The Dan Bongino Show - The New Rules Are in Effect (Ep 1178)

Episode Date: February 11, 2020

In this episode, I address the bold move by the Trump administration to disinfect the fetid DC Swamp, and the hysterical media reaction to it. I also address stunning new findings in the IG report showing that the FBI management is still covering up their Spygate activities. Finally, I address the hysterical mistake by the hapless “Never-Trump Republicans” in New Hampshire. News Picks:President Trump steals the spotlight from the hapless Democrats in New Hampshire.   President Trump scrubs 70 Obama holdovers from the leaky NSC.    Troubling new revelations about the IG Report emerge.    They’re not Never-Trump “Republicans,” they’re hard-core Democrats. This article exposes their depravity.   Despite apocalyptic liberal claims, climate-related deaths are down 99.9%.   Copyright Dan Bongino All Rights Reserved. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

get ready to hear the truth about america on a show that's not immune to the facts with your host dan bongino all right big day for the deep state police state big government socialist democrats who have their primary today well primary for both part but you get the hint uh where they will pick uh new hampshire likes to pride itself on picking presidents. They will pick one of their socialists to run against Donald Trump. Ladies and gentlemen, I got a stack show today. New rules are in effect. I'm going to start off with that. You know the new rules

for you regular listeners. The new rules are this. I should call it the new rule, actually. We win, you lose. Cutesy time is done. We're done with cutesy time, okay? Romper room time, Mr. Rogers neighborhood time time that's all done um it's time for hardcore politics and president trump made uh two bold moves yesterday i want to get into that big spy gate updates a lot to talk about today also a

video from virginia about gun confiscation that should frighten everyone welcome to the dan bongino show producer joe how are you? I know you're already overwhelmed. You're like, all that in one show? Yes, in one show today. We win. We win. And you lose. That's Joe saying. Everything you need to know in an hour, right? All right. Let's get right to it. Today's show brought to you by buddies at Quip. Ladies and gentlemen, Quip is the maker of the finest

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So two big swamp draining new rules moves by President Trump yesterday. And ladies and gentlemen, for those of you who missed my initial new rules episode, I encourage you to go back and listen to it. The new rules are this. When the Democrats want to go back to playing cutesy and they want this, oh, let's get back to civility and all that. Civility. cutesy and they want this oh let's get back to civility and all that civility oh you're the same people accusing us of being racist transaphobes homophobes misogynophobes

phobophobic istaphobic phobophobes um russian agents traitors to the country colluders with foreign governments you're impeaching the president. I'm not interested any longer hard pass on Democrat or media speeches about civility. Here is the double barreled. Of course, because it's family friendly, I will not go where I want to go with it, but you're getting the double barreled middle finger. I'm not interested at all take your conversations about civility package them in a ball and ram them in the garbage disposal that's not what i was gonna say but you get the point got the i don't care i'm not interested neither is anyone in my audience either when you lunatics in the media and on the left want to go back to stop calling us Russian

colluders, traitors, treasonous, racist, misogynist, you get the whole lineup of idiocies. When you want to do that, I will go back to engaging in civil conversations with you. But I refuse to engage in a civil conversation with a lunatic. We will defeat you. End the story. Two moves yesterday. Move number one, Washington Examiner. Be up in the show notes.

Please check out the show notes. Always at Bongino.com. They are the articles attached to the show every day that are worth reading. Our good friend Paul Bedard at the Washington Examiner. Bigger than Vindman, Trump scrubs 70 Obama holdovers from the National Security Council. Nice. Nice. Nice. nice nice nice the national security council which has become a bloated bureaucracy in and of itself who the purpose of the national security council was supposed to be to engage with the president

on national security matters to give him advice the real purpose of the national security council and the trump administration in the resistance has been to leak to the media false and damaging information about the president united states for the purposes of removing him from office that's the sole purpose not all there are very good people on national security council unfortunately there is a small cabal of anti-trump idiots whose sole purpose has been to abuse their access to the president, to leak to the media and other members of Congress, to work against the president to have him impeached. Some members, Abigail Grace and Sean Misko, not that we're naming names or anything, have actually left the National Security Council to go work for Adam Schiff. And it is suspected they may have played a role in this whole impeachment fiasco. You know, where Adam Schiff and his team coordinated with the whistleblower to make up fake charges. So President Trump says, all right, so now I've been acquitted for life, by the way.

Yeah, thank you very much. The verdict is in, acquitted for life, which is great. We love that. President Trump gets acquitted, says, ah, me looking at National Security Council roster again he's got the roster there he's like ah Joey bag of donuts yeah you're gone Tommy bag of donuts you're gone cousin Maria bag of donuts

you're gone too nice work by the way for those of you wondering again keep on deep stating thank you for the bumper sticker from bumper sticker guy sorry I'm losing track there's so much stuff comes i'm really my apology is great we love it you're all gone bye see ya wouldn't want to be that door yeah yeah wouldn't mind have you see that door your caboose don't let it hit your

caboose when you walk out oh now why is this important folks on a serious note i've warned you about this repeatedly don't fall into the trap of of getting apathetic and what i mean by that is i get a lot of this via email tweet facebook social media i'm done i'm. I'm tired of this. People aren't in handcuffs fast enough. Swamp is still attacking President Trump. Listen, I get it. I understand. I can't reach my chest because of my bad elbows. Pretend I'm reaching

my chest. Do the magic of television. There, I'm forcing that. Much love. I get it. I understand your frustration. I'm not being silly or sarcastic. I mean it.. I get it. I understand your frustration. I'm not being silly or sarcastic. I mean it. I'm with you. I understand your frustration.

