Republicans Demand Answers Over Alleged FBI Spying Scandal

The Fox News Rundown

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🗓️ 8 October 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Special Counsel Jack Smith’s investigation into the January 6th Capitol riot allegedly had a focus on the communications of eight Republican senators, including Senator Bill Hagerty, who has revealed how the FBI accessed their private messages. United States Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN) joins the Rundown to discuss the implications of this surveillance and his collaboration with local and federal officials following the National Guard deployment in Memphis, Tennessee. As the world reflects on the two year anniversary of Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack, the subsequent war that was triggered in Gaza has dominated the political conversation all over the globe. National Review Institute fellow & author of the book On Democracies and Death Cults: Israel and the Future of Civilization, Douglas Murray joins the Rundown to discuss the shift in public opinion on Israel since the start of the war, and the challenges around the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Plus, commentary from the president of Exit Stage Left Advisors, Ted Jenkin Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm Stuart Vonney. I'm Harris Faulkner. I'm Brian Kilmead, and this is the Fox News Rundown.
0:09.2	Wednesday, October 8th, 2025. I'm Dave Anthony. It's made Republicans even angrier at the
0:17.9	Biden-era Justice Department. Nine GOP lawmakers were investigated.
0:22.8	Their phone records tracked.
0:24.6	We talked to one of them.
0:26.0	Senator Bill Haggerty.
0:27.3	But the leadership has been contaminated.
0:29.5	We have got to weed this out and people need to be perploced.
0:32.3	They need to be jailed.
0:33.3	They need to be prosecuted to the fullest extent.
0:35.4	I'm Jessica Rosenthal.
0:37.2	This week, we remember two years since October 7th,
0:39.8	as the subsequent war in Gaza has dominated conversation
0:43.0	and public opinion shifts on Israel and the Palestinians.
0:46.7	Are we able to recognize that the people who carried out the crimes
0:51.0	and the atrocities and the barbarism of October the 7th on the people of Israel
0:56.0	would do the same thing to the rest of us when they had the chance to do so.
1:02.3	And I'm Ted Jenkins. I've got the final word on the Fox News rundown.
1:10.7	There is new controversy coming out of the old administration.
1:15.3	This is the kind of conduct that shatters the American people's faith in our law enforcement system.
1:20.9	Attorney General Pam Bondi at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing vowing a full investigation into the news that broke the day before what the
1:28.7	Biden era Justice Department did.
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