The Dan Bongino Show - 60 Minutes Goes Full Pravda (Ep 1997)

Episode Date: April 24, 2023

In this episode, I address the shocking episode of 60 Minutes where they try to gaslight America about January 6th.  News Picks: The Fox legal settlement could chill free speech moving forward. A terrific piece about the 2024 election, and how to win. Censorship efforts ramped up dramatically after the death of George Floyd. Legendary Coach Phil Jackson Blasts the Woke NBA, Says He Doesn't Watch Games Anymore. Ray Epps Is Going on '60 Minutes,' and the Gaslighting Has Already Started. Copyright Bongino Inc All Rights Reserved Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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slash Bongino. We got a big show today. Went out to dinner a little bit this weekend. Went to the mall, not because I like malls, but because I like to walk around and burn a little calorie. Saw a few people. Thank you, everyone, for stopping by. Had some good dinner at a restaurant, too. Tell you about that. But the absolute craziest media moment of the year thus far, still early, closing in on May, the end of April, but 60 minutes last night,

which, of course, is the network of, Sir! Sir! Holy. network of sir, sir, holy. You got Joe cut the clip. Sorry. The 60 minutes Ray Epps thing. You talk about full circle. It's not a 180. It's not a 180. It's a 360. We're all the way back in the beginning now. We're all the way back in the beginning. Democrats love insurrections, all this stuff.

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Go today. All right, Joseph, let's go. Happy Monday, sir. Yes, sir.

Good to see you. It's been a couple of, sir, sir, sir. Too bad she didn't do that interview would have been great so i like to help local businesses went to my buddy eric's place evo this weekend listen if you're ever down at the cuesta in the whole martin county palm beach area and you want some kick-ass italian food evo evo i'm telling you the food is savage. The saute calamari, can't say enough

about it. I'm just throwing that out there. Was there this weekend? May have had a bottle of vino tinto too. Spectacular. Spectacular. Give it a shot. I'm not sure that's Italian and I am Italian. My last name is Bongino, but I don't speak a word of it. A little bit of Spanish. So the absolute craziest media moment of the year so far, and I'm not even sure there's a close second in this one, is 60 Minutes interview of Ray Epps. Ray Epps was one of the participants in the January 6th rally. Listen, ladies and gentlemen, let me preface this whole thing. Because I do facts here,

I don't do rampant, ridiculous speculation on things. I will speculate on stuff as long as it's not ridiculous, but I'll say as much. I don't know Ray Epps. I have no idea. I have done, I'm not in his group of people. I don't know where he lives. I don't know his buddies.

He's not a former co-worker or colleague. Is Ray Epps a Fed, as some have implied? I have no idea. Was Ray Epps, in fact, at the January 6th rally, at the Stop the Steal rally? And did Ray Epps get caught on video saying things that were quite questionable at going inside the Capitol? Those are just matters of fact. They're not matters of opinion.

So the fact that 60 minutes is now going all in to say, Hey, don't look at this guy. Who's on video saying these things is making a lot of conservatives and libertarians out there who feel like the government may have had some role in this thing. It's making them quite curious why everybody's going overboard to protect this guy's reputation. It's just weird. I'm going to give you all sides of this so you make your own opinions on this at the end. But it's the craziest media moment I've ever seen because you have these people on the left eager to tell us how we're all insurrectionists, maggots,

fascists, and terrorists. We're such a dangerous threat. We need to be censored, put out of business, bankrupted, put on wanted posters, locked up and thrown in gulags. And then you've got literal not figurative video of a guy saying we're gonna go in the capitol who again he's not he's not disputing it's him then you have he has a text saying or suggesting or implying oh he did say he orchestrated it and cbs is like don't ask any questions because you're the crazy people. Okay. And they're like, well, he's going to sue you. For what?

Reporting on what he said? How are you going to sue people for reporting on what you said? I mean, if that's not an anti-slap case, I don't know what is. I am suing this man for defamation. Sir, I'm only playing the video on you. Are you going to sue yourself? Too much stupid on the field. Is that a 15-yarder or is that 10?

