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Was the Autopen Running the White House and a Message in the Sand for Trump · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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  Speaker 1: The auto pen is becoming a very big deal. You know,
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  Speaker 1: the auto pen is becoming a big deal because it
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  Speaker 1: seems like that maybe was the president whoever operated the
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  Speaker 1: autopen The test was not so good either. In other words,
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  Speaker 1: here are things going.
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  Speaker 2: On that the public.
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  Speaker 3: You're listening to the forty seven Morning Update with Ben ferguson.
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  Speaker 4: Good Tuesday morning. Welcome, it is the forty seven Morning Update.
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  Speaker 4: It's so nice to have you with us. And here
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  Speaker 4: are the three big stories we're talking about today. First up,
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  Speaker 4: more fallout from the potential cover up of the president's
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  Speaker 4: medical condition, this time with cancer, and many doctors are
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  Speaker 4: saying there's no way they just found out about this.
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  Speaker 2: We'll give you those details in just a moment.
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  Speaker 4: Also, James Coomy saying he was just going on a
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  Speaker 4: walk with his wife on the beach and there really
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  Speaker 4: shouldn't be a controversy of him calling for an essence
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  Speaker 4: and assassination attempt against Donald Trump.
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  Speaker 2: Well, is that story gonna work? We'll have his words
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  Speaker 2: for you as well.
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  Speaker 4: And if Democrats thought they were gonna get Donald Trump's administry.
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  Speaker 2: Off the rails, they're wrong.
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  Speaker 4: The American people are now backing Donald Trump at the
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  Speaker 4: same level they were on the day he was inaugurated.
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  Speaker 4: This after big news from a Middle East trip, the
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  Speaker 4: trade and tariff.
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  Speaker 2: Negotiations going extremely.
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  Speaker 4: Well, and the President making it cleary securing the border.
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  Speaker 4: Will have those details on those polls in just a moment.
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  Speaker 4: It's the forty seven Morning Update, and it starts right now.
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  Speaker 3: Story number one.
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  Speaker 4: The potential cover up continues, and many more questions are
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  Speaker 4: being asked now about the cancer diagnosis of Joe Biden,
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  Speaker 4: and in response to diagnosis and the ensuing discussions, President
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  Speaker 4: Donald Trump expressed surprise that the public was not informed
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  Speaker 4: earlier about Biden's condition, suggesting that the disease likely developed
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  Speaker 4: over a long period. The present and his own words
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  Speaker 4: at the White House.
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  Speaker 1: And it takes a long time to get to that
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  Speaker 1: situation now, I think to get to a stage nine.
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  Speaker 1: I think that if you take a look, it's same
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  Speaker 1: doctor that said that Joe was cognitively fine, there was
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  Speaker 1: nothing wrong with him. Well, he said, if it's the
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  Speaker 1: same doctor he said, there was nothing wrong there. And
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  Speaker 1: that's being proven to be a sad situation. And the
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  Speaker 1: autopen is becoming a very big deal. You know, the
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  Speaker 1: autopen is becoming a big deal, because it seems like
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  Speaker 1: that maybe was the president who ever operated the autopen.
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  Speaker 1: But when they say that that was not good, they also,
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  Speaker 1: you know, you have to look and you have to
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  Speaker 1: say that the test was done so good either. In
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  Speaker 1: other words, there are things going on that the public
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  Speaker 1: wasn't informed. And I think somebody's going to have to
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  Speaker 1: speak to his doctor. If it's the same or even
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  Speaker 1: if it's two separate doctors. Why wasn't the cognitive ability?
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  Speaker 1: Why wasn't that discussed? And I think the doctor said
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  Speaker 1: he's just fine.
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  Speaker 4: And it's a fair question that everyone that's sane is asking,
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  Speaker 4: can't trust them on the cognitive decline of Joe Biden?
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  Speaker 4: And they were lying about that even before he was
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  Speaker 4: actually elected, So why the hell should we trust him now?
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  Speaker 2: But don't worry.
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  Speaker 4: Democrats are now saying they want you to forget it all.
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  Speaker 4: Hakim Jeffrey saying this about Democrats on Capitol Hill.
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  Speaker 5: My expectation that President Biden is going to meet this
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  Speaker 5: moment with the courage and resilience that he's consistently shown.
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  Speaker 6: Seems to me entirely.
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  Speaker 5: Inappropriate that at this moment in time, when President Biden
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  Speaker 5: is dealing with a serious an aggressive form of cancer.
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  Speaker 5: There are Republicans who are peddling conspiracy theories and want
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  Speaker 5: us to look backward at a time when they actually
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  Speaker 5: are taking health care away from the American people. No,
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  Speaker 5: as House Democrats were going to look forward. They literally
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  Speaker 5: are trying to take health care away from millions of
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  Speaker 5: Americans at this very moment, in the dead of night.
