The Dan Bongino Show - Shockwaves in the Swamp Over Trump's Latest Move | Episode 116

Episode Date: September 2, 2025

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Hey, everybody. Welcome to Vince, brought to you by Blackout Coffee, the official coffee of all of us here at Silverlock. Go to blackout coffee.com slash Vince. Use the code Vince. That's V-I-N-C-E. And you'll get 20% off your first order. Man, it is great to be back with you today. My thanks again to Matt Van Swal and his wife, Aaron, for our great conversation, the Labor Day special. If you haven't seen it yet, please go take a look at it. It was fantastic. Those guys are so good. And the reason I like them so much was because it was about helping people break free of that left-wing mindset and understanding how it is that people can be so misled into believing the lies that the legacy press tell. They were so good. Anyway, if you haven't, if you haven't seen it yet or listen to it, go back and check it out. It is great to have you back with us here. The best-am audience in media. I hope he had a great Labor Day weekend. The president of the United States had a great one. He was out golfing this weekend. He got to golf with his granddaughter. He had a good time. But the media and mostly on social media the left has gone absolutely crazy they claim that president trump is dead or dying or in such

catastrophic health that he's on the verge of resignation later today what is that i'll explain it coming up in just a moment yes it's the left going crazy but there's a reason for that that's all ahead on this edition of vins chris bedford's going to be here with us today we have a lot to get to it is great great great to see you all this program is brought to you by ExpressVPN. What you do online is not private. Data brokers are tracking and creating a profile of your online activities. And in the United States, they're legally allowed to sell that information to whoever wants to buy it. But there's a way to push back and hold on to your values, your autonomy, your freedom. And that's with ExpressVPN. With ExpressVPN, 100% of my

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Yeah, we did have a nice relaxing Labor Day weekend this weekend. We had some friends and family over. We just had a good time. The nice thing in Northern Virginia right now, it's just cool enough that it makes sense to get the fire pit going. So we got the fire pit going this weekend. We did some good things. And thank you. On Friday, I had asked whether or not I could get a pizza dough recipe from the audience. And a great listener sent along a pizza dough recipe, which I made. I have not yet tasted it. So I'll give a full review when that occurs. But we've got it. It's ready. It's in the freezer. We're saving it up. And then we're going to start making it. Can't wait for that. Thank you very, very much.

The Labor Day weekend is the space in which the left decided to fill with its insanity. They've been all weekend raging about the idea that President Trump is in poor health. In fact, if you look at some of the Google news results here, they're out of control. Trump responds to speculation about his health. Donald Trump posting week old photo raises eyebrows amid health speculation on and on and on. Trump raises fresh. Well, this is about COVID-19. That's a separate thing.

We'll get to that. Trump dispels health rumors, hits golf course. Yeah. Yeah. So, first of all, to be really clear, Trump is fine. Trump is fine. I had someone in my own family go,

hey, what's going on with Donald Trump? Is he okay? Yes, he's fine. Why don't you think he's fine? Well, I was on Facebook, and I saw these messages from people. They say he's not doing well. He's fine.

He's doing all right. He's doing perfectly fun. There's a bunch of reasons we know that. One, of course, he spent the weekend golfing. He had relaxing insofar as the president can relax. He went out to his Sterling Virginia golf course and he got some rounds of golfing, which is good. Just like the rest of us,

he tried to take whatever time he could off on Labor Day to get some time with the family. And he did that. And then on Friday, actually, going into Labor Day weekend, he had a huge interview with Reagan Reese of the Daily call her and now you'll know regan is is my white house correspondent over the daily caller she's wonderful and she had an hour long conversation with the president of the united states on friday afternoon they they it was great they did uh they covered a ton of news look here here's a picture of the

president and regan reese for those of you on rumble dot com slash vans uh and they're touring the rose garden together they were they were walking around kind of seeing the sites the president straight up in the middle of the interview was like, hey, let's go look at the Rose Garden. I want to show you everything I'm doing. And so he took her out there and showed her the scene and what his plans are for the Rose Garden, how good it looks now. That's great. There he is in perfectly good health.

And one of the things he revealed on Friday to Reagan, which I just can't stop cracking up about, is he plans on doing a presidential wall of fame display in about two weeks in the Rose Garden. and it's going to depict, I don't know if it'll be all the presidents, but certainly a number of portraits of the presidents of the United States. And the portrait that President Trump is going to display for Joe Biden is not going to be Joe Biden's face. It's going to be the auto pen. You know about this? Yeah, the auto pen portrait is going up in lieu of Joe Biden's face at the White House. The president revealed this weekend, which I was absolutely, cracking up over. I texted Reagan on Saturday and I said, hey, how the interview go? And he said,

