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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, February eighteenth. Welcome to Morning Run,

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Speaker 1: now guaranteed available by six thirty am Eastern Time every

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Speaker 1: single day.

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Speaker 2: I'm Amy Robot and I'm TJ. Holmes. And on the

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Speaker 2: run this morning, another major commercial plane crash. The plane

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Speaker 2: hits the runway, bursts into flames, and flips upside down.

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Speaker 2: But get this, everybody survives.

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Speaker 1: Also on our run this morning, pink slips at the FAA,

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Speaker 1: pink slips at Homeland Security, and a pink slip for

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Speaker 1: Eric Adams.

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Speaker 2: Plus a Pope date from the hospital in Rome for you,

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Speaker 2: the people of Mexico versus Google. And you want another

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Speaker 2: three day weekend, well, Donald Trump's birthday is on the

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Speaker 2: table as possibly a new federal holiday.

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Speaker 1: There are a couple of bills that have been recently

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Speaker 1: proposed by Republican congressmen and women that will, well at

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Speaker 1: least be very interesting to you.

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Speaker 2: Alright, We're going to get into some of those and

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Speaker 2: tell you what the chances are you're getting another three

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Speaker 2: day weekend. But we do need to begin are run

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Speaker 2: north of the border. We're going to head to Canada,

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Speaker 2: where a Delta plane with eighty people on board crashed

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Speaker 2: while landing at the Toronto Airport. Nineteen passengers were injured,

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Speaker 2: including three people who suffered critical injuries, but everybody on

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Speaker 2: board survived and none of the injuries are considered life threatening.

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Speaker 1: The fact that everyone survived this crash is remarkable considering

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Speaker 1: how the plane ended up upside down on the snow

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Speaker 1: covered ground with its wings sheared off and oh yeah,

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Speaker 1: it was on fire. Seventy six passengers and four crew

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Speaker 1: members were on board. Delta Flight forty eight nineteen left

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Speaker 1: from Minneapolis, Minnesota, earlier in the day. It's unclear right

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Speaker 1: now what caused the plane to flip and catch fire,

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Speaker 1: but Canadian investigators, along with help from the FAA and

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Speaker 1: the NTSB, are now looking into the blowing snow and

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Speaker 1: the strong wind gusts at the time of landing.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, those winds were around forty miles an hour on

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Speaker 2: the ground, stronger than that several hundred feet in the

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Speaker 2: air as that plane was trying to land. Passengers have

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Speaker 2: described what the experience while the plane was landing. They

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Speaker 2: could feel the plane skidding it, they said, then it

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Speaker 2: flipped on its side and ultimately flipped over, leaving them

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Speaker 2: hanging like bats. If you can imagine, this is why

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Speaker 2: they tell you to keep the seat belts on for turbulence.

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Speaker 2: But that picture, you can imagine everybody is strapped in

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Speaker 2: and they're where they're supposed to be, and it did

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Speaker 2: what it was supposed to help them in place, instead

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Speaker 2: of having all those people crashing down injuring them.

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Speaker 1: I mean, honestly, I am going to think about that

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Speaker 1: and remember that every time. I kind of roll my

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Speaker 1: eyes when they say to fasten your seat belts because

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Speaker 1: you're thinking, really, how's this actually going to help if

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Speaker 1: I get into a crash. Well, case in point, that's

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Speaker 1: exactly what it's supposed to do. It's pretty remarkable. And

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Speaker 1: the scene that a lot of passengers were describing the

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Speaker 1: chaos of getting everybody outside. The flight attendants did their job,

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Speaker 1: got everybody out those emergency exits and safely to where

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Speaker 1: they needed to be, which is really remarkable.

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Speaker 2: You know, I said this to you not long ago

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Speaker 2: on a flight, is your seatbelt on? When you're in

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Speaker 2: the un and someone says to when they say everyone,

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Speaker 2: Pitcher's seatbelt on, I know you're at twenty thirty thousand

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Speaker 2: feet Ah, what's gonna happen, No big deal. I swear

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Speaker 2: to you. The reason I always do it is because

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Speaker 2: I had a bloody mary spilled all over me when

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Speaker 2: I was heading to an important meeting. Turbulence. Somebody wasn't

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Speaker 2: strapped in and holding on and flipped up in the air.

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Speaker 2: Saw it happened. So I always whatever your reason is,

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Speaker 1: Your reason is a spilled bloody mary. I love that,

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Speaker 1: all right. Well. The Toronto Airport, by the way, understandably

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Speaker 1: was temporarily shut down at stopped flights after the crash.

