Morning Run: Iran Death Toll, Trump “Forever” War, Clintons’ Video Depositions, Guthrie Family Appearance, FL 3rd Execution, Miracle on Hudson, Breast Cancer Rates and Trump’s Dinner Plans

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Speaker 1: Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio Podcast.

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Speaker 2: Hey there everyone, good morning. It is Tuesday, March third. I'm Amy Robot.

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Speaker 3: You were recording the whole time.

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Speaker 1: Well, no, I was recording because I thought we were starting work and then you took two detours and just came back.

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Speaker 4: But it's okay, baby, we have.

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Speaker 3: We have new lighting in the podcast room. And I was afraid that I had flyaways. Look I wake up like this. I come, I've got no makeup on.

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Speaker 2: My hair's pulled back, and I thought, you know what, I might have some messy hair. And now this new lighting might throw some emphasis on it. I need to make sure at least it's not distracting.

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Speaker 1: Well, folks, I am a very distracted TJ Holmes right now. But it's all right. We're going to get through this Morning Run. It's okay to start with a little check, little authenticity there, and a little levity.

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Speaker 3: Right we need that, Oh, Mike, bitter goodness, we do, yes.

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Speaker 4: Yes, we got so many updates to give you this morning.

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Speaker 1: With the run it's going to take us gonna make stops in Chappaquad, New York. We're going to make a stop in Austin, Texas. We're going to make a stop down in Florida, back up here to New York City, and we'll also make a stop in two somber Robes. Of course, we have to start with what's happening overseas. The war with Iran now entering its fourth day. The Pentagon confirmed yesterday we knew there were four American service member deaths, but it went up to six yesterday. So now six US service members confirmed killed in the fighting and another eighteen have been seriously injured.

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Speaker 2: Yes and according to the Red Crescent, this is Iran's version of the Red Cross, but they are saying nearly eight hundred people have died in Iran so far. President Trump has made his first live remarks about the conflict.

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Speaker 3: It happened at the White House yesterday.

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Speaker 2: He said they anticipated the offensive would last up to five weeks, but he did add the US has the capability to go far longer than that, and the President did not rule out putting boots on.

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Speaker 1: The ground that Meanwhile, the conflict is expanding Inrai Old and has now hit Hesibal of targets in Beirut, in Lebanon now also keeping up an offensive in Tehran, the capital. Today the US embassy meanwhile in Rihai came under attack. There are reports of limited damage there, but no reports of injuries. Also, the administration is saying, you ain't seen nothing yet.

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Speaker 4: They claim what's the word that they put it?

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Speaker 1: Big wave, it's coming, And Marco Rubio said, the hardest hits is that the way yeah are yet to come.

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Speaker 4: So stand by, all right.

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Speaker 2: And a lot of questions, as you might imagine, are now being raised about just how long this war would last. We mentioned the President and the Secretary of Defense both said in public comments yesterday four to five weeks. But then the President uttered the word forever in a social media post that is making headlines.

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Speaker 4: So what do you think of this, folks?

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Speaker 1: The President posted, quote, the United States munitions stockpiles have at the medium and upper medium grade never been higher or better. As was stated to me today, we have a virtually unlimited supply of these weapons. Wars can be fought forever and very successfully using the supplies now. For whatever reason he put forever in quotes. Maybe he got it from someone not exactly sure what he was trying to convey, and the context might have been lost a little bit and how he was saying it. But robes who hear the President said, yeah, we can keep it. We have enough weapons to keep this up forever. That braves the my brows.

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Speaker 3: I can see how it does.

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Speaker 2: Hopefully he just was meaning that for Iranians or Iranian leadership to hear, yeah, we can do this all day. That's something you'd like to say to me, I could do this all day. It kind of is a shot across the bout saying you probably should stop now.

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Speaker 1: But you got a whole country of Americans who don't want to hear that we can do this all day because they didn't want to do it in the first place.

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Speaker 3: That's very true.

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Speaker 2: And the State Department put out an updated, an urgent message to Americans who are in the Middle East region get out now late yesterday. The administration did not mince words in its alert, saying if you're in the Middle East, you need to get out of there.

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Speaker 3: You need to leave.

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Speaker 2: The exact quote was depart now via commercial means due to serious safety risks.

