The Dan Bongino Show - CNN Melts Down After Trump Says This (Ep 1091)

Episode Date: October 18, 2019

In this episode, I address the explosive comments by President Trump at a press conference and the corresponding media freak-out. I also address the latest liberal healthcare scam and how it will deeply impact your healthcare future. Finally I address an infamous Al Sharpton interview where he completely face-palms on economics. News Picks:Why are liberal media activists ignoring the Democrats’ electoral wipeout in Louisiana?   The government collects record income taxes and is still running a massive deficit.   Don’t fall for the healthcare “public option” scam.   Now we know who found those infamous phones used by this key player in the Spygate scandal.   This older article documents the infamous “the White House is running this” FBI text.   This older article documents the infamous “potus wants to know everything we’re doing” text.   This older article or documents the infamous “one voice” communication with the FBI.   This older article documents the infamous “in consultation with the White House” testimony from Brennan.   Video: IL white trustee tells her white board members to shut up, and that they don’t get an opinion.    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 we found it and by we i mean you have located the famous or shall i say infamous al sharpton john stossel video we've been referring to all week where al sharpton has no idea how much taxes the rich actually pay humiliates himself. So I will get to that today. Welcome to the Dan Bongino Show. Producer Joe will be back on Monday, game of Friday, take a little break with his family. He's been working really hard. We had a great night last night in Alachua County. Thank you for hosting us. The former mayor over there was hysterical. He gets up on stage. He introduces himself with his preferred pronouns. And one of his preferred pronouns was corn pop, which was hysterical. My side was splitting. Glad he was really funny.

So thanks for hosting us. You all were great last night. But we're back this morning. Another fantastic Trump rally last night. Well attended in Dallas. More people online at the Trump rally for the bathroom than showed up at the Beto rally, the counter rally. So we will get to all this. I've got some great video. I'm going to end the show today with a pretty, I think, terrific phone call I had hosting the Mark

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Liberals are losing their mind, including little Jimmy Acosta over at CNN. President Trump had one of his many pressers. This guy's the most open president in American history. This guy gives pressers press avails, takes questions from the press to get out of the jargon all the time. It's kind of funny when they accuse him of hiding stuff. Trump accused him of a lot of things.

Hiding stuff? Not so much. where they accuse him of hiding stuff. Trump accused him of a lot of things. Hiding stuff? Not so much. So he's giving this presser and he starts getting into this spy gate and what happened in 2016

and the infiltration into the election process where they tried to harm him and benefit Hillary Clinton, Russians, and others, Ukrainians. And Jim Acosta loses his mind. I want to play the video first of Trump, what he said. Jim Acosta, fake news Acosta,

and his hilarious tweet. I'm going to lay out for you the evidence making Acosta look like the fool he is. Play this video. Here's Trump talking about what happened in the 2016 election and the liberals lost their minds after they heard this. Check this out. Just know that our country is looking into the corruption of the 2016 election. It was a corrupt election, whether it's Comey or McCabe or Strzok or his lover, Lisa Page, the two great lovers. There was a lot of corruption. Maybe it goes right up to President Obama. I happen to think it does. But you look at Brennan and you look at Clapper and you get some real beauties. I know that they're looking into the corruption. Obviously, the IG report's coming out soon, so'll find out i don't know anything about the meeting but certainly it

would be appropriate because the word is and you read it in the same papers that i do that they did go to other countries to try and hide what they were doing number one paul what do you guys guys hilarious like some of this guy's lines are hysterical i just say that listen i i get it like you got presidential whatever i don't really care it may bother you that's fine you know we live in a constitutional republic you prefer different presidential talk fine whatevs your call not mine vote how you see fit but this guy's hysterically talks about lisa page and peter stroke, two FBI personnel who were involved in the investigation, Trump. And he calls them, he calls, Paul, you hear him? The two great lovers.

Like this is like Cleopatra or like Samson and Delilah or something. The two great lovers. And then he told, what is he talking about? Comey and clapping the two, those two beauty. That's just Trump. He makes me laugh you know some people may not like it I think it's hysterical so the the gist the takeaway that the why the liberals were losing their minds you know had helmets were coming off everywhere volcanic explosions out of CNN he doesn't have any evidence Obama was involved okay you sure about that

here's a little Jimmy Acosta's tweet losing his mind this guy's just become a total and complete was involved. Okay, you sure about that? Here's little Jimmy Acosta's tweet, losing his mind. This guy's just become a total and complete embarrassment. So at Acosta, Trump on DOJ probe of 2016 election. Maybe it goes right up to President Obama. I happen to think it does. You just heard President Trump say that. Here's Acosta.

Fact check. There is no evidence of this. Folks, this guy's a clown, a joker. We all know it. You know what it is? Acosta's eager for attention because President Trump, as of late, has shut down the White House press conferences they used to do with Sarah Sanders. Stephanie Grisham's in there now. They're not doing them. Why is Acosta upset? Because Acosta's whole life is not about journalism or facts or anything like that. Acosta's life is about getting on TV and making himself look like the anti-Trump resistance. This guy's not a journalist,

you know, any more than I'm the center fielder for the New York Yankees right now. We're in a little bit of trouble, by the way, in that Astro series. He's not a journalist at all. Stop saying that. It's fake. It's embarrassing. Journalists should be roundly avoiding any association with Jim Acosta at all. So to be clear, Trump is saying that he believes there is some connection between the spying on his campaign in the 2016 election and the Obama White House. And Acosta is laying out that fact check. There is no evidence of this.