and she said rather, it was great. It went really, really well. And then she started reeling off some of the stories that she was able to capture in this conversation. And she says, you know, he's going to post a portrait of an auto pen and then say it's Joe Biden. I said, no, get the hell out. And she said, no, I'm serious. Isn't that great? Really funny. Yeah, he said in the conversation should we that uh that he's fixing things up at the white house right now and uh he was showing her these frames he was showing her the frames of where the presidential portraits are going to go and um she said they're very beautiful and he was talking about how usually they use these frames for high-end paintings and then he asked her for advice he said what do you think about

this uh it's a decision i have to make how about we put up a picture of the auto pen in lieu of joe Biden and Reagan responded that that was hilarious and then Trump decided okay fine we're doing it and then it's going to be up in about two weeks he said it's all being prepared so there you go in case you're wondering they are hanging an auto pen portrait of Joe Biden at the White House it's just no other president would do this and thank God we have this one anyway that's what's happening so back to the president's health for a moment so he's doing great he was out he did that hour long interview with Reagan Reese in the White House inside the Oval Office with Reagan was the Caroline Levitt, the White House Press Secretary.

Stephen Chung was there, Stephen Chung. And they had a great conversation, and the president hit a lot of issues. I'll go over some of them in a moment with you because there's some things in there that I want to highlight for you. And then after that, again, spent the weekend golfing. He's perfectly fine. Look, one of the distinguishing features about this presidency is just how lively the guy is. How many press conferences does this guy do in any given week? I think one day in the last two weeks he did like three press conferences in a single day.

They kept inviting the press into the room. So his stamina is not really the question here. So what is going on as the left freaks out about his health? Oh, he's sick. He's not doing well. He's dying. He's dead. Well, one thing that's clearly going on is they're hoping he's ill.

They're wishcasting. The left does not desire the press. president's health, they don't desire that he succeed. They don't want him to get victories or wins. When the president comes out and he says, hey, I want to solve the crime problem, I'm going to take over the D.C. Police Department. I'm going to deploy the National Guard. And then he has success doing it. What has the left done the last few weeks on that subject? They've lied to you. They said, oh, no, D.C. was fine. There was no crime problem. There was nothing to fix. The president's authoritarian these police forces are arresting americans we're doing nothing wrong they just made up

everything they possibly could because the last thing they wanted was proof of how poorly they've run america's cities to include our nation's capital and president trump succeeding where they have failed us is a win for him and a loss for them politically that's how they view it so it's much better just to conceal all of that so they're hoping he's doing poorly they they are rooting against him and they no question would love to see him be so catastrophically ill that he has to disappear from the presidency that's what they want the other thing and you obviously cannot miss this in this stupid conspiracy theory that they're advancing is they're projecting joe biden's failures onto trump they want people to think that donald

Trump has Joe Biden's illness. The left spent four years and since and before trying to convince you that Joe Biden was of sound mind, that he was perfectly fine, that he had all of his faculties, that he was the president of the United States, never mind the fact that we've now heard from all sorts of officials who are actually talking and not pleading the fifth in the Biden administration who said that Joe Biden wasn't with it. You just had a guy called Ian Sams, one of his top spokesman say that he only met with the president twice in the entire presidency. Yeah, not a pure sign of stamina, is it? Not a clear sign of health, is it? No. So what the left is doing here

is once again, somebody says, lawy who says it correctly, deflect and project. It's gaslighting. That's right, hard times. It's gaslighting. So they look at Trump and they go, well, shit, that guy's actually doing a lot of good stuff for the country. Man, I wish he was. because it reflects poorly on us, man, that really sucks that that last guy was a vegetable in the Oval Office. What can we do? Why don't we just say that Trump's got Joe Biden's problems? So that's what they spent the last week doing.

Now, President Trump, for those of you who are listening to this in the morning of September 2nd, 2025, the year of our Lord, you should know that there's a White House press conference of some kind coming up, a statement from the president today. at two o'clock at the white house two o'clock p.m. in the oval office yeah I know but here's the thing Justin reminds me that it's in the oval office but we can't overstate what that means at all first of all and here let me tell you why one we already know that the statement today is about defense it's about defense now the the media the the left is claiming the president just bear with me this is so freaking insane the left is claiming on the internet today that Trump is going

to announce his resignation he's he's going to announce his resignation today at the white house um remember those people who used to think that the world was going to end in 2012 remember that they thought the world was going to what what date was that december it was like december something december 20th or something 2012 the people thought the world was going to end and so people literally gathered in time square in new york to mark the end of the world They were there and they were like, here it comes. They were watching their clocks, their watches. They were like, here it comes.

And then, of course, you know what happened? The world didn't end. And so they walked away, they walked away with their heads hung low because they were disproven wrong by the passage of time. Now, what will the left do today when Trump doesn't announce his resignation at 2 o'clock Eastern time from the Oval Office? Well, nothing. They'll just pretend like they never said it. just they'll say oh it's all a part of a long orchestrated cover up yeah yeah was it 1221 is that right December 21st 2012 hilarious the way yeah ishmael cord says the world did end in 2012 we just

haven't noticed yet maybe that's what's going on but so president trump is going to make an announcement today is defense related and here's justin why i don't think it's a big deal that it's in the oval office do you remember like a week or two ago we got another announcement that oh the president's to make an Oval Office statement and nobody knew what it was about. Remember that? And then it turns out it was just so that they could announce that they'd be doing some sort of selection process at the Kennedy Center for the World Cup. Okay.

