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Welcome. It is verdict with center Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with you. And Senator, we've got a lot to talk about tonight, but everyone seems to really be talking about these drones in New Jersey as we're doing the show. I'm in New York City. Everywhere I went today, people are talking about these drones. People were showing me videos on their phone when I was at Fox. They're concerned about it. And there's a bigger issue and that's lack of people having trust in our government right now.
B
Well, that's exactly right. People are talking about the drones that are being seen up and down the East Coast. We're going to break that down, tell you what we know about that and tell you what it says about the state of trust in government and the media right now. Today we also have a story that just broke of gang members arrested in Aurora, Colorado. You know, the media told us this was not a problem. There were not Venezuelan gang members there. Well, it turns out they are. They engaged in a home invasion. We're going to break that down as well. And finally, a new survey that really is going to shock you. It's a survey of young people that found a very significant percentage of young people find the murder of the health care CEO acceptable. It is truly stunning the consequence of the ideological brainstorming of our young people. We're going to lay those numbers out as well.
A
Yeah, it's, it's just shocking and sad to see these. The data you just mentioned. Want to tell you real quick about Patriot Mobile. If you have a cell phone and your cell phone is with big mobile, then you need to know that your money is working against you. When you pay your bill. They give big donations to Democratic causes, candidates and radical organizations, organizations that advocate for defunding the police, for example, and organizations that pay for abortions on demand. Well, if you're like me and you don't want your money going against your family values, then you can switch to Patriot Mobile. Patriot Mobile was started by a group of patriots that found out what I just told you. And they said we've got to have an alternative. And over a decade ago, they started Patriot Mobile. Now, when you use Patriot Mobile, you're going to get the same exact coverage that you are used to right now. Because in 2024, everybody use the same big three networks. You use the same towers that you're on right now. They also have a coverage guarantee to give you peace of mind. And then here is the best part. They actually take about 5% of your bill every month at no additional cost to you and they give it back to organizations that stand on the front lines fighting for our first and our second amendment rights, fighting for the sanctity of life and standing with our military, our first responders and our wounded warrior heroes. So if you want to take a stand for conservative causes and put America first, switch to Patriot Mobile today. You'll get to keep your same number you have right now and you can keep your same phone or upgrade to a new one. They have 100% US based customer service team. They'll find the best plan to save you money as well. Go to patriotmobile.com verdict patriot mobile.com verdict or call them 972-patriot and I'm going to give you a free month when you use the offer code verdict patriotmobile.com verdict or 972-patriot for that free month of service today. All right, so everyone's talking, Senator, about these drones and like there's a lot people are saying, is it a ufo? Is it, is it foreign governments spying on us? There's a bigger conversation that, that I think we need to have and that is I am genuinely worried now that there are so many Americans that have no trust in the US Government. They have no trust in our, in our agencies like the FBI or the CIA or the Department of Homeland Security because they've been lied to. Whether it's on Covid or whether it's on us having a secure border like Mayorkas said over and over again, or lying to us about saying terrorists are not coming across the southern border when there's people on the terrorist watch list. And so now with this drone thing, there's genuine concern and paranoia that when the government comes out and says, hey, everything's okay, everybody says why would I believe you?
