The Dan Bongino Show - Pelosi Melts Down (Ep 1127)
Episode Date: December 5, 2019In this episode, I address the Democrats’ complete meltdown on Capitol Hill and the devastating impact their hoax impeachment is having on their election 2020 chances. I also address a bold initiati...ve by the Trump administration which was largely ignored by the liberal media. Finally, I address some key developments relevant to the 2020 election. News Picks: The Bongino Report goes live, and prominent conservatives rally. The silly Democrats are moving forward with their hoax impeachment. Hilarious! Watch hapless Jerry Nadler fall asleep during the hoax impeachment hearing. Legal scholar eviscerates the Democrats’ hoax impeachment. Adam Schiff is engaged in grotesque abuses of power.  The ten most important revelations expected in the IG report. Voters are furious with the Democrats’ impeachment hoax. IG expected to find that the FBI omitted key details about the Steele dossier in FISA renewal. Copyright Bongino Inc All Rights Reserved. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Ladies and gentlemen, how much worse
can this impeachment hearing possibly get?
Just when you think Adam Schiff,
as a representative of the Democrat Party,
has hit the stupid floor, what happens?
Happless Jerry Nadler, who nearly fell asleep
during this hearing, I got some video of that later,
blows through the stupid floor and hits the stupid basement.
What a colossal mess.
I've got that today.
I've got a great article by John Solomon
about some revelations he's getting
about the soon to be released on Monday IG report.
I've got a big bold initiative
by the Trump administration.
That's excellent.
They deserve a pat on the back.
And hopefully we'll get to it
in election 2020 update with the new news that Nancy Pelosi is going to proceed with this abomination of an impeachment stack show today.
Welcome to the Dan Bongino Show. Producer Joe, how are you today?
Well, I'm glad to be here again, Dan. Yeah, things are going nuts. Nuts.
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Okie dokie. So yesterday's hearing a spectacular implosion by Jerry Nadler. I want
to get to some quick video move on. You probably saw a ton of it yesterday on cable news, but I
picked some highlights from you for you. Excuse me. And yesterday I said, given that Adam Schiff
is now snooping into congressman's phone records, engaged in another massive spying scandal after
lying about Spygate, you'd think he'd be a little more self-aware.
He got his hands on Devin Nunes' phone records,
Trump's lawyer, Rudy Giuliani,
President Trump's lawyer.
Adam Schiff is just a disgusting police state tyrant.
I just can't say enough awful things
about how this guy is ruining the Constitutional Republic.
He is really an awful human being.
Nobody's spoken out for John Solomon the reporter Adam
Schiff is now spying on the ACLU jump ship they're all reporters are all like no it's great we're all
into spying now we love the police state so I told you yesterday now is the time to fight back take
the gloves off and start throwing punches enough BS time to get in the game get in the fight the
referee's not going to save you the other guy across the ring is rabbit punching you
and he's biting your ear off.
And all of a sudden they want the referee to help.
He's not helping.
Fight back.
Well, that started yesterday.
I've got a couple of clips of Republican congressmen
from Florida District 1, Matt Gaetz,
who just tore in to one of these highbrow,
hoity-toity, elitist law professors
they brought up there to condescendingly explain
to the great unwashed masses like me and Joe
and everyone else in America how important this impeachment proceeding is
from our perch at Stanford Law School and elsewhere.
So one of them decided it would be a good idea
to take a shot at the president's son.
We're not going to go too deep into that one,
but Matt Gaetz had had enough of this nonsense from this hoity-toity professor and let's go to
cut one matt gates uh dropping a tactical nuke on this one check this out professor carlin you gave
2 000 bucks or you gave a thousand bucks to elizabeth warren right i believe so you gave
1200 uh bucks to barack obama i have no reason to question that and you gave 2 000 bucks to I believe so. You gave $1,200 to Barack Obama?
I have no reason to question that.
And you gave $2,000 to Hillary Clinton?
That's correct.
Why so much more for Hillary than the other two?
Because I've been giving a lot of money to charity recently because of all of the poor people in the United States.
Well, those aren't the only folks you've been given to. Now, have you ever been on a podcast called Versus Trump?
Right.
Now, have you ever been on a podcast called Versus Trump? I think I was on a live panel that the people who ran the podcast called Versus Trump.
On that, do you remember saying the following?
Liberals tend to cluster more.
Conservatives, especially very conservative people, tend to spread out more,
perhaps because they don't even want to be around themselves
did you say that yes i did do you understand how that reflects contempt on people who are
conservative okay so you're hoity-toity uh we're supposed to take her seriously law professor
professor carlin from her academic perch remember jo, she's so much smarter than you and I. The great, unbathed, diseased masses like you and I.
Joe, she's so much smarter.
Remember, Joe, she went to law school, Joe.
She went to law school.
So she knows a lot more than us.
Now we find out not only is she a non-ideological, non-partisan actor up there to talk dispassionately about how Trump should be impeached.
She's a monstrous Democrat donor writing huge checks to Democrats who thinks that conservatives
hate each other and don't even want to live near each other. Perfect guest. Perfect. You're right,
folks. This is exactly what we needed to sell the American public on how dispassionate and
nonpartisan this hoax impeachment is. Really great job.
You know, as I said last night on a Laura Ingraham show with my Wednesday debates with Chris Hahn
that I do, on a very serious note, Joe, you and I grew up middle class, right? If not like lower
middle class, a little bit. Yeah. Paula too grew up as an immigrant from Columbia. You know, me
grew up above a bar at 64th place in Myrtle Avenue in Glendale. You know, I wouldn't say we grew up as an immigrant from Columbia. You know, me grew up above a bar at 64th Place and Myrtle Avenue in Glendale.
You know, I wouldn't say
we grew up wealthy. We do okay now,
but I wouldn't say we grew up wealthy.
How do you think this
message from a hoity-toity professor
making fun of Trump's child,
talking about the
Madisonian round national mothers
and all this other impeachment, when we
can read the transcript ourselves,
how do you think this sells to a mechanic in Pennsylvania or a coal miner in West Virginia?
