Nov. 6, 2026
(FRIDAY) "Morning Run": Worst Day on Wall Street, Hegseth Responds, 2 Senate Races Too Close, LA Mayor Concedes, Trump Arch Halted, 3 Executions Carried Out, CO Officers Shot, Pope to Peru, Oval Office Shape Secured, & MORE!
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Speaker 1: Hey there, everybody, and welcome to Morning Run. It is Friday, November 6th. I'm Amy Robach.
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Speaker 2: And I'm TJ Holmes. Where did the year go? November what? We gotta start buying turkeys? That's so exciting.
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Speaker 1: Not God's who we get to.
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Speaker 2: Thank you. Okay, sorry. Bad start. My bad. I will do better throughout. It is Friday. This is going to be a good Friday. This is going to be a good day. And this is going to be a good episode of Morning Run. Is that better?
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Speaker 1: Yes.
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Speaker 2: Okay, let's do this thing.
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Speaker 1: All right.
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Speaker 2: Hello, folks. We are to the weekend. Hope wherever you're waking up, you are getting off to a good start on this Friday. Stops to make all over the place in L.A. and Alaska and Mississippi and D.C. and Alabama and Florida. The Oval Office, Latin America as well. But Rose, let's start with the whiplash on Wall Street.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, this is a big, big deal because just one day after stocks experienced their best day of the year, they had their worst day of the year. The Dow dropped 1,800 points. That's nearly 3.5%, and the others followed.
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Speaker 2: Yes, NASDAQ, 5.5%. S & P dropped 4.3%. What in the world is going on? After Tuesday rose, we saw the big day on Wednesday because investors say, okay, This is over with. We know what we're dealing with. We're moving forward. We have some certainty about the future. Well, then the next day they realized there was uncertainty about the future because they are nervous that the Democrats, yes, this Democratic sweep could cause a slowdown. In the AI boom robes, data centers became a big talking point and a big issue for voters. And now there's a feeling that Democrats might put in more regulation and slow down the AI boom. And investors reacted to that yesterday. Yes.
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Speaker 1: And so the president quickly seized on that news, telling voters, it's all your fault. He wrote this on True Social. The stock market crashed today because the Democrats had a big Tuesday. So sad to see. You only have yourselves to blame, you, the American voter.
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Speaker 2: That reads. That's too bad, but we're not surprised.
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Speaker 1: He was doing so well.
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Speaker 2: That's terrible.
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Speaker 1: And then this. But by the way, the day prior, the president wrote this. Stock market just hit another record high, 91 days in just a short period of time, less than two years. Your 401ks are through the roof, record setting all. Yeah, so he takes credit when it goes well, and he blames when it doesn't. That's on brand.
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Speaker 2: That's totally on brand. But who is being blamed for a lot of these losses? Yes, there is one guy being blamed for the Republican losses in the midterms, blamed for the war in Iran. He's been given the choice to resign or be impeached. But now Pete Hegseth is responding to all that. He's standing in front of a sign that says Department of War in front of him. You've seen the image, right?
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Speaker 1: Yes, he doesn't have low T, and he wants all of us to know it. So even though, yes, all the headlines may say otherwise, he came out swinging.
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Speaker 2: And I didn't put in a full breakdown of what he said. These are just quotes, and you'll get the idea.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, he said, we ended the weird and the woke. We ripped out DEI. He talked about deep state radicals and that the press is free, but not free to roam our offices. I bet you he came up with that one and felt really good about it. War is courageous and historic. It's a courageous and historic effort. He said, we will not back down. DEI is a Marxist ideology. Wow. Diversity is not our strength. Our unity is. That's easy to say when you're a white man.
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Speaker 2: Man, it's tough for a black person.
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Speaker 1: Wow, that's easy to say when you're a white man.
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Speaker 2: That means your heart rate goes up to hear that. It is not a plus to have you on our team. It's a plus if you are on board with what we tell you to be on board with. That is a really difficult line. He said it proudly, Robes. This was a tough one to hear.
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Speaker 1: It's like basically you're saying black people, gay people, women, you... just need to stay in your lane because it's our unity. That is tough. Being trans is a mental illness not compatible with military service.
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Speaker 2: Direct quote.
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Speaker 1: He came out swinging.
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Speaker 2: And if you see it, Robes, it's fully, and fine, he's a TV guy. It's fully performative in every move. Colin Jost is nailing him. He's not going too far in his SNL impersonation of Pete Hegseth. He completely in every move and gestures, arms, hands, and everything is perfect. Robes, he said Trump's name within the first 15 seconds. This was directed at one person in the audience.
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Speaker 1: It was literally him trying to keep his job.
