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- 0:01Speaker 1: Mark Ritter, the NATO chief.
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- 0:21Speaker 6: Good Thursday morning. It's so nice to have you with
- 0:23Speaker 6: us on the forty seven Morning Update. And here are
- 0:25Speaker 6: the two very big stories we have for you today.
- 0:28Speaker 6: First out, Donald Trump warning America about a one hundred
- 0:32Speaker 6: percent communist lunatic that radicals in New York City have
- 0:37Speaker 6: chosen to be their nominee to become the mayor. Just
- 0:40Speaker 6: how dangerous is this individual? Will break down what he
- 0:43Speaker 6: believes in and why Donald Trump is warning you that
- 0:46Speaker 6: the Democratic Party is dead and the communists, socialists, and
- 0:51Speaker 6: Marxist have taken over. Also, in shocking testimony before Congress
- 0:57Speaker 6: that the media is not reporting on a former Biden
- 1:00Speaker 6: Ade says quote she does not know who ordered President
- 1:05Speaker 6: Biden's auto pen signatures. Will give you the details on
- 1:10Speaker 6: what all she said to Congress and why this story
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- 3:13Speaker 6: seven Morning Update and it starts right now.
- 3:16Speaker 3: Story number one.
- 3:17Speaker 6: President Trump weighing in on the New York City Mayor's
- 3:20Speaker 6: race where Mondani has had a big win. Who is
- 3:24Speaker 6: he has? Trump described it a one hundred percent communist lunatic,
- 3:30Speaker 6: the President calling the New York City mayor primary a
- 3:32Speaker 6: big moment in the history of our country. And why
- 3:36Speaker 6: because of what is actually happening now. I've been saying
- 3:39Speaker 6: for quite some time that I thought the Democratic Party
- 3:42Speaker 6: was dead. It's actually filled with Marxist socialists and communists,
- 3:46Speaker 6: many of them too afraid to tell you the truth
- 3:48Speaker 6: of who they are, so they claim they're a Democrat.
- 3:51Speaker 6: But think back over the last fifty years. Look at
- 3:54Speaker 6: the leaders of the Democratic Party. They were anti communist crusaders,
- 3:58Speaker 6: in fact, even athletic. And what do they do. Well,
- 4:02Speaker 6: if you look at JFK, he was a man that
- 4:04Speaker 6: wanted to actually take America to outer space to be first. Well,
- 4:09Speaker 6: today it's a foreign born communist, Muslim transactivist who says
- 4:14Speaker 6: he wants to defund the police that the Democratic Party
- 4:17Speaker 6: is advocating for. You have to ask yourself the question,
- 4:21Speaker 6: how did we get to this point where there was
- 4:22Speaker 6: so much decay? It's actually a pretty easy answer. Democrats
- 4:27Speaker 6: change their voters by importing massive amounts of illegal immigrants
- 4:32Speaker 6: from third world socialists and communist countries and then appealing
- 4:37Speaker 6: to their extremist ideologies that they grew up under. They
- 4:40Speaker 6: destroyed what the Democratic Party was and now what you
- 4:44Speaker 6: see is a Democratic Party that is dead and the
- 4:47Speaker 6: Democrats are the ones that actually killed it. So what
- 4:50Speaker 6: does this man actually believe. Well, he's a thirty three
- 4:53Speaker 6: year old Democratic socialist and a current state assemblyman in
- 4:57Speaker 6: New York. He is an individual that believes in quote
- 5:00Speaker 6: free public transit buses along with freezing subway fares. He
- 5:04Speaker 6: also wants a rent freeze, taking away the rights of
- 5:08Speaker 6: those that own property. He wonts city run grocery stores
- 5:13Speaker 6: in every bureau, taking away the private sector so you'll
- 5:16Speaker 6: have what they have in Russia or Venezuela or any
- 5:20Speaker 6: of the other socialists or communist countries around the world.
- 5:23Speaker 6: He is demanding thirty dollars minimum wage as well and
- 5:26Speaker 6: higher taxes, saying it's time for the quote rich you know,
- 5:29Speaker 6: to pay their fair share, increasing corporate tax plus a
- 5:33Speaker 6: two percent city income tax sir tax on all millionaires
- 5:38Speaker 6: to fund what he describes as universal childcare. He also
- 5:41Speaker 6: wants her to be free transit and free housing. Now,
- 5:46Speaker 6: if you're an opponent of these radical ideas, like Donald Trump,
- 5:50Speaker 6: then you argue, simply this businesses are going to run
- 5:54Speaker 6: for the hills. It's going to destabilize New York's economy.
