The Dan Bongino Show - How Does This End? (Ep. 2467)

Episode Date: March 6, 2026

Find the video podcast of The Dan Bongino Show exclusively on Rumble at https://Rumble.com/bongino In this episode, I cover the breaking news from the Iran war and Trump's endgame in the Middle East and beyond, a surprise cabinet shakeup, and a hilarious Democrat faceplant. How Israel Killed Iran’s Ayatollah Khamenei with a Missile… from SPACE https://nypost.com/2026/03/05/world-news/how-israel-killed-ayatollah-khamenei-with-a-missile-from-space/ Trump Set to Intervene in Contested GOP Texas Primary — Who Will Get His Endorsement? https://www.theblaze.com/news/trump-to-intervene-in-texas-senate-race-anoint-his-preferred-candidate Far-Left Gov. Walz, AG Ellison CONFRONTED by Congress over Somali Fraud Scandal https://justthenews.com/nation/states/center-square/lawmakers-grill-walz-ellison-over-minnesota-fraud Sponsors: Patriot Mobile - https://patriotmobile.com/dan Helix Sleep - https://helixsleep.com/dan Kalshi - https://kalshi.com/bongino Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

All America all the time. Sit down, buckle up, and get ready for the Dan Bongino show. You know, we've reached Baghdad Bob time. Remember Baghdad Bob? For those of you who are my age in your 50s, late 40s. Remember the Iraq War? What was this name? Mohammed Shahid.

The Baghdad Bob, the minister of foreign propaganda in the Iraq War, who we were kicking the shit out of the Iraqis. There are no troops in Baghdad. Remember that? I'll play him coming up. That's the point we've reached just not even a week in to the ongoing actions in Iran. They don't know what to do, so they keep bullshitting people. We're waiting for them. Don't wait too long.

You'll be dead waiting for him. We got that. A big huge thank you to Bonino Army. Ladies and gentlemen, the doomers and the gloomers and the black pillars and the liberal media all have the big sads. I know I can see it, the clawing at the faces, the raging. Podtrack came out and we were cracked in at the top 10, our first month back. So thank you very much for your support. I want you to know, I love you guys.

It was an honor to serve you back in the FBI. It's an honor to serve you now with the podcast. I deeply appreciate it. I'll never take you guys for granted. You know, you never know how a comeback's going to go. We've been gone a year, people unsubscribe and stuff, but cracking into the podtrack top 10. is really terrific. We appreciate it. Of course, the doomers and the gloomers

ripping at their faces, screaming, peeing in their diapers. I know, I get it, guys. I own you guys. I just own you guys. You cannot do without me, yet I can clearly do without you. I know that asymmetry bothers you. I get it. But you can take it, roll it in a ball, and shove it right up here.

Because we're back. And I know that now that your adjut prop bullshit is being counterweighted on the seesaw by this big audience that bothers you because all of your black pill nonsense and anti-maga stuff disguised as inside the tent stuff is now getting called out every day. I know that bothers you. And I'm not sorry about it. Thank you, Bongino Army. Love you guys for showing up every single day. I really appreciate it. All right, I got a big show for you today.

Shake up over at DHS. I'll give you my take on it. I'm a results guy. I always worked well with DHS under Christy Knoem. I think the results eventually speak for themselves. However, it's pretty clear. Everybody serves, I've said this over and over, the pleasure of the president. It's his administration.

You know, we're going to run for president, and he went out there. You can run yourself, but he makes the calls. And that's it. That's how it goes. And that's how he's got the results he's got. Folks, this year marks a critical moment for our country as the opposition grows more aggressive and unapologetic. The fight now.

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On yesterday, true social post, DHS secretary, Christy Knoem, is moving over to Shield. It is a lateral. However, listen, it's pretty clear there were some issues there. A couple points on this. I saw a lot of folks on Twitter this morning asking me for my perspective, being that I was, you know, inside the administration at that principal deputy level. First, you know, results have to matter.

I've told you this over and over for the, gosh, 10 years I've been on the air. I'm a transactional guy. I care about results and numbers. I don't care about opinions. I don't care about personalities. I don't care. I think over the course of history,

as well, this is all looked back upon with kind of non-rose colored or dark-colored glasses, I think people are going to say that was one of the most successful years they've ever had over at DHS. There was a lot that had to happen. ICE, CBP, Secret Service, TSA, DHS is huge.

Folks, DHS has, gosh, multiple times a factor of agents than we had at the FBI. But between ERO removal operations, the board are being shut down, some transformations that happen within Secret Service, within ICE, within CBP. I'll tell you a quick story to my experience with Christy Knoem. When we wanted to get rid of FBI headquarters, but I don't want to bore you with a long story. Guys, this story sucks, just tell me. but the FBI headquarters political football has been going on for 40 years. Move the FBI.

Don't move the FBI. Move the, the building's freaking collapsing. The Hoover building we worked in is collapsing. It's disgusting. There's literally concrete falling from the garage on people's cars. So what they have to do is wall off sections of the garage. So there's no parking down there because the concrete's falling.

Because for, I don't know, 20, 30 years it's been, we're going to move it to Virginia, Maryland. They wanted like an $8 billion. or headquarters, whatever it is. Cash and I were like, we're not doing any that shit. We're going down the road to the Reagan building that already exists. We're going to save the taxpayers billions of dollars. It just made sense.

That deal is now done. The move's already begun. We did it in like six months or so. We had a problem, though. Christy Noam's DHS had an office in there, CBP office, and it was a bit of a football. And we said, guys, we need to just make this smooth, the transition. And she did it pretty quick.

So I think our results over time are going to be good. Second, as I said before, you serve it to pleasure of the president, folks. It's his cabinet. If he feels like something's become a distraction to him, and clearly he didn't like how the hearing went, then he's going to move on. I don't think it means necessarily that he's a, I mean, you saw it. Put up the true social post. It's not like he's sitting there saying, oh, a terrible job and all that stuff.

He just wanted to move on. Mark Wayne Mullen's a good guy. I know Mark Wayne Mullen pretty well, Senator from Oklahoma. And he is going, he's going to have a pretty smooth sailing through the, confirmation process. I knock on wood, don't anticipate any problems, the Democrats will try to fabricate one. But listen, obviously something didn't go right. President wanted to move on with someone different. But I think, again, looking back over time at the results, you're going to be like,

damn, those were pretty good. Shut the border down from what, 10 million illegals entering a year? Who knows? Maybe more when you factor in Godaways to effectively zero. So we'll see what happens over time. But I think as the body of work has looked at, I think it's going to be looked at positively and clearly, the president just wants to go in a different direction, but it's not like he took a shot at her out the door. So there's my take on it, having been inside. Remember, when you get it, for those you out there,

and some of you, this is a pretty big audience, you already got 45,000 people 10 minutes in here. Some of you there are going to get these assistant secretary, deputy assistant secretary jobs in the future in the government. You're going to see it's not about you. It's always about the administration. That's how it goes. All right.

So, folks, freaking Baghdad Bob is back. How bad must this conflict going on in Iran right now? How bad must this be going for the Iranians that they're sending out their foreign minister like, oh, we're waiting for you. You're not waiting for shit. Are you kidding me?

You better pray and hope that there's no ground forces in there ever. Waiting. You wait for nothing. Half of your, most of your leadership team has been completely wiped out. Do you guys remember Baghdad Bobby? if you're part of my younger audience out there and we love you, thank you for being here. You're the best. You know, listen, the younger folks

are important. They're going to be around a lot longer than us older folks. You may not remember this guy. Do you remember the movie, you know, seven, that movie seven with Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman or the detectives investigating these murders? And at the end, there's this scene where he's looking at because he's just really gruesome murders. And Morgan Freeman and Brad Pitt are sitting there.

