The Dan Bongino Show - Ep. 604 The Scandal of the Century is Unfolding

Episode Date: December 4, 2017

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lot of twitter followers over the weekend what happened i picked up like a thousand overnight and um i looked and it turned out that the president from his actual verified account you know what is it at real don Donald Trump, quoted one of my tweets. And I was like, okay, well, that's pretty cool. The president of the United States, Estelle and Joe. And he was like, really? I'm like, yeah. And actually, folks, this is now the third time I have been tweeted to by the president.

So it's pretty cool. Again, I know self-praise stinks. My mother used to tell me that, and I totally agree. But you are my audience, and I wanted to just share that with you. It was about about by the way the steinly case which i still feel very strongly about and uh i'm not going to go into it because i went into it again last week but let me just say this about a couple of things that are going on with this and and i'll move on um when you're debating with your liberal friends and

frankly even some republicans who have no concept of what we really stand for on illegal immigration we are not anti-immigrant for the 52,542nd time we're not my wife is a immigrant almost yeah i know yeah you know joe knows but she's this is just stupid this is a dumb argument we are not anti-immigrant conservative at all. We are anti-lawbreaking. That's what illegal immigration is. It's lawbreaking. That's the point. I mean, if immigration is a law that we can conveniently ignore because we don't like it when we're liberals, then what other can we ignore?

Obamacare? Do we not have to pay taxes? Do you understand how the maintenance of a constitutional republic and fidelity to law and order revolves almost exclusively around how this illegal immigration debate is resolved if illegal immigration is resolved by saying you know what we're just going to disregard it because liberal states don't like it and liberals don't like it and therefore anyone who broke the law and came into the country illegally is allowed to stay then how do we have i don't understand like how we have a functioning constitutional republic then if it's just law by like

law by like Armacost doesn't like it Joe don't follow it no big deal I know Joe's a conservative Joe doesn't like paying confiscatory tax ignore it Joe it's no big deal don't worry about it I got news for you please don't take that advice Joe will be I need

Joe we have a backup but it's not Joe Armacost. I like him, but he's not producer Joe. And no one else listening take that advice either. I'm obviously being facetious because you'll find yourself in jail. Now, the point I wanted to make on this is, with regard to the Steinle case, the 32-year-old in San Francisco

who was killed by Zarate, the illegal immigrant who got off on everything but a felony possession charge, even involuntary manslaughter he got off on. You cannot argue as a liberal that, although I completely agree with you, that every person who enters the country illegally, not every one of them obviously is going to go on to commit another crime. Matter of fact, a small portion of people who enter the country illegally will. But that does not defeat the argument that 100% of people who enter the country illegally by law shouldn't be here, Joe. If only two out of 100 commit crimes, those two should not have been here. There is a legal process to come here.

You didn't do it. Right. not have been here. There is a legal process to come here. You didn't do it. Kate Steinle would have been alive if Zarate was not here in the country. That is a fact, folks. That's not politicizing anything. That's just a simple fact. How Zarate fired the gun, he disputes. I frankly don't believe him. But the fact that the gun was fired in the possession of the illegal immigrant who shouldn't have been in the country is not in any way up for dispute she would be alive today if it weren't for really poor immigration illegal immigration enforcement in the united states that's number one Number two, and I still haven't decided how to title

this show today, forgive me, because this is really important. And it's another one of these liberal scams. And I'm going to move on if this, but it's important with regards to illegal immigration, you need to know about because we do a lot of debunking on this show. And I've heard this now, I'm going to say conservatively 15 or 20 times between the blogosphere, cable news, say conservatively 15 or 20 times between the blogosphere cable news and editorial writings the new liberal talking point in immigration i see this fox guy does this all the time he's a liberal guy goes on fox is it and i'm quoting here because i saw this in a piece today it is not a crime to be in the u.s illegally that was an unusually long Dan Bongino buzzer. Wrong.

