The Dan Bongino Show - A Mind-Blowing Interview (Ep 1051)

Episode Date: August 23, 2019

In this episode I address Martha MacCallum’s mind-blowing interview with this Spygate player last night and what it means. I also discuss my growing concerns about the 2020 election dynamics. I address John Solomon’s bombshell new report on the Clinton email case and the latest nonsense from CNN’s Brian Stelter. News Picks:Did you catch this mind-blowing interview on Fox last night?   John Solomon's latest piece has some troubling revelations about the extent the FBI went to in order to shelve the Clinton email case.   An excellent piece about the 2020 election by Victor Davis Hanson.   The atrocious NY Times is trying to indoctrinate people by rewriting American history.   This piece discusses the reasons for the strong evangelical support for Donald Trump.    A concise but effective explanation of why the US dollar remains strong despite our massive debt.    The liberal war on language continues.   The Obamas aren’t “sharing the wealth.”    Phony, Bernie Sanders, who has never had a real job wants a “wage board” to rule over businesses.   Copyright Dan Bongino All Rights Reserved. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

get ready to hear the truth about america on a show that's not immune to the facts with your host dan bongino oh what was that last night what was that okay so let me just give you some background i'm sitting there and i'm packing for i'm'm filling in for Hannity tonight on Fox 9 PM. Please watch. Thank you very much. You guys and ladies are the best. Appreciate it. I'll get to that a little bit later,

but I'm packing for the trip and my phone starts blowing up with viewers, listeners, downloaders, YouTube watchers of my show. What just happened on Martha McCallum show on Fox? I don't want to leave you hanging. Some of you may have missed it. Those who didn't know exactly what I'm talking about. One of the craziest interviews I've ever

seen. I had to throw the whole show out. I had the show done because I record early the days I leave to do Sean. I had to throw the whole show out and start over. Welcome to the Dan Bongino show. Producer Joe, how are you today? Wow, man. It's Friday uh friday wow man yeah joe doesn't know what to do because i sent him these video clips from the interview to cut and he was like what the hell just happened last night exactly you know don't worry take it easy i just explained to joe what's going on oh i've got background on this story that goes back months now. So everybody just stand, stand easy, as they used to say in the police academy. I will explain to you what's going on.

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mine named bill what just happened on fox let me give you the background so last night martha mccallum had a 22-minute interview, which is, by the way, I do Fox all the time, as you know, I work there, is unprecedented in prime time. Usually there's a commercial break before that, or at least there's a couple of segments. 22-minute interview. For those of you interested in the entire interview, it'll be up at the show notes today. It is the first link at Bongino.com if you subscribe to my email list you'll get it in your email box watch the whole thing there was an interview with

the former ceo who's now left of the company overstock many of you have heard of it uh the guy's name is patrick burn yeah now full disclosure i'm aware of this story i've been working with without giving people up with someone who knows someone. I've been familiar with this story for a while. It's not me puffing my chest. I'm just disclosing this so there's no ambiguity about what I'm getting at. I've known about this guy for a long time.

I will say in advance, despite the... I don't want to knock him. This is not meant to be a dig. But despite the haphazardness of the interview, not Martha's fault, but he jumps all over the place, I believe this guy to be credible. What are his allegations?

His allegations are that he was a central figure in a spying operation, notably Spygate, on the Trump campaign, the Rubio campaign, and also the Cruz campaign and the Clinton campaign. In other words, that the FBI was using him to gather information. Everybody clear? He is claiming that he was in law enforcement parlance, basically a confidential human source, a CHS for the FBI, spying on political campaigns.

I'm telling you in advance, everybody I know who knows him and has contacted me has told me that his story is credible. Okay. I'm just putting that out there because even some of my own sources I've asked to evaluate it are kind of like, I don't know, he's all over the place. I just think that's a natural... I took him

as credible. I mean, I know I was cutting up a little bit. I'm sorry. Yeah, I took him as credible, by the way. No, well, you had said to me before the show that, you know, he says at one point like he's a hippie, and that may just be a reflection of his natural eccentric nature that he jumps all over the place, but I don't think it's a reflection on

him lying at all. And I'm telling you, my sources seem to think he's credible. There are a ton of takeaways from this interview. Remember, keep in mind, he's claiming he was a confidential source for the FBIbi an intermediary where they were spying on cruz rubio trump and hillary clinton it's a bizarre story i'm gonna hit two of the takeaways uh first this is a again it's a 22 minute interview you can watch the whole thing in my show notes here's the first clip of him talking about fbi efforts to obtain information on hillary um based on what i know and i could be wrong but i don't think so i think he's got the story a

little wrong i think he's just explaining it wrong check this out more when we get back check this clip out some of it uh involved this young lady maria Butina, who came here. So some of it involved her. Some of it involves setting up Hillary Clinton for what looked like law enforcement was actually setting her up to be blackmailed. I helped them set up Hillary Clinton to be blackmailed. What was the nature of the blackmail?

Can't go into it. And so I've already, I'm sure there's a bunch of people in Washington who are going to rip me apart. What? Now you see why my phone blew up last night? And by the way, hat tip to Martha. You know, I dotha's show once in a while we can disagree on the air on things sometimes we agree she said but she's on the news side she doesn't do like opinion type journalism she's on the news side but she let

him talk and it was a really terrific interview because she didn't she just let him go yeah and you can see he's kind of this is the the whole interview goes this way. He kind of jumps from one topic to the next, but he doesn't tie it together. Now, if you listen there, you're like, wait, the FBI was trying to blackmail Hillary Clinton. That's not how I understand this case here. And Patrick, you're willing to reach out and correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think I am.

