July 1, 2025 • 16 mins
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Legislative Uncertainty:
- The speaker discusses the ongoing negotiations and uncertainty surrounding a major piece of legislation referred to as the "Big Beautiful Bill."
- As of the recording, several GOP senators are reportedly holding out, though concessions may bring them on board.
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Political Commentary:
- The speaker references conversations with members of Congress and provides real-time updates on the bill’s status.
- There is criticism of the media and Democratic opposition, with a strong defense of the bill’s fiscal and economic goals.
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Key Figures Quoted:
- Caroline Levitt (White House Press Secretary) defends the bill’s economic impact and tax cuts.
- Senator Tommy Tuberville (referred to as “Turber Bill”) compares the bill to The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, emphasizing tax cuts and agency reforms.
- Senator Ron Johnson and Senator Rick Scott also defend the bill, focusing on spending cuts, Medicaid reform, and economic growth.
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ICE Tracking App Controversy:
- The latter part of the transcript shifts to a critique of CNN for covering an app called “ICE Block,” which alerts users to ICE agent locations.
- Critics, including Tom Homan (former ICE Director), argue the app endangers law enforcement and accuse CNN of promoting anti-ICE sentiment.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Well, come in is the Ben Ferguson Show. It is
nice to have you with us. I was planning on
being on family vacation and just taking some time off
for the next week, but with so many things happening
in the world, we're deciding we're not going to be
doing that. So what we're going to be doing instead
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show and the forty seven Morning Update. It's that show
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of the White House or that affect the White House.
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big stories of the day.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Stop Ice from arresting criminal aliens in New York City.
This was in his acceptance speech for the Democrat nomination
for mayor. Your response to Zorhan Mandona.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
Good luck if you're listening to the forty seven Morning
Update with Ben Ferguson.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
Good Tuesday morning, it's so nice to have you with
us on the forty seven Morning Update. Here are the
big stories we're talking about. The biggest one is the
Big Beautiful Bill. We have a lot that is happening
as we're recording this a little after midnight right now,
and there's word that there are some Republican holdouts in
the Senate. Much is changing and the President is working
(03:44):
the phone lines. We'll give you the latest that we
have for you right now in just a moment. Also,
in a shocking move, a major TV network is now
helping warn individuals where ICE agents are so that they
can get away from being held accountable for breaking our laws.
Who's doing it? We'll expose that coming up as well.
(04:07):
It's the forty seven Morning Update and it starts right now.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
Story number one.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
So you're tuning in right now wanting to know what's
going on with a Big Beautiful Bill. A lot is
changing and it's happening very quickly. I'm going to timestamp
this for you to let you know it's approaching midnight
as we speak right now. When you hear this, depending
on when you download it, it may change drastically from
(04:32):
what I'm telling you now. That's why I'm letting you
know that as I literally just got the phone with
members of Congress to get an update on what they're hearing.
And I'm gonna be honest with you. After talking and
texting with several different people in Congress, many of them
still don't know exactly what this final bill is going
(04:53):
to look like. There is a lot of back and
forth it is taking place right now now. There's also
a rumor that at midnight tonight they are up to
six GOP senators that are holding out on the Big
Beautiful Bill. I talked to another senator who said it's
five different GOP members, but they believe that those five
(05:15):
will come around after they get some concessions that they need.
This is how the sausage is made in Washington, DC.
And yes, all of the people I talked to are
sitting around their offices waiting for what's gonna happen next.
So let's go back to earlier in the day and
I want to explain to you how we got to
the point that we are at right now. Caroline Levitt
(05:38):
taking a lot of heat at the White House Press
briefing today on the Big Beautiful Bill because there are
so many in the Democratic Party and in the mainstream
media that want to destroy this from becoming a reality.
I want you to listen to what she had to
say about this legislation.
Speaker 4 (05:54):
You speak on it, can you respond to the CBO
list month that the Senate but would increase the deficite
when you're eighty three in trillion? This is one of
the most fiscally conservative pieces of legislation that has ever
made its way through Capitol Hill. There's two trillion dollars
in mandatory savings in this bill. And not only that,
the projected growth that this bill will bring to our economy.
(06:14):
It will be an economic boom. The Council of Economic
Advisors has an analysis that shows that the bill will
generate four point one trillion dollars in economic growth, and
it will cut taxes, putting more money back into the
American people's pockets. That's why this president wants this bill
to pass. And I know he's busy working the phones
and doing what he needs to do today to make
it happen. So we'll see you all later. Thank you,
(06:36):
We'll see you in Florida.
