The Dan Bongino Show - The Hapless, Goon Democrats Face-Plant At Hegseth’s Hearing (Ep. 2401)

Episode Date: January 15, 2025

Yesterday was Pete Hegseth's hearing and it went about as expected: with Dems with mud on their face. In this episode, I'll showcase the high and low lights of the hearing and then continue the preparation for President Trump's inauguration. Pentagon fails audit for sixth year in a row Recall effort against Newsom underway in California following alleged mishandling of LA fires Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst backs Pete Hegseth for Pentagon boss, handing big win to Trump 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. Sorry for the conversation starting the show, but I just totally off the beaten path of the show. I left the window open. You may see a little light on the screen. I'm sorry. It's just, it's the shade blowing back and forth.

I left the window open because it's so beautiful down here in Florida. It's like 60, 62 degrees and it's so not Florida weather. It's typically hotter this time of the year. So Justin's like just as casual as, yeah, it's global warming. By their definition is global warming. Global cooling is global warming. Global warming is global warming. Global stability is global warming. Dry season's global warming. Wet season's global warming. Volcanoes are global warming. Global stability is global warming. Dry season is global warming. Wet season is global warming. Volcanoes are global warming.

Hurricanes are global warming. Less hurricanes are global warming. More hurricanes are global warming. Volcanoes are global warming. Tectonic shifts in the plates that cover the Earth is definitely global warming. Snow is global warming. Rain is global warming. Lightning is global warming. Tesla charging stations are global warming. Snow is global warming. Rain's global warming. Lightning's global warming.

Tesla charging stations are global warming. Space launch rockets are global warming. Interstellar beams coming to the United States are global warming. By their definition, Justin, you are 100% correct. It is the truest thing you have ever said. It is global warming. Sorry, but it's just,

is he not right? It's colder in Florida than I've ever felt. It's definitely global warming. Hey, I got a big announcement for you. Woo, Karate Man. I mean, big time Karate Man style. Woo! Guess who's gonna be a guest

on the Dan Bongino radio show tomorrow? Put it in the chat. Who gets it first? Come on, it's not a hard one. Who do you think wants to a guest on the Dan Bongino radio show tomorrow. Put it in the chat. Who gets it first? Come on. It's not a hard one. Who do you think wants to come back on the show? Well, we want him back on the show. A lot of karate men in there. Who said it first?

Let's see who's up. Yes. Merciful whisper. Trump. Well, president elect Trump, former president Trump, soon to be president Trump, 45, 47. Yeah. Oh yeah!

So we'll leave it live on Rumble for you too. Be on the radio show 2.30pm. That is in Eastern Time. Of course it's live. Super excited, barring some catastrophe we hope doesn't happen. President Trump, I'm going to ask him about the pipe bomber, investigations into the FBI. We're going to ask him about all kinds of things, reconciliation package, tariffs. Don't miss that interview.

We really appreciate him coming on. I've also got some explosive information about Senator Tim Kaine, who seemed to be interested in Pete Hedges personal life. What about Senator Tim Kaine? What about him? Hmm. Try Beams dream powder. Get up to 45% off for a limited time at shopbeam.com slash Bungino.

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Michael and Evita, by the way, are up in D.C., Evita's father, Sean Duffy, former congressman, great friend to my family, and an absolutely amazing human being is undergoing his confirmation hearing today in committee. He will likely be the next Department of Transportation Secretary. That's her dad. So Evita had a recorded show today, which is a very good one, by the way. But congratulations to them. I hope everything goes well. I want to count my chickens, but Sean's a good man. I don't foresee any problems. He will be a cabinet secretary. They're up

in DC, global warming up in DC. If you're watching the show on Rumble Live, you will see Justin put up the forecast. It is now a balmy 27 degrees in DC. If you're watching the show on rumble live, you will see Justin put up the forecast It is now a balmy 27 degrees in DC. The globe is definitely heating up beyond recognition They're probably polar bears walking down the streets of Washington DC now. So folks obviously a lot going on I'm gonna get to this Tim Kaine thing in a minute. And the reason this is important is You're being smoked up by a lot of bullshit artists in Washington, DC, who have zero dignity, credibility or integrity themselves and chose to attack a good man and Pete Hagseth yesterday.

The most disgusting piece of filth was commie Tim Kaine. I was given a tip yesterday about Tim Kaine and I'm going to ask you out there, I think Tim Kaine should be put into oath to answer for this, but I wanted to get to this first because there's a lot going on. Folks, I've been warning you about the threat to the inauguration through drones. I've got a lot of sources that have been feeding me information. I am absolutely unconvinced that the Secret Service has a bulletproof, pun absolutely intended plan for a swarm drone attack

in or around the inauguration. I'm not telling you they don't. I'm not telling you they do. I'm just telling you what sources are telling me that they're not confident. Is it safe or not safe? That's a question on the margin, okay? I'm not sure. I'm just telling you I'm concerned. I really wish people would have reached out. The Biden administration, of course, can't stand me. They have zero interest in anyone with any expertise in this, taking an unbiased look at it because they just don't care. But here we go, Zero Hedge, Chinese drone firm, DGI, eliminates the automatic no-fly zones

one week before Trump's inauguration. Oh my gosh, what a coincidence. The judges ruled that is an amazing coincidence. What does that mean? Folks, for those of you who operate drones in these FAA restricted areas, there were certain built-in automated features which made it extremely difficult

for you to fly that drone into an area the FAA says don't fly there, i.e. like over the inauguration. Well, this Chinese firm, can you throw that up again? DJI, which makes an extraordinary number of parts and drones themselves, just conveniently was like, ah, we're gonna dump the automatic feature. Now it's just gonna be like a warning and the drone just conveniently was like, ah, we're going to dump the automatic feature. Now it's just going to be like a warning

and the drone operator will get like a warning, like don't fly there. And as you know, right, Justin terrorists, you know, when it says don't fly there, oh, don't fly there. They are, he's a hundred percent correct. They are absolutely law abiding citizens. So of course they're going to listen to the instructions on the screen.