Acosta says no evidence. You saw it. I showed you the tweet. I didn't manipulate it. Now, again, I'm not a journalist by trade, but we do facts and data here, unlike journalists and fake journalists like Jim Acosta. Ladies and gentlemen, I'm going to lay out some very clear evidence. Now, I'm not suggesting to you, for the liberals who listen to the show, Now, I'm not suggesting to you, for the liberals who listen to the show, that this is the absolute smoking gun final word on it.

I don't do lies and manipulation like Jim Acosta. However, the evidence I'm going to lay out that the White House was involved in the spying on Trump is most clearly evidence. Does it meet the standard of guilt beyond a reasonable doubt? I'm not sure we're there yet, but we're darn close. So Acosta, again, is lying to you. And what I'm going to do for you, and this is important, in the show notes today, at Bongino.com, my website, or if you subscribe to my email list, if you go to our website,

you click on the drop-down menu, it says newsletter. You can subscribe there. I will send you these articles every day. Why is that important today? Because folks, what I'm about to describe to you is one of the most important segments I think we've done in a long time. I'm going to lay out to you evidence that Obama and his White House did in fact know they were spying on their political opponents. And I have included the articles in today's show notes. If you are on our email list, you will get them in your email box. If you don't want to join our email list, fine. Go to our website.

You can just look at it right there. These four articles will be there. I highly recommend you bookmark them. Highly. Let's go to article number one from foxnews.com. And I'll go to a screenshot fbi lovers latest text messages obama wants to know everything jake gibson fox news february 7 2018 again this will be in the show notes i thought acosta said there's no evidence of the white house involved now the liberals will come back and say well when l when Lisa Page and Peter Stroke, who were investigating Trump, sent these messages to each other about Obama wanting to know everything, excuse me, the White House is running this, that this could have been about anything.

Folks, it could have. I mean, I could be the king of Siam, but I'm not. The evidence is Peter Stroke and Lisa Page were working almost exclusively on a case involving the targeting of President Trump and his campaign, communicating about it. And in that line and chain of communication, they indicate that, quote, the White House is running this. If you were a journalist, you'd be curious about that. If you're Jim Acosta, you're not. You don't think that's evidence at all because Jim Acosta is just not a bright guy. Here's a screenshot from the piece where we have the actual text. Page wrote to Stroke on September 2nd, 2016, about prepping Comey because POTUS wants to know everything we're doing, according to a newly released Senate report.

This text raises questions about Obama's personal involvement in the Clinton email investigation. Folks, I mean, you can see the quotes in the text yourself. This is what they were doing. They were scuttling the Clinton email investigation in favor of investigating Trump, despite hard evidence of Clinton malfeasance and no evidence of Trump malfeasance. You remember the original IG report Michael Horowitz put out? We have another one coming out soon on the Clinton email investigation where he clearly states at the end of his conclusion

that he cannot rule out political bias as a reason for getting rid of the Clinton email investigation and turning up the heat on the Trump investigation? These are a little out of order, by the way. I'm sorry, the way I had them here. Okay, article number two from Fox News. Again, important pieces will be in the show notes. Bookmark them. Keep them in your file.

First one there, POTUS wants to know everything we're doing. What do you think he's talking about?cheese bocce ball oh gosh it cost them what an embarrassment foxnews.com brooke singman grasley ripped stroke page redactions amid mystery text obama white house is running this from the piece so So now we know POTUS, President of the United States, wants to know everything they're doing. The investigators investigating Trump. Now it says the White House is running this. Running what? A chess game?

A Fortnite match? Quote from the Fox News piece. This is page that the two great lovers, as Trump calls them, involved in investigating Trump. Here's their text. Went well best we could have expected other than, and it's blank because it's redacted, quote, the White House is running this,

stroke wrote to page on August 5th, 2016. My answer, well, maybe they are or maybe for you they are. Page replied, yeah, whatever, read White House comment. We've got emails that say otherwise. Folks, clearly the FBI agents and administrative personnel and legal team, Page and Stroke, that are running the investigation into Trump

are concerned that, quote, the White House is running it and they're objecting to it. Did you read that? To the liberals out there, can you read? I mean, are you capable of reading? Again, this is evidence. Is it conclusive proof 100% that Obama was running this? No, I'm not a liberal fake news journalist. We do facts here. Is it hard evidence of suspected serious malfeasance on behalf of the White House interacting with the investigators who were scuttling

the Clinton email investigation to double down an investigation against Trump despite having no evidence? Folks, in any sane world, we would call that evidence. But journalism died a long time ago. And Acosta is prima facie evidence of that.

