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

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Speaker 1: morning everyone, This is your Morning Run for Thursday, March fifth.

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Speaker 1: The Morning Run now guaranteed by six thirty am Eastern

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Speaker 1: Time Monday through Friday.

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Speaker 2: I'm Amy Robox and I'm TJ.

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Speaker 3: Holmes on the Run This morning, President Trump issues a

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Speaker 3: bold warning to Hamas as the US announces an unprecedented

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Speaker 3: break in its we don't negotiate with terrorists policy. Also,

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Speaker 3: after pausing all financial and military aid, President Trump puts

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Speaker 3: even more pressure on Ukraine to come to the negotiating table.

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Speaker 1: And another day, another pause in Trump's terrorists for one

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Speaker 1: industry and it has a huge impact on the stock market.

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Speaker 1: Plus the Nielsen ratings are in for President Trump's joint

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Speaker 1: address to Congress, and let's just say if you were

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Speaker 1: born after nineteen seventy one, you probably missed it. And

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Speaker 1: a first term Texas congressman unexpectedly dies after attending Trump's speech.

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Speaker 3: Also on the Run this morning, for the first time

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Speaker 3: in South Carolina history, a death roll inmate will die

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Speaker 3: by firing squad. Tomorrow we'll explain why he chose that method.

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Speaker 3: Plus the latest update on the Pope's health after nearly

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Speaker 3: three weeks in the.

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Speaker 1: Hospital, and a replacement for NBC Nightly News has been

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Speaker 1: announced and it is a first for the franchise. Plus,

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Speaker 1: police now have to let time and a few items

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Speaker 1: pass before they can recover nearly seven hundred thousand dollars

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Speaker 1: of stolen jewelry.

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Speaker 2: We'll explain that one. But it's a doozy.

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Speaker 3: Uh, it's a dirty doozy. But we're going to start

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Speaker 3: the run of this morning with this. This is your

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Speaker 3: last warning, said President Trump to Hamas yesterday, and a

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Speaker 3: lengthy mince no words social media posts, the President called

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Speaker 3: on the militant group to release all hostages immediately.

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Speaker 1: The President was speaking directly to Hamas in his post,

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Speaker 1: which begins like this, Shalom Hamas means hello and goodbye.

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Speaker 1: You can choose, and he was just getting warmed up

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Speaker 1: with that. He went on to say that all hostages

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Speaker 1: should be released and all of the dead should be

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Speaker 1: returned immediately, or as the President put it, it is.

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Speaker 2: Over for you.

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Speaker 3: And oh no, he did not stop there, calling them

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Speaker 3: sick and twisted for keeping the bodies of the dead.

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Speaker 3: And now I am going to quote for you the

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Speaker 3: rest of his post. It starts like this. I am

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Speaker 3: sending Israel everything it needs to finish the job. Not

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Speaker 3: a single HAMAS member will be safe if you don't

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Speaker 3: do as I say. This is your last warning for

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Speaker 3: the leadership. Now is the time to leave Gaza while

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Speaker 3: you still have a chance. Also to the people of Gaza,

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Speaker 3: a beautiful future awaits, but not if you hold hostages.

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Speaker 3: If you do, you are dead. Make a smart decision.

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Speaker 3: Release the hostages now or there will be hell to pay.

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Speaker 3: End quote.

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Speaker 1: Wow, there isn't a lot of will room there. The

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Speaker 1: President's message came not longer. Not long after, the administration

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Speaker 1: acknowledged the US is now engaged in direct talks with Hamas.

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Speaker 1: This would be an unprecedented break of long standing US

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Speaker 1: policy that it does not negotiate with terrorists. And the

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Speaker 1: US designated hamas a terrorist organization back in nineteen ninety seven, and.

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Speaker 3: The US has found ways to deal with Hamas when necessary,

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Speaker 3: but through intermirior areas intermediaries in the past. But White

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Speaker 3: House Press Secretary of Carolyn Levitt said President Trump has

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Speaker 1: I guess the point being that nothing has worked so

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Speaker 1: far yet. But this is yes, a huge break in

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Speaker 1: US policy. Next up on the run, No money, no weapons,

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Speaker 1: sharing with Ukraine, calling it part of an assessment of

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Speaker 3: Yeah. This comes after the US previously announced it with

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Speaker 3: has relied on US intelligence during its three year war

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Speaker 1: The United States is able to provide real time satellite information,

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Speaker 1: among other things, to Ukraine, allowing them to anticipate Russian

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Speaker 2: It's unclear how long this pause will last, but US

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Speaker 1: Signaled it could be short lived if the US gets

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Speaker 1: a firmer commitment from Zelenski about ending the war in Ukraine.

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Speaker 1: This is all part of a strategy to get that

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Speaker 3: It's part of the continued fallout after that disastrous Oval

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Speaker 2: That's hard to believe a.

