The Dan Bongino Show - The Deep State is Real, and They’re Not Playing Games (Ep 1154)

Episode Date: January 9, 2020

In this episode, I address the stunning connections between the anti-Trump impeachment players and the Spygate hoaxers. I also address the imploding impeachment farce and the failure of Pelosi’s latest gamble. Finally, I address failure of media outlets to understand the significance of Trump’s strike against Soleimani. News Picks:Study says the worst run states are run by Democrats.    The Senate Democrats are now turning on Pelosi.   Pelosi’s impeachment gamble is blowing up in spectacular fashion.   Homelessness surges in liberal California.    Devin Nunes is leading an investigation into ICIG Atkinson. Atkinson’s resume is interesting.   The shady connections of these anti-Trumpers, to the Obama Administration, are frightening.   President Trump’s stock is at an all-time high.    The chances of President Trump being removed from office is sinking like a rock.    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 another loaded news day devon nunes last night on the fox news channel laura ingram show dropping another bomb out there you gotta love devon nunes we uh of course, are big fans of Devin Nunes here. Exposing the swamp last night and the intricate, shady web of swamp-like ties between the sinewy connections of the swamp rats. You're not going to want to miss that story. I got that. An update on how the media is totally missing the point on Trump's hit on Soleimani. I got that. I got cocaine Mitch strikes again, too. We'll get to that. We always love those stories.

Welcome to the Dan Bongino Show. Producer Joe, how are you today? Fine, sir. I love it. Sinewy Connections. Sinewy Connections. And I'm doing well. Like spider webs.

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to take down President Trump and spy on his campaign in the process, has decided to take on a new mission here. Now, I had addressed this a little bit last week, the shenanigans behind the fake whistleblower complaint. Remember that? How we had this whistleblower who allegedly blew the whistle. He didn't blow the whistle, nothing to blow the whistle on, but stated that President Trump made this phone call with Ukraine. This led to the impeachment, the fiasco disaster, which we'll get more to later. We'll get into the details of that, how Mitch McConnell's just

stomping on Nancy Pelosi's impeachment dreams here. But the whole whistleblower complaint was a farce. President Trump released the transcript of his call with Ukraine. Nothing that the whistleblower alleged happened in the transcript of the call was actually in the call. There was no quid pro quo. There was no illicit deal with Ukraine. It was all made up, a fake hoax, a Democrat dream, an Aesop's fable, really what's becoming now a nightmare, not a dream for the Democrats. Now, as I addressed earlier in the week, there was something really fishy about this whistleblower complaint. First off, the whistleblower, who alleged that there was malfeasance in President Trump's call to the Ukrainian president, his deal, give us information on Biden. Allegedly, President Trump said, well, we're not going to give you military aid, something that never happened in the call. What was interesting is that to make a complaint like that, you needed to have firsthand

information according to the guidelines that the inspector general's office had. In other words, if you don't have evidence yourself that you saw or heard this illicit activity you're blowing the whistle on you're not supposed to report it right the person who saw it supposed to put not complicated folks if you saw it reported if you didn't see it and heard it from someone else then that someone else should report it it's too why is that done it's done very simply to prevent in the federal government, anywhere else for that matter, where they have these kinds of rules and regulations, to prevent the telephone game from happening. To prevent Joe from telling Bob, from telling Diane, telling Paula, to telling producer

Joe that they heard from a guy who heard from a guy who heard from another guy that heard from a dude who heard from a dude who overheard a dude who said they heard something a dude said. By the time the telephone game ends, the allegation turns out to be bogus and you've wasted everybody's time. Hence, the designation in the Inspector General report that you have to have firsthand information. Well, that paperwork was changed. I'm going to expose to you. Do not miss this segment, ladies and gentlemen. This one is going to bake your bagels. I'm going to expose to you. Do not miss this segment, ladies and gentlemen. This one is going to bake your bagels. I'm going to expose to you the explosive connections between all the people involved in this impeachment hoax, the inspector general, and the attempt to take down President Trump. We're going to do that. But first, I want to show you a video last night

of Congressman Nunes on the Laura Ingraham Show. He's asked specifically about how the paperwork was changed and backdated to allow the fake whistleblower, who has no firsthand information of the call between President Trump and Ukraine, how the paperwork was changed to eliminate that requirement and changed after the fact and then backdated to make it look like it was all a OK. This is Nunes last night and Laura Ingram explaining how he's looking into this. This story is explosive, folks. You're going to hear more of this as the impeachment fiasco continues. Play that cut. Well, the law, if you believe this or not,

there is no such thing as the law. They're trying to claim that this was the case, but yet the forms didn't show that. And then when only when questioned by the media did the form get changed and got backdated. And if it wouldn't have been for us asking the questions originally, they would have got away with it. But there's more to this story. Doesn't it sound a little bit, I mean, it's a different set of facts, but you did the same thing when it came to the Mueller investigation. You were pressing and pressing and pressing, and then they started vilifying you. Well, if they think I'm going to go away, I'm not.

Well, you didn't do it before, right? But this is all like, if I was the IG, I would say, they may think, you know, because I don't have subpoena power that there's going to be some issue here. But but we do have other powers. Right. So we can run this investigation. We can get other people to come and testify. We do have people that come in as whistleblowers and talk to us. Right. Or informants that talk to us. So if I was the I.C.I.G., I would provide all the documentation. So essentially, you have to either believe he's in on it or he's incompetent. OK, now, if he's incompetent and if they're because that's what he's claiming in letters, essentially, we're incompetent. We have all these mistakes. Well, we need to have evidence of your incompetence.

