- FBI Investigation into Trump's 2016 Campaign
- The FBI is investigating a secret honeypot operation targeting Trump's 2016 presidential campaign.
- The operation involved undercover female agents attempting to gather information from Trump's campaign.
- The investigation was reportedly ordered by former FBI Director James Comey.
- The whistleblower's claims suggest the operation was a phishing expedition to find incriminating information against Trump. - Elon Musk's Email to Federal Employees
- Elon Musk, leading the Department of Government Efficiency, sent an email to all federal employees asking them to summarize their work achievements from the previous week.
- The email has caused confusion and pushback, with some departments advising employees not to respond.
- The largest federal workers' union criticized the move, calling it disrespectful and cruel. - UN Resolution on Ukraine
- We cover the United States' vote against a Europe-led resolution at the United Nations to condemn Russia for the invasion of Ukraine.
- Secretary of State Marco Rubio explained that the vote aimed to encourage peace talks rather than antagonize either side.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're in no position to dictate what we're going to feel.
You don't have the cards right now. You're gambling with
their lives of millions of people. See, you're gambling with
World War three.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
You've done a lot of people. You're listening to the
forty seven Morning Update with Ben Ferguson.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
Good Saturday morning to you, Ben Ferguson, with you, and
these are some of the stories that you may have
missed that we talked about this week on the forty
seven Morning Update. First up, the FBI is turning on
the deep state that went after Donald Trump with a
real FBI investigation of what they were doing that may
have been illegal against the President. Also, Elon must send
(00:40):
out an email to government employees saying, Hey, what did
you actually do at work last week? Justify having a job.
And finally, Marco Rubio says enough already ripping the United
Nations and many of the warhawks that they are obsessed
with keeping the war going between Russia and Ukraine. It's
a forty seven Morning Update and it starts right now.
(01:03):
Story number one, The Federal Bureau of Investigations has now
officially told the world that they are investigating a secret
honeypot operation that targeted President Donald Trump's twenty sixteen presidential campaign.
That according to a recent report, the FBI director Cash Battel,
(01:24):
who was recently confirmed and sworn in, and the FBI
Deputy Director Dan Bongino are reportedly looking for two female
agents who took part in an off the book investigation
quote unquote that former FBI Director James Comy launched in
twenty fifteen. This, according to the Washington Times, the agents
(01:46):
who were undercover were called quote honeypot agents, a term
that refers to an undercover operative, usually a woman with
sexual or romantic interests, used to obtain information from a target. Again,
this coming from the Washington Times. Now, this comes after
(02:06):
The Times previously reported in October of twenty twenty four
that the House Judiciary Committee was looking into a whistleblower's
claim that the agency targeted Trump soon after he announced
his presidential campaign and June of twenty sixteen, in what
was described as a phishing expedition to quote find something
(02:28):
in a protected disclosure, the whistleblower, an FBI agent, claimed
that two undercover agents had infiltrated Trump's presidential campaign. Remember
when Donald Trump said his campaign was spied on. Well.
Apparently they were sending in attractive females to try to
get in tell or to set up the president again.
(02:49):
This was during his campaign run to become president in sixteen,
and had been instructed these women to act as quote
honeypots while traveling with Donald gim Trump. According to the outlet,
the agent quote personally knew that mister Komy ordered an
FBI investigation against mister Trump and that mister Comy quote
(03:10):
personally directed it quote unquote. According to the disclosure, the
off the book's investigation did not appear to target a
specific crime either, but was more of what agents would
describe as a phishing expedition to find something find anything
that could be used against Donald Trump. The outlet also
(03:33):
noted that the whistleblower's disclosure claimed that the investigation was
different from Crossfire Hurricane, which targeted Russian quote collusion. We
all know that was obviously a big lie. Bright Bart
News also previously reported that during Trump's first term in office,
he ordered more documents from Operation Crossfire Hurricane to be declassified.
