The Dan Bongino Show - SPECIAL: RNC Wrap-Up - 07/19/24

Episode Date: July 19, 2024

In this special episode, we recap the best moments of the Republican National Convention 2024. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

get ready to hear the truth about america on a show that's not immune to the facts with your host dan bongino we had so many amazing moments at the rnc we didn't want you to miss any of them so if you missed a second we put together my production team which did a great job here a best of for you folks you know i only bring you the best guests. I don't want to waste your time. So let's get right to the show. You're not going to want to miss a second of this. There are so many moments. We honestly had a hard time segregating out which ones we would put in here and which ones we wouldn't. It was that good. A couple sponsors paid for today's show. We appreciate your patience. Hey, you having trouble sleeping

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Protect your savings with gold before the dollar plunges any further. Text DAN to 989898 today. Message and data rates apply. Check this show out. So many moments, so many good times at the RNC. You're going to love it. Do you guys think, because this is the one issue all three of us are going to agree on, on the couch. I know we do. Only one? Unfortunately, I've spent enough time with both of you. I think we agree on with probably everything this is news and this one was something you we went all in on we all agreed jd vance was the best pick hey president given the portfolio people available don your initial thoughts i mean no one's closer to your dad than you i mean i know your dad had this short list i know you know bergum seems like a nice enough guy

i went to a fundraiser he was there he's actually a pretty good speaker um you know, Berger seems like a nice enough guy. I went to a fundraiser. He was there. He's actually a pretty good speaker. You know, I guess Rubio has assets to whatever. I don't get into politicians. I don't want to date these guys. I got a wife. I don't really care. However, JD to me is the one guy I've had a couple of conversations. I don't have coffee with her.

We're not best friends. But he came off as the most genuine and sincere. And even though you may disagree with him on some things, I don't. But you may disagree with him on Ukraine or, I don't, but you may disagree with him on Ukraine or trade policy. He's not fucking around. Like he says what he means. And at least he's gonna take a stand.

He's the real deal. I mean, he, listen, I read his book. That's how I got to know him before. I read his book back in like, whatever it was, early teens when it came out. I go, man, this guy's gotta be in politics. I loved the story. And then he actually sort of started this thing,

like never Trump because he didn't have any information, but he was also the guy that didn't just say, okay, well, I'm gonna accept Trump now and roll. He was like, I was wrong. I did not think that the brash guy from New York was gonna fight for X, Y, Z. I didn't think he was, like, I was wrong. I bought into the media narrative

and he became like a champion of the America first, of the MAGA cause and just articulates it so well. So like we became friends. But I was like, Chris was like, oh, this guy, I love it. He's a never Trump. I can't even believe it. But it wasn't just he came to terms with it. Like he was just like, I was wrong.

And from that moment on, just started fighting for all of the things that we believe in. So, you know, I was really passionate about that. I was also passionate about having a guy that's young that can take that mantle of America first, not go back to neocon bullshit where we haven't been in a war in three minutes. Let's make sure we spend $4 trillion and mortgage our children's futures to hell. I don't want it to end in four years after my father's done, right? I want that to be conservatism going forward, not a reversion back to the stuff that has failed us

and that doesn't represent the people across the country, but it plays great in the swamp. It's a big deal. Your dad started a movement. It's not about him anymore. It is now. He is obviously the guy who's the head of the MAGA movement, but your father's not gonna be around

for hopefully a long time, but he started a movement. And I said, are these other guys, the guys to take the mantle or is JD? Tucker, I know you were team JD. How can I say, I was at a dinner a few years ago in my old neighborhood in DC before I left, probably five years ago. And they're talking about Trump,

what do you think of Trump? And I said, you know the smartest guy in that whole constellation is Don Jr. And they're ever talking about Trump, what do you think of Trump? And I said, you know, you know the smartest guy in that whole constellation is Don Jr. And they're like, yeah, Don Jr. is the smartest. Oh yeah, Don Jr., okay. He shoots animals, right? I was like, actually Don Jr. is the smartest one. It's true.

And I thought your analysis is so right. I almost don't have anything to add to that. It's exactly right what you just said. And so he speaks for me on that. But can I say one thing about JD? He's like a normal person. He's like a good person. Politicians are just so hollow.

You can't overstate that. You can't have a conversation with them. I mean, how many dinners have I had with politicians? Senators, presidents, all of them. They're all the same. They're all the same. If you say to JD- You can predict their answers, right?

It's believable, but even in private, they're false. J.D. Vance, I mean, I've had the privilege of talking to him a lot before he went for Senate and this current post. He was like tormented, like what effect does this have on my wife? What effect does this have on my three children? These are real questions for him.

These are not fake performative questions. Like, I'm gonna spend more time with my family. It's like, how do they feel about this? What will this do to my soul? He weighs the moral consequences of decisions. He actually does. By the way, I saw a picture of him today in his Marine uniform. I've never seen that before.

Try to get JD Vance to talk about his Marine service. He's embarrassed of it. He doesn't parade it around. He doesn't parade it. He never talks about it. You mean he doesn't have the Pete Buttigieg photo? No, but it's different. And this was such a critical point I spoke to,

I'm not a veteran, so I spoke to a couple other people who are, I go, there's a difference here, right? You look at a Buttigieg, they go to Harvard, Princeton, Yale, and then they do like the, I wanna be a politician, so I'll go do some obligatory service. J.D. enlisted in the Marine Corps out of high school. Yeah.