Interesting. So Nunes's office wrote a letter to the ICIG who is Atkinson is a I inspect intelligence community inspector general who was the one who promoted this fake whistleblower complaint via a form they had a change in back date to change the requirements to allow the whistleblower who shouldn't have been allowed to make the complaint to make the complaint well why would he do that? Why would the ICIG Atkinson, who Nunes is now looking into and investigating, why would he then change a form to allow a complaint to proceed against President Trump that was not valid? And by the way, that was based on a lie on information and a call that wasn't there because we've seen the transcript. Why would he do that? that? Well, let me put a theory out there. I have a big capital letters on my show notes run down here because this is the swamp. People love to tell you, Democrats, media hacks, media types, they love to tell you, no, the swamp doesn't exist. The deep state is a conspiracy theory. Really? Because the connections between the people who always seem to get busted, backdating forms, changing forms, advancing anti-Trump conspiracy theories like he made some quid pro quo on a call that never happened.

These people always seem to be connected to the same people involved in the Spygate thing. It's crazy how that happens. week, but given Congressman Nunes' appearance last night, I wanted to be sure I readdressed this because it's going to tie into the impeachment story later and why the Democrats are now desperate to make this impeachment go away. The cocaine Mitch story coming up later. Cocaine Mitch is not an insult, by the way.

I'll get to that later. I get a lot of questions about that. I'll get to don't go anywhere. That's why I'm bringing this up again, okay? It's important state red state peace by elizabeth vaughn who is this inspector general who according to devon nunes his testimony up on capitol hill was really troubling adam schiff is hiding the inspector general's testimony and this is the same inspector general atkinson who changed the rules to allow the whistleblower to make a fake complaint. And now Adam Schiff is hiding all of the evidence around it. And they're afraid for this thing to go forward. Well, Elizabeth Vaughn is a piece.

We highlighted this last week. It'll be up in the show notes again today. It's older, but it's worth your time again. Resume of inspector general behind the whistleblower air quotes tells us all we need to know remember the hypothesis i'm throwing out there for you in the listening audience that what's really going on here whether it was the spygate hoax the muller hoax the impeachment hoax all of the hoaxes designed to take down trump they're all tied together they're all deep state swamp rat bureaucrats desperate to cover their tracks and each time one of their track covering methods fails, accuse them of collusion.

They'll impeach him. Get Mueller on the case. Then they'll impeach him. Accuse them of a quid pro quo with Ukraine. Then they'll impeach him. These are all tied together. It's the same scam. It's the same people.

What evidence do I have of that? Well, it is the same people from Elizabeth Vaughn's piece. As she quotes, please read this. It's at barbidgebongino.com. She says, American greatness is Julie Kelly took a shot at Atkinson's resume and it tells us everything we need to know. Kelly notes that in July of 2016, Atkinson, the ICIG, became the senior counsel to John Carlin, the head of the National Security Division. John Carlin was Bob Mueller's chief of staff when he ran the FBI and was appointed National Security Division chief by Barack Obama in 2013. So let's get this straight. Just so we sum this up so I can

move on to another connection I have showing you how the swamp is getting swampier and the web-like connections between all these players. It's all the same scandal. That is the only takeaway you need from this segment. This is all one big continuous scandal. Spygate, Mueller, Ukraine, whistleblower gate, fake impeachment hoax. It's all the same. It's people trying to take down Trump, trying to hide what they did.

So now we know that the inspector general Atkinson, whose office backdated a report, changed the requirements to allow a fake complaint against President Trump to proceed, said it was really urgent, but it wasn't even only urgent, it was made up. It was a hoax. We know the same guy, Devin Nunes, is saying,

listen, the only reason he could have possibly done this, these two reasons, are because he's in on the scam. You heard Nunes himself talking about Atkinson. He's either in on the scam to get Trump out of office and promote these hoaxes like the whistleblower hoax or Joe. Number two, Devin Nunes says, or he's incompetent, which is what Atkinson's answer was when Nunes tried to call him out. Hey, we're just really dumb over here. Now, who is Atkinson and what does that red state court have to do with anything? Well, Atkinson used to work for John Carlin.

John Carlin, ladies and gentlemen, is a key figure in Spygate, who's also John Carlin, a key figure. Here's the handy-dandy chart we have. A key figure in, look, she added Atkinson on her. Nice job, Paula. John Carlin, ladies and gentlemen, you see the chart. If you want to see the chart, go to YouTube, youtube.com slash Bongino. Check us out on video as well. John Carlin was Bob Mueller's chief of staff. John Carlin was Bob Mueller's chief of staff, was the national security division head under Barack Obama. Why does that matter? Because not only is John Carlin connected to Bob Mueller, John Carlin was also one of the last guys in the Obama administration to sign off on the Pfizer warrants to spy on Trump.

This guy, Atkinson, the ICIG Nunes is investigating was John Carlin's lawyer. Was his counsel. Again, please explain to me how none of this should matter. Listen, again, many of you know me. Some of you don't for our new radio audience out there. I used to be a federal investigator and a police officer.

I'm not trying to promote or self-praise anything. No, who cares? I'm only suggesting to you that my prior, I'm just establishing quick bona fides to tell you that one of the first things you do investigating some criminal syndicate is obviously finding out the connections of the criminals. It's not this positive. It doesn't always mean someone is guilty. Listen, a lot of people out there know criminals. A lot of people out there hang out with people who are criminals.

