Oct. 2, 2026
(Friday) Morning Run: DA Out in Cornell Case, Christa Pike Critical, Clancy Motion Denied, Renee Good's Fam Sues, Rick Ross Arrest, Anne Hathaway's Big Weekend. & MORE!
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Speaker 1: Hey there, everybody, and welcome to Morning Run.
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Speaker 2: It is Friday, October 2nd. I'm Amy Robach.
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Speaker 3: And I'm TJ Holmes.
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Speaker 4: The year feels like it's over already. You said October 2nd. We feel deep into, like it's time to start Christmas shopping.
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Speaker 1: Right?
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Speaker 4: It's why the year flew by as soon as Labor Day. It's like the year ended.
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Speaker 2: I feel like it always does that, though.
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Speaker 1: However, October is an awesome month because it ends in Halloween, which means we don't feel like the freaks that we are watching horror movies every night because now it's like a thing everybody does.
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Speaker 2: I love the month of October.
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Speaker 3: We feel validated this month a little bit. See, you guys like horror movies. We just like them 12 months a year. Good morning to you all, wherever you may be. We hope you're getting off to a good start on your Friday. We're going to be making.
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Speaker 4: Stops along the way on this morning's run in Tennessee, in New York, in Massachusetts, in D.C., Minnesota, Miami, and we'll make a stop at the weekend box office. But let's get an update, Robe. This has been, these headlines are everywhere about this Cornell alleged gang rape that is now being reinvestigated because of a lawsuit. And now, Robe, another major move made in this case. And the New York governor is the one who has now stepped in and Inserted some power.
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Speaker 2: That's right.
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Speaker 1: New York governor has appointed a special prosecutor who has a very famous name, I should say, to investigate this alleged gang rape at Cornell University. Governor Kathy Hochul has signed an executive order that puts New York State Attorney General Letitia James. in charge of the investigation, and it takes the authority out of the hands of the Tompkins County District Attorney, who's being widely criticized for his office's decision not to bring charges two years ago.
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Speaker 4: And as you mentioned, a very famous name, Letitia Jaynes, because hers was attached to for a long time, one of the most famous names on the planet. She's the one who went after, successfully sued... President Trump in court. Those were ends up thrown out. Those decisions were, but she was doing battle. He hated her for a long time.
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Speaker 2: That's a good way to put it. I think he still probably does.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: We just don't hear him mentioning her as much these days, but the case itself, we're talking about a former student at Cornell. She filed a lawsuit against the school and seven fraternity members. She claimed that She was drugged and gang raped for hours at a fraternity house in 2024. Cornell conducted an internal review of that matter, which resulted in two fraternity brothers being kicked out of school. At least five received suspensions and other sanctions. Even the fraternity itself, Chi Phi, was kicked off campus and still has not returned.
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Speaker 2: That's right.
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Speaker 1: So Governor Hochul said there are questions about the DA's handling of the case that has undercut her faith and the public's faith in his ability to effectively investigate and prosecute the case. We have not heard from that special prosecutor. He has not made any comments whatsoever. But before he was removed, he was defending the heck out of himself, putting out what, how many a multi-page statement was. defending his decision and kind of blaming and shaming the victim yeah and that's.
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Speaker 4: The crux of the case isn't how much of her account of what happened in 2024 was passed along to the da's office cornell police said all of it the da.
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Speaker 3: Says there's some stuff in that we didn't know.
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Speaker 4: About yeah so that is where the discrepancy lies uh continue on the run here now uh krista pike who had an execution two days ago, is still alive today on Friday. We're told she is in critical condition, reportedly receiving life-saving care after the state of Tennessee twice tried to kill her.
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Speaker 2: Is that strange to anyone else?
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Speaker 3: They tried to kill her, and now they're trying to save her life. This is how it goes.
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Speaker 2: I am so confused.
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Speaker 3: It's our system, yeah.
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Speaker 1: Pike was set to become the first woman Tennessee executed in more than 200 years for the 1995 torture and murder of 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer, a woman she considered a romantic rival.
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Speaker 2: Here's the deal, though.
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Speaker 1: Pike has an extensive and documented history of sexual abuse dating back to the time she was a toddler, and so a federal appeals court granted her a stay of execution within an hour of her scheduled execution on Wednesday mornings.
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Speaker 2: But then the U.S.
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Speaker 1: Supreme Court stepped in, reversed the stay, and that cleared the way for Tennessee to proceed with its execution.
