The Dan Bongino Show - The Trump Tornado Comes For the Fed | Episode 201

Episode Date: January 12, 2026

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Hey, everybody, welcome to Vince on a Monday. It's great to have you with us. Holy crap, we've got big news for you. Yes, it's about the future of this show. We're going to talk about that. A lot coming out right now as we speak. We've got some updates for you. Also, we're going to take a closer look at what the hell is going on in Minneapolis. More drama there. The Trump administration cracking down on criminals and the left doing nothing but lying and inciting more violence in our country. We'll be joined today by Chris Bedford. He'll stop by the president. program we've got to talk about Jerome Powell and the drama he's in right now it turns out he's under a criminal investigation and you're not allowed to do that according to institutional Washington

we have a massive show ahead it's all coming on this edition of Vince thanks for being your best audience anywhere glad to have you have you with us as always hey uh everyday Americans do make choices that shape our country's future right down to which cell phone provider we support and here's what most people don't realize Patriot mobile is is not just a wireless provider. They're a Christian conservative organization that sells top tier cell phone service. They've been on the front lines helping to defend our freedoms

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You ready for it? Let's go through it real quick here. Dan posting this morning, thank you all for allowing me to serve you. We are back on air February. 2 at 10 a.m. Eastern live on rumble.com slash Bongino. Rumble.com slash Bonjino. There's a lot to talk about American flag emoji. Love that. American flag emoji. Here's here's the actual release from Dan Westwood one, Rumble, the whole operation. Conservative commentator, bestselling author, former FBI deputy director Dan Bonino set to return to broadcasting on February 2nd, February 2nd,

2006, a few short weeks away here, guys, with a brand new two-hour daily program airing weekdays from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. Eastern time. Got that? That's, you know, Dan mentioned it with Haley when he went on her program last week that he'd be doing two hours. That's right. He's launching 10 a.m. each day until noon each day to cover everything. He's got a lot to get through. I mean, certainly all the things that he learned inside of the government and everything else he's saying heading up into these midterms two hours each day with dan the show will be exclusively live streamed on rumble that's the only place that you will be able to watch it live and distributed on demand as usual to all the podcast platforms uh they say that it'll bring

bongino's unique insider perspective back to his loyal audience following a year of government service now westwood one will serve as the exclusive sales partner for the dan bonjino show for those of you track the radio industry closely when you hear westwood one even the radio trade publications were getting confused this weekend they were they thought westwood one he's doing a radio show is that what this no no no westwood one is handling the ad sales for the dan bonjino show for his podcast uh that's what's going to happen uh going forward as well so that you'll see that um this year bonjino stepped away from his previous show in early 2025 this audience knows that to serve Deputy Director of the FBI under President Trump.

And now they lay out the schedule here. Bongino's return is going to be a part of a new daily lineup on Rumble. That includes the following. 8 o'clock in the morning, the Vince Colonnese show. Now, I wasn't consulted on this press release. That may very well be what we called the show. I think we're still calling it Vince, but whatever. I don't care.

Vince Colonais is my name. So that'd be perfectly fine. But we'll cross that bridge when we get to it. Justin, have you heard differently? Are we calling this thing to Vince Colonnese show? Vince. What are we calling it? Do we know? We haven't heard. Okay, well, whatever. The press release has the Vince Colonet Show. So it doesn't matter. The point is, it's me. I'll be there. So that's the big news for me this morning is 8 o'clock. That's when you'll be able to get me each day. And the goal of an

8 o'clock show, I'm very happy with this. And here's why. The goal of an 8 a.m. show is to set the day for you. For those, and I realize everybody in this obviously impacts me directly in my family, But it's also going to impact you. If you want to still consume this, especially live, if you're getting it on the podcast, nothing changes. You'll still get it on the podcast. That's true. But if you want to consume my program live at 8 a.m. each day, it's going to be, certainly

there's going to be some schedule adjustments for anybody who wants to do that. I so appreciate you if you do that with me. If you come to meet 8 o'clock, maybe it's more convenient, perhaps. Some people might be in their work commutes. You know, you can just flip on the phone and have the have the live stream going. You can watch the Rumble. thing don't obviously eyes on the road but uh you can get that at eight o'clock in the morning but the goal is that when i'm going to do the same program i'm doing here but we're going to focus on the news

headlines of the day i'm going to set up the set the table for your entire day in terms of understanding everything that had transpired overnight and what to expect in the 24 hours ahead uh and my plan is not only to set the agenda for you but to set the agenda for the country Rumble is just one of the biggest up-and-coming, amazing operations on the planet, and it's already so dominant in the streaming space. We're about to take things to unseen levels with Rumble streaming service. So at 8 o'clock in the morning, I'm going to be basically setting the news agenda each day. Not only will it be must watch, but if you are a newsmaker, it will be must participate.

We're going to have some of the biggest interviews imaginable starting people's days to give them an impression of what's actually going on in the country. So it's just going to be great. And if you want to track it on Rumble, I want to remind you that if you go to rumble.com slash vince right now, this is what I was alluding to last week. And I can be much more clear now, now that the announcement's been made.