I think what he's really getting at is the FBI was seeking information on the Russians trying to blackmail Hillary Clinton. Here's what I mean. And folks, forgive me, but Paula, how many emails did we get on this last night? Yeah, I mean, like up there with my death penalty show. This may be the most emails we've ever gotten in a less than 24 hour period. People asking me to translate what happened last night. First, he mentions Maria Butina. You have to be clear on who Maria Butina is.

If you go back and rewind the clip, you'll see she's the redheaded woman who has been prosecuted by the United States government for not disclosing her ties to the Russian government. Christopher Steele and the information that came in that was used to spy on Trump, one of the tenets of the information alleging Trump was colluding with the Russians was that the NRA, the National Rifle Association, was being used as a conduit to funnel money from key Russians into the Trump campaign. Follow me, Joe.

I need you to step up here, okay? That's a wild one. One of the allegations behind the collusion scandal is key Russians trying to influence the U.S. election who can't donate. You're prohibited. Foreigners cannot donate directly to a presidential campaign. Are we clear on that? So one of the allegations is key russians with connections to russian intel and otherwise we're funneling money into the nra the nra then could then launder the money and donate it to

trump okay the charges are not true folks again i'm not suggesting they're false they've already been discredited i'm just telling you what one of the pillars of Trump collusion was. Laundered campaign funds through the NRA. Butina had some connections to figures in the NRA because she was a gun rights activist who, well, claimed to be in many respects and had some of these NRA figures over to Russia. Now, when you, again, the charges have been discredited and debunked she was not arrested for uh you know campaign violations she was arrested for not being honest about some of her disclosures to the russian government i've never met maria butina i disclosure again i worked in nra tv um i have no idea who

maria butina is. Listen, what did I say? Cross my heart, hope to die. I've never met the woman in my life. I worked at NRA TV, not the NRA. That's not the same thing. I just want to get that out there. It's a completely separate entity. I did not work for the NRA,

but I want everybody to understand that because unlike the left, I'm actually honest about what I'm putting out there. All right. The charges were debunked. be a source of information if Byrne worked her to expose this collusion scandal but could also be a source of information on if the Russians had Hillary's emails Joe please tell me can you hit me with that again a little slower just yeah yeah okay I know that's a little yeah thanks bro yeah I I get it so remember the FBI in the early stages of this Russian collusion investigation, I believe, thinks there may be merit to this story that Trump's colluding with the Russians.

They know it's false by January of 2017, and they keep running with it anyway. Man, I'm not trying to cover for the FBI. But I am suggesting to you here that in the beginning, I believe some of them think there may be something to this story. So in that, the general story is this. The Russians have Hillary's emails. The Hillary emails and the DNC emails are bad.

Remember the whole Mifsud Russian dirt story? So the story, Russians have Hillary emails and DNC emails. They try to get them to the Trump team. The Trump team will put them out in public to ruin Hillary's chances. Therefore will put them out in public to ruin hillary's chances therefore trump worked with the russians to hurt hillary now the other part of that is the russians are also trying to help trump by getting him money they can't donate

they donate to the nra which gives the money to trump both stories completely discredited in the box okie dokes butina i think the fbi believes but, who this guy Byrne, maybe I should have said this in advance, has a romantic relationship with Butina. He met at, what was it, some Liberty Festival or something like that. I think it's the same one I did in Las Vegas a couple of years ago. Butina, Byrne knows Butina. So Byrne has a preexisting relationship with the FBI where he was working another case. So Byrne has a pre-existing relationship with the FBI where he was working another case. The FBI approaches Byrne and basically says, hey, can you help us out with Boutina?

I think that's where he's going with the Hillary thing and kind of gets the story backwards. All right. Do you get what I'm saying? In other words, let me just put myself in the FBI agency. The FBI agent approaches Byrne. Hey, Patrick, we've worked with you before on that Wall Street case. I know you have a relationship with this redheaded woman, Maria Butina. We think she may be connected with the Russians. Byrne's probably like, wait, what? I met her at a Liberty conference. I don't know anything about the Russians. Well, we think she may be the key figure in a scandal to influence

our election. What scandal? Well, we think she may know something about money being laundered through the NRA. She knows people at the NRA to influence the election. And we think she may know a little bit about the Russian efforts to work with the Trump team to influence the election by getting Hillary's emails out. Do you know anything about Hillary? I think that's what he's getting at. Okay. Because I got an email from a police officer friend of mine saying, well, what do you mean he was trying to blackmail Hillary? I don't think that's what he's getting at okay because i got an email from a police officer friend of mine saying well what do you mean he was trying to blackmail hillary i don't think that's what he was saying okay so i know that's a little confusing maybe a bit opaque but there's that's what i think is going on the fbi used him because they knew him before i got yeah okay the second yeah thanks thanks yeah this i know was he thanks and he's a little scattered

that's why I got so many emails on him there's another takeaway this I believe is damning this one's a little shorter but this is him at the end of the interview at about the 16 minute mark again if you want to watch the whole thing where he talks about the FBI sitting on information

waiting for this grenade to explode check this out i could have told you in december 2015 which i will note is seven months before the official start of the investigation that i had already picked up i was already hypothesizing this is starting to seem like they're just deliberately letting this grenade develop on the republicans are they just going to pull the pin on it someday? Folks, that little snippet is the most explosive portion of the interview. It knocks down a couple of FBI narratives. He's suggesting that the story about the July 31st start date of the investigation against Trump may

not in fact be accurate, which we know it isn't. That the FBI may have been compiling and spying on the Trump team earlier than they have publicly stated, which is devastating because it means they lied. Secondly, what I think he's getting at as well is a couple of points. Number one one if the fbi this guy's not a stupid guy this guy was the ceo of overstock he's very bright yeah a little scattered but bright i think what he's suggesting is kind of the tenet of book number two that i wrote is if the fbi thought that the russians were trying to infiltrate Republican campaigns, Cruz, Rubio and Trump. Why did they sit on the, quote, grenade?

