The Dan Bongino Show - The Official Story Cannot Be True # 940 (Ep 940)

Episode Date: March 20, 2019

In this episode I address the explosive new revelations in the Peter Strzok testimony that indicate that the FBI’s official story cannot be true. I also address a significant problem with the Green New Deal that will impact your home value. Finally, I address the growing influence of Chinese-Americans in GOP politics and the controversy surround a new pro-life movie. News Picks: Records show that Michael Cohen was under investigation long before we believed.   The Mueller probe is obviously a witch-hunt. And the public is catching on.   Devin Nunes files a massive lawsuit against this social media company.   Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s public approval is taking a big hit.   Chinese-Americans could be a solid pocket of support in the fight against socialism.    How would you feel about a electric transmission line on your backyard? The Green New Deal advocates have no answer for this.    Margot Cleveland’s new piece is explosive.    Copyright Dan Bongino All Rights Reserved. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

get ready to hear the truth about america on a show that's not immune to the facts with your host dan bongino all right welcome to the dan bongino show producer joe how are you today park i think i hear a dan o'lark it's the first day of spring is it is it spring yet i'm like i don't i'm totally i've been working so hard. I mean, listen, everybody works hard. It's not some pity party. We're not liberals here, but I have so much stuff going on between Spygate, the sequel, another project, Wink and a Nod I'm working on,

traveling back and forth in and out of airports and stuff. It's like I'm losing my mind. The video show, the audio show, now working with Paula to put the video together. We appreciate all the nice comments on the YouTube channel. I was going through them on the plane yesterday, reading them. You guys and ladies out there are pretty awesome. I'm glad you like the video component to the show. So yeah, it was all for you. So we really appreciate it. I'm glad it helps. Thank you very much for the kind words. And thank you. Yesterday

I was up in New York. I ran into a bunch of people. Yeah, in New York. Some guy's like, the Big Dan, Joey Bag of Donuts on the streets of New York City. I'm like, I turn around. I'm like, hey, how are you, buddy? It was so funny. Guys, some guy, I'm not kidding, in a suit.

You think of New York City where I used to live, right? This pocket of liberalism. You'd get a big like, hey, Dan, like FCC would have to beep you out. And the guy's like, Joey Bagadona, yeah, baby. So if you listen to the show, you know who you are. Pretty cool stuff. All right. I got a lot of stuff to get to today.

Thanks to one of my sources who's really good. We've been picking apart some of the information. And here it is again, Joe. July of 2017, what we've been calling the internal Spygate Civil War date. What else happens in July 2017? Stay tuned. I'm going to get to that and some other stuff. Great show today. All right, today's show brought to you by our buddies at Helix Sleep. There's nobody on the planet like you,

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All right. So getting right to it. First, I just want to knock out this thing about the Green New Deal before I get to the internal Civil War date. So I have a Washington Examiner piece I pulled up for the show notes. It's a pretty good one. They write some really good stuff over there show notes are always available

bongino.com if you subscribe uh to our email list we will send you these articles every day make it real easy for you so washington examiner has a piece up about these uh transmission lines that would be necessary for the green new deal now you may say like what kind of story is that why would you want to why would you lead the show off with that? Because it's such a fascinating story about how largely far-left, radical-left politics sounds great on a national stage, but when the policies they implement,

socialism, whatever, Medicare for all, you know, wiping out school choice, when those policies slam you in the cajones right i know how to say the cajones all of a sudden it doesn't sound so great so here's the headline from the washington examiner by josh siegel big problem facing the green new deal lack of power lines to deliver wind and solar joe the story here is basically this uh the green new deal by alexandria ocasio-cortez and all of these Democratic presidential candidates that jumped on to it, Kamala Harris and others, that said it was such a great idea. It mandates a 100% renewable energy economy, meaning solar and wind.

Right, right. Oh, okay. All right. And everybody's like, the libs are... He's like, yeah, he knows where I'm going. He's like, he's saying, all right, all right, I get it. So 100% renewable economy, windmills and solar. Now, I already said to you that would require about 500,000 square miles of land for windmills and for solar panels.

No big deal. Just basically the entire state of California and Texas, states of California and Texas would have to be wiped out for solar and windmills. But forgetting that, that everybody in California and Texas would have to move out so we could basically raise the entire state for solar panels, right? And it's assuming the sun shines and the wind's blowing all the time. One of the more fascinating, that Josh Siegel puts in his piece,

fascinating pieces of analysis done on this is, well, how are you going to get the electricity from the solar panels where the sun's shining, Florida, Texas, the South? How are you going to get it up to where the sun doesn't shine all the time like bangor maine parts of michigan wisconsin north dakota how are you going to do that joe well carrier pigeon of course yeah i was a little over you're gonna do it by carrier pigeon. You'll carry Duracell batteries, right? Yeah.

You're cracking me up. Oh, dude. Oh, dude. No, of course you're not going to do it by carrier pigeon carrying Duracell batteries or whatever energizers. The energizer buddy rocking across the little energizer buddy. You're going to have to build transmission lines. So he brings up an interesting point. Here's a cut from the piece, a little snippet from the examiner piece.

He says at the end that he quote in between States that only serve as locations of the line. Don't see much benefit. They see it more as a problem. It can stop all this stuff from being built. Oh, that's hysterical. Siri. So what he's based Siri just picked up on my phone.