You think that's a coincidence? Why is your boy here a little worried? You think I'm like the clickbait guy? I didn't even cover the hearing live yesterday. I prefer to be right not first. People want to be first to clickbait guys. I'm telling you about this because I'm concerned. Am I panicked about it? No. The sack of the Washington Field Office and the Secret Service, Matt McCool's a very smart guy. I hope they're on top of this. I'm just saying, if your faith in the system is, well, nobody will fly a drone because we told them not to,

then you better think of a new system. One more thing before we start. I'm gonna cover this at length tomorrow, so don't sweat it. Ladies and gentlemen, a little bit of a language alert right now, so I'm very sorry. But there isn't a human being fucking over America with the double-barreled middle finger more than human filth pile Joe Biden right now. This guy out the door is burning America to the ground. I've been warning you forever.

Have I not? Justin. Yes! Everybody after the election, I warned you that this garbage human being, this corrupt, disgusting sociopath on the way out the door was going to burn America to the ground. This is just in the last few days what he's done and he's still got a few days left to go at the drive-thru Leo Getz style. Took Cuba off the state sponsor of terror list yesterday, basically handing the state of Florida the Republicans forever now. Folks, I live in South Florida. You want to lose Florida forever? Alienate the Cuban population whose families are still in political prisons in Cuba and pull Cuba off the state's

sponsor of terrorists. Good move, you dementia ridden oatmeal brains piece of human filth. Good move for the Republicans because Trump's just going to overturn it in a few days anyway. You just sent a message to South Florida's Hispanic, especially Cuban population, screw you and your families. This...

You'd be like, wow, that was a lot. That's... I'm not done. I'm not done. And Biden's not done either. He is gonna burn the place to the ground, this scumbag. Gary Gensler and his SEC decides yesterday they're going to sue Elon Musk out the door. About what? Something that happened yesterday? No, something that happened years ago. The purchase of Twitter. Why would they do it yesterday? Because you think they have a case against Elon Musk? Bullshit! Because they want Donald Trump to come in and of course toss this bullshit case out to say what?

Yes, you got it. Look Donald Trump is in Elon Musk's pocket This is all about a story not the story. They want to create a story Sue Elon Musk for a phantom crime that they alleged happened or civil violation happened a couple years ago. Okay Sue him for that. There we go. Thank you guys. SEC sues Elon Musk over Twitter acquisition. Alleges he underpaid Twitter by 150 million. Yes, because Elon really needs to save 150 million fellas, right? This guy's got so many money problems. He's worth what? 400 billion? That 150 million. That's probably a tip in a restaurant for him in a Saturday and not even like a it's probably a tip in a Denny's he probably leaves that for the waitress, but he definitely was trying to scam people

That's it no, that's not it I'll go into all this tomorrow in more detail Biden you at the drive-thru Leo Getz style Some of you need to look that up. It was not one of the better lethal weapon movies, but it was pretty funny. Yo, Pesci. Biden has also changed the line of succession

in the Department of Justice. Why? Because people are going to resign before Pam Bondi and others are sworn in, which will leave Biden appointees in charge for just a little bit longer to make sure they can enact new rules and regulations which are going to take Donald Trump now months to overturn on everything from immigration elsewhere.

Why? Because Biden is going to burn the country down on the way out the door. At least that's it. No, it's not. No, it's not. No, it's not. They went to drive through, okay? Biden is the guy at the drive through spitting in your french fries, okay?

You ask for ketchup, he gives you mayonnaise. On Nate's case, that family, be careful. He is also obligating money under the IRA and the American Rescue Plan that hasn't yet been obligated to make sure we shuttle more money out the door, putting Trump in a massive multi-trillion dollar hole before he even steps into office. Why? Because Biden won't stop until he burns America to the ground. Folks, I hate this guy. I really, really do. And you know why? It's not personal.

I've been around this guy, not much. I was on the president's detail, not the VP detail. I know how disgusting he is. He's a horrifying, grotesque, filthy, gross, sniffing, kid sniffing, crackhead son loser, disgusting woman groping piece of human garbage who has never told the truth about anything in his life. And there's not a president in four years in modern times that's done more damage to the country than this guy.

But the fact that we are gonna now spend the first two years trying to clean up this massive mess, this scum left, is just unreal. All right, let's get back to the show about yesterday. So Pete Hegseth's hearing happened yesterday, and there were a lot of interesting things that happened yesterday during the hearing. Now, I'm covering the hearing today.

You got Pam Bondi today, Sean Duffy. He's not gonna be nearly as many fireworks. Yesterday was the big headline event. Pete Hegseth, because the military industrial complex and the Democrats are so freaked out that Pete's gonna come in there and make our military lethal and not a social experiment. So they're really pissed off.

