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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio podcast. Hello everyone,
this is your Morning Run for Thursday, June twenty sixth.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
I'm Amy Robach and I'm TJ. Holmes on the Run
this morning. The US and Iran are set to meet
next week on a nuclear deal. Sounds like a big deal.
Trump sounds indifferent.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
And one of the foremost diplomats in the world had
to explain himself yesterday after calling Trump Daddy during a
press conference. It was a bizarre and hilarious international incident,
and now Usher is involved.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Also this morning, Trump's twenty billion dollar lawsuit against CBS
could get settled soon. That is, if Trump is willing
to knock a few zeros off that twenty billion.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
And the clock is tigging.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
The Trump administration gives California a deadline to reverse its
policy allowing transgender athletes to participate in girls' sports or
face the Justice Department.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
And Chuck Schumer went from the Senate gym to the
hospital yesterday. He returned to work later with a reminder
for all of us and wedding on. Jeff Bezos and
his fiance arrive in Venice. They were kind of hard
to miss and a baseball fan heckled a major league
player two tiers. That fan is now banned from all
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MLB stadiums, and the.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Young instole the show at the NBA draft last night,
including the number one overall pick, who will still be
eighteen when he makes his NBA debut, And whether you
prefer big spoon or little spoon.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
A new study proves there.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
Are health benefits to cuddling with your partner before falling asleep.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Some of this I read it, and you were very
excited about it. Some of it seemed common sense to me.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
Right, yes, physical touch is important, but.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
It almost seemed like it doesn't matter who's there that
you need to cuddle something.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
Right to missy with your partner.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Physical intimacy actually has mental health benefits.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Boy, Okay, we'll go into that so much later. Here.
We're going to begin this morning with President Trump saying
the US will meet with Iran next week to discuss
a nuclear agreement. But at the same time, the President
sounded like he didn't care if they get a deal
done or not.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Yeah, here's this thinking there's no urgency on a nuclear
deal because we just blew up their nuclear program. The
President made the announcement as he was leaving the NATO
summit in the Hague, saying we may sign an agreement.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
To me, I don't think it's that necessary.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
He went on to say, we want to we want
no nuclear, but we destroyed the nuclear. In other words,
it's destroyed. I said, Aran will not have nuclear. Well,
we blew it up. It's blown to Kingdom come. And
so I don't feel very strongly about it. If we
got a document, it wouldn't be bad.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Only Trump could make me laugh at the word nuclear,
because that's just not a funny word in it.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Somehow he made it funny.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
I mean, so, look that we would normally say this
is a huge, huge thing that the two sides are
talking and a deal could get done, but he sounded
kind of indifferent to the idea.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
Yeah, flippant almost Yes.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Next up on the Run, Well, the Defense Department plans
to defend those B two bomber pilots who flew the
mission to attack Iran's nuclear program this week, and also
promised to back up administration claims that those strikes yes,
in fact, obliterated.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
The Iran nuclear program, despite.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Reporting of a leaked Pentagon assessment that suggested the attack
only set the program back by a couple of months.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Yeah, press conference with Secretary Pete hegseth its planned for
this morning, and the President was promoting it, saying that
the purpose of this press conference is to quote fight
for the dignity of our great American pilots. These patriots
were very upset after thirty six hours of dangerously flying
through enemy territory, they landed. They knew the success was legendary,
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and then two days later they started reading fake news
by CNN and the failing New York Times. They felt terribly.
The President went on to say this news conference is
going to prove both interesting and irrefutable, and then he
ends it with enjoy with an exclamation point. So they
are going to lay out and probably try to make
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a whole presentation showing proof that it was obliterated in
some way.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Okay, And as of this recording, this press conference is
scheduled for eight am Eastern time, So that is going
to be muscy television today.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
All right, We're going to continue on the run on
this Thursday morning with a grown man called Trump Daddy.
Yesterday and it damn near calls an international incident, and
now the guy who called him daddy has had to
publicly clarify his daddy comments.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
And to make things even more bizarre, Usher is involved.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
At this point, let us explain how this all came about.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
At the NATO summit yesterday, President Trump held during a
press conference with the NATO Secretary General Mark Ruta.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Yes, the President was having a press conference with this guy.
