Verdict with Ted Cruz - March 25, 2025


BONUS POD： Hegseth Denies Claims of Security Breach plus WINNING! Hyundai's $5.8 Billion Steel Plant


Episode Stats

Length

12 minutes

Words per Minute

164.47403

Word Count

2,067

Sentence Count

147

Misogynist Sentences

2

Hate Speech Sentences

5


Summary


Transcript

00:00:00.000 This is an iHeart Podcast.
00:00:02.700 Guaranteed human.
00:00:05.960 Having to do with what?
00:00:07.140 What were they talking about?
00:00:08.300 With the hoodies.
00:00:09.040 You mean the attack on the hoodies?
00:00:10.540 Well, it couldn't have been very effective
00:00:11.980 because the attack was very effective,
00:00:13.920 I can tell you that.
00:00:14.780 Thanks to President Trump's directive,
00:00:16.360 we are seeking the death penalty again.
00:00:18.400 And the drug dealers need to get out of here
00:00:20.420 because we are coming after you.
00:00:22.340 You're listening to the 47 Morning Update
00:00:24.680 with Ben Ferguson.
00:00:26.120 Good Tuesday morning.
00:00:27.080 Welcome.
00:00:27.460 It is the 47 Morning Update.
00:00:29.000 Ben Ferguson with you.
00:00:30.160 And here are the big stories
00:00:31.240 that we're covering this morning.
00:00:32.980 First up, there is an accusation
00:00:35.340 of a significant security breach
00:00:37.260 involving senior officials
00:00:38.980 from Donald Trump's administration.
00:00:41.620 Well, the Defense Secretary, Pete Hedgeseth,
00:00:43.420 is now fighting back,
00:00:45.220 claiming that the journalist,
00:00:47.000 Jeffrey Goldberg,
00:00:48.140 who says that he was inadvertently included
00:00:50.740 in a text message group,
00:00:52.840 is not telling the truth.
00:00:54.660 I'll have the details on that in just a second.
00:00:56.560 Also, Donald Trump is doing exactly
00:00:59.660 what he claimed he was going to do,
00:01:01.060 build businesses in America
00:01:03.060 and bring manufacturing back to America.
00:01:06.080 He just secured a $21 billion Hyundai investment.
00:01:10.820 And he's not done there.
00:01:12.600 I'll give you the details on that as well.
00:01:14.720 And finally, you may have noticed
00:01:16.680 that the media is all using the same words
00:01:20.180 as Democratic lawmakers to attack Elon Musk
00:01:23.280 over the last week.
00:01:24.280 We have a montage on that to show you
00:01:26.560 just how corrupt the Democratic leadership is
00:01:29.380 and working with the media.
00:01:31.880 It's the 47 Morning Update,
00:01:33.820 and it starts right now.
00:01:35.300 Story number one.
00:01:36.440 There is a bombshell report that is out right now,
00:01:39.640 and the media is absolutely loving every minute of it.
00:01:43.360 They're claiming there was a major security breach
00:01:45.820 occurred when the Trump administration officials
00:01:48.480 accidentally included a journalist
00:01:50.580 by the name of Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic.
00:01:53.020 In a group chat where they were discussing
00:01:55.520 secret U.S. military plans
00:01:57.780 to strike Houthi targets in Yemen.
00:02:00.240 The chat took place on the encrypted app Signal
00:02:03.380 and involved high-level officials
00:02:05.300 like Defense Secretary Pete Hedgeth,
00:02:07.420 the Vice President J.D. Vance,
00:02:09.360 and Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
00:02:12.260 They claim that the leak is exposing details
00:02:14.780 like targets, weapons, and timing,
00:02:18.080 sparking bipartisan quote-unquote outrage.
00:02:20.740 There's just one problem with the story.
00:02:23.380 Pete Hedgeth is saying it's not true.
00:02:26.440 Here is what he said after landing in Hawaii
