The Dan Bongino Show - Dem Congresswoman Assaults Officer And Finds Out | Episode 47

Episode Date: May 20, 2025

The sequel to the madness that broke out at an ICE facility in NJ last week is formal legal action against a (crazy) sitting member of Congress. Also in this episode: Bernie Sanders tells all on the corruption of the Dem party and Comey speaks out. Democrat Congresswoman Charged With Assaulting Law Enforcement In Stunt At ICE Center ⁠https://dailycaller.com/2025/05/19/lamonica-mciver-charged-assault/⁠ Project Homecoming Charter Flight Brings Self-Deporters to Honduras, Colombia ⁠https://www.dhs.gov/news/2025/05/19/project-homecoming-charter-flight-brings-self-deporters-honduras-colombia⁠ Trump administration to pay $5 million to family of Jan. 6 rioter Ashli Babbitt ⁠https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-administration-5-million-ashli-babbitt-jan-6-rioter-who-was-killed/⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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But I want to start today with some fantastic news. The FO portion of FAFO is now playing out again. We're seeing it again. And I love this. And I've been calling for this particular thing. It is time to arrest Democrat members of Congress who break the law. If you break the law, you deserve to be arrested and held accountable. That is critical. And today, Democrat Congresswoman LaMonica McIver is finding out the hard way that if you break the law,

you will be held accountable. This stems back to this ludicrous incident now, a couple of weeks ago, outside of the ICE facility in New Jersey. The woman in red in this video is Congresswoman McIver and look at her as she shoves law enforcement now over and over, shoving the the cop striking him with her forearm trying to push her way into the ICE facility. Look here slowed down as she there do you see the punch

she throws she punches the back of this cop's shoulder. It's not doesn't hurt the guy the guy can take it she's weak no question that's not it's not gonna be a physical threat to him the way she acted, but that's irrelevant. Did she or did she not break the law? And the answer is yes, she did. Now you and I knew this, you and I have been rightly saying she needs to be held accountable for this

for these past weeks. And now going into yesterday evening, Monday evening, we get the news that she is being charged with assaulting law enforcement officers. US attorney Alina Habba, you know her from all of her time working for the president in a personal capacity. She now is the US attorney up there in Jersey and she announced the charges.

And she said that LaMonica McIver, in the video you just saw assaulted, impeded and interfered with law enforcement in violation of all sorts of federal laws during that confrontation at Delaney Hall detention facility. She added in the statement that she's been trying to work with the Congresswoman here. Now, I think she's being too generous.

They should have just hit her with charges right away. Cuff her, put her on camera, hit her with the charges, send a message. But here's what Alina Hobbit did. She was more generous than I would be. She said, I've persistently made efforts to address these issues without bringing criminal charges. And I've given Representative McIver

every opportunity to come to a resolution, but she has unfortunately declined, she said. She goes on, no one is above the law, politicians or otherwise. So now charges have finally arrived. Now let me make a point about this, about LaMonica McIver, just to emphasize something. I get that you're trying to be deliberative,

Trump Justice Department, Alina Hab, a US attorney, I get it. Just on things like this,, Trump Justice Department, Alina Jaba, US Attorney, I get it. Just on things like this, where it's crystal clear what's going on, please move more quickly, please. There's no reason to negotiate here. You need to treat her the way that any other American citizen would be treated

if they shoved a cop, if they obstructed justice, if they assaulted a police officer. Come on, some of this can be moved on quickly. I know some of this requires a lot more deliberation. You got to do some research and figure out what going on and whether or not somebody actually violated the law, whether or not you got the evidence against them. But here what we want is speed that's commensurate with evidence. You got good evidence? You definitely do. It's on camera. Move fast. Because what you have right now,

and this is coming from me, this is coming from the audience that's watching this and listening to this, this is coming from Americans across the country who all voted for President Trump. What you have right now are Americans who are sick and tired of a corrupt system that plays favorites instead of one

that treats people equally, follows the Constitution and follows the law. So this is good, this is very good. This is a very good development. But on things like this, follows the constitution, and follows the law. So this is good. This is very good. This is a very good development. But on things like this, open and shut, move, just move. Take it out, knock it out, and move on to the next thing. So an encouraging development here, as Alina Haba makes this announcement.

Now, Kristi Noem, the DHS secretary, is reacting here as well. She said on X, well, she posted a statement which was put on X. She said, after a thorough review of the video footage of Delaney Hall on a full investigation from HSI, the US attorney for the district of New Jersey has made the determination to charge Congresswoman

LaMonica McIver for assaulting, resisting, and impeding law enforcement officers. If any person regardless of political party influence or status, that's the key, assaults a law enforcement officer as we witnessed Congressman McIver do, you will be prosecuted. Again, that's Kristi Noem saying that.

You will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. Okay, this is not negotiate for something else. This is prosecute them at Trump speed. Who said Trump speed? Ms. DeVar, you're right, Ms. DeVar. Trump speed, baby. We thank our brave ICE law enforcement officers for their service to this great nation.

