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March 27, 2025 • 12 mins

Signal Gate Controversy

We begin with a discussion about a media controversy dubbed #SignalGate It involves a journalist inadvertently added to a text message group with Trump team members. The Defense Secretary, Pete #Hegseth, clarifies that no classified information was shared in the group, countering claims made by the media. He emphasizes the Trump administration's efforts to rebuild the military and re-establish deterrence.

ICE Operations

We hen shift to the topic of #ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) operations. It highlights the challenges ICE faces in sanctuary cities that refuse to cooperate with federal immigration laws. #TomHoman, a former ICE official, discusses the difficulties in detaining criminals in these cities. The document provides statistics on recent ICE operations in Houston, Texas, where hundreds of criminal aliens were detained.

Trump's Tariff on Foreign Cars

We finally cover President Trump's announcement of a 25% #tariff on all #automobiles not manufactured in the United States. This move aims to revitalize domestic car production and protect American jobs. The document discusses the potential economic benefits of the tariff, including reducing the trade deficit and boosting related sectors like steel and electronics.

Overall, the document addresses three main topics: the Signal Gate controversy, ICE operations in sanctuary cities, and Trump's tariff on foreign cars. It presents the Trump administration's actions and viewpoints on these issues, emphasizing their efforts to protect American interests and strengthen national security.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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beautiful coal. They tried wind, which is a disaster, stangerous
in the oceans in terms of navigation. And if you
look at what's happening with Wales, you know in one area,
two whales like in twenty years washed ashore and this
year they had seventeen wash ashore. So there's something happened
out there. There's something driving the whales a little bit loc.

Speaker 2 (00:22):
You're listening to the forty seven Morning Update with Ben Ferguson.

Speaker 3 (00:25):
Good Thursday morning. Ben Ferguson with you. It's so nice
to have you on the forty seven Morning Update. And
these are the big three stories that you need to
know about. First up, Pete Headseth is responding to the
liberal media attacks to their face over what they've designated
as Signal Gate, and you do not want to miss
what he has to say. Also, ICE agents detained six

(00:47):
hundred plus criminal illegals in a single week in Houston, Texas.
Yet liberal cities are still defying the law and Donald
Trump will have the latest on that. And finally, Donald
Trump says I'm not messing around yet again, announcing twenty
five percent tariff on cars not made in the US.
This the beginning, he says, of Liberation Day in America.

(01:11):
It's the forty seven morning update, and it starts right now.

Speaker 2 (01:15):
Story number one.

Speaker 3 (01:16):
It is a media firestorm as the organizing of the
Democratic Party and state sponsored media are coming together for
what is now being dubbed as Signal Gate. Yes, there was,
in fact a journalist who is inadvertently put on a
text message group with many members of the Trump team.
But what they're saying about what was said on those
texts is still a big lie. And that is exactly

(01:39):
why Pete Edgseth came out and made it very clear
to the media to their faces that no units, no
locations were shared on the signal chat, the Defense Secretary
insisting that he did not share classified plans through a
signal group, and the Trump administration officials did nothing wrong. Yes,

(02:00):
there was the Atlantics Jeffrey Goldberg, who was inadvertently added
to that chat, and he has done nothing more than
release details and go on TV and say there's a
big scandal. But the reality is they were not in
fact war plans. Here is Peete, in his own words,
talking directly to these reporters and the American people, Gofile.

Speaker 4 (02:19):
Dave, when we're on the road talking to the troops
and actually in real time re establishing deterrence. You see,
that's what President Trump has charged the Defense Department with doing,
reviving the warrior ethos, rebuilding the military, which we're doing
in real time, and re establishing deterrence. And that's why
we're heading out into the Indo Pacific to talk to

(02:40):
our allies and partners and meet with the troops. So
you see, under the Biden administration, we let our troops
and our ships and both warships and commercial ships get
shot at to no consequence. What does that look like?
That looks like weakness. And what President Trump has said
is peace through strength is back. We will re establish deterrence.