But, B-U-T, caveat here. The president is dealing with a massive onslaught of deep state parasites eager to destroy this man and get him out of office. They are coming from everywhere. They came from the upper management of the FBI, the intelligence community. Every single branch of government has some fake Twitter account out there trying to attack the president. He is trying to take on 65 different battlefronts at the same time. What I'm trying to get at, folks, is I'm begging you, I'm imploring you, please be patient. It's happening. It's happening slowly, not to my

satisfaction. I'm with you on that front. I'm with you. We have cleaned out the entire upper ranks of the FBI, not to my satisfaction. I think Ray is terrible, Christopher Ray, running it now, and I'll get to that in a little bit too. But this was always going to happen slowly. There was an election around the corner. We need at a minimum four more years. Candidly, folks, obviously only four more years for the president. He can only run two terms, but Don Jr. or some reformer after that, we may need eight more years. reformer after that we may need eight more years we may need 16 more years to totally clean out this fetid mess but it started president trump just dumped 70 people from this this this morass of leaks to the media the nsc secondly peace up by the uh excellent amber athi who congratulations on your move over to the spectator from the Daily Caller. You know we enjoy your work

over there. Featured a lot at BonginoReport.com. Interesting piece last night. Trump steals the Dems' spotlight at New Hampshire rally. This is Amber Athie, Spectator. Again, be up at the show notes. If you want us to email you the show notes every day, Bongino.com slash newsletter. We will send

you the show notes every day. I love this. The media, Joe, is losing their mind. He's like, hey, in the past, here we go again, Joe. When we were more civil with each other, coming from the media lunatics, including us, accusing us all of being traitors, working with Vladimir Putin to undermine the United States, that media.

In the past, this was considered verboten, Joe. You didn't do this. You didn't show up and try to steal the spotlight as an incumbent president. You allowed the party their time in the sun. You know what? Again, it's creeping there. Yeah. It's, you don't get to say that.

We don't care. We're not interested in your lectures about civility take it package it in a little ball ram it down the trash compactor we don't care do you hear me listen up cotton out of your ears, insert in mouth. We don't care. We are solely committed to defeating you. We're not listening to your lectures. When you want to go back to civility and stop the phobophobic, fistaphobic, Russian colluder trader nonsense? Yes, we will come down at the table and roast marshmallows together outside in the campfire. Fine. Until then, take it right down the trash compactor known as your rear end because we don't care.

We will show up everywhere you are, hold massive rallies with the president and humiliate you and steal the local media spotlight because now the new rules are in effect. You want the old rules? Robert's rule of order? Rules of order? Fine. Fine. Cut the crap.

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bottom of their role in the whole thing right so john ratcliffe had um king of the swamp now christopher ray our current fbi director who is just um i cannot listen i don't know the man personally sure he's a nice guy i don't really care i'm sure he doesn't like me either whatever i don't like what he's doing that's fine we will never see eye to eye but christopher ray went up to capitol hill to testify this was last week and with everything going on somehow all of this got lost because we had it just in the news week last week was so overwhelming it wasn't even like drinking from a fire hose it was like trying to drink a tsunami as it was coming ashore so this got lost completely here is johnny radcliffe

fantastic representative from texas Christopher Wray, FBI director, and getting him now to finally admit, although Wray does it in only that Christopher Wray way, where he answers the question in a way to never give anyone a talking point. In other words, simple yes or no questions. He gives circuitous answers so he can never be used on the news. But don't worry, I'll translate for Ray what he's really saying in his efforts to cover for the swamp. Here's Christopher Ray answering a question about spying and frauds on the FISA court. Ratcliffe pins him down. This is a great job. Check this out. This was illegal surveillance with respect to at least several of these FISA applications because there was not probable cause or proper predication, correct? Right. To the point of one of my Democratic colleagues that there was no fraud on the court.

Illegal surveillance and changing evidence to conduct illegal surveillance is the very definition of fraud on the court, is it not? It describes conduct that's utterly unacceptable. You see what he, folks, you have to, I always try to say this and that because I never want to sound this and that because i never want to sound like in that condescending way some hosts do which i hate like i know something you don't know but you're busy you you know you all work for them i had the greatest job in the world i love my job this is what i do i get to sit here all day and analyze the political climate of the

day my 15th different career whatever but i still love it when you do this all day you learn to sift through the dcbs and find out what he said what did ray do there ray has asked a very simple question by john rackliff he's asked a question okay now that we know it's been reported weeks ago categorically that the pfizer court has declared the warrants to spy on the trump team follow me invalid has declared the warrants to spy on the Trump team, follow me, invalid. Two of the four. There were four warrants,

one original FISA warrant to spy on the Trump team, and three renewals. The FISA court came out. You may have missed it a couple of weeks ago. Some of you listening to the show didn't. The FISA court has now come out and said two of those warrants are completely invalid. In other words, they spied on Carter Page illegally through two of those warrants.

