June 28, 2025 • 18 mins
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Auto-Pen Signature Controversy:
- Former Biden aide Neera Tanden testified under oath that she was authorized to direct the use of the president’s auto-pen for signing official documents but claimed she did not know who gave the final approval.
- The testimony raised questions about transparency and presidential oversight, with conflicting statements from other former White House staffers and Tanden’s legal team.
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National Security and Iranian Nationals:
- Reports of recent arrests of Iranian nationals in the U.S. with alleged ties to terrorism, including Hezbollah and the Iranian military.
- The narrative emphasizes concerns about sleeper cells and criticizes the Biden administration’s immigration policies, suggesting they allowed dangerous individuals into the country.
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Iran Nuclear Program and Intelligence Leaks:
- A classified DIA report allegedly underestimated the damage to Iran’s nuclear facilities following U.S. strikes.
- The document criticizes mainstream media for relying on what it claims were Iranian propaganda sources and praises the Trump administration’s military actions.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Guys like Schumer, our great Palestinian senator. This guy, no,
he's changed. He used to like Jewish people. Now he's
totally against Jewish people. It's the most incredible transformation I
think I've ever seen.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
You're listening to the forty seven Morning Update with Ben Ferguson.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
Good Saturday morning to you. Ben Ferguson with you, and
these are some of the stories that you may have
missed that we talked about this week on the forty
seven Morning Update. First up, in shocking testimony before Congress
that the media is not reporting on a former Biden
ade says quote she does not know who ordered President
(00:39):
Biden's auto pen signatures. Will give you the details on
what all she said to Congress and why this story
is being hidden from you. And also another major story,
at least five more Iranian nationals who were in the
country illegally with additional criminal backgrounds have been arrested by
Ice in recent days. The number now to almost twenty
(01:02):
individuals who have been arrested, some of them would direct
ties to terrorism and Iran. And finally, a former Biden
official has now come out on TV saying that Iran's
nuclear program was in fact set back significantly again, the
complete opposite of what the media has been trying to
sell you on. We have the receipts and we'll play
(01:23):
it for you. It's the forty seven Morning Update and
it starts right now.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Story number one.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
There is a very important story that is getting virtually
no coverage right now. So I hope all of you
will share this information wherever you can. And that is
the shocking a mission by a former Biden aide announcing
that she does not know who ordered President Biden's auto
pen signatures. Nira Tendon, a former Top eight president Joe Biden,
(01:54):
told Congress under oath that she had authorization to direct
autopenna for the president, but does not know who gave
the final order. Tendon served as the director of Biden's
domestic policy counsel, and she told Congress during testimony that
the president used an automatic signature tool allowing for aids
(02:16):
to sign pardons, sign memos, and other official documents in
the White House. Tannam said she did not know who
authorized any of those signatures. During her interview before Congress,
which lasted more than five hours, she told lawmakers that
in her role as staff secretary and senior advisor to
(02:37):
the former president between twenty twenty one and twenty twenty three,
that she was authorized to direct auto pen signatures on
behalf of Biden. An Oversight Committee official has confirmed this
now to Fox News. Tennen, who reportedly said during her
testimony that she had quote limited interactions with Biden in
her role even though she was a senior adviser that,
(02:58):
according to sources familiar with her tis testimony, described an
approval process that left her at least partly in the
dark about who specifically was giving final approval on the
decisions to use the automatic signature tool, even though she'd
simultaneously insisted quote Biden was in charge. Tendon reportedly testified
(03:20):
that it get approval for the use of autopen signatures,
she would send decision memos to members of Biden's inner circle.
Now remember these are people elected by no one. She
added that she was not aware of what actions or
what approvals took place between the times she sent the
decision memo and the time she received it back with
the necessary approval. According to sources familiar with what happened
(03:45):
in this testimony, a minority member of the Oversight Committee
called Tandem's characterization quote a lie with a statement from
a former White House staffer saying that they received quote
a written sign off from Biden on every executive action
she presented with him. The only problem is she's under
(04:05):
oath and saying that's not how it went down at all.
Any other characterization is a distortion of the testimony the Biden.
Former Biden officials stated, quote to inciniate that Nira Tanem
said President Biden did not approve every single presidential decision
and sign off on every executive action coming out of
the White House is a lie. Well, she's saying that
(04:27):
it's the truth. Tenem's attorney agreed with the staffer, adding
that the autopens were used after Biden approved the decisions,
saying this in a clean up statement, the auto pen
was used only after President Biden personally approved the decision.
