Latest / The 47 Morning Update with Ben Ferguson / El-Sayed and the The Pink Ribbon Lobby plus Moscow go BOOM!

Transcript

El-Sayed and the The Pink Ribbon Lobby plus Moscow go BOOM! · The 47 Morning Update with Ben Ferguson

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: And this, this is the big enchilada. To me, this
• 0:03
  Speaker 1: is the fourth industrial revolution. All the chips are on
• 0:07
  Speaker 1: the table and the president sees it. He's got the prescience,
• 0:10
  Speaker 1: the foresight to see it and he's pushing it. And yet,
• 0:14
  Speaker 1: all we see on TV, 80% of it, 90% of it,
• 0:17
  Speaker 1: what if some jerk in the basement is developing nuclear weapons?
• 0:21
  Speaker 1: I mean, when you consider all the things that are
• 0:24
  Speaker 1: going on out there to improve human life, how do
• 0:27
  Speaker 1: you respond to that?
• 0:29
  Speaker 2: You're listening to the 47 Morning Update with Ben Ferguson.
• 0:33
  Speaker 3: Donald Trump signs massive sweeping Russian sanctions. It is a
• 0:37
  Speaker 3: bill aiming to choke off Vladimir Putin and Moscow's funds
• 0:41
  Speaker 3: for the Ukrainian war. So what did he actually do?
• 0:44
  Speaker 3: I break it all down for you. Also, Democrats on
• 0:48
  Speaker 3: defense right now with El-Said's campaign. After a disturbing op-ed
• 0:54
  Speaker 3: by El-Said attacked women... who have breast cancer, saying that
• 0:59
  Speaker 3: the disease affects people with, quote, social power and privilege.
• 1:03
  Speaker 3: One of the most sexist op-eds I've ever read. And
• 1:07
  Speaker 3: we have the facts on it. But before we get
• 1:09
  Speaker 3: to that, the stakes could not be higher. We finally
• 1:12
  Speaker 3: have a president and an administration fighting hard for America first.
• 1:16
  Speaker 3: If conservatives lose focus now, the same people who created
• 1:19
  Speaker 3: this mess, well, they're ready and waiting to resume their destruction. Now,
• 1:23
  Speaker 3: protecting this momentum takes more than just votes. It takes
• 1:26
  Speaker 3: everyday Americans like you and I staying in the fight
• 1:29
  Speaker 3: for our rights and for our freedoms. And that is
• 1:33
  Speaker 3: why I want you to know about Patriot Mobile. I
• 1:36
  Speaker 3: switched to Patriot Mobile years ago. They're America's only Christian
• 1:40
  Speaker 3: conservative wireless provider. Patriot Mobile offers premium priority nationwide service
• 1:45
  Speaker 3: on all three major U.S. networks. Unlimited data plans, mobile hotspots,
• 1:50
  Speaker 3: international roaming, and 100% U.S.-based customer support. Now, you can
• 1:54
  Speaker 3: switch in minutes while keeping your phone and your number.
• 1:58
  Speaker 3: And unlike the other carriers, Patriot Mobile puts your money
• 2:01
  Speaker 3: towards causes defending faith, family, and freedom. They literally contribute
• 2:05
  Speaker 3: millions of dollars each year to organizations on the front
• 2:08
  Speaker 3: lines fighting for our God-given rights and the rights of
• 2:11
  Speaker 3: unborn children as well. Now, Patriot Mobile isn't just talking
• 2:14
  Speaker 3: about saving America. They're putting their business behind the fight
• 2:17
  Speaker 3: every single day. So join the movement. Go to patriotmobile.com
• 2:22
  Speaker 3: slash ben47 or call 972-PATRIOT. And if you use that
• 2:27
  Speaker 3: promo code BEN47, you'll get a free month of service.
• 2:30
  Speaker 3: PatriotMobile.com slash Ben47 or 972-PATRIOT and make that switch today.
• 2:36
  Speaker 3: It's the 47 Morning Update and it starts right now.
• 2:39
  Speaker 2: Story number one.