(03:56):
I determined that the materials in that binder should be
declassified to the maximum extent possible. Is what Donald Trump
said in twenty twenty one. Now, there's many that are
going to say this is Donald Trump going after his
quote political enemies. If you look at the facts, it's
very clear that's not the case. In reality, this is
the FBI investigating a secret honeypot operation targeting Donald Trump's
(04:21):
campaign and trying to alter the outcome of an election.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Next story number two.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
Imagine being at work and receiving an email from your
boss asking you to state, what did you do last
week in your job? What were the last five things
you did? And knowing that you don't have a very
good answer. Well, for many government employees, that is exactly
the email they received. Elon Musk, leading the Department of
(04:47):
Government Efficiency under Donald Trump send an email to all
US federal employees with a subject line, what did you
do last week? The email, dispatched late Saturday a afternoon,
instructed employees to provide five bullet points summarizing their work
achievements from the previous week by midnight on Monday. Must
(05:09):
warn that failure to respond would be interpreted as a resignation.
This directive has led to quote, confusion and pushback within
various federal agencies. Some departments, including the State Department of
the FBI, have advised their employees to pause or refrain
from responding to the email, citing concerns over confidentiality and
(05:31):
proper chain of command. But the largest group of federal
workers is being told that it is time for them
to tell Elon Musk and those a doge exactly what
they're doing now. Don't worry. Many in the government are
fighting back. The largest federal workers union criticized the move,
labeling it cruel and disrespectful. Must defended the email, stating
(05:54):
it aligance with Donald Trump's directive to adopt a more
aggressive approach in evaluating federal employee productivity. Must suggest it
that the requirement was a basic measure to ensure accountability
and identify potential inefficiencies within the government workforce. The situation
has sparked a broader debate about the treatment of federal employees.
(06:16):
That is what Democrats are fighting back with, saying that
this is a method of harassment instead of performance. They
also are now stating there are quote concerns about legality,
respect and the potential impact on morale and national security.
At the end of the day, it's pretty clear that
Elon Musk isn't going to take debit on any of that,
(06:37):
and the President of the United States of America is
also making it clear that if you're one of these
woke individuals that can't handle a basic email asking you
what did you do at work last week, then maybe
it's time for you to resign and get the hell
out of the government.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
And here is story number three.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
One of the things that's really important that we are
going to be covering on this show each and every
day is when there is clearly propaganda that is being
used against the Trump administration. This may be one of
the biggest flashpoints so far. In the first six weeks
of his administration, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a
resolution condemning Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Ninety three countries voted
(07:20):
in favor, eighteen against, including the United States and Russia.
Now this immediately turned into propaganda, anti American propaganda, anti
Trump propaganda, saying that Donald Trump is now siding with Russia.
It's easy to buy into that headline if you don't
(07:40):
actually understand the story or why the American government decided
to say no to condemning Russia. At the United Nations.
Marco Rubio, Secretary of State, ripped the United Nations as
antagonistic and warmongerers trying to keep the Ukraine Russia war
continuing on and on forever. I want you to hear
(08:04):
what the Secretary of State said about this vote so
that you understand the real story behind it.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Take a listen of news today, the United States voted
against a europe led resolution at the United Nations to
condemn Russia for the invasion of Ukraine, and then later
a US led resolution passed the Security Council. Talk to
us about what happened there at the.
Speaker 4 (08:31):
Yeah, well, on the broader resolution, we think the UN
needs to get if it's going to be useful in
the twenty first century. The UN needs to get back
to its charter mission, which is the prevention in the
ending of war in conflict.
Speaker 5 (08:40):
And so we felt everyone knows.
Speaker 4 (08:42):
You know, you can go back and read the newspaper
articles over the last three years and figure out what
happened in Ukraine. But now, as the President's made very clear,
President Trump wants to end this war. He thinks far
too many people have died and he wants to bring
it to an end. So we didn't feel it was conducive, frankly,
to have something out there at the UN that's antagonistic
against either side. We're trying to get these guys to
the table, and unfortunately Ukraine didn't agree. They wanted to
(09:05):
move forward on theirs. We then went to the Security
Council with our compromise, which I think is a very
fair language, and it basically says war is a terrible thing.
I mean, I'm paraphrasing and I'm being simplistic, but it
says war is a terrible thing.
Speaker 5 (09:17):
Way too many people have died.
