Canada Blinks First on Tariffs, Ukraine Agrees to Ceasefire, Trump Goes Car Shopping： AM Update 3⧸12
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A crucial step in the peace process, Ukraine agrees to a ceasefire, now it s up to the Russians to take the next step toward peace. The left erupts over the deportation of Columbia University agitator Mahmoud Khalil, and President Trump goes car shopping.
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Good morning, everyone. I'm Megyn Kelly. It's Wednesday, March 12th, 2025, and this is your
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AM update. President Trump believes in reciprocity and all he's asking for at the end of the day
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are fair and balanced trade practices. Canada backs down in the tariff standoff as Ontario's
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leader cancels a planned retaliatory measure. This after President Trump's threat to double
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tariffs on steel and aluminum. Hopefully, President Putin will agree to that also.
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And we can get this show on the road. A crucial step in the peace process,
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Ukraine agrees to a ceasefire. Now it's up to the Russians to take the next step toward peace.
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The left erupts over the deportation of Columbia University agitator Mahmoud Khalil,
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and President Trump goes car shopping. All that and more coming up in just a moment on your AM update.
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ready. The House passes the continuing resolution funding the government for the next six months.
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The bill passing Tuesday evening on a nearly party-line vote, 217 to 213. Kentucky Congressman
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Thomas Massey following through on his promise to vote against the bill. In response, President
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Trump calling to primary Congressman Massey, a move receiving mixed reactions on the right.
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Speaker Johnson on Tuesday saying he is in the business of defending the incumbent despite his
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disagreement with Mr. Massey on the CR. The bill now moves to the Senate, where it faces complete
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Democrat opposition. It does require 60 votes to pass. Republicans only account for 52 yes votes,
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as Kentucky Senator Rand Paul, a Republican, says he is also a no. The deadline is 11.59 p.m. on Friday,
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Ontario Premier, which is like a governor, Doug Ford, backing down almost immediately on a 25%
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electricity surcharge on roughly 1.5 million residents of New York, Michigan, and Minnesota.
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On Tuesday morning, Mr. Ford played tough, slapping on the surcharge in response to Mr. Trump's 25%
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tariff on Canada, meant to encourage a crackdown on fentanyl. Mr. Ford saying Americans needed to,
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We will not back down. We will be relentless. I apologize to the American people that President
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Trump decided to have an unprovoked attack on our country, on families, on jobs, and it's unacceptable.
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In response to Mr. Ford's threats, President Trump announcing he would increase aluminum and steel
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tariffs on Canada to 50%. Within a matter of hours, Mr. Ford backed down, reversing the surcharge,
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saying he will meet with Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick on Thursday in Washington to further discuss
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tariffs and trade. Press Secretary Caroline Levitt addressing the matter on Tuesday.
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The president is, again, responding to the fact that Canada has been ripping off the United States
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of America and hardworking Americans for decades. If you look at the rates of tariffs across the board
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that Canadians have been imposing on the American people and our workers here, it is egregious.
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American cheese and butter, nearly 300% tariff. President Trump believes in reciprocity,
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and it is about dang time that we have a president who actually looks out for the interests of American
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businesses and workers. And all he's asking for at the end of the day are fair and balanced trade
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practices. Markets struggling under the tariff turf wars. The Dow Jones closing Tuesday with a 1.1% drop,
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the S&P 500 with a 0.8% decline, and the Nasdaq with a 0.2% fall. Each of the three indices marking
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their worst two-day drop since August. Ms. Levitt responding to concerns.
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First of all, when it comes to the stock market, the numbers that we see today, the numbers we saw
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yesterday, the numbers we will see tomorrow are a snapshot of a moment in time. We are in a period
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of economic transition. We are in a period of transition from the mess that was created under
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Joe Biden in the previous administration. Joe Biden left this country in an economic disaster.
