The Dan Bongino Show - The Greatest Constitutional Crisis Since the Civil War (Ep 923)

Episode Date: February 25, 2019

In this episode I address the massive constitutional crisis staring us in the face. I also address the latest embarrassing comments by Green New Deal proponents. Finally, I debunk the media story that “hate crimes” are rising due to President Trump. News Picks: Conrad Black’s devastating new piece makes the case that we are in the midst of the biggest constitutional crisis since the Civil War.   Clueless Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez brags about spending more of your tax money on her office expenses.   This one question turns socialists into capitalists.    The top 5 arguments against climate change alarmism.   Are “hate crimes” really on the rise?   Some Democrats are increasingly worried about the radical shift in their party.    You are making a big difference. The unnecessarily political Academy Awards program is struggling to maintain its audience.   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 all right welcome to the bongino show producer joe how are you today good morning vietnam i knew it i knew it i knew you were gonna say so i i made it here over to vietnam i was just in the gym the gym in the novotel here here in Vietnam and Hanoi is actually really good. Hotel gyms are the worst. This gym is really good. They have like high tech pre-core equipment and stuff. Not a lot of free weights, but enough to get a good workout up to like 55 pounds.

And I'm in the gym and I'm thinking to myself, I know what Armacost is going to say. He's going to definitely go in Robin Williams. I knew it. I could have totally predicted that before the show. So I made it over here, folks. Really nice hotel. People are great. They're super nice. Very, very kind. And it was like the longest flight ever. Two hour ride to Miami, six and a half hours to LA, three hour layover, 12 hours to Nikita, Narita, excuse me. This isn't the movie, La Femme Nikita. To Narita in Tokyo, two-hour layover,

ran into some cool DSS guys, Diplomatic Security Service guys in the airport who recognized me. They're like the secret service for the State Department. So I talked with them for like two hours. Seven hours, six and a half hours to Hanoi and then like an hour to the airport. So it was quite a journey getting over here.

But as you know, I don't skip shows. And I was telling Armacost that, So it was quite a journey getting over here. But as you know, I don't skip shows. And I was telling Armacost that Joe's like, you sound just chipper. And I am because, folks, I didn't sleep for any extended period of time for about 36 hours. I got horizontal at one point at the final flight because I was dying, but I only slept like two hours. So when I got into the hotel, folks, keep in mind, if you're on Eastern time in New York, we're exactly 12 hours ahead here in Vietnam. So I get into the hotel like two in the morning. So my brain thinks it's two in the afternoon, right? New York time, DC time, Florida time.

So I'm really tired cause I haven't slept on a plane, but I want to go to sleep cause I'm trying to stay on Eastern time. So the podcast sounds like, you know, it should sound and that, uh, uh, and, and I can do the Fox schedule. Long story short is I go downstairs for breakfast here. Four hours later, I wind up staying up unbelievably another four hours. I'm dying. It's 6.00 AM local. So six P your time. And I hook up with Ann Henry from Fox and we're talking, you know, the Fox people are all here. We're rolling the same, same hotel. And we talked for like two hours. So I went to sleep at eight, eight o'clock in the morning, local after breakfast and slept 12 straight hours, 12 hours. So when I got up a little while ago, uh, I was feeling fine. So I'm ready to go. Sorry for the long winded intro, but, uh, I, you know, I, I love my audience. So love my audience. Sometimes I feel like I want to read you in

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Why isn't he just declassifying the material? I want to get to that because it's important. and i want to give you a little background on some things we may have missed because it's been a while uh so don't go anywhere but before i get to that i want to get to some aoc stuff i know it drives some of you crazy but she's just become such a disaster now for the democrats i mean it uh she has you may say our aoc go cause your cortes she's not a disaster the democrats are all socialists listen ladies and gentlemen um yes a lot of the democrats are Their party has taken a far left lurch. But there are still people over there who care about power only power only. I'm not lauding them. I'm not applauding them. I'm not giving them any credit for anything. I'm just telling you that the Democrats are obsessed with power. And some Democrats who are sane are starting to realize

that going out there and talking about farting cows, paying people not to work, and a ridiculous Green New Deal, which would bankrupt the United States in record time, is a disaster for their party. Not everyone on the Democrats, they're all power hungry, and they're all big government self-destructive folks, but they're not stupid. And they're getting that she is blowing up the entire party. So first, I wanted to play this sound I sent over to Joe, which is just... Listen, I don't even know what to... Let me just play. I'll comment on it after. This is so bad. And then hat tip, by the way, Ryan Sevigia from The Daily Wire, who put together this little... What do we want to call it, Joe? Comparison of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

and someone we've used on the show before. Play that cut. So people are like, oh, it's unrealistic. Oh, it's vague. Oh, it doesn't address this little minute thing. And I'm like, you try. You do it. Right.

Because you're not. Because you're not. So until you do it, I'm the boss. How about that? You heard it here. And all these a**es laughing like it's so funny. She's talking about the audience. That they're laughing at her.

Did you say the a**es are laughing? Yep. So the audience are a bunch of a**es? Yep. Catch me outside. How about that? Huh? Catch me outside.

How about that? Catch you outside? What does that mean? What I just said. Dude. We did not do that. That's Ryan Savedra, Daily Wire. Someone sent it to me. we've used the how about that uh uh late young lady from the dr phil before uh that that's who that is and that's

alexandria ocasio-cortez in the beginning talking about the green new deal i'm in charge how about that i'm in charge and if you if you don't propose something different now listen we can make fun of this all day and i think think Ryan does a good job. Listen, humor is a devastating weapon, Joe. But the reality is there's a very easy comeback to all of this. So, Casey O'Cortez is turning into a total disaster for our party. We have tried something different. Joe, it's called economic freedom and capitalism.