In other words, Joe, very simply, why not just warn the Trump campaign? Like the Bush administration and the former FBI did the McCain campaign back when he was running against Obama. McCain campaign back when he was running against Obama. Because, folks, the Obama administration wasn't interested in preventing Russian collusion in the campaign. They were fostering it.

That's takeaway number one. Do you get that from what he's saying there? That's what I take away from it. Easy peasy. Got it. Easy as apple pie. Why not? He says, why are they sitting on this grenade? Just warn the team. he seemed confused by it secondly another takeaway from this that may be a little more nuanced but again based on my history with people who know this individual who again i've been told is very credible don't let the scattered nature of the interview fool you

there is another takeaway from this, ladies and gentlemen. The NRA money laundering story with Boutina. In other words, that it's false. Again, I can't say that enough. Russians giving money to the NRA to give to the Trump team because they can't give the money direct. Boutina knows people at the NRA. She's in multiple photos with them.

I believe what happened here is they had been working this angle a lot earlier than they're willing to acknowledge. And the problem, Joe, is the story was false. So as Byrne, the guy you see, who has this romantic relationship with Butina, is working with the FBI, feeding information he's getting from Butina back to the FBI, the information is not that the Russians are filtering money through the NRA because the story was false. So my problem with this second fold is if you think the Russians are colluding, warn them. But number two, if you got exculpatory information that the story is false and that putina is not confirming your story about this in other words giving you exculpatory information why did they continue to investigate

the answer is obvious because they weren't doing a criminal investigation they were doing a political hit job they didn't want to shut down the investigation despite the fact that the evidence was contradictory does that make sense yeah i mean that last cut was him sniffing this out he he was picking it up yeah yes yes saying they sat on this grenade why because they wanted to detonate it right before the election which they did when they leaked to multiple news outlets that trump was being investigated for Russian collusion that never happened. Folks, this guy Byrne was all over yesterday. I'll have more of it on Monday when I filter through it.

I'm waiting to hear back from someone. But again, this is, I can't emphasize to you enough, people I know who know me, this is a credible guy. He's not making this story up. I think he's just telling it in a scattered fashion. So there's your translation. The takeaways, I don't believe Hillary was being blackmailed. I think they were seeking information being used to blackmail Hillary. In other words, did the Russians really have Hillary's emails and were they giving them to the Trump team? and were they giving them to the Trump team?

That's the blackmail portion. Secondly, why were they not warned? Burns seems openly wondering that. Why were they not warned about this Russian collusion, if that's what you thought? And also, if Boutina had no evidence backing up this NRA claim, why did the FBI continue to investigate? Because the investigation was a political hit job, not a criminal investigative or a counterintelligence matter.

It's as simple as that. All right. Yeah, man. I hope that answers a lot of your questions. Email us feedback. I promise you we'll get to more. I know a little more here than I'm letting on,

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Amen. All right, moving on. Story number two, the deuce. Folks, something's bothering me and is on my mind, and I need to get this off my chest. I tweeted about it yesterday. It got picked up by a number of right-leaning news outlets. I got overwhelmingly positive feedback, but some negative feedback as well. Some people thought I was being a kind of a naysayer about the 2020 election. I'm not. I was in the gym yesterday and a friend of mine who listens to the show, give him a little shout,

I can't say his name, but you know who you are, came up to me. I was doing the glued ham machine, working those hamstrings out at the end of my workout. And he's like, what do you think of 2020, man? It's going to be a landslide. Ladies and gentlemen, this is like the 10,000th time. All right, a little bit of hyperbole, but I go to airports. Everybody tells me this. A landslide for Trump. You may say, well, damn, what's the problem? Folks, I don't know who's telling you there's going to be a landslide but i'm here to tell you as a trump supporter i think he has been a fantastic conservative president i don't agree on everything i think that's obvious but i think he has been the most conservative president we've had since reagan that that attitude is going to get us killed electorally speaking oh why are you being so negative?

I'm not being negative. I'm being a realist. I had one guy on Twitter. Why is he talking about this now? Nobody's paying attention. Nobody's paying attention. Are you serious? We're in the middle of a presidential election

where upwards of 20 Democrats are raising money, knocking on doors, and getting volunteers to win an election that's a little over a year away, and you think it's too early to talk? You know what? You guys sit this one out, okay? Let us take care of the hard work. When I ran for Congress and almost upset John Delaney in a heavily Democratic district, I was running for two years. We knocked on 55,000 doors.

What, are you going to wait until November 1st to start doing that? What a joke. Now, the reason I'm bothered by this, ladies and gentlemen, is apathy and overconfidence is literally what cost the Democrats the election against Trump. I don't know what indicators you're looking at that leads you to believe it's going to be a landslide, but understand this, and if I get negative feedback on this, fine. I want to win. I'm not here to play patty cake with people. Hillary Clinton lost because 4 million Obama voters did not show up on Election Day.

