The Dan Bongino Show - The Astronauts Are Finally Coming Home? (Ep.04)

Episode Date: March 13, 2025

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Hello everyone. Welcome to episode three of nightly scroll. I'm Haley Karenia. I'm very excited for the show tonight because it's a little different than what we've been doing. I'm so appreciative of all of you in the chat. I want to remind you to please subscribe on Spotify and Apple podcasts, whatever your preferred podcast platform is. Of course, follow the Bonjina report channel right here on rumble rumble.com slash Haley will bring you right here. So I appreciate all of you in the chat. We'll be chatting with you throughout the show, of course,

but I'm very excited tonight because I am joined by my first in studio guests. Everyone welcome to Vince Colonneze. Vince Colonneze is going to be here. He's going to be hosting the Vince show on Rumble. He's also going to be filling in a very important and beloved time slot that all of you love so much. So all that and so much more on Nightly Scroll. Hello, Vince.

Hello. I'm so excited that you're here. You're here in the great state of Florida. I love it. The free state of Florida. Yes, the free state of Florida. Didn't they change the signs after DeSantis took over? When you enter the state. It is the free state of Florida. Yes.

I, you know, I lived in New York City for a really long time and I was living there during COVID. And I would take trips down to Miami just to experience the land of the free again, because we were under lockdown. I was unvaccinated. I couldn't go to restaurants. I couldn't go to bars. I was, it was really killing my, my social life.

So I had to come down to the free state of Florida. Yeah. It's a good thing you did. And like, I love Florida for a bunch of reasons. One, of course, the weather, especially this time of year, they're, they have no income tax, which everybody loves being in Florida for no income tax or they're good with guns. They've got it all down here. So anyway, yeah, I'm super pumped to be here.

Yes, and what about, you know, you have a big time slot to fill. It's funny, I've gotten a lot of messages saying, Haley, you have big shoes to fill. And I said, nope, that's not me, that's Vince actually. And I, and to that, I respond, I have big t-shirts to fill actually. Yes. Dan Bongino.

No, it's great. And by the way, I love this chat feature. And I'm telling you, I'm going to be all over the chat. Hello there. Ka Osborne, welcome Vincent. Thank you. Apex Fort, welcome Vince. Thank you.

I saw somebody already point out that your following should be called Haley's Heroes. OK, I like that too. I kind of like, do you have something already? Well, people have been saying the Carania Company. They've been throwing around some other things People in the chat. I think they came up with scrollers. It's up for debate still I love so whatever you guys think but let us know in the chat

We don't have to come up with something right away. No, no, not at all. The show is a week old We can come up with something slowly and just have it be natural You know what you want people come up with their own nicknames? It's like, you can't do that. It has to come naturally. So we'll let it come naturally. That's a big thing with pilots, apparently. They can't come up with their call sign.

Like, everybody else in their squadron has to come up with it. Yes. That makes sense. So we'll do that. We'll do that. We'll come up with a good call sign for you. OK, good. So I'm excited.

So you're from DC, and your show is going to be in DC. So it's very interesting. You're not a swamp creature, everyone. Don't worry. He's not a swamp creature. But you're going to give us access to DC in ways that we haven't seen before, which is going to be really, really cool.

So just to give people a sense of me, because obviously there's going to be some people who already know me, perhaps, from Dan's radio show. I've filled in a bunch of times as a guest host for him. Maybe you know me from The Daily Call, or maybe you know me from I've done years of Fox News and Special Report and Tucker Carlson Tonight and Fox News Sunday. I've done all of those things.

But you know, it's a big world and not everybody consumes everything. So just the quick primer is, I grew up in a Marine Corps family. My dad's a retired Marine general. We moved all over the country, got to see all these different great areas of our country. And then eventually I found my way into Washington, DC.

I was at the Heritage Foundation for a little bit. And very quickly I started working with and for Tucker Carlson and Neil Patel at the Daily Caller. I've been there for the last 15 years. It is an oasis of sanity in a city of nonsense. And it's the kind of place where, I don't even think we have an HR department. It's just a wild, fun place.

And again, I've been there for 15 years and I've worked with basically everyone in conservative media. A lot of people have come up and through the Daily Caller and got their kind of got their sea legs on how to do reporting and like break into what is the government actually doing? So I'm still doing that now.

