Speaker 1: Twenty percent of the Republicans in the United States Senate
Speaker 1: where the target of this fishing expedition. They did so
Speaker 1: in complete contravention of the Constitution of separation of powers
Speaker 1: of the Speech and Debate Clause of free speech of
Speaker 1: basic rights of privacy. This is an executive who believes
Speaker 1: it is justified spying on their opponents in the legislature.
Speaker 2: You're listening to the forty seven Morning Update with Ben ferguson.
Speaker 3: Good Thursday morning. Nice to have you with us on
Speaker 3: the forty seven Morning Update. And first off, if you
Speaker 3: missed yesterday's show, go back and listen to it because
Speaker 3: it directly ties in to the bombshell story that we're
Speaker 3: going to explain to you right now that approximately one
Speaker 3: hundred and sixty Republican figures may have been investigated as
Speaker 3: part of the FBI's Arctic Frost pro into alleged efforts
Speaker 3: by allies of President Trump. They claim to overturn the
Speaker 3: twenty twenty e Live In reality, it was a phishing
Speaker 3: expedition with wired taps and straight up spine on members
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Speaker 2: Story number one.
Speaker 4: If you miss.
Speaker 3: Yesterday's show, you need to go back and listen to
Speaker 3: the podcast because what was a big story then has
Speaker 3: now gone into a nuclear bomb today. Senter Chuck Grassley,
Speaker 3: the Republican from Iowa, has now released one hundred and
Speaker 3: ninety seven subpoenas that the Biden administration's FBI use to
Speaker 3: seek testimony and documents related to hundreds of Republicans and
Speaker 3: GOP entities as part of the bureaus. Arctic Frost pro
Speaker 3: the prosecutor to former Special Council Jack Smith's election investigation,
Speaker 3: which now is in essence a hit list, a target list,
Speaker 3: a black book of influential conservatives and members of Congress
Speaker 3: who they wanted to target. Arctic Frost was the vehicle
Speaker 3: by which partisan FBI agents, Chuck Grassey said, and DOJ
Speaker 3: prosecutors could improperly investigate the entire Republican political apparatus. I
Speaker 3: want you to hear exactly what Chuck Grassey had to
Speaker 3: say at this press conference. It is shocking, and now
Speaker 3: we know just how corrupt the Democratic Party was under
Speaker 3: the Biden administration.
Speaker 5: A little bit of history before I get to what
Speaker 5: we're releasing today. I started the investigation into Arctic Frost
Speaker 5: July twenty twenty.
Speaker 4: Two, based on whistleblower disclosures.
Speaker 5: Based on these disclosures, we know that weaponized, taxpayer funded
Speaker 5: agents and prosecutors advanced the investigation as Arctic Frost advanced
Speaker 5: ninety two Republican organizations or individuals were targeted, not just Trump,
Speaker 5: and they were added to its scope. And author of
Speaker 5: that targeting list was Special Agent wash and Walter Jaredino.
Speaker 5: He's the same weaponized agent who was involved in other
Speaker 5: cases against Republicans, including Peter Navarro. We've learned Jack Smith
Speaker 5: secretly obtained phone record data from at least eight.
Speaker 4: Senators and one Congressman.
Speaker 5: I've recently been informed by Verizon that at least eleven
Speaker 5: members with Verizon accounts were affected. That includes a hardline
Speaker 5: for Senator Cruz's office and a staffer cell phone for
Speaker 5: former Senator Leffler.
Speaker 4: At and T inform me.
Speaker 5: They challenged the legal basis for Jack Smith's efforts and
Speaker 5: Smith's back down. So today we're making public new records
Speaker 5: that I've attained through legally protected whistleblower disclosures. One hundred
Speaker 5: and ninety seven subpoenas were issued by Jack Smith and
Speaker 5: his team. These subpoenas were issued to thirty four individuals.
Speaker 6: And one hundred and sixty three businesses, including financial institutions,
Speaker 6: and one of the points of contact on many of
Speaker 6: these subpoenas.
Speaker 5: Was that person I previously named, Special Agent Walter Geardino.