B
Look, that's a fair question. And I'm going to start with I've been in the US Senate 12 years. I have the top level classified clearance. I have classified briefings regularly and I'm here to tell you I have no friggin idea what's up in the sky. It actually is frustrating as all get out. So I'm going to walk you through some of the data points. I'm going to walk you through what I've been told and where the American people are. First of all, we're getting reports all up and down the eastern seaboard about people seeing strange things in the sky. For example, Governor Larry Hogan, former governor of Maryland, he tweeted out the following quote last night Beginning at around 9:45pm I personally witnessed and videoed what appeared to be dozens of large drones in the sky above my residence In Davidsonville, Maryland, 25 miles from our nation's capital. I observed the activity for approximately 45 minutes, like many have observed these drones. I do not know if the increasing activity over our skies is a threat to public safety, national security. But the public is growing increasingly concerned and frustrated with a complete lack of transparency and the dismissive attitude of the federal government. The government has the ability to track these from their point of origin, but has mounted a negligent response. People are rightfully clamoring for answers, but aren't getting any. We are being told that neither the White House, the military, the FBI, or Homeland Security have any idea what they are, where they are coming from, or who has launched or is controlling them, and that they pose no threat. That response is entirely unacceptable. I join with the growing bipartisan chorus of leaders demanding that the federal government immediately address this issue. The American people deserve answers and action now. So that's one data point. Look, Larry Hogan is a serious, incredible observer. He's reporting what he's seen now. Now here's another, another tweet. This is from Congressman Tom Keene in New Jersey. Quote, we here in New Jersey are at our wits end with the complete absence of answers on drone activity over our neighborhoods. The federal government should either explain if these are our government's assets in practice, or if these are truly unknown flights, responsibly remove one from the sky for examination. Either option would lead us to an answer and the public is rightfully demanding closure here. Nothing about what is occurring is acceptable. Governor Murphy and President Biden need to step up right now. So that's two data points. Now I gotta say, I asked my staff, I'm the incoming chair of the Senate Commerce Committee, the Senate Commerce Committee, among other things, has jurisdiction or the faa. I asked my, my team find out from the FAA what the hell these are. Staff had a briefing with the FAA and the FBI and other agencies and what we were told is there's no evidence that they're drones. But they have been able to verify that what people see are man deviation because there are flight plans and I've heard different people say one. One staffer has speculated, quote, the ones in New Jersey are airplanes. The ones that Hogan saw are stars. The reason they all look small is because is, is not because they're drones, but because they're far away. Now. I don't have any friggin clue. I don't know what the truth is or what the falsity is. And listen, at the end of the day in the Senate, I don't have control of satellites. I don't have the information to assess what is accurate or not. But why is the federal government not directly answering this? You're right. Everybody is asking this, and there are a whole variety of theories. Some people are saying, you know what? It's UFOs, it's little green men in the sky above New Jersey. Now, as much as I'd love to make a headline by saying, I can guarantee you, I can prove to you right now it is space aliens above New Jersey, I do not, in fact, have that information. Now, I can't tell you it's not space aliens above New Jersey. I don't know. But the question you asked at the outset, Ben, I think is really very interesting. The number of Americans who don't believe a thing they're being told. Why? Because the government, especially with the Biden administration, has demonstrated they're willing to lie over and over and over again. You remember the Chinese spy balloon? Government didn't let anyone know.
A
They shoot it down till it. Yeah. And they didn't shoot it down until after it had completed what you would describe as a mission.
B
And remember, look, the first government spy balloon we knew about, people up in Montana spotted it and said, hey, what the hell is that thing in the sky? And then the Biden administration reluctantly said, oh, yeah, this is spy balloons from China. And by the way, we've had a bunch of them before. We knew about them. We didn't do anything about them. We let them fly over America. We let them fly over our military bases. We let them spy on America, and we didn't tell you. And it wasn't until some citizen spotted it that we were caught. And then even after that, even after it was public, this is a Chinese spy balloon. It is being maneuvered to fly directly over military bases to engage in surveillance. Surveillance. The Biden administration decided to let that Chinese spy balloon fly over the entire continental United States from Alaska all the way across the country. They finally shot it down over the Atlantic Ocean. So all of us experienced that when strange things were flying in the sky. And the Biden administration knew what they were, they refused to tell us. So. So I don't think people are being unreasonable when you're getting lots of reports of people looking up, seeing strange things in the sky, figuring, you know what? The Biden administration knows what these are and they're not telling us. I've heard people speculate, it's the military. It's experiments, I have no idea. But I'm frustrated that when I ask, I don't get an answer. I will say this, and I do think this is a responsible thing to say. Ordinary citizens should not shoot them down if they are, in fact, manned aircraft. We don't want someone in a helicopter copter getting shot down. So don't shoot at the thing flying above you if you see something flying above you because you don't want to. You don't want to kill someone. You don't want to knock it down and have it crash down and injure or kill your neighbor. But I will say that there is a real need for transparency. And it says an enormous amount that the level of distrust is so deep. And it's because we've seen this administration lie to the American people over and over and over again and expect them to believe the lies.
A
Here's another question, and you mentioned classified briefing. So if you'll explain kind of how this works, because there was briefing to the media today, and the briefing was. Or the statement that came out from the US Government, it was kind of like a kumbaya universal statement from a lot of agencies under the Biden administration that this is not a threat from some adversary around the world. Everybody calm down. And then there were some House members that got a classified briefing. And immediately the question was asked by them, by the media, is, well, if there's no threat here, why was it a classified briefing? If you're saying that this isn't us and it's not an adversary, so is that a bunch to do about nothing or explain your thoughts on that and why it would have been done in a classified setting? Possibly.
