December 1, 2025 • 12 mins
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National Security Threats
- The narrative centers on claims that unvetted individuals from Afghanistan and other nations entered the U.S. during the Biden administration.
- Highlights the shooting of two National Guard members in Washington, D.C., allegedly by an Afghan national admitted under the resettlement program.
- Mentions another Afghan refugee arrested for planning a terrorist attack.
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Criticism of Vetting Process
- Accusations that the Biden administration failed to properly vet Afghan evacuees during the withdrawal from Afghanistan.
- References testimony from Secretary of State Antony Blinken acknowledging that child brides were among those evacuated.
- Suggests that lists of Americans and Afghans were shared with the Taliban during evacuation efforts.
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Humanitarian Concerns
- Notes widespread child marriage and domestic abuse in Afghanistan.
- Raises alarm about cases of older Afghan men arriving in the U.S. with young girls claiming to be their wives.
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Pam Bondi’s Commentary
- Bondi criticizes the vetting process as “minimal to little,” lacking biometrics and social media checks.
- Warns of radicalization among evacuees and cites a backlog of 1.5 million cases.
- Links broader border security issues, mentioning MS-13 gang members entering the U.S.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
No country can tolerate such a risk to our very survival.
An example is this Minnesota, where hundreds of thousands of
Somalians are ripping off our country and ripping apart that
once great state. Billions of dollars are lost, and gangs
of Somalians come from a country that doesn't even have
a government, no laws, no water, no military, no nothing.
(00:26):
As their representatives in our country preach to us about
our constitution and how our country is no good. We're
not going to put up with these kinds of assaults
on law and order by people who shouldn't even.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Be in our country.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
You're listening to the forty seven Morning Update with Ben ferguson.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Good Monday morning.
Speaker 4 (00:44):
Nice to have you with us on the forty seven
Morning Update, and we've got one major story. Four years
there is a shocking number of individuals that came into
the United States of America under the Biden administration that
we're not vetted from terrorism hotspot around the world. So
how much danger is there of sleeper sales in the
(01:04):
US and what does a Trump administration plan to do
about it?
Speaker 2 (01:09):
I've got it all for you.
Speaker 4 (01:10):
But first I want to tell you about an amazing
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(01:32):
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class at Hillsdale College. Hillsdale College is now offering for you,
the listeners of this show, more than forty free I
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(01:52):
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Speaker 3 (03:22):
Story number one.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
President Trump now is warning all Americans about a real
national security threat. It is people coming into this country
that were unvetted from Afghanistan and other nations, including a
wide open border where people on the Terraces watch lists
were allowed to come in under the Biden administration. What
are Democrats saying after the attack on the National guardsmen
(03:44):
and another Afghan rescueg that has been arrested for planning
a terarist attack. They're now saying the President is being
a racist for saying exactly what needed to be said,
that there's a real national security threat in this country
that was allowed in here because a lack of vetting
by our government. I want to go back to the
(04:06):
terror attack, and I want to remind you that four
years ago, we knew that the Biden administration was lacking
a vetting process of Afghan nationals that were inviting in essence,
terrorists to come into our country.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
That did actually happen.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
We knew it was a problem, and we knew the
administration was lying about it. We also know Anthony Blincoln
at the time confirmed that child brides had been evacuated
with older men from Afghanistan into the United States of America,
yet again showing that there was a lack of vetting
of the people that were allowed to come into America.
(04:48):
I want you to listen to Tony Blinkin confirming child
bribes that were evacuated with older men from Afghanistan, and
we let it happen in this country. We didn't stop.
We didn't we asked questions, and we did not vet them.
Speaker 5 (05:03):
But I want to ask you flat out, did the
State Department give the Taliban a list or multiple list
of Americans and or Afghans that we wanted.
Speaker 6 (05:13):
Out those reports and the idea that we would do
anything to endanger our citizens or anyone else at a
time when we were trying to save their lives is
flat out wrong.
Speaker 7 (05:23):
Let me just like a yes or no? Did you
give them?