It can be either depending on the stupidity. Yes, that's a good call. I found the severity of the stupidity. Yes, that's a good call. The severity of the stupidity. You know what, Joe? You're a step ahead of me, as always. So you got to understand with this Epps interview, there's a reason behind this thing, right? And if the guy is being falsely maligned, by the way,

there's always that possibility that I feel bad for the guy. But you can't say in one respect, as Epps did in the interview, I'm going to play a clip from it, but he did say at one point in the interview, this isn't in the clip, that, you know, he just wants to be left alone and go into hiding or something like that, which obviously beggars thy question, Joe,

then why are you on 60 Minutes? I'm not, I mean, I don't think i'm being ridiculous here no so a couple of things is i don't want to get through but i'm really excited about today's show as you can tell the january 6th narrative you have to understand there's everything to them it's everything so there's this may sound a little confusing so i'm to have to go through this slow, but slow, smooth, smoothly, but quickly. The left needs this narrative to win the 2024 election. What narrative? The right are fascist tyrants. Donald Trump will usher in fascism. Why do they need that narrative? Because the left's agenda is so anti-human, the castration of kids, the teaching of racist critical race theory, the taking of your money, the taking of your health care.

The left's agenda is so bad, they need to get you to focus on something else. The only thing to get you to focus on something else frightening enough to get you to not pay attention to the leftist agenda, right, Is these guys are going to take away your freedom. They're fascists and throw you in the gulag. It's the only thing that works. That is why the January 6th narrative is so critical to them. They plan on using it going forward, January 6th to do what they did to Parler and other entities, wiping people off the map. They've got to keep you focused. The fact that there may have been some federal government involvement, and does that have anything to do with Ray Epps? The answer is I have no idea. I have no idea. I don't have any evidence. I think there's some suspicious behavior,

but I'm saying they can't back up. I don't know. But the fact that someone speculated in the media that there may have been a federal involvement in January 6th, forget Ray Epps for a second, just in January 6th, there may have been feds there, which the FBI has been very shady about, and I'll show in a second. Has the left in a panic? Because they can't say on one hand, Joe, well, look what the right did. These guys are so terrible. They're so fascist. They're going to take away your freedom and throw you in the gulag. Support us in our bigger government. If government has a role in what they're doing, you get it, got it good, yeah everybody get it it's they can't have that so the fact that some

people started asking questions about epps has the left going absolutely bananas no questions are allowed about ray epps here's one of the most ridiculous interviews I've ever seen. 60 Minutes interviews Ray Epps, where they show the actual video of Epps saying, we're going to go to the Capitol, inside the Capitol. And later on, he admits in the interview, he sent a text saying he orchestrated it. None of this is in dispute. And yet 60 Minutes is making the case that you shouldn't ask any questions about this because Ray Epps has a version of it. It's the only version that matters. Don't ask any more questions, which is bizarre because the last questions of grandma on a trespassing charge on January 6th. This is so crazy. Take a look.

Put it out there. I'm probably going to go to jail. Tomorrow, we need to go into the Capitol. Into the Capitol. What? No! No! Peaceful in the Capitol. Fed! Fed! Fed! To some in the crowd, Epps seemed so over the top, he must have been a government agent, a fed sent to entrap them. When you said, we have to go into the Capitol, we have to go into the Capitol, what were you thinking? I said some stupid things. My thought process, we surround the Capitol, we get all the people there. I mean, I had problems with the election. It was my duty as an American to peacefully protest, along with anybody else that wanted to.

The next morning, January 6th, Epps was out by the Washington Monument, still focused on a single goal. We are going to the Capitol, where our problems are. it's that direction. I mean, I just want to be clear again, folks. So Ray Epps' answer is, I said some stupid things and that's it. That's it, that no more journalism is to be done. There's no more asking questions. And if you do, we're going to threaten a lawsuit for you answering questions about a guy. Nobody's disputing. It's on video saying we're going to go inside the Capitol,

clearly trying to gin up interest to go inside the Capitol. That's why he's talking to people saying, we're going to go inside the Capitol. Is that analysis crazy? Where are we wrong here? So the answer to this whole thing is just say to 60 Minutes that you said something stupid.

Oh, okay. That's the answer to everything. So let me just be clear here. Joe Biden, let's say, and Barack Obama, Obamacare in the next few years collapses and costs Americans their insurance.

Don't ask any questions. Just come out and say, hey, a while ago we said something stupid with if you like your plan, you can keep it. And that's it. Questions must stop.

Folks, this is insane. I've never seen anything like this. I've never seen anything like this in my life, where the media, big government status, and the swamp all are in bed rubbing each other's sacks in an effort to shut everybody up from asking basic questions about a thing nobody disputes disputes which is video coverage of a guy saying we're going to go inside the capitol tomorrow and then sending a text saying we orchestrated it i said some stupid things now again to to be to do actual journalism that these losers at 60 minutes won't joe Epps could be telling the truth. Yeah. People do say really, really dumb things.

They want to look like ballers and players. Look at me. I orchestrated the whole thing. Could very well be true. Yeah. However, that's not how we do actual journalism. We ask actual questions. Oh, really?

