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- 0:00Speaker 1: What do you think opening up China would be a
- 0:02Speaker 1: big win? Right? The problem is, no matter how big
- 0:05Speaker 1: the win is, the press will not give me credit
- 0:07Speaker 1: for it. If I got the greatest win in history,
- 0:09Speaker 1: they'll pay us trellis at trillions of dollars. They'll give
- 0:13Speaker 1: us anything we want. The press was saying Trump, he
- 0:16Speaker 1: just had a terrible defeat. He suffered a terrible defeat. Time.
- 0:20Speaker 2: If people know you're listening to the forty seven Morning
- 0:23Speaker 2: Update with Ben Ferguson.
- 0:25Speaker 3: Good Monday morning. Ben Ferguson with you.
- 0:27Speaker 4: It's so nice to have you on the forty seven
- 0:29Speaker 4: Morning Update. And here are the three big stories we're
- 0:31Speaker 4: talking about today. First up, we're coming for you. That
- 0:34Speaker 4: is the message from the Trump administration as major roundups
- 0:38Speaker 4: of illegal immigrants happened over the weekend.
- 0:41Speaker 3: We'll give the.
- 0:42Speaker 4: Details about where all this took place and how they're
- 0:44Speaker 4: saying this is just the beginning. Up next, it's not
- 0:48Speaker 4: just about tariffs when it comes to fighting with China.
- 0:51Speaker 4: This after the Chinese Foreign Ministry said the feednal problem
- 0:55Speaker 4: is a US problem, not a China problem, even though
- 0:59Speaker 4: the chemicals for veetnohl are coming from China. We'll have
- 1:02Speaker 4: the latest on President Trump's response to the shocking move
- 1:06Speaker 4: and admission by the Chinese Communist Party that yeah, they
- 1:09Speaker 4: are sending the drugs that are killing countless Americans.
- 1:13Speaker 3: And finally, the media goes all in on.
- 1:16Speaker 4: Two big conspiracies against Donald Trump. One that he wore
- 1:20Speaker 4: a blue suit to the Vatican, breaking protocol even though
- 1:24Speaker 4: Joe Biden wore the same color suit. And they're also
- 1:27Speaker 4: saying that there could be some mystery illness for the
- 1:30Speaker 4: President since he's lost weight and gotten in better shape.
- 1:34Speaker 4: It's the forty seven Morning Update and it starts right now.
- 1:38Speaker 2: Story number one.
- 1:39Speaker 3: As we near the.
- 1:40Speaker 4: One hundred daymark and the Trump administration, there's one thing
- 1:44Speaker 4: that's very clear. The American people want deportations of illegal immigrants.
- 1:50Speaker 4: CBS News poll is out saying this, do you approve
- 1:54Speaker 4: or disapprove of the Trump Administration's program to find and
- 1:58Speaker 4: deport immigrants who were in the US illegally? Fifty six
- 2:03Speaker 4: percent of Americans say yes and forty four percent disapprove,
- 2:08Speaker 4: meaning there is a twelve point advantage for Donald Trump
- 2:13Speaker 4: to do exactly what he's doing and what his promise
- 2:16Speaker 4: was to get rid of illegal immigrants. That have flooded
- 2:19Speaker 4: this country, which brings me to three different headlines. Eight
- 2:23Speaker 4: hundred illegal aliens were rounded up in a four day
- 2:27Speaker 4: Florida ICE raid. US Immigration and custom Enforcement officers and
- 2:32Speaker 4: agents teamed up with Florida State police to round up
- 2:36Speaker 4: nearly eight hundred legal aliens during what they described as
- 2:39Speaker 4: a major operation. The roundup came as part of a
- 2:43Speaker 4: multi agency immigration enforcement crackdown, and they're saying that this
- 2:47Speaker 4: is just the beginning. Secretary of Homeland Security Christy Nome
- 2:52Speaker 4: put it this way, saying, quote, this is a warning
- 2:55Speaker 4: to all criminal illegal aliens. We're coming for you. Our
- 3:00Speaker 4: state partners will hunt you down, arrest you, and deport you.
