Nov. 10, 2025
Morning Run: Shutdown Possible End, Air Travel Worsening, Trump Booed, MLB Betting Scandal and Rockefeller Tree
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Speaker 1: Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio Podcast.
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Speaker 2: Good morning everyone, and welcome to Morning Run. It's Monday, November tenth. I'm Amy Robots.
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Speaker 1: And I'm TJ Holmes, and we are on edge. Every time the phone goes off, we get an alert from our airline because yes, once again we are flying this morning. It didn't go well for a lot of.
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Speaker 2: Folks as weekend ropes, it did not. Thousands and thousands of flights were canceled. Even my youngest was trying to get on a plane yesterday and was sitting on the tarmac for more than an hour, but she was lucky to take off.
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Speaker 1: What was the They were only one flight every five minut Where did they tell her?
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Speaker 2: Yes, she said only one flight every I forgot how many minutes. But they were in line, in line for more than an hour, and she was actually concerned at one point that they were not going to take off at all.
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Speaker 1: So we have an alert. You need to hear from Sean Duffy, the Transportation Secretary, that we need to get into You have to hear his words. These were as scary of the travel words as you're going through here and concerning especially going into the holidays. We will get into that. Want you to know it's always on that screen top right corner of your Apple podcast app says subscribe. Click that button you can get our updates coming to you. And we will start with air travel and related to that, Robes is shut down and uh oh, we've got some news to report you.
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Speaker 2: I mean, this is hopeful and we'll take anything we can get in that department. Because yes, we begin our run on this Monday with news that the shutdown might be over this week. Seriously, today is day forty one in case you were counting. But a deal emerged over the weekend. See what happens when they stay in Washington and actually work. Okay, So a deal emerged over the weekend to reopen the government. That may allow everybody to save some faith. So here's the plan. Pass a new bill that would reopen and fund the government through January. In exchange, Republicans will grant Democrats a vote on those healthcare subsidies at a later date.
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Speaker 1: Yah. So, actually the Democrats aren't getting what they wanted in this whole negotiation. The thing they were holding out forty one days for they actually ultimately are not getting. But I heard a Democratic senator say this. If we hold out another few days, a few weeks, or few months, we're not going to get a better result. Man.
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Speaker 2: Thank god someone opened their eyes and recognized or at least read the room.
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Speaker 1: And couldn't have said it forty days ago. But still here we go. Even if the Senate approves this thing immediately, the House still has to come back and Speaker Johnson has to wrangle everybody and see they can get it through the House. Then they get it to the President and he says he'll sign it, but it is not guaranteed. What's going to happen to it in the House. All right, we will continue here now. We just talked about the rough weekend it was for air travelers. It's expected to actually get worse this week. The government, sighting safety and a shortage of air traffic controllers, started requiring airlines, as you know, to reduce their flight schedules. That started on Friday. It's going to get worse, yeah, week. On Friday, it began with a four percent reduction of flights. It goes up to ten percent by the end of this week. And yes, thousands and thousands of delays over the weekend and delays were hitting upwards of two to four hours at several major airports. And here's what Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said. He used the word trickle this weekend. He warned many people will not make it home for Thanksgiving, saying air travel in the weeks before Turkey Day, air travel will be reduced to a trickle. And my nineteen year old who doesn't like to get up before ten am, changed her flight while she was on her flight last night, sitting on the tarmac waiting to take off to six a m. To come home on Thanksgiving, because the flight attendant told her that's your best shot at getting home for Thanksgiving, So she on the plane changed her flight to the first flight of the morning. Okay, we talked about who's gonna get blamed for the shutdown? Now, who's going to get blamed for me missing seeing my family for Thanksgiving?
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Speaker 2: Exactly?
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Speaker 1: I's going to get blamed for Ah, this was the last opportunity I had to spend with that relative. There are some horrible stories going to take place. Who are they going to blame for this?
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Speaker 2: Yeah? I mean, and think about the holidays and all of the vacation travel that people take they save up for all year to be with friends and family. This is and we have a lot of air travel coming up too, so we'll keep you all updated on how it goes for us.