Well, that's all well and good. I'm happy for another press conference, but don't overestimate the setting. Well, it's the Oval Office. He's going to announce war, isn't he? Maybe. Or he'll announce, you know, that we're throwing a big party at the Kennedy Center. literally anything can happen during the Trump presidency. So I should remind you what's going on here.

So anyway, that's what's happening. The left is going crazy. They're mad at the Trump presidency. They wish Joe Biden wasn't a vegetable. And they're accusing the president of being completely ill and a vegetable himself. So that's it. So they just lie. They're just lying.

They're lying to you. And then big anonymous Twitter accounts are lying about the president of the United States. So in case you're wondering, President Trump is doing well. he's got on 2 p.m. announcement they're going to be talking about something defense related and the left is still crazy. Is that about sum it up? I think that sums it up. All right. Just making shit up. Yeah. It's the new journalism says highway dog. Yeah, no, that's true. That's what they do. That's what they do. Let me get to the actual news by real journalist. Reagan Reese at the Daily Collar, of course, had that big interview with President Trump on Friday.

And I've pulled out a number of selections for you here. Here's, if we could focus on this, fellows on whether the Russia gate perpetrators should be arrested this is um this is good so Reagan asked whether or not the president of the United States would be okay with seeing John Brennan and James Comey arrested on national television you guys okay with that James Comey John Brennan being arrested on national TV CNN film crew standing outside of their homes would you like to see that yeah so here Here's what the president said. He said, these are bad people. They're sick people. And you know, the press plays along with it. But they should be arrested, that is. I mean, I'm probably

answering the question more than you think I should, said the president. They should be arrested because they're crooked and they got caught. Reagan responds, so James Comey and John Brennan, would you be comfortable seeing them handcuffed and arrested live on TV? The president says, would not bother me at all. Reagan. Do you think it's a possibility? Trump. See, I would have answered that question that way four years ago. I wouldn't have, he said. Wouldn't have answered that question that way four years ago. Do you understand that? I wouldn't because, well, Hillary is a good example. We had Hillary cold. I didn't want to see that. I didn't want the, you know, the wife of the president to go to jail, but she was stone cold, guilty of things. And if you remember at the big rallies,

I'd say, all right, take it easy. You know, they'd all say, lock her up. And after we won, before I won, just they could do whatever they wanted. And after I won, yeah, I was very gracious. So here's the president. He's reflecting back on that 2016 election. And all of the times, and perhaps some of the audience here was among that crowd, those crowds at those rallies chanting, lock her up, lock her up,

that Hillary Clinton deserved consequences for her violations of the law. which we are well aware of and it's not just the theft of classified information which of course everybody knows she is guilty of there's no dispute on that subject but also it was the clinton foundation it was all the money that was flowing in in order to buy influence to the expected president of the united states now thank god she didn't actually become president but but man there were a lot of things that you could dig into related to Hillary Clinton and president trump he didn't He went easy on her. His administration went easy on Hillary Clinton.

And his reaction to that is like, you know what? I learned from that experience that grace was never returned to me. That grace was not returned to me. In fact, I was treated like out of crap. I didn't break any laws. And they dropped the full weight of the federal government on top of my head. So, yeah, no, we're not playing like that anymore. We're done with that.

in the words of the secretary of defense we're done with that we don't do that anymore and so now the president has decided yeah i'd be perfectly comfortable seeing these guys arrested now that james coming and john brennan quote from president trump this weekend got a lot of attention in the left wing press i knew they would i knew they'd jump all over that good good you you marinate in that for a while as the president says yeah i i wouldn't have any problem with seeing these guys arrested on national television. NBC and all the other usual idiots went absolutely crazy this weekend. Casting Donald Trump is some sort of tyrant. But you and I both know that every time we talk about this subject, it's that Donald Trump and his supporters who were subjected

to tyranny, not the left. The tyranny came at the hands of the left, at the hands of people like James Comey and John Brennan. So if they're given a taste of their own medicine, it's because they deserve it. Not because they're being treated unfairly, but because they are being treated fairly. That's the lesson from that. So there you have the president saying, yeah, no, consequences, they should definitely come for those guys. I've got a lot more for you, including some areas where I'm concerned about the president's answers. I'll raise those in just a moment with you here on Vince. Great to have you with us, as always.