Well, how do you explain this then? And this and this? They don't seem to be interested at all. Now, well, Dan, what are you basing your skepticism on? Well, I have questions that have still gone unanswered. And again, to give you all sides of this, the FBI has stated just recently in response to 60 Minutes that he is not an employee or hasn't been focused or hasn't been functioning as some kind of source for the FBI ever. That's what they said recently. The problem I think a lot of people have is the FBI has a history of lying

about anything associated with Donald Trump. Joe's laughing because we're, I mean, that's probably the most understated thing we've said in the entire eight years we've been on the air. They've lied about just about everything. Carter page being a Russian source. I mean,

there are an FBI employee was, was convicted for an incident that involved lying about the Trump campaign. Okay? So forgive me for not taking their first glance answer. But to give you one side, the Bureau's saying they have no association with the guy. He's saying he has no association with the Bureau. EBSAT is giving you their side of it. And the FBI has tended to target people in the investigation who were inside the

Capitol or who put hands on police. So that's one side where you say, all right, maybe Epps is puffing. Maybe he was just chest popping. Hey, look at me. I orchestrated holding. Possible, right? But then explain this. Ted Cruz, months ago, is at a hearing up on Capitol Hill, Ted Cruz, months ago, is at a hearing up on Capitol Hill, and he's asking questions of an FBI supervisor who seems to be unusually tongue-tied when asked the same basic question about Ray Epps. If the guy wasn't a source or wasn't an agent, then why are they—I don't understand why they can't just answer the question and wait until now. Again, this is called journalisming or something. Here, take a look yourself. Ms. Sadburn, who is Ray Epps? I'm aware of the individual, sir. I don't have the specific background to him.

Well, there are a lot of people who are understandably very concerned about Mr. Epps. On the night of January 5th, 2021, Epps wandered around the crowd that had gathered. And there's video out there of him chanting, tomorrow we need to get into the Capitol, into the Capitol. This was strange behavior, so strange that the crowd began chanting Fed, Fed, Fed, Fed, Fed, Fed. Ms. Sanborn, was Ray Epps a Fed? Sir, I cannot answer that question. The next day, the next day on January 6th, Mr. Epps is seen whispering to a person and five seconds later, five seconds after he's whispering to a person, that same person begins to forcibly tear down the barricades. Did Mr. Epps urge them to tear down the barricades? Sir, similar to the other answers, I cannot answer that.

Debs McCann in the chat room says she can't answer because she doesn't want to. Yeah, of course she doesn't want to. I mean, it's not that she obviously doesn't want to answer. It's why she doesn't want to answer. Now again, folks, listen, man, I'm not going to, I don't get out ahead of these things. It's a huge mistake. It's a huge mistake. I don't want to do what the left-wing media does to us. There is a possibility that having worked in the federal government myself, and I know that 1811s, federal investigators, FBI, DEA, whatever, Secret Service, a lot of them are not very comfortable testifying in front of congressional committees. They're used to testifying in court. Kind of Joe Friday, the facts, nothing but the facts. I don't know. Maybe she got freaked out. Maybe someone told her it's a political case. I don't know.

I'm just trying to give you all ends of this. However, I'm telling you this is worth asking questions about. And do not be dissuaded from this. Do not. The guy could be telling the truth. But again, I'm not sure why 60 Minutes is so eager to take the first pass answer. Oh, I said stupid things. Oh, okay. That's it? You guys care about everyone else getting thrown in the gulag, but not any investigation into this guy.

But not any investigation into this guy. He's like, listen, man, this story's got an op written all over. I don't know. I don't know. All I know is I'm not going to be dissuaded by threats of any of this stuff. Lawsuits. I'm just playing your own words. Why did you say that?

You said stupid things? Okay, we'll put that out there. Well, why has the FBI been screwing around on this thing? What did you whisper in that guy's ear? Now, I will say one more thing too that was interesting on 60 Minutes last night, something you should consider. The hidden body camera video of the police officers does show clearly at some point Epps saying to people, hey, listen, these police officers are not our enemies. You should take that into account when you try to determine if Epps is telling the truth or not. That's there too. And that's the kind of thing you should definitely look at. We don't want to be blinded like the leftists, like Trump, Trump, Trump sucks. And no matter how stupid the story,

you believe it anyway. Don't fall into that trap. Don't fall into that trap. I've seen it before with a number of things we got hooked into, not me personally, but people on the conservative movement because the left was almost playing it up. So keep that in mind. This thing can go both ways. By the way, has Holden McGrind made an appearance yet? McGrind? He's like Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. He's got another personality. All right, let me get to my next sponsor. And then, you know, folks, I am, I'm friends with a lot of people at Fox.

