Jack Smith Probed | Jobs Data Scrutinized | DEI Defiance Exposed | 8/4/25

The A.M. Update

Aaron McIntire

Politics, News, Daily News

4.9 • 773 Ratings

🗓️ 4 August 2025

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

On the Monday edition, Aaron McIntire covers the U.S. Office of Special Counsel’s investigation into former special counsel Jack Smith for possible Hatch Act violations tied to his 2022 probes against Donald Trump. President Trump fires BLS Commissioner Erika McEntarfer after revised jobs data shows a slowdown, hinting at partisan manipulation. The Corporation for Public Broadcasting shuts down after losing funding, JD Vance jokes about probing UFOs, and a University of Iowa official admits to skirting DEI bans. A tragic church shooting in Seattle and Jared Allen’s heartfelt NFL Hall of Fame speech round out the show.

Jack Smith, Hatch Act, Donald Trump, Bureau of Labor Statistics, jobs report, illegal immigration, Corporation for Public Broadcasting, JD Vance, UFOs, University of Iowa, DEI, Seattle

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0:00.0	It's Monday, August 4th, 2025, the other side of those revised jobs numbers.
0:05.3	The Corporation for Public Broadcasting is no more, and J.D. Vance is focused on what during the month of August?
0:11.5	Next on the AM update.
0:18.0	We begin this Monday with this.
0:20.5	The U.S. Office of Special Counsel is investigating former Special Counsel Jack Smith. Smith was tapped in 2022 by then Attorney General Merrick Garland to serve as Special Counsel regarding two probes pertaining to then former and then future President Donald Trump. While, the specific scope of the investigation is not clear.
0:39.5	The Office of the Special Counsel may be looking at whether Smith potentially violated
0:43.6	the Hatch Act, which bars government employees from partaking in political activities.
0:48.5	It's not a criminal investigation.
0:50.7	The OSCE is not the same as a special counsel appointed by an attorney general as Smith was, but is an independent federal investigative and prosecutorial agency, according to its website.
1:02.0	Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas recently asked the OSCE to look into whether Smith illegally engaged in political activity to influence the 2024 election against Trump.
1:11.8	The answer to that question is obviously, yes, that's the entire point.
1:15.8	That was always the entire point of special counsel, Jack Smith, and his lawfare that he
1:20.7	engaged in against President Trump.
1:22.5	Now he's under investigation for violations of the Hatch Act.
1:26.6	Well, this was big news on Friday. President Trump
1:29.3	fired the Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner hours after the agency reported that job growth in
1:34.3	the U.S. had slowed to a near halt. In a truth social post that blew even more fire at Fed share
1:40.2	Jerome Powell, Trump accused BLS Commissioner Erica McKAterfer of being a political appointee who was
1:45.5	manipulating jobs data. He said, quote, I was just informed our country's jobs numbers are being
1:50.5	produced by a Biden appointee, the commissioner of labor statistics who faked the job numbers before
1:56.0	the election to try and boost Kamala Harris's chances of victory. We need accurate jobs numbers.
2:01.2	I have directed my team to fire this Biden political appointee immediately.
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