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BONUS POD： AOC’s Protégé is NYC’s Future plus Oversight Committee Probes Biden’s Autopen Use


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Trump warns America about a communist lunatic running for NYC Mayor. A former Biden aide says she doesn t know who ordered President Biden's auto pen signatures. Plus, Crockett Coffee is giving you 20% off your first order.

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00:00:21.960 You're listening to the 47 Morning Update with Ben Ferguson. 0.85
00:00:25.940 Good Thursday morning.
00:00:26.860 It's so nice to have you with us on the 47 Morning Update.
00:00:29.740 And here are the two very big stories we have for you today.
00:00:32.800 First up, Donald Trump warning America about a 100% communist lunatic
00:00:38.800 that radicals in New York City have chosen to be their nominee to become the mayor.
00:00:44.440 Just how dangerous is this individual?
00:00:46.820 We'll break down what he believes in
00:00:48.860 and why Donald Trump is warning you that the Democratic Party is dead
00:00:52.820 and the communists, socialists, and Marxists have taken over.
00:00:57.100 Also, in shocking testimony before Congress that the media is not reporting on,
00:01:03.820 a former Biden aide says,
00:01:06.160 quote,
00:01:06.960 she does not know who ordered President Biden's auto pen signatures.
00:01:13.020 We'll give you the details on what all she said to Congress
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00:03:17.220 It's the 47 Morning Update, and it starts right now.
00:03:20.600 Story number one.
00:03:21.800 President Trump weighing in on the New York City mayor's race
00:03:25.560 where Mondani has had a big win.
00:03:28.580 Who is he? 0.99
00:03:29.680 As Trump described it, a 100% communist lunatic. 0.99
00:03:34.020 The president calling the New York City mayoral primary 0.98
00:03:37.020 a big moment in the history of our country.
00:03:40.020 And why?
00:03:40.980 Because of what is actually happening.
00:03:43.080 Now, I've been saying for quite some time
00:03:44.840 that I thought the Democratic Party was dead.
00:03:47.320 It's actually filled with Marxists, socialists, and communists.
00:03:50.900 Many of them too afraid to tell you the truth of who they are,
00:03:53.720 so they claim they're a Democrat.
00:03:55.540 But think back over the last 50 years.
00:03:58.300 Look at the leaders of the Democratic Party.
00:04:00.400 They were anti-communist crusaders.
00:04:02.700 In fact, even Catholic.
00:04:05.080 And what did they do?
00:04:06.140 Well, if you look at JFK,
00:04:08.240 he was a man that wanted to actually take America to outer space to be first.
00:04:13.380 Well, today, it's a foreign-born communist Muslim trans activist 0.70
00:04:18.200 who says he wants to defund the police that the Democratic Party is advocating for.
00:04:23.300 You have to ask yourself the question,
00:04:25.340 how did we get to this point where there was so much decay?
00:04:28.600 It's actually a pretty easy answer.
00:04:30.520 Democrats changed their voters by importing massive amounts of illegal immigrants 1.00
00:04:37.140 from third-world socialists and communist countries
00:04:40.300 and then appealing to their extremist ideologies that they grew up under.
00:04:45.060 They destroyed what the Democratic Party was.
00:04:48.260 And now what you see is a Democratic Party that is dead.
00:04:51.580 And the Democrats are the ones that actually killed it.
00:04:54.520 So what does this man actually believe?
00:04:56.900 Well, he's a 33-year-old Democratic socialist and a current state assemblyman in New York.
00:05:02.320 He is an individual that believes in, quote,
00:05:04.420 free public transit, buses, along with freezing subway fares.
00:05:09.240 He also wants a rent freeze,
00:05:11.320 taking away the rights of those that own property.
00:05:14.740 He wants city-run grocery stores in every bureau,
00:05:18.940 taking away the private sector so you'll have what they have in Russia or Venezuela
00:05:23.440 or any of the other socialists or communist countries around the world.
00:05:27.560 He is demanding $30 minimum wage as well and higher taxes,
00:05:31.960 saying it's time for the, quote, rich, you know, to pay their fair share,
00:05:36.100 increasing corporate tax plus a 2% city income tax surtax on all millionaires
00:05:42.380 to fund what he describes as universal child care.
00:05:45.640 He also wants there to be free transit and free housing.
00:05:50.600 Now, if you're an opponent of these radical ideas, like Donald Trump,
00:05:54.860 then you argue simply this.
00:05:57.420 Businesses are going to run for the hills.
00:05:59.640 It's going to destabilize New York's economy.
00:06:02.100 But that doesn't seem to matter to the socialists and the Marxists.