And so I've been at the Daily Caller, I've been hosting a radio show on WMA all in Washington DC for the last eight years. I did morning drive and then I did afternoon drive and now I get the great opportunity to be here in 12 to three. So we've got, starting next week, it's gonna be so fun. I've got the 10 o'clock podcast, we've got Vince is what we call it.

We call it just Vince. 10 o'clock. I like it, Nice and simple. I love it too. It's powerful too. Vince. Also it's good for Google. Like nobody knows how to spell my last name. That's fine. I respect that. We were joking too about our all of our Italian last names. I'm Karenia. Everyone says Coronia, Corona. Um, it's just, I answer to everything, but it is Karenia and it's, it's another, uh, complicated Italian last name it is Carania. And it's another complicated Italian last name. We love it. And also an excellent way to filter out telemarketers. Right.

Like you know instantly if you even know this person when you answer the phone. It's like this person doesn't know me. No, not at all. And so 10 o'clock Monday, and we're just gonna go, we're gonna go really big really quickly. We have Tucker Carlson joining us in studio, right here in this room.

He's gonna be right in here and we're going to talk to him and we're going the distance. I'll just break some news here for you now. The plan is that we're not going to have just one day of Tucker. We are probably going to have a part two. Okay. Because Tucker said, well I just want to spend a lot of time. I'm like, all right, let's spend a lot of time. Let's do it. Yeah. We may actually get two big episodes out of Chuck or Carlson And then here's the exclusive for your show today, which we haven't announced. Thank you My first my first breaking news exclusive and my first in studio guests So the question is do I save this in order to mount up the concurrent live viewership of this program until later? Or do I say it right now?

So send your friends sent chat send it to your friends, sent chat, send it to your friends and say there's going to be big, big breaking news. Let me so you tell it. So yeah, chat, tell me, do you want to know right now or do you want to bring in a whole bunch of other people and we can tell you later in the show? More, more, more. All right, so just say it.

I'll get back to that in a moment. And then, of course, the other piece is that the 12 to 3 radio show. Yes. Which is monumental. This is piece is the 12 to 3 radio show. Yes. Which is monumental. This is the place Rush built. Rush built this time slot, Rush Limbaugh. I grew up listening to the guy, loved the guy,

adored his presentation and what he meant for the country, sort of distilling down the news to an understandable thing for all of us. And Dan just really rose to the occasion. What a challenging job for anybody of us. And Dan just really rose to the occasion. What a challenging job for anybody. You're going to take up the Rush's time slot. You're going to sit behind that microphone and you could hear it in all of Dan's presentations. He always said, oh man, he paid utter respect to Rush. Amazing. And so I am, like Dan, just so thrilled to be

able to step into that. So we'll do that starting Monday nationwide. We're going to have a big show. That's going to be really, really exciting. I can't wait to listen. And you're in DC. Well, you're going to be here next week. But your show will be in DC, which I think is really exciting, because you're going to have access to a lot of people coming in and out

of the studio, I'm assuming. So that'll be great. I wanted to ask you first about BLM Plaza because I covered this on my show, BLM Plaza, Black Lives Matter, and big yellow writing outside of the White House. And I was saying, why are they taking jackhammers to it? Isn't it just paint?

But can you explain to me why they need to jackhammer it? I love it. I love the optics of it being jackhammered. So this story has driven me crazy. And yes, by the way, I see you. You're all saying now. You want to know now, now, now, now, now. So how about this?

We'll do the Black Lives Matter Plaza story, and then I'm going to tell you who the big guest is next week. OK. So Black Lives Matter Plaza. Look, back in late May and then early June of 2020, that's when the chaos took place. The George Floyd riots were running wild across the country.

And in Washington, DC, our nation's capital experienced the same awful violent thing. Rioters were smashing street windows and hurting people. In fact, when Black Lives Matter Plaza was set up, at that time, the city was boarded up. All of the shops, all of the first floor stores and locations that are on all those buildings near the White House, they had to be boarded up because of the violence.

And so what happened was, normally the way that that street is composed, you could drive straight down it, and you're driving, and as you drive, if you're there with your family, you're visiting, you're looking at the White House. You're looking at the White House. Oh, that's a great picture. That's a great picture. That's a great image that shows you what...

Gotcha. So... Right there, it's a pedestrian walkway now because of what they did. Okay. But it used to be that you could literally just... Drive down the street. Hey, bring the kids, drive down the street, and there you are. You're staring at the White House all lit up at night.

