The Dan Bongino Show - Ep. 645 Why The Democrats Are so Angry Today

Episode Date: January 31, 2018

Interesting highlights of Trump’s speech last night. More terrific economic news for Trump. This piece debunks Democrats’ lies about the Russia investigation. Liberals are panicking and are now talking about a second Trump “dossier.”   Copyright CRTV. All rights reserved. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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I'm doing good, man. What a day yesterday. Oh my gosh, I know. Me and Joe have been very busy running into each other face to face. Finally, the dream team, the Wonder Twins, activated back in D.C. But we've pretty much, Joe, wouldn't you say, been at it for about 48 hours straight now. Everywhere I'm looking, there you are. Oh, gosh. I mean, all over Washington. And I was over there working with CR Group.

So, man, what a day. I've slept like four hours, folks. I'm not even kidding. But I'm not making this up. I said once for you new listeners that I was at a CPAC speech once, and Ann Coulter was very sick. And she opened up the speech by saying she was sick. And I said, you know, I shouldn't have done that because I felt bad for her the whole time, and I was distracted. I always promised if I was ever not into it or didn't, I would never do the show.

So if I'm here, I'm pretty stoked about doing it. And after last night's speech, there's just so much to talk about. about doing it and after last night's speech there's just so much to talk about um some breaking news again i think uh on this speech uh on not just a speech but on the trump investigation too joe there's apparently a second dossier so now the first crappy dossier wasn't enough so now we need a second crappy dossier just in case the first crappy dossier falls apart talk about your wonder twins oh my god the wonder twins of crappy dossiers. So I got to get to that. I got a few other things.

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where Trump mentioned thaticans are dreamers too now it's it's interesting because i've i've kind of hammered this point on my my twitter often about the language democrats use to win the arguments in advance when we start referring to people joe as dreamers who are here illegally um you've automatically ceded the moral high ground in the state i mean joe think about it right who wants to deport a dreamer right you don't want to deport a dreamer. They're dreaming. They're dreaming of things. Dreaming is good. Folks, the Democrats own the messaging game for the longest time. Now, I've mentioned this theory before, but I'm going to tell you why.

Why they own the messaging game, that is. Someone said this to me a long time ago, and I never forgot it because they were that is. Someone said this to me a long time ago and I never forgot it because they were absolutely right. They said, here's the problem with it. And you've heard this before, Joe, I see it on your head. The Republican Party, the donor base, a lot of the people who contribute to the party

and guide where the party is going to go, a lot of high-end activists and people like that, people who want to point the principal ideological direction of the party in this direction, right? They are and have been traditionally natural resources folks, the petroleum industry, commodities folks, right? People who are in commoditized fields where marketing doesn't matter much. I promise this will make sense in a second, okay? Don't lose me on this. The people who guide the Republican Party and support it

are generally people in commodities-type fields. Marketing is not a big portion of their business. I mean, Joe, if you're selling gasoline, it's like, well, what is marketing? It's like, buy my gasoline. It smells like real gasoline. There's really nothing to say. It's kind of like-

It sells itself. It sells itself. It's a commoditized product, right? The Democrats' activist donor base, that's not the case. You have tech people. You have like the Apple, Google crowd. These people, their entire lives are marketing. These are people who go out there and they have to make like, you know, the iPhone sexy and, you know, Beats headphones and all of that stuff.

They have to, and marketing is their thing. They can sell ice to an Eskimo, right? As they say. That is what they do. The Democrats have owned us on messaging. We finally have a president based on that State of the Union last night. Finally, who has figured out

that the problem with the Republican Party is not the message. It's the messaging. What he said last night, a couple of those lines, and granted, I don't want to be hyperbolic or exaggerate. The State of the Union, he said last night, a couple of those lines, and granted, I don't want to be hyperbolic or exaggerate.

The State of the Union, he'll get a small bump out of it and a week later, people will forget. But it's the accumulation over time of collective small bumps which lead to an overall bump in presidential approval

which leads to re-election. So I don't want to downplay it either. But he said a couple things, Joe, last night. You and I were there at CRTV doing the coverage there. And he brought up that line that Americans are dreamers too. And I thought, yes, finally a president who senses a weak spot

with the Democrats. Folks, the Democrats have TDS so bad. Trump derangement syndrome so bad. They are so emotionally invested in hating the president that the Democrats forgot what I just told you. It has been, and wouldn't you agree, Joe, it has been their superiority in learning

messaging, not the message, it's different, that has constantly enabled them to beat us back and beat us back despite having superior party platforms. Now we got a president who seized on the moment. The Democrats, what do the Democrats call a show? We're deplorables. We didn't build that. American exceptionalism is no different than Greek exceptionalism, as Obama alluded to that time in the speech. And Americans were like, wait, what? This is crazy. Now, all of a sudden, you have a president up there that sees this weak spot. Boom. Right cross, left talk. Right away, this weak spot, boom.

Right cross, left talk. Right away, Americans are dreamers too. Bang. Powerful moment in the speech. Couple other quick things on it. You're going to see a lot of coverage, and you'll have talk radio on all day, and I think one of the things, Joe,

what I do different is we try to focus on stuff people aren't talking about, so I don't want to waste your time. But there were a couple other standout parts. One of them was the Congressional Black Caucus, and I brought this up on Fox last night. Congressional Black Caucus, which is really all Democrats. Man. Did you find that a little odd, Joe, that Trump gets up there, he starts touting the lowest black unemployment rate in decades?