Brad Pitt looks at Morgan Freeman and goes, have you ever seen anything like this? When it comes to this theater, what's going on right now in Iran, have you ever seen anything like this? This has to be the quickest decapitation of leadership and military facilities we've ever seen. This even makes shock and all look not so shock and not so awe. However, this has happened before where these propaganda ministers within the government want to keep some kind of hierarchy and want to keep a want to keep the people in line. So what do they do?

They send out their adjutop people. This was Baghdad Bob. I mean, I saw the summer. Is it breaking 911? It's a good follow on on X. This was Baghdad Bob. They're Iraqi foreign minister propaganda guy when they were getting their asses kicked over in Iraq. Check this out. We will start at them all. Those invaders, their tombs will be here in Iraq. You're not frightened now, sir? Not at all. Not at all. And you don't be frightened. We are going to tackle them and to destroy them. They are not near Baghdad. Don't believe them. It's messless. They are liars. What is the situation today here in Baghdad?

It's good as you see it. As you see it, the traffic. They are trapped everywhere in the country. They are trapped in Ungqasar. They are trapped near Basra. They are trapped near Nassariyya. They are trapped near Najaf. was trapped. Obviously, they were getting harassed kick. However, Baghdad Bobby, Bobby. They used to send Bobby out in front of the cameras all day. There are no troops in Baghdad. That's all he used to do is bullshit people. Folks, the Iranians are doing that now. Here's their Baghdad, Bobby. Here's Abbas, Bobby Araigachis. That's his big name, Bobby. Bobby, here is Iranian foreign minister, Bobby Arigachi telling what is it, MSNOWW.

Oh, yeah, man, we're just sitting back and waiting for you guys. What is is it? Oh, NBC News. Here he is on NBC, same thing. MSN-O-W, NBC News. Here he is telling him, we're just sitting back and waiting. You crazy Americans are falling right into a trap. If this is a trap, this is the worst trap ever said.

Check this out. Trump has not ruled out boots on the ground in Iran. Are you afraid of a U.S. invasion in your country? No, we are waiting for them. You are waiting for the U.S. military to invade the ground troops? Yes, because we are confident that we can confront them, and that would be a big disaster for them. So you're saying that Iran is ready and willing to take on the U.S. military if there were to be ground troops? Well, we were ready for this war even more than the previous war.

So you can see the quality of our missiles, how much they are upgraded after the last war, because we learned lots of lessons. And we are prepared for any other eventuality, even, you know, a ground invasion. Who just said that? Hold on. Who just said that in the chat? Someone said in the chat, I missed it. It's going so fast. Someone said even the MSNOWW NBC guys like, dude, come on, really?

This is even too much for us, the pee-P hoaxers. Come on. The Russia hoaxers, impeachment hoaxers, the pee-P-P hoaxers, even on MSN-OWNBC, this is a little much. Bobby, boy, boy, boy, he may not be around for long, by the way. So just save that footage. This may be the last we see of Bobby Eragachi. This is suicidal. This is the equivalent of Iraqi IRGC and Mullah suicide by cop.

That's what this is right now. This is suicide by U.S. military. That's all you're asking for. President Trump put out of truth right before we got up on the air saying, Listen, guys, the rules are unconditional surrender or nothing. And I wouldn't test him. This just went out. President Trump, true social.

There will be no deal with Iran except unconditional surrender and acceptance of an acceptable leader. Guys, he's already told you. We're beyond the screwing around portion of this. This is real. People are dying. It's not a joke. I'm not trying to make light of it.

I'm simply suggesting the fact that you are playing with a pair of twos with a guy who's got a full house. You don't have a chance. You can bluff all you want. Eventually, you're going to have to show you a card. You don't have any cards. Folks, this is just machismo at this point. That's all this is by the dumbass Iranian leadership. Your people don't even like you.

Upwards of 80% of the Iranians hate your. guts. Here is the head of Centcom, Brad Cooper, given just a quick briefing yesterday on what's really going on, not the Baghdad Bobby version. Bobby, hey, Bobby's full of shit. Even MSNOWWs. Dude, I'm not really sure that's accurate sitting there waiting for us. They were waiting in Kameney's above-ground portion of the bunker, too, and then they didn't quite make it. That waiting didn't work out so well. That waiting room did not end well. You never got to see the doctor. You got to see a doctor who declared you dead, the medical examiner, I guess, but there was no doctor on the other side of that door.

Here's what's really going on after just under a week of action over at Iran. Check this out. If I just look back over the last 24 hours of the operation compared to where we were at start, ballistic missile attacks have decreased by 90% since day one. Drone attacks have decreased by 83% since day one. Having said this, we remained vigilant. Our strikes against the Iranian Navy have intensified. You may have heard the president say just a little while ago that we have sunk or destroyed 24 ships.

That was true at the moment. We're now up over 30 ships. And in just the last few hours, we hit an Iranian drone carrier ship, roughly the size of a World War II aircraft carrier. And as we speak, it's on fire. Folks, candidly, they're probably running out of high quality targets at this point. point because they've taken out most of them. Here's some footage of their internal paramilitary police, one of their bases being taken out within the city. This is not going to end well for them. The president's not screwing around. A couple more points than I want to move on. I got a lot to

cover today. I know we've done a ton on what's going on in Iran this week. I've got a lot. I've got some more coming up later in the show, some VO, some interesting military video. But there's a couple other things going on too I want to address, including some internal polling. and Greg Gutfeld on the anti-anti-communist theory and the show-your-ass theory we talk about all the time. He kind of sums it up. I think a little better sometimes than even I do on this. So I'm going to play that in a second.

But two quick things I want to address too on the war front here. The United Arab Emirates, if they cut off the financial markets to the Iranians that have been using them and others, you can see. It was an interesting article in the journal and elsewhere. If UAE is serious and starts cutting off the financial intermediary activities for the Iranian government. Folks, it's going to be over. In the end, you need energy and you need money.

You can't power a war machine with no money and no energy. You just can't. What are you going to do? Viking-like boats made out of wood? I mean, you don't have, you need energy, which needs money and requires assets. Second, China is sitting by and doing absolutely nothing. The CCP is probably realizing right now,

hey, man, our military equipment is absolutely, garbage compared to the United States. They're sitting doing the bare minimum on the sidelines. This has got to be a message to them that maybe we invested in the wrong horse. I've got a video coming up later about that too. But I wanted to get to this because it's important. Folks, the media is full of Baghdad Bobby's too. Bobby, they're everywhere.