So yesterday were a lot of fireworks, but yesterday's hearing was about more than Pete. It's why I'm gonna cover it today in detail. Don't make it about Pete or this thing. It's about more than Pete. It's why I'm going to cover it today in detail. Don't make it about Pete or this thing. It's about larger things. It's about standards. It's about impropriety. It's about false narratives.

It's about telling a story rather than the story. First I want to, I'm a spreadsheet guy, folks, and I'm going to prove it to you right now. I don't get emotional. Thank you, Senator Joni Ernst. We were hard on Senator Joni Ernst. She was, I thought, giving Pete Hegseth an unusually hard time. He's more than qualified.

But Senator Ernst is now pledging to back Pete for Pentagon boss. You can see the headline in just the news. So good job. That's a plus one for me in a spreadsheet. I'm not getting emotional about it. I'm not gonna forget anything that happened, of course. However, we can't say don't get emotional and then get emotional.

Yeah, screw that. Don't screw it. Good for you. I'm glad you're supporting Pete. Knock on wood here. Outside of any major now obstacles, I see Pete on a glide path now to confirmation. Let's hope that happens. He's the guy for the job. So let's get that out of the way first. But ladies and gentlemen, you won again yesterday. You did. You won again because the media, the military industrial complex, the lobbyists, the social experiment people in the military and failed leaders at the Pentagon

for about the last now what two and a half months since Pete was nominated for the spot, two months or so, have been trying to tell you a story about Pete Hegseth not being qualified. You soundly defeated them yesterday. Even the left noted Pete, Wall Street Journal, which hates Pete Hegseth, they just do read the op-ed column, even had to admit Hegseth just flawlessly parried. You ever parry in boxing? I mean, it was just, it was hapless. It was like a bunch of kids on the Democrat side

would be lectured by the adult in the room. Pete, it was pretty shameless nonsense that happened yesterday. Want to play this one first. Here is crazy Mazie Hirono, easily one of the dumbest members of Congress in general. Obviously on the House side, a matter of fact, on all sides,

you have AOC, you have Dan Goldman, the dumbest male member, the dumbest United States senator. It's up for grabs, but I've got to tell you crazy Maisie Gerono, who looks intoxicated here herself, she is easily up there on the Senate side. The clips of her have gone viral for all the wrong reasons. Here's communist, shameless Maisie Gerono, who looks drunk herself, trying to make up a story about Pete Hegseth,

and again, looking like a total buffoon because she looks intoxicated herself. Check this out. By people who worked with you at Fox News. Do you know that being drunk at work is prohibited for service members under the UCMJ? Senator, those are multiple false anonymous reports peddled by NBC News that run directly contradictory to the dozens of men and women at Fox News Channel who I work with who came on the record and said they never see that.

In your opening statement Mr. Hicks said you commit to holding leaders accountable at all levels. That includes you, of course. And frankly, as secretary, you will be on the job 24-7. Okay, a couple things here. Justin said it right there. Kind of weird to be talking about someone being drunk at work while crazy Maisie Geronimo is slurring her words, it appears drunk at work. drunk at work while crazy Maisie Hirono is slurring her words and appears drunk at work. Was that one of those coffees with a little extra in it this morning, Maisie? I don't know. I mean, if you can lob unfounded allegations, we can too. You were drunk at work. No, Maisie, you were drunk at work.

No, I wasn't. No, no, someone told me you were. Who? I don't know. It was anonymous. Someone called me and said Maisie was drunk at work. Who wasn't? I don't know.

But it's got to be real because they said it the weird thing is about these allegations again false smears of Pete Hegseth is I actually worked with Pete at Fox so did Will Kane so did Rachel so did Sabrina so did all of my producers and I believe Will also Will from my was on my team different whale altogether. It's incredible that we're willing to go on the record with our own names and reputations and say, don't that's fake. Pete Exxon was not drunk at work. You just made that up. And yet you've got anonymous people say, no, no, it's true, but I just don't want to put my name on it. Okay, so you're lying. So you're, so you're lying. So you're lying. I worked with Pete a long time.

Now kind of lighten up the mood a little bit. Pete definitely doesn't drink at work. That I can tell you for a fact. But Pete does like to eat at work. Pete and I were good friends for a long time. We still are. Sent him a text this morning. He was nice to respond. Said, God speed in your new journey.

You did all you can. It's in the Lord's hands now. And he knows that. Here's a little segment we did on Unfiltered. Here's Pete. This is like the happiest guy, most hopeful guy, filled with joy you've ever seen. The nicest guy, a guy who does love Jesus.

He's not a man without sin. He's not gonna tell you otherwise. But he definitely, definitely ate at work. He can do a lot of drinking at work. Check this out. Pete, you know, one of the things I love about you is there are like rules, whatever, on TV. You don't eat on TV, you don't do that.

You know, you and I really don't give a damn about these rules anyway. But as we brought up to our audience before, no one likes eating on TV more than the great Pete Hegseth. We have accumulated more evidence of Pete Hegseth violating the golden rule of television right here check this out. This is a breakfast pie go to crack a bill get a cinnamon roll breakfast by 6.18.

Washington Street mint peppermint kind of I don't know that I would order 2 of these. It's good it feels like bread and I love bread and so I'm gonna be a little picky about it. We order food on SAC and we've been eating really unhealthy. Yes we have. Yeah. We should continue. You know what? It's up in the air. You and I decided we need to start eating healthier. You said no. I made no such choice. You have no interest. I should eat more vegetables and I don't. Pete man, you're just a natural brother. You throw these 1950s, 60s TV rules out to whether you're just rock and roll and do your own thing. Dan, that was like the last two weeks, Dan.