It doesn't matter. In fact, most of the time, it doesn't mean they're a criminal at all, but it can provide evidence in a case. If you're trying to prove a guy was involved in a conspiracy to rob a bank, it's pretty helpful, is it not, Joe, to find out if the guy who's allegedly involved in a conspiracy to rob a bank knows the people who robbed the bank? It may help, right? That's a big help, yes. I'm just throwing that out there. I know you're laughing, but I'm just throwing that out there. I'm not suggesting any of this is this positive and that Atkinson is a grade A felon anywhere. It's not what I'm saying. I'm simply suggesting to you that don't the media people out there interested

in doing basic journalism find it a little strange that the same names that keep turning up in Spygate and the Mueller probe keep turning up in the Ukraine hoax and the impeachment hoax too? Is anybody interested in this at all? So the IG, who we now know, according to Nunes, who has not been proven wrong on his Spygate investigation or any other investigations, We now know his office deliberately altered forms to allow a fake complaint against the president to proceed. We know the guy running that office was the lawyer for the National Security Division

guy named John Carlin, who signed off on the illicit spies, FISA warrants, a spy on the Trump team. So he's tied to Spygate. And we also know that the same guy he's tied to carlin is tied to muller he was muller's old chief of staff carlin none of this concerns you at all now of course it does you're just hiding it because it's precisely because it concerns you because you're democrats and you know that this provides evidence that the swamp is deep the swamp rich, and the swamp has a whole lot of power to try to take down people they don't agree with. Now, you may say, okay, Dan, you discussed a lot of that last week.

Again, bringing it up last night, because Nunes is apparently on to something. And whenever Nunes winks and nods at America on Fox News at night, you should all be paying attention because he's been proven correct nearly 100% of the time in the past, warning us about Spygate and Mueller, right? Tell me where he was wrong. Oh, you can't. That's right. Talking to the libs out there, of course. Well, let me show you some other shady connections. Again, under the headline, ladies and gentlemen, this is the swamp. They hate Trump. They're desperately trying to cover their tracks. By the way, we know the whistleblower had deep connections to people involved in the Spygate thing, notably Alexandra Chalupa, who was the one working with Ukrainians to

promote the fake information and the black ledger information that they got on Manafort. So we already know the whistleblower is tied to Spygate. That's a whole other story. But where did the fake whistleblower complaint emanate from? Do you remember? It's a quiz for the listening audience. The National Security Council within the White House. Now, showing you again that Nunes did not go on Laura Ingraham last night to waste his time or yours.

Clearly, he's on to something about another conspiracy to take down the president. A lot of theory. It's real. Look at this article in AP. I want to show you from a while ago. This is fascinating. Some more ties. Remember where the fake whistleblowers complaint that the ICIG

changed the paperwork to allow go forward who's connected to the spy gate players. Remember where it emanated from the national security council. Look at this article, February 7th of 2019, Adam Schiff hires ex national security council staff for panel. Whoa. Wow. What a coinkydink. That's crazy how that happens. So a Democrat, Adam Schiff, that's one of the sleaziest Democrats, by the way, is hiring people from a Republican White House's staff. Remember, the National Security Council works for the President of the United States. He is a Republican, last time I checked. Fact check, Joe, quick. Is Donald Trump a Republican? I know it's a tough one. Yeah, Dan. Thank you.

There we go. We have a quick fact check. Joe is correct. So weird how that happens. How a Democrat, one of the sleaziest, most radical Democrats, all of a sudden has this interest in National Security Council staffers in a Republican White House? Let's dig further into the AP piece. Who is that staffer they're hiring? One of the staff members, Abigail Grace, is listed in a House directory as working for Adam Schiff

on the intelligence panel. A person familiar with the committee staff confirms that she is working for the panel and used to work for the National Security Council. Man, that is so weird. So weird how the intelligence community inspector general, who's they're manipulating paperwork, is connected to Spygate's Carlin, who's connected to Bob Mueller. And also where the whistleblower complaint emanates from, that the ICIG is promoting and changing the paperwork for is the National Security Council. And one of the members of the National Security Council, or a couple of them apparently, are leaving a Republican White House to go work for a Democrat who hates President Trump and is leading the impeachment probe.

Weird. Crazy time. Weird. Crazy time. Now, who did Abigail Grace, who left the National Security Council of the Trump administration to go work for Adam Schiff, who's marshalling a fake impeachment based on a fake whistleblower report promoted by an ICIG with connections to the spy game players.

Who did Abigail Grace used to work for beforehand? Let's go to our old friends at Conservative Review where I used to work. Pretty great website over there. And this was an older article, again, worth your time,

which will be up in the show notes. If you want to subscribe and get our email articles every day for free, go to bongino.com slash newsletter. And I will email you not just today's articles, but older ones like this that are now relevant again. Conservative review by the great Dan Horowitz. Trump's defense of H.R. McMaster is indefensible. H.R. McMaster was an insider swamp rat who used to be President Trump's National Security Advisor who is thankfully gone.

H.R. McMaster fired all the people who were interested in cleaning up the swamp and hired all the people who were the swamp rats themselves and promoted them.

Now buried in the body of this piece, remember who we're talking about? Abigail Grace, National Security Council member, leaves Trump's White House to go work for Adam Schiff

of all people. That's crazy. Who did Abigail Grace used to work for? Oh, oh, this is crazy time. Losing my marbles here. Quote, conservative review, as Jed Babin reported in the American Spectator, four staffers who reported directly to Ben Rhodes.