I'm not going to say his because the way they measure it over time and underemployment. But we can confidently say, you and I, Joe, that black unemployment and the black unemployment rate is very, very low right now. In other words, the economy is doing quite well for black America. Trump starts talking about that. This is, wouldn't you agree, Joe, a nonpartisan success story?

I would certainly hope so. You're damn right. You would hope so. And you would hope wrong because, of course, the Democrats screwed us over again. What do they do? The Congressional Black Caucus sits on their hands. They don't even get up to clap. And folks, again, this is the Democrat Party falling apart because they are obsessed with Trump derangement syndrome. Rather than giving him just a small victory and a small moment for him to a nonpartisan moment for everybody to say,

okay, you know what? There have been some issues in all communities, but the black community unemployment remains stubbornly high under the Obama administration. Now we can get up and clap. It's not really a Trump thing. It's our thing, right? I mean, this is them talking. They didn't even do that.

Sat on their hands the whole time. What a disgrace, a total disgrace, folks. So I have a really interesting article in the show notes today at Bongino.com. Please subscribe to my email list there. Sorry to hound you about it, but it really helps us get the message out. But a really good piece from the Daily Signal

that covers some of the other highlights of the speech. But I'll leave you with this. I thought it was a great speech. I thought it was aspirational. I thought the part about annihilating terrorists was terrific. We're not sending them to terrorists was terrific. We're not sending them to sandals anymore. We're not sending them to the Poconos. We're not sending them to

a Hawaiian beach. Yes, we're killing terrorists who want to kill us. That's how people talk. And one more thing, and I'm sorry, I have so much to say this morning. I just try to motor through these topics because I want to make sure I get you the good stuff. Last night while on a panel, I was trying to explain the Trump phenomenon and why Trump, despite not having the most polished or eloquent speeches, Joe, why what he says resonates so many millions of people. And I brought up the fact that there were two things about Trump's personality that I think I understand, not uniquely, but because I grew up under similar circumstances. Obviously, I'm not a billionaire like he is, but Trump was a Queens guy, Joe. I'm from Queens, New York. And the thing about Queens, New York, guys, this explains a lot about Trump. Don't forget this, folks, ever. when you grow up in Queens you're never

everybody has a chip on their shoulder everyone in Queens and there's a reason I don't say it in a bad way I was a Queens kid because the Brooklyn kids

and the Bronx kids are the tough guys they are they're just it's just it's tattooed on you you're from Brooklyn oh you must be tough

you're from Brooklyn that's just the way it is you're from Brooklyn you were automatically assumed to be tough the Queens kids never had that built in edge so they were always like you know you always want to you have a chip You're from Brooklyn. You were automatically assumed to be tough. The Queens kids never had that built-in edge.

So they were always like, you know, you always want to, you have a chip on your shoulder. You almost want to start a fight, Joe, with a Brooklyn guy just to show him you're tough too. I mean, maybe that's why I do martial arts and mixed martial arts and grappling and boxing. I don't know. But that's Queens, right? Not only that, they don't have the money or prestige of the Manhattan kids. So it's on one end you're not as tough and edgy and streetwise or this is a perception by the way I'm not talking about reality

but you're not as tough and edgy and streetwise as the Brooklyn kids but you're never going to get the social acceptance of the wealthy elites like the Manhattan kids do so there's an edge on both sides and you see these Queens kids always having to prove themselves And that's one of the reasons I and folks I'm not covering for anybody. I'm certainly not trying to Provide messaging air cover for Trump here. I'm just trying to explain to you Why he talks and does the things he does but I totally get it. This is Queens guys because of that edge and the need to always kind of impress people because they've always you know Not as tough as the Brooklyn kids or as rich as the Manhattan kids show, they all talk like he does.

We exaggerate stuff. You know, it's like I was giving an example the other day. You know, when I was growing up, I used to go in this bagel store that was next door to my house and I'd get, babe, the bagels were really good. And I remember chatting with the guy one day and, you know, you'll tell a story about the guy who owned a bagel store, this guy Cosmo, and you'd be like, man, Cosmo. This Cosmo's rich, he's worth like 40 million. Meanwhile, the guy's worth like 400,000. But everybody gets it.

Now, right, Joe, you're laughing, but Joe's an honest guy. Joe's a church-going guy. To Joe, that's a lie, right, Joe? You said he's worth 40 million. But to a Queens guy, it's not because the Queens guys understand that there's always a built-in level

of 10 times exaggeration. So it's not a lie to the Queens guy, because the Queens guy who's talking to the Queens guy understands that $400 million or $40 million really means $400,000. You get what I'm saying? We're going to do it. You see where I'm going with that, right?

Yeah. Yeah, that's a Queens thing, okay? Now, that explains away the exaggeration portion of Trump. That's just how guys talk. But the builder portion of him and why he's got this bravado. And the reason I'm even mentioning this is because a lot of that came out in the speech last night. Like a big aspirational speech. Like we're going to chest puff a little bit.

We're going to kill terrorists. Americans are dreamers. This is great going to chest puff a little bit. We're going to kill terrorists. Americans are dreamers. This is great. But he was a builder too. And the thing about builders in New York is my father was a building inspector and he he's dealt with people like Trump his entire life. When you're a builder in New York, you have to deal with things. Builders elsewhere don't have to deal with to the degree you have to in New York.