Aids at no time signed these documents on President Biden's behalf. Again,
(04:47):
that's not what her testimony was under oath. So just
know this is the big story that we should be
talking about, and also know that the media will not
touch the fact that a former Biden aid does not
know ooh, this is her testimony. Who ordered the present
auto pen signatures.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Next story number two.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
At least five more Iranian nationals who are in this
country illegally now off the streets as real threats to
our national security. This coming after eleven we're arrested over
the weekend, and this is a real problem now as
we're talking about Iranian sleeper cells being a threat to
this country. More Iranians with major criminal histories being arrested
(05:31):
and targeted by ICE, and what the White House is
referring to is a major security sweep, saying these are
the worst of the worst among US. Now, officials are
touting this as a full throttle go after anyone they
can who is in this country that may be a
known or suspected terrorists and have direct connections to Iran.
(05:52):
That is what they're trying to do. I want you
to hear more about what's happening in a report from Fox.
Speaker 4 (05:58):
Concern about our say to hear at home. In the
wake of the strikes on Iran's nuclear sites. Breaking news today,
Immigration and Customs agents announced they have arrested fifteen illegal
Iranian immigrants since Sunday. One of them admitted to ties
to Hesbelah in Lebanon, a law enforcement source told Fox
News the FBI is closely watching for any Iranian back
(06:19):
sleeper agents in the wake of Operation Midnight Hammer. During
the Biden administration, border agents arrested more than one thousand,
five hundred Iranians who entered illegally at our southern border.
They let nearly half of them go. President Trump on
that this morning.
Speaker 5 (06:34):
Biden led a lot of supercells, that Biden was an
ad competent. President had no idea what he was doing.
He let a lot of supercells in, many from Iran.
But hopefully we'll take care of them. What Biden did
to this country should never be forgotten.
Speaker 4 (06:49):
Justice correspondent David Spunt is in Washington.
Speaker 6 (06:52):
David well Harris, the news about the fifteen Iranian nationals
coming illegally into the US is no surprise to the
people at the Justice Department, the FBI, and of course,
the Department of Homeland Security. According to authorities, one of
them has ties to HESBLA, another is an alleged former
sniper for the Iranian Army. At a budget hearing yesterday,
Attorney General Pam Bondi said the number of Iranians illegally
(07:13):
in the United States continues to grow.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
It's well over one thousand have entered our country, and
I can tell you we are on high alert and
everyone is looking at that very closely now.
Speaker 6 (07:23):
She says budget cuts won't affect the overall mission. DOJ
and the FBI continue to focus on threats toward President
Trump himself as a result of his ordering of the
killing of this man, General Kasim Solomani in January twenty twenty,
assassination plots originating in Iran not only toward President Trump,
but to US residents who once lived in Iran. DHS
(07:44):
Secretary of Christy Nome, seen there yesterday, was asked about
sleeper cells in the United States. Those are groups of
people who live among us in the US quietly until
order to act.
Speaker 4 (07:55):
We've seen some from overseas and some that have been here,
maybe gone overseas for short to time, become radicalized and
come back, or individuals that are right.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
Here in the United States.
Speaker 6 (08:04):
NLM held a conference call with some of the nation's
governors over the weekend of pledge federal resources to help
on the state level to combat any threats, whether federal
or local. Attorney General Bondi back in front of lawmakers
tomorrow to talk about the DOJ budget, but you could
expect some of these topics also will likely come up.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
If you go back to the list of the individuals
that have been arrested and what they've been arrested for.
One of the ones I mentioned earlier was out of Atlanta,
an individual that was arrested in Alabama. And this was
a guy that served as an Iranian Army sniper. Now
he didn't serve as an Iranian Army sniper like twenty
years ago. The individual served as an Iranian Army sniper
(08:42):
from twenty eighteen to twenty twenty one, and at the
time of his arrests in America, he was in possession.
He had an Islamic Republic Army identification card on his person. Right,
if you don't want to be involved in that, why
would you have it on your person. You go to
another example ice in Houston. They arrested another Iranian there.
(09:06):
When they arrested him, he was carrying a loaded nine
millimeter pistol. They arrested him, by the way, in seventeen
in Harris County, that is Houston, Texas. The police arrest
him for assaulting a family member and impeding breathing, meaning
you're strangling someone. You also go to another person in Houston,
(09:27):
another Iranian national. An immigration judge had ordered him removed
nearly twenty years ago on August fourth of two thousand
and five. He's been twice convicted of drug crimes and
one's convicted driving on a suspended license. He's still in America.