You know, ICE officials are getting threatened like crazy. I think I mentioned it either on the podcast yesterday on the radio show, but the numbers are way up. Threats to ICE officers are up over 400% right now, over 400%, because the left is going ballistic that we have stopped their party, that we have stopped their chaos, that we voted for a president and law enforcement

to ultimately get control of our country again. So the threats to ICE officers have skyrocketed. So I repeat what I said yesterday, which is I pray for our ICE officers and I issue my heartfelt gratitude to them and their families for doing this work because they're under threat for doing it. The Biden administration made this country a lot a lot less safe.

All right. So we get that. Now, the left is freaking out about this. These charges for Lamonica MacGyver. They're freaking out about this. Here's Congressman Fang Fang. He posted on this subject today. He says a red line has been crossed. Trump is prosecuting his political enemies in Congress. Yeah, oh yeah, yeah, Trump, if he had to pick anyone,

it would be LaMonica McIver. How often have you heard that name? Yeah, oh, he just picked out LaMonica McIver, the weakest gazelle. He just wanted to send a message by going after her specifically for no particular reason. No, LaMonica McIver broke the law. Fang Fang farts out the following,

sorry, Congressman Fang Fang farts out the following. He says, this is just the beginning. We must take whatever we've done before to show dissent and go one rung higher. What is that supposed to mean, Swalwell? What kind of threat is that? And he goes on and save your bullshit documents on this, Alina, you'll need them when you testify.

Well, I'm here to tell you something, Swalwell. She doesn't have to work that hard to keep the documents because she has all of the documentary evidence and she's gonna wanna retain it because it is totally damning to LaMonica McIver who assaulted law enforcement officers. So yes, she's saving her documents, Eric Swalwell. So Swalwell freaking out about this.

He's not alone. Congressman Chris Murphy, Senator Chris Murphy, sorry, I gave him a demotion because he deserves one. He said, this is a really big deal. He's saying this morning, I watched the tape. This is a political arrest, pure and simple, an attempt to punish members of Congress for doing oversight of Trump's illegality.

Actually, it's not. Actually, it's not in any way. First of all, those lawmakers were trying to break their way into a detention center that contained mostly rapists and murderers, over 70% of the people who were detained there convicted of very violent crimes. Additionally, this was not a pure and simple political arrest or an attempt to punish members of Congress doing oversight.

This was holding people accountable for breaking the law. In fact, Alina Haba, to my chagrin, I started on this issue, she went out of her way to try and figure out a way to work with the Congresswoman to resolve all of this without bringing charges. So if anything, the Trump administration has been going too easy on these people. Chris Murphy, whose political career is defined by lying, is doing it again.

Saying that, oh, somehow this is unjust, it's tyrannical, that it's out of control, that Trump is punishing, rather, his political opponents. Not a Trump thing. Trump doesn't do that, actually. That's a Democrat thing. This is projection on the part of Chris Murphy He's been rooting on that type of tyranny for a long time Against Republicans against January 6th defendants against Catholics Against people singing church hymns outside of abortion mills against the president of the United States and the people who worked for him It's total garbage anyway So in case you're wondering,

is the left acting insane this morning over this? They sure are. And this gets back to a message I was delivering last week on this subject. Arrest these Democrats for breaking the law. It doesn't matter if you do, the left is going to screech. If you don't, the left is going to screech. In either scenario, they're going to screech.

So just do the right thing. Don't gauge your decisions based on how crazy Chris Murphy and Eric Swalwell are going to be. If you do that, you're just gonna be paralyzed. So just do the right thing for the American people. And this is the right thing. Charging LaMonica McIver. She deserves this. Now, of course, she herself is saying that this is nothing more thing, charging LaMonica McIver. She deserves this.

Now, of course, she herself is saying that this is nothing more than a political hit job, that people are out to get her, and on and on. But these guys did the right thing here by charging her. Okay, and she's not alone. You wanna know more about the Department of Justice and what they're up to? Well, man, I've got a mountain of receipts for you today.

So now you get the Justice Department going after Democrat Congresspeople who are breaking the law. Also on Monday, the United States Department of Justice opened a civil rights investigation into the mayor of Chicago, Brandon Johnson. U.S. Department of Justice opening civil rights investigation into Chicago mayor Axios with the headline here. They say they've opened an investigation into him. The letter outlines what the Trump administration

and some MAGA activists have identified, get ready for the video, have identified as race-based hiring that they say discriminates against white candidates. The DOJ says the investigation is to determine whether Johnson has violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which bans hiring based on race.

