The Dan Bongino Show - This is a National Disgrace (Ep 1138)

Episode Date: December 18, 2019

In this episode, I address the disgusting impeachment disaster on the House floor today. I also address the troubling comments on tv last night by this key Spygate player. News Picks:Liberals are upset that this Supreme Court Justice said “Merry Christmas” on television.    The FISA court blasts the FBI for its actions in the Spygate scandal.    Here’s a link to the FISA court statement.   Back in January of 2018 the FBI disingenuously claimed it had “grave concerns” about the Nunes memo, which turned out to be accurate.   This 2017 CNN article about the UK assisting the Obama administration with the spying operation on Trump will become important in the coming months.   Another article providing evidence of UK/Obama administration collusion in the 2016 election.   The evidence is piling up against Hunter Biden.   More evidence of the benefits of the Trump tax cuts.   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 ladies and gentlemen it's a really dark day um it gives me absolutely no pleasure in telling you that this absurdity continues up on the house floor with this uh ridiculous outrageous absurd i mean feel like I'm living in another planet, bizarro world impeachment right now going on up on Capitol Hill. I've got a lot to talk about on that. I've got the disastrous interview by Lisa Page last night on MSNBC, which could not have gone any worse. I still can't understand that. I'm not kidding. Why these spy gay co-conspirators cannot stay off TV. Every interview they do digs them

deeper into a hole they cannot get out of i've got that i've also got some really what i think is going to be stunning information on some predictions i've made in the past on what's ahead ladies and gentlemen i think are coming to fruition and very few people are talking about welcome to dan bongino show producer joe how? Fine, sir. Well, not real happy to be here, pal. I mean, you know that. So no happy face on this guy today. Yeah, it sucks. No, it is.

It's a dark day, folks. I think we've seen a real punch to the face, pun intended, I guess, to the Constitutional Republic. This was never what impeachment was intended for, for petty political fights about a phone call quid pro quo that nobody can prove happened. And matter of fact, the only firsthand witnesses who allegedly heard about it said the president said no quid pro quo. This is really stunning. All right, let's get to it. Today's show brought to you by buddies at NetSuite. We use NetSuite here at Bongino Inc. It's the name of our business here in the house, so we'd be lost without it. But why? That's important. Why do we use NetSuite? Because if you don't know your numbers,

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impeachment is going to become a standard battle tactic for any administration, Republican or Democrat, excuse me, any party that runs the Congress. That's it. Impeachment is meaningless now because if you can impeach the president on a hoax charge that firsthand witnesses said didn't happen, you can impeach a president for anything. I mean, digest all of this, folks. Barack Obama was not impeached after delivering a pallet of cash, literally, not figuratively. To an Iranian administration whose slogan is death to America. administration whose slogan is death to America. This guy made ransom payments to a sworn enemy of the United States and sponsors terrorists in the form of pallets of cash. We know happened. He wasn't impeached. Barack Obama ignored the law, ignored a duly enacted law on immigration policy and instituted DAPA and DACA and basically said,

I'm not going to enforce that law, absolved himself of any of his constitutional duties to support illegal immigration and wasn't impeached over that. Yet they managed to impeach the president, the Democrats, despite a record economy, job growth, all of the good news. NATO funding he got, hopefully a china trade one phase deal uh phase one trade deal i should say a potential deal on the horizon with the uk all of this going on they impeached the president for a quid pro quo that never happened stunning let me show you some more hypocrisy before i get to the page interview to show you how stupid this really is okay this is representative jackie spire rather

clueless representative up on that just another one who knows nothing about now does even know what she doesn't know on cnn yesterday hysterically hysterically talking about mitch mcconnell and the suggestion that he should recuse himself mcconnell because they've already admitted this is a hoax trial and their minds are made up. They got the evidence on the House side, Joe. The Republicans, they know it's all bunk. They've heard it and they've already got their minds made up. Good.

You should. Exactly. This is a B.S. trial based on nothing. We've seen your evidence. There is none. You accuse Joe of robbing a bank. No bank was robbed. The jury's going in there saying, we know the bank wasn't robbed.

It's a hoax trial. That's it. Got nothing. Spire Joe, they got nothing. Wants McConnell to recuse himself, but she conveniently leaves something out here. Notice she's not asking Cory Booker, Elizabeth Warren, or Bernie Sanders to recuse themselves. These are what? Non-biased jurists who are actually running in the next election against President Trump. Notice how she leaves us out. Check out this cut of the absolutely clueless Jackie Spire. Majority Leader McConnell said today that he's not an impartial juror in the Senate impeachment trial. What was your reaction to that? Well, I think, you know, we're going to have to call for a mistrial before it ever gets over to

the Senate. My understanding is that each of the senators is going to have to take an oath that they will independently evaluate the evidence for impeachment and for conviction. It sounds like there's no interest in doing that whatsoever. And I would think Mitch McConnell should recuse himself. Ah, listen to me. Go ahead, Democrats. Call for a mistrial. Nobody cares. Nobody is listening to you. You are morons. Your swing state polls are in the can. Support for impeachment is in the can. Minority voter support is spiking for President Trump. The economy's doing well. Nobody is listening to you. Nobody outside of your elitist Amtrak corridor, DC to New York media bubble, your snot nose, elitist entertainment crowd and academics are the only people that care. The iron triangle of stupid media entertainment

and the liberal academia, uh, liberal academics and liberal politicians, the iron triangle of morons are the only ones listening to you. Go ahead. Declare a mistrial. Nobody cares. Good luck. Knock yourselves out. This thing has blown up in your face spectacularly because you can fool the American people.

