October 7, 2025 • 16 mins
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The FBI performed a “toll analysis” (a term for examining phone call records and metadata) on eight Republican senators and one congressman.
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This was supposedly part of a secretive investigation codenamed “Arctic Frost”.
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The surveillance allegedly occurred after Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago raid and during Jack Smith’s investigation into Trump and the January 6th events.
The senators targeted include:
Lindsey Graham, Bill Haggerty, Josh Hawley, Dan Sullivan, Tommy Tuberville, Ron Johnson, Cynthia Lummis, and Marsha Blackburn — with Representative Mike Kelly also mentioned.
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An introductory narrator asserting the FBI’s wrongdoing.
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Quoted remarks from Senators Ron Johnson, Chuck Grassley, Bill Haggerty, and others, condemning the alleged surveillance.
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Repeated claims that this represents “weaponization of government” and “political persecution.”
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Statements linking this case to prior alleged abuses under the Obama administration and investigations into Trump.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
What is your message to people who made encounters on
this pains there?
Speaker 2 (00:07):
How do you get them well? Up till now that
hasn't been a great deal of pain. There could be
a great deal of pain, but up till now that
hasn't been.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
I will say this, just hang in there, because I
think a lot of good things are going to happen,
so total they can say it.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
I mean, I think a lot of good things could happen,
and that could also pretend to help you.
Speaker 4 (00:24):
You're listening to the forty seven Morning Update with Ben ferguson.
Speaker 5 (00:27):
Good Tuesday morning. Nice to have you with us on
the forty seven Morning Update. And this is one of
those shows that's very important and I hope you will
share it everywhere you can with family and friends and
on social media. This story is one the media is
not covering. Instead, they're going to talk about the government
shut down. But this story should scare everyone to their core.
(00:49):
And this is the story Jack Smith and the Biden
Department of Justice. We're tracking the phone calls of their
political enemies, specifically eight GOP sentners and a Republican congressman. Yes,
they were literally spying on our men and women that
(01:11):
are in Washington who've been elected by you and I
And the one thing and the only thing they had
in common was that they were all Republicans.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
But first I got to ask you a question.
Speaker 5 (01:24):
Are you one of those that's just so tired of
giving your money to radical left woke companies that actually
are fighting against your values every day? Well, there are
certain bills that you pay every month that if you
can go with a conservative company, why not do it?
In fact, why not go with a conservative company actually
takes part of your bill every month that you're going
(01:44):
to pay to somebody, and they give it back to
organizations that support your First and your Second Amendment rights,
that support the rights of unborn children, that stand with
our military, our first responders, and so many wounded war
warriors that need help. Well, that bill I'm talking about
is your cell phone bill. And I've been telling you
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Patriot Mobile operate on all three major networks in this country, yeah,
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big mobile. Big Mobile has been giving big donations to
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Speaker 2 (03:39):
To two Patriot.
Speaker 5 (03:40):
It's the forty seven Morning Update, and it starts right now.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Story number one.
Speaker 5 (03:45):
This is a story that I'm about to tell you
that it's an incredibly important one. It is a fact
now that the FBI literally spot on not one, not two,
not three, four, five, six, seven, but eight GOP senators.
It was called a total analysis. That is the terminology
(04:08):
that's used by FBI investigators to analyze cellular call data
for federal probes. Think of it as link analysis that
shows patterns of communication location data as well as potential
targets network of associates. This should shock every single one
(04:31):
of you to a core. And these declassified records, as
the FBI Director Cash Bettel is now exposing code name
Arctic Frost was brought because of a whistle blower disclosures
to Senator Grassley and Senator Ron Johnson that showed nearly
one hundred conservative groups, including Turning Point USA, were part
(04:56):
of the probe. Now you have something that's even more shocked,
and that is not only was the FBI going after
conservative groups, but the FBI was spying on senators, and
some of those senators are now fighting back. Senator Ron
Johnson saying it this way in a statement earlier, I
was just briefed by the FBI's Dan Bongino that the
(05:19):
FBI and the Justice Department obtained call logs from eight
US Senators, including myself. We were surveilled simply for being Republicans.
This does not surprise me, but it should shock every American.