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But we may need to go a little easy on the farm workers. We may need to go a little bit easy on the restaurant workers. Now, I'm telling you right now, I have no interest in going easy on anybody. If you want farm workers in the United States, one, higher American. But two, if you need to bring in foreigners, you've got to do it. it through a legal system we can't have illegal alien farm workers unacceptable you can't have an illegal system that you just look the other way on and say we're not going to enforce the law in that area can't happen so we need we need a better system than just bring the illegals in you got to have a

legal system so here's ragan's question to the president on illegal immigration sticking on immigration she said are there still plans to provide deportation exemptions for illegal farmers and restaurant workers what's the policy right now regan asked and the president responded we want to we want to look i've got two groups that in particular like me like me they like me people that don't want to allow people to come into the country illegally and the farmers so he says these two groups are at odds with one another okay they really with the farmers they're great and and it's a little at odds because some of the people coming in for many years have worked on farms and they've been good and in many cases they pay taxes you know everything else and you have some of my best

people don't want anybody in for any reason no matter what no matter what very hard line stand so we're working on legislation now that's going to it's going to i think i think i'm going to make everybody happy now this is precisely this is so let me let me just back up for a moment. I said a moment ago, I'm not thrilled with the answer to this question. But there is a way that I could be happier, depending on how this turns out. And normally with Trump, you just wait a little bit of time and you figure out what he's actually doing. You see it come into fruition in the real world. And you go, oh, okay, I understand that. Here's what he's getting at. He's saying they're working on legislation, which would mean a legal avenue for all of this. And he says,

I think it's going to make everybody happy. Now, here's what's not going to make me happy. I'll just be honest up front and i don't look trump has doesn't have to nail it 100 percent i want him to but you know i'm not going to throw president trump out or wish he was out of office if he diverges on one thing because i've had a lot of uh i've derived a lot of joy and satisfaction out of how successfully he's been as president of the united states no question about that but if he comes up with a legal system where people go home and then they can legally immigrate back into the country on a temporary basis to do farm work, I'd be more okay with that system than amnesty. I don't want to see amnesty. If you've broken our laws, you've got to go. The consequence for illegally entering the

United States is deportation. Go home. And then if you want to come back, we can come up with a system to accommodate that in order to ensure that American farmers get the labor that they're looking for. But don't encourage. Don't reward. Don't reward. breaking that's all i'm asking no amnesty no amnesty and i think the chat agrees yeah if you're here illegally got to go home you got to go home they have agricultural guest workers that's right those that definitely exists that's where this thing needs to be uh and but people have to go home first we've got to send that message clearly so i hope the president does that uh they say they are working on a legislative fix it can't be amnesty it can't be amnesty again additionally um we we mentioned that last

that the president, like I played a couple of clips for you, the president saying that he wants to welcome in 600,000 Chinese nationals into the U.S. university system. Now, to be clear, that's more than double what it was before. We were at 270,000. We are right now, actually, at 270,000. The president's indicating that he wants to bring it up to 600,000 Chinese nationals. Now, I submitted to you last week that the reason for that is because the president clearly feels like he's getting some sort of benefit from. China that there's some sort of deal that's being made possible by the president's generosity here that's going to redown to our benefit here's what the president said that Reagan asked him for more clarity on this subject and here's how that went Reagan said you're allowing 600,000 Chinese students to still study here she said the president responded 600,000 over two years he says okay over two years I'm curious if this is a negotiation tactic or if this is something you think benefits the country

Trump responded quote I think it's very insulting to a country I have a very good relationship with President G and I think it's very insulting to a country when you say you're not going to take your students and they have probably 300,000 600 is over two years but they have let's say 300,000 to 350,000 students.

It's also good for our system. When you take them out and you know who's going to be affected, the lesser colleges, the top colleges aren't going to be. It's the lesser colleges that are, he said. What he's saying is that, in other words, the small schools in the United States are very dependent on this money from Chinese foreign nationals coming in. And if the chikoms are cut off from coming into the country,

then where are these schools going to get their money from? they're going to have to close to which most of us respond good they should close those schools should shudder most of the schools at the bottom end of the university system are scams anyway they're not real they're just a way to put people into tragic amounts of debt without giving them an education that's worth the paper that it's written on i mean the whole thing is ridiculous so yeah close the schools regan responded so it wouldn't take harvard out you don't think because when I hear that I think conservatives would say all right let's let Harvard and Columbia or the universities die but you would think you think it would hurt the lesser

schools Reagan asked the president responded I don't want them to die no I want them to be great but I want to be fair he said and you know they're being punished but you know I don't want we have we have the greatest system in the world university young you know the high schools and let's say you don't take Harvard they're going to develop schools and they'll be fine they're going to be fine no I think it's very insulting in that sense to be doing that I think it would hurt the system

and you know I get along with China said the president China's paying us a lot of money right now they're paying us hundreds of millions of dollars and do you understand what I mean by that Reagan replies yes Trump continues it's very insulating insulting

rather to say we don't want their students yes says Reagan president responds i you know i think it's good for us but you know we're doing well with china ragan says is there something you hope to get specifically in return for allowing their students to still study the president says no no i don't want anything in return we're doing well they're paying us hundreds of billions of dollars yeah okay so this is not something i love I'm not into it. I don't want to take 600,000 Chinese students into our country.