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Speaker 2: There you go.
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Speaker 1: Let's see it for what it was. All right, next up on the run, it could take weeks before we have a winner declared in the hotly contested Alaska Senate race. Democrat Mary Paltola has a narrow lead against Republican incumbent Dan Sullivan. Listen to this. With about 75% of the votes counted, Paltola only leads Sullivan by less than one percentage point. It's a difference of about 600 votes.
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Speaker 2: Baby, help me here. 75% of the vote counted. Robes, ever since Tuesday night, it's been at 75% of the vote.
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Speaker 1: I don't understand what's going on.
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Speaker 2: Okay, so Peltola and Democrats have been under fire for reportedly recruiting another guy named Dan Sullivan to join the ballot to confuse voters in the booth.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, the Dems denied doing that, but that, of course, was a point of contention throughout, or at least in the days leading up to the election, and that all prompted Trump to demand on True Social that Senator Sullivan be declared the winner. He wrote the vote totals for the fake Dan Sullivan, plus the other slug that the Dems put on the ballot, should be immediately given to the real Dan Sullivan and the election is over. He easily wins. There is no other fair solution. The problem with that is it's not legal. They have ranked choice voting. That's not going to happen. And they will continue to count the votes. But meantime, in Mississippi, with 96% of the votes counted, A Senate race between Democrat Scott Colum and incumbent Republican Cindy Hyde-Smith that was never expected to be a nail biter is now still too close to call. Colum has a slight lead right now by just 1,800 votes, but Hyde-Smith's campaign already setting the stage for a potential legal battle. The Republicans' team sent a letter to county officials on Thursday demanding they separate provisional ballots from regular and absentee ballots to, quote, ensure that each affidavit ballot's eligibility for counting and ultimate disposition can be verified.
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Speaker 2: Well, you start hearing separate and you start hearing words like provisional.
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Speaker 1: Uh-oh.
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Speaker 2: We've seen this show before.
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Speaker 1: Uh, yep.
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Speaker 2: And this could go a long time.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. Colum's campaign has responded with their own letter calling Hyde Smith's demands on lawful and extraordinary measures claiming they violate Mississippi voters rights. It begins. So election officials say they don't think they're going to have final results until next week, but this is a big deal. Obviously the Democrats didn't need or even expect this Senate seat, but this could be historic. Mississippi has not elected a Democrat to the Senate in Since 1982, and if Cullen beats Hyde-Smith, he would become the first black senator from Mississippi since the post-Civil War Reconstruction era.
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Speaker 2: Robes, that was a lot of history made on Tuesday. That was really cool to see. It doesn't matter Republican or Democrat, and this would be ginormous to see this take place. So something happened on Tuesday. The country is, right? Diversity, right? But it's not our strength.
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Speaker 1: Yes. No, I showed you my daughter because we love Les Miserables. And there was a lot of viral TikToks going around. But one of them just showed all the different votes and all the different election results. And it was all put to the song. Do you hear the people sing, singing the song of angry men about the French Revolution? But yes, a lot of people are celebrating.
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Speaker 2: In case you had to be a fan of that Les Mis. Yes.
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Speaker 1: Who isn't? All right, next up on the run, current L.A. Mayor Karen Bass has officially conceded to the newly elected L.A. Mayor, 45-year-old Democratic Socialist and City Council Member Nithya Raman. Raman was finally declared the winner on Thursday with 52% of the vote. Raman is a Harvard-educated policy expert who focused on the concerns of younger voters who've been struggling to afford the high-priced city. Polls showed her ahead of Bass by a wide margin. with voters under the age of 35. Now, Bass has been the mayor of LA since 2022. Yesterday, she told this to Angelenos. I have committed to ensuring a smooth and seamless transition. Moving this city forward is what Los Angeles needs from all of us.
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Speaker 2: You know, Rose, that is one of the beautiful things sometimes about the election cycle. At the end, when you know they fought hard, said nasty things about each other, and they come out and they say, I can see I am going to help this city in transition. It happens often, not often, excuse me, it happens always except for President Trump, that they concede, right? Even when it's tight. These presidential elections, they come out and they make a speech and they say, yes, we all have to come together. If there's anything, I like at least seeing that line from her.
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Speaker 1: That's why I wanted to include it.
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Speaker 2: Thank you.
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Speaker 1: All right, next up on the run, a planning commission last night gave final approval for construction of the president's triumphal arch in D.C., And then a federal judge immediately put a hold on said construction of the president's triumphal arch. The judge says no construction. activity can start in the next 14 days in order to give time for the legal challenges, and so we wait.