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Speaker 3: Lot has happened since then. We continue now on this

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Speaker 3: Thursday morning. Run in the stock market surged to Wednesday

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Speaker 3: US automakers. The tariffs are expected to deeply impact US

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Speaker 2: So yes, we remember this week it began.

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Speaker 1: Trump is now charging a twenty five percent tariff on

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Speaker 1: goods coming in from both of those countries. While the

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Speaker 1: Dow Jones climb nearly five hundred points, the S and

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Speaker 1: full percentage point after the news was announced, President Trump

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Speaker 1: then had a call with Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau yesterday.

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Speaker 1: He was looking for a way to compromise.

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Speaker 3: Trump said he told Trudeau that the US will only

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Speaker 3: withdraw the tariffs if Canada takes sufficient action to address

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Speaker 3: drug trafficking. Writing on social media, Trump said nothing has

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Speaker 3: has stopped. Trump said the call with Trudeau, who he

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Speaker 3: what if he called him Governor? Trudeau during the call

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Speaker 3: said it ended in a somewhat friendly manner. Mexican president meanwhile,

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Speaker 3: says she has a scheduled call with President Trump today

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Speaker 3: to announce Mexico's response to the tariffs on Sunday.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and we also had a lot of news coming

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Speaker 1: out from Canada. Many liquor stores and a lot of

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Speaker 1: That's going to have an impact on their bottom line.

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Speaker 3: So they can't Kentucky Bourbon. What else are they missing.

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Speaker 1: Jim Beam, like, there's just there are a lot of

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Speaker 1: a larger percentage of alcohol goes down there. So this

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Speaker 1: Next up on a RAN, a congressman from Texas died

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Speaker 1: not long after attending President's speech to the Joint Session

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Speaker 1: Tuesday night. Democratic Congressman Sylvester Turner was in the audience

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Speaker 3: Say he was released from the hospital, went home and

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Speaker 3: and Democratic Leader Hakim Jeffries called Turner's death tragic and unexpected.

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Speaker 1: Turner had been the mayor of Houston for eight years

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Speaker 3: The is just an added twist to this story. He

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Speaker 3: took over the seat that Sheila Jackson Lee had been

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Speaker 3: in since the mid nineties. She just passed last summer. Wow,

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Speaker 3: And so the guy who replaced her passes within weeks

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Speaker 1: Politics, shocking and jarring, and certainly sad, and our hearts

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Speaker 3: To that speech in particular. We now know that thirty

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Speaker 3: six point six million people tuned in for President Trump's

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Speaker 3: joint address to Congress on Tuesday, and overwhelmingly it was

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Speaker 1: but it's higher than President Biden's last two State of

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Speaker 2: Fifty five and up.

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Speaker 1: Wow, twenty percent were between the ages of thirty five

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Speaker 1: to me because it was a highly as we pointed out,

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it was a we said it was a TV show.

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Speaker 3: It was a really TV show in a lot of way.

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Speaker 3: You don't want to watch them? You have? Is it

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Speaker 1: It's a little sad, but I also think it could

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Speaker 1: be yes, a sign of the times. But also yes,

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Speaker 3: Watch, and they're over it. We're kind of over you

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Speaker 3: know what. That was another partisan night. We're kind of

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Speaker 1: And I will say Trump, President Trump makes more news,

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Speaker 1: at least it feels like it every single day than

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Speaker 1: people just are overwhelmed. It's too much Trump, and so

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Speaker 1: they just didn't need to get more Trump after they've

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Speaker 3: Okay, our next story is not about Trump. I'll start

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Speaker 3: with that, but check this out. In South Carolina scheduled

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Speaker 3: to execute a man tomorrow by firing squad. This is

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Speaker 3: a rare but not unheard of execution method in the

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Speaker 1: The State Supreme Court has rejected an appeal by death

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Speaker 1: row inmate Brad Sigmund, who was convicted of murdering his

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Speaker 1: to say, if you read the details of this crime,

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Speaker 1: it is horrific and he admitted to it, so there's

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Speaker 1: it and it was brutal.

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Speaker 3: Oh.

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Speaker 1: He was given three options for how he wanted to die,

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Speaker 1: lethal injection, the electric chair, or firing squad. Sigmund chose

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Speaker 1: the firing squad.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. The way this is going to work. He's going

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Speaker 3: to be strapped to a chair in the death chamber,

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Speaker 3: a hood is going to be placed over his head

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Speaker 3: and a target placed over his heart. Wow. And then

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Speaker 3: three anonymous shooters will be fifteen feet away, all will

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Speaker 3: have live ammunition, and all will fire. This is going

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Speaker 3: to be the first firing squad execution in the US

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Speaker 3: that is when the death penalty was reinstated in the US.

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Speaker 3: Yeah he ate on folks after robbing a Tiffany's jewelry

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Speaker 1: And I don't know, just the thought of putting them

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Speaker 2: I'm TJ and I'm Amy Robock. Have a great day

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