The Dan Bongino Show - Is it Over for Bernie? (Ep 1201)

Episode Date: March 11, 2020

In this episode, I address the fallout from last night’s Democrat Primaries and what it means for the Trump team. I also address the 21 words uttered by the FISA court that destroy silly liberal narratives. Finally, I address the troubling misinformation that continues to flow from China regarding the Coronavirus.  News Picks: Pressure mounts on Bernie Sanders to drop out. The Democrats want to cancel the debates because they want to hide Joe Biden. The politics surrounding the Coronavirus will not end any time soon.  Can President Trump expand the electoral map and win some blue states in 2020? The Democrats’ Primary is sending gun sales soaring! The 21 words the that changed the collusion hoax case in the FISA court.   Copyright Bongino Inc 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 rough night for uncle bernie yeah i assume he's feeling the burn you may want to put some cream or like a salve on that or something not a good night for uncle joe either crazy joe biden i've got coverage of last night's super duper sloppy tuesday i've got my coronavirus daily update and i've got that story i've been teasing for you for days why hidden votes matter what the trump team's doing and honestly it's kind of tied to this coronavirus story a lot going on today's show sponsored by express vpn your online activity shouldn't be public, ladies and gentlemen. Protect yourself today with ExpressVPN.com slash Bongino.

Welcome to the Dan Bongino Show. Producer Joe, how are you today? Fine, sir. I'm doing quite well, Daniel. Quite well for all the crazy crap that's going on now. I know. Yeah. No, I know.

It's a rough time. Like I've said, I feel like we're living through something very significant right now. Agreed. something very significant right now and i feel like it's really upon us to distill out what is real from what is fake and i've got a story today from the daily mail about corona that'll that'll show you i was all um ecstatic about getting you some information and then something happened so we'll get to that today show brought to you by buddies at lending club if you're carrying revolving debt that means you're not paying off your credit card every month it could be paying thousands in interest every year.

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That's not what we're going to do here. First, Italy's in an obvious public health crisis right now. They've seen the spread of the coronavirus up there with South Korea and China, places that have had real serious spreads of this. So Italy's been closing down a lot of any public gatherings, basically, at all. So there's a piece in the Wall Street Journal today by the excellent James Freeman saying, hey, before we go full Italy, basically, as with any other problem in life, crafting a virus solution should include consideration of the costs and benefits. I'm not going to keep saying it, but I've said it for the past few days.

I'll just briefly repeat it here. Ladies and gentlemen, it is a serious problem. The question is how serious and what costs should we impose on others based on the level of seriousness? That's it. We have to adequately price the risk here. If we don't, there's going to be a massive miscalculation.

Now, Freeman makes an interesting point here. There is some talk, you've heard it on the news, you've heard it on the media, of places and locales closing schools for kids. Yeah. Well, ladies and gentlemen, that's a massive cost. That is a cost to parents who will have to then stay home or parents who will have to find some kind of daycare babysitting solution. It's a cost. Is it the appropriate cost? Maybe in some areas of the country it is. Maybe in New Rochelle where they've had a larger problem

than in other places, maybe it is. I'll leave that up to the localities and the leaders there and the people there to decide for themselves. Do we have to close down schools nationwide as some people in the media have hysterically proposed right now? Well, Joe, shouldn't we base that on evidence?

Yeah, absolutely. Has that worked in the past? Well, the Wall Street Journal here to provide what we're going to do here again, facts and data and non-hysterical coverage of what's going on. My man. Check this out. This is what happened in the past during the h1n1 the h1n1 flu outbreak in 2009 some schools were closed and kids still ended up congregating at places like malls and water parks one of the doctors mentioned here that the role of children in driving the spread of the current

infection is still unclear basically folks again the hysteria here i believe is multi-purpose for the media number one it drives ratings for them number two they get to damage donald trump it's sad should we be closing schools nationwide the evidence says right now nationwide clearly no we'll see what happens in localities and if that decision is appropriate but based on what happened before with h1n1 it didn't seem seem to stem the flow of that virus either because kids just went out and were playing in parks and were in malls and in water parks and elsewhere.

And if they had, if they were probably spreading it anyway. If your child is sick or you're sick, stay home and stay away from people. It's pretty simple advice so far. Now, more media hysteria. The media has clearly honed in on a talking point, again, meant to damage the Trump administration and not help in a time of crisis. The talking point, you've probably heard it. It comes up all the time. And listen, the questions are valid, please. I'm obviously a supporter of the president, but let's be very careful here. Questions by the citizenry towards the government.

We elected the president, the Senate, the house, our Congress are all fair. I'm simply suggesting to you, are the questions based on a pure motive or are they based on a political attack? And this continued question about the testing kits. Clearly, at this point, i believe is politically motivated what do you want the administration to do more they're wiping away regulations at a record pace to get accurate testing kits out there and they're telling people the right thing if you don't have symptoms please don't get tested because that'll take away a test joe from someone who may be showing symptoms that may need the test. Right, right, right.

