The Dan Bongino Show - Ep. 875 Here’s What Really Happened Yesterday

Episode Date: December 19, 2018

In this episode I address the real scandal the FBI is covering up in the Hillary email scandal and the astonishing comments by Jim Comey this week regarding the infamous meeting between Loretta Lynch and Bill Clinton. I also address what really happened in the Mike Flynn hearing yesterday. Finally, I address the immigration crisis and the only path forward to save the GOP.    News Picks: The judge has delayed sentencing in the Mike Flynn persecution.    Jim Comey doesn’t appear to care who funded the anti-Trump dossier.   Jim Comey’s credibility continues to evaporate.    This piece describes the disaster that the FBI/Carter Page investigation was.    Major advertisers are refusing to cave in to another attempted liberal boycott.   This entrepreneurial inventor constructed a device to combat package thieves.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

get ready to hear the truth about america on a show that's not immune to the facts with your host dan bongino all right welcome to the damn bongino show producer joe how are you today hanging in there with the big d on his big day oh my gosh it's gonna be the busiest content day ever for uh dan bongino doing a bob dole's Bob Dole say? Talking about himself in the third person. Damn, I love Bob Dole. Dan Bongino. It's a big day today. All right.

Speaking of today, though, I have the Hannity Show on radio and TV tonight. So thank you all for all the positive emails. I hope you tune in to both the radio show, the Hannity Radio Show, where I'll be filling in. Also, the Hannity Television Show on Fox. I would deeply appreciate if you all would watch tonight it's going to be a great show I'll be in tonight and tomorrow for Sean on the Fox News Channel 9 p.m. Eastern Time so uh but forgetting today today for a moment what the hell happened yesterday um yeah I was in the gym after the uh the Flynn postponement the sentencing came down Lieutenant General Flynn and a buddy of mine Andy who works out in the gym good guy comes up to me he's like can you explain what just happened so folks don't worry

i'm gonna get to the bottom of what happened yesterday um it's it's a disaster for everybody involved listen to me when i tell you this nobody came out of yesterday's sentencing hearing nobody with their skin entirely intact nobody i noticed it was ugly for every single party involved i mean really ugly for a few of them all right i'll get to that today's show brought to you by our friends at chamonix listen christmas is here ladies and gentlemen but that sagging jawline and double chin don't have to be a part of your celebration this year now you can make them disappear introducing the brand the brand new GenuCell jawline treatment with dual peptide and MDL technology. It's Chamonix's most advanced technology ever.

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Really, I've never seen anything like this. The judge, Emmett Sullivan, comes out, and he just starts filleting Mike Flynn about a potential insinuating there could have been treason involved. Now, to his credit, the judge came back later and corrected his comments, insinuating that there may have been some treason involved here, or it could have been the possibility of treason on the part of Mike Flynn. But, Joe, it didn't matter. Because by that point, the lunatics in the left-wing media, and I'm going to get to this in a second, why liberals despise the country here, they had already run with the story. Did the judge say Mike Flynn was guilty of treason? That's not what he said. What happened is the judge screwed up. So let's take that part

first because a lot of stuff happened. The judge asked Flynn first if he wanted to take back his plea. The judge also delayed the sentencing hearing, and the judge also made this catastrophic mistake by insinuating there could have been treason involved. The treason portion first here. What happened with the judge, Joe, is he screwed up the dates of Flynn's work working on behalf of the government of Turkey. Now, however ill-advised this decision by Mike Flynn was

to work on behalf of the government of Turkey to do some kind of advocacy work for them, to work on behalf of the government of Turkey to do some kind of advocacy work for them. That work on behalf of Turkey, ladies and gentlemen, let's be crystal clear here because you cannot let the liberal media get away with this. Stopped before Mike Flynn got in the White House. I'm not apologizing for it. I don't think it was the greatest idea in the world. Flynn taking that contract. I'm going to be a fair arbiter of what I believe to be the truth here. But saying that Mike Flynn insinuating he could have committed treason because he was working on behalf of a foreign government, Turkey, while in the White House

is not accurate, Joe. The judge screwed this up. Listen, I have a lot of respect for Judge Emmett Sullivan, but we're all human beings. And the judge dropped a big L yesterday. You want to talk about a losing proposition, walking in front of a courtroom, your courtroom with this established presence as a federal judge with gravitas in front of all of these media cameras and not understanding that Mike Flynn had discontinued his contract with Turkey long before he entered the White House is a grievous error. How do you not know that folks do you understand that even this special counsel bob muller's team had to correct the judge on this are we tracking

here how bad this was the problem is and the reason this was such a catastrophic error is obvious by the time the judge realized he had screwed up and that mike flynn was not working on behalf of the government of turkey while he was in the White House, the media had already run with the story and the disingenuous. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, exactly. The disingenuous hacks at these cable news networks and these anti-Trump networks out there that are not interested in the truth had already run with Flynn treason, flinch.

All you have to do is put the two words together. It was a mistake. Judge Sullivan acknowledged a mistake later. Again, I don't want to pile on, but this was just an unbelievably catastrophic error. Second point to take on here. The judge asks,

uh, the Lieutenant General Flynn's lawyers multiple times. Are you basically, are you sure you want to take this guilty plea to this false statement charge multiple times? Folks, what's really going on here? What's really going on here is I believe judge Sullivan knows that this

was a bogus prosecution. He knows this. So do you, right? Joe, Joe's not in his head. I know where you're going, man.

