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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio podcast. Good
morning everyone, this is your Morning Run for Thursday, April seventeenth.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
I'm Amy Robots and I'm TJ. Holmes. As always, Morning
Run now guaranteed to be Raider Rock for you at
six thirty a m. Eastern time every single day, so
we'll be there, ready and waiting for you on your
morning run. And on this Thursday Morning Run, the Fed
chair opens his mouth, makes one comment about Trump's tariffs
and the markets tumble.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Plus the state of California takes Trump's tariffs to court,
suing the administration for the fourteenth time, and two popular
Chinese fast fashion companies that many of your teens probably
know and love are raising their prices because of Trump's tariffs.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Also on this morning Run, the Trump versus Harvard few
just keeps getting uglier and perhaps perhaps more expensive, at
least for Harvard, as the administration is poised to follow
through on rescinding the schools tax exempt status. Plus, Trump
is also taking on Maine, suing the state for allowing
transgender girls and women to compete on female sports.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Teams, and the entire island of Puerto Rico lost power
yesterday and right now most people are still waking up
in the dark on one of the busiest tourist weeks
of the year. Plus Sean Diddy Combs wants to delay
his trial that's set to begin in just three weeks,
asking for two more months to prepare.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
And on the run this morning as well, and the
favorite story maybe on the run this morning. A major
first for the US Army, a female service member competes
in and completes the grueling Best Ranger competition, but don't
expect to hear about it from the Army. And Time's
lists of the one hundred most Influential People in the
World is out. Will tell you who made the cut.
(01:49):
We did not rolles. I always wondered how big would
the list have to expand for us to finally make it,
like the one billion most influential people in the world.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
I was going to go with like maybe the top
one million. Yeah, billions, billions a lot. I think you're
mad kind to top million, top million.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
We'll get into that in a little bit.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
On the right, all right, we'll begin our run though.
On Wall Street.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
The Federal Reserve Chair spoke on Trump's tariffs yesterday, and
the markets tanked. FED chair Jerome Powell said he believes
the tariffs will lead to higher inflation and will slow
down our economic growth.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
A big deal here because these were Powell's first public
comments since Trump announced a ninety day pause on his
Liberation Day tariffs, and within minutes the Dow Jones fell
nearly seven hundred points. Yes, he spoke. Minutes later, we
lost that much in the Dow. Ultimately, the S and
P was down more than two percent and the NASDAK
dropped three percent.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
And the Fed will announce its next interest rate decision
on May seventh, but Powell yesterday certainly indicated it would
likely continue to hold interest rates steady, saying it would
approach the situation with restraint. So far this morning a
little bit of good news. Stock futures are up slightly
for the day. But we will see what the day
(03:08):
will be and how it.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Will all unfold. It to the FED chairman, yes, no,
I'm kidding. He's doing what he's supposed to do. But yes,
the markets reacted. We will continue our leg. The next
leg of our run here now is going to take
us to California, and that state has sued the Trump
administration again specifically, this is the fourteenth time they've sued
the Trump administration, but this time it's different. California is
(03:32):
now the first state to sue the Trump administration over tariffs.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Governor Gavin Newsom made that announcement yesterday, claiming his state
has more to lose than any other because of their
export dependent agriculture. The state is essentially making a claim
in court that tariffs are specifically responsible or they are
the specific responsibility of Congress, and that Trump needs to
pipe down This state attorney general said, yes, this fourteenth
(03:56):
lawsuit they filed against Trump. That is since he's returned
to office, So that means they've been filing lawsuits about
one a week at this point.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
So some busy times over in California.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
It's just what we do. We sue the president, we
continue all the rud on this Thursday morning and next up.
We kind of knew this was coming, but still say
it ain't. So. Two low cost online retailers that are
favorites of American consumers have announced they will raise prices
and they say, yep, it's Trump's fault.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
She and and Timu said they will be passing along
price increases to customers starting April twenty fifth, due to
what they call recent changes in global trade rules and tariffs.
Put it another way, President Trump's tariffs are costing us more.
So everything's about to cost you, the consumer more.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Yeah, in particular here because of a loophole that's now
been closed by Trump. That loophole allowed Chinese goods, which
are now subject to one hundred and forty five percent tariffs,
to avoid tariffs if the shipped items were worth less
than eight hundred dollars.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
So that loophole now closes on May second. So the
companies say they will raise prices. Rather, they say they
will make price adjustments.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
Yes, that sounds better.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
Yes, they didn't announce just how much those adjustments would be,
hopefully not one hundred and forty five percent, but could be.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
Ap says, by the way, that the.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Million that's a misquote there. Yeah, we get four million
packages a.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
Day, four million packages to us.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
That fall under this particular provision, and most of them
are from China. So yes, you got that many packages
coming in all of a sudden, all of them are
getting hit with one hundred and forty five percent tariff.
And you explained I didn't try to explain this a
lot of people she and know already. But this is
a darling of American consumers and young women in particular.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
I know just because my daughters were of that age,
are of that age, and they found she and a
couple of years ago and yeah, you can get you know,
quick fashion fun, you know, trendy clothes for very inexpensive prices.