00:02:29.120 on an official visit when asked by the media
00:02:31.960 about this new accusation.
00:02:34.240 Can you share how your information about war plans
00:02:38.360 against the Houthis in Yemen
00:02:39.740 was shared with a journalist in The Atlantic?
00:02:42.600 And were those details classified?
00:02:45.420 So you're talking about a deceitful
00:02:49.960 and highly discredited so-called journalist
00:02:52.980 who's made a profession of peddling hoaxes
00:02:56.800 time and time again to include the,
00:02:58.480 I don't know, the hoaxes of Russia, Russia, Russia,
00:03:01.920 or the fine people on both sides hoax,
00:03:05.900 or suckers and losers hoax.
00:03:07.500 So this is a guy that peddles in garbage.
00:03:10.240 This is what he does.
00:03:11.700 I would love to comment on the Houthi campaign
00:03:14.460 because of the skill and courage of our troops.
00:03:17.540 I've monitored it very closely from the beginning.
00:03:20.340 And you see, we've been managing four years
00:03:22.860 of deferred maintenance under the Trump administration.
00:03:25.580 Our troops, our sailors were getting shot at as targets.
00:03:29.640 Our ships couldn't sail through.
00:03:31.380 And when they did shoot back,
00:03:32.440 it was purely defensively or at shacks in Yemen.
00:03:36.160 President Trump said, no more.
00:03:39.000 We will reestablish deterrence.
00:03:40.860 We will open freedom of navigation.
00:03:43.180 And we will ultimately decimate the Houthis,
00:03:46.620 which is exactly what we're doing
00:03:47.680 as we speak from the beginning overwhelmingly.
00:03:51.260 Why were those details shared on Signal?
00:03:53.500 And how did you learn that a journalist was privy
00:03:55.840 to the targets, the types of weapons used?
00:03:59.140 I've heard I was characterized.
00:04:01.580 Nobody was texting war plans.
00:04:04.800 And that's all I have to say about that.
00:04:06.620 One other point of information
00:04:08.620 that you may want to know about Goldberg
00:04:10.980 is this is the same person
00:04:12.960 who is now claiming to be on these text messages
00:04:16.140 getting top secret information,
00:04:18.040 who famously wrote a story
00:04:20.980 claiming that Donald Trump
00:04:22.600 had called American troops
00:04:24.260 who died in World War II
00:04:26.340 suckers and losers,
00:04:28.940 something that also never happened.
00:04:32.380 So just remember,
00:04:33.420 when you see stories like this,
00:04:35.520 you may want to look at who's writing it
00:04:37.600 and go back and read their history
00:04:39.660 of all the stories
00:04:40.680 that they may have gotten wrong in the past.
00:04:43.280 Now story number two.
00:04:44.300 One of Donald Trump's big promises
00:04:46.260 to the American worker
00:04:47.980 was that he was going to bring
00:04:49.340 American jobs back from overseas.
00:04:52.520 Well, President Donald Trump
00:04:53.620 is now estimating that
00:04:55.160 four trillion worth of companies
00:04:57.600 are moving back
00:04:58.680 to the United States of America.
00:05:01.440 That's right.
00:05:02.580 During a cabinet meeting,
00:05:04.280 the president said he's very excited
00:05:06.220 to let the American people know
00:05:08.080 what all is happening
00:05:09.640 when it comes to bringing companies
00:05:11.560 back to the U.S.
00:05:12.640 specifically, many of them
00:05:14.020 are coming back for one reason,
00:05:15.920 because of the tariffs
00:05:16.980 that he's been putting in overseas.
00:05:18.980 Take a listen to the president
00:05:20.120 in his own words.
00:05:21.360 We had a very, very good cabinet meeting.
00:05:23.680 We're on our way
