Morning Run: October Surprise, Bank of America Scare, Panic Purchases and the Return of the GOAT

Published Oct 3, 2024, 10:10 AM

Robach and Holmes cover the latest news headlines and entertainment updates and give perspective on current events in their daily “Morning Run.”

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Hey folks, It's Thursday, October, the third and happy National Boyfriend Day. To you all, I'm boyfriend TJ. Holmes.

Oh wow, this is news to me. You added that I'm Amy Roebuck. Everyone said, girlfriend of my lovely boyfriend on this National Boyfriend Day. Thank you for being mine.

Sounds like you have big plans and surprises in store, but we'll get all that later as we get going on our morning run. Thank you all for being here.

That's right.

In October, surprise in the form of a one hundred and sixty five page document that calls Trump a criminal.

Also a doctor Polea's guilty in the overdose death of Matthew Perry and Biden plans to chat with net Yahoo, but can all out war in the Middle East be avoided?

And Helene now the second deadliest storm in a half century. Rescue and recovery continues today. And sure it was interesting, but the ratings say not as many people were interested in watching the Van Swaltz debate.

Also, I'm so used to being broke, but not like this. Bank of America customers were seeing a balance of zero when they logged into their accounts. Also, possibly the greatest actor alive is coming out of retirement.

Cannot wait for that story, but we're going to begin our morning run. In Washington, d C. With just thirty three days until the presidential election, a judge unseals new evidence in the federal election case against former President Trump. Now, in it we see the evidence prosecutors presented for why Trump should not be immune from prosecution on federal charges of plotting to overturn the twenty twenty election.

They say the case should go forward despite the Supreme Court's ruling on presidential amenity immunity. Now, Throughout the one hundred and sixty five page document, prosecutors make the argument that Trump's actions to overturn the election were in his private capacity as a candidate and not in any official capacity as a president. Therefore, he does not have presidential immunity. In other words, he was acting as a private citizen running for office and not as the president of the United States.

Now, the Trump campaign says Smith's narrative is falsehood ridden and unconstitutional. Inside those one hundred and sixty five pages, prosecutors said Trump's phone activity logs show he was scrolling through Twitter. He was using his phone all while officers were being assaulted at the US Capital on January sixth. They also argue that Trump and Mike Pence's discussions were in their private capacities as running mates and not in their official government roles.

Yeah, the document says that Pence gradually and gently trying to convince Trump to accept the lawful results all the election, even if it meant they lost. And when Trump was informed that Pence had to be rushed to a secure location after Trump verbally attacked him for refusing to help overturn the election, he said these two words.

So what they go on to say Trump resorted to crimes to try and stay in office, and they argue he worked with a team of private co conspirators when he pursued and I'm quoting here multiple criminal means to disrupt through fraud and deceit the government function by which votes are collected and counting. And prosecutors are also saying they have a witness who will testify that Trump told family members while he was on his plane, it doesn't matter if you won or lost the election, you still have to fight like hell. The implication here is that he was inciting violence.

Trump has already come out and said this is election interference, that this is being released to influence the election that is only about a month away. But this is a damning, damning document. Many are calling it an October surprise, but you could call the war that we're seeing in the Middle East right now something of an October surprise. The hurricane that we just had, a lot of people in North Carolina. North Carolina ain't thinking about an election. How is that going to have an impact as well? So all these things are adding up that what how is this going to have an impact on the election.

But the timing, for sure, has to be questioned, and it is certainly something that Trump supporters will point to and rightfully so all right, next up on our run, forty three point one million people tuned in to see Senator jd Vance and Governor Tim Walls be nice to each other.

That's a pretty big drop off though.

From the fifty nine million people who watched Mike Pence debate Kamala Harris back in twenty twenty.

Now bad debate Harris Pence was the most watched vice presidential debate in history. The most watched VP debate in history wasn't two thousand and eight. I guess this isn't that big of a surprise. This was Biden versus then Governor Sarah Palin.

I remember that so so well.

A seventy million to watch that one.

You know what, it is a sad thing, though, to report because it is true. Doesn't it seem like when things are good or nice or pleasant, that somehow because it isn't dramatic or controversial, not as many people tune in, not as many people talk about it, and that is unfortunate. And that is why death and sex and drama sells because of this exact sort of ratings response.

