The Dan Bongino Show - Ep. 791 The Story is Rapidly Unraveling

Episode Date: August 23, 2018

Summary: In this episode I address the unbelievable U-turns by Clintonista Lanny Davis in the Cohen case, which destroy the liberal collusion narrative. I also discuss the latest revelations about the Clinton email case that shed new light on the failed investigation.    News Picks: Liberal Senator Elizabeth Warren’s latest plan to “save capitalism” will destroy it.    Chuck Ross reports on the latest interesting revelation about Michael Cohen and the dirty dossier.    This “Law and Crime” piece delves into the real reason Michael Cohen may have pled to those questionable charges.    Did the FBI even analyze the Clinton emails?    Some Republicans doubt the Trump pardon story.   Who was the Russian source Glenn Simpson was referring to?   The welfare state is out of control.    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 i'm doing just great dan oh what a what a great day it is yeah i know there's a lot of uh news that i've got some audio cuts lanny davis backtracking, making a big U-turn, hitting the emergency brake, doing a big J-turn on this one. And of course, the media will largely downplay this event in order to talk about phantom FEC violations that everybody and their mother are starting to question now. Because they're just so lost in the anti-trump quagmire that the media has lost any semblance of credibility at all it's just unbelievable

it really is that you have to listen if you want the truth listen to this show because i pick through the cornucopia of stupidity every day and pluck out what you need to know so you have the real facts to analyze what's going on it's just bizarre oh man frustrating every day you just think just once a blind squirrel would catch a nut right not with the media's case they can't get this thing wrong often enough all right today's show brought to you by our buddies at skillshare i love skillshare my daughter's using it for French. My wife uses it for assistance in developing websites. If you're looking to do a podcast, Skillshare's your place to go.

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Lanny Davis is possibly the dumbest lawyer on the planet. Michael Cohen may be the second. I mean, these guys are unbelievable. Lanny Davis, in case you missed the story, Joe, sometimes some viewers missed it. They've been on a vacation. Lanny Davis is the former Clintonista the Clinton acolyte the Clinton bootlicker who is you probably seen him he does a lot of cable news hits he's a big publicity seeker he is the former Clinton lawyer who bizarrely

is now in some fashion representing Michael Cohen who was Donald Trump's lawyer, a personal lawyer in Michael Cohen's plea deal. Now against Donald Trump in a plea deal, he pleads guilty to a crime. That's not a crime. Joe, have you ever heard of such a thing in your life? I'm guilty to a crime. Yeah, me either. Joe, Joe should plead guilty to Filoni. Joe, you should walk into court just for the sake of advertising on the podcast

Walk into Anne Arundel County Court tomorrow You live in Anne Arundel County, Joe? Yes, I do And go plead guilty to felonious mopery We can use it on the show Bongino producer pleads guilty to crime that doesn't actually exist Michael Cohen pled guilty to a campaign FEC violation that is not in fact a crime. I explained it yesterday on the show.

If you want more details about how the Trump payments to Stormy Daniels, however untoward and unseemly they may be, the Trump organization's payments are not a crime. Matter of fact, they're not even a civil violation. You may not like them they may not be great i think we can all agree but they are not in fact a crime so the question has come up and i have some answers for you today about why these guys two lawyers who you think would have some legal skills oh i'm not a lawyer you are not either right no would you plead guilty to a crime you did not one you didn't commit and it isn't even a crime? Oh, hell no.

Okay, great. Either would I. So I've been wondering all night why these two lawyers, supposed lawyers here, I mean, these guys are supposed to have legal skills. They pass the bar. They have law degrees. How would you, why would they do this? Well, now it's starting to make sense. But before we do that, Joe, do you have the cut ready of Davis with the pardon?

Yes, I do. Okay. So let me just explain to you two prongs first about on the 30,000 foot theory here that Lanny Davis may be the worst lawyer on the planet right now. Lanny Davis, number one, gets his client to plea in a plea deal to a non-crime, which I written, by the way, by the prosecutor. The prosecutor writes it up and Cohen's like, yes, yes, these payments, these payments,

we admit we, you know, I was, Donald Trump told me to do it and he pleads to a crime that doesn't exist. The payments were not a crime, number one. Number two, Lanny Davis says this about a potential pardon by Donald Trump, which may be, by the way, Joe, the single

worst piece of legal advice or legal cooperation I have ever seen in U.S. history. Not only is he not hoping for, he would not accept a pardon. He considers a pardon from somebody who has acted so corruptly as president to be something he would never accept. Oh! Oh my gosh. This guy's a lawyer? Tell you what, if you were a doctor and you gave similar type advice and said, my client absolutely refuses to take this life-saving medication on principle alone because he objects to the politics of modern pharmaceutical enterprises, you would be like, okay, this is the dumbest doctor on the planet, right?

Gotta be. Gotta be. You now have a lawyer supposedly protecting the legal interests of another lawyer client who is now on TV publicly in front of millions of people suggesting that he's offered a legal pardon by Donald Trump, that they're not going to take it. And the lawyer's like, yeah, we're not going to take it. We're not going to take it. We're not going to take it. No.