The letter from DOJ Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon references remarks Johnson made Sunday at a church on Chicago's South Side. Now, there's a lot of delicious things in this, but one of them is crystal clear. Harmi Dhillon, as the attorney general for civil rights, is the right person for this job because she understands that the Civil Rights Act

meant you are not allowed to have racial prejudice against people. You are not allowed to judge people and treat people on the basis of their skin color, on the basis of their race. Now that is not the way the left has used the Civil Rights Department. No, somebody said this is a strongly worded letter. It's not, this is not a strongly worded letter. This is a full-blown DOed letter. It's not, this is not a strongly worded letter. This is a full blown DOJ investigation. There's a difference here. There's a huge difference here. And it matters that a civil rights investigation

is being launched on the city of Chicago. It is a big deal. And Harmeet Dhillon is right sizing that department within the Department of Justice. Civil rights law means everyone needs to be treated equally regardless of race. That is not what Brandon Johnson is doing. And in fact, on Sunday, Brandon Johnson was straight up

bragging about racial hiring inside of the city of Chicago. Take a look at cut two here, Mayor Brandon Johnson. This is what he got caught saying. This is what he got caught saying. Push back on me and say, you know, the only thing that the mayor talks about is the hiring of black people. No, what I'm saying is, when you hire our people,

we always look out for everybody else. Yes! We are the most generous people on the planet. I don't know too many cultures that have play cousins. That's how generous we are. We just make somebody a family member, right? This is how we are. This is how we are.

And then he ran off a list of all of the black people who work in the city of Chicago. He started running off all these officials that he hired because they have black skin. He hired them to these jobs. And he said, because they're black, as you just heard, they are generous, which means they're the right people for the job. This is the mayor of Chicago talking about this openly.

Openly. And so he goes on and then he brags about giving out contracts in the city of Chicago based on race. This is a very stupid thing to do if you're an elected official. If you're the mayor of Chicago, it's a very stupid thing to do. In a world where the justice department

has people who actually care about justice and civil rights law. Take a look here, cut three, here's Brandon Johnson bragging about racial contract distribution. And we did some expansion at the airport, particularly in the cargo. And do you know there's never been a prime construction

company that has led growth for an airport, particularly in cargo, anywhere in the United States of America. But BOA Construction received the prime construction contract at O'Hare under my administration. It's the first black prime construction company to have a prime contract anywhere in the United States of America. And that's critical, not just for Boa Construction, but for the lives that he's going to transform because he's hiring them. And again, he goes on, he just keeps saying, I hired this black contractor, this black contractor. He goes on, he just keeps saying, I hired this black contractor, this black contractor.

It's not about that. If you're a resident of the city of Chicago, the last thing that you should care about, or any resident anywhere, the last thing you should care about is, what is the race of the person who's providing this service? Why would you start from there? You wouldn't, you wouldn't.

You would say, whoever's best, who can deliver the best product at the lowest price, save us a lot of money, deliver the best quality product. That's the key, that's the key consideration. Whether it's, you know, the products that you buy on a personal level, the work that you want done for your home, anything. And that's not the way government officials operate.

He gets other people's money and then he distributes it based on race, rather than for efficiency and for the good of the people. And by the way, again, importantly, it's a violation of the law. It's a violation of the law. So now the city of Chicago has a civil rights investigation on its hand.

So that's a very big deal. And that civil rights department and the justice department has been used for years to abuse, used for years to abuse, you know, normal Americans all over the country. And crazy, very crazy. Let's go, Brandon just asked, are we going to talk about the Dan Bongino, Cash Patel interview from this last weekend?

Well, we did. You missed it. We did a whole show on it on Monday. So you can check out the Monday show. It's right there. Thank you for asking about that. Let me see I also have some other Justice Department news that I need to get to with you I'll do that in just a moment

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And so we've got LaMonica McIver arrested. We've got a full-blown civil rights investigation into the city of Chicago now. Additionally, something super interesting is now happening in the sanctuary state of California. Now you know what a sanctuary state is. A sanctuary district, a state, is where criminals go into these jails and they have illegal aliens in their custody. ICE finds out about it. They send what's called a detainer, which is simply a, that's

a formal request. Would you please hand this illegal alien over to us rather than just releasing them into the public? Because we'd like to take them into custody and to deport them, please. That's what that is. And lefty jurisdictions across the country have been refusing to honor those detainer requests, saying, up yours, we're gonna protect the illegal aliens.

We're gonna release them back into the country. We're gonna cause a lot more chaos. So in California, there's a new US attorney that President Trump just appointed who is doing something novel and fantastic. And here's what they're up to. He's the new US attorney, again, in California. And this guy, let me share with you.

I've got some video here for you. Yeah, here it is, cut four. Here's Bill Mollusian describing how this U.S. attorney is finally able to take illegals who are inside of a sanctuary city jail into custody. This can be a model for the whole country. Take a look. In a Fox exclusive, you're watching an incredibly rare interaction as the jail in Los Angeles transfers an illegal alien to ICE custody. The sanctuary jurisdiction forced to hand this Mexican national over thanks to a first of its kind federal operation. With this operation, we're going to be neutralizing California sanctuary state policies. Bill Asseli is the U.S. attorney in L.A. and the architect of Operation Guardian Angel. the HSI, FBI, DEA, and ATF, all working together out of this office in downtown LA. How's his criminal history?