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Speaker 1: The crash happened around two fifteen on Monday afternoon, but

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Speaker 1: and things are getting back to normal there. But of

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Speaker 1: course that investigation is going on. They're looking for those

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Speaker 1: black boxes the cockpit were quartered to find out what

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Speaker 2: Hey, we continue on our run here with a story

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Speaker 2: that people were connecting to that crash story yesterday. This

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Speaker 2: had to do with the Trump administration and firing nearly

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Speaker 2: four hundred FAA workers. This happened over the weekend. They

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Speaker 1: Now, the firings obviously come on the heels of that

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Speaker 1: Air traffic controllers, FAA technicians, and aviation safety inspectors were

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Speaker 1: So a lot of people upset with this decision. As

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Speaker 2: Work force, it's important to make the distinction. Yes, the

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Speaker 2: FAA has four years been trying to get enough air

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Speaker 2: they've been trying for years. People immediately, ah, these planes

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Speaker 2: are crashing on Trump's watch. He's firing fa folks, and

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Speaker 2: that's making trying to make a direct connection. Obviously, we

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Speaker 2: need to point out this crash happened in Canada, yes,

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Speaker 2: where they are under control of aviators, and aviation in

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Speaker 2: Canada has nothing to do with the FAA. But to

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Speaker 2: the point, FAA is not laying off air traffic controllers,

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Speaker 2: they are. That's important to note. The other support staff

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Speaker 2: run this morning, still talking about firing. Zoh mass firings.

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Speaker 2: This one's coming from the NBC of NBC folks. NBC

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Speaker 2: News reporting that the Trump administration is playing to fire

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Speaker 2: hundreds of high level Homeland Security employees this week. They

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Speaker 1: Sources say some of these firings aren't just about reducing

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Speaker 1: say its goals because Homeland Security, the Department of Homeland Security,

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Speaker 1: enforcing US immigration law, which is of course a top

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Speaker 1: to be in line with their new let's just say,

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Speaker 2: Get on board. To get out is the persons that

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Speaker 2: now for our run. We had to Reid, where negotiations

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Speaker 2: to end the war in Ukraine have officially begun. The

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Speaker 2: the first time in years the two countries have engaged

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Speaker 1: Missing from the negotiating table Ukraine tough. That country's fate

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Speaker 1: is Although the country's fate is on the line, Ukraine

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Speaker 2: Yes, President Trump announced last week threw a lot of

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Speaker 2: Former President Biden and many US allies have always insisted

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Speaker 2: any peace process, and President of Selensky of Ukraine also

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Speaker 1: Here's the thing though, While that's all going on in Riod,

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Speaker 2: Can you imagine, though, how that meeting started. I mean,

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Speaker 1: O would be a fly on the wall.

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Speaker 2: But the Europeans have a hand in what has been

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Speaker 2: But now Trump and Putin on their own have essentially

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Speaker 2: Shut everybody out and so they're scrambling. Yeah, what do

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Speaker 2: poly microbial infection of the respiratory tract. Now what is that? Well,

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's like a complication or a worsening basically of bronchitis.

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Speaker 2: So with this new diagnosis, the Pontiff will receive a

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Speaker 2: apparently receiving a flood of messages. As you could imagine,

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Speaker 2: they express through drawings and messages of good wishes. But yeah,

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Speaker 1: So a doctor say, or a medical folks who are

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Speaker 1: most people who have bronchitis that they go into the hospital,

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Speaker 1: it's a pretty quick recovery. They get you the antibiotics

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Speaker 1: but it can. And that's what's happening right now.

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Speaker 2: All right, will stay. Oh sorry, I was ready to

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Speaker 2: When we come back, folks, it appears that Mexico is

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Speaker 2: ready to sue over the name Gulf of America. But

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Speaker 2: they're not gonna sue America. We'll explain. Also, you want

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Speaker 2: another three day weekend, how about Happy Trump Day, we'll explain.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to this Tuesday edition of Morning Run. Next

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Speaker 1: up on the Run, we're going to head to New York.

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Speaker 1: A meeting is set for today in Manhattan that could

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Speaker 1: determine the future of federally indicted New York City Mayor

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Speaker 1: Eric Adams.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. That meeting was called by New York Governor Kathy Hockel,

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Speaker 2: a fellow Democrat, who has the power to remove the

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Speaker 2: New York City mayor from office. Many people have been

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Speaker 2: calling on her to do just that after Adams was

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Speaker 2: indicted on corruption charges, but she hasn't signaled she was

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Speaker 2: seriously weighing that option until now.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, to take a listen to Hockel's lengthy statement that

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Speaker 1: she released last night. It reads, in part, overturning the

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Speaker 1: will of the voters is a serious step that should

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Speaker 1: not be taken lightly. That said, the alleged conduct at

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Speaker 1: City Hall that has been reported over the past two

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Speaker 1: weeks is troubling and cannot be ignored. Tomorrow, I have

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Speaker 1: asked key leaders to meet me at my Manhattan office

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Speaker 1: for a conversation about the path forward with the goal

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Speaker 2: Yeah, the governor said, the constitutional power she has to

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Speaker 2: remove Adams has never been used in two hundred and

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Speaker 2: thirty five years of state government. This is a big deal.