You may say, what about the other two? The other two are still under review. And I can almost guarantee you those are going to be deemed invalid as well. Meaning the whole case was invalid. So Radcliffe pins them down and says, now that we know these are invalid, can we acknowledge finally that the team was spied on and that they were spied on illegally. And instead of Ray just simply answering the question, yes, sir, this was illegal surveillance.

Why did he do it the way he did it? Because he knows that everything in politics is what? I've said this to you over and over for five years now. We've been doing this show maybe more. Politics and media coverage of politics is what? I've said this to you over and over for five years now. We've been doing this show maybe more. Politics and media coverage of politics is what? Soundbites and snapshots. That's all it is. Christopher Wray, who's a politician first and FBI director second, understands that there is a soundbite in that and he doesn't want to give the media the soundbite. soundbite in that and he doesn't want to give the media the soundbite so he knows if he answers in a circuitous manner it describes behavior that is utterly unacceptable that if that soundbite is used that soundbite is not powerful in the media because he could be talking about anything

i'm sorry if i'm really trying desperately not to confuse you. This is important. Ray understands that if it's forced to be broadcast on ABC, NBC, MSNBC, and CNN, because he knows Fox will cover it because they do actual news. But he understands that the non-news channels, if they're forced to cover this, and the soundbite from that hearing is, will you finally acknowledge that the team was spied on illegally? And he says, yes, they were spied on illegally? And he says, yes, they were spied on illegally.

Forget it. That even Americans who don't understand Spygate, liberals who don't want to understand Spygate, and others who just don't even care are going to be like, holy Moses,

he was spied on? Really? The FBI director just admitted it? He did admit it, but he admits it in such a circuitous way that the soundbite becomes useless right and it's exactly what ray did ray understands what ratcliffe is doing he's trying to get the fbi

to admit what everybody in america already knows they illegally do invalid warrants spied on the trump team period full stop everybody knows it but instead of just saying it he gives this dc swamp answer in a way that none of the media outlets out there will cover it man it's not going to give up the money cut man no yes that's the money cut right good way to describe it we'll keep the rate take a note in the future yes sound bites and snapshots and pictures you know quick story here i've told you story before i'll never forget doing a presidential advance for president bush being on the team and president bush who had a history in his way back past with alcohol it's not something i'm giving up it's out there in the public realm he's talked

about it repeatedly he gave it. He doesn't drink anymore. And, you know, I'm proud of him for doing that. I wasn't a big fan of President Bush's politics, but you understand, personally, he was a very nice guy. And he was a believer. But we were at an event one time, and we were in this event, and they had a bar in the background.

It was like a bar restaurant. It wasn't like a bar bar. But they would not take a picture on that side of the room, no matter what, because they didn't want alcohol in the background of the background. It was like a bar restaurant. It wasn't like a bar bar. But they would not take a picture on that side of the room, no matter what, because they didn't want alcohol in the background of the president. That was it. Why?

Not because the president was going to drink it. Honestly, folks, candidly speaking, no one would even notice that in a picture. But because politics is soundbites and snapshots,

people are always prophylactically getting ahead of stuff. And they didn't even want the perception that he was associated with alcohol. I'm not kidding. They made him take a picture on the other side of the room. I will never forget that.

Soundbites and snapshots. Ray is a politician, not the FBI director. And that's how he's acting with that circuitous BS answer. Garbage. Now, why is this important? Because folks, this case is getting ugly.

Again, you see what's happening here. We'll cover impeachment, then we go back to Ukraine and Biden, then the New Hampshire primary. There's so much going on. But we keep coming back to Spygate and all this stuff because it's all tied together. And as the Horowitz report is sifted through, you're seeing excellent writers and researchers like Margot Cleveland and Catherine Herridge, who we'll cite today, Margot Cleveland at The Federalist, whose work is spectacular, picking out more nuggets in the Horowitz report that got lost again because the report was so long and detailed, people were missing some of this stuff. Here's a piece in The Federalist that I can't encourage you in strong enough terms here.

It's a little lengthy, but gosh, it's worth your time. Again, at the show notes, if you subscribe to our newsletter, bongino.com slash newsletter, just subscribe. We'll email you these articles every day. We don't, we're not going to spam your inbox. The article is titled, Senators, IG FISA abuse report misled the public about crossfire hurricane, Margo Cleveland, February 10th, 2020. Excellent, excellent piece. Talking about how Horowitz's report and how the media soundbites and snapshots of what was in the Horowitz report are not

accurate. The media reports, there was no political spying there was no spying that's not what the report says so she picks out i'm going to go through four or five specific points in here huge inconsistencies in the report which which in the in the ig report big inconsistencies which comport with the story i've told you in my two books on this topic, Spygate and Exonerated, both of which I strongly encourage you to pick up. They're very detailed background stories, extensively footnoted about what really happened here. Let's go to takeaway number one, because this is just, again, staggering.

