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The Battle for Kilmar Garcia, Trump's EPA Slashing Billions & Harvard's Federal Funding Freeze · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Today, I'm proud to announce that in February, the US
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  Speaker 1: Navy had his best recruiting numbers since twenty two that's
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  Speaker 1: a long time ago, and under my administration, the Navy
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  Speaker 1: the start of the War on Terror, but going back
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  Speaker 2: You're listening to the forty seven Morning Update with Ben Ferguson.
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  Speaker 3: Good Wednesday morning, Ben Ferguson with It Science to have
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  Speaker 3: you on the forty seven Morning Update, And here are
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  Speaker 3: the three big stories you need to know about. First up,
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  Speaker 3: Democrats are now putting together a team to travel to
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  Speaker 3: Al Salvador to demand the release of a man who
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  Speaker 3: broke into America who's apparently a member of the MS
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  Speaker 3: thirteen gang, which has been declared a terrorists organization that
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  Speaker 3: who the Democrats are defended. And I'll give you all
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  Speaker 3: the details in just a moment. Also, EPA Chief Lee
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  Speaker 3: Zelden is now leading the largest deregulation action in the
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  Speaker 3: history of this country. How much money's gonna save you
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  Speaker 3: billions and billions, And I'll have that story for you
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  Speaker 3: as well. And finally, the money it's being cut off
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  Speaker 3: as Harvard refuses to comply with federal law, and the
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  Speaker 3: Trump administration is saying, well, good luck, because you're not
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  Speaker 3: getting the money from the United States government. It's the
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  Speaker 3: forty seven Morning Update and it starts right.
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  Speaker 2: Now, story number one. So this is not a joke.
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  Speaker 3: Democrats right now are going all in and quote intensifying
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  Speaker 3: their efforts to secure the release of Kilmar Albrego Garcia.
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  Speaker 3: He is that man from Maryland who was deported to
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  Speaker 3: El Salvador and currently being detained in the country's high
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  Speaker 3: security terrorism confinement center. Senator Chris van Holland as leading
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  Speaker 3: the way with Democrats who thinks somehow this is going
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  Speaker 3: to be a winning issue with the American people. He
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  Speaker 3: has announced plans to travel to El Salvador for what
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  Speaker 3: is nothing but a photo op, because we just heard
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  Speaker 3: from the president of El Salvador and he's like, we're
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  Speaker 3: not releasing him, and why is he going to quote
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  Speaker 3: advocate for the man's release, stating is intent to meet
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  Speaker 3: with the Salvadorian officials and visit the detention facility to
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  Speaker 3: quote check on Garcia as well. Being now, I am
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  Speaker 3: glad to know that they know where he is because
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  Speaker 3: in another photo op, his wife said we don't know
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  Speaker 3: where he is, hours after the senator said we're going
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  Speaker 3: to see him in the prison. Take a listen to
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  Speaker 3: the propaganda from MSNBC is they have also decided to
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  Speaker 3: go all in to back the illegal immigrant over the
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  Speaker 3: American people.
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  Speaker 4: The wife of Kilmar Abrego Garcia just spoke outside of
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  Speaker 4: a courthouse in Maryland ahead of a hearing about his
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  Speaker 4: wrongful deep or his mistaken deportation to El Salvador.
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  Speaker 5: Today is thirty four days of after his disappearance, and
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  Speaker 5: I stand before you filled with spirit that refuses to
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  Speaker 5: bring down I will not stop fighting until I see
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  Speaker 5: my husband alive. Kill Mar, if you can hear me,
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  Speaker 5: stay strong. God hasn't forgotten about you. Our children are
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  Speaker 5: asking when would you come home, and I pray for
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  Speaker 5: the day I tell them the time and date that
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  Speaker 5: you'll return. As we continue through Holy Week, my heart
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  Speaker 5: aches for my husband, who should have been here leading
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  Speaker 5: our Easter prayers. Instead, I find myself leading with the
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  Speaker 5: Trump administration and the Buquet administration to stop playing political
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  Speaker 5: games with the life of kill Maar.
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  Speaker 3: Now this is clearly Properanda. You heard the wife there say,
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  Speaker 3: today is thirty four days of after his disappearance. Well,
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  Speaker 3: you know where he is. He hasn't actually been disappeared,
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  Speaker 3: because he was arrested, and you know where he has
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  Speaker 3: been sent and they're center saying they're going to check
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  Speaker 3: on him.