A lot of people you might not know his name
or his face with Mark Ruta is the guy at
NATO who's in charge and trying to keep all these
countries in line and keeping these conference stations going. So
he's a hell of a diplomat. So he was talking
with the President at this press conference, and in talking
about the Iran Israel conflict, President Trump compared those two
countries to two kids fighting on a playground. We talked
(05:12):
about there here yesterday. Ruth jumped in and said, daddy
has to sometimes use strong language to get them to stop.
Does that make sense to you? Though he was making yes,
he was continuing the metaphor with correct Okay, So that
was what he said. But the daddy reference then made
headlines with some outlets running with it, and it was
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characterized in some circles as going over the top and
kissing the ring of Trump if you will.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
So Rutha spoke to reporters later to clarify his statements.
He said this quote the daddy thing. I didn't call
him daddy. What I said is that sometimes in Europe,
I hear sometimes country saying, hey, Mark, will the US
stay with us? And I said that sounds a little
bit like a small child asking his daddy, Hey, are
you still staying with the family. So in that sense,
I use daddy, not that I was calling President Trump daddy.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Should have just left it alone, right, should have just
left it alone.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
Don't even confused me. First I did.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
I don't know. He's talking about Europe.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
This is what they do.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
But he's explaining something that I didn't think needed to
be explained. Even It's okay, man, So that made it
more confusing. But here we go now. Then Trump was
asked about it later and fully embraced the term, saying quote,
he did it very affectionately, daddy, You're my daddy. End quote. Now.
Then the White House, but out of video on social
media highlighting the president's time at the summit. It was
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a video of some of his highlights. I guess of
their meeting with world leaders and under it to the
soundtrack of Usher's twenty ten song Hey Daddy.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
I mean they just leaned into it, and the chorus.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Of that song goes, Daddy's home.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
Oh my goodness. It just gets more bizarre every day.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
It should have been a nothing story. It was an
offhand nothing comment that went correctly with the metaphor, and
it became that.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
Because it's kind of my favorite story of the day,
second only to the sleeve study about spooning.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
Yes, anyway, we'll get to that in just a bit.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
But next up on a run, Trump is being sued
or sorry, Trump is suing CBS for twenty billion dollars, so.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
We know it is. You're used to saying Trump is
being sued, right.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
So that's fair, But actually it's fair to say he
sues just as much as he's being sued, so he
go either way. I think he's got a lot of
lawsuits out there. California, California, California. Then they've got Yeah,
we'll get to that. Trump is suing CBS for twenty
billion dollars, but he might have to knock a couple
of zeros off that number. A mediator is suggesting the
president take twenty million and call it a day.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Yeah. This is according to the Wall Street Journal, which
is reporting that the President's team has been presented with
the suggestion from the mediator working to get Trump and
CBS to settle the dispute. The President sued the network,
claiming election interference over how sixty minutes edited its interview
with Kamala Harris.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Now, the Journal reports the plan would be for CBS
to make a seventeen million dollar donation to the Trump
Presidential Foundation or museum, as well as pay the legal
fees and make public service announces to combat anti semitism.
Trump previously rejected a fifteen million dollars settlement offer. He
said he wanted at least twenty five and he wanted
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an apology.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
And the apology was the part of the problem with
that settlement.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
Understandable.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
So continue on the run here to California, where the
Trump administration has given that state a deadline. You got
ten days to change your policy on allowing transgender student
athletes to compete on sports teams that match with their identities.
If they don't, California risks imminent enforcement action. They say
that includes referral to the Justice Apartment for proceedings. This
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is all, of course, trying to keep transgender girls from
competing on girls sports teams.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
That's right, and this all comes after California allowed a
transgender girl to compete in the state's high school track championships.
While trans athlete ab Hernandez placed first in the triple
and high jump and came in second in the long jump,
California tried to compromise with Trump's February executive order banning
trans girls from participating in females sports by allowing an
(09:01):
additional an additional female athlete to compete in each event
Hernandez was competing it yes.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
So Hernandez essentially shared her medals alongside the next best
female athlete. That compraide didn't satisfy the Trump administration. Education
Secretary Linda McMahon said, Although Governor Newsome admitted months ago
it was deeply unfair to allow men to compete in
women's sports, both the California Department of Education and the
CIF continued as recently as a few weeks ago to
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allow men to steal female athletes well deserved accolades and
to subject them to the indignity of unfair and unsafe
competition now.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
Newsome spokesperson responded by saying this it wouldn't be a
day ending in why without the Trump administration threatening to
defund California. Twenty nine states have laws that prohibit trends
student athletes from participating in girls' sports. Five of them
right now are temporarily blocked by lawsuits. So this is
not going away. This debate is going to continue for
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some time.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
All right, continue our run now head back to DC.
