August 4, 2025 • 18 mins
📰 1. Investigation into Former Special Counsel Jack Smith
- The U.S. Office of Special Counsel (OSC) has reportedly opened an investigation into Jack Smith, the former special counsel who led criminal investigations into Donald Trump.
- The investigation centers on whether Smith violated the Hatch Act, which prohibits federal employees from engaging in political activities.
- Allegations include:
- Rushing legal proceedings to influence the 2024 election.
- Filing briefs close to the election date.
- Using DOJ resources in a way that allegedly favored Kamala Harris and harmed Trump.
- The investigation is not criminal, but could result in fines or sanctions.
- The document suggests this could be the start of broader scrutiny into Smith’s actions and those of his team.
🚨 2. Border Security and Migrant Arrests in Texas
- The second half of the document shifts focus to border security, highlighting:
- A significant drop in migrant apprehensions under the Trump administration compared to the Biden administration.
- Specific arrests of migrants, including Chinese nationals and individuals from Uzbekistan, with concerns about terrorism.
- Increased effectiveness of Texas DPS, Border Patrol, and K-9 units in tracking and apprehending illegal migrants.
- Claims of record-low apprehension numbers in June and July 2025, attributed to stricter enforcement and deterrence.
- Statements from Christy Noem emphasizing the success of Trump’s border policies.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
One of the things they're going to be talking about
pretty soon are the tremendous drop in drug prices. You know,
we've cut drug prices by twelve hundred and thirteen hundred
and fourteen hundred and fifteen hundred percent because we're going
favorite nations. We want the same price as Europe get.
We want the same prices of the country gets. And
over the years twenty five thirty years ago it started
where they were charging us much more. I put it
(00:23):
into it, you know, with a letter that you saw
last week.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
You're listening to the forty seven Morning Update with Ben ferguson.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
Good Monday morning. It's signs to have you with us
on the forty seven Morning Update. We've got two big
stories for you, and they deal with major corruption in
the Obama and Biden administration.
Speaker 4 (00:39):
First up, Jack Smith, you remember that.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Old special Council that was appointed to go after Donald Trump.
Speaker 4 (00:45):
Well he is now under investigation.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
I'll give you those details of what rules he may
have broken. Also, the White House snabbing a number of
bad own braids with very little border crossing, and the
media is not telling you about how successful this administration
is at finding those that are breaking into this country
that are a threat to all of us. All Right,
(01:10):
I want to take a moment talk about the economy.
You've been seeing what's happening on Wall Street, You've seen
what's been happening with interest rates, and you've probably seen
gold prices hitting all time record highs. Why because there
is uncertainty all over the world right now, and when
there is uncertain times, you want real answers about your
financial stability. Well, at Kurt Elliott Precious Medals, you get
(01:33):
more than gold and silver. You get trusted guidance from
a team that puts people first always. You also get transparency.
This is why I recommend them. Their mission is clear.
They want to help you protect what matters most with
real medals, real service, and real clarity. Now here's why
(01:53):
I love what they do at Kurt Elliott Precious Medals
Number one boyon Only Approached. They focus on investment grade metals,
not overpriced quote collectibles or gimmick products that cost you
an insane amount of money for what you're actually getting.
What they do is they sell you more metal for
your money and fair value when it's time for you
(02:15):
to actually sell. They also have upfront, transparent pricing just
eight percent when you buy and zero commissions when you
go to sell. There are no hidden fees on top
of that, ever, that is the reason why I recommend them.
They also make sure they give you personalized guidance for
(02:36):
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and they make sure that you are in control. So
if you're ready for real, honest clarity and all of
the BS taken out, visit k EPM dot com slash
ben that's k e PM dot com slash ben to
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might work in your favor. Protect what matters, plan with
clarity KEPM dot com slash ben or seven to zero
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(03:21):
six O five thirty nine hundred. Kurt Elliott Precious Medals
Smarter Metal Investing starts with that. It's the forty seven
Morning Update and it starts right now.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Story number one.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
All right, we got some big news to start off with,
and that is this the US Office of Special Council
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
(03:53):
Council 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 5 (04:04):
Take a listen, all right, Moving on to this now,
former COUMP prosecutor Jack Smith is now under investigation for
potentially violating the Hatch Act, which restricts government employees from
engaging in political activities.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
Charley Panner joins US Now with the details.
