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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Inauguration day is here, and I'm going to run through
for you in a moment. What I'm now being told
is one hundred to two hundred executive orders that are
going to be signed after Donald Trump is sworn in.
And this list of what he's going to sign is incredible.
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It is a list that is going to excite you,
and I'm going to give it to you here. Many
in the media don't have this list. But I also
want to just tell you how much I think things
have changed since twenty sixteen. And I'm going to use
one of the basic data points that most people wouldn't
even tell you about, and that is looking at the
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people that are willing to stand with Trump to celebrate
his inauguration. In twenty sixteen, you couldn't find celebrities that
would be a part of Donald Trump's inauguration.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
He was toxic. Is how the agents would say.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
It would be political suicide or career suicide, I guess
would be the best way to put if you even
were ever seen with Donald Trump, you want to know
what it looks like now at the inauguration events around
Donald Trump. And this is how you know this administration,
in this presidency forty seven is going to be very different.
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Jason Aldan, Billy Ray Cyrus, Gavin De Grau, Snoop Dog,
Rascal Flats. Those are just some of the people that
are saying, I am not going to be bullied by
Hollywood in the left anymore. I'm gonna stand with Donald Trump.
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Parker McCollum, great country music singer, said I'm going to
stand with him. Kid Rock saying the same thing, Nelly
saying the same thing, the Village People, and Carrie Underwood.
You couldn't have found these people to stand in twenty
sixteen with Donald Trump because it would have been career suicide.
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Now they're saying it's not anymore, and there's enough conservative
out there and MAGA voters out there that we are
going to proudly stand with a man that loves this
country and is fighting to change this country after the disaster,
which is Joe Biden.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
That is how much the country's changed.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
I how much this administration I think it's going to
change this country. And that's how many people are now
saying I'm not going to be shy. I'm going to
stand proudly with Donald J.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Trump.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Now there is something else that I'm going to announce
right now, and I am so excited because I've been
working on this. I've had to keep it a secret
until now. Many of you know I host this radio show,
and I did a money through Friday morning show.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
For over a decade, well over a decade, and right.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Before Thanksgiving, I quit that morning show because of what
I described the time is a new opportunity, and I said,
I will be telling you about it as soon as
I can.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
I now get to tell you about it.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
And it is something that a lot of people wanted
a lot of people were asking for it. And that
was a morning update, a podcast that was quick, ten
to twelve minutes long that gave me what's happening, what
to watch for in the Trump administration, and what is
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the media not covering that's happening that I need to
know about. Well, we have now put it together and
I want you to listen to it every day. I
want to be clear, I'm still going to be doing
my show. I'm still going to be doing the Ben
Ferguson podcast. That's not going away. I will do a
long form podcast each and every day for you. But
this is something a little bit different. This is solely
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focused on Donald Trump, the administration and the Oval Office.
Now the show's name because I want you to listen,
I want you to go download it. It is live
right now. It is called the forty seven Morning Update
with Ben Ferguson. I'll say that again, the forty seven
Morning Update with Ben Ferguson. This is a show that
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will spot the spotlight the latest news political headlines. In fact,
I'm gonna play for you our promo. This was the
introduction to the forty seven Morning Update that we put
up wherever you get your podcasts. It's free, you can
grab it. It will be Monday through Saturday ten to
twelve minutes and you're gonna know what's going on.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Take a listen.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
Make America powerful again, huge, safe again, build that wall
wealthy again.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
We're gonna win, big lead.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
We will make America great again.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
You're listening to the forty seven Morning Update with Ben Ferguson.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Good morning.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
It's Ben Ferguson and I'm excited to be hosting the
forty seven Morning Update.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Every morning.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
We're gonna spotlight the latest news and political headline with
a special focus on President Trump's administration, his policies, and
the maga agenda, So join me every day for unfettered access,
exclusive interviews, and honest commentary that you're not going to
get from the bias medium. I'm also going to take
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you behind the scenes covering the issues shaping America today,
straight from Donald Trump and the Oval Office, So don't
miss a single episode. New episodes are going to drop
daily Monday through Saturday. So subscribe now on the iHeartRadio
app or wherever you get your podcasts, and join me
on the forty seven Morning Update daily. That is what
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it's going to be, folks, ten to twelve minutes, the
biggest story, So grab at the forty seven Morning Update.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
Now, let's talk.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
About excitement around this inauguration day, Donald Trump having his
celebratory victory rally where people stayed out in the cold
for hours to get in. It was an amazing event
in Washington, d C. And President Trump walked on that
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stage and he was beyond thrilled to be there.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Thank you very.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
Much, everybody. Why that good? Fairly?
Speaker 4 (06:14):
We're like winning, don't we had?
Speaker 3 (06:19):
So we're going to make our country greater than ever before.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Hello Washington, and Hello America.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
We're all over America.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
I'm thrilled to be back.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
With so many friends, supporters and true American patriots, or
the eve of taking back our country. That's what we're
going to do, take back our country. Tomorrow at noon,
the curtain closes on four long years of American decline,
and we begin a brand new day of American strength
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and prosperity, dignity and pride, bringing it all back once
and for all. We're going to end the reign of
a failed and corrupt political establishment in Washington, a failed administration.
We're not going to take it anymore. We're going to
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stop the invasion of our vorders. We're going to reclaim
our wealth. We're going to unlock the liquid goal that's
right under our feet, liquid goal.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
We're going to bring.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
Back law and order to our cities. We're going to
restore patriotism to our schools, get radical left woop ideologies
the hell out of our military and out of our government,
and we are going to make America great again.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
Donald Trump at Israelly, making it very clear, We're gonna
make America great again. We are done with the Biden administration.
God bless America. On this inauguration day, as he got
excited telling you what's going to happen now, what.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
All is in this list?
Speaker 1 (08:22):
What are going to be in these one hundred to
two hundred executive orders. I'm going to break down that
list for you coming up in just a moment. Before
I get to that, let me tell you about our
friends over at the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews.
On January the twenty seventh, just a few days away,
the International Holocaust Rememberance date will be here, and that
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is a day we remember the great evil of the Holocaust,
when millions of Jews were slaughtered during the Nazis reign
of terror. Now today, unfortunately, the rise in global anti
Semitism and the constant attacks on Israel show us that
it's more important than ever to re remember the atrocities
of the Holocaust to ensure that it never ever, ever
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the question that I get asked all weekend of the
inauguration weekend was all right, what's Donald Trump gonna do?
