The Dan Bongino Show - Ep. 705 The Plot Thickens as the Dems Run Out of Options
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Get ready to hear the truth about America on a show that's not immune to the facts with your host, Dan Bongino.
Alright, welcome to the Dan Bongino Show. Producer Joe, how are you today?
Champing at the bit, babe.
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I'm getting a lot of emails lately. People are upset. They said, I heard your show yesterday. It seems like everything's
falling apart. They're attacking Trump. They're attacking us. They're attacking the culture.
They're attacking the schools. They're attacking the university system. They're attacking the
entertainment community. They're attacking everybody. Shania Twain, the Candace Owens
incident with Kanye West. Where does it end? Where does it end? Folks, I'm going to start with some good
news, and then I'm going to give you a little bit of bad news, because that's what we do on the show.
The good news is this. This is going to get worse before it gets better. Now, why is it going to
get worse? Because, folks, things are turning around dramatically in the economy. I have an
article in the Washington Examiner today, and I promise, today's show, do not miss a second of it because I'm going to leave you some connections at the
end that are going to, it's going to smoke you big time. The economy is getting much better.
There's a piece in the Washington Examiner today, and the gist of it will be in these show notes,
is that the Democrats are starting to freak out a little bit, Joe, because they're starting to
see what's happening in the economy. And they're starting to freak out a little bit, Joe, because they're starting to see what's happening in the economy.
Yeah.
And they're starting to worry, Joseph, that, well, we've been spending an awful lot of time
on a lot of anti-Trump stuff without cultivating a refreshing, vibrant, hearty message of our own.
And if things start to get significantly better, all of a sudden we're going to be left looking like, you know, the people on the outside of this.
In other words, well, what were you guys doing but complaining the whole time while the economy was getting better?
You get it?
You know, you could be the guy outside the door, right, the entire time.
Don't go to that party inside.
That party's for losers, man.
It's for losers.
And that may work for a little while where there are a few people there.
People outside may be, oh, well, I was going to go in, but I It's for losers. And that may work for a little while where there are a few people there. People outside may be,
oh, well, I was going to go in, but I met
some guy outside and he said the party inside
was for losers. But then all of a sudden
people start showing up. More people go inside.
You show up at the door. You run
into the naysayer, the Democrats. They go, don't go
inside to that party,
the economic party. That party's for losers.
But yo, you peek inside. You see people
dancing, having a good time, getting their shwerb on, doing their thing,
having a few adult sodas maybe.
And you're like, that party don't look too bad.
Freaky deaky.
And then what happens?
Joe with his Elvis shwerb on.
One person ignores the guy at the front door, the naysayer.
Then another person.
The next thing you know, the guy at the front door, he becomes the laughingstock as people inside the party look inside at him, Joe, and
start laughing at him going, look at this goofball outside, complaining while we're all having a good
time. That's what the Democrats are afraid of. They're afraid of more people joining this
economic party that's going on, and they will be left on the outside
looking like a bunch of whiny complainers by voters folks believe me this is very real read
the washington examiner piece of the show notes at bongino.com or again subscribe to my email list
on my website i will send you these articles i find the best ones each day this is a good one
some things that are happening and anybody can say can say, oh, we're doing good. Great. You know what? A lot of shows do that. I'm going to lay out for you what's
happening and why you can expect a dramatic response from the Democrats. And I don't mean
that in a good way. Don't think for a second they're ready to give up on this collusion thing
or their anti-civil liberties fight. Number one, the appointment of Gorsuch to the Supreme Court,
solid conservative. We got that.
I get it.
There's some disagreement on his last decision, but I don't think there's any questioning.
He's a pretty strong conservative.
The tax reform bill starting to show massive dividends.
We're finally starting to extract trade concessions from the Chinese and others.
Again, we can have a back and forth all day about tariffs, but there's no question the
Chinese, the Koreans, and even the European Union and certain countries within it are starting to say to themselves, well,
you know, we better start waking up to a more free or more open fair trade policy because this guy's
not kidding around. The regulation, the war on the government red tape, depending on the metric
you use, Trump has been, listen to me, eliminating 20 pieces of red tape for
every one they institute.
This is historic.
Remember, each piece of government red tape is another way the government can tell you
no.
It is a historic battle against government red tape and bureaucracy.
Every time they eliminate a regulation, they eliminate some government bureaucrats, some out-of-touch snob from showing up at your door saying, hey, buddy.
Hey, buddy.
I'm from the government.
I'm here to work.
You have a little pond in your backyard.
I think we need to regulate that.
Hey, that's a joke.
The hey, buddy thing.
It's a Clinton thing.
Hey, buddy.
That guy can't show up at your door anymore because he has no, but you can show up at your door all he wants. That's a joke, the hey buddy thing. It's a Clinton thing. Hey buddy.
That guy can't show up at your door anymore.
Because he has no, you can show up at your door all he wants.
You can tell him to go pound sand.
Because he has no regulation to enforce.
Historic.
Got us out of this clean power plant rule.
This crap rule that was going to put all,
shouldn't say all, it's ridiculous,
but a significant portion of America's coal miners, out of business.
The Waters of the United States rule, that stupid rule about a stream or a pond
in your backyard.
Net neutrality, gone.
The government sticking its tentacles
into the internet.
The EPA getting rid of
Sue and Settle. What was Sue and Settle?
You know what the EPA used to do?
The EPA under Democrat administrations
and some Republican administrations
before Trump, who had the
cajones to get rid of this with Scott
Pruitt. They used to do
this thing, Joe, where they'd get together with green
groups and sue people
over environmental impact things
and then say, I'll tell you
what, we'll let this go away if you agree
to pay this amount.
This was called sue and sell.
No more.
Soft blackmail, yeah.
Yeah, exactly.
You're damn right it is.
Capital investment up dramatically.
Read a piece in the Wall Street Journal this morning about our measures of capital investment into the economy,
which are going to have serious downstream effects.
In other words, the economy, now that the capital investment numbers have gone up,
the investment in new machinery,
the investment in new factories,
they're going to make workers more productive who are going to produce more stuff for you.
Not only does that benefit you
because they're producing more stuff,
therefore they can make it cheaper
because there's more of it,
it also benefits them,
which is you, because you're producing
more stuff, which makes you what? More valuable to the company, which makes the company more
likely to give you a raise because you're more valuable. Economics 101 for liberals.