Wow. Beautiful, gorgeous. It's one of the most impressive approaches in the whole country. And because of the rioters, DC Mayor Muriel Bowser decided that she would steal taxpayer dollars. I consider it theft, because this is disgusting what they did with it. And then pay a ransom payment to the rioters

by painting Black Lives Matter Plaza all over the street and then making it pedestrian only. So you could no longer drive your car there, because God forbid that your car tires go over there. And that is a heavily trafficked area. Very. So now there's traffic because of it too. Great. It's right there by Lafayette Square, of course. And so right in front of the White House. So it's just it really is awful.

And one of the many reasons it's awful is because it was performative nonsense that didn't save a single life. Writing Black Lives Matter on the street in D.C. How many lives did that save? reasons it's awful is because it was performative nonsense that didn't save a single life. Writing Black Lives Matter on the street in D.C., how many lives did that save? Oh, it turns out, none. In fact, from the year of 2020, it was something like 30% more black homicides that year as lefties pulled back on policing all across the country, leaving communities more vulnerable to death and destruction. So it didn't help any black lives, that's for sure. It didn't help any lives.

And the organization whose name it represents was stealing everybody's money. Totally corrupt. Yeah, they're stealing everybody's money. Lining their own pockets, they've got massive mansions in California and- In Canada. Oh, okay.

It was a huge grift. And so they were stealing all the money and more black people died. And then DC mayor Muriel Bowser stole money from the taxpayers in order to paint it on the ground. Anyway, it is very long overdue for it to be destroyed. So my- Liberty Plaza it's gonna be called now?

I think so. Yeah. Look. That has a nice ring to it. It does have a nice ring to it. It's a huge improvement, but here's the small, if I can say I played a role, at least a small one, I would browbeat every Republican congressman

who would come on my show and say, don't you think it's time to take over DC again? Why is, because by the way, the Congress isn't trusted with running DC, but they came up with something called a home rule where they allow a DC city council to run the affairs. It's insane, they haven't been doing it well, crime's been out of control,

the city hasn't been properly run. Let Congress take it back over. But every time they would come on, I would say, you're gonna get rid of BLM Plaza? When's that gonna happen? When's that gonna happen? And sure enough, Congressman Andrew Clyde of Georgia and God bless President Trump for stepping up and saying, DC, you're gonna lose money unless you get rid of this. And now they're getting rid of it. Well, the art of the deal president, right? He's making deals, and we love to see it. The Black Lives Matter stuff, it's interesting because I feel like what's

happening to these Tesla stations and these violent protests that we're seeing at Tesla dealerships. This is the left's way of protesting Elon Musk. But of course, the media is just calling it very peaceful protests, although it is not. So it's very similar to what we saw during Black Lives Matter.

You're fired up about this. I am, I'm very fired up about it. I'm also very concerned about the chat because I'm worried that I haven't delivered yet. Let's tease that first. I haven't delivered yet on this exclusive. Here's the exclusive for the nightly scroll. Next week, we will also be be joining in addition to Tucker Carlson

by Donald Trump Jr. in studio right here on Rumble. I can't wait. I'll be there. It's going to be good. I think he's pumped. I think he's excited. I guess we'll find out when he gets here. What's not to be pumped about? We're in this brand new, beautiful studio. We've got a brand new show. I've got a brand new show. There's a lot of new stuff going on. It's very, very exciting. But Don Jr. will be incredible.

It's going to be a blast. And I want to figure out, I want to get his impressions of what has changed for his father. What does he see in his dad? What changed from 45 to 47? What is it like to live in a world where your dad was shot? And then what is life like after that? So there's a lot to talk about. I can't wait to do it. The perspective certainly changes and I'm interested too because I feel like everyone's talking about this vibe shift, right? There's this absolute cultural shift where people are proud to be

conservative again. It's cool to be conservative again, and what is it like in DC? Does the air smell a little different? Or do people have a pep in their step? What's going on? Well, oh, definitely conservatives are totally unashamed, which is what I love. You see a lot more MAGA hats everywhere. I've got a good friend, my producer from my afternoon show,

he flies the biggest Trump flag you can possibly fly on the back of his pontoon boat on the Potomac. Love it. And then he'll drive right up to the shore alongside Georgetown and the wharf and all these densely liberal areas. He'll blast Lee Greenwood. He'll blast President Trump and the January 6th choir. I love it.