I want to know. I want to know what Donald
Trump's gonna do. Tell me what he's gonna do, what
he's gonna do? What are these executive orders? So I
have put together a master list. This is a list
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that you're gonna love. Donald Trump is set to sign
at least one hundred executive orders. I'm being told by
his staff, and upwards of two hundred executive orders actually.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
Could take place. Now, what do these orders include.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
I'm gonna give you some highlights, and if I leave
something out, I want to be clear it's not because
I'm doing it on purpose, just because we don't have
the intel on it yet. Number one on my list
is declare national emergency at the border and close it.
That is a huge executive order. Why is Donald Trump
doing that? Real simple reason. He wants to make sure
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that he pays off on what he said we were
going to do, which was to protect the southern border
and protect America from an invasion. This is important. There's
another aspect of this that is also going to happen.
He is going to designate cartels as foreign terrorist organizations.
That is huge because it then means we have different
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rules of engagements and ways to really go after. I
would argue go to war with these cartel organizations. They
should have been designated foreign terrorist organizations honestly a long
time ago, but a lot of people didn't think about
it that way because when you thought of Terriss, you
thought of al Qaeda, isis, Hamas has Blah, groups like that. Well,
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the reason why they want to designate them as a
foreign terrorists because the amount of human trafficking, sex, slavery,
human smuggling, people that are dying from their drugs, including
fetnyl is at a level that is much deadlier than
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even al qaeder isis ever was. You look at the
number of people that die in the United States of
America from accidental overdoses, and I want to explain what
I mean by that, because I think it's important that
people understand just how evil these people are. There are
people that take drugs, and if you've ever known someone
that's been addicted to drugs, many times it's not like
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there's some junkie out there on the streets. I've had
friends that I've lost who never in their life took
drugs and they got a horrible car wreck, or they
had a terrible sports injury, and they ended up being
prescribed opioids that they didn't know that they had. You know,
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it would take over their life in a matter of hours.
I had a good friend of mine in high school
that in college was a standout football player, and he
had broken his back in a football play and they
gave him one of these powerful drugs and within three
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months he was dead of an accidental overdose.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
He'd never touched drugs in his whole life. He took
a prescription and he did.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
Not realize that it was going to wake up a
part of his brain that he didn't know how to
shut down. It was unbelievable to see how quick it
got a grip on him, how fast it destroyed his life. Well,
the worst part about these cartels is they make a
lot of these drugs, but they're not the actual drug,
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and they put fetnyl in them, and then someone thinks
they're taking an oxy cotone or a oxycotin or whatever
it may be, and they know what they were prescribed
and that's what they take and before they know it,
they're dead. That is what these cartels do. And the
number of dead bodies from what I would refer to
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as an accillent overdose because these people have no intent
on dying or they're not a junkie, right, They're not
out there in the in the world the way that
we used to think of drugs. These are people that
they got addicted to a prescription and they take even
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the exact amount there doctor prescribed. They had no intent
of dying from a federal overdose. These are unintended overdoses.
And you can have compassion for people like this, or
you can say, well, they should have been taken to
llegal drugs that you know anyway, they should have been
buying them on the black market. And there's an argument.
We could have that all day long. But what I
do know is the people that are in charge of this,
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that are doing this to our young people, that are
getting them addicted, and then they know that people are
going to die. These cartels know that many of these drugs,
they're not making them in laboratories, They're making them in buckets.
And if you don't understand fetanyl, if you take a
great illustration. I think I've talked about this on the
show before, but if you've ever met with Border Patrol
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DA agents or talked with doctors, if you want to
understand how fetanyl works and how much can kill you,
if you take an equal packet, a splendid packet, a
sweetened low packet, and you dump it all out, and
then you take your finger and you put it in
that packet and you come back out and there's residue
on your finger. And if you have kids or grandkids,
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do this with them. That is enough fetanyl the residue
on your finger to kill you. Not might kill you,
would kill you. That's how little fetanyl it takes. Another
way to describe it is it can be a grand
granular the size of.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
The end of a pin.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
So look at the end of a pen and think
about one itty bitty little piece on the end of
and that will kill you. When it comes to fetanyl.
When they mix this stuff up in bathtubs or buckets
in the middle of nowhere, in the jungle, right in
the where they do these drugs, they're not making it
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in a laboratory, they're not trying to keep it safe.
They're just mixing up and then they put it into
what they refer to as counterfeit pills. And these pills
you think you're buying are oxy, cotonox, cotton, whatever the
pill is you're trying to get your hands on purpose
that way, it could be a million different pills. And
you actually got a pill lace with fetanyl and you
take it and all of a sudden, your body and
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you're done.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
You're dead.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
That is one of the reasons why these foreign terrist
organizations are, these cartels should be designated as foreign terist.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Organizations, and that's why Donald Trump's doing it.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
The other thing is they're making an incredible amount of
money off of human trafficking, child trafficking, sex trafficking, child labor,
enslaving people in the United States of America. The cartels
really they can make more money off of reusing a
young girl than they can off of selling cocaine.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
You get a.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
Child, and by the way, many of them are young boys,
and you get them into sex slavery, you can sell
that child ten, fifteen, twenty times a day. People don't
like to talk about it, but this administration lost three
hundred thousand kids. The Biden administration lost three hundred thousand
kids to people. They don't know where they are now
in the United States of America, and unfortunately, many of them
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are being sold ten, fifteen and twenty times a day.
And the cartels have understood that they can resell a
human being fifteen twenty times a day. It's a lot
less risky and a lot easier than selling drugs because
you got to keep making drugs, you got to keep
shipping drugs, you got to keep getting them across the border,
and you've got to keep distributing them. When when you
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imprison a child into sex slavery and you can turn
that many sells a day of a human being, which
the Biden administration knew was happening and looked the other way.
I want to be clear, that's you're terrorists. And if
you're in an organization that does this is the living,
you're a terrorist organization. And that is exactly why Donald
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Trump is going to designate them as a terrorist organization.
