The Dan Bongino Show - Ep. 849 Were Warning Signs Missed?

Episode Date: November 13, 2018

Summary: In this episode I address the electoral disaster in Arizona and the warning signs that were missed. I also address the continued Democratic Party attacks on Matt Whitaker and the reasons behind the attacks. Finally I address economic warning signs that could cost us everything in the 2020 election.    News Picks: Michelle Obama takes a cheap shot at President Trump.   A troubling piece about vote stealing in Broward County.   5 reasons Kyrsten Sinema upset Martha McSally in Arizona.   Did these “emergency voting centers” help Kyrsten Sinema win?   Is Beto O’Rourke the presidential front-runner for the Democrats in 2020?   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 sorry folks well producer joe how are you today oh man i'm doing pretty good traffic here was crazy yeah that's this morning that baltimore region so uh folks you know i i i put out my email for the audience because I love your feedback. And I got a really great one this morning. I missed this article. What did I tell you a couple of weeks ago, Joe, that after the midterms, regardless of what happens, there's going to be a cabinet shakeup like there is after every midterm for every presidential administration in modern American history? What did I say, Joe?

The headlines are chaos. Chaos. It's all breaking down. presidential administration in modern american history what did i say joe the headlines chaos chaos it's all breaking down it's the aliens are coming the red coats are coming the red coats are going i told you this was gonna happen orson welles war of the worlds everybody get out oh god what will we do what would we saw even sa Saul's upset about it. Folks, I told you. And somehow, I missed this headline. And I want to thank, you know who you are, the listener who emailed me it right before I got on the show this morning. So Trump asked for Jeff Sessions' resignation. And listen, I'm just telling you because it's funny, not because I'm patting myself on the back. I told you.

I even used the word. They're going to say it's chaos even though everybody does it every president here's a headline new yorker by eric lack l-a-c-h trump fires jeff sessions and throws his administration back at the so thank you to uh who's the listener there i'll give you a little shout i won't use your don't worry was Was it Matt? Yeah, I think it's Matt. I told you.

I said, I told you that was going to happen. Of course, the chaos line. So thank you for the heads up on that. Hey, stack show today. Yesterday, I told you I was going to dig into Arizona. I also want to talk about Whitaker a bit because I missed something yesterday. A heads up by another listener.

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to break down into some very simple points and I have a really terrific article in the show notes up at Bongino.com. If you subscribe to my email list there, I'll email you these articles to you by John Gabriel, who's really funny on Twitter, at Ricochet. And it points to five reasons that Kyrsten Sinema won the race, the Democrat, over Martha McSally in a traditionally very red state in Arizona. I'm going to add a few more from some of the reading research and from some of the stuff I'm getting from conservatives, friends of mine on the ground. All right. What I'm going to do is I'm going to take these takeaways too and tell you why you need to worry about this nationally, because what happened in Arizona is worrisome to people in other states as well. Number one, ladies and gentlemen, candidates still matter.

I am not piling on Martha McSally. I lost races, okay? I mean, I'm in no position to be criticizing people. She won her congressional race before, lost the Senate race. At both times, it's been in a sliver. But I'm just telling you what I'm getting from people on the ground. And one of the things you'll read in this Ricochet piece is one of the criticisms of McSally's race, Martha McSally, the Republican in Arizona, why she may have lost the race is she played to prevent defense, which was a great analogy Gabriel used. She played not to lose. I'm not just hearing this from the article, by the way, I wouldn't bring it up if that was the case. I'm hearing this from a lot of people that she did not play to win. She was not aggressive in her campaigning. Apparently, the retail politicking, she was

out retail politic by Sinema, who was out there shaking hands. I mean, I'm disturbed by this, folks. I can't understand how in Montana, John Tester, the Democrat, in a blood red state, beat Rosendale. And some of the emails I got, I'm not off track here. I just want to just say, because this is, again, this is applying nationally. Candidates matter. One of the things people said to me about Rosendale is, oh, he seemed wooden and he didn't seem, he seemed like a carpetbagger from out of state. He came off that way.

Folks, gosh, this is not a reason to vote for the Democrat. I don't get this. Like we're looking at the destruction of our country by awful Democrat policies, and we're seriously talking about this kind of stuff? Oh, he lived out of state. You're going to destroy your state. I'm sorry, but this is, I don't understand what's going on. I've had to, like, bite the bullet and vote for a number of crap candidates, good people,

but terrible candidates, people who I disagree with, frankly, my own congressman in my district on a number of issues, because I understand the value of having a Republican majority. Not that they're going to solve all your problems, but Democrats are most assuredly the cause of them. How in Arizona, despite lackluster retail politicking by McSally, some Republicans crossed over and voted for a woman who's on the record saying how much she can't stand Arizona in Kyrsten Sinema

is bizarre. I don't get it. What's the complaint? She didn't knock on your door? I don't get it. But on the what we can learn from this side, Joe, candidates still matter. Yeah. but on the, on the, what we can learn from this side, it,

Joe candidates still matter. Yeah. I said this in my race where I knocked on 7,000 doors myself, and we almost pulled off an upset. You have to show up. And this is the criticism of Mick Sally that she ran to prevent defense. She played to not lose. She didn't play to win.

