The Dan Bongino Show - Ep. 711 Are Conservatives Gaining Ground in the Culture Wars?

Episode Date: May 2, 2018

Summary: In this episode I address the real-world ramifications of liberal economic policies and provide evidence that the consequences are becoming visible. I also address the FBI’s continued efforts to delay the release of critical information that could entirely dismantle the Russian collusion narrative.    News Picks: Why did the Mueller team leak their questions for Trump?   What is the FBI hiding from us regarding its communications with Crowdstrike?   Hyperinflation is destroying the Venezuelan economy.    Liberalism is decimating San Francisco.   The Israelis pulled off one of the boldest spy operations I’ve ever heard of.    Another celebrity questions where his tax money is going.    China’s missile development is creating access problems for us.    Copyright CRTV. All rights reserved. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

get ready to hear the truth about america on a show that's not immune to the facts with your host dan bongino all right welcome to the damn bongino show producer joe how are you today man i'm doing okay how about you dan you doing good doing good so let me let you in on a little secret i have been holding on to for a little bit now so one of the reasons why the shows have been launching a little bit early this week we usually try to get them up by about noon Eastern time, but, you know, your regular listeners

have probably noticed they've been going up a little early, is we had to record a little bit earlier for some of these shows because I am in travel status because I am going

to the NRA convention, which you know, that's not the secret, but I will see you there this week if you're at the NRA convention. I'll be doing a meet and greet on Saturday as well. If you want to stop by and say hello. By the way, can I just tell you a quick, funny story about this, Joe? Yeah, man. I just, you guys are like my friends out there. So I feel like once in a blue moon,

we should share some personal stuff. So the NRA sends me an email today, NRA TV, I should say. They're actually two distinct entities. They said, hey, Dan, there's been a lot of interest in this meet and greet at the NRA convention on Saturday. I think it's 2.30 or 3.30, but I'll put that out there if you want to come by and say hello. But they said there's been a lot of interest, which always surprises me because I'm not

messing around with you folks. I really am astonished at how much people enjoy my stuff. I am. I'm just not used to it. I was a cop and a secret service guy, and you used to be in the guy behind the scenes. So now that people find my stuff interesting, and by default, I guess me interesting, it's really shocking. My wife and I are always, we don't get out of the house much because my studio's in my house. So when we leave and people want to talk and take selfies, it is really shocking.

I know I'm not being coy with you or doing one of these humble brag things. I swear, I'm really shocked by it. But they had a really incredible response to this. So they printed up these pictures. And they're like, well, you can sign them for people. They can buy it. I'm like, people would want a signed picture. I'm not messing with you, Joe.

They really did this. And I was like, okay, sure. Whatevs. You know, I'll do whatever you guys want. But the secret is I, there's been a lot of requests via email on Twitter for people who've been following the Russia hoax and the framing of Donald Trump series from six 28 on episode six 28 on for me to do an extended appearance on Fox to

discuss it. So I will be on, and do not miss this, Life, Liberty, and Levin with Mark Levin, Sunday night on the Fox News Channel, 10 p.m. Eastern time, with the inimitable Joe DeGeneva, who knows exactly what I know. And for an hour, we will be breaking this sucker down like you've never heard about it with the great one. So please, spread the word. Let's make it the most highest

rated episode they've had yet on Life, Liberty, and Levin. 10 o'clock p.m. Eastern Time. This coming Sunday night, I'm flying up. That's why I've had to leave early and get on some stuff, because I've got to bounce around between Virginia and Dallas to get all this and D.C. to get this done.

So if you see me around in the D.C. news studio on Fox, that's what's going on. But do not miss it. It's going to be an epic episode with me and DeGeneva. Jolly good show, Dan. It is going to be amazing. You're not going to want to miss this one. All right. Me and Joe just had a debate about what to leave in and take in.

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Okay. So I had mentioned to you on yesterday's show, i did not uh i had not seen this article when i did it i was i'm going to get to some other stuff too but the uh there's an interesting development with this fbi case but i had mentioned to you about the debt crisis how let the last quarter we borrowed an astronomical 488 billion dollars the last fiscal quarter, January, February, March. So January 1st through March 31st. That is the most money the United States government has borrowed, $488 billion, since the fiscal crisis. Again, if you heard yesterday's show, you know all this. Where during the fiscal crisis, quarter four of 2008, we borrowed $596 billion, which is another

astronomical amount. Now, folks, why does this matter to you? Well, obviously it matters to you because the United States is drowning in a tidal wave of debt and red ink. But I had said to you that there are going to be two outcomes. And those two outcomes are going to be number one, either explosively high interest rates, because people are just going to stop lending us money. I mean, would you lend money to a guy who owed the United States government a million dollars if his salary was only, you know, a hundred thousand? Of course you wouldn't, you know, you're never going to get the money back or you would lend it to him. And you'd say, Hey, listen, I want 25% interest on this

