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Speaker 2: Good morning everybody, It's Wednesday, February twenty six. Welcome to
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Speaker 1: Holks and I'm Amy Roboch And on this Wednesday Morning Run, Big,
Speaker 1: Beautiful and barely getting by, the House passes Trump's massive
Speaker 1: spending bill in a wild scene on the Capitol floor
Speaker 1: that included a newborn baby.
Speaker 2: Also on the Run this morning, the administration makes a
Speaker 2: plea to undocumented immigrants leave now, maybe we'll let you
Speaker 2: come back later.
Speaker 1: Plus, if you thought the relationship between the President and
Speaker 1: the White House Press Corps was contentious before, just wait
Speaker 1: until you hear how he's gone and pissed him all
Speaker 1: off Now.
Speaker 2: And the Vatican stays on brand and keeps the Pope
Speaker 2: date short and sweet. We'll give you their nine word
Speaker 2: update about the Pope's health.
Speaker 1: Also, the crash was avoided, but the scene was still horrifying.
Speaker 1: A Southwest plain has to make a last second maneuver
Speaker 1: to avoid t bow owning another plane. The entire scene
Speaker 1: was captured on camera.
Speaker 2: Plus, a woman really thought she could fraudulently sell the
Speaker 2: most famous residents in Memphis and nobody would notice, apparently,
Speaker 2: so and now she's about to do a little jail house.
Speaker 1: Rock ah, like what you did with that first waffle house.
Speaker 1: Now Denny's, but never McDonald's. Mickeydees makes a promise we
Speaker 1: will never put a surcharge on your eggs.
Speaker 2: So some good egg news there, finally, but we do
Speaker 2: begin our run on this very busy Wednesday in Washington
Speaker 2: and presidents so called the President's so called big beautiful Bill. Well,
Speaker 2: it took a major and necessary step towards reality yesterday.
Speaker 1: The House approved the massive spending bill, which reflects the
Speaker 1: president's domestic policy agenda. It barely got over the finish
Speaker 1: line though the vote was two seventeen to two fifteen.
Speaker 1: All Democrats voted against it. All Republicans voted for it,
Speaker 1: except for one, Thomas Massey of Kentucky.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he was the holdout. He's just he's they called
Speaker 2: him a hawk when it comes to spending, and he
Speaker 2: just thought it was too much spending in it, so
Speaker 2: he held out against it. Still, they got it across the
Speaker 2: finish line. But President Trump had insisted on one massive
Speaker 2: bill to address everything, immigration, border security, energy taxes. Some Republicans, though,
Speaker 2: believe the best strategy and the best chance for success,
Speaker 2: would be to split his agenda up into smaller, bite
Speaker 2: sized bills. But in praise of this bill's passage yesterday,
Speaker 2: President wrote on social media that the bill implements my
Speaker 2: full America First Agenda, everything, not just parts of it.
Speaker 1: This bill included two trillion dollars in spending cuts and
Speaker 1: four point five trillion in tax cuts, including extending those
Speaker 1: tax cuts enacted during Trump's first term. Now, despite its passage,
Speaker 1: its future is not assured, as Republicans in the House
Speaker 1: and Senate will now need to resolve their budget differences
Speaker 1: and ultimately come up with a compromise that can get
Speaker 1: passed and that the President will sign. But you we
Speaker 1: mentioned at the top, it was a chaotic scene there
Speaker 1: on the House floor because.
Speaker 2: They didn't have the votes. It was scheduled to vote
Speaker 2: on it last night, but then they didn't have the votes,
Speaker 2: so they skipped the voting. The members were leaving walking
Speaker 2: out of the Capitol, they started getting alerts and messages
Speaker 2: and texts and notifications that hey, the vote is back on.
Speaker 2: So they came back in to vote in this chaotic scene,
Speaker 2: and you mentioned at the top there was a newborn
Speaker 2: baby there. This is just to kind of emphasize how
Speaker 2: important this vote was. There was a Congresswoman, Brittany Peterson,
Speaker 2: a Democrat of Colorado. She has been on maternity leave.
