That innocently met Jeffrey Epstein years ago, many years ago, and they're you know, highly respected bankers and lawyers and others.

What this whole thing is with Epstein is a way of trying to deflect from the tremendous success that the Republican Party has, Like, for instance, today we're building the biggest ships in the world, most powerful ships in the world, and they're asking me questions about Jeffrey Epstein's I thought that was finished.

If you're listening to the forty seven Morning Update with Ben ferguson.

Good Tuesday morning, so nice to have you with us.

On the forty seven Morning Update, Donald Trump comes out with a big announcement a new golden fleet of battleships, saying these will be the best in the world and they will bring jobs back to America.

That's not all the President covered.

He also covered narco terrorism, Venezuela and what country could be our next target.

I have the full breakdown for you.

It's the forty seven Morning Update and it starts right now.

Story number one.

President Donald Trump speaking from marl talking about building our military new ships that our military desperately needs, and not just talking about that, but clearly being the most transparent president in modern political history.

At a more than fifty minute press conference, the President took questions about building the new Golden Fleet, about the Golden Fleet, counters with China, intercepting drugs on land, and what could happen with possible attacks on land, what he was going to do with the seized oil of oil tankers coming out of Venezuela and the Black Fleet of oil tankers that also deal with Iran.

He also was asked about Venezuela and US oil companies working together, and he was asked about Bill Clinton and Jeffrey Epstein a workforce to build the Golden Fleet that will help American workers.

The endgame with Maduro was also covered.

He was asked about Colombia and the president there and could that be next after Venezuela up and a new envoy to Greenland.

He was asked about the war with Ukraine and Russia.

Had he spoken with Vladimir putter Zelenski recently and what do they say?

And then the pursuit of other oil tankers came up, would America continue to push forward with that?

And is the goal of Forstman Duro from power.

He also talked about healthcare insurers meetings and exactly what had happened there.

Now the President making it clear there is nothing he is unwilling to discuss.

There's no question that he is saying no, I'm not going to answer that.

This is part of the President being the most transparent president in modern political history.

One of the big questions was about the Epstein files, and there was an awful lot of pictures that came out of a former president by the name of Bill Clinton with Jeffrey Epstein.

The President's response may be one that will surprise you.

I want you to hear what he had to say.

Thinking, mister President, prized by the number of photos of Bill Clinton and Epstein files, and you can you commit to their poll and we used pride in the number of photos of Bill Clinton in the Epstein files, and can you commit to their full release By the end of the year, some of the victims were protesting that too many of them were retacted.

I know there are a lot of people that are angry about all of the pictures of other people, you know, but I think it's terrible.

Look, I don't like the I like Bill Clinton.

I've always gotten along with Bill Clinton.

They've been nice to him, He's been nice to me.

We've always gotten along respect him.

I hate to see photos come out of him, but this is what the Democrats, mostly Democrats, and a couple of bad Republicans, are asking for.

So they give me their photos of me too.

Everybody was friendly with this guy, either friendly or not friendly.

But then you know he was around.

He was all over Palm Beach and other places.

The head of Harvard was his best friends Larry Summers, and Bill Clint was a friend of his, but everybody was I actually threw him out of mare A Lago.

And as if you know, as a person that was in Maralago, throw them at mar A Lagos.

This is mar Alago.

It's the hottest place, and I think it's the hardest place in the world.

But it's the hottest place in Florida, and everybody would come here.

He'd come here.

We actually threw them out.

But no, I don't like the pictures of Bill Clinton being shown.

I don't like the pictures of other people being shown.

I think it's a terrible thing.

I think Bill Linton's a big boy, he can handle it.

But you probably have pictures being exposed of other people that innocently met Jeffrey Epstein years ago, many years ago, and they're you know, highly respected bankers and lawyers and others, and they'll end up because of guys like Massw's a real low life whose polls are down to about nine percent.

By the way, the great state of Kentucky, if you look at Kentucky, Kentucky is such a great place, but I don't know, they've got a couple of people in there that are very strange in terms of leadership.

With Massey's a loser and he likes it, and that he works with the Democrats.

He's being used by the Democrats because what this whole thing is with Epstein is a way of trying to deflect from the tremendous success that the Republican Party has, Like, for instance, today we're building the biggest ships in the world, most powerful ships in the world, and they're asking me questions about Jeffrey Epstein.

I thought that was finished.

I believe they gave over one hundred thousand pages of documents and there is tremendous back list.