He's got the domestic violence. They scan these criminal databases daily to find illegal aliens in local jails who have been previously deported from the United States. If they've returned to the U.S., they've committed a federal felony known as illegal reentry. And Assele's office will immediately seek a criminal arrest warrant against them, which, unlike an ICE detainer, sanctuary jails can't ignore. Okay, this is excellent. So that last portion is really, really critical here.

Illegal entry for the first time alone into the United States is not a felony. Although it's a crime, but it's not a felony. But if you're deported and then you reenter the United States, you have committed a felony. So because these local jurisdictions are trying to avoid working with the feds, it's left to the feds to spend a lot of money

and a lot of resources to comb through all of these jail records and look for people who've already been deported and yet are back in the United States. That's it. So what they're finding is these guys are felons. So they're issuing now legal warrants where they hand these to the jails

and the jails have no choice. Once they receive a warrant for this arrest, they can't aid and abet the escape of someone for whom there's a warrant out for that person's arrest. They don't have a choice here, they don't. And so these sanctuary jurisdictions don't have an option and they're being put in a stranglehold. And that's good news, which means people

who are the repeat offenders are the ones who are being collected up Now and being deported so if this is working in California of all places California, which is a state and LA which is a city whose Democrats are Dedicated to helping illegal aliens above and beyond American citizens if it's working there It can work in the whole, the whole damn country, the whole country. So you've got this US attorney who comes in and he says, well, wait a second, why don't we just start issuing warrants for their arrest?

Anybody who's a felon, let's take them into custody. Wham bam, thank you ma'am. They're taking them into custody. They're getting them out of the country. So now we've got a model in California. Usually we get a lot of garbage that becomes a model in California. It spreads to the rest of the country. This is the opposite of that. This is a golden

model for deporting illegals who keep coming back into the country and getting rid of them for good. So that's good. That's very good. I like what I'm seeing and I hope that model spreads across all the across the country. And so now you've got attorneys general, deputy attorneys general, U.S. attorneys, they're all exercising the Trump agenda here. They're doing exactly what you voted for. And that brings me to another deportation story that took place on Monday.

On Monday, the Department of Homeland Security yesterday launched its first, quote, project homecoming charter flight. It's the first self-deportation flights headed to Honduras and Colombia. This is where people go on the app that the Trump administration launched, CBP Home, and they say, I am here illegally.

I agree to work with you to get out of the country in the hopes that maybe one day I can come back. Remember, the Trump administration says, if you don't sign up on the app, if you don't self-deport, if you don't register, we're coming for you, we will catch you, we will deport you. These are your options. Take a look. Here's cut five.

These are the first self-deportation flights, according to the Department of Homeland Security, out to Honduras and Colombia. Look at this. So people are arriving, they're packing up their things, they're getting on board the flights, and they're leaving. Now this arrangement is saving the United States a tremendous amount of money. And yes, they're offering the flights out, they're transporting them out of the country, they're giving them a thousand dollars in spending cash for the process. Both, the United States has secured arrangements

with both Honduras and Colombia to provide social services for the people who are coming back. This is way beyond the generosity that we even need to do. And yet we're doing it, and it's at an immense cost savings to the American people. It costs a lot more to send teams in to try and find illegals, take them into custody,

and then ultimately deport them, have them in detention, the whole thing. It costs way more money than the Trump administration is spending now. So this is what they're offering. They're saying, look, we've got this generous deal for you, generous deal for you, you can take it. We could do this the easy way,

or we could do this the hard way. And so the easy way video just came out, look at that. And people are gonna see that and they think, okay, I'd rather take the way where my kids handed a teddy bear and then were put onto a flight and then were flown back to our home country instead of everybody gets arrested and thrown into a detention center

and then ejected from the United States of America. So these are your options. These are your options. Very big. Love seeing that. Okay. So the problems in California, the problems with illegal aliens,

the problems in our country right now, President Trump addressing them, you voted for him on that basis. Coming up, I wanna talk with Steve Hilton. We'll have a chat with him about running for governor of the state of California. And what it's like to be an immigrant, an American immigrant to the United States.

He became an American citizen. He adores this country. What he makes out of all the people who've done it the wrong way and why the left is so aggressively protecting them, protecting them at the expense of American citizens like you, me and Steve Hilton. More ahead here on Vince.

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The excellent Steve Hilton joins us on VINCE. Steve is now running for governor of California. And man, California would become truly golden again if Steve Hilton gets the gig. Steve, good to have you with us, sir. So great to be with you. How are you doing? I'm doing fantastic.

