The Dan Bongino Show - The Legacy Media's Iranian Psyop | Episode 72

Episode Date: June 25, 2025

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Hey there, welcome to Vince. Good to have you with us on a Wednesday. We got a lot of news to get to today. A psychosocialist just won up in New York City while he won the Democrat primary. So usually that means you win the general election to become mayor in New York City. We'll explore the details of that.

Also today, the threat from Iran, the sleeper cell threat, to what extent is that previsant in the United States? We'll get into the details with Ron Vitiello. He was the former ICE director for President Trump, and now he's back working with Customs and Border Protection. Big conversation ahead with him. And also, what's going on with this stuff from the media

where they're claiming that, you know who's great? Iran is great. You know who didn't debilitate their nuclear program? Donald Trump. He didn't debilitate their nuclear program? Donald Trump. He didn't debilitate their nuclear program. We'll explore all of the claims the media are making right now and the slam dunk fest that the Trump administration is having on the press as we speak. That's all ahead on this episode of Vince.

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That's expressvpn.com slash Vince. And you're going to get four extra months free. Start protecting yourself today. Socialists just won the Democrat primary in the New York City mayoral race. In fact, we do have this update that comes to us today from- Stand by. I'm messing up my computer here. We've got this update that comes to us today from Fox News that Andrew Cuomo has conceded

in the New York City Democrat primary for mayor, that's over, and congratulated the AOC endorsed, Mamdani, Mamdani, this fraudulent left-wing socialist psychopath, he's Ugandan-born, he just became a citizen like yesterday, and he's for, as you see there, Fox says, free childcare. He's for buses and two, and that is free buses, and tuition freezes.

And yeah, so he ends the election with 43% of the vote in this crazy primary. And so this guy's the winner. This crazy person, Mam Don this guy's the winner. This crazy person, Mam Donnie is the winner. And it's a clear sign that New York City is irredeemable and we need to figure out a way to offload it at this point. I wanna trade New York City for Greenland. We're done, there's no saving the city.

It's completely over. Now, I'm overstating the case a little bit, but this is disheartening that the socialist guy wins. And his agenda is, as you probably know by now, it's crazy. Bill Mollusian captured some of this so well. He points out that some of the things that this guy actually stands for includes abolishing the New York City Police Department.

He wants to abolish the NYPD. He wants to abolish prisons, no more prisons wants to abolish prisons, no more prisons. So no more cops and no more prisons. There, that makes sense. So if you basically say there's no more law enforcement, what you say at that point is, hey, crime, it's a free for all. Let's just go for that.

He wants to abolish medical bills. In other words, no obligations whatsoever. Be as unhealthy as you want. You never have to pay for your own medical treatment. He wants to abolish private health insurance, you know, because when the government runs things it's great. Try doing this in any other country where they've got socialist medicine. You understand what happens?

You get wait times, you get crappy care, you don't get seen at all, you die while you're waiting for your chance to be seen inside of these health care facilities. Yeah, let's do that. He wants to ban all guns because, you know, why should you be allowed to protect yourself? As mayor, of course, he'll have arms protection, whether or not they have the NYPD in his world. He wants to legalize sex work because that's what we need to do. We need to make New York a lot crappier and a lot more decadent. He wants so-called safe injection sites for New York City,

which is another way of saying that he wants to enable more drug use. This guy is a Batman villain. Who is this person? This is something out of like a comic book. Everything he's pursuing is more chaos and more desperation for New York City. He wants to end cash bail, that's right.

He wants to get to a point where these people are just released right after they commit crimes right back onto the streets in no time. He wants to decriminalize drug possession because more drugs are better for New York City. He wants to end sentencing enhancements to, again, get criminals out earlier. And he wants to end all cooperation with immigration and customs enforcement. And that's just a short list of what this guy stands for.

He's a lunatic. He is all of the left's most incoherent theories wrapped into one human being, now the Democrat nominee, to become mayor in New York City. He's also for taxpayer funded transgender surgeries. He wants to arrest Benjamin Netanyahu when he arrives in New York. He wants to enforce the international criminal court arrest in that case, even though we have nothing to do with a stupid

international criminal court that again wields no power over the United States. This is what this dude stands for. And so it leads you to a lot of things. One conclusion, of course, that you come up with is like, what the hell is wrong with New York City? How much, how bad does it need to get before you reject this type of moron? This type of person is only gonna be more destructive. It's so crazy. It's so crazy.

It's so crazy the Chicago Tribune was writing this week that New York City shouldn't do this. The Chicago Tribune, they've got Brandon Johnson and their warning is you want Brandon Johnson? You want a guy with a 6% approval rating because he's running this city even deeper into the dirt? Then you bring in this guy Zordon or whatever the hell his name is, Zordon Mamedani. Bring him in. Make him the guy. So where do we go from here? Well, a couple pieces

to this. We do have some recognition that what's going to happen next is we head towards a general election, of course. We go to a general election. And this general election is interesting because it could be very chaotic. Politico reports on this this morning that this field, of course, includes the Republican Curtis Sliwa, great American, loves his city and wishes it was better. But not only is Sliwa running again,

you've got an independent by the name of Jim Walden who's going to be on the ballot. This is for the November general election. Also, you've got Eric Adams, the current mayor, who's running as an independent now because the left hates Eric Adams. Why does the left hate Eric Adams? Because Eric Adams stood up to the Biden administration and said, illegal immigration is bad for New York. Let's not do that anymore. That's what he did. And so the Biden administration turned around and they dropped federal charges on Eric Adams.