That's not good, folks. Number two, apparently they overdid it on the negative ads. Folks, listen to me. If there are political consultants out there, or if you are a candidate looking to run for office, I am begging you. I did not run a negative campaign ad in my race.

Again, we almost won in a d plus six district a heavily democratic district where the candidates who ran before and after me lost by double digits we did not run a negative ad at all i don't care what consultants are telling you ladies and gentlemen negative ads do not work when they are the bedrock of your campaign they just don't people get tired of them i've i've ran i i i've i've seen it these consultants i don't. People get tired of them. I ran, I've seen it. These consultants, I don't know what their obsession with negative ads is, but apparently in the Arizona race, there was a deluge of negative Kirsten cinema ads. I don't, people just don't like negative advertising. You have to offset it with a sense of optimism. Saying the other person sucks is not a message.

I'm sorry. It's just not. And it makes me think of the Allen West race down here against Patrick Murphy and congressional district 18, where I live now, where Patrick Murphy, the Democrat, in a huge upset, wound up winning by one point over Allen West. And one of the things people talked about after the race was the relentless negative advertising against Patrick Murphy, who had had some kind of a arrest in his youth. Folks, they tried that against Beto in Texas, who had been arrested in a very suspicious incident involving a car and leaving the scene. Listen, folks, that's all bad stuff. But Joe, would you agree that people are just very

forgiving and they just don't want to hear endlessly about what happened to a candidate when they were 18 years old listen it's terrible i'm not telling you it's a fair game i'm just saying people just don't care joe you and i've been in scraps yeah stuff happens people are very forgiving in the united states they don't want to hear 600 ads about how murphy was involved in this uh what i don't know what it was at dw i don't remember exactly but it was as endless and in the bedo stuff about people just don't care you know that negative ads against cinema all right great i know she understood she was in a pink tutu saying it was okay to fight with the Taliban or whatever.

I get it. Let it speak for itself after a while. You have to define yourself. I'm saying this again, not because I want to talk about Arizona to a national audience, because number one, candidates matter. Takeaway number one, everywhere. We have 2020 coming up. Stop playing not to lose.

Stop playing to just for the managed all the republican part we're going to be the managed decliner we got to keep government spending the way it is you know we don't want to cut programs god forbid play to win play to win like you have some freaking cojones that seems to play to win it seems to be a big mindset with the republicans playing you know what i mean it's pathetic oh we can't run against Obamacare. People like it. People like it because they don't know what it is. It sucks.

It's a disaster. Play to win. Have some cojones, man. Go down swinging on principles that matter to you. The Democrats do it all the time. Stop playing not to lose. Social Security. We can't.

There's no money. How about explain to people how if you're 55 and older, you're okay. But 55 and younger, we're going to have to fix it. Or your grandparents are going to be out in the street. How about explaining the economics of it? How about playing the win for once? Government spending. We're going bankrupt.

It's out of control. We haven't gotten to the debt ceiling. I want to get to that yesterday. yesterday interest rates are going to go up you're going to pay 15 on a mortgage if we don't fix this explain it have some guts my gosh again second negative all right enough already what do you stand for i hated that in campaign. I didn't run one of them. Not one. I didn't think so. I didn't remember one.

No. No, I find it. I ask people, go to YouTube and find a negative ad. I ran against the line. It's not there. Everything was my, you know, my low taxes, how we were going to figure this out, the Maryland economy. I just wasn't interested. And oh, this guy sucks.

That guy's, it's just, folks folks i don't care what the consultants tell you it is a loser strategy number three with the mcsally race and again this kind of they're not they're not mutually exclusive of each other this more goes in the line with number one as she played not to lose she was just too chummy with the mccain uh you know god rest the man's soul i don't like speaking all dead but she was too chummy with the mccain know, God rest the man's soul. I don't like speaking ill of the dead, but she was too chummy with the McCain faction. People want people who are going to fight for Republican principles. And it's clear, again, I'm not talking ill of the dead. I'm just telling you what happened.

McCain was not a conservative anymore. He sunk the Obamacare reforms and the Obamacare repeal. We had issues with him on immigration. He was just not a conservative anymore. According to John Gabriel's article, she was just too chummy with McCain. Maybe you folks on the ground have a better read of that. Again, this one I have not independently confirmed through my sources on the ground. This one I'm reading from the article, so I'm going to leave that where it is. Fourth, the left is figuring it out in red states folks there are danger signs everywhere

how the hell did beto finish within 2.6 points of ted cruz in texas how ted cruz won by 16 points in the last election the governor won by almost 20 greg abbott doug Ducey, the governor of Arizona, routed his opponent, meaning people split ticket voted. They had to. If the Republican at the top of the ballot running for governor wins by 20 and the Senate candidate Republican loses

or in Ted Cruz's case only wins by 2.6, ladies and gentlemen, a lot of Republicans voted for the Republican governor and the Democrat senator. That's just simple math. Why? Because the left is figuring it out, folks. They are figuring out how to organize in red states and it is big, big trouble. And they're doing it two ways. This is not in the piece. This is me kind of improv-ing on separate stuff I'm hearing on the ground from activists. There are two things they're using.

