October 30, 2025 • 19 mins
🔍 Arctic Frost Investigation
- Senator Chuck Grassley revealed that the FBI and DOJ, under the Biden administration, issued 197 subpoenas targeting 430 Republican individuals and entities.
- The subpoenas were part of a broader investigation led by Special Counsel Jack Smith, allegedly aimed at conservative groups and figures.
- Grassley claims this was a weaponized political operation, not a legitimate legal inquiry.
🧑💼 Targets and Scope
- Subpoenas were issued to 34 individuals and 163 businesses, including financial institutions and tech companies like Apple and AT&T.
- Targets included prominent conservative organizations such as Turning Point USA, Republican Attorney General’s Association, and even media outlets like Fox News, Newsmax, and CBS.
- Sitting members of Congress, including Senator Ted Cruz, were allegedly surveilled, with subpoenas seeking phone records and communications.
🧑⚖️ Judicial Allegations
- Senator Cruz accused Judge James E. Boasberg of signing secretive orders that prevented companies like AT&T from notifying senators about the subpoenas.
- Cruz called for Boasberg’s impeachment, claiming the judge abused his power and violated constitutional protections like the Speech and Debate Clause.
📢 Political Reaction
- Senator Ron Johnson joined Grassley in condemning the investigation, calling it a “Biden administration enemies list”.
- Both senators emphasized the need for whistleblowers to expose further corruption and restore integrity to federal agencies.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Twenty percent of the Republicans in the United States Senate
where the target of this fishing expedition. They did so
in complete contravention of the Constitution of separation of powers
of the Speech and Debate Clause of free speech of
basic rights of privacy. This is an executive who believes
(00:22):
it is justified spying on their opponents in the legislature.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
You're listening to the forty seven Morning Update with Ben ferguson.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Good Thursday morning. Nice to have you with us on
the forty seven Morning Update. And first off, if you
missed yesterday's show, go back and listen to it because
it directly ties in to the bombshell story that we're
going to explain to you right now that approximately one
hundred and sixty Republican figures may have been investigated as
(00:51):
part of the FBI's Arctic Frost pro into alleged efforts
by allies of President Trump. They claim to overturn the
twenty twenty e Live In reality, it was a phishing
expedition with wired taps and straight up spine on members
of Congress. You're not gonna believe all that we're going
to tell you about. In Senator Grasseley's new Bombshell Report.
(01:14):
But first, I want to tell you about an amazing
opportunity right now that I'm involved in and I cannot
wait for you to take advantage of it. I want
you to take some incredible courses at Hillsdale College for free.
You may not know this, but Hillsdale College has been
influencing conservatives like myself for decades. They had a huge
(01:36):
impact on Charlie Kirk's life, and even as memorial service
they talked about how Charlie took class after class after
class at Hillsdale College. Hillsdale College is now offering for you,
the listeners of this show, more than forty free I
want to say that again, free online courses. That's right,
(01:56):
more than forty free online courses. You can learn about
the works of C. S. Lewis, the stories in the
Book of Genesis, the meaning of the US Constitution, the
rise and fall of the Roman Republic, or the history
of the ancient Christian Church, all with Hillsdale College's free
online courses. Right now, I'm personally taking the Constitution one
(02:19):
oh one, and this course you're going to exploit the
design and the purpose of the Constitution. The challenges it
faced during the Civil War, and how it has been
undermined for more than a century by radical progressives and liberals.
This twelve lecture course is self pace. It's another reason
why I love it. So start whenever and wherever in
(02:42):
our country. We need more Americans like you and I
than understand the Constitution and can defend the freedom of
the American people against the left and their increasing encroachments
on our God given rights. So start your classes today
for free. Start your free construate here as you want
to one course right now.
Speaker 4 (03:02):
How do you do it?
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Go to Hillsdale dot edu slash Morning Update to enroll
and it's no cost. It's easy to get started. You
got to use a special website Hillsdale dot edu slash
Morning Update. Enroll for free Hillsdale dot edu slash Morning Update.