Oh, I'm not done. There's more. More evidence that the Obama White House was not only involved, but intimately involved with the investigation into Trump and the shelving of the Clinton email investigation. Let's go to Fox News piece number three. Keep these up for your friends. Quote, this is Gregory, title, FBI clash with DOJ over potential bias of source for surveillance warrant. McCabe and Page are

texting each other. From the piece, again, there's no evidence of white house involvement really because that's not what lisa page and her boss deputy director andy mccabe are talking about in their texts on october 14 2016 page again wrote to mccabe this time concerning a meeting at the white house i i thought there was no white house involvement here's page to McCabe. Apparently the deputy attorney general, Sally Yates, now wants to be there talking about a White House meeting and the White House wants the DOJ to host it. So we're setting that up now. We will very much need to get Cohen's view. This is David Cohen of the CIA. We will very much need to get Cohen's view before we meet with her, Sally Yates. CIA. We will very much need to get Cohen's view before we meet with her, Sally Yates.

Better have him weigh in with her before the meeting. We need to speak with one voice if that is in fact the case. Folks, I mean, what kind of imbecility, like third grade level intellect are we talking about where you can't process this information as evidence of White House malfeasance or at a minimum misfeasance? Do you understand what's going on in this interchange with one of the lead FBI lawyers and the deputy director of the FBI? They're about to have a meeting at the White House while they're talking about the investigation into Trump. Excuse me. And in their texts, they're addressing a meeting with the CIA, Brennan's guys, who are intimately involved in the whole spying scandal on Trump in conjunction with foreign intelligence spying on Trump and shuttling information to the CIA. And they're texting each other about going into the meeting with the Department of Justice

at the White House and the CIA and speaking with one voice. In other words, how do we coordinate our story? Again, Jim Acosta, I understand your TDS level six infection, as we know from regular listeners to the show, the highest level of Trump derangement syndrome is level six. I get it. It's like CJD, that Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease where the prions enter your brain and bore holes into your brain.

I get it. That's what TDS does. But whereas I don't jump the gun on anything and we deliberately handle real evidence based on real texts and real data and real facts, you are a delirious TDS-infected joke. There's no evidence of the Obama White House's involvement? I'm serious.

Are you this dumb? Can you not read this? Can you not read this, what I'm putting out there? Do you not want to read it? Are you incapable of reading, or is just your reading comprehension really that bad? One more. Again, there's no evidence of White House involvement, according to Little Jimmy. This is from an American Greatness piece, which will be in the show notes today.

And I encourage you to read it. Is it Deborah Hine? Oh, we like her. She does good work. American Greatness. Did John Brennan lie to Congress about 2016 Gang of Eight briefings again here's additional evidence from the piece that the White House not only knew about the spying on Trump was coordinating it and was

intimately involved here's a briefing old Johnny B gave in May of 2017. John Brennan, head of the CIA. Let me read to you a quote from his sworn testimony up on Capitol Hill. Pay very close attention to the opening line of this, ladies and gentlemen. It's important. And when I say important, I mean critical because this is the coup de grace. John Brennan, quote, again, in consultation with the White House, I personally briefed the full details of our understanding of Russian attempts to interfere in the election to our congressional leadership, Brennan wrote.

OK, so Obama's CIA director is on the record in writing now saying that in consultation with the White House in August of 2016, when Page and Stroke are texting each other about meetings at the White House, Brennan is briefing Capitol Hill people on the dossier. We know that because they then share dossier information, the Capitol Hill folks he briefs with the FBI in a Harry Reid letter, information that only appears in the dossier. And Brennan is admitting that the briefing was done in consultation with the White House, dreaded air quotes.

Paula gets mad when I beat up on Acosta and Stelter too much because it does. These guys are so dumb, it gets old. But dumb would be a compliment. You may say that's harsh. No, it would. You may say, well, why is that? Because if they're not dumb, silly,

and they just can't mentally process this as evidence, think of the alternative. That they're smart, they are processing as evidence, and they're engaged in a full cover-up to cover for their political allies. Honestly, folks, I'd rather them be dumb. In this case, it would be a compliment. I'd rather them be dumb. In this case, it would be a compliment. Please keep those up. All right, I got some great video coming up.

Mick Mulvaney, not what you think. I got a good, it was Mick Mulvaney and a presser. There was a kind of a misstep there, but there's one part where he absolutely slays this liberal media, the press, who asked just a dopey question. He refused to play that game. I got that. I got the famous Sharpton thing.

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Go to preparewithdan.com. Preparewithdan.com. That's preparewithdan.com. Okay, moving on. This is Mick Mulvaney. I like Mick Mulvaney. He's the acting chief of staff of President Trump. He gave a presser yesterday in the Brady Press Room in the White House.

And I'm going to get to the Ukraine quid pro quo controversy in a minute. Some of you may know about it. Some of you may not. But it's important because it's been all over the news today. But I want to get to this first. This is my personal recommendation for you if you're looking to get into political activism or politics, being a conservative libertarian or a principled republican if you decide to do so you i'm just warning you now if you're looking for fairness and love it reminds me that line in primal fear like uh

that's kind of vulgar so i'll leave it out but the guy's like justice in court you want justice go to a house instead you get what i'm saying if you've seen the movie you know i'm talking about you're not there's no justice in politics You will not be treated fairly by the press because they hate conservatives. They just do. They're not very knowledgeable, most of them, not all, but the ones I've dealt with are not very bright. I'm just being candid. They don't know much about economics, finance, healthcare policy. They don't even know much about journalism. Some are good, some very few, unfortunately, but you will not be treated fairly. And one of the things they do is they don't really ask a question. They frame an answer in the form of a question. In other words, they're making a statement and they're framing it as a

question so that there is no answer. The famous example always given is the, when did you stop beating your wife question? You're like, what? I don't beat my wife. That's not a question. That's not a, unless it's a serious charge. The question is designed for you to give a quote that frames you in a bad light. When did you stop beating your wife? I don't beat my wife. You know, damn Bongino,

