The Dan Bongino Show - Ominous Signs Ahead? (Ep 1057)

Episode Date: September 2, 2019

In this episode, I address the troubling revelations in this prominent case against a former Trump official. I also address the suspicious departure of the White House assistant from her position. Finally, I address some emerging concerns about the US dollar and what it means for you. News Picks: Troubling new revelations in the case against Mike Flynn.    A tragic incident in Odessa, Texas.   President Trump responds to his White House assistant abruptly leaving.    Barack Obama is earning a lot more than any former President and he is costing taxpayers the most.   Bernie’s Green New Deal is just as dumb as AOC’s.     Ominous signs ahead for the US dollar?   Copyright Dan Bongino All Rights Reserved.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Get ready to hear the truth about America on a show that's not immune to the facts with your host, Dan Bongino. All right, it's Labor Day. Good news, bad news day. The good news is it is Labor Day and a big, healthy, hearty thank you to America's tradesmen, laborers, electricians, carpenters. as tradesmen, laborers, electricians, carpenters, as my brother always says, the steam fitters, the tin knockers, every guy who's, farmers, truckers, men and women out there

with their dirt underneath their fingernails who built this country. God bless you. Thanks for your hard work. Today's the day. We acknowledge it. So that's the good news. The bad news is we are at, we have a category five disaster, monstrous hurricane Dorian sitting.

I mean, there's a picture. Thank you, Paula. In case you want to know where I am, folks, if you look at that big hole in the middle of the state in the South, that Lake, Lake O, Lake Okeechobee, we are at the northern portion of that. And the hurricane is about, right now, 100 miles offshore.

Now, we're hoping it takes that northern course. We will be here for you tomorrow. I'm here for you today. It's a live-to-tape show recorded on Monday. We didn't record this over the weekend. We may record some snippets of tomorrow's show tonight, but I will be here for you. You matter a lot to me.

I'll give you an update on the hurricane, just so you know. It's windy down here. It's not bad yet, but we're expecting some hurricane force winds tonight. Let's please pray this thing hooks north and pray again it hooks north and goes out to sea. I don't want to be spared at the expense of North Carolina and someone else. Go out. Just go out to sea and disappear. Welcome to the Dan Bongino Show.

Producer Joe, how are you today? Dude, I'm doing good, but I'm not on hurricane watch yet. Yeah, well, you could be in Maryland, as we talked about before the show. And I'm hoping, like I said, this thing hooks north and just go. Go out to sea and dissipate. So we got that to talk about. I've got a lot of, I got some really troubling video from Beto O'Rourke. I got a story about the US dollar

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it may just be audio but either way it'll be on the youtube regardless it'll be but we're going to try and do our best to get you this product out it may be a trimmed down version of the show we'll give you an update on what happened overnight um ladies and gentlemen we had another tragedy in odessa some lunatic uh shooting up the town stealing a mail truck driving around there was a 17 month old uh child that was injured i mean just a savage attack in odessa um you see some of the reports this weekend but it's just a couple things acknowledging law enforcement this is an ap report police say they have no explanation yet for texas shooting frenzy the cops this started at as a stop. And I just can't express to you enough how dangerous this job policing is and the bravery of the men and women who put their butts on the line every day. This started as a traffic stop.

And think about what makes a traffic stop and the impending thing that happened afterwards. After the traffic stop, this guy went and shot up the town. When you go to a traffic stop and you're a cop, outside of serving a warrant. It's probably the most dangerous thing you do. And think about why when you're approaching that vehicle, you are, it is entirely unknown what's inside that person inside the vehicle. There are two reasons they're dangerous, has two assets. So when the reason number one, it's very dangerous. That person has two assets in that car. You don't, you're out of the car. You have to go to the window. They have cover and they have concealment. They have cover behind the mechanical structure of the car where they can see cover. Cover meaning it is some anti-ballistic

properties. Car doors sometimes, depending on the round, can protect you against some rounds. So they have cover. They also have concealment, though. Up until the minute that police officer goes up to the window, what that person's doing is entirely concealed. If they're fumbling around with a firearm and they're going to roll down the window and, God forbid, engage this police officer in a deadly event, you have no idea until you see them, which leads to part number two of why they're so dangerous. Being a police officer is inherently reactive.

It's not, you can't be proactive on a car stop. What I mean is you can't just start shooting because you think the guy's got a gun in the car. That's not the way police, it's inherently reactive. So the police officer walking up to the car, his reaction time is always going to be slower

because the person in the car if they're going to engage like this lunatic did with the rifle he knows what he's going to do the cop has no idea so your reaction time is always going to be slower it's very simple if i know i'm going to punch you in the face with my right fist i know what's going to happen if i tell you that you can react you can be like okay I'll duck it if I don't and I surprise you and you thought a left was coming and it's a right you're going to walk right into the punch car stops are very dangerous so again I just want to send my my my thoughts and my my the highest possible accolades to police officers out there every day who really walk into these situations with abandon for their own lives and secure the lives of others.

God bless you, especially on this Labor Day. Yours, that's your labor too. Your labor is putting your butts on the line for others. And they stopped this guy in a parking lot of a Synergy movie theater in Odessa knowing full well this guy had just engaged with deadly force other people out there. God bless you. Deserve every ounce of praise you get.

