Speaker 1: My TM and I have carefully examined the WA's eligibility
Speaker 1: criteria and governing framework surrounding self identification and inclusion. Based
Speaker 1: on the current guidelines, I can and am officially declaring
Speaker 1: my eligibility for the upcoming WNBA draft in May twenty
Speaker 1: twenty seven. I am definitely not here to mock, make
Speaker 1: fun of, or to suspect any community or personal choices.
Speaker 1: I am simply asking that the current rules be applied
Speaker 1: equally to everything. Set Trend.
Speaker 2: You're listening to the forty seven Morning Update with Ben ferguson.
Speaker 3: Good Monday morning. Nice to have you with us on
Speaker 3: the forty seven Morning Update, and we've got two very
Speaker 3: big stories for you. First up, the President United States
Speaker 3: America weighing in on the WNBA well now allowing apparently
Speaker 3: any man who says there a woman to try out
Speaker 3: and join the draft. What happens next, We've got the
Speaker 3: story and it's incredible. Also, the left and some of
Speaker 3: the Republicans of hate Donald Trump failed again trying to
Speaker 3: get rid of his AG nomine. We have a new
Speaker 3: AG Todd Blanche, and we explain exactly how the vote
Speaker 3: got across the finish line over the weekend. It's the
Speaker 3: forty seven Morning Update, and it starts right now.
Speaker 2: Story number one.
Speaker 3: The WNBA is taking on Donald Trump and the Conservatives
Speaker 3: and to the Supreme Court as well as men in
Speaker 3: what could be one of the biggest backfires in professional
Speaker 3: sports history. Now, the WNBA has come out with a
Speaker 3: requirement for what it means to actually play in the WNBA.
Speaker 3: Now they guess they've forgotten what the W stands for,
Speaker 3: which is women, and they've decided to go all woke. Well,
Speaker 3: former first round pick Royce White says he's declaring now
Speaker 3: for the twenty twenty seven WNBA draft, claiming he now
Speaker 3: identifies as transgendered for the purpose of playing professional basketball. Now,
Speaker 3: this is a former six foot eight Houston Rockets draft pick,
Speaker 3: and now he is following a former NBA player, and
Speaker 3: that's Kendor Freedom. I love this guy and ask excuse
Speaker 3: me Freedom, who announced his own plans to declare amid
Speaker 3: the growing debate over to quote transgender athletes and women's
Speaker 3: sports now White. Royce Wright told Fox News Digital he
Speaker 3: believes he'd be unstoppable in the WNBA and suggested he
Speaker 3: could pursue legal action if denied an opportunity to play.
Speaker 3: White said the move is meant to challenge a w
Speaker 3: NBA to clarify and to define its eligibility rules for
Speaker 3: transgender and athletes, saying I'd like to know what the
Speaker 3: parameters are in his announcement. This is what he said.
Speaker 4: Oh, earlier this week, I made the announcement, I'm transgender.
Speaker 4: I'm a woman. I'm identify as sometimes identifying as a
Speaker 4: woman for purposes of basketball, proferresational basketball. So I'll be
Speaker 4: declaring for the w NBA draft in twenty twenty seven
Speaker 4: as well. I mean, I think I'd be unstoppable, you know.
Speaker 4: But I'm I'm a team first guy. You know, I'm
Speaker 4: a I'm a past first kind of player. I do
Speaker 4: the little things, you know. I led my team in
Speaker 4: all five major stack categories at at Iowa State University.
Speaker 4: Uh So I do a little bit of every I'll
Speaker 4: do whatever the coach needs me to do. I'll do
Speaker 4: whatever the girls need me to do. I think the
Speaker 4: w n B A could come out and make a
Speaker 4: definitive statement about about guys with with a pair of
Speaker 4: balls playing in the in the Women's Association. But you know, hey,
Speaker 4: that that that be that'd be probably too much like right, so,
Speaker 4: and I don't want to be discriminated against. Now I
Speaker 4: want I want fair treatment. I'm a black, I'm a
Speaker 4: young black hopefully United States senator. UH that that like
Speaker 4: that would like a fair chance to participate as a
Speaker 4: sometimes identifying as a transgender woman UH athlete.
Speaker 3: That is statement from again Royce Wright, first round draft pick.
