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

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Speaker 1: this is your Morning Run for Thursday, April third. I'm

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Speaker 1: Amy Robots.

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Speaker 2: And I'MTJ Holmes and on the run this morning, Oh

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Speaker 2: what a sight of the whole. President Trump announcing his

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Speaker 2: Liberation Day tariffs in Wendy, Washington, DC, sending shock waves

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Speaker 2: around the world, imposing tariffs on well just about everybody.

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Speaker 1: And perhaps not so shocking the markets. Well, they're not

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Speaker 1: happy with futures and foreign markets tanking following Trump's announcement.

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Speaker 1: Plus a handful of Senate Republicans joined Democrats in trying

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Speaker 1: to block some of those tariffs, but there is zero

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Speaker 1: chance of that working.

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Speaker 2: Also this morning, is it a headline or not? Elon

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Speaker 2: Musk is leaving the Department of Government Efficiency soon. The

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Speaker 2: White House has a strong response to some of those

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Speaker 2: media reports. Also, Mayor Eric Adams is off the hook.

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Speaker 2: A federal judge dismisses all charges against him, but not

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Speaker 2: before making his feelings known about the deal.

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Speaker 1: And with time ticking for TikTok, Amazon makes a pitch

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Speaker 1: to purchase the site before Saturday's deadline, and fifteen million

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Speaker 1: Americans are in the path of a dangerous and possible

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Speaker 2: And also on the run this morning in twenty twenty five,

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Speaker 2: can the US government tell you who you cannot date?

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Speaker 2: Apparently the answer is yes, if you want to keep

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Speaker 2: your job with the US government, we'll explain.

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Speaker 1: That is a very interesting story that I cannot wait

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Speaker 1: to get to. But in the meantime, we must begin

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Speaker 1: our run. In Washington, d C. President Trump had the

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Speaker 1: world watching as he finally unveiled his tariff plan on

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Speaker 1: what he said we'll be remembered as Liberation Day, calling

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Speaker 1: it our declaration of economic independency.

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Speaker 2: And it was quite the scene. We knew this was

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Speaker 2: probably going to be a well produced show, and it

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Speaker 2: sure was a lot of American flags President outside, huge crowd. There,

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Speaker 2: a lot of guys in hard had so it was

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Speaker 2: quite the television production. President Trump was out there holding

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Speaker 2: a poster board at the podium. He actually did look

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Speaker 2: like a kid who was in class giving a presentation.

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Speaker 2: He was pointing to his poster board explaining things, but

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Speaker 2: he was showing the tariffs each country charges the US

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Speaker 2: in those respective countries. It seemed there was a larger visual.

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Speaker 2: Maybe that was planned, but Trump mentioned it was so

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Speaker 2: windy out there would have blown away, so we improvised.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it was like a show and tell in Washington,

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Speaker 1: d C. Except for nobody wanted to hear what he

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Speaker 1: was saying, because the big announcement was this, there will

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Speaker 1: be a ten percent tariff on all countries the US

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Speaker 1: trades with. But that was just the starting point. Trump

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Speaker 1: said his tariffs are kind compared to how countries tax

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Speaker 1: the US, saying we would only be charging other countries

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Speaker 1: half the rate they charge us. Trump saying, hey, I'm

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Speaker 1: giving them a fifty percent discount here. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: President said these tariffs were going to art being smart.

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Speaker 2: It means the US is going to start being smart

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Speaker 2: and we're going to start being very wealthy. Again his words,

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Speaker 2: the ten percent tariff will take effect on April fifth,

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Speaker 2: higher ones on April ninth. I know this is a

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Speaker 2: but yes, the fifth and the ninth are the next

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Speaker 2: big dates coming up. The world reaction was swift threats

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Speaker 2: over the world, So there will be a response. This

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Speaker 2: is war. Not a single soldier is going to be

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Speaker 2: used in this. All of the soldiers on this one

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Speaker 2: are economists, Wall Street guys, guys and soups ties went

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it certainly is, and not one that many countries

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Speaker 1: were expecting. I mean really, the reaction was shocked from

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Speaker 1: be as high as they were. And so next up

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Speaker 1: on our run. Well, the markets around the world didn't

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Speaker 1: like Trump's Liberation Day announcement not one bit. This morning,

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Speaker 1: Asian markets opened lower across the board, including Japan's Nike,

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Speaker 2: least as of this recording. Number of US companies have

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Speaker 2: discount companies like Dollar Tree five below. Those companies, of course,