Was the delay in getting the test kits out there acceptable? No. But we've got the questions. We've got the answers. The administration is doing what it can. But the Democrats have clearly honed in on a talking point, and that's a delay in getting the coronavirus testing kits out there now i want to show you how this works how the media continues this narrative despite the fact that the question's been asked about the testing kits and it's been answered repeatedly here's an article by politico otherwise known as bull it a co you can fill in the rest look at this exclusive exclusive david lim and brianna ailey u.s coronavirus testing

threatened by shortage of critical lab materials oh my gosh we're all gonna die again again so joe amazingly right again we're all this is like we're resurrected and we're just killed again by these constant barrage of negative media headlines. So Joe, I'm just asking you as the audience referee, you've been for over five years now, we've been doing this show, however long we've been doing it. You read that headline, you're led to believe that there is a crisis and this mass shortage, right? Yep. That's what- Of testing kit supplies, right? And by the way, ladies and gentlemen, 95% or more people only read the headline. Now, if you read the article,

which many liberals won't, and you get to the end of the article, you'll notice at the end that there's this little gem in there, which seems to kind of contradict the hysteria of the headline. there which seems to kind of contradict the hysteria of the headline remember the testing kits is the new media talking point quote same article folks same article not a joke i didn't edit this commercial labs which have recently started running coronavirus tests have not experienced any supply shortages according to a spokesperson for the American Clinical Laboratory. It's not funny. The same article. I don't know what the... It's the same damn article.

It's the same article. Now, Joe, is that at the beginning? Is that the opening paragraph? Of course it is. Hell no. It's all the way at the end, and they're kind of hoping you don't read to the end, where it says that the clinical labs out there doing this have said,

hey, we don't have any shortages yet. Folks, again, will there be shortages? I hope not. I pray not. If there are, yes, we should be covering it. We should be asking questions. It's not our goal to be sheep. I don't care who's in charge, Trump, Reagan, Obama, or anyone else. But do you think, I'm just asking you a simple question. Do you think that headline corresponds to the reality of what that story says? Exclusive, critical shortages. At the end, spokesperson for the lab association says, we're not experiencing any shortages right now. Folks, I only read that. I only read that article at Politico because I saw the headline on Twitter.

I sit here all, Paula can attest to this. I sit here all day and my entire life is preparation for this show for you because I don't want you to miss anything, anything. I sit there all day and read news. It's all I do. I never get up. I'm like this all day. I read that article.

I'm like, wow, this could be trouble. And honestly, there's a lot of opportunities here for people who are panicked selling so i'm like oh my gosh are these lab companies in trouble what's happening are we gonna have to do something and i read the article i get to the end and i find out that the whole story is hysteria and i feel like i just wasted my time yeah proving my now three to four day coverage on Corona, that the getting of information that is accurate and tested is extremely difficult because that's not the media's function now. They want eyeballs and they want anti-Trump hysteria.

Accurate information is a distant 72nd. It's not even third. Showing again how difficult this is. It's not the Daily Mail's fault here, by the way. But here's the UK Daily Mail. Puts out a story I found fascinating. I read the whole thing. Paula, did I not stop you last night?

I go, Paula, check this out. Headline. There's a study out in China how one guy spread corona to nine other people on this bus. There's diagrams in this piece. It's in the show notes. Please go to the show notes, Bongino.com.

If you want to subscribe to my email list, Bongino.com slash newsletter. I'll email you these stories every day. It's a good one. Scientists find the deadly virus can travel four times the safe distance and linger in the air for over 30 minutes and confine places. I was like, oh my gosh. Yeah. That's interesting.

It says a study in China. So I said to Paula, she's fascinated with this. She walked in the door. I said, you got to see this Daily Mail piece. Apparently this thing can live in the air for up to 30 minutes. What happened is, according to this China this uh this sick passenger had left the bus and people who got on the bus after him up to 30 minutes later may have been contaminated so hold on this hold up hold on this story i don't want you to tune out now

if you are you're making a mistake don't spread this before i finish this because again the point of this is not to tell you about the study it's to tell you about how hard it is to get accurate information now let's go to the bullet points from the piece i'm going to read through them and make sure you stay till the end if you're watching on youtube you can read ahead youtube.com slash bongino bullet point scientists studied one guy in china who passed the virus to 13 people in total on the bus the germs jumped as far as 4.5 meters to other travelers that's apparently new it lingered in the air for up to 30 minutes after the man got off the bus, the germs jumped as far as 4.5 meters to other travelers. That's apparently new. It lingered in the air for up to 30 minutes after the man got off the bus.

People who wore masks on the bus were not infected, the study found. I found that interesting too. Coronavirus bugs also stayed on surfaces for days, especially when it was hot. Very interesting. Scientists said their findings show face masks are useful protective measures. This is all unbelievable information. I'm like, I got to get this out to my audience.

Hold on. Time out. T.O. Update. The study published in a Chinese journal has since been retracted. Oh! Oh!

You can't get any, you can't get anything. Again, I'm not blaming the Daily Mail. They put the story out and thought it was a legitimate story. Like we all did too. No one's telling us why it was retracted. Oh, again, be very, very careful about what you're reading. Is that all real?

Does it live for 30 minutes in the air? Can you now get it up to 4.5 meters away to face mask work or not work? I'm just telling you, be very careful about what you're reading. I think a lot of this is designed to stoke hysteria. Not suggesting it. I'm getting a ton of emails on this. I mean, record numbers of emails. I would say outside of Spygate and Kavanaugh, this has been our most involved audience back and forth. Um, listenership downloads, everything. And the exchanges, our email, our Twitter,

everything I'm only, and it'd been on both sides. Some people say, Dan, one lady said to me, you're instilling panic. I said, I am. That's kind of hysterical for you to say that because the whole purpose of the show has been to do the opposite. And other people have been like, don't downplay this, this is serious.

