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BONUS POD: Arctic Frost Exposed-197 Subpoenas, 430 Targets-Inside the Biden DOJ’s Political Dragnet
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Ben Ferguson
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Senator Ted Cruz
20% of the Republicans in the United States Senate were the target of this fishing expedition. They did so in complete contravention of the Constitution of separation of powers, of the speech and debate clause, of free speech, of basic rights of privacy. This is an executive who believes it is justified spying on their opponents in the legislature.
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Ben Ferguson
You're listening to the 47 Morning Update with Ben Ferguson.
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Good Thursday morning. Nice to have you with us on the 47 Morning Update. And first off, if you missed yesterday's show, go back and listen to it, because it directly ties in to the bombshell story that we're going to explain to you right now that approximately 160 Republican figures may have been investigated as part of the FBI's Arctic frost probe into alleged efforts by allies of President Trump. They claim to overturn the 2020 election. In reality, it was a fishing expedition with wiretaps and straight up spying on members of Congress. You're not going to believe all that we're going to tell you about in Senator Grassley's new Bombshell Report. But first, I want to tell you about an amazing opportunity right now that I'm involved in, and I cannot wait for you to take advantage of it. I want you to take some incredible courses at Hillsdale College for free. You may not know this, but Hillsdale College has been influencing conservatives like myself. For decades they had a huge impact on Charlie Kirk's life. And even as memorial service, they talked about how Charlie took class after class after class at Hillsdale College. Hillsdale College is now offering for you, the listeners of this show, more than 40 free. I want to say that again, free online courses. That's right. More than 40 free online courses. You can learn about the works of C.S. lewis, the stories in the book of Genesis, the meaning of the US Constitution, the rise and fall of the Roman Republic, or the history of the ancient Christian Church, all with Hillsdale College's free online courses. Right now, I'm personally taking the Constitution 101. In this course you're going to explore the design and and the purpose of the Constitution, the challenges it faced during the Civil War and how it has been undermined for more than a century by radical progressives and liberals. This 12 lecture course is self paced. It's another reason why I love it. So start whenever and wherever in our country. We need more Americans like you and I that understand the Constitution and can defend the freedom of of the American people against the left and their increasing encroachments on our God given rights. So start your classes today for free. Start your free Constitution 101 course right now. How do you do it? Go to Hillsdale Edu Morning Update to enroll and it's no cost. It's easy to get started. You got to use a special website, Hillsdale Edu Morning Update. Enroll for free Hillsdale Edu Morning Update. It's the 47 Morning Update and it starts right now. Story number one, if you missed yesterday's show, you need to go back and listen to the podcast because what was a big story then has now gone into a nuclear bomb today. Senator Chuck Grassley, the Republican from Iowa, has has now released 197 subpoenas that the Biden administration's FBI used to seek testimony and documents related to hundreds of Republicans and GOP entities as part of the Bureau's Arctic Frost probe. The prosecutor to former special counsel Jack Smith's election investigation, which now is in essence a hit list, a target list, a black book of influential conservatives and members of Congress who they wanted to target. Arctic Frost was the vehicle by which partisan FBI agents Chuck Grassley said and DOJ prosecutors could improperly investigate the entire Republican political apparatus. I want you to hear exactly what Chuck Grassley had to say at this press conference in it is shocking. And now we know just how corrupt the Democratic Party was under the Biden administration.
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A little bit of history Before I get to what we're releasing today, I started the investigation into Arctic frost, July 2022 based on whistleblower disclosures. Based on these disclosures, we know that weaponized taxpayer funded agents and prosecutors advanced the investigation. As Arctic frost advanced, 92 Republican organizations or individuals were targeted, not just Trump, and they were added to its scope. And author of that targeting list was Special Agent Washington Walter Giarradino. He's the same weaponized agent who was involved in other cases against Republicans, including Peter Navarro. We've learned Jack Smith secretly obtained phone record data from at least eight Senators and one Congressman. I've recently been informed by Verizon that at least 11 members with Verizon accounts were affected. That includes a hard line for Senator Cruz's office and a staffer cell phone for former Senator Loeffler. AT&T informed me they challenged the legal basis for Jack Smith's efforts and Smith backed down. So today we're making public new records that I've obtained through legally protected whistleblower disclosures. 197 subpoenas were issued by Jack Smith and his team. These subpoenas were issued to 34 individuals and 163 businesses, including financial institutions. And one of the points of contact on many of these subpoenas was that person I previously named, Special Agent Walter Giardino. The subpoena requested records and communications related to over 430 individual and organizations. All of them appear to be aimed at Republicans. A subpoena to Event Strategies requested records relating to Turning Point USA and the Republican Attorney General's Association. One subpoena to Apple sought records relating to Trump and the January 6th prison choir. Earlier this year I obtained emails between and among JP Couney, one of Jack Smith's prosecutors. That email exchange was March 2023 about a partisan news article on January 6th. And this is what Couney said in the email. Can we do some work to nail down Trump's role in this? Perhaps with the same process on Ed Henry's llc, end quote.