And you know, another little nugget here, and I found this interesting and I'm not sure how to feel about it, but the three most watched vice presidential debates in history all involved a woman on the ticket. Number three, Geraldine Ferraro debating George Bush back in nineteen seventy four, if I have that right, But yes, somebody said, whatever the year was, but yeah, fifty six point seven million watch. So the three most watch involved Palin, Harris, and Ferraro, who were vice presidential picks.

Maybe watching two white guys talk isn't really that interesting nomore. Yeah, we're kind of over it and I'm okay with that.

Well, next up on our run, President Biden says he's going to speak to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin at Yahoo and says this chat will happen soon with the hope that a full scale war in the Middle East can be avoided. But Israel showing no signs right now of letting up on its assault on Hesbelo.

That's right.

Airstrikes in and around Bairut continued overnight, targeting Hesbela infrastructure. The militant group has been weakened greatly in recent weeks.

I'm sure you've been keeping up with the news.

Many in his leadership have been taken out by those Israeli attacks, including its longtime head Hassan Hasrala.

Also. Israel meanwhile, has announced that eight of its soldiers have died in fighting in Lebanon. These are the first deaths for Israel of its ground incursion. More than twelve hundred people have been killed the past two weeks of fighting. More than a million people of leven them have been displaced. And all this is happening as robes. We still await Israel's response to Iran's missile attack. We saw just a couple of days ago when they lobbed some two hundred missiles. Most of them were intercepted by anti missile defense systems, but we still are waiting to see what they do there.

Yeah, I mean, it is exhausting and it is disappointing to see this constant tit for tat every time you turn on the news. But it is devastating for the people in that area. And my heart just goes out to everyone who has caught in the crosshairs with this escalating violence that's going on between the two groups. Our run continues in the southeast and the aftermath of Helene. Can you believe it? Hurricane Helene made landfall a week ago today, and still a million homes and businesses are without power, hundreds are still missing, they are unaccounted for, and the death toll continues to rise each day.

And right now it is one hundred and ninety At least one hundred and ninety people confirmed dead across six states. This now makes Helene the second deadlyest hurricane to hit the US in the past fifty plus years, only second to Katrina in two thousand and five, and most of the desks and power out as we are seeing robes have been in the Carolinas, where still some places are completely cut off, shut off, you can't get to them. I think we did some reporting here that even mules were being used to try to get supplies to people. So those two places have been hit hard.

Yeah, some of the descriptions coming specifically out of the Asheville, North Carolina area, those towns in and around those mountain that mountainous region are calling it apocalyptic that people don't have water, they don't have basic needs. And so there are yes, thousands of people on the ground there and in the air trying to get supplies to folks and still trying to find people, still trying to rescue people of days almost a week later. This is just terrible to witness.

And what the problem is that we've seen this in storms in the past where it's almost a relief. You see these trucks, the power trucks that all right, they're here, it's to restore power. The problem here is the crews can't just restore power. The infrastructure has been taken out. There is nothing to restore. You have to rebuild a whole power grid in some of these places. Is that devastating? So this is going to be a long haul.

Yeah. I mean anyone who has been involved or has been around a natural disaster like this, and certainly we've reported from them and I have been without power for as long as five days, but in a professional capacity. And when you get to where you're at a week where you haven't had a shower, you can't flush the toilet, you're standing in line for a bottle of water, you're actually physically hungry. These are tough days for the folks there, and their help can't come soon enough.

All right.

Coming up next, we are going to be talking about Matthew Perry. Another doctor has pleaded guilty in the death of the superstar. Welcome back, every one. We continue our run this morning with a doctor pleading guilty in the overdose death of Matthew Perry. Mark Chavez is one of five people charged in the case, and is now the third among them to enter a guilty plead.

Prosecutor say he wrote fraudulent prescriptions to obtain ketamine, which he then provided to another doctor, who then passed them along to Perry. Now, Perry's live in personal assistant and a friend have also both pleaded guilty to charges connected to Perry's death.