I don't want to take 270,000. It's not about them being Chinese. It's about them being subject to the whims of the Chi comms, the Chinese Communist Party. I have no interest whatsoever in that. Now, the president is convinced, as he points out to Reagan, that this is a part of a broader relationship with China.

He wants to be on good terms with this country, which is our biggest adversary, unquestionably. He wants to be on good terms. And he sees this as a way to sweeten the pot in that relationship. But I do think it continues to be highly reasonable for you and I to be completely horrified by having 600,000 would-be espionage agents here, on behalf of the CHICOMs. The national security laws in China established by the CHICOMs are really clear.

If they want you to act in their interest against the United States, you are obligated. You are duty-bound to do that as a Chinese national here in America. Or else your family back home will suffer the consequences of your failure to heed their orders.

That's just the way it works. The president knows this. But he must also believe that the risk is worth taking, that whatever he's seeing is indicating to him that we need to have some sort of really good relationship with China that includes taking in 600,000 of their nationals. So again, I'm enthusiastic about the Trump presidency. I love what he's done. I keep voting for him over and over and over again. That said, don't love this. Don't love this.

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Let me bring in Chris Bedford, who's talking in my ear right now. I don't know if people can hear him. Chris Bedford, senior politics senator, D.C. correspondent for the blazes here. Hello, Chris. I've been sorry if they could. I just meant to be harassing you man to man. Chris was definitely harassing me during all of that. I had to turn you down, actually, because of your harassment.

I literally muted you. I was like, mute. I got to turn to Christo while I was doing the live reads there. Thank you, man. It's good to have you with us. Hey, let me dive in really quick to what Reagan Reese was able to gather from the president of the United States on Friday. She got a couple things out of them. And some of them just instantly stood out to me like, whoa, wait a second.

Not sure I love this. One, he indicated that he is trying to work out a deal that he says, everyone is going to love when it comes to farm workers and hotel workers who are here in the country illegally. Now, Chris, whatever deal he comes up with, I got to say, I don't love amnestys of any kind. What do you think of this? No, and props to Reagan, because President Trump is one of the hardest people on the planet to give an interview and make news with these days. He is a professional. He decides whether or not he wants to answer something. And usually your best shot of making news is when he says, we'll see. And then the media flips out.

He says, we'll see about arresting this person or that. But she actually got, she's stuck with it. Now, this is an interesting relationship. I remember touring in 2020 through the dairy farms and the cattle farms and talking to folks. And there was a real split. The farmers, which, you know, they have reputation in the United States for just being the kind of guys who wake up before dawn. And a lot of them do. But by and large, they are massive corporations.

But they still, especially the small, the few. remaining independent farms needed to do good business. They've got the economy that they've run on for years, which, I mean, as we know in this country, farms have a long history of not paying locals to do the work. But they also were hit hard by the tariffs. They were hit hard by trade battles with Canada and Mexico previously. And they were sometimes seeming to regret their vote for President Trump in 2016, which a lot of them gave. So I know he's got a delicate balance there, But amnesty for powerful interests in the United States that once again are declining to pay locals is a difficult thing to sell. Now, you can make the case that there are a lot of these jobs, a lot of these towns, really can't actually even put up the labor that's necessary.

I've been to these places where a lot of the migrant workers live. I didn't check any papers. I don't know who was legal or illegal. But they kind of live in almost group housing comfortably, eat their meals together, work together, and then leave after the season's over. And like the president did say, they are paying their taxes. These corporations are trying to stay above the law as much as they can. But it just doesn't sit right. I think you're right.

A lot of those different deals that the president has to strike seemingly don't sit great with some of the mega base. Unfortunately, that is also a bit of the nature of politics. It is the art of compromise. Sure, it is. That's for sure. But at least in that case, it involves directly American interests and the cost of food and whether or not these farmers can get the work that they need. As I advocated a short while ago, I'd like to see people go home first. And then if they want to come in legally, we have a legal means to do that. But not, I don't want to see anybody given a reward for being here illegally. I think that sends a bad message. And it, by the way, becomes a magnet for more illegal immigration, which is exactly the opposite of what the president wants to do. And it protects them from exploitation by corrupt wealthier employers who may know that you're here illegally and be able to hold that over your head. They will hold that over your head, pay you those kind of wages and take care of you in that kind of way. Yeah. Let me also ask you about China then, too. We've got the president indicating over the past few weeks that he wants to bring in some 600,000 Chinese nationals to attend universities.