He did that first. Yes. It wasn't the afterthought because I wanna get into politics and it'd be a nice box to check. He did it first before he knew where his life was going. I remember watching. That's a huge deal and a big difference. And he doesn't talk about it.

And listen, it takes a set of moose nuts to go in the Marines too. That's not an easy boot camp. Especially not enlisted. I think he's the first Marine ever to be on a ticket, actually. Actual Marines. Obviously, it's not Army guys. But not a jag. Thank you, Marines.

Leathernecks. you're bad ass. And I like DeSantis. I mean, I'm in Florida in the winter, but I remember watching one of these debates or something, and DeSantis, in the end, I thought he was on one of the SEAL teams because he was talking about, oh, the SEAL teams and da-da-da-da-da. And I'm like, what?

Weren't you like a freaking lawyer or something? Like, stop. It's too fake. I can't... And I like DeSantis, but it's too fake. And it's also... it's being fake about something that's kind of important and that we all revere as Americans. It makes us all cynical about military service.

And J.D., to his enormous credit, will never leverage that because again, it makes everybody cynical when you lie about something important. You know what I mean? I think, I'd just like you to address this if you could. I played a clip of you on my podcast today. You were, I don't know what you're talking, heritage or something.

You said, you know, all of the right slash wrong people hate J.D. Vance. And can you just go into that? Because that is so important. Like the Lindsey Grahams of the world. It's just like Trump. Who was, by the way, shit talking J.D. Vance the entire day, the day before.

He was trying to get your dad to go ahead. You heard about that. I guess there's a lot of lobbying efforts going on the day before and i think i mean your post uh on the i mean just just brutalized i think it's maybe the greatest thing on the internet in the last week and i hate to be mean to lindsey graham i suspect he likes it actually naughty little guy um but he does every time time I see him, he's like, hey, man. I'm like, really? I was incredibly cruel to you.

This is like some sort of weird whatever trip that you have. But I guess the point I would make is J.D. Vance, it's almost, and Trump is exactly the same, it's almost like to catch a predator. It's like you wave Trump or J.D. Vance out there and all the creeps show up to hate. You predator. It's like you wave Trump or JD Vance out there

and all the creeps show up to hate. You know, it's like you just, they're such clarifying forces. It's like, catch a predator. It's like, no, I'm not kidding. It's like, stand in a room full of people in Washington and say, I think JD Vance should be the vice president. Everyone who has a heart attack is exactly

who you don't want to babysit your kids. Like it's totally true. And in this specific case, I just, I watched, and since I spent my whole life in DC, I knew a lot of the people, or actually all of them, and they were all the people whose careers have really, and decisions have really wrecked our country. And I kept thinking like, on what grounds

do you have any authority to give advice to anybody for anything? It's like, literally, you pass a homeless guy and he's giving you real estate advice you talk to a bankrupt guy and he's giving you investment strategy and it's like you've discredited yourself it's a fat guy telling you how to get fit like what no when you have a track record of success i will listen to you but if you're i don't know fill in the in the blank, Lindsey Graham, are you joking? Everything that you have advocated for has hurt people and above all hurt the United States of America.

Why don't you sit the next 20 years out in ashes and sackcloth repenting? We're about to cross 175,000 streamers. So, hey Chris, is Chris here? Yeah, I'd say we're the biggest in the world, right? Always gotta be. Number one in the USA. Number one in the USA right now.

What about the world? I don't wanna just win America. I wanna win the USA. Number one in the USA right now. What about the world? What about the world? I don't wanna just win America. I wanna win the world. Number one stream in the USA. Wait, are you gonna tell viewers who is actually the floor director of this show? I'm nervous. Chris, come on.

Chris, wave hello. Come on, come on over. Hey, Chris, how come Pawplowski's never my producer? No, I was about to say, most people don't have- Say hi, come here. Just sit next to me for a minute here. Billionaire media moguls like- This is the CEO of Rumble. Chris, just say hello to me for a minute here media moguls like this

Hey chat, what's going on? 175,000 biggest stream in the US Holy fuck, I hope you don't mind me cursing The reason I am the way I am is because I didn't grow up like the conventional billionaire son. My dad stuck me on job sites. So I grew up with construction workers, so I talk like that. I want to thank you though, brother.

This is because of you creating Rumble and giving us an opportunity to not have to do this bullshit censorship stuff on YouTube. You know, they kicked me off for saying masks don't work. These motherfuckers. Can you believe that shit? And you think they'd apologize to me. No, that's how we know that masks don't work. If theyuckers. Can you believe that shit? And you'd think they'd apologize to me.

That's how we know that masks don't work. If they thought it may be true at the time, there's never accountability for just being wrong about everything. Thanks, guys. The four marshal for this thing, we appreciate it. Ladies and gentlemen, I am a man of my word. I told you only the best guests from the RNC. I was not going to waste your money. Jim, can we?

You sure? That's not true. No, there's definitely a midweek exception. Okay, there's not. All right, I don't want to waste any more time. U.S. Senate candidate from the great state of Arizona and a good friend, Carrie Lake. Welcome back to the show. You've been on many times.

How are you? I'm doing great. It's good to be in person with you on the show. I know. We're usually over the phone. You're a little bit away from me over there in Arizona. My wife just spent some time in Sedona. Absolutely fell in love with it.

I couldn't make it. I had to work on that specific trip. But how we need to go back to Sedona with her. I got married there. It's beautiful. It's just so much to see in Arizona. But your race, I want to get into a couple different things here with you. We have limited time with you.