• 2:40
  Speaker 3: Ukraine has fired more than a thousand drones at Russia,
• 2:44
  Speaker 3: including hundreds of them that actually were going to Moscow.
• 2:48
  Speaker 3: Hundreds of miles inside of that country from its border
• 2:52
  Speaker 3: with Ukraine. Ukrainian forces fired more than 1,000 drones at
• 2:56
  Speaker 3: Russia overnight, including hundreds that were launched towards Moscow. Officials
• 3:00
  Speaker 3: said Sunday as the Kremlin was wrapping up the third
• 3:03
  Speaker 3: and last day of its parliamentary elections. Moscow's mayor described
• 3:08
  Speaker 3: the wave of drones as the largest ever attack on
• 3:11
  Speaker 3: the Russian capital and said there had been damage to
• 3:14
  Speaker 3: Moscow's famous oil refinery as well as residential buildings. Across
• 3:20
  Speaker 3: the wider Moscow region, the attack killed two people and
• 3:23
  Speaker 3: wounded 20, is what the local government mayor had to say.
• 3:26
  Speaker 3: The dead, they say, were a 74-year-old man and a
• 3:29
  Speaker 3: 44-year-old woman. Writing on social media, the Ukrainian President Zelensky
• 3:34
  Speaker 3: said that Kyiv had used a range of missiles and
• 3:37
  Speaker 3: drones in the attack, including Ukraine's domestically made Flamingo and
• 3:41
  Speaker 3: Pelican missiles to hit oil and logistics facilities, saying, quote,
• 3:46
  Speaker 3: these are billions of dollars that sustain the war machines.
• 3:49
  Speaker 3: referring to the financial pressure that Kiev hopes to put
• 3:52
  Speaker 3: on Russia's economy with the new attack. That clearly was
• 3:56
  Speaker 3: the goal of the attack, was to hurt them financially.
• 4:00
  Speaker 3: Ukraine also continued to fend off Russian attacks, Zelensky said,
• 4:03
  Speaker 3: saying a Russian drone strike hit a monastery in Ukraine,
• 4:08
  Speaker 3: a region killing a member of the clergy and wounding
• 4:10
  Speaker 3: four people as well. Now, a Russian attack on the
• 4:13
  Speaker 3: Ukrainian capital also, they say, killed two children and their
• 4:16
  Speaker 3: mother on Saturday evening. That is what the head of
• 4:19
  Speaker 3: the Kiev Regional State Administration said. He later said that
• 4:23
  Speaker 3: another child was wounded in the same attack, had died
• 4:26
  Speaker 3: in the hospital on Sunday. Now, that attack took place
• 4:30
  Speaker 3: on the final day of Russia's first wartime parliamentary election,
• 4:35
  Speaker 3: balloting that had been virtually devoid of opposition to President
• 4:40
  Speaker 3: Putin's policies. and is all but certain to cement the
• 4:44
  Speaker 3: Kremlin's dominance, because if you were someone that disagreed with
• 4:48
  Speaker 3: Vladimir Putin, good luck getting on the ballot. You were
• 4:51
  Speaker 3: banned from running for election. That should surprise no one
• 4:55
  Speaker 3: at all. Now, Russia was also holding the vote in
• 4:58
  Speaker 3: the four Ukrainian regions that Moscow illegally annexed after the
• 5:03
  Speaker 3: war began, but still doesn't fully control. And also, we
• 5:07
  Speaker 3: know in Crimea, the Black Sea Peninsula that was illegally
• 5:10
  Speaker 3: annexed by Russia back in 2014. Now, Kiev has denounced
• 5:14
  Speaker 3: the actions also, obviously, as illegal. So have many international organizations. Now,
• 5:19
  Speaker 3: Russia's Ministry of Defense said that its forces, they shut
• 5:23
  Speaker 3: down a total, they claim, of 1,110 Ukrainian drones across
• 5:26
  Speaker 3: the country. as well as over the annexed Ukrainian peninsula
• 5:31
  Speaker 3: of Crimea and the waters of the Black Sea. Moscow's
• 5:35
  Speaker 3: mayor said that 450 drones had been destroyed en route
• 5:38
  Speaker 3: to the Russian capital and that the attack had damaged
• 5:40
  Speaker 3: the Moscow oil refinery and residential building, admitting that that
• 5:44
  Speaker 3: did in fact take place. He also said the unprecedented
• 5:48
  Speaker 3: attack on Moscow was an attempt to disrupt the elections.
