The Dan Bongino Show - Ep. 737 The Media Continues to Ignore this Exploding Scandal

Episode Date: June 7, 2018

Summary: In this episode I address Paul Ryan’s troubling comments about Spygate along with his trepidation on the explosive Awan scandal. I also address the media’s losing efforts to derail the Trump presidency.    News Picks: This is an older piece, but it provides a timeline that proves the discussion about Hillary’s emails started long before George Papadopoulos.   The anti-Trump FBI agent had a larger role in the investigation than previously reported.    What ever happened to the Samantha Power unmasking scandal?   Explosive information about the House IT scandal involving the Awan brothers.   Tax cuts are wonderful, but we need to do more.   Mick Mulvaney fires the entire CFPB advisory board.    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 dan bongino show producer joe how are you today let's go yes yes let's do it i'll be in for mark levin tonight on the radio by the way if you want to call in um critics comments uh whatever you got i'll take them uh so the tonight show should be interesting i'll be covering a lot of this stuff too hey uh joe and i were talking before the show we were talking about a specific guy he's like what a jerk and i'm like remember that remember the jerky boys those guys used to prank call everybody you jerk yeah you jerk those guys they grew up not very far from me by the way way. I believe it was Middle Village or Maspeth in Queens.

Sounds about right. Yeah, you remember them with the prank calls? Saul, Saul, I'm going to bring my glasses and my shoes. Oh, God. Remember that? You jerk. Those guys were awesome, man. They were funny.

I got a lot to talk about today, including a piece from Tucker Carlson's show last night. Joe was kind enough to cut up with the absolutely hapless, pathetic, sorry excuse for a human being, no less a congressman, Eric Swalwell, the purveyor of massive conspiracy theories, X-Files fairy tales, just a complete clown, an embarrassment to Congress, an embarrassment to the country. This guy's the absolute worst. So we cut that up. I got that. And I want to address Paul Ryan as well, who seems to have taken a deep inhale of the swamp gas in D.C.

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I really like having them on board. Okay, before we get to police state tyrant Eric Swalwell, big advocate of police state tactics, big government spying, tyrannical policies, really, I mean, you name it, statism. Eric Swalwell. Everything I'm embarrassed about with our federal government is represented by Eric Swalwell. I can't say enough about how dangerous this guy is. Still apologizing for big government police state tyranny. Before I get to that, you can sense I'm probably a little upset about Swalwell because he continues to do this.

Him and Shifty! Shifty! Shifty! Adam Schiff. Another disaster up there on the Hill. I mean, these two are largely responsible for the destruction of the Constitutional Republic by continuing to advocate for this stuff. I can't get this knucklehead out of my head because he's just... This is the guy, Swalwell, by the way,

who wants to send the police to your house to confiscate your weapons if you don't follow his gun control stuff. I'm not kidding. Listen to his own words. All right. Before we get to that, so Paul Ryan comes out yesterday

and adds fuel to the fire of the disastrous Trey Gowdy comments, grotesquely misguided comments about the FBI investigation, basically saying, Paul Ryan, that he's seen nothing to challenge Gowdy's assessment that the FBI handled the Spygate controversy as we would want them to, and that they were not, in fact, spying on Trump or the Trump campaign. Folks, that is simply not true. You responding back that, well, you know, Gowdy has seen some documents.

Number one, they haven't seen all the documents. Ryan acknowledged that yesterday. So if you're going to come back with a response and you're going to say, well, Gowdy has seen classified documents and clearly indicating that two things, because Gowdy said seen classified documents and clearly indicating that two things because Gowdy said two things folks that your liberal friends are out there on Twitter going crazy about look out he was right he said that the FBI was not in fact investigating Trump or the Trump team I thought that's what we've been told that Trump was dirty and they were investigating Trump

now the liberals realize they've been caught spying on Trump using their big government jackbooted thug tactics now they're dialing back the story no no we weren caught spying on Trump using their big government jackbooted thug tactics. Now they're dialing back the story. No, no, we weren't spying on Trump. We were spying on the Russians. And Gowdy, I don't know what happened, a whiff of swamp gas in D.C., I'm not sure, said, Well, from everything I've seen, it appears they weren't spying on Trump and weren't investigating Trump or the Trump team. Again, that is simply factually incorrect. again that is simply factually incorrect jim comey already acknowledged in a march 20th 2017 appearance in front of congress that i've already read to you verbatim you can watch the clip on

youtube it is not hard to find trey gowdy i suggest you do this he has already acknowledged that the fbi was investigating ties from the russian government to the Trump campaign. That's on the record. I don't know. That doesn't give me any joy in saying that, that the FBI decided to target the Trump team. But insisting now, Trey Gowdy, that all now that they've been now that the government has been uncovered in this devious spying operation, now trying to dial it back and insisting that, oh, no, no, this wasn't a spying operation on Trump. It was a spying operation now trying to dial it back and insisting that oh no no this wasn't a spying operation on trump it was a spying operation on the russians is just utter nonsense yeah does it please you all listening out there my i you know i love you to death this show is very important to me i'm not attacking trey gowdy because i dislike the guy i don't know him i've

seen him in green rooms he's always been nice he's been pleasant i i don't but trey gowdy because i dislike the guy i don't know him i've seen him in green rooms he's always been nice he's been pleasant i i don't but trey gowdy i don't have any personal animus towards him the man is in a position of significant power with a significant voice he has the responsibility to tell the truth or if he doesn't tell the truth to correct it i've done it when we said something it turned out later to be wrong not because we were lying we just the facts changed on the ground right the facts we had initially were just incorrect they were not facts and we've corrected stuff it happens all the time the best in the business have to correct things all the time why won't gowdy just come out and say he was wrong he made two assertions that the fbi handled this thing by the book how we would want them to and