Now, Chavez pled guilty to a felony count of conspiring to distribute ketamine. He could still face up to ten years in prison. This was shocking just in the aftermath of Perry's death that anyone was charged.

It seemed like.

It was an accidental death initially, but certainly now we are seeing five people and three of them admit that they contributed to Matthew Perry's death. Next up on the Run, a second lawsuit has been filed by someone claiming he is the one who actually caught Can you say the name for me?

Show Hey O, Tani's a record home run ball. That's my fault for putting that reason.

I don't want to be disrespectful.

If I'm not sure I know how to say someone's name, and I know you do, I'm going to defer TJ. So thank you, my boyfriend on this National Boyfriend Day.

Well, we talked about Joey Otani here on The Daily previously about his home run ball. See last month, the Dodger superstar became the first player in history to have fifty home runs and fifty stolen bases in a season. The fifty to fifty club we talked about, and he is right now the only he is the founding member of that club. So that fiftieth home run ball is now the subject of not one, but two lawsuits. This second one was filed by a man who says he quote firmly and completely possessed the ball in his left hand when someone jumped over a railing, attacked him and caused the ball to come loose.

All right, So the first lawsuit was filed last week by an eighteen year old who says he actually caught the ball before another man wrestled it away from him. Why all the fighting over a baseball? Well, it's currently up for auction and the bidding is around a million and a half dollars, So yes, not shocking. The fighting is all over money, millions of dollars. However, it cannot be officially sold, by the way, until these lawsuits are resolved.

So this is a mess.

It's going to be quite some time before that ball goes to auction.

If there's no video evidence, what do you do, I mean, how do you prove this case? How I had it in my hand and who actually is it the person who catches it or the person who ends up with it is the one who actually owns the ball. Yeah, you caught it, but you dropped it. How you dropped it? I don't know.

Finders, keepers, losers, weepers. I mean, if you go back to the to the playground, those are the rules. If whoever ended up with it is the one who gets to have it and gets the proceeds from it, that would be my guest. How else, how how else would you proceed Give.

It to show Hey o Tani, since it's his history and let's move on.

I would vote for that, well, you know I would vote.

I would or give it to charity, like you know, the proceeds go to charity.

All right, we're going to continue on the next leg of our run. Here and everybody, there is no need to panic. But as Woody would say, this is a perfect time to panic. This is what we're talking about. Panic buying that's taking place right now. Yes, some of you listening right now might have gone out there. You're grabbing toilet paper, paper, towles, water, all this stuff, stocking up on the wrong items because of this long Shorman strike.

Yeah, stores are now reporting there is an unusual uptick of sales.

Of those items again, toilet paper.

Paper, towels, bottled water, and there are now dwindling supplies on store shelves. Yes, forty five thousand workers went on strike this week, shutting down thirty six ports along the East and Gulf coasts.

Yes, this strike is going to have is having, We'll continue to have a huge financial impact, and it has a huge impact on imports items like bananas, automobile seafood, chocolate, alcohol, things that we have to import. It does not affect the things that are already here in the US and that are made here in the US. The things you're buying right now, toilet baby, baby, dowsand water.

So perhaps stuck up on your favorite Italian wine or your favorite Belgian chocolate and leave the toilet paper on the shelves for the rest of us. Now, a lot of people are pointing to the fact that it's not that long ago where we remember those empty store shelves in the panic during the pandemic, where we could not find those basic items, and so people are reverting to that, even buying up meat. They're just you know, intellectually, I think you know, that those things are made here in the United States, But emotionally, we're still responding to the trauma we had from not being able to get things we needed for our family. So that is what's happening right now, and officials are just urging folks to just take a deep breath and remember this stuff is made here in the United States and it's going to continue to be be available.

I've got paper Townism my Amazon inbox right now or cart right now.

He just hearing that makes me want to go out and make sure do I have enough hand soap?

Do I have enough sanitizer? You know, Clorox wipes?

Do I have enough of the Yeah, you start going back to your twenty twenty days of do.

I have enough?

Okay, Well, speaking of times to panic, yesterday was one for a lot of Bank of America customers because they logged into the account and sure, maybe you used to being broke, but you ain't used to it being a zero in there. Yes, twenty thousand people were portally impacted when they logged into their Bank of America accounts and their account said zero.