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Speaker 1: I continue on the run here. Now, you remember the story that was the big story before the war. Remember Thursday and Friday last week the Clinton sat for depositions. That's all everybody was talking about and waiting for the videos to be released. While they have been released, those depositions, they are out publicly, and it's a nine hour nothing sandwich.

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Speaker 4: What it is.

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Speaker 3: That's the one way to put it.

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Speaker 1: Now.

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Speaker 2: The one moment that you will probably see at nauseum today is Hillary Clinton pounding the table. And this came after she learned Congresswoman Lauren Bobert of Colorado took secretly and posted a picture of Hillary online. These former Secretary State became frustrated also that she was being asked the same questions over and over. She said, I have never been on his island, period. I have never been in his homes, his offices, his anything. I don't know how many times you have to say the same thing.

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Speaker 3: Over and over and over again.

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Speaker 4: Okay, so Bill Clinton had different answers.

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Speaker 1: He couldn't exactly say that thing, but he did explain the hot tub photo. I don't know why my MoMA immediately goes to Eddie Murphy getting in the hot tub. But this wasn't a hot tub, is the way, Bill Clinton explained. And you all know the photo we're talking about. When I say the hot tub photo, everybody knows what I'm doing.

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Speaker 3: You can tell it's been cropped a little.

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Speaker 1: Yes, so he explained, Yes, that photo that everybody seems appears to show him in a hot tub with a woman whose face was yes, Riddict blacked out. He says he doesn't know that woman, said she absolutely was over eighteen, and also that the photo was cropped in such a way that it was a larger pool with a bunch of people in it, and just that particular photo happened to be cropped in such a way that it made it look like something else was going on. He also explained how he met Jeffrey Epstein said he met him through his former Treasury secretary Larry Summers, and that he never saw or heard anything untoward or creepy from Epstein did find him a bit odd, but he said even with hindsight, he said, I still don't look back and think of something that was out.

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Speaker 3: Of place, and that's very interesting.

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Speaker 2: He also, of note, said that he never saw Trump doing anything wrong, And he wouldn't even say whether he thought the committee should subpoena Trump to testify, saying that's for you to decide.

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Speaker 1: I continue on the run here. Now let's head out to Tucson, Arizona and ropes. I think a lot of people are saying this was the first, I really do rogues. Was this not the first time that the Guthrie family has come out and made a public appearance.

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Speaker 3: I believe there's been no video.

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Speaker 2: There's been no footage of them seen other than the videos they posted from inside their home.

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Speaker 1: So, folks, this was a major Yesterday. We're seeing for the first time a public appearance by the Guthrie family. They visit a memorial that's been set up at Nowancy Guthrie's home. Did they show hosts Savannah Guthrie, her sister and brother in law late flowers at that site. I believe they interacted with some people and said thank you mini. Well wishers have been leaving flowers and notes since Guthrie disappeared just over a month ago.

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Speaker 3: Yes.

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Speaker 2: And Savannah then posted this to Instagram after they made that public outing, saying, we feel the love and prayers from our neighbors, from the Tucson community and from around the country. Please don't stop praying and hoping with us bring her home. This probably has to be the toughest time when the attention dies away, when you're not any close for definding your mom, and now you're just left with what That has got to be hard.

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Speaker 3: And then I hadn't thought about it.

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Speaker 2: They've been inside, away from the public, sequestered for a month now.

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Speaker 3: That has to also be weighing on them as well, just to be enclosed and afraid and waiting. I can't even imagine what they've.

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Speaker 4: Been through, folks.

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Speaker 1: That's the update we have on that story, because there is not an official update on the investigation, as necessarily from authorities.

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Speaker 4: Continue on the run here.

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Speaker 1: Now, let's head down to Florida schedule to carry out its third execution of the year tonight in Rhodes. I was saying, oh, of the year since January. Maybe that's not such a bad pace for Florida, but it's actually their third and three weeks. Wow, So here they go. So, barring the Supreme Court stepping in, Billy Leon curse will die by lethal injection tonight, Ropes. I guess something else could happen, but he's not exactly holding his breath for the governor to step in.

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Speaker 2: Yes, when you read about the crime that he was convicted of, it seems highly unlikely because he has been on death row for the nineteen ninety one murder of a Florida Police office student.

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Speaker 4: These details are pretty awful.

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Speaker 1: During a police stop ends up shooting, firing this gun a dozen plus times at this officer in close range.

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Speaker 2: This, Yes, this young officer who was married, trying to have a baby with his wife. His wife is planning to be there. She has wanted to see this day for many, many years. So this is almost assuredly happening tonight in Florida.