The answer is it doesn't.
They're probably flipping you the double-barreled middle finger
and laughing at you imbeciles in this snooze fest of a hearing
with Noah Feldman, Noah Professor Emeritus Esquire,
Esquire like Bradley Moss from yesterday,
and Professor Carlin from Stanford.
I'm not sure she's ever had a real job, but yes, she's there to tell you how dumb you
all are and how the president committed a high crime she has no actual evidence of.
It gets worse.
Yeah.
it gets worse yeah here's matt gates number two uh who thankfully again gloves off folks nicey nice time is over we gotta be careful we don't offend them and i by the way can i just say
to matt did a great job congressman gates did an excellent job and a lot of other ones did too
louis gomer jim jordan always good and there's just a bunch of these guys who are really great
some of them though started with this unnecessary caveat caveat. I have to say before we start, I thank you for
coming and I respect you. Why do you respect these people? I don't understand why you respect it.
That lady, as Matt Gaetz just said, the hoity-toity law professor, gave a podcast lecture or speech or
whatever on a thing called versus Trump, where she talked about how conservatives don't even like each other and don't want to be near each other while she donated to
our political opposition. Why are we supposed to respect what she says again? I'm sorry. I missed
that. So thankfully here's Matt Gates cut number two, just lacing into this, uh, this, uh, professor
again for some more idiocy. Check this out.
No, what I was talking about there was the natural tendency, if you put the quote in context,
the natural tendency of a compactness requirement to favor a party whose voters are more spread out.
Well, and I do not have contempt for conservatives.
I'm very limited on time, Professor. and so I just have to say when you talk
about how liberals want to be around each other and cluster and conservatives
don't want to be around each other and so they have to spread out it makes
people you may not see this from you know like the ivory towers of your law
school but it makes actual people in this country when you like excuse me
you don't get to interrupt me on this time. Now, let me also suggest that when you invoke the president's son's name here, when you
try to make a little joke out of referencing Barron Trump, that does not lend credibility to
your argument. It makes you look mean. It makes you look like you're attacking someone's family,
the minor child of the president of the United States. So let's see if we can get into the facts.
To all of the witnesses, if you have personal knowledge of a single material fact in the shift report please raise your hand
and let the record reflect no personal knowledge of a single fact and you know what
that continues on the tradition that we saw from adam shiftiff. Go get them, Gates! Oh!
There they are.
There it is.
Haven't whipped these out in a while, of course,
so as you're watching on the YouTube,
youtube.com slash Dan.
There it is.
Our thug life class is here.
Folks, nice job.
Nice job, Matt Gates.
Very, very well done.
So not only is she a Democrat donor, not only does she think it's funny to poke fun at the name of the president's teenage child, Barron,
not only does she think conservatives and I'll give her the benefit of the doubt, I shouldn't.
She was talking about redistricting, but she said they don't even want to live near themselves.
And she was talking about redistricting.
But she said they don't even want to live near themselves.
Not only that, but now we find out also that she is just an avid Trump.
She just can't stand Trump. Thank God Gates cut her off and shut her down.
We didn't need any more of that garbage.
Now, the most important part of that cut, of course, is the end.
now the most important part of that cut of course is the end where he asks these hoity-toity smarter than us i guess uh bathed in fine wines and oils
uh lecturers and professors at these highbrow institutions do you actually have any evidence
of any crimes firsthand knowledge that the president may have committed?
Or basically, are you just here to pontificate about how smart you are and how stupid we all are, the actual voters?
Will you raise your hand if you have any knowledge of any of the facts directly in this case?
How many people raised their hands out of the four?
Well, for those of you not watching on the YouTube, the answer is zero.
A big fat donut, an egg yolk, nothing.
Zero.
None of them did.
So you may be asking to yourself, if you are that mechanic in Pennsylvania
or a coal miner in West Virginia or Alabama or whatever you may do,
architect, landscaper, carpenter, truck driver,
but you actually work for a living
unlike these professoriates,
you maybe ask yourself,
then what the hell were they doing there?
The answer is they were blowing up this impeachment probe
even though the Democrats think
they're doing themselves a favor.
Folks, so you understand the silly strategery.
The Democrats really believe
by getting a bunch of highbrow
academics up there to explain the mechanics of impeachment, although they have no direct
knowledge of what happened in this actual case, none, they really believe this was going to change
hearts and minds. I'll get to more of that later in the election 2020 update, how badly this is
imploding in their faces. Folks, I'm telling you, I used to think the Democrats were smarter than
this. I did. I've said it on the show many times how I disagree with them.
But I've always, always been concerned about their brilliant tactical strategies to isolate
and marginalize Republicans.
That's out the window.
Throw it out.
They are just they have lost it completely.
They are so enraged by Trump that they have lost their lodestar here.
They're guiding light. They are off the path completely, and they are lost their lodestar here. They're guiding light.
They are off the path completely, and they are absolutely blowing their electoral chances.
And for those of you saying don't give them advice, folks, believe me, it doesn't matter.
Barack Obama himself has tried to give them advice to get back on the beaten path, and
they are completely ignoring it because they are enraged by Trump, as evidenced by Pelosi
this morning.
We're going to move forward.
Damn the torpedoes. Full steam ahead.
Full speed ahead. Yeah.
Now, clip number
three from Matt Gaetz
who sums it up brilliantly
here. So we're talking about foreign
interference in an election and wire
taps and stuff. Maybe
we're dealing with the wrong, maybe we're impeaching
the wrong president. Check this out. This is great.
And you know what? If wiretapping a political
opponent's an impeachable offense, I look forward
to getting that Inspector General's report because maybe
it's a different president we should be impeaching.
Gentlemen's time has expired, Mr. Cicilline.
Oh, yeah!
Yippers.
Well, we do know somebody was spied on and that there were wire taps, maybe not in the traditional tapping alligator clip sense, but there was most definitely spying warrants issued on a campaign.
But that campaign was Donald Trump's campaign by the Barack Obama administration.
Maybe we should reverse impeach Barack Obama.
Good job, Congressman from Nat Gates.