They imposed federal charges on Eric Adams in order to crush him. And it was only the Trump justice department who said, wait a second, this is a politicized hit job. This can't happen. And so they dropped those charges. They got rid of them. The ones that were imposed against Eric Adams. And and now and they were so silly, too. It was like, oh, he took upgrades on on flights on Turkish flights.

That's the charges. That's so crazy. So the Trump administration dropped them. They said that's a political hit job. We'll get rid of them. The left hates Eric Adams because of that and because he spoke up against illegal immigration. And so now he's got to run as an independent. He's been rejected by his own party. And Andrew Cuomo, Andrew Cuomo, who just lost the Democrat primary, he's already saying

that he wants to run in the general election, or at least he's been indicating heavily that he's going to. So this is a crowded field. So what could happen here? Well, what could happen is that these candidates consolidate, a bunch of them drop out, and we get a real option in New York to defeat Zordon. That would be good.

That would be a good outcome. Or, you know, I was talking to a former New York City minority leader, councilman, yesterday, Joe Borelli, about this on the radio show. And he pointed out, Curtis Sleewa could have a chance here. Like imagine if you get this many Democrats, a bunch of them now running as independents against Zordon, and the general election is a very crowded ballot,

this could be the rare opportunity for us to see another Republican elected as the mayor of New York City. Lee Zeldin put up some numbers when he ran in New York. It's possible for Republicans in New York to do all right. You think of Republicans in New York for mayor. Giuliani is the most famous and successful example. Bloomberg had to spend an unbelievable amount of money in order to become competitive running as a Republican. So that's not what Curtis Sliwa has at his disposal. But the

advantage that Sliwa has is one name ID, he clearly has it. He's been doing it forever. He's a well-known figure in New York politics. He loves the city, which I think is a prerequisite to actually being the mayor of the city, you hope and then the other piece is the fields very crowded You know you got Eric Adams in there you got you got Andrew Cuomo in there You got Zordon and you've got Jim Walden this other independent. He's got a lot of money So, you know, we'll see so so again at this moment. I'm kind of withholding my final judgment about Which way this should go if all these guys should drop out or if the field should stick crowded I'd like to hear more from Curtis Sliwa about this,

but, and maybe we'll have him on, we'll talk about it. But there you go, the crazy socialist is the guy in New York City. And I'll say one last thing on the actual vote for this dude that really stands out to me, that should stand out to everybody. Look at the statistics here on who voted. The votes for Zordon here come from the wealthy,

the middle class and the wealthy in New York City. So by median income, $50,000 to $100,000, ma'am Donnie wins by 6% yesterday, for over $100,000. Anybody making six figures or more, he won that group by over 13 points. Mam Donnie won. Meanwhile, Andrew Cuomo won the under 50,000 crowd by 19 points.

That's the biggest margin out of those three subsets. Now, what is the story here? What does this tell you? Well, it tells you that Mam Donnie is not some sort of workers socialist. He's an elitist jerk, supported by elitist jerks. He has nothing to do with helping the little guy. And the little guy doesn't want him in New York.

So as you hear this story and AOC is out there pushing it, you can see a lot of lefties pushing it today. That, oh, this is about fighting for the working class. That's why he won. This is a new change and blah blah blah. This guy was supported by the elites by the biggest possible margin imaginable. Filthy rich Democrats said give give the people more chaos. This is what do they call this? Suicidal empathy. Suicidal empathy. Where you see a guy like this and he's saying I'm gonna help the little guy and the rich people saying, I'm gonna help the little guy.

And the rich people think, oh, he's gonna help the little guy, let's bring him in. And instead he savages the little guy. He destroys the little guy. Socialist grocery stores, are you kidding me? That's what he wants for New York City. And so the people who are actually fighting to get by in a very expensive city to begin with, very expensive city,

they don't want a piece of this guy at all. They don't want their lives to be upended. They don't want their lives to be destroyed. They'd rather go with the corruptocrat. They preferred Andrew Cuomo, the guy who was putting sick people in nursing homes and getting them killed.

They'd rather have that guy than Zordon. So that's the update today out of New York. It's crazy, and it matters a lot because this is our biggest city. This is our biggest city in the United States of America. And it's a clear sign that the mental illness that is liberalism is still with us. It's still in the body politic of the United States.

So we've got that today. Speaking of that mental illness and how it's manifesting itself, the left is angry that President Trump succeeded with Iran and Israel this weekend. They're furious about this. They hate it. They hate it. And they've been attacking the president as long as he's been in politics, but just the idiocy over the last few weeks has been really, really remarkable.

Let me share with you what is going on. Yesterday, CNN whips out this report claiming that the president and his administration in the American military didn't actually disable the Iranians, that we didn't disable the Iranian nuclear program, that this thing is, you know, it's just really only set back by a couple of months

and there's no big deal. There's nothing big going on here. And let me share with you among the reporters on the byline on this crazy story is a woman called Natasha Bertrand and she went on television yesterday right away as this story was breaking cut nine. Here's Natasha Bertrand claiming that yeah, the Iranian nuclear program. It's basically totally fine. The American military sucks at its job. Here's CNN.