Speaker 4 (09:19):
This war needs to end in a way that's enduring,
an essence echoing President Trump's view of what this conflict
needs to be and reminding the United Nations at the
purpose of the United Nations was the prevention of war
and the ending of conflicts, not making it harder to
end conflicts. So I thought it was good that we
got it done at the Security Council. The Russians didn't
(09:40):
veto it, which is a good sign. I'm not telling
you that that is going to end this conflict, and
I can't wait till at least the Phonic is there,
because it'd be great to have her leadership. But I
certainly think our language is better language, and hopefully further
is the cause of peace.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
President Trump today alongside French President Emanuel Macron, said that
he hopes it that this can be resolved in a
matter of weeks, not months. Weeks. What are some of
the major steps that we need to take to get
to that point.
Speaker 4 (10:08):
Well, I think the President would want it to end yesterday, right.
He thinks already too many people have died, There's been
too much destruction. By the way, I think everybody should
be very happy that President Trump is a peace president.
We have a president that wants to end wars, not
start new ones. He wants to end human suffering, not
exacerbated or extended. Now that said, it's a conflict, it's
a war, and it's going back and forth. We got
(10:29):
to get them both to the table, starting with the Russians.
So we met with him last week and the basic
question of that meeting was are you interested in ending
this conflict or not?
Speaker 5 (10:37):
A lot of people don't know the answer to that.
Speaker 4 (10:38):
If you talk to some in Europe, they'll tell you
that Putin is not interested in ending the war. They
said they would be under the right conditions. We didn't
discuss what those conditions were. So the next step now
is to meet with them again at some point, with
the right group of people in the room, and begin
to outline what would it take for Russia to stop
a war. And obviously we got to ask Ukraine the
same question, because you can't stop a war unless both
(10:59):
sides agreed to it. So whether it takes days or
weeks or what have you, we're going to begin that process.
It may not work out, but why would anybody criticize
President Trump for wanting to end a war that's cost
billions of dollars, hundreds of thousands of lives, and tremendous
and ongoing human suffering.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
You listen to what Marco Rubio said there, and now
you understand exactly why they decided to not try to
antagonize two countries. You're wanting to get to the table
to end the war. Now, the media is not going
to tell you this part of the story. They're not
going to play for you what I just played from
you for Marco Rubio. And this is exactly why I say,
(11:36):
I hope you take the information that I give you
every day here and you give it to others that
you know, because without all of us telling the story,
the media will continue to lie and win.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
Thank you for listening to the forty seven Morning Update
with Ben Ferguson. Please make sure you hit subscribe wherever
you're listening to this podcast right now and for more
in depth news, also subscribe to The Ferguson Podcast and
we will see you back here on Monday morning.
You're in no position to dictate what we're going to feel.
You don't have the cards right now. You're gambling with
their lives of millions of people. See, you're gambling with
World War three.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
You've done a lot of people. You're listening to the
forty seven Morning Update with Ben Ferguson.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
Good Saturday morning to you, Ben Ferguson, with you, and
these are some of the stories that you may have
missed that we talked about this week on the forty
seven Morning Update. First up, the FBI is turning on
the deep state that went after Donald Trump with a
real FBI investigation of what they were doing that may
have been illegal against the President. Also, Elon must send
(00:40):
out an email to government employees saying, Hey, what did
you actually do at work last week? Justify having a job.
And finally, Marco Rubio says enough already ripping the United
Nations and many of the warhawks that they are obsessed
with keeping the war going between Russia and Ukraine. It's
a forty seven Morning Update and it starts right now.
(01:03):
Story number one, The Federal Bureau of Investigations has now
officially told the world that they are investigating a secret
honeypot operation that targeted President Donald Trump's twenty sixteen presidential campaign.
That according to a recent report, the FBI director Cash Battel,
(01:24):
who was recently confirmed and sworn in, and the FBI
Deputy Director Dan Bongino are reportedly looking for two female
agents who took part in an off the book investigation
quote unquote that former FBI Director James Comy launched in
twenty fifteen. This, according to the Washington Times, the agents
(01:46):
who were undercover were called quote honeypot agents, a term
that refers to an undercover operative, usually a woman with
sexual or romantic interests, used to obtain information from a target. Again,
this coming from the Washington Times. Now, this comes after
(02:06):
The Times previously reported in October of twenty twenty four
that the House Judiciary Committee was looking into a whistleblower's
claim that the agency targeted Trump soon after he announced
his presidential campaign and June of twenty sixteen, in what
was described as a phishing expedition to quote find something
(02:28):
in a protected disclosure, the whistleblower, an FBI agent, claimed
that two undercover agents had infiltrated Trump's presidential campaign. Remember
when Donald Trump said his campaign was spied on. Well.
