The Dan Bongino Show - Don't Get Played By Their Latest Gaslighting Campaign (Ep. 2444)

Episode Date: February 3, 2026

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Starting point is 00:00:02 All America all the time. Sit down, buckle up, and get ready for the Dan Bongino show. That was hilarious. I know. He's like your mic's hot. Yeah, I know, I know. But I'm sitting here with producer Jim and Guy and the crew in the studio. And we've got a monitor right off my side here.
Starting point is 00:00:23 And I keep Fox on with the closed captioning. And I'm like, man, who's that dude with the face for radio? And it was this guy. it was me on Jesse last night. I guess they were playing a clip. I was doing some segment with Fox on body cams. You know, body cams on, because Christy Nome has proposed for DHS that these ICBP and others put body cams on.
Starting point is 00:00:47 So I'm trying to adjust that part. There we go. Nice. And I think it's a good idea because 99% of the time the police officer at the scene with the body cam or the federal agent winds up being completely indemnified. People do this all the time. This, by the way, totally not the beginning of the show at all. He's like, where is this in the elements?
Starting point is 00:01:06 It's not. I'm very sorry, but you know how the show is, guys. This is the damn bodgino show. We just rock and roll what's going. You're in the studio. It's fair game. You're on the monitor. It's fair game.
Starting point is 00:01:16 Even when it's this guy on the monitor. But body cams, I think, are great. If there are any police officers or agents in the chat, seriously, chime in. Like, let me know what you guys think. Because I love the idea of body cams. When I was a young cop in New York, we didn't have no body cams, they didn't know, nothing. That was 95 to 99, you know, walking the streets from 97 to 99.
Starting point is 00:01:39 And people used to make crazy allegations. This police officer beat the crap out of me. Beat the crap out of me. Beat the crap. I don't even know who you are. Now you just pull the body cam. All right. I can get back to the actual show.
Starting point is 00:01:50 He's like, please, focus, focus. You got a couple thank yous and stuff. Big show for you today. about 30, 40% of the stuff I had planned for yesterday's show. I couldn't get in at the end because we were loaded up, huge interview of President Trump, mega numbers yesterday. I'll get to that in a second. Look, it's 2026 and way too many of you are getting crushed by high interest debt.
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Starting point is 00:03:29 Tell me to get the time. Yes. Yes. Gosh, do I miss that sound? Yesterday it didn't sound as good because I'm not going to say we forgot, but we may have forgot. There was a lot going on yesterday, like a ton. There were people running around. There were people outside.
Starting point is 00:03:46 There was food deliveries coming in. We had more food in here yesterday. We could have fed like a standing army yesterday. We had our buddy Chucci next door at the Cuban restaurant, bringing in pastry. everybody's like 500 pounds now. It was a freaking smorgasbord in here yesterday. I wish you could have all come by and had a bite of these things. Did you see those pastries?
Starting point is 00:04:10 I bet the chucci comes through in the clutch, man. The Cafesitos are incredible. While we're thanking people, I have to thank you all. Yesterday was a monster show, despite the massive attack on Rumble trying to keep us off the air. And by the way, I don't know, did you guys read this? There was some like goofball story and political or something. And Dan Blanjino, who generally stayed away from conspiracy theories,
Starting point is 00:04:36 promoted a conspiracy theory that his show was attacked. Our show was attacked, you dipshits, it was a freaking DDoS attack. While I was on the air, are you freaking morons that stupid? It's not a conspiracy theory if it actually happened. Despite that, live search app, which is one of my favorite X accounts, they track all the live streams in the world. DB is back. thanks to you top live stream in the USA. Look at Numero Uno, 226,000 live streamers tuning in yesterday.
Starting point is 00:05:06 You guys are the absolute best. Love you guys, man. I really appreciate it. And you know, I said yesterday I had a lot of people to thank. I forgot a lot of people. I wanted, you know, when I was out there for the year, the past year, you know, cleaning up the bureau, locking up bad guys and doing what we got done, a lot of which you're going to hear about going forward to, not necessarily here, but the news and stuff, not all done yet. I want to thank a couple more people had a friend I had hired from the Secret Service. Fred, I'll leave his last name out. I brought over. He was acting as my chief of staff after Jimmy. And it was amazing. So thank you guys. Am I talking too low again? Okay, sorry, guys. I know the sound. I know we're working on it.
Starting point is 00:05:48 The studio, I've been out of action for a while. They're not used to be. Haley doesn't yell like I do. So we have to like work on compression and everything so I don't blow your eardrums out. So I want to thank all those guys and help me out. And also, you know, Ben Shapiro was really good to me when we were gone. So I appreciate that, Ben. And I appreciate also the security detail. It kept me alive the whole time. You guys were absolutely amazing.
Starting point is 00:06:10 And if you know, you know with the shirt. So thank you guys. Everyone who kept us safe and sound in a security detail. You guys are great. So yesterday we went through the past year of what we did, what we didn't do. Again, I promised you it's not going to be. like three years of here's the CV, but a lot of stuff we did were news stories that candidly I would be covering if I had done the job in the bureau or not. They're important stories that
Starting point is 00:06:38 we were a part of, some good, some bad, some indifferent, some just newsworthy. So a lot of things I wanted to talk about. But this is going to be an issue going forward. And again, I'm going to try to remove myself from the story now that I'm back in the political opinion commentary space. but it's hard. I mean, my experience is my experience and you can't unsee stuff. But folks, this is going to be, I don't know how you get, I don't know, top 10 problems, top five. This is going to be a top five problem moving forward.
Starting point is 00:07:10 We have got a really, really serious problem in this country. Listen to me, with a bifurcated justice system. If you fit the liberal stereotype of the screaming Karen in a suburban neighborhood, screaming about everything who wants, you know, to see men's penises in the women's room, then you're probably going to be subjected to a different justice system than guys like me or anyone else who subscribe to conservative or MAGA-based ideologies. You just are. We saw it in the justice system and going forward, it's going to be a big issue. You, if a crime happens in a specific venue in a liberal city, we've seen this stuff creep up
Starting point is 00:07:54 constantly. It is going to be a huge problem. I say that not to just present to you problems. Ah, here's a problem, whatever. But there is a solution for it. But the solution's not pretty. And many of you may not want to hear it. A solution is it's going to take a really long time to get good, high quality judges, magistrates. And I don't know, I'm talking about Republican Democrat judges. I'm just talking about judges who enforce the law in a nonpartisan manner. And I'm not indicting all of them, of course. There's some very good ones out there who, despite their politics, continue to do their job. No question.
Starting point is 00:08:36 But there is a limited group of people out there on the bench who they can't get past their politics. They just can't. The solution to that is not a quick one. Many of these appointments are lifetime appointments and they're not going anywhere. Meaning we have to go and do the hard leg work of elections where we get people like President Donald J. Trump, we get him elected who appoints people who are nonpartisan constitutional judges as the others by attrition filter out. It's going to take a long time. The left has been engaged in this battle forever. And we saw it during my time over the past year and you saw it in the news cycle. Check out this PBS story. I mean, I think we all saw this one. This was obviously an FBI investigation. FBI led. Federal judge sets back Justice Department's effort to seek new indictment against Comey.
Starting point is 00:09:28 Ladies and gentlemen, you know, not much you can do there. You can only do the investigation and present through the process, the information. If it gets stopped by a separate branch of government, it's a long, slow slog. That's why yesterday I was so. I mean, I think it's fair to say angry and upset bottled up for the last year about the doomerism who think like every problem is going to be solved overnight. It isn't. A lot of them are. And accountability is primary. It's the tip of the spear. But a sense of realism has to be too. Because stuff that's done fast on the judicial side is most likely done wrong.
Starting point is 00:10:17 You saw it again in this New York Times article with the Letitia James case. I mean, you got to remember, none of this stuff mattered for Donald Trump. Donald Trump was ruthlessly targeted by a weaponized justice system. And nobody gave a shit about the evidence. Matter of fact, it was that case up in New York with, it's funny that he was accused basically of a scheme, the fraud banks and electoralists of all this other crap where they, they bottled it into some crap case. And then the banks got on the stand.
Starting point is 00:10:46 And the banks, I mean, tragically, but almost tragically, comically, like, we're not victims here. We'd like to do more business with the guy. And they're like, no, no, you're a victim. No, no, I'm not a victim. You're a victim. But I said I'm not a victim. We don't give a shit, but you said, hey, I'm under oath. I'm not a victim. Don't worry about the oath. We just said, don't worry about the oath. You're not a victim. Doesn't this whole thing matter anymore? You see how there's two separate justice systems? Having seen a lot of this now from the other side, you know, I sent to you my last show. What was it called? See you on the other side? Well, now I'm back on the other side. Ladies and gentlemen, it's a real problem. But it is fixable. I'm not a doomer. I'm not a
Starting point is 00:11:26 black pillar. I believe in this country. We've been through a whole lot. I say it all the time. A revolutionary war, a civil war, the hippies, Vietnam. We've been through 9-11. We have been through a lot. And we are still the Lion King. That's it. We're sitting up there at the top of the but little what's his name what's the name little simba or something we're sitting up there at the top of the mountain with little simba that's the united states of america we kick ass and we take names sorry just like looking at the chat during the show that is us that is always us so i don't want anyone to get into this kind of dumer black pill stuff i promise the president and his administration know what they're doing but these are real problems we cannot
Starting point is 00:12:15 have two separate justice systems. But I do want to be candid about the headwins, ladies and gentlemen, because there are a lot of them. This president will not be stopped. I was glad to have them on the show today. Again, working for him was a totally different experience. People ask me a lot. They say to me, they go, Dan, was it, was it everything you expected? And I said, well, nothing's everything you expect, right? I think the only way I can I can sum this up is a lot of you are parents, right? In the chat, I assume 91,000 13 minutes in 91,000. Yes, yes.