How are you feeling about your race? I mean, I don't trust polling, but the polling is now trending significantly in your direction. No red wave talk on this show. It's absolutely forbidden. But given all the controversies in Arizona with the balloting. Honest take, how are you feeling about this thing? I feel good. We just got another poll. I don't know if we put it out or if it's been put out, but we're up a couple. That's good. We were down a little bit before. This is going to be a tight race because $250 million is going to be poured into the Arizona U.S. Senate race. It's a

lot of money and it's a lot of ads they're able to buy and lie and my opponent is is truly and we hear this a lot he's far right he's the most far right person running for and i'm sorry far left yeah okay i'm lacking sleep he's the most far left person running thank you for correcting me no no i believe me i do it although you're on the air four hours a day this happens all the time did i say believe me my audience is the most far left person running and i don't i'm i'm not just throwing that around. No, just listen to what he says. This is a guy who's voted with Joe Biden 100% of the time.

Not 95. He's voted with Joe Biden and Kamala Harris's agenda 100% of the time. That's more than even- Where does he think he's running though? California? That's more than the squad. Yeah, he's running in Arizona though. He's not running in California where that might fly.

He's in the House of Representatives. He's a congressman in Central central phoenix the fastest growing homeless population vets are living on the street dying on the street he's marched and defund the police rallies i mean that's disqualifying right there he wanted to get rid of the filibuster in the house of representatives get rid of the filibuster to pass the george floyd legislation which would have defunded the police nationwide while they run on democracy well they run on they want to pack the supreme but now of course as i've read his stuff he is that his positions are are absolutely insane now you're in an actual border state that has been just overwhelmed by this that the southern

border collapsed we don't have a border. I always say to people, we have a suggestion. Hey, stop. Well, what if I don't? Oh, well, he's going to fly you around the country. I've got to imagine. I'm not from Arizona. We're on there on the radio,

and I don't pretend to understand what you do. What I don't understand now is how there's a single Democrat left politically standing in the state of Arizona. I mean, you're literally looking at the border invasion problem right there. I'm in Florida. We don't share a border with Mexico. And how is it? I mean, what?

How are they trying to go centrist? Am I missing something? Well, I mean, I don't want to go in too deep into what all of our problems with our elections um but there's still problems and we're working to resolve those in the courts i'm still fighting in the courts and we're trying to make some changes because i think when you have elections run like a third world country these are the result these are the people you get into office but the democrats increasingly are on our side when you look at polling and i agree with agree with you, my polling is what the people are telling me on the ground, but I do look at polling as well.

The Democrats are fed up. I saw a poll number that the Democrats are for, and the majority of the Democrats are for, sending people back. I call it repatriating people back to their country. Hispanics are in favor of sending people back. One pollster asked, do you want to militarize the border? people back to their country. Hispanics are in favor of sending people back. Hispanic Democrats. One pollster asked, do you want to militarize the border? And the majority of people said,

yes, temporarily until we get this thing under control. So this is why my opponent Ruben Gallego is now trying to backpedal and act like he's Mr. Moderate when he is the most radical. He's the reason. He's Biden's favorite congressman. He's the reason he is he's he's biden's favorite congressman he's the reason we have an open border his plan for the border is keep it open and then no no let me say his plan for border is there is no border that's his plan but he said to me one time he said we just need to put more money into these communities they want to put money into the symptoms rather than solving the problem yeah it's not hard like don. Like Donald Trump, you're very friendly with Donald Trump. Just look at the numbers.

These are the amount of people that tried to cross Donald Trump. These are the amount of people who made it across under Joe Biden. The numbers are conclusive. Well, on Saturday, he was showing those charts when they tried to take him out. Because the numbers speak for themselves. And he said. Thank God he was showing those charts because he turned his head at the last second and he looked at it. Thank God.

But the lowest number of illegal crossers under President Trump, now the highest we've ever seen, 12 million people in. And, Dan, I've got kids. I've got a 19- and 21-year-old. They're being priced out of housing. You know, 12 million people coming in have to be put up somewhere. Our tax dollars are paying for it. They're taking jobs. They're depressing the wages of hardworking, everyday Americans.

This is affecting people who are middle class and struggling the hardest. And so we got to, economically, we got to turn it around. The border affects the economy and the economy is really killing people right now. So I know this is a Q&A question answer, but this is more of kind of a request and a favor. We've had Jim Jordan on, Speaker Johnson, Marjorie Taylor Greene. And you could potentially, knock on wood, be a very prominent, important United States senator from a swing state in a critical position. You could technically be the deciding vote. We may get 51. That could be you.

I'm going to be more optimistic. I want 55. Oh, I would love even more. But on my show, I always pretend like we're running 50 points behind. It's better because we got to overcome a lot of obstacles. But I need a favor from you. Obviously, I have some subject matter expertise. You don't.

You were in a specific space than I was in regards to this assassination attempt. Sources are feeding me a lot of information. Turns out that most of it has now come true. Days later, people reported, oh, breaking. It's not breaking. Our sources told us. But one of the things I'm really concerned about is a report came out today from a source of mine that the media is now picking up that there should have been some law enforcement post on that building and they didn't show up. We don't need to get into minutiae here. I'm asking you as a potential u.s senator can you please is that russell brand singing

can you please if you get into the united states senate make sure that these committees get a hold of the advanced security documents because they will tell the story about who's lying and who wasn't that's all i want we don't need any conspiracy theories the paperwork will tell want we don't need any conspiracy theories or the paperwork will tell Carrie that a guy was supposed to be there or not can you stay on that absolutely if there was wrongdoing not just not just a maladministration or somebody messed up especially if there was some um something worse than that yeah this is this is a serious problem oh my God my God. Like literally life or death. They almost took out our president. And we came so close. If not for God, if not for a miracle, he would be gone right now.

