The Dan Bongino Show - Ep. 611 What Really Happened Last Night

Episode Date: December 13, 2017

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shift in electoral politics last night in alabama the democrat yes i'm not saying this wrong the democrat doug jones i can't believe i'm saying this in one respect, but as I'm acknowledging, I'm not saying it wrong, won a United States Senate seat in Alabama, a state Trump won by more than 20 points. So, you know, most of you are already familiar with the background on this, but, you know, I don't want to beat you up with it. You're going to get tons of coverage on it today. And one of the things I like about this show is we give you stuff you're not going to get everywhere else. But I think I have a couple of points that are critical takeaways from what happened last night. Roy Moore, obviously a troubled candidate. Accusations about him trying to date teenagers when he was in his 30s.

The Washington Post ran the story a while ago. Most of you are familiar with it. Just basically crushed them. So here are a couple takeaways from this. Number one, if conservatives were whiners, like liberals are, which we're not, as I put out this morning in a tweet, Joe, we would say, the Chinese colluded in Alabama to win the election with Doug Jones. You know, I congratulate Trump for taking the high road and saying,

hey, he won. A win is a win. It is tweet. That's it. Let's move on. Time to move on, folks. Okay. Doug Jones won.

Let's not be like the whiny, pathetic, sourpuss, snowflake liberals. The Russians did it. Listen, I'm tired of that nonsense. The guy won. Now, the good news is, if there is some good news for this, this is a special election, folks. It's not a six-year seat. Every Senate seat in a standard election is a six-year term. Not this one. This was a special election to fill the void left by Jeff Sessions, who was the senator from Alabama when he left to become the attorney general.

The remainder of his term is three years. In other words, Jones will be on the ballot again with Trump in 2020. The Democrat. Meaning, and I could be wrong, you know, we'll see in three years. Obviously, these are all taped. He doesn't have a snowball's chance in Haiti to win in this seat again. So for three years, we're going to have to deal with a Democrat in Alabama. Really similarly to the Democrats having to deal with Scott Brown in Massachusetts when he beat Martha Coakley, Joe, when the Republican won in deep blue

Massachusetts in, Joe, a special election. So, you know, folks, is it great news? No, obviously not. But the sky is not falling. This was not a referendum on Trump as the media people, you know, I mean, the hack, disgusting media will be out there. Oh, my God,

it's a referendum on Trump. America hates Trump. This was not a referendum on Trump. OK, this is a referendum on more. How can I I can prove it to you? never talking whenever you're talking about this race. Married women with kids, folks, married women with kids, regardless of the state, blue or red they live in, typically vote Republican in many cases. It's a lot of the single women who will vote Democrat in much larger percentages for the Democrat than it will Republican. Make sense, Joe? If you're single, basically you have a much higher likelihood

based on probabilities and historic election numbers of voting Democrat and Republican. Well, in this case, that was actually reversed. Married women with kids voted in large numbers for Doug Jones, almost in greater percentages there than single women did, which says they had a serious problem with these allegations. Now, folks, my take on the Moore election, which I still have the same take today, I'm consistent on it the entire time, is you weren't going to get Moore off the ballot. It was too late. The campaign was obviously compromised at that point, regardless of the accuracy or truthfulness of the allegations. It was compromised. I don't know, does anybody dispute that? And I made the point to Joe that let the voters of Alabama decide. There was nothing,

what else, Joe, what else was there to do? Yeah, that let the voters of Alabama decide. There was nothing. What else, Joe? What else was there to do? Yeah, that's the right way to go. It was the only, right? It was the only way. It reminds me of the Miami Vice remake, which I know got panned, the Colin Farrell, Jamie Foxx remake of Miami Vice. Critics hated it.

I loved that movie. I thought it was great. I was entertained start to finish. And they're dealing with that Jose Uro. They call me Coachy Loco. You know what that means? Crazy pig. And they're like, he's like, I like, we're going to do this deal.

And Colin Farrell says, this is the only deal. This was the only deal. There was no way to get more off the ballot. It was the only deal. Let the voters choose. I have an uncle who lives in Alabama in off the ballot. It was the only deal. Let the voters choose. If the voters... I have an uncle who lives in Alabama in Dothan. These are very smart people

in contrast to the stuck-up nose-in-the-air bubble pajama boy liberals who want to paint everybody who lives in the South as a bunch of idiots. These are smart people. Let them pick. They made the choice they wanted. They wanted at least for three years someone other than Moore. I don't think they wanted Doug Jones. I just don't think they wanted Moore. It's over. They picked him. They made the choice they wanted. They wanted at least for three years someone other than Moore. I don't think they wanted Doug Jones.