That was like the last two weeks on Fox in Friends. I watched it, brother. You just got to dive in, brother. I watched your show. I watched your show with the boys. I know you do. And I said to Sabrina, I go, we got to do Pete eating on TV again.

And I swear, I said to her, I'm not kidding, she's nodding her head right now. I go, you don't even need a lot of footage. It's just the last two weeks, as you just said. If you look at my face in those things, maybe I was eating too much too. I must've been about 30 pounds heavy back then. In case you think I'm ever making that up,

hey man, this is true. But Guy who was my, has helped me produce The Fox Show, I don't know if you know that. Guy remembers that show. And I'm gonna tell you something about Pete. Pete had to get up really early on Saturday morning. That show was taped. Most of the time, you know what aired on Saturday night,

we used to tape it on Friday. And sometimes we would tape it pretty late. And Pete used to come on. He didn't get paid extra or anything. Why? Because he was a friend. And we just had a good time together. That's who Pete Eggstead is.

I'm sorry to kind of You know put that in but I want to show you who this guy really is. I'm not trying to humanize him He's human he humanizes himself He was that right amazing that he just said right Pete Hegseth is one of the few guests by the way who was never late You know many times Guy and I be sitting here like holy shit, man Seven o'clock is the hit time. What's hard about this? He's like the only guy who was always on time. You know what him having gone to, he's he's been here the longest.

He remembers all this stuff. They tried to tell you a story yesterday to a story, not the story. And it's about bigger things. It's about D.E.I. and lethality. Foreign enemies of the United States have tried to get our military to be about everything but lethality forever because they want the country destroyed and the Democrats want the country destroyed too. That's why Pete Hegseth is an enemy to them.

He wants DEI out and merit back and lethality back. I'll show you what I mean with this again, disgusting segment by Senator Jack Reid, another piece of garbage coming up next. Hey, while we may have won this election, the fight to restore our great nation's only beginning, now's the time to take a stand. Patriot Mobile's leading the charge.

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he's trying to claim all these benefits to DEI, which should be D-I-E, judging people by everything but their merits, skin color, sex, all this other stuff. Notice in this clip here, how he said, and you'll see this all the time. This is why this is bigger than just Pete. He cites no data whatsoever,

just his opinion that DEI, which involves treating people unfairly is somehow beneficial to our military check this out All of it to a service and the all volunteer force visibly reflects the nation it protects Our military is more diverse than it has ever been but more importantly it is more lethal than it's ever been This is not a coincidence. Mr. Hegsted, I hope you'll explain why you believe such diversity is making the military weak. Really? You notice how they throw this out there all the time? I'm going to cover this tomorrow. There's a piece in Axios about this too. Our companies are moving away from DEI and it's so dangerous for the companies. You notice how they just make this stuff up

Can you please explain to me how hiring someone based on the melanin melanin content of their skin or where they were born has anything to do with the lethality of your Operation or the effectiveness of your corporate board your corporation or your small business, please explain it to me without sounding like an asshole please. Notice how the Senator just throws that out there with absolutely zero data to back up whatsoever that DEI has anything to do with the success of your operation. It is successful in destroying it. He says I throw these Thomas Sowell clips in when we're thirsty for content. That's not today. As you can tell, I'm already 24 minutes in. I haven't got like that.

Look, I got that like a quarter of the show. But the great Thomas Sowell had some thoughts on this. If there's one thing I need to get through to you about this D-I-E, die D-E-I bullshit, it's that not only is it not a good thing It is a genuinely evil thing because it requires you in the name of quote equity Ironically to treat people people unequally if I am at a disadvantage because I am a white male Something completely out of my control Not because of my moral character, my work ethic,

but I can't get a job. You are treating me unequally, ironically, in the name of equity. It is not just not good, it is evil and demonic, and it should be condemned everywhere. Watch Thomas Sowell on this quick clip. It's worth your time. Check this out.

anywhere. Watch Thomas Sowell on this quick clip. It's worth your time. Check this out. No, what the government is trying to do, what is to set up programs justified on the assumption that they are equalizing. I think the crucial thing is that when you try to create this equality, you don't create the equality, you create something else. I've been doing studies now for 20 years of programs

designed to increase equality. They increase inequality because even when the programs are designed for disadvantaged groups, they help the affluent members of disadvantaged groups while the lower members of those groups fall further behind than ever before. And not just in the United States, in India, to some extent in Malaysia, the very same thing is happening.

Folks, the evidence is everywhere. This die DEI bullshit does nothing but divide and conquer America, has nothing to do with merit, treats people fundamentally, unequally and in the name of equity destroys equality. Do you understand why yesterday's hearing was about more than that? Do you understand why the Democrats brought that up with no evidence whatsoever? Because the Democrats want America destroyed and the best way to do it is to defenestrate and castrate our military by moving it away from lethality and making it a social experiment. That's why people like Mark

Milley, a pathetic human being, were so horrible for the, you know, were destructive figures in U.S. history. Mark Milley talking about, I want to learn about white rage. Really? You want to learn about Nazism too? Does that have a role in the military? Disgusting. Of course it got worse yesterday. Wait till I get to Tim Kaine. I'm not even close to done with this one. Here's Senator Dick Blumenthal. I want you to watch this. Dick Blumenthal, tricky dick, a lying piece of garbage who lied about his service in Vietnam. Yeah, he was all over Pete yesterday with the faux character issues they just made up.