You can try once. By the second or third time after the Mueller hoax and the collusion hoax, everybody's caught on to your peak stupid. It's going on right now. You're going to see an impeachment vote today. And folks, I mean, I don't mean to talk down to anybody, please don't take the phone, but I got a text yesterday from someone I thought knew what was going on. And they said, I can't believe it. Is the president going to be removed from office tomorrow? No, folks, that's not what happens.

An impeachment is not a removal from office. It's simply a political charge levied by the House. There is a trial in the Senate. That's what Spire is referring to, Jackie Spire. They need 67 senators to vote yes to remove him from office i know a lot of you know that so forgive me for repeating it they're not there's not gonna it's not gonna happen the president's not gonna be removed from office now this is this try is this a total joke it's not even a serious trial all right let me move on you're gonna see a lot of this today and we've already covered it

to death i mean it's based on nothing there's not much else to get to so i wish there were but there's not it's a hoaxax. So Lisa Page appeared last night on Roswell Rachel's show on MSNBC, and it was a fiasco. I mean, Roswell hasn't given up on the conspiracy theories yet. I want to play a few cuts from this and reinforce some of the information we've presented to you over the last few days to show you a couple of things. Lisa Page, I don't believe is telling the truth. I don't believe she was candid at all. I think there were things she did tell the truth about up on Capitol Hill, notably that the FBI was misled at points by the CIA

about the robustness of the information they were getting and where it was coming from. But Page, she's spinning. She likes to spin material to make herself look good. I don't know why they keep going on TV. Here's the first cut. This one's almost laughable, Joe, but it accurately sums up the problem with the deep state, which is obviously very real at this point to anyone paying attention. That doesn't include

the media. Of course, I said people paying attention. Here's Lisa Page summing up the issue with the deep state here. Remember, Joe, it's not your FBI that you pay for your tax dollars, right? It's her FBI. Listen to this hilarity. Check this out. I mean, it's not your FBI that you pay for your tax dollars, right? Yeah, it's her FBI. Listen to this hilarity. Check this out. I mean, it's it's really one of the more painful aspects of this entire two years. I mean, the president's attacks and assaults are one thing. But this is my institution.

This is my Justice Department betraying us. And, you know, there's there's an element of this is a claim that this is congressional oversight and we had to do it. I have been a part of both of these institutions for a long time. And I know what it looks like when the department is trying to protect people and protect information. And I know what it looks like when they're not. There were plenty of ways to fulfill their congressionally mandated oversight responsibility without politicizing our messages, without shoveling them out in the way that they did. Why do you think they did it? Well, my speculation is because this was not a great time for the Justice Department.

Wait, wait, let me get this straight. We politicized your messages. You were one of the lead FBI lawyers on the biggest political spying scandal in American history based on hoax information you guys failed to vet while having an affair with a co-worker who's investigating Donald Trump while exchanging text messages, hoping he loses a hundred million to one and about the smelly Walmart people that support him while doing said text messages over taxpayer-financed FBI phones. And we politicized your texts, and you're wondering why your Department of Justice and FBI

put that stuff out there in the interest of transparency? Is this serious? Unfortunately, the answer is yes, it was serious. Ladies and gentlemen, this woman is delusional. Delusional. Let's just be crystal clear about what is going on here. You, the taxpayer that works for a living, this is your country. It's not hers.

She is a taxpayer and one of 330 million like you are. She has no additional oomph in our system than you do other than a position you paid her to take. In that position, she is supposed to be advocating on behalf of the people of the United States to combat crime and terrorism and on a counterintel operation. In her role as a lawyer, she forfeited all of those roles to have an affair with her boyfriend and text them about how they wanted a presidential candidate to lose while they were spying on him using easily discredited information from his political opponent.

And we politicized it? Are you crazy? Ms. Page, I never met you in my life. Please, I say this with all candor, and I mean it. Just take the L. You lost. You got busted. You got nailed to the wall on this. Just stop.

Apologize and move on. It is a forgiving country. You are going to have to take some medicine on it. There may be legal consequences. There may be civil lawsuits. You are going to have to face the consequence of your actions. But just stop the nonsense. This is your Department of Justice. It's mine. And Joe's. It's mine too, yeah. And everyone, it's not yours. No.

You work for us. She's like, yeah, I work for you. You do. And you screwed up. That's the easy one. I got two more. It gets worse. I'm going to suggest some fixes in a bit too, because sometimes we don't do enough of that on the show. I wrote about this in one of my prior books, but it's easy for me to condemn. And I've done this show before, but I want to talk about some fixes going forward, what we need to do after this FISA court rebuke. So don't go anywhere, folks. It's going to be a loaded show today. I'm going to try to get through all of it. Here's video clip number two here. Again, Lisa Page trying to address what the insurance policy is and trying to gloss over it. I'm going

to give you her version of it. And. I'm going to give you her version of it. And then I'm going to sum up what we discussed the other day about what the insurance policy clearly was at this point. We'll address that on our interview this week with Devin Nunes too. You're not going to want to miss that. Check this out, Lisa Page on what she says the insurance policy was. Can you explain to us tonight what was meant by, for example, the insurance policy text message. So this is you and Peter Strzok texting about the prospect that President Trump is going to be elected, the unlikely prospect. Right. I mean, it's an analogy. First of all, it's not my text, so I'm sort of interpreting what I believe he meant back three years ago. But we're using an

