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Ben Ferguson
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Narrator/Host
Chuck Schumer proclaimed this morning that every.
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Senator Ron Johnson
Day gets better for them. No, every day it's actually getting worse for them. And they're having a rebellion in the Democrat Party because they want to stop.
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Narrator/Host
So this is a confession that he's.
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Ben Ferguson
Acting not to serve the people, but.
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Senator Ron Johnson
To serve the partisan interests of this party.
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Ben Ferguson
You're listening to the 47 Morning Update with Ben Ferguson.
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Narrator/Host
Good Saturday morning to you. Ben Ferguson with you. And these are the stories that you may have missed that we talked about this week on the 47 Morning Update. First up, this story is one the media is not covering. Instead, they're going to talk about the government shutdown. Jack Smith and the Biden Department of Justice were tracking the phone calls of their political enemies. Specifically eight GOP senators and a Republican congressman. Yes, they were literally spying on our men and women that are in Washington who've been elected by you and I. And the one thing, and the only thing they had in common was that they were all Republicans. Also, the FBI director, Cash Patel has fired the FBI agents involved in tracking GOP senator phone calls. But first, did you see that gold just hit an all time new high of over $4,000 an ounce. And if you hear that and you're like, are you kidding me? And you're thinking, gosh, I missed my opportunity. Well, I don't know if you missed your opportunity, but my friends at Kurt Elliott Precious Metals, they can answer that question for you. You also may not be paying attention to the incredible gains with silver that are happening right now as well. And that's why I trust the guidance of the team at Kirk Elliott. In fact, I literally just got a hundred ounce bar of silver the other day. And the reason why is because after I talked to the team at Kirk Elliott Precious Metals, they let me understand exactly where I could have a big upside in investing in silver. Now, the other part that I love about them is this. They have transparent pricing. There are a lot of gold companies that you'll hear about if you listen to talk radio or podcasts or watch t. But do they tell you how the pricing actually works? Well, at Kirk Elliott, they're real simple. Just 8% when you buy and zero commissions when you sell with no hidden fees ever. That is the other reason why I recommend them to all of you. They also don't sell, you, quote, rare coins or precious coins that you pay insane markups on. And then when you go to sell them, you find out they're really not worth that much. They are A bullion only approach. They focus on investment grade metals. No overpriced collectibles, no gimmicks. That means you get more gold or silver for your money at fair value when it's time for you to sell. So if you're ready to find out if gold and silver is right for you and your portfolio, then call them and get a plan. You can Visit them at Ken PM.comBen that's K-E-P M.comBen or 720-605-3900 at 720-605-3900 Kirk Elliott Precious Metals online@kepm.com It's the 47 Morning Update and it starts right now.
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Ben Ferguson
Story number one.
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This is a story that I'm about to tell you that it's an incredib. It is a fact now that the FBI literally spied on not one, not two, not three, four, five, six, seven, but eight G O P senators. It was called a total analysis. That is the terminology that's used by FBI investigators to analyze cellular coal data for federal probes. Think of it as link analysis that shows patterns of communication, location data as well as potential targets, network of associates. This should shock every single one of you to a core. And these declassified records as the FBI director Cash Patel is now exposing, codename Arctic Frost was brought because of a whistleblower disclosures to Senator Grassley and Senator Ron Johnson that showed nearly 100 conservative groups, including Turning Point USA were part of the probe. Now you have something that's even more shocking and that is not only was the FBI going after conservative groups, but the FBI was spying on senators and some of those senators are now fighting back. Senator Ron Johnson sang it this way in a statement earlier. I was just briefed by the FBI's Dan Bongino that the FBI and the Justice Department obtained call logs from eight US Senators including myself. We were surveilled simply for being Republicans. This does not surprise me, but it should shock every American. Senator Johnson continued, what the Biden administration has done is an outrageous abuse of power. It is blatant political persecution. Those responsible must be held fully accountable. Now you may ask yourself what is in this actual document? The Federal Bureau of Investigation unclassified document dated 927 of 2023 puts it in a simple manner. The FBI Special Agent with the name redacted conducted preliminary toll analysis on limited toll records associated with the following U.S. senators. Mike Kelly, Lindsey Graham, Bill Haggerty, Josh Hawley, Dan Sullivan, Tommy Tuberville, Ron Johnson, Cynthia Loomis and Senator Marsha Blackburn. You look at what I just explained to you, and this is the weaponization, literally, of our federal government right before our eyes. The other question is this. Who were the FBI's supervisory special agents, and why are their names redacted? Who approved the report and the surveillance of the US Senators is another question that should be asked. Markings indicate that the FBI Washington field office was doing this during the Biden administration. This also means that there was a team involved as well. An FBI SSA manages investigative teams and approves the reports that we now are seeing. Toll analysis, as I mentioned, is used to analyze cellular data and the call details for federal probes. This is a highly revealing investigative tool. It exploits all the patterns of the targets or the people involved in the communication investigation. And it also is incredibly invasive because it would look at the location data of those senators that were being spied on. Now, several of these centers decided to have a press conference that were the targets that were spied on. Senator Grassley was the first to speak. And I want to play it for you. Listen to what they had to say.
