1 00:00:01,200 --> 00:00:07,200 Speaker 1: Okay, James's fine NEWSI was Colleen Buxmoll. I thought with 2 00:00:07,320 --> 00:00:11,280 Speaker 1: Chelsea Clinton's wedding in two thous she'd already be mentioned 3 00:00:11,320 --> 00:00:15,400 Speaker 1: in a civil lawsuit by Fortunior Jewfree before that, Jeffrey 4 00:00:15,440 --> 00:00:17,800 Speaker 1: Empstein has already been convicted before. 5 00:00:18,840 --> 00:00:22,160 Speaker 2: She came as the plus one, the guest of someone 6 00:00:22,200 --> 00:00:23,000 Speaker 2: who was invited. 7 00:00:25,000 --> 00:00:30,800 Speaker 3: You're listening to the forty seven Morning Update with Ben ferguson. 8 00:00:30,400 --> 00:00:32,360 Speaker 2: Good Friday morning. It's nice to have you with us 9 00:00:32,400 --> 00:00:34,440 Speaker 2: on the forty seven Morning Update, and we've got a 10 00:00:34,479 --> 00:00:39,280 Speaker 2: big story for you. Joe Biden's FBI was spying on 11 00:00:39,440 --> 00:00:44,080 Speaker 2: Cash Betel and now FBI director and Susie Wilds, the 12 00:00:44,240 --> 00:00:46,959 Speaker 2: chief of staff at the White House right now. They 13 00:00:47,000 --> 00:00:49,760 Speaker 2: were spying on them and their phone records and even 14 00:00:49,840 --> 00:00:52,240 Speaker 2: tapping one of the phone calls that we know about 15 00:00:52,240 --> 00:00:56,600 Speaker 2: of Susie Wilds. All of this during the federal Trump investigation. 16 00:00:57,600 --> 00:01:00,520 Speaker 2: So what happens next and what did we learn about this? 17 00:01:01,000 --> 00:01:03,440 Speaker 2: It's shocking and I've got it all for you. But 18 00:01:03,560 --> 00:01:05,640 Speaker 2: first I want to talk to you about the important 19 00:01:05,680 --> 00:01:07,880 Speaker 2: work that's being done for the people in Israel right 20 00:01:07,920 --> 00:01:12,360 Speaker 2: now with IFCJ. 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When 30 00:01:44,240 --> 00:01:48,200 Speaker 2: Christians choose to bless Israel, we're not entering a political issue. 31 00:01:48,320 --> 00:01:52,200 Speaker 2: We're honoring the root of our faith and standing against hatred. 32 00:01:52,400 --> 00:01:56,160 Speaker 2: Supporting Israel is more than a belief, it's a biblical mandate. 33 00:01:56,320 --> 00:02:00,200 Speaker 2: And by partnering with the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews, 34 00:02:00,480 --> 00:02:03,680 Speaker 2: you can push back against darkness and be a light 35 00:02:03,840 --> 00:02:07,040 Speaker 2: to God's people. Learn how you can bless Israel and 36 00:02:07,120 --> 00:02:11,840 Speaker 2: be blessed in return. Visit IFCJ dot org today. That's 37 00:02:11,919 --> 00:02:15,720 Speaker 2: IFCJ dot org today, Be a blessing live in the world. 38 00:02:15,919 --> 00:02:18,720 Speaker 2: Answer the call. It's the forty seven Morning Update and 39 00:02:18,800 --> 00:02:20,160 Speaker 2: it starts right. 40 00:02:19,960 --> 00:02:21,680 Speaker 3: Now story number one. 41 00:02:21,880 --> 00:02:26,000 Speaker 2: At least ten FBI employees who worked on former Special 42 00:02:26,000 --> 00:02:31,080 Speaker 2: Council Jack Smith's investigation to President Donald Trump's retention of 43 00:02:31,160 --> 00:02:34,280 Speaker 2: classified records after he left the White House in twenty 44 00:02:34,360 --> 00:02:38,359 Speaker 2: twenty one were fired on Wednesday. Multiple sources are now 45 00:02:38,400 --> 00:02:43,000 Speaker 2: confirming the firings came after Reuters reported that the FBI 46 00:02:43,040 --> 00:02:47,040 Speaker 2: had subpoena records of phone calls that were made by 47 00:02:47,040 --> 00:02:50,880 Speaker 2: the FBI Director Cash Pattel and White House Chief of 48 