The Dan Bongino Show - Bongino Weekend Report - Week of 09/14/26

Episode Date: September 19, 2026

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On the side of freedom and liberty, your voice of hope and truth is here. The Bon Gino Report, PM, with Dan Bonino. Holy Moses, I come back from the weekend. We're back on radio. And it, and it's like all hell broke loose about AI, tech. I come back, it's like Reverend Kane. Remember Reverend Kane from Polter? We're all got it.

I was like, what? What did I, what did I miss? Jim, did I miss something? In case you don't know where the show is going to go today, we are going to do something revolutionary. And if you don't sense or hear the dripping sarcasm in my voice, I'm sorry, I may have done that wrong. We are going to rationally and reasonably process some information that came in last week about AI. And we're going to help. form a reasonable opinion or output without doing Reverend Kane or without doing the other thing either. Like, hey, this is all great. We should just ignore guardrails and damn the torpedoes full steam ahead. But I come back. You know, I like to chat with producer Jim before the show. He's my friend and all. I noticed on his ex count this weekend, an ex account.

He was doing what he always does, putting up photos of smoked meats, which he thinks is an art form. I am not a smoker of fine meats, so I don't know if you'd like to see what meat Jim was smoking, then you can check him out an X at JJ Verdi. But I come back today, and I'm like, dude, you know what this reminds me of the hell breaking loose this weekend? I'm a young buck secret service. That was Buck with a B, so don't worry about FCC. I'm a young buck, although I couldn't, you know, that'd be interesting. And yeah, I don't think we're allowed to say that.

A podcast, yeah, but radio, no. So I go down to St. Simon's Island. I had some experience in doing Secret Service motorcades, you know, vehicles and cars and stuff. So I don't know what's happening like that. Was it the G8 and St. Simon's Island? I don't really remember. But they said, Dan, can you go train or help train the locals in motorcade security? You know, we're going to need some help.

I said, yeah, sure, whatever, man. so I go down there and it's like a three, four day exercise. And there was this one local police officer who was a wonderful guy. It was not a knock. He was actually hilarious. And every time we did an aOP and assault on principle exercise where you know, you fake and attack and they respond. You get the point.

You know, practice, right? We would debrief afterwards and we would ask this guy like, well, what do you think happened? He'd be like, we were driving down the road and we turned a corner and then, all hell bro clues and he would say it about every scenario and this is what happened this weekend i come back and i'm like i can't believe i was off the air i should have done a saturday sunday show everyone's freaking out about ai they're now camp set up i mean opposing forces i'm just going to tell you this part up front and i think we can all agree on this especially in this audience

I think the Lord and I am not using my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ name in vain at all. I'm not kidding. Thank the Lord and the voters that President Trump is in the White House and not Kamala Harris while this debate about AI. One camp of Dumer's is going to kill us all. The other camp like, oh, we don't need any guardrails. I promise there's a middle ground. Thank the Lord Kamala Harris is not in charge right now.

I was talking to Teresa texted me, Jim, before the show. Teresa from Westwood, you know, we make everybody part of the show. That's just what I do. Teresa works at Westwood one. She texts me before the show. She's like, you know what this reminds me of? Jim, this will kick you in the gonads. This reminds me of Y2K.

Remember Y2K? When the year 2000 came up and they were like, the clocks can't handle it and everybody was going to die again, Reverend Cain. We're all good at that. And none of that happened. We put up some guardrails. We fixed the two to the four instead of the OO, oh, it became 2000. And almost nothing happened at all.

Because we're humans and we fix stuff. And we've got a guy in the White House right now. And I'll play some cuts of President Trump later on this. Who's a reasonable business guy who's like, are we all going to die? Well, if we don't do anything, we could all die. But we are doing stuff. On the other side, is AI great? AI is absolutely fantastic, potential to cure cancer to cure HIV to cure

to get toe fungus. that stupid digger commercial on TV. I get on digger and every time I see it, I'm going to throw up. This is all like on the horizon, man. A digger guy, there'll be no need for digger anymore. But there's a middle ground. Think about this. Think about this.

This person could be in charge right now, Kamala Harris. Jim was kind enough to pull some absolute bangers. And I believe me, this is dripping sarcasm, like blood from vampires teeth, that sarcasm is thick with this one. Here is, you know, what would have been President Kamala Harris, thank the Lord Almighty. That's not the case. Remember, they made her the AI czar. The AI czar. Here she is commenting on AI.

And you want to talk about a absolutely brilliant, tactical, political, political, political mind. Here's the great Kamala Harris, dripping sarcasm. Explaining what AI is. You know, it's two letters. Artificial. Wow! Thank you for that axiomatic, tautological, deep insight. And it stands for artificial. So it's intelligence that's artificial. This reminds me of like Ibram Kendi. Racist is a racistee racist thing. Here's Kamala Harris on AI. Imagine if she was in charge. Check this out. And I think the first part of this issue that should be articulated is AI is kind of a fancy thing. First of all, it's two letters.

It means artificial intelligence. But ultimately what it is is it's about machine learning. And so the machine is taught. And part of the issue here is what information is going into the machine that will then determine, and we can predict then, if we take. think about what information is going in, what then will be produced in terms of decisions and opinions that may be made through that process. What just happened?