Oh my gosh, you should see the reactions. It's like middle fingers in the air or cheering. And usually it's a mix and pull. Usually, yeah. That's funny. But you know, you asked about Elon. Yeah. And I mentioned, you know, Trump was shot. I tell you what, say your prayers for Elon Musk, because Elon's even said it already.

He's like, he can't even believe the number of death threats he's getting now. Wow. And you're watching all these attacks on Tesla dealerships across the country. Poor families just driving Tesla vehicles. They're not a dealership or nothing. It's just Americans driving a car, being hectered and harassed and chased down the streets, vandalism, gunshots, drive-by shootings of Tesla dealerships,

burning of Tesla charging stations. This is meant to obviously hurt Elon's business, but also to scare the living hell out of Americans. Totally an intimidation tactic. I mean, this is, if you're driving a Tesla and you don't have one of those dumb stickers on the back that all these lefties are putting on now that say, bought this before Elon went crazy.

And my audience, if you've been watching this past week, I showed a funny video of that, it was a spoof video, but these stickers exist. I mean, lefties are putting this on their Teslas, like, you know I bought this because it was you know, a great electric vehicle not because I support Trump or not because I support Elon and it's just very It's sad. They're so pathetic. Even their bumper stickers involved throat clearing. Oh, what I didn't do it wasn't me. Okay, shut up

But but here's the thing about what's going on with Elon. I find it, I'm the most fascinated by the money and the organization that's involved in going after him. This is not spontaneous. This isn't like random people doing this. Maybe a couple who are like, you know, getting caught up in the heat of the moment after seeing what's happening nationwide. But you're watching a nationwide effort to smear him

and to scare the hell out of Americans through what are obviously acts of domestic terrorism. And so, Elon has indicated already that his research and his investigating has concluded that it's ActBlue. This is the money engine of the left. And it's the biggest donors of ActBlue that he says are to blame. The guys like George Soros,

who really his son is running his empire now. And it's the biggest donors of Act Blue that he says are to blame. The guys like George Soros, who, you know, really his son is running his empire now. You're looking at Reid Hoffman, the LinkedIn co-founder. Reid Hoffman's an interesting one because back during the campaign, Elon was saying that Reid Hoffman does not want Trump to become president for a very personal reason.

And Elon said it's because he believes that Jeffrey Epstein's client list might implicate or does implicate Reid Hoffman. This is what Elon says. Interesting. And so he wanted to stop Trump, and Elon's telling, not for purely political reasons, although that probably played a role,

but for purely selfish reasons to insulate himself from the Epstein list from coming out. So I find all this very fascinating. And and remember, Reed Hoffman, this is a guy who was funding the E. Gene Carroll suit against Donald Trump. He was funding the legal attacks on President Trump to stop him from getting in the office. That's where he was spending his money. So my eyes are very much fixated on who's funding all of this,

who's organizing it, and who's trying to wreck the country. Yeah, I mean, they did it during Black Lives Matter too. I mean, there were pallets of bricks that were just dropped off on sides of the street. And it was right by the Gucci. And then all of a sudden, all these protesters would just loot the Gucci and then go grab their sneakers or their bag or whatever.

You know, all in the name of social justice, of course, all because, you know, their Lord and Savior George Floyd died. So, you know, but it is interesting to your point of how this is being funded and who's funding it and who's behind it because they're sowing chaos in this country. So, Act Blue, have you seen the headlines? They're like falling apart right now. So, the New York Times just ran a piece like a week ago that all of ActBlue's executives are quitting. They're jumping ship.

And only one lawyer is left at ActBlue. And he sent out a message to the remaining staff reminding them of whistleblower protections. There is scandal going on inside the biggest money engine of the American left. So if you see more provocative stories on that subject, don't be surprised, because they're coming. Yeah, so this Epstein list, when do you think it's coming out?

Is it ever coming out? Because it's been teased, and now people are just kind of, it feels like the boy who cried wolf a little bit. I know. I know. OK, so here's a basic point that I think of with everything, whether it's the JFK assassination, RFK, MLK, the Epstein list. If you believe that the government is involved in covering up the

details, what kind of cover-up doesn't destroy the documents? Why would you have a cover-up and you're like, but we'll still retain the documents in a safe somewhere? Presumably most of these cover-ups will involve destroying the documentary evidence. That's one. That's just my common sense kind of assessment of it. Two, clearly there are secrets being kept and that whole Pam Bondy's sort of like, I'm going to release all of this stuff and now I have a whistleblower who's telling me it's being kept from me and the FBI field office in New York has been hiding thousands

of pages of documents and then they did fire the head of the FBI field office. Right. They got him out of there. My question, though, is why tease the release of the documents before checking that the documents were documents that were already released previously? They were just heavily redacted versions of the documents that were released previously. It just seemed like there was a lot of muddled information.