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Speaker 3: So, two attempts here.
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Speaker 4: After two failed attempts at administering lethal injection, Pike was then rushed to a hospital. Meanwhile, the governor has placed a stay on all scheduled executions for the rest of the year as they investigate what went wrong here. And are they still looking into what went.
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Speaker 3: Wrong in May? This is their second botched execution of the year.
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Speaker 2: That's right.
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Speaker 1: Tony Carruthers, his execution was called off in May after staff couldn't find a vein to administer a lethal drug.
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Speaker 2: He was given a year reprieve.
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Speaker 1: Her lawyers, Pike's lawyers, are now asking officially for her sentence to be commuted. And there are calls to bring back the electric chair. People are, this is a story that is not going away. Even the victim's mom, Colleen Slimmer's mom, who traveled to Nashville, who entered that death chamber twice on Wednesday to see her daughter's killer executed, she even called the whole thing a mess and a waste.
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Speaker 3: Of her time. 30 years, babe. She's been waiting 30 years for this. I mean, I know.
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Speaker 4: And like I said, one person in Tennessee said to a local reporter, I am tired of hearing about Krista Pike. Imagine how the family of the victim now feels.
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Speaker 3: Yes.
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Speaker 1: All right, next up on the run, it was a long shot anyway, but the judge officially denied Lindsay Clancy's motion to have her conviction thrown out. Clancy's attorney made the customary motion for... a finding of not guilty after her mistrial.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, he was arguing that there was insufficient evidence to find her guilty. That was the moment in the hearing on Tuesday when Kevin Reddington, who has been saying for months, yep, she did it. We admit she did it. We know she did it, but it was psychosis. To get up there in court robes, he was making an argument that there is not evidence that shows she killed the kids. He was saying he was going through every one of the conspiracy theories online.
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Speaker 3: In court, and it was kind of jaw-dropping.
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Speaker 1: It was bizarre, and not shockingly, the judge disagreed with Kevin Reddington's assessment of what maybe didn't happen. The judge still has rulings to make on several other defense motions. The next hearing is November 2nd, and that is when we may end up getting a trial date for a retrial of Lindsay Clancy.
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Speaker 4: We continue on the run here on this Friday morning now with Renee Good. The family of Renee Good has filed two lawsuits against the Trump administration. They accuse the ICE agent, Jonathan Ross, of placing himself at risk by standing in front of Good's vehicle during the confrontation on January 7th.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's his fault. He was in front of the vehicle, according to the family. So the first lawsuit says Ross unjustifiably accused fatally shot Good, and then holds former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, along with several other White House officials, responsible for her death.
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Speaker 2: Now, the second lawsuit lists the U.S.
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Speaker 1: Government as the defendant, citing a 1964 law that allows plaintiffs to seek redress for deaths caused by negligence.
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Speaker 4: And Good's brother said this of the killing. This is something you pointed out to me yesterday, Robes, and he said this, quote.
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Speaker 4: It took his sister's killing for white people like me to know what it feels like not to feel safe in this country.
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Speaker 3: End quote.
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Speaker 4: You can understand and get where he's possibly trying to come from. It reads different ways for different people when you hear something like that.
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Speaker 3: But he lost a family member. He's hurting. He's in pain.
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Speaker 4: And maybe he is getting a different type of understanding that he's never had in his life.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: Maybe so.
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Speaker 2: All right.
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Speaker 1: Next up on the run, the reflecting pool drama. might finally be over for David Hearn. A judge dismissed the case against the former three-time Olympian with prejudice, which means the government cannot bring this case against him again.
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Speaker 3: Because you know they might try.
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Speaker 4: Hearn was one of several people you'll remember arrested and charged with vandalizing the reflecting pool. Charges were later dropped when the government had to admit in court filings that it was a botched, rushed installation that caused damage to the reflecting pool. Yes, they said in court filings... what we all knew ahead of time. Now, in his ruling, the judge acknowledged, Robes, this was pretty good. He acknowledged that the president's continued public stance is the reason that the case needs to be permanently closed. Robes, he's almost saying it doesn't matter what you all are saying here in court. Your boss keeps going out there and getting in front of a camera saying that it was David Hearns and somebody's fault for the pool.
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Speaker 2: So this is what the judge said.
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Speaker 1: While the prosecutors admit that the evidence indicates that he committed no crime, the president's statements create a risk that Mr. Hearn will be prosecuted nonetheless. either because the current United States attorney and her assistants will eventually yield to his public pressure campaign, or because the president will replace them with prosecutors more likely to carry out his wishes.