Capital investment up dramatically. Now, because of those things and more, I'm just giving you a synopsis of what's in the examiner piece.
Liberals are going to double down.
Now, before I get to how I think they're going to double down, I want to give you just some quick pointers on how do we respond and some stuff that's happening.
Here's the good news.
Folks, people are waking up the sleeping lion bear whatever you want to whatever dangerous animal
you want to use for the analogy has been poked they're up the sleeping dragon we're up we're
awake the illusion that liberals i'm not talking about all democrats but radical liberals are just
a good bunch of misguided people is over that has has lulled Americans to sleep, Joe, for decades.
You and I know you've been in this business a long time.
A lot of people for a long time, you know, I'm a liberal buddy.
They're nice guys.
They just think different.
No, they're not.
They are absolutely committed to the destruction of the First Amendment, the Second Amendment, the Fourth Amendment.
Basically, any big R rights granted to you by God.
All of it. They will attack you on a college campus. They will attack your right to speak. They will attack your right to practice your religion and not bake a cake. They will attack President Trump's right to privacy by spying on him with no reason. These are tyrant. People are waking up to that and starting to sense and sniff an existential fight,
Joe. They understand
this is not simply a ballot
box fight. And please,
for the idiots at Media Matters who are listening
because you really are.
I'm sorry, folks. I don't mean to sound vitriolic.
But these are some of the dumbest morons
on the planet.
I'm not like you
liberal violent goons. I'm talking about our ways of protesting
outside, obviously, of violence. My faith matters to me. So if you take something from that,
it's a reflection on your own tendency to violence. You leftist goons, you Antifa guys,
Black Lives Matter, pigs in a blanket, frying like bacon do we want dead cops violence is your domain not ours but people are waking up to civilized ways joe to say no more man not today yes they are
damn right brother not on my watch not today we're gonna dance today and people are finding
new and creative ways to do it i have an article in
the show notes please read it it was about a protest yesterday it was called the sex ed sit
out they organized a protest they said you know it's public schools this text sex ed things out
of control um you know what went from like a explanation of simple biology is turned into
propaganda uh we're not interested no thanks so this woman i believe was in north carolina one of Like an explanation of simple biology is turned into propaganda?
We're not interested.
No, thanks.
So this woman, I believe it was in North Carolina, one of the Carolinas.
It's in the articles in the show notes today.
Organized.
They sit out and said, you know what?
We're just not sending our kids to school today.
No, thanks.
Government by the people, for the people.
And when the people don't give it permission to do things, it won't. not today oh well we'll suspend your kid go ahead that's okay we're good
you're gonna spend this all well we'll dance a little bit we're okay with that
you want to suspend everyone fine we'll all sit out you could suspend the whole class good luck
have fun with that the sex ed sit out.
We see what's happening now with conservative economic power.
Companies want to dance with conservatives.
They want to mess around.
You want to tango a little bit?
You want to play with us?
All right.
Ask Target how that worked out for them.
Read an article yesterday, Joe. The Hollywood box office.
Lowest it's been in 25 years.
You want to play ball?
We can play ball too.
We got the money.
What do you think J-Law and all these other Hollywood folks out there,
where do you think they get their money from?
Charity?
They get their money from you.
You're the spigot.
And when that spigot dries up, so do they.
Want to dance, babe?
We can dance.
Now listen, I'm not for the abuse of government power ever.
I'm a conservatarian.
But through government contracts, you have no entitlement whatsoever to our money.
You want to play ball?
You know, Citibank, others, you want to, you know
what? We're not into this big R rights, protection of self-defense thing, constitution thing anymore.
We're not going to let people buy guns with our credit cards or whatever company, you know,
Bank of America, Citibank, taking these anti-second amendment stances. All right.
Listen, I'm never for the abuse of government, but you have no entitlement to our tax dollars
or government contracts at all. I would strongly suggest you call your legislator and go, hey, any government contracts there?
Oh, yeah, there's one for a couple hundred million.
There was.
No thanks.
Oh, but Dan, that's government.
No, no, that's our money.
They have no entitlement whatsoever.
They don't respect the Constitution.
You're out.
Goodbye.
See ya.
Any exercise of rights, you
disagree with them, change the Constitution.
You don't like the Second Amendment?
Fine. I do.
You'll lose. Try to change the Constitution.
Until then, any company that
engages in ideological discrimination
against foundational Constitutional rights,
no government contracts, no thanks. you want to dance let's dance buddy you want to play let's play
thousands of americans would die that'll be bernie's response of course if that happens
down on it that was perfectly timed massive bureaucratic. So, so far we have sex ed sit-outs. We have a
walkout of our jobs too. We can do whatever. Listen, we can do whatever we want. You want
to do a massive sick out one day to protest? Do your thing. Conservative economic power,
exercise it. No more Hollywood. You'll dry that thing up so fast. Government contracts,
you want to play ball? We can play ball too.
You're not entitled to our tax money.
There's nothing libertarian about that.
Finally, massive, massive bureaucratic cutbacks.
Trump wants you want to play ball with Trump.
Trump needs to play back.
And I hope the Trump team is listening.
You know, cutting regulations and red tape is great because those government bureaucrats
would be wasting their time then showing up at your door saying, I think you should do this. Well, why do you think that?
Because I think so. Well, do you have a law or a search warrant to back that up? No, I don't. Okay,
thanks. Goodbye. Get lost. Well, we can double down on that by getting rid of a lot of these
folks. Get rid of them. Government has become the cause of our problems. Government is not the
self, is not, Get rid of it.
Stop pretending this fake premise
that government is some benevolent force in our lives.
Thank God for our military, our court system.
But outside of that,
it is time for massive government cutbacks.
And Trump needs to see that right now.
Now, I get it.
He's limited in the power of the purse.
It's a legislative power.
But he does have the bully pulpit.
It is time to start doing what Reagan did with a Democrat Congress, by the way.
Trump as a Republican one.
And start speaking out vocally about the dangers of this growing bureaucracy.
It's not good enough to cut the regulations.
Cut the enforcers of the regulations, too.
People are waking up, Joe.
Yes, they are.
People are waking up. They've poked the
dragon one too many times. That's the good news. The good news, the economy's turning around. The
good news, people are waking up. The better news, people are using their economic power. You want to
sit out? Let's sit out. You want to sit this out? Good. What are you going to do? Suspend this all?