He's being harsh on and if i joe if this doesn't make sense stop me because i was trying to explain this to my buddy uh andy in the gym yesterday too okay judge sullivan is a big advocate for for for government propriety and integrity he has shown his bona fides in this in the past so i don't want to bag on judge so he made a mistake about the treason thing and he corrected it, but it already traveled around the world. But judge Sullivan in the Ted Stevens case had already, uh, basically destroyed the government's case against Ted Stevens based on the similar type of malfeasance that they did in this Mike Flynn case. Right? So my take on this is that judge Sullivan knows this is a, I was going to say BS,

is that Judge Sullivan knows this is a, I was going to say, BS prosecution. It's a family friendly show. This is a garbage prosecution. Mike Flynn is being targeted by the government for basically an investigation that created the crime and Judge Sullivan knows it. Judge Sullivan has to get Flynn angry enough

to pull the plea. So the judge comes out and lambasts Flynn, throws the kitchen sink at him, and basically insinuates that despite the fact, follow me here, despite the fact that the prosecutor, the special counsel, is recommending no jail time,

the judge insinuates that, hey, daddy-o, I can sentence you to jail anyway. Do you see what's going on here? In other words, hey, General Flynn and your I can sentence you to jail anyway. Do you see what's going on here? In other words, hey, General Flynn and your team, you better pull this damn plea because I can sentence you to jail time anyway. In other words, whatever you think you're getting out of this by pleading to this deal, by getting out of jail, you're not getting squat because this is a BS plea. And if

you're not going to fight for yourself, then I'm going to make you fight for yourself. plea and if you're not going to fight for yourself then i'm going to make you fight for yourself brother daddy oh armacost i'm telling you this is what's happening my man sullivan is a big advocate for shutting down malicious government prosecution he's done it in the past here's the problem and ladies and gentlemen i gotta get a little harsh here and I'm sorry. You know, I have enormous respect for General Flynn. I know what he's been through, but this Lieutenant General Flynn has the absolute worst lawyers I have ever seen in the history of humankind. I'm sorry. Listen, I don't mean to pile on these guys. These are the worst lawyers I have ever seen in the history of humankind. The judge is basically telling you, pull this plea.

This is a BS case. He asks him three times, Joe, are you sure you want to plea to this? He knows Flynn's not guilty of this. And they still, these lawyers are telling him to plead guilty. They didn't even throw the red flag, man. You know?

I know. Yes. I'm glad. Perfect timing. Throw the red flag. Go under the hood for review. Right. You know, the NFL. Let's review the play.

The judge. Judge Sullivan offers him the red flag. Joe, he says, I'll give you a free red flag on the field. Let me read to you the court transcript. This is so frustrating. Yeah. Worst attorneys ever. So the court judge Sullivan says, all right, are you satisfied with the services

provided by your attorney? The defendant, I am talking about Flynn. The court, Judge Sullivan, in certain circumstances, excuse me, in certain special circumstances, I have over the years appointed an independent attorney to speak with the defendant, Flynn, review the defendant's file, and conduct necessary research to render a second opinion for a defendant. Do you want the court to consider appointing an independent attorney for you in this case to give you a second opinion? The defendant.

I do not, Your Honor. Listen, I love General Flynn, okay? I don't know what he's doing now.'t know what he i don't know what he's doing now i'm sorry i don't know what he's doing i don't know who's giving him this legal advice do you as joe just said judge sullivan threw the red flag on the field and put the play on the review himself i will appoint an independent reviewer to look at this with you because he know joe do you understand he's winking and nodding hey general flynn you got work brother you got worked i'm here to protect you and do the right thing as an independent arbiter of justice for this country you got work and he doesn't want it he doesn't i don't get it folks i don't get it he is begging him to pull the plate begging him i thought and he I thought. And he won't do it.

He won't do it. Now it's, I mean, now it's over. And what's frustrating about this whole thing is people out there defending the general the entire time, like me, are getting frustrated here. Because are you willing to fight or not here with this? This is the worst legal advice I have ever heard in the history of legal advice. What's his one lawyer's name? Fisher Price. This is your price.

I actually got that one. It's rare. Joe usually slips one past the goalie there. It could be Fisher and Price. I don't get it. I don't get it. I don't get it. I don't understand why he is listening to this absolutely atrocious, almost like counterproductive legal advice the judges offer him. Now, the judge is offering him an independent arbiter to look at this, and he's still saying no.

All right. A couple things going on here, too. So we addressed first the judge's treason comments which he corrected i think he did that to again so we clear on this to let flynn know pull this plea or i'm gonna hammer you you are pleading to a crime you didn't commit you were doing yourself and the country no services no you're doing us no favors secondly the legal advice is awful he's offering him the judge he is offering him a way to look at this thing and out and he's not taking it he's not taking it third why why do i believe in to give you kind of the counterpoint because i owe you

that much i don't think this is right but why do do I think Flynn is doing this? It's not because he has any lack of courage. Flynn is an American patriot who I respect and admire. Flynn's lawyers are horrible. And what's happening with Mike Flynn's lawyers are they're being pressured by the special counsel. The special counsel, I don't know if you missed this, but the day before the sentencing hearing, Bob Mueller and the special counsel dropped the bomb. What did they do? They released the indictments of these two, basically, folks lobbying on behalf of the Turkish government who had business with Mike Flynn. They released the indictments the day before. It's a case in Virginia.

Why would he do that? Bob Mueller, I'm talking about. Why would Mueller do that? Folks, there I'm talking about. Why would Mueller do that? Folks, there's a lot going on behind the scenes. Mueller knows what Judge Sullivan knows. Let's do game theory here. The judge knows Flynn's not guilty. Flynn's lawyers are telling him just take the plea.

