Speaker 1: Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio podcast. Hello everyone,
Speaker 1: this is your Morning Run for Thursday, June twenty sixth.
Speaker 2: I'm Amy Robach and I'm TJ. Holmes on the Run
Speaker 2: this morning. The US and Iran are set to meet
Speaker 2: next week on a nuclear deal. Sounds like a big deal.
Speaker 2: Trump sounds indifferent.
Speaker 1: And one of the foremost diplomats in the world had
Speaker 1: to explain himself yesterday after calling Trump Daddy during a
Speaker 1: press conference. It was a bizarre and hilarious international incident,
Speaker 1: and now Usher is involved.
Speaker 2: Also this morning, Trump's twenty billion dollar lawsuit against CBS
Speaker 2: could get settled soon. That is, if Trump is willing
Speaker 2: to knock a few zeros off that twenty billion.
Speaker 3: And the clock is tigging.
Speaker 1: The Trump administration gives California a deadline to reverse its
Speaker 1: policy allowing transgender athletes to participate in girls' sports or
Speaker 1: face the Justice Department.
Speaker 2: And Chuck Schumer went from the Senate gym to the
Speaker 2: hospital yesterday. He returned to work later with a reminder
Speaker 2: for all of us and wedding on. Jeff Bezos and
Speaker 2: his fiance arrive in Venice. They were kind of hard
Speaker 2: to miss and a baseball fan heckled a major league
Speaker 2: player two tiers. That fan is now banned from all
Speaker 2: MLB stadiums, and the.
Speaker 1: Young instole the show at the NBA draft last night,
Speaker 1: including the number one overall pick, who will still be
Speaker 1: eighteen when he makes his NBA debut, And whether you
Speaker 1: prefer big spoon or little spoon.
Speaker 3: A new study proves there.
Speaker 1: Are health benefits to cuddling with your partner before falling asleep.
Speaker 2: Some of this I read it, and you were very
Speaker 2: excited about it. Some of it seemed common sense to me.
Speaker 3: Right, yes, physical touch is important, but.
Speaker 2: It almost seemed like it doesn't matter who's there that
Speaker 2: you need to cuddle something.
Speaker 3: Right to missy with your partner.
Speaker 1: Physical intimacy actually has mental health benefits.
Speaker 2: Boy, Okay, we'll go into that so much later. Here.
Speaker 2: We're going to begin this morning with President Trump saying
Speaker 2: the US will meet with Iran next week to discuss
Speaker 2: a nuclear agreement. But at the same time, the President
Speaker 2: sounded like he didn't care if they get a deal
Speaker 2: done or not.
Speaker 1: Yeah, here's this thinking there's no urgency on a nuclear
Speaker 1: deal because we just blew up their nuclear program. The
Speaker 1: President made the announcement as he was leaving the NATO
Speaker 1: summit in the Hague, saying we may sign an agreement.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 1: To me, I don't think it's that necessary.
Speaker 2: He went on to say, we want to we want
Speaker 2: no nuclear, but we destroyed the nuclear. In other words,
Speaker 2: it's destroyed. I said, Aran will not have nuclear. Well,
Speaker 2: we blew it up. It's blown to Kingdom come. And
Speaker 2: so I don't feel very strongly about it. If we
Speaker 2: got a document, it wouldn't be bad.
Speaker 1: Only Trump could make me laugh at the word nuclear,
Speaker 1: because that's just not a funny word in it.
Speaker 3: Somehow he made it funny.
Speaker 2: I mean, so, look that we would normally say this
Speaker 2: is a huge, huge thing that the two sides are
Speaker 2: talking and a deal could get done, but he sounded
Speaker 2: kind of indifferent to the idea.
Speaker 3: Yeah, flippant almost Yes.
Speaker 1: Next up on the Run, Well, the Defense Department plans
Speaker 1: to defend those B two bomber pilots who flew the
Speaker 1: mission to attack Iran's nuclear program this week, and also
Speaker 1: promised to back up administration claims that those strikes yes,
Speaker 1: in fact, obliterated.