You have to deal with unions show. You have to deal with the mob. You have to deal with to the degree you have to in New York. You have to deal with unions, Joe. You have to deal with the mob. You have to deal with city inspectors all the time. You have to deal with inflated contractor prices. So when you're a builder in New York, you have to be tough. And Gavin McGinnis brought this up in the panel last night off the air. It was a great point. He said that some elitist Republican one time told him that he didn't like Trump

because Trump wasn't a handshake guy. I don't know if you heard this, Joe, in the control room, but it was an excellent point. Gavin brought up the guy who told Gavin this meant like if Trump shook hands on a deal that sometimes he goes, the guy told Gavin, like sometimes he would stiff contractors. And, but Gavin was like, he goes, you know what? If I was smarter at the time and I knew what I knew now, I would have responded. He goes, but I didn't. And he wasn't stiffing contractors. The difference in New York doing business, if you understand builders in New York, is Joe, you'll get a bill from a contractor.

He'll say, hey, this service is $100. Meanwhile, 50 of it's fluff built in. And then at the end of the contract, they'll be like, oh, by the way, price change. It's now 200. So Trump would come back to the table being the queen's builder he was and be like, no we said 100 we're paying 100 well did he really get stiffed or was it trump doing business in new york and trying to maintain some integrity for his business folks that's what i'm not apologizing for the guy i'm just telling you i'm trying to explain away why you get this exaggerated language and while you get this this tough kind of edgy talk when he does a deal with people,

because that's what he's had to do his whole life. And I think that came out last night in the State of the Union. So a lot of it was aspirational, as with most State of the Unions. Not much of it's probably likely to happen, but I thought it was a good speech nonetheless. All right. I got a lot more to get to. Today's show also brought to you by our buddies at Filter By. Folks, we love Filter By. You got to change your air filters in your house. It's winter now. It's cold. It's been freezing everywhere from Dallas to Minneapolis to New York to DC where we are today. You're going to spend a lot of your time indoors and the air indoors can be up to a hundred times as polluted as the air outside. Your pollen, allergy aggravating pollutants, your mold, mildew in the air.

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dossier as you know in the case and i explained to you was uh is an is an integral part of a part of the trump russia fiasco because what's alleged to have happened with the dossier is we, the Hillary Clinton campaign paid a law firm to pay a company, to pay a British spy, a former British spy, to pay people connected with Russian intelligence to gather bad information on Trump. The takeaway from that, very simply, the Hillary team sent money to an operation that got information from russian intelligence on trump folks i just want to be clear on this because sometimes we have to rewind the tape a little bit not that is not illegal opposition research on political candidates however untoward and disgusting at times is not illegal i'm not alleging hillary did anything

wrong with that what was wrong about the dossier, which would just to be clear what that was, for those of you who may have missed the beginning of the story, the dossier was a compilation of these lurid, sordid, nonsensical, farcical, ridiculous tales about Donald Trump that Russian intel provided to Hillary.

It was fake. It's been debunked. It's not true. These tales were so ridiculous that how anybody believed them in the first place is incredible. The problem with the dossier is elements of it were used by federal

agents to apply for an application to spy on Donald Trump. Don't ever forget that. Because remember, as I always say, 30,000 feet. Remember what we're talking about because people get lost in this case sometimes. We were talking about Donald Trump

and his team being spied on, being spied on by Barack Obama and his, not personally, but his administration and the effort to cover the whole thing up. Okay? Don't ever forget that's what we're talking about. Now, the first dossier,

which I just described to you, Joe, has been entirely debunked, right? There has now been the reappearance of a second dossier and you have to ask yourself why why is a second dossier appearing now now this second dossier was not drawn up by the same people who did the first dossier fusion gps and christopher steel the second dossier was done by a guy named Cody Shearer, who's a political operative of the highest order, right? Folks, I'm going to suggest to you, because I've got a lot to get to on this and some really damning stuff, that the second, the emergence of this second dossier is Democrats in full, full-blown panic

mode right now. Now, Joe, you may be asking yourself, well, why? I don't get where you're going with this. Remember what I told you. Initially, when CNN had an inkling that the dossier of CNN and the left-leaning media outlets and Democrats in Congress had an inkling that some of this may be true, and they thought they'd get rid of Trump

and impeach him anyway, so it really didn't matter if it wasn't. Like, if I had information on Joe and his jaywalking scandal, right, and I think it may or may not be true, but I think we're going to impeach Joe anyway. So it really didn't matter if it wasn't. Like if I had information on Joe and his jaywalking scandal, right? And I think it may or may not be true, but I think we're going to impeach Joe as president anyway. I just feed that stuff to sources in the media.

I haven't put it out there. And who cares if we find out it's not true in two years, Joe's impeached, it doesn't matter. Where the story got thrown for a loop is Donald Trump passed the tax cuts. His approval rating is bumped. Now the Democrats are seeing he's not going to be impeached. So now they're in a lot of trouble because they fed to the media and the FBI had used

some elements of this dossier in an actual legal proceeding to spy on the Trump team. And now they're realizing they're going to have to deal with it because Trump's not going anywhere. You see where I'm going with this? So the dossier, the authenticity of it didn't matter because they thought they'd be rid of Trump right now. Is this making sense? Perfect. They thought they'd be rid of Trump right now. Is this making sense? Perfect.