Government contracts, massive bureaucratic cutbacks. I love it.
All of this is happening now.
Okay, Dan, what's the downside?
The downside here is that the Democrats are panicking.
They're panicking.
The Mueller probe and the Democrat lawsuit, the DNC lawsuit where they sued the trump team for russian collusion the
one i referred to yesterday the dnc this is the dumbest lawsuit in human history
is a sign of panic how can i tell that the muller team's getting sloppy
the dnc is getting sloppy one thing about the democrats and their co-conspirators that I've noticed, Joe, is that they rarely act collectively
in a haphazard or random manner. I said to you yesterday, I mean this, don't ever forget this.
One thing about Democrats I admire reluctantly, but I admire, I would be lying to you if I said
otherwise, is their ability to act with a hive mind. They act like worker bees, worker ants.
They act collectively.
Republicans have a hard time doing that.
It's a blessing and a curse.
We are naturally independent,
liberty-minded, entrepreneurial thinkers,
and it makes it tough for us
to subordinate to anyone else's wishes,
even when their wishes are better for the rest of us.
I know it.
I'm a member of a lot of activist groups, and I've seen how hard it is.
It's like herding cats.
I've seen it.
You know the groups I'm talking about, Joe.
I'm in there, and it's like, hey, I think we should do this.
It's a good idea.
I'm like, oh, not really.
I think we should do it this way.
Democrats will be like, okay, okay.
That's what they do.
They think like the Borg.
I don't even watch Star Trek. I keep keep using that example someone told me that once they think like like worker bees we don't think that way
but they do have the ability to act collectively and they do act in an organized manner
the point i was trying to make is this is disorganized and chaotic the muller invest
they have two examples for you. The Mueller investigation
is slipping up. They are starting to get desperate and they are starting to make desperation moves,
which are absolutely guaranteed to engender a severe backlash. But first, on the lawsuit front,
a brilliant point brought up to me by a listener. Kevin, nice job, sent me an email yesterday and said, Dan, this DNC lawsuit will
have another, and I thought, gosh, that's a good point. Shame on me for not thinking of this.
He said, one of the intended side effects of this is they need to keep this Russian collusion
narrative going. Folks, they're all in on it. Do you understand they have gone all in on a fake
story? I hope you get that at this point.
They don't want to be discredited before the 2018 midterms.
I mean, think about it. If you told everyone the entire time, you know, that you were a brave Army veteran,
right, and that you had a Medal of Honor and a Bronze Star with a V-cluster, whatever it
may be, and the word gets out that
this is all false right before an election you're running and you're going to be horrified humiliated
the democrat now i gave it that example because that's an example that resonates with everyone
nobody likes stolen valor but nobody likes lying either the democrats have been lying about a
russian collusion fairy tale with the trump team that doesn't exist. They can't have that come out before the election. Mueller was always the smokescreen to keep attention on Trump the whole time to distract from the Democrats shortfalls.
the messaging apparatus to make sure that the collusion myth stayed alive. Now that it's collapsing because it's been nearly two years and there is still zero evidence of collusion at all,
this lawsuit is a genius way to say again, hat tip to Kevin,
hey, you know what? We can't talk about this till after the election is pending litigation.
Yes. Genius point, Kevin. Kevin N.
I read that email. I'm like,
this guy's good. How did we not think of that, Joe?
Right? What a great point. Yeah, buy in time,
man. The smart way. Buy in time, delay
the proceedings. Hey, the collusion,
keep in mind, they know the whole time this is
garbage, but what a great way to go. You know
what? We have to refrain from
wrapping this up right away, even if
the Mueller investigation wraps
up joe because there's still pending litigation people here pending litigation what do they think
joe oh boy trump's in trouble great great this is what i love about having my email accessible
to the listeners i can't tell you how much valuable information I've gotten from my, I've received,
excuse me, from my collective body of listeners, as Brennan, the corpus of listeners, as Brennan
loves that word. I'm serious. You guys and ladies are terrific. That is an excellent point.
So that's number one. Keep in mind what what i'm referring to the liberals are desperate to
hide the good news the massive body of good news coming out about the economy
economic growth productivity regulation reform red tape reform they need to hide this before
the election the only way to do, because they have no alternative agenda.
What are they going to say?
We're going to raise your taxes and reinstitute red tape?
They know that's not going to work.
They need to keep the attention on, hey, Trump's a really horrible guy.
He colluded with the Russians.
Fairy tale.
So what better way to do it than one end, file a lawsuit and just say, hey, it's still going on.
Repending litigation, even though they know it's crap.
a lawsuit and just say, hey, it's still going on,
repenting litigation, even though they know it's crap.
The other way to do it is to keep
the smoke screen going with the Mueller
investigation. Now, before
I get to, I want to just handle
some business part here, but before, I'm going to get to this
in a second, how the narrative keeps changing
and this is the most important part of the show.
Judge Knapp,
Napolitano, was on Martha McCallum last
night. I can't believe, Joe, I searched all morning for this video.
I probably should have sent you an email.
You haven't been able to pull it from Grabian.
I couldn't find it.
If I can find this video, if some of you out there find Judge Knapp's appearance on Martha McCallum's show last night,
please send it to me.
He said something last night.
How this is not on the front page
of every paper in America is unbelievable.
If what he said is true,
it's going to blow your mind.
I'm going to get to that in a second
and how that's going to keep the tension
on the Mueller probe.
It is amazing.
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By the way, you're becoming a master tease here. You like that?
Very good.
Very good.
I'm really not trying to keep you all in suspense.
I just, I get passion.
You know, you can't fake passion, Joe.
And I think the reason the show does so well, and, you know, we've become this monster show, thanks to you all, by the way, is that this matters to me.
I mean, nobody, Joe, you are the sound engineer, but we can, outside of sending me a few clips,
and I mean this as a compliment, not as a knock, you can attest to the audience, right,
that this is all my stuff, right?
Oh, yeah, 100%. Like, you don't send me more, Dan, let's, you know, a lot of producers, you know the
industry, right?
A lot of producers put a script, basically, for a show in front of their talent, and that's
what gets read.
Not me.
Yeah, you've never asked me for anything like that.
Never.
Never.