This is maybe one of the biggest blessings of having
Donald Trump come back in the office. This is one
of the reasons why I think God saved Donald Trump's
life from the assassins from that bullet when he turned
his head.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
I truly believe that.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
I believe that Donald Trump's life was spared so that
he could come in and do exactly what we just
talked about. I really sincerely mean it. I think it's
so important. I think it's incredibly important, and I want
to tell you this is one of those moments we
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should all celebrate. One of the other things that we've
been told Donald Trump's going to do immediately is reinstate
the remain in Mexico policy. Now, what that means is
that will end the Biden Harris loophole, that will end
the catt and release policy that we've had right now.
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As you know, many people come across the border, they
run to border patrol agents. They want to get in
the system, they want to be a part of all
the free crap that Biden would give out. And that's
what catch and release was. It was like, please catch me, now,
give me all America is going to give me for free. Gimme, gimme, gimme.
And we did. And then we'd five in different places.
We'd put them on buses, we'd give them hotel rooms,
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we'd feed them, we'd give them debit cards with them
cell phones, and then they'd.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
Never show up for their court date.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
Well, reinstating the remain of Mexico policy and Inny catching
release is going to be huge for stopping the number
of legal immigrants coming across the southern border. We also
been told that Donald Trump will also direct the military
to immediately begin building new sections of the border wall
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through his executive orders. That will send a very clear
message as well to legal immigrants that we're not screwing around,
that we're going back to the policy we had before,
but we're going to finish the job we started. Now
we're being told already that self deportations are already happening,
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that the change at the border in the last two
weeks has been significant. There are a lot of people
that were trying to run across as fast as they could.
But we're also being told that there were a lot
of people that are self deporting because they don't want
to have to look over their shoulder. In other words,
it's like, all right, well that was fun, we had
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a great time. Now we're out of here, Like that
was really great.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
We're done.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
Now, we're moving on. We're going to go back to
our home country. Now, not all of them are from Mexico.
A lot of people are self deporting to countries all.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
Over the world.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
And I would expect when you designate the cartels as
foreign terrorist organizations, you reinstate there remain in Mexico policy.
You end catch and release, and you declare a national
emergency at the border, and you close it. It's gonna
send and then direct the military to build new sections
of the border wall. That is one hell of a
message to illegal immigrants that will go back to people
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all over the world. Hey, you know that fun time
we had when Joe Biden Kamala Harris were idiots and
looked the other way on purpose to go to America. Yeah,
that does not happen anymore. That's not even close to
what it's like now. The payoff the moment he has
sworn in in is incredible because when he leaves the rotunda,
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he's getting to work instantly, before the parties, before the
excitement of just enjoying the fact that you've been elected
president and you are now the siting president. I don't
think Donald Trump really gives a crap about that. I
mean that, I think he's like, all right, let's go
swear me in and let's go. I got a lot
of stuff to sign now. I have been told by
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some insiders that there may be up to two hundred
plus executive orders signed tomorrow. And this goes back to
playing for keeps and understanding things you didn't understand in
twenty sixteen. We understand now. And I actually say Trump
understands now in his entire team what they have to do,
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what they need to do, and how quickly it needs
to get done. And they understand through executive action now
what they can undo from what Joe Biden.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
Did you know?
Speaker 1 (22:38):
Joe Biden on Sunday boarded Air Force one for the
final time, using yet again the short stairs, of course,
to get on the airplane.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
Tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
Dignity will be restored to the United States America is
how one user put it on x and I couldn't
agree more. Not only do we have a presentident that
is excited about what's happening, but he's also fighting very
hard to make sure that he's surrounded with people that
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are ready to go to work for the American people
as well.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
I'll give you a great example.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
Elon Musk took the stage at Trump's victory rally as
the crowd went wild in Washington, d C. And this
is what is interesting. I think in the change, Donald
Trump is willing to share the stage with the most
brilliant minds in the world. It's not the Trump show
this time. It is the Trump administration show. And he
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understands now, I can't do it all, so I need
to find the most brilliant people so they can do
it with me.
Speaker 4 (23:42):
Thank you, Thank you as president.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
Sorry, the Lexis followed me on.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
The stage here.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
He's a very enthusiastic supporter.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
As you can see, he's got his son on the
stage with him. Let me just say, this is different
watching Elon Musk get excited about his son coming up
on stage, just seeing it the way that it's happening,
it's just a different feeling to it. Like it's just
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a different feeling, you know. Speaker Johnson went on the
record this week talking about just how bad our government
was being run. He said Joe Biden had been signing
executive orders without knowing what he was even signing as
he was spilling the tea on just how bad things
had gotten in Washington with Donald Trump's, with Joe Biden's
leadership or lack thereof. Joe Biden was not in charge
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his country. The people that were running this country were
elected by no one and their names were never on
the ballot. He was controlled by his teleprompter, by his wife,
and by the Biden crime family and Kamala Harris and
Speaker Johnson did an interview and this is what he
said about how bad it's been.
Speaker 5 (24:56):
I do stand by it, and I say this without
any personal animus at all. I mean, you know, in
some ways actually kind of feel sorry for Joe Biden.
I mean he's in the twilight years of his life.
He is not obviously has not been in charge for
some time. And I know this by personal observation, and
now the whole world knows it. And it's been very,
very concerning to me over the last you know, year
and a half since I've had this close the story.
Speaker 4 (25:17):
When you say personal observation, would.
Speaker 5 (25:19):
Well, I mean this is it's public now because the
Wall Street Journal got it and put it on the
front page. But January a year ago, almost exactly a
year ago, I had been asking. I became speaker in
October twenty twenty three, and there were all sorts of
big national security concerns and everything going on, and I
started to requesting a meeting with the president because you know,
I'm kind of old school.
Speaker 4 (25:38):
I'm a constitutional law guy.
Speaker 5 (25:40):
Speaker of the House should be able to talk to
the president, especially in times of great national interest in calamity.
But they wouldn't let me meet with him, and his
staff kept putting it, getting any excuses.
Speaker 4 (25:49):
This went on for like eight or nine weeks.
Speaker 5 (25:50):
I'm sorry, miss Speaker, he doesn't have time. What are
you talking about it? I'm second line of the presidency.
He has time, I need to.
Speaker 4 (25:55):
Talk to him.
Speaker 5 (25:56):
We had I can't say the class fed parts, but
we had some big, big national concerns at the time
that I was losing sleepover. Finally, I just went to
the whole press corn and said, the President is not
being allowed to meet with a speaker. There's a problem.
So they started putting pressure on him. Long story short,
they finally relented. They invited me to the White House.