He did tell Reagan that that's over the course of two years. so maybe in a kind of a generous interpretation you say 300,000 a year we're at around 270,000 currently in the university system Chinese foreign nationals it honestly once again in terms of like rewarding the people who do the bad things does seem like we're rewarding China which in the end produced COVID just to remind people and has been killing hundreds of thousands Americans a year with chemical precursors that become fentanyl and other awful drugs in the United States. And then, of course, the Chikoms keeps stealing from us like crazy. So this one's a little hard for me to believe that the president would be okay accommodating

all of these Chinese nationals in our country. What do you think of it? I can't stand it. There's no surprise, though. I mean, there was always a question of whether or not which way the president was going to go on his dealings with China. And I wrote about it for my Beltway brief newsletter. last week, that this is, well, President Trump is surrounding themselves with a lot of hardliners

on China, a lot of hardliners on immigration, which gave hope to those of us, I think you and I included, who want to see a total reset and reimagining of what the American-Chinese relationship is. Those people are all around him, but the president, since his interviews in the 1980s, I was able to pull up a couple of those, was always talking about not reimagined entirely relationships, but getting a better deal for the United States. So I was trying to get in questions at the, when I was down at the White House press briefings over and over again, it could never get a straight answer from the press secretary or from Stephen Miller or from other people on what the president's goal was on trade war with China.

Was it, A, to decouple the two countries, to make it so that we were secure, to make it so that these students, who, as you know, they don't leave China without Cheezing Ping and the Communist Party's approval and are expected, once here, to actually commit espionage for China, and like you were talking about earlier in the show, are under a huge amount of pressure to actually listen to the folks back home, where their families are, where their mothers and their fathers and their sisters and their brothers are. I don't see why that's actually a good thing for the country, but the president has always been interested in making a few more dollars. He wants, he looks at, which he talked about with Reagan, all that money coming into

the Treasury, he looks at the trade changes, and that was always the question. Is he want to reimagine this relationship or does he just want a better deal for American businesses? And it seems like those us Chinese hardliners are going to have to wait a little while longer for a president who actually wants to decouple the economies because this one just right now, he's making big progress, but it's towards a deal. Okay, all right. So those are two areas that you and I have expressed concern and it's good. I like having a president that actually listens to his base too. So this is a good part of that conversation. Let me get on to some other things now. We've got Congress coming back today, finally, after it's August recess, which they should have never taken,

or if they were going to take it, they should have just taken a real recess and let the president make a bunch of recess appointments in the process. That didn't happen. That drives me absolutely crazy. What does Congress have to tackle right now, Chris Bedford? What is on their agenda? Well, the three things that they have are nominations for civilian appointees, the Trump administration, which is, I think, at a record highs over 140 people waiting to get actually confirmed by the Senate. And there are talks right now between the White House and the Republicans to use the nuclear option on that. Typically, the Senate has been very jealous of its power to affirm and to be able to review presidential appointees. But it's gotten to a point where both parties, honestly,

when the other side is in the office, aren't necessarily looking for the best candidate. They're simply looking to hold up the White House. And you can't get to those 60 votes with Democrat intransigence so they might switch it to 51 and then start to crank through these nominations because nominations are third on their list of things to do they've got a budget deal which they have to put together by the end of the month that's going to be one of the most difficult things one of the most difficult aspects of this because every aspect of that requires 60 votes so they're going to need to play a little nice and let's say have 60 Republicans suddenly or suddenly a lot less Democratic senators then that's not going to happen yeah on the

The third thing that they're working on. On the nominees, but yeah, dog ear to that for a second because I want to come back to that on the third thing. But on the nominees, I talked to Senator Eric Schmidt a week ago and he told me, he goes, hey, when we get back, I just need to tell you, we are going to accelerate the nomination process dramatically from where we were. And I was like, well, thank God for that. That nuclear option that you're talking about, Harry Reid already started that years ago when he said that you only need 51 votes to get a federal judge through. And then the Republicans responded with, okay, fine, we'll do the same thing for the Supreme Court. And they were able to get Supreme Court just through on that basis. Why not just do it for all of them?

I mean, the fact is the executive branch needs its people in place to conduct the affairs of the American people and what they voted for. It's ridiculous that even at this late date, all these people are being blocked. We need U.S. attorneys to prosecute all these criminals. It's crazy what the Senate is doing right now. Absolutely. And under President Reagan, H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, even George W. Bush, there was a history of just voice vote yeses, where these nominees just sailed through unless they were particularly troublesome.

Remember, the Greensar for Barack Obama was one of the few who was held up by Republicans at the beginning of his administration saying, no, no, no, no, no, we want to take a look at this guy over his 9-11 comments and this and that. Of course, he's still with us today as a prominent commentator. Now, it has continued to get worse and worse and worse. And the, you're going to The only democratically elected person in the entire country, nationally elected person in the entire country, the President of the States deserves to have the people around him who are able to actually execute his agenda. And it has shown we saw in his first term in office what it happens when you don't have

the right people in place that deep state Democrats are able to retard your administration's agenda every step of the way, commit sabotage, do everything, commit leaks, do everything that they can to try and slow down the democratically elected president. And you need those people, and that's part of what the Democrats are doing. The Senate hasn't had time to get to them with the schedule that they have for September and October and November. So the nuclear option is basically the only way they're going to be able to do this unless they put aside the budget, which they can't, and the NDAA, which no one in D.C. will. The NDAA. Is that the third thing you were referencing? Exactly. That's not even due until the end of the year, but they want to get it done earlier.