That's a, think about this job. So you live in a state, let's say, throw something out, Tennessee. And Tennessee needs the transmission lines to be built across Tennessee to get solar energy from Florida to, say, Michigan. Yeah, okay. So you're sitting in your house one day in Nashville, and you just bought this nice property, you know, maybe on the outskirts of town. You like Nashville. You don't want to live in the city, but you're in kind of the burbs or maybe the exurbs around

Nashville, whatever it may be. You get away from it all, but you love the energy. Next thing you know, a transmission line, Tennessee power and light, whatever it may be, shows up. And in your backyard, you're out there playing with Fido. You're throwing him a bone and Fido's running away. And you see this guy in your yard and you're like, hey, hey, bro, hey, bro, you know, because you're a liberal

and you think this is all cool, of course. You know, you're a lib, you believe in the Green New Deal. You're like, hey, bruh, hey, bruh, what are you doing in my backyard, bruh? You know, you got your Snuggie on, you're throwing your bone to Fido. And he's like, what do you mean? You supported the Green New Deal. I'm here to build a mega transmission line in your backyard so we can get the power from florida to michigan hey bruh what do you mean bruh it's not for me bruh no no it's not for you we're just running the line through

your state to get to michigan for power hey bruh hey bruh i didn't sign up for this bruh bruh not bro hey bruh i didn't sign up for this bruh i got my Snuggie on in the back. I love AOC. I got my socialism wind shirt on the front. You know, we got our don't feed the hipsters shirt on today, but you are a hipster. Hey, bruh. Hey, you got your hipster beard. Hey, bruh, bruh. I didn't sign up for this, bruh. No, you did. Because there'll be transmission lines running all over the United States on what Josh Siegel in this Washington Examiner piece, right? He's quoting someone, by the way. He's quoting another researcher who calls them the in-between states who are going to be like, are you crazy? Joe, this is classical what? Nimbism, right? Yep. Not in my backyard. Not in my backyard. There you go. You're darn right.

Are you correct? Folks, people don't want, people don't even want their backyards in their backyards. They don't want some. I'm serious. There's some people in their own backyards. Like if your neighbor were to plant a tomato plant and a leaf falls in your backyard, you're ready to burn down your neighbor's property. You think some Tennessee power and light dude is going to show up in your backyard when you're throwing a bone to fight it when you're snuggie. Show up in your backyard when you're throwing a bone to fight it when you're snuggie. Put a big, monstrous pole in your backyard.

Run a huge transmission line with a transformer that's going to hum 24 hours a day. And you're going to be like, hey, bruh, that's totally cool. You're going to lose your minds. But I want to talk about it first before I get to the other stuff because this is liberalism. It is this emotion-based, non-fact-based, non-real-world analysis of the current political situation and ideology bedrocked in emotional responses to real-world problems. Green New Deal, yeah, bro.

That's great. Solar, wind. Oh, this is great. Yeah, we're going to build those in your backyard. No, bro. I didn't sign up for that. Of course you didn't. You're a liberal. You didn't sign up for anything. You think your neighbor's going to build those in your backyard. Nah, bruh. I didn't sign up for that. Of course you didn't. You're a liberal.

You didn't sign up for anything. You think your neighbor's going to get screwed, not you. Greatest story ever. I saw that this morning. Is that not liberalism summed up, Joe? You bet, Daniel. These states will go crazy. Can you imagine, Joe, you live in Maryland, where nimbyism is.

I lived in Maryland for a long time. Maryland's actually an interesting state because it's a liberal state, but it's really not. It's really three liberal counties, as Joe knows well. Exactly. Baltimore City, which is 23 plus, not really a county, but Baltimore City, Montgomery, and Prince George's County. Without those three counties, Maryland is actually not only conservative, but very conservative. Western Maryland is mountain Maryland, and the Eastern Shore is hugely conservative out there. So Maryland's one of these fascinating states where, although it votes liberal,

nimbyism out there is, oh my gosh, Joe, try to put a windmill on the right, on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, where people have waterfront property. Even the liberals on the Eastern Shore will be like, hey like hey bruh that ain't for me man you better i'll burn that thing down yeah i'll drop a a tactical nuclear weapon on that thing and blow it out but it'll kill fish too i don't care that was an environmentalist yesterday until you said you remember the rain tax folks one more quick example i'll move on right joe and i lived through this in maryland joe was on the radio at the time um where he was uh running a show over there and they had this rain tax in maryland that a liberal governor o'malley implemented the rain tax was they would tax you on the amount of impervious

surface on your property and they were going to take satellite pictures. If you had say concrete instead of grass, or if you had flat roofs on your commercial property. And the logic was that the runoff that didn't seep into the grass that was on say concrete would run into the Chesapeake Bay and pollute it so that you should be taxed for it. So it was called the rain tax folks. This was a disaster of Epic proportions for the libs because again in a liberal state that votes overwhelmingly at least in presidential elections for democrats

all of a sudden people are like hey bruh what do you mean i'm gonna get a thirty thousand dollar tax for the flat roof of my business uh no thanks all of a sudden they voted larry hogan for governor who basically won on the rain tax it was remember, Joe? I mean, this is classical NIMBYism. Yeah, man. Oh, man. We lived through that. It was like the opposition to this in Maryland was ferocious. People were going crazy.

Remember Joe calling in the radio? The tax and the rain. What else is next, man? They're going to tax my toilet bowl flushes next. Be careful. There was a flush tax in Maryland too. Because it's an ethnic system tax, right? Don't give them any ideas.

