The Dan Bongino Show - REVEALED: Ed Martin To Pursue The J6 Pipe Bomber And More | Episode 41

Episode Date: May 12, 2025

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Once again, you should have listened to Trump. He told you to buy stocks on Thursday. And now what's happening? We'll get into the big market moves this morning, a big China deal being announced, and essentially this Ed Martin interview, the interim US attorney, the outgoing US attorney here in Washington, DC, is headed out the door and the gloves are definitely off. Wait until I tell you about how this whole Ed Martin

interview has gone down and what you're going to hear from him this morning. It's crazy. It is really crazy. I hope you had a fantastic weekend. I hope you took care of mom this weekend. Happy Mother's Day all the moms out there. Hey, before we dive into the content today to thank our sponsors, I got to tell you what you do online, it's not private. It's not. Data brokers are tracking and creating a profile on your online activities. In the United States, they're legally allowed to sell that information to whoever wants to buy it. But there is a way to push back and hold on to your values, autonomy, and freedom, and that's with ExpressVPN. You see, with ExpressVPN, 100% of my online activity is rerouted through secure encrypted servers,

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On Friday, I was telling you that today's program would include a live in studio interview with Ed Martin, the interim and outgoing US attorney for Washington, DC. But I'm here to tell you today, Ed Martin is not live in studio with me. Now, Vince, what happened, you might be wondering? Well, I've got a good answer for you. First and foremost, let me just get right to the news that matters the most.

I interviewed Ed and you will see that interview coming up here on this program, can't wait to show that to you. But here's what happened on Friday. At Friday at the conclusion of our show, the conclusion of the podcast at 11 a.m. Eastern time, I'm getting frantic phone calls from my producers telling me that Ed Martin is right now inside of your Washington, D.C. studio, the one that I'm seated in right now.

For those of you who watched on Friday, I wasn't in my DC studio, I was home. I was at my home studio Friday. There was apparently a mix up on the part of Ed's team about which day this interview was gonna be conducted. We all operated under Monday, which is of course what was in our notes, all the notes, Monday, Monday, Monday.

He and his team got here Friday. So what to do? Well, luckily through the, Monday, Monday, Monday. He and his team got here Friday. So what to do? Well, luckily, through the miracle of modern technology, we were able to connect one on one. I was home, Ed was here in this seat, and we had a great conversation. So what you will see coming up, because I want to get to the breaking news from this weekend first, then we'll get to the Ed Martin interview. But what you will see coming up is Ed Martin talking about the fact is that he and Dan Bongino, that's right, he brought this up himself, have been looking into the January 6th pipe bomber as a team.

They've been digging up information on that. Now you've heard some complaining, people are like, well, what's happening? When are we going to get some answers on this? Who's actually pursuing it? Has Dan Bongino been consumed by the deep state has cash Patel for that matter well none of that of course is true these guys are just as dogged as they were before they got into the administration but now they have the power to do something about all of this

and so today what you're gonna hear from Ed Martin is that Dan and Ed have been working together which is a really big deal. This is a U.S. attorney. An arrest means nothing without a prosecution. This is a U.S. attorney working directly with the deputy director of the FBI to get the answers that you and I so meaningfully deserve. The other thing that you'll hear Ed talk about today is that they're going after government officials who overcharged January 6th defendants, treated them like garbage,

the tyranny of our government. And yes, they are investigating Biden administration officials. Ed himself has gone after the Biden family for answers, the Biden world, the orbit around Joe Biden, for answers on all of those out of control pardons. Was Joe Biden even competent at the time that those pardons were signed by a robot? So the Ed Martin interview coming up, I'm looking forward to sharing that with you. I think you're gonna find that there's a lot of news in it. And then when you see it, all I can ask,

in terms of my request to you today, is please share this with everybody in your life who is even vaguely interested in seeing justice, in seeing justice and making sure that there is accountability. So a big, big, big news day today with the Ed Martin interview. Let me start though with the China announcement coming out of the weekend. Going into this weekend, we had Scott Besson and the Trade Representative, Jameson Greer,

head over to Switzerland, they go to Geneva, in order to meet with a Chinese delegation. Now on Saturday, we're told that the conversations with China lasted for about eight hours, straight through, eight hours of conversation. And then on Sunday, they went for hours and hours more. And so the result of that is a big joint statement from the United States and China today

that they are dropping the tariffs down meaningfully for 90 days. The US and China have lifted their tariffs for 90 days now. Here's a joint statement. This just came out from the White House overnight. The government of the United States of America and the government of the People's Republic of China released this statement. And they say things like, well, we recognize the importance of our relationship and making it productive and having good things going on. And here they basically say that the United States is modifying the rates all the way down

to about 30 percentage points right now. That's what this gobbledygook means. Ultimately, it's 30 percentage points. And the reason for that is because the Trump administration has administered a 10% flat tariff on the planet and then an additional 20% on China for its fentanyl abuses of the United States. Hundreds of thousands of Americans are dying every year due to fentanyl, so the Trump

administration is keeping a 20% penalty on China for that until the Trump administration is satisfied that the fentanyl threat is abating. In the meantime, the rest of the tariffs are now suspended for 90 days. The same is true going the opposite direction. China is imposing on the United States a mere 10% tariff now, a dramatic decline from the well over 100% tariff that they slapped on us in the midst of this trade battle. So what happens during this 90 day phase?

