The Dan Bongino Show - The Comey Report Drops (Ep 1055)

Episode Date: August 29, 2019

In this episode, I address the explosion of fake news this week and what I think is going on behind the scenes to catch the leakers. I also discuss troubling revelations in the recently dropped Comey report which paint a really bad picture about his activities. News Picks:Is the US Intel community dragging its feet on the Russiagate files?   The Comey IG report drops. It isn’t pretty.   Is President Trump preparing to declassify these three explosive files?   Is this MSNBC host about to get sued for defaming the President?   The Washington Post blows it, again.    Is it immoral to hand off to our children nearly 100 trillion in debt?   Copyright Dan Bongino All Rights Reserved. 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 i joe what do i always tell you what's the bongino rule wait 24 to 72 hours before reporting on any anti-trump story and you'll be A-OK. A-OK. I did not report on a story yesterday because I obeyed the Bongino rule and we've been proven correct again. I've got a stacked show for you today. I got that. The Jim Comey report is going to hopefully come out today.

I got this bombshell article by Real Clear, a stunning video from the city of Baltimore, an update on me on the five in the hurricane don't go anywhere welcome to the damn bongino show producer joe how are you today my good friend oh just hanging around waiting for dorian daddy oh how's yeah i know me and joe have been engaged in significant emergency planning which joe is unwittingly roped into even though he's in maryland um because I am down here in the impact zone of this hurricane. So just a quick programming note, I will not be on the five today and tomorrow. Obviously, I'm not leaving my family behind and

to go up to New York. And I know, you know, some of you, you know, watch Fox and you think it's this big mega company, which it is, but just a hat tip to them um they are like super extremely understanding when it comes to family stuff and when i called up the producer and i said listen i i can't uh emailed excuse me i can't come up there uh her and and the uh the uh the one the person right under her were like don't even don't worry so i will not be on the five today and tomorrow sorry folks but i think you all understand uh just quickly another thing to an update i am getting so much feedback which joe and I were kind of chatting about again, small talking about before the show, about our opioid show,

where you know I object to bankrupting these companies and significant government regulation. I'm getting a ton of feedback, and I just want to reiterate again, when it comes to the opioid crisis, point stipulated, very serious, significant crisis in the United States. But I do believe in personal responsibility, number one. And I still am not buying a lot of the arguments I'm getting on email where people are saying, no, no, we got to stop this stuff. And I said to Joe before the show, and I'll tell you now, I still don't get your point. medical professionals that are doing this are all so corrupt that they can't manage being doctors,

then I don't understand why you think government bureaucrats who have zero expertise in medicine whatsoever are going to somehow figure out what doctors couldn't. I'm sorry. I just don't get the debate. There's a degree of personal responsibility. And one more point I'd like to bring up. If you believe, and by the way, the emails have been 90% positive, 10% hey, Dan, you're wrong, which again, the Dave Z and others who email me and think I'm wrong, that's what this show's about. I enjoy your emails. Don't feel the need to email me with glowing, I mean, you don't have to be insulting or

anything, but you get my point. You disagree, that's A-okay. I'm just saying to you as well, doctors and medical professionals, we have to trust them. They're going to get bad apples. You're going to get problems. But one more point in this too. Ladies and gentlemen, alcohol is responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths over the course of decades. If not more, I'm probably being kind.

Drunk driving, cirrhosis of the liver, associated health problems, secondary tertiary health problems from abuse of alcohol, right? Can we all agree that's true? That's true. Yet we live in a, you don't hear a mass clamoring for alcohol to be banned why oh because we tried that and it led to the explosion in organized crime bootlegging and other uh associated crime families taking advantage of the black market for alcohol folks we live in a society that's flawed okay we're all sinners we're all going to make mistakes the point of the whole thing is government is not there to be daddy and mommy for us we have to be big boys and big girls and we have to figure it out yep joe as he said before the show has some

personal experience with this and and if you know i know i'm glad to share it if need be i mean it's it's kind of important it would help you know, it would help out. I think one day we may. You've been on the other side of this equation. Oh, yes, I have. It's tough, is it not? It's terrible, terrible to have to kick these opioids. Sorry to interrupt you inappropriately, but would you agree that you, Joe Armacost, had to make Joe Armacost decisions?

That it wasn't the government that fixed your problems. Would you agree with that? Yeah. I made the decisions going into it and coming out of it. You know? Yeah. It was me. It was all on me.

All on me. And I accept that. And Joe, I said to Joe, you know, we were chatting. You know, I don't ever push Joe into a conversation he doesn't want to have. But there's a reason when I do talk to Joe, because I know it's okay to say this, where I've said I have experienced it in my family, up close and personal. It's ugly having to explain things to my kids and stuff. And I know Joe had too, and I don't prod him too much. But folks, we're not like, Joe and I aren't talking about this topic, and we don't keep bringing it up now for three days.

We're not bringing it up because we're like looking for clickbait. We're bringing it up because it's a serious, significant problem. Me and Joe have actual personal experience. It means something to us. We're not just talking about it as some esoteric topic. Yeah. All right. I know that was a lot.

