The Dan Bongino Show - Fireworks Explode at the Hoax Impeachment Hearing (Ep 1113)

Episode Date: November 18, 2019

In this episode, I address the catastrophic meltdown of the Democrats’ hoax impeachment hearings. I also address the stunning connections between the Democrats’ Spygate hoax and the impeachment hoax. Finally, I debunk an ideological position taken by these 2020 candidates. News Picks:Listen to my powerful interview with President Trump.   Obama fired the Bush-era ambassadors and the media didn’t mind.   GOP congressman says the Democrats are racing to beat the damaging IG report.    Impeachment is failing. President Trump’s approval rating jumps to 50%.   President Trump said, in my interview with him, that everyone knows who the “whistleblower” is.    15 essential questions for Marie Yovanovitch.   This older Epoch Times article sums up the troubling role of this Ukrainian in the Spygate scandal.   75% of the AOC “squad” has been investigated for campaign finance issues.    The latest Secret Service study on school shootings is worth your time.   Copyright Dan Bongino 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 ladies and gentlemen another stacked news weekend i hope you heard my interview with president donald j trump on friday interview one of our new interview series honored to have the president on board uh it's on our youtube and our channel. Please listen to it. He broke a lot of great news on there. Thanks for all the support on that. A lot to talk about today, including the complete, total, utter collapse of the impeachment farce.

Another witness who totally blew up their spot that you probably haven't heard about. We will get to that. Also, the meltdown of Madam Schiff against Elise Stefanik. The video audio is just classic of that. Speaking of that, welcome to the Dan Bongino Show.

Producer Joe, how are you today? Hey, Dan, I'm doing pretty good, man. The gentleman will suspend. The gentleman will suspend. Please, stop interrupting my show. Stop laughing. The gentleman will suspend. I'm kidding.

See, look at him. He's as aggravated as everyone else was. If you saw, Joe, did you see him? You want me to answer you or what? Of course you did. Joe was privy enough to see my clips before the show. Wait till we get Adam Schiff later. Isn't that disgusting? Him trying to gavel out Elise Stefanik, a talented, strong woman in Congress from upstate New York. Who'd you like that face? So wait till you see that.

We got a lot to get through. So thank you, Producer Joe, for playing along with the joke. We coordinated that. I was messing with it. Come on, you get the difference. All right, let's get right to it. Today's show brought to you by our buddies at U.S. Law Shield. Go to uslawshield.com slash Dan.

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Check it out. All right, Producer Joe, let's go. Here we go. Nice. Ladies and gentlemen, so this just apocalyptic. That's so funny. I'm looking on the screen of my Adobe Audition 5. I said, Joe, there's these two huge spikes.

I'm like, what the heck is that? I forgot it was my gavel. The producer was just like, there's these two huge spikes. I'm like, what the heck is that? I forgot it was my gavel. The producer. That'll do it. These big monster spikes on there. Yeah, it's going to set your, Joe's going to have to do some work on that one. So the impeachment fiasco continues to explode

or implode in the case of the Democrats because it's collapsing on itself. They keep bringing up the Democrats. Remember, this is happening over in the House right now. The House of Representatives, of course course is controlled by the democrats nancy pelosi is the speaker and the committee running this the intel committee which isn't actually intelligent or doing any work on intel at all is being run by clown adam shift yep uh you know a captain gavel man so shift keeps calling witnesses, these are his witnesses. And one of the witnesses he called, the transcript got out over the weekend.

It's a guy named Tim Morrison who was on the National Security Council. Remember, where the fake whistleblower complaint emanated from. The whole complaint about Trump with the call Ukraine where he allegedly made some quid pro quo deal. That never happened. He allegedly made some quid pro quo deal that never happened. Right. So the original complaint was that Trump was holding up military aid and he demanded investigations from the Ukrainian president on that call. Again, we now know if you're a sane, rational, sentient being, that did not happen.

We have the transcript of the call and it's not there. Schiff and Pelosi and others from promoting the hoax, the gaslighting hoax, fake complaint that the military aid was upheld because Trump wanted investigations into Biden. Oh, check this doozy out from Tim Morrison on the National Security Council. These are the transcripts. You haven't heard about this, have you? Here's what he says at the end. He's questioned about the holding up of this military aid, Joe. And clearly they're trying to say, hey, wasn't this because Donald Trump wanted investigations into Biden? Here's his answer, Morrison.

The president's general antipathy to foreign aid, as well as his concerns that the Ukrainians are not paying their fair share, as well as his concerns when our aid would be misused because of the view that Ukraine has a significant corruption problem. He's talking about the delay. Ladies and gentlemen, totally, completely obliterates the point. You get what

he's saying here? They're asking him was the delay due to some concern about investigations under Hunter Biden. And Morrison completely dismantles it. This guy was on the National Security Council. And he says no the president has a general antipathy to foreign aid he felt that the ukrainians may not be paying their fair share and he was genuinely concerned about corruption over there what folks you hear about that this weekend did you hear about any of that no this is shifts you didn't right this is shifts witness this isn't our witness this This is Schiff's witness. No, Schiff.

Completely annihilating their talking point. By the way, Joe, that transcript, I think, and you're not going to hear a peep about it in the media anywhere, that transcript, if anything, reflects positively on Trump, who I think people elected, obviously, based on his antipathy towards endlessly flowing foreign aid that we get nothing back for in return to countries that have histories of corruption.

I agree, yeah. Now, that wasn't it. No, no, no, no, no. That was not it. There's more. There was another little doozy in this transcript in the Morrison testimony that came out over the weekend that, again, you'll hear nothing from in the mainstream media. You're not watching this show or following conservative websites.