Well, the 90 day phase is used for negotiation. Both countries are opening up communication lines to make it so that we are both satisfied that our trade deal is good. And that's a big deal because the United States has been taken advantage of for decades by China. So the Trump administration is saying, look, we'll ease up on you for 90 days.

But during that 90 day period, you need to satisfy not only that you're dropping regular old tariff barriers, which are really not the big threat from China, it's the non-tariff violations that are going on. The stealing of intellectual property, the use of slave labor, the destruction of American industry through that,

the subsidization of industries like steel. China is a gross violator of trade agreements. And the Trump administration is saying, you will abide or you will suffer the consequences. 90 days, that's the window here. So a big victory here for Scott Besson and Jameson Greer bringing down all of these trade barriers between both of these countries meaningfully for now.

And this morning, the markets are reacting like crazy, a massive, massive jump in the markets. They're celebrating this deal. Global stocks jumping all across the planet after the United States and China have cut tariffs down for now. And I'm here to tell you that if you had listened, if you had listened to President Trump on Thursday,

you will be making bank this morning. You already have made bank this morning if you listen to the President. Take a look. Here's the President, if we can cut to my screen, here's the President in the Oval Office on Thursday making this announcement. This is the President alongside on the phone the prime minister of the UK. Here he is. You better go out and buy stock now. Let me tell you, this country will be like a rocket ship that goes straight up. This is going to be numbers that nobody's ever seen before. That's a very important element of all of this. You know, if we get that, if you don't, and the Democrats are fighting it only because they want to fight. They have Trump derangement syndrome you know it was somebody else they wouldn't fight if you had a normal person and some stiff sitting behind you

they'd be fine but they have Trump derangement syndrome you know Senator Schumer's become a Palestinian I don't know whether they're gonna give him the ceremony, whatever the ceremony may be. It's terrible what's happened to the Democrats. So very, very important element of everything, of what we're doing, unrelated to today, but related in the sense that we'll do, if that passes, we'll do even more business with the UK.

We'll have so much. All right, so there's the president saying, hey, look, go out and buy, go out and buy, buy stock. You heard him right there at the top of this clip. How many ways does he have to hit you over the head to tell you what's going on? Now what I love is the left is accusing Trump already this morning, they're doing it again, of insider trading.

So Trump tells Americans in public, out loud from the resolute desk from the Oval Office. Everyone should buy stock. Now, I don't know how that's insider training. That's about as public as you can possibly get. It is a declaration that this is a good opportunity for all Americans. And yet the left is accusing him of insider trading. Oh, there's something, something nefarious about the president's presentation here. It's crazy.

It's crazy. And it's not the first time he's done this. He keeps telling Americans to do this. Look at this one. This is the president on April 9th. This is what he posted to Truth Social. If we could, once again, on my screen here. President Trump, this is a great time to buy, he said.

This is a great time to buy. Look right there. That was what Trump posted to the Truth Social at 9.37 a.m. in the morning on April 9th. Now what happened four hours later? Four hours later, the president announced a 90 day pause, a 90 day pause on tariffs on every other country except for China. That was April 9th. What did the market do? It exploded. It had a huge pop that day.

What did the left do? They accused Trump of insider trading. So I'm not telling you, I'm not here to be your financial advisor. I'm just a guy. But I'm a guy who likes the President of the United States and now is definitely and has been placing stock in this idea. Then when the President comes forward and he says, buy stock now, buy into the market now. If you've got a little bit of wiggle room to be able to do that, it might be a good idea to jump in. It might be a good idea, because he keeps saying it, and it keeps paying off.

So again, I'm not sure how much more explicit he can be on this subject, but I just want to give you this pattern that I've detected, where the president explicitly says, buy the stock market. You do, and then hours later, it's a huge payoff. I don't know. Just kind of nice that he's doing that. It's funny though.

Insider trading. Okay. Great. All right, so that's the deal. We do have some video here from Scott Besson talking about this deal with China. If we could pull that up, fellas, show me that video of Scott Besson, China,

the US trade talks. We have reached an agreement on a 90 day pause and substantially moved down the tariff levels. Both sides on the reciprocal tariffs will move their tariffs down 115%. We had very robust discussions. Both sides showed great respect. It was the chance for me to meet the Chinese delegation. The vice premier I had previously had only a video call with, Ambassador Jamieson, was familiar with two of the other leaders on the delegation from his previous time.

So there was very good personal interaction. Both countries represented their national interests very well. We concluded that we have shared interests and we both have an interest in balanced trade, the US will continue moving towards that. Yeah. Look, if the key here is, and I actually predicted going into the weekend that we wouldn't have a meeting feed deal coming out of this weekend because China is the toughest one, right? China is the toughest one.

