February 28, 2025 • 16 mins
1. Background and Context:
- We discuss the release of the Epstein files and the subsequent fallout.
- It highlights the involvement of high-profile individuals, including Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Cash Patel.
2. Key Events:
- A group of individuals, including Chad Prather, was invited to the White House to receive part one of the Epstein files.
- The files revealed that rogue FBI employees in New York were withholding critical Epstein documents against the orders of their superiors.
3. Attorney General's Actions:
- Pam Bondi directed the FBI Director to handle the rogue FBI office and demanded the full set of Epstein documents.
- Bondi's letter to Patel outlined the missing documents and set deadlines for their delivery and an investigation into the non-compliance.
4. White House Briefing:
- During the White House briefing, attendees were given Phase One briefing books detailing the available Epstein files.
- The briefing emphasized the existence of more documents yet to be revealed, indicating this was just the beginning of the investigation.
5. Public and Media Reaction:
- We note the mixed reactions from the public and media, with some expressing frustration over the lack of new information.
- We also mentions the broader context of the Trump administration's efforts to bypass mainstream media by engaging directly with influencers and podcasters.
6. Additional Insights:
- Includes a conversation with Chad Prather, who shared his experience of being invited to the White House and the significance of the meeting.
- It also touches on other topics discussed during the meeting, such as social media accountability and the administration's priorities.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
We look forward to welcome you in the United Kingdom.
Thank you once again, Thank you very much. What a
beautiful accent.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
I would have been president twenty years ago if I
had that access.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
You're listening to the forty seven Morning Update with Ben Ferguson.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Good Friday morning. Ben Ferguson with you. It's nice to
have you on the forty seven Morning Update. And here
are the big stories we're talking about today. First up,
we are now being told that the FBI withheld thousands
of pages of Jeffrey Epstein documents. Pam Bondi is now
confirming that and she is demanding that they be turned
over as the deep state continues to go rogue. We
(00:37):
also are going to be joined by a guest, Chad Prather,
who is in the room and received the Epstein documents.
There were several conservatives that were asked to come to
the White House to meet with the President, the Vice President,
and the Attorney General. You'll hear exclusively from him what
they were told about the Epstein documents and what you
can expect moving forward. And finally, in a shocking headline,
(00:58):
the New York Post is reporting that the would be
Trump assassin Thomas Crooks may have had an accomplice that
is showing that apparently, as investigators are now saying, the
FBI is suppressing that information from you, the public. It's
the forty seven Morning Update and it starts right now.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
Story number one.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
There is a very complicated story that I'm going to
do everything I can to break it down for you,
and it is about the Jeffrey Epstein files. There was
a group of individuals that were asked to come to
the White House that received part one of the Epstein files,
and I'm going to have that guest, Chad Prather join
us in just a moment. But before we get to that,
(01:36):
I want you to understand the real part of this
story that's not being covered accurately. There are a lot
of people saying they're angry by what was released, basically
implying that there was nothing new there. Well, there's a
reason why there was nothing new there, and this is
what you need to understand. The Attorney General Pambody has
told the FBI Director Cash Pttel that rogue New York
(02:00):
FBI office employees are withholding Epstein files and they are
doing this against the wishes and the commands of their
bosses that include Cash Hotel, the Attorney General, and the
President of the United States of America. Now the Attorney General,
Pambondi has directed the FBI Director Ptel to handle the
(02:21):
seemingly rogue FBI office in New York for repeatedly refusing
to provide her with the quote full set of documents
related to the late billionaire predator Jeffrey Epstein. That is
what a letter from her office revealed to the American
people on Thursday. A photo of that letter, dated February
the twenty seven, from Bondi to Patel was obtained by
(02:44):
independent journalist Tim Poole and confirmed by my guests that
they actually receive this letter at the White House briefing. Now,
at the White House briefing, they were given Epstein files,
Phase one briefing books on exactly the laying out of
what they do have. The big part of the meeting
which was not covered accurately was the fact that Pam
(03:05):
Bondi and the FBI director explained to them very clearly
that there are New York FBI officials that have gone
completely rogue. The ag letter says the FBI in New
York is withholding the critical Epstein documents. This after the
reports of the FBI was secretly destroying FBI documents as well.
