Verdict with Ted Cruz - May 20, 2025


BONUS POD: Was the Autopen Running the White House and a Message in the Sand for Trump


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The auto pen is becoming a big deal. Also, James Comey says he was just going for a walk with his wife on the beach. And if Democrats thought they were going to get Donald Trump's administration off the rails, they're wrong.

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00:00:05.820 The auto pen is becoming a very big deal.
00:00:08.160 You know, the auto pen is becoming a big deal
00:00:09.980 because it seems like that maybe was the president
00:00:11.920 who ever operated the auto pen.
00:00:13.700 The test was not so good either.
00:00:15.260 In other words, there are things going on
00:00:16.660 that the public wasn't informed of.
00:00:18.740 You're listening to the 47 Morning Update
00:00:21.220 with Ben Ferguson.
00:00:22.640 Good Tuesday morning.
00:00:23.600 Welcome.
00:00:24.040 It is the 47 Morning Update.
00:00:25.540 It's so nice to have you with us.
00:00:26.980 And here are the three big stories
00:00:28.420 we're talking about today.
00:00:29.500 First up, more fallout from the potential cover-up
00:00:33.340 of the president's medical condition,
00:00:35.680 this time with cancer.
00:00:37.880 And many doctors are saying there's no way
00:00:40.020 they just found out about this.
00:00:41.900 We'll give you those details in just a moment.
00:00:44.420 Also, James Comey saying he was just going on a walk
00:00:48.160 with his wife on the beach
00:00:49.540 and there really shouldn't be a controversy
00:00:51.880 of him calling for, in essence,
00:00:54.240 an assassination attempt against Donald Trump.
00:00:57.300 Well, is that story going to work?
00:00:58.540 We'll have his words for you as well.
00:01:00.900 And if Democrats thought they were going to get
00:01:03.080 Donald Trump's administration off the rails,
00:01:05.920 they're wrong.
00:01:06.900 The American people are now backing Donald Trump
00:01:09.200 at the same level they were on the day
00:01:10.860 he was inaugurated.
00:01:12.340 This after big news from a Middle East trip,
00:01:15.400 the trade and tariff negotiations going extremely well,
00:01:19.380 and the president making it clear
00:01:20.780 he's securing the border.
00:01:22.360 We'll have those details on those polls
00:01:24.160 in just a moment.
00:01:24.940 It's the 47 Morning Update and it starts right now.
00:01:28.300 Story number one.
00:01:29.360 The potential cover-up continues
00:01:31.440 and many more questions are being asked now
00:01:34.020 about the cancer diagnosis of Joe Biden.
00:01:37.620 And in response to the diagnosis
00:01:39.200 and the ensuing discussions,
00:01:41.800 President Donald Trump expressed surprise
00:01:44.000 that the public was not informed earlier
00:01:46.660 about Biden's condition,
00:01:48.940 suggesting that the disease likely developed
00:01:51.060 over a long period.
00:01:52.900 The president, in his own words,
00:01:54.420 at the White House.
00:01:55.660 And it takes a long time
00:01:56.760 to get to that situation.
00:01:58.840 Now, I think, you know,
00:01:59.580 to get to a stage nine,
00:02:01.840 I think that if you take a look,
00:02:04.080 it's the same doctor that said
00:02:05.540 that Joe was cognitively fine.
00:02:08.760 There was nothing wrong with him.
00:02:10.060 Well, he said,
00:02:11.000 if it's the same doctor,
00:02:12.280 he said there was nothing wrong there.
00:02:14.280 And that's being proven
00:02:15.220 to be a sad situation.
00:02:17.740 And the auto pen is becoming a very big deal.
00:02:20.420 You know, the auto pen is becoming a big deal
00:02:22.280 because it seems like that maybe was the president
00:02:24.220 who ever operated the auto pen.
00:02:26.380 But when they say that that was not good,
00:02:28.600 they also, you know,
00:02:29.560 you have to look and you have to say
00:02:30.760 that the test was not so good either.
00:02:34.060 In other words,
00:02:34.580 there are things going on
00:02:35.500 that the public wasn't informed.
00:02:37.820 And I think somebody's going to have to speak
00:02:39.160 to his doctor if it's the same,
00:02:40.660 or even if it's two separate doctors.
00:02:42.300 It's a fair question
00:02:53.140 that everyone that's sane is asking.