What just happened? You ever see a lot of these Giffies on X? Like, what just, what is going on here? Artificial intelligence is intelligence. It's artificial. You know, like the machines, like the bus goes wheels and around and round. And the machines learn stuff. Whoa.

Thank you so much for those deep insights. This to me is up there with the great. This is up there with, you know, I was hanging out. I didn't do a weekend update, but maybe we'll get to it later. I got to hang out with family this weekend and my nephew I haven't seen in a long time. Nephew by marriage, but I love the kid. I've known him since he's like two years old. You know, and it was my niece, and we're watching football, gym, you know, Texas, big game, whatever.

And my niece is there. And my niece brings up Descartes. And she's like, I think therefore I am. How it came up, I don't even know. Like, this is up there with Descartes and the great works of philosophy. I think therefore I am. The machines, they learn stuff, and the intelligence that's artificial. You realize this lunatic could have been the president right now?

While we've got people out there doing the Reverend Kane, hey, we're all. God of die! You got the lady the school bus. Really? Look at that. The clouds in the sky. What is going? Sorry, the mucus in the nose. Someone call it nuts. This is like, I can with this lady. I can't. This is an open for a Monday for all time. You want this lady in charge Democrats instead of of President Trump. Wait till I play the clips of President Trump later, who you all lefty lunatics think is crazy. He seems to be the only rational actor out there. Watch what he says later when I play his cuts compared to Kamala Harris. That's cool boss. He's like, yeah, me, you know, this is a great technology. We need some safety guardrails. We don't want China to beat us. You're like, wow,

sounds pretty rational to me. Jim pulled this other gym. President Kamala Harris, I forbid. Can you imagine? Here she is, after she told you that DRA is stands, it's two letters, folks, in case you didn't know that, in case you, it's not a comedy show, brother. I'm not trying to be funny. I'm not Eddie Murphy Raw, funniest thing I've ever said. I'm not.

I just can't get over this. Like, can you imagine the country we live in? So first she explained to you that AI is intelligence, it's artificial, and it's two letters. Now, Jim pulled this one. This is Kamalaura's. explaining to you how cloud computing, you know, it's in like the cloud, like, what, an accumulonimulus cloud? Like, are we seeding the clouds? Like, do you mean like physical clouds? Here's genius Kamala Harris. Imagine she's in charge with all this going on right now. Check this out. So you're,

no longer are you necessarily keeping those private files in some file cabinet that's locked in the basement of the house. It's on your laptop. And it's then, therefore, up here in this cloud that exist above us, right? It's no longer in a physical place. No, President Harris, God forbid. It actually is in a physical place. It's not in the ether. Even the phantom zone in Superman 1 and 2

was in the physical piece of glass they sent out into the universe from who is it? like Jarrell or Kyle, who's Collell Superman? That was actually a physical, but on a piece of movie strip at the time. Like, it is a physical place, like a data center. This lady doesn't know anything. This is why, why am I bringing up President Kamala Harris, God forbid?

Because there's an election coming up and I'm going to tie this into the end of the show. Ladies and gentlemen, I've never said to you, Republicans are going to solve all your problems, ever, ever, ever. I have said to you over and over, how. however, that Republicans may not be the solution to all of your problems, but the cause of all your problems are definitely Democrats. You have a choice coming up. You have a choice, which I will harp on today throughout the show, and there is a cost to apathy to not showing up in these midterms. You're going to have people like these people, Kamala Harrison charge, Lindsay Clancy supporters, I'll play that at the end, crazy videos coming up with Lindsey Clancy supporters. I'm, I'm

I am white, but I don't participate in white. What do we do? What does that even mean? Aren't you obligated to provide a definition of what non-participating whiteness means? Why do you keep inventing stuff? We have an election coming up. You've got choices to make. All right, back to serious time.

This show is always an emotional roller coaster. Believe me, for me, too. I've had physical jobs, grave digger, painter, all this. I'm sitting there on a ladder painting this lady's clothesline like, you know, 30 feet tall one day on this little like mini ladder, painting and the hots almost fell and died. Like, whatever, man. I'm just telling you, like, I've been there out there.

But this job is mentally exhausting, dealing with a lot of stupidity on the left. Because serious time now, this is, as I titled my podcast today, you can always check it out on Rumble. At rumble.com slash Bongino, if you're interested, this is the most important show we've done in a long time. And I will harp on that. throughout the radio show today.

Folks, we have developed advanced technologies before. We have nuclear fission. We're working on nuclear fusion now. They're different processes. One involves fusing an atom. One involves splitting an atom, fission versus fusion. Nuclear fission bombs. You may say, well, we invented nuclear and look, they use them to build bombs.

Yeah, they also use it for nuclear medicine. they also use it to power our society with nuclear power plants. With any advanced technology, there's always going to be a potential benefit and a potential downside. Some of those downsides are very serious. And this requires very serious people, unlike Kamala Harris and others. And thankfully, President Trump, to evaluate ups and downs and come to a conclusion that benefits us all without wiping out humanity. Electricity. Almost magic at the time.