They figured they'd be done with them. Whether it was fake or not, folks, didn't matter one bit. The emergence of the second dossier says to me, these dudes and ladies in the Democrat Party are in meltdown mode. Because now they need to rescue elements of the dossier, because when the memo comes out, the Devin Nunes memo that describes what we've been told, describes the spying operation by the Trump team, and I'm sure it's going to at some point talk about the process where the dossier was used,

the Democrats are going to have to save face. Why? Because they're going to have to say at some point to the American public, well, you know, we use this dossier and here's why. So now they need to redeem it, Joe. Now they need to redeem it. Now they're going to say, oh, look, see, we thought the dossier was real because there's a second one, too, that says the same, even though the second one is just as big a BS as the first one. Folks, you see where I'm going with this? They didn't care about the authenticity first.

They thought they'd be rid of Trump. Now that they know they're going to have to deal with them, and that this memo is going to be released describing what they did in your name, the spying on Donald Trump, with no probable cause, they are going to have to answer to this. And to answer it, they're going to start producing all kinds of nonsensical information, like, oh, well, look, there was a second dossier too it doesn't matter joe joe if i say joe armacost has red hair and i produce a dossier that says it and then i produce a second dossier

that joe has says joe has red hair joe does not have red hair he has elvis hair it's black joe has elvis's elvis as the spirit of elvis lives in jo okay? He doesn't have red hair. I can produce 100 dossiers. It doesn't make a difference. It is not going to change Joe's hair. They are trying desperately now to save face because a couple people sent this to me on email yesterday. I appreciate the correspondence as always.

And they said, Dan, can you look into this? What's the second dossier? Like this thing just came out now? The answer is no, it didn't. That second dossier has been around forever. Well, it's been around since the spying started largely, false accusations in that paperwork. Now that they realize their spying is going to be exposed, they're going to do everything in their power to have to explain away why. And one of their explanations, Joe, is going to be, well, we got a second one too. So of course it was just logical that we believed it. Now, I spoke with an interesting person yesterday.

I got to tell you, having an audience, thanks to you, by the way, exclusively, as large as we've been fortunate enough to have, people reach out. And once you establish their bona fides, yeah, I didn't tell you this. So I got a call yesterday, and someone said to me, listen, here's what's interesting about the dossier too. He said, there is a asset verification process, Joe, that they go through. So let's not talk law enforcement jargon here for a minute. If I'm going to use you as a source, Joe, in other words, let's say you're dealing with some guy

and he's shady and he starts talking about robbing a bank. And you go to the FBI and you say, hey, guys, I was talking to my neighbor, Bob, and he's talking about robbing a bank. And you want to be a source. In order to verify you as a source, Joe, or what we would call as an asset, as a law enforcement asset, your information, there's two things that have to happen. Folks, don't forget this because it'll make this whole Trump thing make sense for you when it comes to the dossier. There are two things you have to do before doing this, Joe. Swear into it. I'm raising my right hand for Joe here. If I put my right hand up in court as a federal agent, I swear to a search warrant, an arrest warrant. I am swearing that the information I have in there is true or that

I've done my homework to make sure it's true. The homework, you have two avenues. Joe comes in, he says, my neighbor wants to rob a bank. I want to talk. I want to help you guys out. I have to verify the information independently of Joe. I can't just walk into court the next day and say, Joe told me his neighbor's going to rob a bank and we get a search warrant. The judge would laugh you out of there.

So what I can do is I can go do surveillance, physical surveillance. If Joe says, hey, my neighbor's going to rob a bank, I can say, hey guys, let's go get a surveillance team. Let's get in a van and let's look at Joe's neighbor, not really difficult stuff. What else can we do? We can pull some bank records. We can subpoena some what we used to call muds and luds back in the days, some phone records. We can subpoena some, what we used to call muds and luds back in the days, some phone records. We can do an independent investigation that verifies what Joe said is true. And then, Joe, then we go to court and we swear to it and we say we can validate the asset. Joe is an asset. I get a call yesterday. A guy says, listen, there's a pretty formal procedure to verify assets in the FBI. And he said, the one question you're not asking, which we may have, but we may not have asked it the right way, is what was the asset verification procedure for Steele?

Steele. In other words, Christopher Steele's the guy who puts the Democrats are saying at least, I believe he may be a pawn in this too, but Christopher Steele puts together these salacious allegations against Donald Trump in the original dossier, Joe, the one swore to in court. He said

what was the asset verification process? Is there paperwork on it? How did the FBI verify the asset? And I thought, gosh, that's a beautiful question. Who did it? Who said this guy's information is legit and here's why? And he said, when you find out how the mechanics of that asset verification process were walked through, he said, I think you're going to find some very disturbing things. In other words, Joe, that red flags were everywhere along the way that this guy's

information were garbage. I mean, you know, I'm having this conversation last night and it was great because the source was right about the whole thing. He goes, listen, if somebody called you tomorrow and said like, hey, Trump's a space alien and I'm a source for it, you'd be like, that's just stupid information. But Joe, some of the information in the dossier was so ridiculous and absurd, it should have immediately raised red flags. The golden shower story, folks, come on. I mean, it was just dumb. It was just a stupid story that shouldn't have made sense on its face. its face. But he said the fact that they didn't pick this up, and not only did they not pick up that the stories were ridiculous, that they did almost nothing to ensure that the assets' other

information were verified as well, or almost nothing according to formal procedures. He said it's going to leave a big black hole in this investigation. Folks, what I'm telling you is very important, and I'm trying not to keep it too law enforcement wonky, but the reason all of this is important is because it goes back to what I've told you from episode 628 on. This was an effort from the beginning to set up and spy on the Trump team. They did not let legal formalities, the Constitution, rules, or procedures get in the way. Do you understand what I'm telling you? This was like Cuba police state style tactics taken against Donald Trump at that time in American citizen and presidential candidate. The constitution didn't apply to him. Folks, they spied on his team with no probable cause. They used information from assets and

sources that they never verified and they never verified the sources either. Remember, the only thing in the original dossier anybody can prove even happened was that Carter Page traveled to Moscow. That's it. I traveled to Moscow. What the hell does that mean? Folks, this is the most troubling case of law enforcement corruption I have ever seen in my life. Deeply disturbing on so many levels. Now, a couple other things that were brought up to me, and I hope someone's listening with some influence here, because I know some people pay attention, let's just say, to our show. I know, because I hear it.

