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Speaker 3: You're listening to the forty seven Morning Update with Ben Ferguson.

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Speaker 4: Good Monday morning. It's Ben Ferguson. Nice to have you

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Speaker 4: with us, and here are the big stories we're covering

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Speaker 4: today on the forty seven Morning Update. First up, congratulations,

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Speaker 4: your government's getting smallers. The Trump administration has begun mass

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Speaker 4: layoffs across multiple federal agencies. How much money is it

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Speaker 4: going to save you as a taxpayer. I'll have some

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Speaker 4: paying off on a massive promise from the campaign, putting

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Speaker 4: Donald Trump moves even closer to ending the war between

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Speaker 3: Story number one.

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Speaker 4: Congratulations, your government just got smaller. The Trump administration has

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Speaker 4: begun mass layoffs of federal workers, and the left is

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Speaker 4: proving his point. The administration beginning the mass layoffs across

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Speaker 4: The firings initially affected probationary employees, recent hires who joined

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Speaker 4: Of course, the left is freaking out, saying that people

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Speaker 2: You've offered over two million federal workers the option to

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Speaker 5: Does this tragedy give you reason to reconsider that option

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Speaker 4: fighting in Ukraine. Quote no time set, but it could

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Speaker 4: be very soon, Trump told reporters hours after the Secretary

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Speaker 4: of State Marco Rubio sought the play down expectations of

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Speaker 4: upcoming high level talks and ending the war altogether. Now,

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Speaker 4: with Rubio set to lead this high level American delegation

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Speaker 4: and the discussions with Russian officials in Saudi Arabia's capital.

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Speaker 4: In the coming days. A flurry of diplomacy was taking

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Speaker 4: place as the brutal Ukraine War nears its third anniversary. Trump,

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Speaker 4: addressing reporters after a flat on Air Force one, said

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Speaker 4: his team has been speaking long and hard with Russian officials,

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Speaker 4: including his Middle East envoy, whom the president said met

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Speaker 4: with Putin for about three hours recently, saying this, I

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Speaker 4: think he wants to stop fighting, Trump said of Putin,

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Speaker 4: ask whether he believes Putin wants to seize the entirety

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Speaker 4: of Ukraine. Trump said that was my question to him.

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Speaker 4: If he's going to go on, that would have caused

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Speaker 4: me a big problem. Trump added, I think he wants

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Speaker 4: to end it, and they want to end it fast,

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Speaker 4: both of them, he said, adding Zelensky wants to end

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Speaker 4: it two the Ukrainian president. Zelenski meanwhile said Sunday he

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Speaker 4: believes Russia's preparing to quote wage war against a week

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Speaker 4: in NATO, should Trump dilute US support for the alliance.

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Speaker 4: Trump appeared to dismiss Zelenski's remarks, telling reporters that he

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Speaker 4: was not even a little bit concerned about the Ukrainian

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Speaker 4: leader's messaging. President Trump has been very clear and he

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Speaker 4: has constantly insisted that he would end the Ukrainian in

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Speaker 4: a single day if you return to the White House,

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Speaker 4: Rubio stressing yes, he believes this could come to an end.

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Speaker 4: At the end of the day, it's all about the money,

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Speaker 4: and Donald Trump is clearly telegraphing to Zolensky and Ukraine

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Speaker 4: that the money and the arms are going to be

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Speaker 4: drawing up very soon, so you better get your act together.

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