If you go to rumble.com slash Vince, that's going to take you to the Bongino Report Rumble channel. Go there. Go there. And if you're not subscribed yet, get subscribed right now. That's your big opportunity. that rumble.com slash vince, even if you visited that website before rumble.com slash vince. If you do it right now, we are simulcasting this Rumble's feed on both the current Vince

channel, which will again become Dan Bongino's channel. It is Dan Bonino's channel. We're just going to retitle it and it will be back to where his program is at 10 a.m. each day. And then also, Bongino report, that's where you'll be able to consume me on that channel right now. So rumble.com slash Vince, subscribe there. Okay. And then we get to what Dan is up to. Dan goes at 10 o'clock Eastern each day. He'll be doing two hours of podcasting and you'll be able to watch that exclusively on Rumble. And then at noon, we've got scrolling with Haley Karenea, no longer the nightly scroll because it's now the midday scroll. It's scrolling with Haley Karenea at noon Eastern each day. She's going to be broadcasting live on Rumble and she'll have a mighty audience each day as Dan is able to share. share that big audience that's with him directly with her and then on we go so you are watching the makings of something pretty epic coming together and as as always I'm just super grateful to be a part of it now for those of you who are asking I've already gotten some questions this morning as this is

going around on social media there's a lot of chatter about this new lineup as we speak and I'm getting a lot of incoming this noon time slot that she has yes it is at the same time as my big national radio show. Yes, I will be doing the radio show still each day from 12 to 3 Eastern time. And no, I'm not perturbed by this at all. I love Haley. I'm super happy that she's going to be doing this. It's going to be great for Rumble. And it's just one more option that you have to consume some great content during the day. It's great. It's great for everybody involved. So I'm very excited about it. And Haley has just been a great success. And this will be really good. This will be really nice to have her at noon each day. So there you.

go that's the lineup eight o'clock in the morning you get me 10 o'clock then you get dan and then at noon you get haley of course those are all eastern time adjust for your time zone uh but that'll be excellent and more details to come on all of it we've got uh whatever whatever more details we have we'll bring them to you um okay let's uh let's get into today's program though because we have a lot to get to here as well in washington dc in washington dc in washington dc The biggest news story of the last 24 hours is that there is a criminal investigation going on into the chairman of the Federal Reserve, Jerome Powell. Now, if you hear that and think to yourself, why is that a big? The only reason that's a big deal is finally the Justice Department is unfettered.

They can investigate people who are a part of the establishment. But to Washington, it's like a five-alarm fire. Washington hates this. They think that this is the most scandalous thing that has happened ever, you know, other than when ice agents are. murdering Americans in cold blood. That's the way Washington's been acting. And so certainly in the last 25 hours, they're not freaking out that Jerome Powell is under investigation.

Now, I'm not freaking out. It's not even that much of a surprise that Jerome Powell is under investigation. You realize that under his leadership at the Federal Reserve, that the Fed is now running a deficit for the first time in its history? How are they running a deficit? Yeah, they're running a deficit right now, meaning they're losing your money.

And in addition to losing your money, they are wasting a tremendous amount of it on this absurd renovation project that they got going on what we refer to as the palace on the Potomac the federal reserves headquarters right there on Constitution Avenue they are the cost overruns on this thing are absurd it was a project that was billed at something like two billion dollars they're approaching one billion dollars in overruns how do you get a billion dollars in overruns in a construction project well if somebody like Jerome Powell is in charge. So what has happened is Jerome Powell, wasting all this money, he decides that he pretends like he has no idea what anybody's even talking about. And then he goes and testifies before Congress last July. And when he does that, Congress is not satisfied by the answers he's giving. They're like, there's something really fishy going on here as this guy is blowing through

a lot of your money. So they referred him for a criminal investigation. Anna Paulina Luna referred Jerome. Powell for a, for a, um, a criminal investigation last year. And sure enough, we've got one. There's a criminal investigation into Jerome Powell. In fact, he confirmed it last night in one of the most boring videos ever put out by a government official. Here's Jerome Powell. On Friday, the Department of Justice served the Federal Reserve with grand jury subpoenas, threatening a criminal indictment related to my testimony before the Senate banking committee last

June that testimony concerned in part a multi-year project to renovate historic federal reserve office buildings I have deep respect for the rule of law and for I just pause this in our democracy no so are you listening to this do they know how to mic this dude up see this is the problem with him never doing videos he does one video and it's terrible they've got a boom mic hovering over his head like a shotgun mic directly pointed at throat so you're listening to every swallow that the dude is making as he tries to make excuses for why he's under criminal investigation right now okay carry on i have deep respect for the rule of law and for accountability in our democracy no one certainly not the chair of the federal

reserve is above the law but this unprecedented action should be seen in the broader context of the administration's threats and ongoing pressure this new threat is not about my testimony last June, or about the renovation of the Federal Reserve buildings. It is not about Congress's oversight role. The Fed, through testimony and other public disclosures, made every effort to keep Congress informed about the renovation project. Those are pretexts. The threat of criminal charges is a consequence of the Federal Reserve

setting interest rates based on our best assessment of what will serve the public, rather than following the preferences of the president. This is about whether the Fed will be able to continue to set interest rates based on evidence and economic conditions or whether instead monetary policy will be directed by political pressure or intimidation. All right. So that's him bitching and moaning in the most monotone possible way as he's complaining that he's under criminal investigation right now and then declaring there's no legitimate basis whatsoever for the criminal investigation. this is Donald Trump just being upset at me for running our monetary policy into the ground. Well, he should be upset at you for that. You've been a horrifically bad chairman of the Federal Reserve. And the reality here is the evidence is totally stacked against this guy.