We need Dee Snider in here now. Dee Snider from Twisted Sister would have given Michael Cohen better legal advice. Dee. Dee. Dee. Get in here. Get this guy out of there. You can listen.

Anybody can represent someone in court. I don't think you have to have passed the bar, right? Dee Snider should get in court and start singing the Twisted Sister song. It would be better legal advice than Lanny Davis has given Michael Cohen, who, by the way, I don't absolve of any guilt in this either. What is this guy doing? I was on Ingram last night on Fox at 10 o'clock. Jason Chaffetz was filling in, arguing with Richard Goodstein,

who, you know know is a good hearted fellow although he has the worst ideas I've ever seen I'm always you know it's not personal he's a nice guy he just has the wrong ideas you know but I was arguing with him last night and I made this point that Lanny these may be the two dopiest lawyers I've ever seen in my life guys Dee Snider get would get better if I if you asked, does anyone know Dee Snider? Someone go and ask Dee Snider from Twisted Sister, right? Go and ask him two questions.

Don't tell him about the podcast. Just say, hey, Dee, if you're a friend of his, I mean, obviously, if you're not, it'd be a weird conversation. If you're a friend of his, go, Dee, just, I'm going to ask you two questions. I know they may be random,

but I just want your answer. Dee, would you ever plead guilty to a crime that wasn't a crime? Yes or no? Do me a favor. Email me back the answer. If D actually, I guarantee you he will say no, I wouldn't. D, question number two. If you plead to a crime that didn't happen and the president of the United States wants to pardon you, absolving you of the legal consequences of a crime that didn't happen that you pled to, would you or would

you not accept the pardon? I can guarantee you Dee would say, yes, I would accept the pardon. Would someone please get Dee Snider into Michael Cohen camp? Oh, man. Oh, my gosh. Were you not like... See, now we're all right. I was a little fired up this morning.

Joe's having serious technical issues. I need to get flowing sometimes. The Dee Snider thing helped me out a little bit. There you go. Gosh, you know Twisted Sister, right? Yeah. Get him in here. I'm going to turn this down a little bit.

A little hot, this show. I'll fix it. Yeah, no, it's all right. Leave it in there. But I just turned it down. But thank you. See, Producer Joe to the rescue. Okay, here's it's all right. Leave it in there. Yeah, but I just turned it up. But thank you. See, producer Joe to the rescue. Okay, here's some possible explanations here.

Lanny Davis is as Clintonista as a Clintonista gets. This guy next to the pedestals is as knee deep in the Clinton swamp as any human being on the planet. Amen. Why this guy is representing Cohen is a mystery to a lot of people i don't know i can't get in lanny davis or cohen's head i can only speculate but i do owe you some kind of an explanation clear that this is speculation on my part because unlike the media that tries to do the karnak on uh donald trump and pretends to read his mind all the time i i can't read michael cohen or lanny davis's mind i can tell you things i know and speculate from there here's

what i know lanny davis has acted in the past as a representative of a ukrainian oligarch a guy by the name of dimitro pryttash, who is deeply connected to Putin. So Lanny Davis, let's be clear, has his own foreign entanglements. I am not suggesting what he did is illegal at all because it's not. He registered on behalf of a foreign agent. I'm simply

telling you that these are conflicts in a case investigating what? Russian collusion. Davis has his own entanglements with Russians. Not illegal, but unquestionably some kind of a conflict here, at least ethically. If not, maybe legally. Now, why would he hire Davis?

I don't know. Maybe Cohen figures he can curry favor with the liberal left by hiring a Clinton lawyer. And by the liberal left, I mean what, Joe? The media. Maybe Cohen figures he needs to win this case in the court of public opinion, Joe. He needs to look like a white knight to the anti-Trump and liberal media crowd. Right, right, right.

So what, I mean, think about it, right, Joe? You're associated deeply with Trump, like Cohen. I mean, he was his personal lawyer. right joe you're you're right you're you're associated deeply with trump like cohen i mean he was his personal lawyer you know the media hates trump it's not going to be logical or rational in this case you know the anti-trump crowd hates trump you know the never trump crowd hates trump you know democrats up on the hill hate trump someone says hey you know what i think we should hire a democrat lawyer oh let's go get lanny davis maybe the liberal media will start to see us as a um uh you know a a turn

coat on the trump team and then all of a sudden they'll get in our corner too and back us up that's the only reason i could see hiring this guy everybody hates donald everybody so maybe they hire someone they know hates donald trump as much in the form of lanny davis um or his at least lanny davis's, if not Davis himself. Now, a couple other things on what happened yesterday. So there's a – and by the way, forgive me. Yesterday I kept talking about a law and crime piece. If you're listening in reverse or whatever, it's actually an Epic Times piece yesterday.

So forgive me. I said that wrong. But today it is a law and crime piece. There's a really good law and crime piece about some possible motives for Michael Cohen playing to a deal. So Dee Snyder, we may have an answer for you here. Playing to a crime that didn't happen. It's a pretty good piece. Super short, very sweet, but gets right to the point. And that is obviously not a right-leaning blog, but they have some good information often. This guy Mitchell always sends me stuff from there, by the way. I read the emails, folks.