I started this show today talking about all of the progress that the justice department is making. They just arrested or they charged Congresswoman LaMonica McIver for assaulting a law enforcement officer. They opened a civil rights investigation against the mayor of Chicago for hiring based on race, you know, rather than merit. And we're watching self-deportation flights from the Department of Homeland Security now start to take place yesterday. It does feel like, at least to me, Steve, that America is healing. What do you make of all of this? It's an amazing demonstration of the power and effectiveness of government when you've

got people in charge who have really clear convictions, know what they wanna do, and are not afraid of using the authority of government to do the right things. And that shouldn't be unusual because that's how it should work all the time. But there's been such an absence of that. Of course, at the national level under the Biden administration, but this is what you see in states like California, just

nothing happening and people in charge just tolerating, law breaking and total flouting of our basic values and it just goes on year after year to the point where people just assume that's the way it's gonna be. So when you see this new Trump administration, it still is new. I mean, that's what's amazing. They've done so much that, you know, just like they've packed like eight years worth of administration into a few months. Yeah, it still is new. And they're just totally reminding us what government should be like and how it should

behave. And this is that should be the norm. And it's so refreshing to see. It is very refreshing to see. What do you make about of the new revelations about Joe Biden having this this dire form of prostate cancer, which they just announced over the weekend? I don't it doesn't look like there's a person on the left or the right right now who thinks that this was just discovered over the weekend. Everyone sort of admitting, yeah, this was probably known for

years. I mean, this just just that whole Biden saga boy didn't that just enhance distrust in governance entirely. 100% in governance in the political system in the media. I mean, of course we should express our sympathy for him in his immediate medical condition, his family. That's all true. But there must be zero sympathy for him or his family or his aides

or any of these people on a kind of basic political level because they knew all this. They knew all this about him. They knew that he was senile. That was obvious to all of us. By the way, before the 2020 election on my show, but when he was a candidate the first time around, I would run weekly segments. I think we called it the Biden comedy segment.

I mean, it wasn't funny, but it kind of was funny. But you could see before the 2020 election, he wasn't fit to be president, but they pushed him anyway. Because of his vanity, his narcissism, ego and ambition, all the people around him. And then once he was there, it was very evident he couldn't do the job mentally.

Now we know that he had cancer, very serious cancer. The idea that this exactly, Zeke Emanuel saying there's no way that this just, you know, popped up in the last few months. And it's just an absolute outrage that this happened, that we had a president who clearly wasn't capable of doing the job. It's an outrage. And then of course, Kamala Harris, because she wanted to play the game so that she could one day win the game, totally ignoring her own responsibility to do something about this. These people, it's just an absolute scandal. And so it must be properly investigated,

this cover up of the mental health condition of Biden, but now the physical health condition as well. Unbelievable that this happened. Steve, you know, you've you've met and dealt with world leaders. What do you think they think of the difference between Biden and Trump? It must be like a huge culture change to have to work with a president of the United States who's actually active and thinking and in charge? Yes. And I'll give you a story. I mean, but the really horrifying thing, just to go back to Kamala Harris for a moment, is that we had two people at the top who were basically incapable of doing the job. I'll get to Kamala Harris in a second. I've got a specific story about that. But of course you see Biden, I mean, to me, one of the most, you know, chilling details of the revelations, actually, this wasn't in the new set of revelations.

This came out last year was that Biden in his one-to-one meetings with senior officials, including there was a specific example cited of the defense secretary. The meetings were scripted one to one meetings. This is not like he's going out in public and needs to make a speech. This is an internal meeting with the defense secretary. And the meeting is scripted. I think what is going on? And that's all published.

So the people around the world know, of course, they see him, all the stories about him falling asleep and being incapable. And they just think, well, I suppose we have to deal with the AIDS then. But getting back to Kamala Harris, I, someone on the world stage, told me that they were in a meeting, a one-to-one meeting with her on, I believe the topic was AI and the future of AI. And she basically read everything from notes that were written for her. Couldn't engage in a conversation. She's the vice president.

So what is, the laughing stock that this makes America. And of course now we have this strong swaggering leadership again, which is what we should expect from America and what the world should expect from America But I mean these last four years, okay was so short Yes, they were alright so back to the the president now and and his efficiency and how quickly he's moving another story that we just Went over this hour is the fact that the US attorney in LA is now successfully deporting illegals by saying, look, if you entered the country twice, you're guilty of felony reentry.