00:02:50,919 --> 00:02:55,119 Speaker 2: Staff Suzy Wilds when they were still both private citizens 49 00:02:55,440 --> 00:02:59,600 Speaker 2: as part of Smith's probe into Donald Trump. The BIDENI 50 00:02:59,720 --> 00:03:03,480 Speaker 2: c crequrrently obtained Susie Wilde's phone records, including from when 51 00:03:03,560 --> 00:03:08,200 Speaker 2: she was Trump's campaign manager, and they even record a 52 00:03:08,200 --> 00:03:11,040 Speaker 2: phone call she had with her lawyer. Yes, it is 53 00:03:11,080 --> 00:03:15,160 Speaker 2: an insane story now. Patel said the collection of phone 54 00:03:15,200 --> 00:03:19,880 Speaker 2: records extended into Wilde's time as Trump's co campaign manager. 55 00:03:20,480 --> 00:03:24,040 Speaker 2: He did not say when exactly the record collection began 56 00:03:24,720 --> 00:03:28,240 Speaker 2: or when it ended. The FBI discovered the phone records 57 00:03:28,280 --> 00:03:33,120 Speaker 2: and files categorized as prohibited quote unquote, which makes them 58 00:03:33,120 --> 00:03:37,560 Speaker 2: difficult to discover on the bureau's computer system. Patel said, 59 00:03:37,600 --> 00:03:42,120 Speaker 2: he recently ended the FBI's ability to categorize files as prohibited. 60 00:03:42,680 --> 00:03:48,520 Speaker 2: Smith's investigative techniques have previously drawn shock from GOP leaders, 61 00:03:48,720 --> 00:03:52,680 Speaker 2: including the seizure of phone records of US senators and 62 00:03:52,840 --> 00:03:57,480 Speaker 2: other Republican officials during Smith's probe into alleged efforts to 63 00:03:57,720 --> 00:04:03,200 Speaker 2: overturn the twenty twenty presidential election. Reuters also could not 64 00:04:03,400 --> 00:04:08,240 Speaker 2: establish when records the FBI obtained or who approved those subpoenas. 65 00:04:08,960 --> 00:04:13,720 Speaker 2: The news agency also couldn't ascertain of Pateeller Wiles themselves 66 00:04:13,720 --> 00:04:19,800 Speaker 2: were actually under investigation, and if so, why now. Both 67 00:04:19,880 --> 00:04:22,480 Speaker 2: were close to Donald Trump during that period as he 68 00:04:22,480 --> 00:04:26,320 Speaker 2: built towards and ultimately launched his twenty twenty four campaign 69 00:04:26,920 --> 00:04:30,800 Speaker 2: to reclaim his presidency. Both Patel and Susie Wilde's were 70 00:04:30,880 --> 00:04:33,760 Speaker 2: known to have been interviewed by investigators as part of 71 00:04:33,800 --> 00:04:38,840 Speaker 2: Smith's investigation into Trump's retention of classified documents following his 72 00:04:38,960 --> 00:04:42,520 Speaker 2: first term and that raid at mar Lago in twenty 73 00:04:42,560 --> 00:04:46,200 Speaker 2: twenty three. For example, the FBI recorded a phone call 74 00:04:46,279 --> 00:04:51,200 Speaker 2: we're now being told between Wiles and our attorney. According 75 00:04:51,200 --> 00:04:56,080 Speaker 2: to two FBI officials, Wiles attorneys was aware that the 76 00:04:56,120 --> 00:04:59,920 Speaker 2: call was being recorded and consented to it, but Susie 77 00:05:00,320 --> 00:05:04,159 Speaker 2: was not a spokesman for Smith to cline a comment 78 00:05:04,240 --> 00:05:08,920 Speaker 2: on Betel's allegations. As well, Biden and former Attorney General 79 00:05:08,920 --> 00:05:13,080 Speaker 2: Merritt Garland and former FBI Director Chris Ray, who oversaw 80 00:05:13,120 --> 00:05:17,240 Speaker 2: the Bureau during Smith's investigations, did not respond to any 81 00:05:17,320 --> 00:05:21,360 Speaker 2: of the requests for comment from the media. Garland appointed 82 00:05:21,400 --> 00:05:26,200 Speaker 2: Smith as his special counsel. Everyone buried the lead. Here 83 00:05:26,520 --> 00:05:30,159 Speaker 2: is what one person said on x It's not just 84 00:05:30,279 --> 00:05:34,280 Speaker 2: that the FBI subpoena Cash and Susie's phone records. The 85 00:05:34,360 --> 00:05:40,000 Speaker 2: FBI recorded a phone call between Wiles and her attorney. 