In case you guys forgot, here's Tricky Dick Blumenthal, Democrat scum, garbage commie, telling you about his service in Vietnam. Do you guys know what the problem with his service in Vietnam is? Anyone have any idea? That just that he's so smart. Still in college too. There was none. That's kind of a problem. It's got a name. It's called Stolen Valor. Don't listen to me. Listen to him. Check this out. We have learned something very important since the days that I served in Vietnam and you exemplify whatever we think about service in Vietnam that never ever happened. Let's get to Tim Cain here for a minute.

I'm going to show you this. Tim Kaine went on this tirade about Pete. I'm not even going to because Tim Kaine's a disgusting human being. I'm not going to play his allegations because they're disgusting and filthy and he's a piece of garbage. Senator Tim Kaine from Virginia, a lot of you forget he was Hillary Clinton's nominee for vice president after she got her caboose handed to her by Donald Trump in 2016. Tim Kaine won on a disgusting filthy rant against Pete Hegseth with a bunch of anonymous,

unfounded, discredited smears. So I got a little tip about Tim Kaine, but before I get into the tip about Tim Kaine, here was Senator Mark Wayne Mullen just absolutely filleting these filth bag U.S. senators for their faux character standards that they can't seem to meet themselves. Check this out. From Massachusetts brought up about serving on a board inside the military industry,

and yet your own secretary that you all voted for, Secretary of Austin, we had to vote on a waiver because he stepped off the board of Raytheon. But I guess that's okay because that's a Democrat secretary of defense. But we so quickly forget about that and then Senator Cain, or I guess I better use the Senator from Virginia starts bringing up the fact that what if you showed up drunk to your job? How many senators have showed up drunk to vote at night? Have any of you guys asked them to step down and resign for their job?

And don't tell me you haven't seen it because I know you have. And then how many senators do you know have got a divorce before cheating on their wives? Did you ask them to step down? No. But it's for show. You guys make sure you make a big show and point out the hypocrisy because the man's made a mistake. And you want to sit there and say that he's not qualified? Give me a joke. It is so ridiculous that you guys hold yourself as this higher standard and you forget you got a big plank in your eye. I think we'll be including that in our top 10 clips of the year, even though it's January.

Folks, these people are disgusting. These people up on Capitol Hill are human filth. They're only up there and the reason they're up there is because they're good liars, that's it. One of the proudest days of my life, although I didn't know at the time, was when I lost in my race for office without sacrificing my principles. You get to be a good liar, you'll get elected.

You can't lie in a swing district, you're not gonna get elected. You know what, I'm okay with that. Got out of different plan. But Mark Wayne Mullen is right. These people are garbage. Ask their families, ask the lobbyists. These people are filth. And Tim Kaine may be the filthiest one of all. So I'm just going to read to you almost word for word in order to protect the identity of a source about something Tim Kaine was up to. Maybe Tim Kaine should go under oath

and ask these questions, given that he has such high standards. Hold on, Tim. I know you're watching, by the way. I know you saw my tweet. We have millions of followers. I know you saw it. You ready? Stand by, last break of the show.

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Don't lose another night of good sleep. Thank you, MyPillow, we appreciate it. So during the show yesterday, I get a tip from a friend who says, Dan, it's really interesting that disgusting Virginia Senator Tim Kaine, communist Democrats attacking Pete, because I have an unimpeachable source,

firsthand witness who told me, well, let's just read it here, that he witnessed Tim Kaine have, quote, nephews, he notes that's not a typo, plural, nephews, Nephews he notes. That's not a typo plural nephews Come to his hotel room late evenings and leave in the morning when he was on the ticket with Hillary He notes and this guy has the nerve to attack Pete mmm

Timbo Just curious you got an answer for that. Is that a conspiracy theory? I mean you're into unfounded allegations the difference with this one is this seems to be founded By a first-hand witness passing this information on what do you say about that? Do you want to go under oath talk about that one? Maybe you should get the people there who made a witness that under oath and maybe they can talk about it I mean you seem to have a lot of unfounded information against Pete Hegseth you seem comfortable putting out there. What about the information against you? How many nephews do you have? Nephews? What are you doing over there? It's kind of

weird, isn't it? What's going on in that hotel room? Timbo? Any ideas? Oh, you think you're above scrutiny? How dare you? How dare you? Seem to like unfounded allegations. The difference against the allegations with Pete is they're just made up. These seem to be legit. Anything to say, Tim? Do me a favor, guys. Bongino Army. You know, we're really good at this. John Fund is still, John Fund's career is totally ruined now after you made up we're really good at this. John Fund is still this John Fund's careers totally ruined now if you made up that story. Thanks to you, I have seen you on Twitter asking John Fund to collect this hundred thousand dollars for his unfounded story

that I picked or chose Matt Gates and Pete Eggsteth. I did not. Now, let's ask Senator Tim Kaine. So why go to Twitter respectfully, of course. I asked him about his nephews. See what he has to say. Maybe they are nephews. Just kind of curious why they're in the hotel room at night.