I just think they got over their skis. They just got overly excited without doing the due diligence of looking at the documents to make sure it was worth starting the hype train. Don't start a hype train if there's nothing to hype. And so hopefully they learned a lot of lessons from that. Look, you're gonna, okay, let's sit back for a second and think, okay, who could we possibly want

to run the FBI in this environment? Well, the answer to that is like guys who've been proven to tell the truth a whole lot and have a really good sense of the abuses in that agency. And let me see, Cash Patel and Dan Bongino. Well, it's so funny that you said that because when this was announced that it was Cash Patel and then Dan Bongino,

my first thought was our FBI is going to be run by two guys who wrote books, Cash Patel wrote a book, Government Gangsters, and Dan wrote many books, but one book called Follow the Money. I'm like, yeah, this is exactly who I want in charge, right? This is what I voted for, and this is who I want running these agencies. And the upside is like, if they discover

that there's not, you know, the documents don't exist or whatever, if Dan says that in public, whatever he says, I'm going to believe him. Like, there's all sorts of people who are in the system who I'm like, what are your motives? But look, Dan has been at, everyone here knows in this chat, Dan is, somebody says, Bongino equals integrity. Yeah.

Yeah. And that's exactly right. So I'm happy about that because whatever the answers are, at least we'll have people in place we can trust when they give them to us. Absolutely. Well, I know you've got to head out of here soon. So I don't want you to leave before plugging your show, plugging all of your socials. What can people expect from you and, and where they can find you?

Okay. So you can find me on Monday right here. If you're looking for where to find the show, there were some of that today, just follow Dan Bongino's podcast because on Monday, I'm talking to you from there. I think by then it'll definitely be rumble.com slash Vince. But in the meantime, obviously be subscribed to the Bongino podcast. I'm sure everybody here is. And then follow me on social media. Let's get those numbers way up because I wanna bring a lot more people into this environment.

I just wanna grow this amazing Bongino army, this amazing American army that cares about the truth. And I'm like completely thrilled to not only do this in a place that Dan Bongino has built and done so well at, but also to do with you Haley and Evita. I'm so psyched and we're going to have lots of opportunities to talk. The Bongino Army is definitely set up with the Dream Team. We won't let you down. So thank you so much for being here. I'm so excited. This is so great. We're fast friends. We met yesterday and this is awesome. So we're very excited to have you on board.

Haley, thank you. Yeah, of course. to have you on board. Haley, thank you. Yeah, of course. And thank you to the chat. Yes, thank you, chat. Throw some love for Vince in the chat. I want to see Vince, Vince, Vince. I want to see. I'm watching the Vince show.

I love Vince. It's going to be very, very exciting. So thank you so much. And don't worry, everyone. I still have plenty of show left for you tonight. So don't go anywhere. More Nightly Scroll. don't go anywhere. More nightly scroll. Don't go anywhere.

All right. I still have a lot to get to tonight. First, I want to debunk a narrative that I have been seeing go viral on social media. Okay? So, um, Corrine Jean-Pierre, the former press secretary under Biden, she joined The View last week and said this. It's coming. Press secretary, you were also an assistant to the president. So that meant you were able to interact with the campaign off time. Actually I could not interact.

I had a special kind of role as the press secretary. I did not interact with the press secretary. So you had no insight into the polling that showed he would have lost everything. I did not. That's to the sales. It does matter though. Okay. All right. Did you guys see that clip?

Did you see Corrine Jean-Pierre on the view? I'm sure none of you really watched the view, but maybe you saw clips of it. This has been going massively viral. And even as recently as yesterday and this morning, I was seeing a lot of right wing people on Twitter and on X. They were kind of parroting this, saying, you know, Corrine Jean-Pierre, she didn't have access to Biden.

