Speaker 1: Are we paying other people that aren't working? And you know,
Speaker 1: where's all this? Where's the money gun?
Speaker 2: We have found hundreds of billions of dollars a fraud
Speaker 2: so far, and we've just started. We're actually going to
Speaker 2: Ford Knox to see if the gold is there, because
Speaker 2: maybe somebody sold the goals.
Speaker 1: Tons of goals.
Speaker 3: You're listening to the forty seven Morning Update with Ben Ferguson.
Speaker 4: Good Tuesday morning. It's Ben Ferguson with you. It's nice
Speaker 4: to have you on the forty seven Morning Update. And
Speaker 4: here are the big stories we're talking about today. First up,
Speaker 4: Donald Trump not taking the bait from the media, backing
Speaker 4: Elon Musk email to government employees, asked him, what did
Speaker 4: you do in the last week at work. I have
Speaker 4: the details on that in a moment. Also, you may
Speaker 4: remember the Keystone Pipeline. Democrats did everything they could do
Speaker 4: to shut it down and it costs countless people their
Speaker 4: jobs in this country. Well, now Donald Trump has a
Speaker 4: plan to bring the Keystone Pipeline back. And finally Marco
Speaker 4: Rubio says enough already ripping the United Nations and many
Speaker 4: of the warhawks, they're keeping the war going between Russia
Speaker 4: and Ukraine. It's the forty seven Morning Update and it starts.
Speaker 3: Right now, story number one.
Speaker 4: On Saturday, Elon Musk, who was appointed by President Donald
Speaker 4: Trump to lead the Department of Government Efficiency known as DOGE,
Speaker 4: issued an email to all federal employees with a subject line,
Speaker 4: what did you do last week?
Speaker 5: Now?
Speaker 4: The email requested that employees submit a list of five
Speaker 4: accomplishments from the previous week by eleven fifty nine pm
Speaker 4: on Monday night. Must stated that non responses would be
Speaker 4: considered resignations. This directive led to quote widespread confusion the media,
Speaker 4: states and resistance across various federal agencies trying to find
Speaker 4: a crack in the armor with Donald Trump and Elon
Speaker 4: Musk to start a war between the two men. Well,
Speaker 4: the President made it pretty clear he wants to know
Speaker 4: who's even reading their emails. Well, I'm put pushing back
Speaker 4: on you, not on Elon Musk or his email DOGE.
Speaker 5: Then do you think that DOGE could benefit from more
Speaker 5: streamline communications?
Speaker 6: There was that email telling employees to give five things
Speaker 6: that they've done last week.
Speaker 1: Agency heads then.
Speaker 6: Told people to ignore it.
Speaker 2: But the last email that was sent where he wanted
Speaker 2: to know what you did this week, you know why.
Speaker 1: You wanted that.
Speaker 2: By the way, I thought it was great because we
Speaker 2: have people that don't show up to work and nobody
Speaker 2: even knows if they work for the government. So by
Speaker 2: asking the question tell us what you did this week,
Speaker 2: what he's doing is saying are you actually working? And
Speaker 2: then if you don't answer, like you're sort of semi
Speaker 2: fired or you're fired because a lot of people are
Speaker 2: not answering because they don't even exist. They're trying to
Speaker 2: find That's how badly various parts of our government were
Speaker 2: run by it, especially by this last group. So what
Speaker 2: they're doing is they're trying to find out who's working
Speaker 2: for the government. Are we paying other people that aren't working?
Speaker 1: And you know where's all that? Where's the money gun some.
Speaker 6: Of the Asians.
Speaker 2: So I think it was actually there was a lot
Speaker 2: of genius in sending it. We're trying to find out
Speaker 2: if people are working, and so with sending a letter
Speaker 2: to people, please tell us what you did last week,
Speaker 2: if people don't respond, it's very possible that there is
Speaker 2: no such person or they're not working.
Speaker 7: Some of the agency heads instructed their employees not to
Speaker 7: respond because they were waiting on further guidance, but Elon
Speaker 7: Musk's tweet said a failure to respond would be taken
Speaker 7: as a resignation.
Speaker 5: So there's been a disconnect in communications.
Speaker 3: Are you concerned all that?
Speaker 1: Oh wait, no, no, no, that was done in a
Speaker 1: friendly manner.
Speaker 2: Only things such as perhaps Marco at State Department where
Speaker 2: they have very confidential things, or the FBI where they're
Speaker 2: working on confidential things. And they don't mean that in
Speaker 2: any way combatively with Elon. They're just saying there are
Speaker 2: some people that you don't want to really have them
Speaker 2: tell you what they're working on. But other than that,
Speaker 2: I think everyone thought it was a pretty ingenious and
Speaker 2: we have to find out where these people are.
Speaker 1: Who are they?
Speaker 2: He said, If you don't respond, we assume you're not around.
Speaker 6: And that holds that stance, and.
Speaker 2: You're not getting paid anymore too. So you know, we're
Speaker 2: doing a real job. And we just had a poll
Speaker 2: come out, I guess the Harvard poll saying that it's
Speaker 2: massively popular what we're doing.