I'm like, did you hear that on my show? No, no, I didn't hear that on my show. You sure? Because that's the only place I said it. I'll talk about that some other time. It's interesting though. I'll tell you offline. But another interesting component of this, the central figures in this, Andrew McCabe, the number two,

who's now going to step down after five weeks. Someone brought up something to me that was fascinating. And if you are a former agent out there and you know something about this, I would love to do some verification myself. So let me know. You know where to find me. I was told that Jim Comey was a part-time FBI director, Joe, which is an interesting point. That Comey rarely worked on Mondays or Fridays, that Comey worked basically three or four days a week and would head up to a different place. I'm not going to say where, but the information seemed pretty legitimate to me,

especially the way it was presented to me. Now, why is it relevant to any of this? Yeah, right. It's relevant to this case because the number two with the FBI the entire time is Andrew McCabe, who is a central figure in all of this, whose wife is running as a Democrat for state Senate in Virginia and is taking money from Clinton consiglieres. Lots of money. Matter of fact, she took about, I think it was $700,000 for a state Senate race.

That's Joe and I know politics pretty well at the local level. Probably would have cost, what, $50,000, Joe? Yeah. So there's a reason a lot of Terry McAccullough who's a clinton acolyte terry mccullough money is heading to to mandy mccabe's wife i bring that up in relationship to comey and his you know part-time director status because one of the things that came up that was fascinating was who do you think was really running the fbi when when Jim Comey wasn't around? Andrew McCabe.

You're darn right, brother. Andrew McCabe, the number two, the deuce there, right? So Andy McCabe's influence as a number two may have been as kind of a two pseudo number one, you know, like he's really in control when Comey's not around. It's a very interesting point when you put together the chronology of events that a guy whose wife is a devout Democrat, running as a Democrat, taking extraordinary sums of money for her campaign from Clinton acolytes, is at the same time insisting on not recusing himself from the Clinton email investigation and is also then targeting Donald Trump in an investigation to spy on Donald Trump with no probable cause to do so.

Folks, again, what I'm trying to paint a picture for you here over these episodes is how not just, not solely was the Constitution thrown out the window and Donald Trump's rights as an American citizen to, you know, to have his, not have his papers searched and seized, his communication searched and seized by the government. Not only was that violated, but rules and procedures were violated as well. And they were violated by people who had a political, if not ideological interest in taking down Donald Trump and protecting Hillary Clinton. Now, it's all going to flow here. Another thing that came up in the conversation is, remember I told you about Mike Flynn, how Mike Flynn was railroaded. Mike Flynn, General Mike Flynn was railroaded. They showed up at the White House, two agents,

Peter Stroke and another agent. They showed up at the White House to interview him and didn't tell him it was a criminal interview. What they told Mike Flynn when they showed up at the White House to interview him and didn't tell him it was a criminal interview. What they told Mike Flynn when they showed up at the White House, he was under the assumption from what I've got from very good sourcing that it was some kind of a national security meeting, Joe. Not surprising at all because Flynn was the acting national security advisor at the time. These FBI, and he's communicated with these people before at the upper ranks of the FBI. It's not unusual. He's communicated with these people before at the upper ranks of the FBI. It's not unusual. They show up to the White House and Flynn has no lawyer, nothing.

And right away, they start talking about a conversation Flynn had with the Russian ambassador, Sergei Kislyak, before Trump had taken office. Folks, there's nothing unusual about that at all. He was the incoming national security advisor. But they want to pitch this Logan Act thing where private citizens can't negotiate on behalf of the government. As I've said before, I'm not going to repeat the show. The Logan Act is not a serious thing. No one has ever been prosecuted for it in the history of the United States. John Kerry was just negotiating with the Palestinians. Why isn't he in jail? The answer is because the Logan Act

isn't even constitutional. Nobody gets prosecuted for the Logan Act, but they decided they were going to get Flynn. So Peter Stroke shows up at the White House with this other agent and they interview Flynn. This is important. It's going to tie into McCabe in a second. They show up at the White House and the other agent in the room, he goes back after the interview and they talk to who, Joe? They talk to Andy McCabe, who I just told you is de facto running this entire thing right now, okay? They talked to McCabe and the other agent in the room with Stroke.

Now, Stroke's compromised. We know that from his texts. I don't mean compromised by the Russians. I mean ideologically compromised. His texts to his love interest, who also works at the FBI, indicate clearly he hates Donald Trump. He can't stand him. And he just doesn't want him to be president. So Stroke, the emails are devastating.

Stroke is involved in the whole thing. Stroke and the other agent who interviews Flynn go back and they meet with McCabe. They tell McCabe in the office, the other agent in the room thinks that Flynn was honest and open and sees no problem with the interview at all. It's Stroke and McCabe who override this guy's opinion and decide to go forward with a prosecution on false statements. Ladies and gentlemen, why am I telling you this? Because to anybody listening out there, I'm just asking you to do the right thing. I know who that other agent is.