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  Speaker 5: And Republicans want to fan the flames of conspiracy theories
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  Speaker 5: at this moment.
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  Speaker 4: No, thank you, Democrats want to shut it all down.
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  Speaker 4: It's entirely inappropriate for us to be discussing any of this,
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  Speaker 4: and we're looking forward. Yes, I'm sure they are because
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  Speaker 4: they don't want to have to answer many of the
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  Speaker 4: tough questions that we're talking about right now. So how
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  Speaker 4: long has the president actually had this cancer? And did
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  Speaker 4: they conceal it from the American people knowing as a
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  Speaker 4: candidate that Joe Biden was in fact dealing with a
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  Speaker 4: serious form of cancer. Doctor Mark Sigeu on Fox News
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  Speaker 4: Channel was asked the question about this cancer, and here's
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  Speaker 4: what he said.
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  Speaker 7: Hiding this both terrible possibilities.
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  Speaker 8: Both terrible and on the notion that this could have
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  Speaker 8: been hidden, I'm fascinated by doctor zik Emmanuel. He's saying
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  Speaker 8: that this prostate cancer could have been there for a decade,
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  Speaker 8: definitely had it as president. He did not develop this
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  Speaker 8: in the last one hundred and two hundred days. He
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  Speaker 8: had it while he was president. Zeka Manu is the
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  Speaker 8: architect of Obamacare. Ze Commnuel's brother is Rama Manuel z
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  Speaker 8: Commanuel was on President Biden's COVID team. Z Commanuel has
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  Speaker 8: no incentive to say something that's not truthful here.
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  Speaker 7: And z Commanuel happens to be an excellent oncologist. Politics aside,
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  Speaker 7: you know, a lot of his politics I don't agree with,
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  Speaker 7: but he's an excellent, excellent oncologist. He's at Penn and
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  Speaker 7: he's saying that it's been there for a while. Even
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  Speaker 7: an aggressive prostate cancer has been there for a while.
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  Speaker 7: He clearly had this while he was president for years.
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  Speaker 7: That's what Emmanuel saying. And he also made another point
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  Speaker 7: which I agree with, which is the vast majority of
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  Speaker 7: the time when you diagnose this, you diagnose it early,
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  Speaker 7: not in some advanced stage where you're looking under a
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  Speaker 7: microscope and it says glease in nine that's the worst.
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  Speaker 7: That means that it's likely to spread, and it has spread,
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  Speaker 7: and when it goes to the bone, very painful. So
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  Speaker 7: we wish the president, the former president well, but it's
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  Speaker 7: very disturbing the way this news is coming out.
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  Speaker 2: There are two things that can be true.
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  Speaker 4: We can pray for Joe Biden a speedy recovery, and
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  Speaker 4: we can also talk about a massive cover up that
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  Speaker 4: could have happened. And there are questions that need to
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  Speaker 4: be answered. And there's still one big question lingering. If
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  Speaker 4: Joe Biden wasn't the President of the United States of America,
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  Speaker 4: then who was calling the shots in the White House?
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  Speaker 4: And that is a question that Republicans must get the
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  Speaker 4: answer to. Now, story number two, there's a man by
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  Speaker 4: the name of James Comy. He's a former FBI director
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  Speaker 4: and there's one thing that's very clear from his tenure,
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  Speaker 4: and that was that he had a bullseye on Donald
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  Speaker 4: Trump and anyone else around him. Well, now Senator Tom
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  Speaker 4: Cotton is asking the FBI Director Cash Battel to investigate
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  Speaker 4: everything James Comy did at the FBI. The Sentence Intelligence
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  Speaker 4: Committee chairman has formally asked the FBI Director Cashpattel to
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  Speaker 4: investigate James Comy after the disgrace. Ex FBI leader posted
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  Speaker 4: a cryptic message of eighty six forty seven on social media,
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  Speaker 4: which was interpret it as a violent threat against President
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  Speaker 4: Donald Trump. James Comy, who served as the FBI director
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  Speaker 4: after being appointed by Barack Obama until he was fired
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  Speaker 4: by Trump in twenty seventeen, took to Instagram on Thursday
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  Speaker 4: to share a photo of seashells arranged that read eighty
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  Speaker 4: six forty seven and yes. The number eighty six is
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  Speaker 4: a common term used in the hospitality industry, as well
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  Speaker 4: as in the military and intelligence communities, which can mean
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  Speaker 4: canceling an order or to kill, murder, or execute judicially,
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  Speaker 4: according to how it is used in the dictionary. Comy
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  Speaker 4: deleted the post after receiving accusations that he was calling
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  Speaker 4: for the assassination of the president, and issued a statement
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  Speaker 4: which read this way quote. I posted earlier a picture
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  Speaker 4: of some shells I saw today on a beach walk,
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  Speaker 4: which I assumed were a political message. I didn't realize
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  Speaker 4: some folks associated keyword. Some folks associated those numbers with violence.