We need to check on Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer.
He spent a little time in the hospital yesterday. He
was taken out of an abundance of caution, they say,
after getting lightheaded while working out at the Senate gym.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
He was ultimately treated for dehydration. The Senator was back
at work at the Capitol a short time later, and
a spokesperson said the Senator wants to remind people to
drink water and stay out of the heat. DC, of course,
has been baking like the rest of us in the
eastern part.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
Of the US. It's funny I actually ran on the
treadmill in the heat or the heat of the heat.
Does that make sense. The heat of the heat.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
Yeah, and the hottest part of the day, thank you.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
Yes, and the gym.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
Even though it was their condition, I could still feel
the heat and I felt overheated on the treadmill indoors
just because of what was.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
Going on around my part of this. I gave him credit.
He's seventy four years old. I heard he was in
the Senate gym. That actually made me happy to hear,
and glad he's okay, But glad he gave us all
that reminder. They've been the same thing. High nineties and
heat indecks over one hundred in DC. We'll stay with
us here, folks on this Thursday morning run. When we
come back, the wedding is on in Venice, well if
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they can avoid some of those protesters. Also coming up,
a major League Baseball player in tears over what a
fan said to him, and Robok's favorite story of the day,
cuddling is good for your health. Next up on our
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Thursday Morning Run, we head to Italy. Looks like this
is in fact wedding weekend for Amazon founder Jeff Bezos
and his fiance Lawrence Sanchez, because the happy couple has
arrived in.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
Venice, how do we know.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
Well, they didn't exactly come quietly. They were spotted and
waving to cameras as they were being shuttled to and
from Venice by helicopter yesterday.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
Yeah, that helicopter took off from Venice and landed on
his yacht just off the coast. That yacht was the
support yacht that's there as a companion to his main yacht.
The wedding is reportedly a three doar, three day, superstar
studded event. At this point, we've been talking about it
so much. I would really like for them to get married. Yes,
(12:16):
just get it done.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
Oh my goodness, I just want to. I didn't even
know there was such a thing as a support yacht.
I think that's the first time I've ever heard that
phrase or term ever used. But of course it makes
sense that it would be applicable to bezos, all.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
Right, Next up on a run.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
Major League Baseball has banned a fan from all Major
League stadiums for heckling a player to tiers. This all
played out earlier this week in Chicago. The White Sox
were hosting the Arizona Diamondbacks.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
At All Star Second baseman for the Diamondbacks Coutell Marte
was up to bat in the seventh inning when a
fan was mercilessly heckling him. Now, the Arizona manager noticed
during the seventh inning stretch that Marte was going back
out on the field to play defense and he was
in tears, so he went out to see what was
going on and try to comfort player.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
So at that point he asked umpires that that fan
be removed. And of course professional athletes are accustomed to
opposing fans yelling all kinds of things at them, especially
in baseball, So what could the fan have possibly been
saying to him that upset.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
Him so much.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
The fan was heckling Marte about his dead mother, a
woman who passed tragically and suddenly in a car accident
back in twenty seventeen. Now, the White Sox, to their credit,
made a gesture later with a social media post saying
baseball is family. The White Sox community supports could tell Marte.
This fan has been banned from all baseball, all of
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Major League Baseball, indefinitely for now. But there's a video
out that the manager saw it happening, was screaming back
at like yelling like his mom's dead. You encouraging the
person out, like what is wrong with you? And so
maybe the person was yelling something about yamma and they
didn't know the guy's mom was dead, which is just
even that it's too far. But I mean, I guess
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we have no bounds.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
I think it's disgusting when you hear about this. This
is these are people playing professionally for your enjoyment, your entertainment,
but they're human beings, and it's just disgusting that they
We do a lot already, exactly exactly, and you're an adult, sir,
act like one and more importantly, just act like a
human being. So I think that was an I'm fully
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supporting the decision of Major League Baseball on that one.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
Video is tough to see this guy, his tears a
running down his face on the field.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
Yeah, oh it breaks your heart. Breaks your heart all right.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
Next up on our run with the first pick in
the NBA draft, the Dallas Mavericks surprised absolutely no one, TJ.