00:06:06.100 President Trump put it this way on True Social,
00:06:08.640 quote, we've had radical lefties before, 0.96
00:06:11.140 but this is getting a little ridiculous. 0.99
00:06:13.400 He looks terrible. 1.00
00:06:14.300 He's not very smart. 0.99
00:06:15.960 He's got AOC plus three dummies all backing him. 0.99
00:06:20.660 And even our great Palestinian senator, 0.95
00:06:23.360 crying Chuck Schumer, is groveling over him.
00:06:27.060 The Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer,
00:06:28.900 who's Jewish and is not of Palestinian heritage,
00:06:31.840 and the House Majority Leader Hakeem Jeffries,
00:06:34.400 now they said, who cares?
00:06:36.060 Both congratulating the radical socialists on Wednesday morning
00:06:39.320 and vowed to meet with state lawmakers.
00:06:41.520 Of course, they stopped short of, you know, endorsing him.
00:06:45.020 So here's the bottom line.
00:06:46.980 This man represents a rise,
00:06:49.300 a dramatic shift towards a bold progressive agenda in New York.
00:06:53.240 He's advocating sweeping reforms in transit,
00:06:56.160 housing, taxation, social services,
00:06:59.220 LGBTQ plus and trans health support
00:07:02.260 that you, the taxpayer, will pay for.
00:07:04.220 And he's proposed 65 million in funding for that alone.
00:07:07.600 Meanwhile, yet he says he's not an extremist.
00:07:11.240 He's just a man listening to the people.
00:07:13.320 Well, when you import millions of illegal immigrants into New York, 0.99
00:07:16.840 this is exactly what you get.
00:07:18.740 The ideology is extreme,
00:07:21.220 and the Democratic Party is dead.
00:07:23.640 I'll give you one example of what he had to say on MSNBC.
00:07:27.460 As he said, we built a campaign around one idea
00:07:30.360 to make New York City affordable again.
00:07:32.460 In translation, that means take from the rich
00:07:34.940 and give free stuff to the poor
00:07:36.840 that voted for him in the primary.
00:07:39.100 As I'm sure you know,
00:07:40.560 you probably haven't consumed all of it, I suppose,
00:07:42.880 but there's been a lot of analysis,
00:07:45.160 a ton, on what your success last night
00:07:48.640 and in the last couple of weeks
00:07:49.880 means nationally for the Democratic Party.
00:07:54.260 Unquestionably, it means something about how people campaign,
00:07:57.520 but what do you think it means?
00:07:58.800 I think it is part of a larger referendum on where our party goes,
00:08:03.260 and I think one of the hopes that we had
00:08:05.100 from the very beginning of this campaign
00:08:06.460 was to move our political instinct from lecturing to listening.
00:08:10.620 You know, at the national level after the presidential election,
00:08:13.300 we saw that New York was actually the state
00:08:15.340 with the largest swing in the country towards Donald Trump,
00:08:18.200 11 and a half points,
00:08:19.220 and that that swing took place far from the caricature of Trump voters,
00:08:22.600 instead taking place in the hearts of immigrant New York City.
00:08:25.900 And I went to those neighborhoods,
00:08:27.440 I went to Fordham Road in the Bronx
00:08:28.840 and Hillside Avenue in Queens,
00:08:30.480 and I asked those New Yorkers,
00:08:31.900 the vast majority of whom were Democrats,
00:08:33.900 why they voted for Trump
00:08:35.240 and what it would take to bring them back to the Democratic Party.
00:08:37.460 And again and again, what I heard from them
00:08:39.380 was cost of living,
00:08:41.280 was an inability to afford the very things
00:08:43.160 they recalled being able to purchase four years ago.
00:08:46.400 And when they told me what it would take,
00:08:48.080 they said again and again,
00:08:49.060 a relentless focus on an economic agenda.
00:08:51.160 And ultimately, in listening to them,
00:08:52.800 we built a campaign that was explicitly about making the city affordable.
00:08:57.260 And I think too often in politics,
00:08:59.040 there's a desire to impose what you think the debate is
00:09:02.260 upon the people that you're seeking to represent,
00:09:04.120 as opposed to listening to the very issues
00:09:06.360 that are making it difficult for them
00:09:08.840 to keep calling the city that they love,
00:09:10.340 the city that they live in.
00:09:11.220 You look at all of what he just said there,
00:09:13.540 and what you really have to go back to
00:09:15.440 is that one statement.
00:09:16.660 What I heard from them was cost of living
00:09:18.760 was an inability to afford the very things
00:09:21.880 they recalled being able to purchase four years ago.
00:09:24.380 So the response to that is,
00:09:25.920 we're going to take from the rich
00:09:27.520 and we're going to give to the poor.
00:09:29.460 But what really got them across the finish line is this.
