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

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Speaker 2: Hey there, everybody, and welcome to your morning Run for Thursday,

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Speaker 2: February twentieth. Morning Run now guaranteed available by six thirty

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Speaker 2: am Eastern Time, every single day, Monday through Friday.

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Speaker 3: I'm TJ.

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Speaker 1: Holmes and I'm Amy Robach and on the run this morning.

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Speaker 1: The latest on the Pope, he's improving. We'll have the

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Speaker 1: latest on Trump, he's apparently a king. The latest on Dolenski.

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Speaker 4: He's a dictator.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna explain all of that as we report another

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Speaker 1: eventful news day.

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Speaker 2: Plus the youngest Israeli hostages returned this morning in a

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Speaker 2: heartbreaking scene, and police have rounded up the selfie taking

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Speaker 2: thieves who've been robbing pro athletes home.

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Speaker 1: Also on the run, how does a refund check sound?

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Speaker 1: Trump floats an idea to send doge savings right back

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Speaker 1: to you survive a plane crash, Well, here's thirty thousand.

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Speaker 4: Dollars for your trouble. How about that?

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Speaker 1: And we begin our run on this Thursday with a

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Speaker 1: war of words escalating between President Trump and Ukrainian President Zelenski.

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Speaker 1: President Trump calling President Zelenski a dictator without elections and

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Speaker 1: warned him to move quickly to secure peace or he

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Speaker 1: would have no country left.

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Speaker 2: Now, you'll remember, Trump suggested that Ukraine was responsible for

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Speaker 2: the Russian invasion, responsible for this war. He said just

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Speaker 2: this week, Ukraine should never have started the conflict.

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Speaker 3: That threw a lot of people off all over the world.

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Speaker 2: Zelenski hit back at that, saying that Trump was trapped

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Speaker 2: and what he called a Russian disinformation bubble. Ukrainian Foreign

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Speaker 2: minister also chimed in on social media, adding that we

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Speaker 2: will defend our right to exist.

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Speaker 1: Trump is referring to the end of Zelenski's elected five

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Speaker 1: year term as president. It actually technically ended in twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty four, but because that country is under martial law,

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Speaker 1: presidential and parliamentary elections cannot be held. Russian President Putin

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Speaker 1: said yesterday Ukraine would not be barred from peace negotiations,

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Speaker 1: but he said the level of trust between Moscow and

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Speaker 1: Washington had to be raised. His remarks come one day

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Speaker 1: after the US and rus Russia held their first talks

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Speaker 1: on how to end the war with Ukraine without Ukraine.

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Speaker 2: All right, people might have taken issue with that thing

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Speaker 2: that President Trump said, but American's not going to take

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Speaker 2: too much issue with this next thing that he said.

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Speaker 2: President Trump made an announcement last night that a lot

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Speaker 2: of folks ah music to their ears a DOGE dibdend check.

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Speaker 3: How's that sound?

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Speaker 1: Yeah? Trump said the Department of Government Efficiency may return

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Speaker 1: twenty percent of the savings in amasses from budget and

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Speaker 1: job cuts right back to American taxpayers. He said this

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Speaker 1: new concept is under consideration, saying another twenty percent would

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Speaker 1: go to paying down our debt.

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Speaker 2: So that's twenty and twenty. So what happens to the

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Speaker 2: other sixty percent. Well, I didn't exactly say where that

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Speaker 2: money would go, but Trump praised the work DOZE has

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Speaker 2: been doing, promising the department would have hundreds of billions

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Speaker 2: of dollars and wasteful spending that it finds.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and Elon Musk has said in the past he

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Speaker 1: expects DOGE to cut costs by as much as one

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Speaker 1: trillion dollars. So I was trying to do the math

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Speaker 1: on that twenty percent what that would be. It's a

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Speaker 1: lot of zeros, That's all I know right now. It's

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Speaker 1: unclear whether Trump would need congressional approval to put his

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Speaker 1: plan into action, and there weren't any specifics, any details

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Speaker 1: given to this. He said this in his speech last night.

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Speaker 1: It was a group of financial investors. So we'll see

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Speaker 1: if he gives more details in the days to come.

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Speaker 3: But everybody would like it. That's the point.