I just don't think they wanted Moore. It's over. They picked him. They're smart folks. They made a decision. We stuck with this guy for three years. He's a pro-abortion guy. He is socially liberal as humanly possible.

He's going to vote to hike your taxes. But that was their choice. So now we live with it and we move on. Now, here's my fear. And I'm going to move to hike your taxes. But that was their choice. So now we live with it and we move on. Now, here's my fear. And I'm going to move on after this here. My fear here is that McConnell, and by the way, Mark Levin on his Facebook page has a quick but brilliant takedown of McConnell. It was McConnell, by the way, folks.

Mitch McConnell, the Senate Majority Leader, the king. Not even the king, Joe. majority leader, the king, not even the king, Joe, the intergalactic emperor of the swamp rats, Mitch McConnell, who saw early on that a conservative candidate may take the seat from his chosen one, Luther Strange. And that conservative candidate was not Roy Moore. The conservative candidate who Levin likes and I liked as well was Mo Brooks, who would have beaten Luther Strange because of all the things with him. Luther Strange was appointed to the seat by a governor who left office, was a Republican. There was controversy surrounding Strange.

Mo Brooks would have won and beaten Roy Moore. But McConnell, seeing the threat was Mo Brooks, squashed Mo Brooks right away Because that's what swamp rats do. So McConnell essentially handed the primary to Roy Moore, is what he did. And essentially handed the seat later on to Doug Jones. So you can thank McConnell. Nice job, Mitch. Well done, Mitchie. Happy now? Good job, daddy-o.

Unbelievable. Really. This guy's incredible. He does so much damage up there, up on the hill. So McConnell handed him. Now, here's my concern. My concern is that McConnell now thinks he won twice because he got rid of Roy Moore. He's got a Democrat, which sometimes I think he wants.

I think he wants to be in a minority. But secondly, McConnell really can't stand Tea Party conservatives. He can't. He hates them. He just thinks they're the worst. The rabble rousers. He can't stand the Mike Lee, Ted Cruz types. He doesn't like them.

You know why, Joe? Because they have principles. We have Spider-Man. What? What? Principles? They hate principles. Mike Lee and Ted Cruz and Rand Paul are principled people. They don't want

that. They want to be able to sell their cabooses whenever they need it. For lobbyists, for maintenance of power, to avoid controversy, to not get into fights with the media. They don't like that. They want to be able to sell their cabooses whenever they need it. For lobbyists, for maintenance of power, to avoid controversy, to not get into fights with the media. They don't like that. So they don't want these people in office. So now he's going to use this Roy Moore loss in a

blood red state to say, and I know it, Joe. It's coming. Look, you need to follow our advice. The swamp creatures. Because we win and we'll get the right people in office. Totally disregarding the fact that Mike Lee, Ted Cruz and Rand Paul have done a lot, by the way, fighting against the swamp rats to change the status quo in D.C. You see where I'm going with this, Joe? Yeah, I can hear you're going to you know, it's going to happen.

They're going to go, look what happened. Look, you didn't listen to us. You didn't listen to us about strange. You nominated this guy. No, no, Mitchitch you nominated that guy we had mo brooks okay you nominated that guy you dope not us and read levin's facebook page because he you know it's short but sweet it's just a complete takedown of mcconnell he's the one who gave you this so don't let mitch now turn around and go you see you tea party types you're ruining it for everyone no no no no it doesn't work that way yeah this drives me crazy

oh hey last night this story broke this was crazy i'm sitting at home and i am folks it's killing me i hate to complain but i cannot go to the gym because of the stem cell thing which is going nice by the way my right shoulder's still struggling a little bit, but I feel like I'm getting some real good improvement out of it. And I can't work out. It's making me nuts. So last night I'm sitting in bed. I'm a total jelly donut now. I'm a big goo box. I'm losing strength. I don't put these out, obviously, but I took a picture of myself yesterday because I wanted to remember how horrifying I look right now later on as motivation to get my butt back in the gym the minute I got three more weeks to go and it's driving me crazy so of course I go to bed early because I'm just miserable and I'm like what do I do and I'm sitting

