Our coal areas are going to be opened up for clean, beautiful coal. They tried wind, which is a disaster, stangerous in the oceans in terms of navigation. And if you look at what's happening with Wales, you know in one area, two whales like in twenty years washed ashore and this year they had seventeen wash ashore. So there's something happened out there. There's something driving the whales a little bit loc.
You're listening to the forty seven Morning Update with Ben Ferguson.
Good Thursday morning. Ben Ferguson with you. It's so nice to have you on the forty seven Morning Update. And these are the big three stories that you need to know about. First up, Pete Headseth is responding to the liberal media attacks to their face over what they've designated as Signal Gate, and you do not want to miss what he has to say. Also, ICE agents detained six hundred plus criminal illegals in a single week in Houston, Texas. Yet liberal cities are still defying the law and Donald
Trump will have the latest on that. And finally, Donald Trump says I'm not messing around yet again, announcing twenty five percent tariff on cars not made in the US. This the beginning, he says, of Liberation Day in America. It's the forty seven morning update, and it starts right now.
Story number one.
It is a media firestorm as the organizing of the Democratic Party and state sponsored media are coming together for what is now being dubbed as Signal Gate. Yes, there was, in fact a journalist who is inadvertently put on a text message group with many members of the Trump team. But what they're saying about what was said on those
texts is still a big lie. And that is exactly why Pete Edgseth came out and made it very clear to the media to their faces that no units, no locations were shared on the signal chat, the Defense Secretary insisting that he did not share classified plans through a
signal group, and the Trump administration officials did nothing wrong. Yes, there was the Atlantics Jeffrey Goldberg, who was inadvertently added to that chat, and he has done nothing more than release details and go on TV and say there's a big scandal. But the reality is they were not in fact war plans. Here is Peete, in his own words, talking directly to these reporters and the American people, Gofile.
Dave, when we're on the road talking to the troops and actually in real time re establishing deterrence. You see, that's what President Trump has charged the Defense Department with doing, reviving the warrior ethos, rebuilding the military, which we're doing in real time, and re establishing deterrence. And that's why we're heading out into the Indo Pacific to talk to
our allies and partners and meet with the troops. So you see, under the Biden administration, we let our troops and our ships and both warships and commercial ships get shot at to no consequence. What does that look like? That looks like weakness. And what President Trump has said is peace through strength is back. We will re establish deterrence. That's not acceptable. And our ongoing campaign against the Houthis
has been devastatingly effective. Now, as I said to this group a couple of times on this trip, now, as we moved to the Indo Pacific to do our job, which is what we're here to do, nobody's texting war plans.
Well, I noticed this morning out came.
Something that doesn't look like war plans. And as a matter of fact. They even change the title to attack plans because they know it's not war plans. There's no units, no locations, no routes, no flight paths, no sources, no methods, no classified information. You know who sees war plans? I see them every single day. I looked at them this morning. I looked at attack plans this morning. You know who
does attack plans and war plans. Men like that Admiral right there, Paparo for the Indo Pacific or Eric Carilla are general in Sentcom. They do attack plans and war plans, and thank god, we have those leaders who do it and do it well, and our enemies know it. My job, as it said at top of that, everybody's seen it now, Team Update, is to provide updates in real time, general updates in real time, keep everybody informed. That's what I did. That's my job. The war fighters will take the fight
to the enemy, and I love what they do. And with President Trump's leadership, our enemies are on notice. We will have peace through strength and we'll keep putting our troops first.
Now, if you listen to what he actually said, and you look at what he's telling you in his words, as a matter of fact, they even change the title to quote attack plans. There's no units, there's no locations, there's no routes, there's no flight pass there's no sources, there's no methods, there's no classified information. And what the Defense Secretary was making it clear, is it. Yes, they took tech messages and then they made them bigger than
they actually are as he described it. Yeah, I see war plans every single day, but he is not the person who devises them either, Yet again showing that the media is lying to the American people. And let's not forget why they were having to actually do this attack. It is actually because of the inaction of the Biden administration who refused to protect American ships and the shipping channel, and that is exactly why the Trump administration was forced
to act in the first place. Now, to be clear, Democrats are going to try to turn this into the biggest story they can because it's their job with a Democratic party, obviously, to try to lie to the American people and deceive them instead of giving them the actual facts.
Just like you heard there from the Defense Secretary. Next story number two, there are two Americas right now, and depending on where you're listening to me right now, you know that you're either in a city that is cooperating with ICE or you're in a sanctuary city that is refusing to hand over hardened criminals. They're a threat to society to ICE agents, by the way, also in violation
of the law. Tom Homan went on Fox News Channel to explain exactly how bad it is in many of the Democratic cities.