It's totally stacked against this fellow. In fact, Russ Vote put out a really helpful letter on this subject. Really a tweet. I'll summarize it via his tweet. tweet. This is July of last year. He's the head of the Office of Management and Budget. Here's what he said about Jerome Powell. He said the chairman has grossly mismanaged the Fed. True. While continuing to run a deficit since fiscal year 2023, which is the first time in the Fed's history, the Fed is way over budget on the renovation of its headquarters. Now up to $2.5 billion. This is July of last year,

by the way. The numbers have updated since then. They're even worse. Now up to 2.5.5 billion. This is July of last year, by the way. The numbers have updated since then. Now up to $2.5 billion roughly $700 million over its initial cost. These renovations included terrace rooftop gardens, water features, VIP elevators, premium marble. The cost per square foot is now $1,923, double the cost for renovating an ordinary historic federal building. The Palace of Versailles would have cost $3 billion, dollars in today's dollars. Unfortunately, Powell's recent testimony to Congress has led to serious questions that now require additional oversight from the Office of Management and Budget in conjunction with the National Capital Planning Commission. And then he sends this letter to Chairman Powell to Jerome Powell in July. And what he details in the letter is that Powell is acting bewildered in his testimony

before Congress. He's like, I don't even know what you're talking about. Elevators, rooftop gardens, water features? I don't know anything about that. Here's the problem, fella. It's inside of the planning documents for the building. So you don't get to pretend like you don't know anything about it. Either you have Joe Biden level senility or you're lying to Congress, which is why they are now investigating him. It's a well-earned investigation. And in fact, remember, President Trump just visited with Jerome Powell a couple months ago. And when he did, to go, survey the renovations, it resulted in one of the most hysterical videos you've ever seen as President Trump confronts Jerome Powell about the cost overruns. Watch this.

It looks like it's about $3.1 billion. It went up a little bit or a lot. So the 2.7 is now 3.1. He's not aware of that. Yeah, it just came out. I haven't heard that from anybody. He pulls out the receipts. He's got the paper. He shows Trump out. This came from us? Yes. This came from us, he says.

You're including the Martin renovation. You just added our entire capital. You just added in a third building is what that is. That's a third building. It's a building that's being built. It was built five years ago. We finished Martin five years ago. It's part of the overall work.

So. I love Jerome Powell. So Donald Trump can wear a hard hat at a construction site and look totally natural like he's been doing in his whole life. You know, he's the guy who's in charge. He owns the project. He's coming to survey it. He's got the hard hat on. Jerome Powell looks like Michael Dukakis in the tank.

He looks ridiculous. He looks like, what was the name of the Rick Moranus character in Spaceballs? Darth Helmut. Was that what it was? He looks like Darth Helmut. He looks for a day. Really funny. What a goof.

What a goof. President Trump just confronts him. He's like, I got the receipts right here. Take a look at that. Jerome Powell's like, no, no, no, it's not that. Yeah, totally is. You're wasting our money. He wastes it.

And so they nail this guy, and rightfully so. And, you know, so how is Washington responding with utter scandal? Like, they're acting like this is the worst thing that's ever happen now let me just be clear about what is happening this is a criminal investigation there are no charges yet this is merely investigators sending grand jury subpoenas to jerome powell and saying answer our questions please describe these discrepancies for us just lay out what the hell's going on here and so what is jerome pow's obligation here to answer the damn questions it's not cause for a five alarm fire. It's cause for celebration that the people who are tasked with criminal justice in our system

are actually doing the job. In Washington, the only acceptable criminal investigation is into Republicans. The only time everybody nods along with enthusiasm in D.C. is when President Trump or anybody around him is being investigated. And in fact, those investigations are almost always fraudulent, fictions cooked up scandalous and tyrannical in fact i've got more details about that coming up in just a moment standby for that jerome powell under investigation well earned how has trump been treated in the past i've got new details there you ever think about aging you ever think about aging aging is uh well it's a thing we all do in fact i just did it two seconds ago i aged yep and i keep doing it i notice as i get older my energy has gone down a bit and i've been trying to figure out ways to