to compensate me for the risk I'm taking lending you this money, knowing I may not get it back. So I'd said to you that the first problem we're going to have is we're going to have really, really high interest rates because people are not going to lend us money. The second problem I have, I said the second way to solve this problem, and when I say solve, I'm being sarcastic, is to print the snot out of money. The United States government can just print its own money and pay off its own debts. You say, oh, that sounds great. Well, that would lead to massive hyperinflation. Seemingly on cue, a few articles come out showing, I love that we're always like ahead

of the curve here. You know, again, I didn't invent these ideas. These are standard principles of economics, but these two articles came out. I took snapshots of them. One from the Wall Street Journal. And what's the other one from? Oh, France 24. These are two articles that describe exactly what I just told you.

Again, showing I'm not making this stuff up, folks. This is real stuff. So, Wall Street Journal yesterday. I missed this, by the way, before I had spoken about this. There's a quote. We just had this spending splurge. You know the budget Trump signed, what is it, a few weeks ago,

maybe a month ago? We talked about it on the show. The budget was a disaster. He said he's not going to sign another one like it. There's some talk about rescission or taking some of that money back. I'm not sure it's going to go anywhere. We've already discussed most of this on the show. But the budget the Congress and the Senate passed

and Trump signed was not a good one. Yeah, it was a disaster we're spending uh ourselves into oblivion trump said no more it's the last one i'm signing but yo from the wall street journal and i'm quoting foreign investors appetite this year for u.s debt other words, their willingness to lend us money, hasn't grown at the same pace as the government's borrowing needs, which some analysts worry could push bond yields higher and eventually threaten to slow down economic growth. Exactly what I said to you yesterday. Again, there's no revelation of what I said yesterday. It's a basic economic principle. I'm just telling you, I swear to you, I missed this piece, right? I just telling you i swear to you i missed this piece right as i was telling you how bond yields interest rates are going to go up because these countries are saying wait

why are we lending them money they are going bankrupt the united states has too much they can't handle instead why are we lending the money again? Now, coincidentally, this is interesting. We're at now, the allotment data shows foreign demand fell below its five-year average in March after rising to a 21-month high in February. Now, why does any of that matter to you? What does that mean, Joe? Demand for our debt. In other words, the willingness to lend us money, the demand to

buy our bonds, the willingness to lend the U.S. government money. That's what that means. Okay. Fell right after what happened. Right after we signed this disastrous budget where we spent all this money we didn't have. Oh, Sharkey, like this is like common sense. This is like Scooby-Doo budgeting. So let me get this straight, Joe. Foreign governments that lend us money, they saw that we're spending money we don't have, and then correspondingly said, I'm not so willing to lend you guys money anymore

if you keep spending like this. This is like only shocking to swamp rat Republicans and big spending socialist Democrats. This is not shocking to any other reasonable person on the planet. So I had said to you in no uncertain terms that two things would happen. Foreign governments would stop lending us money. I hadn't even seen this. I wasn't trying to set it up to be cool the next day.

I don't care about any of that stuff. I did not make any of this up. This is basic econ. I'd said to you, we keep doing this. They're going to stop lending us money and interest rates are going to go up. Well, I missed the story that shows exactly that is happening right now. Foreign governments are now demanding our debt at the lowest rate in five years. This, what can't continue won't.

Famous quote by Herb Stein, Ben Stein's father, economist. He says, what can't continue won't. This can't continue won't famous quote by herb stein ben stein's father economist he says what can't continue won't this can't continue therefore it won't sooner or later interest rates are going to go up i'm not trying to redo yesterday's show i'm just trying to tell you this stuff is happening right now because i know there are liberals and rhinos and swamp rats who listen to the show and and hill people who listen to the show and, and hill people who listen to the show. I know that. Why are you not telling the American people this? Why isn't someone Joe going on TV with a chart showing that the demand for our debt is going down.

In other words, folks explained to them in common sense, hill people explained to the American people in common sense terms, people don't want to lend this money anymore. We're in a little bit of trouble. No balls no none none zero zippo balls now on that second front an article that popped up on drudge and i picked out i'll put these in the show notes by the way from france 24 about venezuela venezuela is a socialist country. Socialism, of course, meaning the government ownership of the means of production, meaning government owns the ways we

produce things, the farms, they own the car companies. That's the definition of socialism, government ownership of the means of production. Venezuela is a socialist country, which has moved in that direction, the confiscation of free market economic assets by the government. That has a 100% success rate. Huh? Yes, a failure. Socialism has failed 100% of the time. It's a remarkable success rate of failure.

Joe, it's incredible. You can't get 100% of anyone to do anything. You ask kids in a classroom if they want homework. There's always one kid who raises his hand and says yes, right? Everybody knows that, right? You can't get 100% of kids to agree they don't want homework. But you can agree that socialism has failed everywhere it's been tried, including Venezuela.

