The Dan Bongino Show - The Impeachment Farce Falls Flat, Again (Ep 1115)
Episode Date: November 20, 2019In this episode I address the latest disastrous day for the Democrats in the hoax impeachment on Capitol Hill. I also address the Democrats push for government run healthcare and the many problems it ...will cause for you. News Picks:Did Lt. Colonel Vindman leak information to the “whistleblower”? The impeachment backlash continues as the GOP raises a massive amount of money. Big takeaways from yesterday’s impeachment fiasco. Nancy Pelosi makes a stunning admission. The media posts an embarrassingly incorrect story and is forced to backtrack. The national debt is exploding, and we’re all going to pay soon. FedEx calls out The NY Times for fake news. Copyright Dan Bongino All Rights Reserved. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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dan bongino oh my gosh folks how the democrats are under the mistaken belief that subjecting
to america america after four or five more months potentially longer of this tedious non-stop bore fest up on
capitol hill is somehow going to sway one sentient being to vote in their favor is really beyond me
um the tactics here are just incredible uh welcome to the dan bongino show producer joe how are you
today dan i'm adrift in a sea of confusion yeah confusion uh, Joe. And Sondland's up there now.
I'll give you a take on that.
Sondland now changing his story.
Listen, everybody's, oh, this is version number, what, 8,426.
We got Trump now.
I mean, oh, gosh, folks, everybody, please.
I mean it.
I don't mean this in any kind of a ridiculous, nonsensical kind of silly way.
Everybody just take a breath, please.
I will explain to you what's going on, why yesterday really wrecked the Democrats,
an angle you probably haven't heard anywhere, and a lot more.
There's also other news out there while the Democrats focus on this fiasco.
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All right, Joe, let's get to it.
All right. First, quickly, before I get to video from what happened yesterday because it plays into today on sonland everybody's panicking of course the media
the full-time democrat activist oh my gosh sonland just acknowledged the quid pro quo ladies and
gentlemen how can sonland acknowledge he was the the just to be clear on who he is for those who
need background gordon sonland was the eu
european union ambassador for president trump he was a friend of trump he was trump's eu ambassador
sonland how can he confirm a quid pro quo today in his sworn testimony if in a literal text to
bill taylor who was the uh number two in the ukrainian embassy he texted him that he was
crystal clear with him that there
was going to be no quid pro quo. How can Sondland testify about a quid pro quo? Folks, I'm just
asking questions a sane, sentient being in the media should ask, but won't because they're so
excited, frothing at the mouth, salivating. Oh, we got him now. How can Sondland confirm a quid
pro quo when he texted the opposite and has already said
on the record in sworn testimony when he called, again, literally, and you know, I hate using
that word, but in this case, I literally mean literally, called President Trump who told
him when asked about a quid pro quo that he wants no quid pro quo, President Trump said.
He wants nothing from them.
He just wants them to do the right thing.
Folks, again, I'm just asking basic questions.
Everybody needs to take a breather on this thing.
Please, everybody relax.
This is one story and one story only.
The Democrats are nailed to the wall
on the Ukrainian corruption interference
in the 2016 election.
And their lead candidate right now, Joe Biden's son's involvement with a corrupt company that
was under investigation. The Ukrainian embassy, our Ukrainian embassy's efforts to hide that
through their do not prosecute list. This is all this is. Folks, I'm telling you, and I mean it,
I'm being deadly serious with you right now.
I have always told you when to worry and when not to.
This morning's not good.
This is not a positive development.
Sondland changing his story again.
I mean, which story's right?
The story he told about Trump telling him there's no quid pro quo and the text he sent to Taylor?
Or the story today where, yeah, there was a quid pro quo.
Which one's right?
Fair question. I'm telling everyone here, everyone relax. This is all a
transparent effort by the Democrats. Gordon Sondland will be a hero for them after today.
I don't believe they have anything. Anything. Notice what I didn't say. It's not like, well,
anything. Anything.
Notice what I didn't say.
It's not like, well, they got Trump on some potential
malfeasance, but maybe it's not criminal.
No, I don't believe they have him on anything.
I think President Trump's desire
to clean up Ukrainian corruption
and to find out what happened in their
2016 election interference and the potential
role of the Vice President in that
is a noble purpose
that should be celebrated. And the fact
that there was no quid pro quo on Sondland's own prior testimony, folks, they don't have anything.
It's a cover-up job for the Democrats. Everybody relax, please. And by the way, this is all based
on what Sondland himself admits is his presumption of what he felt was a quid pro quo.
presumption of what he felt was a quid pro quo okay yesterday's hearing devastating now i do have other stuff to get to so i want you to stay tuned today because there is other news out there and
the cable news cycle is just overwhelmed with this coverage so we're going to do this and we're going
to move on to some other stuff too but there's important developments that happened yesterday
first excellent congressman from texas Ratcliffe. Remember, the Democrats moved from quid pro quo after they went to a
focus group, Joe, to their new crime is bribery. Bribery now is what they're impeaching President
Trump about. But Johnny Ratcliffe, excuse me, from Texas, points out an important problem
with their bribery charge. Check this out. The number of times witnesses have used the word bribery or bribe
to describe President Trump's conduct in the last six weeks of this inquiry is zero.