And we've been. But I really appreciate it. We've never gotten more feedback on the show. That really was. I mean, we haven't even. I know. And I got to more of the Bongino rule and other stuff. It's a stacked show today. But thanks again gotten more feedback on the show. That really was a long open. It was. I mean, we haven't even I know, and I got to more of the Bongino rule and other stuff. It's a stacked show today, but thanks again for your feedback. All right, folks,

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So I have warned you a lot. I got a couple emails yesterday. Folks were like, how can you not talk about this MSNBC bombshell? What was the MSNBC bombshell? The MSNBC. This is a video, by the way, from the turning point usa folks uh i think it's ollie i found it on benny johnson's feed they do a great job with videos so hat tip to that this is just a quick thing they put together this is lawrence o'donnell discredited conspiracy theorist at msnbc uh a couple nights ago running with his latest debunked

conspiracy theory check this out and i'll tell you why we didn't report on it go with it source close to dojimak has told me that the trump donald trump's loan documents there show that he has co-signers that's how he was able to obtain those loans and that the co-signers are Russian oligarchs. goddamn entrails. You are fake news. One of the funniest videos. You get the gist of it from the audio show. Check us out at youtube.com slash bungee. I got another just incredible video at the end of what's going on in Baltimore.

It shows Lawrence O'Donnell melting down in a prior cut where he's freaking out. Why don't you stop the hammering? Remember that video, folks, where he's freaking out why does stop the hammering stop that remember that video folks where he's freaking out stop the house someone's hammering someone's in my ear hammering so that's o'donnell and even rachel maddow who is another conspiracy theorist at msnbc is listening to this and she goes back in her chair like what well even i think she's shocked by this crazy assertion so the story was this you you just

heard it but i'll sum it up for you in a little nugget here donald trump according to o'donnell they've seen some deutsche bank records and donald trump had some loans that were co-signed by russian oligarchs close to putin oh my god people the sweating the profuse sweating the sweating was everywhere joe they were like we got him now what's the problem um a single source told o'donnell this and the story's not been confirmed by anybody and now everybody's walking it back you may say really they're walking it back here's a tweet by lawrence o'donnell uh himself uh but uh for sorry fox news story i have in the show notes is important check it out you can read the whole jose, Fox News story I have in the show notes. It's important.

Check it out. You can read the whole Joseph Wolfson Fox News up at the show notes today at Bongino.com. MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell apologizes for unverified Trump-Russia report. Quote, we are retracting the story. Here's O'Donnell's tweet as well. Folks, he says, last night I made an error. Gee, you think? In judgment, by says, last night I made an error, gee, you think,

in judgment by reporting an item about the president's finances that didn't, this is hysterical, that didn't go through our rigorous verification and standards process.

Oh, yeah, sure. I shouldn't have reported it. I was wrong to discuss it on the air. We'll address the issue on my show tonight. Folks, I cannot emphasize to you enough. I was on more English. Oh, pretty.

Joe, the litany, right? The litany of fake news stories reported by the vigorous process is endless. The Don Trump Jr. WikiLeaks story. The Mike Flynn was told to talk to the Russian story. All debunked. The Deutsche Bank story, the Mike Flynn was told to talk to the Russian story, all debunked. The Deutsche Bank story, the Nikki Haley curtain story, the

whole Trump-Russia collusion hoax, all hoaxes, the Scaramucci CNN story. Folks, the list goes on and on of fake Michael Cohen-Trump Tower story. I mean, I can go on all day. I mean, I can go on all day.

I have warned you repeatedly as my beloved audience, do not share or report on anti-Trump stories, bombshells from the media until 24 to 72 hours. It started as a joke. Right, Joe?

I mean, we were messing around like a bunch of you. It's not a joke anymore. No. I'm not, it started as a joke, right, Joe? I mean, we were messing around like a bunch of you. It's not a joke anymore. No. I'm dead serious. I refused to report on this story yesterday because I knew it was going to be false. I knew it. Are you seriously telling me that someone has a smoking gun document of Donald Trump

engaged in some kind of financial machinations with a Russian oligarch and nobody's leaked it. Folks, the story stunk to the heavens and I'm not covering it. I'm sorry. The Bongino rule is in effect. Wait 24 hours and the story will be debunked. It has shown itself repeatedly. Now I have a theory on this because I have two more stories. I have this segment titled two more stories i have this uh segment

titled two more media facepalm there if this that wasn't even it wait 24 hours please i'll get to those in a second but i want to just give you my theory on this some of you older listeners already know my theory i know joe does but folks i think what's happening here, and I'm not speculating without some backup evidence here. There is somebody feeding these media people false stories that may have some element of truth to them to make them somewhat believable. But they're getting the information from someone else as part of a canary trap uh now i haven't brought this example up what's a canary trap if you ever watch the the movie miami vice with jamie foxx and colin farrell they think there's a rat in on their drug operation there's a police officer law enforcement

who's ratting them out to the drug dealers because they keep, their operations keep getting messed up. So they feed different information to different law enforcement entities about when a delivery date's going to happen. They keep giving different delivery dates. Knowing that when the information gets back to the cartel

about the delivery date, if you've given five or six different ones, they can at least isolate where the leak came from. They'll tell the FBI this date, the DEA this date, if given five or six different ones, they can at least isolate where the leak came from. They'll tell the FBI this date, the DEA this date, Miami this date, and now they can figure out and narrow it down. Folks, I think that's what's happening.

I know, I don't think, I know because Jeff Sessions announced it when he was still the Attorney General, that there is a leak investigation going on in the government right now to root out leakers of classified information are committing crimes. I know that's happening. That's not speculation.