I just can't respond to all of them. Sorry, the audience has grown so much it's gotten impossible. But I do read your stuff, so that's why I keep that channel open. One of the reasons, and again, it's speculation, but based on prior experience, is that Cohen's wife may have been targeted, Joe, as well. Now, we've seen this before. We've seen this in the Flynn case where there were credible allegations against Lieutenant General Mike Flynn that the reason Flynn may have taken a plea deal on the false statements

charge, even though it's pretty well recognized even by the FBI themselves that Flynn was not lying to the FBI. So the liberals go but he took a plea well when you when you when you look at it in the context of the fact that flynn's son was being targeted too it makes a lot of sense listen well let me just get to the comment because i'm going to give you some personal experience here things you're not going to get anywhere else because i actually did this kind of stuff i know how this works all right if you're telling a cohen who by the way i didn't mention this part cohen's wife uh i forget it like it's laura but cohen's wife joe in the tax charges the the tax

avoidance i'm excuse me evasion charges that he was facing cohen's wife had signed according to this law and crime piece some of the documents herself so the theory is that given that she may have had some implication based on the fact that she signed some of these uh these tax documents that she may have had some involvement that's what led to the speculation and the piece that maybe they said to cohen hey daddy oh you better plead guilty to this or we're going to go after your wife too. Now, again, we've seen this before in other cases. Like I said, the Flynn case where they go after a family member. Now, I'm telling you in my experience, this stuff happens.

It's not illegal, folks. I'm not suggesting it's illegal. Is it immoral? I don't know. That's up to you to decide. Is it immoral in this case i'm not sure but i've had cases i worked in the past i remember one specifically where the daughter to the main defendant in the case was intimately involved she had been involved

in some some unquestionably illegal financial transactions. And when we brought that up to the client, to the defendant in the case, he all of a sudden got real eager to cooperate. You know, I'm sorry. I mean, don't get involved in a criminal enterprise and involve your family too if you don't want your family involved. Now, what's bothersome about the Flynn case

is there was no criminal enterprise. The FBI themselves acknowledged Mike Flynn was not deceptive in their interview. So that's why I say, is it immoral then to threaten his kid? Like some places have alleged that these, Oh, you're a kid. We're going to go after your kid too. I'd say so. In this case, it appears Cohen's wife may have signed some of these documents too. So the theory is that he pled number one to a crime. That's not a crime in order to get his wife off the hook. So read it. Like I said, I'm not here to

make Cohen look good or bad. I'm just here to give you the facts. And I'm telling you that this was a really dumb decision if that's the case. And I think it was done and Davis agreed to it. The only reason it seems to be is to rope Trump in. Because, Joe, the other tax evasion charges that Cohen pled guilty to have absolutely zero, nothing to do with Donald Trump. Right, right. Davis is a Clintonista.

It's obvious the prosecution now in the Southern District of New York, a very liberal outfit that was referred to case by Mueller, wants to rope Trump in. How do you rope Trump into a tax evasion charge about Michael Cohen's personal business? Oh, you say that he was directed to

violate campaign laws, even when it's not a violation of campaign law. You see where I'm going with this show? This is a fishhook. I sure do. It's a fishhook to rope in Donald Trump. We're going to throw a Trump charge in there about a campaign violation, but it's not a violation. You're going to plead with anyway. We're going to throw a Trump charge in there about a campaign violation but it's not a violation

you're going to plead with anyway we're going to go after your wife is that what happened well there's some evidence of that again it's not illegal to do that but to get him to plead to a crime that wasn't in fact a crime is candidly very bizarre

now there's some other breaking news on the Lanny Davis Cohen case. This thing gets stranger, ladies and gentlemen, by the day. Here's why I'm having a really difficult time understanding why he hired Lanny Davis. Because on one hand, Davis seems eager, due to the plea deal, Joe, to rope Donald Trump in, fishhook him in into this case to make Donald Trump look bad. And Davis has said some things on the news that are questionable, especially about the information Cohen has. So a couple of days ago and even up to yesterday, everybody was under the impression that Cohen

was cooperating because he was looking to take down Trump. Now, Davis was involved in this takedown of Trump as his lawyer. Cohen had all this damaging information, which was being hinted at by Lanny Cohen. He has information about the hacking. He has information about the Trump Tower meeting. He has all this information. But yesterday, Lanny Davis, slam on the emergency brake, J-turn, quarter turn of the wheel, slam on the emergency brake, J-turn, quarter turn of the wheel, slam on the emergency brake, turn around, go in the other direction. Do a bootleg.

No, the bootleg is actually where you go in the... The J-turn is where you go in reverse and you go from reverse to forward in the same direction. So they do the... I remember this from Secret Service Training School. That was the coolest thing ever, by the way. The bootleg going like 80. We had the Camaros at the time.

Oh, you do a little quarter turn of the wheel, slam on the emergency brake. Wheels come around. It's incredible. So Lanny Davis makes a big U-turn on these public statements. Let's be clear what I'm saying here. Point number one, the takeaway,

that these are the dopiest legal decisions I've ever seen in my life, pleading to a crime that doesn't happen. Point number two, why would he plead with a deal? Maybe because his wife was being threatened. Point number three, Davis, all of a sudden, is now starting to backtrack on some of these allegations that Cohen has all this devastating information. You have that cut ready?

