WEBVTT - Trump's Cabinet Nominees Continue to Move Forward 0:00:01.040 --> 0:00:03.960 Welcome. It is Verdict with Senator Ted Cruz. Ben Ferguson 0:00:04.080 --> 0:00:07.480 with you and Senator Cruz unfortunately could not do the 0:00:07.520 --> 0:00:09.959 show with me right now because he has lost his voice. 0:00:10.440 --> 0:00:14.240 He did, however, I have enough strength to deal with 0:00:14.520 --> 0:00:17.800 questioning today of elist tephonic and the confirmation hearing, and 0:00:17.840 --> 0:00:20.040 I'm going to have that for you. Plus we're going 0:00:20.120 --> 0:00:23.680 to talk about the big news of Donald Trump saying 0:00:23.880 --> 0:00:26.480 we're gonna have a ninety day moratorium on fourign A. 0:00:27.040 --> 0:00:29.280 What does that mean, Well, it means that Marco Rubio 0:00:29.440 --> 0:00:31.160 is going to have a lot to look at when 0:00:31.160 --> 0:00:34.879 it comes to where your tax dollars are going. And 0:00:34.960 --> 0:00:38.240 I'm gonna have for you back from January seventeenth, Marco 0:00:38.320 --> 0:00:42.680 Rubio and Ted Cruz's conversation on the three questions that 0:00:42.720 --> 0:00:47.600 he said he'll ask regarding every state department program. Before 0:00:47.640 --> 0:00:49.479 we get into that, though, I want to talk to 0:00:49.520 --> 0:00:52.920 you about my friends at IFCJ. I want to say, 0:00:52.920 --> 0:00:56.280 first off, to so many of you that listened to Verdict, 0:00:56.360 --> 0:00:59.800 thank you for your help for the people in his 0:01:00.680 --> 0:01:04.959 On January twenty seventh, it is the International Holocaust Remembrance 0:01:05.120 --> 0:01:07.480 Day that is less than a week away. Is the 0:01:07.600 --> 0:01:10.560 day that we remember the great evil of the Holocaust, 0:01:10.600 --> 0:01:13.440 when millions of Jews were slaughtered during the Nazis reign 0:01:13.520 --> 0:01:17.360 of terror. 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I could literally not 0:02:40.919 --> 0:02:43.400 even talk to him earlier. We were having to communicate 0:02:43.480 --> 0:02:46.400 in texts. But what he did do today was some 0:02:46.440 --> 0:02:50.360 pretty incredible work on the Hill. Senator Cruz question at 0:02:50.440 --> 0:02:52.880 least a phonic and the confirmation hearing, and I want 0:02:52.880 --> 0:02:55.359 you to hear what he had to say. Also, I'm 0:02:55.360 --> 0:02:57.239 going to play for you in a moment the back 0:02:57.280 --> 0:02:59.800 and forth with Marco Rubio and what is changing at 0:02:59.840 --> 0:03:02.520 the time State Department. This in light of the big 0:03:02.560 --> 0:03:06.920 breaking news from the President about pausing foreign aid for 0:03:07.040 --> 0:03:07.720 ninety days. 0:03:08.120 --> 0:03:08.320 Now. 0:03:08.360 --> 0:03:10.880 After that, I'm also going to have something else for you. 0:03:11.040 --> 0:03:13.880 There's also a new morning podcast that I'm the host 0:03:13.919 --> 0:03:17.520 of called The forty seven Morning Update. It gives you 0:03:17.560 --> 0:03:20.720 the biggest news in a short form podcast ten to 0:03:20.760 --> 0:03:23.160 twelve minutes of what is going to happen each and 0:03:23.200 --> 0:03:27.000 every day in Donald Trump's administration from the Oval Office. 0:03:27.080 --> 0:03:29.600 We'll have that for you as well, But first take 0:03:29.639 --> 0:03:32.080 a listen to what Senator Cruz had to say today 0:03:32.280 --> 0:03:35.920 on Capitol Hill in the questioning of Elie staphonic. 0:03:36.160 --> 0:03:37.720 Congratulations on your nomination. 0:03:37.880 --> 0:03:38.800 You're going to be terrific. 0:03:39.920 --> 0:03:41.880 I want to go back to topic you discussed with 0:03:42.200 --> 0:03:45.760 Senator Cornyn. I want to focus on a Ram's push 0:03:45.880 --> 0:03:50.480 to build a nuclear arsenal, which poses I think the 0:03:50.480 --> 0:03:55.040 most immediate and acute threat to American national security. When 0:03:55.080 --> 0:04:00.200 the Iatola chance death to America, he means it, and 0:04:00.280 --> 0:04:04.440 I believe he would absolutely detonate a nuclear weapon over 0:04:04.480 --> 0:04:08.840 an American city if he could. The Trump administration got 0:04:08.880 --> 0:04:12.040 Iran's nuclear program in a box and kept it there. 