in bed and I'm watching this I see the story breaks about the text messages were released between that FBI senior official, Peter Strzok, and his mistress, Lisa Page, who were both on the Trump investigative team and the Hillary, well, Strzok at least, was on the Hillary email investigation and interviewed Mike Flynn. So this guy, Strzok, I know most of you know this, and I'll put a story from the Daily Caller, which is damning in the show notes today. I strongly encourage you to look at it. This guy, Schrock, who folks, let's just be clear who this guy was. He was a senior official within the FBI in charge of counterintelligence. Hillary Clinton email investigation. This guy was also a pivotal figure on the Trump Special Counsel investigation. This guy was also a pivotal figure in the interview of Mike Flynn, Trump's national security advisor, who was charged with false statements, the equivalent of felonious mopery on the open seas.

Hi. Hi, matey, right? So this guy is the grandmaster, the three-ring circus performer of this entire act we're watching right now, Strzok. Strzok was texting his mistress, a woman named Lisa Page, over a course of a long period of time, something like 10,000 texts. You're like, 10,000 texts? What the hell is this guy doing? Who texts 10,000 times? I don't know if I've sent 10,000 texts ever, no less to one person. So he's got this mistress on the side here. He's doing his

thing with this lady who is on the Trump special counsel investigation. She's a lawyer for the FBI and the text messages were released last night. And folks, let me read you this one because this one should scare the crap out of you. By the way, I'm reading you what he wrote. This is not a conspiracy theory. We don't do conspiracy theories on this show. We get nasty emails from people who want us to do conspiracy theories, and we don't. Right, Joe?

I've sent them to you. They're like, what? You don't believe Obama was born on Mars? No, I don't. This is real. This actually happened, this tweet. I want to read this to you, and tell me what other way is there to read this other than, what? All right. This is a text from the Daily Caller piece reporting from Strzok to Page.

in Andy's office that there's no way Trump gets elected. But I'm afraid we can't take that risk. FBI counterintelligence official Peter Schrock wrote in a cryptic text message to Lisa Page, an FBI lawyer and his mistress. He follows it up with, Joe, it's like an insurance policy in the unlikely event you die before you're 40. Huh, what the?

Now, let's go over this again. I read it to you. I'm going to read it to you again with a little more context here. All right. When he's talking about Andy's office, he's talking about likely. We don't know for sure

because, again, these texts are without context here. But it's likely, based on the timeline, that this was probably a meeting in andy mccabe the number two at the fbi's office now why is that significant andy mccabe who was the number two at the fbi his wife i believe her name was jill was running for a seat in local um in state virginia politics a state senate seat his wife was running for a seat as a Democrat

with the full support of Terry McAuliffe, the Democrat governor, who, Joe, is a known Hillary Clinton consigliere. He's been involved with the Clintons for eons. So just to be clear on this, McCabe's wife is running as a Democrat with the support of the entire Clinton machine, the number two.

So according to this text, it appears that Schrock, who is now basically one of the top FBI guys in charge of investigating Trump, investigating the Hillary email scandal, and soon to interview Mike Flynn, says before the Trump election, I want to believe the path you threw out for consideration in Andy's office, probably McCabe, that there's no way Trump gets elected. But I'm afraid we can't take that risk. Then he says, it's like an insurance policy and the unlikely event you die before you're 40. Joe, I'm serious. I mean, I know we do a kind of sarcastic show you provide the wit i provide the sarcasm i'm not much of a comedy guy you're much funnier than i am but um what else i mean i don't understand like what would what would that mean that's that's what i'm trying to think

of now the first part's not really controversial here i want to believe the path you threw out for consideration that could be anything. I mean, she could have been in the office saying, well, if Trump wins, this could be a problem. If Hillary wins, this could be a problem for the investigation. All right, fine. I mean, people talk investigations all the time. But that's the last part that should scare you,

that there's no way Trump gets elected, but I'm afraid we can't take that risk. Folks, this is one of the senior FBI guys responsible for investing, this is prior to the election, by the way, the Hillary email scandal. Now, here's the critical question everybody should be asking their congressmen to make sure they ask Rod Rosenstein, the DOJ, because of course, Sessions recused himself in a terrible decision, the attorney general. That was an awful decision. But Rosenstein, who's now the number two at DOJ, and the FBI director, Christopher Wray.