They are using education issues to stick the camel's nose under the tent in red states. We've seen it in Oklahoma. We've seen it in Arizona. You're going to see it more in Texas. They are using teachers' pay to organize people because swing Republicans, moderate Republicans, independents, and almost every will they everybody loves teachers and you should do not take that i'm not knocking teachers my life was changed by good teachers i'm simply saying that because you support good teachers does not make you a democrat but the democrats don't see it the same way are you joe stop me if i'm just not making sense we're good yeah in deep red states they are organizing voters to come out and they are painting the

republican party as the enemies of education and they are using teacher pay as the issue you saw it in oklahoma whatever it's big rallies for increased teacher pay increase and what are they doing they're bringing out democrat voters but most importantly they're demonizing republican saw it in Oklahoma with big rallies for increased teacher pay. And what are they doing? They're bringing out Democrat voters, but most importantly, they're demonizing Republican voters. Like, you guys hate teachers. You don't want teachers to make money. BS. We're all for school choice in education. We just want good teachers to be paid good money and bad teachers to be fired. You're full of crap. Democrats, well, not all Democrats, but liberals want every teacher to be paid like Warren Buffett, despite their ability to teach your kids or not. That's not fair. And folks,

and Joe, by the way, that's not fair to good teachers. No, hell no. Where else does that work? Ladies and gentlemen, my show and this arena is content production space is a strict meritocracy. Hence my apology yesterday on Monday for Friday show. This is for you. You don't like it. You tune out. And you know what? The show goes bankrupt. End of story. I love that. I love that I got to produce. I love that when I don't produce, you email me about it. And I love that I have to come back to you and say, Hey, my bad folks. I don't feel bad for it, for having to i didn't i your it's your show the show is for you to what why are i don't understand why teachers are exempt from that i'm not knocking you

i love you guys and ladies i'm not kidding you changed my life literally changed my life miss gilfeather god rest her soul miss shortino you changed my life we grew up poor we went to a catholic school that took us on as a near charity case at times sister jane just friended her on facebook from saint pancras i didn't even know she was still alive thank you sincerely but i say to the teachers just like i say to people counting on social security who are 55 and younger the rules of basic math eventually take over. State budgets cannot afford to pay every single person $250,000 a year regardless of skill. It just doesn't make sense.

Granted, those are hyperbolic numbers. I'm just trying to, it is exaggeration for effect and I probably shouldn't do that. But they're using the teacher's pay issue to paint Republicans as the enemy of education and get moderate Republicans to swing to the Democrat side. Now, that's how they're organizing. Number two, folks, the apps are big trouble. The Democrats are figuring out how to use these apps out there to, one, organize money and organize people.

And the Republicans are falling behind again. Joe, have you heard of vote with me no you should i hadn't either before about two weeks ago and i've been meaning to talk about it but we've been sidelined by the relentless news cycle vote with me joe is an app targeted towards democrats that when they download it it allows you to it allows the app to access your contacts. It allows the vote to access your contacts and determine people in your contact list and your phone book who have voted.

I can't say how they're voted. We have a secret ballot, but how they're registered and if they voted in the last few elections. Brilliant! Yeah. It allows you to send texts to them to remind them to vote it's a big deal this vote with me app is attributed a lot of their success in some of

these swingy district is being attributed to the use of technology this app and others republicans we better get on the ball you understand how this works it accesses your contact sends them a text to vote yeah wow it finds out what their party affiliation is this is a big deal a bfd as joe biden would say it's not illegal there's nothing wrong with it i'm not impugning the integrity of entrepreneurs who figure out how to people yeah i'm a capitalist, even in politics. But I say to the Republicans here, you better get on the ball. We can't screw around. That is slick, Dad. I'll tell you.

It is, big time. And we're falling behind. We can't afford this again in 2020. So the number one takeaway, good candidates matter. McSally played not to lose number two negative relentless negative ads are a loser how many times are we going to try this number three getting too chummy with the moderates in a red state like Arizona turns off the conservative base number four the left is organizing they're using teachers issues

which are not Democrat issues. Republicans want teachers paid well, too, as long as you're good. They're using teachers' issues and technology to organize, even in red states. They just flipped the Senate seat in Arizona. Number five is, again, kind of related to the other ones, but it's a good piece worth reading that Kyrsten cinema retailed it folks she retailed it she retailed politic did it matters the cinema's out there on video trashing arizona it's the meth lab of democracy they're crazy like lindsey lowen she's she just won it's's meaning Republicans voted for her.

You know why? The same reason Democrats voted for me in District 6. I hate to keep bringing this up, but I'm just telling you because we actually experienced it. Folks, when Sinema shows up, everybody has in the back of their head this idea about her. She's got the tutu on.