Speaker 3: The Iran nuclear program, despite.
Speaker 1: Reporting of a leaked Pentagon assessment that suggested the attack
Speaker 1: only set the program back by a couple of months.
Speaker 2: Yeah, press conference with Secretary Pete hegseth its planned for
Speaker 2: this morning, and the President was promoting it, saying that
Speaker 2: the purpose of this press conference is to quote fight
Speaker 2: for the dignity of our great American pilots. These patriots
Speaker 2: were very upset after thirty six hours of dangerously flying
Speaker 2: through enemy territory, they landed. They knew the success was legendary,
Speaker 2: and then two days later they started reading fake news
Speaker 2: by CNN and the failing New York Times. They felt terribly.
Speaker 2: The President went on to say this news conference is
Speaker 2: going to prove both interesting and irrefutable, and then he
Speaker 2: ends it with enjoy with an exclamation point. So they
Speaker 2: are going to lay out and probably try to make
Speaker 2: a whole presentation showing proof that it was obliterated in
Speaker 2: some way.
Speaker 1: Okay, And as of this recording, this press conference is
Speaker 1: scheduled for eight am Eastern time, So that is going
Speaker 1: to be muscy television today.
Speaker 2: All right, We're going to continue on the run on
Speaker 2: this Thursday morning with a grown man called Trump Daddy.
Speaker 2: Yesterday and it damn near calls an international incident, and
Speaker 2: now the guy who called him daddy has had to
Speaker 2: publicly clarify his daddy comments.
Speaker 1: And to make things even more bizarre, Usher is involved.
Speaker 3: At this point, let us explain how this all came about.
Speaker 1: At the NATO summit yesterday, President Trump held during a
Speaker 1: press conference with the NATO Secretary General Mark Ruta.
Speaker 2: Yes, the President was having a press conference with this guy.
Speaker 2: A lot of people you might not know his name
Speaker 2: or his face with Mark Ruta is the guy at
Speaker 2: NATO who's in charge and trying to keep all these
Speaker 2: countries in line and keeping these conference stations going. So
Speaker 2: he's a hell of a diplomat. So he was talking
Speaker 2: with the President at this press conference, and in talking
Speaker 2: about the Iran Israel conflict, President Trump compared those two
Speaker 2: countries to two kids fighting on a playground. We talked
Speaker 2: about there here yesterday. Ruth jumped in and said, daddy
Speaker 2: has to sometimes use strong language to get them to stop.
Speaker 2: Does that make sense to you? Though he was making yes,
Speaker 2: he was continuing the metaphor with correct Okay, So that
Speaker 2: was what he said. But the daddy reference then made
Speaker 2: headlines with some outlets running with it, and it was
Speaker 2: characterized in some circles as going over the top and
Speaker 2: kissing the ring of Trump if you will.
Speaker 1: So Rutha spoke to reporters later to clarify his statements.
Speaker 1: He said this quote the daddy thing. I didn't call
Speaker 1: him daddy. What I said is that sometimes in Europe,
Speaker 1: I hear sometimes country saying, hey, Mark, will the US
Speaker 1: stay with us? And I said that sounds a little
Speaker 1: bit like a small child asking his daddy, Hey, are
Speaker 1: you still staying with the family. So in that sense,
Speaker 1: I use daddy, not that I was calling President Trump daddy.
Speaker 2: Should have just left it alone, right, should have just
Speaker 2: left it alone.
Speaker 3: Don't even confused me. First I did.
Speaker 2: I don't know. He's talking about Europe.
Speaker 3: This is what they do.
Speaker 2: But he's explaining something that I didn't think needed to
Speaker 2: be explained. Even It's okay, man, So that made it
Speaker 2: more confusing. But here we go now. Then Trump was
Speaker 2: asked about it later and fully embraced the term, saying quote,
Speaker 2: he did it very affectionately, daddy, You're my daddy. End quote. Now.
