Speaker 1: We're making a lot of money this country. This country
Speaker 1: is not going to be losing money on trade anymore.
Speaker 1: I think we were losing two trillion dollars a year
Speaker 1: on trade.
Speaker 2: Now we're going to be making.
Speaker 1: Money, a lot of money. We'll be able to lower
Speaker 1: taxes substantially, and we're going to be proud of ourselves.
Speaker 3: You're listening to the forty seven Morning Update with Ben Ferguson.
Speaker 2: Good Thursday morning. Ben Ferguson with you.
Speaker 4: It's nice to have you on the forty seven Morning Update,
Speaker 4: and we've got two major stories we're going to be
Speaker 4: talking about. Number One, Donald Trump is saying that we're
Speaker 4: getting closer to working toward to deal with China on trade.
Speaker 4: What are the details. I'll have that for you in
Speaker 4: just a second. And also a major story is we
Speaker 4: were at the White House. We sat down with the
Speaker 4: Assistant Secretary of the Department of Home in Security to
Speaker 4: talk about where we are when it comes to deportations,
Speaker 4: including those in MS thirteen gangs. We're also talking about
Speaker 4: securing the border and what the numbers look like. Right
Speaker 4: now that live from the White House. It's the forty
Speaker 4: seven Morning Update, and it starts right.
Speaker 2: Now story number one. It is a step in the
Speaker 2: right direction.
Speaker 4: President Donald Trump saying that the entire world now wants
Speaker 4: to be a part of trade negotiations with the United
Speaker 4: States when asked about his discussions with China happening on Wednesday.
Speaker 4: Trump's comments came during an impromptu pres gaggle after surveying
Speaker 4: the north lawn of the White House for the best
Speaker 4: spot to stake a massive flagpole for a massive American
Speaker 4: flag that the President says he's going to pay for himself.
Speaker 4: That's another exciting win, putting America first. Now, the President
Speaker 4: was asked about what's happening with China and the trade deal,
Speaker 4: and here's the President in his own words, thior.
Speaker 2: I five is a president on China. Are you thinking
Speaker 2: about are you thinking about lowering their tariff's fair?
Speaker 1: Deal with China? It's going to be fair.
Speaker 2: Are you talking to them actively?
Speaker 4: Now?
Speaker 1: Actively, everything's active. Everybody wants to be a part of.
Speaker 5: What we're doing.
Speaker 1: They know that they can't get away with it any longer,
Speaker 1: but they're still going to do fine. And then we're
Speaker 1: going to have a country that you can be pressed.
Speaker 2: Out of, not a laughing stock all over the world for.
Speaker 1: Many years, you know, and nineteen thirteen they traded to
Speaker 1: the income tax system. We used to be old tariff
Speaker 1: and we had no income tax, so we had the
Speaker 1: wealthiest country proportionately. From about eighteen seventy to nineteen thirteen
Speaker 1: it was old tariffs, and we did We had more
Speaker 1: money than anybody. They had committees how to spend the money.
Speaker 1: They had so much money, that did other stuff. Then
Speaker 1: some three in person said, let's go income tax.
Speaker 4: Let's let the people pay.
Speaker 1: We're going to be able to substantially lower taxes when
Speaker 1: this is finished.
Speaker 4: We're going to be substantially able to lower taxes when
Speaker 4: this is finished. The present making it very clear that
Speaker 4: tariffs are not just about protecting America, especially on the
Speaker 4: issue of national security, but also that he wants to
Speaker 4: lower your taxes significantly. He said, We're going to have
Speaker 4: a fair deal with China. It's going to be fair now.
Speaker 4: Trump also told a reporter that the administration was quote
Speaker 4: actively now talking directly with China. Everything is active. The
Speaker 4: White House notably revealed on Thursday that the administration had
Speaker 4: received eighteen formal trade offers and the trade team was
Speaker 4: set to meet with thirty four different countries this week alone.
Speaker 4: Speaking broadly about trade negotiations in the gaggle as well,
Speaker 4: Trump said, there is a lot of action going on.