Speaker 6 (04:19):
Hey Channeling, Hey, good morning guys. So the Office of
Special Council confirming is open that investigation against former Special
Council Jack Smith. This after Arkansas 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 to influence
(04:40):
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 and alleged
efforts to the twenty twenty election. Trump cleted not guilty
(05:02):
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 begin just
two weeks before the Iowa caucuses, that Smith tried to
go right to the Supreme Court to get a quick
(05:24):
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. 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
(05:45):
other sanctions if they do ultimately find that he violated
the Hatch Act.
Speaker 4 (05:49):
Guys, let's go into even more of what this means.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
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 microscope
regarding the possibility that not only won, he violate the
Hatch Act, which says again government workers are not allowed
(06:14):
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 4 (06:25):
Now, let's be clear.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
I want you to understand this could be the beginning
of opening up.
Speaker 4 (06:31):
Who knows what you can read between the lines there.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
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 was a special counsel for the former Attorney
General Merrick Garland, if he engaged in unlawful political activities
(06:54):
to quote influence All right, think about the timeline here
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,
and Jack Smith and every Democrat quote who weaponized law
(07:14):
against him. President Trump's astounding victory doesn't excuse Smith of responsibility,
the Center said, for his unlawful election interference. I therefore
asked the Office of the 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
(07:35):
to be difficult for the media to cover this, Yes,
And that's why we're covering it right now, because you
need to know what's happening. Democrats are going to dismiss this.
They're going to say this is not a big deal.
They're going to 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,
(07:55):
not one, but two of the criminal investigations into Donald
Trump while the former president Joe Biden was still in office.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
All right.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
The outlet of the New York Times 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. Then the other was as
to whether his actions on January the sixth, twenty twenty
one were an attempt to overturn the twenty twenty election.
Both cases, as you know, have been dismissed.
Speaker 4 (08:23):
Now.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
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 employees from engaging in political activities,
has begun 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
(08:45):
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 well, he 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 as his office has engaged quote in last minute
legal wranglings to release its work against Trump before President
(09:08):
Joe Biden left office. If you go back and look
at the record, then he resigned on a Saturday, just
nine days before Trump's inauguration, after which Smith would have
been fired.
Speaker 4 (09:18):
We're all sure of that now.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
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, pay attention.
Speaker 4 (09:30):
Now.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
The memo, by the way, addressed to all relevant agencies
and departments, halted any security clearances of Covington and Berling.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
That's a law firm.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
It's members, partners, 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.
So let me be clear the takeaway from this this
could be the beginning of something very, very big, and
(09:59):
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.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
Now, Story number two.
Speaker 4 (10:11):
All right, I want to get to another important issue.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
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 information that others are refusing
to cover. And this one is one that is really
(10:35):
interesting because the number of arrests of migrant gotaways continuing
now in Texas despite record low apprehensions at the border.
The media doesn't want you to know how many bad
own brais we have right 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
(10:57):
illegally cross the border between the portsvin 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 after crossing near Mission, Texas.
What we now know is that this was an operation
that Texas DPS did. They post the video to social
(11:19):
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 job is to fine
migrants being smuggled into the interior 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
(11:41):
and continuencize drugs that are being smuggled into Texas. You
have human smuggling arrests that are still happening each and
every day. You have canine teams now that are actually
being able to do their raw 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
(12:02):
vehicles that are being used by the cartels, and others
that are that are grabbed in Laredo, Texas for example.
Speaker 4 (12:09):
This is just some of what is happening at the border.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
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 videos they put out show Border Patrol
mounted patroled teams tracking migrants in Duval County, Texas. The
(12:35):
team tracked the 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. Now, they weren't able
to 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 report the arrests of
(12:56):
these three Chinese nationals that were apprehended your mission Texas
after clear the border without encountering a border patrol agent.
