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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio Podcast. Good
morning everyone, It's Tuesday, April twenty ninth. Welcome to Morning Run.
I'm Amy Roboch and I'MTJ.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Holmes and on the run this Tuesday morning. Today marks
one hundred days of the Trump presidency, and he's marking
his one hundredth day in office much like he marked
his first day in office, touting new executive orders.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Plus, Russia announces a temporary cease fire, emphasis on temporary.
Ukraine is asking for more, and the Vatican has announced
a date for the conclave to begin to elect a
new pope. Plus there's a decision on whether disgraced Cardinal
Betchu can participate.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Also on the Run, the lights are coming back on
after a massive and mysterious power outage in Spain and Portugal. Also,
another Ivy League school gets a list of demands from
the White House, and one of those demands is for
the school to apologize to female athletes.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Plus four young girls are killed at an after school
program after a vehicle plows into their building. And how
does a seventy million dollars fighter jet fall off an
aircraft carrier? The Navy has some explaining to.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Do and on the run this morning, an NFL superstar
golfs with the President and then tries to explain himself
to critics and what lengths would you go to in
order to recover your lost cell phone? One student climbed
Mount Fuji to find his and that led to him
being airlifted for the second time in a week. We'll explain,
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and it's pretty easy to understand why rescuers are.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
Not too happy with this kid, and actually a lot
of folks on social media calling him out as well.
It's a talker of a story that will get to
in just a bit. But we begin our run in Washington,
d C. Where President Trump officially marks his one hundredth
day in office today. Yes, it's only been one hundred days.
That actually seems hard to believe with all the news
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he's generated, and the White House has an entire week
of events highlighting Trump's actions so far.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
So Trump tonight is going to honor the milestone by
holding a rally in Michigan. It's his first time since
returning to the White House. On Monday, Trump signed three
more executive orders aimed at cracking down on immigration. The
White House lawn is also lined with posters showing mugshots
of arrested undocumented immigrants. Their alleged crimes were boldly displayed
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under their faces.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Yeah, that was quite the image there yesterday. So the
first of Trump's new executive orders takes aim at so
called sanctuary cities. It directs Attorney General Pambondi and Homeland
Security Secretary christyme to legally pursue states and cities that
are refusing to cooperate with federal officials to arrest undocumented migrants.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
So another executive order gives federal resources to local law enforcement,
including legal help for police officers who are accused of wrongdoing.
It also allows for action against any local official who
tries to stop police officers from carrying out their immigration duties.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
And the third order would enforce those existing rules. I
didn't even know this was a thing. They require professional
truck drivers to be proficient in English. So that's the
third order. Now. The Trump administration, by the way, has
already sued Rochester, New York, and is prosecuting a Milwaukee
judge for obstructing its immigration policy.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
White House Press Secretary Carolyn Levitt put it this way,
It's quite simple. Obey the law, respect the law, and
don't obstruct federal immigration officials and law enforcement officials when
they are simply trying to remove public safety threats from
our nations communities.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
All right, Next up on our run, a truce has
been announced in the Russia Ukraine war. Well, it's one sided,
it doesn't start immediately, and it's only going to last
for three days, but you know what, it's something.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
It will take it. Russian President Vladimir Putin says Russia
will suspend all military action in Ukraine between May eighth
to May tenth. This is a unilateral move one side.
There were no negotiations, nothing agreed to with Ukraine Russia.
Putin just did this on his own. But he didn't
do it out of the kindness of his own heart.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
No, Rather, it is so Russians can commemorate the eightieth
anniversary of the Soviet victory over the Nazis in World
War Two. Ukraine's response to this three day ceasefire, why
not do it now and do it for thirty days,
which is of course something that President Trump I'm sure
would be leaning into as well. But Trump is growing
impatient with what seems to be a stalemate between the
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two countries, and there.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Was a recent ceasefire what was supposed to be on
Sunday just a week ago for Easter. Yes, right, that
lasted ten to fifteen minutes.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
And they both started pointing the fingers at one another, saying,
you fired on us. No, you fired on us, so
didn't go.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
So no skepticism on this one. We will continue our run,
and recently we've been doing a lot of legs of
our run in Rome, and that's what we're headed now,
where we have learned that the conclave to elect the
new Pope will begin next Wednesday, May seventh. The day
was decided after nearly two hun cardinals gathered for a
closed door meeting Monday.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Only one hundred and thirty five of them will be
eligible to vote for the next pope. Cardinals have to
be under the age of eighty to take part in
the conclave. The Sistine Chapel will remain closed to tourists
so preparations can be made for the secret conclave, and
the last two, by the way that we're in two
thousand and five and twenty fourteen, only lasted for two days.