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Speaker 2: Holy hell. That's kind of, he nailed it.
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Speaker 4: He nailed it perfectly.
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Speaker 3: You're sitting here telling me there's no evidence.
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Speaker 4: Your boss is saying something else, and I don't trust you that you're going to not follow his instructions. Wow.
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Speaker 1: Wow.
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Speaker 4: You know I love sometimes when the judges, how they write from the bench sometimes.
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Speaker 1: David Hearn should take that statement and blow it up and frame it and put it over his mantle.
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Speaker 2: I think it's quite funny.
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Speaker 3: He should also never go near a pool. of any kind at a resort. Nothing.
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Speaker 2: Stay out of D.C. for the next two years at least.
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Speaker 4: Well, folks, stay with us on this Friday morning run. Actually, one, a guy robes you and I spent a little time with on TV. who always came prepared, that we actually really appreciated, Rose. We're getting some news about a Grammy-nominated rapper that's disappointing to hear.
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Speaker 3: We'll explain what's happening there.
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Speaker 4: Also, something really frickin' cool is possibly about to happen at the box office this weekend, and it's all because of Anne Hathaway.
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Speaker 1: Welcome back, everyone, to your Friday morning run. And next up on the run, you teased it as a disappointing story. It is. We know we don't know whether or not it's true, but there are some serious allegations now against Grammy nominated rapper Rick Ross.
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Speaker 2: Ross made a.
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Speaker 1: Court appearance yesterday on domestic violence charges. He surrendered to police in Miami. He was booked on a charge of felony battery by strangulation and and a charge of misdemeanor battery.
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Speaker 3: Really serious, really ugly stuff here, of course.
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Speaker 4: Ross, real name is William Roberts, says he is, they use strong words, quote, totally innocent of these charges. His lawyer put out a longer statement, Rose, and they are absolutely pushing back that none of this is true, says he's being wrongfully accused by an ex, and that her, quote, true motivations are unclear.
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Speaker 1: Ross has pleaded not guilty, especially that's not surprising given that statement, but yes, He was asking his fans, asking his friends and people who know him to please reserve judgment because he said the true facts of the case will be revealed, but to please, please, please, to remember he's innocent until proven guilty.
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Speaker 4: An innocent man, but it's always, Rosen, you get attached to something so ugly like a sexual assault allegation, a domestic violence allegation.
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Speaker 3: It's just.
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Speaker 4: No matter what, there's a stain there. And I mentioned, Rose, we've done at least two occasions.
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Speaker 1: Yes.
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Speaker 4: Interviews with him. And if you're not familiar with his music, maybe not. Maybach music is what he's known for. Anyway, I like his music, but you weren't as familiar with him on TV. But there's something he always talks about is that every morning, first thing he does, he has a glass of rosé.
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Speaker 2: He's hilarious. Of rosé champagne.
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Speaker 4: So we would do these interviews with him, and we would talk to him, Rose and I, before we actually talked to him for the show. And we were recording this at 9, 10 in the morning.
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Speaker 3: And we, oh, hey, Rick, what's up? Good morning.
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Speaker 4: Hey, man, you got that glass of rosé? And every time, he would lift it up and show us. He always had his rosé wine.
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Speaker 2: I mean, it worked for him.
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Speaker 1: And some people, look, we got to experience a lot of folks who maybe weren't used to waking up early, people coming into the GMA studios. Some people disappoint you. Some people surprise you. He was one of those who surprised you.
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Speaker 4: He was always pleasant and fun. And this is, again, who knows what happens here and who's right, who's wrong, who's guilty, who's not.
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Speaker 3: But it's just an ugly story.
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Speaker 4: But we had a different experience that made this story especially disappointing.
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Speaker 2: Yes, yes, yes, yes.
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Speaker 1: All right, for the final leg of our Friday morning run, something really, really cool is expected to happen at the box office tomorrow.
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Speaker 2: This weekend, Anne Hathaway is most likely.
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Speaker 1: Going to have her third number one movie at the box office this weekend. Actually, I know you might not be excited about this movie, but I would 100% go to see this movie. Because you know how much I love a Colleen Hoover novel.
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Speaker 3: I don't know what you want from me, man. Colleen Hoover. I swear to you, I can't name a single Colleen Hoover book.
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Speaker 2: It ends with us.
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Speaker 1: Okay.
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Speaker 3: Okay.