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Speaker 2: But she says she was prompted to possibly act now

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Speaker 2: and to call this meeting after a slew of resignations

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Speaker 2: most populous city in crisis and quote raised serious questions

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Speaker 2: about the long term future of the mayoral administration.

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Speaker 1: But as of last week, things were looking up for

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Speaker 1: Mayor Adams. On Friday, the Justice Department filed paperwork to

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Speaker 1: critics as a quid pro quote.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Trump bails out Adams in exchange for Adams doing

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Speaker 2: Trump's bidding on immigration in New York City. It appeared

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Speaker 2: we were talking about this here like wow, after all this,

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Speaker 1: But then the wheels fell off this weekend when four

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Speaker 1: city council member called for Adams to resign. Adams has

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Speaker 1: resign from office. It is dizzying to read here in

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Speaker 1: It feels like it's resembling in many ways the federal

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Speaker 2: Hey, look, we call it, and sometimes jokingly people will

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Speaker 2: have heard to New York as the center of the universe.

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Speaker 2: It sounds awfully arrogant. It's the city, the city in

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Speaker 2: the city but there are almost eight and a half

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Speaker 2: culturally important to this country. We do not need New

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Speaker 2: be good, right, we need It's one of those things.

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Speaker 2: It's New York. It's everybody's better off. New York's doing well.

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Speaker 2: So it's been a miss to watch what we're seeing here.

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Speaker 2: Of course, I use a sports reference. Next up on

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Speaker 2: the run here, let's go for a swim in the

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Speaker 2: Gulf of whatever the hell you want to call it.

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Speaker 2: This is a silly back and forth that continues over

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Speaker 2: as the Gulf of Mexico. So here's the latest doozy

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Speaker 2: of a headline. Mexico might sue Google for changing the

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Speaker 2: name to Gulf of America on Google Maps.

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Speaker 1: This all started before Trump returned to office, when he

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Speaker 1: suggested that the Gulf of Mexico be renamed. His idea

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Speaker 1: was initially mocked by Mexican President Shinbaum, but then Trump

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Speaker 2: Isn't that so typical that he gets in the office,

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Speaker 2: he does what he said he was going to.

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Speaker 1: People are surprised. He said he was going to do it.

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Speaker 2: I told you you.

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Speaker 1: Voted him into office, and he did it.

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Speaker 2: So last week, Google as well as Apple updated its

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Speaker 2: maps and US based users now see the Golf of America.

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Speaker 2: Mexico then send a letter to Google insisting that they

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Speaker 2: Google's response, Nah, but Mexico has now come back and said, well,

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Speaker 2: you can't label the entire gulf as the Gulf of Mexico,

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Speaker 2: and if you do that, we'll see you in court.

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Speaker 2: So now it's a matter of not naming the whole.

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Speaker 2: You can only call it Gulf of America, only so

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Speaker 2: many miles from your coastline, is what they're now arguing over.

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Speaker 2: And if you don't do that, we're going to end

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Speaker 1: This is ridiculous. So if you're in the United States,

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Speaker 1: your map is going to read Golf of America. If

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Speaker 1: you're in Mexico, your map will read Gulf of Mexico. Oh,

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Speaker 1: we're going to be there soon. We can check that

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Speaker 1: out and have some.

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Speaker 2: Fun with that.

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Speaker 1: And if you're somewhere other than Mexico or the US,

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Speaker 1: your map will read Gulf of Mexico with Golf of

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Speaker 1: America in parentheses. I mean, that's where we are right

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Speaker 1: now in the world.

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Speaker 2: It's going to take a while. I still call it

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Speaker 2: Sears Tower in Chicago. You know, it takes a while.

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Speaker 2: It's with US Tower now right.

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Speaker 1: I don't even I can't keep up with the stadium

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Speaker 1: names like those all changed constantly. I didn't know that

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Speaker 1: certain military installations had completely changed. I still thought it

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Speaker 1: was for brag and Ford Benning. I had no idea

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Speaker 1: that had switched over. I mean that's just so.

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Speaker 2: It takes a while, but that back and forth continues

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Speaker 2: between the two countries. We shall see final leg here. Man.

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Speaker 2: Did you just enjoy your three day weekend, folks, because

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Speaker 2: you might get another one soon. Yeah. I don't know

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Speaker 2: about how soon this could possibly happen, but yes, we're

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Speaker 2: coming off the federal holiday President's Day or George Washington's Day,

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Speaker 2: whichever way you want to put it. But another federal

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Speaker 2: holiday could be on the calendar road.