analogy. We're talking about whether or not we should take certain investigative steps or not based on the likelihood that he's going to be president or not, right? You have to keep in mind if President Trump doesn't become president, the national security risk, if there is somebody in his campaign associated with Russia, plummets. You're not so worried about what Russia's doing vis-a-vis a member of his campaign if he's not president, because you're not going to have access to classified information. You're not going to have access to classified information. You're not going to have access to sources and methods in our national security apparatus. So the insurance policy was an analogy. It's like an insurance policy when

you're 40. You don't expect to die when you're 40, yet you still have an insurance policy. So don't just hope that he's not going to be elected and therefore not press forward at the investigation hoping, but rather press forward at the investigation just in case he does get in there. Exactly. This is unbelievable. This is stunning. Again, Lisa, seriously, just go away. You are not helping.

You just nailed yourself to the wall. Do you understand how this country and the constitution was framed and worked? You are not the national security apparatus. The responsibility for national security is levied on the president of the United States as commander in chief. The FBI, Lisa, in case you haven't read it, I know you say you're a lawyer, is not in the Constitution. Do you realize what you just said? That the national security apparatus, we'd have to keep sources and methods from the president if they were colluding with the Russians.

They weren't. You just made that up. So just to be clear, the national security apparatus, which is the president, is to be kept from the president because someone told us he was working with the Russians when he wasn't. And you guys took that upon your own to do that? It's called a coup. It's called tyranny. And then she says this to Roswell and Roswell nods her head. Yeah, yeah, we got to keep the secrets from the president.

We? Who did something wrong here the fbi or the president you alleged it was the president now we know with the ig report it wasn't the president it was you and you're still defending the insurance policy ladies and gentlemen we now know what the insurance policy was this is the investigative lead she was keeping in her back pocket for those of you who missed my show the other day. This is from the IG report. Let me read to you this last sentence. Remember the, what's the text date? What is the date of the insurance policy text? August 15th, when stroke text page, we need an insurance policy about that plan we threw out in Andy's office. What was the they threw out on August 15th they're texting each other well look at this from

the IG report quote for these reasons on August 15th case agent one emailed a written summary on Carter page to OJC from the FBI stating that he thought the information provided a pretty solid basis for requesting FISA authority. The summary, which is prepared and briefly described, Page's Russian business and financial ties and his prior contacts with Russian intelligence officers and his travels to Russia. According to the FBI, both he and SOS believe they had enough information to establish the probable cause necessary to request a FISA on Carter Page. Here we go. Case agent one told us that Page's contacts with known Russian intelligence officers provided a pretty good link for a FISA.

Folks, we now know what the insurance policy was. Back in May, I believe the FBI and others, based on text messages on May 11th get a hold of the information that Papadopoulos met with Downer. Alexander Downer, Papadopoulos from the Trump campaign met with this Australian in London. And that Downer hears Papadopoulos allegedly say the Russians want to help us in some kind of offer. The FBI says they don't get that tip until right before July 31st, in the third week of July. I don't believe it. They have that tip on May 11th. They're sitting on it. That us, notice Papadopoulos, the allegation isn't that Papadopoulos said the Russians want to help me. It's that the Russians want to help us. The FBI makes the ridiculous leap

that that us meant Carter Page because he'd contacted Russians before. He'd contacted Russians on behalf of the CIA, ladies and gentlemen, working for the U.S. government. The FBI gets dissed on the Papadopoulos-Page warrant. And on August 15th, they throw out the insurance plan where they walk into Andy's office and they probably say, hey, listen, we can go back to the FISA court and get a warrant again on Page even though we got dissed, but we're going to have to do this one thing, the insurance policy. What's that, fellas? Let's say this tip we have about Papadopoulos saying the Russians want to help us, that the us

likely means Carter Page because he's contacted Russians before. Someone probably says in the office, well, that doesn't make sense, guy, because he contacted Russians before, not to collude with them, but on behalf of the CIA. Don't worry, fellas. If the CIA comes back and says he's a source, we'll just alter the email and say he's not a source and make his contacts look nefarious. Which is exactly what happened. So, Lise, let's put a lid on the nonsense about how the insurance policy was you and the apparatus trying to keep this Russian colluder. The insurance policy was you all clearly developing a backup plan after your Carter Page and Papadopoulos Fizes got dissed by people in the FBI because you had nothing.

It was your insurance policy to go back to that Papadopoulos meeting and use it to nail Page by changing the information you got from the CIA. Cut the crap, man. Stop the BS, huh? Here's another, again, Roswell Rachel. Before I get there, let me just get this second sponsor. Here's what's coming ahead.

Here's Roswell Rachel in this last cut. We're going to play her again parroting another nonsense conspiracy theory that the IG report said there was no political bias despite the fact that Horowitz said the exact opposite. That's not what he said. She's just making it up.