And this is part of the problem. Now the troopers say,
we're getting to do our jobs. Now they were to
stop the human smuggling attempts. Last week also in de
Mitt County, Texas, they pulled over a Florida driver. The
troopers fround two Mexican nationals illegally president in the US,
(13:17):
hiding in the rear cargo area of the suv. Again,
another example of the bad owm brays that we're talking about.
On July third, for example, it was reported the arrest
of ten illegal aliens in their 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
(13:37):
country illegally that are terrorists and wanting to do things
and do real harm inside the United States of America.
Now in June, to 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
(13:58):
border into five I have Texas based sectors. Let me
just explain to you the difference 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 thy nine hundred and ninety five one year apart.
Speaker 4 (14:17):
What changed? A president that is enforcing the law.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
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.
If you do the math on that, this represents a
drop of now more than eighty seven percent year over year.
The June apprehension numbers are also down from five four
(14:44):
hundred 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 going to get caught and
it's not an open border that we had under the
radicals in the Biden regime.
Speaker 4 (14:57):
Border apprehensions in the.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
Texas based sector and 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 border in July.
That marks she had another historic low for the Trump administration.
(15:20):
So Christyome 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? Because they don't want you
to know this. 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
(15:42):
more excuses, Christy Nome said, no more releases. We put
the cartels on defense and taken our border back. She
then said, in July the lowest nationwide encounter number ever
twenty four thousand, six hundred and thirty That is down
two point four percent from June. But here's the number
that you're going to care about. It's ninety percent lower
(16:03):
than the monthly average under the last administration. The lowest
border patrol apprehensions nationwide also six thousand, one hundred and
seventy seven.
Speaker 4 (16:12):
That shattered, by the way, June's all time low as well.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
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, 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.
(16:39):
That's lower than the average rate of one hundred and
fifty two apprehensions every two hours under the Biden administration
last July alone, 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.
Speaker 4 (16:58):
And then she finally says that the lowest single.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
Day apprehensions in history eighty eight at the Southwest border,
one hundred and sixteen nationwide on July the twentieth.
Speaker 4 (17:07):
Now, look at the calendar right now and where we are.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
What you're hearing and what we're seeing from border patrol
agents and from the Trump administration is that the word
is getting out. 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
(17:30):
one hundred and sixteen nation one on July twentieth. Now
I say that because you may say, well, okay, hold on,
maybe there was a bad weather day.
Speaker 4 (17:36):
No it wasn't. It was actually a great weather day.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
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 and the human
traffickers and those that were paying them that it may
(18:00):
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.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
Thank you for listening to the forty seven Morning Update
with Ben Ferguson. Please make sure you hit subscribe wherever
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and we will see you back here tomorrow
One of the things they're going to be talking about
pretty soon are the tremendous drop in drug prices. You know,
we've cut drug prices by twelve hundred and thirteen hundred
and fourteen hundred and fifteen hundred percent because we're going
favorite nations. We want the same price as Europe get.
We want the same prices of the country gets. And
over the years twenty five thirty years ago it started
where they were charging us much more. I put it
(00:23):
into it, you know, with a letter that you saw
last week.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
You're listening to the forty seven Morning Update with Ben ferguson.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
Good Monday morning. It's signs to have you with us
on the forty seven Morning Update. We've got two big
stories for you, and they deal with major corruption in
the Obama and Biden administration.
Speaker 4 (00:39):
First up, Jack Smith, you remember that.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Old special Council that was appointed to go after Donald Trump.
Speaker 4 (00:45):
Well he is now under investigation.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
I'll give you those details of what rules he may
have broken. Also, the White House snabbing a number of
bad own braids with very little border crossing, and the
media is not telling you about how successful this administration
is at finding those that are breaking into this country
that are a threat to all of us. All Right,
(01:10):
I want to take a moment talk about the economy.
You've been seeing what's happening on Wall Street, You've seen
what's been happening with interest rates, and you've probably seen
gold prices hitting all time record highs. Why because there
is uncertainty all over the world right now, and when
there is uncertain times, you want real answers about your
financial stability. Well, at Kurt Elliott Precious Medals, you get
(01:33):
more than gold and silver. You get trusted guidance from
a team that puts people first always. You also get transparency.