0:04:12.880 --> 0:04:17.440 President Trump withdrew from the catastrophic Obama Iran nuclear deal 0:04:17.480 --> 0:04:22.120 in twenty eighteen. He imposed maximum pressure in twenty nineteen. 0:04:22.960 --> 0:04:26.160 He invoked the UN snapback mechanism in the UN Security 0:04:26.200 --> 0:04:31.000 Council Resolution two two three one to reimpose international sanctions 0:04:31.080 --> 0:04:36.000 in twenty twenty. For that entire time, Iran was deterred 0:04:36.000 --> 0:04:40.120 from making significant advances on their nuclear program. They did 0:04:40.160 --> 0:04:46.000 not even enrich uranium above five percent or cascade advanced centrifuges. 0:04:47.440 --> 0:04:51.039 Starting in November twenty twenty, the Iranian regime gambled that 0:04:51.120 --> 0:04:54.279 it could start rushing to a nuclear arsenal and the 0:04:54.320 --> 0:05:02.640 incoming Biden administration would let them. Unfortunately proved correct. In November, 0:05:02.680 --> 0:05:06.720 the regime approved a new law calling for major nuclear advances. 0:05:07.320 --> 0:05:12.200 In January, they started enriching at twenty percent at fordoh 0:05:12.920 --> 0:05:16.600 the underground enrichment bunker built into a mountain that the 0:05:16.600 --> 0:05:21.719 Obama Iran nuclear deal left open. The incoming and Biden 0:05:21.760 --> 0:05:28.600 administration responded with appeasement. In February, immediately after being inaugurated, 0:05:29.080 --> 0:05:32.840 they rushed to the UN to rescind President Trump's snapback, 0:05:33.640 --> 0:05:38.800 again allowing international sanctions to expire for the next four years. 0:05:39.600 --> 0:05:45.320 The administration continually dismantled pressure on the regime and refused 0:05:45.360 --> 0:05:50.560 to impose sanctions. We know the result today, the Ayatola 0:05:50.640 --> 0:05:56.760 has achieved a nuclear breakout time of zero. We now 0:05:56.839 --> 0:06:00.560 face the very real possibility of an Iranian nuclear arsenal. 0:06:01.560 --> 0:06:03.440 I do not believe that this is a threat the 0:06:03.520 --> 0:06:07.240 US can tolerate, and I am confident that both the 0:06:07.279 --> 0:06:12.080 President and Secretary of State Rubio agree. I ask Secretary 0:06:12.120 --> 0:06:14.160 of State Rubio whether he intends to go to the 0:06:14.240 --> 0:06:18.880 United Nations, and again trigger the snapback mechanism. As a 0:06:18.920 --> 0:06:22.520 part of his written testimony to this committee. Here was 0:06:22.560 --> 0:06:26.000 Secretary of Rubio's response, quote, I believe it is in 0:06:26.120 --> 0:06:29.560 our national security interest for the UN Security Council to 0:06:29.720 --> 0:06:33.880 snap back the sanctions that were suspended under the JCPOA. 0:06:35.000 --> 0:06:37.960 I will execute the President's guidance and work with our 0:06:38.000 --> 0:06:44.839 allies to ensure that snapback takes place. First, do you 0:06:44.880 --> 0:06:47.359 agree with Secretary of Rubio's assessment that it is in 0:06:47.440 --> 0:06:49.960 the national security interests of the United States to snap 0:06:50.000 --> 0:06:55.000 back those sanctions? Yes, talk about how you would execute 0:06:55.000 --> 0:06:58.840 a strategy to do so, either unilaterally or working with allies. 