No, when you've lived with electricity so long, you take it for granted. Most of human history, there was no such thing as electricity as we know it now. Flight. There were physicists early on. Human beings will never fly. The physics don't work. It looks to be like they pretty much worked. But you could crash.

But you could crash. This is the most important show we've done in a long time. AI artificial intelligence. Thank you, Kamala, for pointing out its two letters, is the most powerful technology, I'd argue, in human history. You're creating a super intelligence that we don't fully understand. So the only questions are, what do we do with it? And how do we handle it?

Because we must get it right. We'll be right back. Thankfully, thank the Lord. and I don't use his name in vain, that President Trump and this leadership team is in charge right now with all of this going on, whether it was AI, the border explosion under President Biden, Russia, Ukraine, China, Taiwan, the development of quantum computing as well. I don't want that to get sideline. Thankfully, we've got a leadership team in there now through President Trump at the top

that is willing to be decisive and speak clearly, succinctly, and with ideas, and with ideas, to the American people. Now, contrast that with yesterday's radio show. I hope you caught it. Where we opened up with, you know, Kamala Harris. Imagine her in charge right now. Even saying it sounds like heresy. Sounds like I want to like singe my tongue out.

President Kamala, I can't even get it out. President Kamala Harris would be devastating. Devastating. You heard some of the audio I played. artificial intelligence. It's two letters, two words. Yeah, we can count to two. We get it. We get it. And it's in the cloud. And that's how it works. It's like above your head. It's not above your head like the freaking sort of Damocles. It is not. Cloud computing right now, maybe in space one day, but it's largely on the ground terrestrily and it's not going to fall on your head because it's in the cloud. President Trump is decisive. And with all of this going on, I'm glad we've got a president right now,

willing to make tough calls. Going to be a theme throughout today's show. You give me a tough topic where there are, and I want you to hear this, understandably, understandably, very passionate opinions about. Iran, flock cameras, Pfizer warrants,

whatever it is, President Trump, You ask him a question. Producer Jim, am I wrong? He gives you what is. You may not like the answer, but you don't have to hear. Uh, fuck, Cameron, that's two words. The letters are FC, and it's like the scobas. Rala, rah.

She, like, throws words into, into, like a salad, like, or like a cereal, like, muclix or something. And let's throw some raspberries into muclix. What? Didn't she do that with Ukraine too? He said Ukraine is a country and it's next to Russia. She's like, Ukraine, it's a country. And it begins with you.

Hence the you in crane. You know like a crane, like it builds stuff like with the bus that brings the people to build stuff. The workers come in the bus and they get on the crane into you. And it's like a place. a country and it's over somewhere. I think you have to cross some water, but it's not a puddle, like big ocean thing. And you're like, is this lady for real?

She was the border zone. Have you ever been to the border? I have not been to the border, she said, but I've never been to Europe. Oh, that's interesting. Are you the Europe czar too? I am not. So why would you make a dumb analogy?

Jim, you got to stop. You may give me laugh at the beginning. This is like serious stuff. I can't. It's hard for me to ever get through this show because these people are so stupid. They just make it so easy. They just give you ground balls.

Ukraine's a country. My point is, President Trump, unlike the prior team under President Biden and candidly under President Obama too, where you had Alejandro Majorcas, you had Javier Bacaria, some of you will get that, you had Susan Rice, these people are just not.

Secretary of Health and Education's, I nominated Javier Bacaria. That's real. He didn't even know his own Secretary of Health and Human Services. That's not his name. It's Bacera. This was their leadership team. Their leadership team was a pathetic group of numskulls.

You've got people in charge now. The reason I bring it up is you have, FBI director Cash Patel. And listen, I'm not going to pretend to be totally objective on this. You know, I worked with the director. We led the FBI team, President Trump, put in charge.

But he was up on the hill today, folks. And unlike prior administrations that were all talk, Obama, I had a pen and a phone, all this stupid stuff. And everything they did was the inverse of what they said they were going to do. Obamacare, past Obamacare. We're going to lower costs.

If you like your plan, you could keep it. Everyone's plan got canceled and costs her through the roof. Everything the Democrats tell you, they do the opposite. We're going to secure the border. That means 25 million people plus are going to come in. Everything they tell you is like, remember Bizarro Superman from the comics? We should use this reference all the time in the 12th and 3 show. How bizarreo Superman, like everything's backwards, that's the Democrats.

That's not the case with President Trump. He will give you an answer on anything because he's a leader. You may not like his decisions. It's a republic. You're free to air your opinion. But I just don't accept. I gave a speech last night. I'll go into later in south of me in Florida,

in front of a really packed house. And it really warmed my heart. When I got home, I hadn't felt better in months. Because I said at the end, too, I don't accept the tax on the man's character. I worked with him. And he doesn't do the easy thing. He does the right thing.

He doesn't give stupid air. Ask him about flock cameras. People are really concerned about it. Understand me. Flot camera. Is I like birds? I don't know. I have to win panels.

You don't do any of that. So I just learned this this morning. I'm doing my podcast. You check it out at 10 a.m. Eastern or Rumble. Rumble.com slash Bongino. If you'd like, up to you. Watch it on demand whenever you'd like. However, I'm doing the podcast.