You're both right. It is serious. And some people are panicking, but we're not doing that. We're the ones telling you that this is the classic prisoner's dilemma where neighbors witness their neighbors doing, you know, stocking up on 72 weeks of toilet paper,

and they're going out and doing it too. It's hard to stop that. The only way to combat that is with information. Information matters. I want you to be very careful about what you're reading. Showing you how the stupid virus is spreading faster than Corona. We covered yesterday how leftist propaganda is not interested in all in solving this really tough problem right now. This public health crisis, are more concerned with calling you a racist if you call the virus the Wuhan virus, which is

exactly what it is. Here is the intellectual scion of the left, AOC. And here's what AOC is concerned about, even though she's a representative from New York, where a public health emergency was declared by the governor, Andrew Cuomo. Here's AOC, what she's what she's very worried. About Asian themed restaurants. Check this out. almost so silly to say, but there's a lot of restaurants that are feeling the pain of racism, uh, where people are literally not patroning Chinese restaurants. Um,

they're not patroning Asian restaurants because of just straight up racism around the Corona virus. So, um, hold on. I got this sound. I can't even find a sound effect to describe how stupid that segment just was.

I don't even... You know what? I'm not even wasting time. That's why I'm silent. I don't even know why I played that. I don't even know what to say. I really don't. You know what?

I have a note next to this. You know what it says? Sod. It stands for sound on tape. It's like a term in the industry. That means play the the sod i have aoc and i have really with a question mark because i don't even have anything to add to that okay moving on because i'm not going to dumb you down i'm just again the only purpose to playing that is to show you how unserious government is many people in government in a time of crisis. Not all, but many. Before I move on though, on a separate note,

a serious hat tip and a pat on the back if I can. We don't want to touch people during this, but you healthcare workers, nurses, doctors, administrators, custodians in the hospital sitting there going to work every day. God bless you, men and women. I mean it. You are on the front lines of this. You have my utmost respect. And I think America's too. I was a first responder, a police officer, a secret service agent. I frequently had to tip our military and my law enforcement colleagues because they were allies of mine. But shamefully, I've left out in the past healthcare workers. You're on the front lines too.

You EMTs out there, paramedics, firemen who go out there and attend to people who are sick. It happens all the time. Fire departments are EMTs. And a lot of times in many cities, it's the same thing. You have my utmost respect. God bless you for what you're doing. The serious people. You're the serious people you're the serious

people solving this in light of the idiocy we just saw god bless you okay um you know what let me get through our second sponsor and i want to cover last night some election coverage because last night was a very seriously i mean damaging night for bernie Sanders. And there's some pros and some cons to this one. For us, I'm not talking about, there's really no pros for Bernie, but there's some pros and cons for us, especially with regards to the 2020 general election coming up.

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this is big, bad news for Bernie Sanders, because remember, Bernie Sanders eked out a victory against Hillary Clinton in 2016 in Michigan with their 150 plus delegates last night, which was the big prize. And now looks like he got smoked by an awful candidate in Joe Biden last night. Excuse me. We're already saying. I'm OK. We're already seeing calls for Bernie Sanders to drop out, as we can see from this Washington Examiner piece. The Democrat establishment hates Bernie Sanders. They can't stand him. As Joe knows, and Paul, Bernie Sanders isn't even a Democrat.

He's an independent. He's basically a socialist. So the Democrats have no loyalty to this guy at all. But as we see from this Naomi Lin piece, again, it'll be in the show notes. You can read some of the quotes. Pressure's growing on Bernie now to leave the race. They want him out. They want a clear path for Joe Biden, which is really incredible, folks, because Joe Biden is an awful candidate. I brought this up yesterday.

I'm going to bring it up today after the super duper Tuesday sequel yesterday. Biden is weak. Nobody should be running in fear from Joe Biden. I use that Braveheart analogy. Remember when all the Scots are, wait, do not flee when they see the English on the battlefield. Please, when you see Joe Biden on the electoral battlefield and his supporters, everybody should be saying, wait, do not flee. There's nowhere to run. Joe Biden is weak. Folks, given my choice, I would rather face Biden. He's a mess. This guy's a mess. I brought this up the other day, and I'm going to bring it up today

because I think it's a great point. And I wanted to, unless I thought we were going to be on Hannity about Biden, but it was about the Wuhan virus instead. I want to bring this up in a national setting last night. I'll bring it up now again because it's important. Remember, no Democrats are defending Joe Biden. Nobody talks about how great Biden is. Nobody.

Find the quotes. All they do is tell you what Joe Biden isn't. That is the hallmark of a troubled, deeply troubled campaign and the the candidate that represents it at the top of the candidate of the campaign totem pole. Nobody read all the quotes about Biden. Well, at least he's not Bernie Sanders. The other Democrats. Well, at least he's not Donald Trump. Nobody defends this guy.

It's kind of chatting again before the show. And I brought up this morning to Paula. I said, can you imagine Biden on a debate stage with Trump? Folks, it is going to be a disaster. I'm not predicting the outcome of the election. Things change. We don't know what's going to happen. We saw the Wuhan virus come out of nowhere.

Things change overnight. I'm simply suggesting to you that acting as Bernieernie sanders was this you know was a far worse candidate than this magical uh you know created in like a captain america super serum lab candidate joe biden is insane nobody ever says anything good about biden they only tell you about how not bad he is do you recall any of that with Reagan, with Trump, with Democrats when they spoke about Obama? Talked about Obama like he was the second coming. Nobody does that with Biden. He is weak.