I don't beat my wife. Front page of the Baltimore Sun. And everybody's like, there's an accusation about that? Does he beat his wife? You get what I'm saying? They do this all the time and you have to be hip to it. So someone tried this stunt yesterday with Mulvaney, this female reporter, and Mulvaney was having none of it. She's kind of insinuating that President Trump is covering up this Ukraine whole quid pro no nonsense BS. Here's Mulvaney shutting that down this is a great cut check this out

and you know it's all it's on the up and up why did it have to go into this more restrictive server why was it moved from the one serve to the other all right let's let's i'm glad we got that it's a good one to finish on um uh i i'm not going to answer your question the way you want me to but i'm going to answer your question so give me just a second i'm not going to sit here and talk about how we handle classified information in this building. I got a couple questions before about my private conversations with the president. I don't talk about those either. I'm not going to talk about that, but I do want to address it, and here's why.

There's only one reason people care about that, right? That's because they think there's a cover-up. They hope there's a cover-up. Some of them hope that there's a cover-up. Oh, my goodness gracious, there must have been something really, really duplicitous, something really underhanded about how they handled this document, because there must be a cover-up,

because there's always a good cover-up when we've got an impeachment, right? Nixon had a cover-up of the tapes, Clinton had a cover-up of the relationship with Lewinsky, there must be a cover-up here, right? Let me ask you this, if we wanted to cover this up,

would we have called the Department of Justice almost immediately and had them look at the transcript of the tape, which we did, by the way, right? If we wanted to cover this up, would we have released it to the public? And by the way, I'm glad that now all of this concern about how the document has been edited and what do these ellipses stand for, because I heard Adam Schiff go on television yesterday, or yesterday, the day before, and say, you know, we don't need to hear from the whistleblower anymore because now we have the transcript of the memorandum of communication, memorandum of document, okay? Everyone wants to believe there's a cover-up. You don't give stuff to the public and say, here it is, if you're trying to cover something up.

So I'm not going to answer your question by explaining how we handle documents in this building. All I'm telling you is that you can stop asking the questions in there because there's no cover-up, and I can prove it to you by our actions. Look, I know we could do this all night. No, I'm not going to take any more. But it's nice to see everybody. Thanks again. Yes!

Yes! Yeah, folks, if you ever plan on running for office or taking some prominent activist role in politics, save that. Archive it and keep it on your phone or computer as an example of how not to fall into the liberal media's trap.

Understand, you are under no obligation whatsoever. These people have no legal authority over you to answer a question that is a statement in the form of a question designed to bait you. That reporter knows damn well the White House can handle classified information, especially with a history of leaks, unfortunately, in the White House, however well they please. She is trying to get Mulvaney to answer a question about a cover-up that doesn't exist, and he just refuses to play ball. You answer however you want.

refuses to play ball, you answer however you want. When did you stop beating your wife? I'm not answering that stupid question, but I am going to talk today about Obama's dreadful tax policy. Let me tell you, you are under no obligation to answer those questions at all. Nice job, Mick. Now, that was well done. Other portions weren't. I think he misspoke. There's a bit of a scuttlebutt this morning during that same presser. Someone asked him about the Ukrainian phone call. We have the transcript, folks, for the umpteenth time. Don't get sidetracked.

You can read the transcript of the call yourself. Read it yourself. There is no request for Hunter Biden information by President Trump in exchange for military aid. It's not there. Mulvaney went on at one point to hint that during foreign policy negotiations, and he's not wrong, that there were requests made all the time for countries to do something in exchange for aid. Well, of course, you know, the left ran with this and was like, wow, he's intimating that there was a hinting that there was a quid pro quo on the Trump team. He came out and corrected it. Folks, here's the, I mean, the legit bottom line here. We have the transcript. There's no deal. Mulvaney's come out and said, that's not what I meant. There's no deal. The EU ambassador, Gordon Sondland.

I spoke to Trump. There's no deal. The Ukrainian president. There was no deal for military aid. President Trump. There was no deal for military aid. We have the transcript. There's no deal for military aid.

Stop trying to make fetch happen. Fetch is not going to happen, Gretchen. It's not. Stop. Stop trying to make the illicit deal between Trump and the Ukrainian president happen when there's no deal. I bet Mulvaney would have rephrased that again, but he was trying to give a candid assessment of how internet, and I'm not, listen, I mean this. not listen i mean this people say something dumb they say something dumb sometimes i have to come back and correct stuff too it happens all the time we're only human he just said it the wrong way he was talking about this bigger picture in politics he goes on talking about a central american aids contingent on certain reforms and it made it

appear that there was a deal that wasn't there, which he corrected today. Sorry, I'm looking at the TV screen. Looks like some fighting has emerged in Syria after the ceasefire. I don't trust Erdogan in Turkey at all. You shouldn't either. All right, moving on. But Mulvaney did a good job. Archive that.