But it's believed this conclave could actually take longer. This
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is interesting because a lot of the cardinals were appointed
by Francis. I believe it's something like eighty percent of them,
and they haven't met one another before now, so they
don't really know each other enough to vote on one another.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Okay, that sounds like it could take a long time,
either sixty to seventy almost eighty. That's a lot of
life to talk to somebody through. Let me tell you
about myself.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
So for me thirty five years ago when I fort yeah, well.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
I did not realize it was only two days for
the last two conclictsy. For whatever reason, it feels like
they go on forever. But I guess we're just staring
at a screen and waiting for smoke for hours, So
that does seem like a.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Yeah, time drags on more slowly when you're waiting for smoke.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Yeah. Another announcement came after yesterday's meeting. This has been
a fascinating story about Cardinal Angelo Betchu. He recently asserted
that he has the right to participate in the conclave
to elect a new pope, despite being convicted of financial
misconduct and being at least what the Vatican said, stripped
of his electing powers. He's considered a non elector, but
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he said publicly he was going to show up and
he's going to vote. Well, he's backed off and said
he's not going to do that now, saying, quote, I
have decided to obey as I have always done, the
will of Pope Francis, not to enter the conclave while
remaining convinced of my innocence. So he's appealing that conviction
of financial crimes but says he's innocent. But this is
not going to be a drama playing out.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
He removed himself from the drama, which was probably the
right call. Next up, on a run, we're going to
stay overseas in Europe where the lights are finally coming
back on across Spain and Portugal, but they still don't
know what caused them to go out in the first place.
Assive power outage brought both countries to a standstill for
much of the day yesterday.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
The started around lunchtime. Official say in a matter of seconds,
the energy grid lost sixty percent of electricity, so trained
subways stopped running. We saw some of these images. You know,
you'll cove been to Europe that subway travel, train travel
and even between the two countries is everything. So to
see some of these train stations, people just sitting on steps,
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nowhere to go and just strand it. Traffic lights of
course are out, you know that would cause a problem.
And then cell phone service was disrupted in a major way.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
That is frightening to think about. You can't go anywhere
and you can't call anyone. Passengers were walking for miles
from the airport in eighty degree weather because yeah, you
couldn't get an uber. Power started to come back on
later in the day and overnight. Much of it this
morning has been restored, thankfully, But the concerning part is
official say they do not know what caused it, but
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they did say it's not believed to be a cyber attack.
But still we realized how we all are and when
everything goes dark, it is a frightening thing. Like I
don't think I know my children's numbers by heart. I
actually have told myself I've got to start memorizing them
because we rely on our phones, We rely on power.
We rely on that quick ability to communicate.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
You know my number, I do, actually, because that would
be your jail call, right, you need to know this number,
all right? We continue folks on our run on this
Tuesday morning, and another Ivy League school has received a
list of demands from the Trump administration. We'll see if
they take the same kiss our Ivy League asses approach
that Harvard has taken so far.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
The University of Pennsylvania has yet to respond after the
administration accused it yesterday of violating federal law that guarantees
equal opportunity for women, how by letting a transgender woman
compete on their women's swim team. Leah Thomas competed at
the school back in twenty twenty two and became the
first transgender athlete to win a Division one title.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
The White House has given pen ten days now to
respond and address the alleged violations or face possible legal consequences.
As part of addressing the violation, the administration wants Thomas
stripped of any awards and records, and wants the school
to apologize to female swimmers who were possibly impacted for
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allowing their educational experience in athletics to be marred by
sex discrimination. Those are their words.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
Penn said they were following nc DOUAA rules at the
time that Thomas competed, but have since changed policies to
now be in line with President Trump's directives. The administration
has already frozen one hundred and seventy five million dollars
in federal funding de pen for allowing Thomas to compete
in the first place. But again, they competed in the
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guidelines that were in place at the time.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Which was a mess because the nc DOUAA allowed the
individual sports to essentially have their own rules, so they
could follow what the International Olympic Committee says about swimmers,
what the International Committee s says about basketball. So it
was just a hodgepodge of a mess. And now Trump
has essentially gotten rid of all that. They say they
are in line, but at the time it seemed to
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be legal in the NCAA allowed it, not just penn right.
Let me shall see what happens here. We will continue
now on this next stor we have to head to Chatham, Illinois.