Showing you how weak he is. Here's another headline from the Washington Examiner. James Clyburn, representatives from South Carolina saved the biden campaign by endorsing him and giving him some uh clout in the black community in south carolina which gave him momentum jim cliburn who supposedly loves obama headline caitlin yillick washington examiner jim cliburn cancel future democratic debates folks they want this guy out of the public eye so badly that they're now even though the race is still competitive folks despite what you've heard the race is not over for bernie he has close to 600 delegates he's still running competitively and remember

what i said yesterday in the show even though he lost in a lot of these states, he was very competitive in some of them. He got crushed in some Southern states, but the Democrats don't have a win or lose delegate allocation process. In other words, you win the primary, you get all the delegates. That's not the way the Democrats have set up their process. Their process is proportional. Bernie got 40% of the vote. He gets roughly 40% of the delegates he gets roughly 40 of the delegates how you lose matters he has been losing relatively competitively meaning he's still racking up delegates it is not over but cliburn and the democrats who are having joe biden now ridiculously do seven minutes some speeches stump speeches seven seven in joe biden math seven seven. Seven minute stump speeches.

You believe that? Now, Joe, Joe has been in radio for a long time. You used to do, that's how I met Joe. You don't even do seven minute appearances on brief talk radio segments. You stay for if it's a good candidate. Folks, they are hiding this guy. They want him off the debate stage.

They don't want him talking in public. He is a mess. It's a total disaster and everybody knows it. Now process this for a minute. He is 77 years old now and is showing clear signs of not being up to the job. Can you imagine in four years how bad this is going to be? Don't tell me I'm not going to be frightened away

by Politico and the left-wing media. It's not fair to discuss his mental state. Really? You're the same lunatics who thought John McCain was crazy. Yeah, I was following Twitter. I was going to put it up on the show. Headlines from left-wing outlets, John McCain signs he's losing his mind. Donald Trump, the 25th Amendment.

Please spare us your garbage. We're not interested. Move along. We will discuss whatever we want. And Joe Biden's mental state is a fair topic of discussion for the man who's going to be the commander in chief of the most powerful military in the history of humankind. Period. Full stop. Thank you.

Have a nice day. He is not up for the job. The Democrats know this. Can you imagine if he gets reelected? You're going to be talking about a guy in his mid 80s who at 77 has shown no ability whatsoever to handle the campaign trail. You doubt me? You probably saw this video yesterday. i don't like to play stuff that saturates cable news but it's important in light of it some of you may have missed it

here is a video of joe biden with a union worker in michigan i'm verbally accosting the guy and biden who's like the weakest candidate out there physically and mentally at this point. Why is he always threatening people with like violence? Yeah. It's folks. It's sad as a guy who practices violence often through mixed martial arts and Brazilian jujitsu

only to avoid it. Seriously. Anyone who knows me knows I'm not in any way. I'm a big teddy bear. I only practice that so I won't get attacked and I can protect my family. Seriously, anyone who knows me knows I'm not in any way. I'm a big teddy bear. I only practice that so I won't get attacked and I can protect my family. What is Joe Biden at 77 constantly at, I'll take you outside. The other guy, remember the other guy, what, months ago?

I'll challenge you to a pushup contest. Hey, come on, man. I'll take Trump outside. Dude, please cut the, it's silly, it's stupid, and the fakest tough guys in the world are always the ones who talk about being tough guys the most. Enough. Zip it, Joe. It's embarrassing. Here's Joe, you probably saw this, but again, I want to do a follow-up, threatening this union worker.

It's just so stupid. Check this out. These union workers that have been working countless hours under the Trump administration. I'd like you to explain how you plan to not only keep us working, but how you intend on getting the union vote when there is a large portion of the union workers that are gun enthusiasts. And you are actively trying to diminish your Second Amendment right and take away our gun. You're full of s**t. All right. Thank you. Shush. Shush. I support the Second Amendment. amendment right and take away our guns you're full of all right thank you guys i support the second amendment the second amendment just like right now if you yell fire that's not free speech and from the very beginning i have a shotgun i have a 20 gauge a 12 gauge

my son's hunt guess what you're not allowed to own any. I'm not taking your gun away at all. You need 100 rounds? When you went to the Vendo and you said you were going to take our guns, that means a lot. I did not say that. I did not say that. It's a viral video. It's a viral video like the other ones they're putting out that are simply a lie. Your voice, you said that you're taking the guns away. He just clarified it.

Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Take the AR-14s. Okay, this is not okay. Hold on, hold on. You want to talk about this? There's a lot of guys. You're looking for me, wait. Take your AR-14s and look. Okay, this is not okay. Hold on, hold on. All right. There's a lot of guys. You're looking for me, man. I'm not working. Thank you so much.

Give me a break, man. Don't be such a horse guy. So there's Joe Biden, again, time number 6,422, threatening a guy, cussing him out. At least he didn't call him a lying, dog-faced pony soldier like he called that woman in that other rally now you probably saw it so you're saying well what because you know i don't like to play stuff that's sick because you can see it on cable why am i playing this not because i need to highlight joe's serious decline in the campaign trail we already know that i just covered it even the democrats are trying to hide him cancel the debates seven minute stump speeches when i ran for congress i did half hour stump speeches congress here's coverage on msnbc of that incident and why is this sensitive to me before i get of

course joe the coverage of that is going to be because joe's a democrat joe biden that was so awesome man it was so awesome he told a potential voter he's going to take him outside and kick his ass. This is great. This is really awesome. Or what do you say? Let's go outside or threaten to slap him or whatever. This is great. Why is this sensitive to me? Because folks, many of you know me, been with me a long time. You're my audience and I tell you things I don't tell everyone else. I obviously have had some confrontations with media types i'm a new york guy and that's not an excuse but i've told media people to go blank themselves and told one that his outlet was full of stuff and so i've heard c-pack and yeah joe's heard the rumors yeah those rumors are

true and you know it reminds me of that ghostbusters line when i told the guy um that your boss at media is a d um reminds me of ghostbusters and when he calls the guy d lists and then the guy says uh bill murray says that is true he has no that is true what i said but it's kind of funny because by the way i wasn't i never i've never by the way, ever, because it's unforgivable and it's against my values. You don't threaten physically people. I'm 6'1", 230 pounds, totally inappropriate, totally inappropriate, immoral. But I have had episodes where I've told people, Joe, the headline every time is unhinged, crazy, lunatic, damn budget. The headline every time is unhinged, crazy, lunatic, damn budget.