That's why the United States is leading the world in the reduction of carbon dioxide emissions from their own factories. Listen, carbon dioxide is not even uh a toxin it is a natural byproduct of respiration having said that even for the left that measures co2 emissions as some uh some metric of fidelity to their economic cause right even by their own standards the united states is leading the world in co2 emissions so when ocasio-cortez goes, how about that? I'm in charge. How about you either propose something different or you basically shut your mouth.

How about that? How about that? And she's talking like the Dr. Phil gal, right? We did try something different. And it worked by your measure. I mean, this woman is a disaster for our party. A total. How do you think that looks?

I'm in charge at what you're not in charge. Give it a rest. Take it down a notch. You're one of 435 members of Congress. You represent roughly 700,000 people in a district in Queens and I believe portions of the Bronx. Take it easy. Calm down. I'm in charge.

I like she's some kind of a tyrant. I'm in charge. You either post something different or how about that? I'm president and you're not. Play it again. I'm president and you're not. Exactly. Now, there is one guy in charge of the executive branch of government, a third of our system. I don't support, you know, of course, usurping power anywhere. But the president does actually have power over the executive branch, I believe,

in the unitary executive model, and he is in charge. You are not. You're not even the speaker. You're not even in charge of the floor schedule. How about that? I love this guy. I love this guy. Joe's such an integral part of the show. God forbid, Joe. Nothing can ever happen to you, ever. Guy's indispensable. How about that? Perfectly timed. She's not even in charge of the floor schedule. Now, it doesn't just end there, but I wanted to leave that. Not just to listen. It's easy to make fun of. And humor is a potent weapon. I say that all the time. But folks, this argument is simple. The leftists who support this Green New Deal that's turning into a total embarrassment for the Democrat Party are

coming back with this argument that if you don't propose something different to their self-destructive, economically destructive, hilariously stupid plan, that that is in fact a measure of your failure, not theirs. That's like saying, Armacost, I'm going to kill you with a chainsaw. You got something different in mind? You got something different? What's wrong with you, idiot? Like you're the moron here, right? So you got something different, dude. So folks, the argument back is simple. The United States is leading the world in CO2 reductions, a measure of their success because we are one of the more economically free countries who have found ways to reduce

what they consider to be pollution, not us, through economic freedom and investments, free market investments. I always think of that story of the paper factory I went to when I was running for Congress in Maryland, where the guy said to me years ago, they used to throw away all these scraps of paper. And now because it was economically made sense for them, they found a way to recycle it back to pulp and make money off it.'s called capitalism numbskulls liberals i'm talking to of course figure it out all right another thing that happened with ocasio-cortez um and i refuse that we can't stop talking about this because she her profile in this party is gaining amongst the radical left as she becomes a pariah for the you know the power-seeking moderates in the party. So another story came out this week, Joe, about her.

She's celebrating on her Twitter account, ridiculously so. Did you see this story, Joe? She's celebrating that she pays her staff an entry-level salary of $52,000 a year. I did not see that, no. Yeah. She's celebrating, and she goes, look what I did. I support a living wage for all these people. I pay them $52,000 a year.

Joe, let me ask you a quick question. You're pretty familiar with politics and members of Congress. Is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez paying her staff with her money? Simple question. No. No, right? She's paying with your money. She's paying with your money, Joe, and my money.

So this is the hilarious absolutely ridiculous laughable democrat party that the only time they support economic inequality and a quote living wage is when they're paying with other people's money this isn't even her money now what's even more ridiculous about this is how do you think her senior staff members feel that some of their raises and their benefits as they've been more experienced they've worked up on the hill they've spent time in school or overseas in the in in in the diplomatic secure excuse me the diplomatic corps doing work in foreign countries they have some experience how do you think they feel that their raise or their money is being given away to an entry level

good for them entry level personnel who hasn't hasn't accumulated the value-added skills yet this is the democrat party folks do you understand this so the two takeaways she only believes in a living wage and income equality when it's not her money no she's not giving them the extra money and secondly how do you think this feels to the people who've accumulated skills worth more than 52 000 a year the answer is it probably feels pretty crappy now i'll bet she's not having a hard time recruiting because there's probably some ideologues who just want to say they worked for her to get jobs with radical far-left lobby firms after they're done but this is just completely outrageous that the uh representative cortez doesn't even understand basic economics now um yashir ali on

twitter he's you know i i me and him had a beef a while ago. I don't even remember what it was about, but he can be a down-the-center guy sometimes. And sometimes he goes, but he tweeted something that's just, I'm sorry, but it's just wrong. I'm not trying to pick a fight with the guy. But he tweeted the people who are criticizing this AOC thing about her paying entry-level people $52,000 a year. They don't understand how the budgeting works. She gets a fixed amount of money, and she can allocate it as she sees fit. Okay, point stipulated. What does that have to do with anything?