May I suggest to you that there is some kind of a coordinated effort, maybe not on this story, but I have a strong feeling on other ones. And it could be on this one, too, that deliberate misinformation is being fed to people knowing it will leak to the media, but only to select people as a way to trap the canaries who's singing later on. Don't discount that. There is no way these vigorous media vetting people are getting bit so many times by accident. They're getting bit, I believe, on purpose because they're too stupid to do their homework. That's why. Now, two more media facepalms.

Washington Post reports on this writer, J.D. Vance, who wrote this book, I believe it's called The Hillbilly Elegy. It's about the problem of the hollowing out of the manufacturing base in rural portions of America, how small towns are collapsing. The book cited by Tucker Carlson and others often. The media doesn't like that story because the media wants you to believe, again, that this is all due to capitalism and all this other stuff and not just poor trade policy and other things. The media doesn't like this story because the story focuses on, sadly,

a lot of portions of America that are not inner cities. It focuses on Appalachia and other areas of the country, drug, the drug crisis, the loss of jobs, the hopelessness crisis. So the Vance book, and J.D. Vance himself, has become a target

of the left-wing media. Now, Joe, when the left-wing media doesn't have an argument to make of substance, what do they resort to? The Tom Marr theory? God rest the man's soul. You're a racist! Jesus! Thousand A's! Ray! It goes on. Tom Marr theory. God rest the man's soul. You're a racist. Racist. Racist.

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Racist. Racist. Racist. Racist. Racist. Racist. Rac read the show notes. The stories are really good. Spent a lot of time putting together today's show. Pete Hassan. I believe it's in the Daily Caller as well. It's where Pete works. He does great work. Washington Post, another fake news outlet, publishes then retracts attempt to link

conservative author to white nationalism. So not only is Lawrence O'Donnell forced, this is all in the same day by the way. This is weird. Lawrence O'Donnell on, weird how that happens. Joe, they're vigorous editorial process there, right? They're fact vetting. So you believe this?

They're fake news. They're all fake news. They're fake news. So what happened with the Washington Post? Well, first they tried to, there's a snippet from the piece. This is worth your time here. They tried to link J.D. Vance and a statement he made to racism, although there's nothing racist about it at all. Quote, this is a J.D. Vance quote that this Washington Post person wants you to believe is racist.

Quote, our people aren't having enough children to replace themselves. That should bother us. Brostoff, the author of the Washington Post retracted statement, quoted Vance saying, Vance did not spell out exactly who was included in the word our he didn't need to she concluded implying that he was stoking fears about white

birth rates specifically oh oh I can't I can't take this they they're they're fried joe dendrites look like tree branches at the end of your neurons dendrites axons uh you know synaptic connections and all the tree branches you know they have tree pruning joe the liberals are so stupid and these media people are so dumb they're engaged in a collective dendritic pruning the

dendrites here are the tree branches the tree the tree the axonal connections in the neurons are not being these are some of the dumbest people on but i get some emails as. So Dan, you make it. Ladies and gentlemen, it is personal now. OK, I'm sorry. Accusing an author of substance who wrote a book about U.S. birth rates. Our not white, black, green, blue, Asian, Muslim, Jewish, Catholic. Our U.S. birth rates declining, a hopelessness crisis. And equating that somehow, we know what he was implying, white people and white nationalism.

You just made that up. You just fabricated that. You dunce. Now, after unbelievable, unbelievably negative feedback from even some moderates who were like, wait, are you really this stupid? He didn't say anything about white people. By the way, Joe, an interesting,

can you put up the second portion of that piece in the Daily Signal? Read this piece, by the way. It's worth it. Hassan did a great job. Just so I can, I don't want to miss this. This story is worth our time, even though there's a lot going on.

The Post added an editor's note after a backlash an earlier version of this story suggested that jd vance lamented a fall off in white bursts he was actually talking about american bursts oh gee that's kind of a big difference by the way listen to this let it gets better contrary to this knucklehead brostoff at the washington post portrayal of Vance I added knucklehead in there the conservative author is in an interracial marriage and has a biracial son hey jeez

this is reminds me of a lady who told me I don't like immigrants that time when I was on NPR running for Congress I'm like I'm married to one I'm married how did i get past that i'm married to an immigrant paula we need you on camera but something get on camera when he's people know you're real dan bargino hates him he married an immigrant this guy is such a racist apparently jd vance that he's in an interracial marriage with a biracial son. That's so much hate. So much hate everywhere.

His marriage vows weren't like, do you promise to love and serve her every day? It was, do you promise to hate this woman every day? Yes, I do, because I'm a racist. What is wrong with these morons? Now, not only that, what kind of a racist, like they're alleging this guy was before they had a retracted, again, face palm again for the fake news media. What kind of a racist, by the way, wants higher birth rates, knowing that what is the biggest catastrophe for human life in the black community? Abortion. Hundreds of thousands of lives snuffed down what kind of a racist good we don't want that we want higher if you thought this through for two seconds which

the author didn't because she's a dunce the author didn't you would have figured out that this guy is lamenting american birth rates our not now he's not talking about the store you know what this is so dumb the dendritic pruning yeah all right i gotta move because i got a lot to get i can't spend all day on this and paula does i know it's hard joe because i can't stand the stupid anymore i can't stand it i'm serious folks it't stand it. I'm serious, folks. It's like, it's stressing me out. I don't mean it a snowflake way. I was born for this fight.

