Speaker 1: Governor Moore and Maryland Sina bill that is ending the
Speaker 1: law enforcement cooperation with ICE.
Speaker 2: Well, first of all, it's another despicable action by Governor
Speaker 2: Wes Moore. Why would you prevent your state and local
Speaker 2: law enforcement from cooperating with federal law enforcement. So the President,
Speaker 2: of course, continues to always stand on the side of
Speaker 2: law enforcement. And this is another just horrible and frankly
Speaker 2: political action taken by Governor Wes Moore, and unfortunately the
Speaker 2: people of his state are going to read the.
Speaker 1: Consequences of it.
Speaker 3: You're listening to the forty seven Morning Update with Ben ferguson.
Speaker 1: Good Thursday morning. Nice to have you with us on
Speaker 1: the forty seven Morning Update, and we've got two big
Speaker 1: stories for you. Grandma comes to the White House, a
Speaker 1: DC resident who lost her grandson to violence, praises Donald
Speaker 1: Trump and says she loves him and to get off
Speaker 1: his back because he's keeping Washington, d C. Safe. It
Speaker 1: was a touching moment and it's a story you will
Speaker 1: not hear in the mainstream media, and we'll have it
Speaker 1: for you in just a second. Also, in a big report,
Speaker 1: the FBI Director Cashpttel is now saying the FBI has
Speaker 1: uncovered antifa's funding sources and some of the money may
Speaker 1: be coming from overseas that as well. It's the forty
Speaker 1: seven Morning Update and it starts right now.
Speaker 3: Story number one.
Speaker 1: There was a really sincere and touching moment at the
Speaker 1: White House that many of you will never ever hear
Speaker 1: about because the media doesn't want you to know that
Speaker 1: Donald Trump is actually winning and doing what he said
Speaker 1: he was going to do about keeping people safe. A Washington,
Speaker 1: DC grandmother who lost her grandson in twenty seventeen due
Speaker 1: to violence in the city, came to the White House
Speaker 1: to praise Donald Trump, stating that one thing she liked
Speaker 1: about him was that he keeps it real, just like grandma.
Speaker 1: During a Black History Month reception on Wednesday, Trump spoke
Speaker 1: about how now, prior to his administration's cracking down on
Speaker 1: crime in the nation's capital, the district of Columbia was
Speaker 1: a crime capital and a horror show. Trump then introduced
Speaker 1: DC's new favorite grandmother, Miss Cook, a lifelong Washington resident
Speaker 1: who tragically lost her grandson to violence in twenty seventeen. Quote,
Speaker 1: we can't provide opportunity for the next generation if we
Speaker 1: do not also have a thing called law and order.
Speaker 1: We need law and order. Trump said, you know, Washington,
Speaker 1: d C. Is amazing. It was a crime capital. It
Speaker 1: was a horror show a year ago. It was really dangerous,
Speaker 1: and now it's one of the safetest cities anywhere in
Speaker 1: the country. Trump went on to introduce the grandmother, and
Speaker 1: prior to speaking, Cook asked him for a hug. I
Speaker 1: want you to listen to this incredible moment of where
Speaker 1: policy becomes real to the American people. Come on, you
Speaker 1: can thank you.
Speaker 3: I like her.
Speaker 4: I like him too. One thing I like about him
Speaker 4: he keeps it real, just like grandma. I appreciate that
Speaker 4: because I can trust him because he tells exactly how
Speaker 4: you feel and what he thinks. Thank God for this President.
Speaker 4: I am feeled my cup brothers over because he allowed
Speaker 4: his constituents, his people to come to my house to
Speaker 4: interview me to talk about the murder of my grandson.
Speaker 4: It seemed like nobody cared. I'm an advocate for murder.
Speaker 4: I marched, I rallied. I pulled out other families in
Speaker 4: the district of Columbia that had murders and did not
Speaker 4: have answers. Woo, we ain't marshall We rally and nobody
Speaker 4: heard me. Democrats get mad at me until this Republican
Speaker 4: seeing his consistuency, his people out there to interview me
Speaker 4: in my home. Have you ever heard of a thing?
Speaker 4: Then they invited me twice before Congress to testify for
Speaker 4: the beautiful bill that's gonna change crime in the district.
Speaker 4: If you kill somebody, okay, you take a life, you
Speaker 4: do life, just that simple. If you do a hossh crime,
Speaker 4: you do housh time, just that simple. And if we
Speaker 4: need national Guard, and which we did years ago.
Speaker 1: He brought it on.
Speaker 4: I love him. I don't want to hear nothing you
Speaker 4: got to say about the racist stuff. And don't be
Speaker 4: looking at me on the news, hate knowing me because
Speaker 4: I'm standing up for somebody that deserves me.
