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BONUS POD： Biden’s Doctor Pleads the Fifth plus Iranian Fatwas Target Trump


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Former White House physician Dr. Kevin O'Connor pleads the Fifth during a House Oversight Committee hearing. Who was the president of the United States of America when Joe Biden was mentally incapacitated? Also, new threats against Donald Trump are coming directly from Iran.

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00:00:00.000 This is an iHeart Podcast.
00:00:02.520 Guaranteed human.
00:00:05.700 Where these sleeper cells may be is in plain sight.
00:00:10.540 Everyone's scrambling because certain amounts of people could come in here
00:00:13.800 and get in here really relatively easy.
00:00:17.480 The Biden administration, instead of putting them into DHS housing,
00:00:21.560 they were allowed passage into the United States can just disappear.
00:00:24.760 They are working off the books.
00:00:26.260 They can get a fake ID.
00:00:27.400 They can even get weapons with that fake ID in certain states.
00:00:31.380 You're listening to the 47 Morning Update with Ben Ferguson.
00:00:35.020 Good Thursday morning.
00:00:35.860 Nice to have you with us on the 47 Morning Update.
00:00:38.340 And we've got two very big stories for you.
00:00:40.880 First up, a massive cover-up of Joe Biden's cognitive decline
00:00:45.580 now includes apparently his own doctor who is pleading the fifth.
00:00:50.500 So what happens next?
00:00:51.900 We'll have that story for you in a moment.
00:00:53.760 Also, new threats against Donald Trump's life.
00:00:57.600 This time coming directly out of Iran.
00:01:00.200 And the second part of that story is how many sleeper cells could be active in the United States of America
00:01:05.700 from Iran as we speak.
00:01:07.800 We'll have that as well.
00:01:09.160 It's the 47 Morning Update and it starts right now.
00:01:12.500 Story number one.
00:01:13.560 So just how big was the cover-up of Joe Biden's decline?
00:01:18.420 And who was running the country?
00:01:20.140 It is a question that many Americans have asked for quite some time.
00:01:24.360 And it's a question that all of us deserve an answer to.
00:01:28.120 Who was the actual president of the United States of America?
00:01:31.540 Because clearly it was not Joe Biden.
00:01:34.700 Well, we now have subpoenas that have gone out to answer that question.
00:01:38.500 And James Comer is trying to get to the bottom of it in Congress.
00:01:42.400 That brings in the former Biden doctor.
00:01:45.980 President Joe Biden's former White House physician refused on Wednesday to answer questions
00:01:52.100 as part of the House Oversight Committee's investigation into Biden's health and office.
00:01:57.180 Dr. Kevin O'Connor invoked his rights under the Fifth Amendment during a closed-door interview
00:02:03.580 with the House Oversight Committee, his attorney and lawmakers both confirming.
00:02:09.320 The Republican Control Committee subpoenaed Dr. O'Connor last month as part of a sweeping investigation
00:02:15.080 into Biden's health and his mental fitness as president.
00:02:18.660 Republican Committee members claim some policies carried out during Biden's terms
00:02:23.040 through the use of the White House auto pen may be illegitimate.
00:02:27.180 If it's proven, the Democrat was mentally incapacitated for some of his term.
00:02:33.800 Biden has strongly denied that he was not in the right state of mind at any point while 0.67
00:02:38.200 in office, calling these claims, quote, ridiculous and false, which brings us to the lawyer.
00:02:44.560 David, one of O'Connor's lawyers, said the doctor had, quote, no choice but to invoke his
00:02:50.920 Fifth Amendment rights and testimony before the committee.
00:02:53.860 The lawyer cited that both O'Connor's responsibilities to protect patient privacy as a doctor and the
00:03:00.740 Justice Department's ongoing investigation to Biden's use of the auto pen gave him no other
00:03:06.000 choice.
00:03:07.020 O'Connor did not invoke doctor patient privilege, however, which would have allowed him to answer
00:03:12.640 questions from the panel that were not covered by that privilege.
00:03:17.240 Representative James Comer of Kentucky, the oversight chair, had this to say as they walked
00:03:23.580 out of the closed door meeting.
00:03:25.500 I can tell you exactly what happened.
00:03:27.480 Dr. O'Connor pleaded the Fifth Amendment.
00:03:30.200 And I'm going to I'm going to read the first two questions that were asked.
00:03:34.480 Were you ever told to lie about the president's health?
00:03:38.300 He pleaded the Fifth Amendment.