What path is she talking about? Or is he talking? No, actually, she, because in the text, Joe, just to be clear, Strzok is saying to Page, the mistress, I want to believe the path you threw out. In other words, you, Lisa Page. Well, what path did she throw out that the Trump election was too much of a risk? Joe, is that not a reasonable question?

What path was it? What are we talking about? Folks, listen, I'm just going to, I'm going to be fair here. Again, we don't do conspiracy theories, okay? But as a former investigator, I want to be realistic, too. This could be entirely innocent. Could be the path you threw out is, hey, you know, Trump gets elected and there are going to be maybe some recusals in the case and prosecution would have

to go this way rather than that. In other words, a process path, right, Joe? Like, here's how the process would work. That's kind of a stretch, but we'll leave it there for a second. The alternate scenario is pretty darn frightening. That the number two official in the FBI potentially in his office has a meeting with a lawyer at the FBI, a top investigator at the FBI in charge of the Clinton email investigation that went away and the Trump investigation that was about to start. And they're talking about a path forward to what prevent Trump from getting elected. Are you wait, what are you kidding? Folks, this is very is very serious stuff you know justice is supposed to be blind in this country if justice isn't only blind but has actively got one eye open and

winking towards the democrats while they're going after and trying to handcuff republicans i mean how is that any different from a police state that's a serious question it's not a joke right read the article in the daily caller by the way folks there's some other stuff i mean this is just one of about 375 texts that are troubling but i found i picked this one out because we could go on all day there's a tweet about how uh you know trump should lose one million to one or something which is kind of a stupid tweet stroke writes uh struck rights to lisa page there's other There's other quotes in there and texts in there about him being a lonesome human. I mean, clearly they hate Trump. This one,

this series of texts I find to be the most disturbing. Now, I want to segue here into another just quick topic here. I got off Legal Insurrection, which is a really, really good, there it is right here, a really good email list. William Jacobson runs it. He's a professor. He's a brilliant guy. And he writes some really amazing pieces. And he's deeply troubled by what's going on, folks, right now. And you should be too. Because we live in a constitutional republic where the peaceful transfer of power is necessary to the very maintenance and fidelity to our cause and our founding documents. If that peaceful transition of power doesn't happen and you have people that say, no, we're not going to acknowledge anymore the results of the election, we're going to sabotage government at every end,

every corner. I don't know how we move forward collectively here. It means elections don't matter. It means when Democrats win elections, liberal ideas win. And when Democrats lose elections, liberal ideas still win. Now, Jacobson writes in a piece, and this is why I titled the show this today. I put this, excuse me, the title of the show is What Happened Last Night. But I put in the show notes today another article, which is a brilliant one. Are we in the middle of a constitutional crisis? And its core focus is this piece by Jacobson where he lists out four or five bullet points that make a pretty strong case, Joe, that we're in the middle of a very serious crisis in the republic right now. And I don't know, I don't understand how the Democrats want to proceed forward. I mean, what's their next step? Arresting the political opposition? I mean, I'm serious. If this Strzok thing is real and there was some plan or path

forward to interrupt the Trump election based on FBI leadership and their management of two cases, making the Clinton email investigation go away and the Trump bogus Trump Russia investigation heat up, we have a serious problem. Now, he points out a couple things. Here is his points about how we're in a constitutional crisis right now. Number one, he says the apparent setup of the incoming administration on a phony Logan Act violation. Folks, this is something we've talked about over and over and over again. It appears, based on writings I've seen by Byron York and Washington Examiner,

based on the evidence out there, the Logan Act, which says that private citizens cannot conduct foreign affairs with foreign governments. It is a nonsense, ridiculous charge. Folks, listen to me. The Logan Act has never been successfully charged ever in the history of the Republic, ever, ever to anyone. We're not 10 years old. We're over 200 years old. It has never successfully been charged to anyone because it's not even constitutional. Nobody takes the Logan Act seriously.

If they did, Jimmy Carter would be in jail for going over and visiting with the Palestinians and that stuff. Jesse Jackson would be in jail for visiting North Korea. Dennis Rodman would be in jail for visiting North Korea. Dennis Rodman would be in jail for visiting North Korea. And Joe, Barack Obama would be in jail too. He's taken some foreign trips too, or he's taken shots at Trump overseas. Right.