Oh, no question. And to think we're just going to, oh, we'll get through, you know. And the left's making fun of us for talking about divine intervention. They really think this appeals to sane, you know, independents middle class americans poking fun at us for saying what other explanation is there for three shots from that's an easy shot carrie an easy i've taken that shot with a handgun in secret service training that is an easy shot they're making fun of us speaker johnson was talking about it before they think this is hilarious look at these idiots with their god and all this other stuff. They really think this appeals to independence. Well, I feel sorry for them. I really do. I believe purely that it

was God. I've always thought God has had his hand on President Trump. And I believe that God spared him because we need him right now. And I'll I'll I'll I've never let the left shame me into. No, you've never been known to be timid um i've known you a long time and timid as you think last question i know you got to run um by the way i don't have expertise in the secret service like you do i recognize that you don't have the president speaking across from a building with the rooftop i mean it's unsecure yeah it's my wife said the same thing she's like you know dan i'm a web database developer. Shouldn't they have that covered? The answer is yes, of course.

I really want the president to be safe the next, I want him to be safe forever, but I'm really worried that this is not going to be the last attempt. This isn't even just about Donald Trump. Everyone. Can he do him inside? I don't want any more risk because we need him so badly and we need to protect him. And I felt that everybody behind him,

I was looking at the pictures of people, and I've been to so many rallies, they're the most uplifting, wonderful. You leave just feeling energized and ready to take on the world and solve the problems. Especially here, this RNC is insane. The energy is incredible. I feel that everybody there

would have jumped in front of a bullet for him. I would jump in front of a bullet for him. You saw that their first reaction was to flip off the shooter. Last question though for you. Voter integrity is a big deal with you and me, and should be for every American. Why it isn't is frankly bizarre. Are you comfortable if you get elected U.S. Senator from Arizona, we're talking to Kerry Lake, that the Republican agenda on the Senate side is going to prioritize voter integrity? I'm watching

my chat right now. These people are really, really furious about the voting systems in the united states and the lack i don't know that there's anybody more furious than me i've lived it save act save act is incredible i think president trump's right the you know we don't have the majority in the senate so it got stuck schumer's of course he's not going to push that we need to attach that to every spending bill force these people to care about our election integrity my opponent ruben gaigo voted to let non-citizens illegals oh yeah in this next election oh they love they can't win with their disastrous policies they know it they can't win unless they that's why we went from election day to election week to election month now election season they count for two weeks i heard someone say on stage the rnc the otherC just yesterday, I forget who it was,

early voting starts in a little over 60 days. And I'm thinking to myself, that is unbelievable. I mean, can we just have a national election day? Everybody gets the day off, show up with your ID. This isn't hard, man. I mean, none of this, we're the United States of America. You're telling me we can't do this? And the people want it.

Even the Democrats, again, get back to the polling that we've seen. Even Democrats believe that our elections are fraudulent. I mean, 81 million votes for Joe Biden? Come on. Yeah, I don't think any sound, sane person would do that. Just to answer that question, I vow to you and to your listeners and to the American people. I appreciate that. That that'll be a huge priority for me.

I want to see our elections get back, and for my own children. We don't want an unlevel playing field. I don't want it to where, okay, now we've got Republicans, and now the Republicans are going to get the advantage in our elections. The elections should be fair. That should never even come up.

Yeah. Absolutely. Carrie Lake, such an honor to talk to you again. Thank you so much. Thanks for coming on. Thanks for all that you do. Make sure you check her out, folks, online, on X. What's your website, by the way?

CarrieLake.com. K-A-R-I-L-A-K-E.com. You can go there and find out where I stand on the issues. If you can make a donation, great. We're living in a Biden economy. If you can't, I totally understand. I appreciate you saying that. You know what?

They appreciate that, too. Too many of these people come on here and they ask for money and they're not sensitive to that. That was very nice of you to say. What I do want is I want your prayers. If you live in Arizona, I want your vote. Amen. I want your prayers. Those mean the most to me and I do feel those. I feel that. Thanks, Carrie. We appreciate you coming out. Hope we'll be calling you Senator soon. Yes. I'll never call you Carrie again if you win, even if you ask me to. That would be great. All right. Thank you, man. Appreciate it. I hope you're really enjoying this show.

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So we love Rachel. But I'm going to ask you all this. I'll start with you, Tucker, and then I'll let you go. I really appreciate you doing this, by the way. You're a man of your word. My nephew's sitting right there. Everyone's at the Bongino studio. Is this your nephew here? That's my nephew, Charles Carlson, right there. Nice to meet you, brother.

The Swedes are good-looking people. Maybe not Don. So, obviously, the polls, you know, polls, whatever, Nice to meet you, brother. Handsome kid. The Swedes are good-looking people. Better looking than all of us. Maybe not Don. I don't know. So, obviously, the polls, you know, polls, whatever, but the polls are trending in a really bad direction for Biden. So I'll start with you, Tucker. There's been an October surprise every midterm in elections since 2016. Any idea about what it could be this time around?

I mean, it could be anything from Donald Trump's handing Ukraine to Trump because he's him and Don Jr. working on a real estate project. Like, really? I mean, any idea what that could be? I have no idea. All I know is, and I didn't know this until this morning, that actually it was Iran that tried to kill Trump the other day. Yeah, amazing.