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wasn't a memo out there joe as i've had to now say repeatedly for liberal media lunatics like roswell who can't seem to get their story straight he didn't find a paper that said we are investigating trump because we hate him here's the case number okay is that surprising that they if it is surprising you really need to have your head examined. But here's Rachel telling Lisa Page parroting this talking point. I'm going to play a video in a second that totally debunks it. Check this out. And in terms of the litigation of this issue, the question about whether or not this, as the president and his supporters claim, reflected some inherent political bias by you and Mr. Struck and that you had key roles to play in these investigations,

and therefore the investigations are biased. I mean, the inspector general has looked at that, been critical of these expressions of strong political views, but also said that there was no indication that political bias affected any decisions in either of these investigations. Full stop. But Joe, she says full stop, so then clearly it's true. It must be. Unlike when we say full stop, period, she says full stop so then it clearly it's true it must be unlike when we say full stop period we actually mean it full stop for her she's you understand she's parroting a

conspiracy theory that michael horowitz has claimed there's no political bias in the case full stop well let's play this brief clip nine seconds of michael horowitz when asked about political bias he laid or or the initiation report, he lays out two possible scenarios as to why they were investigating Trump. This is his words, not mine. And let me just sum it up for you. Either the people who did it were morons or they were politically biased. There's no other. He doesn't lay out an option. See, here's Horowitz in his own words, refuting what Roswell just said. It's unclear

what the motivations were on the one hand gross incompetence negligence on the other hand intentionality full stop uh folks joe did you not hear that did you catch what i just heard yes i did dan he's asked clearly why were they investigating trump despite no information trump and his campaign had done anything wrong? He doesn't say there's no political bias. That's not what he says. He says basically they're either grossly incompetent, i.e. they're morons

option A, which is not true. Right. Believe me, I would feel, this sounds crazy, I would feel a lot better knowing I lived in a country where just stupid people made dumb mistakes. That is not what happened. And Horowitz knows that.

So either A, they're morons, or B, it was due to intentionality. In other words, they intentionally target him because of political bias. Folks, I don't know what you have to do to keep that clip on your phone, keep my show on YouTube queued up to that point. I don't know. You need to show this to your liberal friends every five minutes of the day because they just endlessly lie to you. The report said there's no political bias.

That is not true. Full stop. That's not true. Horowitz could not make the conclusion but said it's either they're real idiots so you believe law enforcement are idiots I don't believe it then you believe in his other scenario that it was intentional my gosh I can't believe I have to explain this it's all right I gotta move on because it's just a I mean, of all the stacked shows, this is super stacked. Hey, before I get there, one quick note. In the show notes today, I've been getting a lot of requests for signed copies of my book, Exonerated. I really appreciate your support. There's a limited number left, but they're still there.

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I'm up in the air on this. So yesterday, up in the air on what? There was a FISA court, just kind of stunning rebuke of the FBI. The FISA court, the FISC, which is an abbreviation for the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, which was now obviously due to the IG reports information, which we already knew, clearly deceived by the FBI.

They're the ones who issued the warrant to spy on Trump. I've been telling you, you've been asking me this. I get this question a lot in email, via Twitter and social media and elsewhere. People say, well, Dan, when is the FISA court going to speak out? Well, they did yesterday. I'm not going to read the whole memo. It's long. You can check it out.

Just put FISA court rebuttal, FISA court rebuke. It's everywhere. You can check it out yourself. Maybe I'll throw a link up in the show notes. It's four pages long. It's a pretty stunning rebuke. Now, after laying out how they were deceived by the FBI and this warrant to spy on the Trump campaign,

they go on with a pretty weak response. It was basically don't do it again and get back to me by December, uh, whatever in 10 days or so. And tell us what you're going to do to fix this. And let me put up this one line. Cause I want to show you something that I've been saying on this show, which Joe can attest to for two years now i swore warrants out i raised my right hand yes i'm agent dan bongino the facts are true because people have been telling me how does this work yeah here's for this is from the this is from the pfizer bit uh this is from the pfizer rebuttal i'm just going to read this one part rosemary collier representing the pfizer court says when it is the FBI that seeks to conduct

the surveillance, the federal officer who makes the application, in other words, who swears it out, is an FBI agent who swears to the facts in the application. The judge makes the required probable cause determination. Folks, he has this in italics here. On the basis of the facts submitted by the applicant. Now, why is this important? Because I've played for you video of this spineless slithering snake, Jim Comey, and other FBI and media buffoons, you know, the fake legal analyst,

dopey law enforcement analyst on CNN, saying this, Joe. Their line was, and Comey's put this out there a few times well this uh pfizer package had to be robust because the judge agreed to it why is that spineless because the fbi agents that lied about the dossier lied to a judge and now they're blaming the judge folks i've sworn out warrants before. Judges are not investigators. Please tell me you get this.

Yeah. Put that back up a second. She's clear on the italics in her just stunning rebuke of the FBI. They don't do this ever. That they're making their determination on the basis of the facts submitted by the applicant. I've had to say this a number of times because people have emailed me and said, Dan, why didn't the FISA court know?

Because you're swearing as a federal agent that the facts you've submitted are in fact true. Yeah. It's not folks. I cannot with a straight face blame the FISA judge. I've sworn out warrants. Judges will, on some days, can swear out five, 10 warrants, arrest warrants, search warrants. Do you honestly believe a federal judge is going to go out and reinvestigate your whole case to determine if you're telling the truth?

Ladies and gentlemen, at the bedrock of our system what is it fidelity bravery integrity the fbi logo they're assuming the integrity part is true right again i say this is a stunning admonition of the fbi and a rebuke of their tactics here because i've never seen anything like this in my entire life in law enforcement a secret court judge issuing a public rebuttal. And by the way, there's more coming on this on Friday. Do not miss my show this week. There's a lot more. A stunning open public rebuttal saying you guys lied.