The businesses were taking a bath, you know, with their parking lots and big roofs. Gosh, they were getting quick. I spoke to a guy in Anne Arundel County. He had a flat roof in this big industrial park. He's like, hey, man, I'm going to get like a $15,000 tax, but I can't afford that. What? I thought you liked Democrats. No, not anymore.

Remember this, ladies and gentlemen, all politics are local. You can talk about this crap all you want. The Green New Deal, socialism, 70% tax rates. When that gets slammed in the wallets of locals who are voting in their congressional elections and everything, that Democrat brand is going to tank everyone with it. Pin this to them. All right um you know what let me read this so we because this is going to folks this is good um i have a really really phenomenal source out there he's been really good and yesterday i was looking over some documents and of course i get an email and boom that july 2017 date again again i want to get to that and a great piece by Margot Cleveland

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well maybe towards the beginning we're not really sure what day but bob muller gets wind of the fact that the inspector general investigating this case the uh clinton collusion case has the infamous peter stroke text why is this important why does it matter to you i cannot emphasize this enough because muller now knows that the lead investigator peter stroke who's having an affair with this other fbi lawyer working on the case lisa. They are texting each other back and forth, talking about all the corruption in this case, lures overseas, like fishing lures, like luring people in. They're talking about how Trump reporters smell, how there's an insurance policy. All this stuff is in the text. Mueller gets the text in July of 2017. And ladies and gentlemen, what do you think is the first thing on Mueller's mind? Because Mueller's only goal

is to target Donald Trump and keep the heat off the Obama administration and the DOJ. Mueller's got to be thinking, holy, look at what's going on. What am I going to do? So July 15th, Lisa Page gets booted from the special counsel.

Just a couple of weeks after that, Peter Stroke gets booted from the special counsel. Just a couple of weeks after that, Peter Stroke gets booted from the special counsel and all of this stuff happens. Now the operating thesis from 60,000 feet we've been operating on for Spygate too, is that when Mueller sees these texts about how corrupt the investigation into Trump was, Joe,

he does what he panics like anyone would because he's trying to keep the heat on Trump. Now he knows an external investigator michael harwitz knows everything has the text and has this guy has it all on file so muller hits back and i believe at this point someone leaks information in defense of trump to hit back too so we have a number of things that happen in july of 17 just to be clear tell me you're following me here because this is super important. Mueller hits back by engaging in an unprecedented full frontal

assault on the Trump team. I believe in an effort to lock people up and get cooperators before his entire operation is exposed. And that operation is keeping the heat off of what happened to Donald Trump because again, Horowitz knows it. Now, what happens we

already know that's when George Papadopoulos is arrested in this hurry up arrest at the airport I believe it's to shut him up and get him to somehow to shut him down maybe try one last time to pin him down on some collusion that he wasn't involved in I don't believe he was involved that's when the Manafort search warrant happens all I believe efforts by Mueller to take attention away from what he knows is going to leak publicly these devastating stroke texts we know that's the the July of 2017 is when the house GOP that's seen this evidence calls for a second special counsel in other words Joe they're probably looking at this going what the heck is this we need a second special counsel we also know that's when it leaks to John Solomon, a reporter who I'm convinced knows the whole story,

that Jim Baker, the FBI lawyer involved in this case as well, is being investigated criminally for potential leaks to the media. I believe someone on the pro-Trump side leaks that, understanding they're about to go to this civil war over this case. Now we find out, you're like, well, Dan, why are you bringing this up today? You know I don't repeat shows. I don't just bring it up to bring it up. Well, what did we find out yesterday in a striking new tidbit of information?

Paula, put up that Associated Press headline. I'll have this in the show notes. I'm not a big fan of the Associated Press. Here's the headline. AP by Jim Mustian and Larry Neumeister. Record show special counsel, in other words, Robert Mueller, zeroed in on Cohen, Michael Cohen, Trump's lawyer early on. Oh, they did? Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Early on, Joe. What does that mean? When exactly did Bob Muellerer who's panicking in

july of 17 because these texts are out there showing just how corrupt the investigations to trump is he's got to distract people arrest papadopoulos go get manafort we got all this stuff cover it up well when did manafort when did muller start zeroing in on Donald Trump's attorney? Paula, put up that snippet from the article on the screen here. Here we go, folks. I'll read it for you, for you audio only. Hundreds of pages of court records made public Tuesday revealed that special counsel Bob Mueller quickly zeroed in on Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump's former personal attorney

and fixer in the early stages of his Russia probe. Throw that back up. The heavily blacked out records released by a judge at the request of news organizations show that Mueller was investigated, Cohen, by July

of 2017, much earlier than previously known. Oh my gosh, folks. This was just released yesterday. Hat tip, my guy. Great, great catch. I was reading through it. I'll be honest with you.

I read right over that part. The search warrants, the original search warrants, July of 2017. Conveniently, right around the time Mueller finds out, the whole investigation's a scam. Again. 2017. Conveniently, right around the time Mueller finds out, the whole investigation's a scam. Again, please tell, this is where I am not trying to start a beef with people. I respect their work. Please don't take this the wrong way. You guys know who you are. There are some Twitter sleuths out there doing phenomenal work on this.

