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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 Friday morning. Nice to have you with us on

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Speaker 3: the forty seven Morning Update, and we've got one big

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Speaker 2: Story number one.

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Speaker 3: There was major news coming out of the White House

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Speaker 3: today and that was the reporting that Pambondi has been

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Speaker 3: fired from any official position in the Trump administration. I

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Speaker 3: that Pambondi was either fired, forced out, or stepping down

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Speaker 3: amid internal conflict. However, none of those claims well became

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Speaker 3: the news broke on Fox News Channel.

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Speaker 4: Kaylee, I just got off the phone with President Trump.

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Speaker 4: We have a big scoope. Pam Bondi will soon leave

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Speaker 4: her job as the Attorney General. She is going to

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Speaker 4: get a different job within the administration. It doesn't sound

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Speaker 4: There might be somebody else that the President wants to

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Speaker 4: Bondi's time as the Attorney General. He still thinks that

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Speaker 1: You see that right here?

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Speaker 5: First, that's rather a big news. And I'm sure you

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Speaker 3: Now, even as that news broke, there were still questions

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Speaker 3: saying quote, leading President Trump's historic and highly successful efforts

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Speaker 3: I will continue to fight for President Trump and this

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Speaker 3: the DOJ after Representative Matt Gates's true She quickly faced

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Speaker 3: controversy after claiming on Fox News last February that a

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Speaker 3: on my desk right now to review later. MAGA influencers

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Speaker 3: an interview last year that Bonnie completely whiffed the Epstein situation,

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Speaker 3: many in the media are also trying to spend this

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Speaker 3: ass Now, let me be clear, a lot of this

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Speaker 5: Todd will do a great job, and I know the

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Speaker 5: President thinks highly of him.

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Speaker 6: She obviously had some dusk stops up on Capitol Hill

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Speaker 6: numerous times whenever she went up there to testify. Here

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Speaker 6: she is versus GOP lawmakers. I moved that the Committee

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Speaker 6: issue a subpoena to the Honorable Pamela Joe Bondi to

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Speaker 2: Within forty minutes, Wexter's name was added back.

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Speaker 6: Within forty minutes of me catching you red handed, nobody

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Speaker 6: on our side is defending pam Bondy. Okay, sue that

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Speaker 6: what built up do you think that handling early on

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Speaker 6: of Epstein? I know you say she's not tied to it,

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Speaker 5: Yeah, but it wasn't just her bred I mean, how

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Speaker 5: many different podcasters and other folks promised us all this

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Speaker 5: information on Jeffrey Epstein, and those of us that actually

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Speaker 5: were prosecutors were sitting there thinking, you've had three opportunities.

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Speaker 5: You had Florida, you had Maxwell before she was convicted,

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Speaker 5: are the co conspirators? The problem was whenever you And

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Speaker 5: it wasn't just Pam. There are other members of this

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Speaker 5: why would you subpoena a Republican attorney general when all

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Speaker 5: you have to do is what I did this morning,

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Speaker 5: call her on the phone. So she was a victim,

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Speaker 5: a little bit of other people's ambition light now a victim,

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Speaker 5: let's be allus. When did we start releasing files?

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Speaker 4: Brett?

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Speaker 5: I mean, I haven't seen the Matt Gates file, have you.

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Speaker 5: I haven't seen the job in a Ramsey file. When

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Speaker 3: One thing is sure, it's the president said it was

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Speaker 3: time for someone new. Pam BONDI will go to the

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Speaker 3: private sector, she said, and support the president. What will

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Speaker 3: be very interesting to see is who gets the job now,

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Speaker 3: and we expect that to come very shortly. And when

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