Speaker 5 (06:36):
Thank you now.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
As you heard Caroline say there, We'll see you and
tomorrow in Florida, meaning right now as you're listing this show.
There's also another important part of what she just said.
The President is working the phones and has been working
them from what I've been told, all day long and
late into the evening and very well maybe pulling what
you would refer to in college is a good old
(06:59):
all night making sure that this gets across the finished line. Now,
there is also other centators that are going on TV
talking about where they believe this is going. Centater turber
Bilt from Alabama, you may know him as the football coach.
Here's what he had to say on Fox Business.
Speaker 6 (07:16):
What is your assessment when you look at the whole thing,
what would you have liked to have gotten in that
didn't and what do you.
Speaker 5 (07:21):
Think is the best things in it? Well, first of all,
two thirds of the bill is the tax cuts, which
obviously we've got to get done. It's necessary. Then one
third of the bill is we're reforming most of the agencies,
which is Medicaid, you know, school loans, all those things
that are really costing us a lot of money. They've
right now we have forty seven million young Americans that
(07:46):
are in debt with student loans. For one point seven
trillion dollars. We can't sustain that. We can't sustain it.
So we've done some work on that. We've done some
work on Medicaid. Medicaid is basically reform it care people
off that's not supposed to be on their illegals and
people that should be working. So all this, most of
it is good. You just sometimes you hate to do
(08:09):
things that you know is going to put people in
a situation where they're going to be uncomfortable. But the
end of the day, we all have to adjust to
this because we can't keep spending the way we're spending
right now. We can't do it.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
We can't keep spending the way we're spending right now.
We just can't keep doing it now. Senator Turberville brought
up an excellent point there as well. Two thirds of
this big, beautiful bill are actually tax cuts and one
third is reforming most of the agencies that is extremely important. Now,
there's also many that are saying the American people actually
(08:41):
don't want this. One of the things that Tom Tillis
has been saying about this bill that actually is not true.
In fact, if you go back and look at what
Donald Trump ran on he ran on the issue of
making the Trump tax cuts permanent. How are we doing it?
It is through the Big Beautiful Bill. So the president
United States of America is burning the Midnight Oil Center.
(09:05):
Ron Johnson defending the Big Beautiful Bill as well on CNN,
saying this to Jake Tapper.
Speaker 7 (09:11):
Billion so Biden deficits were three times larger than pre
pandemic levels of death. SIT and spending is just out
of control. So it's easy to be a Democrat. Spend
mortgage and kids future, never be held accountable by the media.
It's pretty hard what we're trying to do, and so
this may take a little bit more time.
Speaker 6 (09:30):
Well, DEAFSIT spending is a bipartisan affliction. You know that
better than anyone. Earlier this month, you were warning about
this bill adding trillions to the national debt. You told
ABC News quote, I'm worried about our kids and grandkids,
the fact that we're mortgaging their future. It's wrong, it's immoral.
Is has your position changed? It's this bill. I mean,
(09:50):
this legislation is still going to add to the deficits.
Speaker 7 (09:53):
So Democrats their only solution is increased taxes. We don't
want to do that. That Haim's economic growth. We won't
get the revenue you ever, look for, all Democrats do
is spend. By the way they're talking about, you know,
we're going to get you know, test cuts for millionaires. No,
we're just not going to increase taxes. They could have
done that in the four years when they were in power.
They could have gotten rid of the Tax Cutting Jobs Act.
They could have increased taxes on every American. That's what
(10:16):
we're trying to avoid. So again, Democrats love to spend.
I'm not saying that we don't have Republicans that are
a big spender as well. I've been focusing on spending, spending, spending,
trying to put pressure on the process, and I think
right now the stumbling block is what the Senate bill does.
Even though we actually reduce spending more, we also make
sure that those business tax provisions which will incentivize growth
(10:38):
are permanent. So that holds a bigger score. But the
difference between the House and Center is about six hundred
and fifty one billion dollars. Rick Scott's amendment, which is
eminently reasonable. It doesn't kick anybody off of Medicaid. It
just limits at some point in time in the future.
Additional adults who are childless, who are working age, who
(10:58):
could work, it's going to deny them that nine to
one match, which is distorted Medicaid. Jake, for every dollar
the state puts into a to provide health care for
a disabled child, the federal government puts a buck thirty three.