You're doing an amazing, amazing job. Now, having said that, of course, ladies and gentlemen, sadly, and it gives me absolutely no pleasure in saying this just moments after this deadly incident of course we have political left-wing lunatic hacks with no desire whatsoever to solve this problem doing what joe jumping right on the politics bandwagon um i'm not even i was thinking about putting together a rogues gallery of Twitter. I mean, it was just in the insanity on the left. Again, we get the you guys are all murderers.

Keep in mind, you, I and the legal gun owners of America who are just looking to protect our families. We're not Johnny Rambo. These are tools. We use them to protect ourselves and our family. God forbid we ever have to use them one day, and we all hope and pray we don't have to. We did nothing wrong, as usual. We're just looking to protect ourselves against maniacs like this,

and Twitter was just a cesspool of stupid. Now, I encourage you strongly, ladies and gentlemen, to not underestimate these people. You know, I've been, it's not a time to mess around. So I'm going to avoid it because this has been, it's been a very serious weekend. And my, my, everybody's under a lot of stress in my house. Um, Paula's very stressed out over this hurricane. It could be very dangerous for us.

And so it's not really, this isn't like funny time, but civil liberties matter, ladies and gentlemen, and using these incidents to diminish and evaporate away your right. God-given right to defend yourself and your family is inexcusable. And I encourage you strongly to take these people at their word. What do I mean? to take these people at their word. What do I mean? Here's some audio video of Beto O'Rourke, who has, again, a child of privilege, Beto Robert Francis O'Rourke,

who is just, that's his real name. So Beto is basically telling you, if elected or put in a position of power to implement that, that Beto is taking your guns. Keep in mind, ladies and gentlemen, you did nothing wrong. You own a firearm to protect yourself against lunatics like this guy in Odessa.

Yet here's Beto this weekend. Do not dismiss this stuff. Telling you exactly what he wants to do. Play the cut. How do you address the fears that the government is going to take away this assault on the right to this problem if you're talking about buybacks yeah so i want to be really clear that um that's exactly what we're going to do um americans will who own ar-15s ak-47s will have to sell them to the

government we're not going to allow them to stay on our streets, to show up in our community. No, no, no, no, no. No, we're not asking. OK, Beto, child of privilege, Beto. We're not. I don't know where you're getting this from. We're not asking you for permission. Nobody is asking you.

Nobody. You have no you don't have Justice League like powers, some higher power intellect. You are a failed, fallible human being who blew it in his run for the U.S. Senate. You are a child of privilege who skateboards for a living and does hot yoga. We're not interested. Nobody is asking you. That is not a serious proposition. So just to be clear on what this guy's telling you, you did nothing wrong.

You may own rifles. You may own pistols. Your rifles and pistols have never been used to hurt or harm another human being. Hopefully, you've never had to use them to protect your family either. You may one day, God forbid. You've done nothing wrong. And Beto, his solution to a killer, a homicidal maniac who went on this shooting spree is to come to your house and penalize you, taking away your right to defend yourself against people like that. So just to be clear, a prior criminal who loses his marbles, shoots at police officers, kills people in Odessa, Texas, and goes on a rampage. Their solution to the problem is then to take away your right to defend yourself against people like that.

Folks, do not ignore this stuff. These people aren't kidding. This insulated political hack is running to be the president of the United States. He just told you, make no mistake, we are going to buy back. What are you going to, listen, I told you already, I've said it on this show.

Not me. Not me. Get a warrant, come to my house. I love police officers. But you're not taking them voluntarily. I will go out in the handcuffs. I'm not going to hurt anybody. I'm not interested in that.

I'm not a violent person by nature, and I wouldn't hold it against the police officers at all. They're doing their jobs as well. I'm just telling you I'm not giving you my firearms. Absolutely not. You forget it. It's not even an option. Get your warrant, and you can then come in and arrest me and execute it. I did nothing wrong.

I am not forfeiting the right in a hurricane zone. God forbid we have days or a couple weeks of chaos to protect myself and my family because you want to be the president of the United States. As we can see in this little video playing in the background, if you want to check it out. But you can see even in Hong Kong. This is what happened. I mean, you have these entirely unarmed, disarmed people.

And what do they do? You get governments like what's happening in China right now beating the crap out of people on tape. I'm not interested. This is really shameful what's been happening here, ladies and gentlemen. It's an absolute disgrace. You want to talk about ways to stop.

Listen, we have a gun violence problem. I understand that. You want to talk about gun crime task forces, extra penalties, mental health screenings, better public awareness campaigns on the warning signs. Those will actually make a difference. better public awareness campaigns on the warning signs. Those will actually make a difference. Coming to the house of legal gun owners and confiscating their weapons while criminals tell you to go pound sand and buy them on a robust black market is about the dumbest, most counterproductive idea I've ever heard in my life.

We're not asking, Beto. Nobody's asking. We're not asking you for permission. I don't know where you got that from. Nobody's asking. We're not asking you for permission. I don't know where you got that from. Folks, you know, he is who he says he is. Don't forget that.

We said that last week. They are not kidding. They are who we thought they were. Yes, sir. To quote Denny Green. They are not messing around. Very important. Listen to them. Yes, sir. The quote, Denny Green. They are not messing around. Very important. Listen to them. Yes.