And it was a darling of teenageers who didn't have
a lot of money in their pockets but wanted to
look cute. So yes, that's going to affect so many,
(06:06):
so many young women in this country.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
They say the twenty fifth they're going to go up.
So are we going to see like we saw in
some of the reporting of consumer spending last month, everybody's
buying up stuff to try to avoid the tariffs. That's
probably going to be a rush. I wouldn't be surprised
if you hopped on that website today, and I might
try to.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
I might check it out. It's why not.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Stuff go the prices go up? We can do you
here on this Thursday morning. Run next up? All right, Harvard,
your move In the ongoing and suddenly escalating beef between
the Ivy League school and the White House. President Trump
just threw a haymaker CNN reporting that the IRS is
prepared to rescind the tax exempt status of Harvard University.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
This would be a rare and extraordinary move, but in
something President Trump publicly suggested should happen. After Harvard rejected
a list of administration demands to change its hiring and
admission practices, among other things, President Trump claims he wants
to cut down on anti Semitism at elite schools, after
several were the side of protests regarding the Israel gossip war.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Now, some of that, actually, to a lot of people
would sound legit. Okay, it sounds like that's what he
wants to do. But another list part of the demands,
they wanted an accounting, an audit of every faculty member
and every student to see what their diversity opinions were.
I mean, that's going a little.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Far, thought police.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Certainly, Harvard would argue, so they pushed back. So they
pushed back. They rejected the list of demands. The Trump
administration then promptly announced it was freezing two point two
billion dollars in funding to Harvard and canceling another sixty
million dollars in federal contracts with the university. So CNN
is reporting that a final decision now on rescinding tax
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exempt status is expected to be made soon.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Yes, and organizations can lose tax exempt status if they
violate rules about engaging in political activities. So the Trump
administration leaning on that the IRS Commissioner has the right
to do this, but it does oftentimes and usually involve
a review, even a negotiation that would allow the organization
to course correct before its status is rescinded, which would
(08:15):
mean this is going to end up in court.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
It will push it. But why, Like, hey, we have
a problem with you doing, let's talk about it, let's
work it out. Allow you to keep your status if
you do blank blank, blank blank and blank. And there
is a process in place for Harvard to almost automatically
be able to appeal, and this could end up in
the Supreme Court over tax exempt status over Harvard. But
this seemed to escalate like really really quickly.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
Hmmm, seems to be a theme.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
All right, we continue here, the run or the Trump administration. Yeah, Okay,
if I say Trump administration, you're probably gonna think the
next thing I'm going to say is either court or
Teariff's right, so you would be right. The Trump administration
is suing the state of Maine this time, and in
doing so put other states on notice you could be next.
The Justice Department claims Maine is discriminating against women and
(09:02):
violating Trump's directives by allowing transgender girls and women to
compete on female sports teams, which is, of course something
banned now by an executive order signed by President Trump
in February.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
The presidents had states that do not comply with his
order risk losing federal dollars, but despite ongoing discussions between
the White House and Maine, no resolution was ever reached,
which brings us to where we are now. The DOJ
says Maine is openly defying federal law and cited examples
in the state in which they claim both. They claim
boys are being allowed to compete against.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
Girls, and in making the announcement, Attorney General Pambondi called
out Minnesota and California as the top two states they're
looking to go after next, but then added many, many
other states should be on notice as.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
Well, all right, next up on the run.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
The entire island of Puerto Rico went completely dark on
Wednesday in a massive power blackout that affected all one
point four million customers.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
And get this. As of this recording, we can only
tell you this. It appears power has been restored.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
With the latest reports we see from the island to
just twelve percent of the country. And the reason why
we can't know the exact number is because typically we
will go on to a.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
Website called poweroutage dot US.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
Well, when I went on there this morning to look
and see what Puerto Rico's power outage was, it said
Luma Energy has requested that we stop publishing their public
data for Puerto Rico. Until permission is granted, data from
Luma will be unavailable.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
Would you make of that? Because you stop, We sit
next to each other and preparing the rundown every morning.
That was the one you stop. You set up. You
turned your computer to me and said, oh my god,
look at this.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
Yeah, I've never seen that before.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
They are they are preventing a very popular and much
used website to let people know what the power outages
are in the United States, and they have prevented them
from publishing information and they tell you to go to
Luma's site to see their data directly. I did you
have to be a paying customer to be able to
log on. So if you don't have power, you can't
log on, first of all, but second, no one can.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
Do it for you. You can't see what the situation is.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
This is unfortunate. People need information right now. This is
a big, big deal. Entire island goes dark. So this
blackout is affected just about everybody at everything, main, airport, hospitals, hotels.
Now get this, And I didn't think about this until
you talked about it this morning. We're in the middle
of spring break season. It's in We're in the middle
of a very busy travel season. Yes, a lot of
people go to Puerto Rico and all those folks are
(11:32):
there and stuck without power. Hundreds of thousands of residents,
of course are without power, but also without water because
of this outage.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
Yeah, businesses had to shut down, professional baseball, basketball games
all canceled. They were talking about the traffic in San Juan,
no working stop lights, and then the smell of smoke
filling the air from the generators that are being used
by a lot of these hotels.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
Okay, so officials are trying to reassure residence. Good luck
with that. They're saying they would be able to restore
power to ninety percent of clients within forty eight to
seventy two hours. That would mean no power until Friday
or Saturday. It's unknown at this point what caused this
massive power outage, but this is not necessarily new. This
is the latest and the number that we have seen
(12:14):
on the island over the past several years. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
The governor of Puerto Rico, yes, she was on vacation too,
because it's that time of year at spring break. She
had to return last night to try and handle the situation, saying,
Puerto Rico can't be the island where the power goes
out all the time. We are going to take action.
