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The 47 Morning Update with Ben Ferguson
Whistleblower Was Silenced for Calling out the LIES in the Russia Hoax plus Kamala & Colbert, Bitter & Angry Together
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Ben Ferguson
Good Monday morning. It's nice to have you with us. It's verdict with Senator Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with you as always. And center, we've got a lot to cover, including a whistleblower who has come forward revealing how they were, quote, silenced and threatened to go along on the Russia hoax. This another bombshell in the unraveling of the deep state.
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Ted Cruz
Well, every day it seems new news is breaking about how the Obama administration deliberately concocted the Russia hoax to go after President Donald Trump and how they lied, how they knew they were lying. We now have evidence that the intelligence community for months had concluded that Russia was not attempting to hack the election, and yet they deliberately lied for political purposes. We've now had the story break that Hillary Clinton personally approved the Russia hoax as a way to distract from her own email scandal. And now the latest. A whistleblower from within the Obama intelligence community tried, tried to blow the whistle, tried to stop, tried to say this is a lie. And the whistleblower was silenced. The whistleblower was ignored. And we now have damning emails laying out the record. We're gonna tell you all about that. We're also gonna tell you about Kamala Harris. It turns out, no, she was not kidnapped by space aliens. No, she did not go into witness protection. She did the next best thing, which is she went on Stephen Colbert show and the four people watching her, they found out that Kamala has a new book, the People of California. She's not going to subject herself on them by running for governor. Instead, she's trying to sell a book. And of course, she's with Colbert. We're going to tell you just how pitiful that was. We're going to cover both of those on today's pod.
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Ben Ferguson
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Ted Cruz
Well here's what Tulsi Gabbard tweeted out to the world. Quote, new whistleblower reveals how they were threatened by a supervisor to go along with the Obama directed Russia hoax intelligence assessment. Even though they knew it was not credible or accurate, the whistleblower refused. Yesterday we released the whistleblowers firsthand account of what happened in the crafting of the January 2017 intelligence assessment. Their years long effort to expose the egregious manipulation and manufacturing of intelligence carried out at the highest levels of government and, and the IC detailed in our previous releases and how they were repeatedly ignored. Thank you to this courageous whistleblower and others who are coming forward now putting their own well being on the line to defend our democratic republic, ensure the American people know the truth and hold those responsible accountable. And then read the whistleblower's explosive story with emails here and she links to the entire story. We're gonna go through it right now but it is th. Th. This is damning. And, and there is a reason why under Joe Biden they did everything they could to cover it up. Here's what the whistleblower says. Quote for the new 2017 ICA, I was directed by Blank to focus on Russian attempts to access US election related infrastructure. I see reporting suggested many Russia attributed IP addresses were making connection attempts that the IC could not explain the purpose of. Later when presenting it's block blocked out who with our findings blocked out person directed us to abandon any further study of the subject saying quote it's something else. In light of later development in open source reporting I came to have concerns about this Russia attributed cyber activity and the abrupt dismissal of the study effort. In addition, I noted other nations efforts to influence the 2016 presidential election, but this critical context was omitted from the 2017 ICA. During conversion of the 2017 ICA to classified and unclassified versions, key context was not included and I was pressured to alter my views on the 2017 ICA's key judgments with the expressed intent by and the name is blacked out that my concurrence was sought to enable name blacked out to sway the views of the Defense Intelligence Agency. The narrative goes on between 2016 and 2022, through firsthand involvement, I became aware of multiple events that may have represented the use or attempted use of national security authorities to influence domestic politics. I believe some of these events may have influenced or been intended to influence congressional and public perceptions of the 2016 presidential election, and I am concerned others may represent attempts to obstruct lawful oversight. And it continues with this quote through my role in leading production of the prior 2016 ICA, I also knew that as recently as September of 2016 other elements of the intelligence community had pushed back during analytic coordination on warnings of Russian intent to influence the 2016 presidential election, stating that such a judgment would be misleading. Misleading is underlined. Yet by January, at least one of the intelligence community elements that had pushed back the Federal Bureau of Investigation had seemingly altered its position and embraced a judgment of Russian intent to influence the election. Seemingly without any new data other than the election's unexpected result and public speculation that Russia had hacked the vote, a scenario that we in the IC judged simply did not occur. As for the 2017 ICA's judgment of a decisive Russian pressure preference for then candidate Donald Trump, I could not concur in good conscience. Based on information available and my professional analytic judgment, I did not rule the possibility out and was willing to be convinced. But I was not offered access to any of the supposedly dispositive reporting when I was asked to review it as a one time read for almost anything Relevant was normally provided you've dealt with.