It's about a redacted footnote in michael horowitz's report in the spy gate thing footnote 302 where they describe in this piece it's long that michael horowitz explanation is that one of the people they were using person one and i'm i know who this person is but in the interests of we have you know we're sure we have to be careful for legal reasons and otherwise. But I know who person one is. So in this footnote, in the Horowitz report describing the whole Spygate debacle, they described this person one who was basically a source for Christopher Steele. She says, quote, but hidden from the public, though, were details connected to the counterintelligence investigation.

Listen to this. Into person one. Oh. Who was described elsewhere in the IG report as a key sub-source to steal. Folks, folks, folks. Wait, wait, time out. As again, a former federal agent,

I don't say that to impress you. I just say that because I know what's going on here. You're now telling me that one of Christopher Steele, the guy who wrote the dossier used to spy on Trump with input from others, I'm sure, that one of his sources, this guy, person one, was also under an FBI investigation himself and that wasn't told to the court. person one was also under an FBI investigation himself.

And that wasn't told to the court. Now you may say, well, what's the big takeaway from it? What are you trying to tell us, Dan, that them not telling the court about person one being under investigation by the FBI was bad. Yeah,

that was bad. But I think something is being missed here. Not by Margo. I think she's onto it. It doesn't actually go into it, but I kind of cover this in my books a bit. Ladies and gentlemen, when you get information from a source, it's not supposed to be a two-way street.

Oh, okay. Follow me. In other words, if I think Joe is involved in a conspiracy to rob a bank and a source comes and tells me that, if I then open up an investigation into that source and start feeding him information backwards so that he can self-correct his information, then how do I know what the source is telling me is true or if what the source is telling me is only coming from the information I'm giving him back? In other words, source comes to me and says, hey, I know Joe was scoping out this bank on August 1st, 2016.

I open up an investigation into this source, right? Do that investigation. I find out various things. And I find out that on August 1st, 2016, through that investigation, that Joe was in fact in California, nowhere near the bank in Maryland where Joe lives. I then feed back to the source. Hey, you know, I think that information about August 1st may be wrong. Joe was in California. He then comes back the next day. I got new information on August 1st. Joe was going to rob a bank in California. You just told us it was in Maryland. No, no new information. This guy's got to be reliable, Joe. He's got to be, he knows he was in California and he corrected as it corrected. As if you get what I'm saying? Yeah. It's not supposed to be a two way street. If you have a credible source,

yeah. Yes. If you have a credible source with credible information why do you need to fact check the information and correct him so that he can correct his new information bingo so if person one which is one of steel sources who's feeding information to steel that apparently wound up in one of the dossier reports report 80 and others but the fbi is also investigating this person one my question to you is this why did they hide that from the court number one and number two were they the ones that may have played a role in connecting Steele to person one? Or even worse, did Steele connect person one to the FBI? I need a fact check on this guy. That's not in that beat but again if you read my book spy gate and exonerated you'll see that

we address this two-way street topic especially in exonerated often steel seems to have an open channel to the FBI and elsewhere where he can vet his sources. He can check information. It's not the way it's supposed to work. Why would you need to check if you're a credible source? Why do you need to check information with the FBI that's correcting for it? It's like having the answers to a test. Steele seems to have access to Kathleen Kavalec at the State Department, who does a lot of checking for him.

Fascinating. It gets better. So again, the takeaway from that, it's not supposed to be a two-way street. Was Steele given answers to the test? And did Steele's person one, who was his source, was he the subject of an FBI investigation because he connected him to the Bureau or did the FBI connect him to Steele?

What's the network here? A lot of open questions. Let's go to takeaway number two. This is important. We have been told repeatedly, and Christopher Wray still unbelievably will not come clean on this. We have been told repeatedly

that the dossier from Christopher Steele paid for by Hillary Clinton was not what initiated the investigation into the Trump campaign. Ladies and gentlemen, the reason is obvious why they're saying this. They will have to then admit on the record that a political candidate, Hillary Clinton,

from the opposite party of her opponent, Donald Trump, paid to hijack the justice system, paid a political operative to give information to the FBI to prosecute her opponent. It's as simple as that. Everybody gets that, right? The FBI still to this day will not acknowledge that clearly it was Steele's paid for information. The dossier, in other words, Steele's information wasn't only in the dossier. It was in the interviews he did with the Justice Department and the State Department. Don't get confused by that. Brennan uses that trick all the time. I didn't see the dossier. It's not about the dossier. When did you talk to Steele? Because Steele was paid for by Hillary Clinton. That's the question.

They keep telling us magically that it was not the dossier that started this. It was this tip from Australia that they got in July about a meeting with this Australian diplomat downer who met with Papadopoulos where Papadopoulos opened his mouth about this Russian email thing.

They keep telling us that story. And they say, that's why we opened up the case on July 31st. Well, this is crazy because Margo Cleveland found some, dug some other tidbits out there. And again, we debunked this a long time ago, but it is worth repeating through this excellent piece she put together. Check this out. Here's takeaway number two from Cleveland's piece.