You were talking about this all day yesterday.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
Yeah, we just make it official. They've been talking about it,
you know what, since he started bouncing the ball as
a freshman. They've been talking about this, yes Duke freshman
phenom Cooper Flag. It is the number one overall pick
in the twenty twenty five draft, yes picked up by
the Dallas Mavericks. He is now the sixth Duke player
to ever go number one in the NBA Draft. Draft
underway last night is going to go on for the
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next few days at the Barclay Center in Brooklyn. But
this is a he reclassified as a high school as
high school kid they allow you to do. He went
forward so that he's so young now, so he's eighteen
now when he debuts. He will still be eighteen when
he makes his NBA debut.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
You were even talking about the betting odds on this one.
If you put down ten thousand dollars to say that
Cooper Flag.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
Was going to go number one, you would win one
hundred dollars.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
Yeah, he was an overwhelming favorite, and so we were like, well,
if you had like millions to put down, yes, you
could actually make a really safe bet.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
That's a lot of risk just in case Dallas changes
their mind last second.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
I would never do it, all right, And for the
final leg of our run, if you want to improve
your mental health and if you would like to reduce
your stress, have a good snuggle with your partner in bed.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
How many of y'all just rolled your eyes at the
idea of how would go snuggle with your partner tonight?
Speaker 3 (15:51):
On a new study You're with the wrong partner?
Speaker 2 (15:53):
You know what? That's again, different episode of our podcast.
A new study, as published this month, says that cuddling
and promotes more secure attachment between partners and lowers stress levels.
The study looked at the association between physical closeness before
sleep and stress, attachment, insecurity, and sleep disturbance.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
The researchers considered a bunch of factors in this study,
including your daytime sleepiness, income, age, relationship length, and what
they found was, even when couples are having trouble connecting
emotionally during the day, when they went to sleep in
a physically closer position, they had lower couple insecure attachment
issues and overall lower stress levels.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
Now, researchers did not find any significant connection between cuddling
and improved sleep quality. However, that kind of makes sense
to bottom line, The study concluded that snuggling in bed
may be a promising and amenable avenue for improving relational
and physiological well being.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
It's hard though, if you're not, if you're feeling disconnected,
But it's true, like it's you know, I'm not saying
you're in an all out fight, but if you just
feel a little bit dist or you haven't been feeling
connected to your partner, if you just snuggle at night,
it's a game changer.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
Physical touch works, just holding hands, something that simple, a
little gesture does. So, yes, this does make sense. I
was giving you a hard time earlier, but this this works.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
You like big spoon or little spoon.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
Spooning. I don't know, it depends on what I was
about to say. Something just gross.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
I think you're usually big spoon and I'm little spoon.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
Right, Yes, that's always the.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
Way it goes, Okay, Yes, and even if it isn't,
that's what we're going with. All right, As you go
about your day on this Thursday, we would like to
get you to consider this.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
This is our quote of the day.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
Success isn't owned, it's least and rent is due every day.
Thank you for that, mister J. J. Watt professional football play.
I've retired now, but that makes very sense, very much sense.
It's like somebody always on your heels. You can never
rest on your success of yesterday.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
I felt like this to you because this is kind
of your mantra.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
I'll be like, whoo, look what we did or we
got here or we met this you know, threshold that
we were trying to get to, and you're like, what's
the next one?
Speaker 3 (18:10):
What's the next one?
Speaker 1 (18:11):
And so you know, I like to hike, and so
I kind of make a mountain analogy. It's like, you
get to the top, but then where are you going
from here? You know, you might have to go down,
but you got to get back up on another one.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
So I like this.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
Idea of motivating folks to say, hey, you got to
keep working and success comes only through hard work. It
doesn't come through just complacency or saying oh did that
now I can chill.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
Hey you got to keep on trucking. So yes, thank you.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
JJ Watt's success isn't own, it's least and rent is
due every day. So hope that gets your day started
with a big motivational punch, right, all right, thanks for
running with us everyone. I'm Amy Robick. I might be
a little punchy because it's Friday Eve, all.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
Right, and I'm TJ Holk, So I remember you can
be closing arguments today in the trial are happening today,
so we'll be back on with you a little later.
We've been doing our updates. You've been listening to those
we know, so we appreciate that. But we will be
giving you a couple of ditty updates, so look for
some later episodes. Today we'll talk to Elso
Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio podcast. Hello everyone,
this is your Morning Run for Thursday, June twenty sixth.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
I'm Amy Robach and I'm TJ. Holmes on the Run
this morning. The US and Iran are set to meet
next week on a nuclear deal. Sounds like a big deal.