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Oh, yeah. There's been some breaking news. Yeah. So we're going to get into that. Don't go anywhere. I also got some potentially ominous. In case you regular listeners, well, there's been some breaking news. Yeah. So we're going to get into that. Don't go anywhere. I also got some potentially ominous, I don't want to be Debbie Downer, but some bad signs for the dollars of world's reserve currency. Don't go anywhere.

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you know, damn it, I wish I had this video today, audio. We played it a couple of times, but I'll sum it up for him. Sorry, we've just been with the hurricane. Paul and I, we want to get you a quality show and it's taken a lot longer than usual because the power kept going out this morning hence why we that ad was done that way there's a slight blip we had to cut out there behind the scenes stuff breaking down the fourth wall because we have to click save i don't want to lose the show for you

all but uh a couple of years ago we played for you jeff sessions at the time when he was the attorney general under trump obviously giving a the time when he was the attorney general under Trump, obviously giving a press conference where he was saying that there was going to be an effort to weed out leakers within the government. In other words, what I'm getting at is what I'm telling you is not some conspiracy theory. They did a press conference about it where the Department of Justice said, if you're a leaker in the government, there's a behind-the-scenes effort right now to weed you out. Now, through the course of two years, here and there, we've given you examples of where we think information that leaked was leaked intentionally the wrong way in a canary trap to weed out leakers.

Now, some of the evidence we presented, and what I think is quite suspicious, because if you're going to do a canary trap where let's say, I think Paula's leaking information about the behind the scenes on my show. And I tell her late next week, we got this big special, but don't tell the audience what we're going to do. And I leaked to Paula that we're going to do the special show on Tuesday. And then I leaked to Joe that we're going to do the special show on Wednesday.

And then it leaks to the press. Bongino special show on Wednesday. I know Joe was the leaker Bongino, special show on Wednesday. I know Joe was the leaker. I'm a snitch. Because I intentionally gave them... Right, Joe's a snitch. Joe was a snitch. He was Sammy the Bull, right?

So I know that. That's what the canary trap is. Now, the essence of a canary trap, to make it work, to trap leakers, is the information has to be somewhat believable. That I'm going to do a special show is Joe thinks it's real, so he's willing to leak it because he thinks it's real.

If I said to Joe, Joe, we're going to leak next week that I've traveled to Jupiter. Jupiter, not the planet. Not Jupiter, just south of me in Florida. I've been to the planet, and I'm telling you I've met the Jupiterians. Joe would be like, okay, Dan's crazy. Do you know what would leak? Dan Bongino's crazy. That know what would leak dan bongino is crazy that's what would leak that's the jupiter so right the essence of a canary trap

is the information has to be believable so that someone has an incentive to leak it and look like the in the know guy or in the know woman i promise i'm going to tie this into a recent story but i want to give you some examples of what I think happened before. Canary trap piece number one. We had the Don Trump Jr. was contacted by WikiLeaks with some code to access special information. Remember that story? Yep. What was the problem with the story? It was false. The date they leaked about when WikiLeaks tried to reach out to Don Jr., he didn't respond, was after the info was already public. But the date that leaked was before.

I know it's a little tough to follow, but think about it. If I leak to Joe a code to access cryptic emails and nobody has those emails and I leak it the day before it goes in the media, Joe has access to sensitive info. If the information leaks and a week later I give it the day before it goes in the media, Joe has access to sensitive info. If the information leaks and a week later I give Joe the code

to information he can read on USA Today, there's nothing there. There's no there there. That's what happened. Somebody leaked to the media. Don Jr. got it, I believe, on November 11th. But the date was wrong. It was before the WikiLeaks. I think the date

was wrong intentionally. Because they were trying to weed i think the date was wrong intentionally because they were trying to weed out in a canary trap who gave them that second story was the mike flynn story and i'll get to flynn a little some big breaking news on that too sydney powell's been just smoking out uh the uh spygate colluders on this thing mike flynn the leak on Flynn. Remember Joy Behar on The View going, oh, Mike Flynn, they got busted. The leak on that that I think was a trap was that Mike Flynn

was asked to contact the Russians on behalf of the Trump campaign. Now, Mike Flynn was asked to reach out to the Russians, but not on behalf

of the Trump campaign. Big difference. Yep. He was asked to reach out to the russians when trump was the president-elect as part of his incoming duties as the national security advisor in other words he was doing his job and the media ran with the story because it was an element of truth just like the element of truth was there with the wiki leak story they did try to reach out to don jr he didn't respond back the element of truth and this was flynn was asked to contact the russians as part of his job not as part of as part of his job you almost got to say it sarcastically because these liberals are so dopey sometimes they fall for every trick in the book i believe

it was a canary trap so last week what we had we had a whole bunch of stories break that were false again a whole bunch of don donald trump fake news donald trump's we had co-signers on the loans they're russian oligarchs co-signing donald trump's business loans at deutsche bank false verdict is in false the ruling on the field the play does not stand it was false it was again i believe another canary trap now i'm not suggesting these stories are related but i think we may have had a victim of another canary trap look at this axio story about uh madeline westerhout trump personal assistant madeline westerhout abruptly resigns. She sat right outside the Oval Office, in an office I'm familiar with from my prior line of work. I met Madeline. I don't know her

personally. I'm not here to bash her or anything else. But apparently, Ms. Westerhout, according to the media reports, was releasing information about the president and his family that somehow got back to Phil Rucker, I think it was, the Washington Post, who leaked. And by the way, don't ever talk to the media, folks.