Not all people. Again, this is the logical fallacy. The same one they use on illegal immigration. They go, well, people who came into the country illegally, not all of them are going to go on to commit crimes. Well, by simple logic, Joe, that means some of them will will if you can't say not all right joe yeah not all of them will commit crimes if you can't say that right that if you can't conclusively say no one will commit a crime who comes into the country legally that by simple logic means someone who comes into the country illegally and shouldn't have been here will joe i'm not crazy

right no that's correct dan that made sense to you simple logic yep yes damn that's correct someone who comes into the country illegally and shouldn't have been here will. Joe, I'm not crazy, right? No, that's correct, Dan. That made sense to you. Simple logic. Yes, Dan, that's correct. You blew it. You blew it up. That was totally a time for your game show voice.

He's giving, yes, Dan, that is absolutely correct. Yes, Dan, that is absolutely correct. There you go. This is simple logic. Now, on this, quote, it's not a crime to be in the U.S. illegally. Gosh, liberals, why are they always lying to us? There are people in the United States who are overstays, who came here on a visa, came here on a vacation, came here on a business trip, came here on a student visa, who, Joe, their visa expired, say, January of this year, and who are still here. That is not technically, it can be, but it is not a crime. It is a civil violation. That is not the majority of people, though, who are in the country illegally. Illegally.

The majority of people in the country illegally, Joe, came here by evading a legal border crossing, which is, Joe, a... Crime. Crime. There you go. Synchronicity. Beautiful. It's a crime.

Of course it's a crime. Matter of fact, they're called EWIs, Entry Without Inspection. Unlawful presence may be a civil violation. matter of fact they're called EWIs entry without inspection unlawful presence may be a civil violation improper entry into the United States folks is absolutely a crime and multiple time entry into the United States without inspection is a felony so this silly talking point that it is quote not a crime to be in the U.S. illegally is fabricated liberal garbage. It is, in other words, a lie and another scam and another verbal dance they do to get you to believe something that is factually not correct. You wonder why I always bring up things.

Joe, I have to be candid with the audience. You guys give me and ladies send me a lot of wonderful emails daniel at bongino.com i read them i love them i'm trying to respond to all of them but it's really really tough because you're so you're great but i read them all i promise you but i did get one complaint last week and i hey the show's for you guys and ladies so i you complain i listen he said listen i'm enough with the tax thing i've heard about it 50 times well folks the reason i talked about the tax thing a lot last week is because we're at a really pivotal moment in American history with the most consequential tax bill in what, Joe, 20 years? I mean, maybe since 1993, so less than that, but close enough on the potentially getting this much. If the House and Senate can agree on a similar bill on the president's desk, it's important. But one of the reasons on that debate, I always talk about the Clinton surplus and the Reagan thing,

and the Reagan tax cuts not costing the government money, generating money, is that I get tired of liberals, their false arguments becoming the de facto truth. People talk in the media as if this stuff is true. Oh, yeah, the Clinton surplus happened. Folks, it didn't happen. It didn't happen. The Reagan tax cuts caused the happen. It didn't happen. The Reagan tax cuts caused a deficit. It did not happen. The same

thing, this is why I try to cut this stuff off at the knees and why I'm worried about this silly illegal immigration talking point. I'm worried that it's going to become de facto truth, even though it is patently, categorically false and easily proven false. It is not a crime to be in the U.S. illegally. No, it is.

Joe, being serious for a minute, do you see why people like me and you and the conservative listenership gets frustrated by this stuff? Yeah, on a daily basis. Yeah. This is not a difficult thing to do. It's not like if someone said to you, you know, say you get some physics or chemistry guy and he's like strontium 67 is an isotope on there you know and you're like whoa man is it he could be lying to

you i don't even know if the strontium 67 exists he could be making up the whole thing but you ever know how people talk in jar you ever see when they talk in jargon and they sound super smart yeah and you don't really know what they're talking about you're like oh i guess it could be true yeah this is not that time. They are saying something easily proven false. It is not a crime to be in the U.S. illegally. Just Google it. Is it a crime to be in the U.S. illegally?