It's an interesting question because a lot of people are very angry that pictures are being released of other people that really had nothing to do with Epstein, but they're in a picture with him because he was at a party, and you ruin a reputation of somebody.

So a lot of people are very angry that this continues.

A lot of Republicans are angry because of the fact that it's just used to deflect against the tremendous success.

Look, we have eight the president talking about those tremendous successes and yet again having to deal with the Epstein files that have been released.

The President wanting to talk about other issues as well.

One of the things he talked about is about American investment.

This is one of the things he says is really important that he's working on.

We're doing a great job and we enjoy doing it.

Our border is secure, our country is strong.

Trillions of dollars is coming into our country from other countries and companies.

They're building factories and plants, including auto plants, all over the United States of America.

Without tariffs, they wouldn't be doing anything.

Although they were very happy with the November fifth election, but it's only because they want to avoid paying tariffs that they're all coming in.

And again, the biggest number was three trillion dollars in history.

That was China many years ago.

Now it's eighteen trillion dollars and that's just in ten months.

We think we could hit twenty trillion dollars.

That's investment in the United States, including plant and equipment.

So you listen to the present talk about the investment.

He also talked about protecting Americans when it comes to drugs.

Something else that he says a very important point of his administration and it's something that we must stand firm on.

Part of that is dealing with the cocaine coming out of Colombia.

The President asked about Colombia and here's what he said, Yeah.

Go ahead, please.

So, in response to the United States taking sanction oil from from Venezuela, Colombian President of Gustavo Petro criticize the United States by saying, well, the Southwest is stolen land and that it should be returned to Latin America.

I just wanted to know what your response to that.

Well, he has to watch because you know, he's got drug factors.

They make cocaine in Colombia, and he's no friend of the United States.

He's very bad, very bad guy, and he's got to watch his ass because he makes cocaine and they send it into the United States of America from Colombia.

We love the Colombian people.

I love the Colombian people.

They're great people, energetic, smart, great But their new leader he is a trouble banker and he better watch it.

You better close up those cocaine factories.

If at least three major cocaine factories we know where they are, he better close them up fast.

Ye, he better closed them up fast.

The President also wasn't done there as he talked about this major important announcement that deals with the Golden Fleet of battleships, saying these are the best in the world and long overdue.

So I want to wish everybody a big hello and merry Christmas, and welcome to mar A Lago for this exciting announcement of the new Golden Fleet.

We're going at the Golden Fleet that we're building for the United States Navy.

As you know, we're desperately in need of ships.

Our ships are some of them have gotten old and tired and obsolete, and we're going to go to the exact opposite direction.

We're delighted to be joined by Secretary of war.

Pete Hegsath is doing a fantastic job.

And Secretary of the Navy John Falen Marco Rubio is here who gave a great few words for the end of last week.

He spoke for a couple of hours on what a good job we're doing, which is true.

As Commander in Chief, it's my great honor to announce that I have approved a plan for the Navy to begin the construction of two brand new, very large, the largest we've ever built battleships.

You know, you used to build the Iowa, the Missouri, the Wisconsin, the Alabama, and many others.

We had big battleships.

These are bigger, but they will have one hundred times There will be one hundred times the force, the power, and there's never been anything like these ships.

These have been under design consideration for a long time, and it started with me in my first term because they said, why aren't we doing battleships like we used to?

And the these are the best in the world, will be the fastest, the biggest, and by far one hundred times more powerful than any battleship ever built.

So if you look at the Iowa, the Missouri, Wisconsin, Alabama, and others, but there they were similar in size, some a little bit bigger than the others, but if you take the biggest one, it's one hundred times more powerful.

They are longer by a little bit, but the and the bigger they're bigger ships, but they hold much more.

They use the word lethality.

Battleships are the largest, sturdiest, and most heavily armed vessel built specifically for naval combat.

While America has built many new warships over the years, they've been they've tended to be smaller and much smaller, and not conducive to where we are and where we going.

Piece restraint.

President Trump yet again saying a I'll talk about anything.

B I'm gonna keep you safe.

See, I'm gonna make sure that we bring jobs back to this country.

Making this fleet be built in America, something we stopped doing, and we're far too reliant on foreign countries for our ship making.

This is all part of his plan to put America first and from a national security standpoint, and the President saying I'll stand here and answer as many questions as I need to.

It's important that you have a president that's transparent, and that is exactly what Donald Trump did yet again on a multitude of issues.

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