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Speaker 3: Good Thursday morning. Nice to have you with us on

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Speaker 3: the forty seven Morning Update. Ben Ferguson with you, and

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Speaker 3: we have two major stories for you this morning coming

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Speaker 3: the FBI Director Cash Patel announcing the results of Operation

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Speaker 3: Restore Justice, a nationwide initiative targeting sex child predators. And

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Speaker 3: It's the forty seven Morning Updates, and it starts right now.

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Speaker 4: Story number one.

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Speaker 3: The question every American should be asking themselves right now

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Speaker 3: Over a five day period, the operation led to the

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Speaker 3: There was also some shocking arrests, including a Minnesota state

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Speaker 1: What I will tell you is these depraved human beings.

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Speaker 1: If convicted, we'll face the maximum penalty in prison some life.

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Speaker 1: You have to know this is so serious. Your child

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Speaker 3: And now we have the largest fentanyl seizure in US history,

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