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Speaker 1: Today, I'm proud to announce that in February, the US

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Speaker 1: Navy had his best recruiting numbers since twenty two that's

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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 Wednesday morning, Ben Ferguson with It Science to have

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Speaker 3: you on the forty seven Morning Update, And here are

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Speaker 3: the three big stories you need to know about. First up,

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Speaker 3: Democrats are now putting together a team to travel to

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Speaker 3: Al Salvador to demand the release of a man who

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Speaker 3: broke into America who's apparently a member of the MS

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Speaker 3: thirteen gang, which has been declared a terrorists organization that

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Speaker 3: who the Democrats are defended. And I'll give you all

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Speaker 3: the details in just a moment. Also, EPA Chief Lee

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Speaker 3: Zelden is now leading the largest deregulation action in the

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Speaker 3: history of this country. How much money's gonna save you

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Speaker 3: billions and billions, And I'll have that story for you

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Speaker 3: as well. And finally, the money it's being cut off

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Speaker 3: as Harvard refuses to comply with federal law, and the

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Speaker 3: Trump administration is saying, well, good luck, because you're not

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Speaker 3: getting the money from the United States government. It's the

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Speaker 3: forty seven Morning Update and it starts right.

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Speaker 2: Now, story number one. So this is not a joke.

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Speaker 3: Democrats right now are going all in and quote intensifying

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Speaker 3: their efforts to secure the release of Kilmar Albrego Garcia.

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Speaker 3: He is that man from Maryland who was deported to

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Speaker 3: El Salvador and currently being detained in the country's high

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Speaker 3: has announced plans to travel to El Salvador for what

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Speaker 3: quote check on Garcia as well. Being now, I am

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Speaker 3: the propaganda from MSNBC is they have also decided to

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Speaker 3: go all in to back the illegal immigrant over the

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Speaker 4: The wife of Kilmar Abrego Garcia just spoke outside of

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Speaker 5: Today is thirty four days of after his disappearance, and

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Speaker 5: stay strong. God hasn't forgotten about you. Our children are

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Speaker 5: asking when would you come home, and I pray for

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Speaker 5: aches for my husband, who should have been here leading

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Speaker 3: Now this is clearly Properanda. You heard the wife there say,

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Speaker 3: today is thirty four days of after his disappearance. Well,

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Speaker 4: Tom, how do you respond to these Democratic lawmakers, including

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Speaker 6: Well, good luck with that, Carol. Evan's exactly right.

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Speaker 7: Every time I read a story about this as Maryland father,

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Speaker 6: Al Salvador makes that decision.

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Speaker 6: He's an MS thirteen gang member.

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Speaker 7: Based on our intelligence and Al Salvador's intelligence, he will

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Speaker 6: That's my opinion.

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Speaker 3: Isn't it amazing that the wife doesn't tell you that

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Speaker 8: I think the President's right. If you're in our country illegally,

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Speaker 8: And I think they're a plenty of laws which President

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Speaker 3: Senator Kennedy is absolutely right, he said the same way

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Speaker 2: Next story number two, Saving you money.

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Speaker 3: It is a promise that Donald Trump said he was

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Speaker 3: We're going to do all this while creating jobs, including

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Speaker 3: In a major move, the Trump Administration has just frozen

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Speaker 3: two point two billion of the nearly nine billion in

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Speaker 3: federal grants that are at risk. The Harvard Crimson, the

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Speaker 3: university student run newspaper, reported this way, saying, quote, the

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Speaker 3: Trump administration paused two point two billion in multi year

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Speaker 3: grants and sixty million and multi year contracts to Harvard

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Speaker 3: over its decision earlier today to reject the White House's demand.

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Speaker 3: A dramatic escalation in its crusade against the university. Now,

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Speaker 3: if you want to know what the White House says

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Speaker 3: about this, take a listen to Caroline Levitt speaking the

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Speaker 9: When it comes to Harvard, the President's position on this

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Speaker 9: is grounded in common sense, in the basic principle that

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Speaker 9: Jewish American students or students of any faith should not

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Speaker 9: be illegally harassed and targeted on our nation's college campuses.

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Speaker 9: And we unfortunately saw that illegal discrimination take place on

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Speaker 9: the campus of Harvard. There are countless examples to prove it,

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Speaker 9: particularly with the stunning confession by then Harvard president Claudine

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Speaker 9: Gay who said that bullying and harassment depended on the context.

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Speaker 9: The President at that time made it clear to the

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Speaker 9: American public he was not going to tolerate illegal harassment

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Speaker 9: and anti Semitism taking place in violations of federal law.

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Speaker 9: So the President made it clear to Harvard follow federal

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Speaker 9: law no longer break Title six, which was passed by

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Speaker 9: Congress to ensure no student can be discriminated against on

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Speaker 9: the basis of race, and you will receive federal funding. Unfortunately,

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Speaker 9: Harvard has not taken the President or the administration's demands. Seriously,

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Speaker 9: all the President is asking, don't break federal law and

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Speaker 9: then you can have your federal funding. I think the

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Speaker 9: President is also begging a good question. More than two

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Speaker 9: billion dollars out the door to Harvard, when they have

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Speaker 9: a more than fifty billion dollar endowment. Why are the

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Speaker 9: American taxpayers subsidizing in university that has billions of dollars

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Speaker 9: in the bank already, and we certainly should not be

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Speaker 9: funding a place where such grave anti Semitism exists.

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Speaker 3: At the end of the day, it is very clear

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Speaker 3: that Trump administration is saying, we're gonna save your money,

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Speaker 3: and we're also going to make sure that places like

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Speaker 3: Harvard have to follow the federal law, and if they don't,

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Speaker 3: there's going to be consequence.

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