Starting point is 00:12:56 I had to refresh my phone there. Nice. Jump from 40 to 91. A lot of your parents, right? If I asked you, hey, is parenting everything you expected? You can read a, Jim, am I right? You can read a thousand books. Jim's over sitting there off to the right, watching, observing.
Starting point is 00:13:15 judging, judging, judging, every time, always judging. I just want you to know that. He's also thinking about smoke meats. You can read every parenting book in the world. Come on, be honest. It's never what you expect. You are always going to get a couple curveballs thrown your way. Working for this president, even though I had known him pretty well, I want to exaggerate.
Starting point is 00:13:35 I mean, you know, not like we were coffee buddies, but we knew each other pretty well. This guy is just... Are you guys kind of... comic book fans. Like when I was a kid, I used to read the Marvel comics. You know, like Juggernaut. Juggerna can't be stopped. Like, he gets moving and no one can stop him. Like, I think the him and a Hulk fought or whatever. That's the president. He's a juggernaut. He may not have the helmet. Juggerna has this weird look at helmet stuff. He may not have the helmet. He's got the hair, but no helmet. Like, that's the president. He is not going to be stopped.
Starting point is 00:14:06 He is the Marvel comic juggernaut. He doesn't want to hear your bullshit. here's the here here here's that here's it here's his favorite his favorite question is very simple his favorite question with a question market is why i'm not sure we we uh you know we can do that i'm not talking about like unconstitutional stuff i'm talking about like why can't we save 500 million out of the fb i'm not telling you it was a specific conversation but as an example what if why not well budget's a little well why not well because well make it work find it he doesn't want to hear a bullshit ever and i love watching these media jerk wads who don't know this guy from adam have never met them they called them once on the phone talk about uh oh yeah my sources inside you got no sources inside
Starting point is 00:14:54 you don't got shit what the hell was that somebody just like sniper get us or something like that you don't know squat you don't know anybody in the white house some disgruntled 18 year old liberal got a job as an intern who brought the president's military military who brought the president's laid one time, a cup of coffee. Hey, let me tell you about my inside. You don't know shit. But this is why yesterday, I was so livid at the doomerism that's going on. Man, accountability is everything.
Starting point is 00:15:33 Yes, nobody should be like, trust me, bro. But we should also be realistic about results. Now, getting outside of the law enforcement bubble, I was in for the last year and talking about in general, this was an unbelievable year one. Does I mean, does anybody, anyone in the chat disagree? He's been in office a year. That's it. He's only been an office year. He's got three quarters of his term left.
Starting point is 00:16:05 Simple math. Jim, am I wrong? Four years, one down, three out of four. It's not even meat. three out of them. He's not even halfway done. He's not even close to halfway done. And yet the tally sheet of W's wins, results, accountability is freaking bananas. You're not going to hear this from the DOOMers. Everything sucks. Oh, it sucked. All they do is tell you what didn't happen. I'll tell you what didn't happen. You didn't do shit. That's what didn't happen. You sat
Starting point is 00:16:41 your fat ass complaining all the time on Twitter. Watching tentacle porn in your room, you loser, eating twinkies and ding-dongs. You didn't do shit. I didn't see you volunteering while he was racking up these Ws. This didn't happen. Well, a lot of things didn't happen that are going to happen. And some things that don't happen don't happen because they can happen. But you didn't know that.
Starting point is 00:17:09 This is all the stuff the DOOMers ignore for you. By the way, Dumaers, I'm talking about a lot of these liberal clowns, too. And media folks. All they want to do is crap on this administration. 107,000, nice. Not even 20 minutes in. Love you, I knew you'd be back. I knew it.
Starting point is 00:17:26 Bongino Army, man, you guys are strong. Guy, Wall Street Journal, Freeman article. Lock it up, Daddy, O. Here are some of the real records. Another nice surprise for the U.S. economy. Did we hear about this from the Dumers? Probably not. You know, I love economics.
Starting point is 00:17:45 I don't like to bury the show in it all the time. It's my passion. I know law enforcement is your passion. I got a lot of passions, okay? I love me some economics. Productivity is very simple. You know what productivity is? Productivity is stuff we produce.
Starting point is 00:18:00 And how do you get richer by producing a lot of stuff? That's just the way to wait. Wait, keep that up a second. When you produce stuff, you're really rich. What's the difference between us and the third world? We've got a lot of stuff. Other people don't have. It's not just jewelry.
Starting point is 00:18:17 It's cars. It's medicines. It's better office buildings. A capital infrastructure. Better banks. We're the best. The United States is the freaking lion king. This Wall Street Journal article by Freeman, hey, are we in a productivity super cycle between
Starting point is 00:18:34 AI and all this other stuff? Are we now producing more output? than we have at any other cycle of productivity enhancements in modern American history because of AI and everything else. The answer seems to be because there was a GDP bump and an unexpectedly high one, gross domestic product, what we produce, that yes, everybody smile. Dumers, I know you're pissed off. Like the GDP could be 5%.
Starting point is 00:19:02 The Atlanta Fed says next word. The Dumers are like, it should have been six, bro. I would have done shit. You don't know shit. shit about anything. Sit your fat ass down. You don't know shit. I would have been in there president. It would have been seven. Really? It would have been negative seven. Dumbass? AI, quantum, material sciences. Cancer research. Don't up that next one, gee. Do you have any
Starting point is 00:19:37 idea what this is going to do to add to our product? activity. Listen, I had cancer. It sucked. I got a sob story. A lot of people get cancer. If I had to go on Google reviews or Yelp, two big thumbs down. Cancer blows. Not a good time. Wall Street Journal, Lisa Finley. Technology's making the war on cancer winnable. Listen, these are POTUS, President of United States, President Donald J. Trump, Ws. These aren't Dan Bongino Ws. I'm not the president. These are Ws. He's creating an environment for explosive technology growth where people are seriously talking right now
Starting point is 00:20:19 about potentially beating cancer. It's been talked about forever. Think about it. Obviously, we don't want people to die, me included, Jim, what's the number one rule of the damn bunch of you don't show? How sharp is this guy? Don't get dead, kids.
Starting point is 00:20:38 It's the number one rule. I don't want to get dead either. He told me not to whisper. I just don't want to get dead. If people don't get dead, they can still produce, which adds to gross domestic product and productivity. Wow, Dan, that sounds sterile. It's true.
Starting point is 00:20:59 Nobody wants to get dead, but you can't work if you're dead. Why, Jim? Because you're freaking dead. Is it so liberals are like, huh? liberals don't understand economics at all if we beat cancer and you're not dead you can still produce stuff that's awesome and you're not dead which is a nice little Benny right Jim
Starting point is 00:21:26 you can answer he's paying you ain't paid that he's not blue tooth I'm boy ready but you show yeah he's working he's working I know Gie's like I know what you're gonna tell me you're getting ready to tell me I gotta take a break quick But, Key, I want to get to this last one. Ws, remember, this is for the DOOMers. The Podfather's back. I'm taking the movement back.
Starting point is 00:21:52 Been here running for office, been an activist since the Tea Party days. I'm not surrendering this movement to a bunch of dipshits, doomers, and black pillars. I'm not doing it. Ain't happening. I've been through a thousand of these fights, man. I've seen it over and over. Nope. Here's another one. We've been dealing with these jokers leading Venezuela for now over a decade,
Starting point is 00:22:18 ran one of the richest countries into the ground, into the ground. Drug dealers, commies, Chavez, Maduro. This was my last day on the job, and this was a notification I got, woke me up a little bit at, I don't know, 3, 4 a.m. But gosh, did this one feel good? He played that cut. now watching Nicholas Maduro and his wife Celia being flown to the Brooklyn Detention Center. We saw them fly past the Statue of Liberty. He was processed at the DEA headquarters here, and now he'll go to that detention center. You're damn right. Fly his ass right by the Statue of Liberty.
Starting point is 00:23:02 You see, that thing's called Statue of Liberty. Liberty. You don't know anything about that. That means like people are free and stuff, not like you commie assholes. been dealing with this guy forever. The boss, the potus, President Trump told our HRT guys and his secretary of war,
Starting point is 00:23:23 go get him. He was a criminal, and we got him. And now he'll be tried in our constitutional system and we'll produce evidence. And it'll take a while. And there's a process. But he messed with the wrong guy.
Starting point is 00:23:38 You see this FAA-FO stuff all the time. Honestly, we used to love it, Jim and I, but it gets played out a lot. But this is it. I know. All right. He's like, all right. On the other side is break. I want to talk a little bit about this Don Road Doctrums.
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Starting point is 00:27:40 So for the Dumers, this is your tutorial. It is, this has been an amazing first year. We talked about a productivity super cycle. You have any idea what this AI is going to do? Here's the short answer. No, you don't, because I don't either. All I know is if this thing doesn't blow us all up, it's going to be the most transformative thing since freaking electricity.
Starting point is 00:28:04 The war on cancer. Maduro out of power. Trump's like, what are we? We got an arrest more for this guy. Go get him. Yeah, but he's in Venezuela. I don't give a shit. Go get him.
Starting point is 00:28:14 Well, he didn't exactly say that, but you get the point. Because he, hold on a second. Sorry, listen on audio. I'm like the cold brew stuff. I can't get enough of it. It's like 20 degrees in Florida.