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Speaker 2: The idea that you're going to have a hard time

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Speaker 2: finding somebody. He's finding things that people are going to

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Speaker 2: have a tough time arguing with. This is one of them.

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Speaker 2: You're saving the money, it's our money, send it back

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Speaker 2: to us.

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Speaker 3: That's people are going to love that idea.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you might not like his policies, but I don't

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Speaker 1: think you're Oh, I think you're going to cash the

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Speaker 1: check if you get it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, how democratic are you. We'll continue here on our

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Speaker 2: run with another follow through from the president, and New

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Speaker 2: Yorkers are going to like this one.

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Speaker 3: Possibly.

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Speaker 2: The Trump administration is taking steps to cancel congestion pricing

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Speaker 2: in Manhattan, keeping a promise he made again right before

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Speaker 2: he came back in office.

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Speaker 1: It's as in the nation policy that charges a toll

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Speaker 1: on most vehicles entering certain high traffic areas of Manhattan.

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Speaker 4: It's nine dollars.

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Speaker 1: It's been a highly debated and highly controversial issue for

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Speaker 2: So Trump said he was going to get rid of it,

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Speaker 2: and sure enough, the Transportation Department yesterday said it is

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Speaker 2: canceling approval of the congestion pricing plan and will begin

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Speaker 2: working with New York for an orderly termination of the tolls.

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Speaker 2: New York Governor's response will see you in court.

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Speaker 1: In fact, Governor Hochel said they were prepared for this

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Speaker 1: move by the Trump administration and filed a lawsuit within

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Speaker 1: minutes of getting notification. She also vowed that the program

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Speaker 1: will continue in the meantime. In announcing the cancelation of

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Speaker 1: congestion pricing, President Trump wrote this on social media, and we.

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Speaker 2: Quote, congestion pricing is dead. Manhattan and all of New

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Speaker 2: York is saved. Long live the King. He seemed to

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Speaker 2: be referring to himself there as King. You could try

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Speaker 2: to interpret and maybe he was being tongue in cheek,

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Speaker 2: followed through and made clear that he was calling himself

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Speaker 2: the King. The White House on their official Twitter handle,

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Speaker 2: their ex handle, I should say, put out a false

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Speaker 2: or a what you call it. The White wird to

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Speaker 2: put a Time magazine cover which he was on it

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Speaker 2: that's from the official White House. It's an official White

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Speaker 2: House release on its official Twitter page.

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Speaker 1: So every day there's a there's another story or another

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Speaker 1: move by the Trump administration that is unprecedented.

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Speaker 4: This would be among them.

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Speaker 2: It is He's a New York boy. He's had a

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Speaker 2: weird relationship with the city over the years. He's done

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Speaker 2: things that New Yorkers maybe are proud of, and that's

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Speaker 3: Plenty of other things.

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Speaker 2: Is a liberal leaning city and state. Then a lot

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Speaker 2: of people look at it and look at him and

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Speaker 2: don't really want to embrace him. So it's been a

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Speaker 2: weird relationship over the years. But he is the most

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Speaker 1: But it's an interesting with this congestion pricing, because you

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Speaker 1: to you at five o'clock one day last week and

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Speaker 1: my Uber driver was just celebrating. Look at this, he said,

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Speaker 1: look at this there's no traffic and we were coming

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Speaker 1: up where the Holland Tunnel is and you know it's

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Speaker 4: You can't get through. That's why I always take the subway.

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Speaker 1: But there are some people who have really appreciated the

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Speaker 1: congestion pricing, those who drive for a living.

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Speaker 2: Because it does bring down The point is, you charge

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Speaker 2: this money, you discourage people from driving, so you're cutting

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Speaker 2: down on traffic. Sure, and the MTA says congestion is down,

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Speaker 2: problem here is that you've got so many people who

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Speaker 2: several hundred a month. You got firefighters first responded to it.

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Speaker 3: It come in.

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Speaker 2: This is not okay, so Drum says is getting rid

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Speaker 2: of it. It's literally now back and forth. Legally it's

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Speaker 2: going to stay in place for now. But there's you

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Speaker 2: got to weigh both sides.

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Speaker 3: There's upsides.