In fact, in these 3,500 pages exactly one time and ironically it appears not in
a description of President Trump's alleged conduct it appears in the description of Vice President
Biden's alleged conduct oh that's kind of a problem Joe if the sole purpose of your member
this isn't a cattle auction.
It's not a vehicle auction, folks.
This isn't a free screening of an upcoming movie.
It's an impeachment hearing.
If the impeachment hearing by the Democrats' own words is alleging the impeachment is over a bribery charge centered on the president of the United States, and the only time the word bribery appears in thousands of pages of testimony
is involving the former vice president
under the prior administration
involved in a potential corruption scandal,
I'd call that a problem.
That's why I'm telling everybody,
Sondland's up there now.
Now I didn't talk about Biden with Trump July 26th.
Everybody chill.
This thing is imploding on the Democrats.
America tuned it out weeks ago. Republicans are
raising a ridiculous amount of money. I'll get to that later. The independents are losing their
minds over this. They're down 20 points on this. Everybody take a breather.
A lot of people email me worried. Please don't be worried. I'm here to put everyone easy. When
it's time to worry, I'll tell you. I've already said that when
I saw some of those polls months ago.
And everybody then emailed me in the end.
Stop saying it's time to worry.
I'm not here to
appease anyone's interest, folks. I'm here to tell you
the truth, however uncomfortable.
This is not
a time to panic.
Sondland's already on the record saying the opposite
of what he's saying today.
Now, a fair question would be,
I don't mean to get away from the Ratcliffe thing,
but a fair question would be, why is Sondland
changing his mind? Because Sondland
obviously is afraid the Democrats are going to prosecute him.
So now all of a sudden he's hedging.
Well, I presume this and I presume that.
Everybody, tranquilo.
Por favor. All right right moving on to yesterday and i i've got a nugget on yesterday
i promise i don't think you've heard it you may not have heard anywhere i didn't hear it on the
news but it's really gonna scramble your eggs before i get to that though devin nunes yesterday
did a great job with vinman now alexander vin Vindman, Lieutenant Colonel Vindman. I'm sorry. Again, I know the man served in the military, but his testimony yesterday, it's almost as if it was testimony for the Republicans.
It was a total disaster. He was completely unprepared.
He claimed at one point to be the primary guy, the go to guy on Ukraine.
And then when they asked him, well, have you ever discussed Ukraine with the president?
He's well, no, never.
I don't understand.
You just claimed you were the primary go-to guy in Ukraine, and yet the president doesn't even know who you are.
Seems kind of odd.
Primary guy, presidential meeting.
Primary guy, presidential meeting.
It didn't quite work out.
So by Vindman's own words, he's the Ukraine go-to guy.
So there's a major scandal in Ukraine with this natural gas company that hires Hunter Biden's kid.
It makes international news, Joe, everywhere.
Joe, you are one of the producers here on the show. Yes, I am, Dan.
I am no longer inside the U.S. government, right?
You and I are pretty familiar with the details of this story years ago, correct?
Yes.
Some of it's in my books.
It's old news, Dan.
Yeah.
Well, not to Vindman, Joe Joe Vindman's the expert on Ukraine.
He's the expert on Ukraine, but he has selective amnesia, as Devin Nunes points out here.
When it comes to issues of Ukraine that involve Democrats. Check this out.
As you know, that financial records show a Ukrainian natural gas company, Burisma, routed more than three million million to the American accounts tied to Hunter Biden.
I'm not aware of this fact.
Until recently.
I guess I didn't independently look into it. I'm just not aware of, you know,
what kind of payments Mr. Biden may have received. This is not something I'm aware of.
Did you know that Burisma's American legal representatives met with Ukrainian officials just days after Vice President Biden forced
the firing of the country's chief prosecutor? I'm not aware of these meetings.
Did you know that Burisma lawyers pressured the State Department in February 2016 after the raid
and a month before the firing of Shokin that they invoked Hunter Biden's name as a reason to intervene?
Mr. I'm not aware of any of these facts.
Mr. Did you know that Joe Biden called
Ukrainian President Poroshenko
at least three times in February 2016,
after the president and owner of Burisma's home
was raided on February 2nd by the state prosecutor's office?
Mr. I'm aware of the fact that President Biden or
Vice President Biden was very engaged on Ukraine and had numerous engagements. That's what I'm
aware of. Remember, Joe, nobody is allowed to scrutinize Lieutenant Colonel Vindman.
Remember, you can crap on Mike Flynn at every opportunity. Patriotic lieutenant general in our military with a history of patriotism and heroism in our military.
He's to be called the treasonous Russian agent at every single opportunity for the media.
I can't say this enough.
And the unprincipled hack phony fraud hoaxers on the left.
He is to be vilified at every opportunity.
But Colonel Vindman, Joe, not a word about Vindman.
Now, I have the benefit now of using Vindman's own words.
You don't need my words.
There's Vindman himself, who is Joey's expert,
treaded air quotes on Ukraine,
who seems to know nothing about Ukraine
when it comes to the Democrats and Biden
and only the biggest scandal covered internationally by anyone with a pulse.
Now, showing you what kind of BS you just heard right there.
Folks, we have a show called the Dan Bongino show because Dan Bongino is my name.