I show up and I realized it's actually an ambush
because it's not just me and the President, it's also
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Kamala Harris, Chuck Schumer, Hakem, you know, the whole the
CIA director, everybody. And then so I walked in the
oval and ah, I know what this is. This is
a they're going to hot box the speaker on Ukraine funding.
Speaker 4 (26:29):
That's what it was. This is probably third week of January.
Speaker 5 (26:32):
We sit down, we're in the midst of it and
the cold conversation, and I'm going, we don't need to
have this conversation. The President reaches over just like this,
We're sitting in the right next to the fireplace in
the oval, and he grabs my arm and he says
the speaker and I just need a couple of minutes together.
Would y'all just leave us alone? And I looked up
on the faces of some of the staffs standing around
the wall, and they're.
Speaker 4 (26:48):
Like, no, he did it, so he called it. He's
the commander in chiefs. Everybody leaves.
Speaker 5 (26:53):
He and I are standing awkwardly in the middle of
the Oval office, right over the rug by that coffee table,
and I said, Miss President, thanks for the moments.
Speaker 4 (26:59):
You know, this is very important.
Speaker 5 (27:01):
I got some big national security things I need to
talk to you about that I heard, and I think
you know and what do we do?
Speaker 4 (27:05):
But first, real quickly, miss President, can.
Speaker 5 (27:07):
I ask you a question I cannot answer this from
my constituents in Louisiana. Sir, why did you pause LNG
exports to Europe?
Speaker 4 (27:16):
Like I don't understand.
Speaker 5 (27:17):
You know, liquified natural gas is in great demand by
our allies. Why would you do that because you understand
we just talked about Ukraine. You understand your fuel in
Vladimir Putin's war machine because they got to get their
gas from him, you know. And he looks at me,
stunned with this, and he said, I didn't I didn't
do that, and I said, miss President, you yes, you did.
It was an executive order like you know, three weeks ago,
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and he goes, no, I didn't do that, and he's
arguing with me. I said, miss President, respectfully, can I
could I go out here and ask your secretary to
print it out.
Speaker 4 (27:44):
We'll read it together. You definitely did that, and he.
Speaker 5 (27:45):
Goes, oh, you talk about natural gas? Yes, sir, He
said no, no, I did you misunderstand? He said, what
I did is I signed this thing to we're gonna
we're gonna conduct a study on the effects of LERG.
Speaker 4 (27:57):
I said, no, you're not, sir. You paused it.
Speaker 5 (27:59):
I oh, I have the terminal, the export terminals in
my state. I talked to those people this morning. This
is doing massive damage to our economy, national security. It
occurred to me, Barry, he was not lying to me.
He genuinely did not know what he had signed. And
I walked out of that meeting with fear and loathing
because I thought, we're in serious trouble. Who is running
the country Like, I don't know who put the paper
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in front of them, but he didn't know.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
You know, you listen to Speaker Johnson that I just
played for you, and I got to tell you knowing
that Joe Biden was signing executive orders, he didn't know
that he'd signed on things like banning experts of liquid
natural gas and him saying, no, I've never did that.
He's arguing with Speaker of the House, what else did
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he miss? What else were they getting him to sign
that he had no idea what he was signed like,
that's that's I'm sorry that senior abuse. But they were
all making money off and they were selling out America
bit by bit. This is what also stops.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Donald Trump coming in.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
And one of the things that we found out that
is in the stack of executive orders is Donald Trump's
plan to terminate Biden's energy drilling restrictions, which goes exactly
back to what you heard Speaker Johnson talking about. He's
going to go back to a America first energy policy.
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He is not going to use the government to attack
and weaponize the United States government to destroy our energy
system and oil and gas exploration. And that is all
this administration has been doing. That is going to lower
gas prices for all Americans, liberals and conservatives, Republicans and Democrats,
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and it's going to help the poor more than any
other group. He also, through executive order, is going to terminate,
or I should say, require federal workers to return to
in person work, and if they don't, guess what happens,
they're gonna lose their jobs. The majority of the federal
government right now is working from home since COVID, many
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federal buildings are sitting seventy plus percent unoccupied, empty, and
so requiring federal workers to return to in person work
is probably gonna get rid of some of the It's
kind of like the legal immigrants are self deporting themselves.
I talked about a minute ago. There's a lot of
federal workers are gonna be go I'm not going back
in the office. I'll just quit my job. Fine, quit,
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We don't need you. You work for the federal government.
You should go into an office. Seventy percent of the
workforce and our federal government should be in an office,
and they aren't there because seventy percent of the buildings
are empty.
Speaker 2 (30:50):
And he's going to change.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
All of that day one, saying let's go back to work,
and if you don't want to come back to work,
then I'll find somebody else that's better at your job.
He also is going to pause all offshore wind leases. Yes,
one of the other stupid things a Biden administration was
obsessed with not actually being energy independent, being dependent on
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foreign oil, propping up places like Russia and making them
extremely rich so they can go into Ukraine and other
things like that. He's now saying no, no, forget that.
I'm gonna pause all offshore win leases. By the way,
that's not gonna help putin. It's not gonna help Iran
or Iraq or Saudi Arabia.
Speaker 2 (31:34):
This will be amazing.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
He also in his executive orders, is gonna end DEI
hiring practices in the federal government and prioritize merit. Again,
what a great idea. Hire people based on their qualifications,
not based on their sexual orientation or based on the
color of their skin. Because we wanted to have this
DEI obsession with the Biden administration. He's gonna end the
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DII hiring practices in the federal government. Something by the way,
that the FBI are he decided to do, and now
they've had to say, the FBI, you must keep all records.
You cannot destroy them because you're ending the DEI program.
We want you to preserve all records, which is going
to show us a hell of a lot about how
corrupt the government had become under Joe Biden. Kamala Harris.
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We also are being told that Donald Trump's going to
withdraw from the Paris Climate Accord. He's going to mandate
agencies to remove regulations that increase the costs for Americans.
And there's one other thing that I love. I'm being
told that Donald Trump is going to suspend the security
clearances for fifty one officials who misled the American people
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on purpose. They lied to you about the Hunter Biden
laptop story when they signed that letter, and those men,
the fifty one officials, make a hell of a lot
of money off of their security clearances. We're now being
told that they are going to suspend the security clearances
for fifty one officials who lie to the American people. Owen,
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He's also implementing a doge hiring freeze for the federal government.
Speaker 2 (33:09):
We're bloated.
