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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Look, I think if you're doing your job well, and
if you are executing on the vision and the promises
that the President made to the public who elected him
back to this office, then you should have no fear
about your job. Just do your job. That's what this
president wants to see. He wants to see people solving problems.
He wants to see the people who have the privilege
of serving the American taxpayer in the federal government, abiding
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by the wishes of the American taxpayers who overwhelmingly re
elected him in this cabinet to make America great again,
or in this case, make America healthy again.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
You're listening to the forty seven Morning Update with Ben ferguson.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
Good Friday morning. So nice to have you with us
on the forty seven Morning Update. Is we lead into
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First up, the media lied. Yeah, they straight applied to
your face. They said that Donald Trump was going to
be a disaster for our economy. Well, guess what, the
economy's booming and the statistics are so bad that even
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the media can't tell you the lie anymore. I'll have
you the details on that story in just a second, also,
you know the crime wave that's happened in almost every
liberal city in America. Well, Donald Trump is fighting that
crime and the data is now showing the majority of
Americans are in favor of what Donald Trump's doing and
what's working in Washington, DC. So why are Democrats still
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Speaker 2 (03:45):
Story number one.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
The media and the Democrats. Yeah, guess what they lie
to you again? They got it wrong again. They said
that Donald Trump was going to destroy the economy, that
the big beautiful bill was going to send us into
a recession, that the president was out of control. Well,
guess what they lied to you. The US economy is
surging past expectations as spending and investments are soaring. The
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US economy expanded faster than initially estimated in the spring
why Americans spent more freely and businesses stepped up investment
in their businesses. According to the revised government data, gross
domestic product rose at three point three percent annualized rate
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in the second quarter. That is up from the Commerce
Department's initial three point zero percent estimate and above the
three point one percent pace that economists had forecasts. So
they beat not one, but two expectations. The acceleration followed
modest growth in the first quarter. We're being told as well.
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Now the upward revision reflects household spending more on a
couple different things. Er one healthcare, two pharmaceuticals, and three
something completely different than that dining out. So what does
that mean. It means people feel comfortable and confident in
their income right now now. It also shared does something
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else with businesses, small businesses, mid sized businesses, and large businesses.
Companies boosted purchases of number one equipment That tells you
they feel good about a growing business structure and intellectual property,
meaning that they're also these businesses are willing to invest
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in future expensive intelligence right intellectual property. Business investment was
driven by quote stronger outlays on software, on research and development,
including things like light trucks and commercial structures. So people
are expanding. You don't do these things unless you have
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confidence in an economy. We also know that the media
lied to you about Trump's trade wars and the tariffs.
All of this was happening. When they said that things
were going to be stopped, that there was going to
be a retraction in the economy because of the instability
and the insanity as they described it of Donald Trump's
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trade wars. Guess what they lied to you again, In fact,
trade flows also contributed to the growth, So they just
lied with pure propaganda that was anti Trump imports, which
subtract from GDP calculations, declined after surging in the first
quarter ahead of the new tariffs on some goods. We
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also know the export slip, but not enough to offset
the boom and the booze from fewer foreign goods flowing
into the country, which is exactly what Donald Trump predicted.
A key gauge by the way of underlying domestic demand
and the real final sales to private domestic per which
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is an important category excludes trade inventories and government spinning
also rose, so this is like genuine private sector nothing
to do with the government. It rose at one point
nine percent rate, up from one point two percent in
the earlier estimate. So every virtual metric of what the
expectations were, the Trump administration blew them out of the water.
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Now price pressures remained in check. What does that mean?
Personal consumption, expenditure and the price index the Federal Reserves
preferred inflation gauge increase at a two point zero percent
annual rate that was matching the Central Bank's target. Core prices,
which exclude violatile food and energy costs, advanced at a
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two point five percent pace as well. Government spinning by
the Way was also revised. I never get to say
this lower. Let me just say that again. Government spending
was revived lower why it was driven by reduced state
and local outlays which tempered some of their well, you know,
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hey spending. That is amazing. The income side, also of
national accounts, painted a similar robust picture. Real gross domestic
income climbed at a four point eight percent rate, while
corporate profits rebounded after declining in the first quarter. The
Commerce Department is scheduled by the WAY to release its
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third and final estimate of second quarter GDP, along with
annual benchmark revisions to historic data, on September twenty fifth.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Now story number two.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
So the DC mayor has had a major change of
her rhetoric when it comes to reversing what crime is
doing in her city. Yes, she's totally reversing course now
admitting that Donald Trump's federal crime crackdown is in fact working.
Mayor Bowser cited an eighty seven percent reduction in carjackings
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during the twenty day federal law enforcement deployment. Just take
a listen to the conversation that was had on Fox
News Channel about what she said and also the data.