that the FBI was not in spying on Donald Trump investigating Trump they were investigating the Russians that is not true Comey has already said otherwise on the record it is a simple common sense fact anybody so what does Ryan do anybody can look it up by the way Paul Ryan comes out yesterday says well basically you know I haven't seen anything that would make me disagree with Gowdy jumping on the swamp bandwagon. As he also admits, again, because your liberal friends are going to come out and say, because they do it to me on Twitter all the time. And they're going to say, well, Gowdy's seen all the documents and seen what you've seen, so he would know more. Wrong. Ryan just said yesterday, well, we still have a lot more documents to see.

So how can you make that kind of a bold conclusion? In direct conflict with what Jim Comey himself said. The FBI wasn't investigating the Trump team. Quote, Jim Comey, we were investigating the Trump team and ties between the Russians. That's just not accurate. Folks, I don't have a good answer for you. Why Gowdy and Gowdy is leaving. Ryan is leaving.

I'm not sure if they're trying. I don't want to get in their heads and I don't want to impugn their characters. But if you're going to say things like that and mislead the American people and give the propaganda police state left now ammunition to come after us again, even though you are factually incorrect on simple facts, like the FBI wasn't investigating the Trump team. It's fair enough for me to speculate as to why. The answer is, I don't have an easy answer. They're both leaving Congress. Are they looking for jobs in the private sector where their resumes are more palatable to people if they are not seen as Trump folks? I don't know. I just know what they're doing to the republic right now is grotesquely irresponsible because they are not they're just not telling the truth now as for the fbi handling the case by the book

that's nonsense too we know the fbi hid the case from congress for eight months when they were supposed to brief them quarterly on the existence of it we know that they relied on the fake dossier i had andy mccarthy on my nra tv show yesterday uh the former assistant united states attorney and we discussed in detail the idea of vicarious credibility in other words how not only the fbi not handle it by the book by hiding the book dictates joe right that you brief congress quarterly on sensitive investigations. Quarterly, every three months. The FBI hid the investigation from Congress for eight months. Nobody has explained why other than Comey saying, oh, because the investigation was sensitive.

While claiming in the same back and forth with the Congresswoman that, oh yeah, the reason we brief Congress quarterly on these investigations is because they're sensitive. Does that make any sense? No. But secondly, Joe, because I'm going to get into the Awan brothers here in a minute. I'm going to show you the hypocrisy of Paul Ryan

on this. I'm sorry. He was a very nice guy when I ran for office. This is not personal. Take it that way at your own peril because you're wrong. I actually like him very much. Like I said, Gowdy's never been hostile to me, but they are wrong and they are doing real damage here. Real damage to the cause of justice. The FBI not only didn't follow by the book, what they were supposed to do, the FBI relied on, and we know this from the House Intelligence Committee report on this, Select Permanent

Committee on Intelligence, the FBI relied on a debunked, nonsensical dossier to get a FISA warrant to spy on the Trump team. Carter Page was a member of the Trump team at one point. Carter Page

and by those two hops they can hop into the trump team they can they can get who carter page emailed and then they get the person they emailed to those two hops probably encompass the majority of the trump team all you need is one hop to to uh someone inside the trump campaign and then that trump person to Trump or someone else. Folks, to get that warrant to spy on the Trump team, they relied on a debunked debossier. Pass the debossier.

Some of you out there will get that joke. Some of you won't. A debunked dossier. Now, when Andy McCarthy was on my show yesterday on NRA TV, he gave a great interview and he was talking about this idea of vicarious credibility. This is super important. Yeah, he was a good get, Joe. He's a great interview. If you missed yesterday's show, go check it out in the library

there at nratv.com. Be on tonight again, 5.30 p.m. Eastern Live. The dossier was information compiled by a former British spy, Christopheropher steel and the fbi has been saying the entire time hey steel was credible steel was credible as former spy we worked with him before we worked with him before not to mention the inherent controversy of working

with a foreign spy entity joe to overturn the results of a united states election and spy on a campaign yeah you know gaudy and and Ryan think that's by the book? I mean, are they serious? So forgetting that point for a minute, although it's a big one, that we were relying on a foreign intelligence asset to provide information to spy on a domestic political campaign, the FBI's excuse for using the dossier, Joe, has been the entire time, well, Christopher Steele was credible. We used him before.

Folks, it was not his information. Steele did not get the information. He got it from Ed Baumgartner, another employee of Fusion GPS where Christopher Steele was working, who got it from his sources. He got it third hand. working, who got it from his sources. He got it third hand. Russian Intel connected sources, Kremlin connected folks, allegedly passed this information to Baumgartner working for Fusion GPS, who then passed it to Christopher Steele. In other words, ladies and gentlemen, this is what McCarthy's point was, and this is critical that you understand this. The dossier relied on the credibility of Christopher Steele, even though it wasn't his information.