Speaker 5: The subpoena requested records and communications related to over four
Speaker 5: hundred and thirty individual and organizations, all of them appear
Speaker 5: to be aimed at Republicans. A subpoena to Event Strategies
Speaker 5: requested records relating to Turning Point USA and the Republican
Speaker 5: Attorney General's Association. One subpoena to Apple sought records relating
Speaker 5: to Trump and the January sixth prison choir. Earlier this year,
Speaker 5: I obtained emails between and among J. P. Cooney, one
Speaker 5: of Jack Smith's prosecutors. That email exchange was March twenty
Speaker 5: twenty three about a partisan news article on January sixth,
Speaker 5: and this is what Cooney said in the email. Can
Speaker 5: we do some work to nail down Trump's role in this,
Speaker 5: perhaps with the same process on Ed Henry's LLCT.
Speaker 3: You look at what Chuck Grassley is talking about here,
Speaker 3: and it's truly incredible. What he's describing is the Democratic
Speaker 3: Party saying we are going to use our DOJ, the FBI,
Speaker 3: thisa whoever, we need to open up investigations and then
Speaker 3: go out and attack our political enemies. Now, this is
Speaker 3: a direct contradictory statement of facts to what Smith had
Speaker 3: said publicly this it was clearly a phishing expedition. Grassley
Speaker 3: went on to say, standing alongside Grassley, center Ron Johnson,
Speaker 3: he called the subpoenas nothing short of a Biden administration
Speaker 3: enemies list. Take a Listen to Johnson in his own.
Speaker 7: Words, I think it's important to note that the records
Speaker 7: that we are now making public in the personal Transparency
Speaker 7: were not obtained from the agency. They were obtained through
Speaker 7: a whistleblower sorom. Our first point is we need more
Speaker 7: whistle blowers. We need people men and women inside these
Speaker 7: agencies who have integrity, who want to see the integrity
Speaker 7: andre credibility of the Department Justice of the FBI. We
Speaker 7: stored come forward because right now, I think for tail
Speaker 7: Pan Bondy are overwhelmed by all the messages they're trying
Speaker 7: to clean up. The agencies have been lost a lot
Speaker 7: of personnel people simply couldn't serve the Trump administration. It's
Speaker 7: hard to hire people because of all the lawfare, and
Speaker 7: they're still partisan actors burrowed in trying to sabotage their efforts.
Speaker 4: So we need whistleblowers.
Speaker 7: The reason they come forward to Chairman Grassley is because
Speaker 7: he's been such a champion of whistleblowers, So again I
Speaker 7: thank him for that. What is revealed in those seventeen
Speaker 7: hundred PAGs of documents, in those one hundred and ninety
Speaker 7: seven subpoenas is nothing short of a Biden administration enemies list.
Speaker 7: You know, I'm old enough to understand how toxic a
Speaker 7: term that was under Richard Nixon. This is far worse,
Speaker 7: far worse orders the magnitude worse. People need to understand
Speaker 7: how politicized the Biden ministration turned all these agencies. And again,
Speaker 7: the best way to describe President Biden's attitude his exact quotes.
Speaker 7: We thought basically half America were domestic terrorists. In September
Speaker 7: twenty twenty two, in front of Indpenn's Hall, he said
Speaker 7: Donald Trump and the Magan Republicans represent an extremism that
Speaker 7: threatens the very foundation of our republic. A year later,
Speaker 7: in New York City, Donald Trump is mega Republicans are
Speaker 7: determined to destroy American democracy. Now, nothing could be further
Speaker 7: from the truth. That is a level of paranoia that's
Speaker 7: actually astonishing. But the fact that thirty eight Wisconsinites are
Speaker 7: on that enemy's list, I know most of those individuals.
Speaker 7: They are god fearing, country loving law law, law enforcement
Speaker 7: supporting people who want to see America succeed. The fact
Speaker 7: that they are on a Biden administration enemies list, we're
Speaker 7: targeted by that administration is outrageous. It should shock every
Speaker 7: American And so I am calling on and I appreciate
Speaker 7: all the members of the Juiciary Committee. We need to
Speaker 7: get to the bottom of this. We need to do
Speaker 7: everything we can to assist Director Patel and ag Bondie
Speaker 7: in making sure that they have the staff to take
Speaker 7: control of these agencies, that they're the heads of them.
Speaker 7: I don't think they have the I think they're being
Speaker 7: sabotaged within. But the American people need to understand exactly
Speaker 7: what happened. And again I'm calling on members of the
Speaker 7: Judiciary commit to help SENDI Grassing myself get to the
Speaker 7: bottom of this so we can expose this so this
Speaker 7: doesn't happen again in America.
