Verdict with Ted Cruz - May 27, 2025


BONUS POD： Trump’s Memorial Day Message & DOGE DELETES 12 Million 120yr Old Ghosts GETTIN' PAID!

Topics
FBI investigating past cases of public corruption
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Ted Cruz
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Donald Trump Doge Antonio Gracias Ben Ferguson Dan Bongino Kash Patel Elon Musk Joe Biden Border Patrol JD Vance Heg Seth Grok
A Memorial Day Thank You to Our Troops plus an Exclusive One-on-One w Tom Homan FBI To Re-Open Investigations on Cocaine in the White House, J6 Pipe Bomber & SCOTUS Leak, plus Comey Advocates Murder of Trump

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On Memorial Day, President Donald Trump pauses and says thank you to all the men and women who have given the ultimate sacrifice for this country, and he also had a very special message to family members of the fallen. Also, in a shocking development, Social Security has officially removed 12.3 million individuals listed at the age of 120 or more as part of the investigation. And finally, the Deputy FBI Director, Dan Bongino, comes out and says there are some big stories that we re still looking into.

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00:00:00.000 This is an iHeart Podcast.
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00:00:23.580 Congratulations to the West Point Class of 2025.
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00:00:32.360 You're listening to the 47 Morning Update with Ben Ferguson.
00:00:36.240 Good Tuesday morning. Nice to have you with us on the 47 Morning Update
00:00:39.760 and hear the three big stories coming to the White House that you need to know about.
00:00:43.180 First up, Donald Trump hits pause and says thank you to all the men and women
00:00:47.900 that have given the ultimate sacrifice for this country.
00:00:50.960 And he also had a very special message to family members of the fallen.
00:00:55.120 We'll have that for you in just a moment.
00:00:56.780 Also, in a shocking development,
00:01:00.180 Social Security has now officially removed 12.3 million individuals
00:01:06.660 listed at the age of 120 or more.
00:01:10.880 And you will also be shocked by how many illegal immigrants 1.00
00:01:13.680 have Social Security numbers
00:01:15.740 and are receiving benefits from our government
00:01:19.340 as part of the investigation.
00:01:21.440 Those details in a moment.
00:01:23.020 And finally, the Deputy FBI Director, Dan Bongino,
00:01:27.420 coming out and saying there's some big stories that we're still looking into.
00:01:32.220 You remember the cocaine at the White House?
00:01:34.580 Or the leaking of the 2022 Supreme Court decision when it came to Roe v. Wade?
00:01:39.540 And the Washington pipe bomb incident just the day before, January the 7th.
00:01:45.020 Well, all of these are now being investigated again by the FBI.
00:01:50.880 I'll have those details.
00:01:52.240 It's the 47 Morning Update and it starts right now.
00:01:55.620 Story number one.
00:01:56.720 On Memorial Day, Donald Trump did what every president should do.
00:02:00.620 Pause and say thank you for so many that have given the ultimate sacrifice
00:02:04.880 to protecting and defending this country.
00:02:07.860 President Donald Trump said during his Memorial Day remarks at Arlington National Cemetery
00:02:12.940 that the sacrifices of America's fallen service members endure each and every day
00:02:18.960 and the dead Americans owe these selfless heroes only grows.
00:02:24.340 Trump spoke alongside the Vice President J.D. Vance and the Defense Secretary Hedge Seth
00:02:29.400 shortly after laying a wreath at the tomb of the unknown soldier.
00:02:33.420 In his remarks, Trump paid tribute to those who were killed in action.
00:02:37.860 Laying down the ultimate sacrifice for the United States of America.
00:02:42.680 Here is President Trump in his own words.
00:02:45.360 The sacrifice that they made was not merely for a single battle, a long ago victory or a fleeting triumph.
00:02:51.800 Decades or centuries passed.
00:02:54.080 Their sacrifice was for today, tomorrow and every morning thereafter.
00:03:00.340 Every child that lives in peace, every home that is filled with joy and love.
00:03:04.600 Every day the Republic stands is only possible because of those who did what had to be done when duty called.
00:03:12.360 And the cost was everything to them and to their families.
00:03:17.480 Our debt to them is eternal and it does not diminish with time.
00:03:23.140 It only grows and grows and grows with each passing year.
00:03:27.460 The greatest monument to their courage is not carved in marble or cast in bronze.
00:03:32.100 It's all around us, an American nation, 325 million strong, which will soon be greater than it has ever been before.
00:03:42.120 It will be.
00:03:43.180 The president was not done there.