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Ben Ferguson
A lot of whistleblowers in your day, and there's a lot of people come forward. When I was reading this, it was tweeted out by Tulsi and then, yeah, you can see the redactions here, obviously. But this actually, to me, seems like it's incredibly damning and also just completely on par with the rest of the story we've been told about the Russia hoax. It's like, yeah, this matches up. This makes sense.
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Ted Cruz
Look, it is clear that this was a lie. It is clear that Barack Obama and the entire intelligence community who peddled it to the American people, they knew it was a lie. What we now know is that they had whistleblowers within the intelligence community yelling from the mountaintops, this is a lie. This is a lie. This is a lie. And the political actors who made the decision to corrupt our law enforcement and intelligence operations did not care about the truth. They were happy to lie. They were happy to turn the machinery of the federal government against the newly elected president. They wanted the newly elected president to fail. And what they were attempting was. Was quite literally a coup. It was to remove the president the American people had just elected. I understand that they're of a different party. I understand that they didn't vote for Donald Trump. But nobody in our government has the right to say, just because the person I don't like got elected president, I'm going to pervert the justice system to attack them with lies to try to remove them. That is profoundly corrupt. And I think it is also quite likely illegal. I'm very glad that Pam Bondi and the Department of Justice have created a strike force to investigate this, because the pattern of criminality, of knowing criminality, and we talked about in last week's POD how the George Soros foundation did this very explicitly, according to emails that were released, according to previously classified emails that were released, did it very explicitly in concert with Hillary Clinton. She personally approved it in the middle of the campaign. And they knew it was just a political lie because she was concerned about the criticism she was getting for her email scandal. And so they decided to concoct this lie to try to distract people. And sadly, the FBI happily went along, the New York Times happily went along, the Washington Post happily went along. And every one of those supposedly impartial and unbiased institutions has been demonstrated to have been profoundly corrupted.
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Ben Ferguson
What is your gut on what happens now? And I say this because, look, it's obvious that the. I think Donald Trump and his team and those, the Department of Justice, et cetera, Tulsi, the list goes on. On their. They obviously are well read in on this. I doubt this whistleblower just came forward in the last day or two. They're pretty well read in on where. Where the ball is going on this one. Do you believe this is a pretty good indicator of what you can expect moving forward, that this may genuinely be the tip of the iceberg?
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Ted Cruz
Yeah, I think more is coming. And what I verge what I've urged, Tulsi, what I've urged John Ratcliffe and Pam Bondi and Cash Patel is engage in radical transparency. Let it all come out, let it all be public. I've also urged them to do the same thing with COVID and Dr. Fauci and the government's involvement in funding research at the Wuhan Lab and what they knowingly covered up. I think there was similarly a very deliberate cover up there. And I expect we're going to get more direct evidence of that in the coming weeks. I'm glad for that transparency. I think it is owed to the American people. It's the right thing to do. And it speaks volumes that when Democrats were in charge, they had zero interest in anyone knowing what actually happened.
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Ben Ferguson
Final question on this one. When you look at when this comes out, and there's so many questions now, if this whistleblower is telling the truth, I have no reason to believe they're not. But is this also going to encourage others to come forward, too? Is. I mean, a lot of times you'll see the dominoes come out.
