Verdict with Ted Cruz - April 09, 2026


BONUS POD： Voters Warning： Dems Signal Impeachment Blitz—Trump, Vance & the Constitution

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Global Engagement Center censorship
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Ted Cruz
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Donald Trump JD Vance Ben Ferguson Barack Obama George Conway Jerry Nadler Blaze Media Marco Rubio
Bonus： Daily Review with Clay and Buck - Apr 7 2026 How The Iran War Ends, Talking to Astronauts & Illegals Keep Committing Crimes

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If the Democrats regain control of the House and Senate, they will impeach both President Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance, but who would be in charge? The answer may surprise you! Plus, we talk about Iran and the possible return of the Strait of Hormones.

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00:00:48.960 You're listening to the 47 Morning Update with Ben Ferguson.
00:00:52.760 Good Thursday morning. Nice to have you with us on the 47 Morning Update.
00:00:56.400 And we've got one big story for you this morning.
00:00:58.960 Democrats are now saying exactly what they're going to do
00:01:03.440 If they regain control of the House and the Senate
00:01:06.380 They're now saying if you give them power
00:01:09.380 Not only are they going to impeach and run Donald Trump out of office
00:01:14.080 But they're also going to impeach the Vice President J.D. Vance
00:01:19.160 So who would be in charge?
00:01:21.960 Because they also say they want to target the Speaker of the House
00:01:25.480 I've got all the details
00:01:27.040 It's a 47 morning update
00:01:28.900 and it starts right now.
00:01:30.920 Story number one.
00:01:32.060 If you want to know what Democrats are going to do
00:01:34.840 if they get control of the House and the Senate,
00:01:37.400 well, they're now literally campaigning off of their agenda item,
00:01:41.940 and that is to impeach and remove not just President Donald Trump,
00:01:46.740 but also Vice President J.D. Vance,
00:01:49.720 even if it means rigging the U.S. Senate's 250-year-old impeachment process.
00:01:56.500 How do we know that?
00:01:57.320 Well, a far left Democrat, a guy by the name of George Conway, has explained it all in a new interview.
00:02:04.560 And here is what he said.
00:02:06.260 And I do think we're going to have also a Democratic Senate.
00:02:10.300 And I don't know whether it'll be 52, 53, 54, maybe even more.
00:02:16.200 And that when you have control of the Senate in that way, you can set the rules.
00:02:21.480 And the rules this time should provide for a real trial, not these show arguments, these statements on the floor by managers where there's politicians giving speeches, but where you put on live witnesses, and you can show that they're lying, and you can show how they're being discussed.
00:02:42.360 And they have to answer the questions. And the Chief Justice of the United States will direct them to answer questions. A trial, a real trial, that's what the framers of the Constitution meant. And that will be, I think, an education for the American people who will be suffering from all of the deleterious effects of Trump's chaotic policies and his psychotic policies, frankly.
00:03:07.380 he's just he's now just out of his mind and at that point you know the trial will show people
00:03:14.180 that this is not the way government is supposed to operate this is corrupt lying you know a good
00:03:20.740 trial presentation is going to basically i think flip enough republicans who will be exhausted by
00:03:27.220 this and who want to rescue their party um if it can be and then give them jd vance but jd vance
00:03:34.700 But look, I mean, J.D. Vance is, you know, subject to impeachable offense. He may be impeached, too, and removed. That's also possible. But also it will have, even if he is not, it will have a chilling or an effect on everybody else who comes after that, you know, you can't do this. You have to obey the law. You have to obey the Constitution. You have to obey your duties and your oath.
00:04:01.060 Now, let's go back to just the words you heard there.
00:04:03.800 One of the things he said was a good trial presentation is going to basically, I think,
00:04:08.140 flip enough Republicans who will be exhausted by this and who will want to rescue their party.
00:04:15.100 In other words, he's looking for the neocons.
