Oct. 20, 2026
(Tuesday) "Morning Run": Trump Urges State Name Change, FL Execution Tonight, MS Says Shooting Justified, Super Bowl MVP Out, Elon's Gift To Kids, CNN Legend Leaving, RIP Richard Riehle, & MORE!
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00:00:11
Speaker 1: Hey there, everybody, and welcome to your morning run. It is Tuesday, October 20th. I'm Amy Robach.
00:00:17
Speaker 2: And I'm TJ Holmes. Curious how the rest of this week is going to go. It was a weird morning. We had a very weird morning here. We're fine.
00:00:26
Speaker 3: But man, it's just that I don't like the way the week's going. It's a weird week.
00:00:30
Speaker 4: Yeah, when you wake up and you go to brush your teeth at 5 a.m. and there's no water.
00:00:37
Speaker 3: Something's going on. Is Mercury in retrograde? I don't know.
00:00:41
Speaker 4: I should find out.
00:00:42
Speaker 2: Something's going on, but everything is going weirdly off. I hope it's going well for you all, wherever you may be this morning on this October 20th. We're really flying through the month of October. Halloween's going to be around the corner. Next thing you know, it's Thanksgiving. Yeah, we were talking about that yesterday, Thanksgiving. It's very close by. But wherever you may be, we're glad you're here with us on this morning run. Going to be making stops in L.A., Make a stop by the CNN newsroom. Also make a stop in Mississippi, New Mexico, Philadelphia, Florida, and American Family Field in Milwaukee. But let's start.
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Speaker 3: In a U.S. state that might get a new name. I say might. Why even tease it like that? It's not getting a new name.
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Speaker 1: Yes, but the president certainly would like for it to. Yes, the president's name game continues. He's renamed a lake, a gulf, and now he officially, because he's hinted about this in the past, he officially has put it on record he wants to rename a state. President Trump has suggested to the people of the great state of New Mexico... that they should change their name.
00:01:50
Speaker 3: Well, what, Mr. President, do you suggest they change it to? Well, here you go. This is what he wrote.
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Speaker 2: Quote, New Mexico should immediately change its name to New America. We are not Mexico. We are the United States of America. The name would add great value and prestige to the state. Home values and incomes would rise, and you would be even prouder while saluting our beautiful American flag. Maybe even the crooked elections that New Mexico is known for will become honest again. Just, I mean, you're insulting us by saying we should change our name, and now you insult us about elections. He just, the American president, 50 states, right? Represents them all, and just attacked one for no reason.
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Speaker 4: No reason.
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Speaker 1: And also, frankly, let's just be honest, completely insulting Mexico as well. Like, we don't want the stink of your name representing any part of our country, including your water and any state that bears your name or has some reference to it.
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Speaker 4: It's just defensive.
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Speaker 3: Is this funny still?
00:02:48
Speaker 4: Period.
00:02:49
Speaker 2: Is this still funny? Gulf of America and Lake America. Is this funny still?
00:02:54
Speaker 4: It's not funny. He has an exclamation point. I don't quite understand.
00:02:59
Speaker 1: He has an exclamation point after the end of each sentence, just being as demonstrative as he possibly can about what should happen. And it's just bizarre why he is spending his time on this. He has some other things to pay attention to.
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Speaker 2: I heard someone say this the other day. I believe it was S.E. Cupp actually on CNN on a panel. He said he just seems to be doing things that we don't care about. A reflecting pool, a golf course, the Kennedy Center, the Triumph aren't arch like you're going he's putting so much energy into things that aren't relevant to the lives of the people you're saying.
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Speaker 4: Go vote the ballroom.
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Speaker 2: Yeah yeah keep going like these things he's a he's fighting for we know he's fighting for we see him every single day in lawsuits and in court and he cares about those robes if he put that same energy into giving the damn about how much your eggs or your beef costs right just the passion we see for those projects Voters are feeling that.
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Speaker 3: We see you busy and what you care about. It ain't me.
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Speaker 1: He cares about what things look like and what things sound like, but not what people are actually feeling and experiencing.
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Speaker 4: And that's the issue.
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Speaker 3: That's the impression.
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Speaker 1: He's all about the aesthetics and not about the actual heart or meat of something.
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Speaker 4: It's bizarre.
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Speaker 1: So we get a response from a Democratic senator from New Mexico saying, who said this.
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Speaker 4: We are New Mexicans.
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Speaker 1: We are proud of our name, proud of our home, and we're keeping both long after Donald Trump is out of office, we'll still be New Mexico.
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Speaker 3: That's all true.
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Speaker 2: And again, like you say, maybe a distraction. Some of the things he's focused on are put out there.
00:04:44
Speaker 1: Is it so that we won't talk about Katie Zachariah?
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Speaker 4: Is it so we won't talk about Kimberly Guilfoyle?
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Speaker 1: He had a really tough week, and Maybe he's just trying to point us in different directions so we're chasing his laser and not actually focusing on the problems.
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Speaker 3: Voters seem to be, though, because I don't see any other option. Midterms are going to be brutal.
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Speaker 1: And the interesting thing is he's made the midterms about himself. He has said that, well, and he's going to say it's because he's not on the ballot. But he's still, he is crisscrossing the country doing what he can.
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Speaker 2: He says everywhere he lands, they go up in the polls and they're winning. Everywhere that he lands, they immediately are winning again in the polls.
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Speaker 4: Fox News will tell you the same.