Just kind of weird. But Bonjito Army, Anita, just marshal an effort here. Get the generals. Speakin' truth, all of y'all. Maybe ask Timbo. See what he's gotta say about that. You know, folks, I just want you to know that the people trying to hold Pete Hegseth

to this faux high moral standard, they claim they live up to as well. Keep in mind, these are United States senators who are actually voting for budgets for the Pentagon. They're almost more powerful than the Pentagon chiefs themselves, are saying, we can be degenerate losers and do whatever we want

But if someone just lobs an allegation against you like you had a beer here or there then you were definitely not worthy If that sounds ridiculous and hypocritical it is and another group that bothers me and I've told this story often is the media The media oh my gosh, Pete Hicks that may have had a beer once in a while. Yeah. He's a combat vet He's seen a lot. He's entitled to relax. He's not breaking any laws. Last time I checked consuming alcohol responsibly was not illegal. The weird thing is I've been on the press plane and the stories about the press plane. The press plane is the plane that flies with Air Force One on foreign trips. Ladies and gentlemen, pre-camera cell phones, if you only saw the debauchery that happened

on this press plane between the infidelity and the drinking and all that other stuff, I just think if you're gonna write about it, you should be honest and say, well, I'm an expert in this, I do it myself. Oh, that press plane. If we only could have taken pictures back in the day, you would never respect these media people again.

Not that you respect them now. Of course, the hearing got worse yesterday. Here is the worst presidential candidate in modern American history. Kamala Harris? Eh, maybe not. Kirsten Gillibrand. Who's Kirsten Gillibrand? Exactly.

She is a really dumb Senator from New York. Is she as dumb as Crazy Gerono? I'm not sure, but she's certainly up there. Watch what happens when she makes the cardinal mistake of a hearing like this. Do you guys know what it is? Never ever ask a question you don't know the answer to. And Pete's a lot smarter than dumbass Gillibrand. Check this out. As you said in your statement, do you agree anybody should be able to serve in the military if they meet the standards? Senator, as the president has stated, um, I don't disagree with the

overturn of Don't Ask, Don't Tell. Great. I don't care if you agree with the answer or not. Do not ask a question you don't know the answer to. Folks I try to make this show instructive. Anybody can talk about the hearing. I'm trying to give you like little life lessons for tactical politics going forward. I'm dead serious when I tell you this. Owning the libs is great, but make sure you own the libs and it reply

it goes the other way too. You want to own the conservatives, then make sure you've got a guy pinned down. Don't ask a question you're not sure about the answer to because you'll look like a freaking idiot. Like Pocahontas did yesterday.. Well you're a plunge to not be a lobbyist like the Generals. Oh man, I'm not a General. Ha ha ha ha ha. It was a total Bart Simpson Nelson Muntz moment. Ehh ehh. And then this happened yesterday. Tammy Duckworth, who, thank you for your service, I always say that because that's a, having

said that, that still does not entitle you to be a moron as often as Tammy Duckworth is a moron. This woman made I mean, if you really believe after getting smoked and getting your ass kicked in every single swing state that this is the kind of stuff that's going to save you out of here. Yes or no? Yes or no? Screaming like a deranged banshee, like a lunatic out of hearing, looking like a moron. Please, please, whoever told you to do this, whatever focus group, I will personally finance you hiring them again. Here is Tammy Duckworth having an embarrassing meltdown. Clearly is confused.

Pete Hegseth is not an accountant, therefore would not do audits. And second, Tammy Duckworth seems unaware that the Pentagon has failed put that up please on the Reuters. Pentagon has failed the last six budgets audits. That's under Joe Biden to Tammy Duckworth seems completely unaware of this because she's an idiot. Check this out. Have you let an audit of any organization, yes or no, I don't want to long answer yes or no have you let an audit of any organization of which you were in charge senator in both of the organizations Iran we were always completely fiscally

response, yes or no did you get an audit and the way yes or no did you get an idea yes or no completely what he was right on that answer this question yes or no Did you lead an audit? Yes or no? What are you afraid of? You can't answer this question. Yes or no? Did you lead an audit? Do you not know this answer? Senator, yes or no? Yes or no? Again, this absolute imbecilic screaming like Banshee from the X-Men, right? Breaking windows everywhere like a lunatic is apparently totally unaware that Biden's Pentagon under the black man has not passed an order either. Oh my gosh, that's so offensive. The black man, Danny, has a name.

Yes, I'm well aware of his name. His name is Lloyd Austin. The problem is Joe Biden's not aware of his name. Really? Yes, here's Joe Biden calling our current Defense Secretary, Lloyd Austin, the Black man. Watch yourself. It's all about treating people with dignity.

And it's about making sure that, look, come here, for example, look at the heat I'm getting because I named the Secretary of Defense to a Black man. Secretary of Defense for a black man Guys I can't with this clip The black man I always I you know what I'm gonna leave a delay next time before because I'm waiting for The shit show losers at Media Matters ago. Oh my gosh, how offensive right Justin damn Bojito show Bonjito show, called the defense secretary, the black man.

I'm waiting. I should leave a delay. So they forget the second part. Well, we're not calling. We know his name. His name is Lloyd. Doesn't Biden doesn't know his name. He's called them the black man and the general.

