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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 Tuesday, March twenty fifth. Welcome to Morning Run.

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Speaker 1: I'm Amy Roboch.

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Speaker 2: And I'MTJ Holmes. The Morning Run now, of course, coming

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Speaker 2: to you guaranteed by six thirty am every single day,

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Speaker 2: waiting for you there maybe when you wake up, or

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Speaker 2: certainly ready for your commute, so you can always check

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Speaker 2: it out in robes. We should tell folks we are

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Speaker 2: part of the group. Now after all the talk, we

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Speaker 2: can say we've officially seen snow White.

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Speaker 1: Now, oh yes, we certainly have it. It was a

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Speaker 1: long day yesterday and it was an enlightening day just

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Speaker 1: to actually see what all the fuss was all about.

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Speaker 2: And there's a lot of fuss and a lot of

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Speaker 2: it is legit. So we'll leave you with that. We'll

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Speaker 2: talk about snow White a little bit more here at

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Speaker 2: the end, but for right now, let's get into the

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Speaker 2: Morning Run on this Tuesday, and coming up on the run,

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Speaker 2: a stunning national security breach war plans accidentally shared with

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Speaker 2: a journalist via text.

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Speaker 1: Trump wants an unflattering portrait of him taken down, but

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Speaker 1: don't worry it just so happens. President Putin has already

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Speaker 1: given him a replacement portrait.

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Speaker 2: Also on the run this morning, they've been vandalized, set

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Speaker 2: on fire, even shot at now police say somebody tried

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Speaker 2: to blow up Tesla's.

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Speaker 1: Plus another reportedly good talk between the US and Russia,

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Speaker 1: and we're told to expect a positive announcement soon.

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Speaker 2: Also just heart breaking NCAA tournament news. Perhaps the biggest

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Speaker 2: star in all of college basketball is out of the

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Speaker 2: tournament after a devastating injury.

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Speaker 1: And also on the run today, short on cash to

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Speaker 1: order some takeout. Well, you're in luck. You can now

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Speaker 1: finance your food. I don't know if that's lucky good,

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Speaker 1: or perhaps just a troubling sign.

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Speaker 2: At the time, I don't like that story at all.

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Speaker 2: I'm trying to dive into it a little more later

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Speaker 2: and give it a chance, but initially I hate this idea.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's scary, right.

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Speaker 2: It's scary as a good word.

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Speaker 1: We will talk about that in just a bit, but

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Speaker 1: first we must begin our run in Washington, DC with

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Speaker 1: an almost unthinkable story. A reporter inadvertently is invited into

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Speaker 1: an unsecure group chat where the leaders of our country

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Speaker 1: were talking. The Defense Secretary, the Vice President, the National

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Speaker 1: Security Advisor, and the Secretary of State, just to name

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Speaker 1: a few, are discussing highly classified US war plans in Yemen.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's so unthinkable what Robot just described that even

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Speaker 2: the reporter who was invited into that text chain actually

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Speaker 2: thought it was a joke, thought it was a hoax.

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Speaker 2: The supporters. The editor in chief of the Atlantic and

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Speaker 2: as he read emojis and congratulatory reactions by group members

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Speaker 2: after attacks in Yemen were going, well, this is all

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Speaker 2: happening in real time. So Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor in chief,

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Speaker 1: And yesterday the White House acknowledged that the message thread

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Speaker 1: Goldberg had access to appears to be authentic. They say

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Speaker 1: they're now viewing how an inadvertent number was added to

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Speaker 2: success of the operation in Yemen demonstrates that there were

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Speaker 2: no threats to our service members or our national security. Next,

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Speaker 2: Offense Secretary Pete Hexiff disputed what exactly Goldberg saw in

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Speaker 2: the text chain, saying nobody was texting war plans and

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Speaker 1: Hexsith also went on to try and discredit Goldberg, calling

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Speaker 1: him the guy that pedals in garbage. President Trump also

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Speaker 1: reposted an Elon Musk post that read, best place to

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Speaker 2: The news of the breach caused quite their reaction from

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Speaker 2: fellow and former lawmakers, notably former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton,

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Speaker 2: who you may remember was lambast if we're using her

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Speaker 2: Democrats have now called the Republicans to join them to

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and if you go and read Goldberg's article in

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Speaker 2: Well, I say it was, Well, it was an I

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Speaker 2: guess this is a cautionary tale for all of us.

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Speaker 2: I think most people listening to us have made this mistake.

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Speaker 2: Probably at some point you add somebody to a text

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Speaker 2: chain you shouldn't have. You text something to somebody you

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Speaker 2: But still it's shocking to see the Vice President and

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Speaker 2: It's a weird mistake to make if you're on the

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Speaker 1: And one that will certainly be investigated. So more to

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Speaker 1: Yes, diplomacy kicked up a notch last week when President

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Speaker 1: Trump worked the phones chatting with both Putin and Zelensky

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Speaker 2: So what happens next? Ukrainian and US officials said to

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Speaker 2: meet again today in Saudi Arabia. And while all of

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Speaker 2: some folks argued. But the talking is positive, all right.