They want to be able to get the money flowing to the Pentagon. They want to be able to actually invest in new programs and new systems. So the NDAA, they've set for themselves. They're going to try and get their homework done early. Get it done by the end of September, which is, you know, it's surprising to hear that from the U.S. Senate that likes to push things to the very end. Now, this is definitely must-pass legislation, is what they call it. But there are already some Democratic Easter eggs have shown up in it.

We have a story that just went up moments ago. I was just editing it for Blaze News about how, Senator Tim Cain of Virginia, if you remember him, the first Tim to lose his vice president to Donald Trump, he's back and he's put into the NDAA something that would take Pete Heggseth and the Department of Defense's ability to rename bases and to undo that committee that was erasing all kinds of historical names from American military bases and assets, to take that away for the state of Virginia, which is something that seems to have been debated and discussed and dealt with in the committee itself,

in the Senate committee, which their hearings are classified. So when we've reached out to Republican senators in that committee, they've had to say, listen, I can't talk about this because of the classified nature of these hearings. But also that Senate committee has armed forces, armed services, has kind of a gentleman's tradition about it where they are much more likely to wheel and deal

in a way that was common in D.C. for a long time, but still exists there. And this seems to be a carve-out. And that's going to cause some trouble with the Republican Senate. It's certainly going to cause some trouble with the MAGA base, that even if it's just Virginia, the recommendations of these renaming commissions went above and beyond what the American people had long settled.

And Pete Higsteth has gone back, a secretary of defense, and changed a lot of those names back. Yes. And kind of cute ways where he's come up with different people who are named after these famous generals and commanders. And they're going to try and strip that. That's the first Easter egg, and there are many more to come.

Yeah, it's too much. I'm glad you're staring at it and getting the news out to the rest of us. Thank you. Chris Bedford, as always from The Blaze. Great to talk to you today, sir. Can't wait to do it again soon. See you again soon, Vince. Thanks, man.

All right, there he is, Chris Bedford. Now that he's going away, he won't be able to harass me anymore. He was harassing me before. All right, let's, I've got some other items to get to you right now with right now. Crime is a massive problem. Among the other things that the Congress needs to contact. simply doing, is extending President Trump's ability to run police, the police force in Washington, D.C. This current invocation of the president's ability to run the D.C. Police Department, that goes

back to the D.C. Home Rule Act of 1973. It allows him to have 30 days to run the cops in the nation's capital. That expires on September 9th. That's just days away. folks the president is not going to have a control of the dc police department a couple days from now and that will be a disaster the white house has requested the president has requested that congress extend his control of the dc police department and given the president's success in dropping crime by upward violent crime upwards of 40 percent in the nation's capital Congress should absolutely sign off on extending the president's authority here. Without question, do you want the nation's capital to continue to be safe?

You want the good times to continue rolling? Let the president continue to fix things in D.C. So Congress has to deal with that. The other thing here, the other cities in America that desperately need a rescue are run by Democrats, and these Democrats hate Donuts. Donald Trump, with the passion of a thousand burning sons, they hate him. And the last thing they want him to do is fix the mess that they've created. Watch this.

Here's 6% approval rating Chicago mayor, Brandon Johnson, screaming this weekend, cut one, that he doesn't want any support to stop the violence in Chicago. Look. God bless you all. God bless the labor movement. God bless the greatest freaking. city in the world. Chaitown.

No troops in Chicago. No troops in Chicago. No troops in Chicago. Invest in Chicago. Invest in Chicago. No troops in Chicago. Invest in Chicago. It's so outrageous.

It's so outrageous. There's Brandon Johnson. Brandon Johnson is saying is that he doesn't want the criminals to be stopped. The only thing he wants is more money. Invest in Chicago, he screeches. He wants you to take money out of your hard-earned paycheck and send it to him so he can squander it and not improve the situation for the people who live in Chicago at all. Did you see what happened in Chicago this weekend?

54 people were shot. 54 people were shot that's just going into monday morning 54 people shot seven people were killed this weekend in chicago and the president of the united states is on the verge of sending the national garden they can't come soon enough and look if you were a person who actually cared about the well-being of your city You wouldn't be protesting the president sending in backup.

You'd be asking him for more. If Brandon Johnson, with a 6% approval rating, cared about the people of Chicago, he would be calling the White House switchboard right now and asking to speak to anyone who can help get the year of the president to send the National Guard him. Please, I beg of you, help us. That's not what he's doing.

No. No, to Brandon Johnson, the man who you just saw on stage screeching about how he doesn't want any help to brandon johnson a bloodbath weekend in chicago is totally acceptable totally defensible and the status quo should remain 54 people shot seven people killed president trump thinks we need better and he's right we definitely need better chicago deserves better way better than the least popular bj in america brandon johnson there he is now the new york times was raging this week weekend about the use of the military to clean up Washington, D.C.