Speaker 1 (33:10):
We don't need to be hiring a bunch of people
until we figure out where we are and what it
looks like and mandate people come back to work. We're
going to have a hiring freeze with our federal government
elections have consequences, and a bunch of lazy government workers
are about to find that out first hand. Make sure
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you share this podcast with your family and your friends,
and I will see you back here tomorrow
Inauguration day is here, and I'm going to run through
for you in a moment. What I'm now being told
is one hundred to two hundred executive orders that are
going to be signed after Donald Trump is sworn in.
And this list of what he's going to sign is incredible.
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It is a list that is going to excite you,
and I'm going to give it to you here. Many
in the media don't have this list. But I also
want to just tell you how much I think things
have changed since twenty sixteen. And I'm going to use
one of the basic data points that most people wouldn't
even tell you about, and that is looking at the
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people that are willing to stand with Trump to celebrate
his inauguration. In twenty sixteen, you couldn't find celebrities that
would be a part of Donald Trump's inauguration.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
He was toxic. Is how the agents would say.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
It would be political suicide or career suicide, I guess
would be the best way to put if you even
were ever seen with Donald Trump, you want to know
what it looks like now at the inauguration events around
Donald Trump. And this is how you know this administration,
in this presidency forty seven is going to be very different.
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Jason Aldan, Billy Ray Cyrus, Gavin De Grau, Snoop Dog,
Rascal Flats. Those are just some of the people that
are saying, I am not going to be bullied by
Hollywood in the left anymore. I'm gonna stand with Donald Trump.
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Parker McCollum, great country music singer, said I'm going to
stand with him. Kid Rock saying the same thing, Nelly
saying the same thing, the Village People, and Carrie Underwood.
You couldn't have found these people to stand in twenty
sixteen with Donald Trump because it would have been career suicide.
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Now they're saying it's not anymore, and there's enough conservative
out there and MAGA voters out there that we are
going to proudly stand with a man that loves this
country and is fighting to change this country after the disaster,
which is Joe Biden.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
That is how much the country's changed.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
I how much this administration I think it's going to
change this country. And that's how many people are now
saying I'm not going to be shy. I'm going to
stand proudly with Donald J.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Trump.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Now there is something else that I'm going to announce
right now, and I am so excited because I've been
working on this. I've had to keep it a secret
until now. Many of you know I host this radio show,
and I did a money through Friday morning show.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
For over a decade, well over a decade, and right.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Before Thanksgiving, I quit that morning show because of what
I described the time is a new opportunity, and I said,
I will be telling you about it as soon as
I can.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
I now get to tell you about it.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
And it is something that a lot of people wanted
a lot of people were asking for it. And that
was a morning update, a podcast that was quick, ten
to twelve minutes long that gave me what's happening, what
to watch for in the Trump administration, and what is
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the media not covering that's happening that I need to
know about. Well, we have now put it together and
I want you to listen to it every day. I
want to be clear, I'm still going to be doing
my show. I'm still going to be doing the Ben
Ferguson podcast. That's not going away. I will do a
long form podcast each and every day for you. But
this is something a little bit different. This is solely
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focused on Donald Trump, the administration and the Oval Office.
Now the show's name because I want you to listen,
I want you to go download it. It is live
right now. It is called the forty seven Morning Update
with Ben Ferguson. I'll say that again, the forty seven
Morning Update with Ben Ferguson. This is a show that
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will spot the spotlight the latest news political headlines. In fact,
I'm gonna play for you our promo. This was the
introduction to the forty seven Morning Update that we put
up wherever you get your podcasts. It's free, you can
grab it. It will be Monday through Saturday ten to
twelve minutes and you're gonna know what's going on.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Take a listen.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
Make America powerful again, huge, safe again, build that wall
wealthy again.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
We're gonna win, big lead.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
We will make America great again.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
You're listening to the forty seven Morning Update with Ben Ferguson.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Good morning.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
It's Ben Ferguson and I'm excited to be hosting the
forty seven Morning Update.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Every morning.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
We're gonna spotlight the latest news and political headline with
a special focus on President Trump's administration, his policies, and
the maga agenda, So join me every day for unfettered access,
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Speaker 2 (05:45):
Now, let's talk.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
About excitement around this inauguration day, Donald Trump having his
celebratory victory rally where people stayed out in the cold
for hours to get in. It was an amazing event
in Washington, d C. And President Trump walked on that
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stage and he was beyond thrilled to be there.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Thank you very.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
Much, everybody. Why that good? Fairly?
Speaker 4 (06:14):
We're like winning, don't we had?
Speaker 3 (06:19):
So we're going to make our country greater than ever before.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Hello Washington, and Hello America.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
We're all over America.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
I'm thrilled to be back.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
With so many friends, supporters and true American patriots, or
the eve of taking back our country. That's what we're
going to do, take back our country. Tomorrow at noon,
the curtain closes on four long years of American decline,
and we begin a brand new day of American strength
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and prosperity, dignity and pride, bringing it all back once
and for all. We're going to end the reign of
a failed and corrupt political establishment in Washington, a failed administration.
We're not going to take it anymore. We're going to
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stop the invasion of our vorders. We're going to reclaim
our wealth. We're going to unlock the liquid goal that's
right under our feet, liquid goal.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
We're going to bring.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
Back law and order to our cities. We're going to
restore patriotism to our schools, get radical left woop ideologies
the hell out of our military and out of our government,
and we are going to make America great again.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
Donald Trump at Israelly, making it very clear, We're gonna
make America great again. We are done with the Biden administration.
God bless America. On this inauguration day, as he got
excited telling you what's going to happen now, what.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
All is in this list?
Speaker 1 (08:22):
What are going to be in these one hundred to
two hundred executive orders. I'm going to break down that
list for you coming up in just a moment. Before
I get to that, let me tell you about our
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On January the twenty seventh, just a few days away,
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of terror. Now today, unfortunately, the rise in global anti
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the question that I get asked all weekend of the
inauguration weekend was all right, what's Donald Trump gonna do?
I want to know. I want to know what Donald
Trump's gonna do. Tell me what he's gonna do, what
he's gonna do? What are these executive orders? So I
have put together a master list. This is a list
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that you're gonna love. Donald Trump is set to sign
at least one hundred executive orders. I'm being told by
his staff, and upwards of two hundred executive orders actually.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
Could take place. Now, what do these orders include.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
I'm gonna give you some highlights, and if I leave
something out, I want to be clear it's not because
I'm doing it on purpose, just because we don't have
the intel on it yet. Number one on my list
is declare national emergency at the border and close it.