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Speaker 4: I'm saying I know the name, and then you name all the books, and I've heard of them. I don't put them together.
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Speaker 3: I don't. You could sit here with me all day. I couldn't come up with a Colleen Hoover book.
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Speaker 4: Really?
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Speaker 3: But I've heard of all of them.
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Speaker 1: Even after the Justin Baldini and now I can't think of her name.
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Speaker 2: Oh, my God.
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Speaker 1: She's.
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Speaker 3: Married to Deadpool.
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Speaker 2: I see your face. Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively.
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Speaker 1: There it is. Thank you.
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Speaker 2: Oh, my goodness.
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Speaker 1: I should stop ad-libbing this early in the morning. But, yes, Anne Hathaway stars in Verity. an adaptation of a Colleen Hoover novel. I've not seen that.
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Speaker 2: I mean, I've not read that book.
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Speaker 1: But it's expected to do well enough to win the box office. So with Verity, and then The Odyssey, and then The Devil Wears Prada 2, I would say she's having a pretty good summer. She's also pregnant with her second or third child. So yeah, she is nothing but positive news all summer long.
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Speaker 2: This is exciting.
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Speaker 3: You know what? I don't know when she became.
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Speaker 4: everything like she is it she is the actress of the moment she is versatile she is gorgeous she.
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Speaker 3: Is funny gross she is killing it right now and.
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Speaker 4: She doing the uh they just signed up for the new uh the one with Tom Cruise the uh driving movie the Days of Thunder Days of Thunder 2 she signed on to be on board with that bro she might get an Oscar at least a nomination for the Odyssey That's incredible.
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Speaker 2: And I just wanted to see how old she is. She's 43 years old. That is remarkable. I love that. That's always good. There is a time when you're a young woman.
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Speaker 1: If you're getting into any industry, they tell you you're over the hill by the time you're 35, and you can forget.
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Speaker 2: About being a leading lady and all of those types of things. I love that she is proving otherwise.
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Speaker 3: She just has an elegance, a grace at old Hollywood. She is just.
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Speaker 4: She's amazing. So, again, look out for that this week. Is this one considered a... They're not rom-coms, not Colleen Hoover.
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Speaker 3: They're more.
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Speaker 1: Colleen Hoover is kind of like a rom-drom-com kind of a thing.
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Speaker 2: A drom-com, I guess, might be a better way to put it.
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Speaker 4: Keep an eye out this weekend as well for... Tom Cruise has a new movie out, Digger. Have you seen where he's in this makeup? He's almost unrecognizable. It's a very expensive movie. It's expected to be a disastrous bomb.
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Speaker 1: Really?
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Speaker 2: It got bad reviews.
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Speaker 1: Uh.
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Speaker 4: Not the kind you need for a movie you paid this much for with a star that big.
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Speaker 3: Oof.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: That's tough. They talk about a disastrous, one of the biggest bombs of the year. It's tracking to be.
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Speaker 3: Oh, no. Damn it. I should have ended on that one.
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Speaker 1: You should have started with that and then ended with Anne Hathaway. And then it would have been a happier Friday morning run ending.
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Speaker 3: That's on me. She was also at the house at the end of Oak Street.
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Speaker 4: Oh, yes.
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Speaker 2: The end of Oak Street. We love that. The dinosaur movie.
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Speaker 3: I don't think it was number one, but that was another big movie she had this time.
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Speaker 1: Actually, that movie was fun to watch because it was... It was comedic in ways it wasn't intended to be.
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Speaker 3: It was unexpected.
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Speaker 2: I would watch that again, actually.
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Speaker 3: That was a good one.
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Speaker 2: It was good. All right.
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Speaker 1: Quote of the day on this Friday. I thought this was fun and funny and so, so true. Thinking is difficult. That's why most people judge.
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Speaker 3: Well, you do.
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Speaker 4: It's hard to figure shit out.
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Speaker 1: And to be self-reflective and to keep an open heart and an open mind.
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Speaker 2: So forget all that. Thinking is difficult. That's why most people judge. That's a reminder.
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Speaker 1: I started thinking about that because it wasn't that hard to think about in this moment about judging.
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Speaker 2: And I just think it's a good reminder.
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Speaker 1: When you feel yourself going there, stop it and just reflect on that. I think it's so cool. So, yeah, thinking is difficult. That's why most people judge. So have a judgment-free zone day today. And with that, everyone, we always appreciate you running with us.