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In the first Trump administration, success was measured by markets. This time around,
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the president urging Americans to be patient, as he says the short-term suffering will be worth
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the long-term gains. Despite generally negative attitudes in the media, the Trump tariffs on
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Canada and Mexico are making inroads toward the president's goal of reducing fentanyl trafficking
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into the U.S. Just ask the New York Times. Yes, the New York Times is the daily podcast
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embedding with Mexican fentanyl producers to report on the impact of increased government
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enforcement efforts. And listen to this. They said, no, we shut everything down. There is such an
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intense crackdown by the government right now, and we're under so much scrutiny and pressure that
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we're not cooking anything. We're trying to sell our cars and other property to try to make up for
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lost income because nothing is going on here. I mean, obviously, the threat of military intervention
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in any way, even if it's just targeted strikes, is anathema in Mexico. But the threat of tariffs has
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long seemed much more credible. I have to say, of the two, I think the tariff threat is the one that
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really spurs the action. Unlike heroin made from poppies and cocaine made from cocoa leaves,
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fentanyl is a fully synthetic drug made from chemicals. Producing the drug is relatively easy
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and labs can be set up almost anywhere, which is why up until now, it has been such a lucrative
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option for cartels. President Scheinbaum ramping up police activity, making hundreds of arrests
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throughout Mexico, including of senior cartel officers. The Daily reporting genuine fear among
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higher level cartel members. His hands are trembling in front of us. And he said, the only option for me
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right now is survival. No, we're not cooking. No, we're not making fentanyl. The main thing that has
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changed from when you were here last is that Trump is in office and he's making all of these threats
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and the Mexican government is cracking down like never before. Fentanyl is the leading cause of drug
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overdoses in America. More than 450,000 Americans have died of synthetic opioid overdoses in the last
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10 years. While that number is on a year to year decline, last year, synthetic opioids like fentanyl
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claimed 55,126 American lives, according to the CDC. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Tuesday
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announcing a major update on negotiations with the Ukrainians toward a peace deal.
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Today, we made an offer that the Ukrainians have accepted, which is to enter into a ceasefire
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and into immediate negotiations to end this conflict in a way that's enduring and sustainable
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and accounts for their interests, their security, their ability to prosper as a nation. We'll take
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this offer now to the Russians and we hope that they'll say yes, that they'll say yes to peace.
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The ball is now in their court. This marks a dramatic shift for the Ukrainians who previously
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resisted a ceasefire until the U.S. was willing to provide security guarantees. Kiev agrees to a
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30-day ceasefire and in exchange, the U.S. will lift the pause on sharing military and intelligence
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aid with Ukraine. CBS News reporting the unfrozen military aid includes about $1 billion in equipment
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approved under the Biden administration. The agreement also says Ukrainian President Volodymyr
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Zelensky and President Trump will sign the minerals deal as soon as possible. President Trump
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responding optimistically Tuesday afternoon. Hopefully, President Putin will agree to that
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also and we can get this show on the road. It's a big difference between the last visit you saw at
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the Oval Office. That's a total ceasefire. Ukraine has agreed to it and hopefully Russia will agree to it.
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Special Envoy Steve Witkoff will be traveling to Russia to present the deal to the Kremlin.
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A hearing set today in the deportation case of former Columbia University student and campus
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agitator Mahmoud Khalil. Mr. Khalil arrested by ICE on Saturday afternoon after his green card
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was revoked. His deportation paused by a federal judge pending a further hearing. The arrest igniting
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a firestorm on the left and some on the right even questioning it, framing it as a free speech issue
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with Mr. Khalil, the victim of an authoritarian regime.
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This is extremely unprecedented. The government has not provided evidence that Khalil was in any way
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cooperating, working with Hamas. The idea that he is an extremist or violence is preposterous to anyone
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who knows him. This is the kind of thing that we are accustomed to seeing really in the world's most
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repressive regimes. This is the kind of thing that you would expect in a place like China or Egypt
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or something like that. Mr. Khalil currently held in a Louisiana detention facility. Cornell immigration
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law professor Jacqueline Kelly Widmer tells the AP green card holders do not need to be convicted of
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something to be removable when the offending action relates to terrorism. The White House stating the
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decision was made following this man's role in organizing last year's violent and disruptive
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anti-Israel protests at Columbia. This is an individual who organized group protests that not
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only disrupted college campus classes and harassed Jewish American students and made them feel unsafe
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on their own college campus, but also distributed pro-Hamas propaganda. And this administration is not
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going to tolerate individuals having the privilege of studying in our country and then siding with
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pro-terrorist organizations that have killed Americans. The New York Post reporting Mr. Khalil
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was born in Syria in 1995 and briefly served as a political affairs officer with the UN's Relief and
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Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees. Multiple reports in 2024 revealed ties between that group and
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Hamas, a group the U.S. recognizes as a terrorist organization, ultimately leading the Biden administration
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to cut funding for this UN group. As a Columbia student, Mr. Khalil served as a student negotiator
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for the Columbia University Apartheid Divest group. The New York Post reports that group, quote,
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sympathizes with terror groups like Hamas and Hezbollah and calls for the end of Western civilization,
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end quote. The Columbia group's public Instagram showing hundreds of images calling for disruptive
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student actions. Dozens of photos showing men and women donning Palestinian cafeas. A cartoon image
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of a young black child throwing a Molotov cocktail. Captioned, resist all colonial powers, resist white
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supremacy. Another advertising a protesting skills seminar. One advertising a vigil titled,
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all martyrs have a name. The Trump administration has vowed to crack down on illegal protesting,
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saying Mr. Khalil is just the first of many to come.