Now, why do I say that? Because I have my name on Google Alert.
It's not because I'm an egomaniac.
99% of it is total BS.
Tweets, this, that, you know, websites that lefties run that hate my guts.
I got to read nasty stuff about me all day.
We do it because we micro-target.
We like to see who's sharing our stuff so we can tailor our ads in the future.
It's called business.
We do the same thing on Twitter.
It's not because I obsess about liberals
calling my wife and kids horrible things
and sending me death threats,
which is typically 90% of what it is
because liberals love that kind of stuff.
Are you seriously telling me
that Lieutenant Colonel Vindman,
who is the self-professed Joe Ukraine expert,
doesn't have the words Ukraine, Biden, Ukraine, Obama in a Google alert?
Folks, the verdict is in.
That is colossal BS.
Thank you, Alan Sherman.
I am deeply sorry if you were swayed even remotely by what you just heard.
A colossal stream of BS.
I'm sorry, but there's only two explanations
and I don't believe the first.
That Vindman is just really not that bright
and never reads the press clippings on Ukraine at all
and managed to miss an international breaking news story years ago.
Or number two,
Vindman actually is a pretty smart guy who knows exactly what he's talking about
and doesn't want to acknowledge
the real reason Trump was concerned
about Ukraine.
Number two.
I'll take two.
Yeah, I like two.
Yeah.
There's no option C, folks.
None. Also, we found out an interesting little gem yesterday. There's no option c folks none also we found that an interesting little gem yesterday there's no
sound fix i didn't want to i could have pulled there's so many different he was offered the
defense minister job for ukraine while he was over there that's a real interesting little nugget
right there so a lieutenant colonel in the u.s army was offered a defense minister job
by the ukrainian government i'm glad he reported that
that's a little suspicious he did report it he says he did so fascinating isn't it
and then the democrats like you can't mention that you're accusing him of dual loyalties nobody said
that nobody said that that's just an interesting thing to know ladies and gentlemen if you're a
secret service agent protecting the iranian uh amadinejad when he came over here and ahmadinejad offers you a hundred thousand dollar vacation to
iran you got to report it doesn't mean dual loyalties but it's an interesting thing to know
is it not no no you can't question vinmin joe you can't
I've got another interesting piece of video of Jim Jordan who Jim Jordan Nunes and and Ratcliffe have just been spectacular just spectacular I I know I'm leaving out Turner Stewart and others
Stefanik well I'm not I just mentioned him uh and more and I'm deeply sorry Westrop um for not
running but it's just there's so much nonsense in this thing.
Sondland, he acknowledged a quid pro quo.
You mean after he unacknowledged it a few weeks ago?
I don't know what you guys are talking about. The media
people, they're like wetting their pants.
They need adult diapers to hold
down to their excitement.
They acknowledge
a quid pro quo about military aid. You mean the military
aid that arrived? No, no,
about the White House meeting. Oh, you mean the White House meeting never happened? No, no, about the public
statement from Zelensky. You mean the one he never made? No, it's an attempted quid pro quo. I thought
you said it was a bribery. Bribery is the exchange of something of value. Now you're telling us the
something of value never happened. What is it, guys? get your heads out of your collective asses and
tell us what it is you want to overturn an election figure out what your story is a quid pro quo with
no this and no that no quid no quo or a bribery in exchange for something of value where nothing
was exchanged what is it all right i'm gonna get to jordan in a minute let me just get to the
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who remember nobody's supposed to question Joe.
That's right.
Destroy Flynn at every opportunity.
Don't question Vindman ever.
That's cool.
He asks Vindman, you have a chain of command, correct?
You're on the National Security Council.
We have a civilian led military, correct?
If you read the constitution liberals,
the commander in chief is the president.
He's a civilian.
That's the way that works.
The National Security Council that advises the president is at times can be led by civilians.
Doesn't mean someone in the military can't be involved.
Lieutenant Colonel Vindman was, but Lieutenant Colonel Vindman had a supervisor.
That supervisor was a man named Tim Morrison.
Now, Tim Morrison doesn't believe there was a quid pro quo, supports the president's theory on this, that the president was interested
in fighting corruption in Ukraine. And because Tim Morrison didn't subscribe to the Democrats'
latest impeachment hoax about a fake quid pro quo that never happened, right?
Somehow, Joe, Vindman's supervisor, Morrison, who didn't, you follow supervisor morrison who didn't you follow me here who
didn't subscribe to the hoax wound up magically getting bypassed in vinman's complaints about the
call about the fake quid pro quo sheesh man how did that happen jim jordan who does a great job
catches vinman in this weird little thing and he asks an interesting question well if you didn't
tell your supervisor about your complaints about the Trump call
to the Ukrainian president,
who else did you tell?
And watch the panic breakout.
Check this out.
The lawyer told you don't talk to any other people
and you interpret that as not talking to your boss,
but you talk to your brother,
you talk to the lawyers,
you talk to Secretary Kent,
and you talk to the one guy Adam Schiff won't tell you,
won't let you tell us who he is.
Is that right? Representative Jordan, I did my job. I'm not saying you did it. All I'm saying is
the instructions from the lawyer was you shouldn't talk to anybody. And you interpret that as don't
talk to my boss. But I'm going to go talk to someone that we can't even ask you who that
individual is. That is incorrect.