The Logan Act is nonsense. It's not real. It's fake. It's the fake news of legislation. It has never happened. Now, when they lost the election, I don't want to redo the show i did a couple weeks ago which people seem to like it did really good numbers on this but this is critical

instead of a peaceful transfer of power like we will do to doug jones the democrat in alabama and we did to barack obama despite knowing the guy was going to be a disaster you turn over the reins of power that's the way elections work. This is not a third world republic here. The Democrats never intended on a peaceful transition of power and always intended to throw a monkey wrench into the machinery of government. The Logan Act was their vehicle to do it. And that's why he leads off number one. This, I believe, was plotted from day one. From day one, they planned on somehow unmasking or wiretapping sorry a little scratch of mine on unmasking using the fisa courts i believe this in my heart of heart heart of hearts folks i'm i

i'm sorry this is i i'm basing this on strong evidence of things that have actually happened from day one the obama administration intended on using weak fisa laws foreign intelligence surveillance act surveillance act laws and courts the fisa courts to get warrants to listen on the trump team remember what i told you in a show about six months ago the difference between a wiretapping warrant for you, Joe, and one using the FISA courts is one requires probable cause and the other one doesn't. Probable cause is a high standard. Believe me, getting a federal wiretap, I was a federal agent, folks, is really, really hard. It's not easy at the criminal level.

You have to exhaust almost every other option first, okay? Now, understanding they had no evidence of criminality at all, the Obama administration, folks, please follow this. This is critical. They had no evidence of criminality at all. They couldn't proceed in the criminal courts, but they had another option, and their other option was the FISA courts, knowing they didn't need to produce evidence of criminality. They just needed to produce evidence of something. And what's the evidence they produced?

The Logan Act. Mike Flynn and the Trump team were talking to foreign officials. Keep in mind, something that has happened during just about every campaign. I mean, remember Barack Obama giving his speech over there, and what was it, overseas in Berlin? I mean, this has happened repeatedly over and over and over again. There was no collusion to overturn an election. There was no evidence of that at all.

So they had to pull something out of there, you know. So what did they do? They said, the Logan Act. These guys are talking to foreigners. There you go. We got them. Meanwhile, I make calls overseas not that often, but does that mean I'm guilty of the Logan Act. These guys are talking to foreigners. There you go. We got them. Meanwhile, I make calls overseas, not that often, but does that mean I'm guilty of the Logan Act too?

Joe, do you see how they had to fabricate a crime? Them fabricating a crime using the Logan Act, never charged successfully to anyone in American history. They wire tap Flynn. They transcribe his phone calls. They use the transcription of the phone call. Strzok, the same guy who sent the

text about this path forward in Andy's office in case Trump wins. Making sense now, Joe? They transcribe the calls between Flynn. They have the exact verbiage he used talking

to the Russian ambassador under this Logan X scam. They then walk in, ask him what he said. Keep in mind, Joe, if you and I had a conversation and I took the notes, what you see, you wouldn't remember everything. You don't even remember what you said to me yesterday. That's right. Do I?

Flynn says something that doesn't correspond exactly to the transcript they have in an interview that's set up under bogus means. No one tells him to have a lawyer there. Nothing. And Flynn is in charge with the seriously, what is the jaywalking of federal crimes? And I don't mean to compare it to jaywalking. What I mean to tell you is jaywalking is a crime no one takes seriously. 1001 is the exact same. Everybody lies to the FBI. Then they get him for lying. I ask you that because was that the path forward? Was this plot mapped out before the transition of power to take down the incoming Trump presidency?

So that's, sorry to say, but that was a big one. So that's number one. And Jacobson calls it the apparent setup of the incoming administration on a phony Logan Act violation. One, are we in a constitutional crisis? Point number one. Point number two, the Mueller investigation that obviously has strayed far from alleged Russian interference in the election to post-election political strategy of the incoming Trump administration. Folks, this is clear as day. There is no evidence of collusion at all. The crimes that people have been charged with and have pled to have nothing to do with collusion

and winning an election at all, which was the only purpose of the special counsel. Number three, the unprecedented delay in confirming nominees that Dems didn't even object to for the sake of depriving Trump of the ability to control the bureaucracy. Folks, although it's sped up a bit, the Trump campaign and now Trump presidency should have had its government functioning by now. We're almost a year in. There are still people waiting for confirmations here because the Democrats simply don't want a functioning government under Trump. Reaffirming a point I made in this show a thousand times, Joe, that the Democrats don't like big government. The Democrats like Democrat big government.