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  Speaker 4: It never occurred to me, but I oppose violence of
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  Speaker 4: any kind, so I took the post down.
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  Speaker 1: Now.
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  Speaker 4: Patel announced that he had been made aware of Komy's
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  Speaker 4: suspicious posts, stating that his bureau is in communication with
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  Speaker 4: a Secret Service and the director there, Sean Kuran, the
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  Speaker 4: same man that was there protecting the President when that
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  Speaker 4: assassin tried to take him out, shooting his ear. Primary
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  Speaker 4: jurisdiction is the Secret Service on these matters, and we
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  Speaker 4: the FBI, will provide all necessary support, Patel also said.
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  Speaker 4: Homeland Security Secretary Christy Nome, also confirming that the Department
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  Speaker 4: of Homeland Security and the Secret Service are quote investigating
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  Speaker 4: this threat and will respond appropriately now. The Director of
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  Speaker 4: National Intelligence, Tolci Gabbert, also appeared on Fox News with
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  Speaker 4: Jesse Waters to say that Komy should be put behind bars,
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  Speaker 4: as she described it, for issuing a direct threat against
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  Speaker 4: the president, and on Friday, that's when Senator Tom Cotton
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  Speaker 4: sent a letter to Patel officially asking him to review
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  Speaker 4: all FBI actions in which the former director Komy was
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  Speaker 4: personally involved. Cotton's letter also went on to note that
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  Speaker 4: Komy has quote politicized investigations, been at the center of leaks,
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  Speaker 4: and obviously shown bias against the Trump administration and supporters.
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  Speaker 4: The Intel Chair also brought up Trump's own response to
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  Speaker 4: Komy's alarming Instagram posts, which he issued during a portion
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  Speaker 4: of an interview that aired on Fox News. According to
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  Speaker 4: the President, eighty six forty seven was a call for
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  Speaker 4: an assassination, saying this, he.
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  Speaker 2: Knew what that meant. A child knows what it meant.
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  Speaker 4: If your FBI director and don't know what it meant,
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  Speaker 4: that meant assassination. And it says it loud and clear.
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  Speaker 4: He wasn't very competent, but competent enough to know what
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  Speaker 4: that meant. He did it for a reason, and he
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  Speaker 4: was hit so hard because people like me and like,
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  Speaker 4: what is happening in this country? All this, he is
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  Speaker 4: calling for the assassination of the President. Trump went on
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  Speaker 4: to add this, I don't want to take a position
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  Speaker 4: on it. It will be up to Panbondy and all
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  Speaker 4: the great people. I will say, I think it's a
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  Speaker 4: terrible thing when you add his history to that. If
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  Speaker 4: you had a clean history, he doesn't. He's a dirty cop.
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  Speaker 4: If he had a clean history, I could understand if
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  Speaker 4: there were leniency, I will let them make that decision.
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  Speaker 4: Cotton quoted the President and the letter to tell writing,
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  Speaker 4: in the words of President Trump, he knew exactly what
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  Speaker 4: it meant. The Center also commended the quick launch of
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  Speaker 4: investigation by the Secret Service and thank the FBI for
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  Speaker 4: also offering support. Now, you may not know why James
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  Speaker 4: Comy may have actually posted this on social media. It
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  Speaker 4: may be as simple as he actually just wanted to
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  Speaker 4: sell a bunch of books, as one of his other
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  Speaker 4: posts was about a new book coming out.
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  Speaker 2: Well, James Comey was.
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  Speaker 4: Forced to go on MSNBC to push out more state
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  Speaker 4: sponsored propagate, and here is what he said about all
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  Speaker 4: of this.
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  Speaker 6: You were back in the middle of a political firestorm. Yeah,
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  Speaker 6: for walking on the beach with my wife. So I
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  Speaker 6: don't know how we ended up here. Never occurred to
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  Speaker 6: me that it was.
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  Speaker 4: By the way, I love how James Comy says he's
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  Speaker 4: now being persecuted for walking along the beach with his wife,
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  Speaker 4: and yet here we are.
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  Speaker 2: And then he says, it never occurred to me was.
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  Speaker 6: Any kind of controversial thing. But that's the time we
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  Speaker 6: live in.
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  Speaker 8: So take me back to the walk on the beach.