Speaker 6 (05:25):
Let me get Let me be very clear, a senator,
if I may please thank you. In limited instances where
we were seeking to get a bus or a group
of people through a checkpoint, we gave a manifest to
the people at the checkpoint to demonstrate that those people were.
Speaker 7 (05:41):
Expectedly say how many names were on the list you gave.
Speaker 6 (05:44):
It doesn't matter because they.
Speaker 5 (05:46):
All dozens, hundreds, thousands, give us some order of magnitude.
This happened in a handful of situations where two dozens.
So is it your testimony? It wasn't hundreds. I want
to understand. Did you give them thousands of names?
Speaker 1 (05:56):
No?
Speaker 5 (05:56):
We did not, Okay, hundreds, not going to put a
number on it, but was again, why not? This is
a hearing to discover how many names and how many
of those individuals you gave the Taliban the name to
have been targeted for torture or murder.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Senator.
Speaker 6 (06:09):
By definition, these were in limited instances with a bus
or a group of people to get them through a checkpoint.
They got through the checkpoint.
Speaker 5 (06:17):
So not only did you fail to evacuate Americans and
Green card holders who were there, but you also brought
in tens of thousands of Afghans who had wholly inadequate vetting,
bringing many of them to the United States. And one
of the things that has done is that has brought
in a humanitarian crisis to America. Child marriage and domestic abuse,
(06:42):
tragically are widespread in Afghanistan. According to the World Health Organization,
more than half of the women in Afghanistan are married
as child brides and ninety percent of women are subject
to domestic abuse ninety percent. On August twenty seventh, according
to public reports, attributed internal documentation highlighting numerous instances and
(07:04):
intake centers of sexual abuse in which much older grown
Afghan males appeared with children. Young children claimed they were
their brides, claimed they were their wives, and the document
said the State Department urgently requested guidance. That was your word,
(07:25):
urgently Subsequently, Department of Homeland Security said that it showed
the desperation of families that they were willing to give
little girls to grown men to be subject to sexual
abuse and child wives. My question is as follows, did
you receive that urgent guidance? How many children have been
subject to sexual abuse? What have you done to rescue
(07:45):
young children from illegal and abusive relationships after being brought
to America by the State Department?
Speaker 6 (07:54):
Across the entire government, everyone involved in the evacuation effort,
whether it's at a transit point UH in one of
the countries that we negotiated with, whether it's here in
the United States at Dulles or Philadelphia or the military bases,
we have all of our officers at extreme vigilance to
look for UH and to deal with any cases or
(08:18):
concerns that he's.
Speaker 7 (08:21):
The urgent guidance. And how many child guides have you seen?
Speaker 6 (08:23):
I don't know the specific guidance you're referring to. I'm
happy to look to look at it.
Speaker 7 (08:27):
So is there not urgency to discover it was abuse?
Speaker 6 (08:33):
Could we could detect and deal with at any cases?
And there have been to my knowledge a limited number
of cases where we have separated people because we were
concerned that they were How many are the cases, I'm
aware of a handful.
Speaker 4 (08:48):
So this was a disaster that was predictable. This is
a disaster that is still unfolding because we don't know
how many people are actually in this country that should
have never been here, which brings me to the Trump administration.
They're having to clean up a massive national security threat,
which brings me to Attorney General Pam Bondi. She said
(09:10):
on this week's broadcast the Fox News Sunday that the
suspected shooter of the two National Guard troops in d
C not only should have never been in this country,
but host Martha McCollums said, quote, let's start with the
question of vetting. The Washington Post reported this counter terrorism
officials did that the Guard shooting suspect before he entered
(09:32):
the US. One of the individuals they talked to said
the suspect was vetted years ago before working with the
CIA in Afghanistan, and then again before he arrived in
the US in twenty twenty one. Those examinations involved both
the National counter Terrorism Center as well as the CIA.
So where are we in the tracking the path of
(09:53):
the suspect. What was something that was missed in the
vetting process or was he possibly once he got here. Now,
listen closely to what Pam Bondi the AG said in response.