- 5:57Speaker 6: But that doesn't seem to matter to the social and
- 6:00Speaker 6: the Marxists. President Trump put it this way on true
- 6:03Speaker 6: social quote. We've had radical lefties before, but this is
- 6:07Speaker 6: getting a little ridiculous. He looks terrible, he's not very smart.
- 6:11Speaker 6: He's got AOC plus three dummies all backing him, and
- 6:16Speaker 6: even our great Palestinian senator crying, Chuck Schumer is groveling
- 6:21Speaker 6: over him. The Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, who's Jewish,
- 6:25Speaker 6: is not of Palestinian heritage, and the House Majority Leader
- 6:28Speaker 6: Hakim Jeffries. Now they said, who cares, both congratulating the
- 6:33Speaker 6: radical socialists on Wednesday morning and vowed to meet with
- 6:36Speaker 6: state lawmakers. Of course, they stop short of, you know,
- 6:39Speaker 6: endorsing him. So here's the bottom line. This man represents
- 6:43Speaker 6: a rise, a dramatic shift towards a bold progressive agenda
- 6:48Speaker 6: in New York. He's advocating sweeping reforms in transit, housing, taxation,
- 6:53Speaker 6: social services, LGBTQ plus and trans health support that you,
- 6:58Speaker 6: the taxpayer, will pay for. And he's proposed sixty five
- 7:01Speaker 6: million in funding for that alone. Meanwhile, yet he says
- 7:05Speaker 6: he's not extremists, he's just a man listening to the people. Well,
- 7:09Speaker 6: when you import millions of illegal immigrants into New York,
- 7:12Speaker 6: this is exactly what you get. The ideology is extreme
- 7:16Speaker 6: and the Democratic Party is dead. I'll give you one
- 7:20Speaker 6: example of what he had to say on MSNBC, as
- 7:23Speaker 6: he said, we built a campaign around one idea to
- 7:26Speaker 6: make New York City affordable again. In translation, that means
- 7:29Speaker 6: take from the rich and give free stuff to the
- 7:32Speaker 6: poor that voted for him in the primary.
- 7:34Speaker 1: As I'm sure you know, you probably haven't consumed all
- 7:37Speaker 1: of it, I suppose, but there's been a lot of analysis,
- 7:40Speaker 1: a ton on what your success last night and in
- 7:44Speaker 1: the last couple of weeks means nationally for the Democratic Party. Unquestionably,
- 7:50Speaker 1: it means something about how people campaign. But what do
- 7:53Speaker 1: you think it means.
- 7:54Speaker 5: I think it is part of a larger referendum on
- 7:57Speaker 5: where our party goes. And I think one of the
- 7:59Speaker 5: whole that we had from the very beginning of this
- 8:01Speaker 5: campaign was to move our political instinct from lecturing to listening.
- 8:06Speaker 5: You know, at the national level, after the presidential election,
- 8:08Speaker 5: we saw that New York was actually the state with
- 8:11Speaker 5: the largest swing in the country towards Donald Trump eleven
- 8:14Speaker 5: and a half points, and that that swing took place
- 8:16Speaker 5: far from the caricature of Trump voters, instead taking place
- 8:19Speaker 5: in the hearts of immigrant New York City. And I
- 8:21Speaker 5: went to those neighborhoods. I went to Fordham Road in
- 8:24Speaker 5: the Bronx and Hillside Avenue in Queens, and I asked
- 8:26Speaker 5: those New Yorkers, the vast majority of whom were Democrats,
- 8:29Speaker 5: why they voted for Trump and what it would take
- 8:31Speaker 5: to bring them back to the Democratic Party. And again
- 8:33Speaker 5: and again what I heard from them was cost of living,
- 8:36Speaker 5: was an inability to afford the very things they recalled
- 8:39Speaker 5: being able to purchase four years ago. And when they
- 8:42Speaker 5: told me what it would take, they said again and
- 8:44Speaker 5: again their relentless focus on an economic agenda. And ultimately,
- 8:47Speaker 5: in listening to them, we built a campaign that was
- 8:50Speaker 5: explicitly about making this city affordable. And I think too
- 8:53Speaker 5: often in politics there's a desire to impose what you
- 8:56Speaker 5: think the debate is upon the people that you're seeking
- 8:59Speaker 5: to represents, opposed to listening to the very issues that
- 9:02Speaker 5: are making it difficult for them to keep calling the
- 9:05Speaker 5: city that they love the city that they live in.
