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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio podcast. Good
morning everyone, This is your Morning Run for Thursday, March fifth.
The Morning Run now guaranteed by six thirty am Eastern
Time Monday through Friday.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
I'm Amy Robox and I'm TJ.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
Holmes on the Run This morning, President Trump issues a
bold warning to Hamas as the US announces an unprecedented
break in its we don't negotiate with terrorists policy. Also,
after pausing all financial and military aid, President Trump puts
even more pressure on Ukraine to come to the negotiating table.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
And another day, another pause in Trump's terrorists for one
industry and it has a huge impact on the stock market.
Plus the Nielsen ratings are in for President Trump's joint
address to Congress, and let's just say if you were
born after nineteen seventy one, you probably missed it. And
a first term Texas congressman unexpectedly dies after attending Trump's speech.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
Also on the Run this morning, for the first time
in South Carolina history, a death roll inmate will die
by firing squad. Tomorrow we'll explain why he chose that method.
Plus the latest update on the Pope's health after nearly
three weeks in the.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Hospital, and a replacement for NBC Nightly News has been
announced and it is a first for the franchise. Plus,
police now have to let time and a few items
pass before they can recover nearly seven hundred thousand dollars
of stolen jewelry.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
We'll explain that one. But it's a doozy.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
Uh, it's a dirty doozy. But we're going to start
the run of this morning with this. This is your
last warning, said President Trump to Hamas yesterday, and a
lengthy mince no words social media posts, the President called
on the militant group to release all hostages immediately.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
The President was speaking directly to Hamas in his post,
which begins like this, Shalom Hamas means hello and goodbye.
You can choose, and he was just getting warmed up
with that. He went on to say that all hostages
should be released and all of the dead should be
returned immediately, or as the President put it, it is.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Over for you.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
And oh no, he did not stop there, calling them
sick and twisted for keeping the bodies of the dead.
And now I am going to quote for you the
rest of his post. It starts like this. I am
sending Israel everything it needs to finish the job. Not
a single HAMAS member will be safe if you don't
do as I say. This is your last warning for
(02:24):
the leadership. Now is the time to leave Gaza while
you still have a chance. Also to the people of Gaza,
a beautiful future awaits, but not if you hold hostages.
If you do, you are dead. Make a smart decision.
Release the hostages now or there will be hell to pay.
End quote.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Wow, there isn't a lot of will room there. The
President's message came not longer. Not long after, the administration
acknowledged the US is now engaged in direct talks with Hamas.
This would be an unprecedented break of long standing US
policy that it does not negotiate with terrorists. And the
US designated hamas a terrorist organization back in nineteen ninety seven, and.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
The US has found ways to deal with Hamas when necessary,
but through intermirior areas intermediaries in the past. But White
House Press Secretary of Carolyn Levitt said President Trump has
given his envoy the ok to talk to anyone.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
I guess the point being that nothing has worked so
far yet. But this is yes, a huge break in
US policy. Next up on the run, No money, no weapons,
and now no info. The United States has paused intelligence
sharing with Ukraine, calling it part of an assessment of
all aspects of the US security relationship with Ukraine.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Yeah. This comes after the US previously announced it with
pause its financial and military aid to that country. Ukraine
has relied on US intelligence during its three year war
effort against Russia.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
The United States is able to provide real time satellite information,
among other things, to Ukraine, allowing them to anticipate Russian
attacks and to plan their own offensive as a warning
their citizens of attacks.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
It's unclear how long this pause will last, but US
officials have.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Signaled it could be short lived if the US gets
a firmer commitment from Zelenski about ending the war in Ukraine.
This is all part of a strategy to get that
country to the negotiating table, and.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
It's part of the continued fallout after that disastrous Oval
Office meeting, which was just not even a full week ago.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
That's hard to believe a.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
Lot has happened since then. We continue now on this
Thursday morning. Run in the stock market surged to Wednesday
after President Trump gave a one month tariff exemption to
US automakers. The tariffs are expected to deeply impact US
car manufacturers because many of them depend on a supply
chain with Mexico and Canada.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
So yes, we remember this week it began.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
Trump is now charging a twenty five percent tariff on
goods coming in from both of those countries. While the
Dow Jones climb nearly five hundred points, the S and
P five hundred, and the Nasdaq jump more than one
full percentage point after the news was announced, President Trump
then had a call with Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau yesterday.