It's not Republican big government. It's only Democrat big government they love. Here's another one. The rogue elements in the intelligence community and the FBI leaking information, assuming news reports are not completely lying about their sources, which I don't think they are. I think these news sources are getting information from the IC, the intelligence community, and people within the federal law enforcement community who hate Trump so much they're willing to forego their constitutional responsibilities in order to destroy this guy. And the last one is, and so on and so on. No, literally, he writes that in a piece,

because there's more. We go on all day all day folks are we in a serious constitutional crisis the answer is yes read the piece by jacobson it is a darn good one this has been a setup from the start and you better ask yourself that i'll read this last part of the text again there's no way trump gets elected but i'm afraid we can't take that risk fbi counterintelligence official peter schrock hmm what was that arsenio hall who had that things that make you go home was that him FBI counterintelligence official Peter Strzok. Hmm. What was that? Arsenio Hall who had that things that make you go, was that him? That was him who did that, right?

That was a song, things that make you go, hmm. Yeah, but I think Arsenio Hall had that as a segment of his show. You know the listeners, they're great. They'll always, they'll send it right away. Ron P will probably have it there, probably send over a sound clip from that too. All right, folks, today's show brought to you by our buddies at iTargetPro.com.

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Southerners will tell you Maryland's in the North, Northerners will tell you Maryland's in the South. It's a Northeast state. I'm just saying. Most people, a lot of people from New York live there. I know I'll probably get a lot of negative feedback, but I live there. Will you consider it North or South? Mason-Dixon line is there. I mean, I've always considered it. Technically, it's the South because it is south of the Mason-Dixon line. But I think it's the North.

I don't know. I'd like to hear your feedback on that tweet. It doesn't have much of a South feel to it to me, though. No, no, not at all. Almost nowhere outside of maybe Western Maryland. No, it doesn't. Not at all not no almost nowhere outside of maybe western maryland no it doesn't not at all um but this is interesting piece in the journal today talking about the continued exodus from uh deep blue states people fleeing in droves the snake plissken of politics snake

plissken escape from new york um the the uh kurt russell i love that movie although escape from la the sequel was probably the worst film ever made. Escape from New York is still a classic. You know, there's nothing Snake Plissken wanted more than to get out of New York. It was like a prison colony to save, what was it, the president's daughter or son or something like that. People are escaping from New York and California and L.A. So this piece in the journal gives some more stunning numbers, folks. For you liberals out there who think we're making all this up.

And I titled this, The Exodus Continues, in capital letters. Illinois, Joe. Illinois, another high-tax, deep blue state, lost a record. Record. This is an astonishing number. $4.75 billion in adjusted gross income in 2015. Now, that's a staggering number four points do you know how many p how many high income earners have to leave to get an adjusted gross income loss of

4.75 billion you would have to have four billionaires in your state leave or or a ton of millionaires or a really ton of hundred thousandaires to leave your state. It has to stink so bad that they're leaving in droves. There's like, there's a conga line of people headed out of the state of Illinois. Here's what's even worse, Joe.

The 4.75 billion in AGI, adjusted gross income, in other words, earners that left Illinois in 2015, is up from $3.4 billion in the prior year, in 2014. So the trend line isn't even good. It's not just that the conga line of people is leaving. It's that the conga line is growing longer and the people leaving are richer. So all the money is leaving your state.

And this is the best part. And I love this. Oh, gosh, do I love this story. Their top destination is... Simon is building Florida, where I live, the Sunshine State. Of course. Of course it's Florida. Now, as I have repeatedly stated here.

Oh, by the way, one more thing. The outflow. Here's where it's really troubling. On a very serious note for Illinois, because I don't wish bad on these. I don't. I lived in blue states. I really wish they would get their acts together. But if they can't, I don't blame people for leaving.

A third of the outflow, Joe, is millennials. Now, you may say to yourself, well, why is that a problem? Millennials aren't your high earners. They're not. I mean, as a group, you're in your power earning years in your 40s and 50s. Here's the problem, Joe. These millennials are younger kids that in their 20s are going to earn money, in their 30s are going to earn money, in their 40s are going to earn money, and then they're going to reach their power years, 40s and 50s. They're high income where they're paying the most taxes and generating the most revenue for the state through their own individual productivity. They're not going to be there for

any of that. Not for their 20s, not for their 30s, not for their 40s, not for their retirement where they don't even demand government services anymore. They're not going to be there for any of it. People are leaving. Now, I get it. The comeback always, Joe, is the same thing every time. Well, that's not the only reason people leave. I know. I know. Listen to me. If this is a legal case, let's Atticus Finch this for a minute, okay? I get it. I get it. Point stipulated, Your Honor. It is not the only reason people are leaving Illinois, Maryland. Not the only reason people are leaving Illinois, Maryland. Not the only reason people are moving to Virginia from Maryland.