Nice.
Really well done.
All right, I've got one more here.
This is Louie Gohmert, who was a judge.
The reason I put Gohmert up there is he's another warrior.
And Louie Gohmert, Republican congressman from Texas,
was an actual judge who probably has real world experience in an actual
job. Unlike the professor who was up there yesterday, the three knuckleheads plus John
Turley, who did a great job. Louis Gobert is actual experience in the real world doing real
cases as a judge. And he brings up an interesting point how this is a not just a this isn't a case based on hearsay, Joe.
It's a case of hearsay about hearsay. Check this out.
I hear you.
The evidence is a bunch of hearsay on hearsay that anybody here had tried cases before of enough magnitude.
You would know you can't rely on hearsay on hearsay.
magnitude, you would know you can't rely on hearsay on hearsay, but we have experts who know better than the accumulated experience of the ages. So here we are, and I would submit we need
some factual witnesses. We do not need to receive a report that we don't have a chance to read before
this hearing. Joe, it was very funny. I just caught that. Joe said, I hear you. Well, Joe, I heard you hear me
and Paula heard me hear you hear me. So Paula's going to be the witness. So, well, I just got
that. It's a hearsay about hearsay. Actually, Louie Gomer, about hearsay. So Paula heard me
respond to Joe who heard someone else say say i hear you and joe said i
hear you based on what he overheard from someone else so paula's gonna be the witness this case
is a joke it's a total farce and gomert who is an actual judge with real world experience totally
completely gets it nice job louis gomert now paula can you play that clip in nadler now listen
i hate to do this because i know it's uh this will always be an audio show first but uh I'm I tell you I'm getting a little dry a little tired I mistakenly
took a sleeping pill before the show I thought it was a vitamin and oh go go it's it's tough it's getting tough this day
obviously i'm messing with you i did not take a sleeping pill before the show i'm deeply sorry i
hated this but please youtube.com slash by gina we just in the background we're playing a video
of jerry nadler who actually was falling to sleep courtesy of of the Trump War Room on Twitter, falling to sleep during yesterday's snooze fest.
Oh, my God. Somebody get me a somebody get me a Viverin.
Somebody have an espresso, double shot, quadruple shot.
I heard someone heard someone who heard someone else tell me there was an espresso machine in the congressional in the congressional toilet.
machine in the congressional uh in the congressional toilet can someone go get me a triple shot express maybe a cappuccino on the side a triple caramel macchiato he can't even stay
up during his own snooze fest folks listen to me please check out the youtube on this it's video
i don't want it because there's a song in the background it would confuse everyone yeah please
just check out it's like it's just 10 seconds or just google nadler sleeping and watch him falling asleep folks listen to me i told you
in the beginning i thought adam schiff was the absolute floor of incompetence meaning the
incompetence couldn't get any worse it is clear now it almost pains me to say this that nadler
may be even more incompetent than schiff joe this this guy had one job, Nadler, just one.
You had this day of hearings. Dude, just stay awake, dude. You had one job. Reminds me when I
was a secret service agent on midnights. When you're on post outside a hotel door during the UN
and the leader of Pakistan is behind that door, you have one job, Joe, for that 20 minutes an hour you're in that door on
midnight.
What's the job, Joe?
Keep your ass awake.
Thank you.
Joe was on radio at like 4 o'clock in the morning when they first started.
And then they moved to 5 a.m.
Joe was the executive producer for a radio station.
I promise you, if Joe doesn't hit a switch on live radio it's
gonna be really bad armacost had one job stay away dude and answer the callers when they call in or
else the show goes off the air it's not hard folks get yourself a vivarin get yourself whatever some
coffee i don't care what you gotta do jerry stay awake during your old hearing. It's embarrassing.
Oh, my gosh.
All right, because I don't want to bathe you in this nonsense.
We're all getting dumber for hearing it.
Just one more quick thing.
Tweet from Benny Johnson, which is a good one and worth your time.
Benny Johnson works over at Turning Point there.
There is a congressman now, Jim Banks, who is now asking Senator Lindsey Graham, who, remember, the Senate's in charge of the trial because we're the majority now.
So Senator Graham is going to have some ability in that committee on that side to dictate what happens in this impeachment trial.
So Senator, excuse me, Representative Banks is asking Senator Graham to subpoena the call records for Adam Schiff, former VP Joe Biden and his son Hunter, as well as the attorney for Ukraine whistleblower
Mark Zaid. Listen, ladies and gentlemen, this has to be done. I don't ask a lot of favors of you,
right? You know, we put books out. I ask you to check them out. I ask you to check out my YouTube,
but I don't ask a lot of favors on the side, like side hustles or anything. I'm asking you for a favor now. Turn the volume up. Everybody needs to email Lindsey Graham or call his office.
You know, we'll be cool about it.
We're not liberals, of course.
We're not the Antifa crowd.
Email or call his office, Lindsey Graham.
And we need to ask that this happen.
Ask nicely, but ask firmly, if you get what I mean.
You know, you're all adults we're not antifa
we're conservatives we actually have heads on our shoulders he needs to do that adam schiff wants to
play we're going to spy on the call records of devon newness and trump's lawyer president trump's
lawyer that's okay you do that adam let's see how you like it now when we subpoena your call records
buddy and what about the whistleblowers attorney when we subpoena your call records, buddy. And what
about the whistleblowers attorney? How about the whistleblowers call records? Can we throw those
in there too? Oh, we can't do it. No, we can. Oh no, we can. Stop asking the ref for help.
The other guy's punching you in the nads. It's time to fight back. I'm asking you with the
greatest of respect and humility,
call Lindsey Graham's office or email his office and say,
Hey,
are we on this?
I hope you're doing this because we need those call records.
We need to see about Adam Schiff's collusion.
How much,
who he was talking to fair game.
Now folks shift said so.
Yeah.
I think right.
Joe fair enough.
I would think.
Yeah.
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Stack show today.
So much going on.
An excellent piece by John Solomon at John Solomon Reports.
It'll be up at Bongino Reports.
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This article will be there as well.
