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Speaker 1 (00:00):
OK.
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And then I said, yeah, he's a dumb guy. And
then I said he's a Democrat. And I don't know
if people are going to like that term or not,
but it's true that policies are insane and they would
drive our country into ruin. And we've got to do
great in the midterms, and if we don't, they will
do everything they can to destroy our country.
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There's something wrong with them.
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You're listening to the forty seven Morning Update with Ben ferguson.
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Good Saturday morning.
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It's nice to have you with us on the forty
seven Morning UPDAT, and we've got two major stories for you.
First up, the midterms are getting really close. So what
is it that the present needs you to do and
what does he have to do to sell the country
to make sure that we don't lose control of the
House or the Senator both in the midterm elections.
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We break it down.
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Up next in a shocking story, the Southern Poverty Law
Center may be putting their radical political agenda inside of
your kids and your grandkids' heads in our.
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Public schools all over the country.
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Just how much influence does their career kill him have
and where is it being used?
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I'll give you that as well.
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It's a forty seven morning update and it starts right now.
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Story number one. President Donald Trump.
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He is very concerned about the midterm elections, and it's
clear that he's trying to be president of the United
States of America. But he also understands that if he
doesn't turn into Donald Trump the campaigner right now, that
we could have major problems come November. Now, President Trump
is making it very clear that the Republicans better get
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their act together, saying that the midterm elections are not
just another political fight, but in his words, they are
make or break for his presidency, his agenda in the
future direction of the country. We also are learning now
that behind closed doors, it's also getting really intense. Trump
has been warning Republicans that if they lose control of Congress,
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Democrats will immediately move to cripple's second term with investigation, subpoenas,
and potentially even another impeachment effort. Democrats have said they're
actually willing to go further than Donald Trump and impeach
the Vice President j. D Vance and also go after
and try to impeach cabinet members as well. There was
a House Republican retreat that happened earlier this year. Trump
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bluntly told the lawmakers, you gotta win the mid terms,
and he warned that if Republicans lose, they'll find a
reason to impeach me. Now, whether you love President Trump
or hate him, there's no denying the political reality behind
what he's saying. This is a party, and I'm talking
about the Democratic Party that's made it clear they are
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going to weaponize government to subpoena and to destroy anyone
that is around Donald Trump.
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Why. Because that's all they have to run on.
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They hate Donald Trump, and it seems to make their
base want to show up to vote. The White House
knows that if Democrats retake the House, the next two
years will turn into non stop political warfare. And it's
exactly what they did back in twenty sixteen, twenty eighteen,
and really every year even when Joe Biden was in office.
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There will be committee investigations. They will explode overnight. I'm
quoting Democrats. They've already said that hearings will dominate cable news.
It's not a legitimate agenda for America. It's a legitimate
agenda destroy the presidency of the United States of America,
and that's why Donald Trump has been aggressively pressuring Republicans
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to unify around a simple message. We secure the border,
we strengthen the economy, we lower prices, we restore law
and order, and you compare that to the radical Democrat chaos.
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Now.
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The President also saying this about the midterms at the
White House earlier.
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Good then I said, you know, he's a dumb guy,
and then I said he's a Democrat. And I don't
know if people are gonna like that term or not.
It maybe catches and maybe it doesn't. But it's true
that policies are insane and they would drive our country
into ruin. And we've got to do great in the midterms,
and if we don't, they will do everything they can
to destroy our country. There's something wrong with them. The
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flow of deadly fedonyl across our border is down, by
the way, by over sixty percent, which is a record.
Nobody ever thought it was even possible. And coming in
by sea, it's down by ninety seven percent. And again
we're trying to find the three percent because we consider
them to be among the bravest people anywhere in the world.
Anybody willing to get into one of those votes. After
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what they've witnessed, we would consider them to be among
the bravest in the world. These gains have been the result.
And what a job our military and others are doing.
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With respect is.
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That right, Paul, With respect to drugs coming in by sea,
meaning drugs coming in by water, by the ocean, by
the say, a lot of people don't know what I
mean by sea.
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President Trump talking at the White House and again making
it clear the control of the House is literally going
to come down to just a handful of districts in
states like Arizona, Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Wisconsin, the swing states.
In many of those races, President Warrens will be decided
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by suburban swing voters who have bounced back and forth
between Republican candidates and Democratic candates over the last several
election cycles. Trump is also facing another challenge presidents always
encounter in the midterms. There is a voter complacency. The
team that's in charge usually they stay home because they
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feel like everything's fine, and the team that hates the
leadership in Washington, they show up, they're focused, they're angry,
and they want to get rid of conservatives. When your
side wins the White House, some supporters actually, well, they relax, right.
The opposition is energized, and as we know from the
Democratic leaders, they're angry now. Democrats are already organizing around
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abortion rights, healthcare costs, and accusations of course, that Trump
is abusing his executive power. Republicans now fear that there's
a real enthusiasm gap. I'm one of those, and that's
why Donald Trump is making it very clear he may
not be on the ballot come November, but his agenda
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certainly is. He's essentially telling Republicans, if you want this
presidency to succeed, you have to treat the midterms like
a presidential election. And behind the scenes, the stakes are enormous.
