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Speaker 1: Clarify with whom the US is speaking with China. They're

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Speaker 2: I think you have Jeff as usual. I think you

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Speaker 2: have your reporting romas.

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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 Friday morning, Ben Ferguson with you. It's signe to

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Speaker 1: All right, three big stories for you today.

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Speaker 4: First up, Donald Trump has ordered moments ago the Justice

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Speaker 4: Department to investigate democrats top fundraising platform. You know that

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Speaker 4: I'll have those details for you coming up in just

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Speaker 1: And finally, there's a massive revolt within the.

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Speaker 4: It's the forty seven Morning Update and it starts right now.

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Speaker 3: Story number one.

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Speaker 4: within the last few moments. President Donald Trump has ordered

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Speaker 4: Condemning the move, and agblue called it an impressive use

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Speaker 4: So the media is wanting you to believe a big

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Speaker 4: There's no doubt the polls are showing that the American

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Speaker 4: Well, number one, the Democrats are in disarray, and number two,

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Speaker 4: the American people are loving what Donald Trump is doing.

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Speaker 4: Now how bad is it? Chuck Schumer is now having

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Speaker 4: to ask questions as the top Democrat about whether or

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Speaker 4: not he's considering stepping aside.

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Speaker 1: Take a listen, but have you.

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Speaker 7: Given any thought to a more specific timeline when it

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Speaker 7: comes to passing the torch yourself? Are you even giving

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Speaker 7: that some thought right now?

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Speaker 6: Right now, I am focused on showing the American people

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Speaker 6: how bad Trump's economics are for them, how he is

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Speaker 6: putting our democracy at risk. And I am totally focused

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Speaker 6: on that. As you said, I was out on Long

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Speaker 6: Island today. I have visited all six Republican six of

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Speaker 6: particularly in our rural areas. That's my focus and that's

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Speaker 6: what I'm doing.

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Speaker 7: And you know, well, just so I'm clear, no thought,

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Speaker 7: no conversation about when you might step aside.

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Speaker 6: I'm focusing on the decision that the Republicans in Congress

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Speaker 6: have to make to whether support Trump with these horrible

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Speaker 6: economic policies or not. And we're doing everything we can

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Speaker 6: to show the American people who's on whose side.

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Speaker 1: So let's be clear.

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Speaker 4: Even MSNBC is asking Chuck Schumer, when are you gonna

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Speaker 4: step aside? This comes right after Dick Durbin takes a

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Speaker 4: shot at Joe Biden saying, quote, you want to leave

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Speaker 4: when you can still walk out the front door and

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Speaker 4: not be carried out the back door. That's why he's

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Speaker 4: not going to seek reelection. As for who's in charge

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Speaker 4: of the Democratic Party, no one knows at the moment.

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Speaker 4: What we do know is the majority of the American

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Speaker 4: people are saying they know who's in charge of the

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Speaker 4: country and they stand behind him, and his name is

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Speaker 4: Donald J.

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Speaker 1: Trump.

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