00:02:55.780 We can't trust him on the cognitive decline
00:02:57.860 of Joe Biden,
00:02:58.880 and they were lying about that
00:03:00.200 even before he was actually elected.
00:03:02.240 So why the hell should we trust him now?
00:03:04.580 But don't worry.
00:03:05.720 Democrats are now saying
00:03:07.220 they want you to forget it all.
00:03:08.980 Hakeem Jeffries saying this
00:03:11.280 about Democrats on Capitol Hill.
00:03:13.740 My expectation that President Biden
00:03:15.540 is going to meet this moment
00:03:18.560 with the courage and resilience
00:03:21.240 that he's consistently shown
00:03:23.800 seems to me entirely inappropriate
00:03:27.160 that at this moment in time,
00:03:29.160 when President Biden is dealing
00:03:31.500 with a serious and aggressive form of cancer,
00:03:36.200 there are Republicans
00:03:38.740 who are peddling conspiracy theories
00:03:40.700 and want us to look backward
00:03:42.820 at a time when they actually
00:03:45.620 are taking health care away
00:03:47.400 from the American people.
00:03:48.660 No, as House Democrats,
00:03:50.120 we're going to look forward.
00:03:52.080 They literally are trying to take health care
00:03:56.260 away from millions of Americans 0.56
00:03:59.980 at this very moment
00:04:01.740 in the dead of night.
00:04:03.800 And Republicans want to fan the flames
00:04:07.620 of conspiracy theories at this moment?
00:04:09.880 No, thank you.
00:04:11.220 Democrats want to shut it all down. 0.93
00:04:13.440 It's entirely inappropriate
00:04:14.920 for us to be discussing any of this
00:04:16.960 and we're looking forward.
00:04:18.840 Yes, I'm sure they are
00:04:20.000 because they don't want to have to answer
00:04:21.700 many of the tough questions
00:04:23.320 that we're talking about right now.
00:04:25.680 So how long has the president
00:04:27.540 actually had this cancer?
00:04:29.660 And did they conceal it
00:04:31.180 from the American people?
00:04:32.420 Knowing as a candidate
00:04:33.720 that Joe Biden was in fact
00:04:35.540 dealing with a serious form of cancer.
00:04:38.860 Dr. Mark Segal on Fox News Channel
00:04:41.460 was asked the question about this cancer
00:04:43.480 and here's what he said.
00:04:45.060 Hiding this.
00:04:45.900 Both terrible possibilities.
00:04:47.740 Both terrible.
00:04:48.740 And on the notion
00:04:49.580 that this could have been hidden.
00:04:51.360 I'm fascinated by Dr. Zeke Emanuel.
00:04:53.860 He's saying that this prostate cancer
00:04:55.440 could have been there for a decade.
00:04:57.320 Definitely had it as president.
00:04:59.200 He did not develop this
00:05:00.280 in the last 100, 200 days.
00:05:02.140 He had it while he was president.
00:05:03.800 Zeke Emanuel is the architect of Obamacare.
00:05:06.820 Zeke Emanuel's brother is Rahm Emanuel.
00:05:08.860 Zeke Emanuel was on President Biden's COVID team.
00:05:11.440 Zeke Emanuel has no incentive
00:05:12.940 to say something that's not truthful here.
00:05:16.380 And Zeke Emanuel happens to be
00:05:18.620 an excellent oncologist.
00:05:19.980 Politics aside, you know,
00:05:21.380 a lot of his politics I don't agree with,
00:05:23.020 but he's an excellent, excellent oncologist.
00:05:24.940 He's at Penn and he's saying
00:05:27.540 that it's been there for a while.
00:05:29.080 Even an aggressive prostate cancer
00:05:30.860 has been there for a while.
00:05:32.120 He clearly had this
00:05:33.240 while he was president for years.
00:05:35.240 That's what Emanuel's saying.
00:05:36.400 And he also made another point,
00:05:37.580 which I agree with,
00:05:38.760 which is the vast majority of the time
00:05:40.820 when you diagnose this,
00:05:42.360 you diagnose it early,
00:05:43.680 not in some advanced stage
00:05:44.920 where you're looking under a microscope
00:05:46.060 and it says Gleason 9.
00:05:48.340 That's the worst.
00:05:49.660 That means that it's likely to spread
00:05:51.240 and it has spread.
