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Speaker 3: Good Saturday morning to you. Ben Ferguson with you, and

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Speaker 3: This is the beginning, he says, of Liberation Day in America.

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

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Speaker 2: Story number one.

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Speaker 3: We all know that a core mission of the Trump

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Speaker 3: that FEMA has picked winners and losers, helping some Americans

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Speaker 2: Elon Musk's so called Department of Government Efficiency is taking

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