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Ted Cruz
Look, I hope so. And Tulsi's tweet references other whistleblowers coming forward. So there may be others as well. They may have other whistleblower reports. It's possible they've been rolling these out one every other day or so. And so there may be more that is coming. But if someone is inside, saw what is happening and was outraged, this is indicating it's a time where people are interested in knowing the truth. That's a good sign. So I hope it encourages anyone with knowledge of criminal conduct, with knowledge of lies that were pushed by the Obama administration and the Russia hoax to come forward and make that information public.
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Ben Ferguson
You talk about corruption, by the way, Kamala Harris, now she's coming out on her book tour. Not a joke. She kicked it off and joined the Late show with Stephen Colbert to do it. Harris coming out swinging, blasting SCOTUS for forgetting what quote, democracy and the rule of law is, quote, unquote, supposed to be. She also Talked about her new book and the quote, horrors of January 6th on the late show with Colbert as well. I mean, this is one of those things.
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Ted Cruz
Play a little bit from her announcement video on her, on her new book. Because I have to say, it's almost like a Saturday Night Live skit. Give it a play.
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Ben Ferguson
Yeah, it is. This is her real announcement of her real book launch.
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Kamala Harris
Just over a year ago, I launched my campaign for President of the United States. 107 days traveling the country, fighting for our future. The shortest presidential campaign in modern history. It was intense, high stakes and deeply personal for me and for so many of you. Since leaving office, I've spent a lot of time reflecting on those days. Talking with my team, my family, my friends and pulling my thoughts together. In essence, writing a journal. That is this book. 107 days with candor and Reflection. I've written a behind the scenes account of that journey. I believe there's value in sharing what I saw, what I learned and what I know it will take to move forward. In writing this book. One truth kept coming back to me. Sometimes the fight takes a while, but I remain full of hope and I remain clear eyed. I will never stop fighting to make our country reflect the very best of its ideals. Always on behalf of the people. So thank you for being in this fight with me. I am forever grateful and I cannot wait for you to read this and I'll see you out there. Take care.
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Ben Ferguson
I mean it is Saturday Night Live worthy. It's also one of the funniest things ever because she's basically saying, oh by the way, I'm not going to run for governor in California. That came up as well. And, and it's like here's my book on how bad my campaign sucked, but I'll rewrite the history on that. And oh, by the way, I'm basically saying I'm probably going to run again.
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Ted Cruz
Well, you know the, the script that she's reading there, that's clearly a script she's reading from a teleprompter. And, and I just sort of love with candor and reflection, a behind the scenes tale. And, and look, it's so clearly written by a book publicist. The chances that there is anything resembling candor or reflection in this book are 0.0%. There is not. This is a sanitized, whitewashed version of how, you know, the good ship Lollipop was, was derailed by, by evil Donald J. Trump. By, by evil voters. Oh, those voters. And, and I gotta say it's interesting how little candor and reflection Kamala has. I want you to listen to her with Stephen Colbert. And if there is an even less gracious, kind, balanced, normal person on TV than Stephen Colbert, I don't know who that is. This is one partisan, shrill to another, but listen to how neither one of them has learned anything from the 2024 election. Give a listen.
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iHeart Podcast
This is a time for people to, you know, I mean, look, we, we designed our democracy with three independent co. Equal branches of government. I mean, when you see that the President of the United States is trying to get rid of the Department of Education and Congress has the role and responsibility to stand in the way of that and they're just sitting on their hands and then they go on recess because they don't want to deal with transparency.
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Stephen Colbert
And the Supreme Court says, and the Supreme Court says that he can ignore law that established it.
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iHeart Podcast
Yeah, but the Supreme Court, we knew what they were doing. Remember, I talked about it in 107 days. I don't put that in the book, by the way.
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Ben Ferguson
This is an exclusive.
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iHeart Podcast
This is an exclusive for the Stephen Colbert Show. But the, the Supreme Court basically gave whoever would be president. When I was in the campaign, I talked immunity. Immunity we talked about. So we're not surprised what the Supreme Court is doing. And God, thank those members of the Court who write brilliant dissents and remind us of what the democracy and the rule of law is supposed to be. You know.
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Ben Ferguson
You hear that and it's like, what are you even talking about?
