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The 47 Morning Update with Ben Ferguson
Trumping Iranian Militias, Reinstating our Heroes after COVID & Injunction what's your Function
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Unknown Speaker
Developers, you're not allowed to do anything more. They put restrictors on. They used to have a restrictor where you could take it out, but now they weld it in and you take a shower or wash your hands, whatever you do, including dishwashers where no water comes out, but you wash your hands. And in my case, I like to take a nice shower, take care of my beautiful hair.
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Ben Ferguson
You're listening to the 47 Morning Update with Ben Ferguson. Good Saturday morning to you. Ben Ferguson with you. And these are some of the stories that you may have missed that we talked about this week on the 47 Morning Update. First up, Donald Trump, we're now being told, is in direct conversations with Iran and also talking to militias in Iraq about disarmament. Also, you may remember the COVID mandate in the military is no longer a thing. Well, now the government official behind that mandate has been fired. And finally there is a constitutional crisis happening in this country as district judges are doing nationwide injunctions to stop Donald Trump's actions. Well, now Senate Republicans are saying and they're getting involved to take away power from some of these activist Judges. It's the 47 Morning Update and it starts right now. Story number one in some very important international news, the prime minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu met with Donald Trump at the White House. But one of the biggest things that came out of the conversation was some breaking news that Donald Trump announced about having direct talks with Iran over their nuclear weapons program. President saying this at the White House sitting next to Bibi.
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Unknown Speaker
We're having direct talks with Iran and they've started. It'll go on Saturday. We have a very big meeting and we'll see what can happen. And I think everybody agrees that doing a deal would be preferable to doing the obvious. And the obvious is not something that I want to be involved with or frankly that Israel wants to be involved, involved with if they can avoid it. So we're going to see if we can avoid it. But it's getting to be very dangerous territory and hopefully those talks will be successful. And I think it would be in Iran's best interest if they are successful. We hope, we hope that's going to happen. And we had just a lot of good talks on a lot of things.
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Ben Ferguson
Now, as President Trump was saying this in the Oval Office, Reuters came out with an exclusive report saying that Iran backed militias in Iraq are ready to disarm to avert what they describe as a Trump wrath. That's right. Coming out of Baghdad, several powerful Iranian backed militia groups in Iraq are prepared to disarm for the first time to avert the threat of an escalating conflict with the US Trump administration. That is what 10 senior commanders and Iraqi officials said to Reuters. The move to defuse tensions follows repeated warnings issued privately by U.S. officials to the Iraqi government since Trump took power in January, According to sources, who include six local commanders of four major militias. The officials told Baghdad that unless it acted to disband the militias operating on its soil, America could target the groups with airstrikes. A senior Muslim politician close to Iraq's government's alliance also told Reuters that discussions between the prime minister and several militia leaders were, quote, very advanced and the groups were inclined to comply with US Calls for disarmament. The factions are not acting stubbornly or insisting on continuing in their current form, he said, adding that the groups were fully aware they could be targeted by US Air strikes. The six militia commanders interviewed in Baghdad by Reuters at a southern province who requested obviously anonymity to discuss the sensitive situation are from multiple different groups. Many of them also had ties to Iran. Trump is ready to take the war with us to worse levels, we know that, one of the commanders said, and we want to avoid such a bad scenario. The most powerful Shiite militia also saying that it's time for us to find a way to work together. You cannot make this up. Why are they doing this now? Because they've witnessed what the president's doing with other leaders that he decides to take out ISIS leaders and the president making it clear that if you don't get a deal now, well, you're probably going to end up dead. The commander said their main ally and patron, Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards military force, has given them its blessing to take whatever decisions they deem necessary to avoid being drawn into a potentially ruinous conflict with the United States and Israel. So the moral of the story is even Iran's military understands that right now is not a time to mess with the Trump administration. And this may be exactly why they're willing to talk directly with the Trump administration to avert military strikes from a president that says he's not bluffing. Next story number two. It will go down in history as one of the worst moves ever made by any administration, especially when it came to military readiness. Between 2021 and 2023, approximately 8, 200 plus US military service members were discharged for refusing to comply with the Department of Defense's radical COVID 19 vaccine mandate. This figure encompasses personnel from all branches of the military. Well, in January of 2020, 5. President Donald Trump signed an executive order directing the reinstatement of these service members with full back pay and benefits. As Of April of 2025, the army has reenlisted over 23 soldiers who were previously discharged for vaccine refusal. Other branches are actively reaching out to eligible former service members to facilitate the return to service. Well, we now know who was behind that decision. That clearly discriminated against your right to, you know, choose what you're gonna do with your vaccines. A senior CIA official was the one who facilitated Biden's military COVID 19 vaccine mandate. Terry Aderim, a senior intelligence agency official and former senior defense official who played a pivotal role and potentially illegal role in the Biden administration's military vaccine mandate, has been fired from the agency. That coming from Breitbart News Adaram is a former senior Biden appointee at the Department of Defense who was performing the duties of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health affairs and had decamped in December to the CIA as director of CIA center for Global Health Services until about a week ago, according to sources. Her firing was related to a role in forcing service members to choose between taking a vaccine that was under emergency use authorization or being kicked out, according to sources. Now, on