So, in response to government confiscating the means of production in Venezuela and spending a bunch of money in Venezuela that they did not have, Joe, well, what happened in Venezuela? Well, what did I tell you in yesterday's show was going to happen? First, governments would stop lending us money, which would lead to a rise in interest rates. And when that happens and they can't get money anymore, the government, what do they do? They'll print it. Right.

Quote from this France 24 piece, which will be in the show notes at bongino.com for an analyst at a consultancy ecoanalytica the constant hiking of salaries which is being mandated by the government by the way in venezuela is a hopeless cause in the face of such inflation without correcting the imbalances in the venezuelan, which is running a fiscal deficit of an estimated 20% of GDP that the government is trying to resolve through printing money, just like I told you. Again, none of this is particularly complicated. It only is for liberals who don't understand economics 101. What is inflation running at in Venezuela right now?

A mild 13,000%. Inflation is so bad in Venezuela right now, Joe, that the story that I have in the show notes, that's actually a snippet of it, but that's not the takeaway from the story. The actual takeaway from the story is that a woman got a five-year severance check from a hospital she was working at. Yeah. The five years. Now, you'd think, gosh, five-year severance check. What's she going to buy, a car?

Is she going to buy a house with that? The five-year severance check literally covers, literally, a cup of coffee. That's it. That is how bad inflation. So five years, you figure what her salary was worth over that accumulated five-year period. Inflation degrades the value of money, right? Inflation means your money buys less and less and less and less, and you need more and more and more of it. That's why the cost of a loaf of bread is $1,000, because you need more and more money. The salary five years ago and accumulated on that severance payment only buys her now a cup of coffee, not a jar, not a gallon, not a container, a cup of coffee. Listen, again, I'm not trying to

be Karnak. I'm not trying to predict the future. I'm just telling you the basic laws of economics. I'm not trying to be Karnak. I'm not trying to predict the future. I'm just telling you the basic laws of economics. There are some things we know will happen. If we don't get a hold of this debt problem soon, make absolutely no mistake, this stuff is coming our way. It is unavoidable. And famous last words are, no, no, it ain't going to happen here.

No, it will. And it can. I promise you. Okay. I got another really, really interesting story in the show notes from the Washington Free Beacon. Folks, something is going on here. Something, well, listen, something, if you listen to my show, you're like, well, what does that mean? I mean, something's been going on forever.

Are you talking about the Russia probe, the Hillary probe? If you've been following the show, you know my suspicions about CrowdStrike. Now, let me just be clear about what I'm talking about first. Washington Free Beacon has a story up about a FOIA request, FOIA, Freedom of Information Act, meaning we request this information from the government under the Freedom of Information Act. We should have access to it, right? Right. The Washington Free Beacon put out a FOIA to the FBI for their communications with CrowdStrike. Now, why is this interesting? in to examine the Democrat National Committee,

the DNC servers, after the allegations they were hacked by the Russians. Remember what I told you before, because this is important. This is an interesting development. I'll put the story in the show notes. You really should read it, because it should say to you that what I've been telling you the whole time about the Russia hack narrative, you should be extremely skeptical of it, that that's true. The DNC brought in CrowdStrike after they alleged they were hacked by the Russians. Now,

keep in mind the 30,000 foot view. The whole Russian collusion narrative is based on the premise, as I've told you multiple times, that the Russians hacked the DNC and that they worked with the Trump team to get those emails out, to overturn the election and embarrass the Democrats and Hillary Clinton. That's the whole Russian narrative in a nutshell. If the Russians did not hack the DNC, do you understand the whole narrative falls apart? Why?

Maybe I haven't explained as well. Why? For obvious reasons. If the Russians didn't hack the DNC and get the emails, how could they give them to the Trump team? By the way, there's no evidence they gave them to the Trump team either, which is funny, because the two tenets of the investigation,

the Russians hacked the DNC and colluded with the Trump team to get the emails out. There's no evidence for either one of those things at this point. None. Now, they may have hacked the DNC, but what I've said to you repeatedly is the fbi was never allowed in there no government agency has examined those computers what's equally suspicious about crowd strike the company the private company that was hired

and was you know did go in there was allowed access to the computers is even they are backing away from their assertions that the evidence indicates the russians hacked into the dnc one of their original assertions was that there was a ukrainian military app that was hacked into using some of the some of the similar type patterns that were hacked into the dnc the ukrainians are, that didn't happen. I don't know what you're talking about. So CrowdStrike has even backed away from some of this stuff. So I'm asking you just as a reasonable person,

if even CrowdStrike is backing away from this conclusion they drew that the Russians hacked the DNC and the FBI and no one else has looked at these computers, why isn't anyone in the press even remotely curious about the assertion that the Russians hacked the DNC? Adding to the chicanery here is the Free Beacon. The Washington Free Beacon is a conservative outlet. They FOIA the FBI and says, listen, we want to check out your communications with CrowdStrike. So here's a quote from the piece.