Well, I just read what you said.
That is incorrect. I shouldn't talk to any other people.
The gentleman has expired.
I'm sorry, Chairman, but that sequence is not the way it played out.
I'm reading from your transcript, Colonel Vindman.
Jordan, please slip Colonel Vindman in.
The sequence played out where immediately afterwards I expressed my concerns.
I did my coordination function.
Mr. Eisenberg circled back around and told me not to talk to anybody else.
In that period of time, I did not manage to talk to you.
So that's when it happened.
That's when you talked to someone.
Oh, my gosh, folks.
Listen, this Vindman testimony yesterday was such an apocalyptic disaster
that I can almost guarantee you they will memory hole this whole thing goodbye you
won't hear another word about vinman from this point on he was outside taking selfies yesterday
with his brother i'm not kidding that doesn't surprise me from what i've seen with him
me either joe yeah so vinman acknowledges he didn't tell his boss his chain of command about the complaint he had.
Then he acknowledges that when he told the lawyer, the lawyer told him not to tell anybody.
By the way, folks, in the interest of time, he acknowledges after that, that despite the fact that he just said the lawyer told him not to tell anybody, he told his brother and he told Deputy Assistant Secretary of State George Kent.
And he acknowledges telling somebody else.
This is what I teased in the beginning of the show
and where I promise you,
you're going to get coverage here.
You're not going to find anywhere.
This kind of sounds like the dossier redo.
What?
What are you talking about?
Don't you worry.
But I want you to keep this in mind
because this is going to be the most important part of this segment here.
Everybody pay close attention.
Jordan understands that Vindman has a credibility issue here.
Vindman claims he had a beef with this call President Trump had
with the Ukrainian president that started this whole thing.
That was the whistleblower complaint,
an alleged quid pro quo on the call, right?
Vindman saying, yeah, I had a problem with the call too.
Jordan's like, well, why didn't you go to your supervisor?
Who, by the way, doesn't believe that the quid pro quo was on the call.
Um, uh, well, I was busy and I went to a lawyer.
You managed to find a lawyer despite the fact that you were busy.
And then the lawyer told me not to tell anybody.
Uh, that's not what happened.
You told your brother.
You told George Kent, by the way, who were on your team.
And you also said you told someone else in the intelligence community.
Why is that important?
Oh, well, this is a little bit of an extended clip.
Joe and I have a general rule. about a minute and 30 is the length.
Folks, Joe and I both agree we're making an editorial decision here.
Paula, too.
This is about two minutes long.
This is Congressman Devin Nunes questioning that decision Vindman made to tell someone in the intelligence community.
And Nunes says, well, who's that?
It's about two minutes long, but this is worth your time. And I want you to keep a few things in mind as you're listening Schiff has lied to the American public Adam Schiff and said he doesn't
know who the whistleblower is literally nobody believes him with any credibility okay nobody
but he knows who the whistleblower is Vindman has also said I don't believe him either that he
doesn't know who the whistleblower is.
So, Joe, if neither one of them know the name or identity of the whistleblower, then why would Vindman telling Nunes who he told about this complaint out the whistleblower?
They just said they don't know who he is.
They just said they don't know who he is.
So if Vindman told someone in the intelligence community who Vindman knows is the whistleblower,
then Vindman's lying about not knowing the whistleblower.
If Vindman's telling the truth that he doesn't know the whistleblower, then just tell us who you told despite your lawyer's direction in the intelligence community
because you don't know he's the whistleblower, right?
Yeah.
Everybody get this?
Nunes picks up on this too.
Listen to this.
It's about two minutes long, and I'm going to get to how this is going to—
you're going to see Vindman totally disappear, why this is so devastating.
Check this out.
As you know, the intelligence community has 17 different agencies.
What agency was this individual from?
If I could interject here, we don't want to use these proceedings.
It's our time, Mr. Chair.
But we need to protect the whistleblower.
Please stop.
I want to make sure that there's no effort
to out the whistleblower
through the use of these proceedings.
If the witness has a good faith belief
that this may reveal the identity of the whistleblower,
that is not the purpose that we are here for, and I want to advise the witness accordingly.
Mr. Vindman, you testified in your deposition that you did not know the whistleblower.
Ranking member, it's Lieutenant Colonel Vindman, please.
whistleblower? Ranking member, it's Lieutenant Colonel Vindman, please. Lieutenant Colonel Vindman, you testified in the deposition that you did not know who the whistleblower was.
I do not know who the whistleblower is. How is it possible for you to name these people and then
out the whistleblower? Per the advice of my counsel, I've been advised not to answer
specific questions about members of the intelligence community.
Are you aware that this is the intelligence committee that's conducting an impeachment
hearing? Of course I am. Wouldn't the appropriate place for you to come to to testify would be the Intelligence
Committee about someone within the intelligence community?
Ranking member, per the advice of my counsel and the instructions from the chairman, I've been
advised not to provide any specifics on who I've spoken to with inside the intelligence community.
What I can offer is that these were properly cleared individuals or was a properly cleared individual with a need to know. Well, this is,
uh, I mean, you can really, you can plead the fifth, but you're here to answer questions and
you're here under subpoena. Uh, so you can either answer the question or you can plead the fifth.