They've been such a big adversary. They violated so much and we've got so much leverage over them. Going into this weekend, Chinese factories had slowed to a halt. You have Chinese workers protesting in the street. The Chinese government doesn't know what to do. They're trying to slash their own rates internally in order to get a bunch more money printed. It's been chaos in China So President Trump Scott best and in the team we've got China over the barrel So I'm a little surprised that this moved as quickly as it did this weekend

And so my prayerful hope is that these 90 days these lines of communication? Really do result in some meaningful reforms to the Chinese US business relationship because we desperately need it. Now, Scott Besson did announce that one of the issues here is that China's, basically US trade policy on China has not been enforced, has not been enforced in any meaningful sense by the Biden administration. So when Biden came into office, he was getting taken advantage of here.

Take a look, fellas, we can pull my screen up here. We've got Scott Besson this morning talking to Bloomberg about all of this. Here he is, Scott Besson, right here on my screen. What has to happen is it has to be fair for the American people. But in January 2020, President Trump produced a template. We had an excellent trade agreement with China and the Biden administration chose not to enforce it. The Chinese delegation basically told us that once President Biden came into office, they just ignored their obligations.

So we already have a large framework. The other thing to remember here, Jonathan. That's huge. All right. So what Scott Besson, of course, is laying out is that the Biden people were too weak. They were too weak and the Chinese knew it. So they took advantage of these guys. And the Biden administration, of course, thankfully is gone.

Trump is in office, which makes a gigantic deal, which is a gigantic deal. All right, more in a moment, including the out of control Democrats who just staged an insurrection in New Jersey. They tried to raid an ICE facility and then they're being arrested. You want to talk about accountability? You want to talk about stopping Democrats who break the law?

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Okay. Let's talk about these Democrats, these psychotic Democrats who tried to raid an ICE facility into the weekend. So the mayor of Newark, New Jersey was just arrested by the Trump administration for attempting to storm his way into a localized facility because for whatever reason he thought this was a good idea that oh I'll really show that the Trump administration is doing something unjust. Fellas, if you could, if you could, my screen here I've got Fox and Alina Hab Habba the current US attorney up there in New Jersey

Saying yes, we've arrested the mayor of Newark, New Jersey. This is FAFO ice edition happening Well, I can confirm as I have publicly stated that we have put the mayor Razz Baraka under arrest We have put the mayor, Razz Baraka, under arrest. It's very simple, Martha. As I said in the state of New Jersey, as Pam Bondi has said in the United States, we will not stand for anybody

getting in the way of getting rid of criminals in this country. It's very simple. Unfortunately, the mayor has publicly for three days been saying that he's going to break in, eventually did break in, was given multiple opportunities to remove himself, failed to do so, and has been detained and will be charged. And where is he being held?

I'm not going to speak to that right now. He's obviously in New Jersey. But he's in custody. Yes, he has been arrested and will be charged. Okay, so the report of... Yeah, he's arrested and has been charged and will be charged. So the Democrat mayor of Newark, New Jersey gets taken into custody handcuffed because look, they try to tell this guy, you can't do this. He's trespassing into this property. He tries to barrel his way in. Look, the mayor of Newark, New Jersey has just as much right to storm his way into a

federal facility as the rest of us do, which is you don't, you can't just storm your way into a federal detention center. You don't get to do that. There's a reason for that. And so it doesn't matter if you're the mayor of Newark, New Jersey, if you're Vince Colonais, if you're the dog catcher, you can't just storm your way into a detention center. If you do, there's a law for that. And you can be handcuffed and arrested and charged with trespass, which is what happened

in the case of this mayor from Newark, New Jersey. Now Tom Homan said this guy's an idiot for what he did. Take a look, Tom Homan appearing on Fox this weekend, saying, guys had dumbed them for even attempting this. Here he is, take a look. Actually, that body cam video, absolutely incredible to see that that went down. And before we get to it, I'd like you to also hear

what the Newark mayor had to say also in his defense. We ask them to obey our laws, to obey the policies and rules here in the city and the state of New Jersey, not to one rough shot over the constitution of New York. By the way, I love the way he's holding the microphone like he's a rapper. He's got kind of the Jay-Z thing going on. I hold my microphone straight up and down. I don't know what that aerial microphone hold. That's him declare, I guess that's how you get to get to an ICE facility,

if you hold it like that. The United States, the Bill of Rights, the Fourth, the Fifth, the Fourteenth Amendment, that everybody on this soil who deserves due process. Tom, he's saying they're the good guys here. Well, look, he's not very smart. I mean, bottom line is, that's what the facility's all about. This facility's about due process. This facility's where we put illegal aliens. People in the country illegally, first of all, they're in the country illegally, they're being detained. And they're screaming and yelling about due process and all this in the Constitution.