00:03:45.180 He also talked about the Gold Star family members.
00:03:48.800 And here is what he had to say.
00:03:50.120 For the families of the fallen, you feel the absence of your heroes every day and the family.
00:03:57.120 These are great families.
00:03:58.600 These are wonderful families.
00:04:00.540 In the familiar laugh, no longer heard, the empty space at Sunday dinner or the want of a hug or a pat on the back that will never come again.
00:04:11.620 Every Gold Star family fights a battle long after the victory is won.
00:04:15.560 And today we lift you up and we hold you high.
00:04:19.700 Thank you.
00:04:20.480 Thank you.
00:04:21.000 Thank you for giving America the brightest light in your lives.
00:04:24.560 It's what you've done.
00:04:26.020 We will never, ever forget our fallen heroes and we will never forget our debt to you.
00:04:32.420 The president making it clear that as long as he is in office, we will honor those who've given the ultimate sacrifice.
00:04:39.260 He said each of the service members who has made the supreme sacrifice for our nation has also left an unfillable void and an unbreakable silence in the lives of all who love them.
00:04:52.260 For the families of the fallen, you feel the absence of your heroes every day.
00:04:56.720 These are great families.
00:04:58.160 These are wonderful families, the president said.
00:05:00.280 And the familiar laugh, no longer heard, the empty space at Sunday dinner or the want of a hug or a pat on the back that will never come again.
00:05:10.120 The president making it clear that this White House says thank you to every man and woman who's given the ultimate sacrifice to protect our great freedoms.
00:05:20.240 Next, story number two.
00:05:21.500 One of the big reasons why Donald Trump was elected is he promised you, the American taxpayer, that he was going to make sure that your money was no longer being wasted, your tax dollars.
00:05:32.400 Well, he's making good on that promise yet again.
00:05:34.900 This time, it deals with Social Security and the fact that we've had to remove from the Social Security rolls 12.3 million individuals listed as 120 years old or older.
00:05:50.180 That according to the U.S. Department of Government Efficiency, known as Doge.
00:05:55.340 Now, the discrepancies in the Social Security figures and the alarming ages of some of the individuals listed have garnered national attention over the last several months.
00:06:04.860 And as a result, in March, Doge began to update the American people on the massive cleanup begun by Social Security.
00:06:12.880 In a March 18th update, Doge said Social Security had marked 3.2 million Social Security number holders aged 120 or older as deceased, warning that there was still more work to be done.
00:06:27.920 Over one month later, on April the 24th, Doge provided another update revealing that a stunning 11 million individuals listed as age 120 or more were now being marked as deceased.
00:06:43.760 And the most recent update delivered this week by Doge, they revealed that a total of 12.3 million individuals listed as 120 years old or older are now officially marked as deceased in the system.
00:07:01.920 Elon Musk brought on stage to talk about this issue Antonio Garcia, and he showed a chart of the new non-citizen Social Security numbers that have also been issued.
00:07:13.120 He said it literally blew them away.
00:07:15.280 So it's not just people that are dead or 120 and older, but it's also illegal immigrants as well.
00:07:21.260 Take a listen to what they said.
00:07:23.240 So, Antonio, can you tell us what you, Antonio is helping out with Social Security.
00:07:30.420 So just trying to review Social Security where you may have heard that we found 20 million dead people marked as alive in the Social Security database.
00:07:40.060 This is so crazy.
00:07:42.920 And then you'll notice there's a strange trend here where how many Social Security numbers were issued.
00:07:52.700 It's, do you want to?
00:07:54.060 Yeah, so let me tell you what happened here.
00:07:56.220 We started at the top of the system.
00:07:58.400 You want to talk about a lot of it.
00:07:59.520 We started at the top of the system mapping the whole system of Social Security to understand where all the fraud was.
00:08:04.820 And there's a lot of great people there that showed us really a lot of waste.
00:08:08.900 And so that came up with a big list of stuff they're working on.
00:08:11.140 You've heard some of that already.
00:08:11.900 But this is what jumped out at us.
00:08:14.040 When we saw these numbers, we were like, what is this?
00:08:16.980 In 21, you see 270,000 people goes all the way to 2.1 million in 24.
00:08:23.380 These are non-citizens that are getting Social Security numbers.
00:08:27.400 Yeah, this is a mind-blowing charge.
00:08:29.260 Yeah, just this literally blew us away.
00:08:32.400 Like, we went there to find fraud, and we found this by accident.
00:08:36.440 And this isn't political, by the way.