B
Well, listen, and we've talked about this on Verdict previously, some time ago, there was a classified briefing on potential UFO sightings. And I was really interested. I'm like, hey, I want to know this. I went down and I read the folder. I got to tell you, Ben, it was the most underwhelming thing I've ever seen. Like, if I wanted to reveal a classified secret about it, I couldn't because the whole thing said some people saw some stuff. They didn't know what it was. Like, that's it. Like, there's a bunch of pages of. I don't know, some people said, so look, look, look. Up in the sky. It's. It's a bird, it's a. It's a plane, it's a dog. That, by the way, for people old enough to remember, is the opening of Underdog. Which. Which were you old Enough to watch Underdog as a kid.
A
Ben, I, I was not.
B
No, I actually think this, I think.
A
It was on the band list. This is the 10 years showing, glaring right now.
B
So they're looking up in the sky, they go, it's a bird, it's a plane, it's a frog. A frog. Not bird nor plane, nor even frog. Just little old me, Underdog. And it was the opening of a dog that would fly through the air like Superman. That's what, when I was a little kid, the cartoon I watched. But to be honest, the classified briefing did not tell you anything more than the opening cartoon from Underdog. So why do they do classified briefings that don't say anything? I don't know. Often the administration does it. I think it is in part a sense that they don't owe the American public leveling with them. I see all the time. And this is something actually both Republican and Democrat administrations do. But the Biden administration is particularly bad about it. They'll classify a briefing just because they don't want to talk about a topic or because they think it's politically embarrassing, not because, look, things are proper, properly classified. If it so happened that it was a spy satellite from, from the American government, you would want to classify that. We don't. We're not in the business of telling people about our spy satellites. Since I have, I have not attended a classified briefing on the drones. I have no idea if it's that or not. People have speculated that, but I have no information one way or the other. What I would just say is at this point, so many people have reported seeing this, including credible, serious people, that I think the federal government owes the American people just some level of leveling. Hey, here's what you're seeing, here's what's going on. You know, it's a flight test for this, it's that or whatever it is. And the fact that the people are basically told what you're worried about doesn't count. I mean, listen, you said you're in New York City right now, you said people were talking about all day long. That's to me, yeah, the government ought to friggin answer it. And they won't tell members of the Senate. So if they won't tell me, they don't view it that they owe anything to Congress, they don't view it that they owe anything to the American people. And no wonder so many Americans fundamentally distrust our government. When you don't have the government leveling with you and just telling you the basic facts. And by the way, just saying it's nothing to worry about. Well, that's not comforting. They said the same thing with the Chinese spy balloon, which they never would have told us about if it were not for people who spotted it with. With telescopes and binoculars. And to be clear, by the way, they finally admitted there had been multiple Chinese sky balloons before that. They never told Congress that. They never told me that. Not once, until the public spotted it. And so when you have a long pattern of lack of candor with the American people, it's unsurprising. The American people are deeply distrustful. And that's not a healthy thing.
A
No. And let's talk about two other aspects of this, and it deals with national security. You and I several months ago, talked about the number of drone incursions that were happening at the southern border and how the cartels down there are using an incredible number of drones to basically spy on us. Whether it tens of thousands of service down there, Right. There was like 30,000 incursions in this certain time period that we talked about. My memory is correct. And yet they're using them for intelligence, to see where we're moving and how we're trying to protect our border to human smuggle, sex trafficking, fentanyl drugs, all of it. Put it all together and that's it. Then we have a second now aspect of drones, and it's what we're witnessing in the Middle East. We are seeing drones that are being used to attack in the Middle East. We've seen drones that have been used in the war between Russia and Ukraine at a level that I think five, 10 years ago no one could have imagined. And then we had a drone expert on TV who was asked a couple different things. One, about shooting down drones. But two, does our government have what it takes to take out hardened drones, drones that may actually be used by adversaries, whether it's terrorists or other countries? And Scott Jennings asked him the question about, hey, like, if you got a drone over your house, can you shoot this thing down? And here's what he had to say. It's very interesting, some of these contraptions.
B
By my house, but I am not a counter. I wrote this down. A counter drone expert. You got the coolest job I have ever known about it. I have a question. Can you shoot these things down? So is that allowed? Let me answer that. A man who got a gun. No, but go ahead. Sorry.
C
Yeah, legally, no. They're treated the same as shooting down an aircraft which would carry even a.
B
Small one like this.
C
Even A small one, even your own.
B
Interesting.
A
And is it dangerous? Shoot down your own?
B
I'm just saying, if it wasn't against the law, hypothetically speaking, would it be dangerous to shoot one?