I mean, it's like you can't get through to these dunces. Here's another one. I mean, captain of the dunces, Ken Delanian. Lead, collusion, hoaxer. How this guy has a job. I don't think there's a person at NBC who has reported more fake news than this knucklehead Kandelanian. Lead collusion hoaxer. Here's another media facepalm yesterday.

Correction. Experts who have looked at the new USCIS policy say it applies if a service member a member adopts a child overseas but children born to service members on deployment would still automatically get citizenship i deleted tweets with the incorrect info brother ken just delete your account your account is incorrect info what's the backstory behind this one U.S. Customs and Immigration updated their policies on children born overseas to U.S. military members to align with the State Department's policy.

Not just military members, but people working overseas too. To align with the State Department's policy. What happens, Joe? Fake news can, again, they report, this is an attack on our military. These military

people, if they have kids overseas, they're not citizens. Totally made up. I had to delete an incorrect prior tweet. Because you're a moron. That is not what the policy says at all. The policy applied to service members and diplomats overseas.

If they adopted children over there and didn't say they weren't even citizens, it said you're going to have to apply now through the immigration rules that were already on the books. If you are a U.S. citizen overseas and you have a child overseas, they are U.S. citizens. Nothing changed. You know what changed? The media's fake news. That's what changed. Three massive facepalms in one day. changed you know what changed the media's fake news that's what changed three massive face palms

in one day now your liberal friends who are morons i'm sorry a lot of them they are not all but most of them are are gonna come to you trump just said military people can't have kids overseas okay dude whatever yeah sure you just continue the dendritic pruning, okay? You're at the point now where you're like in that Metallica video where Johnny gets his gun. Remember that? That's the point you're at right now. All you can do is like sit there devoid of any senses.

Your dendrites are not functioning at all. You people can't be this stupid on the left. And you wonder it. They're like, Donald Trump's alive. Oh yeah, that's the biggest of our problems right now. You're right. Guy gives press conferences every day. Yeah, sometimes he says stuff that doesn't pan out. Sometimes he

engages in hyperbole. But seriously? You had Chris Cuomo last night threatening to throw people down the stairs. Chris Cuomo calling on Kayleigh McEnany. Donald Trump's alive, Chris. Really? Oh, my gosh. Has this been a fiery start to today's show or what?

Yeah, Daddy-O. Man, this has been an emotional start all the way up to now. Yeah. Yeah, and listen, folks, by the way, I just said Paula wanted me to update you. Given the hurricane, which is supposed to hit down here, we'd appreciate, obviously, your thoughts and your prayers, contrary. I mean, I don't want to be dramatic.

Sometimes these things peter out. Hurricane Irma and Matthew, for us down here, was not very bad. Having said that, this one looks like it could be a little ugly, so we will get out a show for you next week. Don't worry about that. We have recorded through hurricanes before, so don't you worry. I'll give you the update from underground here. The gas lines down here are just crazy. My wife, that's why we were about 10 minutes delayed this morning. Paula had to go get gas after dropping off the kids, and the store shelves, of course, are empty. All right, speaking about ensuring things that

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All right, moving on. I'm only at story number two, believe it or not. Comey. So we should see some, hopefully I'm getting some win at the Comey IG report, which is a surprise, by the way, should come out at some point today. Story at foxnews.com in the show notes again today. Hannity said last night, Comey should be sweating a lot with DOJ inspector general's report being imminent.

Now, this was a surprise, folks. Not that the inspector general was investigating the whole Spygate spying scandal. We all know that. Michael Horowitz, you know that being a listener to the show. Yeah. The fact that there is a separate report into the actions of Jim Comey had caught a lot of people off guard. Now, I'm going to give you both sides of this. I'm going to first give you the bad side side first and i'll leave you with i think the

good news is the bad side first is this this inspector general reports on the actions of disgraced fbi director jim comey if it was really as awful as i think some people think it's going to be and believe me hosannity's right comey should be sweating it's not going to be nice but if it was awful as some other people said it is, because there's some people out there you know, this is going to be the downfall of Comey. I'm not so sure of that, folks. And I don't mean to be Debbie Downer, because I know a lot of us, and I'll

get into what Comey did in a minute. Don't get me wrong. But if it was really that bad, the Justice Department, I believe, would be close to indicting him. And from what I reported to you two weeks ago, they passed. They punted the football on indicting him. And from what I reported to you two weeks ago, they passed. They punted the football on indicting Comey or charging Comey.

So I know, again, I don't mean to be Debbie Downer, but I find myself in a precarious situation when I report these stories to you. And let me just tell you why. When I talk about this stuff, I get great emails, but I always get a few negative ones. And the gist of them are this. Nothing's going dan i'm tired of this whatever i like your show but nothing's happening and i'm done and then i report that stuff is happening like i think andy mccabe is

is likely to be indicted there's no reason his attorneys would be meeting with the deputy attorney general in other words right right? And other people. And then I report that and people are like, it's not enough. Well, what do you want me to do? I'm here to report to you the facts. I'm not the prosecutor. And then when I said to people, I didn't think a lot of these people were going to go down in that viral speech I did. I said to people, what are you talking about, Dan?