John Solomon, the 10 most important revelations to expect
from Monday's Russia probe Pfizer report.
We're going to get that on Monday,
the IG report by Horowitz.
He's going to testify on Wednesday.
Of course, that's the inspector general looking into all of the malfeasance that happened with the Obama administration spying on the Trump team. Now, he gives 10 of them.
I'm not going to go through all 10 because it rehashes a lot of what we discussed on the show
repeatedly. And it's unfair to listeners who listen every day. I don't want to beat you up
with old content. I just want to be sure here we hit some of the highlights of this because it is a very good piece. It is definitely
worth your time. Please go to the Bongino Report or Bongino.com. Check this piece out. It is
definitely worth your time. Let's go through some of the big ones here about what we can expect
because I'm going to sum this up with kind of a coup de grace at the end about what I think, because I'm hearing this
now from multiple people and Solomon hints at it.
I don't want to tease it too much, but I'm going to get to at the end what I think the
FBI did to try and clean up its mess before the election.
It'll make sense in a few.
Let's go through some of the bigger takeaways first.
Here's takeaway number one.
Solomon says, could be in this IG report.
Folks, just what was the degree of the bigger takeaways first. Here's takeaway number one. Solomon says, could be in this IG report. Folks, just what was the degree
of the misconduct here?
He says here, and I quote,
the scope and failure of misconduct.
Were these FBI mistakes,
isolated mistakes,
systemic, cultural,
and procedural failures,
or intentional acts involved
in the investigation
and the FISA warrant
against Carter Page
and the renewals for more than a year?
He says, I expect the Horowitz report to identify between six and 12 failures, mistakes and acts of misconduct.
These will range from serious offenses of altering government documents to failures to produce the court's evidence and information required under the FISA process.
The large number of problems, if confirmed, should be a wake-up call to the FBI
and those who provide oversight of its activity. Solomon's being nice here, ladies and gentlemen.
What he's getting at is we have to understand the difference between misfeasance and malfeasance.
Misfeasance would be, you know, saying intentionally not doing something when you know
it's the right thing to do. In other words, I'm walking with Joe, Joe falls on the sidewalk and I keep walking.
It's misfeasance.
It's the wrong thing to do, but I didn't cause Joe to fall.
Still wrong, but there are degrees of depravity, right?
Yeah.
Malfeasance would be, I push Joe down on the sidewalk.
He goes to get up and I punch him in the face to keep him down.
Obviously a far advanced degree of depravity.
The question Solomon's getting at here
is if this IG report is going to point out six to 12 major screw-ups by the FBI,
were these intentional screw-ups? And I think he's being nice by framing it that way.
Or were these mistakes? Now, Joe, I think he kind of foreshadows that these are going to be deemed
malfeasance, not misfeasance, a higher degree of depravity.
Why? Because if you read halfway through what I just told you, the quote from the report, he says some of it involved deliberate doctoring of FBI documents used to spy on people.
Ladies and gentlemen, if you deliberately alter an email like has been alleged, we've heard this story about these allegations against FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith, who was intimately involved in this case.
If that's the case that he deliberately altered evidence, then folks, it's not misfeasance, it's malfeasance.
And this dude could be in a whole world of trouble.
We've kind of covered that ground before.
But the takeaway from that is, let's see how Horowitz frames it.
Does he frame it as misfeasance?
Oh, the lady fell on the sidewalk and they didn't help.
Or malfeasance? No, they lady fell on the sidewalk and they didn't help. Or malfeasance?
No, they pushed that lady down.
Why does this matter?
Think about it.
Folks, we're in a political war right now.
I hope you don't think otherwise.
Political wars require to move people politically in your direction.
This IG report, frame it all you want.
Is this an Inspector General agnostic lawn for no
it's not it's a political document you know why because both sides of this are going to make it
one not because harwitz is political this is a political document the phrasing of the document
is going to matter and if we know they pushed the guy on the sidewalk because they deliberately
altered emails malfeasance and it's framed as misfeasance oh we don't know how she fell wink at a nod no no no i'm trying to prep you to get
ready for this we're in a political war nothing's going to be easy here don't expect the horowitz
report on monday to drop and the democrats to go okay we confess we spied they won't they're
liars by trade and they have the media behind them. That's what they do. They lie.
I'm trying to get you ready for what's coming.
Second takeaway was exculpatory evidence withheld.
Again, it's definition of exculpatory evidence was evidence of Carter Page and George Papadopoulos.
We know Carter Page.
It was a warrant to spy on him because they thought there were probable cause he was acting in violation of U.S. law on behalf of foreign agents.
That's a serious charge.
But was exculpatory evidence about Carter Page in there?
Quoting Solomon's piece, the issue of whether the FBI failed to tell the FISA court judges, as required, folks, about evidence of innocence concerning some of the Americans it targeted has been raised for more than a year by key members of Congress like Nunes and Mark Meadows.
He expects the IG to identify exculpatory statements made by key figures Papadopoulos
to an undercover informant that were not properly disclosed to the court.
A second revelation to watch is whether the FBI possessed similar evidence of innocence
involving Page that was not disclosed.
Ladies and gentlemen, this will be huge.
Huge.
It is your obligation as a federal agent, I was one, I've explained this to you before,
to disclose exculpatory evidence to the defense.
If I have evidence Joe was in California on Tuesday, December whatever, third or fourth, and I'm accusing him of robbing a bank
on the same day in New York, and I don't tell the defense that?
Oh my gosh, ladies and gentlemen, you have no idea
how disqualifying, you'll probably be fired from you,
but I'm not kidding.
I'm not being hyperbolic.
It is a big BFD, big deal.
It is a big BFD, big deal.
If they knew and had evidence Carter Page was not a Russian agent based on his own statements and that Papadopoulos was innocent and failed to tell the judge that, ladies and gentlemen,
I'm telling you, it will be a cataclysmic shift if that evidence gets out there.
The Democrats, they love the police state.
It doesn't matter.
But it'll be ammunition for us to continue this fight.
It's not going to be easy.
All right.