00:03:39.700 He would not answer that question.
00:03:41.180 The second question.
00:03:42.840 Did you ever believe President Biden was unfit to execute his duties?
00:03:47.460 Again, President Biden's White House position pleaded the Fifth Amendment.
00:03:51.640 This is unprecedented.
00:03:53.180 And I think that this adds more fuel to the fire, that there was a cover up.
00:03:58.000 I believe that this adds legitimacy to the Tapper book and the other books that are in the
00:04:04.140 works that are about to come out that shows there was there was a lot of suspicious activity
00:04:09.620 taking place in the White House with respect to the president's health.
00:04:13.780 This is something I think every American is concerned about.
00:04:17.260 I think every American wants to know the truth.
00:04:19.320 We're going to continue this investigation.
00:04:21.520 We'll move forward.
00:04:22.820 We have several other witnesses that are going to come in for depositions and transcribed interviews.
00:04:28.240 We will do everything in our ability to be transparent with the media, be transparent with the American people.
00:04:34.820 This is very serious.
00:04:36.680 And this was an opportunity for Dr. O'Connor to defend his reputation, to defend his work.
00:04:43.900 And he chose to take the Fifth.
00:04:46.580 And I think that, you know, that's something that every American is going to be concerned about.
00:04:51.580 Is some of that because of the doctor-patient confidentiality?
00:04:55.320 I mean, there are questions about, you know, HIPAA and Hippocratic Oath.
00:04:59.180 The first two questions pertained, again, were you ever told to lie about the president's health?
00:05:05.600 And he pled the Fifth.
00:05:07.060 But you know when they...
00:05:07.780 Had nothing to do with...
00:05:08.920 But you know that when you have these depositions, people don't toggle back and forth.
00:05:12.960 Either they invoke the Fifth or they don't.
00:05:14.840 Mm-hmm.
00:05:15.180 You know, so, I mean, could that have been just giving himself a shield overall?
00:05:18.620 Because they don't go back and forth.
00:05:19.960 You know, most people invoke the Fifth when they have criminal liability.
00:05:24.480 And, you know, that's what it would appear on the surface here.
00:05:29.040 So, we're not going to, you know, we're going to continue to move forward.
00:05:32.900 Obviously, I think his actions today speak loud and clear.
00:05:37.860 Again, this was an opportunity to come clean.
00:05:39.980 You know, you could say, oh, the president was in great health.
00:05:41.980 This is just a conspiracy theory.
00:05:44.160 He was fine.
00:05:45.180 I don't know why they used the auto pen 75% of the time when he was in the White House.
00:05:50.540 I mean, this is what it's all about.
00:05:51.900 It's about the auto pen.
00:05:53.340 There is serious concern, and the evidence mounts by the minute that Joe Biden had no idea what his name was being signed to.
00:06:03.100 And we're talking about executive orders.
00:06:05.520 And we are talking about pardons.
00:06:07.580 So, you know, what Dr. O'Connor did today only added fuel to the fire.
00:06:11.700 That there was a cover-up and that, you know, Joe Biden wasn't mentally fit to serve as President of the United States.
00:06:18.460 James Comer promising to get to the bottom of this.
00:06:21.720 But when your own doctor won't even tell you the basics of what's happening and then claiming, well, I had no other choice.
00:06:28.180 Comer also said this to Jesse Waters on Fox.
00:06:31.100 There was nothing asked in the beginning that would pertain to doctor-patient relationship.
00:06:35.940 This was a question, were you ever told to falsify medical documents for the President of the United States?
00:06:43.080 And he pled the fifth.
00:06:45.060 And then we asked the question, did you ever doubt his mental capacity to fulfill the duties of the presidency?
00:06:52.380 And again, he pled the fifth.
00:06:54.560 The only thing he answered was his name.
00:06:56.780 The only thing he answered was his name.
00:06:59.800 Yet again, another massive cover-up, this time including Joe Biden's doctor.
00:07:05.000 Now story number two.
00:07:06.240 In a shocking story, Donald Trump apparently has been targeted by Iranian death fatwas
00:07:12.600 as watchdog groups are now demanding immediate sanctions response because of the news.
00:07:18.860 A news report by the United Against Nuclear Iran is urging the U.S. government to impose sanctions
00:07:26.880 on senior Iranian clerics and regime-controlled institutions that have issued or promoted Islamic legal rulings
00:07:35.660 known as fatwas calling for the torture and assassination of President Donald Trump
00:07:42.440 as well as other American citizens and the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu.