Apparently they were sending in attractive females to try to
get in tell or to set up the president again.
(02:49):
This was during his campaign run to become president in sixteen,
and had been instructed these women to act as quote
honeypots while traveling with Donald gim Trump. According to the outlet,
the agent quote personally knew that mister Komy ordered an
FBI investigation against mister Trump and that mister Comy quote
(03:10):
personally directed it quote unquote. According to the disclosure, the
off the book's investigation did not appear to target a
specific crime either, but was more of what agents would
describe as a phishing expedition to find something find anything
that could be used against Donald Trump. The outlet also
(03:33):
noted that the whistleblower's disclosure claimed that the investigation was
different from Crossfire Hurricane, which targeted Russian quote collusion. We
all know that was obviously a big lie. Bright Bart
News also previously reported that during Trump's first term in office,
he ordered more documents from Operation Crossfire Hurricane to be declassified.
(03:56):
I determined that the materials in that binder should be
declassified to the maximum extent possible. Is what Donald Trump
said in twenty twenty one. Now, there's many that are
going to say this is Donald Trump going after his
quote political enemies. If you look at the facts, it's
very clear that's not the case. In reality, this is
the FBI investigating a secret honeypot operation targeting Donald Trump's
(04:21):
campaign and trying to alter the outcome of an election.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Next story number two.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
Imagine being at work and receiving an email from your
boss asking you to state, what did you do last
week in your job? What were the last five things
you did? And knowing that you don't have a very
good answer. Well, for many government employees, that is exactly
the email they received. Elon Musk, leading the Department of
(04:47):
Government Efficiency under Donald Trump send an email to all
US federal employees with a subject line, what did you
do last week? The email, dispatched late Saturday a afternoon,
instructed employees to provide five bullet points summarizing their work
achievements from the previous week by midnight on Monday. Must
(05:09):
warn that failure to respond would be interpreted as a resignation.
This directive has led to quote, confusion and pushback within
various federal agencies. Some departments, including the State Department of
the FBI, have advised their employees to pause or refrain
from responding to the email, citing concerns over confidentiality and
(05:31):
proper chain of command. But the largest group of federal
workers is being told that it is time for them
to tell Elon Musk and those a doge exactly what
they're doing now. Don't worry. Many in the government are
fighting back. The largest federal workers union criticized the move,
labeling it cruel and disrespectful. Must defended the email, stating
(05:54):
it aligance with Donald Trump's directive to adopt a more
aggressive approach in evaluating federal employee productivity. Must suggest it
that the requirement was a basic measure to ensure accountability
and identify potential inefficiencies within the government workforce. The situation
has sparked a broader debate about the treatment of federal employees.
(06:16):
That is what Democrats are fighting back with, saying that
this is a method of harassment instead of performance. They
also are now stating there are quote concerns about legality,
respect and the potential impact on morale and national security.
At the end of the day, it's pretty clear that
Elon Musk isn't going to take debit on any of that,
(06:37):
and the President of the United States of America is
also making it clear that if you're one of these
woke individuals that can't handle a basic email asking you
what did you do at work last week, then maybe
it's time for you to resign and get the hell
out of the government.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
And here is story number three.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
One of the things that's really important that we are
going to be covering on this show each and every
day is when there is clearly propaganda that is being
used against the Trump administration. This may be one of
the biggest flashpoints so far. In the first six weeks
of his administration, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a
resolution condemning Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Ninety three countries voted
(07:20):
in favor, eighteen against, including the United States and Russia.
Now this immediately turned into propaganda, anti American propaganda, anti
Trump propaganda, saying that Donald Trump is now siding with Russia.
It's easy to buy into that headline if you don't
(07:40):
actually understand the story or why the American government decided
to say no to condemning Russia. At the United Nations.