It is a crime. Entry without inspection. They'll even give you the statute. I think it's Title VIII of the United States Code. People will agree with it because they don't want to seem stupid to other people who don't know, you know, and Professor Schmaldfaller, whatever he said. Schmaldfaller, right.

Schmaldfaller, we know that guy. And it gets to be like a cycle of endless stupidity. Yes. It's like you're all bathing in this stupid soup. I mean, you really have to cut this stuff off. And that's why I know it drives you crazy when I talk about things like, oh, the Reagan tax cuts

and the Clinton surplus sometimes. But it is imperative that you understand the fine details of this because these things have become so imbued in the American psyche as de facto truth, even though they are categorically false. There was never, ever, ever

a Clinton surplus ever in the budget. Reagan's tax cuts did nothing to impact the deficit. The spending levels did. More money was raised. Immigration is, illegal immigration is a crime. That if you don't cut these things off, the next generation of kids grows up believing this.

There's an entire generation of kids out there who actually believe Bill Clinton ran a surplus. They will believe again that it's not a crime to be in the U.S. illegally. When folks, it is absolutely a crime. All right. Forgive me. I really didn't plan to spend that much time on this. I just obviously get very frustrated with this stuff because it's just silly and it drives me crazy. All right. There is a, I just, this Trump Russia thing has just exploded. I didn't get to dedicate as much time to it on Friday as I wanted to. So I want to get to a couple things here, because a lot of important things happened on Friday and happened over the weekend.

And it is imperative that you understand the full scope of what's going on right now. And sadly, folks, and I mean this, our slow descent into third world republic justice. You know, the Benghazi terrorist gets off on murder charges last week. Kate Steinle's killer walks out of court not even guilty of involuntary manslaughter with an open and shut, in my opinion, case. The Clintons get off on everything, all the time, every time. And we have now Mike Flynn pleading guilty on Friday, which happened during the recording of the show, for basically, again, as I've said before, fibbing, for lying to a federal agent, which is rarely charged, and is, in my opinion, only charged when you have absolutely nothing

else to go on and you're trying to pressure someone to do something. Ladies and gentlemen, I was a federal agent. I'm not going to repeat the story for the 10,000th time. But I remember the one time I saw someone charged with 1001, which is lying to the FBI. And the judge at the arraignment was astonished. Like, really? I remember her line. I don't remember if it was he or she.

But it was like, oh, we got a fibber. That was the line. So we have flynn under arrest now for fibbing now what happened over the weekend well late friday brian ross from abc who has been wrong multiple times now brian ross he was the one who identified that guy in the shooting as a tea party member and it was the wrong guy it wasn't a tea party guy at all so brian ross has a bit is shooting is a Tea Party member and it was the wrong guy. It wasn't a Tea Party guy at all. So Brian Ross is a bit infamous in conservative circles for fake news. Brian Ross of ABC

unleashes this bombshell report which is promptly picked up in the middle of The View by Joy Behar. They walk out a car to her. This is breaking news. She's so excited. If you haven't seen the video, check it out. Have you seen it, Joe?

Behar, like, has a, she's, yeah, this is great. They walk out a car to her. They say, ABC News, through Brian Ross, is reporting that Mike Flynn, Trump's national security advisor, is going to testify against Trump that, this is critical, as a candidate, President Trump asked Flynn to reach out to the Russians. Well, for what, obviously, would be the question. But as a candidate, if that was for some kind of collusion, that's a bombshell, Joe. Joy Behar's like, we got him now, man. She was flipping out on the set. The hands are up in the air, throws the card, everybody's celebrating and clapping.

The problem, Joe, is the story was wrong. And now ABC is in full, full, if you haven't been following this over the weekend, please get on. It'll be in the show notes today up on Gino.com. Get on my email list. I'll email you these articles. Please read this story because it shows you why Americans are done with the mainstream media. Here's the distinction, Joe. It wasn't as a candidate. It was as the president-elect.