It was Iran. Yeah, you looked around. Isn't it incredible, by the way, how that leaked? It was Iran. I think it was the Iranians. Isn't that how that leaked? Isn't it? How that leaked? You know, I have felt for many years that the real threat to me was Iran.

They're always calling me racist and flooding my country with illegal aliens. They're pumping fentanyl in. Yeah, what's the October surprise? Of course it's war, probably war with Iran. But I still don't think, and I'm totally opposed to that, actually, and I'm not pro-Iran,

but Iran is irrelevant to the country that I live in, which is collapsing in a lot of ways that have nothing to do with Iran. So don't tell me Iran is the biggest problem, okay? Or Putin is the biggest problem. That's not true. I live here. That's not true.

Those may be problems or whatever, you know, you can worry about that, but those are not the pressing problems. And anyone who tells you they are the pressing problems is a liar. A. B. I still don't think they can cheat Biden in because it's just so obviously false.

No one will ever believe in democracy again. Biden is non-compass menace. He appears to have Parkinson's or some neurological disorder, but that's obvious, it's not even debated anymore. And Trump just got shot in the face and stood up, like pushed off the secret service to stand with blood streaming out his face and said, fight. like pushed off the Secret Service to stand with blood streaming at his face and said fight that's the leader that's the comatose patient there's no way you

can do that it's not just in America but to the world not one person on the entire planet billions people believe that so I don't think they can do it yeah Rachel I actually want to give this over to Don because I actually have a question related to that and then I want to ask, if you don't mind, Tucker, something. You can do whatever you want. You're the great one. Don, what else can they do? I mean, that's my question. Impeachment didn't work. Then they tried, you know, taking his businesses away. Then they fined him half a billion dollars for paying back bank loans with interest on time. The banks want to do more business.

Yeah, the banks are literally, the bank is on the stand. They were witnesses for him. I'm like, no, we want to do more business with Trump. It was like, we got other business, we'd love to do more. They're like, no, no, no, you are a victim. I mean, everything's a victim. Then when that doesn't work, they try to throw him in jail. They've been trying to do that for quite some time. They tried to do the same to me because, you know, apparently I was an agent of Russia. Had no idea, but yeah, you are one.

We're Putin's stooges because we're willing to say that this is bullshit, which it is. It was the natural progression, right? I mean, like you said, we all got called conspiracy theorists, but like I wasn't at all surprised. And the rhetoric didn't stop. I don't know if you saw the clip yesterday when I went on. I went to the floor.

My brother and I are going over there. Yeah. OK, so like it wasn't like I'm there. We're there at a historic moment. Childhood separations on your dad. Yeah. Even though he goes, what about the Obama? I mean, the Obama case.

And this guy goes nuts. I'm like, he could either he was too stupid to actually know. Yes, possible. Yes. By the way, I'm so unimpressed with so many of these people. Don't attribute to malice when you can attribute to stupidity. But like, I was like, and I was like, but to our point of like where we are as a nation, I was like, oh my God, like they couldn't even wait 48 hours.

Like my dad was shot in the face. Like honestly, like if I wasn't sort of part of that movement, I was just a citizen and someone spoke to me like that in that period of time, that hostile, like it usually it would end up in a fist fight, right? Like that's where I'm not allowed to do that. But like- You would have won.

Oh yeah, listen, I'm not getting in fights. I'm not gonna win. That one would have been over very fast. And they would have sued me or whatever it was. And Alvin Brown would have torn you in half. Exactly. But like, oh my God. The narrative, the talking points,

because they have to at least pull back on calling my father a Nazi for like, you know, another 36 hours. They'll be back at it because they all, what do they get? They can't campaign on the economy. They're not going to campaign on jobs. I know Joe Biden's the greatest job

because he's going to let people go back to work. He was going to allow him to be a victim, as if he wanted to be shot on the economy. They're not going to campaign on jobs. I know Joe Biden's the greatest job president because he's going to let people go back to work. He was going to allow him to be a victim, as if he wanted to be shot in the face. Hey, bro, send that around. Hold on, I'm going to duck a little bit. Yeah, send it again. You missed me. I want to be a little. These people are insane.

But Tucker's right, Don, that no one's going to believe it if he doesn't win, if your dad doesn't win. And so then what do they do? I think that's a really fascinating question. I don't think they care. They're just happy to hold that power. Like I said, that's what I was saying earlier. There used to be a Democrat party that would at least, even if I disagree, they at least cared that people believed in democracy.

For them, democracy is like they're ha, ha, ha, ha, those stupid peasants, they believe in what we're saying. It's a soundbite for them it means nothing to them i mean they're they they call everyone everyone that they don't like is a fascist but they're the ones locking up their political opponents they're the ones you know fining them they're the ones censoring speech they're the ones working with the you know big tech industry to do the same dressed in all black beating people on the street no exactly i mean you know i know there's grandmothers that walked inside the velvet ropes on January 6th, like holding cell phones. They didn't even know they weren't even supposed to be there.

They did jail time. But if you burn down the city of Portland, it's like, well, that's different. That's for social justice. And the vice president can come out and bail you out and raise money for you. It's so insane. So I hope that people get it. But if you don't, can you ever win again? As they sort of continue to rig that system and just fill government with more bureaucrats that are going to get entrenched and just do the damage that they're doing. I don't know. I don't want to be dystopian about it.