I mean, Joe will send me cuts, he does, and sometimes he has some really good ideas, but the show. Not me. Yeah, you've never asked me for anything like that. Never. I mean, Joe will send me cuts.
And sometimes he has some really good ideas.
But the show is damn.
Yeah.
I put this together because it matters to me.
I get up really early to make sure I get you the best show out there.
So not to pat myself on, but it matters. I just want you to know that this is not like a job for me.
This is a passion.
The fact that I'm paid for it is nice, but I love what I do.
Same here, man, by the way.
Thanks, brother.
We're a good team.
So here's what I hear last night.
I'm sitting there.
I'm watching Judge Knapp.
My wife was grinding coffee.
Hat tip to my buddy, Corey.
Sent me some coffee.
Nice job.
We're grinding some coffee.
And I'm like, wait, what?
Did he just say that?
So I get it.
My control four system broke down.
So I got a new system.
So I'm figuring out on the remote how to rewind it.aps on with mccallum napolitano and he says something
that absolutely blows my mind he says that during the muller investigation the muller probe
it's you have to understand the distinction the m The Mueller special counsel by charter is authorized to investigate allegations of Russian
interference in the election.
When they find associated crimes, they refer them out.
Now, it's still within the Department of Justice, but it's not within the contained special
counsel probe.
So the raid on Trump's lawyer, so we're clear, was a referral, again, within the Department of Justice, but not, it was a referral outside of the special counsel to the Southern District of New York.
What does that tell you?
Well, let's rewind the tape. special counsel is authorized to investigate allegations of russian collusion and trump's
attorney's office was raided which was referred outside of the special counsel that should tell
you by default that it did not involve russian collusion it involved something else naps on last
night and said that the judge that, the government, basically the federal
agents representing the government, when they went in front of the judge, Kimball Wood, who was the
judge who officiated George Soros' wedding and who was there at a proceeding involving Trump's
lawyer. It may get a little complicated, but you don't need to follow
all the details to get the takeaway
from it, because the takeaway is going to be a major league
bombshell, if true.
Kimber Woods officiating over a proceeding
where Trump's lawyer and his legal
team are in front of this federal judge saying,
hey, you guys seized information.
This is attorney-client
privilege information.
We need it back.
Make sense? He's saying, i'm trump's lawyer you guys seized information from my office this is privileged communication between me
trump's attorney and trump i want the information back make sense joe sure
what comes out next is stunning.
Knapp says that the federal government said,
uh, hold on here.
There's another warrant out there.
And in that warrant,
we have evidence of the crime fraud exception to attorney-client privilege.
Knapp then follows up with one of the most astonishing, how this is not everywhere, I
don't know.
I look for it everywhere.
I cannot find the video anywhere.
Knapp says there's some evidence there that this crime fraud exception, in other words,
the government said to the judge no Trump's lawyer
doesn't have attorney client privilege
because we have
evidence that a crime
fraud exception to that
in other words the attorney was involved in a crime exists
based on another
warrant
were they spying
on Trump and his lawyer the whole time
wait Were they spying on Trump and his lawyer the whole time?
Wait.
Pregnant pause, but intentional.
I want you to digest what Knapp put out there last night.
Do you understand what he said?
That there may have been a pre-existing warrant within the Mueller probe?
Was it a wiretap? Was it a Title III?
What was it? Was it a FISA warrant?
I mean, clearly it wasn't a search warrant.
Joe, why would we know that?
Because if they searched Cohen's office
already, he would have known.
Do you understand
what I'm telling you?
Please, put your horse blinders on.
I don't care if you have to pause this podcast
and rewind it.
I want you to understand
the nuclear explosion that went off last night
on Martha McCallum's show.
If someone hunts this video down,
I'll put it on tomorrow.
I cannot find it anywhere.
It went everywhere.
Grabian everywhere.
Judge Knapp said last night, and keep in mind, this guy has been spot on.
The GCHQ spying on Trump, the British, he has been spot on.
He said last night, a review of the documents and the court transcripts, that in court,
the government insinuated that there's already an existing warrant within the Mueller probe that led led to the search warrant on Trump's lawyer's office how'd they get that
has Mueller been listening to Trump the whole time
oh there are still people out there I get it oh. Oh, no, we shouldn't fire Mueller.
Don't worry.
It'll all wrap up soon.
Yeah.
Oh, no.
As I've said to you a thousand times, get rid of this guy.
Has Bob Mueller been listening to Trump?
Do you understand the bombshell that is?
It's not.
We know it's not a search.
Well, if it is, it's not on anyone who's publicly
reported it folks has muller been wiretapping conversations between cohen and trump i'm just
telling you what was said in court this isn't conspiratorial nonsense, Joe.
In open court,
the government has acknowledged that there is a pre-existing warrant
that led to the search warrant.
What kind of warrant was it?
Are you tracking me, brother?
Yeah, yeah.
How serious this is?
Yeah.
Now, I said to you a year ago
that the collusion fairy tale was going to fall apart, which it has.
What did they move to next?
They moved seamlessly to an obstruction of justice fairy tale against Trump.
The problem is the Comey memos have annihilated that, too.
I'm going to tie this into what I just said in a minute about Judge Knapp's bombshell last night.
But follow me.
A year ago, I said to you, the Democrats cannot give this up.
I opened up the show saying they're panicking now because the economic good news is getting
hard to ignore.
The party's getting louder inside.
The naysayer outside the door, don't go into that stupid party, starting to look like a
real idiot.
The Democrats are the economic idiots outside the door.
That economy sucks in there.
Real people.
Really?
Looks pretty good to me.
Starting to turn around.
They're panicking.
They know the public polls aren't great now, but they know that's going to flip in a heartbeat.
Once these investment numbers start to kick in and flow through the economy.
They have nothing else.
What are they going to do?
Run on. We're going to hike your taxes. They need Trump to go down hard. They've promised their
donors. They've promised the kooky liberal base. They've promised the nuts in academia. They've
promised them they had this collusion thing the whole time. They don't. So then they moved on
seamlessly to obstruction.
Oh, he obstructed justice in the Kaluza investigation.
The Comey memos destroy that.
Why?
Because Comey makes clear in the memos
that Trump asked him to investigate
if there was any suspicious side deals on his own team.
Ladies and gentlemen,
how in Hades are you going to walk in court
to make a case against Donald Trump
obstructing an investigation into Russian collusion
with the FBI director's own memos
saying Trump asked him to investigate
possible collusion on his own team?