Speaker 2: She came back with her one month old Sam to
Speaker 2: DC by herself to vote. Now, it didn't go the
Speaker 2: way Democrats want it, but it just shows how critical
Speaker 2: every single vote was. That she came back with her
Speaker 2: baby to vote.
Speaker 3: Wow, she should use that.
Speaker 1: If there's some video of that, right there is, she
Speaker 1: should use that in her next re election campaign.
Speaker 2: It's already up on her website.
Speaker 3: I'm sure. I'm sure that was used to her advance. Hey,
Speaker 3: and rightly so they have to vote in person.
Speaker 2: Another guy has knee surgery, he's been out. He showed
Speaker 2: up as well to vote. That just emphasizes how important
Speaker 2: of a vote it was last night. We can tell
Speaker 2: you on the run though. On this Wednesday, with the
Speaker 2: Trump administration threatening illegal immigrants in this country with jail
Speaker 2: time and find if they don't sign up for a
Speaker 2: government registry, Apartment of Homeland Security announced yesterday that immigrants
Speaker 2: over the age of thirteen who are in this country
Speaker 2: unlawfully must join the registry by filling out an online form.
Speaker 1: The administration is actually enforcing a law, they say, that
Speaker 1: has been previously ignored by democratic and Republican administrations. It
Speaker 1: encourages people to self deport. A Homeland Security spokesperson said
Speaker 1: they are sending a clear message to those who are
Speaker 1: in our country illegally.
Speaker 3: I'm going to quote her.
Speaker 1: Now, if you leave now, you may have the opportunity
Speaker 1: to return and enjoy our freedom and live the American dream.
Speaker 2: So those who register will receive a registration document that
Speaker 2: adults must care and keeping their possession at all times.
Speaker 2: Trump's plan relies on a World War Two era law
Speaker 2: that created an immigration registry that was initially designed to
Speaker 2: identify suspected communists. The new policy would not apply to
Speaker 2: immigrants who are legal permanent residents or immigrants who are
Speaker 2: granted visas even if they have overstayed them, as well
Speaker 2: as immigrants with government work permits. Curious to see how
Speaker 2: this is going to work. You're telling folks who are
Speaker 2: in the shadows to come out of the shadows so
Speaker 2: we can kick you out of the country.
Speaker 3: It doesn't make any sense.
Speaker 1: That if you were here illegally and know you're here illegally,
Speaker 1: why you would then raise your hand and say, hey,
Speaker 1: let me put this in writing, I'm here illegally.
Speaker 2: But does it give a pathway? People always say a
Speaker 2: pathway to citizenship, and part of the path is you
Speaker 2: got to leave, correct.
Speaker 1: So that is the hope that they're encouraging folks to
Speaker 1: leave now to come back later. But we'll see if
Speaker 1: that actually ends up being something that immigrants sign up for.
Speaker 3: All right. Next up on our run.
Speaker 1: In a move that has steam coming out of journalists' ears,
Speaker 1: President Trump says he will decide who gets to cover him.
Speaker 1: The White House announced that the Press Office would now
Speaker 1: pick and choose which outlets get access to the president.
Speaker 2: So that power has rested with the White House Correspondence Association.
Speaker 2: This group spreads the wealth, if you will, among news
Speaker 2: outlets and decides who's a part of the press pool.
Speaker 2: It's been that way since the old forever until now,
Speaker 2: and the White House Press Secretary Carolyn Levitt yesterday said this.
Speaker 1: She said, moving forward, the White House press pool will
Speaker 1: be determined by the White House Press Team. A select
Speaker 1: group of DC based journalists should no longer have a
Speaker 1: monopoly of press access at the White House. A rep
Speaker 1: for the White House Correspondence Association pushback and accuse the
Speaker 1: President of choosing his own press corps, which is kind
Speaker 1: of exactly what he's doing. You know.
Speaker 2: The idea of them opening up the press room to
Speaker 2: different types of journalists, more podcasters, more people who write online,
Speaker 2: and I've influence.