Speaker 3: Now that's not the only one that is declared for
Speaker 3: the draft. As I mentioned earlier, Anness Canner freedom set.
Speaker 3: After carefully considering and reviewing the current eligibility guidelines, I'm
Speaker 3: officially declaring myself a w NBA prospect. If simply declaring
Speaker 3: who you are is all that's required, then I meet
Speaker 3: every single requirement necessary to compete in the w NBA.
Speaker 3: My team and I have carefully examined the eligibility criterion,
Speaker 3: government governing framework surrounding self identification and inclusion, and based
Speaker 3: on the current WNBA guidelines, I can and am officially
Speaker 3: declaring my eligibility for the upcoming draft. Here he is
Speaker 3: in his announcement video.
Speaker 1: After careful concentration I review in the current eligibility guidelines,
Speaker 1: I am officially declaring myself at WNBA prospect. If simply
Speaker 1: declaring who you are is all that's required, then I
Speaker 1: meet every single requirement necessary to compete in the WNBA.
Speaker 1: My Tim and I have carefully examined the WNBA's eligibility
Speaker 1: criteria and governing framework surrounding self identification and inclusion. Based
Speaker 1: on the current guidelines, I can and am officially declaring
Speaker 1: my eligibility for the upcoming WNBA draft in May twenty
Speaker 1: twenty seven. I am definitely not here to mock, make
Speaker 1: fun of, or to suspect any community or personal choices.
Speaker 1: I am simply asking that the current rules be applied
Speaker 1: equally to everyone, the rules that represent the very values
Speaker 1: many WNBA players and coaches have publicly advocated for. My team,
Speaker 1: and I are prepared to ensure these guidelines are applied equally, consistently,
Speaker 1: and without exception, and I look forward to the WNBA
Speaker 1: honoring its stated principles. See your training.
Speaker 3: Camp, see you at training camp. Okay, so let's go
Speaker 3: over this real quick. You have two dudes who are
Speaker 3: saying that they are going to act or they believe
Speaker 3: that they are transgender. Now, this also comes as Donald
Speaker 3: Trump said that if he coached the WNBA, he'd ask
Speaker 3: Lebron if he had any desire to be a woman. Now,
Speaker 3: this is why the WNBA is responding the way they are.
Speaker 3: They're a woke league. Here's the president in his own words.
Speaker 5: And I'll tell you what.
Speaker 6: If I were ever, I'd be the greatest woman's basketball
Speaker 6: coach a history. Because I don't like Lebron James. I
Speaker 6: like Michael Jordan much better, but i'd but I'd go
Speaker 6: up to Lebron James. It doesn't matter. Say Lebron, did
Speaker 6: you ever have any desire to be a woman? Because
Speaker 6: what I'd love you to do is star on my
Speaker 6: team that I'm building up. I will have the greatest
Speaker 6: team in history. They'll never lose. Nobody who will come
Speaker 6: within seventy points of this team. Now, we have to
Speaker 6: change that, and we have to make it okay to
Speaker 6: talk about it. You know, the young lady I was
Speaker 6: talking about is afraid to.
Speaker 1: Talk about it.
Speaker 6: She's shunned and she's canceled when she talks about it.
Speaker 6: This is crazy.
Speaker 3: This is crazy. Now, this is the reason why the
Speaker 3: WNBA has decided to do what I describe as the
Speaker 3: most ridiculous policy that I have heard. Now. Center Ted
Speaker 3: Cruz was asked by TMZ about this move, telling TNZ
Speaker 3: that again, this is insane and this is what happens
Speaker 3: when you don't protect women's sports.
Speaker 7: Can I ask you a question?
Speaker 1: Please? Ted?
Speaker 4: How a man?
Speaker 7: It's good to see you. Well, hey, have you been
Speaker 7: following the w n B A and this transgender debate?
Speaker 7: That's it's all they're talking about there.
Speaker 5: I saw Clay travisaw for ten million dollars. I watched
Speaker 5: that again.
Speaker 7: Could I just ask Meghan Kelly said that Kaylen Clark
Speaker 7: is a coward for not taking a side in either
Speaker 7: this or that that. What do you feel about that?
Speaker 8: Oh?