You're missing all of what's really going on in exchange for BS media narratives. Here's another one where Morrison gets talking about Vindman. This is fascinating. about uh vinman hey this is fascinating mr castor the lawyer says hey uh mr morrison first leads off by saying i had some concerns about lieutenant colonel vinman's judgment remember vinman was one of these uh national security council members who again said he had some issues with the call okay then run for president become the president you're not and so he says i had concerns about lieutenant colonel vinman's judgment the lawyer for the republicans caster says judgment with respect to what here's morrison's answer again you won't hear this anywhere among the discussions i had with dr fiona hill on the transition was

their team my team its strength and its weaknesses and fiona and others had raised concerns about alex talking aboutindman's judgment. Ladies and gentlemen, this is Schiff's guy. This is Schiff's witness saying, number one, there was no quid pro quo for military aid. It was being upheld because of concerns about corruption and misuse of foreign aid, and the Ukrainians doing their fair share to uproot and get rid of corruption in their country. And then secondly, the whistleblower military gentleman, Colonel Vindman, who apparently

had concerns with the call, despite declaring in his testimony he saw nothing illegal about it. They had serious concerns about Vindman's judgment, his own colleagues. Again, you're not going to hear any of this anywhere now i gave a speech this weekend at an event and it went over very well it's a long speech i'm not i may put it on youtube if we can get a hold of it or promote the youtube channel where it is it's about 25 minutes i'm not going to relitigate the whole thing because I've discussed some of it on my show. But the takeaway, the lead on it was I connected Spygate to Whistleblowergate. Now, I've hinted at some of this before, how Spygate and Whistleblowergate are the exact

same scandal. They're both hoaxes and they're both covering up Democrat malfeasance. I wanted to quickly hit that again here. But before I do that, the Democrats are freaking out right now because it's the same scandal. There's a piece in the Washington Examiner, by the way. Johnny Ratcliffe knows this as well. Really solid congressman from Texas. I got some video of him later too. Ratcliffe realizes that the Democrats are freaking out. The Democrats are worried about what? They brought up this whole fake whistleblower hoax because they're racing to beat the IG report, which is supposed to come out shortly. The inspector general report on the whole Spygate fiasco. So they just made up another hoax.

But I'm here to tell you that these two scandals are the same thing. You may say, how? How is Spygate, Ukraine, whistleblower gate the same scandal? Well, before I get to that, I want to play a quick video audio of Devin Nunes, fantastic congressman from California, who's obviously been all over Spygate, on the Mark Levin Show, Life, Liberty, and Levin. It's new time, 8 p.m. Eastern time on Sunday, one of the best shows on TV. Long-form interviews. Mark Levin asks Nunes this exact question about Ukraine, Spygate, how it's all interrelated. Listen to Nunes' answer, and I'm going to make sense of this for you.

You're never going to doubt me if these are the same scandal. Check this out. You had so many problems in Ukraine. So the Democrats, they hate to admit this, but their sources for the Fusion GPS company that they were paying to dig up the dirt on Trump that ultimately made its way into the FBI. There were Ukrainian sources there. So they were paying people to go into Ukraine and dig up dirt. Some of this dirt came from high-ranking Ukrainian officials, allegedly. But what we do know is there was another DNC operative that was working with Ukrainians, and the Ukrainian ambassador in Washington, D.C.

publicly trashed the Trump campaign, which is almost unheard of for an ambassador, sitting ambassador, to side with one party over another in washington dc now look none of the ambassador corps just like no one in the media thought that president trump was going to win but i only know of one ambassador that actually publicly came out against the trump campaign in 2016 and that was the ukrainian ambassador who was working very closely with DNC officials. Nicely stated, Congressman Nunes. Folks, Nunes knows, because Nunes knows all in this, that it's the same scandal. The spying operation on Donald Trump,

to be crystal clear, simple bullet points here. The spying scandal was enabled by a fake dossier, or I should say a dossier composed of fake information. Ladies and gentlemen, large swaths of that information came from Ukraine. Hence the need to cover up the Spygate scandal by saying Trump colluded with the Russians and the need to cover up the sequel to the Spygate scandal,

Ukraine's role in it by saying Trump's colluding with Ukraine in a quid pro quo. It's no more complicated than that. Laid out beautifully, by the way, by John Solomon, his latest piece, which will be in the show notes. By the way, quick note,

the Bongino report, we're almost there. So show notes and all, the alternative to the left-leaning drudge report coming very soon, so stay tuned. But this will be in our show notes today. John Solomon reports, the 15 essential questions for Marie Yovanovitch, America's former ambassador to Ukraine,

who testified on Friday. We've got some of that too, some audio of that, which you're not going to want to miss. Here's question number eight that John Solomon has for Marie Yovanovitch, which explains nicely what's really going on here. He says, and I quote, here's his proposed question for her. Your colleagues, in particular, Mr. George Kent, have confirmed to the House Intel Committee that the U.S. Embassy in Kiev did, in fact, exert pressure on the Ukrainian prosecutor's office not to prosecute certain