This is where due process happens. We have to detain them to go through the due process. You know, sometimes you can judge, sometimes they already have final orders. It's ranging removal to their countries, they're getting travel documents to their countries, and making sure all the administrative processes are followed. So what Yehoman is saying is this is due process. What are you doing? These people are here illegally in our country and you're fighting for them to stay? Do you realize how insane this is? And not only are you fighting for that insane position, you're violating the law and the process. And he's not the only one. The mayor of Newark, New Jersey is not the only moron here.

And there may be more consequences coming. Among them, Democrat Congresswoman, LaMonica McIver. Benny Johnson got ahold of this body camera video. Take a look, in this video, you're gonna see her, she's dressed in red, she's dressed in red, so it makes it really obvious who she is, and she is shoving law enforcement officials during this ruckus at the ICE facility. Here she is, take a look here.

Ready? Here we go. There she is in red. There she is, look shoving the officer. Shove, shove, now in slow motion. She's shoving, she's got the arm check going up. Pushing this federal official. Now what happens to you if you do that? What happens to a January 6th defendant if they shoved an officer? Well, they end up in the slammer.

That's what happens. So now you have a Democrat congresswoman shoving federal law enforcement officials. Now she's been pretending like she didn't do anything wrong. Oh, there's nothing to this. Oh, I didn't body slam them. I love how the standard is changing to whether or not she body slammed someone. Here you go. This is Congresswoman McIver accounting for herself on CNN this weekend. She was asked a stupid question. They moved the goalposts all the way away

from assault to did you body slam an officer? Take a look at this. Ready? Here we go. Congresswoman McIver, I want to go back to some of the footage we were looking at some. And I want our viewers to see that you are the woman in the red blazer as we show them. The DHS says that, obviously, that there were chaos, that maybe you were trespassing, you can talk about that. But the DHS also says that, in their words, you were body slamming an ICE officer. Is that what we're looking at? Is that what happened?

Absolutely, no. I mean, I honestly do not know how to body slam anyone. There's no video that supports me body slamming anyone. What is this? I mean, CNN just yanks the goalposts and shoves them off the field. Oh, oh Did you body slam anybody? That's not the question. Did she assault an officer? The answer to that is on video. Oh, we as a congresswoman Bonnie Watson Coleman said we were simply there to do our job

Therefore oversight visit and what you watch what you're watching in a video You don't have all of the body cam and we hope that all of the body cam is released. I don't need anymore. I already saw what you did. We need the rest of the body cam footage. All right, so that's enough of her. That's McIver. So DHS is saying right now that the accountability will continue. A spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security has confirmed that there will quote, be more investigations and arrests. If you assault a law enforcement officer,

you answer to the law. So again, now you have Democrats facing the accountability for their own actions, including Democrat elected officials who are trespassing on federal property and assaulting federal law enforcement officers. More charges expected in that case and one would assume that the woman dressed in red shoving cops, well she will be subjected to that. So that's an important, very important point to all of this. All right fellas I want to thank our sponsors here.

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He was supposed to be the guy that stayed there full time, but Tom Tillis in North Carolina got in the way. Now, Jeanine Pirro's gonna take that job, and Ed Martin, well, he's headed off to do something very important at the Department of Justice. My conversation with Ed Martin starts now. Joining me now the outgoing interim US Attorney for Washington DC. Ed Martin is in the house. Ed, thank you very much for doing this. Good to talk to you today, sir.

Always a pleasure. Great to be with you, Vince. Thanks. Just an amazing, first of all, an amazing tenure as the interim US Attorney. I'm appreciative of what you've done for Washington, DC. But just an amazing series of events this past week because you were the nominee to become the next US Attorney for DC to do that on a more permanent basis. And then Tom Tillis, it appears, got in your way. What happened there? Well, look, I tell people I respect the process, right?

The Senate has a particular role. I was appointed by President Trump for 120 day term, it's called, at the beginning of the administration. I was for that, by the way. A lot of times a US attorney is nominated and it takes two or three or four months to get in office and during that two or three or four months it's the beginning of a presidency, especially in DC. And so I said, look, put me in for the 120 day one and I'll either earn the confirmation from the Senate or I'll find something else to

do. And in this case, the president liked what we were doing, the direction he gave us, we were doing well and I was nominated and went up to the Senate. Went through the process. You know, Senator Tillis expressed a bunch of reservations during a meeting with me, an hour and a half meeting. Most of the reservations were about January 6th, but I don't really have to, I can say I really don't understand substantively why he was, you know, decided he wasn't going to support moving forward. But that's what he said. And more importantly, I think I could have won nomination, actually. I could have gone and continued to fight. But President Trump said, hey, look, we got other things we're doing.

Ed, I was listening to Tom Tillis's explanations for why he couldn't confirm you. And he said, look, if Ed Martin was being considered for any other U.S. attorney's job in the whole country, I would have said yes, but just not for DC. That, to me, that's completely incoherent. Was that bizarre to hear from him? Well, I certainly don't understand it. Let's say it that way. Like, I'm not sure I'll characterize it as bizarre, but I didn't understand it.

