Jack Smith Faces Federal Watchdog Investigation plus Migrant Arrests Surge Despite Low Apprehensions
August 4, 2025 • 27 mins
1. Investigation into Jack Smith
- The U.S. Office of Special Counsel (OSC) has reportedly opened an investigation into former Special Counsel Jack Smith.
- Allegations center around potential violations of the Hatch Act, which restricts political activity by government employees.
- Senator Tom Cotton requested the investigation, claiming Smith may have unlawfully influenced the 2024 election to harm Donald Trump.
- Accusations include:
- Rushing Trump’s trial before the Iowa caucuses.
- Filing legal briefs close to the election.
- Attempting to fast-track Supreme Court rulings.
- The investigation is not criminal, but could result in fines or sanctions.
2. Border Security and Migrant Arrests
- The document shifts to border security under the Trump administration.
- Claims of record-low migrant apprehensions in Texas and nationwide.
- Highlights include:
- Arrests of Chinese and Uzbek nationals.
- Use of canine units and mounted patrols.
- Seizures of drugs and stolen vehicles.
- Statistics suggest a dramatic drop in border crossings compared to the Biden administration.
- Quotes from figures like Kristi Noem emphasize the effectiveness of Trump’s border policies.
3. Whistleblower Allegations on Russia Hoax
- A whistleblower has come forward alleging manipulation of intelligence during the Obama administration.
- Claims include:
- Pressure to support the January 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) linking Trump to Russian interference.
- Threats of retaliation and promises of promotion for compliance.
- Use of discredited sources like the Steele dossier.
- Tulsi Gabbard is cited as supporting the whistleblower and pushing for transparency.
- The whistleblower’s account suggests a coordinated effort to undermine Trump using false intelligence.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
All Right, we got some big news to start off with,
and that is this The US Office of Special Counsel
investigating the ex Trump prosecutor Jack Smith is now happening,
is what we're being told. The US Office of Special
Council has open an investigation officially into the former Special
(00:23):
Counsel Jack Smith, who may have quote unlawfully targeted President
Donald Trump. I want you to listen to how part
of this news is broken at Fox News Channel.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Take a listen.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
All right, moving on to this now, former Trump prosecutor
Jack Smith is now under investigation for potentially violating the
Hatch Act, which was stricts government employees from engaging in
political activities. Chilly Panter joins US Now with the details.
Speaker 4 (00:51):
Hey Channeling, Hey, good morning guys. So the Office of
Special Counsel confirming is open that investigation against former Special
Council Jack Smith. This after our i's SEW Senator Tom
Cotton sent this letter saying, quote, I write requesting the
Office of Special Counsel to investigate whether Jack Smith, special
Council for Attorney General Merrick Garland, unlawfully took political actions
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to influence the twenty twenty four election to harm then
candidate President Donald Trump. So while the specific scope of
this investigation is not clear, it is expected the probe
we'll look into whether Smith violated the Hatch Act during
his criminal investigation into President Trump's handling of classified documents
(01:33):
and alleged efforts to subvert the twenty twenty election. Trump
pleted not guilty in both of those cases that were
ultimately dismissed following the twenty twenty four election. Earlier this week,
Senator Cotton pointed to how he believed Smith used his
DOJ roll to quote help Kamala and hurt Trump, claiming
Special Counsel Smith rushed the trial for President Trump to
(01:54):
begin just two weeks before the Iowa caucuses, that Smith
tried to go right to the Supreme Court to get
quick ruling before the election, and that Smith filed a
massive brief that included secret grand jury testimony just within
sixty days of the election, which could also violate a
separate Justice Department rule that goes beyond the Hatch Act.
(02:14):
So it's all important to note that this is an investigation,
but it's not a criminal investigation. That the office there
does have authority though to impose things like fines and
other sanctions if they do ultimately find that he violated.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
The hatchac Guys, let's go into even more of what
this means. The OSC has Smith under a microscope, and
this I've been told by many on Capitol Hill is
the beginning of what could be other possible issues for him.
I want to be clear about that he's under the
(02:47):
microscope regarding the possibility that not only won, he violated
the Hatch Act, which says, again government workers are not
allowed to take part in certain political activities. All right, Now,
it received confirmation the probe Fox did there from the
office and that Smith is not being quote criminally investigated.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
Now, let's be clear. I want you to understand.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
This could be the beginning of opening up who knows
what you can read between the lines there. The OSC
is a government watchdog that operates independently. Number one is
a federal investigative and prosecutal office. In July, Tom Cotton
asked its members to investigate whether Jack Smith, who again
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was a special counsel for the former Attorney General Merrick Garland,
if he engaged in unlawful political activities to quote influence.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
All right, think about the timeline here.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
The twenty twenty four presidential election and targeted Trump in
doing so to influence the twenty twenty four election. Now,
President Trump, of course, said you know this about Joe
Biden in Jack Smith and every Democrat quote who weaponized
law against him. President Trump's astounding victory doesn't excuse Smith
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of responsibility, the Senator said, for his unlawful election interference.
I therefore asked the Office of Special Counsel to investigate
whether Jack Smith or quote any members of his team
unlawfully acted for political purposes. So Number one, is it
going to be difficult for the media to cover this. Yes,
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And that's why we're covering it right now, because you
need to know what's happening. Democrats are gonna dismiss this.