Use that for future reference if you ever want to become an activist. That's how it's done. Here it is, folks. Here it is. Thank you to the audience. Judy, Brian, we got it from a lot of people. Seriously, you all are the best audience out there. I had mentioned to you earlier in the week that I was looking desperately for this clip of Al Sharpton. Al Sharpton engaged in a debate with John Stossel, which is really not a fair fight at all. Not even close. John Stossel used to work for ABC, then Fox. A pretty libertarian guy,

but definitely knows his stuff. Very bright, John Stossel. I interviewed him once on a radio show and he was on a beach somewhere, but he knows his stuff. This came up because earlier in the week elizabeth warren as i said to you during the debate it showed you the clip in some of our earlier shows is lying to you about hiking your taxes in exchange for her government take over the health care system

it's going to cost you a fortune it's going to double your tax rates and it's going to double it's going to at minimum increase dramatically your health care costs too she's lying to you and i said that one of the things about this debate that infuriates me is as conservatives, we have the facts on our side. The rich, the 1%, even the wealthy, the top 20%, pay the overwhelming majority of taxes in this country. Yet when you talk to liberals, the rich need to pay their fair share. They don't know that. They don't know the numbers because they don't want to know the numbers. Why? Because the numbers are inconvenient.

The percentage of taxes the wealthy pay are dramatically higher than what anybody else pays. So if you're going to argue a fair share, the rich should pay their fair share, at least know the number they pay now, knuckleheads. Liberals don't even know that. Now, again, thank you to Brian, Judy, and others who found this. Here is this cut of John Stossel. This is back in 2004. Debating Sharpton, and listen to the

hilarity here. Stossel asks him, what percentage do you think the 1% pay now? Sharpton totally flubs it and suggests a rate lower than what, so he's arguing for a tax cut. He doesn't even know it. Al Sharpton, check this out. This is great. The top 1% in this country pays very much less than 10%, very much less than 5%. So what's fair? The top 1% should pay 10% of America's income taxes? 20%? They should pay somewhere around 15%. They don't pay 5%. Anybody could see that as unequal and unfair. So they should pay 15%, he says. And the richest 1% now pay less than 10%. Then he said less than 5%. But that's so silly because, and I bet most of you don't know this, the IRS says the richest 1% of taxpayers already pay 34%, twice what Sharpton wanted them to pay.

The Reverend barely reacted when I told him. They're already paying 34%. No, I think that if you deal with the quality of their lives. He quickly changed the subject. of their lives. He quickly changed the subject. You know, of all the days, Paul, I do not have Joe here.

This, that, folks, we've only had one, I think, or two quadruple mutleys on the show. That is at least a triple mutley laugh. At least a triple mutley. So Al Sharpton is on that show in 2004, de facto arguing for a tax cut for the 1% of 20 percentage points. Do you hear what he said?

This infuriates me. You know, Paul and I, I try not to talk about politics with her too much because on Friday nights, listen, you all have stressful lives. Please, this is not a sob story. I'm not a snowflake. But sometimes for the sake of your family

and your relationship, you do have to step away. But I think she can vouch for me on this. This is the one thing I bring up that infuriates me about the left all the time. I cannot debate you if we cannot agree on basic facts. I can't debate, because liberals, I know this is tough. I can't debate you that apples may be healthier than bananas.

It's an example. I don't know if I'm telling you or not. If we can't agree on what an apple and a banana is, does that make sense? If I'm debating you that apples are better for you than bananas and you say no they're not i have proof and you pull out an orange i i'm not arguing you apples are better than oranges i'm arguing apples are better than bananas this infuriates me about the left that we are held thankfully because it conditions us to be smarter, more tactical, more efficient debaters.

Folks, I promise you, if you ever get in a lengthy debate with a leftist, the reason they always respond with, you're a racist, a transphobe, a homophobe, an Islamophobe, the reason they do that is, one, they're angry, but two, more importantly, because I'm telling you, the overwhelming majority of them have no idea what they're talking about. If Al Sharpton doesn't know the rate rich people currently pay, then don't get in a debate about it and make a fool of yourself. He just argued for a tax cut. Listen to that thing again. Well, what rate should they pay? Well, right now they're paying 10%. No, they're paying 5%. No, they're paying less than

5%. Stas says, really? Okay, well, what do you think they should pay? Well, they should pay at least 15. Dude, they pay 34. You're arguing for a tax cut. You're arguing about an apple and you're showing me a plum. You don't know what you're talking about. Listen, not to belabor this point, because this stuff frustrates me and I go on the whole show about it. If you're a liberal listener of the show, fine. Welcome. If you want to argue that the top 1% should pay more and you know they pay approximately 30%, 28% of their income or the federal, excuse me,

28% of the federal tax load say they currently pay 28 i think they should pay x whatever 50 and here's why happy to hear you out you're wrong i know you're wrong i know it will have a negative impact on an economy because evidence shows that but i respect the fact that you've taken a stand that are knowledgeable about where you are. I respect. I don't like it. I'm telling you, having debated this endlessly, 99% of the liberals you debate have no idea what they're talking about and have no grasp of the data at all. None. You need further evidence of that?