00:09:32.920 Stephen Miller at the White House
00:09:34.300 putting this out on X saying,
00:09:35.680 quote,
00:09:36.100 to understand the pace and the scope
00:09:38.080 of migration to America in the past years,
00:09:40.860 one-third of New York City is now foreign-born,
00:09:44.620 and almost two-thirds of New York City children
00:09:47.420 live in a foreign-born household.
00:09:51.040 Yes, they've imported new voters into New York City.
00:09:54.380 This is how the Democratic Party
00:09:56.140 is planning on changing the entire country.
00:09:58.580 This is why they had open borders.
00:10:01.380 And this is why the Biden administration
00:10:03.680 allowed radicals to come into this country.
00:10:06.760 Or to put it another way,
00:10:07.880 take a listen to Jesse Waters on Fox.
00:10:10.860 It wasn't just what he was selling,
00:10:12.820 it was how he sold it, Jesse.
00:10:14.140 He is very prolific on social media,
00:10:16.820 especially TikTok.
00:10:18.000 And his mother is a film producer,
00:10:20.540 and many of his ads
00:10:21.700 and the things that they put up on social media
00:10:24.200 were very attractive.
00:10:25.420 They had the merch,
00:10:26.180 and it became like a vibe campaign,
00:10:28.200 which helped put him over the edge. 0.98
00:10:29.660 Yeah, well, you can't blame the blacks and Hispanics.
00:10:31.920 They voted for Cuomo. 0.99
00:10:32.980 You've got to blame the whites. 0.99
00:10:34.360 They wanted communism, and they got it.
00:10:36.240 They loved communism in college,
00:10:38.380 and then they graduated with no skills
00:10:40.600 and $200,000 in debt,
00:10:43.120 and they came into a city.
00:10:44.520 It's hard to get ahead with high prices.
00:10:46.440 So they see this kid on TikTok
00:10:47.900 talking about he's going to soak the rich,
00:10:50.020 and he's going to control prices,
00:10:51.980 and they say, that's my guy.
00:10:53.300 Okay, so he gets into the city, y'all,
00:10:55.120 and then what?
00:10:55.620 He's just going to attack the country,
00:10:57.480 cops and capitalism?
00:10:58.780 He's just going to cause more crime and chaos.
00:11:00.880 He's going to turn the prisons inside out,
00:11:03.360 and he's going to turn whole foods into no foods.
00:11:06.180 This is what happens when you let the wacky wing
00:11:08.920 of the Democrat Party run wild.
00:11:10.920 This is what the Democrat establishment's
00:11:13.000 been trying to keep a lid on for decades
00:11:15.240 since Occupy Wall Street.
00:11:17.380 Biden tried to keep a lid on it.
00:11:18.980 Cuomo couldn't keep a lid on it.
00:11:20.940 This is the Bernie bro, Dave Hogg, AOC faction
00:11:24.560 that's now going to run wild all over the place,
00:11:27.420 and you're basically giving this,
00:11:29.660 I guess he's a Muslim communist from another country, 1.00
00:11:32.740 City Hall, and the best city in the world.
00:11:36.100 This is the financial capital of the world.
00:11:38.960 It's the biggest city in America,
00:11:41.520 and you're going to run a communist out.
00:11:44.120 I thought I was right when I said we'd hit rock bottom
00:11:47.560 with Bill de Blasio.
00:11:49.060 I was wrong, and it takes a big man
00:11:50.760 to admit they were wrong, but I was wrong,
00:11:52.700 and so this guy is going to do his thing,
00:11:55.440 and thank God I left for Jersey.
00:11:57.420 The takeaway is this, and there's a big, important point,
00:12:00.880 and a warning for the rest of the country,
00:12:02.880 a warning that Donald Trump brought up today.
00:12:05.280 The commentary about New York City Democrats
00:12:08.000 nominating an anarchist socialist for mayor
00:12:10.940 admits one point.
00:12:12.800 How unchecked migration fundamentally remade
00:12:15.960 the New York City electorate.
00:12:17.720 Democrats change politics by changing the voters.
00:12:22.700 That's how you turn a city,
00:12:24.600 the defined U.S. dominance,
00:12:26.640 into what we're witnessing right now.
00:12:28.820 Now, story number two.
00:12:30.320 There is a very important story
00:12:32.240 that is getting virtually no coverage right now,
00:12:35.540 so I hope all of you will share this information
00:12:38.300 wherever you can,
00:12:39.880 and that is the shocking admission
00:12:41.820 by a former Biden aide
00:12:44.120 announcing that she does not know
00:12:46.340 who ordered President Biden's auto pin signatures.