You would be laughed out of court for doing this in any other case if it wasn't Donald Trump. If I'm running for office against Joe Armacost for Congress and I walk into the local police station and I have a history of working with the police and providing reliable intelligence. Right. the local police station and i have a history of working with the police and providing reliable intelligence right and i walk in and say hey guys i've got a rumor that joe armacost is dealing in uh tow missiles he says he's a weapon smuggler out of his house and uh in arnold the first thing they're going to say is where did you hear the information if the information is hey i got it myself i was working in a starbucks one day or you know working out of a starbucks i mean you don't have to pay for anything so i was sitting there working all day in starbucks right i'm stealing their wi-fi

and he sat down next to me joe and i overheard him talking and you're credible in the past maybe that leads to a search warrant that's not what happened. Steele didn't hear it. What happened is I went into Starbucks, heard another guy who heard another guy. And then I walked in and said, yeah, I heard a guy in a Starbucks talking about what he heard from another guy about a guy named Joe Armacost. And by the way, I'm running for office against them. You'd be laughed out of court. That's exactly, thank you, Ch court. That's exactly. Thank you, Chucky. That's exactly what you would hear from the judge.

Play that again. That would be the judge, Judge Chucky. Chucky! Shifty! Shifty! Shifty be the judge. Shifty would let it go because Shifty's like that. So would Swalwell because they're police state tyrants.

They would love that. A normal judge, non-judge, well, Judge Chucky would laugh just like that. So would Swalwell, because they're police state tyrants. They would love that. A normal judge, non-judge, well, Judge Chucky would laugh just like that. He'd say, wait, wait, you heard it from a guy who heard it from a guy that the guy you're running against for office

is an international arms dealer. Sir, do you have any other evidence? No, nothing. You better get out of my courtroom right now before we arrest you. Right? Darn right, Judge Chucky. Shifty! Are you kidding me?

And the FBI did this by the book? Hide from Congress. Spy on Trump team. Use a source you've used in the past while acknowledging that the source is not even providing information he heard himself. He got it from someone, Baumgartner, who got it from someone else. Oh my gosh. And Paul Ryan's like, yeah, buddy.

Sounds good to me. He's with his, he's shifting. They're out in the bar getting beers. I mean, beers, get beers. Remember the Bronx tale when the bikers walk in? And finally, they're acting like jerks. And then the mob guy comes in and he's like, hey, we're just looking for a few beers, a few beers.

And the mob, I forget the guy's name. He's played by Chaz, Chaz Palminteri, right? And he's like, all right, you gentlemen, give him a couple beers. So the biker guy goes, let's get some beers. Let's get some beers here. Let's get some beers. In that distinct accent. Let's get some beers. This is Ryan and Shifty at the bar now. Shifty,

let's get some beers. Let's get some beers here. Are these guys in cahoots? It is just so obvious an abomination of justice. So obviously wrong, that I cannot explain to you with a straight face because I like Paul Ryan. I don't know Gowdy, but I did have a conversation with Ryan. He was a gentleman. I don't know what's in his head.

I don't know what they're thinking. The facts are open in the public sphere. This is not hard to figure out. The facts are open in the public sphere. This is not hard to figure out. You know, before I move on to the Awan brothers and how this can, I'm going to make a connection here. It's going to drive you crazy. Maybe the difference between me and a lot of these guys who happen to be lawyers and

politicians is that I've actually worked these cases and I'm not trying to be, you know, like some, some arbiter of absolute truth here i get it there's a matter there's a subjectivity interpretation i understand that facts are facts but the way you can interpret facts are different i mean that's the whole essence of foreign policy right i mean the facts on the ground that the north koreans nuclear facility, which they did, are interpreted two different ways. It doesn't mean the facts are wrong. Some say, oh, it's evidence of their commitment to destroy the nuclear program. Other people say, ah, that's BS.

They're just destroying it because it was already collapsing anyway. Facts like two plus two equal four are not interpretable, right? Facts like this, there is some kind of subjective angle to take that fact and run with it i get that i understand that but what i'm suggesting to you is there are basic things in this case that maybe you should rely on the experience of some people who've actually been in the space and say guys listen i've actually investigated criminal cases others have as well you know joe deeneva being one of them as well. They have a real problem with what happened here.

For you to come out and make these bold statements, the FBI didn't do anything wrong, and by the way, they weren't investigating the Trump team, is just illogical. Now, making this even worse, Joe, and I'm calling for action here for Paul Ryan, because Paulyan seems now to be fine with spying and police state tactics which i just don't get i don't understand

if you're okay now with the insertion of fbi informants spies into political campaigns which is make no mistake that's what according to the New York Times themselves, Halper tried to do. Nobody's disputing there was an FBI spy. You can dispute the language all you want. Listen to me. Don't care one bit. I give exactly zero about what you think about the euphemisms. Okay. Zero. The guy was a spy. He was trying to obtain information. I don't care what you call him, whatever you want. An informant, human resource personnel, an undocumented FBI asset. I don't care. The guy was a spy and you're an idiot. Okay?

Period. Thank you. if Paul Ryan is seemingly okay with spies being inserted into political spaces now to target the political opposition, Joe, aren't you a little curious why he's not okay with inserting a spy, a human resource, FBI asset, an undocumented FBI informant into the Debbie Wasserman Schultz campaign? Oh, yeah. Why not, right? Right. I mean, hey, it's okay for Trump. It's cool.

You had no evidence whatsoever that Trump, the credible probable cause that Trump's team was colluding with the Russians. You don't even have evidence the DNC was hacked. The whole DNC hack story that the Russians stole the emails from the DNC. You don't even have evidence of that. The FBI never analyzed the computer. But you're A-OK with spying on the Trump team. Yet, everybody's seemingly quiet about this absolutely exploding scandal.