And Director Patel, earliest morning at about 9.30 a.m. had begun some testimony up on Capitol Hill. Now, I am, you know, full disclosure. obviously friends with Director Patel. I was colleague, we were colleagues together at the FBI. But we don't talk every day. I mean, we just don't.

He's got things going on. He's working. You know, I don't want to bother him. I got my own thing going on. We'll talk occasionally. And I found out something this morning pretty fascinating to me that I want to give him and the Trump administration credit for. Ladies and gentlemen, they have this thing at the FBI you've heard of.

They've been movies made about it. They have a most wanted list. Now, I asked the. to the audience, you know, it's always better ask a question to make an assertion sometimes. Why do you think they have a most wanted list? How do you get on the most wanted list? Well, I'll answer it for you because there are some liberals listening. You don't want to give the Trump administration credit for anything. You have to do really bad stuff. Don't commit federal crimes. They're all bad. But if you ripped the mattress tag off and sold it for Bitcoin

you shouldn't have gotten and maybe made $5,000, don't commit a crime. However, you're probably not. Jim, fair enough. You think, I mean, you weren't. Did you, did you ever serve as an FBI agent, Jim? Or you did not. You did not. Okay. But you're reasonably confident because you're super intelligent guy. The mattress tag plus the 5,000 of Bitcoin is probably not going to get you on a list. Cool. You know cash, right? Yes. Yes. Okay. Okay. So you got to do really bad stuff. Folks, they're usually the 10 most wanted because we, people just like round numbers and we have, you know, 10 figures, 10 toes, right? I found this out this morning at the hearing. that apparently Director Patel and the FBI have begged all 10,

which I'm reasonably confident has never been done before like ever. So I heard this this morning. You should hear it too. Check this out. In fact, Mr. Chairman, I'm proud to announce today, and I hate to correct you, we haven't captured nine of the top 10 most individuals on our list. We've captured 10.

Just this past weekend, we captured a thug down in Venezuela, who is on our most wanted list and on the run for years. he has been captured, apprehended, and is on his way back to the United States of America. That's 10 of 10. Nobody in the FBI history has done that. This year is just another example of how this FBI is capturing literally the worst of the worst all around the world. On top of that, we've captured six of the most wanted fraudsters around the world. This is how crazy this is.

And by crazy, I mean crazy good. I mean like really crazy good, okay? Because they bagged all 10 on the most wanted list, they created another most wanted list for fraudsters and then got six of those. Folks, the Trump administration, the Trump administration I can make the case to you, and I will on this show today,

has been so successful, so fast, on not just the crime numbers, the lowest violent crime rate in 90, years, 90 years. I'm only 51. That's 49 years prior to the year I was born in 1974. That he's done so much so fast, closing the border, crushing violent crime, bringing back manufacturing, codifying your tax cuts in the big beautiful bill, dumping voluminous

amounts of government red tape that I really think they've almost been victims of their own success. That's why you see some of this apathy set in like, well, well, this stuff then, okay, well, not everything's going to happen in two years. Some stuff requires process that elongates the process. But it doesn't mean it isn't happening. I've said this over and over. But the record this president has to run on for the party, he's not running again, but other Republicans are. Folks, this could be an eight year record, not a two year record. You say, well, Dan, he's been in there six. Well, yeah, but the four years in between President Biden and his, and his, you know, the tyrannical Democrats undid most of the stuff in the first four years.

So I'm just saying it's too. Here was another component of the hearing. It was going on while I was on the show. So you're hearing it on the radio show, which airs later, of course. Here was Cash Patel on one of our initiatives. Again, through President Trump's leadership. We got in there. We're like, Mr. President, we're going to crush violent crime.

He's like, do it. Respect the Constitution. Whatever tool you have, you have my full support. whatever you need to do go do it bring me criminals bring them put them in jail i don't care if there's state arrests local arrests tribal arrest i don't care get me bad guys and one of the test projects early on you're going to hear director betelie testified earlier this morning about this was operation viper they love cool names a viper they don't name it like uh operation strawberry shortcake right they always name it like some cool name get people all excited

Operation Viper here in Memphis. This is what happened. Is how it started. Check this out. You recall, I was educated by you and your colleagues in Tennessee during the confirmation process that Memphis had the highest per capita homicide rate in the country. And I said if I was confirmed, we would do something about that. And the president stood up his task force, both in Washington, D.C. and Memphis.

But the FBI led the efforts prior to that and during the task force through Operation Viper. And what we did, and Operation Viper, by the way, is deployed across at least 20, major cities across the country. It is our violent crime initiative task force that goes into these urban environments and seeks out ground level intelligence to work up Title III's and search warrants to not just go in and do

visible surveillance and visible operations, but we build a systematic campaign to collect intelligence and drive out the actual root causes of the crime of gang warfare, which was the problem plaguing Memphis and the problem plaguing

localized cities across America. We were able to apprehend not just the gangbangers and their firearms. We were able, like we did in Pennsylvania and Philadelphia, in the Weman Street Gang. We literally uprooted an entire city block and eliminated that entire street gang. We used that same concept in Memphis, and we're going to continue to do that to move guns at rapid rates to find children that were missing for years and also, most importantly, to reduce the homicide rate and returned Memphis to the great city that it was. Folks, I am immensely, immensely thankful to this president for giving me the opportunity, allowing me the opportunity to participate in that.

