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FNC’s Special Report with Bret Baier October 29, 2025 6:22 p.m. Eastern [TEASE] [ON-SCREEN HEADLINE: Next; Election Investigation Details] BRET BAIER: Up next, new details about the investigation into an alleged effort to overturn the 2020 election, what they’re finding out. 6:29 p.m. Eastern [ON-SCREEN HEADLINE: Jacked Up; New Details on Special Counsel 2020 Election Probe] BRET BAIER: Tonight, we are learning important new details about the scope of an investigation into alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 election. Republicans say the Special Counsel took extraordinary methods to target Republicans, more than 400 of them. Correspondent David Spunt is in Washington with details tonight. Good evening, David. DAVID SPUNT: Bret, good evening. Just hours ago, Republicans on Capitol Hill said the Biden Justice Department went much further than previously known while investigating alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election. That probe known as Operation Arctic Frost. Senator Chuck Grassley, today made public 197 subpoenas from then-Special Counsel Jack Smith and his team. The subpoenas made their way to Grassley through unnamed whistleblowers. He says the subpoenas requested testimony, financial records, donor fundraising, and other communications with 430 named Republican individuals and entities. The list includes the President’s son-in-law Jared Kushner and daughter-in-law Lara Trump. SENATOR CHUCK GRASSLEY (R-IA): Contrary to what Smith has said publicly, this was clearly a fishing expedition. If this had happened to Democrats, they would be as rightly outraged as we are outraged. SPUNT: Bret, as part of his probe, several Republican senators say their phone calls were spied on and their phones were tapped. But Smith’s attorney say the calls were not wiretapped. The content of the calls are unknown. In fact, it was just call log information about who called who and at what time. Smith’s attorney today tells Fox: “Jack is happy to discuss his work as special counsel and answer any questions at a public hearing just like every other special counsel investigating a president before him has done. We hope the House and Senate Judiciary Committee also agree so the American people can hear directly from him. Name the time and place, Jack will be there.”