00:05:24.800 to some tremendous numbers.
00:05:26.540 I think, first of all,
00:05:28.660 many companies are now moving
00:05:30.380 into the United States.
00:05:31.800 They're coming back.
00:05:32.480 Some of them left us
00:05:33.960 from many years ago, decades ago,
00:05:36.240 and they're all,
00:05:37.060 seems they're all coming back.
00:05:38.440 We have probably identified
00:05:40.120 maybe four trillion dollars worth
00:05:42.180 of companies moving back
00:05:43.840 or going to move back.
00:05:45.500 Many of them have announced
00:05:46.920 it's going to be tremendous jobs,
00:05:48.700 high-paying jobs, too.
00:05:50.240 And you probably know
00:05:51.720 the chip business,
00:05:52.860 not because of the CHIPS Act,
00:05:54.420 which was a disaster.
00:05:55.500 You gave billions of dollars
00:05:56.820 to companies
00:05:57.420 that already have
00:05:58.140 many billions of dollars.
00:05:59.360 They just,
00:05:59.820 they said,
00:06:00.200 thank you very much.
00:06:01.260 It was no incentive
00:06:02.660 for them to use it.
00:06:03.820 But what is good
00:06:04.640 is the tariffs will make it
00:06:06.320 so that they want to come back.
00:06:07.920 That's why they're coming back.
00:06:08.980 I think they're coming back
00:06:09.980 because of the election
00:06:11.400 that took place on November 5th
00:06:13.400 and because of the fact
00:06:15.040 that they have to come back
00:06:16.400 because the tariffs
00:06:17.260 are forcing them to come back.
00:06:19.000 And remember,
00:06:20.040 there are no tariffs
00:06:20.880 if you build here,
00:06:22.220 and that's a big factor.
00:06:23.680 So we have record numbers.
00:06:25.620 Howard was just telling me
00:06:26.600 the numbers that we're talking about
00:06:27.900 are crazy,
00:06:29.800 beyond anybody's wildest expectation.
00:06:32.540 So they'll be doing
00:06:34.180 a lot of building,
00:06:35.480 all sorts of businesses,
00:06:37.120 including the basics
00:06:38.340 of automobiles.
00:06:39.920 We have,
00:06:40.440 as you know,
00:06:40.920 Indiana's,
00:06:41.840 Honda's coming in
00:06:42.840 with a massive plant
00:06:43.820 in Indiana.
00:06:44.940 But there are many plants
00:06:46.420 that are happening,
00:06:47.780 and literally
00:06:48.300 some have started already.
00:06:49.960 General Motors
00:06:50.540 is already redoing plants
00:06:52.120 that were half abandoned
00:06:54.100 or they have plants
00:06:55.680 that weren't being
00:06:56.720 fully utilized.
00:06:58.240 They're going to be,
00:06:59.420 they and others
00:07:00.280 are going to be making parts
00:07:01.400 and other things
00:07:02.280 in those plants
00:07:03.120 so that it's one-stop shopping,
00:07:05.160 finally.
00:07:05.540 It's ridiculous.
00:07:06.080 You had to go to Mexico,
00:07:07.160 you had to go to Canada,
00:07:08.300 and a car went all over the place.
00:07:09.980 It was like,
00:07:10.480 I don't know how that
00:07:11.980 would have worked,
00:07:12.980 but that's the way
00:07:13.560 it sort of ended up.
00:07:15.880 We had a deal,
00:07:17.180 and we have a deal,
00:07:18.040 it's fine,
00:07:18.700 but people took advantage
00:07:20.180 of the deal.
00:07:20.740 They cheated.
00:07:21.600 And when you cheat,
00:07:22.500 the deals
00:07:22.960 are unfortunate.
00:07:25.140 But now what's happening
00:07:26.580 is the numbers
00:07:27.600 are beyond
00:07:28.260 our wildest expectations.
00:07:30.220 Beyond our wildest expectations.
00:07:32.500 Now this is coming
00:07:33.760 on top of the fact
00:07:34.880 that President Donald Trump's
00:07:36.000 tariff policies
00:07:36.900 have also secured
00:07:38.300 a major investment