Here's another little tidbit here. Apparently the New York field office that launched the investigation to person one we just talked about raised more questions about predication in other words how this case started i can't be i thought the fbi said because of the tip because the ig report noted that it had reviewed notes taken by an asac a supervisor supervisor in the New York field office, of a July 13th, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, July 13th, a July 13th phone call. That can't be, Joe, because the case didn't open

until July 31st when the Australians notified us to our people about this tip about Papadopoulos. July 13th is before July 30th. This is crazy. So this ASAC in New York had taken notes about a FBI ASAC, about a July 13th call they had with Steele's handling agent about the same report, report 80, where person one is cited. The handling agent for Steele, their supervisor referred to as the league ad,

stands for legal attache, in the IG report, had approved passing on that information to the New York field office. Significantly, person one, who the FBI is investigating, but I believe is a two-way street, had compiled report 80,

and that call came before the July 31st, 2016 launch of the Trump investigation crossfire hurricane how is that how is that possible math chronology calendars i was told by the fbi who still stick it to the script to this day ray and others that the case started because the australians warned us about papadopoulos and it happened on July 31st. Wow, that's bizarre because the spies you were using, Stephen Halper, reached out way before July 31st to people on the Trump team. And now we find out on July 13th.

So you take 31st and you flip the script. You flip you, flip you for real. For those of you, some of you caught that. We'll flip you, we'll flip you for real. You flip it around and some of you caught that. We'll flip you. We'll flip you for real. You flip it around and you get July 13th, which is before July 31st. And apparently handling agents who are handling Christopher Steele are already passing on information about person one who cited in the dossier, specifically Report 80. Weird. weird and again by weird we mean not weird if you're a regular listener to the show because you already know this story is a flaming pile of what comes out of the rear end of a dog

and rhymes with hit. It's all garbage. Of course Steele started this thing. Of course. What kind of moron believes otherwise? Well, that's Eliza over at CNN because he's just really generally not a bright guy anyway. But he keeps promoting this. It wasn't the dossier.

It was the Australia tip. Really? What's the FBI doing on the phone talking about Steele to his handling agent on July 13th? The suggestions, anything? Chris, with your vast experience in law enforcement? Knucklehead.

I want to get to the excellent reporting of Catherine Herridge, too, in a minute. Again, stacked show. I appreciate your patience today. This is another one. Showing you that story is total garbage. This is all coming out, folks. This is going to get really ugly when the dorm report comes out. All right.

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Now, formerly Fox, she's at CBS now. It's H-E-R-R-I-D-G-E is her last name. You can find her on Twitter. This is from her Twitter account. She has been extensively going through the Horowitz report for weeks and taking notes. These are her handwritten notes from a photo she took. Look at this. Look at this gem.

And notice how she has July 5th down there. July 5th. July 5th, Joe, just checking. Again, fact check time. July 5th is before July 31st, right? I'm just checking where the FBI said they opened up the case. Yeah. Thank you, buddy.

Joe always has the audience referee coming through in the clutch. So, from the IG report, again, underlined notes by Catherine Harris, but this is directly from the IG report. Shortly before the 4th of July, 2016, the 4th of July, July 4th, definitely before July 31st, again, just checking. Handling agent one, handler of Christopher Steele, that is, told the inspector general that he received a call from Steele requesting an in-person meeting as soon as possible.

The agent said he departed his duty station in Europe on July 5th. Wow. Wow. Looney Tunes, July 5th. I thought it didn't happen on July 31st. And met with Steele in Steele's office that day. During the meeting, Steele provided handling agent one with a copy of report 80 report 80 the same report 80 citing person one who's also under investigation in the fbi which could be a

two-way street scenario giving him the answers to the test oh man and explained that he had been hired by fusion gps to collect information via the relationship between candidate Trump's businesses in Russia. Handling agent one said Steele had become concerned about the possibility of Russians compromising Trump. You know, again, to the Salizes, the Stelters, the Chuck Todds of the world, I may have to, you know my ranking system, the dumbest guy in media, Stelter, number two, Chuck Todd.

It's always tight, but he hasn't passed Stelter yet I think we have to go with Saliza number three because Saliza a long time ago aggravated me because he pretends to be a smart guy sticking to this ridiculous story despite any evidence that the dossier and the Steele information had nothing to do with it

just read the report what do you think they were doing on July 5th before the alleged friendly foreign government tip comes in on July 31st around there? What do you think they were doing? Having tea and crumpets? Talking about new recipes for ice? What do you think they were doing?

Playing tiddlywinks? Building Lego homes? Competing in a sandcastle tournament in the Keys. What do you think they were talking about, you numb nuts? They just laid out right there. They were talking about Steele promoting the Russian collusion hoax to the FBI. It's right there. FBI. It's right there. It goes on. Margot

Cleveland's peltality is worth reading. Please read it. FBI documents reflect that another of Steele's subsources who reviewed the election reporting told the FBI in August that whatever information the Steele reports, it was attributable to him or her, had been exaggerated. And that he or she did not recognize anything as originating specifically from him or her. This gets good.