They're gonna say this is not a big deal. They're
gonna say this is nothing, that this is just a
political hit job on Jack Smith, who quote did his job. Now,
Jack Smith oversaw a pair, okay, not one, but two
(04:50):
of the criminal investigations into Donald Trump while the former
president Joe Biden was still in office.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
All Right. The outlet of the New York Times.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Or excuse me, the New York Post, reporting this on Friday,
They said, One of the investigations, as you may recall,
was quote into trump handling of classified documents.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Then the other was as to whether.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
His actions on January sixth, twenty twenty one, or an
attempt to overturn the twenty twenty election. Both cases, as
you know, have been dismissed. Now, an email that has
come forward reviewed by the New York Posts also states
that the Hatch Act Unit, which enforces a law restricting
government and ployees from engaging in political activities, has begun
(05:35):
reviewing the former Special Council for the United States Department
of Justice. Now, the email was written by senior counsel
at the OSC. The article states, now let's go back
to Smith for a second. Smith, you may have forgotten,
resigned from the US Department of Justice after he failed
to bring the case against Trump to trial because welly
(05:57):
knew it was going to get dismissed, and he knew
it was crap, and they lost, and so he wanted out.
The article also says Smith's resignation comes to his office
has engaged quote in last minute legal wranglings to release
its work against Trump before President Joe Biden left office.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
If you go back and look at the record.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
Then he resigned on a Saturday, just nine days before
Trump's inauguration, after which Smith would have been fired.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
We're all sure of that now.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
The following month, Trump suspended the security clearances of law
firm members who helped Jack Smith, and that was something
that people are like, Okay.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Pay attention now.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
The memo, by the way, addressed to all relevant agencies
and departments, halted any security crences of Covington and Berling.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
That's a law firm. It's members, partners.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
And employees who helped Jack Smith during his time in
the role of Special Council quote penning a review and
determination of their roles and responsibilities if any, in the
weaponization of the judicial process, per that memo.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
So let me be clear.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
The takeaway from this this could be the beginning of
something very, very big, and it's going to start with
the man who went after and weaponized our government against
Donald Trump, Jack Smith. So get ready, we're going to
keep covering this. It's very big, all right. I want
(07:24):
to get to another important issue. It's a big one
and it's one that so many Americans have, especially the media,
have really really really overlooked it completely. That's part of
What I like to do here is bring you different
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information that others are refusing to cover, and this one
is one that is really interesting because the number of
arrests of migrant gotaways continuing now into Texas despite record
low apprehensions at the border. The media doesn't want you
to know how many bad own brais we have right
(08:08):
now in this country. The Texas Department of Public Safety troopers,
the National guardsmen, and the Border patrol agents are continuing
to arrest migrants who illegally cross the border between the
ports of entry and made their way into the US interior.
The Trump administration has just released more info. Recent arrests
include three Chinese nationals who got away from the border
(08:32):
after crossing near Mission Texas. What we now know is
that this was an operation that Texas DPS did. They
posted video to social media showing the continuing activities of
the troopers, the garment and Border patrol agents, who despite
these record low apprehensions of the border said now their
(08:52):
job is to find migrants being smuggled into the interior
of Texas after not being apprehended at the border. Law
enforcement teams, they say are real problems, are facing real
problems because they're going after and continue to seize drugs
that are being smuggled into Texas. You have human smuggling
arrests that are are still happening each and every day.
(09:16):
You have canine teams now that are actually being able
to do their jobs by tracking and assisting US Port
Patrol in the tracking of these drugs. We're seeing drug seizures,
they said, in Brownsville, Texas, stolen vehicles that are being
used by the cartels, and others that are that are
grabbed in Laredo, Texas, for example. This is just some
(09:39):
of what is happening at the border. We also know
this past week that smugglers were sentenced to ten years
in prison. You've got pursuits to ranch tracks to all
these missions that are happening, and they're wanting people to
understand what's going on here now. One example that was
reported was on July the thirty first. One of the
(10:00):
videos they put out show Border Patrol mounted patrolled teams
tracking migrants in du Val County, Texas.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
The team tracked the.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
Illegal alien to attempt to escape by using thick brushes cover.
That's where the Texas DPSK nine team managed to apprehend
the two legal aliens and turn them over to border
patrol agents.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Now, they weren't able to.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
Do this type of work before because they were babysitting
illegal immigrants at the border under the Biden administration. Earlier
on Thursday, for example, they reported the arrests of these
three Chinese nationals that were apprehended near Mission, Texas after
clearing the border without encountering a border patrol agent. And
this is part of the problem. Now the troopers say,
(10:40):
we're getting to do our jobs. Now they were to
stop the human smuggling attempts. Last week, also in de
Mint County, Texas, they pulled over a Florida driver. The
troopers found two Mexican nationals illegally present in the US,
hiding in the rear cargo area of the suv. Again,
another example of the bad own braids that we're talking about. One,
for example, it was reported the arrest of ten illegal
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aliens ineer Mission. These included four migrants from Uzbekistan. Now
why does that matter, Well, it's a hotbed for terrorism.
