January 27, 2025 • 13 mins
US suspends Tariffs after Colombia Agrees to Deportation Flights, plus CIA now backs Lab Leak Theory to Explain Origins of Covid-19, also Vance goes after Catholic Churches & Media for Protecting and Profiting off Illegals
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
He'll pull you back in two months.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Two months.
Speaker 3 (00:04):
Yes, it's his schedule.
Speaker 1 (00:05):
He's extremely busy sleeping. Now, could we speak to the president?
Speaker 3 (00:08):
Whel that be possible. We could do it anytime over
the next month.
Speaker 4 (00:11):
They're so used to this, right, I said, no, I'll
pick it up right now.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
Is he on the phone.
Speaker 4 (00:14):
Yeah, Hello, you're listening to the forty seven Morning Update
with Ben Ferguson.
Speaker 5 (00:20):
Good Monday morning. It's Ben Ferguson. Nice to have you
with us, and here are the big stories we're covering today.
On the forty seven Morning Update. Columbia's President Petro buckled
under Donald Trump's trade war threat after the President refused
to allow planes to land in his country filled with
illegal immigrants from his nation. I'll have the latest on
(00:41):
how Donald Trump pulled this off in a moment. Also,
we now have the CIA saying that the government lied
to you about the lab leak theory coming out of
the Wuhan Institute of Virology, the new CIA director explaining
exactly what the evidence is. We'll play that for you
in a moment as well. And finally, Vice President jd
(01:02):
Vance calling out the Catholic Church for protecting illegal immigrants
and profiting off them as well. It's the forty seven
Morning Update and it starts right now.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
Story number one.
Speaker 5 (01:14):
Sunday was a very busy day for Donald Trump and
foreign policy, especially after Columbia's President Petro decided to stop
two military planes landing in his country filled with illegal
immigrants had been rounded up in America. The worst part
about the story is he had said early on he
(01:35):
would allow the planes to land and then decided to
block them. Well, President Donald Trump wasn't having any of
that and said, Okay, you want to go to war,
let's do it. And that is when Donald Trump responded
with some incredible threats to the country. In a response,
Trump swiftly enacted a wave of retaliatory measures, including ordering
(01:58):
a twenty five one percent tariff be imposed on all
Colombian goods coming to the US. Now, many in the
media that were acting like that wasn't a big deal,
except if you look at what Colombia exports to America,
it is a big deal, including Colombian coffee. These measures
are just the beginning. Trump said, we will not allow
(02:19):
the Colombian government to violate its legal obligations with regard
to the acceptance and return of the criminals they forced
into the United States. Trump went on to warn that
that tariff that starts at twenty five percent would then
jump to fifty percent at the end of week one.
(02:41):
Now before the South American leader cave, the Secretary of
State Marco Rubio also alleged that the President of Columbia
had canceled his authorization for the flights of Colombian nationals
when the planes were already in the air. It is
a responsibility of each nation to take back their citis
who are illegally present in the United States in a
(03:03):
serious and expeditious manner. The Colombian president had authorized the
flights and provided all needed authorizations, and then canceled his
authorization when the plans were in the air. Rubio went
on to say on x as demonstrated by today's actions,
we are unwavering in our commitment to end illegal immigration
(03:24):
and bolster America's border security. Rubio went on to state, well,
guess what happened. The President of Columbia instantly caved after
the list came out of exactly what President Trump was
going to do. It wasn't just the emergency tariffs that
were jumping from twenty five to fifty percent at the
end of one week, but also a travel ban and
(03:46):
an immediate visa revocations on the Colombian government officials, also
all of their allies and supporters. Donald Trump wasn't done
with that, saying visa sanctions will happen on all all
party members, family members, and supporters of the Colombian government.
And just to add on to that, the President said
(04:08):
he was going to have enhance customs and border protection
inspections of all Colombian nationals as well as cargo because
of the national security grounds. And finally, the President said
the IEPA treasury, banking and financial sanctions will be fully imposed.
(04:29):
These measures are just the beginning, the President stated, and
we will not allow the Colombian government to violate its
legal obligations with regard to the acceptance and the return
of criminals that they forced into the US. Well, guess
what the Colombian president did. Not only did he say okay,
let's all get along, but he even said he would
(04:51):
send his own presidential jet to America to pick up
the one hundred and sixty plus the legal immigrants that
we were originally flying back to Columbia. If you want
to know what make America Great Again looks like well,
Donald Trump, he's bringing it.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
Week one now, story number two.