And I am immensely grateful for his leadership and letting us do our jobs. That drug market, Director Patel just described in the Philadelphia AOR area of responsibility field office, that had plagued that neighborhood for years. And nobody did squat about it. it. It'll be a rest here and there. We said, shut it down. The whole thing down. And we went in there. And in conjunction with the excellent Philly PD, we shut that down. And I was damn proud to be part of it. And you can thank this Trump administration for its leadership and its willingness to do the right thing and not the easy thing. More coming up next. We'll be right back. I also want to address at some point in today's show, what they're framing as a hearing,

yesterday up on Capitol Hill or hearings with Treasury Secretary Besson, FBI director Patel. These are not hearings, folks. They are social media filming sessions for hapless, helpless, ridiculous politicians with the IQ of a speckled toad, sloth. But what is the point to these things anymore? You had the FBI director and the Treasury Secretary. up on the hill yesterday, in what, you know, dooms and gloomers are painting as an AI crisis.

There's all these things going on. And instead of asking him questions, the Treasury Secretary about, is the economy resilient? You know, you get the Dr. Evil approach. Is it true? You forgot to tell you a shoelace. The FBI director, you know,

this encounter terrorism, public safety. No, no, the questions were about, like, how do you feel about the hockey team? It was just like the dumbest thing I've ever seen. And the worst part about this whole thing is when you have a hearing about a really serious issue like the illegal immigration crisis. And you have angel moms up on Capitol Hill who believe me don't want that designation. They're called the angel moms because they're mothers to children that are no longer here that were killed in incidents involving illegal aliens in this country. Not undocumented, not undocumented.

There's a way to get documents. Jim, do you know what it is? You could go through the immigration process. They're not undocumented. They're not undocumented. We're not doing that, okay? They are here illegally, and they were aliens to this country. Therefore, they are illegal aliens.

I'm sorry if the English language offends you, but we speak plainly on this show. So there's a hearing with Angel Moms up on Capitol Hill. Who you would just think if you had an ounce of sympathy or empathy, reason or common sense in your body, you may be a little sympathetic to. They've lost their children. What else could you possibly want to hear? No, not the Democrats. I want you to listen to this exchange up on the hill between a representative, Mary Gay Scanlan, a Democrat. at within the angel mom's in front of her.

And you would just think, again, if you had in your DNA a shred of decency that you would say, hey, listen, there are differences of opinion on how to handle border policy. I understand. However, this is an unquestionable tragedy and abomination that should never happen. No, no, no, no, no, Mary Gay Scanlan. Mary Giscan's like, hey, uh, guys, listen, I've got a, uh, Facebook live session I need to do in a couple minutes with, uh, we're going to be discussing the state of pattern infringement with a, she's just too, she's like, what the hell are we even doing here?

This is your, this is the Democrat party. The ladies are Democrat. And there's no like objections. Like there's a, this was the, almost every Democrat shared this view yesterday. We don't need to hear from these angel bombs. What could they possibly have to offer? What? For real?

Oh, yeah. For real. Jim, play that cut. My Republican colleagues are running this hearing for a record fifth time, not because they have new evidence or research or legislation to discuss about sanctuary cities, but because they have nothing else to say for themselves. They keep returning to the tactics that brought them in. to office by campaigning on fear and making phony pledges to detain and deport the worst or the

worst. But we now have almost two years of proof that that's not what they're doing. Oh, my. Yeah. Well, did that exchange just, is that real? Like is it, you were a politician trying to garner public support, Mary Gay Scanlon. And your approach is to say, hey, man, you guys are campaigning on fear in front of a group of mothers who lost their kids. Now, I know Jim's a father and I am, many of you in the listening audience are. I'm just going to throw this out there. If you had to rank your fears, I can pretty much speak for everyone where fear number one is please God, don't let my kids die before me.

No less killed or murdered or taken by an incident involving someone who shouldn't even be here. But Mary Kay Scanlan's like, eh, fear, smear, you crazy, silly Republicans. No, I got to be here the fifth time to deal with this. I know it's crazy that you're a member of the House of Representatives. where you're asked to actually represent America. I know this is crazy. And they're actually asking you to fix a problem. Like people shouldn't be here killing, killing people, like killing them.

Because they're dead. Why do we have to go a fifth time? Why? Gee, I don't know. Maybe because people keep dying. I'm just throwing, I don't know. I'm just throwing that out there. Now, of course, stupid comments like that and others from the Democrats.

Folks, this is who they are. They are who they tell you they are because they tell you all the time. This isn't my words. We're just playing for you audio clips of Mary Gay Scanlan's own words. One of the participants in yesterday's hearing, oh, is Elizabeth Carter,

had a powerful and appropriate response. Do I'm not going to say the idiocy, I'm going to say the evil of the Democrats up on the hill yesterday. condemning a hearing where we could hopefully try to solve a problem of illegal aliens who should not be here, being involved in the death of an innocent American citizen, kind of a problem. Check this out. Here's the voice of reason.