So Tom, just to get into some of the specific series. So you got these folks that had already been charged with this, which our agents were asking, keep these guys behind bars and we'll go pick them up. But many of these criminals got charged and they were released back on the street.
Right, yeah, surely right. In one case, I looked at Lawrence. One case, there's a child rape. He was released two years ago without on our retainer. It took us two years to find this person. So how many children did he attack the last two years? All we're asking for is let our agents in the jail where you lock somebody up and let us arrest them there when you're done with them, rather than really something back in the public and making a public safety issue out of it.
You listen to Tom Holman, there all we're asking for is to let our ICE agents into the jail and arrest these criminals when they're done with them. Referring to locales, many liberal cities and states are still refusing to comply with the federal laws and refusing to work with ICE agents. So what is happening in cities right now where the city is choosing to work with the federal government and just how many illegal immigrant criminals they're getting off the
streets that are violent. Let me give you an example of Houston, Texas. ICE agents have now released that they detained more than six hundred criminal illegals in a single week. Yes, the agents recently detained the more than three hunder criminal legals in Greater Houston in a seven day period. ICE arrested six hundred and forty six non citizens during an operation from February to twenty third to March the second, including five hundred and forty three aliens with criminal charges
and seven alleged to be gang members. The five hundred and forty three detainees all entered the US illegally and quote have been charged or convicted of a criminal offense while they are illegally present in the country. Those taken to custody included one hundred and forty charges or convicted for an aggravated felony or other violent offenses such as homicide,
aggravate assault, or domestic violence. In addition, thirty four of those attained are criminal aliens charged or convicted of a sex offense or child sex offense such as aggravated sexual assault of a minor, possession of child pornography, or rape. The Director of ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations Field Office in Houston said the agency executed seventy one criminal arrest warrants as part of the seven day long targeted operation.
ICE coordinated with other federal and state agencies to pull off the six hundred and forty six attentions. Among those involved were US Customs and Border Protection, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, the FBI, and the Drug Enforcement Administration. In a press release, they said out after illegally entering the country, many of these criminal aliens have gone on to commit violent crime and reign terror on law a
bodying residents in the Houston area. Fueled by our unwavering commitment to protect the public from harm and united in our determination to restore integrity to our nation systems of laws. ICE and our law enforcement partners in Southeast Texas have banned together to remove these dangerous criminal aliens from our local communities and put an end to the lawlessness that they spread. So there are, in fact two different Americas
right now. There are cities like Houston that are using every avenue of government and law enforcement to work together to get rid of these violent criminals and rapists. And then there are liberal cities that are refusing to hand over these violent criminals to the federal government. Now, the big question becomes what is the president going to do to go after these cities that are obviously putting Americans in harm's way.
And lastly, story number three.
President Donald Trump has made good on a promise announce a twenty five percent tariff on all automobiles not manufactured in the United States, a move aim to revitalize domestic car production and protect American jobs. He is framing the decision as a key step towards economic independence and national strength. Trump emphasizing the importance of bringing automotive manufacturing back to
American soil. Supporters of the tariff for making it clear this could lead to major resurgences in US auto jobs, spur investment in American factories, and level the playing field with foreign competitors who have long benefited from low production costs and trade advantages. Industry insiders are already reporting interests from automakers and expanding US based operations to avoid the new Levy quote. This is about putting America first. Trump set here's more of the present in his own words.
Oh, this is the beginning of liberation Day in America. We're going to take back just some of the money that has been taken from us by people sitting behind this desk or another desk that's not quite as nice, but they have their choice of seven, as you know. And we're going to charge countries for doing business in our country and taking our jobs, taking our wealth, taking a lot of things that they've been taken over the years.
They've taken so much out of our country. Friend and foe, and frankly, friend has been oftentimes much worse than FAE. And this is very modest. What we're going to be doing is a twenty five percent tariff on all cars that are not made in the United States. If they're
made in the United States, is absolutely not terror. We start off with a two and a hared percent base, which is what we were at, and we go to twenty five percent, and basically, as you know, and as you've been seeing not reporting as accurately as it should be reported, because it's a massive story, business is coming back to the United States so that they don't have to pay tariffs.
Now, economists are very excited about the President's new policy, suggesting by the way that tariffs could reduce the trade deficit and bolster related sectors such as steel, glass, and electronics for many in manufacturing hubs. They also say, like Michigan and Ohio, the move represents hope for the return
to prosperity and industrial pride. Now, the clear point the President is sending is that we are open for business and he is putting American workers ahead of foreign cheap labor, and that's good for all Americans in this country.
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