In the interest of time, let's move on.
Another takeaway from Solomon's piece.
Was there derogatory information about Steele?
This is a long one.
I'm not going to go through the whole thing.
But this gets interesting.
Solomon keeps hinting at this, and I'm hearing this from someone else too. Ladies and gentlemen, there may be information
out there that as far back as 2015, Christopher Steele's credibility was being questioned about
people in the United Kingdom where Christopher Steele was headquartered and worked as an agent of MI6. Folks, this is a big deal.
If this was not, again, disclosed to the FISA report
that the main informant they were using,
Christopher Steele, was not credible
according to his own people
and according to information they couldn't verify,
this is huge.
It again means someone went up in front of a fisa judge raised their right hand
and swore information was true they knowingly knew was false is it going to be framed as
misfeasance or malfeasance that's a big deal this is a political fight ahead make no mistake
i get these emails a lot dan it's you know i'm ready to give up the democrats don't want to
admit what you thought they were going to admit these. These they're liars. So is the media, their
police state hacks. You thought they were just going to, Oh, let's roll over and admit we finally
did what we did. No, I'm sorry, but it's not going to be that easy. All right. Here's the,
what I was hinting at before. Here's kind of the coup de grace of this. This is what I think is
the most important takeaway. It's kind of why I got through those quickly, but they're important points, the prior
three. Again, you can read the full piece for more. From John Solomon's report.
And when did the FBI first learn Christopher Steele might be leaking to the media?
The FBI ended its informant relationship with Steele on November 1st, 2016,
a little over a week after using his dossier to support the FISA warrant.
And the reason they did so was because agents had concluded he improperly leaked to the news media.
But did the FBI know or have reason to suspect that problem before the first FISA warrant?
Stay tuned.
Okay, let me translate that for you. before the first FISA warrant? Stay tuned. Okay.
Let me translate that for you.
I can sense Joe may be a little as well.
So the audience.
Please do.
Yes.
Let me translate to you what I'm hearing is going on.
Okey dokes.
I'm not sure the FBI really fired Steele on November 1st.
I'm not sure they fired Christopher Steele on November 1st. I'm not sure they fired
Christopher Steele on November 1st because
as they say, he leaked to the media
either.
You know what? Let me show this New York
Times article first and this will make my promise.
I'll tie this up for you. Remember when they said they
fired him, Joe? November 1st
2016 because he was leaking to the
media, Christopher Steele. I sure shouldn't have was leaking to the media christopher steele i saw
shouldn't have been talking to the media wow you guys are so great the fbi thanks for doing it
what's the date on this new york slimes piece october 31st 2016 joe that is there are 31 days
in october not 32 right just checking yeah 31 thank you thank you it's just i get confused
so november 1st is the day after october 31st right yeah again just checking it thank you thank you it's just i get confused so november 1st is the day after october 31st
right yeah again just checking it thank you thank you joe joe is like copernicus here that was just
awesome so this new york times article the day before the fbi allegedly fires steel i'm not so
sure that even happened the headline investigating donald trump fbi sees no clear link to Russia. Wait, what? Hold on, Dan, you're confusing me.
The FBI is saying they fired Steele on November 1st because he was a leaker. So how does this
make them look bad? That's great. He leaked and they got rid of a source who leaked and did the
wrong thing. Now you're saying that the New York Times themselves the day before reported that
Russian thing was basically a hoax. Well, here's a piece from that New York Times article I'm actually going to read to you.
Yeah, they did actually.
Quote, New York Times, October 31st, 2016.
Law enforcement officials say
that none of the investigations so far,
none of the investigations so far, to repeat that,
have found any conclusive or direct link
between Mr. Trump and the Russian government.
By the way, folks, it's the same New York Times that just weeks later starts promoting
the collusion hoax.
It goes on.
Wait.
And even the hacking into the DNC emails FBI and intelligence officials now believe was
aimed at disrupting the presidential election rather than electing Mr. Trump.
Holy.
That's the times.
On October 31st, the day before the FBI allegedly fired Steele.
What's going on, folks?
Well, my sources are telling me this was a cleanup on aisle four.
I used to work in aisle four in Key Food.
This is a cleanup on aisle four, operator.
Cleanup aisle four. I used to work in aisle four in Key Food. This is a clean up on aisle four operator. Clean up aisle four.
October 31st is before or after the election of Donald Trump.
Of course, it's before.
Election day is on Tuesday in November.
Why would the New York Times write a piece right before election day?
Basically, that the collusion hoax is a hoax you
folks you read i didn't manipulate that that's the new york times over there's no link to russia
don't worry about this joe serious question i'm not putting you on the spot i want an honest
answer i'm just asking you to speculate why would the times basically give donald trump and his team
a pass on the collusion hoax a week before the election honestly no idea no idea because the
audience is probably saying the same thing exactly that's what i'm saying where are you going brother
well my source is telling me they did that because the fbi was absolutely crystal clear that hillary
clinton would win and wanted to clean up the whole operation make pretend none of this happened and
they wanted to be able to go back after when, remember, Hillary Clinton's going to win.
Everybody's sure of it.
And when it, because it's going to leak at some point,
they investigate in spite of the Trump team,
even though Hillary's, you understand that, right?
Somebody was going to leak this.
Yeah, yeah.
The FBI leaks to the Times before the election.
No, no, no, this is all a hoax.
So that years later, when it leaks that they investigated Trump and Hillary's up for reelection, the FBI can say, no, no, no this is all a hoax so that years later when it leaks that they investigated trump and
hillary's up for re-election the fbi can say no no no we didn't alter the election look the new
york times even reported trump was okay right before the look we even helped them right right
right thank you now does the november 1st firing air, because I'm not even sure they fired steel, make sense?
It's the same strategy.
They wanted to be able to go back after the election and say, no, no, the informant who lied about that dossier two years ago.
Remember, Hillary's president.
She's up for reelection in 2020.
Story.
Holy crap.
Did the 2016 election get altered because they spied on Donald Trump?