Joe Biden physically threatens people. And listen to this coverage by Claire McCaskill, how awesome this is when Democrats do it. Check this out. Him going toe to toe with that union member today where the rest of the union guys were all around and he used a bad word. That will help him with those voters. It won't hurt him. It will help him. There you go. When Joe Biden does it, it's awesome. Claire McCaskill, this is great. People are going to love this. Yet I tell fake news outlets they can go somewhere and all of a sudden it's like, I'm just telling you from a guy who's been a victim of this stuff, this is why you just have to gaff off and not care whatsoever.

If you're running for office, take my advice. Just gaff it off. This media coverage of all, just gaff it off. It will have no effect whatsoever on you. Where people don't like the media, they know it's dishonest. If you feel the need to tell them to go somewhere, then you do whatever you want to do. Because it doesn't matter. If you're a Republican,

you will always be painted as the unhinged, insane lunatic. The Democrats will, you know how they'll be painted, Joe? He's a truth teller, shows an edge. Whatever, it's total crap. Just ignore it. I do, I actually relish it. And I'll tell you, I never got more.

That Mediaite article came out. We did a million downloads that same day. So I'm serious. I can't thank him enough. All right, what do we just cover here rough night for him oh okay this is i want to get back to some this is just a brief kind of spygate so i know i haven't touched it in a few days actually more than a few days because you know i only cover it when there's news but this is important just quick one but this story's in the show notes and i want you to keep it handy this is one of those articles i'd like you to keep up on your phone or your computer. Keep it handy because it totally, again, annihilates this

left-wing stupid media talking point that, oh my gosh, nothing really went wrong with the FISA process. We shouldn't worry. It was just a few low-level guys. John Solomon has a piece up at his excellent new website. I think it's just the news. But this one was at John Solomon Reports. It's important. Going back to back to March 9th, 2020. The 21 words uttered by the FISA court that changed the Russian collusion case forever. No one ever forget this. I wanted to bunk a narrative here. And this is what this piece accurately does.

Again, be available in the show notes, Bongito.com slash newsletter. Please check it out. We keep hearing from the media, this misleading of the the Pfizer courts with the fake dossier to spy on candidates Joe don't worry no big deal it was some low-level guys it wasn't institutional nothing needs to change now this is important why because the media loves gaslighting yeah cool nothing to worry about right they love gaslighting and they're doing it for a reason nothing is by coincidence folks nothing let's get to the words first about the 21 words that matter and then why this is all coming out now this media gaslighting that oh it's just a few low level fbi guys it's not a coincidence i First, here was the ruling by the actual FISA

court judge and what he said. So you have his actual words handy and ready to go from the John Solomon piece. Quote, in just 21 words, FISA Judge Boasberg provided the first judicial declaration that the FBI had in fact misled the court, not just committed process errors. Quote, there is thus little doubt that the government breached its duty of candor to the court with respect to those applications. Folks, this has already been ruled on that the FISA court was clearly misled by government investigators in an effort to spy on Donald Trump. I know you know that, but it's important you have the words

at your fingertips ready to go because leftists want you to believe that it was low-level. Because the modern left that used to be, used to be concerned with civil liberties has been largely, not all, this is important,

I'll bring this up in a second with regards to this Wall Street Journal article, largely article largely but not all hijacked by police staters follow me here i know this is i don't want this to be convoluted i've seen a re-emergence of this narrative just in the last few months silly narrative that the fbi spied on trump They clearly misled the court. We know that because the dossier they used was fake. But don't worry. It was low-level guys.

We should keep the process. Why? Why is that narrative emerged, despite the fact that the FISA judge just debunked the whole narrative? He's saying this isn't process stuff. This is big. Because the left has been hijacked by people who love the weaponization of the intelligence community they've seen the success of doing it with the trump collusion hoax

they want to keep this going everybody tracking me now why is this perfectly timed, these fake narratives? Because by March 15th, a lot of these FISA and spying Patriot Act provisions, which I've been discussing on the show, roving wiretaps, business records provisions, are up for renewal. People like Mike Lee and Rand Paul and FreedomWorks and other organizations have been bravely fighting against this because the FISA court's a total scam and a joke and should be thrown out completely. But they're up against, sadly, some rhino Republicans who aren't real constitutionalists and a bunch of leftist Democrats who used to care about civil liberties.

Remember the ACLU and all this? Who now, I don't know what the ACLU's position on this is, but some civil liberties, they used to care about that stuff. No more. They are all in on the police state now, and they want to desperately make sure, Joe, that all of these FISA provisions are renewed with almost no changes at all so the Democrats can do it again. All of this stuff is time. None of this is a coincidence.