(03:26):
Bondi began her letter by saying, this, before you came
into office, I requested the full and complete files related
Jeffrey Epstein. In response to this request, I received approximately
two hundred pages of documents, which consisted primarily of flight logs,
Epstein's list of contacts, and a list of victims names
and phone numbers. I repeatedly questioned whether this was the
(03:48):
full set of documents responsive to my request, and was
repeatedly assured by the FBI that we had received the
full set of documents. The Attorney General continued before reporting
that she got a tip from a source at the
FBI Field office in New York, stating that the bureau
was withholding the complete files. Late yesterday, I learned from
(04:10):
a source that the FBI Field office in New York
was in possession of thousands of pages of documents related
to the investigation and the indictment of Jeffrey Epstein, Bondi
continued in her letter to the FBI director. Despite my
repeated requests, the FBI never disclosed the existence of any
of these files. Now let's just pause for a second
(04:31):
and dissect what we just learned. Pambondi, who is the
Attorney General of the United States of America, who is
in charge of the FBI, has rogue deep state officials
in the FBI office in New York that deliberately lied
to her face and claimed that they had given her
all of the documents, when in fact they may have
(04:51):
given her less than about ten percent of what they
actually have on hand. This is the deep state and
just how corrupt our government has become. Now. Bondi noted
that she had already spoken to Caspatel after receiving the
tip on Wednesday evening, writing that the FBI director was
just as surprised as I was to learn the new
information quote unquote. She then handed Casptel too hard deadlines.
(05:17):
These are important for you to understand. By eight am
on Friday morning, the FBI will deliver the full and
complete Epstein files to my office, including all records, documents,
audio and video recordings, and material related to Jeffrey Epstein
and his clients, regardless of how such information was obtained.
That is deadline number one in this letter. Deadline number two,
(05:39):
she says, I'm also directing you to conduct an immediate
investigation to why my order to the FBI was not followed.
You will deliver to me a comprehensive report of your
findings and propose personnel action within fourteen days. In her conclusion,
Bondi added that she knows that PTEL has committed to
transparency for the American people, and that is exactly what
(06:01):
they did together at the White House on Thursday.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
Next story number two.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
As I mentioned earlier, a dear friend of mine, Chad praythere.
He is the host of the Chad PRAYTHERER show you
should download it, and also a morning show called Dear America.
He got the phone call to go to the White
House and to have a conversation about the Epstein files
and even get that binder that's now become famous. Chad
joins me now to talk about this. Chad, Let's start
(06:27):
from the very beginning. When did you get asked to
come to the White House? And did you even know
what the meeting was going to be about or who
was going to be there?
Speaker 1 (06:35):
I did not know. In fact, we were invited for
a completely different reason. We were not invited on the
basis of knowing anything about the Epstein file. In fact,
we were invited simply to go meet with President J. D.
Vance to talk about messaging and specifically if we had
opportunity to visit with some of the cabinet members and
talk about just the things that the administration is prioritizing.
(06:57):
And this was part of President Trump's initiative to to
sort of sidestep the mainstream and legacy media in order
to deal with podcasters and influencers and people of that
nature so that the truth could get out there to people,
I mean, people with an audience, people like me and
people like you. And this was a part of that.
What happened as we met with various cabinet members today,
(07:18):
it was a great meeting. We didn't think anything of it.
Attorney General Pambondi came in. She came in with Director
Cash Mattel with the FBI, and she said, you know,
as a gesture of good faith, there's no smoking gun here,
she said, but we do want to give you phase one.
She said, A significant thing that we want to expose
is there's a letter that reveals that we're missing thousands
of pages of Epsteam documents.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
So yeah, you got confirmation that file today. Of what
a lot of what we'd heard about. But you mentioned
that letter and so explain how important that is to
this being quote phase one.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
Well, I think the first of all, if it wasn't
phase one, if there wasn't more to be revealed, they
wouldn't have put the phrase phase one on the front
of the notebook. That's that's something that people tend to
forget that we need to remember. This was Jorney General BONDI.
Whether you agree with it or not, I mean, we're
all hopeful that this administration is going to do what
they say and they're going to be transparent. It's not
that there's nothing in that notebook, it's just not what
(08:10):
we want yet. And that's a big difference. So to
answer your question, there are those who are out there
who are saying, you know, why weren't we invited? Well,
there were literally fifteen sixteen seats around the table. We
were invited for a completely different reason. And I'll be
honest with you, Ben, and I can't stress this enough.