Starting point is 00:28:33 And I'm drinking cold, but hold on. Nice. He believes in the Don doctrine. You know, you had the Monroe Doctrine? Donald Trump's got the Donro Doctrine. He is not going to let anyone put a footprint in our hemisphere that wants to do really bad things to us. Oh, come on. People must have thought about this in the past. Everybody thought about it, but nobody did shit. Chavez, Maduro, none of them. Now, I, you know, I always have to, I kind of be careful when
Starting point is 00:29:14 I talk about national security for obvious reasons. I hope you understand that. I think you do. You guys didn't pay me to go out and like come out here and be some superhero, write a book like these other morons and, you know, blow up the national security picture. Let me give you all the secrets. Never going to happen. But based on stuff you can read in the public, I think it's fairly obvious, ladies and gentlemen, China, North Korea, Iran, Venezuela, Cuba, a lot of these countries have significant surveillance interest trying to surveil us, the threat picture is different. You have industrial control systems, you have the compromise of a grid, you have space-based threats, you have underwater threats. You can read all about this stuff in the newspaper from people
Starting point is 00:30:01 who've blown it up in the past. You have traditional threats, ICBMs, hypersonics, drones. These are not threats, many of them, not all, but not threats that exist. did in the 60s. And they definitely didn't exist in the 1800s. Donald Trump sees these threats every morning. This is a little inside baseball. We talked about it yesterday with the president himself. But everybody knows the president every morning gets his daily brief, the PDB, the president's daily brief. The principals and deputies around the government get roughly the same brief. Most of it's pretty much the same. Sometimes he gets very much. specific stuff for him. He's read in on everything. This is why I was saying about the media.
Starting point is 00:30:49 Listen, I am an avid firm, hardcore believer in the First Amendment freedom of the press, period. That's a full stop of route. But that doesn't mean you know anything. It just doesn't. I'll read these articles now after the experience I just had with these like national security reporters and all these other, you know, dip shits out there. And you got to laugh because you're reading the real information on the inside. And it's like it, it's like reporters saying zebras have no stripes. Like, of course they have stripes. Do you ever seen the zebra? They have no idea. I'm telling you, folks, whatever you think of the mainstream media, folks, whatever you think about them, the liberal hacks and goons in the media, it's 10 times worse. I'm not kidding. It's just
Starting point is 00:31:40 not like some clicky baity I don't need it I got no time for it I'm just telling you now having seen it is a thousand times or you will read stuff in the newspaper that is so categorically wrong and ridiculous you're like they got that from like a janitor in the basement of the whiteout here's a guy who does know the threat and I got to tell you it was an honor to work with him he's been a friend a long time but working with him was different, whether it was Golden Dome or other projects or working with his people. You all know our Secretary of War, Secretary Hankseth, an amazing guy, a patriot. But he understands, like President Trump, that we cannot allow things in our hemisphere
Starting point is 00:32:29 that we would have maybe 50, 60 years ago because the threats are imminent, they're acute, they're persistent, and they're here now if we don't get rid of them. What Secretary Hegseth also understands is that the days of the United States government having a monopoly over technology or over. We are going to have to work with private sector companies, drone threats, cyber threats, all of it. Folks, there's no way around it. You've got companies out there we may not like, but they've got trillion dollar budgets. And if they have assets that can keep us alive and prevent New York and D.C. from going boom, we have no choice. We don't.
Starting point is 00:33:11 Here's Secretary Hankseth yesterday in a speech he was given. I picked up as I was putting the show together. I love it, where he's talking about their cooperation with these private sector enterprises to get the best military technology possible in the hands of our amazing patriotic. Thank you to our war fighters. Check this out. Your building here at Merritt Island is a core function of the arsenal of freedom. You see, the arsenal isn't just about door kickers or guys dropping precision bombs
Starting point is 00:33:38 although we like those guys very much. It's not just about intel analysts and mechanics wearing camouflage. They're all important to our nation, to be sure. But look at the thousands of square feet that make up this production site, where you produce the next generation of launch vehicles and spacecraft, like the New Shepard launch vehicle and the Blue Moon Lander. I just had the privilege of also meeting with Administrative, Isaacman over at NASA. And your work here, along with his, will help President Trump
Starting point is 00:34:15 accomplish the national security policy objectives at record pace, including critical projects like Artemis. And you're exactly right. We're going to make space great again. I'm sorry, I'm not trying to do it. You know how people do that? They call them Pete to look like it, you know, like I know I'm, Pete. I'm sorry. I'm not trying to do that. I hate that shit. It drives be crazy. My buddy Johnny. It's Director Ratcliffe. So I hate that. I can't stand. It drives me freaking bananas. I'm trying. But let me tell you about my experience with Secretary Higsef. He, like Cash and others, who came into an agency from the outside. Cash had had some government experience, but was not an FBI agent before. It filtered down from the president.
Starting point is 00:35:12 This is the best kind of inside baseball I can give you. The most important question in the world, everyone was what everyone was instructed to ask and follow through. Why? He's another one. Well, we don't work with that company. Why? Well, we can't. Why?
Starting point is 00:35:27 Is it a real? No, it's not. We just haven't. He totally threw out and scrapped a lot of this stuff they had done in the past and said, why? Why are we doing that? Why do we have this footprint there and not that footprint there? And I'm going to tell you something.
Starting point is 00:35:42 I have the utmost respect. Listen to me. This is really important. Utmost respect for our war fighters. You know that. If you've been listening to this show, my greatest regret in my lifetime is not going into the military. It really was.
Starting point is 00:35:56 Staff Sergeant Williams, my recruiter for Marine Corps, the NYPD call with the cadet program. I wanted to go in later and the golden handcuffs in it. No excuse. I just, it kills me to this day. Nothing like war fighters. Nothing.
Starting point is 00:36:12 Nothing. There's no experience like it. You either did it or you didn't. End the story. But, but a thousand bucks. There's no way. But man, some of the people in the administrative bureaucracy at the top of the Pentagon had to go. They had to go, folks. We had this, a lot of this DEI stuff we found in the FBI was just infecting the Pentagon too. And I'm sure when the secretary's time is up and he's able to talk more, he's going to tell you that too. all these leaks that came out of Benegah, Pete Irons' jacket before he goes on me. Who the hell can't?
Starting point is 00:36:48 Who gives a shit? Do you remember? Like, that's a story? Like, they would never in a thousand lifetimes write that story about anyone appointed by a liberal president ever. It was just meant to try to discredit him. And I promise you, it's not working.
Starting point is 00:37:02 Let me just give you a little tutorial, too, for the media on these people why we're going to. By the way, just to keep everybody grounded. We're talking about the POTUS. It's been an amazing year. Amazing. But here's a little tutorial for the press. If you think you're going to get a Trump cabinet member fired by writing negative
Starting point is 00:37:21 bullshit stories with zero substance at all, let me just tell you right now, having lived it with absolute certainty, certainty, the best job protection in the world is liberal media zeros. What are you laughing? I haven't even said it yet, Jim. Liberal media zeros writing an article. demanding Jim Verdi be fired as the Secretary of Dan Bogito show.
Starting point is 00:37:47 It's the... I'm not kidding. If you want to ensure Secretary of the Dan Bogino show works the entire four years, right in our... Calls grow for Secretary Verdi to be fired.
Starting point is 00:38:04 The president ain't listening to you. The president doesn't give a shit about what you say. You think he doesn't know he needs to fire or not? here's how many shits the president gives about your what number is that jim that's a freaking zero he does not give a shit about what you say do you hear me Washington post new york times CNN msdnc whatever they're called now CBN bnbc i don't even know what the hell you call
Starting point is 00:38:33 yourself now mad cow all these other lunatics over there that's the greatest i would see these articles by the left wing media big uh dan bonjillo is going to be fired him. That's it. I'll definitely be here at a year now. There's no way he is listening to you. Zero chance. Like, this is this segment supposed to be about the W. It is about the W. But I got to pepper it with some of the folks. It's been bottled up for a year, man. No idea how much I've been dying to talk to you guys. But I told you when I put on that hat, you know, you work for the taxpayer. You got to shut your pie hole. That's it. It was hard, though. It's hard. It's hard. Wasn't easy.
Starting point is 00:39:15 Kim Strassel, you know, listen, Wall Street Journal is a huge fan of President Trump. I don't think that's a mystery, guys, ladies out there, you know that. So when they write an article about W's big wins for the Trump administration in what has been an incredible first year, you know it's legit. They're in no rush, believe me, to, you know, to polish up any aspect of the Trump administration, not that they need it. But the journal is in zero rush to do that. But Strassel wrote this piece a while ago.
Starting point is 00:39:51 When it came out, again, I was like dying. I'm like, damn it, I wish I was on the air to talk about this. But I saved it. I bookmarked a lot of stuff because I'm like, I'll get to this later when I get back on the air. I'll run through this pretty quick. But these again, for all the dooms, this is all the stuff. I guess you may have missed.
Starting point is 00:40:07 Don't up that piece, gee. Wall Street Journal, Kim Strassel, It's been an incredible year. There's a couple of screenshots I took from the peace screencaps. First one's about Doge. The federal government is now 271,000 employees lighter than in January. This article was written on Christmas Eve, December 24th. Now, Jim, what are the Duma saying?
Starting point is 00:40:31 You know it. Why isn't it two million? Holy shit. I get it. Everything this guy does, you guys have something to say. I understand. Nobody gets fired from the government, ever, except under this administration where they were like, hey, man, we're paying millions of government employees. I think we can do this a little leaner.
Starting point is 00:40:51 Can we start looking at some people? Elon's Doge people had a real impact. Here, here's the 18-year-old, you know, what is, Ben Jones for the Washington Post. He's 18 and a half. He's barely in school. He's writing an article, let me tell you about my experience. You don't know shit about Doge, Ben. take your twinkies and ding-dongs and go sit in a corner and sit your fat ass down you don't know
Starting point is 00:41:15 shit okay these doge people at the president's direction working with elon's crew came in and did a scrub of a whole bunch of agencies and found a ton of waste i can just tell you in my experience at the bureau i think we saved cash put the number out the other day something like three hundred and 17 million dollars. That's not chump change. We found all kinds of crap. We found like, it was like these, I don't know what you got like news subscriptions or something. It was like, here's like, Reuter analytics or whatever. I'm not, I forget what it was. I was like, how much does that cost it? I'm like, what's the last time someone open at to look at it? Uh, 1942? You're like, really? Folks, this is everywhere in the government. And again, it
Starting point is 00:42:07 goes back to the Dumeers. Like, oh, well, we could have fired more. Nobody's ever fired or let go anyone in the government, like ever. Trump administration comes in. We're now 271,000 employees lighter and growing. Those are fewer people you have to pay for in finance. You got happened. I get it, Dumers.