President Hillary Clinton. Can you answer that question? No, no, no. Don't worry. They fired
that guy November 1st before the election. They fired him. And look, even the New York Times
reported on October 31st that this thing was all a hoax. Trump had a free pass. It didn't affect
the election at all.
Audience, I'm Budgeman Joe.
You picking up what I'm putting down there? Yeah, preemptive.
Yeah, they were sure of themselves.
Of course they were preempting it.
Because right after election day,
they flipped the script right back to the opposite story.
No, no, Trump colluded with the Russians.
The evidence is everywhere.
Yeah.
They just wrote it was a hoax.
Folks, they thought Hillary would win.
Someone at the FBI leaked that story before the election
to make sure if it ever got out in the future,
the malfeasance, police state spying operation
they initiated against the Trump campaign,
if that ever got
out in the future nobody could use the argument well it impacted the election no it didn't the
new york times cleared them before the election we're all good and we even fired steel the next
day really because that's funny he was talking to bruce or who was passing the information fbi agent
joe pianca after they fired him.
Must be the greatest job in the world, Joe.
You get fired, you get to return the next day.
Amazing how that works out.
Joe, you're fired.
I'll see you tomorrow.
See you tomorrow, Dano.
See you tomorrow, buddy.
You're fired.
I'm giving you a raise tomorrow.
You're fired.
Raise tomorrow.
See you tomorrow.
I thought I was fired.
Yeah, fired in FBI terms.
I bring you back the next day.
Get ready. Get ready.
Get ready.
I'm telling you that's the story here.
We'll see how much Horowitz digs into that.
That New York Times article is a cleanup on aisle four so that the FBI had a story for President Hillary Clinton
as to why their spying operation on,
their spying operation on Trump
didn't alter the election and give her the white house.
So she wouldn't have this stain on her presidency.
And that's also why Christopher Steele was fired on November 1st,
allegedly.
And I believe that's why Solomon who is well-sourced in this says,
stay tuned at the end of that tidbit.
That was great.
I love that cut.
We got to cut that.
This is one of my favorite cuts ever.
I know self-praise stinks,
but I love that
because people are telling me that
and I've been itching to get that out.
Solomon gave us an opening.
All right.
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hoax and the ig report coming out but there are important things the trump administration is doing
uh like their commitment to get nato to spend more money on our collective global defense which trump
uh successfully did overseas and the administration, while the Democrats are doing their silly, dopey impeachment hoax
based on false information and a fake quid pro quo that didn't happen, the Trump administration
is reforming the entire food stamp snap process, all while the Democrats are doing their silly
Jerry Nadler sleeping act on their impeachment hoax.
Check this out.
Great story by the Wall Street Journal.
Hat tip to the Trump administration on this. Election 2020 update coming next, by the way. So Journal has this piece
up. The Trump administration basically is tired of the United States government paying out food
stamps, SNAP benefits, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, to people who can work.
The piece is titled Food Stamps and Good Times. The jobless rate is 3.6%.
What better time to review work requirements?
Folks, listen.
I am not against the helping people out of struggle.
I'm not.
I prefer to be done through charity.
The government is grotesquely inefficient.
Anything the government touches, it wrecks.
The government actually creates poverty.
It destroys.
It really does.
It destroys it. My wife and I donate to charity. It's not a pattern. Hey, it wrecks. The government actually creates poverty. It destroys, it really does. It destroys it.
My wife and I donate to charity.
It's not a pattern of, hey, look at me.
Everybody does, you all do, great.
Charity can handle it better.
But, put up this piece in a journal.
There is no, no excuse whatsoever to take money from hardworking people,
Joe, Matt at the website, me or Paula,
to give it to able-bodied people
who just don't want to work.
So the Trump administration said,
no thanks, we're not going to do that.
They're changing the work requirements
for able-bodied adults.
From the Journal,
these changes will take effect in April.
By 2021, the Ag Department expects
that nearly 1.1 million additional people
will face these new work requirements
and 259,000 will meet the standards about 85,000 will be pregnant or deemed unfit for
work so it doesn't apply to them state discretionary exemptions will cover another 54,000
that leaves 688,000 people projected to lose food stamps less than two% of the program's 36 million beneficiaries as of August.
Remember that the changes won't affect parents.
Let me read this again because liberals have a tough time with this because they're liars.
Remember that the changes will not affect parents, the disabled, or anyone over 50.
Folks, if you are an able-bodied adult with no kids who's not disabled or pregnant under the age of 50
get off your ass and go to work what the hell am i paying you for
i'm seriously joe i mean i know what you did joe's at the dump. I got to send them cuts.
Poor guy doesn't even get a weekend off.
I send them stuff on Sunday night for Monday's show.
Why aren't you working?
No, it's a serious question.
All right.
We should be helping people out who are struggling.
Disabled folks.
Again, I believe it should be done through charity, but help in general.
Maybe people who are injured.
Fine. You want to work that out. People who lost their jobs. You want to work it out through
charity and private organizations, local government. Yes. Good idea. Under 50 able-bodied
adults who are not disabled or pregnant and don't have kids. What the hell's your excuse, dude? Get to work. Get to work.
Go drive a truck. Learn carpentry. Go back to school and learn how to be an electrician.
Retool yourself like Joe did from terrestrial radio to digital podcast and using these fine tools we
have get to work go to work off the couch the verdict is in get off your ass go to work
you have no excuse what's your excuse you don't feel like it
my toenails are too long I have to clip them today. What's your, I don't understand what your excuse is that I should pay you.
I'm not interested.
Oh man, that's harsh.
Oh, okay.
Too bad.
You're darn right.
Go find your work boots, clap them together to get the dirt out of it.
If you even have that and get to work.
Oh man, you can't say that.
No, I can and will.
And why?
Because I want to be mean and I want to be harsh and this is very unchristian.
No, it is Christian.
Teach a man to fish.
Remember that one?
Yeah. Folks, there is nothing benevolent, kind, or philanthropic about teaching a man that other people will work for him while he sits on his rump and watches reruns of Beachfront Mansion on HGTV.
Get off your butt and go to work.
But he'll starve.
He'll find a job.