This is not an attack. It is simply my opinion versus yours. And you guys can back yours up. I'll back up mine. There are still people out there who somehow insist Mueller's a good guy, a white hat. He's on the right side here and that Mueller's working in conjunction with the Trump White House to, you know, in the end, they're going to get all these bad guys. They are not. I'm sorry. Mueller is not a good guy. I honor the man's service to the country. What he's doing here is entirely unethical. It is clear as day to me

in this rush to arrest Papadopoulos, get this warrant on Manafort, and then get the warrant on Michael Cohen, Trump's lawyer in July of 2017, that he's not doing anything involving Russian collusion. He's doing it to hammer Donald Trump. Now, Joe, I'm going to wrap this up on his points. I want to get to another story by Margot Cleveland. That's phenomenal. But you may say, well, Dan, how do you know that the Papadopoulos arrest in July of 2017, the Manafort search warrant,

and subsequent arrest and prosecution? How do you know also that the Cohen search warrant in July of 2017, the infamous civil war date we have, how do you know that wasn't related to Russian collusion and that Mueller wasn't doing what he was charged to do, investigate Russian collusion because folks now it, now that this case, this is why spy gate to book, is so necessary.

Now that we've seen these cases prosecuted and the legal documents have been made public. Joe, was Papadopoulos ever charged with anything related to Russian collusion? Let's see, Dan, I, no, he wasn't. He wasn't. Let me double down. Was Paul Manafort ever charged with anything related to Russian collusion? No, no, no. No, he wasn't either.

That's triple down. Joe, was Trump's lawyer, Michael Cohen, ever charged with anything related to Russian collusion? Oh, gee, Dan, this is a tough one. I know it's tough. Dig deep. No, no. No no none of them were we now know that this is all out now when i originally wrote spy gate none of this was out we didn't know about the july 2017 civil war date this is when it all went down muller clearly went after people unrelated to russian collusion because he never charged them

with russian collusion and no one has ever pled guilty to any collusion charge with the russian ever matter of fact joe even worse the michael cohen case once muller's special counsel started looking into him conveniently again in july of 2017 when they found out their case was a train wreck because of the tax. Once they served the search warrant, they referred the case out to the Southern District of New York. Yeah. The Southern District of New York, a branch of the DOJ not involved with the special counsel because it had nothing to do with collusion, mortgage fraud, other stuff Cohen pled guilty to. I'm not here to defend Cohen.

You know I don't like Cohen. I think he's a snake. But he was not involved with Russian collusion. It's clear as day. Mueller not only didn't charge him with it, he didn't charge him with anything. He referred the case to Southern District. Southern District of New York saying,

I have nothing to do with this. Folks, does this all make sense? I'm really, I'm humbly and respectfully asking to the people out there who still believe somehow Mueller's a good guy, what is your evidence of that? I don't understand what your evidence is of that. A couple of token prosecutions we're hearing of, you know, potentially looking at the Craig Craig,

Greg Craig right now, the old Obama White House lawyer for his legal work with Ukraine? Fine. It's a token prosecution. It's not going to hurt anybody. That's not evidence that Mueller's a good guy. He's done an absolutely awful, awful, terrible job. All right. I want to move on to this piece by Margo Cleveland because it is a stud. She's done really, really great work. You know, I usually had tip Jeff Carlson and Chuck Ross and, and,

and, and Kate's and others out there who are doing really good work. There's a lot of good Twitter things out there. That undercover Huber account does decent work on Twitter. A lot of good people, but I've sadly, I don't know why I just, there's so many people I want to

hat tip and pat on the back because there's really been phenomenal work. I leave out Margo Cleveland. I shouldn't. Her work at The Federalist on this, it's a library of material that's just so good. So she has another piece up today about now that, and the reason this is time sensitive to today, again, we don't

cover old material in new shows unless it's relevant, is now, Joe, we have doug collins the house gop member who has been launching out now the behind closed doors testimony of multiple people lisa page bruce or we now have peter stroke's testimony you may say well dan he already testified publicly no no no no no no, no, no, no, no. He did. But Stroke also said things behind closed doors that we now have public. And some of the stuff he said, ladies and gentlemen, is like tier one level bombshell stuff because it outs the whole. And you may say, well, no one's talking about. Of course, they're not talking. Only we're talking about it. You want the real news. Come here. You want the fake news? Go watch NBC.

So here's the piece. Paula, throw that up for me if you don't mind on the screen. So Margo Cleveland, Federalist. Did Peter Stroke lie or was there a spy targeting the Trump campaign? This is where it gets fascinating. There's a section of this piece I want to read to you. This is really critical. Now, keep in mind, I covered this the other day.

This is why this is important. The media is now trying to change the narrative. There are things you and I know. We know the case was based, the FBI's investigation of the Trump. Follow me, Joe. Stop me if I lead anyone astray. All right. The investigation of the Trump, the spying operation, all the nonsense they pulled on this guy, the warrants, the unmasking, we know it was based on political interests and their impetus for doing it, at least in the FBI, we know was the dossier.