And they had this piece, it's so ridiculous, they had this piece called crime festers in Republican states while their troops patrol Washington. You got this? This is a clever little stunt. So the way that it worked originally was, hey, President Trump, don't send in law enforcement, don't rescue D.C. If you do that, that's tyrannical. And then when they discovered that people loved the president's rescue, they changed the narrative.

They moved the goalposts around the field. And they said, well, the president's not sending the troops in into the hardest hit areas of D.C., the ones with the most crime. So rather than, hey, stop sending in troops, it's now, oh, you sent them to the wrong place. You should send more of them to eastern D.C. And it turned out the White House came back and they said, actually, we've been doing that. And 50% of all of the arrests have taken place in the worst districts, the worst war. in Washington, D.C. We are stopping crime everywhere we find it.

And so then the media moved on from that. And now the current version is, well, you should be going after red states, not the nation's capital. You should be deploying the National Guard to red states. That's where all the crime is, the New York Times says. Here's what's going on. The crime is in the blue cities of those red states. So, for instance, they point to the state.

of Tennessee and New York Times does. And they're upset that the governor, Bill Lee, dispatched the National Guard to help President Trump get control of the nation's capital. Now, Tennessee, just like every other state, does have a vested interest in the nation's capital being safe. That capital belongs to all of us. It's not any one state. It belongs to all of the states. It belongs to the American people. So Tennessee isn't doing something that works against its interests by helping clean up the nation's capital. It's very much within the interest of the people of Tennessee to have a safe capital. But the New York Times is concerned trawling to Governor, Governor Lee, saying,

oh, so why don't you send the National Guard instead to your own cities? Why are you sending them to the nation's capital? And then they point to Memphis. They say Memphis, after all, has long been one of the most dangerous cities in the country with a murder rate about twice as high as the nation's capital, according to FBI statistics, Nashville is a higher rate of violent crime than Washington as well. Now, what are those cities have in common?

Who runs Memphis? The Democrats. Democrats are running these cities into the ground. And the New York Times has decided that the headline on this story should be that it's Republican states that have a catastrophic crime problem. Well, sure, in the areas run by Democrats. And should the president do everything that's within his power to try and bring peace to all of these cities?

Definitely. But why is he doing it by himself? Why is he alone on this? Why aren't there more people helping him? What is wrong with you? You human scum that you would allow crime to get worse in your communities just because you hate the president of the United States. It's normal people. people who have to bear the cost of your political cruelty for that unreal then again democrat

leaders if you can call them leaders are just out of control you see that new york congressman jerry nadler is leaving congress after a thousand terms yeah nadler has announced that he's resigning he'll waddle off into the sunset for the last time he's he's headed out the door and he leaves us with a bunch of young democrats who are even crazier than he is check out jasmine crockett this weekend who by the way may actually lose her congressional seat anyway thanks to texas redrawing its district boundaries so she's going to have to fight for that seat we'll see if she can retain it but check out jasmine crockett this weekend it turns out whatever evolution she's going through she can now no longer speak english here she is cut three

maybe because these people they are crazy because they always talk about how christian they is yeah i don't know how many them on that side are getting divorced because they getting caught up sleeping with their co-workers staffers interns all the things yeah you ain't got to believe me just go google you'll find some of it i'm telling you and the wives is being messy and petty they putting it in the divorce i'm like who that's got to be true because your lawyer would know that they're going to lose it if they what the hell did she just say we're done with that shit i don't what has happened to that lady you know when she came into office when she ran for the first time she was speaking the queen's english she was i think at one point she was saying what she's she's an

unbelievable human being what in the world is that now i know there's just going to be people who say on the left who are going to be like well vince you just don't understand that's what we call code switching it's code switching just changing your presentation based on the audience no you know what that is that's insecurity is what that is that's insecurity if you have to pretend to be a different person for every audience you speak to you've got some problems you've got some big problems that lady's got some what was that noise she made guys at the very beginning of that clip Justin can you play that again for me what was the very first like the first three seconds what was that?

Maybe because these people, they are crazy because they always talk about how Christian they is. You don't know how many people. That's enough. Because these people, they are crazy. Yeah, you are crazy. Holy cow. Well, I do hope she loses her seat. We're working on that in Texas.

Boy, oh boy, there's Jasmine Crockett. So, you know, we kicked one dude out. Jerry Nadler, he's headed out. Ain't that a kick in the nads? But then Jasmine Crockett, that's what we're left with? We'll see for how long. All right, I've got a big show for you today coming up on a national radio show. Reagan Reese is going to join me on the program.

We'll talk about her big conversation with the president of the United States last Friday. What it was like to sit with the president for an hour, take a tour of the Rose Garden, and every other detail from that conversation. That's ahead on the big program. And then I'll be back again tomorrow on this podcast, Vince. It's always so great to have you with us, the best damn audience in media. We'll do it again soon.