Look at this Wall Street Journal piece about these FISA provisions and these Patriot Act provisions up for renewal. The editorial board says, a headline, cleaning up the FISA mess. Now you may say the Democrats have the majority in the House. What is stopping them from putting a hold on any reforms and just reauthorizing all this FISA Patriot Act stuff, Joe. Well, notice before I said not all of the Democrat Party's been hijacked. A lot of it has. But thankfully, there are some honest progressives, may not agree with them, but at least they're principled and are honest about what they stand for. There are some progressives who are saying in the House, you know what?

I said I wasn't into this government spying thing years ago when it was the Republicans, and I'm not into it now when we did it either. Shocker. Some of them still have principles. You don't believe me? Check out this snippet from the piece. Despite these revelations, talking about the Boasberg revelations that the FISA court was abused by the DOJ and others. House Democrats initially planned

the reauthorization of all this stuff that contained negligible reforms. But a revolt by progressives against nearly any surveillance forced the Democrat leaders to seek GOP votes. That's the chance for some modest reform. I'm not here celebrating these radical far leftists who would like nothing more than to see your tax money, your healthcare, and your education all fall into their

hands so they can destroy it. I'm simply here to give you the facts. The facts are that some progressives thankfully have stuck to their guns on civil liberties and are saying, nah, this FISA spying thing isn't such a good thing. And the Democrats are saying, we don't have enough votes to make this thing go through to keep our police state dreams up and fresh, fresh and clean, smelling nice like new linens. We're going to need some GOP votes too. And a lot of these Republicans are saying, no, no, we're not reauthorizing this thing clean. You're going to fix some stuff. Some of the proposals, ladies and gentlemen, I think a week, the FISA court just has to go. I'm sorry. The whole FISA court, I don't believe in any of this Patriot Act nonsense. Get a warrant. If it's a foreigner who is not in the United

States, it doesn't matter anyway. Get rid of it. Get a warrant. It's not hard. But some of the provisions have been the attorney general bill barr or any future attorney general have to be notified about future uh spying campaigns and cases that may involve a political candidate that's all not folks it doesn't matter you think if loretta lynch was notified about this or eric holder it would have mattered it's just dumb pfizer court's a. But I don't want to sell them short. Again, at least some progressives have stuck by their guns on them. Okay, I want to get to this hidden votes piece

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So I've been teasing this article all week because I found it fascinating. I think having been a candidate run for office myself, I'm always sensitive to political tactics, changing tactics, and how things are going to work or not work for a campaign that can either leverage or gets run over by modern technology. The Trump campaign has been especially effective with these rallies in leveraging what we'll call finding hidden votes. Now, there was this piece in Politico, it's actually semi-decent, which is a shocker. It's in the show notes from a couple of days ago. And the headline is this, why hidden votes matter. What are hidden votes? Folks, when you run for

office as I did, the headline of the piece by the way is politico are trump's MAGA rallies a hotbed of quote hidden voters hidden voters are people who don't show up on voter registration or voter lists from people who voted when you run for office most state parties republicans and democrats when i ran in ran in Maryland and Florida, and even private companies can access voter lists. Now, they have no idea who you voted for. They know two things. They know what your party registration is, and they know that you voted. We have a secret ballot in the United States. It would be illegal to do. No one knows who you voted for. Now, you can assume what you'll look at is like what we would call on our campaign when I ran for Congress, the four by four voters, people who last four primaries, last four elections

are registered Republicans and voted. If they didn't change their party affiliation at some point, you can reasonably assume, although you don't know, but you can reasonably assume they voted Republican. When you're running in a primary, you want to knock on those doors because in many states, only Republicans can vote in a primary. And that's what you'll do. You'll pick the last four primaries, the last four general elections, who voted in every one, meaning they're diehard voters and they haven't changed their affiliation. So they're probably diehard Republicans. That's great. The problem is, ladies and gentlemen, every candidate has access to that.

So the door you knock on is going to be knocked on 10 minutes later by your opponent. Pretty simple. The key to an election in these modern times is to find the hidden voters. Now, how was that done in the past? In other words, people who are not registered yet who are going to, so they don't show up on any voter registration roll, or people who are registered

but haven't voted in the last four generals, the last four primaries, but may vote in the next one. These are your hidden voters, and these are pockets of support that can be a secret weapon because nobody knows about them because they're not there they don't show up in the paperwork in the spreadsheets

how have you found them in the past well ladies and gentlemen before facebook twitter targeting being able to use text messaging and things like that, geo-targeting. What did we do? You ran an ad on NBC or CBS and you hope that hidden voters saw it and said, hey, I like this candidate, Dan Bongino, and I want to go out and register to vote and vote. What's the problem with that? The problem with that is you're probably spending upwards of $5,000, $10,000 if it's an ad that's going to get seen by a wide number of people and the person you're influencing there you may reach five or ten people if you're lucky paying about a thousand dollars to vote it's a huge colossal waste of money and time

the trump campaign and this is why with the wuhan virus and this people who are now canceling rallies this could be very damaging i don't want to gloss over this these trump rallies have been a hotbed to quote politico of finding hidden voters for free let's go to takeaway number one this has been the genius of the trump campaign hat tip to Brad Parscale, who's been running it. Quote, keep in mind, it's from Politico. They don't even like Trump. But by compiling names from Trump's enormously popular rallies where people go to register, folks, his campaign says it's able to appeal to potential supporters, i.e. hidden voters, folks, in a way other campaigns haven't done. other campaigns haven't done.