I'm friendly with Tucker. I'm not going to say we're not, we're like, we don't go to dinner or hang out, but we know each other. And I got to tell you, he gave a speech at, I think it was Heritage. And man, did he nail it. I'm going to play about a minute, 20 seconds of it, where he talks about, well, a show I did last week. He's not talking about my show, but a theme we had last week about FU politics, how you want to play cutesy time. You're in the wrong game right now, brother, because these people we're playing against right now are not playing for political victory.

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needs censorship in the January 6th narrative to distract you from the obviously transparent evil they're engaged in right now. And call it that. Call it that. Call it that. You want to play cutesy time with these people? This definitely ain't your show. Call it what it is. Evil hates being called out by name. They need the January 6th narrative for the censorship and gaslighting to keep the illusion going.

They are a bad magician, the left. They're a magician at a six-year-old party. Like, look, I've got these two rings. Wow, I pulled them apart. There's a break in a ring. We can see it. Sorry, I just, after dealing with the entire weekend, tens of thousands of liberal D-bags telling me I was fired from Fox.

I just, I said to Paula, we are dealing. Why am I bothered? We are dealing with such obvious a-holes and liars trying to negotiate with them under the old rules. Oh, these are just political differences. Let's write a white paper about it. Flush that strategy down the bowl and burn it it burn the septic tank when you're done here's tucker he gave this speech i saw this uh on social media it's about a minute 30 seconds where he beautifully explains this it's saying politics folks this is good and evil check this out i don't think that's what we're watching now at all i don't think we're watching a debate over Check this out. it's not even a christian religion at this point um i say with shame but i'm just saying this is an observer of what's going on there is no way to assess say the transgenderist movement

with that mindset policy papers don't account for it at all if you have people who are saying i have an idea let's castrate the next generation let's sexually mutilate children i'm sorry that's not a political debate what there? It has nothing to do with politics. What's the outcome we're desiring here? An androgynous population? Is that really what we are? Are we arguing for that? I don't think anyone could defend that as a positive outcome. But the weight of the government and a lot of corporate interests are behind that. Well, what is that? Well, it's irrational. If you say, well, I think abortion is always bad. Well, I think sometimes it's necessary. That's a debate I'm familiar with. But if you're telling me that abortion

is a positive good, what are you saying? Well, you're arguing for child sacrifice. You know, I'm in this content production space and it's very competitive. I'm not going to lie to you. All right, Joe, you've been in it longer than me. People in this business are super competitive. I'm one of them. I'm a capitalist. I get up every morning, super early to bring you the best product. You know why? Because there are people like Tucker out there and Levin. That's why. They motivate people like me to stay frosty all the time.

Because that is good content right there. And you know why it's good content? Because it's true. And he summed it up better than I did. And sometimes you just got to say, all right, man, he did it better. He is absolutely correct. Folks, I've never seen anything like this, man. We are not dealing anymore with simple policy debates. I've said it over and over. The Republican Party, I knew, fell in love with an idea I love. I'm not trying to discredit it. The idea that we should advocate for tax cuts.

Tax cuts was really it. I mean, it's the only thing it's pretty unanimous on the Republican side. You will get a Republican to vote for. I'm serious. Oh, no, no, Dan, they're all pro-life. No, they're not. You got Nancy Mace arguing out there.

Don't run on abortion. A Republican Congresswoman from South Carolina of all places. Well, what about firearms? Oh, we're definitely pro 2A. Are we? I mean, I've seen more Republicans sign on to, I mean, we even had Trump with the bump stock thing.

We had, you know, Rick Scott down here in Florida with the red flags and other stuff. Tell me another issue we've been unanimous on. You've got people attacking DeSantis over going after the culture war right now. There's not unanimity on just about anything but tax cuts. We fell in love with it. And when we fell in love with it,

the culture got away from us. We were arguing tax cuts while they were arguing to cut off your kids' nuts. I mean, I don't know any other way to say it. To sexually mutilate kids at an early age who will be incapable of procreating while arguing that the kids we don't gender mutilate and effectively sterilize, we should kill in the womb.

Again, if you had an alien race of beings that came to Earth and said, hey, you know, the ultimate goal of a species is survival, correct? And you'd be at the sit-down meeting with this alien. No, no, that's not us. We have a political party comprising about 40 to 50% of the United States that argues for killing the next generation of humans in the womb and sterilizing the rest. The aliens would be like, wait, what?