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Okay, so we get updates on what the hell they were doing as they were trying to go after Trump. And this one comes to us from just the news. Jack Smith, that unconstitutional special counsel. Jack Smith was cutting checks to people to make up claims about Donald Trump. Now, how do we know that? Well, Donald Trump wasn't guilty of trying to steal an election. Donald Trump wasn't guilty of stealing classified documents or anything like that. Donald Trump was president of the United States, and then he was absolutely tormented by the Biden-led Justice Department. and now he's president of the United States again and rightfully so but jack smith was approving

payments to people to quote snitch on trump during the arctic frost probe this is john solomon's reporting then special counsel jack smith's office approved paying $20,000 in 2020 23 20,000 bucks to a confidential human source for information in the controversial FBI investigation codenamed arctic frost that probed efforts by President Trump and his followers to contest the 2020 election results, according to the documents that were obtained by just the news. The revelations included in a tranche of brand new memos that FBI director Cash Patel has just turned over to Congress on the tactics and the scope of the inquiry that agents and prosecutors used to try and build a case that Trump had violated the law by attempting to offer the Senate alternate electors ahead of the certification of the 2020 election results

that put Joe Biden into office. What a scam. It's all such a scam. Cash Patel told Just the News that the bombshell revelation of a paid snitch was the latest evidence that the Arctic Frost probe was an egregious abuse of power

and a violation of the law. You know, I have one quibble. I love John Solomon. I love Just the News. But this reference to this guy is a snitch. A snitch is somebody who reveals something that's authentically going on. And they do it at the time.

the cost of disloyalty to their fellow conspirators, right? That's the idea of the word snitch. I don't think snitch actually applies here. We don't have any evidence to demonstrate that snitch would apply here. In fact, I think it's pretty safe to assume that this is just bull crap that this person was developing and then getting paid in order to try and advance what we have well established as a completely tyrannical prosecution and an unconstitutional one of Donald Trump. I don't think snitch is the right way to say this. But it doesn't matter. What we have here is the special counsel, Jack Smith,

was cutting checks at your expense, basically taking your tax dollars and giving people tens of thousands of dollars, at least this person, $20,000 to try and cook up a criminal investigation, a criminal prosecution of Donald Trump and the people around him. How much more could this possibly stink? Thanks to Cash Patel for continuing to reveal all of this, They keep pumping out the details. You know what else they've pumped out about Arctic Frost?

They pumped out that Jack Smith was spying on the cell phones of, like, everybody. He was spying on Bill Steppian as the former Trump campaign manager, Sidney Powell, Jenna Ellis, Clita Mitchell, these were lawyers for President Trump. They were spying on Bernard Carrick, the late Bernie Carrick, who was leading a team of investigators looking into the 20th. 2020 election. He's being spied on because he was looking into the 2020 election. Do you hear the English language words that are coming out of my mouth right now? He was looking into the election. So the government started spying on him. They went after they went after everybody. They also went

after United States senators. They were they were sweeping up members of Congress. Lindsay Graham, Marsha Blackburn, Ted Cruz. They're going after these people. It's it's also. crazy. But that's what Jack Smith was doing. And as Judge Eileen Cannon said, federal judge Eileen Cannon, the guy is completely unconstitutional. He wasn't a legitimate special counsel at all. And yet, that's what he was up to.

This is why you and I are so desperate for full-blown criminal prosecutions of these jackasses. People like Jackass. Jackass Smith needs to be prosecuted for what he did to our country. 100%. And so I'm glad, you know, look, like I say, the FBI can only do so much. The FBI investigates.

Do you think Cash Patel knows about this? Hell yeah. Cash Patel knows about it. He just released more information about it. He's actively involved in the transparency initiatives. Where does it go from here? Where are the prosecutions on this? What's getting in the way of those prosecutions?

And we've got answers on that. The answers include the United States Senate is blocking us from having U.S. attorneys and federal judges who are worth anything. That's just true. And that means Republicans, yes, by virtue of the blue slip, continue to block us from having the progress we so richly deserve. That's the truth. And one more thing on that. I told you on this past week that the White House has put into place a new fraud assistant attorney general. Somebody who's going to go after everybody across the country who are committing acts of fraud. Everybody. All these people were stealing from you and. me, American taxpayers. The White House is now a prosecutor who works directly for President Trump and J.D. Vance.

They're putting this person through Senate confirmation. John Thune has already promised it's going to be a speedy confirmation. That's good to hear. President Trump is watching this very closely. And I told you on Friday that the big detail to pay attention to is that Pam Bondi is not really a part of the process. Now, I'm not concluding anything about Pam Bondi other than the White House decided that she not. be a part of the chain of command for this person. That's the only thing I can conclude from it because that's what I've seen. And what the president and the vice president have done is they've

picked a guy who's going to be the head prosecutor on nationwide fraud with broad jurisdiction, no blue slip concern whatsoever because they have a nationwide billet. And they're going to make it through the Senate, report directly to the White House. But Pam Bondi is not really in the mix. I find that fascinating. And administration sources tell me that that's a keen insight. That's a keen insight to be observing that. So as things move ahead, I want you just to remember this detail because it does seem like it matters quite a bit.

Now, what does it mean? Only the time will tell us. But I do think it's interesting that they've removed all the friction and now we're going after fraudsters, which we need to do. I've got more information on fraudsters coming up. There's a lot more to get to. and I've got Chris Bedford joining us in just a moment, the great Chris Bedford. Stand by for that.