C
Still a terrible idea for a normal civilian to attempt to shoot down a drone.
A
Show us these, these two that are.
B
Closest to you because these two have.
A
Been through some things. What happened to these drones?
C
So these drones were taken out of the sky. The way that we test that is in special facilities. We're a kind of drone company. We build auto aiming firearms to actually take them down with bullets. A common method for drones to be taken out of the sky via law enforcement and agencies is with electromagnetic weapons like jammers and spoofers and microwaves. But they don't work against drones that are hardened. And that I think is a really scary undertone to this whole drone mystery is that we lack the kinetic responses necessary with our law enforcement and federal agencies. Although the DoD does maintain that.
A
You said drones that are hardened, meaning that they are made to not be taken out of the city.
C
Right?
B
Yeah.
C
And it's a very simple thing to do, like microwaves. To harden a drone from microwaves frying it is a copper tape.
B
A drone that size, could you put a weapon on that?
C
You could put, you could carry a couple pounds of weapon being explosives. Absolutely.
A
Wow.
B
So I mean, that's, that's not big at all. Could you hear it coming? Is it loud?
C
Oh, yeah, they're pretty loud. But you don't know where it's coming from. It's actually a pretty terrifying experience.
B
See, that's why, that's what all these people, I mean, are hearing.
A
I mean, well, over the weekend. I mean, if you just stop there. What my big concern is now, Senator, is we are seeing drones use the Middle east, we are seeing terrorists use them, we're seeing the cartels use them. We're seeing all these up. We don't have any answers. And then this drone expert is saying, quote, we lack the kinetic response from law enforcement to combat hardened drones that could be used against anyone, anywhere in the country.
B
Yeah, look, I've been down on the southern border where border patrol, on boats on the Rio Grande river, that they will use guns to take down drones from the cartels. But an ordinary citizen can't do that. And the problem is you maybe can do that with one or two, but you can't do that with a thousand. You can't do that with 5,000 or 10,000 or 20,000 or 30,000. And I will say that that's One of the dangers of the directions warfare is going is that we're seeing more and more synchronized drones being used in warfare, drones being used for surveillance. And the danger of hardened or weaponized drones is real and significant. Now, let me be clear. I want to reiterate. I have no evidence that these are drones that are over the eastern seaboard. But the Biden administration is doing nothing to assuage people's fears. They're not leveling with the American people. They're telling them, just, hey, don't worry about it. Nothing to see here. And based on their past pattern of lying, that does not inspire confidence.
A
Final question on this. John Kirby came out and said this about the drones trying to, I guess, make people feel better. It didn't make me feel better. But he said federal authorities are now investigating 100 tips on drone activity. Here's what the White House National Security communications Adviser said.
B
Well, I would repeat what we've said yesterday and last night in a multiple agency statement that we have taken a serious look at this. We have gone through 5,000 some odd sightings. We have added detection capabilities to the region. We've even sent up visual observers. And everything we're seeing to date, our assessment tells us that these are commercial drones, hobbyist drones or law enforcement drones, all operating legally and lawfully.
A
Nothing to worry about. Everything's fine. I just think this goes back to that issue we talked about the very beginning to bring it back full circle. Why does any. Why would anybody believe him, even if he is saying spot on, it's true when there's so many unanswered questions.
B
And by the way, that's completely different from what the FAA and the FBI briefed my staff where they said they were manned aircraft. So now John Kirby is standing up saying they're drones. Which is it like, what is. When you have multiple and conflicting answers, people naturally distrust them. And it's why you get lots and lots of conspiracy theories. But part of the problem with conspiracy theories is everything we're told is a conspiracy six months later proves true.
A
Speaking of conspiracy theories, at six months ago, they said we're not real. Or five months or four months or three months or even two months ago, and then it becomes real. That brings me to the second big topic that we mentioned earlier. And let's go back to Colorado. Let's go back to what the White House and the media said. They said that it was not happening, that there were not gangs that had been taking over apartment complexes and running these criminal gangs out of them. In Aurora, Colorado. They, they said this was a lie, that it wasn't true. Then they said, well, it's only happening in a couple of them, not that many, so it's not a big deal. They changed their story again and now we were right all along. Illegal alien invasion In Colorado, number one is real. And number two, you have 14 detained in Aurora, Colorado in a horrific home invasion that are likely illegal gang members. Police are now saying when individuals were not only taken but they were tortured.
