The Dan Bongino Show - It’s Worse Than We Thought (Ep 1060)

Episode Date: September 5, 2019

In this episode, I address the outrageous comments by the 2020 candidates for President at the CNN townhall yesterday. I also cover the dangers of this economic shift happening around the world. Finally, I address the critical lawsuit against the Spygate plotters which could expose a dark secret. News Picks:You’ll never guess who the liberal Chicago Mayor is blaming for gun control failures.    The Jim Comey spying operation on President Trump is worse than we thought.   Was Jim Comey running a rogue spying operation on the White House?   Crazy Bernie Sanders wants population control measures.   This piece debunks the silly overpopulation myth.   Are negative interest rates coming to the United States?   Copyright Dan Bongino All Rights Reserved. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Oh, do I got a show for you today? We have some more priceless Bernie Sanders material. This guy, it just never ends. It's becoming a comedy show. It's like the sequel to Dave Chappelle's new Sticks and Stones. It's like Bernie Sanders' Stones and Sticks. So I got a lot of stuff

there. I got breaking news on a lawsuit that Jay Sekulow's group is filing against Comey that hopefully will reveal the big question we've been asking forever now on this show. Yes? Who is Charlielie we actually had a show titled who is charlie we'll get to that later very important stuff all right don't go anywhere

folks welcome to the dan bongino show producer joe how are you today now kind of wow charlie i'm doing good on this thundering thursday all right wow that was um quite an intro there joe uh yes that was fascinating. I'm waiting for you to- Some lady wrote on Facebook, by the way, that she told her husband she has a secret crush on you. I'm not kidding. It's on my Facebook.

I'm going to have to send you a screenshot. She obviously didn't mind. She sent it to me. Well, thank you. So yeah. Yeah. So I read your Facebook messages, folks, and I just want to pass that on to producer Joe.

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All right, let's go. So our good friend Bernie Sanders. Why do you talk about Bernie so much? Ladies and gentlemen, because you can attribute the left-leaning lurch of the Democrat Party to as much of a fool as this guy is largely to Bernie Sanders. Remember, this was the party just, you know, gosh, 20 plus years ago in the Bill Clinton administration. I'm losing track of time.

In the Clinton administration, they gave a speech, Bill Clinton, the era of big government's over. The era of Bill Clinton saying the era of big government's over is now over. That's over. And you can attribute a lot of that to the success of this wacko, Bernie Sanders, getting his message out there. Bernie Sanders was on this ridiculous climate change, like 22-hour telethon yesterday on CNN,

which luckily I don't think anybody watched because it was so rife with misinformation and gaslighting. But Bernie Sanders was on yesterday doing what Bernie does well, propagating myths. Here he is responding to a question from a woman in the audience who believes in, if I had to rank the biggest hoaxes, liberal hoaxes out there, socialism works, climate change change global warming is real i i'm not kidding you may think this is a dumb question by this lady but liberals actually believe this i would rank this one number one that overpopulation is a big problem on planet earth play this cut human population growth has more than doubled in the past 50 years. The planet cannot sustain this growth. I realize this is a poisonous topic for politicians,

but it's crucial to face. Empowering women and educating everyone on the need to curb population growth seems a reasonable campaign to enact. Would you be courageous enough to discuss this issue and make it a key feature of a plan to address climate catastrophe? Well, Martha, the answer is yes. And the answer has everything to do with the fact

that women in the United States of America, by the way, have a right to control their own bodies and make reproductive decisions. And the Mexico City Agreement, which denies American aid to those organizations around the world that allow women to have abortions or even get involved in birth control, to me is totally absurd. around the world where women do not necessarily want to have large numbers of babies and where they can have the opportunity through birth control to control the number of kids they have something i very very strongly uh support oh uh captain courageous there uh what um but my ifb line here hey i got people calling me here people call again with the phone um folks here's my problem with so bernie sanders now wants to control the population um wants to engage in population control measures. Folks, this is not a small deal.

I'm kind of like puzzled by this because this is one of those things, the overpopulation myth, do you understand? Because I want to pull this out to 30,000, 40,000 feet here for a moment, if you wouldn't mind. I've talked about this on the show repeatedly, as Joe knows, over the last, what, four or five years of podcasting and doing this

and guest hosting on radio shows. Do you understand the myth of overpopulation on planet Earth is the bedrock of a lot of poorly thought out, dangerous and deadly liberal policies? Their commitment in the early days to Margaret Sanger, like eugenics, the founder of Planned Parenthood, their commitment to abortion at all costs as a sacrament, their commitment to land restrictions and and energy restrictions policies are bedrocked in the idea when you pull it out to a bigger argument that the world is overpopulated. Don't underestimate. I'm not kidding. When you ever get a liberal that thinks they're educated like Martha Reddy, Reddy off or whatever. And she's a teacher, which is frightening when you get them really talking, because I have, I've had to debate them through my runs for office and through being an activist for as long as I have, it will always come

down to some kind of eugenics or overpopulation. In other words, as Bernie says, it's the poor people. We need to control them. They should not proliferate. It always comes down to that. Always. Every time. control them they should not proliferate it always comes down to that yeah always every time now this is a myth ladies and gentlemen it is one of the most pernicious myths dangerous myths and deadly myths in modern human history that the world is overpopulated and we're all we're all

gonna die now i want to want to spend a whole bunch of time on this but this is important it's why i pulled this specific clip out everything comes down to the left believing that the world is overpopulated i pulled a couple of pieces and i found this one even though it's from 2013 it'll be in the show notes by the way it's worth your time from pop.org this is population research institute it's it's dated October 1st, 2013. It's debunking the myth of overpopulation, but it is worth your time. Please read.