(03:02):
That's not acceptable. And our ongoing campaign against the Houthis
has been devastatingly effective. Now, as I said to this
group a couple of times on this trip, now, as
we moved to the Indo Pacific to do our job,
which is what we're here to do, nobody's texting war plans.

Speaker 5 (03:20):
Well, I noticed this morning out came.

Speaker 4 (03:22):
Something that doesn't look like war plans. And as a
matter of fact. They even change the title to attack
plans because they know it's not war plans. There's no units,
no locations, no routes, no flight paths, no sources, no methods,
no classified information. You know who sees war plans? I

(03:45):
see them every single day. I looked at them this morning.
I looked at attack plans this morning. You know who
does attack plans and war plans. Men like that Admiral
right there, Paparo for the Indo Pacific or Eric Carilla
are general in Sentcom. They do attack plans and war plans,
and thank god, we have those leaders who do it

(04:08):
and do it well, and our enemies know it. My job,
as it said at top of that, everybody's seen it now,
Team Update, is to provide updates in real time, general
updates in real time, keep everybody informed. That's what I did.
That's my job. The war fighters will take the fight
to the enemy, and I love what they do. And

(04:30):
with President Trump's leadership, our enemies are on notice. We
will have peace through strength and we'll keep putting our
troops first.

Speaker 3 (04:37):
Now, if you listen to what he actually said, and
you look at what he's telling you in his words,
as a matter of fact, they even change the title
to quote attack plans. There's no units, there's no locations,
there's no routes, there's no flight pass there's no sources,
there's no methods, there's no classified information. And what the
Defense Secretary was making it clear, is it. Yes, they

(04:59):
took tech messages and then they made them bigger than
they actually are as he described it. Yeah, I see
war plans every single day, but he is not the
person who devises them either, Yet again showing that the
media is lying to the American people. And let's not
forget why they were having to actually do this attack.
It is actually because of the inaction of the Biden

(05:21):
administration who refused to protect American ships and the shipping channel,
and that is exactly why the Trump administration was forced
to act in the first place. Now, to be clear,
Democrats are going to try to turn this into the
biggest story they can because it's their job with a
Democratic party, obviously, to try to lie to the American
people and deceive them instead of giving them the actual facts.

(05:43):
Just like you heard there from the Defense Secretary. Next
story number two, there are two Americas right now, and
depending on where you're listening to me right now, you
know that you're either in a city that is cooperating
with ICE or you're in a sanctuary city that is
refusing to hand over hardened criminals. They're a threat to
society to ICE agents, by the way, also in violation

(06:05):
of the law. Tom Homan went on Fox News Channel
to explain exactly how bad it is in many of
the Democratic cities.

Speaker 5 (06:13):
So Tom, just to get into some of the specific series.
So you got these folks that had already been charged
with this, which our agents were asking, keep these guys
behind bars and we'll go pick them up. But many
of these criminals got charged and they were released back
on the street.

Speaker 6 (06:27):
Right, yeah, surely right. In one case, I looked at Lawrence.
One case, there's a child rape. He was released two
years ago without on our retainer. It took us two
years to find this person. So how many children did
he attack the last two years? All we're asking for
is let our agents in the jail where you lock
somebody up and let us arrest them there when you're
done with them, rather than really something back in the

(06:48):
public and making a public safety issue out of it.

Speaker 3 (06:50):
You listen to Tom Holman, there all we're asking for
is to let our ICE agents into the jail and
arrest these criminals when they're done with them. Referring to locales,
many liberal cities and states are still refusing to comply
with the federal laws and refusing to work with ICE agents.
So what is happening in cities right now where the

(07:11):
city is choosing to work with the federal government and
just how many illegal immigrant criminals they're getting off the
streets that are violent. Let me give you an example
of Houston, Texas. ICE agents have now released that they
detained more than six hundred criminal illegals in a single week. Yes,
the agents recently detained the more than three hunder criminal