Luke Rosiak at the Daily Caller, big time hat tip to him. Him and Chuckak at the Daily Caller. Big time hat tip to him. Him and Chuck Ross at the Daily Caller. And I know they're doing real, real good quality journalism here. You know why? Because that goofball, Seth Abramson, that joke of a Twitter guy, I follow for a good laugh, is now attacking the Daily Caller. That's how you know when you're over the target show. You get leftist goons like Abramson, who is clueless attacking them. Rosiak has been exposing this Awan Brothers scandal in the House, the Democrats in the House, forever now.

And the media, Joe, nowhere to be found. Where's the spy? All right. I'm going to get to this in a second because this is important. Let me just knock this out. But this is a critical story. this in a second because this is important. Let me just knock this out. But this is a critical story. And I want to read to you an op-ed by a guy named Minitor from Fox News Opinion. It'll be up at my website, Bongino.com and subscribe to my email list. I'll email it to you. The op-ed on the Sawan brothers case is staggering. All right. Today's show also brought to you by our buddies, one of our faves, we the people holsters. They sent me one of their holsters. It is awesome. Democrats are up in arms over the NRA's rating of gubernatorial candidates.

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government informants and spies to infiltrate political campaigns to get information, then why has he not employed a spy or asked the FBI or done something to get a spy into the Debbie Wasserman Schultz campaign? I don't recommend

that. I don't believe in police statism. Apparently they do. Now, what's going on with the Sorwan brothers case? Let me read to you. By the way, there's a plea scheduled July 3rd in this case. After that plea, we are going to know a whole lot more because it's clear they're letting them plea in exchange for information.

What happened? I'm going to read for you from this op-ed in Fox, a paragraph or two. It is, this is the biggest, you know what? After Spygate, it's the second biggest scandal going on right now. Yeah. But the fact that the media is covering this up is abhorrent. From the piece. The House Office of Inspector General, Joe, tracked the Awans' network usage.

You know what? Let me just set this up. I'm sorry. Let me just back up a second. The Awans were hired, the Awan brothers, Pakistani brothers, were hired by Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Democrat who was in charge of the DNC. She is a congresswoman from down here in Florida. She's horrible.

She's almost as bad as Swalwell. They were also hired by 40 other Democrat members of Congress, these two Pakistani brothers, without going through a background check. They had access to all of their emails, their schedules, and their sensitive data. Now, let me read to you this paragraph, and your jaw's going to drop. The Office of Inspector General in the House tracked the Awan's network usage, Joe, and found that a massive amount of data was flowing from the congressional networks from from meaning they were taking it out said

rep scott perry from pennsylvania this is incredible over 5 700 logins by the five awan associates were discovered on a single server within the house. The server of Democratic Caucus Chairman, then Rep Javier Becerra of California. Up to 40 or more members of Congress. This is incredible.

Had all of their data moved out of the office servers and onto the Becerra server without their knowledge of consent. By the way servers and onto the becerra server without their knowledge of consent by the way he's the attorney general of california right now he left his congressional seat becerra before becerra left congress in 2017 january the capitol police wanted a copy of the caucus servers uh contents because all the data was moved on to it. Becerra presumably told Awan that Capitol Police wanted a copy of the server.

What is known, Joe, is that Awan did produce a copy of the server's data for the Capitol Police. Oh, all right, okay, okay, right? No, it goes on. However, after taking a look at the data they were provided, Capitol Police determined they were given a copy of data from some other server instead. Oh, my gosh.

Paul A. Paul E. Boombatz, where are you, buddy? Where's the speaker? This is your, this is your, you're the speaker of the house, right? You can order all kinds of stuff. Where's the spy? Well, you can't order a spy in this case but where is it fbi where are you guys are you running a spy against this do you have a spy with these 40

members of congress to try to determine if this information's in the hands of pakistani government officials how do we know where the iwan brothers are what they did with the data folks these people were arrested there's a federal case there's a plea coming up july 3rd oh boy get ready for that one you think they're playing out this case for nothing supposedly according to the fox news piece the some of the charges in the case are just charges to keep them in the system now let me explain to you what that means when you work as a federal agent you may have joe armacost on felonious mopery jaywalking bank fraud credit card fraud tow sales, whatever it may be.

You know, ITAR violations. Yeah, I may have Joe on 10 different things. This is how the federal system works. Pay close attention to this. If I want Joe to cooperate, and the prosecution of Joe is not my immediate goal. Why? Because I want Joe to give up who he sold the tow missiles to that's important like we have tow missiles we have we have nuclear codes given to someone else i need joe to cooperate why would it be in my best interest not to charge

joe with everything right out of the chute. Well, because one, it gives you more ammunition later. Okay, Joe, you don't want to plead to this money laundering charge and cooperate? Now we're going to throw on arms trafficking and drug dealing. And all of a sudden your lawyer's like, Joe, man, you went from 10 years to 20 years to life in prison like that. Oh, no. Saul, you jerk. Oh, you're tearing my ass up here.

Remember that? You better bleep that part. I will bleep that. I bet it was funny. That is the jerky voice. They do that all the time. Bring your glasses and your shoes. Oh, my God.

Another reason, not just because you need additional, that was funny, need additional ammo to throw at Joe to get him him to cooperate is you may in turn dismiss the charges later i'm folks i'm not getting too wonky i want you to understand what's going on here why this july 3rd deal is going to be a big deal if i charge you via a complaint i bring a complaint to court but they didn't do with papadopoulos they made a pc arrest which is very unusual most federal arrests happen via complaint i bring a complaint to court, but they didn't do what Papadopoulos. They made a PC arrest, which is very unusual. Most federal arrests happen via complaint. I bring a complaint to court that says what Joe did. I'm complaining, essentially.

