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Speaker 2: You're listening to the forty seven Morning Update with Ben ferguson.

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Speaker 3: Good Monday morning. It's nice to have you with us

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Speaker 3: on the forty seven Morning Update, and we've got three

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Speaker 3: blockbuster stories for you. First up, Joe Biden announces the

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Speaker 3: diagnosis of prostate cancer. When did this happen and was

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Speaker 3: there actually a cover up to conceal it from you,

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Speaker 3: the American voter. We'll have the latest on that in

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Speaker 3: just a second. Up next, the her audio has finally

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Speaker 3: been released, and it's more damning than we could have

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Speaker 3: In fact, there's now new accusations that there was five

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Speaker 3: Update and it starts right now, story number one. In

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Speaker 3: a shocking statement coming from the Biden family, former President

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Speaker 3: Joe Biden has been diagnosed with prostate cancer that is

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Speaker 3: former President's cancer appears to be hormone sensitive, saying this

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Speaker 3: last week, President Joe Biden was seen for a new

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Speaker 3: reviewing treatment options with his physicians now. The President's statement

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Speaker 3: Describing how some in Biden's world justified propping him up

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Speaker 3: an effort to undermine democracy and defraud the American people. So, yes,

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Speaker 3: the cover up was massive. Yes we had someone running

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Speaker 3: an investigation. We'll keep covering it right here.

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