Verdict with Ted Cruz - December 25, 2025


BONUS POD： Operation Northern Lights Saving Children at Christmas plus Santa Too White, Too Male


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43 missing Florida children have been recovered in what is being described as Operation Northern Lights. It is bringing children home for the holidays and the Trump administration is making sure that other kids know we re not going to stop looking for you. We re going to bring you to safety and we re also going to deal with a new problem with Santa. Apparently he s too white and too male.

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00:00:00.000 This is an iHeart Podcast.
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00:00:04.820 What do you want from Santa?
00:00:06.840 A Kindle.
00:00:07.760 Oh, wow.
00:00:08.720 That's pretty good.
00:00:09.640 You must be a high IQ person.
00:00:11.620 We need more high IQ people in the country.
00:00:14.400 So we definitely need more high IQ.
00:00:18.100 You're listening to the 47 Morning Update with Ben Ferguson.
00:00:22.040 Well, Merry Christmas.
00:00:23.240 It's so nice to have you with us on the 47 Morning Update.
00:00:26.500 And we've got two big stories for you this morning.
00:00:30.060 43 missing Florida children have been recovered in what is being described as Operation Northern Lights.
00:00:37.560 It is bringing children home for the holidays.
00:00:40.260 And the Trump administration is making sure that other kids know,
00:00:43.820 we're not going to stop looking for you.
00:00:45.960 We're going to find you.
00:00:47.060 And we're going to bring you to safety.
00:00:48.980 We're also going to deal with a new problem with Santa. 0.96
00:00:52.020 Apparently, he's too white and too male. 0.97
00:00:54.760 I wish I was joking. 0.81
00:00:56.020 But this is what the left is doing to Santa on Christmas.
00:00:59.520 It's the 47 Morning Update and it starts right now.
00:01:03.020 Story number one.
00:01:04.160 During the holidays, we all are about, at least I am, and I think probably the majority of you,
00:01:09.220 spending time with your family, right?
00:01:11.420 Your kids, your grandkids, your loved ones, your family members.
00:01:14.960 You may not realize, but there are an awful lot, unfortunately, of people out there that they don't have their kids.
00:01:24.160 They are kids that are lost.
00:01:26.800 They are kids that have been abducted.
00:01:28.980 They are kids that have been forced into sex trafficking and slavery.
00:01:32.740 There are a lot of parents out there that have kids that have been kidnapped that are exploited.
00:01:38.660 Thank goodness this administration is fighting hard to bring those kids back home to get them out of these horrible conditions.
00:01:48.600 A lot of this was because of minors that we released to people that we did not vet in this country with our wide open southern borders.
00:01:56.580 That's part of the problem and what many people should be very angry about.
00:02:02.620 Now, I say that to play for you some of the successes that we're having that aren't getting the coverage.
00:02:10.520 This is coming out of Fox 10, local news coverage, talking about missing children that were found across Florida
00:02:17.380 and what they referred to as Operation Northern Lights.
00:02:22.620 This was not happening under the last regime, but this president has made it clear we will hunt you down and find you.
00:02:29.100 And we're going to find the children.
00:02:30.700 Well, they found 43 missing children in Florida so far in Operation Northern Lights.
00:02:35.980 And here's how the local media covering it, the national media not touching it.
00:02:40.560 And you've got to ask yourself the question, why?
00:02:43.000 This video taken by the Leon County Sheriff's Office in Florida
00:02:47.300 shows federal agents and law enforcement officers working behind the scenes
00:02:52.460 to rescue dozens of critically missing children.
00:02:56.080 This was the largest missing child operation ever conducted in northern Florida.
00:03:01.460 And we're very proud to say that 43 children will now be home safe for the holidays.
00:03:06.800 According to the U.S. Marshals, through Operation Northern Light,
00:03:11.220 children ranging from 1 1⁄2 to 17 years old were reunited with their families.
00:03:17.300 Of those include a 1, 15, and 17-year-old missing out of Okaloosa County.
00:03:24.820 The 1 and 17-year-old were rescued by U.S. Marshals outside Jackson, Mississippi.