- 9:07Speaker 6: You look at all of what he just said there,
- 9:09Speaker 6: and what you really have to go back to is
- 9:11Speaker 6: that one statement what I heard from them was cost
- 9:14Speaker 6: of living was an inability to afford the very things
- 9:17Speaker 6: they recall being able to purchase four years ago. So
- 9:20Speaker 6: the response to that is we're going to take from
- 9:22Speaker 6: the rich and we're going to give to the poor.
- 9:25Speaker 6: But what really got him across the finish line is
- 9:27Speaker 6: this Steven Miller at the White House putting this out
- 9:30Speaker 6: on xt saying, quote, to understand the pace and the
- 9:33Speaker 6: scope of migration to America in the past years. One
- 9:37Speaker 6: third of New York City is now foreign born, and
- 9:40Speaker 6: almost two thirds of New York City children live in
- 9:44Speaker 6: a foreign born household. Yes, they've imported new voters into
- 9:49Speaker 6: New York City. This is how the Democratic Party is
- 9:52Speaker 6: planning on changing the entire country. This is why they
- 9:55Speaker 6: had open borders, and this is why the Biden administration
- 9:59Speaker 6: allowed radicals to come into this country. Or to put
- 10:02Speaker 6: it another way, take a listen to Jesse Waters on
- 10:05Speaker 6: Fox to.
- 10:06Speaker 4: Pursue it wasn't just what he was selling, it was
- 10:08Speaker 4: how he sold it. Jesse, he is very prolific on
- 10:11Speaker 4: social media, especially TikTok, and his mother is a film producer,
- 10:16Speaker 4: and many of his ads and the things that they
- 10:18Speaker 4: put up on social media were very attractive. They had
- 10:21Speaker 4: the merch and it became like a vibe campaign, which
- 10:24Speaker 4: helped put him over the edge.
- 10:25Speaker 2: Yeah, well, you can't blame the blacks and Hispanics they
- 10:27Speaker 2: voted for Cuomo. You got to blame the whites. They
- 10:30Speaker 2: wanted communism and they got it. They love communism in
- 10:33Speaker 2: college and then they graduated with no skills and two
- 10:37Speaker 2: hundred thousand dollars in debt, and they came into a city.
- 10:40Speaker 2: It's hard to get ahead with high prices. So they
- 10:42Speaker 2: see this kid on TikTok talking about he's going to
- 10:44Speaker 2: soak the rich and he's going to control prices, and
- 10:47Speaker 2: they say that's my guy.
- 10:48Speaker 1: Okay.
- 10:49Speaker 2: So he gets into the city all and then what
- 10:51Speaker 2: He's just going to attack the country cops and capitalism.
- 10:54Speaker 2: He's just going to cause more crime and chaos. He's
- 10:56Speaker 2: going to turn the prisons inside out, and he's going
- 10:59Speaker 2: to turn whole foods into no foods. This is what
- 11:02Speaker 2: happens when you let the wacky wing of the Democrat
- 11:05Speaker 2: Party run wild. This is what the Democrat establishment has
- 11:08Speaker 2: been trying to keep a lid on for decades since
- 11:11Speaker 2: Occupy Wall Street. Biden tried to keep a lid on it.
- 11:14Speaker 2: Cuomo couldn't keep a lid on it. This is the
- 11:17Speaker 2: Bernie bro Dave hog AOC faction that's now going to
- 11:21Speaker 2: run wild all over the place. And you're basically giving this.
- 11:25Speaker 2: I guess he's a Muslim communist from another country. City
- 11:29Speaker 2: Hall in the best city in the world. This is
- 11:32Speaker 2: the financial capital of the world. It's the biggest city
- 11:36Speaker 2: in America, and you're going to run a communist out.
- 11:40Speaker 2: I thought I was right when I said we'd hit
- 11:42Speaker 2: rock bottom with builde Blasio.
- 11:44Speaker 5: I was wrong.
- 11:45Speaker 2: And it takes a big man to admit they were wrong.
- 11:47Speaker 5: But I was wrong.
- 11:48Speaker 2: And so this guy is going to do his thing.
- 11:51Speaker 2: And thank god I left for Jersey.
- 11:53Speaker 6: The takeaway is this, and there's a big, important point
- 11:56Speaker 6: and a warning for the rest of the country, a
- 11:58Speaker 6: warning that Donald Trump brought up up today the commentary
- 12:02Speaker 6: about New York City Democrats nominating an anarchist socialist for mayor.