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  Speaker 6: We were walking on the beach. We went to the
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  Speaker 6: beach to prepare for this week, which was the launch
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  Speaker 6: of my book, and to think about the book and
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  Speaker 6: to prepare to ask answer questions about it. And we
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  Speaker 6: were walking back towards the road and we saw in
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  Speaker 6: the sand someone had arranged shells with numbers and Patrese
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  Speaker 6: my wife said, why would someone put an address in
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  Speaker 6: the sand? And I said, I don't know. And we
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  Speaker 6: stood over it and I said, you know, I think
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  Speaker 6: it's some kind of like political message, and she said,
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  Speaker 6: you know eighty six. When I was a server, she
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  Speaker 6: did a lot of working in restaurants. Meant to remove
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  Speaker 6: an item from the menu when you ran out of ingredients.
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  Speaker 6: And I said, well, to me, as a kid, it
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  Speaker 6: always meant to leave a place to ditch a place.
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  Speaker 6: I said, that's really clever. So then she said, you
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  Speaker 6: shud take a picture of that, and I did, and
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  Speaker 6: I posted it on my Instagram account and thought nothing
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  Speaker 6: more of it until I heard through her that people
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  Speaker 6: were saying it was some sort of a call for assassination,
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  Speaker 6: which is crazy. But I took it down. Even if
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  Speaker 6: I think it's crazy, I don't want to be associated
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  Speaker 6: with violence of any kind.
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  Speaker 4: At the end of the day, that's the story that
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  Speaker 4: he's telling. It doesn't mean it's real. And this is
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  Speaker 4: a guy that lies and hates Donald Trump. I don't
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  Speaker 4: feel sorry, by the way, for James Comy. I think
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  Speaker 4: he knew exactly what he was doing. And as Donald
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  Speaker 4: Trump said, it'll be up to the great people beneath
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  Speaker 4: him decide what happens next, and we'll keep you up.
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  Speaker 7: Hit it.
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  Speaker 4: And finally, story number three, there's one thing that is
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  Speaker 4: for sure. Democrats are having a tough couple of weeks.
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  Speaker 4: James Comy is under investigation. Now, there's a massive tell
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  Speaker 4: all book talking about Joe Biden not actually being the
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  Speaker 4: President of the United States of America, and Democrats who
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  Speaker 4: are rawling behind the eighty six forty seven picture on
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  Speaker 4: the beach.
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  Speaker 2: It's not going well. But who is it going well for?
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  Speaker 4: Where Four polls are now showing that Donald Trump has
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  Speaker 4: a strong approval rating. That's right, coming off of last
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  Speaker 4: week's trip to the Middle East, in his administration's recent
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  Speaker 4: progress on trade agreements, it appears to have boosted the
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  Speaker 4: perception among American voters, with four national polls now showing
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  Speaker 4: Donald Trump's favorability rating above forty seven percent, consistent with
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  Speaker 4: the levels following his inauguration. Polls released on Monday by
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  Speaker 4: Morning consult Rasmussen and Harvard Harris showed Trump's approval ratings
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  Speaker 4: at forty eight, forty nine, and forty seven, respectively, and
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  Speaker 4: the Daily Mail poll release Sunday showed his approval rating
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  Speaker 4: at actually fifty percent. Despite the doom and gloom headlines
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  Speaker 4: from news organizations, the American people actually feel great about
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  Speaker 4: the direction of the country. That's what the White House
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  Speaker 4: had to say, and adding this what's to hate. We
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  Speaker 4: are undoing the widely unpopular agenda of the previous office holder,
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  Speaker 4: uprooting waste, fraud and abuse, and chugging along on the
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  Speaker 4: great American comeback. The Daily Mail poll was conducted by
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  Speaker 4: the Way May thirteenth and fourteenth, with a large sample
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  Speaker 4: size of more than one thousand registered voters. Trump's approval
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  Speaker 4: rating is up five percentage points from a poll taking
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  Speaker 4: one hundred days into his second term nearly three weeks ago.
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  Speaker 4: The most important thing this shows is that Trump can
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  Speaker 4: bounce back when some of his voters waiver. Is what
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  Speaker 4: James Johnson, the co founder of j L Partners, said,
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  Speaker 4: People who were concerned about the sense of direction the
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  Speaker 4: strength after tariff reversals are now back on board as
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  Speaker 4: they see the president doing what they feel he does
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  Speaker 4: best making deals. This, on top of the new news
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  Speaker 4: that we may actually get an end of the war
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  Speaker 4: with Ukraine and Russia that the President is brokering, will
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  Speaker 4: only push his approval ratings higher.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you for listening to the forty seven Morning Update
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  Speaker 3: with Ben Ferguson. Please make sure you hit subscribe wherever
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