He was looking for a way to compromise.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Trump said he told Trudeau that the US will only
withdraw the tariffs if Canada takes sufficient action to address
drug trafficking. Writing on social media, Trump said nothing has
convinced me that the flow of fentanyl into the US
has stopped. Trump said the call with Trudeau, who he
what if he called him Governor? Trudeau during the call
said it ended in a somewhat friendly manner. Mexican president meanwhile,
(05:26):
says she has a scheduled call with President Trump today
and if no compromise can be reached, she is going
to announce Mexico's response to the tariffs on Sunday.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Yeah, and we also had a lot of news coming
out from Canada. Many liquor stores and a lot of
the provinces all have empty shelves where US products used
to be in. Some US alcohol manufacturers are saying this
is actually significant for them to have Canadian liquor stores
across that country just remove all.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
US alcohol products.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
That's going to have an impact on their bottom line.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
So they can't Kentucky Bourbon. What else are they missing.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Based Yes, yes, that's in Austin.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Jim Beam, like, there's just there are a lot of
US alcohol companies that are going to be directly impacted.
I think it's some of these folks have like one
two percent from Canada. They're more concerned about Mexico. That's
a larger percentage of alcohol goes down there. So this
is all going to have far reaching effects for many industries.
Next up on a RAN, a congressman from Texas died
(06:24):
not long after attending President's speech to the Joint Session
Tuesday night. Democratic Congressman Sylvester Turner was in the audience
for Trump's speech and from there was taken to the hospital,
but later he was released.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
Say he was released from the hospital, went home and
according to his family, he passed away at his DC
home early Wednesday morning. Members of Congress were informed yesterday morning,
and Democratic Leader Hakim Jeffries called Turner's death tragic and unexpected.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Turner had been the mayor of Houston for eight years
before running for Congress. He had just been sworn in
for his first term in January. No cause of death
was announced, but this was his first term as a
member of Congress. Again, he was just sworn in a
few weeks ago when he was only seventy years old. So, yeah,
this is certainly unexpected and shocking. You know.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
The is just an added twist to this story. He
took over the seat that Sheila Jackson Lee had been
in since the mid nineties. She just passed last summer. Wow,
And so the guy who replaced her passes within weeks
of taking over that seat. It's an odd, odd story.
(07:31):
No cause of death there, but what an odd thing
for those people in that district. He's the eighteenth or
thirteenth I forgive me there, but it's a district in Texas.
That wow. She was just such a part of politicol
It certainly Texas.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
Politics, shocking and jarring, and certainly sad, and our hearts
go out to his family and friends, but.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
To that speech in particular. We now know that thirty
six point six million people tuned in for President Trump's
joint address to Congress on Tuesday, and overwhelmingly it was
an older crowd. Nielsen released the official numbers yesterday.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
The thirty six point six million ranks as the lowest
watch among his previous addresses to Congress during his first term,
but it's higher than President Biden's last two State of
the Union addresses. Taking a deeper dive into the number
is nearly seventy one percent of viewers were.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Fifty five and up.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
Wow, twenty percent were between the ages of thirty five
to fifty four percent and yeah, less than six percent
of the younguns watched eighteen to thirty four. The most
watched presidential addressed to Congress, by the way, was in
nineteen ninety three by Bill Clinton. That's not surprising, but
I have to say these numbers are a little surprising
to me because it was a highly as we pointed out,
(08:40):
a highly produced show that was very I have to
say regardless of what you thought about what he had
to say. I personally believed it was an entertaining It's
not a State of the Union, but an address to Congress.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
Yeah, it was a we said it was a TV show.
It was a really TV show in a lot of way.
I was we talk about in gay. I don't know.
