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Speaker 3: You're listening to the forty seven Morning Update with Ben ferguson.

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Speaker 4: Good Friday morning.

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Speaker 1: Nice to have you with us in the forty seven

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Speaker 1: Morning Update, and we've got two very big.

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Speaker 1: First up, accountability, The Justice Department is now investigating whether

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Speaker 1: the leaders in the Black Lives Matter movement defrauded their

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Speaker 1: own donors who contributed millions and millions of dollars. We'll

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Speaker 4: It's a forty seven morning Update and it starts right now.

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Speaker 3: Story number one.

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Speaker 1: Accountability is part of what Donald Trump ran on, and

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Speaker 1: he promised that those that were abusing their power within

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Speaker 4: We now know what some.

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Speaker 1: Of that accountability is going to look like, and this

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Speaker 1: time it involves Black Lives Matter. The Department of Justice,

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Speaker 1: we're now being told, is probing Black Lives Matter for fraud.

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Speaker 1: Sources are saying the Justice Department investigating whether the leaders

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Speaker 1: Emerged in twenty thirteen after the acquittal of George Zimmerman,

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Speaker 1: So what we know now is this, you have BLM,

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Speaker 3: Now, story number two.

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Speaker 1: You can file this next story under things you just

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Speaker 1: Why he's complaining now that Senator Ted Cruz's questions were

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Speaker 4: That's right.

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Speaker 1: James Comy is now arguing that the criminal gase against

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Speaker 1: Senator Cruz's question of him was just too confusing and

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Speaker 1: May of twenty seventeen. Never, Comy replied question two, Have

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Speaker 1: an anonymous source in news reports about the Trump investigation

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Speaker 1: of the Clinton investigation? James Coby answered that question by

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Speaker 1: saying no. In twenty twenty, he affirmed, I stand by

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Speaker 1: of twenty seventeen. Federal prosecutors now allege in their indictment

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Speaker 1: that the statement was false because, as James Comy then

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Speaker 1: and they're new, he in fact had authorized Person three

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Speaker 1: the FBI investigation concerning Person number one. Thursday's motion to

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Speaker 1: dismiss noted that Halligan's team had since identified Person one

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Speaker 1: as ellery Clinton in Person three is Daniel Richmond, a

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Speaker 1: Columbia law school professor and former prosecutor. Nott McKay Senator

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Speaker 1: Cruz questions are fundamentally ambiguous, the lawyers went on to say,

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Speaker 1: because people of ordinary intellect would not be expected to

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Speaker 1: understand that he means to ask a broad question about

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Speaker 1: mister Comey's interactions with anyone at the FBI, including Daniel Richmond. So,

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Speaker 1: just so we're all on the same page, what the

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Speaker 1: lawyers for James Coby are now saying is James Comy,

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Speaker 1: the FBI Director, is too dumb to understand basic questions

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Speaker 1: coming from Senator Cruz. So therefore he didn't break the

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Speaker 1: law lie to Congress when he claimed he had never

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Speaker 1: had leaked information go to the press or told anyone

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Speaker 1: to leak to the press. This, my friends, is gonna

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Speaker 1: be very interesting moving forward, because I have a feeling

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Speaker 1: there's a lot in the courtroom that aren't gonna believe

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Speaker 1: kmy on this one either.

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