I'm not going to say his name, but I know some of you do too. When I say you, you know who I'm talking about. Why isn't he up on Capitol Hill? You know, he's, subpoena him. You need to talk to him. Somebody needs to figure out why two FBI agents, Joe, walked into the White House to interview the National Security Advisor and came out with entirely disparate opinions about what happened in that interview. Now, let me ask you a question, Joe. Yes, sir. One agent comes out.

One agent says we thought he was open and honest. We didn't really see a problem with the interview. The other agent, who is a known Trump hater, who has been involved in covering for Hillary the entire time, his texts expose him as being ideologically corrupted in this. He then gives an alternate opinion. Who do you trust? The guy who said nothing really happened there or the guy who said, oh, Mike Flynn, we got to go get him. I'll go with Mr. Nothing really happened. I'll go with Mr. Nothing really happened. You'll go with Mr. Nothing really happened because you're a smart guy.

You'd be a great FBI agent. Now, what I found interesting, Joe, is Andy McCabe, the number two, instead of doing the responsible thing and finding a way to arbitrate between these two and come to some middle ground. Well, hey, why are you saying the interview was fine and you saying that, you know, the interview was terrible and we got to move forward? That's not what happened. McCabe moves forward with this prosecution of Mike Flynn for false statements to the FBI. Folks, I'm telling you, this thing stinks. So I'm asking anyone with any influence on the Hill or anyone else listening, go find that guy. You know who he is. Issue him a subpoena. Subpoena ad testificatum to come and testify.

Bring him up in front of a closed committee or whatever it may be. And I want you to ask him what was said in that room. And I want you to ask him why he was overridden, why he thinks he was overridden, and why he thinks Mike Flynn was being honest in that interview. And I think you're going to find, again, some deeply disturbing police state tactics used again. Folks, this story gets worse and worse and worse. I've got some more on this because people are calling left and right. I have a different source on another piece of information on that too. But I'm trying to give you all investigative tips out there because, you know, Judy, Donna, and all you folks who are email there because, you know, Judy, Donna,

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So I get a, dude, people still say doozy other than me. One of the things about Andrew McCabe, I was told, which is interesting. Remember, Andrew McCabe, again, is the number two who uh at the fbi who is you know for some intents and purposes running the fbi at times and that's what the number two does so when the number one is out of commission from what i've been told the number one comey at this point is out of commission a lot i'm hearing from a number of people that comey's hubris brought him down in this now i want to be clear on this. Because I had a little bit of an argument over the phone last night,

and I think this is critical, especially for a lot of people following this case intimately who want to be kind of pointed in the right direction or the wrong direction. It happens to me a lot. Sometimes I'll say stuff, and they'll be like, you're kind of onto it, but not, and the source will go, go in this direction more. One of the things I was told last night, Joe, which is pretty fascinating, this is how I know we're onto something,

when Joe starts paying attention to the bike, because I don't tell Joe this before, because that is how i know we're on to something joe starts like paying attention to the bike because i don't tell joe this before because that's how i know if it's interesting or not i'm not even kidding folks they told me something about comey which was fascinating they said for a really smart guy joe he's really arrogant like he really loved being the fbi director, because of the, you know, uh, the, the, the, uh,

so the office, he loved it. He loved being the pats on the back. He's the FBI director. Love people kissing his butt. I believe. Yeah. Yeah.

You see, he comes off that way too. And the source was telling me that he thinks that plays a big role in this because Comey, he doesn't, I'm not, I don't know if I believe this, but the source doesn't think that Comey even had an active role

in the targeting of Trump. In other words, for Comey, it may not have been as much malicious. Don't get me wrong. Comey doesn't like Trump. And again, I'm giving you his perspective, not mine. So folks, please don't send me emails. Comey's a bad guy.

I get it. I'm with you. I'm just giving you an alternate perspective from someone i trust who gave me some pretty profound and interesting information it's a different person by the way said said to me about comey that he was being guided the entire time by mccabe and bill pricestep who's the number one in counter intel in other words on this trump thing Joe and the Hillary thing that he really was not that he wasn't hands-on he was but it was his sense of I'm not explaining this well, and I don't I don't like doing that to my audience

The person I spoke to I got the impression was was was trying to defend a little bit. Like, oh, it wasn't really his fault. It was McCabe. It was Price Step. It was Stroke. They were guiding Comey in a direction and they were kind of hiding a lot of what was going on facts-wise from him in an effort to drive a narrative to Comey too. And Comey was kind of a sucker. And I don't accept that. And let me just explain why. I don't explain. Comey comes off to me as a very non-humble arrogant person and folks i think it was the hubris that he failed to question his his his upper management his brass his suits at the fbi who were coming to him out of a sense of joe like in other words maybe a better way to explain this i can't be i'm jim comey no one's gonna lie to me like i can't be deceived by my guys. That's narcissism, dude.

Yeah. A hundred percent. He could not engage in a moment of self-reflection where he said to himself, like, I'm looking at you now. He looks in the mirror and goes, wait, is any of this actually true? Trump's colluding with the Russians. His dossier, he's doing golden showers. I think it's his hubris that brought him down and everyone else.

Now, the reason I bring this up again, and I'm doing this linearly going down my notes here, is again, the point keeps coming up that the person, the primary conduit to feed this information to Comey, that he's not questioning out of a sense of hubris, like nobody would dare lie to me, I'm Jim Comey. to Comey that he's not questioning out of a sense of hubris. Like, nobody would dare lie to me. I'm Jim Comey. The person who's feeding him all this, Joe, is Andrew McCabe. Again, the number two.