Right. Joe, I don't get it. What does that have to, I don't understand what that has to do. One, it's still not her money. The fixed pot of money she gets is from us. It's not her money. It's our money, number one. And number two, money that's unused, she's free to refund oh people don't do

that oh no ran paul does it all the time so just to be clear it's still our money like that's in that's not in dispute so because it's our money she can afford to pay staffers not you know for skills they don't yet have because it's our money she can overpay them and because it's a fixed budget who cares she can refund the money i mean joe doesn't that sum up the problem of government right there it kind of reminds me um when i was in the secret service i you know one time there's this thing like oh you got to go out before the spending deadline and spend this money we don't get the money next year who would ever do that in a regular business in a in a free market you wouldn't it's because it's other people's money that she feels like she can allocate it because oh oh, she's been given it, so she has to spend it.

No, she doesn't have to spend it. If she doesn't have people who are worth those kinds of skills, then don't pay them and give us our money back. Step up. Yeah, exactly. You want to, I mean, seriously, you want to, you know, you want to be a leader, then lead by example. I mean, Rand Paul does it.

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they may take stone down but this is it's going to end with a big whimper. I've been getting emails and tweets from people saying, well, now that it's going to end, what is Trump waiting for on the declassification side? And let me be very specific what I mean. Trump has ultimate declassification authority as the president of the United States. He can order people to declassify information to let the public see it. Now, we've all suspected from the start, based on information we've got from Devin Nunes, Jim Jordan, Mark Meadows, John Ratcliffe, and others who have followed this case extensively up in Congress, that some of the information that's been classified, both in the FISA warrant, Joe, and some of the email information, when I say that, I mean the emails from the FBI and the texts from those individuals back and forth is potentially devastating. Now, why isn't he doing that? Well,

let me go on the record here and say, I am sure he is going to. I think he's waiting. I think he's waiting for this to wrap up. Let Mueller finish his thing. Let Mueller sign off on the project. Get Mueller out of the pictures. Mueller's clearly right now, his only goal in this entire thing has been to obstruct Trump and keep the heat on Donald Trump. As I've said from the beginning, Mueller's not a good guy. Any, I'm sorry, but anybody, I have a lot of friends in this business doing great work on this case. We have sincere disagreements about Mueller and Rosenstein and that's okay. I doesn't risk, I respect them a thousand percent, but I think they're wrong. Um, Rosenstein and Mueller are not good guys in this. I'm sure of it.

But one of the things I think they're hiding, Joe, is the United off from the British in about the fall of 2015 that they may have had something on Mike Flynn. Now I've talked about this before. Mike Flynn was hated by the Obama administration. Lieutenant General Flynn was running the Defense Intelligence Agency under the Obama administration. And it's important to keep this in context. Keep in mind what we're talking about here. The lead of the story is what is going to be in the D-class? What's so damaging that they're hiding?

What they're hiding is a clandestine effort between U.S. intelligence agencies and foreign intelligence agencies to ding U.S. citizens for political reasons. Does that make sense, Joe? That's the lead of the story. So let me go. So there was a tip-off, clearly, in the fall of 2015 from the British about Flynn. Remember this. Flynn's hated by the Obama administration. Why?

Because he opposes the Iran deal. He has spoken out vigorously about the dangers the Iranians present to us, how the Iran deal is a bad deal. And Flynn is a lieutenant general who's very well respected in the intelligence community. He's got a decorated career in the military. He's a real patriot and a hero. Obama knows this guy is dangerous because of his, you know, to use the dreaded DC word,

gravitas in the IC. He needs this guy sidelined or he needs this guy to appear dirty that he's somehow conflicted by these foreign contacts. This is the genesis and my humble belief of the entire Russian collusion scandal. They've already tried this template on John McCain. They try it on Mike Flynn. They're going to try it again on Donald Trump. The Russians are just, it's just easier to nail the Russians with it for a number of different reasons. So conveniently, right around December of 2015, Mike Flynn has this dinner with Vladimir, Vladimir Putin's at the dinner.

It's an RT dinner and he's there, Russian television dinner. And right around the fall of 2015, he's at this dinner and accusations start to swirl that he's had some inappropriate contact with a Russian woman there there the charges are debunked know what it's total nonsense i want you to keep in mind because even saying it you know is bad because then it impugns like well there's no there there i assure you the dia looked into it this the russian woman is it is has vigorously denied any of this uh it was like oh well she was showing him a postcard of some like naked person or something it's just so stupid the charges are absurd but because they have this template because remember if you if you're a regular listener my show you know the democrats tried this russian

collusion narrative already on on john mccain when hillary was running the last time against obama for the nomination so this has been tried before and we already know from the wall street journal article that glenn simpson who used to write for the wall. So this has been tried before. And we already know from the Wall Street Journal article that Glenn Simpson, who used to write for the Wall Street Journal, has already written numerous pieces about the players in the ex-Soviet empire trying to woo American politicians. So the movie script is already there. They try it on McCain. They're going to try it again on Flynn. How do we know this? Folks, do you remember the text from Peter Stroke, the counterintel investigator, who is knee-deep in the Hillary scandal? He is deeply connected to McCabe and everyone else. And he's the guy who later goes on.

This is very, very, very important. He's the guy who later goes on to be one of the lead investigators in the Trump case. to be one of the lead investigators in the Trump case. Right around the same time, Flynn meets with, he sits at the same table as Putin at this Russian television dinner. That text comes out about how they're looking for approval

for OCONUS laws. OCONUS, meaning outside of the United States, outside of the continental, and that's what that stands for. Oconus, outside of the continental United States. In other words, people who are foreign lords, people who are lords, like bait, to bait people in. for approval to use these foreign lures. This happens right after this meeting. It's not a meeting, I shouldn't say, where Flynn attends this dinner for Russian television and Putin is there. This happens right around the same time, folks. Now, the question has always been, what the heck are they talking about? Who are these OCONUS lures? Who are these people, these bait people they're using to bait people in. Well, the options at this point, knowing what we know about the investigation, are quite limited. There are a number of suspects.