But for every dollar they put in toward a single
childless adult who should be working, we kick in nine.
That has led to all kinds of abuse, provider taxes,
(11:21):
provider fees. By the way, that's not healthcare. But you
have the federal government's kicking out nine dollars for every
one of the states. That's what we're trying to address.
We're not trying to take Medicaid away from disabled children.
We're trying to stop that scam the states and providers
have been using to draw down one hundreds of billions
of dollars for the federal government that we can't afford.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
So you listener Ron Johnson there defending the big beautiful bill.
DEM's only solution has increased taxes and saying, quote, it's
easy to be a Democrat. You can also find it
very interesting that Jake Tapper it see it and now
actually cares about government spending, something he didn't care about
under the Biden administration, not one single time, but all
(12:00):
of a sudden, the media now is like, well, we
need to be looking at the deficit. At the end
of the day. Donald Trump promised to make the tax
cuts permanent and to rein in the size of government.
That's clearly what he's advocating for and what he's trying
to do right now. Now, I'll say this for the
five that are apparently holding out at this hour a
(12:22):
little after midnight as I am recording the show, anything
can happen in the next few hours, and I have
a feeling that at the end of the day, Donald
Trump will be working those phones and making sure that
the big, beautiful bill gets across the finish line for
the American people.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
Now, story number two.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
The media yet again putting ice agents lives at risk,
this time CNN featuring a segment on ice Block. It
is an app that lets users anonymously crowd source ice
agents sightings across a mapp and send alerts to others
within a five mile radius. Now, the app's creator framed
(13:03):
as a quote harmless early warning system to help people
avoid ice, not to incite violence against the agents. Ice
block enforces constraints, they claim as well, one post every
five minutes, auto deletion after four hours, and explicitly recommends
users not interfere with officers. That's their get out of
(13:25):
jail free card. Apparently, the White House Press Secretary Caroline
Levitt accusing CNN of encouraging violence by publicizing the app,
especially amid a reported five hundred percent surge in assaults
on ICE agents nationwide. The acting ICE Director called CNN's
coverage quote reckless and irresponsible, warning that it paints a
(13:48):
target on federal law enforcement officers. Backs and Tom Homan,
the former ICE director, and the current borders are branded.
The app is simply disgusting, and urge the DOJ to
investigate CNN's role in all of this. I want you
to hear more of what Tom Holman had to say
on Fox News Channel about this.
Speaker 8 (14:10):
So this next story is outrageous. A new iPhone app
is alerting people about ICE sightings in the area. As
if that's not bad enough. Seeing in it appears to
be promoting the app, talking to the creator, and doing
a whole story on it. That is not sitting well
with my next guest the borders. Our Tom Holman joins me. Now, Tom,
they've crossed the line here. This is out of control.
Speaker 6 (14:33):
I know.
Speaker 9 (14:34):
It's just simply disgusting. In any network that covers that
is disgusting as well. So I'm hoping DJ steps in
here and see if they cross that line. I'm competing
federal law enforcement offshoes. Look, Lawrence, you're not talking about this.
Pasaulting CONCIS is up over five hundred percent. Now you've
got an app that's going to tell where ICE operators
are going to be. It's only a matter of time
for ICE stages are ambushed by some nut like we're
(14:55):
happening in LA throwing them a top cocktail, throwing bricks,
and these officers. It's just this is just disgusting at
every level. So I hope DK dives in this deeply,
because you know, ICE is constraint on public safety threats
and national security threats. This shouldn't be a partisan issue.
There shouldn't be an issue anybody's is against. So they're
already a dangerous job going after the worst, the worst.
(15:16):
These guys are putting their lives on the line every day,
going after the worst and worst international security threats, and
this app makes it that much more dangerous. It's it's
incredible that those who enforced law, all of a sudden,
they are the bad guys you want to break the law,
they're victims. It's disgusting.
Speaker 8 (15:30):
Why I was seeing in promote this, Why would they
do a story on this?
Speaker 9 (15:34):
I can't figure out. I've been look, I've been doing
this for four decades. I've never seen anything like this
in my life. You know, it's got to be they
hate Trump more than love law enforcement or I can't
figure it out, but something needs to be done. I mean,
you advertise this guy's app on a national TV network,
They're just going to bring more followers, sick followers to
the app and use it again, letting the bad guy
(15:58):
know ICE is coming. They're here, here's where they're going next.