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Columbia University has been given the names of other individuals who have engaged in pro-Hamas
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activity, and they are refusing to help DHS identify those individuals on campus. And as
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the president said very strongly in his statement yesterday, he is not going to tolerate that.
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The Trump administration has already cut $400 million in funding to the university.
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Coming up, President Trump goes car shopping, and the media is suspiciously silent on one of their
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Four Tesla cyber trucks torched in Seattle. The suspect and motive not yet identified,
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though it follows a similar pattern across the country, of attacks against Elon Musk's electric
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car company. In North Charleston last week, a masked vandal spray-painted F-Trump long-live Ukraine
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near Tesla charging stations before launching Molotov cocktails at the station. The local NBC outlet
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reporting witnesses say the suspect caught his own back on fire while fleeing the scene. In Manhattan,
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protesters gathered outside a Tesla showroom in the swanky West Village, chanting against Elon Musk's
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involvement with Doge and the Trump administration. These incidents, just a few examples of similar
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disturbances and disruptions against Tesla locations in recent weeks. President Trump backing
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Elon Musk on Tuesday with the purchase of a brand new Tesla.
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I'm going to buy because, number one, it's a great product, as good as it gets. And number two,
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because this man has devoted his energy and his life to doing this. I think he's been treated very
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unfairly by a very small group of people. Because he's able to find billions and billions and billions
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of dollars of fraud and waste and all of the things. I mean, our country is going to be very strong very
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soon because of a lot of the things that he's done. Despite increasing competition, Tesla leads
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the U.S. electric vehicle market with approximately 49 percent of sales. In second place, Ford at just
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8 percent of recent sales. Egg prices making like Humpty Dumpty and having a great fall. Average
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prices falling by nearly $2 a dozen, now cheaper than when President Trump took office. Egg prices
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have been steadily rising over the past several years due to increasing inflation and widespread outbreaks
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of avian flu. Under the Biden administration, prices increased by 22 percent and kept rising under
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President Trump. The drop in prices coming two weeks after Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins
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announced a $1 billion investment aimed at reducing egg costs. And just days after the DOJ launched an
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investigation into egg producers for alleged price fixing and market manipulation. Secretary Rollins
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telling Fox Business the work is just getting started. We're seeing some relief. We've got a long way to
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go. Listen, combating the avian bird flu is not something that we can do overnight. It is a long
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term effort. But the Biden administration, this was a major problem that they had two years ago.
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They talked about it. They wrote some plans about it. And then nothing ever happened. So I think that
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it's really important to know and for your viewers that we are on it. We have a major plan we've rolled
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out. As you mentioned, it's got five different points. But the really piece of at least right now
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today, good news is that the price of eggs seem to be coming down. Forbes reporting the avian flu
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outbreak began in February 2022. Since then, an estimated 166 million chickens have been culled
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under USDA policy. The administration's plan increases funding for biosecurity measures to
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prevent further spread of the flu and increases funding to replace lost chicken populations,
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among other measures. The increasing cost of eggs, a major focus for Democrats and the media
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since January 20th. This president ran on lowering the cost of groceries, gas, rent and eggs on day
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one. It has been a huge betrayal of that one promise that he made to the American people.
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We have corruption up, we have chaos up and we have costs up. Ask anyone in the egg aisle.
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So the price of eggs is up. Americans are struggling when it comes to the cost of eggs.
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After months of breathless reporting on high prices, the sudden decline doesn't seem to
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interest the media or Democrats. Go figure. And that'll do it for your AM Update. I'm Megan
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Kelly. Join me back here all week for our special series, Megan Kelly Investigates on the disappearance
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