She said, quote, so, first, the one that you talked
about that happened days before the Thanksgiving shooting, that one
(10:15):
he was he had been through Operation Allies Welcome program,
minimal to little vetting. I was on the phone last
night with Secretary Christynome at length. They did not do biometrics,
they did not do social media. Now they're clearly referring
to the quote vetting process under the Biden administration, which
(10:38):
even when they claim they vetted people, it wasn't very
good or even real even.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Close to what you should have done.
Speaker 4 (10:45):
Back to her comments, they did very little, if minimal,
vetting on all of these people. And now, to take
a step back, we have one point five million backlog
of people that have come into our country, and as
you said, these people being radicalized. We know that this
shooter who shot her National guardsmen in DC the day
(11:06):
before Thanksgiving, he was radicalized.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
You're going to hear a lot more about that.
Speaker 4 (11:11):
And these people should have never been in our country
under Joe Biden, he opened our borders. Of course MS
thirteen TDA members twenty minutes from where you are right now, Shannon,
we caught one of the worst MS thirteen members in
the country, of the whole Eastern Seaboard top members, because
(11:33):
Joe Biden let him walk into our country. So you
may hear a narrative by the left that this guy
was vetted and so something happened after the vetting was
done the right way. What we're actually learning is that
the vetting was a joke, that it was barely a
check your box type of vetting. It certainly was not
(11:54):
a vetting to keep us safe. And now this administration
is going to have to unwind and look back. It
countless people that were led into this country that should
have never been here in the first place.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
Thank you for listening to the forty seven Morning Update
with Ben Ferguson. Please make sure you hit subscribe wherever
you're listening to this podcast right now and for more
in depth news, also subscribe to the Ben Ferguson podcast
and we will see you back here tomorrow.
No country can tolerate such a risk to our very survival.
An example is this Minnesota, where hundreds of thousands of
Somalians are ripping off our country and ripping apart that
once great state. Billions of dollars are lost, and gangs
of Somalians come from a country that doesn't even have
a government, no laws, no water, no military, no nothing.
(00:26):
As their representatives in our country preach to us about
our constitution and how our country is no good. We're
not going to put up with these kinds of assaults
on law and order by people who shouldn't even.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Be in our country.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
You're listening to the forty seven Morning Update with Ben ferguson.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Good Monday morning.
Speaker 4 (00:44):
Nice to have you with us on the forty seven
Morning Update, and we've got one major story. Four years
there is a shocking number of individuals that came into
the United States of America under the Biden administration that
we're not vetted from terrorism hotspot around the world. So
how much danger is there of sleeper sales in the
(01:04):
US and what does a Trump administration plan to do
about it?
Speaker 2 (01:09):
I've got it all for you.
Speaker 4 (01:10):
But first I want to tell you about an amazing
opportunity right now that I'm involved in, and I cannot
wait for you to take advantage of it. I want
you to take some incredible courses at Hillsdale College for free.
You may not know this, but Hillsdale College has been
influencing conservatives like myself for decades. They had a huge
(01:32):
impact on Charlie Kirk's life, and even as memorial service,
they talked about how Charlie took class after class after
class at Hillsdale College. Hillsdale College is now offering for you,
the listeners of this show, more than forty free I
want to say that again, free online courses. That's right,
(01:52):
more than forty free online courses. You can learn about
the works of C. S. Lewis, the stories in the
Book of Jim, the meaning of the US Constitution, the
rise and fall of the Roman Republic, or the history
of the ancient Christian Church, all with Hillsdale College's free
online courses. Right now, I'm personally taking The Constitution one
(02:16):
oh one, and this course you're going to exploit the
design and the purpose of the Constitution, the challenges that
faced during the Civil War, and how it has been
undermined for more than a century by radical progressives and liberals.