Flynn doesn't want to take the plea, but does it anyway, listening to his lawyers. His lawyers are talking to the special counsel. The special counsel knows Flynn's not guilty too. And that in a trial on this false statements charge, given the 302s we saw, which I covered on yesterday's show, do not miss yesterday's show. Go listen to it where today's show is going to be tough to follow. The 302s, the summaries of Flynn's interview are devastating for the FBI. They are by no means an open and shut case of false statements. Flynn's unclear at times. He said he doesn't remember that that he was lying is not an open and shut case about the sanctions and the expulsion of the Russian diplomats that those conversations happen. That is not an open and shut case at all. Make no mistake. Bob Mueller

knows this. Mueller does not want to go to trial with Flynn at any cost. He will be embarrassed and he knows it. He needs Flynn to take this plea no matter what, even though the case is weak. So what does he do, Joe? The day before he drops this bomb about the indictment of these two, these two men lobbying on behalf of Turkey that have done business with Flynn. In other words, insinuating and hinting to the Flynn team, which I'm sure he's already told Flynn's lawyers, Joe, if you don't take this plea in court today, make no mistake,

we're taking you to trial in Virginia too, and we're going to charge you with the failure to register as a foreign agent as a lobbyist for Turkey too. Count on it, yeah. You can take that to the bank, spend that money. That is exactly what's going on with the lawyer and that's why the lawyer is giving him this awful legal advice to take this plea now here's the problem you may say okay well you just made the case for flynn dan because if flynn you

know flynn doesn't want to face another trial if this is the easiest way out with no jail time. Folks, the problem here is, I'm sorry, but Flynn owes it to us to fight back here. I don't care if we've got to get pro bono attorneys or what. The Farah case is an independent thing, a foreign agency registration act. In other words, if Mueller's threatening Flynn, we charge these two guys for lobbying on behalf of Turkey. We're releasing it the day before the sentencing to send a message to Flynn that we'll charge you too. That is a separate case. I'm sorry. He owes it to the country and the people fighting for us at this point to fight back against this thing on the false statements charge, because it is so obviously a horrible case. And the Mueller team is terrified of having to take this to court. Can you imagine Joe on cross-examination, the two FBI agents interviewing

Flynn under oath, being asked to repeat and state the fact that they did not believe Flynn was lying? I mean, how easy of a case is this? A Fisher and Price lawyer, as Joe just said, Mr. Price or Mr. Fisher, Esquire. I could see them saying to Bianca or Peter Stroke, the two agents that interviewed Flynn, Mr. Bianca, Mr. Stroke, is it accurate, special agents? Is it accurate that you wrote in the piece that you did not believe Mike Flynn was either being deceptive or he was lying? Yes, Your Honor. Excuse me.

Yes, that is accurate. You did charge him with lying, right? Yes, we did. But you believed he wasn't lying. Yes, we wrote that. Can you please explain the discrepancy? This case is going to get thrown out. It's a joke.

It's a joke. Flynn, I can't, I don't know. I don't get it. I just, I mean, I'm beyond frustrated. I am beyond frustrated. This is the worst legal advice I have ever seen. But again, I just want you to be clear on that, that what this is, the game that's going on.

The judge knows Flynn's not guilty. The judge is probably furious at Flynn. Hence the outburst, Joe, that Flynn is pleading guilty to a crime he didn't commit. The judge is, how do I know this? Because the judge is offering him multiple ways out. He asked him three times, do you want to accept this plea? And he said, yes. He's giving him the red flag on the field.

I'll give you an independent reviewer to look at this again. In other words, Joe, hint, hint, you're getting bad legal advice. And what are his lawyers doing? His lawyers are negotiating with the special counsel, who's now dropping the hammer on a separate case, telling his lawyers, you better get Flynn to plead guilty because this case stinks for us too. And if you don't, we're going to try him on the Farrah case.

We'll prosecute him on the farrah case too man i should have stepped up well i had didn't that judge also make some strange comments about the logan act you did oh god thank you that's not even in my notes good poll there yes that's the fourth thing one more thing i totally forgot about that showing you again that don't buy too much into the outburst against Flynn. I'm telling you, he's mad at Flynn because Flynn's pleading guilty to a crime he didn't commit. At one point, Judge Emmett Sullivan says to the special counsel team, what's the predicate

for you interviewing Flynn? In other words, when you interview people, you interview them for their involvement in a crime or a crime syndicate or a conspiracy to commit a crime what was the crime you were interviewing flynn for something we've covered on the show repeatedly and and then the special counsel hilariously responds well you know it could have possibly been a violation of the logan act the logan act that basically you can't negotiate with foreign governments and adversarial situations on behalf of the United States as a private citizen, you may say, oh, well, that sounds, no one has ever been successfully prosecuted using the unconstitutional Logan Act in the history,

in the history of the act since 1799. The judge looks back at him, Joe, and he says, the Logan Act, you mean the act that's never been used to prosecute anyone since its inception and then the defense looks back like joe the head goes down the eyes go down uh yeah yeah judge that one folks do you understand the judge is giving him an out i can't say this enough to people listening on the flynn team you are getting the worst legal advice in the history of humankind you are irreparably damaging your reputation here. People are fighting here. They are fighting. They need you to stand up somehow. This is not a legitimate case. Everybody knows it. The judge knows it. There's now been a sentencing delay.