September 14th of 2021, that was about a month after the Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin ordered the vaccine mandate, Adaram issued a Memo instructing the DoD health care providers to consider the vaccine available to service members, giving multiple ones saying they were interchangeable even though they were not approved by the fda. In fact, per her guidance that she wrote, she said the two vaccines are interchangeable and DoD health care providers should use doses distributed under the EUA to administer the vaccination series as if the doses were the licensed vaccine. Translation if you don't have the Pfizer vaccine, we got another one that'll eventually get approved, so just, you know, go with that one. Now. Our memo was considered legally dubious even inside the Pentagon. That was reported also by Breitbart News. In September of 2022, a month after Adam issued her memo, a senior defense official proposed allowing service members who did not want to take the EUA vaccine to wait for the FDA approved vaccine before facing punishment for being unvaccinated. The Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Readiness Policy and Oversight, David Smith, proposed in a draft memo that would replace the ADAM memo saying, quote, if a service member after medical consulting declines the administration of the EUA manufactured product, DoD health care providers should engage with their logistics change to secure and administer the manufactured bio Pfizer InTech product prior to any punitive action being taken against the service member. Right. This actually seems to make some sense. I don't know what this is. I don't want it in my body. I'd rather wait for the Pfizer bioin tech one. That's what I wanna do. And what did the military say? Well, no, that is not what happened at all. Smith's actions memo was addressed to Adam with a recommendation for her to sign the draft memo with a proposed change. According to documents obtained by Breitbart News, the draft memo have been sent to the military services for coordination. And a senior Air Force official objected to it, arguing that adopting the change could open the military up for more litigation and possibly force it to reverse punishments already given for to those that had not taken the vaccine. So now you know how little they actually care in the Biden administration about those men and women that are willing to die for this country. And they looked at them as a headache and were willing to give them a vaccine that actually hadn't been approved yet. And what did they do to those service members that said they had real concerns? They said, you're fired. Well, now at least the woman who wrote that memo has also been fired. Paying off with what Donald Trump said. I'm going to get back into office and I'm going to put our war fighters at the forefront of my advocacy. And here is story number three. There is a real constitutional crisis happening in America right now. Nationwide injunctions coming from many different judges purposely to hamstring President Trump's agenda. Pam Bonney, the Attorney General of the United States, saying this about what is happening with these activist judges and these injunctions.
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Pam Bonney
The President is going to comply with the law. He was overwhelmingly elected by an overwhelming majority of the United States citizens to be our commander in chief. And that's what he's been doing. Shannon, just since January 20th. We've had over 170 lawsuits filed against us. That should be the constitutional crisis right there. 50 injunctions. They're popping up every single day, trying to control his executive power, trying to control where he believes our tax dollars should be allocated. And saying he won by an overwhelming majority is so important because that's what the American people want, what President Trump campaigned on and what he won on. And he's implementing that agenda at a rapid speed. None of us can keep up with him every single day. And so it's just we're going after all of these lawsuits. We're defending them all. We just got a great win and we'll continue to fight.
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Ben Ferguson
We'll continue to fight. Well, now there are people in Congress that are standing with the president over this constitutional crisis. We now know that Senator Grassley is unveiling a bill to boost Donald Trump in court and most importantly, limit the powers of these radical activist judges. Congressional Republicans are now hoping to turn the tide on the legal setbacks of President Trump's executive actions with a bill to weaken the federal judiciary. The Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley introducing a measure to prohibit district court judges from issuing nationwide injunctions rulings he believes are unconstitutional and should apply only to a lawsuit's individual parties involved and not an injunction on the entire country. Grassley said the wave of anti Democratic injunctions against actions taken by the president said that these federal judges have become the favorite tool of those seeking to obstruct President Trump's agenda. Individual district judges who don't even have authority over any of the other 92 district courts are single handedly vetoing policies the American people elected President Trump to implement, grassley said in a statement from the four of the Senate. In short, I'm trying to fix a bipartisan problem that has been plaguing both Democratic and Republican administrations alike. Senator Cruz also sounding the alarm at a Judiciary Committee hearing about these activist judges. Take a listen.
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Ted Cruz
It's long been said that hypocrisy is the tribute that vice pays to virtue. I have to admit I'm enjoying listening to my Democrat colleagues suddenly discover the virtues of the rule of law after four years where they brazenly supported the most lawless Department of Justice and the most politically weaponized Department of Justice our nation has ever seen. We just heard the senator from Rhode island talk about the imperative of protecting judges and yet not not a single Democrat senator cared about the violent protesters that showed up outside Supreme Court justices homes. Including, I might note, female justices like Justice Amy Coney Barrett threatening their family. And Joe Biden's Attorney General didn't do a damn thing and refused to enforce the law to protect those judges. Why? Because he agreed with the violent protesters and he wanted to intimidate and threaten those judges.
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Ben Ferguson
Senator Cruz is absolutely right. The left has gone totally rogue. Do not care what the law actually says and it's now time for the Republicans in Congress to rein them in. Thank you for listening to the 47 Morning Update with Ben Ferguson. Please make sure you hit subscribe wherever you're listening to this podcast right now and for more in depth news, also subscribe to the Ben Ferguson Podcast and We will see you back here on Monday morning.