Most of the influencers and creators and the hosts out
there that I know, if they had gotten the message
(08:30):
that I got to be there, they probably would have
snubbed it. They probably would have said, I'm not interested
in going to that. I'm not interested in being a
part of that, because there was nothing about it that was,
you know, intriguing in regards other than we want to
just sit down and talk about message points.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
It is truly shocking when you see those that attack,
because you've got this incredible honor to be there and yeah,
and to see this and look, this wasn't just a
meeting about the Epstein files. There was a lot that
you guys talked about as well. And I want people
to understand that this was not just one thing only.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
No, and we can walk you through it. I mean,
from Bobby Kennedy telling us his secretary, Kennedy talking about
what he plans to do with HHS, you know, Carolyn
Levett talking about the priorities of the messaging of the
White House, Jade Vance coming in and spending a good
thirty minutes with us, hanging out and us able to
talk about I mean, I literally all these people posting
on social media. I literally talked to both the Vice
(09:24):
President and the President about them holding not just the
mainstream and legacy media accountable, but holding social media owners
account and accountable. And the Google overlords, and they both
assured us and gave us a plan of action whereby
they're going to take care of that. So all these
people out there complaining about it, our priorities were completely different.
This just got dropped in our lap the FBI.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
Is what we've been told with how thousands of pages
of Jeffrey Epstein documents, Pam Bonnie says, and she's demanding
that they be turned over. This is the deep state,
But they've said she's demanding that they'd be turned over
by Friday morning. I mean, this is the attorney General.
You've got Cash Mattel, who was there today. This was
a whistle blow or a tipster that said that all
but quote approximate two undred pages of documents were still
(10:06):
being kept secret at the FBI office in New York,
despite her repeated requests for the full Epstein files. That
is a takeaway from y'all's meeting today.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Anyone, anyone in our shoes, would be excited. Anyone sitting
in those seats today would be excited. They would have
responded the same way. They would have been hopeful, They
would have been anticipatory. You know, you go through that
and you and I chatted a little bit earlier today
and I expressed you before doing other media hits, I said,
you know, I'm trying to decipher what it is I'm
reading in here. You know, I've got a lot of
(10:34):
people who are apparently said, where we've had this information, well,
not all of it, you haven't. There is some stuff
in there that is different. For instance, you're looking at
Julane Maxwell's Black Book versus Jeffrey Epstein's Black Books. So
anybody would have been excited to receive that. And also,
you know what you're seeing paraded across the AP and
Fox News and all these others is when we went out.
Obviously the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom was coming
(10:56):
in today. The press pool was there in full force.
They were out back when he walked out. You know,
unbeknownst to us, we walk out in front of a
giant pile of cameras and reporters and they're taking the
pictures and they're taking the snapshots. You know, it's a
it's it is in the messaging of the Trump administration
reminding the mainstream media that they're not kings and they're
(11:18):
not God.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
Those that are criticizing saying today was an embarrassment that
it was a nothing burger, that we learned nothing new.
The point I think that I want to make sure
this audience understands is that this is the beginning of
what we of this not the end. Is that a
fair way of putting it.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
You read that letter that Pam Bondi wrote to Cash Betel,
and you would think, oh, somebody's in trouble here, there's
this is sort of a rebuke, but it wasn't. And
she wanted to make sure that everybody knew that was clear.
They are working in conjunction with one another in this
new Department of Justice to make sure is that this
information comes out. Uh And and I believe them. I
believe them, You know, Ben I don't. I don't. I
don't suffer fools. And man, I can see through people.
(11:56):
I'm pretty intuitive. But this this administration, what I saw today,
the sense, the atmosphere, just as I said earlier, just
a backslapping camaraderie of a team working together. To use
Carolyn Levett's phrase, this you can't keep up. It's a whirlwind.