This twelve lecture course is self pace. It's another reason
why I love it. So start whenever and wherever in
(02:38):
our country. We need more Americans like you and I
than understand the Constitution and can defend the freedom of
the American people against the left and their increasing encroachments
on our God given rights. So start your classes today
for free. Start your free Constitution one oh one course
right now.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
How do you do it?
Speaker 4 (02:59):
Go to Hillsdale dot edu slash Morning Update to enroll
and it's no cost.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
It's easy to get started.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
You got to use a special website Hillsdale dot edu
slash Morning Update. Enroll for free Hillsdale dot edu slash
Morning Update. It's the forty seven Morning Update and it
starts right now.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Story number one.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
President Trump now is warning all Americans about a real
national security threat. It is people coming into this country
that were unvetted from Afghanistan and other nations, including a
wide open border where people on the Terraces watch lists
were allowed to come in under the Biden administration. What
are Democrats saying after the attack on the National guardsmen
(03:44):
and another Afghan rescueg that has been arrested for planning
a terarist attack. They're now saying the President is being
a racist for saying exactly what needed to be said,
that there's a real national security threat in this country
that was allowed in here because a lack of vetting
by our government. I want to go back to the
(04:06):
terror attack, and I want to remind you that four
years ago, we knew that the Biden administration was lacking
a vetting process of Afghan nationals that were inviting in essence,
terrorists to come into our country.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
That did actually happen.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
We knew it was a problem, and we knew the
administration was lying about it. We also know Anthony Blincoln
at the time confirmed that child brides had been evacuated
with older men from Afghanistan into the United States of America,
yet again showing that there was a lack of vetting
of the people that were allowed to come into America.
(04:48):
I want you to listen to Tony Blinkin confirming child
bribes that were evacuated with older men from Afghanistan, and
we let it happen in this country. We didn't stop.
We didn't we asked questions, and we did not vet them.
Speaker 5 (05:03):
But I want to ask you flat out, did the
State Department give the Taliban a list or multiple list
of Americans and or Afghans that we wanted.
Speaker 6 (05:13):
Out those reports and the idea that we would do
anything to endanger our citizens or anyone else at a
time when we were trying to save their lives is
flat out wrong.
Speaker 7 (05:23):
Let me just like a yes or no? Did you
give them?
Speaker 6 (05:25):
Let me get Let me be very clear, a senator,
if I may please thank you. In limited instances where
we were seeking to get a bus or a group
of people through a checkpoint, we gave a manifest to
the people at the checkpoint to demonstrate that those people were.
Speaker 7 (05:41):
Expectedly say how many names were on the list you gave.
Speaker 6 (05:44):
It doesn't matter because they.
Speaker 5 (05:46):
All dozens, hundreds, thousands, give us some order of magnitude.
This happened in a handful of situations where two dozens.
So is it your testimony? It wasn't hundreds. I want
to understand. Did you give them thousands of names?
Speaker 1 (05:56):
No?
Speaker 5 (05:56):
We did not, Okay, hundreds, not going to put a
number on it, but was again, why not? This is
a hearing to discover how many names and how many
of those individuals you gave the Taliban the name to
have been targeted for torture or murder.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Senator.
Speaker 6 (06:09):
By definition, these were in limited instances with a bus
or a group of people to get them through a checkpoint.
They got through the checkpoint.
Speaker 5 (06:17):
So not only did you fail to evacuate Americans and
Green card holders who were there, but you also brought
in tens of thousands of Afghans who had wholly inadequate vetting,
bringing many of them to the United States. And one
of the things that has done is that has brought
in a humanitarian crisis to America. Child marriage and domestic abuse,
(06:42):
tragically are widespread in Afghanistan. According to the World Health Organization,
more than half of the women in Afghanistan are married
as child brides and ninety percent of women are subject
to domestic abuse ninety percent. On August twenty seventh, according
to public reports, attributed internal documentation highlighting numerous instances and
(07:04):
intake centers of sexual abuse in which much older grown
Afghan males appeared with children. Young children claimed they were
their brides, claimed they were their wives, and the document
said the State Department urgently requested guidance. That was your word,
(07:25):
urgently Subsequently, Department of Homeland Security said that it showed
the desperation of families that they were willing to give
little girls to grown men to be subject to sexual
abuse and child wives. My question is as follows, did
you receive that urgent guidance? How many children have been
subject to sexual abuse? What have you done to rescue
(07:45):
young children from illegal and abusive relationships after being brought
to America by the State Department?