It's not very long. It's in the show notes. I'm going to hit a couple of points here that address the myth of overpopulation. Myth number one about overpopulation. We're running out of food. We're all going to die. You're all going to die. There's no

food. Everybody is going to starve. There's no food. Actually, that's not true. From the pop.org piece here, check this out. Here's the reality, the hard facts on the ground, footnoted with the research, by the way, on what's actually going on with the world food supply. Food, there isn't enough, quote. Well, since the time of Malthus, Malthus is another one of these population bomb people, like Paul Ehrlich, who believes the world is overpopulated. They were called Malthusians. Since the

time of Malthus in the early 1800s, doomsayers have gloomily predicted that mankind would outbreed its food supply, resulting in catastrophic famines. Joe, we're all gonna die. Oh, gosh, Bernie. Yet the world currently produces enough food, Joe,

to feed 10 billion people. Oh. Well, there were only 7 billion of us. Now, this is 2013. That is, with 7 billion human minds at work, we produce enough food for 10 billion human bodies. Imagine how much food we could produce with 10 billion minds folks

we are not the biggest problem we have in rich wealthy capitalist countries that have managed through total factor productivity to use their brain power to find new ways to farm the biggest problem we have is not starvation it's obesity we are eating ourselves to death yeah now are there to be fair are there and to be fair to be honest is more appropriate yes there are famines that happen these famines are largely the result of human failures they are the result of governing failures they are not the result of the world being overpopulated we currently have enough food for 10 billion people. About 2 billion. We can feed 2 billion people more than exist on the planet right now with our current brain power.

So what Bernie's telling you in answering this, we got to control the population. We need population control. Birth control everywhere. Birth control. Hand them out like Wheaties. It's not true. He's just making it up it's annoying he's just that folks you just don't know what you're talking about if you're going to insist the world is overpopulated like margaret or martha whatever her name is ready up number two joe we're clearly running out of drinkable water. Everybody's going to die of thirst. Yeah, that's not true either from the Pop.org piece.

Thank God. This is not enough fresh water for everyone. Well, there is since 1900. Fresh water with Jarls, in other words, the production of usable water, has increased much faster than the human population has increased. Fresh water with Jarls have increased sevenfold since 1900, while the world population has increased only fourfold. This suggests our ability to access usable water is increasing faster than population

growth. Ladies and gentlemen, we are not running out of water. The supply of water around the globe does not change. It changes forms from its liquid state to ice, to its gaseous state, the steam up in the, it doesn't, the water, it doesn't, it doesn't, yes, there are parts of the world that at times have been parched. It does not mean the world is overpopulated. Again, I want to spend a ton of time on this.

It's just, it's the bedrock of the liberal stupidity you see out there. I got a bunch of stuff. This lawsuit by ACLJ is going to blow the doors off this Comey stuff, by the way. Again, I know it doesn't always mean they're going to be in handcuffs. Don't mistake the two. But here, finally, one final piece, because I believe this too, and the reason I'm bringing this up

and why it's such a sensitive topic to me, why I'm opening the show with it today after that dopey climate change panel, a seven-hour long telethon on CNN yesterday, this matters to me for a reason. If I may tell you a personal story from it, I was sitting in and I was not, I was never a liberal, but I was an independent in college. And you know, you're in college and you, you know, the liberal poll is always there. It's like a magnet. Everybody's a liberal in college.

And I started to believe this overpopulation myth to the point where I was lecturing my mom about it. Mom, the world is overpopulated. We're all gonna die. And my mom was like, we are? And I remember telling her like, look, every problem is overpopulation. Parking and all this other stuff. I look back and I'm like, gosh, were you an idiot? Like, how stupid were you?

True story though. One day, Metropolitan Avenue in Queens, I'm in a pharmacy waiting, I was sick. So I start leafing through a book and I think it was, I not sure but i think it was limbaugh's book and in there was this statistic i could not believe because i believed overpopulation was real it said that every human being on earth i'm not sure if it was limbaugh's book so forgive me but it was it was a conservative book and it said every human being on Earth could fit in the state of Texas with the equivalent living area of the average apartment size in Europe. Every human being on Earth.

So the whole rest of the planet could evacuate into Texas alone, and you could all have apartments with the equivalent living space of an average size apartment in Western Europe. Doesn't sound overpopulated to me. And there was another statistic from that Population.org piece, which it's not on the screen, but you'll see it in the piece if you read it, that every person on Earth right now, man, woman, and child, if we were to evenly space people out,

there would be five acres between you and the next person. You'd be like, hey buddy can you hear me five acres to yourself before you would contact another human being you'd have to get hand signals and smoke signals folks five acres it's a pretty big amount of space man the world is not overpopulated stop telling people that it's not true and this is why i say like we have to debunk this stuff i got a very nice facebook message from a woman this morning i responded to i tried to respond to someone she said you know i appreciate your show because i was a liberal and i never i believed all this stuff was true before. This is what we do here. It's just not true. Ladies and gentlemen, the world is not overpopulated. Stop using it as an excuse liberals to engage

in forced abortions, massive efforts to control, uh, you know, birth control. You want to buy birth control by birth control. It's available anywhere. It's there like tic tacs but don't tell us that the government should get involved in massive population control measures we saw that in china with forced abortion and it really hasn't worked out too well speaking of obtuse bernie sanders and thanks to joe for processing these things this is bernie yesterday this is just i mean i'm sorry because talking about bernie is really you lose brain cells by the moment discussing this guy. Here's Bernie at a small little town hall he did yesterday. And a baby starts crying in the event.