Here's Lanny Davis, now all of a sudden, clearing up some misperceptions about the information Cohen has, especially about one key component of the dossier. I do want to ask you about the Steele dossier, because in that, your client has mentioned that he met with Russians in Prague in the summer of 2016. That's not correct. Did he go in Prague in the summer of 2016. That's not correct. Did he go to Prague in the summer of 2016?

Number one, he never went to Prague. Number two, he never mentioned. Number three, there is a public document on the website of Incarnate Will and Emory that denies. God ask you. Thirteen references to Mr. Cohen are false in the dossier, but he's never been to Prague in his life. And by the way, the number of times that falsehood has been repeated, I'm not accusing you, is the classic example that if you mention something a million times and you get Google hits and they're all false, it's zero. Wow. You know, big hat tip to Chuck Ross,

the Daily Caller, who has been doing just tremendous work on this. If you go to his Twitter feed, I don't know what his Twitter, I think it's at Chuck Ross DC. Just put Chuck Ross in there. You'll find him. He looks like a redheaded guy. I don't know. I never met him, but you'll see his avatar. This guy's Twitter feed, along with Jeff Carlson, along with Lee Smith and others, is just a

goldmine. Paul Sperry, who I'll get to in a minute about the Clinton emails. Oh, Joe, do I got some sweetheart stuff on that stuff. All right. On the Clinton email stuff by Paul Sperry. These guys are a wealth of information. You know, when I hear stuff, by the way, from sources, I'm serious. Sometimes I'll go to their Twitter feeds to see if they're hearing the same thing and then I'll

find new stuff I never heard at all. These guys are great. Chuck Ross has been all over this. Folks, understand how profound what was said yesterday is. I'm done using the bombshell thing because everything's a bombshell.

Bombshell's lost its meaning because the media doesn't care about any of it. Candidly, either there's a bombshell bombshell bombshells lost its meaning because the media doesn't care about any of it candidly either there's a justice department it seems anymore but understand what davis a clinton acolyte a boot licker for the clintons who's representing a guy who is now committed to taking down donald trump michael cohen who was claimed for days if not weeks now through his legal intermediaries, that they have damaging information on Trump, has just put out a nuclear bomb that, by the way, the dossier allegations that Michael Cohen traveled to Prague in the Czech Republic to be the intermediary in a Russian collusion deal with the Trump team is false.

He just said it. Hit the 15 second rewind button a couple of times and listen again. His own lawyer, who notably cannot stand Trump, is a Clintonista. And Cohen, who is now committed to trying to take down Trump, has just admitted that the stories of Michael Cohen going to Prague to act as the key intermediary in the deal between the Russians and Trump to overthrow the election is false, fake, fake news. a core on which the entire dossier has been built on, that the Russians colluded with Trump and that Cohen, the lawyer, was the intermediary. Their own anti-Trump lawyer, and Cohen himself, who's trying to take down, it seems, the Trump team at this point,

is now admitting in the media, is now admitting that it's false that the the central component of the dossier is where was the mainstream media on this where was the mainstream media covering this major breaking story that the document used to spy on the Trump team. Let's keep it simple. The document used to spy on the Trump team, the dossier, a key tenant of it was that they were spying on the Trump team because they were colluding. And the big colluder was Michael Cohen, who traveled to Prague to meet with Russians. His own Clinton lawyer just said yesterday, not true. This is categorically false. Yesterday, not true. This is categorically false.

Now, there's another angle to this. And a hat tip to the Daily Caller. Was it Peter over there? Peter and Chuck Ross. I'm not sure. I think it was Peter Hassan and Chuck Ross. I'm not sure. But I know Chuck Ross was involved in it.

But I saw this story, too. Is this another one of those fake news stories that are leakeroskies the dipsy do leakeroos back again what am i talking about folks regular listeners know that for the last few months i've been talking about a concerted effort by people i believe within the justice department to out leakers. Now, if you read the Hill story from last November, there is a Justice Department. This is not speculation on my part. It's the Hill, not a right-leaning outfit. Jeff Sessions has already publicly announced an ongoing investigation to investigate over 20 potential felony leaks of information to the media.

This is an ongoing operation. The story is not new. It dates back to November. We're now in what, August? I've told you all that I think a concerted effort to do that have been coordinated leaks of misinformation to see how the misinformation gets out. I use the Miami Vice story all the time from the movie

where they leak the wrong date to three or four different outlets giving a different date to each one to find out where the mole is. You get it? If I say to Joe, the deal's going to go down on August 2nd. If I say to Tommy,

it's going to go down on August 5th. If I say to Bobby, it's going to go down on August 9th. And a leak gets to the media about August 9th, then who's the leak? Tommy. This is a concerted effort. The fake news stories that have made it into the media. I'm going to tie this to this dossier story in Prague in a second, but I got to give you a little background. The fake news stories have been endless. The Don Trump Jr. WikiLeaks leak story don trump jr got a secret key to wiki leaks about information what information the information was already available