00:05:27
Speaker 2: That was a funny segment, wasn't it? Okay, so we could do a whole episode on that Fox News segment, but let's continue on the morning run here now. Let's head down to Mississippi. The attorney general there, Robes, I didn't see this one coming, says a police officer was justified when he fired on a vehicle killing a one-year-old boy. We talked about this incident. It happened in June. Police were responding to a shoplifting call at a Walmart.
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Speaker 3: This is in Senatobia, Mississippi.
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Speaker 2: An officer opened fire on a vehicle he thought was fleeing. Inside that vehicle, a mom, her friend, and one-year-old Cohen Wiley, who passed away. He was hit in that vehicle.
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Speaker 1: Baby, this is so disappointing. I don't... We have covered this story, but this is... The details of it.
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Speaker 1: Ugh.
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Speaker 4: This is tough.
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Speaker 1: In a brief statement, the attorney general said she found the use of force justified. The boy's mother and his friend and her friend, sorry, the boy's mother and her friend were in the vehicle with Wiley and police maintained that the car... came towards one of the officers, giving that officer the right to fire into the vehicle. Again, and by the way, shoplifting, the alleged, they never were charged with shoplifting, by the way, but the alleged thing they stole, a box of diapers.
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Speaker 3: And Ben Crump is involved in this.
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Speaker 2: This is a little black boy involved, Mississippi police officers down here. So this was A case that they're still asking for police body cam on the mother and her friend maintain. Obviously, we weren't shoplifting. We weren't stealing anything and we weren't running into the cop. They have some angle that they can show that the car was going a different direction from where the bullets came into the car.
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Speaker 3: So this isn't over yet. But to.
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Speaker 2: One-year-old boy is dead and it was justified for a cop to shoot into that car.
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Speaker 3: It's not going to sit well.
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Speaker 4: I have chills from head to toe thinking about that.
00:07:28
Speaker 1: All right. Next up on the run, singer David was back in court for a very quick status hearing on Monday. And for the reporters who were in the room, they described him as looking rumpled and tired.
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Speaker 4: I thought that was interesting.
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Speaker 3: I don't know.
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Speaker 2: There was so much talk about how he looked yesterday. Just a bit of a mess as his hair was overgrown and a lot they were talking about. But Everybody was in there, made note of his appearance. Now, he was only in there a few minutes, about five minutes. He was represented by a new court-appointed lawyer after his high-profile defense team bailed on him after the preliminary hearing. Both sides agreed to a February trial date and a final status hearing on January 11th.
00:08:05
Speaker 3: So this is coming, Robes.
00:08:07
Speaker 1: Yes, and just I don't think we need to explain who Singer David is and why he is in a hearing, but his name, David Anthony Burke, He has pleaded not guilty to charges of first-degree murder and a bunch of other charges in connection with the death of 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez. That is going to be a hell of a trial come February. And after that preliminary hearing, it's hard to imagine why he's even going to trial.
00:08:32
Speaker 2: Don't go through this trial. Please don't go through this one. All right, continue on the run here. Now there will be another execution in the U.S., Tonight, give you one guess where. Yes, Florida will continue its execution ways and will have its 18th roves. They're scheduled to have their 18th of the year, and that, of course, is by far leading the nation.
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Speaker 1: Yes, William Reeves will be given a lethal injection at 6 p.m.
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Speaker 4: Tonight.
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Speaker 1: He is on death row for the 1986 murder of a sheriff's deputy. 40 years on death row, that means, at 77 years. Reeves will be the eighth inmate over the age of 70 that Florida has executed. There's one more scheduled, one more execution scheduled, which will be the 19th inmate executed in Florida, which then ties last year's record-leading year for executions. But you can see Ron DeSantis is truly trying to get some of these death row inmates who have been on death row for three decades, four decades, and this.
00:09:32
Speaker 4: Is among them.
00:09:33
Speaker 1: Yes, 77-year-old William Reeves will be executed tonight. We'll have more on the story, the murder, the trial, all of that coming up later.
00:09:42
Speaker 4: In our feed.
00:09:43
Speaker 2: Continue on the run here now. And no, we don't usually put an NFL injury report in our morning run. Had to make an exception here. This is a really, really big deal and hate this for Jalen Hurts. He's the quarterback of the Super Bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles. Actually, he was the Super Bowl MVP last season. He's out for the year. This is not some physical injury. He got banged out, broke a leg.
00:10:03
Speaker 3: Tore an ACL. Blood clots in his lungs and his leg. So he's going to have to go on blood thinners. You cannot do that playing football.
00:10:13
Speaker 4: Absolutely not. In fact, this is interesting.
00:10:15
Speaker 1: My mom actually just got diagnosed with a similar thing. She's on blood thinners and They're all very careful.
00:10:21
Speaker 4: Do not fall.
00:10:23
Speaker 1: You can't injure yourself physically in any way because, yes, blood thinners are the only way to alleviate his situation, and yet it makes him so vulnerable.
00:10:33
Speaker 4: So, yeah, you.
00:10:34
Speaker 1: Definitely cannot play contact sports like football. The team says this is the good news. There shouldn't be any long-term impacts for him. He is expected to.
00:10:44
Speaker 4: Miss the rest of this season.
00:10:46
Speaker 1: That's obviously a stunning loss for the Philadelphia Eagles, for fans, and for him personally. And yes, MVP of last year's Super Bowl out. But the good news is he's going to be okay.
00:10:59
Speaker 4: He's alive.
00:11:00
Speaker 1: I mean, if this weren't diagnosed, he had an injury to his calf, I guess, at the beginning of the month, and it all led to this. It was a seemingly innocuous injury to his calf.