She didn't get to talk to Biden. They would just hand her talking points and things like that. I want to make this very clear, because when something starts going viral, I kind of want to be like a live fact checker here, because this is something that I experienced. There is a difference between a campaign, and there is a difference between the White House,

right? So it's a unique experience, because we had President Biden in the White House. So he had Kareem Jean-Pierre, who is his White House press secretary. Kareem Jean-Pierre was his mouthpiece for the president, for the presidency. Separate from Corrine Jean-Pierre,

he had a campaign because he was running for re-election at the same time as he was president, right? So he's going to have a completely separate communication staff for the campaign. This is true for everyone. This is true for Trump. This is true for everyone on Capitol Hill. So Dan has explained a little bit of my background

to all of you, but if you're new here, I worked at Fox News for years. I worked at Newsmax for years. And I met Dan because I was a booker on Hannity for a while. So that's how we became friends. But whenever there was a congressman, I would try to book the congressman on the show. And the congressman would the show and the congressman

would say, hey, if you want me to talk about such and such, you're going to have to go through my campaign staff. There was always two separate staffs. So if they were running for reelection or they were running for something, they had one staff and then their main congressional staff. So I just want to make sure that people understand that when KJP said I didn't have any access to the campaign, she wasn't saying that she didn't have access to the president. And you can say whatever you want about KJP. I don't think that she was a very good press secretary at all, especially coming from, you know, the Kayleigh McEnany's of the world and of course being sandwiched, you know, KJP between Kayleigh McEnany and

Caroline Levitt, it is certainly a jump scare and a shock, right? Because we're seeing a great press secretary, a not so great press secretary, and now an even, you know, another great press secretary. So I just, when I see a narrative keep going and going viral and it's wrong, I just want to make sure that at least we're telling the facts here. So I just wanted to talk about that. But another story that I talked to you about yesterday, the total Democrat freakout over Congressman McBride being misgendered. Although he wasn't being misgendered, Congressman Keith Self of Texas was correctly gendering him because he's a man. Right.

So we saw Congressman Keith Self double down on the facts, calling him Mr. in a hearing because that's what he is. Um, and now here's representative McBride calling conservatives and Republicans, the weird ones. Watch this. The Republican Party is obsessed with culture war issues. It is weird and it is bizarre. And the American people deserve serious legislators, serious elected officials who are focused

on bringing people together to deliver real results for the American people, not to play games and not to engage in schoolyard taunts. Listen, first of all, I'm gonna start with a mean comment here. I know that that's a man because that outfit is horrible. Now to the serious stuff, these culture war issues matter because if you don't know what a woman is, then you don't have the basis for anything. How can we trust members of Congress or members of the Supreme Court to know anything or to, if you don't understand what

a woman is, then you're never going to fight for them. And we've been seeing this over and over again, especially during the Biden administration, them making concessions when it comes to Title IX and allowing men in the bathrooms and in the locker rooms and spaces of women, it's sick. And, you know, McBride says that conservatives are obsessed with this. I am obsessed with keeping women safe. Thank you.

I am obsessed with it. And I'm going to keep calling it out because if, you know, we don't, then who is? And certainly we're going to see calling it out because if we don't, then who is? And certainly, we're going to see this get better under President Trump. He's pulling federal funding from states that allow men and women's sports and what have you.

So thankfully, it's on the up and up. But I just find it interesting that McBride is calling us the weird ones. We're weird? We are weird for wanting bathrooms and locker rooms to be safe for women. If that's weird, then I will wear that badge proudly. You can call me weird if weird is normal. If weird is the new normal, then I'm fine with it. And they tried to call JD Vance weird on the campaign trail. Do you remember that?

It was like JD Vance is weird. I mean, that was like the media strategy. That was the Democrat strategy. You know, they were trying to paint JD Vance as weird and, you know, over his cat lady, you know, comments from years prior. That didn't work down, did it? Because the average American knows that JD Vance is not weird.

There are a lot of men just like JD Vance, family men, patriots, who see JD Vance and know that he's not weird. And they know that the culture issues that conservatives are fighting for are not weird. They are worth fighting for. So calling Republicans weird when we're the ones trying to make America normal again is certainly classic.

But two Americans who are living a far from normal reality are the astronauts, Butch Wilmore and Sonny Williams. They were supposed to go to the International Space Station for just an eight day trip and unfortunately they've been there for nine months. They went up there in June, and they have been there for nine months, still up there. And there have been multiple, multiple attempts to bring them home. Here's a recent headline, NASA and SpaceX delay flight that was to retrieve stuck astronauts. There was a hydraulic issue.