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Speaker 2: I'm Amy Robach.
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Speaker 3: And I'm TJ Holmes. Happy Friday.
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Speaker 4: Thank you.
Speaker 1: Hey there, everybody, and welcome to Morning Run.
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Speaker 2: It is Friday, October 2nd. I'm Amy Robach.
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Speaker 3: And I'm TJ Holmes.
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Speaker 4: The year feels like it's over already. You said October 2nd. We feel deep into, like it's time to start Christmas shopping.
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Speaker 1: Right?
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Speaker 4: It's why the year flew by as soon as Labor Day. It's like the year ended.
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Speaker 2: I feel like it always does that, though.
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Speaker 1: However, October is an awesome month because it ends in Halloween, which means we don't feel like the freaks that we are watching horror movies every night because now it's like a thing everybody does.
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Speaker 2: I love the month of October.
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Speaker 3: We feel validated this month a little bit. See, you guys like horror movies. We just like them 12 months a year. Good morning to you all, wherever you may be. We hope you're getting off to a good start on your Friday. We're going to be making.
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Speaker 4: Stops along the way on this morning's run in Tennessee, in New York, in Massachusetts, in D.C., Minnesota, Miami, and we'll make a stop at the weekend box office. But let's get an update, Robe. This has been, these headlines are everywhere about this Cornell alleged gang rape that is now being reinvestigated because of a lawsuit. And now, Robe, another major move made in this case. And the New York governor is the one who has now stepped in and Inserted some power.
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Speaker 2: That's right.
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Speaker 1: New York governor has appointed a special prosecutor who has a very famous name, I should say, to investigate this alleged gang rape at Cornell University. Governor Kathy Hochul has signed an executive order that puts New York State Attorney General Letitia James. in charge of the investigation, and it takes the authority out of the hands of the Tompkins County District Attorney, who's being widely criticized for his office's decision not to bring charges two years ago.
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Speaker 4: And as you mentioned, a very famous name, Letitia Jaynes, because hers was attached to for a long time, one of the most famous names on the planet. She's the one who went after, successfully sued... President Trump in court. Those were ends up thrown out. Those decisions were, but she was doing battle. He hated her for a long time.
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Speaker 2: That's a good way to put it. I think he still probably does.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: We just don't hear him mentioning her as much these days, but the case itself, we're talking about a former student at Cornell. She filed a lawsuit against the school and seven fraternity members. She claimed that She was drugged and gang raped for hours at a fraternity house in 2024. Cornell conducted an internal review of that matter, which resulted in two fraternity brothers being kicked out of school. At least five received suspensions and other sanctions. Even the fraternity itself, Chi Phi, was kicked off campus and still has not returned.
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Speaker 2: That's right.
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Speaker 1: So Governor Hochul said there are questions about the DA's handling of the case that has undercut her faith and the public's faith in his ability to effectively investigate and prosecute the case. We have not heard from that special prosecutor. He has not made any comments whatsoever. But before he was removed, he was defending the heck out of himself, putting out what, how many a multi-page statement was. defending his decision and kind of blaming and shaming the victim yeah and that's.
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Speaker 4: The crux of the case isn't how much of her account of what happened in 2024 was passed along to the da's office cornell police said all of it the da.
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Speaker 3: Says there's some stuff in that we didn't know.
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Speaker 4: About yeah so that is where the discrepancy lies uh continue on the run here now uh krista pike who had an execution two days ago, is still alive today on Friday. We're told she is in critical condition, reportedly receiving life-saving care after the state of Tennessee twice tried to kill her.
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Speaker 2: Is that strange to anyone else?
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Speaker 3: They tried to kill her, and now they're trying to save her life. This is how it goes.
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Speaker 2: I am so confused.
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Speaker 3: It's our system, yeah.
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Speaker 1: Pike was set to become the first woman Tennessee executed in more than 200 years for the 1995 torture and murder of 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer, a woman she considered a romantic rival.
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Speaker 2: Here's the deal, though.
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Speaker 1: Pike has an extensive and documented history of sexual abuse dating back to the time she was a toddler, and so a federal appeals court granted her a stay of execution within an hour of her scheduled execution on Wednesday mornings.
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Speaker 2: But then the U.S.
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Speaker 1: Supreme Court stepped in, reversed the stay, and that cleared the way for Tennessee to proceed with its execution.
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Speaker 3: So, two attempts here.