This is dangerous for the men and women law enforcement.
Speaker 8 (16:04):
So true, Tom, I want to.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
Get Tom Homan clearly slamming CNN for promoting the ICE
tracking app and now is saying maybe it's time for
law enforcement, the DOJ to step in here and see
if they cross the line. Competing federal law enforcement officers
yet again another example of how the left is doing
everything they can to protect illegal immigrants and put American
(16:28):
lives at risk.
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being on family vacation and just taking some time off
for the next week, but with so many things happening
in the world, we're deciding we're not going to be
doing that. So what we're going to be doing instead
is I'm going to be doing a hybrid with this
show and the forty seven Morning Update. It's that show
(00:22):
that I do every morning that's about ten to twelve
minutes long, three biggest stories of the day coming out
of the White House or that affect the White House.
So for the next few days, that is what you're
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make sure that you knew that on the front end.
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Speaker 2 (03:04):
Stop Ice from arresting criminal aliens in New York City.
This was in his acceptance speech for the Democrat nomination
for mayor. Your response to Zorhan Mandona.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
Good luck if you're listening to the forty seven Morning
Update with Ben Ferguson.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
Good Tuesday morning, it's so nice to have you with
us on the forty seven Morning Update. Here are the
big stories we're talking about. The biggest one is the
Big Beautiful Bill. We have a lot that is happening
as we're recording this a little after midnight right now,
and there's word that there are some Republican holdouts in
the Senate. Much is changing and the President is working
(03:44):
the phone lines. We'll give you the latest that we
have for you right now in just a moment. Also,
in a shocking move, a major TV network is now
helping warn individuals where ICE agents are so that they
can get away from being held accountable for breaking our laws.
Who's doing it? We'll expose that coming up as well.
(04:07):
It's the forty seven Morning Update and it starts right now.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
Story number one.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
So you're tuning in right now wanting to know what's
going on with a Big Beautiful Bill. A lot is
changing and it's happening very quickly. I'm going to timestamp
this for you to let you know it's approaching midnight
as we speak right now. When you hear this, depending
on when you download it, it may change drastically from
(04:32):
what I'm telling you now. That's why I'm letting you
know that as I literally just got the phone with
members of Congress to get an update on what they're hearing.
And I'm gonna be honest with you. After talking and
texting with several different people in Congress, many of them
still don't know exactly what this final bill is going
(04:53):
to look like. There is a lot of back and
forth it is taking place right now now. There's also
a rumor that at midnight tonight they are up to
six GOP senators that are holding out on the Big
Beautiful Bill. I talked to another senator who said it's
five different GOP members, but they believe that those five
(05:15):
will come around after they get some concessions that they need.
This is how the sausage is made in Washington, DC.
And yes, all of the people I talked to are
sitting around their offices waiting for what's gonna happen next.
So let's go back to earlier in the day and
I want to explain to you how we got to
the point that we are at right now. Caroline Levitt
(05:38):
taking a lot of heat at the White House Press
briefing today on the Big Beautiful Bill because there are
so many in the Democratic Party and in the mainstream
media that want to destroy this from becoming a reality.
I want you to listen to what she had to
say about this legislation.
Speaker 4 (05:54):
You speak on it, can you respond to the CBO
list month that the Senate but would increase the deficite
when you're eighty three in trillion? This is one of
the most fiscally conservative pieces of legislation that has ever
made its way through Capitol Hill. There's two trillion dollars
in mandatory savings in this bill. And not only that,
the projected growth that this bill will bring to our economy.
(06:14):
It will be an economic boom. The Council of Economic
Advisors has an analysis that shows that the bill will
generate four point one trillion dollars in economic growth, and
it will cut taxes, putting more money back into the
American people's pockets. That's why this president wants this bill
to pass. And I know he's busy working the phones
and doing what he needs to do today to make
it happen. So we'll see you all later. Thank you,
(06:36):
We'll see you in Florida.
Speaker 5 (06:36):
Thank you now.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
As you heard Caroline say there, We'll see you and
tomorrow in Florida, meaning right now as you're listing this show.
There's also another important part of what she just said.
The President is working the phones and has been working
them from what I've been told, all day long and
late into the evening and very well maybe pulling what
you would refer to in college is a good old
(06:59):
all night making sure that this gets across the finished line. Now,
there is also other centators that are going on TV
talking about where they believe this is going. Centater turber
Bilt from Alabama, you may know him as the football coach.
