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

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Speaker 1: morning everyone, It's Monday, February seventeenth. Welcome to your Morning Run.

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Speaker 2: I'm Amy Robots and I'MTJ Holmes and on the run

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Speaker 2: this morning. Weather is taking a deadly toll, Ukraine takes

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Speaker 2: a back seat, Trump takes a lap, the NBA All

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Speaker 2: Star Game takes a beating, and Comclave takes the top honor.

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Speaker 1: Plus an update on the pope's current hospitals day, and

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Speaker 1: there's a concerning measles outbreak to tell you about. And

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Speaker 1: we're also going to tell you why today actually is

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Speaker 1: not President's Day. You did a deep dive on this one, TJ.

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Speaker 2: And some people are shaking their hands. We're your means

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Speaker 2: it's not President's Day. I just took the day off.

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Speaker 2: They scrambling, No, no, it's okay. It is still a federal holiday,

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Speaker 2: but is actually not technically, no, literally, it is not

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Speaker 2: President's Day. We will explain the back and forth on that.

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Speaker 1: Looking forward to all of that, but we begin our

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Speaker 1: Monday Morning Run overseas with a potentially major development. The

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Speaker 1: first official sit down is set for tomorrow between Russia

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Speaker 1: and the United States to discuss the end of the

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Speaker 1: war in Ukraine.

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Speaker 2: US Secretary of State Marco Marco, not Marco Rubio. It's

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Speaker 2: just Marco and is just Monday, isn't it.

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Speaker 3: Yes?

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Speaker 2: The US Secretary of State Marco Rubio arrived in Ryad

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Speaker 2: just this morning for negotiations with his Russian counterparts. Ukraine

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Speaker 2: is not expected to be at this initial meeting, and

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Speaker 2: it's unclear just how involved Ukraine will be in the

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Speaker 2: peace talks.

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Speaker 1: President Trump announced last week that he had spoken with

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Speaker 1: Russian President Putin and that the two had agreed to

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Speaker 1: immediately begin negotiations to end the war in Ukraine. This

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Speaker 1: marked the first time at least that we know of

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Speaker 1: that the two men had spoken since Trump returned to office.

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Speaker 2: But President Trump made that announcement about negotiations to end

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Speaker 2: the war in Ukraine before actually calling, you know, the

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Speaker 2: guy in Ukraine, President Zelenski, Former President Biden, and many

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Speaker 2: US allies have always insisted that Ukraine would need to

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Speaker 2: be fully a partner and a part of any peace process.

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Speaker 2: The President again didn't commit to how much Ukraine would

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Speaker 2: be involved, but he was asked about it yesterday and

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Speaker 2: he said, quote, he will be involved. Yes. Talking about

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Speaker 2: President Zelinsky of Ukraine.

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Speaker 1: Call me crazy, though, how can a country involved in

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Speaker 1: a war not be involved in the end of the war.

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Speaker 2: So far, you're watching how that process is supposed to

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Speaker 2: work because there is no commitment, that is the truth.

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Speaker 2: There is no commitment to how Ukraine could be a

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Speaker 2: part of it. Ukrainian president he has said in a

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Speaker 2: not possible for there to be peace. We won't accept

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Speaker 2: anything that we are not a part of it.

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Speaker 1: That makes perfect sense to me. So how that happens,

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Speaker 1: When that happens, we shall see. But it just doesn't

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Speaker 1: seem like it's possible that it wouldn't happen. Well, I'm

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Speaker 1: out a loss. So we're gonna turn now to this

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Speaker 1: side of the world, where at least ten people, unfortunately

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Speaker 1: have died in the massive storms that swept a large

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so much of the initial weather warnings we're telling

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Speaker 1: Yeah, in a town just northeast of Memphis with a

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Speaker 1: but Governor Andy Basheer said he believes, unfortunately, that death

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Speaker 2: Governor said there had been more than a thousand rescues

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Speaker 1: And in Georgia, a person was killed in Atlanta after

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Speaker 2: Though has moved out to sea. That's great news, but

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Speaker 2: coldest polar vortex event of the season. That's one of

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Speaker 1: It doesn't sound like anything I want to be a

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Speaker 2: Okay, so that's what polar votechs means.