This is one Republican strategist simply dubbed Trump's additional names hidden voters because they can't be identified by other candidates from traditional voter lists. Again, why? Because they didn't vote before. Everyone generally has access to the same data. Like I just told you, this person said, but these people are showing up

and the other side can't see them. They're new voters that are secret. Folks, these rallies are gold. It'll be very politically damaging if he can't continue to do them. Having said that, he's already identified tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of these secret voters. Now, some have said, well, a lot of these secret and persuadable voters who are not registered but may register to vote and who are registered but haven't voted, a lot of them don't like Trump and are going to show up because they hate Trump. Well, let me give you the counterpoint, too, from the Politico piece. That's not inaccurate. This guy says Democrats actually have more opportunities than Republicans to reel in those hidden voters, citing a Pew study that examined 40% of eligible voters who didn't cast a ballot in 2016. Democrats and Democrat-leading

independents comprised 55% of those non-voters, while 41% of the non-voters were Republicans and Republican-leaners, the study showed. Okay, fine. Their counterpoint is this. Well, those hidden voters, the majority of them want to vote Democrat or Democrat-le that's great ladies and gentlemen the problem is how much is it going to cost the democrats to find them because it's costing the trump campaign zero because they're walking into trump rallies and texting what is it text 88022 i did it this morning what's my action item as i say in all my speeches when I go out to do matters, talk is cheap. I hope you love my show.

I love my show, but ladies and gentlemen, talk is cheap. If it doesn't motivate you to action, it's all nonsense. Spoke in front of a group the other day, got out there and did my part. You need to do it too.

I ran for office. Go out there and do something. Give the Trump campaign your data. I'm not telling you to, this is not an order. I've been no position to do that. We're all friends here. I'm simply saying, if you want to do something that matters, don't make the Trump campaign spend $20,000 on an ad to find you.

If you can text, you got to text Trump, T-R-U-M-P, just his last name. Text Trump, go to your phone, do it it today to 88022 i just did it i'm not kidding here i'll show you my phone you think i'm messing with you i just did it here can you see that it says thanks our team trump take our team trump survey which i'll do in a minute and then you reply with your zip code and they'll give you some information targeted to your area. They did not pay for this spot. I have had them as a sponsor before.

Disclosure. I'm just telling you, if you want to help them, don't make them pay to find you. The Democrats may have an advantage in that whatever, they're 55% of people who didn't vote may vote Democrat, but the Democrats have to go find them first. We don't have that problem with the rallies i love that piece it was very good even though it was in politico which is a really horrible

rag most of the time all right i gotta move on because i got a lot to cover today's a busy news day new york times this is just this this is so beyond ridiculous, absurd, hilarious. Here it is. Here it is again. New York Times. Russia trying to stoke US racial tensions before election. Officials say, here it is, Joe. Look who the author is again. Here he is. I can't believe it. Mr. Adam Goldman. This guy, again, ladies and gentlemen, this guy is like the lead gaslighter on whenever the intelligence community needs a colossal line of BS to put out. They go to Adam Goldman. This guy at the New York Times is like a sounding board for disgruntled members of the IC intelligence community who want to get a story, not the story out there. And he repeats it every time.

So I want to show you the piece again, kind of in light of what I told you about the Politico story, the initial Politico story saying lab shortages. Then at the end of the story, there's no lab shortages. So this piece, what's the headline? The Russians are at it again. they're trying to stoke racial tensions everybody the russians are coming they got beating paul revere throughout the streets sounding the alarm the russians are coming the russians are coming

well when you get down into the piece again they always kind of bury this a little bit joe who told them this, Adam Goldman? We all need to worry about the Russians. Why are they doing this? Again, because they're going back to the 2016 playbook. It's not new. It's not even hard to figure out.

If Trump wins re-election, they are just going to bring out of the dirt and resurrect from the grave the narrative that the Russians did it. It's as simple as that. It's a lot more complicated. And they're already prepping you for it so according to goldman officials are telling him this joe this is really serious the russians are trying to help trump win

joe taking this very seriously yes we are dan it is it is most it is it is fakest serious serious fakest voice you read down in a piece and you see this little gem. Russia's primary goal, according to several officials, Joe briefed on intelligence who spoke on the condition of anonymity. Discuss this information is to foster a sense of chaos in the US. Listen to this part. This is great. Though Russia's motivations are under debate and difficult to decipher in the absence of high-level intelligence sources inside Moscow.

Oh, oh. Okay, this is great. So we're all supposed to believe in this headline at the New York Times that the Russians, again, listen, I have no doubt the Russians want to screw up this country. And I have no doubt. The question is not, is it a problem? It's, again, how serious a problem.

Apparently, it's serious enough for a New York Times headline. Keep in mind, the Chinese are doing this too. So are all our geopolitical adversaries trying to mess with our elections. Why does Russia continue to get this unwarranted attention? By unwarranted, I mean constant coverage every day in lieu and the opportunity cost of covering everyone else's intelligence operations in the United States because they think it worked in 2016. And they'll lie about it again. That's right. I see the Russians are doing it again.

You read again, you get down into the piece and you find out that, well, we're not really sure this is true because we don't have any high level sources in Moscow. That's crazy because Christopher Steele's entire dossier was based on quote high level sources in Moscow that the media told us was legit. Can you put that back up again? Because despite the fact that Goldman himself, known Spygate media plotter, acknowledges that his sources, and I'm using air quotes because these are not real sources, are telling him they have no good sources in Moscow. But we definitely know a lot about Moscow. Are also telling him that this is clearly here to help Trump because some American officials said that Russia believed acts of violence could bolster President Trump's reelection bid. If he could argue that a response to this episode demanded a law and order approach. Holy Moses, ladies and gentlemen,

the stupidity of this is endless. The intellectual vacuum our media lives in is just staggering. How stupid do they think you really are to fall for this again? In his own piece, Spygate plotter himself, Goldman, acknowledges that his sources are telling him they have no good sources as he in the next paragraph writes,

but those sources are telling us the Russians are definitely helping Trump. Jeez Louise. It's a real piece. By the way, hat tip, hat tips are important.

