and our Heart Radio podcasts.

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Speaker 1: It is Thursday, September the twenty sixth. I'm TJ.

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Speaker 2: Holmes and I'm Amy Roboch. Thank you for coming along

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Speaker 2: on the Morning Run with us.

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Speaker 1: And on the Run today, after two assassination attempts, Trump

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Speaker 1: says someone else is trying to kill him. Also, the

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Speaker 1: mayor of New York is facing a federal indictment this morning.

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Speaker 2: Plus Hurricane Helen could be stronger than first predicted, and

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Speaker 2: Diddy's kids speak. Also, a school counselor arrested for sexually

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Speaker 2: abusing instead of counseling students.

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Speaker 1: And show me the money they didn't. So a big

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Speaker 1: time college quarterback quit and it's sending shockwaves throughout college sports.

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Speaker 2: Let's head out on our run now. Two recent assassination

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Speaker 2: attempts on former President Trump and now comes words someone

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Speaker 2: else is still trying to kill him. Trump said earlier

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Speaker 2: this week he'd been briefed by US officials who told

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Speaker 2: him there were quote real and specific threats on his

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Speaker 2: life from.

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Speaker 1: Iran, now maybe coming from him. Maybe people took it

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Speaker 1: with a grain of salt. But then the National Security

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Speaker 1: Council came out and in fact confirmed that briefing did happen,

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Speaker 1: and they've been tracking Iranian threats on the life of

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Speaker 1: Trump and other high ranking US officials. But they've been

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Speaker 1: tracking these threats for years. US officials believe this is

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Speaker 1: all in retaliation for the killing of a top Iranian

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Speaker 2: However, US of visuals say there's no connection. There's no

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Speaker 2: indication at least that the two previous attempts on Trump's life,

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Speaker 2: the one in July the one earlier this month, were

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Speaker 2: in any way connected to Iran, despite Trump's suggesting otherwise.

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Speaker 2: So those were separate incidents. But the threat from Iran,

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Speaker 2: according to officials, is real.

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Speaker 1: They say's real, but they wanted to make sure they

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Speaker 1: let folks know as well that this wasn't necessarily a

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Speaker 1: new plot in development recently. They've been tracking these things

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Speaker 1: for years. They are there, but they're not saying there's

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Speaker 1: some new plan out there to get Trump. But it

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Speaker 1: just goes to show this is still scary. The two

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Speaker 1: assassination attempts to hear that officially, somebody else is trying

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Speaker 2: Right and they do want him. They've asked him and

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Speaker 2: his team to change his travel plans to make different accommodations,

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Speaker 2: specifically noting that Trump plane just says Trump, I mean,

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Speaker 2: it's a huge target. So he will see if he's

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Speaker 2: willing to. They say, this is someone who doesn't like

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Speaker 2: to make changes, but he has agreed at least to

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Speaker 2: not play golf in his golf courses for now because

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Speaker 2: of what happened earlier this month.

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Speaker 1: That say, it's shame he'sn't even has to do that.

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Speaker 1: But our next leg of the run bring those back

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Speaker 1: to New York. And it's going to be a difficult

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Speaker 1: day for New Yorkers waking up all of us to

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Speaker 1: find that our mayor is facing a federal indictment.

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Speaker 2: And we don't know the details yet of that indictment.

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Speaker 2: But Mayor Eric Adams himself came out. He made an

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Speaker 2: with crimes and if that's true, those charges, he says,

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Speaker 2: will be entirely false based on lies.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so what's going on here? For the past year,

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Speaker 1: New Yorkers and really folks around the country had been

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Speaker 1: following this story because there's been kind of a steady

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Speaker 1: drip drip drip of information amid federal investigations into Adams

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Speaker 1: and members of his administration. The Fans were looking into

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Speaker 1: illegal contributions to the Adams campaign from the government of Turkey.

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Speaker 2: And federal agents. We've seen them searching the properties of

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Speaker 2: some of Adam's top associates. At one point, Adam's cell

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Speaker 2: all part of a sprawling corruption investigation. His police commissioner

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Speaker 2: His health commissioner has quit. His top lawyer quit, saying

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Speaker 1: Adams was defined in his statement last night. He also

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Speaker 1: for the night quote prayers and patients. The indictment is

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and he would be the first sitting mayor of

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Speaker 2: New York to face an indictment. And you mentioned, TJ

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Speaker 1: It doesn't matter what side of the aisle you're on,

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Speaker 1: That's awful. And you mentioned we've interviewed this dude several times.

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Speaker 1: We spent a lot of time with him actually and

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Speaker 1: just feels awful that your city is being highlighted in

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Speaker 1: It's it's awful again, Innocent to approvement. Yeah, guilty. Don't

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and there's a lot more to come out today

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Speaker 2: and we will be following that of course for you.

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Speaker 2: On the next leg of this Morning Run, We're gonna

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Speaker 2: read for you the words of Sean Dittycombe's kids, who

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Speaker 2: have now spoken out for the first time since Ditty's

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Speaker 1: Yeah, they put this statement out on Instagram, but they

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Speaker 2: Yeah. These are the four kids that Comb's shared with

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Speaker 2: and there have long been conspiracy theories about her death,

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Speaker 1: Okay, so you can imagine there though, that speculation has

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Speaker 1: While it has been incredibly difficult to reconcile how she

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Speaker 1: her death has long been established. There was no foul play.

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Speaker 2: They go on to say, we are deeply saddened that

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Speaker 2: conspiracy theories. Now, there is a book out there that

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Speaker 1: Kind of disgusting. That's somebody whould attribute that to her.

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Speaker 1: I can't imagine what these kids have gone through. We're

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Speaker 1: we didn't hear anybody predicting all week that Hurricane Heleen

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Speaker 2: That's right, and they believe Helene is going to make

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Speaker 1: Its forecast had become one of the largest storms in

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Speaker 1: And we are we do. We focus so much on Florida,

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Speaker 1: A guidance counselor was supposed to be counseling the students.

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Speaker 1: Police say instead she was abusing them. Stay here, we

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Speaker 1: to California next, where a high school guidance counselor has

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Speaker 1: but police believe there are other potential victims and our

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Speaker 2: Julie Tischan is facing sex crime charges for assaulting the

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Speaker 2: boy on multiple occasions. Police say this happened between February

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Speaker 1: Police say she used her position of responsibility to gain

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and what you said earlier, Police, for whatever reason

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Speaker 2: We turned now to Los Angeles where there was a

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Speaker 1: Except for the slow part of Yes, it sounds like

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Speaker 1: This is actually La was where that movie took place,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, the hijacker has been identified as fifty one year

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Speaker 1: I saw that they have a little emergency, like, wow,

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Speaker 2: I was just gonna say. It happened just after midnight.

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Speaker 1: All right. And on our leg of the run today,

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Speaker 2: School quarterback Matthew Sluka was the star of the undefeated,

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Speaker 1: This doesn't make any sense, so why would he do this?

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Speaker 2: Wow, yeah, he quit the game. He quit just three

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean. And the president of UNLV I love

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Speaker 1: And please, folks, please understand these college quarterback, especially in

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Speaker 2: Well, then they're professional athletes at that point, and that

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Speaker 1: These are not amateurs anymore. When you watch Georgia this weekend,

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Speaker 2: Example, my bad, all right, but you know we'll be

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Speaker 2: watching regardless. Well, thank you everyone for running with us

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