This is a gut ridging story for anybody to hear,
but for parents of a school age child, this is
just a nightmare. A tragedy has unfolded there in this
small town just south of Springfield, four girls between the
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ages of four and eighteen were killed after a vehicle
drove into their after school camp. This thing plowed right
through the wall of the school. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
They described it as the vehicle hitting the east side
of the school and going all the way through and
exiting out the west wall. That was how significant that
impact was. Three of the students were actually outside the
building and one was inside, and they all died there
on the scene. Several other people inside the school were injured,
including one who actually was injured so badly they had
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to be airlifted to the hospital. The driver was also
taken to the hospital, but was reportedly uninjured. Right now,
police aren't releasing the name of the driver and have
not said whether the crash was intentional or accidental. But
either way, this is a community that is in deep mourning.
This is a town of just fourteen hundred people. It's sad,
of course, no matter where this happens, but just our
hearts go out to the folks there in Chatham.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
We all that's where you want your kids and sometimes
you even pay for that after school because that's the
safest place for your kids to be until you get
out of work or whatever it may be. That is
the safest place. It's supposed to be supposed to be.
All right, folks, we'll stay with us here on this
Tuesday morning run. When we come back, they got some
explaining to do. How in the world of the military
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lose a seventy million dollar jet. It just rolled off
the aircraft carrier like chapstick off addressing. Also coming up,
a big time NFL athlete has to explain himself just
for playing a round of golf. And a student had
to be rescued twice from the same mountain in a week.
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Why he needed his cellphone? All right, welcome back, We
continue on this Tuesday morning ron with this. The US
military has lost a seventy million dollars fighter jet. It
wasn't shut down. It didn't go down because of a
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mechanical issue. Rather, they accidentally dropped it in the ocean.
It simply rolled off the side of an aircraft carrier.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
Yeah. The carrier is the USS Truman, which has been
in the Red Sea supporting the US military campaign against
the Iran backed militants in Yemen. The military says an
FA eighteen Super Hornet fighter jet was being towed to
a hangarbay when basically the move crew lost control of it.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
Yes, this crew was trying to get it, you know,
where it's supposed to be next. They're just shuffling it
around and the crew had to take quick action, they say,
to get out of the way to protect themselves, but
they lost control the plane. Could you imagine seeing this,
a seventy million dollar piece of equipment simply rolled off
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the side of an aircraft carrier and they were powerless
to do anything about it.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
I cannot even imagine the moment when they saw it
all happening, because there was no way you're stopping that
heavy fighter jeer not doing what gravity is doing to it.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
And again they had to jump out of the way.
I think they said one member of the military had
did suffer minor injuries. But for the most part, everybody's okay.
This is under investigation now this incident bought. The aircraft carrier,
according to the military, is still mission capable. It's going
to stay in the Red Sea and continue it's mission.
But this is I don't know if there's video of it,
I don't even know if I want to see it.
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That's horrible. It's just offerless. It dropped into what you
can't save it. Oh ugh, all right, stuff on our run.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
Another big name, big time athlete played golf with President
Trump over the weekend, and he had to go on
social media then to defend his decision to do so.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
Yeah, Philadelphia Eagles running back the Saquon Barkley got in
a round Sunday with the President and his golf club
in New Jersey. But when word and images of the
two together started making the rounds, Barkley was criticized soundly
for getting chummy with the president, and the criticism was
loud enough that Barkley felt he needed to respond.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
He wrote this on social media yesterday. Lol, some people
are really upset because I played golf and flew to
the White House with the President. He puts in all caps.
Maybe I just respect the office. Not a hard concept
to understand. Just golf with Obama not too long ago,
and look forward to finishing my round with Trump. Now
you get out of my mentions with all his politics
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and have an amazing day. Barkley's team was at the
White House yesterday being honored as this year's Super.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
Bowl champs, and again his explanation, he feels his need
to say it whatever, But people took issue with that
because seem tone deaf. If you actually think this president
is like all the others, and I'm just respecting the office.