Let people have no doubts, but doubt when you read
all the reports, is exactly what most residents say they
have right now. Even Puerto Rican rapper bad Bunny wide
(12:37):
in on XT tweeting when are we.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
Going to do something? It's tough.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
This is a Catholic island predominantly, this is Holy Week.
There are so many events and services planned leading up
to Easter, and all of that now is pretty much
on pause.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
All right, We'll stay with us here, folks. On this
Thursday Morning Run. When we come back, Sean Diddy Combs
trial is expected to start in three weeks, but he
says he won't be ready. Also coming up a historic
first for the US Army, but don't expect them to
tell you about it. And Time's lists of the one
hundred most influential will tell you who got the all
(13:15):
important distinction of making the cover of some of these magazines.
Stay with us, We continue now on this Thursday Morning Run.
The next leg takes us to New York, where Sean
Diddy Combs wants more time to prepare the music mogul
(13:36):
has asked a federal judge to delay his upcoming trial
by two months, claiming he cannot in good conscience go
to trial on the scheduled date and says it's the
prosecution's fault.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
His trial on sex trafficking and rocketeering charges is supposed
to start May fifth in New York. That's just three
weeks from now, and Diddy's lawyers claim prosecutors have been
slow in turning over evidence, which then makes it difficult
for them to be ready in time for the trial.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
Yeah, prosecutors oppose a delay of any kind right now,
and are expected to lay out their arguments at adhering tomorrow.
Combs has been in federal custody at a jail in
Brooklyn since his arrest in New York last September. He
has denied all the charges against him. This did you
feel this as well? There's some kind of snuck up
on us. Like we've been talking about this story for
so long, it was so hot for so long, and
(14:24):
all the headlines, and then you look up, Oh, this
is about to happen.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
Yeah, and it's remarkable just how much information. I mean,
I can't imagine going through all of that. But New
York's going to be insane when this is going on.
We live right by the Federal courthouse, so this will
be a site to behold if it happens in three weeks,
we shall see.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
All right, We continue on this Thursday Morning run favorite
story of the day here right Rhodes historic milestone for
the US Army. For the first time ever, a woman, yes,
a female service member, has competed in the annual Best
Ranger competition.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
Twenty five year old West Point grad First Lieutenant gabriel
Gabrielle White went through the three day, thirty event marathon
that included helicopter missions, land navigation, and notoriously physical tests.
You've seen all those images of rangers. You know, we're
working their way through the mud, swimming across the river,
doing pull ups, climbing ropes, et cetera.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
She was in there doing all of that.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
And after you get through all of this, rangers only
have four hours a day to rest.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
That's it.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
I might do okay with this.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
Wait, I was like, it's kind of like what we
do for Morning one.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
No, folks, we are just kidding. We could not get
through this, and most people can, including a lot of rangers. Okay,
This competition starts with fifty to two person teams, so
that was one hundred and four people all together. One
hundred and three were men and yes, the one woman.
They started the competition and one by one the folks
(15:51):
and the team started to drop off, and by the
final day only sixteen teams were left. I have that right.
Fifty two teams start, it got down to sixteen.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
That's how tough it is.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
White and her teammate ended up making it all the
way to the end, finishing fourteenth overall. So keep in
mind all those teams were all men. She beat them
and she was one of the sixteen teams in the end,
that's really really cool. They ended up fourteenth overall. That's awesome.
So now she's the first woman to ever compete in
(16:26):
and complete it. And she's also an African American woman,
so she will ever be the first African American woman
as well to compete. And when you think in the
great the Army just celebrated.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
They would this could be a headline.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
This is a way to bring in China a positive spotlight.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
On the Army and Army Rangers and all that they do.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
But one might have to think that recent DEEI issues
perhaps swayed or had some impact on the Army's decision
to not acknowledge White's historic participation what soever. An Army
spokesperson responded with basic details of White's biography when asked,
but they didn't say whether she's going to be distinguished
(17:08):
for this accomplishment, for being the first, and certainly they
didn't highlight it when they released the results, which is
pretty interesting, and you know, people can have their different
opinions on it, but I think these are moments where
you need to celebrate when traditionally, you know, I don't
when certain side was of the population achieve things that
(17:28):
they hadn't otherwise. For whatever reason, Why wouldn't we want
to celebrate them. Why wouldn't we want to promote them.
Why wouldn't we want to encourage other people who look
like these heroes?