It's the forty seven Morning Update and it starts right now.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Story number one.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
If you miss.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
Yesterday's show, you need to go back and listen to
the podcast because what was a big story then has
now gone into a nuclear bomb today. Senter Chuck Grassley,
the Republican from Iowa, has now released one hundred and
ninety seven subpoenas that the Biden administration's FBI use to
(03:51):
seek testimony and documents related to hundreds of Republicans and
GOP entities as part of the bureaus. Arctic Frost pro
the prosecutor to former Special Council Jack Smith's election investigation,
which now is in essence a hit list, a target list,
a black book of influential conservatives and members of Congress
(04:16):
who they wanted to target. Arctic Frost was the vehicle
by which partisan FBI agents, Chuck Grassey said, and DOJ
prosecutors could improperly investigate the entire Republican political apparatus. I
want you to hear exactly what Chuck Grassey had to
say at this press conference. It is shocking, and now
(04:40):
we know just how corrupt the Democratic Party was under
the Biden administration.
Speaker 5 (04:46):
A little bit of history before I get to what
we're releasing today. I started the investigation into Arctic Frost
July twenty twenty.
Speaker 4 (04:56):
Two, based on whistleblower disclosures.
Speaker 5 (05:00):
Based on these disclosures, we know that weaponized, taxpayer funded
agents and prosecutors advanced the investigation as Arctic Frost advanced
ninety two Republican organizations or individuals were targeted, not just Trump,
(05:20):
and they were added to its scope. And author of
that targeting list was Special Agent wash and Walter Jaredino.
He's the same weaponized agent who was involved in other
cases against Republicans, including Peter Navarro. We've learned Jack Smith
(05:41):
secretly obtained phone record data from at least eight.
Speaker 4 (05:46):
Senators and one Congressman.
Speaker 5 (05:48):
I've recently been informed by Verizon that at least eleven
members with Verizon accounts were affected. That includes a hardline
for Senator Cruz's office and a staffer cell phone for
former Senator Leffler.
Speaker 4 (06:04):
At and T inform me.
Speaker 5 (06:07):
They challenged the legal basis for Jack Smith's efforts and
Smith's back down. So today we're making public new records
that I've attained through legally protected whistleblower disclosures. One hundred
and ninety seven subpoenas were issued by Jack Smith and
(06:27):
his team. These subpoenas were issued to thirty four individuals.
Speaker 6 (06:33):
And one hundred and sixty three businesses, including financial institutions,
and one of the points of contact on many of
these subpoenas.
Speaker 5 (06:43):
Was that person I previously named, Special Agent Walter Geardino.
The subpoena requested records and communications related to over four
hundred and thirty individual and organizations, all of them appear
to be aimed at Republicans. A subpoena to Event Strategies
(07:05):
requested records relating to Turning Point USA and the Republican
Attorney General's Association. One subpoena to Apple sought records relating
to Trump and the January sixth prison choir. Earlier this year,
I obtained emails between and among J. P. Cooney, one
(07:27):
of Jack Smith's prosecutors. That email exchange was March twenty
twenty three about a partisan news article on January sixth,
and this is what Cooney said in the email. Can
we do some work to nail down Trump's role in this,
perhaps with the same process on Ed Henry's LLCT.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
You look at what Chuck Grassley is talking about here,
and it's truly incredible. What he's describing is the Democratic
Party saying we are going to use our DOJ, the FBI,
thisa whoever, we need to open up investigations and then
go out and attack our political enemies. Now, this is
a direct contradictory statement of facts to what Smith had
(08:16):
said publicly this it was clearly a phishing expedition. Grassley
went on to say, standing alongside Grassley, center Ron Johnson,
he called the subpoenas nothing short of a Biden administration
enemies list. Take a Listen to Johnson in his own.
Speaker 7 (08:32):
Words, I think it's important to note that the records
that we are now making public in the personal Transparency
were not obtained from the agency. They were obtained through
a whistleblower sorom. Our first point is we need more
whistle blowers. We need people men and women inside these
agencies who have integrity, who want to see the integrity
(08:53):
andre credibility of the Department Justice of the FBI. We
stored come forward because right now, I think for tail
Pan Bondy are overwhelmed by all the messages they're trying
to clean up. The agencies have been lost a lot
of personnel people simply couldn't serve the Trump administration. It's
hard to hire people because of all the lawfare, and
they're still partisan actors burrowed in trying to sabotage their efforts.