A central figure in this entire investigation. But it was Comey's hubris that failed to protect him against the fact that his number two may have been misleading him. Now, that bothers me because people are now trying to run and like Eric Holder, the former attorney general, they're trying to defend the crown and defend McCabe when I think it's clear at this point that McCabe definitely screwed something up here. So just to be clear where I'm going with this entire thing,ccabe is the number two at times he is the de facto number one based on comey's loose work schedule it is mccabe who agrees with stroke after flynn is interviewed at the white house to override and pull rank on the other fbi agent in

the room interviewing flynn who believes flynn did nothing wrong. It is also McCabe who decides to proceed with the Trump investigation. And he's also feeding information, you know, of course, to Comey, who's making decisions based on what he's getting from McCabe. McCabe is a central figure in all of this, folks. And McCabe's wife is running as a Democrat, supported basically by, at some point, people who are supporters of bill uh bill clinton for a lot of money they send a lot of money his way now one other point about mccabe and this is a hint hint like kind of wink and a nod joe to anyone who's listening supposedly mccabe was a how do we describe a briefer you know what a briefer is joe it's like it's one of those cops or agents that's really not a cop.

They're just like a suit. Like they've never actually arrested anyone. You know what I'm talking about? I didn't know before, but now I do. Yeah, like the FBI is full of them. I know FBI agents. I've worked with them. They're amazing.

They are. They're really terrific. I'm not saying that to get a pat on the back. They're really terrific. They're super smart, and they know their stuff. But there's a cultural divide in the fbi just like in the secret service in the secret service there's a big divide between the protection guys and the crim guys the criminal guys there is it's like the protections where you you earn your reputation in the secret service i'm sorry if

you don't do the president's detail you just looked at different in the secret service the bureau kind of has a similar culture they're the street guys that caught bank robbers, Joe, child molesters, financial scam artists, the street guys who are out there doing it. And then there's the suits, the briefers, the guys who do good briefs and they get in front, they do PowerPoints, but they've never really arrested someone. The word about McCabe I'm getting from multiple sources is that McCabe was a briefer. He was a gamer. He leveraged connections and the ability to look the part,

act the part, talk the part to promote himself up into the FBI and get the number two position. He also leveraged his connections the entire time. This may work against him in this case, but here's the wink and the nod and here's why.

Because from what I'm hearing, there were some, let's say, communications potentially with McCabe after hours that he would i'm not alleging any if this isn't like a one of those sexual infidelity i'm not so i'm talking about i'm talking about because that sounded kind of weird after hours but after work hours there were some communications that were likely there with mccabe about the progress of these investigations into hillary's email or trump and the status of those investigations and some of it may have been on phones where those texts are easily recoverable.

Now, why do I bring that up in terms of the briefing thing? Folks, I got to tell you everything. You got to have the entire scope of the story so you understand what's going on. so you understand what's going on. McCabe didn't want to be left out of anything because remember what I told you about Comey. Comey's kind of like a part-time director here. He's more interested in giving the speeches than actually getting down and dirty. McCabe's the one briefing him. McCabe doesn't want to be left out of the loop.

McCabe's weapon is information, Joe. And he needs that information at all times because if he doesn't have the information and someone beats him into the director's office to brief the director, then McCabe's not a briefer anymore.'s useless the point of that is after hours there was some monitoring of the stuff that was going on and from what i'm hearing there's some there may be some texts and emails there about statuses the investigation decisions that were made that could

be as damning if not more damning than the peter Stroke, Lisa Page emails. Yeah, I got that. I was like, I said, are you sure? And the source was like, I'm pretty sure. So if someone's listening, you may want to check out those texts if you don't have them already. So we'll see what happened with that. All right, one final story.

Hey, Molly Hemingway, who really writes some spectacular pieces at The Federalist. This will be in the show notes today. Please read it. It is one of those debunking pieces, which you know I love, because the Democrats lie about a lot of stuff, and it's relatively easy to shoot down their arguments. She wrote a really short but great piece at The Federalist. Be in the show notes today at Bongino.com, or if you join my email list, we'll send it right to you, about Democrat lies, basically Adam Schiff lies about this memo and this process, because I'm getting a lot of questions about this. People are saying,

Dan, my lefty friends told me that this memo that's going to describe the spying on Trump, it was written by Republicans. So what? What does that matter? So who cares? Obamacare was written by Democrats. The memo describes a process, folks, facts are facts. If the memo says an apple's an apple, it doesn't matter if it was written by a Republican or a Democrat. Do you understand? Joe, you see where I'm going with this? The memo is not a political document.

It's not a piece of legislation. It is a very simple description of events that actually happen that point to a pattern of spying behavior on the Trump team by the Obama team. Joe, either those events happened or they didn't. Folks, do you understand? It doesn't matter that it was written by a Republican. If a Republican writes the North won the Civil War

and a Democrat writes another opposing document, it doesn't matter what the North won. That's just a fact. Who cares who wrote it? It's a Republican document. It is a nonpartisan document that is totally, completely nonsensical. Okay? So, some quick debunking on this. One of the points I'm trying to make is that there's, the Democrats that is, and Molly Hemingway does a great job at debunking is, listen, there's national security information

in this memo. We can't release the national security information. It's going to damage national security, which is absolutely fascinating, Joe, because Molly brings up a terrific point. The Democrats are now issuing another memo. Wait, hold on, time out. Red flag here. Let's go under the hood. So let me get this straight. You don't want to release the memo describing the process by which Obama and the Obama administration spied on the Trump team because you're alleging it's going to violate national security while you release another subsequent memo to ensure that what if people didn't get the national security stuff in the first memo, the second memo will make sure they really see the national security stuff.