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Speaker 4: I count those years for me, twenty one.

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Speaker 2: It's thirty five years, prety five freaking years here I graduated from high school.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, thirty five years.

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Speaker 2: That's way too long for us to actually follow through on what our laws, or at least what he was convicted of. All right, we'll follow that story for you.

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Speaker 3: But next up on the run.

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Speaker 2: A third victim, this is just awful, has died from this weekend's mass shooting in Austin. The thirty year old man had been in critical condition at the hospital since the early Sunday shooting in Austin's bustling downtown party scene.

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Speaker 1: They had two others who died were confirmed to be college students. Obviously, this is an area very popular with college students. I think they were from two different universities. I want to be careful here, but the University u T. Austin is. You could almost walk it from where downtown he is here. But another thirteen people were injured when this man opened fire from his vehicle on people who were at that bar on the patio outside in Join the night.

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Speaker 2: You know, seeing the pictures of the young college students, it brings it home.

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Speaker 1: You know.

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Speaker 2: It's one of those things where we hear, we get desensitized by the numbers and the facts. Just see this young kid's face, and he looked like Annalisa's friends.

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Speaker 4: I run nineteen years he's forty even twenty, Yes.

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Speaker 3: Nineteen years old.

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Speaker 2: It just it brings my heart because I immediately think of my nineteen year old and her friends and being out and having fun and not thinking for one second that they would be the victims of a potential terrorist attack. Because the suspect is a fifty three year old naturalized citizen. He's originally from Senegal. He was shot and killed by police. But the FBI is investigating this shooting as an act of terrorism given what that man was wearing. He was wearing Property of Allah T shirt with an Iranian flag.

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Speaker 1: I continue on the run here now it's head back up to New York where we have another miracle on the Hudson.

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Speaker 3: This is kind of cool, amazing.

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Speaker 1: A small Cessana plane this time this was not a major commercial airliner, but still small Cessna plane has had two occupants had to perform an emergency landing on the icy Hudson last night.

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Speaker 3: Woo both survived. This is incredible.

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Speaker 2: They were able to get themselves out and swim to shore in the Yes, icy Hudson River up north. It's incredibly icy. They were taken to the hospital. The FAA is investigating. This happened north of New York City in Orange County. Babe, this is close to where we were staying at a house nearby on the Hudson. There was so much ice you could almost walk on the Hudson, but that's how cold it was. It is remarkable to me that anyone survived.

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Speaker 1: That can't wait to hear that the crash is one thing. The water, Yes, that was the part. I hope they're okay, but we're told they're expected to be okay. We'll turn to another plane emergency, this one on another coasts. And yes, this had to do with a commercial airliner. But this plane emergency had passengers quite littlely running from their plane on the tarmac at Lax. This was a United Airlines flight. It had taken off yesterday heading to Newark, but soon reported engine trouble. That trouble turned out to be a fire in that.

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Speaker 2: Enginey, yeah, thank goodness. They decided to return and have that emergency landing. You asked me, have you seen the video? And I said no, I just read about it.

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Speaker 3: He's like, you should watch it. I did. This is pretty remarkable.

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Speaker 2: So the plane returns to the airport and you see the emergency slides come down and by the way, you see the engine smoking.

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Speaker 3: I mean that was scary stuff.

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Speaker 2: But then the video shows all the passengers literally running for their lives.

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Speaker 3: From the plane.

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Speaker 2: Yes, they weren't just like, oh, this is just a drill or oh this is a procedure. They were running for their lives as emergency crews worked on putting out the engine fire. No injuries were reported, which is pretty remarkable. I also noticed, because you always ask yourself, what I bring my purse? Would I try to bring my carry on? I will say this, I did not see one person with the bag in their hands.

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Speaker 4: Wow.

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Speaker 3: And that actually showed.

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Speaker 2: Me just how scared they must have been, because I know that I would be like, yeah, I'm gonna need my passport.

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Speaker 3: That plane could blow up. I don't want to deal with now.

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Speaker 2: I would have tried togress. I did not see one person with their best would.

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Speaker 4: I swear we had one. Recently there was a situation and people were grabbing their back. Was it the one with the plane was upside down? And yeah, they were.

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Speaker 2: Grabbed they had I was like, that kind of was me, but I there may have been, but from the video I saw that stood out to me.