You know why? I know know i ran in that election cycle they were like that trump what a loser he ain't gonna win folks you damn well better be scared and anxious i'm not talking i said in my tweet don't panic i think trump's in good shape i think the economy's in good shape i think bar barring a recession, re-election's a strong possibility. But you are doing everybody a huge disservice by saying that. I'm sorry. Folks, elections are won by people who are a little bit anxious. Elections aren't won by people, ah, he's going to win. They don't need my vote. And I also put in a tweet, if you're in a blue state, you matter too. We need to win the popular vote too. Why? It doesn't matter. No, it does matter. It's not going to determine

the election. I get that. It's an electoral college vote. But folks, losing the popular vote was a political talking point the left has bludgeoned us over the head with ever since the election. Hillary beat Trump in the popular vote. She shouldn't have. Folks, there's a couple of things that are worrying me. You may say, well, Dan, what are you basing this on? It's a facts and data show, right? It's an opinion show, but I like to back it up.

There are two things that have me anxious. Not in a panic, and nobody should be panicking. I already told you one of them, but things that have me worried. Millions of Obama voters did not show up in the 2016 election. Folks, I'm telling you right now, do not fool yourself or your neighbors or any other Trump supporters for a minute and say, oh, you know what? They're going to stay home again. Listen to me. I promise you they aren't. Because they're in a panic and they're anxious. Those millions of Obama voters are going to show up.

And they could very well swing Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania in a direction we don't like. Do not kid yourself. Second, a guy in the gym, yes friend of mine not knocking him he said oh i don't believe the polls big huge mistake you don't believe the polls what poll

don't you believe well if the fox polls were wrong last time they were did you look at them no they weren't i work if I'm not defending Fox's poll. I have nothing to do with their polling unit. I'm just, if the facts don't suit you, that's fine. I'm just telling you, look it up yourself. The state polls were wrong. No question. The national polling was not wrong.

Within the margin of error, the Fox polls predicted the national popular vote and they were correct. Go just look at them. Ladies and gentlemen, the polling now that should frighten you is the state polling. Why are you saying that, Dan? You just said two seconds ago the state polling was wrong. There's a reason the state polling was wrong last time, which leads me to believe the state polling this time is not wrong.

time, which leads me to believe the state polling this time is not wrong. What happened last time is clear. A lot of people, large swaths of voters were first time voters. They were not showing up in the 2016 state polls as likely or registered voters. Why? Because they never voted before. Trump pulled these people out of the woodwork who loved him, who showed up to vote.

Thankfully, we won. The polls were wrong in the states because those people were not showing up in the smaller sample sizes of the states. Folks, those people will show up in likely and registered voter polls this time why because they voted last time now some of the polls are unquestionably i think oversampling democrats that's why i don't want anybody to panic but suggest and and and a big end and this is important ladies and gentlemen early polls now rarely if ever predict the outcome but i think reagan was losing a carter by like 10 points and won an enormous landslide so i don't want to panic but i don't want you to ignore the polls

oh that's just total garbage crap it really so what are you going to do then we're all just going to sit around and wait for the Trump election. We're not going to do it. Get anxious. I'm sorry. Get a little bit of anxiety. It motivates people to action. I was terrified in that congressional race

about losing. That's why we went out there and I knocked personally on 7,000 doors. Folks, I have a picture up by Victor Davis Hanson of, you can see, of a piece at National Review. By the way, the show notes today are a must read.

There's a lot of articles today, but they're all so good. Please read them. Victor Davis Hanson, unquestionably a Trump supporter, unquestionably at National Review. What could sink Trump's chances in 2020? August 22nd, 2019, National Review. Please read it. It talks about how if the economy takes a downturn ladies and gentlemen we could be in a little bit of trouble again i'm going to leave this segment here i'm not panicking i'm not oh

you're a fair weather i'm not i have been with this president from the start when he advocates conservative causes which he does more often than any president we've had modern times don't but cut the crap with that. Stop turning on each other. I'm unquestionably behind this president's re-election. I just, having run for office myself, understand that apathy loses every single time. And this idea that we're going to win in some kind of historic landslide,

I don't see, right now, evidence for that. And I'm afraid people are going to stay home thinking, oh, my votes don't matter. The economy bumps up to 4 or 5 percent growth. Listen, we could we could win 42, 43 states. Great. I will go back to the show and thank myself for being wrong. Apathy loses let those polls scare you a little bit and be wary of those four million obama voters that didn't show up they're coming out this time make no mistake all right um just quickly doubling down on that pj media has another these will all be in the show notes today by the way another

great article up uh today very well done by by Brian Preston about why evangelicals support Trump. I've discussed this before, but in light of what I just said, folks, that's a positive sign to not be capped in negative today, because really, I'm not trying, I desperately want to see this president reelected. I just, tactically speaking, can't afford this apathy to sink in. And we did get a lot of positive feedback on it. Evangelicals, I've discussed this, ladies and gentlemen, we have this wartime attitude right now in the trenches. There's a lot of questioning by Democrats and Ben Howe, who I know Ben, Ben's a good friend of mine.