Folks, there's nothing in the memo that is going to violate national security guidelines, policies, or procedures that Republicans aren't stupid they're not going to say hey we have a CIA asset in Russia by the name of Joey Bag of Donuts and he gave us this information by the way Russians please don't kill him after we release this memo

don't be an idiot the Democrats are releasing their own memo if there's national security information in the case and the memo, why are you releasing your own? Simple question. I mean, Joe, does that make sense? Great point by Molly, by the way. It's in the piece. You'll see she always writes for better. I love Molly when she's on Fox, too.

She's one of my favorites. She is an Amazon superwoman. She just crushes it. She's got the best Twitter thing ever. It says on her Twitter something like, I won't be bullied into your group thing, but thank you. Have a nice day. I'm like,'s got the best Twitter thing ever. It says on her Twitter something like, I won't be bullied into your group thing, but thank you, have a nice day. I'm like, this is the greatest Twitter line ever. So another thing we're hearing too

is the Democrats wrote their own memo and there was a vote taken about the memo and the Democrats are coming out going, look, the Republicans who are in the majority in the House, we get that. The Republicans voted to release their own memo and now they're voting to keep ours quiet. Folks, again, that is a lie.

Listen to me. Very little of what Democrats ever tell you has even the remotest air of authenticity to it. I spend my entire life debunking liberal myths. Most of what they tell you is a lie. This is a lie too. The Republicans did not vote to suppress the Democrat memo, folks. Okay, that's garbage. Here's what actually happened. And again, Mollie describes this in her piece.

The Republicans released their memo through a procedure first. The procedure was to release the memo to the members of Congress so they could read it first before they took a vote on releasing it to the public. Why? Because, Joe, if any member of Congress had a substantive objection, they could potentially rewrite it. They could look into things. If there was some national security things disclosed they missed, they could take that out. Makes sense, right, Joe? Right, yeah.

They said to the Democrats, if you're going to release your own memo, we're going to subject it to the same process. That's the vote that was taken, which the Democrats said, no, no, we want to release it on our own. And they're the ones who objected, not the Republicans. It's a lie. It's made up.

It was about, do you understand what I'm saying, Joe? It was not a vote ever to release the Democrat memo. It was a vote on the process, which the Democrats didn't like, and the Democrats squashed. Right, Adam Schiff said it is a bunch of crap.

Yeah. And everything Adam Schiff says is crap. And he doesn't, he so eloquently, you know, speaks out as crap that people believe him. I mean, he's a believable liar, which is always dangerous. Oh, what else? Oh, there's another myth about this is that they didn't notify the minority party of these investigations going on into the doj and the fbi in other words the memo that describes joe yeah a procedure and a process by which they looked into the doj and the fbi the democrats are saying well you know you didn't tell

us that there was an investigation into the fbi going on really um joe back in march devin nunez gave a press conference at the White House about disturbing things he saw. I mean, are you the only idiots in America who didn't know there was an investigation going on by the OIG into what happened with the FBI during the Hillary Clinton email thing? Like, are you lost?

Are you clueless? Are you insane? Again, this is a total lie. You don't even have to be a member of Congress. You just have to turn on the news. It's just complete nonsense and garbage. Finally garbage finally again one quick thing i just wanted to debunk again is this partisan document thing it is not a partisan document it is a republican written document that describes things that actually happened and one of the things the

democrats are going to hide behind because they're devious joe is important they're going to say well if you're alleging that, say, the Obama administration on this date did this thing, Joe, and they spied on the Trump team using these methods on this date, the Democrats are going to say, that's a lie. Release the source documents on that. Well, Joe, the Democrats know. They know you can't release the source documents.

Why? Because the source documents would describe sources and methods and would release national security information. And the Democrats in a dipsy-do flip-a-roo know the Republicans will never vote on that because they don't want to compromise CIA spies, NSA methods, or anything like that. But this is the devious Democrats.

Aren't they? They're amazing. They are the biggest, worst manipulative liars you've ever seen. They're going to say, I don't believe any of that. Obama didn't do that. Republicans, if you don't release the source documents on that, none of that happened. You're just making it up, knowing the Republicans will never do that. This is the crap. I was just going to say something else, which is bad. This is the crap we have to deal with all the time with these people. Folks, they're maniacs. I'm telling you, they are absolute maniacs. These people are so entirely corrupted, it's pathetic.

But read the Molly Hemingway piece. I'll put it in the show notes. Hey, one other great piece I have in the show notes today. It's a good one sent over by a listener. Thank you very much from Investors Business Daily. We'll leave you on a good note. Folks, wages are rising again. 48% of small businesses say they're thinking about giving significant raises and bumps.

The economy's coming back. Wages are going up. They were stagnant in the Obama years. Read the piece. It's a short one, but it talks about the survey data out there. I think the economy next year is going to rock and roll. I think we're in a really great place. So I think those midterms are going to be a little rougher for Democrats than they expected.

So give the piece a read. It'll be at the show notes today. It's really quick, but it's a good one too. Hey, thanks again, folks, for tuning in. I appreciate it, and I will see you all tomorrow. You just heard the Dan Bongino Show. Get more of Dan online anytime at conservativereview.com. You can also get Dan's podcasts on iTunes or SoundCloud.

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