Speaker 3: That was interesting.
Speaker 2: I think that was interesting and good idea. This is
Speaker 2: going to look he's shaking things up. So many things
Speaker 2: we do we do because it's just it's always been
Speaker 2: that way. Okay, fine, mix it up. I think him
Speaker 2: being the messenger is the problem for a lot of people,
Speaker 2: giving his relationship with the press, and it seems like
Speaker 2: he has decided you're a hand picking who gets to
Speaker 2: cover you, so you're almost hand picking how you're going
Speaker 2: to be covered.
Speaker 3: Correct, is the question? Correct?
Speaker 1: The problem is, though, as we found out, we'll see
Speaker 1: how this all works out, but when you don't allow
Speaker 1: access to folks who have wide and large worldwide audiences,
Speaker 1: they're going to write and report things anyway.
Speaker 3: So I would think you would want.
Speaker 1: To have exactly what you said and have access to
Speaker 1: question what you said from those folks.
Speaker 2: He doesn't want anybody in there who won't call it
Speaker 2: Gulf of America. That continues right score the ape suit.
Speaker 2: He's kicked them out of a lot of events because
Speaker 2: they won't start using Golf of America like he wants.
Speaker 2: So this is you got four years of this.
Speaker 1: This is just the beginning, is what I was about
Speaker 1: to say. All right, Next up on the jos On
Speaker 1: we are going to turn to Rome, where we received
Speaker 1: a nine word update from the Vatican today. The Pope
Speaker 1: had a tranquil night and is resting.
Speaker 2: Okay, you want to try with any tea leaves here
Speaker 2: because they give us a few words every day and
Speaker 2: then the whole world tries to decipher which it means.
Speaker 2: The Pope has been in critical condition now for a
Speaker 2: number of days we mentioned here, but had been in
Speaker 2: stable condition. He's thirteenth day now in the hospital. Yes,
Speaker 2: the longest day of his papacy is his fourth consecutive day,
Speaker 2: just mentioning there in critical condition. The Vatican went into
Speaker 2: a little more detail last night with an update saying
Speaker 2: there have been no acute respiratory episodes and that the
Speaker 2: Pope went under a scheduled CT scam.
Speaker 1: They added that his prognosis remains uncertain or guarded, dependent
Speaker 1: on who translated the Italian, but that also is ambiguous.
Speaker 1: The eighty eight year old Pontiff resumed some light work,
Speaker 1: the Vaticans said on Tuesday. He did that as well
Speaker 1: on Monday from his hospital room. And of course hundreds
Speaker 1: continue to gather nightly. It's cold, it was, it's been
Speaker 1: rainy in Rome, and sure enough every night folks come
Speaker 1: out to Saint Peter Square to pray for the pope's recovery.
Speaker 1: And we will continue to give you the very small
Speaker 1: incremental updates that we get from the Vatican twice a
Speaker 1: day typically.
Speaker 2: Okay, is it fair to say, last couple of days,
Speaker 2: the last two updates, there hasn't been anything negative in him.
Speaker 2: There hasn't been a downturn. At nine. There was one
Speaker 2: that even said a slight improvement, and this one is
Speaker 2: just he slept and he rested, so that I mean,
Speaker 2: I don't know, Tea Leaves, I'm trying to reason. Dan
Speaker 2: t Lee.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I guess it's just good that it's
Speaker 1: not getting he's not getting worse. His condition isn't worsening.
Speaker 1: But who knows how long you should be concerned once
Speaker 1: the fact that he hasn't gotten out of hospital now
Speaker 1: it's almost been two weeks. That's alarming for an eighty
Speaker 1: eight year old.
Speaker 2: All right, well, well stay with us here on this
Speaker 2: Wednesday morning run. When we come back, a horrific scene
Speaker 2: that could have been even more horrific. A Southwest plain
Speaker 2: almost t bones another jet on the runway. How did
Speaker 2: this happen? We will get into that. Also, a woman
Speaker 2: tried to sell Elvis Presley's house. Her name an Presley.