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You look at what Chuck Grassley is talking about here and it's truly incredible. What he's describing is the Democratic Party saying we are going to use our doj, the FBI, the CIA, whoever we need to open up investigations and then go out and attack our political enemies. Now this is a direct contradictory statement of facts to to what Smith had said publicly. This was clearly a fishing expedition. Grassley went on to say. Standing alongside Grassley was Senator Ron Johnson. He called the subpoenas nothing short of A Biden administration enemies list. Take a listen to Johnson in his own words.
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Senator Ron Johnson
I think it's important to note that the records that we are now making public and for personal transparency were not obtained from the agency. They were obtained through a whistleblower. So my first point is we need more whistleblowers. We need people, men and women inside these agencies who have integrity, who want to see the integrity and credibility of the Department of Justice, of the FBI restored, come forward. Because right now I think Cash Patel, Pam Bondi are overwhelmed by all the messes they're trying to clean up. Their agencies have been, you know, lost a lot of personnel. People simply couldn't serve the Trump administration. It's hard to hire people because of all the lawfare and there's still partisan actors burrowed in trying to sabotage their efforts. So we need whistleblowers. The reason they come forward to Chairman Grassley is because he's been such a champion of whistleblowers. So again, I thank him for that. What is revealed in those 1700 pages of documents in those 197 subpoenas is nothing short of a Biden administration enemies. Listen, you know, I'm old enough to understand how toxic a term that was under Richard Nixon. This is far worse, far worse orders of magnitude worse. People need to understand how politicized the Biden administration turned all these agencies. And again, the best way to describe President Biden's attitude were his exact quotes, how he thought basically half America were domestic terrorists. In September 2022, in front of Independence hall, he said Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundation of our republic. A year later in New York City, Donald Trump and his Maggie Republicans are determined to destroy American democracy. Now, nothing could be further from the truth. That is a level of paranoia that's actually astonishing. But the fact that 38 Wisconsinites are on that enemy's list, I know most of those individuals. They are God fearing, country loving, law enforcement supporting people who want to see America succeed. The fact that they are on a Biden administration enemies list were targeted by that administration is outrageous. It should shock every American. And so I am calling on and I appreciate all the members of the Judiciary Committee. We need to get to the bottom of this. We need to do everything we can to assist Director Patel and AG Bondi in making sure that they have the staff to, to take control of these agencies. They're the heads of them. I don't think they have the control. I think they're being sabotaged. Within. But the American people need to understand exactly what happened. And again I'm calling on members of Judiciary Committee to help Senator Grassley and myself get to the bottom of this so we can expose this so this doesn't happen again in America. This has to end.
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Ben Ferguson
You can hear Johnson there, obviously very angry about what he has witnessed. And now the data that he has uncovered, the. This is a massive abuse of power by the Biden administration and it attacked anyone they thought was their political enemy. Johnson is not the only one that is furious about what they are uncovering. There's also other members of Congress who were spied upon sitting members of Congress. One of them was Senator Ted Cruz. And I want you to hear what Senator Cruz said after he found out that his office phone in his actual office in the United States Senate building was tapped. Why? Because he was a conservative. That was the crime. Take a listen.