Speaker 5: Look, Kayln Clark is a hell of a ballplayer in
Speaker 5: fun to watch.
Speaker 7: Do you think she should.
Speaker 1: Take a side?
Speaker 5: At the end of the day, I don't think athletes
Speaker 5: are required an expressive opinion on every topic. I think
Speaker 5: it is clearly unfair to allow boys to compete against
Speaker 5: girls and to allow men to compete against women. Boys
Speaker 5: and girls are different, and mankind has known that literally
Speaker 5: since the dawna time.
Speaker 7: Is it a big issue though at w NBA level, like,
Speaker 7: I don't see many.
Speaker 5: I'm curious.
Speaker 7: Tell me what does the w stand for women?
Speaker 5: It seems that there's some coaches in the WNBA who
Speaker 5: can't figure that out?
Speaker 7: But should they also be like sympathetic and empathetic for
Speaker 7: young little girls who like are feeling an identity crisis,
Speaker 7: They want to play a sports, they want to be
Speaker 7: with their friends.
Speaker 5: If they're boys, they're not young little girls. And the
Speaker 5: fact that your ideology, you think it would be fair
Speaker 5: to let Lebron James play in the WNBA.
Speaker 7: No, but that's not what we're talking about. We're talking
Speaker 7: about young people.
Speaker 5: What you're talking about old people too. You're not just
Speaker 5: saying five year olds. Well, I think that like w
Speaker 5: NBA doesn't have five year olds.
Speaker 7: At a professional level, yeah, I mean obviously, but at
Speaker 7: a minor level when these kids are just trying to
Speaker 7: be happy and be kids, not letting them socialize with
Speaker 7: their friends just because they're those.
Speaker 5: Different guys, they can be happy. To be honest, though,
Speaker 5: a lot of the transgender is and it is coming
Speaker 5: from leftist adults who are convincing their kids of this nonsense,
Speaker 5: and it's it is really sad to see the ideology
Speaker 5: of parents. Listen, I think God knows what he's doing
Speaker 5: when he makes a little boy. I think God knows
Speaker 5: what he's doing when he makes a little girl. And
Speaker 5: I think the phenomenon of woke leftist adults. You know,
Speaker 5: I read a tweet once from Cynthia next to the
Speaker 5: actress who said her child is trans, her sister's child
Speaker 5: is trans, all of her friend's child children are trans.
Speaker 5: You know what that is. That's adults putting their politics
Speaker 5: and their ideology on their kids, and.
Speaker 7: I or maybe thinking their kids be who they really are.
Speaker 7: Maybe you don't know, We don't know.
Speaker 5: You know what, if you don't what a boy is
Speaker 5: and you don't know what a girl is, there's a reason.
Speaker 7: You work at TMC oh all right, dented, I appreciate you, man,
Speaker 7: thank you.
Speaker 3: This is how radical the left has become, and the
Speaker 3: WNBA is about to find out what happens when you
Speaker 3: make stupid rules.
Speaker 2: Now, story number two, there was some.
Speaker 3: Good news that happened this week, and it was obviously
Speaker 3: downplayed by the mainstream media. It was a story that
Speaker 3: was supposed to be surrounded in controversy. It was a
Speaker 3: story that was sold as it could be a quote
Speaker 3: disaster for Donald Trump. The story was actually a really
Speaker 3: simple story. There was a man who was going to
Speaker 3: be confirmed as the Attorney general, of the United States
Speaker 3: of America, a man by the name of Todd Blanche.
Speaker 3: The attacks came in, and the attacks were that Todd Blanche,
Speaker 3: a guy that had literally decades of service in the
Speaker 3: Department of Justice, was somehow just some random dude that
Speaker 3: was an attorney for the president of Knights say It's
Speaker 3: of America. And that is how the media started pushing
Speaker 3: the story that he was unqualified, even though he'd spent
Speaker 3: well over a decade at the Department of Justice and
Speaker 3: it served and the New York system as well in
Speaker 3: the DOJ where he saw a lot of serious and
Speaker 3: important cases and prosecutions that happened, yes, at the hands
Speaker 3: of the government. Now that is what you would refer
Speaker 3: to if you're a same person as significant experience. You
Speaker 3: would refer that as really important experience. You would refer
Speaker 3: to it as experience. It would make you more than qualified,
Speaker 3: let me say that again, more than qualified to be
Speaker 3: the Attorney General. By the way, he's also been the
Speaker 3: acting Attorney General, which gave him even more of a
Speaker 3: resume booster than many others have had before when they
Speaker 3: received the position of being confirmed as the Attorney General.