Ukrainian activists and officials. Keep that there for a minute. So Solomon's laying out what this question's about. The infamous do not prosecute list that Yovanovitch and Kent allegedly had this role in a list they gave to Ukrainian officials. Do not prosecute these people interfering in their local law enforcement, by the way. He goes on. Solomon, these efforts included a letter Mr. Kent signed urging Ukrainian prosecutors to back off an investigation of the aforementioned group Antac. That's the Soros connected group, as well as engaged in conversations they did about certain Ukrainians like parliamentary member Sergei Leshenko.. Oh boy. Isn't that cute? So the do not prosecute list, which is not a conspiracy theory is in fact, reality

has already been acknowledged. The media can call it a conspiracy theory all the way. They're just, I mean, it doesn't matter to me anymore. Their credibility is garbage. It's crap. It's a pile of horse manure. It means nothing to me me the mainstream media has missed every single big break in the last two years on the spygate scandal and that whistleblower gate hoax so it's irrelevant i don't waste any time on what they call a conspiracy theory collusion with the russians by trump was a conspiracy theory so the do not prosecute list which we know is real now we know included conversations about not prosecuting a guy a ukrainian a prominent ukrainian by the way former parliamentarian serhii leshenko copy now so ukraine

gate why are they covering up their do not prosecute list and their efforts to interfere in ukrainian law enforcement to protect this pool of people, including Leshenko. Some of you had already heard last week's show, but it's important to repeat this again in light of what Nunes said this weekend because it's the same scandal. Check out this piece by the Epoch Times, which is terrific. I have this up in the show notes as well.

It's an older piece, but it's worth your time because it'll explain everything. It's from April of 2019 by Jeff Carlson. Ties to Ukrainian national, a unifying theme and early attacks on trump check out this portion of the piece which explains perfectly why they're desperate to cover up ukraine's role in spygate by making ukraine a trump scandal oh there's that

name again serhiy leshenko who kent and Yovanovitch, these witnesses against Trump, right? Yeah. Had him on alleged do not prosecute list. Here we go. Sergei Leschenko, a member of the Ukrainian parliament, was a common thread involved in Democrats' opposition research into former campaign manager Paul Manafort. Leschenko, along with Artem Sidnik, the director of Ukraine's National Corruption Bureau, was responsible for publicly disclosing the constants of the Ukrainian black ledger. That's the document that implicated Manafort to the media and started the investigation to Paul Manafort. Listen to this one. Leschenko also served as a source for various individuals, including journalist Michael Isikoff.

Oh, remember his work was in the dossier, folks? Remember his work was in the dossier, folks? DNC operative Alexandra Chalupa, who's already acknowledged, by the way, the Ukrainian embassy's already acknowledged she was seeking information on the Trump team in a collusion effort. In addition, Leschenko served as a direct source of information for who?

Who's that? Oh, Fusion GPS and their hired researcher, former CIA contractor Nellie Orr. Folks, Lee Smith's new book, he's an excellent journalist, The Plot Against Trump, has a chapter on the proto-dossiers, which is fantastic. What are the proto-dossiers? Ladies and gentlemen, there were dossiers written by Fusion GPS before Steele got on board. Remember, I thought Steele wrote the dossier. No, Steele didn't write the dossier. Steele's name's on the dossier. He may have had some role in it.

But those dossiers were being written by Fusion GPS. Fusion GPS, who's already acknowledged. Nelly Orr has stated under it. Leschenko's denying this, by the way, to be fair. Leschenko's saying, I had no contact with Fusion GPS to give his side. I'm telling you, Nelly Orr has stated under oath that Leschenko was one of her contacts. That is indisputable. Is she lying? I don't know. Leschenko says she is. I'm simply trying to tell you something was going on with Leschenko because Nelly Orr is already under oath, said Leschenko from Ukraine

was one of our sources for the proto-dossiers. Ladies and gentlemen, are you seeing how this snake weaves through everything? The Spygate scandal was an effort to get fake information from overseas sources, Ukraine included, allegedly by Leshenko from Ukraine, who's feeding information according to Nelly or herself to Nelly as they're writing these proto-dossiers. They then bring Steele on later on and they recycle some of the same information and put Steele's name on it. It's the same scandal. It was a collusion scandal with the Ukrainians

to impact Trump. Again, what do the Democrats do? What they always do. They simply take out Democrats, erase it, and put in Trump colluded with the Ukrainians. It is literally that dumb. Joe, is the audience on Budgeman? Does that make sense?

Yeah, we're good. Yeah, this is pretty clear this is pretty clear dan yeah okay i need you to understand this leshenko is the key to the whole thing it's the reason the media is covering up the do not prosecute list because leshenko's on it yeah it's the reason i believe leshenko's so furious his name is being brought up in this it's the reason ne Orr and them are so terrified about releasing Fusion GPS's bank records because they don't want to see payments to people in Ukraine. Oh, no, no.

Oh, yeah. And it's also the reason they have to get Trump out of office before it's discovered that all the fake information used to spy on Trump. A lot of the significant portions of it were coming from Ukrainians

colluding with Democrats. There it is, in a nutshell. There it is in a nutshell. There it is. Right. All right. Ladies and gentlemen, none of this is working. I got a second sponsor. I'm going to get through in a second, but none of this is working.

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Trump's approval rating has now jumped to 50%. Impeachment poll. Trump's approval rating back up to 50. Nice job, fellas. Nice job, Democrats. You're really doing a lot of damage here, Trump. Now, keep in mind,

I just saw, but right as I got on the show, I hate doing this on the, but right as I got on the show, I didn't have time to send it to Paul because it was literally as I got on the show, I hate doing this on the air, but right as I got on the show, I didn't have time to send it to Paul because it was literally as I got on the show. This came over. Rasmussen reports, coming this morning,

this is a poll outfit, a respected pollster, Scott Rasmussen. Coming this morning, Joe, voters want to hear about Ukraine from Hunter and Joe Biden. So not only, remember, was it Suicide Squad, Captain Boomerang. This is like dopey captain boomerang and a captain boomerang from the suicide squad is good with the boomerang.