That's one of the big concerns here is that how
many people have come in this country illegally that are
terrorists and wanting to do things and do real harm
inside the United States of America. Now, in June, to
(11:24):
put this in perspective of where we are now because
of a strong border security from this President Donald Trump,
border patrol agents apprehended three thousand, nine hundred and ninety
five migrants who illegally crossed the border into five Texas
based sectors. Let me just explain to you the difference
(11:46):
between June of this year and June of twenty twenty four,
when Joe Biden was like, everybody, come in, we have
an open border. They caught thirty thousand, seven hundred and
sixty six compared to three nine hundred and ninety five
one year. Part what changed. A president that is enforcing
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the law. The Southwest land border encounters that were reported
and published by the US Customs and Border Protection said,
this is now going back to a point that we
can manage and protect the border compared to what it
was now.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
If you do the math on that.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
This represents a drop of now more than eighty seven
percent year over year. The June apprehension numbers are also
down from five four hundred and ninety one migrants apprehended
in May. So this is also sending a message around
the world you probably don't want to try because you're
gonna get caught. And it's not an open border that
(12:44):
we had under the radicals in the Biden regime.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Border apprehensions in the.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
Texas based sectors in June accounted for approximately sixty six
percent of all migrants apprehended along the southern border with Mexico.
Nearly four thousand, six hundred migrants were apprehended in all
nine border patrol sectors along the southwest.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
Border in July.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
That marks she had another historic low for the Trump administration.
So Christy Nome put it out this way, and she
said in her tweet where she was going through all
these numbers and again, why is the media not telling
you how safe the border has become?
Speaker 2 (13:26):
Because they don't want you to know this.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
Okay, history made again, is how Christy Nome put it.
The numbers don't lie. This is the most secure of
the border has ever been. President Donald Trump didn't just
manage the crisis. He obliterated it. No more excuses, Christy
Nome said, no more releases. We put the cartels on
defense and taken our border back. She then said in
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July the lowest nationwide encounter number ever twenty four thousand,
six hundred and thirty. That isound two point four percent
from June. But here's the number that you're going to
care about. It's ninety percent lower than the monthly average
under the last administration. The lowest border patrol apprehensions nationwide
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also six thousand, one hundred and seventy seven. That shattered,
by the way, June's all time low as well. She
went on to say, this the lowest Southwest border apprehensions
we've ever seen, four thousand, five hundred ninety eight, nearly
five hundred fewer than the daily average under the last administration,
(14:35):
which averaged five thousand, one hundred and ten apprehensions per
day from February of twenty twenty one to December of
twenty twenty four. We also have the lowest daily apprehension average,
just one hundred and forty eight per day. That's lower
than the average rate of one hundred and fifty two
apprehensions every two hours under the Biden administration last July alone.
(14:59):
So so we're doing one hundred and forty eight a
day in apprehensions. They were doing one hundred and fifty
two every two hours. Every hour of the day twenty
four to seven last July, And then she finally says,
this the lowest single day apprehensions in history eighty eight
at the Southwest border, one hundred and sixteen nationwide on
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July the twentieth.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
Now look at the calendar right now and where we are.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
What you're hearing and what we're seeing from border patrol
agents and from the Trump administration is that the word.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
Is getting out.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
Do you really want to go into incredible debt to
try to come to America to immediately get caught and
then be sent home? Do you want to pay these
smugglers to get you in and you're going to get caught?
You look at the lowest single day apprehension in history,
eighty eighth the Southwest border and one hundred and sixteen
nation wide and July twentieth. Now I say that because
you may say, well, okay, hold on, maybe it was
(15:55):
a bad weather day. No it wasn't. It was actually
a great weather day. Why nay on July twentieth, did
you have these numbers drop that much? Because that's the
last day we have reported and public access to what
Donald Trump is doing is he's going after and using
ice and they're going after the illegal immigrants everywhere they are,
including sanctuary cities. Word is getting back to the smugglers
(16:20):
and the human traffickers and those that were paying them
that it may not be worth you paying them because
you're probably not going to make it. And that is
how Trump is making America safe again. I have another
big story that you probably haven't heard about, and it's
one that you should have heard about immediately. If you
(16:41):
have news sites on your phone, they give you big
news alerts.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
This should have been one.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
If you turned on any of the shows, especially on
cable news, you should have heard.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
What I'm about to tell you.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
A whistleblower has now come forward revealing how they were
threatened that if they didn't go along with the Obama
directed Russia hoax, that there would an essence be held
a pay. A whistleblower is now sharing how quote they
(17:19):
we don't know how many, that is, were threatened by
a supervisor to go along with the Obama directed Russia
quote intelligent assessment hoax despite knowing it was not credible
and it was not quote accurate. That is what the
US Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbert, has revealed Gabbard
(17:42):
shared the newly released first hand account from the whistleblower
who refused to play along with a hoax, detailing what
happened in the crafting of the January twenty seventeen Intelligence
Community Assessment the ICA, their years long effort to expose
the manufacturing of intelligence carried out at the highest levels
(18:05):
of government, and how they.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Were quote repeatedly ignored.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
Tulsi Gabbard putting it out this way, saying, quote whistleblower
revealing how they were threatened by a supervisor to go
along with the Obama the Obama directed Russia hoak's intelligence assessment,
even though they knew it was not credible or accurate.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
The whistleblower refused.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
Yesterday, we released the whistleblower's first hand account of what
happened the crafting of the January twenty seventeen ICA, their
year long efforts to expose the egregious manipulation and manufacturing
of intelligence carried out at the highest levels of government
and the IC detailed in our previous release, and how
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they were repeatedly ignored.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
Tulsi Gabbard goes on to write to this courageous whistleblower
and others who are coming forward now putting their own
well being on the line to defend our democratic republic,
ensure the American people know the truth and hold those
responsible accountable.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
Now, I want to read for you this.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
That comes from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.