Speaker 4 (09:17):
So we need whistleblowers.
Speaker 7 (09:18):
The reason they come forward to Chairman Grassley is because
he's been such a champion of whistleblowers, So again I
thank him for that. What is revealed in those seventeen
hundred PAGs of documents, in those one hundred and ninety
seven subpoenas is nothing short of a Biden administration enemies list.
You know, I'm old enough to understand how toxic a
term that was under Richard Nixon. This is far worse,
(09:41):
far worse orders the magnitude worse. People need to understand
how politicized the Biden ministration turned all these agencies. And again,
the best way to describe President Biden's attitude his exact quotes.
We thought basically half America were domestic terrorists. In September
twenty twenty two, in front of Indpenn's Hall, he said
Donald Trump and the Magan Republicans represent an extremism that
(10:03):
threatens the very foundation of our republic. A year later,
in New York City, Donald Trump is mega Republicans are
determined to destroy American democracy. Now, nothing could be further
from the truth. That is a level of paranoia that's
actually astonishing. But the fact that thirty eight Wisconsinites are
on that enemy's list, I know most of those individuals.
(10:24):
They are god fearing, country loving law law, law enforcement
supporting people who want to see America succeed. The fact
that they are on a Biden administration enemies list, we're
targeted by that administration is outrageous. It should shock every
American And so I am calling on and I appreciate
all the members of the Juiciary Committee. We need to
(10:46):
get to the bottom of this. We need to do
everything we can to assist Director Patel and ag Bondie
in making sure that they have the staff to take
control of these agencies, that they're the heads of them.
I don't think they have the I think they're being
sabotaged within. But the American people need to understand exactly
what happened. And again I'm calling on members of the
(11:06):
Judiciary commit to help SENDI Grassing myself get to the
bottom of this so we can expose this so this
doesn't happen again in America.
Speaker 4 (11:14):
This has to end.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
You can hear Johnson there obviously very angry about what
he has witnessed and now the data that he has uncovered.
This is a massive abuse of power by the Biden administration,
and it attacked anyone they thought was their political enemy.
Johnson is not the only one that is furious about
what they are uncovering. There's also other members of Congress
(11:38):
who were spied upon, sitting members of Congress. One of
them was Senator Ted Kruz. And I want you to
hear what Senator Cruz said after he found out that
his office phone, in his actual office in the United
States Senate building was tapped. Why because he was a Conservative?
That was the crime. Take a listen.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
Arctic from US is Joe Biden's Watergate Merrick Garland was
a fundamentally corrupt Attorney General. Jack Smith was a fundamentally
corrupt prosecutor. This was a political enemies list from the beginning,
one hundred and ninety seven subpoenas for four hundred and
thirty Republican entities and individuals. That is an absolute and
(12:23):
egregious abuse of power. The Biden Justice Department signed off
on issuing subpoenas for the phone records of at least
nine US senators, twenty percent of the Republicans in the
United States Senate where the target of this fishing expedition.
They did so in complete contravention of the Constitution of
(12:46):
separation of powers of the Speech and Debate clause of
free speech of basic rights of privacy. This is an
executive who believes it is justified spying on their opponents
in the legislature because they convinced themselves the ends justify
the means. I want to talk to you about one
of those subpoenas. One of those subpoenas went from Jack
(13:07):
Smith to AT and T seeking my cell phone communications.
It went to AT and T, and I actually want
to commend AT and T for doing the right thing.
Speaker 4 (13:16):
AT and T is based in Texas.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
AT and T looked at that subpoena, and they went
to their legal council and they said, what should we
do with that subpoena? And their legal council said, you
cannot comply because this is protected by the Speech and
Debate clause of the US Constitution. And so AT and
T declined to comply. Did not hand over my cell
phone records. Now, one might ask, ordinarily a phone company
(13:39):
being asked to hand over the phone records of a
sitting senator would notify that senator. Well, there was a
reason AT and T did not do so. Accompanying the
subpoena was an order which I have in my hand
right here an order that was signed by Judge James E.
