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The 47 Morning Update with Ben Ferguson
Shutdown Over, Battle Lines Drawn as Trump Pushes Voter ID Front & Center
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Ben Ferguson
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NBC Sports Announcer
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Ben Ferguson (Commentary)
A photo ID to vote is not controversial in this country. It is not controversial by party and it is not controversial by race. The vast majority of Americans agree with Nicki Minaj that in fact you should have a photo ID to be able to vote.
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Ben Ferguson (Host)
You're listening to the 47 Morning Update with Ben Ferguson.
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Ben Ferguson
Good Wednesday morning. Nice to have you with us on the 47 Morning Update and we've got two major stories for you. First up, the government shutdown is now over and President Trump had a lot to say about what now is been accomplished and what you can expect moving forward. We break all that down for you in just a moment. Also, there's a major war on Capitol Hill on this simple issue of voter id. Well, it's not a war with the American people. New data and polling is showing that overwhelming the majority of Americans, conservatives, independents and liberal are in favor of having to show an ID to vote. So why are Democrats refusing to back the legislation? We'll break that down for you as well. Can you buy real bitcoin in your retirement account? If not, it's time to upgrade to bitcoin. Ira. You can buy and sell bitcoin with major tax advantages. Visit Bitcoin ira.comBen to learn more. Right now, that's Bitcoin ira.comBen or call 866-679-7871. That's 866-679-7871. It's the 47 Morning Update and it starts right now.
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Ben Ferguson (Host)
Story number one, it is signed.
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Ben Ferguson
President Donald Trump has signed the bill to reopen the government following the Democrat government shutdown. It was a partial shutdown, but it was a significant moment as Republicans went straight to the Oval Office and made it very clear that Americans need to understand what is in this bill and what is working for you. Speaker Mike Johnson speaking first, saying this, standing next to the president in the Oval Office, a big thing. It seems like a small thing, but.
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Mike Johnson
It'S a big thing. And we're spending less money year over year with all the innovations and things that you said there. This is good for the country.
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Ben Ferguson
And America is back.
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Mike Johnson
The hat is appropriate.
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Ben Ferguson
It's the right slogan.
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Donald Trump
This is a new hat. We just came out. America is back. Look CNN's Thrill. Look at her. She never smiles. I never see her smile. Someday I'll see her smile.
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Health Care Advocate
Mr. President, did I mention that there's significant health care reform in this bill, PBM reform, something that you have been working on. And we appreciate and applaud your efforts bringing drug prices down for citizens here in America. Not only that, but we extended telehealth and also we are addressing maternal mortality in this bill. Rural health care has been a big part of your, of your focus and we appreciate that.
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Donald Trump
Thank you very much. Thank you. You know, a very big thing I think for all of us is most favored nations on drug pricing. So for 30 years they've been talking about it more than that. And it's basically we now will take prescription drugs will come down to the lowest price anywhere in the world. So if a country is selling a pill for $10 and we're selling it for $130, which is not much of an exaggeration at all, we were paying the highest drug prices anywhere in the world. Now we'll be paying tied with the lowest price. It's most favored nations. We will have the lowest price anywhere in the world. So a pill that was for $130 will be down to $20. So you can make a case that that's 800, 900% or like the press likes to hear, it's about 80%. But we get reductions like nobody's ever seen. And frankly, the Republican Party should be able to win the midterms on that alone. That's the biggest thing there is. Most favored nations. We're going to be bringing the price of drugs down. In my first term, I got it down 1/8 of 1%. And I was so proud because it's the first time in 28 years that drug prices came down. And now we're talking about bringing it down by 80, 90, 75, 68. I mean, we have I have numbers in the back that nobody can believe. Most favored nations. And remember, the Republicans did that. The Democrats did not do that. Republicans did it. And that's going to have a huge impact also on health care, because medicine, I mean, it's a big chunk of health care. And if you're bringing something down from $100 down to $20, $18, because we were subsidizing the entire world and frankly, I had to get the countries to go along with it and I had to threaten tariffs against them if they didn't approve. And the health care companies, who weren't easy either, but they said it doesn't matter because they'll never get the countries because they didn't really want to do it. And I got the countries, they got every one of them. And really, it's people can't even believe it. But for the people standing behind me, you should, if you use that, you should win. We should win the elections. Coming up. Anybody else? How about on this side?