These people are too stupid to conquer. They're conquering themselves. New rules. You think we're fighting political fights, folks? I'm sorry. And if you think, I'm not suggesting this is you. And listen, I love, why are people yelling? I'm sorry, I'm in a mood

today. Um, a good one, but there are people out there in the Republican party who still to this day, we need to stick to the economic stuff. Stay out of the culture wars. You got Nancy Mays. Oh, let's, uh, let's argue, uh, against pro-lifers out there. They're killing the party. Really? They're killing the party. Uh, the other side's killing people. People. Let me play this video. Folks, they're castrating and sterilizing kids. Kids. Here's an interview with a doctor in this space conducted by a guy, Wesley Yang. And it's a snippet from the doctor making a pretty firm, strong case that this is all cultural right now, that this is not some resurgence of kids who were transgender. However,

it's a social contagion effect promoted by liberals and parents who won't stop it. Liberal parents who are promoting this stuff here. Listen to yourself. Prior to 2018, I had maybe one trans patient. This is a thing that occurred in two out of 10,000 children. It was a thing a pediatrician could go their entire career and never see. And so the first time I had a patient who told me that ever since they were two or three they knew that they were actually a boy I was like oh oh that's that's transgender I've heard of that you know there's a gender clinic over at the children's hospital I'll send you and that's how I was but then there was another one and another one and another one and that's yeah that was in late 2018. Yeah, that was in 2018, 2019.

So one in like 10, 20 years. One in 20 years, yeah. And then they started to come every few months and then more often. And they were not saying I've always been a boy. They were saying I realized I was a boy last week. I mean, most of them have been online and they know the story they need to tell. So, no, I don't think any of them said that. I just decided on this last week.

But they did. They they didn't have, you know, convincing anecdotes of how this manifested in their toddlerhood. I mean, what else do you need to hear? Oh, that's just a personal anecdote from one doctor. No, no, they're all over the place. That's just one of many. Spins in the chat room says, Nancy Mace, by the way, is the Bud Light of conservatives.

Yes, yes, that is fantastic. And right on point, am I that? Folks, I got more. They're not hiding their authoritarian streak. These little mini fascists on the left, they are not hiding it. Castrating kids, wiping them out in the womb, censoring people, totalitarianism. They're not hiding it. I'll play for you a clip this week and I got everybody spun up. It's a good one. It's a good one because it's a bad one. Mypatriotsupply.com, folks, it's hard to trust

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But now they're doing understand they're not hiding this anymore. Here's AOC suggesting that because she doesn't like Tucker Carlson, she uses the old fascist canard that Tucker Carlson's inciting violence. Tucker Carlson's inciting violence. Ironically, and Joe, the reverse applies then too. By AOC insisting that she's being attacked, isn't she inciting violence against Tucker Carlson by AOC supporters? See, AOC's too freaking stupid to understand that. It's because she's legit, probably dumber than Hank Johnson.

She is probably the dumbest member of the House of Representatives. Here's AOC suggesting we need to censor them and we need to regulate them because he's inciting violence. Check this out. When you look at what Tucker Carlson and some of these other folks on Fox do, it is very, very clearly incitement of violence, very clearly incitement of violence. And that is the line that I think we have to be willing to contend with. They're not, again, they're not hiding that they're looking for censorship. They're just looking for new ways to message that they want censorship. They're not hiding it at all.

They're not hiding it at all. By the way, a couple of people in the chat were asking about the Fox show. I did a whole episode on that last week. That's why it wasn't get it all. By the way, a couple of people in the chat were asking about the Fox show. I did a whole episode on that last week. That's why it wasn't on this week. It's my Thursday episode from last week with 1995 or something. It's got like 1.7 million views. So I don't want to, you know, that's why I didn't go in it again today. Someone said, maybe he has an NDA.

No, it's nothing like it. We talked about the whole thing on Thursday. It's not some big conspiracy. We just couldn't agree to terms. So sorry if some of you were a little bit late to the party i understand it's not like your lives revolve around you know my news i'm not saying that in some kind of cocky way but that's that's why folks the data backs this up by the way i saw a noticeable change the data backs up the fact that the left has gone entirely totalitarian and authoritarian now

they're not hiding it anymore. They're trying to crush free speech and live time. I noticed as many of you did that although the authoritarian streak was there, there were two incidents I think in the last five years that geometrically expanded their censorship efforts overnight. And I mean that in the literal sense, like overnight after it happened, like the next day. January 6th, I was, I saw that I was on the receiving end of it. I saw what they did after that. And then George Floyd. And if you read this article in the