Senator Johnson continued. What the Biden administration has done is
(05:43):
an outrageous abuse of power. It is blatant political persecution.
Those responsible must be held fully accountable. Now you may
ask yourself what is in this actual document? The Federal
Bureau of Investigation, on a classified document dated nine to
twenty seven of twenty twenty three, puts it in a
(06:06):
simple manner. The FBI special agent with the name redacted
conducted preliminary toll analysis on limited tolls records associated with
the following US Senators Mike Kelly, Lindsey Graham, Bill Haggerty,
Josh Holly, Dan Sullivan, Tommy Tuberville, Ron Johnson, Cynthia Loomis,
(06:30):
and Senator Marsha Blackburn. You look at what I just
explained to you. And this is the weaponization literally of
our federal government right before our eyes. The other question
is this, who were the FBI's supervisory special agents and
why are their names redacted? Who approved the report and
(06:52):
the surveillance of the US senators is another question that
should be asked. Markings indicate that the FBI I Washington
Field Office was doing this during the Biden administration. This
also means that there was a team involved as well.
An FBISSA manages investigative teams and approves the reports that
(07:17):
we now are seeing. Toll analysis, as I mentioned, is
used to analyze cellular data and the call details for
federal probes. This is a highly revealing investigative tool. It
exploits all the patterns of the targets or the people
involved in the communication investigation, and it also is incredibly
(07:40):
invasive because it would look at the location data of
those senators that were being spied on. Now, several of
these senators decided to have a press conference that were
the targets that were spied on. Senator Grassley was the
first to speak, and I want to play it for you.
Listen to what they had to say that we can
(08:01):
find for.
Speaker 6 (08:02):
The solicitation of these telephone records, which I think emphasizes
the political weaponization that was behind all this effort.
Speaker 7 (08:16):
And we were still getting more information. But we've released
some records today and I'll let Senator Johnson take over
from here, and then each one of you colleagues can
join in when you want to whatever you want to say.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
First of all, I want to thank Sander Grassley.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
It is because of his relentless advocacy for whistleblowers that
a lot of this information is servicing right now. We
wouldn't know about the list of one hundred Republican entities
that were targeted by Jack Smith Arctic Frost's investigation.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
I don't think we know about this as well, So
we need whistleblowers.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
I think Dan Bongino and folks of the FBI they
don't know where all the records are hidden. They still don't.
They're not necessarily get hunsent cooperation. But this is outrageous
what has happened. I just want to give you a
timeline this. I think you've already got the the FBI
sheet that shows the number of members of Congress that
were targeted. Representative Kelly Sanader's Graham, Haggerty, Holly Sullivan, Tubberville, myself,
(09:18):
Santa Lummis, and Blackburn.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
This memo was dated September of twenty twenty three.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
To put it all into context, the mar Lago raid
occurred in August of twenty twenty two. Jack Smith announced
the indictments against President Trump in August of twenty twenty three,
so this is almost two months later. They're casting this net,
this fishing accident expedition against members of the Senate. In
(09:45):
the House, I've been investigating this with Santa Grassley. This
doesn't surprise me, but it should shock every American of
what the Biden administration has done. And by the way,
this is the first time I was targeted by the
FBI under the Obama administration. The same thing happened to
both Sender Grassley and I as part of the Foreign
(10:06):
Foreign Influenced Task Force. We were giving a com A
briefing to try and convince us that the Hunter Biden
laptop was no big deal, basically trying to throw us
off the track. So this is major corruption just being
revealed inside the Obama and Biden department. Justine the FBI
(10:27):
and I'll turn it over to guest Senator Haggerty, who's
one of the individuals. Again, none of us were subject
to targets this investigation. There's no predicate, there's no reason
for this other than efficient expedition, which again should outrage
and shock every American center.