Marco Rubio, Secretary of State, ripped the United Nations as
antagonistic and warmongerers trying to keep the Ukraine Russia war
continuing on and on forever. I want you to hear
(08:04):
what the Secretary of State said about this vote so
that you understand the real story behind it.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Take a listen of news today, the United States voted
against a europe led resolution at the United Nations to
condemn Russia for the invasion of Ukraine, and then later
a US led resolution passed the Security Council. Talk to
us about what happened there at the.
Speaker 4 (08:31):
Yeah, well, on the broader resolution, we think the UN
needs to get if it's going to be useful in
the twenty first century. The UN needs to get back
to its charter mission, which is the prevention in the
ending of war in conflict.
Speaker 5 (08:40):
And so we felt everyone knows.
Speaker 4 (08:42):
You know, you can go back and read the newspaper
articles over the last three years and figure out what
happened in Ukraine. But now, as the President's made very clear,
President Trump wants to end this war. He thinks far
too many people have died and he wants to bring
it to an end. So we didn't feel it was conducive, frankly,
to have something out there at the UN that's antagonistic
against either side. We're trying to get these guys to
the table, and unfortunately Ukraine didn't agree. They wanted to
(09:05):
move forward on theirs. We then went to the Security
Council with our compromise, which I think is a very
fair language, and it basically says war is a terrible thing.
I mean, I'm paraphrasing and I'm being simplistic, but it
says war is a terrible thing.
Speaker 5 (09:17):
Way too many people have died.
Speaker 4 (09:19):
This war needs to end in a way that's enduring,
an essence echoing President Trump's view of what this conflict
needs to be and reminding the United Nations at the
purpose of the United Nations was the prevention of war
and the ending of conflicts, not making it harder to
end conflicts. So I thought it was good that we
got it done at the Security Council. The Russians didn't
(09:40):
veto it, which is a good sign. I'm not telling
you that that is going to end this conflict, and
I can't wait till at least the Phonic is there,
because it'd be great to have her leadership. But I
certainly think our language is better language, and hopefully further
is the cause of peace.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
President Trump today alongside French President Emanuel Macron, said that
he hopes it that this can be resolved in a
matter of weeks, not months. Weeks. What are some of
the major steps that we need to take to get
to that point.
Speaker 4 (10:08):
Well, I think the President would want it to end yesterday, right.
He thinks already too many people have died, There's been
too much destruction. By the way, I think everybody should
be very happy that President Trump is a peace president.
We have a president that wants to end wars, not
start new ones. He wants to end human suffering, not
exacerbated or extended. Now that said, it's a conflict, it's
a war, and it's going back and forth. We got
(10:29):
to get them both to the table, starting with the Russians.
So we met with him last week and the basic
question of that meeting was are you interested in ending
this conflict or not?
Speaker 5 (10:37):
A lot of people don't know the answer to that.
Speaker 4 (10:38):
If you talk to some in Europe, they'll tell you
that Putin is not interested in ending the war. They
said they would be under the right conditions. We didn't
discuss what those conditions were. So the next step now
is to meet with them again at some point, with
the right group of people in the room, and begin
to outline what would it take for Russia to stop
a war. And obviously we got to ask Ukraine the
same question, because you can't stop a war unless both
(10:59):
sides agreed to it. So whether it takes days or
weeks or what have you, we're going to begin that process.
It may not work out, but why would anybody criticize
President Trump for wanting to end a war that's cost
billions of dollars, hundreds of thousands of lives, and tremendous
and ongoing human suffering.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
You listen to what Marco Rubio said there, and now
you understand exactly why they decided to not try to
antagonize two countries. You're wanting to get to the table
to end the war. Now, the media is not going
to tell you this part of the story. They're not
going to play for you what I just played from
you for Marco Rubio. And this is exactly why I say,
(11:36):
I hope you take the information that I give you
every day here and you give it to others that
you know, because without all of us telling the story,
the media will continue to lie and win.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
Thank you for listening to the forty seven Morning Update
with Ben Ferguson. Please make sure you hit subscribe wherever
you're listening to this podcast right now and for more
in depth news, also subscribe to The Ferguson Podcast and
we will see you back here on Monday morning.
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