Speaker 1: Now what have We basically have two countries that have
Speaker 1: been fighting so long and so hard that they don't
Speaker 1: know what the fun they're doing.
Speaker 2: Do you understand that you're listening to the forty seven
Speaker 2: Morning Update with Ben ferguson.
Speaker 3: Good Wednesday morning. Nice to have you with us on
Speaker 3: the forty seven Morning Update, and we've got two major
Speaker 3: stories for you. One, President Donald Trump giving a very
Speaker 3: clear warning to Iran as well as Israel that it's
Speaker 3: time to stop this war and abide by the ceasefire rules.
Speaker 3: President even talking directly. We've been to a net Yahoo
Speaker 3: letting him know you must stop. We do not need
Speaker 3: this to continue. We'll have all the details of that
Speaker 3: conversation on Air Force One coming up in just a moment.
Speaker 3: And also another major story, at least five more Iranian
Speaker 3: nationals who are in the country illegally with additional criminal
Speaker 3: backgrounds have been arrested by ICE in recent days, bringing
Speaker 3: the number now to almost twenty individuals who have been arrested.
Speaker 3: Some of them would direct ties to terrorism and Iran.
Speaker 3: But first, right now, all of us, our help is
Speaker 3: needed with the people that are under attack in Israel.
Speaker 3: We know that Israel is at war with Iran, a
Speaker 3: nation that is vowed to wipe Israel and even the
Speaker 3: United States of America off the map. In a necessary
Speaker 3: act of self defense, Israel struck Iranian nuclear facilities, military targets,
Speaker 3: and their top leadership. And right now the International Fellowship
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Speaker 2: Story number one.
Speaker 3: President Trump very frustrated with Israel and Iran for violating
Speaker 3: the ceasefire terms of an agreement that he helped put together,
Speaker 3: saying publicly that he is not happy with Israel. Allegations
Speaker 3: that Iran launched a barje of missiles at Israel early
Speaker 3: Tuesday morning, more than two and a half hours after
Speaker 3: the ceasfire began, which Tehran denied even as Israel announced
Speaker 3: a response, has drawn criticism of both parties by President
Speaker 3: Donald Trump. Sirens sounded in northern Israel and explosions could
Speaker 3: be heard as Israeli Air defense has responded and commanders
Speaker 3: said the country will respond with force. Two missiles were
Speaker 3: launched from Iran and they were intercepted. Is what a
Speaker 3: military official said about the attack, the army saying good
Speaker 3: people could leave shelter around fifteen minutes after the first
Speaker 3: alert went out. Now, Iran's news agency says reports that
Speaker 3: i Ran fired missiles at Israel after the ceasefire took effect,
Speaker 3: where quote unquote false. Now, a clearly frustrated Donald Trump
Speaker 3: has to intervene, saying this about the conflict violent.
Speaker 4: Do you believe that a rounded Yeah, I do.
Speaker 1: They violated it, But Israel violated it too. Israel as
Speaker 1: soon as we made the deal, they came out and
Speaker 1: they dropped the load of Bob's the likes of which
Speaker 1: I've never seen before, the biggest load that we've seen.
Speaker 1: I'm not happy with Israel. You know, when I say, okay,
Speaker 1: now you have twelve hours, you don't go out in
Speaker 1: the first hour, just drop everything you have on them.
Speaker 1: So I'm not happy with them. I'm not happy with
Speaker 1: Iron either. But I'm really unhappy if Israel's going out
Speaker 1: this morning because the one rocket that didn't land, that
Speaker 1: was shot perhaps by mistake, that didn't land, I'm not
Speaker 1: happy about that. What we basically have two countries that
Speaker 1: have been fighting so long and so hard that they
Speaker 1: don't know what the fuck they're doing. Do you understand that? Now?
Speaker 3: President Trump made these comments to reporters of the White
Speaker 3: House before departing for the NATO summit at the Hague.
Speaker 3: He expressed disappointment about the continued attacks, adding he did
Speaker 3: not like that Israel had quote unloaded right after they
Speaker 3: agreed to end the hostilities, saying quote, they violated it,
Speaker 3: but is violated it too, Trump said, adding I'm not
Speaker 3: happy with Israel. Trump further ordered Israel to cease and
Speaker 3: assist with its response, using his true Social for delivering
Speaker 3: that message, saying, quote, Israel, do not drop those bombs.
Speaker 3: If you do, it's a major violation. Bring your pilots
Speaker 3: home now. Donald J. Trump, President of the United States
Speaker 3: of America. Is how he signed it on True Social Now.