- 3:05Speaker 4: Florida Highway Patrol troopers teamed up with the federal Task
- 3:08Speaker 4: Force as part of the Operation Title Wave. Nearly eight
- 3:11Speaker 4: hundred arrests took place during the four days of the
- 3:14Speaker 4: targeted enforcement operation. ICE officials called it a first of
- 3:19Speaker 4: its time partnership between state and federal authorities. Florida Governor
- 3:24Speaker 4: rond De Santis, commenting on social media, saying Florida is
- 3:28Speaker 4: leading the nation an active cooperation with the Trump administration
- 3:32Speaker 4: for immigration enforcement and deportation operations, Bill Malusion at Fox
- 3:38Speaker 4: News reported the arrest included Colombian murderers, plural MS thirteen
- 3:43Speaker 4: and eighteenth Street gang members, and a Russian spy wanted
- 3:47Speaker 4: by Interpol. This is just part of Donald Trump payingoff
- 3:52Speaker 4: and what he promised would be big action by his administration.
- 3:55Speaker 3: And that's not all. FEDS also busted.
- 3:58Speaker 4: One hundred and fourteen illegal aliens during a raid at
- 4:02Speaker 4: a Colorado underground.
- 4:04Speaker 3: Nightclub, all caught on tape.
- 4:06Speaker 4: More than one hundred illegal aliens busted during the raid
- 4:09Speaker 4: in Colorado Springs on Sunday morning. The operation, led by
- 4:13Speaker 4: the Drug Enforcement Administration DEA and the Rocky Mountain Division,
- 4:18Speaker 4: resulted in the arrest of one hundred and fourteen illegal aliens.
- 4:22Speaker 4: The outlet noted that authorities said members of the violent
- 4:25Speaker 4: gangs trend Aragua and MS thirteen frequented the venue. Video
- 4:31Speaker 4: footage from the DEA shared showing the raid and officers
- 4:36Speaker 4: swarming the building. One of them smashed a hole in
- 4:39Speaker 4: what appears to be a window where flashing blue lights
- 4:42Speaker 4: are seen inside. Moments later, a door opens and people
- 4:45Speaker 4: are seen pouring out. Many of them held their hands
- 4:49Speaker 4: up in surrender as officers confronted them and sirens began blaring.
- 4:53Speaker 4: Several women are also seen among the group. Dea Rocky
- 4:57Speaker 4: Mountain led the multi agency enforced an operation along with
- 5:01Speaker 4: local and federal partners. The Department of Homeland Security has
- 5:04Speaker 4: taken more than one hundred legal aliens into custody. Drugs
- 5:08Speaker 4: and weapons were also seized at the Underground nightclub in
- 5:12Speaker 4: Colorado Springs. So what is the point of all this?
- 5:16Speaker 4: The President is showing Americans that this is just the beginning,
- 5:20Speaker 4: and many state and local authorities are now more than
- 5:22Speaker 4: happy to be working with the Trump administration to get
- 5:25Speaker 4: rid of violent gang members and those that are killing
- 5:29Speaker 4: Americans with fetnol as well that they're putting onto our streets.
- 5:33Speaker 4: Yet again, another example of just one hundred days in
- 5:36Speaker 4: and Donald Trump, in many ways, is just getting started.
- 5:39Speaker 4: Next story number two, The tariff war with China is continuing,
- 5:44Speaker 4: and it's not just about tariffs on goods, it's also
- 5:48Speaker 4: about what China is doing to kill Americans. The Chinese
- 5:52Speaker 4: Foreign Minister spokesman is now insisting that the fetnyl crisis
- 5:57Speaker 4: is in fact the US problem, not even though the
- 6:01Speaker 4: drugs and chemicals are coming directly from China. In an
- 6:05Speaker 4: actual statement at a press briefing. This is what the
- 6:09Speaker 4: Chinese communists had to say, quote the US, and the
- 6:12Speaker 4: US alone has the responsibility to solve it, even though
- 6:16Speaker 4: they are the drug supplier, despite the goodwill China has shown.
- 6:21Speaker 4: They went on to say, the US slap tariffs on
- 6:24Speaker 4: Chinese imports and blame it on fetnyl. This is bullying,
- 6:28Speaker 4: China said, through and through and highly damaging to dialogue
- 6:33Speaker 4: and cooperation on counter narcotics. This is exactly why the
- 6:37Speaker 4: President United States of America is sticking it to China
- 6:40Speaker 4: and not backing down. China also wasn't done with their propaganda,
- 6:45Speaker 4: they said, quote the US should know that vilifying others
- 6:48Speaker 4: will not hide its failed responsibility to punish those who
- 6:52Speaker 4: try to help, will not solve any problem, and intimidation
- 6:56Speaker 4: or threats are certainly not the right way to engage
- 6:59Speaker 4: with China now. The trade representative was also responding to
- 7:03Speaker 4: reports about slow progress in the talks between US and
- 7:07Speaker 4: Chinese officials about curtailing China's supply of the chemicals needed
- 7:12Speaker 4: for the deadly fetanyl drug. US officials have made it
- 7:16Speaker 4: clear that the Chinese are failing to negotiate in good faith.