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  Speaker 6: Now.
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  Speaker 3: If you think that Democrats are going to give up
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  Speaker 3: on this, you are wrong. Even the Trump borders are
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  Speaker 3: talking about how all of this went down and how
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  Speaker 3: El Salvador. He's saying, look, they can give him back
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  Speaker 3: if they want to. It's pretty clear that the L
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  Speaker 3: Salvador president said we're not sending him back because why
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  Speaker 3: he's our citizen.
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  Speaker 4: Tom, how do you respond to these Democratic lawmakers, including
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  Speaker 4: Van Holland, who say they're going to now ask for
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  Speaker 4: a meeting with the president there in El Salvador. They're
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  Speaker 4: going to travel there and demand his release.
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  Speaker 6: Well, good luck with that, Carol. Evan's exactly right.
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  Speaker 7: Every time I read a story about this as Maryland father,
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  Speaker 7: Maryland father, they don't mention he's a member of of
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  Speaker 7: MS thirteen, who a doesign eight terrorists could one most
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  Speaker 7: violent gangs in the world. They don't mention he's MS
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  Speaker 7: thirteen member. They don't mention he's an Al salvadoran citizen
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  Speaker 7: being held by the country of Al Salvador.
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  Speaker 6: Al Salvador makes that decision.
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  Speaker 7: Now, the court said we gotta facilitate, will facilitate, but
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  Speaker 7: L Salvador has full authority on this again a terrorist trat. Now, Now,
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  Speaker 7: if somehow he comes back and that happens, he's going
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  Speaker 7: to be detained and removed again.
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  Speaker 6: He's an MS thirteen gang member.
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  Speaker 7: Based on our intelligence and Al Salvador's intelligence, he will
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  Speaker 7: be detained and he will be deported. But what's the
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  Speaker 7: sense of bringing someone back to simply go and face
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  Speaker 7: deportation again. He's a public safety treat he's a gang member,
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  Speaker 7: he's a designated terrorist. We should not be bringing any
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  Speaker 7: of those people back to the United States.
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  Speaker 6: That's my opinion.
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  Speaker 3: Isn't it amazing that the wife doesn't tell you that
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  Speaker 3: her husband is a member of the MS thirteen gang,
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  Speaker 3: which is also a terrorist organization. Isn't an amazing that
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  Speaker 3: MSNBC also refuses to tell you why he was actually
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  Speaker 3: deported from this country. Senator Kennedy, however, was on MSNBC
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  Speaker 3: just kidding, No, he wasn't. He was on Fox News Channel,
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  Speaker 3: where the same people are he was asked about this
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  Speaker 3: entire issue. Take a listen.
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  Speaker 8: I think the President's right. If you're in our country illegally,
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  Speaker 8: you're a criminal. Illegal immigration is illegal.
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  Speaker 4: Duh.
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  Speaker 8: And I think they're a plenty of laws which President
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  Speaker 8: Biden ignored that allow us to deport you. I mean,
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  Speaker 8: to me, it's just straightforward, and people who oppose that approach,
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  Speaker 8: it seems to me, are not being intellectually honest. They
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  Speaker 8: just ought to go ahead and admit they support open borders.
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  Speaker 3: Senator Kennedy is absolutely right, he said the same way
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  Speaker 3: I would have. The President is right, and if you're
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  Speaker 3: in this country illegally, you're a criminal. Illegal immigration is illegal.
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  Speaker 5: Duh.
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  Speaker 3: And I think there's plenty of laws which President Biden
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  Speaker 3: ignored that allowed us to deport you. That is exactly
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  Speaker 3: why we are seeing law and order now. And we're
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  Speaker 3: also seeing the Democrats choosing sides. They are not in
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  Speaker 3: favor of keeping you safe. They are not in favor
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  Speaker 3: of going after MS thirteen gang members. They're not in
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  Speaker 3: favor of deporting people that are a danger to your family.
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  Speaker 3: And that's why President Trump is doing it now. As
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  Speaker 3: for these Democrats, they're going all in to protect the
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  Speaker 3: people that aren't even citizens of this country that broke in.
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  Speaker 3: So let that sit in and decide which side of
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  Speaker 3: the aisle you're gonna sit on on this issue.