Trump sounds indifferent.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
And one of the foremost diplomats in the world had
to explain himself yesterday after calling Trump Daddy during a
press conference. It was a bizarre and hilarious international incident,
and now Usher is involved.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Also this morning, Trump's twenty billion dollar lawsuit against CBS
could get settled soon. That is, if Trump is willing
to knock a few zeros off that twenty billion.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
And the clock is tigging.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
The Trump administration gives California a deadline to reverse its
policy allowing transgender athletes to participate in girls' sports or
face the Justice Department.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
And Chuck Schumer went from the Senate gym to the
hospital yesterday. He returned to work later with a reminder
for all of us and wedding on. Jeff Bezos and
his fiance arrive in Venice. They were kind of hard
to miss and a baseball fan heckled a major league
player two tiers. That fan is now banned from all
(01:17):
MLB stadiums, and the.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Young instole the show at the NBA draft last night,
including the number one overall pick, who will still be
eighteen when he makes his NBA debut, And whether you
prefer big spoon or little spoon.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
A new study proves there.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
Are health benefits to cuddling with your partner before falling asleep.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Some of this I read it, and you were very
excited about it. Some of it seemed common sense to me.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
Right, yes, physical touch is important, but.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
It almost seemed like it doesn't matter who's there that
you need to cuddle something.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
Right to missy with your partner.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Physical intimacy actually has mental health benefits.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Boy, Okay, we'll go into that so much later. Here.
We're going to begin this morning with President Trump saying
the US will meet with Iran next week to discuss
a nuclear agreement. But at the same time, the President
sounded like he didn't care if they get a deal
done or not.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Yeah, here's this thinking there's no urgency on a nuclear
deal because we just blew up their nuclear program. The
President made the announcement as he was leaving the NATO
summit in the Hague, saying we may sign an agreement.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
To me, I don't think it's that necessary.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
He went on to say, we want to we want
no nuclear, but we destroyed the nuclear. In other words,
it's destroyed. I said, Aran will not have nuclear. Well,
we blew it up. It's blown to Kingdom come. And
so I don't feel very strongly about it. If we
got a document, it wouldn't be bad.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Only Trump could make me laugh at the word nuclear,
because that's just not a funny word in it.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Somehow he made it funny.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
I mean, so, look that we would normally say this
is a huge, huge thing that the two sides are
talking and a deal could get done, but he sounded
kind of indifferent to the idea.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
Yeah, flippant almost Yes.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Next up on the Run, Well, the Defense Department plans
to defend those B two bomber pilots who flew the
mission to attack Iran's nuclear program this week, and also
promised to back up administration claims that those strikes yes,
in fact, obliterated.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
The Iran nuclear program, despite.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Reporting of a leaked Pentagon assessment that suggested the attack
only set the program back by a couple of months.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Yeah, press conference with Secretary Pete hegseth its planned for
this morning, and the President was promoting it, saying that
the purpose of this press conference is to quote fight
for the dignity of our great American pilots. These patriots
were very upset after thirty six hours of dangerously flying
through enemy territory, they landed. They knew the success was legendary,
(03:46):
and then two days later they started reading fake news
by CNN and the failing New York Times. They felt terribly.
The President went on to say this news conference is
going to prove both interesting and irrefutable, and then he
ends it with enjoy with an exclamation point. So they
are going to lay out and probably try to make
(04:06):
a whole presentation showing proof that it was obliterated in
some way.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Okay, And as of this recording, this press conference is
scheduled for eight am Eastern time, So that is going
to be muscy television today.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
All right, We're going to continue on the run on
this Thursday morning with a grown man called Trump Daddy.
Yesterday and it damn near calls an international incident, and
now the guy who called him daddy has had to
publicly clarify his daddy comments.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
And to make things even more bizarre, Usher is involved.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
At this point, let us explain how this all came about.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
At the NATO summit yesterday, President Trump held during a
press conference with the NATO Secretary General Mark Ruta.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Yes, the President was having a press conference with this guy.
A lot of people you might not know his name
or his face with Mark Ruta is the guy at
NATO who's in charge and trying to keep all these
countries in line and keeping these conference stations going. So
he's a hell of a diplomat. So he was talking
with the President at this press conference, and in talking
about the Iran Israel conflict, President Trump compared those two
countries to two kids fighting on a playground. We talked
(05:12):
about there here yesterday. Ruth jumped in and said, daddy
has to sometimes use strong language to get them to stop.