She says it's okay to fight for the Taliban. I would never in a million years vote for Kyrsten Sinema, no matter what. But I'm telling you from experience, when you show up like she did, she retailed it. I'm telling you as a cautionary tale. And you shake someone's hand, they are very hard to dislike. I used to knock on what they call four by four Democrat doors, four by fours, meaning Democrats who voted in the last four primaries and generals, hard core Democrats in my congressional race in Maryland, because I read a study once, I think it was at Penn State, forgive me, I could be wrong. But I'm a very, I'm an analytical guy. When I decided to run for Congress for the second time,

I wanted it done scientifically using studies, research, and I wanted to do it the right way. I read a study that when you knock on people's doors and you meet them face to face, they're not more likely to vote for you, but they're less likely to vote against you. What does that mean? It may sound confusing. It means when you knock on a four by four Democrat door and you have a good conversation with them, they're not going to vote for you as a Republican, but they darn well may bypass your

race and not vote for the Democrat either, especially if the Democrats unimpressive. Now, it's clear there were some crossovers in this race. So Sinema must have done a good job of not only getting Republicans not to vote against her, but Republicans to vote for her despite trashing the state. Folks, we got to show up. The retail politics matter. There is no time to sit down. Yes, we're still talking about 2018, the hot wash stuff, but 2020 started. There's no breaks.

There's no time off. Retail politics matters. Folks, Texas should scare the living daylights out of everyone. If we lose Texas, it is over. Over. We will be a minority party forever. Okay, something else that happened on the very suspicious side in Arizona, by the way. Because I'm not suggesting to you that all of this was, oh, Sinema was so wonderful.

She was not. Her issue and her comments on Arizona are were atrocious. But she managed to retail it out. She had a little help, Joe. I have an article from the Washington Free Beacon up at the show notes today. Another thing for you to pay attention to you because then we got more elections coming up when it comes to suspicious electoral activity. Joe, they opened up, quote, emergency voting centers in Arizona. Now, the Arizona law says that the early voting is to stop the Friday before Election Day.

Election Day is on Tuesday. The Friday before. Wrap it up. Wrap it up. That's the law. Well, the Tolleson County mayor who had endorsed the cinema. Excuse me, Tolleson County Tolleson mayors, not the county asked for some Maricopa County in Democrat areas, emergency voting centers, which were open Saturday and Monday. Now, state law says that those emergency the early voting supposed to wrap up on Friday.

Joe is Saturday after Friday? Take a minute to think. Is it after or before? When you do your Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday. Remember that song? Oh, oh, oh. Who sang that? Do you remember?

Saturday is after Friday. It is. It's after. All you got to do is remember the song I just sang for you. My awful voice. I almost forgot. That was a tune back in the 80s. The worst song ever.

I don't even remember who sang that. We'll get emails. But Saturday's after Friday. Yeah. Now, they said it was an emergency. But what's convenient is these emergency voting centers, air quotes emergency, Joe, on Saturday and Monday after Friday against state law. We're open in Democrat areas. Well, now look at the map in the piece.

It's clear as day. The deepest blue parts of Arizona in the cities. And around them is where they opened up these emergency voting centers. Again, I'm getting tired of this stuff, but this is the kind of stuff Republicans, Republican elected officials have to be on top of. If you want to make access to the ballot and issue to emergency voting centers, fine, Joe, open them up everywhere. In the Republican areas, too. Why are you opening up emergency voting?

So what's the emergency? Winning an election. Right. The emergency. We need to get out more votes. As this as Ben emailed me yesterday, one of my regular emailers, he had a funny line. He said, so let me get this straight. Republicans get to vote up to and including election day and Democrats get to vote until the Democrat wins. That's a great plan. That's a great, right? Is Democrat voting over yet, folks? Seriously, is it over? Dems, are we still voting? Did I miss something? Democrat voting goes on until when exactly? 2020? I mean, this is outrageous.

Emergency voting centers. Fine, open them up everywhere. We have to be prepared for this before 2020. Why does it affect me, Maricopa County? Because if we lose Arizona, just like I just said, Texas folks, it's over. Forget it. It's over. There is no electoral map without Arizona and Texas. You lose. Yes, we would big time. And it would be really, really bad.

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I've been overwhelmed. There's another media fake news story making its way around about Trump and a stop he was supposed to make in France to an American war cemetery 55 miles out of Paris. The story, the media narrative, Joseph, goes like this. You probably heard this story. If not, I'll remind you uh trump bypassed in this american cemetery stop uh what is it northeast of paris uh american war cemetery there uh where basically because he's lazy and he didn't

feel like going and it was far uh wrong folks here's what that that you understand that's the story right that's not what happened it's in yesterday's show notes as a fox news story trump skips visit to american cemetery that that the fox story the fox story tells it straight the left-wing media story is that trump is some kind of like uh ignoramus who doesn't want to go to events especially when they evolve uh celebrating our troops that's ridiculous and just frankly stupid. Erroneous. Erroneous is right, Vince. Again, dropping the erroneous bomb on him. I obviously in my prior line of work did this as a Secret Service agent. Now, I was the motorcade advance agent in Paris, France for George W. Bush during a trip there. agent in Paris, France for George W. Bush during a trip there. I am intimately familiar with working with the French secret services and police officers on how it works. I spent almost two

weeks of my life there. The cemetery is 55 miles out of Paris. Ladies and gentlemen, when the distance is that far in a foreign country, typically what we do is we do what's called a lift. A lift, I'm not disclosing any classified information. This is pretty common sense stuff you can read in any newspaper report of a presidential itinerary. We will take the president typically from a hotel to an LZ, a landing zone. We will then have HMX, the Marine One bird sitting there waiting. President will board the helo. We'll go to another LZ where there'll be a separate set of cars and they'll take him to the event. Now, why would we do that?

