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

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Speaker 3: Good Thursday morning. Ben Ferguson with you. It's so nice

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Speaker 3: to have you on the forty seven Morning Update. And

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Speaker 3: here are the three big stories we're talking about today.

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Speaker 3: First up, a rand Supreme leader on obtaining nuclear weapon says, quote,

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Speaker 3: death to America is not just a slogan, it's a policy,

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Speaker 3: and the White House responds. Up next, Lindsey Graham has

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Speaker 3: the DEA and what he had to say about Kamar

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Speaker 3: Obrega Garcia, Well, it will shock the media with their

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Speaker 3: big lie and the Democratic Party, and we have the

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Speaker 3: Chinese Communist Party on tariffs. I'll have that for you

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Speaker 3: in just a second. It's the forty seven Morning Update

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Speaker 3: and it starts.

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Speaker 2: Right now story number one.

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Speaker 3: Past the one hundred day mark and the Trump administration,

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Speaker 3: there is still a lot that is happening, including on

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Speaker 3: when it comes to their future, saying this about obtaining

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Speaker 3: it is a policy translation. If we get a nuclear weapon,

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Speaker 3: we plan on using it. These are genocidal maniacs and

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Speaker 3: it's a terrorist regime, no matter what the liberal media

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Speaker 1: Iran can't have a nuclear weapon. It's you know, pretty simple.

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Speaker 1: It's really simple. We're not looking to take their industry.

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Speaker 1: we're saying is you can't have a nuclear weapon. The

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Speaker 1: that gave them a clear path to a nuclear weapon.

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Speaker 1: I wouldn't have accepted. That's why I terminated the deal.

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Speaker 1: Number one is way too short. You know, when countries

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Speaker 5: It was a terrible deal.

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Speaker 1: It really one of many terrible deals made by the US.

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Speaker 1: But no, I want I'd like to see Iran thrive

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Speaker 3: Very clear stance from the President United States of America.

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Speaker 3: the message to Iran is also very clear. We know

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Speaker 5: Are you familiar with MS thirteen, Yes, sir, briefly, what

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Speaker 4: They're a terrorist organization?

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Speaker 6: Extortion, kidnapping, drugs, intimidation, money laundering.

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Speaker 5: In your time in the DEA, do they have like

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Speaker 6: Not necessarily the membership cards, but they are well recognized

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Speaker 5: A photo I think our office provided to you.

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Speaker 5: Yes, sir, can you give this stuff? This is a

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Speaker 5: photo of tattoos a mister Breo Garcia. Much attention has

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Speaker 5: Can you see the photo here?

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Speaker 5: Okay. Based on your time and experience and expertise in

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Speaker 5: The start with a Leaf's that a sign of marijuana? Okay?

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Speaker 4: Believe that's the one. I can't.

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Speaker 4: This particular one, No, sir.

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Speaker 3: Yet again, it's very clear the DEA nominee is the

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Speaker 3: Based on your time as a DA agent in the field,

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Speaker 3: So if you think Democrats and the media are looking

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Speaker 2: And here is story number three.

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Speaker 3: It was a speech from the floor of the Senate

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Speaker 3: been written by the Chinese Communist Party. If you want

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Speaker 7: One thing is clear. Donald Trump's tariffs have been a

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Speaker 7: total failure. Instead of isolating China, Donald Trump's tariffs are

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Speaker 7: raising costs and driving US into recession. There's no strategy

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Speaker 4: Even Donald Trump's own.

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Speaker 7: Policy advisors are struggling to explain his flip flopping. The

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Speaker 3: If you want to file that speech under Chinese propaganda,

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Speaker 3: it'd be a perfect place to put it. And there

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Speaker 3: For example, he said it was destroying manufacturing these tariffs

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Speaker 3: the White House statement said it very clearly, tariffs are

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Speaker 3: aiming to rebuild the economy, restore national and economic security,

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Speaker 3: and make sure that American workers have great paying manufacturing jobs. Yes,

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Speaker 3: all of this indicates that there are major outcomes that

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