(07:32):
legals in Greater Houston in a seven day period. ICE
arrested six hundred and forty six non citizens during an
operation from February to twenty third to March the second,
including five hundred and forty three aliens with criminal charges
and seven alleged to be gang members. The five hundred
and forty three detainees all entered the US illegally and

(07:54):
quote have been charged or convicted of a criminal offense
while they are illegally present in the country. Those taken
to custody included one hundred and forty charges or convicted
for an aggravated felony or other violent offenses such as homicide,
aggravate assault, or domestic violence. In addition, thirty four of
those attained are criminal aliens charged or convicted of a

(08:19):
sex offense or child sex offense such as aggravated sexual
assault of a minor, possession of child pornography, or rape.
The Director of ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations Field Office
in Houston said the agency executed seventy one criminal arrest
warrants as part of the seven day long targeted operation.

(08:41):
ICE coordinated with other federal and state agencies to pull
off the six hundred and forty six attentions. Among those
involved were US Customs and Border Protection, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco,
Firearms and Explosives, the FBI, and the Drug Enforcement Administration.
In a press release, they said out after illegally entering

(09:01):
the country, many of these criminal aliens have gone on
to commit violent crime and reign terror on law a
bodying residents in the Houston area. Fueled by our unwavering
commitment to protect the public from harm and united in
our determination to restore integrity to our nation systems of laws.
ICE and our law enforcement partners in Southeast Texas have
banned together to remove these dangerous criminal aliens from our

(09:25):
local communities and put an end to the lawlessness that
they spread. So there are, in fact two different Americas
right now. There are cities like Houston that are using
every avenue of government and law enforcement to work together
to get rid of these violent criminals and rapists. And
then there are liberal cities that are refusing to hand
over these violent criminals to the federal government. Now, the

(09:47):
big question becomes what is the president going to do
to go after these cities that are obviously putting Americans
in harm's way.

Speaker 2 (09:55):
And lastly, story number three.

Speaker 3 (09:57):
President Donald Trump has made good on a promise announce
a twenty five percent tariff on all automobiles not manufactured
in the United States, a move aim to revitalize domestic
car production and protect American jobs. He is framing the
decision as a key step towards economic independence and national strength.
Trump emphasizing the importance of bringing automotive manufacturing back to

(10:20):
American soil. Supporters of the tariff for making it clear
this could lead to major resurgences in US auto jobs,
spur investment in American factories, and level the playing field
with foreign competitors who have long benefited from low production
costs and trade advantages. Industry insiders are already reporting interests

(10:41):
from automakers and expanding US based operations to avoid the
new Levy quote. This is about putting America first. Trump
set here's more of the present in his own words.

Speaker 1 (10:53):
Oh, this is the beginning of liberation Day in America.
We're going to take back just some of the money
that has been taken from us by people sitting behind
this desk or another desk that's not quite as nice,
but they have their choice of seven, as you know.

(11:13):
And we're going to charge countries for doing business in
our country and taking our jobs, taking our wealth, taking
a lot of things that they've been taken over the years.
They've taken so much out of our country. Friend and foe,
and frankly, friend has been oftentimes much worse than FAE.
And this is very modest. What we're going to be

(11:35):
doing is a twenty five percent tariff on all cars
that are not made in the United States. If they're
made in the United States, is absolutely not terror. We
start off with a two and a hared percent base,
which is what we were at, and we go to
twenty five percent, and basically, as you know, and as
you've been seeing not reporting as accurately as it should
be reported, because it's a massive story, business is coming

(11:58):
back to the United States so that they don't have
to pay tariffs.

Speaker 3 (12:01):
Now, economists are very excited about the President's new policy,
suggesting by the way that tariffs could reduce the trade
deficit and bolster related sectors such as steel, glass, and
electronics for many in manufacturing hubs. They also say, like
Michigan and Ohio, the move represents hope for the return
to prosperity and industrial pride. Now, the clear point the

(12:24):
President is sending is that we are open for business
and he is putting American workers ahead of foreign cheap labor,
and that's good for all Americans in this country.

Speaker 2 (12:34):
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