B
Well, Martha Raddatz at ABC dismissed this said, oh, it's only a handful of apartment complexes which with the classic contempt of the elite left looking down on little people that live in apartment buildings who are being terrorized. But this story broke this week. The headline From Fox News, 14 detained in armed Aurora, Colorado home invasion are likely illegal gang members. Home invasion occurred at the edge at Lowry Apartments where viral video showed gang members earlier this year. So the media told us, don't believe your lying eyes. Oddly enough, the same thing they're saying about the drone sightings in the sky. But here's what Fox reported. Quote, police at Aurora, Colorado say the overnight armed home invasion at a local apartment complex that resulted in 14 suspects being detained was, quote, without question, a gang incident. Just before 2:30am on Tuesday, police were called to the edge of Lowry Apartments for a reported armed home invasion in which the victims were kidnapped and assaulted, the Aurora police said. Aurora Police Department Chief Todd Chamberlain said during the Tuesday a Tuesday news conference that 13 to 15 people, mostly males with some females, entered an apartment where two people were inside. Police say the suspects took the migrant victims to another apartment at the same location where the victims were threatened and bound. One of the victims, a man, sustained a stab wound but is expected to survive. Police said both of the victims are still at the hospital for treatment for their injuries. At some point, authorities said the suspects released the victims, who then called 91 1, quote, they were pistol whipped, they were beat, they were mistreated, chamberlain said. So does that fall in the category of torture? For me, yeah, it does. That's the chief of police in Aurora, Colorado. And he went on to say, quote, this is without question a gang incident. I don't know which gang they're affiliated with. Yes, Chamberlain said that, quote, there is a high assumption that they may be affiliated with the tda, the Trender Aragua gang. But he stopped short of declaring which gang in particular was involved because he could not be certain at this time. We were told this wasn't true and yet it is true.
A
Well, and let's go back to Martha Radek because this was when she was getting into it with JD Vance on this issue. And I want you to hear what she had to say. And again, this goes back to the lies when people don't trust the media or the government when they lie to us.
B
Stop you. The incidents were limited to a handful of apartment conflicts, apartment complexes, and the mayor said our dedicated police officers have acted on those concerns. A handful of problems only. Martha, do you hear yourself? Only a handful of apartment complexes in America were taken over by Venezuelan gangs and Donald Trump is the problem and not Kamala Harris's open border. Americans are so fed up with what's going on and they have every right to be.
A
By the way, if it's your apartment complex, I think it is a big deal when you have it. Being taken over by a government doesn't.
B
Stop lives in opulence. She's a multimillionaire. It's not her problem. Her home wasn't taken over by Venezuelan gangs. So why should she possibly be concerned? And listen, that liberal contempt for ordinary Americans is a big part of the reason we saw the overwhelming election results we did in November.
A
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B
Yeah, this is really stunning. So Emerson College put out a poll and they polled people's attitudes towards the healthcare CEO assassination. Here's what they concluded. Quote, A majority of voters, 68%, think the actions of the killer of the United Health Care CEO Brian Thompson are unacceptable. So I want you to pause and think about that. Only 68% of Americans think it is unacceptable to murder someone in cold blood. 17% find the actions acceptable. Murdering someone in cold blood, mind you, while 16% are unsure. Now if you break it down a little more, here's what Emerson College continues. Quote, While 68% of voters overall reject the killer's actions, younger voters and Democrats are more split. 41% of voters aged 18 to 29 find the killer's actions acceptable, while 40% find them unacceptable. So according to Emerson College polls, more young people age 18 to 29 find the cold blooded murder of this CEO acceptable than find it unacceptable. And it's 41% to 40. If you break down that 41%, 24% say it is somewhat acceptable and 17% say it is completely acceptable. Yes, murderous CEO. We've been trained like good little Marxists. Shoot them. Now, by the way, if you break it down on party lines, 22% of Democrats find them acceptable, while 59% find them unacceptable. So over a fifth of Democrats think it's perfectly fine to murder a CEO, to murder a man in cold blood, to shoot him in the back. And the comparison among Republicans. 12% of Republicans find the actions acceptable and 16% of independents find the actions acceptable. I gotta say, look, of all of those polls, the one that is the Most horrifying is 41% of young people find the killer's actions acceptable and only 40% find them unacceptable. So a plurality of young people say, hey, no problem. Murder someone who's a CEO. That is as, as stunning an indictment of the brainwashing that young people are receiving in school, in K through 12 education, in colleges and universities, and through the media as anything I've ever seen.