This administration's working around the clock. I truly believe them.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
We ain't fly over country. They want to talk to Americans,
and that's who you talk to. That's the reason why
you and I are friends. You're a real person with
a real story to tell, with a real audience of
the hard working men and women that just want to
be left alone by their government and they want to
have a great life for their kids and their grandkids.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
And finally, story number three.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
It is a headline that shocked the world coming from
the New York Posts, would be Trump assassin Thomas Crooks
may have had an accomplice. Data shows, as investigators say,
the FBI is suppressing information. Well, it's been almost nine
months since the seemingly mild mannered twenty year old attempted
to assassinate then Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump at that
(12:53):
rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, and we still have no good
reason why. Well, sources are now telling the New York
Posts the FBI has quote obstructed efforts to solve the
mystery of why the individual who left no manifesto did
what he did. It's also left local law enforcement, as
well as his former friends, classmates, and teachers incredibly frustrated,
(13:17):
and those who may know his parents have refused all
interviews and remain in their small, three bedroom home, sealed
off from the world. Like Hermit's neighbors say, they only
leave the house at three am to buy groceries. Even
just last week at the SEAPAC convention, Elon Musk yelled
out the audience saying this quote, By the way, why
(13:38):
do we know nothing about that guy in Butler. We
also know the Cashpittel. The FBI director is saying that
we are quote going to get to the bottom of it.
So this is where the New York Post story gets interesting.
Quote A veteran private investigator from Erie, Pennsylvania who was
hired shortly after the fatal July thirteenth event at the
(14:00):
Butler farm, was hired to look into the man by
a private client. That's what he told the Posts. He
believes a quote criminal network quote unquote was operating with
him at the time of the assassination attempt, is still
in existence and still wants to kill President Trump. Doug Hagman,
whose team of six other investigators have been working the
(14:22):
case for months and have interviewed more than one hundred people,
said they also conducted extensive geo fencing analysis of cell
phones and tablets not belonging to the young man that
were found with him at his home, at the rifle
range where he took target practice, at the rally, and
at Bethel Park High School, where he graduated in twenty
(14:43):
twenty two. Quote. We don't think he acted alone, is
what the investigator said to the New York Posts. This
took a lot of coordination. In my view, the shooter
was handled by more than one individual, and he was
used for this assassination attempt, and I wouldn't preclude the
possibility that there were people at the rally itself helping him.
(15:06):
Now the question now is will we, actually, because of
this article coming out of the New York Post, start
to get some more answers, or at least will people
start asking more questions. We also know about the egregious
breach in protocol having someone on a rooftop just one
hundred and thirty yards away open fire onto the main stage,
and but were minutes after Donald Trump, seventy eight at
(15:29):
the time, was up there speaking to the crowd. We
also know he fired eight shots, one of them striking
the former president in the right ear. Not only did
he shoot the president of the United States of America,
but he also killed someone in the crowd and seriously
wounded to others. The autopsy report indicated that the would
be assassin was pronounced dead at six twenty five pm
(15:51):
on July the thirteenth from a gunshot wound to the
head by a counter sniper. At the end of the day,
there seems to be a lot of questions that need
to be answered, and the new post seems to be
exposing a lot of what has not been talked about
so far.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
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We look forward to welcome you in the United Kingdom.
Thank you once again, Thank you very much. What a
beautiful accent.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
I would have been president twenty years ago if I
had that access.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
You're listening to the forty seven Morning Update with Ben Ferguson.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Good Friday morning. Ben Ferguson with you. It's nice to
have you on the forty seven Morning Update. And here
are the big stories we're talking about today. First up,
we are now being told that the FBI withheld thousands
of pages of Jeffrey Epstein documents. Pam Bondi is now
confirming that and she is demanding that they be turned
over as the deep state continues to go rogue. We
(00:37):
also are going to be joined by a guest, Chad Prather,
who is in the room and received the Epstein documents.