Big difference, Joe. Yeah. Let me set this up for you for the audience. If you don't get where I'm going with this, you'll figure it out quickly. And the analogy I used on Fox and Friends, which went nuclear, by the way. Thank you to everyone who watched it. I said, that's like saying, headline, man robs bank. Clarification, six hours later, man takes out money from ATM.

That's the whole story. Oh, he took'd you say rob the bank um i don't know he took money out but so he didn't rob the bank it was his money yes the whole story is the robbery if he takes his own money joe do you agree the story goes out the window yep yes sir the's gone. If the story about the Trump Russia investigation is Russian collusion to win an election, Joe. In other words, the Trump campaign, campaign, campaign, campaign. There are three times for liberals. Trump campaigned for the fourth time, reached out to the Russians in advance of the election to alter the course of the election, help Trump win. You have a enormous conspiracy and people should go to jail. The fact that they reported that he did it as a candidate, that they reached out to the Russians as a candidate, would seemingly buttress that. But Joe, let me ask you a very simple question. Yes.

How the heck do you collude to win an election if your national security advisor reaches out to the Russians after you've won the election? It's a good question, Dan. That's the whole story. Yeah. The whole Russian collusion narrative goes out the window. So let me get this straight, Joe. Joy Behar is celebrating about the fact that they reached out before the election when the story really was they reached out after. That's the whole story. The whole thing falls apart. Now, ABC and Brian Ross left this thing up for I think it was six hours before they deleted the tweet. Now, I'm not going to give them any credit because I'm disgusted by what they did.

But to be fair and give you a full scope of what happened in this story, they did either that night or the next day issue a categorical retraction and suspended Brian Ross without pay for four weeks. My humble opinion, he should be terminated. I'm sorry, but this is the second time this has happened. This guy's supposed to be a journalist, Joe. He's not an opinion person. He's supposed to report the facts.

Folks, their zeal, their desperation to take down Donald Trump has taken over common sense. So that's takeaway number one. The fake news media, again, for the umpteenth time, whether it was the New York Times reporting on the wiretapping, then saying wiretapping didn't exist, and attacking Trump for it, whether it was the Times attacking Mark Levin when he reported on what the Times said, whether it's ABC talking about, oh, Flynn reached out as a candidate,

when Trump was a candidate. Oh, no, by the way, he did it when he was president-elect. Oh, you mean after the election? The fake news media is destroying literally destroying this country they are ripping it to shreds all right i got a lot more to get to this uh on this story because i have at least five or six takeaways and developments on this case that you need to folks you have to know about all right before we get to that today's show brought to you by our buddies at, who we got?

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email that's fine you want to go to my website i'm just please read this if you got to read it national review do it there that's okay too andy Andy McCarthy at National Review, who if you're not following him on Twitter, sign up to Twitter just to follow him because his writing, he's a former federal prosecutor for the Department of Justice. I think he prosecuted the blindshake of full, you know, being candid here and, you know, disclosure. I know Andy. I like Andy a lot. We're not best friends, but we are friends, and I really enjoy his commentary. His commentary on this Flynn case has been amazing. He is a down-the-line guy. He is not a pro or anti-Trump anything. You'll see by his writing. He is straight down. He plays it straight. He brought up a pivotal, pivotal, crystal clear point you all need to take home from this podcast today about this Trump-Russia scheme. Now with the

Flynn case, because liberals are celebrating over this, Joe. It's amazing liberals are celebrating the downfall of the United States. This is great! We're locking up our own people for fibbing! Where's the scheme? Where's the scheme? Joe, you ever see Jerry Maguire?

Yeah. Remember Cuba Gooding Jr.? Yeah. Show me the money, Jerry. What? Show me the money, Jerry. What? Show me the money. Show me the money! Remember that, Nicole? As you repeat after me, Jerry. And Jerry's like, Jerry's in the office.