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Speaker 4: After two failed attempts at administering lethal injection, Pike was then rushed to a hospital. Meanwhile, the governor has placed a stay on all scheduled executions for the rest of the year as they investigate what went wrong here. And are they still looking into what went.
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Speaker 3: Wrong in May? This is their second botched execution of the year.
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Speaker 2: That's right.
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Speaker 1: Tony Carruthers, his execution was called off in May after staff couldn't find a vein to administer a lethal drug.
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Speaker 2: He was given a year reprieve.
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Speaker 1: Her lawyers, Pike's lawyers, are now asking officially for her sentence to be commuted. And there are calls to bring back the electric chair. People are, this is a story that is not going away. Even the victim's mom, Colleen Slimmer's mom, who traveled to Nashville, who entered that death chamber twice on Wednesday to see her daughter's killer executed, she even called the whole thing a mess and a waste.
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Speaker 3: Of her time. 30 years, babe. She's been waiting 30 years for this. I mean, I know.
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Speaker 4: And like I said, one person in Tennessee said to a local reporter, I am tired of hearing about Krista Pike. Imagine how the family of the victim now feels.
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Speaker 3: Yes.
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Speaker 1: All right, next up on the run, it was a long shot anyway, but the judge officially denied Lindsay Clancy's motion to have her conviction thrown out. Clancy's attorney made the customary motion for... a finding of not guilty after her mistrial.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, he was arguing that there was insufficient evidence to find her guilty. That was the moment in the hearing on Tuesday when Kevin Reddington, who has been saying for months, yep, she did it. We admit she did it. We know she did it, but it was psychosis. To get up there in court robes, he was making an argument that there is not evidence that shows she killed the kids. He was saying he was going through every one of the conspiracy theories online.
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Speaker 3: In court, and it was kind of jaw-dropping.
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Speaker 1: It was bizarre, and not shockingly, the judge disagreed with Kevin Reddington's assessment of what maybe didn't happen. The judge still has rulings to make on several other defense motions. The next hearing is November 2nd, and that is when we may end up getting a trial date for a retrial of Lindsay Clancy.
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Speaker 4: We continue on the run here on this Friday morning now with Renee Good. The family of Renee Good has filed two lawsuits against the Trump administration. They accuse the ICE agent, Jonathan Ross, of placing himself at risk by standing in front of Good's vehicle during the confrontation on January 7th.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's his fault. He was in front of the vehicle, according to the family. So the first lawsuit says Ross unjustifiably accused fatally shot Good, and then holds former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, along with several other White House officials, responsible for her death.
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Speaker 2: Now, the second lawsuit lists the U.S.
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Speaker 1: Government as the defendant, citing a 1964 law that allows plaintiffs to seek redress for deaths caused by negligence.
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Speaker 4: And Good's brother said this of the killing. This is something you pointed out to me yesterday, Robes, and he said this, quote.
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Speaker 4: It took his sister's killing for white people like me to know what it feels like not to feel safe in this country.
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Speaker 3: End quote.
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Speaker 4: You can understand and get where he's possibly trying to come from. It reads different ways for different people when you hear something like that.
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Speaker 3: But he lost a family member. He's hurting. He's in pain.
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Speaker 4: And maybe he is getting a different type of understanding that he's never had in his life.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: Maybe so.
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Speaker 2: All right.
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Speaker 1: Next up on the run, the reflecting pool drama. might finally be over for David Hearn. A judge dismissed the case against the former three-time Olympian with prejudice, which means the government cannot bring this case against him again.
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Speaker 3: Because you know they might try.
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Speaker 4: Hearn was one of several people you'll remember arrested and charged with vandalizing the reflecting pool. Charges were later dropped when the government had to admit in court filings that it was a botched, rushed installation that caused damage to the reflecting pool. Yes, they said in court filings... what we all knew ahead of time. Now, in his ruling, the judge acknowledged, Robes, this was pretty good. He acknowledged that the president's continued public stance is the reason that the case needs to be permanently closed. Robes, he's almost saying it doesn't matter what you all are saying here in court. Your boss keeps going out there and getting in front of a camera saying that it was David Hearns and somebody's fault for the pool.
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Speaker 2: So this is what the judge said.
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Speaker 1: While the prosecutors admit that the evidence indicates that he committed no crime, the president's statements create a risk that Mr. Hearn will be prosecuted nonetheless. either because the current United States attorney and her assistants will eventually yield to his public pressure campaign, or because the president will replace them with prosecutors more likely to carry out his wishes.
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Speaker 2: Holy hell. That's kind of, he nailed it.