That is a huge executive order. Why is Donald Trump
doing that? Real simple reason. He wants to make sure
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that he pays off on what he said we were
going to do, which was to protect the southern border
and protect America from an invasion. This is important. There's
another aspect of this that is also going to happen.
He is going to designate cartels as foreign terrorist organizations.
That is huge because it then means we have different
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rules of engagements and ways to really go after. I
would argue go to war with these cartel organizations. They
should have been designated foreign terrorist organizations honestly a long
time ago, but a lot of people didn't think about
it that way because when you thought of Terriss, you
thought of al Qaeda, isis, Hamas has Blah, groups like that. Well,
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the reason why they want to designate them as a
foreign terrorists because the amount of human trafficking, sex, slavery,
human smuggling, people that are dying from their drugs, including
fetnyl is at a level that is much deadlier than
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even al qaeder isis ever was. You look at the
number of people that die in the United States of
America from accidental overdoses, and I want to explain what
I mean by that, because I think it's important that
people understand just how evil these people are. There are
people that take drugs, and if you've ever known someone
that's been addicted to drugs, many times it's not like
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there's some junkie out there on the streets. I've had
friends that I've lost who never in their life took
drugs and they got a horrible car wreck, or they
had a terrible sports injury, and they ended up being
prescribed opioids that they didn't know that they had. You know,
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it would take over their life in a matter of hours.
I had a good friend of mine in high school
that in college was a standout football player, and he
had broken his back in a football play and they
gave him one of these powerful drugs and within three
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months he was dead of an accidental overdose.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
He'd never touched drugs in his whole life. He took
a prescription and he did.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
Not realize that it was going to wake up a
part of his brain that he didn't know how to
shut down. It was unbelievable to see how quick it
got a grip on him, how fast it destroyed his life. Well,
the worst part about these cartels is they make a
lot of these drugs, but they're not the actual drug,
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and they put fetnyl in them, and then someone thinks
they're taking an oxy cotone or a oxycotin or whatever
it may be, and they know what they were prescribed
and that's what they take and before they know it,
they're dead. That is what these cartels do. And the
number of dead bodies from what I would refer to
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as an accillent overdose because these people have no intent
on dying or they're not a junkie, right, They're not
out there in the in the world the way that
we used to think of drugs. These are people that
they got addicted to a prescription and they take even
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the exact amount there doctor prescribed. They had no intent
of dying from a federal overdose. These are unintended overdoses.
And you can have compassion for people like this, or
you can say, well, they should have been taken to
llegal drugs that you know anyway, they should have been
buying them on the black market. And there's an argument.
We could have that all day long. But what I
do know is the people that are in charge of this,
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that are doing this to our young people, that are
getting them addicted, and then they know that people are
going to die. These cartels know that many of these drugs,
they're not making them in laboratories, They're making them in buckets.
And if you don't understand fetanyl, if you take a
great illustration. I think I've talked about this on the
show before, but if you've ever met with Border Patrol
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DA agents or talked with doctors, if you want to
understand how fetanyl works and how much can kill you,
if you take an equal packet, a splendid packet, a
sweetened low packet, and you dump it all out, and
then you take your finger and you put it in
that packet and you come back out and there's residue
on your finger. And if you have kids or grandkids,
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do this with them. That is enough fetanyl the residue
on your finger to kill you. Not might kill you,
would kill you. That's how little fetanyl it takes. Another
way to describe it is it can be a grand
granular the size of.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
The end of a pin.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
So look at the end of a pen and think
about one itty bitty little piece on the end of
and that will kill you. When it comes to fetanyl.
When they mix this stuff up in bathtubs or buckets
in the middle of nowhere, in the jungle, right in
the where they do these drugs, they're not making it
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in a laboratory, they're not trying to keep it safe.
They're just mixing up and then they put it into
what they refer to as counterfeit pills. And these pills
you think you're buying are oxy, cotonox, cotton, whatever the
pill is you're trying to get your hands on purpose
that way, it could be a million different pills. And
you actually got a pill lace with fetanyl and you
take it and all of a sudden, your body and
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you're done.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
You're dead.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
That is one of the reasons why these foreign terrist
organizations are, these cartels should be designated as foreign terist.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Organizations, and that's why Donald Trump's doing it.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
The other thing is they're making an incredible amount of
money off of human trafficking, child trafficking, sex trafficking, child labor,
enslaving people in the United States of America. The cartels
really they can make more money off of reusing a
young girl than they can off of selling cocaine.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
You get a.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
Child, and by the way, many of them are young boys,
and you get them into sex slavery, you can sell
that child ten, fifteen, twenty times a day. People don't
like to talk about it, but this administration lost three
hundred thousand kids. The Biden administration lost three hundred thousand
kids to people. They don't know where they are now
in the United States of America, and unfortunately, many of them
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are being sold ten, fifteen and twenty times a day.
And the cartels have understood that they can resell a
human being fifteen twenty times a day. It's a lot
less risky and a lot easier than selling drugs because
you got to keep making drugs, you got to keep
shipping drugs, you got to keep getting them across the border,
and you've got to keep distributing them. When when you
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imprison a child into sex slavery and you can turn
that many sells a day of a human being, which
the Biden administration knew was happening and looked the other way.
I want to be clear, that's you're terrorists. And if
you're in an organization that does this is the living,
you're a terrorist organization. And that is exactly why Donald
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Trump is going to designate them as a terrorist organization.
This is maybe one of the biggest blessings of having
Donald Trump come back in the office. This is one
of the reasons why I think God saved Donald Trump's
life from the assassins from that bullet when he turned
his head.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
I truly believe that.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
I believe that Donald Trump's life was spared so that
he could come in and do exactly what we just
talked about. I really sincerely mean it. I think it's
so important. I think it's incredibly important, and I want
to tell you this is one of those moments we
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should all celebrate. One of the other things that we've
been told Donald Trump's going to do immediately is reinstate
the remain in Mexico policy. Now, what that means is
that will end the Biden Harris loophole, that will end
the catt and release policy that we've had right now.