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and next up on the run, Well, we had

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Speaker 1: the President announcing these new tariffs just as the Senate

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Speaker 1: Senate voted fifty one to forty eight for a bill

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Speaker 2: So all the Democrats in the Senate supported the bill,

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Speaker 2: but four Republicans joined them. You can probably already guess

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Speaker 2: the names of these four Republicans. They have been somewhat

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Speaker 1: That message or they just didn't listen, right, So what

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Speaker 1: happens now The bill would go to the House, but

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Speaker 1: Republican leadership has already said they have no plans to

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Speaker 1: Democrats are considering some legislative maneuvering that could force a

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Speaker 2: Okay, so let's say that happens. Even if it gets

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Speaker 2: desk to be signed to become legislation. That ain't happening.

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Speaker 2: So this exercise, sure, they're going through it, but there's

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Speaker 2: even if it was going to get through Congrey, he

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Speaker 2: is not going to sign anything that's going to cancel

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Speaker 2: his own tariffs.

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Speaker 1: Oh who doesn't love a symbolic vote. I guess that's

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Speaker 1: all that was yesterday. Next up on the Run, more

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Speaker 1: big news out of Washington or not. The White House

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Speaker 1: has confirmed that Elon Musk will leave his position at

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Speaker 1: the Department of Government Efficiency in the coming weeks.

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Speaker 2: Duh is what they're saying. To some reports out there

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Speaker 2: that are saying something else, White House pres Secretary Carolyn

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Speaker 2: to any one because Elon Musk, Ashi wrote and President

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Speaker 2: Trump have both publicly stated that Elon will depart the

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Speaker 2: public service as special government employee when his incredible work

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Lovitt was reacting to media reports that implied Musk

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Speaker 1: Calling that scoop that some journalists claim they had garbage

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Speaker 1: So that would mean Musk's one hundred thirty days would

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Speaker 2: As we said, all right, we continue our run. This

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Speaker 2: next leg brings us back to New York, where case dismissed.

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Speaker 2: New York City Mayor Eric Adams is no longer facing

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Speaker 2: federal corruption charges. A judge yesterday made it official. Justice

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Speaker 2: saying that it interfered with Adam's ability to run the City,

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Speaker 1: Hmmm, so the judge dismissed the case with prejudice. That

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Speaker 1: means prosecutors cannot bring this case back later. But this

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Speaker 1: is what the judge added. Everything here smacks of a bargain,

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Speaker 1: he said, referring to the appearance of a quid pro

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Speaker 1: for having to go through this with me, a baseless

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Speaker 2: This is a remarkable turnaround all that happened, all talking

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Speaker 1: Film correct, so he got out of any legal problems

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Speaker 1: We know that former Governor Andrew Cuomo is in the

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Speaker 2: All right, Well, folk, stay with us here on this

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Speaker 2: listen up. Soh download TikTok today because it might be

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Speaker 2: TikTok for TikTok, the social media app is once again

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Speaker 1: This is deja vu all over again, because this same

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Speaker 1: to find a buyer and went dark. For a day.

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Speaker 1: Then President Trump took office and gave the company a

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Speaker 1: seventy five day extension. Well that's seventy five days is

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Speaker 2: media giant, which has one hundred and seventy million users

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and capca, remember I couldn't download that for that

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Speaker 1: period of time, So yes, get to you need just

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Speaker 1: in case, all right. Next up on our run, Millions

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Speaker 1: for what's being described as a once in a generation

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Speaker 2: Yeah, this system spawned tornadoes last night in places like Arkansas, Oklahoma, Indiana, Missouri, Kentucky.

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Speaker 2: Hundreds of thousand of people are without power this morning,

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Speaker 2: and now record flooding is predicted from Missouri to Mississippi

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Speaker 1: Yeah. I saw a headline that said three April's worth

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Speaker 1: But this seems legit. I mean, the Storm Prediction Center says,

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Speaker 1: just for you know, to get people scared so that

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Speaker 1: Prediction Center says this is the highest possible risk level.

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Speaker 1: So on a scale of one to five, they've issued

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Speaker 2: YE Significant tornado outlook, particularly dangerous situation. Those are the

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Speaker 2: event at times, and those are just things we don't

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Speaker 2: we grew up in areas that had tornado. Yep, you

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Speaker 2: This stuff is way above any of that.

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Speaker 1: The sirens are sounding, yes, and you know a.