Speaker 8 (10:42):
Hagarty, thank you, Senator Johnson and Chairman Grassley, thank you
for your leadership in making this happen. This is an
extraordinary revelation that just took place this afternoon. My colleagues
and I found out all of US Republicans by the
way that we replaced under investigation by this FBI, under
the Joe Biden FBI that was led I presume by
Jack Smith and his predecessors. This isn't the first time
(11:04):
that it's happened, though Senator Johnson just mentioned this. I
served on the Trump transition team in Trump Tower in
twenty sixteen. Senator Blackburn was vice chair of the transition
committee then. As we're probably a dozen or more members
of Congress to think that we were all surveilled back
then by the Obama FBI. This corruption run deep, runs deep,
(11:26):
and it's gone on for far too long. And the
fact that it's happened here again, the fact that they
are looking at our records in twenty twenty three sitting
members of the United States Senate. Again, the only thing
that we have in common, the only thing that common
in this entire list, is that we're all Republicans. They've
decided to come after us. This is as partisan as
it gets. The FBI and the corruption's running there has
to be cleared out. Thank god, we have Cash Betel
(11:48):
and Dan Bongino there. This has to be addressed, it
has to be resolved, It needs to happen today.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
What we know is this that the FBI under Joe
Biden and under Barack Obama, that they exercised activity that
they had no authority to exercise. And as Senator Haggardy mentioned,
we know what they did in twenty sixteen to the
(12:16):
Trump transition team. And now we find out that after
the mar A Lago raid, after the indictment of President Trump,
they surveil US people who support President Trump, members who
are all Republicans. But it shows you how out of
(12:39):
control and rotten to the core and politicized the FBI
had become, and how they had absolutely no problem at
all whatsoever with political weaponization. We appreciate the information we've
gotten today. We look forward word to further investigation on this.
Speaker 5 (13:02):
You just heard from many of those that were targeted
by the FBI, as you heard Bill Haggerty say, we
are sitting members of Congress, and by the way, we
now have learned it's not just senators. There was also
a representative that had their private communications tracked by the
former Special Council Jack Smith under the Biden administration. The
(13:26):
FBI director Cash Bettel, also revealing files obtained by Fox
News show that Smith, in his official capacity at the
Department of Justice, as he investigated Donald Trump and the
events of January sixth, twenty twenty one, decided to not
only track the phone calls of Lindsey Graham, Marsha Blackburn,
Ron Johnson, Josh Holly, Cynthia Loomis, Bill Haggerty, Dan Sullivan,
(13:50):
Tommy Turverville, but also we now have learned Republican Representative
Mike Kelly of Pennsylvania. The alarming document revealed that Smith
and his Arctic Frost team had subpoena telephone providers for
the lawmakers records in twenty twenty three, was recently discovered
(14:11):
by Patel. Patel confirmed the legitimacy of the findings. In
an ex post, writing, we recently uncovered proof that phone
records of US lawmakers were seized for political purposes. That
abuse of power ends now. Under my leadership, the FBI
will deliver truth and accountability and never again be weaponized
(14:31):
against the American people. That abuse of power ends now.
It seems to be the mantra, unfortunately, that is needed
by this administration to make sure that these bad actors
are exposed and rooted out. Finally, you also heard one
other thing that was really important that was mentioned there.
We need listle blowers. You heard that from Senator Johnson.
(14:56):
He is asking for others to come forward that may
know about abusive power that was happening in the deep
State and letting them know there's a safe place to
bring it. Bongino, we also know brief the impact of
the lawmakers on Monday afternoon, and said that it is
a disgrace that he's having to sit there and show
what he has found. It is a disgrace that I
(15:18):
have to stand on Capitol Hill and reveal this that
the FBI was once weaponized to track the private communications
of US lawmakers for political purposes, that era is over.
Several of the Senators who have allegedly been spot On
not only spoke at the press conference which you just heard,
but said that they are also going to be looking
(15:39):
into this from a congressional standpoint. And to put it
just an overall perspective for you, Senator Holly called Smith's
actions not only an abuse of power, beyond Watergate, beyond
ja Eggar Hoover, one that directly strikes he said, at
the Constitution, the separation of powers and the First Amendment.
(16:01):
And thank goodness that President Donald Trump has put great
men in charge of the FBI to root out this
pure evil that is inside of it.
Speaker 4 (16:10):
Thank you for listening to the forty seven Morning Update
with Ben Ferguson. Please make sure you hit subscribe wherever
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and we will see you back here tomorrow
What is your message to people who made encounters on
this pains there?