Does that make sense to you? Though he was making yes,
he was continuing the metaphor with correct Okay, So that
was what he said. But the daddy reference then made
headlines with some outlets running with it, and it was
(05:32):
characterized in some circles as going over the top and
kissing the ring of Trump if you will.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
So Rutha spoke to reporters later to clarify his statements.
He said this quote the daddy thing. I didn't call
him daddy. What I said is that sometimes in Europe,
I hear sometimes country saying, hey, Mark, will the US
stay with us? And I said that sounds a little
bit like a small child asking his daddy, Hey, are
you still staying with the family. So in that sense,
I use daddy, not that I was calling President Trump daddy.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Should have just left it alone, right, should have just
left it alone.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
Don't even confused me. First I did.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
I don't know. He's talking about Europe.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
This is what they do.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
But he's explaining something that I didn't think needed to
be explained. Even It's okay, man, So that made it
more confusing. But here we go now. Then Trump was
asked about it later and fully embraced the term, saying quote,
he did it very affectionately, daddy, You're my daddy. End quote. Now.
Then the White House, but out of video on social
media highlighting the president's time at the summit. It was
(06:28):
a video of some of his highlights. I guess of
their meeting with world leaders and under it to the
soundtrack of Usher's twenty ten song Hey Daddy.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
I mean they just leaned into it, and the chorus.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Of that song goes, Daddy's home.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
Oh my goodness. It just gets more bizarre every day.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
It should have been a nothing story. It was an
offhand nothing comment that went correctly with the metaphor, and
it became that.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
Because it's kind of my favorite story of the day,
second only to the sleeve study about spooning.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
Yes, anyway, we'll get to that in just a bit.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
But next up on a run, Trump is being sued
or sorry, Trump is suing CBS for twenty billion dollars, so.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
We know it is. You're used to saying Trump is
being sued, right.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
So that's fair, But actually it's fair to say he
sues just as much as he's being sued, so he
go either way. I think he's got a lot of
lawsuits out there. California, California, California. Then they've got Yeah,
we'll get to that. Trump is suing CBS for twenty
billion dollars, but he might have to knock a couple
of zeros off that number. A mediator is suggesting the
president take twenty million and call it a day.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Yeah. This is according to the Wall Street Journal, which
is reporting that the President's team has been presented with
the suggestion from the mediator working to get Trump and
CBS to settle the dispute. The President sued the network,
claiming election interference over how sixty minutes edited its interview
with Kamala Harris.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Now, the Journal reports the plan would be for CBS
to make a seventeen million dollar donation to the Trump
Presidential Foundation or museum, as well as pay the legal
fees and make public service announces to combat anti semitism.
Trump previously rejected a fifteen million dollars settlement offer. He
said he wanted at least twenty five and he wanted
(08:09):
an apology.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
And the apology was the part of the problem with
that settlement.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
Understandable.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
So continue on the run here to California, where the
Trump administration has given that state a deadline. You got
ten days to change your policy on allowing transgender student
athletes to compete on sports teams that match with their identities.
If they don't, California risks imminent enforcement action. They say
that includes referral to the Justice Apartment for proceedings. This
(08:34):
is all, of course, trying to keep transgender girls from
competing on girls sports teams.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
That's right, and this all comes after California allowed a
transgender girl to compete in the state's high school track championships.
While trans athlete ab Hernandez placed first in the triple
and high jump and came in second in the long jump,
California tried to compromise with Trump's February executive order banning
trans girls from participating in females sports by allowing an
(09:01):
additional an additional female athlete to compete in each event
Hernandez was competing it yes.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
So Hernandez essentially shared her medals alongside the next best
female athlete. That compraide didn't satisfy the Trump administration. Education
Secretary Linda McMahon said, Although Governor Newsome admitted months ago
it was deeply unfair to allow men to compete in
women's sports, both the California Department of Education and the
CIF continued as recently as a few weeks ago to
(09:29):
allow men to steal female athletes well deserved accolades and
to subject them to the indignity of unfair and unsafe
competition now.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
Newsome spokesperson responded by saying this it wouldn't be a
day ending in why without the Trump administration threatening to
defund California. Twenty nine states have laws that prohibit trends
student athletes from participating in girls' sports. Five of them
right now are temporarily blocked by lawsuits. So this is
not going away. This debate is going to continue for
(09:59):
some time.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
All right, continue our run now head back to DC.
