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Inside the WH Unveiling the Epstein Files and the Fallout Within
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Chad Prather
We look forward to welcoming you in the United Kingdom. Thank you once again.
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Ben Ferguson
Thank you very much. What a beautiful accent. I would have been president 20 years ago if I had that accent.
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You're listening to the 47 Morning Update with Ben Ferguson.
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Good Friday morning, Ben Ferguson with you. It's nice to have you on the 47 Morning Update. And here are the big stories we're talking about today. First up, we are now being told that the FBI withheld thousands of pages of Jeffrey Epstein documents. Pam Bondi is now confirming that in she is demanding that they be turned over as the deep state continues to go rogue. We also are going to be joined by a guest, Chad Prather, who is in the room and received the Epstein documents. There were several conservatives that were asked to come to the White House to meet with the President, the vice president and the attorney General. You'll hear exclusively from him what they were told about the Epstein documents and what you can expect moving forward. And finally, in a shocking headline, the New York Post is reporting that the would be Trump assassin, Thomas Crooks may have had an accomplice helpless. That is showing that apparently, as investigators are now saying, the FBI is suppressing that information from you, the public. It's the 47 Morning Update and it starts right now.
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Story number one.
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There is a very complicated story that I'm going to do everything I can to break it down for you. And it is about the Jeffrey Epstein files. There was a group of individuals that were asked to come to the White House that received part one of the Epstein files. And I'm going to have that guest, Chad Prather, join us in just a moment. But before we get to that, I want you to understand what the real part of this story that's not being covered accurately, there are a lot of people saying they're angry by what was released, basically implying that there was nothing new there. Well, there's a reason why there was nothing new there. And this is what you need to understand. The Attorney General Pam Bondi, has told the FBI director Cash Patel, that rogue New York FBI office employees are withholding Epstein files. And they are doing this against the wishes and the commands of their bosses that include Cash Patel, the Attorney General and the President of the United States of America. Now, the Attorney General Pam Bondi has directed the FBI Director Patel to handle the seemingly rogue FBI office in New York for repeatedly refusing to provide her with the, quote, full set of documents related to the late billionaire predator Jeffrey Epstein. That is what a letter from her office revealed to the American people. On Thursday, a photo of that letter dated February 27 from Bondi to Patel was obtained by independent journalist Tim Pool and confirmed by my guests that they actually received this letter at the White House briefing. Now at the White House briefing they were given Epstein files phase one briefing books on exactly the laying out of what they do have. The big part of the meeting which was not covered accurately was the fact that Pam Bondi and the FBI director explained to them very clearly that there are New York FBI officials that have gone completely rogue. The AG letter says the FBI in New York is withholding the critical Epstein documents. This after the reports that the FBI was secretly destroying FBI documents as well. Bondi began her letter by saying this. Before you came into office, I requested the full and complete files related Jeffrey Epstein. In response this request, I received approximately 200 pages of documents which consisted primarily of flight logs, Epstein's list of contacts and a list of victims names and phone numbers. I repeatedly questioned whether this was a full set of documents responsive to my request and was repeatedly assured by the FBI that we had received the full set of documents. The Attorney General continued before reporting that she got a tip from a source at the FBI field office in New York stating that the Bureau was withholding the complete files. Late yesterday, I learned from a source that the FBI field office in New York was in possession of thousands of pages of documents related to the investigation and the indictment of Jeffrey Epstein. Bondi continued in her letter to the FBI director, despite my repeated request, the FBI never disclosed the existence of any of these files. Now let's just pause for a second and dissect what we just learned. Pam Bondi, who's the Attorney General, the United States of America, who is in charge of the FBI, has rogue deep state officials in the FBI office in New York that deliberately lied to her face and claimed that they had given her all of the documents, when in fact they may have given her less than about 10% of what they actually have on hand. This is the deep state and just how corrupt our government has become. Now, Bondi noted that she had already spoken to Cash Patel after receiving the tip on Wednesday evening, writing that the FBI Director was just as surprised as I was to learn the new information, quote, unquote. She then handed Caspel to hard deadlines. These are important for you to understand. By 8am on Friday morning, the FBI will deliver the full and complete Epstein files to my office, including all records, documents, audio and video recordings and material related to Jeffrey Epstein and his clients. Regardless of how such information was obtained. That is deadline number one in this letter. Deadline number two, she says, I'm also directing you to conduct an immediate investigation to why my order to the FBI was not filed. Followed, you will deliver to me a comprehensive report of your findings and propose personnel action within 14 days. In her conclusion, Bondi added that she knows that Patel is committed to transparency for the American people, and that is exactly what they did together at the White House on Thursday.