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Okay. Look, the biggest story in Washington, hilariously right now is that Jerome Powell has to answer questions for the Justice Department. Now, I don't see why that's a big deal, considering all of the misery, the left subjected Trump and the people around him to. Just answer some damn questions. Why is it an epic scandal in Washington that Jerome Powell has to answer to anybody? I mean, for the last couple of years, the last 10, 20, 30 years, really. You hear this word, democratic democracy, democratic norms standing about all the time. And what it's actually meant the whole time is D.C. gets to do what it wants.

The liberals get to do what they want. When Republican wins an election is called undemocratic because this or that, the electoral college. And the only democratically elected person representing the entire. country, the President of the United States is undemocratic when he tries to get these bureaucrats to answer for things. Now, this is something that's, you can get mad at Trump and his DOJ, but there's also something that was referred to the DOJ by Congress, because that's where Jerome Powell is accused of having perjured himself in Congress. And this is, but they're going to have a difficult time, I think, trying to hold these bureaucrats or anyone in D.C. accountable.

There are active activist groups in D.C. and Northern Virginia and the area that train people to make sure to sabotage grand juries. That's why, well, you were able to get charges against Donald Trump, like you just mentioned, on the most outlandish things. Completely ridiculous cockamamie charges all over the country. You can't even get a grand jury indictment on James Comey or someone who openly, flagrantly lied to Congress. So I think they're going to have a hard time with this.

The grand juries around here are just far too liberal and not actually interested in holding DC accountable. And people in DC are freaking out because they don't want to be asked any questions. They want to be able to lie. They want to be able to perjure. They want Steve Bannon to go to prison. They want Donald Trump to go to prison, but not themselves. That's undemocratic. And that's kind of the pattern we've been seen for these many years. Yeah, no, that's exactly right. Also, in the midst of all of this is this ongoing claim that we have fourth branches of government, like that the Federal Reserve is some sort of independent thing that has nothing to do with the structures of our government. But who appoints the members of the Board of the Federal Reserve? That's

the President of the United States. What did the founders envision when they set up our government? Three clearly delineated branches of government. The very structure of the Federal Reserve, not to sound like Ron Paul, but it's true. The very structure of the Federal Reserve is completely unconstitutional. And this is yet another great opportunity to remind people of that. This goes way back. This sort of fight goes way back to the founders. You got Alexander Hamilton, who's statues in front of the Treasury, fighting Thomas Jefferson over whether or not this should even be something that exists,

whether the United States should be going to the debt, whether the United States should be regulating monetary policy. And the power is only grown. I mean, I'm no libertarian, but you've got a good point. I read Ron Paul's book, The Revolution. I read a couple of his books back of the day. He's got a really couple good points about the Federal Reserve. And if you look at this expansion that they're doing right now

and these renovations and the billions of dollars that are being spent on it, and those ridiculous early plans for it that included beehives, luxury beehives. I didn't know that was actually a luxury product. I thought if you had beehives in your office building, you needed an exterminator. But I guess this is part of the new special elevators.

I'm not exact, I can't even follow all this stuff that they're trying to do over there at the Federal Reserve. And they're going to have to answer some of these questions. But, you know, Trump's also, he's just ticking everyone in D.C. I guess the Venezuela thing, people seem to like that in Washington, D.C., but he's going after a lot of these different sacred cows, these folks like the Federal Reserve and trying to hold them accountable.

And that's extremely unpopular with both parties in Washington. Yeah, by the way, I wasn't trying to take a glancing blow at Ron Paul. I love Ron Paul. I'm not a libertarian, but I think he's charming, and he's totally right about the reserve. It's just, it is amazing to me. Meanwhile, also going on in the country right now, I'm going to play some video coming up of this, Chris, but we've got the chaos in Minneapolis. And I feel like this whole sequence where the Somalis steal billions of dollars, many billions of dollars from the American people.

After all of the generosity we have shown to Somali refugees to turn around and then steal north of nine billion. Investigators think that there are $18 billion at least in suspicious payments out the door. most of which have gone to Somali fraudsters. I feel like if there's a blessing in any of this, it is opening the minds of the American people to just how much fraud is going on at the hands of Democrats and how important it is that if you're going to come to our country, that you actually assimilate not just to our culture, but to our laws.

Yeah, I mean, it's highlighting some really important things. If you go to Minneapolis, I don't know when the last time you've had the pleasure, I got to swing through in 2020, right before, the elections in the fall before. So it had been a little bit since the summer of riots. And it was a hellscape. I mean, we stopped at, I think, a Hilton or a Marion, and the matrily came out, a great guy and said, you can't, don't use our parking lot.

Your car will be destroyed by rioters tonight. There's a parking garage across the street, parking side over there. We went to one of the few remaining restaurants that lights were still on. And the waiters were timid. They were worried. There's a nice spot. An old school American, 80-year-old steakhouse. They said the Starbucks across the street had been burned down twice.

the second time because they deigned to serve a cup of coffee to a police officer. It was a nightmarish place, at least at that period of time. The downtown was completely deserted. And to see these folks out there in the streets chasing, harassing ICE agents, and it's really coordinated. Sarah Bedford, my wife, did a story for the examiner where she was going through their Excel sheets, their spotting sheets, their tactic sheets. This is all organized stuff to try and disrupt federal agents.