Speaker 4 (09:19):
We greatly appreciate the surge of officers that enhance what
MPD has been able to do in this city. Well,
we know it's not working. Is a break and trust
between police and community, especially with new federal partners in
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our community. We know having massed ice agents in the
community has not worked.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Okay, but let's listen to some residents here.
Speaker 5 (09:52):
Navy Yard has kind of been a hot area before
all the additional security. It was a little dice yet,
especially at later times in the hour, I would see
fights break out whenever are just walking home. But now
it's a lot more quiet.
Speaker 6 (10:09):
I'm welcome and I think it's a great idea. And
I have noticed that they have been cleaning some of
the graffiti off in some of the areas, like on
the highways and that kind of stuff.
Speaker 7 (10:22):
What about the fallout of all this, Toh, Well, we
just had a poll come out yesterday the ap poles here,
eighty one percent of people think that crime is a
problem in major, major problem in urban areas. Trump's approval
rating on crime was fifty four percent in that poll,
and the Harvard Harris Pole was fifty one percent, his
highest rating of any of the issues that they questioned
voters about So I think what you saw from the mayor,
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which she said, is a bit surprising. I think that's
her responding to her constituents. She's hearing from people who
are saying that, especially in the areas where crime is
the worst, that they feel safer, and that's that's not
a bad thing. Democrats have managed to box themselves in
on another eighty twenty issue and are trying to find
a way out, and I think the mayor has recognized that,
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and she's obviously in the middle of it.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
Yet again, here Democrats on the wrong side of the issue.
This is an issue where the majority of Americans say
that they want to fill safe. In fact, for decades,
Democrats have been saying this, and now what is happening. Well,
President Donald Trump says, I'm with you. I want to
drive down crime in some of our most dangerous cities.
And Democrats are angry. Why they're coming down once again
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on the wrong side of an issue that affects millions
of Americans. And the question you should ask yourself is this,
Why would the leaders of high crime cities like Washington,
DC or Chicago object to the President helping to make
their streets safer. I'll tell you why they're panicked. They're
panic that Donald Trump is succeeding exposing them as inept,
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as corrupt, as leaders that really just want to control cities,
even if it means they're filled with crime. For decades,
by the way, Democrats have been struggling to overcome the
accusations on the facts that they were soft on crime.
Go back to nineteen ninety four. Trying to combat that charge,
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President Bill Clinton signed a law the most sweeping anti
crime bill at the time in history, and funded actually
the hiring of one hundred thousand new police officers. It
also authorized a construction of new prisons and introduced that
three strikes law mandating lengthy jail terms for repeat offenders.
Now Democrats are furious. They are furious that crime is
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actually going down in DC, and they're also even more
angry that the President said this about you know, the
prospect of places like Chicago getting some extra help.
Speaker 8 (12:47):
And after we do this, we'll go to another location
and we'll make it safe. Also, we're going to make
our country very safe. We're going to make our cities
very very safe. Chicago's a mess. You have an incompetent
mayor grossly incompetent, and we'll straighten that one out probably next.
That'll be our next one after this, and it won't
even be tough. And the people in Chicago, mister Vice President,
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are screaming for us to come there. They're wearing red hats,
just like this one, but they're wearing red hats. African
American ladies, beautiful ladies, are saying, please, President Trump, come
to Chicago.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
Please.
Speaker 8 (13:25):
I did great with the black vote, as you know,
and they want something to happen. So I think Chicago
will be our next, and then we'll help with New York,
and we're going to help with and I think, really,
I think a lot of and a lot of these
people that you see on television they are, including the
people in this audience. They'll say bad things about me,
and then they'll say, thank god he's here, because half
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of them got mugged and they don't want to get
mugged again. But you know, they work for a ladder,
but they work for stupid people at a radical left,
and they're made to do things and say things that
they don't want to be saying.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
This goes back to the real problem. And if you
look at the present and what he's saying there, He's
absolutely right. You had Democrats that used to be in
favor of fighting crime and saving black lives. Now they're
soft on crime. Democrats' literal high water mark for cracking
down on crime was in nineteen ninety four. The party leaders,
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including former President Joe Biden, are now at a point
where they apologize for being tough on crime. They literally
apologize for the nineteen ninety four crime Bill, and then
post George Floyd and that error, Democrats have adopted policies
as openly we want to defund the police. We want
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to have no bail, we want to have prison reform,
we want to shut down prisons. And that's what made
our cities, or especially the cities they run liberal cities,
so dangerous because they favored criminals over their citizens. They
also did this on the issue of i legal immigration,
flooding these cities with criminals. President Trump saying, hey, I'm
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gonna do this. I'm going to save people's lives. We're
going to reverse course on this. I'm gonna go wherever
I can, and if I can send troops, I'm going
to do it for one reason, to stop the violence
and to stop the killing and what a democrat say.
You're a dictator and a tyrant if you do it.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
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