Trump's entire legislative agenda depends on Congress. We're talking about
things that matter to everyday Americans. The most incredible tax
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cuts of our lifetime, energy independence and expansion in the US,
immigration reform, judicial appointments, which have been phenomenal for President Trump.
Budget fight, Yes, the President saying we're spending too much money,
getting rid of waste fraud and of use and military spending,
which Democrats always hate. You even have the fight over
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the Save Act election law changes. All of it becomes
dramatically harder if Democrats regain power. In many ways, Donald
Trump is now saying the twenty twenty six is literally
the firewall protecting the rest of his presidency. And there's
another major factor here as well. Republicans like to stay
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home when they're in power historically, and what the President
is saying is the Democrats aren't going to stay home,
so you shouldn't either.
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Now.
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Story number two.
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Southern Poverty Law Center, Yeah, things aren't going well for them.
The far left quote anti racism group, right, Well, we
now found their curriculum has been found in classrooms as
early as kindergarten. A new watchdog group is exposing apparently
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the Southern Poverty Law Center currently facing federal fraud charges
over an alleged covert paid informant program worth three million dollars,
well as the liberal activists organization is facing those charges.
An education watchdog group warned that the group continues to
integrate its far left content and its materials into your kids' classrooms,
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and they're doing this as early as kindergarten in more
than forty states.
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Across the United States.
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Of America, the president of Defending Education, which was once
actually labeled this is not a joke, an extremist group
by the Southern Poverty Law Center, told Fox News Digital
that unbeknownst to parents, the Southern Poverty Law Center has
been poisoning your children's minds around the country for years
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with its quote toxic curriculum. Defending Education published a new expose,
and it details how the Southern Poverty Law Center's education program,
called the Learning for Justice, formerly it was known This
is Not a Joke, as teaching tolerance is now heavily
integrated into K through twelve lesson plans and materials and
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more than one hundred and sixty nine school districts not
schools school districts in forty two states plus washingt d C.
According to the report, the program's design is to reinforce
far left culture and political ideologies, including what they describe
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as anti racism, black lives matter, gender ideology, and most importantly,
with your tax dollars, queer theory, with a side of
white privilege, white supremacy, whiteness, and then, of course, trans genderism.
This is in a one hundred and sixty nine school
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districts and forty two states. What does that mean? More
than likely your tax dollars have been going to fund
this curriculum in our schools now. The watch Stock Group
said that due to the Southern property law centers integration
in schools, issues such as queer theory, white privilege, and
anti racism have well become traditional coursework in your kid's
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history classes, your kids' social studies classes, and other core
curriculum classes, teaching children of you, themselves and others to
the lens of identity politics and that America is forever
stained by its quote original sin is part of the
curriculum now. According to the Watchstaw Group, the material intentionally
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so division and mistrust between students at a formative stage
of their development, adding that is deeply disappointing that administrators
and educators believe this is an appropriate use of the
finite classroom time and resources. But let's be clear, the
majority of public schools in America are failing your kids
at reading, writing, and arithmetic. And you may wonder why, Well,
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it's probably because of this type of radical ideology that
has now been indoctrinated in your kid's mind, claiming that
it's actually education when it really isn't now. The Southern
Property Law Center has not responded to requests or comment
for Defending Education's report. The report also reveals to the
Southern Property Law Center's website and documents can be found
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actually on your school district web pages, also in teacher
professional development and Trainings, classroom lessons, district wide curriculum, social
emotional learning, social justice standards, and district anti racism and
equity policies and resources. The learning for just this program,
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which the report said is focused on quote, Education for
Liberation encourages the implementation of a set of anchor standards
and then they call them age appropriate learning outcomes divided
into domains of number one identity, then diversity, then justice,
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and then action. Now under the action category, they say
students are encouraged to commit to join the diverse people
to plan and carry out collective action against exclusion, prejudice,
and discrimination. And also the plan says you should be
thoughtful and creative in our actions in order to achieve
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our goals.
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And silly me, I thought that school was supposed to
just be.
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About reading, writing, and arithmetic, but apparently not anymore. Defending
Educations to the New York State Education Department added equity
revisions to its New York Social Emotional Learning bench that
align the benchmarks with the Southern Poverty Law Centers Social
Justice standards. So they're not just doing the curriculum, they're
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mandating and directing how it is actually being taught in
America's schools now. The report also notes that the Smithsonian
National Museum of the American Indian actually lists Learning for
Justice as a recommended resource in certain lesson materials, so
our government is backing it as well. It further points
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to guidance and then curriculum resources for the California Department
of Education and the Illinois State Board of Education, as
well as Chicago Public schools that include or reference the standards.
Now let me just hit pause there, and I'm going
to give you some homework. I want you to Google
or use AI and ask AI or Google where does
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California's education standards rate? Where does Illinois State Board of
Education standards rate? Where is the Chicago Public school system rate?
And you tell me that at the three places that
they're saying are amazing or so good that you should
be mimicking their lesson plans on all this woke ideology,
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ask them. The question a simple question. Why are they
failing their kids so badly in the school system. That's
a question you should be asking right now.
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