Speaker 1: They all want to be involved with America, and we
Speaker 1: have a lot of action going on. We have We're
Speaker 1: making a lot of money this country. This country is
Speaker 1: not going to be losing money on trade anymore. I
Speaker 1: think we were losing two trillion dollars a year on trade.
Speaker 2: Now we're going to be making money, a.
Speaker 1: Lot of money, So that's very good. Every country wants
Speaker 1: to partake, even countries that have ripped us off for
Speaker 1: the years, China as an example, but it's not just China,
Speaker 1: European Union, they ripped us off for many, many years,
Speaker 1: and those days are over. We're going to make a
Speaker 1: lot of money for our people, will be able to
Speaker 1: lower taxes substantially, and we're going to be proud of ourselves.
Speaker 1: They're not going to be a laughing stock. Got taken
Speaker 1: advantage of it by virtually every country.
Speaker 4: In the world. America got ripped off, and the president says,
Speaker 4: I'm going to fix it now. Citing anonymous sources, The
Speaker 4: Wall Street Journal is also reporting that the Trump administration
Speaker 4: is weighing reducing tariffs on Chinese goods. The White House
Speaker 4: Press Secretary Caroline Levitt shut down the prospect of a
Speaker 4: unilateral reduction in an interview on Fox Here's what she said.
Speaker 5: Let me be clear, there will be no unilateral reduction
Speaker 5: in tariffs against China. The President has made it clear
Speaker 5: China needs to make a deal with United States of
Speaker 5: America and we are optimistic that will happen. And when
Speaker 5: that continues, it'll be up to the President what the
Speaker 5: tariff rate on China will be. But we certainly need
Speaker 5: to see a reduction in tariffs and non minute monetary
Speaker 5: tariff barriers from China as well, and we also need
Speaker 5: to continue seeing these companies abroad we turn their manufacturing
Speaker 5: to the United States of America so we can shore
Speaker 5: up these critical supply chains.
Speaker 4: Yet again, it looks like the media got it wrong
Speaker 4: on this story, as the White House had to come
Speaker 4: out and say no, there will be no unilateral reduction
Speaker 4: in tariffs against China. What we certainly know is this,
Speaker 4: we need a reduction in tariffs, the White House did say,
Speaker 4: and a non monetary tariff barrier from China as well,
Speaker 4: and we also need.
Speaker 2: To continue seeing these companies abroad.
Speaker 4: Return there manufacturing to the United States of America so
Speaker 4: we can shore up these critical supply chain issues.
Speaker 2: All of that coming from the White House. So the
Speaker 2: big takeaway is.
Speaker 4: Yes, we are moving forward with China, but many other
Speaker 4: countries this week as well, and you can expect trade
Speaker 4: agreements to be announced in the very near future.
Speaker 3: Now story number two.
Speaker 4: As many of you know, this show is all about
Speaker 4: giving the news before it happens coming out of the
Speaker 4: White House, the big stories of the day. We'll celebrating
Speaker 4: the first one hundred days of the Trump administration. I
Speaker 4: was asked to come to the White House to sit
Speaker 4: down with many members in the administration. One of those
Speaker 4: was Tricia McLoughlin. She is the Assistant Secretary of the
Speaker 4: Department of Homeland Security, and we set down for an
Speaker 4: interview and the big issue we talked about was obviously
Speaker 4: what's happening at the border. Here is that conversation that
Speaker 4: we did at the White House in the Treaty Room.
Speaker 2: One of the big issues.