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Speaker 1: Yes, really really cold arctic air.

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Speaker 1: Next up on the Run, we're going to head to Italy,

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Speaker 1: where Pope Francis is spending his fourth day in a

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Speaker 2: Yeah, he's eighty eight years old now. Francis thanked his doctors,

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Speaker 2: healthcare workers, as well as the public for the, as

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Speaker 2: did prescribe something for him to get better. Absolute rest, yes,

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Speaker 1: Francis has made numerous visits to the hospital over the

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Speaker 1: remember back in twenty twenty three. In recent weeks he's

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Speaker 1: for him. The Pope was struggling to speak for extended

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Speaker 2: All right, we'll come back to this country for the

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Speaker 2: next leg of our run. And the next leg of

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Speaker 2: our run is around the track. President Trump took a

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Speaker 2: He rode around the track of the President in his limbo,

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Speaker 2: the Beast, as it's called. But this was quite the

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Speaker 2: the Beast, Trump's armored limo. He was leading the track

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Speaker 1: Got a kick out of this yesterday having some fun

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Speaker 1: I'm a big fan. I'm a really big fan of

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Speaker 1: you people. How you do this, I don't know, but

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Speaker 1: Wasn't that perfectly put in Trump speak.

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Speaker 2: That dude stays on brand always everywhere, stays on brand.

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Speaker 2: The last sitting president to attend a Daytona five hundred, though,

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Speaker 2: a cool sit and even the cooler site was seeing

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Speaker 1: I was in the kitchen and you were watching, and

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Speaker 2: with Anthony Mackie Captain America, Yes, making statement of said something.

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Speaker 2: What was the line again about Captain America represents a

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Speaker 2: right exact? All this pushback conservatives going crazy, Well, who

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Speaker 2: was the Grand Marshall who told them, gentlemen, starts your engines.

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Speaker 2: saying gentlemen, starts your engines. You look at that and

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Speaker 2: you go, wow, it's ironic, it's interesting, but it's also America,

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Speaker 2: and it's that whole scene yesterday was just wow, what

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Speaker 1: That's a good way to put it. What a country?

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Speaker 2: We did you here on this morning run. However, I

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Speaker 2: There was a three and a half hour rain delay

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Speaker 2: by the way, but yes, congrats through William Byron for

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Speaker 1: All right, next up on the run. You know, we

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Speaker 1: don't say that there's often good news when it surrounds

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Speaker 1: Sean Diddy Coombs, but there is some to speak of

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Speaker 2: So that with prejudice part is very important because it

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Speaker 2: but she stood by the allegation. She claimed the incident

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Speaker 1: After she withdrew her lawsuit, jay Z repeated that her

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Speaker 1: quote him here today is a victory. The frivolous, fictitious

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Speaker 2: San Didi's legal team also said they were vindicated, saying

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Speaker 2: the dismissal by the one eight hundred attorney is yet

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Speaker 2: another confirmation that these lawsuits are built on falsehoods. Shaan

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Speaker 2: Dieecombs is criminally charged with several counts of sex trafficking, racketeering,

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Speaker 2: in addition to facing dozens of lawsuits that allege sexual misconduct.

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Speaker 1: Next up on the run, a fast growing measles outbreak

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Speaker 1: is alarming officials in Texas and New Mexico. In a

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Speaker 1: matter of two weeks, the number of cases jump from

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Speaker 1: just two unvaccinated children to forty eight people now across

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Speaker 2: And most of these cases are occurring among children who

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Speaker 2: have not been vaccinated or whose vaccination status is unknown.

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Speaker 2: More than a dozen of them have had to be hospitalized.

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Speaker 2: Texas officials warning that these cases are likely to go

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Speaker 2: up that's right.

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Speaker 1: Measles is a highly contagious disease that had been declared

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Speaker 1: rates decreasing, measles has now surged back. Last year, there

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Speaker 1: were two hundred and eighty five measle cases reported. Nearly

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Speaker 1: ninety percent of them were among people who have not

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Speaker 2: All right, we'll stay with us, folks on this Federal

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Speaker 2: Holiday morning run when we come back. It was supposed

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