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Speaker 1: Please tell me what that alert is on your phone. This is in real time. She just got an alert on her phone from our airline for a flight we have to take here in the next couple of hours. And we are panicked every time we see a notification, and this one says, just.
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Speaker 2: Keep telling us that it's on time.
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Speaker 1: All right. Then we will continue now on this morning run with President Trump. He wants the SNAP money back. In the latest legal back and forth regarding the food benefits program, the Trump administration is demanding that states that have already issued SNAP benefits for the month of November immediately, in their words, undo those benefits. They want the money back.
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Speaker 2: Ropes, how's that going to happen?
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Speaker 1: Don't know, all right?
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Speaker 2: Well, why the reversal. The administration was ordered by the lower courts to fund the SNAP program using whatever emergency money they could find, but the Supreme Court stayed those earlier rulings, meaning they were voided, meaning in the administration's mind, that money that went out should never have gone out, and they want it back.
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Speaker 1: States are saying, this is going to ruin us if you require us to give you this money back. I don't know if they're going to. You can't take it back necessarily from the recipients. And I assume it's used but a refund. So states are sol in terms of their funds.
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Speaker 2: They have to dip into their emergency contingency funds.
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Speaker 1: Oh my goodness. All right, continuing on the run here now, all this going on, President Trump takes care of his peeps, most notably one of his peeps being Rudy Giuliani. Yes, the President has issued pardons to the former New York mayor and dozens of others who were all associated with a scheme to possibly the results of the twenty twenty election.
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Speaker 2: A lot of the names are not household names. Mark Meadows, Sidney Powell might ring a bell, but a total of seventy two people were given pardons, most associated or even charged in that Georgia case of alleged voter fraud. So the pardon language that was used here, it is the proclamation ends a grave national injustice perpetrated upon the American people following the twenty twenty presidential election and continues the process of national reconciliation. He really and he hasn't let this go. He brings this up all the time. And so he is now taking the extra step of making sure anyone that was charged or associated with anything to do with that twenty twenty election, he's got him home.
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Speaker 1: The other guy already served his term, and the President still will not conceive that election. He has still no conceded that he lost to Joe Biden.
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Speaker 2: Absolutely not. All right, Next up on the run, Let's keep the President Trump train going. He attended the Washington Commander's home game yesterday, and this is I didn't realize this. Trump is the first sitting president to attend a regular season NFL game in nearly fifty years.
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Speaker 1: Was he the first to attend a Super Bowl?
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Speaker 2: He was, Yes, So he's he's apparently he loved sports, all.
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Speaker 1: Right, So, yeah, he was at this game, the Washington Commander's game, which they lost miserably. Actually, but the President was booed on a couple of occasions he was shown, including he was actually there as part of a halftime ceremony honoring the military. Now the commanders, okayed a deal and they're going to get a new stadium. We've been talking about this, reporting about this, and Trump was kind of involved in that and thought he might hold up the deal. But anyway, they get a new four billion dollar stadium.
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Speaker 2: Well ropes.
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Speaker 1: ESPN is reporting that President Trump wants the new stadium for the Washington Commanders to be named Trump Stadium.
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Speaker 2: Why is that rising to anyone? I said it like, I'll build up you did, and I was like, duh, that would have been my first guest. Yes. ESPN is reporting that back channel communications have taken place and the administration has made clear Trump's desire to have the stadium bear his name, and when asked about it, White House Press Secretary Carolyn Lovitt did not knock down the report, saying that would surely be a beautiful name, as it was President Trump who made the rebuilding of the new stadium possible and had just have to smile.
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Speaker 1: I don't know what this means or is this for real? Well, a conversation is taking place, but what would that mean? Who would have to make that decision?
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Speaker 2: Who okays that, yeah, I don't know that?
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Speaker 1: Can this? What can he hold over them to say you do this or I'll give you this, or what deal can be made for him to have his name on that.
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Speaker 2: Oh, I'm sure he has plenty of strings that he can pull.