00:07:39.920 from the Korean automaker,
00:07:41.740 Hyundai.
00:07:42.680 At least $5.8 billion
00:07:45.320 will be invested
00:07:46.420 in a new steel plant
00:07:47.880 in Louisiana.
00:07:49.240 The announcement
00:07:49.820 coming today,
00:07:51.180 and this endeavor
00:07:52.000 is part of a broader
00:07:53.220 commitment
00:07:53.900 by the South Korean automaker,
00:07:56.020 which plans to channel
00:07:57.280 $21 billion
00:07:58.740 in various U.S. projects
00:08:00.680 over the next few years.
00:08:03.000 Now this new plant
00:08:04.180 is forecast to produce
00:08:05.720 2.7 million metric tons
00:08:09.100 of steel annually
00:08:10.240 in America.
00:08:11.580 It will also provide
00:08:12.540 over 1,400
00:08:14.840 high-paying jobs
00:08:16.300 bolstering local employment.
00:08:18.600 This, according to
00:08:19.420 President Trump,
00:08:20.260 saying the facility
00:08:21.140 marks Hyundai's
00:08:22.500 inaugural steel production
00:08:24.060 venture on U.S. soil
00:08:26.340 and will support
00:08:27.400 its automotive
00:08:28.340 manufacturing operations.
00:08:30.680 Not only in Alabama,
00:08:32.320 but also in Georgia.
00:08:34.520 So yet again,
00:08:35.480 the President of the
00:08:36.020 United States of America
00:08:36.920 making it very clear
00:08:38.440 he is standing up
00:08:39.380 for American workers
00:08:40.560 and securing jobs
00:08:42.120 for them
00:08:42.600 by bringing
00:08:43.400 overseas businesses
00:08:45.180 back to the
00:08:46.360 United States of America.
00:08:47.860 And finally,
00:08:48.720 story number three.
00:08:49.640 I want to take a moment
00:08:50.820 and talk to you
00:08:52.040 about Elon Musk.
00:08:54.560 The corporate media
00:08:55.920 spontaneously over the
00:08:58.180 past couple weeks
00:08:59.220 has come up
00:09:00.700 with the same
00:09:01.520 exact talking points
00:09:03.360 to undermine
00:09:04.500 and attack
00:09:05.380 Elon Musk.
00:09:06.560 Over and over again,
00:09:07.820 the media seems to be
00:09:08.980 saying the same
00:09:09.660 exact thing
00:09:10.460 in a very clear
00:09:12.640 coordinated attempt
00:09:14.300 to undermine
00:09:15.180 and to hope
00:09:16.100 that Elon Musk
00:09:17.240 will somehow
00:09:17.980 get fired from his job
00:09:19.840 with Doge
00:09:20.660 or quit.
00:09:21.560 The media has tried
00:09:22.440 to put a wedge
00:09:23.480 between Elon Musk
00:09:24.640 and the President
00:09:25.420 on countless occasions
00:09:27.080 now
00:09:27.600 trying to
00:09:28.280 get them
00:09:29.160 into some sort
00:09:29.980 of spat.
00:09:31.380 They've also
00:09:31.860 tried to say
00:09:32.540 that Elon Musk
00:09:33.280 is actually
00:09:33.880 bigger than
00:09:35.060 Donald Trump
00:09:35.900 trying to play
00:09:36.760 into the ego game
00:09:38.080 so that Donald Trump
00:09:39.180 will kick him
00:09:40.280 out of the Oval Office
00:09:41.540 or maybe take him
00:09:43.020 out of his administration
00:09:44.000 altogether.
00:09:45.300 None of it
00:09:45.900 has worked.
00:09:47.020 In fact,
00:09:47.560 I actually think
00:09:48.320 that Elon Musk
00:09:48.960 and Donald Trump
00:09:49.600 are laughing
00:09:50.340 at the fact
00:09:51.240 that this is what
00:09:51.940 they're trying to do.
00:09:52.880 So now we've seen
00:09:54.440 orchestrated attacks,
00:09:56.540 clearly orchestrated
00:09:57.880 attacks against Tesla,
00:09:59.500 Tesla owners,
00:10:00.540 car dealerships,
00:10:01.800 the threat
00:10:02.440 that if you buy
00:10:03.080 a Tesla
00:10:03.540 your car is going
00:10:04.220 to be burned
00:10:04.760 or certainly damaged,
00:10:06.940 that people are going
