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Speaker 1: Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio Podcast. Good

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Speaker 1: morning everyone, Welcome to your Morning Run.

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Speaker 2: I'm Amy Robot and I'm DJ Holmes. It is Monday,

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Speaker 2: January twenty seventh. On the Run this morning, President Trump

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Speaker 2: plays a high stakes game of Chicken with a foreign

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Speaker 2: leader and one Also, Trump's immigration roundup is underway, so

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Speaker 2: why is doctor Phil there?

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Speaker 1: Plus La goes from fire warnings to floodwatches, and Target

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Speaker 1: joins other big companies and put.

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Speaker 3: A bullseye on its DEI.

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Speaker 1: And why the word boring was trending last night after

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Speaker 1: we found out who'd be playing in.

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Speaker 3: The Super Bowl.

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Speaker 2: And on the confirmation front this morning, we officially got

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Speaker 2: new secretaries of Defense and Homeland Security. Over the weekend,

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Speaker 2: Mitch McConnell sends a message with a no vote on

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Speaker 2: one of Trump's nominees, and the hot seats don't get

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Speaker 2: hotter than this. RFK Junior Tulca Gabbard and FBI nominee

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Speaker 2: Cash Bettel are up.

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Speaker 1: Next, and on this morning's final leg, some disheartening news

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Speaker 1: to pass along out of South Carolina.

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Speaker 3: Say it ain't so.

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Speaker 1: The final few of those brave little escape monkeys have

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Speaker 1: enjoyed their last day of freedom. We've enjoyed that story

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Speaker 1: quite immensely over the past couple of months. Will bring

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Speaker 1: you the latest update. But we begin our run with

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Speaker 1: President Trump starting his second week on the job with

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Speaker 1: a bang, proving when it comes to enforcing his new

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Speaker 1: immigration policies, he means business.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and his don't f with me strategy seems to

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Speaker 2: have worked. On Columbia. The Colombian president tested the strategy

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Speaker 2: when he refused to accept two US military planes that

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Speaker 2: were bringing deported migrants back to Colombia. He wouldn't let

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Speaker 2: the planes even land. They were in the air ready

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Speaker 2: to drop the folks off.

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Speaker 3: That's right.

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Speaker 1: The Colombian president returned the flights because he claimed its

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Speaker 1: citizens were being treated inhumanely, saying a migrant is not

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Speaker 1: a criminal and must be treated with dignity that a

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Speaker 1: human being deserves. That is why I returned the US

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Speaker 1: military planes that were carrying Colombian immigrants or Colombian migrants

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Speaker 1: in civilian planes without being treated like criminals. We will

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Speaker 1: receive our fellow citizens.

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Speaker 2: So how did Trump take that? Well, he announced pretty

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Speaker 2: soon after a twenty five percent tariff on all goods

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Speaker 2: coming into this country into the US from Colombia and

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Speaker 2: said that number would go up to fifty percent in

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Speaker 2: a week. He also ordered a travel ban and immediate

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Speaker 2: visa revocations on Colombian government officials, allies, and supporters.

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Speaker 1: Trump wrote on social media that we will not allow

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Speaker 1: the Colombian government to violate its legal obligations with regard

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Speaker 1: to the acceptance and return of the criminals they forced

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Speaker 1: into the United States.

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Speaker 2: But last night White House released the statement saying Colombia

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Speaker 2: took everything back and had agreed to all of its

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Speaker 2: terms and so the tariffs and sanctions against the country

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Speaker 2: would be held in reserve.

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Speaker 1: However, the visa sanctions will remain in effect until that

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Speaker 1: first planeload of deportees has landed in Colombia, and.

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Speaker 3: The White House added this in its statement.

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Speaker 1: Today's events make clear to the world that America is

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Speaker 1: respected again. But those war of words between the two

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Speaker 1: got really nasty. Did you see some of the things

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Speaker 1: that the Colombian president said about Donald Trump?

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Speaker 2: Oh? Yeah, and you don't want to set off a

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Speaker 2: trade war. This is not good of Plenty of people,

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Speaker 2: and certainly Trump supporters will be clapping their hands and

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Speaker 2: applauding and saying, look, this proves the point he is

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Speaker 2: somebody that gets things done. Others will look at this

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Speaker 2: because somebody else, What if somebody in Europe would if

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Speaker 1: Well, and obviously Colombians, the Colombian government tried to say, yeah,

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Speaker 1: well we'll do it back to you. And so they

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Speaker 2: But clearly we don't need them as much as they

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Speaker 2: need us. Correct, correct, Well, continue our run on this

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Speaker 2: Monday morning. Now, the Trump administration was busy at work

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Speaker 2: enforcing its immigration policies here at home, launching a nationwide

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Speaker 1: It's all part of an effort to utilize multiple federal

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Speaker 1: White House brought in ICE agents, along with officials from

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Speaker 2: What critics say is this is a roundup of illegal

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Speaker 2: on Sunday. White house borders are Tom Harmon was on

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Speaker 2: the ground of Chicago to observe operations. They are calling

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Speaker 2: it a good day and a game changer.