You don't want to watch them? You have? Is it
political views? Are you busy? But only twenty percent of
people in that sweet spot of thirty five to fifty four,
only twenty percent of them made up the viewership. That
was surprise.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
It's a little sad, but I also think it could
be yes, a sign of the times. But also yes,
to your point, people making a political choice not to.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
Watch, and they're over it. We're kind of over you
know what. That was another partisan night. We're kind of
over watching this.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
And I will say Trump, President Trump makes more news,
at least it feels like it every single day than
I can recall nearly any other president making. So maybe
people just are overwhelmed. It's too much Trump, and so
they just didn't need to get more Trump after they've
been hearing about him all day long.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
Okay, our next story is not about Trump. I'll start
with that, but check this out. In South Carolina scheduled
to execute a man tomorrow by firing squad. This is
a rare but not unheard of execution method in the
United States.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
The State Supreme Court has rejected an appeal by death
row inmate Brad Sigmund, who was convicted of murdering his
girlfriend's parents in two thousand and one. And I have
to say, if you read the details of this crime,
it is horrific and he admitted to it, so there's
no question about his innocence. He absolutely says I did
it and it was brutal.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
He was given three options for how he wanted to die,
lethal injection, the electric chair, or firing squad. Sigmund chose
the firing squad.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
Yeah. The way this is going to work. He's going
to be strapped to a chair in the death chamber,
a hood is going to be placed over his head
and a target placed over his heart. Wow. And then
three anonymous shooters will be fifteen feet away, all will
have live ammunition, and all will fire. This is going
to be the first firing squad execution in the US
(10:48):
in fifteen years, and only the third since nineteen seventy seven,
that is when the death penalty was reinstated in the US.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
Just five states allow for a firing squad Idahoa, Mississippi, Oklahoma,
South Carolina, and Utah. And again, this is the first
time South Carolina will execute a person by firing squad.
Sigmun's last option now is an appeal to the governor
of South Carolina, who said he will make a decision
in the moments before the scheduled execution tomorrow night. It's
(11:16):
hard to imagine that would happen given the circumstances surrounding
the crime and the fact that he admitted to doing it.
And this isn't something that a South Carolina governor has
done recently or even close to being recent.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
So no, not a lot of high hopes that the
governor's going to save him. Has been half century since
a governor did commute sentence where death row inmate there,
and he chose this. He had questions as lawyers. They
were trying to get some answers about lethal injection, which
they say would have been their first choice, but they
didn't get clarity and the court wouldn't allow them to
go through a process and gain information about lethal injections,
so he said, hey, I don't have everything I need
(11:53):
to do that, so give me this option. They claim
that's why he chose the firing squad.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
Sigmund was concerned about how the process works lethal injection.
And I have to say I have witnessed one execution
in my life. It was in a state of South
Carolina there in Columbia, and it was very uncomfortable to
watch the lethal injection because it was right before there
were concerns that perhaps the amount of medicine that was
going in the order that the that the that I
(12:17):
said medicine, but that the injection goes in, the the
chemicals that go in if it was correct if and
I certainly saw a discomfort, it was a very difficult
thing to witness and watch. And I think with all
of that controversy surrounding how the lethal injection happens made
him say, hey, I want it quick and I want
it immediate, and so he chose firing squad.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
It's chilling just to think we do this. It's just chilling.
We're going to strap a guy down and shoot him.
But that's these laws are on the books, and like them.
I don't like them. They are on the books. We're
going to continue here on our morning run in just
a moment when we come back. Nine words from the
Vatican this morning. It's our update from the Pope. Also
(13:01):
Lester Holt. He is being replaced and we now know
who is going to replace him, and police are waiting
for a thief to poop out eight hundred grand worth
of diamonds. We continue now on this Thursday morning run
and we have the daily and notoriously short update on
(13:25):
the Pope this morning from the Vatican. And here it is.
The night passed quietly. The Pope is still resting.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
We got nine words today, all right, we'll take it.
Pope Francis is starting his twenty first day in the hospital,
initially treated for double pneumonia. He's had an up and
down stay there at the hospital, but his condition right
now is described as stable. The Pontiff missed the start
of Lent. Another cardinal had to stand in for him
for those ash Wednesday ceremonies.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
However, the Batgan did say that the Pope did participate
in the right of the blessing of the sacred ashes
yesterday there at the hospital. After that, the President did
the President excuse me, folks. See, you can talk all
the Trump stories. They're all Trump stories. After that, the
Pope did a little bit of work and even had
a call with the parish priest in Gaza. Isn't that
the one they say he talks to everything.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
He said, he talks to him every single day to
see how he's doing. And he's kept that up throughout
his hospital stay, which is pretty remarkable. And yeah, there
have been so many ups and downs, but we're always
happy to get a short but sweet update on the Pope,
and that's exactly what we got today. Next up on
the run, NBC News has announced that senior national correspondent
Tom Yamas will take over for Lester Holt as anchor
(14:33):
and managing editor of NBC Nightly News.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
Hold you remember announced last week he would be stepping
down from that position. That's going to happen this summer.