He doesn't even know his name. Tammy Duckworth seems totally unaware of that. Again, thinks Pete Hagseth is an accountant all of a sudden. You announcing a new queen of the carers without my permission? Tarloff is not losing that race anytime soon. Tammy Duckworth for all her buffoonery has to do a whole lot more to take out Tarloff. Folks, yesterday, Norm Coleman, former Senator, who has been helping Pete Haig-Seth out,

he spoke up on Capitol Hill. It's a quick clip, but it's worth your time. He talks about Lloyd Austin and how this last defense secretary, you know, they're alleging Pete doesn't have this long military industrial complex resume. Well, Norm Coleman brings up some interesting points. Well, all the people you seem to be hiring

that do have this resume keep screwing shit up. So maybe we should try something different like an outside the box perspective. This is worth hearing, check this out. Four years ago, President Biden's nominee, Lloyd Austin, a good and honorable man, received 97 votes on the floor of the Senate. And we went through the debacle

of the Afghanistan withdrawal. Putin invaded Ukraine. The Houthis endangered our shipping lanes. We witnessed Israeli miracles against America's enemies in the Middle East, where the United States was more of an impediment than a help. Our recruitment numbers have sunk dramatically and our southern border has suffered a slow but dangerous invasion. Yes, Pete Hegseth is an out of the box nominee and I say it's high time to get out of the box. You're damn right, Norm Coleman brilliantly said. We've had inside the box standard CV resume nominees in the past and what did we get?

We got Iraq, we got Afghanistan. In the past, we've had the Vietnam, which we didn't have to lose. We can go back as far as you want. We had a bunch of geniuses in the Kennedy administration and look what happened there. You look back throughout history at these defense secretaries

who've handled these situations poorly. Maybe it's time to get a guy like Pete, who was an actual door kicker in there, to look under the hood and see what's actually going on without these preconceived notions of what should and shouldn't be. And his name isn't the black man. His name is Lloyd Austin, just for Joe Biden's sake,

as he destroys the country with just a few days left. Folks, just quickly on these California wildfires as well. Yesterday, I spoke about a topic again. I try to make, whether it's Pete Hagsat's hearing or the California wildfires about bigger stories and narratives because they speak to who we are. And I don't mean in the stupid Joe Biden way. That's not who we are. No, I mean really who we are as human beings. Human beings tend to think in stories. They think in beginning, middle, and end. We've got to give people a coherent story. The story in California is a story of a number

of different things contributing to this witch's brew. It's not all government that did it. It's not all environmental factors. A lot of things happen. Dry season, you had mishandling of government assets, pathetic leadership, water issues, you've had all kinds of bureaucratic hurdles to thinning out this dry environment.

There are a bunch of things that were preventable, is the point. The point I'm trying to take is I'm going to give you an honest perspective. Was it 100% government that did this? No, it wasn't. Was maybe 70 to 80% of it government mismanagement? Who knows? Could be more, could be a little less, but yeah, it's around there. The fact that lefties will still not hold themselves accountable for monopolistically

running California into the ground, having the place burned to the ground, speaks to exactly the problem with the left. Whereas we as Republicans, we as Republicans will criticize our own. That's what the whole Tea Party effort was. We will criticize free market businesses if they screw Americans over. You've got Donald Trump right now questioning a whole bunch of things from the insurance industry to pharmaceuticals. He just brought on Bobby Kennedy, who's hopefully going to be the next HHS Secretary.

No one scrutinized the farm industry more than him. You notice how we do that? But the Democrats will never criticize government. I say that because of this New York Post article. Recall effort against Newsom is underway in California. Folks, I hope I'm wrong, but I got to tell you, if I'm a betting guy, even if there's another recall petition, I can almost guarantee you knew some beats it again, because there are still people in California, like Queen of the Cairns,

Jessica Tarloff and others, who will just never question that maybe their allegiance to big government is misguided. Here's what I mean. Everything else is to blame except government, there will never be accountability on the left accountability for the but not for me. Hattip Media Research Center, they sent me this yesterday. Here's about a minute of the new media narrative. Folks, it's definitely climate change,

not the dreadful mayor, not the dreadful handling of the reservoirs, not the dry fire hydrants. It's definitely climate change. Check this out. I'd have to be a fool to not understand what climate change is doing to this country and the world. Wildfires raging in LA are highlighting

the risk of climate change. Yes, climate change. The wildfires in California are the latest in a string of natural disasters made worse by climate change. Big part of why we're seeing more wildfires is climate change. We're gonna talk about these destructive fires compounded by climate.

A lot of people talking about climate change. We're going to talk about these destructive fires compounded by climate. A lot of people talking about climate change. Climate change set up the conditions for this supercharged fire. Exacerbated and increased by climate change. Climate change, which is political, but is clearly a major driver here. Climate change will only make wildfires more common. As we continue covering these destructive wildfires out west,

the state's governor, L.A.'s mayor, they are really fending off attacks from Donald Trump and his allies. Donald Trump is blaming President Biden and Governor Newsom for these fires. It is a well-worn page in Trump's playbook. This is classic deflection, because he doesn't want to talk about climate change.

Amplify lies and direct blame at perceived political enemies. Everything, except talking about the intensifying climate crisis. You notice how they just bullshit their own now. Very few people are buying this because their houses are burning down. And even if their narrative that this was climate change was correct. What the hell did you do about it? You've been telling us about climate change since freaking Al Gore's stupid movie. You didn't do anything?

That's assuming what you were saying is true, which it isn't. Either way, you dipshits were in charge. At what point do the people of California say, even if they're right, they let my house burn down because they knew about a problem they didn't fix Do you understand how there is no scenario by which these big government scum commies? Can escape accountability if you're a reasonable person that's asking a lot on the left

Here's the mayor of LA just just again, gross, just disgusting. She asked a pretty simple question. Hey man, do you have any regrets? Like you weren't even in the country despite the National Weather Service and those warnings about dangerous wildfires. Like you decided to leave to go to Ghana. Any regrets? You think she'd say, you know what, that was a mistake.