Excuse me. On behalf of my client.
Good catch. Devin Nunez. Good catch. Devin.
Darn right. Time. Now, what's the wrinkle on that let me just cut to the chase the democrats prior to yesterday
despite newness catching them in the lie have pitched to us joe the fact that this man of
impeccable credentials who's never to be questioned lieutenant colonel vindman
that he is corroboration for the whistleblower complaint. Follow me.
Okay.
Let me relate this to the dossier using an analogy,
how they're trotting out the same strategy again.
And what I'm telling you maybe will make more sense.
The dossier we were told was corroborated by press reports, right, Joe?
The FISA warrant where they used the dossier to spy on Trump
cites press reports as corroboration of the information in the dossier.
Joe, what was the problem with that?
The problem with the FISA warrant strategy was the press reports they used to corroborate the dossier were from who?
The same guy.
The author, author, because we all know he wasn't, of the dossier, at least in full.
Even Paula just went, hmm, I've never heard her say that before.
Think about this.
Follow me now.
And this makes sense.
Makes sense.
Why is there such a panic right now over Vindman?
You'll never hear another word about Vindman.
Vindman is being used as corroboration of the whistleblower
complaint there was a quid pro quo i'm vinman i was so disturbed were you the source of the
whistleblower complaint i thought he was corroboration. Now he's in a panic.
Tell him, I can't tell you who I spoke to in the IC.
Adam Schiff told me not to.
Devin Nunes, we're in the Intelligence Committee, brother.
It's probably time to come out with who you shared information.
Your lawyer told you not to, right?
Remember, Joe, just like we were told with the dossier,
these press reports are independent corroboration
they were not it was the exact same information laundered through the press from the same guy
folks is all of this coming from vinman is vinman the source for the whistleblower
did vinman tell the whistleblower ladies and gentlemen i'm just asking a question
because if you're going to impeach a president and you're suggesting to us that this man up there
lieutenant colonel vinman by the way we have to call him that you know joe don't ever call me dan
on this show you'd refer to me as special agent bongino all right don't ever refer to me as dan
again it's an insult.
I don't know who told him that was a good idea.
Yes, and someone tweeted me he earned the title.
He did.
He has the title Lieutenant Colonel.
Folks, Devin Nunes called a mystery.
He wasn't disrespecting the guy.
Give us all a break, huh?
But if we have been pitched again that Vindman is independent corroboration because he heard the call that's
what we were told vinman was on the call he is independent corroboration and he's the actual
source potentially for the whistleblower ladies and gentlemen again we have dossier part dear
well yeah please tell me that made sense made sense i didn't think of that either because if
you're not behind the scenes or understanding the mechanics of what's going on here you're under the
mistaken belief that what happened yesterday up on the hill with vinman was some kind of a success
trust me when i tell you well this morning's not going well.
Don't sweat it.
Don't panic.
I'm telling you,
yesterday was an apocalyptic disaster.
Vindman was grossly unprepared.
Doesn't know,
claims to be a Ukraine expert,
never talked to the president,
claims to be a Ukraine expert, knows nothing about actual corruption in Ukraine
when it involved our own vice president.
We find out yesterday he was offered the defense minister job by a foreign government.
We also find out yesterday that he bypassed his own supervisor despite being so concerned about a call.
He claims to be corroboration for the call, but he won't tell us who else he spoke to in the IC.
to be corroboration for the call,
but he won't tell us who else he spoke to in the IC,
and he's hiding who he spoke to because many people believe that the person he spoke to in the IC
may in fact be the whistleblower,
which would indicate Vindman's not corroboration,
but Vindman could be the source.
Now you see the urgency to hide the whistleblower's name?
Did you talk to the whistleblower?
My lawyer's telling me
not to say anything.
I thought you were up here
to impeach the president.
Just tell us who it is.
No, no, no.
We want to impeach the president
behind closed doors.
Didn't hear that
in the mainstream media coverage
yesterday, did you?
All right, I want to get to just a couple more quick tidbits on this,
and then I want to move on.
I had another, but I could play video for you all day tomorrow,
but I refuse it.
I'm going to cover about half the show.
It's important.
It's only the biggest story of our time, impeachment.
But I want to be sure we get to other substantive stuff
because America's moving on,
and America's generally tired of this already
based on the polling data.
You know, we do facts and data here.
But Vindman admitted a lot yesterday.
Here's just a quick set of again, I'm not going to be a spin your wheels, folks.
These are talking points that are put out by others, but they're accurate and they matter.
Unlike Democrat talking points about fake stuff like bribery.
Check this out.
He admitted a whole lot yesterday.
Just a quick list.
Vindman admitted the president sets U.S. policy and he has every right to use or not use the talking points prepared by bureaucrats.
True.
Fact check.
True.
Vindman admitted he is not really the principal advisor to the president on Ukraine.
He never even had contact with the president.
Fact check.
True.
Vindman admitted he had no firsthand knowledge about aid or investigations and was just following news accounts.
Fact check.
True. about aid or investigations and was just following news accounts fact check true
vinmin admitted the president would have been well within his right to ask ukraine to investigate
true vinmin admitted it was definitely not unprecedented a direct quote for the transcript
of the uk or ukraine call to be kept on a secure server and that concerns about leaks seemed valid. Quote, true.