• 5:51
  Speaker 3: The enemy failed in that regard. Now, Russia's invasion happened
• 5:56
  Speaker 3: again more than four years ago. And Ukraine had become
• 5:59
  Speaker 3: a global leader in military drone technology, deploying domestically produced
• 6:04
  Speaker 3: long-range drones alongside missiles for strikes deep inside Russia, which
• 6:08
  Speaker 3: clearly now are becoming more and more effective every day. Now,
• 6:12
  Speaker 3: what's also interesting in Ukraine is that strong technology has
• 6:16
  Speaker 3: impressed governments and defense manufacturers literally around the world because, well,
• 6:21
  Speaker 3: we're now four-plus years into this war. They've had time
• 6:23
  Speaker 3: to truly develop it, test it, and see what works. Now,
• 6:27
  Speaker 3: what we've also been told is Ukraine is aiming to
• 6:29
  Speaker 3: make the Russian public feel the worst consequences and pressure
• 6:34
  Speaker 3: the President Putin to negotiate a peace settlement. And the
• 6:38
  Speaker 3: only way to do that is actually hit places like Moscow,
• 6:40
  Speaker 3: where the public traditionally feels far away from those front
• 6:46
  Speaker 3: lines in the war machine. Now, Putin has so far
• 6:49
  Speaker 3: showed no signs that he intends to stop the invasions. Instead,
• 6:53
  Speaker 3: Moscow and Kiev have been drawn to an escalating duel
• 6:56
  Speaker 3: of long-range aerial strikes and then fighting along the 780-mile
• 7:01
  Speaker 3: front line. I want you to think about that. The
• 7:03
  Speaker 3: front lines of this war is 780 miles. In eastern
• 7:08
  Speaker 3: and southern Ukraine, that is slowed. It is restricted by
• 7:12
  Speaker 3: a large number of drones and ground robots that are
• 7:14
  Speaker 3: threatening the troop movements there. So it's almost like it's
• 7:17
  Speaker 3: a stagnant war in many ways there. And that's part
• 7:20
  Speaker 3: of why we're witnessing it right now. Now, we also
• 7:23
  Speaker 3: know that Donald Trump has signed sweeping Russian sanctions bill
• 7:28
  Speaker 3: aiming to choke off Moscow's funds for the Ukrainian war.
• 7:32
  Speaker 3: This is something, by the way, that no one is
• 7:34
  Speaker 3: talking about that happened just yesterday. The president signing on
• 7:39
  Speaker 3: Friday into law sweeping sanctions package targeting Russian officials and
• 7:44
  Speaker 3: key pillars of its economy that is meant to punish
• 7:47
  Speaker 3: and then pressure Russia for its ongoing war against Ukraine.
• 7:51
  Speaker 3: The measure was a final legacy item for the late
• 7:55
  Speaker 3: Senator Lindsey Graham. He was a close ally and friend
• 7:58
  Speaker 3: of the president who had just returned from Ukraine when
• 8:00
  Speaker 3: he unexpectedly died back in July. Now, in the works
• 8:03
  Speaker 3: for more than a year, the bill passed the large
• 8:05
  Speaker 3: bipartisan margin 86 to 11 in the Senate and 262
• 8:09
  Speaker 3: to 159 in the House. It's meant to starve Russian
• 8:13
  Speaker 3: President Putin of resources that Moscow needs to continue its
• 8:16
  Speaker 3: war in Ukraine after invading its neighbor more than four
• 8:20
  Speaker 3: years ago. Now, the bill was also drafted by Senator
• 8:23
  Speaker 3: Richard Blumenthal, a Democrat from Connecticut, and the sanction of
• 8:27
  Speaker 3: Russian officials also extends to banks and then the shadow
• 8:30
  Speaker 3: fleet of tankers that keeps Russian energy moving. It also
• 8:35
  Speaker 3: directs Trump to impose up to 100% tariffs on its
• 8:39
  Speaker 3: top five importers of Russian oil or natural gas, with
• 8:43
  Speaker 3: an exception for countries that import at least, I should say,
• 8:47
  Speaker 3: less than 15% of Russia's natural gas exports and have
• 8:50
  Speaker 3: taken Significant steps to reduce those imports from Russia directly.