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Speaker 1: Suppose so many people who serve this city, who we

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Speaker 1: what it is?

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Speaker 4: All right?

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Speaker 1: Next up on the run, a judge is saying, not

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Speaker 1: so fast to the Justice Department's request to drop its

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Speaker 1: Mayor Eric Adams.

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Speaker 2: So all sides were in a Manhattan court room yesterday

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Speaker 2: drama played out as the judge grilled the Justice Department

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Speaker 2: about the merits of its request. On Friday, the Justice

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Speaker 2: Department filed paperwork to dismiss the case against Adams, a

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Speaker 2: move viewed by many critics as a quid pro quo

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Speaker 1: So the judge yesterday put Mayor Adams under oath and

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Speaker 1: specifically asked if he'd made any deal with Trump. The

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Speaker 1: on the bench.

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Speaker 2: He acknowledged, though it it's not in anybody's interest to

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Speaker 2: to rule at sometime soon. You'll remember four of Adam's

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Speaker 2: Hokel convened a meeting earlier this week to consider removing

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Speaker 1: And the mayor was indicted, as you may remember, last

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Speaker 1: He has repeatedly said he would not resign from office,

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Speaker 2: But this isn't over. Know, we thought it was going

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Speaker 2: legal trouble. But now there's some question. The judge doesn't

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Speaker 4: He can help you do insource immigration.

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Speaker 2: Migration is we don't know about the marriage. But at

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Speaker 2: least he's accepted that there was no deal made. I

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Speaker 2: don't know what the judge can do here. Can a

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Speaker 2: dropping this case. I'm not sure legally what.

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Speaker 1: I'm no legal expert, and certainly with what we've seen

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Speaker 1: I don't know that anyone knows the answer to that.

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Speaker 2: We will contind you here now on the run, and

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Speaker 2: we're going to take a run in Rome now because

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Speaker 2: we have an update from Rome on the Pope, albeit

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Speaker 2: a brief update that we're getting the Pope's seventh day

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Speaker 2: in the hospital. We've been following this now for a

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Speaker 2: week and the update we got from the Votican the

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Speaker 2: Vatican said that the night passed peacefully, the Pope got

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and that yesterday the Vatican announced Pope Francis is

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Speaker 1: now suffering from double pneumonia after he was initially admitted

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Speaker 1: an announcement yesterday that the Pope's condition was stationary, saying

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Speaker 1: in disease for the eighty eight year old pontiff. But

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Speaker 2: The Italian media has been trying to verify rumors that

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Speaker 2: that the Vatican was acknowledging. Security is tight in the hospital.

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Speaker 2: The Pope is being treated there on the tenth floor,

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Speaker 1: This is all part of that ceasefire deal that calls

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Speaker 2: Their story, their images have come to represent Israel's pain

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Speaker 3: And the scene you're.

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Speaker 4: I guess that's one way to put it.

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Speaker 1: Delta is offering each passenger thirty thousand dollars and no

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Speaker 2: So we had eighty people on that plane, seventy six passengers,

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Speaker 1: Delta says, this thirty thousand dollars gesture does not impact

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Speaker 2: We're just going to give it to you. And I

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Speaker 1: According to officials, at least four of the men are

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Speaker 4: It into perspective.

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Speaker 4: Such a violation.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that sucks, but good to know those guys have

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Speaker 2: not going to continue you. We're done running, folks, and

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Speaker 2: something we'd like for you to consider as you go

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Speaker 4: Yes, this is from the TJ. Holmes files.

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Speaker 1: You can either have results or excuses. You can't have both.

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Speaker 2: No explanation needed. It's not that one or the other.

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Speaker 2: All right, get it done or don't get it done.

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Speaker 2: It's either is the result here or nothing else. There's

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Speaker 1: I feel like if you had a sign on your desk,

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Speaker 4: This sounds just like you.

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Speaker 3: Oh, I have so many quotes around it would be ridiculous.

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Speaker 4: This quote could have come from you.

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Speaker 2: But take that with you today, folks, and remember you

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Speaker 2: can't either have results or you can have excuses. You

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Speaker 4: I'm cuting and I'm Amy Roboch. Hope you all have

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Speaker 4: a great day and see you on the run tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: It's Friday,