Everybody's going down. Well, folks, what is it? Either we're reporting on what's happening, where people are getting investigated and potentially indicted like McCabe, or we're not like you can't have it both ways. I'm just giving you the truth. Now on Comey. So that's the bad news. The bad news is they already punted on indicting him.

So I'm not sure how damning legally speaking the story's going to be. Having said that now, I believe the report is going to be ugly and Comey is sweating. Because if there's one thing Jim Comey cares about, Joe, it's his faux reputation as being Johnny Boy Scout. He's not. He's a

fraud. He is one of the biggest frauds up there. Jim Comey, people who know him will tell you he's a sanctimonious rhymes with ick he is he's a jerk and he always has been a jerk i'm sorry but people who know this guy have come to me and said this guy is isris, blinds him to his own failings. I mean, how many times on this show to me and Joe, Joe just outed himself on the show saying I've had problems. What do I say in the show? I'm a sinner all the time.

I don't say that to be like virtue signaling to you. I say it because we make mistakes. We've made mistakes on the show. We've had it correct. And that's okay. Not Jim Comey. Jim Comey's never at fault for anything. Ever.

Never. Sanctimonious. Now, what did Jim Comey do wrong? Now, I think this report is going to focus on his leaks to the media. But I want to point out a couple other problems where I'm not sure it's going to be in a report. I'm not going to lie to you. My sources on this are not sure it's going to be in a report. I'm not going to lie to you. My sources on this are telling me it's going to pretty much focus exclusively on the leaks of the Comey memos to his buddies that had at a minimum sensitive information. And I'll get to that in a second.

Why that's a problem for Comey too. But here are the couple of things that I wish were in there that may or may not be. And we'll know. So do not miss tomorrow. Tomorrow's show is going to be and we'll know so do not miss tomorrow's tomorrow's show is going to be stacked because i have so much here this show is just like drop upon drop today of nuclear info uh here's a problem we're going to have this is a cut joe and i have used gosh joe just keep this thing in a file because it comes up all the time yeah we've used this cut

probably 10 or 15 times here's where jim comey is in a world of trouble outside of the leaks, which I think he's going to be exposed on in this IG report about his activities. Ladies and gentlemen, Jim Comey, according to precedent and an agreement with Congress, not necessarily hard policy, is supposed to brief Congress quarterly, meaning every three months for liberals who have a tough time with math, every three months on sensitive investigations. This is Elise Stefanik from, I believe, March of 2017. Elise Stefanik, representative from Congress, asking Jim Comey when he briefed Congress, remember, he's supposed to do it every three months, about the existence of the most sensitive investigation in modern American history, the Spygate case and the spying operation on Trump. Listen to this sleazeball's answer. Check this out. My first set of questions are directed at Director Comey. Broadly, when the FBI has any open counterintelligence investigation,

what are the typical protocols or procedures for notifying the DNI, the White House, and senior congressional leadership? There is a practice of a quarterly briefing on sensitive cases to the chair and ranking of the House and Senate Intelligence Committees. And the reason I hesitate is, thanks to feedback we've gotten, we're trying to make it better. And that involves a briefing of the Department of Justice, I believe the DNI, and some portion of the National Security Council at the White House. So if that's quarterly. Brief them before Congress is briefed. So it's quarterly for all three, then senior congressional leadership, the White House, and the DNI?

I think that's right. Now that's by practice, not by rule or by written policy, which is why, thanks to the chair in rank and giving us feedback, we're trying to tweak it in certain ways. So since in your opening statement, you confirmed that there is a counterintelligence investigation currently open, and you also referenced that it started in July, when did you notify the dni the white house or senior congressional leadership it's a good question congressional leadership sometime recently they were briefed on the nature of the investigation in some detail as i said okie dokie, Smokey. So, a couple of things here. Comey always thinks he's kind of too smart. By the way, ladies and gentlemen,

we literally have an update right now on the Comey report, so don't go anywhere. I mean, while that clip was playing, it just came over my phone. I'm reading it right now, so I'll give you an update and it says good stuff. Why is Jim Comey in trouble? Again, he always moves around the edges

of decency and and and claims like it was his moral high ground it's not a hard policy that he has to breathe and break any laws by not briefing congress but he acknowledges himself that it's practice to brief congress every three months about sensitive investigations at least the phonic asks this question joe why because she already knows the answer she knows comey who acknowledges well when did you brief when did you brief us he goes well just recently ladies and gentlemen that's march for liberals who have trouble with timelines the investigation started when joe july of 2016 The end of it. Meaning Comey waited eight months. Eight months.

If it was Joe Biden doing it. Eight months. He waited eight months. Not three months. Eight months. Three months. Eight months. Three months. Not the same thing. Jim Comey is in a world of trouble because Jim Comey still to this

day has not justified why he's supposed to brief Congress on sensitive information when asked why he didn't brief them on the sensitive information what's his answer? because it was sensitive alright this guy's thrown out of the game you're out of the game

you're out of the game you know what? hold on here it is. That's two yellows. I'm not a soccer fan. Two yellows in your house. One, two, red card.

