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

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The episode discusses allegations of a security breach involving senior Trump administration officials and journalist Jeffrey Goldberg. Defense Secretary Pete Hedgeseth denies the claims, questioning Goldberg's credibility.
  • A journalist was allegedly included in a group chat discussing military plans.
  • Officials involved were Pete Hedgeseth, J.D. Vance, and Marco Rubio.
  • Pete Hedgeseth denies the claims, calling Goldberg a discredited journalist.

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-Having to do with what? What were they talking about? -With the hooties. -You mean the attack on the hooties? Well, it couldn't have been very effective because the attack was very effective, I can tell you that. -Thanks to President Trump's directive, we are seeking the death penalty again. And the drug dealers need to get out of here because we are coming after you.

You're listening to the 47 Morning Update with Ben Ferguson. Good Tuesday morning. Welcome. It is the 47 Morning Update. Ben Ferguson with you. And here are the big stories that we're covering this morning. First up, there is an accusation of a significant security breach involving senior officials from Donald Trump's administration. Well, the Defense Secretary, Pete Hedgeseth, is now fighting back, claiming...

that the journalist Jeffrey Goldberg, who says that he was inadvertently included in a text message group, is not telling the truth. I'll have the details on that in just a second. Also, Donald Trump is doing exactly what he claimed he was going to do, build businesses in America and bring manufacturing back to America. He just secured a $21 billion Hyundai investment.

And he's not done there. I'll give you the details on that as well. And finally, you may have noticed that the media is all using the same words as Democratic lawmakers to attack Elon Musk over the last week. We have a montage on that to show you just how corrupt the Democratic leadership is

and working with the media. It's the 47 Morning Update, and it starts right now. Story number one. There is a bombshell report that is out right now, and the media is absolutely loving every minute of it. They're claiming there was a major security breach occur

when the Trump administration officials accidentally included a journalist by the name of Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic in a group chat where they were discussing secret U.S. military plans to strike Houthi targets in Yemen. The chat took place on the encrypted app

signal and involved high-level officials like Defense Secretary Pete Hedgeseth, the Vice President J.D. Vance, and Secretary of State Marco Rubio. They claim that the leak is exposing details like targets, weapons, and timing, sparking bipartisan quote-unquote outrage. There's just one problem with the story. Pete Hedgeseth is saying it's not true. Here is what he said after

landing in Hawaii on an official visit when asked by the media about this new accusation. Can you share how your information about war war plans against the Houthis in Yemen was shared with a journalist in the Atlantic and were those details classified? So I you're talking about a

deceitful and highly discredited so-called journalist who's made a profession of peddling hoaxes time and time again to include the, I don't know, the hoaxes of Russia, Russia, Russia, or the fine people on both sides hoax, or suckers and losers hoax. So this is the guy that peddles in garbage. This is what he does. I would love to comment on the Houthi campaign.

Because of the skill and courage of our troops. I've monitored it very closely from the beginning and you see we've been managing four years of deferred maintenance under the Trump administration our troops our sailors were getting shot at as Targets our ships couldn't sail through and when they did shoot back It was purely defensively or at shacks in Yemen President Trump said no more

We will reestablish deterrence, we will open freedom of navigation, and we will ultimately decimate the Houthis, which is exactly what we're doing as we speak from the beginning overwhelmingly. Some of those details shared on Signal, and how did you learn that a journalist was privy to the targets, the types of weapons used? I've heard I was characterized. Nobody was texting war plans, and that's all I have to say about that.

One other point of information that you may want to know about Goldberg is this is the same person who is now claiming to be on these text messages getting top secret information about

who famously wrote a story claiming that Donald Trump had called American troops who died in World War II suckers and losers, something that also never happened. So just remember, when you see stories like this, you may want to look at who's writing it and go back.

back and read their history of all the stories that they may have gotten wrong in the past. Now, story number two. One of Donald Trump's big promises to the American worker was that he was going to bring American jobs back from overseas. Well, President Donald Trump is now estimating that four trillion worth of companies are moving back overseas.

to the United States of America. That's right. During a cabinet meeting, the president said he's very excited to let the American people know what all is happening when it comes to bringing companies back to the U.S. Specifically, many of them are coming back for one reason, because of the tariffs that he's been putting in overseas. Take a listen to the president in his own words. We had a very, very good cabinet meeting. We're on our way to some tremendous numbers. I think, uh,

First of all, many companies are now moving into the United States. They're coming back. Some of them left us from many years ago, decades ago, and they're all, seems they're all coming back. We have probably identified maybe $4 trillion worth of companies moving back or going to move back.