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Speaker 2: Funny note out of Little Rock. The mayor there they

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Speaker 2: do their sirens, their tests of the emergency sirens. They

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Speaker 2: do it at noon on Wednesday. He had to go

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Speaker 2: out and publicly say we are canceling that test. If

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Speaker 2: you hear a siren, it's for real.

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Speaker 1: Wow. He didn't want to make anybody be confused if

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Speaker 1: they had to use it for real.

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Speaker 2: It all for real today, folks. He had to alert them.

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Speaker 2: So that's what's going on. So please keep those folks

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Speaker 2: and please please please be careful today it is absolutely

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Speaker 2: a life threatening situation. Final leg of our run here

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Speaker 2: on this Thursday morning, and this was when I brought

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Speaker 2: to your attention robes you said, what is happening? But

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Speaker 2: let us explain here the second most populous country in

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Speaker 2: the world, China. Yes, a billion and a half Chinese citizens,

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Speaker 2: and don't even think about dating one of them. That

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Speaker 2: is the specific directive reportedly now given to US government

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Speaker 1: The Associated Press is reporting earlier this year, a policy

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Speaker 1: was put into place that bans US personnel based in

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Speaker 1: This was put into effect by the previous US ambassador

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Speaker 2: And apparently this band also applies to family members of

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Speaker 2: who might have security clearances. Now, rules against US personnel

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Speaker 2: frinizing with citizens of a particular country isn't unheard of,

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Speaker 2: But the AP points out that this new policy in

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Speaker 2: China is different because it's a broad and strict blanket band,

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Speaker 2: the likes of which we haven't seen since the Cold War.

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Speaker 1: Yes, the policy is a Cold War throwback, when intelligence

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Speaker 1: agencies around the world employed the tactic of sending attractive

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Speaker 1: an attempt to acquire sensitive information. It all sounds like

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Speaker 1: the plot of a movie, but this stuff actually happened,

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Speaker 1: and that makes a lot of sense. But this is

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Speaker 1: when it comes to just how humans act and interact

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Speaker 1: you see. This is ridiculous. There's absolutely no way that

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Speaker 1: this could absolutely, like you, you're telling me people like, Okay,

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Speaker 1: that's cool. I'm going to be surrounded by people of

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Speaker 2: Lets you know of the level of I guess competition,

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Speaker 2: and I guess in a lot of ways. China is

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Speaker 2: absolutely considered an enemy, an enemy of the US, and

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Speaker 2: are taking this precaution. We talk about TikTok. They didn't

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Speaker 2: want TikTok here because it's owned by China, and they're

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Speaker 2: going to have all this access to all these American

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Speaker 2: you can't even it's a billion and a half folks

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Speaker 1: Of the lad Yeah, come on, you can't tell people

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Speaker 1: who have fallen in love with, or who not to

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Speaker 1: I think that's what I mean. Look, they can try

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Speaker 1: to enforce it, but good luck.

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Speaker 2: Look from somebody with experience. When you are employer tries

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Speaker 2: to get involved with your dating, sometimes goes.

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Speaker 1: Love wins, love winds.

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Speaker 2: Folks with that as you go about your Thursday now,

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Speaker 2: you to consider it is our quote of the day.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, if you need a little motivation here, let's get

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Speaker 1: some motivation from one of the greats from MLK Junior

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Speaker 1: himself love this quote. Thought we would share it with

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Speaker 1: you today. If you can't fly, then run. If you

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Speaker 1: can't run, then walk. If you can't walk, then crawl.

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Speaker 1: But whatever you do, you have to keep moving forward.

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Speaker 2: I love that that can be literal or figure toive.

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Speaker 2: You can actually do that both ways and it absolutely works.

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Speaker 2: But that's it. Good Do you just kind of keep moving?

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Speaker 2: What's the one? If you're going through a storm, keep going?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, just when you're going through hell, keep going. Yep,

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Speaker 1: those are all you know. Sometimes there are the simplest

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Speaker 1: course from the great.

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Speaker 2: So with that, take that with you today, folks as

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Speaker 2: you go about your Thursday. Remember, if you can't fly,

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Speaker 2: then run. If you can't run, then walk. If you

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Speaker 2: have to keep moving forward. And with that, folks, we

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Speaker 2: always appreciate you running with.

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Speaker 1: Us on Pjlman and I'm Amy Roboch. Have a wonderful

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Speaker 1: Thursday everyone. We'll see you on the run tomorrow, which

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Speaker 1: is Friday,