Now, if you're in the media, you wouldn't know this because, you know, they'll pretend they know it because they think they know everything. They try to do economics, health care and security, even though they can't even do journalism we do it for a couple reasons number one time it just doesn't make sense to spend almost two hours in a car if you can spend 15 minutes in a helo right but secondly folks we do it to not snarl up traffic in major american cities and cities overseas now joe i'm gonna it's not a trick question. I'm going to ask you just a simple question. If you're the president of the United States, right? And your goal is to get reelected at all times. Yeah. It's not a trick. Why would you not want to snarl up traffic everywhere you go? I'd say probably because when that happens, people get pissed off.

Yes. I love this guy. Yes. That was not a trick question because it pisses people off. Yeah. It's not just the logistics folks. I did this. Yes. He could have drove possibly. You don't do it for security reasons. Number one, it requires a tremendous amount of assets. And number two, it just pisses people off. They hate it. I'll never forget a motorcade I did in Pennsylvania where, was it Obama or Bush? Gosh, I can't even remember. I'm sorry. But they were running, oh, it was definitely Bush. He was running about 20 minutes late. So what happens when you're 20 minutes late? It was a 22 miles,

the longest motorcade I ever did. It was 22 miles. We really, really, really wanted to do the lift. But for some logistics reasons, we had to do the motorcade. It was a long, long motorcade, right? We had to snarl up traffic for 20 minutes. Remember, you have to close traffic down about maybe 10 minutes before the president leaves. You don't just close traffic as he gets on the highway. You got to block off the ramps. Can you imagine doing that for 55 miles in France? The answer is no, you can't. Ladies and gentlemen, every one of those entrance ramps has to be covered. Do you have any idea how many French police officers and security services, gendarme, or whatever it may be, you have any idea how many assets it would have taken to motorcade

the president there? Now, I didn't even, I'm sorry, I missed this one. Why didn't they lift them? I didn't even tell you that. They didn't lift them on the helos because the weather was awful and it was dangerous. It happens all the time. But ladies and gentlemen, it was entirely impractical from a security perspective and from snarling up all of France's perspective to motorcade President Trump 55 miles. Cut the crap with the fake news. It wasn't President Trump. He doesn't respect the truth. You're just making it up. I did this.

Don't tell me what happens. I'll give you one more quick story. The Pennsylvania thing. What was the story in the newspaper the next day? Because Bush was 20 minutes late. We had to close down the highway 10 minutes before his expected departure. He didn't leave until 20 minutes later. We had the Pennsylvania highways shut down for almost 45 minutes.

Joe, the next day in the paper, they were fuming. Yeah. Fuming. That is not the goal of a politician trying to get votes. Let me upset everybody in a swing state like Pennsylvania. Not good. You don't want to do it overseas either this is a fake news story so bottom line the helos couldn't lift them because

of bad weather the motorcade was impractical from an assets perspective security wise and from a political perspective you don't shut down the whole the country and i don't mean political in a snarky way i mean it in a practical way. You're there in a foreign country as a guest, even though you're the president. You don't snarl up the whole country. Then you may, oh, here's their comeback. Well, other foreign leaders did it. Ladies and gentlemen, they don't do it like the Secret Service.

I'm not crapping on them. They're great people. They're patriots. A lot of these security services do a great job for their foreign leaders. They're not the U.S. Secret Service. We don't mess around. We take unusual amounts of assets to do our thing because we don't take chances. There's a big, big difference between our footprint and Hungary's prime minister.

I'm sorry, I'm not knocking them. I'm just telling you I've been there. I've done these international events where all these countries come in and they don't do it like we do it. This is fake news. One quick note on this. When I was in Afghanistan with President Obama, we were supposed to do a lift. We were supposed to do a lift to the embassy in Kabul from Bagram. It's a lift.

It's about a 15-minute flight. There was a sandstorm. We had to cancel. Ladies and gentlemen, it was a big deal. The embassy was excited, really excited. We had the whole event was planned. Matter of fact, it screwed up things so bad, we had to cancel the lift altogether. That the secret service agent who was doing the advance at the embassy had to tell everyone, I'm sorry,

he's not coming. They were devastated. I'm sure the people who were there remember it at the time. Email me if you were there. We had to cancel. What was the problem, Joe? All the secret service personnel and staff had to fly back on the support plane, which is the backup Air Force One. There's always two, always two of everything. Two limos, two Air Force Ones, always. They had to fly back on the support plane. Well, what's the problem? How is the Secret Service agent in Afghanistan getting back?

He was coming back on the helo that never went to Kabul because we had to cancel. So we were like, oh, how are we going to get? We can't leave him in Afghanistan. So we had to have him driven back. And he was like 20 minutes late. And it was a big problem because we had to light up the runway in Afghanistan on Bagram after Air Force One took off. They took off in the dark. after Air Force One took off. They took off in the dark.