I'm just telling you. Not that what she did was right, but she supposedly had an off-the-record conversation, which this guy then made on the record by himself. Again, I'm not suggesting she's right. Please don't at all.

I'm just telling you, just don't talk to the media. Paul, I'm not lying, right? We have don't at all. I'm just telling you, just don't talk to the media. Paul, I'm not lying, right? We have a general policy. We just don't talk to them. Unless it's like such a horrible, horrible thing. Like someone called me once about this lunatic guy that they wanted. And I'm like, no, no, no.

Don't do it. You're going to create a dangerous situation. I just don't talk to them because you can't trust them at all. But I got that email a lot this weekend from people saying do you think this was part of the canary trap could be i believe the information that was leaked to her may have been total bs in an effort to see where it went and the information was supposedly you know donald trump doesn't want to be photographed with his daughter, Tiffany. Folks, listen, I know the, I don't want to say, I know the president, we're not best buddies.

I don't want to make, we're not drinking buddies or golf buddies, but I spent enough time around them. That's, I could tell you with a hundred percent certainty, a hundred percent. I'm not even going to say how I know that that story is complete poppycock. It's made up. It's total fake news. And I'm not so sure that wasn't leaked to her to get her to say it to canary trap her

out. So I'm just throwing that out there, folks. Be careful. If you're a leaker on the inside, you are going to get caught eventually. They're not. Sometimes what you think you have is not what you really have. And really shame on the Washington. Don't don't talk to these people ever. You're making a huge, huge mistake talking to these people. If you're like some insider who thinks they've got the inside baseball. All right. I'm going to take another quick break for the sponsor. Last sponsor day. I'm going to fire through on this Flynn stuff.

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uh give me a bottom line up front. Sidney Powell is Mike Flynn, former national security advisor referenced before is his new lawyer. And she is just, she's just been great. She's been a beast. And I mean that a couple at a laudatory way. She's just been incredible. So Flynn Powell on behalf of Flynn just filed a motion in court I want to put this up the court

motion first so you know what's going on this is her August 30th motion against court Flynn as you know is being prosecuted for false statements to federal agents she is in her court file I'm going to read to you the second portion of this she says she's talking about the government prosecution I'm going to read it I'm going to explain to you what this means and why this is so devastating they she's talking about the prosecution the government affirmatively suppressed evidence in other words hiding brady material that destroyed the credibility of their primary witness impugned their entire case against mike flynn while at the same time putting excruciating pressure on him to enter his guilty plea and manipulating or controlling the press to their advantage to extort that plea they continue to hide that exculpatory information

for months in direct contravention of this court's order and they continue to suppress exculpatory information to this day oh boy oh not good oh yeah this is bad yeah the ladies and gentlemen this is one of my beefs with journalists, especially journalists who are really activists and not journalists who cover cases like this and Spygate have never been on the inside and really don't understand the mechanics of what this means. Haven't been a former federal agent. I have seen this and people, prosecutors like Andy McCarthy have written about this. Folks, this is devastating. She's talking about Brady material. In other words, Flynn's lawyer is saying

the government who prosecuted Flynn as information indicating he could be innocent, they failed to disclose. That may sound like a small thing. Trust me, it's not. When you are a federal agent, the failure to disclose Brady material, indications of a subject's innocence,

you understand it's a career ender? Listen, the feds listening to this show and the cops, you know what I'm saying is true. If you are in possession of legitimate material indicating the male or female subject to your case is innocent of the crime you're swearing under oath in affidavits and otherwise, there's probable cause they committed. You are in a world of trouble. I cannot emphasize to you enough how serious this is. This is the equivalent of being a bank teller and taking a 10% cut of every transaction for yourself.

You'd be fired and arrested the next day. Now, you probably won't be arrested for Brady material, but you will never, ever be allowed to testify in a court case again. It is literally a career ender. Your career as you know it, not figuratively, will be over. It will never be the same again if you are caught doing this. Powell, you can see in this Epoch Times piece, Flynn's new lawyer, is making a very serious allegation here that they're hiding evidence that Flynn is not guilty. Ivan Penchikoff has a piece

up. It'll be in the show notes. It's very good. Flynn accuses prosecutors of hiding exculpatory evidence and demands they be removed. Now, from the piece inside the Epic Times piece, there's a couple of nuggets in here. I want to explain to you where I think they're going and why the government. So just to be clear on what the government did. The government prosecuting Flynn has transcripts of Mike Flynn's conversation with the Russians. That's the bedrock of this whole case. Remember that, Joe? The FBI is simply alleging that Mike Flynn spoke to the Russian ambassador on a call

and that Mike Flynn told the FBI the contents of that call were different than what they actually were. But the transcript seems to be the transcripts. Why don't we have the transcripts yet? They want to produce summaries to government. I'm going to get to why that's a disaster. And we shouldn't accept any of that in a second from a prior case. Some of you may remember, but from the Epoch Times piece, I want you to check this out. Among the exculpatory evidence, meaning Brady material, evidence that may indicate

that Flynn is innocent, Powell, Flynn's lawyer, believes the defense team may be concealing FBI notes, memorializing the interviews between FBI agent Joe Bianca and senior DOJ official Bruce Ohr. Powell, again, Flynn's lawyer,

points out that the prosecutors in Flynn's case worked points out that the prosecutors in Flynn's case worked with Orr in 2016 and 2017. What does that mean? Why would anybody care? What does that mean right there? What do I always tell you? Remember the names. Remember the names. Remember the names. Always remember the names. If you're reading that and you're seeing the name Joe Bianca creep up, you're probably like, where seeing the name joe pianca creep up you're probably like where have i heard that name before why would sydney powell mike flynn's lawyer want conversations between fbi agent joe pianca and bruce or remember what joe pianca was doing

joe pianca was the designated handler for bruce or from the department of justice who was still in communication with steel after steel's fired by the FBI. Fired by the FBI. So follow me here. Christopher Steele, dossier guy, fired by the FBI for leaking to the media. The FBI brings him back in but can't use him directly. So they have him talk to the Department of Justice first to launder the information of Bruce Ohr.