I mean, I spent 90 minutes with him. We talked a lot about January 6th. He was very, very energetic. He had a lot of opinions and I explained mine. I think the job that the president nominated me to do, US attorney, requires a certain amount of character, a certain amount of ability. I think I have both of those. So look, at a certain point, Vince, I have the distinction of being like you. I did a lot of talk radio. I said a lot of things about a lot of people, including senators.

And for some reason they didn't want to move forward. And Tom Tillis was the lead guy. At the end of the day, I'm not going to spend much time worrying about it. We got work to do. Were you surprised by the groundswell that came out to support you for this role? Well, I was surprised in the sense that, you know, my name is Ed Martin and suddenly all these people are putting my name on social media and other places to support me. I wasn't surprised because people believe in Donald Trump.

And so they were saying Donald Trump should have his pick for the US attorney in DC. And so that was gratifying and I was glad my name was on it. But it's a little bit like when President Trump said in the Oval Office, as he was talking about this, he said, I like Ed Martin, he's a good guy all that stuff, which is nice, but he said Ed Martin drove down crime 25% Well, I didn't really drove drive down crime. Donald Trump put me in charge and gave us a vision gave us the resources and we got

It done. So that's really on him and and it's his deal and you know, but I was so I was excited that people were Supporting me because I was excited that people were supporting me because I was with President Trump on these issues and this job, and that was kind of cool. But your time in office was defined by way more prosecutions than your predecessor. Matthew Graves, at one point, wasn't prosecuting 67% of all arrests in the District of Columbia.

And the news that I heard about you from law enforcement sources was that you were now prosecuting somewhere in the vicinity of 65% of all of the arrests that were coming before you. That's a dramatic turnaround. It's a 180 degree turnaround. Yeah and it was even better than that to be honest. I mean we what happened these are nuts and bolts of an office but uh you know a prosecutor's office the DC office is the greatest in the in the country because half of it is the local crime. The other half is a big federal district, federal US attorney's office. As to the local crime, we flipped everything on its head.

My predecessor did everything by email. We asked the cops and the prosecutors to get face to face. And when you're face to face, you figure out how to charge these things. You figure out how to manage a case. And so we changed our papering rules, they call it, how you charge cases. As you said, we told our prosecutors, you don't get to turn down misdemeanors because you don't like them.

See, that's a, a lot of times prosecutors don't want to be bothered. A misdemeanor is hard to do. You don't get much of a penalty. The juries are hard. No, if somebody breaks a rule, we're going to charge them. We're going to charge them with the, as John Ashcroft famous memo, he said,

we're going to charge with the most readily provable crime you charge. And so we were doing that. We also changed the rules. My predecessor did not fight to get assaults on police officers. A lot of times those are misdemeanors. And they say, well, it's too much trouble. No, if you touch a cop in the district, if you spit on a cop, I have some experience now of that, if you do any of those things, you should be charged no matter what the charge

is. And the law officers, the cops said, hey, we can feel you're on our side. So again, that was the vision the president had. Last one, by the way, if you want to stop violent crime, you can run around and have conversations about lots of things. But the most likely way to slow it is to get people, men mostly, with guns off the streets. And we targeted the people with guns and we got them off the streets. And we targeted the people with guns, and we got them off the street. And in two months, and that was March and April, and May's numbers are still climbing,

we charged almost as many gun crimes in March and April as my predecessor did all last year. Okay? So that's the difference. And look, if you get a guy with a gun off the streets in DC, you get somebody off the streets who's probably not going to Boy Scouts, probably not going to be part of the Rotary Club, right? He's doing other things. And so the cascading effect is very, very effective. And we were doing that and we'll continue to do it.

So the woman who spit on you, since you brought the spitting issue up, she spits on you on Newsmax live on camera. And then we've got a great shot of her walking away with her little dog. What happened? Do we have any leads on who that was? Yeah, law enforcement's awesome, right? So very quickly, the Marshall service, as well as the FBI, they got a track of her. And I think if she hasn't been arrested yet, it's anytime, I think they know who she is, they know where she lives, what she's about.

So yeah, look, I mean, here's the thing. I know being spit on is not nice, right? When she was charging towards me, I thought we were about to have a full on assault. But I just would say this, she said, are you Ed Martin? And I turned and she said, Oh, you are Ed Martin. Now she wasn't targeting me because I wasn't kind to her in shop class in high school. I never saw her before. I don't know her. She did it because I wasn't kind to her in shop class in high school. I never saw her before. I don't know her.