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Senator Ron Johnson
We can find for the solicitation of these telephone records, which I think emphasizes the political weaponization that was behind all this effort. And we're still getting more information, but we've released some records today. And I'll let Senator Johnson take over from here, and then each one of you colleagues can join in when you want to, whatever you want to say. First of all, I want to thank Senator Grassley. It is because of his relentless advocacy for whistleblowers that a lot of this information is surfacing right now. We wouldn't know about the list of 100 Republican entities that were targeted by Jack Smith's Arctic Frost investigation. I don't think we know about this as well. So we need whistleblowers. I think Dan Bongino and folks in the FBI. They don't know where all the records are hidden. They still don't. They're not necessarily getting 100% cooperation. But this is outrageous what has happened. I just want to give you a timeline of this. I think you've already got the FBI sheet that shows the number of members of Congress that were targeted. Representative Kelly Sanders, Graham Haggerty, Holly Sullivan Tuberville, myself, Senator Lummis and Blackburn. This memo was dated September of 2023. To put it all into context, the Mar A Lago raid occurred in August of 2022. Jack Smith announced the indictments against President Trump in August of 2023. So this is almost two months later, they're casting this net, this fishing expedition against members of the Senate and the House. I've been investigating this with Senator Grassley. This doesn't surprise me, but it should shock every American of what the Biden administration has done. By the way, this is the first time I was targeted by the FBI under the Obama administration. Same thing happened to both Senator Grassley and I as part of the Foreign Foreign Influence Task Force. We were giving a. A briefing to try and convince us that the Hunter Biden laptop was no big deal. Basically trying to throw us off the track. So this is major corruption that's being revealed inside the Obama and Biden Department of Justice, the FBI, and I'll turn it over to Senator Haggerty, who's, you know, one of the individuals. Again, none of us were subject to targets of this investigation. There's no predicate, there's no reason for this other than a fishing expedition, which again, should outrage and shock every American. Senator Haggerty, thank you.
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Senator Bill Hagerty
Senator Johnson and Chairman Grassley, thank you for your leadership in making this happen. This is an extraordinary revelation that just took place this afternoon. My colleagues and I found out, all of us Republicans, by the way, that we were placed under investigation by this FBI, under the Joe Biden FBI that was led, I presume, by Jack Smith and his predecessors. This isn't the first time that it's happened, though. Senator Johnson just mentioned this. I served on the Trump transition team in Trump Tower in 2016. Senator Blackburn was vice chair of the transition committee then, as were probably a dozen or more members of Congress. To think that we were all surveilled back then by the Obama FBI. This corruption runs deep and it's gone on for far too long. And the fact that it's happened here again, the fact that they are looking at Our Records in 2020, three sitting members of the United States Senate. Again, the only thing that we have in common, the only thing in common in this entire list is that we're all Republicans. They've decided to come after us. This is as partisan as it gets. The FBI and the corruption that's running there has to be cleared out. Thank God we have Cash Patel and Dan Bongino there. This has to be addressed. It has to be resolved. It needs to happen today.
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Senator Lindsey Graham
What we know is this, that the FBI under Joe Biden and under Barack Obama, that they exercised activity that they had no authority to exercise. And as Senator Haggerty mentioned, we know what they did in 2016 to the Trump transition team and now we find out that after the Mar A Lago raid, after the indictment of President Trump, they surveil us people who support President Trump members who are all Republicans. But it shows you how out of control and rotten to the core and politicized the FBI had become and how they had absolutely no problem at all whatsoever with political weaponization. We appreciate the information we've gotten today. We look forward to further investigation on this.