You can respect the office, but you don't have to
golf with the person who's in the office, respecting his
shaking hands. Yes, mister Prett, that's being respectful of whoever's
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in the office. Going to hang out and be social
is what some people took issue with, and him seeming
tone deaf and saying, uh, it's just another president. This
is different. There's some different issues. I love the brother
that I could see what. I didn't have a problem
necessarily with him golfing his explanation like just don't say anything.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
Come on, bro, Yeah, sometimes less is more and your
silence speaks volumes.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
Right, we'll continue this Tuesday morning run now and the
next leg takes us up a mountain. A twenty seven
year old Chinese student had to be rescued not once,
but twice from Japan's Mount Fuji. He had to be
rescued twice within the same dan Gum week because last
Tuesday he was summoning Mount Fuji when he got so
sick from the altitude near the peak that he made
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an emergency call for help. He had to be airlifted
off the mountain.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
So over the weekend, what did he do? He went
back to the mountain, Why, to try and find his
cell phone. Yeah, he climbed back up Mount Fuji. He
made it all the way up to about ten thousand
feet to look for his phone and some other belongings
he left behind during that first probably fairly dramatic airlifting rescue.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
Oh so I can't believe what happened the second time
he went up. Yeah, he got sick yet sick again. Yes,
he got really, really sick, so sick that another climber
eventually found him and he was unable to move, And
then that climber who found him was able to call
for help. He was brought back down the mountain taken
to the hospital to be treated once again for altitude sickness.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
This is the off season, by the way, for climbing Fuji.
The hiking trails officially open from July to September, but
there's no penalty for hiking outside of that time, and interestingly,
there isn't a charge by the country of Japan, which
can be the case in other countries when people climb
mountains when they shouldn't be well. There is no charge
when someone needs to be rescued, But there's now a
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growing call on social media for authorities to make an
exception and charge this climber for the second rescue, because
that really puts so many other people's lives at risk.
It takes away resources from actual emergencies, and that's a
very selfish choice for this climber. You know, I think, look,
I have a little bit of experience with altitude. I've
actually climbed Mount Fuji. There's a way to combat altitude sickness.
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You have to go up slowly. We spent the night
on the mountain. You acclimate and it really reduces your
risk of getting sick and having to bring in any
sort of rescue team. So it was probably selfish both ways,
going up and down. And once you know you have
altitude sickness, it doesn't change, it doesn't get better. It's
something you have to learn how to grow with and
react to properly. But I just did this was totally irresponsible.
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And yeah, when you're a hiker, when you're a climber,
you have to take on responsibilities, like you can't put
other people's lives at risk to get a cell phone.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
It's still inexperience potentially a selfish on the second one,
inexperience on the first. Experience on both of them are yes.
But I just, what's the worst you've done to go
find your cell phone? Where have you lost the phone?
What links did you go through and Uber maybe try
to track it down? You left it at a club,
you left it somewhere? What is the This is insane?
Speaker 1 (18:20):
No, it's it's like, get a new cell phone or
get insurance on your next one next time. I mean,
I think, what the worst thing I've ever done? I
remember Annalise dropped her cell phone when we were on
a ski lift on the side of a mountain, so
we had to go back up and ski and we
had we could say find your iPhone. At that point
it was so far understood we couldn't find it, but
we didn't put any like. We just spent needless hours
searching for a phone in the snow, like a needle
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in a haystack.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
I want to hear from this guy maybe there was
something on that phone that was invaluable of the final
picture of a loved one that he lost. I don't
know called the cloud. I know that was a stretch.
I don't use the cloud because I really get hacked.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
You don't do Google photos or do not really, so
all your photos would be gone if you lost your.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
I got them all in my head as memories. Maybe
it's okay you don't really take photos.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
Not a big fan, and I know you love your selfies though.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
All right, before we let you go here on this Tuesday, folks,
something we'd like for you to consider it is our
quote of the day.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
You know, you had a little bit of a rough
day yesterday, and I thought of you when I saw
this quote. Even though you're fed up, you gotta keep
your head up.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
Okay, A lot of folks don't need to know where
that line came from. Some people think it sounds a
little familiar, but it sounds really odd coming out of
a white woman's mouth. That's fair that it is right,
because that's not how you're used to hearing that line.
That's a line from Tupac. Yes keep your head up
is one of his probably top five greatest songs of
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all time. Even though you're fed up, you got to
keep your head up. So Yes, whatever is going on,
I know that's a simple, very rudimentary way of saying
something but that's all you need sometimes man, and sometimes
just rough. Everybody's having issues for different reasons, but yeah,
you gotta try your best to fight through it.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
Keep your head up and keep going that I mean,
it's just universal. I think everyone gets to that point,
sometimes multiple times in a week or even in a day.
But it's a simple way to remind yourself even though
you're fed up, you got to keep your head.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Up because things are easy. That's the song. I love it.
I love it that you all have yourself a good Tuesday.
I always appreciate you running with us.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
On t J and I'm Mami Robot. Will see you
on the run tomorrow.
Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio Podcast. Good
morning everyone, It's Tuesday, April twenty ninth. Welcome to Morning Run.