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Speaker 1: Continuing on this Monday morning, run now UPS and FedEx are grounding their fleet of MD eleven airplane out of an abundance of caution. I MD eleven, You're not immediately sure exactly what that is. This is what we should know is that this particular type of plane it was the one involved in that fiery crash in Louisville last week that killed fourteen.
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Speaker 2: The companies had already voluntarily grounded their fleets, but the FAA has taken the step of issuing an order, saying the agency has determined the unsafe condition is likely to exist or develop in other products of the same type design. We are assessing any potential safety issues and we'll ensure appropriate corrective actions are taken. I mean, that's scary stuff to think, just the image you mentioned of seeing an engine like or just we don't know what happened, but certainly that is good news to know that they are taking that next step.
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Speaker 1: The line jumped out at me. They determined the unsafe condition is likely.
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Speaker 2: That's scary exists.
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Speaker 1: In other planes. All right, continue to here on the run, folks. This time it's baseball. We have another bribe gambling scandal, this time in Major League Baseball. Two major league pitchers are facing federal indictments accused of taking brides. Both of these players play for the Cleveland Guardians Pictures a manual class and Luis or Tees. They're both accused of taking money from betters in exchange for throwing certain types of pitcheses they described some of these. It was a lot of times on the first pitch because they could determine exactly what they wanted to do, but they would throw it into the ground, throw a ball intentionally, or throw a certain speed, and then the betters were making prop bets these things. Jump out, who's making a prop bet? I bet he throws under ninety six point two miles. And so this is how it got called.
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Speaker 2: Well, both pitchers had already been on leave from Major League Baseball after the league discovered what it calls unusual betting activities surrounding the two pitchers, and they alerted federal authorities. Or Teas was arrested in Boston on Sunday. Class was not in custody as of this recording. But the puzzling thing about this, as it was the same case with the NBA situation, is why are men who are making millions, multi million dollar deals risking their careers and their freedom for a couple thousand dollars here, a couple thousand dollars there.
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Speaker 1: And yes, to your point, they were making four to ten eleven thousand dollars on these pitches, and a lot of the money went back to they said, Dominican Republic, according to authorities, to where these guys are from, to family or whatever else. But that's where the trends. But we're talking four hundred and fifty thousand dollars over the past during this scheme, so not a huge amount of money compared to what these guys were making. All right, continuing here now next on the run a legend of the NBA, A class Act of the NBA, and that NBA family is mourning Lenny Wilkins. He has died at the age of eighty eight. Lenny Wilkins was a standout point guard in the seventies and early eighties. Much of that time he spent playing with the Seattle Supersons.
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Speaker 2: But after an All Star career. He had an all star coaching career, including winning an NBA Championship. He's a three time Hall of Famer as a player, as a coach and Dream Team assistant.
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Speaker 1: Okay, this is most people just would love to go to the Hall of Fame. He's in the Hall of Fame as a player. Then he was good enough to be one of the greatest coaches ever to go into the Hall of Fame. Then the Dream Team with Jordan and bird Magic, he was an assistant coach on that team. That whole team is in the He's a three time Hall of Fame back. Wow. So yes, he is really known as one of the class class acts of the NBA. So he is going to be missed, he said. They didn't say how he died, but surrounded by family. That's all you ever want to hear. We'll stay with us here, folks on this Monday morning, run the most terrifying story of the morning for Roeboch. They just recalled a thousand bottles of.
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Speaker 2: Proseconds one thousand, you mean a million?
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Speaker 1: You know what? See how I quickly got corrected. She wouldn't be concerned about a thousand. We have that in the closet. But a million bottles of prosecco have been recalled. Will explain what's happening there? And America's tree is in place, it's there. It's a million bottles, folks, It's not a thousand. As we continue on this Monday morning run, we wouldn't it wouldn't even be a blip on the radar if a thousand bottles of prosecco were recalled. No, no, no, no, but a million, and you got our attention. Yes, they are being recalled. Why would prosecco be recalled if something get into it? Is something mixed into the actual proseco. No, the prosecco ropes is apparently good. It's the bottle that's the problem.