Speaker 2: Then the White House, but out of video on social
Speaker 2: media highlighting the president's time at the summit. It was
Speaker 2: a video of some of his highlights. I guess of
Speaker 2: their meeting with world leaders and under it to the
Speaker 2: soundtrack of Usher's twenty ten song Hey Daddy.
Speaker 3: I mean they just leaned into it, and the chorus.
Speaker 2: Of that song goes, Daddy's home.
Speaker 3: Oh my goodness. It just gets more bizarre every day.
Speaker 2: It should have been a nothing story. It was an
Speaker 2: offhand nothing comment that went correctly with the metaphor, and
Speaker 2: it became that.
Speaker 1: Because it's kind of my favorite story of the day,
Speaker 1: second only to the sleeve study about spooning.
Speaker 3: Yes, anyway, we'll get to that in just a bit.
Speaker 1: But next up on a run, Trump is being sued
Speaker 1: or sorry, Trump is suing CBS for twenty billion dollars, so.
Speaker 2: We know it is. You're used to saying Trump is
Speaker 2: being sued, right.
Speaker 1: So that's fair, But actually it's fair to say he
Speaker 1: sues just as much as he's being sued, so he
Speaker 1: go either way. I think he's got a lot of
Speaker 1: lawsuits out there. California, California, California. Then they've got Yeah,
Speaker 1: we'll get to that. Trump is suing CBS for twenty
Speaker 1: billion dollars, but he might have to knock a couple
Speaker 1: of zeros off that number. A mediator is suggesting the
Speaker 1: president take twenty million and call it a day.
Speaker 2: Yeah. This is according to the Wall Street Journal, which
Speaker 2: is reporting that the President's team has been presented with
Speaker 2: the suggestion from the mediator working to get Trump and
Speaker 2: CBS to settle the dispute. The President sued the network,
Speaker 2: claiming election interference over how sixty minutes edited its interview
Speaker 2: with Kamala Harris.
Speaker 1: Now, the Journal reports the plan would be for CBS
Speaker 1: to make a seventeen million dollar donation to the Trump
Speaker 1: Presidential Foundation or museum, as well as pay the legal
Speaker 1: fees and make public service announces to combat anti semitism.
Speaker 1: Trump previously rejected a fifteen million dollars settlement offer. He
Speaker 1: said he wanted at least twenty five and he wanted
Speaker 1: an apology.
Speaker 2: And the apology was the part of the problem with
Speaker 2: that settlement.
Speaker 3: Understandable.
Speaker 2: So continue on the run here to California, where the
Speaker 2: Trump administration has given that state a deadline. You got
Speaker 2: ten days to change your policy on allowing transgender student
Speaker 2: athletes to compete on sports teams that match with their identities.
Speaker 2: If they don't, California risks imminent enforcement action. They say
Speaker 2: that includes referral to the Justice Apartment for proceedings. This
Speaker 2: is all, of course, trying to keep transgender girls from
Speaker 2: competing on girls sports teams.
Speaker 1: That's right, and this all comes after California allowed a
Speaker 1: transgender girl to compete in the state's high school track championships.
Speaker 1: While trans athlete ab Hernandez placed first in the triple
Speaker 1: and high jump and came in second in the long jump,
Speaker 1: California tried to compromise with Trump's February executive order banning
Speaker 1: trans girls from participating in females sports by allowing an
Speaker 1: additional an additional female athlete to compete in each event
Speaker 1: Hernandez was competing it yes.
Speaker 2: So Hernandez essentially shared her medals alongside the next best
Speaker 2: female athlete. That compraide didn't satisfy the Trump administration. Education
Speaker 2: Secretary Linda McMahon said, Although Governor Newsome admitted months ago
Speaker 2: it was deeply unfair to allow men to compete in
Speaker 2: women's sports, both the California Department of Education and the
Speaker 2: CIF continued as recently as a few weeks ago to
Speaker 2: allow men to steal female athletes well deserved accolades and
Speaker 2: to subject them to the indignity of unfair and unsafe
Speaker 2: competition now.