Speaker 4: This has to end.
Speaker 3: You can hear Johnson there obviously very angry about what
Speaker 3: he has witnessed and now the data that he has uncovered.
Speaker 3: This is a massive abuse of power by the Biden administration,
Speaker 3: and it attacked anyone they thought was their political enemy.
Speaker 3: Johnson is not the only one that is furious about
Speaker 3: what they are uncovering. There's also other members of Congress
Speaker 3: who were spied upon, sitting members of Congress. One of
Speaker 3: them was Senator Ted Kruz. And I want you to
Speaker 3: hear what Senator Cruz said after he found out that
Speaker 3: his office phone, in his actual office in the United
Speaker 3: States Senate building was tapped. Why because he was a Conservative?
Speaker 3: That was the crime. Take a listen.
Speaker 1: Arctic from US is Joe Biden's Watergate Merrick Garland was
Speaker 1: a fundamentally corrupt Attorney General. Jack Smith was a fundamentally
Speaker 1: corrupt prosecutor. This was a political enemies list from the beginning,
Speaker 1: one hundred and ninety seven subpoenas for four hundred and
Speaker 1: thirty Republican entities and individuals. That is an absolute and
Speaker 1: egregious abuse of power. The Biden Justice Department signed off
Speaker 1: on issuing subpoenas for the phone records of at least
Speaker 1: nine US senators, twenty percent of the Republicans in the
Speaker 1: United States Senate where the target of this fishing expedition.
Speaker 1: They did so in complete contravention of the Constitution of
Speaker 1: separation of powers of the Speech and Debate clause of
Speaker 1: free speech of basic rights of privacy. This is an
Speaker 1: executive who believes it is justified spying on their opponents
Speaker 1: in the legislature because they convinced themselves the ends justify
Speaker 1: the means. I want to talk to you about one
Speaker 1: of those subpoenas. One of those subpoenas went from Jack
Speaker 1: Smith to AT and T seeking my cell phone communications.
Speaker 1: It went to AT and T, and I actually want
Speaker 1: to commend AT and T for doing the right thing.
Speaker 4: AT and T is based in Texas.
Speaker 1: AT and T looked at that subpoena, and they went
Speaker 1: to their legal council and they said, what should we
Speaker 1: do with that subpoena? And their legal council said, you
Speaker 1: cannot comply because this is protected by the Speech and
Speaker 1: Debate clause of the US Constitution. And so AT and
Speaker 1: T declined to comply. Did not hand over my cell
Speaker 1: phone records. Now, one might ask, ordinarily a phone company
Speaker 1: being asked to hand over the phone records of a
Speaker 1: sitting senator would notify that senator. Well, there was a
Speaker 1: reason AT and T did not do so. Accompanying the
Speaker 1: subpoena was an order which I have in my hand
Speaker 1: right here an order that was signed by Judge James E.
Speaker 4: Bosberg. Now, who is Bosburg?
Speaker 1: Boseburg is that radical left disjudge who is out of control,
Speaker 1: who has been issuing nationwide injunctions one after the other,
Speaker 1: trying to stop President Trump from carrying out his mandate
Speaker 1: from the voters. Judge Boseburg issued an order to the
Speaker 1: US to AT and T and sign that order prohibiting
Speaker 1: AT and T from informing me of this subpoena for
Speaker 1: at least one year. And Judge Boseburg gave the basis
Speaker 1: for that order. And I'm going to quote from the
Speaker 1: order Judge Boseburg signed. The Court finds reasonable grounds to
Speaker 1: believe that such disclosure will result in destruction of or
Speaker 1: tampering with evidence, intimidation of potential witnesses, and serious jeopardy
Speaker 1: to the investigation. That's an order a judge sign. Now,
Speaker 1: I can tell you right now there is precisely zero
Speaker 1: evidence to conclude that I am likely to destroy or
Speaker 1: tamper with evidence or to intimidate potential witnesses, zero evidentiary
Speaker 1: basis for that. This order is an abusive power. This
Speaker 1: order is a weaponized legal system.
Speaker 4: My assumption.
Speaker 1: We don't have the subpoenas that were issued for the
Speaker 1: other senators, but my assumption is Judge Boseburg printed these
Speaker 1: things out like the placemats at Denny's, one after the other.