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Speaker 2: All right, continuing on the run here now, let's head out to California, where there are 548 people on death row. All 548 of them just had their sentences passed. commuted. The governor out there, Gavin Newsom, announced the commutations yesterday, which would change everybody's death sentence to life in prison without parole.
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Speaker 1: He called the death penalty incompatible with California's values. And Newsom put, well, you may remember, Newsom put a moratorium on executions back in 2019. Now, the state Supreme Court will have to give the okay to the majority of the commutations based on state law that requires the court's approval to commute the sentence of anyone with more than one felony conviction. And next up on the run, three men were executed in the span of less than 24 hours in this country on Thursday. We told you about Jeffrey Weishite, who was pronounced dead at 12.45 a.m. local time in Indiana. He had been on death row for the 2010 murders of 8-year-old Alyssa Lynch and her brother, 5-year-old Caleb. In Florida, Jesse Guardado became the 19th inmate executed in that state this year.
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Speaker 2: He was convicted for the 2004 murder of an elderly woman that he was robbing. He was pronounced dead at 6.13 a.m. p.m. Eastern time. He did have final words, though. He said, quote, I would like to once again apologize for the pain and suffering I've caused to the victim's family and my own family as well. Robes, we'll take it. These moments are just, they're tough. The last thing this person will ever say on earth is that. And Robes, I don't know how it made any family friends of his victim feel, but it's got to be better than nothing.
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Speaker 1: I would think so. But in Alabama, Michael Taylor had nothing to say before he was executed for the 1991 double murder of an elderly couple. But that couple's family certainly did. They released a powerful statement after Taylor's execution saying our family has waited 35 long years for this day. They thanked the attorney general's office. They thanked investigators. But they said still. It is very hard for us to understand why it took 35 years. We know that a person has the right to appeal, but there should come a time when the jury's decision is final. For all these years, our family has had to live with the waiting, the delays, the uncertainty. We have never forgotten our loved ones or what was taken from us. Waiting 35 years for justice has been painful, and no victim's family should have to wait that long. He was pronounced dead at 610. 35 years and one day to the day of the murders.
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Speaker 2: Have to agree with him on having to wait 35 years for justice. Have to agree with that. Let's continue on the run here. Now let's head down to Tampa. The gunman who killed a woman at the Citibank office complex there this week was upset about a debt he had with the bank. Police have identified the shooter as 35-year-old Jacob Pearson. He was shot and killed by bank security after he rammed his car through the gate of the Citibank offices, and got out, started shooting, killing one woman. But, Robes, we got some new details about this incident.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, police say the shooter's rifle malfunctioned after shooting the woman, but he returned to his vehicle, retrieved another gun, walked back over to her, and then executed her. What? My God.
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Speaker 2: You remember when they first said this? It was targeted. So what we thought, maybe he went in, he knew this woman in particular. No, she was a random HR person. He was just targeting employees. He went back to this woman who was still alive on the ground and shot her.
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Speaker 1: That is disgusting. So he was allegedly irate after he got a court summons for a $ 2, 500 debt he had with the bank. And he allegedly told a Citibank lawyer earlier that day, unless you want me to go over there with my AR-15, my bulletproof vest, and my insanity, cancel this court case.
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Speaker 2: My God. Police got worried about that threat, and they were looking for him. Didn't know where he was. Robes didn't know if he was serious or not. Obviously, he was. Continuing on the run here now, a horrible story out in Lakewood, Colorado. A community out there is waking up to the news that one police officer was shot and killed, and three others were wounded. Again, this was a shootout with a suspicious individual. Officials say the officers approached this person who was trying to board a bus, and within seconds of them engaging him, he opened fire on the officers, killing one.
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Speaker 1: The suspect was also killed in that gunfight. Police have not identified who that suspect was, but say he was believed to have been involved in an earlier hit and run. So a lot more to come on that story.
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Speaker 2: Stay with us on this Friday morning run. When we come back, the Pope is headed home. No, that doesn't mean he's heading back to the Vatican. We will explain. Also coming up, the president has a lot of pet projects, a lot of construction projects. Well, he has a new one that's going to make sure nobody changes the shape of the Oval Office.
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Speaker 1: Welcome back, everyone, to your Friday morning run. And yes, the Pope is on his way back home, or at least his home away from home for more than two decades. Pope Leo kicking off a three-nation tour of Latin America, remarkably just three weeks after undergoing lung cancer surgery.
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Speaker 2: Okay, this lets us know he's doing pretty well. You know, that's the best part of this story. Okay, his health is good.
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Speaker 1: It is. The 71-year-old is beginning in Uruguay with a packed three-day itinerary, visiting a neighborhood plagued by gang violence, performing masses throughout the country. I mean, he's crisscrossing the country. Then he's going to visit Argentina and finally Peru. Of course, that's the country where he served as a missionary. priest and bishop that.