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IRS Representative
You mentioned the IRS, Mr. President. Their behavior has been atrocious. If you think about leaking your tax returns, the tax returns of others, and never any accountability. I must have questioned Janet Yellen four times, five times under oath about this and never an answer. We stripped $10 billion from the IRS in this bill that you just signed. And today I launched an investigation with my staff on all of these contractors that are with the ones that allowed your information to be put out. These contractors that hire activists to come in and do their work, these corporations here in America that bring activists in to do their work, that's going to.
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Congressman
Come to an end.
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Donald Trump
They did leak my tax returns. It was terrible. The good news is I paid a hell of a lot of tax. I paid tens of millions of dollars. I said, where are my accountants? I want to talk to my accountants. But they did. They leaked my tax return. They didn't do it in a nice way. They tried to get something out of it. No, they're bad.
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IRS Representative
Accountability is coming, though. You think about the phone companies that leaked our telephone records. Several of us here, right, Verizon leaked my telephone records. You think about what's happened across the country. This is going to come to an end.
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Donald Trump
We should have voter id, by the way. We should have a lot of the things that I think everybody wants to see. Who would not want voter id? Only somebody that wants to cheat. Think of it. We don't have voter id and the Democrats don't want it. And the reason they don't want it because they want to cheat, because there's no reason in the world. And I love that debate, Lindsey. I love saying, well, why don't you want Voter id. And you watch them say, I don't know, I just make them vote, then it's a terrible thing. So anyway, anybody else?
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Congressman
Well, Mr. President, you said you wanted to make America safer and more prosperous. And we. And we have done it. More prosperity means more money in people's pockets. And they notice that every time they go to fill up with gas and they're going to know it when they get their tax returns, that this year are going to be at least $1,000, if not more greater than it's been in the past. And that's a result of the work that you've done with this whole group. And in terms of America being safer, a number of us were at the border two weeks ago. The border is secure. No one is coming across. Not the 10,000 we saw every day with Joe Biden and the American people still in overwhelming numbers. Republicans, Democrats and Independents all say illegal immigrant criminals need to be deported. And Mr. President, you're doing that.
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Donald Trump
And no tax on tips. No tax.
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Congressman
More money in people's pockets.
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Donald Trump
Think of it. And that was all. The great big beautiful bill, as I call it, the great big beautiful bill. To me, that's what it is. And people are starting. And people are starting to realize it now.
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Congressman
They're starting to see it.
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Donald Trump
A tax deduction on your. If you borrow, buy a car, if it's made in America, only if it's made in America. The rest we don't care about so much. But you buy a car, you get an interest deduction, you borrow money, you get an interest tax deduction. And that is you take interest, you deduct it against your tax. So to me, that's unbelievable for the people, unbelievable for our car companies, which is jobs. Anybody else elevated.
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Mike Johnson
Mr. President, the biggest part of this bill is our national security. And thank you. The men and women who serve this country are grateful to you.
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Donald Trump
Absolutely.
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Mike Johnson
We give them a pay raise. We're building more ships, as you said, planes, missiles. We need to defend this country. And you're doing a great job in leading us in the right direction.
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Donald Trump
Thank you very much. Katie, go ahead. You were going to say something.
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Ben Ferguson (Host)
Yeah.
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Congresswoman Katie
No, Mr. President, this is just unprecedented leadership. The fact that you got everyone to come together and actually get these bills across the finish line. You heard it from the speaker that that hasn't happened in a long time. So 96% of the government being funded, your priorities put in place, Mr. President, so that we can make the country safer, we can make it more prosperous. And not only can we make America Great again. But we can tell people now. America is back.
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Donald Trump
Yeah, it's a great. It's a great. We'll never forget maga. And we're all with maga, but I thought this was very appropriate, right?
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Ben Ferguson (Commentary)
Love it.
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Ben Ferguson
Love it.
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Donald Trump
Says Cindy Hud. Come on, say something.
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Mike Johnson
Well, there's a little hospital in here, a rural hospital in Maple, Mississippi, right. Called Franklin County Hospital. It would have closed the end of this month without this bill. Thank you. Thank you from everybody in Mississippi, especially Franklin County.
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Donald Trump
And we've covered the rural very well. Nobody ever thought it was possible because we had a lot of opposition from the Democrats, as you know, but nobody thought it was possible. That's great. How about it? Anybody back there?