Speaker 4 (13:56):
Bosberg. Now, who is Bosburg?
Speaker 1 (13:58):
Boseburg is that radical left disjudge who is out of control,
who has been issuing nationwide injunctions one after the other,
trying to stop President Trump from carrying out his mandate
from the voters. Judge Boseburg issued an order to the
US to AT and T and sign that order prohibiting
AT and T from informing me of this subpoena for
(14:19):
at least one year. And Judge Boseburg gave the basis
for that order. And I'm going to quote from the
order Judge Boseburg signed. The Court finds reasonable grounds to
believe that such disclosure will result in destruction of or
tampering with evidence, intimidation of potential witnesses, and serious jeopardy
(14:40):
to the investigation. That's an order a judge sign. Now,
I can tell you right now there is precisely zero
evidence to conclude that I am likely to destroy or
tamper with evidence or to intimidate potential witnesses, zero evidentiary
basis for that. This order is an abusive power. This
(15:00):
order is a weaponized legal system.
Speaker 4 (15:03):
My assumption.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
We don't have the subpoenas that were issued for the
other senators, but my assumption is Judge Boseburg printed these
things out like the placemats at Denny's, one after the other.
We don't know that for a fact, but I feel
confident that he concluded it's likely that Lindsey Graham would
destroy evidence, and Marshall Blackburn would destroy evidence, and Eric
Schmidt would destroy evidence, and Chuck Grassley would destroy evidence.
(15:26):
If a litigant makes a claim for which there is
no factual basis, that litigant is subject to sanctions in
federal court. And if a judge signs an order reaching
a factual conclusion for which there is zero evidence whatsoever,
that judge is abusing his power. I am right now
calling on the House of Representatives to impeach Judge Bozburg.
Judge Bosburg put his robe down, stood up, and said,
(15:49):
sign me up to be part of the partisan vendetta
against twenty percent of the Republicans in the Senate. That
is a dereliction of duty and a violation of the
judicial And I want to thank Chairman Grassley and Chairman
Johnson for pursuing this tenaciously like a dog on a bone.
We are going to get the answers of every person
who signed off on this abuse of power, and mark
(16:12):
my words, there will be accountability for these zelots who
wanted to corrupt the Department of Justice and corrupt the
judiciary in order to try to attack their enemies list.
That is unconstitutional, it is ibmoral, and it is wrong.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
This is Biden's Watergate. I could not agree more with
Senator Cruz when he said that earlier. I couldn't agree
more with Senator Ron Johnson when he called the subpoenas
nothing short of Biden's administration's enemies list. These subpoenas were
non public for a reason. These subpoenas were confidential grand
jury material that Grassy said he obtained through whistle blower disclosures.
(16:49):
They were trying to hide this from the current administration.
The subpoenas sought certain communications with media companies as well.
We've now learned that those media companies and could Fox
News Channel, CBS, Sinclair, Newsmax, and with members of aids
in Congress also being put under the well fishing expedition.
(17:11):
We also know they saw it sweeping financial information from
conservative entities as well, those conservative entities. They wanted to
use the federal governments to silence them, to shut them down.
This was literally an enemy's list, and it was all
disguised by the Democratic Party in quiet, privately to make
(17:33):
sure that you and I never found it. It was
also designed to make sure that people like Senator Cruz
could not stop it when it was happening. And why
did they not want them to know about it? Why
did they lie and say that while these senators who
they were spying on could not be trusted, that they
might try to intimidate witnesses with no evidence to back
(17:55):
that up. Because they knew if these senators found out
about this, they would have the eagle grounds to stop
the Biden administration immediately. And that is exactly why they said, Okay,
we are done. We will do it in silence, we
will do it quietly. And they were betting on winning
the next election so they'd never be held accountable for
what they just did. And the massive abuse of power
(18:18):
that they were in charge of. This was not legal
in any way. This was corruption in every way, and
now Donald Trump's administration has exposed it because of great
men and women who have risked their careers as whistle
blowers trusting the system. One of the things you heard
(18:38):
there at the very beginning was sender, Grassley and Johnson
talking about we need more whistle blowers to come forward,
and whistle blowers that are witnessing now the protections they're
receiving from the Trump administration are probably a thousand times
more likely to come forward than they would have during
the Biden era when they could clearly see just how
(18:58):
corrupt they were as a administration. One final thing about this,
I expect there is going to be even more bombshells
to come forward, more corruption that will be unearthed. And
as all of this corruption continues to be exposed, the
question now is who will be held accountable for it.