One of the lead suspects in this, Joe, is Stefan Halper. Stefan Halper, now, here's where the connection is. Remember where the lead of the story here. They're hiding an illicit connection between US and foreign intelligence to spy on Americans. That's the lead here. So at this dinner, they're looking for some foreign lures, people out of the United States to lure people in. What happens after that dinner? The United States starts getting negative information on Flynn regarding that dinner announcement from Stefan Halper, who is a known central intelligence agency asset who has deep connections to the CIA through his family and otherwise. He has been used as an asset by the intelligence agency before. Halper starts

feeding them information, negative information about Flynn. Now, was the lore someone at the dinner? Was the lore Halper? There's a number of suspects here, but it's important because Halper's ties are not just, he's a US citizen, Halper, but he's deeply connected through Hacklett and this Cambridge intelligence seminar. Halper is deeply connected to United Kingdom intelligence officials too. Folks, this is very important, all of this. This is what they're hiding with the FISA and the communications back and forth. Everything that seems to happen has a foreign connection to the United Kingdom or some foreign Intel agency, because Joe,

our, is this making sense? Yeah, we're good. Our Intel agencies have very restrictive rules on spying on American citizens. So there's a political spying scandal here that is bigger folks than anybody can imagine.

I bring this up because a lot of you sent me this article by Conrad Black, which is really, really good. And the title of the article is, This is the Biggest Constitutional Crisis Since the Civil War. It's a damning article. It appeared in the Daily Mail and some other outlets as well. I will put it in the show notes up on Gino.com. You go to the menu, podcasts, and all the articles are connected to the show. Show me my email list. I'll send them right to you. But Conrad Black, ladies and gentlemen, is right. The United Kingdom is terrified that they're going to be exposed, their intelligence agency, as political players, not intelligence players. This is a constitutional crisis because it's clear

right now that people on the president's team were spied on using foreign assets who were not subjected to the strict IC rules the intelligence community has to prevent spying on American citizens. This is a huge scandal and expect nobody in the media at all to cover this. Nobody in the media, excuse me, nobody in the media, I'm talking about the hack media, not like the real media. I'm talking about like the CNNs and the other folks. They won't cover this at all. So I've got a couple of points here. Number one, that text appears right around the same time, December of 2015, they're looking for permission for people outside of the United States to lure people in. That happens right after this Flynn dinner he's at where Putin is there.

All of a sudden, information starts popping into the United States how Flynn is dirty. They're trying to dirty up a decorated lieutenant general with malicious, disgusting charges of basically treason and being a traitor and a sellout to the Russian government when they know these charges aren't true. Now, just a few months later, stroke again, Peter stroke, who's the key to this whole thing.

FBI agent, counter Intel connected to all the big players at the FBI in this. Just a few months after that, to be precise, three months after the Flynn-Putin RT dinner, where all these accusations that Flynn is dealing with the Russians in an untoward manner, he's dangerous, all of this stuff starts happening. girlfriend again. This is about the same time Papadopoulos meets with Joseph Mifsud, another guy connected to Western intelligence. Papadopoulos, Mifsud connected to Western intelligence by his own lawyer's admission. Papadopoulos has been talking a lot lately about Mifsud. Three months after that stroke, Texas girlfriend, FBI lawyer Lisa Page, our boy is talking. That happened around March 2016.

So they need approval for these lures. How people outside the United States to lure people in and bait them in. Who were those people? Were they people at the dinner? Who were those people? Were they people at the dinner? Now, it's becoming pretty clear that Mifsud, that Joseph Mifsud was being used by Western intelligence, potentially the United Kingdom as well, to bait Papadopoulos in again, like they tried to bait him in to try to get him to talk about anything russian connected so they can do the same thing they did to john mccain the same thing they did to uh to uh mike flynn excuse me and the same around the time Mifsud meets Papadopoulos. Now, who is our guy? Who's our guy? Is it Halper? Is it Mifsud? Halper? Is it Mifsud? Folks, I believe the unredacted materials in the FISA are going to be damning. And those materials are going to expose questions like, who were the Oconus lords? Who were the lords they were using to bait people in? Our guy is talking. Excuse me, it says our boy is talking. No, our guy is talking.

Who's that guy? Who is that guy? Are they talking about Mifsud? Keep the lead in mind here, folks. Don't lose where I'm going. This is a scandal and a constitutional crisis of epic proportions. Conrad Black is right. Did we use foreign intel to bait U.S. citizens in and violate their constitutional rights

simply because they were political opponents of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton? These are devastating, devastating questions. Now, here, this is from, I believe this is from the New York Times. A quote from the New York Times. I was going through some of my notes on this on the plane over to make sure I was prepared for this show for you. I believe this is the New York Times. It is unclear whether they highlighted the British role, which has been closely held in the briefing, but it's a critical part of the timeline. that some of the first tip-offs in the fall of 2015 came from voice intercepts, computer traffic, or human sources outside of the United States as emails and other data from the DNC float out of

the country. Hold on. I'm going to go on a second, but this is important. It suggests here that they're monitoring in live time, voice communications via the British who are tipping us off in the fall of 2015 about information about US citizens. And they're tying it to the hacking of the DNC despite the fact that there's no connection between these two at all. Joe, you see where I'm going with this?