00:07:48.860 Now the fatwas invoked the Islamic charge, waging war against God, a term in Iran's penal code
00:07:56.540 that mandates brutal punishments, including crucifixion and cross-assumption under the regime's
00:08:04.100 interpretation of Sharia law.
00:08:06.600 Today, UANI is exposing the individuals and entities in Iran hiding behind religion to foment terrorism abroad.
00:08:17.740 The threats against the President of the United States of America and other Americans are a federal crime.
00:08:23.520 Each of these individuals and entities should be sanctioned, indicted, and banned from travel
00:08:30.180 along with their families to the United States and its allies.
00:08:33.720 That is what a joint statement by former Governor Jeb Bush, the UANI's chairman, and Ambassador Mark Wallace, its CEO,
00:08:43.840 and former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. for Management and Reform, said in a statement.
00:08:50.800 The latest fatwa against another American citizen, Salman Rushdie, almost cost him his life.
00:08:57.720 With him being stabbed by an Iranian regime sympathizer, it is time to ensure that those who threaten Americans 1.00
00:09:05.200 face the full force of the law.
00:09:08.680 Now the UANI's new list identified not one, not two, not five, not eight, but 11 individuals
00:09:17.040 and two regime-aligned entities that have not been sanctioned under U.S. counterterrorism laws.
00:09:24.940 The organization is calling for all of them to be designated as specially designated global terrorists
00:09:32.660 under Executive Order 13224, which is reserved for those engaged in or supporting terrorism.
00:09:41.180 Among the top targets is the Ayatollah Nassar, a powerful cleric known as the Sultan of Sugar 0.82
00:09:48.640 for his denomination of Iran's lucrative sugar trade.
00:09:52.880 There's also calls for others in the government, and there are many that are concerned about
00:09:59.680 what this could mean for sleeper cells in the United States of America.
00:10:04.020 Which brings me to part two of the story.
00:10:06.720 Counterterrorism experts are now saying that Iran's sleeper cells in the U.S. might be
00:10:13.320 hiding now in plain sight.
00:10:15.740 Listen to this.
00:10:17.080 Where they could be located or where these sleeper cells may be is in plain sight.
00:10:24.340 And that's the real terrifying part of this is that putting people in place, as we've seen
00:10:31.720 over the past four years, everyone's scrambling because certain amounts of people could come
00:10:36.620 in here and get in here really relatively easy.
00:10:41.280 They could even go to the border and say they seek asylum and the Biden administration, instead
00:10:47.200 of putting them into DHS housing or ICE housing and holding them there so they could have their
00:10:54.040 first appearance to be vetted and whether or not they get asylum.
00:10:57.360 That was deferred and they were allowed passage into the United States for some of these ICE
00:11:04.960 agents are finding people who had a deferment for four or more years.
00:11:09.640 And Tom Holman talked about that, how they were putting them in hotels and deferring seven
00:11:13.480 to nine years on some of these people.
00:11:15.440 So even if we knew about them, when they get into the United States, they can just disappear.
00:11:23.300 They are working off the books.
00:11:24.820 They can get a fake ID.
00:11:26.200 They can even get weapons with that fake ID in certain states.
00:11:29.720 And when we say fake IDs, it has their picture.
00:11:32.640 But another official driver's license number that nobody checks the details about.
00:11:37.800 Um, so the ability to get these people in here and put them into sales and instruct them
00:11:44.320 on what they are to do if activated is very simple, but we've seen multiple attacks by
00:11:51.620 people who didn't sneak in and people who were born here.
00:11:55.660 Um, the Sarnoff brothers, you know, for instance, they didn't sneak into the United States and
00:12:00.320 they carried out a massive attack at the, at the Boston marathon.
00:12:03.440 So it, this is the hard part about terrorism.
00:12:06.480 It can happen anywhere at any time.
00:12:08.240 And these individuals can, as long as they don't raise a ruckus, they may not even know
00:12:13.180 what they're going to be called to do.
00:12:15.300 So here we are with another example of what wide open borders have done in this country
00:12:20.440 to our national security.
00:12:22.500 And the terrorism experts are warning us that it's time for us to find these illegal immigrants, 1.00
00:12:27.500 specifically those that are staying here from Iran and make sure that we keep this country 1.00
00:12:33.000 safe, including Donald Trump.
00:12:35.080 Thank you for listening to the 47 morning update with Ben Ferguson.
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