Hold on, hold on, hold on, time out. Remember Ben Rhodes? Remember Ben Rhodes, Hold on, hold on, hold on. Time out. Remember Ben Rhodes? Yeah. Remember Ben Rhodes, Obama's former fiction writer who became his national security guy on the council? Ben Rhodes, the guy who promoted the Iran deal

and is still promoting the Iran deal? Yeah. Remember Ben Rhodes? Yep. Who's, by the way, his family has pretty interesting connections himself. Oh, yeah. So Ben Rhodes,

former fiction writer with no real world experience whatsoever to be a national security advisor, is sitting in this National Security Council promoting myths to the media. Remember the same Ben Rhodes, Obama guy, who bragged about how stupid the media was and how they could mislead them

on Obama's foreign policy approach? Remember that, Ben Rhodes? Yes, that guy. Put up the piece from Conservative Review again. Let's just go back to that again. Just as a reminder, I know most of you knew that, but there are liberals watching who don't know much. So four staffers reported directly to Ben Rhodes and have been protected by H.R. McMaster. Abigail Grace.

Oh, oh, there we go. Of course, there's a couple more in there. But isn't that fascinating? Oh, oh, there we go. Of course, there's a couple more in there, but isn't that fascinating? So the same Abigail Grace, who worked in Trump's National Security Council, also worked for Obama's Ben Rhodes in the National Security Council, the guy promoting the Iran deal,

attacking Trump every day on his Twitter. By the way, Ben Rhodes is in mourning over the death of Soleimani still to this day. So that guy, Abigail Grace used to work for Ben Rhodes, Obama's lying mouthpiece, who openly bragged about lying and manipulating to the media. She worked for him,

leaves the Trump National Security Council, go work for Adam Schiff. Mysteriously, a fake whistleblower complaint then emanates, Joe, from the National Security Council. Abigail Grace just left, gets its way over to Adam Schiff's office. They lie about it and say they didn't know about it

when they did in advance. We know that now. That same complaint that doesn't meet the requirements for reporting of a first-person requirement, the reporting requirements are then changed and backdated in a shady deal. Nunes calls them out on it. And then we find out the guy's office who did it used to work for the guy who approved the spy gate warrants to spy on the Trump team, who used to be Bob Mueller's chief of staff.

Crazy, crazy how this is all happening. crazy, crazy how this is all happening. And the only place you're hearing it is here and amongst the great Twitter investigative journalists out there, Jeff Carlson, the names go on, Chuck Ross, Sarah Carter, John Solomon, and others. Crazy how the New York slimes and the democracy dies in the darkness, Washington Post have just no interest

in all of these shady, slimy connections at all. The deep state's a conspiracy theory. None of this matters to them one bit. So let me just kind of sum up the facts, because I know liberals have a tough time with facts and stuff like that. In an Alicia Silverstone clueless kind of way, like, you know, facts, man, like, you know.

You know what I'm talking about? Facts. You ever heard of those things? Oh, as if. Remember, I love that movie. I know. I know. It's embarrassing. I love it. It's a funny movie, okay? Dion's the greatest character ever. Love Dion. As if.

So let's sum up the facts. We now know paperwork was manipulated to advance a whistleblower complaint from a whistleblower who made up stuff about a call between Trump and the Ukrainian president that didn't happen. We know the paperwork was then backdated to make the change look legitimate. We know the person who did it, Inspector General Atkinson, was then brought up in front of the Hill and testified about those changes. And now Adam Schiff mysteriously is hiding his testimony. We know Devin Nunes asked about those changes and the malfeasance and all the other stuff that may have went on here. And we know that Atkinson responded saying, hey, we're just really stupid over here. Sorry, we screwed it up.

Okay. responded saying hey we're just really stupid over here sorry we screwed it up okay we now know appropriately timed laughter we now know atkinson as well used to be the lawyer for john carlin who worked in the obama administration and signed off on the warrants to spy on trump who used to be bob muller's chief of staff john carlin We also know the complaint emanated, fact, from the National Security Council, where people who used to work for Obama's mouthpiece, Ben Rhodes on the Iran deal, left to go work for Adam Schiff, who secretly met with the whistleblower and then said he didn't. Nothing to see here, media folks. Do me a favor. To all you clown liberals out there like Roswell Rachel and others rachel roswell rachel

has her own like debunk this segment like we do on our website debunk one thing i just said one of those facts tell me how any of those things are is abigail grace not working for shift did she not work for ben rhodes did the complaint not emanate from the national security council was the paperwork not changed was the change not backdated? Did Atkinson not work for Carlin? Did Carlin not work for Mueller? And did Atkinson not write a letter saying, hey, we're just really stupid over here. Sorry, we screwed it up.

Please debunk any of those. Of course you can. You'll just pretend oh, it's all just a big kawinkidink. Move along. Nothing to see now, kids. All right.

I spent a little more time on that one than I planned, but it's important because you're going to hear more about this as the impeachment hoax rolls on and Mitch McConnell strikes back. It's like the sequel to Star Wars. The Empire strikes back. It's cocaine Mitch McConnell strikes back. It's like the sequel to Star Wars. The Empire strikes back. It's cocaine.

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so just quickly um the wall street journal had a piece up today and i like the wall street journal i've been reading it for eons i got a free subscription when i was in college and i've i don't think i've missed an op-ed column and I'm not even kidding. In like 10 years, I saved them if I missed them. So I like, they're a little, you know, centrist for me, especially on the immigration issues, but still they usually make good points. But I got to tell you, I think they missed the mark on this completely. Now, if you missed yesterday's show, go back and watch it, please, because it's important. I discuss the importance based on a Lee Smith article about how, how President Trump decided to hit Soleimani

and why that matters. But I want to address it in light of this article in the Wall Street Journal and kind of just hit quickly yesterday's point again because it's an important one. It's by their editorial board

and it says, Tehran's retaliation and Trump's reply. Early returns show deterrence beats appeasement with Iran. They're right. I don't disagree with their point but i think they missed the mark a little bit with this portion of the piece where

they say this i'll put the screenshot up on our youtube again youtube.com slash bongino if you want to follow along on video here's a quote from the piece it says the showdown with iran is far from over which i agree with by the way and the mullers may strike again in the coming months which i agree with as well i covered on yesterday the mullers may strike again in the coming months, which I agree with as well. I covered on yesterday's show using proxy forces that give it deniability. Huh. On that score, the president missed an opportunity

to make clear that an attack on Americans by Iranian linked groups would be treated as an attack by Iran. Listen, with all due respect to the Wall Street Journal editorial board, you're very smart. Again, I'm not trying to take unnecessary pot shots. That's not entirely accurate. Follow what they're saying there.