They then assign an FBI agent, Pianca, to go get the information from Ohr he's getting from Steele, despite the fact that Steele's been fired already. Kind of a problem, no? But where else does Joe Pianca figure big time in this investigation? Joe Pianca's the agent that goes to the White House during the initial days of the Trump administration and interviews Mike Flynn. of the Trump administration and interviews Mike Flynn. Bianca's the same guy. Why would the FBI be hiding Bianca and Orr's conversations? Ladies and gentlemen, I'm going to throw out the possibility to you,

which would be catastrophically bad for the Department of Justice. That maybe in those notes about Bianca and Orr's conversation about what Steele's saying, because remember, they got to launder it through Orr now because Steele's already been fired. Did Orr possibly ask Steele about Mike Flynn or Mike Flynn's role in this? And did Steele, who they're claiming is a reputable source, even though he's been fired, so reputable they're still using him, even though his information has been discredited. Do you think it's possible Steele may have debunked the entire theory? He may have said, ah, Flynn's

story. Folks, God forbid something like that's in there. You see where I'm going with this, right? You can't have it on one hand that Steele's your credible source for the dossier you're swearing is true. And then on the other hand, Steele gives information about Flynn or something that indicates Flynn may be innocent, and you leave that out. Hmm. Do you understand why in law enforcement, how unethical this is and immoral?

If I'm investigating my neighbor for a drug deal and I'm a cop, and I find out from the other neighbor that it's all a big setup and my neighbor's innocent and then I don't disclose that ladies and gentlemen that's a huge deal now you may say well you know they gave them summaries of these things and even though we don't have the notes of Pionkin or and we don't have the transcripts directly of Flynn's conversation with the Russians that the government's alleging they're lying about. Oh, the summaries are good enough. Are they? Wrong.

Remember this Washington Times piece by Rowan Scarborough? We just covered this. What is it? Two, three weeks ago? No, two weeks ago. August 14. Exclusive. Rowan Scarborough.

Probe clears pro-Trump Pentagon analysts report withheld from defense team. Oh, really? Let me give you a little background on this case. So remember what we're talking about here. We're talking about federal agents you pay in a free constitutional republic who have information that may indicate one of their subjects is innocent. And they're refusing to turn it over to the lawyers on the defense team for Flynn and they're saying oh we'll just give you summaries well in this case this was the case of a Pentagon whistleblower named Adam Lovinger it was the guy who we believe outed the contract with Stephen Halper the spy in the case but you don't need that part's a little complicated we

covered that in that show you don't need to know that But this guy has come up on the Spygate folks research screen because Lovinger is a Pentagon whistleblower who said, hey, the guy who spied for the government, Halper, on the Trump team, we had big contracts with him. He was then suspiciously investigated despite being a whistleblower, I believe, to shut him up. During that investigation, Joe, a key critical piece of information came up in a summary i want you to read this from the rowan scarborough but this is why we want the transcripts i don't want your summaries we don't trust you anymore sorry from the rowan scarborough piece so they turn over a summary of an ncis analysis of what Adam Lovinger did, calling him basically a criminal leaker. Here we go. From the report.

The NCIS report said an analysis of the hard drive of Mr. Lovinger, the whistleblower's U.S. government Dell computer, quote, listen to the quote, did not yield any classified or sensitive information. In other words, Lovinger was a whistleblower, did not leak classified or sensitive information. But that's not what the defense team got. Listen to this. The second paragraph here in the declassified version of the report, Joe, the word not is missing. An NCIS spokesman told the Times on Wednesday that the file copy is being corrected to add the word not. Oh, gee, thanks.

So the guy did not leak classified information, but in the summary, it says did leak classified information. How about that? Oh, yeah. It changes the whole meaning of the sentence. The whole meaning of this. You know, it reminds me of this. If I may just give a personal story, Paul and I celebrate our anniversary this week. We went down to a restaurant, Evo, we really love down here. It was empty. It's like one of the most popular restaurants around because of the hurricane. It's like it's destroying businesses down here.