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As you know, many people come across the border, they
run to border patrol agents. They want to get in
the system, they want to be a part of all
the free crap that Biden would give out. And that's
what catch and release was. It was like, please catch me, now,
give me all America is going to give me for free. Gimme, gimme, gimme.
And we did. And then we'd five in different places.
We'd put them on buses, we'd give them hotel rooms,
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we'd feed them, we'd give them debit cards with them
cell phones, and then they'd.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
Never show up for their court date.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
Well, reinstating the remain of Mexico policy and Inny catching
release is going to be huge for stopping the number
of legal immigrants coming across the southern border. We also
been told that Donald Trump will also direct the military
to immediately begin building new sections of the border wall
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through his executive orders. That will send a very clear
message as well to legal immigrants that we're not screwing around,
that we're going back to the policy we had before,
but we're going to finish the job we started. Now
we're being told already that self deportations are already happening,
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that the change at the border in the last two
weeks has been significant. There are a lot of people
that were trying to run across as fast as they could.
But we're also being told that there were a lot
of people that are self deporting because they don't want
to have to look over their shoulder. In other words,
it's like, all right, well that was fun, we had
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a great time. Now we're out of here, Like that
was really great.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
We're done.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
Now, we're moving on. We're going to go back to
our home country. Now, not all of them are from Mexico.
A lot of people are self deporting to countries all.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
Over the world.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
And I would expect when you designate the cartels as
foreign terrorist organizations, you reinstate there remain in Mexico policy.
You end catch and release, and you declare a national
emergency at the border, and you close it. It's gonna
send and then direct the military to build new sections
of the border wall. That is one hell of a
message to illegal immigrants that will go back to people
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all over the world. Hey, you know that fun time
we had when Joe Biden Kamala Harris were idiots and
looked the other way on purpose to go to America. Yeah,
that does not happen anymore. That's not even close to
what it's like now. The payoff the moment he has
sworn in in is incredible because when he leaves the rotunda,
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he's getting to work instantly, before the parties, before the
excitement of just enjoying the fact that you've been elected
president and you are now the siting president. I don't
think Donald Trump really gives a crap about that. I
mean that, I think he's like, all right, let's go
swear me in and let's go. I got a lot
of stuff to sign now. I have been told by
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some insiders that there may be up to two hundred
plus executive orders signed tomorrow. And this goes back to
playing for keeps and understanding things you didn't understand in
twenty sixteen. We understand now. And I actually say Trump
understands now in his entire team what they have to do,
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what they need to do, and how quickly it needs
to get done. And they understand through executive action now
what they can undo from what Joe Biden.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
Did you know?
Speaker 1 (22:38):
Joe Biden on Sunday boarded Air Force one for the
final time, using yet again the short stairs, of course,
to get on the airplane.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
Tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
Dignity will be restored to the United States America is
how one user put it on x and I couldn't
agree more. Not only do we have a presentident that
is excited about what's happening, but he's also fighting very
hard to make sure that he's surrounded with people that
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are ready to go to work for the American people
as well.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
I'll give you a great example.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
Elon Musk took the stage at Trump's victory rally as
the crowd went wild in Washington, d C. And this
is what is interesting. I think in the change, Donald
Trump is willing to share the stage with the most
brilliant minds in the world. It's not the Trump show
this time. It is the Trump administration show. And he
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understands now, I can't do it all, so I need
to find the most brilliant people so they can do
it with me.
Speaker 4 (23:42):
Thank you, Thank you as president.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
Sorry, the Lexis followed me on.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
The stage here.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
He's a very enthusiastic supporter.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
As you can see, he's got his son on the
stage with him. Let me just say, this is different
watching Elon Musk get excited about his son coming up
on stage, just seeing it the way that it's happening,
it's just a different feeling to it. Like it's just
(24:15):
a different feeling, you know. Speaker Johnson went on the
record this week talking about just how bad our government
was being run. He said Joe Biden had been signing
executive orders without knowing what he was even signing as
he was spilling the tea on just how bad things
had gotten in Washington with Donald Trump's, with Joe Biden's
leadership or lack thereof. Joe Biden was not in charge
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his country. The people that were running this country were
elected by no one and their names were never on
the ballot. He was controlled by his teleprompter, by his wife,
and by the Biden crime family and Kamala Harris and
Speaker Johnson did an interview and this is what he
said about how bad it's been.
Speaker 5 (24:56):
I do stand by it, and I say this without
any personal animus at all. I mean, you know, in
some ways actually kind of feel sorry for Joe Biden.
I mean he's in the twilight years of his life.
He is not obviously has not been in charge for
some time. And I know this by personal observation, and
now the whole world knows it. And it's been very,
very concerning to me over the last you know, year
and a half since I've had this close the story.
Speaker 4 (25:17):
When you say personal observation, would.
Speaker 5 (25:19):
Well, I mean this is it's public now because the
Wall Street Journal got it and put it on the
front page. But January a year ago, almost exactly a
year ago, I had been asking. I became speaker in
October twenty twenty three, and there were all sorts of
big national security concerns and everything going on, and I
started to requesting a meeting with the president because you know,
I'm kind of old school.
Speaker 4 (25:38):
I'm a constitutional law guy.
Speaker 5 (25:40):
Speaker of the House should be able to talk to
the president, especially in times of great national interest in calamity.
But they wouldn't let me meet with him, and his
staff kept putting it, getting any excuses.
Speaker 4 (25:49):
This went on for like eight or nine weeks.
Speaker 5 (25:50):
I'm sorry, miss Speaker, he doesn't have time. What are
you talking about it? I'm second line of the presidency.
He has time, I need to.
Speaker 4 (25:55):
Talk to him.
Speaker 5 (25:56):
We had I can't say the class fed parts, but
we had some big, big national concerns at the time
that I was losing sleepover. Finally, I just went to
the whole press corn and said, the President is not
being allowed to meet with a speaker. There's a problem.
So they started putting pressure on him. Long story short,
they finally relented. They invited me to the White House.
I show up and I realized it's actually an ambush
because it's not just me and the President, it's also
(26:17):
Kamala Harris, Chuck Schumer, Hakem, you know, the whole the
CIA director, everybody. And then so I walked in the
oval and ah, I know what this is. This is
a they're going to hot box the speaker on Ukraine funding.
Speaker 4 (26:29):
That's what it was. This is probably third week of January.