Vindman admitted the transcript of the phone call was, quote, very accurate.
True.
Vindman admitted he had never used the term, quote, bribery to describe the president's actions.
True.
Not really a good day for the dims.
not really a good day for the dims.
Now, folks, again,
showing you based on facts, data, analysis,
and just common sense that this is absolutely blowing up in their faces.
Paul Bedard, Washington Secrets,
has a piece up,
which will be in the show notes today.
Definitely worth your time.
How the RNC is engaged
in a massive fundraising campaign right now.
And during the impeachment,
they set a record, a massive fundraising campaign right now. And during the impeachment, they set
a record, a massive $61 million the RNC has in the bank as the impeachment backlash continues.
Folks, I'm just asking you as a purveyor of truth here on our show,
if this is working so well for the Democrats and they're garnering such public support why is
the polling data down 20 points among independents and why are republicans so furious not at the
president but at the democrats that they're pouring money into the republican campaign
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You ate them all.
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No, Joe.
No, I didn't.
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Yeah.
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I love my kids to death.
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But they're that good.
All right, folks.
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Sometimes I debate.
These stories are so dumb that we put them up there.
But just to show you how insane the media is. And how Democrat candidates are not interested in the truth at all.
The truth doesn't matter.
They will propagate and gaslight you with any myth possible that reflects poorly on Trump.
So AFP, a major international news outlet, put out this breaking, it was in all caps, Joe, breaking story meant to reflect poorly on the Trump administration detaining children.
Oh, man.
This is where like the world champions of detaining children.
Here it is.
This is the actual tweet.
Breaking.
More than 100,000 children in migration related U.S. detention.
U.N.
Oh, my gosh, Joe.
The AFP is reporting that that evil Donald Trump is detaining children all over the country.
A hundred thousand. Wow.
Joe, that study. Oh, this is by the breaking.
Sondland. Trump never told me directly the aid was conditioned on the meetings.
Two minutes ago, he said they had a quid pro quo.
Breaking news, Joe. Hundred thousand thousand people children detained by trump put
that tweet back up again they had a little problem with the tweet later on when they actually did
this thing called journalism um afp is withdrawing this story the author of the report has clarified
his figures do not represent the number of children currently in migration-related
detention, but the total number of children in migration detention in 2015. We will delete this
story. Holy cow. Joe, who was president in 2015? Was it Donald Trump? Just checking. No, no, no.
Who was it? Do you remember? Can you remember that far back?
I believe that.
It's a long time ago, I know.
It was Mr. Obama, I believe, yeah.
Yes, genius.
Thank you, Producer Joe.
You're so welcome, Daniel.
So now we find out, and I have a story in the show notes about this from the Washington Examiner,
that what it actually was, was a cumulative, not an acute one point in time a cumulative count
of the children in custody in the obama era so rather than that being a breaking story
no the story wasn't inaccurate it's a story about obama they deleted the story and there
will be no further follow-up folks it doesn't matter You will hear about this fake number
and about Trump from your liberal friends,
I promise you,
who will swear to you that Trump's got 100,000 children
detained in the United States.
It's not true.
It is a false story,
totally made up about Trump.
But it is true about Obama
and the cumulative number of people and children
detained under him.
Now, again, showing you how Democrats are total fakes liars phonies and frauds like trump's a
liar uh let me tell you something trump doesn't have anything on the democrats
here's bernie sanders genius bernie sanders tweet which country has the world's highest rate of detention?
He puts like a pop quiz.
Check, the United States.
The United States.
Under Trump, America leads the world in locking up little kids,
including 100,000 children at the border.
This is immoral.
I believe the tweet's still up.
Because he doesn't care.
He may have deleted it.
I have to look.
It was up last night.
I don't think he will.
He may have.
If he does, I'll have to tell you tomorrow.
I'll have to take a look.
I doubt.
It doesn't matter.
Democrats don't do facts anyway, so why delete it?
You understand?
He uses this little pop quiz about the U.S. leading the world in child detentions based on a fake story about Trump.
That's a real story about Obama.
Yep.
And he blames it on Trump.
Because that's what Democrats do.
I'm telling you this because there's an election coming up.
And I guarantee you we have a now massive audience.
Thanks exclusively to you.
I adore my audience.
who I adore, my audience,
I guarantee you a large swath of this audience is going to hear this debunked statistic
despite the fact that the AFP themselves
acknowledges the story about Obama.
Just like the cages thing.
We still get pictures of the kids in cages
that are from the Obama era
and people blame it on Trump.
Because liberals really aren't that bright.
I'm sorry, folks.
They're just not.
Because the alternative explanation that they are bright
and that they're just liars is even worse
debunking another
stupid liberal talking point which is
we need to move towards Scandinavian
government run healthcare the Wall Street Journal had a piece
up it was about Buttigieg but there was
it's a Freeman piece James Freeman piece who I like
it was called the Pete Buttigieg experience but it's a Freeman piece, James Freeman piece who I like. It was called the Pete Buttigieg Experience.
But down at the lower portion of the piece,
there's another interesting talking point
because Bernie, you know Bernie,
millionaires and billionaires, you know Bernie, right?
