Katherine Herage (4:22)

Baier about what the Obama Justice Department ordered federal lawyers to do and not to do concerning the Hillary Clinton email investigation. Chief intelligence correspondent Katherine Herage tells us in sworn testimony on Capitol Hill, one of the inside told lawmakers what she.

John Radcliffe (4:38)

Was told during closed door testimony last summer. Former FBI lawyer Lisa Page said the Obama administration's Justice Department advised the FBI not to pursue the gross negligence statute for Hillary Clinton in the mishandling of classified information. Former U.S. attorney and House Republican John Radcliffe led the line of questioning about the statute known as 18 USC 793. Radcliffe, you're making it sound like it was the department that told you you're not going to charge gross negligence because we're the prosecut. Page interrupted. That is correct. Page's testimony appears to conflict with then FBI Director James Comey's recommendation in July 2016 against criminal charges for Clinton.

News Anchor (5:19)

What I can assure the American people is that this investigation was done honestly, competently and independently.

John Radcliffe (5:26)

No outside influence of any kind was brought to bear. The Republican led House Oversight and Judiciary Committee investigation ended in January. With Democrats now in control. The committee's new ranking Republican made the Page transcript public.

Katherine Herage (5:40)

Transcript releases show an inherent two tier system, one in which Hillary Clinton gets the treatment that she got where they was actually at first concerned that they were going to charge her. And then with Loretta lynch in charge before she recused herself, made it very clear that that was not going to happen.

John Radcliffe (5:54)

The tip off came from a chart drawn up by federal investigators assigned to the Clinton case, known as mid year exam. Fox News has confirmed that the chart listed possible federal statutes for prosecution. Next to gross negligence was a notation, quote, doj not willing to charge this. Only known cases are military cases. When accused lost the information. In response to the page revelations, the president tweeted the transcripts, quote, make the Obama Justice Department look exactly like it was a broken and corrupt machine. The page transcript also confirms Fox's earlier reporting. The page testified Russia collusion was still unproven when special Counsel Robert Mueller was appointed.

News Anchor (6:33)

So let's just recap the facts as we know them now. Number one, the FBI and the DOJ were ordered by Barack Obama to not arrest Hillary Clinton. Why? Because they were protecting her at all costs. Number two, James Comey deliberately lied to the American people days before the election in 2016. And yes, he was also protecting the Clinton family at Barack Obama's orders, the CIA, John Radcliffe saying, quote, lisa Page confirmed to me under oath that the FBI was ordered by the Obama a DOJ not to consider charging Hillary Clinton. In other words, no matter what crime she committed, no matter what she did with her emails, no matter what she did in destroying them, no matter what servers they were on, and no matter how much classified information she had in her possession that she was not supposed to have in a laptop or in emails or on a private server, it didn't matter. The FBI, under Barack Obama's orders, was never going to charge Hillary Clinton with anything. Whether it was gross negligence or the mishandling of classified information. All of this goes back to the single issue. How much were we lied to in this country by a corrupt deep state that was led by Barack Obama? Well, now we know just how bad it actually was.

Ben Ferguson (8:02)

Next story.

News Anchor (8:03)

Number two, there's one thing that we know for sure. The media lied to us about the Egyptian illegal who lit innocent people on fire in Boulder, Colorado. We all also know that the police chief in Boulder, Colorado played politics and didn't want to tell you the truth about this being a terrorist act. Well, that's not all they're covering up. And that's part of the reason why we do this show. So you know exactly what is happening in this investigation. One thing is for sure is the Egyptian illegal immigrant who was led into this country during the Biden administration said he, quote, wanted to kill All Zionist people and had planned the attack for at least a year. Muhammad Solomon has just been charged with a federal hate crime. Here is more of what we've learned from my good friends at fox and Kayleigh McEnany.

Kayleigh McEnany (8:52)

We have some new details. Federal authorities releasing the charges for the man accused of setting eight people on fire in that targeted terror attack in Boulder, Colorado. Officials say he's now being charged with a hate crime that's federally. And this is what they found. They found at least 14 unlit Molotov cocktails on his person along with that makeshift flamethrower. The Molotovs comprised of glass, wine, carrot bottles or ball jars containing clear liquid and red rags hanging out of the bottles. He made these himself. In fact, it says that he researched on YouTube how to do this. And later, during an interview with the officials, the suspect stated outright, he's talking. He stated he wanted to, quote, kill all Zionist people and wished they were all dead. He also stated would do it again. Emily. He also said during this interview he specifically targeted the Zionist group that had gathered in Boulder. He knew they planned to meet that day. Sunday at 1pm he arrived at 12:55 and waited for them.