Because I think, honestly, this week is about hope. Because I think people realize That we do have a chance, but we are not in a fair fight You know you got to beat the margin of fraud like I kind of say like to win by two you got to win by Six too big to rig Tucker. Do you think we can overcome the margin of fraud? I do I do I I don't I don't think Trump will lose I you know I I'm a terrible predictor of things I can do big trends, but fine motor skills are beyond my ability. But I think in this case, it's just impossible to believe it. And also, can I just be honest? For the last, you know, whatever it's been,

eight years, it's been kind of Trump alone against every power center in the world. And that's no longer true. That's changing really. Elon Musk, within 10 minutes of Trump being shot, endorsed Trump, richest man in the world, followed by your former guest who was sitting right here, David Sachs, Andreessen Horowitz, biggest venture capital firm in the world. They're like, we're going to send money. I mean, it's like all of a sudden it's okay

for people who have an awful lot to lose to be on Trump's side. It's hard to overstate how powerful that is. It's like all of a sudden the stigma of supporting Trump, the only reason they've gotten this far in persecuting Trump is because normal people are not allowed to object to it. Yeah, people have been made to be afraid. It's falling away.

It's totally falling away. People have been made to be afraid, right? There was a consequence to being a vocal Trump supporter. Once you had enough people stand up, it became easy for everyone else. And once you had that critical up, it became easy for everyone else. And once you had that critical mass, it became impossible for them to go after him. Exactly. And it's a correlate to when Trump gets shot in the face and stands up anyway, it gives everybody heart. It makes everybody courageous watching the leader be courageous.

When Elon Musk stands up, when David Sachs, who's a huge deal in the tech world, stands up, when Andreessen Horowitz, huge deal in the tech world, the biggest deal in the tech world, when they stand up, everyone else is like, you know what? I'm brave now, too. And I think that's how movements start. That's how things change. And I think it's too far along to stop it. It's not just people who are afraid of losing their job or putting a sign in front of their

house because, you know, they have a small business and they're afraid they'll be persecuted. Right after that moment happened, I got a text from a very nice lady in my church. And she said, I'm so upset. I'm so sad. I'm praying. And she said, I'm done being quiet. And there were a lot of people that just out of politeness, because that's how so many conservatives are. I'm not one of those people, but there's a lot of people like that. And I thought that was so, to me, that was one of the most interesting texts. I'm done being quiet. Amen.

And she's an older, very classy lady, and she just said, I'm done caring about what other people's feelings are. They don't give a damn about our feelings. And so that's where she's at right now. The TikToks I'm seeing, the Gen Z is actually where we're making the biggest ground. Because they realize they have no future. They'll never own a home. How old is Gen Z?

It's that, I guess, the 18 to 25. I never meet any liberals. I never meet any liberals in that. It's hard to believe, actually, because that's sort of true. They've been indoctrinated from childhood. They've been, you know, from kindergarten on,

their teachers are pushing them. They've been corrupted by that. They're pushed that way by Hollywood. They're pushed that way by... And yet, they're like... Well, Tinker, you might have been friendly with the NELC guys. They're not overly political at all, but they are definitely not what you'd take for 18-year-old liberals.

No, and I've got a lot of kids and a lot of nieces and nephews. I've got one sitting right there, and I... I mean, maybe the people who wind up at my house are like self-selected. Maybe they are. But no, but I'm serious. They're all kind of pretty normal from normal families. I never meet anybody who's like, you know, trans rights are the most important thing. I see like 22-year-old girls be like, the training thing is driving me crazy, actually.

It's too insulting to women. Or like they're just sort of sick of it. It doesn't mean they're right-wingers. It doesn't mean they're going to vote republican but they're absolutely sick of the pointless silliness of liberalism because it's it's zero sum it's a freaking cul-de-sac it doesn't go anywhere so i had another great guest lined up for you right now uh congressman jim jordan but russell brand over there stole my guest and he had to go to the bathroom. Russell, he fleeced him cold. Stole my guest.

Yeah, until Jim Jordan comes in. Yes, sit down. Russell Brand. Now, because Russell stole my guest, now you're going to be my guest on radio. So this is Russell Brand, one of the funniest guys you will ever meet, but a guy who really has been blowing up on Rumble because you've got a podcast there and you've been speaking some truth over there, Russell.

So you fleeced my guest, which was okay, because I love you. Thank you very much for forgiving me. Jim is currently in the bathroom where you and I met. Folks, he's literally in the bathroom where we did meet and he walked in and what did I say to you in the bathroom? You said, I appreciate you keeping that distance and you've got very good bathroom etiquette.

And you said, as long as you don't ask to look at my watch while we're in this position. That is exactly what happened. Russell understands your little courtesy better than anyone else. There's like 20 of these things lined up. He goes to the exact end, hugging the wall. I'm like, very good job, Russell. But I had you on my podcast earlier. Your show is blowing up. How can people find you on Rumble? Because I'm going to be on job, Russell. But I had you on my podcast earlier. Your show is blowing up.

How can people find you on Rumble? Because I'm going to be on your show later in the week. I'm really very much looking forward to speaking with you there. We're on central time at the moment. I'm on at 11. I'm at nine o'clock on Eastern time. What I really enjoy about being on Rumble is sharing an audience with you because you've developed something quite extraordinary here.