Russia hoax whistleblower threatened multiple attempts to report wrongdoing, work
ignored for six years. A senior intelligence officials battled political
and bureaucratic resistance and efforts to expose the manipulated intelligence behind.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
The Russia collusion hoax.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
The Director of National Intelligence released new documents which provide
a first hand account of the intelligence community and the
whistleblower's relentless effort to expose the manipulation manufacturing of the intelligence.
This release provides the whistleblower's first hand accounts of the
work carried out in the months leading up to the
November twenty sixteen election, the concerns they raised about the
(19:56):
use of quote discredited information as then d and I
Clapper and the Central Intelligence Agency CA Director Brennan worked
to craft the January twenty seventeen Intelligence Community Assessment the
ICA at President Barack Obama's request, and how a direct
supervisor attempted to pressure the whistleblower to endorse the January
(20:20):
seventeen ICA's key findings about the Russian government's alleged support
for then candidate Donald Trump. Thank you to the brave
intelligence community whistleblower who courageously came forward to expose the
truth about one of the biggest and most impactful scandals
in our nation's history. Gabbert says, the whistleblower, as I
mentioned earlier, put their own well being on the line.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
Now Here are the highlights.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
That they put out in the press release of the
whistleblower's first hand account, Statements from the whistleblowers supervisor pressuring
the whistleblower to accept the contrived January seventeen ICA findings
despite express concerns about the discredited information being used, and
to support those findings, an action that the wistleblower supervisor
(21:05):
said would be necessary for the whistleblower to receive a promotion.
So this is what we're hearing is you want to
move up in the intelligence community, you have to help
us lie to the American people to say that Donald
Trump is compromised by Russia. And if you do it,
you'll receive a promotion. If you don't, there will be
(21:28):
hell to pay. The whistleblower's refusal to accept and concur
with the January seventeen I see a finding stated quote
I could not concur in good conscience based on information
available that Russia preferred, then can it Trump? In twenty sixteen,
the whistleblower's concerns about the flawed intelligence practices, namely selectively
(21:54):
using open source references to Russian media as quote evident
for the Russian government support of Trump, while ignoring foreign
media from other nations, including NATO allies, that denigrated Trump
and actually supported Hillary Clinton. The whistleblowers repeated attempts to
(22:16):
report concerns about the false information that was deliberately used
in January twenty seventeen ICA to multiple government officials, including
the ICA Inspector General. The whistleblowers records also show how
the former D and I director James Clapper and other
(22:39):
senior Obama administration officials privately denounced the Steel dalsier so
in private.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
They were saying it's crap.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
They knew it was crap because created by Hillary Clinton's
campaign and the Democrat National Convention Committee. They knew they
paid for it. They knew it was user generated, the
FBI had already classified as user generated, and even offered
a million dollars of anything in the dalsier could be confirmed.
And guess what, Michael still never got the check because
it couldn't do it. They went on to say, despite
simultaneously ensuring that the January twenty seventeen ICA report include
(23:11):
the information that the officials had already privately denounced. So
they said, Hey, we know this is crap, but we
wanted in there. We know it's a lie, but we
wanted in there because we want to hurt Donald Trump,
who's now the President of the United States of America.
The whistleblower previously reported these concerns and more than a
dozen government officials, including the IC, the IG Special Council, Durham,
(23:36):
a US Senator, and other official whistlebler channels over the
last six years. D and I's Gabbert's whistleblower protections enabled
her to investigate and confirm the allegations revealing the truth
about the Obama led creation of the manufactured Intelligence Assessment,
which knowingly used false and discredited information to sell a
(23:58):
lot to the American people. The document would be used
as the foundation for multiple investigations and legal actions against
President Trump and other senior officials. The ICY whistleblowers have
historically faced deliberate hurdles to reporting and exposing wrongdoing. Political pressure,
(24:18):
threats of or actual acts of retaliation, bureaucratic obstacles, and
the unnecessary intentional overclassification of intelligence have too often hindered
public disclosure, accountability, and reform. In her first hand office,
the release says, the D and I Gabbered made clear
(24:41):
that every.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
Individual in the Intelligence Committee.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
Understand their rights as potential whistleblowers, which includes having legal
having excuse me access to legal protected channels to report wrongdoing.
To support this goal, D and I Gabbert establish a
direct line for ICY staff to report claims. Additionally, in
(25:03):
line with President Trump's commitment to maximize transparency, DN I
Gabbard has fostered a supportive environment for whistleblowers by promising
to protect their information and encouraging all IC officials, regardless
of affiliation, to come forward and join efforts to restore
trust and accountability. Now you can read the whistleblowers full accounting.
(25:27):
I will put it up on x you can follow
me there. Ben ferguson podcasts, and you can have the
entire thing there. But what you need to understand from
this is what Tulsi Gabbert is clearly saying is that
she's now looking into, investigating and understanding just how corrupt
the deep state was. Now the supervisor, we're also being
(25:48):
told not only pressure the whistleblower to accept the lie
In January twenty seventeen, I says finding, but also admitted
that there was discredit information used to support the findings
and said concurring with the false information would be necessary
to receive a promotion.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
The document continues, We.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
Then find out the whistleblower refuse accept the findings, sitting
I could not concur in good conscience based on the
information available that Russia preferred, then can it Donald Trump?