00:11:09
Speaker 2: Some are questioning the team and doctors. And even the game, he set out the previous game, but before that, he was still playing when this injury was bubbling up. And they said, come on, y'all. And they let him continue playing. But anyway, it's caught. He's okay.
00:11:24
Speaker 3: Disappointing for the sports, but it's the right thing. Like, thank God.
00:11:28
Speaker 4: Thank God. Health and life just supersedes everything else.
00:11:32
Speaker 1: All right, next up on the run, every child in America is going to get a gift from Elon Musk. And this is according to Elon Musk, the world's richest man yesterday, announced via social media he is going to give every child in America one share of SpaceX stock.
00:11:50
Speaker 4: It's pretty cool. I love the idea.
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Speaker 3: We'll see how this goes, Rose.
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Speaker 2: We don't know how it's going to work because his details were very few because this is all he said in his X post. Next year, I will get one. of my SpaceX shares to every kid in America. This will be the first of many. Many shares?
00:12:08
Speaker 4: Or many gifts.
00:12:09
Speaker 3: Who knows?
00:12:10
Speaker 4: Hey, I love this idea.
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Speaker 1: This is cool to see someone who has lots of money to spare actually sharing it.
00:12:17
Speaker 2: So how much does he have to spare and how much would this cost? Well, folks are putting together the math on this. You got 73 million kids in the U.S.
00:12:23
Speaker 3: That's folks under the age of 18.
00:12:25
Speaker 2: One share of SpaceX stock is worth about $ 150.
00:12:28
Speaker 3: You do some math... $ 11 billion drop in.
00:12:35
Speaker 2: Elon Musk's bucket. He is worth $ 900 billion. So he could give this gift many times over.
00:12:43
Speaker 1: Every now and then he pops up to a trillionaire. So it just depends on how the stock market's going. But I do love this idea, not just giving cash, but giving kids an investment so that they can watch it grow, maybe get excited or interested in the stock market and learning not just about saving, but about investing.
00:12:59
Speaker 4: I think it's actually a, That's an awesome gift.
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Speaker 3: I think so too. And I think it's too bad.
00:13:06
Speaker 2: We need a private citizen who's not even from the United States to do something like this for American children. I mean, that's great. We'll take the private, private industry. As much as people rail about, you know, mega rich and how they're not paying their fair share. I mean, for fuck's sake, then let us do this. That, I mean, he's doing something wrong here that, I think it's wonderful. And it's more, you talk about the, um, it's not just the financial benefit. I mean, you learning something, you're watching something, you're caring about something, you're rooting for something. Now this does make everybody a SpaceX fan.
00:13:41
Speaker 3: It's brilliant.
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Speaker 4: Yes.
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Speaker 3: Marketing.
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Speaker 1: Yes. It's brilliant on his, cause he could actually from like, get them young, right? Get them excited about the industry, the space industry, just getting involved in anything like that and feeling like you've got a piece of, um, you've got a piece of the pie. I just think it's a really cool idea. And I love, You don't usually say nice things about Elon Musk. At least most people don't. And this is actually a really cool, positive story. I can't think of a negative side of it.
00:14:07
Speaker 3: I'm sure it's out there. It's just a marketing ploy. Of course.
00:14:09
Speaker 2: It's just like cigarettes or companies that make blueberry-flavored whatever.
00:14:14
Speaker 3: The marketing is trying to get you early.
00:14:16
Speaker 4: Yeah.
00:14:16
Speaker 2: And they get you on board early. And all he's doing is he's paying for customers, essentially. down the road and fans and people who are going to be loyal to him and his company. That is the only argument I see.
00:14:28
Speaker 4: Possibly, of course, but everybody wins, I would imagine.
00:14:30
Speaker 1: So, you know, I would say if more billionaires did something like this, that'd be a cool thing.
00:14:36
Speaker 3: And there are enough of them out there, apparently. There certainly are.
00:14:39
Speaker 4: They're going by the day.
00:14:41
Speaker 1: Next up on the run, this was a shocking headline out of the CNN newsroom, veteran journalist and trailblazer CNN's Chief international anchor Christiane Amanpour is leaving the network. Yes, we heard the announcement from CNN's chief executive. He wrote on Monday, Christiane has thought carefully about this decision, and she and I have been discussing it for some months. Like so many CNNers who will hear the news today, I am very sorry to see her go, but I've come to accept that this is the right time for her, both personally and professionally. The 68-year-old journalist will scale back her show to once a week at the beginning of the year, and it will officially come to an end in May. Amanpour has covered nearly every major international conflict for the past four decades.
00:15:31
Speaker 4: She's interviewed countless.
00:15:32
Speaker 1: World leaders, and in her statement... she thanked her coworkers. And I thought this was pretty interesting when you hear how she worded it. She said, we together battled to seek the facts, the evidence, and the humanity so that CNN could always broadcast the truth about the world and to the world without.
00:15:52
Speaker 4: Fear nor favor.
00:15:55
Speaker 1: And the reason why I feel like how she worded that is oh so important given the timing because this comes just a few weeks after Paramount Skydance took over Warner Brothers Discovery, which, of course, is the parent to CNN. So a lot of folks there at CNN are concerned about the direction the newsroom may be taken given the new owners.
00:16:18
Speaker 2: I mean, that sounds great, without fear nor favor.
00:16:22
Speaker 3: She's cut from a different cloth. She's old school. She's different.
00:16:26
Speaker 2: I mean, just the industry, the news industry, what she turns on the TV and sees every day, fear nor favor. That's all we see is fear and favor. All we see is somebody taking a side, giving an opinion, shouting.