They're propagandists, agit prop bullshitters. They're not serious journalists and they're certainly not interested in the facts. Listen, I showed you in the beginning of the show, despite a massive propaganda, exercise leveled against me and other Trump administration folks to make you believe nothing's happening, black pillars, doomers, they all have an agenda. They've got a 2028 agenda that is going, and their agenda, by the way, is to tear apart this Republican movement based on faith, family, and values. That is absolutely their agenda. It is a intentional kind of nuclear fission exercise from the inside. You know, there's a great.

good piece about this. If you guys, it's kind of gone viral today. If you want to read it, I don't have time to get the whole thing on the air. But he's a good account. I think it's insurrection Barbie. I strongly encourage you to read a blog post, maybe a subsection. She has attached to her X account about what's going on. If you think any of this is real, this whole effort to dismantle this new coalition, or actually it's not, it's an old conservative coalition, but that's taken a new form in the MAGA movement. If you think any of this is real. Folks, if it was real, let's be honest. You would believe it and no one would be here. The problem is it's not working. So you're seeing the extinction burst. You guys got that doggy

video? The dog, if you're citing your education, you're probably a moron. Folks in the chat, can I get a dispensation for a moment? Okay, thank you. Just so I want to, school for psychology. I hate even saying that. You sound like such a tool. Look at me. What's the school? Who cares? However, one of the basic principles of psychology and operating conditioning is an extinction burst. You engage in an action, a dollar in a Coke machine, and you expect a reward. The Coke can comes out. When it doesn't come out and it defies your expectations, people have this extinction burst of almost irrational behavior. They start shaking the machine banging their head against a machine. I'm exaggerating, but you get the point. That is what's going on with the internal

bad actors trying to secrete themselves into our movement and fracture it. They're not getting the results they wanted. So what they're doing is they're hyping up every single time the BS. Here it is. This is there they are. There they are. There's the fake internal astroturf actors. Look, dogs pressing a thing for pellets, the food pellets, they don't get the pellets. The dog starts freaking out. This is the losers inside the movement. The do, the do. and the black pillars trying to destroy you. Thank you, fellas. Now, the numbers are there for us.

I mean, the movement, not me, the show, that's done. We already covered that. Here's a video of CNN again, talking about Donald Trump's approval. Now, this is important. Approval ratings only matter in context of, well, in context of where other presidents were at this point. It makes no sense, in other words, to measure Donald Trump's approval rating now against, you know, Ronald Reagan post-1984 re-election when he won 49 states. It's not the same time. Even Donald Trump, when he's first like, approval ratings ebb and flow.

So I want to know where Donald Trump stands now relative to where George W. Bush second term stood and Barack Obama. If the Dumers and black pillars are correct and the movement's falling apart, Donald Trump's such a disappointment, nothing's happening. everybody sucks, go, fucking down. Okay. Then it should show in his approval numbers, correct? In context of history? Okay, well, let's see what the numbers are, and let's see who's right. Check this out.

Publicans love Donald Trump more than any president's own party supporters, loved him at this particular point. Just take a look here. Okay, own party supporters, 21st century president's own party approval, about at this point in the second term. Bush was at 77%. Obama was at 77%.

Look at this. 86% of Republicans approve of the job that Donald Trump is doing at this point that is higher than either Obama or Bush had within their own party at this point. Trump's magic touch has not seen a war off yet when it comes to the Republican base. Folks, if you read that piece I just told you about by Insurrection Barbie there, you're going to see that this black pillar dumer movement, they're bigger enemies to you than the liberal media. This isn't even about Donald Trump to them. He's just kind of a symptom of a larger problem that they've lost control of what is the base of the conservative Republican movement

and they want to hijack it and steal it or else they're going to destroy it. They don't care if Donald Trump goes down in flames or JD or Rubio or anyone else. The problem is they're losing. That's CNN numbers, folks. You think the fake news bullshitters at CNN are going to put out

a poll. All they do is engage in adjutop to destroy Donald Trump. What possible motivation would they have for running a segment saying, hey, honestly, guys, he's more popular than Obama was within his party at this stage. The answer is they can't run away from it. If you're going to run a poll, you're going to report or else probably going to leak. I just don't want you all to get depressed. You see the bots, the bullshit, the bot comments and all this shit. And you really start to believe it sometimes. Like, man, we're overwhelmed. We're not overwhelmed. We are the super majority. And our party. It's a little crew of losers, little kids in their basement sitting there eating pop tarts with controlling like 50 body counts. We hate to choose, whatever. It's all it is. They have

no real power. You see that now. We're back. And now you see it. Here's a great clip yesterday. You know, I talk about this show your ass theory all the time because the liberal media plays in this. The liberal media will run a thousand stories about mutiny on the right, fracture on the right, Maga Civil War. Watch my show earlier this week is important, the one called Maga Civil War. If you missed it, please go back and watch it. It's all fake. The liberal media subscribes to this anti-anti-communist theory.

Gutfeld here describes it in a second. I'm going to play this video on the five. This is excellent. I call it show your ass theory, but David Horowitz called it the anti-anti-communist theory. It's this. Pay attention. This is, for those who are P-1s, you know this, but if you're a new listener to the show, you will only understand the left and their unholy alliances. That was a book, David Horowitz, wrote, how the left will claim to be, I'll give you a quick example. We're all for LGBTQ1A spirit rights. And then they're like, but we love Iran. Well, the Iranians throw gay people overroof. That's okay with

why is that? That seems like there's an asymmetry there. We love people who are, gay. They're throwing gays off the roof. We love gay people. Throw them off the room. We love gay people. Doesn't seem to work. When you understand anti-anti-communist theory and unholy alliances, as Harvard's called them, you will understand this gutfill equipment. It's this. We, ladies and gentlemen, this conservative movement is a rebellion against communism, collectivism, and the lack of freedom. We are the anti-communists, correct? Everybody get it. Pretty simple, right? Get it, got it good. The left hates us. They will align with anyone because they are the anti-communists.

They don't care who is against us, as long as who is against us, hurts us the anti-communists. If they have to align with Iranian mullahs who behead gays in a town square and parade them around like Medusa from Clash of the Titans, they're good with that. All they care about is who hates us.

There's no guiding principle to it at all. Read Horowitz's book on Holy Alliance, if you doubt any of this. The left will align with anyone, communist, fascist, neo-Nazis, black pillars, doomers, fake conservatives. They don't give a shit. As long as they think they can use it to attack the anti-communists. Here's Greg Gutfeld explaining this a little simpler

and talking about how the left, this is how they always find themselves on the wrong side of every issue. Once you see this, you can never unsee it. Check this out. They pick the wrong side every time. Democrats act like the plight of Kilmar Obrego-Garcia was worse than women being trafficked, raped, and murdered. They spent more time on that.

They spent more time on the freedom of speech of illegal radicals on campus than they did on October 7th. They felt that men in dresses had priority over the kids they wanted to teach. This is their zombie mode. You know, they put polling before people, and they think they're polling. is based on the loudest voices. They forgot October 7th. That's why you have the plight of the Palestinians, which is a media-generated story.

They forgot the tens of thousands of Iranians that have been killed in the last month. They always choose the bad guy because Trump sides with the good. That's it. He just nailed it. That is show-your-ass anti-anti-communist. They don't care.

Don't ever forget that. You see it in what I also call the Ox's Gord, whose Ox's-Guard approach, where the media, so the media has a hierarchy of people they hate at the top is obviously Donald Trump. Right below there you have JD and Rubio. You know, right below there you have your Ted Cruz's and others. They have to dismantle these people no matter what, right?

So they will, if you were say, I don't know where I am, fourth, fifth, tenth, who the hell knows? But somewhere on that hierarchy, if they want to attack me, they'll go find someone they hated in the past. It doesn't matter who it is. Ted Cruz, they say they'll call him in a man. Far right lunatic senator. The minute say he would, if it attacked me, he wouldn't, but you get the point.

They'll be like respected Texas, etc. It's all bullshit. Once you see it, I promise you'll never unsee it. And once you learn to see it and your antenna go up, you learn to laugh at it. I've been in this business a long time, man, in a lot of roles. Candidate, activist, government, outside of government, podcast, radio, T, You don't have to like me. It's all true. I've seen a lot of phonies and fakes and frauds.

I've seen a lot of good people. But one thing I'm telling you for sure is the liberal media people are full of shit. And that anti-anti-communist theory is absolutely real. If I would have turned tomorrow, I promise you, turn tomorrow and say, Donald Trump sucks, I would be a hero on the left. They would never mention a single thing they wrote about me in the past again. Guaranteed. John Bolton's a perfect example. They hated that guy. Absent his legal issues now. They hated that guy.