86 00:05:40,520 --> 00:05:44,080 Speaker 2: Even worse, the lawyer knew the FBI recorded the conversation 87 00:05:44,680 --> 00:05:48,719 Speaker 2: and didn't tell his own client, Susie Wilds. I want 88 00:05:48,760 --> 00:05:51,159 Speaker 2: you to take a listen to this from Fox News 89 00:05:51,240 --> 00:05:53,680 Speaker 2: Channel with Brett Baer. As they were reporting more on 90 00:05:53,800 --> 00:05:54,720 Speaker 2: the story. 91 00:05:55,279 --> 00:05:58,919 Speaker 4: The FBI director Cash Betel out with an allegation that 92 00:05:59,040 --> 00:06:03,320 Speaker 4: the prior f FBI obtained his phone records, and not 93 00:06:03,360 --> 00:06:05,760 Speaker 4: only his What can tell us about that, Brett? 94 00:06:05,760 --> 00:06:07,920 Speaker 5: This has been breaking in the last hour or so. 95 00:06:08,000 --> 00:06:10,960 Speaker 5: We are told that, according to Cash Bettel, the FBI director, 96 00:06:11,279 --> 00:06:14,960 Speaker 5: the prior Bureau leadership obtained his phone records and phone 97 00:06:15,000 --> 00:06:17,720 Speaker 5: records to current White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles 98 00:06:18,040 --> 00:06:20,880 Speaker 5: back in twenty twenty two and twenty twenty three. This 99 00:06:20,920 --> 00:06:25,000 Speaker 5: eventually led into the Jack Smith Special Council investigation into 100 00:06:25,080 --> 00:06:28,440 Speaker 5: then former President Donald Trump. We're told that some of 101 00:06:28,480 --> 00:06:32,000 Speaker 5: these records are just toll records, which don't have specific 102 00:06:32,040 --> 00:06:35,120 Speaker 5: information other than times and dates. They don't have the 103 00:06:35,160 --> 00:06:38,480 Speaker 5: actual content of calls. But two sources in the FBI 104 00:06:38,600 --> 00:06:42,440 Speaker 5: say that Susie Wiles's attorney agreed to be recorded by 105 00:06:42,600 --> 00:06:45,960 Speaker 5: FBI agents in twenty twenty three. She did not agree. 106 00:06:46,000 --> 00:06:49,200 Speaker 5: We've reached out to her for comment. FBI Director Bateel, 107 00:06:49,279 --> 00:06:51,880 Speaker 5: in a statement to Fox News calls this outrageous and 108 00:06:52,000 --> 00:06:54,960 Speaker 5: deeply disturbing. And I will add Brett that we are 109 00:06:54,960 --> 00:06:59,320 Speaker 5: told at least ten bureau employees have been fired just 110 00:06:59,400 --> 00:07:03,480 Speaker 5: today over this incident, with more potentially to come. 111 00:07:04,440 --> 00:07:06,479 Speaker 2: You listen to the ten that were fired, and that 112 00:07:06,640 --> 00:07:08,960 Speaker 2: is a start, is what many would describe it as. 113 00:07:09,000 --> 00:07:11,760 Speaker 2: But then there's the bigger question. What happens when the 114 00:07:11,880 --> 00:07:15,960 Speaker 2: justice system collides with politics? What happens when millions of 115 00:07:16,000 --> 00:07:21,200 Speaker 2: Americans start to believe that prosecutors are no longer neutral referees, 116 00:07:21,680 --> 00:07:25,720 Speaker 2: but active participants in a political war. Over the last 117 00:07:25,720 --> 00:07:30,080 Speaker 2: several years, we have watched the unprecedented targeting the President 118 00:07:30,080 --> 00:07:35,480 Speaker 2: Donald Trump, the investigations, the indictments, the subpoenas, the grand juries, 119 00:07:36,000 --> 00:07:39,840 Speaker 2: all led by Jack Smith and appointed by the Attorney 120 00:07:39,880 --> 