We may disagree on Trump, but I, you know, I don't let that get, I'm not a liberal. I don't let that get in the way of my personal relationship. Ben wrote a book about questioning evangelical supports become a big topic of conversation. My suggestion to that and a kind of a retort to Ben's book is, folks, we're in a different time now. It's not that liberals want to win a political argument. They want to silence and suppress you and literally take away your rights. Oh, my gosh, that's hyperbolic. Is it? You have prominent Democrats, Eric Swalwell and others, who was actually running for president, talking about gun confiscation plans. You have Bernie Sanders and Julian Castro talking about economic confiscation plans, 90 percent tax rates. That's confiscating your money. We have people talking about speech suppression.

I'll get to later in the show. Bernie Sanders talking about wage boards to take over your government running your business. Take over your government running your business. When your rights are literally under attack, ladies and gentlemen, we stop worrying so much about the personal picadillos of the candidates we run. And the analogy I've used on the show, and I believe I'm right about analyzing why evangelicals, deeply religious people,

are supporting Trump, is that when you're in wartime and you're in the trenches with someone and, you know, the bullets are coming your way, you don't necessarily worry about the guy next to you cheating on his wife. Shouldn't do it morally inexcusable, but you know what? Maybe when you're having them over for a coffee clutch and peach time,

you may say peacetime. You may say to me, buddy, that's not the right thing to do. But when you're sitting there in the trenches, you get what I'm saying? is this making sense you don't worry about that yeah you're like shoot that way we talk about your sexual problems later brother that way that's the enemy trump is the guy who's shooting the other way he's fighting back defunding Planned Parenthood tax cuts deregulation getting the government off people's backs conservative judges we need this guy and and again I Ben is a friend

this is a you know I know some of you get mad you pick the wrong folks listen I'm not going to get into that people have political disagreements okay I'm not I'm serious I'm not going to get into that. People have political disagreements, okay? I'm serious. I'm not going to do the liberal thing where every single person on the other side is an evil, awful, Nazi, racist, misogynist. I don't do that. Thank goodness. I just think he's wrong on this issue. I think evangelicals want to save lives and see this guy as a warrior for their cause, even though he's a sinner like all of us. We all are. But it's a good article.

It's worth your time. Okay. sinner like all of us we all are but it's a good article it's worth your time um okay um moving a little bit of a comic relief here uh in the middle of the show we always need some comic relief the topics are so serious okay so george costanza speaks again joe um you know not actually george costanza but uh the the goofball over at cnn um i hate to say you know i just said don't make it personal but this guy what what you talking to me out there lord of the idiots oh sorry she was sneezing yes a hundred percent i the only reason i get on this guy personally is because he's such a doofus really he's the coffee boy at cnn of course i'm talking about brian stelter the guy's a conspiracy theory promoting lunatic he attacked mark levin hysterically about two years ago

for suggesting there was a pfizer warrant on trump which is now a fact has promoted never apologized to him because he's a clown the guy's a total joker he he wants this is a true story but when i filled in for hannity for the first time i think we were number two or number three that was my first time guest hosting a show ever he made fun of me on twitter because of it we've been number one ever since every time i'm in we've been number one and like two or three or one in the demo every single time and stelter george costanza stelter this doofus has never spoken again about it because he's a clown.

He has the third rated show in a three-way race on CNN. We have more weekly viewers than this guy does at one one millionth of the cost of what these lunatics pay to put this coffee boy on TV. The biggest loser on television, full stop. And that is amongst a lion's den of losers. This guy, what was your thing? Was that somebody, king of the idiots?

What is that? Yeah, I don't know. Let's do it again. Lord of the idiots. Lord of the idiots. Yes. This guy in a village of the stupid is the shaman. He is a moron.

And this guy never gets anything right. He is a doofus of the highest order. I only put him on the show for comic relief. Where are we going with this? Where are we going? He comes on CNN yesterday. Again, 10 people

in an airport in Tuscaloosa were watching this without the volume on. They have no audience at all they hired andy mccabe disgraced deputy director of the fbi today as a contributor that's hysterical cnn i'm not kidding yeah exactly hysterical right let me just get to this video here's costanza hysterically suggesting that sean spicer former press spokesman for the Trump presidency, should not be allowed on Dancing with the Stars because he lied.

But don't worry, Joe, other administrations, Bill Clinton, I do not have sexual relations with that woman. Obama, you know, if you like your play, none of them, don't worry, they're nothing on par with the Trump team. Here's Costanza, king of the stupids, speaking on CNN. ABC has George Stephanopoulos, who was at the White House, of course, during the Clinton years. There's many examples of this. The difference, of course, is the Trump White House's record of misleading the public. All administrations spin.

This administration lies consistently, whether it's Sanders or Spicer or other White House aides. And it's all led from the top by a president who lies even about the weather and the time of day. That, I think, is why this does deserve outrage and backlash. Obviously, Sanders going to Fox is not surprising. There's been a revolving door between Fox and the Trump White House for several years. But it should still be surprising that somebody who misled the public and defended a man who calls the press the enemy would land these kinds of jobs. Let me just say, though, Spicer, you know, he's not at the top of his career right now. You don't go to Dancing with the Stars when you're at your peak.

As one source said to me, it's more like dancing with the down and out. This is the kind of job you take when you might not have many other options. But hey, maybe he's got an incredible dancing talent that we don't know about. I guess we'll find out, Brianna. You're a loser. Play that again., Brianna. You're a loser. Play that again. Play it again. You're a loser. Play it again.

You're a loser. One more time. You're a loser. Dude, can we get a double Motley too on that one? Sure, man. Let me get a five-dome Motley here. This is a two-month. Here we go, baby.