Listen to this. And I'm sorry if you're suffering. I'm sorry on behalf of the government. We are working to try to fix it. Unfortunately for the country, the Democrats remain as committed as they have ever been to open borders. Thank you for being here. I have to say as a lifelong Democrat, I am ashamed of what my party is doing. Ma'am, we're ashamed, too. It's not my party. And I'm sorry, it's yours. I would hope someday you would reconsider that, but you have been through enough, and I'm not here to make political arguments to you. I'm just here to tell you I am so deeply sorry for your loss and cannot possibly imagine your pain and be candid. I don't ever want to know that pain.

unfortunately this is who these people are they'll make all kinds of silly ridiculous obscene arguments about a solvable problem oh it's not solvable people been trying to fix the border for years yeah president trump got in there and i think in a week or two the border was effectively closed like we went from 25 million illegals entering the country under the Biden administration to zero illegal migrants admitted into the country. 25 million, zero, 25 million. There's a big difference. You know what the difference is?

It's 25 million. 25 million is, you can't go less than zero. It's not a Robert Downey Jr. movie. Some of you get that. You can't go. It's zero. That's the problem.

Very rarely or any problems in government ever solved, they're just mitigated because we're human beings. There's always going to be problems. Scarcity, resource scarcity. President Trump actually solved a problem. Hey, man, 25 million illegals, that's a lot of people. Can we get it to zero? Yes.

Sir, it's at zero. Problem solved. But they'll tell you these ridiculous, absurd and obscene arguments. Like, well, illegal aliens commit crimes at a lower, and I'll throw out some random. Then white Irish males between the age of 18 and 19 and a half who live on the west end of Manhattan Island. They'll throw out any number to go. get past the fact that the crime they committed is being in the country illegally. And listen, folks, if you're going to send us a nasty gram because you're a liberal listening to the show,

hey, that's sympathetic. My wife is an immigrant to the United States. She went through this thing, Jim, have you heard of it, called the immigration process. This is a process. So please spare me the nonsense. I'm not interested in your stupidity. I've been through it, not you. So if you're some like, you know, 35-year-old green-haired Karen out there screaming into the radio, you don't know squat, take it and knee, Jim says we're not allowed to tell you where to put things. But you can put it there, you'll guess. They don't belong here at all. That's the problem. So before I play this cut that kind of some, you know what, play it. I want to give you an analogy and maybe it'll make sense here as to how stupid this argument.

is about well, but they broke the law so we should allow it because after they break the law, maybe they won't break the law again. Like that's not a thing. You ever see Molly's game, that movie? You would, it goes, well, I'm hosting this gambling game. Am I breaking the law? He goes, but don't break the law while you're breaking the law. She goes, am I breaking a law?

I don't think so. But don't break the law. You just said I wasn't breaking a law. Don't break the law while you're breaking the law. Don't run a stop sign if God forbid you're dumb enough to drive home drunk. Don't break the law while you're breaking the law. But don't break the law at all. Check this out.

People keep mentioning that we're not deporting the worst of the worst, that we're deporting people who don't have criminal records. Mr. Kumar did not have a criminal record before Billy and Jenny were killed. He was supposed to keep a logbook. He was supposed to have another driver in the cab with him. The first time he got caught not doing those things was the night he killed my son. and daughter-in-law. We are rolling the dice with our children

rather than say, follow the federal law and apply to immigrate into the U.S. from your country of origin. Why do they have to apply inside our borders, putting our children at risk? Ma'am, sounds like common sense to me. Again, my family's been through it. imagine taking this approach anywhere else imagine you're the owner of a building with some proprietary commercial secret whatever you're a cyber security firm and you have an access system

you know jim like the passes you probably have one in the studio that that's how you get it or a key whatever doesn't matter and you get a guy who sneaks in behind someone and gets into your building and you find out you're like hey man who's that guy with like weird looking out on like i haven't seen that guy and he's typing away your cybersecurity computer and someone comes over with pink hair or whatever. Becky or Karen or whatever. Listen, my name's Dan, so you can make fun of my name. I'm just throwing it out there.

And says, no, no, no, Jim, don't worry. Don't worry. The subject here may have trespassed, but we have no evidence that they've actually done any additional crimes. So we're just going to let this pass. How is it? Jim's shaking his head and probably like, yeah,

that kind of makes sense. Yeah, it kind of does. You know why? Because stupid is a choice. and we choose not to be stupid. That's why. We'll be right back. Sometimes strange things happen.

And sometimes they're just explainable strange things like a technical gremlin. And you're like, Dan, we can't hear it's rare, but technical things happen. Sometimes people text me during the live show and they'll, you know, fact check some liberal for us on the air. And you're like, this is great. And a live, the difference with a live chat for those who are, you know, digital natives. And, you know, I was not that long ago, too, until I learned about live streaming is a live stream is nothing more than basically a show on the internet where people can participate in this thing called the chat room. So it's like having, like on radio, we would do callers. It's like having, in this case, we had 35,000 people who are 35,000 callers at the same time, not only talking to you, but talking to each other.