Speaker 4: That so many Americans care about right now is the
Speaker 4: issue of what's happening at the southern border. We have
Speaker 4: done a lot to secure the border in our President
Speaker 4: Trump and in the first hundred days. But then there's
Speaker 4: the issue of all the illegal immigrants that are in
Speaker 4: this country and how we're going to deport them, especially
Speaker 4: those that are in immistrating gang members and Trey de
Speaker 4: la Laga gangs. This is still a major issue for
Speaker 4: safety for so many Americans. So joining me now to
Speaker 4: talk about this is Trician mclofflin. She is the Assistant
Speaker 4: Secretary Department of Homeland Security. Tricia, it's a pleasure to
Speaker 4: have you here and to talk about this. Let's go
Speaker 4: to the headlines and start there. You've got this story
Speaker 4: of a MS thirteen gang member who even his own
Speaker 4: wife was making sure that his knuckles were that had
Speaker 4: the tattoo of the MS thirteen gang symbol was not
Speaker 4: on social media in some of her postings. Then the
Speaker 4: media tried to say that he was not a gang member,
Speaker 4: that this was terrible, that we kicked him out of
Speaker 4: this country, and that we send him out Salvador and
Speaker 4: they're domating him back. And now Democrats have gone all
Speaker 4: in on this, like there's delegations using taxpayer dollars to
Speaker 4: go and meet with this person, not meet with family
Speaker 4: members and victims in this country, those that have been terrorized,
Speaker 4: those have been killed, those have been raped and murdered
Speaker 4: by this gang that is a terrorist organization, and now we're.
Speaker 2: Also seeing lawfare in the courts.
Speaker 4: Try to say no, no, no, President Trump, you can't keep
Speaker 4: American safe as well.
Speaker 6: Exactly Ben, And there really is a concerted effort by
Speaker 6: the media and Democrats to whitewash this story, whitewash who
Speaker 6: this guy is, that he's some innocent marilynd father, when
Speaker 6: he's anything but. First and foremost, he is in the
Speaker 6: country illegally. He had final deportation orders. But let's go
Speaker 6: through the timeline a little bit to justcribe who this
Speaker 6: guy Abrego Garcia actually is. When he was initially arrested
Speaker 6: in twenty nineteen, he was found among other MS thirteen
Speaker 6: gang members, decked out in MS thirteen year having different
Speaker 6: MS thirteen symbols on it. He was found with drugs
Speaker 6: and rolls of money as well. Two separate immigration judges
Speaker 6: found that he was an MS thirteen gang member, as
Speaker 6: well as the Prince George's County gang unit. Keep in mind,
Speaker 6: Prince George County, Maryland isn't exactly some red haven, it
Speaker 6: is very blue. They found that he is in MS
Speaker 6: thirteen as well, flash forwarded to twenty twenty one. His wife,
Speaker 6: his own wife, who like you said, was covering up
Speaker 6: his knuckles, was filed a domestic restraining order against him
Speaker 6: for slapping her, for ripping off her shirt, for pinching
Speaker 6: and scratching her sheet, and her own written testimony said
Speaker 6: how she feared for her children and tried to take
Speaker 6: them away from him. And then then if I am
Speaker 6: ay one more time is in twenty twenty two, he
Speaker 6: was pulled over by the Tennessee st Highway Patrol. Yeah,
Speaker 6: during which he was allegedly taking eight individuals from Texas
Speaker 6: to Maryland on a three day journey. On a three
Speaker 6: day journey with eight people, and there was not a
Speaker 6: single piece of luggage in that vehicle that reeks of
Speaker 6: human trafficking. That is textbook, And so we're left to
Speaker 6: believe that, oh, no, this is an innocent guy.
Speaker 4: And by the way, that let's be queer the Biden administration,
Speaker 4: the FBI said no, no, no, just let him go.
Speaker 2: Don't worry about that.
Speaker 6: There's certainly more to the story, and I'd love to
Speaker 6: hear more from the FBI and what went down there.
Speaker 4: So you look at this guy, and he's over there,
Speaker 4: and now the media has become like he's some sort
Speaker 4: of folk hero or hero for them. The Democratic Party
Speaker 4: is spending taxpayer hours to go down there and meet
Speaker 4: with him like he's a celebrity. You have centers that
Speaker 4: are holding his hand like he's been persecuted by the
Speaker 4: United States of America and demands to bring him back,
Speaker 4: what so he can deport him to another country as
Speaker 4: soon as he gets here, because that's exactly what could happen.
