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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 Tuesday morning. Nice to have you with us on

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Speaker 4: the forty seven Morning Update, and we've got one very

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Speaker 4: big story for you. TSA lines we're out of control,

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Speaker 4: but Donald Trump is stepping in, sending ice agents to

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Speaker 4: hit major airports and suddenly the wait times are falling.

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Speaker 4: So why is the media so angry about this? And

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Speaker 4: how long could it continue?

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Speaker 3: On?

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Speaker 4: Democrats said they're going to hold the America hostage no

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Speaker 4: matter what. I've got the details on it. It's the

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Speaker 4: number one for weeks Americans have been dealing with a

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Speaker 4: travel nightmare. We're talking about two, three, four and even

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Speaker 4: Because Democrats in Washington are holding the Department of Home

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Speaker 4: Now that's not a small problem. That's a system breakdown

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Speaker 4: in real time, all done by design by the Democrats

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Speaker 4: to continue to hold America hostage, which brings us to

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Speaker 4: President Donald Trump. He just told Republicans in Congress to

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Speaker 1: So if disruptions at major airports nationwide last weekend, I'm

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Speaker 1: They are holding it up because they want to take

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Speaker 4: Of as he said there, Democrats are fully to blame

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Speaker 4: for what we're witnessing right now now. President Trump also

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Speaker 4: about who caused this. He said it directly, saying, quote,

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Speaker 4: They're not talking, they're not trying to work on a deal.

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Speaker 1: Er longer you had a ten thousand dollar bonus.

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Speaker 3: Sorry, last year you gave a ten thousand dollar bonus

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Speaker 1: Well, it could happen. It's amazing. There's such people that

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Speaker 2: And this is all closed by the Democrats.

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Speaker 1: I said, just so you know, all this money was approved,

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Speaker 2: This is done. The Democrat went.

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Speaker 1: In and they want to have radical left lunatics come

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Speaker 2: That's what this is all about.

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Speaker 1: They don't want voter ID, they don't want proof of citizenship,

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Speaker 1: So we also added, as you know, into.

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Speaker 2: The Save America Act.

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Speaker 4: President Trump not losing focus on the issues, over and

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Speaker 4: Another ten thousand dollars bonus for those men and women

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