How are you going to do that?
Trump was clear.
Clear as day in those memos, Joe.
That if there was suspicious dealings with members of his team that he didn't know about it, he wanted to investigate it.
They have nothing.
So what's next?
Oh, we're just going to give up now and go back to regular normal campaigning.
Oh, no, no, no, no, no.
These are police state tyrants.
They are not going to give up one bit.
What are they going to move to now?
They're going to move to business dealings.
Now it's going to be all about shady business dealings.
Now, someone sent me an email yesterday.
Why is this? I don't get it get it damn why is a spying operation in
the special counsel so dangerous folks you i've said this over and over i can't you please write
this down because the very essence of a constitutional republic is due process yeah
we do not issue general warrants and we do not investigate people in other words we do not issue general warrants and we do not investigate people. In other words, we do not issue a warrant against Joe Armacost.
For what?
Anything.
He has a search warrant for Joe Armacost.
If you're a federal agent or a police officer, when you go to get a search warrant in front of a judge to search Joe's house, you have to describe the house, what you're looking for, and the probable cause that leads you to believe that that evidence is there.
We do not issue general warrants.
In other words, dear Judge Joey Bag of Donuts, can I get a warrant to search Joe's house
for what?
I don't know, for something?
We don't do that.
We also do not investigate people.
We investigate crimes that can lead to investigate, do, obviously people commit crimes, but we
investigate crimes and find people. We but we investigate crimes and find people we don't
investigate people and find crimes think about what that would mean any president could tell
the fbi i want you to investigate uh joe biden over what i don't know something just find something
you will you'll find something on everyone sure but we don't do that because that
is a violation of due process that is a violation of the very essence of liberty that you will not
be targeted by the government that is why this trump thing is so dangerous they are targeting
him how do i know that because the premise they use in other words show here's the crime we're
not investigating trump we're investigating a crime, collusion. It didn't happen.
It never happened.
So now you would think in a normal functioning constitutional republic, if there were serious allegations of a crime of collusion, they weren't proven.
The investigation would go away.
But that's not what happened.
It moved to obstruction.
And then when that went away with the Comey memos, where did it move to next?
Now it's real estate deals.
Why is that important?
It's important because this is stage three.
And stage three was the Cohen raid.
Now it will be dependent on what they have.
Have they been listening to Trump?
It will be real estate deals.
It'll be business deals. It will never,
ever stop. Now do you see, and that part I knew way in advance, do you now understand
why it is so critical that this investigation end and end quickly? Mueller must be, he will not stop
these people insisting that, oh, it's about to wrap up. This is all a ruse. I don't trust Rosenstein. I
don't trust Mueller. It's a ruse. It is a sucker play, getting you all to sit back and be lulled
into complacency. Just like I said when I started the show, how liberals for decades have lulled us
into a sense of complacency that this was a political fight when the entire time it was an
existential fight for the very existence of
liberty, principles, big R rights in the Constitutional Republic. They have lulled you
into thinking this was a fight in the election booth when it really is a fight for the culture.
It is a fight for the economy. It is a fight for everything. They are doing the same thing with Mueller. They whipped out the same old game plan.
Now, for those of you who think I'm making this up, again, this game plan has been tried and true.
It's practiced. Remember with gay marriage? Oh, we're really just fighting for equality.
We're not worried about anything else. Then it became men in the women's room, women in the
men's room. Then it became bankrupting
a baker who doesn't want to bake a cake.
They lull you into a
sense of complacency everywhere.
The political war, the culture war, the economic
war. This is what they
do. They are doing the same thing
now. Mueller, wake up to this.
I am begging. I'm not talking to listeners, but to some of the
politicos listening. I know who you are.
Wake up to this.
Oh, it's all good, Joe.
The Mueller thing's going to wrap up soon.
There is no evidence of that at all.
What Judge Knapp said last night, that there was a warrant on Cohen that may have involved listening to the Trump team, the guys, the sitting president of the United States, is, I can't, I really, I can't believe I can't find the video.
We have to respond.
Fire this guy.
Fire this guy now.
My gosh.
All right.
I got a, I missed something yesterday in the show and I want to make sure I cover it today because it is, again, mind-blowing.
And I got so caught up, I forgot kind of the coup de grace.
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Folks, yesterday's bombshell about the Devin Nz interview and i i can't readdress the
entire thing um i strongly encourage yesterday's show did bonkers oh yeah big killer numbers for
monday uh yesterday's show blew people's mind uh the core of it was that devin nunez the congressman
who's been overseeing this investigation into the spying the illicit spying operation on trump
revealed on maria Bartiromo's
show on Fox during the weekend, and we have the sound in yesterday's show, that the FBI had been
spying on the Trump team with no official intelligence at all. That was mind-blowing.
Mind-blowing. Now we know. They've seen the formal EC, the document the FBI used to start the investigation of the Trump, and there is no official intelligence.
Now, what I failed to wrap up for you yesterday, because I was so invited, I wanted to get some extra stories out, was that he is very cryptic about the use, Joe, of unofficial channels for intelligence.
So just to be clear, because this is going to be important how I wrap this up.
The formal channels for exchange of information, as I covered yesterday, if there's like a threat of a terror threat between our friendly countries, the UK, Canada, New Zealand and us, there's a pre-established channel.
It's really easy.
It'd be the equivalent of like, yeah, I mean, we're simplifying it, but dropping a post-it
note to your, you know, there's an office for Canada.
I don't want to say too much, but let's just say in certain facilities, I was like the
Canada office, the US office, the Australia office.
And one guy from the Canada office goes, hey, we got something in Canada, walks it over
to the US office.
These are friendlies.
We trust them.
They're even some office space
co-mingling in some respects we don't have that relationship obviously with iran and other
countries for obvious reasons we have a very close relationship with these five with the
five eyes countries canada uk new zealand us australia us we there's a close relationship there. There are formal channels.
Those formal channels are how intelligence investigations,
for record-keeping purposes, for standardization of exchange of information,
there are very specific ways that information is handled.
There are also, Joe, informal channels of information. Now, informal channels of
information doesn't necessarily mean something nefarious. I mean, there are diplomats all the
time and intelligence people, I'm sure, who run into their counterparts. I'll give you an example.