This hurricane has been a major disaster. But I wrote on my Facebook, if you want to check it, I put a picture of me and Paula, the lovely Paula. I said, Paula and me, comma comma celebrating our anniversary at evo whatever so i get the grammar police come out and they're wrong this is what drives me crazy i used to say it's paula and i no it is not it is not paula and i if you take paula out of the sentence the sentence would read entirely incorrectly i comma celebrating my yes not it would be me celebrating my anniversary and this lady is going back and forth with me on facebook so i'm in english but you're you are wrong i am sorry i had to send her the i versus me you are not right you are not right if i would if it said

paula and me were celebrating and then it would be paula and i were celebrating our anniversary because if you take paula out it would read i was celebrating my anniversary that is not right stop correcting me when you're wrong it's embarrassing and then she the lady got all offended she keep her mind she reaches out to me to incorrectly correct my grammar and then she goes i object to the tone of your response i'm not tone you're wrong i'm sorry you reached out to me my it's your fault not mine i wasn't wrong oh my gosh i said i just don't want you to make the same mistake she didn't like that at all oh man i hear you. So, folks, bottom line on this story, that's a big grammar mistake.

He did not leak classified information. To he did leak is kind of a big deal. And that's why I'm saying with Flynn to tie this story. I have a lot more to get to. Get the transcript. I'm not interested in your summary of the transcript. I can see it now. Here's Strzok. Strzok hands over the summary. Here you go, Powell.

Peter Strzok, you know, corrupted FBI investigator. Here it says, Mike Flynn did cooperate with the Russians. This is our summary of the report. And then they read the initial report. Mike Flynn did not cooperate. You missed not. You missed the not in there. I donnn did not cooperate you missed not you missed the

knot in here there's a i don't mean a tie knot with a k i mean like the knot that's kind of a big deal no get the transcripts get the transcripts it's not like this hasn't happened just two weeks ago with a different case lovinger get the transcripts. I'm sorry. I'm done trusting people, folks, after that Comey debacle last week. Quick note before we move on. I got a lot, and I mean a lot, of feedback on Friday's show. It was not a lecture, folks. I don't lecture my own audience. You are a lot smarter, many of you, than I am.

Okay? I have different life experiences. It was are a lot smarter many of you than I am okay I have different life experiences it was simply a warning not to give up on Trump I will say this email was overwhelmingly positive I don't say that to kind of dissuade people from sending negative emails probably 99 positive but I did get some emails from people who didn't like Friday's show didn't like the tone of it fair enough enough. I put my email out there. I read it. I responded to some positive, some negative. I couldn't respond to all of them. But again, I'm here for the truth. It matters. And the show was not meant to be anything other than a call to action to get us all ready for the fight ahead. I just don't want anybody to give up.

That's it. If you took it the wrong way, my sincere apology, it's not how I meant it. But you know, I get it. I get how some people, but Friday's show was an emotional one. It did bonkers numbers for us. But I did get a lot of positive and some negative feedback. So check it out. It was about Comey and how I had received some emails from people who literally said, I'm giving up. I mean, that's what I was responding to. Don't, don't, there's no giving up. We're in this fight for the long run. We got an election coming up. There's no time for giving up, but I did want to address that. I should have addressed at the beginning of the show. Okay. No giving up on Flynn either.

He needs our help and good for Sidney Powell for fighting back. Okay. This, you know, I, I, I wake up every morning and my goal in life is to correct liberal nonsense that pervades its way through the sphere of influence out there. So I read the Wall Street Journal this morning and I had seen this last week bumping around Twitter. Oh, there's this report out there. We're all dying, Joe. The farms are dying.

It's going to be the dust bowl, grapes of wrath that's over. Forget it. The world is turning into a barren desert. So Wall Street Journal today, a famine of fact at the UN climate panel by James Taylor, August 30th, 2019. The IPC, that's the climate change panel, sounds an alarm about food production. But another UN agency's data show it's a false alarm. So just to be clear

this has been going around the liberals are using this talking point again you may hear it you may see it come up in a debate there was this report delivered by the un ipc their climate change panel suggesting that food production joe is going down we're in trouble in other, we're all going to die. You're going to starve to death. Every one of you is going to. And now, Joe, what do you think the reason is, of course? It's the reason for everything. Climate change. Climate change is the reason for it.

Climate change is the reason for no storms. Climate change is the reason for a lot of storms. Climate change is the reason for powerful storms. It's the reason for the existence of the temperatures increasing. It is the reason for powerful storms it's the reason for the existence of no the temperature's increasing it's the reason for temperatures decreasing the central tenet of a conspiracy theory joe is it is non-debunkable right yeah now when you said the pit when it was global warming and the globe was actually level in temperature they said well that's climate change when we didn't have a hurricane in um in florida which we didn't for i think it was 11 years between landfalls of a hurricane that was climate change now that we've

had hurricanes four out of the last four years that's climate change too in other words it's a non-debunkable it is the hallmark of a conspiracy theory when people want to tell you a conspiracy theory that whatever uh i mean think about it think of a conspiracy theory that's been debunked 62 different ways from sunday when you try to use logic with those people i can name a few they email me back with another theory about why the theory it's non debunkable so the u.n themselves is putting out a conspiracy theory that we're all going to die and that the earth is becoming a barren desert without food production well here's another line from the wall street journal piece from a separate this is the same un folks just a different panel at the same

time the un food and agriculture organization reports that new records wait wait hold on new record new records they're not talking about records like vinyl new records were set for global corn wheat and rice production five years running through 2017 which is the most recent year for data is available how is that possible it's not what they're lying to you again they're making up a story this is not a barren wasteland the existence of this hurricane which and by the way don't send me stupid emails if you're liberals about this stuff i'm living through this okay you're not i love it i live down here in florida it's big boy rules i said to joe and my father who called me before the show we bought a place knowing the risks i don't want the taxpayers subsidizing my risk and my appetite i bought it my problem It's my problem to deal with. Our neighbors band

together. We'll get it done. Big boy rules. And I get that. But don't lie to me. Pee on my leg and tell me it's raining. I saw a report this weekend. Matter of fact, Paul, you may smile at this one. Someone told me, well, these storms are more powerful because the ocean is warmer now because of climate change. So I looked it up. That's not true either. Global temperatures have not gone up at all recently. It's entirely inaccurate. It's just not true.