This is like bizarro captain boomerang. He's so incompetent, throws the boomerang bizarro captain boomerang. And it only hits him in the face every time folks, this thing is blown up spectacularly smile a little bit. Their witnesses are collapsing. Their story's not working. Their hoax is being exposed. They have no soundbites. I still haven't even given you the Yovanovitch audio video, which was awful. It totally blew up in their faces. Trump's approval is up. And these impeachment hearings are spiking interest in Trump? No. In Hunter Biden's corruption overseas and Joe Biden's rolling in. Nice job, Dems.

Really good. Bizarro Captain Boomerang effect. Very well done. Idiots. Idiots. Idiots. I'm sorry, folks. I don't mean, but really, idiots.

You were warned. Were they not, Joe? You were warned by moderates in your own party. This is really stupid. It was not, you were warned. I'm not a moderate in your party. This is really stupid. It was not, you were warned, I'm not a moderate in your party. I'm a conservative.

But moderates were telling you what we were telling you. I'm not here to give advice to the Democrats, but we warned you. You do this and go down this path. Did we not show there will be no turning back? You have no case.

If you had evidence of Trump committing a high crime, I, and I believe most Americans would be with you. It's not appropriate. Get Pence in there. Get him. You had nothing. You don't have evidence of anything. Forget about a high crime. You don't have the evidence of a low crime or an extra low crime. There's no crime. This is a made up hoax and it's a coverup. Now they, they paraded up Marie Yovanovitch up the Capitol Hill on Friday, which I was interviewing Trump while they were on. I was looking at it at my, out of my left eye on the TV and he addresses it in my interview. I strongly encourage you to listen to it. It's really good. Can I bring up one thing? Sorry. I don't mean to get off track.

It's going to get to Yovanovitch in a second, but I got a a lot of questions for you why didn't you ask trump about the national debt folks you have my paula can you vouch for me on this folks i swear to you it was my next question um but out of respect for the president they gave us 15 minutes the interview went on for about 22 23 i had to get off i swear to you on my life if you've ever trusted that was my next question um i had them in order and they were perfectly fine with it. You know, I was ready to go with all this stuff. They did not like screen any of my questions at all. I just didn't have the time. I give you my word. If we get another interview, that'll be question number one. I was not ducking it and neither were they or anyone

like that. So I just want to, because you're right, it's a big problem. And no matter who's in the white, I totally get it. Who's in the white house. And you're right. But I swear to you, because you're right, it's a big problem. And no matter who's in the White, I totally get it. Who's in the White House? And you're right. But I swear to you, that was one of my questions. Just out of respect for the White House, I couldn't keep them on long. So I just want to get that out of the way. Sorry for interrupting the show. But so Yovanovitch, ladies and gentlemen, the header on this one, let's get the lead effort.

Yovanovitch has the SADS. So Marie Yovanovitch was our ambassador over to Ukraine. And yeah, I know she's got the Sands joe she was fired by trump i was supposed to all feel terrible trump treats people terry fires people dude he literally had a show the apprentice where his tagline was you're fired like you didn't know this about trump his whole thing was the swamp and firing people and like this is your best shot marie yovanovitch i was fired by trump for doing a terrible job i may have been involved in this do not prosecute list and bad-mouthing trump overseas but he was really mean jesse waters hat tip to jesse on the five

i have to tell you and by the way hat tip ben hat to Benny Johnson from Turning Point. I got this from his Twitter feed. Here's a clip from the five of Jesse Waters in one of the best minute-long rants. I'm not kidding. I've seen on Fox in years. Just eviscerating Juan Williams on this point about how Marie Yovanovitch, you're impeaching the president because she has the sads. She's upset. She got fired. Listen to that. He goes on to a couple more things. This is one of the best 60 seconds of audio video you're ever going to see. Check this out. So, Jesse, she said, though, that when the president was the earlier transcript was released and the president was revealed to have been talking to the president of the Ukraine about her and said, you know, she's a bad ambassador.

She's going to go through some things. She said she did feel, in fact, that she had been smeared. Oh, poor baby. When Obama got into office, he fired all the ambassadors and replaced them at will. He can do whatever he wants. All presidents can. Under Obama, ambassadors were coming back in body bags. Now everyone's upset because one got fired. So what? People get fired all the time. It doesn't make a difference. Witness tampering? Really? Schiff colluded with the whistleblower. That's witness tampering. Bribing? How about when Obama sends pallets of cash to Iran? More of a bribe than this. Freezing aid for a blink of an eye. That's a bribe.

Tweeting is now an impeachable offense. That's witness tampering. Let me ask. Trump says, let's go to court. Let me interrupt you. And then you want to get him for obstruction. They're criminalizing everything. You know, he looked really irked there to me, too.

He looked genuinely irked. Yeah, I love it. Listen, I know, Jesse, that's actually quite astute analysis. Folks, I have to tell you, Jesse's a sharp guy, but that is probably the best minute of audio. I'm not kidding. I have seen on Fox in years. I mean, I'm including myself in that. I mean, what a total, complete evisceration of every stupid leftist talking point you've heard.

And Joe, I believe your analysis is correct. You know, Jesse can be sarcastic and funny, provide some comic relief on the five, but Jesse's a smart guy. He does his homework. And I agree with you. I think he is reaching the point where the BS meter, he's done. Like he's done, like you and I are done,

like Paul is done and like the audience is done. Like we are really, really tired of this. Like we were tired of it two years ago. Now we're tired of being tired of it. Like you idiots really need to get out of the way and let the country move on. Really. Because the liberals and their hoaxsters and their media allies and their spinsters and their talking heads, you really just need to pipe down and get out of the way now. I mean, it's really a disgrace what's going on.