Hey, Judge, here's what Joe did. I'm federal agent so-and-so. Judge reads it, goes, yeah, there's probable cause there, meaning a probable cause that Joe committed the crime. And as it's described, I get an arrest warrant. That complaint is relatively easy to dismiss later. Meaning if they want to let Joe off completely and dismiss the complaint, fine.

If they want to dismiss that charge and charge him with a lesser crime, fine. So typically you'll only charge one or two things. You won't throw the kitchen sink at them. That's important. If I indict them, it is very difficult, and most of the federal agents out there listening will know what I mean.

If we indict them at a grand jury, a true bill is issued, an arrest warrant is issued afterwards, it's very difficult to scrap indictments. It's not easy. So the complaint process is generally preferable. There's timelines for each. The fact that there was in this case

a low-level charge issued, right? That low-level charge was designed to keep them in the system. And they're getting ready to plea these brothers on July 3rd. Says to me that they have a whole load of information. Get it?

Who were they giving this information? They stole from 40 members of the United States House of Representatives. Who? 40 or more members? One of them is the current California Attorney General who had a system, who had

the stolen information stored on his server. Oh, and by the way, they gave a fake server to the Capitol Police? Sounds like trouble oh and debbie washerman schultz was what oh she was running the dnc around the same time that pakistani brothers were offloading uh joe quote massive amounts of data from the congressional networks oh and they had logins to debbie was Wasserman Schultz's iPad of the DNC issued iPad. Oh, oh, maybe just maybe this whole the Russians hacked the DNC story and worked with Trump.

You think maybe this story could quite possibly be cover for something else? Now, right? I know. Yeah. Joe's giving me the look. Like, this is ridiculous. Whoa. He's giving me the look-see.

Folks, where's Paul Ryan on this one? He's A-okay with spies infiltrating the Trump team. And by the way, I will stick to this story because I'm absolutely confident who I got it from. We are not done with the assets used to penetrate the Trump team. Don't think for a second there was just one.

Where are the spies in the Washington Schultz team?z team again for the media matters goons listen to the show i am not calling for that i'm not a police state tyrant you are you have no problem now whatsoever with the use of spies you think it's no big deal it was a it was a low level low impact way it was the implementation of a human asset, a spy into a political campaign. You think that's no big deal? An American citizen being spied on by a FISA court, interacting with an FBI spy while working for a political campaign? Why are you not calling for a spy to get to the bottom of this?

You police state jackbooted thug tyrants. Because you're frauds, that's why. Because you're liars. And the media bootlicking tyrants in the media who are covering for this, you disgust me too. Because you have the opportunity here to blow the doors off two scandals that make Watergate look like romper room

and you're sitting on your collective asses doing absolutely nothing while the biggest police state scandal in American history unfolds before of your blind Oedipus Rex eyes. Give me the spikes. Ah, you fools. You complete fools, you jokes. Now,

I want to get to Swalwell because this is important too. This guy who is single-handedly committed to the destruction of the Republic. Let me get to my final read here. It's important. They pay for the show.

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Let's get to Swalwell. Please stay time with Eric Swalwell. So he was on Tucker last night in another infuriating appearance. And listen, if Eric Swalwell takes pride in getting underneath my skin and people who support the Constitution and the lover of liberty and freedoms and limited government, you win. You do get under my skin because I can't stand tyranny and you, in fact, are a police state tyrant that supports police state thuggery. This is a cut from Democrat congressman, a police state tyrant. If I have a case, I haven't said that enough. Democrat congressman from California, Eric Swalwell, on with Tucker Carlson last night, making a fool out of himself again. Why is it OK for an administration to hire an informant to spy on a rival political campaign without telling them? Why is that OK? Are you comfortable with that?

Well, that's not what happened. And actually, we learned today that every person who's been briefed on this, except Chairman Nunes, now says that the president's account of this, that a spy was put in his campaign, is just not true. No, no, I know that there's a lot of lying about it, but I'm not those people. I'm not the president. Here's what I read in the New York Times and what I think has never been contested, that the Obama administration paid an informant to spy on the Trump campaign and then pass that information back to the Obama administration and never told the Trump campaign. Is that incorrect? And what am I missing?

Well, Tucker, I'm not going to go into classified information. I'll tell you that. No, that's not classified. That's known. That's in the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal. Nobody has said that's untrue. Are you saying that's untrue? I'm saying that informants are commonly used in a lot of cases to help us catch bad guys. If it was used here, from the evidence I have seen, that would have been appropriate. You just said from the evidence I will say this from the evidence I have seen from the five applications I reviewed and the witnesses we've interviewed. We would want to know everything about how close the Trumps were getting to the Russians. Okay.

Yes. Through informants. Yes. Does this guy unbelievable? Police state tyrant, Eric Swalwell, Democrat congressman from California. He says, well, that's not what happened about the spy. And then Tucker says, what do you mean it's not what happened? The New York Times reported it, ladies and gentlemen.

It's open so you can read it yourself. The New York Times is yet to retract the gentlemen. It's open, so you can read it yourself. The New York Times is yet to retract the story. So what does he say? I'm not going to go into classified information. It's not classified, you chucklehead. It's in the New York Times. Do you read the paper? The

slimes, a left-leaning outlet, is already reported on the use of a government asset to spy on the Trump team. Did you miss that? I'm not going to report on class fighting. Are you crazy? Then he says at the end, well, I support that you get to the bottom of all this. Not with the Awan brothers.