We're going to get the millionaire.
They are the worst.
Bernie, you're a millionaire.
I'm not talking about me.
I'm talking about the greedy millionaires, not me.
I'm the socialist millionaire.
What a fake phony front.
They're also pumping this idea that we should have a nationally run health care system that resembles the UK and Scandinavian countries show the United Kingdom.
Well, down in the piece, we find this little gem from James Freeman about the NHS, the National Health Service, which is the UK government run health care system, which is collapsing.
government-run healthcare system, which is collapsing.
There was a report in USA Today that says that an NHS,
that's the National Health Service, operating theater has been mothballed because of staff shortages and patients having surgery
are being taken to a mobile theater run by a private company.
Wait, what?
NHS Scotland is paying to transport people daily 40 miles
from their own hospitals to have their operations at a temporary unit, again, run by a private company.
One of the theaters in the hospital's general surgery suite was shut down because the health board can't find enough trained nurses to safely provide treatment there.
Ladies and gentlemen, forget all these stories.
The rationing, the bloated budgets, the surgery waiting list, the specialist waiting list.
Now they're shutting down surgical centers and outsourcing them to private companies because they're failing.
You want to import this in?
Let's bring it here.
This sounds great.
Waiting list, surgery shutdowns.
This is awesome.
Because there's more going on.
Again, I want to get to some other stories I've been holding on to.
Another issue that's important to me that's been coming up in the campaign
that you hear nothing about because of the impeachment farce going on right now up on the hill
is public education.
Wall Street Journal has another damning piece up this morning
about the left's lies about charter schools.
Quote, headline,
the big lie about charter schools by David Osborne.
Folks, it's becoming a huge issue in the campaign.
The teachers' unions are destroying our education system.
I love our teachers.
Your unions are a horror show.
They are pouring a bunch of money into socialist left-wing indoctrination,
big fat union, fat cat salaries, and in turn are destroying our system in the process.
Ladies and gentlemen, they lie about charter schools all the time.
There are two big lies about charter schools you're going to hear often during this campaign.
The first lie you're going to hear is that they're draining money from public schools.
Well, that's fascinating, ladies and gentlemen, because charter schools are public schools.
So how exactly you're draining money from public schools if you are a public school is the height of ignorance.
They are public schools.
Now, why would they not like charter schools?
Maybe I should have put the lead up first unions.
That is, they hate charter schools because many of these charter schools are not in fact unionized they hate that they want those union dues for their fat cat salaries we're looking
out for the kids really 400 000 a year that's quite impressive it's a nice salary for you
running your union there but you were looking out for the kids how many kids exactly you're
looking out for with that 400 000 that'd be my kids crazy yeah yeah i'm four hundred thousand bucks a lot of money it's a lot of money
the other lie is that this draining has happened because kids are leaving
traditional public schools for charter public schools uh ladies and gentlemen that's not
draining money that's parents exercising their right to get their kids
an education
now from the piece they make a great
point when parents move out of
a school district they're not draining money
they're just leaving
the piece quote to begin with charters
themselves are public schools
the only difference is they are operated
independently of district bureaucracies
with more freedom to design their programs and choose their teachers. If charters fail or if the students fall
behind, they're closed. The same arguments made about charter school funding don't make sense in
any other context. When a family moves out of a district, the district loses state and federal
money for its child's education. But no one accuses the family of draining funds from the district.
When parents move their child to a private school, no one accusedes the family of draining funds from the district. When parents
move their child to a private school, no one accused them of sabotaging public schools.
They're simply making a better choice for their children. Folks, this is all a scam
to prop up union coffers, to pump money into the Democrats' campaigns, to get these union
advocates fat cat salaries at the expense of your kids.
That's it.
This has nothing to do with the kids.
This is nonsense.
The kids and their parents are perfectly entitled to make education choices on their own.
You know, this issue is very sensitive to me and it matters.
All right, folks, I wanted to get to one last story while this continued fiasco.
Again, Sondland, President trump never told me directly that aid
was tied to the announcement of investigations what folks what else do you need to hear
it's gonna go on for days this really is i'm glad you're here but it really frustrates me
because there's so much to talk about and we're just wasting the nation's time on this garbage so stupid another serious story
we covered education we covered health care lack of surgical beds fake news on immigration
real news about obama and immigration folks our national debt's exploding i bring this up because
i got a the only criticism i got wasn't much a criticism, but a suggestion on my interview with President Trump,
still available on our YouTube channel,
youtube.com slash Bongino,
was you should have asked him a question
on the national debt.
A hundred percent, fair enough.
I promise you, I could show you my notes.
It was my next question, but we were out of time.
We were just out of time.
I was not ducking the question.
And I give you my word, I'll try to make that first
if we are lucky enough to get another interview. He was gracious with his time. We went about 10 minutes over. It's the
president of the United States, folks. I'm just Dan Bongino. I can't tell the White House what to do.
They were very gracious and I didn't want to take advantage. I felt there were a lot of other
things to get to. But there's a story at the Washington Examiner today in the show notes I
strongly encourage you to read by David Davenport. Who's afraid of the federal debt? Ladies and
gentlemen, the debt and the deficits, unlike Democrats who only care about debt and deficits
when Republicans are in charge, I care, have spoken out about this topic for five plus years
now when a Republican and a Democrat's in charge. The debt went up under Bush. The debt went up
dramatically under Obama. The debt went up, yes, under Clinton. Clinton paid down the debt. No,
he didn't.