00:10:08.080 to surround your car
00:10:09.120 and hit you
00:10:09.960 or attack you
00:10:10.980 because you own
00:10:12.040 a Tesla.
00:10:12.780 We witnessed that
00:10:13.380 over the weekend
00:10:13.940 in New York City.
00:10:15.060 We've seen dealerships
00:10:16.300 that have been firebombed.
00:10:18.040 We've seen dealerships
00:10:19.140 that have literally
00:10:19.620 been shot up.
00:10:20.560 I thought Democrats
00:10:21.340 were against guns
00:10:22.460 but apparently
00:10:23.120 not now
00:10:23.900 if it means
00:10:24.960 shooting at a Tesla.
00:10:26.360 So just how coordinated
00:10:27.580 is the media
00:10:28.500 in trying to destroy
00:10:29.820 Elon Musk
00:10:30.480 because of what
00:10:30.980 he's doing
00:10:31.420 to destroy
00:10:32.080 our government
00:10:33.200 to get rid of
00:10:33.880 the waste,
00:10:34.480 fraud,
00:10:34.680 and abuse,
00:10:35.240 the corruption
00:10:35.940 of the Democratic Party
00:10:37.360 to undo all of that?
00:10:39.700 Well,
00:10:40.380 it looks like now
00:10:41.440 they're going into
00:10:42.140 a full court press
00:10:43.320 where they're colluding
00:10:44.140 with one another,
00:10:45.220 doing everything they can
00:10:46.420 to get rid
00:10:47.100 of Elon Musk.
00:10:48.220 If you don't believe me,
00:10:49.420 take a listen.
00:10:50.500 Elon Musk's
00:10:51.340 so-called
00:10:52.340 Department of Government
00:10:53.780 efficiency
00:10:54.680 is taking a chainsaw
00:10:56.360 to the federal workforce.
00:10:58.000 Elon Musk continues
00:10:58.900 his chainsaw attack
00:11:00.000 in Washington.
00:11:00.780 Taking a chainsaw,
00:11:01.900 if you will,
00:11:02.280 to the federal government,
00:11:03.420 that's, you know,
00:11:04.080 decapitating a lot of lies.
00:11:05.780 They slashed and hacked
00:11:07.480 with the chainsaw.
00:11:08.460 The slashing
00:11:09.180 and the burning
00:11:09.820 the chainsaw.
00:11:10.740 Elon Musk
00:11:11.640 with that chainsaw.
00:11:14.680 I mean,
00:11:15.240 he's walking around
00:11:15.860 acting like he's
00:11:16.720 the head of Doge,
00:11:17.560 he's, you know,
00:11:18.120 brandishing the chainsaw.
00:11:19.200 Nine months pregnant
00:11:20.060 with Elon Musk's chainsaw.
00:11:21.760 Marauding with a chainsaw.
00:11:23.140 Wait a second, Buster.
00:11:24.380 Put your chainsaw away.
00:11:25.680 They cannot attack
00:11:26.960 federal agencies
00:11:28.220 with a chainsaw.
00:11:29.640 He's doing it
00:11:30.260 in a way
00:11:30.680 with a chainsaw
00:11:31.560 that alienates people.
00:11:32.780 Right man,
00:11:33.460 right hand chainsaw man.
00:11:35.180 That has a chainsaw.
00:11:36.640 That's chainsaw stuff.
00:11:37.900 Who used the chainsaw?
00:11:38.980 Elon Musk
00:11:39.620 is an unelected man child
00:11:41.460 running around the country
00:11:42.940 with a pretend chainsaw.
00:11:44.680 That is your media.
00:11:46.100 That is your Democratic Party.
00:11:47.880 That is them
00:11:48.660 colluding together
00:11:49.920 in a, quote,
00:11:51.420 spontaneous
00:11:52.380 moment
00:11:53.640 that happened
00:11:54.540 time and time
00:11:55.700 and time
00:11:56.360 and time again.
00:11:57.660 All because
00:11:58.220 they don't know
00:11:58.960 how to stop
00:12:00.000 Doge
00:12:00.900 or Elon Musk
00:12:02.120 or Donald Trump.
00:12:03.280 Let me just say
00:12:04.020 the majority
00:12:04.780 of the American people
00:12:05.680 are behind
00:12:06.480 Elon Musk
00:12:07.420 in his chainsaw.
00:12:08.880 No matter what
00:12:09.960 the corporate media
00:12:11.000 tries to tell you.
00:12:12.360 Thank you for listening
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