There were several conservatives that were asked to come to
the White House to meet with the President, the Vice President,
and the Attorney General. You'll hear exclusively from him what
they were told about the Epstein documents and what you
can expect moving forward. And finally, in a shocking headline,
(00:58):
the New York Post is reporting that the would be
Trump assassin Thomas Crooks may have had an accomplice that
is showing that apparently, as investigators are now saying, the
FBI is suppressing that information from you, the public. It's
the forty seven Morning Update and it starts right now.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
Story number one.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
There is a very complicated story that I'm going to
do everything I can to break it down for you,
and it is about the Jeffrey Epstein files. There was
a group of individuals that were asked to come to
the White House that received part one of the Epstein files,
and I'm going to have that guest, Chad Prather join
us in just a moment. But before we get to that,
(01:36):
I want you to understand the real part of this
story that's not being covered accurately. There are a lot
of people saying they're angry by what was released, basically
implying that there was nothing new there. Well, there's a
reason why there was nothing new there, and this is
what you need to understand. The Attorney General Pambody has
told the FBI Director Cash Pttel that rogue New York
(02:00):
FBI office employees are withholding Epstein files and they are
doing this against the wishes and the commands of their
bosses that include Cash Hotel, the Attorney General, and the
President of the United States of America. Now the Attorney General,
Pambondi has directed the FBI Director Ptel to handle the
(02:21):
seemingly rogue FBI office in New York for repeatedly refusing
to provide her with the quote full set of documents
related to the late billionaire predator Jeffrey Epstein. That is
what a letter from her office revealed to the American
people on Thursday. A photo of that letter, dated February
the twenty seven, from Bondi to Patel was obtained by
(02:44):
independent journalist Tim Poole and confirmed by my guests that
they actually receive this letter at the White House briefing. Now,
at the White House briefing, they were given Epstein files,
Phase one briefing books on exactly the laying out of
what they do have. The big part of the meeting
which was not covered accurately was the fact that Pam
(03:05):
Bondi and the FBI director explained to them very clearly
that there are New York FBI officials that have gone
completely rogue. The ag letter says the FBI in New
York is withholding the critical Epstein documents. This after the
reports of the FBI was secretly destroying FBI documents as well.
(03:26):
Bondi began her letter by saying, this, before you came
into office, I requested the full and complete files related
Jeffrey Epstein. In response to this request, I received approximately
two hundred pages of documents, which consisted primarily of flight logs,
Epstein's list of contacts, and a list of victims names
and phone numbers. I repeatedly questioned whether this was the
(03:48):
full set of documents responsive to my request, and was
repeatedly assured by the FBI that we had received the
full set of documents. The Attorney General continued before reporting
that she got a tip from a source at the
FBI Field office in New York, stating that the bureau
was withholding the complete files. Late yesterday, I learned from
(04:10):
a source that the FBI Field office in New York
was in possession of thousands of pages of documents related
to the investigation and the indictment of Jeffrey Epstein, Bondi
continued in her letter to the FBI director. Despite my
repeated requests, the FBI never disclosed the existence of any
of these files. Now let's just pause for a second
(04:31):
and dissect what we just learned. Pambondi, who is the
Attorney General of the United States of America, who is
in charge of the FBI, has rogue deep state officials
in the FBI office in New York that deliberately lied
to her face and claimed that they had given her
all of the documents, when in fact they may have
(04:51):
given her less than about ten percent of what they
actually have on hand. This is the deep state and
just how corrupt our government has become. Now. Bondi noted
that she had already spoken to Caspatel after receiving the
tip on Wednesday evening, writing that the FBI director was
just as surprised as I was to learn the new
information quote unquote. She then handed Casptel too hard deadlines.
(05:17):
These are important for you to understand. By eight am
on Friday morning, the FBI will deliver the full and
complete Epstein files to my office, including all records, documents,
audio and video recordings, and material related to Jeffrey Epstein
and his clients, regardless of how such information was obtained.
That is deadline number one in this letter. Deadline number two,
(05:39):
she says, I'm also directing you to conduct an immediate
investigation to why my order to the FBI was not followed.
You will deliver to me a comprehensive report of your
findings and propose personnel action within fourteen days. In her conclusion,
Bondi added that she knows that PTEL has committed to
transparency for the American people, and that is exactly what
(06:01):
they did together at the White House on Thursday.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
Next story number two.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
As I mentioned earlier, a dear friend of mine, Chad praythere.
He is the host of the Chad PRAYTHERER show you
should download it, and also a morning show called Dear America.
He got the phone call to go to the White
House and to have a conversation about the Epstein files
and even get that binder that's now become famous. Chad
joins me now to talk about this. Chad, Let's start
(06:27):
from the very beginning. When did you get asked to
come to the White House? And did you even know
what the meeting was going to be about or who
was going to be there?
Speaker 1 (06:35):
I did not know. In fact, we were invited for
a completely different reason. We were not invited on the
basis of knowing anything about the Epstein file. In fact,
we were invited simply to go meet with President J. D.
Vance to talk about messaging and specifically if we had
opportunity to visit with some of the cabinet members and
talk about just the things that the administration is prioritizing.