00:16:40
Speaker 3: That's just different.
00:16:41
Speaker 2: She's from a different, she doesn't get caught up in that world of what we often see on daily cable news. She's a different one. She's We don't have them like this too much anymore.
00:16:53
Speaker 4: She's a journalist with a capital J.
00:16:55
Speaker 3: They don't make them like this anymore. So 43 years, babe, that is impressive.
00:16:59
Speaker 4: It's incredible.
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Speaker 1: And she has led the way for so many women too, just out there.
00:17:04
Speaker 4: In war-torn countries.
00:17:06
Speaker 3: She's awesome.
00:17:07
Speaker 1: She almost transcends gender. She just was an amazing journalist, and she's just an incredible human being who I and you, I know, have always looked up to.
00:17:16
Speaker 3: Well, folks, stay with us here.
00:17:18
Speaker 2: On this Tuesday morning run, when we come back, he is one of the busiest character actors maybe the industry has ever known. We have lost a gem.
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Speaker 3: At the age of 78. We'll explain. And also coming up, Robes, big game last night, and now the World Series is set. Do you even know who's in it?
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Speaker 4: Next up on the run, welcome back, everyone.
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Speaker 1: He had 400 film and TV credits in a 40-year wide-ranging acting career. And the sad thing is, I'm not even sure how to pronounce his name, but dang will you know his face. Richard Real, or Really, has died at the age of 78. Please Google his name, Richard R-I-E-H-L-E.
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Speaker 4: You will immediately recognize him.
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Speaker 3: You will. And it's that mustache, right?
00:18:22
Speaker 4: And that smile.
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Speaker 3: He's as friendly and kind as a... His face.
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Speaker 2: I don't know how you fall into playing a middleman, but that's what he did in so many of his characters. You don't know the name immediately, but undoubtedly you know there's a round face and he wore this big, bushy mustache.
00:18:43
Speaker 1: Always.
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Speaker 3: Always. But he has robes.
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Speaker 2: I don't remember him in glory, but he was some racist character in that one.
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Speaker 3: Oh, I do.
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Speaker 4: I love that movie.
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Speaker 2: He was in The Fugitive, Casino, Bridesmaids. And he was usually playing the everyman, some middleman, some middlemanager, some detective. He was never in charge kind of a thing. In Casino, there was a scene that Joe Pesci beat him up over some money that he owed him.
00:19:13
Speaker 3: He just, he was always that character. He was wonderful.
00:19:15
Speaker 2: And one of my favorite things to see him in is, this is going to sound nuts, Executive Decision.
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Speaker 3: You don't even know what I'm talking about.
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Speaker 2: It's a movie with Steven Seagal in which terrorists hijack a plane because they're going to use it to attack a city. Robes, this was before 9-11 and folks pointed to this movie like, wow, Hollywood could come up with this scenario and y'all couldn't?
00:19:37
Speaker 3: Halle Berry plays a flight attendant in that movie.
00:19:39
Speaker 1: Oh, I remember.
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Speaker 4: You've had me watch this movie.
00:19:41
Speaker 3: It's all coming back to me. He played the air marshal.
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Speaker 4: Of course he did.
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Speaker 2: This guy, he always played that kind of thing. That was my first thought, robes i saw he passed i said oh yeah the air marshal well.
00:19:52
Speaker 1: And guess what this isn't shocking when you see his face he has played santa claus a total of eight different times throughout his career i also thought that was a fun fact because he does have that santa claus like charm about him.
00:20:05
Speaker 2: Friendly yes jolly He's been wonderful. So I don't think a cause of death was announced. I haven't seen one, at least as of this recording. But 78 years old, what a life, what a career, what an impression on an industry that he's left. I hated to see it, but he made me smile just to see his face again.
00:20:25
Speaker 4: We'll have to watch some of his films today. We like doing that.
00:20:28
Speaker 3: Yeah, just pick one. I mean, just turn on the TV and hit stream. He's probably in it.
00:20:32
Speaker 1: All right. For the final leg of the run, you asked me before the break, or you asked everyone, but then you asked me during the break, do you actually know who's playing the World Series? And I had to admit, if I hadn't read the story ahead of time, the answer would have been no.
00:20:48
Speaker 4: But it is set, ready to go. It's going to be a fun one. And there are two cities that are.
00:20:54
Speaker 4: Incredibly exciting.
00:20:55
Speaker 3: It's time. Neither one of these teams has ever won a World Series. That's cool. So Tampa Bay or Milwaukee.
00:21:01
Speaker 2: Are going to get their first ever World Series, but the Tampa Bay Rays beat the Cleveland.
00:21:06
Speaker 3: Wow. Guardians. You see that mistake I made in the script?
00:21:09
Speaker 1: I see. Wow, and I'm glad you read that.
00:21:11
Speaker 4: Because I would have read it and would not have known.
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Speaker 3: They are the Guardians.
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Speaker 1: Because I would have absolutely thought their former name, which is now considered.
00:21:21
Speaker 3: It's a problem. Racist.
00:21:23
Speaker 2: But the Cleveland Guardians, they beat them last night. This story is not even about Cleveland, and we spend this much time on it. Yes, the Tampa Bay Rays beat Cleveland to win the American League Championship Series four games to two. They advanced now to the World Series, played the Brewers. Neither team ever won. Game one will be on Friday. The Rays, though, have been in it two other times in the past six or something years. But Milwaukee hadn't been there in 44 years or something like that.
00:21:48
Speaker 3: So this will be fun.