Speaker 3: Trump was then on his way to Europe for the
Speaker 3: NATO summit, after further expressing disappointment about the continued attacks
Speaker 3: during the flight, AP reported that Trump spoke to the
Speaker 3: Israeli Prime Minister as well. Trump did not mince words
Speaker 3: from Air Force one, according to White House officials familiar
Speaker 3: with the matter. The officials, as cited by the AP,
Speaker 3: who were not authorized to comment publicly about the private
Speaker 3: leader's call, said Trump was exceptionally firm and direct with
Speaker 3: the Prime Minister about what needed to happen to sustain
Speaker 3: the ceasefire. Officials added net Now, who understood the severity
Speaker 3: of the situation and acknowledged Trump's concerns. Netea, whose office
Speaker 3: confirmed the talks as well. Per the Associated Press, now
Speaker 3: netaw whose office also says Israel struck an Iranian radar
Speaker 3: in response to the Iranian missile attack early Tuesday, but
Speaker 3: it says the Israeli leader held off tougher action after
Speaker 3: an appeal directly from the President. Following President Trump's conversation
Speaker 3: with net now Who, Israel refrained from additional attacks. Netanya
Speaker 3: Who's office said publicly now Trump has now declared Israel
Speaker 3: will act on his instructions, saying it is not going
Speaker 3: to attack Iran and will instead do a quote friendly
Speaker 3: plane wave. Clearly the President of the United States of
Speaker 3: America stepping up and making sure that this deal gets
Speaker 3: done as fast as it possibly can. Now story number two,
Speaker 3: at least five more Iranian nationals who are in this
Speaker 3: country illegally now off the streets as threats to our
Speaker 3: national security. This coming after eleven we're arrested over the weekend,
Speaker 3: and this is a real problem now as we're talking
Speaker 3: about Iranian sleeper cells being a threat to this country.
Speaker 3: More Iranians with major criminal histories being arrested and targeted
Speaker 3: by Ice, and what the White House is referring to
Speaker 3: is a major security sweep, saying these are the worst
Speaker 3: of the worst among US Now, officials are touting this
Speaker 3: as a full throttle go after anyone they can who
Speaker 3: is in this country that may be a known or
Speaker 3: suspected terrorists and have direct connections to Iran. That is
Speaker 3: what they're trying to do. I want you to hear
Speaker 3: more about what's happening. In a report from Fox.
Speaker 4: Concern about our safety here at home in the wake
Speaker 4: of the strikes on Iran's nuclear sites. Breaking news today,
Speaker 4: Immigration and Customs agents announced they have arrested fifteen illegal
Speaker 4: Iranian immigrants since Sunday. One of them admitted to ties
Speaker 4: hes Belah in Lebanon. A law enforcement source told Fox
Speaker 4: News the FBI is closely watching for any Iranian back
Speaker 4: sleeper agents in the wake of Operation Midnight Hammer. During
Speaker 4: the Biden administration, border agents arrested more than one thousand,
Speaker 4: five hundred Iranians who entered illegally at our southern border.
Speaker 4: They let nearly half of them go. President Trump on
Speaker 4: that this morning.
Speaker 1: Biden led a lot of supercellsen Biden was an incompetent president,
Speaker 1: had no idea what he was doing. He let a
Speaker 1: lot of supercells in, many from Iran. But hopefully we'll
Speaker 1: take care of them. What Biden did to this country
Speaker 1: should never be forgotten.
Speaker 4: Justice correspondent David Spunt is in Washington.
Speaker 5: David Well Harris, the news about the fifteen Iranian nationals
Speaker 5: coming illegally into the US is no surprise to the
Speaker 5: people at the Justice Department, the FBI, and of course
Speaker 5: the Department of Homeland Security. According to authorities, one of
Speaker 5: them has ties to HESBLA, another is an alleged former
Speaker 5: sniper for the Iranian Army. At a budget hearing yesterday,
Speaker 5: Attorney General Pam Bondi said the number of Iranians illegally
Speaker 5: in the United States continues to grow as well.
Speaker 4: Over one thousand have entered our country and I can
Speaker 4: tell you we are on high alert and everyone is
Speaker 4: looking at that very closely now.
Speaker 5: She says, budget cuts won't affect the overall mission. DOOJ
Speaker 5: and the FBI continue to focus on threats toward President
Speaker 5: Trump himself as a result of his ordering of the
Speaker 5: killing of this man, General Cassim Solomani in January twenty twenty.
Speaker 5: Assassination plots originating in Iran not only toward President Trump,
Speaker 5: but to US residents who once lived in Iran. DHS
Speaker 5: Secretary of Christy Nome seen there yesterday, was asked about
Speaker 5: sleeper cells in the United States. Those are groups of
Speaker 5: people who live among us in the US quietly until
Speaker 5: order to act.