Speaker 2 (17:38):
This is incredible. She should be highlighted. She should be
a household name. This is an accomplishment to show everybody else,
every little girl, every woman, everybody, look at what women
can do. Look, I know the DII thing, Fine and
Danny diversity equity inclusion has been purged, wants it nowhere
anywhere in federal government. But to then, it's not about
a black just a woman has won done something that
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no woman on planet Earth has ever done in the
history of our military.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
Yeah, and she did it at the standards that were
set for men for everyone. There was no lowered standard
for her and her partner was a man. So I mean,
it's just sad that we can't.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
It shouldn't be all or nothing.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
There has to be some moments in some areas where
we recognize accomplishments by people who haven't done so otherwise,
who are representing groups of people who have felt like
they couldn't.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
Before I'm just so I am so excited for her,
and it makes you proud. You put one hundred and
four people competed and seventy dudes dropped out and couldn't
finish what she I love it finished. That's awesome and
congratulations once again the big she would get her name
right first, Lieutenant Gabrielle White, congratulations. So what you have done?
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Yes inspired us all man, woman and child.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
I jumped up and down when I saw this story right,
and it's amazing. Thank god we got it, despite the
fact that the Army didn't highlight it all right. Next
up on the Run and actually this is the final
leg of our run. Time's annual Time one hundred list
is out. It showcases the one hundred most influential people
in the world. The magazine has five worldwide covers. So
(19:10):
who made the front pages.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
Yeah, these aren't for everybody, so these are some of
the biggest names out there. But this was cool. Dimi Moore,
I love that.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
I do too.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
I love that she was on that. She has been
talked about a whole lot for a whole lot of
reasons over the past year. With her role in the
movie The Substance, The substance. This was a cool one. Snoop.
I loved that they put him on a cover. He
was everywhere with the Olympics.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
He was basically the unofficial Olympic spokesperson for the world.
The world.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
Everybody wants to be like Snoop. You know, he really
had a huge, huge impact on the games this year.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
This one makes sense. Krip Walkin Serena Williams say, krip Walka.
She of course wasn't the halftime performer at the super Bowl,
but everybody was talking about her making what a five
second cameo essentially at the super Bowl. That was cool.
Then Ed Sheeran, you know, I love this dude. He
continues to do his thing. But yeah, that was just
some of the few that did make the covers. Time
magazine explained that this year's group of one hundred includes
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six members of the Trump administration. President Trump himself, of
course on the list. This is his seventh time on
the list.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
Yes, and the group also has sixteen corporate CEOs on
the list, and that's a record. But Time Magazine explains
it this way. They say it's a sign that business
executives are filling a leadership void in this country. And
in case you're wondering, yes, Elon Musk did make the list.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
This is his sixth time. By the way, it also
includes people from thirty two countries.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
The youngest on the list, speaking of the Olympics again
the French Olympics over who dominated the Paris Games, twenty.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
Two year old Leon Marshawn. He loved watching him.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
We had the chance Leon. Yeah, every time his head
come up. Oh, that was fun to watch. Always a
fun read. One of the cool thing about the issue
is that you have well known people do the write
ups for the people who've made the list. So Hodocadby
wrote the rite up for Snoop Dogg. You had Chris
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Himsworth right for ed Sharon, Ryan Murphy for Demy Moore,
and then Diane Soyer for David Muir. That kind of
a thing, and that's just cool that it's not some
journalist that does it. It's some other influential person in
their own rights.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
Yeah, and it's someone who either is inspired by this
person or knows this person.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
So it's really cool.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
There's an intimate write up, it's not just a journalist
doing their job. I love that part of this magazine.
And there are just way too many names to even
begin to go down the list one hundred to be specific,
but you can check out the issue and the Big
Time one hundred Gala takes place in New York City
later this month, but it will be televised for all
to see on May fourth on ABC in primetime.
Speaker 3 (21:39):
It's always fun to check out.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
All right, folks, as we leave you here on this
Thursday morning run, as always, something we'd like for you
to consider it is our quote of the day.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
We mentioned we've been getting up at two am, so
we're a little tired, little groggy at the end of
the week here. It's been fun, but it's a little painful.
So I thought this was a nice inspirational quote for
all of us who might be a little tired this monk.
This is from the great Marcus Aurelius. When you arise
in the morning, think of what a privilege it is
to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love, simple
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as that.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
Plain is put you wake up in the morning, what
a privilege it is to be alive. We were really
feeling that privilege a short time ago. I believe that
was a raccoon that went by us. We've been on
our spring break here with Sabine and it's pitch black
dark as we record this, but we like to do
it outside near the water. Yes, and well it's dark
(22:35):
out here. We can't see a dangum thing. But we
saw a big animal.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
It had a bushy tail. It was to me, it
looked incredibly large. It looked larger than what I would
It looked like a raccoon on steroids. I don't know
what it was, but it was scary.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
Maybe it was cocaine raccoon.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
It was cocaine raccoon.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
Maybe, yes, So maybe we should wrap this up and
get on inside. But the quote of the day, we'd
like to leave you with, folks one more time, as
you go about your day.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
When you rise in the morning, think of what a
privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy,
to love. And with that, thank you for running with
us on this Thursday.
Speaker 3 (23:10):
I'm Amy Robots and I'm TJ.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
Holmes. You see that what is that next to the
Is that the cat?