Conveniently, this article came out yesterday in cns news this guy terence jeffrey does just terrific work over there really i mean you follow this guy's stuff proving my point again that liberals have no idea what they're talking about this will be in the show notes today they're a must read the show notes today cnsnewss.com. Again, Terrence P. Jeffrey, October 15th, 2018. It's from last year. Feds collect record individual income taxes in fiscal year 2018. Still run the $779 billion deficit. We have a screenshot from that, by the way?

You do, right? Let me read this to you. Keep that up for a second. The reason I'm reading this to you is because again liberals are arguing about apples and showing you a grape they're telling you that trump tax cuts cost the government trump tax cuts cost them we need to raise taxes get more money the government to redistribute to people if they cost the government money folks and tax revenue would go down from the piece. Quote, the federal government collected a record,

$1, 683 billion. However, the federal government also ran a deficit of $778 billion during the fiscal year, according to the statement. Folks. Do you do this data thing? The facts matter anymore. I mean, I mean it. That's the Treasury's own data. Do you dispute it?

Is the Treasury lying? Is there some big conspiracy, the Treasury, the United States Treasury, to lie about tax data? So Trump cuts taxes. And as conservatives have always said, the government will likely not raise less revenue because economic growth from people having more money will lead to a bigger economy, which will lead to higher tax revenue, even at a lower rate. That is a confirmed hypothesis. Is it causal? No.

Is the correlation confirmed? Yes. Taxes went down. Federal income tax revenue went up. There are the numbers. So why are we still running a massive deficit? Because the government spends too much money. Folks, you can raise all the tax revenue you want. If you continue to spend more than you raise, tax revenue, spending, tax revenue, spending, you will run a deficit no matter what. It's not the tax rates that are the problem. It's the spending.

Oh my gosh. Do you even do data anymore? frustrating seriously it's frustrating but know this watching this show i promise i will never leave you in a lurch you will always be prepared for these sixth grade level arguments with your friend it's not even hard dismantling liberals in an argument i can tell you with a straight face i cannot think of a single debate. With no air of pretension, I promise you, it's not hubris. I cannot think of a single debate I've ever lost on fire. You know what?

One time, I think it was at Ed Henry or Griff, I had forgotten this immigration policy. We're talking about like Simpson, Mazzoli and Reagan. I forgot the name of it. And Ed, I think it was Ed or Griff. And I just couldn't think of it, my fault. But I cannot think of a debate with a liberal. Those guys aren't liberal. They're journalists. I cannot think. And it's not hard. I'm not patting myself on the back. You can do it too. They just don't know what they're talking about. It's like, let me argue

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Then I'm going to get to this, uh, this, uh, you know, I promise I have the Levin call. We're going to do that at the end of the show. Paula, sorry if I catch that.

We'll do the little bit. We'll end the show with that. Cause it's actually pretty funny, but I want to get to some of what's going on with Ukraine, great. Because Ukraine, gate, whistleblower, gate, whatever this nonsense story is, because there've been some more revelations about that.

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Okay. Just quickly on this story again about the latest hoax. Whistleblower gate, Ukraine gate. So again, as we discussed in the beginning of the show, we have the transcript of the Trump call. There is no deal. Give us information on Hunter Biden who are holding military aid up.

The Democrats say that was the quid pro quo, the something for something. It doesn't exist. I don't know what else to tell you. It's not in the transcript. Now, they had the EU ambassador from the United States at a Trump appointee, Gordon Sondland, they had the EU ambassador from the United States, a Trump appointee, Gordon Sondland, up on the Hill testifying. And I don't know how many times this guy,

Gordon Sondland, who was intimately involved in diplomacy with Ukraine during the time the fake quid pro quo, I call it the quid pro no, happened. How many times this guy has to say this, but there was no quid pro quo from the Wall Street Journal. My gosh. I mean, how many times does this guy need to say this? Here's the headline. Sondland criticizes Trump over efforts to pressure Ukraine. U.S. Ambassador to the European Union says he was disappointed by President's directive to work with Giuliani. Ah, that's an ominous headline. Not when you get into the core of the piece. Quote, in his testimony, Mr. Sondland said he asked Mr. Trump,

what do you want from Ukraine? The president responded, liberals, please listen. I know, get the blinders off. Take the lead shielding away from the skull for a moment. The president responded, nothing. There is no quid pro quo. Goes on, Mr. Trump, who appeared to be in a bad mood, repeated no quid pro quo multiple times, Mr. Sondland said.

He also said he couldn't independently verify the president's assurance since he wasn't involved in the hold on aid. verify the president's assurance since he wasn't involved in the hold on aid uh ukrainian president was there a quid pro quote no gordon sonlin was there a quid quote quote not only wasn't there the president repeated it multiple times the president was there a quid pro quote no the transcript of the call with the where the fake quid pro appears doesn't appear. There's nothing in there. I'm moving. This is just stupid. I'm so sick of covering this stupid stuff.

I'm just putting this out there, and it pains me to do it because I have an obligation and an hour to inform you. But again, liberals, do you ever do facts? Is the quid pro quo you're alleging ever going to appear anywhere other than the fake whistleblower who doesn't know anything because he never saw the transcript?