00:05:52.140 And when it goes to the bone,
00:05:53.140 it's very painful.
00:05:54.520 So we wish the president,
00:05:55.640 the former president well,
00:05:56.740 but it's very disturbing
00:05:57.820 the way this news is coming out.
00:05:59.280 There are two things that can be true.
00:06:01.260 We can pray for Joe Biden
00:06:02.640 and a speedy recovery.
00:06:04.260 And we can also talk about
00:06:05.780 a massive cover-up
00:06:06.940 that could have happened.
00:06:08.340 And there are questions
00:06:09.340 that need to be answered.
00:06:11.040 And there's still one big question lingering.
00:06:13.720 If Joe Biden wasn't
00:06:14.980 the president of the United States of America,
00:06:16.880 then who was calling the shots
00:06:18.540 in the White House?
00:06:19.800 And that is a question
00:06:20.940 that Republicans must get the answer to.
00:06:23.140 Now story number two.
00:06:24.680 There's a man by the name
00:06:26.000 of James Comey.
00:06:27.440 He's a former FBI director.
00:06:29.260 And there's one thing
00:06:29.920 that's very clear from his tenure,
00:06:31.700 and that was that he had a bullseye
00:06:33.240 on Donald Trump
00:06:34.260 and anyone else around him.
00:06:36.240 Well, now Senator Tom Cotton
00:06:38.220 is asking the FBI director,
00:06:40.280 Cash Patel,
00:06:41.300 to investigate everything
00:06:43.340 James Comey did at the FBI.
00:06:46.180 The Senate's Intelligence Committee chairman
00:06:48.360 has formally asked
00:06:50.220 the FBI director,
00:06:51.480 Cash Patel,
00:06:52.440 to investigate James Comey
00:06:53.960 after the disgraced
00:06:55.820 ex-FBI leader
00:06:57.360 posted a cryptic message
00:06:59.240 of 8647
00:07:01.460 on social media,
00:07:03.160 which was interpreted
00:07:04.520 as a violent threat
00:07:06.120 against President Donald Trump.
00:07:08.660 James Comey,
00:07:09.380 who served as the FBI director
00:07:10.900 after being appointed
00:07:11.940 by Barack Obama
00:07:13.020 until he was fired
00:07:14.020 by Trump in 2017,
00:07:16.280 took to Instagram
00:07:17.180 on Thursday
00:07:18.040 to share a photo
00:07:19.120 of seashells
00:07:20.480 arranged that read
00:07:21.540 8647.
00:07:23.800 And, yes,
00:07:24.920 the number 86
00:07:25.640 is a common term
00:07:26.940 used in the hospitality industry
00:07:29.340 as well as in the military
00:07:31.200 and intelligence communities,
00:07:32.900 which can mean
00:07:33.720 canceling an order 0.91
00:07:35.040 or to kill, 0.95
00:07:36.860 murder, 1.00
00:07:37.260 or execute judicially 0.70
00:07:39.020 according to how it is used
00:07:41.380 in the dictionary.
00:07:42.760 Comey deleted the post
00:07:44.060 after receiving accusations
00:07:45.180 that he was calling
00:07:46.740 for the assassination
00:07:47.760 of the president
00:07:48.840 and issued a statement
00:07:50.840 which read this way,
00:07:52.140 quote,
00:07:52.440 I posted earlier
00:07:53.480 a picture of some shells
00:07:55.020 I saw today
00:07:55.840 on a beach walk,
00:07:57.300 which I assumed
00:07:58.720 were a political message.
00:08:01.920 I didn't realize
00:08:02.680 some folks associated,
00:08:04.380 keyword,
00:08:04.960 some folks associated
00:08:06.280 those numbers
00:08:06.840 with violence.
00:08:07.880 It never occurred to me,
00:08:09.980 but I opposed violence
00:08:11.580 of any kind,
00:08:12.460 so I took the post down.