I ask your forgiveness, won't happen again. Nope, nope. She's a deep blue lefty in a mistake. I ask your forgiveness. Won't happen again. No, nope. She's a deep blue lefty in a deep blue city. No accountability. Imagine a corporate CEO saying this. Check this out. Looking back, would you have taken that trip overseas? You know, I am going to focus

today on what we know. Look at her smiling. Smile. Imagine a corporate CEO inventing a paper shredder that has a malfunction and sucks in your tie and kills everyone that uses it. Do you have any regrets? Nah. You were out of the country when a bunch of people died. No big deal. No sweat. They'll figure it out. Actually, they won't. They're dead. Yeah, exactly. They figured it out. They're dead. You proud of yourselves?

I wonder what Tarloff's going to say about that. Well, that's not exactly what she meant. She had no regret. Folks, you cannot trust the media and left-wingers on anything. I am as serious as a freaking heart attack. Everything they tell you is a story, not the story. I will never tell you Republicans are the solution to your problems, ever. I'm simply telling you the cause of your problems are Democrats and the media.

That is it. And that's a fact. They lie to you about everything. You can't trust them on drones, presidential security, FBI weaponization, media reporting, nothing. They lie to you all the time. I want you to keep your eyes on this story. Catherine Herridge is over at Exxon now doing some tremendous reporting. She's one of the few honest people out there. It's a story that's not getting enough attention. Do you remember years ago,

the stories came out about these directed energy weapons? Our foreign service officers and people in embassies were coming away with these mysterious illnesses, their headaches, and they were getting nauseous all the time. And of course the government and the media was like, ah, that's nothing. The government says it's nothing. Really?

Just like they told us the drones were nothing too? Well, Katherine Harridge got a whistleblower who's saying, I don't think they're telling you the truth. Who do you believe, Katherine Harridge or the left wing media and the government? I believe Katherine Harridge. Watch this segment. You were attacked.

Yes, you were attacked by an energy weapon. Yes, a directed energy weapon. The intelligence community has attempted to thwart congressional investigative efforts to uncover the truth at every turn. I mean, that sounds like a government cover-up. It's a cover-up and it's terrifying. And it should be terrifying to all Americans. The new congressional report found it appears increasingly likely

that a foreign adversary is behind these injuries. Vertigo. Yes. Eye tracking issues. Yes. Traumatic brain injuries. Yes. Did the CIA gaslight you? Me and every other age. It was designed to make us think ourselves are crazy and question our own injuries. Is it reasonable to think that the intelligence community doesn't want to acknowledge a foreign adversary? Yes. This Defense Department letter is significant. Yes. We believe your experiences are real.

Folks, I want to put this out in conjunction with this next piece of video from Tucker Carlson about are real. government, which you cannot trust ever for any reason, and the left-wing media are hiding from you the fact that there are technologies out there they have no answer for. And because they've spent their time on DEI and other bullshit and not lethality, counterintelligence and counterterrorism in an opportunity cost manner, they don't want to admit we're being out-technologied by enemies. So what do they do? They just say directed energy weapons. Ah, that's all bullshit. Whatever they tell you, your default mechanism should be to believe the opposite. That's why I don't dismiss things like this.

Tucker Carlson's doing an interview the other day, and he's talking about a source on these Chinese drones. Did you see this? This is another thing. It's not get enough attention. I have no reason to believe he's lying about it. I've known Tucker a long time. Is the source?

I don't know, but it's pretty compelling information that comports with something I've told you from my sources that not all, but many of these drones they're seeing in the skies are China-based technology and China and the United States government just doesn't want to admit there's nothing they can do about it. Interesting clip. Watch this. An intel person told me that this person believed that they were in fact Chinese and that a

Chinese satellite went down was visible to the naked eye. There were some new stories about it. It evaporated, it burned up, and that this person told me that was taken down by the US government, that was a command and control satellite for these drones. And the belief was the Chinese government was sending the following message, we're moving on Taiwan and maybe other things.

You can't do anything about it. we're moving on Taiwan and maybe other things. You can't do anything about it. Did we not say exactly that? We said that before this clip. Whoever's telling Tucker Carlson that, sources are telling me the exact same thing. That China with the spy balloon and the drones wants you to see it.

There were so many people who asked me on Facebook and rumble during the radio show when I brought this up Why would china be so dumb to show us what they're doing because they want us to see it They want us to see it that's exactly what tucker's hearing they're saying we're moving on taiwan Here's what we can do to you guys stay out of it It's exactly what i'm hearing This is what we can do to you guys, stay out of it. It's exactly what I'm hearing. This is what we can do to you. They probably wanted us to find their infiltration into our infrastructure system. I'm not telling you all these UAPs are from China.

I'm telling you a good percentage of them are, and they don't want to tell you. That's why I don't believe them on these directed energy weapons either. I don't have any Top-end high-end sourcing on that. I'm relying on Katherine Herridge Who's a great reporter and her reporting but I believe her before I believe the G the government or the FBI or anyone else They've lied to us Katherine Herridge hasn't Check out that report Oh, you got it. Play that again.

Fuck you with the driver. You know, Leo Gatz, if you've not, it's not the greatest lead the weapon movie, but Joe Pesci man, you got to drive there. You drive away from that. But I want to drive. They are looking at the drive through Joe Biden. I'm going to cover this extensively tomorrow, so don't miss the show. Walking out the door is giving you the double barrel. Like I've never seen this guy is,

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