• 8:56
  Speaker 3: Senator Darlene Graham, Lindsey Graham's sister, said in a statement Friday, quote,
• 8:59
  Speaker 3: I wish Lindsey were here to celebrate this historic day.
• 9:02
  Speaker 3: I know he would be so proud. Lindsey believed this
• 9:04
  Speaker 3: bill and this bill, which he worked on for well
• 9:07
  Speaker 3: over a year, would help end the war through squeezing
• 9:11
  Speaker 3: Putin economically and forcing its customers to reevaluate their relationship
• 9:16
  Speaker 3: with Russia. Now, Graham was appointed, by the way, to
• 9:19
  Speaker 3: complete her late brother's Senate term in Donald Trump was
• 9:22
  Speaker 3: a big proponent, obviously, of that. I think the takeaway
• 9:27
  Speaker 3: from this is two things. One, what we're witnessing right
• 9:30
  Speaker 3: now is something that's very new and very different. You
• 9:34
  Speaker 3: have a president now that is dealing with Iran and saying, look,
• 9:38
  Speaker 3: I can't do anything close to that with Russia and Ukraine.
• 9:40
  Speaker 3: What I can do is I can sanction the hell
• 9:45
  Speaker 3: out of Russia and I can go after the oligarchs
• 9:47
  Speaker 3: and I can go after the financial systems. I can
• 9:50
  Speaker 3: go after the shadow fleet. I can do all of
• 9:52
  Speaker 3: these things that will have a massive negative impact on
• 9:56
  Speaker 3: Vladimir Putin's war machine financially, because without that money, the
• 9:59
  Speaker 3: war machine doesn't work. work. We also know that Russia's
• 10:02
  Speaker 3: economy is floundering right now and it's a real problem
• 10:06
  Speaker 3: because they're getting squeezed. And look, the president's saying, hey,
• 10:09
  Speaker 3: you can pick sides here. If you want to do
• 10:11
  Speaker 3: business with Russia, good luck. It isn't going to end
• 10:13
  Speaker 3: well for you. That's part of his game plan, clearly.
• 10:17
  Speaker 3: And what he is saying is if you think America
• 10:19
  Speaker 3: is going to sit by and let you guys keep
• 10:21
  Speaker 3: doing all this business with Russia and enrich them and
• 10:25
  Speaker 3: fuel their war machine, well, guess what? You're wrong. We're
• 10:28
  Speaker 3: not going to let that happen. So this is the
• 10:31
  Speaker 3: Trump doctrine in real time working. If you, by the way,
• 10:35
  Speaker 3: are a Russian oligarch, you are really feeling the pain
• 10:39
  Speaker 3: right now, which is also part of President Trump's dream,
• 10:42
  Speaker 3: is that the people around Putin will start realizing that
• 10:46
  Speaker 3: How bad it's hurting them. They're more likely to talk
• 10:49
  Speaker 3: to Vladimir Putin about this war and say, hey, maybe
• 10:51
  Speaker 3: it's time for us to end this thing or get
• 10:53
  Speaker 3: out of this thing or do whatever we've got to do.
• 10:55
  Speaker 3: And the question now becomes the timing. Because one thing
• 10:59
  Speaker 3: that does seem to be clear, Ukraine's ability to attack
• 11:02
  Speaker 3: Ukraine is getting more, let me rephrase that, Ukraine's ability
• 11:07
  Speaker 3: to attack Russia, their ability to do it seems to
• 11:12
  Speaker 3: be getting even bigger and better than it ever has
• 11:17
  Speaker 3: been in the war.