I'm Amy Roboch and I'MTJ.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Holmes and on the run this Tuesday morning. Today marks
one hundred days of the Trump presidency, and he's marking
his one hundredth day in office much like he marked
his first day in office, touting new executive orders.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Plus, Russia announces a temporary cease fire, emphasis on temporary.
Ukraine is asking for more, and the Vatican has announced
a date for the conclave to begin to elect a
new pope. Plus there's a decision on whether disgraced Cardinal
Betchu can participate.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Also on the Run, the lights are coming back on
after a massive and mysterious power outage in Spain and Portugal. Also,
another Ivy League school gets a list of demands from
the White House, and one of those demands is for
the school to apologize to female athletes.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Plus four young girls are killed at an after school
program after a vehicle plows into their building. And how
does a seventy million dollars fighter jet fall off an
aircraft carrier? The Navy has some explaining to.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Do and on the run this morning, an NFL superstar
golfs with the President and then tries to explain himself
to critics and what lengths would you go to in
order to recover your lost cell phone? One student climbed
Mount Fuji to find his and that led to him
being airlifted for the second time in a week. We'll explain,
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and it's pretty easy to understand why rescuers are.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
Not too happy with this kid, and actually a lot
of folks on social media calling him out as well.
It's a talker of a story that will get to
in just a bit. But we begin our run in Washington,
d C. Where President Trump officially marks his one hundredth
day in office today. Yes, it's only been one hundred days.
That actually seems hard to believe with all the news
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he's generated, and the White House has an entire week
of events highlighting Trump's actions so far.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
So Trump tonight is going to honor the milestone by
holding a rally in Michigan. It's his first time since
returning to the White House. On Monday, Trump signed three
more executive orders aimed at cracking down on immigration. The
White House lawn is also lined with posters showing mugshots
of arrested undocumented immigrants. Their alleged crimes were boldly displayed
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under their faces.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Yeah, that was quite the image there yesterday. So the
first of Trump's new executive orders takes aim at so
called sanctuary cities. It directs Attorney General Pambondi and Homeland
Security Secretary christyme to legally pursue states and cities that
are refusing to cooperate with federal officials to arrest undocumented migrants.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
So another executive order gives federal resources to local law enforcement,
including legal help for police officers who are accused of wrongdoing.
It also allows for action against any local official who
tries to stop police officers from carrying out their immigration duties.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
And the third order would enforce those existing rules. I
didn't even know this was a thing. They require professional
truck drivers to be proficient in English. So that's the
third order. Now. The Trump administration, by the way, has
already sued Rochester, New York, and is prosecuting a Milwaukee
judge for obstructing its immigration policy.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
White House Press Secretary Carolyn Levitt put it this way,
It's quite simple. Obey the law, respect the law, and
don't obstruct federal immigration officials and law enforcement officials when
they are simply trying to remove public safety threats from
our nations communities.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
All right, Next up on our run, a truce has
been announced in the Russia Ukraine war. Well, it's one sided,
it doesn't start immediately, and it's only going to last
for three days, but you know what, it's something.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
It will take it. Russian President Vladimir Putin says Russia
will suspend all military action in Ukraine between May eighth
to May tenth. This is a unilateral move one side.
There were no negotiations, nothing agreed to with Ukraine Russia.
Putin just did this on his own. But he didn't
do it out of the kindness of his own heart.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
No, Rather, it is so Russians can commemorate the eightieth
anniversary of the Soviet victory over the Nazis in World
War Two. Ukraine's response to this three day ceasefire, why
not do it now and do it for thirty days,
which is of course something that President Trump I'm sure
would be leaning into as well. But Trump is growing
impatient with what seems to be a stalemate between the
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two countries, and there.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Was a recent ceasefire what was supposed to be on
Sunday just a week ago for Easter. Yes, right, that
lasted ten to fifteen minutes.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
And they both started pointing the fingers at one another, saying,
you fired on us. No, you fired on us, so
didn't go.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
So no skepticism on this one. We will continue our run,
and recently we've been doing a lot of legs of
our run in Rome, and that's what we're headed now,
where we have learned that the conclave to elect the
new Pope will begin next Wednesday, May seventh. The day
was decided after nearly two hun cardinals gathered for a
closed door meeting Monday.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Only one hundred and thirty five of them will be
eligible to vote for the next pope. Cardinals have to
be under the age of eighty to take part in
the conclave. The Sistine Chapel will remain closed to tourists
so preparations can be made for the secret conclave, and
the last two, by the way that we're in two
thousand and five and twenty fourteen, only lasted for two days.
