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Speaker 4: You're listening to the forty seven Morning Update with Ben Ferguson.

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Speaker 5: Welcome, It is the forty seven Morning Update with Ben

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Speaker 5: Ferguson on this very special good Friday. We have three

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Speaker 5: big stories for you this morning. And first up, Donald

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Speaker 5: Trump has developed a plan to pay illegal immigrants to

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Speaker 5: self deport I'll have those details for you in a

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Speaker 5: second up. Next, in a shocking move, major networks refuse

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Speaker 5: to take the White House briefing where angel mother Patty

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Speaker 5: Morin recounted the terrible tragedy of how an a legal killer,

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Speaker 5: decided to take her daughter's life. We are going to

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Speaker 5: And finally we're joined by the EPA Administrator Lee as

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Speaker 5: and it starts right now.

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Speaker 4: Story number one.

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Speaker 5: Get ready to celebrate. Donald Trump has come out with

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Speaker 5: a new plan to pay illegal migrants to self deport

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Speaker 5: and it could save you hundreds of billions of dollars.

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Speaker 5: President Trump saying it's time to help illegal immigrants self

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Speaker 5: deport from the United States. Why well, this is happening

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Speaker 5: as Democrats have launched a massive resistance. The President making

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Speaker 5: it very clear, saying, quote, we're doing a self deportation program,

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Speaker 5: Donald Trump said to the Spanish language division of Fox News.

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Speaker 5: Trump made it very clear he's deciding how the program

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Speaker 5: if they're good, if we want them back in, we're

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Speaker 5: as quickly as we can. Now, this may be the

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Speaker 5: that when you try to come back. The idea of

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Speaker 1: You probably know, we're doing a self deportation and we're

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Speaker 1: haven't started it right now. We're getting the murderers out.

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Speaker 1: We have our we have our our total aim. When

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Speaker 1: These are rough, bad people. We want them out and

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Speaker 5: Trump's top immigration aid Steven Miller, said the deputies are

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Speaker 5: This story should have been a story that the media covered.

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Speaker 5: Sudden, what are the Democrats doing. They're scrutinizing every person

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Speaker 5: EPA administrator Lee Zelden sat down with me and senter

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Speaker 5: Verdict with Ted Cruz, and he has criticized the Biden

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Speaker 5: Fund known as gg RF, liking in it to throwing

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Speaker 3: And how is that possible? One might ask.

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Speaker 2: Well, in twenty twenty four, the amount that EPA obligated

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Speaker 2: and spent was over sixty billion dollars. A lot of

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Speaker 2: money came through the Inflation Reduction Act when Democrats were

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Speaker 2: in charge of Congress, and a lot of that money

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Speaker 2: went through EPA. They created these green slush and in

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Speaker 2: one case, twenty billion dollars which they couldn't get out

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Speaker 2: on their own fast enough. They ended up parking at

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Speaker 2: an outside bank. Towards the end of the Biden administration

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Speaker 2: to give through eight pass through NGOs, many of them

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Speaker 2: were brand new. One is that Stacy Abrams linked NGO

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Speaker 2: that received two billion, even though they only received one

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Speaker 2: hundred dollars in twenty twenty three, and because of self dealing.

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Speaker 6: Wait, hold on a second, they went from one hundred

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Speaker 3: How crazy is that?

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Speaker 2: And then on page seven of their grant agreement, the

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Speaker 2: Biden EPA gives them ninety days to complete a training

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Speaker 2: called how to develop a Budget.

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Speaker 3: Now, if you feel like this.

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Speaker 6: Is you know, with two billion dollars, you don't need

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Speaker 6: much of a budget, just spend on whatever you want.

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Speaker 3: Oh, I'll add another dynamic to it.

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Speaker 2: On page one of the grant agreement, they have twenty

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Speaker 2: one days to start spending the money. So from day

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Speaker 2: They had ninety days to complete a training called how

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Speaker 6: Look, this is insane. And you described what you found

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Speaker 6: as essentially twenty billion dollars in gold bars that were

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Speaker 6: they realized, Oh, no, Trump is coming in, let's just

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Speaker 6: throw this all out the window. I mean, is that

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Speaker 6: what you found.

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Speaker 2: That's exactly what happened and what alerted Senate Republicans like

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Speaker 2: Senator Cruz. This was something that Senator Cruz and I

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Speaker 2: spoke about back in December when we met before my

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Speaker 3: There was this video that came out of a Biden.

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Speaker 2: EPA political appointee, a Biden EPA political appointe, talking about

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Speaker 2: how they were tossing gold bars off the Titanic rushing

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Speaker 2: and get billions of dollars out the door before in inauguration.

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Speaker 6: This was a Biden phrase that was It.

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Speaker 3: Was the Biden EPA political appointee.

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Speaker 6: I thought that was being clever. They called it that

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Speaker 6: you gotta be kidding that.

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Speaker 2: Yes, and they were doing it with an eye towards

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Speaker 2: getting themselves jobs at the recipient NGO's. So this was

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Speaker 2: us fulfilling a commitment to figure out, we'll go find

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Speaker 2: the goal bars, a commitment to bring those goal bars

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Speaker 5: Not only is Zelden taking the steps to terminate the grants,

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Speaker 5: citing concerns over the program's integrity, potential fraud, and misalignment

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Speaker 5: with the EPA's priority, but he also emphasized that the

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Speaker 5: agency will not tolerate the wasteful spending of your tax dollars.

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Speaker 5: And now they're aiming to reallocate funds with enhance oversight.

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Speaker 5: He also said that the President has empowered him to

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Speaker 5: make sure the EPA is doing what its actual job

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Speaker 5: is instead of being a radical organization that's been hijacked

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Speaker 5: by the left.

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