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Speaker 2: Yes, they're being recalled for a potential laceration hazard. Whoah, that does not sound fun. The prosecco in question Kirkland brand prosecco sold at Costco. That is a very popular brand. The recall says the bottles can break or shatter, causing a laceration hazard. At least ten incidents have been reported, one injury. There was a similar recall a few months ago on this product. So I wonder if it's the same issue.
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Speaker 1: I think that one, and I think I might have misspoken with the way I wrote it in here. It was a similar alert. They told people to bring it back, but it wasn't officially recalled.
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Speaker 2: Yes, I remember that because I thought, well, think we don't have I love Costco, we just don't have one available to us, because if we did, I would have been checking the fridge. It would have been highly likely we would have had a bottle of that in the fridge.
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Speaker 1: But they were telling folks at that time, don't open I'm trying drink, don't even bring it back to the store. Yes, that was that moment. So now this same stuff, they've had to take the extra step because apparently it has kept happening and the dang thing can explode.
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Speaker 2: Apparently that is not how you want to enjoy your prosecco.
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Speaker 1: All right, final leg of the run here. Now America's Christmas Tree is in place. The Rockefeller Christmas Tree arrived this weekend. Roase, you were very excited about this store when we first found out where the tree was coming from. And now this is this is always a big deal in New York.
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Speaker 2: I do you know it's a sign of the Times. The season is upon us. It does. We're starting to see Christmas lights and Christmas decks all over the place. Haven't heard Christmas music yet, but that is coming. Okay, you've heard it already. This is a seventy five foot Norway spruce. They found the tree in East green Bush, New York. It's a suburb of albany An eleven Ton tree. I believe they cut it down over the weekend. It's a two day trek as they bring it all the way into Times Square. What a journey that is to bring that tree into the middle of New York City. It's the tradition started in nineteen thirty one.
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Speaker 1: I did not know this until this morning.
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Speaker 2: This is really cool. Construction workers put up a tree to lift the spirits of folks in Manhattan during the Great Depression. That is. I mean, it's a cool story that came out of a tough time. But I love that we're still doing it. Each year. It's celebrated the amount of folks. I mean, we tend to avoid Rockefeller Center this time of year. I used to work you did too, at NBC.
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Speaker 1: Right.
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Speaker 2: This was a difficult time getting into work, but it always felt festive. It's cool to see people from all over the world to see the tree, to take pictures around the tree. It's just a cool tradition. So yes, it's Christmas season.
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Speaker 1: I like it better now, just to think a couple of guys wanted to make folks feel better during a really awful time for this country, and it's turned into something that's lasted one hundred years. Okay, Now I respect and appreciate it a whole lot more.
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Speaker 2: I know, and we've talked about this. It's really cool what they do with it. After spreading cheer and joy for all to see for a couple of months, it is then literally turned into lumber to help build homes for habitat for humanity. So it's just a cool story all around. So if you're around, you should check it out. It is certainly on your It should be on your bucket list.
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Speaker 1: Where we let you go on this Monday, folks, something wants you to take with you. It is our quote of the day.
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Speaker 2: No matter how many mistakes you make or how slow you progress, you are still way ahead of everyone who isn't trying. Oh yeah, I picked that one for you, you know.
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Speaker 1: I love that. That's why I said, I get up so early. I love the idea of getting ahead of the world. Why this world is still sleeping?
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Speaker 2: And one of the things you cannot stand when anyone says I'll try.
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Speaker 1: M don't tell me that I mean do it, don't do it. Just tell me you're not gonna do it. But don't tell me you're gonna try. That means you're gonna get an effort it. Don't do it. Oh Le's yoda? You used that one dating?
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Speaker 2: Yes, I did not.
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Speaker 1: What is it?
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Speaker 2: I don't know, but it spoke your language. No matter how many mistakes you make or how slow you progress, you are still way ahead of everyone who isn't trying and without everyone. We hope you have a wonderful Monday. We are going to try to get home today and do our very best. We got off early to make sure it happens. I'm Amy Rovoch and I'm TJ.