(19:20):
Will keep you updated on that, I can promise you.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
Thank you for listening to the forty seven Morning Update
with Ben Ferguson. Please make sure you hit subscribe wherever
you're listening to this podcast right now and for more
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and we will see you back here tomorrow
Twenty percent of the Republicans in the United States Senate
where the target of this fishing expedition. They did so
in complete contravention of the Constitution of separation of powers
of the Speech and Debate Clause of free speech of
basic rights of privacy. This is an executive who believes
(00:22):
it is justified spying on their opponents in the legislature.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
You're listening to the forty seven Morning Update with Ben ferguson.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Good Thursday morning. Nice to have you with us on
the forty seven Morning Update. And first off, if you
missed yesterday's show, go back and listen to it because
it directly ties in to the bombshell story that we're
going to explain to you right now that approximately one
hundred and sixty Republican figures may have been investigated as
(00:51):
part of the FBI's Arctic Frost pro into alleged efforts
by allies of President Trump. They claim to overturn the
twenty twenty e Live In reality, it was a phishing
expedition with wired taps and straight up spine on members
of Congress. You're not gonna believe all that we're going
to tell you about. In Senator Grasseley's new Bombshell Report.
(01:14):
But first, I want to tell you about an amazing
opportunity right now that I'm involved in and I cannot
wait for you to take advantage of it. I want
you to take some incredible courses at Hillsdale College for free.
You may not know this, but Hillsdale College has been
influencing conservatives like myself for decades. They had a huge
(01:36):
impact on Charlie Kirk's life, and even as memorial service
they talked about how Charlie took class after class after
class at Hillsdale College. Hillsdale College is now offering for you,
the listeners of this show, more than forty free I
want to say that again, free online courses. That's right,
(01:56):
more than forty free online courses. You can learn about
the works of C. S. Lewis, the stories in the
Book of Genesis, the meaning of the US Constitution, the
rise and fall of the Roman Republic, or the history
of the ancient Christian Church, all with Hillsdale College's free
online courses. Right now, I'm personally taking the Constitution one
(02:19):
oh one, and this course you're going to exploit the
design and the purpose of the Constitution. The challenges it
faced during the Civil War, and how it has been
undermined for more than a century by radical progressives and liberals.
This twelve lecture course is self pace. It's another reason
why I love it. So start whenever and wherever in
(02:42):
our country. We need more Americans like you and I
than understand the Constitution and can defend the freedom of
the American people against the left and their increasing encroachments
on our God given rights. So start your classes today
for free. Start your free construate here as you want
to one course right now.
Speaker 4 (03:02):
How do you do it?
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Go to Hillsdale dot edu slash Morning Update to enroll
and it's no cost. It's easy to get started. You
got to use a special website Hillsdale dot edu slash
Morning Update. Enroll for free Hillsdale dot edu slash Morning Update.
It's the forty seven Morning Update and it starts right now.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Story number one.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
If you miss.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
Yesterday's show, you need to go back and listen to
the podcast because what was a big story then has
now gone into a nuclear bomb today. Senter Chuck Grassley,
the Republican from Iowa, has now released one hundred and
ninety seven subpoenas that the Biden administration's FBI use to
(03:51):
seek testimony and documents related to hundreds of Republicans and
GOP entities as part of the bureaus. Arctic Frost pro
the prosecutor to former Special Council Jack Smith's election investigation,
which now is in essence a hit list, a target list,
a black book of influential conservatives and members of Congress
(04:16):
who they wanted to target. Arctic Frost was the vehicle
by which partisan FBI agents, Chuck Grassey said, and DOJ
prosecutors could improperly investigate the entire Republican political apparatus. I
want you to hear exactly what Chuck Grassey had to
say at this press conference. It is shocking, and now
(04:40):
we know just how corrupt the Democratic Party was under
the Biden administration.