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Speaker 2: Video is going to be awesome he will.
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Speaker 1: Be welcomed yes a hero is welcome when he comes home remember Leo had surgery to remove what was discovered to be a cancerous nodule on his lung on October 13th I love what the Vatican spokesperson said. He said the Pope is going to have plenty of medical care alongside him in case anything should happen, but said this, his stamina is fantastic. The way that he's singing is incredible, and you can only sing if your lungs are really strong.
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Speaker 2: That's just a joyous update. Thank you, Vatican, for that. That just makes me feel good.
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Speaker 1: I thought so, right?
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Speaker 2: Just the idea of the Pope singing. Not a health situation, just that he's singing makes me happy this morning. Agreed, agreed.
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Speaker 1: All right, for the final leg of our run, home makeover White House edition continues. We have the ballroom, the helipad, the columns. There's gold everywhere. Remember Barack Obama? Saddam Hussein's Cheesecake Factory. All right, now the president wants to leave a lasting impression on the Oval Office.
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Speaker 2: A proclamation was signed yesterday designating the Oval Office and the Cabinet Room as national... monuments. This, according to the president, will make it, quote, impossible for future presidents to make meaningful changes to those areas. Now, in his words, he put it this way, quote, it will not be allowed to be touched by anybody, destroyed, ripped down by stupid people in order to build something in a slightly different shape.
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Speaker 1: What is he talking about?
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Speaker 2: Have previous presidents threatened to change it to a square?
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Speaker 1: A circle office? A triangle office?
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Speaker 2: He's fixing a problem nobody knew we had.
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Speaker 1: Because it isn't one.
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Speaker 2: He said we have to preserve the shape of the oval office.
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Speaker 1: He hereby declares the oval office shall remain oval. I mean, this is a joke, right? This is like something, an SNL skit. They're going to have to go with this one.
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Speaker 2: Oh, they should. Oh, they should.
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Speaker 1: Hear ye, hear ye. From this day forward, the Oval Office shall remain Oval.
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Speaker 2: It was an official proclamation. Now, I'm not really clear. He said he does have to send this over to Congress for them to approve something for this to move forward, but this can be reversed.
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Speaker 1: That'll be the only thing that's passed by Congress. I mean, maybe it even won't be because it's so unnecessary.
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Speaker 2: Somebody pointed out, one of the political outlets, the midterms were Tuesday. His first official... Wow. Yes. And this is the week he's had.
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Speaker 1: Yes.
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Speaker 2: The last three public appearances that the president has had.
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Speaker 1: Were to tout his pet projects, the reflecting pool, the ballroom, and now the Oval Office. Anything but talking about uniting the country, finding a path forward, what's going to be done over the next two years, how he wants to work with Democrats, how we can make this actually the great United States of America.
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Speaker 2: Nope.
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Speaker 1: None of that.
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Speaker 2: His quote, you can't help but robes. He said he doesn't want it to be touched by anybody, destroyed or ripped down by stupid people.
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Speaker 1: Anyone who doesn't think the way he thinks is stupid.
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Speaker 2: But I'm saying, Robes, that applies to him. Like some other president should have signed a proclamation about the East Wing so it couldn't be ripped down by stupid people. He is using a quote against himself. This is the exact thing. So maybe, Robes, in that mindset, he's like, well, don't want somebody else to come around and do what I did. So let me... sign a proclamation.
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Speaker 1: Oh, my goodness. All right. Well, on this Friday, let's end with a wonderful quote.
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Speaker 2: Another athlete?
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Speaker 1: An incredible athlete. All right. Yes. Keep taking big swings because one great hit can overshadow a whole lot of misses.
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Speaker 2: Ain't that the truth, man?
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Speaker 1: Babe Ruth. Woo!
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Speaker 2: Ain't that the truth? Baseball players know that better than anybody. The absolute best in baseball robes fail 70% of the time. If you have a 300 batting average in baseball, you have a nine-figure contract. 300. That means you get a hit. Three out of ten times, you step to the plate.
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Speaker 1: And that's such a great life lesson. So many of these athletes do talk about the failures, the mistakes, the misses. Those are the moments. And, yes, you will get, if you keep swinging, you will hit a ball.
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Speaker 2: Rose, what have you thought as a baseball player? Like, hell, I struck out last time. That's still in your mind when you go up the next time. And then you think about the last game. Ooh, crap, last game. No, you've got to move on. Baseball players are great at that.
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Speaker 1: That's right. So everybody on this Friday, keep taking big swings because one great hit can overshadow a whole lot of misses. And with that, everyone, we always appreciate you running with us. I'm Amy Robach.