Speaker 4: We've seen some from overseas and some that have been here,
Speaker 4: maybe gone overseas for short period of time, become radicalized
Speaker 4: and come back, or individuals that are right here in
Speaker 4: the United States.
Speaker 5: Nom held a conference call with some of the nation's
Speaker 5: governors of the weekend to pledge federal resources to help
Speaker 5: on the state level to combat any threats, whether federal
Speaker 5: or local. Attorney General Bondi back in front of lawmakers
Speaker 5: tomorrow to talk about the DOJ budget, but you could
Speaker 5: expect some of these topics also will likely come up.
Speaker 3: If you go back to the list of the individuals
Speaker 3: that have been arrested in what they've been arrested for.
Speaker 3: You go to another example ice in Houston. They arrested
Speaker 3: another Iranian there. When they arrested him, he was carrying
Speaker 3: a loaded nine millimeter pistol. They arrested him, by the way,
Speaker 3: in seventeen in Harris County, that is Houston, Texas, the
Speaker 3: police arrested him for assaulting a family member and impeding breathing,
Speaker 3: meaning you're strangling someone. You also go to another person
Speaker 3: in Houston, another Iranian national, an immigration judge that ordered
Speaker 3: him removed nearly twenty years ago on August fourth of
Speaker 3: two and five. He's been twice convicted of drug crimes
Speaker 3: and one's convicted driving on a suspended license. He's still
Speaker 3: in America. There's problems here. There's another example of this.
Speaker 3: A man in Arizona arrested again another Iranian. He had
Speaker 3: a final order of removal. He was convicted of threatening
Speaker 3: a law enforcement officer and being an alien in possession
Speaker 3: of a firearm. So these are as the President would
Speaker 3: describe it bot own brace right. You have officials that
Speaker 3: arrested another man that was in the country illegally from Iran.
Speaker 3: The man threatened to open fire on ice officials if
Speaker 3: they entered her home, and then she would go outside
Speaker 3: and shoot ice officers in the head quote unquote. So
Speaker 3: it's not just men, it's also women. You had another
Speaker 3: twenty two year old in Mississippi, an Iranian national and
Speaker 3: former lawful permanent resident. Well, guess what he lied on
Speaker 3: his original visa application and committed potential marriage fraud as well.
Speaker 3: This is a guy who quote is listed as a
Speaker 3: known or suspected terrorists. He's now an ice custody pitning removal.
Speaker 3: You have another man in Colorado, an individual after a
Speaker 3: judge had already ordered him to be removed. His criminal
Speaker 3: history includes state and federal convictions for drug crimes and
Speaker 3: arrests for assault and child abuse. No big deal, right,
Speaker 3: totally fine. You got a man in Saint Paul a
Speaker 3: man that was fifty six year old Iranian national. He's
Speaker 3: been convicted of being a felon in possession of a
Speaker 3: firearm in Minneapolis. He was sentenced to fifteen months in prison.
Speaker 3: He's also a former member of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard
Speaker 3: with admitted connections directly to Hezballah. You got another guy
Speaker 3: in San Francisco, sixty two year old Iranian national with
Speaker 3: a criminal history that includes a conviction for petty theft
Speaker 3: and a conviction of possession of a controlled substance for sale.
Speaker 3: He was sent to ten years in state prison for
Speaker 3: drug conviction and now he's in ice custody. Or go
Speaker 3: to Buffalo. You've got another Iranian national there, a man
Speaker 3: convicted of grand larceny schemes to defraud criminal impersonation and
Speaker 3: practicing as an attorney another example of the people that
Speaker 3: they're taking off the streets. So when you look at
Speaker 3: what we are now witnessing, it is very clear that
Speaker 3: there are real people in this country that are trying
Speaker 3: to do harm to this country that were let in
Speaker 3: under the last administration. That is obvious. The last administration
Speaker 3: knew that these people were coming into this country and
Speaker 3: they just didn't care. They wanted to flood the country
Speaker 3: with as many illegal immigrants as they possibly could, and
Speaker 3: they just didn't care who was coming in, how they
Speaker 3: were getting in this country. It didn't matter, and that's
Speaker 3: incredibly sad. Let me also say one other final thing here.
Speaker 3: I expect this to get worse before it gets better,
Speaker 3: with a number of illegal immigrants that we're going to
Speaker 3: find that are a real threat to our national security,
Speaker 3: and we should do everything we can to support and
Speaker 3: advocate for Ice and this administration to find them wherever
Speaker 3: they have to in the country.
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