Speaker 6: It's remarkable to me that this is the hill that
Speaker 6: the Democrats and media are willing to die on that
Speaker 6: they have. I have one small shred of any credibility left,
Speaker 6: and this is what they're going to burn it on.
Speaker 6: Is this MS thirteen gang member. Americans should remember who
Speaker 6: MS thirteen is. It is a vicious gang that sex traffics,
Speaker 6: that human traffics, that mames, rapes, and kills Americans for sport.
Speaker 6: These are people who should not be in our country
Speaker 6: and should be hunted down and locked up immediately.
Speaker 4: You just look at some of the things that apparently
Speaker 4: were found on his devices, and that's one of the
Speaker 4: things that I found interesting on the reporting, is you
Speaker 4: look at what they share MS thirteen GAG members.
Speaker 2: They share the pictures of beheadings, the butchering of humans.
Speaker 4: And then yet they're trying to say, oh, this guy's
Speaker 4: a victim who broke into America.
Speaker 6: Anything but and that is I mean, if you look
Speaker 6: at the crime on American streets and crimes by these
Speaker 6: illegal immigrant gangs, so much of the time they're done
Speaker 6: by MS thirteen, they're done by Trendy Aragua, they're done
Speaker 6: by these other vicious gangs. They shouldn't have been here
Speaker 6: in the first place because they're in the country illegally.
Speaker 6: Much less the fact that with IMPUNE they've been allowed
Speaker 6: to rain terwer on American streets for the last four years.
Speaker 4: Let's talk about the court system now, and we've seen
Speaker 4: these activist judges who are stepping in and using law
Speaker 4: fair to say, hey, the president can't do this anymore.
Speaker 4: You can't just ship people off to the other countries.
Speaker 4: We're going to stop you every step of the way.
Speaker 4: What is the administration's response to that. How long is
Speaker 4: it going to take for this to play out?
Speaker 6: I think ultimately President Trump, Secretary Norman, this entire administration
Speaker 6: are going to be victorious on this issue on November fifth,
Speaker 6: twenty twenty four. There is a clear mandate from the
Speaker 6: American people that we need to get criminal, illegal aliens
Speaker 6: out of this country. There was likely ten to twenty
Speaker 6: million illegal aliens who came into this country under Joe Biden.
Speaker 6: The American people are done with it. Look, whether Garcia
Speaker 6: is in an American detention facility or an La Salvador,
Speaker 6: what matters really is that he's locked up. But I
Speaker 6: do think ultimately this will be sorted out. We will
Speaker 6: ensure that these individuals have due process. That was what
Speaker 6: the Supreme Court was most concerned about was the amount
Speaker 6: of time these individuals were given notice. But we're going
Speaker 6: to be very clear that despite the fact that these
Speaker 6: are terrorists and these are criminal gang members, this is
Speaker 6: still the United States of American. We guarantee due process
Speaker 6: under the US Constitution.
Speaker 4: So when you look forward after, we're at the hundred
Speaker 4: day mark in essence, and this is pretty awesome because
Speaker 4: there's a lot that's been done. The border is now
Speaker 4: more secure that's been in decades, the number of people
Speaker 4: are coming across. I think the message the present sent
Speaker 4: loud and clear was you come here now.
Speaker 2: It's game on.
Speaker 4: We're saying that the number of crossings have dropped significantly,
Speaker 4: but there's the big question of Okay, there's a lot
Speaker 4: of people that got in under the Biden years. There's
Speaker 4: literally millions. How are we going to unwind all of
Speaker 4: that in an orderly fashion?
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think that we're working to do just that.