Speaker 3 (23:17):
Oh my gosh, that's the cat. We need to get inside.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
You see what I'm talking about? Yes, I do, Okay,
all right, folks, I'm TJ. We'll see you all tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
Perhaps we hope
Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio podcast. Good
morning everyone, this is your Morning Run for Thursday, April seventeenth.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
I'm Amy Robots and I'm TJ. Holmes. As always, Morning
Run now guaranteed to be Raider Rock for you at
six thirty a m. Eastern time every single day, so
we'll be there, ready and waiting for you on your
morning run. And on this Thursday Morning Run, the Fed
chair opens his mouth, makes one comment about Trump's tariffs
and the markets tumble.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Plus the state of California takes Trump's tariffs to court,
suing the administration for the fourteenth time, and two popular
Chinese fast fashion companies that many of your teens probably
know and love are raising their prices because of Trump's tariffs.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Also on this morning Run, the Trump versus Harvard few
just keeps getting uglier and perhaps perhaps more expensive, at
least for Harvard, as the administration is poised to follow
through on rescinding the schools tax exempt status. Plus, Trump
is also taking on Maine, suing the state for allowing
transgender girls and women to compete on female sports.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Teams, and the entire island of Puerto Rico lost power
yesterday and right now most people are still waking up
in the dark on one of the busiest tourist weeks
of the year. Plus Sean Diddy Combs wants to delay
his trial that's set to begin in just three weeks,
asking for two more months to prepare.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
And on the run this morning as well, and the
favorite story maybe on the run this morning. A major
first for the US Army, a female service member competes
in and completes the grueling Best Ranger competition, but don't
expect to hear about it from the Army. And Time's
lists of the one hundred most Influential People in the
World is out. Will tell you who made the cut.
(01:49):
We did not rolles. I always wondered how big would
the list have to expand for us to finally make it,
like the one billion most influential people in the world.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
I was going to go with like maybe the top
one million. Yeah, billions, billions a lot. I think you're
mad kind to top million, top million.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
We'll get into that in a little bit.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
On the right, all right, we'll begin our run though.
On Wall Street.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
The Federal Reserve Chair spoke on Trump's tariffs yesterday, and
the markets tanked. FED chair Jerome Powell said he believes
the tariffs will lead to higher inflation and will slow
down our economic growth.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
A big deal here because these were Powell's first public
comments since Trump announced a ninety day pause on his
Liberation Day tariffs, and within minutes the Dow Jones fell
nearly seven hundred points. Yes, he spoke. Minutes later, we
lost that much in the Dow. Ultimately, the S and
P was down more than two percent and the NASDAK
dropped three percent.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
And the Fed will announce its next interest rate decision
on May seventh, but Powell yesterday certainly indicated it would
likely continue to hold interest rates steady, saying it would
approach the situation with restraint. So far this morning a
little bit of good news. Stock futures are up slightly
for the day. But we will see what the day
(03:08):
will be and how it.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Will all unfold. It to the FED chairman, yes, no,
I'm kidding. He's doing what he's supposed to do. But yes,
the markets reacted. We will continue our leg. The next
leg of our run here now is going to take
us to California, and that state has sued the Trump
administration again specifically, this is the fourteenth time they've sued
the Trump administration, but this time it's different. California is
(03:32):
now the first state to sue the Trump administration over tariffs.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Governor Gavin Newsom made that announcement yesterday, claiming his state
has more to lose than any other because of their
export dependent agriculture. The state is essentially making a claim
in court that tariffs are specifically responsible or they are
the specific responsibility of Congress, and that Trump needs to
pipe down This state attorney general said, yes, this fourteenth
(03:56):
lawsuit they filed against Trump. That is since he's returned
to office, So that means they've been filing lawsuits about
one a week at this point.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
So some busy times over in California.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
It's just what we do. We sue the president, we
continue all the rud on this Thursday morning and next up.
We kind of knew this was coming, but still say
it ain't. So. Two low cost online retailers that are
favorites of American consumers have announced they will raise prices
and they say, yep, it's Trump's fault.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
She and and Timu said they will be passing along
price increases to customers starting April twenty fifth, due to
what they call recent changes in global trade rules and tariffs.
Put it another way, President Trump's tariffs are costing us more.
So everything's about to cost you, the consumer more.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Yeah, in particular here because of a loophole that's now
been closed by Trump. That loophole allowed Chinese goods, which
are now subject to one hundred and forty five percent tariffs,
to avoid tariffs if the shipped items were worth less
than eight hundred dollars.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
So that loophole now closes on May second. So the
companies say they will raise prices. Rather, they say they
will make price adjustments.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
Yes, that sounds better.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
Yes, they didn't announce just how much those adjustments would be,
hopefully not one hundred and forty five percent, but could be.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
Ap says, by the way, that the.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Million that's a misquote there. Yeah, we get four million
packages a.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
Day, four million packages to us.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
That fall under this particular provision, and most of them
are from China. So yes, you got that many packages
coming in all of a sudden, all of them are
getting hit with one hundred and forty five percent tariff.
And you explained I didn't try to explain this a
lot of people she and know already. But this is
a darling of American consumers and young women in particular.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
I know just because my daughters were of that age,
are of that age, and they found she and a
couple of years ago and yeah, you can get you know,
quick fashion fun, you know, trendy clothes for very inexpensive prices.
And it was a darling of teenageers who didn't have
a lot of money in their pockets but wanted to
look cute. So yes, that's going to affect so many,
(06:06):
so many young women in this country.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
They say the twenty fifth they're going to go up.