0:07:01.000 --> 0:07:02.560 That will be a strategy that I developed with the 0:07:02.600 --> 0:07:05.440 National Security Council, in tandem with Secretary of Rubio and 0:07:05.480 --> 0:07:09.520 President Trump, to work with our allies within the United Nations, 0:07:09.560 --> 0:07:13.080 within the Security Council. And there are allies that are 0:07:13.080 --> 0:07:15.440 already considering this and looking at it, and that has 0:07:15.480 --> 0:07:19.280 been publicly reported. But obviously, pushing back on Iran is 0:07:19.320 --> 0:07:22.920 a top priority. It was a success during President Trump's 0:07:22.920 --> 0:07:26.239 first term, and we've seen the catastrophic results in loss 0:07:26.240 --> 0:07:29.560 of life during the previous four years. When you have 0:07:29.800 --> 0:07:33.480 had an embolded Iran that has led to directly the 0:07:33.480 --> 0:07:37.880 October seventh terrorist attack against Israel and his Belah firing 0:07:37.960 --> 0:07:40.720 tens of thousands of rockets against Israeli civilians. 0:07:41.400 --> 0:07:44.280 Let's move to another topic. You and I talked about 0:07:44.640 --> 0:07:47.520 the deep rot in the United Nations when it comes 0:07:47.560 --> 0:07:51.480 to supporting terrorism against America and our allies, especially Israel. 0:07:52.240 --> 0:07:56.080 As you discussed with Senator McCormick, UNRA has for decades 0:07:56.120 --> 0:07:59.480 provided material support for Hamas and other terrorist groups in Gaza. 0:08:00.080 --> 0:08:03.360 World Health Organization has also been deeply complicit in the 0:08:03.440 --> 0:08:07.520 use of hospitals by Hamas for terrorist activities, including for 0:08:07.560 --> 0:08:11.960 the holding of hostages. The complicity of these organizations deepened 0:08:12.200 --> 0:08:17.200 after October seventh, the Biden administration embraced UNRA, and the 0:08:17.200 --> 0:08:22.400 World Health Organization. Congress prohibited the Biden administration from funding UNRA, 0:08:22.640 --> 0:08:28.840 but the administration officials circumvented that prohibition by using UNRA infrastructure. Yesterday, 0:08:28.920 --> 0:08:32.240 the President rightly and immediately withdrew our participation from them. 0:08:32.600 --> 0:08:35.120 I think that was a critical first step. But the 0:08:35.120 --> 0:08:37.880 next step is to enable American citizens to hold these 0:08:38.000 --> 0:08:39.360 organizations accountable. 0:08:40.160 --> 0:08:42.240 We currently have a very odd. 0:08:42.120 --> 0:08:46.840 Legal environment where these organizations enjoy more sovereign immunity than 0:08:46.960 --> 0:08:51.360 states and thus are shielded from accountability. Last Congress, I 0:08:51.400 --> 0:08:54.400 introduced the Liable Act and was joined by four current 0:08:54.440 --> 0:08:57.839 members of this Committee, including as well as Secretary of 0:08:57.880 --> 0:09:01.520 State Rubio. The bill will allow American victims of terrorism 0:09:01.520 --> 0:09:05.600 and their family to sue international organizations that support terrorism 0:09:05.640 --> 0:09:08.480 against this I will soon reintroduce it in this Congress. 0:09:09.240 --> 0:09:12.160 What is your understanding of the role these organizations have 0:09:12.400 --> 0:09:17.199 played in facilitating terrorism against Americans, Israelis and our allies. 0:09:17.760 --> 0:09:22.080 Well, UNRA, there were individuals in UNRA who participated, who 0:09:22.200 --> 0:09:28.320 executed and committed terrorist acts against Israel. On October seventh, Sinwar, 0:09:28.440 --> 0:09:32.520 the leader of HAMAS carried an UNRA passport. You had 0:09:32.600 --> 0:09:36.920 a HAMAS data center under UNRA headquarters. So the rot 0:09:37.080 --> 0:09:39.560 is deep. Congress made the right decision. I was proud 0:09:39.600 --> 0:09:41.040 to be one of the leaders when it came to 0:09:41.160 --> 0:09:45.320 defunding UNRA, and I am committed to holding them accountable 0:09:45.360 --> 0:09:48.240 and working with the US Senate and the US House 0:09:48.360 --> 0:09:51.439 and the President if that legislation passes. 