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Speaker 1: Holmes. We will see y'all in New York soon, we hope.
Speaker 1: Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio Podcast.
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Speaker 2: Good morning everyone, and welcome to Morning Run. It's Monday, November tenth. I'm Amy Robots.
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Speaker 1: And I'm TJ Holmes, and we are on edge. Every time the phone goes off, we get an alert from our airline because yes, once again we are flying this morning. It didn't go well for a lot of.
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Speaker 2: Folks as weekend ropes, it did not. Thousands and thousands of flights were canceled. Even my youngest was trying to get on a plane yesterday and was sitting on the tarmac for more than an hour, but she was lucky to take off.
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Speaker 1: What was the They were only one flight every five minut Where did they tell her?
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Speaker 2: Yes, she said only one flight every I forgot how many minutes. But they were in line, in line for more than an hour, and she was actually concerned at one point that they were not going to take off at all.
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Speaker 1: So we have an alert. You need to hear from Sean Duffy, the Transportation Secretary, that we need to get into You have to hear his words. These were as scary of the travel words as you're going through here and concerning especially going into the holidays. We will get into that. Want you to know it's always on that screen top right corner of your Apple podcast app says subscribe. Click that button you can get our updates coming to you. And we will start with air travel and related to that, Robes is shut down and uh oh, we've got some news to report you.
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Speaker 2: I mean, this is hopeful and we'll take anything we can get in that department. Because yes, we begin our run on this Monday with news that the shutdown might be over this week. Seriously, today is day forty one in case you were counting. But a deal emerged over the weekend. See what happens when they stay in Washington and actually work. Okay, So a deal emerged over the weekend to reopen the government. That may allow everybody to save some faith. So here's the plan. Pass a new bill that would reopen and fund the government through January. In exchange, Republicans will grant Democrats a vote on those healthcare subsidies at a later date.
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Speaker 1: Yah. So, actually the Democrats aren't getting what they wanted in this whole negotiation. The thing they were holding out forty one days for they actually ultimately are not getting. But I heard a Democratic senator say this. If we hold out another few days, a few weeks, or few months, we're not going to get a better result. Man.
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Speaker 2: Thank god someone opened their eyes and recognized or at least read the room.
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Speaker 1: And couldn't have said it forty days ago. But still here we go. Even if the Senate approves this thing immediately, the House still has to come back and Speaker Johnson has to wrangle everybody and see they can get it through the House. Then they get it to the President and he says he'll sign it, but it is not guaranteed. What's going to happen to it in the House. All right, we will continue here now. We just talked about the rough weekend it was for air travelers. It's expected to actually get worse this week. The government, sighting safety and a shortage of air traffic controllers, started requiring airlines, as you know, to reduce their flight schedules. That started on Friday. It's going to get worse, yeah, week. On Friday, it began with a four percent reduction of flights. It goes up to ten percent by the end of this week. And yes, thousands and thousands of delays over the weekend and delays were hitting upwards of two to four hours at several major airports. And here's what Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said. He used the word trickle this weekend. He warned many people will not make it home for Thanksgiving, saying air travel in the weeks before Turkey Day, air travel will be reduced to a trickle. And my nineteen year old who doesn't like to get up before ten am, changed her flight while she was on her flight last night, sitting on the tarmac waiting to take off to six a m. To come home on Thanksgiving, because the flight attendant told her that's your best shot at getting home for Thanksgiving, So she on the plane changed her flight to the first flight of the morning. Okay, we talked about who's gonna get blamed for the shutdown? Now, who's going to get blamed for me missing seeing my family for Thanksgiving?
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Speaker 2: Exactly?
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Speaker 1: I's going to get blamed for Ah, this was the last opportunity I had to spend with that relative. There are some horrible stories going to take place. Who are they going to blame for this?
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Speaker 2: Yeah? I mean, and think about the holidays and all of the vacation travel that people take they save up for all year to be with friends and family. This is and we have a lot of air travel coming up too, so we'll keep you all updated on how it goes for us.