Speaker 2 (00:07):
How do you get them well? Up till now that
hasn't been a great deal of pain. There could be
a great deal of pain, but up till now that
hasn't been.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
I will say this, just hang in there, because I
think a lot of good things are going to happen,
so total they can say it.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
I mean, I think a lot of good things could happen,
and that could also pretend to help you.
Speaker 4 (00:24):
You're listening to the forty seven Morning Update with Ben ferguson.
Speaker 5 (00:27):
Good Tuesday morning. Nice to have you with us on
the forty seven Morning Update. And this is one of
those shows that's very important and I hope you will
share it everywhere you can with family and friends and
on social media. This story is one the media is
not covering. Instead, they're going to talk about the government
shut down. But this story should scare everyone to their core.
(00:49):
And this is the story Jack Smith and the Biden
Department of Justice. We're tracking the phone calls of their
political enemies, specifically eight GOP sentners and a Republican congressman. Yes,
they were literally spying on our men and women that
(01:11):
are in Washington who've been elected by you and I
And the one thing and the only thing they had
in common was that they were all Republicans.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
But first I got to ask you a question.
Speaker 5 (01:24):
Are you one of those that's just so tired of
giving your money to radical left woke companies that actually
are fighting against your values every day? Well, there are
certain bills that you pay every month that if you
can go with a conservative company, why not do it?
In fact, why not go with a conservative company actually
takes part of your bill every month that you're going
(01:44):
to pay to somebody, and they give it back to
organizations that support your First and your Second Amendment rights,
that support the rights of unborn children, that stand with
our military, our first responders, and so many wounded war
warriors that need help. Well, that bill I'm talking about
is your cell phone bill. And I've been telling you
(02:06):
for a long time about Patriot Mobile. But there's no
better time to switch than right now. Not only does
Patriot Mobile operate on all three major networks in this country, yeah,
all three. That means you get the same great coverage
you're used to right now, but you also make a
difference with every call you make and every text you make,
and why would you want to give your money a
big mobile. Big Mobile has been giving big donations to
(02:29):
democratic causes, democratic candidates, and radical left organizations. I'm talking
about organizations that actually support abortion. That is why I
want you to switch right now to Patriot Mobile. Go
ahead and make the switch, and it's so easy. All
you have to do is simply call Patriot Mobiles one
(02:50):
hundred percent US based team from the comfort of your
home or your office and they'll have you activated in minutes.
And if you're still locked in a contract, not a problem.
Patriots Mobile contract buyout program covers up to five hundred
dollars per device. Keep your same number, keep your phone,
or upgrade do a new one. So back to my point,
what are you waiting for? Call Patriot Mobile today and
(03:13):
make a difference every single day with every call you make.
Patriot Mobile dot com slash ferguson. That's Patriot Mobile dot
com slash ferguson or nine seven to two Patriot And
if you use the promo code ferguson, you're gonna get
a free month of service on top of that. Patriot
Mobile dot com slash ferguson or nine seven two Patriot.
(03:36):
That's Patriot mobile dot com slash ferguson or ninety seven.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
To two Patriot.
Speaker 5 (03:40):
It's the forty seven Morning Update, and it starts right now.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Story number one.
Speaker 5 (03:45):
This is a story that I'm about to tell you
that it's an incredibly important one. It is a fact
now that the FBI literally spot on not one, not two,
not three, four, five, six, seven, but eight GOP senators.
It was called a total analysis. That is the terminology
(04:08):
that's used by FBI investigators to analyze cellular call data
for federal probes. Think of it as link analysis that
shows patterns of communication location data as well as potential
targets network of associates. This should shock every single one
(04:31):
of you to a core. And these declassified records, as
the FBI Director Cash Bettel is now exposing code name
Arctic Frost was brought because of a whistle blower disclosures
to Senator Grassley and Senator Ron Johnson that showed nearly
one hundred conservative groups, including Turning Point USA, were part
(04:56):
of the probe. Now you have something that's even more shocked,
and that is not only was the FBI going after
conservative groups, but the FBI was spying on senators, and
some of those senators are now fighting back. Senator Ron
Johnson saying it this way in a statement earlier, I
was just briefed by the FBI's Dan Bongino that the
(05:19):
FBI and the Justice Department obtained call logs from eight
US Senators, including myself. We were surveilled simply for being Republicans.