She did it because I was the US attorney. If you hit the US attorney, if you attack him, if you assault him, just like Judge Boasberg. The conservatives are frustrated with Judge Boasberg, but I sent Judge Boasberg a letter soon after a lot of the attention. I said, if anyone threatens you or your family, we want to prosecute them to the fullest, not to the most interesting no Anything you do because you cannot let to raise the cost of being a jerk even if you think oh well It's not that threatening somebody spitting on me. I didn't feel well I did feel like I was being threatened, but maybe you know it turned out fine

But you can't allow that and so they'll get her and she'll be charged. Okay. So you brought up letters. I want to ask you about your pattern of sending out letters because you did that a bunch as a U.S. attorney. You sent Chuck Schumer a letter demanding that he account for himself for the threats that he made against the United States Supreme Court a number of years ago. And you also, I understand, sent letters to people in Biden's world to assess whether or not he was actually competent at the time that all of these pardons were being signed because it seems relevant whether

or not the president had his wits about him as pardons were being signed as a constitutional matter. Have you received responses to any of those letters and did any of them make any sort of progress that we haven't seen yet? I answer the second question first by saying I saying, well, let me say this. As U.S. Attorney, my job is to look at what is going on and to try to assess how we can make things better and enforce the law, but also the policy preferences of this president. President Trump talked about weaponization, talked about anti-Semitism.

He has banned DEI, which is really racist and hateful. So all these preferences, as a prosecutor, I have an obligation in my mind, but to ask questions when you see these things. Look, Chuck Schumer stood on the steps of the Supreme Court and he said, we will release the whirlwind on you, Gorsuch and Kavanaugh, by name. Now I looked at that and I thought, that sounds like a threat. Pretty direct, pretty narrow, pretty clear. A month later, Kavanaugh's got somebody in front of his house with a gun and zip ties,

so you can say, well, what are we doing here? My letter to Schumer was, clarify what you're saying. Because if you're saying, I think you deserve to clarify, and I wanted the public to know I was asking. And by the way, Schumer did clarify on the floor of the Senate, and he backed off, and he apologized and all the rest. He probably didn't, uh-oh, he didn't, in my estimation, commit a crime. That's why I didn't charge him.

But the fact is, we have to have public conversations about these horrendous things. DEI. Georgetown University School of Law, someone came to me and they said they're still pushing the DEI stuff. Georgetown, by the way, the silly dean, wrote me back and he said, oh, First Amendment, First Amendment. I didn't say he couldn't do it. Do whatever you want. But don't take federal tax dollars. If you're going to put it publicly out there that you're doing DEI and doing said, oh, first amendment, first amendment. I didn't say he couldn't do it. Do whatever you want, but don't take federal tax dollars. If you're going to put it publicly out there that you're doing DEI and doing hate,

just like if you're doing anti-Semitism, we're going to say, we're not going to send tax dollars your way and we don't have to. So that's what the letters were about. I tell people it's like an iceberg. You're seeing the top third, about two-thirds of it was below. Nobody's seen most of the letters I wrote. As to the Biden letters about the pardon, the question was about the pardons. And to be fair, it wasn't about the auto pen necessarily.

It was about, we've never seen pardons of the scope. And it looks at least like something that you could be corrupt. When, when Bill Clinton pardoned Mark Rich and the, and it turns out that Mark Rich had paid a boatload of money to one of Clinton's friends, the lawyers, that's not corrupt. It's not criminal because the plenary power of the pardon. But in the case of Joe Biden and his pardons, they were so specific. Back 14 years covering everything you've ever done. I mean, when I say specific, they were broad, but they had time stuff on them. It was very interesting.

And that least leads to questions because the plenary power is true, but the question is what was going on here? And I did get responses from some of them and those things are ongoing. Okay. So you got some ongoing things there. As far as, you know, one of the things that our audience cares about and the reason they were fighting so hard for you to become the permanent U.S. attorney is because of what we, what we, the impression we have about the importance of that office to tackling weaponization, which is what you just talked, which is what you're talking

about. Can you explain that? The U.S. attorney in the District of Columbia, for those of us who have watched as the government has abused our citizens for years, what kind of power does this job in particular have and what kind of partner could the U.S. Attorney for DC be to the FBI in bringing some of these people to justice? Well, first of all, the most glaring example of of weaponization of government that we've probably ever seen is, at least in terms of numbers is the

January 6th use of the 1512 charge. The 1512 charge was written 20 years ago to deal with evidence and destruction of evidence, physical evidence. A guy named Andrew Weissman tried to use the 1512 during the Mueller investigation on Donald Trump to claim that the 1512 charge, which refers to obstruction of an official proceeding, but it refers to evidence destruction. In other words, the official proceeding ongoing at the time the law was written was when Arthur Anderson was destroying documents because there was an investigation at Enron.

And the idea was, wait a second, if you know there's an investigation, official proceeding, you shouldn't be destroying things Arthur Anderson. That's why it was written. Well, the 1512 charge was then used against hundreds and hundreds of Americans and a bipartisan Supreme Court threw it out. People spent years in jail, some of them over a year in solitary confinement, having walked through the Capitol because of the 1512. That's weaponization. That's the use of the law against individuals in a very specific way. And my office where I am is the one that did that. So I've been investigating why they do that. Who made the 1512 call? You know, how did you make that decision? That's an example. You can't really weaponize the law only by the FBI. When the FBI was abusing the