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Speaker 1: Please tell me what that alert is on your phone. This is in real time. She just got an alert on her phone from our airline for a flight we have to take here in the next couple of hours. And we are panicked every time we see a notification, and this one says, just.
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Speaker 2: Keep telling us that it's on time.
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Speaker 1: All right. Then we will continue now on this morning run with President Trump. He wants the SNAP money back. In the latest legal back and forth regarding the food benefits program, the Trump administration is demanding that states that have already issued SNAP benefits for the month of November immediately, in their words, undo those benefits. They want the money back.
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Speaker 2: Ropes, how's that going to happen?
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Speaker 1: Don't know, all right?
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Speaker 2: Well, why the reversal. The administration was ordered by the lower courts to fund the SNAP program using whatever emergency money they could find, but the Supreme Court stayed those earlier rulings, meaning they were voided, meaning in the administration's mind, that money that went out should never have gone out, and they want it back.
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Speaker 1: States are saying, this is going to ruin us if you require us to give you this money back. I don't know if they're going to. You can't take it back necessarily from the recipients. And I assume it's used but a refund. So states are sol in terms of their funds.
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Speaker 2: They have to dip into their emergency contingency funds.
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Speaker 1: Oh my goodness. All right, continuing on the run here now, all this going on, President Trump takes care of his peeps, most notably one of his peeps being Rudy Giuliani. Yes, the President has issued pardons to the former New York mayor and dozens of others who were all associated with a scheme to possibly the results of the twenty twenty election.
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Speaker 2: A lot of the names are not household names. Mark Meadows, Sidney Powell might ring a bell, but a total of seventy two people were given pardons, most associated or even charged in that Georgia case of alleged voter fraud. So the pardon language that was used here, it is the proclamation ends a grave national injustice perpetrated upon the American people following the twenty twenty presidential election and continues the process of national reconciliation. He really and he hasn't let this go. He brings this up all the time. And so he is now taking the extra step of making sure anyone that was charged or associated with anything to do with that twenty twenty election, he's got him home.
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Speaker 1: The other guy already served his term, and the President still will not conceive that election. He has still no conceded that he lost to Joe Biden.
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Speaker 2: Absolutely not. All right, Next up on the run, Let's keep the President Trump train going. He attended the Washington Commander's home game yesterday, and this is I didn't realize this. Trump is the first sitting president to attend a regular season NFL game in nearly fifty years.
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Speaker 1: Was he the first to attend a Super Bowl?
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Speaker 2: He was, Yes, So he's he's apparently he loved sports, all.
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Speaker 1: Right, So, yeah, he was at this game, the Washington Commander's game, which they lost miserably. Actually, but the President was booed on a couple of occasions he was shown, including he was actually there as part of a halftime ceremony honoring the military. Now the commanders, okayed a deal and they're going to get a new stadium. We've been talking about this, reporting about this, and Trump was kind of involved in that and thought he might hold up the deal. But anyway, they get a new four billion dollar stadium.
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Speaker 2: Well ropes.
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Speaker 1: ESPN is reporting that President Trump wants the new stadium for the Washington Commanders to be named Trump Stadium.
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Speaker 2: Why is that rising to anyone? I said it like, I'll build up you did, and I was like, duh, that would have been my first guest. Yes. ESPN is reporting that back channel communications have taken place and the administration has made clear Trump's desire to have the stadium bear his name, and when asked about it, White House Press Secretary Carolyn Lovitt did not knock down the report, saying that would surely be a beautiful name, as it was President Trump who made the rebuilding of the new stadium possible and had just have to smile.
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Speaker 1: I don't know what this means or is this for real? Well, a conversation is taking place, but what would that mean? Who would have to make that decision?
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Speaker 2: Who okays that, yeah, I don't know that?
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Speaker 1: Can this? What can he hold over them to say you do this or I'll give you this, or what deal can be made for him to have his name on that.
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Speaker 2: Oh, I'm sure he has plenty of strings that he can pull.