on the internet why the leak had the wrong date they were like he got the information on this date no he got the information days later after it already become public and he never responded to it i get emails all the time he never responded how do you know he even read it i believe the date was wrong for a reason the media reported that don jr wiki leaks remember the classic joe the classic joy behar view moment when she's reading on the air mike Mike Flynn was ordered when Donald Trump was a candidate to reach out to the Russians. Joy Behar was like, yeah, yeah. She was ready to have Dee Snyder come on the set and start singing for her. Right. She left just like that. That's right. That left. You got that down. She was so stoked. Joy Behar. She thought she had him nailed. she thought she had him nailed what was the problem with the story the story was right mike flynn was asked to reach out to the russians along with everybody else after trump was the uh

was the president-elect not when he was a candidate in other words he was doing his job the story was an enormous embarrassment brian ross from abc was fired because of it joy behar was was humiliated again well you know that's not hard to do but joy behar was humiliated i believe again it was another intentional leak where the story was right to be believable, so the media would report it. Mike Flynn reached out to the Russians. But one key detail was wrong. While Trump was a candidate, it was not the story. It was after he was the president-elect, which makes the story a big fat nothing burger. There were other examples, too.

The Deutsche Bank story. I was actually on the set and outnumbered when that broke. Deutsche Bank's been subpoenaed for Donald Trump's records. Not true. It was nothing to do with Donald Trump personally. It was just another nonsense story. Why do I bring that up? Because two fake news champions, this guy Peter Stone and his partner,

in April, Joe, from McClatchy, wrote this story. Two sources familiar with the government have reported that Michael Cohen was in Prague and he slipped into Prague to Germany in the Schengen zone. And that's why nobody knows about Michael Cohen's trip to Prague. And that's why there's no stamp on his passport. And everybody in April, Joe. Wow. I just took off my head cans for a minute, my headset. And it's like doing the show without a headset on.

Did you see me do that, scratch my head? And I'm hearing my own voice because I can't hear it with the headset on. It was like weird. It threw me off. So these two reporters in April for McClatchy report, breaking, breaking news. Peter Stone and his buddy there. Two sources are saying Cohen was in Prague. Ladies and gentlemen, this was a devastating story in April.

The news cycle, unfortunately, is so fast now, Joe, that stories like that are already lost. Like some of you, you you know some of the listeners who are really into this may remember that i tweeted about it uh you know often that day but to their credit chuck ross and uh and and peter over at the daily caller we're all over it saying hey everybody step back and take a breather on this story for a minute something doesn't smell right here nobody else is confirming it no other media outlets reporting on it it just doesn't make sense i retweeted their oral story today now uh questioning that now why was that april story going to be such a bombshell for cohen because joe it would have proved that at a minimum portions of the dossier were confirmed

portions what portion of the dossier obviously the one that said Cohen was in Prague now wouldn't approve necessarily that he was there for nefarious reasons but it would have shown that Michael Cohen who swears he was never in Prague and obviously still swears he was never in Prague. You just heard the soundbite with his lawyer saying it would have proved what would have proved that Cohen was lying. And folks, that would have been a big deal. Would have been a very big deal.

The story now looks like fake news again and looks like another fake leak from, quote, two sources familiar. Now, why do I say these Peter Stone guy? Because if you read my Twitter feed today, I have a piece up at the Daily Caller from Peter Son and Chuck Ross where they dig into the history of fake news reporting by these two guys at McClatchy who reported, Cohn was in Prague, according to two sources.

These were the guys responsible for the story about Breitbart. Breitbart may have been working with Russian bots. You know, one's that, by the way, story is not confirmed as is almost assuredly fake news now. And then they were also the ones that reported on the disclosure. I work for NRA TV, not the NRA, but I should say that out in advance. They were the ones who also reported on the story about the NRA. The NRA was taking money and an NRA lawyer from the Russians, by the way, and an NRA

lawyer was concerned about this money from the Russians. Fake news. Fake news. Cleta Mitchell, the lawyer, is like completely false. Not true. Not true. So these guys have a history of fake news. true so these guys have a history of fake news so i'm just saying that yesterday's revelation that the anti-trump lawyer for cohen and cohen himself are now conclusively standing by their

story in no uncertain terms that cohen was not in prague is devastating do not let this go don't let it go over your head. It's devastating, Joe, because it shows again that almost nothing about the dossier outside of Carter Page traveling to Russia, which everybody knew about, nothing in that document is true. And it was used to spy on an innocent American citizen. Where's the story in the mainstream media why isn't it all over the place i have no idea my guess is because they've simply lost their minds all right i got one other angle on this i want to move on to another story uh but we're gonna pay for the show we love our sponsors hey truth finder did you ever meet someone for the first time you have a bad feeling about them

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I did that before we started. Did you? I'm like, what is he doing? You don't actually have athlete's foot, but it's funny. I see him, he's like bopping around. I'm like, what is he doing? You don't actually have athlete's foot, but it's funny. I see him. He's like bopping around. I'm like, what is he doing over there? He's weirding me out a little bit. All right, one final note on this Lanny Davis-Michael Cohen story.