In sixteen, the whistle blower also cited the selective use
of open source references to Russian media's evidence for the
Russian government support for Trump as part of the faut
(26:34):
intelligence practices. So you combined everything that I just put
in there, and now you understand just how corrupt all
of this was. You had these repeated attempts that were
made by the wistleblower to report the false information that
was used, Okay, and they did it over and over
and over again.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
They used it to go after Donald Trump. They used
it to impeach Donald Trump. The fake intelligence assessment.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
Was deliberately used to try to overthrow the will of
the election of Donald Trump, the will of the people.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
Never forget that.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
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All Right, we got some big news to start off with,
and that is this The US Office of Special Counsel
investigating the ex Trump prosecutor Jack Smith is now happening,
is what we're being told. The US Office of Special
Council has open an investigation officially into the former Special
(00:23):
Counsel Jack Smith, who may have quote unlawfully targeted President
Donald Trump. I want you to listen to how part
of this news is broken at Fox News Channel.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Take a listen.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
All right, moving on to this now, former Trump prosecutor
Jack Smith is now under investigation for potentially violating the
Hatch Act, which was stricts government employees from engaging in
political activities. Chilly Panter joins US Now with the details.
Speaker 4 (00:51):
Hey Channeling, Hey, good morning guys. So the Office of
Special Counsel confirming is open that investigation against former Special
Council Jack Smith. This after our i's SEW Senator Tom
Cotton sent this letter saying, quote, I write requesting the
Office of Special Counsel to investigate whether Jack Smith, special
Council for Attorney General Merrick Garland, unlawfully took political actions
(01:12):
to influence the twenty twenty four election to harm then
candidate President Donald Trump. So while the specific scope of
this investigation is not clear, it is expected the probe
we'll look into whether Smith violated the Hatch Act during
his criminal investigation into President Trump's handling of classified documents
(01:33):
and alleged efforts to subvert the twenty twenty election. Trump
pleted not guilty in both of those cases that were
ultimately dismissed following the twenty twenty four election. Earlier this week,
Senator Cotton pointed to how he believed Smith used his
DOJ roll to quote help Kamala and hurt Trump, claiming
Special Counsel Smith rushed the trial for President Trump to
(01:54):
begin just two weeks before the Iowa caucuses, that Smith
tried to go right to the Supreme Court to get
quick ruling before the election, and that Smith filed a
massive brief that included secret grand jury testimony just within
sixty days of the election, which could also violate a
separate Justice Department rule that goes beyond the Hatch Act.
(02:14):
So it's all important to note that this is an investigation,
but it's not a criminal investigation. That the office there
does have authority though to impose things like fines and
other sanctions if they do ultimately find that he violated.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
The hatchac Guys, let's go into even more of what
this means. The OSC has Smith under a microscope, and
this I've been told by many on Capitol Hill is
the beginning of what could be other possible issues for him.
I want to be clear about that he's under the
(02:47):
microscope regarding the possibility that not only won, he violated
the Hatch Act, which says, again government workers are not
allowed to take part in certain political activities. All right, Now,
it received confirmation the probe Fox did there from the
office and that Smith is not being quote criminally investigated.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
Now, let's be clear. I want you to understand.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
This could be the beginning of opening up who knows
what you can read between the lines there. The OSC
is a government watchdog that operates independently. Number one is
a federal investigative and prosecutal office. In July, Tom Cotton
asked its members to investigate whether Jack Smith, who again
(03:32):
was a special counsel for the former Attorney General Merrick Garland,
if he engaged in unlawful political activities to quote influence.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
All right, think about the timeline here.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
The twenty twenty four presidential election and targeted Trump in
doing so to influence the twenty twenty four election. Now,
President Trump, of course, said you know this about Joe
Biden in Jack Smith and every Democrat quote who weaponized
law against him. President Trump's astounding victory doesn't excuse Smith
(04:07):
of responsibility, the Senator said, for his unlawful election interference.
I therefore asked the Office of Special Counsel to investigate
whether Jack Smith or quote any members of his team
unlawfully acted for political purposes. So Number one, is it
going to be difficult for the media to cover this. Yes,
(04:30):
And that's why we're covering it right now, because you
need to know what's happening. Democrats are gonna dismiss this.
They're gonna say this is not a big deal. They're
gonna say this is nothing, that this is just a
political hit job on Jack Smith, who quote did his job. Now,
Jack Smith oversaw a pair, okay, not one, but two
(04:50):
of the criminal investigations into Donald Trump while the former
president Joe Biden was still in office.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
All Right. The outlet of the New York Times.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Or excuse me, the New York Post, reporting this on Friday,
They said, One of the investigations, as you may recall,
was quote into trump handling of classified documents.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Then the other was as to whether.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
His actions on January sixth, twenty twenty one, or an
attempt to overturn the twenty twenty election. Both cases, as
you know, have been dismissed. Now, an email that has
come forward reviewed by the New York Posts also states
that the Hatch Act Unit, which enforces a law restricting
government and ployees from engaging in political activities, has begun
(05:35):
reviewing the former Special Council for the United States Department
of Justice. Now, the email was written by senior counsel
at the OSC. The article states, now let's go back
to Smith for a second. Smith, you may have forgotten,
resigned from the US Department of Justice after he failed
to bring the case against Trump to trial because welly
(05:57):
knew it was going to get dismissed, and he knew
it was crap, and they lost, and so he wanted out.