So are we going to see like we saw in
some of the reporting of consumer spending last month, everybody's
buying up stuff to try to avoid the tariffs. That's
probably going to be a rush. I wouldn't be surprised
if you hopped on that website today, and I might
try to.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
I might check it out. It's why not.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Stuff go the prices go up? We can do you
here on this Thursday morning. Run next up? All right, Harvard,
your move In the ongoing and suddenly escalating beef between
the Ivy League school and the White House. President Trump
just threw a haymaker CNN reporting that the IRS is
prepared to rescind the tax exempt status of Harvard University.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
This would be a rare and extraordinary move, but in
something President Trump publicly suggested should happen. After Harvard rejected
a list of administration demands to change its hiring and
admission practices, among other things, President Trump claims he wants
to cut down on anti Semitism at elite schools, after
several were the side of protests regarding the Israel gossip war.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Now, some of that, actually, to a lot of people
would sound legit. Okay, it sounds like that's what he
wants to do. But another list part of the demands,
they wanted an accounting, an audit of every faculty member
and every student to see what their diversity opinions were.
I mean, that's going a little.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Far, thought police.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Certainly, Harvard would argue, so they pushed back. So they
pushed back. They rejected the list of demands. The Trump
administration then promptly announced it was freezing two point two
billion dollars in funding to Harvard and canceling another sixty
million dollars in federal contracts with the university. So CNN
is reporting that a final decision now on rescinding tax
(07:50):
exempt status is expected to be made soon.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Yes, and organizations can lose tax exempt status if they
violate rules about engaging in political activities. So the Trump
administration leaning on that the IRS Commissioner has the right
to do this, but it does oftentimes and usually involve
a review, even a negotiation that would allow the organization
to course correct before its status is rescinded, which would
(08:15):
mean this is going to end up in court.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
It will push it. But why, Like, hey, we have
a problem with you doing, let's talk about it, let's
work it out. Allow you to keep your status if
you do blank blank, blank blank and blank. And there
is a process in place for Harvard to almost automatically
be able to appeal, and this could end up in
the Supreme Court over tax exempt status over Harvard. But
this seemed to escalate like really really quickly.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
Hmmm, seems to be a theme.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
All right, we continue here, the run or the Trump administration. Yeah, Okay,
if I say Trump administration, you're probably gonna think the
next thing I'm going to say is either court or
Teariff's right, so you would be right. The Trump administration
is suing the state of Maine this time, and in
doing so put other states on notice you could be next.
The Justice Department claims Maine is discriminating against women and
(09:02):
violating Trump's directives by allowing transgender girls and women to
compete on female sports teams, which is, of course something
banned now by an executive order signed by President Trump
in February.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
The presidents had states that do not comply with his
order risk losing federal dollars, but despite ongoing discussions between
the White House and Maine, no resolution was ever reached,
which brings us to where we are now. The DOJ
says Maine is openly defying federal law and cited examples
in the state in which they claim both. They claim
boys are being allowed to compete against.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
Girls, and in making the announcement, Attorney General Pambondi called
out Minnesota and California as the top two states they're
looking to go after next, but then added many, many
other states should be on notice as.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
Well, all right, next up on the run.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
The entire island of Puerto Rico went completely dark on
Wednesday in a massive power blackout that affected all one
point four million customers.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
And get this. As of this recording, we can only
tell you this. It appears power has been restored.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
With the latest reports we see from the island to
just twelve percent of the country. And the reason why
we can't know the exact number is because typically we
will go on to a.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
Website called poweroutage dot US.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
Well, when I went on there this morning to look
and see what Puerto Rico's power outage was, it said
Luma Energy has requested that we stop publishing their public
data for Puerto Rico. Until permission is granted, data from
Luma will be unavailable.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
Would you make of that? Because you stop, We sit
next to each other and preparing the rundown every morning.
That was the one you stop. You set up. You
turned your computer to me and said, oh my god,
look at this.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
Yeah, I've never seen that before.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
They are they are preventing a very popular and much
used website to let people know what the power outages
are in the United States, and they have prevented them
from publishing information and they tell you to go to
Luma's site to see their data directly. I did you
have to be a paying customer to be able to
log on. So if you don't have power, you can't
log on, first of all, but second, no one can.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
Do it for you. You can't see what the situation is.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
This is unfortunate. People need information right now. This is
a big, big deal. Entire island goes dark. So this
blackout is affected just about everybody at everything, main, airport, hospitals, hotels.
Now get this, And I didn't think about this until
you talked about it this morning. We're in the middle
of spring break season. It's in We're in the middle
of a very busy travel season. Yes, a lot of
people go to Puerto Rico and all those folks are
(11:32):
there and stuck without power. Hundreds of thousands of residents,
of course are without power, but also without water because
of this outage.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
Yeah, businesses had to shut down, professional baseball, basketball games
all canceled. They were talking about the traffic in San Juan,
no working stop lights, and then the smell of smoke
filling the air from the generators that are being used
by a lot of these hotels.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
Okay, so officials are trying to reassure residence. Good luck
with that. They're saying they would be able to restore
power to ninety percent of clients within forty eight to
seventy two hours. That would mean no power until Friday
or Saturday. It's unknown at this point what caused this
massive power outage, but this is not necessarily new. This
is the latest and the number that we have seen
(12:14):
on the island over the past several years. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
The governor of Puerto Rico, yes, she was on vacation too,
because it's that time of year at spring break. She
had to return last night to try and handle the situation, saying,
Puerto Rico can't be the island where the power goes
out all the time. We are going to take action.