The minute he turned on Trump, book him on CNN. Anti-anti-communist, man. Quick break and then coming back, this is a really important clip, folks. Technology is exploding. AI is exploding. It's all coming together right now. Warfare, surveillance technology,

artificial intelligence, the expansion, the future of military fighting, all of this stuff. Remember, a lot of technology, a significant part of the technology developed for military purposes, whether it's GPS or other things, even to some small degree, the modern internet, the architecture of that, a lot of that comes from military advancements, and a lot of those military advancements come during wartime and hostilities. You're about to see an explosion of new technology. I got that.

And then, you know, Media Matters. Loz of my show, they watch it every day. Welcome, fellas. They write about it every day. It was kind of hilarious yesterday. They wrote a piece. Dan Bongino says this military experience has been invaluable for, yeah, it has.

Do you not understand how combat works for these guys? Of course, experience in military combat is going to generate, as I was just saying, technological advancements and betterments for our military as we learn from each mission how to make it better. Media matters thought that was controversial. That's why media matters doesn't really matter. But welcome, fellas.

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That's the media matters, folks. Technology and people are best tested on the battlefield when it comes to war. I mean, I don't understand, like, what's remotely controversial about that. Anyone in the chat disagree? I was not in the military. I don't pretend to know what a combat scenario is like. I did not serve in our military. It's the greatest regret of my life.

I talk about it all the time. Here's the good news and bad news, out. The good news about these technological advancements and every military exercise in theater is going to develop technology and enhancements that are going to filter down into the economy.

The good news is that our lethality is going to, we're already there, has just exploded. especially from standoff positions. I want to play this clip. This is Brett Villacovic, very smart guy. He's on Fox just the other day, talking about the integration of advanced computing, AI, targeting, some of the things I addressed yesterday,

and how this has just basically been a huge force multiplier for the U.S. military that other countries just can't match. Check this out. The real story here, Jesse, is how America's AI crushed Iran's response time, and that included using AI for drone technology. This isn't AI theory anymore. Jesse. This is AI combat and it's happening now. The reports were clear. Our forces used various AI tools which processed mountains of Intel, satellites, drone feeds, signals faster than any

human ever could and compress the kill chain to hours, not days. And we had nearly 900 strikes during the opening operation, key regime figures dead, enemy capabilities flattened before they could even blink. And that's what happens when you pair world class AI with our best and brightest American operators who as we speak are bringing justice to the thousands of brutally murdered by the Iranian regime. And what I believe we witness here was one of the most decisive, technologically game-changing moments in modern-day military history. And America delivered it. The strikes are going to send a message, frankly, far beyond Iran. It tells adversaries around the world that we just officially crossed a threshold with our weaponry where artificial intelligence isn't just a

buzzword. It's being embedded into real battlefield decisions going forward. But fair warning, Jesse, when machines start picking targets, we as a nation better ask who's checking the machines. Is there going to be no human in the loop or will human commanders actually steer these decisions because the AI is only as good as the people training it are. And there's a world of difference between AI assisting a military commander and AI deciding who lives or dies. So Data Martian in the chat, Data Martian says this is great because everyone was saying China was so far ahead. they were saying that. That was the liberal media people.

You just made my point, totally unintentional segue. Liberal media folks, most of them cannot stand the free market constitutional Republic of United States. They want this to be a communist country. They will side with Chinese adjut prop. China's the one telling you they're better than us. Folks, they're not. Their weapons totally shit the bed in Iran.

Shit the bed. They collapsed. This is the good news portion of it. Always give you both sides. Unlike the liberal media before. The other piece of good news, AI is compressing the kill chain, as Brett Villikovic said, they just make decisions quicker. I'll give you an example in medicine.

It may take a radiologist who's looking at an imaging tool on cancer. It may take him a half an hour to go through it, get some measuring tools and look. AI does that in microseconds. It doesn't mean it does it better yet. It may, it may not. It just means it does it quicker. In the military, where you don't. need to have served in the military to figure out the quickest draw in the gunfight wins that's

where villikovic is going with this so what's the problem for china folks the problem for china is china cannot allow any honest AI to function and filter into society what do i mean by that it is a repressive communist regime if you put in the google search machine tianaman square in china You're not going to get an honest objective analysis of what Tiananmen Square was about and a freedom movement. You're not going to, it's not going to let you. China can't have AI that tells its people the truth. Their biggest fear is AI leading to some revolution, freedom revolution.

They're never going to have the tools we have, ever. They just don't have the productivity. I'm not telling you it's not a threat. I'm just telling you that we are way ahead. and all of the bullshit about China's kicking our ass and all this technology. I'm telling you, it's not true. It's not true. They're a threat, a huge threat.

But the degree of the threat matters. Everything in life is on the margin. I'm not arguing with you in the winter to put the heat on or not. The answer is how much heat, correct? That's the margin. It's not a binary. I'm not telling you China's not a threat. It's a huge threat.

I'm telling you, if you're telling me on the margin, and China is a more powerful military than us because you're just lying. There's no evidence of that. Here's the bad news. Folks, as I said to you before, this stuff filters down into the economy. A lot of this technology. And a lot of this technology is going to be used for surveillance in the future. Ladies and gentlemen, there's just no way around it.

There is no way around it. I saw this article in Futurism. I finally got to it. I've had it run it in the show for like six days now. and I finally got to it. Jasmine Hank for a second I just want to tell you something. Sorry, it's a live show, but

this future is an article about these meta glasses. Folks, if you're wearing these, you know, Facebook meta, these glasses, remember the old Google glass where people put the glasses on and they were recording, and they used to call them glass holes because people got upset about the article. You can put it up anytime.

You know, they didn't like, people hated it because they felt like they were always being spied on. Folks, this stuff is not going away. And they note in this piece, read this piece, Futurism, Victor Tangerman. Regardless of the wearer of these glasses in tension, much of the footage being recorded by the glasses is being sent to offshore contractors for data labeling, a pre-processing step in training AI models in which human contractors are asked to review and annotate footage. It's a laborious process that companies often gloss over when discussing the prowess of their AI models.

Folks, I have been reading about these glasses. They are invaluable tools. Military, law enforcement, doctors. Imagine being a doctor doing a surgery, and you have these glasses on, and you miss a cancerous tumor in, say, a plastic surgery that you're doing. And the glasses say, Doc, look at this. Now, wow, that's invaluable.

Law enforcement, the ability to use potentially, identification tools and environmental cues to pick out a suspect if you're in a foot pursuit. Military applications are going to be incredible. However, folks, the Dan Bongino show is not going to bullshit you. These surveillance tools are scary. People used to pitch us tools like this all the time. And Cash and I are first answers. How does this protect civil liberties?

What kind of guardrails can we put up? This is not going anywhere. I read another piece. It's not in the show today, but the gist of it was people wearing these Facebook glasses. I'm not telling you buy them or don't buy them. That's up to you. Do your thing, man. But there are people take these glasses off.

Forget they're on. They put them on like their bedroom on the nightstand or whatever. Who the hell knows with their recording? People forget they're wearing them. I never forget one time doing a media hit. And I was in a studio. I'm not going to say where. And a guy with the microphone went on, went to the bathroom and forgot to turn.

the microphone over. It's kind of hilarious. It happens all the time. You really want people in there? In the bedroom watching? That's the bad news. This stuff is all going to be subject to federal law enforcement subpoenas in the future. Folks, you get bad people in charge and people are policy. I'm telling you, this isn't 10 years away. This is like next year. This stuff is going to happen. be very careful, AI, facial recognition, you're not going to be able to go anywhere. But back to some good news. Body cams on law enforcement have been an absolute asset.