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Ted Cruz
There's so much in what she's saying that is incoherent and wrong. Let's start off where she's saying, okay, the President is trying to abolish the Department of Education and Congress is refusing to do its jobs. No, we actually agree with abolishing the Department of Education. This was something that the President campaigned on. And the reason the American people agree with abolishing the federal Department of Education is not because education doesn't matter, but precisely the opposite. Because it matters so much that people are ticked off that a bunch of left wing woke bureaucrats that you and Joe Biden appointed tried to take over schools, tried to indoctrinate kids, tried to push Marxist ideology in our children and tried to convince them that boys were girls and girls were boys and tried to let boys compete in girls sports and force this on schools. And the red tape and the bureaucracy and the waste and the ideology from the Department of Education is precisely why President Trump is working to abolish it. And I've actually had Democrat senators say to me, very much what Kamala does. Well, we're just. The Senate is irrelevant because you're not stopping this. It's like, no, the Senate is relevant. In fact, we're voting on it. One senator say this to me, when we voted to shut down NPR and pbs, she was like, how can you be doing this? The Senate's not doing our job. I'm like, no, we're precisely doing our job. The American people are not interested in spending billions of dollars to fund left wing propaganda. The irony is Kamala frames what she's saying as a defense of democracy. What she's mad at is democracy. What she's mad at is the American people elected Donald Trump, which he's mad at, is the American people elected a Republican House. What she's mad at is the American people elected a Republican Senate. And she's really, really mad that President Trump and the Republican Senate and the Republican House are doing what they said they would do. In other words, they are honoring and respecting democracy by carrying out the campaign promises they told the American people, and that infuriates them. And the irony of her claiming that she believes in democracy. This was an administration, the Biden Harris administration, that repeatedly indicted her political opponent, Donald Trump. This was an administration Democrats across the country tried to remove Trump's name from the ballot. Because nothing says protecting democracy like stopping the voters from voting for your opponent. This is an administration. Kamala Harris has demonstrated utter and complete contempt for democracy. And so when she says, well, gosh, we must defend democracy, what she means is we need radical left wing policies. And if the voters don't like them, to hell with the voters, we want them anyway. That's what she's saying. And by the way, when she's denouncing the courts, what she's really saying is she wants radical, unelected judges to. To ignore the will of the voters, to ignore democracy and to force her very unpopular policies on the American people anyway. Doing things like she doesn't want illegal immigrants, Venezuelan gang members, murderers and rapists and child molesters. She doesn't want them arrested. She doesn't want them deported. And she wants these radical judges that she was responsible, along with Joe Biden for appointing to stand up and say, we don't care. We what the American people voted for, we are going to decree release more illegal immigrants into your neighborhood because that's who the Democrat Party represents today.
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Ben Ferguson
By the way, you mentioned represent the Democratic Party. Kamala Harris was asked a question by Stephen Colbert and it's one that went viral. It is the biggest question that's being asked in the political world right now. Who is in charge of the Democratic Party Party? And I want you to hear this word salad and get your take on it. Take a listen.
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Stephen Colbert
Who's leading the Democratic Party? I'm just curious.
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iHeart Podcast
There are lots of leaders and there's.
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Stephen Colbert
Generally a leader of the Democratic Party, you know, like, oh, that's the leader donor party, who comes to mind?
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iHeart Podcast
I think there are a lot of. I'm not going to go through names because then I'm going to leave somebody out and then I'm going to hear about it. But let me just, let me say this. I think it is a mistake for us who want to figure out how to get out and through this and get out of it. To put it on the shoulders of any one person. It's really on all of our shoulders. It really is.
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Ben Ferguson
All of our shoulders. It's not a great answer, is it?