They now need a cover. They need a reason why they're doing this. Their reason can't be because they're political opponents. We don't like them. So they figure out if they could tie them and make a connection to the DNC emails, they'll be golden. It goes on. The British picked it up.

And we may have had it about the same time, said one cyber expert who's been briefed on the finding. British intelligence, especially the signals intelligence unit, GCHQ, has a major role in tracking Russian activity. Now, there's been some breaks on that end, too. On the case of the GCHQ, the British NSA, that clearly has a knee-deep role in the monitoring of U.S. citizens to circumvent U.S. law, Joe, the GCHQ has had problems too. The GCHQ has had problems because Bob Hannigan, their director, resigns basically right after the Trump election victory, and resigns for very suspicious reasons. Now, it just came out, Joe,

I just saw this story, that Hannigan may have had a role in writing a letter for some pedophile, was a member of the church over there, a supporting role, and that this is one of the reasons he resigned. Now, that story, there haven't been any denials of that story that he wrote this

letter in support of him so i'm assuming the story is accurate but this is a chicken or egg thing joe in other words what i'm saying is did hannigan really resign because he wrote this i mean listen it's pretty disgusting there's no doubt about it or did hannigan become someone else's political opponent hannigan was a real rising star over in the uk in other words after he figured out he played the wrong side hannigan did hannigan become a target as well and did someone say to hannigan hey um buddy all that gchq spying on us yeah it's not really not really going to work out. Hey, you wrote this letter, right? A while back in support of this guy. You know, this guy's a pedophile, right?

Doesn't look good. Maybe you should step aside. Interesting new developments as the threat for declassification comes out. We see all the players involved in this. All of a sudden, all this stuff starts to come out. It's just crazy how that happens. Now, one more thing. When I talk about this case, I always refer to plan A, plan B, and plan C. Plan A was clearly to just spy, was to use human sources, intercepts, and the British to just basically spy on their political opponent. When they got caught because Mike Rogers outs

them, he requests an audit of the misuse of the NSA for spying. Mike Rogers, I believe, is the good guy in this tale. They move on to making this formal. They move on to plan B. Plan C, of course, is the Mueller cleanup operation. Clean up aisle four, Bob Mueller. Clean up aisle four. Bring your mop, Bob Mueller, aisle four. So Joe, it's clear at this point that they understand when they get outed that they have to move on to a more robust plan, that they can't just rely exclusively on unmaskings and unmitigated spying anymore because they're setting off too many alarms. So what do they do? They move on to the FISA courts. Now, remember, April 30th, 2016. Remember the text from Stroke, and it'll start to make sense, Joe. Stroke texts his girlfriend about a month after the Mifsud Papadopoulos encounter, and our guy is talking stuff. He says, and now we've switched from the Patriot Act to a wire carrying current.

Let me translate what he probably means there. Stroke. Again, this is a month after. They probably got some information from a human source. Hence the text, our guy is talking. Was that Halper? Was it Mifsud? Was it someone connected to Mifsud? Was it someone at the Mifsud Papadopoulos meeting? Was it Vinogradova, the Russian at the meeting? Clearly somebody is talking. Now he says guy, so I'm assuming it's obviously a guy, but you never know. I take these people at their, I don't take them at their word for anything. So stroke, text again. And now we switch from the Patriot Act to a wire carrying current.

Here's what I think he means. I think they had accumulated enough information at that point, Joe, via the British and via misuse of the NSA database. Remember my show last week, Nellie Orr, conveniently, a contractor, Russian language person, language specialist. All of a sudden, we have all these allegations that they're using contractors to tap into the database. It's just awfully convenient, isn't it?

Now we know Nellie Orr may have produced her own dossier, which she handed off to her husband in the Justice Department. Folks, all the pieces are starting to fit together now. What that says to me, now we switch from the Patriot Act. The Patriot Act, he's probably referring to the business records provision that is used to spy on people under the Patriot Act, which by the way, so we're crystal clear, I have never, ever agreed with ever. Not that I've been accused otherwise, but sometimes you get these liberals, well, where were you speaking out against the Patriot Act before? I don't know, just Google my name and you could see when I was running for office in 2011, screaming about the Patriot Act and how terrible it was. So I don't know, just do some research. It just upsets me

when people do that because you're questioning my credibility the patriot act was a republican uh measure passed by george w bush's administration which is terrible what i think stroke is referring to joe is a business records provision which allows them to spy on american provision uh american citizens using an expanded definition of what business records are i mean what are they talking about library cards i mean they're talking about business emails? So I think Stroke is saying we're moving on from strict spying under Patriot to wire carrying current meeting people

at the locations, human sources who may be recording. The question is how many recordings are out there now? I'll bring this up and I want to move on because I got other stuff to get to too. The reason I bring up the idea of recordings, folks, is because Jim Jordan, Devin Nunes, and others who are intimately familiar with this case have said multiple times that there is exculpatory information out there that you have not yet seen. In other words, there is information likely about Papadopoulos and others involved in this case, potentially Mike Flynn, that are likely recordings that