Catholics, they made a list, you know, target the Catholics. That's the beginning of the abuse. The further abuse is when you use the prosecutor because you got a grand jury and you subpoena people and you look at their records and that's in, again, a prosecutor's office. The surveillance of people under FISA, the FISA is of course secret and it's in DC but our office is butting up against that and some of that's classified so it's hard to talk about to you on the TV right now but this is all the use of government against individuals and discovering how they're doing it is an

ongoing process. And again, this office is one of the places where you needed the tool, meaning the prosecutor's office to abuse people. And so that's why we're digging into it. And I think we're going to see more and more, well, I'm going to be a part of it, uncovering broadly how the weaponization has impacted people. You know, Jack Smith, how he was using, Jack Smith used the grand jury in DC,

friendly grand jury, to get lots of information, and then he went down to Florida to move the case against Trump. That's weaponization. That's the use of the government, the law, against individuals in ways that we haven't seen done before. And again, maybe it's not criminal. I don't know, but're going to find out.

So but some of what you just described could result in charges. Yes yes it could yes it could certainly could. Look Vince I'll tell you something I've talked a lot about recently and I want to say to your viewers justice right now requires two things it requires the truth transparency and then accountability by prosecution in my opinion. In other words right now all of us in this country do not trust the government so much. We're in the opposite. We're the anti Reagan moment. When Reagan said trust and verify we're in the distrust and verify. Starting point is I distrust the government. We better if we're gonna and so if I said tomorrow hey Vince I'm gonna prosecute so-and-so you should say I don't trust you I don't trust anybody

that's what is that weaponization so what you have to do first to get real justice right now is be transparent. Get the truth out. Tell me what actually happened. What was Jack Smith doing when he shopped the grand jury to go to Florida? Tell me those facts so I can trust when you say next, he's going to held accountable this way. And let me tell you something like, for example, Fauci, what Fauci looks like he was doing, maybe it was legal, but he got a pardon. So I'm gonna ask, I can ask him, what'd you do? And he has to answer. But even more importantly, maybe his chief of staff or one of his lawyers is sitting at home saying, we were doing some stuff that wasn't really copacetic. Now a

prosecutor can say, look, if I want to get to the truth, I want to know what happened, maybe I've got to take off the table prosecuting you. So maybe I give immunity to one of those guys and say, now, you know, tell me the truth of what's going on. So you're protected. And I think more and more right now, we can't win the fight in the courts fast enough if we are not advocating on the truth. And that's what it means to be focused on weaponization. And that's why I'm so excited about what the president wants me to do next. All right. Before I get to that about what the president wants me to do next. All right, before I get to that next job, I just want to ask you about Janine Pirro. That's the new nominee to take the role.

Well, actually not the nominee. She's just being named interim US attorney, just like you've been. How much confidence do you have in Janine Pirro doing this job being your successor here? Well, it's funny. She's a TV personality, so people may know her on TV, but she had a long career as a lawyer. I mean, she was a prosecutor, she was a judge. I mean, she's somebody who's top shelf.

She's a few years older than me, so a little bit more experienced, but experienced in that field. She's also tough and she's a great communicator. So I think it's, look, I was worried that the person after me wouldn't be tough enough to keep doing the things I was worried that the person after me wouldn't be tough enough to keep doing the things I was doing. And then the president told me it's Judge Jeanine Pirro and I thought, okay, I think they even maybe went above and beyond Ed Martin. So I think she'll be great.

I think here's the thing. It's a huge, huge honor that she would take this position at the point in her life. She's so accomplished. She's so successful. She doesn't need to get down into the nitty gritty with us and she's doing it. It's a spectacular for America, she'll be awesome. Okay, so the new gig that you will be doing

according to the president of the United States, man, you've got a lot of things coming. You'll be the director of the weaponization working group at the justice department. You'll be the associate deputy attorney general and you will be the pardon attorney. I honestly, I'm just most excited about the phrase weaponization that you're going after.

What are you going to do with the justice department in that role? Well, we already been working on it. There's something called the weaponization working group that attorney general bondi put us on. There's about 15 of us on there. I've been on there with folks working on it. The idea is to look closely at a number of specific instances that we all know about, and then we can look at and say like targeting the Catholics, you know, the outer Richmond,

you know, they did they did that. And and and but also saying to the public, where else can we go? And it's so big already. I mean, the work is so big that I think the reason the president said get in charge of that is because we need somebody to actually start to drive this agenda. But look, everywhere you go in this country, if the government has weaponized the law against the people, we care. It's not just going after Trump. They did go after Trump, right? They did. But they also go after little guys all around

the country. And I got somebody that came to me and said, hey, when they leaked Donald Trump's tax returns, they also leaked a bunch of businesses and it really impacted this guy. Well, that was weaponization. And somebody needs to be held accountable for that. And so we're going to be the place, the tip of the spear for getting clear on what was done to the American people. And then what are we going to do to fix it? Sometimes we're going to fix it by helping people

get back up, other times hold them accountable by the law. One of the things I keep hearing, and I keep trying to basically tamp down because I do think results are coming, but there's this concern among people who are watching this program, conservatives, people who voted for Trump, that results may never be coming,

that indictments may never be coming, that charges may never be coming, that accountability may never be coming. In fact, that somehow the deep state has won out and that that accountability will never present itself. What is your view? You've been working as a US attorney, you're the director of the weaponization working group, you're talking about, it sounds to me like you're

talking about Consequences or EnRoot. Give us a sense of what's happening next. Vince, it's a little bit of the same answer earlier. First of all, I'll tell you as a prosecutor and U.S. attorney, things didn't move fast enough for me too. Like I wanted things to move faster, right? We opened an investigation that seems to take forever. You know, one of the investigations we've reopened and put energy into is the pipe bomber. You know, a pipe bomber, it's insane.