You know why we get hurricanes? Because we've always gotten hurricanes. Because that's how the environment redistributes heat around the globe. Storms and hurricanes. It's just not true. Their storms are not more powerful because the globe is heating up. It's just not true. We didn't have a hurricane here for 11 years.

It's so hot there were no storms. The globe is not dying. We are not going to starve to death because we live in a barren wasteland. The data shows the exact opposite is true. Wheat, corn, rice, up. As I said, everything in the screen is backwards. I'm actually pointing in the wrong direction here because everything's inverted. When I try to point to Joe, he's actually this way on my screen, but he's not that way. That's not the case with up.

Up is always up on the show. Global wheat and corn and rice production, up, up, not down, up. But they don't do data. So when your friends tell you that hurricanes are worse because the ocean waters are hotter, that is not what the data says. You just made that up. That's not true. And secondly, we're all going to starve. We're turning into a barren wasteland due to climate change. That's not true. And secondly, we're all going to starve.

We're turning into a barren wasteland due to climate change. That is not true either. Food production, up, up this way. Some may freeze to death. That's good.

Bernie drops never go out of style. Ever. The verdict is in nice drop joe arbicott someone told me by the way i i always love audience feedback because we always break down the fourth wall and this show is just different i'm just and i i like some of it i take to heart some of it i you know we have i have a general rule if i don't get 20 emails about something it's not they're not really upset about it because we get a lot so. If I don't get 20 emails about something, they're not really upset about it because we get a lot. So I don't want to...

But someone said, don't acknowledge the drops. They're funnier when you don't acknowledge them. I don't know they're coming. It's not planned. I'm like you. You have to understand with the drops once in a while. And Joe doesn't like...

He's farewell. He doesn't like abuse or anything. But when Joe puts the drops in, folks, please understand. I have no idea. When you're at a radio station, right? And you're looking at your producer, like when I worked the drops in folks, please understand there. I have no idea when you're at a radio station, right? And you're looking at your producer. Like when I worked at WMAL, I can see when he's going to do a drop. So you get ready.

I turn it to an audience member. When Joe does that, I, I'm laughing too. Cause it's funny. That was great. I didn't know that was coming. Nice job. I don't see what he's doing. Yeah. Perfectly time. All right. Last story of the day. It's an important one. You know, when we first started doing this podcast, we did a lot of economics and a lot of your listeners were like,

hey man, let's get back to some of that stuff. I really enjoyed it. I hope you do. I try to keep it simple. It's, you know, it's not econ talk like Russ Roberts' podcast, which is excellent by the way. But I do try to bring about stories

I think I can relate to the average man and woman out there. And folks, there's a story in the Hill I think you need to be really concerned about. It's called The End of the Dollar as we know it. I have it in the show notes today at Bongino.com. You subscribe to my email list at the website. I'll email the stories to you. This is worth your time. Andy Langenkamp, an opinion contributor.

It's very good. You know, it's a little bit apocalyptic. I don't want to panic anybody, especially with all this stuff going on. The hurricane, we had a shooting spree, but it's worth bringing up. The gist of the story is this, and I've explained this on this show before.

For some of you who listen to my older shows, we were heavy on the economics. The dollar right now, ladies and gentlemen, is the world's's reserve currency what does that mean um it basically means that it's it's a safety that we're the safety deposit box for the world a lot of global transactions because other economies and their currencies aren't stable and can fluctuate the value goes up and down the dollar stays relatively stable because of that countries that deal with other countries and don't even deal with the united states a lot of them say you know um i don't want your currency follow me so country a deals with country b they're both of their currencies country a says to country b i'll let

you buy our stuff but don't give us whatever, your scoots from country B. That's what the Secret Service, we called everything scoots, foreign currency. Don't give us your scoots. What you have to do, country B, is if you want to buy our stuff from us,

country A, you have to change your scoots for US dollars first and give us dollars. Why? Because a lot of these countries are so afraid that country B's currency is going to dip and go up and down that they're not going to get what they thought they

got. In other words, if you give us a hundred scoots on Monday, by Friday, it may be worth 75 scoots. That's a bit of a dramatic example, but you get what I'm saying? It may not be worth what it was worth on Monday. That's generally not a problem with the U.S. dollar because the U.S. economy is the strongest economy in the world we are the global financial system in and of itself now that's a very simplified explanation of what being the world's reserve currency means now what's the benefit of that to us the benefit of that to us is country b needs dollars why because it wants to buy countries a stuff and it can't do it when it scoots it needs to buy dollars first well when you need to buy dollars

what does that allow us to do that allows the u.s uh our federal reserve a quasi independent it's not independent at all half the time but whatever that allows our federal reserve joe to print and print and print and print now typically when countries print endless supplies of money what do you get you get inflation pretty simple right if I if I if there's a hundred dollars in the U.S. economy slushing around to buy $100 worth of product, and we print $10,000, now you have $10,100 chasing the same 100 products. So what happens? The prices go up dramatically.