Who is that other subsource? So now we're talking about someone separate from the infamous person one. And we all know who it is too, by the way. And he knows it's him too. This is a different person. So apparently here, Steele is getting information from a subsource who follow me here,

is either giving him the information directly or is giving it to him through another third party oh so i'm getting information from a source i'm giving to the fbi or i'm getting information from a source who says they're getting it from someone else who is this guy who is this other subsource who by the way is saying that's not that's not me. Kind of a problem, right? When you say like, this is my subsource and the subsource says, that's not my stuff. In some limited circles. Again, we'd call that an issue, a problem, and a clue that you got.

We got a problem here. Houston, we got a malfunction, man. I hear REO. In some small circle. Yeah. It goes. Now, can we go back to that wow all right quote margo cleveland those facts suggest the footnote concerns who is the source

russian bieckoslob chubnikov who if you listen to the show you know exactly who that is the former head of the r intelligence service, the SVR. So just to be clear, Steele already identified Trebnickoff as a source in his interview with Kathleen Kavalec from the State Department. Again, was that a two-way street too? Was that an interview? Was that an exchange of information? We know Steele's talking to the FBI. We know he's talking to the State Department. In his interview with the State Department, he tells them in no uncertain terms that one of his sources is Trebnickoff. How do we know that? Because the lady at the State Department interviewing Steele Kavlik takes a note and she writes, sources, Trebnickoff. It's on a notepad. You're telling me a foreigner then,

paid for by the Clintonsons is getting information from a Russian intelligence service head to impact our election. That was then fed to the FBI was all lies and an invalid warrant to spy on a presidential candidate. Sounds like collusion or something, you know, nah, come on,

Joe, stop with the nonsense collusion. That only applies to Republicans. Come on. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. It can't possibly happen with Democrats. I know. Stop with the nonsense. Collusion. That only applies to Republicans. Come on. Give it the proper. I'm sorry. Collusion can't possibly happen with Democrats. I know.

Self-correct. Autocorrect. Of course it's collusion. The Democrats always accuse you of what they do themselves. Yeah. There's only two possible scenarios here. That their source, Steele, that the fbi based their case on is lying because remember with a footnote the footnote's important i put that up for a reason

trubnikov who is a russian intel officer and a high ranking one is saying to the fbi if that's him that's subsource i that's not me i didn't give him him this information. So then Steele's totally discredited. The FBI spied on Trump with totally discredited information from a discredited source. Or the alternative, which is even worse, that Trebnikov's not discredited, that Trebnikov is a Russian intelligence head that's feeding Steele information, and it was used to spy on a campaign on invalid warrants. There is no option C, folks. Now, why is this bad?

And why does Trebnickoff constantly come up as a subject here, this Russian intelligence head, as a source for steel? Because we know at this point there is a nexus between Halper, the spy working on the Trump team, who's working with the FBI,

and Trebnnikov. Halpern works with Trubnikov. They know each other. They go way back. Halpern is a known spy, spying for the FBI on the Trump team. That is now a fact. Everybody knows it. So if Trubnikov was a source for steel, were we paying Halper with our taxpayer dollars?

Paying a spy to spy on the Trump team who may have been using a Russian intelligence officer as a source? Let's go to this next takeaway because this gets just thought it couldn't get any worse. It does. Check this out. So from Margot Cleveland's piece here here we find out from margo yeah we got a nice click on that trigger finger also intriguing is that shortly before uh ag bar sent a letter requesting declassification of the footnotes we've been talking about senator chuck rasley republican released released another letter to jim baker the director of the office of net assessments for the department of defense listen now you're i know all your

antenna office of net assessments at the pentagon what does this have to do with anything in that letter which is which ostensibly concerned fiscal oversight senator grasley who knows everything that's going on folks raised concerns about contracts the DOD had entered into with Stefan Halper, including a September 2015 contract in which Halper listed Trebnickoff as a consultant and an advisor to a paper the feds, feds, that's you, your tax dollars, were paying Halper to write. those we're paying Halpern a right. Oh, so Halpern is now admitting in a paper paid for with your taxpayer dollars through the Pentagon money office of net assessments given to Halpern spying

on the Trump team. Halpern is already admitting paying a Russian Intel asset using your tax dollars to put together papers. I'm going to go get the papers, get the papers. It's all there, folks. It's all right in front of your eyes, man. We're paying Russians with our tax dollars now to spy on presidential campaigns,

do invalid warrants, while swampy, circuitous question answering Christopher Wray is still incredibly refusing to take a bath on this i would say it's completely unacceptable behavior get rid of this guy please please get rid of this guy make john radcliffe head of the fbi absolute disgrace i had to take a note, turn page. We have so much material. I had to go on the back page.

I did. I had to take a note because I number them sometimes. I want to lose. And it was, this is number four, story number four. And I'm like, I don't want to sit here looking on the page for number four.

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There are so many Democrats taking over the state. They've gone full gun confiscation. So I saw this on Twitter. This is video from the Virginia House chamber. And there are these two delegates. Now, they're going back. One is a really great guy, this guy, Nick Fritos. Forgive me if I'm saying your name wrong.