The FBI, which was never, and they have that in like a bold and a link, was never granted access to the DNC service for inspection. Instead, relied on the third party firm CrowdStrike that was brought in by the DNC for information regarding the Compromise Network, who concluded that Russia was behind the hack. Fascinating. Listen to this. The FBI previously awarded an unrelated $150,000 contract to CrowdStrike in July of 2015. Details and communications between the firm, CrowdStrike, and the Bureau regarding that past contract were requested as part of the Freedom of Information Act request. They're delaying, folks. The FBI is sitting on this thing again. There is a normal, understandable timeline between a request for information

and production of said information. They are way outside that timeline right now. What are they hiding now? Why is the FBI hiding their communications with CrowdStrike and not giving them over to the Free Beacon? What was going on there? Now, remember with CrowdStrike, CrowdStrike was the CTO of CrowdStrike,

the technology officer, a guy named Alperovic, Dmitry Alperovic. He sits on a board at the Atlantic Council. The Atlantic Council was a think tank, was funded largely by a Ukrainian, Viktor Pinchuk. largely by a Ukrainian, Viktor Pinchuk. That same Atlantic Council, funded by this Ukrainian, with heavy ties to the Clintons. So a guy with heavy ties to the Clintons donates significant sums to a think tank. On that think tank sits the CTO of the company

that analyzed the DNC computers. That think tank also partnered with a Ukrainian gas company that hired a very close friend of Secretary of State John Kerry and Vice President Biden's kid. You think the motive for CrowdStrike being paid an enormous sum of money

to produce a narrative is there? Folks, the connections here are incredible. Just think about what I'm telling you, for those of you who missed my show a couple weeks ago. FBI never analyzed the DNC computers. The company that's been telling us the entire time that it's a Russian hack, one, the FBI's hiding the records with,

that they won't produce the records, at least in a reasonable time frame. The company that did it, the CTO of the company sits on a board of a think tank funded by a Clinton donor that just partnered with a Ukrainian gas company that hired Joe Biden's kid and John Kerry's stepson. I'm not stepson. A friend of John Kerry's stepson. Folks, the point of this is the swamp is real. The connection is real. The financial incentive is real. The job opportunities to be quiet and work within the swamp are real.

Why won't they let the FBI in there to look at these darn computers? I bring it up today because it's a recent story. You should really check it out. I'll put it in the show notes and it goes to show you, I think, the level of depravity we have here. People are hiding information. I want to know what the FBI knew about CrowdStrike. Did CrowdStrike email people in the FBI and say, hey guys, we're not so sure this was a Russian hack here do you understand if that email shows up in a communication between the FBI and CrowdStrike how this entire Russian collusion case falls apart

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Made in the USA. Nice job there. Another story I saw at Trudge. there um another story i saw a drudge you know i grew up in new york folks in uh the 80s and a bit of the 90s before i wound up moving to maryland where i was an instructor in the secret service academy so i had to leave and um well one of the things i saw in new york that i saw in maryland as well joe and i think you can vouch for this being a Maryland resident yourself, is the one thing about liberalism is liberalism eventually eats up and destroys liberals, too. Liberalism just as a factual matter just doesn't work because it defies the way human human behavioral patterns work. human behavioral patterns work.

You know, we are, I was listening to a podcast, Jonah Goldberg has a really fascinating podcast he did with, it's Econ Talk, which I listened to, but Jonah Goldberg was a guest last week, and it was a really, really good Econ Talk podcast where they talk about one of the principles I brought up frequently, and they discuss on Econ Talk a lot, the idea that depending on the size of the group,

the behavior patterns of the human being are different. In other words, Joe, we actually are, you know, communists, if not monarchs, in our own household, right? Like, we don't, it's not a democracy in our household, not with my kids. Dad and mom are the king and the queen. What we say goes, and you'll listen, because we know it's better because you generally don't so depending on that's a small group that's our

family but that pattern of behavior does not work in the macro it doesn't work when you know you have a king or a queen ruling over 300 million people because that power will corrupt as lord acton said interestingly enough the p this is why i say liberalism is this cancer and liberals what they fail to see is what works in small groups doesn't necessarily work in the macro that is the fatal flaw the fatal conceit to steal uh the term from hayek that liberals have they have this idea that this knowledge you display in your own small family unit like in other words Joe just to make it tangible I know better than my kids which is probably correct most of the time right most likely that does not mean you know better than

300 million people in the United States because you know what's better for your 15 and 5 year old kids or 18 and 6 year old kids it doesn't matter that is the fatal flaw in liberalism the idea that planners, bureaucrats have some special knowledge set over your life which enables them to legislate things to make your life better when they don't have the set of variables

you're living under to understand what would make your life better or worse even common sense kind of things variables you're living under to understand what would make your life better or worse. Even common sense kind of things, which I'm using their term there, that they say don't make sense. Like, hey, what if we gave everybody free healthcare? It sounds like common sense. Oh, that would be great. That would be mutually beneficial for everyone.