Showing you, by the way, again, that this guy's got nothing. They took a plea to a crime that didn't happen. I think they took the plea because it may have been some pressure put on Cohen Cohen's wife the major bombshell yesterday was not even that they took the plea it was that Cohen is now entirely debunking despite his commitment to hurting Donald Trump at this point Cohen is now entirely debunking the dossier the dossier used to target the Trump team and the media's left that alone they've almost completely left it alone. One last point. Cohen had seemed to intimate

and hint that to the audience who he was trying to play to, which I think is the anti-Trump audience because he's trying to win public favor, get some donations to his website, which I'm not going to mention. So there were some hints, Joe, that Cohen's got information on the Trump tower meeting remember

the Trump tower meeting Don Trump jr takes the meeting with Akhmetchin and Veselnitskaya who by the way are both connected to fusion gps hired by Hillary the Trump tower meeting oh this has been the source of every democrat narrative from day one it's that they colluded it's that they tried to collude even though no information was exchanged at the meeting which is absolutely bizarre but this trump tower meeting is the key to the democrats entire case they love this thing they can't stop talking about it cohen was like hey we more davis said you know we may have some information hinting that they were going to blow the roof off this trump tower meeting that donald trump senior knew about it that this collusion meeting with the russians trump senior knew about it uh again joe emergency break turning around heading back it up it reminds

me of this friend i have this friend right this cop friend of mine he's a great guy one time they go to a restaurant restaurant my brother in cold spring harbor and he orders a steak and they send out what he thinks are two steaks so he looks at it and he goes hey uh he says to my brother hey joe you want to take one of these steaks so my brother's like hell yeah i'll take one of the steaks so he takes one of he starts eating my buddy goes time out back it up back it up turned out the other thing wasn't a steak it was like a potato that it looked like a steak or something. So he's like, back it up, back it up. Before my brother even got to sink into that. It's a true story, by the way.

My friend listens to the show. He'll laugh about it. That actually, back it up, back it up. So all of a sudden, Lanny Davis is backing it up too. Just a day ago, we were going to find out from Cohen all this information about the Trump Tower. Trump Tower, Don Trump knew. Don Trump Sr. knew.

This was a big collusion thing. Not so much, Joe. Another report from the Daily Caller in the show notes today. Getting mega shout-outs in my show notes. Please read them. They're really, really good. I put a lot of work into them. Available at Bongino.com.

And if you don't mind, subscribe to the email list. We'll email them right to your inbox. Davis, this is from the Daily caller i think davis was asked about the trump tower report because of a statement issued on tuesday by north carolina gop senator richard burr no big trump fan by the way and virginia democratic senator mark warner uh to call him an anti-trump is probably understatement of the year the leaders of the senate committee on intelligence the senators said in the statement that cohen told the committee joe in october of 2017 oh what did he say that he was not aware of

the trump tower meeting until it was reported in july of 2017 oh so under oath you said in the senate meeting michael cohen in contrast to what you've been hinting at in public recently in your efforts to take down Trump, you said that Trump didn't know about it and that you were not aware of it either? Wow. Burr and Warner said Cohen's legal team confirmed that the testimony was accurate. All of a sudden, big U-turn. Why? Now they're like, oh, okay, now you're saying you know about the Trump meeting. You didn't tell us that on the road.

Why don't you come back in? Let's see if we have one of these perjury lying to Congress charges for you now. Now they're changing their story. Now Davis is saying, no, no, not only did Cohen not go to Prague,

because he said that before too but now our statements about Trump not knowing not knowing about the Trump Tower meeting are in fact correct you see where I'm going with this folks the Davis thing and the Cohen thing is a big nothing burger the media is trying to paint this out like this is the big John Dean moment that they've got this guy who's going to rat out the entire Trump team. Do you understand there is no there there? Please listen to me. There is nothing there.

Stop worrying so much. This is a concerted effort by the Mueller team to take down the Trump team, and they will continue to target Trump people. It will be an endless winch hunt. But regards to Trump specifically, take it to the bank, cash this check and spend the money. Donald Trump has no legal liability in this at all. I am telling you there is no there there on the collusion thing. Every single angle they have taken in this thing has absolutely fallen apart. There is nothing there. They are

spinning their wheels. They are making martyrs out of people left and right, and they are ultimately going to lose because you cannot go back to the future like Michael J. Fox and back into the past and sing Johnny Be Good on stage and reinvent rock and roll. There was no crime. You cannot go back into the past and invent a crime that did not happen. There is nothing there. Trump knew about the Trump Tower meeting. I take that back. No, he didn't. We were just kidding.

Whoopsies. Whoopsie. My bad. Nelson Muntz. Nelson Muntz moment. Bart falls out of the tree and breaks his arm after Nelson. And Nelson goes, but I said it here. Like it's supposed to go away. The Prague story.

No, that's not true either. Is anything true? The Mueller case is an abomination. They have nothing. By the way, I have a really good piece from Epic Times again up in the show notes today. Just with regards to that Trump Tower meeting. I'll just keep it short. But Rinat Akhmetian, who was a former Russian Intelligence Associated individual who showed up at that meeting with Veselnitskaya, the lawyer working for Fusion GPS.