They're saying that in the president's speech yesterday and his reply, which was terrific, by the way, it was done in the White House East Wing, which is very rare. When I was a secret service agent we never did speeches in that specific spot we do them in uh you know uh uh in on the uh on the far east i forget the names of the rooms i've been gone from the white house so long but very rarely on the state floor like that behind the with the blue room uh right behind very rarely i mean it happened but rare but he gave a great speech yesterday. The Wall Street Journal saying, well,

he should have said, if you attack us with one of your Iranian linked terror groups, then we're going to attribute that attack to you. I ran folks. If you caught yesterday's show and the excellent article by Lee Smith and tablet mag, which is in yesterday's show notes, but worth your time.

That's exactly what President Trump did. Did he have to say it? So follow me here. The journal is kind of not taking a shot at him. I don't want to be hyperbolic, but saying, hey, Trump missed the mark because he should have specifically said, Joe, if you attack us with the money, your proxy terror

groups, we're going to blame you. Folks, the strike president Trump ordered through our brave military that hit Soleimani in Iraq also killed the Iraqi, Iraqi, Iraqi, not Iranian, Iraqi proxy leader. Iranian-Iraqi proxy leader. I pretty much think Trump sent the message that proxy attacks by your surrogates are going to be treated

like attacks by Iran. Yeah. Did he have... I mean, Joe, am I missing something? Did he have to say it? That's what I thought. They both wound up in the same body bags. Did he have to announce that? Now, please, again, in the interest lot of these folks don't want to give Trump the credit because they think he's an idiot, just like they did with Reagan. And you have grossly underestimated. They tried that during the campaign,

and he promptly beat Hillary Clinton and all the other people who thought he was an idiot. What he did was tactical brilliance. He didn't wait for Soleimani to be alone. They terminated Soleimani in the car while he was with the Iraqi proxy guy saying, you deal with Soleimani, you're not going to be able to say anymore, oh, we're just a proxy group. That's not official Iranian action.

By killing them both he has clearly whether he said it in this statement or not said any attacks by your proxies will be treated as attacks by the iranian government again i'm not trying to be fake highbrow elitist i'm not not trying to be you know theow elitist. I'm not. I'm not trying to be the high-end totem pole of foreign policy analysis. I'm just suggesting something that I thought was fairly obvious, and I think the journal missed the mark on. Did he really have to make that announcement? He killed the proxy leader with the Iranian.

I don't know what other statement you need to make. Would you rather not have killed them and then made a statement about it or killed them and not make a statement about it? I really think you missed the mark on that one big time. What Trump did is dramatically change decades of US policy that had said in the past, all right, Iran, we're going to wink and nod and pretend we don't look. We don't see anything. If your proxy groups do it, but your Iranians don't do it specifically, we're going to pretend it wasn't you. The strike on Soleimani clearly throws that strategy out the window and says, you sponsor a group that hits us, we're coming for you too. You don't have to agree with it, but that's what it is now i'm just saying

all right moving on on to the cocaine mitch update now and folks it's not an insult mitch mcconnell just to tell you the quick background so i get a lot of email why are you taking a shot at mitch mcconnell Mitch. It's a joke. McConnell's office uses it themselves. When he was running for Senate, a guy in West Virginia, Don Blankenship, was trying to run against McConnell's, McConnell's obviously from Kentucky, but was trying to run against the establishment McConnell. He branded Mitch McConnell cocaine Mitch because of these ridiculous allegations. It was so crazy. And it became a meme, like a joke. Whenever Mitch did something right, it became a funny joke because it's so not in alignment with who Mitch McConnell is.

Listen, as you know, I've had my beefs with McConnell in the past, but I'm pretty sure, Joe, call me out, Joe, if you think I'm crazy. I'm reasonably sure Mitch McConnell's not a cocaine drug runner. Yeah, it doesn't. Just saying. I'm just throwing that out there. If I had to bet my right arm on it, lop it off, I would bet that of all the things Mitch McConnell is or was,

a cocaine drug runner is probably not one of them. Just saying. That's why the joke is funny that the guy called him Cocaine Mitch. Mitch McConnell's own team uses it sometimes as a joke when McConnell does something they like. Cocaine Mitch strikes again. I just want to prevent the emails from coming in and give you some background on why we use them. Because I think it's hysterical. I'm sorry.

Maybe it's schoolyard humor, but it's still funny. I'm still a kid at heart. Yeah. So cocaine, mid strikes again, Nancy Pelosi, again,

is this, she's on TV now she's losing. She's getting just annihilated on this impeachment thing, folks. I'm going to put, I'm going to show you three articles and another piece of video after this presenting facts and data to you that Pelosi's effort to keep the impeachment hidden in the house. Remember they impeached the president based on all that stuff. I told you before the

fake whistleblower complaint, Atkinson, the connected swamp rat, IG, and all that stuff. They impeached. He's already impeached the president, but now there has to be a trial in the Senate to remove him. Pelosi is now terrified of this impeachment. She knows Nunes is on the trail about how it happened with the fake whistleblower complaint. She knows that quid pro quo didn't happen. She knows it is the weakest impeachment, not even in U.S. history. It's the weakest impeachment ever proposed in U.S. history. There's no there there.

