Verdict with Ted Cruz - March 25, 2025


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


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Trump administration officials claim a major security breach occurred when a journalist accidentally included a journalist by the name of Jeffrey Goldberg in a group chat where they were discussing secret U.S. military plans to strike Houthi targets in Yemen. Also, President Donald Trump is doing exactly what he claimed he was going to do, build businesses in America and bring manufacturing back to America.

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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 1.00
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, 1.00
00:03:05.900 or suckers and losers hoax. 1.00
00:03:07.500 So this is a guy that peddles in garbage. 1.00
00:03:10.240 This is what he does. 0.98
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, 0.99
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 0.99
00:04:26.340 suckers and losers, 0.99
00:04:28.940 something that also never happened. 0.99
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. 0.63
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 0.54
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. 0.97
00:07:05.540 It's ridiculous. 0.95
00:07:06.080 You had to go to Mexico, 1.00
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 1.00
00:10:09.960 or attack you 1.00
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 0.92
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. 0.96
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 0.89
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.
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