The article also says Smith's resignation comes to his office
has engaged quote in last minute legal wranglings to release
its work against Trump before President Joe Biden left office.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
If you go back and look at the record.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
Then he resigned on a Saturday, just nine days before
Trump's inauguration, after which Smith would have been fired.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
We're all sure of that now.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
The following month, Trump suspended the security clearances of law
firm members who helped Jack Smith, and that was something
that people are like, Okay.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Pay attention now.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
The memo, by the way, addressed to all relevant agencies
and departments, halted any security crences of Covington and Berling.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
That's a law firm. It's members, partners.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
And employees who helped Jack Smith during his time in
the role of Special Council quote penning a review and
determination of their roles and responsibilities if any, in the
weaponization of the judicial process, per that memo.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
So let me be clear.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
The takeaway from this this could be the beginning of
something very, very big, and it's going to start with
the man who went after and weaponized our government against
Donald Trump, Jack Smith. So get ready, we're going to
keep covering this. It's very big, all right. I want
(07:24):
to get to another important issue. It's a big one
and it's one that so many Americans have, especially the media,
have really really really overlooked it completely. That's part of
What I like to do here is bring you different
(07:45):
information that others are refusing to cover, and this one
is one that is really interesting because the number of
arrests of migrant gotaways continuing now into Texas despite record
low apprehensions at the border. The media doesn't want you
to know how many bad own brais we have right
(08:08):
now in this country. The Texas Department of Public Safety troopers,
the National guardsmen, and the Border patrol agents are continuing
to arrest migrants who illegally cross the border between the
ports of entry and made their way into the US interior.
The Trump administration has just released more info. Recent arrests
include three Chinese nationals who got away from the border
(08:32):
after crossing near Mission Texas. What we now know is
that this was an operation that Texas DPS did. They
posted video to social media showing the continuing activities of
the troopers, the garment and Border patrol agents, who despite
these record low apprehensions of the border said now their
(08:52):
job is to find migrants being smuggled into the interior
of Texas after not being apprehended at the border. Law
enforcement teams, they say are real problems, are facing real
problems because they're going after and continue to seize drugs
that are being smuggled into Texas. You have human smuggling
arrests that are are still happening each and every day.
(09:16):
You have canine teams now that are actually being able
to do their jobs by tracking and assisting US Port
Patrol in the tracking of these drugs. We're seeing drug seizures,
they said, in Brownsville, Texas, stolen vehicles that are being
used by the cartels, and others that are that are
grabbed in Laredo, Texas, for example. This is just some
(09:39):
of what is happening at the border. We also know
this past week that smugglers were sentenced to ten years
in prison. You've got pursuits to ranch tracks to all
these missions that are happening, and they're wanting people to
understand what's going on here now. One example that was
reported was on July the thirty first. One of the
(10:00):
videos they put out show Border Patrol mounted patrolled teams
tracking migrants in du Val County, Texas.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
The team tracked the.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
Illegal alien to attempt to escape by using thick brushes cover.
That's where the Texas DPSK nine team managed to apprehend
the two legal aliens and turn them over to border
patrol agents.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Now, they weren't able to.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
Do this type of work before because they were babysitting
illegal immigrants at the border under the Biden administration. Earlier
on Thursday, for example, they reported the arrests of these
three Chinese nationals that were apprehended near Mission, Texas after
clearing the border without encountering a border patrol agent. And
this is part of the problem. Now the troopers say,
(10:40):
we're getting to do our jobs. Now they were to
stop the human smuggling attempts. Last week, also in de
Mint County, Texas, they pulled over a Florida driver. The
troopers found two Mexican nationals illegally present in the US,
hiding in the rear cargo area of the suv. Again,
another example of the bad own braids that we're talking about. One,
for example, it was reported the arrest of ten illegal
(11:03):
aliens ineer Mission. These included four migrants from Uzbekistan. Now
why does that matter, Well, it's a hotbed for terrorism.
That's one of the big concerns here is that how
many people have come in this country illegally that are
terrorists and wanting to do things and do real harm
inside the United States of America. Now, in June, to
(11:24):
put this in perspective of where we are now because
of a strong border security from this President Donald Trump,
border patrol agents apprehended three thousand, nine hundred and ninety
five migrants who illegally crossed the border into five Texas
based sectors. Let me just explain to you the difference
(11:46):
between June of this year and June of twenty twenty four,
when Joe Biden was like, everybody, come in, we have
an open border. They caught thirty thousand, seven hundred and
sixty six compared to three nine hundred and ninety five
one year. Part what changed. A president that is enforcing
(12:07):
the law. The Southwest land border encounters that were reported
and published by the US Customs and Border Protection said,
this is now going back to a point that we
can manage and protect the border compared to what it
was now.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
If you do the math on that.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
This represents a drop of now more than eighty seven
percent year over year. The June apprehension numbers are also
down from five four hundred and ninety one migrants apprehended
in May. So this is also sending a message around
the world you probably don't want to try because you're
gonna get caught. And it's not an open border that
(12:44):
we had under the radicals in the Biden regime.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Border apprehensions in the.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
Texas based sectors in June accounted for approximately sixty six
percent of all migrants apprehended along the southern border with Mexico.