It's a constitutional republic. You're free to out your grievances and air them. But you're clearly at this point throwing a monkey wrench in the machinery of the country just because you all have the sads because you don't like the president. And candidly, it's really gross. But the main talking point there that Juan tried to put out there, which is, I don't know how it's even a talking point. He fired Marie Yovanovitch and she's upset. What?

Look at his Breitbart piece, again, which will be in the show notes, a must read today by Charlie Spear. Flashback. President Obama fired all of George W. Bush's appointed ambassadors in 2018. I'm just curious, Joe, do any of them have the sads too? When is the hearing about is this going to be some Sigmund Freud psychoanalyst analysis approach? Are we going to have all of the Obama-era

ambassadors who were fired, who were from President Bush holdovers? Are we going to have them come up and talk about their sads? We have the sads. It's not even a media double standard they don't have standards their talking points are stupid the president's tagline was you're fired he ran on outing the swamp we have a swamp rat ambassador and all of her minions in ukraine bad-mouthing the president with serious allegations of being involved in a do-not-prosecute list,

interfering with foreign law enforcement to protect people credibly alleged to be involved in the Spygate information trafficking scandal, and we're supposed to just let this go? What do you think, we're stupid? Thank you, Jesse. Really, very well done. done now getting to the hearing because i didn't even get to the ivanovich hearing which was i again i don't care what the democrats are telling you with their

bootlicking media acolytes and sycophants i'm telling you i'm getting it from friends of friends and friends and friends of friends kind of like the whistleblower, who are hearing rumors that this thing is a catastrophe for the Democrats. You don't believe me? This is an impeachment hearing about alleged high crimes, misdemeanors, treason or bribery. Right. That's what this is that Yovanovitch was testifying. Joe, as the audience on Budsman, this is not a cattle auction. It's not a car auction. It's not a, you know, a free screening of a movie.

This is an impeachment hearing, correct? Yes, it is. Yes, it is, Dan. Yes. Thank you. Yeah. We're talking about alleged high crimes, misdemeanors, treason and bribery. Here is Chris Stewart, congressman from Utah on the Republican side, asking Marie Yovanovitch, who's testifying at an impeachment hearing, if she has any evidence of all at all about what they're testifying about actually happened. And here the hapless Marie Yovanovitch comes up empty again, in addition to the other two witnesses who had nothing on it either. Check this out. Do you have any information regarding the president of the United States accepting any bribes? No. Do you have any information regarding any criminal

activity that the president of the United States has been involved with at all? No. Thank you. Thank you for answering that directly the american people know this is nonsense the american people know this is unfair chris stewart one of the unsung heroes of this by the way we give a lot of attention to mr radcliffe nunes jordan and elise stefanik but there were a lot of really good people up there who did their jobs and i want to you know listen i've as you know if you're a regular listener to the show, you know, I get very upset at the Republicans when we don't stand on principles. We've seen a lot of that, sadly.

Our national debt and other things exploding. But they have really buckled down and fought back on this. And, you know, I was proud on Friday. You did a good job, and I mean that. You know, it's easy to pile on all the time, but once in a while, you deserve a pat on the back. Finally, standing up and bearing our fangs against these people who are involved

in the Spygate scandal and this cover-up. She has nothing, folks, nothing. She's testifying at an impeachment hearing and has said in her own words, you just listened to and saw, that she has no evidence of any crimes at all. Why are you here? Nunes asked her that question.

Why are you here? Nunes is like, maybe an HR hearing would be more appropriate because you have the sands about getting fired. Why are you here? Nunes is like, maybe an HR hearing would be more appropriate because you have the sands about getting fired. Why are you here? Here's again, excellent congressman from Texas, John Ratcliffe. I believe a former United States attorney, so a good lawyer. Remember, Yovanovitch is up there testifying. She's a Democrat witness, folks.

She's a Democrat witness and a democrat as well she's up there testifying that she's a big corruption fighter in ukraine and she has the sads because she was fired by trump although she was looking into corruption here's john ratcliffe saying hey listen you were investigating corruption ukraine you're a big corruption fighter, allegedly. Then what about Burisma? Serious allegations, this corrupt natural gas company hired Joe Biden's kid to influence U.S. policy on Ukraine. What about that?

Look at her. Check this out. But you specifically recall Burisma? Yes. All right. Out of thousands of companies in the Ukraine, the only one that you recall the Obama-Biden State Department preparing to answer questions about was the one where the vice president's son was on the board. Is that fair?