It's insane that in the greatest country in the world, we have two pipe bombs at our two largest political parties. We don't know who it is. It's insane. And I will say, Bonjino and I have hyper, you know, put Focus and resources on this and they got a bunch going on but it's it's insane to me I'm like make it faster fix it tomorrow. I'll tell you a quick story when I got in the job I got briefed on something. They said we have a spy for China at the Fed and I said is this a joke?

I sounds like I have a movie. There's a guy There's a spy for China at the Fed leaking stuff to him and they said we think we might arrest him like six weeks from Monday and I was like really can we get him like tomorrow why are we waiting like isn't there a chance he gets on a plane and goes back to China or goes to China he wasn't he's American and so they arrested him a couple days later so one thing we can do is demand speed and we're trying but it's frustrating but I'll go back to this you can only have we we will get beat by the system that wants us to only litigate and play ball in Article 3 courts. Right? You gotta deal with all these judges and appeals and up and the president's been clear.

He always says we're gonna abide by the rulings and all that. He doesn't. I mean, I might be more frustrated than he was if I was him. But here's the thing. What we gotta do is start showing. Showing and holding. In other words, I'm gonna tell tell you right now, I'm going to be on your show 20 times and I'm going to say, yeah, we're asking about weaponization because we found this. And I don't care when a prosecutor says, oh, you might be endangering a prosecution. No, that's making me hold the truth for a time where it won't matter. Because three and a half years from now, the truth won't matter.

You need to know now. You need to know why and now so I think again we're back to this thing get the truth transparency and then hold accountable prosecutions but you can't get you can't just do prosecutions and wait to tell me the truth because time is passing and people are distrusting and it's not fair so I know people are frustrated there will be more but more importantly you're gonna know more really quickly because I start a week from Monday. So that means that Martin, that you and I

are gonna be talking a lot in the weeks and months ahead, right? You bet, you bet. Okay. Yeah, when I got this position, I was told by the White House, they said, and you can be out communicating about this in a way that we really need

because the weaponization is such a big priority. We've gotta get confidence in our system. People gotta know. So yeah, I look forward to it. Good. Well, I'm going to hold you to it. I really appreciate you, Ed Martin. Thank you for the job you've already done. I'm looking forward to the job you'll continue to do inside the Trump administration. Very nice to talk to you today, sir. Thank you, Vince. Thank you, Vince. Very grateful to Ed Martin for his commentary and joining us. Again, we've had that conversation on Friday, kind of unexpected, the interview scheduling. We thought he'd be here Monday.

Things got crossed, so we were able to lock that in. That guy right there, the person you just saw, was deserving of the effort you gave to try and keep him as U.S. Attorney. And the president figured out a perfect way to handle all of this. He put Jeanine Pirro in now as the U.S. Attorney. Ed Martin as the director of the weaponization group inside of the Justice Department.

That, what you just witnessed was not a random commentator from the outside of government, just thinking sort of about all these issues What you just witnessed was the current US attorney. He is the US attorney until the end of this week Indicating that they are conducting real deal investigations Into all of these people who have abused the American people. How many things did he mention in that interview? He mentioned things like Anthony Fauci and the abuses at his hands, at Jack Smith's hands,

the overcharging of January 6th defendants, the treatment of Catholics, including by the FBI as some sort of terrorists. He mentioned the January 6th pipe bomber, his work with Dan Bongino to get to the bottom of that story both for transparency sake and for prosecution sake And the final piece there is where I think you and I can find a lot of encouragement

You heard Ed Martin just say that beginning next week Monday when he's fully tasked to this weaponization task force as the director, that you will be hearing on a routine basis updates, even before charges are leveled against all of the people who have weaponized our government. All of the information that you've been wanting that I've been wanting, Ed just gave us his promise, he's going to be delivering it frequently. What did he say? He'll be on our show 20 times?

Yeah, and maybe more than that. So we'll keep talking to Ed, we'll bring him in here. This is what you just witnessed is some of the most important commentary we've heard from any Trump official anywhere. And the thing that I'm asking you today is, would you share this podcast? Make sure people see that interview with Ed Martin because as he just laid it out

They're definitely digging they're digging hard and I can't wait for the accountability that'll come with it as always Thank you for joining us today on the Vince podcast the national radio show live 12 to 3 Eastern That's on rumble comm slash Vince. You can watch it there Always appreciate you the best damn audience in media Thanks for joining us today