You're not even remotely interested in it. Why not? Again, Swalwell, let's get you on the record. Why not employ government informants, spies, undocumented FBI assets, whatever the hell you want to call them, to go infiltrate that? Why not support that? Infiltrate the House right now and get to the bottom of how much the Pakistanis know about the business of the 40 members of Congress who had their data exported in mass from the Congress by two

Pakistani brothers who were never background checked. Why not? I don't support it. I assume you do. You just said you want to get to the bottom of stuff because you're a fraud. You're a fake. Play cut number two, Joe, with this. This gets worse. This guy is just an abomination to Congress. I just stated what I think are facts. You conceded they're facts. And yet that's not spying. How is that not spying?

Spying is what you do against an enemy, right? Well, first of all, I mean, I get that's what spying is. Spying is what you do. No, you can spy on people you love. You can spy on your own children. It doesn't need to be an enemy. You're expanding the definition into some made-up land. Why is that not spying? If I am watching you without your knowledge, gathering information on you without your knowledge,

don't tell you about it, I'm spying on you. But if a candidate for the highest office in the land is drawing himself, his family, his businesses to a foreign adversary, wouldn't we want our government to do everything we can to know what they're doing and then hopefully try and stop that adversary? Just one a time well you can see that's fine no it's not spying and you're really gathering information folks what yeah you know what let me give swalwell credit for a second he finally said something that's true remember he's a police state tyrant so swalwell democrat congressman from California, police stater, he says, no, no, it's spying. Spying is something we do on the enemy.

Yep. He's right. Yeah. How's he right, Joe? Trump was his enemy. You're absolutely right. Spying is something we do on the enemy. Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and everybody else involved in this operation

perceive Trump as the enemy. How do we know that? We can read the texts. You are right, Swalwell. He was the enemy. The enemy of you. You're the enemy of the American people by using police state tactics to infiltrate the networks of your political opponents.

And then supporting it. But Trump was the enemy to you. Then he says, by the way, if there's a foreign adversary trying to get information on us, wait, what? We have two Pakistani brothers who just offloaded tons of information off 40 members of your caucus in the house of representatives and i hear not a peep not a scintilla of information outside of the daily caller and on fox news about this case you big fraud you suck yes you do on the record today get swalwell on the record today

about how he feels about using the FBI to infiltrate via spies the members of the House of Representatives teams to get the information about how much they knew and when they knew it about the Pakistanis trying to obtain the information. Just be consistent. If you're going to advocate for police state thuggery, advocate for showing up to people's houses to confiscate their guns under threat of arrest, advocate for spying on the Trump team like he does all the time, then just be consistent about it. This guy is a total fraud. And one other thing, I don't have the cut on this, but he said in a prior appearance, I want to debunk another one of swalwell's absolutely stupid statements and he's he's good at this his success rate of stupidity is a hundred

percent it's true he keeps saying about the pfizer warrant, one in front of a judge would probably cause, oh my gosh, this guy can't be this dumb. Joe, if you're a judge in a court, you are, just to be clear, Joe, you are not a federal investigator, right? You never have been and you've never been a judge and you're not a lawyer. So this is just, I say this because this doesn't require any of that. It only requires common sense. I say this because this doesn't require any of that.

It only requires common sense. If you're a judge in a FISA court, Joe, you are not an investigator. You are not on the ground. You're not Judge Dredd. You're not out there in the field. You're a judge, jury, executioner. You're just a judge. You're presented with a series of facts from who?

An investigator in the Federal Bureau of Investigation or someone else in the government, Secret Service, DEA, ATF, whatever. Yes. Joe, I'm not setting you up here. Just ask any common sense. Why do you think the court, the judge, and they demand the federal agent raise his right hand and swear to the facts? Why do you think they do that? Dan, they'd like him to tell the truth. They'd like him to tell the truth! Why? Why does it matter?

Why does the truth in front of the judge matter? You gotta make decisions based on the truth. Joe, why doesn't the judge just go out and investigate it himself? He's not an investigator, He's not an investigator! He's not an investigator! Oh my gosh, is Swalwell this stupid?

The judge is relying on a series of facts the FBI and the FISA court swore to. If the facts are wrong because they were based on a crap dossier, a crap dossier put together by a British agent who didn't even get the information himself. Then the judge was misled. Swalwell going in front of the cameras and humiliating himself, the country, the Congress and the cause every single time. They say, well, the judge signed off on the warrant clearly shows he's either incredibly stupid as to how this goes or he's a manipulative police state tyrant there's no third option is he this stupid the facts they present to the judge you swear to them being true when they're not true it's not the judge's fault he's not judge dread

he's assuming what you're telling him as joe with zero experience in the space at all just figured out in two seconds he's basing his opinion on a set of what he thinks are facts when they turn out to be non-facts in other words bull then there's a problem. Svalbard doesn't care about the problem because he supports the police state. Same guy, by the way. Same guy. Same guy. Quote Bill Clinton on the golf course.

Same guy. Same guy who wants the cops to come to your house and lock you up if you don't surrender your guns. Same guy. This is, by the way, for all you young kids out there, this is your Democrat party. For all you 18 to 24 year olds who've been somehow misled by hack college professors, journalism folks and humanities people telling you that Democrats, they're the party of freedom and the little guy and opportunity. Bull. They are not the part.