Here's what he had to say on Fox Business.
Speaker 6 (07:16):
What is your assessment when you look at the whole thing,
what would you have liked to have gotten in that
didn't and what do you.
Speaker 5 (07:21):
Think is the best things in it? Well, first of all,
two thirds of the bill is the tax cuts, which
obviously we've got to get done. It's necessary. Then one
third of the bill is we're reforming most of the agencies,
which is Medicaid, you know, school loans, all those things
that are really costing us a lot of money. They've
right now we have forty seven million young Americans that
(07:46):
are in debt with student loans. For one point seven
trillion dollars. We can't sustain that. We can't sustain it.
So we've done some work on that. We've done some
work on Medicaid. Medicaid is basically reform it care people
off that's not supposed to be on their illegals and
people that should be working. So all this, most of
it is good. You just sometimes you hate to do
(08:09):
things that you know is going to put people in
a situation where they're going to be uncomfortable. But the
end of the day, we all have to adjust to
this because we can't keep spending the way we're spending
right now. We can't do it.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
We can't keep spending the way we're spending right now.
We just can't keep doing it now. Senator Turberville brought
up an excellent point there as well. Two thirds of
this big, beautiful bill are actually tax cuts and one
third is reforming most of the agencies that is extremely important. Now,
there's also many that are saying the American people actually
(08:41):
don't want this. One of the things that Tom Tillis
has been saying about this bill that actually is not true.
In fact, if you go back and look at what
Donald Trump ran on he ran on the issue of
making the Trump tax cuts permanent. How are we doing it?
It is through the Big Beautiful Bill. So the president
United States of America is burning the Midnight Oil Center.
(09:05):
Ron Johnson defending the Big Beautiful Bill as well on CNN,
saying this to Jake Tapper.
Speaker 7 (09:11):
Billion so Biden deficits were three times larger than pre
pandemic levels of death. SIT and spending is just out
of control. So it's easy to be a Democrat. Spend
mortgage and kids future, never be held accountable by the media.
It's pretty hard what we're trying to do, and so
this may take a little bit more time.
Speaker 6 (09:30):
Well, DEAFSIT spending is a bipartisan affliction. You know that
better than anyone. Earlier this month, you were warning about
this bill adding trillions to the national debt. You told
ABC News quote, I'm worried about our kids and grandkids,
the fact that we're mortgaging their future. It's wrong, it's immoral.
Is has your position changed? It's this bill. I mean,
(09:50):
this legislation is still going to add to the deficits.
Speaker 7 (09:53):
So Democrats their only solution is increased taxes. We don't
want to do that. That Haim's economic growth. We won't
get the revenue you ever, look for, all Democrats do
is spend. By the way they're talking about, you know,
we're going to get you know, test cuts for millionaires. No,
we're just not going to increase taxes. They could have
done that in the four years when they were in power.
They could have gotten rid of the Tax Cutting Jobs Act.
They could have increased taxes on every American. That's what
(10:16):
we're trying to avoid. So again, Democrats love to spend.
I'm not saying that we don't have Republicans that are
a big spender as well. I've been focusing on spending, spending, spending,
trying to put pressure on the process, and I think
right now the stumbling block is what the Senate bill does.
Even though we actually reduce spending more, we also make
sure that those business tax provisions which will incentivize growth
(10:38):
are permanent. So that holds a bigger score. But the
difference between the House and Center is about six hundred
and fifty one billion dollars. Rick Scott's amendment, which is
eminently reasonable. It doesn't kick anybody off of Medicaid. It
just limits at some point in time in the future.
Additional adults who are childless, who are working age, who
(10:58):
could work, it's going to deny them that nine to
one match, which is distorted Medicaid. Jake, for every dollar
the state puts into a to provide health care for
a disabled child, the federal government puts a buck thirty three.
But for every dollar they put in toward a single
childless adult who should be working, we kick in nine.
That has led to all kinds of abuse, provider taxes,
(11:21):
provider fees. By the way, that's not healthcare. But you
have the federal government's kicking out nine dollars for every
one of the states. That's what we're trying to address.
We're not trying to take Medicaid away from disabled children.
We're trying to stop that scam the states and providers
have been using to draw down one hundreds of billions
of dollars for the federal government that we can't afford.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
So you listener Ron Johnson there defending the big beautiful bill.