Speaker 5 (05:10):
So remember the lie that we were told for years
from the Biden Harris administration that there was no such
thing as a lab leak when it came to the
origins of COVID nineteen. You may also remember the doctor
Fauci lied to the American people and even needed a
preemptive pardon because of what he said the American people
about the Institute of Virology in Wuhan and the lab
(05:32):
leak theory. He also fund a gain of function research
and lied about that. Well, now because all of those
individuals are out of the government, we're finding out exactly
what really happened and the CIA. It is now being
reported by Politico, the Wall Street Journal, the BBC, Fox News,
even CNN and the Associated Press are now running headlines
(05:56):
that say the CIA believes COVID most likely origin from
a lab. Yes. Another headline, the CIA releases new analysis
on COVID origins, favoring lab leak theory. Politico's headlines AA
now says COVID nineteen is more likely to have originated
from a lab leak. These headlines would have been banned
(06:16):
from social media and had your account silenced or even
shut down if you share them during COVID nineteen in
the pandemic. But now we're hearing a lot more about
the facts. John Radcliffe is now the CIA director after
being confirmed this past week, and here is what he
had to say about the American people. It's time that
(06:37):
they are able to trust their government again.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
Part of what we have to do is we have
to restore Americans trust in our own institutions like the
intelligence community and law enforcement, and that includes the CIA.
And you know, one of the things that the President stress,
you know, the purpose of the CIA is to protect Americans,
to keep us safe from foreign threats and foreign adversaries.
(07:01):
But we also need to be truthful with Americans. And
he has stressed to me and others that these aren't
mutually exclusive missions. We can do both. And so in
the case of the CIA, which is the best foreign
intelligence service in the world, after five years, to not
have a public assessment, to be honest with the American
people about where the likely source of a pandemic that
(07:25):
killed millions around the world, including a million Americans, and
really impacted all three hundred and forty five million Americans
in some way. People lost jobs, they lost houses, they
lost their health, they lost their businesses, all of that.
And so I had the opportunity on my first day
to make public an assessment that actually took place in
(07:46):
the Biden administration, so it can't be accused of being political,
and it does assess The CIA has assessed that the
most likely cause of this pandemic that has wrought so
much devastation around the world was because of a laborated
incident in Wuhan, and so we'll continue to investigate that
moving forward. But I think it was important for the
(08:08):
American people to see an institution like the CIA get
off the sidelines and be truthful about what our intelligence
shows at the same time of protecting us from adversaries
like China if they caused or contributed to this.
Speaker 5 (08:22):
It's very clear from Ratcliffe's words there that the President
of United States of America, Donald Trump, is instructing the
people in his cabinet to be transparent with the American people,
to bring back faith to institutions like the CIA or
the FBI or the Department of Homeland Security. And I
have a feeling what we're going to witness in the
(08:42):
days and the weeks ahead is more people like Radcliffe
stepping up and saying this is what they were hiding
from you in the Biden and Harris administration. It is
clear this is an initiative of Donald Trump. So get
ready for more bombshells and also many moments that are
going to probably be like I knew I was right,
moments where we relied to by our government.
Speaker 4 (09:05):
And lastly, story number three.
Speaker 5 (09:07):
There's a very famous saying. It is a saying that
you've probably heard before. Follow the money. Well, nothing could
be truer when it comes to government and politics, and
many times when there is a crisis and money is
thrown at that crisis, there are always people on the
take that are more than happy to get rich. Well, jd.
Vance is now calling out the Catholic Church saying they
(09:31):
are doing more to help immigrants, illegal immigrants, specifically to
actually help their bottom line, not so much because they
believe in a policy. Well, Vice President Jady Vance ruffled
a lot of feathers when he got into it back
and forth over the idea now that the government is
going to raid churches to if there are legal immigrants
(09:53):
in attendance, there are some saying that is inhumane, and
the President of the United States of America is saying
there should be no that is off limits to violent
illegal immigrants, even if they seek refuge in a church.
Take a listen to what JD. Van t had to
say about the Catholic Church profiting off of quote taking
(10:15):
care of illegal immigrants in America.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Of Catholic bishops this week condemned some of the executive
orders signed by President Trump, specifically those allowing immigration and
customs enforcement to enter churches and to enter schools. Do
you personally support the idea of conducting a raid or
enforcement action in a church service at a.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
School, Well, let me let me address this.
Speaker 6 (10:38):
Of course, if you have a person who is convicted
of a violent crime, whether they're an illegal immigrant or
a non illegal immigrant, you have to go and get
that person to protect the public safety. That's not unique
to immigration.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
But let me just address this particular issue, Margaret, because.
