1 00:00:01,840 --> 00:00:03,960 Speaker 1: Now I'd like to see that, and it's a ridiculous 2 00:00:03,960 --> 00:00:06,200 Speaker 1: war would have never started if I were president, that 3 00:00:06,280 --> 00:00:09,320 Speaker 1: war would have never started. Putin would not have started 4 00:00:09,320 --> 00:00:11,480 Speaker 1: that war if I were president. And by the way, 5 00:00:11,480 --> 00:00:14,400 Speaker 1: you wouldn't have had October seventh if I was president either, 6 00:00:14,520 --> 00:00:16,040 Speaker 1: that miss would not have started. 7 00:00:16,800 --> 00:00:20,440 Speaker 2: You're listening to the forty seven Morning Update with Ben Ferguson. 8 00:00:20,480 --> 00:00:23,639 Speaker 3: Good Saturday morning to you, Ben Ferguson with you, and 9 00:00:23,840 --> 00:00:25,919 Speaker 3: these are some of the stories that you may have 10 00:00:26,000 --> 00:00:28,560 Speaker 3: missed that we talked about this week on the forty 11 00:00:28,640 --> 00:00:32,360 Speaker 3: seven Morning Update. First up, Donald Trump goes to war 12 00:00:32,560 --> 00:00:35,760 Speaker 3: with us AID, saying it turned out to be a 13 00:00:35,920 --> 00:00:41,760 Speaker 3: radical left lunatic filled organization wasting taxpayer dollars. It has 14 00:00:41,840 --> 00:00:44,839 Speaker 3: now been in essence shut down and the lunatics have 15 00:00:44,920 --> 00:00:48,120 Speaker 3: been not allowed back in the building. I'll have the 16 00:00:48,159 --> 00:00:51,160 Speaker 3: details on that in just a moment. Up next, the 17 00:00:51,280 --> 00:00:56,200 Speaker 3: National Guard has been granted authority to make immigration arrests 18 00:00:56,240 --> 00:00:58,720 Speaker 3: in Texas. What does this mean and how is it 19 00:00:58,760 --> 00:01:01,680 Speaker 3: going to change the game and fighting illegal immigrants. We'll 20 00:01:01,680 --> 00:01:05,560 Speaker 3: have that as well. And finally, Zelenski, now, is I 21 00:01:05,680 --> 00:01:10,160 Speaker 3: guess becoming a whistleblower now? Claiming that less than half 22 00:01:10,240 --> 00:01:13,320 Speaker 3: the money that the US has sent has ever actually 23 00:01:13,440 --> 00:01:16,360 Speaker 3: showed up. It's a forty seven morning up date and 24 00:01:16,440 --> 00:01:17,640 Speaker 3: it starts right now. 25 00:01:17,760 --> 00:01:18,759 Speaker 2: Story number one. 26 00:01:18,800 --> 00:01:22,080 Speaker 3: When Donald Trump was running for the presidency the second time, 27 00:01:22,160 --> 00:01:24,840 Speaker 3: he made a very clear promise the American people he 28 00:01:25,000 --> 00:01:28,000 Speaker 3: was going to go into this government and save your 29 00:01:28,120 --> 00:01:33,840 Speaker 3: tax hours from fraud, waste, and abuse. Well, apparently an 30 00:01:33,880 --> 00:01:36,319 Speaker 3: awful lot of our tax dours have been going to 31 00:01:36,520 --> 00:01:39,520 Speaker 3: all of those categories when it comes to us AID, 32 00:01:39,959 --> 00:01:42,840 Speaker 3: A program that Donald Trump actually liked when he was 33 00:01:42,880 --> 00:01:46,520 Speaker 3: president back in twenty sixteen. So what do they find 34 00:01:46,600 --> 00:01:50,400 Speaker 3: this time after it was radicalized by the Biden Harris administration. 35 00:01:50,800 --> 00:01:53,160 Speaker 4: The first trim the USA was something that you liked 36 00:01:53,400 --> 00:01:54,120 Speaker 4: in some respect. 