And Bernie just doesn't know what to do because he's so obtuse. Check this out. This is great. In front of a TV camera. Why did I hear you correctly say that you have to cut your pills in half? the baby starts crying the baby starts crying could you keep that down that like it's got a volume button ma'am ma'am turn the volume on that thing down whatever you're holding there that resembles a mini human i don't know what that is i heard it burping there was some seminations from its mouth, potentially from

its other end. Turn that thing down. There's a clicker on the back. Go to the back, open the onesie, turn the volume down on it. I'm trying to give a speech about socialism and you got this wine machine over there. Turn that thing down. Come on. This is a political rally. We have these machines. They are loud. They fart all over the place and they come to my rallies and they scream and yell while I'm talking about taking over the healthcare system. Come on. Turn the thing down. Volume off. Doesn't that thing have a mute button? Sheesh. Take the cell phone, punch the mute button in isn't there an app there's an app for that thing turn the volume down open the app hit the mute button on that thing this guy is so out of touch he is so not relatable to anyone i i don't get this he

i mean i listen i don't like to do a lot of, because I don't want to waste your time, personal story. But this matters. I keep telling the stories. This guy in the gym, friend of mine, he left. He had to move, but he's a good guy. He was a personal trainer over there. We'd chat a lot.

He listened to Bernie on Joe Rogan's show, and he's like, well, the guy makes sense. I was so disappointed. I know he listens to the show, so shout out to my buddy. I'm not knocking you, but he's like, oh, I sound like he makes sense. I don't, I honest to God, I'm not messing with you folks. I don't get it.

This guy is the most unrelatable human being I've ever, and you know when he does that thing in a debate, where he points when he wants to talk. Hey, hey, what's the, what, when you run for office, the first thing they tell you is never use the finger point. You can use the blade hand like I do, right? Right, Paul? I do the blade hand.

You never, people hate it when it reminds them of their third grade teacher. Yeah. Sister Ellen. Yo, little Daniel, put your pencil case back. I said put the pencil case back. Don't point. Bernie. Hey.

Oh, yeah. Jake. Jake. I have a question. I got that. It is my turn. It is my turn, Jake. That baby machine. shut that thing down.

The baby, hey, you over there with that thing with the hair and the smelly stuff in the diaper. Turn that thing off. This guy's the most unrelatable dude I have ever seen in my life. How are you 19, 20, 21 years old sitting there with your iPhone, whatever, your computer, your iMac, your earbuds. How are you watching this guy with the turn the volume down on the baby? And like this guy relates to, I just, I don't get it.

It is one of the few times in the show, I will admit to you, that I'm being sincere. I do not get the appeal of this guy at all. I really don't. It's just so perplexing to me. I have no idea what people find interesting about Bernie Sanders. All right. This is some troubling video. Moving on.

I know I spent a lot of time. But it's important. And the reason I said in the beginning still matters. The leftward lurch of this party, you can largely attribute to this guy. And if we don't start to dismantle the nonsense he's gaslighting people with, it's going to go farther left in the future, ladies and gentlemen. We're going to be dealing with a really big problem. Okay, so we were told during the Brett Kavanaugh hearings for the Supreme Court, remember,

Joe, when Christine Blasey Ford, the professor, came up and put out this story with no evidence to back it up at all. Matter of fact, counter evidence. She had made all these claims that Brett Kavanaugh had sexually assaulted her, produced zero evidence at all. The story fell apart. She couldn't even get the details of her own story correctly. People she cited as witnesses came back later and gave different accounts of what happened. Bottom line is there's no evidence what she accused Brett Kavanaugh of actually happened. Well, a lot of us at the time when Christine Blasey Ford came out and said what she said,

that hearing to try and get Brett Kavanaugh not confirmed, to try to throw an obstacle in front of his Supreme Court confirmation, a lot of us fairly questioned this and said, wait, the story doesn't make any sense. There appears to be a different motivation. Again, though, folks, speaking to the liberals, absolute inability to keep their mouths quiet on this stuff. They can never do this. I want to play a video in a second here.

This is Blasey Ford's's lawyer deborah katz actually admitting what one of the real motivating factors for blasey ford speaking out against brett kavanaugh was this reminds me joe liberals do this all the time the examples are legion remember jonathan gruber the obamacare architect he comes out with that video you basically are really too stupid to figure it out on your own so that that's what Obamacare was about. We were all like liberals can never. It is the fatal conceit to quote Hayek. It is the vision of the anointed and they're the anointed ones to quote Saul.