But it's believed this conclave could actually take longer. This
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is interesting because a lot of the cardinals were appointed
by Francis. I believe it's something like eighty percent of them,
and they haven't met one another before now, so they
don't really know each other enough to vote on one another.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Okay, that sounds like it could take a long time,
either sixty to seventy almost eighty. That's a lot of
life to talk to somebody through. Let me tell you
about myself.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
So for me thirty five years ago when I fort yeah, well.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
I did not realize it was only two days for
the last two conclictsy. For whatever reason, it feels like
they go on forever. But I guess we're just staring
at a screen and waiting for smoke for hours, So
that does seem like a.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Yeah, time drags on more slowly when you're waiting for smoke.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Yeah. Another announcement came after yesterday's meeting. This has been
a fascinating story about Cardinal Angelo Betchu. He recently asserted
that he has the right to participate in the conclave
to elect a new pope, despite being convicted of financial
misconduct and being at least what the Vatican said, stripped
of his electing powers. He's considered a non elector, but
(06:23):
he said publicly he was going to show up and
he's going to vote. Well, he's backed off and said
he's not going to do that now, saying, quote, I
have decided to obey as I have always done, the
will of Pope Francis, not to enter the conclave while
remaining convinced of my innocence. So he's appealing that conviction
of financial crimes but says he's innocent. But this is
not going to be a drama playing out.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
He removed himself from the drama, which was probably the
right call. Next up, on a run, we're going to
stay overseas in Europe where the lights are finally coming
back on across Spain and Portugal, but they still don't
know what caused them to go out in the first place.
Assive power outage brought both countries to a standstill for
much of the day yesterday.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
The started around lunchtime. Official say in a matter of seconds,
the energy grid lost sixty percent of electricity, so trained
subways stopped running. We saw some of these images. You know,
you'll cove been to Europe that subway travel, train travel
and even between the two countries is everything. So to
see some of these train stations, people just sitting on steps,
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nowhere to go and just strand it. Traffic lights of
course are out, you know that would cause a problem.
And then cell phone service was disrupted in a major way.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
That is frightening to think about. You can't go anywhere
and you can't call anyone. Passengers were walking for miles
from the airport in eighty degree weather because yeah, you
couldn't get an uber. Power started to come back on
later in the day and overnight. Much of it this
morning has been restored, thankfully, But the concerning part is
official say they do not know what caused it, but
(07:54):
they did say it's not believed to be a cyber attack.
But still we realized how we all are and when
everything goes dark, it is a frightening thing. Like I
don't think I know my children's numbers by heart. I
actually have told myself I've got to start memorizing them
because we rely on our phones, We rely on power.
We rely on that quick ability to communicate.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
You know my number, I do, actually, because that would
be your jail call, right, you need to know this number,
all right? We continue folks on our run on this
Tuesday morning, and another Ivy League school has received a
list of demands from the Trump administration. We'll see if
they take the same kiss our Ivy League asses approach
that Harvard has taken so far.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
The University of Pennsylvania has yet to respond after the
administration accused it yesterday of violating federal law that guarantees
equal opportunity for women, how by letting a transgender woman
compete on their women's swim team. Leah Thomas competed at
the school back in twenty twenty two and became the
first transgender athlete to win a Division one title.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
The White House has given pen ten days now to
respond and address the alleged violations or face possible legal consequences.
As part of addressing the violation, the administration wants Thomas
stripped of any awards and records, and wants the school
to apologize to female swimmers who were possibly impacted for
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allowing their educational experience in athletics to be marred by
sex discrimination. Those are their words.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
Penn said they were following nc DOUAA rules at the
time that Thomas competed, but have since changed policies to
now be in line with President Trump's directives. The administration
has already frozen one hundred and seventy five million dollars
in federal funding de pen for allowing Thomas to compete
in the first place. But again, they competed in the
(09:46):
guidelines that were in place at the time.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Which was a mess because the nc DOUAA allowed the
individual sports to essentially have their own rules, so they
could follow what the International Olympic Committee says about swimmers,
what the International Committee s says about basketball. So it
was just a hodgepodge of a mess. And now Trump
has essentially gotten rid of all that. They say they
are in line, but at the time it seemed to
(10:09):
be legal in the NCAA allowed it, not just penn right.
Let me shall see what happens here. We will continue
now on this next stor we have to head to Chatham, Illinois.