There has to be a way now. You got to fight back. All right. All right. I got a lot more to cover, You got to fight back. All right. All right. I got a lot more to cover, including a real explosive bombshell by Jim Comey yesterday, who seems to have laid out the whole Jim Comey scheme without even knowing it. Jim Comey. I've come to the conclusion about former FBI director and scammer Jim Comey that he really isn't that bright.

You know, Joe, for a while, you know, you and I would talk about Comey. We'd be like, well, maybe he's just smart. He's a great manipulator. I would talk about Comey. We'd be like, well, maybe he's just smart. He's a great manipulator. I'm starting to doubt that. I really think Comey's just genuinely not that good of a guy, and he's really not that bright either. I'm starting to figure this out, and I'll tell you why in a second. Before I get to that, I just want to say one kind of public service announcement for the day, if you don't mind. To all those people who steal packages, Amazon packages and stuff like that off people's

porches around Christmas, I have a story up in the show notes today. It's kind of a fun story around the holidays about this guy who invented this glitter bomb package. You got to read this story. It's got some video in there. When you steal the package, after a few minutes, it emits this glitter bomb in your car or wherever you take it. And this noxious fume spray as well that smells like emissions from a human being.

You can figure it out. It is the funniest video ever. I just want to say to package thieves out there, of all the losers on this planet, like if you had to rank losers, you know, you are definitely in the top 10. Maybe like three or four, because there are bigger losers.

You know, you have like a cascade of losers in society. in society, your murderers, your child abusers and stuff. But you're definitely in the top ten. I just want you to know that if you're listening, I don't want you in my audience if you're a package thief. So please stop listening to me. I'm serious. I don't want you. You're not worth it to me. I despise you.

If you steal people's packages off their shoes, stupid please i am not your guy on your show get away from my show i despise you you are a total loser a complete zero a degenerate a stain on human society you're one of those leeches they put on people's bodies to drain them of blood that they thought was somehow curative that's what you're a leech on the world i don't know i just i saw this video and i watched these people stealing them. You are such a pathetic sleazeball like the excrement from a snake in a dirty patch of mud. They slithered through.

That's you. Don't listen to my show ever. If you're a package thief, I'm just saying I don't want you go away. Find a different show. just saying i don't want you go away find a different show the google podcast for losers 12-step programs out of loserdom and then come back when you've escaped loserdom i'm just putting that out there for the i i watch the video though it's funny to watch these complete zeros get glitter bombed after trying to steal someone's christmas packages a bunch of turds all right uh before we get to call me, today's show brought to you

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well it was a couple things but one thing he said that really stands out because it points to the comey bias during this investigative scenario that was happening during this trump investigation he now has finally admitted that quote there was political bias in the information talking about the dossier okay thank you captain obvious damn bungino breaking news comey admits the dossier was politically biased that's not the breaking news the breaking news is his next quote to me it didn't matter do you believe this guy do you believe this guy this is now the director the former director of the federal bureau of, whose one job is to discern the credibility, the viability, the non-biased intent of information coming into his office,

to determine the authenticity of it, to verify information used to prosecute people using the awesome power of the federal government. And Comey, although he admits there was, quote, political bias in the information, it didn't matter to him at all to me it didn't matter that's what Comey said now why didn't it matter because Jim Comey is obvious by his political outbursts in the last few days is it is a die-hard anti-Trump uh liberal don't tell me he was a registered republic I don't care I'm not interested I'm interested in the man's actions not in a man's cheap words. His words mean nothing. He's a liar. Comey's one job as the director of the FBI in the most important counterintelligence investigation in modern US history was to authenticate the information. Now, I want to be clear on something because I'm going to be fair,

unlike Jim Comey, who is a manipulative liar and not very bright either. Just because information has a bias and it doesn't make it not true but joe let me ask you a simple question this is not you are not a federal agent correct that is correct so i this is there's no bias in your approach to this no bias if i were to approach you with information and i acknowledge i say listen i've got information about a drug dealer in my neighborhood now let me be fair, Agent Joe Armacost. I don't like this guy. I've had some beefs with him in my family.

He kicked my dog once. I'm not a fan of his. But I have some information that every Tuesday evening at nine o'clock, he receives a drug shipment at his house. Now, Agent Armacost, you realize I'm telling you this information is biased. I don't like him. Now, let me ask you a question, Joe, as Agent Armacost and just as the Dan Bongino show host. You're a federal agent.

What do you do to make sure that that biased information is not a lie? How would you authenticate it if you knew every Tuesday evening at 9 o'clock this guy in his neighborhood received a drug ship? I believe I'd go check it out for myself. You'd go check it out for myself. You'd go check it out. I'm sitting here looking at the beautiful lights at Times Square outside my hotel window, and I'm thinking Armacost is a genius. The guy's a banker, an economist, a financier, a federal agent, a lawyer. He never gets the answer wrong. Why? Because the questions I ask him are common sense, that any idiot can figure out. Not that Joe's an idiot, but I do it as a joke because I know he's not going to get

the answer wrong and embarrass himself because they're so easy. You would verify the information. This is the point. Comey wants it both ways. He wants to acknowledge on one end that, yes, political bias and bias and information is out there, but it doesn't matter to him. But on the other hand, he doesn't want to acknowledge. and information is out there, but it doesn't matter to him. But on the other hand, he doesn't want to acknowledge, I want to be crystal clear, that his sole job as the FBI director is to take

