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The 47 Morning Update with Ben Ferguson
GOP Warns of Democrat Plans to Target U.S. Troops as Trump & Hegseth Justify Military Action
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Donald Trump
I believe that at some point in the not too distant future, you won't even have income tax to pay because the money we're taking in is so great, it's so enormous that you're not going to have income tax to pay whether you get rid of it or just keep it around for fun or have it really low, much lower than it is now. But you won't be paying income tax.
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Ben Ferguson
You're listening to the 47 Morning Update with Ben Ferguson.
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Good Wednesday morning. It's nice to have you with us on the 47 Morning Update. And we've got one major story for you. The president holding a cabinet meeting and making it very clear he stands behind the strikes against the narco terrorists that are bringing drugs in this country that are killing us. This is Democrats are now threatening war crimes against men and women in uniform. So what did the president and the Secretary of War have to say? We have exactly their words from the Cabinet meeting and we're going to have that for you coming up next. But first, I want to tell you about an amazing opportunity right now that I'm involved in, and I cannot wait for you to take advantage of it. I want you to take some incredible courses at Hillsdale College for free. You may not know this, but Hillsdale College has been influencing conservatives like myself for decades. They had a huge impact on Charlie Kirk's life. And even as memorial service, they talked about how Charlie took class after class after class at Hillsdale College. Hillsdale College is now offering for you, the listeners of this show more than 40 free. I want to say that again. Free online courses. That's right. More than 40 free online courses. You can learn about the works of C.S. lewis, the stories in the Book of Genesis, the meaning of the US Constitution, the rise and fall of the Roman Republic, or the history of the ancient Christian Church, all with Hillsdale College's free online courses. Right now, I'm personally taking the Constitution 101. In this course, you're going to explore the design and the purpose of the Constitution, the challenges it faced during the Civil War and how it has been undermined for more than a century by radical progressives and liberals. This 12 lecture course is self paced. It's another reason why I love it. So start whenever and wherever in our country. We need more Americans like you and I that understand the Constitution and can defend the freedom of the American people against the left and their increasing encroachments on our God given rights. So start your classes today for free. Start your free Constitution 101 course right now. How do you do it? Go to Hillsdale Edu Morning Update to enroll and it's no cost. It's easy to get started. You got to use a special website, Hillsdale Edu Morning Update Enroll for free hillsdale edu morningupdate it's the 47 Morning Update and it starts right now.
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Story number one, President Donald Trump had.
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A cabinet meeting and it's an important one because it shows just how transparent the President, United States of America is. The timing is also very important. After Democrats are saying they smell blood in the water politically right now as they defend the narco terrorists who are sending drugs into the United States of America that are killing Americans at a record rate of almost 300 a day. Mark Kelly and many other Democrats are now leading the attack on the Secretary of War, Pete Hedseth, over the drug boats. And the same people that are now saying the president doesn't have the right to strike these boats or the terrorists on the boats are the same people that literally did nothing after Biden drone attacked children. No, they did not say that was a war crime. They did not call for the present to be locked up or the man in charge at the Pentagon. And instead they look the other way. This time the President has made it clear we're going after these terrorists and these terrorist organizations who are killing Americans. And the President also showed during the Cabinet meeting that he has no problem answering the question as the Secretary of War was sitting literally right next to him. I want to play for you this back and forth with the media and I want you to actually hear what the President had to say. Not just a sound bite that the media is putting out, but the president in his own words. And I want you to hear what he had to say about the fog of war, the second strike on the drug boat survivors as the media has described it, and why he is going after them. Now, I'll say it again, this is an unedited version and it includes the Secretary of Defense sitting right next to the president. So listen, the president explain exactly why he's doing this and why, I believe so many Americans are standing behind him.
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Reporter/Interviewer
President, thank you so much for taking questions with your assembled cabinet. I wanted to clarify something that you had said on Sunday regarding the boat strikes near Venezuela. You had said that you didn't know if the second strike on that one boat had happened, but you wouldn't have wanted it. Now that your administration has acknowledged that it happened, do you support that second strike? And Mr. Secretary, I want to clarify something you had said in an interview back in September. I believe on Fox News you said that you would watch that strike live on television in real time. Did you know that there were survivors after the initial strike?
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Donald Trump
Well, look, all I know is this. Every boat that you see get blown up, we save 25,000 on average, lives, 25,000 lives. They've been sending enough of this horrible fentanyl and other things like cocaine and other things. But fentanyl right now is the leader of the package to kill our entire nation because a little speck on the head of a pin can kill somebody. It's very dangerous stuff. I know so many people where their sons were drug addicts. They had one little sample and they died. They died. They were. They couldn't believe it. As far as the attack is concerned, I didn't, you know, I still haven't gotten a lot of information because I rely on Pete. But to me, it was an attack. It wasn't one strike, two strikes, three strikes. Somebody asked me a question about the second strike. I didn't know about the second strike. Second strike. I didn't know anything about people. I wasn't involved in it. I knew they took out a vote. But I would say this, they had a strike. I hear the gentleman that was in charge of that is extraordinary, extraordinary person. I'll let Pete speak about him. But Pete was satisfied. Pete didn't know about second attack having to do with two people. And I guess Pete would have to speak to it. I can say this. I want those boats taken out and if we have to, we'll attack on land also, just like we tackled sea. And there's very little coming in by sea. I think we've knocked out over 90% of it. There's very little, and I understand that there's very little. We're saving hundreds of thousands of lives with those pinpoint attacks. It's an amazing thing when you see a boat going along and, you know, a lot of the press would like to say they're not. You see the boat? They're not maybe drugs. You see these boats? First of all, who has five engines on the back of a boat going in weird directions and loaded up with lots of white containers? They're bags of things. No, they've done an amazing job and Pete has done an amazing job. Pete, you could probably better answer the question.