00:08:14.580 Now, Patel announced
00:08:16.160 that he had been made aware
00:08:17.380 of Comey's suspicious post,
00:08:19.280 stating that his bureau
00:08:20.420 is in communication
00:08:21.820 with the Secret Service
00:08:22.860 and the director there,
00:08:24.460 Sean Corran,
00:08:25.600 the same man that was there
00:08:26.740 protecting the president,
00:08:27.980 when that assassin 0.83
00:08:28.880 tried to take him out, 0.92
00:08:30.480 shooting his ear. 0.97
00:08:31.800 Primary jurisdiction
00:08:33.000 is the Secret Service
00:08:34.700 on these matters,
00:08:36.000 and we,
00:08:36.580 the FBI,
00:08:37.180 will provide
00:08:37.640 all necessary support,
00:08:39.680 Patel also said.
00:08:41.180 Homeland Security Secretary,
00:08:42.740 Kristi Noem,
00:08:43.620 also confirming
00:08:44.660 that the Department
00:08:45.820 of Homeland Security
00:08:46.720 and the Secret Service
00:08:47.660 are, quote,
00:08:48.340 investigating this threat
00:08:49.520 and will respond appropriately.
00:08:52.600 Now, the director
00:08:53.320 of national intelligence,
00:08:54.800 Tulsi Gabbard,
00:08:55.760 also appeared on Fox News
00:08:57.420 with Jesse Waters
00:08:58.460 to say that Comey
00:08:59.500 should be put behind bars,
00:09:01.440 as she described it,
00:09:02.380 for issuing a direct threat
00:09:03.820 against the president.
00:09:05.040 And on Friday,
00:09:06.240 that's when Senator Tom Cotton
00:09:07.740 sent a letter to Patel
00:09:08.880 officially asking him
00:09:10.240 to review all FBI actions
00:09:12.400 in which the former director,
00:09:14.360 Comey, 1.00
00:09:14.640 was personally involved.
00:09:16.340 Cotton's letter
00:09:16.900 also went on to note
00:09:18.540 that Comey has,
00:09:19.740 quote,
00:09:19.820 politicized investigations,
00:09:22.040 been at the center of leaks,
00:09:23.720 and obviously shown bias
00:09:25.300 against the Trump administration
00:09:26.800 and supporters.
00:09:28.340 The intel chair
00:09:29.160 also brought up
00:09:30.120 Trump's own response
00:09:31.560 to Comey's alarming
00:09:32.620 Instagram posts,
00:09:34.160 which he issued
00:09:34.820 during a portion
00:09:35.560 of an interview
00:09:36.240 that aired on Fox News.
00:09:37.600 According to the president,
00:09:39.340 8647 was a call
00:09:41.800 for an assassination,
00:09:43.540 saying this,
00:09:44.720 he knew what that meant.
00:09:46.800 A child knows what it meant.
00:09:49.180 If you're FBI director
00:09:50.820 and don't know what it meant,
00:09:52.420 that meant assassination,
00:09:54.300 and it says it loud and clear.
00:09:56.100 He wasn't very competent,
00:09:57.580 but competent enough
00:09:58.520 to know what that meant.
00:10:00.340 He did it for a reason,
00:10:01.980 and he was hit so hard
00:10:03.880 because people like me
00:10:05.320 and like what is happening
00:10:06.940 in this country all this.
00:10:08.540 He is calling
00:10:09.180 for the assassination 0.93
00:10:10.120 of the president.
00:10:11.480 Trump went on to add this.
00:10:13.140 I don't want to take
00:10:13.820 a position on it.
00:10:14.900 It will be up to Pan Bondi 0.96
00:10:16.240 and all the great people.
00:10:18.000 I will say I think
00:10:18.860 it's a terrible thing.
00:10:20.360 When you add his history to that,
00:10:22.240 if you had a clean history,
00:10:24.240 he doesn't. 1.00
00:10:25.340 He's a dirty cop. 0.99
00:10:26.720 If he had a clean history, 1.00
00:10:27.960 I could understand
00:10:29.040 if there were leniency.
00:10:30.940 I will let them
00:10:31.740 make that decision.
00:10:33.280 Cotton quoted the president
00:10:34.320 in the letter to Patel,
00:10:35.220 writing in the words
00:10:36.160 of President Trump,
00:10:36.960 he knew exactly what it meant.
00:10:38.940 The senator also commended
00:10:40.360 the quick launch
00:10:41.260 of an investigation
00:10:42.000 by the Secret Service
00:10:43.260 and thanked the FBI
00:10:44.220 for also offering support.
00:10:46.440 Now, you may not know
00:10:47.400 why James Comey
00:10:48.500 may have actually posted this
00:10:50.120 on social media.