She's desperately trying to keep it away from the Senate. And this hide-and-seek game is killing her. Absolutely destroying her politically. Destroying her. Her own party is turning on her. I'll get to that in a second. But here's Mitch McConnell on the House floor yesterday just wrecking Pelosi.

And, you know, Mitch McConnell, when I say wrecked it's mitch mcconnell wreck so keep your emotions in check if you know what i mean but in the mitch mcconnell way lack of emotion mitch mcconnell he just absolutely floors pelosi stomps all over this strategy and basically says you have no leverage here there is nothing you are going to do to change the Senate trial, trying to play hide and seek with the impeachment things because you have no leverage. Check this out. There will be no haggling with the House over Senate procedure.

We will not cede our authority to try this impeachment. The House Democrats turn is over. The Senate has made its decision. The 1999 precedent does not guarantee witnesses or foreclose witnesses. Let me say that again. It neither guarantees witnesses nor forecloses witnesses. It leaves those determinations until later in the trial where they belong. I fully expect the parties will raise questions of witnesses at the appropriate time.

And I would remind my friends on the other side, I strongly suspect that not all the potential witnesses would be people the Democrats are eager to hear from. So the Senate will address all these questions at the appropriate time. And that is for the Senate and the Senate only to decide, period. Joe, what was that song? Joe, for those of you, Joe used to be a musician. And I always get pop culture references wrong. It's become a running joke on the show. I even got the movie wrong the other day. It's not the specialist the gary oldman it's the professional

of course i screwed that up because i don't watch movies much anymore and i've been terrible music joe what was that song i don't know if it was the 70s or the 60s or whatever cocaine that was a song right all right i right. I'm not crazy, right? Yeah. Now, of course, due to copyright restrictions, we're not allowed to play that song on the show, but we can do horrible renditions because it sounds nothing like the actual song anyway when I say,

cocaine. That's how it went, right, Joe? I'm not crazy. Now, I know everybody, but this is the great part about my lack of singing skills and my generally awful voice is we never run into copyright problems because it sounds absolutely nothing like the actual song. But he needs a theme song.

Was it Clapton Joe? Yeah, Clapton. She don't lie. She don't lie. I strongly recommend. She don't lie. Be careful. Joe can actually sing.

You actually sound like Clapton. So be careful. We may get a copywriter for it. Not a problem when I sing, of course. Joe is an actual. You actually sound like class. So be careful. We may get a copywriter for it. Not a problem when I sing, of course. Joe is an actual singer who has music out there. I got to be careful. That now, having said that, Mitch McConnell needs to get a license to that song

because this is great. I've had beefs with McConnell in the past, and I probably have some more in the future. But folks, you have no, I love this line. You have no leverage here. There will be no haggling. You can send the impeachment articles over or you could go pound sand. Thanks. Sorry. Not sorry. Have a nice day, Nance. Now you may say, well, what evidence do you have, Dan, that this is imploding on the Democrats? Well, ladies and gentlemen, I don't just throw stuff out on the show randomly to mislead you.

Joe likes to say the motto of the show is everything you need to know in an hour. Well, ladies and gentlemen, don't just throw stuff out on the show randomly to mislead you. Joe likes to say the motto of the show is everything you need to know in an hour. Well, here's what you need to know about how it's imploding on Nancy Pelosi. Let's go to this interesting

Washington Examiner piece first. Now, you may say, well, how's this really tied to impeachment? It is, I promise you. GOP Senator Mike Braun from Indiana. Trump's stock level

is now at an all-time high. Folks, believe me, you're not going to go public. Paul Bedard, Washington Examiner, again, will be up in the show notes today. Read the article talking about how Trump, the Trump economy, Trump's strike on one of the world's most deadly terrorists in Soleimani. Folks, impeachment is a political gambit. It is not a criminal trial. It is a political trial, which requires, Joe, you to do political damage.

The only person doing political damage on anyone right now is Trump to the Democrats. You do not have the political leverage to pull this off. McConnell should replicate the Bain voice. We need Dana Lash for that. It does the best bane

voice ever remember bane from the dark knight do you feel like you're in charge i would but we should add on bane bane to nancy pelosi and that's him there will be no haggling here you have no leverage here we need we need the bane, Tom Hardy, to implement those lines. They have nowhere to go. You have no political leverage against this guy. None. Now, you may say, listen, I'm going in a sending order of importance, facts and data wise. You may say, okay, that's just one GOP center's opinion. How does that matter? Impeachment's political. Trump's political approval ratings and everything are going up okay that's a nice opinion but it doesn't matter to me okay let's

give you some data washington examiner piece two again up in the show notes today for you to see and peruse yourself paul bedard paul bedard making a double appearance on today's show washington examiner be up in the show notes. Chance of Trump removal sinks to 12%. A new low. Folks, what is impeachment? I just said it. This is not

like a trick. Impeachment is a political trial where you need the political will of the American body politic to turn against the president, to force their representatives in a constitutional Republic to remove him. When 12% of the people in a Rasmussen poll cited by Paul Bedard, that article 12,

one, two in Joe Biden language, 12, one, two, 12% of the people say this will succeed. You up. two 12 of the people say this will succeed you up fill in expletive there this has been a disaster now do you see why pelosi's hiding this thing

a disaster you're telling me you can't get more than 12% of people to agree with you that there's a chance, just a chance President Trump will be removed from office despite you putting the American public through this six, seven month disaster and this fake impeachment? Only 12 out of 100 people even think there's a chance he'll be removed?