Speaker 3: But you saw the left do their job. You saw
Speaker 3: the media start to say that this guy's nothing more
Speaker 3: than a presidential yes man because he was the president's
Speaker 3: attorney and that he was unqualified for the job, even
Speaker 3: though they admitted purposely his background in working at the DOJ. Now,
Speaker 3: I say all of that to go to the new headline,
Speaker 3: which is now not being covered at all. Todd Blanche
Speaker 3: has been confirmed as the US Attorney General, despite opposition
Speaker 3: from even some Republicans that were trying to stick it
Speaker 3: to Donald Trump. The acting Attorney general is now the
Speaker 3: attorney General. He was confirmed Saturday to lead the US
Speaker 3: Department of Justice, the news coming after Republican lawmakers struggled
Speaker 3: to make a decision. Then Senator Bill Cassidy, someone that
Speaker 3: the President did not back in his reelection and lost
Speaker 3: his reelection bid in Louisiana, announced that the last minute
Speaker 3: on Friday that he would port Blanche's confirmation Now. During
Speaker 3: his announcement, Cassie said the process was about Blanche, the
Speaker 3: difficulty of his job, and how the American people can
Speaker 3: be best served. He put it this way on the
Speaker 3: floor of the Senate.
Speaker 8: Center from Louisiana, it's the president. I rise a day
Speaker 8: to speak to the nomination of Todd Blanche to be
Speaker 8: Attorney General. Over the last several days, I've heard from
Speaker 8: lots of people sharing their views on this nomination, and
Speaker 8: most of the time it's clear mister Blanche has become
Speaker 8: a referendum on how people feel about President Trump. If
Speaker 8: you don't like the President, you don't like mister Blanche.
Speaker 8: If you do like the President, you do. I have
Speaker 8: not approached it that way. This process should be about
Speaker 8: mister Blanche and how he will go forward in a
Speaker 8: difficult job, and how the American people can be best served.
Speaker 8: I have a history with mister Trump, but that history
Speaker 8: does not matter one bit. On the one hand, mister
Speaker 8: Blanche does not need to be Senate confirmed. He can
Speaker 8: continue to serve as the pleasure of the President as
Speaker 8: Deputy Attorney General or even acting Attorney General at this
Speaker 8: voter's pull. On the other hand, I am told that
Speaker 8: Senate confirmation is important and interactions with the President, with
Speaker 8: others in the cabinet, and as important to doj employees
Speaker 8: in general. Being Senate confirmed gives him greater leverage to
Speaker 8: push for things that should be pushed for. This does
Speaker 8: not demean the Senate's role important issues have been discussed
Speaker 8: through this process, and mister Blanche has made commitments now
Speaker 8: on to the specific nomination. Since mister Blanche passed out
Speaker 8: of Judiciary Committee on August the fourth, I've spoken to
Speaker 8: mister Blanch five or six times. We have texted many more.
Speaker 8: I just got off the phone with him. I've spoken
Speaker 8: multiple times the Senators Murkowski, Cornyn Tillis. Senator Whitehouse shared
Speaker 8: his concerns a dinner and past administration officials, including a
Speaker 8: long conversation with former Attorney General Bill Barr. Late last night,
Speaker 8: I spoke to two US attorneys from Louisiana, David Crossell
Speaker 8: and Kurt Wall. Of course, there has been a lot
Speaker 8: to read and a lot to consider, and I slept
Speaker 8: on it overnight. Let's start with the concerns. Mister Blant
Speaker 8: showed poor judgment and approving the Anti Weaponization's slush fund
Speaker 8: and exempting the President from IRS audits. No Americans should
Speaker 8: be unfairly targeted by the law, but no American should
Speaker 8: be above the law. Mister Blant said these were mistakes,
Speaker 8: and he has made efforts to kill the slush fund.