Let people have no doubts, but doubt when you read
all the reports, is exactly what most residents say they
have right now. Even Puerto Rican rapper bad Bunny wide
(12:37):
in on XT tweeting when are we.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
Going to do something? It's tough.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
This is a Catholic island predominantly, this is Holy Week.
There are so many events and services planned leading up
to Easter, and all of that now is pretty much
on pause.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
All right, We'll stay with us here, folks. On this
Thursday Morning Run. When we come back, Sean Diddy Combs
trial is expected to start in three weeks, but he
says he won't be ready. Also coming up a historic
first for the US Army, but don't expect them to
tell you about it. And Time's lists of the one
hundred most influential will tell you who got the all
(13:15):
important distinction of making the cover of some of these magazines.
Stay with us, We continue now on this Thursday Morning Run.
The next leg takes us to New York, where Sean
Diddy Combs wants more time to prepare the music mogul
(13:36):
has asked a federal judge to delay his upcoming trial
by two months, claiming he cannot in good conscience go
to trial on the scheduled date and says it's the
prosecution's fault.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
His trial on sex trafficking and rocketeering charges is supposed
to start May fifth in New York. That's just three
weeks from now, and Diddy's lawyers claim prosecutors have been
slow in turning over evidence, which then makes it difficult
for them to be ready in time for the trial.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
Yeah, prosecutors oppose a delay of any kind right now,
and are expected to lay out their arguments at adhering tomorrow.
Combs has been in federal custody at a jail in
Brooklyn since his arrest in New York last September. He
has denied all the charges against him. This did you
feel this as well? There's some kind of snuck up
on us. Like we've been talking about this story for
so long, it was so hot for so long, and
(14:24):
all the headlines, and then you look up, Oh, this
is about to happen.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
Yeah, and it's remarkable just how much information. I mean,
I can't imagine going through all of that. But New
York's going to be insane when this is going on.
We live right by the Federal courthouse, so this will
be a site to behold if it happens in three weeks,
we shall see.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
All right, We continue on this Thursday Morning run favorite
story of the day here right Rhodes historic milestone for
the US Army. For the first time ever, a woman, yes,
a female service member, has competed in the annual Best
Ranger competition.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
Twenty five year old West Point grad First Lieutenant gabriel
Gabrielle White went through the three day, thirty event marathon
that included helicopter missions, land navigation, and notoriously physical tests.
You've seen all those images of rangers. You know, we're
working their way through the mud, swimming across the river,
doing pull ups, climbing ropes, et cetera.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
She was in there doing all of that.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
And after you get through all of this, rangers only
have four hours a day to rest.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
That's it.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
I might do okay with this.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
Wait, I was like, it's kind of like what we
do for Morning one.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
No, folks, we are just kidding. We could not get
through this, and most people can, including a lot of rangers. Okay,
This competition starts with fifty to two person teams, so
that was one hundred and four people all together. One
hundred and three were men and yes, the one woman.
They started the competition and one by one the folks
(15:51):
and the team started to drop off, and by the
final day only sixteen teams were left. I have that right.
Fifty two teams start, it got down to sixteen.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
That's how tough it is.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
White and her teammate ended up making it all the
way to the end, finishing fourteenth overall. So keep in
mind all those teams were all men. She beat them
and she was one of the sixteen teams in the end,
that's really really cool. They ended up fourteenth overall. That's awesome.
So now she's the first woman to ever compete in
(16:26):
and complete it. And she's also an African American woman,
so she will ever be the first African American woman
as well to compete. And when you think in the
great the Army just celebrated.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
They would this could be a headline.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
This is a way to bring in China a positive spotlight.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
On the Army and Army Rangers and all that they do.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
But one might have to think that recent DEEI issues
perhaps swayed or had some impact on the Army's decision
to not acknowledge White's historic participation what soever. An Army
spokesperson responded with basic details of White's biography when asked,
but they didn't say whether she's going to be distinguished
(17:08):
for this accomplishment, for being the first, and certainly they
didn't highlight it when they released the results, which is
pretty interesting, and you know, people can have their different
opinions on it, but I think these are moments where
you need to celebrate when traditionally, you know, I don't
when certain side was of the population achieve things that
(17:28):
they hadn't otherwise. For whatever reason, Why wouldn't we want
to celebrate them. Why wouldn't we want to promote them.
Why wouldn't we want to encourage other people who look
like these heroes?