These are police state tyrants nothing more they want your money they want your health care they spy on people they want to kick in your door if you don't surrender your guns this is the party of the little guy are you serious are you on drugs listen dude put down the carnation instant breakfast mixed with the psychedelic mushrooms in your dorm room, and I'm sorry, man. Wake up, and as we said last week, go get a mop and go to work because college is doing you a disservice, brother and sister.

You are being misled. If you believe for a second that these liberals, oh, man, they're the party of liberty. We're fighting the man. Dude, you're the man now. You're the man. We're fighting the man, brother. The man.

Dude, pass the bong, brother. We're fighting. You are the man. You're the man. You want people's money? You want their health care? You want their kids? You want to spy on them?

You're the man. You, dude. You're the man. Cut the crap. Cut the BS. Cut the nonsense. You're so cool and you're woke. Everything's woke now.

You're not woke. You're asleep. You're asleep, man. You are out. You are in REM sleep right now. While your government is steamrolling your ass. Fighting the man. Pass the bong.

Oh, stupid. I'm sorry. You're an idiot. Dope. Fighting the man. Morons. And listen, don't think for a second, if you're listening to this, I'm some big, this whole show has been dedicated to attacking two silly Republicans who don't know their asses from

their elbows. Don't tell me, oh, you're just a big Republican. I'm not, I don't even like the Republican Party anymore. I'm dead serious. If it wasn't for the ability to vote in a primary, I would deregister from either platform because 90% of the Republican Party is full of hack sellouts too. If it wasn't for the ability to vote in a primary, I would deregister from either platform. Because 90% of the Republican Party is full of hack sellouts, too. But you telling me that these Democrats are, we're fighting a man.

Give me a break, man. Tell your story walking, because you are just an idiot on mental steroids. I mean, you are being fed so much garbage that you just wolf down like the cookie monster. It's pathetic to watch. I'm sorry for the rant, folks, but this is really, really, we are in such a dangerous time in American history where so many stupid people

are influenced by even dumber people in the media and even dumber people in the Congress and in the Democrat Party and the Republicans as well. Gowdy and Ryan included right now that I can't believe how many seemingly intelligent folks suck this stuff up. Oh, it's so good. Big government tyranny. Isn't it delicious? Imbeciles. I'm telling you, i had a sticker on my car growing up question authority i never forgot that they don't question it you surgically attacked your lips to the ass of it now this is what's cool can you sew my lips to the ass of big government, please?

Republicans, Democrats, they're all swamp goons, every one of them. The FBI did everything by the book. Everything by the book. Yeah, really? Really? They went up in court, lied in front of a judge to spy on a guy, member of a political campaign, to jump into the campaign and steal their emails? Yeah, sounds like the... What book is that,

you dopes? The X-Men 183? What the hell planet are you from? Oh my gosh, dude. All right, I do got a couple of news stories. Sorry, I gotta move on. I spent more time on that as always than I intended. I have another great story, by the way. Read that Fox News piece, Bongino.com.

Also subscribe to my email list. I'll send it to you. I have another great piece, The American Thinker. I can't get this. Maybe I'll get to it on Levin tonight or on the show tomorrow. Another story that's been left by the wayside, Samantha Power.

Samantha Power, Obama's UN ambassador. Yeah. Ambassador to the UN. Mm-hmm. Remember, she unmasked, gave authority to spy on the conversations of Americans 260 times in the election year. Samantha Power's story is still yet untold.

She told Congress, oh, it wasn't me. Someone did it in my name. Is anybody curious about this? Anybody? That's gotten lost in the whole Spygate story. So the U.N. Not an intelligence asset. A diplomat.

Barack Obama. His ambassador to the U.N. is now essentially spying on people too. And nobody's curious about that story. He's completely left, but no one's even curious in the media. Someone's lying, by the way, Joe. She said, oh, it wasn't me. Someone did it in my name. Well, who was it then?

No one in the media is curious. Nobody. Read that story from american thinker it's very good um a couple more stories one quick on the economy uh i hate i hate to give you bad news but again on this show we do the facts we don't you know this isn't a propaganda outlet okay the economy's doing well unemployment's great um labor force participation is doing a little better although we still have a lot of people on the sidelines. But overall, historian drudge today, Warren Buffett, who is by no means a conservative, has said, listen, we're in the sixth inning of this thing and our sluggers are coming up. In other words, this economy's still got a lot of

wind ahead of it, okay, to push this sales. A little bit of bad news. They revised the productivity numbers down for last year to 1.3%. Now, folks, productivity matters. I'm not going to get into a long economic treatise here. But remember, the entire essence of our wealth is productivity. What we produce. It's as simple as that. The reason the United States is wealthier than, you know, Accra, Ghana, is we have flat screens and cable boxes and computers and contact lenses and medicine

because we do what? We produce them or we produce other things to buy them in an exchange, in effectively barter or international trade. That's what's well. Productivity is everything. Listen to me, folks. This is important. In economics, it is not something. Productivity is everything. You are not wealthy if you don't produce stuff. We're not liberals. We measure wealth by our emotional well-being. No, that's liberal idiocy. We measure wealth by stuff you have and other people don't.