Many of them have announced it's going to be tremendous jobs, high paying jobs, too. And you probably know the chip business, not because of the Chips Act, which was a disaster. You gave billions of dollars to companies that already have many billions of dollars. They just they said, thank you very much. It was no incentive for them to use it. But what is good is the tariffs will make it so that they want to come back. That's why they're coming back. I think they're coming back.

because of the election that took place on November 5th and because of the fact that they have to come back because the tariffs are forcing them to come back. And remember, there are no tariffs if you build here. And that's a big factor. So we have record numbers. Howard was just telling me the numbers that we're talking about are...

crazy beyond anybody's wildest expectation. So they'll be doing a lot of building, all sorts of businesses, including the basics of automobiles. We have, as you know, Indiana's, Honda's coming in with a massive plant to Indiana. But there are many plants that are happening

and literally summer started already. General Motors is already redoing plants that were half abandoned or they have plants that weren't being fully utilized. They're gonna be, they and others are gonna be making parts and other things in those plants so that it's one stop shopping finally. It's ridiculous. You had to go to Mexico, you had to go to Canada, a car went all over the place. It was like, I don't know how that would have worked, but that's the way it sort of ended up.

We had a deal and we have a deal. It's fine. But people took advantage of the deal. They cheated. And when you cheat, the deals are unfortunate. But now what's happening is the numbers are beyond our wildest expectations. Beyond our wildest expectations. Now, this is coming on top of the fact that President Donald Trump's terror policies have also secured a major investment from the Korean automaker Hyundai at least $4

$5.8 billion will be invested in a new steel plant in Louisiana. The announcement coming today and this endeavor is part of a broader commitment by the South Korean automaker, which plans to channel $21 billion

billion in various U.S. projects over the next few years. Now this new plant is forecast to produce 2.7 million metric tons of steel annually in America. It will also provide over 1,400

This, according to President Trump, saying the facility marks Hyundai's inaugural steel production venture on U.S. soil and will support its automotive manufacturing operations, not only in Alabama, but all over the world.

also in Georgia. So yet again, the president of the United States of America making it very clear he is standing up for American workers and securing jobs for them by bringing overseas businesses back to the United States of America. And finally, story number three. I want to take a moment and talk to you about Elon Musk. The corporate media sponsored

Simultaneously over the past couple weeks has come up with the same exact talking points to undermine and attack Elon Musk over and over again. The media seems to be saying the same exact thing in a very clear,

coordinated attempt to undermine and to hope that Elon Musk will somehow get fired from his job with Doge or quit. The media has tried to put a wedge between Elon Musk and the president on countless occasions now, trying to get them into some sort of

spat. They've also tried to say that Elon Musk is actually bigger than Donald Trump, trying to play into the ego game so that Donald Trump will kick him out of the Oval Office or maybe take him out of his administration altogether. None of it has worked. In fact, I actually think that Elon Musk and Donald Trump are laughing at the fact that this is what they're trying to do. So now we've seen orchestrated attacks.

Clearly orchestrated attacks against Tesla, Tesla owners, car dealerships. The threat that if you buy a Tesla, your car is going to be burned or certainly damaged. That people are going to surround your car and hit you or attack you because you own a Tesla. We witnessed that over the weekend in New York City. We've seen dealerships that have been firebombed. We've seen dealerships that have literally been shot up. I thought Democrats were against guns, but apparently not now.

If it means shooting at a Tesla. So just how coordinated is the media in trying to destroy Elon Musk because of what he's doing to destroy our government, to get rid of the waste, fraud and abuse, the corruption of the Democratic Party to undo all of that?

Well, it looks like now they're going into full court press where they're colluding with one another, doing everything they can to get rid of Elon Musk. If you don't believe me, take a listen. Elon Musk's so-called Department of Government Efficiency is taking a chainsaw to the federal workforce.

Elon Musk continues his chainsaw attack in Washington. Taking a chainsaw, if you will, to the federal government, that's, you know, decapitating a lot of lives. They've slashed and hacked with the chainsaw. The slashing and the burning the chainsaw. Elon Musk with that chainsaw.

I mean, he's walking around acting like he's the head of Doge. He's, you know, brandishing the chainsaw. Nine months pregnant with Elon Musk's chainsaw. Marauding with a chainsaw. Wait a second, Buster. Put your chainsaw away. They cannot attack federal agencies with a chainsaw. He's doing it in a way with a chainsaw that alienates people. Bright man, bright hand.

Chainsaw man. That has a chainsaw. That's chainsaw stuff. Who used the chainsaw? Elon Musk is an unelected man child running around the country with a pretend chainsaw. That is your media. That is your Democratic Party. That is them colluding together in a, quote, spontaneous...

moment that happened time and time and time and time again, all because they don't know how to stop Doge or Elon Musk or Donald Trump. Let me just say, the majority of the American people are behind Elon Musk and his chainsaw, no matter what the corporate media tries to tell you. Thank you for listening to the 47 Morning Update with Ben Ferguson.

Please make sure you hit subscribe wherever you're listening to this podcast right now. And for more in-depth news, also subscribe to the Ben Ferguson podcast, and we will see you back here tomorrow.

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