This is why I recommend them. Their mission is clear.
They want to help you protect what matters most with
real medals, real service, and real clarity. Now here's why
(01:53):
I love what they do at Kurt Elliott Precious Medals
Number one boyon Only Approached. They focus on investment grade metals,
not overpriced quote collectibles or gimmick products that cost you
an insane amount of money for what you're actually getting.
What they do is they sell you more metal for
your money and fair value when it's time for you
(02:15):
to actually sell. They also have upfront, transparent pricing just
eight percent when you buy and zero commissions when you
go to sell. There are no hidden fees on top
of that, ever, that is the reason why I recommend them.
They also make sure they give you personalized guidance for
(02:36):
you. You're never just a number, no pressure, always real answers,
and they make sure that you are in control. So
if you're ready for real, honest clarity and all of
the BS taken out, visit k EPM dot com slash
ben that's k e PM dot com slash ben to
(02:59):
scale schedule your personal portfolio review, ask about today's unique
market window and how the current silver to gold ratio
might work in your favor. Protect what matters, plan with
clarity KEPM dot com slash ben or seven to zero
six O five thirty nine hundred. That's seven two zero
(03:21):
six O five thirty nine hundred. Kurt Elliott Precious Medals
Smarter Metal Investing starts with that. It's the forty seven
Morning Update and it starts right now.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Story number one.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
All right, we got some big news to start off with,
and that is this the US Office of Special Council
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
(03:53):
Council 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 5 (04:04):
Take a listen, all right, Moving on to this now,
former COUMP prosecutor Jack Smith is now under investigation for
potentially violating the Hatch Act, which restricts government employees from
engaging in political activities.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
Charley Panner joins US Now with the details.
Speaker 6 (04:19):
Hey Channeling, Hey, good morning guys. So the Office of
Special Council confirming is open that investigation against former Special
Council Jack Smith. This after Arkansas 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 to influence
(04:40):
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 and alleged
efforts to the twenty twenty election. Trump cleted not guilty
(05:02):
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 begin just
two weeks before the Iowa caucuses, that Smith tried to
go right to the Supreme Court to get a quick
(05:24):
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. 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
(05:45):
other sanctions if they do ultimately find that he violated
the Hatch Act.
Speaker 4 (05:49):
Guys, let's go into even more of what this means.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
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 microscope
regarding the possibility that not only won, he violate the
Hatch Act, which says again government workers are not allowed
(06:14):
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 4 (06:25):
Now, let's be clear.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
I want you to understand this could be the beginning
of opening up.
Speaker 4 (06:31):
Who knows what you can read between the lines there.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
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 was a special counsel for the former Attorney
General Merrick Garland, if he engaged in unlawful political activities
(06:54):
to quote influence All right, think about the timeline here
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,
and Jack Smith and every Democrat quote who weaponized law
(07:14):
against him. President Trump's astounding victory doesn't excuse Smith of responsibility,
the Center said, for his unlawful election interference. I therefore
asked the Office of the 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
(07:35):
to be difficult for the media to cover this, Yes,
And that's why we're covering it right now, because you
need to know what's happening. Democrats are going to dismiss this.
They're going to say this is not a big deal.
They're going to 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,
(07:55):
not one, but two of the criminal investigations into Donald
Trump while the former president Joe Biden was still in office.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
All right.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
The outlet of the New York Times 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. Then the other was as
to whether his actions on January the sixth, twenty twenty
one were an attempt to overturn the twenty twenty election.
Both cases, as you know, have been dismissed.
Speaker 4 (08:23):
Now.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
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 employees from engaging in political activities,
has begun 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
(08:45):
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 well, he 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 as his office has engaged quote in last minute
legal wranglings to release its work against Trump before President
(09:08):
Joe Biden left office. If you go back and look
at the record, then he resigned on a Saturday, just
nine days before Trump's inauguration, after which Smith would have
been fired.
Speaker 4 (09:18):
We're all sure of that now.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
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, pay attention.