This is a gut ridging story for anybody to hear,
but for parents of a school age child, this is
just a nightmare. A tragedy has unfolded there in this
small town just south of Springfield, four girls between the
(10:33):
ages of four and eighteen were killed after a vehicle
drove into their after school camp. This thing plowed right
through the wall of the school. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
They described it as the vehicle hitting the east side
of the school and going all the way through and
exiting out the west wall. That was how significant that
impact was. Three of the students were actually outside the
building and one was inside, and they all died there
on the scene. Several other people inside the school were injured,
including one who actually was injured so badly they had
(11:05):
to be airlifted to the hospital. The driver was also
taken to the hospital, but was reportedly uninjured. Right now,
police aren't releasing the name of the driver and have
not said whether the crash was intentional or accidental. But
either way, this is a community that is in deep mourning.
This is a town of just fourteen hundred people. It's sad,
of course, no matter where this happens, but just our
hearts go out to the folks there in Chatham.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
We all that's where you want your kids and sometimes
you even pay for that after school because that's the
safest place for your kids to be until you get
out of work or whatever it may be. That is
the safest place. It's supposed to be supposed to be.
All right, folks, we'll stay with us here on this
Tuesday morning run. When we come back, they got some
explaining to do. How in the world of the military
(11:47):
lose a seventy million dollar jet. It just rolled off
the aircraft carrier like chapstick off addressing. Also coming up,
a big time NFL athlete has to explain himself just
for playing a round of golf. And a student had
to be rescued twice from the same mountain in a week.
(12:09):
Why he needed his cellphone? All right, welcome back, We
continue on this Tuesday morning ron with this. The US
military has lost a seventy million dollars fighter jet. It
wasn't shut down. It didn't go down because of a
(12:30):
mechanical issue. Rather, they accidentally dropped it in the ocean.
It simply rolled off the side of an aircraft carrier.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
Yeah. The carrier is the USS Truman, which has been
in the Red Sea supporting the US military campaign against
the Iran backed militants in Yemen. The military says an
FA eighteen Super Hornet fighter jet was being towed to
a hangarbay when basically the move crew lost control of it.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
Yes, this crew was trying to get it, you know,
where it's supposed to be next. They're just shuffling it
around and the crew had to take quick action, they say,
to get out of the way to protect themselves, but
they lost control the plane. Could you imagine seeing this,
a seventy million dollar piece of equipment simply rolled off
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the side of an aircraft carrier and they were powerless
to do anything about it.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
I cannot even imagine the moment when they saw it
all happening, because there was no way you're stopping that
heavy fighter jeer not doing what gravity is doing to it.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
And again they had to jump out of the way.
I think they said one member of the military had
did suffer minor injuries. But for the most part, everybody's okay.
This is under investigation now this incident bought. The aircraft carrier,
according to the military, is still mission capable. It's going
to stay in the Red Sea and continue it's mission.
But this is I don't know if there's video of it,
I don't even know if I want to see it.
(13:51):
That's horrible. It's just offerless. It dropped into what you
can't save it. Oh ugh, all right, stuff on our run.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
Another big name, big time athlete played golf with President
Trump over the weekend, and he had to go on
social media then to defend his decision to do so.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
Yeah, Philadelphia Eagles running back the Saquon Barkley got in
a round Sunday with the President and his golf club
in New Jersey. But when word and images of the
two together started making the rounds, Barkley was criticized soundly
for getting chummy with the president, and the criticism was
loud enough that Barkley felt he needed to respond.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
He wrote this on social media yesterday. Lol, some people
are really upset because I played golf and flew to
the White House with the President. He puts in all caps.
Maybe I just respect the office. Not a hard concept
to understand. Just golf with Obama not too long ago,
and look forward to finishing my round with Trump. Now
you get out of my mentions with all his politics
(14:47):
and have an amazing day. Barkley's team was at the
White House yesterday being honored as this year's Super.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
Bowl champs, and again his explanation, he feels his need
to say it whatever, But people took issue with that
because seem tone deaf. If you actually think this president
is like all the others, and I'm just respecting the office.