You lied to us and it's your fault, not ours. Astonishing. fault, not ours. Astonishing. The judge can only make a decision based on the information the applicant, the FBI swears is true, folks. I'm not trying to absolve the FISA court of anything. That's not my job. My job is to tell you the truth based on knowledge, skills, abilities, and my facts and evidence and stuff I've accumulated over a lifetime of work in federal law enforcement and being an investigator now on the media side. Yeah. Well, you know, it's not that the FISA court's out of blame, Joe, for anything.

I'm just simply suggesting the overwhelming majority of the blame is on the agents that swear this is true. You should be able to trust your agents, dude. That's the bottom line. You would, if you can't, it's all over. It is. It's all over. Right.

They're supposed to be the best of the best. They turned out in this case, those agents to be the worst of the worst. Can't believe we're saying this. I can't either because the guys I worked with were fantastic. They were. I'm not going to lie to you. Just like the pile on. The guys I worked with, crap, they weren't.

They were really good in the bureau. The guys I worked with were fantastic. Say guys, because I never worked specifically with any female agents. Now, why am I not more excited about this? This is great, Dan. The FISA court's now rebuking the FBI, admonishing them. The inspector general just laced them in this report.

This is all good news. Folks, honestly, I don't think this thing is going to be worth the paper it's printed on. Why? Because it's going to require the FBI to come clean and they're not going to do it. Here's an article I have in the show notes today. Again, sometimes in our show notes, you bring up older articles because they're evergreen

and they're relevant again today from ABC News. Remember when Devin Nunes put out his memo, which now turned out to be factually correct about the FBI spying on Trump based on the dossier and fake information? What was the FBI's response? ABC News, January of 2018. abc news january of 2018 the fbi joe expresses grave concerns over accuracy of republican surveillance memo read the piece it's in the show notes so let's just be crystal clear the fbi that had access obviously to its own internal, absolutely knew it spied on Trump based on a fake dossier. They know it now. Christopher Wray and others who know what the FBI did. Devin Nunes exposes them in a memo.

He's proven exactly right by the IG report. And back then, the FBI had grave concerns about the memo. Not grave concerns in that they were going to be reformers. Grave concerns that they were implying Nunes was lying. And Rosemary Collier, and listen, I'm not knocking, I don't know the woman,

I've never met her. The FISA court judge who issued that, again, stunning public statement. You're leaving it upon the FBI to fix it? Good luck. Good luck. You're going to fix it? Good luck. Good luck. You're going to get nowhere with that fast. Christopher Wray is absolutely not the guy for that job.

They need a maverick in there who's going to come in there and clean this disaster up. Grave concerns. Whatever. Now, you may say, all right, right well what's your fix man big talker you know i put my fix down in writing multiple times and not in in many different uh different varieties in the five books i've read folks we need to get serious here. I personally believe, and this is a bold fix that I don't think anybody will put their stamp on because of the power a lot of these agencies exhibit. It's time to get rid of all the three letter agencies, wipe them all out. You may say, that's crazy. You want to create one mega agency? No, that's not what I'm saying. There should be three agencies out there that are responsible for the nation's security

on the law enforcement CICT side. A criminal agency? I don't, forget, wipe them all out. And it's certainly not the FBI. I don't care what you call it, the ABC. All they do is criminal work. That's what they do they do criminal work organized crime rico bank fraud bank robbery national crimes crimes they cross state lines support

a local law enforcement all they do is criminal all right you have a second agency does counter intelligence counter terror and fulfills a protection mission. Can absorb the Secret Service and everything else. I don't care what you call it. DEF. Doesn't matter to me. That's all they do. Counter intel, counter terror, protection, and specialty type work.

Remember, protection isn't just the Secret Service. You have the Supreme Court, Capitol Police, all of it. Finally, you have a third agency which is the Secret Service. You have the Supreme Court, Capitol Police, all of it. Finally, you have a third agency, which is the most important. Call it whatever you want. EFG, XYZ, it doesn't matter. All they do are inspections and internal affairs. These are 1811 agents.

That's all they do is monitor the actions of the other two. You may say say my gosh well we'd have this big powerful criminal agency ladies and gentlemen i've rebutted this a thousand times the fear here with big government uh you know advocates against big government which i believe me i am firmly entrenched in that camp yeah the just The justifiable fear, which I get, I've been on the inside though. I have a different perspective is, Hey, if we get rid of the FBI and customs and DEA and ATF and TIGDA and all this

other stuff, we create one monster criminal agency, man, the press, the prospects for corruption and a Hoover like administration, Joe, where they're targeting Americans. It's too powerful.

That already happened, folks. We've already had Hoover and we've just lived through spy game. Clearly your theory that a segmented national criminal operation, a law enforcement operation, segmented national criminal uh operation a law enforcement operation segmented in other words into into um excuse me customs da secret service fbi clearly the segmented model's not working either am i right or am i right because i'm right so that's not working

okay we have seen massive corruption now in all of those entities not widespread but clear incidents of problems and we've seen now the biggest spying scandal in u.s history using your model i'm going to suggest to you if we had an equally powerful inspections division which monitored the other two and they had the sole job of those things, three federal law enforcement, CTCI operations only, all equally powerful. The oversight by the third one would be more professional. I'm telling you size is irrelevant. Now, what am I basing this on?

