Guys like Schumer, our great Palestinian senator. This guy, no, he's changed. He used to like Jewish people. Now he's totally against Jewish people. It's the most incredible transformation I think I've ever seen.
You're listening to the forty seven Morning Update with Ben Ferguson.
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, in shocking testimony before Congress that the media is not reporting on a former Biden ade says quote she does not know who ordered President Biden's auto pen signatures. Will give you the details on what all she said to Congress and why this story
is being hidden from you. And also another major story, at least five more Iranian nationals who were in the country illegally with additional criminal backgrounds have been arrested by Ice in recent days. The number now to almost twenty individuals who have been arrested, some of them would direct
ties to terrorism and Iran. And finally, a former Biden official has now come out on TV saying that Iran's nuclear program was in fact set back significantly again, the complete opposite of what the media has been trying to sell you on. We have the receipts and we'll play it for you. It's the forty seven Morning Update and it starts right now.
Story number one.
There is a very important story that is getting virtually no coverage right now. So I hope all of you will share this information wherever you can. And that is the shocking a mission by a former Biden aide announcing that she does not know who ordered President Biden's auto pen signatures. Nira Tendon, a former Top eight president Joe Biden, told Congress under oath that she had authorization to direct autopenna for the president, but does not know who gave
the final order. Tendon served as the director of Biden's domestic policy counsel, and she told Congress during testimony that the president used an automatic signature tool allowing for aids to sign pardons, sign memos, and other official documents in the White House. Tannam said she did not know who
authorized any of those signatures. During her interview before Congress, which lasted more than five hours, she told lawmakers that in her role as staff secretary and senior advisor to the former president between twenty twenty one and twenty twenty three, that she was authorized to direct auto pen signatures on behalf of Biden. An Oversight Committee official has confirmed this
now to Fox News. Tennen, who reportedly said during her testimony that she had quote limited interactions with Biden in her role even though she was a senior adviser that, according to sources familiar with her tis testimony, described an approval process that left her at least partly in the dark about who specifically was giving final approval on the decisions to use the automatic signature tool, even though she'd
simultaneously insisted quote Biden was in charge. Tendon reportedly testified that it get approval for the use of autopen signatures, she would send decision memos to members of Biden's inner circle. Now remember these are people elected by no one. She added that she was not aware of what actions or what approvals took place between the times she sent the decision memo and the time she received it back with
the necessary approval. According to sources familiar with what happened in this testimony, a minority member of the Oversight Committee called Tandem's characterization quote a lie with a statement from a former White House staffer saying that they received quote a written sign off from Biden on every executive action she presented with him. The only problem is she's under oath and saying that's not how it went down at all. Any other characterization is a distortion of the testimony the Biden.
Former Biden officials stated, quote to inciniate that Nira Tanem said President Biden did not approve every single presidential decision and sign off on every executive action coming out of the White House is a lie. Well, she's saying that it's the truth. Tenem's attorney agreed with the staffer, adding that the autopens were used after Biden approved the decisions, saying this in a clean up statement, the auto pen was used only after President Biden personally approved the decision.
Aids at no time signed these documents on President Biden's behalf. Again, that's not what her testimony was under oath. So just know this is the big story that we should be talking about, and also know that the media will not touch the fact that a former Biden aid does not know ooh, this is her testimony. Who ordered the present auto pen signatures.
Next story number two.
At least five more Iranian nationals who are in this country illegally now off the streets as real threats to our national security. This coming after eleven we're arrested over the weekend, and this is a real problem now as we're talking about Iranian sleeper cells being a threat to this country. More Iranians with major criminal histories being arrested and targeted by ICE, and what the White House is referring to is a major security sweep, saying these are
the worst of the worst among US. Now, officials are touting this as a full throttle go after anyone they can who is in this country that may be a known or suspected terrorists and have direct connections to Iran. That is what they're trying to do. I want you to hear more about what's happening in a report from Fox.
Concern about our say to hear at home. In the wake of the strikes on Iran's nuclear sites. Breaking news today, Immigration and Customs agents announced they have arrested fifteen illegal Iranian immigrants since Sunday. One of them admitted to ties to Hesbelah in Lebanon, a law enforcement source told Fox News the FBI is closely watching for any Iranian back
sleeper agents in the wake of Operation Midnight Hammer. During the Biden administration, border agents arrested more than one thousand, five hundred Iranians who entered illegally at our southern border. They let nearly half of them go. President Trump on that this morning.