00:07:44,600 Speaker 2: General Garland all of this under President Joe Biden. Now 121 00:07:44,640 --> 00:07:48,320 Speaker 2: here's what the shock factor comes in for many Americans, 122 00:07:48,800 --> 00:07:52,440 Speaker 2: because the simple question is was there even wrongdoing? Well, 123 00:07:52,480 --> 00:07:56,000 Speaker 2: the question many Americans are now asking is how did 124 00:07:56,000 --> 00:08:00,240 Speaker 2: the federal government cross this line? Jack Smith, he was 125 00:08:00,280 --> 00:08:03,200 Speaker 2: appointed in November of twenty twenty two, it was clear 126 00:08:03,240 --> 00:08:05,720 Speaker 2: it was a witch hunt. He was there to oversee 127 00:08:06,160 --> 00:08:10,320 Speaker 2: the political targeting the President Trump. They then decided to 128 00:08:10,320 --> 00:08:13,800 Speaker 2: go after him for documents at mar Lago. From the beginning, 129 00:08:14,200 --> 00:08:18,000 Speaker 2: critics argue that this was not simply a legal review, 130 00:08:18,560 --> 00:08:23,000 Speaker 2: but more of an aggressive, politically motivated prosecution of the 131 00:08:23,120 --> 00:08:26,400 Speaker 2: leading candidate to challenge Joe Biden in twenty twenty four. 132 00:08:27,200 --> 00:08:30,200 Speaker 2: Was the motive to cover for Joe Biden's cognitive decline 133 00:08:30,200 --> 00:08:31,480 Speaker 2: and make sure he didn't have to get into a 134 00:08:31,520 --> 00:08:35,240 Speaker 2: tough election with Donald Trump. That is, for well, different 135 00:08:35,240 --> 00:08:38,679 Speaker 2: people to decide, But to be clear, federal prosecutors and 136 00:08:38,760 --> 00:08:43,240 Speaker 2: investigators do have the authority to collect evidence when pursuing 137 00:08:43,280 --> 00:08:47,200 Speaker 2: a criminal investigation. The question is was it actually a 138 00:08:47,240 --> 00:08:51,520 Speaker 2: criminal investigation or was it just a political one. Well, 139 00:08:51,559 --> 00:08:54,200 Speaker 2: the more we're finding out, it's pretty clear it was 140 00:08:54,360 --> 00:09:00,320 Speaker 2: all politics and not actually a political investigation. I'd say 141 00:09:00,400 --> 00:09:03,880 Speaker 2: to America, making it clear he wasn't going to back down. 142 00:09:04,720 --> 00:09:07,959 Speaker 2: And it's also shocking how much abuse of power there 143 00:09:08,080 --> 00:09:11,120 Speaker 2: was at the highest levels. Now, if you think it's 144 00:09:11,280 --> 00:09:13,560 Speaker 2: just Donald Trump that this is happening too when it 145 00:09:13,600 --> 00:09:17,400 Speaker 2: comes to surveillance, you would also be wrong. In a 146 00:09:17,640 --> 00:09:21,360 Speaker 2: shocking news event today, the woman who's in charge of 147 00:09:21,400 --> 00:09:26,000 Speaker 2: the Department of Homeland Security, Christy Nome, came out and 148 00:09:26,040 --> 00:09:29,800 Speaker 2: said that she found spyware on her phone that was 149 00:09:29,840 --> 00:09:33,880 Speaker 2: put there by the Department of Homeland Security employees. Take 150 00:09:33,880 --> 00:09:34,840 Speaker 2: a listen to this. 151 00:09:35,480 --> 00:09:38,160 Speaker 6: Came into this office. It was you know, Elon and 152 00:09:38,200 --> 00:09:41,400 Speaker 6: his team were extremely helpful to me. They helped me 153 00:09:41,480 --> 00:09:46,120 Speaker 6: identify that some of my own employees in my department 154 00:09:46,280 --> 00:09:49,719 Speaker 6: had downloaded software on my phone and my laptop to 155 00:09:49,760 --> 00:09:53,240 Speaker 6: spy on me stop to record our meetings. Wow, they 156 00:09:53,280 --> 00:09:55,080 Speaker 6: had done that to several of the politicals. 