There are 7 million job openings
in the United States.
There are only 6 million people
unemployed and able to work right now.
There are more openings than people.
You'll find a job, dude.
Get off your butt and get to work.
Good for the Trump administration.
688,000 people who are able-bodied
but no kids and not disabled.
You're paying them?
You're paying for their McDonald's every night?
Give me a break, man.
Get to work.
Paul, are you getting nervous over there or what?
Okay. Sometimes my wife gets nervous when I go on these little ranty things. I can getting nervous over there or what okay sometimes my wife gets nervous when i go on
these little ranty things i can see it over there yeah oh is that it is that your son she's got a
turtleneck on she's like go like this which is true she does do that all right finally our election
2020 update a lot going on hey um quick cut cut. Nancy Pelosi this morning, just a disaster.
She wants to move forward in this impeachment.
But I want you to hear the way she frames this.
She is just, she has to know she is walking off a political, this is political suicide.
I don't know what she's doing.
Here's Nancy Pelosi this morning, right before we got in the air.
Check this out. Because he is trying to corrupt, once again, the election for his own benefit.
corrupt once again the election for his own benefit. The president has engaged in abuse of power, undermining our national security and jeopardizing the integrity of our elections.
His actions are in defiance of the vision of our founders and the oath of office that he takes
to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. Sadly, but with confidence and humility,
with allegiance to our founders,
and a heart full of love for America,
today I am asking our chairman
to proceed with articles of impeachment.
Joe, with love and humility.
Nancy Pelosi and humility
should never ever be in the same sentence
ever under no circumstances
those two words should ever be
co-joined in the same sentence
maybe even the same book paragraph
or even in a lifetime of speaking
having said that did you catch what she said
some of you caught it some of you may not have
she's moving forward with impeachment isn't actually
the shocker in that clip.
The reason I cut that clip the way it did,
I did and sent it to Joe.
Joe doesn't know this either.
I just send them timestamps.
She said something in the beginning.
Damn the torpedoes.
Full strip beat ahead.
What did she say?
Did you catch it?
She said, we have to do this
because we don't want him to impact
the upcoming election.
Oh, new narrative alert.
New narrative alert.
New narrative alert.
Get ready.
I told you about the turkey thing.
That's coming soon.
Not gobble gobble turkey.
The next thing will be Trump colluded with turkey.
I told you about that last week.
Here's the Democrats' new narrative.
Pelosi is not stupid.
She is being politically stupid, but she's not dumb.
Make no mistake.
Don't underestimate your political opponents.
Pelosi knows that this is going to go to the Senate and they are going to get crushed.
There's a good chance they will even the Senate trial.
Impeachment is just impeachment is an article gets forward to the Senate. The Senate
actually conducts the trial to remove the president.
There is zero chance Donald
Trump will be removed from office.
There is a damn good chance
that Democrats will vote
in the trial in the Senate against
removing him.
Remember, they need upwards
of 10
Republicans or more to agree to impeach the president.
They need 67.
It is never going to happen.
They need 13, to be precise.
It's never going to happen.
I guarantee you they will lose probably even one Democrat, maybe one, maybe more.
This will be a humiliating face plant for Pelosi.
Well, Dan, how does this tie into the
this is going to impact 2020 thing?
They're already setting it up.
Once they lose, they will
seamlessly move. New narrative alert.
They will say what, Joe?
Well, Donald
Trump's interference in Ukraine
means he's probably doing this with other
countries, too. So we need
call records from his other countries too
to make sure he's not asking them for help in the election.
Mark it.
Remember Pretty Woman?
Work it.
Own it.
Work it.
Own it.
Own this one.
She's laughing back there.
That's one of my favorite.
Yeah, I watched that movie.
It's okay.
I grapple.
You want to take me on?
Question?
Let's go.
We'll do it.
Kidding, folks. I'm not that much of an egomaniac. Work it. Own it. This is 100% where they're going.
They're going to lose. Trump is not being removed. Forget it. So their new narrative is going to be,
well, we can't be sure he's not trying to steal the 2020 election folks we're going to need these
other call records turkey uh kriplakistan we're going to need all of these call records because
we can't trust the president he's obviously using foreign governments to impact the upcoming
election too market timestamp 5251 52 51 moving on in the election 2020 update showing you how brutally unpopular this impeachment
thing is good piece of washington examiner by eddie scary again up in the show notes
subscribe to my newsletter bongino.com slash newsletter i'll send you these great stories
every day washington examiner eddie scary this impeachment is too complicated to win over
independent voters that should worry worry Democrats. Yeah.
As Eddie shows at the end, ladies and gentlemen,
this impeachment is bombing on them exactly where they need it to succeed.
Joe, simple question.
Do you think having this impeachment go over big in New York or California
is going to sway the election?
Not a trick.
No, I don't.
Of course it won't.
Because Joe knows as a savvy consumer of political content on this show every day that New York and California are going to vote Democrat.
It's electoral college election and nobody cares.
That's right.
You need impeachment to go the right way in the swing states.
Well, quoting Eddie Scarry in his piece today, impeachment isn't going the way the Democrats had hoped for.
Support for it is eroding among independent voters in swing states.
In Wisconsin, support for it among independents was at just 44% in October.
That's before the main witnesses began.
After those hearings, support fell, fell down for liberals who have a tough time with directional
things.
Support fell by four points.
That was after their best shot, folks.
Support for impeachment has been, at best,
anemic in every other swing state,
according to the Washington Post.
Again,
I love being ahead of the news cycle.
We have great sources here.
Tying it back to Pelosi. Pelosi knows this thing is a disaster. She's not stupid. say to speak out against it, you better say it now because
tomorrow I'm giving this presser, which was this morning, what you just heard.
And they all said, yes, damn the torpedoes, full steam ahead.
The beatings will continue until morale improves.
I declare my right to prima nocta.
This is like political suicide.
And they are just walking off the...
Here's the cliff for the gavel thingy.
You don't see the gavel thingy, right?
Here's the cliff.
She doesn't care.
She wants to stay speaker.