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Senator Ted Cruz
Arctic Frost is Joe Biden's Watergate. Merrick Garland was a fundamentally corrupt Attorney General. Jack Smith was a fundamentally corrupt prosecutor. This was a political enemies list from the beginning. 197 subpoenas from over 430 Republican entities and individuals. That is an absolute and egregious abuse of power. The Biden Justice Department signed off on issuing subpoenas for the phone records of at least nine US senators. 20% of the Republicans in the United States Senate were the target of this fishing expedition. They did so in complete copy. Contravention of the Constitution of separation of powers, of the speech and debate clause, of free speech, of basic rights of privacy. This is an executive who believes it is justified spying on their opponents in the legislature because they convince themselves the ends justify the means. I want to talk to you about one of those subpoenas. One of those subpoenas went from Jack Smith to AT&T seeking my cell phone communications. It went to AT&T. And I actually want to commend AT&T for doing the right thing. AT&T is based in Texas. AT&T looked at that subpoena and they went to their legal counsel and they said, what should we do with that subpoena? And their legal counsel said, you cannot comply because this is protected by the speech and debate clause of the U.S. constitution. And so AT&T declined to comply. Did not hand over my cell phone records. Now one might ask, ordinarily a phone company being asked to hand over the phone records of a sitting senator would notify that senator. Well, there was a reason AT&T did not do so. Accompanying the subpoena was an order which I have in my hand right here. An order that was signed by Judge James E. Boasberg. Now, who is Boasberg? Boasberg is that radical leftist judge who is out of control, who has been issuing nationwide injunctions, one after the other, trying to stop President Trump from carrying out his mandate from the voters. Judge Boasberg issued an order to the US to ATT and signed that order prohibiting AT&T from informing me of this subpoena for at least one year. And Judge Boasberg gave the basis for that order. And I'm going to quote from the order Judge Boasberg signed. The court finds reasonable grounds to believe that such disclosure will result in. In destruction of or tampering with evidence, intimidation of potential witnesses, and serious jeopardy to the investigation. That's an order a judge signed. I can tell you right now, there is precisely zero evidence to conclude that I am likely to destroy or tamper with evidence or to intimidate potential witnesses. Zero evidentiary basis for that. This order is an abuse of power.
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Ben Ferguson
This.
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Senator Ted Cruz
This order is a weaponized legal system. My assumption, we don't have the subpoenas that were issued for the other senators, but my assumption is Judge Boasberg printed these things out like the placemats at. At Denny's, one after the other. We don't know that for a fact, but I feel confident that he concluded it's likely that Lindsey Graham would destroy evidence and Marsha Blackburn would destroy evidence and Eric Schmidt would destroy evidence and Chuck Grassley would destroy evidence. If a litigant makes a claim for which there is no factual basis, that litigant is subject to sanctions in federal court. And if a judge signs an order reaching a factual conclusion for which there is zero evidence whatsoever, that judge is abusing his power. I am right now calling on the House of Representatives to impeach Judge Boasberg. Judge Boasberg put his robe down, stood up, and said, sign me up to be part of the partisan vendetta against 20% of the Republicans in the Senate. That is a dereliction of duty and a violation of the judicial oath. And I want to thank Chairman Grassley and Chairman Johnson for pursuing this tenaciously like a dog on a bone. We are going to get the answers of every person who signed off on this abuse of power. And mark my words, there will be accountability for these zealots who wanted to corrupt the Department of Justice and corrupt the judiciary in order to try to attack their enemies list. That is unconstitutional, it is immoral, and it is wrong.
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Ben Ferguson
This is Biden's Watergate. I could not agree more with Senator Cruz when he said that earlier. I couldn't agree more with Senator Ron Johnson when he called the subpoenas. Nothing short of Biden's administration's enemies list. These subpoenas were non public for a reason. These subpoenas were confidential grand jury material that Grassley said he obtained through whistleblower disclosures. They were trying to hide this from the current administration. The subpoena sought certain communications with media companies as well. We've now learned that those media companies included Fox News Channel, cbs, Sinclair, Newsmax, and with members of AIDS in Congress also being put under the well fishing expedition. We also know they sought sweeping financial information from conservative entities as well as those conservative entities. They wanted to use the federal governments to silence them, to shut them down. This was literally an enemy's list, and it was all disguised by the Democratic Party in quiet, privately, to make sure that you and I never found it. It was also designed to make sure that people like Senator Cruz could not stop it when it was happening. And why did they not want them to know about it? Why do they lie and say that, well, these senators who they were spying could not be trusted, that they might try to intimidate witnesses with no evidence to back that up? Because they knew if these senators found out about this, they would have the legal grounds to stop the Biden administration immediately. And that is exactly why they said, okay, we are done. We will do it in silence. We will do it quietly. And they were betting on winning the next election so they'd never be held accountable for what they just did. And the massive abuse of power that they were in charge of. This was not legal in any way. This was corruption in every way. And now Donald Trump's administration has exposed it because of great men and women who have risked their careers as whistleblowers trusting the system. One of the things you heard there at the very beginning was Senator Grassley and Johnson talking about, we need more whistleblowers to come forward. And whistleblowers that are witnessing now the protections they're receiving from the Trump administration, administration are probably a thousand times more likely to come forward than they would have during the Biden era when they could clearly see just how corrupt they were as a administration. One final thing about this, I expect there is going to be even more bombshells to come forward, more corruption that will be unearthed. And as all of this corruption continues to be exposed, the question now is, who will be held accountable for it. We'll keep you updated on that, I can promise you.
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