00:03:31.120 The agency says one person was arrested for interfering with child custody.
00:03:35.840 The U.S. Marshals say the 15-year-old and the child's abductor were found in Okaloosa.
00:03:42.260 The adult was arrested and charged with interference with child custody.
00:03:46.560 Greg Legedal, acting U.S. Marshal for the Northern District of Florida,
00:03:51.120 say the children that were saved were critically missing,
00:03:54.640 meaning they were at risk of violent crimes or other serious harms,
00:03:58.880 like drugs, sexual exploitation, domestic violence, or crime exposure.
00:04:04.420 During the course of the operation, we ended up recovering children from multiple states,
00:04:09.180 including Tennessee, Mississippi, and Louisiana.
00:04:13.140 We had a lot of these cases that could potentially lead to charges of human trafficking,
00:04:18.700 of interference with child custody,
00:04:20.740 and just a lot of really, really bad situations that these children had found themselves in.
00:04:27.600 Legedal says this wouldn't have been possible
00:04:30.140 without the help of state law enforcement and local agencies,
00:04:34.180 including Pensacola PD.
00:04:37.100 Legedal says the biggest takeaway from this operation is to always know what your child is doing,
00:04:42.860 who they are associating with, and be involved in their lives.
00:04:47.020 By the way, where was this help in the last administration?
00:04:51.520 You think about this 43 missing children that are now going to be reunited with their families
00:04:56.180 for the holidays, who are, as they described it, critically missing,
00:04:59.320 meaning they were at risk of violent crimes, serious harm like drugs, sexual exploitation,
00:05:04.080 domestic violence, or crime exposure.
00:05:06.840 Why is it the last administration completely looked the other way?
00:05:11.700 They didn't care.
00:05:13.200 They wanted to fundamentally change this country.
00:05:17.240 They wanted to bring in as many illegal immigrants as humanly possible, 1.00
00:05:21.320 and the reason why they wanted to bring them in is simple,
00:05:25.420 because then they would gain power and hopefully their votes one day.
00:05:29.320 They would gain the votes of their friends that can vote.
00:05:33.240 That's also really, really important that you understand that.
00:05:37.920 And this goes back to, I think, the President of the United States of America
00:05:41.120 saying we're going to find these kids.
00:05:43.560 We're not going to look the other way.
00:05:45.180 We will find them.
00:05:48.480 We will protect them.
00:05:50.780 Now, story number two.
00:05:52.060 Two white and two male.
00:05:54.360 Woke Museum has now issued a guide to decolonizing Santa.
00:06:00.580 They call it Father Christmas.
00:06:03.000 If you thought the left was going to just sit by quietly
00:06:07.040 as we try to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ
00:06:09.560 and, you know, just have a normal straight Santa Claus,
00:06:12.660 yeah, you'd be wrong.
00:06:13.920 Santa is not just a man that they say is too male.
00:06:18.000 I'm not making this up.
00:06:19.060 But they also say that Santa is just too white.
00:06:22.380 There are just three of the major accusations of a Woke Museum
00:06:26.200 that is made about Father Christmas
00:06:27.900 and a bizarre guide to decolonizing the man in red-white.
00:06:31.420 And, well, he's a dude.
00:06:33.060 So that just immediately, he's already in trouble.
00:06:36.000 It is also demanding that Santa be more understanding
00:06:38.900 and nicer to naughty children,
00:06:41.040 lest they feel, quote-unquote, oppressed.
00:06:43.160 I'm not making this up.
00:06:44.560 It's truly awesome.
00:06:45.460 The Sun reports that the Brighton and Hove Museums in the UK,
00:06:50.020 these are the same people arresting people for putting out tweets right now
00:06:52.500 that are not like terroristic threats
00:06:53.780 or just straight up like words against the government,
00:06:56.440 published a new report on its website
00:06:59.100 suggesting that Santa, okay,
00:07:03.000 should work alongside his elves on the presence production line
00:07:08.560 to show that they are equals.