Number one. Number one. Number two. You know what? This is a triple mutley. Where do they find these people? Oh, man. This is the funniest clip I have ever seen.

Costanza, who hosts the third rated show. It's only a three-way race, meeting your last. It's not the bronze medal. You're literally a loser. You know, I competed in the police Olympics in New York State, and the guy pulled his hamstring in the middle of the race,

and he was the only other guy in my category, and I wound up, I'm not kidding, I wound up winning the competition because he dropped out. I'm being self-deprecating. Remember that, Paula? The guy pulled his hamstring because I didn't win.

The guy ripped his hamstring. This dude is in a three-way race and always finishes last on CNN. He has a show, I'm not kidding. Our weekly audience is bigger than this loser. We have a podcast at one, what, 1,000th, 1,000,000th of the cost these idiots to put on his Coffee Boy show, and we're smoking this loser. And he talks about Sean Spicer not having career opportunities.

Brian Stelter, if he got fired tomorrow, Brian Stelter would be selling hot dogs on 46th and 6th. He'd have a Subretz dip. And by the way, I love people who work for a living. You guys are better than this dip. Oh my God. Stelter talking about career opportunities. This guy was the coffee boy for the CEO of CNN. He,

do you understand he only has a show on CNN because he's become fodder for the other networks who make fun of him? This is the biggest. This is the king of the idiots. If there was a village of idiots, I'm telling you, this guy's the witch doctor. He is the monarch of the village of idiots. He is Captain Idiot. Talking about Spicer?

Showing you again. Just by the way, hysterically, this guy's show is titled Reliable Sources. Whatever the joke is, it's on Reliable Sources. That's the title of the show. Really? Then he makes fun of Fox. He goes, Sarah Sanders is working for Fox. Gee, we expect that.

You just hired Andy McCabe. The guy is literally under federal investigation for lying. And CNN, a news network, just hired. Oh, my gosh. That says volumes. You just hired a dude who is literally under investigation for lying. And you're talking about credibility issues with Sarah Sanders at Fox? Oh.

Can you hear it in the office? We need a little credibility here. What do you think of this McCabe guy? Perfect. Two thumbs up. And then Potato Head Stelter walks in there. I got a great, that's a great idea.

What a reliable source he is. We're going to have an issue putting him on here. He's actually under investigation for life. Let's put him on reliable sources it'll be perfect oh oh my gosh and then you got costanza opening you think he'd be hiding this there's more more and he goes on talking about the trump administration's problems with credibility. This loser promoted the conspiracy hoax for two years. For two years. This complete

life loser. Coffee boy. He promoted the hoax for two years. You're talking about credibility issues with Spicer? This guy shouldn't even be on... This guy's not worthy of the National Enquirer. You're talking about credibility.

And you know we didn't have any problem with Obama and the other. Really? I just wrote a short list. Benghazi, the IRS lies, the Obamacare lies, the Benghazi lies, the Spygate lies. I do not have sexual relations with that woman, Ms. Lewinsky.

Really? You're celebrating George Stephanopoulos and his ABC hiring who worked for Clinton when he did not have sexual relations with that woman? Are you serious? It's stelter eating enhanced brownies, if you know what I mean. Is Stelter eating enhanced brownies, if you know what I mean? See, but as he's running coffee to the CNN CEO. Folks, I saw this yesterday. And I just, if this one clip does not summarize for you why CNN is a failure of a network. Watched by 10 people in the East tuna fish airport on

silent who are not even looking at the TV screen. Nothing else does a total complete utter lack of self-awareness by potato head, captain of the stupids, Lieutenant Colonel of the stupids, George Costanza, stelter, loser,

loser. You tweeted me. You want to dance? of the stupids, George Costanza Stelter. Loser. Loser. You tweet at me, you want to dance, you want to tango? We'll tango. I don't forget anything. I saw that tweet. Dan Bogito hosting for Hannity, finish number two, whatever. Notice, every time we finish number one, if they never mentioned it again,

Potato Head, Costanza, who finishes three in a three-way, not the bronze medal, the loser in a three-way race. Loser. Look at the race. Go to my buddy's account at Twitter, at RoadMN, road like a street road, at RoadMN.

M like Mary, N like, look at that account. You want to see the TV ratings? He puts a spreadsheet up every day. I like them. CNN isn't even in the top 10. Uh-uh. The top 10. Fox's 6 o'clock hour on Fox and Friends beats CNN's primetime. CNN's the bowels of the ratings.

The bowels. The bowels. It's the colon. Exactly. It is the opening at the end of you. It's not even the bowels. Potato Head Costanza talking about CNN being Captain Credible. Joe, that was funny.

I got an idea. Let's hire Andy McCain. Isn't he under investigation for lying? We're CNN, man. Who cares? We've only promoted the Spygate hoax for two years. We might as well jump all in. That's the best we're going to do.

Does this not sum up the problem with the media? Amen, bro. Potato head, Costanza. You got it. Loser. Loser. You're a loser. Jerk.

I never started squat with this guy. You want to tango with me? Let's tango. Dope. Yeah, I'm a little mad today. By the way, don't miss me on Hannity Night, 9 o'clock. Please tune in. You always make us number one.

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Cheryl Chumley, the Washington Times, August 22nd, 2019. San Francisco, where felons are now, quote, justice involved and there's no shame in crime folks the language wars are very few things embed themselves and get under my skin in a more painful way like a tick than the liberal language wars tucker had a fantastic segment with uh the inimitable mark stein last night in his show discussing exactly this where they hammered some of the points you've heard on this show before liberals now in san francisco don't want you referring to felons as felons they're're, quote, justice-involved people. And now when they add in the pronouns, it's going to be fascinating. Je jouzou des is a justice-involved jouzou des.