Show me the money! And all the office people are looking around like, what the heck? That's why I'm not a huge fan of that movie. I did like it, but there's so much liberal junk in there that I've kind of gotten rid of it. Really, seriously. But when I was a kid, it was funny. Show me the money.

Where's the scheme? McCarthy, who is a brilliant lawyer, brings up this critical point you need to take away from this. There have now been, Joe, three court proceedings, arrests, investigations on Trump associates. Manafort for business dealings before Joe, he joined the Trump campaign. Yep.

Anything about Russian collusion there, Joe? Before? The Manafort arrest, right? Right. The Manafort arrest was all about his business dealings before he joined the campaign. That's right. Nothing to do with collusion, correct? No not to it okay the second one papadopoulos who was arrested for fibbing we got a fibber who lied about a whatever a meeting in in russia he had when the trump team told him not to do it okay any russian collusion there joe

nothing there dan no you sure we're sure remember what was it wink martin yes wink so nothing there either okay now we have a third arrest and a plea deal with mike flynn for fibbing again joe any russian collusion there either nothing under that rock dan thank you joe folks mccarthy brings up a great point and i'm telling you mccarthy is a straight a player as you're gonna get yeah he said and he's right about this i don't have the prosecutorial experience he does he's a lawyer i was an investigator but he's done high profile cases and he brings up this one crucial point he He says, when you are in, uh, when you are indicting, when you are prosecuting, when you are prosecuting by

information, when you're prosecuting by indictment, when you are prosecuting, uh, when you're using a complaint document, those are three different ways you can get someone into the court system and in front of an initial appearance, arrest warrants and things like that. And you want someone to cooperate Joe in a scheme. so joe let me just give you an example because with stories work best for the audience all right if you and i are involved in a scheme say it's an international ponzi scheme you know like a bernie madoff scheme we're taking people's money we're pretending to invest it but we're really just giving it to other people as returns and we're doing it internationally and the the FBI gets to you, Joe, and I'm the

mastermind, but they get to you first and I don't know it. So they lock you up and they've got you in a room. They got the lights going. It's all hot in there. You're sweating. They're like, Joe, we got you. We're going to throw the book at you. And you're like, oh my gosh. McCarthy says, and he's right, when you finally go to court, because remember, they're not going to send you to court right away because a lot of those court proceedings, if they arrest you, they'd have to take you to an initial appearance, but they're not going to put you on a public trial

if they're going to use you for a subsequent investigation, right? Okay. What they get you to do at some point is to plead guilty to the scheme, whether it's conspiracy to launder money, conspiracy, I think, is Title 18, United States Code 371.

Do you see what I'm, Joe, follow where I'm going. This is a little difficult of a point to understand, but McCarthy's point is brilliant, and you have to understand this. When there is an actual scheme involving multiple people, a conspiracy, Joe,

multiple idiots involving to do criminal things to people, right? When they get someone, like they nailed you, and they want me, I'm the big to do criminal things to people, right? When they get someone, like they nailed you, and they want me, I'm the big fish in the Ponzi scheme, right? And they get you to cooperate against me, when it comes time for you to finally plea in court, because they're not

going to drop all the charges. They'll just give you points for cooperation, which is the way it works in the federal system, and they may drop some of the more serious charges. But at some point, Joe, you will plead guilty to the scheme the scheme judicially speaking in the legal system will be some form typically of a conspiracy charge 371 okay where is it where is it where's the beef show me the money insert random movie or commercial line in here where's this conspiracy charge you may say well manafort was charged with conspiracy against the

united states yes you are absolutely correct but it was not the conspiracy to overthrow the election it had nothing to do with trump at all. It was about his business dealings. That would be like, Joe, you arresting me and the paper running a headline. Consigliere and Bongino Ponzi scheme gets taken down for conspiracy. And then you read the charging document and Joe gets charged by a conspiracy to fake out the pizza guy

and not give him a tip after he delivers pizza to his house. You're like, wait, I thought this was about an international Ponzi scheme. Folks, there's no conspiracy charge related to a conspiracy. I'm not saying this may not happen later. It may. I don't know what they have, and I'm trying to be fair here. But my humble opinion, I'm going to leave it here.