Svetlana Lakova, who I had the interview show with, it's on my YouTube channel, youtube.com slash Bongino. She had this on her Twitter feed. That's who I had the interview show with, it's on my YouTube channel, youtube.com slash Bongino. She had this on her Twitter feed. That's where I saw the article. She can't believe it either. That in their own piece, they're telling you they have no good sources,

simultaneously telling you how those horrible sources are telling them the Russians are definitely back to help Trump. And suckers are, it's unbelievable. Suckers are falling for it again. Oh my gosh. Please folks, please, please. I'm begging you. Stop falling for this garbage. The media is wasting your time. Do your own homework. Do not rely on these people at the Times, the Post. It is garbage. It is all garbage. Politico, garbage. All right, I don't have enough time.

All right, let me cover this final story. From an economics perspective, Washington Times, another story up in the show notes today. Please check it out. There are some battles going up on Capitol Hill right now. What to do about the economy as we're looking now at the stock market struggling a bit today, very volatile. Volatility index is off the charts.

I see it as a buying opportunity. I'm not your financial advisor. Based on your risk, you have to determine what you need to do. I totally understand that. Some people said, well, don't tell people to buy. I'm not telling people to buy. I'm telling you what I do. You do what you want to do.

I'm not telling anybody to do anything. I'm not your financial advisor. I'm just telling you I believe in the long-term power of the U.S. economy. We are going to get a vaccine. We are going to get through this. Washington Times headline, Democrats use coronavirus crisis to push a liberal wishlist, of course.

Really? Liberals. I mean, this isn't even like a shock. They want more paid sick leave, food stamps, all the liberal wishlists. President Trump is proposing a payroll tax cut. I don't think it's going to go through, folks. I don't think, honestly, they'll even have all the Republican votes for it. Candidly, is it the best idea out there? I'm not sure.

You say, okay, Dan, well, what's your idea? Fair enough. Good question. I think a better idea would be to push for a long-term tax cut, a drastic middle-class tax cut, maybe 10 percentage points. You may say, that's crazy. It'll never get through. Ladies and gentlemen, this payroll tax is probably not going to get through either. To be clear, payroll tax, we're talking about FICA, Social Security. They're talking about zeroing that out for a little while.

You may say, well, what's the problem with that? It's more money in our pockets. I love that. I love more money in Americans' pockets and not in the government's pockets. Don't get me wrong. The problem is it's temporary, like it was when Bush did it, like it was when Obama did it. And you may get a little juice out of it, but it's not going to impact long-term investment decisions we need. We need companies on a longer horizon to be able to plan out in the future what their income is going to be and make investment decisions.

Can I give you, you know, I hate business school examples because business school is great, but you know, practical business experience matters as many, you know, but I did learn a lot. And some of the things I apply in my own Bonjino Inc business here with my wife. When a business is trying to say, you know, Joe has a computer factory, he has on the side. When they're trying to plan out investment decisions, like, do I open up a computer factory, he has on the side. When they're trying to plan out investment decisions, like do I open up a new factory because we're getting a lot of demand. I sold 100,000 computers last year,

demand next year's for 200. I don't have enough capacity. I may need to build a new factory. When a business does that, they use modern methods. And a lot of these modern methods are very simply spreadsheets and net present value analysis. Excuse me.

In other words, I'm not supposed to touch your face, but I just had an itch in my nose. Net present value analysis. Excuse me. In other words, I'm not supposed to touch your face, but I just had an itch in my nose. Net present value analysis is this. If I invest this million dollars in a factory, depreciate it over time, will that million dollars in today's money generate a positive return to me or a negative one? It's as simple as that. Okay. So they discount backwards their planned expenses. What are we going to have to pay in taxes? What's the anticipated demand? How much is it going to cost for employees? And they put them in simple spreadsheets. It's impossible to plan out though in the future if you have no idea what some of those costs in the spreadsheet are going to be. A payroll tax cut, again, I'm more all about getting money in your pockets and it's better

than nothing. I'd rather see a long-term cut. Capital gains, corporate taxes, middle-class tax cut. It would allow companies to plan long-term where some of those expenses for them, taxes would be lesser. That may make some of those investments that were negative, in fact, positive now, and we'd get more of a boost long-term out of it. The Democrats' plans, I think, are garbage. I think it's not going to help at all. But another problem with the payroll tax cut is if you're laid off right now, you're not on a payroll. So the payroll tax isn't going to help you. Cutting tax rates, if you get a job back would probably help a lot

and it may help what you're filing and it may help what your income tax at the end of next year. Corporate tax cut would go a long way for helping companies invest.

Read the article though. You could see the competing plans. Again, I'll take a payroll tax cut if it's the only option, but I'd much rather see a long-term middle-class tax cut and a corporate tax cut as well.

It's the best way to do it. We need investment. All right, folks, thanks again for tuning in. I really appreciate it. Please subscribe to our YouTube channel. Thanks to everybody who did yesterday. We had a big bump yesterday. 1,000 new subscribers in one day.

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