Speaker 6 (10:53):
As a practicing Catholic, I was actually heartbroken by that statement,
and I think that the US Conference of Catholics needs
to actually look in the mirror a little bit and
recognize that when they receive over one hundred million dollars
to help resettle illegal immigrants. Are they worried about humanitarian
concerns or are they actually worried about their bottom line.
(11:14):
We're going to enforce immigration law. We're going to protect
the American people. Donald Trump promised to do that, and
I believe the US Conference.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Of Catholic Bishops. If they're worried about.
Speaker 6 (11:24):
The humanitarian costs of immigration enforcement, let them talk about
the children who have been sex trafficked because of the wide.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
Open border of Joe Biden. You person talk about going
people like Blake and Riley who are brutally murdered.
Speaker 6 (11:37):
I support US doing law enforcement against violent criminals, whether
they're all legal immigrants or anybody else, in a way
that keeps US safe. Let me ask this question, Margaret,
let's separate the immigration issue.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
If you had a violent murderer in a school, of course.
Speaker 6 (11:51):
I want law enforcement to go and get that person out.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
Of course, the point of the question, you change the
regulation this week. That's the point of the.
Speaker 6 (11:58):
Question exactly, the to go into church, going to school,
the empowered law enforcement to enforce the law everywhere to
protect Americans.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
In fact, a chilling effect arguably to people to not
send their pipes to school.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
I desperately hope it has a chilling effect.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
You think the the US Conference of Catholics Bishops are
actively hiding criminals.
Speaker 6 (12:20):
I think the US Conference of Catholic Bishops has frankly
not been a good partner in common sense immigration enforcement
that the American.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
People voted for.
Speaker 6 (12:28):
And I hope again as a devout Catholic, that they'll
do better.
Speaker 5 (12:32):
As a devout Catholic, he hopes they'll do better. So
follow the money, what are we talking about. Early reports
have been coming out after Vance did that interview showing
millions and millions and millions and millions of dollars have
been flowing into the Catholic charities to make sure that
they take care of the illegal immigrants. Yes, the Catholic
(12:55):
Church is profiting off of this, There's no doubt about it.
And now you have the Vice President of the United
States of America calling them out for it.
Speaker 4 (13:04):
Thank you for listening to the forty seven Morning Update
with Ben Ferguson. Please make sure you hit subscribe wherever
you're listening to this podcast right now and for more
in depth news, also subscribe to the Ben Ferguson podcast,
and we will see you back here tomorrow.
He'll pull you back in two months.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Two months.
Speaker 3 (00:04):
Yes, it's his schedule.
Speaker 1 (00:05):
He's extremely busy sleeping. Now, could we speak to the president?
Speaker 3 (00:08):
Whel that be possible. We could do it anytime over
the next month.
Speaker 4 (00:11):
They're so used to this, right, I said, no, I'll
pick it up right now.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
Is he on the phone.
Speaker 4 (00:14):
Yeah, Hello, you're listening to the forty seven Morning Update
with Ben Ferguson.
Speaker 5 (00:20):
Good Monday morning. It's Ben Ferguson. Nice to have you
with us, and here are the big stories we're covering today.
On the forty seven Morning Update. Columbia's President Petro buckled
under Donald Trump's trade war threat after the President refused
to allow planes to land in his country filled with
illegal immigrants from his nation. I'll have the latest on
(00:41):
how Donald Trump pulled this off in a moment. Also,
we now have the CIA saying that the government lied
to you about the lab leak theory coming out of
the Wuhan Institute of Virology, the new CIA director explaining
exactly what the evidence is. We'll play that for you
in a moment as well. And finally, Vice President jd
(01:02):
Vance calling out the Catholic Church for protecting illegal immigrants
and profiting off them as well. It's the forty seven
Morning Update and it starts right now.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
Story number one.
Speaker 5 (01:14):
Sunday was a very busy day for Donald Trump and
foreign policy, especially after Columbia's President Petro decided to stop
two military planes landing in his country filled with illegal
immigrants had been rounded up in America. The worst part
about the story is he had said early on he
(01:35):
would allow the planes to land and then decided to
block them. Well, President Donald Trump wasn't having any of
that and said, Okay, you want to go to war,
let's do it. And that is when Donald Trump responded
with some incredible threats to the country. In a response,
Trump swiftly enacted a wave of retaliatory measures, including ordering
(01:58):
a twenty five one percent tariff be imposed on all
Colombian goods coming to the US. Now, many in the
media that were acting like that wasn't a big deal,
except if you look at what Colombia exports to America,
it is a big deal, including Colombian coffee. These measures
are just the beginning. Trump said, we will not allow
(02:19):
the Colombian government to violate its legal obligations with regard
to the acceptance and return of the criminals they forced
into the United States. Trump went on to warn that
that tariff that starts at twenty five percent would then
jump to fifty percent at the end of week one.