Yamas set anchoring Nightly News is a profound honor, one
that carries tremendous responsibility, and he now becomes the first
Latino journalist to host the weekend become the first Latino
journalist host of the week night excuse me, week night
edition of Nightly News. So congrats. He's of course used
(14:57):
to do the weekends over at ABC and was a
fill in for David Muir for all those years. So
this is something he's really really wanted for a long time.
We know that, and so he got in CAM. Mean,
that's just there's three of these jobs and he's got one. Yeah,
that's a big deal. Congratulations.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
We've worked alongside him at ABC News. I worked alongside
him at MSNBC all those years ago, so I have
been watching him grow and prosper and do so well
over these several I know it's almost been decades, that's crazy,
but congratulations to Tom Yamis for the final leg of
our run. Police in Florida are waiting for a suspect
to pass about eight hundred thousand dollars worth of earrings.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
Yeah he ate on folks after robbing a Tiffany's jewelry
store last week. According to police, they said the suspect
was shown several high end pieces in the Tiffany store
before grabbing and getting away with a few pairs of.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
Earrings, in particular a four point eighty six carrot pair
of diamond earrings that were worth about one hundred and
sixty thousand dollars and then a pair of eight point
one nine carrot diamond earrings worth about six hundred and
nine thousand dollars. So when police caught up with the
suspect later, they say he swallowed the items as they
were taking him into custody.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
So they did an X ray and they could see
the foreign objects in his stomach. Now we wait, and
then somebody's gonna have to go get that stuff. The
items are going to be collected. So I did not
read further.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
They must have like a little you know how you
have those little potty training toilets for toddlers.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
I'm thinking they put that in his jail cell.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
And then what so make sure he doesn't flush him correct?
I mean, what do you do?
Speaker 2 (16:37):
I mean, who gets that job?
Speaker 3 (16:40):
How about this? How big of a discount would they
have to give you on those diamonds for you to
buy them if you knew where they came from? Would
you on a six hundred thousand dollars pair of diamonds earrings?
Speaker 2 (16:52):
Okay?
Speaker 3 (16:52):
What would the discount have to be?
Speaker 2 (16:54):
At least fifty percent?
Speaker 1 (16:55):
And I don't know, just the thought of putting them
in your ears after knowing where they had been.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
I didn't think about it like that.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
Oh wait, like this is making very physical contact with
your body. Also, here's the other question. Does Tiffany have
to disclose that those were the earrings?
Speaker 2 (17:13):
So you would never know?
Speaker 1 (17:14):
So if you buy, if you know what you should do.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
Write down the carrot.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
If you have the money to buy that large of
diamond earrings and it's the exact same carrot count from Tiffany's,
you might have that set.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
So four point eighty six and eight point one nine. Folks,
if you're getting earrings from Tiffany's, you need to ask
a few questions.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
If they gave them to you for free, would you
put them in your ears?
Speaker 3 (17:38):
I would give them as a gift toomb, not to me,
an unsuspecting love you're gonna get, Okay, Sorry, please spend
a little too much time on the ear ring story.
But as you go buy to your Thursday. Now something
we want to leave you with. It's our quote of
the day.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
When everything seems to be going against do you remember
that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.
I don't even think I knew that. Did you know
that airplanes take off against the wind?
Speaker 3 (18:11):
Uh? No, I haven't given that much thought. I don't
like that though. I don't like the idea.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
It sounds silly, right, Yeah, I would have absolutely thought
that an airplane took off with the wind.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
Okay, see, we are all that that earring story messed
us up. We never talk about the quotes of the
day like this. We give some kind of context and perspective,
and now we're trying to talk about aerodynamics.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
Look, the truth is I picked the story a because
I liked it that, you know, we can all get
through tough times, but Henry Ford the automaker's getting that
tariff deal. I just thought, you know what, sometimes you
push against the wind and you get where you need
to go.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
So I liked the quote.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
So, folks, when everything seems to be going against do
you remember that the airplane takes off against the wind,
not with it. And we appreciate you running with us
as always. Continue to come back to us here we'll
give you update. It's on those earrings daily.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
I'm TJ and I'm Amy Robock. Have a great day
and we'll see you on the run tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
Mm hmmmm m hm.
Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio podcast. Good
morning everyone, This is your Morning Run for Thursday, March fifth.
The Morning Run now guaranteed by six thirty am Eastern
Time Monday through Friday.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
I'm Amy Robox and I'm TJ.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
Holmes on the Run This morning, President Trump issues a
bold warning to Hamas as the US announces an unprecedented
break in its we don't negotiate with terrorists policy. Also,
after pausing all financial and military aid, President Trump puts
even more pressure on Ukraine to come to the negotiating table.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
And another day, another pause in Trump's terrorists for one
industry and it has a huge impact on the stock market.
Plus the Nielsen ratings are in for President Trump's joint
address to Congress, and let's just say if you were
born after nineteen seventy one, you probably missed it. And
a first term Texas congressman unexpectedly dies after attending Trump's speech.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
Also on the Run this morning, for the first time
in South Carolina history, a death roll inmate will die
by firing squad. Tomorrow we'll explain why he chose that method.
Plus the latest update on the Pope's health after nearly
three weeks in the.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Hospital, and a replacement for NBC Nightly News has been
announced and it is a first for the franchise. Plus,
police now have to let time and a few items
pass before they can recover nearly seven hundred thousand dollars
of stolen jewelry.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
We'll explain that one. But it's a doozy.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
Uh, it's a dirty doozy. But we're going to start
the run of this morning with this. This is your
last warning, said President Trump to Hamas yesterday, and a
lengthy mince no words social media posts, the President called
on the militant group to release all hostages immediately.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
The President was speaking directly to Hamas in his post,
which begins like this, Shalom Hamas means hello and goodbye.
You can choose, and he was just getting warmed up
with that. He went on to say that all hostages
should be released and all of the dead should be
returned immediately, or as the President put it, it is.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Over for you.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
And oh no, he did not stop there, calling them
sick and twisted for keeping the bodies of the dead.
And now I am going to quote for you the
rest of his post. It starts like this. I am
sending Israel everything it needs to finish the job. Not
a single HAMAS member will be safe if you don't
do as I say. This is your last warning for
(02:24):
the leadership. Now is the time to leave Gaza while
you still have a chance. Also to the people of Gaza,
a beautiful future awaits, but not if you hold hostages.
If you do, you are dead. Make a smart decision.
Release the hostages now or there will be hell to pay.
End quote.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Wow, there isn't a lot of will room there. The
President's message came not longer. Not long after, the administration
acknowledged the US is now engaged in direct talks with Hamas.
This would be an unprecedented break of long standing US
policy that it does not negotiate with terrorists. And the
US designated hamas a terrorist organization back in nineteen ninety seven, and.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
The US has found ways to deal with Hamas when necessary,
but through intermirior areas intermediaries in the past. But White
House Press Secretary of Carolyn Levitt said President Trump has
given his envoy the ok to talk to anyone.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
I guess the point being that nothing has worked so
far yet. But this is yes, a huge break in
US policy. Next up on the run, No money, no weapons,
and now no info. The United States has paused intelligence
sharing with Ukraine, calling it part of an assessment of
all aspects of the US security relationship with Ukraine.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Yeah. This comes after the US previously announced it with
pause its financial and military aid to that country. Ukraine
has relied on US intelligence during its three year war
effort against Russia.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
The United States is able to provide real time satellite information,
among other things, to Ukraine, allowing them to anticipate Russian
attacks and to plan their own offensive as a warning
their citizens of attacks.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
It's unclear how long this pause will last, but US
officials have.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Signaled it could be short lived if the US gets
a firmer commitment from Zelenski about ending the war in Ukraine.
This is all part of a strategy to get that
country to the negotiating table, and.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
It's part of the continued fallout after that disastrous Oval
Office meeting, which was just not even a full week ago.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
That's hard to believe a.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
Lot has happened since then. We continue now on this
Thursday morning. Run in the stock market surged to Wednesday
after President Trump gave a one month tariff exemption to
US automakers. The tariffs are expected to deeply impact US
car manufacturers because many of them depend on a supply
chain with Mexico and Canada.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
So yes, we remember this week it began.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
Trump is now charging a twenty five percent tariff on
goods coming in from both of those countries. While the
Dow Jones climb nearly five hundred points, the S and
P five hundred, and the Nasdaq jump more than one
full percentage point after the news was announced, President Trump
then had a call with Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau yesterday.