So he's now issuing warrants to local jails, taking illegals into custody and getting rid of them. This is something that wasn't being done before. There were detainer requests being sent by ICE to these jails in California, but being a sanctuary state, they said, up yours, we're not giving you these illegals. How much of a difference does this make that you actually have a US attorney

who's doing his job and taking people into custody? Well, it's a fantastic example. I mean, I know him very well. He's a friend of mine, actually. Really good guy. And he's also really dive, I'm speaking to you from LA right now, and you know just arriving here yesterday evening you still have this kind of

the third world conditions of you know that shame us with the homelessness and so on, and of course the US attorney is also has launched an investigation into that, into where the billions of dollars of taxpayer money went, given that we still have these appalling conditions. But it's again an example of how, again, it's just enforcing the law. This is not some outlandish political ideology at work. It is like the basic principle that we should all expect, that we have laws and we should enforce them. Here in California, you have a situation where the Democrats who've been in charge now for 15 years, they love passing laws. They're amazing at passing laws. Thousands of new laws every year

coming out of the state legislature, they seem to have some aversion to actually enforcing the law. And so you have at the federal level now, thanks to President Trump, someone who's aggressively doing that. And it just sends them, but it shows you the possibility. And my argument is imagine if we had that at the state level in California, how quickly we could actually turn things around in California, which has gone so far off the rails because of this far left ideology. Yes. So what has illegal immigration done to California? Because my impression of that state

is one of the reasons it's become quote more blue through the years is because it's been one of the primary magnets for this type of illegal immigration into the United States for decades. How has illegal immigration affected the Golden State? Well, it's contributed to every single one of the dire problems that people face here. So the number one issue, if you actually look at the data on why people are leaving California, the number one reason people are leaving California, the number

one reason is the housing crisis, because it's so insanely expensive to live here. We have the highest housing costs in the country because there's because of the very simple supply and demand problem, population going up, not enough housing being built. Well, why is the population going up? Here's a point that Gavin Newsom, like Gavin Newsom the other week, launched a new fact checking website, because he obviously hasn't got enough to do, you know, being governor, he's launching a podcast, then he launched a new website. The first target of his fact checking website was me. And he accused me of lying when I said that people are leaving California, because

he said our population is going up. Well, I looked at the numbers, our population is going up. But it's not because people are moving to California or not leaving. It's because of illegal immigration. That's why our population is going up. And you see the impact of that in the schools, in the public schools, where you have so many students now in public schools that don't speak English. Of course, that's affecting the education of everyone else. Our budget deficit just now, why? $12 billion he's put in the budget, that's the size of our deficit for illegal immigrant healthcare. When you have people struggling here to make ends meet. the size of our deficit for illegal immigrant health care.

When you have people struggling here to make ends meet. I mean, it's just an insult to every Californian. So Gavin Newsom very desperately and obviously wants to be the president of the United States. There's no question about that. How dangerous would it be for him to become president in your view? So you have to just look at the details of what goes on with Gavin Newsom. There's been a lot of misreporting last week, for example, about Gavin Newsom's move to

becoming more moderate as it is running for president, which he's clearly intending to do. Mm hmm. Number one, it was the media just bought his BS last week that he's finally getting tough on homelessness. Of course, that's what he wanted people to write. He issued model ordinances, this was a week ago, which was reported as getting tough on homelessness.

First of all, he wasn't doing anything. It was like a list of suggestions, no action at all. Secondly, if you actually look at them read what he put out, he wasn't talking about removing homeless encampments. He was talking about moving them, literally moving them, and specifically 200 yards every three days. That's what he actually put out. His budget was reported as raining back on illegal immigrant healthcare, the one we've just been discussing.

But if you look in the detail of the budget, he actually increased spending on it. You look at what he said to Charlie Kirk about biological men and girls sports being deeply unfair. What's he done about that? Nothing. Weeks he done about that? Nothing. Weeks after he said that, there was legislation in the state legislature

put forward by Republicans that would have banned that, which he just told us he thought was deeply unfair. What did he do about it? Nothing. The truth about Gavin Newsom is he's not particularly, it's not that he's far left. It's not that he's nothing left. It's not that it's that he's nothing. He's a classic machine politician, just like Biden, just like Kamala Harris,

just like Karen Bass in L.A. They don't believe in anything. They don't have any convictions. They just go along with whatever's wherever the power is. And that's the most dangerous thing in a politician. They're weak. They don't believe in anything. They won't stand up for anything. That means they get pushed around. Nothing happens. And the bureaucracy, the machine, the activists, the unions, whoever's got the power, rolls all over them.

So in other words, they can be just like Biden. This is great. I'm glad you're going down that road because they can be bought and paid for. And the effect of that is to serve individual interests at any given moment. But in the end, it's not good for us because there is no underlying principle. There is no thematic consistency. There is no loyalty to the country. And the end result is just pure chaos. 100%. It is very important. I've always thought in politics to be accurate in your criticisms, not just make sort of sweeping insults that aren't true. And so when I hear people say, oh, Gavin Newsom far left, he's not far left.

He's not anything. And that's why it's really dangerous. It's actually worse than someone like Bernie, who really clearly does believe in the far left socialist agenda. At least you know what you're dealing with, and he's sincere about it. But with these machine politicians like Newsom, Biden, they're all the same.