Speaker 5 (04:46):
A little bit of history before I get to what
we're releasing today. I started the investigation into Arctic Frost
July twenty twenty.
Speaker 4 (04:56):
Two, based on whistleblower disclosures.
Speaker 5 (05:00):
Based on these disclosures, we know that weaponized, taxpayer funded
agents and prosecutors advanced the investigation as Arctic Frost advanced
ninety two Republican organizations or individuals were targeted, not just Trump,
(05:20):
and they were added to its scope. And author of
that targeting list was Special Agent wash and Walter Jaredino.
He's the same weaponized agent who was involved in other
cases against Republicans, including Peter Navarro. We've learned Jack Smith
(05:41):
secretly obtained phone record data from at least eight.
Speaker 4 (05:46):
Senators and one Congressman.
Speaker 5 (05:48):
I've recently been informed by Verizon that at least eleven
members with Verizon accounts were affected. That includes a hardline
for Senator Cruz's office and a staffer cell phone for
former Senator Leffler.
Speaker 4 (06:04):
At and T inform me.
Speaker 5 (06:07):
They challenged the legal basis for Jack Smith's efforts and
Smith's back down. So today we're making public new records
that I've attained through legally protected whistleblower disclosures. One hundred
and ninety seven subpoenas were issued by Jack Smith and
(06:27):
his team. These subpoenas were issued to thirty four individuals.
Speaker 6 (06:33):
And one hundred and sixty three businesses, including financial institutions,
and one of the points of contact on many of
these subpoenas.
Speaker 5 (06:43):
Was that person I previously named, Special Agent Walter Geardino.
The subpoena requested records and communications related to over four
hundred and thirty individual and organizations, all of them appear
to be aimed at Republicans. A subpoena to Event Strategies
(07:05):
requested records relating to Turning Point USA and the Republican
Attorney General's Association. One subpoena to Apple sought records relating
to Trump and the January sixth prison choir. Earlier this year,
I obtained emails between and among J. P. Cooney, one
(07:27):
of Jack Smith's prosecutors. That email exchange was March twenty
twenty three about a partisan news article on January sixth,
and this is what Cooney said in the email. Can
we do some work to nail down Trump's role in this,
perhaps with the same process on Ed Henry's LLCT.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
You look at what Chuck Grassley is talking about here,
and it's truly incredible. What he's describing is the Democratic
Party saying we are going to use our DOJ, the FBI,
thisa whoever, we need to open up investigations and then
go out and attack our political enemies. Now, this is
a direct contradictory statement of facts to what Smith had
(08:16):
said publicly this it was clearly a phishing expedition. Grassley
went on to say, standing alongside Grassley, center Ron Johnson,
he called the subpoenas nothing short of a Biden administration
enemies list. Take a Listen to Johnson in his own.
Speaker 7 (08:32):
Words, I think it's important to note that the records
that we are now making public in the personal Transparency
were not obtained from the agency. They were obtained through
a whistleblower sorom. Our first point is we need more
whistle blowers. We need people men and women inside these
agencies who have integrity, who want to see the integrity
(08:53):
andre credibility of the Department Justice of the FBI. We
stored come forward because right now, I think for tail
Pan Bondy are overwhelmed by all the messages they're trying
to clean up. The agencies have been lost a lot
of personnel people simply couldn't serve the Trump administration. It's
hard to hire people because of all the lawfare, and
they're still partisan actors burrowed in trying to sabotage their efforts.
Speaker 4 (09:17):
So we need whistleblowers.
Speaker 7 (09:18):
The reason they come forward to Chairman Grassley is because
he's been such a champion of whistleblowers, So again I
thank him for that. What is revealed in those seventeen
hundred PAGs of documents, in those one hundred and ninety
seven subpoenas is nothing short of a Biden administration enemies list.