Oh, it gets worse. You may say, okay, that's kind of bad, but I need some more. Okay, I'll give you some more. Another article up at Fox News, foxnews.com. Now the Democrats are turning on Pelosi. Is it Bree Stimsonson foxnews.com feinstein and mansion two democrat senators by the way folks from california and west virginia respectively join the democrats in pressuring pelosi to send the impeachment articles to the

senate these are democrats this is not cocaine mitch they don't work for Mitch they're not involved with cocaine either so we're 0 for 2 they don't work for Mitch 0 for 2 they are Democrats telling Pelosi cut the crap send these stupid articles over so we can get rid of this thing expect more

Democrats to fold in the coming days again I make my point you need facts or data i just gave you poll data i gave you democrats in the senate democrats are turning on their own party you think they're doing that by chance they just made it up come on don't be a knucklehead now Now, here's a really good video. Hat tip, GOP House Oversight Committee and their Twitter account. I saw this video today. It is spectacular. This is about a minute, 12, minute 20, whatever. This is a quick video audio of Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats. The beginning is the Democrats when they thought they had Trump on the ropes because of the fake whistleblower complaint that turned out to be a hoax that Adam Schiff

engineered with the whistleblower hoaxer, right? They thought in the beginning they had Trump on the ropes, Joe. So listen to the beginning. It's a bunch of soundbites from Democrats. We got him. This is urgent. This impeachment is urgent, Joe. It's so urgent. We got to get it going right now, right away. We got to get Trump out of of office he's a threat to national security and then the second 30 second portion of the video is the democrats now starting to like maybe we should slow down on this impeachment thing as it totally imploded on the democrats check this out this is really well done. Yes. It's about urgency. It is urgent. It is urgent. There's a sense of urgency. Nothing could be more urgent. Urgent.

Urgent. Urgent. Urgent. Urgent. Meanwhile. Waiting for Pelosi. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who is holding back those articles of impeachment. Holding back the articles.

Saying she is not going to move at this point. She's sort of losing leverage here. A number of Senate Democrats are saying, time's up, come on, give us these articles. Angus King, an independent from Maine, Chris Murphy, who's a liberal from Connecticut, Joe Manchin, a moderate from West Virginia, all on record saying it's time, Nancy Pelosi, to send us the articles. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is still holding on to the articles of impeachment. Without, you know, the support of her party in terms of holding the line on this, it looks like she's holding an increasingly losing hand. Great video.

Hat tip, GOP oversight. Whoever put that out, genius. Genius. You want to see the video here, you get the idea from the audio, but please, and I,

again, I always humbly and respectfully request you subscribe to our YouTube account, youtube.com slash Bongino, youtube.com slash Bongino. YouTube subscriptions to our account are free. The video is the same as the audio, probably just a couple added video elements. Doesn't change the content of the show,

but if you want to see the video, you can see it there. It's worth your time. Trying to get to 400,000 subscribers, so we'd appreciate it. But that is just a beautiful piece of work. And let me just say, before I move on, I got one other topic I want to get to today

about Ilhan Omar that, I don't even want to tease it. I know I'm supposed to tease stuff. Joe always tells me to do that more, but I just want to leave that there because I don't want to ruin it. I'll just leave this with Pelosi and we'll get on to that next one. I always thought Pelosi was a little bit smarter than this. I did. I'm not kidding.

I don't. Listen, folks, obviously, I'm a conservative. I don't agree. Do we even need to say that? But I have to tell you, from a tactical perspective, you have to respect your political opponents and their tactics. And if you don't, you'll get steamrolled. They didn't respect Donald Trump in the election, and he crushed them in an electoral college landslide because they were the idiots, not him. We should not repay the election and he crushed them in an electoral college landslide because they were the idiots, not him. We should not repay the favor and ever discount strategic components on the

other side that have their act together. I always thought Pelosi was smarter than this. We warned her, Joe, did we not on this show? How many times have you and I had this conversation before the impeachment went downhill? How many times did we say on the show, do not do this.

It will blow up in your face over and over. We warned you it was obvious over and over and over. And you did it anyway. If someone in our listening audience wants to send me a series of cuts of me warning them not to do it i will put it on the air if it's short enough and if you can do a decent job on it that we can incorporate in the show i will put it on there's enough out there yeah it's oh it's everywhere it's good there's so much there's a lot of material for you we warned them and they did it anyway this is going to be nancy pelosi you You know how we talk about people's finest hours?

This is going to be her least finest. This is going to be her worst hour ever. She is going to go down in history as a speaker who totally blew it for the Democrats and potentially gave a second term to Donald J. Trump. Just a stupid move. So dumb. Like I said, we mourn you. All right. This is time for the Ilhan Omar principles check portion of the show. Now, I was on Ingram, Laura Ingram's show last night debating Chris Hahn, and I did a principles check on Chris. Chris said that he was complaining about the hit on Soleimani and how the president Trump didn't have authorization for it, which of course is nonsense. But I said to Chris, it's funny, I didn't hear you speaking out when this happened under Obama,

and he was droning even an American citizen at the time. Now, Chris says he did speak out about that. And I said to Chris, and I mean it because I'm a man of principle. If Chris, I emailed him last night, and I'm not a joke. If Chris can show me a clip or a piece he wrote challenging Obama on drone strikes, I will absolutely put it on the show and stand corrected. I remember none of that, to be clear. But as a man of principle, I said to my wife last night,

she's shaking her head now, I said, I will absolutely correct the record for Chris. I never saw that. I don't remember Chris saying any of that, but I could be wrong. It happens sometimes. It was an interesting debate last night. A lot of fire.