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Speaker 1: Continuing on this Monday morning, run now UPS and FedEx are grounding their fleet of MD eleven airplane out of an abundance of caution. I MD eleven, You're not immediately sure exactly what that is. This is what we should know is that this particular type of plane it was the one involved in that fiery crash in Louisville last week that killed fourteen.
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Speaker 2: The companies had already voluntarily grounded their fleets, but the FAA has taken the step of issuing an order, saying the agency has determined the unsafe condition is likely to exist or develop in other products of the same type design. We are assessing any potential safety issues and we'll ensure appropriate corrective actions are taken. I mean, that's scary stuff to think, just the image you mentioned of seeing an engine like or just we don't know what happened, but certainly that is good news to know that they are taking that next step.
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Speaker 1: The line jumped out at me. They determined the unsafe condition is likely.
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Speaker 2: That's scary exists.
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Speaker 1: In other planes. All right, continue to here on the run, folks. This time it's baseball. We have another bribe gambling scandal, this time in Major League Baseball. Two major league pitchers are facing federal indictments accused of taking brides. Both of these players play for the Cleveland Guardians Pictures a manual class and Luis or Tees. They're both accused of taking money from betters in exchange for throwing certain types of pitcheses they described some of these. It was a lot of times on the first pitch because they could determine exactly what they wanted to do, but they would throw it into the ground, throw a ball intentionally, or throw a certain speed, and then the betters were making prop bets these things. Jump out, who's making a prop bet? I bet he throws under ninety six point two miles. And so this is how it got called.
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Speaker 2: Well, both pitchers had already been on leave from Major League Baseball after the league discovered what it calls unusual betting activities surrounding the two pitchers, and they alerted federal authorities. Or Teas was arrested in Boston on Sunday. Class was not in custody as of this recording. But the puzzling thing about this, as it was the same case with the NBA situation, is why are men who are making millions, multi million dollar deals risking their careers and their freedom for a couple thousand dollars here, a couple thousand dollars there.
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Speaker 1: And yes, to your point, they were making four to ten eleven thousand dollars on these pitches, and a lot of the money went back to they said, Dominican Republic, according to authorities, to where these guys are from, to family or whatever else. But that's where the trends. But we're talking four hundred and fifty thousand dollars over the past during this scheme, so not a huge amount of money compared to what these guys were making. All right, continuing here now next on the run a legend of the NBA, A class Act of the NBA, and that NBA family is mourning Lenny Wilkins. He has died at the age of eighty eight. Lenny Wilkins was a standout point guard in the seventies and early eighties. Much of that time he spent playing with the Seattle Supersons.
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Speaker 2: But after an All Star career. He had an all star coaching career, including winning an NBA Championship. He's a three time Hall of Famer as a player, as a coach and Dream Team assistant.
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Speaker 1: Okay, this is most people just would love to go to the Hall of Fame. He's in the Hall of Fame as a player. Then he was good enough to be one of the greatest coaches ever to go into the Hall of Fame. Then the Dream Team with Jordan and bird Magic, he was an assistant coach on that team. That whole team is in the He's a three time Hall of Fame back. Wow. So yes, he is really known as one of the class class acts of the NBA. So he is going to be missed, he said. They didn't say how he died, but surrounded by family. That's all you ever want to hear. We'll stay with us here, folks on this Monday morning, run the most terrifying story of the morning for Roeboch. They just recalled a thousand bottles of.
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Speaker 2: Proseconds one thousand, you mean a million?
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Speaker 1: You know what? See how I quickly got corrected. She wouldn't be concerned about a thousand. We have that in the closet. But a million bottles of prosecco have been recalled. Will explain what's happening there? And America's tree is in place, it's there. It's a million bottles, folks, It's not a thousand. As we continue on this Monday morning run, we wouldn't it wouldn't even be a blip on the radar if a thousand bottles of prosecco were recalled. No, no, no, no, but a million, and you got our attention. Yes, they are being recalled. Why would prosecco be recalled if something get into it? Is something mixed into the actual proseco. No, the prosecco ropes is apparently good. It's the bottle that's the problem.