indicates, watch out, that they are not guilty of the accusations put out there and presented before them. What does that tell you, folks? That says that not only was the government involved in a ridiculous, absurd, outrageous, unconstitutional spying scandal in the Barack Obama's administration, but that the spying in and of itself produced evidence of innocence, not guilt, and they still ran with it anyway. Conrad Black is right, folks. We are looking at a massive constitutional crisis of the highest order, and will have to will have to be prosecuted over this frustrating very very frustrating to talk about i sense your frustration i read your emails um folks that we can't give up though i know i know a lot of you like forget it no one's been arrested yet i i we have to hang in there's nothing else we can do i'm not giving up and you

shouldn't either the president knows what's coming He's intimately familiar with what's going on. He knows once he declassifies, all of these questions are going to come out. Everything I just talked about, the British is involved, the Brit, the British involvement, excuse me. I'm not, I promise you, I'm not like losing my mind. I slept great. The British involvement in circumventing us intelligence restrictions, the fact that exculpatory information is out there, and the fact that we may have used lures to lure people, bait people in otherwise known as entrapment to nail their political enemies. This is devastating.

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oh hate crime hysteria hate crime mister we need like a joe do you have any kind of dramatic like thing we we need one of those for the hate the hate crime hysteria thing that's going on right now everything's a you know and there's a reason this is happening after these jesse smollett actor from empire joe after that case fell apart the media understanding their role in propagating uh the the myth that smollett was attacked uh by people wearing maga hats who hated him and and screamed these racial and and uh and uh anti-gay epithets at him after that collapse the media needed to somehow save their reputations joe so the line just like you know uh the aoc line on the green deal has changed from uh you know this thing stinks to well what

do you got how about that what do you got i'm in charge now how about that just like they've changed to produce something or i'm in charge to hate the the smallette narrative now is well just because smallette may have been involved in a hoax here doesn't mean hate crimes aren't exploding and it's all donald trump's fault so of course joe we have our resident fact uh checker on our site who uh we brought in. I pay Matt Palumbo to do one thing and one thing only. I said, Matt, I need you to look at this hate crime stuff. And I want a detailed analysis of this one question.

Here's the headline. Headline. Remember, let's go. Headline. Are hate crimes going up under the Donald Trump administration? The answer is, folks, not the way the liberal media is saying it, which is no surprise at all. Okay. Let me give you some headlines first.

This is in my piece. Folks, this is a really terrific piece. I strongly, strongly encourage you. Oh, sorry. I just got a bad text. Hold on. Don't cut this out. My wife just texted me from home

Amelia has a stye in her eye is that bad do you know anything about that Joe? It's kind of like a pink eye thing it itches a lot is it bad? No it's pretty common with kids and some adults as well yeah yeah you can leave this in the chat I love my

my wife just texted sorry folks but you're all part of it's really irritating to deal with. I mean, it itches and it's red and funky. Why does this, you know, and for those of you who travel, don't you, this always happens when you're on the road. Did you notice that? Well, if you have a doc, if there's any docs in the audience, can you email my wife info at Bungie?

You know, if you know if this dies, if that's bad, well, she'll take her to. I'm not a doctor. Yeah, yeah, I know. But I'm looking for the. Yeah, it just happened here on the show. So let me read to you some headlines. This is the Washington Post, St.

Louis Dispatch, San Francisco Chronicle and United Press Chronicle, respectively. Here are headlines after the Smollett case fell apart. Hate crimes rose 17 percent last year, according to new FBI data. That's a WAP wapo hate crimes are increasing alongside trump's rhetoric at st louis post uh hate crimes in the u.s california surge in the first year of the trump presidency uh san francisco chronicle uh fbi surge in hate crimes in 2017 the largest since 9 11 uh united press chronicle okay uh each arguing a similar message as matt writes that hate crimes are on the rise and that we can blame Donald Trump for. Please, folks, read this piece because it shows again how almost nothing the left ever tells you is BS. Now, we'll put the facts out there. You can decide. Here are the actual facts. Law enforcement did, in fact, report 7,175 hate crimes in 2017. That is up from 6,121 in 2016. So folks, you may say, okay, well,

you're just making their point, Dan. Hate crimes are up by roughly 1,000 as reported in 2017. Ladies and gentlemen, listen, nothing the media tells you is, they tell you things without context to lead you to believe that somehow this is Donald Trump's fault. Here's the real data when we start peeling off the layers of the onion and get to the message underneath that you can be rest assured I'm telling you the truth here. What they leave out of that, folks, is there were over 1,000 additional agencies contributing information to the FBI's Unified Crime Reporting Program in 2017 in contrast to 2016. Each new agency, therefore, would only need to report one hate crime to explain the entire rise. So let's be clear here. The headline from the media, hate crimes are rising in the Trump era.

They leave out the fact that the agency's reporting are rising in the Trump era. Now, you may say, okay, Dan, so it's just more agencies reporting, but there could also be more hate crimes. That doesn't absolve the newspaper of their responsibility. In other words, they're not wrong. There are more hate crimes being reported, even though there's more agencies. Okay, well, let's dig into the data even more. Joe, I'm going to ask you a question as the audience. If Donald Trump is the anti-Muslim, anti-minority racist, they're painting him out to be right. So the point one and hate crimes are supposedly increasing in the Trump administration, according to the hack media.

Don't you think that the hate crimes, if they believe he's some kind of a racist, which is absurd, would be increasing against, uh, against black American citizens and Muslims. Is that reasonable? Yeah. Simple question. I'm not messing with you.