A
It is the indoctrination. And it's also, I think, the radical left taking over education where. And they're normalizing it. It's what you and I talked about on this podcast a couple days ago. The left has normalized the idea of assassinating people you disagree with who are in positions of power and giving you reason to believe that it is justifiable.
B
And remember, remember Joy Behar on the View said it was terrible that I said it was leftists who are saying this. Well, look, that polling data shows it's Democrats and it's young. It doesn't break it down by liberal or conservative. But I am very confident a significant percentage of those young people that think it's acceptable would also identify as leftists. And we know that young people skew further left. Anyway, this is. Look, let me repeat what ought to be a simple proposition. Murder is always, always, always wrong, whether you like the person or not. And by the way, all the people who think the murder of this CEO is so horrible, they don't know anything about him. They don't know about any healthcare claims. He denied he was CEO of a major healthcare insurance company. Now, I get a lot of people don't like insurance companies. I've got issues with insurance companies. But this guy may be a wonderful human being. We don't know. He was a father. He had two teenage kids. He was murdered in cold blood. And yet, according to this poll, 41% of young people think perfectly okay to murder him. That is, we need to see people speaking out and saying this is wrong, period. The end. Not like, and we cover this in Monday's podcast. Not like Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders and aoc. Murder is wrong. But it's okay, AR I understand it here. People can only be pushed so far. No, murder is wrong, period. The end. That would actually be a good and sensible and moral and reasonable position and what was understood throughout American history, at least in modern times. But for the cultural Marxists, murder of the enemy, no problem.
A
Yeah, no problem at all. Don't forget, we do this podcast Monday, Wednesday and Friday. You can also those in between days, grab my podcast, the Ben Ferguson Podcast, and I will keep you updated on the latest breaking news. Make sure you hit that subscriber auto download button right now. And most importantly, share this podcast wherever you are on social media. It helps us reach new people and that's why we do the show, to reach as many as we possibly can. The Senator and I will see you back here on Friday morning.
The 47 Morning Update with Ben Ferguson
Episode Title: Little Green Men over NJ, plus Venezuelan Gangs in Colorado & People OK w CEO Murder
Release Date: December 18, 2024
In this episode of The 47 Morning Update, host Ben Ferguson engages in a deep and unfiltered discussion on pressing national issues, including mysterious drone sightings over New Jersey, the resurgence of Venezuelan gangs in Colorado, and a startling survey revealing young Americans' attitudes toward the murder of a healthcare CEO. The conversation highlights growing distrust in government institutions and the media, delving into the implications of these developments for American society.
[00:01 – 04:09]
The episode kicks off with comments from the guest, Senator Ted Cruz (referred to as "A" in the transcript), who expresses significant concern over the recent drone sightings along the East Coast, particularly in New Jersey. Senator Cruz recounts his experiences in New York City, where citizens are actively discussing and sharing videos of unidentified drones, raising fears about national security and governmental transparency.
Key Points:
Notable Quote: Senator Cruz emphasizes the depth of distrust, stating at [04:09], “The number of Americans who don't believe a thing they're being told. Why? Because the government, especially with the Biden administration, has demonstrated they're willing to lie over and over and over again.”
[04:09 – 22:06]
Ben Ferguson ("B") responds by highlighting his own experiences and the limitations of his knowledge despite holding a top-level classified clearance. He underscores the conflicting reports from government officials and the frustration stemming from the lack of definitive information.
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[22:06 – 27:05]
Shifting focus, the discussion turns to a recent violent incident in Aurora, Colorado, where 14 individuals were arrested for a home invasion believed to be orchestrated by Venezuelan gangs. Initially dismissed by mainstream media and officials, the severity of the situation has now been acknowledged, highlighting inconsistencies in media reporting and official statements.
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[27:05 – 33:46]
The episode delves into a shocking survey conducted by Emerson College, revealing that a significant portion of young Americans, particularly those aged 18 to 29, find the murder of a healthcare CEO justifiable. This disturbing finding is presented as evidence of ideological indoctrination within educational systems and media.
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Notable Quotes:
The episode of The 47 Morning Update presents a compelling narrative on the erosion of trust between the American public and governmental institutions. Through discussions on unexplained drone activities, the resurgence of criminal gangs, and alarming shifts in societal values among youth, Ben Ferguson and Senator Ted Cruz underscore the urgent need for transparency, accountability, and a recommitment to foundational moral principles. The conversations serve as a stark reminder of the challenges facing modern America and the imperative to address them head-on to restore faith in leadership and societal structures.
Note: This summary excludes promotional segments and non-content sections to focus solely on the substantive discussions of the episode.