00:08:38.000 My parents are immigrants.
00:08:40.240 Yeah, this country's been great to us.
00:08:41.580 My brother and sister are all born in Spain.
00:08:43.360 I'm pro-legal immigration.
00:08:45.180 This is not political.
00:08:47.020 This is not political.
00:08:48.000 This is about America and the future of America.
00:08:53.080 And there are a lot of good people in the system that pointed us in this direction.
00:08:56.060 I want to honor them right now.
00:08:57.740 They work in the government today who took risks to show us these numbers and tell us what's going on.
00:09:03.020 So I want to stop for a minute.
00:09:04.060 I want to honor those people today.
00:09:06.360 Very good people.
00:09:07.860 Very good people.
00:09:09.580 I have been from D.C. to Social Security offices to the border to track this down.
00:09:16.320 And very good people have helped us along the way.
00:09:18.220 I want to thank them.
00:09:19.580 Yeah.
00:09:20.200 This number, what this is, is when you come in the country, if you're illegal, there's a couple ways to come in.
00:09:26.080 You come in through a port of entry, and you can tell them you're afraid.
00:09:29.340 They'll give you an asylum case.
00:09:31.680 You'll get an interview.
00:09:32.660 Then you get in.
00:09:33.720 That's one way to do it.
00:09:34.920 Another way to do it is to just go to the border.
00:09:37.640 Literally, this happened.
00:09:38.400 I talked to Border Patrol myself.
00:09:39.760 Elon was there, too.
00:09:41.140 I went to Laredo, and I went to Bronzeville.
00:09:44.160 Elon went to Eagle Pass.
00:09:44.940 You walk up to a border patrol officer, and you tell them you want to come in.
00:09:49.000 They have a couple of choices.
00:09:50.540 They could charge you with a misdemeanor or a felony under 1325, or they can make an administrative offense, like a parking ticket, basically.
00:09:57.680 They were told to do that, make an administrative offense under the last administration.
00:10:02.020 And then you go walk across the border.
00:10:03.880 They do what's called a release from your own recognizance, and they give you an NTA, a notice to appear, which is to appear at a judge.
00:10:11.220 The wait times on judges are like average six years.
00:10:14.700 Look at Grok.
00:10:15.220 You'll see it on immigration judges.
00:10:16.680 There's only 700 of them.
00:10:18.620 This is 5.5 million people.
00:10:20.580 Okay?
00:10:20.920 So what happens then?
00:10:22.380 Once you're in the country and you've got asylum through one of these pathways, and we map the whole thing out, you can apply for a work document.
00:10:31.220 You file a 765, it's the work form, you get this form called the 766, that's the authorization, and then Social Security Administration automatically sends you in the mail your Social Security number.
00:10:44.200 No interview.
00:10:45.240 No ID.
00:10:45.960 This is worth, like, just reiterating.
00:10:48.140 It's not that, it's not, people sometimes think that under the Biden administration that he was simply asleep at the switch.
00:10:54.160 He was asleep.
00:10:55.180 No.
00:10:55.360 They weren't asleep at the switch.
00:10:56.480 It was a massive, large-scale program to import as many illegals as possible, ultimately to change the entire voting map of the United States and disenfranchise the American people and make it a permanent, deep-blue, one-party state from which there would be no escape. 0.73
00:11:12.860 Look, if I hadn't seen this myself, I'm not sure I'd have believed it.
00:11:15.060 I went through it myself and mapped it.
00:11:16.900 And Ilana's right.
00:11:17.880 This is true.
00:11:18.420 The defaults in the system from Social Security to all of the benefit programs have been set to max inclusion, max pay for these people, and minimum collection.
00:11:28.340 That's what's happening.
00:11:29.100 We found 1.3 million of them already on Medicaid, as an example.
00:11:33.220 We've gone through, on every benefit program we went through, we found groups from this particular group of people, this 5.5 million people, in those benefit programs.
00:11:42.120 And then what was really, really disturbing us was why.
00:11:45.360 We're asking ourselves why.
00:11:46.180 And so we actually just took a sample and looked at voter registration records, and we found people here registered to vote in this population, yes.
00:11:53.540 And who did vote?
00:11:54.360 And we found some by sampling that actually did vote, and we have referred them to prosecution at the Homeland Security Investigation Service.
00:12:01.280 Yeah.
00:12:01.940 Already.
00:12:02.900 Already.
00:12:03.480 That is already happening.
00:12:04.520 So let's just be clear what you just heard.
00:12:07.460 You just heard Elon Musk and Antonio show a chart of new non-citizen Social Security numbers issued.