Starting point is 00:42:29 You could have done better. I know, I know. You could have done why you're, again, while you're sitting there, you know, playing Madden, 2026 or whatever. I understand. You would have done better. We get it. We know. There was a whole culture change when Donald Trump got elected and worked with Elon with the Doge guys. I saw it. I saw financial folks in the bureau and elsewhere and the Pentagon and elsewhere like freaking out. Like, oh, my gosh, we're actually going to have to justify a lot of these expenses.
Starting point is 00:43:01 Don't tell me what I saw. I saw it. And then when you've got to justify expenses, all of a sudden, crazy expenses start disappearing. Here's another one from the Strassel piece. Incredible first year. I wanted to cover this yesterday before the president came on. He just had so much to talk about. What about taxes? The Democrats wanted to raise your taxes. That's just a fact.
Starting point is 00:43:22 It's on my opinion, folks. The Democrats wanted the Trump tax cuts from his first term, the 45, to expire. They wanted him to go away. Well, the president wasn't having that. Got them extended. And he was Strassel. It spared the name. a massive economy harming tax hike on January 1st.
Starting point is 00:43:42 Yes, it did. I get it. Dumers, liberals. I totally understand. Well, I would have cut taxes. Again, you didn't do shit. Ass, seat, nothing. You did nothing.
Starting point is 00:43:57 You drank a can of cheap beer and sat there and do the empty can and said, I would have done different. You wouldn't have done shit. This is just the first year. You would have had your taxes go up dramatically. if these goon Democrats had their way. You'd be paying for probably a million more government employees. Here's another one.
Starting point is 00:44:19 Government red tape. We know how much everyone loves red tape. Everyone loves paying for lawyers, right? To fill out 5,000 government forms to dig a ditch in your backyard because of the waters of the United States. It rained. And 17 years ago it attached to a tributary that leaked into a river. So it's going to be a million dollars for the permit, Jim,
Starting point is 00:44:40 in your Texas backyard. Don't even think about smoking meats neck to that water pond. What is he nice? That was a real thing, by the way. I don't know. Here, President Trump's administration, first year.
Starting point is 00:44:54 Regulatory cuts. He promised a 10 to 1 deregulatory ratio. 10 rules out for every new rule they put in. But get a load of this. Here's what President Trump did. 646 deregulatory actions compared with five
Starting point is 00:45:09 regulatory actions. actions for a ratio of 129 to 1. That's a savings of $600 in an administrative burden per American. I get it. Liberals, media clowns. I understand.
Starting point is 00:45:28 Oh, we would have done bad. Again, you wouldn't have done shit. You would have written about it. That's all you do. Big people do big things. Little people talk about big people who do big things. Fact. This is just the first. year, year one. That's it. We're not even into like halfway through his term. You may say, well,
Starting point is 00:45:54 wow, Dan, that's an impressive couple things you talked about there. Maduro, war on cancer, productivity, super cycle, private sector productivity, working with the Secretary of War, government leaning out, red tape leading out, or taxes getting cut. No, I'm not even done. I still got a couple more to tell you about. Guys should be on Mount Rushmore. Is that even over yet? Not even done yet. Just start chisling. Start chiseling. Jim, you a chisler?
Starting point is 00:46:24 Put up that other one, the energy boom. By the way, for those who were new to the show, I know I drink funny. Can we demo that again, Guy? Sorry, put it back to the full screen. I'm not weird. My elbows don't work. You can see the scars.
Starting point is 00:46:39 I've had a thousand surgeries on them. I'm not trying to play a tough guy. I got tapped out a lot, the jit stuff, so I've had surgery on my elbows. I got arthritis. A lot of you were new. We've got 127,000 people here today. So some of them are new.
Starting point is 00:46:54 My elbows don't work. So I actually can't reach my mouth with the cup. So I've got to bend in weird contortions and directions. Sorry for the explainer, but that's true. So have fun with it, but that's how my body doesn't work like it used to. They're all like show muscles now. Except Nicole Wallace loves them. We'll get to that.
Starting point is 00:47:15 Don't let me go today without that story. She's like in love with me and MSNBC's the weirdest thing. I'm not dating you. Forget it. I'm not. Stop asking, weirdo. She's like obsessed with my shirts. Samarachio, you know, shirts are all. Here's some more for you.
Starting point is 00:47:33 POTUS wins in the first year. Rack them up, kids. W's left and right. Energy boom. You know, energy, like the thing we put in the gas tank, heat your house. It's like minus 20 in Florida right now. I had to turn the heat on for the first time. Even though we had heat.
Starting point is 00:47:48 I'm like, look at that. We got heat. Crazy. I've never used it before. Freaking pool almost frozen. over. I got there was salt in there. The U.S. is now producing 24.2 million
Starting point is 00:47:59 barrels of oil a day. That's a lot. So that's put in perspective. That's more than Saudi Arabia and Russia combined. No way. Yes way. And a hundred and eight billion cubic feet of natural gas a day as much as Russia, Iran, and China
Starting point is 00:48:15 combines. That's the Trump agenda. Not the damn bon jino. I wasn't the president. I just did the law enforcement stuff. I told you this show wasn't going to be all like FBI stories. We'll sprinkle them in. We'll have some fun with it, just like we did with my prior lines at work. But this is not that show.
Starting point is 00:48:33 This is a show about politics and culture and liberty and freedom and advancing the cause. And I can tell you right now, this guy in the White House, President DJT, is kicking ass and taking names. Those are facts. We are producing a shit ton of oil and natural gas. more than the biggest oil and gas producers in the world. Where do you read that story with the Dumers and the Lib Media? They're like, if I was in charge, I produced 27. You didn't produce shit again for the umpteen time.
Starting point is 00:49:05 Fat ass sat in the seat and did nothing. Smoking a cheap cigar, drinking a cheapo beer like the beer Homer used to drink into Simpsons and you do the empty can at the screen while doing the Leo Caprio Giffy. You know the Giffy? If you're on Twitter as much as I am, you know exactly what I'm talking about. But guys from the, thank you. You know what you're texting me right now. I appreciate the compliment.
Starting point is 00:49:30 You didn't do shit. Leo DiCaprio Giffy. You just pointed it to screen. The Trump administration did this. Not you. You just complain. Here's one more from that article. This is a doozy, and I lived through this one personally.
Starting point is 00:49:46 The DEI, which is a rotting, metastasizing cancer in the federal government. This diversity, equity, and exclusion. It's inclusion. No, it's exclusion because you exclude people you don't like. You have to fit a preferred category for the liberal narrative or they hate your guts. Trump administration dismantled government DEI offices and programs and forced new standards on federal contractors and bought actions against universities over the question of anti-Semitism and other things,
Starting point is 00:50:21 which is disgraceful and disgusting. And I know you know my stance on that, which we'll be talking about a lot, in case it's any mystery to anybody out there. Folks, the DEI culture change was profound from day one. Day one. I'll just give you my experience. Again, we worked under the Department of Justice,
Starting point is 00:50:42 the FBI, if you look at the FBI seal, the Department of Justice is on top. We're on the bottom, on her own seal. We worked for the Department of Justice. I was there, I don't know, a couple months or so. Media, of course, wrote a story about it because, you know, these leakers who I addressed yesterday, total scumbags inside the government. They leak everything.
Starting point is 00:51:01 They leak like, Dan Boad Gino drank a Diet Coke. I don't you drink Diet Coke. I didn't drink Diet Coke. I didn't sure that would have. But it would have. The DAG, the Deputy Attorney General Blanche, he put out this email, like, we're not doing pronouns in anybody's because people had all these. Well, you would get these emails.
Starting point is 00:51:21 Jim, I'm not even kidding. You get these emails like, uh, pronouns, like they, them, gee, shout. No, no, we're not doing that. We're not doing that. So Blanche was like, no, no, no, there's no, we're not doing no, but here's a, here's the liner. It'll be your name and said, like, your name and your title. Like, that's it. We're not doing like inspirational quotes in there.
Starting point is 00:51:39 You get some of these emails. And they'd be like, the wind bloweth over the South Sea. Get that shit off your email. It's a government email, you goofball. We don't need your inspirational quotes. Put it on your tombstone. The wind blow it over the South Sea with a rose gold. Get that shit off your email.
Starting point is 00:52:01 Todd was like, no more. I'm just telling you my experience. This was throughout the government. Secretary Higset over at the war department did the same thing. No, no, we're not doing this DEI. And then a bunch of whiners in the bureau started complaining. Oh my God, you're making us do a pull-up? Yeah, man.
Starting point is 00:52:18 God forbid. you actually have to pull yourself over a fence in a foot pursuit. Shit, I mean, who would need to do that? Leak it to the media. Making us do a pull-up. Oh, oh. My wife is 51. She does three pull-ups herself.
Starting point is 00:52:35 Probably could do five if all she did was pull-ups on. What were you? Oh, we got to do pull-ups. Oh, my gosh. Do you believe it? Then they leave, just some story leaks like, what Dan said in a meeting one time, you know, ring doorbells. And if you show up overweight and stuff, yeah, yeah, you know what?