Of course it's reasonable that you would, if you're making the allegation that Trump is anti-Muslim and anti-black and that hate crimes are up, that those are in fact the groups that would be on the sad receiving end of a hate cross. Um, well that's not the case joe of course because the media is never telling you the truth here from matt palumbo's piece hate crimes not only

didn't increase joe they decreased against some of the groups in 2017 that the media would like us to believe are under siege in donald trump's america hate crimes against muslims decreased from 307 incidents to 273 from 2016 to 2017 folks is this me i don't understand like the data is so easy to read when you get past the stupid media headlines that you wonder if anybody out there is actually doing genuine journalism anymore or if anybody even cares so the number of reporting agencies went up which could easily have led to the thousand i mean which corresponds by the way led to the thousand. I mean, which corresponds by the way,

directly to the increase, a thousand more reports of hate crime, a thousand more agencies reporting. Secondly, you're making an allegation absurd on his face that Trump is somehow anti Muslim or anti black. And in fact, anti Muslim hate crimes,

the reports went down, not up. Meanwhile, the number of anti transgender hate crimes declined by a third and the number of anti-transgender hate crimes declined by a third, and the number of anti-male hate crimes tripled. But this is due to an extremely small sample size. For most part, the increase in hate crimes, increase that there were more reporting agencies, was proportional across the board. Matt writes a great point here, which is exactly what we would expect if the rise was due to increased agency reporting and not increased targeting of a particular group.

Folks, if the increases across the board amongst all these racial and sexual orientation and sex based groups that were categorizing people, if it's across the board, we've had a thousand new agencies and it wasn't isolated to one specific group that you're alleging Trump is targeting, it rebuts you and basically knocks down your entire point that it's Trump's rhetoric that's involved in this increase. There was no increase in the group you target the most that you're saying, oh, he's Trump's anti-Muslim. He's not. It's stupid. You're making it up. Here's another one. here's another one so one of the other talking points that they're throwing out there joe as well there has been an increase in anti-semitic hate crimes and they did in fact rise 57 percent in 2017 joe but here's matt's piece again the entire rise joe was attributable to one guy

who was phoning in bomb threats to synagogues. Without him, when you take him out of the scene, this one maniac, anti-Semitic violence actually decreased by 47% according to the Anti-Defamation League's own statistics. Folks, again, nothing the media is telling you is true. You need this information to get into a healthy back and forth with your liberal friends who are trying to gaslight everybody, make stories up to paint Donald Trump as they try to paint every conservative,

prominent conservative out there as a racist, anti-Muslim xenophobe. None of it is true. Hate crime reporting went up because agency reporting went up. It was proportional across categories, which indicates it wasn't directed at any particular group. And the one group they always come out on TV and indicate Trump is anti being anti-Muslim. The number of reported hate crimes against Muslim groups actually went down. And if you take the one guy out of the anti-Semitic category here, the one guy calling in the bomb threats to synagogues all over the country, anti-Semitic violence dropped by 47 percent. bomb threats to synagogues all over the country anti-semitic violence dropped by 47 percent but don't let that get in the way of your fairy tales oh gosh so uh okay moving on i have another article today i should have probably covered this right after the aoc stuff another article about the green new deal it's a pretty decent

article with some nice sub-links inside of it and YouTube videos and things like that. The title of the article is Five Articles Against Climate Alarmism. I'm not going to cover every one of them. You can read the piece yourself, and there's a lot of good sub-links in there and videos as well. I haven't covered this often, but given the prominence now of the Green New Deal and the vigorous defense by AOC, how about that? I'm in charge now? How about that? You know, given all that, I feel like we should engage in some of it. Well, one of the things that you hear being thrown out there by climate alarmists like AOC and others, Joe, is the famous Barack Obama tweet about

97% of climate scientists agree that the world is going to explode tomorrow. No, that climate change is in fact real. Ladies and gentlemen, that is a bogus nonsense statistic. This piece addresses it, undresses it, breaks it apart. There's even a video on it if you care to watch it. What actually happened with that is that it's a number of people who responded to a survey directed at certain climate scientists. And the question was not, you know, is climate change going to lead to the destruction of humankind? It was basically, is's the climate changing. So the number that it was not some kind of formal study.

Now there was a pretty decent survey done of people who are members of the American meteorological society. In other words, show people who understand meteorology, meteorology, the effects of weather and climate, which are not the same thing. And an interesting result from this,

which largely debunks this 97% figure, remember, it was only the people who responded. So I guess the best way to describe that, this 97% number is the people who are always most motivated to respond to a survey. Think about customer service surveys you get, right? If you had an okay experience on an airline, do you respond to those generally i mean no no no right no i don't either i mean you just i you know me and joe are busy you're busy at home you work you get you know kids around get food on the table if it wasn't okay there was nothing particularly great or awful about it was you know it was an airline ticket you did what you had to

do you just delete it from your email you're like okay fine i'm out thanks but have a nice day who are the people who respond the people who respond and why a lot of these reviews tend to skew negative like the world's gonna collapse climate change is real are the people who have a vested interest in doing it they want a refund for a crappy experience they had on an airline um i just took one of these recently. I'm not going to say what airline, but because it wasn't, I don't want to hurt them and it wasn't that catastrophic, but I get on a plane and usually I carry my suit when I have to do Fox and stuff. I don't fold it up. I just hang it. Or if I have to, I stick it in the overhead and I'll just fold it in half so it doesn't get all

wrinkled. But 999 out of a hundred times, if there's a closet, the flight attendant will say, Hey, you want me to hang that for you? So I asked the lady on one of these airlines, I'm like, Hey, you mind if I hang this? She goes, no. She tells me no. She goes, no. Meanwhile, keep in mind the closets. I'm like the last guy in the place. Closet's empty. So I look at her and I'm like, I'm going to make a scene about it. I'm like, okay. So I'm walking in the back and the other lady says, Oh, the other flight attendant goes, you should have asked her to hang that up front. I go, I did. She told me no.