- 7:20Speaker 1: Now.
- 7:21Speaker 4: These officials also said that China is quote exchanging intelligence
- 7:25Speaker 4: about traffickers, but its proposals to resolve the fetinl crisis
- 7:29Speaker 4: have been quote inadequate. Also, while China might be willing
- 7:32Speaker 4: to share intel about the traffickers, it rarely, unfortunately takes
- 7:37Speaker 4: serious action against the illicit chemical manufacturers in China that
- 7:42Speaker 4: they clearly know about. This is partly because fetanyl chemicals
- 7:46Speaker 4: also have quote legitimate uses, and the Chinese government is
- 7:50Speaker 4: reluctant to compromise the profits of their huge chemical companies,
- 7:55Speaker 4: even if it means it's killing Americans. Start putting big
- 7:59Speaker 4: important people behind bars as a signal to the whole
- 8:02Speaker 4: industry or black market, we just haven't seen. That is
- 8:05Speaker 4: what won US officials said on the record. Now, the
- 8:08Speaker 4: Trump administration has made it clear they want China to
- 8:12Speaker 4: stop killing Americans. They want China to aggressively prosecute those
- 8:16Speaker 4: who produce and sell fetinyl chemicals, while China is merely
- 8:21Speaker 4: offering to regulate the chemicals a little more tightly. That's
- 8:25Speaker 4: at least what they're trying to sell the public. But
- 8:27Speaker 4: the reality is talk is cheap, and China has never
- 8:31Speaker 4: done anything meaningful to shut down the chemical pipeline is
- 8:35Speaker 4: what American officials have said in the Trump administration now.
- 8:38Speaker 4: Donald Trump's first round of twenty percent tariffs on China
- 8:42Speaker 4: in February was presented as punishment for China failing to
- 8:45Speaker 4: take the fetnl crisis seriously. China responded by saying it
- 8:49Speaker 4: would do nothing further to address the fetanyl problem until
- 8:53Speaker 4: the tariffs were lifted, basically admitting that they know that
- 8:57Speaker 4: fetnel is flowing into America at a record American officials
- 9:02Speaker 4: have also noted that China is a member of the
- 9:04Speaker 4: UN Commission on Narcotics and Drugs, which unanimously agreed to
- 9:08Speaker 4: place tighter controls on fetnel chemicals at a March twenty
- 9:12Speaker 4: twenty four meeting in Vienna. Well, guess what China has
- 9:15Speaker 4: done nothing since then at all to stop the flow
- 9:19Speaker 4: of drugs into America. Now pressed on the issue, Chinese
- 9:22Speaker 4: officials have lately been repeating the Chinese communist talking points
- 9:27Speaker 4: that fetanyl is entirely an American problem, even though no
- 9:31Speaker 4: one disputes that most of the chemicals come from China
- 9:35Speaker 4: for fetanyl in the entire world. Now, the biggest change
- 9:38Speaker 4: in fetnyl production since the Trump administration's term has been
- 9:41Speaker 4: that China no longer ships the chemicals directly to American
- 9:45Speaker 4: drug dealers. Instead, it ships the chemicals to Mexican cartels.
- 9:50Speaker 4: So it's fair to say that China is now in
- 9:52Speaker 4: business with the cartels in Mexico, and then those cartels
- 9:56Speaker 4: are manufacturing the fetanyl and then smuggling it across US border.
- 10:01Speaker 4: Fetnal users and traffickers in the US say there has
- 10:03Speaker 4: been very little reduction in the supply of the drug
- 10:07Speaker 4: since China promised to crack down on chemical producers. Obviously
- 10:10Speaker 4: they were lying. So if you want to know why
- 10:13Speaker 4: Donald Trump is standing firm, it is clear that he's
- 10:16Speaker 4: standing firm to protect our kids and grandkids, so many
- 10:19Speaker 4: that are dying from accidental overdose from fetnyl lace pills.