Starting point is 00:52:55 You know why they said that? It wasn't exactly the quote. Because when you ask people in prisons who've attacked, engage in AFOs, assault on a federal officer or any officer for that matter, when you asked him in prison or elsewhere if they've been locked up, why they attack that officer or that person, they give the same answer every time. You know what it is? Because I thought I could take them.
Starting point is 00:53:20 That's why. This DEI stuff was a freaking cancer, man. An absolute cancer. Here, let's wrap this segment up about year one. I got a lot of stuff I want to get to, too, including Nicole Wallace's bizarre infatuation with my shirts. You like this one, Nicole? I can get you one. I know the guys.
Starting point is 00:53:53 Here was a tweet I put out a while ago, just quick. Again, this is just the president's first year. energy, war on cancer, productivity super cycle, taxes going down. What about this? Can you draw up that tweet? Whenever you guys get around to it, there you go. Hey, thanks, guys. I know how to chat will be like, leave the guys alone.
Starting point is 00:54:17 It's like a union for the crew here. I wrote this on my Twitter account a while back. Midterms are coming. The first year was for the record books. Friends don't let friends blackpill. Violent crime arrest double in Trump's first year. illegal crossings in U.S.-Mexico border plummet. President Trump brokers another historic peace deal.
Starting point is 00:54:36 Atlanta Fed doubles GDP to 5-something percent to GDP a 5 percent. You have any idea what 5 percent GDP is? 5 percent GDP, the economy doubles in about 14 years, doubles, like in real value doubles. Ah, don't worry about it. The Dumers, I could have done better. Yeah, sure, you wouldn't have done shit. Here's another one, L.A. Times. These are like massive victories for any administration that he's had so many the president.
Starting point is 00:55:06 They get lost. People probably forgot about this one. L.A. Times, which hates the president. U.S. overdose deaths fell through most of 2025, federal data show. Jim, who was the president in 2025? Donald Trump. That's so crazy. By the way, Brickhouse, thank you for these cups.
Starting point is 00:55:29 I'm not a big fan of plastic, so. Here's one last one, too, Wall Street Journal. United States, world's sole superpower again. Who's the president now? Donald Trump. Sir. They'll ignore all that. They could have done better.
Starting point is 00:55:52 Folks, I want to get to this next. I'm going to take a quick break. But in my year away from you all, and gosh, I can't say it enough, I really missed you. In my year away from you all, I had to keep my opinions to myself. I was not paid for that. I can't say it enough. And it's hard because, you know, a lot of life losers and grifters and stuff, I think they thought I wasn't coming back.
Starting point is 00:56:16 I don't know why they would think that. And I think they thought, oh, we'll just mess with them. Well, that's never really worked out for anyone, like ever. but some of the stuff I saw really, really like ate me alive inside. One of them I just saw the other day. So I want to get, I know you've heard this Billy Eilish thing a thousand times. And you know I don't do a lot of this like pop culture. So because I don't really care most of the time about this garbage.
Starting point is 00:56:41 But I got to do it. So I'll take a quick break. Our last couple spots for today's show. Folks, I am a big believer in dose. You know, I'll occasionally have some wine. on a date night with Paula or something like that. And, you know, cholesterol, I keep, I monitor my blood. I take my blood work every couple months or so.
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Starting point is 00:59:26 And I did it. I love Helix sleep. I got him everywhere. My daughter loves it too. Whether it was my time working in government or getting back behind the microphone. One thing that keeps me going to do a good night sleep, not only for mental clarity, but also for my physical health. Got to clean out all that glymphatic, all that stuff that builds up in your brain overnight.
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Starting point is 01:00:25 com slash Dan. Get 20% off sidewide and make sure you enter our show name after checkout so they know we sent you. Helixleep.com slash Dan. Good to see you guys back. So in the year away, again, I read a lot of stuff and I'd be like, oh, man, I want to to tweet about stuff so bad. And you know we don't do a lot of celebrity bullshit because nobody really I don't really care. And I say this, I say this regarding all celebrity political opinions. While I would rather have you on our side as a celebrity, like we want to get people
Starting point is 01:01:02 to vote for liberty and freedom and our ideas, right? It doesn't exclude you if you're a celebrity by any stretch. I get that. But I just don't put a lot of stock in celebrity opinions. for the same reason I don't put a lot of stock in media opinions, because they just don't know shit. So why would I listen? I mean, it's like taking a course in like endocrinology from a car mechanic. He may be a brilliant guy, most of them are, especially with these cars now. But they'll be the first to tell you, like, I'm not an endocrinologist.
Starting point is 01:01:32 You don't want me doing brain surgery. I don't know anything about brain surgery. The media and celebrities know absolutely nothing about national security or politics. Zero. So this happened the other day. I ran in. I'm like, guys, you got to pull this for me. You know this Billy Elish lady?
Starting point is 01:01:49 He's a singer, apparently. I guess she's got some stuff. Does anybody ever, by the way, is what happened to music? I've read a story about this yet. Does anybody like remember, are there any memorable songs anymore? Like, is there any stairway to heavens
Starting point is 01:02:01 comfortably numb before Roger Waters went crazy? Like, are there any of these songs that are like bedrock staples anymore? Silver Springs. What's a, What's the, I know she has that one famous song. I don't even know the name of it. If I heard it, I'd know it.
Starting point is 01:02:18 So Billy Highlish is at the, what was the awards? The Grammy Awards? Grammy. I'm sorry, guys. I honestly don't even know. Oscar's, who hell knows? That's how little I watch it is crap. She gets an award for like best life loser of the year or whatever it was.
Starting point is 01:02:35 I don't even know the categories. Dipshit of the decade. I mean, who that? I don't know. I don't know. I don't really care. So he's up there getting the award. And here's Billy Eilish. And of course, everybody was like in the screw ice mode. So here's what she said. These celebs, they kill me. This is just, this is hilarious for all the wrong reasons. Check this out. No one is illegal on stolen land. And yeah, it's just really hard to know what to say and what to do right now.
Starting point is 01:03:13 And I just, I feel really hopeful in this room. And I feel like we just need to keep fighting and speaking up and protesting. and our voices really do matter and the people matter. Guy, I love this one. I had them cut this. Yes, I didn't know where they were going to end it. I'm glad you actually let it go for a second. So nobody's illegal on stolen land. I'm not even sure I should do right now.
Starting point is 01:03:39 I got a recommendation for her. Otherwise, you shut the fuck up. Nobody gives a shit what you have to say. Just sing. Nobody gives a shit on stolen land. What is this one? I guarantee you. She has made no effort whatsoever to return her home
Starting point is 01:03:53 I know you've heard it a thousand times because it's just so it's almost become like a cliche. Just give it back. If it's stolen land, then just give your. Why don't you start? How about this? Hey, Bill, do you go by Bill? I don't really care. Bill, I got an idea.
Starting point is 01:04:10 You probably were, I don't know, 10 million, 20 million. I don't know. I'm not a singer. I don't know the revenue model. I know this revenue model. I don't know. She's probably worth 10, 20 million. How about you go out?
Starting point is 01:04:20 Don't even, tell you what I don't even turn over your house. I'm not even asking you do that. Take about 10 milly, go buy up a bunch of like lots, and then return them to the people you think they were stolen from. Well, I don't know who there's. Of course you don't. Nobody else does either. People die.
Starting point is 01:04:36 Tribes went to war. Indian tribes went to war. We went to war with the Brits. The French went to war in Indochina. It happens all the time. There is no such thing as stolen land. There is land people live on and there's land people don't live on. Okay?
Starting point is 01:04:50 This stolen land bullshit in the United States. Give it back. All these universities. They start off there. They do these university ceremonies and graduation. They're like, we're going to do a land acknowledgement. Here are 72 generations of people who lived here. Dude, a guy lived in my house before I bought it, dude.
Starting point is 01:05:08 I steal it from him. Do you have that? Are you people, morons? Bill, go buy up some land and just do a genealogy thing or whatever. Dig up the soil to see who's do a DNA test on 27 and me or whatever the hell it is. and just give it to, I'll tell you what, I promise you, Bill, I will do another segment on the show and extend mad respect to you. I will be like, hey, at least she's not a shit talker.
Starting point is 01:05:34 She won't do it. She's not, if that's illegal, it's stolen land. Actually, we have this thing called the law. You are illegal. If you violate the law to come here, by default, you are illegal. Give it back, Bill. Give it back. reminds me my friend Brian when they
Starting point is 01:05:55 brought him out a steak and a potato and he thought the potato was another steak so he gave it to my brother at dinner then he figured out that he was left with the potato and he gave away his steak and he said give it back give it back just give it back wait did she give it back okay this is a
Starting point is 01:06:14 statement from the tribe okay this is a live time update the Tongva tribe reacts to Bill Big Bell, remarks about stolen land. As the first people of greater Los Angeles Basin, we do understand our home is situated in our ancestral land. Elish, Isish has not contacted our tribe directly regarding her property.
Starting point is 01:06:42 We will follow up today. Yes, I love you, the member of the Tongva tribe. You guys are heroes. That is incredible. Please follow up and make sure she returns that stolen land. Brilliant. Brilliant. What's the Olinsky rule, right guys? Rules for radicals?
Starting point is 01:06:59 Hold them to their own standards. Show us the way, Bill. Show us the way. Here's another phony. I hate bullshitters. I hate it. And talkers who don't do stuff. Like, go do stuff or shut your pie hole.
Starting point is 01:07:13 Here's another one, Wall Street Journal. Mitt Romney, a guy, I got to tell you, I really can't stand. I'm like embarrassed. I voted for this guy. I mean, we really had no choice. It wasn't like the alternative was any good. But I got to tell you, like, of all the votes I've taken, like, this one's the worst. I didn't have much of a choice.