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Speaker 1: Next up on the run, a portrait of President Trump

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Speaker 1: at the Colorado State Capitol will be taken down after

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Speaker 1: Trump said it was purposefully distorted to a level that

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Speaker 2: Yeah, he posted his distaste of the portrait on social media.

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Speaker 2: Republican leaders of the Colorado State Legislature asked that the

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Speaker 2: oil painting be removed after he announced his displeasure. The

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Speaker 2: portrait was actually painted during Trump's first term in twenty nineteen,

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Speaker 2: after Colorado Republicans raised more than ten thousand dollars to

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Speaker 1: Now, the portrait was painted by artist Sarah Boardman, who

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Speaker 1: also by the way painted the adjacent portrait that was

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Speaker 1: it was right next to Trump's portrait of former President

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Speaker 2: So President Trump and his post said he would prefer

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Speaker 1: I didn't see a schedule for so people were literally

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Speaker 2: Who owns that? Because it's now going to be worth something.

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Speaker 1: they commissioned it next up on our run. President Trump

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Speaker 1: in Colorado. Just so happens, Trump was recently gifted what

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Speaker 2: Yeah, this gift and artists commissioned portrait was given to

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Speaker 2: President Trump by Russian President Vladimir Putin. We've gotten word

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Speaker 2: last week that Putin presented the gift to the administration's

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Speaker 1: Yes, the Kremlin confirmed the gift yesterday. No word on

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Speaker 2: Yes, Russia, he was given a gift that hung in

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Speaker 1: It was six years. It hung in his office for

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Speaker 1: six years, and it allowed the Soviet Union to eavesdrop

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Speaker 1: So yes, they learned their lesson that way when it

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Speaker 2: Wow, this one will be checked and checked thoroughly. Stay

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Speaker 2: with us here, folks, as we continue on this Tuesday

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Speaker 2: morning run. We have got the absolute worst possible news

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Speaker 2: out of March Madness. One of the darlings of the tournament,

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Speaker 2: out of the tournament with a devastating injury. We will

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Speaker 2: get into that. Also coming up, people been shooting at Tesla's.

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Speaker 2: Now they're trying to blow them up. Also this morning

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Speaker 2: on the run. Want to order your food, want it delivered,

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Speaker 2: show it on cash. It's okay, you can finance it,

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Speaker 2: all right. We continue now, folks, on next leg if

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Speaker 2: this run takes us to Texas, where it appears someone

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Speaker 2: is now trying to blow up Tesla vehicles and the

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Speaker 2: latest string of Tesla attacks across the country. Multiple incendiary

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Speaker 2: devices were discovered at a Tesla dealership in Austin on Monday.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, the Austin bomb Squad had to be called in

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Speaker 2: I haven't seen. It's only a matter of time probably.

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Speaker 2: I don't think there have been injuries associated with any

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Speaker 2: All right, we will continue here now on our run,

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Speaker 2: we will turn to March Madness. And this is the

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Speaker 2: some of the worst possible news you can hear, certainly

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Speaker 2: rabid March Madness fan. This is my favorite sporting event

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Juju Watkins of Number one USC reportedly tore her

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Speaker 2: Yeah. This was in the first quarter of the game,

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Speaker 2: The arena went silent because the teams, the women's teams,

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Speaker 1: Yeah, oh, and that silence was deafening. Her team, however,

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Speaker 1: Even if you don't know the name Juju Watkins off

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Speaker 2: Yeah, anytime you turn on the TV these days, certainly

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Speaker 2: But this tournament was very much anticipated to be her

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Speaker 1: Yeah, she averaged twenty four point six points per game,

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Speaker 2: And you know this for me as well. Over the years,

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Speaker 2: the run. Here. Financing your food it sounds like a

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Speaker 2: what idea? Well, specifically many installment loans so you can

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Speaker 1: Yes, the announcement of a partnership now between door Dash

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Speaker 2: Okay, So some of these short term learns can be

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Speaker 2: All right, folks, that you go about your Tuesday today,

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Speaker 1: Hard times create strong people. Strong people create good times.

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Speaker 1: It's just a nice pathway through hard times to good times.

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Speaker 2: All right, so good times are coming.

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Speaker 1: Huh, good times are recomming. It was just a hopeful

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Speaker 2: Oh my god, this is the idea. Okay, I gotta

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Speaker 2: with that we asked for you to check out if

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so check it out on our regular feed on

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Speaker 1: Amy and TJ wherever you get your podcasts. But for now,

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Speaker 1: this Tuesday. I'm Amy Robots and I'm TJ Holmes.

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Speaker 2: See you for the running Mark