I don't care what anyone tells you, I push this hard at the FBI to expand this. You deserve to see what people are doing who have guns and badges. And by the way, people with guns and badges who are falsely accused should consider this a tremendous asset. Body cams have been an amazing asset.

Because now you get to see, and live time, the split-second decisions law enforcement has to make. And now all these people shoot them in the leg and all this other stuff. Now when you see the stuff, you see the footage that emerged yesterday out of Austin? The attack that happened in Austin in the bar, guy comes in, shoots up the bar, kills a number of folks. The body cam comes out yesterday. Here's what I'm going to do here.

It's only about 20 seconds or so. I'm going to play the body cam from the police officer. And while I'm playing, I'm just going to put it out full screen here. I want you to think of a couple things. All the liberal media and lefty lunatics, you've never been in law enforcement, okay, at all. Shoot them in the leg. Why didn't you tell them 15 more times to stop?

I want you to pay attention to how quickly this goes down, how little you can see of the actual target, the guy they took down, the attacker in this case, how little they can see. And I want you to ask yourself another thing, why didn't you shoot him in the leg? When you're watching this, can you even see his legs? check this out.

Where is it? Push up. The suspect is now. Stop moving. Don't move. Don't move. I'm on the suspect. Move here now.

I'm in the sixth and west. Folks, I want body cams, both on the guys that were in the FBI when I was in the NYPD, and I would like to see body cams, you know, Secret Service on law enforcement. You don't want them on particular. You know what I'm seeing the president's movement. Because the public deserves to know what people we've entrusted with our lives and property

to secure the public safety situation. I'd like to know what they're doing too. Civil liberties matter. But I think this is invaluable footage. Play this on a split screen for me. Look at this. Look how quick. Where is he?

Where is he? People are understandably getting covered behind a car. This guy's got a long gun. the guy there there we go we're just seconds in gunshots can you even see him look you can by the way

that's an amazing shot I know a lot of the liberals out there in the media like oh I could have taken him and I would have shot him in the toe or something you're full of shit you have no idea this guy's a freaking hero for doing that you have any idea

how difficult it is while a guy is shooting at you with a rifle and a handgun you've got a handgun You can barely see him. Why do police officers train to shoot center mass and not shoot to kill? Because center mass is the center is the biggest target. You can barely see the guys like, yes, try and stop the screen right before he goes down.

You can't even see his legs. Geniuses in the media. I'm not telling you anybody deserves a free pass and a use of force situation. I'm just telling you to be realistic. You can't see anything there. Yeah, exactly. He's like there's so few pixels on the screen of the body cam the resolution isn't great.

There's so few pixels, you can't even, you can barely see them. Folks, one thing I have done is serving law enforcement, not in our military, and I'm proud of that, and I loved my time there. But there is a reason that the training happens the way it does. and that they don't shoot people in the leg or train to do that. They don't train to shoot to kill. They train to hit Center Mass.

Center Mass has vital organs. After your shot, Center Mass, many people not all die. They do everything they can to save their lives. Now you see it. Good news, bad news, good news. Folks, technology is the force multiplier, though, not just for law enforcement, for military going forward. Did you see this coverage of this missile strike on Khomeini's compound over in Iran?

This was the New York Post. They put a tweet up. So this missile technology they put out there is just, again, there's nothing out there like this where smaller and mid-sized countries could compete with the U.S. military and the IDF on, where it goes outside the atmosphere and comes down in this way with this re-entry vehicle. There's just no one who's going to be able to compete with this. The Iranians have no similar capabilities on these air-launched vehicles to do. They just don't.

They've got a bunch of ballistic missiles. Yeah, and even those have been taken out. This is like, seriously, the Iranians are like throwing rocks compared to IDF and U.S. technology. It's time for you to surrender quickly for the sake of your people. You have no, there's nowhere for you to go. There's only death. I don't mean to be melodramatic about it. I'm just being honest, there is only death for you in the Mullah class.

Here's some video from yesterday. Here's a Reaper with a hellfire missile, taken out another launch vehicle. Everywhere these launch vehicles go, they just, boom, disappear. You maybe get one shot to launch a missile before you pop. Oh, look, let's hide it under a tent. No one will see it there. That's not working out either. There's nowhere for them to go.

The technology asymmetry, the gasmetry, the gas, is too large. Here's another Iranian ship taken out. Their Navy is essentially gone, not that they had much of a Navy to begin with. The danger from them is more these small kind of swift boats. And even they're not going to stand much of a shot moving forward. Here's video of Kamani's bunker being taken out.

This is just utter complete destruction. Turns out he wasn't even in the bunker. He was above ground. But whatever is below ground is now completely, totally, eviscerated. Now, the Israelis put this out. Now, I'm going to show you this for a reason. This is a rendering of what the emergency compound for Khomeini looked like. Now, as you're watching this, if you're listening on Apple and Spotify, please check this out on Rumble 50-minute mark of the show is really important because some, you guys see where I'm

going with this? Ghee, you know what I'm going with it? Look at this rendering of what the compound look like. Pretty detailed. How would they get that? intelligence penetration? Folks, how the hell would you have a rendering like this? Do you understand how detail this is? If you're missing this on Rumble, or like I said, on Apple and Spotify, please just check it out.

They've got even like the classroom, probably the number of seats in the classroom. What does that tell you? I was more interested in this from another reason. It goes to show you the Israelis have penetrated just about every single level of the Iranian intelligence, you know, a domestic paramilitary,

police, IRGC. They already knew, you think they did this in like five minutes and guessed? They know Tehran probably as well as they know areas of Israel. Whoever you think are your buddies in the Iranian Mala leadership, they're now down to

like I said, seven degrees removed. I promise one of these guys going to sell you out next. This is unbelievable. This rendering. Folks, and as I said, before. This is going to have global repercussions. Global repercussions. China sold a bunch of military equipment to our adversaries around the world, supported their intelligence efforts,

their ISR, their surveillance, their reconnaissance, efforts against the United States, infiltration on the tech side, cyber attacks. China hates us. Please put any bullshit aside if you had any illusions they don't. They do. They think our time is up and their time is now. Donald Trump said, not on my watch. Here's Peter Schweitzer again. He was on Fox the other day talking about just how bad this is turning out for China, given their Iranian proxies, utter failure to do almost anything to counterattack the United States military in any effective way at all. Check this out.

They're in a panic, Jesse. I mean, look, anytime you have these kinds of military operations that are taking place, they have ripple effects. These ripples are actually tidal waves in China. Think about it. Over the last 58 days between what happened in Venezuela and what started happening in Iran, China has lost two of its most important allies in the developing world. They were big energy suppliers, about 20 to 25 percent of their energy. But China was able to buy that energy on the cheap because they were sanctioned companies.

They were paying $15 a barrel less than anybody else was. And by the way, they weren't paid. paying in U.S. dollars. We're paying in the Chinese currency, and that has been a long-term objective of China to move away from a dollar-based economy. That is all gone, but it's having effects that we don't even fully appreciate, Jesse. Look at the AI race. You think, what does this have to do with AI? Well, two of the biggest AI contractors in China are Huawei and ZTE. These are big telecom infrastructure companies. They're vital to China's AI capabilities. They both have huge contracts in Venezuela and Iran for which they are now not going to be paid.