00:21:49
Speaker 1: And game one is in Milwaukee. And, you know, it just it's such it's such a like a sports town. This is going to be Milwaukee. I'm excited for them. Like, it's going to be so fun.
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Speaker 2: I like smaller markets to see more smaller markets get excited. And it's going to be a first for these cities. These stadiums going to be. bananas i love it yeah.
00:22:08
Speaker 1: We'll have fun watching all of that for your quote of the day on this tuesday never stay up late for something you wouldn't wake up early.
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Speaker 2: For yeah live by that not a problem.
00:22:23
Speaker 1: But I do think it's a good way, like, huh, that's such a good way to gauge whether or not you should invest your time. Never stay up late for something you wouldn't wake up early for. And with that, everyone, we always appreciate you waking up with us.
00:22:38
Speaker 4: I'm Amy Robach.
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Speaker 3: And I'm TJ Holmes. We'll run soon.
Speaker 1: Hey there, everybody, and welcome to your morning run. It is Tuesday, October 20th. I'm Amy Robach.
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Speaker 2: And I'm TJ Holmes. Curious how the rest of this week is going to go. It was a weird morning. We had a very weird morning here. We're fine.
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Speaker 3: But man, it's just that I don't like the way the week's going. It's a weird week.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, when you wake up and you go to brush your teeth at 5 a.m. and there's no water.
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Speaker 3: Something's going on. Is Mercury in retrograde? I don't know.
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Speaker 4: I should find out.
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Speaker 2: Something's going on, but everything is going weirdly off. I hope it's going well for you all, wherever you may be this morning on this October 20th. We're really flying through the month of October. Halloween's going to be around the corner. Next thing you know, it's Thanksgiving. Yeah, we were talking about that yesterday, Thanksgiving. It's very close by. But wherever you may be, we're glad you're here with us on this morning run. Going to be making stops in L.A., Make a stop by the CNN newsroom. Also make a stop in Mississippi, New Mexico, Philadelphia, Florida, and American Family Field in Milwaukee. But let's start.
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Speaker 3: In a U.S. state that might get a new name. I say might. Why even tease it like that? It's not getting a new name.
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Speaker 1: Yes, but the president certainly would like for it to. Yes, the president's name game continues. He's renamed a lake, a gulf, and now he officially, because he's hinted about this in the past, he officially has put it on record he wants to rename a state. President Trump has suggested to the people of the great state of New Mexico... that they should change their name.
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Speaker 3: Well, what, Mr. President, do you suggest they change it to? Well, here you go. This is what he wrote.
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Speaker 2: Quote, New Mexico should immediately change its name to New America. We are not Mexico. We are the United States of America. The name would add great value and prestige to the state. Home values and incomes would rise, and you would be even prouder while saluting our beautiful American flag. Maybe even the crooked elections that New Mexico is known for will become honest again. Just, I mean, you're insulting us by saying we should change our name, and now you insult us about elections. He just, the American president, 50 states, right? Represents them all, and just attacked one for no reason.
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Speaker 4: No reason.
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Speaker 1: And also, frankly, let's just be honest, completely insulting Mexico as well. Like, we don't want the stink of your name representing any part of our country, including your water and any state that bears your name or has some reference to it.
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Speaker 4: It's just defensive.
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Speaker 3: Is this funny still?
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Speaker 4: Period.
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Speaker 2: Is this still funny? Gulf of America and Lake America. Is this funny still?
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Speaker 4: It's not funny. He has an exclamation point. I don't quite understand.
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Speaker 1: He has an exclamation point after the end of each sentence, just being as demonstrative as he possibly can about what should happen. And it's just bizarre why he is spending his time on this. He has some other things to pay attention to.
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Speaker 2: I heard someone say this the other day. I believe it was S.E. Cupp actually on CNN on a panel. He said he just seems to be doing things that we don't care about. A reflecting pool, a golf course, the Kennedy Center, the Triumph aren't arch like you're going he's putting so much energy into things that aren't relevant to the lives of the people you're saying.
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Speaker 4: Go vote the ballroom.
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Speaker 2: Yeah yeah keep going like these things he's a he's fighting for we know he's fighting for we see him every single day in lawsuits and in court and he cares about those robes if he put that same energy into giving the damn about how much your eggs or your beef costs right just the passion we see for those projects Voters are feeling that.
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Speaker 3: We see you busy and what you care about. It ain't me.
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Speaker 1: He cares about what things look like and what things sound like, but not what people are actually feeling and experiencing.
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Speaker 4: And that's the issue.
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Speaker 3: That's the impression.
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Speaker 1: He's all about the aesthetics and not about the actual heart or meat of something.
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Speaker 4: It's bizarre.
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Speaker 1: So we get a response from a Democratic senator from New Mexico saying, who said this.
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Speaker 4: We are New Mexicans.
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Speaker 1: We are proud of our name, proud of our home, and we're keeping both long after Donald Trump is out of office, we'll still be New Mexico.
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Speaker 3: That's all true.
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Speaker 2: And again, like you say, maybe a distraction. Some of the things he's focused on are put out there.
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Speaker 1: Is it so that we won't talk about Katie Zachariah?
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Speaker 4: Is it so we won't talk about Kimberly Guilfoyle?
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Speaker 1: He had a really tough week, and Maybe he's just trying to point us in different directions so we're chasing his laser and not actually focusing on the problems.
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Speaker 3: Voters seem to be, though, because I don't see any other option. Midterms are going to be brutal.
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Speaker 1: And the interesting thing is he's made the midterms about himself. He has said that, well, and he's going to say it's because he's not on the ballot. But he's still, he is crisscrossing the country doing what he can.