We need to check on Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer.
He spent a little time in the hospital yesterday. He
was taken out of an abundance of caution, they say,
after getting lightheaded while working out at the Senate gym.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
He was ultimately treated for dehydration. The Senator was back
at work at the Capitol a short time later, and
a spokesperson said the Senator wants to remind people to
drink water and stay out of the heat. DC, of course,
has been baking like the rest of us in the
eastern part.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
Of the US. It's funny I actually ran on the
treadmill in the heat or the heat of the heat.
Does that make sense. The heat of the heat.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
Yeah, and the hottest part of the day, thank you.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
Yes, and the gym.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
Even though it was their condition, I could still feel
the heat and I felt overheated on the treadmill indoors
just because of what was.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
Going on around my part of this. I gave him credit.
He's seventy four years old. I heard he was in
the Senate gym. That actually made me happy to hear,
and glad he's okay, But glad he gave us all
that reminder. They've been the same thing. High nineties and
heat indecks over one hundred in DC. We'll stay with
us here, folks on this Thursday morning run. When we
come back, the wedding is on in Venice, well if
(11:09):
they can avoid some of those protesters. Also coming up,
a major League Baseball player in tears over what a
fan said to him, and Robok's favorite story of the day,
cuddling is good for your health. Next up on our
(11:34):
Thursday Morning Run, we head to Italy. Looks like this
is in fact wedding weekend for Amazon founder Jeff Bezos
and his fiance Lawrence Sanchez, because the happy couple has
arrived in.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
Venice, how do we know.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
Well, they didn't exactly come quietly. They were spotted and
waving to cameras as they were being shuttled to and
from Venice by helicopter yesterday.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
Yeah, that helicopter took off from Venice and landed on
his yacht just off the coast. That yacht was the
support yacht that's there as a companion to his main yacht.
The wedding is reportedly a three doar, three day, superstar
studded event. At this point, we've been talking about it
so much. I would really like for them to get married. Yes,
(12:16):
just get it done.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
Oh my goodness, I just want to. I didn't even
know there was such a thing as a support yacht.
I think that's the first time I've ever heard that
phrase or term ever used. But of course it makes
sense that it would be applicable to bezos, all.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
Right, Next up on a run.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
Major League Baseball has banned a fan from all Major
League stadiums for heckling a player to tiers. This all
played out earlier this week in Chicago. The White Sox
were hosting the Arizona Diamondbacks.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
At All Star Second baseman for the Diamondbacks Coutell Marte
was up to bat in the seventh inning when a
fan was mercilessly heckling him. Now, the Arizona manager noticed
during the seventh inning stretch that Marte was going back
out on the field to play defense and he was
in tears, so he went out to see what was
going on and try to comfort player.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
So at that point he asked umpires that that fan
be removed. And of course professional athletes are accustomed to
opposing fans yelling all kinds of things at them, especially
in baseball, So what could the fan have possibly been
saying to him that upset.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
Him so much.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
The fan was heckling Marte about his dead mother, a
woman who passed tragically and suddenly in a car accident
back in twenty seventeen. Now, the White Sox, to their credit,
made a gesture later with a social media post saying
baseball is family. The White Sox community supports could tell Marte.
This fan has been banned from all baseball, all of
(13:37):
Major League Baseball, indefinitely for now. But there's a video
out that the manager saw it happening, was screaming back
at like yelling like his mom's dead. You encouraging the
person out, like what is wrong with you? And so
maybe the person was yelling something about yamma and they
didn't know the guy's mom was dead, which is just
even that it's too far. But I mean, I guess
(13:57):
we have no bounds.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
I think it's disgusting when you hear about this. This
is these are people playing professionally for your enjoyment, your entertainment,
but they're human beings, and it's just disgusting that they
We do a lot already, exactly exactly, and you're an adult, sir,
act like one and more importantly, just act like a
human being. So I think that was an I'm fully
(14:20):
supporting the decision of Major League Baseball on that one.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
Video is tough to see this guy, his tears a
running down his face on the field.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
Yeah, oh it breaks your heart. Breaks your heart all right.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
Next up on our run with the first pick in
the NBA draft, the Dallas Mavericks surprised absolutely no one, TJ.