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Speaker 4: He nailed it perfectly.
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Speaker 3: You're sitting here telling me there's no evidence.
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Speaker 4: Your boss is saying something else, and I don't trust you that you're going to not follow his instructions. Wow.
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Speaker 1: Wow.
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Speaker 4: You know I love sometimes when the judges, how they write from the bench sometimes.
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Speaker 1: David Hearn should take that statement and blow it up and frame it and put it over his mantle.
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Speaker 2: I think it's quite funny.
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Speaker 3: He should also never go near a pool. of any kind at a resort. Nothing.
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Speaker 2: Stay out of D.C. for the next two years at least.
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Speaker 4: Well, folks, stay with us on this Friday morning run. Actually, one, a guy robes you and I spent a little time with on TV. who always came prepared, that we actually really appreciated, Rose. We're getting some news about a Grammy-nominated rapper that's disappointing to hear.
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Speaker 3: We'll explain what's happening there.
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Speaker 4: Also, something really frickin' cool is possibly about to happen at the box office this weekend, and it's all because of Anne Hathaway.
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Speaker 1: Welcome back, everyone, to your Friday morning run. And next up on the run, you teased it as a disappointing story. It is. We know we don't know whether or not it's true, but there are some serious allegations now against Grammy nominated rapper Rick Ross.
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Speaker 2: Ross made a.
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Speaker 1: Court appearance yesterday on domestic violence charges. He surrendered to police in Miami. He was booked on a charge of felony battery by strangulation and and a charge of misdemeanor battery.
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Speaker 3: Really serious, really ugly stuff here, of course.
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Speaker 4: Ross, real name is William Roberts, says he is, they use strong words, quote, totally innocent of these charges. His lawyer put out a longer statement, Rose, and they are absolutely pushing back that none of this is true, says he's being wrongfully accused by an ex, and that her, quote, true motivations are unclear.
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Speaker 1: Ross has pleaded not guilty, especially that's not surprising given that statement, but yes, He was asking his fans, asking his friends and people who know him to please reserve judgment because he said the true facts of the case will be revealed, but to please, please, please, to remember he's innocent until proven guilty.
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Speaker 4: An innocent man, but it's always, Rosen, you get attached to something so ugly like a sexual assault allegation, a domestic violence allegation.
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Speaker 3: It's just.
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Speaker 4: No matter what, there's a stain there. And I mentioned, Rose, we've done at least two occasions.
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Speaker 1: Yes.
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Speaker 4: Interviews with him. And if you're not familiar with his music, maybe not. Maybach music is what he's known for. Anyway, I like his music, but you weren't as familiar with him on TV. But there's something he always talks about is that every morning, first thing he does, he has a glass of rosé.
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Speaker 2: He's hilarious. Of rosé champagne.
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Speaker 4: So we would do these interviews with him, and we would talk to him, Rose and I, before we actually talked to him for the show. And we were recording this at 9, 10 in the morning.
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Speaker 3: And we, oh, hey, Rick, what's up? Good morning.
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Speaker 4: Hey, man, you got that glass of rosé? And every time, he would lift it up and show us. He always had his rosé wine.
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Speaker 2: I mean, it worked for him.
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Speaker 1: And some people, look, we got to experience a lot of folks who maybe weren't used to waking up early, people coming into the GMA studios. Some people disappoint you. Some people surprise you. He was one of those who surprised you.
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Speaker 4: He was always pleasant and fun. And this is, again, who knows what happens here and who's right, who's wrong, who's guilty, who's not.
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Speaker 3: But it's just an ugly story.
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Speaker 4: But we had a different experience that made this story especially disappointing.
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Speaker 2: Yes, yes, yes, yes.
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Speaker 1: All right, for the final leg of our Friday morning run, something really, really cool is expected to happen at the box office tomorrow.
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Speaker 2: This weekend, Anne Hathaway is most likely.
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Speaker 1: Going to have her third number one movie at the box office this weekend. Actually, I know you might not be excited about this movie, but I would 100% go to see this movie. Because you know how much I love a Colleen Hoover novel.
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Speaker 3: I don't know what you want from me, man. Colleen Hoover. I swear to you, I can't name a single Colleen Hoover book.
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Speaker 2: It ends with us.
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Speaker 1: Okay.
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Speaker 3: Okay.
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Speaker 4: I'm saying I know the name, and then you name all the books, and I've heard of them. I don't put them together.