Yeah.

Some people couldn't see their account balances at all. They just saw like dashes, and that probably was a little better than the others who could see their account balances and were horrified to see that their balance was zero. In other cases, customers reported trying to use ATMs, which charged their accounts for money that the machines did not dispense.

Wow. I would be panicked about that too.

You're right about the dash versus zero the dash I can deal with the trouble. Start around noon Eastern time, but by last night, Bank of America said that the technology the tech issues had been fully resolved. They apologized for the inconvenience. They said the glitch was not related to a cyber attack. They wouldn't specify what the cause was, leaving some customers uneasy about the security of their accounts. I would like my bank to say, this was the problem, we fixed.

It correct, correct, and we I did log into our Bank of America account and there was a balance, Thank goodness.

There was a balance.

Well it was the correct balance, yes, But you know, if you go when you look and see what people were putting on Twitter.

I laughed at a couple of these shows. My debt just fine, though. You know, they had a zero account bounce.

But their credit card debt was fully, fully readable, and they saw the amount other people were tweeting. I think I think they owe everybody some cash for pain and suffering because that was extremely stressful. People were talking about canceling vacations because they thought they had no money in their accounts. I mean, we can.

Joke about it, but if you really believed or thought that.

Somehow this was an issue that wasn't going to be resolved, this has a real time impact. If you're about to go spend money, or you're about to go do something, go out of town, and you have zero dollars in your account, it's a major problem. Yeah, someone just wrote not cool to lead people hanging and feeling insecure about their money.

That's one way to put it.

Look, my personal balance is usually about that low, So I didn't freak out when I saw the zero yesterday. It was about right, Well.

We're freaking out for a much better reason. So on this final leg of our run, not since Michael Jordan in ninety five have we been this excited to hear someone was coming out of retirement. Three time Oscar winner Daniel day Lewis is ending his seven year retirement. He's going to start in a brand new film.

No, you are very excited about this. This guy is absolutely I would say a celebrity crush of yours, and I say it in the way just you have such respect for what he does on screen. This guy is absolutely amazing. But Da Lewis surprise everybody. It was really shocking when he made that announcement in twenty seventeen that he was going to quit acting. Now at that time and still he is considered one of the greatest living actors on the planet and is the only man to ever win three Best Actor Oscars, but he said at that time there was just some impulse that took root in him and quitting was something he had to do.

So what got him to come out of retirement, Not surprisingly his son. The new film will be directed by his son, twenty six year old Ronan da Lewis. The father and son duo wrote the script together. It's called Anemone and it's going to be his son's directorial debut again. Daniel day Lewis is going to star in it. It's been described the film as an exploration of the intricate relationships between fathers, sons and brothers, as well as the dynamics of familial bonds. He is so so good. I know you described my crush on him very aptly, because it's less of like a physical crush and more just adoration because the film is my left foot. Age of Innocence, you know, is my favorite. It's playing right now on background as we and we it is oftentimes too. It just so happened to be today as well. In the Name of the Father, Oh my gosh, if you have not seen that movie, and then he's okay, he's really hot. And Last to the Mohicans, I'm gonna say, if you haven't seen that as well. And then Lincoln, I mean, but.

Those are his oscars. Lincoln my left foot, and there will be blood, right are the oscars. But yeah, you've got me, and I've never seen Last of the Mohicans. You got me into Age of Innocence, which I've seen in the background. An I just sat and watched the movie. But the guy is he does little things in movies sometimes like wow, how did he make me feel that? Or how did he make He's incredible? He absolutely is.

Yeah, And I love when he and Scorsese get together because they did Age of Innocence.

They did.

There will be blood together as well. So Scorsese was teasing earlier in the year that we might be seeing him again, and so sure enough it's happening, folks. I for one cannot wait.

Well, folks, as we wrap up our run here and you go about your day, we would like for you, as you go about your day, to consider this.

The best weight you will ever lose is the weight of other people's opinion of you. We hope that gives you something to think about as you go about your day. But thank you in the meantime for joining us for this morning's run. We'll see you back here tomorrow.