(06:57):
And this was part of President Trump's initiative to to
sort of sidestep the mainstream and legacy media in order
to deal with podcasters and influencers and people of that
nature so that the truth could get out there to people,
I mean, people with an audience, people like me and
people like you. And this was a part of that.
What happened as we met with various cabinet members today,
(07:18):
it was a great meeting. We didn't think anything of it.
Attorney General Pambondi came in. She came in with Director
Cash Mattel with the FBI, and she said, you know,
as a gesture of good faith, there's no smoking gun here,
she said, but we do want to give you phase one.
She said, A significant thing that we want to expose
is there's a letter that reveals that we're missing thousands
of pages of Epsteam documents.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
So yeah, you got confirmation that file today. Of what
a lot of what we'd heard about. But you mentioned
that letter and so explain how important that is to
this being quote phase one.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
Well, I think the first of all, if it wasn't
phase one, if there wasn't more to be revealed, they
wouldn't have put the phrase phase one on the front
of the notebook. That's that's something that people tend to
forget that we need to remember. This was Jorney General BONDI.
Whether you agree with it or not, I mean, we're
all hopeful that this administration is going to do what
they say and they're going to be transparent. It's not
that there's nothing in that notebook, it's just not what
(08:10):
we want yet. And that's a big difference. So to
answer your question, there are those who are out there
who are saying, you know, why weren't we invited? Well,
there were literally fifteen sixteen seats around the table. We
were invited for a completely different reason. And I'll be
honest with you, Ben, and I can't stress this enough.
Most of the influencers and creators and the hosts out
there that I know, if they had gotten the message
(08:30):
that I got to be there, they probably would have
snubbed it. They probably would have said, I'm not interested
in going to that. I'm not interested in being a
part of that, because there was nothing about it that was,
you know, intriguing in regards other than we want to
just sit down and talk about message points.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
It is truly shocking when you see those that attack,
because you've got this incredible honor to be there and yeah,
and to see this and look, this wasn't just a
meeting about the Epstein files. There was a lot that
you guys talked about as well. And I want people
to understand that this was not just one thing only.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
No, and we can walk you through it. I mean,
from Bobby Kennedy telling us his secretary, Kennedy talking about
what he plans to do with HHS, you know, Carolyn
Levett talking about the priorities of the messaging of the
White House, Jade Vance coming in and spending a good
thirty minutes with us, hanging out and us able to
talk about I mean, I literally all these people posting
on social media. I literally talked to both the Vice
(09:24):
President and the President about them holding not just the
mainstream and legacy media accountable, but holding social media owners
account and accountable. And the Google overlords, and they both
assured us and gave us a plan of action whereby
they're going to take care of that. So all these
people out there complaining about it, our priorities were completely different.
This just got dropped in our lap the FBI.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
Is what we've been told with how thousands of pages
of Jeffrey Epstein documents, Pam Bonnie says, and she's demanding
that they be turned over. This is the deep state,
But they've said she's demanding that they'd be turned over
by Friday morning. I mean, this is the attorney General.
You've got Cash Mattel, who was there today. This was
a whistle blow or a tipster that said that all
but quote approximate two undred pages of documents were still
(10:06):
being kept secret at the FBI office in New York,
despite her repeated requests for the full Epstein files. That
is a takeaway from y'all's meeting today.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Anyone, anyone in our shoes, would be excited. Anyone sitting
in those seats today would be excited. They would have
responded the same way. They would have been hopeful, They
would have been anticipatory. You know, you go through that
and you and I chatted a little bit earlier today
and I expressed you before doing other media hits, I said,
you know, I'm trying to decipher what it is I'm
reading in here. You know, I've got a lot of
(10:34):
people who are apparently said, where we've had this information, well,
not all of it, you haven't. There is some stuff
in there that is different. For instance, you're looking at
Julane Maxwell's Black Book versus Jeffrey Epstein's Black Books. So
anybody would have been excited to receive that. And also,
you know what you're seeing paraded across the AP and
Fox News and all these others is when we went out.
Obviously the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom was coming
(10:56):
in today. The press pool was there in full force.