Speaker 4: The polls are saying that Donald Trump has this support
Speaker 4: of the American people. How do we know this? A
Speaker 4: new Harvard Harris poll has come out saying that fifty
Speaker 4: eight percent of Americans say that Donald Trump is doing
Speaker 4: a better job than Biden. Eighty one percent say they
Speaker 4: support deporting criminal aliens, Seventy six percent support eliminating fraud, waste,
Speaker 4: and abuse in our government, seventy six percent support closing
Speaker 4: the US border, seventy percent support merit based hiring instead
Speaker 4: of just government quotas, sixty one percent support reciprocal tariffs,
Speaker 4: and sixty percent think that DOGE is helping tremendously in
Speaker 4: this country. So if you were thinking the President was
Speaker 4: going to back down, or Elon Musk was going to
Speaker 4: back down, or they're some sort of war between the two, well,
Speaker 4: the media keeps lying to you, and they keep getting
Speaker 4: busted lying to you each and every day by this administration.
Speaker 3: Now story number two.
Speaker 4: Seven years ago, Donald Trump said in the Oval Office
Speaker 4: and promised that the Keystone XL pipeline was going to
Speaker 4: be built to lower costs for American families and also
Speaker 4: so that we would have energy independence. Fast forward seven
Speaker 4: years later, and the President is still working on the
Speaker 4: project that Democrats have done everything they can do to
Speaker 4: stop it. So what did the President say seven years ago?
Speaker 4: Here he is in his own words.
Speaker 1: Canada will finally be allowed to complete this long old
Speaker 1: d project with efficiency and with speed. We're working out
Speaker 1: the final details as we speak. It's going to be
Speaker 1: an incredible pipeline, greatest technology known demand or a woman,
Speaker 1: and frankly, we're very proud of him. Russ Curling, President
Speaker 1: of France Canada, is right behind me, and I'm gonna
Speaker 1: have to say a few words.
Speaker 6: I know, Russ, you've been waiting for a long long time,
Speaker 6: and I hope you don't pay your consultants anything because
Speaker 6: they had nothing to do with the approval.
Speaker 2: In fact, you should ask for the hundreds of millions
Speaker 2: of dollars back that you paid that because they didn't
Speaker 2: do a damn thing except to get you a no vote.
Speaker 5: Right.
Speaker 6: It's a great day for American jobs, at a historic
Speaker 6: moment for North America and energy independence. This announcement is
Speaker 6: part of a new era of American energy policy that
Speaker 6: will lower costs for American families.
Speaker 4: Seven years ago, the President made that statement. Democrats did
Speaker 4: everything they could, as I mentioned earlier, to stop it.
Speaker 4: So what is the president saying now? Donald Trump putting
Speaker 4: out a statement on Monday that he wants the Keystone
Speaker 4: EXL pipeline, which was opposed for years by activists fighting
Speaker 4: against climate change, to be built. The pipeline, which was
Speaker 4: proposed in eight to bring oil from Canada's western Tarsans
Speaker 4: to US refined and was halted in twenty twenty one
Speaker 4: by the owner TC Energy Corps after Democratic President Joe
Speaker 4: Biden revoked a key permit needed for a US stretch
Speaker 4: of the project. Our country is doing really well, and
Speaker 4: today I was just thinking that the company behind the
Speaker 4: Keystone Exo pipeline that was viciously jettison by the incompetent
Speaker 4: Biden administration should come back to America and get it built. Now.
Speaker 4: I know they were treated very badly by sleepy Joe Biden,
Speaker 4: but the Trump administration is very different. Easy approvals, almost
Speaker 4: immediate start. If not, then perhaps another pipeline company. We
Speaker 4: want the Keystone Exo pipeline built, Trump said on Truth
Speaker 4: Social Now the President has said yet again that he
Speaker 4: believes that energy independence is one of the most important
Speaker 4: things to lowering inflation and helping the American family be
Speaker 4: able to survive day to day. This is something that
Speaker 4: the Democrats didn't care about how much you suffered, and
Speaker 4: they wanted you to pay a lot for gas at
Speaker 4: the pump. They wanted you to pay a lot for
Speaker 4: natural gas. They wanted you to suffer and to bow
Speaker 4: to their wishes for a green new deal. Donald Trump
Speaker 4: making it clear now America is open for business, including
Speaker 4: the Keystone XL pipeline.
Speaker 3: And finally, story number three, one.
Speaker 4: Of the things that's really important that we are going
Speaker 4: to be covering on this show each and every day
Speaker 4: is when there is clearly propaganda that is being used
Speaker 4: against the Trump administration. This may be one of the
Speaker 4: biggest flashpoints so far. In the first six weeks of
Speaker 4: his administration, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution
Speaker 4: condemning Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Ninety three countries voted in favor,
Speaker 4: eighteen against, including the United States and Russia. Now, this
Speaker 4: immediately turned into propaganda, anti American propaganda, anti Trump propaganda,
Speaker 4: saying that Donald Trump is now siding with Russia. It's
Speaker 4: easy to buy into that headline if you don't actually
Speaker 4: understand the story or why the American government decided to
Speaker 4: say no to condemning Russia at the United Nations. Marco Rubio,
Speaker 4: Secretary of State, ripped the United Nations as antagonistic and
Speaker 4: warmongers trying to keep the Ukraine Russia war continuing on
Speaker 4: and on forever. I want you to hear what the
Speaker 4: Secretary of State said about this vote so that you
Speaker 4: understand the real story behind it.