Biden led a lot of supercells, that Biden was an ad competent. President had no idea what he was doing. He let a lot of supercells in, many from Iran. But hopefully we'll take care of them. What Biden did to this country should never be forgotten.
Justice correspondent David Spunt is in Washington.
David well Harris, the news about the fifteen Iranian nationals coming illegally into the US is no surprise to the people at the Justice Department, the FBI, and of course, the Department of Homeland Security. According to authorities, one of them has ties to HESBLA, another is an alleged former sniper for the Iranian Army. At a budget hearing yesterday, Attorney General Pam Bondi said the number of Iranians illegally in the United States continues to grow.
It's well over one thousand have entered our country, and I can tell you we are on high alert and everyone is looking at that very closely now.
She says budget cuts won't affect the overall mission. DOJ and the FBI continue to focus on threats toward President Trump himself as a result of his ordering of the killing of this man, General Kasim Solomani in January twenty twenty, assassination plots originating in Iran not only toward President Trump, but to US residents who once lived in Iran. DHS Secretary of Christy Nome, seen there yesterday, was asked about
sleeper cells in the United States. Those are groups of people who live among us in the US quietly until order to act.
We've seen some from overseas and some that have been here, maybe gone overseas for short to time, become radicalized and come back, or individuals that are right.
Here in the United States.
NLM held a conference call with some of the nation's governors over the weekend of pledge federal resources to help on the state level to combat any threats, whether federal or local. Attorney General Bondi back in front of lawmakers tomorrow to talk about the DOJ budget, but you could expect some of these topics also will likely come up.
If you go back to the list of the individuals that have been arrested and what they've been arrested for. One of the ones I mentioned earlier was out of Atlanta, an individual that was arrested in Alabama. And this was a guy that served as an Iranian Army sniper. Now he didn't serve as an Iranian Army sniper like twenty years ago. The individual served as an Iranian Army sniper from twenty eighteen to twenty twenty one, and at the time of his arrests in America, he was in possession.
He had an Islamic Republic Army identification card on his person. Right, if you don't want to be involved in that, why would you have it on your person. You go to another example ice in Houston. They arrested another Iranian there. When they arrested him, he was carrying a loaded nine millimeter pistol. They arrested him, by the way, in seventeen in Harris County, that is Houston, Texas. The police arrest him for assaulting a family member and impeding breathing, meaning
you're strangling someone. You also go to another person in Houston, another Iranian national. An immigration judge had ordered him removed nearly twenty years ago on August fourth of two thousand and five. He's been twice convicted of drug crimes and one's convicted driving on a suspended license. He's still in America. There's problems here. There's another example of this. A man in Arizona arrested again another Iranian. He had a final
order of removal. He was convicted of threatening a law enforcement officer and being an alien in possession of a firearm. So these are as the President would describe it bat ownbrace right. You have officials that arrested another man that was in the country illegally from Iran. The man threatened to open fire on ice officials if they entered her home, and then she would go outside and shoot ice officers in the head quote unquote. So it's not just men,
it's also women. You had another twenty two year old in Mississippi, an Iranian national and former lawful permanent resident. Well, guess what he lied on his original visa application and committed potential marriage fraud as well. This is a guy who quote is listed as a known or suspected terrorists. He's now an ice custody pitning removal. You have another man in Colorado, an individual after a judge had already
ordered him to be removed. His criminal history include state and federal convictions for drug crimes and arrests for assault and child abuse. No big deal, right, totally fine. You got a man in Saint Paul a man that was fifty six year old Iranian national. He's been victed of being a felon in possession of a firearm in Minneapolis. He was sentenced to fifteen months in prison. He's also a former member of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard with admitted
connections directly to Hezballah. You got another guy in San Francisco, sixty two year old Iranian national with a criminal history that includes a conviction for petty theft and a conviction of possession of a controlled substance for sale. He was sent to ten years in state prison for drug conviction and now he's in ice custody. Or go to Buffalo.
