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Bob Pittman
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Ben Ferguson
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Ben Ferguson
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Ryan Seacrest
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Dan Bongino
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Ryan Seacrest
You're listening to the 47 Morning Update with Ben Ferguson.
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Ben Ferguson
Good Tuesday morning. Nice to have you with us on the 47 Morning Update. And here are the three big stories coming to the White House that you need to know about. First up, Donald Trump hits pause and says thank you to all the men and women that have given the ultimate sacrifice for this country. And he also had a very special message to family members of the fallen. We'll have that for you in just a moment. Also, in a shocking development, Social Security has now officially removed 12.3 million individuals listed at the age of 120 or more. And you will also be shocked by how many illegal immigrants have Social Security numbers and are receiving benefits from our government as part of the investigation. Those details in a moment. And finally, the deputy FBI director, Dan Bongino coming out and saying there's some big stories that we're still looking into. You remember the cocaine at the White House or the leaking of the 2022 Supreme Court decision when it came to Roe v. Wade and the Washington pipe bomb incident just the day before January 7th. All of these are now being investigated again by the FB. Hi, I'll have those details. It's the 47 morning update and it starts right now. On Memorial Day, Donald Trump did what every president should do, pause and say thank you for so many that have given the ultimate sacrifice to protecting and defending this country. Well, President Donald Trump said during his Memorial Day remarks at Arlington National Cemetery that the sacrifices of America's fallen service members endure each and every day. And the debt Americans owe these selfless heroes only grows. Trump spoke alongside The Vice President J.D. vance and the defense secretary headseth shortly after laying a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. In his remarks, Trump paid tribute to those who were killed in action, laying down the ultimate sacrifice for the United States of America Here is President Trump in his own words.
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Dan Bongino
The sacrifice that they made was not merely for a single battle, a long ago victory or a fleeting triumph, decades or centuries past. Their sacrifice was for today, tomorrow, and every morning thereafter. Every child that lives in peace, every home that is filled with joy and love, every day the republic stands is only possible because of those who did what had to be done when duty called. And the cost was everything to them and to their families. Our debt to them is eternal, and it does not diminish with time. It only grows and grows and grows with each passing year. The greatest monument to their courage is not carved in marble or cast in bronze. It's all around us, an American nation, 325 million strong, which will soon be greater than it has ever been before. It will be.
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Ben Ferguson
The president was not done there. He also talked about the Gold Star family members. And here is what he had to say.
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Dan Bongino
For the families of the fallen, you feel the absence of your heroes every day in the family. These are great families. These are wonderful families. In the familiar laugh, no longer heard the empty space at Sunday dinner or the want of a hug or a pat on the back that will never come again. Every Gold Star family fights a battle long after the victory is won. And today, we lift you up and we hold you high. Thank you, thank you, thank you for giving America the brightest light in your lives. That's what you've done. We will never, ever forget our fallen heroes and we will never forget our debt to you.
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Ben Ferguson
The president making it clear that as long as he is in office, we will honor those who've given the ultimate sacrifice. He said each of the service members who has made the supreme sacrifice for our nation has also left an unfillable void and an unbreakable silence in the lives of all who love them. For the families of the fallen, you feel the absence of your heroes every day. These are great families. These are wonderful families, the president said. And the familiar laugh no longer heard the empty space at Sunday dinner or the want of a hug or a pat on the back that will never come again. The president making it clear that this White House says thank you to every man and woman who's given the ultimate sacrifice to protect our great freedoms.
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Ryan Seacrest
Next story number two, one of the.
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Ben Ferguson
Big reasons why Donald Trump was elected is he promised you, the American taxpayer, that he was going to make sure that your money was no longer being wasted, your tax dollars. Well, he's making good on that promise yet again. This time, it deals with Social Security and the fact that we've had to remove from the Social Security roles. 12.3 million individuals listed as 120 years old or older. That according to the U.S. department of Government Efficiency, known as DOGE. Now, the discrepancies in the Social Security figures and the alarming ages of some of the individuals listed have garnered national attention over the last several months. And as a result, in March, DOGE began to update the American people on the massive cleanup begun by Social Security. In a March 18 update, Doge said Social Security had marked 3.2 million Social Security number holders aged 120 or older as deceased, warning that there was still more work to be done over. One month later, on April 24, Doge provide another update revealing that a stunning 11 million individuals listed as age 120 or more were now being marked as deceased. And the most recent update delivered this week by Doge, they revealed that a total of 12.3 million individuals listed as 120 years old or older are now officially marked as deceased in the system. Elon Musk brought on stage to talk about this issue. Antonio, gracias. And he showed a chart of the new non citizen Social Security numbers that have also been issued. He said it literally blew them away. So it's not just people that are dead or 120 and older, but it's also illegal immigrants as well. Take a listen to what they said.
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Antonio
So Antonio, can you tell us what, what you. Antonio is helping out with Social Security. So just trying to review Social Security where you may have heard that we found 20 million dead people marked as alive in the Social Security database. This is too so crazy. And then you'll notice there's a strange trend here where how many Social Security numbers were issued? It's. Do you want to.