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Next, story number two.
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As I mentioned earlier, a dear friend of mine, Chad Prather, he is the host of the Chad Prather Show. You should download it. And also a morning show called Dear America. He got the phone call to go to the White House and to have a conversation about the Epstein files and even get that binder that's now become famous. Chad joins me now to talk about this. Chad, let's start from the very beginning. When did you get asked to come to the White House and did you even know what the meeting was going to be about or who was going to be there?
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Chad Prather
I did not know. In fact, we were invited for a completely different reason. We were not invited on the basis of knowing anything about the Epstein file. In fact, we were invited simply to go meet with President J.D. vance to talk about messaging and specifically, if we had opportunity, to visit with some of the Cabinet members and talk about just the things that the administration is prioritizing. And this was part of President Trump's initiative to sort of sidestep the mainstream and legacy media in order to deal with podcasters and influencers and people of that nature so that the truth could get out there to people. I mean, people with an audience, people like me, people like you. And this was a part of that, what happened as we met with various Cabinet members today, it was a great meeting. We didn't think anything of it. Attorney General Pam Bondi came in. She came in with Director Cash Patel of the FBI, and she said, you know, as a gesture of good faith, there's no smoking gun here. She said, but we do want to give you phase one. She said, the significant thing that we want to expose is there's a letter that reveals that we're missing thousands of pages of Epstein documents.
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Ben Ferguson
So, yeah, you got confirmation, that file today of what a lot of what we'd heard about. But you mentioned that letter, and so explain how important that is to this being, quote, phase one.
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Chad Prather
Well, I think that, first of all, if it wasn't phase one, if there wasn't more to be revealed, they wouldn't have put the Phrase, phase one on the front of the notebook. That's. That's something that people tend to forget that we need to remember this. This was Attorney General Bondi, whether you agree with her or not. I mean, we're all hopeful that this administration is going to do what they say and they're going to be transparent. It's not that there's nothing in that notebook. It's just not what we want yet. And that's a big difference. So to answer your question, there are those who are out there who are saying, you know, why weren't we invited? Well, there were literally 15, 16 seats around the table. We were invited for a completely different reason. And I'll be honest with you, Dan, and I can't stress this enough. Most of the influencers and creators and hosts out there that I know, if they had gotten the message that I got to be there, they probably would have snubbed it. They probably would have said, I'm not interested in going to that. I'm not interested in being a part of that. Because there was nothing about it that was, that was, you know, intriguing in regards other than we want to just sit down and talk about message points.
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Ben Ferguson
It is, it is truly shocking when, when you see those that attack because you got this incredible honor to be there and.
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Chad Prather
Yeah.
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Ben Ferguson
And to see this. And look, this wasn't just a meeting about the Epstein files. There was a lot that you guys talked about as well. And I want people to understand that this was not just one thing only.
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Chad Prather
No. And we can walk you through it. I mean, from, from Bobby Kennedy telling us his, you know, Secretary Kennedy talking about what he plans to do with hhs, you know, Carolyn Levette talking about the priorities of the messaging of the White House. J.D. vance coming in and spending a minutes with us hanging out and us able to talk about. I mean, I literally. All these people posting on social media. I literally talked to both the vice president and the president about them holding not just the mainstream and legacy media accountable, but holding social media owners accountable. Accountable and the Google overlords. And they both assured us and gave us a plan of action whereby they're going to take care of that. So all these people out there complaining about it, our priorities were completely different. This just got dropped in our lap.
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Ben Ferguson
The FBI is what we've been told, withheld thousands of pages of Jeffrey Epstein documents. Pam Bonney says, and she's demanding that they be turned over. This is the deep state. But they said she's demanding that they be turned over by Friday morning. I mean, this is the Attorney General. You've got Cash Patel, who was there today, that this was a whistleblower, a tipster that said that all but, quote, approximately 200 pages of documents were still being kept secret at the FBI office in New York, despite her repeated requests for the full Epstein files. That is a takeaway from Yalls meeting today.