0:09:51.400 --> 0:09:52.280 Pterfect, thank you. 0:09:52.480 --> 0:09:52.640 Now. 0:09:52.640 --> 0:09:55.760 There's also other big news that we want to talk about, 0:09:55.840 --> 0:09:58.800 and that deals with the Secretary of State. The Secretary 0:09:58.800 --> 0:10:02.600 of State now has an even bigger job than any 0:10:02.720 --> 0:10:05.640 Secretary of State had during the time of Joe Biden 0:10:05.760 --> 0:10:09.560 Kamala Harris being in office. And what's really cool about 0:10:09.559 --> 0:10:12.920 what's happening now is Donald Trump is empowering leaders to 0:10:13.000 --> 0:10:13.640 do their job. 0:10:13.840 --> 0:10:14.160 Well. 0:10:14.800 --> 0:10:17.360 Now, there was some big breaking news, and that is 0:10:17.400 --> 0:10:20.520 that President Donald Trump signed an executive order suspending all 0:10:20.640 --> 0:10:25.400 US foreign assistance programs for ninety days, pending a comprehensive 0:10:25.400 --> 0:10:30.160 review to ensure their alignment with his administration's policy objectives. Now, 0:10:30.240 --> 0:10:33.560 this suspension affects a wide range of global initiatives, including 0:10:33.600 --> 0:10:39.000 humanitarian aid, economic development, and health programs. Notably, the US 0:10:39.200 --> 0:10:43.280 contributes approximately seventy point three billion annually in foreign aid, 0:10:43.840 --> 0:10:48.240 supporting various international efforts. So what did the President do. 0:10:48.800 --> 0:10:50.760 He said it's time for all of this to go 0:10:50.880 --> 0:10:54.520 back under a review and is calling out other countries 0:10:54.559 --> 0:10:57.360 for what he described was not paying their fair share. 0:10:57.920 --> 0:11:00.720 Who's going to be looking over this, well, that would 0:11:00.720 --> 0:11:04.199 be Marco Rubio. He will do a deep dive into 0:11:04.240 --> 0:11:07.400 where your tax tours are going and then come back 0:11:07.400 --> 0:11:11.720 with recommendations. What's also interesting is how this relates back 0:11:11.760 --> 0:11:15.360 to Marco Rubio and his conversation with Senator Cruz on 0:11:15.480 --> 0:11:18.800 January seventeenth. Take a listen to what he had to say. 0:11:18.840 --> 0:11:21.320 Then, thank you, mister chairman. And I got to say, boy, 0:11:21.360 --> 0:11:22.080 that sounds good. 0:11:22.280 --> 0:11:24.760 Mister chairman, that is as good as it sounds to me. 0:11:25.480 --> 0:11:27.880 Thank you well, congratulations and I'm looking forward to the 0:11:27.880 --> 0:11:31.000 next two years working together. Thank you and the Sener Rubio, 0:11:31.080 --> 0:11:33.200 let me say congratulations to you as well. We're going 0:11:33.240 --> 0:11:35.000 to miss you on this committee. We're going to miss 0:11:35.040 --> 0:11:36.680 you in the Senate, but you're going to do an 0:11:36.720 --> 0:11:41.079 extraordinary job at Foggy Bottom. And I will say, if 0:11:41.920 --> 0:11:43.800 they capture you and tie you up in the basement, 0:11:43.840 --> 0:11:49.160 we will send a team to pull you out. You know, 0:11:49.200 --> 0:11:51.199 as I look back over the last four years of 0:11:51.200 --> 0:11:54.920 the Biden Harris administration, there are a lot of policies 0:11:54.960 --> 0:11:58.880 that have done a lot of damage domestic policies, economic policies, 0:11:58.920 --> 0:12:02.280 but I think all of the those pale compared to 0:12:02.320 --> 0:12:04.520 the damage that has been done to national security and 0:12:04.559 --> 0:12:08.040 foreign policy over the last four years. Over the last 0:12:08.040 --> 0:12:13.280 four years, this administration is systematically undermined and abandoned our allies, 0:12:14.200 --> 0:12:18.319 and it has systematically shown weakness and appeasement to our enemies, 0:12:19.520 --> 0:12:22.640 and the consequence has been disastrous. We've gone from four 0:12:22.720 --> 0:12:27.240 years ago peace and prosperity to today a situation with 0:12:28.000 --> 0:12:33.120 wars across the globe and every enemy of America stronger 0:12:33.160 --> 0:12:37.480 than they were when this administration came into office. I 0:12:37.520 --> 0:12:40.959 am confident the incoming administration is going to change that direction. 