And the support plane was sitting there, which looks like Air Force One, on a fully lit up runway that had only lit up for the taxi off. And everybody was like, guys, you need to get the hell out of here because these terrorists in the mountains will launch IDF, indirect fire and mortars, and they'll take out your plane

if you keep sitting here. So I'm sitting there on the tarmac like, brother, where the hell are you? He's like, we're almost there. You don't have to worry about speeding tickets. We're almost there. I don't even remember how he got back. Oh, he may have come back on a C-130. I'm

not even sure, to be honest with you. But either way, it took a long time. He finally pulled up. However he got there, he pulled it took a long time he finally pulled up however he got there he pulled up in a jeep and he was like telling me the story i'm like bro save it just get on the plane i don't care we'll talk on the plane we jumped up and play they and i tell the pilot just go and right we were out of there and i was like thank god bottom line this stuff happens in the secret service the real world and these these i just want to say it so bad these dip rhymes with hits in the media who don't know even basic stuff about security oh trump trump

crapped all over the troops you don't't know squat. Shut your pie hole. It's not like a bunch of idiots. I don't know how newsrooms. Actually, I do. I actually do commentary. I'm like, I could probably comment on it. Stop commenting on stuff you don't know nothing about. You have zero expertise in this at all. That's not what happened. They canceled the lift because it was dangerous. End of story. Stop making stuff up, you dopes. End of story. Stop making stuff up, you dopes. Yeah, I'll never forget that. Guy gets out of the Jeep. Hey, man, you'll never guess what happened. Don't care. Get on the support plane. It's time to get out of Dodge. We'll catch up on the plane. We only have nine hours home. We're good. I remember telling the pilot, just gun it, brother.

Let's just get out of here. And it was the loudest. I mean, I'm telling you, man, because that runway was lit for a while. They worried about mortars and stuff. That dude just was like, because you don't have to worry about the FAA stuff or even buckle it into your seat. None of that stuff. When you're on Air Force One, it's important.

That guy gunned it. Joe, my head was in the back of that chair like this. It almost looked like that gravity ride with your cheeks and stuff and you're pinned against the wall. He gunned that thing. I've never seen or felt anything like it. And I called my wife and I was like,

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I'm not going to do the whole thing over yesterday, but the Democrats attacks on Whitaker, the acting attorney general who Trump has appointed to replace Sessions are for a reason. Folks, the left doesn't do anything by accident. Everything they do has a purpose. The left is attacking the acting attorney general right now, Whitaker, because there's a theory out there. And I want to be clear, it's a theory. It's not a conspiracy theory. It's a theory backed up by some evidence.

But I want to put it out there for you to entertain. There's a theory out there that the conservative treehouse guys put out that's interesting. There's a theory out there that the conservative treehouse guys put out that's interesting, that Whitaker, who was Jeff Sessions' chief of staff while he was at the DOJ, may have been the one leaving an investigative bread trail behind on a massive leak operation in the United States government that the Department of Justice is closing in on shutting down. three things. The curiously timed release of the Mark Warner Waldman text where Mark Warner, a Democrat senator on the Intel committee that's been investigating the air quotes, collusion nonsense says on March 17th, Hey, I'm going in the skiff to review some documents. Then we have the arrest of the Senate committee staffer working with Mark Warner for lying to the FBI about what about leaks. And then we have the curiously timed release of the FISA application where every single thing is blacked out

except for one date, March 17th, the same date Warner goes in the skiff to say he's reviewing documents. And curiously, the same date that Wolf, the staffer, right around that time, I should say, where he starts texting his girlfriend and a reporter.

The 82 texts, and conveniently, there's 82 pages in the FISA application, the first one. Now, the 82 is important because if James Wolfe had the full FISA application without the redactions and it was 82 pages, the 82 texts make sense. They would be screenshots if that's the case. Screenshots to his girlfriend. Why would you screenshot a fully redacted page? You wouldn't. Meaning he probably, if that's the case, texted her the full FISA application, if that's what that is. But remember, Wolf's prosecution, I'll tie this up for you in a second during wolf's investigation and prosecution wolf's lawyer he's the staffer now working with the senate intel committee

on this collusion case who at some point may have taken possession of this a full fisa application which lays out the whole scheme to take down trump right at one point his lawyer joe his lawyer wolf's lawyer threatens to subpoena who the senators on the committee folks why does this matter it matters because wolf was not arrested and prosecuted for leaking information he was arrested and prosecuted for lying to the fbi about leaking information. He was arrested and prosecuted for lying to the FBI about leaking information. Do you understand the difference?

He was not arrested for the leaks. He was arrested for lying about the leaks. Why would his attorney, Wolf, the staffer, in his defense, say, hey, we're going to subpoena the U.S. senators on the committee in his defense say hey um we're gonna subpoena the u.s senators on the committee in his defense in other words he's not lying that's the lawyer talking meaning what joe if he's subpoenaing the senators did the senators order him or suggest to him that he leaked the information

and that's his defense folks are you tracking me oh yeah i did not bring this up yesterday i'm sorry i got so lost in the uh is is whitaker the cleaner which was the treehouse's uh uh line of attack on them in other words was he the one leaving the breadcrumbs on this canary trap where the leakers have all been exposed and the senators may be the leakers you're right how did i not bring that up the leakers may have been the senators telling wolf the staffer hey go leak this to the press therefore wolf's defense is going to be i didn't lie to the fbi i thought i was authorized to leak it i was told by the senators does that make sense joe thanks chewy, Chewy. Even Chewy gets it. Folks, please track me here. Whitaker may very well be the guy who was involved in leaving all these clues out there.