157 00:09:55,480 --> 00:09:55,800 Speaker 3: Wow. 158 00:09:55,800 --> 00:09:58,720 Speaker 6: And so we ended up bringing in people and that 159 00:09:58,880 --> 00:10:01,440 Speaker 6: was something that if you didn't have those technology experts 160 00:10:01,480 --> 00:10:03,960 Speaker 6: here in the department looking at all of our laptops 161 00:10:04,000 --> 00:10:07,760 Speaker 6: and our phones and recognizing that kind of software, it 162 00:10:07,800 --> 00:10:08,679 Speaker 6: would still be happening. 163 00:10:08,720 --> 00:10:12,200 Speaker 5: Today's what happened to the individual that was uh, you know, 164 00:10:12,480 --> 00:10:16,040 Speaker 5: had your phone that was being spied on. What happened 165 00:10:16,040 --> 00:10:16,880 Speaker 5: to those individuals? 166 00:10:17,679 --> 00:10:21,640 Speaker 6: Fired fire, brought in polygraphed, fired, yes, many of them 167 00:10:21,800 --> 00:10:24,720 Speaker 6: out of that that arm of the department that are 168 00:10:24,720 --> 00:10:28,520 Speaker 6: in charge of security on laptops phones. Also, you know, 169 00:10:29,520 --> 00:10:32,800 Speaker 6: we had to sweep my office on a regular basis 170 00:10:32,840 --> 00:10:35,880 Speaker 6: to make sure that there's not listening devices in it. 171 00:10:35,880 --> 00:10:39,240 Speaker 6: It's it's very uh, it was very prevalent. And I 172 00:10:39,280 --> 00:10:43,160 Speaker 6: think that what happened at this department was individuals had 173 00:10:43,160 --> 00:10:46,400 Speaker 6: gotten away with for years spying on people who were 174 00:10:46,480 --> 00:10:49,959 Speaker 6: politically appointed and trying to stop an administration that was 175 00:10:50,000 --> 00:10:51,880 Speaker 6: coming in and trying to fix this country and keep 176 00:10:51,960 --> 00:10:52,560 Speaker 6: us safe. 177 00:10:52,760 --> 00:10:55,840 Speaker 2: You know, when you listen to what Chrissy Noom just 178 00:10:55,880 --> 00:10:59,559 Speaker 2: said there, I mean it is shocking but also not surprising. 179 00:11:00,120 --> 00:11:06,400 Speaker 2: This administration weaponized everything that they could possibly weaponize, I 180 00:11:06,440 --> 00:11:10,079 Speaker 2: mean anything that could weaponize to go after their political opponents. 181 00:11:10,640 --> 00:11:14,760 Speaker 2: But think about just how corrupt this is. You have 182 00:11:14,880 --> 00:11:17,600 Speaker 2: the woman that's coming in who's in charge the Department 183 00:11:17,640 --> 00:11:19,880 Speaker 2: of Home in Security, and her own employees are putting 184 00:11:19,920 --> 00:11:25,440 Speaker 2: spyware to spy on their boss on her phone as 185 00:11:25,480 --> 00:11:29,680 Speaker 2: the woman in charge of the Department of Homeland Security. 186 00:11:30,120 --> 00:11:32,400 Speaker 2: How does no one go to jail for this stuff? 187 00:11:32,960 --> 00:11:36,120 Speaker 2: That's the question that every American is asking right now, 188 00:11:36,440 --> 00:11:39,840 Speaker 2: and it's also a question that the President should be asking, 189 00:11:40,360 --> 00:11:43,360 Speaker 2: and that is when do we start arresting people for 190 00:11:43,480 --> 00:11:47,280 Speaker 2: doing these types of things. It's certainly something to think about. 191 00:11:47,440 --> 00:11:50,120 Speaker 3: Thank you for listening to the forty seven Morning Update 192 00:11:50,280 --> 00:11:54,360 Speaker 3: with Ben Ferguson. Please make sure you hit subscribe wherever 193 00:11:54,400 --> 00:11:57,440 Speaker 3: you're listening to this podcast right now and for more 194 00:11:57,480 --> 00:12:01,240 Speaker 3: in depth news, also subscribe to the Ben Ferguson podcast 195 00:12:01,440 --> 00:12:03,240 Speaker 3: and we will see you back here tomorrow.