Speaker 5 (26:32):
We sit down, we're in the midst of it and
the cold conversation, and I'm going, we don't need to
have this conversation. The President reaches over just like this,
We're sitting in the right next to the fireplace in
the oval, and he grabs my arm and he says
the speaker and I just need a couple of minutes together.
Would y'all just leave us alone? And I looked up
on the faces of some of the staffs standing around
the wall, and they're.
Speaker 4 (26:48):
Like, no, he did it, so he called it. He's
the commander in chiefs. Everybody leaves.
Speaker 5 (26:53):
He and I are standing awkwardly in the middle of
the Oval office, right over the rug by that coffee table,
and I said, Miss President, thanks for the moments.
Speaker 4 (26:59):
You know, this is very important.
Speaker 5 (27:01):
I got some big national security things I need to
talk to you about that I heard, and I think
you know and what do we do?
Speaker 4 (27:05):
But first, real quickly, miss President, can.
Speaker 5 (27:07):
I ask you a question I cannot answer this from
my constituents in Louisiana. Sir, why did you pause LNG
exports to Europe?
Speaker 4 (27:16):
Like I don't understand.
Speaker 5 (27:17):
You know, liquified natural gas is in great demand by
our allies. Why would you do that because you understand
we just talked about Ukraine. You understand your fuel in
Vladimir Putin's war machine because they got to get their
gas from him, you know. And he looks at me,
stunned with this, and he said, I didn't I didn't
do that, and I said, miss President, you yes, you did.
It was an executive order like you know, three weeks ago,
(27:37):
and he goes, no, I didn't do that, and he's
arguing with me. I said, miss President, respectfully, can I
could I go out here and ask your secretary to
print it out.
Speaker 4 (27:44):
We'll read it together. You definitely did that, and he.
Speaker 5 (27:45):
Goes, oh, you talk about natural gas? Yes, sir, He
said no, no, I did you misunderstand? He said, what
I did is I signed this thing to we're gonna
we're gonna conduct a study on the effects of LERG.
Speaker 4 (27:57):
I said, no, you're not, sir. You paused it.
Speaker 5 (27:59):
I oh, I have the terminal, the export terminals in
my state. I talked to those people this morning. This
is doing massive damage to our economy, national security. It
occurred to me, Barry, he was not lying to me.
He genuinely did not know what he had signed. And
I walked out of that meeting with fear and loathing
because I thought, we're in serious trouble. Who is running
the country Like, I don't know who put the paper
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in front of them, but he didn't know.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
You know, you listen to Speaker Johnson that I just
played for you, and I got to tell you knowing
that Joe Biden was signing executive orders, he didn't know
that he'd signed on things like banning experts of liquid
natural gas and him saying, no, I've never did that.
He's arguing with Speaker of the House, what else did
(28:44):
he miss? What else were they getting him to sign
that he had no idea what he was signed like,
that's that's I'm sorry that senior abuse. But they were
all making money off and they were selling out America
bit by bit. This is what also stops.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Donald Trump coming in.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
And one of the things that we found out that
is in the stack of executive orders is Donald Trump's
plan to terminate Biden's energy drilling restrictions, which goes exactly
back to what you heard Speaker Johnson talking about. He's
going to go back to a America first energy policy.
(29:26):
He is not going to use the government to attack
and weaponize the United States government to destroy our energy
system and oil and gas exploration. And that is all
this administration has been doing. That is going to lower
gas prices for all Americans, liberals and conservatives, Republicans and Democrats,
(29:51):
and it's going to help the poor more than any
other group. He also, through executive order, is going to terminate,
or I should say, require federal workers to return to
in person work, and if they don't, guess what happens,
they're gonna lose their jobs. The majority of the federal
government right now is working from home since COVID, many
(30:13):
federal buildings are sitting seventy plus percent unoccupied, empty, and
so requiring federal workers to return to in person work
is probably gonna get rid of some of the It's
kind of like the legal immigrants are self deporting themselves.
I talked about a minute ago. There's a lot of
federal workers are gonna be go I'm not going back
in the office. I'll just quit my job. Fine, quit,
(30:35):
We don't need you. You work for the federal government.
You should go into an office. Seventy percent of the
workforce and our federal government should be in an office,
and they aren't there because seventy percent of the buildings
are empty.
Speaker 2 (30:50):
And he's going to change.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
All of that day one, saying let's go back to work,
and if you don't want to come back to work,
then I'll find somebody else that's better at your job.
He also is going to pause all offshore wind leases. Yes,
one of the other stupid things a Biden administration was
obsessed with not actually being energy independent, being dependent on
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foreign oil, propping up places like Russia and making them
extremely rich so they can go into Ukraine and other
things like that. He's now saying no, no, forget that.
I'm gonna pause all offshore win leases. By the way,
that's not gonna help putin. It's not gonna help Iran
or Iraq or Saudi Arabia.
Speaker 2 (31:34):
This will be amazing.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
He also in his executive orders, is gonna end DEI
hiring practices in the federal government and prioritize merit. Again,
what a great idea. Hire people based on their qualifications,
not based on their sexual orientation or based on the
color of their skin. Because we wanted to have this
DEI obsession with the Biden administration. He's gonna end the
(31:56):
DII hiring practices in the federal government. Something by the way,
that the FBI are he decided to do, and now
they've had to say, the FBI, you must keep all records.
You cannot destroy them because you're ending the DEI program.
We want you to preserve all records, which is going
to show us a hell of a lot about how
corrupt the government had become under Joe Biden. Kamala Harris.
(32:20):
We also are being told that Donald Trump's going to
withdraw from the Paris Climate Accord. He's going to mandate
agencies to remove regulations that increase the costs for Americans.
And there's one other thing that I love. I'm being
told that Donald Trump is going to suspend the security
clearances for fifty one officials who misled the American people
(32:43):
on purpose. They lied to you about the Hunter Biden
laptop story when they signed that letter, and those men,
the fifty one officials, make a hell of a lot
of money off of their security clearances. We're now being
told that they are going to suspend the security clearances
for fifty one officials who lie to the American people. Owen,
(33:04):
He's also implementing a doge hiring freeze for the federal government.
Speaker 2 (33:09):
We're bloated.
Speaker 1 (33:10):
We don't need to be hiring a bunch of people
until we figure out where we are and what it
looks like and mandate people come back to work. We're
going to have a hiring freeze with our federal government
elections have consequences, and a bunch of lazy government workers
are about to find that out first hand. Make sure
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