All right, quick story before I get to the Levin stuff because that's important and we got the trump video too that's a good one i want to get that we got it that i know paul it's quick i'll get to that with this a great great great short snippet of total this is like on friday i want to leave out a good note just a word of caution this piece up in the hill ladies and gentlemen do not fall for the public option wait got that yeah got him did i get him just a little fruit there's a fruit fly flying around it's driving me crazy you can leave that in there it is it's

driving me nuts we leave the doors open and that has things been flying around all if i get this sucker during the show i'll show you the carcass. Do not fall for the public option scam. Here's an article in The Hill. Support drops for Medicare for All but increases for the public option. This is in the show notes too. Let me explain to you the scam, what's going on here. This government-run takeover, Medicare for All, that Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren are supporting

is turning into a disaster. Even the left-wing media, Joe Biden and others are starting to call Warren out on the fact that she's lying. Oh, by the way, I'll be on Tucker tonight for my famous, maybe infamous news explosion segment at the end of the show. Don't miss it. I'm going to try to cover this story tonight too. Elizabeth Warren's lying. She's going to hike your taxes dramatically and other Democrats are starting to pick up on that. So they're saying, and Paul, if this doesn't make sense, give me a thumbs down. They're saying we're not for Elizabeth Warren's government run takeover. We're just for a government run option, the public option. Cool, right? Everybody can choose the government option. It'll be cheaper. And even some Republicans, check out this little portion of the piece, even some Republicans have fallen

for this scam. Look at the polling. The Kaiser Family Foundation tracking poll found support for a public option is growing. 73% said they supported the proposal in October compared to 69% in September. The year is where it gets troublesome. Independent and Republican respondents were more likely to support a public option than Medicare for All. While only 28% of Republicans polled, so they supported Medicare for all, 58% said they support a public option, including Biden's plan, which might fare better in a general election. Ladies and gentlemen, please, please, with all that's good in the world, marshal your strength and look at these numbers and understand you're being scammed.

The public option is a government takeover. How, Dan? They're just offering an option. What are they going to do? The reason they want the public option is because they're going to institute a government-run health care plan at lower than market rates. Well, how can they do that? Health insurance costs what it costs.

Not when you're paying with taxpayer dollars, it doesn't. Government can charge whatever it wants. Monopoly power. Do you get what I'm saying? If 20, 30 million people sign up for a public option, they can use taxpayer money to offset the difference between the premiums and what the plan actually costs. Did you get it?

Some of you may not. Let's say healthcare on a plan for Joey Bag of Donuts. Let's say his healthcare, the insurance company to make a decent profit and stay in business has to charge 500 a month. Just let's use round numbers. You get it? That is the actuarial sound value of the plan. So they don't go out of business. Say it's 500 a month. And that's the average for every Joey Bag of Donuts out there. The government can come in on a public option and say, no, no, no, Joey B, we're going to charge you 400. Great.

How can they do that? I just told you to stay in business. They need 500 because the government can just take taxpayer dollars and use it to subsidize it. They have a pool of money. They don't have to make a profit. They can just take it from the people. They can charge whatever they want.

If any money they lose, they just take from tax. You get it? Paul, does that make sense? You lose $100 a person, doesn't matter. Just tax another person $100 to pay for it. Insurance companies can't do that. So Dan, what's the problem? The problem is once you undercut the free market insurance market,

they're all going to go out of business. How can you compete with a $400 a plan when you need 500 to stay in business? They're all going to go out of business. It is Medicare for all government run health care, the public option. It's the same scam. It's just a focus group tested word to make you feel like it's a choice when it's not. Union people out there, men and women who worked hard negotiating those healthcare contracts from your employers, your plan will

go bankrupt immediately when the public option is instituted. They will undercut you. It's a sucker's plan. Don't get suckered. They will use taxpayer money to fill in the funding gaps, meaning your health insurance is going to go away and your taxes are going to go up too Don't get suckered. They will use taxpayer money to fill in the funding gaps, meaning your health insurance is going to go away and your taxes are going to go up too as you pay for other people's cheaper healthcare. There's the best way to sum it up. Okay, quick video and I'll get to this within call. I really enjoyed it and I think you will too.

Thanks to producer Joe who found this for us. Before we get to that, here's President Trump just in a quick thing. this French reporter before the speech yesterday asks President Trump, hey, unemployment here in the United States is doing pretty well, unlike in France where we're really struggling. It's about 10 seconds. But listen to the answer. If this if there was ever a Trump thug life on, this is it.

Check this out. You have very low unemployment rates in the US.S. and we have a very high unemployment rate in France. How come? What's the recipe for? Well, maybe we have a better president than you do. If there was ever a Trump thug life moment, that was it.

Well done, President Trump. This cigar, by the way, tastes pretty good. I'm not a cigar smoker. Who gave us this? This was Troy? The Troy cigar? Thank you, Troy. Little cigar, my love. But it does taste good.

That's what I love about this guy. Maybe we just have a better president. This is, this is just classic Trump. All of the, this is what I think. I can't speak for every voter in America. Obviously, unlike Malcolm Nance, while we were in the truck with him coming back from Politicon, that crazy leftist who has these Trump conspiracy theories, who insisted to me and Paula, he could speak for every single black voter in the country. who insisted to me and policy, he could speak for every single black voter in the country.