Speaker 6 (07:54):
Across the entire government, everyone involved in the evacuation effort,
whether it's at a transit point UH in one of
the countries that we negotiated with, whether it's here in
the United States at Dulles or Philadelphia or the military bases,
we have all of our officers at extreme vigilance to
look for UH and to deal with any cases or
(08:18):
concerns that he's.
Speaker 7 (08:21):
The urgent guidance. And how many child guides have you seen?
Speaker 6 (08:23):
I don't know the specific guidance you're referring to. I'm
happy to look to look at it.
Speaker 7 (08:27):
So is there not urgency to discover it was abuse?
Speaker 6 (08:33):
Could we could detect and deal with at any cases?
And there have been to my knowledge a limited number
of cases where we have separated people because we were
concerned that they were How many are the cases, I'm
aware of a handful.
Speaker 4 (08:48):
So this was a disaster that was predictable. This is
a disaster that is still unfolding because we don't know
how many people are actually in this country that should
have never been here, which brings me to the Trump administration.
They're having to clean up a massive national security threat,
which brings me to Attorney General Pam Bondi. She said
(09:10):
on this week's broadcast the Fox News Sunday that the
suspected shooter of the two National Guard troops in d
C not only should have never been in this country,
but host Martha McCollums said, quote, let's start with the
question of vetting. The Washington Post reported this counter terrorism
officials did that the Guard shooting suspect before he entered
(09:32):
the US. One of the individuals they talked to said
the suspect was vetted years ago before working with the
CIA in Afghanistan, and then again before he arrived in
the US in twenty twenty one. Those examinations involved both
the National counter Terrorism Center as well as the CIA.
So where are we in the tracking the path of
(09:53):
the suspect. What was something that was missed in the
vetting process or was he possibly once he got here. Now,
listen closely to what Pam Bondi the AG said in response.
She said, quote, so, first, the one that you talked
about that happened days before the Thanksgiving shooting, that one
(10:15):
he was he had been through Operation Allies Welcome program,
minimal to little vetting. I was on the phone last
night with Secretary Christynome at length. They did not do biometrics,
they did not do social media. Now they're clearly referring
to the quote vetting process under the Biden administration, which
(10:38):
even when they claim they vetted people, it wasn't very
good or even real even.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Close to what you should have done.
Speaker 4 (10:45):
Back to her comments, they did very little, if minimal,
vetting on all of these people. And now, to take
a step back, we have one point five million backlog
of people that have come into our country, and as
you said, these people being radicalized. We know that this
shooter who shot her National guardsmen in DC the day
(11:06):
before Thanksgiving, he was radicalized.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
You're going to hear a lot more about that.
Speaker 4 (11:11):
And these people should have never been in our country
under Joe Biden, he opened our borders. Of course MS
thirteen TDA members twenty minutes from where you are right now, Shannon,
we caught one of the worst MS thirteen members in
the country, of the whole Eastern Seaboard top members, because
(11:33):
Joe Biden let him walk into our country. So you
may hear a narrative by the left that this guy
was vetted and so something happened after the vetting was
done the right way. What we're actually learning is that
the vetting was a joke, that it was barely a
check your box type of vetting. It certainly was not
(11:54):
a vetting to keep us safe. And now this administration
is going to have to unwind and look back. It
countless people that were led into this country that should
have never been here in the first place.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
Thank you for listening to the forty seven Morning Update
with Ben Ferguson. Please make sure you hit subscribe wherever
you're listening to this podcast right now and for more
in depth news, also subscribe to the Ben Ferguson podcast
and we will see you back here tomorrow.
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