Folks, I have experience with a basically omnipotent law enforcement entity because I had the pleasure of working for the NYPD and the Secret Service. I've seen them both. Secret Service is the segmented model. You following me, Joe? The alphabet soup of agencies. This works better. We got to break them up. We can't have one big, powerful agency.

It'll spy on Americans. Did you miss that? spy on americans uh did you miss that and then you have the mypd model which is basically the only not the only law and i don't mean to demean what others do it is by far the most powerful entity in new york city law enforcement wise it's huge it's nearly 30 000 police officers they run nothing happens without them has there been corruption there? Of course. What's the difference, folks? When you have segmented agencies, the problem you have is you get what I call the you don't know what we do here effect. I've seen it, even in the Secret Service. Don't look at this. I'm not saying to me, you don't know what we do here.

It's a specialized job. Just leave it alone. And you know what? They don't. Most people have no idea what the Secret Service does because it's complicated and hard. The FBI with their counterintelligence. You just heard Lisa Page say it, folks. You don't know what we do here, man.

The national security apparatus can't be sharing trade secrets trade secrets with trump he's only the commander in chief again the you don't know what we do here effect the nypd had its issues i'm not denying that i'm simply suggesting that didn't work in the nyPD, Joe. People moved around amongst different divisions. Supervisors who ran one division had some exposure to maybe their ESU team and their auto crime team. They may not be detail, absolutely every detail of what auto crime's doing, but they worked there when they were rookie and they have a general idea. So there's none of this, hey boss, don't pay any attention to this auto crime theft ring. We're running ourselves because you don't know what we do

here. They were like, no, no, I worked there a while ago. We don't steal cars ourselves. I'm not saying that happened. You get my point. When malfeasance is there, everybody's going to sniff it out real quick because they do know what they do there.

Folks, it's the only, so I know nobody in Congress wants to hear it. Can't have a mega federal agency doing criminal work. Yeah. I have another mega federal agency looking into their work, inspections and internal affairs. The model we have now is not working.

It's broken. You just heard Lisa Page talk about it. You don't know what we do here in the FBI. We have sources and methods, man. The FBI's grave concerns over Nunes' memo. Nobody gives a crap about your grave concerns. You just spied on a presidential campaign, you lunatics. And again, I'm not knocking the guys and women on the ground.

Do not misinterpret what I'm saying, and if that bothers other people, I don't care either. I worked with them. They did a good job, and my experience with them has been generally very positive, but there have been massive screw-ups. It's time to wipe the alphabet soup of agencies crystal clear and get rid of it.

You don't have to fire everybody. Everybody's to be reassigned to one of these three divisions. And there needs to be massive retraining. Don't ever forget that you don't know what we do here, Effect. It is real. And I know every federal agent with a functioning cortex is nodding their head listening to this right now going yeah i've heard that too can't look into us in the fbi we're spying on you don't know what we do here we got sources and method yeah yeah source and methods

hiring a foreign spy to make up a dossier that's your source and method you have grave concerns about size isn't the problem it's not that these federal agencies are law enforcement agencies we can't have a big one that's not the issue it is an issue for spending and budgets i get that and i am a fiscal hawk that's not the the mypd is huge the issue is nobody knows what anybody else is doing. And they're doing it. My good friend Mike Lee, Senator from Utah, who has been warning everyone about the FISA court. We've ran Paul forever. All the senators were like, come on, Mike.

You're crazy. Joe knows. You guys are nuts. Mike Lee, you're a conspiracy theorist. The FISA court's doing the right thing. You know they're crazy. Joe knows. You guys are nuts. Mike Lee, your new conspiracy theory. The FISA court's doing the right thing. You know they're all apologizing now. Tillis and others. To their credit, Ron Johnson went on TV and said, hey, I'm sorry.

I screwed up. Mike Lee was right. They're all apologizing to Mike Lee. You don't know what we do here. Oh, we know now. Mike Lee. You don't know what we do here. Yo, we know now. If you had one big federal agency working on CICT

protection, another one on criminal stuff, people would know what you were doing there. And they'd be a lot less hesitant to go along with it. You wondering why we don't have any whistleblowers on this FBI case? Because you don't know what we do here. Freaking BS, man. You work for us, man. We don't know what we do here. Freaking BS, man. You work for us, man.

We don't work for you, Lisa. My DOJ. All right, ladies and gentlemen, our final sponsor today. I got a lot more. Don't go anywhere. It's going to be, again, a preloaded show today. Final sponsor today is eToro.

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upset about just the, you know, it, it seems like we're just watching everything just evaporate before our eyes. Thank God the president doesn't seem to be avering at all in his ability to fight back. And I appreciate that. On a little bit of a lighter note, before I get to some more serious content,

I always enjoy Brian Stelter material because, as I always say, Chuck Todd is the second dumbest guy in media. Brian Stelter is the dumbest. Brian Stelter is famous for FacePalm episodes where he humiliates himself on Twitter. So here was a good one yesterday. Just a little background. Neil Gorsuch, Supreme Court justice, appeared on Fox and Friends in the morning. And Brian Stelter was really offended by this.