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Speaker 2: And I'm TJ Holmes. Happy Friday to you. We'll run soon.
Speaker 1: Hey there, everybody, and welcome to Morning Run. It is Friday, November 6th. I'm Amy Robach.
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Speaker 2: And I'm TJ Holmes. Where did the year go? November what? We gotta start buying turkeys? That's so exciting.
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Speaker 1: Not God's who we get to.
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Speaker 2: Thank you. Okay, sorry. Bad start. My bad. I will do better throughout. It is Friday. This is going to be a good Friday. This is going to be a good day. And this is going to be a good episode of Morning Run. Is that better?
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Speaker 1: Yes.
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Speaker 2: Okay, let's do this thing.
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Speaker 1: All right.
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Speaker 2: Hello, folks. We are to the weekend. Hope wherever you're waking up, you are getting off to a good start on this Friday. Stops to make all over the place in L.A. and Alaska and Mississippi and D.C. and Alabama and Florida. The Oval Office, Latin America as well. But Rose, let's start with the whiplash on Wall Street.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, this is a big, big deal because just one day after stocks experienced their best day of the year, they had their worst day of the year. The Dow dropped 1,800 points. That's nearly 3.5%, and the others followed.
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Speaker 2: Yes, NASDAQ, 5.5%. S & P dropped 4.3%. What in the world is going on? After Tuesday rose, we saw the big day on Wednesday because investors say, okay, This is over with. We know what we're dealing with. We're moving forward. We have some certainty about the future. Well, then the next day they realized there was uncertainty about the future because they are nervous that the Democrats, yes, this Democratic sweep could cause a slowdown. In the AI boom robes, data centers became a big talking point and a big issue for voters. And now there's a feeling that Democrats might put in more regulation and slow down the AI boom. And investors reacted to that yesterday. Yes.
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Speaker 1: And so the president quickly seized on that news, telling voters, it's all your fault. He wrote this on True Social. The stock market crashed today because the Democrats had a big Tuesday. So sad to see. You only have yourselves to blame, you, the American voter.
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Speaker 2: That reads. That's too bad, but we're not surprised.
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Speaker 1: He was doing so well.
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Speaker 2: That's terrible.
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Speaker 1: And then this. But by the way, the day prior, the president wrote this. Stock market just hit another record high, 91 days in just a short period of time, less than two years. Your 401ks are through the roof, record setting all. Yeah, so he takes credit when it goes well, and he blames when it doesn't. That's on brand.
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Speaker 2: That's totally on brand. But who is being blamed for a lot of these losses? Yes, there is one guy being blamed for the Republican losses in the midterms, blamed for the war in Iran. He's been given the choice to resign or be impeached. But now Pete Hegseth is responding to all that. He's standing in front of a sign that says Department of War in front of him. You've seen the image, right?
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Speaker 1: Yes, he doesn't have low T, and he wants all of us to know it. So even though, yes, all the headlines may say otherwise, he came out swinging.
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Speaker 2: And I didn't put in a full breakdown of what he said. These are just quotes, and you'll get the idea.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, he said, we ended the weird and the woke. We ripped out DEI. He talked about deep state radicals and that the press is free, but not free to roam our offices. I bet you he came up with that one and felt really good about it. War is courageous and historic. It's a courageous and historic effort. He said, we will not back down. DEI is a Marxist ideology. Wow. Diversity is not our strength. Our unity is. That's easy to say when you're a white man.
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Speaker 2: Man, it's tough for a black person.
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Speaker 1: Wow, that's easy to say when you're a white man.
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Speaker 2: That means your heart rate goes up to hear that. It is not a plus to have you on our team. It's a plus if you are on board with what we tell you to be on board with. That is a really difficult line. He said it proudly, Robes. This was a tough one to hear.
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Speaker 1: It's like basically you're saying black people, gay people, women, you... just need to stay in your lane because it's our unity. That is tough. Being trans is a mental illness not compatible with military service.
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Speaker 2: Direct quote.
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Speaker 1: He came out swinging.
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Speaker 2: And if you see it, Robes, it's fully, and fine, he's a TV guy. It's fully performative in every move. Colin Jost is nailing him. He's not going too far in his SNL impersonation of Pete Hegseth. He completely in every move and gestures, arms, hands, and everything is perfect. Robes, he said Trump's name within the first 15 seconds. This was directed at one person in the audience.
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Speaker 1: It was literally him trying to keep his job.
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Speaker 2: There you go.