Based on a battle damage assessment that was carried out by US Central Command, essentially looking at the images and looking at what was actually damaged, the Defense Intelligence Agency has assessed that the core components of Iran's nuclear program are largely intact and that Iran's nuclear program has essentially only been set back by months.

Now, we presented this information to the White House for comment and White House press secretary Carolyn Levitt, she did acknowledge the existence of this assessment, but she said in a statement that the administration disagrees with it. She said, quote, this alleged assessment is flat out wrong and was classified as top secret, but was still leaked to CNN by an anonymous low-level loser in the intelligence community. The leaking of this alleged assessment is a clear attempt to demean President Trump and discredit the brave fighter pilots who conducted a perfectly executed mission to obliterate Iran's nuclear program. Everyone knows what happens when you drop 14 30,000 pound bombs perfectly on their targets total

obliteration now 14 30,000 bombs, so let's just just let's do some very basic math here. Let's just do some very basic math So you get seven b2 stealth bombers they fly halfway around the planet in a tightly orchestrated and dramatically supported by by every level of the military operation that goes flawlessly. They hit targets with precision with 14,000-pound bunker buster bombs that penetrate hundreds of feet underground in a mission that they've been training for for many years. This concept of how do we disable the Iranian nuclear sites

is not a recent development. The American military has been dwelling on this and training for this for a very long time. And it wasn't until President Trump authorized the mission that they could finally do it. And they did it. They did it with perfection. They did it without a single shot being fired towards them.

If you were taking incoming fire and attempting to drop bombs, you would think, well, maybe that would be a circumstance where you may be a little bit off target. Nothing like that happened. The Iranians didn't fire a shot as these planes were entering or leaving the country. We had advanced fighter jets flying out ahead

of these stealth bombers in disabling anti-aircraft systems to make all of this possible. We had submarines, nuclear submarines, firing Tomahawk missiles into Iran to support this mission. Disabling, in particular, three nuclear sites that are involved in enrichment and development of nuclear weapons.

Every element of this was well coordinated, well timed and well done. You really think they would do a half-assed job when they arrived? You really think that mission would result in a well, we sort of might have done something, that it was a shot in the dark? It's so crazy.

So of course, just beginning with that logic, it doesn't make any sense whatsoever. And so CNN comes out with this reports of this classified information that says it could just be months before they rebuild their nuclear program. Now a couple of things, one that what they're not telling you in this report

is that that assessment is only one intelligence agency out of 18 of them, that all of these intelligence agencies, they do make assessments with varying degrees of certainty. This assessment is low confidence. In other words, that might be the case. And also it involves a range of time. Months is on the low end of a low confidence assessment

from a single intelligence agency and it stretches it up two years in its maximum assessment. And so what they're doing is they're deceiving you right away with this information in an effort to try and make it seem like Trump did all of this, this is very risky, and it was for nothing. It was for nothing.

The Iranians are now just months away from getting their nukes back up and running. And it's also an invitation, as always, from the establishment for, we need more war, we need more strikes on Iran, we need more chaos. Settle down. Natasha Bertrand, I wanna say something about her and who she is.

Not only is she a CNN reporter who's carrying water for the deep state and whoever it is. Not only is she a CNN reporter who's carrying water for the deep state and whoever it is who's leaking to her, but she's been a political reporter who previously carried water for the deep state. Take a look at this. If I could, fellas, if you could pull my screen up here. This is Caroline Levitt sharing this.

Remember this headline from Politico? "'Hunter Biden's story is Russian disinformation, dozens of former Intel officials say. Remember that story? Guess whose name is on the byline? Who is that? Who is that? Oh, look at that.

Natasha Bertrand, the same person, the very same person, the very same person who carried water for the deep state, the very same person who carried water for an election rigging scheme in 2020 to claim that Hunter Biden's laptop was not authentically his, that it was a Russian op, that it was disinformation, that the Biden family wasn't corrupt, that they weren't taking millions of dollars, that the contents of the laptop were rigged in order

to steal the election for Donald Trump. This was an election rigging scheme and Natasha Bertrand was its willing handmaiden. That's what actually happened. here we go again here. We go again with this lady Where all of a sudden? She's telling us oh The Iranian mission didn't work. We need to go back to war with Iran. That's the only way to stop this about no

About no Steve Wittkopf was actually involved in the negotiations for all of this and he went on television last night. I've got some really important clips from him. You've got to hear from Steve Wittkopf because he's like, this is crazy. We've got, we genuinely disabled this nuclear program. It was an amazing mission. And Steve Wittkopf will give us all the details,

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I'm feeling a lot better now, thank God. And I just give you my quick rotation of things that I do as soon as I start feeling this way. One, zinc, I just start popping zinc like crazy. All the zinc, I dissolve all that zinc. Two, Dan Bongino, to his great credit, Dan told me, he goes great credit, Dan told me, he goes, hey, if you're ever feeling sick,

especially something that's like nasal, he told me, he said get the red light, speaking of red light therapy, he said get the red light nostril thing. They sell these things, these like nostril devices, you just, literally, you just plug them into your face, just two little prongs, you turn the red light on, and and just blast for like I think it's like 10 or 15 minutes It turns off the second is done