One, there is no free healthcare. The doctor's time, the hospital, the rent, the electric bills have to be paid for the hospital. Who's paying? These are not, these things don't make sense. It's frustrating dealing with this. I only bring this up because I read an article at charge about San Francisco, about residents of San Francisco, which is one of the most liberal cities of America in America, if not the most liberal city in America, who are finally starting to feel the pain of their own radical far left decisions, especially when it comes to electing legislators and people who govern over their

lives. I saw this happen in New York in the 80s and the 90s, where people had elected a series of Democrats, Ed Koch as the mayor, Mario Cuomo, who was the governor of New York. His son is Chris Cuomo and Andrew Cuomo, the governor now in New York. These were leftists. They weren't as hard, radical leftists as Bernie Sanders, but they were pretty far left. And what happened in New York is eventually the imposition of big government on people and the cost of it sucked money out of the private sector. The idea that government should be hands off when it comes to crime and the homeless and police were the problem eventually turned New York into a total rat hole. There were parts of New York that were crime ridden. I believe they had thousands of homicides in the 90s. I mean, when I became a cop, it was

starting to die down a little bit. No pun intended there, obviously. But it was a mess in New York. Rudy Giuliani gets elected in a squeaker over David Dinkins, who was one of the worst mayors we'd ever seen. Giuliani turns the city around rapidly. He imposes law and order. He starts to dramatically cut back the welfare rolls, the tax rolls. All of a sudden, one of the most liberal cities in America, New York, Rudy Giuliani gets reelected over, I think it was Ruth Messinger, dramatically. The reason I'm bringing this up, folks, is eventually liberals start to see the errors of their own ways. Joe and I lived through this in Maryland, where I actually ran in that cycle. And I mean, the Maryland phenomenon was no different than what happened in New York.

Changed the people, changed the place, the psychology of what happened, the sociology, probably a better way to say it, sociological forces at work, were no different. Maryland had become a high-tax, business-unfriendly state. Baltimore, the crime was out of control, and people got tired of it. And in a state where Democrats outnumber Republicans, I think two or three to one, Larry Hogan, I ran. I remember that election night because I ran. That's the race we won on election day

and lost on an absentee count. I couldn't believe it. Larry Hogan won the governorship. I'm telling you, nope, Joe, correct me if I'm wrong. Nobody thought Hogan was going to win that race. No, everybody was surprised. It was a foregone conclusion that the winner of the Democrat primary

was the next governor i remember matter of fact anthony brown the lieutenant governor who won the democrat primary seeing him a few days earlier um at a parade i think we were in gaithersburg relaxed as all like it was over like he was the governor it's it just was what it was like no one had even considered the fact that hogan was going to win not Not only did Hogan win, Hogan won by, gosh, three, four points, which, believe me, in Maryland politics is an enormous landslide. He racked up totals in some counties with 70% of the vote. Some of them were conservative counties, but I mean, that's an astronomical number. Eventually, liberalism collapses on itself. I'm not

suggesting to you that San Francisco is ever going to elect anytime soon a conservative or Republican mayor. Obviously, that's probably not going to happen. The numbers there are really not good. But I'm just saying that when you read the story about San Francisco, I didn't even tell you what it is. San Francisco residents, needles in the street, human waste. I remember clean up after your dogs. Now they need signs in San Francisco remember clean up after your dogs now they need signs in san francisco clean up after your humans like is this a real sign like this it's unbelievable human waste in the street homeless people all over the place because you can't afford housing

because of the strict zoning eventually this stuff implodes on liberals i say this is it it's kind of like a bad news, good news thing. The bad news is it's happening. Listen, people in San Francisco, American citizens, there are citizens too. They've made poor choices, I think misinformed in many cases, but I don't wish evil on anyone.

I wish they'd wake up and see the error of their own ways and elect people who can actually pull government out of their lives and let businesses and economic opportunity filter down to everybody, not just the elites like it happens in San Francisco. That's the irony of liberalism. You want to talk about trickle-down economics, which is a fiction of the left?

There is real trickle-down economics. It's government trickle-down. When government gets involved, only rich people get rich because they can manipulate governments and hire lobbyists. That's the real trickle-down economics. It has nothing to do with conservatism. Economic opportunity is only for the elites in San Francisco. Eventually, this impacts them.