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Chad Prather
Anyone, anyone in our shoes would be excited. Anyone sitting in those seats today would be excited. They would have responded the same way. They would have been hopeful. They would have been anticipatory. You know, you go through that and you and I chatted a little bit earlier today, and I expressed you before doing other media hits. I said, you know, I'm trying to decipher what it is I'm reading in here. You know, I've got a lot of people who are apparently. Well, we've had this information. Well, not all of it. You haven't. There is some stuff in there that is different. For instance, you're looking at Ghislaine Maxwell's black book versus Jeffrey Epstein's black book. So anybody would have been excited to receive that. And also, you know, what you're seeing paraded across the AP and Fox News and all these others is when we went out, obviously the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom was coming in today. The press pool was there in full force. They were out back when he walked out. You know, unbeknownst to us, we walk out in front of a giant pile of cameras and reporters, and they're taking the pictures and they're taking the snapshots. You know, it's a. It's. It is in the messaging of the Trump administration reminding the mainstream media that they're not kings and they're not God.
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Ben Ferguson
Those that are criticizing, saying today was an embarrassment, that it was a nothing burger, that we learned nothing new. The point, I think that I want to make sure this audience understands is that this is the beginning of what we. Of this, not the end. Is that a fair way of putting it?
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Chad Prather
You read that letter that Pam Bondi wrote to Kash Patel, and you would think, oh, somebody's in trouble here. This is sort of a rebuke. But it wasn't. And she wanted to make sure that everybody knew that, that clear they are working in conjunction with one another in this new Department of Justice to make sure that this information comes out. And I believe them. I believe them. You know, Ben, I don't. I don't. I don't suffer fools. And, man, I can see through people. I'm pretty intuitive. But this, this administration, what I saw today, the sense, the atmosphere, just the, as I said earlier, just a back slapping camaraderie of a team working together, to use Carolyn Levette phrase, this, you can't keep up. It's a whirlwind. This administration's working around the clock. I truly believe them.
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Ben Ferguson
We ain't fly over cod country. They want to talk to Americans and that's who you talk to. That's the reason why you and I are friends. You're a real person with a real story to tell, with a real audience of hard working men and women that just want to be left alone by their government and they want to have a great life for their kids and their grandkids.
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And finally, story number three, it is.
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A headline that shocked the world coming from the New York Post would be Trump Assassin Thomas Crooks may have had an accomplice. Data shows as investigators say the FBI is suppressing information. Well, it's been almost nine months since the seemingly mild mannered 20 year old attempted to assassinate then Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump at that rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, and we still have no good reason why. Well, sources are now telling the New York Post the FBI has obstructed efforts to solve the mystery of why the individual who left no manifesto did what he did. It's also left local law enforcement, as well as his former friends, classmates and teachers incredibly frustrated. And those who may know his parents have refused all interviews and remain in their small three bedroom home, sealed off from the world like hermits. Neighbors say they only leave the house at 3am to buy groceries. Even just last week at the CPAC convention, Elon Musk yelled out the audience saying this, quote, by the way, why do we know nothing about that guy in Butler? We also know that Cash Patel, the FBI director, is saying that we are, quote, going to get to the bottom of it. So this is where the New York Post story gets interesting. Quote, a veteran private investigator from Erie, Pennsylvania, who was hired shortly after the fatal July 13 event at the Butler farm was hired to look into the man by a private client. That's what he told the Post. He believes a, quote, criminal network, quote unquote, was operating with him at the time of the assassination attempt is still in existence and still wants to kill President Trump. Doug Hagman, whose team of six other investigators have been working the case for months and have interviewed more than 100 people, said they also conducted extensive geofencing analysis of cell phones and tablets not belonging to the young man that were found with him at his home, at the rifle range, where he took target practice at the rally, and at Bethel Park High School where he graduated in 2022. Quote. We don't think he acted alone is what the investigators said to the New York Post. This took a lot of coordination. In my view, the shooter was handled by more than one individual and he was used for this assassination attempt. And I wouldn't preclude the possibility that there were people at the rally itself helping him. Now the question now is will we actually, because of this article coming out in the New York Post, start to get some more answers or at least will people start asking more questions? We also know about the egregious breach in protocol, having someone on a rooftop just 130 yards away open fire onto the main stage in but where minutes after Donald Trump, 78 at the time, was up there speaking to the crowd. We also know he fired eight shots, one of them striking the former president in the right ear. Not only did he shoot the President of the United States of America, but he also killed someone in the crowd and seriously wounded two others. The autopsy report indicated that the would be assassin was pronounced dead at 6:25pm on July 13 from a gunshot wound to the head by a counter sniper. At the end of the day there seems to be a lot of questions that need to be answered and the New York Post seems to be exposing a lot of what has not been talked about so far.
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