You know, I'm old enough to understand how toxic a
term that was under Richard Nixon. This is far worse,
(09:41):
far worse orders the magnitude worse. People need to understand
how politicized the Biden ministration turned all these agencies. And again,
the best way to describe President Biden's attitude his exact quotes.
We thought basically half America were domestic terrorists. In September
twenty twenty two, in front of Indpenn's Hall, he said
Donald Trump and the Magan Republicans represent an extremism that
(10:03):
threatens the very foundation of our republic. A year later,
in New York City, Donald Trump is mega Republicans are
determined to destroy American democracy. Now, nothing could be further
from the truth. That is a level of paranoia that's
actually astonishing. But the fact that thirty eight Wisconsinites are
on that enemy's list, I know most of those individuals.
(10:24):
They are god fearing, country loving law law, law enforcement
supporting people who want to see America succeed. The fact
that they are on a Biden administration enemies list, we're
targeted by that administration is outrageous. It should shock every
American And so I am calling on and I appreciate
all the members of the Juiciary Committee. We need to
(10:46):
get to the bottom of this. We need to do
everything we can to assist Director Patel and ag Bondie
in making sure that they have the staff to take
control of these agencies, that they're the heads of them.
I don't think they have the I think they're being
sabotaged within. But the American people need to understand exactly
what happened. And again I'm calling on members of the
(11:06):
Judiciary commit to help SENDI Grassing myself get to the
bottom of this so we can expose this so this
doesn't happen again in America.
Speaker 4 (11:14):
This has to end.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
You can hear Johnson there obviously very angry about what
he has witnessed and now the data that he has uncovered.
This is a massive abuse of power by the Biden administration,
and it attacked anyone they thought was their political enemy.
Johnson is not the only one that is furious about
what they are uncovering. There's also other members of Congress
(11:38):
who were spied upon, sitting members of Congress. One of
them was Senator Ted Kruz. And I want you to
hear what Senator Cruz said after he found out that
his office phone, in his actual office in the United
States Senate building was tapped. Why because he was a Conservative?
That was the crime. Take a listen.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
Arctic from US is Joe Biden's Watergate Merrick Garland was
a fundamentally corrupt Attorney General. Jack Smith was a fundamentally
corrupt prosecutor. This was a political enemies list from the beginning,
one hundred and ninety seven subpoenas for four hundred and
thirty Republican entities and individuals. That is an absolute and
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egregious abuse of power. The Biden Justice Department signed off
on issuing subpoenas for the phone records of at least
nine US senators, twenty percent of the Republicans in the
United States Senate where the target of this fishing expedition.
They did so in complete contravention of the Constitution of
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separation of powers of the Speech and Debate clause of
free speech of basic rights of privacy. This is an
executive who believes it is justified spying on their opponents
in the legislature because they convinced themselves the ends justify
the means. I want to talk to you about one
of those subpoenas. One of those subpoenas went from Jack
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Smith to AT and T seeking my cell phone communications.
It went to AT and T, and I actually want
to commend AT and T for doing the right thing.
Speaker 4 (13:16):
AT and T is based in Texas.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
AT and T looked at that subpoena, and they went
to their legal council and they said, what should we
do with that subpoena? And their legal council said, you
cannot comply because this is protected by the Speech and
Debate clause of the US Constitution. And so AT and
T declined to comply. Did not hand over my cell
phone records. Now, one might ask, ordinarily a phone company
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being asked to hand over the phone records of a
sitting senator would notify that senator. Well, there was a
reason AT and T did not do so. Accompanying the
subpoena was an order which I have in my hand
right here an order that was signed by Judge James E.
Speaker 4 (13:56):
Bosberg. Now, who is Bosburg?