Speaker 5: Take a listen of news today. Are the United States
Speaker 5: voted against a europe led resolution at the United Nations
Speaker 5: to condemn Russia for the invasion of Ukraine, and then
Speaker 5: later a US led resolution passed the Security Council. Talk
Speaker 5: to us what happened there?
Speaker 7: Yeah, well, on the broader resolution, we think the UN
Speaker 7: needs to get if it's going to be useful in
Speaker 7: the twenty first century. The UN needs to get back
Speaker 7: to its charter mission, which is the prevention and the
Speaker 7: ending of war and conflict. And so we felt everyone knows.
Speaker 7: You know, you can go back and read the newspaper
Speaker 7: articles over the last three years and figure out what
Speaker 7: happened in Ukraine. But now, as the President's made very clear,
Speaker 7: President Trump wants to end this war. He thinks far
Speaker 7: too many people have died and he wants to bring
Speaker 7: it to an end. So we didn't feel it was conducive, frankly,
Speaker 7: to have something out there at the UN that's antagonistic
Speaker 7: against either side. We're trying to get these guys to
Speaker 7: the table, and unfortunately Ukraine didn't agree. They wanted to
Speaker 7: move forward on theirs. We then went to the Security
Speaker 7: Council with our compromise, which I think is a very
Speaker 7: fair language, and it basically says war is a terrible thing.
Speaker 7: I mean, I'm paraphrasing and I'm being simplistic, but it
Speaker 7: says war is a terrible thing. Way too many people
Speaker 7: have died. This war needs to end in a way
Speaker 7: that's enduring, an essence echoing President Trump's view of what
Speaker 7: this conflict needs to be and reminding the United Nations
Speaker 7: at the purpose of the United Nations was the prevention
Speaker 7: of war and the ending of conflicts, not making it
Speaker 7: harder to end conflicts. So I thought it was good
Speaker 7: that we got it done at the Security Council. The
Speaker 7: Russians didn't veto it, which is a good sign. I'm
Speaker 7: not telling you that that is going to end this conflict,
Speaker 7: and I can't wait till at least the Phonic is there,
Speaker 7: because it'd be great to have her leadership. But I
Speaker 7: certainly think our language is better language, and hopefully further
Speaker 7: is the cause of peace.
Speaker 5: President Trump today alongside French President Emanuel Macron, said that
Speaker 5: he hopes that this can be resolved in a matter
Speaker 5: of weeks, not months. Weeks. What are some of the
Speaker 5: major steps that we need to take to get to
Speaker 5: that point.
Speaker 7: Well, I think the President would want it to end yesterday, right.
Speaker 7: He thinks already too many people have died, There's been
Speaker 7: too much destruction. By the way, I think everybody should
Speaker 7: be very happy that President Trump is a peace president.
Speaker 7: We have a president that wants to end wars, not
Speaker 7: start new ones. He wants to end human suffering, not
Speaker 7: exacerbated or extended. Now that said, it's a conflict, it's
Speaker 7: a war, and it's going back and forth. We got
Speaker 7: to get them both to the table, starting with the Russians.
Speaker 7: So we met with them last week and the basic
Speaker 7: question of that meeting was are you interested in ending
Speaker 7: this conflict or not? A lot of people don't know
Speaker 7: the answer to that. If you talked to some in Europe,
Speaker 7: they'll tell you that Putin is not interested in ending
Speaker 7: the war. They said they would be under the right conditions.
Speaker 7: We didn't discuss what those conditions were. So the next
Speaker 7: step now is to meet with them again at some
Speaker 7: point with the right group of people in the room,
Speaker 7: and begin to outline what would it take for Russia
Speaker 7: to stop a war. And obviously we got to ask
Speaker 7: Ukraine the same question, because you can't stop a war
Speaker 7: unless both sides agree to it. So whether it takes
Speaker 7: days or weeks or what have you, we're going to
Speaker 7: begin that process. It may not work out, But why
Speaker 7: would anybody criticize President Trump for wanting to end a
Speaker 7: war that's cost billions of dollars, hundreds of thousands of lives,
Speaker 7: and tremendous and ongoing human suffering.
Speaker 4: You listen to what Marco Rubio said there, and now
Speaker 4: you understand exactly why they decided to not try to
Speaker 4: antagonize two countries. You're wanting to get to the table
Speaker 4: to end the war. Now, the media is not going
Speaker 4: to tell you this part of the story. They're not
Speaker 4: gonna play for you what I just played from you
Speaker 4: for Marco Rubio. And this is exactly why I say,
Speaker 4: I hope you take the information that I give you
Speaker 4: every day here and you give it to others that
Speaker 4: you know, because without all of us telling the story,
Speaker 4: the media will continue to lie and.
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