Speaker 6: Secretary Nome was handed a tough task and she's taking
Speaker 6: it on miraculously. Look at the border, as you just mentioned,
Speaker 6: we virtually have operational control of the border. Crossings are
Speaker 6: down ninety five percent. That is, i all accounts, the
Speaker 6: most secure border in American history. That's in less than
Speaker 6: ninety days. It's pretty remarkable. But we also have to
Speaker 6: look at our legal immigration system as well. The Biden
Speaker 6: administration majorcas use parole programs, temporary protected status, and these
Speaker 6: other programs to allow illegal immigrants to come into this
Speaker 6: country unvetted. We don't know really who's in this country,
Speaker 6: so we have to really take a pause and go
Speaker 6: through who did we let in for the last four years.
Speaker 6: So I think it's going to take also a unleashed ice.
Speaker 6: Secretary name has been remarkable in that, but the fact is,
Speaker 6: for the last four years Biden did not allow these
Speaker 6: ICE agents to actually do their jobs. They were disincentivized
Speaker 6: for making any of these arrests, whether it be just
Speaker 6: illegal aliens to criminal vicious aliens like these MS thirteen members.
Speaker 6: As we've mentioned before. So we have a tall task
Speaker 6: and we've got to get these arrests numbers up. But
Speaker 6: that's part of the reason why Secretary Nome is on
Speaker 6: the ground a weekly basis with our enforcement officers from
Speaker 6: Border and Protection Patrol and from ICE to make sure
Speaker 6: that we're getting them the resources they need to be
Speaker 6: successful to get these arrest numbers up and to make
Speaker 6: sure they're safe on the job.
Speaker 4: Let's talk about detention detainers that the ICE needs in
Speaker 4: the court systems. They need these courts to alert them
Speaker 4: when they have somebody in custody that clearly needs to
Speaker 4: be deported. We still are seeing activists that are not
Speaker 4: allowing for that to happen. How big of an issue
Speaker 4: is that going to be moving forward? And is there
Speaker 4: more than the White House can do to stop that
Speaker 4: from being a thing.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think the Department of Justice under Attorney General
Speaker 6: Pam Bondi is definitely looking at options with these sanctuary cities.
Speaker 6: Like you mentioned, if ICE isn't able to lodge these
Speaker 6: detainers against these criminal aliens, that they could be released
Speaker 6: into American communities and go out and commit the same act. Actually,
Speaker 6: a couple of weeks ago, Secretary Nome was in New
Speaker 6: York City and a lot of listeners will probably remember
Speaker 6: this really heinous crime at Coney Island, the subway station
Speaker 6: there where this illegal immigrant lit this woman on fire
Speaker 6: and killed her. It was incredibly depraved. Ice tried to
Speaker 6: lodge a detainer, and we are not sure if that's
Speaker 6: going to be honored. So we don't know if and
Speaker 6: when this guy will get out. But if he's not,
Speaker 6: he could be released back into New York even though
Speaker 6: he's in this country illegally. That's the kind of cases
Speaker 6: we have to end. And that's why, I mean, case
Speaker 6: in point, why sanctuary cities are so so dangerous.
Speaker 4: Final question for you on moving forward the next one
Speaker 4: hundred days, what do you expect the headlines to be
Speaker 4: from this administration on this issue? Obviously, the border secure,
Speaker 4: we can check that box. We're doing more, But where
Speaker 4: is this going to go and what can the American
Speaker 4: people expect?
Speaker 6: I think you're going to see ramped up deportation numbers.
Speaker 6: I think you're going to see more agreements with third
Speaker 6: party countries. Whether you'll see that with Al Salvador, that
Speaker 6: they're taking some of our most vicious, worse, the worst
Speaker 6: criminal aliens. I think you're going to see more of
Speaker 6: that from other countries to make sure that these guys
Speaker 6: are off of Americans oil and take and take part
Speaker 6: in getting their folks folks back. I also think we're
Speaker 6: going to see more you know, we're going to see
Speaker 6: more action with these the courts and some of these
Speaker 6: activist judges. But we're not gonna let it stop us.
Speaker 6: We have deportation flights going almost every single day, and
Speaker 6: alien a Numies Act is only one tool in our arsenal.
Speaker 6: We have a lot of authorities to get these people
Speaker 6: out of the country.
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