Not the only reason people are leaving California for Nevada. I get it. I understand that. What I'm telling you is your logic doesn't mean it isn't a reason at all people are leaving. You saying it's not the only reason doesn't preclude me from saying it's a big at all people are leaving. You saying it's not the only reason doesn't preclude me from saying it's a big darn reason people are leaving. Those are mutually exclusive here, okay?

People are leaving because of taxes. That doesn't mean nobody's leaving because of taxes, and it doesn't mean everybody's leaving because of taxes. Folks, what part, I mean, this is what I don't get about liberals. Is this not trouble you that the places you live where you enact the very agenda you profess to believe in is driving people to run away from you? How do you explain this away that they're going to states? Oh, by the way, Florida, which is a generally red-leaning state where you leave your guns in your wallet alone

and there's no state income tax. That doesn't you at all do you ever like seriously i mean this for a second do liberals ever engage in a moment of self-reflection and say if our policies are so wonderful why aren't people fleeing to our wonderful states that does that ever occur to you it's a serious question i'm not trying to be a jerk well maybe a little but i'm i'm i it is a serious question even if it was said quite sarcastically i mean joe if i live in florida you can't there's they're building on every piece of dry land down here i love it down here if people started evacuating florida tomorrow and we have a generally conservative state very friendly business-wise very friendly to your gun rights.

If there was a mass evacuation from Florida, like there's been from liberal states, I would genuinely be concerned. Like, what's going on? What are we doing wrong here? I'm a homeowner. My kids go to the schools here. Nope. No self-reflection at all, other than, well, it's not

the only reason. I get it. Again, no self-reflection at all other than, well, it's not the only reason. I get it. Again, no self-reflection at all. Very, very frustrating. All right, I got another story here, which is a doozy and another topic that comes up a lot in this show because it's very sensitive to me. But before we get to that, we've got our buddies at BrickHouse Nutrition. I am really in love with their new product. Seriously. I know they're a sponsor.

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issues that revolve around race and school choice in America. And his pieces are wonderful. I've quoted them hundreds of times on this show. But he has a piece up at the Journal today about an AP, Associated Press. This is a, they're becoming a left-leaning press outlet. Hit piece done on charter schools where they blame charter schools, Joe, for, I brought this up in a hit, I don't want to say a hit, but a rant I did on Randy

Weingarten, the head of one of the teachers unions a while ago, for racial segregation, perpetrating racial segregation in these charter schools. Now, Riley writes about this. This is nothing new. And people always ask me, where's the scam? Here is the AP, the core of the piece, Joe, that there are charter schools that are largely black that don't match up to the demographic racial breakdown of the states they're in,

and sometimes the cities. Now, you may say, well, okay, well, I guess maybe their point is right, that these schools are becoming racially segregated because they're, let's say, Joe, 95% black, but let's say the state is only 20% black. Now, liberals, you can stop listening now because again, this is where reason and rationality facts and data come in. I know you're not interested in any of that.

You're talking points over. Here's the actual analysis of what's going on for the conservatives and libertarians who are interested in the truth and the Democrats who are interested in reality. Where's the scam, Joe? The scam is that those numbers marry up almost perfectly to the racial breakdown of the actual communities the schools are in

son of a gun son of a gun how did that happen so in other words although the state of florida i don't know what it is 15 black 20 black it doesn't matter the charter schools where these these these non-public schools or public charters that are not subjected to union rules a better way to say it in some cases where these schools are located are located in neighborhoods some of which are largely black which are struggling which happen to be attended by this is a shocker joe wait for it black students who live in black neighborhoods in large numbers now the great part about the riley piece is he's like hey listen people aren't taking this crap laying down anymore there are now people who come from a lineage of civil rights activists he quotes

this one woman uh what's her name here miss wilkins i don't see the i took a screenshot of it because there's an important quote here who comes from a lineage of civil rights activists. This is not a woman in any way short on credentials in the civil rights community who just filleted this AP report. She got at the end of her piece. She's like, don't you dare say this is racial segregation. But here's a quote from her that just puts these people to sleep. She says, there is no comparison, none, between the enforced segregation of the pre-Brown versus Board era and the choices black families make when they enroll their children in better schools, wrote Ms. Wilkins.