I mean, Joe, Supreme Court justices on cable TV? I mean, come on, man. Yeah, so Costanza lost his mind here. So here's Dopey Brian with a tweet he put out. This is just great. So here's Brian Stelter, CNN Coffee Boy. Justice Neil Corsic is on Fox and Friends right now. The question, how is it appropriate for a Supreme Court justice to try to goose the sales of his book by chatting on one of the most partisan shows on TV, Coffee Boy Loser, Brian Stelter, the dumbest guy in media. Okay, so just to set this up, Reliable Sources host, which is hysterical that that's the title of his show, Brian Stelter is saying, Supreme Court justices on cable news, Joe? Unsat, brother. Unsatisfactory. Totally

unacceptable. Except for this. here's coffee boy stelter a little while ago september 3rd 2018 rbg prepare premiering on tv now what's rbg a cnn documentary on supreme court justice ruth bader ginsburg an actual documentary coffee boy costanza is promoting on his tweet on cnn by the way yeah crazy how that happened crazy rpg who's been on cnn because here's the thing about stelter folks listen i make a lot of mistakes i'm a sinner like anyone else i try to reconcile if i say something dumb on Twitter, I'll delete it. We had to delete a Bongino report tweet the other day because it wasn't entirely accurate, right? It happens.

It happens. This guy makes a living. And you may say, why are you always so angry at this guy? He makes a living. Literally, he's paid by CNN to critique people in the media when he is the single dumbest guy in the media. He can't even keep track of his own tweets. He was loving the promotion of a Supreme Court justice

on a documentary on CNN just months ago. But now when Gorsuch goes on Fox, all of a sudden it's a tragedy worth a coffee boy Costanza critique on. The guy's a joke. He's the single dumbest guy in media out there today. Hat tip, by the way, Caleb Hall on Twitter for picking that out. Those two tweets.

That was not mine. He figured it out. I always like to appropriately hat tip Caleb Hall. Nice job. Disclosure. We work with Caleb on videos too. My God. Next thing you know, Coffee Boy will tweet that.

He works with this guy. If it changes, his dopey tweets. We needed that, right? Yeah, we did, brother. A little stelter humor. Yes, we did. What a dope. Okay.

Okay, back to the serious stuff. We got about 10 minutes left in the show, but it's important. You know, the big picture sometimes gets lost in all this regarding Spygate. And I've insisted to you for well over two years now, based on solid sourcing, 279, others, this is bigger than you think, folks. What's really going on right now, I'm going to tie the whole show together with the impeachment, is this is an effort to tar and feather Donald Trump because I'm telling you with certainty, please look me in the eye through this camera right now. It's one of the most important segments I've done in a long time. I'm telling you with absolute certainty that things are coming out, Really bad things. And I don't mean that in kind of like a tease.

Oh, listen to my show in six months. No, I don't mean it that way. I know it sounds that way because obviously I have a show and we want people. That's not what any of this is about. These are really damaging things for our country. I'm not kidding. They're going to paint Barack Obama himself and his administration in an extremely, extremely bad light. For as much as I couldn't stand the

ideological leanings and policies of Barack Obama, it gives me no joy in telling you that a US president was able to pull off what they were able to pull off in spy game. I mean, getting some more stuff lately from people who, as our show grows, more and more people are piling in and more and more sources are piling in that a lot of what we've been talking about is coming out. So let's get to it. Folks, Obama knew. The Obama administration clearly knew what they were doing here.

They were spying on political candidates. Now, you may say, well, that's not news. Well, I got kind of a little pointer from a friend and then someone else who I'm a little skeptical of, but a friend the other day kind of put me in this. And it's interesting how they both came in roughly at the same time. Do you remember this WikiLeaks drop about this memo? This was a Democrat party memo from Hillary's campaign team that was seen by a lot of influential Democrats. And I'm sure, including people in the Obama administration. I want you to check this out. You can read about, I'm not going to read the whole thing, but there's a portion down halfway below.

If you want to read it, go to youtube.com slash Bongino. It doesn't really matter because there's one portion of it that sticks out. This is a memo from the Hillary campaign team to Democratic National Committee. They talk about Pied Piper candidates on the Republican side that they want to pump up. And who are these three candidates? Ted Cruz, Donald Trump, and Ben Carson. What do they mean by that? The Pied Piper candidates. Remember what we're talking about. I just gave you the lead. We didn't bury it. The lead is this is a spying scandal, not a Trump scandal. That's why I called my initial book on it, Spygate and not Trumpgate.

All right. The Pied Pper candidates they were looking at the whole theory behind the memo was that the democrats wanted to pump up these three candidates trump carson and cruz because they thought they were renegades and that by pumping up these candidates hillary clinton they thought stood a better chance of winning against them against more of the establishment guys like scott walker and others who they frame as establishment. I'm not doing that. You get my point, Joe? Yeah.

Kind of like what Republicans are doing now. We'd rather run against Bernie because he's crazy. Exactly. Then, you know, run against maybe one of the other candidates. The Democrats, according to this memo, had the same kind of theory. But they called them the Pied Piper candidates, Cruz, Carson, and Trump because they were renegades and because they were unpredictable. Now, Joe, I'm going to ask you a question. Do you think in the field of politics, would you rather

be able to predict what someone's going to do? It's not a trick question, or would you rather be confused by their next move? You want to be able to predict them, daddy-o. Yeah. Thank you. That memo, ladies and gentlemen, leaked by WikiLeaks, is very telling because it shows you that the Democrats weren't really worried about Walker or Rubio because they could pretty much predict, based on standard Republican talking points in the past, exactly what they were going to do. They couldn't predict what was going to happen with Cruz, Carson, and Trump.