So I'm doing the show this morning. And it's about 10.05 Eastern time. So I've been going for about five minutes. And I keep my phone at the desk. You know, God forbid, there's a family emergency or something like that. And I see, Jim, did you witness this live? Did you catch this whole thing? I did.

I see my phone ring. And I look over and the audience sees me looking. It's on X if you want to see the video of it. I'm at D. Bongino on X. You can see the actual video. It was President Trump. I'm not flexing. Who cares?

I'm not, it's not a flex. I'm just telling you what happened. Because I don't, Jim, you and I known each other over five years now. I don't recall another time where I've left the live radio show,

right? You were with me or a live podcast ever. But I said to the audience, hey, the president, I'm not going to send him in a voicemail? Yeah, Mr. President, I'll get, but you know, he's kind of busy. Like, if he takes five minutes to call you, it's kind of a BFD, like Joe Biden said, a big freaking deal. He maybe really wants something.

Right, exactly. Jim was like on the dump button. No, no, no, we're allowed to, it's okay. It's okay. I'm not going to use the Joe Biden thing. So I leave the show and take the call. And amazingly, the 35,000 people who I love to. death hung around.

Because I didn't tell him who it was right away. So I come back and I'm like, hey, I had to take that call. It was the president. And he wanted me to tell you. And he was serious as a heart attack. He's like, tell your audience how much I really appreciate them and love them. And I said, of course, Mr. President. It was just an amazing moment, man.

I just, that's why I just have such profound, you know, respect for the man. He just, he doesn't, what do you have to call me? me for i'm not you know i'm not i'm not the fbi deputy anymore but he doesn't have to call me for anything but he just does because he's just a good guy and it was ironic because that's going to be the theme of today's show please don't go anywhere it was ironic because we were talking right before the interruption the welcome interruption it sounds a negative i don't mean it that way we were talking about news, that's kind of a big deal. And I said to you the other day in the radio show and the podcast that I think, and I don't

say this to be silly about it. I really think the Trump administration has almost become politically speaking. Victims of their own success. They did so much good stuff so fast that I think people just forgot about it. Folks, I'm not messing around. I say that because the stuff that came out just yesterday alone, the poverty numbers, median household income in the United States, the jobless claims numbers, the retail sales numbers,

the Atlanta Fed GDP predictions were so amazing for the economy. Folks, they're numbers, they're facts. What does Shapiro say? They don't care about your feelings. They're facts. That if it were a Democrat president, this would be called the golden era, for the U.S. economy hands down.

Jobless numbers, all-time lows. Poverty rate, all-time lows. Median household income. People making money, all-time high. I'm not telling you there's not issues. We still are trying to get a lid on inflation. Interest rates went up a little bit. I'm just telling you, like, the numbers that came out yesterday were staggering.

GDP growth predictions from the Atlanta Fed, 5.1. 5.1. We haven't seen those numbers. You've got to wipe out the whole COVID thing. But you haven't seen those numbers outside of COVID. since Reagan, since the, you know, morning in America, as where Reagan won 49 states, we haven't seen those numbers. They're not deniable. They're actual numbers.

So we're going to be talking about this during today's show today. Because that's ironically the time he called. And I told him, I'm Mr. President. I was just going over how some Republicans running for office around the country. And this radio shows on all around the country. Some Republicans, not all of them, but some of them are whining out. They're like, well, you don't have a message. What do you mean you don't have a message? What are you talking about? What do you, I don't understand what you're talking about. You don't have a message to run on.

I ran for office. Bring it up again later, but it didn't work out for me. I wish I could have run on this stuff. Crime rates, the lowest they've been in U.S. history. Murder rates, lowest they've been in U.S. history. Border effectively closed. Jobless claims. We want, we don't want people to be jobless. It sounds like kind of a big deal. Can you hear that over? Can you hear that. and over in today's show. Sounds like kind of a big deal. Now, contrast that with who would have been in charge and what the economy and the border

and street crime would have looked like if Kamala Harris would have been in charge. The wheels on the bus go round and round. It's up in the cloud. Like over above your head. The cloud. No, no, no. It's not.

I've never been to the border, but I've never been to Europe. You've never been to Europe. You should check that out. But last time I checked, you weren't the Europe czar. You were the borders are. Maybe you should go to the border. Just an idea.

I've been to the border. I'm not the borders, czar. Just go check it out. I flew out to the Phoenix, Arizona office with the FBI. Why did I do that? Because sometimes you want to see conditions and hear from people on the ground how it looks. Jim, probably a good idea, correct?

You know, people work for you or subordinates and report to you their direct or indirect. reports. Probably a good idea to hear from them what's actually going on. I'm just throwing that out there, correct? Maybe we should you know, Jim doesn't work for me. He works with me, but we work together. Kamala Harris's policy is like, I'm blocking Jim's number on the phone. Why would I talk

to Jim? Well, he's a producer of your show. I never been to my show. Well, you should be where the shows are. You've got a choice, man. You've got a choice in the midterms, just like you had a choice nearly two years ago, and you made the right pick in President Donald Trump. Thank you. or we would not be in this economic condition.