You're out of the game. You're out of the game, Jim Comey. Mr. Comey, you're supposed to brief us quarterly on sensitive information. When did you brief us? After eight months. Why didn't you brief us quarterly? Because it was sensitive. At least Stefanik must be sitting there like, oh my God, give me some foundation

to protect my dendritic. This is like, oh, please. Freeze that in your baby's room. I mean, seriously, neuroprotective compounds, folks. I can't recommend it. Take your fish oil to protect yourself against this kind of stupidity. Why didn't you brief us on sensitive information?

Because it was sensitive. She must be sitting there like, you're the director of the FBI, correct? I'm just checking. Is that the answer you're going to stick with? Brief us quarterly on sensitive information. Why didn't you brief? Because it was sensitive.

Oh, okay. Oh my gosh. I have an Andy McCarthy piece tomorrow I want to get to, too. Don't sweat it, Paul. You didn't send me that. I'm going to get to that tomorrow. That's just awesome at National Review. That points to how everybody on the anti-Trump side was treated with kid gloves, like Comey.

And yet everybody on the Trump team was treated like with venom Flynn Papadopoulos Manafort everybody else it's a disgrace the justice system is dead okay um quick update now so I'm just getting this folks this is you know it's not our show is not live but it's like live to tape we don't mess around with it so I want to get it out here's the update so the 83 page report on comey's handling of quote sensitive information released thursday this is this is mind-boggling joe but we got to go where the facts take us okay found joe you're hearing this live right because yeah man no evidence that comey or his attorneys released any of the classified information contained in any of

the memos to members of the media. Well, if that's what the investigation found, fine. So basically what he said, if that's, hold on, it's not all, because you may be saying, this is ridiculous. It was classified. I can only report what's in the report, folks. Okay. But here's the but.

It goes on. Inspector General Horowitz faulted Comey for his behavior, saying his actions violated department or FBI policy and the terms of Comey's FBI employment agreement. As described in this report, we conclude that Comey's retention, handling and dissemination of certain memos violated Department of Justice and FBI policies and his employment agreement. Horowitz criminally referred Comey to the justice department. But as you know, the agency declined to prosecute. Oh,

I'm sorry, by the way, this is from the Washington examiner, Dan Shaitlan and Caitlin. You're like, I don't want to, I don't want to cite their stuff without appropriate, appropriate citations. Forgive me.

I should have done that in advance, but it just came over. Just got it. The report concluded that Comey quote, failed to live up to this responsibility by not safeguarding sensitive information obtained during the course of his fbi employment used it to create public pressure for official action comey said this is folks this is going to be damning listen to this i'm reading this live it's not like some kind of setup okay all right comey cares the most about his reputation.

He doesn't care about a week in jail. Trust me. He'll paint himself as a martyr, St. Comey. This is damning to his reputation. Listen to this. Comey set a dangerous example for the over 35,000 current FBI employees and the many thousands more former FBI employees who similarly have access to knowledge of non-public information.

Horowitz also criticized Comey for not attempting other lawful ways to try to secure the appointment of a special counsel. Says Comey had several other lawful options available to him, which he told us was his goal in making the disclosure, but what was not permitted was the unauthorized disclosure of sensitive information. Oh, boy, ladies and gentlemen this guy uh it's just you know now here's comey responding i mean this is amazing wow again the hubris of this buffoon i haven't even finished my segment yet on on what this clown joker did here we go he could he noticed how he leaves out all the parts about he violated his FBI agreement. He violated FBI rules.

He violated DOJ rules that, that he was basically a sleazeball. He leaves that out. He writes in the tweet that he quotes that they found no evidence of me leaking members information to the media. He goes, I don't need a public apology for those who defame me, but a quick message of sorry we lied about you would be nice. You are a slimeball sleazebag. You will get no such apology

for being a hack and leading the most corrupt investigation into an opposing political campaign you didn't support in U.S. history. You clown. Public apology? How about this? Go yourself. How does that sound jimbo clown yeah here's another one from comey and to all those who spent two years talking about me going to

jail or being a liar and a leaker you're a fraud it says you leaked did you read what i just said the ig report just said you violated your employment agreement, FBI rules, and the DOJ rules by leaking sensitive information. Is this guy this stupid? He says ask yourself why you trust people who gave you bad info for so long. Oh my gosh.

Is this guy... What did I tell you when we started the show? This clown joker, Comey, who the IG report actually says he broke the rules by leaking sensitive information, is now celebratory. Remember that scene in, what's the movie? Paula, you and I were watching it the other day where the couples go on vacation, the yoga guy. I forgive him forgive couples retreat when they do the yoga class and and and uh the the guy sitting there trying to do the yoga protecting public peacock puff your chest yeah yeah yeah do it yeah so do it remember that guy this is comey doing the chest bug look at me. Puff in his chest. Are you kidding me? You clown.

You just got nailed by the IG report. Stop pounding on your chest like an idiot. You lied to Congress. You hid your corrupt investigation. You're now busted for leaking sensitive information,

showing everybody it was right to fire your clown butt. And the last part of this thing, by the way, is the January interview. Folks, I don't know any other way to tell you how serious this is. Now, keep in mind, this IG report that was just released focuses on his leak of the memos.

All right. Does not focus on Pfizergate. That's a separate IG report. I have on good authority that in January of 2017, Jim Comey was made aware of an interview with Christopher Steele,

producer of the dossier and the information, or at least whose name's on it. The FBI interviewed one of Steele's Russian sources and determined that the guy was completely unreliable. The source was not, in fact, accurate. Ladies and gentlemen,

that may sound like a small piece of information. It's everything. Comey went on later on to authorize three more FISA renewals of the same same Pfizer document based on Steele's Russian sources, Comey already knew were frauds. Folks, hubris. Has any single character flaw taken down more great men and women in human history than hubris?