But whatever it is 10 or 15 minutes, and he goes it'll nuke it. It'll nuke. Whatever is up there I was like really that really works. He swears by Alright, I'm all in and so I think I've done it now I think this is my third time that I've had this experience where I'm like I'm starting to feel sick I've popped it now. I think this is my third time that I've had this experience where I'm like I'm starting to feel sick And I've popped that bad boy in It I don't know I mean look it's kind of non falsifiable like maybe my body defeated this thing on its own But it seems to be working whatever it is. I feel a lot better today I'm hacking a little bit, but either that or Dan's trolling me

Dan just trolled me into into popping you know random red light therapy up up my nose and yeah, yeah, that'll work. No, I actually think it does though. I think it's still a good, anyway, thank you to Dan. Dan's still taking care of me. I appreciate that, brother, thank you. Okay, let me get into what's going on here though. I've got Steve Wyckoff going on television to dunk on all these crazy people who are saying that, no, the Iranian nuclear program didn't suffer any damage at all.

It'll be back in like a couple of days. Really? I don't think so, actually. Here's Steve Wicoff last night on the Fox News Channel, Cut 8, talking about, yeah, we devastated these things. Look. So your conclusion tonight, seeing what you've seen, is that Iran could not resume its nuclear enrichment program within a matter of months. It's not even conceivable.

The conversion, destroying of the conversion facility, which not a lot of people are aware of, that is that stops the enrichment process in the beginning and it's needed to finish the enrichment process. Once you get to 90% you that now must metallicize the material, shape it into a round ball, a round metallic ball, that round metallic ball goes into the bomb. Without conversion you can't begin enrichment and you can't begin enrichment, and you can't end enrichment in a successful weaponization. That was taken out.

I love Steve Wyckoff describing how to make a nuclear weapon. I was like, easy, Steve, don't give us any more details. Don't share too much, everybody wants to make these nukes. But yeah, look, he says, look, we devastated this place. We took it out. We took out their ability to do the conversions they needed to do. We took out the enrichment facilities. We caved in these locations. No chance here. No chance that they're coming back online in just a couple of days or weeks or months or whatever the left is trying to sell you

here in order to induce you into all out war with Iran. That's what the spirit of all of this is how do we get President Trump into war? They want to suck him in and he refuses to play that game, refuses. His job was to disable their ability to make nukes, he did. Now he got them into a peace deal, check check, and now he's trying to make sure everything works out. He's overseas right now in NATO. And even there, he's having a big success. He convinced these NATO countries to pay 5% each,

5% each in their GDP for their defense spending, because he's like, why am I taking care of everything? Why is the United States paying the bill for every single one of these countries? How does that make any sense? How about you start coughing up some money on your own? Why is the United States paying the bill for every single one of these countries? How does that make any sense? How about you start coughing up some money on your own? And once again, just like he did in term one,

he's gotten NATO countries to pay more. So that's good news. But on this issue of what's going on with Iran and how disabled it is, and not only do you hear from Steve Witkoff saying this, but we're also hearing this morning from the president's cabinet to include people like Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth saying, yeah, no, this thing was, was knocked out.

Now here's the good news. Speaking of Dan Bongino, who I was just mentioning a moment ago, who gave me great recommendations on nose lasers. They're, they're investigating the leaks here for, and the FBI, they're investigating the criminal leak that's going on here. The treasonous leak of classified information that's designed not to inform the public of some pressing concern, but instead in an attempt to try

and embarrass President Trump. Yeah, that needs to stop. And so the FBI is, according to top officials, conducting a criminal investigation now into who leaked this and what follows after you find that person always and it should be criminal charges. Criminal prosecution for leaking this low confidence report that again is being released to try and to hurt the president and try and drive us into war and no and i don't know about you chat you falling you falling for this garbage? I mean, come on, how could you fall for this?

After you've been through this, how many times? How many times, these deep state operatives? What did I say? I said it earlier this week, we were talking to KT McFarland trying to assess all of this. And I asked her about this, I was like, what are the chances that the president

has conquered the deep state problem? Because that's, as you know, always the big one, when he was in office the first time, and certainly again now, we're seeing some of that. And she said, as you know, always the big one. When he was in office the first time, and certainly again now we're seeing some of that. And she answered like, look, it's a lot better now in terms of they put the right people in place. They got a lot of good leaders in place who are not working against the president.

But you start going down that totem pole, you start getting down deeper into those organizations, and there's clearly deep state actors who are there. And they need to be buried out. They need to, sorry start buried out. They need to be dug out from the roots. And and they need to have consequences imposed upon them. So I hope Dan and cash are breathing down their necks right now. And we got real criminal charges coming for people who are leaking against the president of the United States and against the interests of the American people.

