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Courts vs. Commander-in-Chief on Tariffs plus the Room that Comey Forgot · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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  Speaker 1: We had to fix it and rebuild public trust. One
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  Speaker 1: of the ways to do it is these cases of
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  Speaker 1: significant public interest that matter. You know, we had two
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  Speaker 1: pipe bombs planted on January sixth, the cocaine in the
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  Speaker 1: White House. Potentially hazardous material made its way into the
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  Speaker 1: White House. Nobody seems to know how it got there,
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  Speaker 1: and nobody seemed to investigate it fully, like you know,
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  Speaker 1: what planet do we live on? Well, that's not a
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  Speaker 1: public interest.
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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 Friday morning. Welcome, it is the forty seven Morning Update,
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  Speaker 3: and a quick reminder, if you've not hit that subscribe
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  Speaker 3: so you do not miss a single day. First up,
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  Speaker 3: Donald Trump's tariffs are back in effect after an appeals
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  Speaker 3: court ruling. The White House fighting back and explaining exactly
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  Speaker 3: how they got this big victory which will protect American
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  Speaker 3: manufacturing and American workers. Up next, the FBI Deputy Director
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  Speaker 3: Dan Bongino blowing the whistle, saying now the Bureau is
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  Speaker 3: working to declassify a true documents from the James Comy
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  Speaker 3: era that were intentionally hidden from the new leadership that
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  Speaker 3: in just a second, and finally, RFK Junior's Health in
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  Speaker 3: Human Services has canceled Maderna's seven hundred and sixty six
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  Speaker 3: million dollar vaccine contract line. They say the technology actually
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  Speaker 3: may not be safe for you at all. It's the
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  Speaker 3: forty seven Morning Update and it starts right now.
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  Speaker 2: Story number one.
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  Speaker 3: Donald Trump's tariffs are back in effect after an appeals
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  Speaker 3: court victory. The Appeals Court on Thursday stayed the ruling
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  Speaker 3: of the US Court of International Trade that came in
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  Speaker 3: to block President Donald Trump's Liberation Day tariffs, meaning the
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  Speaker 3: tariffs are back in effect. The US Court of International
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  Speaker 3: Trade issued an injunction on Wednesday night late, ruling that
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  Speaker 3: President Donald Trump's Liberation Day tariffs were quote illegal. Well,
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  Speaker 3: guess what. The White House and Donald Trump weren't having
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  Speaker 3: any of it, and they filed the motion to stay
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  Speaker 3: the ruling, and the tariffs were reinstated Thursday afternoon, the
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  Speaker 3: White House Press Secretary lining up the courts and the
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  Speaker 3: activist judges involved, saying this from the White House, the.
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  Speaker 4: Trump administration faced another example of judicial overreach. Using his
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  Speaker 4: full and proper legal authority, President Trump imposed universal tariffs
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  Speaker 4: and reciprocal tariffs on Liberation Day to address the extraordinary
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  Speaker 4: threat to our national security and economy posed by large
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  Speaker 4: and persistent annual US goods trade deficits. The United States
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  Speaker 4: has run a trade deficit of goods every year since
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  Speaker 4: nineteen seventy five. In twenty twenty four, our trade deficit
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  Speaker 4: in goods exceeded one trillion dollars. Everybody agrees this is unacceptable.
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  Speaker 4: President Trump is delivering on his promise to fix this problem,
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  Speaker 4: and he has taken a long overdue and much needed,
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  Speaker 4: bold stance for American workers after decades of our manufacturing
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  Speaker 4: base being hollowed out. The President's rationale for imposing these
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  Speaker 4: powerful tariffs was legally sound and grounded in common sense.