We never ran a surplus one year of the Clinton administration.
That's a myth.
We've debunked a million times on this show or close to it, slightly hyperbolic.
The debt is now going up dramatically under the Trump administration, too.
Granted, I'm not blaming the president. The president signs a budget passed to him by a House of Representatives now run by Democrats.
The problem is a lot of the Republicansans in the house of representatives aren't doing anything about
spending either as this piece accurately points out look at these numbers quote from the piece
congratulations washington you set another record and believe me he doesn't mean a good one
treasury announced recently the federal debt rose an astounding 26 percent during the last fiscal
year bringing the total one-year deficit
to nearly $1 trillion.
The cumulative federal debt's now more than $22 trillion
greater than our total gross domestic product.
Federal Reserve Chairman Powell's
declared the debt unsustainable.
In his 2016 presidential campaign,
Donald Trump said he would eliminate the deficit
in eight years.
Instead, he's presided over a nearly 50% increase.
Folks, these are uncomfortable facts, but they're true.
Again, we're not frauds here. We're not fakes. That's not bad under Republicans. It's only bad
under Democrats. No, no, that's the liberal way. We do facts here. Again, don't mistake this for
me pinning the blame on Trump. He's limited in what he can do. He's already proposed budgets
that have made cuts in the House Democrats.
And candidly, many Republicans have laughed.
Ah, debt, don't even worry about it.
Folks, what is going to happen?
I don't mean to sound macabre or apocalyptic,
but what is guaranteed to happen by mathematical certainty?
Folks, when you reach a debt amount that is unsustainable,
I don't know when that's going to happen.
I'll be honest with you.
I thought it would happen around $20 trillion. Now we're at 22. Do you understand we're going
to reach a point where you're so in debt that the people lending money to you doubt that you
could pay it back? Maybe it'd be simpler if I made a microeconomic analogy. If Joe is lending
me money to finance Bongino Inc. and he lends me 100100,000, $200,000, $300,000.
He finds out Bongino Inc. is making $500,000
a year, and Joe has now
lent me $700,000 more than we make
in a year. At some point,
Joe's going to get to worry. He's going to start
to worry about my capacity to pay that money back
because I owe him more money than I even earn
in a year. Cutting you off.
Despite my expenses.
If I'm still asking Joe
for money, I'm making $500,000,
Joe's lent me $700,000, and I'm still
asking him for hundreds of thousands
a year, at some point, Joe
is going to say either no,
that creates problem
one, or problem two, I'll say, yeah,
I'll lend you money, Dan, but to
compensate me for the massive
risk I'm taking, I want higher interest
because this is ridiculous. Matter of fact, I want 15, 20%. Folks, those are two separate problems.
They're both horrible. If people stop lending us money, by people, I mean foreign governments,
I mean American citizens who buy US bonds. Ladies and gentlemen, the government can't operate.
We are operating on an operating budget
a trillion dollars over our tax revenue.
In other words, we need a trillion dollars
in borrowed money every year to keep functioning
at this ridiculous level
of spending. If people say
no thanks,
you'd have to cut the government by a third.
Maybe a good thing.
You may say, wow, that sounds like great news.
Not all.
Because problem number two comes, well, we'll lend you money, but we're going to lend you
money at ridiculous interest rates.
Ladies and gentlemen, nearly every interest rate in the economy is somehow tied to interest
rates tied to our federal government's debt, the repo market, everything.
It's a long,
complicated story, but it's as easy as this. If America is not deemed a reliable payer back of
money, American interest rates are going to go up. It's as simple as that for everyone.
Meaning when you go into the car dealership to buy a car,
your interest rate is going to be 7%. It's going to be 22%.
to buy a car, your interest rate is going to be 7%. It's going to be 22%.
We're going to go back to the mortgage rates Joe remembers in the 80s,
10%, 12%, 15%, meaning you can buy less house for more money
and less car for more money.
Listen to me, please.
It's a warning to everyone. The Republicans, the president, the Democrats, the liberals, conservatives, socialists, communists, Green Party, it doesn't matter. We are on a mathematically certain path to bankruptcy if something doesn't change quick. Mathematically certain. And whoever the president is in charge when this whole thing collapses is going to take the blame
big trouble ahead folks i can't warn you in stark enough terms i just want to leave you quick with
this please don't panic about today the quick takeaways about sonlin again we'll cover more
of it tomorrow along with other news am i going to get baited into you know 55 minutes straight
of impeachment talk america has serious problems we need to fix. Sondland, there was no back channel. Nothing we were doing was in secret.
Secondly, he just acknowledged again that the quid pro quo he alleged, despite saying there
was no quid pro quo, was never said to him by Trump. Everybody take it easy, please. It's not,
when it's time to panic, I'll let you know. Yesterday was time to panic for the Democrats.
Their key witness, Vindman, as you learned earlier in the show.
There may be a bigger story there for Vindman,
which is going to create some big problems.
He's corroboration.
You sure about that?
We'll have to find out about that later.
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