Speaker 1: Stay up, going, get off the man's back.
Speaker 4: Let him do his job.
Speaker 5: He's doing the right place.
Speaker 4: Buckball farm it and grandma said it.
Speaker 1: You will never hear that. And from the mainstream media
Speaker 1: that moment celebrating black history and a grandmother who lost
Speaker 1: her grandson praising President Trump for what he's doing to
Speaker 1: protect the African American community Washington.
Speaker 4: D C.
Speaker 1: Is not on the nightly news. Why because it's just
Speaker 1: too dangerous. It's too much truth and reality about the
Speaker 1: situation and Donald Trump yet again putting all Americans first
Speaker 1: and their safety, even if they're in a liberal city
Speaker 1: like Washington, d C.
Speaker 3: Now story number two, Cash Mattel.
Speaker 1: The FBI director, now coming out and saying that the
Speaker 1: FBI has uncovered ANTIFA funding sources and a major breaking
Speaker 1: news event. Now, let me remind you of where we
Speaker 1: were about four months ago when Cash Bttel was talking
Speaker 1: at the White House. When Cash Bttel was talking at
Speaker 1: the White House was President Trump, and this is what
Speaker 1: he said.
Speaker 5: What we are doing at the FBI is simple. It
Speaker 5: does not require rocket science. We are following the money.
Speaker 5: Money never lies, and that's what it's going to take
Speaker 5: to bring down this network of organized criminal thugs, gang bangers,
Speaker 5: and yes, domestic terrorists because that's what they are. They
Speaker 5: are harming everyday citizens in every single one of our communities.
Speaker 5: And the folks you see here on the right and left,
Speaker 5: there's some of the bravest men and women we have today.
Speaker 5: They're reporting the stories lifetime because the mainstream media won't
Speaker 5: cover it. They're putting their lives on the line. They're
Speaker 5: standing up for the flag. The least we can do
Speaker 5: is stand up for them, So you have my thanks.
Speaker 5: I read more of your stories than I do theirs,
Speaker 5: because you guys are putting out the truth and we
Speaker 5: deserve a country where you are protected as equally as
Speaker 5: they are. We in this FBI will go after with
Speaker 5: the criminals with the vengeance. We will not rest until
Speaker 5: we find every single seed, money, donor, organization and funding
Speaker 5: mechanism that we have. And I want to echo the
Speaker 5: Secretary's comments on Scott Besssett, who's allowing us to map
Speaker 5: out these networks through their financial criminal activities which has
Speaker 5: been going on for decades. And I would like to
Speaker 5: remind the American public they built this disease temple of
Speaker 5: corruption over decades and in eight short months, mister President,
Speaker 5: you have crippled their foundation because of your leadership here,
Speaker 5: because of the Inner Agency, because of people like Deputy
Speaker 5: Attorney General Blanche, and because of Attorney General Pam Bondi's
Speaker 5: fearless leadership to go after criminals wherever they are. They
Speaker 5: will not be able to hide. They were able to
Speaker 5: hide and conspire with prior administrations, and we are exposing
Speaker 5: their corruption from within and we will go to every
Speaker 5: single city in this country under Operation Summer Heat and
Speaker 5: the other operations we are doing at the FBI to
Speaker 5: bring these criminals to just as we will arrest every
Speaker 5: single one of them from whatever percha sit in, private
Speaker 5: or public. No matter how your goal or your ambition is,
Speaker 5: it will be crushed by the Constitution because the American
Speaker 5: people deserve law and order, and that's what we're going
Speaker 5: to give you.
Speaker 1: You listen to Cashptel there, and he made it very
Speaker 1: clear we're going to go after the funders. The FBI
Speaker 1: will follow the funds to dismantle Antifa operations. So fast
Speaker 1: forward just four and a half months later and the
Speaker 1: FBI director is saying now that investigators have uncovered what
Speaker 1: he described as major funding streams tied to Antifa. The
Speaker 1: revelation signal possible new enforcement actions as the Bureau is
Speaker 1: intensifying their scrutiny of left wing violence. According to the
Speaker 1: report coming out from The Washington Examiner. Cashptel, also speaking
Speaker 1: on the Dan by Gino Show, said the FBI under
Speaker 1: President Donald Trump, has been conducting a financial investigation and
Speaker 1: how demonstrates linked to the loosely organized far left movement
Speaker 1: are really supported here's part of that interview. There's been
Speaker 1: actual action to take down and dismantle this entire ring
Speaker 1: of people.
Speaker 5: You're right, we set out to actually activate intelligence based operations.