Starting point is 01:07:29 We were all kind of in a pickle with that one. It was like, remember I told you level 10 decisions, the shitty decision and the shittier decision, trying to find out which one? He was Romney back in December. I was still on the job complaining that he isn't paying off taxes. Holy Moses. Dude, just cut the check, just like Big Bill. Give your freaking property back to the Tongva's. We love the Tongva.
Starting point is 01:07:52 Give him back to Tongva. Give it back to the Tongva tribe. Mitt, there is a line on the IRS forms. We have shown it many times. You can donate to the, isn't there a website to make voluntary donations to the United States Treasury? A big mitt. Go for it, bro. You're like a trillionaire.
Starting point is 01:08:14 Just write the freaking check. All these rich assholes. Oh, my gosh, I should be paying. So pay them. Pay them. Here, get your ass out of the seat. Yes. Go to the website on your computer and just cut the check.
Starting point is 01:08:30 Dude, here's a pen. Stroke to check. Just, here we go. Just sign it. Hey, Mitt, if you want to cut a check to the studio, too, you can do that as well. You got a couple trillion bucks. I want to pay more taxes. So pay him and shut up.
Starting point is 01:08:46 Just pay them. Stroke to check. Freaking zero. I can pay more taxes. Do it. I'll give you a little. Tell you what, I promise, again, along with Bill, stroke the check and we'll cover it on the show. Listen, I got more on some of these media morons. Why is it on my mind so much, too? Because again, like when you see these stories from the inside and these perilous national security threats that are going on every day. And then you see how the media writes about President Trump, like he's some kind of a moron. And, have more information than he does. It's like really seriously, like offensive. Here's what I mean.
Starting point is 01:09:30 Again, I just want to be clear on this. But I said again twice. Again? Do you remember that? Do you remember that? We're bringing back all the oldies. Again? Again.
Starting point is 01:09:42 Norm MacDonald. Again. We got to play that clip. Line that up. We got to do that for tomorrow. I am fiercely protective of the media's right to speak out. Freedom of the press matters to me. It is paramount.
Starting point is 01:09:54 Tip of the speak. But again, that gives you the freedom to be stupid. And most of the time, unfortunately, you prove that axiomatic truth that you're going to be morons to be correct. We had President Trump on the show yesterday. This is a really quick cut. He was gracious enough to come on. I really appreciate it.
Starting point is 01:10:13 Working with him was amazing. But he said something yesterday. It was short. But there's a lot more there than I, then I, yeah, let me just play it. I'll talk about it. I'll say, Guy, play that cut. Yeah, yeah, to be respected. We did a great job.
Starting point is 01:10:31 We're respected all over the world. I spoke with China. He goes, very impressive, very impressive. I spoke to Putin. He goes, wow, that was something. And that's what we want. We have to be respected. Okay.
Starting point is 01:10:45 He's saying that for a reason. Now, of course, when you're a media moron, you've already written the story. The narrative in advance, but before the interview even happened, and you're already writing negative stories about President Trump. He's seeking approval from dictators. Morons.
Starting point is 01:11:03 Let me give you a little lowdown and dirty here. He does not care about the approval of dictators at all. He is a dealmaker who understands the net present value spreadsheet of power. He is totally transactional on this. He is getting briefed every day about existential threats from space, from the water, from sea, from land, from the electrical grid, everything. These are serious threats. And he understands that if these countries don't respect our power, it's kind of like,
Starting point is 01:11:39 what do we used to call it, but, you know, before I left, the Brock Lesnar theory of international negotiations. The reason Brock Lesnar, you know, I'm WWE, UFC guy, he's like six, seven, 400 pounds of muscle, the reason Brock Lesnar probably doesn't get into a lot of bar fights is because nobody wants to mess with Brock Lesnar. Nobody does. You see the guy walk in. They're like, wow. You take like fighter, even fighters don't want to fight him.
Starting point is 01:12:06 Trump understands that if we don't project power, serious power, whether it's to a military budget, whether it's through this surgical operation on Maduro. And these countries don't respect us. they're going to do exactly what Putin did with Ukraine, which is invade, or maybe that can invade the continental of the United States, obviously, but take some kind of hostile action towards us. I've heard him talk. He's not saying that, again, it just shows you how the media frame,
Starting point is 01:12:41 like the framing of things, how they frame things to constantly take pot shots at this guy. He's saying it for a reason. He talks to these. these leaders completely different than you all hear in the public discourse. You don't respect him in the United States. You're going to get a tongue lashing. And you've seen it in the Oval Office.
Starting point is 01:13:04 By the way, we'll see what happens with Gustavo Petro from Columbia, who's at the White House today. I don't think they're doing anything publicly. But Petro better get his act together, too. I'm telling you, the president is in a, I take zero shit mode. Here's why, though, put that Wall Street Journal article up. Here's why we need to be respected. I know again, the media,
Starting point is 01:13:26 he's kissing their, you don't know anything, morons. Folks, the AI and cyber attack threats, I was going to address this at the end of the show, but I'll address it now. Again, speaking in just high-level atmospherics, this is real. It's not a joke. It's not the future.
Starting point is 01:13:46 It's the now. These are very, very real threats. I've been discussing it on my show before I went to my job, you know, the bureau job, and now that I'm back. These are very real threats. Some of them are mad type threats, mutually assured destruction type threats. If these countries do not respect us and do not fear President Trump's ability and willingness to respond, you don't want to wake up one day with the lights out.
Starting point is 01:14:18 trust me you don't so you can have 18 year old benny jones at the freaking washington post taking a break from his tentacle porn routine to write about his national security ideas or you can take the word of the president who's dealing with it every day i'll take the latter folks the threat is 360 degrees it's up it's down it's underwater it's everywhere the president is dealing with level 10, level 10 decisions every day. I talked to you about this yesterday. When you're at that level, everything that comes to your desk is a level 10 decision. Everything.
Starting point is 01:15:03 There's a shit decision and a shittier one. That is it. Every single level one through nine decision is already being solved at the assistant director, deputy assistant director level. If it's at your desk, it's a level 10. there is no good answer, period. Go release this information on this guy, knowing he may flee or don't release it,
Starting point is 01:15:28 then he does another crime. That's just a really simple overview, but that would happen all the time. What do we do? What's the answer? The answer is you better use your best judgment. The president is dealing with the level 10s, even his principals and deputies and cabinet members can't fix.
Starting point is 01:15:46 I'm not telling you accountability as it matter, media people. I'm not telling you anyone's above criticism. I'm just telling you maybe you should know what you're talking about. Before you constantly harp on every little word, the guy says, you know he speaks in a very discursive manner. Here's another one, the South China Post article. You understand the economic war going on right now against the United States?
Starting point is 01:16:11 They are trying to uproot our dollar as the reserve currency. You have any idea what would happen in interest rates if that happens? Folks, your mortgage would be 17% again. You have any idea what's going on with? that? Listen, I don't, I'm a principal guy on this stuff. I'm not, I got to tell you, I've always told you, I'm not a huge believer in tariffs. But having seen how the president implements the tariff agenda to use it to get back to a free or more fairer trade environment, I get it. He was his true social post the other day on tariffs with India. There's the China article you can
Starting point is 01:16:45 see trying to take away our reserve currency status. And the true social post he put up about Prime Minister Modi of India. He's using these tariffs as a strategic trade weapon to get us back to freer and fairer trade and to conduct diplomacy. You don't have to agree with it, but let's be honest, all the dumerism, I was not a tariff guy, folks. Listen, you go listen to my shows. I've just put in tariffs in the search box.
Starting point is 01:17:12 I've talked about a lot. It was wrong. The economy's going to collapse. It's going to be negative 5%. That's bullshit. It was actually 4%. They're projecting 5% next quarter. It's just the facts.
Starting point is 01:17:24 I don't avoid facts when they're inconvenient for me. I just can't have a lot of this negativity, guys, sapping everyone's energy, accountability, transparency, of course, hold everyone accountable, ask questions, asking questions is the guiding ethos of liberty and freedom. But my gosh, man, like, let's have a realistic assessment of where we are and what we've done so we don't harm our own cause in this fruitless, cannibalistic endeavor to eat our own people alive.
Starting point is 01:17:58 The Dumers are taking advantage with the liberal media. They're like best buddies now of an effort to sabotage this movement from the inside. I have seen it. There's a lot of influence campaigns going on to fracture this movement from the inside. And the liberal media loves it. Here's a Hollywood reporter piece about it. Maga Civil War. They're not going to be a civil war.
Starting point is 01:18:21 Civil War. Taking this movement back, not the only one. It's not my movement, a part of a movement. Maga versus Maga, who's reading the right-wing media meltdown? You see how these liberal media people, they love this. They love every second of it. And what I used to say on my radio show, in my podcast before I left, when your enemies, he's the Hollywood reporter elsewhere, are writing about your things and they're doing something you want them to, you don't want, they want you Like, don't get in their way. When your enemies are screwing up, like, don't stop them. That's what they want.
Starting point is 01:18:57 That's why they're all buddies. They, like, quote each other. You've seen it over and over again. This is why this matters in the midterms. Well, of course the midterms matter. They're elections. No, they really matter. If we lose these midterms, this president will be impeached.
Starting point is 01:19:15 And the last two years, all of the great stuff, this is the setup here, I just told you about, spent the last hour talking about. The economy, energy, GDP growth, war on cancer, productivity super cycles, national defense, crime rates, GDP explosions coming up. All of this stuff I told you about is going to be dunzo, man. We're going to be dealing with an AOC-led impeachment for two years and a bunch of goons every day on TV. Mr. President, do you drink a diet, Coke? I promise you it is going to shut down everything.