When I was in the Secret Service and we were working an overseas op, it wasn't uncommon for
someone working at the CIA to say, hey, you know what, if you guys come across this guy and your name checks, be cautious. This guy has some connections we're a little wary of. It wasn't uncommon for someone working at the CIA to say, hey, you know what? If you guys come across this guy and your name checks, be cautious.
This guy has some connections we're a little wary of.
Was it a formal exchange?
No.
I mean, it didn't go through.
You know, we would keep an eye out.
We'd asterisk the name.
And that's it.
Now, that's a pretty low-key thing, Joe, right?
Yeah, it's like a casual heads up.
Yeah.
Casual heads, exactly. Well said. So, Joe, right? Yeah, it's like a casual heads-up, yeah. Casual heads, exactly.
Well said.
So, Joe, let me ask you a question.
All right.
Given the obvious discrepancies
between those two procedures, right,
a formal channel...
Okay.
...where we have official dealings,
established procedures
for dealing with these Five Eyes countries,
and an informal channel,
like I just described to you in the Secret Service.
Hey, give a look out to this guy.
Do you think a spying operation
against a presidential candidate
and soon to be president
would be better suited towards
formal established intelligence channels
where people can check the information and vet it?
Or just a casual,
let's have a meeting at a Starbucks
and start an investigation against Donald Trump?
Which one do you think would work better?
I would have to say the formal lines, Dan.
Yes, Joseph, you would be right.
Bingo.
Hey.
Bingo.
We love that.
Yeah, one of these days.
One of these days.
We could show off kind of a thing going on here. show is important because Nunes says there was no formal Five Eyes information in the document
that started the investigation against Trump. Why is that important? Because now it explains what
I've been telling you the whole time. It explains Susan Rice and her unmasking. Now you may say, well, Dan, Susan Rice, of course, is part of a formal channel.
She was the national security advisor.
Don't get tripped up here.
Andy McCarthy did a piece on this a long time ago.
Susan Rice was a political appointee.
Don't let the title confuse you.
Yes, she was the national security advisor,
but she was a political appointee.
She is not an intelligence official.
She is not a law enforcement official.
She does not work for the CIA.
She has no law enforcement powers whatsoever.
Susan Rice was a political appointee.
Now, Joe, her email when she left office, where she covers her own butt, she sent herself an email.
You remember this, folks?
Yes, yes, yes.
The minute Trump is inaugurated, Susan Rice, Obama's National Security Advisor, who was involved in massive numbers of unmasking,
in other words, spying on Trump team people by unmasking their name.
Hey, let me see their name without a warrant.
Trump team people by unmasking their name.
Hey, let me see their name without a warrant.
Now it explains that email where she says in the email, hey, I had this meeting with Barack Obama and Comey and Biden.
And by the way, Obama said to do everything by the book.
Why?
Because they didn't do it by the book.
They did it by the informal Starbucks channel.
Hey, let's meet Starbucks and spy on Trump.
All right.
All right. Yeah, baby. Yeah, let's meet Starbucks and spy on Trump. All right. All right.
Yeah, baby.
Yeah.
That's what they did.
Does the Susan Rice email make sense now?
Trump gets elected.
She's got three months during the transition period to figure this out.
A little less than three months.
How are we going to cover up what we did?
We used the Starbucks channel.
We basically were patting each other on the back. Hey, here's some information on Trump. Shouldn't that go to official channels? No, we want to cover up what we did? We used the Starbucks channel. We basically were patting each other on the back.
Hey, here's some information on Trump.
Shouldn't that go to official channels?
No, we want to hide it.
What does Susan Rice do?
She sends herself an email leaving office.
Literally minutes after Trump is inaugurated.
Literally saying,
Hey, I met with Obama in his office.
And by the way, he said to do everything by the book.
Oh, okay. case closed. Thanks.
Makes sense now?
I want to give you some other mind-bending information.
Does the Samantha Power involvement in this make sense now?
Remember what I'm trying to do, the premise I'm working on here.
These were unofficial channels.
These were pats on the back,
whispers in the ear.
Why, Joe?
Why?
Because official channels
could have been tracked
and they had nothing.
They wanted no paper trail
on a spying operation
on the Trump team
or as little of a paper trail
as they could
because they had nothing.
So everything was done with whispers.
Starbucks meetings.
Pats on the back.
Calls to your buddy.
Susan Rice.
Intimately involved in spying on Trump people to unmasking requests.
She was a bureaucrat.
Don't be confused by the title.
Samantha Power. The United States ambassador to the UN, a diplomat, no intelligence or law enforcement charter whatsoever for her job. She's a diplomat. She was the ambassador to the UN.
Now, does her role in this make sense?
Do you remember what her role was?
Samantha Power's name was used to unmask, in other words, spy on Americans without a warrant.
Trump team members, maybe?
But Samantha Power, this is the kicker, Joe.
Samantha Power says, I didn't authorize that.
You didn't. Really?
Your name was signed.
Who did? says i didn't authorize that you didn't really your name was signed who did you see here's a mental image for you envision two parallel tracks an official channel leaving
a paperwork trail where we spy on terrorists criminals and bad guys an unofficial channel
that leaves no paper trail where we use politicians and bureaucrats susan rice samantha
power to spy on people that leaves no paper trail is a parallel tracks it lets you cover those
tracks if you're on the unofficial starbucks channel is this making sense yes it is now very
clear i want to read to you some other stuff, too.
It all makes sense.
By the way, I have some just unbelievable articles in the show notes.
They were a little older, but I have an article from The Guardian today about another back channel that was set up.
Again, we're talking about there's an official way to do this.
Agency to agency cooperation, memorandums of understanding, formal channels, records of searches, records of warrants. And there's the Starbucks channel. Hey, let's meet in Starbucks and talk about this. So I just told you about the Susan Rice unmasking, the Samantha Power unmasking. Again, bureaucrats not working in official channels to spy on people. I have a Guardian article from the year ago. I've referenced a lot. It's part
of the Obamagate files. That is devastating. Here is a quote about the head of the British NSA,
the GCHQ, and how he got some information to John Brennan, the CIA director, and notice the language.
The British NSA meets with the CIA director. You may
say, well, Dan, that sounds like an official channel. Listen up to the language. From the
piece, according to one account, GCHQ's then head, Robert Hannigan, passed material in the summer of
2016 to the CIA chief, John Brenrennan the material was deemed so sensitive
joe it was handled that quote director level oh no official channel so basically a starbucks
meeting between you two guys right i continue with the quote after an initially slow start
brennan used gchq information and intelligence from other partners to launch
a major interagency
investigation.