There's problems here. There's another example of this. A man
in Arizona arrested again another Iranian. He had a final
(09:49):
order of removal. He was convicted of threatening a law
enforcement officer and being an alien in possession of a firearm.
So these are as the President would describe it bat
ownbrace right. You have officials that arrested another man that
was in the country illegally from Iran. The man threatened
to open fire on ice officials if they entered her home,
(10:10):
and then she would go outside and shoot ice officers
in the head quote unquote. So it's not just men,
it's also women. You had another twenty two year old
in Mississippi, an Iranian national and former lawful permanent resident. Well,
guess what he lied on his original visa application and
committed potential marriage fraud as well. This is a guy
(10:32):
who quote is listed as a known or suspected terrorists.
He's now an ice custody pitning removal. You have another
man in Colorado, an individual after a judge had already
ordered him to be removed. His criminal history include state
and federal convictions for drug crimes and arrests for assault
and child abuse. No big deal, right, totally fine. You
(10:55):
got a man in Saint Paul a man that was
fifty six year old Iranian national. He's been victed of
being a felon in possession of a firearm in Minneapolis.
He was sentenced to fifteen months in prison. He's also
a former member of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard with admitted
connections directly to Hezballah. You got another guy in San Francisco,
(11:16):
sixty two year old Iranian national with a criminal history
that includes a conviction for petty theft and a conviction
of possession of a controlled substance for sale. He was
sent to ten years in state prison for drug conviction
and now he's in ice custody. Or go to Buffalo.
You've got another Iranian national there, a man convicted of
grand larceny, schemes to defraud, criminal impersonation, and practicing as
(11:41):
an attorney, another example of the people that they're taking
off the streets. So when you look at what we
are now witnessing, it is very clear that there are
real people in this country that are trying to do
harm to this country that were let in under the
last administration. That is, the last administration knew that these
(12:02):
people were coming into this country, and they just didn't care.
They wanted to flood the country with as many illegal
immigrants as they possibly could, and they just didn't care
who was coming in, how they were getting in this country.
It didn't matter. And that's incredibly sad. Let me also
(12:23):
say one other final thing here. I expect this to
get worse before it gets better, with a number of
illegal immigrants that we're going to find that are a
real threat to our national security, and we should do
everything we can to support and advocate for Ice and
this administration to find them wherever they have to in
(12:43):
the country.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
And here is story number three.
Speaker 7 (12:46):
There is a new classified report that is suggesting that
Iran's nuclear program, still intact, likely relied on faulty info
Iranian propaganda from Iranian sources. This is when the media
decided to run with the story, knowing that their propaganda
was literally coming from Iran. The top secret Defense intelligence
(13:09):
agency known as the DIA assessment that claimed a RAN's
nuclear sites suffered only moderate damage likely relied on faulty
information from deceitful Iranian sources that according to several former
US intelligence officers, one of whom described the documents as
so unreliable you can wipe your aass with it. The
(13:31):
classified DIA report ignited a media firestorm in the days
after President Donald Trump authorized those precision strikes on Iran's
top three nuclear sites. The findings, of course, werein the
league to CNN and The New York Times, which you
heard about a moment ago. Then they presented them as facts,
as bombshell evidence that the US bombing run only set
(13:53):
back Tehran's nuclear ambitions by you know, a couple of months.
The US intelligence community deemed that an initial assessment with
quote low confidence, a fact CNN purposely admitted from its
original story and based it solely on satellite imagery and
intercepted communications known as signal intelligence from Iranian officials. Again,
(14:17):
think about this. You have the Iranian government putting out
propaganda and media companies in this country, putting it out
there as fact. Shortly after the assessment leaked, Axios reported
that communications intercepted by Israel suggested that Iran's military officials
have been giving false situation reports to the country's political leadership,
(14:42):
downplaying the extent of the damage. Such communications likely made
their way into the da report. According to three former
US intelligence operatives, including a current US official and other
veteran national security insiders, who spoke to The Washington Free
Beacon both on and off the record, some of them
referred to the DIA as the discount intelligence agency. It's
(15:08):
basically messaging by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard, messaging by Tehran.