newsletter today in the Washington times, George Floyd's murder drove a surge in academic censorship. This report always shows you that a total of 509 professors were punished from 2020 to 2022 at universities, according to FIRE, this group. You're saying, wow, that's a lot, 509. Well, think about this. In the 20 years prior to George Floyd's 2020 death, only 571. Ladies and gentlemen, that's a stunning number. I saw it. You see how the left

employs the Rahm Emanuel never let a crisis go to waste strategy. Now, they're never going to stop this. There was another incident. There was the death of this young man on a porch. It's alleged that the guy who shot him was a white supremacist. Everybody deserves their day in court, liberal, conservative. I don't care. I'm a believer in the Republic and people are innocent till proven guilty. When they're proven guilty in a court of law,

I don't trust anything I hear from anyone. When they're proven guilty in a court of law and the evidence comes out under oath, then you can report on it as fact and not as speculation. However, the media, which seems to be ignoring the suspicious disappearance so far, I shouldn't say disappearance, but failed to appear in the manifesto of the alleged transgender murderer, right? Haven't seen that manifesto.

Has jumped. They're not calling for that. But Frank Fugazi made an appearance. Frank Fugazi is a former FBI guy in MSNBC. To jump on and, of course, racially divide the nation. Again, over the murder of a, the killing of a black youth. Again, allegedly by a white man who was called a white supremacist. And there's all kinds of stuff out there.

You can read it yourself. The media the media again takes advantage of tragedy now fugazi is a documented conspiracy theorist a race baiter an absolute imbecile and in my opinion the dumbest commentator on tv he sadly is indicative of what the upper management of the fbi has become here's fugazi jumping all over this case and blaming again Fox News. Take a listen. We have all covered these mass shootings. We've seen the shooters manifestos focusing on certain victims. But I want you to go back to what the grandson of the alleged shooter said about the grandfather's exposure day in and day out to certain messages and what it was doing to him.

Because he's not the only one sitting in a lazy boy watching TV all day. Yeah, this is where I'm a strong advocate of financial pain for those who spew out propaganda. We just saw Fox News, you know, pay, you know, just under a billion dollars because of what they've been doing. And the question is whether or not that's enough pain or not to make a difference. So when I say bring pain, hit them in the pocketbook where it hurts. I'm talking about lawsuits. I'm talking

about lawsuits against the firearms industry. I'm talking about lawsuits because, by the way, they market this. They love this. And your guest can tell us all about that. He's written a book about it. So let's also not forget the news networks, the social media platforms that spew this out all day and night. They need to pay a price as well. So it's painful for them. And that causes them to hit the pause button on their propaganda. You didn't see this, did you?

I get it. Folks, I got to tell you, I got actual goosebumps here. There are very rare moments in the show where I have to stop the show completely, especially in a live chat. Not stop the show, but apparently Tucker Carlson and Fox are done. I'm reading it right here that it's just broke. I mean, it's the benefit of a live show.

I'm like stunned. I'm stunned. I don't even know what to say right now. I'm like, I don't even know how I'm going to get back to that segment. I'm stunned. I don't even know what to say right now. I'm like,

I don't even know how I'm going to get back to that segment. Fox news and Tucker Carlson have agreed to part ways. We thank him for his service. His last program was Friday, April 21st. Is this what? Wow. I mean, I got six texts here from people.

Holy Moses. I didn't even get the comment. Is this Fugazi? Fugazi's got a huge past. Fugazi's like, bring in the reliever. I don't even know what to say. That is just shocking news. And so you all understand, again, I have no inside knowledge of what was happening there at all.

I don't even care to speculate about what happened, but I suspect Tucker Carlson will be getting a lot of offers from a lot of people uh a lot probably a good time to invoke the uh bongino rule yes joe thank you for rescuing me i'm sorry i wasted a minute of your time i'm honestly folks i'm really just stunned by the news tucker carlson out of fox news the bongino rule uh that let's wait uh let's rather than speculate over stuff we don't know. All right. Let me get to my next sponsor,