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  Speaker 2: Next story number two, Saving you money.
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  Speaker 3: It is a promise that Donald Trump said he was
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  Speaker 3: going to make good on when it came to government waste,
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  Speaker 3: fraud and abuse. We know what Doge has been doing,
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  Speaker 3: but we now have found out other ways that the
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  Speaker 3: President is helping make Americans more money. And this is
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  Speaker 3: coming from the EPA. Eight minute Traitor Lee's Zelden. He
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  Speaker 3: said in an interview that he is quote shocked by
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  Speaker 3: how much money we are able to save with quote
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  Speaker 3: the largest deregulatory action ever slashing quote trillions of dollars
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  Speaker 3: in deregulation. The Environmental Protection Agency chief Zelden spoke during
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  Speaker 3: a roundtable with Breitbart News editor in chief about what
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  Speaker 3: all is happening and the agency's efforts to slash government waste, fraud,
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  Speaker 3: and abuse. The EPA administrator, a former congressman, has now
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  Speaker 3: moved to cancel over twenty two billion in contracts as
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  Speaker 3: part of President Donald Trump's initiative to eliminate diversity, equity
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  Speaker 3: and inclusion policies known as DEI. He also has said
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  Speaker 3: that they are canceling environmental justice grants and canceling other
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  Speaker 3: government spending that is basically just straight up waste and fraud.
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  Speaker 3: Zelden inmphasis size the degree to which the administration has
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  Speaker 3: been able to make significant savings by cutting Zelden said
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  Speaker 3: the agency's annual operating budget is ten billion dollars, while
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  Speaker 3: they have been able to cut twenty two billion in
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  Speaker 3: grants alone. Yes, twenty two billion in grants now, the
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  Speaker 3: leader of the agency said, quote, one month ago, we
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  Speaker 3: announced that it amounts to the largest deregulatory action the
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  Speaker 3: history of the United States of America. One agency will
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  Speaker 3: do more deregulation in twenty twenty five than entire federal
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  Speaker 3: government wide deregulatory efforts ever of any administration. He went
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  Speaker 3: on to say, We're going to have trillions of dollars
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  Speaker 3: of deregulation just in the EPA, just in twenty twenty five.
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  Speaker 3: We're going to do all this while creating jobs, including
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  Speaker 3: in the auto sector. We're going to make it easier
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  Speaker 3: to buy a home, make it easier to be able
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  Speaker 3: to heat your home. This is the mandate. This is
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  Speaker 3: the term mandate. This is what people voted for last November,
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  Speaker 3: and we're going to follow through to get it done.
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  Speaker 3: He went on to say, so if you're asking what
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  Speaker 3: is the future of these terms like environmental justice or
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  Speaker 3: climate change, we're going back to the basics, to the
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  Speaker 3: core mission at EPA. It is protecting human health and
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  Speaker 3: the environment, and we are going to power the great
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  Speaker 3: American comeback now. Zelden announced in mid March that he
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  Speaker 3: would move to clear hundreds of backlog cases to clean air,
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  Speaker 3: saying that the Biden administration focused on partisan ideological pursuits
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  Speaker 3: rather than the agency's core mission, saying, we're going to
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  Speaker 3: go back to those basics, and the core mission at
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  Speaker 3: the EPA is protecting you the environment, and we're going
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  Speaker 3: to make sure that we do that. Pillar Wani said
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  Speaker 3: is clean air and water for all Americans to unleash
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  Speaker 3: energy dominance. He said, it's important that we make sure
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  Speaker 3: that the American people understand that the government is on
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  Speaker 3: their side. Zelden also made it clear that the total
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  Speaker 3: goal of his job and his department is to make
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  Speaker 3: it easier for Americans to succeed in business, while also
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  Speaker 3: giving us protection for the basics at the core of
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  Speaker 3: the EPA, not a partisan political green ideology or green religion.
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  Speaker 3: And this is exactly what the American people voted for
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  Speaker 3: when they said we want Donald Trump back in the
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  Speaker 3: White House. And now they're getting it.
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  Speaker 2: And finally, story number three.
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  Speaker 3: In a major move, the Trump Administration has just frozen
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  Speaker 3: two point two billion in grants to Harvard University after
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  Speaker 3: the elite university announced it would not comply with demands
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  Speaker 3: for reform to stop anti semitism and other forms of discrimination.