They're starting, I believe, to see the error their ways. And I would not be surprised if in a decade or two, if it gets worse, that you start to see maybe not a conservative mayor, Joe, maybe not a Republican mayor, but maybe not a republican mayor but you may see an independent self-funder remember this show and i don't know nobody's called me and it's not like some secret email i have but you may see some independent self-funder who comes in there with some dramatically different conservative economic ideas tax cuts um also policing law and order you may see someone eventually uh win that that

mayorship in san francisco and turn that city around it can't continue forever folks you can't have people shooting up in the streets uh you know using the streets as a bathroom it just doesn't work that way that eventually has to stop all right i got so much i want to get through today i'm sorry if i'm uh if i'm bouncing through this stuff, but there's so much stuff. Okay. Just quickly on the Israeli operation, I want to just give another hat tip to them. Regardless of your position on foreign affairs, I am a open, bold, hearty, robust supporter of Israel for a number of reasons. My experience in the secret service really opened my eyes to what goes on overseas,

seeing how, what happens to Israel and how they are impacted by disastrous decisions by the international community, specifically directed at them. You know, I always kind of ask about things like, you know, the right of return,

the right of return, right of return. There's a right of return? Do the British get to come back here? What about the French? Do they get to go back to Indochina? Kind of fascinating how the right of return seems to only apply to Israel. But on that topic, I want to hat tip the Israelis as a former Secret Service agent.

I was not a spy. I was a protection agent and a criminal investigator. I was a protection agent and a criminal investigator for one of the nerviest steel spine spy operations I have ever seen in my life. Some of the numbers are starting to come out what happened with the Israelis. And what did they do? Israeli spy entities inserted themselves into Iran. And here's some of the numbers about what they pulled out, Joe. And there's a great piece I have in the Washington Examiner in the show notes today. Please read it about it. It's about the psychological component of this. It's really good. They fleeced from the Iranians,

the Israelis, 55,000 pages of physical pages, physical pages of documents in binders, Physical pages of documents in binders. 55,000 on their nuclear program. And 55,000 files on 183 CDs. Basically dismantling the Iranian myth that they are not building a nuclear program. They had photos. I discussed some of this on yesterday's show. But why I wanted to bring it up again today is there's a good piece in the Washington Examiner.

It talks about how most spy entities, Joe. This is a cool angle, right right why don't you hear about this stuff more often matter of fact the stocks in that the virus inserted into the uh iranian centrifuges that made them basically explode themselves to this day there's still no real public confirmation about who did that most spy entities back away from this stuff after they get because they don't want to give up sources so the piece in the washington examiner it's a good one it says the israelis are experts at this and what they're doing now is this is a psychological operation too it's basically a a clarion call the world like hey look what we can do to the iranians this was their most sensitive

data and we walked out of there 55 000 pages of your manuals photos powerpoints everything good luck starting that up again i think the world has noticed yeah yeah you think so i mean netanyahu did the powerpoint presentation in front of the world yesterday so it's an interesting piece and they're right, how most of these spy agencies would just get this stuff and keep it super quiet. But the Israelis, in what they believe to be a psychological operation to demoralize them,

have put the Iranians on notice that you're just not safe. But a good piece of interesting stuff there. This is a good one. There's a debate going on now, by kanye west now i've this is always one of those stories you know joe talking about you're like well here's the thing i applaud kanye west for thinking independently i am not in any way suggesting to you and i agree a lot with ben shapiro on this that we should be engaging in celebrity idol worship like the left does you get what i'm saying joe like there's been

this pile on oh look kanye he's not listen he's not with us or or again he's just we should not be using these guys as you know the these examples of oh look this is what the left does they idolize bruce springsteen and all these other anti you know republican celebrities we should never get into that because i don't know if he's with us until he comes out and says you know he stands for life and the second amendment that i'm not which i don't think he does i'm not really into this celebrity idol worship but i seriously do applaud him for having the guts, Kanye West, to stand up and say, hey, I admire the way Candace Owens thinks. Candace Owens is a Republican who works for Turning Point USA. He was a black female who had stated some conservative non-victimology ideas at a conference.

And Kanye West, for those of you missed it tweeted i literally tweeted i like the way candace owens thinks now the reason i applaud him is andrew breitbart always said politics is downstream of culture culture matters folks the culture what's going on out there what's going on every day amongst people, the entertainment community, college campuses, what people are talking about in bars and restaurants and diners all across America. What's But if the culture is pressuring Republicans to act like Democrats, electing Republicans will make no political difference whatsoever. Because the political pressure and the money and the pressure to get votes will be coming from a culture that largely supports Democrat ideas. You know, the problem up on Capitol Hill, I've tweeted this repeatedly, is that many Republicans are really Democrats,

but no Democrats are really Republicans. Does that make sense? Yeah. No Democrats are really Republicans. A lot of Republicans are really Democrats because they are pressured by a culture that is increasingly moving farther and farther to the left. Now, this stuff happens in cycles. That's why I don't panic. You know, you had the free love generation and you had

the Reagan generation. I mean, you look at it even in deeper terms. You had the enlightenment and the dark ages and this comes in cycles. But amongst the Hollywood community that has lurched radically far left, it's important that people with prominent followings who can influence the culture with one tweet. How? They have millions of followers. I think Kanye West has, what, 30 million plus followers on Twitter? If he even opens the eyes, Joe, of one or two percent of his followers, you are talking about thousands and thousands of people who will have thousands and thousands of kids who for the first time say, wait, I don't have to be a Democrat.