That is what a former intelligence officer with the US
Central Command who operated in the Middle East for nearly
thirty years set. In fact, CNN actually had to report
on this, and here's what it sounded like when a
former Biden official had this to say about Iran's nuclear program.
Speaker 8 (15:31):
Oustein, a longtime diplomat who served as President Biden's senior
advisor for Energy and Investment. And I think one question
that regular people will have, you know, listening to what
came out of that briefing today on Capitol Hill from
Republicans from Democrats, is what should they take away when
there is such a divide between the politicians over what
is the fate of Iran's nuclear capacity and where that
(15:52):
stands tonight?
Speaker 6 (15:53):
What do you think?
Speaker 9 (15:54):
Well, first, Kaitlin, it's good to be with you. Look,
I think the most important thing is to separate out
what's politics and what is happening on the ground over
the last year year and a quarter. Last April, Iran
launched a missile attack against Israel, which was one hundred
ballistic missiles a company by two hundred or so UAVs.
The United States military coordinated a response and defeated that attack.
(16:18):
But that was really the first time that Iran and
used its own territory to attack Israel. They did it
again in October, and again the United States supported Israel
and with regional partners as well as European countries to
defeat it. And now since then, Iran has lost most
of its deterrence power. They had three things going for them.
(16:38):
They had proxies, meaning terrorist organizations in Lebanon, in Syria
and Iraq and Yemen that supported them. The second was
the missiles, and the third was the thread of a
nuclear weaponization of their nuclear capabilities, most of their proxies
are either weakened to the point they can't respond or
are choosing now to distance themselves from Iran. Their missile
(16:59):
capability has been proven to be less effective because of
the United States ability to defend the region, and now
their nuclear capability is likely at least set back. Now
the whole idea of obliterated or destroyed. These are political
terms that are not really relevant, and I would urge
Americans not to really pay attention to those words. What
(17:22):
we do know, we know that as a result of
the both the Israeli the American strikes, the nuclear program
was set back significantly. How much we don't really know.
Most Israeli military analysts and generals that I've spoken to
over the last twenty four to forty eight hours, I
think this has gone from a six month's breakout to
timeframe to two years, so an eighteen month or two
(17:43):
year delay in their program. But here's the thing. They
have also lost other capabilities. They've lost their command and control,
they've lost military leaders, they've lost scientists, and they lost
their conversion so they're clearly weakened. And lastly, Israel has
proven that they have an intelligens capability inside Iran that
if they try to reconstitute we'll we the United States, Israel,
(18:06):
other European allies will know about it.
Speaker 7 (18:09):
Yet again, more proof of the propaganda coming from the
media trying to convince you that somehow one of the
most successful missions in modern military history was a failure,
all because Donald Trump is the one that's said to
do it.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
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
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and we will see you back here on Monday morning.
Guys like Schumer, our great Palestinian senator. This guy, no,
he's changed. He used to like Jewish people. Now he's
totally against Jewish people. It's the most incredible transformation I
think I've ever seen.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
You're listening to the forty seven Morning Update with Ben Ferguson.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
Good Saturday morning to you. Ben Ferguson with you, and
these are some of the stories that you may have
missed that we talked about this week on the forty
seven Morning Update. First up, in shocking testimony before Congress
that the media is not reporting on a former Biden
ade says quote she does not know who ordered President
(00:39):
Biden's auto pen signatures. Will give you the details on
what all she said to Congress and why this story
is being hidden from you. And also another major story,
at least five more Iranian nationals who were in the
country illegally with additional criminal backgrounds have been arrested by
Ice in recent days. The number now to almost twenty
(01:02):
individuals who have been arrested, some of them would direct
ties to terrorism and Iran. And finally, a former Biden
official has now come out on TV saying that Iran's
nuclear program was in fact set back significantly again, the
complete opposite of what the media has been trying to
sell you on. We have the receipts and we'll play
(01:23):
it for you. It's the forty seven Morning Update and
it starts right now.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Story number one.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
There is a very important story that is getting virtually
no coverage right now. So I hope all of you
will share this information wherever you can. And that is
the shocking a mission by a former Biden aide announcing
that she does not know who ordered President Biden's auto
pen signatures. Nira Tendon, a former Top eight president Joe Biden,
(01:54):
told Congress under oath that she had authorization to direct
autopenna for the president, but does not know who gave
the final order. Tendon served as the director of Biden's
domestic policy counsel, and she told Congress during testimony that
the president used an automatic signature tool allowing for aids
(02:16):
to sign pardons, sign memos, and other official documents in
the White House. Tannam said she did not know who
authorized any of those signatures. During her interview before Congress,
which lasted more than five hours, she told lawmakers that
in her role as staff secretary and senior advisor to
(02:37):
the former president between twenty twenty one and twenty twenty three,
that she was authorized to direct auto pen signatures on
behalf of Biden. An Oversight Committee official has confirmed this
now to Fox News. Tennen, who reportedly said during her
testimony that she had quote limited interactions with Biden in
her role even though she was a senior adviser that,
(02:58):
according to sources familiar with her tis testimony, described an
approval process that left her at least partly in the
dark about who specifically was giving final approval on the
decisions to use the automatic signature tool, even though she'd
simultaneously insisted quote Biden was in charge. Tendon reportedly testified
(03:20):
that it get approval for the use of autopen signatures,
she would send decision memos to members of Biden's inner circle.