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Speaker 1: They were high tailing it like people who got the message and who were genuinely afraid. To be honest, I didn't necessarily they didn't know. But you have an engine smoking, you're already landing landed, so you're no threat of christ.

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Speaker 3: I think it could catch fire.

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Speaker 1: Though those folks were booking it so good for them, but yes, no injuries reported in that one. I do believe what's stay with us here on this Tuesday morning.

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Speaker 3: It's Tuesday. It actually sounded like you were about to say Saturday.

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Speaker 1: I wasn't gonna say that. But stay with us here on this Tuesday morning run. When we come back, you tell me you put it in context, Rode, How big a news is this on cancer survival race breast cancer Serbberry.

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Speaker 2: It's remarkably positive news for many people, but it is devastating for a segment of this world.

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Speaker 1: All right, we'll give you that update and also next story, guess who's coming to dinner?

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Speaker 4: And DC. Stay here.

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Speaker 1: We continue on this Tuesday morning run and next up here are huge disparity in cancer survival rates. New study on breast cancer shows death rates fail by more than forty percent over the past thirty years in this country.

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Speaker 2: That's good, that is it actually gave me chills. It is remarkable to see what's happened. And even in the twelve years since I was diagnosed, they had told me, if you've been diagnosed five years before, you would have had a completely different, fairly devastating treatment.

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Speaker 1: Okay, So that's one nugget here, more than forty percent drop over the past thirty years. The rate of diagnoses dropped nearly thirty percent. Now context, there not as many people are women are being diagnosed, correct, So that means that not as many women are getting cancer. Something is working, yes in the message.

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Speaker 2: Yes, because there are so many Look, doctors are begging women. If you take care of yourself, you can prevent cancer. A lot of it is weight, a lot of it is diet, exercise. All of those things contribute to developing cancer. So as we as Americans and in more highly developed countries, if we get that word, we can change our behaviors.

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Speaker 3: We can change the diagnosis rate.

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Speaker 4: How that's the positive.

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Speaker 2: Correct now during that exact same time period. This also gives me chills for all the wrong reasons. Death rates have increased in lower income areas of the world like Sub Saharan Africa, where they see death rates of more than eighty percent.

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Speaker 3: That is devastating eighty percent.

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Speaker 2: If you could diagnose with with a breast cancer, you have an eighty percent death rate. I mean that is unheard of in recent modern times. Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women nearly one in four women diagnosed with cancer end up getting diagnosed with breast cancer.

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Speaker 3: But this is I think we kind of.

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Speaker 2: Pointed out it out, but health advocate say, yes, we're talking about unequal access to screening and treatment that leads to later stage cancer diagnoses, which makes them harder to treat and more likely to be terminal.

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Speaker 4: It's that simple access. Money.

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Speaker 1: Access is not complicated stuff. We can get every study. Yes, go to any place that has less money flowing, fewer hospitals, fewer doctors, and you are going to see this. It's a shame that we can sit here and celebrate something and another part of the world is suffering.

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Speaker 4: Okay, we say.

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Speaker 1: Another part of the world, but there are plenty of communities in this country as well that are not seeing rates go down the way these rates are.

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Speaker 2: Overall, absolutely, this is about this is about privilege and access, absolutely all.

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Speaker 1: Right, last leg of our run here. Privilege and access. Huh, this annual exercise, you just kind of you have to go with it. But yes, there will be Now we talking about the White House Correspondence Dinner. There is going to be a very special guest at this year's White House Correspondents dinner the President of the United States of America. President Trump has conspicuously been absent from the DC prom every year of his presidency. Didn't go with all his first term, didn't go last year, although robes he has gone as a guest in years past and has been absolutely the butt of a lot of jokes. But he did announce yesterday social media that he is ending his boycott of this event.

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Speaker 3: Yes, this is what he had to say.

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Speaker 2: The White House Correspondence Association has asked me, very nicely, love, that.

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Speaker 4: This is how we start. He's essentience, saying they begged yes.

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Speaker 2: To be the honoree at this year's dinner, a long and storied tradition since it began in nineteen twenty four under then President Calvin Coolidge in honor of our nation's two hundred and fiftieth birthday. And the fact that these correspondents, which he put in quotes, now admit that I am truly one of the greatest presidents in the history of our country, the goat according to many. It will be my honor to accept their invitation and work to make it the greatest, hottest, and most spectacular dinner of any kind ever Because the press was extraordinarily bad to me, fake.