00:12:14.680 They said it literally blew them away.
00:12:17.300 They went there to find fraud, and what they found was all of this by accident.
00:12:22.980 The update coincides with other red flags issued by Elon Musk and Doge as well.
00:12:28.280 They made waves in March when he said at least 2.1 million non-citizens are receiving Social Security numbers in 2024 alone.
00:12:36.040 So not only is that true, they're also on Medicare, Medicaid, and many of them have registered to vote and have actually voted.
00:12:44.400 So yes, illegal immigrants are actually voting in this country.
00:12:49.200 And this is exactly why Doge has so much more work to continue to do.
00:12:54.120 And finally, story number three.
00:12:55.800 There were some pretty big stories in the past administration that literally got swept under the rug.
00:13:02.160 And there are stories that Democrats, certainly those in power, were really hoping they'd never have to worry about again.
00:13:07.900 It's part of the reason why they were propping up Joe Biden, even though they knew he wasn't even the president of the United States of America.
00:13:14.800 He had a massive cognitive decline.
00:13:17.420 But hey, when you're doing what they're doing, why not keep the charades going?
00:13:21.480 Well, the FBI Deputy Director, Dan Bongino, has come out and said that, quote,
00:13:27.320 the Bureau is now looking at several of those cases involving, quote, potential public corruption.
00:13:35.440 Cases the FBI could look at are the Washington pipe bomb incident, a White House cocaine discovery.
00:13:42.540 You may remember that story.
00:13:44.520 And also the minor leaking of the 2022 Supreme Court decision that overturned Roe v. Wade.
00:13:54.140 Yes, the FBI Deputy Director, Dan Bongino, saying that the Bureau is looking at launching investigations into these cases of potential public corruption.
00:14:03.860 Bongino said, quote, shortly after swearing in, the FBI Director, Cash Patel, and I evaluated a number of cases of potential public corruption
00:14:11.520 that understandably have garnered public interest.
00:14:15.540 Bongino, a former Secret Service agent, and you may know him from his podcast, noted that they made the decision to either reopen
00:14:22.340 or push additional resources and investigative attention to these cases.
00:14:27.500 One case they're looking to target is the FBI investigation to the alleged pipe bomb left near the Democratic and Republican National Committee buildings in Washington, D.C.
00:14:38.700 the day before the January 6th Capitol breach, he said.
00:14:43.060 The FBI said in 2024 that a $500,000 reward is still in effect for information leading to the arrest of the pipe bomb suspect.
00:14:51.300 Earlier in 2025, the former Assistant Director in charge of the FBI Washington field office told CNN that officials are seeking, quote, new leads,
00:15:00.680 saying maybe alliances have changed or relationships have changed and it's time to report on the suspect,
00:15:07.200 is what he said to the outlet at the time, saying tips from the public really have been very helpful.
00:15:12.700 But as I mentioned, we're still trying to identify the suspect.
00:15:15.660 So we're trying to release a little more information such that maybe it will jog somebody's memory.
00:15:22.040 Other cases that weren't more resources include one involving the discovery of cocaine in the White House in July of 2023.
00:15:30.040 As well as the massive leak of the Supreme Court's decision that overturned Roe v. Wade in June of 2022.
00:15:38.320 Saying it this way, quote, I receive requests, briefings on these cases weekly, and we are making progress.
00:15:45.900 If you have any investigative tips on these matters that may assist us, then please contact the FBI.
00:15:52.700 Also in his ex-post, Bongino said he and Patel have conducted one media interview together,
00:15:57.900 which was with Fox News, as you know, a few days ago, saying, quote,
00:16:02.700 we decided early on to limit our media footprint overall in order to keep the attention on the work being done.
00:16:09.620 We have chosen to communicate in writing on this platform to fill some of the inevitable information vacuum, saying, quote,
00:16:16.940 I try to read as much of your feedback as possible, but the workday is busy.
00:16:22.460 And my office is a sensitive, compartmented information facility with limited phone access.
00:16:29.260 In response to feedback, both positive and negative, from our interview last week,
00:16:32.820 we will be releasing more information, which will further clarify answers to some of the questions asked in the interview.
00:16:39.280 One thing is for sure, they are definitely going for more transparency.
00:16:43.180 But for the liberals out there that may have been committing crimes, guess what?
00:16:47.780 You may have thought you got away with it, and apparently with this administration, you may be very wrong.
00:16:53.400 Thank you for listening to the 47 Morning Update with Ben Ferguson.
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