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  Speaker 4: President Trump correctly believes that America cannot function safely long
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  Speaker 4: term if we are unable to scale advanced domestic manufacturing capacity,
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  Speaker 4: have our own secure critical supply chains, and our defense
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  Speaker 4: industrial base is dependent on foreign adversaries. Three judges of
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  Speaker 4: the US Court of International Trade disagreed and brazenly abused
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  Speaker 4: their judicial power to usurp the authority of President Trump
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  Speaker 4: to stop him from carrying out the mandate that the
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  Speaker 4: American people gave him. These judges failed to acknowledge that
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  Speaker 4: the President of the United States has core foreign affairs
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  Speaker 4: powers and authority given to him by Congress to protect
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  Speaker 4: the United States economy and national security. Congress had created
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  Speaker 4: the National Emergency Act to provide the congressional framework to
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  Speaker 4: strike down a proper iepa use, and any questions over
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  Speaker 4: whether President Trump improperly imposed these iepa tariffs were already
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  Speaker 4: adjudicated in Congress. Following Liberation Day, Congress firmly rejected an
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  Speaker 4: effort led by Senator Ran Paul and Democrats to terminate
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  Speaker 4: the president's reciprocal tariffs. The courts should have no role here.
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  Speaker 4: There is a troubling and dangerous trend of unelected judges
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  Speaker 4: inserting themselves into the presidential decision making process. America cannot
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  Speaker 4: function if President Trump, or any other president for that matter,
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  Speaker 4: has their sensitive diplomatic or trade negotiations railroaded by activist judges.
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  Speaker 4: President Trump is in the process of rebalancing America's trading
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  Speaker 4: agreements with the entire world, bringing tens of billions of
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  Speaker 4: dollars in tariff revenues to our country, and finally ending
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  Speaker 4: the United States of America from being ripped off These
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  Speaker 4: judges are threatening to undermine the credibility of the United
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  Speaker 4: States on the world stage. The Administration has already filed
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  Speaker 4: an emergency motion for a stay pending appeal and an
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  Speaker 4: immediate administrative stay to strike down this degreeious to stay vision.
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  Speaker 4: But ultimately the Supreme Court must put an end to
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  Speaker 4: this for the sake of our constitution in our country.
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  Speaker 3: Now, the White House wasn't done there. The Treasury Secretary
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  Speaker 3: coming out saying this about the judges meddling in Donald
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  Speaker 3: Trump's tariffs.
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  Speaker 5: Well, britt it seems highly inappropriate for the judiciary to
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  Speaker 5: weigh it in here when the Senate had the opportunity
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  Speaker 5: to override the president and didn't. So, you know, in
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  Speaker 5: terms of separation of powers, the Senate has chosen not
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  Speaker 5: to exercise their powers, and the President absolutely has the
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  Speaker 5: right to set the trade agenda for the US. We
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  Speaker 5: are this administration is committed to fair trade and we
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  Speaker 5: are striking the best deals for the American people, and
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  Speaker 5: anything that the courts do to get in the way,
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  Speaker 5: they both harms the American people in terms of trade
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  Speaker 5: and in terms of tariff revenue.
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  Speaker 3: Very clearly, the courts are trying to meddle in the
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  Speaker 3: president's job and the White House continuing to fight back
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  Speaker 3: and win on this issue.
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  Speaker 2: Next story number two.
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  Speaker 3: You can follow this next story under the category of
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  Speaker 3: you don't hate the deep State enough and exactly what
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  Speaker 3: they've been hiding from you. The FBI Deputy Director Dan
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  Speaker 3: Bongino has announced the discovery of a previously undisclosed room
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  Speaker 3: at the FBI headquarters containing a trove of documents from
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  Speaker 3: former Director James Comy's tenure. Bongino described the room as
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  Speaker 3: quote hidden from us, and noted that many of the
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  Speaker 3: materials were not processed through standard FBI procedures, such as
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  Speaker 3: digitization or proper cataloging. Some documents were reportedly found stored
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  Speaker 3: in bags, raising concerns about potential mishandling of evidence during
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  Speaker 3: Comy's tenure. Ban Gino also emphasized the FBI's commitment to transparency,
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  Speaker 3: stating that efforts are now underway to de classify these materials.
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  Speaker 3: Here is more James Comy talking about all of this
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  Speaker 3: on Fox and Friends.
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  Speaker 1: As of Jim Comy, because he cannot control himself and
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  Speaker 1: his emotions, he is a child, he is a big child.