It's a big deal. Yeah. Ron Dock says, Dan doesn't lie, use the nose laser, Vince. I feel the same way, Ron. I feel the same way. And Ron Dock is a Doc, so he would know. Thanks, thanks, Ron Dock. Okay, coming up, Ron Vitiello is gonna be joining us. He is the former ICE director,

as well as the current advisor. He's an advisor for Customs and Border Protection. The guy knows what he's talking about. And you want to talk about Iran? What about the sleeper cell threat in the country? How many Iranian nationals are here? We've got some updates on arrests of Iranian nationals. We have a lot to get into.

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trying to round up all the illegals who are here in the country and trying to keep this border secured. Give us the latest, what's the most pressing thing that Customs and Border Protection is dealing with this week? Well, obviously with events in the world, the vigilance of the men and women of the frontline,

the information that they need to operate successfully in the risky environments, which they find themselves, takes on a different precedence today, right? So we've done a really good job in a very short amount of time since January 20, 2025, to increase surveillance, activity, access, and barriers at the Southwest border. That physical border is in better shape than it's ever been in my entire career.

I've been around this work for 40 years. So about a 95% to 99% drop in illegal crossings at the southwest border, which gives the agents on the front line about a hundred percent more capability. 10,000 troops from the heroes at Department of Defense standing side-by-side, helping gain that access to the border, fortifying the wall, and standing side-by-side with the agents as they do their work. So it's very difficult for someone to cross the border, fortifying the wall, and standing side by side with the agents as they do their work. So it's very difficult for someone to cross the border now, and also the consequences

are much higher than they used to be. You're most likely to be prosecuted. The acceptance rate from the U.S. Attorney's Office across the borders is about 95 percent, and so people get arrested, they get prosecuted in federal court, and there are two, soon to be four, military designated areas along the southwest border, near Santa Teresa, New Mexico, near El Paso, Texas, and soon to come online, the Barium Goldwater Range in Yuma, Arizona. So if someone is unlucky enough to not notice the signs that those are being marked out

as military areas, they will cross the border illegally, be charged with that, and they will also be charged with crossing into a military designated area without permission of the commander. That's a felony offense first time. And so if you cross the border now, you're likely to be apprehended. You will most likely be prosecuted. And in either case, you will be removed back to your home country quite quickly. Wow, that's fascinating. So I know that when you enter the United States originally,

if you illegally enter for the first time, it's considered a civil violation. Once you do it again, it's a felony, illegal reentry. But what you're stipulating is that the more areas we designated as military protected areas on the border, we actually increase the chances that you're going to be slapped with a felony immediately, regardless of when you illegally enter, right? Yeah, that's correct.

It is a federal crime as well. So the immigration system is set up on a civil administrative style, but it is a federal crime to cross the border even the first time. And then if you do it again, of course, it's a felony. And then now on top of that, you have the felony if it's in one of the designated military areas. And so that has reduced traffic in dramatic ways. Mexico is now the single largest contributor

to illegal migration at the Southwest border. It has not been that way in probably over a decade. And so things are a lot better at the physical borders, especially on the southwest border, increased activity in the northern and coastal areas, because the agents have more time on task to be out there. That's true on the southern border as well. And then we're helping ICE in the interior

with the largest deportation efforts ever. We've got about 600 people in Los Angeles since the disruption there. And so we're continuing to advance. And so you think about, you know, I worked in the interior for a couple of years early in my career and we made a lot of arrests. But now if you get arrested,

it's really, really hard for you to come back. There's no more revolving door at the border. The nonsense of the Biden chaotic border is over and now we're moving on. It needs to be sustained. There's still more work to do, but it looks pretty good so far. Okay, so the word has clearly gotten out. I mean, there are so many foreign nationals who are not even trying to take a run at our border anymore because they know that it is pretty airtight. Who's the kind of person who's still making a run at our border at this point, given the limited number

of even attempts? What kind of people are trying to get into the country at this point? I feel like it varies. It's people who are not informed about the consequences that they face. I also think it's people that you might not have a different opportunity in their lives, or they're probing.

The cartels are probably regularly sending people to see if they can find out where the weaknesses are. One thing I forgot to mention also, like in the interior of the United States, people are now required to register if they're in the country illegally, they have to register with DHS. And if they don't do that,

they're subject to criminal penalties, including financial fines. And then there's also the CBP Home app, which has been converted from the nonsense of the Biden administration so people can go into that application they can raise their hands and ask for assistance to obtain a travel document travel arrangements and even a stipend if they go home voluntarily. Let's talk about the threats that are inside of the country right now we heard from the

Borders are Tom Holman, over the weekend that over 1,200 Iranian nationals were not only in the country, but released into the country by the Biden administration. That doesn't include the gotaways, of which there are over 2 million that came in during the Biden era. We just can't tell who's here and who's not.

Give us a picture of the Iranian threat, as you're aware of it, that exists in the United States today. So, level said, we all know that Iran, for at least the last 50 years, has not been a good influence in their own country. The mullahs there, the Islamists, they haven't helped that country at all. The proud Persian people are suffering under their regime. But they've also been a malign actor around the world. Gaza, Lebanon, Yemen, name the place.