00:10:51.560 It may be as simple
00:10:52.500 as he actually just wanted
00:10:53.620 to sell a bunch of books,
00:10:55.220 as one of his other posts
00:10:56.580 was about a new book
00:10:57.620 coming out.
00:10:58.540 Well, James Comey
00:10:59.260 was forced to go on MSNBC
00:11:01.400 to push out more
00:11:02.760 state-sponsored propaganda,
00:11:04.360 and here is what he said
00:11:06.320 about all of this.
00:11:08.040 You were back
00:11:08.720 in the middle
00:11:09.420 of a political firestorm.
00:11:11.380 Yeah, for walking
00:11:12.560 on the beach with my wife,
00:11:13.780 so I don't know
00:11:14.600 how we ended up here.
00:11:15.280 It never occurred to me
00:11:16.060 that it was...
00:11:16.480 By the way,
00:11:17.200 I love how James Comey
00:11:18.800 says he's now being persecuted
00:11:20.840 for walking along the beach
00:11:22.480 with his wife,
00:11:23.800 and yet here we are.
00:11:25.500 And then he says
00:11:26.260 it never occurred to me...
00:11:28.400 any kind of controversial thing,
00:11:29.920 but that's the time we live in.
00:11:31.860 So take me back
00:11:32.680 to the walk on the beach.
00:11:33.960 We were walking on the beach.
00:11:34.860 We went to the beach
00:11:35.520 to prepare for this week,
00:11:36.760 which was the launch of my book,
00:11:38.500 and to think about the book
00:11:39.660 and to prepare
00:11:40.140 to answer questions about it.
00:11:42.100 And we were walking back
00:11:43.340 towards the road,
00:11:44.540 and we saw in the sand
00:11:45.680 someone had arranged shells
00:11:47.000 with numbers.
00:11:48.520 And Patrice, my wife,
00:11:49.840 said,
00:11:50.080 why would someone put
00:11:50.780 an address in the sand?
00:11:52.280 And I said,
00:11:52.640 I don't know.
00:11:53.480 And we stood over it,
00:11:54.280 and I said,
00:11:54.580 you know,
00:11:54.700 I think it's some kind
00:11:55.360 of political message.
00:11:57.260 And she said,
00:11:57.740 you know,
00:11:58.000 86 when I was a server,
00:11:59.720 she did a lot of working
00:12:00.420 in restaurants,
00:12:01.140 meant to remove an item
00:12:02.440 from the menu
00:12:02.980 when you ran out
00:12:03.720 of ingredients.
00:12:04.520 And I said,
00:12:04.920 well, to me,
00:12:05.860 as a kid,
00:12:06.340 it always meant
00:12:06.840 to leave a place,
00:12:08.000 to ditch a place.
00:12:09.200 I said,
00:12:09.460 that's really clever.
00:12:10.640 So then she said,
00:12:11.260 you should take a picture
00:12:11.840 of that,
00:12:12.300 and I did.
00:12:13.280 And I posted it
00:12:13.940 on my Instagram account
00:12:15.460 and thought nothing more of it
00:12:17.620 until I heard through her
00:12:19.440 that people were saying
00:12:20.420 it was some sort of
00:12:21.060 a call for assassination,
00:12:22.640 which is crazy.
00:12:23.980 But I took it down.
00:12:25.000 Even if I think it's crazy,
00:12:26.240 I don't want to be
00:12:26.740 associated with violence
00:12:27.820 of any kind.
00:12:29.360 At the end of the day,
00:12:30.580 that's the story
00:12:31.520 that he's telling.
00:12:32.560 It doesn't mean it's real,
00:12:33.880 and this is a guy 0.99
00:12:34.780 that lies and hates 0.99
00:12:35.700 Donald Trump.
00:12:36.680 I don't feel sorry,
00:12:37.480 by the way,
00:12:37.980 for James Comey.
00:12:38.940 I think he knew
00:12:39.480 exactly what he was doing.
00:12:41.000 And as Donald Trump said,
00:12:42.020 it'll be up to the great
00:12:42.840 people beneath him
00:12:43.640 to decide
00:12:44.240 what happens next.
00:12:46.060 And we'll keep you updated.
00:12:47.560 And finally,
00:12:48.380 story number three.
00:12:49.360 There's one thing
00:12:50.120 that is for sure.