37 00:01:54,280 --> 00:01:57,520 Speaker 1: I love the concept. Yeah that's the program. Sure, I 38 00:01:57,560 --> 00:01:59,720 Speaker 1: love the concept. But they turned out to be radical 39 00:01:59,800 --> 00:02:02,880 Speaker 1: left lunatics and the concept of it is good, but 40 00:02:03,720 --> 00:02:04,880 Speaker 1: it's all about the people. 41 00:02:05,200 --> 00:02:08,600 Speaker 3: President Donald Trump making it clear USA turned out to 42 00:02:08,600 --> 00:02:12,080 Speaker 3: be radical left lunatics. So what did he do? In response? 43 00:02:12,680 --> 00:02:16,240 Speaker 3: USAID staffers were told to stay out of the DC 44 00:02:16,360 --> 00:02:20,480 Speaker 3: headquarters after Elon Musk said that Trump agreed to shut 45 00:02:20,480 --> 00:02:24,240 Speaker 3: it down, calling it just a ball of worms. The 46 00:02:24,280 --> 00:02:27,080 Speaker 3: workers received an email Monday telling them to stay out 47 00:02:27,120 --> 00:02:30,480 Speaker 3: of the agency's DC headquarters. Now Staffords or the US 48 00:02:30,520 --> 00:02:33,960 Speaker 3: Agency for International Development were actually ordered quote it the 49 00:02:34,000 --> 00:02:38,760 Speaker 3: direction of agency leadership to work remotely except for personnel 50 00:02:38,800 --> 00:02:45,359 Speaker 3: with essential on site and building maintenance functions individually contracted 51 00:02:45,400 --> 00:02:50,280 Speaker 3: by senior leadership. This according to an agency wide email 52 00:02:50,320 --> 00:02:53,880 Speaker 3: that was sent out. Further guidance will be forthcoming, is 53 00:02:53,919 --> 00:02:56,720 Speaker 3: what the email said at the end. Now you may 54 00:02:56,800 --> 00:03:01,600 Speaker 3: ask yourself why such a massive reaction from the White House. Well, 55 00:03:01,639 --> 00:03:04,040 Speaker 3: the media, of course said this was an overreaction, and 56 00:03:04,120 --> 00:03:08,080 Speaker 3: Democrats went to USA and storm the building almost like 57 00:03:08,160 --> 00:03:12,080 Speaker 3: it was an insurrection. Well, they brought receipts at the 58 00:03:12,080 --> 00:03:14,480 Speaker 3: White House, as the White House Press secretary let the 59 00:03:14,520 --> 00:03:18,800 Speaker 3: American people know exactly why they decided it's time to 60 00:03:18,919 --> 00:03:19,880 Speaker 3: shut it all down. 61 00:03:20,320 --> 00:03:22,679 Speaker 4: And here's the reason why Elon Musk and others have 62 00:03:22,760 --> 00:03:24,440 Speaker 4: been taking a look, because if you look at the 63 00:03:24,600 --> 00:03:28,120 Speaker 4: waste and abuse that has run through USAID over the 64 00:03:28,160 --> 00:03:31,200 Speaker 4: past several years, these are some of the insane priorities 65 00:03:31,240 --> 00:03:34,280 Speaker 4: that that organization has been spending money on one point 66 00:03:34,320 --> 00:03:39,640 Speaker 4: five million dollars to advance DEI in Serbia's workplaces, seventy 67 00:03:39,720 --> 00:03:42,880 Speaker 4: thousand for a production of a Dei musical in Ireland, 68 00:03:43,280 --> 00:03:47,600 Speaker 4: forty seven thousand for a transgender opera in Colombia, thirty 69 00:03:47,600 --> 00:03:51,160 Speaker 4: two thousand for a transgender comic book in Peru. I 70 00:03:51,160 --> 00:03:53,360 Speaker 4: don't know about you, but as an American taxpayer, I 71 00:03:53,360 --> 00:03:55,520 Speaker 4: don't want my dollars going towards this crap, and I 72 00:03:55,520 --> 00:03:57,760 Speaker 4: know the American people don't either. And that's exactly what 73 00:03:57,800 --> 00:04:00,320 Speaker 4: Elon Musk has been tasked by President Trump to do 74 00:04:00,520 --> 00:04:02,440 Speaker 4: to get the fraud, waste and abuse out of our 75 00:04:02,480 --> 00:04:03,200 Speaker 4: federal government. 