And I know a lot of it's AI, but a lot of it's all. also real, these videos that have been just coming out day after day, many, many a day of people screaming at federal officers, at neighbors and who you kind of expects to be a normal person, coming out of their house screaming and looking like damn fools at these federal officers who are out there just trying to do their work. Folks getting chased out, not even in uniform, from trying to get breakfast at some place. By the way, a bunch of them like Hispanic and things like that, the reaction here is just over the top and wild. And if there's one, thing that the Democrats maybe have a point about. It's like, why are you singling out the Somalians?

Well, $9 billion to $18 billion at one point. But through their credit, this is across a lot of different blue states. This is not just Somalians in Minnesota. There's such an unbelievable level of welfare fraud and benefits fraud in our country that is facilitated and protected by Democrats. It is worth an investigation. Let's broaden it beyond the Somalians and talk about the broader issues here. And by the way, As an American taxpayer who has to budget grocery bills in order to be able to pay for child care, I'm a little irritated. I mean, why don't you send me some child care money?

Maybe I'll open up a daycare in my house because that stuff's not cheap. And a lot of American families are struggling with this. It's on so many issues. Well, if you opened up a daycare at your house, you'd actually be taking care of kids, which you have. Yeah. So, I mean, the other thing is like, think about the scale of this. these are some of the most brazen, low IQ fraud scenarios imaginable. They're like, hey, cut us a check, we're watching kids.

There are no kids, right? It's like, it's not even that creative of an effort that they're undertaking. Like, they're stealing money. They're not actually putting people in houses. There's no autism program. It's just, it's super easy and it's super brain dead the way they're stealing this money. Imagine if things are even slightly more sophisticated in other places than the country. The Somalis are running brazen low IQ theft operations, but imagine people who are even just a little bit more sophisticated.

How much money is being stolen from us right now? It's incredible. The amount of folks, I grew up with a lot of guys who kind of pursued this career of scamming the system that seems to be. The amount of brainpower, these guys put towards gaming the system, taking money, this benefit, that benefit, this benefit, this benefit, that benefit, stacking them up in order to control, in order to pay for their entire life. life without ever working. I mean, honestly, I think it would almost be easier for some of these guys to get a job. But this fraud is really just a widespread thing. And there's a real risk here, not just with the fraud. And all the American taxpayers who struggle to pay for child care, looking around and saying, well, I could have just been getting this stuff for free.

Or all you have to, the only thing that's stopping you is just a, is a, maybe what is a lack of, respect for the law that other people don't have because it doesn't take that much intelligence, it turns out, to steal billions of dollars. You can just. it if you're not willing to follow the rules. And then you look out and you see the lawlessness in Minneapolis's streets. And it starts to cause a dangerous phenomenon in the law-abiding Americans. If half the country doesn't want to obey the laws, period, they have no respect for them. And you have a half that the laws are supposed to protect and who do respect those laws,

start to lose respect for the people who are enforcing them and saying that this law doesn't matter. Then you're in for a really dangerous situation. Then you end up with an entire country that doesn't respect the law and doesn't respect the order and follow the rules. When that respect breaks down, your country's in danger. And this is, I think, worse even in some levels in 2020 in those race riots and those looting because this is showing just how involved all the politicians are. It's showing how systemic this is. And it's showing that there's a huge amount of just seemingly normal people who have no respect for federal agents who are willing to put themselves at risk, put the

agents at risk all over the country. I think it the United States is headed for a dark place and this will be part of one of the chapters of the history book. Okay. I mean, this is a this is a big question because it probably involves hours worth of litigating how we got here. But to ask you simply, how is it that we have so many people in our population who've become convinced that law enforcement is in fact the bad guys and that the bad guys are the heroes of this story? How do you? How How did we arrive at a place where massive numbers of people in our population are enough to cause trouble think that the men and women who get up each morning and put the badge and the gun on are actually the bad guys? How did we get there? I mean, there's a large disrespect for law enforcement in our culture and our music and our movies.

There's a completely wrongheaded idea that's been taught in every school from grade school to middle school to high school. school to college that the United States is not a country. It's just a creed. It's an idea. It's that anybody can come here. And the number one thing of the United States is Emma Lazarus's poem and the Statue of Liberty that we stand simply as a beacon for the oppressed. But there's also, there's a bit of a worldview that goes into this. And I think the internet's really fed into this. Conservatives generally see the world as barbarians versus civilization. And that's how they try to break it down. And that's what they're willing to protect. And the liberal mindset, oftentimes is oppressor versus oppressed.

And it's as simple as that. So if you see these people who you feel are being oppressed and you see police who are trying to just maintain the law and actually hold people accountable and protect our borders, you think of those people as oppressors and you're willing to fight. And there's also, you see a lot of these people out there are either women or extremely feminine men. It's a lot of Tim Walts is out there and the guys and a lot of women.