You were talking about this all day yesterday.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
Yeah, we just make it official. They've been talking about it,
you know what, since he started bouncing the ball as
a freshman. They've been talking about this, yes Duke freshman
phenom Cooper Flag. It is the number one overall pick
in the twenty twenty five draft, yes picked up by
the Dallas Mavericks. He is now the sixth Duke player
to ever go number one in the NBA Draft. Draft
underway last night is going to go on for the
(14:58):
next few days at the Barclay Center in Brooklyn. But
this is a he reclassified as a high school as
high school kid they allow you to do. He went
forward so that he's so young now, so he's eighteen
now when he debuts. He will still be eighteen when
he makes his NBA debut.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
You were even talking about the betting odds on this one.
If you put down ten thousand dollars to say that
Cooper Flag.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
Was going to go number one, you would win one
hundred dollars.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
Yeah, he was an overwhelming favorite, and so we were like, well,
if you had like millions to put down, yes, you
could actually make a really safe bet.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
That's a lot of risk just in case Dallas changes
their mind last second.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
I would never do it, all right, And for the
final leg of our run, if you want to improve
your mental health and if you would like to reduce
your stress, have a good snuggle with your partner in bed.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
How many of y'all just rolled your eyes at the
idea of how would go snuggle with your partner tonight?
Speaker 3 (15:51):
On a new study You're with the wrong partner?
Speaker 2 (15:53):
You know what? That's again, different episode of our podcast.
A new study, as published this month, says that cuddling
and promotes more secure attachment between partners and lowers stress levels.
The study looked at the association between physical closeness before
sleep and stress, attachment, insecurity, and sleep disturbance.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
The researchers considered a bunch of factors in this study,
including your daytime sleepiness, income, age, relationship length, and what
they found was, even when couples are having trouble connecting
emotionally during the day, when they went to sleep in
a physically closer position, they had lower couple insecure attachment
issues and overall lower stress levels.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
Now, researchers did not find any significant connection between cuddling
and improved sleep quality. However, that kind of makes sense
to bottom line, The study concluded that snuggling in bed
may be a promising and amenable avenue for improving relational
and physiological well being.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
It's hard though, if you're not, if you're feeling disconnected,
But it's true, like it's you know, I'm not saying
you're in an all out fight, but if you just
feel a little bit dist or you haven't been feeling
connected to your partner, if you just snuggle at night,
it's a game changer.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
Physical touch works, just holding hands, something that simple, a
little gesture does. So, yes, this does make sense. I
was giving you a hard time earlier, but this this works.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
You like big spoon or little spoon.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
Spooning. I don't know, it depends on what I was
about to say. Something just gross.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
I think you're usually big spoon and I'm little spoon.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
Right, Yes, that's always the.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
Way it goes, Okay, Yes, and even if it isn't,
that's what we're going with. All right, As you go
about your day on this Thursday, we would like to
get you to consider this.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
This is our quote of the day.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
Success isn't owned, it's least and rent is due every day.
Thank you for that, mister J. J. Watt professional football play.
I've retired now, but that makes very sense, very much sense.
It's like somebody always on your heels. You can never
rest on your success of yesterday.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
I felt like this to you because this is kind
of your mantra.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
I'll be like, whoo, look what we did or we
got here or we met this you know, threshold that
we were trying to get to, and you're like, what's
the next one?
Speaker 3 (18:10):
What's the next one?
Speaker 1 (18:11):
And so you know, I like to hike, and so
I kind of make a mountain analogy. It's like, you
get to the top, but then where are you going
from here? You know, you might have to go down,
but you got to get back up on another one.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
So I like this.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
Idea of motivating folks to say, hey, you got to
keep working and success comes only through hard work. It
doesn't come through just complacency or saying oh did that
now I can chill.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
Hey you got to keep on trucking. So yes, thank you.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
JJ Watt's success isn't own, it's least and rent is
due every day. So hope that gets your day started
with a big motivational punch, right, all right, thanks for
running with us everyone. I'm Amy Robick. I might be
a little punchy because it's Friday Eve, all.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
Right, and I'm TJ Holk, So I remember you can
be closing arguments today in the trial are happening today,
so we'll be back on with you a little later.
We've been doing our updates. You've been listening to those
we know, so we appreciate that. But we will be
giving you a couple of ditty updates, so look for
some later episodes. Today we'll talk to Elso
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