Yes. You understood from Deputy Assistant Secretary George Kent's testimony, as it's been related to you, that he testified a few days ago. Do you understand that that arrangement, Hunter Biden's role on the Burisma board, caused him enough concern that, as he testified in his statement, that in February of 2015, I raised my concern that Hunter Biden's status as a board member could create the perception of a conflict of interest. He went on to talk about the vice president's responsibilities over the Ukraine and over Ukraine, Ukrainian policy as one of those factors. Do you recall that? Yes. Did you ever, do you agree with that? Yeah. That it was a legitimate concern to raise i think that

it could raise um the appearance of a conflict of interest oh oh you do that's funny because you seemed in your opening statement although joe she's a big corruption fight i want you to understand what's going on there that shift has her up there as this white knight corruption fighter in Ukraine who Donald Trump fired because she was exposing Ukrainian corruption. Ladies and gentlemen, the biggest corruption scandal going on was the hiring of Hunter Biden to influence U.S. policy by Ukrainian natural gas company. And she seems almost unconcerned. Oh, yeah. Oh, there could be an appearance of a conflict of interest you think oh my god you think that's an appearance of a

conflict of interest you think so the vice president's kid on a company under investigation for corruption while you're the corruption fighter oh it gets worse hat tip trump war room on this i got this from their twitter feed here's a video of her yeah this is great this is the juxtaposition between her big corruption fighter bona fides and her sudden amnesia about a case she acknowledges looks really bad about hunter biden's kid that could be corruption check this out and although i have met former vice president biden several times over the course of our many years in government service, neither he nor the previous administration ever raised the issue of either Burisma or Hunter Biden with me. The first time you personally became aware of Burisma was actually when you were being prepared by the Obama State Department

for your Senate confirmation hearings, and this was in the form of practice questions and answers. This was your deposition. And you testified that in this particular practice Q&A with the Obama State Department, it wasn't just generally about Burisma and corruption. It was specifically about Hunter Biden and Burisma. Is that correct? Yes, it is. And the exact quote from your testimony, Ambassador, is, quote, the way the question was phrased in this model Q&A was, what can you tell us about Hunter Biden's, you know, being named to the board of Burisma?

So for the millions of Americans watching, President Obama's own State Department was so concerned about potential conflicts of interest from Hunter Biden's role at Burisma that they raised it themselves while prepping this wonderful ambassador nominee before her confirmation. And yet our Democratic colleagues and the chairman of this committee cry foul when we dare ask that same question that the Obama State Department was so concerned about. Don't let me laugh. I haven't heard that one in a while. Yeah, man.

Missed that one. Please bring in the meatloaf. What is she doing back there? Oh, yeah. What is she doing? Get this over with. What is she doing? Folks, did you see that contrast?

Holy cow. In Yovanovitch's opening statement, Joe, she says, I was never contacted about Hunter Biden by Obama or Joe Biden himself. Meanwhile, this is the big corruption fight. She then acknowledges later the video you just saw a rat clip that she was briefed on the whole Hunter Biden since because they were worried about a conflict of interest. I thought you didn't hear it. The gentle lady will suspend, suspend the nonsense.

She's a big corruption fighter who in her opening statement is not telling the truth. There are documents of the Obama-Biden administration briefing Yovanovitch on how to answer questions about the conflict,

potential corruption with Biden's kid being hired by a Ukrainian natural gas company. Yet she's saying she never heard from them. Big corruption fighter. Yeah, okay, sure. kid being hired by a Ukrainian natural gas company, yet she's saying she never heard from them. Big corruption fighter. Yeah, okay, sure.

She's not telling the truth, folks. All right, I want to get to more on Elise Stefanik, who has not been a diehard conservative through the years. I just want to be clear on that because I want to give you a broad spectrum. But again, deserves some serious plaudits for just excellent, excellent work under pressure up on the Hill. I mean, just outstanding questioning. So really, I'm going to get to that in a second. Final sponsor of the day are our buddies at Helix. We love Helix. We'd be lost in this house without it. Paul and I had a long weekend. We had a speech. We had that interview with president Trump, which thankfully went up. And we got some really good sleep last night, thanks to Helix and their mattresses. These are the best mattresses out there,

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that come along with it. Elise Stefanik did an excellent job. Elise Stefanik is a real threat to the Democrats right now. How do we know that? Joe, how do you and I always know that? Because Joe and I know to monitor what the Democrats are saying about someone. And when they amp up their attacks on you, like they did on us a while ago, that, oh, and there's more news on that coming, by the can't say anything now but i will be saying something soon when they amp up your attacks on their attacks on things you usually know they're terrified elise stefanik has them scared now adam shift um sleazy liar conspiracy

theorist collusion hoaxer adam shiftiff is absolutely terrified by Elise Stefanik. I want to play this quick video of him trying to silence Elise Stefanik at the hearing. And I want to show you a bit of a media contrast. I want a similar thing happened to a Democrat. This rudely interrupting the Democrat was a hero, but not now. Elise Stefanik is to be just tortured online. They are ripping her to shreds, the Democrats online. Check out Schiff, this coward chump of a fool trying to silence this Republican congresswoman.

Yield to you, Ms. Stefanik. Thank you, Mr. Nunes. Ambassador Yovanovitch, thank you for being here today. The gentlewoman was to spend. What is the interruption for this time? It is our time. The gentlewoman was to spend. You're not recognized.

Mr. Nunes, you are minority counsel. I just recognize. Under the House Residence 660, you are not allowed to yield time except to minority counsel. The ranking member yielded time to another member of Congress. That is not accurate. You're gagging the young lady from New York. That is accurate. Ambassador Yovanovitch, I want to thank you for being here today.

The gentlewoman will suspend. You're not recognized. This is the fifth time you have interrupted members of Congress, newly elected members of Congress. The gentleman will suspend. Mr. Chair, we control the time. It's been customary of this committee that whoever controls the time can yield to whoever they wish.

If we have members of Congress that have a few questions, it seems appropriate that we be able to let Ms. Stefanik ask her question. So Nunez, you or minority council recognized. He's got the, he's a little worried. Yeah.