00:12:51.260 Democrats are having
00:12:52.400 a tough couple of weeks.
00:12:53.820 James Comey
00:12:54.420 is under investigation.
00:12:56.340 Now there's a massive
00:12:57.220 tell-all book
00:12:58.200 talking about Joe Biden
00:12:59.500 not actually being
00:13:00.420 the President
00:13:00.860 of the United States
00:13:01.520 of America.
00:13:02.580 And Democrats
00:13:03.380 who are rallying
00:13:04.700 behind the
00:13:05.560 86-47 picture
00:13:07.880 on the beach.
00:13:09.040 It's not going well.
00:13:10.640 But who is it
00:13:11.200 going well for?
00:13:12.300 Where four polls
00:13:13.480 are now showing
00:13:14.280 that Donald Trump
00:13:15.160 has a strong
00:13:16.380 approval rating.
00:13:17.880 That's right.
00:13:18.600 Coming off of
00:13:19.540 last week's trip
00:13:20.400 to the Middle East
00:13:21.180 and his administration's
00:13:22.240 recent progress
00:13:23.180 on trade agreements,
00:13:24.920 it appears to have
00:13:25.840 boosted the perception
00:13:26.960 among American voters.
00:13:28.480 With four national polls
00:13:29.580 now showing
00:13:30.260 Donald Trump's
00:13:30.900 favorability rating
00:13:31.860 above 47%,
00:13:34.520 consistent with the levels
00:13:35.860 following his inauguration.
00:13:37.880 Polls released on Monday
00:13:39.220 by Morning Consult,
00:13:40.680 Rasmussen,
00:13:41.480 and Harvard,
00:13:42.520 Harris showed
00:13:43.360 Trump's approval ratings
00:13:44.520 at 48,
00:13:45.560 49,
00:13:46.300 and 47,
00:13:47.200 respectively.
00:13:48.200 And the Daily Mail
00:13:49.100 poll released Sunday
00:13:50.080 showed his approval rating
00:13:51.200 at actually 50%.
00:13:53.080 Despite the doom and gloom
00:13:54.440 headlines from news
00:13:55.500 organizations,
00:13:56.820 the American people
00:13:57.800 actually feel great
00:13:59.260 about the direction
00:14:00.260 of the country.
00:14:01.540 That's what the White House
00:14:02.520 had to say
00:14:03.140 and adding this,
00:14:04.440 what's to hate?
00:14:05.320 We are undoing
00:14:06.220 the widely unpopular
00:14:07.280 agenda of the previous
00:14:08.460 office holder,
00:14:09.660 uprooting waste,
00:14:10.780 fraud,
00:14:11.180 and abuse,
00:14:12.120 and chugging along
00:14:13.020 on the great American
00:14:14.100 comeback.
00:14:15.180 The Daily Mail poll
00:14:16.120 was conducted,
00:14:16.980 by the way,
00:14:17.460 May 13th and 14th,
00:14:19.080 with a large sample
00:14:20.220 size of more than
00:14:21.120 1,000 registered voters.
00:14:23.220 Trump's approval rating
00:14:24.140 is up 5 percentage points
00:14:25.660 from a poll taken
00:14:26.740 100 days into his
00:14:27.860 second term,
00:14:29.100 nearly three weeks ago.
00:14:30.680 The most important
00:14:31.460 thing this shows
00:14:32.400 is that Trump
00:14:33.140 can bounce back
00:14:34.340 when some of his
00:14:35.180 voters waver,
00:14:36.540 is what James Johnson,
00:14:37.760 the co-founder
00:14:38.380 of JL Partners,
00:14:40.480 said.
00:14:41.180 People who were
00:14:41.780 concerned about
00:14:42.520 the sense of direction,
00:14:43.760 the strength,
00:14:44.320 after tariff reversals
00:14:46.020 are now back on board
00:14:47.340 as they see the president
00:14:48.380 doing what they feel
00:14:49.440 he does best,
00:14:50.660 making deals.
00:14:52.060 This,
00:14:52.520 on top of the new news
00:14:53.640 that we may actually
00:14:54.460 get an end of the war
00:14:55.320 with Ukraine and Russia,
00:14:56.820 that the president
00:14:57.500 is brokering,
00:14:58.360 will only push
00:14:59.280 his approval ratings
00:15:00.240 higher.
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