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You just heard from many of those that were targeted by the FBI. As you heard Bill Hagerty say, we are sitting members of Congress. And by the way, we now have learned it's not just senators. There was also a representative that had their private communications tracked by the former special counsel Jack Smith under the Biden administration. They the FBI director Cash Patel also revealing files obtained by Fox News show that Smith, in his official capacity at the Department of Justice as he investigated Donald Trump and the events of January 6, 2021, decided to not only track the phone calls of Lindsey Graham, Marsha Blackburn, Ron Johnson, Josh Hawley, Cynthia Loomis, Bill Haggerty, Dan Sullivan, Tommy Tuberville, but also, we now have learned, Republican Representative Mike Kelly of Pennsylvania. The alarming document revealing that Smith and his Arctic Frost team had subpoenaed telephone providers for the Lawmakers records in 2023 was recently discovered by Patel. Patel confirmed the legitimacy of the findings in an ex post writing we recently uncovered proof that phone records of US Lawmakers were seized for political purposes. That abuse of power ends now. Under my leadership, the FBI will deliver truth and accountability and never again be weaponized against the American people. That abuse of power ends now. It seems to be the mantra, unfortunately that is needed by this administration to make sure that these bad actors are exposed and rooted out. Finally, you also heard one other thing that was really important that was mentioned there. We need whistleblowers. You heard that from Senator Johnson. He is asking for others to come forward that may know about abuse of power that was happening in the deep state and letting them know there's a safe place to bring it. Bongino we also know brief the impacted lawmakers on Monday afternoon and said that it is a disgrace that he's having to sit there and show what he has found. It is a disgrace that I have to stand on Capitol Hill and reveal this, that the FBI was once weaponized to track the private communications of U.S. lawmakers for political purposes. That error is over. Several of the senators who have allegedly been spied on not only spoke at the press conference which you just heard, but said that they are also going to be looking into this from a congressional standpoint. And to put it just an overall perspective for you. Senator Hawley called Smith's actions not only an abuse of power beyond Watergate, beyond J. Edgar Hoover, one that directly strikes, he said, at the Constitution, the separation of powers and the First Amendment. And thank goodness that President Donald Trump has put great men in charge of the FBI to root out this pure evil that is inside of it.
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Ben Ferguson
Now. Story number two.
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The FBI Director, Cash Patel has fired agents involved in tracking the phone calls of eight Republican senators and a congressman as part of the former special counsel Jack Smith's investigation, a sham investigation into President Donald J. Trump. Communication records belonging to GOP Senators Lindsey Graham, Marsha Blackburn, Ron Johnson, Josh Hawley, Cynthia Loomis, Bill Haggerty, Dan Sullivan, Tommy Tuberville, and Representative Mike Kelly, we know now for a fact, were handed over to Smith's Arctic Frost team after they subpoenaed major phone companies in 2023. The fact was unknown to the public until this week when Cash Patel, the FBI director, sang. He discovered the files hidden in a lockbox that was placed in a vault in a cyber place where no one can see or search these files. The FBI director saying this it in a lockbox.
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Ben Ferguson
Put that lockbox in a vault and then put that vault in a cyber place where no one can see or search these files. They're called restricted access and prohibited access. Restricted access means some people get to see it. Prohibited access, you put it in there when you want to hide it from the world. And that takes the authorization of the Attorney General and the Director of the FBI. So not only did they weaponize this law enforcement, but when we got in there and when I got in as the FBI director, from my experience as Russiagate, I knew where to look and, and what rooms to open and what doors to kick down. And that's what we did. We found this information to expose the politicization by Jack Smith and the prior Department of Justice. I mean, just think about it. Eight sitting United States senators, phone records were gathered and subpoenaed through the grand jury process, and it was buried and wormholed with the hope that no one would find it. So we're just scratching the surface here, but accountability is coming. We are finding every single person involved with. We will not leave a single room locked. We will go in through all the prohibited access requirements and we will find the material and show the American public like we have done in this FBI, more transformative and transparent than any in the US History to bring accountability to the American people. And we will work with our partners in Congress who should be furious at the prior administration's leadership and weaponization and singular politicization of law enforcement. The American public sees what we're doing, Sean, with the stats you just read off in the beginning, they see what we're doing here to develop, to unseal the vault and show the world how the deep state actually operated.
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Cash Patel making it clear this is the beginning, not the end. And if you go back and you actually look at what he said, quote, you put it in there. And when you want to hide it from the world, and that takes the authorization of the Attorney General and the director of the FBI. So not only did they weaponize this law enforcement, but when we got in there and when I got to in as the FBI director, from my experience as Russiagate, I knew where to look and what rooms to open and what doors to knock down. And that is what we did. So if you want to know why the President of the United States of America decided to pick Cash Patel to do this job, it is exactly for this reason. And it goes back to what else he had to say, saying, quote, we found this information to expose the politicalization by Jack Smith. Remember, he's the guy in charge of special counsel weaponizing our government to go after Donald Trump and the prior Department of Justice. He added, before revealing that he fired the agents who facilitated the secret investigations and into sitting US Lawmakers. Now, Holly, by the way, Senator Holly, one of the centers who had his phone calls tracked by the Biden administration's doj, called Smith's subpoena and abuse of power beyond Watergate, beyond J. Edgar Hoover, one that directly strikes at the Constitution, the separations of power and the First Amendment. Holly also said it's time for there to be a special counsel saying, quote, we need a full investigation of all involved, who knew about it, who ordered it and who approved it. Anyone and everyone who violated the law must be prosecuted. The way to save the country is to restore the rule of law, the Senator said. Now the US Office a special counsel, the OSC in August opened an investigation into Jack Smith, who may have unlawfully targeted President Trump. And that may be where this investigation is going next.
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Ben Ferguson
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