They believe they're so smart that it. Do you understand like they talk and they say these things afterwards and they admit their own malfeasance because they don't think it's malfeasance. They think they're doing this in the public good and folks to quote many great thinkers in the past and to paraphrase them who said similar lines along these lines there is nothing more dangerous than the tyrant who's motivated by the fact that he believes he's helping you in your personal good there's nothing more dangerous than that nothing these people believe they're helping you gruber cats here's the video of blase ford's lawyer christine blase ford basically admitting what the real motivation behind the disingenuous attack on kavanaugh was play the cut aftermath of

these hearings i believe that christine's testimony brought about more good than the harm misogynist Republicans caused by allowing Kavanaugh on the court. We were going to have a conservative. Elections have consequences. But he will always have an asterisk next to his name. When he takes a scalpel to Roe v. Wade, we will know who he is. We know his character and we know what motivates him and that is important it is important that we know and that was part of what motivated christine folks they can't keep quiet they cannot keep quiet they are do you understand they think they're doing these things in the public good personal attacks taking your money keeping kids out of quality schools. That's why they go on and advertise. What's a better way to explain this?

You know, if you think you did something wrong, you know, you snuck into a movie theater and you're kind of embarrassed by it later on. You don't go on your podcast and advertise it, right? Yeah. But if you're a protester and you sneak into the movie theater to protest on behalf of planned parenthood you're going to put the video all over the place because you think you're doing something in the public good when you're a liberal when typically you're not they advertise their own malfeasance because they don't think they did

anything wrong deborah katz just admitted that her client who was making potentially career-ending serious sexual assault allegations against a what a man with a fine impeccable reputation beforehand that the reason they did it was because abortion legislation might be changed that has nothing to do with an allegation of sexual assault. Nothing. She's admitting it. Just like Gruber. You're all too stupid to figure out your own health care. They can't shut up.

She thinks she's doing the public a favor by accusing an innocent man of a grotesque sexual assault he didn't commit. Folks, listen to it again. She thinks she's doing the public a favor. This is the fatal conceit, the knowledge problem with liberals. They think they're so smart and you're so stupid that the ends will always justify the means by which they get there. I have to accuse Brett Kavanaugh falsely of a sexual assault, humiliate him and his family and destroy his career. That's fine. To me, it was never about that. It's just about abortion legislation. That's why they advertise it.

I have to take away millions of Americans' healthcare double and triple their deductibles. A-OK. No problem. You guys are idiots. You can't figure it out on your own. I'm John Gruber, and I'll advertise later what I did because I'm going to clean the stain of your ignorance off our healthcare policy and fix it for you because I'm so smart. They cannot help themselves. This was always about abortion policy.

This lawyer's not even embarrassed by that. By the way, hat tip to the Daily Caller who put this out there. I'm sorry. Let me just pull this up quick. I tweeted it, and I want to be sure I give proper attribution. I don't like when I do that. But I actually saw the... It's Mary Margaret Olihan,

and she is... What's her Twitter handle? At Mary Marg O-L-O-H-A-N, who put out this video from the Daily Caller. So nice job finding that. And thanks to Joe and Paula for putting it out there. They advertise it because they think they're helping the most dangerous kind of tyrant out there. Now we know the real reason. All right.

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What is he talking about? Why does this matter to you? And why would I be a little bit worried? Think about what negative rates are. He's talking about negative interest rates. So you know what a positive interest rates are. Unfortunately, with negative interest rates, people sometimes get a little bit confused.

A positive interest rate is simple. I lend money to Joe, and I lend it to him at an interest rate based on his risk. I know Joe, lend money to Joe, maybe 5% for a couple months. Joe gives me back my money plus 5%. That's as simple as that.

Yeah. What's a negative interest rate? A negative interest rate is when it goes in the other direction in other words my money isn't making money as i lend it out my money's losing money as i lend it out if i gave joe money at a at a coupon of negative five percent rate joe's gonna pay me back less money five percent less money than I gave to him at the end of the time period. Why are governments doing this, number one? We're seeing this phenomenon around the world.

And a lot of, this is why I never trust economists. I just, well, I shouldn't say I never trust economists. I don't trust economists that take themselves too seriously. This was one of those things that was deemed impossible. We'll never go to negative interest rates around the world. Who would lend money to the government to get less money back later? The answer is a whole lot of people, apparently. Germany and others, we've seen negative interest rates.

Why do governments love these things? Think about it. It's very simple. And why is this portend such a negative future for you if this comes here? Governments love negative interest rates. Think about the government's ability to lend money to its population

and later on have to give them less money back. Sounds kind of like a tax. Yes, a tax. Government issues a billion dollars in bonds the public buys them up the government gives back 900 million keeps the difference now you may say who would do that a lot of people are doing that because the risk they deemed all that with this global catastrophe we're

looking out of debt is that they're going to lose everything. So they're like, well, lose everything or just lose a hundred million. I'll take the a hundred million dollar loss. But folks, why, why is this so dangerous for you? Because some of you are thinking right now, economically savvy folks out there who I have a smart audience, you're saying, all right, well, that's okay with me. I mean, if the negative interest rates go negative, and by the way, that'll filter through to the banks. Cause remember banks index their interest rates go negative, and by the way, that'll filter through to the banks, because remember, banks index their interest rates to a lot of government benchmarks. So if the government goes negative, banks will too.

So a lot of you are saying, all right, no big deal. I'll go do what they do in Japan. There's a booming industry for one specific product in Japan because of negative interest rates. What is it, Joe? Safes. Safes. Safes.