But I know he had run for higher office. Really good guy. This delegate is concerned about Virginia going full gun confiscation. Virginia. Virginia. Again, we're not talking about New York or California. Virginia. They've gone full gun confiscation, being led by this colossal moron, this guy Mark Levine. Not

Mark Levine. He's the great one. Levine with an E at the end. This guy is a liberal kook. We played the video of him. What was it? Two weeks ago. He was the guy in the video who they asked him about an assault rifle. He's like, I got a pistol grip and a bing bing and a doong doong. And it's got this and it's black and it looks funny. it's really remember that the video that's the same goofball you hold it and you hold it like this and i go bang bang and boom boom and go pop pop and that's an assault rifle you know when elmer fudd i got you you silly rabbit that was that was the same lunatic this guy appears on fox sometimes he is a a total clown he is i mean if there was ever a caricature of a goofball liberal who is one i mean this is like the male aoc this guy he's so dopey so he's asked a question about

this bill to confiscate your rifles that's what it is there's a gun confiscation bill going on in virginia right now make no mistake that's what it. And listen to the way he dances, like Christopher Wray, by the way. He will not answer the question when this guy, Nick Freitas, this other delegate, this Republican, good guy, asks him, okay, so you want to ban these rifles. What are you going to do with people who own these rifles now? And he will not admit that they're going to take them from you without compensation. Not that the compensation makes it any better. Listen to the way he answers this question, full sleazeball mode. not admit that they're going to take them from you without compensation not that the compensation makes it any better this watch listen to the way he answers this question full sleazeball mode check this out if i heard the delegate correctly he's saying that no law-abiding citizen would be

affected by this whatsoever so no currently law-abiding citizen would have to turn in anything under this bill or does he want to reevaluate that statement delegate levine i would answer the delegate that virginians understand that laws change and law-abiding Virginians follow the law. Delegate Freitas. Madam Speaker, speaking of the bill. Actually, I'm sorry, Madam Speaker, one more question if the delegate will yield. Will the delegate yield? I will yield. The delegate yields. Delegate Freitas, one more question. I also noticed that what we're currently doing within this bill is we're going to confiscate legally acquired property or we're going to demand that it be turned in.

Is there any sort of compensation that is offered to citizens as we take their property or is this a taking with no compensation? Delegate Levine. Madam Speaker, I would encourage the delegate to read the bill. There is no confiscation. Thank you. Delegate Freitas. Madam Speaker, speaking of the bill.

Delegate Freitas. I see. So there's no confiscation, but if I don't turn it it in then i'm guilty of a class one misdemeanor i'm not exactly sure what the difference is with respect to that from a legal perspective you know what i love about being a conservative i'm not messing with you we give honest answers we give honest answers i want school choice for my kids and your kids too why because parents know better than the dopey government i want to cut your taxes why because the government is a toilet ball outside of our I want school choice for my kids and your kids too. Why? Because parents know better than the dopey government. I want to cut your taxes.

Why? Because the government is a toilet ball. Outside of our military court system and our police law enforcement function, your money gets flushed down the toilet. It's a total waste. The government has no idea what to do with it. I believe you should control your healthcare because I don't want some moron out there answering a phone in some deep bureaucracy, determining when they get to crack my chest open and who gets to do it. I'm just saying. Honest answers all the time. That's all we do. Life,

conception, and natural death. Simple answer. Liberals like Chris Reagan never answer the question like this guy Levine. He's got a bill out there which will clearly confiscate and make illegal the rifle you have now clear as day and this delegate fritas who does a great job says so wait what are you saying so is this a confiscation bill or not no no levine levine says it's not a confiscation bill law-abiding virginians will follow the law yeah the law says turn it over it will're going to be a criminal. That's what the law says. Do you notice the dance always? How do you vote for these idiots?

Just be honest. Serious note. If you believe in your heart, in your soul, in your brain, in your soul, in your brain, that your ideas will really lead to some better tomorrow on the margin. And why aren't you willing to just say what they are and defend them? Why the dance?

If you legitimately believe that rifles legally acquired by law-abiding American citizens, no one's recommending criminals acquire them, but legal law-abiding patriotic Americans eager to defend either themselves or their family and want the means to do so, God forbid something were to happen. If you really believe they are a public menace and that we should go door to door and make them all criminals by confiscating their rifles and if they refuse arrest or fine them, then just say it, man. Grow a set and just say it.

and just say it. Why the sniveling, snake-like, cowardly, verbal judo dance every time liberals propose a policy? I want to cancel your health care for full government control. Oh, it's not going to be government. It's going to be less money on the side you're paying now. Just answer the question. Yes, we want government to control your health care. Yes, public unions should control your kids' education.

No school choice. Yes, we're going to raise your taxes to 90%. Just say it. Yes, we're going to confiscate your guns. And notice how Delegate Fritas does a damn good job trying to pin this guy down, but he's a snake. You ever try to pin a snake down? We had a black snake in my other house that we used to live in and then you what yeah that's a good point we

actually had one in our garage in this house too poor painter downstairs nearly killed him not because it was a poisonous snake he's actually painting now get him up here get him up poor guy almost had a heart attack that's what he almost died or thing like jumped out at him truce to paul is lit right he opened the closet downstairs this is levine there's snakes you can't pin them down finally what do you do grab them by the end got them outside poor guy snakes cowards cheats lies li oh thieves, you can't say I own a rifle, you're going to take it from me because oh but the government said I can do it no you're a thief

sniveling lying cowards I have zero respect for you zero oh you can't say that that's not civil, you know what I said take the civility, wrap it in a ball and ram it up the trash compactor.