00:04:18.340 He's looking for the rhinos, Republicans in name only.
00:04:22.520 And then he added this.
00:04:24.880 J.D. Vance is subject to impeachable offenses.
00:04:28.760 He may be impeached, too.
00:04:30.300 and removed. That's also possible. This is now the Democratic Party's playbook. And after admitting
00:04:38.320 that they would violate the 250-year constitutional norm of the impeachment process,
00:04:45.700 the Democratic Party is literally saying, and we need to reassert those norms that we used to
00:04:53.300 accept and take for granted. And if we don't do that, there's no one else to do it. If Congress
00:05:00.380 can't do it, nobody can. Now, this is the playbook for the Democratic Party of the midterm elections.
00:05:07.320 If they gain the House, the Senate, they're saying to hell with the Constitution,
00:05:13.000 to hell with America. We are going to go after and throw out of office every person we don't like.
00:05:20.980 we're going to go after the president we're going to go after the vice president and we'll go after
00:05:26.260 anybody else that we can now understand this is the reason why you should believe this
00:05:31.160 is because this is all a piece of the never trump plan in general remember the never trump plan has
00:05:38.880 been to bankrupt president trump bankrupt his family members overturn trump's election
00:05:46.220 That doesn't work.
00:05:47.360 Then we jail Donald Trump.
00:05:48.880 Don't forget he's got a mug shot.
00:05:50.540 And then jail the Trump family as well.
00:05:53.560 And then we act like we're just going to go back to normal life.
00:05:57.680 No, this is the Democratic Party now.
00:05:59.800 This is the new norm.
00:06:01.240 Now, when all of that didn't work, what came next?
00:06:04.420 Assassinate the President of the United States of America.
00:06:07.020 They tried that as well.
00:06:08.240 Never forget, the President was, in fact, shot in the ear.
00:06:12.400 And if he wouldn't have turned his head by the grace of God,
00:06:14.620 unfortunately we would probably be without
00:06:16.940 Donald Trump right now
00:06:18.380 and that's the Democrats whole plan and goal
00:06:21.120 the only way to save the norms
00:06:23.300 is to burn all the norms to the ground
00:06:25.220 is also what the Democratic Party
00:06:27.080 is saying meaning we don't
00:06:29.120 respect this country we don't respect
00:06:31.220 the laws of this country we sure as hell
00:06:32.840 don't respect the Constitution
00:06:34.400 we don't respect the founding fathers
00:06:36.660 we don't respect the court system we don't
00:06:38.820 respect the Supreme Court
00:06:40.760 we delegitimize all of it
00:06:43.180 now you may say all right conway is a political guy that's been out there for a long time
00:06:49.280 and and he's kind of we know he's a lefty we know he hates trump he's got trump derangement syndrome
00:06:54.820 surely he can't be speaking on behalf of like democratic candidates well let me just remind you
00:07:00.900 conway is now running for the united states congress to replace retiring representative
00:07:07.540 jerry nadler in new york's 12th congressional district which is kind of perfect if you think
00:07:12.200 about it Conway would be the perfect replacement for Democrats both he and Nadler are old well 0.98
00:07:19.060 they're ugly they're fat they're homely they're leftists they're authoritarians and they both 0.98
00:07:22.980 walk funny you can't make it up Conway by the way is an individual here who is behind in the polls 1.00
00:07:30.400 he's got some other crazies he's got a run behind as well and some of those are just really creepy
00:07:37.380 individuals i'll save that for another show but what i do want you to understand about what george
00:07:43.620 conway is saying here and what is very real is the democrats that are on the ballot this is what
00:07:49.940 they are running on this the same party that already spied on the american people we know
00:07:57.180 in fact now and this coming from the blaze media that the government funded a weapon to fight
00:08:03.320 terrorism and instead you want to know what happened they used it on the blaze a conservative
00:08:11.400 news site an agency established by barack obama backed companies that took steps to limit america's
00:08:19.740 speech and it didn't take long for a federal government agency originally designed to censor
00:08:25.360 certain foreign entities and curate their narratives on terrorism to literally be turned
00:08:31.300 on Americans. Now, this goes back to President Barack Obama. He issued an executive order all
00:08:37.120 the way back in 2011, establishing the Center for Strategic Counterterrorism Communications
00:08:42.500 within the State Department. That doesn't sound threatening to any of us, right? Well, you'd be
00:08:47.300 wrong. They weaponized this exact agency and the Strategic Counterterrorism Communication
00:08:53.280 against conservatives. Now, the agency was initially tasked with, quote, using communication
00:08:59.680 tools to reduce radicalization by terrorists and extremist violence and terrorism that
00:09:06.500 threaten the interest in national security of the United States, quote unquote.