I'm not kidding. People go to the bank, I'm going to take a lot of my money out thank you i'm not getting a negative interest rate and they put the money in the safes where the money by the way if negative interest rates were to were to and granted the likelihood of this happening in the united states anytime soon is probably slim but it could happen i want to warn you so you understand that money in the safe is by default growing if everybody else's money isn't. The buying power of your money goes up by doing nothing, by rotting in your safe with negative interest rates because everybody else's buying power, money in the banks is going down.

Now, you may say, okay, that doesn't sound too bad well no no no time out to time out on the field all right folks here's the problem with the growing and exploding digital economy and rules we've seen in europe on the transfer of high euro notes so we're not you know they don't they want to ban transactions in these high denomination euro notes. It's only a matter of time before the government figures out the safe scam, which isn't really a scam, a safe, I mean the physical safe, people taking their money out, and says, you know what? We're only going to conduct business and do business with people who conduct digital transactions. Ladies and gentlemen, that means your cash is pretty much worthless unless it goes back in the

bank and you can whip out your credit card. And if it goes back in the bank, the government gets to tax it through negative interest rates, which is just, it's a Bernie Sanders wet dream. This is what they want. You see negative interest rates coming into the United States, run for the hills.

Get your safe and get your money quick. This is a big deal. You understand what I mean by the digital economy, right? You won't be able to conduct cash transactions. Who's going to take transactions and cash? The landscaper? Who? The guy who owns the gutter cleaning company?

The guy who maintains the pool? The local deli on the corner? I mean, that may be it. Your mortgage payments, your cell phone payments, all of it will be exclusively digital. Next thing you know, they'll ban postal money

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They're out there now. They can hear me. we have a thing outside. The sound transfer's out there. So Jay Sekulow was on Hannity last night, and they have a lawsuit going against Comey. Now, I had covered this story a bit before, but I'm not going to repeat it exactly, given the breaking news,

but it is worth you hearing again. We asked the question a long time ago on the show. And then a couple of weeks ago, again, who is Charlie? Yeah. There. And I'll get to that text exchange in a minute. It's a text exchange between Peter stroke and Lisa page,

two FBI investigators talking about this person. they want to get into the White House. And it appears they're talking about a spying operation. Before we do that, I want to put up this Pulseberry Police Real Clear Investigations because this is how this relates to this whole story. This is great. In the show notes today, it's one of our top stories. It's from July 22nd, 2019. But, man, is it worth your time. Justice Department watchdog has evidence Comey probed Trump on the sly.

Folks, the comey thing again he seems to have skated any legal sadly legal penalties on the prior comey ig report on his ridiculous behavior but he has not skated a reputational harm or or an indictment of his horrible behavior. I know that doesn't matter to a lot of you, and I understand. That's fine. I get it. We want to see real, tangible penalties for this as well. Understood.

But Comey, the IG report on Comey was devastating because of one big principal reason. Comey told the president repeatedly what, Joe? He was not under investigation. Yes, true. He lied. He lied repeatedly over and over to the president telling him he was not under investigation. Now it not only appears that not only was the president under investigation, but the president was in fact the subject of a rogue intelligence operation where Jim Comey, who he says, well, we wouldn't talk about literally spying on him. It seems they were spying on people and putting spies inside the actual White House for the FBI. This gets ugly.

Now, a J. Sekulow's lawsuit. He wants the communications between Comey and others about this one specific guy who this. I mean, you want to talk about six different levels of suspicious from the Paul Sperry piece. Here's the guy they're talking about who they think may have been a spy inside the White House. To talk about this guy named Anthony Ferrante was an FBI official. Quote, in an unprecedented action, Jim Comey created a new FBI reserve position for Ferrante, enabling him to have an ongoing relationship with the FBI, retaining his clearances and enabling him to come back to FBI headquarters, said a former National Security

Council official who requested anonymity. Get a load of this, folks. Between the election in April of 2017, when Ferrante finally left the White House, keep in mind, this guy's planted in the White House by the FBI, the Trump National Security Division, where he was planted, the Trump National Security Division supervisor was not allowed to get rid of Ferrante, he added. And Ferrante continued working in direct conflict with the no-contact policy between the White House and the Department of Justice. Folks, this guy Ferrante is suspicious six different ways from Sunday. So just to be clear what we're talking about,

Sekulow files a lawsuit. We'll get to it in a second. He wants the records about this guy Ferrante. Ferrante, a special, special Joe, air quotes, special position is created for Ferrante inside the Trump White House by Jim Comey. Conveniently, he has some cyber security experience, Ferrante. We'll get to that in a second, too.

And Ferrante can't be fired. This is the dude. Comey says, no, no, you guys can't fire this guy. We're sticking this guy in the National Security Council. Allegations have surfaced, credible ones now, that Ferrante's purpose there was not national security, but it was to spy on the Trump White House. Think about and digest for a moment, please, what I just told you. Now, you know, I think you brought this up almost a year ago.

We did. Yes, we've been talking about this for a very long time. Yeah, yeah, cool. Now, why is this a big deal? Yeah. Well, it's a big deal because there's a spy in the White House working for the FBI. Obviously, in the Nelson Mons, eh-heh kind of moment. Mm-hmm.