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  Speaker 1: Then let me tell you one more thing. Jim Comey
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  Speaker 1: who wants you to Jim Comy taking a shot at
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  Speaker 1: the president. Oh look at me, I'm such a victim.
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  Speaker 1: The President's going after me. He's making a ton of
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  Speaker 1: money on this book. The only person that got prosecuted
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  Speaker 1: was the president. Jim Comy. We're finding stuff even now,
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  Speaker 1: wait till you read the stuff that's coming out.
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  Speaker 5: Does he still have loyalists in the building, Because when
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  Speaker 5: I hear the FBI director saying, you guys are finding boxes.
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  Speaker 2: That are hidden. Okay, how does that happen in the bureau?
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  Speaker 1: Well, we were there a couple of weeks and luckily
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  Speaker 1: there are a lot of people up there who this
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  Speaker 1: by the arm the mid we came in and said,
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  Speaker 1: thank you for being here. You know, we need to talk.
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  Speaker 1: There are people there who are really horrified at what happened.
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  Speaker 1: And there was a room and we found stuff, a
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  Speaker 1: lot of stuff hidden room. I wouldn't call it hidden,
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  Speaker 1: but hidden from us at least and not mentioned to us.
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  Speaker 1: And then we found stuff in there, and a lot
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  Speaker 1: of it's from the Komi era. And we are working
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  Speaker 1: our damn this right now to declassifying. Just so you know,
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  Speaker 1: because I get the public, I totally understand people saying
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  Speaker 1: we'll do it. Now, the process is not. All the
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  Speaker 1: information is ours to the classify some as other intelligence agencies,
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  Speaker 1: it's not. We literally can't do it. Once that gets
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  Speaker 1: done and that gets out there and you read some
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  Speaker 1: of the stuff we found that, by the way, was
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  Speaker 1: not processed through the normal procedure digitizing it, putting in
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  Speaker 1: FBI records. We found it in bags hiding under Jim call. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you're going to be stunned.
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  Speaker 3: Now, there's one thing that Dan Bongino made very clear.
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  Speaker 3: It is a process that he wants to be transparent
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  Speaker 3: with the American piece, and the declassification of these materials
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  Speaker 3: is underway. He as you heard him say, it's complex
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  Speaker 3: because many of these issues involve other intelligence agencies and
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  Speaker 3: the FBI does not have the right to classify their intelligence. Now,
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  Speaker 3: I also assure you that once the appropriate processes are completed,
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  Speaker 3: the findings will be shared, and he anticipates that the
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  Speaker 3: revelations will be quote significant.
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  Speaker 6: Now.
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  Speaker 3: This development also aligns with broader insues by the current
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  Speaker 3: FBI leadership, including the Director Cash Mattel, to revisit and
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  Speaker 3: bring transparency to past investigations. These efforts encompass re examining
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  Speaker 3: high profile cases such as the January sixth pipe bombs,
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  Speaker 3: the twenty twenty two dob Supreme Court leak, and the
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  Speaker 3: twenty twenty three discovery of cocaine at the White House. Now,
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  Speaker 3: the actions from the FBI now reflect a renewed focus
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  Speaker 3: on accountability and res storing public trust in the FBI.
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  Speaker 3: The agency's provocative steps to uncover and address pass oversights
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  Speaker 3: demonstrate a commitment to upholding the integrity of their operations,
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  Speaker 3: something that Donald Trump promised every American if he was
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  Speaker 3: re elected, and he's making good on that promise.
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  Speaker 2: And here is story number three.
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  Speaker 3: There's no other way to describe it but a major
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  Speaker 3: victory for American taxpayers. The US Department of Health and
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  Speaker 3: Human Services under Secretary RFK. Junior, has canceled a seven
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  Speaker 3: hundred and sixty six million dollar contract with Maderna that
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  Speaker 3: was intended to fund the development of an mRNA base
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  Speaker 3: vaccine targeting pandemic influenza viruses, including the H five in
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  Speaker 3: one bird flu The funding, awarded through the Biomedical Advanced
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  Speaker 3: Research and Development Authority known as BARDA, comprised one hundred
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  Speaker 3: and seventy six million granted and live of twenty twenty
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  Speaker 3: four and five hundred and ninety million in January of
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  Speaker 3: twenty twenty five. The cancelation occurred despite Madernay reporting positive
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  Speaker 3: interim results from early stage trials involving three hundred healthy adults,
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  Speaker 3: which demonstrated they claimed a robust immune response and favorable
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  Speaker 3: safety profile. That's obviously coming from the company. Well, when
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  Speaker 3: the announcement came through, this is what it sounded like
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  Speaker 3: on MSNBC.