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Speaker 1: Let's see it for what it was. All right, next up on the run, it could take weeks before we have a winner declared in the hotly contested Alaska Senate race. Democrat Mary Paltola has a narrow lead against Republican incumbent Dan Sullivan. Listen to this. With about 75% of the votes counted, Paltola only leads Sullivan by less than one percentage point. It's a difference of about 600 votes.
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Speaker 2: Baby, help me here. 75% of the vote counted. Robes, ever since Tuesday night, it's been at 75% of the vote.
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Speaker 1: I don't understand what's going on.
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Speaker 2: Okay, so Peltola and Democrats have been under fire for reportedly recruiting another guy named Dan Sullivan to join the ballot to confuse voters in the booth.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, the Dems denied doing that, but that, of course, was a point of contention throughout, or at least in the days leading up to the election, and that all prompted Trump to demand on True Social that Senator Sullivan be declared the winner. He wrote the vote totals for the fake Dan Sullivan, plus the other slug that the Dems put on the ballot, should be immediately given to the real Dan Sullivan and the election is over. He easily wins. There is no other fair solution. The problem with that is it's not legal. They have ranked choice voting. That's not going to happen. And they will continue to count the votes. But meantime, in Mississippi, with 96% of the votes counted, A Senate race between Democrat Scott Colum and incumbent Republican Cindy Hyde-Smith that was never expected to be a nail biter is now still too close to call. Colum has a slight lead right now by just 1,800 votes, but Hyde-Smith's campaign already setting the stage for a potential legal battle. The Republicans' team sent a letter to county officials on Thursday demanding they separate provisional ballots from regular and absentee ballots to, quote, ensure that each affidavit ballot's eligibility for counting and ultimate disposition can be verified.
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Speaker 2: Well, you start hearing separate and you start hearing words like provisional.
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Speaker 1: Uh-oh.
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Speaker 2: We've seen this show before.
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Speaker 1: Uh, yep.
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Speaker 2: And this could go a long time.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. Colum's campaign has responded with their own letter calling Hyde Smith's demands on lawful and extraordinary measures claiming they violate Mississippi voters rights. It begins. So election officials say they don't think they're going to have final results until next week, but this is a big deal. Obviously the Democrats didn't need or even expect this Senate seat, but this could be historic. Mississippi has not elected a Democrat to the Senate in Since 1982, and if Cullen beats Hyde-Smith, he would become the first black senator from Mississippi since the post-Civil War Reconstruction era.
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Speaker 2: Robes, that was a lot of history made on Tuesday. That was really cool to see. It doesn't matter Republican or Democrat, and this would be ginormous to see this take place. So something happened on Tuesday. The country is, right? Diversity, right? But it's not our strength.
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Speaker 1: Yes. No, I showed you my daughter because we love Les Miserables. And there was a lot of viral TikToks going around. But one of them just showed all the different votes and all the different election results. And it was all put to the song. Do you hear the people sing, singing the song of angry men about the French Revolution? But yes, a lot of people are celebrating.
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Speaker 2: In case you had to be a fan of that Les Mis. Yes.
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Speaker 1: Who isn't? All right, next up on the run, current L.A. Mayor Karen Bass has officially conceded to the newly elected L.A. Mayor, 45-year-old Democratic Socialist and City Council Member Nithya Raman. Raman was finally declared the winner on Thursday with 52% of the vote. Raman is a Harvard-educated policy expert who focused on the concerns of younger voters who've been struggling to afford the high-priced city. Polls showed her ahead of Bass by a wide margin. with voters under the age of 35. Now, Bass has been the mayor of LA since 2022. Yesterday, she told this to Angelenos. I have committed to ensuring a smooth and seamless transition. Moving this city forward is what Los Angeles needs from all of us.
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Speaker 2: You know, Rose, that is one of the beautiful things sometimes about the election cycle. At the end, when you know they fought hard, said nasty things about each other, and they come out and they say, I can see I am going to help this city in transition. It happens often, not often, excuse me, it happens always except for President Trump, that they concede, right? Even when it's tight. These presidential elections, they come out and they make a speech and they say, yes, we all have to come together. If there's anything, I like at least seeing that line from her.
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Speaker 1: That's why I wanted to include it.
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Speaker 2: Thank you.
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Speaker 1: All right, next up on the run, a planning commission last night gave final approval for construction of the president's triumphal arch in D.C., And then a federal judge immediately put a hold on said construction of the president's triumphal arch. The judge says no construction. activity can start in the next 14 days in order to give time for the legal challenges, and so we wait.
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Speaker 2: All right, continuing on the run here now, let's head out to California, where there are 548 people on death row. All 548 of them just had their sentences passed. commuted. The governor out there, Gavin Newsom, announced the commutations yesterday, which would change everybody's death sentence to life in prison without parole.