Starting point is 01:19:48 I'm going to lose all the chairmanships. We cannot sap the energy out of the room with an unreason. domestic, dumer-like atmosphere that nothing's happened when it's happened. I want you to watch this Harry Anton clip. He's a pollster over at CNN. Talk about the midterms and why they matter. It's not just House of Representatives and Senate seats, third of the Senate's up, the entire House, obviously up every two years,
Starting point is 01:20:12 House of Representatives. It's not just about that. There's a long-term realignment coming. That's going to be really good for the Republican Party. But it's not going to be good if in the short-term, term, i.e. this election cycle, we don't get through this. Check this out. I'll explain on the other side. Now, this isn't just about the House of Representatives, right? It's also about the electoral college, because the number of electoral votes that each state gets is equal to the number of
Starting point is 01:20:38 senators. Each state, of course, has two plus the number of house seats that they have. So what would this mean for the House of Representatives? Well, if you remember back in 2024, right, it was all about, we were talking about the blue wall of Kamala Harris could win the baseline Democratic states and then add in the blue wall states of Michigan, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, she would get to 270 electoral votes. But if all of a sudden we, in fact, have applying the 2025 estimates, the population estimates to the electoral college,
Starting point is 01:21:11 the blue states plus the blue wall of Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin would no longer be enough. Under the current estimates, you get to exactly 270 electoral votes, the minimum needed to win the electoral college. if in fact you apply the 2025 estimates, look at that. You only get to 263 electoral votes if you were a Democrat, which would mean a Republican victory. Now, of course, we're still a number of years away from reapportionment, right?
Starting point is 01:21:38 We take the census come 2030. But what we can say so far is we got a red state boom going on, a blue state depression going on, people moving from the blue states to the red states. And if it holds for 2030, we'll, would make the Democratic nominee for president's job of winning the electoral college that much more difficult. Folks, I get it. It's CNN, but I got to tell you, like, this guy's perspective, I don't, I judge information, okay?
Starting point is 01:22:07 That's it. Harry Enton's information is absolutely accurate. Let me sum up what I'm about to tell you. The long-term trends for the MAGA movement, the Republican Party, and the conservative movement in general are spectacular. Why? Why? Because people are moving out.
Starting point is 01:22:24 I'm going to test Jim here. Jim, get ready. I'm going to see how sharp you are. We're going to see if Jim is in radio mode or if he's like a little foggy and needs some cobwebs. Jim, a lot of people are moving out of blue states. Why are they doing that? It's too expensive. No people.
Starting point is 01:22:42 Freaking blew it. You believe this guy? Holy Moses. He blew it. The answer, Jim. Get on there. Yeah. Show him.
Starting point is 01:22:50 The answer? because they want to. Come on. Are you guys in the audience to do that? He blew it. Totally blue. Why are they moved?
Starting point is 01:23:00 Because they want to. No, he is right, though. Sorry. I was a test. It was a test. Sometimes you blow it. Blue it. Everybody defined out.
Starting point is 01:23:07 It was like a union and the check. The McGrohons get very upset. Jim's their buddy. I love you, McGroins too. I love it because they want to. People are moving. So let's break this down.
Starting point is 01:23:17 What Harry Anton is saying. First long term. 2030, which by my mind, counts a few years away, a couple election cycles. By 2030, so many people are going to move out of blue states because they, thank you, because they suck because they're led by, you know, hair gel over in California. And by the way, Gav, you're welcome for cleaning up your cities when you wouldn't do it. I know he attacked me on Twitter when I was there.
Starting point is 01:23:43 I went back at him a little bit with my FBI account, but now I can go back. You're full of shit. You're welcome for cleaning up your cities for you. You got it. So you got hair gel out in California. You got OZemPEC out there in Illinois. I mean, you got these, this total goon squad. You got big Gretsch out there in Michigan and stuff.
Starting point is 01:24:04 People are leaving these places, Illinois and California. Not so sure about the Michigan population trends. But Illinois, California, Kathy Hochel up in New York, and they're moving conveniently to states, these guys, people are leaving. and they are moving conveniently to red states led by conservative governors, the great state of Florida, Texas, Tennessee, and elsewhere. It's not an accident.
Starting point is 01:24:30 People are leaving your liberal bullshit and moving to conservative states. You can argue all day correlation, causation, why they're moving. The fact is they're moving. Long-term trends. So the way the House of Representatives works is every district is roughly 700,000 plus people. If you fall below on the 10 years, they do it every 10 years, the reapportionment, if you fall below a certain threshold, whatever it may be, 700, 680, whatever it may be, you know, that's a particular year, you lose a house seat. And why are they losing a lot of
Starting point is 01:25:09 house seats? Because people are leaving your states, dude. The U-Hauls like, you can't even find a damn U-Haul. and they are moving. Now, given that every House of Representatives seat is based on representative population, as red state populations explode, they get more members of Congress. That's what Edin was talking about. But it's not just congressional representation that changes. The electoral college, how we win the presidency,
Starting point is 01:25:39 getting to 270, 270 electoral votes, that is based on your two senators, every state gets two, obviously, and your number of House of Representatives. So whatever you have, whatever, 29, 30, you add two in the two centers. That's your 32 electoral votes. You get places like Florida, Texas, Ohio, and Pennsylvania that start turning red. The Democrats don't have a mathematical pathway.
Starting point is 01:26:03 That's what he was talking about with the blue wall long term to win the presidency. It's just pure math. It's not there. They just don't have the math. Long term sounds great. The problem, as an infamous economist once said, is in the long term, we're all dead. We live in the short term and we live in the now. And we've got elections coming up like now, like this year.
Starting point is 01:26:31 We have got to get through the short term first. Folks, we cannot have. I'm not telling you to not hold people. I can't say that enough. It keeps everybody on their toes, me included on the show. I'm just telling you we have to be realistic about this first year. There were 100 wins for every four or five. I don't even call them losses, but things that are taking a while.
Starting point is 01:26:59 I don't want people out to go, oh, man, I'm not voting, nothing got that. That's bullshit. And you know it. We have got to get through this year. Because if we don't get through 2028 this year and get to 2030, we can be in a lot of trouble. We cannot deal with another BS impeachment. They're going to impeach it for anything. He tied his shoes wrong.
Starting point is 01:27:24 We don't really like that. So definitely a high crime and misdemeanor. You know what's going to happen. The country doesn't have time for it. I just told you they were really persistent, deadly everyday national security threats, economic threats to the dollar, trade war threats.
Starting point is 01:27:39 We don't have time for this. Right. This show's been really serious today outside of a couple damn bonjino comedy breaks or whatever but I definitely need to lighten this one up a little bit I told you I wasn't leaving today without the House is just breaking news on Fox
Starting point is 01:27:59 House is holding a test vote on that government spending bill you know we're in a partial government shutdown over DHS funding by the way we've held over 100,000 people for the last hour and a half or 115,000 that is unbelievable I love you guys so much, really. I mean, I feel like I know so many of you. Thank you, guys.
Starting point is 01:28:21 In the chat, thank you. I really appreciate it. It means the world. I will never take you guys for granted. Look at me. Falker, look at me. See in the movie. I love you guys.
Starting point is 01:28:33 Best. Here's that story I was telling you about before. This freaking weirdo on MSNBC is like in love with me. Nicole Wallace, now that I'm back, Nicole Wallace goes off. on freaking joke, Dan Bogino, colon, where's T-shirts that are obviously too small?
Starting point is 01:28:52 Zachary Lehman, Mediye, this was December 28th. Nicole, I'm not, again, you can stop asking. I'm not going out on a, we're not going to Nobu on a Friday night for some Wagyu hot rock steak. It's not happening. I know you've got this quiet little kind of boiling bunny obsession. I get it. We know you're a weirdo.
Starting point is 01:29:15 We get it from your 20 listeners on MSCBNBNBC. What's it called now, by the way? MS now, MSN-O-W. I get it. Nikki, the answer is no. Sweet cakes, I'm not going out on a day with you. I know you're constantly commenting about my shirt size and whatever so. I don't know what else you go.
Starting point is 01:29:45 I am not doing it. The answer is a flat, no. I don't know what size this is, but I promise I'll make it smaller for you tomorrow. There are people out there who cannot get me out of their heads. I see them. They can't stop. I said to you yesterday,
Starting point is 01:30:04 the greatest superpower in the world is the power to command attention. I learned a lot of lessons about that over the last year. That's why Trump is so powerful. No one's got a bigger microphone. It's the greatest superpower on the world. I'm not kidding. Even more powerful than I think the presidency. That's why he has both, is the power to command attention.
Starting point is 01:30:23 And my enemies, man, do I have yours? You just can't stop every day. I'm not going to tell you I hate it. It's good for me. But I don't solicit it either. Every day. Stu Thompson reached out yesterday, right? From the New York Times reached out to producer Jim for his 10,000 piece on Dan Bonino.
Starting point is 01:30:42 This guy, I better be in your will, Stewie. So Jim sent him back a response. And I noticed he only put, Jim, what was the response you sent back? You have that on your phone? Yes. What did the response say? Do you remember? He wanted some, he's like, Dad, I think you have a lot of enemies.
Starting point is 01:30:58 Whatever. Yes. Thanks to the question. Go fuck yourself. Yes. Thank you, Jim. That was the exact quote. It was like, thank you for reaching out.
Starting point is 01:31:12 Go fuck yourself. We're back. And he puts in the article in the New York Times, Dan Bonino's spokesman responded, we're back. No, no, that's not how we responded, Stu. You can share the email. You can put the go fuck yourself in there, too. They can't stop.
Starting point is 01:31:25 So to the Bongino Army, the McGrengue crew on my staff. That's it. That's the email. Jim was nice enough to not the oxys email. That is the exact email. Do you guys have that ready to go? Thanks for the questions. Go fuck yourself.
Starting point is 01:31:39 We're back. There you go. Stewie. Stewie. Does he have pronouns in there? Zijiao? Did he have him in there? And he's like, we don't care.