And, you know, we're talking about tens of billions of dollars in contracts of revenue that they were expecting to get that they weren't getting. They were doing a lot of AI testing in these countries. So the ramifications are enormous. And Donald Trump has really shifted the equation with China within a matter of less than two months. Folks, this guy is a genius. This is such a critical point. Scream N says in the chat. Today's a turning point in history.

You're damn right. The point at the NT made, brain tattoo time, folks, really, really important. The backbone of the communication networks in a lot of these adversarial countries to the United States, think of like cell tower type networks. Without them, you have nothing. No cell towers, no cell coverage. The entire backbone and information. the communication mechanisms in Venezuela and elsewhere have been outsourced to China. A lot of these countries are now finding themselves in absolute shambles.

The repercussions of this for trying to take away the dollars reserve currency are just, you are just starting to see the ripple effects, the bad ripple effects for our adversaries. I'm going to take just a really quick break here. And then I want to show you a tweet, Donald Trump, 2013. Yes, I said that correctly, not 2026, showing you again from the, you know, Maga Mutiny, Donald Trump's changed. Nothing's changed. He said the same thing. He has been consistent. I'm sorry you didn't do your homework if you believe that. But receipts matter. He has been saying and tweeting and interviewing about the exact same position. They can't

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September 5th, 2013, while everyone is waiting and prepared for us to attack Syria, maybe we should knock the hell out of Iran and their nuclear capabilities. Guys, I'm not like, I'm just saying, Like the Dumer class that keeps getting their ass kick by polls and all this. Their counter messaging keeps flopping to the Dumers and black pillars out there. I mean, at what point do you say to yourself, maybe it's me that changed and not him? I'm just throwing this out there too. This is back to serious mode here.

If I were the Cuban regime, I'd be really worried right now. I'm not suggesting there's going to be a bombardment of Cuba. I'm not suggesting. I'm not telling you as on any inside information. I'm just basing this on Donald Trump is clearly at this point at the finding out portion of his presidency. I don't know any other way to say it. I don't. He just doesn't want to hand generational problems to the next president.

This is some video from two weeks ago. But I want you to remember something for you P-1s out there. And thank you. Love you guys and ladies so much. You're the best. I've said this a lot. Now, you know what? Just play the clip, and I get to say this.

This is really important. This is Donald Trump on Cuba. Check this out. It's doing very badly. Failing. Cuba right now is, to put it mildly, a failing nation. And, you know, they have no money. They have no oil.

They have no food. And it's really right now a nation in deep trouble. And they want our help. I didn't want to make the point, but I think you should have saw that video first. If I'm in Cuba right now and I'm in leadership, I'm not happy. What I was going to say is if you're a P1, you know this. I've been saying forever, Donald Trump, when he was running for a term, you know, for 47, our term now, a lot of people, do you guys remember this, said, oh, I'm not going to vote for him.

I'm going to support, you know, DeSantis or Haley or whatever, and fine, fair enough, whatever. I'm not knocking other candidates for running. because he's going to be a lame duck the minute he got in office. Do you guys remember that, you P-1s? And I made the point, you're reading this all wrong, that he's going to be the exact opposite of a lame duck. He's going to be a guy on a mission who, after being politically by weaponized government bureaucracies,

hunted down in term 45, and in his post-presidency, in Biden's presidency, he's coming in here with a mission, and he's got nothing to lose. you guys remember that. Now you're seeing it. My prediction was right. Go back. Where's audience archive is Judy? You've heard me say it a thousand times. If you know Donald Trump, he was not running in for this second term because he loves being, you know, impeached by a bunch of weaponized government assholes investigated by was a hugely weaponized FBI and intelligence

agencies. He was running to, here it is, folks, to get shit done. That's it. He wasn't running for the money. It wasn't running for the fame. He wasn't running because it's fun. He was running to get stuff done. Speaking of running, as I said to you yesterday, 2028 is right around the corner. Oh my gosh, we're not through the midterter. I get it. I get it. The midterms are coming. up this year. We got a lot. We got some concerns. I hope we do okay. I don't get into Duma stuff. And I definitely don't get into Red Wave stuff. No evidence that's going to happen either. Just play it straight, show up and vote, 10, 10 and 10. Email 10 people, call 10 people, make 10 social media post before the election. That's your job. That's your job. That's what we got to do.

You want to win elections? People got to go win elections. However, there's no question hair gel is going to run, Gavin Newsom. How he's going to run on his California resume is simply astonishing to me because his resume is just shit. Eventually, folks, you have to produce results. This guy's resume is pure hot smoking garbage. It is a total dumpster fire. There is nothing California leads in except bad stuff. Homelessness, U-Haul rates, poverty. They spend per pupil ridiculous amounts of money in their public schools, failing people? This is... I'm sorry.

Guy, is this your favorite video? You haven't told me there. We get any old stamp, Guy's favorite. The render? Oh, he likes the rendering. You know what I got that. This is Katie Couric. You know, diehard conservative champion.

Just kidding! Katie Corrick, who's obviously a diehard liberal. What was she like? Good morning, and Marion. I don't even remember. She's interviewing Gavin Newsom. All you need is the first 20-7. seconds of this. She's asking him the same question we're asking. This is a liberal saying to Gavin Newsom, hey, you guys basically lead and all the stuff that sucks? How are you going to run this? This is not me.

It's Katie Corrig. Check this out. The high poverty rate tied with Louisiana, the highest unemployment, and as Nick Christoff of the New York Times recently wrote, Mississippi schools outperform California schools, especially for poor kids. Now, people see that or hear that or read that. And they're like, No thanks, California. No thanks Gavin Newsom. We're good. Yeah.

I'm not going to even give you his answer. Sorry, I usually give you both sides, but the answer is such bullshit. I'm going to give Gavin Newsom one thing, and I mean, I'm going to give him credit for that. I'm not kidding, he's a politician. I'm not being an asshole about it. He's actually very good at wordsmithing things,

unlike AOC. AOC just doesn't think clearly. The Chad really doesn't like this guy. AOC is just not good at articulating what her brain is thinking about if it even is thinking. Newsom's actually very good. I saw him in that debate with Ron DeSantis. Sometimes you come out of that debate thinking, wow, California is not doing as badly as we know it is. Boondoggle, train projects, crime.

Newsom's very good at bullshitting people. His answer is just a bunch of BS. The answer is, you know, Mississippi, which doesn't have the, even close to the size of the economy as California does, their schools where they just implemented dramatic school accountability is just flying up the charts without all of this money per pupil. And he just doesn't ever have an answer other than bullshit. But we got candidates out there right now, too, that are big trouble.

Quickly, I don't like getting into kind of parochial races, but it's important because, folks, we can't lose the U.S. Senate. This midterm, we have a pretty good field. A lot of the states were racist. Let me just explain this quick. If I explain this poorly, tell me in the chat. This specific midterm now, every two years, a third of the Senate is up. You get you 33, 33, 33, 34.