Speaker 2 (17:38):
This is incredible. She should be highlighted. She should be
a household name. This is an accomplishment to show everybody else,
every little girl, every woman, everybody, look at what women
can do. Look, I know the DII thing, Fine and
Danny diversity equity inclusion has been purged, wants it nowhere
anywhere in federal government. But to then, it's not about
a black just a woman has won done something that
(18:00):
no woman on planet Earth has ever done in the
history of our military.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
Yeah, and she did it at the standards that were
set for men for everyone. There was no lowered standard
for her and her partner was a man. So I mean,
it's just sad that we can't.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
It shouldn't be all or nothing.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
There has to be some moments in some areas where
we recognize accomplishments by people who haven't done so otherwise,
who are representing groups of people who have felt like
they couldn't.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
Before I'm just so I am so excited for her,
and it makes you proud. You put one hundred and
four people competed and seventy dudes dropped out and couldn't
finish what she I love it finished. That's awesome and
congratulations once again the big she would get her name
right first, Lieutenant Gabrielle White, congratulations. So what you have done?
(18:48):
Yes inspired us all man, woman and child.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
I jumped up and down when I saw this story right,
and it's amazing. Thank god we got it, despite the
fact that the Army didn't highlight it all right. Next
up on the Run and actually this is the final
leg of our run. Time's annual Time one hundred list
is out. It showcases the one hundred most influential people
in the world. The magazine has five worldwide covers. So
(19:10):
who made the front pages.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
Yeah, these aren't for everybody, so these are some of
the biggest names out there. But this was cool. Dimi Moore,
I love that.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
I do too.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
I love that she was on that. She has been
talked about a whole lot for a whole lot of
reasons over the past year. With her role in the
movie The Substance, The substance. This was a cool one. Snoop.
I loved that they put him on a cover. He
was everywhere with the Olympics.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
He was basically the unofficial Olympic spokesperson for the world.
The world.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
Everybody wants to be like Snoop. You know, he really
had a huge, huge impact on the games this year.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
This one makes sense. Krip Walkin Serena Williams say, krip Walka.
She of course wasn't the halftime performer at the super Bowl,
but everybody was talking about her making what a five
second cameo essentially at the super Bowl. That was cool.
Then Ed Sheeran, you know, I love this dude. He
continues to do his thing. But yeah, that was just
some of the few that did make the covers. Time
magazine explained that this year's group of one hundred includes
(20:06):
six members of the Trump administration. President Trump himself, of
course on the list. This is his seventh time on
the list.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
Yes, and the group also has sixteen corporate CEOs on
the list, and that's a record. But Time Magazine explains
it this way. They say it's a sign that business
executives are filling a leadership void in this country. And
in case you're wondering, yes, Elon Musk did make the list.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
This is his sixth time. By the way, it also
includes people from thirty two countries.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
The youngest on the list, speaking of the Olympics again
the French Olympics over who dominated the Paris Games, twenty.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
Two year old Leon Marshawn. He loved watching him.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
We had the chance Leon. Yeah, every time his head
come up. Oh, that was fun to watch. Always a
fun read. One of the cool thing about the issue
is that you have well known people do the write
ups for the people who've made the list. So Hodocadby
wrote the rite up for Snoop Dogg. You had Chris
(21:03):
Himsworth right for ed Sharon, Ryan Murphy for Demy Moore,
and then Diane Soyer for David Muir. That kind of
a thing, and that's just cool that it's not some
journalist that does it. It's some other influential person in
their own rights.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
Yeah, and it's someone who either is inspired by this
person or knows this person.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
So it's really cool.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
There's an intimate write up, it's not just a journalist
doing their job. I love that part of this magazine.
And there are just way too many names to even
begin to go down the list one hundred to be specific,
but you can check out the issue and the Big
Time one hundred Gala takes place in New York City
later this month, but it will be televised for all
to see on May fourth on ABC in primetime.
Speaker 3 (21:39):
It's always fun to check out.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
All right, folks, as we leave you here on this
Thursday morning run, as always, something we'd like for you
to consider it is our quote of the day.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
We mentioned we've been getting up at two am, so
we're a little tired, little groggy at the end of
the week here. It's been fun, but it's a little painful.
So I thought this was a nice inspirational quote for
all of us who might be a little tired this monk.
This is from the great Marcus Aurelius. When you arise
in the morning, think of what a privilege it is
to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love, simple
(22:13):
as that.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
Plain is put you wake up in the morning, what
a privilege it is to be alive. We were really
feeling that privilege a short time ago. I believe that
was a raccoon that went by us. We've been on
our spring break here with Sabine and it's pitch black
dark as we record this, but we like to do
it outside near the water. Yes, and well it's dark
(22:35):
out here. We can't see a dangum thing. But we
saw a big animal.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
It had a bushy tail. It was to me, it
looked incredibly large. It looked larger than what I would
It looked like a raccoon on steroids. I don't know
what it was, but it was scary.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
Maybe it was cocaine raccoon.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
It was cocaine raccoon.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
Maybe, yes, So maybe we should wrap this up and
get on inside. But the quote of the day, we'd
like to leave you with, folks one more time, as
you go about your day.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
When you rise in the morning, think of what a
privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy,
to love. And with that, thank you for running with
us on this Thursday.
Speaker 3 (23:10):
I'm Amy Robots and I'm TJ.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
Holmes. You see that what is that next to the
Is that the cat?
Speaker 3 (23:17):
Oh my gosh, that's the cat. We need to get inside.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
You see what I'm talking about? Yes, I do, Okay,
all right, folks, I'm TJ. We'll see you all tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
Perhaps we hope
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