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Speaker 1: That's right. One Republican congresswoman from New York has introduced

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Speaker 1: a bill to make President Trump's birthday a federal holiday,

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Speaker 1: recognizing him as quote the founder of America's Golden Age.

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Speaker 1: The bill would designate June fourteen as both Trump's birthday

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Speaker 1: and Flag Day. Flag Day, by the way, is currently

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Speaker 1: just a day of national observance, so this would elevate

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Speaker 2: Flag Day could get it upgrade. The bill, though, isn't

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Speaker 2: the only one proposed to honor President Trump. You hear

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Speaker 2: the idea about his birthday become a federal holiday, you

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Speaker 2: might be quick to dismiss it. But this is actually

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Speaker 2: in line, folks, with a theme we've been seeing. Last

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Speaker 2: carve Trump's face into Mount Rushmore, placing him next to

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Speaker 1: Yeah, the bill got specific. It said where his chiseled

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Speaker 1: face would go right next to Lincoln. His chiseled Yes,

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Speaker 1: I meant that's an important distinction.

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Speaker 2: Yes.

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Speaker 1: And then a Tennessee congressman also last month introduced emotion

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Speaker 1: to change the Constitution to allow President Trump to be

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Speaker 1: because this was a very specific proposed amendment. It would

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Speaker 1: exclude presidents who served consecutive t So who's the only

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Speaker 1: DA in recent years. It's President Trump. So let's it's

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Speaker 1: not Maybe it's important to point out the Democrats have

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Speaker 2: Okay, that nobody thinks that this is going to happen,

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Speaker 2: but it does show that how folks or many are

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Speaker 2: jumping up in line to see who can flatter him most,

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Speaker 2: if you will. And we only mentioned a couple here,

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Speaker 2: there's a bunch of stuff.

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Speaker 1: Those are the ones that were the that stood out.

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Speaker 1: Let's just say that. But yes, there's been a lot

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Speaker 2: But you will see here a lot of people. Look,

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Speaker 2: Trump supporters, we'll hear this and go, hell, yeah, we

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Speaker 2: need that day. Folks sore against Trump will say absolutely not,

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Speaker 2: this is ridiculous. And then other folks, I can get

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Speaker 2: another three day week.

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Speaker 1: Get yes, sat a lens through which you look at this.

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Speaker 2: Okay, hi, folks, as we wrap up our run today,

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Speaker 2: something we'd like to leave you with, something we'd like

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Speaker 2: for you to consider as you go about your Tuesday.

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Speaker 2: And this is a fun quote of the day to

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Speaker 2: start your week.

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Speaker 1: Four be the things I am wiser to know, idleness, sorrow,

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Speaker 1: a friend, and a foe. Three things I shall never attain, Envy, content,

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Speaker 1: and sufficient Champagne.

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Speaker 2: Now this is a very good case of I told y'all,

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Speaker 2: I see quotes anywhere everywhere. I write them down, doesn't

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Speaker 2: matter where they come from. I got this from a

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Speaker 1: So I read this and laugh. When you told me

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Speaker 1: that story. I went and looked it up. It's actually

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Speaker 1: a poem. Can I read the whole thing? It's not

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Speaker 1: that much longer, but it's kind of funny. So for

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Speaker 1: be the things I am wiser to know, idleness, sorrow,

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Speaker 1: a friend, and a foe. You had that. Four be

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Speaker 1: the things I'd been better without love, curiosity, freckles, and doubt.

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Speaker 1: Three be the things I shall never attain and be

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Speaker 1: content and sufficient Champagne. Three be the things I shall

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Speaker 2: Oh we should have left it with the champagne, you know.

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Speaker 1: I just I thought it was a cute, funny little poem.

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Speaker 1: But I like how the liquor store took out the

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Speaker 1: two lines that actually make the most sense for what

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Speaker 1: they were the purpose they were serving, which was, yes,

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Speaker 1: please buy as much champagne as you'd like.

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Speaker 2: So folks, take that with Sometimes just things move you,

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Speaker 2: they make you laugh, they make you think, and sometimes

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Speaker 2: they make you buy a little more champagne, whatever it

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Speaker 2: may be. But I wrote that down years ago, shared

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Speaker 2: it with you today, glad I didn't know was the

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Speaker 2: rest of the poem, So thank you for sharing that

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Speaker 2: hard but take this with you, folks. Three things I

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Speaker 2: shall never attain envy, content, and sufficient in champagne. And

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Speaker 2: with that, folks, thank you as always for running with thoughts.

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Speaker 2: I T J.

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Speaker 1: Holks, and I'm Amy Robot. We'll see on the run

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Speaker 1: here tomorrow.