• 11:18
  Speaker 2: Next, story number two.
• 11:20
  Speaker 3: There is an interesting thing that is happening, and it
• 11:22
  Speaker 3: really started over the weekend of the Democratic Party, and
• 11:25
  Speaker 3: it's damage control. The midterms are here, and the data
• 11:30
  Speaker 3: is now looking like El-Said may be losing ground in
• 11:34
  Speaker 3: that major Senate race. And now it is, what do
• 11:39
  Speaker 3: you do? Do you abandon him, or do you double
• 11:41
  Speaker 3: down on him? And if you do double down on El-Said...
• 11:45
  Speaker 3: Does that mean that it would hurt other candidates around
• 11:47
  Speaker 3: the country? Well, Democrats are trying to figure that out. Now,
• 11:52
  Speaker 3: it is damage control is what Cory Booker had to
• 11:56
  Speaker 3: deal with, and he was asked about El-Sayed being French.
• 12:00
  Speaker 3: Kristen Welker on Meet the Press asked Cory Booker about
• 12:04
  Speaker 3: this issue. And I want you to hear how interesting
• 12:07
  Speaker 3: the words that Cory Booker used were. to describe his committal,
• 12:13
  Speaker 3: non-committal way of answering the question.
• 12:16
  Speaker 4: Senator, you see there in our poll, socialism is viewed
• 12:20
  Speaker 4: even more negatively, as I said, than the MAGA movement.
• 12:23
  Speaker 4: President Trump is trying to paint progressives and, frankly, all
• 12:27
  Speaker 4: Democrats as socialists. And we're seeing one of the big
• 12:31
  Speaker 4: battles play out for progressivism in Michigan right now with
• 12:36
  Speaker 4: Abdul Al-Sayed, the candidate there, who did tell me he
• 12:39
  Speaker 4: was a capitalist, by the way. But do you think
• 12:42
  Speaker 4: Democrats are drawing a firm enough line between themselves and
• 12:47
  Speaker 4: socialism again this is really what the republicans want to
• 12:51
  Speaker 4: do focus on a few fringe people i serve in
• 12:54
  Speaker 4: the united states senate uh and i can go through
• 12:56
  Speaker 4: my colleagues left and right i.
• 12:59
  Speaker 3: I love how he responded that did you hear the
• 13:01
  Speaker 3: words that he chose the way he described to answer
• 13:04
  Speaker 3: it right like he's like this is really what republicans
• 13:07
  Speaker 3: want uh want to do focus on a few fringe
• 13:10
  Speaker 3: people that is not how the democratic party has been
• 13:13
  Speaker 3: treating el saif He's not a fringe guy. He is
• 13:17
  Speaker 3: their guy. And if you don't believe me, look at
• 13:19
  Speaker 3: his giving. Look at the amount of money that Democrats
• 13:21
  Speaker 3: are sinking into that race. Look at how they made
• 13:24
  Speaker 3: it a focal point of their races. Look at how
• 13:26
  Speaker 3: the Democratic Socialists of America have forced the Democratic Party
• 13:29
  Speaker 3: to just accept what they have with him. It's truly remarkable. Now,
• 13:36
  Speaker 3: what's also interesting is the Washington Free Beacon came out
• 13:39
  Speaker 3: with an article. And it said Abdul El-Said railed against Trump.
• 13:44
  Speaker 3: disturbing funding, all right, for breast cancer research and said
• 13:50
  Speaker 3: the disease affects people with, quote, social power and privilege.
• 13:55
  Speaker 3: This has really started to rock the race because it's
• 13:59
  Speaker 3: a comment that you could also argue is incredibly sexist.