(02:41):
Now before the South American leader cave, the Secretary of
State Marco Rubio also alleged that the President of Columbia
had canceled his authorization for the flights of Colombian nationals
when the planes were already in the air. It is
a responsibility of each nation to take back their citis
who are illegally present in the United States in a
(03:03):
serious and expeditious manner. The Colombian president had authorized the
flights and provided all needed authorizations, and then canceled his
authorization when the plans were in the air. Rubio went
on to say on x as demonstrated by today's actions,
we are unwavering in our commitment to end illegal immigration
(03:24):
and bolster America's border security. Rubio went on to state, well,
guess what happened. The President of Columbia instantly caved after
the list came out of exactly what President Trump was
going to do. It wasn't just the emergency tariffs that
were jumping from twenty five to fifty percent at the
end of one week, but also a travel ban and
(03:46):
an immediate visa revocations on the Colombian government officials, also
all of their allies and supporters. Donald Trump wasn't done
with that, saying visa sanctions will happen on all all
party members, family members, and supporters of the Colombian government.
And just to add on to that, the President said
(04:08):
he was going to have enhance customs and border protection
inspections of all Colombian nationals as well as cargo because
of the national security grounds. And finally, the President said
the IEPA treasury, banking and financial sanctions will be fully imposed.
(04:29):
These measures are just the beginning, the President stated, and
we will not allow the Colombian government to violate its
legal obligations with regard to the acceptance and the return
of criminals that they forced into the US. Well, guess
what the Colombian president did. Not only did he say okay,
let's all get along, but he even said he would
(04:51):
send his own presidential jet to America to pick up
the one hundred and sixty plus the legal immigrants that
we were originally flying back to Columbia. If you want
to know what make America Great Again looks like well,
Donald Trump, he's bringing it.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
Week one now, story number two.
Speaker 5 (05:10):
So remember the lie that we were told for years
from the Biden Harris administration that there was no such
thing as a lab leak when it came to the
origins of COVID nineteen. You may also remember the doctor
Fauci lied to the American people and even needed a
preemptive pardon because of what he said the American people
about the Institute of Virology in Wuhan and the lab
(05:32):
leak theory. He also fund a gain of function research
and lied about that. Well, now because all of those
individuals are out of the government, we're finding out exactly
what really happened and the CIA. It is now being
reported by Politico, the Wall Street Journal, the BBC, Fox News,
even CNN and the Associated Press are now running headlines
(05:56):
that say the CIA believes COVID most likely origin from
a lab. Yes. Another headline, the CIA releases new analysis
on COVID origins, favoring lab leak theory. Politico's headlines AA
now says COVID nineteen is more likely to have originated
from a lab leak. These headlines would have been banned
(06:16):
from social media and had your account silenced or even
shut down if you share them during COVID nineteen in
the pandemic. But now we're hearing a lot more about
the facts. John Radcliffe is now the CIA director after
being confirmed this past week, and here is what he
had to say about the American people. It's time that
(06:37):
they are able to trust their government again.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
Part of what we have to do is we have
to restore Americans trust in our own institutions like the
intelligence community and law enforcement, and that includes the CIA.
And you know, one of the things that the President stress,
you know, the purpose of the CIA is to protect Americans,
to keep us safe from foreign threats and foreign adversaries.
(07:01):
But we also need to be truthful with Americans. And
he has stressed to me and others that these aren't
mutually exclusive missions. We can do both. And so in
the case of the CIA, which is the best foreign
intelligence service in the world, after five years, to not
have a public assessment, to be honest with the American
people about where the likely source of a pandemic that
(07:25):
killed millions around the world, including a million Americans, and
really impacted all three hundred and forty five million Americans
in some way. People lost jobs, they lost houses, they
lost their health, they lost their businesses, all of that.
And so I had the opportunity on my first day
to make public an assessment that actually took place in
(07:46):
the Biden administration, so it can't be accused of being political,
and it does assess The CIA has assessed that the
most likely cause of this pandemic that has wrought so
much devastation around the world was because of a laborated
incident in Wuhan, and so we'll continue to investigate that
moving forward. But I think it was important for the
(08:08):
American people to see an institution like the CIA get
off the sidelines and be truthful about what our intelligence
shows at the same time of protecting us from adversaries
like China if they caused or contributed to this.