76 00:04:03,480 --> 00:04:07,200 Speaker 3: And that, my friends, is what you call bringing the receipts. 77 00:04:07,680 --> 00:04:10,840 Speaker 3: The list of just some of the waste and abuse 78 00:04:11,000 --> 00:04:15,839 Speaker 3: at USAID that DOGE had been working on eliminating. That 79 00:04:16,040 --> 00:04:19,600 Speaker 3: list is just some highlights. They apparently are finding even 80 00:04:19,720 --> 00:04:23,200 Speaker 3: more abuse of your tax dollars being used for the 81 00:04:23,200 --> 00:04:27,600 Speaker 3: most ridiculous things. You could imagine that forty seven thousand 82 00:04:27,760 --> 00:04:32,080 Speaker 3: for a transgender opera in Colombia. No one, whether Republican 83 00:04:32,160 --> 00:04:34,599 Speaker 3: or Democrats, should be in favor of that. Thirty two 84 00:04:34,640 --> 00:04:38,360 Speaker 3: thousand for transgender comic books in Peru. None of our 85 00:04:38,360 --> 00:04:42,120 Speaker 3: money should be going to comic books. In Peru ever period, 86 00:04:42,400 --> 00:04:45,479 Speaker 3: and the one point five million to advance DEI in 87 00:04:45,760 --> 00:04:49,960 Speaker 3: Serbia's workplaces. The real question now people should be asking 88 00:04:50,080 --> 00:04:53,440 Speaker 3: is who was on the take when the money went 89 00:04:53,520 --> 00:04:57,760 Speaker 3: to these different countries. Where did the money actually end up? 90 00:04:57,920 --> 00:05:01,520 Speaker 3: Did seventy thousand actually really go production of a DEI 91 00:05:01,640 --> 00:05:05,680 Speaker 3: musical in Ireland or with someone just taking that money, 92 00:05:06,000 --> 00:05:09,040 Speaker 3: funneling that money that I have a feeling is what 93 00:05:09,120 --> 00:05:11,960 Speaker 3: Elon Musk is going to dig into next. But let 94 00:05:12,040 --> 00:05:15,400 Speaker 3: me say this, It's clear that Trump administration is not 95 00:05:15,520 --> 00:05:20,440 Speaker 3: just stopping with DEI. They're not just stopping with USAID. 96 00:05:20,600 --> 00:05:24,400 Speaker 3: They're not stopping with anywhere in the government where they 97 00:05:24,440 --> 00:05:27,719 Speaker 3: see waste and abuse and the abuse of our tax 98 00:05:27,760 --> 00:05:30,920 Speaker 3: dollars that we work so hard for being sent all 99 00:05:30,960 --> 00:05:31,640 Speaker 3: over the world. 100 00:05:31,800 --> 00:05:33,039 Speaker 2: Now, story number two. 101 00:05:33,040 --> 00:05:35,560 Speaker 3: There's nothing more exciting than getting to tell you about 102 00:05:35,600 --> 00:05:39,480 Speaker 3: major breaking news and trends that will probably expand outside 103 00:05:39,480 --> 00:05:42,000 Speaker 3: of an original story. Well, that is one of those 104 00:05:42,000 --> 00:05:44,800 Speaker 3: stories you're about to hear right now, and that is 105 00:05:45,160 --> 00:05:49,160 Speaker 3: this news. The Texas National Guard has