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Speaker 2: He says everywhere he lands, they go up in the polls and they're winning. Everywhere that he lands, they immediately are winning again in the polls.
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Speaker 4: Fox News will tell you the same.
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Speaker 2: That was a funny segment, wasn't it? Okay, so we could do a whole episode on that Fox News segment, but let's continue on the morning run here now. Let's head down to Mississippi. The attorney general there, Robes, I didn't see this one coming, says a police officer was justified when he fired on a vehicle killing a one-year-old boy. We talked about this incident. It happened in June. Police were responding to a shoplifting call at a Walmart.
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Speaker 3: This is in Senatobia, Mississippi.
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Speaker 2: An officer opened fire on a vehicle he thought was fleeing. Inside that vehicle, a mom, her friend, and one-year-old Cohen Wiley, who passed away. He was hit in that vehicle.
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Speaker 1: Baby, this is so disappointing. I don't... We have covered this story, but this is... The details of it.
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Speaker 1: Ugh.
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Speaker 4: This is tough.
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Speaker 1: In a brief statement, the attorney general said she found the use of force justified. The boy's mother and his friend and her friend, sorry, the boy's mother and her friend were in the vehicle with Wiley and police maintained that the car... came towards one of the officers, giving that officer the right to fire into the vehicle. Again, and by the way, shoplifting, the alleged, they never were charged with shoplifting, by the way, but the alleged thing they stole, a box of diapers.
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Speaker 3: And Ben Crump is involved in this.
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Speaker 2: This is a little black boy involved, Mississippi police officers down here. So this was A case that they're still asking for police body cam on the mother and her friend maintain. Obviously, we weren't shoplifting. We weren't stealing anything and we weren't running into the cop. They have some angle that they can show that the car was going a different direction from where the bullets came into the car.
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Speaker 3: So this isn't over yet. But to.
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Speaker 2: One-year-old boy is dead and it was justified for a cop to shoot into that car.
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Speaker 3: It's not going to sit well.
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Speaker 4: I have chills from head to toe thinking about that.
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Speaker 1: All right. Next up on the run, singer David was back in court for a very quick status hearing on Monday. And for the reporters who were in the room, they described him as looking rumpled and tired.
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Speaker 4: I thought that was interesting.
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Speaker 3: I don't know.
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Speaker 2: There was so much talk about how he looked yesterday. Just a bit of a mess as his hair was overgrown and a lot they were talking about. But Everybody was in there, made note of his appearance. Now, he was only in there a few minutes, about five minutes. He was represented by a new court-appointed lawyer after his high-profile defense team bailed on him after the preliminary hearing. Both sides agreed to a February trial date and a final status hearing on January 11th.
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Speaker 3: So this is coming, Robes.
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Speaker 1: Yes, and just I don't think we need to explain who Singer David is and why he is in a hearing, but his name, David Anthony Burke, He has pleaded not guilty to charges of first-degree murder and a bunch of other charges in connection with the death of 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez. That is going to be a hell of a trial come February. And after that preliminary hearing, it's hard to imagine why he's even going to trial.
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Speaker 2: Don't go through this trial. Please don't go through this one. All right, continue on the run here. Now there will be another execution in the U.S., Tonight, give you one guess where. Yes, Florida will continue its execution ways and will have its 18th roves. They're scheduled to have their 18th of the year, and that, of course, is by far leading the nation.
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Speaker 1: Yes, William Reeves will be given a lethal injection at 6 p.m.
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Speaker 4: Tonight.
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Speaker 1: He is on death row for the 1986 murder of a sheriff's deputy. 40 years on death row, that means, at 77 years. Reeves will be the eighth inmate over the age of 70 that Florida has executed. There's one more scheduled, one more execution scheduled, which will be the 19th inmate executed in Florida, which then ties last year's record-leading year for executions. But you can see Ron DeSantis is truly trying to get some of these death row inmates who have been on death row for three decades, four decades, and this.
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Speaker 4: Is among them.
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Speaker 1: Yes, 77-year-old William Reeves will be executed tonight. We'll have more on the story, the murder, the trial, all of that coming up later.
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Speaker 4: In our feed.
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Speaker 2: Continue on the run here now. And no, we don't usually put an NFL injury report in our morning run. Had to make an exception here. This is a really, really big deal and hate this for Jalen Hurts. He's the quarterback of the Super Bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles. Actually, he was the Super Bowl MVP last season. He's out for the year. This is not some physical injury. He got banged out, broke a leg.
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Speaker 3: Tore an ACL. Blood clots in his lungs and his leg. So he's going to have to go on blood thinners. You cannot do that playing football.
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Speaker 4: Absolutely not. In fact, this is interesting.
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Speaker 1: My mom actually just got diagnosed with a similar thing. She's on blood thinners and They're all very careful.
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Speaker 4: Do not fall.
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Speaker 1: You can't injure yourself physically in any way because, yes, blood thinners are the only way to alleviate his situation, and yet it makes him so vulnerable.
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Speaker 4: So, yeah, you.
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Speaker 1: Definitely cannot play contact sports like football. The team says this is the good news. There shouldn't be any long-term impacts for him. He is expected to.
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Speaker 4: Miss the rest of this season.
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Speaker 1: That's obviously a stunning loss for the Philadelphia Eagles, for fans, and for him personally. And yes, MVP of last year's Super Bowl out. But the good news is he's going to be okay.
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Speaker 4: He's alive.
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Speaker 1: I mean, if this weren't diagnosed, he had an injury to his calf, I guess, at the beginning of the month, and it all led to this. It was a seemingly innocuous injury to his calf.