Speaker 5 (08:22):
It's very clear from Ratcliffe's words there that the President
of United States of America, Donald Trump, is instructing the
people in his cabinet to be transparent with the American people,
to bring back faith to institutions like the CIA or
the FBI or the Department of Homeland Security. And I
have a feeling what we're going to witness in the
(08:42):
days and the weeks ahead is more people like Radcliffe
stepping up and saying this is what they were hiding
from you in the Biden and Harris administration. It is
clear this is an initiative of Donald Trump. So get
ready for more bombshells and also many moments that are
going to probably be like I knew I was right,
moments where we relied to by our government.
Speaker 4 (09:05):
And lastly, story number three.
Speaker 5 (09:07):
There's a very famous saying. It is a saying that
you've probably heard before. Follow the money. Well, nothing could
be truer when it comes to government and politics, and
many times when there is a crisis and money is
thrown at that crisis, there are always people on the
take that are more than happy to get rich. Well, jd.
Vance is now calling out the Catholic Church saying they
(09:31):
are doing more to help immigrants, illegal immigrants, specifically to
actually help their bottom line, not so much because they
believe in a policy. Well, Vice President Jady Vance ruffled
a lot of feathers when he got into it back
and forth over the idea now that the government is
going to raid churches to if there are legal immigrants
(09:53):
in attendance, there are some saying that is inhumane, and
the President of the United States of America is saying
there should be no that is off limits to violent
illegal immigrants, even if they seek refuge in a church.
Take a listen to what JD. Van t had to
say about the Catholic Church profiting off of quote taking
(10:15):
care of illegal immigrants in America.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Of Catholic bishops this week condemned some of the executive
orders signed by President Trump, specifically those allowing immigration and
customs enforcement to enter churches and to enter schools. Do
you personally support the idea of conducting a raid or
enforcement action in a church service at a.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
School, Well, let me let me address this.
Speaker 6 (10:38):
Of course, if you have a person who is convicted
of a violent crime, whether they're an illegal immigrant or
a non illegal immigrant, you have to go and get
that person to protect the public safety. That's not unique
to immigration.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
But let me just address this particular issue, Margaret, because.
Speaker 6 (10:53):
As a practicing Catholic, I was actually heartbroken by that statement,
and I think that the US Conference of Catholics needs
to actually look in the mirror a little bit and
recognize that when they receive over one hundred million dollars
to help resettle illegal immigrants. Are they worried about humanitarian
concerns or are they actually worried about their bottom line.
(11:14):
We're going to enforce immigration law. We're going to protect
the American people. Donald Trump promised to do that, and
I believe the US Conference.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Of Catholic Bishops. If they're worried about.
Speaker 6 (11:24):
The humanitarian costs of immigration enforcement, let them talk about
the children who have been sex trafficked because of the wide.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
Open border of Joe Biden. You person talk about going
people like Blake and Riley who are brutally murdered.
Speaker 6 (11:37):
I support US doing law enforcement against violent criminals, whether
they're all legal immigrants or anybody else, in a way
that keeps US safe. Let me ask this question, Margaret,
let's separate the immigration issue.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
If you had a violent murderer in a school, of course.
Speaker 6 (11:51):
I want law enforcement to go and get that person out.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
Of course, the point of the question, you change the
regulation this week. That's the point of the.
Speaker 6 (11:58):
Question exactly, the to go into church, going to school,
the empowered law enforcement to enforce the law everywhere to
protect Americans.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
In fact, a chilling effect arguably to people to not
send their pipes to school.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
I desperately hope it has a chilling effect.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
You think the the US Conference of Catholics Bishops are
actively hiding criminals.
Speaker 6 (12:20):
I think the US Conference of Catholic Bishops has frankly
not been a good partner in common sense immigration enforcement
that the American.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
People voted for.
Speaker 6 (12:28):
And I hope again as a devout Catholic, that they'll
do better.
Speaker 5 (12:32):
As a devout Catholic, he hopes they'll do better. So
follow the money, what are we talking about. Early reports
have been coming out after Vance did that interview showing
millions and millions and millions and millions of dollars have
been flowing into the Catholic charities to make sure that
they take care of the illegal immigrants. Yes, the Catholic
(12:55):
Church is profiting off of this, There's no doubt about it.
And now you have the Vice President of the United
States of America calling them out for it.
Speaker 4 (13:04):
Thank you for listening to the forty seven Morning Update
with Ben Ferguson. Please make sure you hit subscribe wherever
you're listening to this podcast right now and for more
in depth news, also subscribe to the Ben Ferguson podcast,
and we will see you back here tomorrow.
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