Depends what class you're in. The United States House of Representatives, I'm sorry, but there are liberals listening who don't know this. Probably the Manu Raju crowd. The House of Representatives is up every two years. Only a third of the Senate is. six-year terms. I know you're laughing. However, there are liberals who don't know this, I promise you. They didn't take civics one-on-one. This class that's up this year, this is actually a very good Republican field. A lot of the states that are on the ballot, their U.S. senators, are in states

Donald Trump won or performed well. We have some strong incumbents. This is a pretty good field this year. Folks, if we get smoked this year in this cycle in the Senate, if we don't do well, the next cycle during the presidential race, where Donald Trump is not going to be on the ballot, is brutal. What I'm telling you is think long term, unlike the short term thinking Democrats. What am I telling you? This is a math problem. Say we were to lose the Senate in this really good term, in this midterm coming up this year, 2026. Say it's 51 Democrat, 49 Republican. we lose. The next cycle during the presidential

without Donald Trump on the ballot is brutal for us. It's a bunch of states Donald Trump did not perform particularly well on Democrat states. No big mystery. Folks, we could lose basically a supermajority. And if the filibuster even stands and the Democrats don't wipe it out, which I think they will,

folks, will be in real trouble. I'm not trying to scare you. I'm just trying to tell you If we lose seats this cycle, we are screwed. We better get out there and start voting. That's why I'm covering this race in Texas, because I don't take anything for granted. That phony Beto with the whole skateboard routine, remember Beto O'Rourke?

They now have Beto 2.0. They've got this Tala Rico guy. Tala Rico guy. Remember a footloose preacher? Pretending to be like, oh, look at me. I'm this down-to-earth kind of preacher guy, sane, blue-dog, old Democrat. He is not.

Do not take this. for granted. Texas, you've got to get a lot, you've got to get out and vote. Sorry, let me finish my thought. I hate when I do that. The primary turnout for Democrats in Texas, listen to me, was huge. Do not gaff this off. Oh, it's Texas. We're good. No, we're not good. We're okay. You've got to expose this guy. Here is this lunatic, Tala Rico, on Prisons? Prisons, I thought, was a pretty bipartisan issue in Texas.

You need them. Why? Who goes to prisons? Freaking bad guys. Listen to this Beto 2.0 AOC like lunatic. Poverty is violence. Pollution is violence. And yes, prison is violence. Dismantle this system of violence, build something new, something better, something rooted in love. It's hard to imagine a world about prisons, but it's also hard to imagine a world without telegrams.

set takes. Just because it's hard to imagine doesn't mean you shouldn't. Huh. What? This guy's running in Texas, folks, not Illinois. He's not running in California where that may fly. Ah, prisons. We don't need prisons. Where are you going to send the bad guys? We're going to send him to therapy. Therapy, really? You know, like a sociologist, sit down a smoking jacket with a cigar. Uh, sir, you just raped three women and killed seven others. How do you feel about that? Oh, I feel really bad. Okay, thank you.

You're free to go now. The dude is running in Texas. It's my job to put the information out there. You run with it. Get that to 10, 10 and 10 today. Wait, here's one more. This is funny. This is hilarious.

Here's a split screener here that I pulled off X. Here's Tala Rico saying, they're going to throw everything at me. They're going to call me a leftist. Brother, we're not calling you a leftist. You are a leftist. We're just calling you what you call yourself. And then I'm going to play MSNOWW acknowledging this guy is not a moderate.

He's full of shit. He's the fake footloose pastor. That's what he is. Check this out. They're scared of the movement we are building. They're going to throw everything they have at us. They're going to call me a radical leftist. James Tolerico was cast.

His cat was cast and increasingly, it still is cast, they're saying increasingly, but still is cast. There is nothing, he's not a moderate. He's a, he and Jasmine Crocket had basically the same positions on almost every issue. Okay, okay, don't listen to me. Listen to MSN-O-W. The guy is a lunatic. Who just said in the chat? He must lose.

Yes, he must lose is right. We lose that seat in Texas, folks. We are absolutely effed like you wouldn't believe. Notary of public, $2. Thank you. I always appreciate the tips in the chat. Who's that? No, Nilo.

You don't have to do that. I mean, it's not a trick. It's not like triple reverse psychology. This is the only place where I tell people don't put money here. They put money in there anyway. Thank you. Thank you.

I appreciate it. You guys are great. All right, I don't want to focus too much on those guys because we do have a lot of good news, too. Folks, we have a really good young crop of people out there in the House of Representatives and the Senate. And I know we got old dogs in there. People don't like.

I get it. You know, I always tell you, like, Republicans aren't the solution to all your problems, but Democrats are the cause of all your problems. So in an imperfect world of level 10 choices, you have them too. You know, I talk about these level 10 choices when I was in the FBI where there's only a shitty decision

and a shittier one, and it's not obvious which one it is. You deal with this every day in your life. There's nothing like, I'm not something like super here. Hey, look at me. I do this. People in their businesses make these calls every day. People make these calls about their own kids.

every day. Take their phone, watch a meltdown, don't take their phone. You know, everybody deals with these things. In elections, I'm sorry, but voting for Democrats is never the answer. I know you don't want to hear that. Our opportunity to clean a lot of this stuff up is in the primaries. That's why there's a lot of stuff going on in Texas. A lot of people love Ken Paxton. I love Ken Paxton. He's a great guy. I've known John Corner in a while. He's always been good to me. I'm telling you that's for the people at Texas, you guys decide. However, once that's over, once that's over,

the Democrat is not your guy that we don't need prisons in Texas. I hope we can just all agree on that. Speaking of Texas, I got a, you know, like in sports, they have MVP's rookie of the year. Should we start, should we get this together at the Bonjino Army?

Should we get together? How producer Jim put this together? We should do a rookie of the year in Congress and the Senate. Senate. Well, Senate would be tough because it's not that many rookies a day. I'm nominating this guy, Brandon Gill. I love Brandon. He's been a guest on the show. Known him for a little bit. Just a really great guy. Here's Brandon Gill up on Capitol Hill, just bringing it again. This guy's been fantastic. Check this out. Would you agree that as governor, ultimately, you're responsible if tax dollars are

defrauded? Yes, I would agree. Would you also agree that calling somebody racist is a serious accusation? If they are racist, I think it's probably acting. I'm asking you, is that a serious accusation to make about somebody? I think it's just an observation of reality. All right, well, let's go there. Is it racist for a government official to identify fraud? No. No. Is it Islamophobic? Do identify fraud? To identify fraud? No, I don't believe. It would be. How come multiple whistleblowers have said that your administration told them not to say anything about widespread fraud across multiple agencies because doing so would be considered racist or Islamophobic. I can't speak to it because it's not anything I would say.

Well, that's what your administration has said and has told whistleblowers. And as you just testified, the buck stops with you. Johnny Angel 1362. Brandon Gill is a rising star. You're damn right. He's got a Clark Kent vibe going to there with the little squiggly hair thing. He does a little different style than me. I have the New York kind of high.

of aggressive style. I get it. Some people like it. Some people don't. Bonino Army, you guys always been there for me. Some of you tolerate it. I get a lot of emails. Dan, tone it down a little bit, but I'll still listen. I understand. I get it. It's hard for me. I'm a high-energy guy. I love the fact that this guy takes the opposite approach, Brandon Gell. And just, Walls doesn't know what to do. Well, your administration called people racist for just pointing out front. Is it racist? There is a, but there's a rookie of the year. he's into running right now. The future's bright.

I really like this guy a lot. Maybe he'll be in the governor's seat or maybe a Senate seat some point in the future. Maybe he has higher aspirations. I don't know. I can tell you knowing him and his family very well that he's a genuinely good guy behind the scenes too.

I promise you, I would not bullshit you. Like he's a really decent guy. If there's a goad of the week, however, and I don't mean greatest of all time. I mean like bad goat, you know? If there's a go to the week, it's got to be Seth Moulton. Did you see this story yesterday? Of course, you know, Democrat Zero.

He brings a guest to the State of the Union trying to show the unfairness of our immigration enforcement in the United States. Seth Moulton's State of the Union guest, because it's a Boston Herald, by the way. Referenced in, is referenced in police reports involving, quote, sexual assault and juveniles, according to the police. Seth, you may, if you don't support vetting at the border, which you clearly don't, maybe do some vetting in your office, just an idea, Seth. The point you were trying to make at the SOTU state of the union, kind of blew up in your face. Maybe just like run a background check or something?