now been granted 106 00:05:49,200 --> 00:05:55,159 Speaker 3: authority to make immigration arrests. In a memo of understanding 107 00:05:55,200 --> 00:05:58,200 Speaker 3: between the Customs and Border Protection known as the CBP 108 00:05:58,839 --> 00:06:02,600 Speaker 3: and the State of Texas. Texas will immediately grant the 109 00:06:02,640 --> 00:06:06,800 Speaker 3: Texas National Guard soldiers. The memorandum, which has not yet 110 00:06:06,880 --> 00:06:10,560 Speaker 3: been disseminated to all Texas border sectors, will allow the 111 00:06:10,680 --> 00:06:14,920 Speaker 3: soldiers were being told to perform roving patrols and exercise 112 00:06:15,279 --> 00:06:18,880 Speaker 3: all the duties of an immigration agent so long as 113 00:06:18,920 --> 00:06:24,520 Speaker 3: a US immigration officer or border patrol agent accompanies them. 114 00:06:24,760 --> 00:06:27,840 Speaker 3: What does this mean? They are going to imbed US 115 00:06:28,000 --> 00:06:33,640 Speaker 3: Customs Enforcement, immigration officers or border patrol agents within the 116 00:06:33,720 --> 00:06:36,719 Speaker 3: National Guard, and everyone with them will have the same 117 00:06:36,760 --> 00:06:40,640 Speaker 3: authority to arrest. This is going to change the entire 118 00:06:40,800 --> 00:06:44,520 Speaker 3: game at the southern border in Texas. According to the 119 00:06:44,520 --> 00:06:49,200 Speaker 3: memo of understanding, the ratio of soldiers to immigration officers 120 00:06:49,760 --> 00:06:54,600 Speaker 3: is preliminarily listed as one officer to four soldiers. The 121 00:06:54,640 --> 00:06:58,200 Speaker 3: title eight United States Code Arrest authority was granted to 122 00:06:58,440 --> 00:07:03,239 Speaker 3: multiple federal law enforcement agencies just days after President Trump's 123 00:07:03,240 --> 00:07:06,799 Speaker 3: inauguration on January the twenty third, The Department of Homeland 124 00:07:06,800 --> 00:07:12,200 Speaker 3: Security also authorized federal law enforcement agents to quote, investigate, 125 00:07:12,560 --> 00:07:18,120 Speaker 3: determine the location, of, and apprehend migrants in an illegal status. 126 00:07:18,320 --> 00:07:21,200 Speaker 3: The details of that memorandum obtained and released in a 127 00:07:21,240 --> 00:07:24,840 Speaker 3: recent news report by CBS News are similar to the 128 00:07:24,920 --> 00:07:29,280 Speaker 3: memo of understanding reviewed also now by Breitbart Texas. The 129 00:07:29,440 --> 00:07:34,160 Speaker 3: duties of the Texas National Guard soldiers are law enforcement related, 130 00:07:34,400 --> 00:07:38,720 Speaker 3: generally reserved for agents assigned to specific agencies under the 131 00:07:38,800 --> 00:07:43,520 Speaker 3: Department of Homeland Security. Now, this latest granting of immigration 132 00:07:43,880 --> 00:07:46,920 Speaker 3: arrest authority, what it means for boots on the ground 133 00:07:47,000 --> 00:07:51,320 Speaker 3: is this, This is going to add at least three 134 00:07:51,360 --> 00:07:56,960 Speaker 3: thousand Texas Army National Guard soldiers to the number of ATF, 135 00:07:57,480 --> 00:08:02,120 Speaker 3: FBI and United States Reputy marshalls who are now assisting 136 00:08:02,160 --> 00:08:06,040 Speaker 3: the Department of Homeland Security and enforcing federal immigration law. 137 00:08:06,400 --> 