Adam Schiff has the sads there. Yeah. A little terrified, huh? He is absolutely horrified that Elise Stefanik has wrecked his entire impeachment hoax with her questioning. Now, this same thing happened to Kamala Harris, who was rudely interrupting a hearing before. And I want to show you some of the media coverage of this. Here's the media coverage of Kamala Harris, a prominent Democrat, by the way. People keep interrupting Senator

Kamala Harris. Kamala Harris, again, interrupted by male colleagues. Once again, senators cut off Kamala Harris as she rails on. Once again, Kamala Harris is interrupted at a Senate hearing. Kamala Harris silenced in Senate hearing. You're going to see none of that about Elise Stefanik, who the insane, misogynistic, women-hating liberals, and I mean every word of that, believe me, over the weekend got trending a hashtag that is grotesque. Trashy Stefanik. I'm not making that up.

Led by a horrible human being who is a disgrace to Hollywood, which is saying a lot. Hollywood's a disgrace in and of itself. Chrissy Teigen, who is an awful, horrible human being tweeted out that yes, at least the phonic, I called you trash. She's not liberal by the way, supposed to love women and take it.

No, no, only, only Democrat women, Republican women are to be called trash. You're a disgrace. Chrissy Teigen, you are,

you are an absolute disgrace. You're an embarrassment to whatever feminist movement you think you're a part of. It's disgusting. It's disgusting. You know, I got beat up on this show a little while ago in the beginning when AOC won her seat in Congress for saying what, Joe? I said, listen, congratulations. Winning a seat in Congress is hard. I know. I ran. I didn't make it. It's tough to's tough to do i said congrats you're just wrong on everything and we're going to continue to attack your ridiculous ideology i got more of that in a minute she's really not that bright either but you have never ever heard me call aoc

rashida talib the squad or anyone else trash never never never not disgusting not on this and joe wouldn't allow it and i wouldn't allow it from joe and neither would paula well wouldn't do it disgusting filth that's filth calling her trash really gross you should really be ashamed of yourself all right moving because i'll just that'll get out of control quickly i can tell i'm getting furious and i don't like to do that distraction It distracts from the show. All right, folks, moving on. I've got a lot of other stuff to get to in the remaining portion of the show.

There's a really important study that came out this week. I'm not going to dig too much into it, but as a former member of the Secret Service, I'm going to put the link to the PDF in the show notes. They just put out their updated report on school violence, targeted school violence, school shootings.

Ladies and gentlemen, it's worth your time. Yeah, I know Joe has always been interested in this. There's the cover, the 2019 version. updated report on school violence, targeted school violence, school shootings. Ladies and gentlemen, it's worth your time. Yeah. I know Joe has always been interested in this. Um, there's the cover, the 2019 version. It's the secret service in conjunction with the national threat assessment center folks.

It'll be up in the show notes. Please subscribe to our newsletter. Bongino.com slash newsletter. I will email you this stuff every day. If you don't want to subscribe, that's fine. Just go to Bongino.com. You can check it out at the show notes.

Please read the PDF. It's very readable. Even if you just read the executive summary, if you have a child in school, you work in a school, you know someone with a child in school, there are some really, really strong takeaways from their exhaustive study on what leads to this targeted school violence. Just a couple of the takeaways, bullet points. There's not one motive. A lot of these kids who do this and engage in these tragic shootings, these horrible crimes, there's not one specific motive. Secondly, important, the overwhelming majority of incidents, the firearm use came from the house.

Listen, I am the strongest of advocates for the big R, God-given right to self-protection. But we have to secure our weapons. I'm not lecturing anybody. You all know that. I know a lot of you. This is not me virtue signaling anyone. I'm just telling you what the data shows. Someone got access to a weapon they shouldn't have got their hands on.

The firearms came from the house. Third, there were a lot of developmental symptoms. A lot of them had some psychiatric, psychological issue that they were either seeing someone with or had some developmental issues. I'm not saying that everyone who's got some kind of a neuropsychiatric disorder is going to be violent. They're not suggesting that. They're simply saying, here's what the data shows. There were some developmental issues there. Here's another one. There were peer or romantic issues with a lot of these school shooters that were engaged in this targeted violence beforehand. They had problems with their peers, problems with

a love interest of theirs. Again, does that mean every... No, obviously not. It's just a collection of data points that when viewed together may be a warning sign for someone people are suspicious, maybe having a problem. Here's the most important takeaway, though, which they've done their last school shooting report. They they discovered as well that. There were signs, folks, that other people had serious concerns about nearly all of these people engaged in these school violence incidents, and that somehow they fell through the cracks. So the warning signs were there. Check it out. I'm giving just the top line summary, given the time constraints on the show. The PDF will be in the show notes today. Spread it around, spread it far and wide. The Secret Service does really good work. It's one of those uses of your taxpayer dollars that you're like, thankfully,

The Secret Service does really good work. It's one of those uses of your taxpayer dollars that you're like, thankfully, finally, with taxes paying for something that actually works. It's a very, very well done study, and I strongly encourage you to check it out. Okay, moving on. Speaking of AOC before, who, again, has some of the worst, most poorly thought out, ignorant ideas about economics and governance I've ever seen in my life. We're not going to call any of these ridiculous names the left engages with when they critique women on the right. But here's a fascinating story by our resident fact checker, Matt Palumbo, that'll be up in

the show notes today. He sent me this idea for an article and I said, that's not true, is it? He's like, yes. Folks, 75% of AOC's squad has been investigated for campaign finance abuses. Remember, AOC and Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar, and Ayanna Pressley, the squad, these four members. Ladies and gentlemen, these are supposed to be these leftist icons of change and hope and change and the socialist regimes coming in to take over and the central planners and the bureaucrats. We're going to bring you a new tomorrow of prosperity.'re all so smart you're all so stupid in the market economy apparently you're not smart enough to stay out of trouble you look kind of swampy yourself with the announcement this weekend that rashida talib is being investigated for alleged campaign

finance violations we now have her ilhan omar who's been investigated for those payments being made to a guy who has some allegations of some infidelity thing. And then we have AOC, who has had some complaints about it for FEC campaign violations as well. Remember, though, Joe, these are the tip of the spear of upper end morality, the virtue signalers to the rest of us. These are 75 percent of the squad is under a campaign finance violation investigation or has been at some point. Nice work. Very well done.