0:12:41.000 --> 0:12:43.440 I am confident that President Trump and the White House, 0:12:43.480 --> 0:12:47.720 and you as Secretary of State, are going to shift 0:12:47.800 --> 0:12:49.920 us back to where we should be, which is standing 0:12:49.960 --> 0:12:53.160 by our friends and allies and standing up to our enemies. 0:12:54.880 --> 0:12:56.800 Do you agree with that assessment? Is that what you 0:12:56.880 --> 0:12:58.200 intend to do a Secretary of State? 0:12:58.720 --> 0:13:00.600 Well, let me say first to foreign plse the United 0:13:00.600 --> 0:13:02.560 States will be set by the President, and my job 0:13:02.640 --> 0:13:04.679 is to advise on it and ultimately to execute. I 0:13:04.679 --> 0:13:07.240 think the President has been abundantly clear, and that is 0:13:07.280 --> 0:13:10.440 his policy is going to be driven about making America safer, stronger, 0:13:10.440 --> 0:13:13.400 and more prosperous. As I said in my opening statement, 0:13:13.480 --> 0:13:17.120 everything the State Department does, every policy, every program, every 0:13:17.120 --> 0:13:21.000 dollar it spends, every initiative it takes has to answer 0:13:21.040 --> 0:13:23.080 three questions. Does it make us safer? Does it make 0:13:23.160 --> 0:13:25.800 us stronger or does it make us more prosperous? And 0:13:25.880 --> 0:13:27.800 if it doesn't, if the answer is not yes to 0:13:27.880 --> 0:13:30.080 one of those three, you're going to have a hard 0:13:30.080 --> 0:13:33.040 time moving that forward because that's the priority to the president, 0:13:33.120 --> 0:13:35.160 and that's the priority that, by the way, voters gave 0:13:35.280 --> 0:13:37.880 this president when they elected him. You point to a 0:13:37.960 --> 0:13:40.240 number of things that I think are critically important that 0:13:40.400 --> 0:13:42.280 and let me I'll phrase it a different way, but 0:13:42.320 --> 0:13:44.440 I think we're saying the same thing. We have lost 0:13:44.520 --> 0:13:48.280 to terrence and multiple theaters around the world. So as 0:13:48.320 --> 0:13:50.480 an example, and I use this as a small scale example, 0:13:50.520 --> 0:13:52.559 but it's really important. One I think of the year 0:13:52.600 --> 0:13:56.319 was twenty twenty, twenty nineteen. The Wagner group tried to 0:13:56.360 --> 0:13:59.640 get cute and came after some of Americans, Americans operating 0:13:59.640 --> 0:14:03.520 in series and fire from the sky rained down on them, 0:14:03.800 --> 0:14:07.520 and that group was pushed back pretty hard. That's deterrence. 0:14:08.280 --> 0:14:10.440 They threatened us, and they knew what the response would be. 0:14:10.800 --> 0:14:15.640 I recall the consternation here and in other places when 0:14:15.720 --> 0:14:19.200 Solomoni met his demise, but I can tell you it 0:14:19.240 --> 0:14:22.280 impacted Ranian behavior for a substantial period of time. No 0:14:22.320 --> 0:14:25.760 matter how tough they talked it impacted their behavior. I 0:14:25.760 --> 0:14:28.360 think it's important to re establish de terrence and to 0:14:28.400 --> 0:14:31.000 the extent that that's been lost for a variety of reasons. 0:14:32.160 --> 0:14:34.880 The lack of deterrence is an invitation to war. The 0:14:35.040 --> 0:14:38.040 lack of deterrence is an invitation to hostility. It prevents 0:14:38.040 --> 0:14:41.400 the very thing that we hope to achieve, which is 0:14:41.480 --> 0:14:44.760 peace and stability in the world. And I do think 0:14:44.760 --> 0:14:47.600 we've lost the terrence, and I think in some ways 0:14:47.600 --> 0:14:50.280 it contributed to what happened in Ukraine. An item I 0:14:50.320 --> 0:14:52.440 know is very close to you and you've worked very on, 0:14:52.560 --> 0:14:55.480 and we talked earlier today about is energy dependence. I 0:14:55.520 --> 0:14:58.760 recall President Trump at both a NATO summit and at 0:14:58.800 --> 0:15:01.280 the United Nations, and I called the United Nations one 0:15:01.320 --> 0:15:05.640 in particular. President Trump said Germany is dependent, entirely going 0:15:05.680 --> 0:15:09.400 to be left dependent