00:08:10,120 Speaker 3: Simply put, the President clearly is finding ways and his 138 00:08:10,240 --> 00:08:13,880 Speaker 3: staff around him to allow for a maximum number of 139 00:08:13,920 --> 00:08:16,600 Speaker 3: people to go to the southern border in Texas to 140 00:08:16,760 --> 00:08:20,640 Speaker 3: get the southern border back under control. This is going 141 00:08:20,720 --> 00:08:24,840 Speaker 3: to be a game changer. I would also expect, based 142 00:08:24,840 --> 00:08:27,560 Speaker 3: on sources that I've talked to around the White House, 143 00:08:27,880 --> 00:08:30,640 Speaker 3: that you're going to see this same plan rolled out 144 00:08:30,680 --> 00:08:34,280 Speaker 3: in other border states as well. Moral of the story, 145 00:08:34,640 --> 00:08:36,880 Speaker 3: if you earn an a legal immigrant, you better watch 146 00:08:36,920 --> 00:08:41,000 Speaker 3: your back in Texas and very soon other states around 147 00:08:41,040 --> 00:08:41,560 Speaker 3: the country. 148 00:08:41,600 --> 00:08:43,400 Speaker 2: And lastly, story number three. 149 00:08:43,480 --> 00:08:46,720 Speaker 3: If you've ever studied Ukraine, you know that the country 150 00:08:46,840 --> 00:08:50,720 Speaker 3: is insanely corrupt. The leadership's corrupt, the oligarchs are corrupt, 151 00:08:50,760 --> 00:08:54,400 Speaker 3: and when you send money to Ukraine, it disappears very quickly. 152 00:08:54,679 --> 00:08:59,120 Speaker 3: It's also saying something that even people in Russia say, Yeah, 153 00:08:59,240 --> 00:09:01,959 Speaker 3: we know our country is corrupt, but you've seen nothing 154 00:09:02,160 --> 00:09:06,080 Speaker 3: until you've seen Ukraine. Well, just how bad is it? Well, 155 00:09:06,200 --> 00:09:10,120 Speaker 3: Zolensky is now claiming the Ukraine received quote less than 156 00:09:10,240 --> 00:09:13,840 Speaker 3: half of usaid and they don't know where all the 157 00:09:13,960 --> 00:09:18,360 Speaker 3: money went. Yes, Ukrainian President Zelensky has said that his 158 00:09:18,480 --> 00:09:21,600 Speaker 3: country has only received around seventy eight billion in aid 159 00:09:21,640 --> 00:09:25,480 Speaker 3: from the United States, despite America authorizing around a one 160 00:09:25,600 --> 00:09:29,200 Speaker 3: hundred and seventy five billion to quote support the war 161 00:09:29,320 --> 00:09:34,560 Speaker 3: torn country, meaning one hundred billion dollars is missing now. 162 00:09:34,600 --> 00:09:38,640 Speaker 3: In an interview with the Associated Press published Zolensky said 163 00:09:38,640 --> 00:09:40,680 Speaker 3: he doesn't know where most of the money the United 164 00:09:40,720 --> 00:09:44,280 Speaker 3: States allocated under the Biden administration the Ukraine has gone. 165 00:09:44,800 --> 00:09:47,080 Speaker 3: When I hear both in the past and even now 166 00:09:47,200 --> 00:09:50,319 Speaker 3: from the US that America has provided Ukraine with hundreds 167 00:09:50,320 --> 00:09:53,600 Speaker 3: of billions as the president of a nation at war, 168 00:09:53,800 --> 00:09:57,160 Speaker 3: I can tell you we've received no more than seventy 169 00:09:57,240 --> 00:10:01,480 Speaker 3: five billion, he said. We're talking about tangible things because 170 00:10:01,520 --> 00:10:04,559 Speaker 3: this a didn't come as cash, but rather as weapons, 171 00:10:05,040 --> 