Inappropriate, chest-pounding, chest-puffinging do it, do it pride like this moron. He's actually celebrating on Twitter that he's not his standard for his public morals and accountability is well I'm not going to jail, they all lied to you. Joke.

What a doofus. You're a loser. Big time. Remember time remember highlights that magazine we were kids goofus and gallons yeah but the teenagers are listening i go what the heck is that all my older listeners you know exactly remember goofus again this guy's goofus he is goofus goofus comey here you are he's goofus come do it do it puffing his chest like a moron. After an 83-page report documents how he violated his oath of office. And he's celebrating. Everybody lying to you. And he wants an apology.

Yeah. Okay. Apology. Yeah. You're lucky I try to keep this show family friendly. I'm telling you, my queen's F-bombs would be dropping right now like raining cats and dogs. I'm glad you're trying, man, because it

takes some time to bleep them out, you know? I know, he hates it, because after the show, Joe and Paula have to edit it. They come barging in here. Paula first. Will you stop cursing on the show? Gotta edit this thing for two hours now, because you can't shut your soup cooler. Then Joe's

gotta marry the audio file up with Paula's video file. Turns into a big train wreck. I bleep myself sometimes. Apologies. Yeah. Thank you. Okay, buddy. See, I just gotta do it. It's so funny on the show. I mean, this is all breaking has run. Yeah, I just got a text from a

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The best of the best. Okay. One more thing on Comey. Why he's in trouble. I'm sorry, but this just broke. And I want you to, I don't want you to be left in the dark here. Remember, the Comey memos they talked about leaking to the media are a separate set of memos.

In other words, we know now that he leaks sensitive information because I just read to you portions of the IG report. Again, the Washington Examiner guys, that was their story there. Those are not the only memos. There is another series of memos as well that Comey, according to what we're getting, may have documented and kept kind of a diary of memos of his role in the whole Spygate drama. Those memos they are trying, the government is trying to keep classified. Why?

Because they're basically a written diary of Jim Comey's malfeasance and spying on a political campaign. This guy, David Archie, this FBI lawyer, wrote a series of declarations declaring why the Comey memos should be kept private. And in those declarations, he also lays out what's in there. And what's in there is serious stuff. Ladies and gentlemen, Comey's in a world of trouble. And the fact that this guy's peacocking and walking around puffing his chest is an absolute disgrace and embarrassment. Listen, I'm not going to be able to get to this real clear piece today. I'm sorry, but I will get to this.

It's a real clear piece by Paul Sperry. It's in the show notes if you want to read ahead. It lays out five big nuggets of information coming out. Coming out that are going to be, again, like this Comey thing that came out today, which is not, and Comey seems to think it's good, are going to be devastating. I'm going to get to that. I'm going to have to get to it tomorrow, though,

because it's going to require some pretty detailed analysis. I want to get to two other stories. Also, don't miss this video at the end, because it's just, really, it's sad to watch. I sent it to Joe this morning. He's like, I mean, Baltimore always has a special place in my heart. It does. I mean, I've only really lived for a long time in two places.

I've been in Florida only four years now. Is it four or five, Paula? Four, right? Four years. I think so. I love it down here in Florida. Yeah, four sounds right. I'm losing track. But Maryland's always, for as liberal as it is, it's not a special place in my heart. Baltimore too. There are great portions of that city have just collapsed. So I've got some video for you I want to play, but I just want to get to this story first. National Review, it's in the show notes. It's important.

It's an interesting piece. It's worth your time. It's very short, so it's not one of these long, you know, treatises here. It's by Michael Tanner, be in the show notes. The Moral Dimension to Our National Debt, August 28th, 2019, National Review. 28th, 2019 National Review. You know, folks, I didn't know how to phrase it, but we talk about the national debt.

I talk about it on the show a lot as well, always in terms of algorithms, formulas, finances, spreadsheets, what you owe, what your kids are going to owe. But this column asks an interesting question. What about the moral side of this? And the only way I could think to frame it up, and I put this together last night, a lot of this, is if we ever asked ourselves, what kind of country do we want to be? I mean that. I mean, I know it's kind of a 64,000-foot level question, but you understand, right, that this national debt is real money,

right? I know the conservatives listening to, and I'm not talking down to anybody, but some of the liberals who listen, you know, you're always welcome here. I don't like your ideology. I can't stand it, but I'm asking you a serious question. That's real money. You understand that, right? Like that money we're spending now that you're voting on to spend that that all has to come from somewhere and it's not going to be you there isn't enough money right now if we confiscated all of the wealth of the richest people in the united states to pay off our national debt not even close you understand that you are burdening your kids your children and grandkids,

if you vote on this excessive spending. And again, I'm not talking to everybody because a lot of my listeners are conservatives who want this to stop. I'm not lecturing, I'm just telling you. If you're on the other side of this and you think government debt and deficits are great, understand this, you are bankrupting your own children.

Your connection to this world, you are saddling them with about $67,000 in debt per kid. Your votes are doing that. You up on Congress in Capitol Hill voting for this. You're doing this, destroying the lives of the next generation. What kind of country do we want to be if we ask ourselves that? Good question by Michael Tanner.