Right, right. Now, the left calls that a conspiracy theory. They say, well, the FBI said that the case was based on Downer's tip. Downer's tip about Papadopoulos in the bar saying they had dirt on Hillary. That's just not true. Downer has since recanted that. He said that Papadopoulos didn't say dirt. Downer has also said that

he mentioned nothing about the Trump campaign being even knowing about it. We know this because Downer said this to The Australian, a newspaper. We also know that it couldn't have possibly been based

on the Downer tip because an FBI agent by the name of Gaeta, Mike Gaeta, was in London meeting with Steele two weeks before they even opened the case. Steele, the alleged dossier author. So that story's bunk. Now, why is this important? It's important because the media needs to distract you

from the fact that a fake Hillary Clinton paid for oppo research document, the dossier was used to target a political opponent. It's as simple as that. That is the lead of the story. Yeah. The Bureau, the FBI, people at the management who did this, and their media lackeys who support police state tyranny desperately need to distract you from the fact that a political

opposition document was used to weaponize government law enforcement entities. So they keep saying, no, no, it was about a tip from Alexander Downer. It's real, folks. It's the Downer tip. It is not the Downer tip. It is the dossier. Even worse, the dossier would indicate

that a foreign spy in conjunction with Russian sources was used to feed political information to the Obama administration and to John Brennan that they pushed political figures to push the FBI into investigating Trump on. All of that is bad. So they need to distract you. So one of the methods of distraction has been to say, well, the Trump campaign wasn't spied on.

Wow, Peter Stroke in this piece seems to believe otherwise. Let me read to you from the piece. Paula, throw that up on the screen for the YouTube audience. If you want to watch along at home,.com slash bongino please comment on the video cast of this podcast here we go while page and strokes explanations lined up in the main she's talking about lisa page and peter strokes testimony strokes testimony added one significant detail emphasis mine he spoke of having already quote received information this is killer from a very sensitive source alleging collusion between the government of russia and members of the trump

campaign so strokes now behind closed doors testimony leave that up a second paulo he talks about let me just read this part again He talks about receiving information from a very sensitive source alleging collusion between the government of Russia and members of the Trump campaign. Why is this important? Some of you may be picking up what I'm laying down here. Some of you may not. I will lay it all out.

Don't you worry. So the official FBI police state media story, folks, is what? Downer did it, Joe. They got a tip. They got a tip from Downer. Downer said Papadopoulos told him in a bar, in a boozy meeting, one gin and tonic, boozy meeting, told him about dirt on Hillary. But that's not what Stroke's saying. Stroke's saying they got information from a sensitive source

about collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign. So you may say, okay, well, what's your problem, Dan? The FBI story's true. That sensitive source was clearly Downer. No, it wasn't. Because Downer never made any allegations whatsoever about collusion between members of the Trump campaign and the government

of Russia. Never. Matter of fact, Downer in that interview with The Australian has already said that he didn't he wasn't even sure the Trump campaign was even mentioned and that he's even retracting the fact that Papadopoulos said dirt on Hillary, that they had dirt on Hillary. That sensitive source. And why would Downer, Joe, be a sensitive source? Downer's an Australian diplomat. He's not an FBI source. In other words, Joe, tell me you're picking this up here,

please, because you are the representative. Stroke is clearly referencing someone here. Yes, he is. That is not Alexander Downer. True. He's not sensitive. He's not an FBI source. He's a diplomat.

And there are no allegations in that back and forth with Papadopoulos at all that was supposed to have started the case. Right, right. Of collusion at all. None. Downer has since retracted some of the more significant claims that were made by the American media in their attempt to defend this Downer. The Downer tip started it all. It wasn't the dossier and a foreign spy working with the Russians that did it. Hillary paid for it.

So you may say, oh, well, Dan, clearly they're talking about Christopher Steele. When I say they, follow me, folks. So let's just do, because I know liberals listen to the show. And listen, I always welcome you here. But I know you have, as our buddy Cole calls it, the vaccination. You've been vaccinated against facts at an early age. And I'm sorry for that. But let's break through with the truth virus here, okay, that you're not immune to.

Let's just do something simple, Joe. Let's do the process of elimination. All right. So Peter Stroke is saying, no, no, we had a a source and that's why this case was so important to us well the fbi story was the source was downer but downer can't be the source because what stroke says the source said is not what downer said so we've eliminated downer right downers you're tracking me on the cost downers out okay so number two okay dan Strokes saying that they started this case because of a source. The source was clearly Christopher Steele.

No, it wasn't Christopher Steele either. Why? Because Lisa Page, Strokes' girlfriend, is claiming in sworn testimony behind closed doors, which we've already seen thanks to Doug Collins, GOP House member, good guy. Lisa Page is claiming under oath that they didn't even know who Christopher Steele was, Joe, until September. So if the case started on July 31st, Joe. Yes. July 31st of 2016, crossfire hurricane, the corrupt investigation into Donald Trump.

But the FBI is saying on the record that they didn't hear about Steele until September of 2016. How the, did Christopher Steele become the source Stroke is referring to that started the case? Somebody's lying, folks. Somebody's not telling the truth. Remember, the case starts July 31st, Joseph. If Page's girlfriend's saying, we didn't know who Steele was until September, how then is Stroke telling the truth

when he said we received information from a sensitive source and alleging collusion? That's what started this. Ain't working. No, no, no. You're on fire today. Not working. So we can eliminate Downer because that's not what Down. Ain't working. No, no, no. You're on fire today. Not working. So we can eliminate Downer

because that's not what Downer said. Right. We can eliminate Steele or the FBI's lying about it, which I think may be true because the FBI's official statement is we didn't know about Steele until September.

Finally, you may say, well, Dan, thanks to Chuck Ross's reporting at the Daily Caller, we already know about an FBI source. Stefan Halper, a Central Intelligence Agency asset we know was spying on Papadopoulos and Page on behalf of the government right around the summer of 2016. on behalf of the government right around the summer of 2016. Remember, he makes contact with Page and Papadopoulos well before the July 31st start date of the case. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Now, ladies and gentlemen, now it's starting to make sense. So if you listen at home, you're like, okay, so Stroke said they got information from a sensitive source about potential collusion. Yeah, Dan, that source is Halper. But that's not what the FBI is saying. The FBI has already said in their senior management, along with their police state hack media allies, Joe, keep in mind the lead, have already said that it was the downer tip that started this case, not Stefan Halper, an intelligence asset.