Inflation's not hard. It's not hard to figure out. If you print more money to chase the same amount of products, then the products are going to cost more money, which means inflation prices go up. But Joe, why is inflation in the United States not gone up? Because we're printing these US dollars and all these countries around the world are scooping them up because we are the world's reserve currency. What does that mean for us? And why would this be a problem? Well, ladies and gentlemen, it's a problem because it allows the United States to run up endless debt. It's not always a good thing ladies and gentlemen it's a problem because it allows the united states to run up endless debt it's not always a good thing why does it allow us to run up endless debt

because countries that print endless amounts of their own money and have interest rates go through the roof because of inflation because money starts to cost more capital starts to cost more prices go up interest rates go up and all of a countries are like, hey, we better stop printing money. We're going to have to pay off these countries that are borrowing our currency at 20%, 30%. Again, dramatizing the interest rate, but you get the point. Hold the presses. Interest rates are going through the roof. That has not happened here because these countries are scooping it up, which allows the U.S.

government endless amounts of debt. Now, you may say, well, that's a good thing. We're getting basically interest-free loans. Folks, when you're responsible with your money, it is a good thing. That's not what we're doing now. We're running up endless, endless amounts of debt. And if that reserve currency status collapses, and that U.S., that demand for U.S. dollars from country A and country B

that they have to trade their scoots out for to do business, if that demand evaporates, those U.S. that demand for U.S. dollars from country A and country B that they have to trade their scoots out for to do business, if that demand evaporates, those U.S. dollars, they're not going to get burned. They're going to come back here, and you are going to see inflation like you've never seen in interest rates through the roof. Now, I want to tie this to a separate story.

Another story I saw at Yahoo Finance. Check this one out. Showing you I'm not wrong. Yahoo Finance, again, in the show notes. August 31st, 2019 by Vincent Delgadice, or Gadice, I'm Italian, I should know, and Wei Lu.

America's wealth hinges on its ability to borrow big, or else. Yes. Yahoo Finance is right. I want you to look at the first piece of this. I'm going to connect these stories and say this is a big deal if they stop using our money. The first part of the Yahoo Finance piece. The nation's health, talking about the U.S., as measured by GDP per capita, would plunge into negative territory without its dependence on borrowed money, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.

Listen to this. This should trouble all of you. How much debt we're in. In fact, the U.S. would fall to the bottom of a ranking of 114 economies measured as GDP growth per person. Only Italy, Greece and Japan would fare worse than us. That's a seismic shift from America's comfortable number five spot on a list based on conventional measures.

What does that mean? Folks, this dollar as the reserve currency enabling us to print endless amounts of money has also enabled us to borrow at low interest rates. If we factor in the amount of money we owe and the borrowing we've done into our wealth per person, what we're all worth, it's negative. To understand we would be, we go from the number five wealthiest per person country in the world to the bottom.

Now, that doesn't, of course, measure our accumulated wealth. I mean, we have different, there's other things here, and that's a relatively simplistic measure. But it should be a warning. Check out the second part of this. Now comes the tie-in. Again, these are two unrelated articles I picked out today from Drudge that there's a common theme to. Luckily for Americans, a debt-free economy is unlikely to happen anytime soon. Americans, a debt-free economy is unlikely to happen anytime soon.

Even with growing trade wars against China and others, and the Trump administration's projected $1 trillion budget deficit in fiscal 2020, the U.S. debt market allows for ample liquidity, and the U.S. dollar is considered the world's reserve currency.

Huh? Paula, we have a snippet from that hill piece Folks If the reserve currency status dissipates We are going to be in a world of economic pain From that hill piece before Here's the warning signs The dollar is currently used by counterparties

Country A or country B, in 80 to 90% of all currency transactions. There's the good news. The dollar comprises 62% of the global currency reserves, whereas the euro is in second with a meager 20%. 60% of international outstanding debt is priced in US dollars. All good signs, but if you read the piece, ladies and gentlemen, you'll see that a lot of those metrics are going down, down, down. The point they make in the piece is a great one at the end of the Hill piece. Remember, we took over as the world's only superpower from the United Kingdom. Yet the pound continued on for a very long time as the world's reserve currency until it wasn't.

Be very careful. There's a little economics but I know a lot of you missed that stuff. Folks, please tune in tomorrow. Check us out on YouTube as well. YouTube.com slash Bongino. The audio podcast

always available on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, iHeart, SoundCloud, and elsewhere. I'll try to take some video outside of the hurricane. I'm not going to put my family in any danger, obviously, but I'll give you a look at what it looks like down here. So I'll try to get some video outside of the hurricane I'm not going to put my family in any danger obviously but I'll give you a look at what it looks like down here

so I'll try to get some on my phone it's getting a little ominous down here but we will be here for you tomorrow either as audio or video but as I said regardless there will be a YouTube show we may have to just inter-disperse it with snippets of video we are going to make it happen

no matter what so I'll be there for you you've always been there for me love you guys and ladies to death. Thank you. And one final note. Thank you. I mean, seriously, thank you to all the wonderful emails, Facebook tweets, Instagram messages, wishing me and Paula well. We'll be all right. So we have a good house here and thank you very much. You really are a fantastic audience. You've made my life so special. I can't even tell you. Thanks so much. I'll see you tomorrow.

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