There's a key question asked by this guy, Brian, who writes at the Epic Times that I have in the show notes today. The key question he asks is, why is nobody talking about the fact that Akhmetian was unquestionably tied to Fusion GPS? Now, this is a big, I know it seems elementary to you regular listeners. I know it seems elementary to you regular listeners, but if the key tenet of the Trump Tower meeting was an effort at collusion, but the people who showed up were not working for the Russians, but working for people working for Hillary, the only collusion could have been by the Hillary team with the Russians.

Joe, does that make sense? Now, the reason this guy Brian writes about this in Epoch Times, and I'd like you to read the piece, is he goes back to a Bruce Orr, a keynote Bruce Orr took in his conversations with Glenn Simpson. Glenn Simpson managing the Fusion GPS operation here. trump uh the trump campaign ties to ties to russia excuse me much of the collection about the trump campaign ties to russia comes from a former russian intelligence officer that's what simpson told bruce or in the justice department this is the guy managing the anti-trump operation for hillary ladies and gentlemen how many russian intelligence officers are there in the united states or formers is he talking about akhmetian do you understand how devastating this is to the entire

case then that the guy joe who showed up at the meeting with don jr was a russian a former russian intelligence officer working for a company hired by hillary the collusion then is between hillary and the russians not the other way around that's the key takeaway from this that's why this trump tower meeting is so devastating to the hillary team not to don trump jr don jr's already released all the information he has about this important piece though read it all right on the hillary stuff i'm going to get to that in a second this is uh this is key too all right before we get to that the quipsters we love quip like a power washing for your mouth you can of course you power wash your mouth you probably

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The piece is about, I don't know, it looks like about 2,000 words. I got through it this morning. And more incredible revelations from Sperry, who appears to have a source intimately familiar with the Wiener laptop and the Hillary investigation. The Hillary investigation was an abomination of justice. It was a disgrace to humankind. Don't even associate the Hillary investigation with the word justice because it wasn't. But here are some of the key takeaways joe anthony weiner who had was a former congressman was a clintonista himself anthony weiner was married to who trust me from my time in the secret service is hillary clinton's right hand woman they are

thick as thieves these two they go everywhere together no one is closer to Hillary Clinton than Huma Abedin no one Abedin's married to Weiner Abedin at some point forwards information whether through an automatic download whatever it may be forwards email she gets from Hillary on the private server because remember Hillary never had a dot gov It was a Clinton.com email address. That was the whole scandal. Hillary's private email. You all know that. At some point, Abedin forwards this information to a computer that Anthony Weiner has access to.

Anthony Weiner is then accused of sexting with an underaged girl. New York law enforcement officials, NYPD and FBI, New York field office, important distinction, not headquarters, seize the laptop and find a bunch of Clinton emails.

Many of you are familiar with the story. Like, okay, Dan, what's the breaking news? Well, Sperry apparently has a good source with some interesting new developments on the case, which are going to create some heavy friction for Jim Comey. Now, Jim Comey, they waited a while to start reviewing this. Remember, they reopened the Clinton case and then closed it right before the election.

One of the IG, Michael Horowitz, excuse me. One of the IG, the inspector general, like the internal affairs guy who's been reviewing this Clinton case, one of his open questions here is what was with the delay in reviewing the emails? They got them and it was this one month delay where everybody was like, why are they waiting?

Well, Comey has said in the past, and I'm quoting, that they reviewed all, all, A-L-L in the past and I'm quoting that they reviewed all all all the communications in the email due to some quote technical wizardry they had now that's amazing Joe considering that the FBI agents that reviewed the emails according to this new piece reviewed them in a 12-hour shift now Joe hmm there was this is so dumb that again we're all done this is the billy madison thing we're all dumber from having for every card we're all dumber i'm gonna pull that cut billy madison we're all the i award you no points there were 694 000 Now, I just read my book for Audible, the Spygate book.

It's 77,000 words, which is a decent-sized book. Joe, how long do you think that might have taken me to do? I'll give you a multiple choice. Reading 77,000 words, you think it took an hour, 12 hours,

or close to 60 hours? Probably 12. 60. 60? But I'm glad you said that. Uh-huh. Now, if we had 694,000 emails that were one word each, that would probably take you close to what? A month to get through on a reasonable workshop?

They had three agents working on it. What I'm trying to tell you is there is no possible way they reviewed 694,000 emails. It's not possible. But, but, but, but, but, the FBI's technical wizardry that Comey said, Joe. Yeah, I know. We got to be careful when we're on video. If the audience only knew, right? Right, exactly.

What Comey said they did is they found a way to determine what emails were duplicates that they'd already reviewed in the past. Remember, because the Wiener case was a reopening of the email case, Joe. It was not the case. It was real. So Comey had suggested that due to some technical wizardry, they had found a way to wipe out the duplicates. And therefore they only had to review 3000 emails, which I guess in a 12 hour shift with three people,

if they're short, maybe possible. I don't know. The problem is, is Sperry points out in his piece the technology didn't work oh so there was no technical wizardry in other words you reviewed 3077 of 694 000 emails and you're not even sure that those 694 000 emails were reviewed in the past you You just said they were. Folks, this is kind of a big deal. Yeah.