This is important stuff. It's not irrelevant. That's why I want to applaud him for doing that. I bring this up because it's kind of started a little bit of a war about the history of both party aligned racism and other things. There are people, Kanye West has been posting his text messages. Text messages he's getting from a singer friend to his, a rapper friend to his, which I don't know why he's doing that. I think, like, would you text him if you knew your text was going to appear on Twitter?

I wouldn't, but whatever. That's his thing. And in there, it goes to show you the level of just plain ignorance that some of these people have in one specific exchange and i forget who it's from it's either a singer or a rapper kanye knows who happens to be black they text kanye and they go kanye you talking about the republican party and their civil rights fight is wrong you know there was a party switch and basically racist southern Democrats became Republicans.

Ladies and gentlemen, this is a myth. The party switch. In other words, what I probably didn't explain that well. Some of you may have heard it before. The Democrats argument to save their party's historical reputation. Not now. Now they're buried in identity politics. Has always been that racist Southern Democrats. Remember, the entire South was Democrat,

was run by Democrats. Jim Crow laws were enforced by Democrats, by Democrat sheriffs, Democrat governors, Democrat local officials. That's just a historical fact. In order to wash clean their stained history with Jim Crow and slavery, the Democrats invented this fairy tale that's easily debunked by one simple point. The fairy tale is this, Joe. You know what? We may have been the Jim Crow racist Democrats in the South, but what really happened is all those people became Republicans. And now the racist Republicans are going, that's the party switch. If you just Google party switch, that's it in a nutshell. It's no more complicated than that.

So therefore, we're not really responsible anymore because it goes to show you that the Democrat Party is champions for civil rights. All those racist Democrats became Republicans. Really? Because what's fascinating about that line of thinking is, number one, only one, quote,

racist Democrat became a Republican in the Senate. That was Strom Thurmond at the time. There was no mass switch party-wise. But secondly, don't you find it odd, Joe, as attitudes have changed in the South about race, which is unquestioned. There is no more Jim Crow, obviously. You look at polling on everything

from acceptability of interracial marriage to is it okay to be a racist, whatever it is. The South has become unbelievably, I mean, the pace in the South, it's been incredible. The pace of historical change in the South, from it becoming this bedrock of Southern Democrat racism, to becoming an incredibly diverse, open, and welcoming city. Atlanta, all these other places, which are largely minority has been amazing you can't deny that what are you going to say all that what are you going to do say oh that's a bad thing but what i find interesting is the south has gotten more

republican during the same time so joe if your argument is that racist democrats became republicans how is it that as the south has become an incredibly welcoming and diverse place and has become unquestionably less racist it has also become commensurately more republican it does that make sense to you yeah i mean that's what's happening. I mean, it's just the facts. Yeah, it's the facts. Racism has gone down. Social acceptance of everything from interracial marriage to the unacceptability of legislated racism, of de facto racism. Racism has gone down in the South as the republican affiliation the states has gone up

and yet your argument is what that the every all these racist democrats switched to be republicans and what became less racist i don't it doesn't make sense you can't handle the truth no you can't you can't because if that goes away then the whole if that argument is debunked which it is easily by what i just told you the democrats will have to someday come to grips with the fact that their party was the historical bedrock of institutional racism i'm only bringing this up not to again relitigate the past i don't want to live in the past. Even when living in the past involves exploring. I'd like to just live in the now and the future.

The only reason I'm bringing this up is because this Kanye West moment is important. It shouldn't be gaffed off. I'm not saying he's a conservative. I'm not saying we should all, oh, Kanye's our guy. Kanye for president. I'm not saying any of that. He's a man. He deserves

respect. He's a successful business guy. But him coming out and questioning the historical roots of the Democrat Party to overcome a lie of the party switch is an important moment so the Democrats themselves can finally come out and say, you know what, we're wrong.

Republicans clearly aren't racist because as the South has become less racist, it's become more Republican. Now, a lot of people are calling out and Kanye himself are calling out these people who keep putting this myth out there. Again, I bring this up because I saw another article, which I'll put in the show notes from the Daily Wire

by Amanda Prestiigiacomo. I'm sorry if I'm saying your name wrong, Amanda. My apologies. Yeah, it's a great name. I'm not great with names. Another excellent piece in the Daily Wire about former NFL running back and University of Southern California star Reggie Bush, who used to be, Southern California star, Reggie Bush, who used to be, I think he was dating Kim Kardashian, Kanye West's wife. Reggie Bush puts out a tweet, Joe. Interesting tweet. He's like, hey, what's the IRS doing with my money? Who's watching these people? Again, I'm not genuflecting at the feet of Reggie Bush. I'm not suggesting he's a conservative. I don't know him. I've never spoken to him about deep conservative thought. I have no idea.