- 10:24Speaker 4: At the end of the day, the president isn't just
- 10:27Speaker 4: fighting for better deals on tariffs. He's also fighting to
- 10:30Speaker 4: protect American lives.
- 10:32Speaker 2: And finally, story number three.
- 10:34Speaker 4: If you were watching the media, they told you two
- 10:37Speaker 4: massive lies about Donald Trump in the last forty eight hours.
- 10:41Speaker 4: One of them involved the Vatican asking Pope Francis funeral
- 10:45Speaker 4: attendees to wear all black, and the hit on the
- 10:48Speaker 4: President was he wore a blue suit. They then posted
- 10:52Speaker 4: a picture showing Donald Trump in the blue suit only
- 10:55Speaker 4: with people around him wearing black, implying that he was
- 10:58Speaker 4: the only one to wear a blue suit. Well, if
- 11:02Speaker 4: you look at the actual picture of a larger group
- 11:05Speaker 4: of individuals at the funeral, it is very clear that
- 11:08Speaker 4: there were quite a few men wearing blue suits, including
- 11:12Speaker 4: Joe Biden. But that didn't stop CNN from telling the
- 11:16Speaker 4: big lie and plying that Donald Trump did something terrible
- 11:21Speaker 4: by wearing a blue suit. But that wasn't the only
- 11:24Speaker 4: lie they were talking about as well. There was another
- 11:27Speaker 4: one that there's some big conspiracy over Donald Trump getting
- 11:31Speaker 4: in better shape. Yes, Donald Trump has lost weight. In fact,
- 11:35Speaker 4: they released this information from the White House saying he
- 11:37Speaker 4: was in better shape than he was a year ago.
- 11:40Speaker 4: But leave it to CNN to imply that there's some deep,
- 11:44Speaker 4: dark secret to Trump's weight loss or some massive cover up,
- 11:49Speaker 4: and that's why you don't know what's really going on.
- 11:52Speaker 4: They combined the two stories into one. This is real,
- 11:56Speaker 4: and it actually played on CNN.
- 11:59Speaker 5: I was so fascinated by the whole sort of playing
- 12:03Speaker 5: out of the Pope's funeral. I guess right, as opposed
- 12:08Speaker 5: to memorial Donald Trump in a blue suit when we
- 12:12Speaker 5: know he has a black suit because he was wearing
- 12:13Speaker 5: a black suit the last time he met the pope,
- 12:15Speaker 5: so why wasn't he wearing it this time? Lots of
- 12:18Speaker 5: suspicion because he's lost a lot of weight. Who knows
- 12:21Speaker 5: how he's lost weight. We know that Robert Kenna ed Junior,
- 12:25Speaker 5: his health minister, doesn't approve of people taking a zempic
- 12:28Speaker 5: because he thinks it shows a lack of moral power.
- 12:32Speaker 5: So who knows how Trumps lost weight? But I found
- 12:34Speaker 5: the suit color very interesting And for someone like me
- 12:37Speaker 5: who is a boss, is a huge believer in getting
- 12:39Speaker 5: people together as opposed to doing things remotely. Think you
- 12:43Speaker 5: see the power of bringing world leaders together to have
- 12:46Speaker 5: impromptu meetings. Whether or not Macarol refused his handshake in
- 12:51Speaker 5: the initial meeting during the peace they actually shook hands,
- 12:54Speaker 5: which felt like a step forward.
- 12:56Speaker 4: Isn't it amazing just how much the media will lie
- 12:59Speaker 4: to try to hurt President Donald Trump, And when they
- 13:02Speaker 4: do lie, we will make sure that you hear it.
- 13:05Speaker 4: And that's exactly why we do this show and make
- 13:07Speaker 4: sure that you share it so other people know that
- 13:10Speaker 4: this is nothing more than a hit job on the
- 13:12Speaker 4: President of the United States of America, trying to act
- 13:15Speaker 4: like he did some horrible thing by wearing the same
- 13:17Speaker 4: color suit as Joe Biden, or the fact that somehow
- 13:20Speaker 4: something nefarious is going on with his health because he's
- 13:23Speaker 4: actually gotten healthier and lost weight.
- 13:26Speaker 2: Thank you for listening to the forty seven Morning Update
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