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

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Speaker 2: Good morning everybody. It is Wednesday, February nineteenth. Welcome to

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Speaker 2: your Morning Run, now guaranteed available by six thirty am

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Speaker 2: Eastern Time every single day. I'm TJ.

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Speaker 1: Holmes and I'm Amy Robach And on this Wednesday Morning Run,

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Speaker 1: a new health issue keeps the Pope in the hospital.

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Speaker 1: A verdict keeps Rihanna's husband out of jail. The US

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Speaker 1: and Russia will keep talking. Trump keeps his promise in

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Speaker 1: ivf RFK Junior doesn't keep his promise on vaccines. Sixty

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Speaker 1: million Americans need to keep the heat on full blast.

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Speaker 1: And Kentucky Fried Chicken needs a name change.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, to a new state. It sounds crazy, but Kentucky

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Speaker 2: Fried Chicken will no longer be based in Kentucky.

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Speaker 3: How does that work?

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Speaker 2: How does that work? I don't know if everything changed

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Speaker 2: their name, the KFC is supposed to just be officially KFC,

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Speaker 2: but we know it's Kentucky.

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Speaker 3: We know it's Kentucky.

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Speaker 2: Even the governor is pissed about this one of Kentucky.

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Speaker 1: He has a lot on his hands these days, and

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Speaker 1: he was weighing in all the Kentucky Fried chicken name change.

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Speaker 1: We will get into all of that in just a moment,

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Speaker 1: but we have to begin our run this morning in Rome.

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Speaker 1: Growing concerns this morning for Pope Francis, who remains hospitalized

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Speaker 1: in that city. The Vatican now says he has pneumonia

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Speaker 1: in both lungs.

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Speaker 2: So his diagnosis and treatment has been changing since he

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Speaker 2: was admitted to the hospital, and now the Vatican is

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Speaker 2: calling his condition quote a complex picture now. Initially admitted

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Speaker 2: last Friday for bronchitis, he was prescribed.

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Speaker 1: Absolute rest, but then days later the Vatican said he

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Speaker 1: had polymicrobial infection of the respiratory tract and would require

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Speaker 1: a new course of treatment. And then yesterday the Vatican

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Speaker 1: made that announcement that further testing showed an onset of

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Speaker 1: bilateral pneumonia and would require a new drug therapy.

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Speaker 2: Of course, the pond ofp is eighty eight years old.

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Speaker 2: He's had health issue several visits to the hospital in

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Speaker 2: recent years, including abdominal surgery in twenty twenty three. In

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Speaker 2: recent weeks, he had to have his AI read some

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Speaker 2: of his speeches for him in some of his addresses,

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Speaker 2: he just wasn't able to do it.

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Speaker 1: The Pope was reportedly struggling to speak for extended periods

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Speaker 1: because of his breathing difficulties. And as for how long

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Speaker 1: he will be in the hospital, the Vatican says he

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Speaker 1: will stay for an appropriate amount of time, but they

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Speaker 1: have already canceled all of his scheduled events for the

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Speaker 1: entire weekend. He's on steroids and antibiotics. And you know,

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Speaker 1: when I was reading about earlier this, I had never

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Speaker 1: heard of the initial diagnosis of polymicrobial.

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Speaker 2: Infection.

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Speaker 1: Thank you Polymicrobial Direct. Yes, it was a long, very

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Speaker 1: worthy diagnosis, but they said that the concern was that

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Speaker 1: it could develop into pneumonia. That was the fear, and

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Speaker 1: that worst fear has come true now. So this is

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Speaker 1: concerning because it is in both lungs.

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Speaker 2: It keeps changing. We heard bronchitis initially, but every day

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Speaker 2: something comes out that sounds like he's not getting healthier

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Speaker 2: just yet. But maybe it has to run its cycle.

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Speaker 2: But he's eighty eight years old, he said at times

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Speaker 2: in one of his books. That's just that simple. So

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Speaker 2: concern for him today. But they did give a report

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Speaker 2: this morning. Was it that he he is up and

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Speaker 2: notes and sending well wishes.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we wish him the very best.

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Speaker 2: All right, we continue our run here this morning with

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Speaker 2: President Trump. He continues checking things off his to do list,

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Speaker 2: and this was a big one. He signed an executive

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Speaker 2: order yesterday aimed at expanding access to IVF treatments and

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Speaker 2: making it more affordable.

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Speaker 1: The order instructs the President's team to give him policy

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Speaker 1: recommendations on aggressively reducing out of pocket and health planned

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Speaker 1: costs for IVF treatment within ninety days. And you might

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Speaker 1: remember that viral moment that happened during the campaign when

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Speaker 1: Trump called himself the father of IVF. It happened during

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Speaker 1: that all female town hall.

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Speaker 2: You know, a lot of people jumped on that and

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Speaker 2: even mocked him for what he said. But his message

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Speaker 2: at the time was coming through, and the message was this,

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Speaker 2: during the campaign, your government will pay for or your

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Speaker 2: insurance company will be mandated to pay for all costs

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Speaker 2: associated with IVF treatment. He said that during the campaign.