My humble opinion on this, folks, is they've got nothing. They've got nothing. If the best you can do over three investigations and arrests right now is to try and flip Flynn on a 1001 charge, and no one at any point is going to plead guilty to an actual conspiracy, there isn't one. Now, I'm not telling you Mueller's not involved in a fishing expedition, he's going to find something else. Everybody's ripped the mattress tag off. By the way, someone sent me an email about that. They're like, it's not really illegal. You get the point. It's a joke. Seriously, I love the listener email, but that one was a little weird. It's a joke,

the mattress tag. I don't think anyone's actually prosecuted for ripping off a mattress tag. It's a joke. But everyone's a federal criminal. If they want to get you on tax evasion, folks, I promise you they'll find something. They may find something on someone in the Trump White House, but that was not the purpose of the special counsel. And the bottom line, folks, is if you had a special counsel investigating every single facet of your life, looking at every grain of sand you've ever stepped on, I promise you'd be in jail, too. So be very careful what you ask for. We are descending into third world republic justice.

Make no mistake. OK, so point number one, you can't collude after an election. Brian Rush should have vetted his sources. Point number two, where's the scheme? No one has yet shown an actual scheme. Point number three, did the FBI have FISA recordings of Flynn and why? Why? Why does the FBI, as, you know, I get it that this question's getting lost in all of this.

Now, Flynn, as the former DIA director, Defense Intelligence Agency, should have known that when he was talking to the Russian ambassador after the election, he should have known he was being recorded. I love the rank and file men and women of the FBI. They're terrific. terrific but that does not absolve the federal bureau of investigation from having to explain away to the american people why was mike flynn unmasked no one is it joe you see where i'm going with this how did they know it was mike flynn talking to the russian ambassador you may say oh well he was talking to the russian ambassador and he was unmasked because he was talking to the Russian ambassador and he was unmasked because he was talking to the Russian ambassador. No, no, no, no, no. That's not the way this works. We can monitor the Russian ambassador, but getting the identity of the person talking to the Russian ambassador, essentially spying on their conversations, folks, there's no other easy way to say this, is supposed to go through a formal unmasking process.

A formal unmasking process that's not supposed to be political. And yet, Joe, to this day, no one has told us why that happened. Are you even interested? To our liberal friends, and I mean this, I understand. I understand your politics. I get it. I will back conservatives over liberals 999,000 times out of a million because i get it and i know you feel the same way i understand that those are your political leanings you don't trust conservatives i don't trust liberals i i'm i'm i'm i'm making a plea to you though here and i really mean this passionately i'm not telling you who to vote for you want to vote liberal vote liberal the rest of your life it will change nothing i'm just asking you as a fellow American citizen and a patriot, I know some of you are,

some, a matter of fact, most of you are. We just have a different ways of view in the world. I'm serious. I have liberal friends. I'm sure you do. Why are you not concerned about this? Do you understand how if the Trump administration did this right now to Kamala Harris, Cory Booker, Bernie Sanders, or Elizabeth Warren, we would have a very serious constitutional crisis on our hands? Why did I mention those names? What do they all have in common? They're all probably going to be presidential candidates in 2020 as Democrats. We're all probably going to be presidential candidates in 2020 as Democrats. Folks, I don't want to live in a country where the president of the United States at the time, Barack Obama, can spy on an American citizen, Mike Flynn, with no evidence of a crime at all. Remember, his crime wasn't talking to the Russian ambassador. Now, Joe, you have that soundbite ready? Yeah, man.