that bias, not discount it, but go and verify the information which Jim Comey, ladies and gentlemen, did not do. They didn't do it. I don't want to beat this dead horse, but this is where Comey is in real trouble. There is a documented procedure, the Woods procedure, to verify that information about the drug deal at nine o'clock on Tuesday night. There's a procedure to verify that information before you walk into the courts. Comey did not follow the procedures. The information was not verified. Yesterday's show entirely debunks through three key developments yesterday, which I pointed out the, uh, the Prague story falling apart, the reporters who pushed the dossier admitting now it was likely false. Um, and, and Hillary's, uh, Christopher Steele's association, uh, assertion,

excuse me, that Hillary Clinton's team wanted the dossier to challenge the election results. The dossier has been debunked. Comey made no effort to verify this the right way. There is a paper trail on that procedure. Comey is going to be left right now. He's going to be left holding the bag on this because he has nowhere to go. Now, that's old news old news

it's new news but old news because we know he didn't verify it i just wanted to point out the fact that now he's on the record saying well it didn't matter didn't matter it was politically biased of course it didn't because you're a liberal democrat we know that but there was something else that came out yesterday that uh i had covered my book. It's in Spygate. And I want to cover today though, because now it's on the record and now it makes Comey look even worse, Joe. Comey's now acknowledging publicly that there was a high level meeting on June 27th with the upper level FBI leadership, June 27th, 2016. So track me folks. I'm going to put this together for you. Step one in this puzzle, we'm going to put this together for you. Step one

in this puzzle we're going to put together, piece one. Comey has a meeting with his management, June 27, 2016, a high-level meeting. What else happens on June 27, 2016? I always say remember the names, but if you can, try to remember the date. The dates are a little harder because they get all jumbled. Try to remember the dates too. Think, think, think. June 27, 2016. Oh, that's right. That's the same day Loretta Lynch meets with Bill Clinton on the tarmac. And they have their little conversation allegedly about the grandkids. Remember that one about the grandkids?

Had a little conversation. Remember that Loretta Lynch, Bill Clinton meeting on the tarmac? The surreptitious little setup meeting. By the way, I've already told you, given my prior line of work, that these meetings are never impromptu. Bill Clinton has a Secret Service detail. Loretta Lynch, the Attorney General at the time, has a security detail assigned to her as well.

These details have to coordinate to de-conflict. It's not a big elaborate procedure with low-level protectees like that. I don't mean low-level prestige-wise. I mean just low-level given the footprint of their security detail. I don't take it the wrong way. But those are low-level security details in Secret Service parlance, right? For them to coordinate takes a few minutes, but nothing happens impromptu. Nothing. Don't believe it. The Loretta Lynch-Bill Clinton meeting, there's no way this happened on just the spur of the moment. There had to be at least some level of planning that went into this, right? They met for a reason, and I'm telling you it was

not to talk about the grandkids. It was on the same day as this meeting Jim Comey has with these upper-level FBI officials in headquarters. Now, Comey is alleging in an answer to John Radcliffe up in his testimony up on the Hill, Comey's alleging that there's no connection between the two. Folks, I don't buy it. Because what happens three days later? Three days later, the speech Comey's about to give about a week later on July 5th, 2016, about the Clinton email case

where he, remember the speech, folks, the nationally televised speech on July 5th? I know Joe remembers it, where Jim Comey lays out this entire elegant case against Hillary Clinton and then unbelievably at the end it says, well, no serious prosecutor would try this. We were like, everybody was looking like,

wait, what? You just laid out the case. What are you talking about? Like, can you be this crazy? You just laid out the case. What are you talking about? Can you be this crazy? You just laid out the whole case. Three days later, after the June 27th meeting, a copy of that speech is edited. Oh, what's the edit? June 27th, Lynch meets with Clinton.

Loretta Lynch meets with Bill Clinton. Jim Comey meets with the FBI officials in this high-level meeting. They have a copy of the speech that Comey's going to give on July 5th. Three days after those meetings, that speech is edited. And what is edited out? That Hillary Clinton on that private email system emailed Barack Obama. Oh, that's edited out. Isn't that crazy? Folks, no connection here at all. Don't you, don't connect.

Tell you what, let's do the liberal media thing. Don't connect the dots at all. The liberal media has been making up collusion hoaxes forever. But we have information here. All these things happen. We can connect these dots pretty reasonably at this point, at a minimum some of this was related and if it was not related it is an awfully big coinkydink isn't it in comey's scheduled speech coming up july 5th because remember this this that the edits are three days after the june 27th meeting so obviously it's

june 30th the july 5th speech hasn't happened yet, obviously. An edit, a major edit is made to that speech where Comey was scheduled to say that Hillary Clinton had emailed Barack Obama. That is taken out and changed to a senior government official, which is later, before Comey gives the speech, Joe, taken out completely. There is no reference to it at all now let me tie this up for you if you listen to my speech the one i gave in mountain view california that's uh gotten quite a number of it's on my channel somewhere uh the long i gave like an hour speech about spy gate in my book and i tied it all up for people it's kind of similar to the the viral speech i gave about plan a plan b and plan, what I'll talk about on the Hannity show today.

I'd said to you what they're really covering up with the Hillary email scandal specifically. Put aside the Clinton Foundation, the pay for play, the tit for tat stuff for a second. Those are separate scandals. Uranium One. What the government insiders in the swamp are really hiding with the Hillary Clinton email case is, folks, they're not covering for Hillary anymore. No, I'm serious. They're not. The Democrats in the swamp, I think at this point, on the Hillary email case, are so done with it, they don't care what happens to Hillary. What they care about is protecting

Barack Obama, protecting the legacy of Barack Obama, protecting the pure as the driven snow reputation of Barack Obama amongst them, not us. Not us. We know the truth. The media is intent on preserving this Obama. He was angelic in the White House, ignoring the IRS, Fast and Furious, Benghazi, Spygate, all of it. The media does not want you to know the true story. The Hillary email scandal implicates Obama because Obama was emailing Hillary using his email address

to her non-government email address. Now, I get emails when I talk with you. Folks, please tell me you get this. They are protecting Obama's role in advancing Hillary Clinton's email scheme because he knew. Remember, when asked about the Hillary Clinton email scheme by the media, Barack Obama said,

I don't know. I don't know. I heard about it in the media. Really? Because you emailed her. I know nothing. Nothing. That was his best defense.