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Speaker 2: Of course, IVF treatments can cost tens of thousands of dollars,

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Speaker 2: and it's kind of a crapshoot as to whether your

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Speaker 2: So this is one he is absolutely going down the list,

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Speaker 1: He said he's going to do it, and he did,

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Speaker 1: and he's been doing that for the past several weeks.

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Speaker 1: Whether people like it or not, he is delivering all right.

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Speaker 1: Next up on our run. It's early, but it was

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Speaker 1: a good start, according to US Secretary of State Marco Rubio,

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Speaker 1: who sat across the table yesterday from his Russian counterparts

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Speaker 1: to begin negotiations on ending the war in Ukraine. This

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Speaker 1: was the first time in years that the two countries

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Speaker 1: have engaged in high level, face to face talks.

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Speaker 2: Secretary Rubio said afterwards that the two sides agreed to

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Speaker 2: work on several core principles, including restoring staffing at their

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Speaker 2: respective embassies in DC and Moscow, also create a support

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Speaker 1: Now, Ukraine was not invited to these initial talks, and

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Speaker 1: it's unclear just how involved Ukraine will be in any

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Speaker 1: initial discussions certainly wasn't helped yesterday when President Trump suggested

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Speaker 1: that Ukraine is responsible for starting the war three years ago.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, a lot of eyebrows went up when he said this,

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Speaker 2: and it's making its way around the world right now.

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Speaker 2: But we're going to give you the exact quote from

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Speaker 2: the president that's making waves. He said, and I quote

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Speaker 2: today I heard, oh, well we weren't invited. Well, you've

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Speaker 2: been here for three years. You should have ended it

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Speaker 2: three years. You should have never been there, You should

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Speaker 2: have never started it. You should have made a deal.

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Speaker 2: End quote that was directed at President Zelensky of Ukraine,

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Speaker 2: suggesting that he was almost mocking him at times during

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Speaker 2: this as if what you crying about? You mad? You

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Speaker 2: can't come to the talks kind of a thing. But

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Speaker 2: a reminder here, folks, Russia launched an unprovoked invasion into

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Speaker 2: Ukraine three years ago this month, So any idea that

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Speaker 2: you started it just rub people the wrong way and

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Speaker 1: It's tough because, yes, in every single news report from

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Speaker 1: the beginning, the verbiage was always that Russia invaded Ukraine.

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Speaker 2: There's nothing else to talk about. I mean, that's just period,

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Speaker 2: point blank. So where he's coming from in the suggestion

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Speaker 3: Say most likely not, especially from Ukraine's point of view.

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Speaker 1: Meanwhile, the President has confirmed he's got beef with one

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Speaker 1: news agency and vows it's gonna continue. Associated Press reporters

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Speaker 2: Yeah, the President signed an executive order shortly after getting

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Speaker 2: but the Associated Press said it will continue to use

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Speaker 1: That apparently is not good enough for President Trump, who

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Speaker 1: For its part, the AP says, this is a quote here.

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Speaker 1: This is about the government telling the public and press

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Speaker 1: what words to use and retaliating if they do not

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Speaker 1: follow government orders. The White House has restricted apiece coverage

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Speaker 1: I feel like we're in kindergarten.

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Speaker 2: It's bizarre. He absolutely acknowledging, yep, I am retaliating against you,

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Speaker 3: To do, or suffer the consequences, which.

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Speaker 2: Means you don't get access. That's incredible and it's scary

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Speaker 2: to a lot of folks in journalism, But a lot

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Speaker 2: of folks aren't aware. The AP has been a very

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Speaker 2: We as journalists for decades have followed the AP style book.

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Speaker 2: They essentially set the standards for how things are supposed

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Speaker 3: Around the world.

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Speaker 1: Which is why Trump is laying down the law because

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Speaker 1: he knows the power and the reach of the AP.

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Speaker 1: And so if the AP says the Golf of Mexico,

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Speaker 1: people are going to continue to.

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Speaker 3: Call it the Golf of Mexico. So he knows that.

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Speaker 3: I mean, he's playing a game of chicken with them.

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Speaker 2: It's gotten a little of Mexico, is threatening to Google

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Speaker 2: over changing. It's got just the way.

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Speaker 1: We have bigger problems in the world, don't we don't

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Speaker 1: we have bigger problems.

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Speaker 3: To take up.

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Speaker 2: Okay, speaking of bigger problems will continue in DC, a

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Speaker 2: problem written city. It is feared sometimes. But the Health

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Speaker 2: and Human Services Secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Junior told a

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Speaker 2: investigate whether the timing of childhood vaccinations and anti depression

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Speaker 2: medications are among possible factors in chronic diseases. Please break

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Speaker 1: Yeah, And he told the thousands of employees who gathered

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Speaker 2: Okay, And that's an issue because Kennedy's comments come after

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Speaker 2: he reassured Senator Bill Cassidy of Louisiana that he would

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Speaker 2: not alter the nation's current vaccination schedule. That's a big

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Speaker 2: deal because Senator Cassidy's vote was important, critical, necessary. It

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Speaker 2: paved the way for rfk Junior's confirmation. If Cassidy had

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Speaker 1: And Cassidy made it very clear how important keeping that

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Speaker 1: Kennedy told his staff that pesticides, food additives, and electromagnetic

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Speaker 1: waves emitted by cell phones and microwaves would also be

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Speaker 1: studied the Make America Healthy Again Commission that he referred

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Speaker 1: to who will be heading up these investigations. This is

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Speaker 1: something that President Trump formed by executive order last week,

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Speaker 3: So it appears as.