Speaker 1: Newsome spokesperson responded by saying this it wouldn't be a
Speaker 1: day ending in why without the Trump administration threatening to
Speaker 1: defund California. Twenty nine states have laws that prohibit trends
Speaker 1: student athletes from participating in girls' sports. Five of them
Speaker 1: right now are temporarily blocked by lawsuits. So this is
Speaker 1: not going away. This debate is going to continue for
Speaker 1: some time.
Speaker 2: All right, continue our run now head back to DC.
Speaker 2: We need to check on Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer.
Speaker 2: He spent a little time in the hospital yesterday. He
Speaker 2: was taken out of an abundance of caution, they say,
Speaker 2: after getting lightheaded while working out at the Senate gym.
Speaker 1: He was ultimately treated for dehydration. The Senator was back
Speaker 1: at work at the Capitol a short time later, and
Speaker 1: a spokesperson said the Senator wants to remind people to
Speaker 1: drink water and stay out of the heat. DC, of course,
Speaker 1: has been baking like the rest of us in the
Speaker 1: eastern part.
Speaker 3: Of the US. It's funny I actually ran on the
Speaker 3: treadmill in the heat or the heat of the heat.
Speaker 3: Does that make sense. The heat of the heat.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and the hottest part of the day, thank you.
Speaker 3: Yes, and the gym.
Speaker 1: Even though it was their condition, I could still feel
Speaker 1: the heat and I felt overheated on the treadmill indoors
Speaker 1: just because of what was.
Speaker 2: Going on around my part of this. I gave him credit.
Speaker 2: He's seventy four years old. I heard he was in
Speaker 2: the Senate gym. That actually made me happy to hear,
Speaker 2: and glad he's okay, But glad he gave us all
Speaker 2: that reminder. They've been the same thing. High nineties and
Speaker 2: heat indecks over one hundred in DC. We'll stay with
Speaker 2: us here, folks on this Thursday morning run. When we
Speaker 2: come back, the wedding is on in Venice, well if
Speaker 2: they can avoid some of those protesters. Also coming up,
Speaker 2: a major League Baseball player in tears over what a
Speaker 2: fan said to him, and Robok's favorite story of the day,
Speaker 2: cuddling is good for your health. Next up on our
Speaker 2: Thursday Morning Run, we head to Italy. Looks like this
Speaker 2: is in fact wedding weekend for Amazon founder Jeff Bezos
Speaker 2: and his fiance Lawrence Sanchez, because the happy couple has
Speaker 2: arrived in.
Speaker 3: Venice, how do we know.
Speaker 1: Well, they didn't exactly come quietly. They were spotted and
Speaker 1: waving to cameras as they were being shuttled to and
Speaker 1: from Venice by helicopter yesterday.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that helicopter took off from Venice and landed on
Speaker 2: his yacht just off the coast. That yacht was the
Speaker 2: support yacht that's there as a companion to his main yacht.
Speaker 2: The wedding is reportedly a three doar, three day, superstar
Speaker 2: studded event. At this point, we've been talking about it
Speaker 2: so much. I would really like for them to get married. Yes,
Speaker 2: just get it done.
Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, I just want to. I didn't even
Speaker 1: know there was such a thing as a support yacht.
Speaker 1: I think that's the first time I've ever heard that
Speaker 1: phrase or term ever used. But of course it makes
Speaker 1: sense that it would be applicable to bezos, all.
Speaker 3: Right, Next up on a run.
Speaker 1: Major League Baseball has banned a fan from all Major
Speaker 1: League stadiums for heckling a player to tiers. This all
Speaker 1: played out earlier this week in Chicago. The White Sox
Speaker 1: were hosting the Arizona Diamondbacks.
Speaker 2: At All Star Second baseman for the Diamondbacks Coutell Marte
Speaker 2: was up to bat in the seventh inning when a
Speaker 2: fan was mercilessly heckling him. Now, the Arizona manager noticed
Speaker 2: during the seventh inning stretch that Marte was going back
Speaker 2: out on the field to play defense and he was
Speaker 2: in tears, so he went out to see what was
Speaker 2: going on and try to comfort player.