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Speaker 1: Chicago's mayor said the city's police were not involved in

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Speaker 1: the raids and urged residents to quote know their constitutional rights.

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Speaker 1: Those raids also took place in Atlanta, Los Angeles, Austin, Colorado,

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Speaker 2: Of people were shaking their heads. I shouldn't say shaking, scratching,

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Speaker 2: It's probably the way to put it. Because a lot

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Speaker 2: of the video that was coming out and stuff that

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Speaker 2: doctor Phil. Yes, doctor Phil was there with a crew,

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Speaker 2: essentially saying he was embedded for some of these operations

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Speaker 2: and they were shooting video. Not that clear to a

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Speaker 2: I'm sure we will hear about it later and we

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Speaker 1: Yes, he interviewed Tom Horman and said he was there

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Speaker 1: people said. It was that they were actually arresting known

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Speaker 1: that's certainly we've seen varying statements about who is actually

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Speaker 2: All right, we will continue here on this Monday morning,

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Speaker 2: on this morning run. And it was a Rockey road.

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Speaker 2: But after all that, former Fox News host Pete Hegseeth

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Speaker 2: was sworn in as Defense Secretary over the weekend after

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Speaker 2: a tight vote in the Senate so tight it required

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Speaker 2: a tiebreaker.

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Speaker 3: That's right. The vote on Friday night was initially fifty fifty.

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Speaker 1: Former GOP leader Mitch McConnell made headlines as he joined

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Speaker 1: Vance had to come in and cast that tie breaking vote.

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Speaker 2: On Saturday, Vance officiated Hegseth swearing in ceremony where Hexath

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Speaker 2: our military Hecseth has been under intense scrutiny for allegations

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Speaker 2: of sexual assault, alcohol abuse, and financial mismanagement.

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Speaker 1: He has denied all of those allegations against him, and

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Speaker 1: when he appeared before the Senate Armed Services Committee, he

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Speaker 2: Well, the road to confirmation was a little smooth for

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Speaker 2: South Dakota Governor Christy Nolme. The Senate voted Saturday to

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Speaker 1: Nome said she will secure our southern border and quote

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Speaker 1: fix our broken immigration system, which we're seeing President Trump

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we done with confirmation hearings either. This is going

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Speaker 2: to be a doozy of a week. Wednesday, Robert Kennedy, Yes,

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Speaker 1: His nomination, as I'm sure many of you are aware,

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Speaker 1: including perhaps namely, his record of spreading unfounded fears about

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Speaker 1: vaccinations and those unfounded claims that there's somehow a link

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Speaker 2: Yapatel has called for dramatically reducing the agency's footprint and

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Speaker 2: for harsher punishments for government officials who leak information to journalists.

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Speaker 2: Also on Thursday, former Congresswoman Tulci Gabbard will appear before

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Speaker 2: the Intelligence Committee. She's been tapped by Trump to become

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Speaker 2: expected fireworks. So much talk was about hegseth that you're like, oh, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean, I know where you're going to be for

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Speaker 2: Obviously there's grandstanding, a lot of going on that going

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Speaker 2: Are you going to make the evening headlines? Fine, but

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Speaker 2: great drama, but you also learn a lot about these nominees.

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Speaker 2: This is fascinating to watch. Only happens every few years.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, this is political theater. Actually, like truly political.

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Speaker 2: Theater at its best. We'll stay with us here on

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Speaker 2: this Monday Morning Run, folks. We've got a lot more

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Speaker 2: know the super Bowl is set, are people complaining about

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Speaker 3: Stay with us, Welcome back to Morning Run. Everyone.

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Speaker 1: Next up on the Run, parts of LA that have

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Speaker 2: Yeah, fire crews who continue to borrow to battle wild

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Speaker 2: fire's got a welcome assist from light rain over the weekend,

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Speaker 2: But flood watches are in place today in the LA

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Speaker 1: And that's a real well, that's possibly a real problem

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Speaker 2: Yes, authorities are reminding Angelina's to have an emergency plan

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Speaker 2: and be prepared for possible evacuations. Yes, folks have been

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Speaker 2: Now they're told, you might have to evacuate if we

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Speaker 2: think there's too high of a mudslide risk. That's wild.

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Speaker 1: Those are scary warnings. I mean, just that can happen

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Speaker 1: it comes to those two events. So just not the

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Speaker 2: You know, to some degree, you can see a fire

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Speaker 2: just you just got it. You just don't know that

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Speaker 2: fire crews seem, though the good news have an upper

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Speaker 2: It is our quote of the day.

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Speaker 1: It seems it's like the perfect quote on a Monday.

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Speaker 3: Monday is a new day, It's a new start.

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Speaker 2: I love that You're right. It did this quote. I'm

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Speaker 2: can't remember where I got it, but it gave me

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Speaker 2: Life is too short to live for the weekends only,

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Speaker 2: We always enjoy running with you, and please a reminder

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Speaker 2: every single day. We have noticed we have got some

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Speaker 3: Yep, so we're excited. We don't mind getting brilli.

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Speaker 3: I'm made Me Robot and I'm TJ.

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Speaker 2: Holmes. We'll see you on the run tomorrow.