In case you think I'm making this up, this one's a little long. This sound on tape here is a call. Sound on industry official. This sound on tape thing here, this clip, it's about a minute, but I'm begging you, please listen to this. Because no one, and here's the setup again. Explain to me why someone was listening in on Mike Flynn,

not the Russian ambassador. And he was unmasked for talking to the Russian ambassador when the Obama administration at the time, remember Joe, it was the transition period, had absolutely no problem with these conversations. You don't believe me? I back everything up on this show when we're wrong when we're wrong we correct it this is the obama state department spokesperson talking about

the communications between flynn and the russian ambassador while obama was still in office during the transition play the cut you probably have seen um starting yesterday, but then more of them this morning, about contact between the incoming national security advisor and the Russian ambassador. I'm just wondering, from the State Department's point of view, is this something that's of concern at all? Or I'll just leave it there and then follow up. Again, not necessarily. I've seen the reports. I don't think they've been confirmed or corroborated yet.

But, you know, that's – he's part of the transition team. That's really for them to speak to and how they are engaging. I mean, the president-elect is also engaged on his own with many world leaders. So I don't want to speculate, and I don't want to – So there's nothing – this building doesn't see anything necessarily, you know, inappropriate about contact between members of the incoming administration and foreign officials, no matter what country they're from, right? No. No. And, again, this has been ongoing.

I mean, we stand ready if they want to work through the State Department to contact some of these individuals. But we have no comment or no problem with them doing such on their own. Folks, what part of that is hard? I know it was a longer sound cut, and my apologies, because as Joe knows, in the radio industry,

in the podcast, you don't like to play long cuts, because the people tune in, at least in the middle of the radio show, if it's live, you don't know what you're listening to. What is this, a press conference? And podcasting works a little different,

but I wanted you to hear that in its entirety. That was Mark Toner, the Obama administration state department spokesperson, who was involved in the transition, clearly was Mark Toner, the Obama administration State Department spokesperson who was involved in the transition, clearly laying out two things that the Obama administration knew about the context and had no problem with it.

He's like, what does he say at one point? Joey goes, hey, it's the transition team. Like, that's what they do. Yeah. Folks, again, point number three.

Number one, can't collude after the election. Number two, where's the scheme? No one's proven a scheme yet. Number one, can't collude after the election. Number two, where's the scheme? No one's proven a scheme yet. Number three, why was Mike Flynn being recorded if even the Obama administration acknowledged Mike Flynn was acting within the scope of his duties? Why?

Why was he being recorded? Guys, ladies, I love this country, man. I know you do too. But this is serious stuff. This isn't a joke. We're venturing into like Chavez Venezuelan politics here.

Nobody seems to care. Can't liberals just say, listen, liberalism is my ideology. I love it. I think it's the best path forward. Can't liberals say that, say I'm going to vote liberal in the future, but this needs to be investigated? That someone needs to figure out why the American government is spying on citizens and no one is yet to give a reason why? All right.

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a guy by the name of Peter Schrock. I don't know if I'm saying that right. S-T-R-Z-O-K. Who was involved in the special counsel. This was not a small-time group leader in the FBI. I don't mean small-time in stature. I just mean this guy was high up in the agency. He was a deputy director. Why does this matter to you folks? This guy was involved in the Trump-Russia special counsel investigation. Not only that, this is from the Fox News piece. Wait till I tell you what this guy was involved in the Trump-Russia special counsel investigation. Not only that, this is from the Fox News piece. Wait till I tell you what this guy did.

A source close to the matters, quoting Rosen's piece, says the OIG, the Office of Inspector General probe, which will examine Strzok's role in a number of other politically sensitive cases, should be completed by early next year, very early next year. Listen to this. The task will be exceedingly complex. I haven't even told you what he did yet, but keep this in your head. Given Strzok's consequential portfolio, wait for it, Joe, he participated in the FBI's fateful