They're the most dangerous. Exactly. He used to say they can be bought. They can be corrupted by whatever is, you know, in power with the money. That's why the unions run as yesterday with in a meeting with In-N-Outberg, the owner of In-N-Outberg and the executive team. They are being completely assaulted almost to death by Gavin Newsom and the unions. Why is Gavin Newsom teaming up with the unions to assault one of our iconic businesses in California? Because they pay him to do that. They give him donations. That's why he's increasing spending on government

bureaucrats, even when we have a deficit. In his budget last week, he increased spending on state bureaucrats by 18%. Why? Because they're his biggest donors, the government unions. So Steve Hilton, what are your chances that you can prevail in this run? I mean, I know you're not doing it because you don't think you have a chance, but I think a lot of people look at California and they think any chance of electing a guy like Ronald Reagan or even Pete Wilson, that those days are in the yesteryear in California. Can California be

turned around? Yeah, yes. The answer is yes. And I always say, put it the same way. I think it's very difficult to win, but not impossible. You've got the, and therefore we should try because we can't just let California slide further into decline and chaos. It's our biggest state in terms of population, economy. It's an iconic state. It represents so much of what America should be.

I say often California means to America what America means to the world. The very best of the great American values. So it's worth fighting for. Look, you saw in 2024 signs of progress, 10 counties flipped from blue to red. You saw the ballot initiatives on many issues go Republicans way. President Trump got more votes than any Republican president for a generation. If everybody who if all the Trump voters in California come out for me, I'll win. The real point is this though. Yeah. The 2026 election in California is going to be

about change. It's obvious that we need change. And so if they put up someone like Kamala Harris, or any of these Democrats, to be honest, their record is so terrible in California. I think the basic argument that we can't go on like this, that this is not okay. And even if you elect a Republican governor, the Democrats will still control the legislature. So it's just a bit of balance that we're calling for. I think these are really powerful arguments and I'm very confident I can make it. All right well Steve Hilton, rooting for you brother and I always appreciate you coming on. Good to talk to you today, best of luck because that's a beautiful statement. We once knew

it as manifest destiny then the left turned it into Tranafest destiny. I think we can I think we can make it great again. I really do. Steve Hilton, thank you. I love it. Thanks a lot. Bye. Thanks for the events. Thank you. There we go. There's Steve Hilton. Yeah, California. It is a gorgeous state. Man, the left takes nice things and they screw it up, don't they? They really do. We see that a lot. Our thanks to Steve Hilton.

We'll keep following the progress over there. Gavin Newsom. oh my God, that greasy guy wants to be the president of the United States. Keep him far away. Hey, I wanna get back to some other justice department type things for a moment with you. James Comey, who called for 86ing

the president of the United States, and he's like, well, I had no idea what it means. I just thought it was a random political message. Really? You happened upon 8647 on the beach written out in shells? Come on, stop it. You obviously were laying your goofy seven foot gangly ass on the beach, putting shells down.

Oh, look, 8647. Great. Comey broke his silence yesterday, and he went on, where else? NBC to talk about what was really happening. Here he is, cut six, take a look. You were back in the middle of a political firestorm. Yeah, for walking on the beach with my wife.

So I don't know how we ended up here. Never occurred to me that it was any kind of controversial thing, but that's the time we've been. Oh, shut up. So take me back to the walk on the beach we're walking on the beach we went to the beach to prepare for this week which was the launch of my book and to think about the book into prepared as to answer questions about it and we're walking back but the other the road and we saw in the sand someone had

arranged shells with numbers and the trace my wife said why would someone put an address in the sand and I said, I don't know and we stood over it I said, you know, I think it's some kind of address a political message And she said, you know 86 when I was a server She did a lot of work in restaurants meant to remove an item from the menu when you ran out of ingredients And I said well to me as a kid always meant to leave a place to ditch a place I said, that's really clever. These are his alibis. she should take a picture of that and I did and I posted it on my Instagram account and

Thought nothing more of it until I heard some people were saying it was some sort of a call for assassination Which is crazy, but I took it down. I don't even if I think it's crazy I don't want to be associated with violence of any kind. And if I think it's crazy, I don't want to be associated with violence of any kind. I mean, what a bunch of horse crap. You hear how many excuses he baked into like four sentences. He was like, we were just thinking about the book. My wife thought it was an address. She said that it meant to get something out of a restaurant.

I just thought it was to get rid of. I took a picture. I was smart enough to detect what 47 meant, but I didn't really know what the 86 men and I posted a picture. This is so contrived. This is like, I think I saw somebody in the chat indicate that it's kind of like a teenager trying to cook up an excuse for something that they clearly are lying about.

And that's James Comey, old slippery Comey, trying to lie on national television, doing it with a woman who is a loyal licks fiddle to the James Comey Segment of the world and she's just letting him do it, you know national tv. No pushback whatsoever How about what are you nuts? Aren't you an adult? Aren't you in your 60s? Why are you first of all, why are you even posting pictures of seashells on Instagram? Let's start there. Why are you doing that?