Speaker 1: So at that point he asked umpires that that fan
Speaker 1: be removed. And of course professional athletes are accustomed to
Speaker 1: opposing fans yelling all kinds of things at them, especially
Speaker 1: in baseball, So what could the fan have possibly been
Speaker 1: saying to him that upset.
Speaker 3: Him so much.
Speaker 2: The fan was heckling Marte about his dead mother, a
Speaker 2: woman who passed tragically and suddenly in a car accident
Speaker 2: back in twenty seventeen. Now, the White Sox, to their credit,
Speaker 2: made a gesture later with a social media post saying
Speaker 2: baseball is family. The White Sox community supports could tell Marte.
Speaker 2: This fan has been banned from all baseball, all of
Speaker 2: Major League Baseball, indefinitely for now. But there's a video
Speaker 2: out that the manager saw it happening, was screaming back
Speaker 2: at like yelling like his mom's dead. You encouraging the
Speaker 2: person out, like what is wrong with you? And so
Speaker 2: maybe the person was yelling something about yamma and they
Speaker 2: didn't know the guy's mom was dead, which is just
Speaker 2: even that it's too far. But I mean, I guess
Speaker 2: we have no bounds.
Speaker 1: I think it's disgusting when you hear about this. This
Speaker 1: is these are people playing professionally for your enjoyment, your entertainment,
Speaker 1: but they're human beings, and it's just disgusting that they
Speaker 1: We do a lot already, exactly exactly, and you're an adult, sir,
Speaker 1: act like one and more importantly, just act like a
Speaker 1: human being. So I think that was an I'm fully
Speaker 1: supporting the decision of Major League Baseball on that one.
Speaker 2: Video is tough to see this guy, his tears a
Speaker 2: running down his face on the field.
Speaker 3: Yeah, oh it breaks your heart. Breaks your heart all right.
Speaker 1: Next up on our run with the first pick in
Speaker 1: the NBA draft, the Dallas Mavericks surprised absolutely no one, TJ.
Speaker 1: You were talking about this all day yesterday.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we just make it official. They've been talking about it,
Speaker 2: you know what, since he started bouncing the ball as
Speaker 2: a freshman. They've been talking about this, yes Duke freshman
Speaker 2: phenom Cooper Flag. It is the number one overall pick
Speaker 2: in the twenty twenty five draft, yes picked up by
Speaker 2: the Dallas Mavericks. He is now the sixth Duke player
Speaker 2: to ever go number one in the NBA Draft. Draft
Speaker 2: underway last night is going to go on for the
Speaker 2: next few days at the Barclay Center in Brooklyn. But
Speaker 2: this is a he reclassified as a high school as
Speaker 2: high school kid they allow you to do. He went
Speaker 2: forward so that he's so young now, so he's eighteen
Speaker 2: now when he debuts. He will still be eighteen when
Speaker 2: he makes his NBA debut.
Speaker 1: You were even talking about the betting odds on this one.
Speaker 1: If you put down ten thousand dollars to say that
Speaker 1: Cooper Flag.
Speaker 3: Was going to go number one, you would win one
Speaker 3: hundred dollars.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he was an overwhelming favorite, and so we were like, well,
Speaker 1: if you had like millions to put down, yes, you
Speaker 1: could actually make a really safe bet.
Speaker 2: That's a lot of risk just in case Dallas changes
Speaker 2: their mind last second.
Speaker 1: I would never do it, all right, And for the
Speaker 1: final leg of our run, if you want to improve
Speaker 1: your mental health and if you would like to reduce
Speaker 1: your stress, have a good snuggle with your partner in bed.
Speaker 2: How many of y'all just rolled your eyes at the
Speaker 2: idea of how would go snuggle with your partner tonight?
Speaker 3: On a new study You're with the wrong partner?
Speaker 2: You know what? That's again, different episode of our podcast.