Let me see here. I know I have the exact issue that they had. You know, they went up there in a Boeing Starliner and that malfunctioned. So they couldn't take it home. They couldn't take the Starliner home. So they've been up there, like I said, for nine months. And a lot of these missions are six months at a time, so they have to wait for a new crew to come and retrieve them and replace them.

So it's been, you know, a long issue. And Trump has even said, you know, we love you, we're coming to get you, trying to, you know, quell some fears that, you know, we are working on this. Um, but you know, there is some politics here. There's a question. Did Biden strand them up there? Because Elon Musk is saying, I could have had them back down here, you know, send my, send my crafts. Um, and that's what we're seeing now. You know, Trump is in office and we're, we're hopefully making moves to have these, these astronauts come home.

So you know, last night they were supposed to take off. This was NASA and SpaceX. They were supposed to send a craft and they didn't. It was due to a hydraulics system issue with the Falcon 9 rocket. They were going to take off again tonight in the 7 PM Eastern time hour. However, they didn't because it is too windy tonight. So the next time that they can attempt to send the rocket

is tomorrow at 7 PM Eastern time hour. So hopefully we get to see this and bring them home. But I was scrolling on social media and I came across a video from one of the astronauts, Butch Wilmore, his daughter. So his daughter took to TikTok and the video was very long. I cut it a little short here, but this is what she had to say.

My dad is Barry Wilmore. I'm his daughter, Darren. And in June of last year he went to the Intranetal Space Station on the crew flight test of the Boeing Starliner. It didn't go as planned. So there was thruster issues, there was helium leaks, and this nine month delay is uncommon. And they were originally supposed to stay for eight days so it's making things really frustrating and he's missed out on a lot

and it's been hard if we're being completely honest like we believe that like it's all that's gone God's plan I talked to my dad all the time when I'm at home every day but because I'm here at college it's every couple of days or so but at least we schedule a time every weekend and make sure we talk with him. He sends us a link on this thing called Doxy and we're just able to talk with him space facetime style and that makes things really nice. But as of recently we found out that he will most likely be coming back in mid-March which is so exciting and I miss him so much. And I cannot wait for him to hug his neck

and see my sister graduate high school and see the show I'm in right now. But fingers crossed, things could always change. And especially with this whole thing, we've had so many changes that it's like a bit mentally exhausting. I just want to pray for her. You know, it just, I mean, obviously it just brings a human aspect to this story It's a bit mentally exhausting. I just want to pray for her.

I mean, obviously, it just brings a human aspect to this story where, obviously, we feel for these astronauts up there. But she explained, they're fine. People are at the International Space Station for six months at a time. They're prepared for that. She said, she explained in this video

also that they have places to work out and they're doing a ton of experiments and they're fine and they get to talk to one another. But I mean, to hear it from the perspective of Butch Wilmore's daughter, you know, she's really missing her dad. Um, and she's really excited at the aspect of Elon Musk, hopefully bringing her dad and Sunny Williams home, uh, very shortly. So hopefully maybe tomorrow or next week, I will be able to give you some good

news. Unfortunately, I am going to be moving to a little bit of bad news here. So this is where this is the, uh, the part of the show where I started scrolling on my phone and, uh, there's a filter on Tik TOK that allows you, it's sort of like a video game aspect where it gives you four shots and it's like a bullseye and you tap the screen and it's like a gun and this liberal took his his take at the trend. I want to show you this. Okay, so this is a liberal, he gets the score of 50, a perfect score. Now this was how liberals reacted in the comments, and maybe you can predict how disgusting they're

going to be, but someone commented, where were you this summer? Where were you this summer? They see this video game aspect video, they see a liberal who has a good shot. I mean, obviously this is fake, right? But where were you this summer? Obviously a nod at the assassination attempt on President Trump's life. How horrible, how horrible do you have to be to say something like that on the internet? And I'm going to call it out.

I think this is totally disgusting and this person was not alone. Someone else commented, get out there and make America proud. That would not make America proud. I think a lot of people saw the assassination attempt on President Trump's life and it drove them to the polls. I think it did. I think Trump surviving that assassination attempt and him throwing the fist up, fight, fight, fight. A lot of voters saw that and said, that's my guy. That's who I'm going to vote for. Now here are some other, here are some other comments. So there's this orange guy dot dot dot. You've been nominated time to take one for the team.

King, we'll get you covered with a GoFundMe, take one for the team, brother. Like, I'm in shock reading these comments. Liberals are so sick that they would turn something like as stupid as this filter, they would turn something so dark, so dark and twisted and deranged. You have to be deranged, but they don't care. They're so hateful. They dehumanize the other side. It's like they don't see this as a president of the United States almost having his life taken, this is a grandfather.