You're really cleaning up the swamp. Sounds pretty swampy to me. But they call those facts and data, unlike Chrissy Teigen, who called Elise Stefanik trash. Disgusting. Just filthy. Now, AOC and Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib and Presley, the members of the squad, Ayanna Pressley, these members of Congress also are advocating for single payer government

takeover with Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, other prominent Democrats advocating for a takeover of the health care system. Well, let's see how well that's worked in certain areas. Piece of the free beacon again be up in the show notes for you. Washington free beacon. Finland's government collapses due to the rising cost of universal health care. Wait, wait, that can't be. That can't be. The gentleman will suspend. The gentleman will suspend.

That can't be true. Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, AOC and her squad, these economic geniuses, and I say that with the utmost level of sarcasm, have told us, Joe, that the Scandinavian model, Denmark, Norway, Finland, all these countries, this Scandinavian model of government health care, this is it, Joe. This is the exemplar we should all be using for the model in the United States. Well, from the free beacon piece, let's see how

well it's working out over there after Finland's government collapsed over it. Reuters reports that soaring, Reuters, by the way, not some right wing outlet. Reuters reports that soaring treatment costs and longer lifespans have particularly affected Nordic countries. Nordic countries where comprehensive welfare is the cornerstone of the social model have been among the most affected, according to Reuters. But reform isn't controversial, has been controversial, and in Finland, plans to cut costs and boost efficiency have stalled for years. Here we go. Here's the takeaway. Similar problems are bedeviling Sweden and Denmark, two other countries frequently held up as models to follow on health care.

Finland's crisis, their government collapse, folks, in particular, comes as calls for universal health care have grown louder among Democrats in the United States. Ladies and gentlemen, how stupid do we have to be to fall down this rabbit hole again? You are watching these Nordic countries, they're citing as an example, collapse under the oppressive weight of an inefficient, too expensive health care system. under the oppressive weight of an inefficient, too expensive healthcare system. And you imbecilically, I just made that up, want to recreate this model here in the United States. Holy Moses.

How stupid are people to buy into this trap? Oh, gosh. I can't believe it. Are we going to get to everything? This is nice. This may be the first time it's ever happened. All right. Last story. Yeah. This one, Pete Buttigieg is the new it guy for the Democrat Party.

He's apparently running now, I think, eight to nine points ahead in Iowa. He is the failed mayor of South Bend, Indiana, fake moderate. He's really a radical leftist, Buttigieg. And Buttigieg has a problem, folks. Buttigieg is having a real issue with the black vote. Biden is doing very well. He's doing poorly. Why is that a problem?

Well, in the early states, Iowa and New Hampshire, the black vote is not as substantial as the demographic portion of the population as it is in other states like South Carolina, which is rich with delegates. So Buttigieg may come out hot out of Iowa, win Iowa, he may do well in New Hampshire as well. But once you get to South Carolina, black voters are going to have an increasingly larger percentage of the vote,

therefore more influence. Buttigieg, ladies and gentlemen, for a lot of reasons, has had significant issues recruiting the black vote. So what does this horrendously run campaign do what a faux pas check out this tweet by robbie starbuck so buddha judge this weekend folks you're never gonna believe this i told my wife that she's like no way i'm like yeah this happened buddha judge's campaign put out a list of 400 black south carolinians who endorse him oh great joe wow

he's got a lot of support i thought you Dan, he was hurting with the black community. Yeah, there's a slight problem, Joseph. A bunch of these people actually didn't endorse Buttigieg. Matter of fact, 42% of the list is white and he used stock photos of Kenya. How would Democrats in the media react if Trump had done this? Folks, I got to tell you, I'm hesitant to even talk about this because it's so uncomfortable. So let's just be clear on this. Buttigieg has issues with the black vote. Puts out a list of 400 South Carolinian prominent black officials who endorsed him.

42% of the list is not black, they're white. And he goes and pulls stock photos of Kenyans to put in there. I'll tell you what. I'm just going to leave that one there because I have nothing to add to that story that could possibly make it any worse than

it already sounds. I'm done. Don't even let me do it because this is really, this is one of those segments that even talking about it, even though you're talking about what the leftists did, will just, it's just so bad and embarrassing. Whoa, Nelly. All right, folks, thanks again for tuning in.

I'm just going to let that one stew. Maybe we'll readdress it again in another day. Don't miss my Trump interview with President Trump. I had to put the tie on, of course, out of respect for the White House. So I hope you like it. We hit on a lot of points. It's worth your time. We have a, what's that?

Oh, yeah, Paul O'Mahony wanted me to thank you all for the comments. We do read your lot of points. It's worth your time. We have a... What's that? Oh, yeah. Paulo wanted me to thank you all for the comments. We do read your emails. They were very nice. We appreciate it. We didn't get any negative feedback except for the national debt question, which I told you. I promise you in the future, if we can get another interview, I'll get again. And we've got a great lineup coming up. We're working on locking in Don Jr.

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