00:10:08,679 Speaker 3: which amount to about seventy billion dollars. But when it's 172 00:10:08,760 --> 00:10:11,600 Speaker 3: said that Ukraine received two hundred billion to support the 173 00:10:11,880 --> 00:10:15,120 Speaker 3: army during the war, that's not true. I don't know 174 00:10:15,160 --> 00:10:19,600 Speaker 3: where all that money went, Zelenski admitted. So they got 175 00:10:19,640 --> 00:10:23,400 Speaker 3: the money, but now it's missing. Perhaps it's true on paper, 176 00:10:23,520 --> 00:10:27,120 Speaker 3: he went on to say, with hundreds of different programs, 177 00:10:27,480 --> 00:10:31,800 Speaker 3: I won't argue, and we're immensely grateful for everything. But 178 00:10:31,840 --> 00:10:36,560 Speaker 3: in reality, we received about seventy six billion. It's significant aid, 179 00:10:36,600 --> 00:10:40,000 Speaker 3: but it's not two one hundred billion. The Ukrainian leader 180 00:10:40,080 --> 00:10:44,080 Speaker 3: suggested that perhaps the additional funds went to humanitarian programs, 181 00:10:44,360 --> 00:10:48,199 Speaker 3: which he said he was uninformed about except for knowing 182 00:10:48,320 --> 00:10:52,160 Speaker 3: of their existence. Now, the question that you're obviously asking 183 00:10:52,200 --> 00:10:55,760 Speaker 3: yourself right now is, okay, did the money even leave America, 184 00:10:55,800 --> 00:10:58,880 Speaker 3: And if it did leave America, who has it now? Well, 185 00:10:58,880 --> 00:11:02,720 Speaker 3: there have been long noted concerns in Washington over sending 186 00:11:02,760 --> 00:11:06,720 Speaker 3: billions of dollars to Ukraine. Given its corruption issues. In 187 00:11:06,760 --> 00:11:11,360 Speaker 3: twenty twenty three, Transparency International ranked Ukraine as the second 188 00:11:11,559 --> 00:11:17,280 Speaker 3: most corrupt European nation, only behind Russia, with a score 189 00:11:17,320 --> 00:11:20,280 Speaker 3: of thirty three out of one hundred. In fact, the 190 00:11:20,320 --> 00:11:23,160 Speaker 3: Oversight Committee in the US House of Representatives found that 191 00:11:23,280 --> 00:11:29,840 Speaker 3: Ukrainian government officials allegedly engaged in bribery, used government vehicles 192 00:11:29,880 --> 00:11:35,479 Speaker 3: for personal use, and purchase inflated food supplies for Ukrainian forces, 193 00:11:35,880 --> 00:11:40,400 Speaker 3: padding their own pockets. Now, despite previously downplaying the widespread 194 00:11:40,440 --> 00:11:43,920 Speaker 3: corruption in the former Soviet state, The New York Times 195 00:11:44,000 --> 00:11:48,319 Speaker 3: even reported in twenty twenty three that unnamed Ukrainian officials 196 00:11:48,360 --> 00:11:53,520 Speaker 3: admitted US taxpayer money intended for military contracts had quote 197 00:11:53,600 --> 00:11:57,880 Speaker 3: failed to produce weaponry or ammunition, and that some money 198 00:11:58,000 --> 00:12:02,040 Speaker 3: has well just vanished. Borrow the story. It's probably time 199 00:12:02,080 --> 00:12:05,240 Speaker 3: for Elon Musk and his team to take a look 200 00:12:05,280 --> 00:12:05,960 Speaker 3: at Ukraine. 201 00:12:06,000 --> 00:12:08,680 Speaker 2: Thank you for listening to the forty seven Morning Update 202 00:12:08,840 --> 00:12:12,920 Speaker 2: with Ben Ferguson. 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