Now, fascinating
how this started at the
director level, but now
we know from yesterday's bombshell
that all of this major interagency
investigation stuff
was not started with any
formal info.
Why didn't Brennan document this?
Why didn't Brennan handle this through formal channels?
Ladies and gentlemen, do you understand?
Joe, is this making sense what I'm telling you?
That John Brennan, there's a formal way to exchange information between the British NSA and our CIA.
But this is a quote from the piece.
Instead, they deemed it so sensitive.
They met at the director level.
Where's the record of that?
Why can't Devin Nunes find it?
What was passed at the, quote, director level?
Was this another one of those Starbucks meetings?
Yeah, double latte.
Double latte while you spy on Trump?
Now, conveniently, Joseph, what happened to Hannigan?
Hannigan, who meets with Brennan at the director level, but Nunes, no one else can seem to find the records of this that started the investigation in the FBI.
Maybe an effort to cover tracks.
What happened to Hannigan after the election the british nsa
director for the gchq here's a quote from another piece hannigan's sudden resignation he informed
the staff just hours before making this decision public prompted speculation that it may be related
to british concerns over shared intelligence with the US in the wake
of Donald Trump becoming
president.
That'll be
in the show notes today as well.
Do you understand that
the nuclear bombs that are going off
right now informationally?
So just to be clear, because
again, I listen to my own show
and I understand how this could get confusing at times.
I'm establishing to you right now
that the good news in the economy
and everything else
are making Democrats desperate.
They're slipping up.
Mueller's getting sloppy.
He may have been involved in a warrant
on Trump's lawyer
to spy and listen in on actual conversations with Trump, which will be a constitutional crisis like we've never seen.
On the other hand, the Democrats are sloppy with the lawsuit.
They know there's going to be discovery.
They know the DNC servers will probably be part of that discovery.
They know it will become obvious at some point they weren't hacked by the Russians, the entire collusion narrative but they're desperate they can delay the case they can say
pending litigation and avoid talking about it till after the election
sooner or later they're going to be exposed as frauds
the back channel all of this was done what they're covering is the fact that there was no official channel established
to avoid a paper trail to spy on the trump team the left-leaning media's own reporting at the
guardian and others their own reporting indicates that the head of the british nsa passed information
at the director level to john brennan, Obama's political hack at the CIA.
That information is not part of any official document at the FBI that started this.
Where did it go? And then suspiciously, the same guy at the British NSA, through director level,
i.e. unofficial channels, right? Past information of Brennan,
suspiciously resigns right after Trump is elected in January.
Is that not astonishing?
Let me make another connection to you,
and I suggest you go back to listen to episode 685
if you really want to be embedded in the spy novel.
There was another guy who was reaching.
Remember, I've told you this was a setup and a framing operation the entire time.
How Trump's team was framed.
The people approaching them were approaching them at the behest of people who hated Donald Trump.
Republicans and Democrats alike.
And approaching them saying, hey, we got information about the Russians.
Bite, bite, bite.
Look, Trump's colluding with the Russians.
Fascinatingly enough, there was a guy named Stefan Halper.
If you listen to episode 685, his background will make sense.
Halper had worked before on presidential campaigns.
He'd been involved with a number of presidential administrations, Republicans too.
Halper approached George Papadopoulos remember the whole fbi
according to new york times the genesis of the whole spying thing is george papadopoulos a trump
advisors meeting with alexander downer in a bar in london where papadopoulos is alleged to have said
the russians have hillary's emails, Papadopoulos was approached earlier
by this guy, Stefan Halper.
Halper's father-in-law worked for the CIA.
Halper also, this is crazy.
I had to read this twice.
Halper also worked and was associates
with Richard Dearlove
who was the former head
of the British spy agency
so Halper is trying to approach
the Trump team
and get information from them
through Papadopoulos
Halper has a relationship through marriage
to higher ups in the CIA Dearlove also is associated with Halper has a relationship through marriage to higher-ups in the CIA.
Dear Love also is associated with Halper.
Halper, and they have this tie to Cambridge University, this academic forum at Cambridge University.
right after the election, Halper, who had approached the Trump team,
and his buddy, Dearlove, who was the former head of a British spy agency,
they're on this forum at Cambridge.
They resigned from the forum in December, right after the election.
Let me read to you from the Financial Times.
A group of intelligence experts, including a former head of MI6, has cut ties with fellow academics at Cambridge University in a varsity spy scare, harping back to the heyday of Soviet espionage at the heart of the British establishment.
Service and former master of Pembroke College, Stefan Halper, a senior policy advisor at the White House to Presidents Nixon, Ford, and Reagan, and Peter Marland, a leading espionage
historian, have all resigned as conveners of the Cambridge Intelligence Seminar, an
academic forum for former practitioners and current research, current researchers of Western spy craft because of concerns over what they
fear could be a Kremlin back operation to compromise the group.
What?
Yep.
Keep in mind what we're talking about.
Yesterday's show Nunez establishes that there were no
official intelligence documents to back this up what we've been establishing for a almost a year
now is yes no kidding not a knock on Nunes he's got to be careful they were unofficial channels
because they didn't want to leave a paper trail.
It's clear Hannigan was involved with something with Brennan based on the left's own reporting.
The British were giving him something. The guy leaves, resigns suspiciously right after Trump gets elected, the British NSA chief. Another guy who approaches the Trump team with contacts to
the British NSA, excuse me, the British intelligence service. He approaches the Trump team with contacts to the British NSA, excuse me, the British
Intelligence Service. He approaches the Trump team, this guy Halper. He has deep contacts with
the CIA and British intelligence. All of a sudden resigns with the former head of British intelligence
right after the election from a forum because he said, hey, the Russians are involved. Wow,
that's awfully convenient. the same guy dear love
the former head of the british intelligence service connected to the guy that's approaching
the trump team and seeking information from papadopoulos the same guy is awfully vocal
when people start making allegations that the brit may have been spying on Trump through unofficial channels.
Another quote from The Guardian, Joe.
Britain's MI6 spy agency played a part in intelligence sharing with the U.S., one source said.
MI6 declined to comment.