They're trying to disrupt it. And so that includes the United States. As you said, several thousands of arrests at the southwest border of people from Iran. The secretary himself, Majorca, said that 85% of everything that we caught at the southwest border during the Biden administration was released into the United States. And I'm quite sure there is at least a handful, if not more, hundreds of people from Iran who have been sent here directly to malign and disrupt like they do in other parts of

the world. And so the entirety of the U.S. law enforcement community, including the front line at state and local, have been informed that because of what's going on in the world, especially with Iran, that we need to be more vigilant. We're sending out information. The teams in many of the cities are focused specifically on this threat. But it is a threat. And so people need to be vigilant, and need to be aware and they need to talk to

their state and locals or the FBI, the DHS, HSI, if they see something out of the ordinary in their communities. And so we are focused on that. We're focused on the intelligence that helps us do that and then find the folks that were released into the country over the last four years. So I know that the DHS, the Department of Homeland Security, released some guidance over the weekend indicating concern about threats that Iranians pose, both in the form of cyber attacks,

as well as here in the United States domestically. So are you telling me that customs and border protection agents, border patrol agents, as well as ICE officials, were they given guidance on, hey, you need to be on the lookout specifically for Iranian threats? Yeah, so the Interior operation, the largest deportation effort ever in the US, was focused on the worst of the worst.

Because of the things that are happening in the world, you know, Iran was always on that top part of the target list. They're number one for the next couple of weeks until the cessation of the military actions and the threat is relieved around the world and certainly in the US. Yeah, they're on the radar of all the front line that's out there contributing to the deportation efforts. We did just get an update this week that ICE has arrested 11 Iranian nationals who all had criminal records or suspected terrorist ties here in the United States. They've been living

here illegally and one of the Iranian nationals, let me see, immigration sorry, ICE agents arrested a US citizen as well who has alleged to have harbored one of the Iranian nationals and threatened to, quote, shoot ICE officers in the head, according to the Department of Homeland Security. So clearly, ICE, as you point out, Ron Vidiello, is making a commitment to arresting these Iranian nationals and starting with the threats who are here. My guess is that that's going to continue. 100 percent. Like I said, they've moved to the top of the list as far as targeting the worst of the worst

along all over the country. And you'll notice in those reports, it's not just Los Angeles, it's not the big cities, there's small towns in Alabama, Mississippi, et cetera. So these risks, the risks exist all over the country. And so the frontline knows full well how to do this work But this risks, the risks exist all over the country. And so the frontline knows full well how to do this work and they're engaged in it on behalf of the American people

and making America safe again. I wanna ask you about the risks that ICE agents and border patrol agents face here in the United States. And it's not just from the illegals that they're attempting to take into custody. There are a lot of Democrat officials who are framing these very law enforcement officials as the bad guys.

We've got any number of people to include the leader of the Democrats, Hakeem Jeffries, in the House, saying that there's something villainous about ICE agents wearing masks as they do their jobs. Can you reflect on that for us, Ron Vidiello? You ran ICE for a time. You're now, of course, working as an advisor for Customs and Border Protection.

What do you make of these Democrats who are consistently attacking law enforcement for, again, merely doing its job? This is a very concerning aspect of the culture. You know, in media today, the cops are sometimes the bad guys, or they have to do terrible things to do their jobs. And the people in the house, like Hakeemem Jeffries calling out agents who were doxed, whose families

were threatened in the United States, who are facing a 500% increase in assaults since January 20th, 2025, and him somehow calling them the bad guys. You know, ICE exists based on legislation that was passed in the United States in the aftermath of 9-11. It was created on behalf of the American people to take these threats out of our communities as CBP was constructed to protect us at our physical borders, land, sea, and air. And for politicians like Hakeem Jeffries to call them the bad guys just tells you kind of where we're going in society.

You know, this is a guy that has been in the house, I'm gonna guess he's been there a dozen years or more. You know, he funds ICE. He puts money in appropriations bills and votes yes for them, you know, to pay the salaries of those men and women, to pay for the equipment that they use, to pay for the detention centers and the immigration courts.

And somehow it's not legitimate when Donald Trump is in charge, but all of those times and all of those bills and all of the votes that he took was legitimate. It's wrong-headed, as he would say, and we deserve better leadership in the United States. But, and it's not merely that they're offering some sort of criticism of the way

a particular law enforcement action is done. These Democrats are referring to ICE officers as Nazis. Eric Swalwell and the mayor of Boston, Michelle Wu, Tim Walz, the former vice presidential candidate, Minnesota governor, they're saying things like these ICE agents are the Gestapo, that they're Nazis. I mean, Ron Vitello, this is on a completely different, and I would say disgraceful level

than merely criticizing a singular decision about how to conduct law enforcement. I agree with you. They should be condemned for those words. And if they really want to reflect on what actually is being done by these frontline, at great risk, they're going out and trying to find criminals and illegal aliens

that are across the country doing terrible things to Americans. We see the record of people who are across the country doing terrible things to Americans. We see the record of people who are in the country illegally and commit criminal acts. And those politicians standing up for them is not only contrary to law, it's a disservice to the front line. It took an oath for all of us to protect us all. And so they deserve our condemnation. The left is trying to succeed in this propaganda that coming across the border illegally is somehow not

a crime and is somehow not in the interest of the United States to ignore that activity. Well, guess what happens when you ignore that activity? You get a hell of a lot more of it like we did when Joe Biden was the president. And it's not good for our society overall. It's not good for the sovereignty of the United States. And it causes other problems within the society. And these propagandists, including these politicians, should know better and how the law works, and they shouldn't take the front line to task for merely doing their jobs. Okay.