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Congressman
Tom, what's the best budget for Native Americans ever?
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Donald Trump
Mr. President, thank you. So we'll sign and then if you would have some questions if anybody up.
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Mike Johnson
Here, let me just piggyback you. This rural America is taken care of in this bill.
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Donald Trump
And I mean, as Cindy says, so.
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Mike Johnson
Thank you for all America, but especially rural America.
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Donald Trump
Thank you. Thank you, everybody.
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Ben Ferguson
President Trump there making it very clear it was a team effort in so many different issues, as you heard there, with senators around him talking about what is in this bill. And it's partial shutdown of the Democrats yet again, trying to hold us hostage. Now it's all over. You can go back to work in Congress and do your actual job. The president making it clear he's going to keep fighting, but he's giving many Americans exactly what they need to succeed. And that's exactly what he said his plan was when he ran for re election.
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Ben Ferguson (Host)
Now, story number two.
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Ben Ferguson
Voter ID laws are something that conservatives, the GOP in general, and certainly the President, United States of America, Donald Trump had been focused on because we believe simply, and the president has made it clear that every vote should be counted and not canceled out by people that are cheating, that are lying about who they are, or dead people voting or even stuffing ballot boxes with people that actually had no intent of showing up to vote and someone else voted on their behalf. Yes, there is voter fraud in this country. And if you don't believe me, you can just look online at stories and articles of people who recently have gone to jail for voter fraud. Now, there's also a simple way to overcome this problem, and that is by having what now is being referred to as a SAVE Act. The SAVE act is very simple. It explicitly adds a national photo ID requirement to voting. Congress's HR 22. The SAVE act would require documentary proof of U.S. citizenship when registering to vote in federal elections as well and direct states to use certain processes to ensure only citizens are on the voter rolls. The Save America act also has been introduced by Representative Chip Roy and Senator Mike Lee. It describes as a new and improved VERs that adds a voter ID requirement for voting in federal elections while keeping the proof of citizenship requirement for registration. In essence, taking it a step further, make elections great again known as MEGA act is another GOP proposal that includes a national photo ID requirement and other election administration changes. The issue also popped up inside broader Capitol Hill negotiations as some Republicans threatened to block a shutdown ending deal unless it included citizenship and voter ID provisions. Now we know that didn't ultimately happen because the government the partial shutdown is now over. But let me tell you what the American people actually think about this. And if you want to know what Democrats are doing, well they're certainly not listening to the American people. And even CNN is saying overwhelmingly Democrats, Republicans and Independents are in favor of photo ID laws.
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Ben Ferguson (Commentary)
Take a look here. Favor photo ID to vote 85% of white people Favorite 82% of Latino 76% of black Americans favorite. So the bottom line is this Voter ID is not controversial in this country. A photo ID to vote is not controversial in this country. It is not controversial by party and it is not controversial by race. The vast majority of Americans agree with Nicki Minaj that in fact you should have a photo ID to be able to vote.
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Ben Ferguson
So something of a Now you notice there they didn't even break it down by Republican, Democrats and Independents. Instead they broke it down by race. Why did they decide to do that on cnn? For one simple reason. Democrats have been saying for decades that if you ask a minority for their ID to vote that is somehow racist. And that's exactly how they've been able to continue to cheat in elections by saying that you are a racist person if you ask a minority for their ID to vote. Well look at the numbers now. Black voters, overwhelmingly 76% said they want photo ID to vote. Whites 85% want it and Latinos and at 82%. So why would the Democrats on the Hill still say no? I'll say it simply this way. It's because they want to be able to still and alter election outcomes full stop. In fact, President Trump making it clear on the record using this type of data to make his point that yes, the American people want this. It's non political.
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Donald Trump
Who would not want voter ID Only somebody that wants to cheat. Think of it. We don't have voter id and the Democrats don't want it. And the reason they don't want because they want to cheat, because there's no reason in the world. And I love that debate, why don't you want voter id? And you watch them say, I don't know.
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Ben Ferguson
I know why. The president knows why. It is because Democrats want to be able to cheat. I think it's very clear President Trump is not backing down on this. And the American people are behind him in a number that we don't see hardly ever on any issue.
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Ben Ferguson (Host)
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Ben Ferguson
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