Speaker 5: This includes Antifa and dan You know this. How many
Speaker 5: people were arrested related to prayer Land. We're over two
Speaker 5: dozen federal arrests. We're in the middle of federal trial
Speaker 5: in five of those defendants. This week again in Texas,
Speaker 5: nineteen people have been convicted for acts of violence related
Speaker 5: to Antifa. It's in the indictment. You don't got to
Speaker 5: believe me or you. Everybody can go read the public indictment.
Speaker 5: And it didn't just happen there. It happened in Copcity
Speaker 5: in Georgia, where we had to go rearrest everybody because
Speaker 5: the state authorities couldn't get their act together to produce
Speaker 5: the enough information to take that to trial. So we did.
Speaker 5: And it's not a creation or manufacturing of information.
Speaker 3: It exists.
Speaker 5: It's just a willingness that you and I and this
Speaker 5: building's new leadership took to say, we're gonna look at
Speaker 5: the facts that exist. We're not gonna try to make
Speaker 5: up facts that don't so we can serve a political
Speaker 5: narrative and wait till you and I know you know this,
Speaker 5: but wait till you see what's coming in the next
Speaker 5: month or two on the funding streams related to this.
Speaker 5: You and I had launched a serious investigation. We had said,
Speaker 5: these organizations don't operate alone, don't operate in silence. They
Speaker 5: operate with the heavy, heavy stream of funding. And we
Speaker 5: started looking into it and guess what, Dan, we found them.
Speaker 1: We found them now. To be clear, Patel did not
Speaker 1: identify specific donors, organizations, or financial mechanisms, but said more
Speaker 1: details could emerge in the coming months as the investigation continues.
Speaker 1: The FBI director said agents are examining whether funding has
Speaker 1: flowed through US based nonprofit groups. Let me say that again,
Speaker 1: weather funding has flowed through US based nonprofit group, meaning
Speaker 1: some of this money could actually be coming from overseas.
Speaker 1: There's also some groups that have tax exempt status as
Speaker 1: well as possible foreign sources. He emphasized that investigators are
Speaker 1: focused on tracing financial support tied to acts of violence
Speaker 1: specifically and not constitutionally protected protest activity. Go back to
Speaker 1: what Cashptel said, money doesn't lie, describing the effort as
Speaker 1: a strategy to follow the money to determine who may
Speaker 1: be underwriting unlawful conduct. Patel also pointed to prosecutions the
Speaker 1: Bureau has already brought that, he said, we're connected to
Speaker 1: Antifa related violence, including federal arrests and convictions tied to
Speaker 1: protest incidents in multiple states now under his leadership. He
Speaker 1: referenced that ongoing federal trial involving nine defendants in Texas.
Speaker 1: They're accused of ambushing and attempting to murder ice personnel
Speaker 1: on July the fourth of last year. Patel also cited
Speaker 1: a case from twenty twenty three in Georgia surrounding the
Speaker 1: proposed Atlanta public safety training facility known as cop City.
Speaker 1: The director said the FBI has elevated the issue internally
Speaker 1: by creating what he described as a dedicated program focused
Speaker 1: on identifying financial backers of protests related violence. Tracking Antifa
Speaker 1: has become so important that the Bureau, he sad, establish
Speaker 1: additional resources to investigate the funding behind such activity. Antifa
Speaker 1: has long been described by participants and many analysts as
Speaker 1: a decentralized movement rather than a formal organization, a distinction
Speaker 1: that has complicated past law enforcement efforts. They did this
Speaker 1: on purpose. Why because it's hard to pursue conspiracy style cases.
Speaker 1: Patel points to antifa's organizational structures, including conferences and a
Speaker 1: national network for local chapters. Bongino also criticized past FBI
Speaker 1: leadership under Democratic President Barack Obama and Joe Biden for
Speaker 1: describing Antifa, as they said, an idea quote unquote. It's
Speaker 1: not an idea when actual action follows the idea. In
Speaker 1: September of twenty five, Trump also signed that executive order
Speaker 1: declaring Antifa a domestic terrorist organization after first raising the
Speaker 1: idea during his first term. Patel said the FBI's current
Speaker 1: approach relies solely on intelligence and financial investigations, similar to
Speaker 1: those used in other counter terrorism probes. He did not
Speaker 1: announce new charges tied specifically to the alleged funding networks,
Speaker 1: but clearly there's a lot more of this story coming
Speaker 1: very soon. And it also goes back to what was
Speaker 1: said five months ago. Go at the White House. Donald
Speaker 1: Trump had a clear mandate on this issue, and cash
Speaker 1: for Tell and Dan Bongino made sure to pay off
Speaker 1: on that mandate, so the American people got exactly what
Speaker 1: they voted for.
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