That was his defense. Now, I email Joe all the time. I know Joe's email address. I know exactly what it is. I know it ends in.us. And that doesn't stand for U.S. government. And that doesn't stand for U.S. government. Barack Obama knew Hillary Clinton was running an extra government private email server. And what they don't want to do is implicate Barack Obama in this.

Hence, the meeting amongst Comey's officials at the White House, excuse me, with his upper level FBI officials. The meeting likely with the Clinton tarmac thing on the same day. Three days later, the edit to the speech said, take thing on the same day, three days later, the edit to the speech, take Obama's name out of there, change it to government official, and then take that out too. This all happened at the same time. Now, like I said, I get a lot of emails from people and they say, well, Dan, maybe Obama just had Hillary's email built into a contact list in his BlackBerry and he didn't know. Folks, the White House staff has to submit a whitelist to WACA, the White House Communications Agency. Follow me here. This is important. Don't get suckered into this argument.

The White House Communications Agency, which operates all the comsec for the white house it is a military run operation i know i worked with them in my prior line of work they're great men and women they have to white list very specific email addresses that can get to the president for a number of reasons that are common sense if the president has a blackberry you can't have um you know chinese technological infiltrators sending him spam emails that infiltrate the whole White House system. You cannot just get your comms to the president. The president says, hey, I have this friend, Joey Bag of Donuts. His email is bag of donuts, whatever, at Gmail.

Put him in the list and he is whitelisted or she's whitelisted in the BlackBerry. Somebody on the staff had to have given Hillary Clinton's private email to WACA and said, this is okay. Do you get it? This is so frustrating trying to get this through to liberal knuckleheads who either don't want to understand the truth or outright lying. Somebody whitelisted this thing. They won't tell you who. Now, there's more. Comey admitted yesterday with the transcripts show, according to the documents, that when they sat down with Hillary Clinton, one specific point, too, Comey was not under oath, which is very suspicious. And made a point, by the way, in the hearing yesterday, Comey himself to say this isn't under oath, right? Because I'm telling you, he's a liar.

their oath, right? Because I'm telling you, he's a liar. Comey also admitted that the FBI team that interviewed Hillary Clinton about her email server did not ask about the Obama email. Oh, wow. Isn't that special? It's not special. They have this little powwow at the FBI building. Lynch has a little powwow with Clinton. Three days later, they wipe out any reference to Obama in the speech. They change it to senior government official. Then they wipe that out. Then they have this interview with Hillary Clinton about her email server. They don't even ask her about the Obama email. Does it sound to you, Joe, like they're trying to cover up Barack Obama's role in Hillary's,

basically Hillary's forfeiting away of our information to foreign governments that unquestionably got access to her server. They got a conundrum, dude. They got a big conundrum. Now, why do I bring this up? Not just because of Comey, but because Lynch is up on Capitol Hill today. Now, Lynch, Loretta Lynch, like Comey, will obfuscate, will probably not tell the truth. I'm sure she will be asked. She will be questioned about this meeting with Bill Clinton about any potential ties to the wiping of the Barack Obama

information from the Comey statement, although she technically, oh, I'm just going to go with the investigation. I'm just going to go with what the FBI says. Loretta Lynch will not tell the truth either, but she is up on Capitol Hill today. Hopefully, I will have an update for you tomorrow, even maybe on the Sean Hannity show tonight about what's going on. Because this is just a disgrace. Listen to me. They are protecting Obama. It is not about Hillary anymore. All right.

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and I didn't want to lose the context. I get emotional sometimes and the rest of the show gets buried in this tidal wave of Dan Bongino, catecholamines and neurotransmitters right yeah i saw a tweet this morning uh from an elected representative i'm not even gonna put the name out there because i don't it's i'm so upset about it and it's another one of these tweets blaming the united states government for the tragic death of this seven-year-old girl who was brought across the border illegally and died.

Now, folks, you look at a picture of this seven-year-old girl. I have a soon-to-be seven-year-old myself. She's six. She's going to be seven in January. She's beautiful. She's a beautiful young child of God who's now dead. She's not with us anymore. She died pretty horrifically. Dehydration, had something like 104 fever, liver failure. I mean, think about it, right? Can you imagine what it's like to die of dehyd failure. I mean, think about it, right? Can you imagine what it's like to die of dehydration?

I mean, if I don't have a drink of water for four hours, you get uncomfortable. Imagine walking through a desert and not having any fluids for days. Food or water or anything. She was seven. She was seven years old. This is a human being. This is not some political football. This is not some how do we leverage this

for Twitter retweets. I have stayed away from this. I have not tweeted on this, any original content tweets at all, because this is a child of God that died a horrific death and shouldn't have. But this is now beyond even the norm. I'm typically disgusted by low character, horrible people up on the hill, on Capitol Hill. That's why I thank the Lord every day. I did not win my runs for office. I've made a far more of a dent on the outside than I would on the inside.