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But again, Tucker Carlson apparently out at Fox last week's his last show. That's abrupt. We will see what then we will wait for that to flesh out using the Bongino rule. I would hate to speculate on that now, but that is an earthquake in the media business. You're talking about the single most popular guy on cable news, a guy who draws in primetime over three million viewers on essentially cable, which is really a dying platform. A lot of people are cutting the cord. This guy was a huge monster talent. So Biden is close to announcing his reelect this week, folks, and Democrats are going to double down. They have on trying to get rid of him. They are having real problems trying to get this guy out of the race. I speculated last week, and I think I'm correct, that that's one of the reasons you're seeing this

bevy of Hunter Biden leaks. Don't you find it weird that the IRS, the FBI, and people from the intel community are all leaking out bad information about Hunter Biden all at the same time Biden's going to announce the reelect? Gosh, that's convenient. What interesting timing that is. Biden's going to announce the reelect. Gosh, that's convenient. What interesting timing that is. Even ABC has doubts. Here's Terry Moran. Terry Moran, who earned his last name. Terry Moran. Terry is like, hey, man, this is no good. Take a look. Terry, do you expect everyone to all Democrats to suddenly rally around the president? Well, I'll leave that to our Democratic former former official here my own sense is that most americans don't want to vote for an 81 year old man for president uh yeah

you're probably correct i said last week he you were here joe you heard it did i not say last week like isn't it weird all of these insiders irs intelligence community fbi they're all leaking out these stories oh my my gosh, this is so bad. This is terrible. Holy Moses. Hunter Biden. This is the weirdest thing. They just ran a spot for Tucker Carlson tonight. What the hell is going on? This is the craziest thing. Folks,

I cannot believe this happened during my show. Here's Chuck Todd chuckles, saying this guy's in real trouble. Why are they airing these polls now? They are trying to stop this guy from making an announcement tomorrow about running for president. They are desperate. They know he will likely lose this thing and blow it for the Democrats. Take a look. 53% of 2020 Biden voters say he shouldn't run. 64% of Democrats who voted for Sanders are warned in the 2020 primaries think he shouldn't run. And 76% of voters under 35 think he shouldn't run. And what's the top concern for that? We asked

voters, we didn't prompt them. We said, why don't you think he should run? Well, these were the responses. It almost is all about his age and his ability to do the job. Again, these are among Democratic primary voters. Usually I turn the page during the break. But I'm really in one of these places today. This is just what started. Wouldn't you agree, fellas, is a really slow news day. It's turning into a tidal wave. I'll be covering this more on the radio later, but we got a lot of stuff to get to.

We got a ton of stuff to get to. The guy is clearly cognitively compromised, ladies and gentlemen. It's not open for debate. The only debate is the degree of compromise he's suffering. That is it. I want you to watch this too

because this stuff pisses me off like you wouldn't believe. Here's Biden who can't even spell. He's trying to spell out. Here, here's Harris Faulkner. Fox News will air live tonight at 8 p.m. I'm sorry, guys. This is just, it's a live show. It will be an interim show with rotating Fox News will air live tonight at 8 p.m. I'm sorry, guys. This is just a live show.

It will be an interim show with rotating Fox News personalities until a new host is named. So now it's official. They want to thank Tucker Carlson for his service to the network. Just aired on the phone. He's getting, he's getting, you just missed it. He's getting up. There, you want to wave hello?

Put a hand in front of the camera. There, say, he's real. There you go. There's he's hand. So now it's official. Tucker Carlson out. I'm looking at this. I'd show you my phone.

There's probably like 100 texts on my phone. Hey, folks, it's a live stream. I know. I know. It's crazy. All right. We got to play this video because it's funny. Here's Biden.

Not only is he lying here, but in the course of his lying, he can't even, Biden can't even spell the word eight while trying to insist billionaires pay an 8% tax rate. Check this out. We have a thousand billionaires in America. Know the average tax rate they pay? Eight, E-I-G-H percent. Eight percent. 8 percent.

A. A. A. A. 8. It's not A. 5, 6, 7, A. This isn't the

Fonz, A. That's 8 8 Oh dude Dude Joe wins the freaking internet today How did I not know to put that in Guy how did you not know to put that in there How did you not know to put

How did you not That is true He's trying to like read the Tucker news, throw the clips for slob. He's like this. He's got a, he's got his foot on the mouse. He's got his hands.

He's watching three. He's got three computers. There's actually four. There's one with me, three computers on, and he's, he's going back and forth from all three. He's got his elbow on one mouse,

the middle finger of the other one on the other mouse. He's got the tongue. He's like doing this. Joe played the Fugazi audio eight. That was perfect. Now, just again to show you Joe Biden, of course, in addition to not being able to spell eight, he, of course, is lying addition to not being able to spell eight.

He, of course, is lying. That's a fabricated number. Go to Wall Street Journal piece if you would. That's a made up number. What do you mean it's made up? Exactly what I just said is made up. Here, Wall Street Journal correcting Washington's favorite falsehood about taxing billionaires. The 8 percent figure is a fabricated number based on how much the rich would be paying if the U.S. is a fabricated number based on how much the rich would be paying if the U.S. had an imaginary and entirely unconstitutional federal tax system that plundered wealth, not just income. You mean Joe Biden just made that number up? That's exactly what I mean. He's just lying. So this guy, William McBride of the Tax Foundation, which is not some hardcore Republican outlet, by the way, He explained what billionaires actually pay.