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Ted Cruz
Well, look, look, I actually have a little bit of sympathy for her because there's no way to answer that. The real answer is there is no leader of the Democrat Party. They are leaderless, they are rudderless, they are running around like chickens with their heads cut off. Look, who would you say? You could say Chuck Schumer, but Chuck Schumer is not leading anything. He's utterly terrified of aoc. Whatever AOC in the squad demands, that's what Schumer does. So she's not going to say Chuck Schumer because the audience would laugh if she said Chuck Schumer. They'd laugh if she said Akeem Jeffries. Most of them would say, who's that? Like, he's not leading anything. He's just in the House. And in both the Senate and House, Schumer and Jeffries are essentially just embodying rage and hatred to Donald Trump. They don't have an agenda beyond open borders and lawlessness and hatred of Donald Trump. That's the entirety of the Democrat Party. And then beyond that, you've got all their ambitious governors. You know, Gavin Newsom is desperately trying to be super liberal and super moderate and whatever you want and slick and all around. And suddenly he knows boys aren't girls until tomorrow. And then boys are girls. And. But she can't say him either. And so there is no answer she can give because this is a rudderless party. And to the extent there is a leader, it is the pro Hamas contingent. It is aoc, it is Ilhan Omar. It is the extreme left wing squad that is driving the rest of the party and that everyone else in the party is terrified of.
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Ben Ferguson
Yeah, it's amazing. It is actually fun for once to watch the Democratic Party from top to bottom being just complete and utter disarray. Because let's be honest, you got to.
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Ted Cruz
Play one more clip. You got to play the clip. When Colbert asked if she was running for governor.
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Ben Ferguson
Yeah. This is amazing. Take a listen.
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Stephen Colbert
You made an announcement that you're not running for the governor of California.
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Kamala Harris
Correct.
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Stephen Colbert
You said you're going to sit this one out. Why are you sitting this now? Are you saving yourself for a different office that might be.
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iHeart Podcast
No, no, no.
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Stephen Colbert
Obviously, people project onto.
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iHeart Podcast
And honestly that it's more perhaps basic than that. I am. Listen, I am a devout public servant. I have spent my entire career in service of the people. But to be very candid with you, I had to defend my decision to become a prosecutor with my family is why is it then when we think we want to improve a system or change it, that we're always on the outside, on bended knee or trying to.
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Kamala Harris
Break down the door?
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iHeart Podcast
Shouldn't we also be inside the system? And that has been my career recently. I made the decision that I just. For now, I don't want to go back in the system. I think it's broken.
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Ben Ferguson
I think it's broken. You can't make that up either.
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Ted Cruz
But you know what's broken about it?
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Ben Ferguson
What is that?
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Ted Cruz
That she lost. That. That's her whole definition of whether the system is working or it's broken. It is broken because the American people voted for Donald Trump and not for Kamala Harris. It is broken because the American people voted for a Republican Senate and not a Democrat Senate. It is broken in her. In her view, because the American people voted for a Republican House and not a Democrat House. In her view, democracy, the system only works when she and other left wing lunatics are in power. That's how she defines whether it's working or whether it's broken. It is purely, it is 100% about power. And look, part of why, to be honest, you and I, we don't listen to Stephen Colbert and we very rarely listen to Kamala Harris. The reason why we're playing this exchange is because it really does show that there's not a moment of reflection. You know, what she had in her book promo about candor and whatever. There's none of that. She continues. Four years of a disastrous agenda. Open borders, 12 million illegal immigrants, the worst illegal immigration our nation's history. She takes no responsibility for that, doesn't acknowledge that abandoning all of our friends and allies, going from peace and prosperity to two simultaneous wars across the globe. She takes no responsibility for that. The Democrat Party becoming rabidly anti Semitic, her funders funding violent anti Semitic riots on college campuses. She takes no responsibility for that. There's not at all an acknowledgement of, gosh, people voted for Donald Trump in significant part because they were really, really, really unhappy with the radical policies that Joe Biden, Kamala Harris put in place. No acknowledgement of that at all. And their view? The system is broken. Why? Because the democracy's functioning to her mind. If the voters can vote her out, the system is broken. That is the essence of the contempt that today's Democrat Party has for for Big D democracy.
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Ben Ferguson
Don't forget we do this show Monday, Wednesday and Friday. So hit that subscriber auto download button wherever you get your podcasts and the senator and I will see you back here in a couple of days.
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