DEM's only solution has increased taxes and saying, quote, it's
easy to be a Democrat. You can also find it
very interesting that Jake Tapper it see it and now
actually cares about government spending, something he didn't care about
under the Biden administration, not one single time, but all
(12:00):
of a sudden, the media now is like, well, we
need to be looking at the deficit. At the end
of the day. Donald Trump promised to make the tax
cuts permanent and to rein in the size of government.
That's clearly what he's advocating for and what he's trying
to do right now. Now, I'll say this for the
five that are apparently holding out at this hour a
(12:22):
little after midnight as I am recording the show, anything
can happen in the next few hours, and I have
a feeling that at the end of the day, Donald
Trump will be working those phones and making sure that
the big, beautiful bill gets across the finish line for
the American people.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
Now, story number two.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
The media yet again putting ice agents lives at risk,
this time CNN featuring a segment on ice Block. It
is an app that lets users anonymously crowd source ice
agents sightings across a mapp and send alerts to others
within a five mile radius. Now, the app's creator framed
(13:03):
as a quote harmless early warning system to help people
avoid ice, not to incite violence against the agents. Ice
block enforces constraints, they claim as well, one post every
five minutes, auto deletion after four hours, and explicitly recommends
users not interfere with officers. That's their get out of
(13:25):
jail free card. Apparently, the White House Press Secretary Caroline
Levitt accusing CNN of encouraging violence by publicizing the app,
especially amid a reported five hundred percent surge in assaults
on ICE agents nationwide. The acting ICE Director called CNN's
coverage quote reckless and irresponsible, warning that it paints a
(13:48):
target on federal law enforcement officers. Backs and Tom Homan,
the former ICE director, and the current borders are branded.
The app is simply disgusting, and urge the DOJ to
investigate CNN's role in all of this. I want you
to hear more of what Tom Holman had to say
on Fox News Channel about this.
Speaker 8 (14:10):
So this next story is outrageous. A new iPhone app
is alerting people about ICE sightings in the area. As
if that's not bad enough. Seeing in it appears to
be promoting the app, talking to the creator, and doing
a whole story on it. That is not sitting well
with my next guest the borders. Our Tom Holman joins me. Now, Tom,
they've crossed the line here. This is out of control.
Speaker 6 (14:33):
I know.
Speaker 9 (14:34):
It's just simply disgusting. In any network that covers that
is disgusting as well. So I'm hoping DJ steps in
here and see if they cross that line. I'm competing
federal law enforcement offshoes. Look, Lawrence, you're not talking about this.
Pasaulting CONCIS is up over five hundred percent. Now you've
got an app that's going to tell where ICE operators
are going to be. It's only a matter of time
for ICE stages are ambushed by some nut like we're
(14:55):
happening in LA throwing them a top cocktail, throwing bricks,
and these officers. It's just this is just disgusting at
every level. So I hope DK dives in this deeply,
because you know, ICE is constraint on public safety threats
and national security threats. This shouldn't be a partisan issue.
There shouldn't be an issue anybody's is against. So they're
already a dangerous job going after the worst, the worst.
(15:16):
These guys are putting their lives on the line every day,
going after the worst and worst international security threats, and
this app makes it that much more dangerous. It's it's
incredible that those who enforced law, all of a sudden,
they are the bad guys you want to break the law,
they're victims. It's disgusting.
Speaker 8 (15:30):
Why I was seeing in promote this, Why would they
do a story on this?
Speaker 9 (15:34):
I can't figure out. I've been look, I've been doing
this for four decades. I've never seen anything like this
in my life. You know, it's got to be they
hate Trump more than love law enforcement or I can't
figure it out, but something needs to be done. I mean,
you advertise this guy's app on a national TV network,
They're just going to bring more followers, sick followers to
the app and use it again, letting the bad guy
(15:58):
know ICE is coming. They're here, here's where they're going next.
This is dangerous for the men and women law enforcement.
Speaker 8 (16:04):
So true, Tom, I want to.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
Get Tom Homan clearly slamming CNN for promoting the ICE
tracking app and now is saying maybe it's time for
law enforcement, the DOJ to step in here and see
if they cross the line. Competing federal law enforcement officers
yet again another example of how the left is doing
everything they can to protect illegal immigrants and put American
(16:28):
lives at risk.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
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Speaker 1 (16:46):
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