So what did they do? Well, how would you predict what they did? Well, I, hmm. Maybe if you spied on them? Yeah, yeah, that comes to mind. Now, how would you spy on them, folks? Because we have rules against that stuff in the United States. We don't spy on presidential campaigns.

No, come on, Joe. We don't do that. But it's interesting that we have these five eyes intelligence partners, these friendly governments, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and others. We have these five eyes partners where we share intelligence, Joe, but the intelligence is supposed to be basically counterterrorism type things and intelligence for national security. It's not supposed to be political information.

Right. What was the genesis of this CNN article, then, if they were just sharing national security information, because this seems kind of odd. Keep in mind, Cruz, Carson, Trump. April 14, 2017, CNN, an article that's still up there, has never been retracted. British intelligence passed Trump associates communications with Russians on to U.S. counterparts. with Russians on to U.S. counterparts. So now we know, according to CNN's own reporting,

this is fascinating, Joe, that the UK, United Kingdom, was effectively spying on the Trump campaign at the behest of the U.S. government under the guise that it was being done for national security, when we now know that was all a hoax. Another interesting piece at Business Insider, which kind of nails this thing to the wall from the past,

you'll see these up at the show notes today, again, at Bongino.com. Go to Bongino.com slash newsletter, sign up for my past. You'll see these up at the show notes today. Again, at Bongino.com. Go to Bongino.com slash newsletter. Sign up for my newsletter. I'll email you these stories every day. You'll be read in good. Business Insider headline.

British intelligence reportedly told the CIA months before the election that Trump's campaign had illicit contacts with Russia. Folks, British intelligence and some of their GCHQ representatives, they have access to some facilities. Our guys do too. So if the Obama administration can't spy directly on the Pied Piper candidates, Cruz, Carson, and Trump, because they're unpredictable, and the Obama team and the

Hillary team wants to be sure they can predict what's next, if we can't spy, our friendly UK friends can, and being that we're co-load in a couple different locations, it probably wouldn't be hard to say, hey, UK, can you do a little bit of spying and kind of pass the note next door? Well, what's fascinating is because a couple of folks over there in the UK intelligence, I will guarantee you, I am reasonably confident that what's about to come out mark this show it's

today's date it is december 18th that's correct that a lot of the information that happened to appear in various dossiers and other types of opposition research may be similar information that was passed from the united kingdom over the the United States. How could that be? I thought this was five eyes intelligence sharing, not opposition political research. Maybe if we slide it to the opposition research guys, then we can then give it to the FBI and pretend it came from them and not from an illicit spying operation

being run by foreign governments to circumvent US anti-spying on American citizen laws. Give it to the oppo guys and let them give it to the FBI. But why don't they just tell the FBI directly? Because they're not supposed to be spying on presidential campaigns. That doesn't say opposition research folks can't. Now, what's fascinating is I'll bet a lot of this information goes back prior to trump even announcing and what are the people who suspiciously becomes a target of the fbi this is fascinating

remember we're talking about spying on the pied pipers trump carson and cruz fascinating that the primo target number one of this campaign to spy on the unpredictable candidates by the bho administration and hillary is george papadopoulos why is that interesting because joe george papadopoulos didn't join the trump campaign first in the presidential election he joined a different campaign oh that's right of ben Ben Carson on December 15th. That was Ben Carson. One of the other Pied Piper candidates. That's right. That's right.

That's right. So when Trump decides to tell the Washington Post editorial board that George Papadopoulos is not working for him, these people who are spying are probably like, wow, that's the same guy who was on the other campaign we were looking at. Maybe we should make him the target of our conspiracy. All of a sudden, a guy shows up to tell Papadopoulos about Russian emails, Joseph Mifsud. And then another guy shows up, Alexander Downer, to take the information from Papadopoulos that he was allegedly told about Russian emails on Hillary. And then he gives it to the FBI that then opens up a case that conveniently confirms the UK intelligence being passed to Trump

the entire time about the Obama's team, about Trump colluding with the Russians? The only confirmation they ever had? The Papadopoulos conversation? Which was nonsense? Folks, what's about to come out is that the fbi spying operation started by the oppo research firm that was clearly given information by intelligence insiders to give to the fbi to

open up a federal case the reason they opened up the federal case and got the pfizer warrant was to cover their tracks the pfizer warrant joe was going to be a legal predicate for all of the illicit spying that happened in the past and was going to be the cover story for them because this information was out there via illicit means from foreign partners now they can say oh no we didn't get that from them we got it from the FBI remember the FISA warrant look it was all legal the FISA warrant was started because of oppo research that i'm sure was sourced to people in the intel community illegally spying on the trump team and don't forget when they get shut down even despite all this remember we talked about in

the beginning the insurance policy was the was the poppet opolis meet that was their insurance pod they got shut down they asked for a pfizer on poppet op was their insurance policy. They got shut down. They asked for a FISA on Papadopoulos. They were told no. They got shut down on a FISA on Carter Page. They were told no. What magically appears? The bribe charge in the Steele dossier

on Carter Page. Oh, they attempted to bribe him. The only crime that appears anywhere in the dossier. And that's what seals the deal.

Maybe I'll go into this a little more tomorrow. But Joe, that makes sense? Yeah, man. That myth stood. Yeah, but Joe, that makes sense. Yeah, man. Yeah. Unfortunately. Yeah. It was too easy to understand.

Yeah. Myth said injection downer ejection of information. Some of the stuff is just so hard to swallow, man. I mean, it's just, it's awful. Fortunately.

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