00:07:11.120 If you want to know why London has fallen
00:07:13.360 and the UK has fallen, this is why.
00:07:15.440 Mrs. Christmas should also emerge from the shadows 1.00
00:07:19.240 and take her place at his side at a time
00:07:21.800 when Christmas is being reassessed
00:07:24.200 in many parts of the world
00:07:25.580 as a symbol of everything
00:07:26.940 it was never designed to be a part of.
00:07:30.740 The group, granted over 1.2 million
00:07:34.540 of taxpayer cash in October,
00:07:37.080 says Santa's naughty and nice list
00:07:39.260 is teaching children
00:07:40.640 the colonizers has the power to judge all people,
00:07:44.180 and the time has come to right the wrongs
00:07:46.600 of centuries of disinformation and hurtful attitudes.
00:07:49.460 So this is your tax dollars at work there.
00:07:51.880 The post was written
00:07:53.300 by the museum's joint head of cultural change
00:07:56.580 and defines historical records
00:07:58.640 which show Father Christmas first appeared
00:08:00.700 in English folklore as a spirit of winter
00:08:03.020 and universal good cheer in the 15th century.
00:08:06.280 So having a naughty list now
00:08:07.520 apparently changes all that. 0.95
00:08:08.820 So you're white, that's a strike against you. 0.99
00:08:10.940 You're male, that's a strike against you. 0.99
00:08:12.260 And the fact that you're applying
00:08:14.020 that there's like some sort of good or evil
00:08:15.660 or good and bad or naughty or nice,
00:08:17.900 yeah, you're done.
00:08:18.740 We can't have any of that now.
00:08:20.300 He was referencing the carols of Sir Christmas,
00:08:24.680 but the character, they say,
00:08:25.900 became a distinct personification of Christmas
00:08:28.440 feasting in the 17th century,
00:08:30.780 notably in, they say, in pamphlets and plays
00:08:33.640 as a symbol against Puritan bands on Christmas.
00:08:37.380 The mystical figure then evolved
00:08:40.100 into the modern gift giver
00:08:41.920 in the Victorian era
00:08:43.220 when merging with the American Santa Claus figure.
00:08:46.220 The Woke Post redefines Santa
00:08:47.780 and points out a host of, quote,
00:08:49.920 problems with the accepted character
00:08:51.980 reading the tale of a white Western Santa
00:08:55.600 who judges all children's behavior has problems.
00:08:58.820 This is literally from their website.
00:09:00.240 I wish I was joking, I'm not.
00:09:01.600 Quote, as he visits each nation,
00:09:03.860 he determines if the children deserve presence
00:09:06.280 based on being naughty or nice.
00:09:07.880 But who decided Santa should be the judge
00:09:10.860 of children's behavior in every community?
00:09:13.320 Now, let me just pause there
00:09:14.620 and explain to you that sentence
00:09:16.280 and what the real underlying issue is here.
00:09:19.340 You notice there's a direct correlation
00:09:21.720 that we're witnessing
00:09:22.860 in the way that this is being described
00:09:24.900 in the same type of criticism
00:09:27.140 that you hear from people about Christianity,
00:09:31.040 about believing in God,
00:09:34.140 believing in Jesus as your Lord and Savior.
00:09:37.060 This is the same type of undermining
00:09:40.900 and attacks that you hear in this scenario.
00:09:43.320 And why, right?
00:09:44.500 Like, why would this be a thing, right?
00:09:46.820 Like, why would this actually, like, be said
00:09:50.040 the way that it was said?
00:09:51.300 Because these are the same people
00:09:52.780 that say there is no God
00:09:53.920 and that there is no right and wrong
00:09:56.760 and that you just always find your own way
00:10:01.000 as they describe it, right?
00:10:02.200 Everyone finds their own way
00:10:03.980 that you can do whatever you believe in.
00:10:07.740 You can do whatever you want to do.
00:10:09.460 You can do whatever you think is your right,
00:10:13.840 your truth, right?
00:10:14.960 It's all that, right?
00:10:16.820 Over and over and over and over and over again.
00:10:19.940 We see this.