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it gets interesting. Where was this part? When it comes to the, oh, folks, one more. I'll make it quick here. The House Intelligence Committee investigators were contacted last year by an informant suggesting there was and i'm quoting here documentary evidence joe that struck was purportedly obstructing the house probe into the infamous uh dossier guys ladies again now we have an investigator at the at a very high ranking investigator within the FBI involved with the number one, the Trump special counsel investigation. Number two, apparently the dossier. Number three, the Hillary Clinton email investigation. And we find out that this guy has been basically the entire time exchanging anti-Trump messages with a co-worker. entire time exchanging anti-trump messages with a co-worker uh we also have quote according to this report documentary evidence that he's been obstructing the house probe into the dossier

remember what i told you about the dossier the fake dossier about trump's activities in russia that was fake totally fake and debunked that the fbi may have paid this guy, the dossier producer, and the dossier may have been used. No, no, no. We're tying it together. May have been used as a pretext to monitor Mike Flynn and Trump associates. Hmm. So now, now does this make sense? I asked you a question before.

Why were they listening to Donald Trump's transition team? And why was our government spying on their political opponents? Barack Obama. They've still not produced a reason, Joe. The State Department acknowledged these conversations were happening and had no problem with them, yet they were still spying. Now we find out one of the reasons for that spying may have been the dossier, which was fake. One of the reasons for that spying may have been the dossier, which was fake. We also find out that one of the people who may have been involved with the dossier is the deputy director of the FBI by the name of Peter Strzok, who, by the way, can't stand Donald Trump.

Who was also involved in the Hillary Clinton interview about her email that she was exonerated on. Who also, by the way, was appointed to the special counsel and had to be dismissed when he got caught for these anti-Trump messages. Nothing to see here, folks. Nothing to see here. This, again, reminds me of that gif of Leslie Nielsen from The Naked Gun, where he comes out outside and he's like,

nothing to see here, folks. And the factory's blowing up behind him. There's like missiles going off. Guys, you're still debating my premise that this is a third world justice system we're living in right now? Man, time to pick the pineapples. I mean, seriously.

Is it not? I mean, unbelievable. One last note on this thing, because I just walked you through and put the piece together. There have been a lot of leaks in this case. But Joe, don't you find it incredible you haven't heard one leak still about any Trump involvement with the Russians at all that has in any way

contributed to colluding to win an election? Alright, just a couple quick things before it's going to be a busy week. I've got a lot of Fox hits this week. So I'll be on Outnumbered on Tuesday, by the way, if you want to check that out. I'll be traveling around a lot. Don't worry. We don't miss shows, though.ed on Tuesday, by the way, if you want to check that out. Be traveling around a lot. Don't worry.

We don't miss shows, though. Me and Joe, we're used to the road show now. Yeah, man. So Joy Reid, MSNBC resident liberal. I mean, she's just clueless, Joy Reid. She just never knows what she's talking about ever. I'm sorry. She attacked me once, and it was like farcical because she's been wrong on so much stuff.

Joy Reid, she's been outed by the right scoop it'll be in the show notes today uh for uh basically seriously homophobic uh blog post she made well no that's not possible joe she's a liberal that doesn't happen uh read that she's making fun of former florida governor charlie chris calling him miss charlie how he he won't he won't look at his wife naked because he likes men and stuff like that. And read the post. They are so deeply disturbed. But this is who liberals are. They're total phonies.

Remember, Joe, she's big into LGBT activism, except for the fact that she's not. But you can read that piece. What else? You know what? I'll put the article in today's show notes. But tomorrow, I want to cover this article by Dennis Prager in the Daily Signal about how America, when it gets better, liberalism

gets worse. And if there's a significant improvement in American standard of living, how democracy is going to suffer. It's a really great piece, and he goes through specific categories. I'll talk about it a little more tomorrow. Marriage, the black vote, Latino vote, dependency, and victimhood. How as America gets worse, liberalism gets better.

And as America gets better, liberalism gets worse. It's an interesting piece by Dennis Prager. I'll discuss it more tomorrow. As for today, folks, got to roll. Got a lot going on today. Busy day. Appreciate it. Please sign up for our show notes at Bongino.com.

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