You're not going to be able to talk in San Francisco to a liberal without getting a language police fund. It reminds me of that movie Demolition Man with Sylvester Stallone when he comes back in the future and he can't figure out these ridiculous PC language codes and the robots keep like, you can't say that. We all laughed at that, Joe, except it's actually happening now. There's going to be a robot around the street in San Francisco. You're going to be like, oh my gosh, a felon just went, $15 fine. You can't

say felon. That's just as well. Yeah, but he, you can't say he. It's Zhe Zhao Zhou Dei. So Zhe Zhao though, move that. You can't say move. That's a capitalist thing. Socialists, we don't move, but you can't say move. Maybe all you're completely paralyzed. Ladies and gentlemen, that's the point. the point yes liberals change the rules on language like these san francisco lunatics because why they want to appear to virtue signal moment we can't felons you commit if you're a felon that's what you are you're not listen by the way don't mistake what i'm saying i have i mentioned this thing about addicts yesterday i've said before and i mean this a thousand percent. There are good people who made bad mistakes who are felons. You are always welcome here. Always. God gave everybody a second chance.

I'm not virtue signaling myself. I'm telling you how I personally feel. You may feel different. Jesus Christ on his cross forgave a man who asked for forgiveness just seconds before his death. If it's an act of true redemption, God will forgive you. And if God can, so can I. That's why some people don't like it. When I think, you know what, you served your time. I think some people should be allowed to vote again

regarding certain conditions. And I know that it doesn't, you know, upset some people, but people can redeem themselves. Listen, I'm a sinner too. Having said that though, you are a felon by definition. It doesn't mean you're an awful person for the rest of your life. It's a simple definition of your status as a former criminal. It matters. It matters because some people are concerned and some people have concerns about criminality in their neighborhood

and people with a history of it. Doesn't mean you're an awful person for the rest of your life. It's a simple descriptor and we're not going to engage in snowflake language to dance around the issue either. There are some former felons who've gone on to do great things, but liberals do this for a very specific reason. They change the rules on the fly. Not going to tell the story I always tell because they want to appear like the woke ones, but more importantly, they want you to appear like the bad guy. Now, when you say felon in the future, I assure you,

the liberals are going to say racist, misogynist, it's the phobic phobophobe. Look at him. He's not aware of the virtue signaling language. They do this to paint you as the outsider. It's done as a political tactical advantage. It's an old tactical tactic by Alinskyites and communists to single out people who are not part of the

woke cause to make them look like the outsiders that are coming after you. In other words, don't vote for them. Look how much they hate you. They called you a felon. I just told you, we don't hate you. You are welcome here. God forgives, and so do we. But having said that, that doesn't make the past disappear. We don't hate you. You are welcome here. God forgives, and so do we.

But having said that, that doesn't make the past disappear. And you shouldn't want that either. Not that you should be stigmatized by the worst moments in your life. But we can't all pretend those worst moments didn't happen either. You have to understand that had a penalty for real people. If you were convicted of a serious felony, that had an impact on someone's real life. That shouldn't go away either. Of course, we'll always be fair to you. You're always welcome here.

But we have to be fair to other people too. Actions have consequences. When you recognize those consequences, life will change and true redemption is possible. But snowflakery nonsense, justice-involved individual, what the hell does that mean? I was justice-involved. I worked for the Secret Service. I was involved with the justicism.

But I am not a felon. There's a difference. One describes a prior conviction and another describes just a generic set of activities that could mean anything. There's no way to have a coherent conversation like that. But that's exactly what the left wants. I love those stories. I love them because they're just so, they're epidemic now. By the way, the show notes today are killer.

Please check them out. You can't say killer. Yeah, stop. Violence, violence. Conservatives ask for violence. Easy, buddy. Easy, buddy. Easy, yeah. Awful. Violence. Violence. Conservatives ask for violence. Easy, buddy. Easy, buddy. Easy, buddy.

All right. I had so much more. I got a little. Because Stan's eye went off a little bit. That was fun, man. Time this out. That was fun. I know.

I needed to because I'm so sick of the media. Yeah, you do. You need it once in a while. I know about the John Solomon story, too, by the way. I'm going to get to that on Monday because I'm trying to shake some trees. John Solomon had a story in The Hill. It's in the show notes today if you want to read it, get you ready for Monday. But about the Hillary email investigation.

It has some major stuff going. I'm just trying to shake some trees on it. I didn't forget that, so don't think I missed it. All right, let's do this one because I like to close on kind of a bit of a serious but in some ways tragically comical note. Folks, liberals are frauds i've told you that over and over this language police virtue signaling stuff is not done to make

you believe they're they're your betters they're make they're made to believe that you're worse you call them felons oh my god look how awful you are look how great i am liberals are frauds they're phonies they're fakes i'm not talking about all democrats i never do i never mean that i shouldn't have to put the caveat in but i I do mean that. I'm just talking about this radical leftist wing that's taking over the party. AOC plus three, Bernie Sanders, the Swalwell types, you know, the people who have, they're just liars and frauds. Well, here are two stories that again, should hammer home to you that looking in the mirror, if you are a liberal, that you believe in a golden calf. And if a false, you believe in ball or whatever, you believe in a false whatever you believe in a false god the obamas

big distribute the wealth people remember you didn't build that we gotta share the wealth well apparently not for the obamas new york post again story in the show notes barack and michelle obama are buying a 15 15 million dollar estate in martha's vineyard by Hannah R. Alberts. August 22nd, 2019. Read the story in the show notes today. Folks, listen to me. Again, congratulations Barack and Michelle Obama. I'm not kidding.