What about the moral dimension to this debt? What do you think, this is fake money? No, no one's going to force us to pay this back. Really? You sure about that? We go bankrupt tomorrow, no one will lend us money again. But I want to put up a portion of this piece. Because again, there's misinformation about this as well. Oh,

it's the Trump tax cuts that did it wrong in the piece. And I quote, the CBO estimates that federal outlays in 2019 will be 4.4 trillion. This is a folks. I don't care who the president is. Okay. Republican or Democrat. This is inexcusable.

That's a $300 billion increase in nominal spending since 2018. Discretionary spending is up. Defense spending is up. Entitlement spending is up. There is no effort to prioritize or make the difficult choices of governing. There is only more, more, more. Now, some of you may say, well, it's clearly due to the Trump tax cuts. No, ladies and gentlemen, as he states later in the piece, tax receipts are up 3% through the first nine months of 2019. Up, that's this direction for liberals, up. You know, right and left get confused in the camera thing sometimes when they're reversed.

No, no, up is this way. This is consistently up, okay? I'm not upside down on the show. Tax receipts are up after the tax cuts. They're not down. You're saying the tax cuts cost the government money. You're making that up, which liberals do quite well. How are we doing this to our kids is absolutely inexcusable.

It really is. More, more, more. I got an email from a lady again the other day they get them all the time you know my social security is not an entitlement listen ma'am i get it i understand your email i appreciate your feedback i know you paid into it you paid into a lot of things you paid into the government's unemployment insurance too and most of you had jobs and never used it you paid into a program the government lied to you about. That is not my fault. I can't say enough. It doesn't matter how

many times I say it. I'll still get emails. I'm not suggesting people living off social security who have worked hard their whole lives and paid into it on a government promise should have their social security taken away. Stop. Just stop. Please don't send me an email suggesting that because I'm not going to answer it because it's just not true. And I don't comment on portions of my show where people give me feedback on things I didn't say. You paid into it. Yes. You deserve those benefits. Yes. In a fair world, that money would be there. Yes. Even though the world isn't fair, I'm still suggesting you should be paid out. Yes. Even though the world isn't fair, I'm still suggesting you should be paid out. Yes. Because it's not your fault the government screwed you over. I'm simply suggesting that the argument that you paid into it, therefore that's reason enough that everybody should get it forever,

is not accurate. The government lied to you. You paid into a lot of things. You pay into Medicaid too. Overwhelming majority of people listening to this show are not on Medicaid. You pay into Medicaid too. Overwhelming majority of people listening to this show are not on Medicaid. You paid for that. You paid for a lot of things. It is not my fault that the government

lied to you. 55 and older, yes, you should get those benefits. You worked in a much harder time. You are good people. You're the greatest generation. You busted your butts and we owe that to you. That's it. Full stop. 55 and younger, there's no money.

The argument does not work that people 55 and younger should get social security because we paid into it. You paid into a lot of things. The government bankrupted you. I'm very sorry. They lied to you like they lie to everybody all the time

all right here we go we'll end this video it's a little sad i don't mean to be again a downer today but um in case you think this crisis and and for the audio listeners you can kind of hear what's going on in the background i'll walk you through at the end i'm sorry but this is an important video and i really hope you check it out, youtube.com slash Bongino. This is some cell phone video taken of a just really horrendous shooting incident last night in Baltimore. A police officer was injured. It was a car chase. And folks, again, the chaos in our inner cities is inexcusable.

These are our citizens. Folks, this is worse than the OK Corral here. This is in our inner cities happening right now to good people who live there. Some of these people, if you check out the video, just sitting at a traffic light. Joe had to do some creative bleeping because the person filming it is just an astonished at what's going on here. Check this out. Oh, my God. Oh, my God.

This is it. This it, this it! Oh, he's faking! Oh, he's faking! Hey yo, hey yo! Oh,! Oh,! Damn! Hey, bring him back down, s***! i mean unbelievable unbelievable that's not a shooting range that's a city in baltimore yeah that's a baltimore city street those shots you heard, all those sirens. So for those of you who couldn't, let me just paint the visual for you.

They're doing a traffic stop at a light. At the light, the bad guy is caught behind a bunch of traffic. He starts shooting. The guy jumps the curb. A vehicle pursuit entails they make a left turn. They stop him about, what, 100 yards down the road. Another shootout occurs. Then another shootout occurs.

A cop is injured. From what I heard of the story, the perpetrator's dead. Yes. Folks, these are our streets. This is an American city right here. This urban chaos is inexcusable. And yet war number one by the left is on the police. Pete Buttigieg, another,

we have a systemic racism problem in our police department. We do? This is a majority black city where the cops are facing gunfire to get a bad guy off the streets. What are you talking about? But continue the war on cops, lefties.

You're doing a great job. Check out the video, youtube.com slash Bongino. I found it. I dug it up. It's some cell phone video. It's one of the most disturbing pieces of video I've seen. It is. So don't miss it. Sorry if I had to

play it for you folks. Please don't miss tomorrow's show. I'll have an update and more analysis on the Comey thing. I have this real clear report. That's going to be damning. And I have another story I've been pushing off about de Blasio and just another disgraceful move by the failed mayor of New York city. All right,

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