Speaker 2: A new study, as published this month, says that cuddling
Speaker 2: and promotes more secure attachment between partners and lowers stress levels.
Speaker 2: The study looked at the association between physical closeness before
Speaker 2: sleep and stress, attachment, insecurity, and sleep disturbance.
Speaker 1: The researchers considered a bunch of factors in this study,
Speaker 1: including your daytime sleepiness, income, age, relationship length, and what
Speaker 1: they found was, even when couples are having trouble connecting
Speaker 1: emotionally during the day, when they went to sleep in
Speaker 1: a physically closer position, they had lower couple insecure attachment
Speaker 1: issues and overall lower stress levels.
Speaker 2: Now, researchers did not find any significant connection between cuddling
Speaker 2: and improved sleep quality. However, that kind of makes sense
Speaker 2: to bottom line, The study concluded that snuggling in bed
Speaker 2: may be a promising and amenable avenue for improving relational
Speaker 2: and physiological well being.
Speaker 1: It's hard though, if you're not, if you're feeling disconnected,
Speaker 1: But it's true, like it's you know, I'm not saying
Speaker 1: you're in an all out fight, but if you just
Speaker 1: feel a little bit dist or you haven't been feeling
Speaker 1: connected to your partner, if you just snuggle at night,
Speaker 1: it's a game changer.
Speaker 2: Physical touch works, just holding hands, something that simple, a
Speaker 2: little gesture does. So, yes, this does make sense. I
Speaker 2: was giving you a hard time earlier, but this this works.
Speaker 3: You like big spoon or little spoon.
Speaker 2: Spooning. I don't know, it depends on what I was
Speaker 2: about to say. Something just gross.
Speaker 1: I think you're usually big spoon and I'm little spoon.
Speaker 2: Right, Yes, that's always the.
Speaker 1: Way it goes, Okay, Yes, and even if it isn't,
Speaker 1: that's what we're going with. All right, As you go
Speaker 1: about your day on this Thursday, we would like to
Speaker 1: get you to consider this.
Speaker 3: This is our quote of the day.
Speaker 2: Success isn't owned, it's least and rent is due every day.
Speaker 2: Thank you for that, mister J. J. Watt professional football play.
Speaker 2: I've retired now, but that makes very sense, very much sense.
Speaker 2: It's like somebody always on your heels. You can never
Speaker 2: rest on your success of yesterday.
Speaker 3: I felt like this to you because this is kind
Speaker 3: of your mantra.
Speaker 1: I'll be like, whoo, look what we did or we
Speaker 1: got here or we met this you know, threshold that
Speaker 1: we were trying to get to, and you're like, what's
Speaker 1: the next one?
Speaker 3: What's the next one?
Speaker 1: And so you know, I like to hike, and so
Speaker 1: I kind of make a mountain analogy. It's like, you
Speaker 1: get to the top, but then where are you going
Speaker 1: from here? You know, you might have to go down,
Speaker 1: but you got to get back up on another one.
Speaker 3: So I like this.
Speaker 1: Idea of motivating folks to say, hey, you got to
Speaker 1: keep working and success comes only through hard work. It
Speaker 1: doesn't come through just complacency or saying oh did that
Speaker 1: now I can chill.
Speaker 3: Hey you got to keep on trucking. So yes, thank you.
Speaker 1: JJ Watt's success isn't own, it's least and rent is
Speaker 1: due every day. So hope that gets your day started
Speaker 1: with a big motivational punch, right, all right, thanks for
Speaker 1: running with us everyone. I'm Amy Robick. I might be
Speaker 1: a little punchy because it's Friday Eve, all.
Speaker 2: Right, and I'm TJ Holk, So I remember you can
Speaker 2: be closing arguments today in the trial are happening today,
Speaker 2: so we'll be back on with you a little later.
Speaker 2: We've been doing our updates. You've been listening to those
Speaker 2: we know, so we appreciate that. But we will be
Speaker 2: giving you a couple of ditty updates, so look for
Speaker 2: some later episodes. Today we'll talk to Elso