But I said, eh-heh. Obviously. But the story gets worse, ladies and gentlemen. Ferrante leaves the FBI. Ferrante leaves the FBI. He leaves the FBI after, in this position where he's allegedly spying for the Bureau, on the White House. I mean, that makes Hoover look like a Boy Scout.

He leaves after working with the Obama administration, right after the allegations about the DNC being hacked by the Russians start to surface. He had worked with the Obama administration on this presidential directive number 41. The same guy who's allegedly spying, according to some reports, for the FBI and the Trump White House. He worked on this. I'll get to that in a second. On July 26, President Obama signed Presidential Policy Directive 41. And it was about cybersecurity and response to cybersecurity incidents. They was issued this presidential directive by Obama,

worked on in conjunction with Ferrante, following high profile attacks such as the opm breach and the recent breach of the dnc's email system oh isn't that special so allegations start to surface that the dnc has been hacked possibly by the russians in collusion with the trump administration totally bogus by the way and all of a sudden this fbi guy works on the distribution and the uh and putting into place these policies and prescriptions in Presidential Protective Policy Directive number 41. You say, well, how do we know Ferrante worked on that? Let's go to Ferrante.

Here's Ferrante's description, a description of what Ferrante did. Hat tip 279 for the underlining here. Prior to joining FTI Consulting, which is where he left the FBI to go to do something even more incredible, I'll talk about in a minute, Mr. Ferrante served as the director for cyber incident response

at the National Security Council at the White House, where he coordinated U.S. response to unfolding domestic and international cybersecurity issues. Listen to this one. Where'd my stuff go where it disappeared building on his extensive cyber security and incident response experience he led the development and implementation of presidential policy directive 41 so let's just be clear on this

the hoax starts to develop through christopher steelle that Trump's colluding with the Russians around the summer, July or so, potentially earlier of 2016. The information filters its way through our intelligence community in the D.C. elites. At the same time, the DNC is hacked. They need to seek blame. Obama issues a presidential directive. Has this FBI agent, Ferrante, work on the implementation of this directive, who later leaves after Trump wins to go and work inside the White House to allegedly spy on people inside of the White House for Jim Comey,

who's running a rogue spying operation on Donald Trump, who they still are insisting colluded with the Russians based on a hoax to win the election. Amazingly, this guy Ferrante, after he leaves the National Security Council in this special FBI position they created, and after working with the Obama team on this new directive, in response to the hoax about Trump collusion, he goes to work for a company named FTI

Consulting. At FTI Consulting, Joe, what's one of their major contracts? Ferrante's working there now. Folks, you're never going to believe this. You may if you heard our Who Is Charlie show. FDI Consulting goes to work for BuzzFeed. Ferrante's working for FDI Consulting.

Yeah. To verify the dossier even after the dossier's been debunked. Oh, gee. Do you believe this? No. So you have a guy who's allegedly spying, according to multiple reports now. The ACLJ, I'll get to the bottom of this. Spying on the Trump White House, who leaves the FBI,

and then potentially takes that information to a private consulting firm, hired by a news outlet to verify the document they used to start the spying that we now know is a hoax. Now, to get back to who is Charlie, why is this a big deal? Remember this text exchange between Peter Stroke and Lisa Page? Peter Stroke talking with Bill. He's talking about his boss, Bill Price. Do we want Joe to go with Evanina instead of Charlie for a variety of reasons? This is, I think, from Conservative Treehouse.

Sorry, I screenshotted this a long time ago. Page responds, hmm, not sure. Would it be unusual to have show up again? It's redacted there. Maybe another agent from the team? Stroke responds, or he's the CI guy. Same, might make sense. He can assess if there are any news questions

or a different demeanor. If Katie's husband is there, he can see if there are people we can develop for potential relationships. Understand what's going on here. They are talking about sending Charlie to the White House to spy. And they're talking about developing assets in the White House to spy, including Katie's husband, who refers to Mike Pence's former chief of staff. Katie was a person who had worked for Peter Stroke in the FBI. Her husband was Mike Pence's old chief of staff katie was a person who had worked for peter stroke and the fbi her husband was the mike pence's old chief of staff do you understand what's going on here who is charlie who is this charlie part is now charlie was and can be ci can be a name and it's spelled without

an e at the end it could be a woman could be a man or it could be uh we used to use it for a term referring to referring to confidential informants, Charlie. A generic name, you get what I'm saying? Could be three things. Could be a generic name for CI, could be Charlie a man or Charlie a woman. Who is Charlie? Who is this person they are trying to insert into the White House to spy on the president? Does Ferrante know this?

Is it Ferrante? Is it Ferrante? Now, here's the ACLJ article. This is important because Sekulow was on last night talking about this. Folks, this is a big deal. Exposing Jim Comey's covert operation and spies in the White House. Jordan Sekulow, he just wrote this a month ago. Now, I have this out there. He was talking

about it last night, this lawsuit. This is up at Bongino.com. I want you to check it out. They want the communications between Jim Comey and others about this specific guy, Ferrante. Why is this guy all of a sudden gotten suspiciously quiet about this? Folks, this is the essence of the whole case here. The fact that these people on the outside were running this rogue intelligence operation spying on a white house how this isn't the biggest scandal in human history i don't know i am honestly i'm not sure why even the leftist hack media the leftist media hacks have not glommed onto this story in an effort to at a minimum get clicks and make money and said okay it's long enough that obama's out of office now we can report on this by not hurting the democrat party too bad. You always think of the David Dinkins effect in

New York. When David Dinkins was a mayor in New York, the liberal media in New York used to defend him all the time. He was awful. He was one of the worst mayors we had in the history of the city. Then after Giuliani comes into office and cleans it up, even the liberal media in New York, the Daily News and others had to admit how terrible Dinkins was because Giuliani had showed how the city could look if liberal David Dinkins wasn't in charge. When does that point come where the media says, my gosh, this is serious? You've got this guy Ferrante. He works with Obama on a presidential directive in response to a hack that was alleged to be in conjunction with the Russians and the Trump team.