The FISA application, the date on the FISA application, the text about the date they reviewed the FISA application, the Wolf prosecution, the Wolf prosecution and the texts where the texts in the indictment, they release all this information or the prosecuting documents they don't need to release. It's a simple lying to the FBI charge. Just say what he lied about, but that's not what they do. They lay out this whole elaborate case, and then they don't charge him with leaking. Folks, this is really, really curious what's going on right now. I think the coming days, we may see some Mueller stuff, some indictments. There's a rumor there's going to be indictment

of Jerome Corsi and Roger Stone for some contacts with WikiLeaks and some alleged lies to the FBI about it. We'll see what happens. I'll be honest. But expect a lot of breaking news. Don't think for a second this case is over. They are attacking Whitaker full force because I think Whitaker, to sum this up, is read in fully on the fact that some United States senators on the Republican and Democrat side may be knee deep in a major league leak scandal where they leaked sensitive FISA documents to people in the media or Joe ordered someone else to do it. FISA documents, the people in the media or Joe ordered someone else to do it. And that someone else may in fact be Wolf. And that would explain why Wolf's attorneys are like,

no, no, we didn't lie about it. Matter of fact, we're going to subpoena the senators. Why would they do that? Why would you do that? Because maybe he was ordered to do it. So good call on that. I'm sorry I missed it yesterday. A couple of other stories I wanted to get to. Folks, I had a conversation with a conservative friend of mine. You guys see a lot on Fox this morning. And he's like, you know, Dan, I got to tell you, of all the things about your show, I really appreciate the economic stuff. He's like, how'd you learn all that?

And I, you know, just reading and, you know, I did a finance MBA in school. I'm just, I just really enjoy economics. But one of the things I wanted to discuss today with you just quickly is folks, the debt ceiling is about to go up again in midsummer. Guys, ladies, Dan Horowitz wrote a piece on this. I talked about it last week. I interviewed Dan Horowitz on my NRA TV show, which airs at 5.30 p.m. Eastern time at NRATV.com if you ever want to check it out. I do interviews on the show once in a while. Ladies and gentlemen, we're in a race against time right now in the economy, and I cannot warn you in stern enough terms.

I don't mean to do a macabre show today. I'm not trying to depress you, especially after what was, I think, now, given that it looks like we're going to lose up to 34 seats, maybe more, was not a good election. Okay. There's no putting lipstick on that pig. None. We just, we lost. You know, we did okay in the Senate, okay in the governorships, you know, in swing states, but it was a bad election and we need to accept that.

The day after it didn't seem so bad because it looked like we were going to lose 24. Now that it's up to 34 seats in the House, we're in trouble. I'm bringing this up today because we are in a race against time right now. Our debt, the debt ceiling is going to go up mid-summer to $22 trillion. Folks, our economy is only worth about 20, 21 trillion. We are looking at right now a catastrophic debt situation, and here's the race against time. And maybe I'm better off describing the race against time for you to get you a little worried and anxious. It matters. That's what turns people out. I'll describe it in terms of micro rather than macro economics. I'm going to describe it in terms of your household. In Joe's household, Joe know, Joe is in Joe's household, right?

Joe earns say $50,000 a year and has $50,000 in debt, which is what the United States, the position they're in right now. Everything we're worth, our entire GDP is 20 trillion. We owe 22 trillion. That's where the debt ceiling is going in mid-summer.

So we owe everything we produce in a year. Think about it in terms of the micro. If Joe owes $50,000 and he makes $50,000, that $50,000 is a lot of debt, and that's going to stink. It wouldn't be so bad if Joe's income grows faster than interest rates. Because if Joe's income grows 10% a year, and interest rates on that outstanding debt, because we have to pay

interest on that debt. Folks, Joe does Joe. If Joe owes $50,000 to a credit card company and a credit card interest rate is 5%, but Joe's income is growing at 10%, the economy, even though it has a lot of debt, Joe's personal economy is not in catastrophic shape. Does that make sense? Joe, you're tracking pretty simple math. I'm not trying to be condescending. You have to understand this, because when we get into the macro, it gets confusing. If Joe's economy grows at 10 and the debt grows at 5, we're fine. What's making the situation in the United States catastrophic

is the debt is not at 50. It's going up every year, dramatically. In some cases, or estimates estimates by a trillion dollars a year so now joe doesn't only make 50 and a 50 in debt joe may make 51 next year but the debt is 52 so now we have a math problem because even if joe's income goes up by seven percent and the interest rate on the debt goes up by six the debt keeps going up not just because of the interest rate on the debt goes up by six. The debt keeps going up, not just because of the interest rate, because he's taking more debt out. Every year he's spending more than he earns. Folks, we are in a catastrophic race against time right now. And I wish Republican lawmakers would

get their heads out of their butts and finally take a stand. Let me circle back to point one and what happened in Arizona. We are playing it too safe. Sooner or later, the combined effect of the interest on the debt as interest rates go up, which they are going to do. Why do interest rates go up as debt goes up?

Think about it very simply, whether in Joe's case or the country's case. Because in order for people to lend Joe more money as he takes on more debt, Joe is a bigger risk. So they're going to want higher interest rates and returns to compensate.