I think sort of still there are people that are un yet as yet unaware of the kind of phenomena that you have cultivated and you're reaching people in a way that is reminiscent i went on joe uh joe rogan's podcast maybe in the first 500 of them and i remember sort of the sense of ah media is migrating in this direction and i think that you are similarly capturing an audience for your own authenticity thank you my friend thank you so much now that my guest is back jim i've been filling in for you i don't know anything about hearing committees why don't you take fowl tree to task tell us about wrestling so we go only on the damn bongino show thank you russell you're the best do we go go from Russell Brand to my good friend?

That is great. I said, listen, you got to fill in. The poor guy has to run to the bathroom. What are we going to do? Congresswoman Jim Jordan. God bless you, sir.

Too much coffee, not enough food to the day and I haven't worked out yet. Oh, man. I worked out last night and I know what the hell they have.

Really nice, Jim. Thank you, my brother. So listen, a question for you. I mean, obviously, this was a really disgusting, gross moment in American history. We all wish we could forget. We almost lost our good friend and an ally to the Republican Party, our nominee, President Trump, this weekend.

I asked Marjorie Taylor Greene before she was on the show. You are a senior member of Congress right now, a very powerful man running powerful committees. Is this going to. This is serious. This isn't about a tax cut, which I get it is serious stuff, but this is literally life or death. I'm really hoping, Congressman, this doesn't degenerate into three-minute speeches about how great people were. We have to ask serious questions.

Are you confident that this is going to happen? No one wants filibustering during this hearing. Yeah, I hope so. I really do. And we had a briefing from a ranking member, Nadler, myself, and some of our staff had a briefing from some of the FBI yesterday. And look, I think there's a healthy skepticism. Is the FBI really going to investigate? I mean, I know you shared that, but there's some fundamental questions. And I got to tell you, thank you for, well, thank you for all the good work you do. But I watched your interview on Fox where you laid out things, concerns, because you're an expert in this area.

I'm not. But everything you said made just so much sense to me. The fundamental question I have is there's a finite number of buildings in that area that had to be secured. It's not a huge number. Is it two, three, four? It wasn't Times Square. No, It's not a huge number. Is it two, three, four? It wasn't Times Square. No, there's a relatively small number. And we know one of them that needed to be secured

was because we had the good snipers, the counter snipers, who actually took out the bad guy were on one of them. So was it three buildings? Was it two other buildings? Whatever that number is, the question is, why weren't they secured? That to me is sort of the fundamental question.

Then I want to hopefully at some point our committee gets to talk to the local officer who had this brief encounter with the bad guy. I'd love to talk to the Secret Service agent who took the shot and took out the bad guy. I mean, those are all questions and concerns and areas I think we need answers to. So let's hope the fbi does it but i'm a little concerned because this is the same fbi that still hasn't told us who planted the pipe bombs on january 6th same exactly same same same administration can't tell us who leaked the dobbs opinion same administration can't tell us who put cocaine at the white house well congressman it it's you know the cocaine at the white house thing we have it it's you know the cocaine at the white house

thing we have the text from the secret service on january 6th that mysteriously disappeared claiming there was a tech swap on january 6th i mean um listen i don't say things i can't back up it's irresponsible and uh frankly you wind up people lose faith in you but these are legitimate questions yeah what do you mean you don't have the text so i get it i have a skepticism in the fbi i honestly candidly hope they prove me wrong but really as a member of congress i hope congress yeah what do you mean you don't have the text so i get it i have a skepticism in the fbi i honestly candidly hope they prove me wrong but really as a member of congress i hope congress proves me wrong you're one of my friends you're one of the good guys but listen the republican party you know not everybody's intentions are pure we can't screw around with this the first question i want asked

again no filibustering this isn't the time for this partisan stuff. Go to my website. Donate. We're all going to vote. We get it. Why was Donald Trump on the stage? They saw this surreptitious, furtive acting guy 26 minutes before he walked on stage. Delay his speech five minutes. Find the guy. I mean, it's common sense, right?

It sure is. Total common sense. So, yeah, I think, why weren't they secured? I want to talk to both the bad guy, the cop who encountered the bad guy. I want to talk to that. And your question there. Once you saw that there was something that didn't make sense, get the president off the stage and go figure it out. So I think all that makes so much sense. And those are the kind of things that we're going to try to get.

We have Director Wray in next week. I don't know how much he'll know by that point, but I told him on the call. I told the individuals on the call yesterday from the FBI. We had the deputy director. I said, you know, Director Wray needs to be able to answer as many questions as he possibly can in front of our committee next week. I mean, Congressman, we're talking to Congressman Jim jordan people are losing faith in institutions left and right yeah the leadership of our military not you know not the front line guys putting their lives on the line but the leadership of our military you know our fbi our secret service now and the the

republic it's a system of kind of trust and confidence which is ironically the secret services motto worthy of trust and confidence once that collapses anarchy soon to follow so when you when people ask simple questions like like this so i have a a first degree contact not a second one i'm someone who is right there yeah who has told me repeatedly they've asked the secret service for an enhanced security footprint around president trump i know who it is. That person needs to speak up. They were rebuffed. So Alejandro Mayorkas is lying. He is 100% lying.

But what I find more disturbing is he came out. I played the cut before in the show and said, we're not lying. We gave them everything they wanted. I would almost rather you be lying because you're telling me you gave them everything they wanted and you still almost got him killed. Yeah, there was no. It still happened last Saturday. Yeah, good point. I would almost rather you be lying because you're telling me you gave them everything they wanted and you still almost got them killed. Yeah, there was no. This still happened last Saturday. Yeah, good point.