Because we're talking about information classified at the highest levels of the United States government, the State Department. And, and, and we are also talking about known email exchanges Hillary Clinton had with who? President Barack Obama. had with who? President Barack Obama. We now know she emailed Obama on her private email, making him a key component to the entire email scandal and potentially a witness. Andy McCarthy, a National Review and a Fox News contributor now has mentioned this multiple times that the real incentive for the Obama administration to make the Hillary email case and the Justice Department, by the way, the real incentive for them to make this case go away was not just to save Hillary, but was to save Obama because Obama's on some of those emails. My point is this. If you had 694,000, of which you only reviewed 3,000,

you're claiming the other 690 plus thousand of them. That, oh yeah, we don't have to review them because they're duplicates. While you're simultaneously claiming technical wizardry that doesn't exist, that the deduplication technology you claim to have did not work. What am I telling you, Joe? That there are emails out there in the ecosystem of email that may be devastating to Hillary and Obama. Now, a couple of takeaways.

Here's a quote from the piece, from Paul Sperry's source. This piece is making its rounds heavy, heavy, heavy on Twitter today. Sperry's source, most of the emails were never examined, even though they made up potentially 10 times the evidence they had. Folks, what the heck else is out there? Now, regular listeners, a lot of the conspiracy components to this, the actual conspiracy to suppress the evidence

in the Hillary case are not new. But this source's information is very new. Key takeaways in the Sperry piece, because it's very new. Key takeaways in this very piece, because it's very long. I suggest you read it, but I'll sum it up for you. Number one, there is absolutely no way they reviewed all the emails. The duplication technology failed. Second, the body of evidence out there that hasn't been reviewed yet is potentially 10 times the emails we've seen. three are any of those emails to obama and what the heck do they say number four why was no damage assessment done what does that mean joe if we were to catch you as a foreign russian spy uh-huh one of the first things the intelligence community does is a damage

assessment of what you may have given up yes why was no damage assessment done by the intelligence community on the clinton emails and what information foreign actors or others may have i think we all know the answer to that the answer is you don't ask questions you don't want answers to simple as that another takeaway sperry's source believes that Quantico may potentially still have either copies of or the original Wiener laptop. May. It's at the end of the piece. Now, if that's the case and the Justice Department right now isn't looking into this, we have an even bigger scandal than we thought. And everybody in the management level of the justice department associated with that decision should step aside everybody should be asking their congressman and congresswoman today what are we doing about that wiener laptop and those emails is there a copy if there is a copy are we looking at it if there's

not why did they give the computer back and you should be asking your congressman too i want to see that deduplication technology. Because if it doesn't exist, Jim Comey lied. Lied, period. Final takeaway is the Obama emails again. Are there Obama emails on there? How knee-deep? How knee-deep was Barack Obama in this?

All right, one last story and we'll run for the day. Made a lot going on. I'm sorry I didn't get to some of the others. So much going on. It's just like an endless tide of news. Sometimes it's tough staying ahead of it, but I want to give you the most important stuff and takeaways of the day.

CBS just embarrassed itself again. You know, I applaud Donald Trump for watching Tucker Carlson last night to talk about a really disturbing international story that isn't getting a lot of mainstream media publicity. Why? I have no idea. Again, I can't get in their heads other than the fact that I know most of them are liberal. But South Africa has taken upon itself, Joe, to confiscate or begin the process of confiscating land from landowners basically based strictly on their skin color. It's not a joke.

This is happening. The process has been started publicly. Ramaphosa has already discussed this. So Donald Trump mentioned it on his Twitter feed after watching Tucker Carlson's piece on it last night. Amazingly, CBS has gone through efforts to debunk this story. Ladies and gentlemen, this is happening. This is actually happening in the world today. And amazingly, CBS has gone through efforts to debunk this story. Ladies and gentlemen, this is happening.

This is actually happening in the world today where hardcore, real-world racist policies are being instituted at a government level in South Africa and the process that's on its way. Why CBS and them are doing efforts to run interference for South African policies, racist policies? I can't tell you. But the fact, is it just strict Trump derangement syndrome and anti-Trump behavior? I have no idea. But this is actually happening. CBS is actually targeting. So you know what?

One more thing too. I have a story up at the end of the show notes. Check it out because it talks about the expansion of the welfare state. That story was just about CBS and the media buys. But 52.1% of kids under the age of 18, Joe, are now living in homes that are getting some form of means tested government welfare program. Ladies and gentlemen, this is incredible. This is unacceptable. We are now, we are not even willing to have the fight anymore.

Is this really where we want to be? And can we afford this? The government is not help. I'm sorry. And we should take that fight right to the liberals. We are incentivizing really behaviors that are not going to lead to the long-term prosperity of anyone. This is not a safety net anymore. 52% read the story.

It's from CNS News up at the show notes. All right, folks. Thanks again for tuning in. We recovered nicely yesterday. Great day of listenership. I really appreciate it. Please, I implore you to subscribe to the show. It is free.

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