on China, on Russia for its energy, 0:15:09.960 --> 0:15:12.160 and they laughed at him. There were diplomats in the 0:15:12.160 --> 0:15:14.720 hall that was snickering. That's exactly what happened. It is 0:15:14.720 --> 0:15:17.200 one of the reasons why Putin believed he could invade 0:15:17.360 --> 0:15:19.880 Europe is because Europe would not push back because they 0:15:19.920 --> 0:15:22.840 depended on him so much for energy. Now Europe is 0:15:22.880 --> 0:15:25.880 to be congratulated. They have moved very swiftly, particularly the Germans, 0:15:26.160 --> 0:15:29.880 to diversify their energy resources. But one could argue that 0:15:29.920 --> 0:15:32.440 we may never have had that invasion had that dependent 0:15:32.560 --> 0:15:35.400 not existed, because maybe who would have thought the European 0:15:35.440 --> 0:15:39.680 response would have been more forceful than he anticipated. So 0:15:39.960 --> 0:15:42.680 I do think re establishing deterrence and strength is important 0:15:42.880 --> 0:15:45.880 because it prevents war and it gives us leverage and diplomacy, 0:15:45.880 --> 0:15:48.840 which where we hope to solve ninety nine point nine 0:15:48.880 --> 0:15:52.720 percent of the global disagreements we hope to solve through diplomacy, 0:15:52.880 --> 0:15:54.000 not through armed conflict. 0:15:54.240 --> 0:15:55.480 I think that's very well said. 0:15:56.960 --> 0:16:00.360 Now, as I mentioned earlier, Senator Cruz lost his voice. 0:16:00.400 --> 0:16:02.480 We expect him hopefully to be back with us on 0:16:02.600 --> 0:16:05.440 Friday after getting some rest. But let me put something 0:16:05.440 --> 0:16:08.040 else on your radar screen real quick. Many of you 0:16:08.080 --> 0:16:11.160 that voted for Donald Trump and support the MAGA agenda 0:16:11.320 --> 0:16:13.200 have said for a long time that you would love 0:16:13.320 --> 0:16:16.120 to have something each and every day that gives you 0:16:16.240 --> 0:16:19.320 kind of a blueprint of what the administration is actually 0:16:19.320 --> 0:16:23.040 working on. Well, I am hosting a new podcast called 0:16:23.080 --> 0:16:26.600 The forty seven Morning Update. You can grab it wherever 0:16:26.720 --> 0:16:29.360 you get your podcasts, and I'm gonna let you hear 0:16:29.600 --> 0:16:33.239 exactly what that podcast sounds like. It is a short podcast, 0:16:33.280 --> 0:16:35.920 ten to twelve minutes to start your day. Take a listen. 0:16:36.800 --> 0:16:39.680 Five hundred billion dollars in AI infrastructure. 0:16:40.640 --> 0:16:42.480 Start team there as of today. 0:16:42.640 --> 0:16:46.720 You're fired. Get out of here. You're fired, Get out, 0:16:47.440 --> 0:16:48.160 Get the. 0:16:48.040 --> 0:16:52.000 Hell out of here. You're listening to the forty seven 0:16:52.080 --> 0:16:54.160 Morning Update with Ben Ferguson. 0:16:54.320 --> 0:16:56.760 Good morning, It's Ben Ferguson. It's nice to have you 0:16:56.840 --> 0:16:57.200 with us. 0:16:57.240 --> 0:16:59.440 Here are the big stories that we're covering today on 0:16:59.480 --> 0:17:01.240 the forty seven Morning up Date. 0:17:01.320 --> 0:17:03.560 First up, it's black Tuesday. 0:17:03.680 --> 0:17:06.919 When it comes to federal workers, they're getting pink slips 0:17:06.920 --> 0:17:10.040 from Donald Trump saying you're fired. So who all lost 0:17:10.119 --> 0:17:12.520 their jobs? And why I'll have that for you in 0:17:12.560 --> 0:17:16.840 a moment. Also, Donald Trump moved America forward with a 0:17:17.040 --> 0:17:20.800 five hundred billion dollar AI investment from the private sector. 