Good for you. Good for you. I am a capitalist. You apparently have found people willing to give you money because they find value in your books, your Netflix movies, whatever you do. I find no value in it. Zero. I would not. You could not pay me to read an Obama.

I'm not kidding. There's no amount of money you can give me to read these. I can't. I'm not interested at all about Obama's ideas. I'm not. I'm interested in what all about Obama's ideas. I'm not. I'm interested in what he did and how awful it was. But other people do. People like Obama's stuff.

Netflix gave him a boatload of money. Their books make a fortune. Michelle Obama's book was number one. Great. Congratulations. I have no problem with that. What I have a problem with are these fake phonies like they are constantly talking about, you got to share the wealth.

You're not sharing the wealth. You don't need an assault rifle. You don't need a $500 million salary. No, you do. Who needs a $15 million house? Listen, ladies and gentlemen, Paul and I do okay. We don't live above our means. And I certainly don't need a lesson from anybody on the left about what I need or don't need.

But Obama, apparently, who spends far more than we do on a home, he doesn't... Do you understand his set of principles are not principles because he doesn't live by them himself? You don't need a $15 million house. Hey, when are we doing a't need a $15 million house. Hey, when are we doing a closing on the $15 million house? This guy's a phony. They're total fakes. Folks, you can get, I've been to Martha's Vineyard.

I did the lead advance there for the Obamas when they went there. I was there for three weeks. Very nice. There's a whole bunch of, Ed Getown, as they call it, a whole bunch of different parts. What is it? Oak Bluffs or something? Martha's Vineyard is a small place, but there's different places. I love it.

There's like little pockets. So yeah, it's very nice, Martha's Vineyard. It's beautiful. Martha's Vineyard property is obviously limited and is extremely expensive. But you can get a decent property on Martha's Vineyard for four or five million. Why not donate the extra 10 million to charity? Oh, nobody does that. So what you're saying is human beings, right, are naturally concerned with the well-being of themselves

and their families. Yeah, that's why we need government. Wait, wait, what? Government run by the exact same human beings you said are concerned by themselves and their families so when they get in government they become what angels they're deigned with justice league like superpowers oh yeah i just crossed myself up yeah you did you did no miki const was a leftist who i who I met before when she used to do Fox. She was on Fox with Tucker once, and I played this clip a while ago on the show, where she said the same thing. Well, people are only concerned, the gist of it was people are only concerned about the well-being of their families, you know, their neighbors and themselves. That's why we need government to take their wealth.

Ladies and gentlemen, do you understand how that knocks their own point? These very same people she's claiming are in it for the cause who are going to take other people's money and give it to the poor people when they are in charge of living their own lives. Don't do it themselves. And then when they get in government, they don't inherit any special powers.

They're not part of the Justice League. They're not the Avengers. They can't figure it out. That's why we limit the decisions of people who are fallible in public to areas of mass public consensus. Military, post roads, courts. And we don't let them take other people's money because Nomiki's right. People will act in their own interest, even when they get in the government. That's not my only look at the fraud story.

Last one and we got to run show one a little late today. Bernie Sanders. Bernie Sanders. We got to spread the wealth. We got to spread the wealth. Bernie Sanders. I don't like those millionaires. You just said millionaire, Bernie. You're a millionaire. I don't like those billionaires. I can't stamp it. Bernie, a week ago, you said millionaires, but I am a millionaire. Therefore, I got to get the millionaires out of my critique of millionaires and billionaires. I only dislike billionaires. Bernie,

what happens when you become a billionaire? Then I won't like trillionaires. I will stop talking about billionaires. Communist socialist millionaireernie sanders this is from peter list labor union report in the show notes again august 22nd 2019 bernie sanders plans wage boards to set wages benefits and hours across entire industry holding 10 yards on the field. Bernie Sanders. Replay first down. Red flag on the field. Reviewing the play. Subsequent delinquent hypocrisy,

hypocritical hypocrisy from Bernie Sanders. Is this guy kidding me? Bernie Sanders. I have never had a real job in my entire life, but we're going to establish business wage boards to determine how you pay your workers this dude has never had a job a real job in his whole life oh hey and he wants national wage boards we gotta establish what you are gonna pay we got a ruling what is it it's official you suck fraud alert fraud alert by the way joe um some guy john very nice by the way thank you for the

steak thing please don't that was unnecessary he knows what i mean okay this guy john send me a hat for you paula you guys oh she can't get away from it it's we have an ombudsman hat for you it's really nice thank you folks you don't have to send stuff it's super but i ought to have p.o box but you all are great. Bernie Sanders is a fraud. This dude has never had a real job in his life, and now he's going to tell you how to run your business. What a joke. Read these stories in the show

notes. Stacked show today. I promise on Monday I'll get to the Solomon bombshell. I'm just, again, shaking some trees. I've got some other stuff, too, about the U.S. economy, some good signs, and some explanations about why interest rates are so low. It's going to be important, so don't miss Monday's show. All right, folks, please subscribe to our YouTube channel. Please, I really appreciate it. YouTube.com slash Bongino. Subscribe to our audio show on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, and SoundCloud. And don't miss

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