This is a father. And yes, this is the president of the United States, thank goodness. But imagine how sick and twisted you have to be to want him dead. It just, honestly, it makes me sick. And someone commented this, if you look at these comments, you can decide which side is good and which is evil. And I couldn't say it better myself. I mean, it's truly, truly, it's so sad.

It's so sad that our country has gotten so divisive, but it's all the left. Like the hatred is all coming from the left. But I do have a more funny uplifting Trump story for you all. So I want to throw up this headline. There is a video that has resurfaced from the apprentice. And it says Donald Trump fans stunned after hearing president's real laugh for the first time in resurfaced clip. And I guess people have been saying

that Trump doesn't laugh that much. I feel like I see clips all the time of Trump laughing. He seems like a very funny guy. I mean, he is hysterical. During his address to the joint session of Congress, he was making me laugh. Maybe he wasn't laughing, but he certainly cracks jokes. That's for sure. So maybe that's what people are saying that they don't normally see Trump laughing. He's the one cracking the jokes. I don't know, but I want to play the clip

from the apprentice that everyone's talking about. I can't believe this is our president. He's so cool. I can't believe this is our president. He's so cool. He's lived so many lives. Reality show star, grandpa, president of the United States. Now they're going to pull to a stall, a halt here and he's going to laugh. And this is apparently what everyone's been talking about. So people are saying they don't, uh, they don't hear Trump laugh that often. And, uh, I feel like I do. And this is one of the clips that I remember distinctly

from the campaign trail, the first time President Trump ran for office. I remember him laughing here. My pilot said, no, Mr. Trump, this is something you shouldn't do. What was that? Is that a dog? Uh-oh, It's Hillary! Uh oh. It's Hillary.

I love that clip. Only in New Hampshire. First it was a squeechy dog, then it was a very serious dog. Anyway. He's the best. I just think that that was funny. I certainly have heard Trump laugh before, and that was the first clip that came to my mind.

But this clip will surely make you all laugh as well. Watch this. This is a daughter or a granddaughter, I should say, pulling a prank on her MAGA grandfather saying that she's up for an award or a scholarship at her college, but it's in order to get this scholarship, you have to be a Democrat and Here watch this Okay. Thank you for choosing me to be in the drawing for the 2025 Democratic Great Scholars Awards. I have my papo with me today Introduce yourself. I'm Larry and

My papo I've chosen my pap because he showed me how great the Democratic Party really has been when Joe Biden was gonna space my pap all called me so excited because Joe had won and the Democratic Party was now in office this year Trump is one and my pad ball is very sad for this upcoming. He starts laughing. I can't laugh. I can't laugh. I can't laugh.

It's fine, I can just cut that off. I can cut that off. How come he didn't go with all the real? Because this was the scholarship that they had. It's the only one they had to offer. Ain't I gotta be a Democrat? Yes. He's staying in Illinois.

We can just cut that part out. Yeah, cut it out. Okay. Hey, if it was Trump, oh, that'd happen. I know, but you just act like you weren't. So when Trump won this year year he was very sad for this upcoming election. But that is okay and my Papaw is gonna share with you today some of the great things that the Democratic Party has done. I hate boos. I had to do something and you thought I was...

He's a good sport, right? I feel like a lot of grandparents are like that, where they would say, really? A scholarship? You need me to pretend to be a Democrat for a scholarship? I don't think so. So here were some of the comments that I thought were very funny. You can see his blood pressure rising. When she first started the video, he was doing something with his mouth. It was like he was trying to contain his laughter or something. But someone else

said the panic in his face. He tried so hard to keep it together. And finally, the way he'd rather pay $10,000 and be called a Democrat, I feel ya, Papa. So let's give some love for Papa in the chat. I see some people, I love Papa. Yeah, oh hell no. Would you pretend to be a Democrat to get a scholarship for your granddaughter

or your son or your daughter? I think people in the chat would say definitely not. But that is all I have for you on deck tonight. Thank you so much for being in the chat would would say definitely not but that is all I have for you on deck tonight Thank you so much for being in the chat Make sure that you're subscribing to the show on Apple podcast and on Spotify as well as following right here on the Bontino report channel I will see you right back here tomorrow at 6 p.m. Eastern time. I can't wait. See you then