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Bob Pittman
Yeah. So let me, let me tell you what happened here. We, we started at the top of the system. We started the top of the system mapping the whole system of Social Security to understand where all the fraud was. And there's a lot of great people there that showed us really a lot of waste. And so that came up with a big list of stuff they're working on. You've heard some of that already, but this is what jumped out at us when we saw these numbers. We're like, what is this? In 21 you see 270,000 people goes all the way to 2.1 million in 24. These are non citizens that are getting Social Security numbers.
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Antonio
Yeah, this, this is a mind blowing chart.
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Bob Pittman
Yeah, just this, this literally blew us away. Like we went there to Find fraud. And we found this by accident. And this isn't political, by the way. My parents. Immigrants. Yeah. This country's been great to us. My brother and sister, all born in Spain. I'm pro legal immigration. This is not. This is not political. This is not political. This is about America and the future of America. And there are a lot of good people in the system that pointed us in this direction. I want to. I want to honor them right now that work in the government today who took risk to show us these numbers and tell us what's going on. So I want to stop for a minute. I want to honor those people today. Very good people. Very good people. I have been from D.C. to Social Security offices to the border to track this down, and very good people have helped us along the way. I want to thank them.
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Antonio
Yeah.
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Bob Pittman
This number, what this is, is when you come in the country, if you're any legal, there's a couple ways to come in. You come in through a port of entry, and you can tell them you're afraid you'll get. They'll give you an asylum. Asylum case. You'll get an interview. Then you get in. That's one way to do it. Another way to do it is to just go to the border. Literally, this happened. I talked to border patrol myself. Elon was there, too. I went to Laredo and I went to Bronzeville. Elon went to Eagle Pass. You walk up to a board patrol officer and you tell them you want to come in. They have a couple of choices. They could charge you with a misdemeanor or a felony under 1325, or they can make an administrative offense like a parking ticket. Basically, they were told to do that. Make an administrative offense under last administration. And then you go walk across the border. They do what's called a release your neuron recognizance, and they give you an NTA notice to appear, which appear to judge. The wait times on judges are like average six years. Look at Grok. You'll see it on immigration judges. There's only 700 of them. This is 5.5 million people. Okay, so what happens then? Once you're in the country and you got asylum through one of these pathways, and we map the whole thing out. You can apply for a work document. You file a 765. It's the work form. You get this form called the 766. That's the authorization. And then Social Security administration automatically sends you in the mail your Social Security number. No interview, no id.
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Antonio
This is worth like just reiterating. It's not that. It's not. People sometimes think that under the Biden administration that he was simply asleep at the switch. He was asleep. They weren't asleep at the switch. It was a massive, large scale program to eat, import as many illegals as possible, ultimately to change the entire voting map of the United States and disenfranchise the American people and make it a permanent deep blue one party state from which there would be no escape.
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Bob Pittman
Look, if I hadn't seen this myself, I'm not sure I believed it. I went through it myself and mapped it. And Elon is right, this is true. The defaults in the system from Social Security to all of the benefit programs have been set to max inclusion, max pay for these people and minimum collection. That's what's happening. We found 1.3 million of them already on Medicaid as an example. We've gone through, on every benefit program we went through, we found groups from this particular group of people, this 5.5 million people in those benefit programs. And then what was really, really disturbing us was why? We're asking ourselves why? And so we actually just took a sample and looked at voter registration records. And we found people here registered to vote in this population. Yes.
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Antonio
And who did vote.
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Bob Pittman
And, and we found some by sampling that actually did vote. And we have referred them to prosecution at the Home Ed Security Investigation Service. Yeah, already, already. That is already happening.
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Ben Ferguson
So let's just be clear what you just heard. You just heard Elon Musk and Antonio show a chart of new non citizen Social Security numbers issued. They said it literally blew them away. They went there to find fraud. And what they found was all of this by accident. The update coincides with other red flags issued by Elon Musk and Doge as well. They made waves in March when he said at least 2.1 million non citizens are receiving Social Security numbers in 2024 alone. So not only is that true, they're also on Medicare, Medicaid, and many of them have registered to vote and have actually voted. So yes, illegal immigrants are actually voting in this country. And this is exactly why Doge has so much more work to continue to do.
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Ryan Seacrest
And finally, story number three.