Starting point is 01:31:49 Well, actually, we do care. We just like, you guys are like obsessed with. Like, we don't spend the second thinking about Stewie. We use them for show content. But they can't stop with us. Nicole, his shirt size is too small. Why are you thinking about that? That's kind of weird, isn't it?
Starting point is 01:32:06 Besides, I was joking. I'm from Queens. Everything runs small. Smediams. Here was one I saw when I was in there, talking about before how these clowns and jokers, they will write a story about anything as long as my name is in it, because they know there's money to be made.
Starting point is 01:32:25 It is just an entire clickbait enterprise written around the whole Bongino-ink operation here. Put up that Washington Post article. This one, I rarely laughed about stuff because it was a serious job. But this one, this headline was freaking hilarious. I read this in the Washington Post. It's a real story, by the way. This was December 12th of last year, so not that long ago. Washington Post.
Starting point is 01:32:51 Secret meeting. Jim, secret meeting. Secret. The real headline, folks, if you're listening on Apple, Spotify. Secret meetings between FBI and Ukraine negotiators spark concern. Wait, keep it up. I've got to read the subheadline. Director Cash Patel and his deputy, Dan Bongino, met with the top-piece negotiator,
Starting point is 01:33:10 and a pressure campaign, end of war. I read this. someone sends it to me. I'm like, secret meeting. I'm like, the meeting that was on my public schedule, you can probably for you that was attended by, and I think the
Starting point is 01:33:26 Ukrainians took a picture. Like, what the fuck? Can you guys? Are you guys? Just to be clear, to the Washington Post dipshits that wrote that piece, who's on that? What's his name? Like, is that, is that the Benny Jones we were talking about before? Or Brian Jones or whatever that.
Starting point is 01:33:42 Whoever wrote that piece, do you guys like do you think the FBI like God forbid Jim you think the FBI is an interest in meeting with foreign you know law enforcement folks and everything just throwing that out there a little bit maybe happens probably met with about 20 30 foreign partners about law enforcement stuff the Ukrainians are there we had a meeting about like drones and the threat and stuff they took a picture it was on the schedule there were like interpreters people that are secret here's the best part The meeting wasn't even in the secret part of headquarters. It was in like the dining room. These people are such clowns. Who is it? John Hudson, Sia Bono Grady, El Perry Stein.
Starting point is 01:34:27 Perry Stein's back. Secret meetings. This is why, like, reaching out for comment. Like, I don't have any. How do you argue with stupid secret meetings? Secret meetings. I love that thing, too. Acting like I was negotiating a peace deal with Ukraine.
Starting point is 01:34:42 Folks, listen. for as important as my job was, and I'm very proud of it. I was not negotiating a freaking peace deal with Ukraine. I'm not Marco Rubio, Secretary Hankseth, or the President of the United States, Donald J. Trump. Hey, Dan, can you negotiate the end of the war in Ukraine? You know, I don't know, Mr. President. That's kind of, do you think he, what, I love my job. It was a great job.
Starting point is 01:35:06 Loved every minute. Do you think, no, whatever. Can't even take this shit no more with these idiots. Remember, though, yesterday I was discussing with you how they set up these media narratives, too? This was another example when I was in there of how exactly this went down. Here is my good friend, the great Julie Kelly, who I'd love to death, who has done so much on J6 and elsewhere. Julie put out this tweet. I read this media report.
Starting point is 01:35:35 It was in the New York Post. And they're like, FBI whistleblower. By the way, anyone they declare an FBI whistleblower, you better be sure, like, some of them are, some of them are. you better be sure like they're blowing the whistle on stuff because read their backgrounds a lot of them. A lot of these new like FBI whistleblowers are Ray and Comey era people who are just looking to sabotage this whole reform agenda. So there was this piece that came out in the New York Post and they were like, oh my gosh, we don't like cash a Dan, boohoo, bobble. Oh gosh, whatever. More wine and more bullshit.
Starting point is 01:36:08 So Julie, of course, started going through their key findings of these quote whistle. ballers, this total clown show who were just pissed off that me and cash had to, you know, let people go and, you know, 10% of the workforce turned over. A lot of just didn't like our leadership and our new agenda. Well, too bad then find a new job. They noted, according to multiple sources across the country, members of the FBI workforce responded negatively to very negatively to orders compelling them to assist ICE with locating and taking into custody illegal immigrants for D.E.E. portation out of the United States. To all the good guys who did the work, great. To all the bad guys, thank you. To all the bad guys who whined about it. Here's another one. Thank you for highlighting
Starting point is 01:36:54 this. They know, and this is the whistleblowers, by the way, the Ray Comey era disgruntled the zeros. That nobody at the FBI knew anything about ICE rules and regulations. FBI management, us, responded by telling FBI agents to let ICE take the lead. This is an actual whistleblower thing. Hey, we didn't know shit about federal law and immigration. You're the freaking FBI. It's the Federal Bureau of Investigation. You do not, you're not independent.
Starting point is 01:37:25 You want to be independent, whatever your name is. Your name's John Smith. Go start John Smith, Inc. You don't like John Smith, Inc. You want to work the FBI? The FBI works for the Department of Justice, who is headed by an attorney general picked by the president, confirmed by the Senate.
Starting point is 01:37:40 The Department of Justice falls on. under the executive branch, under the president of the United States. There were criminals in the country who were here illegally. Cash and I at the direction of the president and the attorney general said to our guys, we are going to help get these people out because we're the freaking FBI. What do they do? They go whining the New York Post. We didn't want to do it.
Starting point is 01:37:59 We didn't know shit. Well, you better get to no shit because this is what we do. And you're damn freaking right. We were going to help in that endeavor. And that's why the violent crime rate is the lowest it's been in American history. and the murder rate plunge. Because a lot of these people who are here doing really bad shit were here illegally. Whistleblowers.
Starting point is 01:38:22 We don't want to do my stuff. I don't give a shit. And thank you to the guys and ladies you did. You did an amazing job. There's a small group of malcontents. We don't like the immigration agenda. Nobody gives a shit. Run for president yourself.
Starting point is 01:38:45 You can appoint a new attorney, I love how the media ignores all. I cannot believe they allocate. And by the way, the allocation of FBI agents we used to assist in getting illegal criminals and rapists and drug dealers out of the country was very reasonable compared to the entire workload dedicated to CT, counter espionage and other things. And the numbers back it up. Counter espionage arrests were up.
Starting point is 01:39:16 Counterterrorism arrests were up. So you can shut the, you don't know what. What you're talking about, these media goopause, clown whistleblowers. What did you think? I wasn't going to come back on the air and call you morons out? We didn't know anything about immigration. It's your freaking job to know things. That one was hilarious.
Starting point is 01:39:36 And thank you, Julie, for picking it out. Did we have another one on that? That whistleblower thing? Wasn't there another one? Yeah, there is. Okay, thank you. Here's another one. Ray Comey, you're a malcontents.
Starting point is 01:39:51 All pissy about how new management was there. You don't like it, quit. I left the Secret Service. I went and ran for office. That's fine. You don't have to stay. You're working for the taxpayer. I'm not working for you.
Starting point is 01:40:03 I don't like doing immigration. Good. Find him the freaking job. Here was another whistleblower complaint in this New York Post piece that cover this. They note that diversion of personnel away from national security mission. By the way, that's totally made up an absolute bull. shit on its face. But here's the quote. Wait, put that back up again. I want to read the quote. Yeah, there. If left unaddressed, this will lead to cascading national security threats.
Starting point is 01:40:31 Oh, my God. Ultimately compromising the security of our country. Another source, by the way, they never named themselves, similarly reported, diverting FBI special agents in this way will harm our national security and serve as an additional blow to the FBI. Counter-espionage arrests or up counterterrorism arrests were up the violent crime rate which is a national security problem is the lowest it's ever been the homicide rate is the lowest it's ever been gang arrests were up 764 child these people who terrorize our children in this sick network we're up you guys are just full of shit you don't know what you're to do you know how many man hours we spent cash and i in the director and deputy director's conference room, strategically water ballooning and moving manpower
Starting point is 01:41:28 around to make sure we got all of the missions done the right way? Clowns, man. Total clowns. But it's like I said yesterday, and I'll wrap up with this. Folks, when you're at that level and you're at the president's level, the president is dealing with level 10 problems every day that people in his cabinet and his principles and deputies, even they didn't have an answer for. The guy's got a lot in his plate. This is a republic. You are free and welcome to comment on anything you want to comment about
Starting point is 01:42:07 as long as you're not breaking along threatening someone's life. That happened to me, by the way, when I was in there, which was weird. I got me out of security detail. Freaking weird. A lot of weirdos came out of the woodwork. I'm just telling you in the context of this show, This has been an amazing year. Can you do things better?
Starting point is 01:42:26 You can always do things better. But perspective and context matter. The guy, the president, is dealing with massive headwinds. Judicial nullification, jury nullification, a Democrat party that wants to see this guy impeached for nothing. I mean, for zero, just going to make it up. He's dealing with a bunch of blue state governors. don't want to help him do. Matter of fact, they want to see him fail.
Starting point is 01:42:55 He's dealing with a lot. And this year has been epic, epic. And there's more to come. Not just from him, but from his FBI, his CIA, and everyone else. He does not pick his people by accident. Nothing happening is happening by accident. I told you many times, just because you don't see something's happening, don't mean they're not happening. And when a lot of those things you say aren't happening happen, you won't even eat the crow.
Starting point is 01:43:26 You'll just move on to something else. It's been an amazing year. Amazing year. I hope everyone is getting ready for the midterms now because we can't lose them. By the way, you know, Haley, our great host at rumbull.com slash Haley, Haley, Karinea, has her show coming up at noon. I hope you all tune in Rumble.com slash Haley. Vince, also another one of our amazing host. His new time is 8 a.m.
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