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Speaker 1: If Kennedy is now under this commission going to be

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Speaker 1: investigating the vaccination schedule and whether or not it's safe

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Speaker 3: I'm sure he's referring to autism, etc. So this is

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Speaker 3: causing a lot of concern because this is the exact

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Speaker 3: thing he said he would not do.

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Speaker 2: Don't know how he's going to explain that. I'm sure

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Speaker 2: he has a way of saying, well, I said this

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Speaker 2: and didn't say that kind of a thing. But Cassidy,

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Speaker 2: I wonder how he's feeling now and what he is

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Speaker 1: We'll be looking to see if Cassidy makes He did

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Speaker 1: Sixty million Americans are feeling this freeze In fact, more

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Speaker 2: Folks, will continue our run. Now the run will take

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Speaker 2: Asap Rocky uttered those words to the twelve men and

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Speaker 2: And I told you I've never seen in all of

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, both of them, well, especially my youngest one.

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Speaker 1: She's a huge fan. His real name is rakeem Mehers.

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Speaker 1: this year's Met Gallup. Prosecutors were seeking eight years in

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Speaker 3: Eight years, could do it.

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Speaker 2: Damn, that's tough.

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Speaker 1: That's tough because that is you don't know a jury

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Speaker 3: It can go either way.

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Speaker 2: But he must have felt pretty confident about that. I

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Speaker 3: No, that's I mean, that is I don't know if

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Speaker 2: Yeah, six months, let me just get this knocked out

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Speaker 2: and let's call it a day. But it was a

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Speaker 2: He did not want her there. And the quote there.

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Speaker 3: Is wild horses couldn't keep her away.

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Speaker 2: That's awesome. Yeah, that's a love story. I saw that.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, you know, it's Yes, there's a lot

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Speaker 1: We've been in enough courtrooms to know that probably did

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Speaker 2: What's the announcement every time before the verdict is.

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Speaker 1: Read, I don't want any emotional outburst in this court.

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Speaker 1: If you do, you will be held in contented for it.

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Speaker 2: Yes see, we heard all the time, but he's usually

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Speaker 3: Right.

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Speaker 2: Okay, well, our final leg of the run here. Do

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Speaker 2: you really care that your next order of original or

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Speaker 2: extra Krispy Kentucky Fried Chicken didn't originate from Kentucky?

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Speaker 3: Kind of really?

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Speaker 1: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: KFC the legendary brand, leaving Kentucky its original home, and

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Speaker 3: most people would say it's only appropriate home, right.

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Speaker 1: The announcement came yesterday that the company's corporate headquarters is

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Speaker 1: moving to Plano, Texas.

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Speaker 2: Texas Fried Chicken.

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Speaker 3: It does not have the same ring to it Plano

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Speaker 2: See that's even worse. Come just a lot plain old

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Speaker 2: Now the company, why are they doing this, Companies said

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Speaker 2: The Governor of Kentucky chimed in on this move and

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Speaker 2: this company's name starts with Kentucky, and it is marketed

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Speaker 2: I am disappointed by this decision. Believe the company's founder

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Speaker 1: Yes, Kentucky Fried Chicken's legacy does go back one hundred

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Speaker 2: Call it KFC. They made a move to just start

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Speaker 2: refer to it as Kentucky Fried.

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Speaker 3: Fried Chicken KFC.

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Speaker 2: I always love when you call and say, hey, I'm

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Speaker 3: I've never said that, you haven't.

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Speaker 2: They got some twenty four thousand stores around the world.

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Speaker 2: But this was an interesting one here that Kentucky Fried

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Speaker 1: I mean maybe the governor could have offered him some

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Speaker 3: So yeah, I get it.

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Speaker 2: All right. So, folks, as you go about your Wednesday, now,

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Speaker 3: Faith that hasn't been tested cannot be trusted.

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Speaker 1: Love it.

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Speaker 2: Don't know where I got it, but I need to

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Speaker 1: Am I?

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Speaker 3: Do?

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Speaker 2: I believe in God? Enough?

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Speaker 3: Right?

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Speaker 2: Where there's religion or whatever in your life, But you

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Speaker 3: That's true.

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Speaker 1: I even look at it from a relationship standpoint. So

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Speaker 1: even when things get tough. Even when things get rough,

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Speaker 2: Leave it to you to turn this into a relationship quote.

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Speaker 3: I do think that because you have to have faith

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Speaker 2: always appreciate you running with us. A reminder this is

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Speaker 2: always available to you the morning run now Garon be

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Speaker 2: available at six thirty Eastern time every single day, Monday through.

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Speaker 3: Fridays, and I'm Aby Robock.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for running with us and we'll see you on

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Speaker 1: the run tomorrow