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Speaker 1: He called the death penalty incompatible with California's values. And Newsom put, well, you may remember, Newsom put a moratorium on executions back in 2019. Now, the state Supreme Court will have to give the okay to the majority of the commutations based on state law that requires the court's approval to commute the sentence of anyone with more than one felony conviction. And next up on the run, three men were executed in the span of less than 24 hours in this country on Thursday. We told you about Jeffrey Weishite, who was pronounced dead at 12.45 a.m. local time in Indiana. He had been on death row for the 2010 murders of 8-year-old Alyssa Lynch and her brother, 5-year-old Caleb. In Florida, Jesse Guardado became the 19th inmate executed in that state this year.
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Speaker 2: He was convicted for the 2004 murder of an elderly woman that he was robbing. He was pronounced dead at 6.13 a.m. p.m. Eastern time. He did have final words, though. He said, quote, I would like to once again apologize for the pain and suffering I've caused to the victim's family and my own family as well. Robes, we'll take it. These moments are just, they're tough. The last thing this person will ever say on earth is that. And Robes, I don't know how it made any family friends of his victim feel, but it's got to be better than nothing.
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Speaker 1: I would think so. But in Alabama, Michael Taylor had nothing to say before he was executed for the 1991 double murder of an elderly couple. But that couple's family certainly did. They released a powerful statement after Taylor's execution saying our family has waited 35 long years for this day. They thanked the attorney general's office. They thanked investigators. But they said still. It is very hard for us to understand why it took 35 years. We know that a person has the right to appeal, but there should come a time when the jury's decision is final. For all these years, our family has had to live with the waiting, the delays, the uncertainty. We have never forgotten our loved ones or what was taken from us. Waiting 35 years for justice has been painful, and no victim's family should have to wait that long. He was pronounced dead at 610. 35 years and one day to the day of the murders.
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Speaker 2: Have to agree with him on having to wait 35 years for justice. Have to agree with that. Let's continue on the run here. Now let's head down to Tampa. The gunman who killed a woman at the Citibank office complex there this week was upset about a debt he had with the bank. Police have identified the shooter as 35-year-old Jacob Pearson. He was shot and killed by bank security after he rammed his car through the gate of the Citibank offices, and got out, started shooting, killing one woman. But, Robes, we got some new details about this incident.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, police say the shooter's rifle malfunctioned after shooting the woman, but he returned to his vehicle, retrieved another gun, walked back over to her, and then executed her. What? My God.
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Speaker 2: You remember when they first said this? It was targeted. So what we thought, maybe he went in, he knew this woman in particular. No, she was a random HR person. He was just targeting employees. He went back to this woman who was still alive on the ground and shot her.
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Speaker 1: That is disgusting. So he was allegedly irate after he got a court summons for a $ 2, 500 debt he had with the bank. And he allegedly told a Citibank lawyer earlier that day, unless you want me to go over there with my AR-15, my bulletproof vest, and my insanity, cancel this court case.
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Speaker 2: My God. Police got worried about that threat, and they were looking for him. Didn't know where he was. Robes didn't know if he was serious or not. Obviously, he was. Continuing on the run here now, a horrible story out in Lakewood, Colorado. A community out there is waking up to the news that one police officer was shot and killed, and three others were wounded. Again, this was a shootout with a suspicious individual. Officials say the officers approached this person who was trying to board a bus, and within seconds of them engaging him, he opened fire on the officers, killing one.
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Speaker 1: The suspect was also killed in that gunfight. Police have not identified who that suspect was, but say he was believed to have been involved in an earlier hit and run. So a lot more to come on that story.
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Speaker 2: Stay with us on this Friday morning run. When we come back, the Pope is headed home. No, that doesn't mean he's heading back to the Vatican. We will explain. Also coming up, the president has a lot of pet projects, a lot of construction projects. Well, he has a new one that's going to make sure nobody changes the shape of the Oval Office.
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Speaker 1: Welcome back, everyone, to your Friday morning run. And yes, the Pope is on his way back home, or at least his home away from home for more than two decades. Pope Leo kicking off a three-nation tour of Latin America, remarkably just three weeks after undergoing lung cancer surgery.
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Speaker 2: Okay, this lets us know he's doing pretty well. You know, that's the best part of this story. Okay, his health is good.
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Speaker 1: It is. The 71-year-old is beginning in Uruguay with a packed three-day itinerary, visiting a neighborhood plagued by gang violence, performing masses throughout the country. I mean, he's crisscrossing the country. Then he's going to visit Argentina and finally Peru. Of course, that's the country where he served as a missionary. priest and bishop that.
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Speaker 2: Video is going to be awesome he will.