But my guess is the appeal of Trump is that he doesn't talk in focus group tested words. Notice the tie in like public option. He just tells you what he's thinking and you can make, you can formulate opinions on your, he's not lying to you. Public option. It's Medicare for all to take over. All right.

Without further ado, I just want to get to this quickly. We don't take caller segments on the show. We may one day, we may do a, we are instituting some new features coming up soon, by the way. We, I don't want to say too much because we're still working on it, but with the new studio, we have some more capabilities. So stay tuned for some big news ahead. I kind of teased it earlier in the year too. Getting back to the beginning of the show, when I talked about Al Sharpton and the tax revenue going up after the Trump tax cuts and how liberals don't argue apples to apples, they argue, they say they're arguing apples to apples and then they produce a grape or a

banana. They just don't know what they're talking about. So I was hosting for Mark Levin a while ago and a woman called in and she was trying to make the same argument Al Sharpton was. And then Elizabeth Warren is, that the wealthy should pay more despite not knowing what the wealthy actually pay. They just don't know anything. So during this caller segment, listen to how it starts. She starts raving and ranting about how the rich don't pay enough. And I ask her a pretty basic question because she says she has no political representation. I'll play it in two parts, but this is definitely worth your time.

Check out part one. Kathy from New York City, New York. How are you tonight? You're on with Dan Bongino. Great. I want to say, sir, that the rich in this country should pay 100% of the taxes because the rich have 100% of the taxes because the rich have 100% of the representation. And the American colonists fought the Revolutionary War to end taxation without representation,

which is what we have right now in 2018. Okay. Taxation with no representation. You do. So, Kathy, are you wealthy? Only the rich have any representation in this government. Okay. Kathy, are you rich?

Hell no. You're not. So you don't have a congressional representative. Kathy, let me ask you a question. What congressional district do you reside in? My congressional representative. What's the district? Who she cares about.

What's the number? What district do you reside in? I do believe it's Charles Koch. Okay. Kathy, you don't even, let me get this straight. You want the rich to pay 100% of the taxes. You're making the claim that you have no representation. You simultaneously do not even know the number of the congressional district you live in,

and you're expecting us to take you seriously. Is that where we are with this? I know my district. I'll tell you what, I'll give you a second. Kathy, I rarely do this on the air because I'm up against a break here, but I'll give you a second to Google it. Tell us who your representative is and what the district is. Go ahead.

Do your thing. Maybe we'll play the Jeopardy sound. Okay, sir. You don't know, do you? You have no idea. Are you kidding me? You think I don't know who doesn't represent me in Washington? Who is it?

I know exactly who doesn't represent me in Washington. Kathy, who is your representative? Simple question. I had totally forgotten about that, Jim. We have part two to this, right? I had Joe, producer Joe, found that. And he, because we were talking about the rich and tax rates. So just to be clear kathy calls in

wants the rich to pay more because she says they earn a hundred percent of the money and she has no political representation while she simultaneously doesn't even know the number of the congressional district she's in or the name of the representative she says it's charles coke of the coke brothers uh pretty sure he wasn't a congressman this continued for about another minute but i promise you again the crescendo is worth the weight check this out what's the congressional district number you live in you're back here i love rich you are the greatest producer ever kathy got the Jeopardy sounder in the background. Have you figured out yet who your congressional representative is?

Go. Come on. Liberals are hoping. They're praying you come through in the clutch. You're making a strong argument here that the rich should pay 100% of the taxes. We're asking a basic question. Oh, you think I don't know, sir? No, I'm just asking, who is it?

No, exactly. Just make up a name. For the liberals out there, Kathy's congressman is Joey Bagadonis. Representative Bagadonis. Is that it? Is it Bagadonis? That's the truth. The rich is the only people they represent. Kathy, is this a prank call? Are you for real?

Seriously, are you a conservative quietly calling conservative shows to act like a liberal who has lost it to make people go out and vote for conservatives I'm serious is this a prank call when billionaires are paying nothing

in taxes you think we should be paying anything this is the greatest phone call ever can you please send me the tape paying nothing in taxes. You think we should be paying anything? Rich, this is the greatest phone call ever. Can you please send me the tape of this? This may be the... I have to put this. This is the greatest phone call in the district.

Billionaires paying nothing. Okay, Kathy, because I got 20 seconds. One more shot. Come through for the libs all across the country. Who's your congressional representative in what district? Come on, here you go. Let's hear it. Revolutionary War 2.0.

Oh, my gosh. And then producer, Mr. Producer, Fred Rich, who, of course, has been with Mark forever, just in one of the finest radio quickie turnarounds ever, finds the Jeopardy sounder and plays it in the background as Kathy. She couldn't even Google, just Google it. Go to who is my representative? It comes up in two seconds.

She couldn't even figure that out. Again, making my point that I started off the show with. You can't argue an apples to apples comparison if the liberals are producing plums, grape, bananas, oranges, and everything but an apple. They just don't know what they're talking about. But you do. Thanks for all your support, ladies and gentlemen. We had another epic week.

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