Nearly four thousand, six hundred migrants were apprehended in all
nine border patrol sectors along the southwest.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
Border in July.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
That marks she had another historic low for the Trump administration.
So Christy Nome put it out this way, and she
said in her tweet where she was going through all
these numbers and again, why is the media not telling
you how safe the border has become?
Speaker 2 (13:26):
Because they don't want you to know this.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
Okay, history made again, is how Christy Nome put it.
The numbers don't lie. This is the most secure of
the border has ever been. President Donald Trump didn't just
manage the crisis. He obliterated it. No more excuses, Christy
Nome said, no more releases. We put the cartels on
defense and taken our border back. She then said in
(13:52):
July the lowest nationwide encounter number ever twenty four thousand,
six hundred and thirty. That isound two point four percent
from June. But here's the number that you're going to
care about. It's ninety percent lower than the monthly average
under the last administration. The lowest border patrol apprehensions nationwide
(14:13):
also six thousand, one hundred and seventy seven. That shattered,
by the way, June's all time low as well. She
went on to say, this the lowest Southwest border apprehensions
we've ever seen, four thousand, five hundred ninety eight, nearly
five hundred fewer than the daily average under the last administration,
(14:35):
which averaged five thousand, one hundred and ten apprehensions per
day from February of twenty twenty one to December of
twenty twenty four. We also have the lowest daily apprehension average,
just one hundred and forty eight per day. That's lower
than the average rate of one hundred and fifty two
apprehensions every two hours under the Biden administration last July alone.
(14:59):
So so we're doing one hundred and forty eight a
day in apprehensions. They were doing one hundred and fifty
two every two hours. Every hour of the day twenty
four to seven last July, And then she finally says,
this the lowest single day apprehensions in history eighty eight
at the Southwest border, one hundred and sixteen nationwide on
(15:21):
July the twentieth.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
Now look at the calendar right now and where we are.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
What you're hearing and what we're seeing from border patrol
agents and from the Trump administration is that the word.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
Is getting out.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
Do you really want to go into incredible debt to
try to come to America to immediately get caught and
then be sent home? Do you want to pay these
smugglers to get you in and you're going to get caught?
You look at the lowest single day apprehension in history,
eighty eighth the Southwest border and one hundred and sixteen
nation wide and July twentieth. Now I say that because
you may say, well, okay, hold on, maybe it was
(15:55):
a bad weather day. No it wasn't. It was actually
a great weather day. Why nay on July twentieth, did
you have these numbers drop that much? Because that's the
last day we have reported and public access to what
Donald Trump is doing is he's going after and using
ice and they're going after the illegal immigrants everywhere they are,
including sanctuary cities. Word is getting back to the smugglers
(16:20):
and the human traffickers and those that were paying them
that it may not be worth you paying them because
you're probably not going to make it. And that is
how Trump is making America safe again. I have another
big story that you probably haven't heard about, and it's
one that you should have heard about immediately. If you
(16:41):
have news sites on your phone, they give you big
news alerts.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
This should have been one.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
If you turned on any of the shows, especially on
cable news, you should have heard.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
What I'm about to tell you.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
A whistleblower has now come forward revealing how they were
threatened that if they didn't go along with the Obama
directed Russia hoax, that there would an essence be held
a pay. A whistleblower is now sharing how quote they
(17:19):
we don't know how many, that is, were threatened by
a supervisor to go along with the Obama directed Russia
quote intelligent assessment hoax despite knowing it was not credible
and it was not quote accurate. That is what the
US Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbert, has revealed Gabbard
(17:42):
shared the newly released first hand account from the whistleblower
who refused to play along with a hoax, detailing what
happened in the crafting of the January twenty seventeen Intelligence
Community Assessment the ICA, their years long effort to expose
the manufacturing of intelligence carried out at the highest levels
(18:05):
of government, and how they.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Were quote repeatedly ignored.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
Tulsi Gabbard putting it out this way, saying, quote whistleblower
revealing how they were threatened by a supervisor to go
along with the Obama the Obama directed Russia hoak's intelligence assessment,
even though they knew it was not credible or accurate.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
The whistleblower refused.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
Yesterday, we released the whistleblower's first hand account of what
happened the crafting of the January twenty seventeen ICA, their
year long efforts to expose the egregious manipulation and manufacturing
of intelligence carried out at the highest levels of government
and the IC detailed in our previous release, and how
(18:48):
they were repeatedly ignored.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
Tulsi Gabbard goes on to write to this courageous whistleblower
and others who are coming forward now putting their own
well being on the line to defend our democratic republic,
ensure the American people know the truth and hold those
responsible accountable.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
Now, I want to read for you this.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
That comes from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.
Russia hoax whistleblower threatened multiple attempts to report wrongdoing, work
ignored for six years. A senior intelligence officials battled political
and bureaucratic resistance and efforts to expose the manipulated intelligence behind.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
The Russia collusion hoax.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
The Director of National Intelligence released new documents which provide
a first hand account of the intelligence community and the
whistleblower's relentless effort to expose the manipulation manufacturing of the intelligence.