Now remember these are people elected by no one. She
added that she was not aware of what actions or
what approvals took place between the times she sent the
decision memo and the time she received it back with
the necessary approval. According to sources familiar with what happened
(03:45):
in this testimony, a minority member of the Oversight Committee
called Tandem's characterization quote a lie with a statement from
a former White House staffer saying that they received quote
a written sign off from Biden on every executive action
she presented with him. The only problem is she's under
(04:05):
oath and saying that's not how it went down at all.
Any other characterization is a distortion of the testimony the Biden.
Former Biden officials stated, quote to inciniate that Nira Tanem
said President Biden did not approve every single presidential decision
and sign off on every executive action coming out of
the White House is a lie. Well, she's saying that
(04:27):
it's the truth. Tenem's attorney agreed with the staffer, adding
that the autopens were used after Biden approved the decisions,
saying this in a clean up statement, the auto pen
was used only after President Biden personally approved the decision.
Aids at no time signed these documents on President Biden's behalf. Again,
(04:47):
that's not what her testimony was under oath. So just
know this is the big story that we should be
talking about, and also know that the media will not
touch the fact that a former Biden aid does not
know ooh, this is her testimony. Who ordered the present
auto pen signatures.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Next story number two.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
At least five more Iranian nationals who are in this
country illegally now off the streets as real threats to
our national security. This coming after eleven we're arrested over
the weekend, and this is a real problem now as
we're talking about Iranian sleeper cells being a threat to
this country. More Iranians with major criminal histories being arrested
(05:31):
and targeted by ICE, and what the White House is
referring to is a major security sweep, saying these are
the worst of the worst among US. Now, officials are
touting this as a full throttle go after anyone they
can who is in this country that may be a
known or suspected terrorists and have direct connections to Iran.
(05:52):
That is what they're trying to do. I want you
to hear more about what's happening in a report from Fox.
Speaker 4 (05:58):
Concern about our say to hear at home. In the
wake of the strikes on Iran's nuclear sites. Breaking news today,
Immigration and Customs agents announced they have arrested fifteen illegal
Iranian immigrants since Sunday. One of them admitted to ties
to Hesbelah in Lebanon, a law enforcement source told Fox
News the FBI is closely watching for any Iranian back
(06:19):
sleeper agents in the wake of Operation Midnight Hammer. During
the Biden administration, border agents arrested more than one thousand,
five hundred Iranians who entered illegally at our southern border.
They let nearly half of them go. President Trump on
that this morning.
Speaker 5 (06:34):
Biden led a lot of supercells, that Biden was an
ad competent. President had no idea what he was doing.
He let a lot of supercells in, many from Iran.
But hopefully we'll take care of them. What Biden did
to this country should never be forgotten.
Speaker 4 (06:49):
Justice correspondent David Spunt is in Washington.
Speaker 6 (06:52):
David well Harris, the news about the fifteen Iranian nationals
coming illegally into the US is no surprise to the
people at the Justice Department, the FBI, and of course,
the Department of Homeland Security. According to authorities, one of
them has ties to HESBLA, another is an alleged former
sniper for the Iranian Army. At a budget hearing yesterday,
Attorney General Pam Bondi said the number of Iranians illegally
(07:13):
in the United States continues to grow.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
It's well over one thousand have entered our country, and
I can tell you we are on high alert and
everyone is looking at that very closely now.