Speaker 2: Also McDonald's with some good news when it comes to eggs.
Speaker 2: Stay here, all right, folks, let's continue on this Wednesday
Speaker 2: morning run. And this is a story that deserves video
Speaker 2: to go along with the description we're about to give you,
Speaker 2: But we're gonna do our best. They tell you what
Speaker 2: happened to Chicago's Midway Airport yesterday. A Southwest Airlines plate
Speaker 2: had to abort its landing to avoid colliding with another
Speaker 2: plane that was crossing the runway.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the entire incident, as we mentioned, was caught on
Speaker 1: airport video, and you can see the Southwest plane coming
Speaker 1: in for what looks like a routine landing. Its wheels
Speaker 1: were just about to touch the ground when suddenly it
Speaker 1: pulls up and over a private jet that was crossing
Speaker 1: directly in its path on its runway.
Speaker 2: Okay, now, when you see the video, everything robes just describe.
Speaker 2: You can see it on video, but as you're watching it,
Speaker 2: you don't actually realize how much of an emergency and
Speaker 2: critical situation it is. Because the plane is coming in beautifully,
Speaker 2: it looks like it's landing like it's supposed to, and
Speaker 2: then it takes off again. It actually looks innocuous. But
Speaker 2: when you hear the details and you see that other
Speaker 2: plane right in its path, if that Southwest jet had
Speaker 2: continued landing on that runway, it looks like it would
Speaker 2: have absolutely t boned that other plane. That Southwest jet
Speaker 2: was coming from Omaha. It had to do a go around.
Speaker 2: They performed a go around maneuvers what they call it.
Speaker 2: But it eventually landed safely just about ten minutes late.
Speaker 2: The FAA said, the private jet entered that runway without authorization.
Speaker 2: Roads these are now we have to be careful here.
Speaker 2: There are so many incidents. Oftentimes you tell them, but
Speaker 2: it seems like you're amplifying in it and making things
Speaker 2: seem worse than they are but there have been a
Speaker 2: number of incidents of concern.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean just in the last few months.
Speaker 1: Of course, we had the deadly crash over the Potomac
Speaker 1: with the mid air collision, we had the incident in Toronto.
Speaker 3: I mean, this is it seems.
Speaker 1: It's a little frightening to think that these are all
Speaker 1: happening in succession. Hopefully people are paying more attention. Now.
Speaker 2: That was the thing we talked with so much about
Speaker 2: FA and the air traffic controllers. This the audio was there.
Speaker 2: There's no other way to say this. There was a
Speaker 2: miscommunication and the pilot of that small jet did not
Speaker 2: follow instructions. He was told clearly, plainly, do not cross,
Speaker 2: and he crossed. And after he did later on that
Speaker 2: you can hear air traffic controller upset, like your instructions
Speaker 2: were to stop at this plane. At this point, the
Speaker 2: Southwest guy who's circling, he got up in the air
Speaker 2: and later said, hey, so how'd that happen? He said
Speaker 2: it very calmly, Yes, how that happened.
Speaker 1: Can you imagine he thank goodness for that pilot in
Speaker 1: his skills because he saved many many lives. All right,
Speaker 1: next up on the run, we're gonna head to Memphis
Speaker 1: where a woman is heading to jail for fraudently trying
Speaker 1: to sell a house that wasn't even hers.
Speaker 3: In that house, well.
Speaker 1: It happens to be the most famous residence in Memphis.
Speaker 1: We're talking about Graceland, the legendary home of Elvis Presley.
Speaker 2: She really think she's gonna pull this off. Now I've
Speaker 2: been hearing about this story and we're gonna explain how
Speaker 2: she tried to pull this off. But her name is
Speaker 2: Lisa Finlay, fifty three years old. She has now pleaded
Speaker 2: guilty to one count of male fraud for her brazen
Speaker 2: scheme to put Graceland up for auction, even though she
Speaker 2: had no right to do so. So robes How in
Speaker 2: the world was she trying to pull this off?