You've got another Iranian national there, a man convicted of grand larceny, schemes to defraud, criminal impersonation, and practicing as an attorney, another example of the people that they're taking off the streets. So when you look at what we are now witnessing, it is very clear that there are real people in this country that are trying to do harm to this country that were let in under the
last administration. That is, the last administration knew that these people were coming into this country, and they just didn't care. They wanted to flood the country with as many illegal immigrants as they possibly could, and they just didn't care who was coming in, how they were getting in this country. It didn't matter. And that's incredibly sad. Let me also
say one other final thing here. I expect this to get worse before it gets better, with a number of illegal immigrants that we're going to find that are a real threat to our national security, and we should do everything we can to support and advocate for Ice and this administration to find them wherever they have to in the country.
And here is story number three.
There is a new classified report that is suggesting that Iran's nuclear program, still intact, likely relied on faulty info Iranian propaganda from Iranian sources. This is when the media decided to run with the story, knowing that their propaganda
was literally coming from Iran. The top secret Defense intelligence agency known as the DIA assessment that claimed a RAN's nuclear sites suffered only moderate damage likely relied on faulty information from deceitful Iranian sources that according to several former US intelligence officers, one of whom described the documents as
so unreliable you can wipe your aass with it. The classified DIA report ignited a media firestorm in the days after President Donald Trump authorized those precision strikes on Iran's top three nuclear sites. The findings, of course, werein the league to CNN and The New York Times, which you heard about a moment ago. Then they presented them as facts, as bombshell evidence that the US bombing run only set back Tehran's nuclear ambitions by you know, a couple of months.
The US intelligence community deemed that an initial assessment with quote low confidence, a fact CNN purposely admitted from its original story and based it solely on satellite imagery and intercepted communications known as signal intelligence from Iranian officials. Again, think about this. You have the Iranian government putting out propaganda and media companies in this country, putting it out
there as fact. Shortly after the assessment leaked, Axios reported that communications intercepted by Israel suggested that Iran's military officials have been giving false situation reports to the country's political leadership, downplaying the extent of the damage. Such communications likely made
their way into the da report. According to three former US intelligence operatives, including a current US official and other veteran national security insiders, who spoke to The Washington Free Beacon both on and off the record, some of them referred to the DIA as the discount intelligence agency. It's basically messaging by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard, messaging by Tehran. That is what a former intelligence officer with the US Central Command who operated in the Middle East for nearly
thirty years set. In fact, CNN actually had to report on this, and here's what it sounded like when a former Biden official had this to say about Iran's nuclear program.
Oustein, a longtime diplomat who served as President Biden's senior advisor for Energy and Investment. And I think one question that regular people will have, you know, listening to what came out of that briefing today on Capitol Hill from Republicans from Democrats, is what should they take away when there is such a divide between the politicians over what is the fate of Iran's nuclear capacity and where that stands tonight?
What do you think?
Well, first, Kaitlin, it's good to be with you. Look, I think the most important thing is to separate out what's politics and what is happening on the ground over the last year year and a quarter. Last April, Iran launched a missile attack against Israel, which was one hundred ballistic missiles a company by two hundred or so UAVs. The United States military coordinated a response and defeated that attack. But that was really the first time that Iran and
used its own territory to attack Israel. They did it again in October, and again the United States supported Israel and with regional partners as well as European countries to defeat it. And now since then, Iran has lost most of its deterrence power. They had three things going for them. They had proxies, meaning terrorist organizations in Lebanon, in Syria
and Iraq and Yemen that supported them. The second was the missiles, and the third was the thread of a nuclear weaponization of their nuclear capabilities, most of their proxies are either weakened to the point they can't respond or are choosing now to distance themselves from Iran. Their missile capability has been proven to be less effective because of the United States ability to defend the region, and now their nuclear capability is likely at least set back. Now
the whole idea of obliterated or destroyed. These are political terms that are not really relevant, and I would urge Americans not to really pay attention to those words. What we do know, we know that as a result of the both the Israeli the American strikes, the nuclear program was set back significantly. How much we don't really know.
Most Israeli military analysts and generals that I've spoken to over the last twenty four to forty eight hours, I think this has gone from a six month's breakout to timeframe to two years, so an eighteen month or two year delay in their program. But here's the thing. They have also lost other capabilities. They've lost their command and control, they've lost military leaders, they've lost scientists, and they lost
their conversion so they're clearly weakened. And lastly, Israel has proven that they have an intelligens capability inside Iran that if they try to reconstitute we'll we the United States, Israel, other European allies will know about it.
Yet again, more proof of the propaganda coming from the media trying to convince you that somehow one of the most successful missions in modern military history was a failure, all because Donald Trump is the one that's said to do it.
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