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Speaker 2: You're listening to the forty seven Morning Update with Ben ferguson.

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Speaker 3: Good Wednesday morning.

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Speaker 4: Nice to have you with us on the forty seven

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Speaker 4: Morning Update, and we've got a very.

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Speaker 3: Big story for you.

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Speaker 4: The Department of Justice has issued new subpoenas in the

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Speaker 4: Russian election interference response. This is what accountability looks like

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Speaker 4: take him out. It was nothing more than a coup attempt,

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Speaker 4: and now they're having to answer.

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Speaker 3: For it, and we have the details.

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Speaker 4: It's the forty seven Morning Update and it starts right now.

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Speaker 2: Story number one.

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Speaker 4: So the DOJ has issued new subpoenas in the Russian

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Speaker 4: election interference case. But I want to take you back

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Speaker 4: and remind you quickly of what got us to where

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Speaker 4: we are today in this accountability. After the twenty sixteen election,

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Speaker 4: US intelligence agencies run.

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Speaker 3: By you guessed it.

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Speaker 4: The radicals and the deep state, including the FBI, the CIA,

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Speaker 4: and the NSA, concluded that the Russian government directed a

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Speaker 4: Hillary Clinton's campaign. Now, they assessed that the Russian president

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Speaker 3: Well after Donald.

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Speaker 4: Trump shocked the war, the deep state decided they had

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Speaker 4: Fast forward to the Special Council Robert Mueller being appointed

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Speaker 4: It was a coup to impeach Donald Trump. The Mueller

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Speaker 5: Former CIA director John Brennan, who hates President Trump and

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Speaker 5: You have made a criminal referral to the Department of Justice.

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Speaker 5: Tell me what it is and why.

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Speaker 4: Now it's very clear from what you just heard there

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Speaker 4: That conclusion and a related investigation to whether the twenty

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