Speaker 6 (07:23):
She says budget cuts won't affect the overall mission. DOJ
and the FBI continue to focus on threats toward President
Trump himself as a result of his ordering of the
killing of this man, General Kasim Solomani in January twenty twenty,
assassination plots originating in Iran not only toward President Trump,
but to US residents who once lived in Iran. DHS
(07:44):
Secretary of Christy Nome, seen there yesterday, was asked about
sleeper cells in the United States. Those are groups of
people who live among us in the US quietly until
order to act.
Speaker 4 (07:55):
We've seen some from overseas and some that have been here,
maybe gone overseas for short to time, become radicalized and
come back, or individuals that are right.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
Here in the United States.
Speaker 6 (08:04):
NLM held a conference call with some of the nation's
governors over the weekend of pledge federal resources to help
on the state level to combat any threats, whether federal
or local. Attorney General Bondi back in front of lawmakers
tomorrow to talk about the DOJ budget, but you could
expect some of these topics also will likely come up.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
If you go back to the list of the individuals
that have been arrested and what they've been arrested for.
One of the ones I mentioned earlier was out of Atlanta,
an individual that was arrested in Alabama. And this was
a guy that served as an Iranian Army sniper. Now
he didn't serve as an Iranian Army sniper like twenty
years ago. The individual served as an Iranian Army sniper
(08:42):
from twenty eighteen to twenty twenty one, and at the
time of his arrests in America, he was in possession.
He had an Islamic Republic Army identification card on his person. Right,
if you don't want to be involved in that, why
would you have it on your person. You go to
another example ice in Houston. They arrested another Iranian there.
(09:06):
When they arrested him, he was carrying a loaded nine
millimeter pistol. They arrested him, by the way, in seventeen
in Harris County, that is Houston, Texas. The police arrest
him for assaulting a family member and impeding breathing, meaning
you're strangling someone. You also go to another person in Houston,
(09:27):
another Iranian national. An immigration judge had ordered him removed
nearly twenty years ago on August fourth of two thousand
and five. He's been twice convicted of drug crimes and
one's convicted driving on a suspended license. He's still in America.
There's problems here. There's another example of this. A man
in Arizona arrested again another Iranian. He had a final
(09:49):
order of removal. He was convicted of threatening a law
enforcement officer and being an alien in possession of a firearm.
So these are as the President would describe it bat
ownbrace right. You have officials that arrested another man that
was in the country illegally from Iran. The man threatened
to open fire on ice officials if they entered her home,
(10:10):
and then she would go outside and shoot ice officers
in the head quote unquote. So it's not just men,
it's also women. You had another twenty two year old
in Mississippi, an Iranian national and former lawful permanent resident. Well,
guess what he lied on his original visa application and
committed potential marriage fraud as well. This is a guy
(10:32):
who quote is listed as a known or suspected terrorists.
He's now an ice custody pitning removal. You have another
man in Colorado, an individual after a judge had already
ordered him to be removed. His criminal history include state
and federal convictions for drug crimes and arrests for assault
and child abuse. No big deal, right, totally fine. You
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got a man in Saint Paul a man that was
fifty six year old Iranian national. He's been victed of
being a felon in possession of a firearm in Minneapolis.
He was sentenced to fifteen months in prison. He's also
a former member of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard with admitted
connections directly to Hezballah. You got another guy in San Francisco,
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sixty two year old Iranian national with a criminal history
that includes a conviction for petty theft and a conviction
of possession of a controlled substance for sale. He was
sent to ten years in state prison for drug conviction
and now he's in ice custody. Or go to Buffalo.
You've got another Iranian national there, a man convicted of
grand larceny, schemes to defraud, criminal impersonation, and practicing as
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an attorney, another example of the people that they're taking
off the streets. So when you look at what we
are now witnessing, it is very clear that there are
real people in this country that are trying to do
harm to this country that were let in under the
last administration. That is, the last administration knew that these
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people were coming into this country, and they just didn't care.
They wanted to flood the country with as many illegal
immigrants as they possibly could, and they just didn't care
who was coming in, how they were getting in this country.
It didn't matter. And that's incredibly sad. Let me also
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say one other final thing here. I expect this to
get worse before it gets better, with a number of
illegal immigrants that we're going to find that are a
real threat to our national security, and we should do
everything we can to support and advocate for Ice and
this administration to find them wherever they have to in
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the country.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
And here is story number three.