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Speaker 1: Be welcomed yes a hero is welcome when he comes home remember Leo had surgery to remove what was discovered to be a cancerous nodule on his lung on October 13th I love what the Vatican spokesperson said. He said the Pope is going to have plenty of medical care alongside him in case anything should happen, but said this, his stamina is fantastic. The way that he's singing is incredible, and you can only sing if your lungs are really strong.
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Speaker 2: That's just a joyous update. Thank you, Vatican, for that. That just makes me feel good.
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Speaker 1: I thought so, right?
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Speaker 2: Just the idea of the Pope singing. Not a health situation, just that he's singing makes me happy this morning. Agreed, agreed.
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Speaker 1: All right, for the final leg of our run, home makeover White House edition continues. We have the ballroom, the helipad, the columns. There's gold everywhere. Remember Barack Obama? Saddam Hussein's Cheesecake Factory. All right, now the president wants to leave a lasting impression on the Oval Office.
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Speaker 2: A proclamation was signed yesterday designating the Oval Office and the Cabinet Room as national... monuments. This, according to the president, will make it, quote, impossible for future presidents to make meaningful changes to those areas. Now, in his words, he put it this way, quote, it will not be allowed to be touched by anybody, destroyed, ripped down by stupid people in order to build something in a slightly different shape.
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Speaker 1: What is he talking about?
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Speaker 2: Have previous presidents threatened to change it to a square?
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Speaker 1: A circle office? A triangle office?
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Speaker 2: He's fixing a problem nobody knew we had.
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Speaker 1: Because it isn't one.
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Speaker 2: He said we have to preserve the shape of the oval office.
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Speaker 1: He hereby declares the oval office shall remain oval. I mean, this is a joke, right? This is like something, an SNL skit. They're going to have to go with this one.
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Speaker 2: Oh, they should. Oh, they should.
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Speaker 1: Hear ye, hear ye. From this day forward, the Oval Office shall remain Oval.
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Speaker 2: It was an official proclamation. Now, I'm not really clear. He said he does have to send this over to Congress for them to approve something for this to move forward, but this can be reversed.
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Speaker 1: That'll be the only thing that's passed by Congress. I mean, maybe it even won't be because it's so unnecessary.
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Speaker 2: Somebody pointed out, one of the political outlets, the midterms were Tuesday. His first official... Wow. Yes. And this is the week he's had.
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Speaker 1: Yes.
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Speaker 2: The last three public appearances that the president has had.
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Speaker 1: Were to tout his pet projects, the reflecting pool, the ballroom, and now the Oval Office. Anything but talking about uniting the country, finding a path forward, what's going to be done over the next two years, how he wants to work with Democrats, how we can make this actually the great United States of America.
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Speaker 2: Nope.
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Speaker 1: None of that.
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Speaker 2: His quote, you can't help but robes. He said he doesn't want it to be touched by anybody, destroyed or ripped down by stupid people.
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Speaker 1: Anyone who doesn't think the way he thinks is stupid.
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Speaker 2: But I'm saying, Robes, that applies to him. Like some other president should have signed a proclamation about the East Wing so it couldn't be ripped down by stupid people. He is using a quote against himself. This is the exact thing. So maybe, Robes, in that mindset, he's like, well, don't want somebody else to come around and do what I did. So let me... sign a proclamation.
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Speaker 1: Oh, my goodness. All right. Well, on this Friday, let's end with a wonderful quote.
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Speaker 2: Another athlete?
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Speaker 1: An incredible athlete. All right. Yes. Keep taking big swings because one great hit can overshadow a whole lot of misses.
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Speaker 2: Ain't that the truth, man?
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Speaker 1: Babe Ruth. Woo!
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Speaker 2: Ain't that the truth? Baseball players know that better than anybody. The absolute best in baseball robes fail 70% of the time. If you have a 300 batting average in baseball, you have a nine-figure contract. 300. That means you get a hit. Three out of ten times, you step to the plate.
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Speaker 1: And that's such a great life lesson. So many of these athletes do talk about the failures, the mistakes, the misses. Those are the moments. And, yes, you will get, if you keep swinging, you will hit a ball.
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Speaker 2: Rose, what have you thought as a baseball player? Like, hell, I struck out last time. That's still in your mind when you go up the next time. And then you think about the last game. Ooh, crap, last game. No, you've got to move on. Baseball players are great at that.
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Speaker 1: That's right. So everybody on this Friday, keep taking big swings because one great hit can overshadow a whole lot of misses. And with that, everyone, we always appreciate you running with us. I'm Amy Robach.
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Speaker 2: And I'm TJ Holmes. Happy Friday to you. We'll run soon.