They'll maybe lend Joe money at $50,000 in debt. But when Joe owes $70,000 in debt, they're going to be like, Joe, Joe, this is too much. I need 10%. The same thing's happening to the United States. Interest rates are going to have to go up as their debt goes up because the country is going to become a bigger risk. If interest rates and the debt continue to go up, ladies and gentlemen, we are going to have to grow at staggering rates to make ourselves grow out of this bankruptcy apocalypse. Now, there are two ways to do this. Thankfully, there are two forks in this road. I shouldn't say forks.

They're parallel paths. We can cut government spending dramatically, which is what we should be doing, and have a full court press on entitlement reform. If we do that while simultaneously cutting taxes and juicing the economy for four and five percent growth like Trump's been doing, ladies and gentlemen, the debt will become entirely manageable and we will be on a glide path into the future for prosperity you've never seen before. The problem is we're only focusing on one fork. On this parallel track, we are stalled on that. Actually, we're not even stalled. We're on a horrible path on the government spending side we're spending more and more and more it is

eventually going to become a pure mathematical certainty that we will become bankrupt certainty on the tax cut side and the regulation side trump is doing an excellent job i am begging imploring for the audience I have to anyone listening, please make this case to the American people and stop playing it safe. I'm saying that, Joe, because we are at a tipping point right now. And if we hit a recession before the 2020 election, folks, record this show, record it and keep it on your phone. If interest rates start to go up because the debt seems uncontrollable and people stop lending us money and we got to go up to maybe 5 and 5.5 and 6% even higher. We were at 15% for mortgages in the 80s.

The cost of money is going to go up. The economy could go into recession because we're spending too much and we have to pay higher interest rates if it goes into recession before 2020 the general election folks i'm telling you right now it's going to get ugly ugly catastrophically ugly the good news is we can stop it If we just put a cap on the spending now, I'd love spending cuts, but if we simply said no more, we have too much debt, we are not growing our budget anymore. If we just put a cap on it, Trump is growing the economy so much through the tax cuts and deregulation that we have the chance to grow our income, our national income, just like Joe's income, at a high enough rate that the debt will become

manageable and not the problem it is now. We're running out of time, folks. I can't say this enough. Dan Horowitz wrote a piece that's in last week's show notes somewhere at Conservative Review about exactly this problem. This will not continue forever if we continue to stick our heads in the sand. We have got to get a lid on government spending. And I bring it up because the debt ceiling's coming up again and they're going to bump it again and nobody thinks anything about it anymore.

They just think this is going to go on forever. It will not. All right. One last story here. Folks in California. Listen, I love you guys and ladies out there. I really feel bad. I've traveled out there a lot.

You got the fires going on now, which are just, I brought it up yesterday. I lived through a house fire. It is that the campfire is now the deadliest in state history. God bless you. And I hate to even talk about a political story it's not related to the fire but i wanted to bring that up first and please listen to the ending of yesterday's show i've been to a it is the most devastating thing you don't even know what you lost because years later you go back and go oh my gosh where were my doc martin boots from oh they burned too it's it's

the worst thing ever it really really is. It's horrible. But California, folks, I don't know if you read the story, just elected a super majority into the Senate. They already have, they have 40 senators and 80 representatives in the California House. They finally got to 28, meaning they have a super majority now, Joe. California, I'm telling, I'm just telling you, I know you listen to my show. I get some of your nasty emails. California liberals. You now own the state completely, entirely. The state, state-level politics.

There are obviously pockets of republicanism left. You own state-level politics. You now have a super majority in both houses. You have the governorship, the lieutenant governorship, the attorney general. You have everything. There's nobody left to blame. I'm saying this, folks, because if you're in California and you're moving out of California because you think the taxes are too high, the living conditions are poor, or you're

not happy with the job market, you don't like the income inequality, you now have nobody, nobody left to blame but yourself. There is zero, listen to me, zero ability for the Republican Party statewide in California to stop anything anymore, anything except through ballot initiatives. They have a veto-proof supermajority. I want to put that out there so there's no confusion in the future because the Democrats have been experts at this messaging game so that there's absolutely no confusion if there is a mass exodus or it continues. I shouldn't say if. When it continues out of California, who is at fault?

Make no mistake what you're fleeing. You're not fleeing conservatism. You're not fleeing libertarianism. You're not fleeing economic or health care liberty. fleeing libertarianism. You're not fleeing economic or healthcare liberty. You are fleeing monopolistic Democrat control of an entire state with zero ability for Republicans to fight back. That's what you voted in. I just read this story today about the super majority. It appears some races were called. You now own it. Now let's see what you do with it. They had close to that type of control in Maryland,

where I came from, and it was voted out by now a second term Republican governor, because people got tired of businesses fleeing Maryland for Virginia. You own it, California. Now you try to fix it. All right, folks, thanks again for tuning in. I really appreciate that you listened to the show. Again, I hope you listened to yesterday's show. This show is for you, and I'm very sensitive to your feedback. It means a lot to me. You've invested a lot of time in me. I just have a couple of asks if you wouldn't mind. Please subscribe to the show. Please. It means a lot to us. It helps us move up the charts. It is absolutely free. You can subscribe at iTunes, SoundCloud, iHeartRadio, Spotify. There are tons of different

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