00:12:51.940 Neera Tanden, a former top aide to President Joe Biden,
00:12:55.860 told Congress under oath
00:12:58.100 that she had authorization
00:12:59.420 to direct auto pin signatures for the president,
00:13:03.440 but does not know who gave the final order.
00:13:07.280 Tanden served as the director
00:13:08.920 of Biden's domestic policy counsel,
00:13:11.880 and she told Congress during testimony
00:13:14.220 that the president used an automatic signature tool
00:13:17.700 allowing for aides to sign pardons,
00:13:20.900 signed memos,
00:13:22.720 and other official documents in the White House.
00:13:26.420 Tanden said she did not know
00:13:28.160 who authorized any of those signatures.
00:13:31.720 During her interview before Congress,
00:13:33.620 which lasted more than five hours,
00:13:36.020 she told lawmakers that in her role
00:13:37.900 as staff secretary and senior advisor
00:13:40.620 to the former president between 2021 and 2023,
00:13:44.400 that she was authorized to direct auto pin signatures
00:13:47.140 on behalf of Biden.
00:13:48.320 An oversight committee official has confirmed this
00:13:51.140 now to Fox News.
00:13:52.620 Tanden, who reportedly said during her testimony
00:13:55.280 that she had, quote,
00:13:56.820 limited interactions with Biden in her role,
00:13:59.700 even though she was a senior advisor.
00:14:01.340 That, according to sources familiar with her testimony,
00:14:04.160 described an approval process that left her,
00:14:07.240 at least partly, in the dark
00:14:09.700 about who specifically was giving final approval
00:14:13.200 on the decisions to use the automatic signature tool,
00:14:16.920 even though she'd simultaneously insisted,
00:14:20.280 quote,
00:14:20.620 Biden was in charge.
00:14:22.600 Tanden reportedly testified
00:14:24.140 that to get approval
00:14:25.540 for the use of auto pin signatures,
00:14:27.420 she would send decision memos
00:14:29.480 to members of Biden's inner circle.
00:14:31.900 Now, remember,
00:14:32.440 these are people elected by no one.
00:14:34.640 She added that she was not aware
00:14:36.980 of what actions
00:14:38.220 or what approvals took place
00:14:40.560 between the time she sent the decision memo
00:14:42.940 and the time she received it back
00:14:44.960 with the necessary approval,
00:14:46.680 according to sources familiar
00:14:48.780 with what happened in this testimony.
00:14:51.760 A minority member
00:14:52.740 of the oversight committee
00:14:54.700 called Tanden's characterization,
00:14:57.140 quote,
00:14:57.540 a lie,
00:14:58.360 with a statement
00:14:59.080 from a former White House staffer
00:15:01.100 saying that they received,
00:15:02.620 quote,
00:15:02.680 a written sign-off from Biden
00:15:04.840 on every executive action
00:15:06.920 she presented with him.
00:15:09.020 The only problem is
00:15:10.260 she's under oath
00:15:11.620 and saying
00:15:12.540 that's not how it went down at all.
00:15:14.760 Any other characterization
00:15:15.920 is a distortion of the testimony.
00:15:18.720 The Biden,
00:15:19.280 former Biden official stated,
00:15:21.060 quote,
00:15:21.360 to insinuate that
00:15:22.400 Neera Tanden said
00:15:23.860 President Biden
00:15:24.660 did not approve
00:15:25.620 every single presidential decision
00:15:27.420 and sign off
00:15:28.460 on every executive action
00:15:30.040 coming out of the White House
00:15:31.260 is a lie.
00:15:32.280 Well,
00:15:32.960 she's saying
00:15:33.720 that it's the truth.
00:15:35.300 Tanden's attorney
00:15:36.100 agreed with the staffer
00:15:37.580 adding that the auto pins
00:15:38.880 were used
00:15:39.460 after Biden
00:15:40.660 approved the decisions,
00:15:42.460 saying this
00:15:43.280 in a cleanup statement.
00:15:44.840 The auto pin was used
00:15:46.180 only after President Biden
00:15:48.020 personally approved
00:15:48.820 the decision.
00:15:49.900 Aides at no time
00:15:50.980 signed these documents
00:15:52.240 on President Biden's behalf.
00:15:54.260 Again,
00:15:54.940 that's not what her testimony
00:15:56.020 was under oath.
00:15:57.500 So just know
00:15:58.440 this is the big story
00:15:59.800 that we should be talking about
00:16:01.440 and also know
00:16:02.540 that the media
00:16:03.520 will not touch the fact
00:16:05.020 that a former Biden aide
00:16:06.680 does not know
00:16:07.980 this is her testimony
00:16:09.400 who ordered
00:16:10.380 the President's
00:16:11.460 auto pin signatures.
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