And women are very naturally, going to be more empathetic. They're going, they want to care for people. They want to take care of people. That's why, that's why, I mean, that's why mothers are so much better with children than fathers, because it's just, it comes naturally. The internet and social media has made it so that all these oppressed people or all these people who are downtrod and all these people who seem like they're on the wrong side of the coin for this are being put on your screens every single day. It's like a, it's like a toxic degree of empathy is being pushed onto, American liberal women and feminized men in a way that makes them feel like they need to be part of this resistance.

They need to protect those instincts that protect children and protects puppies are now going towards Somali criminals and going towards illegal gang bangers. I mean, you've got the, there was the chief of police out in Washington state crying because he didn't want to typecast the MS-13 people who were pulled over by ICE. These are gang members. You're a cop. Why are you crying on camera? You're an adult man.

It's toxic level empathy completely driven by the internet. And it's really damaging. I mean, as damaging as the internet is to children and constant social media, it seems to be wreaking a lot of havoc on the adult population as well. Well, this goes back to family, I think. I mean, my suspicion when I see all of these people is that they have disordered family lives or disordered childhoods. When I see disordered, it means that there's no hierarchy in their house.

There's no respect for authority. There's no healthy relationships or very few. you. And so when your life is completely chaotic and disordered, you think you've got to basically take, you have to do everything on your own. You have no respect for the people who are supposed to be in charge of you whatsoever. And then you go out to society and then you constantly operate with that assumption that everybody above you deserves disrespect or anybody who's involved in restoring order deserves disrespect. Fundamentally, I always think it goes back to family life. Even our ability to acknowledge the existence of God as a loving father emanates

from whether or not you understand what a loving father even looks like. So, like, all of this comes back to how disordered are our households. And it turns out among the people who are burning down America's cities, they come from very disordered homes. Yeah, I think that's a really deep and important point. And it's something, I mean, you see it with a tragic case, the woman good who was shot last week. She lost control, a custody of two of her children,

which is, by the way, not an easy thing to have happen if you're a mother in American legal systems. She lost her second husband. I don't know what that woman was going through. She was now in a lesbian relationship with this third child that she had from the second husband and was out there putting herself in harm's way and putting agents in harm's way and spending her days harassing police because maybe it gave her a cause that was bigger than herself. She didn't, I mean, my cause is bigger than myself aside from the church as my family.

I did a lot of dumb things when I was a teenager. and some dumb things in my 20s. I'm not doing those sort of dumb things now because I've got a little girl and a little boy to come back to and a wife and people who are reliant on me. There's no disorder there. My family and religion and country come before the latest cause,

the latest thing that makes me feel like I'm an active participant. Like I'm a good mother. Like I'm a caring person. I'm a good father, a caring person. I've got that right here. And I think a lot of people are really lacking that. And they search for it, a cause that seems bigger than themselves, and makes themselves feel like a hero.

And when they come from a disordered life or a disordered background or moral compass, that leads them in the wrong direction. Okay, finally, of course, the underlying concern as we talk about this among this audience, certainly for me and anybody who talks about all of these tragedies is what do we do about it? Clearly, the sort of the bigger questions about family and faith

obviously play a huge role here, but in the immediate term, what do we do about restoring order? Chris, I'm pretty convinced that President Trump should do what so many other presidents have done and actually invoke the Insurrection Act to restore order to places like Minneapolis. I think it's long past time to stop flirting with it and just actually do it, just announce you are doing a limited invocation of the Insurrection Act to restore order to America's cities. What do you think needs to be done? Yeah, unfortunately, that's where this needs to go. I mean, you can't have a time machine and go back

in time to when these folks are out there in the streets for 15 and punched them in the face, which is what they probably needed. probably needed to have some accountability at some point in their life on the schoolyard, never got it. Now they've got this complex where they can go out there and shut down cities and they got the backing and shut down federal law enforcement and put federal agents in danger. And they have the backing of their politicians. It seems like an open and shut case when you've got the mayor and the governor out there backing people who are resisting federal legal law enforcement.

That's an insurrection act offense and something that, and this is a test case because This is all over the country. And the only way to change it is to hold people accountable. It's maddening to see all these videos of all these people who's getting attacking and pushing and trying to grab police officers guns and it's getting pushed back. Guess what? They're not even spending the night in jail.

That's insane. How about a week in jail? How about two weeks in jail? How about three weeks in jail? How about you're off the streets for a little bit? And you learn that there are consequences. You have to call your job and call your family or call your husband or your wife and say, I'm not going to be home to take care of the kids tonight.

because I'm in lockup because I try to grab a police officer's gun you need that accountability and if the mayor and the governor won't do it then the feds are going to have to do it yeah big time all right chris bedford with the blaze thank you as always man and i will bring you those i pick nicotine toothpicks coming up on our goose hunt thanks brother i can't wait see you it's gonna be good thanks ma'am okay uh on on minneapolis what we were just discussing this lawlessness of course the insurrection is happening at all levels whether it's the street urchins who are like absolutely causing all sorts of violence in the city, all the way up to the government officials who are obviously okay with it. They're even encouraging it. You get people like Ilhan Omar,

she joined the protesters, the agitators in Minneapolis this weekend. And here's what she had to say. Cut three. Watch this. You all have refused to back down. You all have decided that this resistance is not one that can be intimidated. We are showing the nation that regardless of what the tyrant in the White House believes, we know that we are here to stay and this is our country. We are going to make a life here and we are going to stand up for our neighbors here in Minneapolis. As many of you know, they came to terrorize, abduct and deport Somali immigrants here in Minnesota. when they couldn't find any because majority of us are legal residents and citizens.