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Speaker 2: Yes, they're being recalled for a potential laceration hazard. Whoah, that does not sound fun. The prosecco in question Kirkland brand prosecco sold at Costco. That is a very popular brand. The recall says the bottles can break or shatter, causing a laceration hazard. At least ten incidents have been reported, one injury. There was a similar recall a few months ago on this product. So I wonder if it's the same issue.
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Speaker 1: I think that one, and I think I might have misspoken with the way I wrote it in here. It was a similar alert. They told people to bring it back, but it wasn't officially recalled.
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Speaker 2: Yes, I remember that because I thought, well, think we don't have I love Costco, we just don't have one available to us, because if we did, I would have been checking the fridge. It would have been highly likely we would have had a bottle of that in the fridge.
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Speaker 1: But they were telling folks at that time, don't open I'm trying drink, don't even bring it back to the store. Yes, that was that moment. So now this same stuff, they've had to take the extra step because apparently it has kept happening and the dang thing can explode.
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Speaker 2: Apparently that is not how you want to enjoy your prosecco.
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Speaker 1: All right, final leg of the run here. Now America's Christmas Tree is in place. The Rockefeller Christmas Tree arrived this weekend. Roase, you were very excited about this store when we first found out where the tree was coming from. And now this is this is always a big deal in New York.
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Speaker 2: I do you know it's a sign of the Times. The season is upon us. It does. We're starting to see Christmas lights and Christmas decks all over the place. Haven't heard Christmas music yet, but that is coming. Okay, you've heard it already. This is a seventy five foot Norway spruce. They found the tree in East green Bush, New York. It's a suburb of albany An eleven Ton tree. I believe they cut it down over the weekend. It's a two day trek as they bring it all the way into Times Square. What a journey that is to bring that tree into the middle of New York City. It's the tradition started in nineteen thirty one.
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Speaker 1: I did not know this until this morning.
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Speaker 2: This is really cool. Construction workers put up a tree to lift the spirits of folks in Manhattan during the Great Depression. That is. I mean, it's a cool story that came out of a tough time. But I love that we're still doing it. Each year. It's celebrated the amount of folks. I mean, we tend to avoid Rockefeller Center this time of year. I used to work you did too, at NBC.
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Speaker 1: Right.
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Speaker 2: This was a difficult time getting into work, but it always felt festive. It's cool to see people from all over the world to see the tree, to take pictures around the tree. It's just a cool tradition. So yes, it's Christmas season.
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Speaker 1: I like it better now, just to think a couple of guys wanted to make folks feel better during a really awful time for this country, and it's turned into something that's lasted one hundred years. Okay, Now I respect and appreciate it a whole lot more.
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Speaker 2: I know, and we've talked about this. It's really cool what they do with it. After spreading cheer and joy for all to see for a couple of months, it is then literally turned into lumber to help build homes for habitat for humanity. So it's just a cool story all around. So if you're around, you should check it out. It is certainly on your It should be on your bucket list.
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Speaker 1: Where we let you go on this Monday, folks, something wants you to take with you. It is our quote of the day.
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Speaker 2: No matter how many mistakes you make or how slow you progress, you are still way ahead of everyone who isn't trying. Oh yeah, I picked that one for you, you know.
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Speaker 1: I love that. That's why I said, I get up so early. I love the idea of getting ahead of the world. Why this world is still sleeping?
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Speaker 2: And one of the things you cannot stand when anyone says I'll try.
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Speaker 1: M don't tell me that I mean do it, don't do it. Just tell me you're not gonna do it. But don't tell me you're gonna try. That means you're gonna get an effort it. Don't do it. Oh Le's yoda? You used that one dating?
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Speaker 2: Yes, I did not.
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Speaker 1: What is it?
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Speaker 2: I don't know, but it spoke your language. No matter how many mistakes you make or how slow you progress, you are still way ahead of everyone who isn't trying and without everyone. We hope you have a wonderful Monday. We are going to try to get home today and do our very best. We got off early to make sure it happens. I'm Amy Rovoch and I'm TJ.
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Speaker 1: Holmes. We will see y'all in New York soon, we hope.