You can respect the office, but you don't have to
golf with the person who's in the office, respecting his
shaking hands. Yes, mister Prett, that's being respectful of whoever's
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in the office. Going to hang out and be social
is what some people took issue with, and him seeming
tone deaf and saying, uh, it's just another president. This
is different. There's some different issues. I love the brother
that I could see what. I didn't have a problem
necessarily with him golfing his explanation like just don't say anything.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
Come on, bro, Yeah, sometimes less is more and your
silence speaks volumes.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
Right, we'll continue this Tuesday morning run now and the
next leg takes us up a mountain. A twenty seven
year old Chinese student had to be rescued not once,
but twice from Japan's Mount Fuji. He had to be
rescued twice within the same dan Gum week because last
Tuesday he was summoning Mount Fuji when he got so
sick from the altitude near the peak that he made
(16:00):
an emergency call for help. He had to be airlifted
off the mountain.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
So over the weekend, what did he do? He went
back to the mountain, Why, to try and find his
cell phone. Yeah, he climbed back up Mount Fuji. He
made it all the way up to about ten thousand
feet to look for his phone and some other belongings
he left behind during that first probably fairly dramatic airlifting rescue.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
Oh so I can't believe what happened the second time
he went up. Yeah, he got sick yet sick again. Yes,
he got really, really sick, so sick that another climber
eventually found him and he was unable to move, And
then that climber who found him was able to call
for help. He was brought back down the mountain taken
to the hospital to be treated once again for altitude sickness.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
This is the off season, by the way, for climbing Fuji.
The hiking trails officially open from July to September, but
there's no penalty for hiking outside of that time, and interestingly,
there isn't a charge by the country of Japan, which
can be the case in other countries when people climb
mountains when they shouldn't be well. There is no charge
when someone needs to be rescued, But there's now a
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growing call on social media for authorities to make an
exception and charge this climber for the second rescue, because
that really puts so many other people's lives at risk.
It takes away resources from actual emergencies, and that's a
very selfish choice for this climber. You know, I think, look,
I have a little bit of experience with altitude. I've
actually climbed Mount Fuji. There's a way to combat altitude sickness.
(17:28):
You have to go up slowly. We spent the night
on the mountain. You acclimate and it really reduces your
risk of getting sick and having to bring in any
sort of rescue team. So it was probably selfish both ways,
going up and down. And once you know you have
altitude sickness, it doesn't change, it doesn't get better. It's
something you have to learn how to grow with and
react to properly. But I just did this was totally irresponsible.
(17:52):
And yeah, when you're a hiker, when you're a climber,
you have to take on responsibilities, like you can't put
other people's lives at risk to get a cell phone.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
It's still inexperience potentially a selfish on the second one,
inexperience on the first. Experience on both of them are yes.
But I just, what's the worst you've done to go
find your cell phone? Where have you lost the phone?
What links did you go through and Uber maybe try
to track it down? You left it at a club,
you left it somewhere? What is the This is insane?
Speaker 1 (18:20):
No, it's it's like, get a new cell phone or
get insurance on your next one next time. I mean,
I think, what the worst thing I've ever done? I
remember Annalise dropped her cell phone when we were on
a ski lift on the side of a mountain, so
we had to go back up and ski and we
had we could say find your iPhone. At that point
it was so far understood we couldn't find it, but
we didn't put any like. We just spent needless hours
searching for a phone in the snow, like a needle
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in a haystack.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
I want to hear from this guy maybe there was
something on that phone that was invaluable of the final
picture of a loved one that he lost. I don't
know called the cloud. I know that was a stretch.
I don't use the cloud because I really get hacked.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
You don't do Google photos or do not really, so
all your photos would be gone if you lost your.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
I got them all in my head as memories. Maybe
it's okay you don't really take photos.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
Not a big fan, and I know you love your selfies though.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
All right, before we let you go here on this Tuesday, folks,
something we'd like for you to consider it is our
quote of the day.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
You know, you had a little bit of a rough
day yesterday, and I thought of you when I saw
this quote. Even though you're fed up, you gotta keep
your head up.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
Okay, A lot of folks don't need to know where
that line came from. Some people think it sounds a
little familiar, but it sounds really odd coming out of
a white woman's mouth. That's fair that it is right,
because that's not how you're used to hearing that line.
That's a line from Tupac. Yes keep your head up
is one of his probably top five greatest songs of
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all time. Even though you're fed up, you got to
keep your head up. So Yes, whatever is going on,
I know that's a simple, very rudimentary way of saying
something but that's all you need sometimes man, and sometimes
just rough. Everybody's having issues for different reasons, but yeah,
you gotta try your best to fight through it.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
Keep your head up and keep going that I mean,
it's just universal. I think everyone gets to that point,
sometimes multiple times in a week or even in a day.
But it's a simple way to remind yourself even though
you're fed up, you got to keep your head.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Up because things are easy. That's the song. I love it.
I love it that you all have yourself a good Tuesday.
I always appreciate you running with us.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
On t J and I'm Mami Robot. Will see you
on the run tomorrow.
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