This does not surprise me, but it should shock every American.
Senator Johnson continued. What the Biden administration has done is
(05:43):
an outrageous abuse of power. It is blatant political persecution.
Those responsible must be held fully accountable. Now you may
ask yourself what is in this actual document? The Federal
Bureau of Investigation, on a classified document dated nine to
twenty seven of twenty twenty three, puts it in a
(06:06):
simple manner. The FBI special agent with the name redacted
conducted preliminary toll analysis on limited tolls records associated with
the following US Senators Mike Kelly, Lindsey Graham, Bill Haggerty,
Josh Holly, Dan Sullivan, Tommy Tuberville, Ron Johnson, Cynthia Loomis,
(06:30):
and Senator Marsha Blackburn. You look at what I just
explained to you. And this is the weaponization literally of
our federal government right before our eyes. The other question
is this, who were the FBI's supervisory special agents and
why are their names redacted? Who approved the report and
(06:52):
the surveillance of the US senators is another question that
should be asked. Markings indicate that the FBI I Washington
Field Office was doing this during the Biden administration. This
also means that there was a team involved as well.
An FBISSA manages investigative teams and approves the reports that
(07:17):
we now are seeing. Toll analysis, as I mentioned, is
used to analyze cellular data and the call details for
federal probes. This is a highly revealing investigative tool. It
exploits all the patterns of the targets or the people
involved in the communication investigation, and it also is incredibly
(07:40):
invasive because it would look at the location data of
those senators that were being spied on. Now, several of
these senators decided to have a press conference that were
the targets that were spied on. Senator Grassley was the
first to speak, and I want to play it for you.
Listen to what they had to say that we can
(08:01):
find for.
Speaker 6 (08:02):
The solicitation of these telephone records, which I think emphasizes
the political weaponization that was behind all this effort.
Speaker 7 (08:16):
And we were still getting more information. But we've released
some records today and I'll let Senator Johnson take over
from here, and then each one of you colleagues can
join in when you want to whatever you want to say.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
First of all, I want to thank Sander Grassley.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
It is because of his relentless advocacy for whistleblowers that
a lot of this information is servicing right now. We
wouldn't know about the list of one hundred Republican entities
that were targeted by Jack Smith Arctic Frost's investigation.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
I don't think we know about this as well, So
we need whistleblowers.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
I think Dan Bongino and folks of the FBI they
don't know where all the records are hidden. They still don't.
They're not necessarily get hunsent cooperation. But this is outrageous
what has happened. I just want to give you a
timeline this. I think you've already got the the FBI
sheet that shows the number of members of Congress that
were targeted. Representative Kelly Sanader's Graham, Haggerty, Holly Sullivan, Tubberville, myself,
(09:18):
Santa Lummis, and Blackburn.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
This memo was dated September of twenty twenty three.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
To put it all into context, the mar Lago raid
occurred in August of twenty twenty two. Jack Smith announced
the indictments against President Trump in August of twenty twenty three,
so this is almost two months later. They're casting this net,
this fishing accident expedition against members of the Senate. In
(09:45):
the House, I've been investigating this with Santa Grassley. This
doesn't surprise me, but it should shock every American of
what the Biden administration has done. And by the way,
this is the first time I was targeted by the
FBI under the Obama administration. The same thing happened to
both Sender Grassley and I as part of the Foreign
(10:06):
Foreign Influenced Task Force. We were giving a com A
briefing to try and convince us that the Hunter Biden
laptop was no big deal, basically trying to throw us
off the track. So this is major corruption just being
revealed inside the Obama and Biden department. Justine the FBI
(10:27):
and I'll turn it over to guest Senator Haggerty, who's
one of the individuals. Again, none of us were subject
to targets this investigation. There's no predicate, there's no reason
for this other than efficient expedition, which again should outrage
and shock every American center.