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Speaker 3: News all right.

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Speaker 2: From the beginning of my first term, I boycotted the event and never went as honoree. However, I look forward to being with everyone this year. Hopefully it will be something very special. Look, I know you have been to them. I have been to them over the years. The highlight is to see the president and it's lighthearted, it's fun, it's in good spirits. There's a lot of self deprecating humor, usually from the president at their own expense, and it just creates this wonderful feeling when it is adversarial for a lot of the year, or between the press and the president. But then we all come together and get why we're all here and what we're all here for.

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Speaker 4: But they can be jokingly adversarial room.

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Speaker 1: They start throwing shots at each other in a joking, mild married way.

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Speaker 4: That it's you know what.

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Speaker 1: It reassures you that, okay, they actually don't all hate each other. They can come together in the room and they'll go back tomorrow and do their thing. Look, this is I do not I'm not a fan necessarily. It is what it is.

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Speaker 4: It can be. You should go once get it out of the way.

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Speaker 1: But Robes, I'm watching it this year, I would ye oh Trump, it's a hot ticket.

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Speaker 3: Now, how do we get to go?

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Speaker 4: Oh my goodness, what we can Oh? Isn't it crazy? All the years folks begged us to go, like, oh.

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Speaker 2: No, busy that weekend. Oh how many times have we turned it down? No?

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Speaker 3: Thanks?

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Speaker 4: Look, it could be fun.

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Speaker 1: It's you know, it's a good family reunion in a lot of ways, folks you hadn't seen in a long time.

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Speaker 3: So yes, Oh my gosh.

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Speaker 2: The first time I went, I was just starstruck and like pinch myself moments. It's it's a fun event. This year will be extra special to president's right.

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Speaker 1: And the first time I went was the first time I met Donald Trump and Milania Trump. I was working in the red car but he was not the president and had not announced he was going to run. And the question I asked him, you think you'll see yourself up there on that stage like we're going to see Obama? I asked him. That was at twenty four. Yeah, asked him that question, and he danced around. I think Milania jumped in and answered for him. In that moment, It's like, Wow, these two are pretty charming people. But she jumped in and kind of saved him from it. But she ended up talking more than I expected. Wow in that moment, for whatever reason, Yeah, that is right to go look that up somewhere.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I walked away going.

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Speaker 3: Wow, sweet people, I have more questions.

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Speaker 4: I'll answer them.

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Speaker 2: Okay, all right, And on this Tuesday, we will leave you with our quote of the day. The amount of good things in your life depends on your ability to notice them.

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Speaker 4: Man, what I was just saying this the other day. Man, if you're looking for the worst in people, you'll find it. If you're looking for the best, you'll find it. And Yeah, if you go through your day waiting for something to.

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Speaker 1: Go wrong, I do that a lot and usually does go wrong, but it almost always does because I'm looking for it. I have an anticipation of something going wrong. What has going right for me this morning? A lot, absolutely a lot, if I pay attention to it, including the fact that I got up this morning, I got out of bed, you were laying next to me.

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Speaker 4: My foot doesn't hurt as bad as it was.

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Speaker 2: So.

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Speaker 1: Bean is having a great time at school because she has a cool project. All this stuff Arkansas is going to be in the NCAA.

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Speaker 2: Turn on me.

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Speaker 4: All this.

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Speaker 3: We have to remind ourselves that's positive.

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Speaker 4: That's a damn shame we have to remind ourselves. But yes, that's a good one.

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Speaker 2: And it's a good thing to do when you're getting frustrated and annoyed. It's something that maybe might bring you out of that downward spiral we all find ourselves in at least once a day. So yes, once again for all of you on this Tuesday. The amount of good things in your life depends on your ability to notice them. So we hope you can take.

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Speaker 1: Man, that's the stop of that. This is one of your this is one of your best you plucked out in a while.

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Speaker 4: The big O. It is simple and it's just it's big.

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Speaker 1: It's so simple, but it's so big and powerful and meaning and life changing and it can change your day this moment.

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Speaker 4: That's a great one.

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Speaker 3: Ah.

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Speaker 2: Thanks babe, I'm grateful for you right now and without everyone, thank you for listening to our morning run.

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Speaker 3: I'm Amy Robot and i am TJ.

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Speaker 4: Holmes. Go find something positive right now. Talk to you also,