Speaker 1: Well, prosecutors say Findley forged the signatures of Presley's late daughter,
Speaker 1: Lisa Marie and a Florida notary to claim that Lisa
Speaker 1: Marie was in default of alone and that loan used
Speaker 1: Graceland as collateral. So then Findley filed public notices in
Speaker 1: May of twenty twenty four to auction off Graceland because
Speaker 1: she claimed that Lisa Marie was in default.
Speaker 2: This is now I don't even know about the default,
Speaker 2: but just the signing, fraudulently signing a dead woman's.
Speaker 1: And how about publicly auctioning off Graceland. You didn't think
Speaker 1: anyone was going to notice.
Speaker 2: This place is special to me. I am a kid
Speaker 2: from West Memphis, as you know. But this plead agreement,
Speaker 2: prosecutors did dismiss another account of aggravated identity theft. The
Speaker 2: fraud charge, though she pleaded guilty to, does carry a
Speaker 2: maximum sentence of twenty years in prison, but prosecutors are
Speaker 2: recommending she get about six years in prison.
Speaker 1: Yeah, fifty seven months. I believe was exactly what they
Speaker 1: asked for. But clearly she has some I would think
Speaker 1: she has some mental health issues.
Speaker 2: You know, I'm going to take you there. When I
Speaker 2: take you to Memphis, I'm going to take you by.
Speaker 2: Graceland's one of those things you can do so you
Speaker 2: can sign the wall out front. Everybody leaves their signatures.
Speaker 3: I've never been, and I'm looking forward to it, all right.
Speaker 1: Next up on the run, breakfast just got a little
Speaker 1: more expensive. Denny's has joined a growing number of restaurants
Speaker 1: that have added an egg surcharge to its menus.
Speaker 2: This is all because of the ongoing bird flu outbreak
Speaker 2: began in twenty twenty two, led to a nationwide egg
Speaker 2: shortage that has forced many restaurants to make some changes,
Speaker 2: including waffle House, which announced earlier this month that it
Speaker 2: would add a fifty cent surcharge per egg. I think
Speaker 2: theirs is indefinite, but they didn't say it was going
Speaker 2: to go on.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they all keep saying temporary, but we'll see how temporary.
Speaker 1: You know, we forget and then the prices of the prices,
Speaker 1: and I don't know, I don't know who's going to
Speaker 1: hold them to that, but maybe we will just.
Speaker 2: Like signing up for those things like a free trial,
Speaker 2: right then you forget.
Speaker 3: About it, exactly. I got about ten of those right now.
Speaker 3: That's actually a true statement.
Speaker 1: The amount of Denny's temporary surcharge on egg dishes.
Speaker 3: Will vary actually from city to city.
Speaker 1: In fact, they even say from restaurant to restaurant, because
Speaker 1: it'll be all based on the local price of eggs.
Speaker 3: So see they're confusing us.
Speaker 1: Now we won't even know what the price you use
Speaker 1: to be from restaurant to restaurant. But like, this is
Speaker 1: actually a very big deal. When you hear these numbers.
Speaker 1: Avian flu has killed more than one hundred and forty
Speaker 1: million egg laying birds in the US over the past
Speaker 1: three years. And get this, nearly twenty million birds have
Speaker 1: had to be put down in just the past month
Speaker 1: alone because of this outbreak.
Speaker 2: And so there we go a dozen eggs. The prices
Speaker 2: for all those ninety five cents nationwide nineteen percent increase
Speaker 2: from just a month before. And I don't think there's
Speaker 2: any sign, there's nothing anybody's pointing to that this is
Speaker 2: going to go away anytime soon.
Speaker 1: When you keep reading the bird flu headlines, it seems
Speaker 1: like it's just getting worse.
Speaker 2: Actually, so we got all these sory egg prices, but
Speaker 2: one company has decided to take a crack at a
Speaker 2: different approach. They are taking more of a I don't know,
Speaker 2: a sunny side of approach, making a much different headline
Speaker 2: for our final leg of this run.