- 12:06Speaker 6: Amits one point how unchecked migration fundamentally remade the New
- 12:12Speaker 6: York City electorate. Democrats change politics by changing the voters.
- 12:18Speaker 6: That's how you turn a city the defined US dominance
- 12:22Speaker 6: into what we're witnessing right now now.
- 12:24Speaker 3: Story number two.
- 12:25Speaker 6: There is a very important story that is getting virtually
- 12:29Speaker 6: no coverage right now. So I hope all of you
- 12:32Speaker 6: will share this information wherever you can. And that is
- 12:35Speaker 6: the shocking a mission by a former Biden aide announcing
- 12:40Speaker 6: that she does not know who ordered President Biden's auto
- 12:45Speaker 6: pen signatures. Nira Tendon, a former Top eight president Joe Biden,
- 12:51Speaker 6: told Congress under oath that she had authorization to direct
- 12:56Speaker 6: auto pen signatures for the president, but doesn't know who
- 13:00Speaker 6: gave the final order. Tendon served as the director of
- 13:04Speaker 6: Biden's domestic policy counsel, and she told Congress during testimony
- 13:10Speaker 6: that the president used an automatic signature tool allowing for
- 13:14Speaker 6: aids to sign pardons, sign memos, and other official documents
- 13:20Speaker 6: in the White House. Tannam said she did not know
- 13:23Speaker 6: who authorized any of those signatures. During her interview before Congress,
- 13:29Speaker 6: which lasted more than five hours, she told lawmakers that
- 13:33Speaker 6: in her role as staff secretary and senior advisor to
- 13:36Speaker 6: the former president between twenty twenty one and twenty twenty
- 13:39Speaker 6: three that she was authorized to direct auto pen signatures
- 13:42Speaker 6: on behalf of Biden. An Oversight Committee official has confirmed
- 13:46Speaker 6: this now to Fox News. Tennen, who reportedly said during
- 13:50Speaker 6: her testimony that she had quote limited interactions with Biden
- 13:54Speaker 6: in her role, even though she was a senior advisor, that,
- 13:57Speaker 6: according to sources familiar with her testimony, derived an approval
- 14:01Speaker 6: process that left her at least partly in the dark
- 14:05Speaker 6: about who specifically was giving final approval on the decisions
- 14:10Speaker 6: to use the automatic signature tool, even though she'd simultaneously
- 14:15Speaker 6: insisted quote Biden was in charge. Tenan reportedly testified that
- 14:20Speaker 6: it get approval for the use of autopen signatures, she
- 14:23Speaker 6: would send decision memos to members of Biden's inner circle.
- 14:27Speaker 6: Now remember these are people elected by no one. She
- 14:30Speaker 6: added that she was not aware of what actions or
- 14:34Speaker 6: what approvals took place between the times she sent the
- 14:37Speaker 6: decision memo and the time she received it back with
- 14:40Speaker 6: the necessary approval. According to sources familiar with what happened
- 14:45Speaker 6: in this testimony, a minority member of the Oversight Committee
- 14:50Speaker 6: called Tandem's characterization quote a lie. With a statement from
- 14:55Speaker 6: a former White House staffer saying that they received quote
- 14:58Speaker 6: a written sign off from so Biden on every executive
- 15:02Speaker 6: action she presented with him. The only problem is she's
- 15:06Speaker 6: under oath and saying that's not how it went down
- 15:09Speaker 6: at all. Any other characterization is a distortion of the
- 15:13Speaker 6: testimony the Biden. Former Biden officials stated quote to insinuate
- 15:17Speaker 6: that Nira Tanem said President Biden did not approve every
- 15:21Speaker 6: single presidential decision and sign off on every executive action
- 15:25Speaker 6: coming out of the White House is a lie. Well,
- 15:28Speaker 6: she's saying that it's the truth. Tenem's attorney agreed with
- 15:32Speaker 6: the staffer, adding that the auto pens were used after
- 15:35Speaker 6: Biden approved the decisions, saying this in a clean up statement,
- 15:40Speaker 6: the autopen was used only after President Biden personally approved
- 15:44Speaker 6: the decision. Aids at no time signed these documents on
- 15:48Speaker 6: President Biden's behalf. Again, that's not what her testimony was
- 15:52Speaker 6: under oath. So just know this is the big story
- 15:55Speaker 6: that we should be talking about, and also know that
- 15:58Speaker 6: the media will not touch what's the fact that a
- 16:01Speaker 6: former Biden ad does not know this is her testimony.
- 16:05Speaker 6: Who ordered the present auto pen signatures.
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