But using this, I mean, what do you call this? this soul-wrenching death of this beautiful seven-year-old girl as a way to get like tweets or to what get donations from your campaign donors and to blame the united states the heroic men of the border patrol that did everything they could to get this woman medical help this young lady 7 year old girl to be precise including an air ambulance and they flew her to a hospital to try to save her

and you you think this is like some kind of a twitter game for you for what donations or to grab a few extra votes on your next immigration bill it's disgusting it is of politics is a grotesque abhorrent really horrible gross game but i've got to tell you what i've seen with regards to this this young girl

is some of the most disgusting cynical morally inept politics I have ever seen in my life. You should be ashamed of yourself. Our government did everything they could to save this beautiful, look at her picture, gorgeous seven-year-old girl, did everything they could to save this girl. And you crap all over our country in an effort to do what folks it just reminds me of something you have to really keep in mind the fight we're in these days we are fighting with a group of people on the other side of the ideological aisle i'm not talking about all democrats i want to be really clear on this that bothers some people they say oh all democrats are sitting.

They're not. I know because they live in my neighborhood. These are not bad people. We just have different ideas on things. The radical far left, however, lives in an absolute moral vacuum. They bathe themselves in the evil soap. This is what they do. They are just obsessed with the idea that you must hate the evil soap. This is what they do. They are just obsessed with the idea

that you must hate the United States. They have, I call it, I wrote here, a hate America narrative for just about everything. So I did this,

I wanted to break this down. Here's their hate America narrative versus reality. The immigration situation, that's why I thought of this with this tragedy with this seven-year-old girl. Ladies and gentlemen, this country has taken in tens of millions of people

from other countries throughout our history. Tens of millions of people. We are the most generous country on earth, not just with foreign aid, but specifically with taking in people to our country, into this beautiful, wonderful, prosperous country. It is the United States that has left the souls of its young men and women on foreign soil, fighting for other people's freedom, not in the interest of empire, but in the interest of liberation. We have liberated. We have paid for your rebuilding under the Marshall Plan. When we couldn't rebuild you, we took you in. We took in Germans. We took in the Irish. We took in the Italians. We took in the Mexicans. We've taken people from Spain. We've taken people

from Argentina, from South America, from Africa, from everywhere. That is the hard reality. And you must hate American narrative because somehow we led to the death of this seven-year-old girl and you must hate America is disgusting. You're a disgrace for doing that. An absolute disgrace. You're seeing it again with this healthcare debate now. Now that they lost the Obamacare debate. Oh, the United States, this is awful.

We're preventing healthcare access, pre-existing conditions. Ladies and gentlemen, the hard reality of that is that is not true. Okay? That is simply not true. The pre-existing conditions uh argument right now that's been beaten up in front of congress in actuality only affects a very small sliver of the population when the when when a certain stipulation in obamacare was opened up to people with pre-existing conditions only a hundred thousand people took advantage of it why

folks because large majorities of our population are getting medicare i'm not suggesting these programs even work i'm just telling you that's how it is more uh there are even more there are more people getting uh there are people getting medicare people getting medicaid there are people who are covered by group insurance policies at work they are not subjected to the pre-existing conditions mandates pre-existing conditions where insurance companies could potentially turn you down applies to the individual market and the fact of the matter is states were taking care of that on their own way before the federal government got involved so the liberal you must hate america myth because we're stopping people from pre-existing conditions from getting health care is a myth no one's stopping

them the problem was being solved there were individuals here and there who are having issues no question about it but the scope of the problem was being far, far exaggerated by the liberals in an effort again, just like in the immigration debate, using the seven-year-old girl to get you to hate America. Meanwhile, overseas, where they have socialized medicine, people en masse are sitting on waiting lists, waiting for healthcare, some of them dying on waiting lists because the healthcare is rationed and it's rationed by time because they don't use price. Because you already paid through your taxes. So nobody cares. On the tax issue, you're seeing it again.

I saw an interesting op-ed today in the Wall Street Journal by Jason Furman, who sounds like a nice enough guy. Jason Furman, though, is a leftist. He writes for the wall street journal once in a while and he always writes his economic articles from uh from a leftist bent he's trying to make the case this morning in the journal that the trump tax cuts work but they work because of government spending he seems to indicate this piece that although the tax cuts had a small effect it was really the bump in federal government spending that led to the jolt and economic growth. So again, the liberal hate America argument is this. If you don't support bigger government and you don't support excessive government debt, endless deficits,

and a tidal wave of red income, then assure Joe that you in fact are the enemy. You're an enemy of the people. You're an enemy of prosperity. You must hate this country. The only way you can love this country, Joe, is through excessive government spending here's the reality firman's piece is nonsense firman makes the same he makes the opposite case in the same piece which is staggering joe at one point he tries to make the case that government spending was a large portion of the economic growth spurt under the trump, not the tax cuts. Yet later down in the piece, he impugns the tax cuts, saying if the tax cuts lead to higher deficits,

that they're going to be a drain on growth. Wait, wait, wait. Folks, are you picking up the illogic? By the way, this is a very smart guy. This isn't a stupid man, Jason Furman. Think about what he just said. In the same op-ed, he writes that government spending is a driver of prosperity

economic goodwill that it's the government spending that's largely doing this later down in the very same op-ed he says that the tax cuts are are good for the economy but could be bad because they may cause greater deficits what do you think government spending costs government spending so deficits are bad but they're only bad when americans keep their money when the when when the government spends money it doesn't have and it taxes americans later because there's no money fairy to pay for that then they're then they're no good does that make any sense folks please follow me here because i'm trying to show you again liberals need you to hate to hate America. Tax cuts. In other words, you keeping your own money, you working and keeping your own money. You are evil. You are holding back prosperity. The real prosperity is giving that money to the government.