Speaker 7 (12:46):
There is a new classified report that is suggesting that
Iran's nuclear program, still intact, likely relied on faulty info
Iranian propaganda from Iranian sources. This is when the media
decided to run with the story, knowing that their propaganda
was literally coming from Iran. The top secret Defense intelligence
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agency known as the DIA assessment that claimed a RAN's
nuclear sites suffered only moderate damage likely relied on faulty
information from deceitful Iranian sources that according to several former
US intelligence officers, one of whom described the documents as
so unreliable you can wipe your aass with it. The
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classified DIA report ignited a media firestorm in the days
after President Donald Trump authorized those precision strikes on Iran's
top three nuclear sites. The findings, of course, werein the
league to CNN and The New York Times, which you
heard about a moment ago. Then they presented them as facts,
as bombshell evidence that the US bombing run only set
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back Tehran's nuclear ambitions by you know, a couple of months.
The US intelligence community deemed that an initial assessment with
quote low confidence, a fact CNN purposely admitted from its
original story and based it solely on satellite imagery and
intercepted communications known as signal intelligence from Iranian officials. Again,
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think about this. You have the Iranian government putting out
propaganda and media companies in this country, putting it out
there as fact. Shortly after the assessment leaked, Axios reported
that communications intercepted by Israel suggested that Iran's military officials
have been giving false situation reports to the country's political leadership,
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downplaying the extent of the damage. Such communications likely made
their way into the da report. According to three former
US intelligence operatives, including a current US official and other
veteran national security insiders, who spoke to The Washington Free
Beacon both on and off the record, some of them
referred to the DIA as the discount intelligence agency. It's
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basically messaging by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard, messaging by Tehran.
That is what a former intelligence officer with the US
Central Command who operated in the Middle East for nearly
thirty years set. In fact, CNN actually had to report
on this, and here's what it sounded like when a
former Biden official had this to say about Iran's nuclear program.
Speaker 8 (15:31):
Oustein, a longtime diplomat who served as President Biden's senior
advisor for Energy and Investment. And I think one question
that regular people will have, you know, listening to what
came out of that briefing today on Capitol Hill from
Republicans from Democrats, is what should they take away when
there is such a divide between the politicians over what
is the fate of Iran's nuclear capacity and where that
(15:52):
stands tonight?
Speaker 6 (15:53):
What do you think?
Speaker 9 (15:54):
Well, first, Kaitlin, it's good to be with you. Look,
I think the most important thing is to separate out
what's politics and what is happening on the ground over
the last year year and a quarter. Last April, Iran
launched a missile attack against Israel, which was one hundred
ballistic missiles a company by two hundred or so UAVs.
The United States military coordinated a response and defeated that attack.
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But that was really the first time that Iran and
used its own territory to attack Israel. They did it
again in October, and again the United States supported Israel
and with regional partners as well as European countries to
defeat it. And now since then, Iran has lost most
of its deterrence power. They had three things going for them.
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They had proxies, meaning terrorist organizations in Lebanon, in Syria
and Iraq and Yemen that supported them. The second was
the missiles, and the third was the thread of a
nuclear weaponization of their nuclear capabilities, most of their proxies
are either weakened to the point they can't respond or
are choosing now to distance themselves from Iran. Their missile
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capability has been proven to be less effective because of
the United States ability to defend the region, and now
their nuclear capability is likely at least set back. Now
the whole idea of obliterated or destroyed. These are political
terms that are not really relevant, and I would urge
Americans not to really pay attention to those words. What
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we do know, we know that as a result of
the both the Israeli the American strikes, the nuclear program
was set back significantly. How much we don't really know.
Most Israeli military analysts and generals that I've spoken to
over the last twenty four to forty eight hours, I
think this has gone from a six month's breakout to
timeframe to two years, so an eighteen month or two
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year delay in their program. But here's the thing. They
have also lost other capabilities. They've lost their command and control,
they've lost military leaders, they've lost scientists, and they lost
their conversion so they're clearly weakened. And lastly, Israel has
proven that they have an intelligens capability inside Iran that
if they try to reconstitute we'll we the United States, Israel,
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other European allies will know about it.
Speaker 7 (18:09):
Yet again, more proof of the propaganda coming from the
media trying to convince you that somehow one of the
most successful missions in modern military history was a failure,
all because Donald Trump is the one that's said to
do it.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
Thank you for listening to the forty seven Morning Update
with Ben Ferguson. Please make sure you hit subscribe wherever
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