She knows this is political suicide.
So she's already setting up narrative too
well if we can't beat him in the swing states on these polls on impeachment we'll lose the removal
we'll get we'll face plant on impeachment because he won't be removed and we'll lose humiliatingly
in the senate so at least joe we can say well the president may be still colluding
i told you before we're gonna need those phone records too
that's next election 2020 update number three wall street journal really great piece
excellent well done listen trump's approval may not be the highest of any president up for re-elect
but hey as james freeman says in the journal today, there is the Reagan standard.
Pieces entitled Trump and the Reagan standard.
Well, what is the Reagan standard, folks?
Remember that famous commercial Ronald Reagan ran?
Are you better off now?
Yeah.
Remember that?
Yeah.
Well, when you ask people that question,
are you better off now than you were four years ago?
The journal has some interesting results
because when you answer that question, yes, ladies
and gentlemen, there's a pretty good chance you're going to get reelected and reelected
handily.
We'll see.
I'm trying to stay out of the predictions business.
But from this piece, you should smile a little bit on this one.
A new Economist YouGov poll asked Americans this question.
Are you better off now than you were four years ago?
The Reagan standard, the famous question he asked.
Among registered voters, 50%
folks say yes, and
just 32% say no.
While 17% say they're not sure.
Not looking good for the Democrats, folks.
Your impeachment's collapsing and face-planting
in swing states. Swing states you need
to win to win the electoral college. You ask voters how they're feeling about how their lives, you better off than
you were four years ago, 50% of them say yes. And by the way, 70% are still persuadable.
Only 32% say no. You think Pelosi doesn't know? You think, honest to God, I mean,
if I can be self-deprecating, I love my show, but this isn't cryptic, hidden information.
to God. I mean, if I can be self-deprecating, I love my show, but this isn't cryptic hidden information. It's in the Wall Street Journal today. You think Pelosi and her strategists
don't know this? That's why they're setting up narrative number 7,426. Trump's impacting
the next election too, because they know they're going to face plant massively on this thing.
This is shocking. We're going to get to all this this thing this is shocking we're going to get
through all this nice final election 2020 update story because it's important it's been so much
spygate stuff going on we've missed out on some of it folks the democrats it's going to get very
chaotic call rove good peace get ready for a contested convention today's wall street journal
what is he talking about let me just sum. It's a bit of a complicated piece,
so let me give it to you in a nutshell.
The Democrats
in the Obama-Hillary
primary, remember that one?
Yeah. Not the re-elect. Obama
didn't have a primary in the re-elect, not a serious
one. We're talking
about the Obama-Hillary primary when he's
running against John McCain.
Do you remember the chaos that erupted?
Remember that went right to the end before Hillary bowed out.
And there was this chaos about at the Democrat convention about the superdelegates.
It's a little complicated.
Rove does a good job of explaining.
I'll put a snippet up from the piece in a moment.
But the controversy was this. The Democrats have these party elders,
these scions of the Democrat Party,
that they're not beholden to the primary vote.
In other words, whether Obama or Hillary
won a primary in their state,
the superdelegates show these party elders,
they can do whatever they want.
So the Democrats freaked out in 2008 because they were like, Joe, these party elders, they can do whatever they want. So the Democrats freaked out in 2008 because they were like, listen, neither one of these guys or ladies, Obama or Hillary,
is running away from this. There's going to be a brokered convention, meaning there isn't a nominee
yet at the convention, which we're not used to seeing, folks. They haven't had one in the Democrat
party since, what, 1952, I think, Roe v. Wrights? That's a long time. Talk about 70 years.
Usually, you go to the convention with a nominee.
John Kerry, Barack Obama, you get it.
Michael Dukakis.
If you go to a brokered convention and these superdelegates aren't beholden to the primary voters,
they can do whatever they want.
The fear was that they were going to snub Obama because the Clinton machine had already kind of like
greased the skids, you know what I mean?
So the Democrats instituted to prevent a rebellion.
Are you following me, Joe?
To prevent a rebellion because the voters,
you know, the voters want to believe they picked the nominee,
not the super delicate scions.
The Democrats, in response to this,
they said, this also affected Bernie too, by the super delicate scions. The Democrats in response to this, they said this also affected Bernie, too, by the way. They said we're going to institute a new rule that the super
delegates cannot vote at the convention on the first ballot. They don't jump into the second one.
Well, as Rove points out in this piece, well, you may get to a second ballot where the superdelegate problem is going
to come back again. Quote Karl Rove, it could even get more splintered. He's talking about
the convention. If the major candidates lurking right below the 15% threshold in New Hampshire,
Nevada, and South Carolina get a little wind in their sails, unless someone gets huge momentum
with big early wins, the Democratic race could remain fractured through
March, making it mathematically impossible for any candidate to waltz into Milwaukee,
where their convention is, with a first ballot majority. Listen, I know shouting fraud's awful.
We're not supposed to celebrate other people's failures, but this is a Nelson Muntz moment,
people's failures, but this is a Nelson Muntz moment if I ever saw one. These numbskulls who just got over this scandal about superdelegates picking the Democrat nominee rather than voters
are now going to run into the same superdelegate problem because the field is too clogged and none
of these horrible candidates can run away on a first ballot vote and the superdelegate's going
to pick them again. What does that mean for you? It means deliciously that if this happens, that the Democrat activists I'm telling
you will revolt again. The Sandernistas and all the other ones, they're going to go crazy when
the superdelegate scions pick the nominee and shelve them. And there's a strong likelihood
they're going to pass on the general election. We're good. You guys don't want our votes in the primary?
We're good in the general.
Nice job, Democrats.
We should all nominate
you for the Trump 2020
War Room Election Board. Could
they screw this up any worse?
My gosh. You think Hillary messed it up
in the last one? By science.
Oh, by science.
By science, like that song. What about that song? Who sang that? Do you know? Yeah, by Scions. Barnard by Scions. I like that song.
Yeah.
What about that song?
Who sang that?
Do you know?
Yeah, Thomas Dolby.
Yeah.
Joe, he's always good with the music.
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