00:10:21.040 Now, what's also interesting is
00:10:22.080 while this is happening,
00:10:23.060 we see the left do what they do
00:10:24.760 when it comes to hateful rhetoric towards law and order.
00:10:27.600 Hateful rhetoric against ICE agents,
00:10:29.720 for example, in this country
00:10:31.040 or law enforcement in the UK
00:10:32.380 or those that are standing up
00:10:33.640 for securing our borders, right?
00:10:35.680 Like, the left has no problem
00:10:36.900 going just, like, pure rage
00:10:39.320 and has no problem going pure just anger.
00:10:42.940 Like, just, like, genuine, genuine anger
00:10:47.500 and bigotry and hatred.
00:10:49.120 Like, the list goes on and on.
00:10:50.540 That is something that I think
00:10:52.920 is a really important part as well
00:10:54.880 for people to understand
00:10:56.100 is that this is the future of these bigots.
00:11:00.180 And they go, Santa,
00:11:01.280 because it's pushing their bigger agenda moment.
00:11:04.480 It's pushing their bigger, just, hatred
00:11:08.060 towards anyone that believes in faith or in God.
00:11:12.160 And that's why they describe it this way.
00:11:14.020 Quote,
00:11:14.580 As he visits each nation,
00:11:15.860 he determines if the children deserve presence
00:11:17.680 based on being naughty or nice.
00:11:19.200 But who decides Santa should be the judge
00:11:20.940 of children's behavior in every community?
00:11:22.400 Like, there is a clear, direct attack
00:11:25.500 being made on faith and Christianity here.
00:11:27.580 Like, who are you to decide
00:11:28.340 what is right and wrong?
00:11:29.520 What's good and evil?
00:11:30.600 Let's undermine this.
00:11:31.900 And then we can undermine the rest.
00:11:33.640 Now, they also, this group,
00:11:35.180 who got over 1.2 million of taxpayer dollars,
00:11:37.900 tells parents Santa should be
00:11:39.260 a more diverse character
00:11:40.580 who celebrates cultural exchange,
00:11:43.000 quote, unquote.
00:11:44.080 Have Santa learn about different cultures
00:11:46.740 rather than judge them.
00:11:47.880 Stories could show him experiencing their traditions.
00:11:51.800 Santa should include some mother Christmases
00:11:54.520 with the Poston adding
00:11:56.140 patriarchy and colonialism went hand in hand.
00:12:00.040 The Sun report noted that senior Tory MP said,
00:12:04.580 one of them, Sir Alec Shelbrook, said,
00:12:06.940 quote,
00:12:07.220 At a time of goodwill and festive cheer,
00:12:09.820 it seems woke do-gooders
00:12:11.700 would rather everybody was miserable.
00:12:13.940 Then went on to say, quote,
00:12:15.120 this is the worst possible use of taxpayers' funds.
00:12:18.040 Like, I could not agree more.
00:12:19.800 Why should $1.2 million go to a group
00:12:23.220 that is this angry and this hateful
00:12:25.260 and say, and again, 0.98
00:12:26.780 it's attack on men that are white.
00:12:29.080 It is attack on men in general.
00:12:32.460 So that's another problem.
00:12:34.180 Like, it's not just,
00:12:35.100 it's men in general as well.
00:12:37.120 So it's white men, men in general,
00:12:39.220 and the list goes on and on.
00:12:40.700 And this is what they believe.
00:12:42.900 Like, this is the whole ballgame for them.
00:12:44.900 1-877-381-3811.
00:12:48.560 1-877-381-3811.
00:12:51.100 This is why I always tell people,
00:12:52.280 watch where your tax dollars go.
00:12:54.760 Watch what your tax dollars are being used for.
00:12:57.960 Watch what your tax dollars are funding
00:13:00.220 because the easiest way for your tax dollars
00:13:03.680 to be abused against what we believe in
00:13:06.980 is to do exactly what you just heard there.
00:13:09.180 Like, this is the easiest way
00:13:10.740 for that to become a reality.
00:13:11.880 Thank you for listening to the 47 Morning Update
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