• 14:03
  Speaker 3: The Michigan Democrat denounced the pink ribbon lobby in an
• 14:07
  Speaker 3: essay published during Breast Cancer Awareness Month. The Michigan Democratic
• 14:12
  Speaker 3: candidate said, in a fiery essay, railed against the breast
• 14:17
  Speaker 3: cancer lobby and blasted breast cancer advocacy groups for creating
• 14:21
  Speaker 3: the impression that women were in immediate danger from the disease. Now,
• 14:25
  Speaker 3: this essay that has been unearthed came out in 2012.
• 14:30
  Speaker 3: It was entitled, The Pink Ribbon Lobby and Everyone Else. El-Sayed,
• 14:34
  Speaker 3: who has a medical degree and refers to himself as Dr. El-Sayed,
• 14:38
  Speaker 3: in political ads, bemoans the increase, he says, in federal
• 14:41
  Speaker 3: funding for breast cancer research. calling it a disturbing trend
• 14:45
  Speaker 3: that diverts federal funding to study other serious diseases. The culprit,
• 14:49
  Speaker 3: according to El-Sayed, was the all-powerful breast cancer lobby, which
• 14:54
  Speaker 3: he also derided as the pink ribbon lobby, a reference
• 14:57
  Speaker 3: to the pink ribbons that commemorate Breast Cancer Awareness Month
• 15:01
  Speaker 3: each October. Quote, the breast cancer lobby has done an
• 15:05
  Speaker 3: incredible job of raising my awareness of breast cancer. He
• 15:09
  Speaker 3: wrote in a 2x2 project, a journal sponsored by Columbia
• 15:12
  Speaker 3: University's School of Public Health, where El-Sayed worked as a
• 15:16
  Speaker 3: doctor there, an epidemiologist. El-Sayed noted that the George Washington
• 15:21
  Speaker 3: Bridge in New York City was adorned with pink lights
• 15:24
  Speaker 3: and that his alma mater's football team, the Michigan Wolverines,
• 15:27
  Speaker 3: were decked out in pink cleats and armbands, saying this,
• 15:32
  Speaker 3: If I weren't an epidemiologist, it would have me believing
• 15:37
  Speaker 3: that the women around me were in immediate danger, were
• 15:40
  Speaker 3: in imminent danger, El-Sayed, who also said that the significant
• 15:44
  Speaker 3: funding for breast cancer created a problem, he said, for
• 15:48
  Speaker 3: equity in health research allocation by prioritizing funding for diseases
• 15:53
  Speaker 3: that affect people with social power and privilege. Now, let's
• 15:57
  Speaker 3: just stop there for a second. If you are a woman,
• 16:01
  Speaker 3: let's be very clear what El-Sayed is saying in this
• 16:04
  Speaker 3: op-ed that he wrote. What he's saying is, if you're
• 16:09
  Speaker 3: a woman... You don't deserve priority in healthcare, even with
• 16:13
  Speaker 3: something like breast cancer. You just don't deserve it, right?
• 16:17
  Speaker 3: You don't. You don't deserve to have it. You don't
• 16:21
  Speaker 3: deserve to be a priority. You don't deserve to be
• 16:28
  Speaker 3: at the top of the food chain, specifically because you
• 16:34
  Speaker 3: are a woman. Now, if you're a woman... and you're
• 16:38
  Speaker 3: hearing this, I would hope that this would enrage you,
• 16:41
  Speaker 3: that this is how little El Saeed actually thinks about women.
• 16:46
  Speaker 3: These are his words, folks. And this goes back to
• 16:49
  Speaker 3: who he is as a person. He is a fundamental
• 16:52
  Speaker 3: radical who believes that women should be silent, should shut up,
• 16:55
  Speaker 3: and that having breast cancer is not something he should
• 16:57
  Speaker 3: be concerned with because it's a privileged cancer. You're a rich,
• 17:02
  Speaker 3: white woman. You're a rich, powerful woman, and you're privileged
• 17:06
  Speaker 3: if you get it.
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: Thank you for listening to the 47 Morning Update with
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: Ben Ferguson. Please make sure you hit subscribe wherever you're
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: listening to this podcast right now. And for more in-depth news,
• 17:18
  Speaker 2: also subscribe to the Ben Ferguson Podcast, and we will
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: see you back here tomorrow.