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  Speaker 3: Harvard University revealed that it will not comply with the
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  Speaker 3: Trump administration's quote list of demands for the university to
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  Speaker 3: make changes to its policies regarding hiring, governance, student mission,
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  Speaker 3: and anti semitism. In a letter issued on Monday, lawyers
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  Speaker 3: for the university criticize an earlier letter from the Trump
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  Speaker 3: administration as quote, disregarding Harvard's efforts to make changes to
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  Speaker 3: its campus use policies to address and combat hate and
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  Speaker 3: bias on campus and enhance campus safety and security measures,
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  Speaker 3: among other efforts. The university added that the demands from
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  Speaker 3: the administration invade university freedom long recognized by the Supreme Court. Now,
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  Speaker 3: the requests from the Trump administration were actually very simple.
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  Speaker 3: They asked for Harvard to quote, adopt and implement merit
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  Speaker 3: based hiring policies and cease all performances based on race, color, religion, sex,
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  Speaker 3: or national origin throughout its hiring, promotion, compensation, the related
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  Speaker 3: practices among faculty, staff, and leadership by August twenty twenty five. Quote,
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  Speaker 3: the university must reform its recruitment, its screening, and admissions
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  Speaker 3: of international students to prevent admitting students hostile to the
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  Speaker 3: American values and institutions inscribed in the US Constitution and
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  Speaker 3: Declaration of Independence. Including students supportive of terrorism or anti
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  Speaker 3: Semitism is one of the other things that was written
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  Speaker 3: by the administration. Nine response the Trump administration to Harvard
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  Speaker 3: saying we're not playing ball well, they now suspended some
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  Speaker 3: two point two billion of the nearly nine billion in
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  Speaker 3: federal grants that are at risk. The Harvard Crimson, the
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  Speaker 3: university student run newspaper, reported this way, saying, quote, the
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  Speaker 3: Trump administration paused two point two billion in multi year
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  Speaker 3: grants and sixty million and multi year contracts to Harvard
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  Speaker 3: over its decision earlier today to reject the White House's demand.
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  Speaker 3: A dramatic escalation in its crusade against the university. Now,
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  Speaker 3: if you want to know what the White House says
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  Speaker 3: about this, take a listen to Caroline Levitt speaking the
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  Speaker 3: media on this issue.
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  Speaker 9: When it comes to Harvard, the President's position on this
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  Speaker 9: is grounded in common sense, in the basic principle that
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  Speaker 9: Jewish American students or students of any faith should not
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  Speaker 9: be illegally harassed and targeted on our nation's college campuses.
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  Speaker 9: And we unfortunately saw that illegal discrimination take place on
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  Speaker 9: the campus of Harvard. There are countless examples to prove it,
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  Speaker 9: particularly with the stunning confession by then Harvard president Claudine
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  Speaker 9: Gay who said that bullying and harassment depended on the context.
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  Speaker 9: The President at that time made it clear to the
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  Speaker 9: American public he was not going to tolerate illegal harassment
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  Speaker 9: and anti Semitism taking place in violations of federal law.
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  Speaker 9: So the President made it clear to Harvard follow federal
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  Speaker 9: law no longer break Title six, which was passed by
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  Speaker 9: Congress to ensure no student can be discriminated against on
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  Speaker 9: the basis of race, and you will receive federal funding. Unfortunately,
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  Speaker 9: Harvard has not taken the President or the administration's demands. Seriously,
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  Speaker 9: all the President is asking, don't break federal law and
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  Speaker 9: then you can have your federal funding. I think the
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  Speaker 9: President is also begging a good question. More than two
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  Speaker 9: billion dollars out the door to Harvard, when they have
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  Speaker 9: a more than fifty billion dollar endowment. Why are the
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  Speaker 9: American taxpayers subsidizing in university that has billions of dollars
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  Speaker 9: in the bank already, and we certainly should not be
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  Speaker 9: funding a place where such grave anti Semitism exists.
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  Speaker 3: At the end of the day, it is very clear
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  Speaker 3: that Trump administration is saying, we're gonna save your money,
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  Speaker 3: and we're also going to make sure that places like
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  Speaker 3: Harvard have to follow the federal law, and if they don't,
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  Speaker 3: there's going to be consequence.
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