Do you understand how these stories can't be true? Either Halper was spying on the Trump team and it started the case, as Stroke seems to indicate, or he wasn't and the FBI is lying the whole time. Those stories can't be true. That part's a little confusing about Halpern. Let me say this again. The official story by the Bureau is the July 31st crossfire hurricane propagated by the gaslighting media against Trump was started because Alexander Downer was the source of a tip. Stroke is saying under oath that they had a source that started this case.

It wasn't Downer. Downer did not say what Stroke said the source told them. Steele, according to the FBI story, didn't come on board until September. The only guy who fits this timeline is Halper. I believe that's what Stroke is saying. Halper was our source. So you may say, what's the problem? The problem is that doesn't comport

with the FBI story. They're saying Downer's the source. You get it? Yeah, yeah. Somebody's lying. Read the Margo Cleveland piece very carefully. Folks, the FBI's official story that the downer tip started this case cannot possibly be true if you understand the basic chronology of this case. All you have to do is look at the dates.

Halper makes contact way before July 31st, before the case started. Is he the sensitive source? By process of sheer elimination, he has to be. But if he's the source, the FBI media story and the Chris Silliza, that goofball at CNN story that it started with the downer tip and Papadopoulos makes no sense. Now you're saying it started with Halper? Do you see how they're tripping over each other, Joe, right now? Way out of sync, dude. Oh, my gosh.

Like, you and I were teenagers. And, you know, when you're a teenager, you tell white lies to your mom and dad. What were you guys doing? You know, were you out in the park playing football? When I was a quick story, it's kind of fun. I dislocated my shoulder as a kid. My mom listens to my show. So mom, sorry I lied to you when I was a kid.

My deepest apologies. But I had dislocated my left shoulder really badly playing tackle football, like full equipment, with no refs, by the way. And it was like a bloodbath up in this hill in a cemetery in Glendale, Queens. It was an empty part of a hill in the cemetery and the ground was rough. People were constantly getting hurt, breaking things. So my mother had forbidden

me to play football up there with these guys I used to play with. And so I go up and I dislocate my shoulder and she starts screaming. I had to go to the hospital. It was brutal. They had to pop it back in. It was an ugly day. So of course, you know, me being the savage that I was when I was a kid, I go back the next week. I tell my mother, I think I'm like, yeah, mom, we're going out to a party with friends or something. Yeah. On Sunday at 11 o'clock. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's a weekend party. Yeah. Yeah. It's a pin the tail on a donkey. So I have my football equipment in the back of my friend's car. So of course we go up to the hill again inside the cemetery on cooper avenue and uh what happens joe i dislocate my shoulder again i try to grab a guy running by me on a kick return rips my

shoulder right out i have to go back to the hospital and i'm now i like i smell like football so you know that that football pad smell i don't know what to do so i wipe myself down with a baby wipe i go home i take the equipment off and uh i tell my mother i'm thinking of a clever story that i was in the passenger seat of a car for those on video you can see this and that i was my left arm and that i had my left arm behind the driver's seat like kind of like holding the back seat and my buddy stopped short and it popped my shoulder and my mom believed the whole thing so mom i'm really sorry i lied to you because and then she took me to the hospital i had a surgery like two weeks later it it was dislocated so bad. So, but these are the white lies we tell.

The problem with these white lies is over time, you have to remember your own lies. Now, I remember that story pretty vividly because I was so afraid of the wrath of my mother for disobeying her orders, right? The problem with this lie, Joe, is you have to continue to remember your lies. And I believe Stroke, in his sworn testimony, forgot that the MPI official story is that Downer started this thing with the Papadopoulos tip. And that's why they're stepping on themselves. So easy when you understand the dates. Remember my credo here.

Remember the names. And I'm going to add, remember the dates. When you remember the dates and the names, all of this comes together. That's how that July 2017 thing keeps popping up on the timeline. Keep that July 2017 date in mind. All right, moving on. I got a lot of other stuff to get to today. All right, today's show finally brought to you by my buddies at Filter By. Hey, according to the CDC, about 7 million people are getting hit with the flu this year.

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Interesting article I saw up in the Washington Examiner today about new pockets of support and how identity politics is starting to implode on itself on the left. Now, I've discussed this with Joseph and Paula quite a bit on the show about how identity politics, the compartmentalizing of Americans into identity groups that the left defines for you and then sicking them on one another

is a cannibalistic, it's going to implode. It's going to collapse on itself because the only way to get identity politics to work, and what I mean by that, Joe, is that you're labeled by the left. In other words, what you think of yourself doesn't matter. The left wants you to vote according to a label they put on you. In other words, my wife's a perfect example. You know, Paula, I don't want to speak for Paula.

She can speak for herself on the show. She rarely opens up her mic. Well, I can almost guarantee you, knowing my wife better than anyone, that the label that matters to her most is God first, mom second. That's how she votes. She votes her values and she votes her family. Would that be a fair assessment, Paula? That would be fair.

She says that would be correct. There's a direct Paula quote. The fact that she's an immigrant from Columbia, I don't know, I would rank that, I don't know, somewhere between 90 and 100 on her list of things. She's an American citizen. You get what I'm saying, Joe?