Speaker 1 (13:58):
Boseburg is that radical left disjudge who is out of control,
who has been issuing nationwide injunctions one after the other,
trying to stop President Trump from carrying out his mandate
from the voters. Judge Boseburg issued an order to the
US to AT and T and sign that order prohibiting
AT and T from informing me of this subpoena for
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at least one year. And Judge Boseburg gave the basis
for that order. And I'm going to quote from the
order Judge Boseburg signed. The Court finds reasonable grounds to
believe that such disclosure will result in destruction of or
tampering with evidence, intimidation of potential witnesses, and serious jeopardy
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to the investigation. That's an order a judge sign. Now,
I can tell you right now there is precisely zero
evidence to conclude that I am likely to destroy or
tamper with evidence or to intimidate potential witnesses, zero evidentiary
basis for that. This order is an abusive power. This
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order is a weaponized legal system.
Speaker 4 (15:03):
My assumption.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
We don't have the subpoenas that were issued for the
other senators, but my assumption is Judge Boseburg printed these
things out like the placemats at Denny's, one after the other.
We don't know that for a fact, but I feel
confident that he concluded it's likely that Lindsey Graham would
destroy evidence, and Marshall Blackburn would destroy evidence, and Eric
Schmidt would destroy evidence, and Chuck Grassley would destroy evidence.
(15:26):
If a litigant makes a claim for which there is
no factual basis, that litigant is subject to sanctions in
federal court. And if a judge signs an order reaching
a factual conclusion for which there is zero evidence whatsoever,
that judge is abusing his power. I am right now
calling on the House of Representatives to impeach Judge Bozburg.
Judge Bosburg put his robe down, stood up, and said,
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sign me up to be part of the partisan vendetta
against twenty percent of the Republicans in the Senate. That
is a dereliction of duty and a violation of the
judicial And I want to thank Chairman Grassley and Chairman
Johnson for pursuing this tenaciously like a dog on a bone.
We are going to get the answers of every person
who signed off on this abuse of power, and mark
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my words, there will be accountability for these zelots who
wanted to corrupt the Department of Justice and corrupt the
judiciary in order to try to attack their enemies list.
That is unconstitutional, it is ibmoral, and it is wrong.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
This is Biden's Watergate. I could not agree more with
Senator Cruz when he said that earlier. I couldn't agree
more with Senator Ron Johnson when he called the subpoenas
nothing short of Biden's administration's enemies list. These subpoenas were
non public for a reason. These subpoenas were confidential grand
jury material that Grassy said he obtained through whistle blower disclosures.
(16:49):
They were trying to hide this from the current administration.
The subpoenas sought certain communications with media companies as well.
We've now learned that those media companies and could Fox
News Channel, CBS, Sinclair, Newsmax, and with members of aids
in Congress also being put under the well fishing expedition.
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We also know they saw it sweeping financial information from
conservative entities as well, those conservative entities. They wanted to
use the federal governments to silence them, to shut them down.
This was literally an enemy's list, and it was all
disguised by the Democratic Party in quiet, privately to make
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sure that you and I never found it. It was
also designed to make sure that people like Senator Cruz
could not stop it when it was happening. And why
did they not want them to know about it? Why
did they lie and say that while these senators who
they were spying on could not be trusted, that they
might try to intimidate witnesses with no evidence to back
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that up. Because they knew if these senators found out
about this, they would have the eagle grounds to stop
the Biden administration immediately. And that is exactly why they said, Okay,
we are done. We will do it in silence, we
will do it quietly. And they were betting on winning
the next election so they'd never be held accountable for
what they just did. And the massive abuse of power
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that they were in charge of. This was not legal
in any way. This was corruption in every way, and
now Donald Trump's administration has exposed it because of great
men and women who have risked their careers as whistle
blowers trusting the system. One of the things you heard
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there at the very beginning was sender, Grassley and Johnson
talking about we need more whistle blowers to come forward,
and whistle blowers that are witnessing now the protections they're
receiving from the Trump administration are probably a thousand times
more likely to come forward than they would have during
the Biden era when they could clearly see just how
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corrupt they were as a administration. One final thing about this,
I expect there is going to be even more bombshells
to come forward, more corruption that will be unearthed. And
as all of this corruption continues to be exposed, the
question now is who will be held accountable for it.
(19:20):
Will keep you updated on that, I can promise you.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
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