I'm just telling you, tweets like this and celebrities with followings. Reggie Bush, you had Cardi B, who's another performer. Cardi B, who came out with that rant. She went on her whatever Instagram or Periscope and was like, what the hell are you spending my money on i mean literally it happened you can look at yourself maybe we'll get the audio yeah yeah oh she was hot maybe we'll get that audio for tomorrow it's pretty cool she's like what the hell are you all doing my money politics is downstream of culture folks these in these

small seemingly insignificant episodes are not insignificant if they change a few fans at a time, people who were never interested in politics, who listen to Cardi B, who go, you know what? That's a good point. The hell are they doing with our money? Followers of Reggie Bush. That's a good point, Reggie. The hell's the IRS doing with our dough? Followers of Kanye.

Hey, there wasn't a party switch. What do you mean? The Republicans really aren't the racist party? All of a sudden, downstream, the politics can start to change too. These are not insignificant moments. It's very, very important. We understand that. I don't want you to dismiss this. The Republicans, I have told you repeatedly, the Republicans have a messaging problem. They don't have a message problem. Don't ever forget that. The Republican message, economic freedom, control your own money,

limited interference in my life from the government, control of your own healthcare, control of your kid's education, limited government interference and red tape in our lives is extremely popular it probably appeals to 60 or 70 percent of the population then how come we don't win we don't win because the culture is run by leftists who people are afraid to stand up to which kanye west did afraid to stand up to and the culture run by leftists has messaged the Republican Party to be a group of racist and old stodgy white guys. When that changes and people, that message starts

to die because people like maybe Kanye West and a Reggie Bush or a Cardi B, again, I'm not suggesting in any way, shape or form are conservative, but if they open people's eyes and people actually start looking past the labels wait republicans aren't racist white guys well what do they really stand for they stand for more of your uh money in your own pocket you could pick your own health care oh wow that sounds good maybe i need to consider that the democrats will be finished forever we have a messaging problem not a message problem these cultural moments are not insignificant they They are very, very, very important. Okay. Today's show also brought to you by our buddies at BrickHouse Nutrition. You know,

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death, but Mueller is not a good guy. He's not on our team. I believe he's found some stuff that implicates the Clintons and others that he's had to refer out or may have to refer out. But Mueller is not a good guy. Mueller is after Trump and wants to take down Trump. You know, more evidence of that came out with the leaks of the questions. So this was a strategic leak, I believe, from the Mueller team to keep the attention on Trump. Because remember, Joe, the entire purpose of the Mueller probe is to keep the attention on Donald Trump as a smokescreen and keep the attention off the spying operation that would take down the deep staters. Boris is moose and squirrel. That's right.

You're damn right. Who was the guy who says that in the Rocky? Oh, that was Natasha. Natasha. That's right. Natasha Fatale. That's the essence. This is a Rocky and Bullwinkle scandal.

They need to keep the attention off the spying operation and on Trump. So the leaks of the questions were designed, I believe, strategically to again, as the case falls apart. The House Intelligence Committee report came out last week again for the Joe. What? Five hundred times showing no Russian collusion. They leaked these questions. The questions are interesting. They're about Manafort, Roger Stone, and some real estate deals in Russia. I've asked you over and over again, Manafort, who they had a pre-existing intelligence operation against, the Democrats.

The Democrats had already financed an operation through Alexandra Chalupa into Manafort before he was hired by the Trump team. Who pushed Manafort into the Trump orbit? Now, some reports are a business associate of Trump. Some are Roger Stone. That's the question for me. I believe Mueller's thinking the same thing. Now, I'm just saying with Stone that I don't know Stone. I ran into him a couple times at events. But it's interesting that Manafort was pushed into the Trump sphere while having these suspicious contacts to Ukrainian officials and to Russian oligarchs as well.

But I'm just trying to tell you with this, not to get too knee deep in it, but it did leak the Mueller questions. But the Mueller leak was strategically done, again, to keep the attention on this Manafort angle, because that's one of the questions that leaked. What is Manafort's connections to Russia? Keep the attention on Manafort. The golden question being who put Manafort in the Trump sphere? How eventually did he wind up there? What was his connection to Russia? Was it a setup? And the leak was timed, obviously, after the Intelligence Committee report came out. Didn't leak. Came out last week showing there's no collusion because they have to keep the attention on the Trump team at all times and away from the Clinton operation. This is important stuff. All right, folks. I appreciate you tuning in. Please go to Bongino.com. Subscribe to my email list there.

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