It didn't happen. That same guy is then inserted into the Trump team didn't happen. That same guy is an inserted into the Trump National Security Council in a special position who then leaves to work for a private company that goes to work for BuzzFeed to verify the hoax dossier they were using to spy on the Trump team while two FBI agent or an FBI agent and a lawyer are discussing inserting Charlie inside the White House, that it may look suspicious. And while they're talking about developing the spouse of one of their employees, who works on Mike's Pence team to develop information or detect changes in demeanor,

while we also found out that the January 6th Trump Tower briefing by Jim Comey wasn't a briefing at all, but part of Jim Comey's counterintelligence operation to float information to the president about the pee-pee tape and others to gauge his response? Something stinks. And nobody in the media thinks this is a big deal? Now, one more piece from this ACLJ thing. Here's what's even crazier. Now, one more piece from this ACLJ thing.

Here's what's even crazier. There's a woman that replaces Ferrante in this position at the National Security Council within the White House. From the ACLJ piece. To make matters worse, reports indicate that Ferrante was replaced in the White House by another FBI official, Jordan Ray Kelly. Listen to this. Process this slowly. Jordan Ray Kelly signed security logs for Ferrante to enter the White House while he was contracted by BuzzFeed. Did you catch that?

Yeah. So Ferrante leaves to go work on the continued destruction of Donald Trump in the private sector, trying to verify the hoax dossier for FTI Consulting. The woman who replaces him, Jordan Ray Kelly, in this spy position they're trying to work signs Ferrante into the White House while he's working with BuzzFeed. Folks, journalism is dead and buried. It's not six feet under. It's 24 feet under. It is over.

Again, if you're not listening to this show and following Jeff Carlson and Chuck Ross and the other, Paul Sperry, I used his piece, only fair to quote him, The Daily Caller. You understand you're missing all of this? You're only missing the biggest story of our time. Unbelievable. Okay. Let me get to one last piece. I want to leave you on a bit of a lighter note because I know some of this is depressing, but again, I'm not giving up. I'm sorry. The story, if you want to give up, I know you don't. I get a lot of your positive emails. You're in this fight. I'm in this fight for the long term. And if it takes a year, two years,

or 10 years to get justice, then that's it. Then I'm in this fight. I'm not giving this story up. I'm sorry. It is only the biggest scandal of our time. And I think our enemies, our political enemies are hoping and praying for apathy right now, folks. They're hoping people like me and Joe and you and the listeners out there go, ah, I'm tired of hearing about it enough. I'm not tired. I'll never be tired. Tired of hearing about it enough. I'm not tired. I'll never be tired.

Okay, last night from the CNN 75-hour telethon on the global warming hoax, they had Andrew Yang on. Now, this guy worries me a little bit, I got to be honest with you. I'm not in the predictions game. I'm not. I'm staying out of it. But I gave you my analysis of the 2020 election, and I call it the bowling lane analysis. There were only three lanes passed to the nomination for 2020, only three. you my analysis of the 2020 election and i call it you know the the bowling lane analysis there

are only three lanes path to the nomination for 2020 only three there's the insider safe pick kind of like uh to analogize it to republicans the mitt romney type pick right there's the outsider pick uh you know the the donald trump pick and then there's the ideological, like radical ideological pick the Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren types, right? Those are the only three lanes. Those lanes are occupied by people at the top who the problem I think the Democrats are having right now in 2020 is those lanes are occupied by people

that don't own their own brand. So in other words, Joe Biden right now is the safe pick for the Democrats. And by the way, he had a horrible incident on stage. I don't mean to make any light of it. He had like a blood vessel pop in his eye and his eye filled up with blood. I'm not, it's kind of, it's, it's a little disturbing. So I'm not putting it on the show for the YouTube viewers out there, but you've seen it. It's been all over the news, but I'm serious. I'm not, you don't mess around with people's health. That's never funny ever under any circumstances,

but he had a blood vessel pop in his eye last night. It was, it was serious as I like pulled up with blood, but that's not why he's not the safe pick. I'm not a medical professional, but from what I've heard, you know, it doesn't necessarily mean it's a medical catastrophe.

He's not the safe pick Joe, because he can't get out of his own way. Yeah. The guy is a gaff-tastic gaff machine. He just gaffs. I mean, he's the Teddy Ruxpin of gaffs. You stick a quarter in the guy and a gaff comes out. It's so great to be here in New Hampshire.

You're in Vermont, Joe. It is so great to be here in Vermont. The guy can't get out of his own way. He's not the safe pick. Then you have the ideological lane, Bernie Sanders. The problem with the ideological lane is if you're going to be an ideologue, you better be genuine. And neither him nor Elizabeth Warren are.