Speaker 1: We don't know that for a fact, but I feel
Speaker 1: confident that he concluded it's likely that Lindsey Graham would
Speaker 1: destroy evidence, and Marshall Blackburn would destroy evidence, and Eric
Speaker 1: Schmidt would destroy evidence, and Chuck Grassley would destroy evidence.
Speaker 1: If a litigant makes a claim for which there is
Speaker 1: no factual basis, that litigant is subject to sanctions in
Speaker 1: federal court. And if a judge signs an order reaching
Speaker 1: a factual conclusion for which there is zero evidence whatsoever,
Speaker 1: that judge is abusing his power. I am right now
Speaker 1: calling on the House of Representatives to impeach Judge Bozburg.
Speaker 1: Judge Bosburg put his robe down, stood up, and said,
Speaker 1: sign me up to be part of the partisan vendetta
Speaker 1: against twenty percent of the Republicans in the Senate. That
Speaker 1: is a dereliction of duty and a violation of the
Speaker 1: judicial And I want to thank Chairman Grassley and Chairman
Speaker 1: Johnson for pursuing this tenaciously like a dog on a bone.
Speaker 1: We are going to get the answers of every person
Speaker 1: who signed off on this abuse of power, and mark
Speaker 1: my words, there will be accountability for these zelots who
Speaker 1: wanted to corrupt the Department of Justice and corrupt the
Speaker 1: judiciary in order to try to attack their enemies list.
Speaker 1: That is unconstitutional, it is ibmoral, and it is wrong.
Speaker 3: This is Biden's Watergate. I could not agree more with
Speaker 3: Senator Cruz when he said that earlier. I couldn't agree
Speaker 3: more with Senator Ron Johnson when he called the subpoenas
Speaker 3: nothing short of Biden's administration's enemies list. These subpoenas were
Speaker 3: non public for a reason. These subpoenas were confidential grand
Speaker 3: jury material that Grassy said he obtained through whistle blower disclosures.
Speaker 3: They were trying to hide this from the current administration.
Speaker 3: The subpoenas sought certain communications with media companies as well.
Speaker 3: We've now learned that those media companies and could Fox
Speaker 3: News Channel, CBS, Sinclair, Newsmax, and with members of aids
Speaker 3: in Congress also being put under the well fishing expedition.
Speaker 3: We also know they saw it sweeping financial information from
Speaker 3: conservative entities as well, those conservative entities. They wanted to
Speaker 3: use the federal governments to silence them, to shut them down.
Speaker 3: This was literally an enemy's list, and it was all
Speaker 3: disguised by the Democratic Party in quiet, privately to make
Speaker 3: sure that you and I never found it. It was
Speaker 3: also designed to make sure that people like Senator Cruz
Speaker 3: could not stop it when it was happening. And why
Speaker 3: did they not want them to know about it? Why
Speaker 3: did they lie and say that while these senators who
Speaker 3: they were spying on could not be trusted, that they
Speaker 3: might try to intimidate witnesses with no evidence to back
Speaker 3: that up. Because they knew if these senators found out
Speaker 3: about this, they would have the eagle grounds to stop
Speaker 3: the Biden administration immediately. And that is exactly why they said, Okay,
Speaker 3: we are done. We will do it in silence, we
Speaker 3: will do it quietly. And they were betting on winning
Speaker 3: the next election so they'd never be held accountable for
Speaker 3: what they just did. And the massive abuse of power
Speaker 3: that they were in charge of. This was not legal
Speaker 3: in any way. This was corruption in every way, and
Speaker 3: now Donald Trump's administration has exposed it because of great
Speaker 3: men and women who have risked their careers as whistle
Speaker 3: blowers trusting the system. One of the things you heard
Speaker 3: there at the very beginning was sender, Grassley and Johnson
Speaker 3: talking about we need more whistle blowers to come forward,
Speaker 3: and whistle blowers that are witnessing now the protections they're
Speaker 3: receiving from the Trump administration are probably a thousand times
Speaker 3: more likely to come forward than they would have during
Speaker 3: the Biden era when they could clearly see just how
Speaker 3: corrupt they were as a administration. One final thing about this,
Speaker 3: I expect there is going to be even more bombshells
Speaker 3: to come forward, more corruption that will be unearthed. And
Speaker 3: as all of this corruption continues to be exposed, the
Speaker 3: question now is who will be held accountable for it.
Speaker 3: Will keep you updated on that, I can promise you.
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