Well, I don't know that many people have a whole lot of faith in things. Secretary Mayorkas says he's the same guy told us the border was secure. But yet, to your point, this is serious, serious business and if those guys who jumped on the stage and protected the president uh when it happened if they're saying hey we need more and it wasn't given to them and you have an eyewitness who says it wasn't that is that is wrong that is just i think what my orcas is doing one thing about my orcas devious a malicious guy i don't trust him as far as i can throw him but he's very good at wordsmithing christopher ray does the same thing it seems like they all are what they they that's their thing they're politicians they're not necessarily acting in that role and what he's

going to do is he's going to play with the timeline he's going to say well they weren't asked about this specific event on this date but there's been constant requests from people close to president trump for more security now here's i i again an issue i i asked marjorie about you'd have probably even better insight on we have a bloated fat grotesque overspending government that spends six trillion dollars a year while taking in four are we seriously going to say to the world right now because my orcas in the secret said, this is the best we had. We gave them the best technology. Really? I found a drone on Amazon for $39.99.

We can't put a drone out there to see this guy on the roof. We have a $6 trillion budget. No kidding. Now, none of this makes sense. this makes sense um you know like the fact that the video i've seen where they're they're supporters there of the you know attendees at the rally who are saying there's the guy there i saw a report today where it says it was almost i think about 90 seconds later before the first before the first shot was taken um what happened in those 90 seconds we need a a tiktok of that what happened there so yeah i don We need a TikTok of that.

What happened there? So, yeah, I don't get it, particularly when you're thinking about someone like President Trump, where so well-known, former president, leading in all the polls. It's like, really? And his team asked for more people and you didn't provide him? I don't understand. You're going to have to subpoena everyone.

Congressman, I want to get, obviously, your take on J.D. Vance and the same thing. We'll close it out on this. You know, a lot of my listeners, they speak to me. I relay a lot of that information. You guys have constituents. If they have concerns, I'm going to tell you what they are. That's your job. And it's my job as a radio host and a conservative to listen to them. They're really tired

of the shenanigans, and I think we can all agree this isn't one of those moments. Again, this isn't about a tax cut. It's not about a school choice bill. Those are great and important things I've dedicated my life to. If this is allowed to continue, we will lose the president or soon to be president or the president now. We don't want any of this political violence. Please, in this hearing, keep these guys.

Coordinate the questions, no filibustering, no campaign website. Yeah, we tried it. We actually tried to do that. We're one committee, and look, we have good members in our committee. We try to sequence how they do it. We try to say, where are you going to go? Tell a story. Set it up, question

by question. Sequence of events, multiple failures why is there a different pt test for men and women the job's the same president trump weighs a certain amount and he's this height why are there different pts can you just explain it to me right no when the women are on duty he gets lighter oh he does how does that work i don't understand you know you can have different pt standards for an engineer who does a different job on an assembly line. It's literally the same job. It's just not a, this isn't a male female thing.

If there's a female who can meet the PT standards, fantastic. But why are you and I at 50 plus in the gym working out? I'm not into secret service no more. You're telling me you can't get fit people around the president? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You sort of saw some of that when they swarmed the president.

I think there's going to be lots of questions for Director Wray. And then Chairman Comer's got the secretary herself, or Director Cheadle coming in as well. He's working on that in the oversight committee. That'll be an important hearing as well. Yeah, she should resign, in my opinion, immediately. J.D. Vance, I think it was a great pick. I agree. You know that state kind of well. I heard a rumor. You may be from there, right? And

I think he's a great pick. I think the golden rule of VP picks, I'd love to get your take on this, is first, do no harm. J.D. does very little harm. I mean, the Democrats will pick some nonsense out, but he brings a lot of positives. Young, energetic, a bulldog, but contrasting styles with President Trump and speaks the language of the working class man. I mean, wrote to be our next, the next vice president of the greatest country in history. That happens in America. That's the American story. And, you know, there's also this just a simple, simple old line that, you know, it never hurts to have smart people in charge, right? Right. President Trump is, well, you've been around him.

He is one sharp guy. Oh, yeah. One sharp guy. He'll surprise you with stuff. He is one sharp guy. A memory that's unbelievable. J.D. V vance he is a smart guy i mean watch him on watch him on meet the press a week and a half ago uh the sunday uh quick on his feet oh my goodness never gets caught so good so good he does his homework and in a matter of fact way just just presents the argument that

is so compelling um no he's a great pick uh we had that pick yesterday afternoon then you saw president trump walk out last night at 10 o'clock the energy in the arena after what president trump had been through on saturday um just just amazing i tell everyone all the time congressman political campaigns are snapshots and sound bites that's it no one's reading the white papers yeah And that picture of him with his fist raised is going to go down in American history as one of the most iconic photos you've ever seen. What he did is American.

Americans, I say this all the time when I'm talking about the president. I said, President Trump hates to lose. And that is a good quality. That is an American quality. Americans aren't wimpy, sissy losers. Americans are Americans. And he displayed that, that winning attitude that has characterized this country for 200 plus years.

He did it in those few seconds with his fist pumping, saying the word fight. It was phenomenal. You're a fighter too. You know what I can tell? You got those cauliflower ears. Folks, you ever see those? Run. I don't care what they do to you.

I said it to your son. If that guy throws ice at you in a bar, walk up and thank him if he's got cauliflower ears. Buy him a beer, but run away as soon as you can. Congressman, I gotta run. Congressman Jim Jordan. I always enjoy it. God bless you, sir. Thank you, Dave. Thanks for coming on.