They were out back when he walked out. You know,
unbeknownst to us, we walk out in front of a
giant pile of cameras and reporters and they're taking the
pictures and they're taking the snapshots. You know, it's a
it's it is in the messaging of the Trump administration
reminding the mainstream media that they're not kings and they're
(11:18):
not God.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
Those that are criticizing saying today was an embarrassment that
it was a nothing burger, that we learned nothing new.
The point I think that I want to make sure
this audience understands is that this is the beginning of
what we of this not the end. Is that a
fair way of putting it.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
You read that letter that Pam Bondi wrote to Cash Betel,
and you would think, oh, somebody's in trouble here, there's
this is sort of a rebuke, but it wasn't. And
she wanted to make sure that everybody knew that was clear.
They are working in conjunction with one another in this
new Department of Justice to make sure is that this
information comes out. Uh And and I believe them. I
believe them, You know, Ben I don't. I don't. I
don't suffer fools. And man, I can see through people.
(11:56):
I'm pretty intuitive. But this this administration, what I saw today,
the sense, the atmosphere, just as I said earlier, just
a backslapping camaraderie of a team working together. To use
Carolyn Levett's phrase, this you can't keep up. It's a whirlwind.
This administration's working around the clock. I truly believe them.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
We ain't fly over country. They want to talk to Americans,
and that's who you talk to. That's the reason why
you and I are friends. You're a real person with
a real story to tell, with a real audience of
the hard working men and women that just want to
be left alone by their government and they want to
have a great life for their kids and their grandkids.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
And finally, story number three.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
It is a headline that shocked the world coming from
the New York Posts, would be Trump assassin Thomas Crooks
may have had an accomplice. Data shows, as investigators say,
the FBI is suppressing information. Well, it's been almost nine
months since the seemingly mild mannered twenty year old attempted
to assassinate then Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump at that
(12:53):
rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, and we still have no good
reason why. Well, sources are now telling the New York
Posts the FBI has quote obstructed efforts to solve the
mystery of why the individual who left no manifesto did
what he did. It's also left local law enforcement, as
well as his former friends, classmates, and teachers incredibly frustrated,
(13:17):
and those who may know his parents have refused all
interviews and remain in their small, three bedroom home, sealed
off from the world. Like Hermit's neighbors say, they only
leave the house at three am to buy groceries. Even
just last week at the SEAPAC convention, Elon Musk yelled
out the audience saying this quote, By the way, why
(13:38):
do we know nothing about that guy in Butler. We
also know the Cashpittel. The FBI director is saying that
we are quote going to get to the bottom of it.
So this is where the New York Post story gets interesting.
Quote A veteran private investigator from Erie, Pennsylvania who was
hired shortly after the fatal July thirteenth event at the
(14:00):
Butler farm, was hired to look into the man by
a private client. That's what he told the Posts. He
believes a quote criminal network quote unquote was operating with
him at the time of the assassination attempt, is still
in existence and still wants to kill President Trump. Doug Hagman,
whose team of six other investigators have been working the
(14:22):
case for months and have interviewed more than one hundred people,
said they also conducted extensive geo fencing analysis of cell
phones and tablets not belonging to the young man that
were found with him at his home, at the rifle
range where he took target practice, at the rally, and
at Bethel Park High School, where he graduated in twenty
(14:43):
twenty two. Quote. We don't think he acted alone, is
what the investigator said to the New York Posts. This
took a lot of coordination. In my view, the shooter
was handled by more than one individual, and he was
used for this assassination attempt, and I wouldn't preclude the
possibility that there were people at the rally itself helping him.
(15:06):
Now the question now is will we, actually, because of
this article coming out of the New York Post, start
to get some more answers, or at least will people
start asking more questions. We also know about the egregious
breach in protocol having someone on a rooftop just one
hundred and thirty yards away open fire onto the main stage,
and but were minutes after Donald Trump, seventy eight at
(15:29):
the time, was up there speaking to the crowd. We
also know he fired eight shots, one of them striking
the former president in the right ear. Not only did
he shoot the president of the United States of America,
but he also killed someone in the crowd and seriously
wounded to others. The autopsy report indicated that the would
be assassin was pronounced dead at six twenty five pm
(15:51):
on July the thirteenth from a gunshot wound to the
head by a counter sniper. At the end of the day,
there seems to be a lot of questions that need
to be answered, and the new post seems to be
exposing a lot of what has not been talked about
so far.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
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