Speaker 4 (09:30):
Now.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
The memo, by the way, addressed to all relevant agencies
and departments, halted any security clearances of Covington and Berling.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
That's a law firm.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
It's members, partners, 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.
So let me be clear the takeaway from this this
could be the beginning of something very, very big, and
(09:59):
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.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
Now, Story number two.
Speaker 4 (10:11):
All right, I want to get to another important issue.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
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 information that others are refusing
to cover. And this one is one that is really
(10:35):
interesting because the number of arrests of migrant gotaways continuing
now in Texas despite record low apprehensions at the border.
The media doesn't want you to know how many bad
own brais we have right 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
(10:57):
illegally cross the border between the portsvin 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 after crossing near Mission, Texas.
What we now know is that this was an operation
that Texas DPS did. They post the video to social
(11:19):
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 job is to fine
migrants being smuggled into the interior 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
(11:41):
and continuencize drugs that are being smuggled into Texas. You
have human smuggling arrests that are still happening each and
every day. You have canine teams now that are actually
being able to do their raw 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
(12:02):
vehicles that are being used by the cartels, and others
that are that are grabbed in Laredo, Texas for example.
Speaker 4 (12:09):
This is just some of what is happening at the border.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
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 videos they put out show Border Patrol
mounted patroled teams tracking migrants in Duval County, Texas. The
(12:35):
team tracked the 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. Now, they weren't able
to 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 report the arrests of
(12:56):
these three Chinese nationals that were apprehended your mission Texas
after clear the border without encountering a border patrol agent.
And this is part of the problem. Now the troopers say,
we're getting to do our jobs. Now they were to
stop the human smuggling attempts. Last week also in de
Mitt County, Texas, they pulled over a Florida driver. The
troopers fround two Mexican nationals illegally president in the US,
(13:17):
hiding in the rear cargo area of the suv. Again,
another example of the bad owm brays that we're talking about.
On July third, for example, it was reported the arrest
of ten illegal aliens in their 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
(13:37):
country illegally that are terrorists and wanting to do things
and do real harm inside the United States of America.
Now in June, to 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
(13:58):
border into five I have Texas based sectors. Let me
just explain to you the difference 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 thy nine hundred and ninety five one year apart.
Speaker 4 (14:17):
What changed? A president that is enforcing the law.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
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.
If you do the math on that, this represents a
drop of now more than eighty seven percent year over year.
The June apprehension numbers are also down from five four
(14:44):
hundred 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 going to get caught and
it's not an open border that we had under the
radicals in the Biden regime.
Speaker 4 (14:57):
Border apprehensions in the.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
Texas based sector and 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 border in July.
That marks she had another historic low for the Trump administration.
(15:20):
So Christyome 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? Because they don't want you
to know this. 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
(15:42):
more excuses, Christy Nome said, no more releases. We put
the cartels on defense and taken our border back. She
then said, in July the lowest nationwide encounter number ever
twenty four thousand, six hundred and thirty That is down
two point four percent from June. But here's the number
that you're going to care about. It's ninety percent lower
(16:03):
than the monthly average under the last administration. The lowest
border patrol apprehensions nationwide also six thousand, one hundred and
seventy seven.
Speaker 4 (16:12):
That shattered, by the way, June's all time low as well.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
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, 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.
(16:39):
That's lower than the average rate of one hundred and
fifty two apprehensions every two hours under the Biden administration
last July alone, 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.
Speaker 4 (16:58):
And then she finally says that the lowest single.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
Day apprehensions in history eighty eight at the Southwest border,
one hundred and sixteen nationwide on July the twentieth.
Speaker 4 (17:07):
Now, look at the calendar right now and where we are.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
What you're hearing and what we're seeing from border patrol
agents and from the Trump administration is that the word
is getting out. 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
(17:30):
one hundred and sixteen nation one on July twentieth. Now
I say that because you may say, well, okay, hold on,
maybe there was a bad weather day.
Speaker 4 (17:36):
No it wasn't. It was actually a great weather day.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
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 and the human
traffickers and those that were paying them that it may
(18:00):
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.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
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