4-30-26 Morning Rush - Blake Lively Wanted To Direct Sequel? Justin Baldoni Evidence Resurfaces! & Pete Hegseth GRILLED In Hearings
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Dave Neal
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🗓️ 30 April 2026
⏱️ 25 minutes
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It's a packed Morning Rush as the drama between Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni takes another turn—and the narrative isn't lining up.
Blake claims she was promised a sequel to It Ends With Us, but newly surfaced evidence and court arguments are raising serious questions about that version of events. Baldoni's team is pushing back hard, calling parts of her claims speculative, especially when it comes to alleged damages tied to a sequel that was never officially confirmed (). With key claims already dismissed and the trial looming, the gap between what's being said publicly and what's being argued in court is getting harder to ignore.
Meanwhile, in Washington, Pete Hegseth is under intense pressure, facing tough questions in a congressional hearing over the escalating war in Iran. Lawmakers are grilling him on inconsistencies, accountability, and whether the administration has been fully transparent with the American public.
Two high-stakes battles—one in Hollywood, one on Capitol Hill—both centered on credibility, conflicting narratives, and what the truth actually looks like when the spotlight hits.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the rush hour, your daily dose of pop culture for your rush hour ride. |
| 0:07.8 | Buckle up and enjoy the drive with your host, stand-up comedian Dave Neal. |
| 0:13.8 | Good morning, everybody. |
| 0:15.4 | Happy Thursday to you on this April 30th. |
| 0:18.0 | It's 26. |
| 0:19.0 | I have all of your news for your rush hour ride to work. And we have more |
| 0:22.9 | bogus claims by Blake lively. Her trial with Justin Baldoni is right around the corner. |
| 0:29.5 | We'll be there live in New York City to cover it. I think what we're going to do is every morning |
| 0:34.1 | and every afternoon. We'll get you to the courthouse and then we'll interview people who's in the courthouse and get all the news, facts, we'll chat, we'll have live streams, it'll be a ton of fun. But in the meantime, we're still setting the table. We are still asking the judge essentially what's going to be allowed for them to claim. So they have to bring up all of this sort of ideas to the judge. The judge has already |
| 0:54.3 | thrown out 10 of the 13 claims by Blake Lively. But how about this one? Blake Lively wants money |
| 1:00.3 | from Baldoni for lost business, reputational damage, and all the other stuff. But now they're |
| 1:06.4 | showing this. Justin Baldoni blasts Blake Lively's claim. She lost $35 million from a never-made |
| 1:13.6 | it ends with a sequel. So Blake Lively is mad that she's not going to be able to shoot a sequel |
| 1:19.2 | with the man that I guess she claims harassed her and then some. Now look, by all means, |
| 1:25.3 | if everything Blake Lively was alleging about Baldoni was true, it's like, |
| 1:29.0 | why should her livelihood pay the price? But of course, as most people are aware, the more you look into |
| 1:34.0 | the case, the more you realize that Blake Lively's claims don't really hold much water, if you will. |
| 1:40.3 | So this is a funny part because Baldoni in an interview I'm going to share with you guys |
| 1:45.0 | an unearthed interview. Baldoni says, yeah, Blake lively should direct. What we now know and can read |
| 1:50.9 | between the lines was Baldoni saying, good God, I wish she would try to direct and see how hard it |
| 1:56.6 | is to deal with divas like her. He didn't say that, but we'll get into what he was implying there. |
| 2:02.6 | So yeah, that's right. She wanted $35 million, seeking more than $200 million in damages in her |
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