So here's the thing that I want people to take away from this. And if you could add some character to this, color to this, I'd appreciate it. Because you mentioned a 500% increase in assaults on ICE officers, which is horrifying. I know border patrol agents for years have already had to deal with the problems on the front lines. When they try to protect our border, they're constantly under threat from all sorts of attacks.

What does this mean in real life for these ICE agents? What are they dealing with? Because it seems to me like these Democrats, they stand up in front of microphones You know, what does this mean in real life for these ICE agents? What are they dealing with? Because it seems to me like, you know, these Democrats, they stand up in front of microphones and they say these ridiculous, abhorrent things about ICE agents who they don't know and whose lives are upending. What does that look like in real life, Ron Vigiello? Well, it makes what is already a dangerous and risky profession a lot harder to do.

You know, they're giving license for the Antifa types and the radical activists and the people who want to get in the way of legitimate law enforcement activity. So these agents have to stay in bigger groups. We have to see them cover their faces to do their jobs in the United States. It makes a dangerous job much more risky for them, and it's unnecessary.

These are laws that are on the books. They have been for decades. This front line swore and took an oath for us to do the work that they've been assigned, and they do it with great restraint. They do it with great professionalism, but we want them to be safe, and these politicians need to tone down the rhetoric

or change the law. They have a choice here. Guys like Hakeem Jeffries can set the agenda in the House, at least on his side of the aisle. He shouldn't be taking to task the frontline who are just doing their jobs. He should be taking to task the radicals in his, including him and the words that they use

to describe law enforcement professionals in the United States. He's awful. He's a malignant dimwit, that guy, and he really should be more careful, but of course he won't be. Let me ask you about mass deportations and the likeliness that we're gonna see

an uptick in the pace there. That's clearly the president's goal, that's Stephen Miller's goal, that's Tom Homan's goal. They wanna get to 3,000 minimum deportations a day. We heard from Homan recently that we're up past 2,000 a day now. Can you give us a sense of the progress towards that and then what difference that big, beautiful bill will make

to assisting in that effort? So I think the efforts to scale up the addition of the CBP resources, all of that is to the good. They're still a little bit limited on the number of detention beds that are available, and that matters. You take in too many people,

you don't have enough place to put them. That's always a challenge for the men and women of the front line at ICE. And so they're gonna scale up these operations, they're gonna continue to do more. It really isn't a numbers game, they really wanna work on the threats as they go down, but we all do want them to scale up and do more.

That will require resources. So when you talk about the bill that's being contemplated now in the Senate, it will sustain what we've done on the physical border. It will add infrastructure and access to the border. And in the interior, it will give ICE more flexibility with the detention beds that they need. They'll be able to put more teams out on the ground.

They'll be able to engage in these 287-G agreements all over the country, which they've greatly increased. But they can put fuel on that fire to continue to do it well and scale up so they can do more. Yeah, and the 287-G programs being local support for immigration enforcement, which is really helpful as opposed to sanctuary cities, which is a complete disaster. ICE officers are a part of this package. The goal is to increase the size of ICE dramatically, again, to pursue these mass deportations. What's the status of recruitment for these agencies?

How have things changed in terms of morale and how many people are actually applying to get these jobs nowadays? Yeah, well, I've never seen morale higher at CBP on the front line. They've finally been given the tools that they need to succeed. They always knew how to help better control the border and hold people to account for

illegal entry. And so there, the morale is way up. Recruitment has doubled in CBP. I'm sure it's the same for ICE. And as these resources come forward in the bill, they'll be able to do more of that. So recruitment on the federal side is up. It certainly is at CBP. We're eager for that.

We need more boots on the ground. ICE needs many more boots on the ground for them to continue to be successful in these operations. Okay. And then lastly, as it relates to border protection, the bill also includes multiple layers of border barriers across the navigable portions of our border. Meaning, in other words, every navigable portion of our border will be, will have a barricade

as soon as this bill is passed and we can get it constructed. That'll be in the form of pedestrian barriers and barriers in the water and the Rio Grande, all sorts of things. How much of a difference maker, sir, will that make to have those layered barriers to try and to prevent people from getting into the country? Everywhere the wall is placed, you know, is put down as part of the enforcement zone,

it allows the agents to work safer. So walls work, the agents know it, the data proves out for it. And so adding barriers to the river river adding pedestrian barrier on the land border Having two barriers in some locations What it does is it slows down it makes the people who are going to continue to try and cross Make a different calculus you saw this tunnel that they've discovered in San Diego area before it was completed Exit in the US it forces the smuggling cartels, the criminals,

and the bad guys to make other means to try and cross the border. So they'll try to go over these barriers. They'll try to go under them. They'll try to come out into the flanks in places like Brownsville and near San Diego, California. But that gives our agents more time, more capability. It's an anchor for technology across the border.