This release provides the whistleblower's first hand accounts of the
work carried out in the months leading up to the
November twenty sixteen election, the concerns they raised about the
(19:56):
use of quote discredited information as then d and I
Clapper and the Central Intelligence Agency CA Director Brennan worked
to craft the January twenty seventeen Intelligence Community Assessment the
ICA at President Barack Obama's request, and how a direct
supervisor attempted to pressure the whistleblower to endorse the January
(20:20):
seventeen ICA's key findings about the Russian government's alleged support
for then candidate Donald Trump. Thank you to the brave
intelligence community whistleblower who courageously came forward to expose the
truth about one of the biggest and most impactful scandals
in our nation's history. Gabbert says, the whistleblower, as I
mentioned earlier, put their own well being on the line.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
Now Here are the highlights.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
That they put out in the press release of the
whistleblower's first hand account, Statements from the whistleblowers supervisor pressuring
the whistleblower to accept the contrived January seventeen ICA findings
despite express concerns about the discredited information being used, and
to support those findings, an action that the wistleblower supervisor
(21:05):
said would be necessary for the whistleblower to receive a promotion.
So this is what we're hearing is you want to
move up in the intelligence community, you have to help
us lie to the American people to say that Donald
Trump is compromised by Russia. And if you do it,
you'll receive a promotion. If you don't, there will be
(21:28):
hell to pay. The whistleblower's refusal to accept and concur
with the January seventeen I see a finding stated quote
I could not concur in good conscience based on information
available that Russia preferred, then can it Trump? In twenty sixteen,
the whistleblower's concerns about the flawed intelligence practices, namely selectively
(21:54):
using open source references to Russian media as quote evident
for the Russian government support of Trump, while ignoring foreign
media from other nations, including NATO allies, that denigrated Trump
and actually supported Hillary Clinton. The whistleblowers repeated attempts to
(22:16):
report concerns about the false information that was deliberately used
in January twenty seventeen ICA to multiple government officials, including
the ICA Inspector General. The whistleblowers records also show how
the former D and I director James Clapper and other
(22:39):
senior Obama administration officials privately denounced the Steel dalsier so
in private.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
They were saying it's crap.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
They knew it was crap because created by Hillary Clinton's
campaign and the Democrat National Convention Committee. They knew they
paid for it. They knew it was user generated, the
FBI had already classified as user generated, and even offered
a million dollars of anything in the dalsier could be confirmed.
And guess what, Michael still never got the check because
it couldn't do it. They went on to say, despite
simultaneously ensuring that the January twenty seventeen ICA report include
(23:11):
the information that the officials had already privately denounced. So
they said, Hey, we know this is crap, but we
wanted in there. We know it's a lie, but we
wanted in there because we want to hurt Donald Trump,
who's now the President of the United States of America.
The whistleblower previously reported these concerns and more than a
dozen government officials, including the IC, the IG Special Council, Durham,
(23:36):
a US Senator, and other official whistlebler channels over the
last six years. D and I's Gabbert's whistleblower protections enabled
her to investigate and confirm the allegations revealing the truth
about the Obama led creation of the manufactured Intelligence Assessment,
which knowingly used false and discredited information to sell a
(23:58):
lot to the American people. The document would be used
as the foundation for multiple investigations and legal actions against
President Trump and other senior officials. The ICY whistleblowers have
historically faced deliberate hurdles to reporting and exposing wrongdoing. Political pressure,
(24:18):
threats of or actual acts of retaliation, bureaucratic obstacles, and
the unnecessary intentional overclassification of intelligence have too often hindered
public disclosure, accountability, and reform. In her first hand office,
the release says, the D and I Gabbered made clear
(24:41):
that every.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
Individual in the Intelligence Committee.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
Understand their rights as potential whistleblowers, which includes having legal
having excuse me access to legal protected channels to report wrongdoing.
To support this goal, D and I Gabbert establish a
direct line for ICY staff to report claims. Additionally, in
(25:03):
line with President Trump's commitment to maximize transparency, DN I
Gabbard has fostered a supportive environment for whistleblowers by promising
to protect their information and encouraging all IC officials, regardless
of affiliation, to come forward and join efforts to restore
trust and accountability. Now you can read the whistleblowers full accounting.
(25:27):
I will put it up on x you can follow
me there. Ben ferguson podcasts, and you can have the
entire thing there. But what you need to understand from
this is what Tulsi Gabbert is clearly saying is that
she's now looking into, investigating and understanding just how corrupt
the deep state was. Now the supervisor, we're also being
(25:48):
told not only pressure the whistleblower to accept the lie
In January twenty seventeen, I says finding, but also admitted
that there was discredit information used to support the findings
and said concurring with the false information would be necessary
to receive a promotion.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
The document continues, We.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
Then find out the whistleblower refuse accept the findings, sitting
I could not concur in good conscience based on the
information available that Russia preferred, then can it Donald Trump?
In sixteen, the whistle blower also cited the selective use
of open source references to Russian media's evidence for the
Russian government support for Trump as part of the faut
(26:34):
intelligence practices. So you combined everything that I just put
in there, and now you understand just how corrupt all
of this was. You had these repeated attempts that were
made by the wistleblower to report the false information that
was used, Okay, and they did it over and over
and over again.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
They used it to go after Donald Trump. They used
it to impeach Donald Trump. The fake intelligence assessment.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
Was deliberately used to try to overthrow the will of
the election of Donald Trump, the will of the people.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
Never forget that.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
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