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Speaker 3: I don't. You could sit here with me all day. I couldn't come up with a Colleen Hoover book.
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Speaker 4: Really?
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Speaker 3: But I've heard of all of them.
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Speaker 1: Even after the Justin Baldini and now I can't think of her name.
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Speaker 2: Oh, my God.
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Speaker 1: She's.
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Speaker 3: Married to Deadpool.
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Speaker 2: I see your face. Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively.
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Speaker 1: There it is. Thank you.
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Speaker 2: Oh, my goodness.
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Speaker 1: I should stop ad-libbing this early in the morning. But, yes, Anne Hathaway stars in Verity. an adaptation of a Colleen Hoover novel. I've not seen that.
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Speaker 2: I mean, I've not read that book.
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Speaker 1: But it's expected to do well enough to win the box office. So with Verity, and then The Odyssey, and then The Devil Wears Prada 2, I would say she's having a pretty good summer. She's also pregnant with her second or third child. So yeah, she is nothing but positive news all summer long.
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Speaker 2: This is exciting.
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Speaker 3: You know what? I don't know when she became.
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Speaker 4: everything like she is it she is the actress of the moment she is versatile she is gorgeous she.
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Speaker 3: Is funny gross she is killing it right now and.
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Speaker 4: She doing the uh they just signed up for the new uh the one with Tom Cruise the uh driving movie the Days of Thunder Days of Thunder 2 she signed on to be on board with that bro she might get an Oscar at least a nomination for the Odyssey That's incredible.
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Speaker 2: And I just wanted to see how old she is. She's 43 years old. That is remarkable. I love that. That's always good. There is a time when you're a young woman.
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Speaker 1: If you're getting into any industry, they tell you you're over the hill by the time you're 35, and you can forget.
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Speaker 2: About being a leading lady and all of those types of things. I love that she is proving otherwise.
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Speaker 3: She just has an elegance, a grace at old Hollywood. She is just.
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Speaker 4: She's amazing. So, again, look out for that this week. Is this one considered a... They're not rom-coms, not Colleen Hoover.
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Speaker 3: They're more.
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Speaker 1: Colleen Hoover is kind of like a rom-drom-com kind of a thing.
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Speaker 2: A drom-com, I guess, might be a better way to put it.
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Speaker 4: Keep an eye out this weekend as well for... Tom Cruise has a new movie out, Digger. Have you seen where he's in this makeup? He's almost unrecognizable. It's a very expensive movie. It's expected to be a disastrous bomb.
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Speaker 1: Really?
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Speaker 2: It got bad reviews.
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Speaker 1: Uh.
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Speaker 4: Not the kind you need for a movie you paid this much for with a star that big.
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Speaker 3: Oof.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: That's tough. They talk about a disastrous, one of the biggest bombs of the year. It's tracking to be.
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Speaker 3: Oh, no. Damn it. I should have ended on that one.
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Speaker 1: You should have started with that and then ended with Anne Hathaway. And then it would have been a happier Friday morning run ending.
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Speaker 3: That's on me. She was also at the house at the end of Oak Street.
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Speaker 4: Oh, yes.
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Speaker 2: The end of Oak Street. We love that. The dinosaur movie.
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Speaker 3: I don't think it was number one, but that was another big movie she had this time.
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Speaker 1: Actually, that movie was fun to watch because it was... It was comedic in ways it wasn't intended to be.
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Speaker 3: It was unexpected.
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Speaker 2: I would watch that again, actually.
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Speaker 3: That was a good one.
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Speaker 2: It was good. All right.
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Speaker 1: Quote of the day on this Friday. I thought this was fun and funny and so, so true. Thinking is difficult. That's why most people judge.
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Speaker 3: Well, you do.
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Speaker 4: It's hard to figure shit out.
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Speaker 1: And to be self-reflective and to keep an open heart and an open mind.
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Speaker 2: So forget all that. Thinking is difficult. That's why most people judge. That's a reminder.
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Speaker 1: I started thinking about that because it wasn't that hard to think about in this moment about judging.
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Speaker 2: And I just think it's a good reminder.
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Speaker 1: When you feel yourself going there, stop it and just reflect on that. I think it's so cool. So, yeah, thinking is difficult. That's why most people judge. So have a judgment-free zone day today. And with that, everyone, we always appreciate you running with us.
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Speaker 2: I'm Amy Robach.
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Speaker 3: And I'm TJ Holmes. Happy Friday.
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Speaker 4: Thank you.