I don't care. Not even a little bit. Let me show you people I care even less about who somehow have suckered these media idiots who follow him. Here's a great piece

of PJ media, again, in the show notes and totally worth your time. Folks, can we please stop with the Never Trump Republicans? Here's a piece of PJ Media by Stephen Kruiser. The morning briefing. Please let's stop calling them Never Trump Republicans.

Ladies and gentlemen, they are not Republicans. What happened? Most of you already know that. But what happened and why is this coming up now? There was a New York Post story, which is cited in that PJ media piece. A bunch of emails have come out and it turns out a bunch of these quote, never Trump Republicans.

Listen to this. We're actively working to elect Joe Biden in New Hampshire and Iowa. Oh, come on. Call yourself never Trump. Fine. It's obvious. You will never vote for Trump.

Fair label. I don't dispute that. You're not Republicans. Stop it. They're not never Trump Republicans. These are never Trump liberals or just never Trumpers. They are not Republicans. Now, why do people do that in the media?

Because it gives them an air of gravitas, the dreaded DC buzz term, that look, Joe, even Republicans are turning against Trump. As the peace sites and PJ media, they are not. These are gnats on the collective caboose of the Republican Party. these are gnats on the collective caboose of the Republican Party. Trump has 94% approval, historically high approval amongst Republicans, historically high.

Decades long internal party approval. There is no movement of never Trump Republicans worth your time. None. He's not a monarch. He's not a king. I'm not suggesting that shows like this and others shouldn't be a check on the president if we think he's doing so. I already said we got to do something about this spending. Not a huge fan of tariffs and other stuff, but you get the point. But acting like there are never Trump Republicans in some significant intra-party rift is garbage.

You're just making it up. These are Democrats. They are not Republicans. The fact that they once called themselves Republicans is irrelevant. The exposed emails are from some former Ohio people used to work for now Democrat, John Kasich. Oh, he's still a registered Republican in name only only, in name only, former hack John Kasich. And they were actively working to elect Biden.

But this is where the story is really funny. Maybe just to get this right. These never Trump losers were so stupid that they wanted to engage in a concerted effort using the phones to call what they believe to be moderate republicans to get them to vote in the new hampshire primary because it's an open primary for biden to save biden because they're they're in for biden they're democrats they're not republicans he's never trump republicans they're democrats unfortunately the deadline to do that was October 25th,

where they had to re-register or register as independent. The call, the memo to do this, Joe. Paul, listen to this. Listen, pay attention over there, too. The memo went out mid-november so these geniuses these political geniuses all they had to do was go to the new hampshire website the deadline to switch parties to vote for biden or regis was october 25th these morons they're sitting there we got that cigar where's that yo here we go we got it we got it these geniuses

you can see them just like chewed on yeah i can see her they're sitting down and they're like, hey man, look at us. So smart. Never Trump Republicans. Consultants focus group tested. We've built all these never Trumpers out of their money for this focus group. I got a great idea. Let's start calling.

Let's start. You got to smoke in between to make sure you look tough. Wait, wait, you got to throw in your glasses. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, the glasses. There you go. So you wait, you got to throw in your glasses. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, the glasses. There you go. Throw in the shades too, yeah. There you go. Get glasses on. Because it's disgusting.

This thing's falling apart, but it's worth it for a fact. That's how much I love you. So you take a puff of your cigar. You go, I got an idea. Joe, you got your Vito calling your own voice. I got an idea. I got an idea.

Let's call up. Vito, listen, buddy. Let's call up these Republicans. Let's call up. Vito, listen, buddy. Let's call up these Republicans. They could vote. You know, they could vote for Biden. We need to push Biden because Biden can beat Trump. But I got an idea, Joe. Oh, I'm sorry, Vito. Here's my idea. Let's send out this call in November,

the middle of November. We could do maximum damage in November. It's a great idea. They're all sitting around there. It's a great idea, Vito. Good job, buddy. You're so smart. And then, because the guy,

and no one in the group even thinks about it. Hey, now without the, let's go back to the normal person. So the normal person in the group goes,

hey, I'm actually crying right now because I think this is so funny. Have you checked the deadline? Yeah, the deadline to do that was October 25th. You dip wads.

Double, come on, it's a double. Come on, guy, double Motley. Wait, here's the sound. Remember the sound guy? Oh, yeah, there you go. Here, the sound guy sent us this dopey sound. Thank you, Mr. Sound Guy, but this is for... This is like a $2 sound machine from the dollar store this is great here one more time

these are your never trump republicans folks a collection of dip wads like you've never seen before. Holy Moses. I'm sorry. All right. I got jitsu today. So if I make it, if I miss tomorrow's show, God forbid,

you'll know I didn't make it through my jujitsu. I'll be back. Even if it's in a sling, no matter what at 45, you got to be careful. Coach Steve, take care of everybody. Got cigar stuff everywhere.

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