She goes, oh, okay. And I just jam it's all wrinkled. But so I actually responded to the survey because I was motivated. I'm like, what kind of crappy customer service is this? Like he could have hung the thing. But I know, crazy story. So the whole point is that people who are most motivated to respond, that's what happened with the survey.

It's not coincidental that 97% of the people who responded indicated that the climate change was real the climate is changing it is real it should have been 100 the question should have been more appropriately uh stated is man human beings are we causing changes changes in the climate well that question again sorry to get i should have just got right to to the point, was asked to these meteorologists, and only 52% said that it is primarily man-made. So your points about that are just nonsense. It's 97%. There's also some interesting charts in the piece indicating that unusual weather events, super powerful hurricanes, super storms like that, and dramatic increases in temperature, folks, are really a largely man-made myth on the left. When you look at the charts and the piece I have in the show notes, you'll see, folks,

that the temperature hasn't changed much at all. And the number of unusual weather events has gone down, not up. So again, the left is making this up. Representative Cortez and others are making this up. It's climate alarmism. It's climate alarmism for a reason. They reason they want to command and control economy just like socialists where government controls the means of production and their vehicle to do that and get in there is going to be through you know the environment you know what they they call them um the red green axis you know what were prior uh communists and socialists who just wanted to command and control economy because they thought government bureaucrats could do better when that fell apart after the Soviet Union, they moved on to environmentalism. Environmentalism as a way to institute things like government control over the economy. You

can see that in Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's New Deal. So think about that. One other thing is when they use measures for historical temperature, folks, they use things like ice cores and dendrochronology. Dendrochronology is the study of the depth of tree rings. And they think they can correlate that to temperature. Ladies and gentlemen, it's absurd to try and make... Now, there is some correlation to temperature and CO2 emissions in the atmosphere and the depth of the tree ring, because plant life does reverse

respiration for us. We breathe in oxygen, expel carbon dioxide. They obviously do the opposite. Basic biology, you all know that. So the presence of heavy amounts of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere can be associated with a thicker tree ring, meaning it was healthier that year. But Joe, the level of precision in that measurement is, is not even close to the level of precision they say it is. So be very careful of tree ring data. When they cite tree ring data as evidence of historical temperatures, ladies and gentlemen, they don't know that they can't even correlate tree ring data to

temperature 10 years ago. Forget about a thousand years ago. It's a bunch of crap. Might as well read tea leaves. Yeah. Yeah. Read it. They are.

That's what they're doing. Read the, basically read the TV. Uh, one final story here for the day and i will let you roll from vietnam um you are having an effect i have a deadline.com story what you're doing is working ladies and gentlemen hollywood receipts are down dramatically hollywood has taken a far left lurch we all know that you and i have fought back i'm very limited in my movie

consumption now. Matter of fact, one of the things I like about plane rides is I can watch movies I don't have to give any money for. I don't have to pay for anything. And I can basically consume all their content and not give them a dime, which is absolutely terrific. So I'll see movies with my kids, but I used to go every weekend. You're having an effect. There's an article at Deadline about how the Hollywood receipts are down, but not just that, Joe. The Academy Awards for the first time, the ratings have been going down for so long,

and they're still healthy. I don't want to make it out like no one watches. People are watching, but the ratings are down so significantly due to political BS at the Academy Awards show that they've had. You're familiar with the radio industry and how advertising works, even with our show.

Joe, we don't give guarantees because we don't need to because our show grows every month. The Academy Awards have had to give their advertisers, they're looking at guarantees for next year's show. In other words, well, give us this amount of money for an ad, we can guarantee you this because they're not even sure anymore that the audience is going to be there.

You're having an effect, folks. It's slow. I understand that. I get with the Trump spygate case and the declassification. Justice is slow, real justice. Fake justice that the left engages in climate, climate justice, spying on political opponents, that's not real justice. That's tyranny.

But when we do it the right way, it is slow and it is deliberate. And you're having an effect. I know it's hard to have to rebut hate crime, hysteria, Green New Deal nonsense, to have to demand people in handcuffs right away. Listen, I'd like to see that too in the Spygate thing. But real justice takes time. And what you're doing now, this quiet, slow, deliberate bleed of the entertainment industry as they start to attack us and take on an anti-conservative bent is working. It's making a real difference. And

advertisers are noticing that money is going to be the ultimate arbiter of how this comes out in the end. That's why you're seeing a lot of these Hollywood studios start to produce a lot of faith-based movies now, because they're starting to realize they may have gone a little bit too far in the other direction. And believe me, money talks and BS walks. All right, folks, thanks again for tuning in. I'll give you some updates on the trip here as we get going. I've only been in Vietnam for about 12 hours now,

so I'll give you some updates during the week about how the summit's going and everything. So don't miss the show this week. It's going to be a lot of good stuff going on. I'll give you some low during the week about how the summit's going and everything. So don't miss the show this week. It's going to be a lot of good stuff going on. I'll give you some lowdown on the skinny underground too. So don't forget. All right, folks. Thanks again.

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