The majority. They decided to terrorize our Latino immigrants. Yeah. So what you just heard was an avalanche of lies and an inversion of the truth. She spent the weekend doing this. She was going on various television shows claiming the Trump administration is hassling Somalis for no reason. And that nobody did anything wrong. And that they're just trying to deport.

American citizens. Look, the Trump administration is doing exactly the job that we hired them for. They're going after fraudsters. They're going after criminals. And whether you like it or not, sweetheart, your entire community is suspect given that every single person, almost every single, not every, but almost every single person who's been convicted of this dramatic fraud against the American taxpayer has been Somali. It's not even a close call. And yet she stands there on the of a pickup truck broadcasting over a loudspeaker, talk about third world, that everything is fine and the Trump administration are the bad guys. No, you are.

You married your brother to commit immigration fraud and you're still lecturing the rest of us about decency. It's disgusting. Ilhan Omar is disgusting. And she goes on, here's cut five to say that the Trump administration is, quote, disappearing U.S. citizens. These are just made up things. Here's Y'Elhan Omar just making something up on the back of that truck.

And when people are disappeared in the darkness, American democracy dies. Congresswoman, and it is really important for every single person in this country to understand that they are not only disappearing people who have committed crimes who are in this country, undocumented. They are disappearing U.S. citizens. They are disappearing people who have proper documentation. They're not disappearing anybody. telling them that their documentation are wrong, keeping them for days upon days.

We've also seen people be deported who have proper documentation yet to be returned to this country. This should not be allowed in a country that roots in itself in freedom and liberty. There is no freedom when you are being detained and your government is being turned against you. This should be appalling to everyone. You just goofed. What a goof. Nobody's being disappeared by the Trump administration. Everybody, you know what I talk about being documented? Everybody's being picked up and documented and deported.

If you're supposed to be deported, you're getting deported from the United States of America. Exactly what's supposed to happen. You know what disappearing is? Disappearing is what left-wing jurisdictions do when they get criminal illegal aliens into custody and then hide them from the federal government to obstruct justice. They disappear these people. They let them out the back. door they guide them away they obstruct federal law enforcement from doing the job the disappearing

act is on the left the accountability is on the right that's what president trump is leading right now ilhan omar this weekend also went on to say that she wants to get her community i assume she means somalis in minnesota to quote make sure that these people pay for what they have done pay I'm sorry, we've paid enough. We're paying upwards of $19 billion to your fraud schemes. You want us to pay for what we've done? What does that mean, if not threatening us directly? Ilhan Omar.

She thinks she's so clever. She's like, oh, no, no, no, I just meant, I just meant, what did you mean? Threats coming from Ilhan and friends. And these lefties are not limited to Ilhan Omar, this craziness. We also have, as you just heard Chris Bedford talking about, the Portland, Oregon police chief who was crying this weekend. This is one of the craziest videos I've ever seen. Crying Portland, Oregon police chief, Bob Day. His name's Bob Day.

He started crying during a press conference Friday that Trend de Aragua gangsters were just shot by immigration enforcement. So we have immigration law enforcers who are out doing their jobs. And under threat from Trenda, gangsters, they opened fire shooting two of these idiots. And the police chief of the city regrets that he has to share this news and then starts literally crying because he says he feels so bad for the Hispanic community. What the hell is he even talking about? Take a look at the police chief, cut seven.

They do have some nexus to involvement with TDA. We can confirm that. I want to speak for just a moment specifically to my Latino community. It's saddens me that we even have to qualify these remarks. Because I understand, or at least have attempted to understand through your voices, Your concern, your fear, your anger. This information in no way is meant to to disparage or to condone or support or agree with any of the actions that occurred yesterday. He doesn't agree with law enforcement.

He doesn't agree with people enforcing the law in his community? What are you even saying? Why are you wearing that badge? Take it off. You're disgusting. And then he starts crying on behalf of the Hispanic community. What does the Hispanic community have to do with Trend de Aragua? What the hell is he even talking about?

So if some skinhead was caught committing a crime, do you issue an apology to the white community? What do you eat? What? Do you understand how crazy this sounds? Of course, you do. this guy's got some emotional issues he's got some deep mental health problems that he's got to resolve he should not be anywhere near law enforcement he's crying i feel so bad for the spanisha community what what are you talking about the spanishanic community is not trend day aragua you psycho

man talk about judging people merely on the basis of their skin color that's what that dude was doing imagine how much how much crying he's going to do when he finds out that we think he's a racist because he's a racist. I can't even believe the world that our country's in right now. Yeah, Portland, yeah, I hate to say it. I'm sure there's good people in Portland. There are good people, but long suffering. Long suffering.

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