This is the golden era of economics. The left wing media told me otherwise. They're lying to you. They're lying to you. Just look up the numbers. Folks, rarely does a radio host tell you, don't believe me, fact check. I'm not telling you I'm lying.

I'm certainly not. I'm telling you the truth. But I don't expect you to do trust me, bro. Don't trust me. And go look it up yourself. You're going to see I'm telling you the truth. I'll give you the links as the show goes on today for the just stunning numbers that came out yesterday. Or you could have had these people in charge.

Now, Jim, you know, Jim's always on the computer and it's in a dark way. I don't know what he's doing over there. I'm not suggesting it's anything illegal or weird. He just finds stuff no one else seems to find. I don't know where he's getting it from. I have no idea. Some of you who listen to our old 12 to 3 show, some of you are nodding your heads. It's like, I remember that.

I do too. There's a new movie coming out. Jim found a trailer about. And the movie's about this. You want to talk about an incredible new product, right? Jim, an explosive technology. It's going to revolutionize the AI industry. Sorry, don't laugh at your own jokes.

It's your joke, Jim, so I can laugh. But it's a movie, and it's about this product that's up there with, like, nuclear fission. It's going to be really powerful. It's not an open AI product, but the name. name's it's called um chat dj t it's a crazy br i mean this thing's going to be amazing so jim found a trailer there's actually a movie about it that's how transformative this technology is going to be so hat tip producer jim for another great job finding this um and by the way this is not producer jim or sean farish this is definitely Donald trump and a movie trailer guy wiki wiki danaugh check this out

coming to theaters this Halloween joe biden put one person in charge of an emerging technology. Javier Bacharia. No, no. He found someone with an even lower IQ. Breaking barriers involves breaking things. And when you break something,

you get cut. He put Kamala Harris in charge of the scariest tech yet. AI is kind of a fancy thing. First of all, it's two letters. It means artificial intelligence. But the tech titans raised the alarm. And to wake up

one day and discover that someone used our model to kill a bunch of people. And realizing their fears, Kamala did lose track of it. And it's then therefore up here in this cloud that exists above us. She had unleashed chat DJT. You know, there's this whole, I talked with somebody once who said, you know, if you just look at where the stars are in the sky, Don't look them as just brand of things If you just look them as points

Look at the constellation What does it show you? What does it show you? What a stupid question But we've talked a lot You and I And you ask a lot of stupid questions You do this a lot

You know, you're in the presence Of the greatest AI in the history of the world Chat, DJT Artificial Intelligence The Most Intelligence But you are a genuine Lack of Intelligence It's a very stupid person.

Chat DJT. Nightmare on Lib Street. Quiet piggy. Rated MASA. Make America smart again. That was definitely, definitely not. Producer Jim and the great Sean Farris, you know from Bongino Report PM. It definitely was not.

That was President Trump and movie trailer guy who does those. Winky, winky, nod, nah. That's, dude, that's great. I can laugh because it's not my joke. You guys are really. I have to ask. Jim's like, I had to ask him because this happened one time on the show. Ferris does such a good imitation of Donald Trump's voice. I had to ask for, you know, the president's pretty good with us.

I was he like part of this story? He goes, no, dude, that was Sean. Because the time, what was it, our second year on the air or my birthday or something, Jim got a bunch of anniversary. So I'm like laughing so much about this thing. It was our first anniversary and Jim got President Trump to call in. And I thought it was Sean Farish because the voices sound so much alike. Folks again, you know, we have some, you know, some fun, lighthearted moments on the show.

But the point I made is this year. And I mean it from, you know, the bottom of my sometimes broken and torn up hard. Politics is a lot of vicissitudes in life, ups and downs and hills and valleys. But I'm telling you based on objective facts as a guy who doesn't get into Pollyanna, utopia stuff, but doesn't get into dumerism either. On net, on net, you are living right now in the golden age of Republican politics. The jobs numbers, the poverty numbers,

the crime numbers going down, the border under control. You know, I covered this earlier in the podcast. Come up again later. Hitachi just moved something like $500 million in manufacturing back to the United States. We're building stuff again. You know the kind of jobs we're talking about?

You've got electricians in Loudoun County, Virginia, working on compute in data centers there, making $250,000 a year. This is a good thing. I'm telling you. This is an amazing thing. I haven't played that one in a while. Yeah, you're getting down the list of old elements.

And again, I'm not forcing any of these things down any one. So if your community, it's good for you. It's good for you. It's not. It's your call, man. You live in your own neighborhoods. I can only speak for mine. But when you objectively look at where we are now,

and don't miss this show today, because we're going to lay this stuff out. And by the way, a lot of the stuff I'm going to put up is reporting from like Reuters, which is not a MAGA outlet. It's, if anything, left-leaning. Reporting on numbers, U.S. poverty rate dips to lowest on record. The reports from two days ago.

It's not from the Joe Biden era. It sounds like a big deal because it is. There is a lot. There is a Christmas stocking full of good things to run on in these midterms. No apathy. Get out, vote. Bring 10 people with you. We'll be right back.

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