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  Speaker 6: Administration has canceled a contract with Maderna for the development
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  Speaker 6: of a bird flu vaccine for humans or Angelica peebles
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  Speaker 6: joins us now with more and you could conjecture a
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  Speaker 6: lot of things about this between RFK Junior and Vaccines
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  Speaker 6: and mRNA. What's behind all this?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, good morning, Joe. So this is just the latest
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  Speaker 7: in a string of events that we've seen related to
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  Speaker 7: COVID vaccines over the last week. And what's happening here
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  Speaker 7: is that the Trump administration is canceling a more than
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  Speaker 7: seven hundred million dollar contract with Maderna to develop a
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  Speaker 7: bird flu vaccine and other pre pandemic influenza viruses. And
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  Speaker 7: so what's really notable about this is that obviously we've
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  Speaker 7: seen this you know, we've seen bird flu tearing through
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  Speaker 7: birds and also dairy cows and the risk to humans,
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  Speaker 7: and so what we saw on the Biden administration is
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  Speaker 7: that they really ramped up this work and they were
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  Speaker 7: helping to fund They were going to fund a phase
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  Speaker 7: through trial to see if we could use mRNA for
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  Speaker 7: a bird flu vaccine if it indeed spills over to humans.
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  Speaker 7: And now the cancelation of this vaccine is quite a surprise.
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  Speaker 7: Maybe not a surprise now because we had been hearing
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  Speaker 7: rumblings about this for the past few months. But you know,
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  Speaker 7: we just saw this this contract ramp up right before
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  Speaker 7: the last administration left, and now you have the Trump
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  Speaker 7: administration saying that they felt like, after a rigorous review,
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  Speaker 7: we concluded that the continued investment in Maderna's H five
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  Speaker 7: and one mRNA vaccine was not scientifically or justifiable. And
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  Speaker 7: they're saying that it's not just about efficacy, it's about safety,
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  Speaker 7: and so it's interesting to hear them really casting doubt
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  Speaker 7: on just the safety and the efficacy of mRNA vaccines
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  Speaker 7: as a whole.
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  Speaker 3: You go back to what the HHS official stated in
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  Speaker 3: that decision, and you would think the media would have
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  Speaker 3: spent more time on this, saying following a comprehensive review,
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  Speaker 3: they concluded that continued investment in Maderna's H five N
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  Speaker 3: one and mr NA vaccine was not scientifically or ethically justifiable. Now,
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  Speaker 3: concerns were raised about the safety and testing rigor of
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  Speaker 3: the mr NA technology, and the HHS emphasized the need
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  Speaker 3: for safety number one, integrity number two, and public trust
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  Speaker 3: in medical advancement, something that had all disappeared because of
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  Speaker 3: the quote COVID vaccine. Remember when they promised you if
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  Speaker 3: you got it, you're going to stop the spread and
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  Speaker 3: you didn't have to worry about getting COVID nineteen. Well
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  Speaker 3: that never happened, and we all know we were lied to. Now.
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  Speaker 3: This move also aligns with Secretary Kennedy's long standing skepticism
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  Speaker 3: towards mr NA vaccines. Since assuming his roll in February,
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  Speaker 3: Kennedy has inputted several policy changes reflecting those views, including
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  Speaker 3: rolling back COVID nineteen vaccine recommendations, as we mentioned yesterday,
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  Speaker 3: for healthy children and pregnant women, something that's been celebrated
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  Speaker 3: by quite a few Americans. Now, to be clear, no
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  Speaker 3: one has banned vaccines. This is going back to giving
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  Speaker 3: you the choice and a choice that many Americans had
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  Speaker 3: taken away from them during the COVID lockdowns.
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