Commentator (9:51)

I love that. He also said that he's been planning this attack for over a year, but he wanted to wait until his daughter graduated because he gets to make that choice. But what about the choice of the Jewish victims who don't get to make a choice when they are attacked or don't get to make a choice if they die, which by the way, there with an attempt to murder, Then the hate crime charge brings a life imprisonment sentence, which I hope he gets. This is so foul. And he also said that he learned on YouTube how to make a Molotov cocktail. This is what is being fomented right now. That someone has the audacity, the ability and the actionable information to Molotov cocktail and then flamethrow against peaceful Jewish citizens and gets the luxury of doing so after his daughter graduates, after he drives across the country and builds his Molotov cocktail with gas at the gas station. This is absolutely unacceptable. We know that there are questions surrounding his identity given that he's for some reason 21 on his identification. He shouldn't have been in this country. And now people are suffering for it, horrifically, including a Holocaust survivor. As you pointed out earlier, a Holocaust.

News Anchor (10:51)

Survivor is one of the victims of this individual. So the question you have to ask yourself is this, why is the media still covering up this story? Why are they not wanting to Tell you that the terror suspect said, quote, he would do it again and showed no remorse to those as he was speaking in law enforcement. This also brings up another big story. We also have the largest ICE raid that's just been conducted, resulting in over 1400 illegals being arrested in Massachusetts. And the question is, how many more terrorists are out there that came to this country illegally? Just like Mohammed Solomon, the man who came from Egypt. Well, take a listen to what the ICE director had to say when talking about why they were forced to go into Massachusetts and do a massive cleanup.

ICE Director (11:43)

In the meantime, in Massachusetts, you had, I think, the largest ever raid, or at least netting of arrests of 1,461 people. That's the largest so far. And those that were arrested, 790 of them had criminal convictions and 277 had what we were just talking about, final orders of removal or deportation. Tell us more.

Dana Perino (12:03)

No. And Dana, it was a great operation. And the fact that it was over the course of a month really shows the commitment of the men and women of ICE here in Massachusetts and all over New England. And we took a whole of government approach. We used all of our partners to include diplomatic security, the U.S. marshals Service, ATF, FBI, DEA, to really locate and arrest these criminal aliens. One highlight for this operation is the fact that it was successful because we worked with our joint partners in a sanctuary state like Massachusetts, where it's extremely difficult. Where we had Operation Tidal Wave last month in Florida, there was a week long operation working with our state partners. That's a state that cooperates with us. Here in Massachusetts, we don't have any cooperations from the local departments or from the state, which makes it extremely difficult for ICE to get out there and find these bad guys.

News Anchor (12:47)

You think about how many prospective terrorists are among us that came across the border and were given, in essence, the ability to stay here and protection from the Biden Harris regime. When you look at what's happening in Massachusetts, where the state and local authorities are refusing to take out the bad guys, it tells you just how dangerous it is for every American, no matter where you live.

Ben Ferguson (13:10)

And here is story number three.

News Anchor (13:12)

It is a story that is shocking, but becoming all too normal. Six people, including a USDA employee, have been busted in what is being described as a $66 million food stamp fraud scheme. A USDA employee responsible for identifying SNAP fraud allegedly sold hundreds of EBT numbers, enabling over 36 million in fraudulent snap redemptions at unauthorized stores. Michael Kehoe reportedly orchestrated a network that supplied the approximately 160 unauthorized EBT terminals to stores across the New York area to illegally process more than 30 million in EBT transactions. This is now going down in history as one of the largest food stamp frauds ever. The USDA employee and five others that have been now charged in the multi million dollar food stamp fraud and bribery scheme are being looked at for exactly what they are con artists that had access within our government to pull this off. The question now is where else could this be done around the country and how much of your tax dollars are being stolen by fraudulent terminals and fake people and fake food stamps that are actually just going to let people get extremely rich. There is one good thing. It's very clear now that the Trump administration is going all in to find this type of waste, fraud and abuse. And yes, Elon Musk may have moved on from what was always going to be a temporary role with Doge, but it doesn't mean that the work is stopping anytime soon. And this is a perfect example of it.

Ben Ferguson (15:04)

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