Let them spend it. You got to if you don't support American American government spending to the point of a tidal wave of reading. You are a greedy self, you greedy, selfish, you get it, fill in the blank, SO something. But in the same piece, he knocks his own, he destroys his own argument. Government spending is good, but the tax cuts are no good because they lead to deficits. Government spending leads to deficits. Are deficits good or bad? What is it?

The answer is, of course, they're bad. They're a drain on entrepreneurial efforts because government deficits take money out of your pocket. And if it's not in your pocket, it's out of your kids, plus the interest in the future. Furman doesn't even understand that. But America does. And they're starting to come around. There's a poll out today. Paul Bedard has an interesting piece up in Washington Secrets, Joe.

A Gallup poll. I want to show you, if we can get the political climate together and Republicans will stand for something. So I just want to tie that one up. Liberals, they despise the country. They're using immigration, health care, and economic policy and tax policy to lie to you to get you to believe that you hate america if you don't support their agenda meanwhile the reality is quite the opposite that supporting the conservative agenda is what's going to advance prosperity is what's going to advance freedom world freedom because people are going to come here eventually under the right

economic system and incorporate themselves into the legal fabric of our society not hide in the shadows like they say liberals despise this country and they are using these false narratives to get you to get in this self-loathing effort as well i need to pay more taxes i need to i gotta give my money to the government well you know that's not true you know inherently all of you listening that's just stupid americans are getting it gallup poll joe number one problem americans rate right now 19 as the number one problem we face government the big g the number one problem number two 16 of people immigration even the wall street journal that is definitely to the left on immigration even though it's a right-leaning paper on economics, said this morning, Americans are more right, like politically right, on

immigration than the media wants you to believe. They are. Trump has tapped into this. But ladies and gentlemen, here's the problem. You may say to yourself, if that's the case, and Trump has tapped into this big government and immigration being the issue, right, which he has, why did we take such a bath in the midterms, which at this point we did. It's no sense arguing anymore. We did well in the Senate, but we got crushed in the Congress and we lost governorships. Why? The answer is in a tweet I put

out last night. Democrats lose when they advance their priorities. Think about it. Barack Obama implements his tax hikes. He implements Obamacare, a massive regulatory encroachment on American lives and businesses. Barack Obama and his Democrat Party are wiped out. They were at the lowest ebb in power nationally since 1928. They lost historic numbers of state chambers, city council seats, congressional seats, Senate seats. The Barack Obama wiped out the Democrat Party.

Why? Because when liberalism wins, America loses. And America knew it. And they voted everybody out. Ironically, except Obama, because he was so, he had this powerful effect on people. He was a gifted orator. But he'd make no mistake. He destroyed the Democrat Party.

So Democrats lose seats when they win their agenda. Because their agenda sucks. Republicans lose seats when they don't enact theirs. And ladies and gentlemen, that's what's going on right now. What's going on right now is people are losing faith. And I want to send this out as a warning. I'm a supporter of the president. You know, I have been.

But if he caves on this border wall situation and caves on this government spending budget, and we see more endless deficits. No cuts in spending. And no border wall. I'm warning him as a friend. I'm warning him as a supporter. This is going to be very bad. Remember. Democrats lose when they enact their agenda. Republicans lose when they fail to enact theirs.

Democrats believe in power at all costs. Republicans believe in principles at all costs. And when those principles aren't advanced, Republicans will not show up. I'm saying this in the most friendly advisory way possible as a cautionary warning. Do not cave on this border wall. Do not cave on judges. Do not cave on this next budget. You said you wouldn't sign another gross budget like we had the last time with the overspending, please for the sake of 2020,

the election and the, for the, for the, for some semblance of sanity in the constitutional Republic, do not cave on this. Those polls are right. America will support you. You just have to step up. I know I'm hoping, I'm hoping, I'm seeing it right now, as a matter of fact, White House often stands on wall in shutdown. You can't do it. You can't do it. Please. I don't want this to be a predictor of a failed 2020 reelection and look back on moments

like this. This is your moment to shine. Hear it, please. I'm begging you, Mr. President, do not cave on this border wall. America is with you. The bubble is around you. I know it. I saw it in the secret service. These people isolate you from the truth. They are experts at gaslighting. America is with you. Do not sign a bloated budget and do not cave on this border wall. All right, folks, thanks again for tuning in. Please email your congressmen, your congresswomen, your senators. I'm asking you as a favor, call their office and tell them, support the president on this. Do not cave on this border wall. It is key. It'll be a disaster if he does. All right, tune in tonight to Hannity. As I said, I really appreciate. It is key. It'll be a disaster if he does. All right.

Tune in tonight to Hannity. As I said, I really appreciate you all support me. I'll be filling in on the Fox News channel. Also be filling in for him on the radio. Break a leg, brother. Yeah. Break a leg. Thank you, brother Joe. I appreciate it.

It means a lot. Joe, I was talking to Joe before the show this morning, and I shared something with him. I'll share with you tomorrow after the show because I don't want to jinx myself now. But my first time filling in on myself on TV, they're like hey um want to fill in yeah you think it'd be like uh you want to fill in on a local blog talk radio show like no no fill in for sean hattie's only the biggest cable news show in the history of humankind okay i got that i could do that like that's been me my whole life you know right every time like if you're gonna go for it just go right to the top you're good all right folks send me your reviews tell

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