0:17:21.160 --> 0:17:23.440 That's happening right here in the US of A. 0:17:23.920 --> 0:17:27.919 Finally, promise is made and promises kept on border security, 0:17:28.440 --> 0:17:31.360 major moves by President Trump to make sure that we 0:17:31.920 --> 0:17:35.680 have a secure southern border. It's the forty seven Morning 0:17:35.800 --> 0:17:37.800 Update and it starts right now. 0:17:37.720 --> 0:17:38.879 Story number one. 0:17:38.960 --> 0:17:42.480 It was black Tuesday for many in the federal government, 0:17:42.640 --> 0:17:45.240 as the head of the TSA and the Coast Guard 0:17:45.280 --> 0:17:48.959 were fired on Trump's first full day in office. President 0:17:49.040 --> 0:17:52.400 Trump moved quickly to remake the Department of Homeland Security, 0:17:52.800 --> 0:17:56.040 firing the heads of the Transportation Security Administration and the 0:17:56.080 --> 0:17:59.640 Coast Guard before their terms were even up, and eliminated 0:17:59.800 --> 0:18:03.480 all all members of a key aviation security advisory group 0:18:03.560 --> 0:18:07.879 as well. Now, Trump's immigration policy changes through the most 0:18:07.920 --> 0:18:12.000 attention at Homeland Security, but he's also making changes at 0:18:12.000 --> 0:18:16.240 the rest of the massive agency. Members of the Aviation 0:18:16.400 --> 0:18:20.119 Security Advisory Committee received a memo Tuesday morning saying that 0:18:20.160 --> 0:18:24.800 the Department is eliminating the membership of all advisory committees 0:18:25.359 --> 0:18:28.240 as part of a commitment to eliminating the misuse of 0:18:28.320 --> 0:18:33.000 resources and ensuring that the Department of homelanded security activities 0:18:33.040 --> 0:18:39.280 prioritize specifically our national security. The Aviation Security Committee, which 0:18:39.359 --> 0:18:42.840 was mandated by Congress after the nineteen eighty eight PM 0:18:42.880 --> 0:18:47.480 one oh three bombing over Lockinbee, Scotland, will technically continue 0:18:47.480 --> 0:18:50.000 to exist, but it won't have any members to carry 0:18:50.000 --> 0:18:53.879 out the work of examining safety issues at airlines and 0:18:54.000 --> 0:18:57.680 airports liberals are claiming at this hour, but the reality 0:18:57.800 --> 0:18:59.760 is there are plenty of people that are doing that 0:19:00.119 --> 0:19:04.800 right now. Who's angry about it? Well, major unions, that's right, 0:19:05.320 --> 0:19:08.720 because the airlines and majored unions were a member of 0:19:08.800 --> 0:19:13.440 the group associated with all of this government bureaucracy. This 0:19:13.520 --> 0:19:16.840 is another example of Donald Trump saying I'm coming in 0:19:17.240 --> 0:19:18.439 and I'm cleaning house. 0:19:18.840 --> 0:19:19.000 Now. 0:19:19.000 --> 0:19:22.240 That isn't all who lost their jobs in our bloated government. 0:19:22.640 --> 0:19:25.080 You know, Donald Trump became very famous for being the 0:19:25.119 --> 0:19:29.000 guy that says you're fired. Well, Donald Trump is telling 0:19:29.040 --> 0:19:32.560 many Biden appointees you're out of a job, and now 0:19:32.600 --> 0:19:34.840 it's a he said. She said, no, no, no, you 0:19:34.880 --> 0:19:38.560 didn't fire me. I already quit. I wish I was joking, 0:19:38.800 --> 0:19:41.840 but I'm not. Donald Trump says he plans to remove 0:19:41.880 --> 0:19:46.199 over one thousand Biden appointees, and there are many that 0:19:46.240 --> 0:19:49.680 are very angry about President Donald Trump on Tuesday saying 0:19:49.800 --> 0:19:52.600 I have these plans because I'm not keeping any of 0:19:52.640 --> 0:19:56.560 them Joe Biden's appointees from their government positions. He said, yeah, 0:19:56.840 --> 0:20:00.720 you're gone, and he had already fired four individuals immediately, 0:20:00.880 --> 0:20:06.000 including a celebrity shift, Jose Andreas and a former top general, 0:20:06.280 --> 0:20:09.240 Mark Milly. You're fired, is what Trump wrote in an 0:20:09.280 --> 0:20:13.000 early morning post on his True social platform that named 0:20:13.040 --> 0:20:17.199 Milly and Andreas, as well as his former Iran envoy 0:20:17.320 --> 0:20:21.040 Brian Hook and the former Atlanta mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms, 0:20:21.080 --> 0:20:26.120 who Biden appointed to an export council. Andreas and Bottom 0:20:26.160 --> 0:20:29.119 said they quote unquote had already quit their posts before 0:20:29.160 --> 0:20:33.320 Trump's inauguration. Trump's post said his personal office is quote 0:20:33.480 --> 0:20:37.520 actively in the process of identifying and removing over one 0:20:37.600 --> 0:20:42.720 thousand presidential appointees from the Biden administration who are quote 0:20:42.760 --> 0:20:46.560 not aligned with our vision to make America great again. 