High-income taxpayers pay the highest tax rates according to the IRS. The average income tax rate in 2020, guys, was 13.6%. The top 5% played 22.4%. That means more. The top 1% paid 26%. That's double the 13.6, or almost double. The 13.6% of everyone else.

So you mean the richest among us pay twice the tax rate? Yeah, yeah, that's what I mean. Yeah, but Biden said they only pay, yeah, Biden's an idiot. He's a liar. They go on to make this other point too for all the liberals telling you, we're just not taxing people enough. We don't have any tax revenue. Actually, last year set a record all-time

high of tax revenue, 4.9 trillion in tax money. And we're still, the year is setting a record for debt so far at 850 billion. So Dan, what you're saying is even though we set a record, the amount of tax money taken in, that we're still running a deficit this year and piling on that. Yeah, that's what I'm telling you. What I'm telling you is no matter what the government takes from you in taxes, they'll still spend more. That that's what I'm telling you. What I'm telling you is no matter what the government takes from you in taxes, they'll still spend more. That's exactly what I'm telling you. And the numbers back me up. All right, let me get to this.

This is the White House correspondence dinner week. Apparently, this is like what I call nerd prom or something. Folks, if you ever saw a quote in a piece or an email list summing up the foie gras bow tie wearing crowd in Washington, D.C., man, this is it. I read this this morning. I sent it at kind of the last minute on Playbook. This is just embarrassing. Playbook's talking about how you get a ticket, Joe, all these she she foo-foo parties in washington dc yeah and this lady tammy who's some kind of uh like doyen social did you see this come on tell me you didn't want to throw up in your mouth and you read this they're like tammy

political what do we have to do to get into all these foo-foo parties with all these media people and tammy says what have you got to trade? A special guest you can bring? Your family's ticket to the city open? A hot table at Cafe Milano? A private tour of the pandas? Drinks at the wharf? Folks, listen, I may be exposing my own ignorance, but I'm going to tell you the truth here.

Because the truth, I don't know what any of that is. I can look it up. I'm not stupid. I don't know what the city open is. I don't know what any of that is. I can look it up. I'm not stupid. I don't know what the city open is. I don't know what that is. Cafe Milano? I mean, it's obviously a restaurant. Is that the, I don't know.

Is that the she-she place? A private tour of the pandas? There's a panda tour? What is that, the DC Zoo? Is that the Bronx Zoo? I have no idea. Drinks at the Wharf? What's the Wharf? You mean San Francisco?

I don't even know what these... I'm proud to tell you I have no freaking idea what any of that stuff is. I gotta incorporate more. You guys really make the show that much more spicy for me. He wants to know, folks,

who do you think reads this like unironically, like reads it and doesn't laugh. The answer is the people who read political playbook. They're like, Oh wait, I can get into these parties using my city open ticket. Oh, that's like,

Oh, I love it. I got a table in my cafe Milano. I'll call Gerard by the, the, uh, made her D a cafe Milano and trade my ticket Gerard, the maitre d' Cafe Milano, and trade my ticket for a shot at the MSNBC party with Joy Reid.

They don't know Joe's going to be there. He's going to have the Inspector Gadget glasses on with the fake mustache because he's continuing his investigation into Joy Reid's homophobic blog. Joe's going to be there. He's going to have the mustache glasses on. Joe's going to have those on because they know what Joe looks like. They don't want Joe there, but he's going to have the, the, you know, the, the, the, the mustache glasses on Joe's going to have those because they know what Joe looks like. He,

Joe, they don't want Joe there, but he's going to be there too. Maybe they'll try to trade Joe with their private tour of the pandas. I don't even know what the pandas are, but I guess the pandas are a big deal. Yeah. I don't either drinks at the wharf.

Maybe we've got to go to San Francisco. What a crazy. I mean, really? They read this stuff. It's just hilarious. All right, folks.

Crazy news day. Again, Tucker Carlson read this stuff. It's just hilarious. All right, folks, crazy news day. Again, Tucker Carlson out at Fox. Me, not with Fox anymore. That was a lot of news in one weekend about Fox. I am shocked. So I've got some ideas. We'll see what happens. Hmm. I got a lot of ideas. We'll see what happens. I got a lot of ideas. Don't forget to subscribe to my show because you can always see us here on Rumble every day at 11 a.m. live streaming. You get

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