Speaker 8 (10:42):
Hagarty, thank you, Senator Johnson and Chairman Grassley, thank you
for your leadership in making this happen. This is an
extraordinary revelation that just took place this afternoon. My colleagues
and I found out all of US Republicans by the
way that we replaced under investigation by this FBI, under
the Joe Biden FBI that was led I presume by
Jack Smith and his predecessors. This isn't the first time
(11:04):
that it's happened, though Senator Johnson just mentioned this. I
served on the Trump transition team in Trump Tower in
twenty sixteen. Senator Blackburn was vice chair of the transition
committee then. As we're probably a dozen or more members
of Congress to think that we were all surveilled back
then by the Obama FBI. This corruption run deep, runs deep,
(11:26):
and it's gone on for far too long. And the
fact that it's happened here again, the fact that they
are looking at our records in twenty twenty three sitting
members of the United States Senate. Again, the only thing
that we have in common, the only thing that common
in this entire list, is that we're all Republicans. They've
decided to come after us. This is as partisan as
it gets. The FBI and the corruption's running there has
to be cleared out. Thank god, we have Cash Betel
(11:48):
and Dan Bongino there. This has to be addressed, it
has to be resolved, It needs to happen today.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
What we know is this that the FBI under Joe
Biden and under Barack Obama, that they exercised activity that
they had no authority to exercise. And as Senator Haggardy mentioned,
we know what they did in twenty sixteen to the
(12:16):
Trump transition team. And now we find out that after
the mar A Lago raid, after the indictment of President Trump,
they surveil US people who support President Trump, members who
are all Republicans. But it shows you how out of
(12:39):
control and rotten to the core and politicized the FBI
had become, and how they had absolutely no problem at
all whatsoever with political weaponization. We appreciate the information we've
gotten today. We look forward word to further investigation on this.
Speaker 5 (13:02):
You just heard from many of those that were targeted
by the FBI, as you heard Bill Haggerty say, we
are sitting members of Congress, and by the way, we
now have learned it's not just senators. There was also
a representative that had their private communications tracked by the
former Special Council Jack Smith under the Biden administration. The
(13:26):
FBI director Cash Bettel, also revealing files obtained by Fox
News show that Smith, in his official capacity at the
Department of Justice, as he investigated Donald Trump and the
events of January sixth, twenty twenty one, decided to not
only track the phone calls of Lindsey Graham, Marsha Blackburn,
Ron Johnson, Josh Holly, Cynthia Loomis, Bill Haggerty, Dan Sullivan,
(13:50):
Tommy Turverville, but also we now have learned Republican Representative
Mike Kelly of Pennsylvania. The alarming document revealed that Smith
and his Arctic Frost team had subpoena telephone providers for
the lawmakers records in twenty twenty three, was recently discovered
(14:11):
by Patel. Patel confirmed the legitimacy of the findings. In
an ex post, writing, we recently uncovered proof that phone
records of US lawmakers were seized for political purposes. That
abuse of power ends now. Under my leadership, the FBI
will deliver truth and accountability and never again be weaponized
(14:31):
against the American people. That abuse of power ends now.
It seems to be the mantra, unfortunately, that is needed
by this administration to make sure that these bad actors
are exposed and rooted out. Finally, you also heard one
other thing that was really important that was mentioned there.
We need listle blowers. You heard that from Senator Johnson.
(14:56):
He is asking for others to come forward that may
know about abusive power that was happening in the deep
State and letting them know there's a safe place to
bring it. Bongino, we also know brief the impact of
the lawmakers on Monday afternoon, and said that it is
a disgrace that he's having to sit there and show
what he has found. It is a disgrace that I
(15:18):
have to stand on Capitol Hill and reveal this that
the FBI was once weaponized to track the private communications
of US lawmakers for political purposes, that era is over.
Several of the Senators who have allegedly been spot On
not only spoke at the press conference which you just heard,
but said that they are also going to be looking
(15:39):
into this from a congressional standpoint. And to put it
just an overall perspective for you, Senator Holly called Smith's
actions not only an abuse of power, beyond Watergate, beyond
ja Eggar Hoover, one that directly strikes he said, at
the Constitution, the separation of powers and the First Amendment.
(16:01):
And thank goodness that President Donald Trump has put great
men in charge of the FBI to root out this
pure evil that is inside of it.
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