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Speaker 2: Some are questioning the team and doctors. And even the game, he set out the previous game, but before that, he was still playing when this injury was bubbling up. And they said, come on, y'all. And they let him continue playing. But anyway, it's caught. He's okay.
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Speaker 3: Disappointing for the sports, but it's the right thing. Like, thank God.
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Speaker 4: Thank God. Health and life just supersedes everything else.
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Speaker 1: All right, next up on the run, every child in America is going to get a gift from Elon Musk. And this is according to Elon Musk, the world's richest man yesterday, announced via social media he is going to give every child in America one share of SpaceX stock.
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Speaker 4: It's pretty cool. I love the idea.
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Speaker 3: We'll see how this goes, Rose.
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Speaker 2: We don't know how it's going to work because his details were very few because this is all he said in his X post. Next year, I will get one. of my SpaceX shares to every kid in America. This will be the first of many. Many shares?
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Speaker 4: Or many gifts.
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Speaker 3: Who knows?
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Speaker 4: Hey, I love this idea.
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Speaker 1: This is cool to see someone who has lots of money to spare actually sharing it.
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Speaker 2: So how much does he have to spare and how much would this cost? Well, folks are putting together the math on this. You got 73 million kids in the U.S.
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Speaker 3: That's folks under the age of 18.
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Speaker 2: One share of SpaceX stock is worth about $ 150.
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Speaker 3: You do some math... $ 11 billion drop in.
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Speaker 2: Elon Musk's bucket. He is worth $ 900 billion. So he could give this gift many times over.
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Speaker 1: Every now and then he pops up to a trillionaire. So it just depends on how the stock market's going. But I do love this idea, not just giving cash, but giving kids an investment so that they can watch it grow, maybe get excited or interested in the stock market and learning not just about saving, but about investing.
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Speaker 4: I think it's actually a, That's an awesome gift.
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Speaker 3: I think so too. And I think it's too bad.
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Speaker 2: We need a private citizen who's not even from the United States to do something like this for American children. I mean, that's great. We'll take the private, private industry. As much as people rail about, you know, mega rich and how they're not paying their fair share. I mean, for fuck's sake, then let us do this. That, I mean, he's doing something wrong here that, I think it's wonderful. And it's more, you talk about the, um, it's not just the financial benefit. I mean, you learning something, you're watching something, you're caring about something, you're rooting for something. Now this does make everybody a SpaceX fan.
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Speaker 3: It's brilliant.
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Speaker 4: Yes.
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Speaker 3: Marketing.
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Speaker 1: Yes. It's brilliant on his, cause he could actually from like, get them young, right? Get them excited about the industry, the space industry, just getting involved in anything like that and feeling like you've got a piece of, um, you've got a piece of the pie. I just think it's a really cool idea. And I love, You don't usually say nice things about Elon Musk. At least most people don't. And this is actually a really cool, positive story. I can't think of a negative side of it.
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Speaker 3: I'm sure it's out there. It's just a marketing ploy. Of course.
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Speaker 2: It's just like cigarettes or companies that make blueberry-flavored whatever.
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Speaker 3: The marketing is trying to get you early.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: And they get you on board early. And all he's doing is he's paying for customers, essentially. down the road and fans and people who are going to be loyal to him and his company. That is the only argument I see.
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Speaker 4: Possibly, of course, but everybody wins, I would imagine.
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Speaker 1: So, you know, I would say if more billionaires did something like this, that'd be a cool thing.
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Speaker 3: And there are enough of them out there, apparently. There certainly are.
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Speaker 4: They're going by the day.
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Speaker 1: Next up on the run, this was a shocking headline out of the CNN newsroom, veteran journalist and trailblazer CNN's Chief international anchor Christiane Amanpour is leaving the network. Yes, we heard the announcement from CNN's chief executive. He wrote on Monday, Christiane has thought carefully about this decision, and she and I have been discussing it for some months. Like so many CNNers who will hear the news today, I am very sorry to see her go, but I've come to accept that this is the right time for her, both personally and professionally. The 68-year-old journalist will scale back her show to once a week at the beginning of the year, and it will officially come to an end in May. Amanpour has covered nearly every major international conflict for the past four decades.
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Speaker 4: She's interviewed countless.
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Speaker 1: World leaders, and in her statement... she thanked her coworkers. And I thought this was pretty interesting when you hear how she worded it. She said, we together battled to seek the facts, the evidence, and the humanity so that CNN could always broadcast the truth about the world and to the world without.
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Speaker 4: Fear nor favor.
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Speaker 1: And the reason why I feel like how she worded that is oh so important given the timing because this comes just a few weeks after Paramount Skydance took over Warner Brothers Discovery, which, of course, is the parent to CNN. So a lot of folks there at CNN are concerned about the direction the newsroom may be taken given the new owners.
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Speaker 2: I mean, that sounds great, without fear nor favor.
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Speaker 3: She's cut from a different cloth. She's old school. She's different.
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Speaker 2: I mean, just the industry, the news industry, what she turns on the TV and sees every day, fear nor favor. That's all we see is fear and favor. All we see is somebody taking a side, giving an opinion, shouting.
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Speaker 3: That's just different.
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Speaker 2: She's from a different, she doesn't get caught up in that world of what we often see on daily cable news. She's a different one. She's We don't have them like this too much anymore.
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Speaker 4: She's a journalist with a capital J.
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Speaker 3: They don't make them like this anymore. So 43 years, babe, that is impressive.
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Speaker 4: It's incredible.