He was looking for a way to compromise.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Trump said he told Trudeau that the US will only
withdraw the tariffs if Canada takes sufficient action to address
drug trafficking. Writing on social media, Trump said nothing has
convinced me that the flow of fentanyl into the US
has stopped. Trump said the call with Trudeau, who he
what if he called him Governor? Trudeau during the call
said it ended in a somewhat friendly manner. Mexican president meanwhile,
(05:26):
says she has a scheduled call with President Trump today
and if no compromise can be reached, she is going
to announce Mexico's response to the tariffs on Sunday.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Yeah, and we also had a lot of news coming
out from Canada. Many liquor stores and a lot of
the provinces all have empty shelves where US products used
to be in. Some US alcohol manufacturers are saying this
is actually significant for them to have Canadian liquor stores
across that country just remove all.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
US alcohol products.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
That's going to have an impact on their bottom line.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
So they can't Kentucky Bourbon. What else are they missing.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Based Yes, yes, that's in Austin.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Jim Beam, like, there's just there are a lot of
US alcohol companies that are going to be directly impacted.
I think it's some of these folks have like one
two percent from Canada. They're more concerned about Mexico. That's
a larger percentage of alcohol goes down there. So this
is all going to have far reaching effects for many industries.
Next up on a RAN, a congressman from Texas died
(06:24):
not long after attending President's speech to the Joint Session
Tuesday night. Democratic Congressman Sylvester Turner was in the audience
for Trump's speech and from there was taken to the hospital,
but later he was released.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
Say he was released from the hospital, went home and
according to his family, he passed away at his DC
home early Wednesday morning. Members of Congress were informed yesterday morning,
and Democratic Leader Hakim Jeffries called Turner's death tragic and unexpected.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Turner had been the mayor of Houston for eight years
before running for Congress. He had just been sworn in
for his first term in January. No cause of death
was announced, but this was his first term as a
member of Congress. Again, he was just sworn in a
few weeks ago when he was only seventy years old. So, yeah,
this is certainly unexpected and shocking. You know.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
The is just an added twist to this story. He
took over the seat that Sheila Jackson Lee had been
in since the mid nineties. She just passed last summer. Wow,
And so the guy who replaced her passes within weeks
of taking over that seat. It's an odd, odd story.
(07:31):
No cause of death there, but what an odd thing
for those people in that district. He's the eighteenth or
thirteenth I forgive me there, but it's a district in Texas.
That wow. She was just such a part of politicol
It certainly Texas.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
Politics, shocking and jarring, and certainly sad, and our hearts
go out to his family and friends, but.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
To that speech in particular. We now know that thirty
six point six million people tuned in for President Trump's
joint address to Congress on Tuesday, and overwhelmingly it was
an older crowd. Nielsen released the official numbers yesterday.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
The thirty six point six million ranks as the lowest
watch among his previous addresses to Congress during his first term,
but it's higher than President Biden's last two State of
the Union addresses. Taking a deeper dive into the number
is nearly seventy one percent of viewers were.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Fifty five and up.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
Wow, twenty percent were between the ages of thirty five
to fifty four percent and yeah, less than six percent
of the younguns watched eighteen to thirty four. The most
watched presidential addressed to Congress, by the way, was in
nineteen ninety three by Bill Clinton. That's not surprising, but
I have to say these numbers are a little surprising
to me because it was a highly as we pointed out,
(08:40):
a highly produced show that was very I have to
say regardless of what you thought about what he had
to say. I personally believed it was an entertaining It's
not a State of the Union, but an address to Congress.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
Yeah, it was a we said it was a TV show.
It was a really TV show in a lot of way.
I was we talk about in gay. I don't know.