Thank you. Period. Again, full stop. The productivity numbers were revised down to 1.3. stop. The productivity numbers were revised down to 1.3. Now, putting that in context, post-World War II, the average has been 2%. So we're still significantly below the average. The average in the Obama years, about 1.2, 1.1. So we're a little better. That's a little bit of bad news. The good news on that, this is in the Wall Street Journal today, by the way, the revisions to the productivity numbers. The good news is investment is moving up dramatically,

capital investment, investment in factories. Why does that matter to you? Because the ability to produce stuff is measured typically by how much investment we put into factories and services that do what? Produce stuff. So if you have a machine that's producing 80 t-shirts an hour and it's older and you spend $100,000 on a new machine that produces $120,000, that's 40 more t-shirts. That's more stuff which makes it cheaper

which makes the wages of the employees go up because, Joe, they're producing more stuff which the t-shirt factory can sell more stuff and pay their employees better productivity matters so the bad news is it was revised down a little bit still not a great number the good news is with investment picking up i expect that number and you know here's the what's today's date today's date is thursday january 7th it is now 11 uh p.m uh a.m excuse me eastern i expect by the

end of next year we can can timestamp this, that you will see productivity close to 2%. So bad news, good news. But I do like to put out the economic facts. One more story here. There's a really good story in the Wall Street Journal today by Dan Henninger, and it's terrific. And he talks about how the media is flipping out. The media is flipping out because Trump, flipping out because trump is what i addressed yesterday

joe can seemingly turn any negative story into a positive and has absolutely mastered the art of trolling the left and getting them to respond i've said repeatedly that the gift of donald trump is the media hates him so much that the left is willing to finally admit who they are the left has hid that fact for a long time. The left has hid the fact that they're big, huge, they don't run on this. Now, everybody knows they're big taxers, big staters, but when Democrats run for office,

you rarely see that on a campaign sign. Send me a picture of a campaign sign you've seen by a Democrat. Democrat Joey Bag of Donuts are raising your taxes every day with a big thumbs up. Yeah, baby. You don't see it. They hide their agenda. Trump has infuriated the left and the media, but it's the same thing so much that this is the first time they've shown their butts

defending Hamas, defending MS-13, because they just want to do something to get back at Trump because they can't control themselves. You understand what I'm saying? Yeah. Their animosity towards Bush, their animosity towards Reagan was palpable, but they understood tactically the need to control their responses. And they did it tactically with Bush using Iraq against them. They can't control themselves with Trump. They're children. So what do they do? Trump says MS-13 are animals.

An obvious point to any reasonable person, Joe. The media, we got to get this SOB. MS-13, you can't talk about them like that. This is the gift of Donald Trump. He can turn any seemingly negative comment into a positive. Henninger's piece references what I was talking about yesterday with the Eagles. How this would, Joe, this would look like a negative to any other person. Here's the headline for anyone else.

You know what? This is the headline for everyone, but how they deal with the headline would be different. The headline would be, Trump dissed at the White House by Eagles. What does Trump do? He turns it around again, makes the event about American patriotism, highlights the fact that the Eagles tried to do a flip-a-roo on him. They sent 80 names and only five people were going to show up from the team, and a mascot.

And he turns the event into making the Eagles look like complete, utter idiots. It's just the guy has a gift. And when I grew up in Queens, I used to joke around called the Dipsy-Doo flip-a-roo. Now, the Dipsy-Doo flip-a-roo, it's not a joke. I used to use this term.

Well, it was a joke, but I really did use this term. Remember when you were dating that girl, Joe, and you liked her, but you weren't really totally into it? Yeah, yeah, yeah. So you break up, and then she starts dating someone else you know, and all of a sudden you're in love? Ah, yeah.

You know that feeling, right? Everybody wants what they can't have, right? Right. I used to call that the dipsy-do flip-a-roo, where they flip you. They flip. They flip. Or was it the usual suspects? Benicio Del Toro.

They flip. They flip you like this. They flip you. They flip you. The dipsy-do flip-a-roo is real. This is Trump. He does the dipsy-do flip-a-roo all the time. The media comes out.

Trump dissed at the White House. Trump comes out with a tweet. Kick them damn eagles out of here. They don't want to show up for the national anthem. Everybody should stand for them. All of a sudden, the story turns into Trump. And the media is pulling their hair out every day. Like, why can't we beat this guy?

And in the Henninger piece, he makes the point, Joe, that Democrats are now openly whining that Trump's messaging apparatus and skills here are so powerful, whether you like them or not, that they can't get a message out. They are constantly on the defensive with Trump. They can't get anything out. Here's our plan on the economy. Nothing.

Because they're constantly responding to Trump. And I say, Amen! Amen to you media hacks who thought you would own the keys to the kingdom. You thought you'd be the gatekeepers to acceptable public opinion forever. Nyet. Nyet.

In Russian. I'm trolling you now, too. Nyet. It's done. It's over. Trump has figured out the recipe. Taking your stories, rolling them in a ball, and jamming them right up your caboose and using them against you.

How does that feel? How do you like them melons? Oh, I don't like it, Dan. You don't like that at all, Saul, do you? No. Of course you don't. Oh. And now they're whining just like Saul. Oh.

We can't get our methods out. Maybe if you'd shut up for a minute and stop trying to make every single story out there about Donald Trump. Donald Trump wears pajamas when he watches Fox News and they're green. Maybe if you stop doing that, he'd stop feeling a need to ram that story right up your butts and make you look like idiots the next day. Just a hint, media goons. I'm not saying I'm just saying. Yeah. Oh, boy. I'm just saying. Yeah.

Oh, boy. Hey, thanks again, folks. I really appreciate it. Make sure you check out tomorrow's show. Check me out on Mark Levin tonight, too. I'll be on at 6 o'clock Eastern, filling in for the great one. I'll see you all tomorrow. You just heard the Dan Bongino Show.

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