But to the left, the fact that my wife is Colombian, and then she's an American citizen. You get what I'm saying, Joe? But to the left, the fact that my wife is Colombian and she's an immigrant, that should be paramount. But that's not what my wife votes on. My wife votes on her values. She doesn't vote on that or immigration status. She's an American citizen now, but she doesn't vote on the fact that she's an immigrant. She doesn't. I know. I live with her every day.

But the left needs you to vote on that because they need to sick you against other people. Because why? The left doesn't have a platform that's reasonable. You see how we tie the whole show? And I started the show talking about the Green New Deal and the fact that nobody's talking about the transmission lines that are going to be in your backyard. The left knows that's impractical and that people would go crazy if they found out electrical lines are going to be built in their backyard.

So what do they do? They distract you by saying what, Joe? Republicans hate the environment. Therefore, you should hate Republicans and vote for us. That's an emotional reaction. That's not a reasonable, rational reaction. Why is it emotional? Because it's not true.

Republicans don't hate the environment. I'm candidly very concerned about plastic pollution in our ocean, breathing clean air. Liberals are saying, oh, no, you're not. You're a Republican. No, you're a moron. So, you know what? I don't really care if you believe that, by the way. I know what's in my heart, and I know my heart is pure in it, and I know that matters to me. I watch this 60 Minutes thing on, you know, the plastic pollution in the ocean. It's devastating to watch. It'd be great if we could find a free market solution to that. The government will just screw it up.

That really matters to me. Breathing clean air does matter to me. I spent some time in Beijing, China as a Secret Service agent. You ever try to breathe the air there? You can eat the air. It's so thick. It's gross. You think I was a Republican?

I was like, this is awesome. Everybody go outside and suck in the air. Don't be an idiot. I'm sorry. It matters to us. That's why I'm suggesting to you that the liberal response to the environment is an emotional one. Republicans hate the environment. Dirty air, dirty water.

Vote for us. They don't have a practical solution. So identity politics is always going to involve the implosion of the left on itself because they have to constantly seek out new victims by giving new labels to people but by doing that some of the old victims now become victimized what am i talking about well the left wants you to believe they're in it for immigrants who came to this country no no no no no no they're not in it for chinese americans what they're not immigrants too why don't they count joe there is a huge backlash brewing in the chinese american community on a couple of issues the first one unrelated to the washington examiner story today

in the show notes but it's a good story i strongly encourage you to read it. The first one is this affirmative action push in higher education institutions, pushed by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez at the lower level, by the way, at the grammar schools and high schools, to basically discriminate against Asian American students who score high in testing because of hard work in favor of giving spots in elite schools to people who haven't earned it. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tweeted out the other day,

you know, these elite New York City high schools, out of all the open slots, they only picked, what'd she say, seven black students. These are merit-based scholarships. So Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, clearly in her tweet, is objecting to the fact that Asian American students did well and got into the schoolsez clearly in her tweet is objecting to the fact that Asian American students did well and got into the schools. That's what she's objecting to.

They're based on scores. They have nothing to do with race. You score good, you get in. It's simple as that. Yeah. Which is ironic because Ocasio-Cortez inadvertently, Joe, made an argument for school choice and doesn't even know it. But you know what? She typically says things she doesn't know anyway, so it's not unusual but chinese americans and asian americans are starting to figure out quickly that the democrat party is after them their kids happen to study hard many you're not all obviously we don't stereotype a positive or negative anyone but many asian americans do very well and because they do very well they're not allowed in schools because those spots have to be held due to identity politics for others it was only a matter of time before the we're in it for the immigrants line that the liberals tell

you was no no no we're not in it for the immigrants we're in it for people who can politically advantage us even if it hurts immigrants but secondly the examiner piece today if you want to throw that up there uh chinese americans are becoming a unique pocket of support for the republican party in california interesting here's the title of the examiner piece by daniel allitt sorry if i'm saying your name wrong daniel uh it's an opinion piece titled damn socialism why are you chasing me Chinese Americans see the ghost of communism in the Democrats leftward turn there's a fascinating interview here Joe with a woman part of this Orange County coalition of Chinese Americans who initially coalesced around the fact that their kids are having a hard time getting into college because of

discrimination against them because they study hard, right? This is Asian Americans and Chinese Americans. They coalesced around that issue, and they're now in their political activism that the Democrats started because they believe in discriminating against Asian Americans in college and elite New York City high schools, right? Yeah. They found another cause. Some of these Chinese Americans fled China precisely because of the totalitarian regime of socialism over there in China. And now they're saying, why are you chasing me here? I'm trying to get away from this stuff. How about that? So the point of the piece is, yeah, this is a big deal, man, that a lot of

Asian Americans and Chinese Americans are starting to find out that the conservative cause is the cause of liberty for everyone. Everyone. Not just the favorite identity politics groups of the day. Folks, I told you this was inherently cannibalistic. It is going to eat itself. This movement has to implode. You cannot pander to the black community. Excuse me.