So in the principles check section, continuing from last night, let's do a principles check on ilhan omar democratic congresswoman from minnesota who seems to be on the wrong side of just every issue lately it's just crazy how that happens so ilhan omar tweeted this yesterday i want to hat tip matt palumbo at our website bongino report.com your conservative alternative to the judgeudge Report. We appreciate all the traffic there.

But Matt found this gem on Ilhan Omar's Twitter feed. She says, quote, talking about the Iranian sanctions. This makes no sense. Sanctions are economic warfare. They have already caused medical shortages and countless deaths in Iran. You cannot claim the escalation and announce new sanctions with no clear goal. This is not a measured response. So principles check, Joe.

Keep that up a second. Put that back up. Right. We're checking principles. That's what the principles check portion of the show is because conservatives have principles and libertarians. You may not like their principles, but at least they're honest. Liberals have none. Zero principles like Ilhan Omar.

So just to be clear, it's her tweet. We didn't doctor this at all. It's just a line underneath the highlight of this book. She believes sanctions are bad and that they're economic warfare and that they could cause medical shortages

and countless deaths. So Ilhan Omar, this is Ilhan Omar 1. Ilhan Omar 1, because there's multiple versions of Ilhan Omar, is telling you sanctions are bad, that they cause deaths and medical shortages one Ilhan Omar one because there's multiple versions of Ilhan Omar is telling you sanctions

are bad that they cause deaths and medical shortages and we should not support sanctions got it Joe okay principles check now let's go to Ilhan Omar version two Ilhan the clone of Ilhan Omar Ilhan Omar number two here's some coverage by U.S. News on Ilhan Omar's prior statements, which are bizarre because she just told us sanctions are really bad and cause all kinds of death and destruction and they're terrible. Oh, oh, crazy. July 17th, 2019, U.S. News and World Report, Brian Harris article, congressional correspondent. Ilhan Omar seizes the spotlight to push pro BDS resolution. I don't get it. The liberals are like the conservatives get it right away. Of course,

so does Joe. But the liberals are like, I'm confused. What do you mean? What's BDS? I don't know what any of this stuff is because they never do their fact checking or their homework or anything like that. They're anxiously doing Wikipedia right now. BDS. So Omar told us Ilhan Omar won. Sanctions are awful and they kill people. But Ilhan Omar number two supports the BDS. Moving. S. S.

S. All right. Wait, do I have a Sharpie? Like a snake. Yeah, an S. Where's my Sharpie? I have stuff everywhere. Do we have a Sharpie anywhere? I need a Sharpie? Like a snake. Yeah, an S. Where's my Sharpie? I have stuff everywhere. Do we have a Sharpie anywhere?

I need a Sharpie. Here we go. There it is. Because some of you may not have seen that on home. S. S. B-D-S movement she supports. Kept the Sharpie hand.

Throwing papers. These are important papers. This is now a transcript i still have it when i was on sorry i moved away from the microphone i didn't say anything of a significance for you audio folks out there so ilhan omar supports the bds movement what is the bds moment let's put up a quick screenshot the boycott divest Divest, and Sanctions Movement, which is a Palestinian-led movement for freedom, justice, and equality. That's their spin on it.

Crazy. Crazy. Principles check. Principles check. Ilhan Omar won. Sanctions really suck. They're so bad. They're going to kill people.

Medical shortages. Ilhan Omar number two. BDS is really great. We love it. The S stands for sanctions. S. I'm confused. S.

Superman. S. You're confused? We're all confused because these people have no principles at all none zero zero goose egg i mean i used to when i had my old show on nra tv i used to have to draw stuff for liberals because they're so incompetent sometimes. Can you please explain to me how that works? I know I got to wrap this up.

I know. But just seriously, one more time. Can you explain to me how you're supposed to be principled when you tweet that sanctions on a regime that chants death to America literally are horrible because they could kill people and cause medical shortages? death to America literally are horrible because they could kill people and cause medical shortages. But then you turn around and support sanctions on one of our Middle East partners, the Israelis, who never chant death to America. Can you please explain that? Of course you can. You're a liberal. You can't even explain why you're a liberal, no less why someone else is. Oh, frustrating having to deal with the imbecility out there nice

nice Paula to the rescue puts the S on the screen for you audio listeners you must go to YouTube today and check out the actual S I did not coordinate that with Miss Paula in the background she had to put a diagram up for the liberals

BDS the S is sanctions BDS in the background. She had to put a diagram up for the liberals. B-D-S. The S is sanctions. S. We got to do it backwards on a thing, right? So, because everything's backwards in the camera.

Whatever. You get the point. Backwards S. S. Sanctions. Oh. Drew, you should have fun with this today. Who's he talking and for those of you on radio by the way kbc7i who just found this on radio joe is the producer of the show paula is my wife who produces video and drew produces the video afterwards so sometimes because i don't do

anything like you're supposed to do they tell you on radio never to do so i don't care we throw all the rules that's why this show has been such a success because we follow our own rules. I talk to Drew, even though Drew's not even here because I know Drew's going to be watching the show later doing the show. That's the Drew you hear on the radio. If you see our YouTube, Drew did that.

He's not here right now. He is not. But Joe is and Paula is. It's a family affair. Oh, this has been a great show today. One of my favorites. All right, folks, thanks again for tuning in. I really appreciate it. Paula, yell at me if I don't tease my interview this week. On my interview show this week, we record on Friday. We launch it on Saturday morning. This Saturday, the great one, the greatest of radio hosts, our good friend Mark Levin. You're not going to want to miss this.

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