They're frauds. Turn that volume down on that baby. Bernie Sanders is a millionaire. He rails against millionaires. He's a fraud. Elizabeth Warren's worth $12 million. She's worth more than Bernie. Yet she's another one of these socialist frauds too.

So if you're going to own your brand, then own your brand. You better live like a socialist if you're going to preach it for everyone else. You better be the safe pick and say safe stuff if you're going to be the safe pick. None of that's happening. This is why this guy, I'm going to play a video of Andrew Yang, worries me a little bit. Not to be dramatic, but. The outsider lane is populated by more frauds.

Buttigieg, total political insider, another phony. You know, the outsider lane, who else is in that lane? Bateau. Bateau's a congressman who comes from a wealthy family. He's not an outsider.

It's a total joke. But this guy is a legitimate outsider, this guy, Andrew Yang. Now, having said that, his ideas are really dopey. Universal basic income. Let's pay people not to work. Now, having said that, his ideas are really dopey. Universal basic income. Let's pay people not to work. Gee, you think that could be a problem if people wouldn't work then? No, no, no. No problem at all.

But Yang came out and said something equally dopey on CNN. Check out this clip of him talking about how we should all basically curb our meat eating. No thanks. Check this out. Meat consumption, beef in particular, is a major driver of climate change. Should Americans change their eating habits and eat less beef? You know, the UN just released a study that said we're going to be okay

if the vast majority of the world goes vegetarian immediately. You see that? So it's good for the environment. It's good for your health if you eat less meat. Certainly meat is an extraordinarily expensive thing to produce from an environmental sustainability point of view. So I think it would be healthy on both an individual and societal level for us to move in that direction. But again, this is a country where there's a lot of individual autonomy. And so you can't force people's eating choices on them. All you can do is try and shape our system so that over time we evolve in a productive way. The verdict is in. Bring on the ribeyes.

No, Andrew. No. Now, to be fair to Andrew Yang, he throws in a little kind of caveat, you know, buyer beware at the end. I'm not saying we should force people to, but we should shape. No, no, don't shape anything. Bring on the ribeyes. Bring on the porterhouses. Bring on the chicken.

Bring on the lamb chops and the pork chops. Listen, I love animals. They're great. I do. I love the doggies. Dog eyes. I love the dogs. I love animals.

They're great. But the Lord gave us minion over animals and they are food. And I've got news for you. There are cases we'd be food for them too if we didn't have firearms to protect ourselves. The world is a really mean place, okay? Let's not believe this. I'm a lord of the flies, not a Swiss family Robinson

guy, okay? Thank God we've got societal structures to keep the chaos intact. But as Havelock Ellis once said in the most famous quote, I think of all time, civilization is a thin crust on a volcano, folks. We eat animals. I was a vegetarian when I was younger. Many of you don't know that for a very long time.

It was the most unhealthy I'd ever been in my entire life. I don't buy that for a second that this vegetarian vegan lifestyle is the path forward bring on the ribeyes bring on the protein shakes give me the milk give me the eggs give me the fish we are here to eat the animals i'm sorry we eat animals it is essential you want the pythons eat the i'm like the whole look at this 22 inch python remember h Remember Hulk Hogan? You got to eat meat. Eat the meat. If you don't eat your meat, you can't have any pudding. How can you have any pudding if you don't eat your meat?

You got to eat the meat. So listen, Yang has done a decent job on that side as the outsider. But Andrew, I think it's a big mistake. A lot of people in this country are going to the Outback or their local steakhouse or if you have a lot of money to Peter Luger's and they want that ribeye steaming on the steak fat and all tomorrow morning and they don't want to hear lectures about how the government's going to poke and prod

and try to quote shape people to not eat meat put the tofu burger down and go get yourself a five guys grilled onions pickles I eat two of those things. I'm getting hungry. I gotta eat something after this show, dude. I know, me too. I know, I have some Chipotle in the fridge.

I usually get two. Folks, one last thing. I know it shows, but for those of you who know me personally who listen to the show, I eat like a slob. It's a little self-deprecating, but it's true. You have never seen a human being eat like... Joe, you've seen me eat, right? You and I, yes.

And no one in my body weight, very few people outside of competitive eaters eat as much. I go to Chipotle and I get two bowls, double rice, double chicken, and eat them both. Last night, I wasn't that hungry, so I only ate one. And when I go in there, it's funny. I go in with my wife and I'm on the line. So it's me and Paula, or usually Paula goes first

because she gets stuff for the kids. But when I go first there. It's funny. I go in with my wife and I'm on the line. So it's me and Paula. Usually Paula goes first because she gets stuff for the kids. But when I go first, I say, let me get two bowls, double rice, double chicken. And Paula's with me. So they go to the next person. And Paula's like, no, no, I'm not done. And the guy's like, you just ordered for her. I'm like, no, no, dude, that's mine. She gets a separate bowl. Those two bowls

are for me. And they always look at me like, you're going to eat that? I'm like, oh yeah, no problem, dude. I go to Five Guys. I used to get three doubles. Three. And a large fry and eat the whole thing. Eat your meat. Don't listen to Andrew Lang.

Sorry, forgive me. Andrew Lang is one of my buddies. He teaches. Andrew Yang. Do not listen to Andrew Yang. Eat your meat. Go get a ribeye today in honor of Andrew Yang. Support our farmers and our bee producers. All right, folks. That's the show for today.

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