Why simultaneously, simultaneously supporting unfettered immigration, unfettered open borders, immigration where people can come in and not have to pay payroll taxes can be paid off. The books who are here illegally are hurting some lower income communities that happen to be minority communities because some of the jobs are being taken up by people who don't have to pay into social security don't have to pay into medicare

because they came here illegally they can't they don't have a tax id number or a social security number black communities starting to figure out that unfettered support for teachers unions another group you're a teacher's union you vote with the democrats no but i'm a mom and a parent for no no you're going to vote as a teacher and a teacher that you cannot support teacher's unions at the same time you can support black hispanic and low-income white communities that have bad public schools because the teacher's union don't want school choice do you understand joe how when you fight for freedom there are no identity politics because you're appealing to the individual the whole essence of conservatism is the essence of an individual's big r rights granted by god not rights granted on group status

you you dig what i'm you you what i'm saying it's important yeah oh yeah we all we know your individual joe armacost rights are not due joe to your scottish background or me to my italian irish german um english background or my wife's Colombian background. Regardless of your skin color, hair color, race, the language you speak, Lord, the Lord Almighty has touched you on the right shoulder with big R God-given rights to speak, practice your religion, petition the government, assemble. Those rights may be protected by government, not granted by such. But the left doesn't do that. They don't believe in big R rights.

They don't believe in the individual. They believe in pockets of political support they can gain by leveraging identity politics to tell those political groups, the Republicans hate you, vote for us, while simultaneously take away the rights of others. The rights of Chinese American students to get into a school of their choice. Economic freedom. They take away your money. They take away your healthcare. And they use emotion and emotional leverage to do it. This is the essence of the far left. It is always going to implode on itself. Always. And you're seeing it now with this fascinating piece I saw in the examiner.

It's definitely worth your time. You're going to see this in the future, folks. Mark my words. The Hispanic community, you're already seeing it in Texas. Starting to find out that the Republicans are the one that aligns more with their social values, their religious values, their family values. You're already seeing it. It's only a matter of time. Identity politics only works for so long before the movement collapses on itself because you cannot support unfettered immigration and high black employment rates. You cannot support educational freedom while simultaneously discriminating against Asian Americans. These are not parallel goals. They're perpendicular. They go in opposite directions.

Speaking of the Democrats lurch to the far left, my last story of the day. What's her name? Abby Johnson? Yeah, Abby Johnson, who used to work in an abortion clinic, I believe, and now has a movie out. She's become a pretty prominent life activist and supporter of life

for working against the pro-abortion movement. They have a movie out out called unplanned um it's she said something this morning that really hit me again i'm transitioning here because the democrats have lurched now into support for third term abortion in other words terminating the life of fully formed children in the womb lungs eyes heartbeat pain all of it fully formed infants third trimester the democrats beto and others are now all in the pro-abortion movement on not only just abortion but third trimester abortion too and as we saw in virginia and new york actual infanticide where a child is born and is allowed to die or killed amazing and by, I mean absolutely atrocious. And I can't find the words to think about what kind of human being would do that. I mean, you have to have zero moral character at all.

So they have this movie out, Unplanned, that's getting a lot of buzz about the abortion industry that Abby Johnson put out. She gave an interview on Fox and Friends this morning. It was fascinating. abortion industry that Abby Johnson put out. She gave an interview on Fox and Friends this morning. It was fascinating. She brought up a really good point. She believes that the Motion Picture Association that rates the movies, gives them the ratings, NC-17, R, PG-13, PGG, whatever it may be. The Motion Picture Association, ironically, in a movie about abortion, Joe,

gave the unplanned, the movie, gave them an R rating. Paula has the headline up from LifeSite News. The headline, this is from their opinion piece, movies with sex and violence get rated PG-13. Why does pro-life, quote, unplanned, the movie, get an R? Well, I think we all know it's due to Hollywood bias. But what a powerful point Ms. Johnson made this morning on Fox and Friends, Joe. She said, think about it. She just goes to show you how the left continually self-owns itself. You know, owning the libs is easy, but they usually own themselves when you give them time. She said, you know, the Motion Picture Association and the liberals in Hollywood inadvertently stepped on their own message.

Think about it. Abortion is so grotesque and horrible to watch on the big screen, Joe, that it needs an R rating. Yet the pro-abortion crowd that actively lobbies for abortion wants the very same 16-year-olds to be able to walk into abortion clinic without parental notification and terminate the life of a child in the womb. So think about this. Think about how the left in Hollywood stepped on their own message. Oh, abortion's no big deal. Really? Why does it need an R rating to watch a movie about it?

Right, Joe? Yeah. And then point number two, which Abby Johnson made this morning, which is brilliant. So pro-abortionists, you're telling me that a 16-year-old should be able to go into an abortion clinic without her parents even knowing terminate the life of a child in the womb. But that same 16 year old is not even allowed into a movie about the abortion procedure. She just underwent or is going to

undergo. It was a, one of those points where I had an immediate, this is my, I'll show you this for you YouTubers at home. That's my notebook for the day. I took a note immediately on that. I said, that is a brilliant point. Sometimes it's tough to make arguments and it takes people with good, clear thinking thoughts to push away all the fog and just make a very clear point. That is it. So a 16-year-old can terminate the life of a child in the womb without her parents ever knowing,

but cannot see a movie about abortion. I mean, it was really a brilliant point. Very well done. Hat tip to Abby Johnson. And I'll do it today. Let me take a note on that. Tickets. Just so you know. Yeah, brilliant point. Folks, please go out

and buy a ticket to Unplanned. I'm asking you, even if you don't see it, I'm gonna go, I'm gonna have to do that today. Go buy a ticket to the movie Unplanned. We have to support these movies and entertainment culture that supports our cause. I know some of you may not have time. Just buy a ticket. Support it, please. I'm just asking you. I'll do it. I'm not

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