00:09:10.820 Obama then broadened the mission of the agency and renamed it the Global Engagement Center
00:09:16.760 in another executive order just months prior to Donald Trump's election victory in 16.
00:09:22.820 Now, the Global Engagement Center, overseen by a steering committee of deep state officials,
00:09:28.040 codified into law in the 2017 National Defense Authorization Act
00:09:32.600 and afforded both grant-making authority
00:09:36.040 and the ability to, quote, leverage expertise from outside the federal government.
00:09:42.040 Eventually became, as one former intelligence source said,
00:09:46.460 an incubator for the domestic disinformation complex, quote-unquote.
00:09:51.420 Well, in the final days of the first Trump presidency,
00:09:54.220 We're now learning that the deep state and its censorship contractors, desperate to control the narrative about the 2020 presidential election and the COVID-19 virus, turned this disinformation complex on conservative site Blaze Media and a, quote, proof of concept test is what they claimed it was.
00:10:15.400 according to the discovery evidence gleaned by the federalists in a now settled case against
00:10:21.620 the government the global engagement center backed a trial targeting blaze media and the free speech
00:10:28.760 in its platforms despite concerns at the state department about possibly censoring an american
00:10:34.620 company with an american audience in contradiction of the agency's foreign focus mandate it didn't
00:10:43.820 The Global Engagement Center, which Secretary of State Marco Rubio acknowledged actively silenced and censored the voices of Americans that were supposed to be serving, was nominally closed in January of 2025, then effectively killed by the Trump administration last April under its final name, the Counter-Foreign Information Manipulation Interference Hub.
00:11:08.960 Now, two years prior to the agency's demise,
00:11:12.540 the Federalists and several other plaintiffs
00:11:14.640 filed a lawsuit against the Global Engagement Center
00:11:17.400 and the State Department.
00:11:19.780 You may be asking yourself,
00:11:20.960 why have I never heard about this?
00:11:22.300 Because the media didn't want you to know about it.
00:11:25.920 The lawsuit accused the government
00:11:27.400 of actively intervening in the news media market
00:11:29.880 throughout the Global Engagement Center
00:11:31.900 to render disfavored press outlets unprofitable
00:11:36.960 by funding the infrastructure, development, and marketing and promotion of censorship technology
00:11:44.000 and private censorship enterprises to covertly suppress speech of a segment of the American press.
00:11:53.080 Well, guess exactly what press that was?
00:11:55.400 It was conservative media.
00:11:58.060 So if you think the Democrats in this midterm election are not going to turn this agency right back on 0.98
00:12:05.260 to silence and censor conservatives, you're insane.
00:12:08.820 And if you think the Democratic Party isn't going to go AWOL 0.97
00:12:12.060 and destroy America's Constitution right away,
00:12:15.840 if they get power, you're also wrong.
00:12:18.480 They want to get rid of Trump and the vice presidency
00:12:21.480 and anyone else that stands in their way.
00:12:24.240 And now they're saying it openly in interviews for everyone to see.
00:12:28.780 Thank you for listening to the 47 Morning Update with Ben Ferguson.
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