0:20:47.160 --> 0:20:48.880 Donald Trump wasn't done there. 0:20:48.920 --> 0:20:52.840 When it came to changing things very quickly, he also 0:20:52.960 --> 0:20:58.000 decided to move to another issue. Trump ordered all federal diversity, 0:20:58.240 --> 0:21:03.679 equity and Inclusion employees based on paid leave starting on Wednesday. 0:21:04.160 --> 0:21:08.240 Yes NBC News reporting that the Trump administration also directed 0:21:08.280 --> 0:21:14.200 government agencies to draw plans for firing workers in DEI roles. 0:21:14.600 --> 0:21:18.640 The Trump administration is ordering all federal employees the White 0:21:18.680 --> 0:21:22.080 House announced in these roles on paid lead by Wednesday 0:21:22.160 --> 0:21:25.359 evening at five o'clock that according to a new memo 0:21:25.440 --> 0:21:29.760 from the Office of Personnel Management. The memo, issued Tuesday 0:21:29.840 --> 0:21:33.840 to heads of departments and government agencies set that deadline 0:21:33.880 --> 0:21:37.080 of no later than five pm Eastern Time Wednesday to 0:21:37.280 --> 0:21:39.720 inform the employees that they will be put on paid 0:21:39.760 --> 0:21:45.200 administrative leave as the agencies prepare to close all diversity, 0:21:45.320 --> 0:21:50.159 equity and inclusion related offices and programs and to also 0:21:50.280 --> 0:21:56.520 remove all websites and social media accounts for such offices immediately. 0:21:57.160 --> 0:22:00.919 This is another promise Donald Trump made to the American people, 0:22:01.320 --> 0:22:04.440 and he's seeing it through clearly, starting in his very 0:22:04.480 --> 0:22:05.680 first week in office. 0:22:05.760 --> 0:22:07.880 Now story number two in major. 0:22:07.640 --> 0:22:10.960 Breaking news coming from the Oval Office, President Donald Trump 0:22:11.000 --> 0:22:13.600 on Tuesday announced Stargate Project. 0:22:13.640 --> 0:22:14.560 Now, what is that. 0:22:14.800 --> 0:22:18.679 It is a new American company which will invest five 0:22:19.320 --> 0:22:23.800 hundred billion dollars over the next four years building a 0:22:24.000 --> 0:22:29.160 new AI infrastructure, specifically in the United States of America. 0:22:29.440 --> 0:22:34.160 The President also asked Oracles Larry Ellison, Soft Bank CEO, 0:22:34.760 --> 0:22:39.360 and Open AI Sam Altman to the White House for 0:22:39.400 --> 0:22:42.560 this major announcement, where President Trump explained it this. 0:22:42.520 --> 0:22:44.800 Way to my honor to welcome three of the world's 0:22:44.880 --> 0:22:49.560 leading technology CEOs and in the case of Larry, Larry Ellison, 0:22:49.880 --> 0:22:54.800 it's well beyond technology is sort of CEO of everything. 0:22:55.400 --> 0:23:00.399 He's an amazing man, an amazing business person. But to 0:23:00.440 --> 0:23:05.199 announce the largest AI infrastructure project by farign history, and 0:23:05.280 --> 0:23:09.879 it's all taking place right here in America. As you know, 0:23:09.920 --> 0:23:15.080 there's great competition for AI and other things, and they're 0:23:15.080 --> 0:23:18.120 coming in at the highest level. We're joined by Oracle 0:23:18.160 --> 0:23:23.760 executive chairman Larry Ellison, Soft Bank CEO, my friend Masa 0:23:24.000 --> 0:23:29.560 Masa Yoshi's son and CEO of Open AI, and I 0:23:29.600 --> 0:23:33.159 would say, by far the leading expert based on everything 0:23:33.200 --> 0:23:37.080 I read, Sam Altman. So that's great that you're coming 0:23:37.760 --> 0:23:42.280 in together. That's a massive group of talent and money. Together, 0:23:42.359 --> 0:23:48.199