This is what we're dealing with on the other side. Anti-ante-communist theory. will align with illegals in the country with credible criminal charges because they're against the MAGA coalition, the anti-communists. This is, is that not evident? You like it'll be tied at it?

It wasn't intentional. 18th Street. Oh, yeah. Yes, I mean, Jim's got his Democrat Zen. I'm not going to let you go this. We've got out the Democrat Zen moment of the week from producer Jim. But I got another segment I want to cover here, too,

because this is, again, for the doomers and the black pillars. and the liberal media folks who want to trash everything that happened on the military, law enforcement, intel side, the massive reforms that we all live through, that are not done, not even close. I told you, it took the Democrats, the liberals, and a lot of sellout Republicans, 30 years to screw up the internal law enforcement intel military bureaucracy. It took a long time. I wish changes could happen overnight, but that's not the way it works.

The government, unfortunately, is designed to throw monkey wrenches into everything. However, there is a lot of good news. And one of the things we focused on, I try to talk about this stuff too much because I really don't want to make the show about, you know, stuff we did. It seems kind of you get the point. But it's important. I saw this on Fox right before we came on the air. One of the things President Trump and Cash and I focused on early. And by the way, you know, this is not like putting a shine on.

he really was concerned about this. I'm not just kind of like throwing around credit because I want to, he was very concerned. His take was, yes, national security is number one, but isn't the operation of FTOs, foreign terror organizations in the United States that are narco traffickers, isn't that national security too?

I'm trying not to get too deep into it, but he was as serious as a heart attack about this. I'll give me an example. Wait, before we play the clip, guys. I was on Will Kane show the other day. on Fox. I don't know if you saw it or not. It's at 4 o'clock on Fox News, the linear cable channel. And he pointed out this bar graph. Now, if you've seen this, I'm going to do your favor here. And the bar graph showed terrorist encounters, I believe it was at the Southern Board.

It may have been Northern and Southern. But I didn't know, obviously, when you're doing a hit on TV, they don't always tell you what the topic's going to be. You just go in and you're looking at it live time. So I'm in the truck. Trucks parked outside the studio doing a hit. You're in this tiny little truck. You've got a screen in front of you, screen in your background. And all I can see in the prompt there, because my eyes aren't great anymore, is this bar grab. But I had seen it before in a situation room meeting in the White House a while ago. And it shows this dramatic, basically, increase of terrorist encounters at the southern border just recently. And I was explaining to him that not all, but a significant portion of that number.

It's important for you to understand. President Trump, early in his tenure, designated these narco-traffickers, a lot of these groups. as FTOs, foreign terror organizations. A lot of those people are from those specific groups. They're not letting any less dangerous. The point I'm trying to make is President Trump sees the national security picture different than prior presidents do. We tend to think of terrorism as solely Islamo radicals.

Significant threat, correct? We all get it. You're seeing it now with the Muller's. President Trump saw it from a bigger perspective and a wider lens. When he got into office with Stephen Miller and others, he's like, these people are terrorizing American communities every day. All right, it's a little long-winded, but it's really important you understand this.

That was a transformational change that led to that spike, because now we can treat them as terrorists using no specific national security tools. But that bled into the law enforcement space too, where early on we organized this massive anti-gang operation around the country. Some of the, and you can look this up, it's all open source now. Operation Chalk Line, we had summer heat, the Kensington Drug Market we took down in Philadelphia, Operation Coast to Coast where we hit L.A. in New York.

And in this, we've been focusing on for a while. This just happened this morning. Fox News, you guys got the Fox clip? I know I actually. This just happened before we came up on the air. But this is important for your national security too. Check this out. General agents arresting 12 members of a ruthless street gain during an early morning raid in LA. Officials say the 18th Street gang is organized by the Mexican

mafia and smuggles fentanyl and meth into the U.S. The 18th Street gang is considered a rival of the infamous MS-13, and the feds tell us the 18th Street gang uses Los Angeles as its main distribution point for selling drugs worldwide. Law enforcement busting 12 members of the transnational 18th Street gang, including top brass, in an early morning sting Thursday, called Operation Dead Horse. Folks, this has been going on for a long time. I get it. Dumers, I get it.

There's a reason your crime rate is the lowest it's ever been, and you're living in the safest America ever. It's because the president looked at crime and national security as the same thing. Listen, liberal media assholes. Forget the Dumeers for a second. I want you to understand this. The president saw this differently

than any prior president, Republican or Democrat, the dividends are paying off right now. He does not make the distinction between national security and crime like has been done in the past. And that's why your homicide rate is the lowest it's ever been.

And the crime rate is the lowest it's ever been. It's because he decided to do things differently. That's a fact. That's not your opinion about the crime rate. It's fine. Fair, free game, do your thing. The fact that it's the lowest it's ever been is not open for your interpretation.

He sees these things as intertwine. That's why, now you see why you see the terrorists interdicted at the border. When you see the narco-terrorists and you use national security tools, that's how you get to this situation. That Kensington drug market in Philadelphia, you know, any of you listeners out there from Pennsylvania,

that shit's been going on for years. I said, get in there, man. Clean that thing out. And the SAC up, they've been working on that forever. I said, let's go. It's a great operation. Having said that, you know what we do for you on Friday? Producer Jim loves putting this together.

We love to leave you on Friday for a nice, peaceful weekend with our Democrat Zen moment. We all need Zen moments. We can meditate. It's like that, what do they call that, asthma stuff where people like, they like the sound of scratching and stuff like that. A.S.M. Is that what it is? I don't even know. I,

well, maybe I need to watch more scratching me. This is that ASMR moment for you. Everybody can just chill and take it easy. Thank you, producer Jim, for your Democrat Zen moment of the week. Your Democrat Zen moment of the day. A peaceful moment to center your mind. Oh my God. Oh my God. Oh, my God. Keep happening. Like it's, I wake up, oh my god, I wake up every day and it's like one thing after another, after another, after another, and it's just, it's never ending.

It's never. And as there's like, just the seconds are going to go by, there's seconds, and then there's minutes, and then there's hours, and then there's days, and then there's weeks, and then there's months and years and lifetimes! And if reincarnation is real, let me off the ride. I don't want to do it. Unlatch the fucking seatbelt. Unlatch the seatbelt like this. And let me out! This has been Democrat Zen.

I don't know about you guys, but I just, I feel so much more relaxed and better right now. My blood pressure has already dropped systolic, diastolic, quite a few points. Folks, I don't even know if this stuff is, seriously. Is this just an act? Is this a schick? Or are they really like this? You know, I wonder sometimes.

Is this how they really are? Because I don't hang around with these people anymore. I like to think I'm a keen observer of lunacy on the left, but I only see it from a distance. I don't have any friends anymore who are liberal Democrats. I have friends who are Democrats, but they're certainly not crazy. I don't have any friends like this. I don't even know if this is real or it's a shtick.

Hey, man, on a serious note again, it's been now the end of week five. I can't take enough opportunities to thank you guys and ladies out there. I really, really appreciate you guys making this. transition super smooth, back to the air. It's you guys, I owe you everything. I really do. My livelihood, my sanity. I, you know, I always knew during that year away, you know, I knew you'd be there for me on the other side, but I really appreciate it. You know, and again, folks, it's, this is pod track. It's not like the be all and all. There are other metrics, uh, that measure podcast stuff. I think this is for people who use the prod track rankings, whatever it may be, but I appreciate it.

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