Its former chief, Sir Richard Dearlove, same guy, same guy,
described Trump's wiretapping claim
on Thursday
as simply deeply embarrassing
for Trump and the administration.
Wow, Dearlove's awfully vocal
and upset.
What was Dearlove doing with Halper?
Why were they approaching
the Trump team?
Halper?
Why did him and Halper suddenly resign from this forum
because of Russian influence?
They know those Russians?
What else were they doing with those Russians?
What did those Russians tell them?
Let me throw one more thing at you.
I didn't even get to this other.
I got so much stuff, man.
Gosh.
Remember the piece in the tablet mag?
Lee Smith, who's been doing just bonkers work over there.
I'm going to wrap up with this because this is going to...
Joe, is it what I told you just makes sense, by the way?
Yeah, yeah.
I'm simply establishing to you that the reason there's no official intelligence in the document
is because it was all done at a Starbucks meeting.
To cover the paper trail.
Unmasking.
Cover the paper trail.
Use bureaucrats.
Susan Rice, Samantha Power.
Cover the paper trail.
Use people who are not formally connected to intelligence.
Halper, Cambridge.
Approach the Trump team.
They have connections, but we can hide that.
Pass stuff at the director level between Hannigan and Brennan.
Oh, and Hannigan mysteriously resigns.
All makes sense.
Here's another one for you.
I went over this a few months ago, and this resurfaced in my brain this morning.
I'm thinking, now it makes sense.
They needed to avoid the paper trail.
Nunez has said there wasn't one.
From the tablet mag piece,
I'll put in the show notes again today.
It's an older one, but a good one.
The owner of the Washington Post, Joe, Jeff Bezos.
He has a major stake in letting Bob Mueller do his work
to preserve America's surveillance and spying complex.
Remember, Mueller's a smokescreen.
Keep the attention on Trump. Pay no attention to these back channels set up to spy on Trump.
That's Mueller's job. Keep all the attention on the Trump team. Move from collusion to obstruction
to real estate deals to whatever's next to felonious mopery. But keep the attention on
Trump. Pay no attention to the spying that went on. Bezos, in 2013, Bezos bought the newspaper,
the Washington Post, that broke Watergate for $250 million. Conveniently, Joe, Amazon Web
Services landed a $600 million deal with the U.S. intelligence community. According to a 2017
Washington Post story, they created a cloud storage service designed to handle classified information for U.S. spy agencies, including the CIA.
The cloud technology was to usher in a new era of cooperation and coordination, allowing agencies to share information services much more easily.
Here's where it gets freaky deaky. And now some intelligence and data experts believe that the CIA cloud is how the Obama administration could have minimized its trail after unmasking U.S. persons.
Samantha Power unmasking Susan Rice unmasking.
Here's a quote.
The NSA database.
Remember, the NSA was being run by Mike Rogers, who goes up to Trump Tower after the election, and we believe warned Trump about being spied on. I believe Mike Rogers is a pretty decent guy in all this. So the NSA database, Joe, being run by a potential white hat, a good guy, with its large and ongoing collection of electronic communications can be accessed through the NSA's cloud, said one former intelligence official.
Here's the kicker.
The NSA can audit it and find out
if the analysts are violating the rules.
Paper trail.
The NSA does not audit the CIA's cloud,
being run by John Brennan,
political hack who met at the director level
with the British,
which is audited by the CIA's
own IT people and
Amazon Web Services
employees who are
given security clearances.
There are people in the CIA,
the Office of Director
of National Intelligence, and the National Security
Council staff,
Susan Rice, who can
move information from the NSA cloud into the CIA cloud, Joe, where they can mask the paper
trail completely.
That seems the likeliest scenario to explain how Obama officials first unmasked U.S. persons,
i.e.
spy on the Trump team, and then shared information without leaving a trail that could be audited independently or immediately at every step.
Since unmasking by itself is authorized for lawful purposes, it's the processing and sharing, as with Susan Rice's spreadsheets, that tell us if the information was being abused.
Folks, you see what I'm trying to tell you there?
being abused.
Folks,
you see what I'm trying to tell you there?
This was all unofficial,
keep the paper trail quiet stuff.
Use bureaucrats, Susan Rice,
Samantha Powers.
Go at the director level
between the British and us, but keep it off
official channels. We know that because Nunez said
there's no official information.
The same guy who meets with John Brennan, CIA hack, resigns from the British GCHQ right after the election. There's some reporting out there that information was moved
from the NSA cloud where it could be audited officially by a guy who at a minimum was disturbed
by what was going on with the spying operation against
Trump, the NSA and Mike Rogers, over to the CIA being run by hack John Brennan,
where the cloud and the trail of evidence could be masked a bit.
You are living through the most explosive U.S. government scandal in our history. That is not hyperbolic at all.
And this is all going to come out soon.
Now, does it explain the panic?
Now, one last thing.
I know we're running.
This is going to be a long story.
Sorry, Joe.
But one last thing just to wrap this up.
What are we going to do, right?
I don't want to leave you with the bad news.
Oh, great, Dan.
Now you're telling us we're screwed again.
There's an in here, folks.
I believe Bill Price step, the number two in counterintel is cooperating.
Why?
Let me read you one more thing.
This is important.
Bill Price step who knows all of this.
He's the FBI counterintel guy. He's the one, keep in mind, that told Comey to keep this investigation important. Bill Price step, who knows all of this. He's the FBI counterintel guy. He's the one keep in mind that told call me to keep this investigation secret. I think they had something
on price step and I think he's cooperating. Why they locked up an FBI agent who pled guilty to
leaking classified national defensive defense information. This was a press release from last
week, Tuesday, April 17, 2018, who made the announcement? Assistant Director Bill Priestep, who's been
intimately involved in this entire spying operation on the Trump team, according to Comey's own words.
I believe he's cooperating. I also believe Andy McCabe, the number two at the FBI,
who is in a world of trouble right now and is looking at a prosecution. I believe the Department
of Justice is squeezing him right now.
And I believe McCabe is going to wind up cooperating too. And he's going to flesh out
how these unofficial Starbucks channels made it into a US FISA court to spy on the Trump team.
That's going to be the coup de grace. All right, folks, I'll talk to you all tomorrow.
You just heard the Dan Bongino Show. Get more of Dan online anytime at grab. All right, folks, I'll talk to you all tomorrow.