It's ludicrous to suggest the two are in any way similar. In fact, it's far closer to the spirit of Jim Crow to tell a black student that she has to go to her dismal neighborhood school because the better charter school up the street is not white enough to satisfy the defenders of the status quo. Yeah. All right. Nice. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. That's right. You're darn right, Ms. Wilkins. That's the way to rock and roll. So let's just for a second. First, we debunk the AP's nonsense. The AP's nonsense is that, oh, these are racially segregated schools. How? They're largely black schools in largely black neighborhoods. Oh, so you use the state numbers and the city numbers, not the actual neighborhoods these kids come from.

That's a nice job. Well done. That's a solid, rigorous statistical analysis, you dopes. But secondly, she brings up a great point. That's the first thing that jumped out to me when I read the piece. What are you saying, Joe? Even if that was accurate, even if the numbers were accurate, let's say the neighborhoods they come from, these students were, I don't know, 20% black, not 95% or 90 or whatever

it may be. And the school is 95% black. So what? Yeah. the parents picked that school i mean i don't understand what are you saying if if black children i mean i'm real joe i'm serious i'm trying to walk through what the liberal logic is here yeah yeah are you saying that if black students aren't surrounded by white kids they can't learn anything i joe it's just right is that not a legitimate question what what are you saying i don't i don't get it i don't understand like what what your point is your point is what that keep in mind joe the evidence that these schools and jason riley puts it in the piece the evidence is quite clear that these schools are

helping these kids out that they're doing far better than the schools they came from. But what are you suggesting? That the fact that they're not around a white kid, that this is let's get some white kids in here. We need some. I mean, this is insane. Well, you know, that's just like your opinion, man. I mean, that was the dude. That was perfect for the dude that is that's the logic well yeah that's just like your opinion man there's no other way to say it first you lie

about segregation they're black kids in a black school in a black neighborhood by the way they picked the school they weren't forced to go there as if by way, the parents are too dumb to make their own decisions. Is that what you're saying? And then you're saying what? Because they're not surrounded by white kids that, oh, they can't learn. One, who's they? And what do you mean they can't learn? What are you talking about?

Folks, I'm going to wrap it up with this. This is the, I'm not a huge George W. Bush fan, but he once said something about the soft bigotry of low expectations. I'm going to dispute that for a second. That's hard bigotry. It's not soft. It may be softer in its approach,

softer in its wording, softer in its rhetoric, but it's not soft. Assuming black families can't make proper choices for themselves because why exactly? You fill in the blank, liberals. I'm sure you have some reason why you'll disparage them. And then secondly, assuming black kids can't learn, even though the evidence says otherwise, if they're not surrounded by white kids, is really a pretty disgusting, horrible thing to say. But I've said it over and over, not all,

but a good majority of liberals are not soft bigots. They're hard bigots. They just won't tell you. They treat black families paternalistically like they need their help. Oh, we'll help you. We'll help.

We've got this. We've got this, Mr. Black Man. I'll help you. Oh, voter ID? One more thing. There's a video out there. I don't know who shot it. Maybe Ami Horowitz or whoever.

Someone shot it. And they did these man on the street interviews. And they went to college campuses and talked to these snowflake kids, white kids, by the way, about voter ID and watched the answers. Well, we know blacks are arrested a lot. I'm not kidding. These are actual answers. But, you know, blacks don't have access to the internet. Yeah, I'm done

with that. I can't. And yet, Joe, conservatives, yes, we're the racist party. Assuming that black families are just as smart as everyone else and can make their own decisions. We're the racists. We're the racists for saying that. For not treating black families different than you treat anybody else. We're the racist

party. What a joke. Gotta be kidding me. Sorry. You gotta laugh at these idiots. Alright, folks. Thanks again for tuning in. I really appreciate it. Please go to my website, Bongino.com. Subscribe to my email list. I'll send you these articles right to your email box. I'll see you all tomorrow. You just heard the Dan Bongino Show. Get more of Dan online anytime at conservativereview.com.

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