You don't want to watch them? You have? Is it
political views? Are you busy? But only twenty percent of
people in that sweet spot of thirty five to fifty four,
only twenty percent of them made up the viewership. That
was surprise.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
It's a little sad, but I also think it could
be yes, a sign of the times. But also yes,
to your point, people making a political choice not to.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
Watch, and they're over it. We're kind of over you
know what. That was another partisan night. We're kind of
over watching this.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
And I will say Trump, President Trump makes more news,
at least it feels like it every single day than
I can recall nearly any other president making. So maybe
people just are overwhelmed. It's too much Trump, and so
they just didn't need to get more Trump after they've
been hearing about him all day long.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
Okay, our next story is not about Trump. I'll start
with that, but check this out. In South Carolina scheduled
to execute a man tomorrow by firing squad. This is
a rare but not unheard of execution method in the
United States.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
The State Supreme Court has rejected an appeal by death
row inmate Brad Sigmund, who was convicted of murdering his
girlfriend's parents in two thousand and one. And I have
to say, if you read the details of this crime,
it is horrific and he admitted to it, so there's
no question about his innocence. He absolutely says I did
it and it was brutal.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
He was given three options for how he wanted to die,
lethal injection, the electric chair, or firing squad. Sigmund chose
the firing squad.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
Yeah. The way this is going to work. He's going
to be strapped to a chair in the death chamber,
a hood is going to be placed over his head
and a target placed over his heart. Wow. And then
three anonymous shooters will be fifteen feet away, all will
have live ammunition, and all will fire. This is going
to be the first firing squad execution in the US
(10:48):
in fifteen years, and only the third since nineteen seventy seven,
that is when the death penalty was reinstated in the US.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
Just five states allow for a firing squad Idahoa, Mississippi, Oklahoma,
South Carolina, and Utah. And again, this is the first
time South Carolina will execute a person by firing squad.
Sigmun's last option now is an appeal to the governor
of South Carolina, who said he will make a decision
in the moments before the scheduled execution tomorrow night. It's
(11:16):
hard to imagine that would happen given the circumstances surrounding
the crime and the fact that he admitted to doing it.
And this isn't something that a South Carolina governor has
done recently or even close to being recent.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
So no, not a lot of high hopes that the
governor's going to save him. Has been half century since
a governor did commute sentence where death row inmate there,
and he chose this. He had questions as lawyers. They
were trying to get some answers about lethal injection, which
they say would have been their first choice, but they
didn't get clarity and the court wouldn't allow them to
go through a process and gain information about lethal injections,
so he said, hey, I don't have everything I need
(11:53):
to do that, so give me this option. They claim
that's why he chose the firing squad.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
Sigmund was concerned about how the process works lethal injection.
And I have to say I have witnessed one execution
in my life. It was in a state of South
Carolina there in Columbia, and it was very uncomfortable to
watch the lethal injection because it was right before there
were concerns that perhaps the amount of medicine that was
going in the order that the that the that I
(12:17):
said medicine, but that the injection goes in, the the
chemicals that go in if it was correct if and
I certainly saw a discomfort, it was a very difficult
thing to witness and watch. And I think with all
of that controversy surrounding how the lethal injection happens made
him say, hey, I want it quick and I want
it immediate, and so he chose firing squad.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
It's chilling just to think we do this. It's just chilling.
We're going to strap a guy down and shoot him.
But that's these laws are on the books, and like them.
I don't like them. They are on the books. We're
going to continue here on our morning run in just
a moment when we come back. Nine words from the
Vatican this morning. It's our update from the Pope. Also
(13:01):
Lester Holt. He is being replaced and we now know
who is going to replace him, and police are waiting
for a thief to poop out eight hundred grand worth
of diamonds. We continue now on this Thursday morning run
and we have the daily and notoriously short update on
(13:25):
the Pope this morning from the Vatican. And here it is.
The night passed quietly. The Pope is still resting.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
We got nine words today, all right, we'll take it.
Pope Francis is starting his twenty first day in the hospital,
initially treated for double pneumonia. He's had an up and
down stay there at the hospital, but his condition right
now is described as stable. The Pontiff missed the start
of Lent. Another cardinal had to stand in for him
for those ash Wednesday ceremonies.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
However, the Batgan did say that the Pope did participate
in the right of the blessing of the sacred ashes
yesterday there at the hospital. After that, the President did
the President excuse me, folks. See, you can talk all
the Trump stories. They're all Trump stories. After that, the
Pope did a little bit of work and even had
a call with the parish priest in Gaza. Isn't that
the one they say he talks to everything.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
He said, he talks to him every single day to
see how he's doing. And he's kept that up throughout
his hospital stay, which is pretty remarkable. And yeah, there
have been so many ups and downs, but we're always
happy to get a short but sweet update on the Pope,
and that's exactly what we got today. Next up on
the run, NBC News has announced that senior national correspondent
Tom Yamas will take over for Lester Holt as anchor
(14:33):
and managing editor of NBC Nightly News.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
Hold you remember announced last week he would be stepping
down from that position. That's going to happen this summer.