Speaker 8: I am particularly concerned about episodes of apparent lawfare DOJ
Speaker 8: bringing suits against political enemies both parties. Presidents of both
Speaker 8: parties have been guilty of this. It must stop. It
Speaker 8: should stop now. A never ending cycle, but prosecuting political
Speaker 8: enemies undermines the rule of law, to graze the public's
Speaker 8: trust in our institutions and makes our politics more extreme
Speaker 8: when we need to unite to solve the big problems
Speaker 8: of our time. I'm not entirely satisfied where this is,
Speaker 8: and I have no doubts that I'll have concern in
Speaker 8: the future. I will note that I've learned that some
Speaker 8: of the cases that have been publicly reported to be
Speaker 8: under investigation by the Department of Justice have been dismissed
Speaker 8: or no longer being pursued.
Speaker 3: Now let me just stop there. You notice where this
Speaker 3: is heading. Bill Cassie is airing the dirty laundry of
Speaker 3: why he hates Donald Trump while also telling you he
Speaker 3: supports Todd Blanche for the US Attorney General. Now Cassie's
Speaker 3: support places Blanche in a position to be confirmed, and
Speaker 3: in a social media post early Saturday, Blanch wrote, I'm
Speaker 3: deeply honored by the trust and confidence President Trump has
Speaker 3: placed to me to lead the Department of Justice as
Speaker 3: our great nations. Eighty eighth Attorney General. I'm grateful to
Speaker 3: the Senate for staying late to complete this process. To
Speaker 3: the dedicated public servants of the Department of Justice, thank
Speaker 3: you for your work. Each stayed uphold the law and
Speaker 3: keep our country safe. God bless America, he concluded. Now,
Speaker 3: there is also some other things that were interesting. What
Speaker 3: backfired on the left in the media is the fact
Speaker 3: that they tried to lie to the American people saying
Speaker 3: that Blanche was only Trump's four personal lawyer. That was
Speaker 3: the big lie. This is a guy that had served
Speaker 3: his country in the Department of Justice for well over
Speaker 3: a decade. This is a man that understood how this works.
Speaker 3: He is an individual that then went to the private
Speaker 3: sector and had top clients that were high profile. Obviously
Speaker 3: a former president would be one of those. Does that
Speaker 3: mean that he's unqualified to be the age? The answer
Speaker 3: is obviously no. And the Democrats knew it and sowed
Speaker 3: the Republicans, even the Republicans that hate Donald Trump. Now,
Speaker 3: one of the things you heard there from Cassie said,
Speaker 3: I have had my issues with Donald Trump, but that
Speaker 3: has nothing to do with this. Clearly it did. This
Speaker 3: would have gotten done a lot faster if there wasn't
Speaker 3: some of you that were petty. Now, I will say
Speaker 3: I do believe Cassie here did the right thing, and
Speaker 3: I think we should all say thank you for doing
Speaker 3: the right thing, not holding up the president's nominee, who,
Speaker 3: by the way, the president has the support of the
Speaker 3: American people and the will of the people decided that
Speaker 3: he should be the president. Therefore, he should get his
Speaker 3: attorney general that he wants as long as they're qualified. Clearly,
Speaker 3: Todd Blanche is overqualified for the job, and that is
Speaker 3: ultimately what this comes down to. The President got the
Speaker 3: man he wanted. The President got the man that is
Speaker 3: pushing the America First agenda. The President got a man
Speaker 3: that is going after waste, fraud, and abuse. And the
Speaker 3: only reason why any of the Republicans were against him
Speaker 3: is because those that were against them are those that
Speaker 3: hate Donald Trump, because Donald Trump didn't endorse them in
Speaker 3: their primaries and many of them lost. Now that is
Speaker 3: what petty politics truly sounds like, and that's exactly what
Speaker 3: happened here. So congratulations to the President, Congratulations to Blanche.
Speaker 3: I think he's going to do a phenomenal job because
Speaker 3: He's going after those that are that are dealing with waste,
Speaker 3: fraud and abuse in our government as well as the
Speaker 3: private sector. This is a day we should all celebrate,
Speaker 3: by the way, even if the Democrats and media are
Speaker 3: furious about it. By the way, that also tells you
Speaker 3: how good of a pick Todd Branches, how much they
Speaker 3: tried to torpedo him, lie about him, and smear him.
Speaker 3: So enjoy the moment. It's a big victory.
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