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Ben Ferguson
There were some pretty big stories in the past administration that literally got swept under the rug. And there are stories that Democrats, certainly those in power, were really hoping they'd never have to worry about again. It's part of the reason why they were propping up Joe Biden even though they knew he wasn't even The President of the United States of America. He had a massive cognitive decline. But hey, when you're doing what they're doing, why not keep the charades going? Well, the FBI Deputy Director, Dan Bongino has come out and said that, quote, the bureau is now looking at several of those cases involving, quote, potential public corruption. Cases the FBI could look at are the Washington pipe bomb incident, a White House cocaine discovery, you may remember that story, and also the minor leaking of the 2022 Supreme Court decision that overturned Roe v. Wade. Yes, the FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino sang that the bureau is looking at launching investigations into these cases of potential public corruption. Bongino said shortly after swearing in, the FBI Director Cash Patel and I evaluated a number of cases of potential public corruption, understandably have garnered public interest. Bongino, a former Secret Service agent, and you may know him from his podcast, noted that they made the decision to either reopen or push additional resources and investigative attention to these cases. One case they're looking to target is the FBI investigation to the alleged pipe bomb left near the Democratic and Republican National Committee buildings in Washington, D.C. the day before the January 6 Capitol breach, he said the FBI said in 2024 that a $500,000 reward is still in effect for information leading to the arrest of the pipe bomb suspect. Earlier in 2025, the former assistant director in charge of the FBI Washington Field Office told CNN that officials are seeking, quote, new leads, saying maybe alliances have changed or relationships have changed and it's time to report on the suspect is what he said to the outlet at the time saying, tip really have been very helpful. But as I mentioned, we're still trying to identify the suspect. So we're trying to release a little more information such that maybe it will jog somebody's memory. Other cases that warrant more resources include one involving the discovery of cocaine in the White House in July of 2023, as well as the massive leak of the Supreme Court's decision that overturned Roe v. Wade in June of 2022. Saying it this way, quote, I receive requests briefings on these cases weekly and we are making progress. If you have any investigative tips on these matters that may assist us, then please contact the FBI. Also in his ex post, Bongino said he and Patel have conducted one media interview together, which was with Fox News, as you know, a few days ago, saying, quote, we decided early on to limit our media footprint overall in order to keep the attention on the work being done. We have chosen to communicate in writing on this platform to fill some of the inevitable information vacuum saying, quote, I try to read as much of your feedback as possible, but the workday is busy and my office is a sensitive compartmented information facility with limited phone access. In response to feedback both positive and negative, from our interview last week, we will be releasing more information which will further clarify answers to some of the questions asked in the interview. One thing is for sure, they are definitely going for more transparency, but for the liberals out there that may have been committing crimes, guess what? You may have thought you got away with it and apparently with this administration you may be very wrong.
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Ryan Seacrest
Thank you for listening to the 47 Morning Update with Ben Ferguson. Please make sure you hit subscribe wherever you're listening to this podcast right now and for more in depth news, also subscribe to the Ben Ferguson Podcast and we will see you back here tomorrow. The ability to protect our savings and hold onto wealth we can pass down gets harder every day. While currencies rise and fall, one asset has stood the test of time. Physical gold. Many are turning to physical gold and silver to help protect accounts like IRAS and 401s. Text the word iheart to 50505 Preserve Gold is giving away a free precious metals guide on how to help protect your accounts and get up to $15,000 in free gold and silver with a qual qualified purchase. Text I heart to 50505 to claim this offer from Preserve Gold today. Preservegold.com iheart Anti Semitism is on the.
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Ben Ferguson
Rise around the world and sadly right here in America. Jewish schools being targeted, synagogues threatened, families living in fear. This is the moment for all of us to take a stand. And that's why I want to tell you about the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews. You may know that as ifcj. And they're giving food and shelter to Jewish families under threat. They're building bomb shelters for children, helping survivors of hate rebuild their lives in Israel. And your gift of only $45 will help support their life saving work. Every dollar helps be the difference. Visit ifcj.org that's ifcj.org hi, I'm Bob.
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Ryan Seacrest
Pittman, chairman and CEO of iHeartMedia. On this week's episode of Math and Magic, I'm sitting down with the one and only Bobby Bones. We're exploring the power of audio.
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Bob Pittman
Yeah, I don't fit into one specific hole. I think that is what endeared me to listeners. That's why I'm here now, because I talk to people that grew up like me, have sensibilities like me and have loyalties like me.
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Ryan Seacrest
Listen to math and magic stories from the frontiers of Marketing on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. Why should you listen to Armstrong and Getty on demand?
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Ben Ferguson
We're not boring.
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Ryan Seacrest
A lot of news is boring and tedious and depressing and makes you ang you don't want to live your life like that. Hey, I'm Jack Armstrong. He's Joe Getty. We're Armstrong and Getty. We try to bring you the truth and help you figure out this crazy modern world.
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Ben Ferguson
How about something about a comedic tone?
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Ryan Seacrest
We have a winner. Yes. Listen to Armstrong. You get it on Demand on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. In the fall of 1986, Ronald Reagan found himself at the center of a massive scandal that looked like it might bring down his presidency. It became known as the Iran Contra affair.
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Ben Ferguson
The things that happened were so bizarre.
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Dan Bongino
And insane, I can't begin to tell you.
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Antonio
Please do.
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Ryan Seacrest
To hear the whole story. Listen to Fiasco Iran Contra on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Bob Pittman
You're listening to an iHeart podcast.