Yamas set anchoring Nightly News is a profound honor, one
that carries tremendous responsibility, and he now becomes the first
Latino journalist to host the weekend become the first Latino
journalist host of the week night excuse me, week night
edition of Nightly News. So congrats. He's of course used
(14:57):
to do the weekends over at ABC and was a
fill in for David Muir for all those years. So
this is something he's really really wanted for a long time.
We know that, and so he got in CAM. Mean,
that's just there's three of these jobs and he's got one. Yeah,
that's a big deal. Congratulations.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
We've worked alongside him at ABC News. I worked alongside
him at MSNBC all those years ago, so I have
been watching him grow and prosper and do so well
over these several I know it's almost been decades, that's crazy,
but congratulations to Tom Yamis for the final leg of
our run. Police in Florida are waiting for a suspect
to pass about eight hundred thousand dollars worth of earrings.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
Yeah he ate on folks after robbing a Tiffany's jewelry
store last week. According to police, they said the suspect
was shown several high end pieces in the Tiffany store
before grabbing and getting away with a few pairs of.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
Earrings, in particular a four point eighty six carrot pair
of diamond earrings that were worth about one hundred and
sixty thousand dollars and then a pair of eight point
one nine carrot diamond earrings worth about six hundred and
nine thousand dollars. So when police caught up with the
suspect later, they say he swallowed the items as they
were taking him into custody.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
So they did an X ray and they could see
the foreign objects in his stomach. Now we wait, and
then somebody's gonna have to go get that stuff. The
items are going to be collected. So I did not
read further.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
They must have like a little you know how you
have those little potty training toilets for toddlers.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
I'm thinking they put that in his jail cell.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
And then what so make sure he doesn't flush him correct?
I mean, what do you do?
Speaker 2 (16:37):
I mean, who gets that job?
Speaker 3 (16:40):
How about this? How big of a discount would they
have to give you on those diamonds for you to
buy them if you knew where they came from? Would
you on a six hundred thousand dollars pair of diamonds earrings?
Speaker 2 (16:52):
Okay?
Speaker 3 (16:52):
What would the discount have to be?
Speaker 2 (16:54):
At least fifty percent?
Speaker 1 (16:55):
And I don't know, just the thought of putting them
in your ears after knowing where they had been.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
I didn't think about it like that.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
Oh wait, like this is making very physical contact with
your body. Also, here's the other question. Does Tiffany have
to disclose that those were the earrings?
Speaker 2 (17:13):
So you would never know?
Speaker 1 (17:14):
So if you buy, if you know what you should do.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
Write down the carrot.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
If you have the money to buy that large of
diamond earrings and it's the exact same carrot count from Tiffany's,
you might have that set.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
So four point eighty six and eight point one nine. Folks,
if you're getting earrings from Tiffany's, you need to ask
a few questions.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
If they gave them to you for free, would you
put them in your ears?
Speaker 3 (17:38):
I would give them as a gift toomb, not to me,
an unsuspecting love you're gonna get, Okay, Sorry, please spend
a little too much time on the ear ring story.
But as you go buy to your Thursday. Now something
we want to leave you with. It's our quote of
the day.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
When everything seems to be going against do you remember
that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.
I don't even think I knew that. Did you know
that airplanes take off against the wind?
Speaker 3 (18:11):
Uh? No, I haven't given that much thought. I don't
like that though. I don't like the idea.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
It sounds silly, right, Yeah, I would have absolutely thought
that an airplane took off with the wind.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
Okay, see, we are all that that earring story messed
us up. We never talk about the quotes of the
day like this. We give some kind of context and perspective,
and now we're trying to talk about aerodynamics.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
Look, the truth is I picked the story a because
I liked it that, you know, we can all get
through tough times, but Henry Ford the automaker's getting that
tariff deal. I just thought, you know what, sometimes you
push against the wind and you get where you need
to go.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
So I liked the quote.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
So, folks, when everything seems to be going against do
you remember that the airplane takes off against the wind,
not with it. And we appreciate you running with us
as always. Continue to come back to us here we'll
give you update. It's on those earrings daily.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
I'm TJ and I'm Amy Robock. Have a great day
and we'll see you on the run tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
Mm hmmmm m hm.
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