And so it just makes the border safer for them to operate, makes them more effective, and it causes the bad guys to have a different calculus. They just can't walk across the border and when they're confronted, run back into Mexico. So these barriers are not in and of themselves the final solution, but they do help anchor what can be done more successfully over time in a lot of the geography on the southwest border. And they're a durable policy. It's a lot harder to get rid of a wall than to just rescind an executive order or something.

So that means the Democrats are in charge again. It's going to be harder to get rid of that big barrier, that big beautiful barrier that will come out of that big beautiful bill. Ron Vitello, thank you, sir. It's so nice to talk to you again, and appreciate your update on a very important mission. Good to talk to you today. Thank you.

Ron Vidiello's great. He's just great. So that was wonderful. Thank you for that. Okay, while we were chatting here, also happening overseas, the President of the United States has been doing a press conference

standing alongside the Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, as well as the Secretary of State United States has been doing a press conference standing alongside the Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth as well as the Secretary of State Marco Rubio and he was just asked moments ago by NBC's Kelly O'Donnell about this ridiculous report suggesting that the the American military didn't really take out the Iranian nuclear program at all and here's how things are mixing up overseas right now. Here we go. Here's another one. Hello sir. Thank you very much.

We got them all today. Okay. So Mr. President, you talked about expecting some on the ground assessments at Fordow and other sites. Yeah. Is that freely and U.S.? It's been obliterated, Kelly. It's been obliterated. What. It's been obliterated.

What is your message then, sir, to the intelligence community when they present reports? You're not disputing the DIA report. You're just... They presented a report that wasn't finished. We're talking about something that took place three days ago. I understand that's our financial assessment. The report was done two days ago. Wait a minute.

Yes. They didn't see it. All they can do is take a guess. Now, if you take a look at the pictures, if you take a look how it's all blackened, do you know the fire in Brimstone is all underground because it's granite and it's all underground. You don't show it. But even there, with all of that being said, the whole area for 75 yards around the hole where it hit is black with fire.

The group that's run by this gentleman, in fact, you may want to talk about it for a second because we're going to issue a report. And I think it's not even a very exciting report at this point. It's been obliterated, totally obliterated. And they did a report, but it was like, if you look at the dates, it's just a few days after it

happened so they didn't see it they said it may be very severe Do you have a message for the intelligence community though in terms of unvarnished information getting to you that it's not I don't really have a message I would say issue the report when you know what happened I wouldn't say that it could be severe or maybe not. They use the word severe. It could be severe or maybe it's not. So people like you picked up and said, oh, it's not severe.

No, the report was not a complete report. Yeah, the message was probably wait till you know the answer before you do. Go ahead. Yeah, amen. And sir, did you not have a public component to your Zelensky meeting for a tactical reason? Let Hicks answer this? Let him answer this.

Hello, Mr. Secretary. There's a reason the president calls out fake news for what it is. These pilots, these refuelers, these fighters, these air defenders, the skill and the courage it took to go into enemy territory, flying 36 hours on behalf of the American people in the world to take out a nuclear program is beyond what anyone in this audience can fathom. Right.

And then the instinct, the instinct of CNN, the instinct of the New York Times is to try to find a way to spin it for their own political reasons to try to hurt President Trump or our country. They don't care what the troops think. They don't care what the world thinks. They want to spin it to try to hurt President Trump or our country. They don't care what the troops think. They don't care what the world thinks. They want to spin it to try to make him look bad

based on a leak. Of course, we've all seen plenty of leakers. And what do leakers do? They have agendas. And what do they do? Do they share the whole information or just the part that they want to introduce? And when they introduce that preliminary report that's deemed to be a low assessment.

You know what low assessment means? Low confidence. Low confidence in the data in that report. And why is there low confidence? Because all of the evidence of what was just bombed by 12, 30,000 pound bombs is buried under a mountain. We're done with that shit. Devastated and obliterated.

So if you want to make an assessment of what happened at Fordow, you better get a big shovel and go really deep. Yeah, Kelly. Because Iran's nuclear program is obliterated. And somebody, somewhere's trying to leak something to say, oh, with low confidence, we think maybe it's moderate.

Those that dropped the bombs precisely in the right place know exactly what happened when that exploded. And you know who else knows? Iran. That's why they came to the table right away, because their nuclear capabilities have been set back beyond what they thought were possible, because of the courage of a commander-in-chief who led our troops, despite what the fake news wants to say. But you're not disputing the report said what it said, even though it was initial. Oh my gosh. The report said what it said, and it was fine.

It was severe, they think, but they had no idea. They shouldn't have issued a report until they did. Well, no report was actually issued at all, actually. This was classified intelligence. These were early assessments. This is one of 18 intelligence agencies. And it was done with low confidence, as Pete Hegseth so eloquently described just now. You want an actual answer to that, Kelly O'Donnell? Grab a shovel, go to Iran, dig your way in

and see if you can find anything. Let us know what you see. The Iranians don't come to the table unless things are beaten to hell there and that nuclear program has been set back dramatically. Another great update that just happened as we were speaking with Ron Vettiello. Amazing to see, nice to see strong American leadership overseas right now at NATO forcing other countries to spend some more money to defend themselves so we're not constantly coming in to save a bunch of deadbeat countries. On a day's work it's, which means good things are happening great to have you with us as always on this edition of Vince

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