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Pete Hedseth
No, you're spot on, sir. I think you've got to start with the baseline which Marco laid out and we've laid out. We've got 20 million people invading our country over four years. We don't know where they're coming from. That includes trend Naragua and cartels and violent criminals. They bring drugs and you mentioned it, Mr. President. Poisoning, an intentional poisoning of the American people, killing hundreds of thousands of Americans. So the President had the courage to designate these cartels as designated terrorist organizations. A number of us here served in the military and spent 20 years fighting terrorists like Al Qaeda and ISIS on the other side of the world. How do you treat Al Qaeda and isis? Do you arrest them and treat them, pat them on the head and say, don't do that again or you end the problem directly by taking a lethal kinetic approach. And that's the way President Trump has authorized the War Department to look at these cartels. And I wish everybody could be in the room watching. Our professionals, our professionals like Mitch Bradley, Admiral Mitch Bradley and others at JSOC and SOCOM and other commanders. The deliberative process, the detail, the rigorous, the intel, the legal, the evidence based way that we're able to withstand sources and methods that we can't reveal here that make sure that every one of those drug boats is tied to a designated terrorist organization. We know who's on it, what they're doing, what they're carrying. All these white bales are not Christmas gifts from Santa. This is drugs running on four motor fast boats or submarines that we've also struck. No one's fishing on a submarine. And I have empowered them to make that call. Now, the first couple of strikes, as you would, as any leader would want, you want to own that responsibility. So I said, I'm going to be the one to make the call after getting all the information and make sure it's the right strike. That was September 2nd. There's a lot of intelligence that goes into that, building that case and understanding that a lot of people providing information. I watched that first strike live. As you can imagine, at the Department of War, we got a lot of things to do. So I didn't stick around for the hour and two hours, whatever, where all the sensitive site exploitation digitally occurs. So I moved on to my next meeting. A couple of hours later, I learned that that commander had made the. Which he had the complete authority to do. And by the way, Admiral Bradley made the correct decision to ultimately sink the boat and eliminate the threat. He sunk the boat. Sunk the boat and eliminated the threat. And he was the right call. We have his back. And the American people are safer because narco terrorists know you can't bring drugs through the water. And eventually on land, if necessary, has to do to the American people, we will eliminate that threat and we're proud to do it.
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Reporter/Interviewer
So you didn't see any survivors? To be clear, after that first round.
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Pete Hedseth
I did not personally see survivors, but I stand because the thing was on fire. It was exploded in fire smoke. You can't see anything.
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Donald Trump
You got digital.
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Pete Hedseth
This is called the fog of war. This is what you and the press don't understand. You sit in your air conditioned offices or up on Capitol Hill and you nitpick and you pull plant fake stories in the Washington Post about kill everybody phrases on anonymous sources not based in anything, not based in any truth at all. And then you want to throw up really irresponsible terms about American heroes, about the judgment that they made. I wrote a whole book on this topic. Because of what politicians and the press does to war fighters, President Trump has empowered commanders, commanders to do what is necessary, which is dark and difficult things in the dead of night on behalf of the American people. We support them and we will stop the poisoning of the American people.
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Ben Ferguson
So as you can hear there, the President, United States of America, making it very clear why we are going after these terrorists and what success looks like. There's also one other warning. Democrats are now playing with the idea that they may come back when they gain power and start arresting our men and women in uniform. And even the man in charge of the Department of War, Pete Hed, Seth, for what they are now describing as war crimes. This is psychological warfare. This is a shocking precedent by a party that we now know is unhinged. Now we know what they tried to do to President Trump. We know they tried to lock him up. They tried to overthrow the will of the people. They tried to impeach him on documents they knew were a lie. The Steele dossier that were user generated and paid for by Hillary Clinton's campaign and the Democratic National Committee. We know they're willing to use the government to intimidate, to try to lock you and family members up if they don't like you. But what they're now saying is they're willing to go a step further. Before, it was Donald Trump and his closest allies. Now they're saying it could be any man or woman in uniform that is carrying out a strike against these narco terrorists. And what the Democratic Party is now clearly trying to do is to put major doubt in the minds of our men and women that fight these terrorists. This is psychological warfare. And I am going to make a prediction. There's a very good chance you're going to hear even more about this in the days and weeks ahead. They are going to want the men and women in uniform to fear them. They want you to believe that they will come after you, that they will lock you up, that they will bankrupt you, that they will arrest you, and that your life after serving your country will be spent in a prison cell. This is the most shocking part of this entire story. Is there a actual controversy here? No. I will remind you. There were drone strikes that killed children under the Biden administration. Democrats didn't bat an eye this time. Republicans are killing narco terrorists who are running drugs that are killing Americans. And what are the Democrats doing? They're threatening war crimes against men and women for serving the President of the United States of America with lawful orders. So that's where we are today. This is the Democratic Party, and we must make sure that our men and women in uniform are allowed to do their jobs and not worried about going to jail because of his psychotic Democratic Party.
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