Speaker 3: You must be in a good mood because you read
Speaker 3: my cheesy riding.
Speaker 2: I didn't feel like fighting you on it. Let's just
Speaker 2: get through it.
Speaker 1: I have the biggest smile on my face because you
Speaker 1: just read my cheesy Right now, all right, McDonald's is
Speaker 1: not only vowing to reject any surcharge on meals with eggs.
Speaker 1: They're going in the opposite direction. They are discounting egg
Speaker 1: mcmuffins for one day only, but hey, we'll take it
Speaker 1: to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the breakfast sandwich. This Sunday,
Speaker 1: March second, customers can purchase an egg McMuffin and a
Speaker 1: sausage egg McMuffin for just one dollar on the McDonald's app.
Speaker 2: Is this not brilliant?
Speaker 3: More so smart?
Speaker 2: You're giving people a break, first of all, though they
Speaker 2: at least feel like you are. But you're not gonna
Speaker 2: come in there and just get an egg McMuffin. You
Speaker 2: can get the sausages over here, you gonna get the
Speaker 2: pancakes over there, and they're gonna spend money. So McDonald's
Speaker 2: and not like it they wrote this quote. Unlike others
Speaker 2: making news recently, you definitely won't see McDonald's USA issuing
Speaker 2: surcharges on eggs which are one hundred percent cage free
Speaker 2: and sourced in the US.
Speaker 3: Boom mic drop good.
Speaker 2: Good for you, McDonald's like yourself out.
Speaker 3: Yep, you know what.
Speaker 1: I like it when companies take advantage in a good
Speaker 1: way of a bad situation and McDonald's just brilliantly positioned
Speaker 1: themselves on that one.
Speaker 3: It's a little test.
Speaker 2: It's almost like they thrown a shot at somebody else,
Speaker 2: but subtly.
Speaker 1: And McDonald's has been struggling last year, tough earnings, and
Speaker 1: so they're already starting to see a little bit of
Speaker 1: a rebound and they're hoping that this helps. All right,
Speaker 1: we want you now on this Wednesday, to consider this
Speaker 1: as you go about your day today. It is our
Speaker 1: quote of the day.
Speaker 2: Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed
Speaker 2: in overalls and looks like work. I do love this.
Speaker 2: I've used this one before, seen it before this time.
Speaker 1: No, no, this is Thomas Edison, but I do. This is
Speaker 1: something that I have seen from you or heard from
Speaker 1: you as well. So I figured this would be a
Speaker 1: good one, but did not know Thomas Edison said this one.
Speaker 3: I love it. We It's so true.
Speaker 1: People want to get lucky or they want to have
Speaker 1: things happen, but usually you have to make them.
Speaker 2: Happen, you know the one. I've talked about this a
Speaker 2: lot because of people, young people we go out and
Speaker 2: talk to. They see your finished products, so they just
Speaker 2: want that success immediately they want, Oh, that YouTuber has
Speaker 2: a two million followers, as if that person has been
Speaker 2: working for the last seven years trying to get to that.
Speaker 2: So this is always the case. Oh, it's so hard
Speaker 2: for me, And we've dealt with interns years before, like, yeah,
Speaker 2: I just want to start at market number one and work.
Speaker 3: I'd like to begin at the network. How do I
Speaker 3: do that?
Speaker 2: And that's okay and it works. But sometimes people think
Speaker 2: things aren't working out for me because right in front
Speaker 2: of me is the opportunity. I just got to put
Speaker 2: on the overalls and buzz my eyes. Yes you do, folks,
Speaker 2: So take that quote with.
Speaker 3: You today, Yes, one more time for you.
Speaker 1: Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed
Speaker 1: in overalls and looks like work. And with that, we
Speaker 1: hope you all have a wonderful Wednesday.
Speaker 3: I'm Amy Robock, I'm G. J.
Speaker 2: Holmes. I'm getting out of these overalls and putting all
Speaker 2: the swim drunks as we speak. Let's see all tomorrow's
Speaker 2: run