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Speaker 1: And she has led the way for so many women too, just out there.
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Speaker 4: In war-torn countries.
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Speaker 3: She's awesome.
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Speaker 1: She almost transcends gender. She just was an amazing journalist, and she's just an incredible human being who I and you, I know, have always looked up to.
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Speaker 3: Well, folks, stay with us here.
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Speaker 2: On this Tuesday morning run, when we come back, he is one of the busiest character actors maybe the industry has ever known. We have lost a gem.
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Speaker 3: At the age of 78. We'll explain. And also coming up, Robes, big game last night, and now the World Series is set. Do you even know who's in it?
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Speaker 4: Next up on the run, welcome back, everyone.
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Speaker 1: He had 400 film and TV credits in a 40-year wide-ranging acting career. And the sad thing is, I'm not even sure how to pronounce his name, but dang will you know his face. Richard Real, or Really, has died at the age of 78. Please Google his name, Richard R-I-E-H-L-E.
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Speaker 4: You will immediately recognize him.
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Speaker 3: You will. And it's that mustache, right?
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Speaker 4: And that smile.
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Speaker 3: He's as friendly and kind as a... His face.
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Speaker 2: I don't know how you fall into playing a middleman, but that's what he did in so many of his characters. You don't know the name immediately, but undoubtedly you know there's a round face and he wore this big, bushy mustache.
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Speaker 1: Always.
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Speaker 3: Always. But he has robes.
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Speaker 2: I don't remember him in glory, but he was some racist character in that one.
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Speaker 3: Oh, I do.
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Speaker 4: I love that movie.
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Speaker 2: He was in The Fugitive, Casino, Bridesmaids. And he was usually playing the everyman, some middleman, some middlemanager, some detective. He was never in charge kind of a thing. In Casino, there was a scene that Joe Pesci beat him up over some money that he owed him.
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Speaker 3: He just, he was always that character. He was wonderful.
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Speaker 2: And one of my favorite things to see him in is, this is going to sound nuts, Executive Decision.
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Speaker 3: You don't even know what I'm talking about.
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Speaker 2: It's a movie with Steven Seagal in which terrorists hijack a plane because they're going to use it to attack a city. Robes, this was before 9-11 and folks pointed to this movie like, wow, Hollywood could come up with this scenario and y'all couldn't?
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Speaker 3: Halle Berry plays a flight attendant in that movie.
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Speaker 1: Oh, I remember.
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Speaker 4: You've had me watch this movie.
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Speaker 3: It's all coming back to me. He played the air marshal.
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Speaker 4: Of course he did.
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Speaker 2: This guy, he always played that kind of thing. That was my first thought, robes i saw he passed i said oh yeah the air marshal well.
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Speaker 1: And guess what this isn't shocking when you see his face he has played santa claus a total of eight different times throughout his career i also thought that was a fun fact because he does have that santa claus like charm about him.
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Speaker 2: Friendly yes jolly He's been wonderful. So I don't think a cause of death was announced. I haven't seen one, at least as of this recording. But 78 years old, what a life, what a career, what an impression on an industry that he's left. I hated to see it, but he made me smile just to see his face again.
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Speaker 4: We'll have to watch some of his films today. We like doing that.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, just pick one. I mean, just turn on the TV and hit stream. He's probably in it.
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Speaker 1: All right. For the final leg of the run, you asked me before the break, or you asked everyone, but then you asked me during the break, do you actually know who's playing the World Series? And I had to admit, if I hadn't read the story ahead of time, the answer would have been no.
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Speaker 4: But it is set, ready to go. It's going to be a fun one. And there are two cities that are.
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Speaker 4: Incredibly exciting.
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Speaker 3: It's time. Neither one of these teams has ever won a World Series. That's cool. So Tampa Bay or Milwaukee.
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Speaker 2: Are going to get their first ever World Series, but the Tampa Bay Rays beat the Cleveland.
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Speaker 3: Wow. Guardians. You see that mistake I made in the script?
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Speaker 1: I see. Wow, and I'm glad you read that.
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Speaker 4: Because I would have read it and would not have known.
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Speaker 3: They are the Guardians.
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Speaker 1: Because I would have absolutely thought their former name, which is now considered.
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Speaker 3: It's a problem. Racist.
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Speaker 2: But the Cleveland Guardians, they beat them last night. This story is not even about Cleveland, and we spend this much time on it. Yes, the Tampa Bay Rays beat Cleveland to win the American League Championship Series four games to two. They advanced now to the World Series, played the Brewers. Neither team ever won. Game one will be on Friday. The Rays, though, have been in it two other times in the past six or something years. But Milwaukee hadn't been there in 44 years or something like that.
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Speaker 3: So this will be fun.
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Speaker 1: And game one is in Milwaukee. And, you know, it just it's such it's such a like a sports town. This is going to be Milwaukee. I'm excited for them. Like, it's going to be so fun.
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Speaker 2: I like smaller markets to see more smaller markets get excited. And it's going to be a first for these cities. These stadiums going to be. bananas i love it yeah.
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Speaker 1: We'll have fun watching all of that for your quote of the day on this tuesday never stay up late for something you wouldn't wake up early.
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Speaker 2: For yeah live by that not a problem.
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Speaker 1: But I do think it's a good way, like, huh, that's such a good way to gauge whether or not you should invest your time. Never stay up late for something you wouldn't wake up early for. And with that, everyone, we always appreciate you waking up with us.
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Speaker 4: I'm Amy Robach.
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Speaker 3: And I'm TJ Holmes. We'll run soon.