And that's James Comey. So Comey wants you to think there's really no problem here. There's, look, it's just silliness. I didn't mean anything bad by it. You know what's happened? You know what's happened since then? He has started a dangerous trend. Pull this up.

Dan Bongino, the deputy director of the FBI, posting last night, quote, "'We are now dealing with copycats, sending cryptic threats to public figures, using the 86 reference. Whether they turn out to be legitimate threats or not, taxpayer-funded public safety agents are gonna have to run these all out and investigate them. This is a reminder of the damage self-serving individuals,

he's talking about James Comey, ready? Self-serving individuals with a history of extremely poor judgment can do when they fail to control their impulses. So yeah, once again, kind of like a teenager, an impulsive child, seven feet tall in his 60s, doing shell art on the beach and then posting pictures to Instagram

about how much he hates Trump. 86, 47, the adult man posted. And now the effect of that is not one to laugh at. The effect of that is now that he's inspired a whole bunch of other people to make these kinds of threats against the president of the United States and other government officials.

Way to go, James Flipping Comey. This is what you've done. No laughing matter whatsoever. So that's Comey's legacy. Comey keeps doing that. Also, you notice in that audio, he just kept talking about his book. He's like, oh, my book's coming out.

We're walking on the beach. I was thinking about my book and we were thinking about some book stuff and I thought maybe we should do something about the book And then the book came up when we were thinking about the book so For those of you who were suspecting that oh, this is just a book promotion tour Not an excuse to Go on the beach and post 86 47 though You know, I'm not falling into his trap by covering him

as the jackass that he is. He deserves that. But there you go. Saddam Bonjina with an important warning that the FBI has detected a lot of threats as a result of Comey's horrific behavior, whether it was to sell a book or not. Pretty gross.

Also Joe Biden's cancer diagnosis, we've heard from both the president and the vice president on this subject. I'll start with Vice President Vance because this has happened chronologically in that order. Vice President Vance heading back from Italy going to the Pope's mass over the weekend. Here it is, cut eight, JD Vance reacting to Joe Biden's cancer diagnosis. Speaking of Joe Biden, sir, do you have any thoughts on his diagnosis?

Yeah, look, I mean, first of all, of course, we wish the best for the former president's health and, you know, it sounds pretty serious, but hopefully he makes the right recovery. Like, I will say, whether the right time to have this conversation is now or at some point in the future, we really do need to be honest about whether the former president was capable of doing the job. You can separate the desire for him to have the right health outcome with the recognition that whether it was doctors or whether there were staffers around the former president, I don't think he was able to do a good job for the American people.

And that's... Yeah. Yeah. No, it was who was doing the job? Who was president of the United States? Now, President Trump has also reacted to this. I'll skip yesterday's reaction because I've got a new reaction from him this morning. President Trump is asking the core questions,

wait a second, when did they know about this diagnosis? Why was this being kept from the American people? And this morning in a visit to Congress, President Trump is trying to get the big, beautiful bill passed. So you're gonna see in this video in just a moment. He's standing alongside speaker Mike Johnson. But he says, hold up a second.

How many laws and pardons were signed by AutoPen at a time when Joe Biden wasn't even a functioning human being? And does that mean these laws are invalidated? Take a look here. I've got this on my screen. I've got President Trump standing along, Speaker Mike Johnson. Here it is.

I don't know what happened because Biden, look, it's a very sad thing what happened, but I really, we're gonna start looking into this whole thing with who signed this legislation. Who signed legislation opening our border? I don't think he knew. I said there's nobody that could want an open border. Nobody.

And now I find out that it wasn't me. He auto-pended. Who was operating the auto-pend? This is a very serious thing. We had a president that didn't sign anything. He auto-ped almost everything. He opened the borders of the United States of America. And I kept saying, who would do such a thing,

allowing criminals to border in from all over the world? Not just South America, all over the world. They came in from Africa, they came in from Asia, they came from the Congo. The prisons in the Congo in Africa, these are rough people. The prisons from the Congo are empty. You know where they are? They're in this country. Who would sign this?

Nobody would sign it. No sane person would sign it. No sane person would sign it you know sign it radical left lunatics that were running our country and the auto pen signed it and they didn't want him and they were disappointed in getting him because they wanted Bernie Sanders and then after about two weeks I said wait a minute this is a gift he'll do anything we're gonna use the auto pen yeah and they use the auto pen in everything.

He didn't approve this stuff because when Joe Biden was with it, he would never have approved it. You take a look, he would have never approved open borders. Go ahead, another question. The auto pen presidency, the auto pen presidency needs to be invalidated.

Ed Martin, the pardon attorney, the head of the weaponization task force in the Justice Department just told us on this program, you heard it here first, that he's looking in to all of these pardons signed by the auto pen by we now know a deeply unhealthy Joe Biden's presidency. Biden wasn't doing it. Somebody else was. We'll keep following it. Thanks for tuning in to Vince today.

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